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Year: 1871

DEATH of Minute French.-We noticed
day before yesterday the attempt at suicide
of the above named woman, in New York,
by shooting herself in the breast. The Sta,
of that city gives the following particulars
of the shooting and her subsequent death /:


'She was at the time under the influence
of drink, and was said to have been prompt
ed to destroy her life through feeling Of
jealousy and keen sense of her degrada-
ton. The police, to whom the affair be-
came known, had her removed to Bellevue
Hospital, and three days after she was
taken by friends to the house No. 1870 East
Twenty-seyenth street, where she died on
Tuesday evening. A DR.. Fleming, who
was in attendance upon her, gave ccrtifi-
cate of death in the name of Geneva ID.
Rockwell, by which she was sometimes
known. Deceased was said to have been
the daughter of wealthy resident of North
Carolina, and of rare accomplishments,
though of willful spirit and perverted
morals"
Year: 1871

SUICIDE OF A MARE.-Mr. r. Y. Kirk
man, of Vienna, Virginia, lost mare few
days ago under the following circ,m-
stances


He was on his way to High Point, and
had stopped to feed and rest. He had un-
hitched his mare, fastened her to the feed
box, and had gone into the porch. Some
thing startled the animal, when she gave
several violent jerks, which broke the feed
box, and it hung dangling from her head.
She then started wildly for the woods, and
finally brought up in front of large tree,
up the trunk of which she reared as high
as she could reach, and against which she
dashed her body with all her force. She
then fell, dying. Upon reaching the spot
where she lay, Mr.. Kirkman found that
she had actually torn away the skin of her
belly, crushed her ribs, and snapped her
backbone in the middle. The mare was
valued at 5000.
Year: 1871

Look ont for To-moyrop's "JouhdW-
Something Intensely Interesting I'VE are
cent public conduct of a prominent aspirant
for the office of Vice President of the Uni
ted States, who is not more than thousand
miles removed from Virginia, and when OBJ
tanned will be given our readers. The party
is prominent Democrat official of a certain
State, well known to the acceptors of the
"New Departure" We promise that the
interest of the item will far exceed that of
the ordinary one of notarial appointments.
Year: 1871

The Home Chronicle. We have received
from an old friend, copy of the Home
Chronicle, devoted to the interests of the
Carolina Life Insurance company. From it,
we see Jefferson Davis is the President, and
inasmuch as we never took stock in him,
and as he proved during the war so good a
destroyer of the life Of our Southern peo-
pie, we are not disposed to confide in a life
insurance policy with which he has any
thing to do. We acknowledge the courtesy
of our old acquaintance.
Year: 1871

A Democratic exchange rebukes the Re-
publican for continually making Presi-
dents for the Democracy" We beg to
correct our cotemporary. The making ofa
President for the Democracy is task be-
yond the reach of human ability. The
most we can do is to make candidate be-
yond the condition of candidacy no man is
likely to get on the Democratic ticket du-
ring the present century. Chicago Repub-
HcdR.
Year: 1871

Excursion 7o-migM.-A grand moonlight
excursion, under the auspices of the Excel
sior Social Club, goes down the river to-
night. They will go down as far as Shir-
ley and return about midnight. A fine
band of music has been engaged, and a
happy time is expected. We advise every
one fond of a sail by moonlight to 60 and
take his sweetheart,
Year: 1871

Police Court. There were but two cases
before this court this morning--one white
man for beating his wife and one colored
female for mildly cussing lady friend.
And besides this, we noticed something
that, we believe, has never been known
IN the annals of this court-there cas not
single spectator present.
Year: 1871

Big Spot on the Sun.-A friend of ours,
who is well-learned in science of astrono-
my, informs us that great spot is now to
be seen on the sun, and that it forms a
very striking object seen through a tele-
scope. He says the umbra is pear shaped,
and its length is estimated at 10000 miles,
or five times the diameter of the earth.
The spot can also be seen without tele-
scope, through dark colored glass, or
when the sun is nearly overcast.
Year: 1871

Meeting Of the State Central Committee.
This body assembled in the city last
night, and adjourned without transacting
any business of interest to the party or it.
self. The committee will meet again on the
10th of next month in this city, when it is
to be hoped it ,ciN do some service to the
party. The different members will be Off
cially notified. ar}ss
Year: 1871

