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Year: 1872

What is cerebro spinal meningitis? is
I, question which has long puzzled the
physicians and the public. A New
York physician has answered it so
clearly that hereafter there can be no
excuse for ignorance of its character or
improper treatment; he says, it is not
"a simple or idiopathic inflammation Of
the membranes of the brain or spinal
cord, nor of typhus fever, nor of PERM
cious paludal fever, but substantive
disorder, consistent with itself in all
material points, with constant symp-
toms produced by constant cause, and
is entitled to be described and regarded
as distinct disease, whose proper nos.
illogical place is among general diseases
born of an external morbid poison"
Year: 1872

A writer in in the GALAXY says the
two great wonderful sights of Europe
are the children of England and the flow.
ers of Paris. If any one doubts the
former assertion, let him make pill
grimage any fine afternoon to Hyde
Park and look at the English children
as they are at play, and he will own
they are earthly angels of incom-
parable beauty" The flowers he does
not attempt to account for, but the
children's beauty comes from living al
most entirely in the fresh air, eating
plain, good food, sleeping on hard but
comfortable beds, playing until they are
sleepy, and sleeping until they are rest
ed again. Such training, says the
writer, will confute the bold assertion
of SO convincing person as Prof. Book
of Leipsic University, who says, A
healthy man is a rarity healty wo
man apparently does not exist"
Year: 1872

ASHES were always considered good
to make corn and grass grow, ana now
they have been found wonderfully eih'
cacious in raising cities. Chicago has
grown st the rate of fifty houses day
since their application.
Year: 1872

TO convince the Portland public that
there was no trouble about getting through


the Notch the chief engineer Of the Yer
mont Central was deputed to mako a pre-
linihary survey. This survey was made
in the dead Of winter His report was
all that could be desired, There were
no lions in the way, there were no tormid-
ebIe difficulties to be encountered In
Year: 1872

''No Lucy, never make q love match, I"
said young Mrs. Strong to an old school
friend who was paying her an afternoon
visit. MARRY for money-for interest
for anything but love. | have tried that.
and made q failure such as it would break
my heart to SEQ you make"


Lucy Moore listened silently, thought
full shadow on her fair young face.


us it indeed so?" she said. II grieve
to hear it. How we'll l remember your
wedding day, Mary. How handsome
aud noble your husband looked! How
bright and happy you were! Oh, surely
he loved you very dearly them"


"He thought be did, and so did l."
said Mrs. Strong, with half-checked
sob. "But it did not last long, Lucy
We have been married just two years to-
day. He will not remember the day
He left me this morning without . kiss, as
be always does. He will come back to
dinner in the same way, and after it is
over he will 60 out 10 bis club, or-or
some other place. and never come home
till after | have gone to bed. Yet I have
been a good and careful wife to him. l
Year: 1872

In HalPs Journal of Health the
following seasonable admonitions
are presented on "Open Windows
at Night" 1t says:


Very much has been written on
this subject, and written unwisely /;
the facts are that whoever sleeps
uncomfortably cool will get sick
To hoist the window sky high when
the mercury is at zero is an absurd
ity. The colder a sleeping apart
ment is, the more unhealthy does it
become, because cold condenses the
carbonic acid formed by the breath
ing of the sleeper. 1t settles near
the floor, and is re- breathed, and if
in a very condensed form he will
die before morning. Hence We
must be governed by circumstances;
the first, thing you must be comfort
bly, warm during sleep, otherwise
you are not refreshed, and infam-
nation of the lungs may be engen-
dered, and life destroyed within a
very few days. An open door and
an open fire place are sufficient for
ordinary purposes in cold weather.


When outer windows are opened,
it is well to have them down at the
top two or three inches, and up at
the bottom for the same space, in


miasmatic localities; and these are
along the water courses, beside mill
ponds, marshes, bayOus, river
bottoms, fat islands and the like
1t is the most important from the
1st OF August until several severe
frOsts have been noticed, to sleep
with all external doors and windows
closed, because the cool air Of sunset
causes the condensation of the pois-
onOus emanations which were caused
by the heat of the MONDAY sun to
rise far above the earth. This con-
densation makes the air heavy by the
great solidifcation of the emana-
tions by cold these resting on the
surface of the earth in the more
concentrated and malignant form,
they are breathed into the lungs,
swallowed into the stomach, cor
rupting and poisoning the blood


