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Year: 1872




The Eat Contributor" writes to the
Cincinnati Times:


Let me relate an incident of travel
that occurred when / was frisky
young man with fondness for young
ladies' society. Understand me, l have
no distaste for young ladies society
now, but they don't seem to banker sn
much for mine as they did, say TWEEN
tv years ago. This is natural enough
| don't blame them-ouly they don't
know wh they are missing.


A friend aud mysel.s got on board
an express train one afternoon to make
a short trip. The ear we entered was
full. Only one vacant seat in fact.
and that was alongside Il very charm.
ing young lady. Friend aud | en-, b
made a dash for that very desirable
vacant seat 1t isn't fair thing to
do, as a general thing, to trip Il friend
but it was allowable under the circum
stances, and | gave him just the slight
est trip in the world, just enough to
enable me to get the start. Ny friend
took a seat on the wood box, and look
ed very disconsolate. | think | added
to his discontinue by certain trium-
phant winks, mods, and motions in
which | INDUCED. The young lady
was attractive, some casual renark,
dropped on one side or the other
young folks will drop remark occa
sionally, and are more ready to pick
it up again than old oncs-a tiorded an
opportunity to glide easily and pleas
antly into conversation.


She was witty and sprightly, and l
grew unusually brilliant; that is, to
the best of my recollection at this
somewhat remote day. My friend oh.
serving this, looked madder than ever.
At length we reached Station where
the train stopped II moment. My friend
abdicated the wood box and rushed
out on the platform. Suddenly be re.
turned, and coming quickly to me,
seized me by the collar and said in Il
tone heard all through the car:


Quick now; get right off here.
You can get job here just as well as
not. lnty tell ME there Is only one
shoemaker in the place, and lots of
work. So take your kit and get off
before the train starts. No use of
looking any further for work. Tramp
ing all around the country for a job Of
shoemaking won't pay. Take work
where you find it. That's my motto"


He almost forced me out of the seat
with his vehemance, and if | hadn't
made vigorous resistance he would
have had me out on the platform. The
young lady gave me one look of su'
preme disgust-a tramping jour. shoe,
maker then directed her gaze out of
the window, and kept it there for the
remainder Of the journey. Ny friend
remounted the wood box, and INDUCED
in such series of fiendIsh grins and
malignant chuckles as would have
justified me i'll hurting him from the
car, only | was too stupefed by the
proceeding to proceed against him.
When left the car the young lady
looked to see if ! hadn't forgotten my
"kit," and | am satisfied she thought |
had got off TO "kick for a job" as
they say in shoemaker parlance.
Year: 1872

The atom of charcoal which fioated
in the corrupt atmosphere OF the old
volcanic ages was absorbed into the
leaf of fern when the valleys be-
came green and luxurisnt and there,
in its proper place, it received the
sunlight and the dew, aiding to fling
back to heaven a reflection of heav-
ems gold, and at the same time to
build the tough fiber of the plant
The atom was consigned to the tomb
when the waters submerged the
jungled valley. 1t had lain three
thousands Of years, and month since
was brought into the light again, i'm
bedded in block of coal. 1t shall
be consumed to warm our dwellings,,
cook our food, and make more ruddy
and cheerful the hearth whereon our
children play; it shall combine with
portion of the invisible atmosphere,
ascend upward as curling wreath,
to revel in the may dance high up
in the blue ether, shall reach the
earth again, and be entrapped into
the embrace of q flower; shall live
in velvet beauty on the cheek of the
apricot shall pass into the human
body, giving enjoyment to the palate
the health to the blood /; shall circu-
late in the delicate tissues ofthe brain,
and aid, by entering into some new
combination, in reducing The thoughts
which are now being uttered by the
pen. 1t is but an atom of charcoal !;
it may dwell one moment in stag
nant ditch, and the next be flushing
on the lip of beauty; it may be a
component of a limestone rock, and
the next an ingredient in 8 field of
potatoes; it may slumber for q thous-
and years without undergoing single
change, and the next hour pass
through thousand, and after all it
is only an atom of charcoal, and oc-
cupies only its own place, wherever
it may be.-Hi65ard s 's-Bram6ls and
Bay Leaves.'
Year: 1872

