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Year: 1872

A Virsinia banker who was the


chairman of an infldel club, was


once travelling through Kentucky
having with him bank bills 10 the
amount of $26, 900, when he came
I to a lonely forest, where robberieS
and murders were said to be fire.
quent. He was soon lost, through


riding the wrong road. The dark


ness of the night came quickly over
him, and how to escape from the
threatening danger he knew not.
In his alarm he espied at distance
dim light and urging his horse on
ward he at length came to wretch.
Ell looking cabin. He knocked;
the door was opened by woman
who said her husband WAS out
hunting, but would soon return,
and she was sure he would cheer
fully give him shelter for the night.
The gentleman put up his horse and
entered the cabin, but with feelings
that can better be imagined than
described. Here he was, with
large sum OF money, perhaps in the
house OF u robber whose name was
terror to the country.


In Il short time the man of the
house returned. He had on deer
skin shirt, a bear-skin cap, and
seemed much fatigued and in no
talking mood. All this boded the
infdel no good. He felt for his pis-
tols in his pockets, and placed them
so az TO be ready for instant use.
The man asked the traveller to re-
tire to bed, but he determined to
sell his life as dearly as he could.
His fears grew into perfect agony.
What was to be done?


At length the backwoodsman
arose, and reaching to a wooden
shelf, took down an old book, and
said:


"Well, stranger, If you won't go
to bed, ! will, but it Is always my
custom to read a chapter in the
Holy Scriptures before go to bed"


What a change did these words
produce! Alarm was removed from
this skeptic's mind. Though avow-
Ing himself an infldel, he had more
confidence in the Bible. He felt
safe. He felt that a man who kept
3 Bible in the house, and bent his
knees in prayer, was no murderer
or robber. lie listened to the good
mau, and slept as calmly in that
cabin as he did under his fathers
roof. From that night he ceased to
reviIe that good old Bible. He be-
came sincere Christian, and often
related the story of his eventful
journey to prove the folly of infidel-
itV
Year: 1872

What Came of Answering an


Advertisement for q Wife.


The Rondout Freeman says that


a very respectable young lady OF


Saugerties, New York, has had her


reason completely restored lately,


as the following incident shows:
She discovered in some paper an
advertisement purporting to have
come from a highly respectable
(worthy and handsome, of cOurse)
Christian young man, desiring some
young lady to correspond with him,
probably with view directed to-
ward matrimony. Now, as she
was plain country lass, although
her folks were well.to-do people,
she was by no means one who
should "waste her sweetness on the
desert air. so she concluded to an.
swer. In due time a reply came,
and as time passed on the letters be.
came more and more affectionate.
At last affairs came to crisis, and
the young gallant was invited to
come and see her. He did come.
But, alas for her hopes and fancies
of delight! he came dead-drunk.
But the joke of it was he had to go
two or three miles out of the village
and every house he went to he in
quired il Miss - lived there.
Being very tight, he would gener-
ally state the object Of his visit to
her, and would read her last letter
and then pass on to the next house.
He made out to arrive at her house
at ten o'clock at night. The old
folks were absent, but two sisters
were there. The meeting can bet
ter be imagined than described;
suffice 1t to say that the correspond
enee has ceased.
Year: 1872

They have most extraordinary ideas
Of public justice in Constantinople. A
Minister of Police there was unable to
account for deficit in his cash account.
He said, as the handiest thing to say,
that ne had paid it to Grand Vizier
since deceased; but as he brought no
evidence Of such payment, and as he
could neither intimidate the judge nor
pack the jury, this ex-Minister has been
ANONYMOUSLY sent to the State prison
for five years, has been fined double the
amount stolen, and made incapable of
again holding office. Pretty prompt
action this is for in6dels. We should
send some of the carpet-bag officers to
Constantinolle lie for treatment.
Year: 1872

The Roman Catholic priests in the
eastern part OF Massachusetts have been
recently more than usually active in
forwarding the temperance cause. One
priest recently returned a gift of $50,
whom he discovered that the donor was
a liquor seller, and others threaten to go
into the courts as complainants unless
The trade is abandoned.
Year: 1872

Look Most 10 Your Spending.


