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Year: 1870

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE APPEAL.


NASHVILLE, February 12.-There
was no business in the Legislature to-
day-the Senate not being in session,
and the House without a quorum.


Mr.. MeBath, Floater from Knox
and Sewer, is reported at the point Of
death.


C0ngenti0n.-Ir the Convention, the
merchants tax question was finally
disposed of by the rejection of the
committees report, and the adoption
Of clause authorizing the Legislature
to tax merchants and peddlers' privi-
liges in such manner as they may from
time to time direct. The vote stood
40 to 10.


a provision was adopted that poll
taxes should not be less than fifty
cents nor more than one dollar.


A section was proposed empower
ing the Legislature to authorize a vote
in cities, towns and districts to allow
or prohibit the sale of intoxicating
liquors in their respective limits. 1t
was defeated by tie vote.


A proposition was adopted giving
the Legislature power to levy tax
upon incomes derived from bonds and
stocks that are not taxed ad valorem.


The Convention is likely to get
through its business by the 23d inst.
The Legislature will hardly adjourn
before the middle of March.
Year: 1870

The Boston papers publish the fol-
lowing as a strange but well authen-
ticated story; The engineer Of the
freight train on the Boston and Low
ell Railroad, which leaves Boston
about three o'clock in the morning,
has on several occasions discovered a
red light swinging at a furious rate at
the WOburn station, where the train
stops for water. The light would
sometimes be In front, and sometimer
in rear of the train. When the engi-
neer would stop his train and send
some one TO learn why the signal to
STOP was made, the messenger would
be greatly surprised 10 see the light
vanish. Investigation has proved
that no person was there with lant-
ern, and the brakeman and conductor
concur, also, in having beheld the
phenomenon, which, so far aS is
known, is without visible cause. Some
lAb0rers living on the line of the above
station, state that q few mornings
since they were coming down the road
on a hand-car, when they suddenly
heard the approach Of the engine and
tram, and knowing that no train was
due in the vicinity at that hour, they
became greatly frightened, and jump
ing out OF the car, threw it of the
track, TO await the train which they
thought was coming at a rapid pace
upon them, hut which, it is needless
to say, did dot come. The supersti-
tious regard the affair as a forewarn-
ing OF some disaster, while the spiritu-
alists have the ready theory that it IS
I the spirit Of man who was killed
there some two years ago."


We had the pleasure Of call from
NJ. D. Welch, Esq, Of Memphis, on
yesterday. He speaks hopefully 0i
! the business prospects Of the South,
and OF the Bluff City especially.


Mr.. Welch IS a candidate for the
office of Attorney General Of the Grim.
inal Court OF shelby County. Should


he be elected he viii prove to be &
I faithful and competent officer. His
promptness and attention 10 business


affords the amplest guarantee of his
efficiency and devotion to the public
! interests. Paris bltelli9sHosr.
Year: 1870




A PRIVATE SOLDIER CONDEMNED TO
DEATH FOR FALLING IN LovE.-1o-day lust
as the sun is at meridian, just as With solemn
sound tue great bell OF the old st. Louis Ca
thedral tolls forth the hour of noon, a soldier
will pay the penalty OF crime tor which mil
itary justice knows but one expiation. The
United States barracks, below the city, has
been the place selected where the execution Is
to take place, and the green sward of the pa
rade ground will ere many hours be stained
with the crimson liie-blood of the unfortunate
man.