Two dolorous residents of town
near Kansas City agreed to take a
short cut to heaven by committing
suicide. In order to compare sensa-
tons they decided to bid farewell to
life in different ways, and chose as
appropriate helps to holy dying the
razor and revolver. The razor man
carried out his part of the compact
promptly, cutting his throat from ear
to ear the next morning. His friend
anxious not to disturb the quiet of
the town, started for the nearest for
est. The way was long, and his Bob
Acreish courage oozed out with such
rapidity that he was forced to stimu-
late himself for his task by drinking
long and deep. A paper found in the
suicides room told the story of the
agreement, and anxious friends.
searching for the corps of the other
party, found him a very lively corpse
indeed, indulging in maudlin sobs
and professions of penitence, and
declaring his earnest intention to live
three score years and ten, and as
much longer as he could. He has
since been arrested. In q similar
case, year ago, Partisan jury con-
demned a man to long Imprisonment
as an accessory to his friends self.
murder. II Missouri jury declines
TO convict the recreant OF such crime
he should be st least punished for
breach of contract.
Year: 1872

Tue child often has a strong desire
for sweet foods and sweetmeats. This
shows want of carbon in the system
that he is needing a large amount
of it. When the child so earnestly
pleads for candy-his idea of the su.
gar he so much c1ye.s-feed it to him;
only being careful of the quality and
the quantity he shall use at any time.
Th re is an instructive feeling about
these wants, and if they are not graft
fed in some form the child does not
fill that want Of its body, and this
vacancy will in after life tell against
his health in some way


Many are the cries against eating
candies and sugar, as making the
child bilious and black, or that it rots
the teeth; but the want of it makes
more puny children than the use of it
in any form everinjured; the want of
it rots more teeth than were ever hurt
by its use. Then let US feed them on
the rational principles ofa demanding
appetite.
Year: 1872

In the Ukraine, the women are
said to court more generally than the
men. Says q writer who describes
their manners: "When q young
woman falls in love with q man, she
is not in the least ashamed to 60 to
his fathers house, and reveal her
passion in the most tender and pat
thetic manner, and to pronounce the
most submissive obedience; if he vii
accept of her as a wife. Should the
insensible man pretend any excuse
she tells him she is resolved never Il
90 out of the house till he gives hi
consent, and accordingly takes u
her lodgings and remains there; j
he still obstinately refuses, his cas-
becomes exceedingly distressing
the church is commonly on her side
and to turn her out would provoke be
kindred to revenge her honor; 8
that he has no method left but to b,
take himself to flight till she is othe
wise disposed OFFS
Year: 1872

TO JOSEPH f. JOHNSTON.
From dawn to dark, they stood ~
That long Midsummer's day!
While fierce and fast the battle blast
Swept rank on rank away.
From dawn to dark they fought
With legious swept and cleft,
And still the wide, black battletide
Poured deadlier on our Left,
They closed each ghastly gap!-
They dressed each shattered rank -
They knew how well--that Freedom fell
With that exhausted flank -
"0h! for thousand men.


Like those who melt away"
And down they came, with steel and flame
Four thousand to the fray
They leapt the laggard train
The painting stream might stay,
And down they came, with steel and flame
Four thousand for the fray!
Right through the blackest cloud
Their lightning path they cleft,
And triumph came with deathless fame
To our unconquerod Left
Ye, of your sons secure!


Ye, of your dead bereft!
Honor the Brave . who died to save
Your all, upon our LEFT!
Year: 1872

Science has ever elected from the
scholars of the world many dcvOtee.
Men Of much learning and wealth,
have devoted their time and talent, in
exploring the hidden labyrinths of ma
ture, andybearing forth some hitherto
unknown truth, as new trophy for
the cause of science.


1t was this burning thirst for more
scientific knowledge, that Induced Sir
John Franklin to sever himself from
country and home, to explore the
most Northern region of the Artic
Ocean. Itwas his desire to give to
the world better description, and
more knowledge of those hidden re-
gions of ice and snow, where, cimc-
rian darkness shades the deep around"
and the king of winter sits enthrOned.
When this great man announced his
determination, to make this eXplOra-
ton, the world looked on in admira-
tion' and were anxious to see him
come off victorious.


