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Year: 1870

ABOUT Christmas a negro living
near Louisville, in this State, de-
string to marry another woman,
and not being able to procure a
divorce as readily as he desired,
murdered his wife in cold blood.
This is a little ahead Of Chicago
style,
Year: 1870

HOW OFTEN IS THE HOUSEHOLD
IL loaf buried with the household head. and
families that might have been comfortably
plovided for, lett destitute by the want of 8
proper foresight in its deceased protector?
Year: 1870

A gentleman well posted Ia nautical affairs In
lengthy description OF terrible voyage he made
across the Atlantic in first class iron steamship
some time ago. and referring to the probable loss OF
the City Of Boston by laundering closes letter to
the HERALD with the following suggeshons:-


Nearly II not all the transatlantic steamers have
saloon or flush decks, on the top OF which, aft and
directly over the rudder Is placed the wheel house
and steering gear This after or flush deck Is no
protection to The men at the wheel In hurricane,
much less 50 when new rudder chains
have to be rgg0d 70 complicated steer
ing gear. The wheel and gear should 90
where 1t now Is, and with 1t an auxiliary wheel
and steering gear on the main deck, right under
the other wheel. Without y double steering appa~
large steamer leaving thus any other pors
has right 10 proceed to sea. Laytng 20 In q hur-
rcane In iron ship $50 feet In length, with lives
and property depending upon the strength OF q sin
gle chain, which, with the relieving tackle only
be manipulated on an upper nush deck at the mo-
nlentary peril OF all hands being swept overheard
while using II, or, II broken IN attempting to repair
IT, is too serious matter to be passed over In D..
ience
Year: 1870

How's THrsf- new Charter increases
the number Of Supervisors from twelve 10
eighteen, and surrounds them with very pecu-
liar provisions, which can be made use Of In
very unfortunate manner for the taxpayers
in case such terrible thing as dishonest
politician should manage to creep into the
Board Of Supervisors Already these worthy
people divide one hundred thousand dollars
worth Of plunder among them-that Is, twelve
of them--but when the additional half dozen
are added on what will become Of US? The
old hands have brought things down to such
fine point that it has become now a matter Of
shrewd calculation, shrewd business trans
action. But, good gracious! how are the
new comers to get their diamond pins and
rings, their fast horses, their afiinities and
their champagne suppers unless the appropria-
tons for this precious Board are doubled
They have not yet been posted in the peculiar
tactics Of the Supervisors and a green hand
in the Board is worse than half dozen vete-
rams.
Year: 1870

ANOTHER MODEL DEPUTY SHERIFF.-A
police officer yesterday discovered q deputy
sheriff taking four prisoners handcuffed to the
Hudson River Railroad depot, on the way to
Sing Sing. The deputy sheriff was so drunk he
could hardly wag, and a stranger had his pis-
tol. The policeman kept his eye on the party,
secured the deputy's pistol, went to Sing Sing
with them and saw the prisoners safely turne
over. What bright lot our deputy sheriffs
are if this one Is d Sample, and what farce a
conviction by our courts must b9 II this is the
usual way Of putting II into execution
Year: 1870

THE New CHARTER AND THE CoRoNRRs -
la there not sinister design concealed in
the proposition to make the presiding officer Of
the Board Of Coroners &c c1icio member Of
the Board Of Healtha Suppose business
should run dull with the gentlemen whose
men. The temptation to provide the requisite
"demnition damp" corpses for crowner's quests
might swerve q coroner in his duties In the
Board Of Health and lead him to the sugges-
tion, If not the preparation, of horrible plans
to keep up the supply. 'We'll none OF it,
Year: 1870

THE INCREDIBLE BRUTALITY OF CAPTAIN
EYRE.--We publish letter from the Ameri-
can Consul at Jeddo to Andrew Stewart,
of Unionville, Pa, whose son was Lieutenant
Commander on board the Oneida when she
went down. It will be seen that there was an
eye witness-like the eye Of the Almighty-to
prove that young Stewart helped to load two
or three Of the signal Of distress guns that
were fred, and hailed with his own lips the
scurvy monster that denies hearing either one
or the other. If Eyre don't dangle in the air
for his inhumanity hemp has lost its best
uses
Year: 1870

The THREE GoLD BALLs.-An act was
introduced into the Legislature the other day
severely censuring the three gold ball gentle
men Of Chatham street. Well, what do they
do? They take your watch and return il when
you pay back the loan and interest. What do
the crowd do with the people? They take both
chattels and money. II is two to one that YOU
get something back from the gold ball estab-
lishments. 1t is a hundred to one il the people
ever get back anything. And then they don't
Year: 1870

Tho National Baak Mcnepeiists aad the


Funding Bill.


