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Year: 1875

A YOUNG lady of Portland, Me-, not
long since met handsome Boston COM
mercial drummer on the cars, struck up
an acquaintance, allowed him to visit
her, and finally consented to be his wife.
She afterward repented of her hasty
promise and wrote him to release her,
but he wouldn't. She has now received
q letter from a Boston lawyer, stating
that her was-to-be husband had retained
him as counsel, and that unless the mar
riage takes place at the time set, suit
will be commencedagainst her for breach
of promise. AS the young lady is worth
handsome property, she is afraid the
tenacious drummer's motives are not
sincere, and that she has been very fool
ish to allow herself to get into all this
muddle.
Year: 1875

The election of Pcrshing after hea-
ted campaign, in which the Ring enor-
mites had been the principal issue,
would be utterly ruinous, not only to
the Ring as a body, but to every indi-
vidual member of it. 1t would be
followed by prosecutions and suits, i'm
prisouments and enforced restitutions
of plumber, which would render the
occupation of the public robber in
Pennsylvania both odious and unpro-
fitable. Pershing's swift visitation of
Justice upon the peculating Commits
sioners of Schuylkill was anything but
reassuring to the treasury thieves, and
with a very little popular encourage
ment he would make the executive
power in Pennsylvania as terrible to
the Rings rs it is now in New York.
As for Piollett, he is even worse.
From him they have no reason to ex-
pect anything but sharp and serious
work. His life, his character, his
aggressive career as reformer, with
the great constituency OF farmers and
workingmen whom his eloquence,
more than anything else has awakened
to the necessity of self protection,
make him the very incarnation of all
that is dreaful to the Ring. When
Sam Josephs heard of his nomination
he exclaimed out of the depth of his
soul: "Great God if he ever gets into
the treasury he won't leave leaf un-
turnedr" Mackey, it is said, cannot
contain his terror; and the faces of the
whole gang are white over the prospect
His election means their destruction,
and they know it. They cannot buy,
bully or deceive him. He is as able as
he is honest, and when he places the
key in the Treasury door, the plundered
public may be invited 10 walk in after
him. Every book will be laid epen
for inspection. Every record will be
turned up to the light. There will be
no more concealments, and there will
be enough material dragged out of the


secret recesses of that office in the first
quarter of piollet's administration, to
employ the Auditor General the At


torney General, and the courts of the
Commonwealth for several years to


come.
Year: 1875

NOAH.-Mnisters who have labored
hard, and think they have received but
little visible reward, may take comfort
from Mr.. Moody's study of Noah. He
had never thought much of the lessons Of
the life of this patriarch, till his attention
was called to the subject by a friend:


After he went out. | took down the
Bible and began to read about Noah, and
it began to steal over me-'Herc is Noah.
he never got Il convert for n hundred
years out of his own family, and he never
got discouraged, or if he did. he did not tell
anybody l got up, went down town,
| went to the next prayer meeting; and a
man got up and said, My friend. l am
lost wish you to pray for me- thought
what would Noah have given for that
Then there was Il man right opposite to me
who came up from little town in Illinois
and said that the Sur day before he had
taken hundred new converts in his church
said, what would Noah given to heal
that, A hundred new converts in that lit
tie town, Then l looked over the meeting
and there were several hundreds como
together ut twelve o'clock in the day-an(
I said, : | wonder what would Noah hav'
given to have had IN audience at a prayer
meeting of that sort; but he went on on
hundred and twenty years, and never saw
such Il sight said to myself. Il neve


will oct discouraged again. and if do


will think of Noah Noah was Of goo'
courage, and we find that every man il


the Bible that God has used has been


man of courage, Il man of iron heart. read


to 10 anything that God wanted him t.


