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Year: 1870

From the New York Herald.l
Old Mother Slipper Stopper Jump'd ont OF


bed


And out Of the window she popp'd her


head


Crying "The. house Is on arel the gray


goose 1s dead


And the fox he has come 20 thet town ohI"
And this is a fair summing up of abe
late Fenian invasion Of the New Dom
inion. "Old Mother Slipper Stopper"
is Canada, and the fox Is the Fenian
army but the wide awake old woman
was too much for him and she cooked
his goose in short order. Never was
there a military campaign with such
funny beginning as the capture Of "Nlr
O'Neill, or with a more ridiculous end
ing than the retirement Of the Disguised
General Gleason from the enemy's ter
ritory when he found that the impudeni
"Kanucks' were shooting bullets,
Year: 1870

w Z have had eur Banner on the
outer wall. with PRICES 50 Low that
no firm IN the State Of Ohio undertook to
meet us. We have driven our foe to the
wall, and occupy the field without fear.


We have silenced all men who years ago
assumed some powerof competition. They
are now willing to confess eonhdentiaIly
that there is no use trying to meet or beat
US in prices, because we are game on a
Clothing "set-to.' Their only hope is in the
ignorance OF their customers, who VIII not
look around to see the difference in our
prices and theirs. which amounts to at least
Year: 1870

Tic following Is d statement Of the cash receipts
and expenditures Of the Board OF Public Works for
tile fiscal year ending March 81, 1870 as furnished
BY the courtesy Of Nj. E n. johnson, book keeper
and pavmastey Of the kp6fds
Year: 1870

Fate has a great deal to do with us. not
withstanding we may sometimes defy it and
turn our backs to it. We all know it is our
fate to die, and how silly it would be to at
tempt to evade death when the call is made
for us to go hence. If it is our fate to be
poor, it is but right that we should not COM
plain so long as we are blessed with health
and the strength to labor; and if it is our
fate to be rich, why VIC should endeavor to
do good with our riches.


1t has often been the fate of persons TO
draw prizes in the Louisiana State Lottery,
and. by doing SO, become suddenly wealthy;
and it is the fate Of others to do so. That is
fate that most of persons would not know
ingly avoid, and yet great many, probably,
do avoid it by neglecting to purchase tickets.
Tho tenth of this month the next single
number drawing takes place, when the prize
Of Fifty thousand dollars will be drawn for,
together with four hundred and thirty-nine
other prizes, any one of, which would carry
"a merrily through the holidays, and some
one Of the larger ones would make any rea-
eonable man independent for life.
Year: 1870

The members Of this club will meet at
their club house, 81 Royal street, this Satur-
day evening, at seven o'clock, for the pur-
pose of etfecting permanent organization.
Governor Warmoth, who is now absent,
being the temporary president of the organ
'zation, is spoken of as the most proper man
for permanent president. There will also
be elected vice president and secretary
who, with the executive committee, will
constitute the board of government for the
ensuing year. The business meeting this
evening will not take up much time, and
after adjournment, the members and their
guests will be entertained around the table
which is always blessed with the good
things afforded by our New Orleans mar
G-nf
Year: 1870

The Figaro relates hefollowins ro mantle
story: 1.-The Prince of Schleswig Holstein,
on his return from scientific voyage,
which had lasted for several years, found
his library in state of disorder. He asked
his steward to recommend some one who
could arrange it. and the latter replied that
the only person he was acquainted with was
young lady who acted as companion TO his
wife. This young person. Mile. Carmelita
Essemblart, is the daughter of merchant
at Calcutta, who was formerly in wealty cir.
cumstances, but on his meeting with re-


verse of fortune the children were obliged
to earn their own living, and the young lady
in question had even appeared on the stage.
She accepted the proposals made to her. and
on her entering upon her duties the prince
found her so well educated and 80 intelligent
that he was quite charmed, and at last made
her an offer of marriage. The union is to
take place in a few days. and the bride.
groom has applied to the King Of Prussia
for permission to lay aside his princely rank
and assume the title of Count de Boer, so
the marriage will not be a morganatic one.
Year: 1870

