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Year: 1872

In a crowded tavern, judge and an
Irishman we're once obliged to room to-
gether


Now. Pat" said the judge, "you
would have had to have staid long time
in Ireland before you would have slept
with Judge"


cay ay, sir y answered Pat. can yel
honor would have had to have staid a
long time in Ireland afore you'd been
Judge"
Year: 1872

The experience of the present summer.
SAYS the Salem Gazette, overthrows the
theory of few years ago that the iron
rails laid across the country were to draw
of the electricity in silence and put an
end to thunder-storme. a
Year: 1872

4 ST Louis boy didn't want to go to
school, so he gave out that he had been
bitten by q mad dog. He finally confessed
to his heart broken mother that he had
been playing little game, but he says
that II mad dogs are any worse than peach
sprouts he has yet to find 1t out.
Year: 1872

A marked increase of female loveliness is the
eye-delghting result of the immense popularity
which Hagan's Magnolia Balm has obtained
among the ladies of America. Compilations
radiant with snowy purity and tinged with the
roseate hue of health are commonly met with
whenever it is used. For the sallow and un-
wholesome appearance of the face and neck,
which utterly counterbalances the effect of any
personal attraction the owner may possess, It
substitutes that clear, pearl-like complexion
and renders the roughest skin as soft as Genoa
velvet; No one is more astonished than the
person using it at the marvellous transformation
which it effects in these particulars.
Year: 1872

In view of the developments at Nash


vile on Wednesday, the following Nash


vile correspondence of the C0urier-Jo,,r-


nal will not be without interest The
writer no doubt had interviewed Andy,


and speaks by the card:


think Johnson's programme is to lay
low until just about the time the conven-
ton meets and then rise and bring the
game, that is if he has anything like a fair
show. A convention representing the will


of the people will give him the nomina-
ton, but if 1t is packed the case will bedif-
ferent, and he will not allow his name to
go before it. In such an event you may
prepare to see lively times down here, for
the stump and make things happen. He
will go down before the bar of the people
and cry packed convention and the
people will give him rousing majority in
return. From now until November, he
could visit nearly every county in the
State, and he would draw crowds such as
no other man could. His strong holt" Z"
is with the mass of the people, the COM
mon herd, the yeomanry, the bone and
sinew, the mountain boys" Let him
once reach them, and the thing is up.
Convention or no convention, they will
elect him.


But johnson will not allow his name to
go before the convention, unless there is
chance for the nomination. He is not so
anxious to be smothered by cut and dried
convention as all that. There is great dis
satisfaction here, and all over the State, at
the manner in which the convention is
being gotten up and the delegations ap-
pointed. Johnson's friends say that it is
being packed in Cheatham's interest. If
this Impression gets abroad, and Johnson
will come out, repudiate the whole thing
and run independent, he will be elected
are that this is the course he will take, un-
less the convention is fair upon the face
of If
Year: 1872

mess man or mechanic, when be sees Mt to change
his lspation-and such changes are constantly
going on, without eliciting much comment. B;;is
We have been here 80 long. that we cannot mRch
blame them for considering the Chisf as belchging
to the town.


And now word to our patrons hete. We ex-
pect to continue to take an interest in White
Cloud Affairs, and shall at all times be happy to
do all In our power to advance her prosperity
We shall make arrangements to give the White
Cloud local news as fully ns we do now, and We
presume most Of the people here will want to
keep posted in the public affairs Of the County,
which shall take particular pains to inform
them upon. We are free to confess that We
would he grati6ed to retain large list of sub
scribers here. Yet we do not desire that any one
shonld unwillingly continue subscriber, merely
to avoid hurting our feelings. We would like
every subscriber TO speak out plainly. If he
wants the paper still sent to him, We shall be
pleased to send it, and give him his moneys worth
but if he does not want il, We will consider it a
favor, and it will save ms trouble and annoyance,
if he will let us know the fact distinctly. And as
We do not wish to take the slightest advantage
of any person, if there are any subscribers who
have paid us i'm advance, who do not want to take
the balance Of their subscription in the paper pub
lisied ut Troy the balance due them will be re-
funded upon application. We want to quit square
or satisfactorily.


