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Year: 1873

Among the good old things which are passing
away is that dear delightful generation of old
ladies whose gospel of life that of Fuss and to
whom innovation and novelty came as the indica-
tions of breaking world. Yes they going fast,
these kind old DANES who always wore low shoes,
whose promenades were inseparable from faithful
umbarell," to whom railway journey was a thing
of horror, and whose normal condition was that Of
worry. But we are glad to that there is one of
the ancient sort left, and herewith introduce the
Model Old Lady of Middlebury, Wisconsin. A few
days ago she calmly crossed over a bridge marked
dangerous" not having perceived the sign indi-
eating that fact On reaching the further side
kind soul gave her that piece of information where
upon she Immediately turned in great alarm and
rocrossed the dreadful structure.
Year: 1873

This being the season Of unrlpe fruit, Massachu-
setts newspaper makes pertinent suggestions con-
cerning the same-for instance that it is well to
whip soundy all small boys found near orchards on
general preventive principles. 1t is likewise well to
feel their pockets whenever they enter the domestic
domcile. To find the deadly apple there indicates
an intention to eat and to find shows that they
have already been eaten. Either way, there is but
one thing which an able and conscientious parent
can consistently do But, however much he does
this thing there is hope of parting the average
small boy from his beloved green apple. Not if every
apple tree in the country were guarded by ghost
and dozen rattlesnakes would the Small Boy forego
his fayorite fruit. Can we say mOref
Year: 1873

The treatment invariably adopted for
these, at st. Thomas Hospital, when
admitted directly after the injury, is to
whitewash the parts with paste of
whiting and vinegar. This is covered
with layer of thin linen, and the whole
enveloped in cottonwood. The patients
themselves acknowledge the immediate
relief which this affords, and the parts
usually do well. The crust which forms
is left on until it crumbles off, when
fresh layer is put on but when granu-
lating sore occurs, the ordinary form OF
dressing is substituted. d.-Medical Times
and Gazette.
Year: 1873

The rattlesnake finds superior foe in
the deer and black snake. Whenever q
buck discovers rattlesnake in situa-
ton which invites attack, he loses no
time in preparing for battle. He makes
up within ten or twelve feet of the snake,
then leaps forward and aims to sever the
body of the snake with his sharp bifur-
Gated hoofs. The first onset is most
commonly successful, but if otherwise,
the buck repeats the trial until he cuts
the snake in twain. The black snake is
also more than an equal competitor
against the rattlesnake. Such is the
celebrity, both in running and entwining
itself around its victim, that the rattle
snake has no way of escaping from its
fatal embrace. When the black and
rattlesnake are about to meet for battle,
the former darts forward at the height of
his speed, and strikes at the back of the
neck of the latter with unerring certain
ty, leaving foot or two of the upper
part of the body at liberty In an in
stant he encircles him within five or six
folds; he then stops and looks the
strangled foe in the face, to ascertain
the effect produced upon his corseted
body. If he shows signs of life, the
coils are multiplied and the screws tight
ened, the operator all the while watching
the countenance of the victim. Thus
the two remain thirty or forty minutes; !;
the executioner then slackens one coil,
noticing at the same time whether any
signs of life appear; if SO, the coil is
resumed and retained until the incar-
cerated wretch is completely dead. The
moccasin snake is killed the same way.
Year: 1873




1t is but few years since, says the
Chicago Journal, that the house of Ben
nett Pieters & Co., wholesale liquor
dealers, and proprietors of the "Red
Jacket Bitters," stood high among our
best known, most enterprising and re-
sponsible firms. In almost every paper
of the country their advertisements were
to be seen Mr.. Pieters was man of
fine abilities, and besides being shrewd
and successful in business, he was pos
sessed of superior scholarly attainments.
His home was among the most elegant
and refined in the city, adorned in the
most chaste and beautiful manner, and
gracefully presided over by his wife, an
estimable, accomplished lady. While
in the full tide of prosperity, with wealth
pouring in upon him, Pieters fell: He
could not resist the temptation offered
by the demon concealed beneath the
rosy hue of the wine cup, and his i'm
agination was heightened and his brain
exhilerated by the sparkling champagne
or his own bitters. The high reputation
of his firm began to feel the effects of
his downward course, and finally came
the crash. Pieters was ruined he
struggled vainly for time, but the
power of the fiend with which he had so
long tampered was too great and nerve
less, and unresistingly he was hurried to
the consummation of his career. His
elegant home soon followed his business
house rich and valuable presents made
to his family were swallowed up in the
general ruin, or went to crafty still
more his unceasing thirst for drink,
until at last he and they were homeless
and well nigh friendless. A few months
since he enlisted in the United States
service as private soldier, and is now
with his regiment somewhere on the
great plains of the West. His broken
hearted wife has filed a petition for
legal separation from him, alleging that
she has been reduced to utter poverty
and misery through her husbands love
of Intoxicating drink. The story of her
misfortunes is indeed heart-rending, and
if anything were yet needed to urge on
the friends of temperance and reform it
would be found in the terrible fate of
Pieters and his innocent family.
Year: 1873