No matter what comes in, if more
goes out, you will always be poor.
The art is not in making money,
but in keeping it; little expenses,
like mice in barn, when they are
many, make great waste. Hair by
hair, heads get bald straw by
straw, the thateh goes of the cot
tage; and drop by drop, the rain
comes in the chamber. A barrel is
soon empty, if the tap leaks but a
drop q minute. When you mean to
save, begin with your mouth many
thieves pass down the red lane.
The ale jug is great waste. In all
other things keep within compass.
Never stretch your legs further
than the blankets will reach, or you
will soon be cold. In clothes,
choose suitable and lasting stuff,
and not tawdry fneries. To be
warm is the main thing; never
mind the looks. A fool may make
money, but it needs wise man to
spend it. Remember, it is easier to
build two chimneys than 10 keep
one going. If you give all to back
and board, there is nothing left for
the savings bank. Fare hard and
work hard while you are young,
and you will have L chance to rest
when you are old.
Year: 1872

Once in a while an author in this
country becomes wealthy through his
pen; but the thing seems an accident
rather than the rule. OF the Biographies
produced by the late Sidney E. Morse,
several million copies were sold, netting
the author near 5000, 1000. Usually not
one book in fifty in the United States
ever pays the author to exceed couple
of hundred dollars,
Year: 1872

The law is sometimes very curl
Gus in its operations. At Washing
ton City a few days since a pick
pocket was detected in the very act
of picking a lady's pocket, and was
hustled off to Jail. But when brought
to Court it was found that the stat
utes of the District Of Columbia said
not word against any attempt to
steal, and the lucky thief was dis
missed scot free.
Year: 1872

A Connecticut clergyman recently an
nounced from the pulpit that he heard
q man say he had read the Bible tbro'
in sixty hours. Determined to ascertain


whether the individual told the truth,
he set about it himself, and read the
whole of 1t aloud to his wife in 6fty-nine
hours and something over thirty min
Year: 1872

Intoxicated rats are frequently
seen in the vicinity of breweries at
Cleveland, and an effort is being
made among the old settlers to Or
ganize society to prevent the
young rats from falling into dissolute
habits that will ultimately bring
them into a trap.
Year: 1872

In Utah canyon, during the extreme
cold weather of last January, some trav-
elers saw a dog standing by the side OF
a telegraph pole. The appearance of the
animal struck them, for as they rode up
towards it it did not move or give any
signs of life, but stood as motionless as
if carved out of stone. A closer inspec-
ton revealed the fact that the dog was
frozen to death. He had died leaning
against the telegraph pole, and stood as
naturally as II alive.
Year: 1872

A barrel Of buckwheat -four exploded
recently at Keokuk, Iowa. A man Of
science camly says that the buckwheat
was probably wet, and being confined
in the barrel, an alcoholic vapor was
generated, which ignited as The lid was
taken off and lighted candle brought
into contact. That is all very we'll, but
whom or what can We trust when the
staff of life goes back on US like gun
powder or nitro-glycerine, and barrel
of slap-jack timber turns out self-con-
stituted Internal machine?
Year: 1872

Good occasionally comes out of
evil. A young man employed in
the Xenia powder mills was in
Springfield to spend the Sunday,
got drunk, oversight himself, and
III. ssed the train Monday morning.
Had he kept sober and been at his
work on Monday morning, his
fragmentary remains might have
been gathered up in a market bask-
ct after the explosion. 1t is not safe
to take this as a precedent for getting
drunk on Sundays. All drunkards
do not work in powder mills,
though all deserve good "blowing
up of some kind.
Year: 1872

There has been for some time in course
of preparation at the Census Office series
of maps, exhibiting some of the results of
of the United States and Territories show
ing the distribution of the German pOpu-
latiOn. In localities where there are less
than a certain per cent.-say five per cent.
of the pOpulation-the map is left uncol-
ored. In those places where the percent
age of the German is little higher, the
fact is indicated by a slight reddish tint or
cOlOring, and the cOloring increases in
strength with the increased proportion of
the Germans. There is OH themargin key
to the meaning of the different tints and
the percentage each indicates, so that
one sees at a glance where in the
country the Germans have mainly gather
ed, and where they are very few. The dis
tinctions are so minutely and thoroughly
made that even small German settlements
in the Western States and Territories are
exhausted. Maps showing the distribu-
ton of the colOred population Of the coun-
try in similar manner have been pre-
pared, and others are in contemplation.
Such, for example, as will show geOgraph-
ically the distribution of the wheat and
other crops. These maps will be brought
to the attention of Congress and plan pre-
sented to secure their publication. One of
these maps shows at glance the results of
days of study of long census tables, and en-


ables many persons to comprehend facts
which they never would or could learn
from examination of the printed tables of
the report. Wash. Cor. ". Y; Times.
Year: 1872

he would vote for Summers amendment to the
amnesty bill.


