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Year: 1870


There is mountain, lifting lone


From a range of mountains high,
with window broken through the stone
OF. n summit usar the sky. a
IT'S dark dread hight; It's an awful sight,
To see the stars shine through
Its high, wide Misunderstanding white,
In space of azure blue.
An awful sight. and could deem


That castled crag to be
A memory OF Babel dream


Man-wrought in masonry.
ruin of the Babel tower,


Left standing there 10 show
Mans mockery of his Makers power
70 daring long ago.
With gesture Of satanic pride,


There earth TO Heaven spoke
So high that Heaven had stood dehed,
But for the lightning stroke
That pierced the mountain summit through,
And framed In dust the azure space,
There, through the frown Of earth, we view
The smile Of Heavens calm face.
Go sec the mountain when the moon
crescent-crowns Its towering hight;
Go watch its earthly shades commune
With Heavenly shadows of the night.
Go watch the still, white stars shine through
Its wondrous window space Of blue;
And yield 10 Heaven the speechlesE prayer
That thrills the soul 10 silence there.


WH s. Z. G. WILLIAMSON.
Year: 1870

How to choose a good black
silk, which will wear we'll, is a
puzzle to many ladies. Indeed, so
proverbial is the difficulty of ma
king a wise selection, that those
who have any regard to economy
hesitate before purchasing, and
yet often complain Of having made
a bad bargain in spite of all their
care. On8who seems to under
stand the matter recommends that
when lady is about to choose a
black silk she should pull thread
out of the filling. She must try
the strength of the thread. If it
breaks easily, the examination has
gone far enough ; it is wisdom to
look further. III the thread indi-
Gates some back-b1ne, then it is
necessary to seize The silk by tho
corner and rub it just as tho wash.
woman would do when she in.
tends to remove a stain. If this
awful ordeal can be pc, formed to
perfection--remember some mus.
Gle must be brought into play
the elk is honest and legitimate
If it is heavy with dye, if held up
to the Ggbt slight traces of disas'
ter may be discerncd.
Year: 1870

How TO SECURE Coon OArs FOR
SEEp.-A correspondent of the
Country Gentleman says "Place
your oats in heap on the middle
of the thr asliing floor, on the end
that the wind blows to. Get You
a milking stool and a small scoop


your wife's -four scoop will do
and throw the oats with a light
turn Of the wrist, to the other end
of the floor, against a gentle wind.
A little practice will soon enable
You to throw it in a half circle and
at the same distance. Sweep off
now and then, if you have much,
the utmost, circle for seed, the light
oats for feed, and the weed seed, to
burn. You will now have seed oats
worthy to SOW, without buying at IS
per busbel. Ihave seen oats grow
in Sweden .until I was forty years
old, but / never saw heavy crop
where the seed was not selected
as above" ..~
Year: 1870

"A Missourian was run over and killed by
the cars, the other night, and the same night
his house was struck by lightning and two of
his family killed.


"A Kentucky peddler, while entering the
yard of man in Montgomery county, a few
days ago, was attacked by a mastiff, which
sprang upon his neck and strangled him to
death.


E-An Indiana convict who escaped from jail.
recently returned voluntarily in about week,
saying that he felt mean as soon as he got
out, and wished himself back where he right
fully belonged.


The California and Oregon railroad is
now in operation to Soto, distance of six
teen miles north of Chico, and fiity-six miles
south of Marysville.


Another railroad engineer has just been
misunderstanding telegraphic orders, and
owing to collision which resulted, met his
death. The casualty happened this time in
Ohio.


-ltis stated that one result of the war in
france will be to make champagne scarce
Tor several years, as the vintage for this year
Is entirely destroyed. In view of the perfcc-
tlon which the science of imitation has reach
ed, and the prospects of fair crop of apples.
our bibulous friends need be under no appre-
hension.


An unn natural son at Albany receotly
INDUCED in the sport of knocking down his
aged rather on the public street. The poor
man, who escaped into an insurance office.
told the agent that his boy had once attacked
him with an axe.


Mrs. Myra Bradley, of Chicago, elitress of
the Legal Press, who made application. some
months ago, to be admitted to the bar of uE-
nois, and was refused on account of her Gov
is going to carry her case up to the United
States Supreme Court.


