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Year: 1871

EV- \ majority of the State Senators
in Pennsylvania who hold over this year
are Democrats, consequently the Repub
licans cannot expect TO obtain a majority
in the Senate next winter. In the House
according to the new apportionment
made upon the vote Of last year, the Re
publicans will have q majority of six on
ly. This is pretty close calculation, and
the Democrats profess to be able to spoil
it. Fhc canvass for members Of the Leg
saturc will be most interesting in many
parts Of the State, as the Legislature next
winter will probably rcapportion the
State for Congrcssmen.
Year: 1871

canvassed In opposition to a convention with
an assidnity and evidence of practical inter-
est witnessed only in the preparation Of
combinations for individual advancement
The earnestness and heat ofdiscussions before
the conference partook Of the same charac-
teristics Not until after the proposition to
hold a convention In October was voted down.
did Maj Peek, the Secretary Of the Central
Committee, come forward with his resolution
to empo,cer the Ceatrd! Committee to appoint
delegates 10 the National CoHreHtioH. This
would reiiers the necessity Of tIco conventions.
IL was urged. Then delegates from the Dis
trict Committees began to "open their eyes. "
Being unwilling and having refused to au-
thorize the Central Committee to appoint
delegates to the National Contention, and
seeing the necessity oftloo State Conventions
next summer one to assemble before and one
subsequent to the holding Of the National Con-
vcnton, it began to be apparent that they had
erred in yielding to influences opposed to
holding State Convention, at the meeting of
the State Fair In next October.


These are some of the reasons why we ia
vored State Convention In october, and why
we arraign the State Central Committee fora
want of due regard for the harmony ofthe
party. and the interests Of the people of the
State. in opposing the holding convention
at that time. We abide by the action taken.
but we abide in the gravest apprehension of
the consequences. We think that the Central
Committee also have just grounds for appre-
tensions of the consequences Of that action,
They may not recognize them, and we hope
they may net have stronger cause to 10 So
but we most seriously anticipate that they
will. The politicians seem to be afraid of
bungling by the people. We think the pco
pie would put up a much better job.
Year: 1871

my absence. When you hear Of the result
Of my present mission to Stockton, | kno"
that You will not question my motives"


:" No" muttered Jack, in an unaertone,
g for by that time you will be so far away
that you would not hear them if they do


Abbott, although he perceived with alarm
that the grumblers were daily increasing in
number and boldness, had thus far main
tanned his power over them by the uniform
success of his schemes of villainy, and his
present little speech was hailed with consd-
cradle applause. After bidding them good
night he quilted the house and proceeded
rapidly down the road for the five mile walk
to San Francisco.
Year: 1871

A LUDlcRoUs BAPTISM. M.-Recently in Lon
don a deaf woman brought her infant to
church to have him baptised, and while she
was standing near the font she thought she
would keep him quiet by feeding him from a
bottle of milk. While the child was still
taking its milk, the mother was summoned
to the font. In her agitation she drew the
bottle from the babe mouth hurriedly, when
the nozzle came off and the milk was spilled
upon the child's new clothes. When the
clergyman took the child in his arms, he
looked down at it and asked the mother
what name should be given it. She, with
her mind troubled about the accident thought
he was asking how the clothing became soil
ed, SO she answered, Nozzle come off. "
Rather surprised, he asked again for the
name, and she, thinking he did not under
stand her, bawled out, Nozzle come off,
say" Whereupon the astonished divine
sprinkled water upon the chd's head. and
said, "Nozzle come off Parkinson, l baptize
thee," etc.
Year: 1871

She leaned out from the lattice


At the budding of the MORN
The sun was on the hill-tops,


The dew was on the thorn;
The willful, climbing roses


Above her wore a crown,
And crowned her the queen OF maidens
AS he came riding down.
He checked his horses gallop,


And fingered by the way,
Smiling and gazing upon her.


Loath to go and loath to stay;
For he thought ''Since the sweet tomorrow
Waits on my delay,
Prithee why should l sorrow


For flower that blooms always?
Where she blossoms surely can find her,
Or ever the season takes flight,
Blushing and smiling behind her


Lattice, morning and night.
Shall squander life's early hour,
Ere the dew is dry on the May,
In reaching my hand for flower


That may be plucked any day!'
So he passed. And the sunshine passed with


him.


