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Year: 1871

France reminds Us just now OF our own con-
dition during the late war. The more extreme
our peril, the more confident We became of f.
nal success We learn by telegraph that ar
mics are gathering in the South aud armies in
the West The spirit Of the people was new
er betterl The ministry are certain that the
Republic will save the State! Paris is provis-
ioned for al indefinite time, and Parisians are
eating rats only for fun Poor France, how
hard to learn the bitter lesson war is teaching
her A nation without ruler; armies with
out leader; every fortress between Paris and
the Rhine in the hands Of the Germans: an
empty treasury and an exhausted credit |
What hope of her exit from this strife but in
humiliation The sufferings of the people are
every day increasing, while the hope of relief
IS daily diminishing.


1t Is reported that the Prussians before Par
is will signalize the opening of the New Year
by commencing the work of bombardment.
The statement is not at all improbable. But
1t is not Paris that will be bombarded. That
city is too remote from the outer lines of de-
fence to be reached even by Krupp guns of
the largest calbre, and the outer circle of forts
must, therefore, be first taken before the be-
sleged city can be brought within range of the
Prussian cannon. Indeed, it is doubtful wheth-
er Paris will be subjected at al to the merciess
pounding and shattering of shot and shell.


Such an event as the bombardment of city
numbering two millions of Inhabitants has new
er yet occurred in history, and would thrill
with horror the whole civilized world. 1t is
Tar more probable that the Prussians, when
the grand, final, desperate attack is made-if
such an attack is really contemplated
confidently that as soon as the forts are taken
the city will be surrendered.
Year: 1871

In leaving the Grocery and Produce business,
respectfully request all my friends and the
public generally to accept my thanks for their
liberal patronage in the past, and solicit con-
tinuance of the same for my former partner, @.
stand and will sell his goods as reasonably as
they can be bought in the town.


G. A. RICHARDSON,
Year: 1871

OR city election comes on the 7th OF
November. Let all remember and turn
ont, for we want good men for Mayor,
Aldermen, Recorder and Marshal No
politics in It We are trying to get good
officers for the city and care nothing for
their politics. Oar city is grorlng rap
idv and We need men up to the times
men who have opinion, Of their own,
and have independence enough 10 express
them; men who are active, prudent and
have the interest OF our town at heart
Year: 1871

DEATH OF A Prominent MAN The
Hon. Pig Smith, one of the Chiefs Of
this Nation. and a Member elect to the
Senate died at his residence about the
first of this month. His intense love for
his country gave him IN almost absolute
influence over many of those who knew
him best. He has since the war occu
pied prominent place in the Councils Of
this Nation, and his loss will be severely
felt .--C Cherokee Advocate.
Year: 1871

The following resolution was unanimous
ly adopted by the Union Republican Con-
vention Of this county


Whereas, we have understood that Fer
dinand Baehr, our late fellow townsman,
is mentioned as candidate for State Trca-
surer on the Union Republican ticket, and
We knowing him to be long consistent
Republican and qualified for the position,
and fully realizing that our German fellow
citizens are entitled to position on the
State Ticket hereby resolve


That our delegates to the State Conven-
ton are hereby instructed to use all hon
orable means to nominate Ferdinand Baehr
as candidate for State Treasurer on the
Union Republican ticket
Year: 1871

A shooting affray occurred between
couple of men who reside "up the road"
few days ago, but fortunately no one was
hurt. The matter was investigated before
Justice Knox and tfe parties discharged
on the payment of cost
Year: 1871

A French woman will love her husband
if he is either witty or chivalrous: a German
woman if he is constant and faithful; a
Dutch woman if he does not disturb her
ease and comfort too much: Spanish wo-
nan if he wreaks vengeance on those who
incur her displeasure an Italian woman ii
he Is dreamy and poetical; Danish woman
it he thinks that her native country is the
brightest and happiest place on earth: a
Russian woman if he despises all Western
ors ~ miserable barbarians: an English wo-
nan If he succeeds in ingratiating himself
With the court and aristocracy: an American
woman if he has plenty of money.
Year: 1871

Sydney Smith had brother distinguished
for his talent, but exceedingly sedate, hav-
iag no element of wit or humor in his com
position. Sidney said that he and his
brother contradicted the law of gravitation,
for his brother had risen by his gravity and
he had sunk by his levity.'
Year: 1871

