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Year: 1872

TOUCHING INcLDENT.-A Lynch
burg (Na) paper gives the following
incident of the late terrible flood in that
state: "a mother and several little
children were making their escape from
narrow neck of,and which lies between
the river ard the canal, when they
were amazed to find that the bridge was
already gone, and their only hope was
to cling on to the abutment Of the
brigde until the angry waters should
subside. But as they stood there
cl'ngng to the abutment. the waters
continued to rise higher, while in the
deep darkness they could hear the
Crashing of trees and the thunder OF
bridge timbers, that were wildly dash
ing all around them. They had been
in this desperate condition for some
tlmo, when the little girl felt that her
strength was gone, and with a wild
shrek of terror she exclaimed, kiss
me, mother, for 1 can't hold any longer'
and with the warm pressure of that
mothers lips upon her cheek she was
swept away and was seen no more"
Year: 1872

EGlPTIAN MAxIMs.--Do not put
on airs. Do not maltrest an inferior;
respect the aged. DO not save thy
life at the expense of another's' DO
not pcrvert the heart of thy comrade
if it is pure. Do not make sport OF
those who are dependent upon thee.
Do not maltreat a woman whose
strength is less than thine own; let her


find in thee a protector. If from an
humble condition thou hast become
powerful, and the FIRST in the city for
opulence, let not riches make thee
proud, for the first author cf good
things is God. If thou art intelligent
bring up thy son in the love of God.
If he is courageous, active, and in
creasos thy property, give him the better
recompense; but ii the son whom thou
hast begotten is a fool, do not turn
away thy heart from him, for he is thy
son.
Year: 1872

Mature is the only workman to
whom no material is worthless, the
only chemist i9 whose laboratory there
are no waste products. and the Only
artist whose compositions are infinitely
varied. and whose fertility Of invention
is inexhanstible.
Year: 1872

COOP ADVICE --Ifyou cannot speak
well of your neighbors, do moi. speak of
them at all. A cross neighbor may be
made kind enc by kind treatment.
The true way to be happy is to make
others happy, 10 do good is luxu,
ry, Ifyou are not wiser and better at
the end of the day, that Gay is lost.
Practice kindness, even if it be but lit
tie each day, Learn something each
day. even If it be but to spell one word.
DO not seem to be what you are not.
Learn to control your temper and your
words. Say nothing behind ones back,
that you would not say to his face.
Year: 1872




Among the late kilograms from Washing
ton to the Chicago Tribune is the following A.:


The St. Crox Land Grant Bill was passed over to-
dav in the Senate and resumes its old place in the
calendar The question to be decided by this scheme
il VIII that body agree to the amendment OF the
House which virtually this grant to the public
domain for homestead settlement:


On this the St. Paul Press of the 18th
aptly comments as follows:


NO sir; the question is not this at ALL but some
hing quite different The question is simply, wheth-
or by agreement to the House Amendment the Senate
will make homestead settlement any other kind Of
human settlement impossible for fifty years to come,
within the limits of this grant, and, indeed, III any
part Of the great interior wilderness Of Northwestern
Wisconsin. The question is whether by taking the
action required by certain railroad spectators inter
escd in rival lines of railroad, Congress shall prevent
the opening Of this region to settlement


That is the summing up of the whole
matter Shall a legitimate use be made of
the St Croix grant, carrying out the origi-
nal purposes of the donors, by building 4
railway from the St. Croix to the Lake i'm
mediately, that will Immediately settle this
long neglected region, or shall a gang Of
wealthy and honorable spectators be per-
mitted under fair pretenses, to use Congress
as their plant tool against true Western
interests.
Year: 1872

such a horrible event. They ought to go
to the penitentiary for long term ofyears,
and the next offenders in this line Of aVar-
icious and murderous neglect, should swing
from the murderer's gallows' tree.
Year: 1872

On the 10Th Of March, 1917, and
lust as the sun was descending the
western sky amid vast piles of gloomy
clouds, General Scott, with thirteen
thousand men, landed near Vera Cruz
The city was defended by the strong
castle Of San Juan de UiIoa, and was
otherwise well fortified, so hat the
General found it prudent not to attack
it at once, but to spend few days in
throwing up works and in making the
best possible disposition of the forces
under his command. He wps, besides,
anxious to gain some reliable inteIll


eence Of the number of men that
garrlsoncd the place, and especially
the amouat Of the force that occupied
the castle. To this end he gave orders
that all struggling natives found 10 the
vicinity of the camp should be taken
into custody and broue hit before him.