He was member of one of the U. States
troops stationed near village in one OF the
interior parishes of Louisiana. Near the camp
ofthe company was the plantation Of wealthy
gentleman who had sympathized with the
Union cause during the war, and who, there
fore, was the object of special attention on the
part OF the officers of the command then per-
forming provost duty. The planter bad large
family, among whom was daughter who
possessed in remarkable degree that rare
type OF beauty for which the women of the
South are noted. She bad imbibed the senti-
ments OF her Iather, and, therefore, took great
pleasure in entertaining the officers who fire.
quently visited the house. el.s 4l --


The First Lieutenant of the company, Am
brose Back, at once conceived warm attach
ment for the beautiful young Creole, and en-
deavored in every way to induce her TO share
his feelings. Strange to say. however. the lad7
treated him in peculiarly polite but
formal manner, that proved her heart was
ice towards him. This was great shock
to his vanity, and he was at a loss to under
stand it. Finally the explanation came, when
one of his companions, playfuily rallyiug him
upon his iii success, stated that he had discov-
cred why the lady refused to smile upon him.
He had accidentally witnessed an interview
between herself and private Alfred Blake, the
soldier who had been detailed to guard the
house-an interview which proved conclusive
| ly that the heart OF the young Creole was IRE
vocably the private's and not the officers.
This intelligence was too much for Lieut..
Black. His pride was wounded In its most
vital point. He had been forestalled where
bis heart was most enlisted, and by one OF ais
own subordinates. Seeing Private Blake at
once, he poured out the vials of his wrath up
on him, taunted bin with bis position, and
declared he would send him where be
should have no more opportunities of
duty. Alfred Blake had borne much. but
this coarse allusion 10 the woman he loved
better than life, fired heart and brain, snd
with one blow be struck his officer 10 the
ground in the presence OF his company. 3 :
Then followed the tral-which was render
ed inexpressibly touching by the presence of
the woman who had dared to love a private
soldier-tne sentence of death, to be preceded
by imprisonment at Ship Island. "
To-day the sentence Is to be enforced and
the majesty OF the law maintained.-N. o.
Picayune. a 3-i 4 -ai
Year: 1870

CAPT. HALL, the Arctic explorer, after two
months labor in Washington, finally procur-
ed favorable action by the Senate Committee
on . resolution appropriating 100000 to ena-
Bile him to make further explorations. No
sooner had he accomplished his purpose than
DIR. Hayes, another Arctic voyager, came
here, and had hearing before the COM
mittee in favor of striking Captain Halls
name from the resolution, and leaving the
President the power TO name the party who
shall have the benefit of the appropriation


The committee heard DR.. Hayes as matter
OF courtesy; but the1 consider it very unjust
to Captain Hall, after all his labors and
trouble, TO debar him from the benefit of the
resolution. 1t Is not probable that any change
will be made in the action of the committee.
Year: 1870

To keep the feet warm and dry is
indispensable to good health. No one
can be we'll long whose feet are habit
ually cold. We can never die by dis
ease as long Is the feet ARG warm
MANY ailments cause cold feet, and
cold feet originate severe and serious
maladies, so that in either case the
ability to secure warm feet i an i'm
pOrtant step toward health


Warm stockings and loose shoes are
indispensable; and not less SO is scru-
puIous cleanliness, SO that when the
feet are inclined to be cold we are in
the habit of advising that they be
washed every morning in COLI water,
winter and summer. This is the man
ner. Before dressing, dip them in
water of the temperature of the cham
Der, nearly ankle deep, both in at once,
for a minute in summer and . half
minute in winter, rubbing them rap
idly with the hands all the time
Next wipe dry, with a coarse towel,
wiping hard enough TO cause some
redness. and if practicable, dry them
with the hand until they feel perfect
ly dry and warm in every part, then
draw on the stockings, Once a week
at least st bedtime, the feet should be
soaked a quarter of an hour in hot
water, and then with soap and brush
scrub thoroughly; then an instanta-
neously dipping into a bucket Of cold
water, dry as above and then retire
No one can sleeep well with cold feet,
even in hot beds. Indians and hunt
ers are said to sleep we'll with their
feet to the fire. 1t should be an in
variable custom, at least during fire
time Of the yeat, to draw off shoes and
stockings the last thing before retiT-
ing, and hold the feet close to good
fire, rubbing them with the hands all
the time, especially at the heels ard
toes, which are the most difficult
parts to dry. This will be found TO be
an exceedingly comfortable operation,
and will amply repay for the trouble.
-Ekttips Journal Of Hedlth.
Year: 1870

The coroner's investigation Thursday de-
veloped some new facts. The two carpenter rs
who were at work in the house on the day
before the murder seem completely absolved
from suspicion. They fully explain their
whereabouts, verify their statements clearly,
and pass unscathed through very searching
investigation.


