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Year: 1873

An interesting meeting has taken
place in the lobby of the old Fulton
Street Church. An old Missionary,
a converted Roman Catholic Priest,
and a converted Christian, met TO-
gether. "This is a strange meeting"
said the Missionary. eve must
have a little season of prayer togeth-
Grand this Chinaman shall lead u.s."
So, up into the gallery they went
and fell on their knees, and this con
yerted Chinaman prayed for himself
and the two others. It was a strange
prayer in a strange place and by a
strange little company. "Jesus in
the midst" was graciously mani
tested. What power but the divine
could have gathered such Z company,
having only three in it, all having
been trained so differently, yet all
united to Christ and to one another
Year: 1873

THE ANTr-MoNOPoLY PARTY, if properly en-
ginecred, will sweep everything before it in
this state at the coming elections In this
county it is rapidly enlisting nnc.tcnths of the
farmers and large proportion of the business
men. As an instance, we have been shown a
list of the names Of the voters in the town of
Mission who have joined either farmers club
or grange, and it embraces full 95 per cent
of all the voters in the town. None but the
hide-bound republican precinct politicians Oh,
shy of the movement, for they see very clearly
that if it succeeds il must be the death of the
radical party which upholds and is itself solely
upheld by the monopolists.
Year: 1873

Be earnest, active, diligent and perse-
vering in striving to get TO heaven as
you are about your daily business. Heav-
en- Is sure TO those who thus seek it. No
man will be ashamed or regret at the
close of his life that he marched boldly
on through all the scorn and reproach
of the ungodly world. There are times
when faith has peculiar trials, but it is
good for US. 1t works patience pa
tience, experience, etc.
Year: 1873

way and know it, than it is 10 have somebody
in your way And so the old man, conscious
oI being in the way, 6dgety in his halfgenteel
rig. longing again for the congenial so iety of
his " ole woman" aching for the petty cares
of old occupation, envying every man whom
he saw rolling barrel-what should he do
but seek comfort where there were no sensi-
bilites that could be shocked, in one corner
of the nice warm saloon which bore the
name "The House of Lords" where he
could sit in shady corner on the sawdust-
ed floor SO much better than velvet carpet,
you could walk without timidity here-he
could sit in shady corner with an old crony
who would generally forgive his cheap, fine
clothes and play seven-up and drink whisky
with him until he felt his humiliation all
gone. and talked as though he were indeed
member of the House of Lords, owning
his son and all his property. but always con-
fding to his friend that his darter' 'n-law was
drefle fine woman-and troubled with the
what-you- may-call- EN-, the sensibilities =
didn't jest know what that might be-but
it was disease as made you have to be
keerful when she was around or she'd take
on, you know.


And when the old gentleman had come
home several times little too full of the
nectar of the gods, and acting as if he were
Jupiter himself, Mrs. Ardory confded to her
intimates, those who came right up stairs"
when they called, that her husbands father
hadn't any sensibilities at all-not single
sensiblity. He never seemed to care for
anybody but himself, ate like hog, poured
his coffee into the saucer and cooled it with
his breath, and-and-well, she wouldn't
say anything against her husbands flesh and
blood, and besides, she'd promised her hus-
band not to tell, you know. But if they
could only have seen-O my If they could
only have seen and heard him when he came
home last night at eleven oclock-wel she
wouldn't say anything of course. But they
could imagine what sacrifice she had made
in receiving him under her roof, and bow
one of her delicate sensbilities must suffer-
They could guess, at least. All!
Year: 1873

The horse distemper is now generally be-
lieved to be epidemic, and not contagious
Hence there is nothing gained by isoiatine
those that are well. The most useful pre-.
cautions are good treatment and careful
feeding.
Year: 1873

