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Year: 1872

Once upon time, traveller stepped
into stage-coach. He was young man
just starting in life. He found six pas.
sengers about him, all gray-headed and
extremely aged men. The youngest ap
peared to have seen at least eighty win
ters. Our young traveller, struck will
the singularly mild and happy aspect
which distinguished all his fellow pas
sengers, determined to ascertain the
secret of long life, and the art of max
ing old age comfortable he addressed
the one who was apparently the eldest,
who told him that he had always led a
regular and abstemious life, eating vege-
tables and drinking water.


The young man was rather daunted at
this, inasmuch as he had liking for the
good things Of this life. He addressed
the second, who astounded him by say
ing that he had always eaten roast beef,
and gone to bed gloriously fuddled,
every night, for the last seventy years,
adding, that "all depends on regular
ity.


The third had prolonged his days by
never seeking or accepting Office the
fourth by resolutely abstaining from all
political or religious controversies, and
the fifth by getting to bed at sunset, and
rising at dawn.


The sixth was apparently much young
er than the other five-his hair was less
gray, and there was more of it-a placid
smile, denoting perfectly easy con-
science, mantled his face, and his voice
was jocund and strong. They were all
surprised to learn that he was by ten
years the Oldest man in the coach.


"How" exclaimed our young traveller
" is it you have thus preserved the fresh
ness of life ?"


81 have drank water and drank wine
i have eaten meats and vegetables-I
held Al public ofhce-I have sometimes
gone to bed at midnight, got up at sun
rise and at noon-I have dabbled in
politics, and written religious papers
bit alrays paid promptly my printers
jiAs'!
Year: 1872

A peor Turkish slater, of Constants
nople, being at work upon the roof of a
house, lost his footing and fell into the
narrow street upon man who CHANGED
to be passing at the time. The pedes-
trian was killed by the conclusion, while
the slater escaped without material in
jury.


A son of the deceased caused the slater
to be arrested and brought before the
Cadi, where he made the most grave
charge, and claimed ample redress.


The CadI listened attentively, and in
the end asked the slater what he had to
say in his defence


"Dispenser of Justice" answered the
accused, in humble mood, " it is even as
this man says but God forbid that there
should be evil in my heart. lam poor
man, and know not how / can make
amends"


The son of the man who had been
killed thereupon demanded that condign
punishment should be inflicted upon the
accused.


The Cadi meditated few moments,
and finally said /:


ait shall be so."


Then to the slater he continued


"Thou shalt stand in the street where
the father of this man stood when thou
did'st fall upon him."


And to the accuser he added


"And thou shalt, il it so please thee,
go upon the roof, and fall upon the cul-
prlt, even as he did fall upon thy father
Allah is great -
Year: 1872

WHICH WAS FIRsT.-A Connecticut
court has recently had an interesting
case of survivorship before it. A man
and his only daughter we're drowned at
the same time, and the question was
his property would have passed to the
daughter, and thence to her heir, who is
her mother, but who has been divorced
from the father If the daughter died
first then the property goes to a half
sister of the father. The settled rule is,
undoubtedly, that in such cases the males
survive the hardships longer than
emales, and adults than minors
Year: 1872

"Ifal tho world must see tho world,
Az the world the world hath seen,
Thon 1t were better for the world


That the world had never been.
Yet IL tho world would see the world
As the world the world might see,
Then happier world than this old world
Perhaps could never be.
Oh, world that lives upon tho world
You travel tar too slow
Oh world, green grave of all the world,
How ondrous swift you CO."
Year: 1872

The frost did curious bit of work on
a window on Michigan avenue, Detroit.
A tobacconist's Indian, standing just in
front of the window, and about two feet
from it. was so completely photographed
on the large pane, that scores Of people
stopped to look at the odd picture.
Year: 1872

Last night, the eve of Humboldts birthday,


paper his life character and works was read before
the Eew-York Liberal Club by Z. G. Holland. In the
course Of his remarks be said that by general consent


the name OF Humboldt decidedly the synonyrn
for science than that OF any other Though Ger
man by birth his mother French, which accounts
for the briiancy and vivacity Of his style. The
German savant works more slowly. His career
nature wac harmonious that his life had tragic
features. In his mission 20 France he showed that
combined the functions OF enthusiastic naturalist
with those OF cautious statesman. His great work,
the Cosmos" not undertaken until be had com
pleted his preliminary studies. He did not essay
write Of nature whole before he had mastered the
several bTaBebes Tie rivers hfs and then the In
Year: 1872

