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Year: 1871

HARNESS MINE.-The Territorial Enter
prise says: A friend of ours struck lead
He took some Of the groupings from his lead
to an assayer and asked for very careful
assay-just as though an assayer could make
any but careful assay. He got his assay
and is now so much elated that he has given
his mine name and is talking about incor-
porating. The name of the mine-Harness
was SO peculiar that we asked him how
he happened to so name it, "Well," said
he, naturally enough. When went to
my assayer and asked him how my rock
turned out he told me he had found traces!
AS he had found traces in it, concluded to
call it the Harness mine About the
water-level he expects to strike big deposit
of "bely bands" collars and harness
Year: 1871

There is n romance about the histo-
rory of Mrs. Wallace, whose remains
are to be brought here from Philadel,
phia, which exceeds the impossible in
cidents of fiction. rs far as truth does
its counterfeit. Many of our old set.
tiers will remember the father of this
lady, who was a wealthy banker of
our city. Although it was never
made prominently public, il was
known that he was scion of the blood
royal of France, and by right entitled
To the rank of Due du San Domingo.
On the fourth OF November, 1871, the
Due de Joinville visited Davenport,
and stayed some days at the old lie
Clair House. Ostensibly on tour TO
see the western country, the real OBJ
ject of his visit was to spend day or
two with his royal cousin. Sometime
afterwards Mr.. Macklet gave up the
banking business, and the quiet Dav-
enport citizen might have been seen
in all the insignia of his rank at the
royal parties given at the halls of the
Tuileries or the saloons OF Versailles.
The lady whose recent death was re.
corded yesterday was the daughter of
this prince. Upon the death of her
husband, Mr. Wallace, she refused for
two years all consolation, and lived
the life of q recluse in the house now
occupied by Geo. II. French, Esq
Here she had room fitted up in fu-
neral style; a portrait of her husband
draped in Grape was the only orna-
ment, before which was placed small
altar and a prize dieo. Mrs. Wallace
never left this room, but dressed in =
black serge gown with wimple and
white hood, spent her time in constant
devotion before the painting of her
loved and lost one. Once only, in the
depth of winter, she was missed, and
after long search discovered almost
frozen, prone upon the marble slab
which covered his remains, and be-
dewing the icy stone with her tears


Her child was carefully nursed and
when it cried was taken to her room for
its natural food and mothers care


Upon the termination of the two
years she again sought the world in
which she reigned queen of fashion
until the death of her nephew again
drove her into the solitude of the
mourning chamber for similar peri
od. Her mother having removed to
Philadelphia some five years ago, was
accompanied by Mrs. Wallace, who
from that period to her death, was
the solace of an afiectionate parent,
whose years border on eighty. Her
sorrow for her deceased husband new
er healed. and now her remains are
on their way to rest beside the one
she loved, and truly proved that as a
true women she was indeed married
| for both worlds.
Year: 1871

The age of miracles is not vet past,
if the story of the Winking Virgin,
which comes from Rome, be true
The story goes that near the tomb of
a recently deceased and most exem-
plary lady in the Church of st. Girls
ogono picture of Our Lady hangs /;
and about month ago certain
worshipers were astonished beyond
measure to see the painted eyes, the
lids OF which dropped low, open wide
and look at them. When the news of
this strange occurrence spread, there
was no little curiosity TO visit the
church and see if the miracle would
be repeated. The consequence of this
was that the priests took the picture
away and locked it up in their con-
vent. The free-thinking eclesiastics
either disbelieyed that. miracle had
taken place, or dreaded the scandal
likely TO attach to them in the opin-
ion of their brothers if they should al
low it TO continue. But above the
door of the house of charity adjoining
the church there is a fresco of the
Virgin and child, and no sooner had
the picture within the church been
withdrawn than the miracle was re-
peated in the fresco. The fresco is
on solid wall, which fact removes
all suspicion of trickery, as it is i'm
possible to manipulate sit by means Of
wires or other machinery. Before
this miraculous fresco crowds accum-
ulate daily, and there are said to be
fifty thousand persons who have reg
istered declaration that they have
witnessed this wonderful winkine
image. The real facts in the case are
involved in nfSstery.;; dor as yet nc
one has attempted u Explain or pre-
sumed to deny the phenomenon.


