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Year: 1873

When Germans meet in a social gather
ing they generally have a good time, and
last night we can assure our readers, was no
exception to the general rule. There was
good turnout, considering the inclemen-
cy of the weather, and merrier, jollier lit
tie company would have been hard to find.
A ball on Sylvester evening is an old time
honored custom among the Germans, and
is always looked forward to with pleasing
anticipation. Mr.. Haupt, although living
some little distance from the city, and not
withstanding the bad weather, would not
think of failing to be present at this festi-
val of the Turner Society with his family.
Also Prof. Knabe was there enlivening
the company with his bright eyes and
merry laugh, and had the pleasure of
seeing about six of his offspring on the
floor at one time.


Prof Hodgson's band furnished the mu-
sic, and therefore comment. on that part
of the evenings entertainment is unnec-
essary. Prof. Lowery acted as floor man.
ager, and of course was in his glory. We
will not attempt to further individualize
those present, but feel confident that all
fully enjoyed themselves.
Year: 1873




NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-There were two
alarms of fire this evening, but neither
amounted to much. There is increasing
evidence of concealed plan for the de-
struction of New York, and the authori-
ties are exercising the utmost vigilance.
Extra men have been engaged on the fire
department, and additional edgines are
under contract: Many Communists, ex-
PEELED from Paris after its last capture, are
in New York, and their movements excite
much suspicion. 1t is impossible to ac-
count for. the origin of all of the recent
fires except on the theory that some of
them were incendiary. 1t is known that
half dozen fires have been set within the
past ten days, but fortunately they were
extinguished.


A fire was set in Tammany Hall adjOin-
ing the Academy of Music last week, and
was discovered just in time to prevent a
disastrous conflagration. About the same
time fire was set in the upper story of
the City Hall, and progressed so far that
the building was in great danger, Besides
Barnum's Museum, there have been slight
fires in three places of amusement within
a week, and there are rumors of another
tonight, which the managers refuse to tell
about. The Fire Marsbals and Chiefs of
the Fire Department are satisfied that
most of these fires are incendiary.


Insurance managers are greatly alarmed,
and further advance in rates Of insurance is
not improbable. Hints about a vigilance
committee are renewed in various quar-
ters, and there is a possibility of violent
movement for the suppression of Interna-
tional societies in New York and vicinity.
Dispatch to Gin. Gazette.
Year: 1873

give the following recipe, which l
have personally proved to be efficient in
restoring healthy growth of hair on the
tails and name: Corrosive sublimate
(hyd. bicloride) oXymuriate of mercury,
each four grains in one ounce of distilled
water. Wash the parts where the hair is
thin, with warm water and soap, then rub
with linen cloth, and Immediately after
rub in some of the above liniment. If the
hair has been rubbed off by the animals
own endeavors to allay cutaneOus irrita-
ton, then dress with the following Oint-
ment: One ounce of fine flour sulphur,
one ounce of pulverized saltpetre, made
into a soft ointment with fresh butter or
fresh rendered hogs lard /; rub in at night
and wash out in the morning with warm
water and soap; repeat three or four times.
If the hair is scant from natural debility
of the capillary organs, then simply use
cold water applied with a soft sponge ;
avoid all combing or brushing, and clean
the name and tail as the Arabs do, with a
course flannel rubber.-Aildy Morgan. :
Year: 1873

Gaiffe's new galvanic battery consists of
vessel in which are contained plate of
lead and plate of zinc. The lead reaches
to the bottom, while the zinc is but half as
long. The bottom of the vessel is covered
with layer of red oxide of lead, and the
exciting fluid is water containing ten per
cent. of sal ammoniac. The electro-motive
power of this battery is estimated at one
third of that of Bunsen cell. Its inter-
nal resistance is very slight, and it is said
to be very constant. 1t has the merit of
cheapness. american.
Year: 1873

An excellent way to keep rabbits and
mice from gnawing young fruit trees is to
take five or six corn stalks, cut about two
and half feet long. Stick them close
around the young tree aud secure them at
the top by tying a small cord around the
whole. 1t is not only sure protection
against rabbits and mice, but is some pro
lection against the cold Of winter.
Year: 1873

