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Year: 1870

Colonel T. B. Swan, the renegade
rebel. delivered an harangue at the
Court House last Saturday night We
are sorry that a slight fire occurred in a
frame building occupied by family in
the rear of DR.. Murdock store, and IN
terrupted his address for short time
He made the usual Radical argument,
which seemed strange to come from a
rebels mouth.


He failed to tell his audience about
giving Perry Conellv his gun upon the
condition that he should kill twenty
Union men with it. We are very cred
iblv informed that he did give Conelly
very fine gun upon this condition,
and that Conelly cut a notch in the gun
every time he killed a Union man, and
that when Conelly was killed, there
were only nineteen notches in the butt ot
the gun. As the contract was not ful
filled we expect the Colonel will wan'
his gun back again.


After Colonel Swan got through
Governor Boreman addressed the meet
ing. He made some remarkable state
ments which we have not room to dis
cuss this week.


The meeting was very slimly attend
ed, and large portion Of the audienc
were Democrats. If the Radicals, will
all their handbills, can't get mp a bette
meeting than they had last Saturda
night, they had better quit.-Parksr'
Jur3 Gazette
Year: 1870

act, it becomes their duty on request o


either party, to certify the point Of their


disagreement to the Supreme Court fol-


decision. If the proceedings are origi'


nally instituted in the Circuit Court


Judges Bond and Jackson and perhaps
Chief Justice Chase will be present
and if only the two former and they
disagree as to the construction, it be-
comes their duty to certify the point in
the manner before stated, to the Su-
preme Court By either course the
Supreme Court can be reached, so far
as regards the legal construction of the
act. The damages to the party wrong
fully rejected TO be recovered in an
action on the case in his name, and
the penalties enforced by indictment,
and in some cases by filing information
merely


The second and third sections Of the
Enforcement Act show what steps those
legally qualified by our State Constitu-
ton are required TO take. These should
all be seasonably and carefully taken.
None but those clearly qualified should
attempt, for the Act bristles all over
with penalties. The prerequisites all
done, the party can proceed against both
Registering Boards and conductors of
the election, and have the decisions of
both revised, upon a full hearing of the
evidence by impartial juries in the Fed
eral courts, in the manner before stated
So it strikes me.


Our people, then, whose motto is
"mountaineers are always free, possess
the power to rid the State and them
selves OF the despousm OF the zone
man power" which the dominant Iarty
pledged itself to remove a year ago, As
well as to inaugurate an amendment
enfranchising ex-Rebels, and upon that
pledge secured the last Legislature; and
still they have made no attempt TO alb
rogate this zone man power, and
a most singular omission on
the part OF the Executive to publish, as
the Constitution requires, the amend
ment inaugurated last winter has be-
come defunct.


Very respectfully, q. P.
Year: 1870




gress--NO. =.


Editors of the Register:


Permit me to correct a typographical
error that occurred in my former re-
marks, regarding the second section of
the enforcement act Instead of right
conferred 10y the first section, it should
read, right enforced or guaranteed


was not little surprised to see the
party that enacted the enforcement act
raise a question as TO its constitution
aIity. | confined my few remarks the
other day to its legal construction
There can he no doubt the Supreme
Court of the United States will sustain
the construction We contend for, and
hold that Congress had the right TO
pass it under the broad, If not wholly
discretionary power, conferred by the
following clause, contained in both the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments
Of the L. S. Constitution, viz. The Con-
gress shall have power to enforce this
article by appropriate legislation. Ger,
tainly. there is no such palpable inaP
propriateness as would justify interfer.
ence by the judicial power, in the exer,
else Of its purely judicial functions
Moreover, that court must hold the in
famous and disgraceful features Of their
registration law void, for being wholly
unauthorized by the letter and spirit o
the State constitution.