We have already warned our readers that
Mr. Theodore Thomas's Garden Concerts will close next
week. and the company will set out few days aerward
upon its Winter tour The season has been prosperous
from financial point OF view, and unusually interesting
artisteav not only on account of the high degree Of
perecton TO which the orchestra has been brought but
also for the character of tho programmes MI THOMAS
mas always been the most enterprising OF New-fork
musicians and our first knowledge of new orchestral
work of any Importance ia almost always derived from
him. During the Summer he has produced on an aver
age about week. either work entirely new or
standard composition never before heard in this coun-
~ The ist of such novelties this year contains the fol-
lnUinp fitleE
Year: 1872

FRIDAYS FIRST FRosr-Tne ho.ry rime
OF winter visited this vicinity for the first time
this season on Thursday night last Ice was at
a Adisooun' block of it were permitted TO wither
away upon the sidewalks miserable existence
under the genial rays o: next days sun Fare
welt, coda.
Year: 1872

Why these chimeras of sleep? Phys
ical disposition, | shall be told. Well
and good but that does not explain why
they have such and such a shape That
relates to an organic mechanism of which
we do not know the motive powers, and
which remains an enigma to us all. AS
our eyes for long while retain the i'm
preston of the solas spectrum which had
dazzlel them, the mind fills with the OBJ
jects which have filled the eyes, and the
fancy, while it transforms, traces them
upon know not what black chamber,
the sanctuary of dreams. Our brain is
not, then, a Photographic apparatus where
in images are accurately transmitted. 1t
resembles rather theatre where the facts
of life are presented under the form Of
fiction But it is richer and more original
than all the fctions of the theatre. IL Is
the unforeseen in all its bower, it IS the
impossible accepted beforehand, it is the
unrestrained festival Of the Imagination.
The serious and the 5urlesque dance to-
gether terror and joy succeed each other



tears flow and wet the pillow. But it
most frequently vanishes to give way to
unrealizable compensations. The friend
who has just left US suddenly returns
from an immense journey, which has
lasted but an instant he even, il need be,
leaves the tomb to which We have just
carried him, to converse With US. We
ourselves easily die in dream, and feel
ourselves once living and dead without
surprise and with out anguish. Thus,
thanks to the fiction, which rock our
hours Of repose we spend notable part
of our existence outside the domain Of
reality. All the more because it is not
necessary to sleep in order to dream.
Contemplation leads US almost always to
state of highest satisfaction in which
reason slumbers, and wanderings more
defined and less prolonged than those Of
dream none the less escape the control
of argument. There is, therefore, in Us
something which is called soul, and
which is perhaps quite another thing
from that which bears its name, hitherto,
very vague or very ill-deGued. | have
myself long believed that we have three
souls-one to direct the employment Of
our organs, another to regulate our re-
lations with our species, third to com
municate with the Divine Spirit which
animates the universe. Saint Beuve used
to smile when | said that to him. Three
souls, )" replied he, 'if we could be sure
of having one ?" I dared not answer
him that We had perhaps more. We are
not such simple phenomena as people
have chosen to think in order to be able
to classify US as good and bad, as elect
and condemned.
Year: 1872

A letter from Naples, April 26, to the
London Telegraph, furnishes some
graphic description Of the thrilling scenes
witnessed during the recent eruption of
Mt Vcsuvius, from which we extract as
follows


THE MOUNTAIN ROBBED IN FLAME.


"For several nights before the new
craters burst, the mountain was so en-
chanting in its robed of fame that Naples
could not think of going to bed. Hour
after hour until the return of daylight
one and all of us fingered in the streets,
or by the shore of the bay, drinking in
the glory of Vesuvian TRANSPORTATION
Few who witnessed it will ever forget the
first Of those nocturnal displays. When
darkness fell on the night of the 23d the
great cone seemed suddenly to festoon it.
self with wreaths of fire. From its sum-
nit three craters were playing simultan-
e.asly. Continuous clouds of luminous
SIN IKE ascended IL the star-lit sky. On
their wings they bore solid masses of
scoriae, which, after rising to consider
able distance, either fell back into the
crater or were thrown over the side Of
the cone into the streams of lava which
we're flowing down the mountain. The
moon, as if jealous of a terrestrial rival,
shone with such brilliancy as only south
ern heavens are favored with The three
craters emulated it in the steadness of
their illumination. From hour to hour
Year: 1872




One summer mern serene,
soft sunbeams trailcd their golden garments o'cr
Ion ived church, within whose open door
A bridal train was seen.


