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Year: 1870

A House SAWED IN Two.-Son,c Of our
readers will remember small frame building
which stands near the depot, used at various
times for saloon. 1t stood upon the lands
Of two citizens of our town, who each claimed
share in the house. One wished to move it,
but the other refused The mover. however,
made his arrangements to move the house, and
had raised it upon rollers, when the other
served an injunction upon him, torbidding
the removal of the part that stood upon his
land. The mover was not to be baked that
way, and he gave his opponent until II NJ.
to think about it, avowing his Intention to
move the small portion which stood upon his
land anyhow. Twelve o'clock came, with no
change in affairs except that the mover had
measured off eight feet of the front end ofthe
building as standing on his land, and had his
workmen ready, and as the clock struck
twelve the carpenters ''let into the house, and,
commencing on the roof, deliberately sawed it
in two as it stood, rendering both ends useless
to anybody. The building still stands there


curious specimen of architecture, exempIi-
flying the motto that "house divided against
itself cannot stand"--Puris (NI) Times.
Year: 1870

a late interview of MormOndom relates how
Brigham Young got one Of his wives, as fol-
lows:


One of his wives is very handsome, and at
the same time elegant and Distinguished
She is named Amelia, and oftener called beau
tiiul Amelia.


She was formerly the wife of rich citizen
of New York. Romantic and unoecupied,
she dreamed of something eccentric to cure
herself of the eHnui which became torment
in the prosaic middle way through which her
life led


The newspapers spoke of the famous Brig
ham Young, both being pope and a
sovereign. Amelia read all this, and one day
she said to herself: Il will become the queen
of Salt Lake City by my handsome eyes and
my beauty | will subjugate this man and gain
such influence over him that he shall even
renouncc polygamy.


She took pen and lux, handsome sheet Of
paper, and wrote this note to him


Il believe that grace has come upon me.
1 wish to become Mormon, if you will mar
ry me-"


She did not have to wait long for the an
swer:


''COme you shall be received with open
arms, and you shall become my wife"


Amelia sought divorce ana OBTAINED IL,
without having revealed her project. Again
free, she left for Salt Lake City with an escort
of honor which the sovereign Of Utah had sent
her.


Her arrival made sensation. Never be
fore had the Mormons seen so beautiful and
elegant a woman. Brinham Young was
ravished, enchanted He received her as if
she were queen, and covered her with flowers,
laces, and diamonds.


She became all she had anticipated 10 pow
CT and influence, with one exception She
could not tinduce Brigham to destroy poIygamy
He always said, "God has imposed it upon us
l cannot disobey the viii of the Most High
Year: 1870

A baby is problem propounded by the
world, to be solved by time. Topographic
caIly speaking. short article, with head
ing in small caps. Graphically speaking, a
morsel of humanity, which is generally tho
admiration of one sex and the nggrayation Of
the other. PhilosophicalIy speaking, moral
lessons in long clothes, set before US to re-
mind the greatest Of what they once have
been, and to worry the irritable old bachelor.
Year: 1870

Two little girls were heard one morning
engaged in a dispute as to what their '.moth-
ers could do" The dispute Tas ended by
the youngest child saying: "Weh, there's
one thing nv mother can DO that yours can't
my mother can take every one Of her teeth
out at once
Year: 1870

"A Yankee one day asked his lawyer how
an heiress might be carried of. '.You cannot
do it with safety" said the counselIorj "but
I'll tell you what you may DO. Let her mount
horse and hold bridlewhip do you then
mount behind her, and you are safe, for she
runs away with you" The next day the
lawyer found that it was his. own daughter
who had run away with his eient.
Year: 1870

