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Year: 1872

THE CrTY DEBT. Prompt payment Of inter-
est and absolute certainty that the principal
will be duly met at maturity are the essentials
which establish the value of public securities.
New York city, though heavily mortgaged by
the rascalities of the Tammany Ring, is abun-
dainty solvent. To-day Comptroller Green is
prepared to pay the haf-yearly interest on the
outstanding bonds, and the creditors of the
city will see in this fact assurance that our
finances are now in the hands Of honest
and capable officials. Last falls reform
triumph is beginning to produce its proper
result in rescuing the city treasury from dis
order and threatened bankruptcy. Our cit-
zens owe it to themselves to make such wise
selections of city officers in the approaching
election as will carry GU. the action thev so
properly began year ago.
Year: 1872

RAIN OR SHINE this will be lively day in
North Carolina but, as a good rainy day
almost inevitably secures peaceable election,
we are inclined to think that regular old
fashioned rainy day would be this day a good
thing for North Carolina.
Year: 1872

Talk up and work up your town,
and your own townsmen and business.
Give encouragement to every useful
and creditable enterprise in your midst
for just as certain as effect follows
cause, so certain will every enterprise
of merit repay every citizen We can
not live unto ourselves, and we cannot
discourage any movement in behalf of
a place, without inflicling upon our
selves personal injury. Denouncing
the place where we live as 'oldtogy,'
'one-horse,' or any such slang terms.
is calculated to bring about just such
a condition of things as we denounce.


1t you see needed Improvement
city or town, demand it, and talk it
up vigorously, until the whole COM
munity is impregnated with the idea
until storm of public sentiment
compels the work. Don't stop because
some wretched mummy, out OF whom
has wIthered all public spirit and love
of advancement moaDs out his sepul-
ehral whine, '-It won't pay" Show
to your live fellows that it will pay
and leave the mummy to his embalm-
ed and swaddled dust and stupidity,
and by and by you will see the result
of your courage and talk in universal
improvement, increased facilities and
business, and a broad, genial, liberal
public spirit, that pervades and vivi-
ties and makes beautiful every place
where it enters.-Er.
Year: 1872

There Is, perhaps, no one in this
world more TO be pltied than the poor
mantle man who has got into the
habit of saving until he saves from
sheer delight in seeing his wealth
increase, and of counting every dol
lar of expenditure as though lis loss
was something that could never be
repaired. Yet it is the duty OF every
Door man to save something. The
possession of a few dollars often
makes all the difference between
happiness and misery, and no man,
especially with family dependent
upon him, can be truly independent
unless he has few dollars reserved
for time of need While extreme
oarelulness as to the expenditure of
money will make a rich man poor, q
wise economy will almost as certainly
make a poor man rich, or at least
make him, 10 q considerable extent,
independent OF the caprices OF en-
ployers and of the common vicissi-
tudes of lie. Nothing is more I'M
portant to the poor man than the
habit of saving something; hut his
little hoard will soon begin TO grow
at a rate which will surprise and graft
fly him. Every workingman ought
to have an account in some saving
bank, and should add to it every
week during which he has full EN-
ployment, even if the addition IS but
a dollar at time III he does this he
will soon find the dollar growing in
to tens, and these tens into hundreds,
and in a little time will be in posses
sion of a sum which is constantly
Welding an addition to his income,
which secures him a reserve fund
whenever one is needed, and which


will enable him to do many things
which, without q little money, ht
would be powerlessto to do.-Pits5urql
Post.
Year: 1872

Our ship danced like wherry,
and drove under close-reefed top.
sails II knots an hour. Standing on
the quarter deck no one dared leave
his hold of rope or rail, lest the wind
should Whit him off into the sea.
The great waves gathered behind rs