1t is shown that the house could have been
easily entered by an assassin during the day
without being observed. The iron "dog'
with which the murder is supposed to have
been committed does not appear to have been
seen about the house till after the murder. 1t
was Frederick Nathan. not Washington, upon
whose clothes stains of blood were found A
suggestive fact, now for the first time statod
is that the bloody footprints which formed 60
distinct track down stairs and across tho
marble floor of the hall to the front door-all
led one way. There were no footsteps tend
ing up stairs or elsewhere than towards the
door, On the whole the mystery appears to
be as dark as ever. From the fact that be-
tween the hours of 1.30 and 4.3O o'clock in
the morning the policeman on that beat was
so occupied elsewhere that he had no oppor-
tunlty to pass the house, it is evident that an
increase in the police force of New York is
needed.
Year: 1870

The great beauty and value of the system
of government comprising Union of States
as recognized in the Federal Constitution, is,
nothing is left to be implied; whatever is not
expressly granted is expressly withheld !-Or.
ford Register.


The Register, as is not unusual with Dem
ocratic journals, is nearly century behind
the times. 1t was the constitution of the old
confederation, not OF the old United States,
in which nothing was cleft to be implied" and
in which whatever was not "eapressly grant
ed" was Expressly withheld" This system
was not found to work well, and was changed
on the adoption of the Federal constitution.
The letter of the constitution does not sup
port the statement of the Register, and still
less does the spirit of the instrument. The
Supreme Court has repeatedly decided that
the general government has not only such
powers as are expressly granted but such as
are necessarily implied. Of course all are
are at liberty to prefer the authority OF the
Register to that of Marshall and Story. "You
pays your money add you takes your choice"
Year: 1870

The Central Executive Committee of the
conservative party of Virginia have issued an
address, recommending that no Coneression-
al nomination be made until the State is re-
districted.


Owing to the state of his health the news
of his nomination as the Democratic candi-
date for Congress has not yet been commune
Gated to Mr. Haines, and newspapers alluding
to it are kept out of his way. He is recover
ing SLOWLY
Year: 1870




The vast and continually increasing sales of Hos
letters ach Bitters have provoked the envy of
certain class of dealers in various parts OF the
country who are trying to substitute their utterly
worthless local nostrums for the most popular pro-
prletary medicine in the world. These imposters
hope by their false statements to obtain from the
millions who patronze the great American Tonic, a
sufficient number of customers to make their specu-
laons upon the health Of their neghbcrs profitable
As the demand for Hostetter's Bitters is now so
large and urgent to tax to their fullest extent the
facilities for its manufacture these petty attempts to
wiring in the merest trash by false representations,
are of little consequence to its propretors. They
are, however, serious evil to the victimized. If,
for example, at this warm season, when real in
vgorant is greatly needed, the sufferer from general
debility, indigestion, b:liousness nervous weak
ness, is coaxed into using wishy y-washy compound
without any medicinal virtue, instead of the sove
reign specific in which the tonic and Alternative
vegetable elements scientifically combined, it is
obvious that he will rue the day when he allowed
himself to be thus deluded. 1t is in the interests of
parties who have been influenced by the percussion
of plausible charatans, that this article is published
With the light of twenty years experience to guide
him, why should the invalid take leap in the dark.
Year: 1870

The readers of this paper will remem
ber the report OF an interesting expert
meat of transfusing blood into the veins
of dog performed at Rush Medical Col
lege by Drs. Freer and Hunt. The caro-
It'd artery of the animal was severed, and
the blood allowed to run out until the
subject was apparently lifeless. An in
cision was then made in the jugular vein,
and the blood was injected back into the
animals system, with the effect of restor-
ing him to life.