One word as to the way TO get tn
question before that court; about which
many, including myself, were uncertain
After a careful examination Of the Law
it seems to me clear that our Federal
Circuit and District Courts have con
current jurisdiction in both civil an
criminal proceedings under it If Yrc
ceedings are instituted in the Distric
Court, writs of error lie from its deci:
ion TO the Circuit Court, where it wi
be for Chief Justice Chase and Judg
Bond to revise and decide, and If the
disagree as 10 the construction Of til
Year: 1870

The City Auditor, and four members
Of the City Council Of Boston are at st,
Louis for the purpose of inspecting the
market system They were. cordially
received by Mayor Cole, and every op,
portunity of gathering information was
given them.
Year: 1870

The DEAD SEA.-The Dead Sea
differs very materially from other wa
ters, as we learn from the very best
authority. This is not at all one of
those travellers yarns" which many
put so little faith in. 1t is true its
water is perfectly clear and transpa
rent, but it is much more salt and bit
ter than that of the ocean. 1t acts
upon the tongue and mouth like alum
and smartS in the eye like camphor
producing over the whole body, also
burning, prickly sensation. If the
head is bathed in it, it is found tC
stiffen the hair as pomatum would
You do not, in fact cannot, sink, bu
can stand perpendicularly in the wa
ter, the body descending not lowel
than the arms. This is owing to th,
specific gravity of the water, which i
so great that even under strons
breeze it is not ruffled. This fact ex
plains its being called the Dead Sea
Whether Sodom and Gomorrah, tn
ancient cities of the Vale OF Siddin
lie under that wonderful sea or not
cannot be known. Many cities hav,
been flooded with lava, and burie'
from sight forever; and we see no es
pecial reason to doubt that some kin
dred catastrophe may not have over
taken the two in question. History
even such as seems legendary, gener
ally has some foundation for its ste
ries.
Year: 1870

HORRIBLE MURDER.-A young man
named Rufus J. Rimer has been com
mitted to Jail near Salisbury, n. c.,
for the murder of his mother on the
5th Of this month. He is about %
years Of age, and has always been
considered by his neighbors as partial
ly deranged. He and his mother, a
widow of 80, lived alone in the town
of Rowan. On the day Of the murder
he borrowed an axe at a neighbor's, S,
chopped off one of his fingers, and re-
turned home. He says his mother
while wrapping his finger, hurt him.
which induced him to kill her. He
first pulled a stone from the hearth
and threw it at her as she escaped
through the door. The stone struck
the door, when he again seized it, and
pursued her into the yard and beat
her brains out with it. After be had
completed the bloody work, he bull
a great fire in the fireplace Of the
house, laid the body of his mother OIL
top of it, locked the doors, and wen
to bed. The next morning he went tc
a neighbor's house, and told what hi
had done.
Year: 1870

This journal aims to show how to
maintain health by natural agencies,
and by the same means to restore it
if lost. 1t is not pretended that all
diseases are cured in this way; but
it is very certain that quite a number
Of ordinary ailments may be removed
by the .judicious employment of the
contents of well furnished larder-
and with this great advantage, the
cures are more permanent, and less
liable to return-accomplishing their
object without any shock to the sys-
TEN, and without the danger of killing
the patient by mistaking the quantity,
or quality, or name of the dose.


Ripe fruits and berries, slightly
acid, will remove the ordinary diar.
rh9as of early summer.


Common rice, parched brown like
coffee, and then boiled and eaten in
the ordinary way, without any other
food, is, with perfect quietude OF body
one of the most effective remedies for
| troublesome looseness of bowels.


Some of the severest forms of thai
distressing ailment called dysentery
that is, when the bowels pass blood
with constant desire yet vain efforts
to stool, are sometimes entirely cureC
by the patient eating heaping table
spoon, at time, of raw beef, cut W
very fine, and repeated at intervals o
four hours, until cured, eating anC
drinking nothing else in the mean
while.


If a person swallows any poisoI
whatever, or has fallen into convul
sions from having overloaded tht
stomach, an instantaneous remedy
more efficient and applicable in larg
cr number of cases than any half
dozen medicines we can now think oil
is heaping teaspoon Of common sal
and as much ground mustard, stirret
rapidly in teacup of water, warm o
| cold, and swallowed instantly. 1t i
scarcely down before it begins t.
come up, bringing with it the remain
ing contents of the stomach and les
there be any remnant of a poison, how
ever small, let the white ofan egg. o
a teacup of strong coffee: be swallow
ed as soon as the stomach is quiet
These are very common articles nu
lify larger number of virulent po
sons than any medicines in the shops
= Halls Journal of Health.
Year: 1870

