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Year: 1872

matter thoroughly sifted. He has let
ters aud proofs of system of black
mailing that are perfectly astounding
which shows to what an alarming extent
this work is carried. 1t is known that
for over year Mr. Beecher has been in
receipt of Matchmaking letters, to which,
of course, he paid no attention. i am
told by q gentleman who has means OF
knowing, that the vile article in the
Woodruff paper was sent to Mr.. Beecher
before it was published


Mrs. Woodhull, her sister Clahin and
Blood, each swore before the court that
neither of them wrote the article. 1t was
attributed to distinguished Free Love
Philosopher. But he denies all know
ledge of the affair, and he would be be-
lieved anywhere. The authorship has
been traced to a source that would
hardly be expected. A gentleman told
me to-day that he had positive proof in
his possession as to the writer of the
libel, and that it will be brought out in
due time. BE had something to do with
the arrest of the parties, and while
watching Mrs. Woodhulls office, waiting
for the Sheriff, he saw the person to
whom the article is attributed sitting on
the sofa with the two women, and he left
the room only few moments before the
arrest took place. Of course neither of
the parties supposed that any legal pro-
ceedings we're to take place.
Year: 1872

The blacks have never raised them
selves above the savage stute.-Er.


This is gross injustice to the ne
gro. We know that iu the past he
has been debarred of privileges which
would have enabled him to display
the extent of his ability for improve
ment. 1t is true, that laboring un-
der the restrictions of the past, he
has played a very insignificant part,
other than a laborcr, but it must be
admitted that since his freedom, and
the many advantages he now enjoys,
that he has made greater progress
in mental improvement than was ex-
pected Of him. He has advanced
rapidly, and if he continues to i'm
prove in the future at the same ratio
he has done the past five years, he
will become as a race a useful and
enterprising class of citizens.


The colored man is now u citizen.
He has voice in the affairs Of State !;
such being the case, it is the interest
OF the country, and to such citizen
thereof, that all legitimate chances
for mental and moral development
should be offered him. It is to be
expected that many of the grown
ones, owing to ignorance and their
early training, will be thriftless,
worthless, and, i'll many instances,
vicious, and continue to be devotees
at the shrine Of superstition but
that the race will relapse into a saw
age state is not warranted by their
acts and demeanor since having been
freed by a combination of circum-
stances.


1t must be admitted that we of the
white race have been disappointed
in our estimation of his mental abil-
ity and confiding nature. We are
confident that if the proper influences
are thrown around tho colored peo-
pie of the South, that they will never
become an impeachment in the way
OF onr yationsa prosperity. \.
Christian people, we should do i'll in
our power to elevate him.-Corinh
Miss. NeUs.
Year: 1872

have a large amount Of manure. 1t
is true his farm was in excellent con-
dition when he took it, but his great
success has been in keeping it SO. 1t
is not to be expected that every far
mer can do as he has done, but
every man should strive to keep his
farm in as good condition as possible
SO long as he cultivates it.
Year: 1872

China is beginning to couple with
Europe in the matter of producing
rich old uncles who die and leave
large fortunes to unsuspecting Amer
ican heirs in humble circumstances.
A New Haven street car driver has
been selected as the inaugural exam


pie of this new branch of Mongo-
liam industry, having recently been
notified that by the death of rela-
tive in the Celestial Empire he has
fallen heir to half q million dollars.
Heretofore occurrences of this sort
have usually come from Great Bri-
tain, and involved unportable titles
of nobility rather than convertible
property and if the Chinese enter
prises is always to assume the form
of hard cash it will run the business
of half dozen advertising legal
firms Of the highest respectabiity,
Year: 1872