WE pablish in aDother column interest
ing information about a proposed effort to
bring German emigrants to the United
States. They are to come in such num-
bers as to make it an object of great inter.
est to us to see if we can not do something
to induce these industrious people to come
to Tennessee. sI.v.HTH
Year: 1873

A rather curious instance illustrative of
the intense cold of Saturday night is re-
lated. A young man from the city visited
his relatives in Evanston and slept in
cold room. He awoke at the usual hour In
the morning to find that his unprotected
ear had been frozen during the night
without his Chicago Ocean
Year: 1873

A saloon keeper having started business
in q building where trunks had been made,
asked friend what he had better do with
the old sign" Trunk Factory" "Oh,"
sold the friend, just change the T to d,
and it will suit you exactly"
Year: 1873

SUIoIDE.-On Monday afternoon Of last
week young man named Albright, Of weak
Coleraine township, left home saying he was
going to help VIM. Phillips make hay. Moth
Ing more was seen Of him until next morning,
when his father, going down through ravine
near the Oct0rarO, found him hanging to a
small tree, entirely naked, his clothing being
carefully piled up near the place. Deceased
was young man about "a years Of age. No
cause can be assigned for the rash act.
Year: 1873

A bill incorporating the Loomis Aerial
Telegraph Company was recently passed
by Congress. This aerial telegraph
scheme is novel thing. The plan of DR..
Loomis, the inventor. is to telegraph from
a high point of the Rocky Mountains to
the highest attainable peak of the Alps,
at which point tower is to be erected,
on the top of which huge mast is to be
placed. An apparatus capable of collect
ing electricity is to be put upon the upper
end of this mast, by means of which, at
such elevation, it is claimed that strata
of the atmosphere will be reached which
is charged with electricity. Ground con-
nection, the same as is used in ordinary
telegraphy, will be erected. This electri-
fed strata of the atmosphere will, as with
the ordinary single wire and ground con-
nection, make complete circuit, and it
is claimed that the slightest pulsation of
electricity at one tower will produce SINH
lar pulsation at the other. The company
is to have a capital stock of two hundred
thousand dollars with the privilege of
increasing it to two millions if the inter-
est of the company shall require it. The
business and objects of the corporation
are stated in the bill to be to develop and
utilize the principles and powers of nat
ural electricity, to be used in telegraph
ing, generating light, heat and motive
power, and otherwise, and operate any
machinery, run by electricity, for any
PURPOSE,
Year: 1873

In letter to Mrs Lucy Stone, of the
Boston Wom0n's Journal, Jean Ingelow
says:


81 am glad of the information derive
from the Journal, but l have not found
time hitherto to give the whole subject
of rights such an amount of study as to
make it wise to utter my crude thoughts
respecting them; other things appear to
be given to me to do, and take them up
to the exclusion of what lies beyond.


'You have, venture to think, more
than one problem to work out in Amer
lea, on which, in great degree, depend
the welfare of women. In one of these /
take keen interest, and I hope to see
you settle it for yourselves and for US. J.
want you to discover how domestic work
is to be combined with high culture.


$50 long AS household work is thought
degrading (and nowhere is this so much
the case as in America), there can never
be anything like universal education;
there must always be some who work all
their lives because others will not at all.
It is to be one of the great things that you
Americans, believe, are raised up for,
to teach this world how this is to be done;
but the teachers can never be those who
are poor; they must be those who are not
obliged to work at all.


"How to make clear starching and
ironing graceful and pretty occupations.
land such they were thought by our great
great -grandmothers) how to keep house
clean, and to assist, even in kitchen,
without the least sense of being lowered,
or the slightest personal deterioration,
might surely be managed if women gave
their minds to tiff more delicate ma
chirery was invented for helping them,
and if it could even be made the fashion
for all women, young or old, to pride
themselves on their domestic skill"
Year: 1873

honorable and conspicuous position in
which for many years he led the public
opinion of the country. There is nothing
in his character or career which mars the
force of his beneficent influence. No
young man can ponder the story of his
life without profit. He is one of the few
public men of our age who may be safely
held up to the imitation of the young. 1t
is, therefore, to the people at large
that the committee confidently ap-
peal. 1t is their privilege and
duty to honor worthily the man who best
represented the brain and conscience of
the masses.


