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Year: 1870

Placing the other pistol in my hand, with
directions to fire on the first of the two
men that made suspicion movement he
went to work on the lothario, from whose
pockets in less time than it takes 10 tell it,
he produced every item of the missing
property, to the utter amazement of the
two ladies, who had begun, In no measured
terms, to remonstrate against the shame
full treatment the gentleman was receiving


The Quaker, 1 need scarcely add, was no
Quaker at all. but shreEd detective. who
had been set on the track of band ofdes-
perado, of whom our middle-sged friend
who don't look near so middle-aged when
his wig is off-was the chief. The robbery
had been adroitly planned. The leader Of
the gang had taken passage in the coach,
and after learning, as he supposed, our
defenseless condition. had given the signal
to his companions by throwing ont the
scrap of paper aleady mentioned. After
the unexpected capture of the first robber,
it was attempted to save the booty by sec
etly passing it to the accomplice, still be-
heYed to be unsuspeeted, who counted on
being able to make of with it at the next
place.


The result was that both, for a season,
''did the State some service.
Year: 1870

Whatever be your calling, be proud of it.
Are you shoemaker? Try to make bet
ter shoe than any other man can make.
Yes, whatever your trade or profession,
excel in it if you can.


Bear in mind that any kind of honest Ia
Dor is honorable, but choose well. ''In
whate'er you sweat, indulge your taste"


If you like the free life and honest labor
of farmer, do not drag out long years in
the study of law or medicine, for that would
only be ''vanity and vexation of spirit" but
90 Immediately to the farm, and In the life
you love enjoy that perfect peace of mind
peculiar to every Individual that feels he is
in his fort, doing what God designed he
should, and who viii never have to reahzs
that cold, humiliating, and siekening feel
ing that his life has been a failure


Suffer not that feeling to creep over you,
hut be up and doing. ''Look well to the
ways of your footsteps" Keep clean the
house of clay in which God has placed
you. Touch not, taste not that which will
corruptit. Go not to your grave compO-
sition, one-third whisky, One-third tobacco,
and the remaining third corruption, so
filthy that even the ghouls and raYenous
worms would scorn to touch you.


Be true to yourself Deal honestly and
plainly with your fellow-men. Remember
that


Doubtless the pleasure Is as great


In being cheated TO cheat.
Year: 1870

The Queen of Prussia was, the other day
the heroine of the following little adven-
ture: She was walking with one of her
ladies on the road leading from Sans
Souci TO Potsdam, when she saw an old
soldier who had lest one eye and one arm,
sitting by the wayside. The old man look
ed very sad, and the Queen stopped In
order to inquire what was the matter with
him. "Oh, madame" said the veteran,
who evidently did not know who the lady
was, 81 am in the deepest distress. have
but one child-R daughter young girl,
who until recently was employed as .
chambermaid at the Royal Palace in Pots
dam. She received good wages; but the other
day, one of the girls whe hated her for
some reason or other charged her with
having stolen some articles of value, and,
although my dear girl strenuously protest
ed her innocence, she was discharged.
Now she cannot fad another situation, and
so am deprived of my only support, for
my scanty pension Is not sufficient to buy
bread enough for u.s." 81 believe l can
help you, my friend, " said the Queen. The
veteran looked at her incredulously. The
Queen, however, took down his name and
that of his daughter, and, after giving the
old man some money, continued her walk.
The Berlin correspondent of the Baltic
Gazette, who relates the above, adds that
the Queen, after examining the case OF the
veterans daughter, ordered that more
lucrative position should be given to her.
and sent q handsome present to the vet
eran.


The N. Y. Senate committee have agreed
to report q free canal funding bill.
Year: 1870

with the back of the rake; when the plants


come up thin them so as to let them stand
about four inches apart, water well in dry


weather, and in August you will have good


onions, if, in the meantime, you keep them
clean and don't hurt the bulbs; watering
will much increase their growth, and lit
tie SCOT occasionally in the water will do
them much good.


DIET FOR THE SICK-BomED RICE
Most readers think this is something easily
prepared. So it is, perhaps, but few nurses
have an idea of the necessity of having it
properly done; that is, cooking it until
every grain becomes perfectly softened.
1t the grains are not reduced TO this soft
state, rice is almost certain, when swal-
lowed, to irritate the digestive organs
and instead of soothing the parts and sus
tanning strength, will actually produce a
diarrhoea, etc. This has been frequently
noticed in hospitals.