Col. Hlgglnson in the Womans journal


For young married women to under.
take to contribute to the family income
is in most cases utterly undesirable, and
is asking of themselves great deal too
much. And this is not because they
are to be encouraged in Incidence, but
because they already, in normal con-
dition of things, have their hands full.
AS, on this point, | may differ from
some of my associates, let me explain
precisely what l mean. AS | write
there are at work, in other parts of the
house. two paper hangers. a man and
his wife, each fortytive or fifty years of
age. Their children are grown up and
some of them married they have a
daughter at home who is able to do the
housework and leave the mother free.
the labors of the household so .judicious
as this; the married pair work together
during the day and go home together
to their evening rest. Ahappier couple
| never saw it is a delight to see them
cheerfully at work together, cutting,
pasting, hanging their life seems like u
prolonged industrial picnic, and if |
had the luck to own as many palaces as
an English duke, | should keep them
permanently occupied in putting fresh
papers on the walls. But the merit of
this employment for the woman is, that
it interferes with no other duty. Were
she young woman with little children,
and obliged by her paper-hanging to
neglect them, or to leave them at a
"day nursery" or to overwork herself
by combining all her duties, then the
sight Of her would be very sad. So
sacred a thing does motherhood seem
to me, so paramount and absorbing the
duty of mother to her child, that in
true state of society l think she should
be utterly free from all other duties
even, if possible, from the ordinary
cares of housekeeping. If she has
spare health and strength to do these
other things as pleasures, very well but
she should be relieved from them, as
duties. And as to selfsupport, | can
hardly conceive of an instance where 1t
can be to the mother of young children
anything but a calamity.
Year: 1872

The following curious history, of
mental prodigy is extracted from an
article in the New York Euening Post:


Another case was that of cobbler,
living in London, England, who worked
at his trade from morning till night.
He was man of very inferior powers
in all respects but one-in resolving
problems in figures he was unrivalled.
He made his talent of use to himself
by exacting small charge for exhibit
ing it, keeping in his stall black board
and piece of chalk. Any one who
paid him three pence might give him
any problem in figures he chose. The
cobbler would take the chalk and write
down the solution on the instant. For
shilling he would nswer questions
for an hour. He would multiply long
rows of figures by each other apparently
without moments reflection, dealing
as rapidly and unerringly with fractions
and fractions of fractions as with in
tegers, and would set down the equiva-
lent in a simple fraction of any number
of compound ones the moment he had
read them. Being asked how many
lis. 73d. there were in 9lO,9S7,353, he
replied Immediately, "Well, there will
be remainder-so much (writing down
the figures), and hems the figures for
answer" (jotting them down as fast as
his fingers could novel.


Not the least curious feature in the
cobbler's lease was the fact that he
seemed to have no ineligible notion Of
the means by which he produced his
results; at any rate, if he had, he was
quite unable to give any explanation of
them. He was invited to give lecture
at mechanics institute on mental
arithmetic, and proud enough he was
to accept the invitation. He was fitted
up in decent, second hand apparel, and
he went with his long blackboard and
chalks. Most astonis hing things he
certainly did in the calculating way, de-
tanning the audience to late hour, as
he performed one marvel after another.
But neither by close attention or exact
ing questions could there be gained the
least inkling of the processes that were
passing so rapidly in his mind. He had
no information to give. 1t was utterly
impossible for him to teach others what
was as easy to himself as breathing.
His replies to questions put not only
betrayed great irritation, but were
vague, confused, and contradictory.
Year: 1872

Two gather lilies and wade the sweet clover.
Shouting glad songs in their morning and
Gold are the dreams and the clouds that float


over.
And golden the future far stretching away.
Two launch their boats for voyage long sail


ing, q.
The bright ripples play, and the wind is off


Shore


While the red light of the morning is falling
Sturdy and strong sails the bark-dips the


oar.
Two, hand in hand climb over the mountain,
FootSore and weary from tempest and toll,
With only a moment to drink from the toun-


tain.


Renewing their strength for to-morrow's tur-


moit.


