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Year: 1872

Yesterday morning a runaway couple
from Russellville, Kentucky, consisting OF
the loving pair and two attendants, male
and female, arrived here at one O'Clock on
the Edgefield and Kentucky train. Taking
a hack they were drawn TO a certain hotel,
but finding no ore awake to receive them,
the driver went in the hote! to awake the
clerk. The knight of the desk had fallen
asleep, and being very unexpectedly aroused
from his slumbers in the old arm chair, i'm
agined burglars were making an attack on
the safe. Thinking discretion the better
part of valor, this knightly scribe broke ior
the rear, upsetting three or four chairs, and
escaping byjumping through window and
thence bv a circuitous route along dark al
leys toward the police station. Ascertaining
his error before reaching the Square, be very
quietly returned to the hotel, his dismayed
visitors and would-haYe-been guests having
in the meantime sought rooms at the Com
mercial Hotel, where the loving couple
were married at three O'Clock yesterday
morning. We once heard Of young lady
being frightened by proposition Of mairi-
mony on the part of a gentleman, but never
knew hotel clerk could be so badly fright
ened by a runaway couple as to abandon
the Office to their charge, and that, TOO,
| without word Of explanation
Year: 1872

A negro roustabout on steamer Robert
Burns in fight yesterday on the boat
about forty miles below Louisville with
another deck hand, received a horrible gash
across ne abdomen, from which his bowels
protruued. The wounded man was taken
to the Marine hospital here in dying con-
dition. The murderer was arrested.
Year: 1872

A meeting was held in Putnam coun-
ty on Saturday, August TO- in neigh
borhood where the Democrats are
largely 10 the ascendant A short time
ago quite a number Of them were dis
posed 10 support Governor Jacob. This
they will not now do, for the reason
that they see that vote for Jscob is a
vote to divide the Democracy, and give
aid and comfort the Radicals Camden
will get the entire Democratic vote Of
that region.
Year: 1872

The following paragraphs are CLEANED
from the letters of correspondents re-
siding in the several counties named, OF
from personal interviews and converse
tions with prominent and well informed
citizens OF those counties. We believe
that the indications they present con"
Ger hing popular sentiment in this State
are entirely trustworthy and reliable
We have news also from other
counties that cannot be embraced
in this hastily prepared review. The
general tenor Of all the advices received
is that Governor JACOB will receive very
little more than the Radical vote OF the
State, and that both the ratification OF
the new Constitution and the election OF
the entire Democratic State ticket are
secured beyond reasonable doubt.


Harbour County.


A we'll informed Barbour county cor
respondent says in private letter /:


81 think we can give Camden and the
new Constitution about 300 majority.
Jacob has lost all his Democratic
friends here by permitting himself to
be used as Radical tool against the
namncratic nominee"
Year: 1872

A prominent citizen of Mercer coun'
ty, who was in this city short time
ago, says there are not enough Radicals
there TO make a Jacob party out Of.
The county is almost unanimously
Democratic and the whole vote will be
cast for the State ticket and the Consti-
tuition. The majority will be from 300
to 500.
Year: 1872

In Ohio county great deal OF pop
ulsr interest centres in the Sheriffalty.
The Office is generally supposed to be
far the most lucrative one in the State,
and it is but natural, therefore, that it
should be eagerly sought for. At the
same time, the Office gives to its pos
SCISSOR considerable political influence,
of which each party is anxious to avail
itself. By his constant and close inter
course with the people the Sheriff is
enabled to do a great deal Of what is
popularity styled electioneeriug" and
has always a considerable number Of
votes to a great extent under his con-
troll. 1t is this consideration that
invests the Sheriffalty with political
importance and incites the political
parties to struggle for its possession.