He sailed from England on May
18th. 1915, in command of the Ercbus
and Terror. little thinking he was ia
King the last farewell of his native
land. For two years those who were
so lllUCn tOi Ills lNAo ool1dl
welfare, and for the triumph of sc.ence
in that obscure portion of the world,
waited in anxious fear. When this
long space had elapsed without any in
formation from him, many ceased to
hope for his safely. 1t was ut this
time, that the world was called upon
to show its philanthrophy; to prove
who were the heroes and who were
worthy of a world wide fame. 1twas
at this time too, that a few, acquitted
themselves in such a manner, as to be
worthy of the admiration of every ma
tion and people; then it was that they
won an undying fame, never to be
dimmed out by the corroding finger of
time. When Franklin had been over
come by hardships, and had failed to
ACCOMPLISH the end, for which he so
aobly died, what was lac tothe world?
Why not shed a tear TO his memory,
and number him with the unfortunate
of earth?. While many took this view
OF him, few with godlike souls, en-
listed TO risk their lives for his rescue.
France first in the,eause, sent Bellot
to aid him. Bellot, though an officer,
and sent by the commander of France,
deserves much honor. While we
cherish in our hearts the memory of
all who enlisted in this great and no
ble work, we arc compelled 10 admire
Year: 1872




Col. a. Fuklerson, our able active
and vigilant delegate to TIE Va. leg
idature returned to his home in this
town on Sunday last, Our citizens
are glad to see him in better health
than they had anticipated. Whatev-
er may be the popular verdict con-
ccrning the course. OF the recently
general assembly Of Va, there can
be no doubt that Col. Fulkerson has
been one Of its most valuable and
able members, and one of the most
efficient delegates who have during
the past represented Washington
county. Carefully avoiding the un>
necessary consumption of time which
should have been devoted to work,
lie seldom made speeches, and never
spoke save right squarely to the point
and upon subjects of critical impor-
tancc. Never absenting himself un-
necessarily, always posted upon the
business of the house, ever prepared
in advance for the deeply laid
schemes of lobbyists, he may be said
TO have been always on the alert, al
ways armed for the contest, and to
Lave slept with his armor on.


The amount Of noiscless labor
which he underwent will never be
fully known. Many a secret thrust
from him and others was efiectual for
the death of that horned monster in
velvet, the Free Railroad law. That
measure was quietly crushed in its
futal state. lie fought down to the
last day many of the most odious
features of the tax law During the
entire contest against that bloated
and purse proud evil, the Funding
Bill. he stood defantly at the front
and refused to yield an inch Of prin-
ciple. He was the enemy Of monop-
oily, the foe Of monied oppression,
friend Of the great mass who do the
the work for Virginia-thOse who hew
her timber and draw the water which
turns and keeps in steady motion the
wheels of her progress. 1t is but
Just that we should say these things
for our delegate, for he has occupied
a position which is generally more
fruitful of unwelcome notoriety than
Of solid fame. 1t is too often the
case that members Of the Legislature
c pnvcrt to their own personal pleas
ure, the time for which they are paid
az servants of the people. The oyS>
ter saloon, the convial champagne
party. the faro bank and the tempta-
tions of the loby are more
than many of them have been known
TO withstand, and a public servant
who proves himself above and supc-
rior to these evils of :hc age is wor-
thy Of promotion.
Year: 1872

We learn that Gen. Malone has de-
termined to put his own local Express
on between Bristol and Norfolk in the
place of the Adams or so-called South
ern Express. He also hopes 10 get the
general express business from them in
a short time. We understand the Adj
ans company is talking of not meet
ing this new line of express at Lynch
burg over the Orange and Alexandria
road. Our Depot Agent thinks the
charges on packages will be somewhat
reduced, but those on money will be
the same HytheriHe Enterprise.
Year: 1872