Two when the autumn has put on its glory.
Sit by the snOre of the beautiful past
Whose solemn waves break with a wonderful


story


Of fanciful ships that went down in the blast.
Two, in the chill of the snowy December
Talk of the winter that lea:s to the spring
Two sit and dream. over iaggot and ember.
OF castles in air. and of birds on the wing.
Two lie at rest under the blossoming roses
Winter sifts over them gently the snow;
Sunlight of summer above them reposes;
Their places are filled and the years come and
Year: 1872

II were told that must die tomorrow,


That the next sun
Which sinks should bear me past all fear and
sorrow


For any one.
All the fight fought, and all the short journey
through


What should 1 dop
I dc, not think that should shrink or falter,


But just 60 on,
Doing my work, nor change nor seek to alter


Aught that is gone;
But rise and move aud love and smile. and pray


Fee one more day.
And, lying down at night for a last sleeping,


Say in that ear
Which hearkens ever, Lord within thy keeping


How should fear ?
And when tomorrow brings thee nearer still,


Do thou thy will
might not sleep, for awe; but peaceful, tender,


My soul would lie
All night long; and, when the morning splendor


Flashed ore the sky,
think that / could smile, could calmly say,


1T is his day."
But if wonderous hand from the blue yondcr


Held out scroll,
On which my life was writ, and l with wonder


Beheld unroll
To long century end its mystic clew,


What should do

What could do, o blessed Guide and Master


Other than this
Still to 90 on as now, not slower, faster,


Nor fear to miss
The road although so very long it be,


While led by thee
Step by step, feeling thee close beside me.


Although unseen;
Though thorns, though flowers, whether the tenn
pest hide thee,


Or Heavens serene
Assured thy faithfulness cannot betray,


Thy love decay.
may not know, my God, no hand revealeth


Thy counsels wise:
Along the path no deepening shadow stealeth,


No voice replies
To all my questioning thought, the time to tell,


And it is all well.
Let me keep on, abiding and unfearing


Thy will always.
Through long century's ripening fruition,


Or short days.
Thou canst not come too soon, and can wait


If thou come late.
Year: 1872

OLD TRAD1T1oNs.-Some curious ideas ex-
isted among the Rabbins touching the origi-
nal form Of Adam, and the peculiar dress
made for him and Eve before the fall. One
tradition has it that the father of mankind
was originally furnished with tail, but that
it was cut off by his Maker because he
looked better without it. Another tradition
asserts that before the fall, Adam and Eve
had transparent covering, a robe Of light,
of which remnants are left to mankind in the
nails of the hands and feet. The original
hue Of the father of man is said to have been
a bottle-green.
Year: 1872

HORSE BEATING.-A lady writer is severe
upon cruelty to horses. She says: "a
thosand shames upon the brute who would
lash terrified horse. Go whip your wife
you are capable of it. Tell me young man
will make good husband if he will abuse a
dumb brute! tell you, l would rather
marry Sepoy. Take my advice, ye young
maidens contemplating matrimony. Never
marry man who is impudent to his mother,
snubs his sister, helps himself to the biggest
piece of cake, or beats his horse causelessly
in fit Of temper
Year: 1872

A LADY in Dayton, Ohio, was bitten ON
the leg by rattlesnake, as she supposed.
After drinking large quantity Of alcohol, in
the absence of whiskey, to counteract the poi.
son, it was found that the cause of the trou.
bic was piece of barrel hoop she had step
ped on, and which, in flying up, had struck
her sufficiently hard to draw blood.
Year: 1872

The time to possess your soul in patience
's when on a rainy and windy day your $40
umbrella turns, and while you are struggling
with the wreck your new Greeley hat blows
off into the mud, and Scroggins, your worst
enemy, comes up smiling exhulngly and
helps you out of the scrape.
Year: 1872

ITEMS were so scarce at Portland. O.. the
other day, that in order to fill up bis columns
the local of the Herald hired horse and
buggy, and with confdng friend went out
and got himself capsized and bruised just
enough to make the matter painfully inter-
esting.
Year: 1872

.eB A New York editor thinks, from the
manner in which shirts are made in that city,
there ought to be an inspection of sewing.
He says lie went to the expense of a new shirt
the other day, and found himself, when he
awoke in the morning, crawling out between
two Of the shortest stitches.
Year: 1872