The paper will retain its old name, except the
"White Cloud" and will remain the same size
and style in Gery respect. We do not mean to
miss sinyleVsue, If possible to avoid it, but keep
right on, as if it were the same old paper. The
paper goes postage free to any post-ofice IN the
County.


Finally: A word to those who have taken Of
is an editors business TO talk, and to pitch in and
the public compel him to do it. In any matter Of
public excitement, other citizens can express an
opinion if they wish, can crawl into their holes
and keep mum. But if the editor pursues the lat
ter coarse, he is Denounced a milk and water
man, and his paper is Of no force. But when he
does go in, especially when he gets excited, like
other folks, and goes in pretty roughly, all on the
opposite side offended again, and consider
themselves abused-n fact, they will not support
a man who abuses them for differing with him.
The editor is good fellow skunk, just accor-
dinghy as he takes sides with or against you. But
remember that if you persist i'm making public
property of him-if you want him to keep making
noise, and load him up to the mnzzle and fire
him off when you please. like an old fint-lock
musket, You must not complain if he occasionally
kicks.
Year: 1872

V- The Paola Republican wants Congressman
who do not sell themselves, body and breeches,
for prospective Judgeships. and who are not too
lazy 10 sneeze. People are getting too hard to
please. If you don't want corrupt officers, take
men who are too lazy to be corrupt. The hest
way to secure active clerk, who will not steal,
is to get one who has had both legs and arms cut
of.
Year: 1872

Is THIS FAIR!-Men will let an open account


run for years, without settlement; and then,


when the final reckoning comes, and their bill
looks formidable. they will complain that the
amorpt = exorbitant or insist that they arc
charged with more than they got, or with what
they have already paid. We have had experience
of this kind. Why not settle at least once year,
and keep D run Of your business 1t is hard to
credit s.an forever, and then forgive the debt be-
cause it has run so long there may be some mis-
take about it.
Year: 1872

70 The Indiana Republicans are talking of
nominating Vice President Colfax for Congress
man at large from that State. This would be a
sensible move. Colfax would he of more service
in Congress than in the Vice Presidency. and
would strengthen the ticket in Indiana His ser
vices should not I've lost to the party and the
country.
Year: 1872




Mr. Billings, President Of the Gas Company
on the West Side, made rather a sweeping prop
osition to the City Council on Monday night.
Though the proposition does not go into detail,
it substantially offers that the city shall nvesti-
gate and ascertain tho value Of the property
owned by that Company, and that the Company
will furnish gas to its customers at prices to be
fixed BY the Council, and which shall yield that
Company 10 per cent interest on the money in
vested. Should this offer be declined,
or should the city, after accept
ing it, find it more advantageous to
become the exclusive owner of the property
Of the Gas Company, he offers the privilege Of
purchasing it at fair valuation by competent
persons selected for thatpurpose. These offers
are not made upon the basis Of the value Of CAPT
tai stock, but upon the value Of the actual prop
erty owned and held by the Company.


The Common Council, by decided vote, re-
ferred the whole subject to the new Council
which begins next week, and the latter body will
probably accede to htr. Billings request for 3
conference between the City Government and
the Gas Company, and the intelligent maturing
of permanent arrangement Of the question Of
supply Of cheap gas.
Year: 1872

The report Of the Secretary Of the Navy does
not give very fattering exhibit Of the condi-
ton Of that service. The vessels now on the
rolls are represented to be of the most useless
character. During the war there we're twenty
ight@draught monitors built, at cost Of
$4,000, 900. Not one OF these vessels Was ever
employed in the service or fred gun. The
whose business it is to repair vessels; but such
is the expensive manner in which these yards
are managed, that the cost Of repairB exceeds
that Of construction. An instance is given
where the Pensacola, which cost originally
9325,000, cost for repairs $3.50, ,o00 or more than
twice the cost OF building her new. It is repre-
seuted that it will cost more to repair the other
now useless vessels Of the navy than it did to
build them originally.


Congress, at the last session, authorized the
Secretary OF the Navy to sell worn-out vessels
and useless material accumulated at the navy
yards. Several Of these vessels are soon to be
sold, and the whole Of them will, in time, be Of
fered toEhe highest bidders. OF the whole force
Of fifty iron-clads, not more than ten can be
rendered fit for naval purposes, and the sale Of
the others is recommended. The Secretary, it
is said, will recommend that there be complete
reorganization OF the naval force, and that the
present vessels be replaced with others to be
built.


