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Year: 1871

From tho Pail Mall Gazette .,.. .,ii


1t must afford the French some slight
satisfaction to have found it in their
power to small lextent literally to repay
the Germans in their own coin. Most OF
us know what German money is, and we
can therefore appreciate the dismay with
which the authorities at Strasburg wit
messed the arrival of Is, 900 francs in Ger
man silver pieces, This sum forms col
lection ofmost ofthe money importedinto
France by the invading army. Finding
the French gold and silver much cleaner
and far more handy than their own, the
Germans we're. naturally more ready to
part with the latter; the desire of the
French on the other hand, to rid them
selves at the earliest opportunity of the
unpleasant souvenir can occasion as
little surprise. There is q saying in
Germany that German princes enjoy
constant good health, because their
faces are always to be seen with red
cheeks on silver thalers and forms
This rule holds good, however, only in a
new piece, for in old copper red on the
cheeks is obscured by the black coating
collected on the coins in greasy Jumps.
OF course this mode of payment i'm
posed upon the German Commissioners
the task of eountingover the whole sum,
whereas the simple process Of weighing
suilices for French money. The thick
ness and weight of German coins vary
ing in the same species often as one to
three or even one to four, the use of the
balance is quite out of the question.
Possibly the inconvenience experienced
in this instance may accelerate the de-
cision of government regarding the
adoption Of coinage, uniform through
out the empire, taking as standard oul
gold sovereign.
Year: 1871

would write You of allthis at greater
length, my dear A., if | was not
pressed for time. am obliged to send
this letter by sure person, who leaves
immediately.


l think Of you often and embrace you
and yours. Your afIectionate aunt,


EUGENE.
] send you a new photograph of my
SON
Year: 1871

General Trochu has gone round and
round the defense of Paris, as he went
round the Tuilerics- ever enter
ing. He has said himself that at the end
of September his opinion was that any
successful resistance was impossible.
Why, then, push the sublime folly Of
counting the defense, anyhow
Year: 1871

The great Blood Purifier and Delicious Brink WARMERS VINUM WIFE, or WINE OF LIFE, is free from any poisonous drugs impurities, being prepared for those who require a stimulant It is splendid appetizer and tonic, and the finest thing most pleasant and delicious article ever offered to the publIc far superior to brandy, whiskey, wine, bitters, or any other article. It is more healthy and cheaper. Both male or female, young or old, can take the Wine of Life. It is, in fact, 6 life preserver. Those who wish to enjoy good health and free flow of lively spirits, will do well to take the Wine of Life. It is different from anything ever before in use. It is sold by all druggists. Price $1, in quart bottles.
Year: 1871

NEw York, May l9.


Gov. Hoffman to-day heard remon-
STRANGE from the Bar Association against
the recent act Of the Legislature amend
ing tho code, lie said he would decide
In q few days whether he would sign the
Year: 1871

Meeting of the Board of Commissioners-Re.


ducing the Communication Tax.


meeting of the Board Of Commissioners Of
Emigration was held at Castle Garden at two O'CLOCK
yesterday afternoon, Commissioners Bell, Hart,
Setback, Barr, Nicholson and Wallach present;
Richard O'Gorman In the chair. The minutes Of
various standing committees were read and ap-
proved. special committee TO whom was referred
the subject OF investigating the practcabity Of re-
ducng the present rate Of commutaon reported that
they had invited the representatives OF the various
shipping houses to meet them IN consultation the
atter and that they found that the gentlemen rep
reSenting the Shipping interests OF the port of New
York were unanimous in support OF the commission
les at present existing under authority of the State
|Qf New York, and equally IN favor OF o


REDUCTION IN THE RATE OF COMMuTATION.
The committee thereupon recommended the re-
Iduou0n OF the Communication tax from the present
Irate OF two dollars and half to one dollar and
half per head After the above report was received
land adOpted Commissioner J. B. Nicholson moved
Ithe following preamble and resolution


Whereas the design of this Board conduct s busi
ness with the least possible consistent with
gard the support OF the immigrants in s charge
Interests port of New York and whereas committee
the Board having conferred with the representatives
various shipping houses in this city have reported