This is in no sense partisan enter
prise. The committee is composed of
members of all parties, equally proud to
do honor to one whose laborious life was
passed in devotion to the general well
fare.


All who believe with us, that Mr.. Gree
ley's great efforts in behalf of freedom, of
enlightenment, of economy and of pro-
gress, have not been without bcneficent
results, are cordially invited to share in
this tribute to his memory. The rich
cannot better show their appreciation of
the lessons of industry and order which
he taught, and the poor, in giving what
slight sums they can afford, will honor
their own estate and aspirations. 1t is
not doubted that every editor in the
country will be willing to forward the
work, either by an editorial Endorsement
or by receiving and forwarding such
sums as may be raised in his locality.
There is not village in the land but con-
tains some man who has profited by Mr.
Greeley's teachings. We hope there is
not one where an effort VI III rot be made
to contribute to this expression of the ma
tional gratitude.


A memorial volume will be kept con-
tanning the names and residences of every
contributor; and upon the completion of
the work will be deposited in the histori-
cal society for preservation.


WILLIAM M. NILES, Chairman.


ANDREW FL. GREEN, Treas.


EDMUND G. STEDMAN, Sec'y.
Year: 1873

THE Oldest Inhabitant came out during
the late severe storms. He stood under
the edge of a wooden awning in Dock
square while some of the boys shoveled
snow on his head. He appeared to be
oppressed by yearning to meet some
body who would call this snow storm
The Oldest Inhabitant remembers dis.
tinctly when there were eleven feet OF
snow on the Common, and the boys used
to coast from the top OF Bunker Hill
Monument clear away down to Charles
river. "We don't have no such weather
now" said the Oldest Inhabitant, with a
regretful sigh "Folks call this cold
weather! why, it's dog-days and yeller
fever to what it used to be when l was
Young" The reference to his Boreal boy.
hood brought frozen tear to the aged
veterans eye. He rubbed his right ear
refiectively, breaking off a small frozen
fragment, and pocketing it with the in
difference of one who despised such
degenerate frost. eyes, them was cold
snaps, when me and Paul Revere used to
skate down to Minot's Ledge to play
hockey with the Provincetown boys.
You'd say it was chilly if you saw my
brother Lilies iron teeth 1--WE didn't have
no fancy dentists in those days, and when
Lille broke his front teeth on bet that
he could chaw stick of frozen mercury
out of Captain Jones' thermometer, my
Uncle Eph, the blacksmith, cast him
new setl-if you'd a-seen Lies teeth
glued together by the frost SO we couldn't
open them without cold chisel and
blasting powder, you'd have said so too"


The Oldest Inhabitant admits that the
Boston fire was considerable of SINCE
for our times, but then he knows, with
whitening pity, that we can't be expected
to remember the great eonfagration of
Sorghum Center, in 1854.


It is good and holy thing to be an
Oldest Inhabitant. 1t argues some occult
virtue, on his part, to make him worthy
a special prolongation by Providence.
Nothing but an inscrutable decree, or
preternatural toughness, could make him
survive his extensive and continued as
saults on veracity. Therefore we admire,
and respect, sand avoid the venerable
bore.-Bosto1e Commercial Bulletin.
Year: 1873

There is absolutely no safe way to carry
pistol except to carry it without
charge. A young man lost his wife, re-
Gently, by trusting to the directions of
friend who told him how he should carry
pistol without danger.


His Mary Jane resided some distance
from the city, and he had great horror
of dogs, so he put his revolver in the hip
pocket of his Sunday clothes, one even
ing, when he started to see her. The
prospective mother-in-law met him at
the gate and, told him to take the rocking
chair, and, as he did so, the report of fire.
arms caused the old lady to scream and
fall to the floor, while fire in the rear
claimed Charles Henry's attention, and
consumed portion of his best doeskin
"smalls." The old lady swooned; the
girl ran in, forgetting her disordered dress
and hair, and followed her mothers ex-
ample. The old man and his double
listed boys ran in, and, seeing mother
and daughter lying on the floor, went for
that young man. and he went through
the window, carrying sash and glass
with him as he went. A big dog aroused
by the noise, make for the fugitive, who
in his turn made for the city, about a
mile and a half or two miles distant,
emptying his revolver at the dog as he
went The dog was dead for thai young
man in more than one sense; for he dares
not approach the house now, lest the old
man may revenge the loss of his dog on
him. The old man says he will never for
give the murderer of his dog. If any one
asks that young man how'he likes Mary
Jane, he says that her nerves are too deli
cate for country girl, and betrays an
anxiety to drop the subject; but he con-
fided to friend that. in sitting down, the
hammer of his revolver caught upon the
rocker, and ID was In that way discharged,
whereupon that house and his clothes be-
came too hot for him. -EgonSUiNe (lnd.)
.Lo1LrnnL
Year: 1873

