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Year: 1871

A Man Dies from the Effects of


Fright.


From the Louisville Lsfger.l


In yesterdays issue were given the
particulars Of what was reported to be
the death Of man from the effects Of
a fall. A man named Mcdonald q
wagon maker at Shepherdsville, and
who lived on the opposite side Of Salt
river, started to walk across the river
at that point, which is very high, with
rock bottom beneath. In crossing
the bridge, he stumbled and tell between
the ties, but fortunately managed 10
grasp the tie with his hands, and there
hung dangling, with one hundred feet
Of sheer fall beneath him. He was ut
terly unable to regain the top Of the
bridge, and held with Il death grasp
until his cries brought assistance from
the end OF the bridge. They lifted him
from lis perilous position and led him
off the bridge Upon reaching the
shore he sat down for a few moments,
and seemed somewhat overcome by the
terrible danger through which he had
passed. When asked il he was hurt he
replied that his leg was hurt little,
and that he would 90 home and put
some liniment on it, lie got up,
walked a few steps, and fell to the
ground and expired. 1t was first re-
ported that he died from the effects OF
injuries to his breast received in the
fall, but such, it seems, is not the case.
The physicians, who carefully examined
the body, say that there was no bruise
or wound sufficient TO disable him,
much less cause death, and are Of opin-
ion that his death was caused by sheer
fright
Year: 1871

Alter paying the expenses OF the enter
prise and making tho distribution OF tho
Gifts, the balance or the proceeds arising
from the sale OF tickets will be- appropriated
To the establishment OF Free Library In
Huntsville to ba called the
Year: 1871

We are indebted to Colonel C. H. SIocomb,
treasurer of the Louisiana Jockey Club, for
neatly printed copy of the charter, rules,
regulations and bylaws of the club. Also
printed circular, calling the attention of
members to resolution of the board of di-
rectors to make an immediate call of thirty
per cent on the stock, and further call of
twenty per cent is to be paid on the first Of
August.
Year: 1871

The passionate illnatured man lives
always in stormy weather, even though
it be the quiet of dew fall around him
always wrong, always hurt, always COM
planning of some enemy. He mas no con-
ception that this enemy is in his own
bosom, in the sourness, the ungoverned
irrilability, the habitual ill-nature of his
own bad spirit and character. speak
not here of some single burst of passion,
into which man of amiable temper
may for once be betrayed I; but l speak
more especially of the angry characters,
always brewing in some tempest of
violated feelings. They have a great
many enemies, are unaccountably ILL
treated, and cannot understand why it
is. They have no suspicion that they
see and suffer bad things because they
are bad, that being ill.natured is about
the same thing as receiving ill.treat-
ment, and that all the enemies they
suffer from are sDusly closeted in their
own evil temper.


The same is true Of fretful persons
| men and women that wear away fast
and die, because they have worried life,
so to speak, completely out. Nothing
goes right; husband or wife, or child or
customer, or sermon. They are pricked
and stung at every moment they make,
and wonder why it is that others are
permitted to float along so peacefully,
and they never suffered to have mo.
ment of peace in their lives. And the
very simple reason is, that life is field
of nettles to them, because their fretful,
worrying tempers are always prickling
out through the tender skin of their un.
easiness. Why, if they We're set down
in paradise, carrying their bad mind
with them, they would fret at the good
angels, and the climate, and the color
even of the roses.- DIR. Bushnell.
Year: 1871

Providence has so made the sexes
that women, like children, cling to men,
lean upon them for protection, care and
love look up to them as though they
were their superiors in mind and body.
They make them the suns of their sys-
TEN, and they and their children revolve
around them. Women, therefore, who
have good minds and pure hearts want
men to lean upon. Think of their rev.
erencing drunkard, a fool, a liar, or a
libertine. If man would have wo-
man do him homage, he must be manly
in every sense; a true gentleman, not
after the Chesterfield school, but polite
because his heart is full of kindness to
all one who treats her with respect,
even Difference, because she is a woman;
who never condescends to say silly
things to her; who brings her up to his
level, If his mind is above hers who is
ambitious to make his mark in the
world, whether she encourages him or
not, and who is always pleasant and
considerate, but always keeping his
place as the man at the head and never
losing it. Such department., with no.
BILE principles, good mind, energy
and industry, will win any woman in
the land who is worth winning.
Year: 1871