and filed slowly up, until it seemed


as If they must come aboard and


nnaiiy, wnen the stern OF Jue OIu snip
caught the lift of the swell and rose
to receive it, We went up until We
overlooked the gray, driven tumult
as from tower. And then from the
crest of the wave we. seemed to rush
like coasters on q hillside, as the
waters let Us down in the valley of
foam and bewilderment. The COM
plication of motions, that of the wave
receding yet carrying US with # for
ward, and the SWING like motion of
rising and falling, not as ship rolls
or plunges in an ordinary sea, but
with a sweep of hundreds of feet in
every motion and descent of forty
feet-a side-long roll and headlong
rush /; motions wild, unrestrained, in
which we are the most helpless Of all
created things, in which successive
dooms chased each other past Us as
if we were too trivial to be destroyed;
the driving, riotous billows, their
SUBMITS crushed into foam by the
weight of the gale, and the foam
draggled along the black water till it
seemed sll froth and yeast; every
pinnacle that sprang up where two
waves met, driven away in spray, cut
down, leveled as instantly as raised;
no combing waves there, for no wave
could rise TO comb, only great hills
of water, crystalline with wavelets,
streaked with spun foam, rushing
past US at locomotive speed, out OF
the mist and spray filled space behind
into the mystery as deep before; and
our ship dancing trife on this in
6nitude of impensities, the wild wa
ter pouring over her bows one mo-
ment and climbing up at the stern to
deluge the quarterback the next
the tempest 1 had been longing to
see, aud I watched it hours together
insetiate. No use to talk to me OF
sea painting after that! The muddy
undulations of a Vandervelde, the


harbor sublimities of stsnfeld, the


opalescent magic of Turner, are


equally far, because infinitely far,


from the power and sublimity OF


gale on the wide ocean.-WJ ShH-
man IN Nay Atla1atic.
Year: 1872

Gould we ride with the driver ?''


"You won'tfind it so pleasant as you
imagine, but you can try it.


The conductor signals, the engineer
grasps one OF the mysterious levers
which put him en- rapport with the
modern behemoth, and the docile mon
ster whisks away as if rejoicing in the
lightness OF the play-day train behind
him. AS our speed increases we be
come painfully aware that we are not
on springs The easy swing of the
car does not pertain to the locomo-
tive which jumps to its work with a
rioting, trampling, trip-hammer ener
gy that disdains the idea of easiness
We cannot keep our feet, and We find
1t hard to keep the high and narrow
slippery seat, with nothing to hold on
to. The speed seems terrific. The
country no longer glides away from
us with drift ing motion-it rushes
on us like thunderbolt. The trees
and houses have a whirling motion,
fierce, tumultuous, maddening, as
though hurled towards a vortex from
which we are momentarily escaping
Instinctively we shrink as the track
cuts under us, and the huge rocks by
the wayside seem flying at us.


Ahead is a curve. What is beyond
il? We watch the disclosing line
with peculiar fascination, for terrible
possibilities are ever just out of sight.
Gradually our senses become used to
their new experience, and we are will
ling to forego our useless vigilance.
On the right the river flows like a
river in a Yislcn-nolseless, swift, and
strangely calm. On the left the hills
waltz and reel, bearing down on the
track like and endless avalanche
Above, the fiery clouds betoken the
close of a brilliant day, but it makes
US dizzy to look at them. 1t is pleas
anter to study the steady poise of the
driver. Alert, self possessed, unpre-
tending. he sees every inch OF the
track by flashes of observation, lets
out or restrains the needless energy OF
his all but living engine, and holds the
lives the lives of US all with grasp as
true as it is seemingly unconscious.
We plunge into the shadow of Kitta-
tinny Mountain, pierce the point OF
rocks that projects into the river, and
stop amid a confusion of backing
trains, shrieking engines, and the
shouts of trackmen. We are at Bridge
port, and as soon as the bridge is clear
we shall cross to Harrisburg.


II shall have a realizing sense oi
my obligation to the engine driver
after this remarks the untraveled
man, as we climb down from the To-
comotive sand wholesome respect
for his skill and cOurareO
Year: 1872

In discussing the late strike il


Warwickshire, the British Wediea


Times and Gazette says: The En


glish agricultural laboreris entirely


different man in habits and mode o!


lite from the English town laborer,


whether mechanic or manufacture g


hand. He is taller, bigger and strong


er, but not so acute and restless


slower and less energetic. He does


not consume one tenth Of the animal


food that the town operative deyours,
! but he does not drink one-twentieth


OF the quantity of alcohol. He may


occasionally get little muddled on


muddy ale or sour cider, but he is


never incapable for three days in the


week. He lives in the open air and


is exposed to all weathers f; his cloth


ing is, as a rule, not insufficient, and


his food is chiefly bread, potatoes,


suet dumping and vegetables, with a


little pork or cheese, but very rarely


butchers fresh meat. He sleeps


probably over dungheap or near a


cesspool, with his wife and half


dozen children in the same room,


and Is very fortunate if he escapes an


attack Of continued fever once in his


life. But his great enemy when he
is over fifty is rheumatism, and this
eonsigns him to the care of the par
ish during the last decade. Still his
existence has its bright side. He
rarely knows what a headache is. /
His labor is of the slow, enduring
kind which does not exhaust and, If 1
he escape death from continued fever
1r accident, he lives beyond three
score years and ten. His children
are healthy, and his wife does not
suffer from NERVES" The town
operative, who earns twice as much
and who could earn three