About six o'clock yesterday after
noon a row occurred at the corner OF
Fourth and Washington streets, in
which two negro women were clenched
in mortal combat. The yells and
screeches of one of the women strongly
indicated that she was under the infiu-
ence of benzine, and during the fray she
seized an infant, scarcely a year old, by
the legs, and commenced an indiscrim-
mate striking at any and everybody that
came in her way. Another colored wo-
man came to the rescue of the child, but
was badly beaten by the british crea-
ture, and every attempt to approach was
warded off by her swinging the infant
around in a most merciless manner. A
policeman arrived at the scene in few
moments, and arrested the first one he
came 10, which unfortunately proved to
be the one trying to get the child away
from the drunken woman. When the
policeman walked off the first woman,
the one with the child, began anew her
indiscrlminate fight, and by this time
the infant was seen to be nearly
dead. Another woman tried to re-
monstrate with the brute, and
begged her to release the child. Instead
of doing SO, she turned on her and swung
the infant high in the air, and made a
demonstration as if to strike her, when
her husband handed her one between
the eyes, telling her to the ground,


thereby succeeding in rescuing the
child. The most remarkable part Of the
story is, that the drunken woman, who
had so nearly caused the death of the
infant, and in so british q manner, was


not arrested. Would it not be proper
to arrest the brute for assault and bat


terry with a,child-truiy strange instru-


ment, but to judge from the appearance
OF this one, deadly weapon. We un-


oerstand that o Stewart county man
Year: 1873

NEW YORK, July l4.--President Ne
MShOn, in a conversation with a cOrre-
spOndent, says that the real govern
Inent Of the country is now vested in
the ministry, and ! am firmly convinced
that the only change which they will
Introduce into the republic will be to
carry out the programme which the late
government proved itself incapable of
doing. We are not impOlitic enough to
take any steps similar 70 those taken by
the empire, but everything that can be
done TO insure the pOpe's salty and the
necessary liberties Of all shall be
done. 1t is directly against the interests
OF Italy TO expel the pope from his do
minions, for were he obliged TO take
refuge in foreign country, the Catholics
Of all the world would unite in CRYING
shame against Italy, and public opinion
would be excited against the Italian gov
ernment to such an extent tset not only
would our interference become compul-
sorry, but it might also become a signal
for a European war from which Italy
has little to hope and everything to fear.
In accepting the presidency / did not
look into the future, but only to the
right and left Of me, where / saw men
of every shade Of political opinion ready
to tear each other to pieces, and crowd
of ignorant and naive electors 10 do as
much. Necessity of saving the army
is our only hope for the maintenance Of
our country in the rank to which il be-
longs. Out of this hideous scramble for
power and profit was the uppermost
thought in my mind when the offer of
the presidency was made To me; to re-
organize the army and make il the bull
vark of French liberty ought to be the
a Of every true Frenchman. There
is no good reason why the present
regime in its amended constitutional
form, with the military executive who
should reign over the country and rule
over the army, should not become es-
tablished in France. When the words
'empiren aud republic become syn
onimous with discipline, every citizen a
soldier aud every soldier the servant Of
the republic, there will be SIS little strife
and wrangling in the country IS to who
shall be minister as there is st present as
70 who shall be marshal,
Year: 1873

thousand two hundred dollars from q
regular professional gambler on board
the steamer Arliquippa, between Gin
cinnati and Pittsburgh


News Drift.


Engineer Moss, of the Belle Memphis,
exhibited to a select party Of gentlemen,
yesterday, his patent skinner or sur
fsce-blower that supplies the boilers Of
his boat with pure water all the time,
from which steam is made. The skim
mer is funnel-shaped, and is placed in
each boiler about = feet from the gauges,
and just below the water surface, and
is so arranged that the moment the
sediment from the water reaches the
surface it is carried by steam
pressure to the skinner, around
which an eddy is formed, and the sedi-
ment or mud drops into it and is carried
to waste pipe, thus keeping the boil
ers free from mud and preventing en-
tirely the fOaming so common when
boilers are not cleaned often enough.
It is wise contrivance, and the best
we have yet seen of its kind. We hear
daily of great changes having been made
this season in the channel Of
the Missouri. The following from
an up stream exchange is the
latest: "Another wonderful change has
occurred in the channel of the Missouri
river. Since 1867 the old channel
around by Sidney landing has been
closed to steamboat navigation, form
ing a beautiful lake fifteen miles long.
A few weeks ago the river cut out an
other bend northwest of the cut of 1867,
which throws the channel during the
present high water back into the old
bed, by way of Sidney landing, so that
now boats can run around that way, or
through the cutoff of 1867. Where the
water flowed down stream, north, before
the cutoff Of 1867, it now flows down
stream, south This is what might be
called river running up stream"
Year: 1873