The third or fourth evening after his
arrival, young gypsy woman, OF great
personal beauty, with a tambourlne III
hand, and attired 10 the most pictu-
rescue manner, was captured by one of
the outposts, and Immediately con
Quoted to the Generals qulrters. She
spoke French and Spanish with great
Huency, but appeared unable to COM
prehend a single word Of English
When interro2ated as to the strength
of the force that occupied the castle
and city, she said she could not speak
with any degree of certainty, although
she thought she heard it rated at
about 10000, while she knew, as she
said, that the castle was regarded as
impregnable. This, although not pos
tive information. was far from agreea-
BILE to the General, who did not sup
pose that the city was so strongly gar
risoned, or fancy that he had such
heavy work before him; but, lest hi.
own comparative weakness should
reach the ear of the enemy anc
provoke sortic before he was prepared
to meet it, he gave orders that the gyps,
should be detained in camp under th'
strictest surveillance but that at tn
same time she should be treated will
the utmost kindness aud courtesy.


That she was a dancing glr! seemed
obvious, not only FROM her costume
but from the colored slippers she wor
and the golden bands that en- ;lrcle


her ankles She could not, however
be induced to exhibit her skill, an
Year: 1872

NyHE ILLUSTRATED PHYSIOLOGICAL


i JOURNAL, is in every respect a First
Glass Magazine. Its articles are of the highest
interest to all. Itteaches what We are and how
TO make the most of ourselves. The informa


tion it contains on the Laws of Life and Health
Is we'll worth the price of the Magazine to every
Family. 1t is published at s. 90 year. BY
a special arrangement we are enabled to Office
the PHRENoLoGIcAL JOURNAL as Premium Tor
or will furnish the PHYSIOLOGICAL Journal
aud OREGsS REPUBLICAN together for 81 90
We commend the JOURNAL to all who want
Year: 1872

'"The present is all that we have to
confront eternity with" said sage, and
any teaching that undervaIues the pres
eni is fatal to the highest human inter
csts. No time since the world began
was OF such worth as the present. Each
hour is link in the golden chain that
encrccs the worlds. 1t is intidelity TO
the present that makes us recreant to the
past and untrue to the future. Only by
reading Alright the message OF today
shall tn.morrow's secret be fully reveal
ed. Yet, too often, we are like careless
schoolchldren who have neglected the
earlier lessons, and hence have no key
TO the lesson of to-day. We must be-
gin where we are, coming the page di-
rectly before us. No man ever sank un-
der the burdens of to-day. 1t is only
when to-morrow's burdens are added
that the weight becomes greater than he
can bear. We insist upon crossing the
bridges before we come to them. We
will not even rid ourselves of the past.
Instead of letting the dead past bury its
dead, we insist upon bearing this dead
body with us, and go groaning under
the weight in more pitiiul plight than
the ancient mariner under the burden of
his sin. 1t is not Gods fault. 1t is our
own. He says, Leave the future to me.
Take no thought for the morrow, what
ye shall eat. or what ye shall drink, or
where wilhal ye shall be clothed. See to
it that our work is done faithfully--not
a whit below our level best. That is the
business OF our day; not to take
thought ior our lite, not to waste our
time in lamentations over the past. Onr
times are in His Land.


A Sontherner was killed by falling
wood.pile, which is the latest example of
L
Year: 1872


All things bright and beautiful,
All things great and small,
All things wise and wonderful
The Lord God made them all.
Each little flower that opens,


Each little bird that sings,
He made their glowing colors,
he made their tiny wings,
The rich man in his castle,


he poor man at his gate,
God made them high or lowly,
And ordered their estate,
The purple beaded mountain,


The river running by,
The sunset, and the morning


That brightens up the sky:
The cold wind in the winter,


The pleasant summer sun,
The ripe fruits in the garden
lie made them every one.
The tall trees in the greenwood,
The meadows where we play,
The rushcs by the water


We gather every day
lie gave us eyes TO see them,
And lips that we might tell
How great is God Almighty,


Who has made all things well.
Year: 1872

That was not bad solution OF the
Sunday car question which Henry Ward
Beecher gave in his Cooper. Institute
speech. He was "a favor, he said, of the
cars running on Sunday, aud he would
compromise with those that opposed IL
by refusing to allow any rich man 70
ride and taking the poor on tat day foy
half price. go &.
Year: 1872

