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Year: 1871

We learn from the Mobile Tribune that
MIR. John A Brady, for two years following
the war local editor of the Mobile Tribune.
Times Register and AdUertiser, and since
then connected with the press of New Or
leans, died in that city on Sunday last of
consumption, and that his funeral took
place on Monday afternoon.


Mr. Brady was one Of the few decidedly
good reporters, and exeelled alike in report
ing public meetings or police events. But
he had weakness, and no one knew it bet
ter tFan himself. as a document now before
the writer of this, in the form of pledge to
abstain from all Intoxicating liquors for the
period of one year, solemnly signed and
sworn to before one of the city recorders,
most fully attests. This pledge was made
Immediately after the adjournment of the
Louisiana Legislature, when Mr.. Brady had
received small gratuity, voted by the Gen
eral Assembly to reporters in that body.
But, alas for human frailty, he lacked the
nerve to adhere to that good resolution, and
running through the small sum he received,
inebriation. want, exposure speedily led to
consumption, which ended in an early
death.


Mr. Brady was during the war field cor
respondent of the New York Herald He
was nephew of the late Hon. James T.
Brady, and native of New York city.


His lamentable fate should be a warning
to others of the same profession, who,
although most excellent reporters aud
estlmable gentlemen, plunge themselves
into the dread abyss of intemperance and
thus render their lives failure, while other
wise they might be brilliant ornaments of
society and might adorn the profession for
which they are so aptly fitted.
Year: 1871

Several freight cars of the New Orleans
and Mobile Railroad ran off the track Mon
day night, twelve miles this side of Bay St.
Louis. In consequence Of this accident
other trains were detained


An engine and tender ran off the track
Tuesday afternoon, about five miles this
side OF Hazlehurst, ON the jackson Railroad
and detained the down train due here early
yesterday morning No person was killed,
but the locomotive was badly smashed, and
is represented to be completely disabled.
Year: 1871

On the question of paving the streets of
Houston, the Times says:


The proposals made by gentlemen from
New Orleans to pave one or more of our
principal thOroughfares with asphaltum has
been the common theme of conversation
during the week, and it is pleasing to see
the interest with which the heaviest tax
payers regard the project. The fact that
the patent asphalt which it is intended to
use has proven eminently successful in New
Orleans, gives assurance that the same sat
isfactory results would attend its introduc-
ton here.


1t is expected that Alderman Love will
make his report 80 the Board of Aldermen
this evening, and it is probable that some
official action will be taken in regard to the
immediate commencement of operations,
provided satisfactory arrangement can be
made with the gentlemen now here for the
purpose of treating with the corporation.


From what we CLEAN from exchanges and
the opinions we hear expressed by scientific
gentlemen, we have no doubt but asphaltum
pavement will be found cheap and effective,
if not the cheapest that may be proposed,
while for sidewalks it is almost universally
conceded to be superior to all other material
used for the purpose.
Year: 1871

One of the eulogists of the late Rev.
Samuel j. May calls him sin politics the
most patriotic and unselfsh of men, and in
religion the modern incarnation of the Ser
mon on the Mount"
Year: 1871

BY TELE GRAPH.
LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
NEW COMMISSIONER GENERAL
RAILROAD GRANT FROM MOBILE
ORANGE PROCESSION YESTERDAY
PROCLAMATION OF GOVERNOR HOFFMAN
Protection by Military and Police
PROCESSION AsSAILED BY A MOB
MILITARY FIRE ON THEM
Forty Killed, Many Wounded
ALL QUIET AT MIDNIGHT
DEATH OF COUNT PoLIGNAC
Year: 1871

Her ONLY SHAKE Some doctors leave
no stone unturned to cure q patient One
gave woman fourteen kinds of medicine
TO cure the chills. She has been cold ever
since, but she hasn't shook shake only
when the heArse run over q stump on the
way to the grave. The doctor has moved
away from there
Year: 1871

They tell about a blooming young widow In
Derby who used to live next door TO Mr..
Smith, who was widower and timid man,
whose mild eyes beamed blandly through his
spectacles. The widow had kindness for
Smith, and be reciprocated it; but he had
hardly enough courage to carry on the cam
paign. So at last the widow pretended TO be
terribly afraid Of thunder and lightning, and
whenever she saw gust coming up. she used
TO smooth her bair and rush into Mr.. Smiths
house.