Amnesty was resumed.


Carpenter doubted the expediency Of grant
ing general amnesty. At this time the effect OF
amnesty he said was simply to reinforce the
Democratic party, and thought that Sumner 5
amendment was fit TO go with the amnesty. If
the Democrats were not willing to take it
that they would get no amnesty. No vote WAS
reached.


Florida
Year: 1872

\ man out West read that dry cOpperas
put into a bed of ants would cause them
to leave, and put some in his Imother-ln-
laws bed to see if she wouldn't go. 1t
didn't affect the mother-in-laW in the
least. At last accounts she continued to
occupy the best bed in the house, and
"bossn the whole family. He thinks next
time he'll try if three or four pounds of
nitro-glycerine won't move the old
woman peg.
Year: 1872

A good many of the people of Cincln-
natl did not "feel to rejoice" much over
the victory of the Southern railroad bill IN
the Kentucky Senate, but it helps some, TO
think how mad they are about it i'll Louis
Yille.-C Commercial.
Year: 1872

The undersigned will continue the Commission and
Produce Business the old stand east side of Gay
street, (Branner's Block) and will pay the highest
market price IN CASH for all kinds of grain and coun-
try produce. Country merchants throug hout East
Tennessee will do well to bring in their produce
insure them the full market value fot all goods in
line. feb2-2t ALLISON MCCLUNG.
Year: 1872

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes, Drop
ra and in where there are Brick dust deposits or
the water is thick cloudy mixed with substances Ike


the white Of an egg threads like white silk or there
IS morbid, dark, bilious appearance and white Bone
dust deposits, and where there is pricking burning
sensat and pain in the small of the back and along
the lOns In all these conditions, Railways Sarpar-
Ian Resolvent. aided by the application of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back and
the bowels regulated with one or two of Radways
Regulating Pills per day will, make complete
cure In few days the patient will be enabled hold
and discharge water naturally without Uain and the
Urine will be restored TO its natural clear and amber
or sherry color.
Year: 1872

An alteration took place last evening between
John O'Connor and his wife Catharine, at their resi-
dence at the corner Of Thirtieth street and Third
avenue, during which he attempted to cut her
throat but failing In that he wounded her severely
behind the ear and on the arm. He was arrested
ny tue police OF the Twenty-frst precinct and
Jofked W " tle etAypQ hVpsss
Year: 1872

It is proverb in New York that "a $3.50
600 man is never hanged" and it is said that
Stokes is that sort of man. 1t is a great pity
he can't be induced to place his money within
reach of the Administration for about fifteen
minutes, for at the expiration Of that time he
would be as hangable as the veriest beggar in
the land
Year: 1872

The Illinois Liquor law is unpopular with
the foreign element ;" numerous petitions for
its modification have already poured in upon
the Legislature from all parts of the State.
seller responsible for all damages done by in
toxicated persons.
Year: 1872

PROGRESS OF THE REvOLUTION.-A new
light dawned upon the world with the intro
duction Of Plantation Bitters twelve years ago.
Drastic purgation went out-restoration and
renovation came in The eyes of the people
opened to the great fact that the way to cure
disease is to strengthen and support its Victims
not to place them at it's mercy by depriving
them of the little strength they have 1t soon
became evident that as a means of infusing
vitality into the feeble system, regulating the
secretions, curing indigestion, and reforming a
bilious habit of body no medical preparation
then known was at all comparable to the new
restorative. Since then hundreds of attempts
have been made TO rival the Bitters. They
have all failed, and the Grand RerOlution IN
medical treatment, which was commenced in
1860, is still in progress. Nothing can stop it,
for it is founded on the principle, now univer-
sally acknowledged, that physical vigor is the
most formidable antagonist OF all human
ailments, and experience has shown that PLAN
TATION BrrTERs is peerless invigorant, as
well as the best possible safeguard against epi-
demic diseases.
Year: 1872