The case of Yerger, the murderer of COL
onel Craver, in Mississippi, is still unsettled.
The Grand Jury before which it was pending
came in the other day and professed its ma.
bllity to find an indictment. The jury was
made up of both white and coored men, and
while the latter were unanimous for indicthg
the murderer, the white men hesitated. The
community is very much excited because the
Republican Judge will not discharge the jury.


In Baltimore, the other day, an express
wagon collided with a sidewalk show case. in
which was contained an aquarium. The gold
fish, lizards and other aquatic pets were thrown
in all directions. The full extent of the catas-
trophy was not known until series of p;erc-
ing screams from stylishly dressed Young
lady developed the fact that one of the lizards
had found a resting place in her bosom. she
was perfectly helpless until a courageous wo-
man came TO her rescue and removed the rep
Year: 1870




Stock GAMBLING ON THE NEWS.
European bulletins for several days past have
been an endless source of perplexity, nobody
being able to make up his miod whether peace
or war was to be the grand finale A New
York letter says -


ut is Just this sort OF uncertainty, bowever,
that suits the speculators in the Gold Room
and the Stock Exchange, and they are i'm
proving their opportunities accordingly, though
the "outside public" as general thing, keep
away from the pool. As an illustration Of the
shrewdneSs and holiness which characterize
these speculatioDs in times like these, the fact
may BIZ mentioned that s.. 500 was paid, day
before yesterday, for the single quotation OF
French rcntes (the first that camo over the
cable showing recovery of 3 per cent. The
purchaser sold gold short, and then bought
bonds for rise, and the net profits of the trans
action are said to have been 100000. When
the dispatch was received gold was selling at
ll44, two hours later it was down to ll2!
Instances of this kind Of luck, however, arc
rare, and even in this case the fortunate
operator, as likely as not, will venture in again
and lose everything he has made, BY an
unIucky turn, before Saturday night. Is it
any wonder that men who thus gamble so
extensively in money, not unfrequently die
OF paralysis, appoe1y and brain fever.
Year: 1870

BASE BALL MADNESS. With the mercury
at one hundred and twenty-five or thereabouts
In the sun, how young men can find amuse-
ment in the game of base ball It Is hard to say.
What fun there can be in batting and fielding
and running ones self out of breath and work
ing into excessive sweats is puzzle. No hod-
carrier works as hard as the pitcher Of base
ball club during any kind Of an exciting game;
yet there Is not poor hod-carrier in the city
that would not prefer to rest In peace in some
friendly shade, If he could afford 1t, than ply
his vocation at two dollars day. Your genu-
Inc base-baller will turn out the hottest day In
the year to play game, and playing game
means hard work. This kind of amusement
under glaring sun, with people in the streets
of our cities dropping from excessive heat, in
many cases proving fatal, is something hard to
understand. Some people may call it fun,
but madness we think more appropriate
term for it. A little caution in such weather
a this, however. would not be amiss. even by
Year: 1870

OCTOBER MAY BE Too LArE-but better
late than never--to call Congress together in
order to look after our shipping interests.
Reports from Washington indicate that the
President may resolve upon such course.
1t is quite probable, however, that General
Grant himself desires much earlier time for
that purpose. The progress Of the war in
Europe will regulate the necessity for an early
call fan extra session. According to present
appearances the President would be justified
in following the advice of Horace--fest''a0
lente-hasten slowly. If France and Prussia
do not come to the scratch soon we need not
be In hurry. But the advice of the Presi-
dent to Congress was wise and statesmanlike.
Our commercial interests must be protected
In this war
Year: 1870