Then, when she heard peal Of thunder,
she would scream and rush up and throw her
arms around the neck Of the mildeyed Smith,
and implore him to protect her. and Smith al
ways looked embarrassed and anxious, and
said he would. Then she would faint, and
Smith would feel half glad and half sorry
About six thunderstorms settled the business,
and now she is Mrs Smith and Smith-he is
only sorry that her apprehensions of the light
ming were not realized. He says that If there
ever was woman who ought to have been
torn to pieces by electricity, it is that widow
She has thunder-storms every day now in
Smiths house, and It is lively and vigorous for
Smith around there.
Year: 1871

A nice young girl at Green Bay, Wis, was
being courted bya nice young man. lie was
generously inclined, and made her presents Of
hair oil, which he purchased from the store Of
the father Of his adored After giving her
some twenty bottles Of the oleaginous fluid, he
discovered he was working in circle-as fast
as he presented them she returned them TO
the store, thus dutifuIly making trade for her
father. No cards.
Year: 1871

A Boston police officer voucbes for the truth
of story that man in that city having lost
a twenty dollar bill in the street, two hours afi
terwards showing another twenty dollar bill to
his intelligent dog. upon which the sagacious
animal started off, with lis nose to the ground
ran into Portland street where the bill had
been dropped, poked about the dirt with his
nose, aud in few minutes ran up to his master
with the missing bill in his mouth.
Year: 1871

Marriage is like brilliant taper's light,
Placed at window q summer night,
Attracting all the insects in the air
To come and singe their pretty winglets there;
Those who are out butt heads against the pane,
And those within butt 70 get out again.
Year: 1871

A ToUGH SToRY.-A tender hearted man
writes to his friends as follows: 81 found q
cockroach struggling in bowl Of water. Itook
half peanut shell for boat, put him into
it and gave him two wooden toothpicks for
oars, and left him. The next morning visited
him, and he had put piece of white cotton
thread on one Of the toothpcks, and set the
toothpick up on end as signal of distress
He had hair on the other toothpick, and there
that cockroach sat a fishing. The cockroach
exhausted. had fallen asleep. The sight melted
me to tears. I never had to chew leather
to get soul. was born with one.
took that cockroach out, gave him a
spoonful Of cruel and left. That animal never
forgot that act of kindness, and now my house
is chuck full of cockroachcs."
Year: 1871

A Man Dies from the Bite of Dog Re-


ceived Four Years Previously.


A correspondent of the Scranton Republican
writes:-


The streets of Ashley were thrown into a
fever of excitement Yesterday by the report
that a man had died from hydrophobia, and,
alas the report proved too true. The case is
both remarkable and horrible About four years
ago John Bennett was bitten in the hand by a
mad dog. The wound was small and soon
healed. He has been in good health and was of
sound mind, and no unnatural mad actions
were noticeable until few days ago, when
the men at work with him in
the mines noticed a wild expression about
his face and a peculiarity in his manners
at times he would stare at them with fero-
cious look, similar to that of a mad dog, but as
these symptoms of mania were of but mo-
ment's duration, it was not mentioned. On
Wednesday he was taken sick and confined to
his bed. After being confined to his bed he
could not bear the sight of water, and in a
short time it was evident that he was suffering
with hydrophobia. The day passed and the
suffering increased; the suffering had become SO
intense that he foamed at the mouth, and last
night he expired. A few minutes before he
died he said he was suffering greatly by pain
in his breast, showing that he was sensible to
the last. 1t is said by those who saw him die
that it was the most heart-rending scene they
ever witnessed.
Year: 1871

Discovery of a Cave Containing Human


Remains In Cecil County.