At last we have the details of O.
method Of keeping our houses cool.
A correspondent Of the Nation says
that he intends to pass small air.
pipes several times through a large
box packed full Of moss. Water will
drip down through this. A current
Of air will be forced, by clock power,
through the pipes and up through
the moss. This last will insure a.
speedy evaporation of the water.
This will cool the pides. They will
cool the inclosed air. This will be
conducted to oil the rooms of the
house. It will be admitted near the
ceiling, and will be turned on or of,
like hot air from a furnace. The in
ventor expects to keep the tempera-
ture at from 60 to 70 degrese
through the warmest months. By
frightening or shortening the pen
dulum Of the machinery the supply
of cold air can be diminished Or in
creased at will.
Year: 1872

An Alabama Alligator very grace
fully masticated a valuable STAG
hound belonging to q gentleman in
Eutaw, the other day. As the owne,
had already lost one dog in the
same manner he determined to bring
to punishment the fell destroyer, and
baited six large hooks with hog liver,
But the amusing creature gulped
down the hog live, hooks and all,
broke the line and leisurely swan
away. The desperate dog owner is
now lying in wait on the river side,
armed with a harpoon big enough
to catch a whale, and proposes to go
for that alligator as Bill Nye went
for the heather Chinee-in q way
he'll despise.
Year: 1872

Real education is the formation
and training of the mind. To train
the mind requires hard, patient and
independent thinking and work the
mere crude teaching a youth a bun
die of facts, which he acquires with
no labor. and only retaining, neither
digests nor assimilates, is no train
ing at all they no way nourish his
mind, but, deposited there, are ut
terly as raw and undigested as he
swallowed them. He may be q full
man, but it is the fulness of bottle,
which will pour out what has been
previously poured in, whether vine-
gar Or claret /; he may be a conven-
lent depository Of other mems
thoughts-he may have sufficient
capacity for holding them but to
call such a man educated is mis-
use of terms, and to trust men to
his superintendent is a misuse of
humanity he plunges into the arena
of politics, the sea of literature, or
the fury of a revolution, unchecked
by any glimmering suspicion Of his
own folly, and hurls thrones to the
ground sees the people massacred,
and Europe in conaagration, with
out feeling compunction or remorse !;
he is as insensitive as bottle, or a
bag /; take away what it is filed
with, and what remains !-Cauley.
Year: 1872

Far away from here, in San
Francisco dungeon, is incarcerated
the woman that we then saw 90 out
into the sinful world. Oh where
then was her guardian angel? Why
did he not lirger around her path
way and shield her from the demon
OF evil ? Why did he desert her p
1t must have been because she ceas-
ed to pray, for prayer is the sole
safeguard of the soul. Then, while
faith and prayer are left, all is not
lost. Let this be the consolation of
Laura D. Fair in her dungeon home.
Year: 1872

/ that is not for me is against


Pa Divine utterance, and is


and those democrats who
pose Greeley are for Grant
q they admit it or not. It
q ~ more manly to openly es-
bis cause.
Year: 1872

A correspondent of the New York
'Sun had a conversation with Hon.
Jeremiah S. Black in regard to the
Greeley movement, and the disposi-
ton of the people to disregard party
lines in defeating Mr.. Grant. Mr..
Black said


II rejoice to see such a feeling
awakened in the breasts of the peo-
pie. The defeat of Grant and the
suppression of the evils his admin
istration has brought upon the coun-
try would indeed be glorious re-
suit. The election of Greeley will
effect great deal. I know nothing
of Greeley personally. The opinion
I have formed of his character from
other sources is most favorable but
one thing all admit-he is an honest
man. No person, I believe, has ever
charged him with corruption. Then,
again, the fact that he will be eleva-
ted to power by q coalition of good
men of oil parties would alone be q
sufficient guarantee of the purity
and straightforwardness of his ad-
ministration. A party composed of
such elements has but little cohesive
power, and the administration which
depends upon it for support must
tread cautiously in very narrow
path. I would have very little fears
of Greeley or any other sensible
man going very far astray, without
any question, under such circum-
stances.
Year: 1872

At meeting i'll Shreveport on the
18th inst, for the purpose of organ
izing q Greeley and Brown Club,
MIR. Burnside moved that Mr.. Boar
man address the meeting, giving his
opinion Of the convention to assem-
bic in New Orleans in August. The
motion was seconded and carried.