RECIPE FOR MAKING CHEAP HARD SoAP.-
Procure box of concentrated lye, put to il
one gallon of boiling water; Let it stand over
night to clear; draw carefully from the sedi-
ment and put il into large k title to boil !;
then add four pounds of Gle III grease, melted
stirring it in slowly and well. Let the sub.
stance simmer slowly four or six hours. and
half an hour before taking off add another gal
Ion of hot water. Two tablc-spoonslul of pull
ycrizcd boraX and four .ablt-spoonsiul of resin
add much to its dclcrsive qualities. y tcacup
Of salt Is then thrown in. When the soap is
thought 10 be done, test it by dipping the
point of a case knife in it; if the mass drops
clear and ropy, and chils quickly, il is soap,
and will be ready TO pour into n well soaked
wash-tub in few hours it will be ready to
cut out into any desired shape, and then plac-
ed upon boards 10 dry. The cost of this soap
need not exceed two cents II pound, and then
one knows they have clean, desirable article
hpsiu,s
Year: 1872

The latest dodge of a parent to over
come his sons aversion TO medicine and
"dOctor" him at the same time, occurred
in Cleveland, where croupy youngster
was induced to make quite hearty meal
of buckwheat cakes aud "maple syrup
hut the latter proved to be nice syrup Of
squils. The boy said he thought some
thing allied the molasses the minute his
father told him TO eat all he wanted to,
Year: 1872

The man who stood half an hour in A
church ycstibule, and then twenty min
utes in the aisle, without being offered
seat, is decidedly opposed to having
'God put into the Constitution at pres


elt. lie thinks it would be better to
try the experiment of putting a little
more godllncss into the churches first.
Year: 1872

There is a Digger Indian boy en-
plOyed on sheep rancho in Monterey
County, California, who is a human
curiosity, he herds about eight hun
dred sheep all by himself, and the
oyerseer say he knows every one
of them by sight, and when he
brings them in at night he viii get
on the corral fence and tell whether
one of them is missing. Heis about
fourteen and has a face as round as
the moon, and the brightest black
eyes, which fairly sparkle with mis-
chief. He turns more summersaults
and hangs head downward from
more trees than any man can count
readily, and seems hardly to be
aware Of the existence of the sheep
during the day, yet brings them all
in at night.
Year: 1872

It's generally thought that Amer.
lean orators can make longer speech
es than anybody else; but it would
seem that our English cousins can
do something in this way, when they
take a notion to. Sir John Duke
Coleridge, Attorney General, who
defends the Tichborne suit, occu-
pied four and a half hours a days for
thirteen days in presenting the case
to the jury, and had not concluded
then. Sir Johns speech is said to
have been as good as it is Tonga
tribute that cannot be paid to all
lengthy orations;
Year: 1872

A correspondent of the Queens
landers says he cures horses of the
habit Of pulling at the halter in this
way: "My plan to cure a horse of
bride breaking is, to fasten or tie
him up in a place where he cannot
run back, with a strong leather head
eollar-nOt halter-and when the
bride is put upon him, turn him
round in the stall and fasten him for
an hour every day with reins fasten-
ed to the stall posts and then buckle
on to his bit. This plan will be
found cure, and very gentle and
not very disagreeable operation for
the horse.
Year: 1872

A handsome young woman, an al
legged widow, is Enoeh-Ardening
New York with success. She gets


man to engage to marry her and


settle on her in advance so much
money, then her first husband rush
es in with long beard and a re-
volver, and that is the last Phillip
Ray ever seen of the widow or the
settlement.
Year: 1872

yourself, and 1 will tell you about
Ernest Maltravers.'"


40, do not torture me by offering such
consolation as that, Della, just as if one
could help their feelingsw exclaimed
Blanche impatiently. "You have never
seen one for whom you cared anything,
nor do I believe you ever will


mo, hope not, am sure, if it re-
quires much exertiOn. But, dear Coz, if |
cannot console you, will try and go to
sleep" and turning upon her pillow,
she was soon doing, while Blanche re-
mained in the same position, moaning
and talking to herself, till at last she
fell into heavy slumber, from which
she was awakened by the cocks crow
ing, announcing that day-break was at
hand.


