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Year: 1871

At Bangor was celebrated yesterday a
notable event-the completion of line OF
railroad which is designed to link the most
distant of the British Provinces with the
railroad system of the United States. 1t
was fitting that the President of the Re-
public and his Cabinet, Governors of the
States most nearly related to the work, and
high Colonial authorities should participate in
these ceremonies, significant as they seem to
be of nearer and closer intimacy between
our people and those of the Dominion of
Canada
Year: 1871

The acceptance by Mr.. Charles OConor OF
the appointment of Attorney on behalf OF the
State in the possible cases against the king,
will encourage the friends Of Reform ana
give more vigor to those who are engaged
in the peoples cause. At best, by the WHY
management of the TammaAy Ring. the City
ia hampered in every possible direction; but
this relief, coming from the State, may serve
to break the charmed circle with which the
thieves have surrounded themselves.
Year: 1871

We publish this morning full details of the
effects OF the disastrous gales on the Nova
Scotia coast and ON Lakes Michigan and
Huron. Great suffering was caused by the
shipwrccks on the sea-coast, and the story of
the survivors is pitiful indeed. On the Lakes
there was less loss of property, perhaps, but
that of life was much larger.
Year: 1871

Reports from SOnth Carolina indicate a more
favorable state of things. 1t was not to be
expected that the Ku-Klux would long stand
out against martial law, and. now that that
thc five days notice has expired, they are
reported to be giving up before the publica-
ton of the Presidents proclamation is notified
to them. 1t will be well for the peace of the
State if all of the rufians have that discretion
which is the better part of valOr.
Year: 1871

A final quietus has been put on the mon
Strous Magdalena Bay colonization humbug by
q decree of the Mexican Government which
closes that famous port as a port of entry.
The managers of this scheme fought hard for
recognition, but the inexOrable logic Of facts
WIS against them from the first.
Year: 1871

More workmen, clamorOus for pay, have been
besiegng the doors of the Deputy Controller.
They do not stop to inquire why they are de-
nicd their money, and doubtless few of them
understand anything more than that they do
no. get it. But one fact which the dullest in
tellcct cannot fail to comprehend is that the
money is not forthcoming because the Ring
Thieves have stolen it.
Year: 1871

About fifteen thousand pairs Of shoe
buckles and rOsettcs are made weekly in
Boston by the firms engaged in the business,
most of which are sold to the small findings
stores and to the retail trade.
Year: 1871

The Green Stockings aud Lon" Stars will
play the first game of i series at the Park
this afternoon, and fine contest will be
shown. as the strength Of each club will be
fulv represented
Year: 1871

At the dance in the Masonic Hall, on
Monday evening. o very social time was
going on, whsn We locked in, fora little
while. All seem to be sharing in the gem
sral enjoyment. and nothing seemed want
ing to Ell the measure Of happiness
Year: 1871

The win of Madame Jumel-The Erie Railway
War-The Riverside Park Litigation Taylor
win Case e-The Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany-Militia Duss-Action Against an
Insurance Company-Ailsged SANDER
The Loss of q Leg Business in the
General Sessions The Stolen Vouch-


ers-Ths Case Of Hagerty and


Standardization To Be Made


to Quash the Indictment.
Year: 1871

The Worlds London correspondent
writes about the late royal scandal as
follows: As | happen to know the truth
of the matter | will give you the rumor
first, and then the real version. Rumor
asserts that on the late opening of St.
Thomas Hospital by the Queen the Mar
quis of Lorne accompanied his wife, the
Princess Louise, to the waiting room pre-
pared for the royal family previous to
the ceremony. According to the story,
the Prince of Wales, seeing him there,
desired one of the lords in waiting to in
form him that his presence was contrary
to etiquette. That funetionary however,
replied that he could only convey such
an intimation on the express command
of the Queen. Upon this the Prince ap-
preached Lord Lorne and himself made
the communication, and in consequence
the latter left the apartment and re-
mained outside in the corridor, not en-
tering the room set apart for the suite. F"
So much for the report. Now what hap
pened was this On approaching the
waiting room Lord Lorne himself dropped
his wife's arm and stopped, saying to the
Prince of Wales, who was standing at
the entrance, II suppose don't go in
here9" To this the Prince replied,
did not the Queen tell you to come
in2" On which the other answered,
" No, and | shall remain outside, which
he did, the Prince standing there also
and conversing with him, as if purposely
to support him. Ima
Year: 1871

You think you love the man who is
coming this Sunday night to visit you.
And he acts as if he loves you'll Sup
pose he declares himself " and asks
you to become his wife. Are you pre-.
pared to say to him, g love and will
trust you through life with my happiness,
and the lives and veal of our children2 r
d He is jolly, gay and handsome, and
all the darts Of Cupid are twinkling and
sparkling in his eyes; and will those
eyes always find expression from the
love of true soulY


Tonight he says many pleasant things,
and draws many pretty pictures for the
future. .. sa.