Ga Thursday night last, in that portion of the town known as .Rincone, cur Mexican citizens had what we would call a musical prayer meeting. The day previous the hostess was busily engaged in baking cakes and pies for the oc- casion, whether for speculat ion or not we will not attempt to say,

 but a sufficient quantity to feed a whole regiment was made. At an early hour in the afternoon of Thursday, the house wherein the meeting was held was beautifully decorated with gariands of ever greens, and temporary altar was erected in one end of the building, also festooned with evergreens and oyerhanged by holy pictures, prominent among which was Christ crucified, and at which, at certain intervals, the congregation would kneel in adcration and pray CT. Two rows of trees, forming an archway. had been planted in front and leading to the door, and at the outer end of which piles of wood were placed preparatory to light ing a bonfire. At about o'clock, everything being ready, the word was given, and up went 8 blazing fire, casting it's refulgent rays over that portion of the town, and the ceremonies commenced, which consisted of music, both vocal and instrumental, and praying. The vocal abilities of this people are we'll known, but whether it was sacred music or not, we are un- able to say. It was a grand ming ling of voices-all singing in the same key. The instrumental mu- sic, of which we could judge, was not very sacred, however, but it made terrible noise; the princi- pal instrument composing the

 band being a base drum.

 The programme was repeated last night. and by special request the same bill will be given tonight
Year: 1872

FIRED INTo.-We learn that on last Tuesday night, while the stage to Tucson was nearing An telope, a shot was fired into it by some murderous scoundrel. For tunately no one was hurt-the bail taking effect in the body of the coach.
Year: 1872

The canvass for jenkins & Atkinsons Will
mington City Directory for 1929, was begun
to-day. Every dwelling and business place with
in the city will be visited by the canvassers, and
great pains will be taken to make it correct in
every essential We ask for the canyassers a
cordial reception, and kind response to the
knowledge sought.
Year: 1872

ACCIDENT AT NoRTH-EAsT-oNE MAN KILLED.


A boiler explosion occurred on Friday after
noon last, at the Mccullough Iron Works, at
North East, Md, bursting head out Of a boiler
by which forgeman named Billet was scalded
to death. The only damage done the buildings
or machinery was the knocking down of the
smoke-stack of the boiler and to the boiler itself
Billet had been employed by this Company for
some two years past, but his home was in Har-
risburg where his family resided. His remains
have since been conveyed to his home by his
friends.
Year: 1872

The Prussian police have prohibited the sale


of photographs Of Napoleon Ill in his Imperial
robes.
The combinations OF blonde hair and black
eye 'brows is considered by many to be a mar k
Of great beauty in either sex.
Year: 1872




Advices from all sections Of the State show that
the amendment to the state constitution prohibit
ing any increase OF the State debt has been rati-
fed BY an overwhelming atfirpative vote. Both
parties very generally endorsed the measure. The
amendment provides that the General Assembly
is hereby forbidden to create any further debt or
obligation, either by the loan Of the credit OF the
State, BY guarantee, endorsement or otherwise,
except for the ordinary and current business Of
the state without lrst submitting the question as
to the creation OF any such new debt, guarantee,
endorsement or loan OF the credit to the people OF
thirds Of the qualified voters OF this State voting
on the question shall be In favor OF further debt,
shall be created or made.
Year: 1872

What Is Doing-The Boulevard the Ground Of
Speculation Of the Period and in the Future
West Side Growth and the Broadway
Widening and Particulars
What the Writer Knows About


the Present Condition Of the


Market-The Metropolis.
Year: 1872

A MoNsrEE-One day this week on
the farm Of Mr.. Graves, a few miles
below town in the direction of Two
Locks, mare gave birth toa foal which
had a human head-at least in appear
ance From a gentleman who saw this
curious freak Of nature we learn that
the head Of what should have been a
colt, bore horrible likeness to the head
Of human being. The ears small and
setting upon the side, the top Of the
head round and covered with glossy
suit of fine velvety hair and the gcner-
al outlines of the face bearing strong
likeness to humanity. The man-brute
lived but a few hours, but the head has
been preseryed.-HAiiamspO Pilot
Year: 1872

Young men who 20 to see the girls
have adopted novel method Of obtain
ing kisses. They assert, on the author
ity of scientific writers, that the concuss-
ion produced by kiss will cause the
flame of gas jets to flicker, and easily
induce the girls to experiment in the
interest of science. The first kiss or
two the parties will watch the fame to
see it flicker, but soon become interested
in the experiments as to let it flicker if
it wants.
Year: 1872