with great rapidity. By daylight
these condensations are made so
compact by the prOtracted GOODNESS
of the night, they are too near the
surface of the earth to be breathed
into the system but as the sun be-
gins to ascend, these heavy conden-


sations begin TO rise to the height OF
several feet above the ground, and
are freely taken into the system by
every breath and swallowed hence
the hours of sunrise and sunset are
| the most unhealthy hours of the
twenty.four in the localities named;
and noontide, when the sun is the
hottest, is the most healthy portion
of the day, because the miasma is
so much rarifed that it ascends
rapidly to the upper regions. The
general lessons are: First, Avoid
exposure to the out door air in mias-
matte localities for the hours includ
| ing sunrise and sunset. Second,
Having a blazing fire on the hearth
| of the family room at these hours to
rarity and send the mIasma upward.
Third, Take breakfast before going
lout of doors in the morning, and
lake tea before sundown ; then be.
| ing out at night is nOt injurious.
Year: 1872

1t was about the buckwheat cakes.
I told Maria Ann any fool could
beat her making those cakes, and
she said I had better try it. So I
did. 1 emptied the batter all out of
the pitcher one evening and set the
cakes myself. I got the -four, and
the salt and the water, and, warned
by the past, put in a liberal quanti-
ty of eggs and shortening. short
ened with tallow from roast beef,
! because l could not find any lard,
The batter did not look right. 1
lighted my pipe and pOndered-
yeast-yeast, to be sure. had for
gotten the yeast. 1 went and woke
up the baker and got six cents
worth of yeast. L set the pitcher
behind the sitting-room stove, and
went to bed. In the morning, l got
up early and prepared to enjoy my
triumph; but l didn't. That Yeast
was strong enough to raise the
dead the batter was running all
over the carpet. I scraped it up
and put it into another dish. Then
l got q fire in the kitchen and put
on the griddIe. The first lot of
cakes stuck to the griddle. The sec
ond dittoed, only more. Maria came
down and asked what was burning.
She advised me to grease the grid
die. Ibid it. One end of the grid
die got too hot and l dropped the
thing on my tenderest corn, while
trying to turn around. Finally,
the cakes were ready for breakfast,
and Maria got the other things
ready. We sat down. My cakes
did not have exactly the right fav-
or. 1 took one mouthful and it sat
isfed me. 1 lost my appetite at
once. Maria would not let me put
one on her plate. I think those
cakes may be reckoned a dead loss.
The cat would not eat them. The
dog ran off and stayed three days
after one was offered him. The
hens won't go within ten feet of
them. I threw them into the back
yard, and there has not been a pig
on the premises since. 1 cat what
is put before ME low, and do not
aIlude to my mothers system of
cooking.
Year: 1872

and honestly, for the sake of the
comfort which it gives them-a
comfort every bit as legitimate as
that which drinkers of tea, coffee or
wine extract in each case from their
favorite beverage.
Year: 1872

THE VALLEY RAILROAD AND RocKBRIDGE
COUNTY, VA.-At a public meeting held at
Lexington, Bockbrldge county, Va, the presi-
dent of the board Of supervisors informally re-
ported that the board had decided not to issue
the county bonds, authorized by the popular
vote toward the construction Of the valley rail-
road, On any other than the central route. The
survey for the line has not been concluded II
a grade not over seventy five feet can be got on
the central line, it will be taken but in any
case the line does not, it is held, affect the sub
scription.
Year: 1872

While Judge Busteed was holding court
at Huntsville, Alabama, last week, it came
to his knowledge that persons were COM
ing into the court room wearing fire arms,
when he made the following pointed Or
der: ...- - -a. ... r.... ..