They have ciphered the philosophy of free
trade down to fine point in New Orleans


An editor announces that commerce is the
systole and diastole of the industrial heart
of the world" And now, Greeley, what
have you to say to that y-LOuisriUe Ledger.
Year: 1871

young woman in Maine, who has suf
tered much from earache for two years
past, has just experienced decided relief by
the expulsion of beetle bug three quarters
of an inch in length from what down
East paper calls her auricular appendage.
Year: 1871

The market was unsettled in the morning
BY the untavorable tenor Of the New York
and Liverpool kilograms. together with re
markahly heavy receipts, and although the
movement was subsequently resumed with
a fair degree OF spirit. Vet prices continued
irregular throughout the day. several sales
being made al fully sc. in some cases i
under the inside figures for good ordinary
and low middling. Even-running middling
was reported as high as l4lac.
Year: 1871

From the Cincinnati Gazette, in H. I4l


81. Domingo has for half century been pleudered
and pawned in succession by the chiefs OF factions
as they gained the temporary control, just as the
chief who is now sustained in the constructive con-
troll OF the government by our navy Is trying to re-
alize on the remains by sale to our Presl
dent. The, statement is made in the lecis-
lative deliberations, without denial, that her
debt is ten millions, and that there other grants
for which public property Is pledged, which amount
10 three or four millions more. The fact Is showed
aside by the assumption that government
Will not be liable for It. without doubt The Presl-
dent, whose former occupation has not lei him to
much thought upon public law honestly snpposes


that the sum which he agrees to pay in the treaty Of
annexation is the limit TO the liabilities the national
government Will assume; but little reflection VIII
show the contrary.


BY annexation the United States Will take posses
sion OF all the customs revenue OF ST. Domingo and
VIII enforce there oir cxcises upOn tobacco spirits
beer, the stamp tax tax on sales income tax &c.
TO take possession of her sources OF revenue and
leave ner to pay the debt she had incurred upon
those revenues would be equivalent TO conGscation
TO take possession OF her revenues nom customs
and repudate the debt she had contracted upon
them would be not only TO cheat the creditor but TO
rob the inhabitants. OF course we shall not turn
thieves In that way, but shall assume her debt,
which, upon this certainty, VIII swell to its utmost
expansion.


Ssco,sdty-By the law of nations the Power which
acquires foreign territory becomes liable for It's
debt II this government acquires st. Domingo it
viii not attempt to repudiate what public law as
well as common honesty make Its obligations.


2hhuty-H we could gam st. Domingo and reject
ITS debt we would not desire to gain State dishon
ored by reputation or bankruptcy.


F0uruttV-lf we could acquire st. Domingo and
leave the debt resting only on the ilhabltants still it
would be debt IN most noriinate proportion 10
their means, and which would be n great oppression
on all their future Industry and on all adventurcrs
who go there.


But 1t Is plain that after reelection no public
man who has any character 90 lose Will ATTEMPT to
deny IT, that If this government annexes ST. Do
mingo 1t will be liable for Its debt, and will at once
add from Sl000O,000 TO s15,0O0000 TO our public
de0t, for that which did not so yield TO the
81. Domingo chiefs oue-half OF the face OF the
obligation.


This Is not an insuporable objection--it Il merely
consideration In calculating the value of the acqul-
sion and ltss an objection TO the usesor dishonest
methous and repudiating arguments TO promote
this purchase.
Year: 1871

Mr. Hunt accepted the appointment and was making pre-
serious Illness @ se,ea compelled .m to resign his appoint
cock, who employed in the Executive Office and who
enjoyed the full confidence of the the
%nso ming on the same mission, and sailed from New york
veS Han
directing inquiry INTO the issues Of and
try They be found in Senate Report No as
@ Of he 1 d
Gated to the Senate hereinafter referred which here
executed those instructions has been infinitely detailed by
him In his examination before the committee Of the Senate
which the report Of the Secretary OF State respectfully
made favorable verbal report fully confirming the info


nation IN the possession q the department. as TO
wealth OF the soil and the disposition of people
70 % S aHa he .


f,rafhe paper dated September 1859, to be found
IN witch terms Upon which the territory
the repnOlc could be annexed to the United States


which may be found the tenth page the printed
Of the Committee Foreign Relations, which was
condenaly communicated to the Senate by the chairman


rThe prospectus of that on, which is to be found
'"s sarIhe statement of the .Dominican deb,n to be
fcnnt on the fifteenth page OF that cory.


which is to be found the sixteenth page Of that copy


No other statement Of tho grants and CONCESSIONS made
cep, statement, shown on the twcntyrsi twenty
second pages Of said copy ana the sad Secretary Of se


Sits-A statement Of the national propertiesn to be
found on the seventeenth page Of said copy.


