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Year: 1870

That was otter joke of the man in
New Jersey who put a quantity ofJalap
IN some beer his friends were about to


drink. The funeral was very generally
attended-Erchaage.


We don't know who originated the
above manner Of stating fatal occurrence,
but is seems to be quite generally follow
ed by newspaper paragrap hers. 1t is Il
delIca fe way OF putting it, and reads
much better than one says, "he died
amid the most horrible and excruciatlng
agonies. We get the whole story and
our sensibilities are not unnecessarily
shocked.


The new style Of paragraphing affords
a fine field for the exercise of ingenuity
in conveying the intelligence that the
man died. Variety, freshness and
cheerful. not to say facetlous vivacity,
might be mingled with the briefest no.
tice of fatal casualties that might be
otherwise utterly neglected by the read
er or briefly glanced at. As, for instance,
in the following:


A man in New Hampshire the other
day ate fifteen dozen raw oysters on
wager. The silver trimming alone on his
cofin cost twelve dollars and thirty-6ve
cents.


John Smith, in Nebsaska, said he
could handle rattlesnake the same as
snake charmer. The churlishness of
the undertaken in demanding pay in ad
vance delayed the funeral four days.


A circus rider in Texas tried to turn
three someisaults on horse back the 9TH
er day. Management sent back to New
Orleans the following day for another
somersault man.


A man in New Jersey couldn't wait
for the cars to get to the depot, and jump
ed off. His widow has sued the insurance



Few men would attempt to dry gun
powder in kitchen stove A man in
Canada did. His afflicted family would
be glad of any information as to his



Tn Massachusetts,, the other day, a
man thought he could cross the track in
advance of locomotive The service at
the grave was very impressive.


A man warned his wife in New Or
leans not to light the fire with kerosene
She didn't heed the warning Her
clothes fit his second wife remarkably
WELL


A boy in Detroit disregarded his
mothers INDUCTION not to skate on the
river as the ice was thin. His mother
didn't have to cook for so many as she
did, into one.
Year: 1870

As a matter of public interest, it
should be known that all income returns
must be made on or before the first day
of March, and if any person fails to make
returns Of his income by that date will be
liable to be assessed by the Assessor ac-
cording to the best information he can
obtain; and in such cases the law requires
fifty per cent to be added to the amount
enumeration so made there can be no
suspected of being liable to pay an in
co me tax to make sworn return, wheth-
er le has been supplied with blanks or not
notwithstanding the amount may fall
short Of 81 900, which is the amount ex-
empteG by law.


Commissioner Delano has recently de.
cided some matters respecting incomes
which are important III connection with
the returns.


In estimating gains, profits and income
there must be included the share of the
person in the gains and profits of all
companies. whether Incorporated, or
partnership, who would be entitled to the
same if divided, whether they have been
divided or not. Returns must therefore
be made on profits when undivided


Interest paid on money invested in
business or real estate from which no in
come if received is not deducted from in
come interest thus paid may be offset
against interest receive or falling due to
the taxpayer.


The laying of floor or putting on Of
a new roof would usually be regarded as
ordinary repairs but the replacing of a
shingle roof for slate Roof, or board
floor by tile floor, or in short, by sub
stituting a higher priced article for an
inferior, would not be regarded as ordi-
nary repairs, and only the inferior article
would be deductible.


Expenses incurred in putting property
in better condition than when it was
purchased, or if purchased prior to Jan
uary 1st, 1862, than it was on that date
would be deductible such repairs would
be regarded as betterment.


Expenses on real or personal property
from which no income is derived are not
deductibls from income
Year: 1870