Information has reached me that q con-
siderable number of the persons attending
on this Court, come into Its presence wear
ing fire arms or other deadly weapons.
My sources OF information leave me no
room TO doubt its correctness. To bring
deadly weapons into Court of Justice
during the sittings, is an offense of the
highest character and deserving of extreme
punishment. 1t is fiagitous and unpar-
donable contempt of the law, and an in
decent and monstrOus exhibition of the
fell spirit of turbulent crime. 1t must be
met and crushed. To do less than stamp
1t as abominable would be reproach to
civilization, Christianity and law. The
Marshal'an his attendants are charged
with the duty of excluding from the court
room any person guilty of this wicked
practice, and they are authorized to make
courteous and civil examinations of the
person, and any one refusing to be so ex-
amined, shall not be allowed admission to
the court room.
Year: 1872




TENNESSEE Democracy is as intolerant
proscriptive and mean az it can be. There
never was day, even when the passions
engendered by the war were at fever heat,
when there was a narrower or bitterer poll
teal feeling in Middle and West Tennes-
see than to-day. As our readers well know,
Judge Thos. A. r.. Nelson recently felt
called upon to venture the opinion that
Democracy had past the period of its USE
fulness and ought to be disbanded. The
public proclamation organ of this city first
assailed him for it, but knowing the high
estimation in which the people Of East
Tennessee held him, it was forced to be
moderate. The Union and AR1eriean of
Nashville-hetter known as the swindling
sheet that for time bled the public treas
ury in the public printing contracts-as-
sailed the Judge in most malicious and
mean manner Now, the Brownsville
Bee takes up the war cry. We give it only
to show the Conservative Union men of
East Tennessee how such men as Nelson,
Sewer and Baxter are handled when they
dare to assert their manhood or reprove
the intolerant spirit now predoIninating
in the Democratic party. The Bee says;
Nelson is vain and empty wreck We be-
lieve he is credited with honesty, but no man
respects his statesmanship. He is senile and
weak. He is phantom, ghost of the dead
past, but he is restless and unquiet, and does
not conduct himself as first class ghost should
He is, antdeluyian, having been fairly and
squarely buried before the flood, and yet he de-
sires to break the bonds of his ghastly prison
house and startle the living with frstclass
sensation
Year: 1872

cotton belt of the South and the great
commercial marts of the East, in a section
affording the finest water power and a
most healthful location for workmen, we
see no reason why Knoxville should not
sustain Cotton Factory. Our large whole
sale houses here would of course encourage
such an enterprise with patronage, and it
would otherwise find advantages equaled
by very few points in the South


In general way Knoxville affords en-
couragement to such enterprises as we
have named. 1t is conveniently situated
in growing section of great diversified
interests. 1t is an exceptionally health
full point. Its citizens would extend lib
eral aid in the way of land and patronage
to any enterprise reasonably promising
success. All these are considerations worth
presenting.


Wehave superior clay Immediately about
Knoxville that can be worked into earth
enware of almost.any finish. 1t is pro-
nounced very good by those who have
worked it,


We have marble and limestone here in
abundance. We believe we have stone
here that will one day he aCorked here and
shipped abroad in its finished state. We
hope soon to report further information
on this point. The imposing Postof1ice
building now being erected here is being
built of marble pronounced equal to any on
the continent.


WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE WANT.


1t might be interesting to know what
manufacturing enterprises we have. Our
advertising columns will show most of
these enterprises. A brief summary will
show what is not found there. We have
one bar iron and nail mill. We have two
foundries and machine shop one car
wheel factory; ond foundry and plow fac
tory one saddle tree factory; three water
power flour malls railroad chops, working
exclusively for the railroads one carriage
| factory now building; one boot and shoe
factory two shops manufacturing furni-
ture; saddle and harness factories; one
tannery and other enterprises not neces
sary to mention.


Most of these enterprises are yet but i'm
perfectly established, most of them need.
ing additional capital and enlarging.


In addition to the advantages named, W,
hope soon to offer superior shipping facili
ties by the completion of the Great Trunk
Road from Cincinnati to Charleston, South
Carolina, crossing here the great route from
New York to New Orleans. Our river al
ready affords some facilities for navigation
and is being improved by the Government
so as eventually to give us better water
channel to Chattanooga.
Year: 1872

SUMNER has written another letter
this time in reply to Speaker Blaine,
defending from republican stand
point his support of Horace Greeley.
He closes with these words:


The personal imputation you make
upon me | repcl with the Indignation
of an honest man. / was faithful
supporter of the President until
some what tardily awakened by his
painful conduct on the Island of San
Domingo, involving the seizure of the
war power in violation of the Consti-
tuition, and indignity to the Black Re
public, in violation of international
law, and when | demonstrated against
these in tolcrablo outrages l was. set
upon by those acting in his behalf,
Such is the anger of my opposition.
| could not have done less without
failure in that duty which is with Inc
the rule Of life, nor can | doubt that
when partisan sentiments are less ac-
tive you will regret the wrong You
have done me Molnwhilo, | appeal
confidently TO the candid judgment OF
those, who, amidst all the prcsont dif,
ferences of opinion, unite in great OBJ.
iects far above party or President, and
10 which my life is devoted.
Year: 1872

