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Year: 1871

The election returns we publishe'
yesterday were eagerly sought after an
joyfully read. They dissipated al
doubts as to the result in the State, ant
gave assurance of such a victory as ",
were hardly prepared for. 1t was, in
deed, a magnificent triumph, and whit
it will swell every honest Conservative
bosom with joy and exultation, it vii
carry dismay into the ranks of our ad
versaries. They counted largely OF
supposed divisions in our party, anc
boasted of many anticipated gains
Among ourselves there were few who
were without misgivings, not as to Sc
curing majority in the Legislature
but as to the extent Of that majority
1t was feared that our strength in tha
body would be reduced, and that the
mongrel party would carry some coun
ties that we carried at the last election
Contrary to their hopes and our fears,
our representation in the Legislature in
stead of being diminished is increased
The probability is that our majority
will be so large as to be unwieldy and
almost troublesome. The Conservative
masses throughout the State seem to
have been thoroughly aroused. With
out being excited and demonstrative
they were resolute and terribly in
earnest" Their calmness was mistaken
by many for apathy, and upon that
supposed apathy the Radicals counted
largely.


In this city our friends did nobly, car.
ryiug their whole ticket by such ma
jority as few dared hope for.


We cannot appreciate properly the
value OF the victory achieved without
glancing at the condition in which We
would have been placed had we been de-
feated The bare contemplation OF
such a contingency is sickening; but as
the man in good health, whose organs
are all sound, whose appetite and diges.
tion are good, whose sense and faculties
are perfect, does not properly value and
thankfully enjoy the blessings vouch-
sailed him until he looks upon fellow
mortal who is stricken down by disease
and can do nothing and enjoy nothing,
so we cannot estimate the value OF the
great deliverance vouchsafed us without
glancing at the afflicted and forlorn con-
dilion Of some OF our sister States of the
South and rejecting upon our own suf-
ferings if we had been consigned to the
same hard fate.


We have escaped carpet-bag domina'
tion-a mongrel legislature, an ignor-
ant and corrupt judiciary, a swarm of
Radical State, county and city officials
and outrages, insults and humiliations
without end.


Let us hope that the General Assem-
bly, Just elected will be mindful Of the
honor, OF the Com monwealth, OF which
it will for two years be the guardian,
and that We shall no more hear Of
bribery and corruption in the halls Of
legislation-at least among Conserva-
tives. The boiy chosen is for the most
part composed Of new material-but
there will be sufficient sprinkling of
experienced members to give direction
to it.


We offer our congratulations to the
people OF Virginia upon the great and
glorious triumph achieved by them
Richmond Wing, Thursday.
Year: 1871




LOUISVILLE, November lO.-About
noon yesterday an accident occurred in
the big tunnel of the Air Line railroad
near Edmondsville, by which four OF
the tunnel men were badly hurt. They
had been filling holes to blast, and after
the blast four of the men started IN from
their hiding place to resume work. One
of the men was carrying a keg of pow
der TO fill other holes, when 1t suddenly
exploded from sparks from the torch IN
his hand. The explosion was nothing
hut flash, but its effects were serious.
Four men were badly burnt about the
head and face, but are not considered
dangerously hurt.
Year: 1871

A man at a camp meeting out West
boasted that he had been married
twenty-five years, during which time he
had never given his wife q cross word
or look. He forgot to tell his hearers
that he dared not 10 the one or the
other
Year: 1871

GENTLEMEN who smoke cigars and
pipes do not seem to recognize the fac,
that their smoke invariably lodges in the
hair of erybody in the room, and that
the smell Of tobacco fingers upon the
scalp many hours after the smoking. In
this manner innocent persons are made
offensive to large class of other persons,
aud not . little iIl-feeiing is often the
consequences Of course the smoker has
an inalienable right to make himself and
others as disagreeable as possible. and.
if he chews.- be may spit upon anybody
who says aught against it, but some peo
pie won't like him any the better for his
peculiarifiea.
Year: 1871