Among the astounding discoveries of
modern science is that of the immense
periods that have passed in the gradual
formation of the earth. So vast were
the cycles Of the time preceding even
the appearance of man on the surface


of cur globe, that our own period seems
as yesterday when compared with the
epochs that have gone before it. Had


we only the evidences of the deposites of
rocks heaped upon each other in regular
strata by the slow accumulation of mate


rials they alone would convince us Of the
slow maturing of Gods works on earth,
| but when we ada to these the successive


populations of whose life this world has
been the theatre, and whose remains are
hidden in the rocks into which the mud,


or sand, or soil of whatever kind, on


which they live has hardened in the
course of time-or the enormous chains
of mountains whose upheaval divide
these periods OF quiet accumulation by


great covnulsions-or the changes of a
different nature in the confgurations of
our globe, as the sinking Of land beneath
the ocean, or the gradual rising of CONT
nents and islands above-or the slow
growth Of the coral reefs, those wonder
full sea walls raised bv the little ocean


architects, whose own bodies furnish both


the building stones and the cement that
binds them together, and who have work
ed so busily during the long centuries,
that there are extensive countries, noun
tain chains, islands and long lines of
coast, consisting solely of their remains
or the countless forests that have grown


up and fourished and decayed, fill the
c+nrabouSao Of cool tbot food tho firoc of


the human race-if we conclude all these


records of the past, the intellect fails to


grasp chronology Of which our expert


ence furnishes data, and time that lies
behind us seems as much an eternity to


our conception as the future that stretch
es indefinitely before us.
Year: 1870

The New York Tribune cautions the re-
publican party against making Protection
and Free Trade issues within the organi-
zation. 1t says that in some congressional
districts the Revenue Reformers Gree
Traders) are considering the plan OF bolt
ing the republican nominations where they
fall upon ProtectiOnists, and going tnr
democrats who may be Free Traders. The
Tribune suggests that this is a game which
two can play at, but which republicans
who have proper regard for their princ-
piles and party win not care to adopt


These questions are not party tests. Each
individual has right to his own opinion
about them. but no right to force them
upon his neighbor as tests of party ortho-
doxy. and to league with democrats for
such purpose is treason to the republican
organization and should be disgrace to
those who attempt it. The Chicago plat
form is broad enough to stand upon until
the time comes TO remodel it, when the
national wisdom will shape it to such enc
as shall be best for the whole country.
Year: 1870

The accounts from Europe are not very
flatteringt to Louis Napoleon. After throw
ing down the gage Of battle to Prussia and
rushing into conflict which he sought
and forced upon his adversary, he is forced
at the first trial of arms to retreat, and
finds his throne in danger of annihilation.
The stormy scenes of the Corps Legisla-
tin, iihe shouts for his ahdication. the stern
criticism of his military incapacity, which
are seen and heard in Paris. are omens OF
greater danger even than defeat upon the
Rhine. The issue of the next ha.tle is
looked for with intense interest, and can
scarcely be delayed much longer
Year: 1870

A gentleman who passed over the line of
this road last week, informs the Wing that
work is being vigorously pushed at all points.
The iron has been laid and one half of the bal
lasting completed on ten miles of the road on
the Belfast end. About ten miles of iron is
laid on the Burnham end, and the work of
ballasting is going on. The masonry and
bridges are all completed or nearly so, and
the grading done except in few short spaces.
The depot at Belfast is approaching compile
ton, and at Brooks and Thorndike buildings
have been commenced. The iron is now being
transported to Burnham over the Maine Cen
trail road and the work of laying will go on
from either end.
Year: 1870

The York county Independent say that
Mr.. John Harmon, Superintendent of the
York Company mills, while sinking new
wheel-pit sixteen feet deep, found imbedded
ina stratum of gravel near the bottom, SO hard
that picks had to be used, stone of granite
formation, hewn out in the perfect shape of a
on the small end as if foX the purpose of sus-
pending it by string. 1t is 81 inches in
length, pointed at the large end, one inch and
a half in diameter at the largest place, and
less than half an inch in diameter at the small
end. Its form is nearly as perfect as if it had
been turned in a lathe, and it is very smooth,
having been roughened but little by the ac.
ton of the elements.
Year: 1870

Christ the King from the doctrine of Christ
the Prophet and Priest, and affects to care
nothing about the question of the church as
Christ's divine organization, must, in the
nature of the case, be mutilated gospel,
failing to get firm hold in the heart of the
people on the truth that, if in truth born of
God-born again, they are not merely saved
as so many separate sands in the vast heap,
but born into the family of God, and are
citizens of a visible kingdom, with relations
to all others that are born Of God into that
family. May not the lamentable lack of
the family affection of Christianity, and the
prevalence of the spirit of Cain" Am l
my brothers keeper?" over which earnest
men now mourn everywhere-and the prev
alent indifference even in the church to the
wants and calls of the church, be traced
back to these insufficient views of the truth
of Christ the King? God. grant that ours
may be the high distinction, of being the
people who most earnestly stand fast by the
simple gospel, and for preaching it to Greek
as well as Barbarian.