measure, and especially the proposed
Senatorial amendments, attempt to do;
and he warned the Senate that the most
effective mode for bringing the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments into
disrepute would be to try to SO distort
their provisions as TO make them seem
to cover legislative and executive usur-
pations which woro never intended by
their trainers. He cautioned Congress
to beware of these insidious efforts to
change our republican system by blot
ting OUT the State governments, and by
taking to itself the entire protection of
the individual citizen in his person and
property; and he was eloquent in his
denunciations of the suspension of the
writ of ho6eas corpus and the declara-
tion of martial law on slight occasions
and under false pretences, as dangerous
to the liberties of the people. .I.


If Gen. Grant, and those members of
Congress who are plotting for his re-
nomination, are not bereft of their
senses, they wi listen to the warning
voice of the Senator from Illinois, and
pause in their perilous course. If they
do not, so much the worse not merely
for them individually, but for the party
which elected them and is responsible
for their action.
Year: 1871

A correspondent describes the intercs.
ting method of pudding iron as follows:
The pig.iron is put into pudding fur
mace presided over by a puddler and
helper. The helper attends to the firing
and does the first part of the puddling,-
that is, stirring the iron at the consis.
tency of water. The skill is to know
just the boiling point, and then to sepa.
rate the metal in the furnace into exact
ly three parts. This the puddler does
by the eye and with his three tools
called puddling,irons. With these he
deftly kneads the three separate masses
as so much dough. AS soon as mass
Is worked to the satisfaction of the pud-
dleritis drawn forth, placed on species
OF two-wheeled cart called buggy, and
put into the squeezer. Water runs con


tinually on to this squeezer to keep it
from melting. The water getting into
the hot iron, steam is generated and ter
rife explosions occur, throwing sparks
in every direction. A shapeless mass of
metal goes into the squeezer and comes
out in plugs half the original size. II
during the revolution of the wheel of
the squeezer the mass breaks, 1t is q
sure test that the metal has not been
sufficiently puddled, and much to the
disgust of the puddler it is returned to
the buggy and the furnace, and must be


worked over again. Should the roll &C
through the squeezer unbroken, it il
passed on into the rollers, which have
grooves of various depths, and finally


comes out in beautiful square strips.
Year: 1871

in San Francco the gcosst pspers had but recently
nton ahd following close upon that intelligence
received Of heavy shock at St Gs port Of Crescent CITY
dt1ing of paragraph predicting another of the same
sort at san Francisco which the cline Of march,
and had Just put period to close the article when the
tramor was upon MS.
Year: 1871

The New York Herald, discussing the
financial situation, says what it would do:


I'VE would abolish the notes of the
national banks, upon which We pay in
terest to the extent Of twenty millions or
more a year, and we would substitute
legal tenders bearing no interest, and
thus save this item of twenty odd mil
lions. We would issue a new description
Of bonds, bearing the interest, say Of
3-65, or a cent a day on the dollar, and
furnish these bonds to the national
banks, if the present banking law is to
be retained, in lieu of the present bonds
and we would make these bonds, under
certain restrictions, redeemable at every
sub-treasury on sight. We would reduce
the idle gold in the Treasury to a re-
served fund Of not more than twenty or
thirty millions. We would abolish the
income tax absolutely, and so far prune
and cut away our other taxes Of the in
ternal revenue and tariff schedules as to
reduce the Treasury receipts to a margin
not exceeding twenty-five millions be-
yond the current expenses and liabilities
Of the Government, including the inter
est on the debt
Year: 1871

A correspondent of the London Daily
News, who entered Paris soon after the
capitulation, thus describes the effects
of the war upon the morals OF that once
gay city: .-