The Funding bill has passed the Senate. II
provides In the main for the issue Of bonds at
four, four and half and FIVE per cent, re-
deemable inside Of forty years, for the pur-
pose Of reducing the public debt. One OF the
most important provisions Of the bill COM
pels national banks to take these new bonds
in return for their old ones. This
the national banks do not want to do.
They are not satisfied with the enormous
profits on national circulation, which Con-
gress has been foolish enough to give them,
without the least consideration in return.
They are Unsuitable, and care not who
bear the burden of the debt aud expenses
of government if they do not. The profits
on three hundred millions of circulation
amount probably to twenty-five or thirty mil
lions The interest on the bonds deposited for
this circulation is about twenty millions in
gold. Thus, by the extravagant liberality Of
Congress, the banks make from twelve to
fifteen per cent on their capital In short,
their three hundred millions of circulation is
just clean gift Of three hundred millions Of
dollars to these monopollsts; for they draw the
interest on the bonds left with the Treasury
as security for their currency. Yet, when It
is proposed in funding the debt at lower
rate Of interest to compel these banks
to take bonds bearing four or four
and half per cent interest to deposit
as security for their circulation, they cry
out against the measure. They have been
using all their vast influence in Congress and
through powerful lobby to defeat this provi-
sion of Mr.. Sherman's bill. It is to be
hoped they will fail in the House as
they have in the Senate. The profits of q
national circulation belong by right to the
people and ought to go into the Treasury. 1t
is nonstrons outrage to give them to private
corporations. Senator Casserly, Of Cali
fornia, said well in the debate on tho subject
that the national banks ought to be compelled
to pay large proportion of their enormous
profits to the government. In no other country
does the government surrender such valuable
privilege to private corporations. Even the
Bank Of England, which renders the British
government great services and performs most
Of such financial duties as fall upon our Trea-
sury Department. pays to that government q
large portion Of the profits on its circulating
notes. AS this proposition to make the ma
tional banks take bonds at a lower rate of
interest seems to be the only way of reaching
them or Of making them pay some little for the
extraordinary privileges they possess, we hope
the House will follow the example of the
Senate and make it a part of the Funding
bill in spite Of the lobby and opposition Of the
large number Of members interested in these
corporations.
Year: 1870

A CoURT BUroHER.-ft is proposed in the
new Charter to appoint superintendent Of
meats, who must be butcher, whose duty it
shall be to smell out the impure meats in the
public markets and elsewhere. Why wouldn't
this be good Office for Sammy Tilden? He
has nothing but bare bones to gnaw upon now,
and he could bring certificates from every
member of the Manhattan Club that he is an
expert at smelling out ''ripe" meats in that in
stitution. He is also eligible on account OF
his profession-for didn't he butcher the
democracy at the last National Convention,
and hasn't he recently butchered a couple OF
citv charters?
Year: 1870

In STATU Quo. Another section Of the
pantomime Charter will take many people by
surprise, especially those blatant individuals
who vaunted so much about radical changes.
The Office Of the City Chamberlain remains
untouched; the very thing that the copper
head journal boasted so much was to be
revolutionized. This will convince all that
the threatened revolution is simmering down,
and that the rough and ready democracy can
take as kindly to the traces as ever the silk
stockings did
Year: 1870

The CoPpERHEAD ORGAN has been trying
to combine the democratic elements by talking
Manhattan Club and the slums in the same
breath-blowing hot and cold at once. The
result is that the copperhead organ itself is
blown out in the cold.
Year: 1870

THE CRY CHARrER-THE ARGuMENTUM
AID HoMINEM. taxpayers Of New York
are asked to overlook the glaring defects Of the
new Charter for the few petty reforms which it
proposes. Thus it ordains that streets shall
not be paved before being drained and sew
cred. Taxpayers will commend this sensible
provision. But why not go farther and resolve
that no streets shall be paved until the people
ask it or until the highway is one Of heavy
travel? The jobs in paving streets way up In
the s'deestreects" where nobody lives would
thus be put an end to.
Year: 1870