At the conclusion of the sermon the 623d
hymn, beginning


My days are gliding swiftly by,'
was sung, and Rev. DR.. Robinson, as Mode
rator of the proceeding General Assembly,
announced his readiness to proceed to con-
stitute the General Assembly of 1870.
Year: 1870

HORRIBLE SToRY.-A horrible story of
brigandage reaches us from Chill. Lag
oberon, notorious bandit captain, was so
closely pursued by body of South Amer


ican troops recently that he was compelled
to desert his band of brother cut -throats,
who had been the terror of the whole
country around, and take refuge in cav
ern situated near the summit of one of the
lofty mountains of the Sierra Profunda


In this cavern he had concealed female
captive, whose husband he had robbed
and slain. The soldiers made several in
effectual attempts to reach the abode of
the culprit Lagoberon, a man of gigan-
tic stature and herculean strength, sue
cecded in beating them off by rolling heavy
rocks down upon them whenever they ap-
preached The officer in command of the
troops resolved at first to starve the ban
dit out, but after two days blockade grew
weary of so tedious an expedient, improv-
ised an escalade of the chieftains strong
hold, and succeeded in capturing him. 10
their horror upon entering the cavern they
found the poor woman in a dying condi-
ton, Lagoberon having cut off one of the
DTCdSJS vi HIS cupltNC
ten it. The inhuman butcher was con-
veyed to Talca, where he was promptly
tried and condemned to die by the garrote.
He was speedily conducted to the scaffold,
and while the executioner was engaged in
adjusting his toilette de mort the convict
drew a whistle which he had concealed in
his pocket, and blew it sharply; where.
upon about sixty of his followers, who had
introduced themselves amongst the crowd
surrounding the scaffold rushed upon the
gendarmes and massacred them ere they
could offer any resistance. They then
freed their chief and garroted his would
be executioner, after which they escaped,
almost unscathed, to the mountains, facil


itating their fight by seizing the horses
of the murdered gendarmes. They also
carried off several women from the throng
gathered to witness the execution.
Year: 1870

The audience assembled at Tammany
Hall, New York, were thrown into intense
excitement on Monday evening by terri
BILE accident which occurred there during
the performance. During the evening
Signor Pedanto, renowned gymnast,
made his first appearance at the hall, and
while performing some daring evolutions
on a trapeze elevated at great height
: above the stage, missed his hold and fell
to the stage, sustaining injuries which, it
is feared, will prove fatal. The audience
reused to pitch Of intense excitement by
the fearful accident, rose in their seats and
rushed towards the stage, on which the
unfortunate performer was lying insensi-
BILE. but were prevented by the ushers,
and order was soon restored by the police
on duty in the building. Pedanto was
picked up in an unconscious state to be
removed to one of the dressing rooms,
where he was attended by several physi-
clans.
Year: 1870

1t is impossible for us, in this brief notice, to
speak of all the points of utility and excellence
embraced in these machines, and must content
ourselves with mere mention Of few of them,
and invite you to examine the machine. We
will furnish either the open or closed cylinder,
spiked with the very best OF iron. The cylinder
shaft is made of steel, and fitted with brass boxes
lined with the best Babbit metal. The gear
shafts made Of steel, and run in boxes lined
with Babbit metal. The gearing is made of the
best of charcoal iron, and fitted in the best posi-


BILE manner. The cylinder is perfectly adjusted,
by men of long experience. The cylinder cap is
so constructed that the cylinder will not throw
dust into the face of the feeder. The grain-car-
rier is ten inches wider than the cylinder, afford
ing ample room to obtain a perfect separation