And the dew dried up on the thorn,
And the roses dropped all their petals,
That had crowned her the queen at morn;
But once when his heart was tried,
And life Of its glory seemed shorn.
He turned him again to her lattice.


But she and the roses were gone!
Year: 1871




PKuss1AN Sour TABLETS. In tie war be-
tween Prussia and France, it was the excel
ence of the German army commissary de
partment as we'll as the skill Of Moltke and
his subordinates which assured victory to the
Prussians Some time since we spoke of
the Prussan war sausage, and now we find
in the Chemical Ne,cs a recipe for making
the soup tablet which was extensively used
in the German army. The formula is as
follows: Take eleven parts by weight OF
good suet, melt it in an iron pan, and make
it very hot, so as to become brown; add,
while keeping the fat stirred. eighteen parts
of rye meal, and continue heating and stir
ring so as to make the mass brown; add
then four parts of dried salt and two parts of
coarsely pulverized caraway seed. The
mixture is then poured into tin pans some
what like those used for making chocolate
into cakes The cakes have the appearance
of chocolate, and are chiefly intended for the
use of soldiers while in the field. A quantity
of about one ounce of this preparation is suf-
ficent to yield, when boiled with some wa
ter, ration of good soup, and in case of
need, the cakes, being agreeable to the taste,
may be eaten raw"
Year: 1871

A YOUNG man wrote to paper, asking
whether it would be advisable for him to
marry "young and tender angel, who had
never done her own washing and dressmak-
ing" In reply, the editor advised him to
do SO by all means, and mentioned similar
case in his own experience, where the bride
had never done her own washing, but after
marriage she became SO fond OF the washtub
as not only to work for her own family, but
for several families among her acquaintance.
Year: 1871

CARE OF THE HAm.--Freguent brushing
and washing once week with teaspoon
full of liquid ammonia in a bowlful of warm
water, is said to be the best treatment pos
sible for the hair. If any stimuant is re-
quired, half an ounce of dry ammonia, rubbed
into a pint of olive oil, is the finest dressing
to be made, and prevents hair from turning
gray. if anything will, and urges its growth.
Year: 1871




SINGULAR SUICIDE. Il he indianapolis Peo-
pie gives the following account Of most sim
gular suicide which occurred short distance
east of the city, on Tuesday week:


ga farmer was thrashing his grain, by
steam power, near the roadside, when
well dressed stranger drove up in buggy,
got out, tied his horse, and came up to the
machine. He first went to the engineer,
and asked the privilege of feeding the ma
chine for while, and was referred to the
feeder. The feeder, seeing no reason to re-
fuse letting him try his hand, yielded his
post, which the stranger filed with ability.
After running a short time, he looked to the
engineer for more steam, which the engineer
put on; and then, while the machine was
going at lightning speed, he motioned the
man handling sheaves to stop, and as soon
as the teeth were clear he doubled up bis
arms and threw himself headforemost into
the thrasher before the ho ror stricken OBJ
servers had an idea of his intention. He
was literally torn in pieces in an instant. No
clue to his identity could be discovered; his
pocketbook contained $50, but nothing in
the way of papers. The citizens are still in
the dark as regards the name Of the man or
the cause of his making way with himself"
Year: 1871

The Paris Ffgdro publishes the follow ing letter, the authenticity of which it guarantees, left by 6ourgeois at the Rue Sainte-Appolline for his portress, the said bourgeois having left Paris on the very day of the affair of the cannons at the Butte Montmartre.