MORE CHANCES FOR THE 'BoYs. With q
Coroner in the Board of Health. an increase
in the number Of Supervisors and the Central
Park affairs in other hands than what they are
at present. the boys now believe that ''they
are goin' to have square show for them
positions as is got to be filed"
Year: 1870

THE ARCADE RAILWAY BILL Is again mp in
the Legislature. One tunnel Is already in
process Of construction under Broadway.
VIII there be room for two, or is the idea


merely TO pass the bin and never do the
work.
Year: 1870

QUERY.-Why is there nothing said about
the Board of Underwriters in the Fire DEPART
ment section Of the pantomime Charter7 They
are supposed to have the greatest interest in
the proceeding of the devouring element.
Year: 1870

and the next day she was laid in the
earth, and flowers as delicate, and al
most as lasting, were planted on her
breast.


] was afar off when heard that my
young friend was no more, and at first
could scarcely reconcile to myself the
truth that one so beautiful could die /;
but with conviction of its reality
came feeling of relief FOR well /
knew that, had she married. il would
never have been heart uni0n-that
the mystic cords of love and sympathy
would not have bound them IN one
and felt il were far better that one
like her should die than take VOWS her
heart could never fulfil.


And afterward, as ] knclt by her
grave, my heart bitterly condemned
the folly of those to whose care her
young life had been intrusted. Here
lay all that was left of the loved and
admired companion Of my early days;
none perhaps, save myself, ever
thought of her but as a gay butterfly,
who had lived her short summer day,
and was no more. knew she had
soul one, too, which, with proper cul-
ture, might have left behind shining
record Of good and perfect deeds; but
this was the end of her form and fea-
lures of lovliness unsurpassed, and Of
her warm, loving woman's heart-clay
which had been refined and sanctificd
by the immortal soul which had in
habiied it, mixing once again with its
kindred clay, unheeded, if not forgot
ten, all its beauty cold, damp, "knead-
ed clod"


Sisters (ye who are still young and
beautifully, look around youl Seeyou
yon aged man, to.tering beneath the
weight of years? Ask of him if his
life seems long He will 20 iu a mo.
ment of time back to the days when,
with her who is now no more, but who
travelled her life journey hand in hand
with him, he stood, on beautiful
moonlit evening, by the old oak in the
yard, and wondered if sorrow could
dwell in a world like this. He will
tell you of this, and say at seems as
though it were yesterday" Ask that
"matron with the silver hair" if it
seems long since she was young She
was a beauty in her day. She will
tell you of a blue.eyed girl, her first
born and dearest one, how she died in
her arms, and say: ut seems as
though it were yesterday"


Oh, what O very shadow is earth
born beauty The rose, blushing to.
day at the consciousness of her own
beauty, tomorrow begins TO fade I;
the lily, fairer than the most delicate
maidenly brow today, tomorrow is
stamped with earth's own signet, de-
cay! Why, then, waste one precious
moment in decorating that which is 80
transient2 No, my sisters Let q
higher aim possess your thoughts so,
when your little day here is spent,
you may look back upon life Of use
iulness, and forward tots reward.
Year: 1870




OF all the returnings home. the re.
turn from the grave after the funeral
is the most intensely sad Who that
has ever followed one dearly beloved
TO his last rest will not agree that il is
even sol


While the lost one was sick, we
went in and out, anxious, sorrOwing,
fearful The solicitude to relieve and
care for him engrossed us-the appre-
hension Of losing him excited and ag
onized us, but there was no room nor
time for loneliness or a sense of pres.
ent desoation.


While be lay dead beneath the home
roof. there was hurry and bnstle Ia
preparation for the final rites. Friends
must be apprised and invited the
funeral arrangements definitely made
the mourning procured and fitted
the h0spitalities of the house must be.
fit the occasion all is excitement aud
tension-the loss is not yet felt.


But when the coach drops us at our
door, "after the funeral, there it is
that the work of the destroyer begins
to be apparent-the very house seems
lone and still and scpuchral though
it be in the heart of the town aud
though its threshold be throngcd with
friendly feet, it seems empty and void.
The apartments, oh, how deserted
especially in the room where he fought
and surrendered in the awful conflict
Here, there, everywhere are memorials
Of him f! How they make the tears
start now, though we have often con
templated them calmly ever since he
died. Those are his clothes how
painfully distinct is our recollection OF
how he looked in every one of them,
and when and where he last wore
them These are his books-the one
he last read with the leaf turned down
where his place was. There is his
chair in the firesde corner, where he
loved to sit There his over-vacant
seat at the family board During the
sickness, we had not so much noticed
theso-we hoped ever that he might
use or occupy them again now we
know it cannot be, and this shows US
the dreadful vaouity everywhere.