The sins for which Paris used to be
famous all belong to the past. She has
been half starved, half beaten into NOR
ality, or il may be that other than ply
steal influence had led her to wash and
be clean. You see some drunkenness,
but far less than l had looked for, among
men whose clock, so to speak, has run
down Al decent gloom is everywhere
apparent. Some assert that the gloom
is as much theatrical and assumed as
had been the previous valorous seeming


/ don't think SOL think you can see the
iron eating and burning in the hearts of
these men--silentwith unwonted silence;
moody as they never knew how to be be-
fore; and as the downcast faces pass
draw a good augury from them for
France and Paris. The great and beau
tiful feature Of the siege has been the
absence Of crime. No murders, no rob
berries, but a virtue in which, to me, there
is something pathetic. The half lit
streets are empty by half-past nine
o o'clock. The midnight air is not tor
tured by the sound Of jewellers, although
there are no police to keep order. |
woke up between twelve and one in the
night, and the silence made me for the
moment think myself back at Margency.
Year: 1871

1t possesses the very great advantage
of carrying the work in the natural way
from left to right-which enables the
operator to handle the work more readily
and to sit upright; while machines which
carry the work from the operator require
an inclination Of the body forward (detri-
mental to healthy and are hard and tire
some to use.
Year: 1871

in the evening completed the enter
tainment Of the day. and it was one OF
rare brilliancy and beauty, a double
corona being visible about nine o'clock.


A MOONLIGHT VIEW


was obtained early Sunday morning, and
amply compensated for rising at an un-
seasonable hour and standing in the crisp
Year: 1871

In this sense great men have bonorod
him, angels have honored him. and God
has honored him with their presence
And it is when this harmony is brolxen
or in the absence of moral control that h.,
is physically an animal, and intellectually
tyrant.


Did you ever behold the Queen of the
night, how her mellow light tinred the
landscape and made all things around
look beautiful? Who has not been de-
lighted with the sweet silver light of the
moon? Intrinsically the moon has M
light of her own, but we behold her beau-
ty in the reflected rays of the King ofdav
and when yonder sun is fost to view be-
meath the horizon, it is his kiss we seeim-
printed on fair Cynthia's check Which
tells us though he is absent now. the
succeeding morn he will appear in all his
glory. We could not see the moon had
we no sun; and when clouds intercept his
rays she is lost to our view.


The true man is only seen in the re-
flected rays of the Sun of Righteousness,
and when clouds of sin interpose moral
darkness and misery ensues. The moon
reflects the rays of the sun-the true man
the image of God.
Year: 1871

Our criticisms on the criminal jurls-
prudence of Indiana have excited good
deal Of discussion, and we are glad to-
know that our views meet the approval
of the better class of our citizens. One
of the leading members of the bar writes
to us, and after alluding to our structures
as "very valuable and timely" reminds
us of another defect in the method OF ad-
ministering criminal justice. He says: Il
want to suggest for your considerations
one additional matter, viz: The impor-
tance in all cases of calling in well-qual1-
fed jurymen of ability and character. In
point of fact the jury ought to be very
select men The main difficulty is that
wcll-qualified men fail and refuse to serve,'
and the officers who call upon citizens to-
serve soon learn to avoid men whose time
is valuable, and who will be offended II
called on; and also learn to call IN men
whose time is of no value to themselves
or any one else, and who, therefore, are
pleased and complimented when called
upon-men who have the faults without
the experience of professional jurymen.
The remedy seems to me to be that the
qualified men should patriotieally serve
although losers thereby, and that courts
and officers should reform the present
practice" This is certainly very im-'
portant matter, and we commend the
above suggestions to our Judges, sherifts
and fellow citizens The administration
of Justice, civil and criminal. is the most
important function of civilized society
and in view of the fact that questions af-
fecting life, liberty, and rights of proper
ty arc every day submitted to the decision
of juries, it would seem to be very desir-
able that the men composing them should
be invariably selected from the very best
and most intelligent of our citizens 1t is
of more consequence in criminal than IN
civil trials, for the reason that in crimin-
al cases the jury are the absolute judges
of the law and the facts, while in civil
controversies the jury are required to-
govern their findings by the law as gwen
to them by thecourt. The criminal code
of Indiana absurdly requires the judge
/ trying a criminal case to instruct the jury
as to the law, and dalso compels him tO