lines as much if he worked all the
days the week, dies at fifty,
md rarely passes year without be-
DC an out patient at pospital or
,etting some medicine from his club
loctor One of his children has hip {
oint disease, and another is blind
With one eye. His wife spends nine
Iours a week waiting for the doctor
n the out-patient room of a hospital.
Ie was clever, intelligent lad, with


smattering of education, but after $
hirty..he got heavier and more stupid '
nd has long given up all idea Of I
limbing to a higher round in the e
ocial ladder. Ii the farm q
lborer can be taught to make some '
for old sge, and to give his I
hildren a better education, and to '
pend part of his increased pay on t


somewhat more nutritious diet a s
igher rate Of wages will make him a


sppier and more energetic man. But I
the greater amount of money cur e.
mt among a rural population, and fl
le shorter hours of work, convert ii
le village alehouse into ginpalace d
nd bring into the county the vices il
town, it Will only necessitate an Ii
crease of cottage hospitals and 8.
,unty infrmaries. s:
Year: 1872

HERE is q Quaker tOsst that has o
thought in it; This is NE and mine
10 lhee AID thine. wish when thee
and thine come to see me and mine
that me and mine will treat thee and
thine as kindly as thee and thine have
treated me and mine"
Year: 1872

WHEN DO MEN DIE ?-Medical experience
proves that, in chronic diseases, the greater
number of deaths occur just before dawn.
This is eminently true Of brain diseases, and
of all those related cases when death results
from an exhaustion of the vital power, through
overwork, excessive excitement, or nervous
prostration. 1t is at the hour of o'clock in
the morning that the life-force is at its lowest
ebb, and succumbs readily to the assault OF
epilepsy, or paralysis, or Of the fatal lethargy
that comes in those vividly beautiful picture
dreams, for which medical science has as yet
found no name, and Of which it has taken no
sufficient cognizance Nine.tenths OF those
who die in this way expire in their sleep. In


MANY such cases, if friend were at hand to
awaken the sleeper when the attacks comes on,
or if he were to be awakened by some acci-
dental noise, he might, by the use ofa few
simple precautions, prolong his life for many
wears for the shock which proves fatal to the
man wrapped in deep sleep, when the system
is passive and relaxed, would be victoriously
repelled we're it armed with all its waking en-
ergies. Men who do brain-work, and who are
on the shady side Of forty, should be on their
guard against this insidious enemy. They
Should beware of 5 o'clock a. m, for it is a
perilous hour. Do you find yourself unable
to sleep when you retire for the night, exhaus-
ted with your days work? DO you, in vain,
turn from one side to the other? Does your
brain persist in working when you would fain
have it rest? Do old saws, and scraps of
rhyme, repeat themselves in your memory with
wearisome iteration, defying your utmost ef.
forts to silence them Then, say to you,
beware! You will be sure to sleep at last.
1t is only question Of time for, soon or late,
nature will assert her rights.
Halls Journal Of Health.
Year: 1872

DoN'r GIVE LIQUOR TO CH1LDREN.-one
of the first literary men of the United States
said to the writer; after speaking on the sub
iect of temperance: There is one ching, which,
as you visit different places, I wish you to do
everywhere, that is to entreat every mother
never to give drop ofstrong drink to child.
I have had to fight as for my life, and all my
days, to keep from dying drunkard. because
I was fed with spirits when child. aequir.
ed taste for it. My brother, poor fellow, died
drunkard. would not have child OF
mine take a drop Of it for anything.
Year: 1872

dreds of our great and bestmen to an untimely
grave and which, no doubt, was the hasten
Ing cause of his death. This l say with deep
sorrow in obedience to truth, for we were per-
sonally warm and sincere friends through lite
And there were very few of my friends, tor
whom had so strong an attachment whilst
living, whose death so deeply mourned, and
for whose memory I have such an aHectlonate
reverence.
Year: 1872




it because it came by my mother, and her
grave is on it. shall sell one of my other
places as soon as I receive good offer, and
have something to fall back on in rainy day"


"You are great person for old reminiscent
ces, but a farm ought to have much more
than that to recommend it" said Conway.