Oh, how dark and dismal come
down the first night shadows "afteI
the funeral ~ No night was ever Sc
dreary or SO long-the ticlings of the
clock reverberated like bell strokes
such deep silcnce-no footsteps now OF
the stairs, or overhead in the sick
chamber-no nurse and watchers tC
come and say, "he is not so well, anC
asks for you,'-n indeed-you may
sleep on now and take your rest" i
you can


Poor bereaved heart il will be
long before the sweet rest you once
knew will revisit your couch. Stun
Der will bring again the scenes through
which you have just awakened and
wept," and you will start from it but
TO find all too real


God pity the mourners "after the
funeral"
Year: 1870

Fully one half the taxes now paid
by the business men Of this nation
are made necessary by the corruption
and extravaganza of the Radical par


ty. They maintain war expenses IN
time of peace, and must have money
TO foot the bills. That money must
be collected in the shape Of taxes.
Put a majority of Democrats 10 Con
grcss, and in one year expenses and
taxes will be reduced thirty per cent
Year: 1870

Subsequent investigation showed that the
car had been standing upon switch.
some two hundred yards from The point
of collision, and had been seen rs late rs
eleven o'clock Tint night, and must have
been showed shortly before our arrival
down the switch with such force as to
carry the forward truck over upon the
main track, the rear truck still remaining
upon tho switch; that then by the loco
motive it was showed down the switch
and main track until it stood ut right
angle with our train. when it was cleared
by the locomotive. the end of it grazing
the side Of the passenger car at the fatal
instant that Professor Fletcher put his
head out OF the window. The scene OF
disaster was near The depot in the town
of Sullivan; and report had it that a man,
notorious for his disloyal sentiments, ut
a late hour of the night, NJ 4 low drinking
house in the town, had said to several
boon companions:


Now, boys, let's take drink, and
then 90 TO the depot and knock he'll out
o. this A olition governor that's comm.
down the road tonight"


Another man was arrested and tried
for the offence, but the trial amounted TO
nothing, and he was acquitted,


sent FOR the telcgraphic operator, but
could not get dispatch through 10
indianapolis until eight o'clock in the
morning. | studied in what words |
should break the dreadful news to his
father, The first dispatch tore up then
the second. then the third, and finally
communicated withmy private secretary,
with the instruction to convey the awful
intelligence to the father and family as
best he could.


In the afternoon sent the corpse by
special train 10 Grcencastlc. and procur.
inc another locomotive. started on my
way to the army. For many days the
horrible scene Was ever present in my
mind. and was filed with apprchensions
OF disaster which had never before ex-
pcricnccd. And it WAS not until my re-
turn home. some ivo weeks aIlcrward,
tha, the spell was broken, and WAS able
to put away for a time the terrible impress
sons of that night.
Year: 1870

REMEDY FOR CANCER.-Col. Ussery oil
the parish OF De Soto informs the editor
of the Caddo Gazette that he fully tested
remedy for this troublesome disease,
rocommendedto to him by a Spanish woman,
q native of the country. The remedy is
this: Take an egg and break it, pour
out the white, retaining the yolk in the
she'll, put in salt and mix with the yolk
as long AS it will receive it; stir them to-
ge,her until salvc is formed; put a
portion of this on piece of sticking
plaster and apply tito the cancer about
twice day. He has tried the remedy
twice in his own family with entire sue.
cess.-[N 0. Picayune.


1t has also been tried in two cases in
Rhode Island with perfect success. Such
a remedy is within the reach OF every
one, and should be known to tho whole
world.
Year: 1870

A FTER having effectually tested improved
A hanged ribbed Gin, offer to the public very
superior machine constructed that stems and huls
will not be cut by the will the teeth be injured
by hard substances getting into the gin, and conse
quenty making better sample out of roughly picked
cotton.


1t is designed to gin the Peeer any long staple,
as well as the ordinary cotton which is usually ginned
on the saw gin.


The fange is essentially necessary to the perfection
of the gin, as by it each takes the cotton
into its department. never allowing it to reach
over to any other saw.


