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Year: 1871

court that be has never secretly or indirectly
counseled, advised, or voluntarily aided any
such combination or conspiracy; and each
and every person who has taken this oath
and shall thereon swear falsely, shall be
guilty of perjury, and shall be subject to the
pains and pen lties declared against that
crime in the first section of an act entitled
ian act defining additional causes of chal
lenge and prescribing an additional oath for
grand and petit jurors in the United States
courts, approved June Il, 1862, and the
same is hereby repealed.


Sec. 6. That any person or persons hav-
ing knowledge that any wrongs conspired to
be done, and mentioned in the second section
of this act, are about to be committed, and
having power to prevent, or aid in prevent
ing the same, shall neglect or refuse so to
do, and such wrongful act shall be commit
ted, such person or persons shall be liable to
the person injur d, or his legal representa-
tives, for all damages caused by any such
wrongful act, which such frst-named per
son or persons, by reasonable diligence
could have prevented, and such damages
may be recovered in an action in the case
in the proper Circuit Court of the United
States; and any number of persons guilty
of such wrongful neglect or refusal may be
Joined defendants in such action Pro
vided, that such action shall be commenced
within one year after such cause of action
shall have occurred. And if the death of
any person shall be caused by any such
wrongful act and neglect, the representative
Of such deceased person shall have such ac-
ton thereto, and may recover, not exceeding
s. 900 damages therein, for the benefit of
the widow of such deceased person, if any
there be; or if there be no widow, for the
benefit of the next of kin to such deceased
person.


Sec. 7. Nothing herein contained shall be
construed to supercede or repeal any former
act or law, except so far as the same may be
repugnant thereto; and any Offenses hereto~
fore committed against the tenor of any for
mer act, shall be prosecuted; and any pro
eeedings already commenced for prosecution
thereof, shall be continued and completed
the same as if this act had not been passed,
except so far as the provisions of this act
may go to sustain and validate such pro-
ceedings.
Year: 1871

Fsyette county officials have captured
young horse thief named Joe Williamson,
who halls from McNairy Joe has a good
chance now to secure a bunk in the big
boarding house at Nashville, and will be
taught how to break rock or something of
the kind.
Year: 1871

In Albany, the other night, a woman
met her once husband at q wedding party.
They had been divorced for ten years,
and had not met before in all that time.
A short chat at supper and little flirta-
tion afterwards settled matters, and they
were remarked the next day.
Year: 1871

when the through freight and travel will


take this route. A disastrous quarrel be-


tween Wheeling and the company may


induce that company to some additional


expense 10 get a road two or three miles


nearer between BGllaire and Hardscrab.


BILE, It the distance can be shortened and


the expense bc not too great. But with


the amount of business at Wheeling, and


with the growing Importance OF the


place, and u lair and COnsideTate action
on our part, it is right and natural 10 pre-.
sumo that the company would not rcCk.
lesSly and al the sacrifice Of pGcuniary
and business interests do us an injury
unless the provOcAtiOn Of serious quar-
rel should substitute the passions Of the
President and Directors as individuals,
for the legitimate interests Of the Corpo.
ration.


According 10 my recollection the early
controversy between the company and the
city, which went To the Court of Appeals
turned rather upon the Interpretation Of
the contract between them than unOn the
application Of any other legal principles
II was decided by divided Court, three
to two, and the local position Of MAORI.
ty OF the Court with reference to Contem.
plated railroads, and the novelty Of these
roads at this time, may well be supposed
to have biased (unconsCiOUslyl the minds
OF these Judges to give an Interpretation
to the law more favorable to the company
than was warranted by the course Of de.
cision in England, where their power had
been developed and the courts felt the ne.
ccssity Of restraining them by strict con
Power, in all human hands,
should be strictly limited and the limita'
tons strictly construed. T.
Year: 1871

LONDON August n


Parliament was proroguGl to-day. The
Commons were summoned 10 the Cham.
Der Of the House Of Lords, where they
listened to the Queens speech. But six
peers were in attendance and only a tow
ladies were present. The speech was
read by the Lord Chancellor as member
of the Royal Commission. The following
is q verbatim copy Of tho speech
Year: 1871