A DANBURY CHILD LosT.-A family
named Bobleigh, living on Nelson st,
Danbury, says the Ne,cS, lost their little
child, girl Of six years The alarm
was at once given, and a vigorous
search was at ouce prosecuted, The
ncighbors for several streets adjoining
either Joined in the search or assembled
at the house Of the afflicted family and
graphically recalled cases where little
children were lost and after a long
search found stark and stiff in death, aud
thus consumed time that would have
otherwise passed drearily enough to the
agonized parents. Several people re-
membered TO have seen the little girl in
several different directions. Then there
we're others who had ideas Of their own
in regard to the whereabouts Of the
missing child, and one of these neigh
Dor named Wakely, was led by this iu-
stinct to crawl under barn, but in the
transit became so wedged in that it took
two men and shovel to get him out
again A few minutes later his zeal and
discretion led him to 60 down well, and
when part way down he lost his hold,
gave forth a whoop like an Indian, and
disappeared beneath the sparkling wa
ters. lie was rescued more dead than
alive, but still burned with sympathy
for the stricken family, and with the
water dripping from his garments,
crawled up on a beam 70 look over into
a hay.mow. and owing to the slippery
condition of his clothes again lost his
balance and came down to the barn
floor with a force that deprived him OF
his breath. AT ten o'clock the search
was given up for the night and the pa
rents retired, but not to sleep. At half
past ten knock sounded at the front
door, which, upon being opened revealed
the lost child. She had fallen asleep on
top of the hon.house, and becoming un-
easy in her dreams had fallen off and
awakened. and had now come in for the
particulars. No words can express the
delight Of the parents at the recovery Of
their child, no. depict the sensations of
Mr.. Wakely when he came around the
next morning on pair Of borrowed
crutches, and smelling stroug enough of
liniment to knock down chemist, and
learned the result of the affair. 1t is
pleasant to learn that not one Of the ex-
cited neighbors had any serious idea that
the girl was lost, any of the time.
Year: 1873

An attempt is being made to use saw
mill refuse for smelling iron in Michi-
gan.


The largest farm in England, conf
prising 5000 acres, is owned and run by
a Yankee.


A young Englishman has recovered
heavy damages from tailor who sent
him an insolent dun on postal card.


A young lady was thrown from a car
riage in Shrewsbury, Mass, the other
day, and had one leg broken, aud the
accident was still farther complicated by
her falling on wasp's nest.


Ammonia is a useful household article
which is worth while to keep on hand
for common purposes. 1t is excellent
for cleaning paint, silver, and glass a
teaspoonful put in the water produces a
wonderful effect. Wherever there is
grease to be removed, ammonia is efica-
cious. Consequently it is excellent for
cleaning hair.brushes, Indeed, it is an
almost indispensable toilet article.


The German Minister of War has re.
Gently issued an order that every man
subject to military service in the empire
shall present himself for enrolment with
a photograph of himself in his possession,
duly certified to by the police or muuici.
T pal authorities of the locality in which
the candidate may reside.
Year: 1873

Go, time and tide, go as you will
cennot heed your ways.
What care | for summer glow,
What care for ice and snow,


When love doth fill my days
Unto its ark, through wind and rain,
My heart flies as the dove;
Oh, rosy is the darkened day
And rosy is the stormy way


That lead me to my love.
How can | care if leaves be green
Or gray with early rimc ?
Love, ruling, reigning in the soul,
With pu.c and passionate control,


