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Year: 1873

CHILD LosT.--On Sunday afternoon,
girl in the employ of Mayor Jordan,
took his children ont for a walk to
the cemetery, and from thence proceed
ed into the adjacent woods to gather
wild flowers. On returning to the high
road, Johnny. an enterprising an adven-
turous child about five years old.
was missing. The girl sought and
called for him II vain, and then hasten
ed towards town to procure assistance
to renew the search. She gave inform
alton to the first persons she met and
then returned to the search for the lost
child. The report rapidly spread over
the city and nearly every available man,
with II any women and children, quickly
repaired to the scene of the search, and
when night came on lanterns were pro-
cured and the search continued until s
O'Clock, when the report of gun-the
signal agreed upon-announcedt that the
lost was found. to the inexpressly joy of
the parents and the great relief of hun


dreds of aching hearts. 1t appears that
the child, when he returned from the
bush to the highway, not finding the rest
of the company, started 10 go home, but
mIstook the direction, and pursued the
telegraph roid toward the Snohomish.
The family of Judge Mercer, living the
other side of the cemetery, recollected
seeing a lone child pass on tie road
some time before. The Judge and G.
| W. Moore took that trail and started in
pursuit. just as the darkness of night
was closing upon them in the deep. dark
forest, seven mill from town, they
overlook the child, nearly exhausted,
but making the best way he could, un-
der the impression that he was going
toward his home. Had they been few
minutes later they would have given up
the search in that direction, as the night
came OH very dark and it seemed very
improbable that SO young child would
stray so far, and if they had abandoned
it there is no probability that the child
would ever be found alive, or that even
its remains would have been recovered.
as cougars abound in that region.


Mr.. and Mrs. Jordan request us to
return their mosl grateful thanks to the
citizens for the manifestations of their
kindly sympathy and their indefatigable
efforts to recover their lost child.
Year: 1873

UNpaLaTABLE REMARKs.-It is self
conceited notion of many citizens OF our
glorious Republic, that majority OF
our immediate British neighbors are
anxious for annexation. that they may
share with us in the "freest and best
government the sun ever shone upon.
A correspondent of Cincinnati paper,
who has recently been in Minneso-
to, has discovered different sentiment,
which accords with all our observations
among all classes of colonial British
subjects, and like sentiments are not
uncommon among American citizens.
He says he saw there a number of Can
adian citizens from Manitoba, and ask
ed one of them what he thought of an
nexation, aud how he and his people
would like to belong to the United
States. 81 don't want any of it in
mine," he said abruptly. els that the
general feeling?" "You cannot find
one Canadian III twenty to consent TO
the annexation. If ever we join the
United States it will be at the point of
the bayonet. Right now we are freer
than you are and have less taxes to pay.
You are taxed 10 death in your rotten
republic and don't know it. Your Con-
gressmen and officials at Washington
steal more than it takes to run our whole
Government in Canada. Do You sup
pose we outside people. knowing these
things as well as we do, want to pin our
destinies to such government? The
the ory Of yours is good enough, 1 know
but corruption and imbecility have cor
roded it, until what you call the best
Government the world ever saw has be-
come the worst one."
Year: 1873

The Duke of Edinburgh has always
been considered by many persons as the
best specimen Of Qeeen Victoria's 5 sons.
The Prince of Wales has never done
anything particularly creditable nor any
thing to endear him to the English peo-
pie. His career as a young man and his
subsequent life as q husband have not
added lustre to his name; aDd with the
radical advances which are now being
made every year in Great Britain, his
inchoate right to the British throne is OF
a rather uncertain character.


One look at the Duke Of Edinburgh
photograph would convince any physlog-
nomist that he was more of man than
all his brothers put together he IS a
sailor. and commanded his ship, the
Galatea, very creditably in long cruise,
1t is true that he excited the indignation
of the colonial newspapers while his
vessel was in Australia by the cavalier
manner in which he treated the CIVIC
authorities, but then it is to be presumed
there were extenuating circumstances.


The public attention in England is
now called to Prince Alfred by his en-
pagement to the Grand Duchess Marie,
Che daughter of the Emperor of Russia,
which is freely reported. They met at
Hesse Darmstadt year or two since,
from which time an understanding mas
existed between them.