AS regards the personal character Of
the present candidates for the Sheriff
atty of Ohio county, nothing need be
said Both are we'll known and both
deserve and enjoy in q very high degree
The respect and confidence of the people
OF the county. Mr.. Brown has held
The Office two years and. so Tar as We
have heard, his Republican friends urge
As the CHIEF reason for his election at
this time that he was elected for the
term OF four years, but that the adop-
ton OF the new Constitution will deprive
him Of the latter halt of his term 1t is
therefore insisted that he should be
again elected now for full term OF four
wears, and thus secure SIR gears enjoy
ment OF the place. But did the Repub-
Leans think Of this rule when Major
ALoSzo LoRrNG was deprived Of
the Sheriffalty and Mr. SEY-
BOLD, a Republican, elected in his
stead? five are not mistaken, Mr..
Brown himself voted for Mr.. SEYBoLD
al that time Notwithstanding Major
LoRING was a candidate for reelection
and had held the office but a short
lime. There was then no personal OBJ,
lection to Mr.. LoRING. no dispute ss to
his fitness for the place, and the election
turned upon purely political issues.
There is no objection now that Mr..
BRowS has not faithfully discharged
mis- duty, and no man in the county,
whether Republican or Democrat
doubts that Mr.. TISGLE is just as COM
petent and will fll the office just a.
creditably as he. There is therefore nc
good reason why the precedent set by
Republicans in Major LoRINe,s case
should not be followed by Democrats
now.


Mr.. TlNGLE las been one Of the
most active, consistent aud faithful
Democrats in the county. From The
time OF the first organization of the
party here and during all the tim.
when it was dangerous to be known a
Democrat he was out spoken in ad,
vocscy Of Democratic principles. II
party services are to be rewarded Their
is no one more deserving Of such reward
than he. He will make an excellen
officer and there is no danger but ths
he will remsic true to tie party TO
whose success be has labored 90 loni
and 90 we'll. We do not see hou an.
Democrat in the county can discharg'
his whole duty in the coming election
without voting for GroRss r. TNsll
for Sheriff. ...- ..
Year: 1872

We are assured by private letters as
we'll as by gentlemen who have recently
VISITED Greenbrier that that county
=. - give for the State ticket and the
Constitution q majority scarcely less
than the 1000 it gave for the call OF the
Convention
Year: 1872

From present indications We are safe
10 predicting good majority for the
State ticket and the Constitution in
Lewis.


All We want here is to ge, the people
to investigate the truth Of the
whole matter, and they will soon be
convinced Of the double purpose ol
Jasob to sell out the Democratic party
Year: 1872

Special Dispatch to the Reglster.l


e., CHARLESTON, August l6.


The Democratic meetings are largely
attended and there is great enthusiasm
and excitement in this section Of the
State. The Jacob men are down in
the mouth" You may rely upon at
least Five Thousand majority for Cam
den and the Constitution in the Third
Congressional District. y.
Year: 1872

A Monroe county correspondent oi
the Greenbrier Independent says:


THE Jacob party is but small in this
community and growing beautifully less
every day. We were friends OF Gov
ernor Jacob, and hoped he wonld be
the nominee, but now that he has be
trayed the confidence reposed in him
by the Democratic party, we are glad
that our delegates to the State Conven-
ton discovered his plans and gave US a
better man.
Year: 1872

Marion county is as solid as a stone
WALL in defense Of the Democratic
cause. All accounts agree that there
is not Democrat in the county who
will vote for the "bolter" The ma
jority for Camden and the Constitution
will be about 200.
Year: 1872

The latest intelligence from Jefferson
is that the few Jacob men in that
county are deserting him because OF
his double-dealing with regard to the
new Constitution. The Democratic
majority will not be less than GOO.
Year: 1872

AJaekson county correspondent says.


Governor Jacob was popular In this
county before he turned traitor; and
even at the time he announced himself
a candidate, a good many Democrats
declared their determination to vote for
him; but at the present time you can
scarcely find a Jacob man outside the
Republican ranks. Those who were his
friends, having become satisfied that he
is the candidate Of the Republicans,
have nearly all deserted him. We ex-
pect and inteod to give the Democratic
ticket and the new Constitution a
handsome majority in this county.
Year: 1872

An intelligent and well posted corre'
spondent in Pocahontas county says:


1.-THE Democratic party in this
county is united in the fight for the
Constitution and the State ticket. No
comfort for boilers out here in the
mountains Our usual Democratic
majority in this county is three hun
dred. We will fully reach that, if not
overgo it"
Year: 1872

GoING TO GEORGETOWN Soldiers club at
the meeting last night ordered more equipments
and torches. By notice printed elsewhere, is
will be seen that this club are making active ar
rangements for attending the Georgetown Con-
vention in full uniform. The Club also propose
taking one or two pieces OF artillery with them
and firing salutes at the stations on the way and
at the Convention Those Soldiers who have
not already joined the club are requested to do
so in time to receive their uniforms before Tues
day next. Those honorary members who have
not already complied with the Bylaws of the
club are invited to do SO in time to be repre-
sented at the Convention
Year: 1872