say to them that they may utterly disre-
gard it, if they see fit to do so. We pre-


sumo no one will find fault with US for


expressing the opinion that Indiana juries


are not generally composed of the best


men The great game of thoroughbred


cafaboose lawyer is to secure panel of


inferior, and, by use of the challenges al
lowed a prisoner, to eliminate from it


every man whose character and intelli-


gence would enable him to detect the
sophistries and resist the eioquencel y


of the closing speech. We hope that the


whole matter will be thoroughly dis,


cusscd, and that something may be ac-


comDli- he'd in the way Of practrical re-


form. There will be strong effors made


by Journals controlled by the criminal


classes to prevent the needed change. but
papers of that class are not numerous ID


Indiana, and the character of those who
conduct them are SO perfectly understood
: that they have little or no Influence
, Ind Journal.
Year: 1871

The Boston Commonwealth says; s'We
are pained to record that our friend of
lions Herald indulges in the pious fib
that ace think it "desecration of the Sab
bath to pull an ass out of the pit on Sun
day." On the contrary, we would not on
ly have him out, but, if in the semblance
of our friend, take him into the public Ii
brary to recuperate
Year: 1871

Feed the first week with hard boil
cd egg, oat meal and dried bread
crumbs, rubbed well together with
out water. After this, boil sleeps
liver until it mashes crumbly. A
brood may have about half an ounce
of it daily for two weeks; then the
quantity can be increased to an
ounce. Finely chopped cabbage,
lettuce or other green food is neccs-
sary to keep their bowels regular.
Indian meal is not to be given under
any circumstances, unless it is scald-
ed, and so prepared that it will
crumble when it is thrown on the
ground; it is better to mix it with
oat or barley meal to give variety.
Wheat is one of the best kinds of
grain, for them, but soft food should
be the main reliance. Bread soaked
in water is to be avoided as it is
said to impair the constitution.
Curd may be given daily with ben
eft. and it is much relished. Avoid
4 board. stone, or brick floor, unless
it be well covered with hay, straw,
earth, or preferable, builders sand,
deformed feet may be the
result. 1t is essential that chicks
of the Asiatic breeds should be
hatched very early in the season,
and fed every two or three hours
daily, for two months, if large size
birds for prize takers at the fall
shows are an object.
Year: 1871

R. W. Furnace says in the Ne
braska advertiser; "We not only
advise but urge the planting of young
small trees, especially if they are
brought from a distance, We know
that most persons have an idea that
that the older and larger a fruit
tree is the sooner they will get fruit.
This is a.great error, and can only
possibly be true when trees are very
carefully taken up, and put into the
ground immediately


As 4 rule, however, when trees
are sent to any distance, a one-year-
old apple tree is preferable to three
year-old one. They cost less(ten
cents instead of thirty, less for
transportation, less work to handle
them, less work to plont, are surer
to live, have better and more roots
according to their size, are more
easily adapted to a new soil,t tops
are more easily trained, and in six
years they are ahead of your three
year old trees in all respects. In
our opinion, you will get q bearing
orchard sooner with one-year-old
trees than with three-year or older
trees"
Year: 1871




Alcohol forms no part of the living
body, and when taken into the stom-
ach is rapidly absorbed, or rather
permeates the membranes and the
coats of the blood vessles, and finds
it's way into the blood, with which it
forms no homogeneous mixture, but,
alien-like, is hurried along in the cir
culation, to be eliminated, in great
part, as speedily as possible, that
which is retained producing very
equivocal effects, and in many in
stances painful and fatal Diseases
1t escapes by way of the lungs, as
is shown in the breath of those who
have been drinking ardent spirits or
strong wines, and also by the skin
and kidneys. That portion of the
alcohol which is retained in the body
accumulates most readily in the brain
and liver, and it has been found in
its pure state after death in these Or
gans, especially in the brain. The
first manifest effects of an alcoholic
liquor are on the brain and nervous
system generally, on which it acts
in a small dose as an eXcitant, and
in a larger one as a narcotic. 9th
er parts are affected in a correspon-
ding manner, being at first stimula-
ted, not strengthened, and afterward
retarded and weakened in their ac-
ton. s.