At the Baltimore Convention, Jas
S. Thrayer, the silver -tongued orator
of New York, said:


When the nomination of General
Grant was made, canvass was un-
rolled, and there was presented to that
body a picture of man on horseback
shining in his military boots and in
all the array Of a warrior chieftain,
the war song resounded through that
conoourse and the public men and
actors then stood forth, glimmering in
all the the raven gloss Of hate and re-
vcnge. Not one sentiment Of graft.
tude; not one word Of peace was ut.
tered or wentforth to the country. In
the closing scenes Of this Convention
there is presented to you as the candi-
date Of the Democratic party plain
American citizen in humble attire, but
with broad and radiant brow, a coun.
tenancc full of bencvolence, speaking
peace and harmony, and as pure and
genuine a type Of American character
as was ever born on the soil. The
country will hail him as the man whose
rceconciling genius shall span the di
viding stream that rolls between the
sections, and before twelve months o
his administration have passed, thl
dark and bloody chasm will be filled
and the new made earth will not b,
pressed by one hostile foostep, and il
the future Of the country We will no
be able even to draw across the con
tinent an imaginary line that shall di
vide united people. The star tha
glittcrs above the horizon gives the
promise of bright and untrouble,
morning. Democrats, liberal and pat
riotic men of all parties, hail it as 4
sign Of peace. Recognizing it as such
a choral strain will ascend from a uni
ted people, grand and sweet and mu
steal IA the bchs of Moscow. IA cleal
and resounding as a Jubilee Trumpet
Year: 1872

First Ward Solid for GreeIey-SDeeches


by Senator Hunsaker and Judge


Phillips.


A large and enthusiastic meeting was held
last evening in the hall of the First Ward
Mother Club. A fine band of music was in
attendance, and general enthusiasm was
manifested. After the ordinary business of.
the club was disposed of Senator o. F. Hun
saker was introduced to the club, and re-
ceived with a welcome of applause. The
Senator, in short, but eloquent address,
stated his views of the political situation.
and expressed himself an earnest advocate
of the principles and candidates of the Gin
cinnati convention, advancing weighty and
telling arguments in support of his position.
The Senator's remarks were received with
general satisfaction and applause.


Judge Phillips was introduced and re-
ceived with the usual compliment of ap-
plause. With his natural tact he soon won
the closest attention, which was accorded
throughout his address without Interrupt
ton. The Judge proceeded to eulogize
Horace Greeley, making some strong points
more than once bringing down the house
with his pointed and original illustrations.
The Judge said:


We find in the Hon. Horace Greeley the
embodiment of those principles which are
necessary to restore the harmony and re-
form which the people throughout the
country demand Mr. Greeley B a man of
the people, who has been long before the
public, and is in perfect sympathy with
the controlling element-the agricultural
classes.


In Greeley we find man who, if placed
at the head of the nation, would inaugurate
a reform administration; who would purge
the civil service of it's present corruption:
would appoint men for the collection and
disbursement of the public funds that would
not betray the grave responsibilities reposed
in them; who would secure the passage of
wise and salutary laws; who would remove
the fetters that have for so long time held in
political bondage large proportion of the
wealth and intelligence of the South; who
would insure to the eolored man the free
exercise of every right before the law; to
the poor man protection from oppression;
to the rich man protection in the enjoy
ment of his wealth, and to every American
citizen that political and social freedom
which so well accOrds with our free insti-
tutiOns, and is guaranteed us by our Re-
publican constitution.


He would use his power to promote the
agricultural and commercial interests of the
country; to develop the resources of the
great West and bring to light its hidden
treasures, and would hasten the dawn of
that glad day when the North and the
South, the East and the West shall strike
hands in a new bond of union, peace and
fraternity; when universal prosperity shall
prevail, and the song of the husbandman
and the hum of busy factories shall be
heard in place of the cries of the oppressed
and the murmurs of an Overburdened peO-
pie.