CoNGREssMAN Beck tells the follow
ing good one" on himself: Whilst
crossing the Kentucky river, on trip to
Mercer county. the wind blew violently,
and our Congressman. not accustomed to
a sea faring life, was somewhat doubtful
of the ferryman's ability to cross the
stormy water, the boatman being a sharp,
shrewd youth. named Crouch. So Mr..
Beck asked if he could do anything to
help him. Yes said Crouch, take hold
of the railing and pull the boat up stream
all you can Whereupon the stalwart
lawyer laid hold of the railing and pull
ed and tugged with all his might. till the
boat touched the landing After re-
ceiving the ferriage, Crouch said: You re
Mr.. Beck, the Congressman, amt you ?
Yes, answered Mr. Beck, in his friend
ly way. Then, said the young rascal,
your the dist fool, for a smart man,
| ever saw. Pulling at the railing to
move the boatl~ It was too good TO be
lost, and Mr. Beck told it as soon as he
got to town T"
Year: 1871

MISTAKEN EcoNoMY The Washing


ton Star thinks it's an odd idea of econ


omy on the part of some business
men that induces them to reduce
their advertising when times are dull
1t is just when business is slack and
money scarce that the dealer needs TO
address his potent eloquence to custo
mers, to show them that he can make il
worth their while to deal with him.
Year: 1871

THERE will be full moon in the first
week of each of the first seven months
of the present year. In July there will
be two full noons, viz: on the I'd and 31st.
TThis will be a good month for lovers
And in the remaining five mouths the
moon will be at the full in the last week
of each month. 1t will probably be
many years before this win happen
again.
Year: 1871

DIDN'r WANT TO DIE-A travelling
insurace agent had been explaining to a
Western pioneer, the advantages of an
insurance policy. Pathfinder then unused
a moment in grave silence and then said
See here, mister, have lived out in
this country now twenty FIVE years, and
have bucked agin most all the games
they We started. but darn me eft | want to
play game where you have to die tC
beat the bank T.
Year: 1871

a good wife should be like three
things; which three things she should not
be like.


Fgrst-She should be like a snail to
keep within her house; but she should no;
be ike snail to carry all she had on
her back


Secondly-She should be like an echo,
to speak when spoken to; but she should
not be like an echo always to have the
last word.


Mirdig-Sbe shonld be like a town
clock. always to keep time and regularity;
but she should not be like a town clock,
to speak SO loud that all the town may
her hear
Year: 1871

The CIRCUS IN THE AFTERNOON
AND EvENING.--As usual with Rich
mond, the afternoon performance Of Robin
sons circus and menagerie was but thinly
attended, although the efforts of the per-
formers were in no wise lessened. The
crowd went away satisfied that the exhibi-
ton is all claimed for it by the proprietors.


Last night, in spite Of the threatening
appearance of the weather, more than two
thousand people entered the immense can
vass to witness the wonders of nature and
the perfection which many Of the perform
ers had attained in their profession. A
short time after the crowd had become
seated heavy storm of wind and rain
swept over the city, driving the people home
and cutting short the usual programme.


Under a canvass, surrounded by savage
animals usually excited by the approach of
storms, is not the most desirable place in
the world, and the people showed their
good sense in retiring, particularly as other
opportunities will be afforded them of wit
Messing the great exhibition. We hope for
better weather tonight, and that the prince
of showmen, who knows the value OF
printers ink, may be literally rewarded by
The attendance of large crowd. Tonight,
tomorrow, and tomorrow night, the last
opportunities will be afforded our citizens
of seeing this great show.
Year: 1871

THE PUBLIC MEETING.-The public
meeting of citizens called by Mayor Kelley
claims the attention of all our people. We
doubt not the men Of means in Richmond
will tonight show liberality commensur-
ate with the magnitude of the calamity
which has befallen a great city of our COM
mon country.
Year: 1871

The Republican office was in plain
building on Washington street. The press
was six-cylinder hoe. The loss in build
ing and material would not amount to
more than 100000, if so much.
Year: 1871

There was dead calm yesterday in the neigh.
borhood OF the City Hall ana the various depart
ments the storm that was stirred up by the arrest
OF Tweed on Saturday had evidently spent its
force; ana, although there was still consld-
cradle excitement manifested By good many
people who, for reasons best known 10 themselves,
had an Idea that The Grand Jury might nave some
thing to say about them before the day was over.
there was no real general excitement among the
rank and hle who most do congregate In the vicin-
lty OF the Court House.
Year: 1871