ITO be sure and the land on that estate is
excellent. There's a large tract cleared,
which is not worn out in the least The house
is quite good. 1t was used for the officers
headquarters when IS brigade was stationed
there, and that saved it from injury; and the
horses of the cavalry were very great ben
eft to the fields. The water is the very best
in the low country. Then l shall be near
enough to come up and stay here every Sun
day, and have the benft of good society and
church services. I don't know who will be
better situated, or more independent than ]"


"You have studied it all over from A to
&C., have you?" laughed Georgia; "and that's
the reason you were so eloquent in talking the
men over"


81 don't see what put farming into your
head" said Conway, "after you took that
Office where the salary was good and the
duties light"


"It's not new idea. intended being a
planter when boy, though on larger,
grander scale than now. The war prevented
me from making beginning, and when it
was over, all was chaos. hoped for while
things would improve, but they grew worse.
I listened to those conversations uncle Elliott
held with uncle Ellison, Mr.. Wright, and
every man who came here, and grew certain
Year: 1872

HORSE SToLES.-On Sunday evening last N.
II. Swift. esq, drove his family to the Episcopal
Church with his horse and buggy, hitching the
animal outside during the service. While Mr.
.. was about his devotions, however. there were
others outside evidently less devoutly inclined,
who, unhitchiny tho horse, rapidly drove off. Mr..
Swift discovered his loss when church was out.
and Immediately put couple of men on horse
back to make pursuit. No clue to the where
abouts Of the horse or thieves, however, was
discovered. Next morning, the horse, minus
buggy and harness, was found near the Fox river
bridge, making his best speed for home A day
later boat captain ran on to something in the
canal near Walbridge's, mile or two this side
Of Marseilles, and on making search, found it
was buggy, which he placed on his boat and
brought to Ottsws, where it vas identified ~
the property Of Mr.. Swift. The harness is still
missing The supposition is that the horse and
buggy were used BY couple Of Marssilles bum.
mers who were seen about town during the day
to get home, and arriving At a favorable point,
tsrned tho horse loose and pitched the buggy In
the canal ts evsde detection by persons who
might be pursuing them.
Year: 1872

A HORSE KILLED.-On Thursday evening ]


F. Nash, Esq. and family, attended the concert
st the Congregational Church, and between 0
and 10 o'clock William Nash took the family
horse and buggy intending to drive TO the ,hurch
to bring ''the folks" home AZ he passed an ugly
ditch which DR.. Dyer has had opened in front of
his house on Columbus street to make drain
from his cellar to the sewer, an omnibus came
rushing BY, 80 closely that the forefeet Of his
horse we're forced into the ditch If man or
two had been present to assist him, tho horse
could easily have been extricated, but being
alone, the horse struggled fercely, and Of course,
at every motion became more tightly wedged in
the narrow ditch until finally the animal was
extricated only by the use of stout rope and
tackle. The horse was able to walk home, but
was 80 badly injured that next morning it died


1t only remains TO add that it was gross
piece of carelessness on the part of Dr. Dyer or
the City Marshal to allow the ditch to remain a
whole week in such dangerous condition, and
that Mr.. Nash can without question recover the
value OF the horse from either DR.. Dyer or the
city or both. which we presume he will not fail
to do. 80 "ua r..H Et
Year: 1872

This new house in the boot and shoe limo ia
established one door east of the we'll known dry
goods house Of Lynch, Beatty & O'Kane, and its
business, for the present at least, will be con-
Quoted BY that firm. The business reputation
OF Lynch, Beatty & O'Kans is all that is neces-
sary to recommend the New York Boot and
Shoe House to the favorable consideration of the
public
Year: 1872

Mr.. Howard, Of the Clifton Hotel, desires us
to say that owing to failing health and q wish
to retire from active business. lie is willing to
sell his lease and interest in the Clifton Hotel
fair price, if the applicant 10 purchase is the
right sort Of a man.
Year: 1872