The Neio School-House on Church Hill
is rapidly approaching completion, and will
probably be finished in time for the re-
opening of the schools in October. 1t is a
very large building, and will accommodate
twelve separate and distinct schools. The
handsome appearance of the building will
add greatly to the beauty of that portion
of the city, and will probably enhance the
value of property in that neighborhood.
Year: 1871

an Hem.-A good Republican, in the
person of colored man, knowing the dull
ness of the times, had the good judgment to
drive his dray this morning in front of our
door, loaded with wheat, and permit the
wheel to run off its axle. We thank him
for the item, but would advise his employ
er to urge the importance of not furnishing
Republican papers with items at his ex-
penSe.
Year: 1871

Milaary.-The Attucks Guard will meet
tonight, at the Union Eagle Hotel, for the
purpose of reorganizing. This company is
composed of young colored men of this
city, and it is their intention to do every
thing IN their power to make the organizes
ton success. This is the only colored
company now existing in this city and
should be encouraged. We have no doubt
that if they succeed in having their officers
commissioned, that they will make good
soldiers as well as peaceful citizens.
Year: 1871

First, let those having control of our sem
inaries, formally recognize the claims of mu-
sic to an honorable place in the course of
study prescribed for a theological education.
Let them establish-on paper, if they can
do no more-a department of music. Iris
will bring the subject before the minus Of
the people, and, although nothing else were
done, it would be an appeal to them to fur
nish the means for carrying the scheme into
effect And why should not an appeal be
made directly to them on its behalf? And
why, ifmade, should it not be successful !?
Having done so much already to afford our
candidates for the ministry the advantages
of proper preparatory training for their
future work, will our people withhold the
comparatively triaing amount necessary to
add most valuable item to these advant-
ages?


Second, in the meanwhile our students,
even with the limited facilities they now
possess, may 90 much to improve themselves
in the knowledge aud practice of music
Not that they caG make themselves accom-
:, s:,i.s ~ ID s;gssers. Tair,ca,.p then would
NOT be able under The best adyant-
ages; but they may make respectable at
tainments in the science, and such progress
in the art as to be prepared, when occasion
shall require, to lead the singing in worship.
The end is we'll worth the effort.


ASAPH.
Year: 1871

FoRGIvENEss.-Let that man who never
forgives remember that he breaks the only
bridge over which he himself can ever enter
heaven.


LYING.-Although the Devil be the father
of lies, he seems, like other great inventors,
to have lost much of his reputation by the
continued improvements that have been made
upon them.


WIrTY SAYIxGs are as easily les! aas as the the
pearls slipping off broken string; but a
word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain.
1t is seed which even when dropped by
chance, springs up flower.


BAxTER-To look at his controversial
works, overladen with enormous quotations,
you would say he was never out of his study.
To look at his preachings, catechizings, visits
and imprisonments, you would say he was
never in it.


SAFE REAsoNING.-"I If you are not afraid
of God I am afraid of you," said a stranger
as he passed through counting room on the
Sabbath and found its keeper at work. The
next day he refused to sell his produce to
the Sabbath breaker on any credit. He
acted wisely; in three months the Sabbath
breaker was bankrupt.


TALKING.-Never hold any one by the
button, or the hand in order to be heard out;
for if people are unwilling to hear you, it is
better to hold your tongue than to hold
them.


RELIGIOUS NEWsPAPERs.-Dr. James w.
Alexander said, "Religious Newspapers,
which merit the name, and which carry the
news of Christ's kingdom, are unspeakably
useful. They are welcome as living friend
would be who should come in and tell us
what the Lord is doing in the earth; and
such a visitant does not profane holy time,
unless he supplant Gods own Word, or some
acts of worship or mercy.


EDUCATION WITHOUT RELIGIoN.-The
Duke of Wellington once said" Educate
men without religion, and you make them
but clever devils"
| A THOUGHT ON MIssIoNs.-A member Of
the British Parliament once remarked" We
are exporting good deal of religion; but
it is a singular commodity; the more we send
abroad, the more we have at home.


THE BEAUTIES of earth are the shadows
of heaven.