Gay peaed the wedding bell,
Deep organ tones thrilled every listening arch
Till at the halowed shrine the well timed march
Into deep silence fell.


A hush of rev renee stole
Each throbbing heart and waiting brow upon
While angels bent to bless the sacred bond
First given to Eden souls


As holly the prayer
Died on the ear intent, pure white dove
With shining breast, and tender notes of love
Cleaving the still blue air,


Folded in rest its wing
Upon the altar, near the holy book
Whose wind stirred leaves from open easement.
took.


The fragrance soft airs bring.


With meek swift -glancing eye
Upon the gathered crowd it fingered long,
Cnmindful of the sunshine and the song
Under tho arching sky,


But when the vow was said
The joyous music DER, the lightsome feet
Gone out to life with all its hopes SO sweet,
Mid tho docp silence shed,


1t sailed on gladsome plume
To seek its native haunts of quiet peace
Then eyes looked out to SEQ glad years increas,
Without shade of gloom.
Year: 1872

with infamy and ruin. am confident
that the American people have already
made your course their own, aud fully
resolved that their brave hearts and strong
arms shall bear on to triumph


In this fact, and with the distinct un-
derstanding, that if elected | shall be
President, not of party, but of the
whole people, L accept your nomination
in the confident trust that the masses Of
our countrymen, north and South, are
eager to clasp hands across the bloody
chasm which has too long divided them :,
that they have been enemies
in the joyful consciousness that they
are and must henceforth remain breth.
ren.


Yours gratefully,


HoRACE GREELEY.
Year: 1872

BUFFALO, October 29-The Board Of
Trade of this city on motion to recon-
slider the resolutions passed a few days
since, regarding the bridging Of Detroit
river, reafiirmed the same with the fol-
lowing addition;


Resolved, That the bridging Of the
channel Of the Detroit river west OF
Stony Point, is Objectionable only as
part of the system for bridging the
main channel between Stony Point and
the Island.


The Board also adopted the following
resolution: r


Resolved, That the action Of this
Board has always been in favor of free
trade and free commerce between the
States, and in favor of all facilities for
our inland commerce, such as bridges
and tunnels, when required by railroads
and free canals to secure cheap trans
portation, and that the first duty of
parties interested is to examine and find
whether a tunnel is practicable, and
when it is practicable the river should
be tunneled as mountains are tunneled
and when not practicable bridges should
be permitted, and only justifiable on the
ground Of a great public necessity to fa-
cilitate our inland commerce, and upon
40 other ground do we believe that our
great natural channel ways for inland
commerce is now greater than our
foreign commerce, and its sources should
ever be bridged.
Year: 1872

PROVINE-JAMEs NJ. PEovISE was born in
Wilson county, Tenn, in July, 1873 When a
Young man hs moved TO West Tennessee, and
became a citizen Of Memphis in 1871, when
the place was but little more than village,
and Court Square was its southern limit


From that time to the day Of his death he was
Identified with the city and Intimately con-
nected with ali its interests. He was a man Of
sound Judgment, rare prudence and unbend-
ing integrity. Hence individuals and corpo-
ratiOns were wont to seek his counsel and COM
NIT their business 20 his management His
loss is therefore severely felt in the business
circles OF the community. Still more is he
missed by the many who were attached TO
him by the ties Of association and friendship.
But how unutterable that keen sense OF loss
felt in the hearts Of those who found in him
a husband and father so dear and so goods


He was also prominent in the Church Of
Jesus Christ. He made profession OF religion
and Joined the church in early life. In 1913
be united with the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, on Court street, and was made a
ruling elder thereof in 1875. At the time Of
his death he was the senior member and
senior elder Of the congregation. He served
as an elder under five different pastors four
Of whom preceded him % the better world.
He was often q member Of the lighter judica-
lures OF the church, and felt a deep interest in
all the affairs Of Zion. After toilsome life
spent in serving bis generation, he died on the
llth of October, IS72, in the fun assurance Of
faith in Christ. Henceforth he rests from bis
labors and his works also follow him. R.
Year: 1872