The Grand Duchess has been passing
the spring at Sorrento with her mother,
at the imperial villa. Prince Alfred has
heen stay;ng at the Tasso Hotel in the
same romantic Italian village; but has
been constantly from morning to night
at the villa of his betrothed. He returned
to London early in May, bat will soon
reioin the Grand Duchess at Jugenheip,,
in Hesse Darmstadt. The Emperor OF
Russia Will be there later, when Official
nublicity will be given to the future mar
rage. 1t was proposed as a condition
that Prince Alfred should bind himself to
reside a certain period of time every
wear in Russia, but this he refused to do:
The dowry of the bride will be hundred
thousand dollars year, besides a million
of dollars TO fall back upon. This is for
.unate, for there will probably be no
necessity of forcing the British Parlia'
ment to vote a new sum Of money for the
support of the Duke and his bride. lhe
struggle witnessed in the case OF the
Marquis of Lorne will not he reenaeted'
it is to be hoped.


The Grand Duchess Marie is not beau
tifuI, nor even pretty, but she is said to
have an amiable disposition. She is
short of stature, with little color, and
not at all a queenly presence; but her
ewes are handsome and expressive. She
has a great deal of German blood in her
veins. Her mother is the present EN-
press, was a Princess of Hesse Darn
stadt, and her grandmother, the wife of
Nicholas, was the sister Of the present
Emperor of Germany.
Year: 1873

John Paul says that when a man walks
squarely up to the clergyman who married
him three years before, takes him by the hand
cordially, and, without word of reproach,
inquiries after his health, it is useless for any
to maintain that Christian forgiveness is a
thing of the past, and does not enter largely
into that mans character, or that the heroic
virtues have all disappeared from earth.
Year: 1873

A Detroit business man found a counter
felt fifty-cent scrip among his currency, the
other day, and he put it in his vest and that
afternoon gave it 10 little girl begging on
the streets. When he came back from tea he
found the same piece Of scrip in the drawer
again, and questioning his clerk he learned
that little girl had brought it in, bought a
stick of gum, and gone away with forty-nine
cents good money. That bank has suspend
ed on currency payments to beggars.
Year: 1873

A man in OoTnvsll Cansda, recently
dug up the coffin Of bis wife, who had
been buried ten years, to refute an alb
surd story which had gained oredenee
among his neighbors that he had sold
his wife TO an Indian chief and that the
coffin was only filed with clay. The re
mains Of the deceased woman we're found
eel preserved, and the silly Canadians
we're satisfied.
Year: 1873

We are prepared to demonstrate
to any ono. that our Elevators are
SAFER than any other. That tlley
run FASTER and very much
MORE STEADILY and moro quiz
etIy than any other. That they arc
simple in construction, and there
is very little machinery to get out
oforler and need repairs, and that
they can be operated at very much
less expense than any other, even
If the water Is. pumped by steam.
IF connected with IN nrtosian we'll
the cost Of operation is NOTHING,
as the saving In insurance and wa
ter tax pays the interest on the
cost Of the well.


We cannot afford to give away
the Elevators, but we can prove to
any one that our Elevator Is better
In EVERY RESPECT than an y
other, and CAN BE RUN FOR
NOTHING. This ought to satisfy
the most s11eptical.


Shall be glad to show the Eleva-
tor to any one, and PROVE all we
claim. WIN. E. HALE g CO.,


Second story, southeast corner


State and WnsllingtOn-sts.
Year: 1873

The Waco Examiner, of the Isl,
brings us accounts of the hanging, by q
disguised mob, of Mat Wallace, who
was brother-in-law of the celebrated
Bill Posey, who has figured extensively
as q horse man in that portion Of the
State. His transactions in horse flesh
were not always OH the square, and the
people tiring of his style in horse trad
ing have taken this summary manner
to rid themselves of him. We are no
friend to midnight murdercrs, and
condemn most heartily anything that
has not the sanction as well as the col
oring of the law, in treating the rights
that ought to belong to every one. Mat
Wallace may have been terror to his
section, but we dare say he had a
greater right to fear his neighbors than
they him, as the facts prove. Good
men may sometimes become disgusted
with the laws delays, but they should
never allow themselves to become des-
perate to the extent of shedding the
blood of fellow creature without ac-
cording 70 him every right our consti-
tuition grants to the citizens of Texas.
Year: 1873