From Omaha there comes very frightful
story OF the way some Western men reapsd
smallpox harvest. OF course the first wrong
was done by the Indians, as the first wrong
is in all stories from that region Somebody
died of smallpox on one of the Missouri river
boats. He was buried near the shore, while
the boat waited TN the river, and some Indians,
who had watched the burial, scarcely waited
for the boat to get away before they dug the
dead man up and appropriated his clothes
They of course did not know the cause Of his
DEATH Thus ends the first chapter in the
story. The second opens with the outbreak
Of the disease among the Indians, and details
its fearful ravages, showing the penalty they
paid for that desecration Of wayside grave.
Again the white man comes upon the scene.
Hundreds of dead Indians are sc altered every
where. On every one Is the robe he wore
during life, and in each robe the white man
sees piece Of merchandise; and through the
activity of the kind of white men that flo urish
In the Indian country we have all the infected
robes gathered up and sent to market always
without the least regard to the spread
Of the pestilence Nay, we see the
perceptive faculty of the white man
taking hold of the case, and as In the first
place he profted by an accidental occurrence,
now he contrives this harvest. One of the
spectators, we are told, made compost Of
smallpox poison, taken from the bodies Of the
dead, saturated shirt with 1t and dropped
this shirt where it would fall into the hands
of Indians of the Pigeon tribes, and thus sue
ceeded in spreading the spotted death among
them also and in reaping richer harvest Of
robes than ever. There is something of the rev.
elry of drunken imagination In all this story
but who shall say that there are not plenty Of
men, white, black, yellow or any other color
quite equal to such depravity9 But this thing
is reported as having begun about year ago,
and as the whole American people are not yet
dead or down with smallpox it may not be
true. Perhaps there are buffalo bears, not
to mix animals absurdly. Perhaps somebody
in Omaha has sold buffalo robes .'short" on q
largo scale, and wants to dcpress the price In
the market
Year: 1870

WHAT DOES II MEAN General q. s..
Grant, President Of the United States, and
General r. l.. Lee, President Of o college in
Virginia, are both at Long Branch enjoying as
they may the cool Atlantic breezes. We hope
this meeting has none of the significance that
usually attaches to the meetings of great men
beyond the Atlantic. 1t is certain that their
last meeting had wonderful significance for
the country but then there are no apple trees
at Long Branch.
Year: 1870




The capitalists of Europe evidently under
stand the value of American securities. The
Bank of Frankfort has loaned the Prussan
government five millions of thalers ON de-
posit Of American stock as security What
better security can there be than United States
despite terrible domestic war, sprung upon
us without preparation, with everything to
buy in the way of war material, and nothing
to buy 1t with except the faith and confidence
of the people; with vast army to raiss and
hardly nucleus to build it upon except the
courage and devotion of the masses with q
vast Indebtedness upon our shoulders after
this gigantic war was over, we have been
able to reduce the public debt to compara-
tive trife, and are reducing 1t every day. We
have shown that many of our most important
industries have been restored that enterprise,
instead of being retarded, is advanced We
have spanned the Continent from ocean to
ocean by what might almost be called seven
days excursion train. In everything but our
commerce on the seas the war has given
SSAA"A"S w VuA AioeCtAui iutOiopeSt uuu tuat
one interest has suffered only from the action
of an imbecile and selfish Congress.


In fact, the credit of the United States to-
day is more stable than that Of any nation in
Europe. There is no country in the world so
prosperous as ours, no country that has given
evidence Of such vast materials to become
more prosperous every day. We have nothing
to do with the complications of European
Powers. Our pulse beats quicker, it is true,
at the sound of the war trumpet across the
ocean, but we are not diverted from our steady
course of developing all our resources, hidden
and unhidden, of relieving ourselves from
public burdens as fast as we can, and reducing
taxation by fair and equitable legislation. A
country that can do this may afford to indulge
In it's small party quarrels, or can let politi-
clans fret their brief hour upon the stage. 1t
can have its little row in Congress now and
then, can tolerate Ben Butler and laugh at
Sam Cox's pleasantries, and even endure the
dreary sophomorisms of Sumner, and nobody
can blame us. But the question is, why should
not country which has accomplished all that
we have done in war and In finance stand high In
the Wall streets Of all Europe2 The answer
is found In the value which American securities
hold in the markets Of Europe at this crisis.
Year: 1870

Who Shall Pay for Strcet Pavcmentse


This Is q very important question for tax
payers. If they are to be charged with the
expense Of keeping in perpetual repair every
foot of pavement in front Of their houses, from
month to month and year to year, after they
have paid the original assessment for laying
it down, where is this demand for pavement
tax going to end7 We find In the law reports
Of the Supreme Court tina! motion was made
before Judge Brady, on behalf of William H..
Mccormack and others, who seek to have
vacated the assessment levied against them for
the Nicolson paving Of property In Sixth ave-
nue., between Forty-second and Forty-ninth
streets. In support OF the motion it was
urged that by the terms Of the franchise the
railroad company were bound to keep eight
feet of the avenue on either side of the track
in good order, which had not been done; and
that the work had not been performed in
accordance with the order of the Common
Council.