The revolving knocker in the second carrier is of
great value in securing the grain, The double
fan will clean grain of all kinds in the most per-
feet manner, without waste. The revolving and
vibrating shoc-rakes are very useful in prevent-
ing the choking or filling up of the shoe and ele-
vator. The arrangement for raising and lower
ing the concave is very simple and easily opera
ted. The selt-oiling and noiseless shake-rods,
for the shoe and elevator spout, must be seen to
be appreciated The small shafts are made of
good iron, the Journals turned, polished, and
fitted in the boxes perfectly. The boxes are lined
with Babbit metal, and fitted with oil cups and
caps to keep out the dust. The pnleys are made
of cast-iron, covered with leather, TO prevent
slipping. The belts are of good oak-tanned eath-
er, well stretched, cemepted and riveted together
Year: 1870

&


To the Democratic Voters Of Neo Castle 90.
FELLOW CITIZENS At the earnest solicitation
of my friends again offer myself as a candidate
for the nomination of Coroner of New Castle Co.
and am thankful to my friends for the support
they gave me at the last nomination election and
pledge myself to abide the decision of the party.


RICHARD GROVES,
Delaware City, Feb. 5-tn
Year: 1870

Along the crowded path they bore her
now, pure as the newly fallen snow that
covered it, whose day on earth had been
as feeting. Under that porch where she
had sat. when heaven in its mercy brought
her to tha. peaceful spot, She passed again,
and the old church received her IN It's quiet
shade
Year: 1870

Trial Trip Of the Nelly White to Fort Schuy-


lcr and Back.


Yesterday afternoon, at three O'clock the Nelly
White left the Bridgeport steam boat pier for trial
trip to Fort Schuyler and back order test the
en1cacy of new wheel with which she had been
provided while being thoroughly 0verhauled and
renovated for the ensuing The trial was not
for speed but only 10 ascertain whether by the new
system OF wheels the Jarring and shaking so dlsa-
greabe on steamboats, was In any way diminished.
And this was certainly the case, for many expe-
r1enced steamboat men and engineers who were on
board confessed that they had never been on board
Of steamboat gong az the same rate OF
speed which was SO free from tremor and
jarring. The paddles OF the wheel are angular, the
inside OF the angle striking the water almost perpen
dicuary ard carrying but little, any dead water.
The patenteeE say that the idea Of substituting angu-
lar for parallel and radal buckets paddles IS not
new, such having been in use on the Hudson some
shirty years ago. But while they propelled the YES
sel well enough they were nowhere when 1T came to
stopping, and hence were abandoned. The improve
ment now made Is the adding OF cross bucket. a
paddle at an angie OF fol tyve degrees, which, they
claim, while not interfering with the propel!ing
power, stops the vessel IN fourth less time than
the common Wheel The trial was satisfactory to
the owner and to the patentees.
Year: 1870

these peasant laborers; and 1 think N my pretty
friend H. standing where left her when the French OH
pass into their splendid exile her sweet
some what soften the hardship OF their fate.
Year: 1870

The pulse of healthy grown
person beats seventy times in a
minute; there may be good health
down to sixty; but if the pulse al
ways exceeds seventy, there is a
disease-the machine is working
too fast; it is wearing itself out;
there is fever or Inflammation
somewhere, and the body is feed
ing on itself, as in consumption,
where the pulse is always quick,
that is over seventy, gradually in
creasing with decreased chances
of cure, until it reaches one hun
dred and ten or one hundred and
twenty, when death comes before
many days. When the pulse is
over seventy for months, and if
there is even slight cough, the
lungs are affected. Every intelli-
gent person owes it to himself to
learn from his family physician
how to ascertain the pulse in
health; then, by comparing it with
what it is when ailing, he may
have some idea of the urgency of
his case, and it will be an impOr-
tant guide to the physician. Par
ents ought to know the health
pulse of each child; as now and
then, a person is born with a Pc
culiarly slow pulse, and the very
case in hand may be that peculiar
ity. An infants pulse is one hun
dred and forty; q child of seven
years about eighty; from twenty
to sixty years it is seventy beats
a minute, declining to sixty at
fourscOre. There are pulses all
ever the body, but where there
are only skin and bone, as at the
temples, it is most easily felt. The
wrist is the most convenient point.
The feebleness or strength of the
beats is not material, being modi-
fed by the fingers pressure. Com
paratively, rapidity is the great
point; near death is one hundred
and forty and over. A healthy
pulse imparts to the finger a feel
ing as of a wooling string; ia fever
it feels harder, like silk thread;
if there is Inflammation, which is
always dangerous, it beats fast,
spiteful and hard, as If fine wire
was throbbing against the finger.
When the pulse beats irregularly,
as if it lost a beat, then hurried to
make it up, there is something the
matter with the heart. But, how