It Will hardly be q surprise to the country to
know that work done in the pavy-yards costs
perhaps three times what it would cost if done
in private yards. That Judgment WAS frank
II given last winter by several expert
enced persons in their evidence before
Congressional committees. The fact is,
the navy yard business has degenerated into 8
mere political agency, used for party purposes,
and with little or no regard tor the public in
terest. There is no greater political abuse than
is involved in the expenditures in these navy
yards, and none that requires mora seriously the
application of reform. Practically, we have no
navy; our vessels are all useless Or out Of repair,
and there is 8 frank confession that the Govern
ment can have two yesselB-of-war built in g.
private ship-yard for the same money that it
viii cost to repair an old vessel in public navy
yard It does not seem difficult to see either
the evil or the remedy for this condition Of
things.
Year: 1872

Elaborate experiments made during the past
year BY the Chief Of the Engineers Of the Army
have led him to recommend the adoption Of tor
pedoes for coast defences. It will cost two mill
ions to fully equip our seaports with these ter
r1ble engines Of destruction, and half q million
to place them in the chief haIbors.
Year: 1872

Prof. Thomas Hill, Of Waltnam, Mass, con-
tributes suggestion concerning the most eff
cient mode Of quenching fires, especially in high
buildings in cities, which is Of the greatest i'm
portance. This is, that the tendency Of fremen
is to play On the fire from the top instead Of at
the bottom. Numerous scaling ladders are
brought to the spot, and an immense amount Of
force is wasted to drive the water up through
the hose to where it can play on the fire from
the least effective point The tendency Of fire
to go upward is Irresistible, and fire in the top
Of q building can never be put out so long as
the heat and flames are coming up from below.
To spread 3 fire rapidly it must be lighted from
the bottom, and so to quench q fire rap
idly it must be put out at the
bottom. The suggestion proves itself, but
it is difficult to see in the implements
Of our Fire Departments any sufficient provision
for applying it in practice. If the lower stories
are accessible to the fremen through unshut-
tered windows, they would be very likely to avail
themselves Of it, as the flames would burst
through and afford the f1emcn their mark. But
where the flames only appear through the roof,
or upper parts of q building, it is generally be-
cause they cannot get out at the lower part, and,
where they cannot get out, it is equally difficult
for the fireman to get in. The only way Of ap-
plying Prof. Hills suggestion in all cases is for
the Fire Departments to provide some means Of
boring through brick and stone walls speedily,
and at any desirable point. It might be possible
to provide such means butin it's absence fire.
men cannot always obey tile injunction to ''play
low
Year: 1872

such enjoyment ~ they hau never
known before.


During the succeeding week
three new members were added to
the club -men who were willing
to cut off expense for rum and to-
bacco and devote the proceeds to
the relief Of the poor and distressed
Of the town.


And ere long Digby's Reform
Club became . noted institution in
the town. The projectors thereof
could hardly credit the evidence of
their own senses in contemplating
the results of three months labor.
Two and twenty members had
joined, and the fund for relief
amounted to almost forty dollars .
week, as each man was pledged to
pay in weekly the exact sum his
spirits and tobacco had cost him.
II he continued to use tobacco be
took a lower place in the com
pany, and the use Of spirits as q
beverage was sufficient cause for
expulsion. When the people saw
the great good that was being done,
they we're anxious 10 give their
cid, and be counted in with the
happy crew; but the laws Of the


club were fixed,-no money could
come to it's fund except such as had


been saved BY the donor from the
conquest OF some evil habit, or the


cutting off OF some useless luxury


1t was a bright Sabbath in spring


time, and it had been told thai


Parson Meekly was going to preach


q sermon upon Digby's Reform


Club, and the old westinghouse


was filed to eyerdowing. Th'


clergyman read his text from st


Johns Gospel-"Can there any


good thing come out of Nazareth
F Come and see.' And when he hat
told the story Of Digby's Club, ant


pictured the good results of it
labo-s. he proclaimed to all-"G'


ye, and do liSewise."