EATING WITH FoRKs-Mr. W. Peters, of
Ossego county, New York, wishes to know
why it is not considered polite to eat with
knife" He says he has mingled with all
classes in New York city and elsewhere, and
has noticed that the male persuasion who
eat with forks only, generally carrya gold.
headed cane, part their hair in the middle,
and spend the money their fathers have
earned; the gentler sex who never put their
knives in their mouths usually sport long
trail read novels, fl rt with brainless fops
and think it degrading to know how to cook
steak or make loaf Of bread Notwith-
standing all this, it is a fact taat, in proper
tion as our civilization advances, four tined
silver or plated silver fork are found for sale
in hardware and house furnishing stores all
over the country. There are two reasons
for this. A knife sharp enough to divide
meat On the plate is an unsafe, not to say
dangerous. instrument to put in the mouth.
It is also in the nature Of shovel; while
the fork permits only slow aud select feed
ing, which is q sure mark CT refinement in
man or brute.
Year: 1870

The correspondent of New York paper,
who is travelling through the South, speaks
thus of the chief city of Georgia: ut is
much to say OF Southern city that it is up
to the level of before the war, and Savan-
nah is even above it, having somehow
charmed away much of the trade that used
to centre at Charleston. and showing none
of the desolation and decay which marks
that city. The negroes share in the general
prosperity, fewer of them being seen in the
streets lounging or engaged in petty trades
which can hardly PROD uce enough OF profit
to keep soul and body together. and more
being steadily at work for hire. There are
no unoccupied buildings, and many new
structures have already been put up to ac-
commodate a growth of population and
business. The wharves are lined with ves-
sells, even though Charleston commands
most OF the Northern invalid and pleasure
travel, which, at this season OF the year, is
considerable. There is a general air of
hopefulness and activity among the people
in marked contrast with the sister city Of
South Carolina; and this in spite of the
presence of the troops who have their
quarters in the heart of the city, and are an
ever visible proof that the national govern
ment has not yet loosed its grasp on
Georgia.
Year: 1870

A New York clergyman entertained his
congregation by relating the following about
young lady Of his acquaintance: This
young lady was angry with her husband; so
angry that it made her sick. The doctor
was called IN. Conceive the scene; the
lady raving with irrepressible fury; DR..
Sangrado welding his lancet and affirming
by the shade Of Hippocrates that she must
be bled. She was. and thereupon, her
reverend biographer states, ''her blood was
found to be full of froth and foam, so much
so that it ovelfiowed the bowl that was held
to catch it, snd also milk pam" The
specific cause of the phenomenon is not
open to question. 1t was all the result Of
her ungovernable rage.
Year: 1870

amount In the meantime We hope to go
on with the work of extension toward
Kosciusco, which we expect to reach in
less than twelve months. l have said to
Governor Alcorn, and he may propose it in
due time to the Legislature, that If he will
secure me a moderate amount of State aid
will have it completed to KosciuscO in less
than twelve months.


have received this from friend (read-
ing slip of paper). in which am asked
what kind of cars / propose to furnish the
colored man with-I answer the same kind
as l ride on myself. Loud plaudits.
Year: 1870

Between three and four hundred sacks of
mail, direct from the postoffice at London,
bound to the South Sea Islands were re-
ceived at Omaha lately. This is the first
shipment of the kind ever passed overland.
The English actually sending their South
Sea mail by way Of the Pacific Railroad
Really, our little earth is beginning to seem
too small for such mighty minds as are we of
the latter day. We want more worlds to
conquer We will have to annex one.
How fortunate it would be for us if another
good-sized planet would come gently up to
US, as one rail-car Is let up against another
by carefully using the brakes. But can it
be possible that London mail matter for
Australia can reach its destination sooner
by way OF San Francisco? And has it come
to be an open question with travellers to
that region whether they will go all the way
by water around the Cape OF Good Hope. or
take a jeunt across America and the two
oceans II so, we certainly have got about
to the end of our rope in the matter of Won
ders of travelling.
Year: 1870

telegram from Poughkeepsie announces the
death of Hon. Gilbert Dean at his residence in that
city, at fifteen minutes past two O'Clock yesterday
morning. The deceased was a native OF this State
having been born In Pleasant Valley, Duchess
county, during the early part OF the present century
He entered the Amenia Seminary In May, 1897,
and from thence went to Yale College In September
OF the same year, ald graduated in 1871 with such
men as Professor Emerson, Frank r. Blair General
WadswOrth and r. Storrs Willis. He took the first
prize In mathematics and In composition, and was