Arising, she laved her face and eyes,
and prepared to dress for breakfast, but
looking far differently from the evening
before. Her face was pale as marble
and eyes sunllen, while a sickly smile
played about her mouth, her whole
countenance betraying that some heavy
conflict had taken place within. She
had at last gained the victory and be-
came mistress of her feelings once more;
but she was no longer the same girl.
Her dream of love, though short, was
over, and none knew il, none suspected
it, not even the object Of it; at least he
knew it not, and in this belief she felt
happy.


Poor Blanche, though she tried hard
to win the lover Of her dearest friend,
though she had even stopped to false
hood, still her hopes had been frustrated
ere they had scarcely matured, without,
however, doing an serious injury TO
either Of the opposite parties, though
she might have been the means OF max
ing both her young friends hearts hap
pier by letting them know the state Of
each others feelings. From that morn
ing Blanche was an altered person.
She no longer wore that sunny smile
which seemed so bewitching-a calm,
serene look seemed to have settled upon
her handsome features; and her step
had lost it's buoyancy, though it was
as graceful as ever; but Blanche had
learned her first lesson, and well did she
profit by it in after Years, for she had
begun to pray to the God of her friend
and TO whom that dear friend had often
pointed her
Year: 1872

DECORATE YOUR HONIES.-There is q
reckless disregard of the many little at
fractions, which may, in our State, be
thrown around home with but little
outlay of time or labor EvergTeeus are
growing wild on our mountains, in vast
abundance, which may be easily trans
planted, and which lend 4 charm to the
doOryard, in winter, by breaking the
dreary monOtOny which would other
wise pevail, as well as make a shady re-
treat from the heat of summer. Lum-
Der is cheap, with which to build arbOrs
and other resorts, picturesque and at
tractive, and surround all with a fence,
neat and useful. There is nothing to him
der those living here, having their homes
neat, attractive and inviting; and yet
il Is rarely that we see Il home decorated
with these adOrnments. Why is this
50? Are our farmers more regardless of
the happiness and pleasures of their
families than those of other States
We incline 70 think not, but that they
have rather become careless and negli-
gent Of these matters. Most fathers
would, if they realized the attractions
which n really handsome home holds to
4 child, spend the requisite time and
money in its decoration, but having be-
come used to the bare yards and dilapi-
dated fences, pass them by unmindful
of the duty devOlving upon them.
Many a child would be saved from an
early abandonment of home and life
OF dissipation by a little care on on the
part of the parents in this one particu-
lar.-OrCgOH Republican.
Year: 1872

\ French inventor has patented an
apparatus for swimmers. For the hands
he has n large membranOUs fin, which
is held in its place by loops passing over
the fingers and a strap around the wrist.
The surface presented to the water by
these fins is so large a. to add greatly to
the effectiveness of the strokes Of the
arm, but not so large as to exhaust the
muscular power. Their effect is to re-
duce very much the effort required to
swim without them. But the greatest
ingenuity is displayed in the form and
fitness Of the fins for legs which are at
tached to the ankles and are so formed
that they act upon the water both IN
the movement Of bringing the legs to-
gether and throwing them back. They
act finely in threading water as swim
mers call it, that one can really walk,
if not ou the water, at least in It. Inc
difference between swimming with tLe
apparatus and without it, is very Ihuch
like the difference between rowing
bOat with the handle and the olade oil
am oar. The old swimmer mas no trou-
Me of usinp the fins at first trial, and Is
-rI.nrisad to find with what ease he can
s,,irn without exhaustion. He easily
s.,.inls tyyice as fast with the apparatus
o. without it, and he can sustain him
eff for hours upon the water, or swim
miles with II.
Year: 1872

Scolding is mostly habit. There is
not much meaning in it. 1t is often
the result of nervousness, and an irrita-
bic condition Of both mind and body.
\ person is tired, or annoyed at some
trivial cause, and forthwith commences
finding fault with everything and ev-
erybOdy in reach.


ScOlding is Il habit very easily formed.
lt is astonishing how soon one who in
dulges in il at all becomes addicted to il
and confirmed in it. 1t is an unreason-
ing and an unreasonable habit. Per-
sons who once get into the way of scold-
ing always find something to scold
about. If there was nothing else, thev
would fail a scoldiu@ at the mere ab-
sence of anything to scold at. The con-
slant rumbling of distant thunder,
cateTWIilings, or a hand organ under
ones window, would be less unplcas-
ant


The habit is contagious. Once intro
duced into family, it is pretty certain,
in short time, TO affect all the MEM
bers. If one of them begins always
finding fault about something, or moth
ing, the others are very apt soon to take
1T up, and very unnecessary bedlam is
created.