SeptiA statement of the population of the republic TO
be found the seventeenth page OF said copy


copy OF these papers thus conhdenauy communicated
herewith ransmted Ia conpIance with the resolution OF
the Senate. -


The results OF General Babcocks examination
deemed favorable to the maintenance OF the Ameri.
can policy lie was, therefore, directed to return
70 s. Domingo, IN 9rer aen, @ sS Mr RAYMOND
negotiate the annexation OF the whole territory OF the
republic the uoed States aud. alternative PROPOSE
ton lease the peninsula and Bay OF Samana TO the
United states treaty for the examination oi The terri
repuhlic and convention the
bay aud peninsula Of SANTANA were accordingly concluded
Of trans itted
rance wiib the resolution. bbc treaty did the
Year: 1871

The following paragraph appeared in
the editorial columns of the London
Daily News:


People who go to Switzerland should
be careful about bathing in the Lake of
Wallenstadt. We are informed that
90 number of persons" excursionists,
probably, who venture to swim in the
water in the course of the season, never
came out of it, either dead Or alive, and
the matter has at last been made the
subject of serious investigation. AS
tending toward solution of the mys-
terry, we are told that several fishes of
an enormous size have recently been
observed gamboling in the loch, but
"no one can at present give any accu-
rate description of these monsters of the
deep" 1t is to be hoped that the rela-
tives of the unfortunate individuals who
have disappeared in the Lake of Wal
lenstadt will insist on a careful and
deliberate inquiry into the habits of the
new kind of shark that has evidently
developed the most uncomfortable pro.
pensities of Switzerland. Our coasts
and rivers are at any rate free from
fishes addicted to drowning bathers but
from a scientific point of view it would
be interesting to learn more of the ter
rible creatures
Year: 1871

Visiting is made a most serious busi-
ness in China and every individual of
responsibility must have servant to
carry and present his cards. A Chinese
card is not white, glazed, little bit of
pasteboard, but a huge sheet of scarlet
paper, with the name inscribed in large
characters the more mammoth-like the
character, the more grand and respect
able it is. Cards are OF several kinds.
There is the plain card II single sheet
of scarlet paper, with the name written
or stamped nearest the right hand or
topmost sides. This is employed on
common occasions. Then there is the
official card, mostly used by mandarins
on visits of ceremony. This is also a
single sheet, and it contains the name,
preceded by the entire title, written
down the center from top to bottom.
Then. again, there is the full card,
which is only produced on very grand
occasions, such as New Year visits, visits
of congratulation or coincidence. The
full card is folded and must contain
ten folds. 1t does not give titles, but
simply contains the name of the in
dividual written in the right hand and
bottom corner of the first fold, pretixed
by the words, Your stupid younger
BROTHER" ana followed by the words,
g Bows his head and pays his respects" )"
Where the person visited belongs to a
younger generation, the visitor takes to
himself the name OF "uncle' instead Of
nephew" retaining, however, the de,
predatory appellative of stupid. p"
There are still further varieties of self
designation, according to the particular
gradations of relationship; but these
V we have quoted will suffice to give an
idea of the punctilious rules peculiar to
Chinese visiting We may add that the
card last described is, as a matter OF
etiquette, always understood to be re-
turned to the visitor it being presumed
expensive to leave such voluminous
proofs of regard with number OF
| frian1S
Year: 1871