When the year 1914 began, troops
of Swedes, Cossacks, Germans, and
Russians were within half an hour s
march of the town of Sleswick and
new and fearful reports of the beha-
vior of the soldiers were brought from
the country every day. There had
been truce, which was to come to an
end at midnight of the 5th of Janua-
ry, which was now drawing near. On
the outskirts Of the town, on the side
where the enemy lay, there was a
house standing alone, and in it there
was an old pious woman, who was
earnestly praying, in the words of an
ancient hymn, that God would raise a
wall up around them, so that the enc
my might fear to attack them. In the
same house dwelt her daughter, wild
Ow, and her grandson, youth OF 20
years. He heard the PRAYER of his
grandmother. and could not restrain
himself from saying that he did not
understand how she could ask for anv-
thing so impossible, as that a wall
should be built around them which
would keep the enemy away from
their house. The old woman, who
was now deaf, caused what her grand
son said to be explained to her, but
only answered that she had prayed i'll
general for protection for themselves
and the towns people.


However," she added, "do you
think that if it were the will of God
to build a wall around US, it would be
impossible to him p


And now came the dreaded night
Of the 9th of January; and about
midnight the troops began to enter on
all sides, The house we were speak.
ing of lay close by the road, and was
larger than the dwellings near it
which were only very small cottages
It's inhabitants looked out with anx
ious fear as parties Of the soldiers en-
tered one after another, and even went
TO the neighboring houses to ask for
what they wanted; but all rode past
their dwelling. Throughout the whole
day there had been a heavy fall of
5now,-the first that winter,-and to
ward evening the storm became VIC
lent to a degree seldom known. Al
length came four parties Of Cossacks
who had been hindered by the snow
from entering the town by another
road. This part Of the outskirts was
AZ some distance from the town itself
and, therefore. they would not 90 far.
lher, so that all the houses around
that in which the old woman lived
were filled with soldiers, who quarter
ed themselves in them: in several
houses there were fifty or sixty OF
these hall-savage men. 1t was ter
rible night for those who dwelt in this
part of the town, filled to overfowine
with the troops of the enemy. But
not a single soldier came into the
grandmothers house; and, amid the
loud noises and wild sounds all around
not even a knock at the door was
heard, 20 the great wonder Of the fam
lily within. The next morning, as il
grew light, they saw the cause. The
storm had drifted a mass of snow tt
such a height between the roadside
and the house, that to approach it wa;
impossible.


Do you not now see, my son" sale
the old grandmother, " that it was pos
sibe for God to raise a wall arounC
US ?'
Year: 1870

"Be not among wine bibbers, among riotous
eaters of flesh; for the drunkard and the glut.
ton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall
clothe man with rags."-Proverbs xiii 20, 81.
I'll tell you two fortunes, my fine little lad,
For you to accept or refuse;
The one ofthem good, the other one bad;
Now hear them and say which you choose.
| see by my gifts, within reach of your hand,
A fortune right fair to behold;
house and hundred good acres of land,
With harvest fields yellow as gold.
see great orchard with boughs hanging down
With apples, russet and red;
see droves of cattle some white and some brown
But all of them sleek and well fed.
see droves of swallows about the barn door,
See the tanning mill whirling so fast;
see them threshing wheat on the floor
And now the bright picture has past
And see rising dismally up in the place
Ofthe beautiful house and the land,
A man with fire red nose on his face,
And little brown jug in his hand
Oh, you beaeld him, my lad, you would wish
That he were less wretched to see;
For his boot toes they cape like the mouth of a


fish,


And his trowsers are out at the knee
In walking he staggers, now this way, now that
And his eyes they stand out like buggs;
And he wears an old coat and bait ered-in hat
And l think that the fault is the jugs.
For the text says the drunkard shall come to be


poor,


And that drowsine5s clothes men with rags,
And he doesn't look much like a man, l am sure
Who has honest hard cash in his bags.
Now which will you have; To be thrifty anC


snug,


And 10 be right side up with your dish;
Or 90 with your eyes like the eyes of bug,
And your shoes like the mouth of fish.