ever unnatural you may think the
the pulse is, do not worry about
it; take nothing, do nothing, ex-
cept by the advice of an intelli-
gent physician.-[ Exchange.
Year: 1870

chief of Epiliptic and Paralytic Hospi-
tai Have forthe last eleven years been
connected with the hospitals in London
and New York; have read the testimony
of DIR. Hammond and DR.. Vance. |
agree with them in the ideas of the
normal functions of the brain; insanity
is that condition of the mind where
there is an uncomfortable impulse ofemo-
tons and is produced by disease. Inean
cerebral disease of insanity does not al
wavs exist where there is an uncon-
trollable violence of emotions. Insanity
is never admitted unless through the
instrumentality of disease; / should
have to know whether there was any
cause for this enmity and then should
see whether the cause was sufficient to
cause insanity; if it were not | should
not call him insane.


Should a man lay in wait for another
man and kill him if he had a grudge
against him also growing out OF a
wrong?


Do Won mean a real wrong!


suppose it to lie a real one.


Much debate arose out of this ques-
ton. Court allowed it.


WitneSs-I would not consider him
insane.


Have YOU read the evidence in the
case and what is your opinion as to the
sanity of the prisoner?


Graham objected on the ground that
newspaper accounts were incomplete.


Witness-There should be some evil
dence of the grandparents of man
having insanity to make the disease
hereditary. Insanity generally shows
itself on several members of the family.


To Mr.. Graham-After Reynolds
was condemned did you not examine
him?


did; ! considered him unfit to be
executed, but still sane; in opposition
to my aifidavitS were those OF DR..
Hammond and Dr. Vance; ! swore to
the insanity Of Chambers in the late
trial; DR.. Vance and DR.. Hammond
had examined him and pronounced
him sane.


Adjourned
Year: 1870

The New Haven Register asks: "lf
the House of Congress shall agree with
the Senate that Georgia is not State
but military district, what becomes
Of its vote for the Fifteenth amend
ment, cast as a State?" If the Amer
ican Congress is to be embarrassed in
its reconstruction labors by such dis
loyal questions as this, it is high time
we are seriously thinking Of curtailing
the liberty of the press or trying the
experiment of an absolute monarchy.
Year: 1870

A Newburg clergyman suddenly
stopped in the midst of his sermon, on
Sunday, and sat down. This aroused
the sleepers, and he then arose and said
he did not propose to preach to persons
who were sleeping under his sermon,
and he had taken this course to secure
q wide-awake audience He had it.
Year: 1870

If cat doth meet a cat upon a
garden wall, and if a cat doth greet a
cat, oh need they both to squall :?
Every Tommy has his Tabby, waiting
on the wall, and vet she welcomes his
approach by an unearthly yawl. And
if kitten wish to court upon the
garden wall, why don't he sit and
sweetly smile and not stand up and
bawl, and lift his precious back up high
and show his teeth and moan, as if
'twere collie more than love that made
the "feller" groan?
Year: 1870

The beneficial effects OF these Bit
tiers can be attested by thousands
who have used them and acknowI-
edge them superior to any thing OF
the kind ever before offered to the
public


As a sure cure for Oiarhea, Loss
Of Appetite, Fever and Ague, Chol-
era Morbus, Collie, Dyspepsia, Gen
eraI Debility or Nervous Headache,
this medicine has no equal It is
especially recommended to persons
travelling, as tending to counteract
the effects Of a change Of water


These Bitters should be found
upon the Side-board Of every family,
as we'll as the Bar Of every well-regu-
lated Hotel