But few housekeepers are aware of
the many uses to which waste paper
may be put. After stove has been
blackened, it can be kept looking very
well by rubbing it with paper every
morning. Rubbing it with paper is a
much nicer way of keeping the outside
of a tea-kettle, coffee.pot and tea pot
bright and clean, than the old way of
washing them in suds. Rubbing with
paper is also the best way of polishing
knives and tinware after securing. This
saves wetting the knife handles. If a
little -four be held on the paper in rub
bing tinware and spoons, they shine
like new silver. For polishing mirrors,
windows, lamp chimneys, &c, paper is
better than dry cloth. Preserves and
pickles keep much better if brown
paper, instead of cloth, is tied over the
jar. Canned fruit is not so apt to mould
If piece of writing paper, cut to fit
the can, is laid directly on the fruit.
Paper is much better to put under a
carpet than straw. II is warmer
thinner and makes less noise when one
walks over it. Two thicknesses of paper
placed between other coverings on a
bed are as warm as Il quilt. If it is
necessary to step upon chair, always
lay a paper on it and thus save the
paint or wood work from damage.
Year: 1871

The following paragraph is from the
description of u scene witnessed in the
north of Norway. from cliff one thou
sand feet above the sea


"The ocean stretched away in silent
vastness at our feet; the sound OF the
waves scarcely reached our airy lookout
away in the north, the huge old sun
swung low along the horizon. We stood
silent, looking at our watches. When
both hands came together at twelve,
midnight, the full round orb hung tri-
umphantly above the wave, bridge of
gold running due north spanned the
water between us and him. There he
shone in silent majesty that knew no
setting. Combine. if you can, the most
brilliant sunrise and sunset you ever
saw, and its beauties will pale before
the gorgeous colors which lit up the
ocean, heaven and mountain. In hall
an hour the sun had swung by percepti
bly,, the colors changed to those OF
morning, fresh breeze rippled over the
food, one songster after another piped
up in the grove behind us-we had slid
into another day."
Year: 1871

The London papers give accounts of
several accidents on railways o;casioned


by the fracture of the axles of salt cars


1t appears that between the sound por.
ton remaining and the outside of the
fractured axle the surfaces were quite
smooth, presenting the appearance of
having been severed by sharp instru


ment. This peculiar effect is thought
ton of the brine on the metal, the heat
at the boss favoring the evolution of
chlorine from the brine, and its then
combining with the iron to form Il soltl-
BILE chloride of iron From the position
of the defect it was not discovered by
any ordinary inspection; and, whatever
may be the scientific explanation of the
peculiar destructive action which thus
goes on in the axles of salt-ca the fact
must be regarded Ms very serious one,
especially in view of the statement
made that on one railway alone no less
than seven axles of salt-c cars were
broken while running in period of less
than three months, and this out of q
total number of about five hundred
wagons, showing an enormously large
proportion, as compared with the frac-
ture of axles of any other description
OF rolling stock. To diminish this
liability, the plan has been proposed
that, in addition to requiring such cars
to be provided with wellconstructed
axles of good quality, it also be insisted
that the date of their commencing to
run be stamped upon the axles, and
that reasonable number of years be
prescribed as the maximum of their
being used.-Iron Age.
Year: 1871

As well-dressed gentleman was GO
ing down Clinton avenue, Albany, Mon
day, an elegantly attired lady, appa,
rently about forty years of age, rushed
up to him and fell fainting in his arms.
She was taken to neighboring drug
store, and when she revived she said
that years ago her husband departed on
trading expedition to the East, and,
having never returned, she imagined
him dead, and the gentleman into
whose arms she had flung herself bore
such strong resemblance to the lost
one that she would fain believe it was
he. After listening to the lady's story
the gentleman entered into a long state
ment of his antecedents, which proved
to the satisfaction of the lady that he
was not her long-lost husband.
Year: 1871

Attention has been invited by several
industrial journals to the fact that little
substantial progress has been made
since lS45 in the art of building pas
senger cars that will guarantee safety to
life and limb against the ordinary risks
of travel by rail.


Take the following from the Iron A.qe:


"We build cars OF most beautiful
finish and ornamentation, commodious
in their interior dimensions, and luxur-
ious in every appointment. We have
sleeping coaches furnished with an ele-
gance that justfies the adjective 'pala-
tial, which is SO often applied to them;
drawing room cars in which every COM
fort is provided to tempt the traveller
to rest and enjoyment; and, on some of
oui roads, we even produce that latest
gaudy tribute to American snobbery,
the bridal car but with all this, our
cars are still the long, dangerous boxes
upon wheels which they were when
railroad building was in its infancy, and
they telescope as readily now as in
ls45, crushing together like egg-shells,
and ending in a brilliant bonfire over
the blackened remains of crushed and
mangled victims. The best cars now
in use are the most dangerous part of
the equipment of a railroad, and how
ever costly they may be in finish and
decoration, q collision or accident of any
kind serious enough to wreck a train,
smashes them into mass OF splinters,
and the passengers are more than ordi-
narily fortunate if they escape being
impaled in their seats, like bugs in an
chronological cabinet. But, should
this danger be passed, another equally
serious contronts them. The wood work,
saturated with oil and thickly coated
with paints and highly inhammable
varnish, bursts into instant flame at the
touch of a spark from lamp, stove or
engine, and the living and dead are too
often consumed on, or, more properly,
under the same funeral pyre."


Iron cars are strongly recommended
in place of wooden ones.
Year: 1871

THE English Government has built


lighthouse upon WolfRock, which is
situated about nine miles southwest of
Lands End. The surface of this rock is


very rugged consequently, to land upon


it is at all times a very difficult matter


As it is, moreover, in deep water (about


twenty fathoms on all sides), and exposed


to the full force of the Atlantic Ocean,


terrific sea falls upon it, as may readily be
supposed. From this cause the building


OF the new lighthouse has been no child's-


play The light was first exhibited on the


lst of Janury, 1870, and has since burned


regularly every night, from sunset to SUE
rise. But the structure has taken nearly


eight years to erect On the 18th of


March, 1862, the workmen first got upon


the rock, to cut out the foundation; but


owing to the insecurity of the foothold,
and the constant breaking of the surf over
the rock, stanchions were obliged to be
fixed in the rock where the workmen
were digging, and each man worked with
a safety rope lying near him, one end Of
which was attached to the nearest stanch-
ion. An experienced man was always
stationed on the summit as Grow" to
look out for the sea, and give warning
when wave was likely to sweep over the
rock when the men would hold on, head
to the sea, while it washed over them.
Then, when the wave had passed over, and
there was temporary lull, picks, ham
mers, and jumpers, some over twenty
pounds in weight, were frequently found
TO have been washed away. An addition
al danger to the men was in the necessary
blasting of the rock with gunpowder-
their only protection from the showers OF
shattered fragments of rock being q tenn
pOrary penthouse, formed each time they
landed. In building lighthouses, the pro


gress of the work must always depend
/ upon the humor of the weather. Very
often it is impossible TO land on the rock
at all and, when you do, you may often
find large portion of the last days work
washed away and this has to be done all
over again. In the eight working seasons
! occupied over the RofRock light house
there were two hundred and sixty-siz
landings; and of time spent in labor, elghi
hundred and nine and half hours-belng
only one hundred and one working
days, of ten hours each, for the erection o.
the tower. In this lighthouse, fog-bell


weighing five hundred weight, is fixed OF
the lantern gallery. 1t is struck by two
hammers worked by machinery. For the


purpose of giving the signal a distinctive


character for the station, the machinery Il
arranged for striking the bell three blow


in Quick succession, at intervals OF htteeI


seconds. The cost of building this light
house, considering the exceptional ollIl
! culties, may be reckOned moderate-DenG


about sixty.two thousand seven huudret


and tweniy-six pounds.-APptetoFS jour
1 nj
Year: 1871

MrsHenry Ward Beecher, in an article
in the Christian Union, on mistakes in our
houses, specifies the. "exclusion Of sun
light /" as one. She says:
lWeawish the importance of admitting
the light of the sun, freely, as we'll as
building these early and late fires, could
be properly impressed upon our house
keepers. No article of furniture should
ever be brought to our homes too good or
too delicate for the sun to see all day long


His presence should never. be excluded,
except when so bright as to be uncomfor-
table to the eyes. And walks should be
In bright sunlight, so that the eyes are
protected by veil or parasol, when incon-
7eniently intense a sun bath is of far
more importance In preserving healthful
condition of the body than is generally
understood. A sun bath costs nothing
and that is misfortune, for people are de
,Iuded with the idea that those things only
can be good or useful which cost money
But remember that pure water, fresh air
sunlight, and homes kept free from damp
ness. will secure you from many heavy
bills of the doctors, and give you health
and vigor, which no money can procure
1T is a well established fact that people
who live much in the sun are usually
stronger and more healthy than thos'
whose occupations deprive them OF sun
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