For example, the heart, that Won
derful and, during life, never-ceasing
pump,when its inner surfaceis reach
ed by the tide of blood containing
alcohol, works away so much the fas-
ter to get rid of the intruder; in so
doing its machinery is needlessly
strained, and if this be continued
from day to day is more apt to be de-
ranged and soon worn out. Under
the operation of the prolonged use
of alcoholic liquors the heart often
becomes hypertrophied or morbidly
thickened, and at other times dilated
and thinner in its substance; or a
still worse condition superyenes-
its muscular texture is converted to
fatty matter, and it fails to contract
with the requisite force and regular
ity, and is liable at any moment to
cease beating. In this sudden ces-
sation of the hearts action is found
an explanation of some of the sud
den deaths ofwhich we read. These
destructive effects of the use OF alec
holic liquors are not by any means
confined to drunkards; they are seen
in persons who have never been in
toxicated during their lives, but
who have been regular drinkers of
these liquors. The liveris diseased
in similar manner from the like
Year: 1871

If farmers would look at the the
ory of rolling the grain fields in the
spring, it would be resorted to much
more Frequently than it is. Occa-
sionally the winter and syriug have


been so favorable to these crops as
not to render if necessary. But in
three seasons out of four it is neees-
sary, and doubtless adds consider
ably to their productiveness. The
thawings and freezings ofthe ground
throwing or spewing out the roots
and exposing them to the drying
winds of February and March, very
seriously affect the grain. Passing
a roller over as soon as the soil is
fit to enter upon, presses back the
roots into their beds, and gives them
a fair grip again upon the support
on which the crop must depend.
This must be apparent to every one
will look at its operation. We have
no doubt that rolling clover fields
that have been badly thrown up by
the frost, would also have benef-
cial effect.-GeymdRtorR Telegraph.
Year: 1871

Mr.. George Mills thus describes
the sensation of being struck by
lightning, as he observed them:
First, = felt Yyself enveloped in a
sheet Of perfectly white light, ac


companied by a sense of sufroca-
ton by heat. The light could be
seen as well through the back of the
head as with eyes, and appeared to
extend several feet on all sides of
me; then l experienced sense of
danger, and tried to escape injury


from my horse. Then followed a
troubled dream in which / was haul
ing load Of hay in company with
another person, and in spite of all
the effort I could make to avoid it,
the load of hay was about to fall on
me. When in my dream l made a
last desperate effort to spring from
under the hay, 1 found myself stand


ing on my feet. The first thing 1
observed was that the cattle, in
fright were running from me; and
the next that ! stood in front of the


PROSTATE horse. Instantly 1 com
pretended the situation, and listen


ed to hear the thunder that should


have accompanied the lightning, but
no thunder could be heard. l felt
no pam and no sensation, except a
mental exultation, which lasted but
few seconds. .....
At first thought the lightning


had struck me, and had slightly
stunned the horse and myself. Then
1 observed the water on every hair,
and the moisture in the eyes, nos
trils and mouth of the horse to be


boiling, having the appearance and
making a noise which somewhat re-
sembled fine drops of water on a


hot iron, which continued for sever


al seconds. This was a phenomenon
I have never heard of, probably be-
cause person near enough to see
it is almost always rendered uncon-
scious too long to make the obser-
vation. Judging from the distance


the cattle had run, was probably
unconscious for less than six sec
onds. .....
Finding that the horse did not
breathe, l proceeded to pull off the
saddle and bride, and then l felt a


severe pain in my head, which con-
tinued for several hours, followed
by soreness, which seemed to be in
the substance of the brain, with an
inclination to Inflammation, but at


the end of a week no effects of the
lightning were felt.