Alice Cary.
Year: 1870

The LOST WOMEN OF FIFTH AVE.
NUE.-Some evidences of discomfort
with an aimless life have appeared
even in Fifth avenue. For instance
at a fashionable party, a few even
ings since, a beautiful young woman
turned sharply upon an elderly dowa
ger who was proslng about the Mag
dalens. and the hopelessness of doing
anything for these "lost women" with
the assertion, a know a class more
hopeleSsly lost than they. We fash
ionables, who murder time and squan
der money, and lead women to be-
come MagdaIens that they may dress
like us. Why does nobody send mis-
sionaries to US ?" The bitter inten
sity of the utterance was eloquent o
better possibilities. No doubt there
are more ways than one of being lost
The syrens are not all OF one class Oh
confined to one locality.
Year: 1870

A young lady contemplating mat
rlmony was one morning handed
Testament by her father, with the
leaf turned down at the following
passage -


"He who giveth in marriage doeth
well, but he who giveth not in marriage
doeth better"


She Immediately returned it with
the following reply written under
meath -


Dear father, | am content to do
well; let those do better who can"
Year: 1870

That was not bad reply liven re.
Gently at barn raising III Pennsylva-
MIA to a young man who had been re-
lating bis more than wonderful exploits
in various quarters of the globe. At
the close OF one of these narratives, he
was not little set back by the remark
of an old codger: "Yonng man amt
you ashamed to talk so whea there are
old liars on The grouad2"
Year: 1870

AT a regular meeting of the Medico-
legal Society, at the College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons on the 11th ult., DR..
Finnell submitted a rare specimen Of a
fatty heart taken from the body of col
ored woman who recently fell in syncope
while shouting under great excitement at
religious meeting and died in few
moments. The autopsy discovered that
the entire structure of the heart had
been transformed from the ordinary
healthy muscular tissue to pure fat, and
yet its organism remained perfect in all
its parts. The doctor said he presented
this case to the society not only for its
rarity, but for the bearing which it and
similar cases had upon medical jurispru-
dence, the special object for which the
society was organized. 1t might often
happen, as it often did happen, that a
man was Knocked down by blow, when
in fact, he died as this colored woman
died, from over excitement acting upon
a fatty heart. 1t showed the Importance
of a careful autopsy in cases of supposed
homicide Death resulted in this case
from paralysis of the heart and long de.
tention of blood from the BRAIN and it
| indicated the treatment in such cases
that could not be too often or too strong.
| ly impressed upon the public, viz, that
in cases of fainting the patient should be
Immediately suspended head downward


or at the very least placed in horizon


tai position. Had this been done in the


case of the colored woman, whose heart


was here exhibited, she might probabl,


have been alive to-day. Scarcely an au


dience could be got together in whcl


there would not be individuals with fee


BILE and fatty hearts, who were liable a
any time under any extraordinary men
tai or bodily excitement to be attacked


in the manner this woman was, and wh


might die under the attack, unle.s imme


diately treated in proper manner. Ii
the case of inspector Carpenter, the doc
tor said that the autopsy showed fatt
and feeble condition of the heart, an
had not Mr.. Carpenter been so obstinate
ly opposed to taking stimulus of an
kind his life might probably have bee
prolonged many years.
Year: 1870

A traveller announces as fact land
though he is a traveller We believe HIM
that he once in his life beheld people
minding their own business. This re-
markablc occurrence happened at sea.
the passengers being too sick to attend to
each others concerne.
Year: 1870

GEORGE G. GoRHAM, says the Yreka Union,
can never learn to let well enough alone He
had an Office at San Francisco worth 900 q
year, but he wanted to be Governor and make a
fortune in four years with the aid OF Bill Carr.
So like the dog that saw his shadow in the water
he lost his meat On the back of his disastrous
defeat be posted Of to Washinton and got elect
ed Secretary of the Unit ed States Senate. a pr
siton worth about 900 per annum! This
would satisfy any man in the world but greedy
little Georgy. He was not only Secretary, but
he must distribute all the patronage for Califor-
MIA, in def'ncc of every established precedent.
This has led to large sized row between him
and the ex-Tombs sbyster who misrepresents
California in the Senate, and now Cole is on
the war path, after Georgy's scalp The Senate
Committee of Investigation have reported in fa-
vor Of an election for Secretary, which is equiv
alent to telling Master George to pack his trunk
Tor San Francisco. The next time he gets fat
office, it will be we'll enough to let we'll enough
alone. The Human Fraud" pamphlet bears
his finger marks all over. and if he did not write


it, he knew exactly what was in it before it went
to press. There are certain expressions contain.
ed in it which he uses so often In ordinary con-
versation that any one who know him can recog-
nze the style. His abominable egotisms crop
out in more places than one, in that singular
document. We have no hesitation. in saying
Gotham is better man than Cole, for he does
remember his friends, while Cornelius is obliv-
ious OF the existence of any one save himself.
Year: 1870

Two workers in one field


Toiled on from day to day,
Both had the same hard labor


Both had the same small pay;
With the same blue sky above. .e
The same green Grass below,
One soul was full Of love,


The other full Of woe.
One leaped up with the light,


With the soaring OF the lark;
One felt it every night,


For his soul was ever dark
One heart was hard as stone,


One he1rt was ever gay;
One worked with many Il groan,
One whistled all the day.
One had fowerc clad cot


Beside q merry mill,
Wife and children near the spot
Made it sweeter. fairer still;
One n wretched hovel had.