 My Dear Madame Dupont. On mature consideration, I had rather, having ex- plained them to you, leave your instruc- tions in writing as to your conduct in any event which may take place during my absence. In the first place, you will yourself keep the key of the cellar which contains wine and wood, and that of my apartments. In dining-room you will find three rolls upon the table, numbered 1, 2, and 3. If the mob come and make barricade in the Rue Sainte- Appolline, near the house, you will in stantly go up to my rooms, open the roll No. 1, and take out the red flag contain ed therein, you will fasten it to the stick which I have myself tied to the balcony ; there are hooks in the stuff, you will only have to fasten them on. If the mob threatens my apartments you tell them that I am well-known for friend of the people, and that I offer them brandy to drink my health and wood to make fire at night in the barricade. If the barricade is taken by the French, you will hastily take away the red flag, and instantly replace it by the flag No. 2, which is tri-color you will offer wine to the soldiers, and give them wood if they bivouac in the quarter. If the Prussians meddle in the matter, you will hide Nos. 1 and 2. and hook on No. 3, which is a Prussian flag. You will have champagne and wood. I think I need say no more, and I salute you.-Signed, L.. D.
Year: 1871

AN INCIDENT. was little amusement in the office of the Probate Judge of Cincinnati day or two ago. An exceedingly corpulent gentleman called, and persperingly asked for 8 marriage license. The accommodating Clerk of course seized the blank with avidity, put down the date, inserted the applicants name, and then asked the impatient lover the name of the prospec- tive bride. This was 8 poser The interrogated stared blankly at his ques- tioner, stuck his hands in his pockets, and finally acknowledged that he did not know The Clerk told him that the name was essential to the legality of the license, and the unhappy man departed, saying he would find out and call again
Year: 1871

Boiling potatoes is apparently one of the most simple operations of elementary cookery. Yet at a recent meeting in London gentleman had the courage to say that not one girl in seventeen, of a certain parish he knew, could boil Q potato Others state that so great is the disregard of English housewives just now for all household matters that this indifference is one of the most out ward and visible signs of the deterio- ration of the English nation." These statements are little steep, but never theless every one recognizes the com parative domestic incompetency of the average British woman. No one recog- nizes it more thoroughly than Miss lished an institute specially designed to meet this evil. This is her new Train ing Institute in Domestic Economy Its object is to remove the ignorance of women in all that relates to household management and domestic economy. It is intended for high and low-to make good mistresses as well as good servants. In this institute lectures on cooking, food, housekeeping, the laws of health, &c.,, can be attended equally as we'll as lectures on music and similar accomplish ments. The higher branches as well as the lower will be practically taught, and through its kitchens mistress or ser want can graduate. The institute is to be established in the west end of London; to it there will be attached reading room and restaurant. which will in a measure make it self-supporting. Miss Faithful will start this institute as soon as the necessary capital-e2, 000-is subscribed Of this sum nearly one- half has already been collected. To every one the question will occur, Can not some American Miss Faithful do the same for us ?'
Year: 1871

OF princely salon of the time of Louis
XIV, and is hung with pictures taken
from the Montmorenci chateau in France.
The Marie Antoinett boudoir is fitted and
furnished with the identical articles of
use and ornamentation which originally
served a similar purpose in the palace
apartment of the unfortunate Queen Of
France whose name they bear.--Boston
Journal.
Year: 1871

1t is said to be fact that the California
Pacific. Railroad is to be extended to Ogden,
so that trains can run from the Western
Terminus through to New York without
change of cars. A portion of the plan is
the bridging of the Missouri river by the
Union Pacific and the Eastern companies.
The plans of organization, and the probable
facts, are said to be these: "Tbe combina-
ton which already includes the Pennsylva-
MIA Central Railroad, and its connecting
lines with New York, the Pitsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad, the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad, and the Union
Pacific Railroad, forming one continuous
line, with uniform guage, from New York
to Ogden, having determined to complete
a through line from Ogden to the Pacific,
independent of their connection with the
Central Pacific" The name of the new
road is the California Pacific Eastern Ex-
tension" and, although originating from
the California Pacific, it will be run as a
separate company from it.


The incorporation, which will be perfect
ed in aIfew days, is for the purpose of con-
structing road from Davisville, on Putah
creek, in this county northward to the
California and Oregon line passing west of
Beckwourth Pass, thence by an easy grade
around the Southeastern side of Goose
Lake, to Christmas Lakes, thence through
Southern Idaho, to point Northwest of
Salt Lake, where it Will bend Southwardly
and run to Ogden.