do"
Year: 1875

could not seY~.c '"rvelins like him
should want with Sfct oh unusual
size. Times Of great scartht::.2 ubled the
hunters, and they would have Jared badly
had they not invariably ON such occasions
come across new broad trail that led to
Il head or two of freshly killed game
They were glad enough to get the game
and without scruples as to its appropria
ton; still. they felt curious as to whence
it came and how. Suspicion at last point
ing to the boy and his great shoes, rs be-
ing in some way implicated in the affair,
he was watched. 1t soon became evident
that he was, indeed, the benefactor of the
LOucheux, and the secret hunter whose
quarry had so often rcplenished their
empty pots, yet the people were far from
being adequately grateful, and continued
to treat him with little kindness or re-
spect. On one occasion they refused him 4
certain piece of fat-him who had so often
saved their lives by his timely bounty.
That night the lad disappeared. leaving
only his clothes behind, hanging on u tree.
| lie returned to them in Il month, however,
appearing as man and dressed rs man.
| lIe told them that he had taken up his
home in the moon; that he would always


look down with Il kindly eye to their sue


cess in hunting; but he added, that as a


punishment for their shameless greed and


incratitude in refusing him the piece of


fat, all animals should be lean the long


winter through. and fat only in summer


rs has since been the case.-Bmcrtts
Ndtirc Races.
Year: 1875

KEEP TIE FEET WARM.-Many of the
colds which people are said to catch. COM
mcncc at the feet. To keep these extrem-
tiles warm therefore, is to effect an insu-
rance against the almost interminable list
of disorders WEIGH spring out of a slight
cold" First, never be tightly shod.
Boots OF shoes, when they tit.closely. press
against the foot. and prevent the free cir
culation of the blood. When. on the con-
trarv. they do not embrace the foot too
tightly the blood gets fair play, and the
spaces left between the leather and stock


ngs are filled with a comfortable supply
of warm air. The second rule is-never
sit in damp shoes. 1t is often imagined.
that unless they are positively wet. it Is
not necessary to change them while the
feet are at rest. This is n fallacyi for
when the least dampness is absorbed In the
sole. it is attracted further to the foot it.
self by It's own heat. and thus perspiration
is dangerously checked. Amy person may
prove this by trying the experiment OF
ncglectinr the rule, and his feet will be-
come cold and damp after a few moments,
although. taking off the shoe and warming
it, it viii appear quite dry
Year: 1875

WASHING FLUID.-Among the helps for
washing dav find none better than wash
inr fluid | learned to make seventeen
years ago. 1t is very simple. but it will
cleanse the clothes better than anything
have ever found Unless a stain is really
indeliblc it will bleach it out. 1t is made
Of one pound Of washing soda, Il teacup-
full of whitewasli, or about its equivalent
in unslackcd lime, anl Il gallon of water,
boil up together and set it aside until it is
horouyhly scu'cd. A teacupful to a boil
cr of clothes is sufficient. If clothes ale
first soaked and slightly washed where
they are mostly soiled, they may be put in
n boiler of this preparation and they will
come out white and clean. l have never
found that it injured clothes in the least.
| presume YOU have published the receipt
before, but perhaps some young house
keeper may be glad TO try 1t.


The weather is so warm that the clothes
baskets pile up with white goods that can
&c lrcclv be worn more than once before
they look too bad TO 90 on again. 1t i:
good policy to buy pretty prints that are
a cross between light and dark, for the
/ little girls. Trim them tastefully Will
/ bright blue, green, pink or brown cam
bricS. and give them a dainty light apron
to wear over it, and they will look rs fresl
as the daisies. and the dresses can be worl
for several days and still look pretty. A
very light calico is very pretty when per
fcctly fresh, but quite the reverse after ;
DAYS wearing. Now calico is cheap i


is a great comfort that almost any one cal


keep a supply of dresses that are alway
:. respectable. and if made with taste AZ


really pretty.


Teach the children early to be caretu


about soilinc their clothes needlcssly, bu
never be severe or ont Of temper becauS


of an accident.
Year: 1875

SUNSET AND SuNKISE.-Thc sun sets on
some retired meadow. wnere no house is
visible. with all the glory and splendor
that it lavishcs on the cities, and pcrchance.
rs it has never SCI before-whcre there is
but a solitary marsh hawk to have his
wings gildcd by it, CT only musquash
looks out from his cabin, and there is
only some little black -vined brook in the
midst of the marsh. just beginning to
meander. winding slowly y round a decaying
stump. We walked in St. pure and bright
a light, gliding the withcred grass and
leaves, so softly and sercnely bright, |
thought had never bathed in such gol-
den flood. without a ripple or murmu1
in it. The west side of every wood and
rising ground cleaned like the boundary
of elysium, and the sun on our backs
seemed like a gentle herdsman driving us
home at evening. SO we saunter toward
the Holy Land. till one day. the sun shall
shine more brightly than ever he has done
and shall perchance shine into our minds
and hearts. and light up our whole lives
with Il great awakening light, rs warm
and serene and golden as on y bank-side
in summer IHOrcdu.
Year: 1875