Makes its own summertime.
Year: 1873

are the most ignorant, led by
the most corrupt men of
the State capital, and to thwart their
purposes it is only needful for the wisest
and best men of both political parties to
cooperate. For this result the APPEAL
shapes its policy, differing from a few
Democratic members of the legislature
in the fact that the APPEAL can afford
to tell all it thinks and believes, little
caring whom it may offend, while am
bilious lawgivers are unwilling TO
make " explanations before their
Democratic constituents. But the
recent caucus of the Democrats
in the legislature has, in effect, APP
proved the APPEALS course, and this
settles the question. Baxter holds the
reins, and if the best men be as true to
him as he would gladly be TO Arkansas,
they are impotent as wicked who pro-
pose to effect his overthrow. D.
Year: 1873

On the thirty-first instant, at the
regular meeting of the chamber Of COM
merce, the following resolution, offered
by Mr.. Bronson Bayliss, was carried
unanimously:


press that the President of the United states
has in contemplation a tour through the
southern States during the ensuing spring or
summer: therefore be II


Resolved That this chamber of commerce
hereby extends TO the President a cordial in
vitation to visit our city before returning to
the capital assuring him that our citizens will
give him a hearty welcome and warm hos
pitality.


BY subsequent motion the secretary
was instructed to send a copy of this
resolution to President Grant. This
Colonel Trousdale did in the following
gracefully written and pointedly perth
nenf letter.
Year: 1873

1t is not an unusual thing for apples to be
frozen aft after they are gathered, especially
when they are for time kept IN has.o an outonild


tbser, II In the cellar. But it is not generally
known THAT apples are not much injured
from being frozen, provided they are kept in
a dark place where they will thaw gradually.
Frozen apples lying in heaps in out-buildinss
should be deeply covered to confne the air
and perfectly exclude the light until the frost
is out of them; besides this, when IL can he
done the room may be darkened, or what
would be better, remove them to a dark eel
lar in which the temperature is six or more
degrees below freezing. We say SIX degrees,
because sound apples not yet matured will
Inaw out at a temperature less than this.
But wherever they are kept the frost should
not be extracted too suddenly nor must the
light be allowed to strike them while they
are thawing, because frozen apple IL thaw,
ed out In the dark will remain plump ana
Year: 1873

Should I sigh out my days in grief,


And, as my beads, count miseries;
by wound would meet with no relief
For all the balsam Of mine eyes:
I'll therefore set my heart at rest,
And of bad market make the best.
Year: 1873

Some men can never be satisfied. Now
there is Mr.. S. Noyes, of New Orleans, who
was garroted and robbed of a gold watch and
chain the other night. BE had the same thing
done to him year ago, and he is not happy
vet.
Year: 1873

A Connecticut woman lately alarmed her
husband by PRESENT. ,g him with one baby
on Monday and another on Wednesday. He
says he believes she would have gone on do
ing it every other day if he hadn't threatened
to get divorce.
Year: 1873

Of it condemned by tho voice Of tho
people.


Resoiued, That We condemn with
out reserve the act of Congress grant
ing additional salaries and back pay
grabs as unjust and unjustifiable, and
demand its immediate and uncondi.
tional repeal, and we denounce every
member of Congress, whether Repub.
lican or Democrat, who supported the
law or received the money procured
thereby, and we especially denounce
the conduct of President Grant in
using the influence of his high posi-
tion for its passage, and whose official
signature made il q law.


ReSoiued, That we will no longer
tamely submit TO the repetition Of the
election frauds, by which the will Of
tho people expressed at the ballot-box
has been subverted for some years
past, and that the Democratic State
Central Committee be directed to use
all their efforts to prevent repetition
OF these outrages on the francbises Of
the people, and If, in spite of their ef-
forts TO secure an honest election, tho
popular will is again fraudulently
overborne, to adopt such measures as
will result in the certain vindication
of the rights of the legal voters Of
the commonwealth.


ReSoiped, That the act of the Pres
idcnt in setting up, by the bayonct,
government in Louisiana not chosen
by her people, and having no title
whatever to rule over them, was o
fragrant violation of her rights under
the Federal Constitution.