A BRooKFIELD man writes for the best
way 10 manage bull. If our Brookfield1
friend has got bull on his premises, and
the bull is well, he don't want to manage
it. All he has got do is to get few
things hastily together, mortgage his
place and steer straight for the west. He
might as well try to ward off a streak of
lightning with fifty cent PAL brush as
to manage bull -SprinQtSed Rep'10tsc1'''
Year: 1873

THE New York World makes the serious
charge that few days ago not less than
twenty car loads of diseased Western
sheep arrived in that city from Chicago,
and many of them were killed as quickly
as possible and sold to consumers. The
senders were Immediately telegraphed to,
and warned that if any more diseased
sheep were shipped they would be imme-
diately returned or seized by the proper
authorities. Sheep whose fleece showed
evident signs of the pestilence when alive
it was found could be detected by COM
petent butchers after they had been
slaughtered. The deep, dark blue veins,
filled with sluggish blood, along the back,
visible when the pelt was stripped off,
was sufficient indication that the disease
permeated the system, to say nothing OF
the general leanness and thinness OF the
mutton.
Year: 1873

There are two opinions about pastures
one i that it is more profitable to feed
only newly seeded land, u~in9 it not more
than two years before plou4hing il np for
a reSeetiln@; ana the other to let it remain
Tor many years, allowing the surface to
become fully occupied by the native grasses,
these being supposed to be best adapted to
develop its power of production


Ii We consider this question according to
the general practice of farming communi-
ties In this country, we cannot hesitate to
decide that the greatest profit will follow
the tirSt-named method, for there il no
dlsputlng the proposition that timothy.
red-tDp, orchard grass and red clover. new
ly SDWn on a wel!-prepared and well-ma
nured soil will produce much more forage
(and of highly nutritious kind) than Will
a close turf OF blue grass, white clover. etc
winch has for many years had ful posses
SION OF the ground and has had no arti-
i1clal stimulation. The difference in amount
Will be much more than enough to repay the
cost OF breaking up manuring and seeding


III is not now a question whether the
cows will do better on one kind of pasture
than on the other, only which will pro-
duce the largest money profit. If a single
cow were allowed to roam over ten acres
of short old pasture, picking up her whole
living in white clover and the tender
sprouts of blue grass, there is no DENYING
that she would give more milk, more butter
and more cheese than she would if feeding
however abundantly, on the coarser grasses
of an artificial pasture. But our purpose
IN farming is not to get the largest possible
yield from our cows, but to get the largest
possible yield from our land. The cows
are only implements for converting the pro-
ducts of the field into the saleable products
OF the dairy.


An average tirst-class COW coming in in
May will make 200 pounds of butter in the
season on good natural pasture, but she
VIII require at least three acres of land for
her exclusive use. At thirty cents per
pound the seasons produce will be 500
or 500 per acre. On good artificial pas
ture she may give only $50 pounds, worth
$54, but she will be fully supported bv the
produce of single acre. Supposing that
third of the produce is consumed bv
the interest on the extra number of cows
and by the cost Of keeping up the pastures
which is surely very liberia allowance,
we shall have $36 instead of 500 as the re-
tnrn per acre. In addition to this we
shall make oursees much more independent
of variations of the seasons, for we'll
worked rich meadow is far less injured by
excessive drought than any natural pasture
on the same soil could be. This, of itself,
will often equal the drawback we have al
lowed for extra cost


10 put the proposition in another form
we may expect, from the foregoing calcua-
ton, as large cash profit from ten acres
or artificial as from eighteen acres of nat
urai pasture, and there would be far less
risk Of loss from unusual drought. 1t is
not proposed, of course, that rough or
waste lands should be used for artificial
pastures (they would not repay the cost,
Year: 1873

only that such fields as are susceptible of
profitable subsection should not be left
wild.