The practice has been, and the law doubt
fully held, that after street has once been
paved at the expense Of those owning lots in
front of 1t and the pavement gets out Of re-
pair, 80 that new pavement is necessary to be
made, the property holders are again called
upon to bear the expense Of renewing the
pavement. Sometimes they are called upon
to pay the expense Of renewing very good old
pavement with some experimental or new
pavement Equity, common sense and justice
dictate that the property holders should never
be called upon to pay more than once for


pavement There is reason when q street is
opened and laid out that the owners of pre-


perty should pay the preliminary expenses Of


grading, sewering, curbing and paving. All


these necessarily improve the property and


are of positive value 10 the owners. But


after the improvements have been made the


improved street is handed over to the service
Of the whole city. The owners Of property do


very little towards wearing out the street. 1t
is the public generally who reap the benefit Of
the pavement and do the wear and tear, and
certainly should be at the expense of renewing
it by general taxation. This ground does not


seem to have been taken upon the argument
on the motion referred to, but it is safe to pre-
dict that the Judge who decides that, after


street is once paved at the expense OF the
property owners, it must be repaired at the ex-


pense of the general body of taxpayers will
find his decision affirmed by the Court OF APP


peals and by the whole body Of citizens.
1
Year: 1870

limited Fairgrounds, cannot afford. Physical
education is no less important for them than
the intellectual training which our common
schools SO literally afford. Selfish and short
sighted parents, who look on the schoolroom
only as convenient Botany Bay, to which
they may send their children to be 'out of the
way, may possibly wish that the vacation was
not so long. They forget, however, not only
the blessings which the summer vacation con-
fcrs on their children, but those which the pa
tient, overworked teachers may derive from 1t.
AT the beginning of tho next term both teach
ers and children will return with fresh vigor
to their respective duties in the schoolhouse
Year: 1870

The QUESTION WHETHER THE NEaRo shall
be admitted to the advantages of life insurance
Is agitating the insurance companies. Why
should he not? Is he not fifteenth amend
ment, clothed with all political rights? If the
negro can insure his house, or his furniture,
or buy ticket in the lottery and ride in a
palace car, why can he not insure his life
Generally negro is ''good life;" that is,
he probably will live long enough to pay in
premiums the amount of his insurance. Sambo
Is a pretty tough fellow to kill, except you
blow him up with o-glycerine, or burn him
out with benzine, SO that we think the life
insurance companies would be perfectly safe
in insuring him, and, in fact, should be glad to
get him for customer.
Year: 1870

THE LATEST MURDER presents new phase
to the question OF capital punishment. John
GLASS; being ordered out Of his boarding
house by Henry Wachter, the proprietor,
stabs him fatally in the groin and then makes
q determined but unsuccessful attempt to
drown himself. He was captured aud will
probably 60 through the form Of long trial,
and In the end be hanged. But what fear
ought he to have Of hanging who seems
anxious to kill himself, when others, who
crave repreye, 60 to the gallows finally
happya
Year: 1870

The Greenville, Mercer county, Argls
says The spring has been remarka-
bly, fine, and at least two weeks earlier
than in any preceding year since 1860.
A few days s'more of such weather as we
have had during the past week will
bring the fruit trees out in full bloom
The indications are that we will have
an abundance of fruit. In some town
ships where the land is rlling the appear
ance of the wheat fields is encouraging,
but generally throughout the country
the wheat was seriously injured during
the winter and the probability is that,
on the whole, the crop will be light.


The current monthly meeting of the
Lancaster Horticultural and Agricul-
tural Society was held on Monday last
The reports from the different sections
of the county were highly fiattering and
everything gives promise of an abun-
dant fruit, grain and grass crop.