I the chrysalis Of which lies hidden in q sin


gularly ingenious cocoon. When the
caterpillar is full fed it crawls to the trunk


of the tree and looks about for a creviee in


the rough bark. Into this crevice it in


sinuates itself, and begins at once to nibble


the bark into tiny chips, which it fastens


together with the silk fluid discharged


from its spinnerets, and so makes a cocoon


which completely shelters it. Owing to
the ma terials of which the cocoon is made,
it exactly resembles the bark and can
scarcely be distinguished from it ; and as
the caterpillar took care to retire into the
crevice before spinning, the surface of the
cocoon does not project beyond that Of the
bark in the general. Very often when
the eye fails in detecting a cocoon the
touch secceeds, the material of the cocoon
being soft but this is not the case with
the puss moth. whose cocoon is much hard
er than the bark of which it was made,
the silk-huid forming a wonderfully firm
and tough cement.


Under the bark are also the relics of
other creatures. For example, in ope will
low-tree. the nut-hatch and the squirrel
nave OOlu lCit III luC sudpC VI
sundry hazel-nuts. There is no difficulty
of distinguishing the work of these two
creatures. The nut-hatch wedges the nut
firmly into a crevice of the bark, and ham
mers rapidly and perseveringly at the
point until the nut is split in two as neatly
as boy could do it with his knife The
bird then goes off with the kernel and
leaves the halves of the shells where they
happen TO lie, some of them being still fixed
in the bark, some lying on the ground, and
some having slipped between the bark and
the wood. The squirrel treats its nuts in
a different manner, first gnawing off the
tip, and then splitting the shell with its
chisel-shaped teeth. Sometimes it gets
hold of bad nut, and after nibbling at
the tip throws it away. In the same tree
that has just been mentioned were several
bad nuts, each of which had been tested by
squirrel, and then thrown into the hol-
low between the tree and the bark.-Har-
per'S Weekly.
Year: 1871

measures thereto. In fne we aspire to
the true science of existence. We would
avoid chafe, fret and superstition. We
would live orderly, peaceably, wisely,
hourly increasing in knowledge and faith.
We would cheerfully submit to the inevi-
table, bear what we must, avoid what is
unnecessary, and constantly keep ourselves
in the path of all divine, celestial and ter
restrlal Accomplishments and helps Then
we would use and not abuse, share with
each other, advocate our brotherhood, and
prove that there is enough for all under
the guidance of the Supreme Father.
Year: 1871

ALL KINDS OF EXCITEMENT are danger
Gus where there IS tendency to disease
of the heart. All places and scenes where
the passions are liable to be st rred dan
ger, or fear, or strong sympathy-are to
be Stunned Moderate amusement, will
do no harm. but the tragic drama and the
actual battlefield are alike unsuited to
this kind of physical i'll. The excitement
of crowd at fire. or OF a crowd in
some noisy political meeting, may be dis
astrous. A regular and quiet life, free
from extremes, unbroken by noise and con-
fusion, is better for the heart. Other
things being equal, the heart keeps its
even play more surely in the country than
in the city
Year: 1871

es, and the functions of the body are all
arrested.


Apply cold cloths or ice bags to the
head, and mustard plaster to the neck,
with something to act on the bowels as
soon as possible. But something more
speedy than this is an imperative necessity
in most cases. or death will ensue in few
moments Skilfull and eminent physicians
in this country, upon actual experiment,
founded upon true philosophy, have as
certained that speedy recovery takes place
within an hour if the patient is bled from
both arms in the old-fashioned way.
From the largest distended VEN the blood
may only flow by drops at the first second
or two, but as it flows freer the relief be-
comes almost miraculous, and speedy and
complete.
Year: 1871

On DISSIPATIoN-Therc are three
kinds of dissipation in the world-white.
red and black dissipation White disSi-
patton Is the waste OF nerve and excessive
use of the brain there are pious dissipa-
ton, scholarly dissipation, business dissi-
patton, the dissipation of the men who,
with salutary shudders, thank God that
they are not as other men are. Red dis
sipation is the dissipation of the increase
of blood by all those passions and indul-
gencies which come of luxurious living.
Black dissipation is that of the grosser in
dulgences which criminal men seek. The
frst-named is increasing rapidly, and tax
ing the place of lower grades. The pecu-
liar folly of our age is the waste of nerve


force. In all directions we see the sign
of brain dissipation. The diseases of vir-
tuous men are no longer what they used
to be-blood diseases. Paralysis is beat
ing up in every community and finding re-
cruits Good men are living too fast


Each man Is swept on against his will into
the tumult of life. The great army of in
somnists is increasing, and such men have
a call to lunacy.-Henry Ward Beecher
Year: 1871

DRINKING IN SUMMER-The longer a
person can put off drinking glass of
water on a hot summers day, the better it
will be for him for if he drinks largely
early in the day, the thirst will be increas-
ed, with an uncomfortable sense of fulness
large perspiration, increased liability to
colds, with a debilitated condition of the
system.