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Year: 1871

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INDusTRy.-Man must have occupa-
ton or be miserable. Toll is the
price of sleep and appetite, of health
and enjoyment. The very necessity
which overcomes our natural sloth is
blessing. The world does not con-
tain briar or a thorn which divine
mercy could have. spared. We are
happier with the sterility, which we
can overcome by industry, than we
could have been with spontaneous
plenty and unbounded profusion.
The body and the mind are improved
by the toll that fatigues them. The
toll is a thousand times rewarded by
the pleasure it bestows. Its enjoy
ments are peculiar. No wealth can
purchase them, no Incidence can
taste them. They flow only from ex-
ertions which they repay.
Year: 1871

The Reverend Athanase Coquerel fs will deliver
two lectures at Cooper Union the 18th and Goth OF
this month, upon the two Sieges of Paris both of
which he witnessed. Our citizens will not have
another opportunity Of hearing the story of these
great Historical events told this bril-
liant speaker and noble will tell
it. He stands first among the pulpit orators
of France not only by his fervd and massive elo-
quencc but also by his energy of conviction and the
broad and liberal humanity which breathes through
all his discourses He is well worthy full and en-
thusiastc hearing representative of the best and
purest school of French Professionalism and Republi
canisIn for he is Republican without violence
and Protestant without bigotry. AS practical
worker and talker, his name has gained in the late
war the blessings Of the wounded and the destitute
and has twice been used by his fellow-citzens "a
rallying point Of republican principles. lie speaks
English with singular and grace, and Is
doubly worthy of the kindest reception both for
what he will say and for the cause which he repre-
sents. We join the Directors Of these lectures IN
hoping that every lover of Orsory every friend OF
Republicanism in France, every person curious IN
the distinctive qualities and methods of Gallic
genius, every admrer of personal devotion to duty
and humanity in hours Of national peril VIII seize
this occasion to hear Mr.. COquerel.
Year: 1871

The clever gentlemen who have cOnjured
up the present Cabinet crisis in Spain may
find it is easier to break up Ministry by in
trigue and cabal than to found another
The defeat of the effort of Mr.. Zorrilla to give
to the Democratic leaders the Presidency of
the Legislature has excited general move
mcnt of sympathy for the late Cabinet
throughout tho Kingdom. 1t is now stated
that twenty-five of She Provincial Governors
have rendered their designations in token OF
adhesion to Mr.. Zorrilla. Meanwhile the Nal
campo Ministry does not flourish. Inc
most distinguished name it contained,
Senior OIozaga, drops out to-day, and further
shifting of portfolios tax IS place. The defeat
of the Government was evidently matter Of
ambuscade and SURPRISE and appears to find
no approval from the country at large. This
shows the gradual growth Of a public opinion
in Spain which in time may teach the unprln-
ciped advcnturers of that country that their
work is not done when they have plotted and
swindlcd Government for . moment out of
its majority.


We arc astonished to find in a paper Ordi-
Qarily 80 cautious as The Eucnin5 Mail
n strong Endorsement Of Marshal Serrano
~ an ADLER and moro liberal man than Ruiz
Zorrilla, and orc more likely to do justice to
Cuba. Is it possible The Mail does not know
that Serrano is the head of the Liberal Union
party, which, not content with opposing every
scheme for reform in the Antilles set on foot
by She PrOgresistas, Democrats, and Repub-


icans, continually clamOrs for harsher and
mora brutal measures of exterminationf 1t
is true that many years ago Serrano
bore manly testimony to the wrongs of Span
ish nisrule in Cuba, but since then he has
been in full faith and fellowship with Co
ballcro, Valmascda, and the rest of the human
island. At this hour the strongest support of
Vamaseda is that self same Duke dc la Tore,
whom The Mail accepts as fair and liberal
statesman. 1t is of course deeply to be regret
ted that Zorrilla and his enlightened colleagues
have been able to do nothing as yet for the
solution of that important and pcrpcxing
problem of Cuban independence. But it should
not bs forgotten that it was the bitter and
malignant hostility of the Liberal Union to
every plan of reform which has prevented the
accomplishment of anything in that direction.
AS to Serrano's ability, that is new dis
cove;y. He gained his first promotions by his
good looks from that susceptible sovereign
Isabel H., and has survived ever since upon
his pleasant manners and superficial good na-
ture. lie compares with Ruiz ZOrrila as a
statesman about as Gen. Hancock with Charles
Sumner
Year: 1871