Favor reduction of Communication to the dollar


half instead oftwo dollars and half the rate


Resolved That this Board do report to the Legislature Of
State or New York. in session. its intention carry


Ind half head Communication money provided the Legis
1ature approve the same


/ President O'GoRMAN then notified the Board that
the term Of othce for which ne was elected their
breNdent would expire at the next annual meeting
10 be held next Thursday. After thanking the Com
mission for the unvarylng Kindness and courtesy
Extended to him. he begged to tender his resignation
Commissioner HART moved that the resignation OF
kne President lay on the table, which was carried.


The meeting then adjourned.
Year: 1871

About daylight yesterday morning a collision
occurred between two freight trains the Erie Kali
way the Paterson depot. The front train, bound
west had stopped, and the rear train, being
very heavy one came around the down grade
the rear Of the first train. Tie caboose and two
freight or the latter were partially demolished,
spiling out large quantity OF ofgroceries, with which
they were laden The fore part OF the locomotive OF
the rear train was somewhat shattered, the smoke
stack and headlight being carried away No one
was injured, ana under the circumstances the acci
dent seems to have been unavoidable The track
was obstructed for an hour.
Year: 1871

LITTLE WIvEs.-H ever n half SUP
pre-, sed sigh finds place with you, or n
half uploving word escapes you to your
husband whom you lore, let your hea t
so buck to some tender word in the' Q
FIRST loye-days remember how You loved
him then, how tenderly he wooed you,
how timidly you responded, and if you
can feel that you have not grown unwol-
thy, trust him for the same fond love
row. If you do feel that through cares
and trials of life, you have become less
loyeablo and attractive than then, turn
by all that you love ON earth or hope
for in Heaven-tun back, and be the
pattern of lovehness that won him be
the "dear one" your attractions made
you then.


BE the gentle, loving, winning maiden
still, and doubt not, the lover you admi-
red will live forever in your husband.


Nestle by his side, cling to his love,
and let his coEf lence in you never fail,
and, my word for it, the husband viii
be dearer than the lover was. Above all
things do not forget the love he gave
you first Do not seek to "emancipate"
yourself-do not strive to unsex your
self and become q Miss Anthony, or n
Mrs. Stanton, but love the honor ordain-
ed by our Sayionr of old-that of low
ing wife, A happy wife, blessed moth
er, can have no higher station, needs no
greater honor
Year: 1871

We find the following in the Lynch
burg News. That it speaks The truth,
every editor in the land knows:


WHAT EDITORS DO FOR NOTHING.


Those who imagine that the Journal
lists path is made OF roses, should read
the following The editor must be at
his post day and night in order that the
pubic may be promptly and fully in-
formed OF what is going ON, not only in
his own city or State, but everywhere.
Each issue must be a daily chapter OF
the worlds chronicles. A true Journal
must always be reflex of the enlight-
euod public opinion OF the world, a de-
fender of what is just a vmdicatOr OF
what is honorable, an adviser, champion
and friend of all who tim at good ends
through proper means


Hence it happens Mt the best of all
the work of the Journalist is 'thnt which
he does for nothing. If any useful en-
terpise is projected, whether origina-
ting with him or the fruit OF some spec
ulative undertaking, the aid Of newspa-
pers is straightway solicited.


He does more gHtUitous work than
men of any other vacation. He is the
ally Of all who are engaged i'll public
schemes, and must give his services
without rations, and generally without
thanks or appreciation.


II a man wants an Office the editor is
expected to deem him the best for it out
of thousands equally deserving, and to
publish puffs from day to day OF his SUI
perior claims, for nothing-and if he re-
fuses, he has to encounter abuse, and his
paper be dccried as good-for-nothing.
Many u "great man" is made by the
newspaper, while the individual has the
van ty to believe that ho alone made HIM
self.