SINCE Bismarck is about to withdraw
from public life that his overtaXed ener-
gies may have repOse, why don't the
Memphis Germans invite him TO rest
for time in the Hall on Poplar street
He is the greatest living statesman and
thinker, and diplomat, and America
would rise up as one man to do him
Year: 1873

THE Germans in Chattanooga, as
elsewhere, have wholly escaped the
clutches of indigenous cholera. They
ascribe the fact to the use of lager, in
stead Of whisky and brandy, and not a
few say they owe safety to onions.
There's a question for the sawbones.
DIR. Redfield was in Chattanooga when
cholera was at its WORST, and says he
saw more drunken men than he ever
before encountered in such a place.
These were the whisky-heads who be-
came the ready prey Of the DESTROYER.
Year: 1873

was convicted of assault and battery
with dog, and TIE sentence held valid
by the supreme court, which fact shows
that the owner should have held the
canine, and not urged the ferocious brute
upon the aggrieved party.
Year: 1873

A professor of Cornell University recently


published number of hints as to ''What to
do in cases of accident" One of these was
as follows If you choke, get down on all
fours and cough" One of our nelshborS-
Woodward--real this, and determined to
remember it. Day before yesterday he was
eating his dinner alone, and he choked upon
n piece of beef Instantly he got down upon
ali fours and began to cough. Just thch
Mrs. Woodward came in. and the lmpres-
sion made upon her by Wocdwards extra
orlinary attitude and his barking was tnat
he had suddenly been attacked with hydro
phobia. So she first seized the pitcher oi
water. and took it from the room Then she
sent one of the girls up stairs Tor the mat
,re,4 which was thrown over Woodward
Will, MIS-. Woodward aud the family sat on
and held him down. The madder he got
the more alarmed Wa Mrs. Woodward; and


tie more he swore and foamed at the mouth,
the more she insisted on the hired girl CIV
inv m extra turn of the clothes line around
his leo and tying him to the stove. When
tie doctor came, he pulled Wcodward's arm
from under the mattress and bled HIM, and
mt Ay.blsters on his feet and promised to
come round in the evening and shave his
head. in order to cup his scalp so as to relieve
his brain. When the doctor called that night


Woodward had prze-light with HIM IN th'
Year: 1873

parlor, and after sending the medical man
up to the bathroom to wash the blood from
his nose and cool his eye, Woodward went
out to hunt for the Cornell professor. There
will be pain and anguish in that institution
of learning when Woodward arrives. he
means warto the knife.-Mar Adeler.
Year: 1873

Of, tHcy nIdl cNeH looh hWitni", D"e eeaSJ Ne'.
never enter and abide there; the cheerful
face will put them to shame and flight.


It may be very plain face, but there is
something in it we feel, yet cannot express ;
and its CHEEKY smile sends the blood dancing
through our veins for very joy; we turn to-
ward the sun, and its warm genial influence
refreshes and strengthens our fainting spir-
its. All, there is world of magic in the
plain. cheerful face 1t charms us with a
spell Of eternity, and We would not exchange
it for all the soullcss beauty that ever graced
the fairest form on earth.


1t may be very little face ; one that we
nestle on our bosoms or sing to sleep in our
arms with low, sweet song; but it is such
bright, CHEEKY face :. The sciutilations Of
joyous spirit are flashing from every feature:
And what power it has over the household
binding each heart together i'll tenderness,
love and sympathy Shadows may darken
around us, but somehow this little face ever
shines between, and the shining is SO bright
that the shadows cannot remain, and silently
they creep away into the dark corners where
the cheerful face is gone.


1t may be very wrinkled face, but it Is
all the dcarer for that and none the less
bright. We linger nearer it and gaze ten
dcrly upon it and say, GOD bless the happy
face w We must keep it with us as long as
we can, for home will lose mucn Of its bright
ness when this sweet face is gone.


And after it is gone how the remembrance
of it purifcs and softens our wayward nature
When care and sorrow would sIap our heart
strings asundcr, this wrinkled face looks down
upon us, and the painful tension grows light
er, the way less drcary, and the sorrow less
heavy.