The sand-hlast finds new application
in the manufacture of silver plated ware.
Parts of the ware are finished in stippling
work, "A dulled surface, sometimes known
rs satin finish" This work has been
done by rotating iron wire brushes, but =
fine thread of sand, driven by compressed
air, is said to do the work much more
quickly and etfectually. Patterns cut out
of thin sheet rubber are used to give any
desired markings OF Ornamentatlons. and
the slightest exposure to the blast performs
the work instantly.
Year: 1875

Cool WATER IN TIE FIELD.-There is
nothing new in the following method of
keeping water cool, for the principle is
used by the Egyptians at the present and
and, rs may be seen by their inscriptions
has been used by them for thousands of
years. They keep their water in unglzed
vessels. through the pores of which the
water forces itself The evaporation of
this leakage on the outside carries off the
heat from within, precisely in the same
way that the evaporation of Precipitation
from the human body enables it to stand a
heat which would otherwise be fatal


If the plil or large vessel containing the
water be enveloped in cloths that are kept
constantly wet, and be placed in the shade
the water will be found to kdep rs cool a
water for drinking ought to be. Each
person on drinking should empty what is
left in the dipper or drinking cups upon
the cloths. SO that they will be kept from
driving. Water kept cool in this manner
will be more grateful to the palate and les
dangerous to the system than ice water.
Year: 1875

There was narrow escape from serious
accident on the Mt Washington Railway.
recently. The engine was descending
with a car filled with people. and when
within ten feet of Jacobs Ladder, n tres
tle-work so feet high. the engine gave two
or three forward jerks. passing over sew
cral cogs at Il time, but was stopped by
the brakes. though the jar was so great as
to throw off the smoke-stack and greatly
frightcn the engineer and passengers.
What occasioned the performance does
not seem to be known, but it is thought i
will greatly diminish travel over the road
and remove the opposition to building :
| carriage road.
Year: 1875

Experiments in Germany on frozen po-
tatoes prove that the freezing in nowise
alters the chemical composition of the
tuber>. The change Is simply physical.
and. even if frozen hard, they are still fit
for distillation, or they may be pressed to
get rid of the water, and then ground into
a very good meal adapted for feeding cat
tie
Year: 1875

We heard 4 man complain about the
weight of his baby the other day, and to
our certain knowledge that same man
used to hold the mother of that baby in
his arms hour after hour after the fond
patents of the said girl had gone to their
yirtuous couch.
Year: 1875

Spare yoar horses this hot weather
Overdriving on such days rs We have lately
had. will permanently iniure them. besides
bringing down the wrath of the society for
cruelty to animals upon you. Besides this
it is cruel. which ought to be enough to
make any true man desist.
Year: 1875

SENATOR LOGAN wss again on the


floor Of the Federal senate yesterday in
opposition TO Senator Schurz's resolution
for the relief Of The southern State.
After having been driven from all his
positions ia argument, he went back to
the siege Of Fort Sumter, and rehashed
a considerable quantity of war elo-
Year: 1875

THE Knoxville Chroniclc urges the
adoption by the legislature Of Governor
Browns suggestion that county work
houses lie established throughout the
state. So does the APPEAL and ma
igrity Of the press Of the State.
Year: 1875