Resoiued, That every department
of the government being in the hands
Of the Republican party, they are just
ly responsible for the evils and wrongs
in legislation and administration Of
which the country complains. tu


ReSoired, That under the time hon
ored Democratic banner, with this
declaration of principles inscribed on
its folds, We engage in the conflict,
and we earnestly appeal to patriotic
men of every class, without regard to
party names or past differences, to
unite with US, on terms of perfect
equality, in the struggle to rescue the
government from the hands of dishon-
est men and redeem it from the flood
of corruption which threatens its ruin
Year: 1873

The following dispatch indicates the
desperate character Of the means to be
resorted to by the opponents of Governor
Baxter, and looks as if Arkansas may
have to go through the mill again before
the Radicals have exhausted the scheme
Of reconstruction;


LITTLE Rock, May ia rumor is
prevalent on the streets tonight that an
attempt viii be made at midnight or
shortly after by the adherents of Lieu
teuaut-Governu V. Y. Smith to seize
upon the records of the officeOf Govern
or Baxter, taking advantage Of the alb
sence of General AIcCavany, private
secretary of Governor Baxter. There is
little 6iscernible excitement. Sehae
fifty citizens are now in the statehOuse,
and say they viii pass the night there.


Governor Baxter, it is well known,
was not the choice of the APPEAL, and
did not, until he proved himself worthy,
receive cur oountenance or Endorsement.
This he has won from US for the acts Of
moderation which have brought upon
him the enmity of the extreme Radi-
Gals. We hope his enemies, and the
enemies flaw and order, win be beaten
down. The good, safety, peace and
welfare of Arkansas depend upon his
undislurbed possession of the chair
which he has filed better than any other
man Of his party can. i
Year: 1873

A good-loOking young woman, who
called herself Mrs. Howe, was arrested
a few weeks ago in a Newark concert
saloon, where she had been employed
to play the piano. She was taken be-
fore the magistrate, with the other girls
of the place, but her appearance won
the officisps sympathies, and, ON ques-
tioning her, he learned that she was the
daughter of a wealthy and aristocratic
Irish family of Belfast, Ireland. She
had married a worthless bank cashier,
and had come to America with him,
but his dissipation and cruelty forced
her to leave him, and she had accepted
the position in the concert saloon as the
last resort. The judge immediately
wrote to her father, and last week he re-
ceived reply, coroborating her state
ments and inclosing funds for her trans
portation to the house of her brother in
Canada. The woman was naturally
very grateful for his kindness, and the
judge is probably quite as happy as he
would have been had he sent her to Jail.
Year: 1873

1t is claimed that General Crook has
made the crooked ways of the Apaches
Of Arizona straight. He did this by
furnishing protection to all those who
remained on their reservations and ad-
hered to their pacific promises; but he
went forn every solitary Apache who
wandered away into by and forbidden
territory, and smote him hip and thigh.
Ihereupon the Apaehes were compelled
70 sue for peace, and the Hon. Shuzler
Fan, who figured in the late ''big talk
with General Crook, agreed to keep his
braves on their own reserve, He further
more said that the "Great Spirit had
made the red men bad at heart, for
which the Great Spirit was very much
to blame; but he and his people were
willing to do as the general advised,
since be had the power, apparently, to
undo the evils which the Great Spilit
had forced upon them" On this basis
the peace was made, and the errors of
the Great Spirit had 10 be subjected to a
process OF correction.
Year: 1873

The Atlanta Herald is in receipt OF
information that the United States court
OF elaine has decided that the cotton
tax law, uI.deT which some eighty NIL
lions of dollars were collected, was I'M
constitutional. II appears that Mr..
Berg, instead 0f petitioning congress to
refund the tax paid 10y him, brought suit
in the court Of claims FOR its recovery,
employing eminent counsel, among
whom was the present ordinary Of Chat
ham county. This gentleman a few
days ago received q private letter which
apnoInced that the court was against
the coustitutionality Of the law, but its
decision has not yet, we believe, been
officially promulgated. To very large
number of our readers this intelligence
viii be most gratifying, as it will enable
tbem to recover the money illegally
wrung frOna them at time when they
were most in need Of freedom from tax
alton.
Year: 1873