We regret exceedingly 10 ohr9niole
the severe Illness of Capt. S. J. Adams,
who has been confincdto his bed for the
past few days with fever that seems to
be of stubborn type. We sincerely
trust that the careful ministrations and
experienced treatment he is receiving
may soon bring the flush of health TO
his cheek, and strength to his body.
This community can lily afford TO c-dis-
pense with such man.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the Galveston
News, from Austin, who writes over
the non dc plume Of "Cab, u has the
following to say in communication
which appeared in that paper on the
1st inst, to which we object, not only
because IL is without truth in fact, but
is calculated to misrepresent, In the
highest degree, the good people who
compose this city, and the esteem in
which the Hon. John Henry Brown Is
held by them:


at is reported in Austin that upon
the return of Major John Henry Brown
to his home in Dallas, and two days
after his sons death, he was "chlv-
ariedn and his house assaulted with
missiles of various descriptions. Also,
that Senators Pyle, BroughtOn and Cole
were feted, and iereed, and toasted, ana
called out, and also every mark OF
honor shown them. The Austinians do
not like this, and strong comments,
not very hattering to the three Sena-
tors, We're made, many claiming that
Brown deserved no such treatment,
while the others did. l have no opill-
ion of my own to express"


To deny the rumor which has OBJ
tanned in Austin, relative to the recep-
tion extended Major Brown on his re-
turn home, is all that is necessary TO
place both our people and their Repre-
sentative right before all the honest
men in the State, but there is some
thing more than u mere rumor con-
nected with this malicious assault upon
a gentleman and his fair name; it is an
insult intended to apply to our whole
people, whom the calumniator would
have the world believe nre not sufti-
ciently civilized to even respect the
dead. II is true that no ovation
was extended Major Brown when
he reached his home, because any such
demonstration on the part af hia CON
stituency at the time would have been
in bad taste on their part, and exceed
ingly disgusting to him. He reached
his home just in time to see his eldest
son fall asleep in death, and since then
deep grief has settled Hp9n his heart
and his household, and to be feted and
feasted under such circumstances is
something John Henry Brown neither
desires or wouldapprove. Of one thing,
however, we can speak advisedly, and
that is, the good services rendered by
Major Brown as q most faithful and
competent representative of this coun-
ty, No ope at all acquainted with the
labors performed by the last Legislature
but appreciates the important par, tax
en- by our representative in that body.
Always prompt and faithful, his clear
head and honest heart had as much to
do in correctly shaping and systematic
ing the chaotic debris left by the twelfth
Legislature, as any in the State. We
remember seeing something in
the Journal, which was as lit
orally false rs could be, In re-
gard to the rumored insults which
were extended Major Brown on his ar
rival home by the people of this city,
but as the announcement was made in a
Radical paper, we made no reply 10 H.
only In u general way in an article
which appeared in this paper on the
10th ult., but now that the base fabri-
cation has gone so far as to obtain ere
dence in Democratic circles we, can no
longer refrain from treating the sub
ject rs it deserves, and denounce the
author of the report as a lying calumni-
ator.
Year: 1873

part of the crew remain on board when


the vessel drifted away into the fog
and darkness, and that there is Il myS-
terry in relation to the sudden death of


the heroic commander. 1t is possible
that the Polaris has made her way to
some Arctic port without serious disas-
ter, and in that case the reports of the
scientific observers in regard to the ge-


ography and tho fauna and flora Of the
high latitudes will yet add something
to our knowledge of the phenomena


Of Nature; but the perils OF North


ern voyaging are so numerous and
so great that it is more than probable


that the fate Of the polaris will be that


of the lIrebus and tho Terror. 1t is
we'll known that Captain Hall was


firm believer in the theory of the cNis-
tcnce Of an open Polar Sea, determined
to push further toward the Polo than
any navigator who had preceded him.
In this effort hc actually succeeded, for
the POlariS made her Way to tho lati-
tue of 50 deg, 1G nlin.--a feat never
before accomplished by Il ship. DIR.