GUS COTTON Is not soluble iu alcohol, but with
the addition Of little camphOr 1t dissOIvss in
simultaneously. A beautiful artificial ivory Is
prepared BY pOWdsriug gun cotton with cauphOr,
and placing it under hydraulic pressure. covering
it afterwards with a mixture Of gun cotton and
castor oil. By this process, billiard baIs have
been produced. which have been declared By con-
nOisssurs to be superior 70 those Of real ivory.
Year: 1871

The stories so persistently circulated
that Senator Sherman has become very
wealthy. are untrue. The Senator is a
frugal and thrifty man. He has no
children, and was a lawyer in good
practice, and in possession Of some
small but iudicious investments when he
entered public life. He has lived within
his means. and has given intelligent at
iention to his private affairs during his
long service in Congress. He has new
er had any connection with Jaw Cooke,
and there is not a particle of testimony
that he has ever taken advantage of his
official position to enter into corrupt
understanding or questionable spec
ulations with anybody. The asser-
ton that we find, two or three times
week. in Democratic newspapers. that
he is millionaire, is absurd. He made
several years ago. fortunate purchase
of real estate, and it is possible he has
a few thousand dollars in bonds and
stocks. The sum of of the value of his
property, we have reason to believe, IS
less than one hundred thousand dollars.
Whatever exceptions may be taken to
his public career, the nonsense about his
g,eat wealth should be dispensed with. -
Cincinnati Commercial
Year: 1871

! don't know of any business more
hdtter-some than the tavern business
There don't seem to be anything to do
but 10 stand in front of the register with
d pen behind the ear and see that the
guests enter the house. then yank bell
rope six or seven times, then tell John
TO show the gentleman to o76, and then
take four dollars ana fifty cents next
morning from the poor devil of trav-
eier. and lei him went i


This seems to be the whole thing
land it is the whole thing in most cases.


Y0u-wIlI discover the following descrip-
ton a mild one Of about nine hotels out
of ten between the. Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, across The United States in a
straight line.


Your room is I3 foot s inches, by Q
foot 7 inches, parallelogramly.


Ii being court week tas usual) all the
good rooms are employed by the lawyers
md judges.


Your room is on the uttermost floor.


The carpet is ingram ingrained witA
he dust. kerosene oil and ink spots Of
four generations.


There is two pegs in the room to
hitch coats onto; one of them broke
if. and the other pulled out and miss
ng.


The bureau has three legs and one
brick


The glass on the bureau swings on
wo pivots. which have lost their grip.


There is one towel on the rack, thin
Dut wet. The rain water in the pitcher
anne out of the well.


The soap is as tough to wear as a
whetstone. The soap is scented with
innamon oil and variegated with spots.


There is three chairs. cana settlers /;
me is a rocker, and all three is busted.


There IS a match safe-empty.


There IS no curtain to the window
and there don't want TO be any; you
can't see out, and who can see in


The bell-rope is come off about six
nches this side of the ceiling


The bed is a modern slat-bottOul, with
wo mattresses. one cotton and one
musk, and both harder and about as
hick as a sea biscuit.


You enter the beds sideways, and can
feel every slat at once as easy as you
could the ribs Of a gridirOn,


The bed is inhabited.


You sleep some, but roll over a good
deal,


For breakfast you have a gong. and
Rio coffee too cold TO melt butter !;
fried potatoes, which resemble chips that
a two-inch auger makes IN its journey
through an oak log.


Bread. solid beafstealS, about as thick
as blister plaster, and as tough as a
hounds ear.


Table covered with plates, a few
5craPed to death pickles on one of them.
and siy AV-j0 dOrsed ~rarlrer- m the
other


A pewterinkum castor with three bot
ties in it. one without any pepper in it.
one without any mustard, and one with
two inches Of drowned flies and some
vinegarin it.


Servant girl with hoops on. hangs
around you earnestly, and wants. to
know if you want another cup Of cof-
fee.


You say. No. ma am, thank you, .
and push back your chair.