Not by tumbling into the river and


dragging home wet as a drowned rat not


by being pitched into the mud, or spilled


out in the snow in sleighing time; not by


scrubbing the floor until the unnameable
sticks to you like wet rag 4; not by hoe


ing potatoes until you are in lather Of
sweat; these are not the things which give
people colds; and yet they are all the
time telling us how they i" caught their
death of cold by exposure" The time for
taking cold is after your exercise the
place is in your own house, or office, or
counting house. 1t is not the act of ex-
ercise which gives cold, but the getting
cool too quick after exercising. For ex-
ample, you walk very fast to get to the
railroad station, or to the ferry or to
catch the omnibus, or to make the time for
an appointment; your mind being ahead
of you, the body makes an extra effort to
keep up with it, and when you get to the
desired spot you raise your hat and find
yourself in a perspiration you take a seat
and feeling quite comfortable as to tempe
rature, you begin to talk with friend, or
if New Yorker, to read a newspaper,
and before you are aware of it, you expo
rience sensation of chillness, and the
thing is done; you look around to see
where the cold comes from, and find an
open window near you, or door, or that
you have taken a seat at the forward part
of the car, and in moving against the wind
a strong draft is made though the creyices.
After any kind of exercise do not stand
moment at street corner, for anybody or
anything nor at an open door or window


When you have been exercising in any
way whatever, winter or summer, 60 home
at once, or to some sheltered place; and
however warm the room may seem to be,
do not at once pull off your hat and cloak,
but wait awhile-some five minutes or
more, and lay aside one thing at a time;
thus acting, a cold is impossible. Notice
a moment; when you return from brisk
walk and enter warm room, raise your
hat and your forehead will be moist; let
the hat remain few moments and
feel the forehead again, and it will be dry,
showing that the room is actually cooler
than your body, and that with outdoor
clothing on, you have really cooled off full
soon enough. Many of the severest colds
L have ever known men to take, were the
result of sitting down to warm meal in
cool room after long walk; or being en-
gagged in writing, have let the fire go out,
and their first admonition of it was that
creeping chillness which is the ordinary
forerunner of severe cold Persons have
often lost their lives by writing or reading
in room where there was no fire, altho'
the weather outside was rather comforta-
BILE. Sleeping in rooms long unused has
destroyed the life of many visitor and
friend. Our splendid parlors and our
nice "spare rooms" help to enrich many
a doctor.-HaUs Journal Of Health.
Year: 1870

The following clipping from the New


York Observer, exhibits the above idea in


another form,-if we recognize the fact


that "means of grace" are both positive


and negative, or both direct and indirect,


viz; A father may remove from his sons


all temptation to steal by educating them


with reference to their ability to exercise
or enjoy their talent-or he may whet
their appetites for positions. and luxuries
which inevitably entail slavery infinitely
more cruel and degrading than negro sla-
very. Much more Ga fortiori) his daugh-
ter may not only be impressed with his
hereditary vices and the steumous or
consumptive constitution (Which thus has
actually gotten the name of "Kings Evil"
for manifest reasons, but throw her over
board at his death among a set of land
sharks of his own cultivation although ut
terly untitled to resist temptation except
by the miraculous Intervention of the grace
of God or his "uncovenanted mercy"


1t is cruel to "pet" bird and deprive
it of the luxury of self-preservation, al
though its life be prolonged thereby. More
cruel to turn it loose in the spring-but
much more In the autumn among abound
ing awks,-infnitely, more outrageous
is the systematic cultivation of ward /"
otthout "precedcnt," but Internal is the
only word that will express the cruelty of
such afather This is positive selfsnness,
but not nearly so insidious or mischievous
as that sort of negative or preliminary sell
fishness which obliterates all veneration
for divine authority in the offspring by the
cultivation of vice or vicious habits By the
parent, and contempt for the worship of
God even in an oath or any other act of
worship. If hearing is means of grace,
deafness is not, and consequently if we
San transmit the gift of hearing we admit
that this negative means of grace is hered-
tary if transmitted in proportion as the
nordinate temptation to evil is diminished
Or the power to control it is increased by
habit and instinct. SIGMA.


Port Penn, Del. Juue 9th, 1870.
Year: 1870

We all have fair world of our own,


A sacred retreat that dwell in alone;
Not the dearest OF friends the nearest of kin
Are ever invited to enter therein.