Does he 90 tomorrow to work which
gives promise of the fulfllment Of your
desires in life2


Does his ambitions and achievements
satisfy your a'o, %,


Does his everyday life shine with the
noble endeavors OF trustworthy man


If you think and desire a companion
in your thinking-one who can unlock
the deepest depths of your mind, to
what strata of humanity does he belong
in the scale of excellence and morality ?
Is he doing all he can to build up future
usefulness and happiness in which you
can share and feel blessed2 These are
questions which the experience Of after
Years makes women weep in the bitter
ness of soul that they were not thought
of before they answered Yes"
Year: 1871

From the Poughkeepsie Press.


A well known Kentucky minister, sub
ject to severe spells of nervous head
ache, was in our Office the other day,
says an exchange, during one of those
attacks Major Brown, of Mexico, was
present and proposed to relieve him in
five minutes, which be did most eifectu-
ally. The following is the prescription:


Take dessert spoonful of common
soda, such as is used in making bread,
and dissolve it thoroughly in quart Of
cold water. With this thoroughly sham
poo the head for about five minutes,
scratching the skin Of the head and the
back of the neck we'll with the finger
nails. Then rinse the head with clear
cold water. Major Brown says that he
has used this remedy in perhaps thous-
and cases since 1852, and never once
failed 70 give relief in FIVE OF ten min.
uiGs. This remedy is for nervous head
ache, and is not for those alllictions Of
the head arising from deranged stomachs.
Year: 1871

DUsT.-Weare not able to state pro-
clsely the depth Of dust on our streets,
but wc can affirm, positively that we
have seen nothing like the quantity of
dust now covering them this sea.
son. The passage of buggy, carriage
or wagon alta brisk pace stirs up such a
cloud Of pulverized earth as to render
horse and vehicle invisible. Rain Is
much needed, not only to relieve the city
from tho dust scourge, but bring for.
ward the lately sown wheat We regret
to sny that there are no indications at
present Of relief in the direction named.
Year: 1871

SINCE the organization Of government,
the people OF the United States have man
aged, with occasional amendments, to get
along on the original constitution. In
1871, France commenced experimenting,
and is now living under her sixteenth
constitution, with prospect of about one
new one year for a generation or two
ahead. The West Virginia Democracy
are starting of on the French idea that
there must be q change Of constitution
every time there is a change OF party as
tendency.
Year: 1871

Those who have travelled IN Western
Kansas late in summer cannot have
failed to observe the hundreds and
hundreds of acres of sunfowers, way-
ing ssfields of cloth Of gold, as far as
the eye can reach. As one went west
ward they grew more and more scarce,
till at length they -disapp ppeared alto
gether. Now It is q singular fact, which
might bother Professor Huxley, that,
with the rapid advance of the rail-
way during the last summer, the
sunhower went with; 1T, pdrs pas
eu. As the soil was turned up to
light and moisture the width Of the
track, the sunfower, whose seed is too
heavy. TO be carried by the winds, and
which man does not convey, as he may
grain or grass seed for use, sprung up
inevitably for hundreds of miles beyond
the point where heretofore it ceased to
.grow. The same fact If true of grass
and of grain. The soil that, for count
less ages, had produced nothing but
the distinctive grass and limited fora
of the plains, greedily dexoned the
seed of other vegetation which chance
had brought It, and the fresh turned
earth along the railroad track suddenly
clothed itself, for the first time
since the Rocky Mountains burst up
from the bowels of the earth, with q
new verdure, Such facts, of eourse
could not pass unnoticed, and they led
to fresh theories and observations.
There areaold settlers and we believe
that Mr. Elliott is among them-who
hold that the progress of settlement
westward in western Kansas has
been marked sby cognate phe-
nomena, which had hitherto at
tracted little attention. Not only have
the cultivated grasses and other yege-
tation encroached upon the Desert
and changed its character, but with
this change also, it is asserted, has
come one of. climate The rainy re-
gien has kept pace with the altered
condition of the soil. We doubt wheth-
eF time enough and observation enongh
have yet been given to establish this
fact absolutely, but there is snothing q
DrioS.i incredible or unreasonable about
it. The influence of forests upon eli
mate is as well established as any other
scientific fact
Year: 1871