Nanc'S men, who reached about tho
same latitude, made the journey in
part by boats, and the remainder over
land on foot, and claimed to have dis
covered the open sea; but Halls party
contend that the sea is but stratc
some fourteen miles wide, with the
appearance OF open water to the North
ward. Kane and Hall pass into history
together, as enthusiastic and advcntu-
rouS explorers who have penetrated
further, and who havcsccn more, than
any other naVigators of the Arctic Seas


but one died OF disease contracted i'll
the quest, and the other lies buried on
the field of his triumph. The world is
not greatly the gamer by all that these
bravo men suffered.
Year: 1873

Register and Negro Crowd Begin the
NiOlcncc-Aprill j., 300 Negroes 'rhrCnt-
cnWhiic fcOPlc-Brcak.S Smash Fire
Into Houses and Compel All white
People TO Flee Across the River


Nash and His Party Did Not


Desire An Appeal to Arms.
Year: 1873

But | do not propose to write a
treatise upon the condition of woman
in Germany. 1t would be ungener-
Gus and ungrateful on my part to
pass any censures upon people who
have always been kind to me as a
stranger, and have given me an even
ing's entertainment which | shall all
my life remember with delight.
Year: 1873

Having had ten or twelve years expe-
rlence, will give you my plan of trans
planting potato slips. Some persons wait
for seasons to set slips. This is unneces-
sary. 1 cultivated last year ten or twelve
acres in sweet potatoes, and 1 set them
without waiting for a season. My plan is
to have my land we'll prepared and free
about three feet apart. would here speak
of the great benefit of the potato ridger,
which every man can have at little cost
by taking the common shovel or bull
tongue plow and put on wooden wings.
Have them about three feet apart at the
points. This ridger is capable of throw
ing up from four to five acres per day with
one horse after being bedded with the
plow, which is more than equal to ten or
twelve hands with hoes.


My plan for setting slips is this; Having
got both plants and ground ready, no mat
ter how dry the weather is, I proceed to
plant by hauling to the field barrel of
water, which is sufficient to set ten thou
sand plants. Take bucket and fill with
water and mix in dirt until the whole is
| of that consistency best to stick to the
roots of the slips. Take twenty or thirty
slips in your hand at time, straighten
and even them, then dip them in the mud


nearly to the bottom leaves. Drop fifteen


inches apart and set them well in the
ground to the bottom leaf. The dirt should
be well pressed to the roots.


recommend farmers and gardeners to
try this plan, as deem it greatly to their
interest. I have pursued this plan for
several years, and find it successful, hav-
ling but few to replant. My yield is gener-
ally from one hundred to three hundred
bushels per acre, according to variety of
the potato.


MY garden is located four miles from
Nashville, Lebanon pike, Mill creek.
A. J. GREEN.
Year: 1873

EDITOR RURAL: I have always meant
to write to you when got old enough. I
am nine years old, and would like to tell
the Rural boys how to feed hens to make
them lay. Take pan of corn meal and
wheat bran, mixed, and after they have
hoiled meat, pour the liquor over it while
hot enough to scald. (They generally take
the grease off, but would leave it on. J
Feed this while warm, put in some red
pepper, and keep plenty. of corn by them
for luncheon and box of old lime or plas-
ter for them to pick at, and see if it don't
keep you busy to carry in the eggs. We
have been troubled with lice on the fowls,
but last year when we set hen We sprink-
led ashes over the hen and in the nest, and
they all left.-F. L. j., Lakeside, N. j.
Year: 1873

A reader of the Rural NeW Yorker asks
the best method of applying ashes tol po-
tatOes. We have seen the little difference
in results where we have sown the ashes
broadcast on the ground after plowing and
before narrowing, and applying large
handful directly to each hill soon after the
plants show out of the ground.
Year: 1873

LEG BAIL. - William Murphy, Iali1iiIl ain I arly
known as Bill, (and bad bill he seems to be)
has seven indictments against him for liquor
selling. On these indictments he gave bail for
his appearance at court Yesterday his sure
ties surrendered him. While in an ante room
adjoining the court room, he asked the officer
in charge to bring in friend whom he wished
to consult in regard to his case. The officer
stepped out of the room for that purpose, and
William proved himself master of the situation
by Immediately leaving for parts unknown.