The Pilot Town correspondent of the Cecil
Wing tells the following strange story


John s. Love and Napoleon Lee discovered
last winter while working on the railroad, some
thing that appeared to be cave, with the
mouth or entrance filled with stone. They took
some tools to- day (23d instantly and took away
the stones and found a cave fifteen or twenty
feet long, under rock, and in it the bones of a
man of ordinary size. The skull and under jaw
There were two Indian darts about five inches
long, and sea-shell about the size of tea cup,
interspersed with red spots and large pieces of
mica. The inside of the cave had the appear
ance of being burned. The cave is on R. Alex
ander's farm, between the Bald Friar aud the
Head of the Old Maryland Canal I think from
the appearance of the darts that he had been
killed by them, and put in there and wood piled
on him, and the wood set on fire, and the en-
trance filed with stone. The relics are at
George Browns, at the Head"
Year: 1871


school Girl Takes Her Life Because She


had Committed Trivial Offense.


The Chicago Post of Saturday evening says:-


The following announcement appeared in
yesterday mornings papers, in the place as
signed for death notices.


sat the residence OF william McLain Lizzie, r.
Westcott, aged 16 years and months"


On Thursday night this young girl retired to
rest in perfect health. In the morning she was
dead. Coroner Stephens proceeded to the house
yesterday afternoon and held an inquest. From
the evidence submitted IL become apparent that
the poor girl had deliberately committed sui
eide, and the jury found accordingly. The sad
story, as developed before the inquest showed
that the girl was of highly sensitive organiza-
tion, and had taken her own life because of the
remorse which had followed the commission of
q comparatively trivial offense. On Wednesday
afternoon, she listened to the invitation of a
young man TO take boat ride with him on the
basin. To account to the teacher for her alb
sence, her friend wrote note, sign
ing Mrs. McLain's name, and saving
that Lizzie had been detained at home. The
deception she had practised so proved upon her
that she confessed her fault to her aunt Mrs.
McLain mildly reproved her. The fault aud the
reproof sank deeply into her mind, and she de-
clared to the friend who was her companion on
the boat ride that she would commit suicide.
He laughed at her threat, thinking 1t nothing
more than idle talk; but the girl was in earnest.
Upon retiring for the night, and after taking a
more than usually affectionate leave of her
aunt, she took dose of morphine. The drug
quickly performed its deadly mission. The
corpse of the girl was found in her bed in the
morning.
Year: 1871




"a telegram from Washington states that the Se-
cretary OF the Treasury has not yet accepted ana
probably Will not accept, the recent offer OF New
York bankers to take $3.50 100000 of the loan the
conditions attached TO the offer being deemed ncom-
patible with the public interests. The subscriptions
TO the new loan reported to day amount to s200
The money market was shade more active and
q large number OF loans were made at four per
cent, particularly among the stock houses. The
business OF the day must be quoted done at three
to four per cent on miscellaneous securities and at
three per cent. on governments. There is steady
inquiry for hrst-class paper, and strictly prime
grades are current at Eve per cent discount, with
4h@T per cent as the range OF quotations
for all that comes within the designation OF prime.
Foreign exchange was dull and rather more
steady on the basis of 1l0A for prime bankers
sixty-day sterling ,snd 1lO2I I9Il0X for Esight bills
The announcement of the programme OF Treasury
operations for the month OF June was quietly re-
celved considering the important deviation in il
from those Of the current and preceding months.
We think the policy Of selling a larger amount of
gold. in proportion 70 bond purchases a step
in the right direction, particularly at this
season. Mr.. Boutwell, win doubtless see see
the correctness OF the theory that
the success Of the new loan depends more upon the
obliteration OF the gold premium than upon the Alb
normal process OF advancing Government bonds by
forced purchases OF them in the open market The
programme as announced In detail from the Sub
Treasury is as follows-
Year: 1871

'The gold market was unsettled on light amount
Of business, the speculative sentiment being al
fault as to the effect OF the Treasury programme for
June. By very inverse process of reasoning it was
at first argued that the smaller purchases OF bonds
would occasion decline in them abroad and bring
some of them home. On this idea gold opened af
111X, but declined to Ill , reactng finally to 1Ily
AS may be inferred, che bulk OF the business was at
11lX. The higher price since Saturday is also at
trlbutabe to an apprehension of more active money
in London, now that the civil war in France seems
coming to an end"
Year: 1871

Dr. l.. respectfully informs the public that for
twenty years he has given especial attention to
the preservation Of the natural teeth, and will
continue to do SO, and invites those who wish to
save them to call on him. knowing that many
arc extracted, and destroyed that by proper
treatment might be preserved and made useful
for life Artificial teeth inserted only as Ap-
nrnrrn NY rnnEEsSnRs AND COLLEGES nnNl-tf
Year: 1871