Thousands believe that Morgan was
not killed for exposing the secrets of
Masonry others believe that he did
not expose its secrets and thousands
believe that he was killed. The whole
proceeding was shrouded in mystery.
lie, it is said, was confined in n Canan-
daigua Jail for stealing a shirt, and sub
seqGenuy taken out and put in a
sleigh, and by relays was hurried to-
wards Canada. The BODY OF a man
MAS found in n lake He had his
throat cut. Mrs Morgan was sent for.
She hunted for private mark, on the
body by which she could distinguish
him. She did not find the mark, and
declared il was not the body of her
husband. Mr.. II. was a lawyer, and
engaged in the abduction r Morgan
Year: 1872

"E HAVE JUST RECEIVED FROM THE


w finest Shoe market in the Union
large and thoroughly assorted srocK of BOOTS
& SHOES of every grade and variety, also
complete stock of LEATHER and FINDINGS, and
now offer themfor Sale at rates heretofors unknown
in this country, We offer to supply the retail
trade Of this region, and TO wholesale to the trade
rates which cannot be liable to successful coTa


petition anywhere. Our house Is intended to date
the founding of new business in Bristol and to
supply demand which cannot longer be ignored,
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, April 2O
Special dispatches declare the Cabinet to be .
unit on maintaining the position on indirect dam.
ages. deeming the necessity of a decision on the
question more important than any money it might
yield. to effect which the government would be
willing to give England in advance An assurance
that no money would be demanded in case the de-
cision was ADVERSE to England.
Year: 1872

The latest Western discovery is a mine Of
scented soap. According to the Pueblo Chitttain
Of Colorado, a prominent citizen Of that place
noticed in the han ks Of stream called the Foun-
tain what appeared TO be stone of peculiar for
nation. He broke off piece, and taking it TO
the creek plunged it into the water for sscer
tanning the consistency and grain. Upon taking
il out OF his hands, what was his surprise TO see
a lather formed, and with vigorous rubbing
the stone proved to have saponaceons qualities,
in fact Possessed all the cleansing virtues OF the
most excellent soap. The stone is said to he Of
a dun color, about the hardness Of chalk, an
forms very perfect iather, while it ettec,ualV
removes all stains and grsase sRots from cloth
ing. After washing II leaves the skin as smooth
90 that Of . newborn babe, while the odor il
quite pleasant. What gOdsend a mine Of soar
must be to the settlers Vi the plains scent
ed soap at that.
Year: 1872

Thou shalt have no other man but me.

 Thou shalt not have daguerreotype or any other likeness of any man but thy husband.

 Thou shall not .keep 1t in secret nor worship it for thy husband am Q jealous husband.

 Thou shalt not speak thy husbands s name with levity.

 Remember thy husbands command ments to keep them sacred.

 Honor thy husband and obey him that thou mayest be long in the house he has given thee.

 Thou shalt not find fault when thy husband chews and smokes.

 Thou shalt not scold.

 Thou shalt not permit thy husband to wear 8 buttonless shirt-but shall keep his clothes in good repair.

 Thou shalt not continually gad about neglecting thy husband and family.

 Thou shalt not strive to live in the style of thy neighbor unless thy husband is able to support it.

 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's fine house nor his fine furniture, nor his wife's thousand dollar shawl, nor her fifty dollar handkerchief, nor anything that is thy neighbours.

 Thou shalt not go to Women's Rights meetings, neither to speak thyself or hear others speak.

 Thou shalt not scold if thy husband stay out till after ten o'clock at night.

 Thou shalt not sum up large bills at the stores which thy husband is unable to foot for verify he knoweth his means.
Year: 1872

There is old superstition that praise is too>good thing to be given to children, that it is too rich for their mental and moral digestion. Some parents are so afraid that child will grow proud, that they never praise him, and this course is often disastrous. It is apt to produce too much self-assertion for self-asser- tion is legitimate outgrowth of the withholding of commendation to which one is entitled-or to engender self distrust or melancholy hopelessness of disposition.

 Praise is sunshine to child, and there is no child that does not need it. It is the hign reward of ones struggle to do right. Thomas Hughes says you can never get mans best out of him with out praise. Many a sensitive child, we believe, dies of hunger for kind com mendation. Many child starving for the praise that parents should give, runs off eagerly after the designing fattery of others.