By it also the cotton is kept in contact with the
on either side until stripped of the FIBRE and then im
mediatey discharged, and thus by keeping clean or
white ROLL it is called, the amount of cotton gnned
in given time is increased at least so per cent


1t is simple in its construction and get out of
order.


1t is of light drausht and th0roll so perfect thait
does not require a skilled hand to attend it.


The frames are made of solid ash and put together
with bolts in the most substantial manner.


We refer to the following certificates from reliable
planters:
Year: 1870

SENATOR VICKERs has been confined to hi;
bed since his return to his home near Chester
town, Md, from Washington by a serious attach
of bilious dysentery. We are pleased to state
that he is now convalescing, and though very
much debilitated, is in fair way of recovery.
Year: 1870

LETTER from Prof. Henry, who is taking a
short respite from his labors as the head of the
Smithsonian Institution, announces his safe ar
rival in London recently, after pleasant
voyage of ten days. His trip has proved quite
favorable to the health OF both himself and
daughter.
Year: 1870

STARVING ALONE.-A woman named Van
Shack, residing in this city, was discovered in
a dying condition, with no one to care for her
or soothe her last moments. She had been sics
Tor some time, and friends had deserted her
leaving nothing by which she might obtain
nourishme mt, and being unable to procure an
herself through sickness, she was left to stary,
and die alone.-AlLdny Journal.
Year: 1870

THERE Is A NEw USE for petroleum. One
Samuel Bryant, of CarroltOn, Mississippi has
discovered that it will make the hair grow The
way he found ont this new property Of coal oil
was simply this: He had large boil on the
bald place on bis head, which gave him much
pain, and III the absence OF anything else he
rubbed coal oil on it. He saws 1t relieved the
pain almost instantly, so he continued to rub on
the Oil until the boil was entirely WE'LL when, to
his surprise, he found thin coating of hair
coming out over the bald place. He continued
the use of the oil for month or two, and now
has heavy coat of hair on his head.
Year: 1870

In the light of recent events, how silly ap-
pears the following extract from letter in the
Machias Republican:


"The Augusta dam will not be built this
season. The city authorities have decided not
to accept the proposition of the Messrs.
Sprague. When they gave the Spragues
about half million to come to Augusta and
erect factories, they ''bought an elephant, u
and now don't know what to do with it."


What will the cheap correspondents whose
effusions are in similar strain with the
above, have to write about after the compile
ton of the dam?
Year: 1870

There have recently been several sudden
deaths in this community. The peculiar
circumstances under which some of the fami-
lies have been afflicted appeal with more than
ordinary force to the sympathy of all.
Year: 1870

Newly set trees should, if possible,
be mulchcd, unless OH quite moist
land. Though the early part Of the
season be wet, yet, when dry, hot
weather comes on, the trees will be
quite likely to suffer. Hay. leaves.
straw-almOst anything that will keep
the ground moist-can be used TO ad-
vantage. Where nothing else can
conveniently be had stones may be
used. If leaves ave used, it is better
to cover with some earth to prevent
them from blowing of.
Year: 1870

"A certain man, who is veiy rich now
was very poor when he was boy.
When asked how fe got his riches he
said:


My fahcF taught me never to play
till my work was finished, and never
to spend my money until had earned
it. ii had bat an hours work in The
day, ! must DO that the first thing anil
in an hour. And after this was al
lowed 10 play; and then could play
with much more pleasure than il had
the thought of an unfinished task be-
fore my mind. ! early formed the
habit Ql doing everything in time, and
it soOIiNecame easy To do 20. ID is 60
this owe my prosperity.
Year: 1870

If any poison is swallowed, drink
instantly a half glass of cool water,
with a hcaping teaspoonful c1ch OF
common salt and ground mustard
stirred into it. This vOmits as soon
as it reaches the stomach. But for
fear some of the poison may remain,
swallow the white of one or two eggs,
or drink a cup of strong coffee-these
two being antidOtes for Il greater
number of rOisOns than any other
dozen ofarticles known, with the adj
vantage of being always OH hand if
not, a pint of sweet oil, drippings,
melted butter OF lard, are good sub
stitutes, especially if they vomit
quickly.
Year: 1870

An act prohibiting the Peddling


Of Ardent Spirits throughout


the State.


SECTION l. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representa-
tiyes Of the State of South Caroli-
na, now met and sitting ia Gen
erat Assembly, and by the author
ity Of the same: That from and
after the passage of this act it
shall not be lawful for any person,