When properly boiled until each particle
becomes so sottened that the grain cannot
be detected when eaten, there are few ar
ticles of diet for the sick which can be made
more acceptable to the taste of finvaIidsth than
boiled rice.


PAPER FOR WARMTH know the
warmth there is in paper, or rather the
amount of cold it will keep out. But very
little cold will ever pass through COM
mon newspaper. 1t is excellent when
wrapped around the feet. Try it, if you
choose, with one foot, and not with the
other and notice the difference: Place a
piece inside your mittens or in the top of a
coid hat, or use it for coat lining by plac-
ing a piece over the shoulders, or put
or two between the bed clothes.
You will soon see the good result. To stop
a crevice in door or window, paper is bet
ter than cloth.


SMALL FARMs.-Be content with a small
place entirely paid for, if you have not the
money to buy large farm. Do not allow
that eager and avaricious spirit which de-
Sires to own ''sll the land that joins yours,
to ruin you. One of the curses of our ag-
ricultural districts is the size of our farms.
Forty acres paid for and thoroughly titled
is better property and far more remunera-
tive, than four hundred under a heavy
mortgage, and only half cultivated. Where
one man succeeds by rashness in assuming
arge responsibilities, hundreds fail; and
experience and observation will show, that
the successful owners of large tracts of
and have usually begun by small purchas-
IS for cash, und gradual additions as they
acquired wealth by industry aid economy,
Year: 1870

HEREDITARY badness is supposed to be in
durable. All that can be done where it begins
to show itself is to put of the evil day by day
by the judiciOus use Of some stimulating or
cooling preparation that shall create new ac-
ton IN the glands or folieles, usually called
roots, and thus tighten the hair that would
otherwise become loose and fall of. Rings
vegetable AmbrOsis has acquired an enviable
reputation for this purpose, generally but not
invariably, proving successful.
Year: 1870

A correspondent of an exchange gives
the following as q sure means of accom-
plishing the above desideratum:


Gas soon as the terminating corn in the
planted field makes its appearance, SOW
corn all round the borders of the field.
After few days, walk around the lot; if
you find the corn pretty nearly all picked
up, SOW again. Two applications are suf-
ficient, and will last the birds until the
growing corn is too strong for them. About
a peck al time will answer for field of
eight or ten acres, unless the birds should
be unusually numerous. Timely observa-
ton in the field will indicate whether more
is needed. have practiced this method
for many years, and have found it effect
uaL"


ONIoNs.-This healthful vegetable should
be raised by every farmer, for it commands
always good price. Prepare bed, make
compost of barn-yard manure and a
small quantity of ashes; dig it in and rake;
form beds four feet wide, with alleys be-
tween, twelve to eighteen inches wide, for
conveniently wedding them; drill in your
seed, cover them and press down the earth
Year: 1870

Thursday morning a man who reached


here sometime during Wednesday night


on steamer, went to Squire John ton


and complained that he had been OBJ


bed of over hundred dollars in money,
End papers OF considerable va'ae. He
stated that he took passage on toe boat
some forty miles down the river, and
retired TO his state room about the usual
hour. He could not secure the door for
want Of a key. Early yesterday morn
ing he was aroused 10y some one moving
a.onad in his room, and just as he
SPrang out Of his berth, a man disap-
Pcarcd through the door. Suspecting
that all was not right, he examined his
clothes lying on a chair, and found that
his pockrt-book was gone. Although
rc had but a glance Of the intruder,
he recognized the party a short time al.
forwards, and approached him, accusing
him Of the robbery A denial was all
tue satis.ac ton the man claiming to
have been robbed received, and for the
purpose Of having the matter investiga-


ei, hc appeared before Judge !. as
above stated Alter hearing the man,
st@t.ment, the Judge was about to issue
& warrant for tie arrest of the suspected
party, but on ascartaining that he could
not pay the costs :. the case should
not be clearly maic out, he declined to
do 30
Year: 1870