rs Presdentot the Linonian Society, beating Donald
g. Mitchell for the position On leaving college Mr..
Dean went 10 Pine Plains, where he studied law,
and on being admitted to the bar IN 1874 moved 10
Poughkeepsle, where he began the practice Of his
profession. and In which he speedily rose to emf.
But few lawyers outside Of this city have done
q larger legal business IN New York than he did. In
by the democracy and was elected by u good
majority. On the expiration OF his term he was
again nominated and reelected @ by n an increased
accept the ONCE OF Judge OF the Supreme Court OF
New York. AS member OF Congress Judge Dean
conspicuous for the able speeches he delivered
aud for the measures he introduced. He
member OF the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and
as such presented the famous resolutions, which
were passed. thanking Captain lngraham for the
Hungarian. In 1856 he LEFT the bench of the
Supreme Court and came to New York, practising
his profession here ior some time. lie was one of
the counsel for the municipal authorities In the case
OF the city Of New York against the Metropolitan
Police lie was also engaged In the trial OF the
SLAYER Gordon, VINO was executed in this city, ana
also took part in The trial OF Police superintendent
Kennedy From the outbreak OF the rebellion Mr.
Dean declared In favor of its suppression and
throughout the conflict was known as a war demo-
crat. AT the same time he vigorously opposed the
suspension of the writ OF habeas corpus in the loyal
States. In 1858 Mr.. Dean was elected member OF
the state Assembly from the Twenty.nrst ward, and
served his term with credit. Since then he had held
no Office but IN the calm OF civil life spent the re-
naindcr OF Ills days.
Year: 1870

The appointment OF Colonel Hatch as member
of the board to examine officers under the new
army law has been revoked, as he would not be
able to reach Washington from his station In Texas
in time for the meeting OF the Board, ana Colonel
Thomas II. Ruger, OF the Eighteenth infantry has
bean apu0ptad In his place.
Year: 1870

1t may relieve the pious minds of those who
fancy that Chinese immigration will make
idoaters of us all, to learn that the Chimes
shoemakcrs at North Adams all go regularly
to church on the Lord Day, and that the lea
der of the company is Jealous Methodist
On the whole, it seems that we are quite ns
likely to make Christians of them as they are
to turn us into heathens. In the North Ad
ans meeting house, it being Communion Sun
day, the elements were offered to these stran-
gers-an act of liberality to be commended
but were respectfully declined. Fortunately no
Bishop of the English Convocation was pres
ent to faint with horror at the sacrilege. The
Chinese are what my be styled an cminenty
convertible people with dominant faith
be their fault if they are mobbea out OF All
respect for our religion, ~ T. Tribune.
Year: 1870

THE CATTLE TRADE-1he trade in
beef cattle with the Rocky Mountains ap-
pears to be fixed fact The Texan drov-
ers take them into Colorado and other Ter
ritories near the line of rail, and thence,
when they are fat, ship them either east or
west, as the market suits The supply will
have tendency to keep prices from rising
much above the present rates. A train or
two, laden with these cattle, comes over
the road every week, and continues on to
San Francisco
Year: 1870

THE most easily digested articles of food
as yet known are sweet apples baked cold
raw cabbage sliced in vinegar, aud boiled
rice; the most indigestible are saet, boiled
cabbage and pork; the former require one
hour, the latter FIVE.
Year: 1870

THE Waukegan Gazette Is out
against the plan which n number Of
our Western weekly papers have
within a year or two adopted, Of hav-
ing the inside pages of their papers
printed by contract elsewhere than
In the towns Of publication. The
Gazette Is right. We sometimes re-
ceive at this Office a score or more of
weekly exchanges, the insides of
which are ''as much alike as two
pins" being printed from the same
forms at some one office I'm Milwau-
kee, Chicago or elsewhere. This
may be a cheap way of Publishing
paper, but it does not speak well for
the ability or enterprise of the pub
Usher. Chicago Journal.