In taking glass of water or other cold
drink, it is better to take but single
swallow at a time, removing the glass
from the lips for u few seconds thus the
thirst will be quenched with half the
amount of water. and danger is avoided of
sudden prostration. Half a dozen swal-
lows thus taken will quench the thirst
more completely than twice the amount
if taken continuously without removing
the glass from the lips


If a person is very thirsty, chewing
Jumps of ice is safer, better and more ef-
fective than five times the amount In the
form of cold water. If very warm, it is
safer to hold the glass for minute or two
encircled with the fingers and palm of the
hand. This cools the blood little, and
at the same time tempers the water
Halls Journal Of Health.
Year: 1871

a remarkable phenomenon recently
occurred on the seven mile level of the
Morris and Essex Canal, near Broadway,
n. j., on Monday morning. which IS thus
described by the New York Express


A boat was passing along when the dri-
yer heard an unusual rumbing noise, like
that of muffied thunder, and looking ahead


he saw in the canal, about hundred yards
beyond, the water seething and boiling
like a whirlpool. Though stricken with
fear, he crossed in safety the dangerous
eddy, but had not gone many yards when
he was startled by an unusual noise, and
turning, discovered that the bottom of the
canal had given way, and in a short time
his boat was on dry land. The water in
the canal for distance of a mile and
half had in a wonderfully short time dis
appeared in a cavity, of which the dimen-
sions of the opening were 40 feet in diam
eter. No outlet has been found for the
water, although all the creeks and streams
have been examined. Above the canal,
in wood, three apertures were made, av-
eraging in diameter 20 by % feet In
these holes and cavities rocks and trees
are swallowed up. The tops of the trees
were visible to the eye, while the trunks
were entirely buried in the earth. Fis-
sures were made on the surface below the
canal, to the extent of hundreds of yards
All endeavOrs to fill up the cavity have
failed. One hundred bundles of corn-
stalks, together with branches of trees
were thrown in, but they disappeared in
stantly. Some think that there is cave
in the hill. and that this immense volume
of water has been deposited there by
breakage in the upper layer of earth sur
mounting the cave. Others are of opinion
that this being limestone region, a spon-
taneous combustion of the lime has been
going on for years, and vacuum or cavity
necessarily produced, into which these
waters have been precipitated Which of
these opinions Is the correct one will be
made manifest by future developments.
The loss to the Morris and Essex Canal
Company by this accident is calculated to
be about $4,000.
Year: 1871

In Sir Walter Scott's Life there is an
amusing account of his professional emolu-
ments at Jedburgh. In one case SCOTS
client was convicted of house-breaking
After the trial the prisoner sent for him,
thanked him for his exertions, and said he
was sOrTy he could not give him fee, but
he would give him two bits of advice
First, thaS a yelping terrier, inside of
house, was a better protection than big
dog outside; and secondly, that no lock so
bothered a housebreaker as an old, rusty
one
Year: 1871

sly old deacon wishing to give his
pastor a hint to put more juice in his SER
mons, said TO him one day, g must get
seat near the pulpit, for by the time your
words reach my ears the people in front of
me have so taken the pith out of them that
they are as dry as dish water
Year: 1871

THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.-TheN New York
Fire Department sent three steam Gre engines
to Chicago yesterday, at the solicitation Of the
Mayor of that unfortunate city. In the scarcity
of the water supply they are needed in case Of
the rekindling of the old FIRE or the breaking
out of new, as in such an event it would be
necessary to obtain water from the river and
lake. Apropos Of the Fire Department, we
learn from good authority that the Commis-
sioners are down to hard pan both in the mat
ter Of retrenchment and in the supply of funds.
In case they are kept longer out Of money the
efficiency of the brigade must be seriously i'm
paired. The Chicago calamity should warn
us against embarrassing in any manner the
management OF our Fire Department, and as
the Commissioners are free from the slightest
suspicion Of misconduct as their duties are
admitted to have been honestly, efficiently and
intenigently performed as they have brought
the brigade up TO point Of discipline and
effectiveness mover before attained, and as
they enjoy the confidence of the people, their
acquisitions for funds should be promptly and
cheerfuly met.
Year: 1871

agitated and depressed for time, but the
effect will only be temporary. Indeed, we
think the disaster has been largely discounted
already at the stock boards and in financial
circles. The first excitement and appre-
hension Of the worst naturally created dis.
turbance. Spectators and stock iobbers.
who are always ready to take advantage Of
such state of things, seized the opportunity
to fan the fame Of excitement for speculative
purposes. In the course Of few weeks At
farthest all will be quiet again, at least from
this cause, and stocks and values will fall
into their normal condition. We shall soon
hear, probably, of the debris of the great fire
being cleared away, and Chicago beginning to
rise again in business and splendor. While,
therefore, we should do all we can to relieve
the Chicago sufferers. it should be understood
that there Is no good reason for a panic. The
resources Of the country and the industry and
enterprise Of the people of Chicago will prove
superior to this calamity. The first shock
being nearly over, let hope inspire us as to
the future.
Year: 1871

The Municipal war-No Change In the


Situation.


Nothing new was developed yesterday in the
matter of the municipal troubles. The exami.
ton into the Ingersoll case presented no inter
esting feature, the time of the Court having
been taken up by the argument of immaterial
issues. 1t is very evident now that to the next
Legislature must be left the solution of our
city difficulty problem, and hence the atten-
ton of the people may be more proftaby
directed to the legislative nominations and
elections than to the fruitess ordinations and
recriminations of the contending parties. Good
men must be sent to Albany next winter not
the disappointed political sharpers who have
their own axes to grind, but honest, independ-
ent citizens, who will give the people an
efficient charter to live under and an oppor-
tunity to choose their municipal officers in the
early spring.


In the meantime the city government must
go on. The public works must not be aban-
doned, and the people must not be made to
suffer because there has been extravaganza or
dishonesty in the past administration of the
city's affairs. The taxes are now coming in.
and the credit of the Corporation is too good
to render the raising of necessary funds a
difficult task. The citizens do not desire to
see the parks neglected, the improvements on
the boulevards and avenues discontinued, or
the Fire Department, the Health Department,
the Croton Aqueduct Bureau, or any other
important branch of the government suffer
for want of funds. Both the Committee of
Seventy and Deputy Comptroller Green should
do their best to disembarrass the government
as much as possible at this crisis, while
guarding against any misappropriation or
waste of the peoples money. Let them do
this and trust to the Legislature to give us the
reform. we so much need.
Year: 1871

A Touch OF THE COMMUNE IN CmcAGo.-'
While Chicago was burning number Of
Kretches were detected in feeding the flames,
with the view of adding to the excitement
that they might the better secure plunder.
Being caught in the act little mercy was shown
them, and convenient lampposts served as
yallows trees from which to turn them adrift
INTO eternity. What must be thought of such
vermin in human shape, who in hours like
hose when whole city was being consumed
oy fire and its people had fed from their
ZONES in fear and trembling could add to the
,alamities by feeding the flames and plunder-
ng amid the excitement they helped to
Increase This is the most dismal episode in


he destruction of Chicago. We hope, for
he sake Of our common humanity, that it is
,ot true. Should it prove to be as at first
-eported, the miserable wretches deserved the
ate they met, and God alone must judge them


or acts so base, cowardly and despicable.
Year: 1871

of three or four thousand years ago. as If science
were gradually working her way into this mys-
terious chamber, and as if the blessed antidote
were yet to be found. While we are rapidly
multiplying the conveniences we are as rapidly
diminishing the sorrows of life. Why should
we not hope for and believe in ultimate vic
tory9 The new heavens and the new earth
may not be SO far from us, after all.
Year: 1871

A Coon IDEA.-Boston appropriated twenty
thousand dollars for grand banquet at which
to entertain the President on his contemplated
visit to the city. 1t is now proposed TO reduce
the expenses Of the proposed entertainment
and add the balance to the subscriptions now
being raised in aid of the Chicago sufferers,
Tdis is a good and philanthrQpic idea