You haven't eat enough to pay for
picking your teeth.
Year: 1871

FPaTis Correspondence New York Times.l


The accounts given me Of the effects
-of the bombardment are very curious.
A lady who resides in the center OF
Paris, not far from the Tuilleries, tells
me that for sixty hours, night and day,
the whole air was full of thunder, and
clouds of smoke and the lightning Of
cannon was al around the horizon
Every window was rafting, every vase
cup, glass, dancing on the tables. The
roar was perpetual. They could reckon
the distance Of the artillery by timing
flash and report shells came screaming
through the air. bursting near with dull
explosions, and the whole din and tre-
NOR SO affected the nervous system that
when It ceased at last her whole body
felt like a limb +" asleep. She could
scarcely feel herself TO exist, seemed 30
walk on air, and was in doubt whether
she was any longer in her body.
Year: 1871

There was q young man once III
the office Of Western railroad su-
perintendent. He was occupying
position that four hundred boys in
that city would have wished to get.
1t was honorable, and sit paid well,
besides being in a line Of promo
ton. How did he get it? Not by
having a rich father, for he was the
son Of a laborer. The secret was
his beautiful accuracy. He began
as an errand boy, and did his work
accurately. His leisure time he used
in perfecting his writing and arlth-
metic. After q while he learned
telegraphy. At each step his en-
ployer commended his accuracy, and
relied on what he did, because he
was just right. And it is thus with
every occupation. The accurate
boy is the favored one. Those who
employ men do not wish to be on
the lookout, as though they were
rogues OF fools. Ifs carpenter must
stand at his journeyman's elbow to
be sure that his work is right, or if
a cashier must run over his book
keepers column, he might as we'll
do the work himself as employ an
other to do it in that way; and it is
very certain that the employer will
get rid Of such an inaccurate work
man as soon as he can.-Pressdent
Tuttlc.
Year: 1871

In view of the great spread of the
smallpox at the present day in
America and Europe, and the i'm
portauce of successful vaccination,
the suggestion of an English physi-
clan, Mr.. Ellis, may be of some i'm
portance. This gentleman remarks
that ordinary vaccination is per-
formed by scraping off the epider-
mis- and thrusting the vaccine virus
into puncture made by the lancet.
A greatly improved method, how
ever, consists in first raising a small
blister by drop of cantharides ap-
piled to the skin. This is to be
prickcd and the drop of fluid let out
and then a fine vaccine point put in
to this place, and withdrawn after a
moment of delay; the epidermis falls
back and quite excludes the air,shut-
ting out any germs that may be
floating in the atmosphere. This
method has been practiced by Mr..
Ellis for twenty years; and out of
hundreds of cases of vaccination
which he has performed he has new
er had an instance of blood poison
ing or abscess. The comparative
safety of this method is believed to
be due, first, to the exclusion of the
air; and second, to the lesser size OF
the aperture for the introduction OF
mischief than when the punctures
are made by the lancet.
Year: 1871

An interesting paper read before
the Academic de Medicine brought
out some interesting facts about the
effect of alcoholism on the sight.
This is a form Of amblyopia, and
was frequently brought on during
the seige of Paris, by drinking ar
dent spirits on an empty stomach.
The symptoms are sudden enfeeb-
ling of the sight, which continues
for weeks, rendering the patient Tor
victim) so near sighted as to be
unable to recognize friends a few
steps from him. Every object seems
to be enveloped in thin, white
haze, which clears away as daylight
fades, but returns with the morning.
In this state colors become perver-
ted to the eve, violet seeming to be
red, yellow also the same color. The
vision becomes so false that objects
are doubled and sometimes tripled
before the eye, and again all seems
mingled together. The writer gives
fully the scientific causes of this
phenomenon, which is the result OF
a disease that 'dilates the muscular
fibres of the arteries, and causes
spasmodic contraction of the circu-
fibres of those same vessels so that
the arteries are thus not supplied
with the necessary amount OF
blood.
Year: 1871

Understand clearly the reasons,
and all the reasons, why the habit
is injurious. Study the subject till
there is no lingering doubt in your
mind. Avoid the places, the per-
sons, and the thoughts that lead to
the temptation. Frequent the places,
indulge the thoughts, that lead away
from temptation. Keep busy; idle
ness is the strength Of bad habits
Do not give up the struggle wnen
YOU have broken your resolution
once, twice, ten times. or athousand
times That only shows how much
need there is for you to strive.
When You have broken your resolu-
ton Just thiak the matter over, and
endcavor to understand why it was
that you failed, so that you may be
upon your guard against a recur-
renee of the same circum stances.
Do not think it a little or an easy
thing that you have undertaken. 1t
is folly to expect to break off bad
habits in . day, which have been
gathering strength in you for years.
Year: 1871

A case of hydrophobia, a parallel
of which has never been recorded
in the medical books, has occurred
in West Philadelphia. The facts,as
related by physician, are these:


A little girl on returning home
from school in the afternoon, was
greeted by her pet dog, which began
jumping and barking about her in
an unusual way. To drive him
away she took the skirt of her dress
and shook it at him. This seemed
to irritate the animal, which sprang
forward, snapped at it and tore a
large rent in it. Worried at the in
jury to the garment, the little girl,
without mentioning the matter to
any of the family, went to her room,
and getting a needle and thread, pro-
ceeded to sew up the torn place.
When it was finished she bent down
her head, and taking the end of the
thread between her teeth, bit it off.
Nine days after the occurrence of
this incident, symptoms of hydro
phobia manifested themselves in the
unfortunate little girl. Skilled med
ical talent was called in, and every
appliance that science could afford
to relieve the sufferer was resorted
to. But the subtle poison had done
its work too thoroughly for human
skill to avail, and the little girl has
since died. Eminent authorities on
the subject have contended that hy-
drophobia cannot be communicated
through an unbroken cuticle.
Whether the little girl swallowed q
portion of the saliva, or whether it
was communicated through her lip,
the skin of which may have been
"chapped," or broken. In either
case the occurrence was rs remark
able as it was unfortunate.
Year: 1871

The Lancet calls attention to the
enormous manufacture of the new
sedative drug chloral. 1t states that
it is sold by tons week, and quotes
a letter from Baron Liebig, affirming
that one German chemist manufac-
lures and sells half a ton every
week. or course, no such quanti-
ty is used in medicine, and the Lam
Get seems half afraid that it gets in
to beer; but there is q simpler cX-
PLANTATION, as it will find on inquiry.
Taking chloral is new and popu
lar vice, particularly among women,
and is doing at least as much harm
as alcohol. The drug is kept in a
thousand dressing cases, and those
who begin its use often grow so adj
dicted to it that they pass their lives
in q sort of contcnted stupcfaction.
Chloral drunkenness will soon be an
admitted variety Of the species.-
London Spectator.
Year: 1871

E. N. Snively, of the Macoupin
(nl. Enquirer, has this story con-
cerning Ed. Hudson and the Chica-
go fire:


A day or two before leaving Pc
oria, we heard a good one on Mr..
Ed. Hudson, Superintendent of the
Peoria Railroad, and a gentleman
well known to railroad men. Upon
hearing of the burning of Chicago,
his firstact was to telegraph to all
agents to transport free all provis-
ions to Chicago, and to receive such
articles to the exclusion of freight.
He then purchased a number of
hams and sent them home, with a
request to his wife to cook them as
soon as possible, so they might be
sent to Chicago. He then ordered
the baker to put up fifty loaves of
bread. He was kept busy during
the day until five o'clock. just as he
was starting for home the baker in
formed him the hundred loaves of
bread were ready.


"But l only ordered fifty" said
Ed.


"Mrs. Hudson also ordered fifty"
said the baker.


"All right" said Ed,, and he in
wardly blessed his wife for the gen.
erous deed.


Arriving at home he found his
little boy, dressed in fine cloth
suit, carrying in wood. He told him
that would not do, he must change
his clothes.


"But mother sent all my clothes
to Chicago" replied the boy.


Entering the house he found his
vile clad in fine silk dress, super
intending the cooking. A remark
in regard to the matter elected the
information that she had sent her
other dresses to Chicago.


The matter was becoming serious
He sat down to supper without but
ter, because all that could be pur-
chased had been sent to Chicago.
There were no pickles-the, poor
souls in Chicago would relish them
so much.


A little put out but not bit an
cry or disguised, Ed. went to the
wardrobe to get his overcoat, but it
was not there. An interrogatory
revealed the fact that it fitted in the
box real well, and he needed a new
overcoat anyway, although he had
paid $50 for the one in question only
a few days before. An examination
revealed the fact all the rest of his
clothes fitted the box nicely, for not
a 'dud' did he possess except those
he had on.