New SHOE SroRE.-The store at the n W.
corner of Ninth and Orange streets has been
rented by I. Frank Pennington, who has opened
boot and shoe establishment. The opening is
made with full stock, and of variety of quail
tiles and styles to suit the tastes OF all custom
ers. Call and see him.
Year: 1872

ONE Of those eccentric characters, who,
brought into prominence by a startling
crime, occupy the public attention by peeu-
liarities tLat are striking, and psychological
ly puzzling, is at present in the penitentiary
at Sing Sing. Every now and then we
hear Of her as Mrs. Henrietta Robinson,
the "veiled murderess." Eighteen
years ago she was tried and convicted at
Troy, New York, of murder by the admi-
nistration of poison. At her trial she kept
her face veiled beyond recognition; and
when compelled to remove her veil, still
managed, with curious and almost insane
persistence, to screen her naturally hand
some features in some other way from the
gaze Of the court. She is not insane, how
ever, according to medical testimony. She
has turned her cell into a conservatory, and
seeks to obtain from her flowers the long
lost bloom of youth. No one can obtain
clue to her origin, and she is, among the
prisoners, an objecs of respect mingled with
q certain awe.
Year: 1872

Owing to the horses being sick tie
Eclipse engine had to be drawn BY men
last night, and when returning cross Union
street at Market, little boy hOldiSg the
drsg rope in front stumbled, causing Mr..
Adam Lander to fall also. Before this
gentleman could extricate himself, one
wheel of the large steam engiDge passed
over his legs, severely bruising the right
calf, and breaking the left leg. Boys should
not be permitted to get in the way of the
engines, and If necessary a city ordinance
should be passed preventing it.
Year: 1872

A block Of green paint, weighing 80 26 grains,
on analysis was found to contain 8 so grains OF
arsenic. In single twig Of twelve artificial
leaves, 10 grains of pure arsenic were found
Arsenic is also largely used in coloring paper
and cloth:
Year: 1872

lhe barometer will continue falling over the
Middle States, and an area OF rain and cloudy
weather will extend eastsry over the southern
portion OF the Middle States during the day and
possibly over the northern portion during o-nlght.
Year: 1872

Several classes of animals are natural and
necessary servants of man in his efforts to
cultivate and tertiliZe the earth; and it is
desirable that they should be rendered as
valuable as possible. Constant and kindly
handling of horses and cattle familiarizes
them to the keeper, whereby they become
far more gentle and tractabe; and the
keepers come to understand their wants,
diseases, and peculiaritieS, and learn hoS
successfully to treat and provide for them
all thus reducing the management Of stock
to a pleasant science, largely increasing the
intellectual pleasure of operator, and rem
dering the whole business far more profit
able and pleasant, by aking the manager
better acquainted with all the resources at
his command, and his animals better dis
Ciplned for the various services required
OF them.


From numerous European authorities and
experiments OF intelligent American farm
eros With my own experience and obServa-
tiOnS, | am fully assured that systematic
handling and feeding all the stock on farm,
with regular rotation and cropping in the
laanner known as green soling, is largely
more profitable and delightful than other
mode pursued by farmers, besides being far
more humanizing-ius more real dig
nifty of character and sentiment; and what
ever ttNtLOptS tue luNeleCludl dcJlRiLltS,
elevates the tone and temper of all or any
of the industrial classes, and promotes
their higher happiness, is desirable, and
should be enCOura gpd.


Thus knowing his animals more fully the
keeper will appreciate and treat them more
nationally and kindly, which will result in
higher humdnlZing effects, rendering the
animals better servants and the keepers
better men. But to secure this desirable
result, all stock must be often and familiar
Iy handled and led with halters while Young
colts and calves; and if all be done kindly
and without anger, they will be as dociIe
and readily approached at all times As dogs
and cats at the house. But farmers will
not be likely to take the pains to do this
without they adopt a steady aud regular
system which will lead to it as an essential
part of their operations on the farm.