The frantic outclics of tbe Mormon leaders
at Salt Lako City show only the desperation
of their case. After fourtccn years of tenn
pcrzing and experimenting, the National Gov
eminent has at lest obtained such a foothod
in the Territory Of Utah that we see before us
the doom of that im2e,ium In imperio, the
sO-called State of DeseFet. In considering the
Mormon problem superficial people have too
commonly allowed their attention to be fixed
only On the institution of polygamy, which is
but ooe Of the chief characteristics of Nor
monism. Tho truth is, polygamy rs not 30
80 much tho strength as the weakness of
the great hierarchy which the United
States Government is now trying to break
down. If the destruction of this fraudulent,
insOlent and foreign power is to follow the
present commOtion in Utah, it will be through
pOlygamy, but not because of that unnatural
practice.


When the Mormons settled in Utah, they
fancicd that they had got 80 far away from
the political and commercial centes of the
Republic that they would be able to nurse
their peculiar institutions and practice their
peculiar tenets unObserved and undisturbed.
They committed the error of suppOsing that
they could, in the territory of the United
States, build up an empire of which the auton-
omy and independence would be complete and
unquestioned. The discovery of gold in Califor-
MIA, attracting across the continent large and
permanently increasing stream of travel, gave
the first rude shock to this fond belief. But
the Mormons clung to their traditions and
revelations, and, strengthening in every di-
rection the bulwarks of their new Zion, tho
State of Deseret they adhered to the infalli-
bility of their leader, Brigham Young, who
has declared: "As the Lord lives, we are
"bound to become sovereign State in this
Union or an independent nation. / am
"stil, and still will be. the Governor of this
"Territory." Inspired by words like these from
one whom they believed to be in daily receipt
of direct messages from Heaven, the Mormons
yielded to the formation of hierarchy which
not only was the political government of
Dcscret but slowly absorbed all the powers
which regulate commercial aud social inter
Year: 1871

Connecticut Temperance RcformerS are
threatening to initiate the miSchcvoUs tao
tics of their brethren in some parts of Ohio
in forming third and distinct organization,
with an almost certain prospect of turning
the State into the hands of their most violent
opponents. 1t is notorious that, if
the Democratic party of Connecticut
secure the Legislature, one of their first acts
would be to repeal the Prohibitory law In the
last General Assembly the Republican Senate
passed a stringent bill. which was continued
to the next session by Democratic votes
in the Lower House. 1t is toerably
certain that the only hope of the Connecticut
Temperance Reformcrs is with the Republi-
can party; when they cut away from that they
are ready to be sacrificed by the blindness of
OvPr-zcalOuS men.
Year: 1871

thence into the Board Of Supervisors, WHEREOF
be soon became official chief and recognized
master -spirit-that he has ever since lived
like a prince and lavished money on every
side-and that he is now the owner
of some Fifteen Or Twenty Millions worth
of real estate, though his personal
and family expenses cannot fall below
$500 900 per annum. While he has thus been
virtual dictator of our City-the acknowledged
"Boss" of his party and the god of its legions
of Office -holders-thc City has been sinking
deeply and needlcssly into debt, until she now
owes if we mistake not, moro than any other
City on the globe, fre-tried Paris pos
sibly excepted OF this vast debt, at
least Twenty Millions of dollars appear
to mo as utterly without reason or
excuse as would have been an increase of the
National Debt by One Hundred Millions since
Gen. Grants Inauguration. Knowing what l
do of Mr. Twecd's omnipotence in our Clty's
administration, cannot doubt that his vast
and suddenly acquired wealth and the City's
enormously and causelessly increased Debt
stand to each other in tho relation of cause
and effcct-that q good share OF the Millions
paid out of the treasury on his order on the
immensely exaggerated or utterly fraudulent
bills of Ingersoll, Garvey, Keyser, Schuyler
Smith, &C., &C., have wound their devious
way into his pocket. and been employed to
dcfray his enormous expenditures at Albany,
in this City, and elsewhere, and add block
after block to his ever-growing landed posses
sions. can come to no other conclusion from
the facts fully set forth in TIE TRIBUNE as
they from day to day transpired, and not 80
set forth in The Star.