While he admitted the generosity
of his wife, he thought the matter
was getting entirely too personal,and
turned to her with the characteristic
inquiry:


"Do you think we can stand an
encore on that Chicago fire?"
Year: 1871

There is a vast difference in the
flavor of eggs, Hens, fed on clean
sound grain, and kept on a clean
grass run, give much finer favored
eggs than hens do that have access
to stables and manure heaps, and eat
all kinds of filthy food. Hens feed
ing on fish and onions, flavor their
eggs accordingly-the same as cows
eating onions, or cabbage, or drink
ing offensive water, impart q bad
taste to milk and butter. The rich
er the food the higher the color OF
the eggs. Wheat and corn give the
best color, while feeding them on
buckwheat cakes make the eggs col
orless, rendering them unfit for some
confectionery purposes.
Year: 1871

Peel and cut as for cooking; then
slice them very thin, spread on tin
or other driers and expose to n mod
crate heat in the stove oven. Thus
dried the pumpkin will retain its nat
ural flavor. To prepare it for cook
ING soak in water for few hours.
Year: 1871

There was perhaps thirty feet in
tervening between the COW catcher
when, fortunately for the woman,
she observed a place which was a
little wider than usual, and with a
a steady rein, she guided the fleeing
horse from the track and endeavor-
ed to press him against the wall of
the cut in order that the train might
pass by without injury. In doing
this the woman was encouraged by
Mr.. Sam Winans, the conductor,
who had run forward and got out
on the locomotive. A few seconds
only passed by when the fiery mon
ster pocked its nose passed the rump
of the horse. At this moment Mr..
W. threw his whole force against
the animal and held him until the
train stopped, and then a rousing
cheer of qualification and joy at the
escape of the woman from terrible
death was given.
Year: 1871

From the Portland (Or.) Bulletin, Nov. 10.
Yesterday there occurred on the
Oregon and California R. R., be-
tween this city and Salem, one of
most thrilling railroad incidents we
ever heard of, which, while it dem
onstrates the foolhardiness of some
people, also shows how near there
came to being a terrible accident
The following particulars furnished
to our reporter by an eyewitness
may be relied upon as true:
A FOOLISH WOMAN.
When the down train came near
one train came near one of stations
on the road it was running at full
speed, in order to make up time, as
it was few minutes behind. The
road at this point runs through
cut something more than mile in
length, and in entering it the road
makes curve so that the engineer
cannot see entirely through it. So
as he thundercd along yesterday, he
little thought what stirring times
were upon him. He had hardly got
into the cut before he saw a woman
riding leisurely through it,and with
perfect nonchalence using the cen
tre ofthe track. She was not more
than half way through the cut, and
barely quarter of a mile ahead of
him. He Immediately whistled down
Breaks and then sounded the warn
ing.


THE RACE FOR LIFE.


The woman, hearing the peculiar
death-whistle of the locomotive,
looked over her shoulder and saw
the train rushing at her. She did not
shrek, nor faint, nor give up all
hope, but, like true Webfoot, her
courage rose to the emergency, and,
without a moments hesitation, she
commenced swinging her riding
whip from one shoulder of her steed
to the other, thereby urging him to
exert his utmost speed. The whip,
and perhaps the shrieking of the
steam whistle, caused the animal rid
den by the lady to put in it's best
licks, and made about as rapid time
as any animal ever seen in Oregon,
but each instant the iron horse gain
ed upon the one composed of blood
and muscle.


EXCITEMENT ON THE TRAIN.


The shrieking of the locomotives
whistle caused the passengers to
look out of the windows, and upon
their discovering what was the mat
ter the widest excitement ensued.
Several jumped forward and seized
the bell rope, and commenced pull
ing on it as if they could stop the
train by that means. The brake
men were exerting all their strength
on the brakes, and the engineer had
cut off the connection and was doing
all that he knew to stop the train,
while the woman was doing her
level best to make that bit of horse
flesh rise to the speed of 'helmbold:'
but, all in vain, the locomotive kept
gaining on the horse and it's rider,
and there was hardly person on
the train who did not expect that
both the woman and horse would be
killed.
Year: 1871

THE ATTEMPTED DESTRUCTION OF CHArTA-
NooeA by fire will remind US vividly that the
desperadoes who escaped Sheridan's troopers
during the Chicago fire have hopeful remem-
brance Of the rich ventures In booty which
that great disaster afforded them. There is
probably no doubt that the fire In Chattanooga
was the work of incendiaries melted to the
desperate act by the successful field dis
covered to them in Chicago and as they seem
bold enough to try their games In that direc-
ton it will be wise for all the cities of the
Union to look out for such characters and
such attempts at present. There is hardly
closely built city in the United States which
would not offer them as promising conhagra-
ton as that Of Chicago, with the great mass
Of combustible matter that goes greatly to
make up all our building material aud the
high breezes Of November blowing.