10 render this system as pleasant and
profitable as possible, rotation of crops and
raising OF roots will be required, which will
result in keeping up' the land to the high
est point and prevent exhaustion, in secnr
ing much greater bulk and value of product,
and sustaining much larger number Of
animals upon given quantity of land.
Year: 1872

A singular case of railroad obstruction,
and one tor which no remedy is provided
by the statutes, occurred few evenings
since on the Valley road in Greene coun-
ty. Conductor Livingston's train when
about thee miles this side of Grand
junction, in passing through some low
country and near pond, ran into an i'm
mense flock of swan, brandt, geese and
other wild fowl. The birds were lust
about to alight on the track as the train
drew near. Their number was so great
that the sky was filled with them, and
those above pressing down on the lower
strata forced them to alight on the car
tops The engine tender and cars were
covered with the fowls, and some even
clung to the bars of the cowcatcher. One
stately swan had a wing injured in the
crush, and found resting place on the
headlight, from whence he was taken by
the engineer. The bird, however, man
aged to escape from custody, near Perry,
and jumping from the tender where he
had been tied, disappeared in the grass.
The raid continued several minutes. quite
number OF the aerial army being run
over by the train, and some half dozen
being captured by passengers and train
men. AS soon as the birds on the top OF
the flock began to understand the situa-
ton they scared away, followed by the
entire convey. Livingston says it was the
biggest crowd of dead-heads that ever
tried to board his train. Des Moines
Uowa) Register.
Year: 1872

In catching salmon they employ prnci-
paIly nets, woven of tine roots or grass
which are stretched across cddics in the
klamath-alWayS with the mouth down
stream Where there is not natural eddy,
they sometimes create one by throwing
out rude wing dam. They select cddies.
because il is there that the salmon congrr-
gate to rest themselves. AT the head of
the eddy they erect fishing booths over the
water. by planting slender poles i'm the
bottom of the river, and laShng others
over them, in Il light and artistic frame
work with Il ilOor Il few feet above the
water, and regular raiters overhead on
which brush wood is placed for u screen
against the sun and moon. In one of
these really picturesque booths an Indian
sleeps at night, with II string cading NJ
from tho net to his fingers, 50 Mat when
a salmon begins to tlounce in it he is awak-
ened. Sometimes the sting is attached to
an ingenious rattle trap of sticks or bones
Cor IL bell, nowadays), which will chnk or
clatter, and answer the same purpose
They also spear salmon from these booths
with u fish gig, furnished with moveahlc
barbs, which after entering the fish, spread
open and prevent the withdrawal OF the
instrument. Another mode they some
times employ is to stand on large bowl
der in the main current, where the sal
mon and the little skeggers shoot in to rest
in the eddy when ascending the stream,
whereupon they scoop them up in dip nets.
Again, they construct Il weir of willow
stakes nearly across the stream at the shall
lows, leaving only Il narrow chute, where
in is set funnel shaped trap of splnts,
with a funnel shaped entrance at the large
end. The salmon easily shoots into this,
but cannot return. BY all these methods
they capture an enormous quantity of fish.
William MGarvey says he has often seen
a ton of dried salmon hanging in the
smoky attic of cabin.


There are two runs of salmon in the
klamath, one in the spring and one in the
autumn, of which the former Is the better,
the fish being then smaller and sweeter.
The whites along the river compel the In
dams to open their wcirs q certain number
of days a week, during the spring run,
that they may participate in the catch.
TOverand Monthly for June.
Year: 1872

writer in the Germantown Telegraph
says:


| have seen various methods for keeping
these insects off plum trees, but none so
simple, nor yet so etfectual, as the follow
ing Soak corn-cobs in sweetened water un-
til thoroughly saturated, then suspend them
TO the limbs of the trees little while after
blossoming, being sure to burn the cobs af-
ter the fruit ripens, as they will be found
full of young insects. good plan is to
change the cobs every few weeks. My theo-
ry is this, that the insects deposit their
eggs in the cobS in preference to doing so
in the young plums. The first season | tried
it upon one or two only, and in the summer
was rewarded by good crop ofas fine plums
as ever ripened, while those on the other
trees fell off when about half grown. Next
spring found sweetened corn -cobs dangling
from the limds of all my plum trees, and the
summer found them full of delicious fruit.
| have never known it to fail, and hope
every one who has plum tree will try it.