- 1t is said that, although their route will
be hundred miles longer than that of the
Central Pacific, it will avoid the heavy grade
across the Sierras, and consequently be
capable of making better time between
Ogden and San Fracsco than the Central
Pacific could possibly hope to accomplish !;
and also the country through which the
road is designed to be built is capable of
furnishing large local business. At some
future time there will be connection to
the mouth of the Columbia, and to Puget
Sound, and the whole of Northern Califor
MIA will be brought in ready contact with
the market. The length of the proposed
route is about 1000 miles, but as British
capitalists have taken hold of the enter
prise, there is no doubt of its ultimate sue
cess. The building of this great cont
nertal highway will be of the utmost
importance to Vallejo, as this city will be-
come the real terminus of the overland
railroad route. We suppose Stanford &
Co. will use all of their exertions to prevent
the construction of the new road, but as the
company who have taken the project in
hand ask for no favors from the Govern
ment or from State Legislatures, and as
they have the credit and the capital sufi-
cient to build it, there is no fear that they
will be deferred from carrying out their
designs by the effort of a rival route to
perpetuate its own monopoly. We say,
again, that the building of this road is an
other evidence of the fact that Vallejo is
destined to become the great railroad cen
tire of the State.-Vallejo Recorder.
Year: 1871

but also those they do business with or for.


How many men, from badly cured diseases,
from The effects of self abuse and excesses, have
brought about that state of weakness in those
organs that has reduced the general system
much as to induce almost every other disease
Year: 1871

The Times attacks, in strain of lofty
indignation, those misguided gentlemen
who, in the dark and bloody days of 1861,
formed themselves into the Southern In
dependence Association" In its radical
zeal it smells a rebel in every one of them,
and is so blinded by desire to punish
their political heresies that it gives them
name they never thought of taking for
themselves.


The hatred for the followers of the "lost
cause" that crops out in the Times may be
regarded as the very latest departure.
Heretofore the friends of the movement"
have been fattered by honeyed words,
and held up as models of all that is great
and manly. They have been designated
as our best citizens, and, in fact, the com
prehensive expression this community, :"
SO frequently employed by our time
serving contemporary, has been applied
to them without deviation until lately
Whence this change? Why does the or
gan of the ''white mans party" thus as
sail its underlying idea? Why does the
Times turn States evidence, and hold the
originators of the secession movement up
to scorn? Why does Satan thus turn at
the eleventh hour and rebuke sin? Is it
because he has been deprived of the city
printing?
Year: 1871

oralty is no place for him; that he is an ircu-
than his company. The discharge thus ad-
ministered rivals in rude bleakness that
with which the dove was elected from the
window of the ark. Henceforth there is to
be no rest for the sole of his political foot in
this section.


In the name of the departed spirit of
the dove, we protest against the wrong
done to its memory, for it was gentle
minded bird, totally destitute of aquatic
habits, and had no interest in getting up
q deluge, while the hero of our inunda-
ton is no dove at all, but merely
gander, who naturally wanted a puddle
to paddle around in.
Year: 1871

About the easiest way to obtain Cuba,
which is something that the President
might consider an enormous feather in
his cap, would be to issue proclamation
recognizing the rebels as belligerents,
which could well be done since they have
held their own for three long years. This
would incline Spain to allow the pro-
vince to buy itself, which would enable
US to help the trade by furnishing the
money. Then annexation would result
as a natural consequence. We, the United
States, would add another State to the
confederacy at an expense Of eighty or a
hundred millions of dollars. If Mr.. Sec
retary Fish can consummate this piece of
diplomacy, another of our foreign per-
plexlties will be removed.
Year: 1871

Next to the editor of the Times, the
Mayor is probably the maddest man in
town. The editor is savage because his
little historical reference concerning the
Gaines case upset his argument. and the
Mayor venteth his wrath because the edi-
tor on whom he relied was more anxious
to ventilate his historical knowledge than
he was to apply his'facts to the argument
which he was making. These mono
maniacs are never safe to follow settled
thought, for they are always endeavoring
to assimilate their charge to the mono
mania that consumes them. The Times
spoils all the cases with defective, irrele-
want or inconsistent history.
Year: 1871