A GENTLE WHISPER To NoTHEr>.--li.
unfortunately YOU have lost your own
teeth by neglect or mlsmanasement'
take care that your daughters DO not
suHrr the same penalty from the same
cause See 10 ii that they brush Their
teeth regularly and thoroughly with
.S2sodont, and thereby YOU will insure
them sound and servicah'e sets rs long
a. they live.
Year: 1870

The Atlanta Constitution is out in some
what lengthy editorial, denouncing the use
of Northern school books in Southern
schools. The editor charges the authors of
these books with being unfair and preiu-
diced in the treatment of the South, its
people and its Institutions BY the use of
these books, he thinks our children are
" wrongly taught" "Northern spirit of
antagonism and detractionr pervading
them generally. He goes on to make the
attack with "A good deal of unnecessary bit
terness, ostensibly to bring into notice Il
series of school books written by eX-COm-
modore Maury, and others, of Confederate
notoriety. We have no objection to his
commendation of books compiled by
Southern authors. We would rejoice at
the success Of any Southern man i'm that
line. We see no reason why the people of
the South should not i'm few years take
a high position in the literary world. But
to accomplish this, we see no reason for
maligning and misrcpresenting our friends
of the North, merely because they are
Northern men. Text books which are to
be used in our schools should stand on
their own merits, and the man who is so


narrow-ninded and SO contemptibly silly
as TO stop and ask where the author is born
is not likely to render much assistance in
the great work of educating the masses.
Year: 1870

Times, who has tested the method of wa
ter-proofing with Sugar of lead and alum,
says that he has worn garments of common
Scotch tweed thus treated, i'm the widest
storms of wind and rain, without getting
wet, Even after walking in a driving
rain for nine miles, his clothes were as dry
under his waterproof overcoat as when he
put them on.
Year: 1870

could be but one course for 1t in harmony
with its past position, and that is tC
raise the banner of a white mans party
neither court nor pander in any shape
for the negro vote, but promise prOtec-
ton to all who enroll themselves be-
meath its banner.


If this is done, a more liberal spirit
must also be infused into the OTganiza-
tiOn-the doors thrown Open-and all
who indOrse its principles and policy
invited to enter in and participate in
full fellowship, instead of taking back
seats and not even allowed to pick up
the crumbs that fall. Any other policy,
in our way of viewing the situation, will
only result in continued defeat and dis
aster'


There can be no improperly in the
democracy raising the banner Of the
white mans party for that is the BAN
ner they have always rallied under.
To change its name as political organ
izatiOn to that of the white mans party
would not render it any more the white
mans party than it had always been,
nor is It probable that 1t would rally to
its ranks any greater numbers than it
will by preserving it's time hOnOTed
name and steadily moving forward in
the undertaking course 1t has always
pursued upon the subject Of negro equal
ity. But, negro equality having been
established, so far as it can be establish
ed by law, the democracy will now be
called upon to resist the enactment OF
laws providing for negro superiority. II
there are any who have hitherto acted
with the radical party that are opposed
to negro superiority, it is their privilege
to join the ranks of the white mans
party and aid in successfully resisting
it.-QUiNcy Herald,
Year: 1870

a cool head, an investigating mil 2. 4
warm heart, and diligent hands, with


benevolence and honesty, pietyand Der-
severance, will insure success i'm any
laudable undertaking within the spberp
Of personal abilityj will secure respecta-
btlity in viFtuOuS society, and enable lis
to meet death with COmpOsure. A cool
head Will save rs from the enharrass-
ments and disgrace which passionate
people often experience. By investipa-
ton, we learn the nature of things, and
how to adapt means to ends. Sympathy
and kindness to others will enlist their
interest IN our behalf Diligence, which
effects something every moment, viii
accomplish much i'm the aggregate of
time. The spirit OF true 6enevOlence
will aid in forming habits Of industry
and economy, and this is of great inn
pOrtance, especially to those who wish
TO accomplish much with small means.
Strict honesty is always 'the best policy
and will secure the confidence of all buf
those who are so Jealous they can trust
nobody but themselves. True pietvwill
give confidence in our Gre. tor, and en-
courage perseverance, and sOmtimes lead
to success, even when our prospects are
difficult and doubtful BY perseverance,
that which seems impossible may some
times be accomplished, and without If
no one will ever accomplish much.
Year: 1870

The Seymour Ind. Times, an intense


MOngrel journal hitherto, is backing


down. It is getting too much Of the
sixteenth amendment to the COnstitu-


ton be Immediately submitted to the


States, and that it be passed under the
/ following shape:


ARTICLE 16.-NO person Of African
! descent shall be eligible to any office of


emOlument or trust in the United
| States.