Once John Digby and his com
patriots had fancied that it woul,
be q proud moment when they ha
brought the old clergyman to re
cognize the worth of their labors


but the blessings of those upo
whom their bounty had fallen ha
, made such sweet music in the
; ears, and the satisfaction OF dutie
truly done had dropped go sootl
ingly upon their souls, that the
: found no room for that baser prid


which they had aforetime anticip
[ ted.
Year: 1872

= ed for the past twenty years ln Introducing to the public his several systems of Warming Build ings with Steam and Hot Water, by methods well known throughout the United States and Canadas. has, at the solicitation of numerous friends, fna, produced 6 more economical Heater, which em- bodies all the excellent qualities of Steam and Hot Water heat, with the simplicity of Hot Air Furnace construction.

 Notwithstanding the largs sale and universal approval of Colds Steam and Water Heating Apparatus" its responsiveness has imreded its general introduction and use. To remedy this de- feet has long been the study of the inventor, who is now satisfed that in this new Heater, he has secured the only plan whereby persons of moder- ate means can enjoy in their homes, the comfort of ample warmth without injury to health ; and that his new method meets a demand long felt. and must when well known, supersede all other Heaters. No one desires. If 1t can be avoid cd to put into his home q heater which win cer. tainly impair the health of those who inhale the air vitated by contact with highly heated surfaces

 All other Hot Air Furnaces heat the air too hot

 because of the very limited amount of superficial surface exposed to the fire, go that much of the surface is often heated to redness the proportion | System, Is TEN TIMES GREATER than the common Hot Air Furnace, and no part is overheated; in

 decd 1t is adjusted such correct scientific prin

 ciples, that every part of the surface is equally warmed

 In the new Furnace the valuable result is secured l of an apparatus with all the merits of Steam Heater, with the simple construction of the Ho Air Furnace, avoiding all the deleterous effects O | that kind of heat.

 q n GOTn
Year: 1872

The following humorous passage from the
preface to "POor Richards Almanac" for
1877, shows that Franklin had no provision
of a weather-signal service such as we now
have: Gas to the weather, if was to fall
into the method my brother J-n some
times uses, and tell you, Snow here, or in
New England-Rain here, or in South Car
olina-COld to the nOrthward-Warm to
Southwark and the like, whatever errors
might commit, should be something more
secure of not being detected in them, But
l consider it will be of no
service to anybody to know what
weather it is 1000 miles of, and
therefore l always set down positively what
weather my reader will have, be he where
he will at the time. We modestly desires
only the favorable allowance Of q day or
tlco before and ddy or tlVo after the pre-
else day against which the weather is set
and if it does not come to pass accordingly,
let the fault be laid upon the printer, who,
It's very like, may have transpOsed or mis-
placed it, perhaps for the convenience of
putting in his holidays: and since, in spight
of all / can say, people will give him great
part of the credit of making my Almanacks,
Stis but reasonable he should take some
share of the blame"
Year: 1872

into Thin Air.


CINCINNATI, Feb. i10.-The gentleman
from Tennessee who gave the information
upon which was based newspaper articles
and dispatches, concerning a scene Of rowdy-
ism on board of train on the Memphis
and Ohio railroad few days ago, in which
there was indiscriminate firing Of revolvers
in one of the passenger coaches, and the
engineer fired at two or three times, ex
plains that he did not in any way intend to
ascribe it to the Ku-Klux; that the facts
so far as the shooting on the train and at
the engineer are concerned, are true, but
that he had no intention of connecting the
offenders with the Ku-Klux or any other
organization.
Year: 1872

CHICAGO, Feb. 10.-The Commission
ers appointed by the United States Court
to appraise under the condemnation law the
value of the block of ground at present
partially occupied by the CustomhOuse have
agreed upon sum which they regard as a
fair price for the ground. The same is
S1,671, ,812. The sum agreed upon by the
owners when requested to put in their bids
was S2,18O,OOO, a difference of over one
half a million,
Year: 1872

Is at his residence in 34th street. He re-
turned to the city promptly upon receiving
information of the action of the Grand
Jury. His friends feel confident that he
will be able to establish his innocence. A
motion will be made to quash the indict-
mpDt
Year: 1872

It is with profound sorrow that we re-
cord the death of General AMBROSE
RANSOM WRIGHT, If Augusta.


General Wright was one Of Georgia's
most distinguished sons. As an officer of
The Confederate Army, as member of the
bar, in the Editorial sanctum, and in the
social circle, lie was alike distinguished and
honored. A man of great personal magne-
tism, be made friends in every sphere Of
life.