AS we don't run foreign "bowels,n
we may presume TO speak our mind
ON this question with freeness. We
have no doubt but that the Journal
and other papers Of metropolitan
proportions, would be glad to see
some country papers that are 10
column" now, cut down to 8 or 9
column sheets. Now these same
papers that have the misfortune of
being published outside of Chicago,
give their readers reading resume
of general Lews, almost equal to one
of the SO called mammoth sheets
of the Garden City, together with
local news of special importance, and
In this way furnish newspaper, and
at the same time county or local
organ. But these papers, In order to
do this thing, are obliged to get one
side struck where IL can be done
cheaply, therefore the journal and
some of Its echoes, set up the bowl
''lack of ability" or "enterpise,n or
some other equally absurd. Let tho
Waukegan Gazette and Chicago
Journal do as much towards develop
ing the Western" country as some
of these local sheets with their en-
bowellings from afar, and come as
honestly by their patronage as these
''westerE papers" do, aud instead of
getting pay t,Dice for the same mat
ter, get II but once land sometimes
not that). and they will see the time
that they will appreciate the "Inside
pages of papers priated by contract
elsew here" more than they do now.
1t is these pioLeers that give such
wide circulation to these same sheets
that are continually crying against
patent bowels"
Year: 1870

RUFUS CHoAT was the worst PEN
man ever connected with the Boston
bar. He could not decipher his own
manuscript, and made 1t out only by
recalling the sense Of the subject
matter in hand. After bis death his
friends could make little or no nse of
the manuscript matter which he left,
and to this circumstance Is mainly
due the fact that no complete volume
of his life, writings, etc., has yet
been, published. @a
Year: 1870

THE following is said to be the re-
ply an Iowa merchant received to
one of those little notes of "please
REMIT" "You say you are holding
to my note yet. That is all right
perfectly right. Just keep holding
ON to it, and If you find your hands
slipping, spit on them and try again.
Yours affectionately.u
Year: 1870

On the I'd day of February, the
Senate of the United States, passed
the currency bill, providing for an
increase of the volume of banking
currency, by forty-five millions, and
further providing that after the dis
tribution Of this amount to States
now having less than their share,
there shall be an equalization of
banking capital, by the withdrawal
and transfer of twenty millions
from States now in excess. This is a
move in the right direction. ...
Year: 1870

THE CENSUS. After more than
seven months spent in perfecting the
census bill, the Senate has defeated it
by a vote of 46 to 0. This is an end,
probably, to all legislation on the
subject, as 1t Is too late now to perfect
a new bill. The result Is that the
census for 1870 will be taken under
the act of 1850. The old law was


drawn up by Webster and Benton.
Year: 1870

GRAENER, HOUSE, CARRIAGE AND
~ sign Painter. has taken X. Wild's place at


cedar Falls and will give entire satisfaction TO all
who entrust him with work in his line of business


shop over Fosdiek's wagon shop. Paper hanging
neatly done on short notice.
Year: 1870

After thorough investigation of the above enter
prize, we commend these Bonds as first class in
vestment, affordDg absolute safety, and paying an
unusually liberal rate of interest. All marketable
securities at their full price, tree of commission and
express charges, received in payment. Pamphlets
and maps furnished on application.
Year: 1870

Few persons except professional florists are
sufficiently careful in sowing small seed.
The soil, as general thing, is not thorough
ly pulverized, and the seed are covered too
deep to insure growth. A half inch in depth
is as much as should be placed over any of
the small kinds of flower seeds, and many of
them ought not to be covered more than half
that depth; and after sowing, the surface of
the soil, if light, should be gently packed
down with either hoe or spade, as this will
press it closely to the seed and in measure
prevent drying. Success or failure in grow
ing plants usually depends upon some little
difference in the way the soil is manipulated
The professional florist apparently does every
thing in the most hurried and careless man
ner. but he never omits thse important ope-
rations which insure the life and future
growth of his plants.
Year: 1870

LOOK TO Your HORSES FEET.-Few men
who handle horses give proper attention to
their feet and legs. Especially is this the
case on farms. Much time is spent of a
morning rubbing, brushing and smoothing
the hair on the sides and hip, but it is seldom
that the feet are examined and cared for.
The feet of horse needs quite as much at
tention as the body. They need more, in
fact, for in one respect they are most the en-
tire horse. All the grooming that can be
done won't avail anything, if the horse is al
lowed to stand where his feet will be filthy
In this case the feet will become disordered
and then the legs will get badly out of fix,
and with bad feet and bad legs there is not
much else of the horse fit for anything.
Stable prisons generally are severe on the
feet and legs of horses, and unless these
buildings can afford dry room, where a
horse can walk around, lie down, or roll over,
they are not so healthy or comfortable to the
horse as the pasture, and should be avoided
by all hostlers.
Year: 1870