The officer has found the ''friend,'' and is
now looking for William
Year: 1873

PROPOSED DIscoNTINUANcE OF HIGH STREET
SOUTH OF YORK STREET.-There will be pub
lie hearing before the Committee on New
Streets, at half past o'clock, Friday afternoon,
January 31st in relation to the petition of the
Boston and Maine Railroad, for the discontinue
ance of High street between York and Com
mercial streets; at which time any gentleman
interested will have an opportunity to be
Year: 1873

THE BLACK CROOK Crowded houses still
continue to greet the Black Crook. Last even
ing some of our first people were present and
the number Of ladies in attendance was larger
than at any previous performance. The con-
tortionists went through new and astounding
feat, and the general excellence Of the perform
ance was fully up to its usual standard.
Year: 1873

= SENSATIONAL SToRIEs.-Opium, hasheesh
the faculty of imagination; the lovers of tea
and coffee claim for those articles great virtues
as cerebral stimulants; poets and lazy people
generally, look to wine or other alcoholic bev-
erages for inspirations; but this winters obser-
walton has led us to the conclusion that the
presence of smallpox in a city stimulates the
imagination of the inhabitants far beyond any
oriental drug or the products of any occidental
distilleries. Munehausen and Sir John Man
deville, those very princes of falsehood, must
have lived and written in variola-infested CITY,
The narrator of the Arabian Nights, she of the
GLIB tongue and exhaustless invention, must
nave spun her yarns in the very midst of the
red pestllence, and Dana, of the New York Sua,
must be in the habit Of daily frequentng the
smallpox wards of the great hospitals Let
but case of the dread disease occur in city,
ana wave OF credulity sweeps over and in
gulphs the reason of the people. The widest
stories are set af1oat, transmitted from mouth
to mouth, and readily believed The more i'm
probable the tale, jhe more ready are our peo-
pie to believe it, They are eager for fresh hor-
rors, One would think, after conversing with
some of our citizens, that we were all dancing
at veritable masque of the Red Death The
wife of the proprietor Of one of our principal
hotels has severe attack of facial NEURALGIA.
and is obliged to poultice her face. A little red
ness naturally follows Forthwith the story
goes forth that she has the smallpox. One of
our citizens has an attack of erysipelas in the
face. His next neighbor tells you that the man
should be carried to the pest house immediate
ly. A child has an attack of scarlet fever or OF
the measles Some people, who know so much
more than the physicians, will persist in telling
YOU that it is an undoubted case of varioloid.-
An attdche of one of our dry goods houses has a
bilious attack. The doctor is seen to enter the
house frequently, and passers-by wonder why
the red flag is not hung out. These are but a
few of the many reports which reach the ears
of the alert focal He traces them up. and
finds nothing. He says so; but still the people
are 10th to believe him..


The daily papers of this city have been per
fectly frank in their statements of the progress
of the disease. What they have said can be
implicitly relied upon. The same course will
be pursued in the future, and we advise our cit
liens to utterly discredit all the floating rumors
they hear, until they are authenticated. The
originators of these idle tales are blameworthy
in the highest, and those who repeat them are
scarcely less so.
Year: 1873

PROPOSED DIscoNrINUANcE.-There will be
public hearing before the Committee on New
Streets, at half-past three o'clock this after
noon, in relation to the position of the Boston
and Maine Railroad, for the discontinuance of
High Street between York and Commercial
Strets; at which time any gentleman interested
will have an opportunity to be heard
Year: 1873

STEALING RIDEs.-EVery spring large
numbers of boatmen make their way to
Whitehall about the time for the open
ing of the canals, for the purpose of Sc
curing work. They generally are desti-
tute of money, and resort to all sorts of
expeGients for the purpose of stealing a
ride on the Rensselaer, and Saratoga
railroad. A few days since one of these
men was found in freight car at Fort
Edward, and was put off the train. Be-
fore it started up again he crawled down
under the cars and secured position on
the truck so that his body rested across
one of the shafts of the wheel. In this
position he rode to Whitehall, where he
was discovered and taken out quite the
worse for wear The shaft had worn
through his coat, vest and shirt, and was
lust making an inroad into the walls
covering the mans stomach. The for
tunate stoppage of the train saved the
poor fellows life. Some time since one
| of the same class of men, having been
repeatedly put off the train, stole his
way to the front of the engine and rode
upon the cowcatcher. His cap blew off,
and the velocity of the train caused his
hair to stand on end, etc. Just then it
began to rain and freeze, and when the
fellow got off at Whitehall his head
presented the appearance of mass OF
icicles growing out of his scalp, All
who saw him laughed at his odd appear,
ance, though he himself was half per
ished with cold.