People in the country more readily
fall into the habit of scolding than peO-
pie in town. We suppose it is because
they have less to occupy and divert
their attention. Women contract the
habit more frequently than men. This
may be because they live more in the
house, in a confined and heated atmos-
phere, very trying to the nervous sys-
tenn and the health in general 4; and it
may be, partly, that their natures are
more susceptible, and their sensitive
ness more easily wounded. Women are
sometimes called divine, bat q scolding
woman never seems divine. But we
will say 10 more on the subject, or
some pretty creature may feel inclined
ing.-E.c.
Year: 1872

the point. All the circumstances Of that double,
and attempt at triple, murder familiar to the
general reader. Over two years passed from his
being put on trial for the murder OF N.Y. Randall to
Buckhout shot his friend and guest dead, on the
first day OF January 1870, In his house,
maimed and dsdQured for life young Randall and
Immediately afterwards beat out his wifes brains
with the double -barreled gun he had done sucn
fatal and deporable havoc with upon the Randalls.
Three times he was put upon his trial at White
Plains, the defence being insanity. The prosecution
though Justice slept for time, the
prosecution neither changed the venue nor tne
twelve Jurors who were determined that, so far as
their verdict went Justice should be done, ana
BuckhOut was eventually executed. All this time
he was kept In close confinement, all applications
for bail being denied.


IN THE CASE OF FANNY HYDE,
whose trial took place q few months ago IN Brook
lyn for the murder OF Watson, the jury disagreed,
and she awaits a new trial-on bail to be sure
But in this case ten OF the jury were for acquitta,
only two holding II out for conviction. Speculation,
after all, and the searching out OF precedents for
the action OF


PROSECUTING OFFICERS AND COURTS
In murder trials, becomes in this (Stokes) case
necessary, as the District Attorney is determined
probabilities are that, In view OF the
great expense Of holding another prOtracted trial
In this city, with the dficulty OF securing an 'n
different" jury on murder trials as particularly
seen In this and the Mcfarland case the District
Attorney will move for


CHANGE OF VENUE


to some other county, as was done in the Polly
Bodine case, where alter three weeks, they failed
to get q jury In this county.


The long agony OF the trial is, however over for
the present, and people can turn their thoughts to
more pleasant subjects on reading the HERALD each
morning than the Stokes-Flsk murder.
Year: 1872

The trial Of Edward 8. Stokes for the murder Of
James Fisk, Jr., on the sixth day of January last
ct the Grand Central Hotel in this city. will pass
into history as one of the causes ceeores Of these
times. The result Of the trial. after eighteen days.
actual examination Of witnesses testifyng to what
they knew Of the shooting, the alleged prowlers


lying in wait, and the hostile feeling entertained by
the prisoner against Fisk on the part Of the prose-
cution, and the threats as alleged made by Fisk
against Stokes, the daily end hourly danger the
latter was in from direct or indirect assault from
the latter his reason therefor testified to on the
defence, and the prisoners own statement OF an
accidental and not premeditnted meeting and the
shooting in self.defcnce have all been detailed in
in each days report during the trial. No similar
case for many years has excited such
widespread public attention and intar.
Year: 1872

Yesterday the Paterson murderess arrived at the
New Jersey State Prison and commenced her
life servitude. She appears to be In per-
feet health and unconcerned at her fate,
which, according to all human calcula-
ton, will be an imprisonment for many,
many years. She does not look like one that will
and the late action of the Court OF Pardons In her
case gives no hope OF future pardon. The frst few
hours In the female portion Of the State Prison
NAV be pleasant but there comes the terrible
monotony-one day succeeding another, and YET
every day alike ceaseless round Of daily duties
and that for life And yet at FIRST sight the female
department Of the State Prison looks by
no means uncomfortable. II is kept scrupu-
Iously clean. and is comparatively SILENT save tho
matron detects the first signs of disorder. Outside
the department is n0wer- garden in which pris-
surrounded by very high stone wall, which shuts
the prisoners IN from the busy world, and here ID
the future home of Libbie Garrabrant.