Mr.. Boarman arose and said he
was not prepared to give his views
on that convention at this time, but
be bad this much to say, that that
convention would meet under the
influence Of the great tide of public
sentiment which was now sweeping
over the land. He said that he ia
vored the coming convention. A
great many persons might think he
left sore over the fact that he was
stricken from the ticket as nomina-
ted by the Democratic convention
This was not the case. Personally,
he had no objection to the action of
the Democratic Executive Commit
tee, but he did think that it was act
ing in bad faith toward the citizens
of Caddo parish, because he was the
only candidate on the State ticket
from that parish. He said, i'll con-
clusion that he looked to the August
convention as our only hope Of free
ing the State from the odious bands
that are now crushing that life out
of her, and that he sincerely trusted
the August convention would ap-
point such men as the mass of the
people could unite upon.
Year: 1872

A suit of great Importance
to builders has been decided in
the New York Court of Com
mon Pleas. A brick mason
agreed to build a house at Sc
per thousand for laying the
brick. When he came to meas
uring the brick he measured
all the openings, windows,
doors, &C., as solid work, max
ing his bill $4,000 larger than
it would have been had he only
measured the solid wall. The
man for whom the work was
done refused to pay this 1890,
and the man brought suit to
force the payment, pleading
the custom of brickmasons in
his lavor. The court decided
that his charge was illegal and
that he had no legal right to
charge for laying brick that
were never laid. This decision
is important to builders ant
contractors, as other State
courts would be likely to follow
the decision and precedent o
the New York court.
Year: 1872

Ministerial remuneration in
the early days Of the greatWest
was on the worldly basis of all
other matters. AS an illustra-
ton, we give the case of Rev.
Jacob Patch, years ago of
Northern Indiana. No purer,
simpler-minded man than he.
Thoroughly educated in a liter
ary and theological college,
under New England influences,
he soon adapted himself to his
new work OF Christianizing
the West After a few years
residence in the land of prai-
rle and forest he began the
building of a house for himself
His new way ofpaylng for shin
giles might be new to Mr..
Beecher, but it was too true
with our pioneer clergy. The
good people near the Hog
Greek school house "a true
nancy having a shingle ma
chine, and using its products
for their legal currency, and
desiring the services OF Mr.
Patch contracted with him to
deliver them a certain number
OF sermons at the price OF a
bunch (1000) of shingles for a
sermon. The preaching and
shingles were respectively fur
nished to the mutual satisfac-
ton of the high contracting
parties. In completing the
house half a bunch extra was
required. In delivering his
farewell sermon. after relating
the good that had been done
and speaking of their pleasant
relations as pastor and people
he alluded to their contract
and gave an account which
showed the balance of one-halt
bunch in their favor unpaid for
"And now, my dear brothers
and SISTERS" | am not owing yor
for enough shingles to come tc
a sermon, but Providence per
mltting, l will come over to yol
at an early day and hold a pray
er meeting" And he did. Th'
currency for change was salts
fact Editors Draa0er u
Harpers MAGAZINE.
Year: 1872

THE OvERwoRKED CLERGYMAN.-Georce
W. Curtis writes "a follows of clergyman.
functions HE is, in fact, the town po1nd, to
which everybody may commit the truant fanccs
that nobody else will tolerate upon the pastures
and lawns of his attention. He is the town pump
at which everybody may fill himself with adj
vice. He is the townbell, to summon everybody
to every common enterprise He is the town
beast OF burden to carry everybody's pack
With all this; he must have a neat and pretty
house, and comely and attractive wife, who
must be always ready and well dressed in the par
lor, although she cannot afford to hire "help."
And the good mans children must be we'll be-
haved and properly clad, and his house be a
kind of hotel for the travelling brethren. of
course he must be a scholar and familiar with
current literature, and he may justly be expect,
ed TO fit half.a.dozen boys for college every year.
These are but illustrations ofthe functions he is
to fulfil and always without murmuring;and for
all he is to be glad to get pittance upon which
he can barely bring the ends OF the year together
and to know that, if he should suddenly die of
overwork, as he probably will, his wife and
children would be beggars."