ARTIcULATE PRAYER is a great check upon
wandering thoughts.
Year: 1871

Mr. Editor; Among your clippings in
your last edition, appears this:


The Presbyterian Banner thinks the
study and practice of Sacred Music ought
to become part of the regular course in
Theological Seminaries.


Why this should be credited to the Ban
ner, or any other paper or person, as though
it were something original or new, l am at
a loss to imagine, for the same sentiment has
been frequently published as well in books
as in newspapers, and has been carried into
effect in some of the Seminaries of the
North. But whether new or old, the senti-
ment is both just and important. Music
has been, and l fear still is, culpably neg
lected in the training and furnishing of our
young ministers, especially at the South
1t belongs to the worship of God; it is
part of those sanctifed services which they
are to conduct And this, not by any hui
man appointment, but by the ordinance of
God Is it any thing more or less than the
baldest truism to add, that no young man
preparing himself for the ministry, should
be willing to omit any qualification for the
proper conduct of any part of the divinely
prescribed services of worship? Or, is it
less palpable, that institutions founded to
give, and purporting, to give, the neodful
training for the work of the ministry, should
not leave their pupils without competent fa-
cilities for acquiring qualifications for con-
Quoting such services, and every part of
them to the edifcation of Gods people?


Permit me briefly to rehearse some of the
special considerations which urge the claims
of this matter on the attention of our The
illogical students, and of those having charge
of their education.


l. The minister who cannot sing, loses in
part at least, the spiritual profit of the mu
sic-service in worship. This is means of
grace; many Christians find it means most
edifying, as well as delightful. Is the minister
so rich in grace or so abundant IN other
spiritual resources that he can afford to fore
90 this privilege?


2. The Minister who cannot or does not
sing, fails in this particular to be "an ensam-
pie to the flock" From whatever causes it
has come about, and what they are, is not
now the question-it is painful fact that
the duty and privilege of taking a personal
part in the singing of Gods praises as an
element in His worship, do not hold the
place they formerly held in the estimation
and practice of Gods people. The evil has
assumed alarming proportions, and is grow
ing more and more portentous. More than
Year: 1871

1t is great mistake to set up our own
standard of right and wrong, and judge peo-
pie accordingly; to measure the enjoyment
of others by our own; to expect uniformity
of opinion in this world; to look for judg.
ment and experience in youth; to endeavor
to mould all dispositions alike; not to yield
in immaterial trifes; to look for perfection
in our own actions; to worry ourselves and
others with what cannot be remeded; not to
alleviate all that needs alienation, as far as
lies in our power; not to make allowances
for the infrmities of others; to consider
everything impossible which we cannot per-
form; to believe only what our finite minds
can grasp; to expect to be able to understand
everything. The greatest of all mistakes is,
to Hve for time, wAen any moment may
launch as into eternity.
Year: 1871

this worlds goods more than is needful for
their own support and comfort, who might
be disposed to give $50 or 500 to help the
Church of Christ in her present difficulty {?
If God had given you who are parent one
more child than you have, would you not be
able to support it? What an honor would
the Lord confer upon you should He dispose
you to take one of His sons and educate him
for His holy ministry! May the Lord put
it into the hearts of His people to come to
His help against that mighty enemy, cOve
tO,ssness, which is so greatly hindering our
prayers and Gods blessing. We beg those
churches which have not contributed their
quota to the cause of education, to renew
their efforts to raise the required sum and
those churches which have not yet taken up
collections, to do so without delay.


In behalf of the Committee of Education
OF Montgomery Presbytery.


P. T. PENIcK, Chairman.
Year: 1871

An ounce of preventive is worth pound of
cure" Don't ask the question which Is cheap
is offered at one price-actual safety at onIy q
few cents mo;e. We sell mineral sperm oil
and guarantee it safe. The best coal oil ignites
at 10. We guarantee our sperm oil not to ig-
mite under 300 degrees. We commend it to the
public and claim for it superiority over any
burning fluid ever offered We ask the skepti-
cal to call and see it tested .