The Louisville Coarier-Journal is dis
gusted because the New York Tribune en-
ploys correspondent to interview the
hot-heads of the South in order to find
out their real sentiments This is dis
gusting, that the Tribune refuses to accept
the word of the Courie journal when it
says that all the Southern people are in
favor of peace, but prefers to seek its
own facts, and in doing so finds that there
is no peace at all, but that a new war is
in process of parturition. The Courier
Journal will either have to tell more
truth, or consent to live hereafter in
continual state of disgust.
Year: 1871

Mace is spelling for a fight in New
York, and Toombs is just hurting for a
muss in Georgia. Why can not these
two belligerents be brought within strik-
ing distance? Mace fought an hour and
twenty minutes in Canada without getting
lick from the enemy, and Toombs wor-
ried out five years in the rebellion with
out killing the six Yankees that he en-
tered into an implied covenant to destroy.
They are just the men to pit against each
other. 1t would be the longest, activest
and windiest combat ever seen on this
green earth
Year: 1871

The New York Citizen, which is a vio-
lent Democratic organ of the Boss Tweed
stripe, invokes the untimely death of jeff
Davis before he kills the Democracy. It
is even sanguinary enough to intimate
that Greeley ought to be cut off in his use
fulness, even while the presidency is
waiting for him, because he signed the
bail bond of the great non-acceptor. This
new departure business will hurt some
body, or our premonitions mislead us
very wildly.
Year: 1871

1t is plain to be seen that when the
Times wrestles with the REPUBLICAN the
mind and muscle are all on one side.
Victory declares in our favor SO easily
that we are almost ashamed to claim the
prize; it is something like beating a
woman, or knocking cripple out of
time. Fortunately the public never loses
anything by these disproportioned fights,
because it has no confidence in the Times,
and never puts up any money on the
result
Year: 1871

rebuked sectionaism, and reclothed the
States that were in rebellion with the
right of representation in the federal
Congress. 1t proposes, with the aid of
amnesty, much discretion anda good deal
of hypocrisy, to..defeat this party and re-
instate the party in power that brought
upon the country ali of the disasters of
the past ten years. 1t certainly has but a
poor estimate of the people of this coun-
try when it supposes that they will rein
state such party in power merely be-
cause they condescended to say they sac
cept the situation"
Year: 1871

Mayor Hall, the ornamental and ora
torical Democrat of New York, thinks,
although he is not sure of it, that s'pos-
terity and our successors will regard his
exertions with favor" Suppose posterity
agrees with the Mayor and his successors
do not, what will be the result? Is there
any probability that our posterity and
our successors will disagree as to who
they are? Will they deny their identity,
or claim to be separate communities
Year: 1871

The whole number of deaths in this city
during the past week was one hundred,
against one hundred and twelve the week
previous. Twelve died of consumption, one
of pneumonia, and nine of various fevers.
New Orleans is, according to this mortuary
report, one of the healthiest cities in the Uni
fed States
Year: 1871

George B. Williams, chief of the financial
division of the Internal Revenue Bureau, is
engaged in taking account of the internal
revenue stamps and other stock on hand,
and otherwise settling up the business OF
his division, preparatory to setting out with
a clean sheet at the beginning of the next
fiscal year.
Year: 1871

The Rerolution prints statement to the
effect that nine-tenths of the young men
that are given to prostitution 60 from the
presence of their sweethearts or lady
friends, where their passions have been
excited by silly smiles and loving nonsense,
aided many times by spieed food and wine,
TO the embrace of the courtesan.
Year: 1871

An English politician declares that the
expenses of all kinds for State and national
elections in the United States cost the peo-
pie more than it does the British for the
Queen and all the royal family.
Year: 1871

The Times thus institutes a comparison
between the dove, one of the heroes of
the deluge, and Mayor Flanders, the hero
of the New Orleans inundation:


In plain language, it is intimated to him
that he ought to "get OUT" that the may
Year: 1871

The Southern Express manages to get
through from New York very rapidly, and
surprised us yesterday with the New York
Tribune of Friday morning last, in advance
of the mail. as usual.