God bless the cheerful face? Bless it. He
has blessed it already the stamp Of heaven
is on every feature. What dreary world
this would be without this heaven-born light
and who hes it not should pray for it as MS
daily read.-Phrcnologicd Jo""oI
Year: 1873

The conscientious Pittsbug man promised
his wife, the other day, that he wouldn't
drink another drop so long as he had a hair
on his head. That very night he had his
head shaved smooth. and got tight with the
proud consciousness of having faithfully kept
his promise
Year: 1873

TRY.-Can't do it sticks in The mud


but Try soon drags tho wagon Ou! Of The
rut. The fox said Try, and he got away
from the hounds when they almost snap


ped at him. The bees say Try, and
turned flowers into honey The squirrel
said Try, and up be went to The top Of a
beech tree. The snoWsdrOps said Try,
and bloomod in tho cold SHOWS Of winter.
The sun said Try, and tRS spring soon
throw Jack Frost out Of the saddle, The
young lark said Try, and he found that
bis new wings took him over hedges aud
bitches, aud up where bis father was sing.
ing, The OK said Try, and plougHod the
field from end to end, No hill too steep
for Try to climb, no clay too stiff for Try
to plough, no field too wet for Try to
drain, no hole too big for Try TO mend
Year: 1873

the mills and the broad river acres,
with your father to keep you COM
pany and aid you, or would you
prefer to return to the great city ?''


They understood their fathers
sacrifice in their behalf very well ;
and when they had looked upon
the husbands whom they loved,
embraced and kissed their dear
devoted father, they authorized
Lydia to speak for them; and she
said:


"We will accept the mills, and
the broad river acres, with the
companionship of our dear father:
and we will be happier than we
have ever been, seeking to make
the most of the healthful and ex-
panding into which she has led us.
Year: 1873

In Fayette county, near the line
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road, there is famous rattlesnake
den, which has always been a source
Of terror and fear to those who have
looked over its precincts, as well
as to those who have even heard OF
the fearful revelations regarding
the size and the number of the
venomous reptiles which infest this
poison-stricken cavern. In number
their name is legion, and in age,
size and downright Radicalism,
there are no figures or names. to
represent them. A short time since
two daring young men resolved to
make an experiment, by way of
forming some insight as regarded
their numbers, and clothing them
selves from head to foot in suits of
thick buckskin (such as our friend
DonnalIy uses to make his best
glovcs:) with large, sharp knives in
hand, they sailed forth into the
poison-infested region. They en-
tered, cutting and slashing, the
snakes rattling, Kissing and striking
at their adversarics, and when these
entcrprising youths landed on tie
other side Their clothes were sight
to see. AS snake would strike,
his fangs would be deeply and firm
ly implanted in the buckskin, and
off would 60 his head by a we'll
directed blow by the hand and
knife. By making fair count, it
was found that two hundred and
forty snake heads were attached to
| the clothes Of one Of the party, and
one hundred and sixty heads firmly
fastened to the other. More would
have been secured, but it was not a
good day for snakes. But any one


who does not believe the foregoing
true story, will be convinced of its
entire correctness by inquirlng al


this office for the name Of our in


formant.
Year: 1873

She comes down to the depot in
an express wagon three hours be-
fore train time. She insists on sit
ting on her trunk, out on the plat
form, to keep it from being stolen.
She picks up her reticule, fan, para
sol, lunch basket, small pot with a
house plant in it, shawl, paper Of
candy, bouquet (she never travels
without one,) small tumbler and
extra veil, and chases Historically
after every switch engine that goes
by, under the impression that it is
her train. Her voice trembles as
she presents herself at the restau-
rant and tries to buy a ticket, and
she knocks with the handle Of her
parasol at the door of the old dis
used tool house, in vain hopes that
the baggage man will come out
and check her trunk. She asks
everybody in the depot and on the
platform when her train will start,
and where it will stand, and look
ing straight at the great clock, asks:
"What time is it," She sees, with
terror, the baggage man shy her
trunk into a car where two meE
are smoking, instead of locking it
up by itself in n large, strong,
brown car, with "Bad order, shops
cbalked on the side, which she has
long ago determined to be the bag
gage car, as the only safe one in
Sight. Although the first at the
depot, she is the last to get her
ticket, and once on the cars, she
sits to the end of her journey, in


an agony Of apprehension that she


has got on the wrong train and
will be landed at some strange STA


ton, put in a. close carriage, drug


ged and murdered, and to every


last male passenger who walks


down the aisle she stands up and
presents her ticket, Which she i'll


variabIy carries in her hand. She


finally recognizes her waiting


friends on the platform, leaves the


car in burst of gratitude, and the


train is ten miles away before she


remembers that her reticule, fan,


parasol, lunch basket, vcrbena,


shawl, candy, tumbler, veil and


bouquet, are on the car seat where


she left them, or in the depot at


Peoria, for the life of her she can't
tell which, Rcrit2c.
Year: 1873

r. II.