A CERTAIN Cure FOR EARACHE.--
We have recently seen several recipes pub
lished as beneficial in case of earache but
one who has severe attack Of that malady
will, we think, soon 6nd the inef6ciency Of
them all. There is, however, one remedy
which the experience Of twenty years has
taught us is unfailing. We have seen it
repeatedly tried in our own family, and
have frequently recommended it to others,
always with the same satisfactory result.
No house should be without its bottle Of
aruica. It is indispensable in cases Of
cuts, burns bruises, and in an earache it is
a sovereign cure. As soou as any soreness
is felt in the ear--which feeling generally
precedes the regular " "ache"-let three OF
four drops Of tincture Of arnica be poured
in, aud then the ori6ce filed with little
cotton to exclude the air, and in short
time the uneasiness is forgotten. If the
arnica is not resorted to until there is act,
ual pain the cure may not be so speedy
but it is just as certain. Ifoue application
of the aruica does not effect cure it will
be necessary to repeat it, it may DO, sew
eral times. It is o sure preventative ol
gathering 10 the ear, which is the usua
cause of the earache. -
Year: 1872

nes- A Glasgow professor has just dis
covered that mass Of ice placed upon a
wire gauSe, upon the application Of slight
pressure, will pass through the gauze, re-.
tanning its shape and nearly all its weight,
and re-appear solid mass on the other
side. Another phase of this singullr
principle is that wire, drawn across a
mass Of ice, hanging down and weighted
at each end, will cut its way through the
ice pretty rapidly, while the ice closes up
behind it and offers as firm resistance to
any attempt at cleavage where the wire
went through as at any other point. How
little We know Of the property Of things
which are every day at our fingers
ends. A Look-bcyoud-the-end-of. your
nose club" is proposed; but, gracious
heaven! who shall escape the fatal black.
ball?
Year: 1872

AMERICAN WoNDERs.-Silver Spring,
Florida, is one of the greatest curiosites
in the South. 1t bursts forth in the midst
of the most fertile country in the State.
II bubbles up in basin near one hundred
feet deep and about an acre 10 extent, and
sending from it deep stream sixty to one
hundred feet wide, and extending six to
eight miles to the Ocklawaka river. In
the spring itself fifty boats may lie at an-
chor--quite feet. The spring thus
forms natural inland port to which three
steamers now run regularly from the St.
Johns making close connections with the
ocean steamers at Pilatka. The clearness
Of the water is truly wonderful. 1t seems
even more transparent than air; you see
the bottom eighty feet below the bottom Of
your boat. the exact form of the slnalles
pebble, the outline and color of the leaf
that has sunk, and all the prismatic colors
of the rainbow are reflected. Large fish
swim in it, every scale visible, aud every
movement distinctly seen. If you 20 over
the spring in u boat you will see the fis-
sure in the rocks, from which the river
pours up like an inverted cataract.


Another wonder is, that Stone Noun
taio," Of Georgia, which was rendered
famous during the late war has not been
more written about, talked about, aud
Travelled about, aud indicates want of ad.
miratinn for the wonders of Southland.
Were it across the waters, it would be in
song, in sermon. and in lecture, and travel
ers oy scores would 80 as they now 60 to
the Pyramids:


These the work of man,


That the work of an Almighty hand.


Imagine mountain of solid granite,
towering two thousand feet, with scarcely
a shrub on its defiant, bald face In its
solitude it is alone no kindred nigh Not
even the faint outline of mountain is dis
cernable in the distance; and as we turn
our gaze upward to its perpendicular
hight, the classic Palisades seem tame, and
we can but wonder if it be boulder from
some distant sphere, suddenly, by some
freak of nature elected to our planet or
may it not have been that during the great
primcval ocean, which once overspread
the earth, matter attracted matter. until
the mighty pile arose, and will stand until
the final consunlmation of all things here
Year: 1872