ExcITISG CONTEST The contest for the va
cant office of Constable OF Millsboro, was carried
on in such manner AZ to arouse considerable
feeling upon the subject. Both the leading
contestants had been promised the Office, com O.
for complaint The Levy Court settled the
fierce dispute by appointing Thomas H. Barker
which gave offence to the friends Of the other
candidate and resulted in many threats Of
boiling from the Democratic party.
Year: 1872

EH We respectfully solicit orders for job Printing
from the business men Of Wilmington. Our work Is
done In iirst-class style, and we spare no pains to
give satisfaction. Send In your orders.
Year: 1872




Thrilling Scenes i'm Pennsylvania,


SCRANTON, Pa, May 16.-PersOns just
returned from the scene of the terrific noun
tain fire in the neighborhood Of Tobyhanna,
report that the village is entirely sur
rounded by fire. Wednesday it swept up
within short distance of the saw mills
where thousands of feet of lumber were
piled. The villagers mustered all force
and while an engine from Stroudsburg
kept the lumber and ground wet
around the mills the villagers beat
back the fire until they got
it under control. Had it not been for a
large swamp intervening between. the town
and the fire, there is no doubt but the
whole town of Tobyhanna would have
been destroyed. From the northwest the
fire worked around to the south of the
town, burning house and barn, also
house owned by Patrick Whaton. The
people in that part of the town were pack
ing up their household effects and loading
them on wagons. Some fourteen families
in this one locality were prepared to move
at moments notice. The fire was burn
ing very rapidly in the direction of these
buildings and the air filed with sparks and
burning branches. Shaw's hotel in the
centre Of the town was on fire, but it was
extinguished before much damage was done.
Other buildings were ON fire at different
times. The people had to
be continually on watch as the sparks
were flying thick and fast and everything
being so very dry they set fire to whatever
they fell on. The heat was intense and
the smoke so thick that you could not recog-
nize a person at 10 feet distance, and at
times you could not see the sun for the
dense smoke. The inhabitants of Toby
hanna, and those who had been there assis-
ting them, have had terrible week of it,
some of them not having slept for four
nights.
Year: 1872

New York, May 16.-Chief Justice Bar
bour has given carefully an opinion holding
that the United States statutes OF lcoo ana
1867, permitting defendant not q resident
in the same State as the plaintiff TO remove
his case at any stage of a suit, from State
Court to the United States Court, are un-
constitutional.
Year: 1872

WAsHsEsGToN, May 16.-The Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations had an
other meeting this morning on the subject
Of the additional article TO the treaty of
Washington, but came tc no conclusion,
there being much discussion. There seems
70 be no doubt the committee will report
favorably, and that the Senate will finally
act on the matter this week.
Year: 1872

Notwithstanding the very large number
OF persons focking from all sections of the
country to the Exposition for the last week,
the attendance yesterday morning was by
far the largest day crowd that has yet been
to this great industrial show. At an early
Year: 1872

MONTGOMERY COUNTY
in this State has also contributed as visitors
to our Exposition many Of her most genial
gentlemen and beautiful women, whose
presence is ever welcome in the Rock
Nifu
Year: 1872

LINE" engraving is of the highest or


der. Great engravings are done in ''line"


simply straight lines. Next comes Zine


and "stipple." "Stipple" means dots


small dots like this. These


small dots are used to tighten up the high


parts of the face of drapery. 1t is very


hard to engrave face in lines simply, and


only master engravers have ever under


taken it, The masters understand and
practice both cline" and "stipple." In


17O0 Claude Melan engraved a full head
of Christ with one unbrOken line. The
line commenced at the apex of the nose
and wound out and out like a watch
spring, until il ended in the border of the
picture. Mezzotint engravings are pro-
duced thus: The steel or copper is made
rough like fine sand-paper. To produce
soft effects this rough surface is scraped
of. If YOU want a white place or high
light in your engraving, scrape the sur
face smooth, then the ink will not touch
II. If you want faint color, scrape off
little Such engravings look like litho-
graphs. Etching is adapted to homely
any familiar sketches. Almost all the
great painters were etchers. Etching is
done thus: The copper or steel plate is
beaten and covered with black varnish.
The eneraver scratches off this varnish
with sharp needles, working on the sur
face as he would on paper with pencil
Nitric acid is then poured over the plate,
and il eats away at the steel and copper
wherever the needle has scraped off the
yarnish. When the varnish is removed
with spirits Of turpeniine, the engraving
IS seen in sunken lines on the plate.