The inquest on the body Of Earl Della
war; cleared up mystery at first sur
rounding his suicide, and, as usual,
there was a waman at the bottom of IT.
lie was unmarried, but for some years a
Miss Annie Netheroote has been living
in one OF the fashionable streets in the
West End of London "under his pro-
tectiOn.H This lady, who was very
many years the Earls junior (he was
i'm his fifty-eight year, died lately OF
irritation of the stomach, brought on
nj first and greatly increased afterward
bv the habitul use of stimulants. The
Earl was greatly affected by her death,
and insisted that he had been the cause
Of it, although the physician in attend
ance assured him that this was not SO.
He also feared that she had not been
properly attended 10 during her illness
bv The people Of the house. After her
death lie seemed unable to sleep, was
distraught in his mind, gave contrary
orders, and was evidently suffering
great mental distress.
Year: 1873

1t is to be hoped that the manage.
ment of the Seattle and Walla Walla
Railroad Company will from the very
start adopt the rule of employing only
American or European labor in the con-
structlon of the road.


One of advantages of this system will
be that the enterprise will be rendered
more popular receive more of the con-
fidence and favor of the people. An
other will be that the community at large
will share in the benefits of the enter
prise from the start. The mohey will
get into circulation and will be kept
in circulation at home, and not be
boarded away and finally shipped off to
Hong Kong. In this way it may hap
pen that the same money can be used
over and over again in the prosecution
of the work.


Still another will be that employment
will be furnished to American citizens
who will become permanent settlers
with us and who by their expenditures
and continued industry will help furnish
the means of support to others and thu Z.
tie ball will be kept rolling man.
ifest destiny is achieved.


r. IT
Year: 1873

SUCH SEA PORT. A stranger once
visiting Tacoma, asked Gen. McCarver
if there was good anchorage in front
of his town plat. Plenty of it. said
the General; not less than a hundred
fathoms of water in any part of the Bay.
The Generals estimate of anchorage
was illustrated week ago last Sunday.
when foreign vessel was towei into
port and let go her anchor few rods
from shore. Seventy fathoms Of cable
was run out without striking bottom,
when it parted and the anchor may be
going down yet for ought that is known
Of bottom at that place.
Year: 1873

Our prices will be lower this season than ever
and the buyer will have the satisfaction to exam
inc full line of new and staple goods Of our oW1
importation.


Adams & Bro. SOC Market street.
Year: 1873

A meeting OF the special committee OF the
Common Council appointed to make an inVestl-
CATION into the garbage question was held yes
terday afternoon. There were present the
Mayor, Aids. Cu1lerton, Corcnran, Mcdenniss,
and Heath. Tho COMMITTEES Lad drawn up the
following report:


Tint they have carefully Investigated the subject
matter to which the communication REFERS and have
visited greater part Of the West Division to obtain
from personal inspection the true condition Of that
part Of tho city In respect to the removal Of gar
b & BY The str e9 'e a
to filth and deposits OF gnrbage, nre worse
than ever before known In the history Of the wurd
Such an accumulation Of disgusting 9TH was never
before seen In the streets Of any city Scarcely block
be found IN the ward In front Of which ecorea Of
carloads Of garbage ashes, straw rags, and filth Of


ed up With manure and garbage that, when tho frost
out OF the ground they will be wholly i01passa
be We found the st1ccta and alleys in othor wards al
most az had as in the Eighth and the condition Of the
streets and alleys III the West Division because Of tho de-
posits OF garbage MANURE filth etc. nce simply disgrace
{ul to any civilized community. That the contractor
for the seavenger work has not fulfilled his contract
in fact that he has not made oven decent pzetense Of
so doingls notorious fact, and vol known to tho
people Of all the districts from which, by his contract
be agreed to remove the garbags. The Board Of
Health has been remtss in its duty In not having for
feited the contract last summer and ia not having
found who would have removed the garbage.
Your Committee can find no excuse for the Board for
negecttng Its duty. Your Committee would recon-
mend, IN oruer TO prevent great injury 70
public health, that the Finance Committee be
Instructed to confer with the Board Of HEALTH and in
the event that this Board cannot cause the 1eo7al Of
the filth and garbage from the streets and alleys under
the present contract that said committee may report
such measures It may deem necessary to meet the
emergency


Dr.. Reed read report OF the contractors de-
unquencics, already Published, and very, yolu~
minous.


AID Heath inquired Of DR.. Reed whether the
ashes were included in tho scaveDger's contract.


The Doctor said that lie understood that they
wore.


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