We had formed for him warm personal
attachment. A friendship begun during
an association in the army, had been ce-
mented by the ties of the editorial sane
TIM. AS friend and as al editor we
sincerely mourn his loss.


To his bereaved family and to his aSso-
ciates upon the staff Of the Chronicle and
Sentinel we extend our most heartfelt SYM
pathies. His death at this time, Just as he
was about to enter upon his duties as a
member of Congress, is a loss not only to
Georgia, but to the whole South.
Year: 1872

al the place. When finished, the Will
mington and Weldon Railroad was the
lDngcst in the world, and remained SO for
seven years, and then the Gar of Russia
was the first to build a longer one, with
the vast resources Of his Empire.


The subscriptions to the Wilmington and
Manchester, and Wilmington, Charlotte
and Rutherford Railroads were almost as
liberal, every cent of which has been lost :;
but her citizens do not regret the loss Of
the stock, as the roads have been or will be
secured.


And when the people of the Middle aMd
Western portions Of the State called upon
the citizens Of North Carolina to help
build great central line Of railroad
through the State, although its Eastern
terminus was fixed more than eighty miles
north of us, Wilmington subscribed and
paid for more than Onc-tenN Of the entire
pirate stock taken IN that great ero,k.


Such is her record in regard to works of
internal improvement.


To, day subscriptions are being taken,
with good prospect of success, to begin
within the next few months the construc-
ton of d seacoast route to Norfolk, almost
parallel with the road which it is proposed
to charter.


BY the energy and enterprise Of her
citizens, her business has increased and
her population grown SO much that
Wilmington pays a veiy considerable
portion Of the entire tax Of the State
paying very liberal interest upon all the
money expended by the State i'll her behalf.


1t would seem to be the ambition of some
men to pull down rather than build up our
city. Good policy, as well as decent
State pride, would dictate to North
Carolinians different course.
Year: 1872

How TO Stamp TObaccO-A Ruling Un.


changed - President OF for Long


Branch-VisitOrs at the White House


Conference on Treaty Matters-Indian


Report Needing Confirmation.


WASHINGTON, June I9.-No tobacco on
which the tax has not accrued prior to
July can after that time be put on the
market under sixteen-cent stamp. All
stamps of that denomination remaining on
hand must be returned to the Commissioners
of Internal Revenue, who will exchange
them for stamps of the denomination of
twenty cents with the proper computation
as to the difference in their face value
thus 500 worth of siXteen-cent stamps will
receive 500 worth of twentY-cent stamps,
and thus the number of stamps will not be
great


The Commissioner absolutely refuses to
change his ruling requiring all tobacco
bonded after the sixth of June instant to
be withdrawn for sale or consumption
without the payment of the tax specified
in the bond under which the removal was
made.


The President leaves again tonight for
Long Branch. The Secretary of War has
returned, and had an interview with the
President to-day on the Indian question.


There were large number of callers at
the White House during the day, but few
prominent individuals. Mr.. Fish had a
long conversation with the President on
treaty matters The government has no
additional news of the movements at Gen
eva.


The Indian Office has a report. which
needs confirmation, however, that an agent
of the NavajOes has been murdered by a
party of Utes. The latter are in the South
ern part of Colorado, and the NavajOes in
the northwestern corner of New Mexico
and the northeastern corner of Arizona.
These nations are unfriendly to each other.
This difficulty has no connection with the
on the Texas frontier. made
by the incursions Of KiOwas and Co.
Year: 1872

IT Is a thrilling experience to ride
behind = vigorous horse that has es.
capped all control Of his driver and
dashes along at his own sweet will,
but to be on a runaway locomotive has
still more the thrill of danger In it.
An engineer In Kentucky lately had
this experience. He was trotting back
aud forth with his engine OH pretty
steep grade, when the cylinder head
blew out. and the iron monster. find
ing the check gone, dashed down the
grade. round sharp curve through n
tunnel, and into the streets OF Frank.
fort at a furious rate. Finally, an as
cending grade took the wind out OF it.
and It came to 4 standStill. \ little
fellow who was " fooling" Oh the cow
catcher, and hung OIL for dear life dur
ing the runaway, says il went three
miles minute.