The Belmont, Ohio, Chronicle says ::
The cherry bloom is very abundant, the
peach bloom indicates very fair crop,
the. pear crop will be quite light, and
the apple bloom will not be very pro-
life one This is the result Of our OBJ
servation and inquiry as to the fruit
prospect in the neighborhood


The Wellsville, Ohio, Union says:
The prospect for a fine fruit crop in this
section of country, for all kinds of
fruit is at this time very promising. If
there are no late killing frosts' we
shall be favored with a fruit year of
unusual abundance
Year: 1870

When persons are feverish AID
thirsty beyond what is natural, in
dicated in some eases by a metallic
taste in the mouth, especially after
drinking water, or by whitish ap


pearance of the greater part Of the
surface of the tongue, one of the
best coolers internal or external,
is to take q lemon, cut off the top,
sprinkle over it some loaf-sugar,
working it downard into The lemon


with spoon, and then suck it slow
ly, squeezing the lemon and addin g
more sugar as the aeidity increases
from being brought up from lower
point Invalids with feverishncs
may take two Or three lemons day
in this manner with the most mark
ed benefit, manifested by a sense of
GOODNESS, comfort and invigoration.
A lemon or two thus taken at tea
time, as an entire substitute for the
ordinary supper Of summer, would
give many comfortable nights
sleep, and on awakening after rest
an invigoration, with an APPETITE for
b. eakfast to which they are strang


ers who will have their cup of tea
for supper, or "relish' and cake,
and berries, or peaches and cream.
Year: 1870

During the past week there died
suddenly in this city a prominent
politician and a well known sport
ing man. He has a brother now
in the State Senate, and he himself
held lucrative position under the
city government The papers all
published obituaries of him, giving
the particulars OF his death, &c,
but strange to say, none of the ac


counts as to the place of his death
agreed. One said that while visi


ting friend he was suddenly struck
down and died; another. that he
died in his house; another, that he
fell and expired in the street, DC.
The truth respecting this mans
death has been carefully excluded
from the papers, but notwithstand
ing this the facts are we'll known
here. He was an inveterate gan-
bier, and at the time Of his death
he was engaged in gambling at a
faro bank on Broadway. He
was playing heavily and had lost a
good deal Of money. He had just
laid a large amount on a certain
card to win on the last turn, or, in
gambling parlancc, had "called the
turn''-and won. The dealer asked
him to take up his "checks" and
then it was discovered he was dead


Standing with one hand resting on
the shoulder of a friend, also en-
gagged in playing, and the other
full of s'checks," and his eyes fixed
on the "nine spot" of hearts on
which lie had made his last bet
death came upon him, and without
a struggle or even a sigh he died.
SO sudden and so noiseless was his
death, that no one was aware of it
until attention was attracted to him
by the fact of his picking up his
checks when he had won.


The number of persons who have
died suddenly in gambling houses
in this city during the past year
have becl remarkable. At No. II
Ann street is a gambling hell, kept
by man generally known among
the fraternity as "Uncle John" One
night about six months since, a
young man dressed in the height Of
fashion, with gold watch and dia-
mond pins and rings, entered and
began to gamble. He was unlucky
and rapidly lost his money. His
diamond pin was next risked, and
still fortune was against him. Then
he took from his finger ring, a
beautiful solitaire diamond--and
for which he was allowed 800, and
now he won. Fortune seemed to
have changed and was smiling upon
him. Every bet he made he won.
until his ssstack" of "checks" was
larger than that held by the bank:
Suddenly his head dropped forward
on the table, and he was dead. OF
course, Immediately all was confu-
sion and excitement around the
Year: 1870

in business, and is now doing we'll


Our agent at Cleveland, o. writes +:
ga lumber horse ran away with a
bob tailed wagon, and tipped in the
street over small woman and six
elderly children. The horse began
to cry and the wagon bled freely at
the nose, but otherwise the street is
doing we'll. No insurance"


A boiler exploded at Memphis.
blowing the engineer into the air
quite out Of sight. He will receive
SIS a day until he comes down
again.


A hog driver in Mt. Sterling, Ky.
was very much hurt by fall-iall
in perk. No insurance.


A man ran away from Litchfield.
ILL.,, to avoid paying his debts. He
left family (not being able to take
them with him.. No Insurance


A man accidently fell from a
steamer at New Orleans into the
river. AS he was sinking the third
time, he suddenly recollected that
his policy in the ''Break- neck" had
expired. He then swan ashore.
sought out the agent, renewed his
policy, and Immediately returned to
the river and sank the third time
in serene and tranquil manner