i have thus answered The Stars inquiries
point by point, precisely as I should do if upon
oath on my death-bcd Will THE Star permit
its readers to see my response to its requl-
sitiOnf H. Go
Year: 1871

The Ohio election grows more interesting a.
the day draws near. Our correspondent fur
nishcs a few important items of intclli-
gcnco which show the desperate tactics
of the Democrats who are using. as
they do, every imaginable device to
gain Republican support for few Of
the candidates for the Legislature BY
a shallow trick they have attempted to gam
over enough of the disaffected Republicans in
Hamilton County to give them the majority
of the Assomblymcn from that county; and this
small device, with various notifications, has
been repeated in every close county. We be-
licve that there are Republican wisdom and
virtue enough left to prove impregnable to all
these altful attacks, and preserve a couplc'o
victory
Year: 1871

one might be amused, if not already indig-
rap,. at the cool appearance in the Court OF
SESSION. of a delegate to the Democratic Con
yen,ion who had just returned to be tried Tor
robbing emigrants. This active politician 1Or-
feted his bail, of course, when he went
to Rochester, but when he came oack a,,
to be tried-with all Of Mayor Hairs
airiness of manner-he had sufficient provision
made for that emergency by bis chiefs with
this fellow there are two or three others TO DE
tried for robbing emigrants. Most people VIII
coincide with the energetically expressed
opinion of the District-AttOrney that these
rascals ought to be sent 10 Sing Sing. The
seyercs, punishment possible should be visited
ON men who rob hard working emi igrant1 and
Year: 1871

of years of anxious toll. self-denial, and saving.
Popular indignation is hot against this class
of criminals, and tho fate of the men accused
in the Court of Sessions will be closely OBJ
served bY the public.
Year: 1871

Never sendest thou an article for publca-
tion without giving tile editor thy name, for
thy name Oftentimes secures publication to
worthless articles.


Thou should'st not rap at the door of a
printing office, for he that answereth the rap
sneereth IN his sleeves and lOseth time.


Neither do thou loaf about, ask questions,
or knock down type, or the boys will love thee
like they do shade trees-when thou leaveth.


rhou should'st never read the copy on the
printers case, or the sharp and hooked con-
tainer thereof, or he may knock thee down.


Never inquire thou of the editor for the
news for behold, it is his business at the ap-
pointed time, to give it thee without asking.


1t is not right that thou should'st ask him
who is the author of an article, for his duty
requireth him to keep such things to himself.
When thou dost enter into his office, take
heed unto thyself that thou dost not look at
what may be lying open and concerneth thee
not, for that is not meet in the sight of good
breeding.


Neither examine thou the proof sheet, for
it is not ready to meet thine eye, that thou
mayest understand.


Prefer thine own town paper to any other,
and subscribe for it Immediately.
Pay for it in advance, and it shall be well
with thee and thine.-RowelPs Reporter.
Year: 1871

to buy Earth Closet, which is substitute tor the
reach of all, rich and poor town and in the coun-
try. simple means for providing, in the house, a
comfortable private closet, afordng comfort neat
ness and health. Send for circulars to
Year: 1871

The Everglades are just a submerg-
ed prairie, and they exhibit the man
ner in which the great Western prai-
rics were formed. Drain the Ever
gladcs, lit could be done, and the
present islands would be hills. Sub
merge prairie, and its hills would
lccomc islands. No tree Is found on
the Everglades, because they are
constantly covered with water; no
trees are found on the prairics, be-
cause they were long covered with
water. Time will come when tins
vast plain will be clear of water, ana
then we shall have Il large surface,
like the prairics, clear of trees, ana
fitted for cultivation by man. IN