If Fate treats us harshly, or Fortunes unkind,
If clouds OF Dependency darken the mind,
Or cares VeX the spirit, we turn for u tim6
To the sooting delight of this ideal cline
The child growing tired of playmates and toys,
The youth feeling sated with Pleasures wild joys,
The world-weary man sick of turmoil and strife,
All find i'll this realm new hope and new life
No bleak winds of winter invade this retreat;
No frost chills its flowers ever adeess and sweet
For its skies bend in shadowless beauty above,
And its airs soft US the whispers of Love.
No wild disappointment, no sin and no care
Ever come to us here, bringing tears and despair;
But ambitions most lofty and wishes most dear
Seem always attained in this magical sphere.
Oh, beautiful dreamland sweet realm of the SOUL
Lying safe and secure beyond sorrows control!
Art thou toretaste and type of that shadowess shore
We all hope to reach when lifes sad voyage is oerl
Year: 1870

TAXING A PoslTIoN.-Joe Dovetail had n
strong minded wife. She looked upon Joe as
sort of necessary evil, treating him very much
as the old lady did her husband on the steam
boat, who objected to some of her arrangements
for travel, when she shut him up suddenly by
telling him. in the hearing of dozen passen-
gers " Why what is it to your If had
known you were going to act so, wouldn t
have brought you alongP But Joe and Mrs.
Dovetail never travelled. They were always at
home, though Joe was rarely seen there or else
where. She had long trained him to the habit
of retiring uRder the bed when company called
and so familiar was he with that retreat, it was
question whether, in default of personal SER
vice, warning to militia training would hold
him unless left under the bed, as being his " last
and usual place of abode" During the stay of
Mrs. Dovetail's friends, he occaionaly thrust
out his head like a turtle, but one glance from
his spouse would send him under, with cold
shivers running up his back. One day, as she
was hob-nobbling over the fire with friend
and II social glass, Joe thrust out his fgurehead,
and defed the shakes and frowns of his wife,
till, growing valiant and desperate, he sang out
"My dear, you may shake your head just as
much as you please, but tell you, as long as |
have got the spirit Of man | will peep P'
Year: 1870

THE new Professor of Modern History at Cam
bridge has come forward with a declaration of
his opinion on the much-debated questionable
education of women. Professor Seeley is not
one of those who wish to change the position of
the sexes neither would he give the same edu-
cation to women that is now given to men but
he wishes complete reform of the present edu-
cational system. "The object of education is -
he said " to make good women information as
to the common matters of everyday interest Is
of more importance toward that end than the
study of what occurred hundreds of years
ago"
Year: 1870

Gazette says:


At the last meeting of Lexington Presbytery,
sitting in Versailles, negro applied for license
to preach, and it was accorded to him, but not
until after "A most searching examination, during
which he showed himself familiar with Uobrew,
Greek and Latin, and all the text books required
to be studied by Presbyterian theological stu
dents. The negro is singular compound of
physical deformity and mental activity, being
dwarfed and distorted in body to Il degree almost
painful to look upon, and with avery large head
out of all proportion to the rest Of his person.
He is a reputed son of the great lawyer and ora
tor, s. s. Preniss, at one time member of Con-
gress from Mississippi, whore he looked
upon as Il perfect prodigy of eloquence and men
tai attainments. This son of his seems to pos
sess his father pecuarities in an exaggerated
degree, and may yet prove as marvellous in mind
as distorted in body. His appearance so preju-
diced the members of the Presbytery against
him that they would have refused him license
If he had shown any deficiency. He required
to deliver n sermon Of his own composition, and
the matter of it was not only good, bat the man
ner of delivery was composed and admirable.
We have not heard to what field he has been
called.
Year: 1870

VIE undersigned would hereby respectfully


L beg leave to return his sincere thanks to the
Democratic and Conservative voters of New Cas-
tie county for their partiaity in selecting him as
their candidate for the Sherffalty, from among so
many other gentlemen, whose names were pre-
sehted to them on Saturday last, any one of
whom would have done honor alike to the office
and the great party to which they SO long and
faithfully adhered.