This is no infammable material, put up under
new name to sell cheap, regardless of conse-
quenceS. We commend it on the score of safe
ty alone though it cannot be surpassed in bril-
lance. For sale only by sasa at ls2sta


Xl9-lw Doll 81 Gull EN-.
Year: 1871

Hundreds of the country readers of the
CHRoNICLE will recognize the above name as
that of crazy old man who has wandered up
and down Knox and adjoining counties for per-
haps the last forty years. Winter and summer.
through cold and heat, wet and dry weather
like the wandering Jew he never ceased
his ramblings, TILL on Tuesday night the l7th
inst, when, as the night train was going down.
the engineer, at a curve two miles west of Eb,
enezer and twelve miles from this city, thought
he saw something on the track; but not being
sure what it was, and the train going at too
great a speed on the down grade to be stopped


he passed on. At Lenoirs, where they met the
eastern-bOund train, he related the circum-
stance to the officers in charge of that train.
And on examining the car wheels they were
found to be bloody, The other train came on
up and after passing the scene of the disaster
sent out some person who found the body of
Norman terribly mangled. An eye witness
tells US that first he saw a hand, then further,
On On one & sac M OF the rail leg and the other
the head; He did not see the rest of the re-
mains. The heart is said to have been found
lying several yards from the track


r, Norman had probably become weary and law
down on the track where hewent to sleen -
Year: 1871

\ correspondent of the Armenia On. W
Times has written for that journal an ac-
count of singular old hermit, named
David Tonkery-or better known as Old
Tonkery, the Hermit who formerly
lived in a hut situated in a wild
ravine, or mountain slope, near Mount
Riga, in the neighborhood of Amenia
Where this strange character came from
no one ever knew. He brought plenty of
money, and settled on a tract of land con-
tanning about one hundred acres. The
thoughts and conversations of this old
hermit were always about witches, and,
like most hermits, he was woman hater


not allowing one to enter his dwelling.


as he kept gun loaded with silver ball


ready to shoot any witches that might


modest him. At night he always placed
his gun across two chairs, the muzzle


pointing direct toward the door, lie own
ed fine strawberry patch, and would al
low school girls to pick all they wished
except the black-eyed ones; these he
would march off his premises instanter.
lie was never known to harm but one
person; that was poor widow woman
by the name of Mrs, Hamblin. Her COW
had wandered from home, and she went
up the mountain to the old mans farm Just
before dark, and, climbing upon fence,
looked over his farm for the lost COW. The
old hermit saw her, and it SO happened
that there came hurricane or very heavy
wind that night and blew down grove of
fine chestnut timber for old Tonkery He
thought at once that the poor woman was
a witch and had been up the night before
to see where she could do him the great
est damage. A few days after he met the
woman in the road. He caught her, and
with sharp stone cut cross on her fore
head between her eyes, to kill the witches
IN her he said. But this proved dear
witch to old Tonkery, for she sued him
and recovered damages to the amount OF
5000, and the man was obliged to sell ten


acres of his best wood land to pay suit and


costs.


He did his own cooking, washing aud


housekeeping, and hired help to do his


own farm work when necessary. When


visitors came to see him, il he liked their


appearance, he would give them apples
and cider. His chief study was how he


should rid himself of pestering witches;


as he became advanced in age faneies


grew upon him, and his Imagination was
assisted and excited by a wicked neighbor
who sought to get the old mans r-Sperty
Year: 1871

ABOUT fifty Of our young people
went out on Monday evening last in
search Of a surprise" AMI found it
We learn that some bruises were sus-
tanned and a few feet touched by the
frost. We hope no serious consequent
ces will result from these unpleasant cx.
pc1icnces.
Year: 1871

of the class which they represent. Our expo
ricnce in the business, our knowledge of the
wants Of tho farming community, and our
facilities for handling, enable us to select
from the list Of Agricultural Implements such
~ have been
Year: 1871

3 A writer in the American Journal Of
Microscopy has bean exploring the for.
ests Of bristles in hair brush surrep-
titiously purloined from a lady's toilet
stand, and though it contained nothing
which we are accustomed &c regard with
unqualified horror, the results Of his in
vestigation prove that there are mystic
ries ordinarily undreamed Of in simple
Of the toilet. tr.