The is propatly not an. unpcrverted
man or woman living who does not feel
that the sweetest ccnsolations and the
best rewards Of life are found in the loves
and delights of home. There are few
the influences that clustered around their
cradles for whatever Of good there may
be in their characters and conditions.


Home, based upon legitimate mar.
riage, is SO evidently au institution Of
God, that q man must become profane
before he can deny it. Wherever it is
planted, it stands a bulwark. Where
ever it is pure and true to virtuous idea,
there lives an institution conservative Of
all the noblcr interests Of society.


Of this realm woman is the queen. II
takes Its cue and hue from her. If sho
is in the best sense womanly--if she is
true and tender, loving and heroic, pa.
tient aud self devoted she consciously
or unconsciously organizes and puts in
operation set of influences that do more
to mould the destiny Of the nation than
any man uncrowned, by power or elo-
quence, can possibly effect. The men of
the nation arc what their mothers made
them, as a rule and tho voice which
those men speak in tie expression of
their power is the voice Of tho women
who bore and bred them.


There can be no substitute for this,
There is no other possible way in which
the women Of tho nation can organize
their influence and power that will tell so
bene6ceutly upon society and the state.
Neither woman nor the nation can afford
to have home demoral;zed or in any way
detcrioratcd by the loss Of her influence
there. As o nation, We rise or fall Is
tho character Of our home. presided over
by women, rises or falls, and the hest
guago Of our prosperity is to be found ia
the measure by which these homes fnd
multiplication in the land. In true mar.
riage, and the struggle after the highest
ordeal Of home. life, is to be found tho
solution Of more of the ugly problems
that confront the present generation
moral, social and political-than VIC have
space to enumeratc.-Am. Odd Fellow.
Year: 1871

POTATO AND ONION TRADE.-For several
years after the war considerable business
Was done In shipping potatoes from this
vicinity to New York and other points
north of Virginia. The trade was over
done, however, and for the last three years
past but little has been done In that line.
FMS year, though, the trade has revived,
ana now good many are being bought up
here for shipment to New York.


onions, also, our whole supply OF which
formerly came from New York, are now
being shipped thence from here. One OF
our commission merchants shipped on yes
terday two hundred barrels to q house in
that city. This Is a complete reversal Of
trade, and proves what can be done in this
State under proper management. No eli.
mate or soil on the globe suits these small
crops better than ours.
Year: 1871

THE TOURNAMENT AT ASHLAND vs. THE
RAoE.-To the Local Editor Of the Dispatch:
X. III. College, June 23d, 1S71.--Dear Sir;
We notice IN recent copy Of your paper
the account Of at tournament and race winch
will take place ut Ashland the 10th instant,
and rs secretary for the knights of this
tournament am requested to inform you
that the race and tournament are not con.
nected In any manner that the race is In
charge of citizens, while the tournament is
gotten up mostly by young men of the col.
lege. The band is employed by the knights,
and will not be at the races, as they are Il
separate body from us.


An impression has been made that the
races and tournament arc by the same
party, and has consequently created among
US dissatisfaction so please make the cor.
rection by next issue If you can.


l will add, the party who wrote the com
munication did it without any authority,
and took great deal of responsibility upon
himself.


Very respectfully,


SE6Y ASHLAND TOURNAMENT.
Year: 1871

ACCIDENT TO GENERAL RICHARDSON
Adjutant-Genc Wm. Ii. Richardson met
with Il painful, though not serious, accident
yesterday. He was walking on the street,
and, some how or other, had his foot caught
IN q piece of telegraph wire which had be.
come bent and resemJled croguet hoop
This threw him heavily to the ground,
bruising him painfully about the face and
body. His whole frame was Jared by the
fall, and he had to be carried from the
CaDitOl home.
Year: 1871