Full of discord, dirt and din,
No wonder he seemed mad.


Wife and children starved within.
Still they worked in the same field,
Toiled on from day to day,
Both had the same hard labor,
Both had the same small pay;
But they worked not with one will,
Tie reason let me tell
Lo the one drank at the still,
And the other at the we'll.
Year: 1870

THIS NEW AND POPULAR SALOON is


/ now open for the accommodation Of the pub
lie, who have already occupied the premises in
force. and proceeded to make themselves at home.
The people know good liquors when they taste
'em and good cigars when they smoke 'em; and
therefore when they have once been to the
UNION they are bound to call again and repeat.
The proprietors will keep none but the best arti-
cles and they fatter themselves that they know
how to mix and serve them. Call. O2.-tf.
Year: 1870

WHAT ADVERTISING WILL Do'-A
family in Florida lost their little boy,
and they advertised for him IN the daily
paper. That very afternoon an alligator
crawled up out of the swamp and died
On the front doorstep. In his stomach
were found handful of red hair, some
bono buttons. glass alley, brass bar
relcd pistol. Sunday school book, and q
pair Of check pants. The advertisement
did tat least so the editor says.
Year: 1870

A CoUNTRYMAN stopped at the Maxwell
House, Nashville, for dinner. The waiter
inquired what he swould have, and was
told by the countryman to bring some
thing of what he had" The waiter
brought him regular dinner upon small
dishes as is the usual form, and set them
around his plate. The countryman sur
veyed them carefully for moment, and
then broke out, DWELL, I like your
samples, now bring me dinner"
Year: 1870




The organ of the Good Templars, in
Ohio, the Temple Visitor, which has
lately been removed from Alliance to
Dayton, in speaking of the late abor-
tive attempt to make a distinct Politi-
eaIissue of the Temperance question, al
Iuding to the meagre vote cast for that
ticket, pertinently says:


1--WE hope that the leaders of the
movement in Ohio will see the folly
Of attempting to establish a national
party with prohibition as the only
feature in the platform. Better far
that Temperance men should work in
the existing parties, and by their vote
control the balance of power in the
county and municipal elections. If
the advocates Of Temperance legislation
would attend the primary conventions,
they would in many counties secure
the nomination Of good men for the
legislature, and for every Office from
Governor down to town marshal"
Year: 1870

The following we clip from the
Chillicothe Gazette. Every parent
should read it carefully and act accord
ingly:


Now that all the winter prepara-
tions have been made and our citizens
have leisure time upon their hands,
it is the duty Of the parents to mani.
fest some further interest in the schOul
work than merely to send their chill
dern thither. The teacher wants their
cooperation. The scholars need the
encouragement of an occasional visit.
If parents talk with their children at
home freely about their schools, it
is well if they visit the school room
occasionally, and seem interested in
making a pleasant thing of learning,
it is much better. The presence OF
father or mother at the child's rpcita-
ton, once a week, or once a month,
will have a salutary influence on both
teacher and child. Even the parent
will be benefited. His or her atten,
ton will be awakened to questions
which might otherwise go unthought
of for years, and which have practic-
al bearings on the mind.
Year: 1870

United States Treasurer Spinner is
in a fright He wants to get out of
his office, inasmuch as four thousand
millions 0f dollars have passed through
his department without defalcatiOn.
He thinks it ga long lane that has no
turn" and he would get out of the
way before it turns; but unfortunately
for his wish he is just the man the
country wants to keep in place. Ma
rietta Register.
Year: 1870

A Hartford man, thinking he smelt
gas in his room, lighted a match to
see it. He was found in the street
Immediately afterward, all abIaze, and
a policeman kindly rolled him in a
gutter and put him out.