these little Evcrglade islands the
palm fouri-hcs, and also the orange
and every other tree Of Florida. The
castor oil plant grows up to be a large
tree ofscvcral years life. The arrow
root and sweet potato patches merely
REQUIRE that stirring OF the ground
necessary in removing the full grown
roots to cause the younger ones to
grow and keep on growing. 1t Is
really not necessary to plant more
than once. Ii is a lazy mans para
disc. No wonder the Indians were
unwilling to move to the West; it was
uot the graves of their fathers they
were unwilling to leave, it was their
potato and pumpkin patches; Their
pumpkin is small, round and sweet;
they cut it open, put in a raccoon or
opossum, cover il with ashes and bake
it in the fire. The hunters think 1t a
superb dish. Another plan is to take
fish Just of the hook, and without
scaling or cleaning, wrap IL up III
Green leaves and bake it in the same
way. Hunters use a wet newspaper.
1t IS done when, if you tear piece OF
the wrapping, the skin and scales
come of with it. You tear OIL SKIN
and wrapping from one side, eat the
aesh, turn it over and eat the other,
and throw bones and inside away.


Indians in small numbers are still
fo,rud near the Everglades. They do
not like the whites, and are not socla,
bic. but there is n talisman that VIII
moye them out of stOicism into corul-
,ji,v there is sesame that will open
an Indians heart and mouth, ana
thot is whisky. They are the only
saynges who have never invented an
Intoxicating liquor of their own.
Their only idea of civilization Is u 10
ret drunk. Ride into their country
but up with Chief, give him whisky
and promise him more, ana ne anu anu
his are at your service so long as your
whisky lasts.-Lippincotfs Mo9os'"e
Year: 1871

No one denies that it is wise to make
provision for old age, but we are not all
agreed as to the kind of provision it is best
to lay in. Certainlywe shall want little
money, for destitute old man is indeed a
sorry sight; yes, save money by all means.
But an old man needs just that particular
kind of strength which young men are apt
to waste. Many a foolish young fellow
will throw away on holiday a certain
amount of nervous energy which he will
never feel the want of until he is seventy,
and then how much he will want it. 1t
is curious, but true, that bottle of cham
payne at twenty will intensity the rheu-
matism at threescore.


1t ia fact that everlasting the eyes at
fourteen may necessitate the aid of spec
tacles at forty instead of sixty. We ad-
wise our young readers to be saving of
health for their old age, for the maxim
holds good in regard to health as well as
TO money. "Waste not, want nct." 1t is
the greatest mistake to suppose that viola
tion of the laws of health can escape its
penalty. Nature forgives no sin, no error !;
she let's off the offender for fifty years
sometimes, but she catches him at last, and
infiicts the punishment Just when and
where, and just how he feels it most. Save
up for old age, but save knowledge; save
the recollections of good and noble deeds
innocent pleasure and pure thoughts save
friends, save love. Save rich stores of that
kind of wealth which time cannot dimin-
ish nor death take away.-RErag Neto
Yorker.
Year: 1871

How the fly supports itself in opposition
to the laws of gravitation is one of the
first questions that the juvenile philoso-
pher undertakes to solve. AS his small
stock of science is not sufficient to enable
him to master the mystery, he consults a
book or questions friend. From one or
the other of these he learns that the insect
supports itself by means of tubular shaped
vessels which enable it to exhaust the air
from beneath its feet when they are press
ed against a surface. This being done the
upward pressure of the atmosphere holds
the insect in its place. The simple little
piece of apparatus known as the" sucker"
is designed to illustrate how hy supports
itself from ceiling.


Recent investigation, however, seem to
clearly show that viscid fluid and not an
atmosphere pressure is the means whereby
a fly can walk on a ceiling. The follow
ing wonld seem to be convincing proofs of
this theory: An insect was chlOroformed
TO prevent its relinquishing its hold, and
being in q receiver the air was exhausted
but it still kept its place. Every foot-st
leaves a mark. on the surface of clean
piece of glass that can be distinguished
with a microscope. The existence and
secretions of this fluid being thus clearly
proven, it is plain that it would interfere
with any attempt at suction; and 1t seems
certain that exhaustion of air and the
secretion of this fluid could not go on at
one and the same time, through one set of
vessels. This fluid is very tenacious, and
nearly insoluble. In all probability 1t is
the material that so often holds flies and
other insects so securely to the place
where they spent the night that they can
not in the morning leave the spot without
leaving portion Of their limbs behind
PfdiTis Farmer.