Fer The New York San is authority
for tho statement that though New Eng
land was tho cradle Of Abolitionism, and
the politicians are loudest in the cry FOR
equal rights it is certain that in no other
part of the Union at the present day are
the colored people so kept under. They
are never permitted to raise their voice
in the legislative councils, and the petty
Office ofvillage constable is the highest
to which any member of their race has
successfully aspired, either in Massachu
sets or Rhode Island Crowded to-
gether in the slums Of the larger cities,
they are kept in state of mental and
moral degradation, while the charitable
societies who send missionaries to Fe
jee look with lofty scorn on the colorcd
heathens in their midst.
Year: 1872

eB- From the Fort Smith Independent, we
learn that there are now. over one hundred
and fifty criminal cases on the docket of the
L. S. District Court for the May term. One
third Of them. most probably, will be dismiss
ed. Weapprehend one cause Of the difficulty
with the Indians is the manner in which
cases have been made against many parties
there. Looking at the cases dismissed at tie
last session for the lack Of sufficient cause for
prosecution. and we arc not surprised at the
bad feeling cngendered and cropping out on
all sides in the Indian Country.
Year: 1872

tB- James Lawson a Go. have not stopped
shipping their immense stock of groceries up
the river because the Fort Smith railroad Il
not finished farther than Lewisburg; but on
the contrary. are doing better business than
ever by steamer and rail A taste of their
goods and the realization of the fact that they
are sold at reasonable prices, has only made
the demand the greater. Their stock Is full
Of everything kept m wholesale grocery
store. and more coming. Try Lawson 4 Co
before you buy elsewhere.-L. n. Journal.


They advertise liberally and OF course have
no trouble In selling goods. We agree with
he rovrr0!r
Year: 1872

The negro who shot Fulto n in Monti-
cello some time since was tried at the
recent term Of the Circuit Court in Drew
county and sentenced to serve four years
in the Penitentiary He was quite mer
ry when he passed through this place, in
the custody Of the guard, and boasted
that he would make it all right for him
self at Little Rock e. that the Gov
ernor would pardon him Is mock.
cry to be made thus Of criminal trials
Nsus ve,rons Pine Biaf Press
Year: 1872

Next Tuesday the registration OF
voters will commence in this county, and
continue three days. There are eleven
registering precincts in the county, the
boundaries of which and the names OF
the registrars may be seen BY reference
to the notice in the Herald. Don't fail
to attend and register, for if you do, you
cant vote at the November election, nor
for two years longer, until the next gen


eral registration. Be wise and register
Year: 1872

The demand for Telegraph Operators
is constantly being increased by the num-
Der of new railroad and telegraph lines
which are being opeuod up in the West
and South, thus making Telcgraphy one
of the most profitable as we'll as most
pleasant employ msnts in the country.
To young persons Of either sex We offer
superior advantages to learn this art, as We
have a short line expressly for learning,
also the benefit Of practice on one Of the
principle lines in the country. We shall
endeavor to procure situations for our
pupils as soon as competent. Terms SIC
per month in advance.


ABBIE G.. VAUGHAN,


Pc A Telegraph Office, Troy, Mo-
aug1m3
Year: 1872

AccIDENT.-While Sam HUT, an old
colored man Of this place, mas ricing
along the road north Of Troy, last Sun
day evening, couple Of men in buggy
drove spon him and SO frightened bis
horse that he jumped and threw the old
man, breaking several of bis ribs and
hurting him very badly. We learn thai
it is probable his injuries may prove
fatal
Year: 1872

IF you want GROCERIES at what
they are worth, call on W $. Cooper at.
the Novelty Cash Store. Don't believe
what others say. but call it is no trou.
BILE to show goods was told by a lady
that merchant said my goods we're very
inferior, but after examining them she
bought, and said she would call again.
Year: 1872

Everybody can vote who will register.
No iron clad oaths to take-no proscrip
ton now. Simply an oath to supper.
the constitution Of the state and the
United States, which every citizen eau
take freely.
Year: 1872

PUBLISH THE LAWS The Alameda
Gazette favors the publication OF the laws
of each session of the Legislature in one or
more newspapers published in the various
counties f the State. We think the idea
a good one, and worthy the consideration
of the present Legislature. The general
laws at least, should be published, so that
every person might readily and cheapiy
learn what is the law in relation to matters
in which he may have an interest. The
presumption that every man knows the law,
is at best violent one, and sustained alone
by legal fiction, and as men must obey the
law or suffer the consequences, every man
should be cheaply informed of what he
may or may not legally do. In several OF
the States the laws are SO published for the
benefit Of the people, and no good reason
exists why it should not be done in Cali
fornia If the people generally were in
formed as to the nature and character OF
the laws, we would have less litigation and
and less need of courts and judicial officers
II TAmador Ledger.