SECTION NO person of African de-


scent shall be eligible as JUROR in the
! United States, except in cases where
one of his own race is to be tried.
The Cleveland Herald, another Mon
grel sheet, thus takes the starch out of
the aspiring darkies. That paper also
has evidently gotten about enough of
niggarism:- because q black man


has reached the Senate, it does not fol-
low that such a case will ever occur
again. The black boys chances will be
slim; another election of the kind will
probably not occur in a life time, so the
'colOred' youth had better turn their at
tentiOn to industry. 1t is doubtful if
Revels becomes more than q Sitting
member. He is a lonely man in the
3
on him except with cOmmiseratiOn.' >
Brother Wendell p. will be after this
lIIkewarm MOngreI editor with a very
sharp stick. He should not alIude to
SambO politically, unless he can square
ly endorse him. Call you this backing
your friends@ we hear Sumner, Wilson
and Phillips exclaiming, when they
read the comment of these journals and
others also Of the same stripe, right on
the heels of so sublime picture as the
Digger in the State Chamber.


But the dose is working. The wedge
has entered. This Internal, dishonest,
politically and socially corrupt party is
to be split into fragments. The incOr-
pOratiOn of the nigger into the political
body of the United States will never
work. The party which has attempted
it will either quietly abandon it, in con-
sequence of the antagOnism Of public
opinion, or they will be made to sue
cumb by public force. The nigger
shall never have a voice in the govern
ment of the United States, is the silent
determination of nine-tenths of Its
white citizens. Now, Messrs, Grant,
Sumner, Philips, Greedy & Co., you may
make up your mind to yield or to fight.
The negro element, when it is made to
claim the ballot box and equality,
claims more than the white man will
ever grant, The sooner you understand
this, the better for yourselves and your
fanatical hackers. In a year or two you
will see the white MANS party and
the negro party in the political field,
and the result of the contest will find
SambO in that relation to the white man
for which nature has fitted him. Day
Book.
Year: 1870

Congress is working hard over the tariff
bili, aud parties In the interest Of man
ufacturers are thick in Washington with
the old cry of protection. This question
protection and free trade or a moderate,
reasonable tariff, promises to occupy
quiee promicent place in future political
contests. If the system tina. existed
undcr she old Democratic regime could
once more be inaugureted. il would be q
6ne thing for the laboring classes of the
country; and what is to their interest is
to the interest Of the Government.
Year: 1870

There was another movement made in
the legal tender Equestion before the Su.
p,ens Court this A. M. Mr.. Beck. Of
Kentucky, appeareG and filed q petition
In the Kensucky case Of Hebron VS.. Girls.
void, already decided by tho Court
asking that the case may remain within
the coutrol Of tho Court until argument
is heard and discussion made in The two
cases already advanced on the calendar.
and which involved the direct question
OF she cohstitutionality of the legal ten
der act. This Court had decided in
the case alluded to, thst one of the par
ties must satisfy debt in coin which was
contracted before the legal tender law
was passed But, now as the cohstitu.
tionality of the latter law is about to be
decided by che full Court two members
having been added since said decision
aas made, the counsel for the petitioner
come into Court and ask that It may be
held in arbitration, SO to speak, till the
new cases are decided. They do this on
the groend that If the Court sustains the
law, then the petitioner will only be re.
qusrcd to satisfy tho debt in legal tender
notes instead Of CON as heretofore de
cided Mr. Ciarksop N. Potter, of New
York, appeared for Grsswold, to oppose
the motion to file tho petition by argu


ment; but the Court decided that under
its rule argument could not be heard,
and the motion was merely taken under
advisement although the mandate of the
Court in cases already decided Is not in.
forced till after the Court adjourns for
the term. The petition this day fIed
forms an interesting feature of the new
phase of the legal tender question Re
publican's Washington Special, 9th.
Year: 1870