1t is well enough for the public to be
reminded of these things from time to
time, that they may not forget the work
the journalist does without money and
without price If we, as class, were to
claim from public institutions our full
share in them according to the work OF
hand and head which we have expended
to build them up, it would be found to
be something more than the value of the
little reciprocity that is generally conce-
ded. If other professional men did as
much for nothing as editors, they would
be more careful how they ask labor for
their interests without compensation.
Year: 1871

Somewhere in Pennsylvania there is a
Presbyterian clergyman whose nominal
salary is four hundred and fifty dollars q
year.


But as it was six months in arrears
the congregation determined to give
him donation party, to help him along.


1t came off-the donation party did.


The entire flock was ON hand, but the
presents, that were only six rolling pins,
a pen-wiper, and quarter Of a peck Of
dried apples, crop of 1864.


The minister Of course, had to furnish
refreshments and the company not only
discharged four hams, three and half
pounds of sixty cent butter, and thirteen
loaves of bread, but they ate up two
pounds of sugar and all the next winters S
preserves.


To crown all, four spoons were miss
ing.


The clergyman says he wants to have
Just one more donation party, and then
he will close up his business and begin
life over again as champion pGuper at
the almshouse, "-"


He is particularly down on one sister
who iammed herself full of ham and pre-
serves, and enough other succulent diet
to keep the entire family for week, and
then laid up against the wall pretending
to feel religious, and singing, "There is
rest for the weary"


He is willing to accept bets that she
will never weary while there is any grub
about-this sister won't.


He.would like to feed her for month
on those rolling-pins and pen-wiper
Just out OF revenge.
Year: 1871

NEWSPAPERS FOR CHu.DREN.-The fol-
lowing gives q good hint to parents
about a very important matter:


A child beginning to read becomes
delighted with newspapers because he
reads names which are very familiar,
and he viii progress acc rdingly. A
newspaper one year is worth quarters
schooling to a child, and every father
must consider that substantial informa-
ton is connected with this advance
ment The mother of the family, being
one of its heads and having q more i'm
mediate charge Of the children, should
herself be instructed. A mind occupied
becomes fortified against the ills of life,
and is brced for any emergency. Chill
dren amused by reading or study me
of course more considCrate and more
easily governed How many thought
less young men have spent their earn
ings i'll tavern or grog shop, who ought
to have been reading! How many pa-
rents who never spent twenty dollars for
books for their families, would gladly
have given thousands to reclaim u son
or daughter who had iSnorUntly and
thoughtlessly fallen into temptation.
Year: 1871

A dentist, trying in vain to extract a
decayod tooth from ajladie's mouth, gave
up the task with this apology: The
fact is, madam, it is impossible for any
thing bad to come from your mouth.
Year: 1871

The hunters of Siberia, when hard
pressed by hunger, take two thin pieces
of board, we are told, and placing one
on the pit of the stomach and the other
on the back, gradually draw together the
cxtremitics, and thus allay, in some de-
gree, the cravings of appetite. A SINH
lar practice is known among the South
Sea Islanders This is supposed to lie
very economical kind of board.
Year: 1871

The CANAL.-The James River and Kama
wha canal has been repaired as far as the
Iron Works, four miles above Lynchburg,
and boats are now running to that point.
Produce is coming in pretty freely. Travel
on the canal was only suspended ten days
during the recent cold snap, and this, we
are told, is about the average number OF
days in which the boats are stopped during
the winter. Repairs beyond Lynchburg
are being pushed forward as energeticaily
as the nature of the work will allow, and
before great while we may expect to see
boats running its entire length again.
Year: 1871

WE HAVE SEEN THEM.-0n yesterday we Wis
tied the LEE GALLERY, and must confess that the
pictures taken at that establishment are the most
beautiful we have seen, aud wonder how such can
be produced at the low prices charged.
Year: 1871




Judicious advertising always pays.
If you have a good thing, adver-
tise it. If you haven't, don't.


If you don't mean to mind your
own business, it will not pay to adj
vertise.


Never run down your opponents
goods in public. Let him do his
own advertising.


It's as true of advertising as of
any thing else in this world-if it is
worth doing at all, it is worth doing
well.


We don't recommend advertising
as the best way to get a wife F; but
we know that it is the best way to
get a good trade.