We are favored this morning with
csId from the Postmaster OF this city
who assures our readers, upon author
ily, that we will shortly have the
best postal facilities over the Baltimore
Il Ohio Railroad that our people
have ever enjoyed. We arc sure those
ofour readers interested will rejoice with
US in the prospect. Yet We take the lib
erty OF thinking the laborious exertions ol
the Department in this direction, referred
to by him, have not thus far been crowned
with remarkable success. Not very long
ago the way mail left the city over that
road at an early hour in the morning.
Nobody, either inthe city or country, COM
planned Of that arrangement That was
well enough, and all would have been sat.
is6ed Il well enough had been let alone.
But that was improved by holding the
mail four or five hours and sending It out
near the middle ol the day. And since
the Department has begun specially 70
exert" lis energies for our benefit this
arrangement has been 80 much further
improved that the mails are held over
till evening and sent out Tor distribution
on the first hundred miles Of the road at
night. It requires some patience" we
must confess, to reconcile such results as
these with the efforts Of the Department
to give our people the best mail facilities
they have ever had. 81
We are not convinced by the Postmas.
ter's sarcasm that the structures INDUCED
by the local press have been either imper'
tlnent or without value. II the promised
facilities are restored, it will be largely
due, we think, Y the vigorous denuncis-
ton OF present arrangements by the local
papers. The Railroad officials, we are
aware, feel that Ney cannot afford to be
responsible for a continuance Of them, and
they are thinking Of an early train from
this city to Grafton, on which the mail
can be carried IL the p. o. authorities
will permit. We suppose they would
have run an early train all the time II the
P. o. Department had required it.
The Postmaster's suggestion TO the pa
pers about how they should regulate their



criticisms Of the P. o. Department does
not strike us as In the happiest taste, or as
likely to have modifying influence on
such sElctures in future. Olcourse the
papers are liable to be mistaken about
details; but they have not been mistaken
about the main facts, which are anything
but croditable TO those responsible for
them.
Year: 1873

The application for an injunction to
restrain the County Commissioners from
subscribing the $4,000 to the p, W, u
Ky. Railroad, without being first author
lied by popular vote, is based chiefly, we
learn, on the statutes bearing on the case,
though the petitioners claim that the
provision oil the constitution referred 70
In this connection yesterday is in their
favor. We arc still unable to see any
thing in the constitutional provision
bearing on the case; but the statutes,
upon examination, appear to afford good
ground for the injunction. Tho charter
Of the railway company authorizes Ohio
county to subscribe to the capital stock
Of the company, provided the assent OF
the people OF the county has been OBJ
tanned in the manner prescribed in
the 9th section, chapter 70 OF the
Acts Of 1868. Referring TO that
section We find 1t provided that county
may subscribe to the capital stock of
railway company only alter the proposed
subscription has been approved by a
three.6lths vote of the people, atan cleo.
tion held after thirty days notice. The
general provision Of the COdeis the same
This appears to be conclusive against the
action Of tue commissioners, unless there
is something Of contrary tenor in the
amendment TO tue COmpany's charter
passed in 1871. At the hour Of writing
this we cannot lay hands On that amend.
story act, though we are satisfied there
is nothing in 1t 10 aDnul the stat
uIory provisions referred to. It might
still be competent for the Commission
eES 10 make an absolute gift of the money
10 the Company. That would not be a
subscription, In technical sense at least
and the Commissioners might find war


rant for making the gift in their unlimit'


I'd discretion In the expenditure of the
revenues. But we suppose they would


prefer TO order an election and submit the
question to the people, and presuming
that III view ofthe statutes referred to, the
Injunction must be granted, we suppose
the ordering Of an election will be the
next step 1t involves months delay
butlhOt, while it may be inconvenient 10
the Company, can hardly be serious
obstacle to the progress Of the work.