VISITING Firemen- has been announced
that Portsmouth fire company would visit
Richmond on Monday next. Captain AIMS,
lie informed us this morning that he had re-
ceiyed no official notification of such an in
tcntion on the part of the Portsmouth boys.
Our entire department numbers but sixty
men-five companies Of twelve men each
and while we are sure they are not lacking
in hospitality, they are nevertheless gene
rally poor men, and it seems out of the
question, unless at the city's expense, to
give such reception on the occasion
Of the visit as was the custom under the
volunteer system, when the companies em-
braced ten times the membership, many
of whom had large means. The Ports
mouth company is ninety strong. We
found our chief and his men in quandary
as to what they can or had better do under
the circumstances, and we have said this
much at their request to let the public and
the authorities understand the embarrassing
situation in which they are placed, and
would ask, in their behalf, aid and assis-
tance as will enable them to entertain theiI
friends from Portsmouth in becoming
manner.
Year: 1871

No Partially. The trial of Mr.. Lyons
for an alleged violation Of revenue laws Of
the government, is but an evidence of its
impartiality. Mr.. Lyons is a Republican;
necessarily "a loyal man to the government.
We are informed, upon reliable authority,
there is but little doubt Of the ability of
Mr.. Lyons to prove his entire innocence


that he has frequently demanded an inves


tigation of the matter, and that when the
facts are known he will be able to exoner-
ate himself from any criminal intent to de-
fraud the government.


The Dispatch of this morning thinks this
case one of interest to the Republican party
of the State. As an offset to this, we are
preparing one not exactly similar, but de-
cidedly damaging to the reputation of one
of the shining lights of Democracy, which
will.bc likely to be of great interest to that
party, when exposed. Republicans arc not
the only ones who commit violations of
law, neither are they the only ones who
will be exposed. 0ft Dad 1aiifegG
Year: 1871

The Whppag-Post Party, and One Of,
its Erpone1.ts. The patty of moral ideas
and advanced civilization has no fairer ex-
ponent than its own creation-Judge Cox
of Chesterfield. The Dispatch of this
morning informs us that for 'stealing one
chicken,n Andrew Scott was ordered by
this very able representative of whipping
post ideas to receive thirty-nine lashes on
his bare back, nell laid on. ~


If any other evidence was wanted to com
vince the colored people and the poor men
of the State which of the two parties is
their friend, this infamous and damnable
custom furnishes all that is wanting. Who
ever heard of gentleman" being stripped
and his flesh torn and lacerated by the
cruel torture of Democracy? For whom
is this barbarism intended? At whom is
it directed? Let the poor creature, the
peer of even this Christian Judge before
| the law, answer, as the lash comes heavily
upon him, and as the blood gushes from his
gaping wounds, ten us by whom he is thus
1 tortured. Black men of Virginia, poor
white men of the State, we appeal to you
to come to our aid, to break down and for
ever destroy this despotic and worse than
savage crew, who, but for the protection
afforded you by the great government I'm,
der which you live, would crush you and
torture you even worse than in the days o


the past, when the Inquisition found Sc
many victims. m oa..
Year: 1871

Coacicts for the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Thirty white and twenty coli
ored penitentiary convicts were taken up
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad this
morning, to be put to work in one of the
tunnels near the White Sulphur.
Year: 1871

Small D,celling-H Houses. city can
hope to grow rapidly unless she makes pro-
vision for the accommodation of those who
seek her borders. If Richmond is to be a
large and prosperous manufacturing city
and we see no reason why she should
not-our men of means must see to it in
advance that houses are erected which can
be rented at fair rates to the. artizans, me-
chanics and operatives which such growth
and development will bring among us:
Even now there are not enough small
dwelling-houses to meet the demand for
such habitations, and majority of those
we have are too inferior for the class of
people daily looking for houses in Rich
mond. The very men and families now
coming here, and who will flock hither by
thousands when the erection of manufac-
tories begins in earnest, are the bone and
sinew of any locality, and it would be sui.
cidal on our part to fail to encourage them
in every way in our power.