The Judges remarks were received with
rounds of applause, and the meeting ad-
journed amid great enthusiasm and repeated
cheers for the talented young speaker and
the Cincinnati ticket.
Year: 1872

We reluctantly gave up our present Lcglsla-
ture some weeks since, apprehending That 1T
would be debauched and ruined by the Erie
struggle; but, now that this peril has been
ayelted, we have hope again. Yet the Session
is two-thirds passed, with little thoroughly
done. just look at the abuses that now press
for speedy and thorough reform:


Our City Charter must be recast. We do
not sickle for a literal adoption OF the
Sevcntys Charter: let that be improved
wherever it can be; but let us have action
upon it-resolute and thorough action. DO
not leave Us to the tender mercics of the
Tweed instrument. but give us thorough
Reform


The bill recasting our minor Judicial system
is well meant but tmd. Both our Civil and
our Police Justices would be largely paid by
salaries of $4,000 each; yet the Senate bill
proposes $1,000 instead Of the present $4,000.
Surely that is too much.


Then our City pressnely needs some means
of quick transit from her lower wards TO llar-
lem River We DO not decide between con-
ficting projects-that is the business not OF
editors but of engineers We only insist that
the LEGISLATURE shall give Ms bill which Will
not remain nullity, but will insure the re-
srlt so much desired. Underground or Ele-
waited. Pneumatic or Central, take the advice
of the best engineers, and at all events give
MS a track to Harlem that is not obstructcd
bv proces sions and can be tIaveTsed in twenty
minutes.


Our corrupt Judiciary must not he spared.
Now that the Erie Ring has followed the Tam
many. the Judicial stands next in order.
Give it justice!


Honest Elections will confirm and secure the
triumph over Fraud so nobly won last Fall.
Every neighborhoOd in the State is interested
io the prevention of ballOt-bOx stufiing and
notwithstanding. Every fraudulent vote here
affects the result in the State, and at times in
the Nation. You cannot have upright, frugal
government based on fraudulent voting and
counting. If we are to have honesty and truth
anywhere, we must begin with them at the
balOt-bOxes.


"Much yet remains unsung." Our Canals,
our Railroads, all need to feel the electric
touch of Reform. And, now that Erie is vir-
tually ont of the way, we may reasonably eX-
pect it, Let us hope that there will be no ad-
iournments over, no lack of quorum in either
House. until the close of the session, and that
each day shall be fruitful in good works hence
forth to the last
Year: 1872

There is a correspondent IN Rome who does not
think highly of transatlantic intelligence. If he
did he would not send by Cable such silly story rs
that he inflicted upon last week about the ntcn-
ton of King Victor Emanuel TO send an army TO
Spain. and this week about Prince Frederick Charles
going to Rome to claim the throne of Spain for HIM
self One need know very little of Spanish character
10 be sure that no army of occupation could exist In
Spain except during the heat of war. a body OF
foreign troops specially imported to be the body
guard of the King would be an insult SO
ma,dening To the susceptible Castilan blood that II
could only be wiped oil by murder. Every eater oi


naccaroni would take his life in his hand when he
went out after dark and would soon find himself IKE
Mr. Clemens's Nevada stage driver so iull oi bullet
holes that he could not hold his victuals" The
other story is less absurd. Was there any man In
Rome stupid enough to think that tho hghtihS no
henzollern used any such language at the court oil
the King whose son now governs Spain Courtesy


"A we'll as common sense would have prevented HIS


announcing himself rs candidate for that thorny
throne. He would doubtless mako II better hing
,aan Amalo,l5, bOtn for whaS ho'is snd wba' ho %
Year: 1872

Now is as good time any for sentimental peT-
sons to investigate the subject of country living.
The mud is very thick and deep the delayed
as much now rs at any time Of the year. and indeed
all the dscouragements may now be experienced in
a DAYS country seeking. Ii any man can love the
country place. with its walks unpayed and its trees
without foliage and its breezes from the northwest.
he is proper candidate for rural living. Al others
mnst remember that during five months Of the year
tbe frees do not wear blossoms fruits, or crimson
leaves. and that to very few men December Is a.
pleasant as May"
Year: 1872

Our Paris Letter this morning contains a
clear and interesting statement of the late
debate upon the freedom of the Press in
France. The Government of Mr.. Theirs seem
determined to stand by this fatal measure,
which would put the press Of the country in
the power of the authorities, and make i'm
possible the practice of true civil liberty.