How nearly natural pastures may be made
equal TO artificial ones by the use of the
harrow and liberal top dressings is pro-
position not considered above. The cost
would generally he less than that OF resced-
ing and the result equally good. In any case,
no pasture, Old or new, should ever be
over-stocked. American Agriculturst.
Year: 1873

number OF cheap sleighs, and lot Of harness ana
horse clothing were also satisfactorily disposed OF.


In the Bulls Head Market few heavy truck horses
sold prices; the general business remained how
ever quite dull
Year: 1873

Col. Lay Gising with profound bowl to California reporter: Yes, Colonel, I have been engaged in forty two affairs of honor as principal and second, and concur with you fully in your suggestions. It is the duty of 8 second to prevent a resort to arms if possible. I recollect in one of the first duels I ever fought I came very near losing my life by having fool for a second. He allowed me to fight the best swordsman in Europe with napier. I, at that time, was not so proficient as I am now in the use of that weapon, and considered my life as good as lost, but met my antagonist, and after par rying few of his thrusts, was compell- to allow him to pass his sword entirely through my stomach, the point coming out at my backbone. As I stood thus transfxed, it occurred to my mind to do an act which I have never heard of being equalled before or since. I, with my left hand, with remarkable presence of mind, coolness and firmness, seized my adversary's blade, holding it so firmly that he could neither turn it or pull it out, and in that position plung- ed my sword entirely through my ad- versary's left breast up to the hilt, just one inch and half above the heart; and, what is remarkable is, that we both recovered.
Year: 1873

There is heroism of humanity that deserves celebrating far more than that cowardly inhumanity which resorts to violence at the least provocation. Here is one act, for instance. Last summer, at a regatta at Courtmasherry, Ireland, several persons who did not know how to manage boats got into them, and one of them capsized within fifty yards of the shore. The boat contained two men and two women, and no other boat was near. The men managed to swim ashore, leaving the women under the boat to their fate. Mccoy, who was sitting at 8 window hundred yards from the beach, immediately jumped through it, height of ten feet, and, rushing through the crowd to the shore, he swan towards the boat and found the legs of one of the women sticking out from under the gunwale. He drag ged her out, swan with her to light CT, and rested her on an oar, from which she was conveyed ashore and saved. He again swam to the boat, and, seeing some bubbles on the water, dived and, although nearly exhausted, caught hold of the other woman drown ing. He succeeded in swimming with her to shore, supporting her with one hand while swimming with the other. The Humane Society very properly voted silver medallion to the noble fellow. Of course, he was not ionized as though he had committed murder, but probably he will feel good deal more comfortable. Hemp does not all ways conduce to happiness, especially when conpulsorily worn about the neck.
Year: 1873

Their value is by no means appreciat- ed, but the rapidity with which people are waking up to their necessity and usefulness is one of the significant signs of the times. Few families are now content with one newspaper. The thirst for knowledge is not easily satis- fed,, and books, though useful, yea, ab- solutely necessary in their place, fail to meet the demands of youth or age. Our country newspaper is eagerly sought and its contents as eagerly de- voured; then comes the demand for the city news, national and foreign news. Next to the political come the literary and scientific journals. Lastly, and above all, come the moral and religious journals. All these are demanded to satisfy the cravings of the active mind.

 Newspapers are also valuable to ma terial prosperity. They advertise the village, county or locality. They spread before the reader a map on which may be traced character, design and progress. If 8 stranger calls at a newspaper; if a friend comes from 8 distance the very next thing after family greetings, he inquiries for your village or county newspaper, ana you 1eel dls- csmforted if you are unable to find a late copy, and confounded if you are compelled to say you do not take it.

 Newspapers are just as necessary to fit man for his true position in life as food or raiment. Show us ragged, barefooted boy rather than an ignorant one. His head will cover his feet in after life if he is we'll supplied with newspapers. Show us the child who is eager for newspapers. He will make his mark in the world if you gratify that desire TOT knowledge. Other things being equal it is rule that never fails. Give your children newspapers.