As the first step necessary to perma'
nent increase of our population and wealth
we hope to see our landowners and capi
talists engage in the erection Of buildings
that can be rented to the industrious labor
ing classes. In the construction Of these
houses due regard should be paid to the
health, taste, and convenience of the occu
pant, for well arranged, well ventilated
house, can be erected for the same none,
an inferior one will cost. Will not our en-
terprising people take time by the fore loci
and by multiplying houses, surely ant
rapidly, augment our wealth and popula
ton? as li, a9ais
Year: 1871

How often is it that we find that it is
not well with the wife; her bright hopes
are often doomed to be blighted; the dread
thought often comes to her that the hus-
bands affection is growing cold; more and
more it become evident that his heart Is
not in his home, and he cannot share with
her his club, his companions, yet how she
will seek to win back his heart, and will
forgive him for thousand sights If he
will only be hers again. I do not say
that; but honor from my soul every wo-
man that does. Much has been said about
the worldly rights belonging 10 woman.
Perhaps they are to come, but there are
rights Of the home and the freside which
should never be denied to her. She is the
queen there; let the husband yield to her;
her judgment is best in all connected with
it, and let him not too sel6shly desire his
own way, or too arbitrarily demand his
legal rights. The home is especially q
school; it calls for concessions from both,
and it requires that the two shall become
one in spirit as we'll as IN flesh. There
are natures, it is. true, which are of so un-
congenial character that separation
finally becomes necessity. Divorce is
curse, and the readiness with which it
may be procured is one of the most alarm
ing evils Of our social life. Marriage is
education; it is in the husbands power,
out of his superior strength, to supplement
the wife's deficiencies, and from her he
may obtain that refinement and purity
which is peculiarly the gift of woman.
The husband may be the sufferer, too, but
less frequently; he may miss true sympa-
thy with his aims, pursuits and ambitions.
When the wife is but an ornamental ap.
pendage, and is content to live for fashion
and vanity, indulging in petty sights and
jealousy, then it is not well with the hus-
band. Marriage is often rock Of danger
as we'll as means Of happiness. Remem-
ber the time will soon come when the
hands are folded and you can help each
other no more. So live that when the
parted circle meets again, and hearts and
souls are blended once more, it shall be
we'll with you all.
Year: 1871

The Printing OGlce as a School.


A correspondent of the Louisville
Journal, in the course of a series Of re-
miniscences Of an old connection with
that establishment, says:


For a young man that is not aItogethl
era fool, and has the advantage Of an
ordinary education, the printing Office
Is undoubtedly a capital school f r adj
vancement. In regard to general
knowledge, no class of men who labor
for living, can approach the printer.
The studiOus among them, if their na-
tural gifts be not below the | Vel of
mediOcrity have equal chances with
the members of tie sO-calIed learned
professions. to acquire both worldly
honors and literary fame. From the
days of CaxtOn to those Of franklin
and from his days to our own, the
craft has produced eminent men in
every walk of life.


A good printer is generally a good
critiU, not only of language and pune
tuation, but.of the intrinsic literary
merits of whatever comes under his
hand. It is impossible that he should
be otherwise, since so great a part of
his life ismale up as it We're Of facts
that enforce reflection.


The labor that employs his hands,
gives to his mind neither exercise nor
care. His fingers move intuitiveIv to
the exact points requisite for the prop
er appOrtiOnment of his work, while
his mind seizes the idea sought to be
conveyed by the writer with whom
he is engaged, and is only expelled
therefrOm after his Judgment has pass
ed sentence on its merits.


Many one, without knowing it,
possibly owes some unknown com
positOr or proof reader much more of
reputation as writer than he would
be willing to acknowledge. If by
changing the reading of a sentence
without affecting its meaning, he can
give to 1t strength or smoothness, a.
good printer asks no gu ions about
the matter, but changes it at once.
And so, if the grammer of a sentence
is evidently faulty, he would be con-
sidered unfit for business, did he not
rectify it in this particular.


l have known some printers, It is
true, who could never learn the plain
est rules of either composition or
punctuation. To such an one might
0e used the identical words used by
a we'll known Presbyterian, speaking
to young, but particularly silly can
didate for ministerial orders: "YOung
man, you have made d mistake you
have been called to another feld-the
corn field o.