Probably never before in the whole history OF
medicine has anything won so widely and so deeply
upon the confidence of mankind as this excellent
remedy for pulmonary complaints. Through long
series of years, and among most of the races Of
men 1t has risen higher and higher III their estma
ton, as it has become better known. Its uniform
character and power to cure the various affections
of the lungs and throat have made it known re-
liable protector against them. While adapted to
milder forms of disease and to young children it Is
at the same time the most efectual remedy that can
be given for incipent consumption, and the dam
gerous affections of the throat and lungs. As pro-
vision against sudden attacks of Group. it should
be kept on hand in every family and indeed as all
are sometimes subject to colds and coughs, all
should be provided with this antidote for them.
Although settled C0nSuna pfioa is thought in
curable still great numbers of cases where the dis
ease seemed settled, have been completely cured,
and the patient restored to sound health by the
Cherry PectoraI. So complete is its mastery
over the disorders of the Lungs and Throat, that
the most obstinate of them yield to it. When MOTH
ing else could reach them, under the Cherry Pee
toraI they subside and disappear.


Singers and Public Speakers find great pro-
lection from it.


asthma is always relieved and often wholly
curedby it.


bronchitis is generally cured by taking the
Cherry PecforaI IN small and frequent doses.
So generally are its virtues known that we need
not publish the certificates of them here, do
than assure the public that its qualities are fully
maintained.
Year: 1870

A case of feminine daring is related of an
Arkansas belle. who rode to the edge of a
precipice, an6 defed any man in the party
with whom she was riding to follow her.
Not man accepted the challenge; but tan
talizing youth stood on his head in the sad
die, and dared the lady to do that.
Year: 1870

"MaMMA," said little fellow, whose
mother had forbidden him to draw horses and
ships on the mahogany sideboard with a
sharp nail, "Mamma, this amt a nice house.
At Sam Rackett's, we can cut the sofa and
pull out the hair, and ride the shovel and
tongs over the carpet; but here we can't
have any fun at all.
Year: 1870

LoNDON, April ~, 1871.


MR.. GARDINER G.. HUBBARD,-Dear Sir.
I have to acknowledge the receipt Of your
letter OF the 2Sth of February, and to ex-
press my regret that great pressure of bust
ness has prevented me from sooner replyinp
to it. The cable dispatch which YOU enclosed
in your letter is nothing else than a serie. of
malicious exaggerations, with the very
slightest groundwork of truth in them,
strung together for the purpose of dam
aging your scheme. l do not for one in
slant pretend that we have not had
blunders, or that we have not had delays, or
that the blunders and delays have not given
rise TO complaints; but l say without the
slightest fear of contradiction, that these
blunders and delays were unavoidable and in
| separable from work so large and SO COM
plicated as that which we undertook, and /
also say that we have overcome the greater
part of our difficulties, and that though we
still have room for improvement, we are even
now doing the work better than it was
ever done before. 1 send you a sched-
ule showing you the number Of mes
sages forwarded by us in every week since
we began. You will perceive that it
has risen steadily from 127OOO in the week
ending 18th February to 10000 in the week
ending 9th April. 1t is impossible for one to
give you more striking proof that we have
the confidence of the public. Telegrams
would not pour in upon us in daily increasing
numbers if we continued to transmit them
tardly or inaccurately. We are now forward
ing nearly thirty thousand messages per diem,
and the complaints which we receive daily
average twenty-five. This number includes
the cases in which, on inquiry, we turn out
not to be in fault, and though our traffic in
creases steadily from week to week, the num-
Der of complaints does not increase. do not
pretend that we have not yet much to DO to
make our system what l mean it to be; but
am certain that before this year closes it will
give entire satisfaction, and that not one of
the expectations which have from time to
time held out will have failed to be realized.


am, dear sir, your obedientservant,


FRANK IVES SCUDAMoRE.


We also append an item clipped from a Lon
don paper of a later date:


POSTAL TELEGRAPus.-The number of
telegraph messages sent out for delivery in the
city OF London during the week ending April
80 was 1888 as against 14,9O2, showing an
increase of 1856.