Open thy door for the children,


Tenderly gather them in
In from the highway and hedges,


In from the places Of sin.
Some are so young and so helpless,
Some are so hungry and cold
Open the door for the children,


Gather them into the fold.
Open the door for the children


See they are coming in throngs;
Bid them sit down to the banquet,


Teach them your beautiful songs;
Pray you the Father 10 bless them,


Pray YOU that grace may be given
Open the door for the children,


"Ofsuch is the kingdom of heaven.
Open the door for the children;


Take the dear lambs by the hand
Point them to truth and to goodness,
Send ylem to Canaans land
Some are so young and so helpless,


Some are so hungry and cold;
Open the door for the children,


Gather them into the fold.
Year: 1872

4 Sunday School Superintendent re-
viewing the lesson and talking of the
verse reading, Let your loins be girded
and your lights burning asked the
question. why are we commanded to
gird our loinsi' One little sharp shaver
sung out, ITO keep our breeches up"


\ lady teacher in an Iowa School
made a boy stand up and show how he
kissed the big girls in the woodshed, in
hopes that he would shed tears and
promise 10 do so no more. All the BOYS
are leaving the other schools now and
going 10 this lady teacher.


To CURE FREcKLEs-Tak two
ounces of lemon juice, half a drachm
powdered borax, one drachm of sugar
Mix together and let them stand togeth-
er in glass bottle for few days, then
rub it on the hands and face occasion
ally
Year: 1872

This proviso makes two lines of prac


tice and pleading in the courts in
harmony with the distinctive relations
of legal science as practiced in Q. S.
Courts the other, mere simple patch
work for use of those who qualify for
the law by merely reading Codes of
modern manufacture. e.-Kalana Beacon.
Year: 1872

1t is to be hoped that the present Legisla


ture will take some decisive step towards hav


ing the seat of Government changed from itt


present location.


The good and cogent Reasons that deter


mined the people of this State many years age


10 remove the seat of Government from the
city OF New Orleans and to locate it at Donald


sonville and then at Baton Rouge, and after


wards to decide against its renewal back ts


New Orleans, are, IF anything, more potent


to-day than they were then.


Louisiana is to-day one of the few States il,


the Union having its seat of Government at its
largest city,-its commercial center. Other
States have selected for their Capitals in many
cases small towns or villages insignificant as
to their population and commercial adyanta-
ges, but having central position.


In every case however, care seems to have
been taken in the selection made to avoid
proximity to large commercial cities. The
people of the county Parishes of this State,
we believe, are anxious that the seat of Gov
ernment should be removed to some central
point remote from New Orleans. Legislation
since it has been at that place, has been of
]
tration of our Government has been attended
with so many causes of disturbance, and sur
rounded by SO many circumstances inimical
to the best interests Of the people, and to pub
lie order and the general prosperity of the
State, that the people are better satisfied than
ever of the wisdom of having our seat of Gov
ernment at some place remote from the city
of New Orleans. This should be attended to
before an appropriation is made to purchase
site for State House and to erect q costly
structure. In selecting place for the State
Capital care should be taken that central
point, territorially considered, and one the
most accessible to the other portions of the
State, be fixed upon. There are three places
in the interior OF the StaSe that now suggest
themselves to our mind as possessing the
quality of centrality, namely: Opelousas, in
st. Landry, Marksville, i'll Ayoyelles Parish,
and Alexandria, in the Parish of Rapides. 1t
very accessible to the different portions of the
State, when the navigable streams Of the
western and southwestern portions of the
State are low, but within eighteen months or
two years from to-day there will undoubtedly
be Il railroad running through the center of
the State from northwest to southeast, pass
ing through or very near these villages The .
State already OWNS beautiful site for State |
House, consisting of about so acres, at Opelou-
sas. 1t is located ON the western limit of the
town, and the New Orleans and Opelousas'
Railroad runs through portion of the tract,
the road bed being already constructed at this
spot.


We hope that if the present Legislature
should fail to do its plain duty in this respect,
the people themselves will move in the matter.