TRANsPARENr JELLY PIE.-One
cupful of butter, one ofpowdered white
sugar, and four eggs well beaten; bake
the crust, then pour in the mixture and
nut II back in the oven for few min
utes until the mixture becomes still
Year: 1871

Was compounded for those not inclined to ex
treme hitters, and is intended for use in cases
when some alcoholic stimulant is required in
connection with the Tonic properties of the Bit
tiers, Each bottle Of the Tonic contains one bot
tie of the Bitters, combined with pure SANTA Cruz
Rum. and favored in such manner that the ex-
trems bitterness of the Bitters Is overcome,
forming a preparation highly agreeable and
pleasant to the palate, and containing the medici-
nal virtues of the Bitters The price of the Tonic
sl-5o per bottle, which many persons think too
high. They must take into consideration that the
stimulant used is guaranteed to be of a pure
quality. A pure article could be furnished at 8
cheaper price, bnt is it not better to pay little
more and have good artielel A medicinal prep
aration should contain none but the best ingredi-
ents, and they who expect To obtain a cheap com


pound will most certainly be cheated. siiofi,i.
Year: 1871

sunday forenoon lad named John OBrien inv.
ing in East street, New Haven, got upon the top OF


gasome;er located on the bank OF Mill river In the
seventh ward, and which has not been In use for
nearly two years, and dropped a lighted match
through the venthole In the top. There happened
TO be small quantity OF gas In the receiver, which
was set on ire by the match ana exploded, bursting
tile receiver open and smashing III the windows ol
the gashouse near by. The boy was thrown twenty
feet into the air. anu In coming down struck head
foremost the taO Of the receiver and was killed.
Year: 1871

ToIh bVO. Pttrlck Donhh0o


The classical work of the late Count de
ontAlembert interesting branch Of Roman Catholic
occles ascal history is here brought out in anony
NOUS translation and In style Of mechanical execution
that is not unworthy Of the elegance and briancy of s
literary composition. The characteristic quality OF tne
AuthOr which may be described q species Of graphic
eOQuenee applied to personal delneatiOn, nnds ample
scope In rociing the history Of Western monachism
H narrative singular contrast TO the statements
Of GbbOn the subject and although devoted to
kAe iaterests Church, shows wider Intellectual
vision and greater freedom from prejudice than that OF
the skepticAl Protestant
Year: 1871

The example of every enterprising,
undetermined man is Il blessing to the
community in which he lives. If he never
gives his neighbors advice or instruction,
he is yet a silent teacher every day. We
all know how much easier it is for us to
learn through the eye than through the ear.


The Swill-milk business had been written
about more than once; but it made very
little impression on the community, until
Frank Leslie illustrated different phases
of the business in his widely circulated
newspaper. Thus the indignation of the
whole country was aroused.


\ picture of every day life teaches us
good or bad lessons more forcibly than
written or spoken words. Tho character
of the people he employs is of vastly more
Importance to the farmer with family
growing up about him than any qualifica-
ton of nerve and muscle. Fowell Buxton
often spoke of man employed on his
mothers estate who could neither read or
write, as one of his first and best instruc-
tors. His genial humors endeared him
while his high, noble sentiment of integrity
and honor were Of sterling gold. The
boys who were much with him in their
sports and hours of recreation, had their
minds filled with the purest and best prin-
ciples, and learned early from this stalwart
laborer to scorn all meanness or falsehood.
Very different would be the testimony of
many, respecting the working men en-
ployed about their homes. The mischief
Of single summers sowing Of pernicious
weeds cannot be undone in several years
wedding. The burs of evil thoughts and
bad examples stick in the memory and
haunt it through life. 81 would give my
right hand" said John B. Cough, "to
forget what have learned in evil society"


We cannot be too careful of the exam
pies we suffer our children, or even ourscl-
YES, to be conversant with. Vice soon
loses its hideous mien when we become
familiar with it, and after that we become
its easy victim.
Year: 1871

While our weary eyes are longing,


With imPatiencc to behold
The loved apostles visioned city


With its streets of FURNISHED gold,
Where the gates of pearl are cleaning


In the shining Jasper walls.
And the flood of peace eternal


With unceasing splendor falls,
We forget once spake the Master


OF an inward kingdom blest,
Where the pure Of heart may enter


Into JOY and peace and rest.
There like Angel songs of gladness


Float the anthems low and sweet
OF the sacred, pure emotions


That around the hearts blest altar meet.
Brother, hast thou found this kingdom?