 To withhold praise where it is due, is dishonest, and in the case of child such course often leaves stinging sense of injustice. Motives of common justice, as we'll as regard for the fu- ture of the child, should influence the parent to give generous praise for all that deserves it. Of course there is a difference in the constitution of chil- dren. Some cannot bear so much praise as others, and some need great deal. It should never be indiscriminate. We remember a wonderful woman who taught school in one village until she had educated a part of three genera tions. She was one of the most success ful of teachers. But her success lay in her gift of praising with discrimination. A bad boy who was a good scholar got praises of his brilliancy sandwiched in between her admonitions for his bad behavior, and so was won to better life, and we recall a good girl who had no gift of learning rapidly, but who was saved from utter despair hy the praise she got for her untiring industry. Into the discouraged hearts of the chill dren the praises of the teacher came like sunlight. And the virtues, like oth, CT good fruits, can only ripen in the sunshine.-Hedrtb and Home.
Year: 1872

A strike by the above workmen stops a supply of $679,OOO per week, or about two millions every three weeks, now being paid to their families. A strike for two months would waste a larger sum of money than the whole worlds charity to Chicago on the occasion of her great ca lamity, a charity so munifcient that even the donors were astonished at the grand aggregate of their own liberality. It would mean for each workingman the waste of more money than he could save by his labor for year.

 But this is not the whole of the &C., count. These thirty thousand working men are nearly all tenants, very few of them owning houses of their own. If they board, their rent is part of their weekly charge. With their families, av- eraging three to each workingman, they number one hundred thousand people to be provided with shelter-a number near ly as great as was burned out of homes by the great con6agration. Not much less than one-third of the population of the city are connected by some tie of dependence with this mechanic and build ing class. They have the most direct in terest as tenants in reducing rents, and this can only be done by the rapid re building of the city. If general strike should delay the rebuilding of Chicago, for every day the work is so delayed the workmen engaged in it will find an extra dollar per month added to their rent next winter.
Year: 1872

An English correspondent, in refer ring to the laborers' revolt in the coun try, gives the following among other in stances of the condition of the Agricul- tural iaborers there:

 "A short tune ago 8 letter came to me from Buckinghampshire, asking if something could not be done to draw at tention to the condition of the farm-boys in that county. A poor boy named Geo. Knibbs, the letter said, was found dead on the roadside on 8 cold, biting morn ing in March, 1870. He was only nine years old, and had been at work three years fer farmer at Beckhampstead. The only witness was fellow laborer, a little boy eleven years old, They were day to drive in heifers to the town of Winslow, 8 journey of seven or eight miles. The youngest child wanted to take some food with him, as it was sup posed he had had no breakfast, but the farmer told them they need take no food as they would be home by eleven o'clock. A journey of sixteen miles, and to drive six heifers half the distance, was too much for the poor things. Rain and sleet fell on the journey. They deliv- cred the cattle at public house in Win slow, where they were directed. They got half pint of beer with three pen ny-worth of brandy in it to warm them, which they drank between them. They did not venture to ask for food, and none was given. They trudged a mile or two on their way back, when the youngest said he would go to his Aunt Emmas, and the eleven-year-ol boy went on and got home cold and wet The poor lad Knibbs fell on his face, and was found some hours afterward, when he had been long dead. The poor father wandered about at night till twelve o'clock, looking for his boy, and sat up for him till two o'clock in the morn ing. Next day he found out where the body of his son had been taken. The letter I received informed me that the farmer who employed the poor man stop ped out of his wages the tune employed in looking for his dead child. This is only fair illustration of the condition of penury and dependence in which the greater portion of the Buckinghamp- shire laborers really are. The Telegraph has begun to examine into the condition of the Scotch agricultural laborer. The Scotch field is fruitful one. Farming is carried out more scientifically there, as rule, than in England, but the con- dition of the patient laborer equally needs revising there. The conservative Globe reports that the wages of agricul- tural laborers are about to be raised all over the country. Public opinion is ac- celerating the force of agitation.