You can't eat enough in one week
to last whole year, and you can't
advertise on that plan either.


A large advertisement once, and
then discontinued, creates the i'm
preston that the man has fzzled.


Iujudicious advertising is like
fishing where there's no fish. You
need to let the lines fall in the right
place.


A constant dropping will wear a
rock. Keep dropping your adver-
tisements on the public and they
will soon melt under it like rock
salt.


Large type isn't necessary in ad-
vertising. Blind folks don't read
newspapers.


If you can arouse curiosity by an
advertisement it is a point gained.
The fair sex don't hold all the curl
osity in the world.


Don't be afraid to invest in print,
er's ink, lest your sands of life be
nearly run out.


When you advertise, see that you
lido it on the same principle that yOr
buy goods. Get the most you car
for the money.


People who advertise only once il
three months forget that most folk'
can't remember anything longe
! than seven days.
Year: 1871

The financial strength Of the coun-
! try was never more clearly exhibit
( ed than in the manner in which it
has met the shock of the great Chi
cago fire. That calamity was. ma
tional. So extensive were the ram
ifcations of the immense business of
Chicago that the great losses there
affect directly or indirectly every
section of the country.


How thoroughly interlaced are the
credits and interests of the whole ma
ton, is seen in the widespread de-
probation of all corporate securities
which Immediately followed the
Chicago disaster, extending even to
Government bonds. It is estimated
by careful and cautious authority
that the depreciation of stock and
bond values caused by the fire was
more than equal to the value Of the
property burned.


| If the destruction in Chicago
amounted to four hundred millions
of dollars, as is now estimated, and
the depreciation of other values to
as much more, we have the enor-
nous sum of eight hundred millions
of dollars of values literally destroy
ed in a days time


1t is true that the depreciation in
stocks and bonds, will be, in a meas
ure, if not entirely, recovered from
in time, but that is only another ev-
fdence of the financial strength and
soundness of the country.


There never was, apparently, a
combination of circumstances more
favorable to a general panic and f.
nancial crisis. Eight hundred mil

lions of property practically destroy
ed rumors apparently well authen-
ticated that the strongest Insurance
Companies were ruined, and the air
full of reports of the failures ofheavy
business houses as well as banks.
Looking back now over the past
week it seems almost a miracle that
a crisis was averted.


But the financial strength of the
country was so great as to easily
withstand the trial, great as it was,
and the reaction commenced almost
as soon as the shock was felt.
The Insurance Companies, with
) very few exceptions, promptly noti'
fed their agents that they would al
once pay all losses, and some of theil
representatives were on the ground
! doing so as soon as the spread of the
fire was stopped. The Banks, with
a single unimportant exception, have
been entirely unaffected, while the
people of the country have sent il


millions for the relief of sufferers.


If any doubt had been entertain


ed as to our financial soundness, j


must certainly have been removed
S by the manner in which we have
: passed through the trials of the pas
), week. - Toledo Blade.
Year: 1871

N~EAOW escape OF q Plus
burger.


Last week James Hickey, a work
man in one of the Pittsburg mills,
died (as was supposedly from small
pox, and was very soon after put in
his coffin to be taken to the ceme-
terry. The Pittsburg Gazette gives
the sequel, as follows:


The churchyard, with its silent
tombstones, was reached, tho gate
passed, and the hearse drove up be-
fore q yawning grave, presided over
by a yawning sexton. As the hearse
halted, the noise in the hearso grew
louder and louder and louder, and
the driver, with fright depicted on
his face, called on the pall-bearers to
hurry along, as the dead man was
alive, else a ghost was in the coffin !
The quartet of bearers were sOrely
frightened at the announcement, but
/ the coffin was soon drawn out of the
hearse and the lid broken off, and
horror James Hickey, the sup
posed dead man, sat up and surveyed
the scene in a bowildermont more
easily imagined than described. The
driver, the pall-bearers, and the old
grave digger were thoroughly un-
nerved and in utter astonishment-
hardly willing to believe their eyes
or trust their senses, they looked
with awe and superstition on the
terminated corpse. In a feeble
voice James asked, as he viewed his
wooden overcoat, the hearse, the
becraped bearers, the tombstones,
and the grave prepared for himself,
what it all meant, and if he was not
a lively corpse from the smallpox.
The terrible truth soon broke upon
his auditOrs-they had narrowly,
though very unknOwingly, come
nigh burying their friend alive =
Hickey being too weak to remove
I from bis coffin, he was at his own
request permitted to rest in it, put
into the hearse and hauled back to
the house of mourning. The sur
/ prise created by his return can bet
ter be imagined than told. There
were those who refused to believe
that ho was alive even aftor they
heard his voice, so deep was their
conviction that be was dead. He is
rapidly convalescing, and in all
probability will live long to tell oI
his own death and half way burial
His was q very narrow escape, and
when we'll he will have a second,
hand coffin to sell quite cheap. The
case points a moral by which all
should profit, viz be sure youl
corpse is dead before the funeral
takes place.


Mr.. Hickey remembers nothing in
torvening from the time he fell into
the deep sleep until aroused by the
rough riding in the hearse, and then
returning to consciousness, imagined
that he was being suffocated under
the clothing of his bed His frs
impression on realizing that he was
in graveyard and in coffin was


that he had died and was resurrect'
ed, and he wondered where he had
been the meanwhile, for he could
neither recall pain nor pleasure, but
be was quick in comprOhending the
situation, and shuddered to think
how he had escaped a death most
horrible from being buried alive.
Year: 1871

General Butler expresses the opinion
that the Democrats will make no Presi-
Dental nomination next year, but that
two Republican candidates, one repre-
senting the conservative wing of the
party, will be in the field. This is sub
stantially the policy recommended by
the Louisville Ledger and the st. Louis
Republican, the latter one of the most
influential Democratic journals Of the
country. What says the Enquirer? Is
the Democratic party ready for final
dissolution after this fashion2
Year: 1871

The following lines, if they do not rhyme, Ough
to:


Wife, make me some dumplings Of dough,


They are better than meat for my cough
Pray let them be boiled through and through,
But not till they're heavy and tough.
Now, must be of to my plough.


And the boys (when they've had enough
Must keep the flies of with bOugh,


While the old horse drinks at the trough.
Year: 1871




Happy.


Thomas jefferson wrote the fol-
lowing excellent advice. There is
much human nature and good sense
in it.


Harmony in the married state is
the first thing to be aimed at. Moth
ing can preserve affections uninter-
rupted but a firm resolution never
to differ in will, and a determination
in each to consider the love of each
other as of more value than any
object whatever on which a wish
had been fixed. How light in fact,
is the sacrifice Of any wish, when
weighed against the affections Of one
with whom we are to pass our whole
life! And though opposition in
a single instance will hardly of itself
produce alienation, yet every one
has their pouch into which all these
little oppositiOns are put while that
is filling, the alienation is sensibly
going on, and when filed it is COM
plete. 1t would puzzle either to say
why; because no one difference Of
opinion has been marked enough to
.


produce a serious effect of itself. But
he finds his affections wearied out
by a constant stream Of little checks
and obstacles. Other sources of dis
content, very common indeed, are
the little cross purposes Of husband
and wife in common conversation,
a disposition in either to eritieise
and question whatever the other
says, desire always to demonstrate
and make himself in the wrong, "es-
peoially in company" Nothing is
$50 goading. Much better, therefore,
Iif our companion views a thing in
different light from what we do, to
leave him in quiet possession Of his
view What is the use Of rectifying
him if the thing be unimportant? let
it passion the present,and wait a soft
er moment and more eoneiliatory oc-
casion of revising the subject tOgeth-
er. It's wonderful how many persons
arc rendered unhappy by inatten-
ton 10 these little rules of prudence.
Year: 1871

An excellent. interesting and instructive
sermon on The Lords Prayer is published
| in this mornings REPUBLICAN. Its length


should preclude no one from reading it, for


It is one Of Henry Ward Beecher- ahlest


and most scholarly efforts.