TANNING DOG SKINS. The following re-
cpe for tanning the skins of dogs, cats and
woodchucks has been used with good sue
cess salt the skin, roll up, and let it lie
four days when take and stretch on board,
and let it dry straight and smooth then take
an old shave, or something similar, and flesh
the skin clean; next, take salt and pulteriz-
ed alum, each one tablespoonful, dissolve
in warm water just enough to wet the mix
ture put it on the skin warm; roll it up
and let it lie from two to four weeks; then
partially dry and scrape it some; then take
sand-paper and rub till dry, when it will be
ready for use.


Whatever plan is pursued, the surface of
the barn yard should receive no water, save
that which falls directly upon it from the
clouds. Surface cutters should protect it
against the flow of water from other ground
and the roof should be supplied with cave
troughs, dscharging into cisterns or out
side of the yards.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Priggett mistrusted some high
toned chap was tooling around his hen
house too much for the poultry's good, and
so fixed a piece of timber over the door to
the hen-house that would fall upon an at
tempt to open it, "Prig" forgot all about
his nice little arrangement, however,
when he went out to feed his fowls next
morning, and just as he opened the door
he heard something drop, and his wife
found him there when she went to call
him to breakfast.
Year: 1872

-Papas with crowds of daughters will
find consolation in the following advice Of
DIR. franklin, who recommends a young
man in the choice of wife, to select her
from a bunch, giving as reason that when
the e ard many daughters they improve
each other, and from emulation acquire
more accomplishments, and know more.
and do more, than single child spoiled by
parental fondness.
Year: 1872

OK REWARD WILL DE PAID, AND NO CUES
~ tons asked for the return of the old style drab
Satin Dress and the white Satin Dress, taken
East Thirty The values them above
their intrinsic value Call address FELT DRAKE,
~ Pearl street
Year: 1872

Several prominent persons interested in
The movement for the annexation OF San
Domingo which was arrested two years
since, now state very unres,rvcdly that the
scheme will be revived at an early day
after the delivery OF the annual message,
and that IL win certainly be carried
through by President GRANT and his sup
port, ~ i'm Congress.
Year: 1872

Of those bodies win be greatly enlarged,
thus still further extending the principle
of self-gevemment among the people.
These measures are quite certain to follow
the passage of the County Reform bill.
Year: 1872

was bent on him. "You know | have
come to ask her to be my wife"


81 have borne an awful grief and
disappointment, but I'd bear it again
rather than have to tell this to you,
my boy You have stayed too long,


y" Good Heaven is she dead 2"


"Not dead, but as lost to you as if
she were; and you must go back, and
she must never hear you have come,
or she will be true to herself, pitiful,
and overland, and-like q woman
generally, shall | say? She is mar
ried you have stayed too long"


1t did not kill him. and it did not
send him to the bad, a convenient
locality to which fction-wmters fire.
quently consign their Tilted heroes.
But it dulled his life, and robbed him
of his belief in the goodness and
fidelity of women.


Notwithstanding which he forgaye
her, and was friendly with her in the
after years and though her fickleness
had earned his contempt he never
paid the dept. And so poetical justice
was not awarded to the "Aagrant
firt' Bonnie Dundee, who would have
been better woman if she had not
been so thorough Il one.
Year: 1872

There is no death The stars go down


To rise upon some fairer shore
And bright, in heavens jewelled crown


They shine forevermore.
There is no death The dust we tread


Shall change beneath the summer showers
TO golden grain or mellow fruit,


Or rainbow tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize


And feed the hungry moss they bear;
The forest-leayes drink daily life


From out the viewless air.
There is no death The leaves may fall,
And flowers may fade and pass away
They only wait through wintry hours


The coming of the May.
There is no death An angel-form


Walks DER the earth with silent tread
And bears our bcst-loved things away,
And then we call them dead"
He leaves our hearts all desolate,


He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers
Transplanted into bliss, they now


Adorn immortal bowers.
The bird-like voice. whose joyous tones
Made glad these scenes of Sin and strife,
Sings now an everlasting song


Around the tree of life.
Whereer he sees a smile too bright.
Or heart too pure for taint and vice.
lie bears it to that world of light.
To dwell in paradise.
Born unto that undying life,


They leave us but to come again;
With joy we welcome them the same,
Except their sin and pain.
Aud ever near u.s. though unseen,
The dear. immortal spirits tread;
For all the boundless universe


Is life-thore is no dead