Brown has spoken at last, and we must ad-
NIT very much to his purpose He has sent in
what lie calls report of his operations, but
which, in fact, is merely document intended
to thrust to the surface with all possible plaus-
bility the lOng-matured purpose of the Ring to
plunder still further this unfortunate city. Not
content with receiving S49S, 500 for neglecting
the streets of this metropolis, Brown demands
S1,000,000 for the same service, and is magnani-
nous enough to hint as much by stating that
this sum is not to include the removal of snow,
nor TO require any work to be done when the
weather is inclemept, exceptions which can be
easily made stalking horses for all future laches
The cool mpudence of this proposition could
only be equaled by the bravado of the pick
pocket who should announce in q crowd that
he was about to begin to steal.


We have a few facts for Browns entertain
ment Last Summer the streets became 80
foul from his neglect that the Board of Health
was compelled to take them in hand. For two
months and half 49 miles of paved surface
were cleaned once each week under the
direction of Sanitary Superintendent Harris,
in the Fourth, Sixth, Tenth, Eleventh, Four
teenth, Sixteenth, and Twentieth Wards, the
most densely populated and filthiest portion !,
of the city. In doing this work the streets
were thoroughly hood and swept, and large
proportion of the dirt was removed, although
some was lett FOX Browns carts. and generally.
Year: 1870

The men who perpetrated the election frauds
in Brooklyn were to have been arraigned for
trial yesterday in the Court of Sessions; but
they took advantage of the tricks of the law,
and their counsel succeeded in getting the
business transferred to the Oyer and Teminer,
where prominent malefactOrs are usually tried.
1t is easy to see through their little game.
Their guilt is flagrant, open, and even con-
fessed, and their only hope of escape
from trial is in the laws delay.
But it will not do. The District
Attorney has them indicted he cannot, and
we presume he will not try to, recede and
the crime will not be passed over by the peo-
pie, whatever favor it may get from politicians.
1t is one item in the great Democratic victory
that honest men mean to see punished. If JUS
tice is not done in this case, let the cOnspira-
tors look in the Bible for an instructive les
son about the cloud not bigger than mans
hand. That Brooklyn swindle must and will
be punished; it remains to be seen whether
justice will be meted out by the courts, or by
a higher power.
Year: 1870

Supervisor Conklin of New-Oreans recon.
mends that the licensed gambling houses Of
Louisiana shall pay not only for license, but
give per cent on their gross receipts" We
have but one objection to this. Five per cent
mt enough Give them license on the
condition that they shall pay to the Govern
ment ninety-nne and two-thirds of their gross
receipts, and one-third of the same for their
license. That will bring them to book and
make them useful. That the Internal Revenue
actually cannot get along without this dirty
money we don't believe. If it can't there are
various sources of iniquitous revenue which
have not been touched yet.
Year: 1870

On the adjournment of the State Assembly
Yesterday, one of Mr.. Sweeny's representatives
came up to the Speakers desk and gave out
the first installment of the Dickings of the sea-
son. in the shape of passes over the Enc Road
for the year 1870 There was quite a struggle
among the honorable Assemblymen for their
pasteboaTd, as some of them were in hurry
to get aboard the trains just then departing,
Mr.. Sweeny is rushing things. We all know
that too many of our lawmakers have
walked the streets of Albany with their open
hands behind them, and that such hands have
been richly filled; but to call to order after
adjournment, and hand over Mr.. Fisk's little
bIibes in this free and easy fashion, is an out
rage on public decency.
Year: 1870

We have seen in our day perhaps twenty
thousand advertisements. be the same moro Or
less, of indignant husbands forbidding trades.
men to give credit to their too expensive wives
"A most gnominiOus restraint upon the precious
feminine rapture of shopping! But here is a
model husband in Chicago who advertises that
"he will pay no debts contracted by any per.
"sOn, on his account except by his uitew Hi,
name would seem to indicate that he is Of the
old Germanic stock, and has inherited the fine
old ireside virtues of that hOme-lovlng race.
The compliment which he pays to the prudence,
thrift, and self-restraint of his wife, is one
which the dashing spouses of great capitalists
might sigh for, and which would make their
visits to Stewards occasions of paradisical JOY.
There is a great deal of suggestion in those
little words, Except by my wife"