Hast thou sought to enter in?
That thy weary soul no longer


Groan beneath its weight of sin?
Every way the sword is turning


That guards this inward Paradise,
And its blessed portals gain we


Only through the fire of sacrifice.


E2k Nech, Nay 14M, 1871. A. A. C.
Year: 1871

ADVICE TO Observation-Disclosures ought
to keep out of the Kitchen" a husband
who did not, writes thus of the consc-
quences 81 found fault some time ago
with Maria AIMS custard pie, and tried to
tell how my mother made custard pie
Marie made the pie after my receipt. 1t
last longer than any other pie we ever had.
Maria set it on the table every day for din
ner, and you see | could not eat it because
forgot to tell her to put in any eggs or
shortening. 1t was economical, but in a
fit of generosity l stole it from the pantry
and gave it to poor little boy in the neigh
borhood. The boys funeral was largely
attended by his former playmates did
not 90 myself"
Year: 1871

FoLwELL BUXToN's MoTTo.--" The
longer | live the more | am certain that
the great difference between men, between
the feeble and the powerful, the great and
the insignificant is energN, inriRciJle deter
minatiOH, a purpose once fixed and then
death or victory. The quality will do any
thing that can be done in this world and
no talents, no circumstances no opportu-
mites, will make n two-legged creature n
man without it." There, write that upon
your souls, young men Let it be a text
on which you may preach to yourselves,
and take care to pay the preacher the best
compliment that preachers can receive
let your conduct, by embodyng the test,
do credit to the sermon
Year: 1871

away feeling that it had been one of the
most extraordinary and agreeable calls we
had ever made.


l had always supposed that arms and
hands were something more than ornamen-
tai appendageS to the body. ! had often
seen how well blind people could read with
ont eyes, and deaf and dumb people could
converse without Speech and cripples could
walk without feet, and how those without
arms or hands could perform some rude
kind of manual labor with their feet but
had always supposed that these members
were, after all, not only very useful in their
place, but quite indispensable in the prac-
ticc of the higher arts but the illusion is
dispelled. 1t is difficult saying how many
or how few physical advantages one really
needs. If he has 4 mind and genius within
him, and necessity is laid upon him. there
are hardly any outward difficulties he will
not overcome, however defective his body
may be, ga mans a man for a that"
Year: 1871

MR.. EDITOR :-Whittier's lines are very
expressive of the sentiment of those who
cmigrate to the West:


We cross the prairie as of old,


The pilgrims cross the sea,
To make the West as they the East, -
The household of the free.
We go to rear wall of men


On Freedoms southern line,
And plant beside the cotton tree


The rugged Northern pine.
Cpheaving like the ark of old


The Bible in our van,
We go to test the will of God


Against the fraud of man.
Year: 1871

The following notice was lately posted
on the estate of an English nobleman in
Kent: Notice is hereby given that the
Marquis of, ION account of the backward
ness of the season. will not shoot himself
nor any of his tenants till after the 10th of
September -
Year: 1871

CAUSE OF SENATOR HowARD's DEATH.
Tho stroke Of apoplcxy which caused
tho death Of ex-senator Howard, of
Michigan, attacked him while he was
assisting some workmen in cutting down
large tree which stood near his house,
and almost upon the line between his lot
and tho one adjoining. II was necessary
to make tho tree fall In n certain direction,
so that 1t might not fall upon his neigh.
boris house or his own. For this purpose
long rope had been attached near the
top OF tho tree, and when the tree had
been nearly chopped off at It's base, Mr..
Howard and the workmen were tuggiug
at the rope to make the tree fall as they
desired. Mr.. Howard said: "Now then,
a long pull, strong pull, and a pull al.
together" and was exerting his physical
strength to the utmost, when he fell down
unconscious. The exertlon of Juggling at
the rope had burst blood vessel in tue
brain, which had superlnduced an apo.
pleCtlc attack. During the afternoon he
partially recovered consciousness, when Il
was discovered that his right side was
paralyzed. In this condition he fingered
until his death.
Year: 1871

may go back to her father or elsewhere,
and ] can't compel her to come back;
but should leave her for any reason
she could have me arrested and compel
me to support her. Such thing is one
sided and unfair. A woman held by
such a loose tie is not in my opinion a
wife in the holy way decent man has
shrined in his thoughts"