1t would afford him great pleasure to visit his
friends in every Hundred in the county and to
tender to each, personally, his thanks for the
honor conferred upon him but as circumstan-
ces, which are best understood by those who are
most intimately acquainted with him, render this
impracticabie, he adopts this as the only availa-
BILE mode of expressing his gratitude to his fell
low-ctizens for their past support and of solicit
ing continuation of the same at the ensuing
general election, pledging himself, that should
he be so fortunate as TO be elected to the said Of
tice, he will discharge It's duties with honesty, f.
deity, and to the best of his humble ability.
JAMES ARMSTRONG
Newark, Del. June IL, ls7O-te
Year: 1870

Everybody ought to know that there hts been
another great decline In dry goods. 1t is the Gus
tom of LEVY BROTHERS to be The first to mark
d,wn their prices whenever there Is u dcclinc,
giving their customers the advantage; hence
LEVY BROTHERS store is generally crowded,
purchasers being fully convinced that 1t Is to their
interest to purchase where all goods are marked
down to the lowest prices, and but one price is
asked. 1t is true that In many instances CUSTOM
crs have to exercise some patience to get sales
man to walt upon them bat no establishment can
afford to have 4 salesman for every customer at
the same timc unless they sell their goods at much
higher prices than LEVY BRoTHERs do. So have
Il little patience. Where there are twenty-five
statesmen you will have but Il little time to wait,
and 1t will pay you for SO doing.
Year: 1870

THE STRAWBERRY FEsTIvAL.-Under the
warm sun Of the last few days Strawberries
are rapidly ripening, and 1t is supposed
that they will be in full perfection by FRI
day week, 9th instant. The committee ap-
pointed at the last meeting of the Hort
cultural and Pathological Society to prepare
for the strawberry expedition are no doubt
making the necessary arrangements.


1t is anticipated that the coming exhibi-
ton will be superior to that Of last year,
not only in the quantity of the berries to be
shown, but in their quality as well as in the
attendance Of visitors. Z


The committee propose, as in the case of
last year, to have strawberries and Ice
cream, with which the entrance tickets may
be redeemed. A band of music will also
be in attendance, and nothing will be left
gundone to make the time pass pleasantly
and agreeably.
Year: 1870

commissioner Of the revenue has been sresident
OF this city and State for twsnty-one almost
Lifetime. Scrupulousiy avoiding 70 play any
prominently part In the politics OF The country, Il
mas ever been his principle to sympathize via,
and work for his fellow-eitizens OF his adopted
state irrespective Of ofnationallties and unchanged
and unshaken by wcal or woe.
Year: 1870

MASS MEETING OF FRIENDS OF TEMPE
RAScE.-A mass meeting of the members of
the Order of Friends of Temperance in
Richmond and Manchester will be held at
Covenant Hall, on Capitol street between
Ninth and Tenth, at SH o'clock this eve
ming. After the meeting new Council of
the Order will be instituted by the district
Vice-President. All members of the Order
in good standing, and all who desire to con-
meet themselves Herewith, are invited to be
present on this occasion.
Year: 1870

JACKSON at the corner of Main and Third
streets, respectfully announces himself n caudi-
date for the Office of SUPPLYING EVERY ONE
WITH AS GOOD ICE-CREAM as can be found any
where In the city. Manufactured by himself and
delivered free.
Year: 1870

Rc0nct that = sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites - promote connubl'
nj happiness, Indeed, without these the Jour-
ncy through life becomes weary pilgrimage,
the prospect hourly darkens to the view, the
mind becomes shadowed with despair, and filled
with the melancholy reflection that the happl'
ness of another is blighted with our own
Year: 1870