There are concealed in the damp lint
Of hair brushes, unless kept clean by
the use of bicarbonate Of potassa or
carbonate Of soda, many living things,
too small for detection by the naked eye,
some of which, we are told, are of more
than suspicious character, being known
as the originators Of scald-head and
other diseases OF the scalp. The author
concludes his article by caution against
wetting the head, recommending dry
brushing instead. He also recommends
the use Of weak solution Of carbolic
acid or sulphete of soda as cleansing
for hair brushes. r.t
Year: 1871




that upon the facts stated by the
witness heo was justified under the
law of the land. Afterwards, in his
charge to the jury, he dwelt at further
length upontee matter, declaring that
the Language Of the Constitution, affirm
ing the right Of the citizens to bear arms
in defense Of themselves and the State,
placed the right above all legislative,
judicial or individual question, and that
it could not be taken away till the Con
stitution itself upon the subject should
be changed. II there we're an hundred
statutes to the contrary, they would not
be worth the paper on which they are
printed, because they would eallin ques-
ton that which the Bill Of Rights de-
clares is beyond question, and against
which there can be no law.
Year: 1871


"PIanting Lead Ore In JeGeEson Z :! 7, n


Purposes.


+, The Steubenville Herald, of the 9Th
inst, thus let's daylight through a swind-
ling scheme in the way of a mining
speculation:


A year or more since considerable ex-
citement was created in the northern
part of the county and among the spec
ulatiye in this city, over the rumored
discovery of q rich vein Of pure lead ore
on Yellow Creek. So well was this re-
port corroborated that specimens Of the
minerals were sent to this city, a chunk
of which we kept to exhibit to the. curl
ons and incredulous. There was no
question but what the specimens were
unusually pure, and all doubts as to dis
covery were dispelled. Old residents,
who lived in this part of the State when
the Indians were troublesome, remem-
bered that the redskins, after skirmish
with the settlers here, always disappeared
up Yellow Creek, and returned with
plenty of lead Persons who we're for
tunate enough to own land in the vicini-
" of the mines asked fabulous sums per
acre, and dreamed Of untold riches
Gentlemen from the city visited the spot
where the ore was dug out, and after a
careful examination pronounced it to
be genuine. Those who had been vic
Tins of the oil excitement in that region
Of country did not pitch into the lead so
readily-the price Of land declined in
consequence Of buyers holding off, and
no more lead was discovered Recently
it has come to light not the lead mines,
but the fact that the ore had been but a
short time before placed in its little bed
to catch gndgsons. 1913 a9M)In III
Year: 1871

This celebrated alley, extending from
Main street to Center alley, and wherein
is located the fashionable Capitol saloon
and the Chamber Of Commerce, is de-
scribed in the following manner by a
Freedman's Bureau Agent in the col
umns ofthe Washington city " Capital;p


If there is anything for which Mem
phis ought to be immortal, it is the de-
testable quality of the whisky sold there
and the enormous quantity consumed.
On Shelby street. or rather running
from Shelby street in the heart of the
business portion Of the city, is paved
alley leading to court, which is one (or
rather a hali-dozen) grand rum palace.
This evil way is called Whisky Chute,
doubtless because every one who par
takes Of the fiery fluids found there is
Immediately seized with violent desire
to shoot somebody. A drink or two,
and this desire becomes monomania.
In old times this madness was exceed
inglY dangerous to the lunatic Mig
gers were worth thousand dollars each


Ii WOuiu uObuO W huOOJ lutln duu butH
white men would shoot back; but when
the slave became free niger then came
the millennium to the whisky shootists.
The monomaniacal son of chivalry could
slsy his man with comparative immunity
from danger, and if the numerous mur-
ders and outrages committed in that city,
previous To and during the great riots,
could be traced out, it would be found
that men went forth from Whisky Chute
nerved for the deed Around the mouth
of that Internal sink would gather gam
blors, loafers, and even those who else
where passed for gentlemen, and insult
any one whom they thought fit to term a
yankee" To turn on the rascals and
resent the insult was useless, for each
one Of the cowardly crew would declare
he had not said a word. With such dens,
such gangs Of villains, and such a police
as the city was in that day cursed with,
Memphis was certainly a delightful lo-
cality. II il was delightful to a
white Union man, what must it have
been for niger"