We always think OF great men as in
the act of performing deeds which
give them renown or else in stately
repose, grand, silent and majestic.
And yet this is hardly fair, because
the most gracious and magnificent of
human beings have to bother them
selves with the little things of life
which engage the attention of US
smaller people. No doubt Moses
snarled and got angry when he had a
severe cold in his head, and if a fly
bit his leg while he was in the desert
why should we suppose he did not
Jump and use violent language and rub
the sore place? And C9sar-isn't it
tolerably certain he used to become
furious when he went up stairs to get
his slippers in the dark and found
that Calphurnia had showed them un-
der the bed so that he had to sweep
around them wildly with broom
handle? And when Solomon cracked
his crazy bone is it unreasonable to
suppose that he ran around the room
and felt as if he wanted to cry? I'M
agine George Washington sitting on
the edge OF the bed and putting on. a
clean shirt and growing at Martha
because the buttons were of; or st.
Augustine with an apron around his
neck having his hair cut; or Joan of
Arc holding her front hair in her
mouth, as women do, while she fixed
up her back hair; Napoleon jumping
out of bed in frenzy to chase mos
quito around the room with pillow;
or Martin Luther in night-shirt try
ing to put the baby to sleep at two
clock In the morning: or Alexander
the Great with his hiccoughs; or
Thomas Jefferson getting suddenly
over the fence to avoid dog; or the
Duke of Wellington with the mumps;
or Daniel Webster abusing his wife
because she hadn't tucked the covers
at the foot OF the bed; or Benjamin
Franklin pairing his corns with ra-
zor; or Jonathan Edwards, at the din
ner table, wanting to sneeze just as he
got his mouth full of hot beef; or
Noah standing at his window at night
throwing bricks at the cat.--Max
Adeler
Year: 1875

In the House, on the 24th, General
Butler effectually silenced the oppo-
sitloD. After old charges against the
Attorney General had been iterated
and reiterated, Butler arose, and NOV
ing to the area in front of the Speak
er's stand, denounced the warfare they
were making, and said that if they
believed the charges they were max
ing, it was their duty to bring articles
of impeachment against Judge Will.
liams But" said he, shaking his
finger at the Democrats, making the
charges and insinuations in this way
is simply infamous, cowardly, and
contemplate. You dare not put them
to the test, for you know that you
have not the slightest proof of any of
your allegations And they had
nothing more to say on that subject.
Year: 1875

One of those crimes which the law
has been powerless to prevent is that
of selling whisky to the Indians.
Traders have always found some means
Of evading all regulations to prevent
them fron supplying the red man
with his favorite fire water" Some
how the heavy penalties have been
easily evaded, and Lo has been abla
to get tight whenever be can get a
mink-skin to trade for whisky. In
view of this bad state of the case, the
Committee of the House on Indian
Affairs have agreed to report bill
still more stringent, in the hone that
this vile traffic may be exterminated.
We are fearful that it will not sue
ceed. Between the greed of the aver
age Indian trader and the appetite Of
the race of "the untutored mind y
there is little chance for either law or
gospel to make any favorable change
in this direction.
Year: 1875

The Kansas State Relief Com
mittee authorize the announcement
that most of the leading railroads
have given notice that they will no
longer carry relief goods consigned
to individuals without the payment
Of freight at regular rates.
Year: 1875

The Indianapolis Journal settles
the sensation of the amiable spinster
correspondent of the Commercial
thusly: The law Of 1852 regulating
marriage, is either valid or invalid.
If invalid, it could not repeal the law
of 1S43, and that enactment must still
be in force, so they are all right any
way."
Year: 1875

1t has been clearly shown that the
result of the system is an annual loss
of not less than four millions of dol
lars, and that its convenience to the
public is no compensation for the
great expense to the National Treas
ury. 1t is, moreover, unfair and un-
just to tax the people at large for the
benefit of the citizens of eighty-seven
cities.
Year: 1875

That was sad story told by the
newspapers last winter Two little
children, boy and girl, wandering
from home, were caught in a snow
storm and lost their way. The dis
tracted parents, accompanied by kind
neighbors, go out to search for them.
After long, weary search the two
children were found lying side by side
on a snowy slope, their slender forms
rigid and their young faces fixed by
the frost in the repose of death. The
girl was wrapped in the boys coat.
but the pitiless wind pierced her breast
as well as the generous heart of the
little hero who strove to shield her
from its fury. The winters cold took
many life, but the noblest soul OF
them all was that OF this boy. The
coat folded carefully about the little
girl he loved so tenderly and his own
breast bare to the bitter blast told Of
the courage, the generosity, the self
sacrifice, the lovi1g solicitude Of the
horoic youth.-From Moy Home ana
School," Louisville, Ky.
Year: 1875

SALT COMBINATIoN.-An Ohio pa
perreports as follows the consolidation
OF the different salt interests in Vir-
ginia aud Ohio:


The Kanawha manufactures have
succeeded in perfecting an organiza-
ton of all their salt furnaces under
one central management, and they
have even taken the precautiOn to get
control of every old and abandoned
salt we'll and hole in the ground from
end to end of that river, making it i'm
possible for owners Of this abandoned
property to ever start up during the
continuance of this company ; in short
placing their product under the con-
troll of the company. The Ohio river
furnaces have been laboring to the
same end, and have just concluded to
place their salt under two CONTROLS
This virtually places all the salt prop
erty in Virginia and Ohio under the
management of four companies.
Year: 1875

The Court Of Claims at Washington
has made decree in the Hot Springs
case. holding that the title rests wholly
and absolutely in the United States
The propeety will be placed in posses;
sion Of Receiver to be appointed tiil
Congress directs how the same shall
be disposed of by law. The Receiver;
however, is not to be appointed until
it shall have been adjudicated by the
Supreme Court to be the property OF
the United States, which leaves the
present status unchanged.
Year: 1875

By order of the court at its January
term, public road WAS established as
follows: Up Rough creek to a point oppo.
site the farm Of Franklin Wallace. theme e
across the creek to intersect the Buck
Horn and Sullenger mill read This road
has been needed for many years and will
be OF great benefit to the farmers living
along the route. They can come to town
now by travelling two or three miles,
Heretofore they had to travel from five
to eight miles, unless they walked.
Year: 1875

Our County Judge, al the February
term, ruled that the court would establish
no new road, nor any change in a road,
unless the report OF the viewer was in
strict accordance with the requirements OF
the General Statutes, and suggests that
applicants will save time and money by
retaining an attorney.
Year: 1875

A slander suit was spoken of a short
time since by Colonel Doom, be-
cause he had been called the oldest man
in the town, but after proper correction
he declined to sue The Colonel has been
considered the most gallant man in the
place, bnt another yO1tng man has far sur
passed him, who by name is uncle B
Year: 1875

On Tuesday morning about 2 o'clock,
the body of John Foley, a tramping
tailor who had been in the employ Of
Thomas Sharpnack for about two weeks,
was found on the railroad track near the
coal shaft in horribly mutilated condi-
ton. The head was severed from the
body, and was not found till after day
light when it was discovered opposite
Shinn's place, about one fourth of mile
further east. His left arm was cut off
one of his legs broken in four different
places, and the remaining portion Of the
body badly crushed and mutilated. He
had been on spree for the past few
days and came from Alliance on the No.
4 Express in the evening, and instead of
coming up town stayed around the sta
ton. Between II and l o'clock he ap.
preached the night operator with the re-
quest to direct him up town as he did
not know the way. The operator did 50,
but in short time he returned with the
same request, and the operator started
him off in the right direction the second
time.


This is the last he saw or heard of him
till the No. II freight going west brought
his body to the station, minus the head.
1t is supposed that he was killed by the
No. 10 freight going east, as his body
seems to have been dragged in that d.
rection. The body was placed in the
freight house, and Coroner Badger sum
moned to hold an inquest on the body.
1t is not known whether Foley fell off
the train or was killed while walking OH
the track.-SdLem Era
Year: 1875

The National Gold Bank and Trust
Company did not opel this morning. A
crowd assembled before the opening hour
with every indication of a continuance of
the run, and the officers, as a measure Of
safety, refused to pay checks. The OFF,
GERS vouchsafe but little information.
They claim that the bank can ay every
thing in full and will resume as soon as
possible, intimating no date. The bank
has been considered weak since the fail
ure of the Bank of California, paying
small deposits only in full and obtaining
extension on the larger ones. No ex-
citement is apparent at the other banks.
Year: 1875

GEN. GARFIELD's promise that an early
effort shall be made in the next Congress
70 repeal the act which imposes heavy
postage on newspapers, is timely. His
explanation as to the passage of the act
that it was due to. the misapprehen-
sion of its effects probably correct
ANY other explanation would make it
something worse than an egregious
Nunder.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1875

Dress Makers recommend 1t AS being the best
Corset to fit dress over, because it is cut i
such a manner that the front and back seams tit
like seams To dress.


And it is superior to any other Corset now in
use because its peculiar style Of cutting gives
sufficient fu lness at the bosom, without folding
At the top; gradually and closely lifting to, and
over The hips, is longer front and back than or
din,ry Corscts, and in fact is the only Corset cut
in this form. -


In addition to the DOLLAR CORSET will
be found largn assortment Of other max kes at
the following prccs--Sl.25, Sl.5O, SLID, $3.50
81 30 and So