KILLING FIsu.-Thc paper called
Our Dumb Animals" proposes that We
shall kill fish, instead of allowing them to
die by slow process after having been
taken from their native clement. Tie
Dutch kill the fish by making a slight
longitudinal incisison under the tail, aud
the operation. which is performed with a
very sharp instrument, cln be done so
quickly that it is praciiceI even in the
largest fisheries, not excepting those for
the herring. 1t is the custom in Holland
I" kill the fish as soonas he is drawn from
the water, while We let him lie in an agony
which proluces the ctfec, of Il sickness ol,
the animal economy, snitcns the flesh and
gives it to the principles Of dissolution
The Indians Of this country kill the fish
they catch Immediately after they are drawn
from the water, by hitting them with q
small stick on the head directly back of the
eyes The fish appear to die almost on the
instant.
Year: 1870

A correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune,
who is writing sketches Of trip through
the south eastern portion of Nevada and
southern Utah for that paper, gives the
annexed account Of remarkable country
near the Nonolimbo Pass through the
Black Rock range of mountains Of southern
Utah:


While riding slowly ahead with Nick
and our Indian guide. my attention was
attracted to a small valley in the gorge Of
the mountains. \ light, blush looking
vapor was ascending from large number
of hot springs. The valley was not par
ticularly inviting, but as the men and ami
mails were tired, I thought l would camp
in it for the night. The guide, however,
assured me it was certain death to inhale
the deadly vapors. We went into camp
elsewhere but the next morning the
whole party started down the slope to the
valley, feeling, as well as smelling our way,
cautiously. The doctor had provided him
self with a couple Of Indian dogs and sew.
cral live rabbits, for the purpose of max
ing experiments. After scrambling down
abou. two hundred yards, the doctor, who
was in advance, detected the absence OF
oxygen in the air, by the sudden change
in temperature and the increased difficulty
he experienced in respiration. A nausc
Gus, suiiocating smell was also perceptible
every time the wind blew towards us
The valley was about quarter Of mile
in circumference and oval in shape. Not
solitary saycbrush, not even Il single
blade Of grass, nor living thing was
to be seen in it; but ghastly human
skeleton lay beside one Of the nearest
springs. Scattered around were the skcle
TONS Of buffalo, deer, aud other wild ami
mails. The bottom Of the valley appeared
to be hard, sandy soil, dry aud cracked
as if by heat, in various places. One OF
the Indian dogs was fastened to the end
of Il ariat and lowered down, while some
Of the party, with watches in hand, OBJ
served the effect. In fourteen seconds
the dog fell down motionless and in three
minutes was dead. The other dog, which
now trottcd down to his companion, was
motioncss in twelve seconds and lived
about five minutes. Our guide Informed
us that the existence Of the valley had
been known to his tribe for several years
Two OF their braves perishcd in it while
endeavoriug to corral some antelope, all oil
which perishcd too. These springs gene.
rate such large volume Of carbonic acid
gas as to completely poison all the sur
rounding atmosphere. We had no oppor-
tunity Of obtahin: any water for analysis.
As the place is entirely out of the way OF
overland emigration, there is but little
danger that it will ever be frequcnted BY
bands of pioneers or pleasure parties, We
named this canyon on our field book, the
Valley of the Shadow Of Death. While
some of the men were erecting stone
pyramid on commanding position, We
cut from an old pair of saddle bags stout
piece of leather, burnt in the warning
:. Death Valley, Enter Not" and fastened
it to the pillar in 6rm position.
Year: 1870

THE Purity OF IcE.-In addition to the
fact that ice is lighter than water, there is
another curious thing about it which many
persons do not perhaps know, viz, its
purity. A lump Of ice melted will become
pure distilled water. Water in freezing
turns out Of it all that is not water, salt,
air, coloring matter, and all impurities.
Frozen sca.watcr makes fresh water ice. If
you freeze basin Of indigo water, it will
make ice as clear and white as that made
of rain water. When the cold is very
sudden, these foreign matters have no time
to escape, either by rising or sinking, and
arc thus entanglcd with the ice bat do not
make any part Of it. .....
Year: 1870

These cups, which rise frcm spot OF
spot at the feet Of the traveller, are filed
with pure and delicious water, for the ben
eft of which he is all the more grateful
because he is cncirclcd by nothing but
marshes, the water Of which is lukewarm
and pauscous.