The account of this intesesting expert
ment given to the Post was noticed by
the friends of young lady in Iowa, who
had been for some time wasting away
with disease supposed to be con-
sumption, and they sent TO DR..
Freer to come and make the
experiment Of trsnsfusing blood into her
system. DR.. Hunt, of the Faculty of
Rush College, responded to the call, and
found the patient in very low
condition. he proceeded to take
some sixteen ounces of blood from
the arm of young brother OF
the, girl and injected it into her veins
The patient went into comatose condi =
ton, and it was found that still more OF
the vital hnid was necessary. Anotl Ter
supply was therefore drawn from lif ter
of the invalid and injected, and fna' .ly a
third supply from another brother about
len years of age-thirty-six ounc es OF
warm, living blood being thus conveyed
into the system OF the young woman
within a few hours. The event is not
vet determined, though the prospects of
recovery are very hopeful, if the lungs
are not too nearly destroyed. If the
disease is only incipient it is thought
that life and health will be restored. This
experiment is the only one of the kind
ever attempted in the West, and is very
rare elsewhere, though it has been tried
with success. The result in this case
will be anxiously looked for, not only by
the friends of the patient, but by the
scientific world generally. - Chicago
Post, 18th
Year: 1870

To which the attention ofthe trade is respect
fully solicited. The odious importation tax
give our customers the benefit of reduced prices,
and will hereafter fill orders at figures equal to
any other Western market, transpoi tation
added. An examination Of our stock and
prices will convince our friends of this fact.
Year: 1870

UOW OFTEN Is THE HOUSEHOLD


IL loaf buried with the household head and
families that might have beon comfortably
pi ovided for, left destitute by the want CT a
proper foresight in its deceased protector?
Year: 1870

The following are Secretary Cox's letter of resignation and the Presidents reply:

 STATEN ISLAND, Oct 3.-My dear sir:- When Congress adjourned in the summer. I was credibly informed that 8 somewhat systematic effort would be made before their reassembling in the winter to force a change in the policy we have pursued in the interior department. The removal of the Indian service from the sphere of or dinarly political patronage had been pe- culiary distasteful to many influential gen. tlemen in both houses, and in order to en- able you to carry out your purposes suo- cessfully, I am satisfied that you ought not to be embarrassed by any other causes of irritation in the same department. My views of the necessity of reform in the civil service, have brought me more or less into collision with the plans of our active po- litical managers, and my sense of duty has obliged me to oppose some of their meth ods of action through the department. I have no doubt whatever that public senti. ment will, sooner or later, fully sustain these efforts at what I regard needed re. forms, but I ought not to overlook the fact that for the present they involve op- position which 1t may not be for the inter- est of this administration to provoke, and do my HCISOAbl O6uuCuCy 4S U0 IAbuGE more than less persistent in the course to which am committed, deem it my duty to place in your hands my resignation as the Secretary of the Interor, to take effect as soon as you can conveniently determine on my successor. The annual report of the department will be made at an early day, and for this and other reasons. believe the interval prior to tue adjourned session of Congress Attest for such change.

 trust you will permit me to add that as the original acceptance of the position was an interference with the plans of life, formed, as think, with prudence, re- turn to my private business, so far from being an inconvenience or disappointment, will only be carrying out what have most desired to do, as soon as it could be done without embarrassment to you or sacrifice to public duty. Indications that you might be already troubled by suggestions on the subject have induced me to write at once, without waiting my return to Washington.

 With sincere assurances of my strong de- sire for the complete success of your ad- ministratlon, remain, truly, your obedi- ent servant, J. D. Cox.

 To the President.
Year: 1870

One of the exquisite wonders of the sea
is called the opelet, and is about as large
as the German aster, looking, indeed, very
much like one. Imagine a very large
double aster with ever so many long petals
of light green, glossy as satin, and each
one tipped with rose color. These lovely
petals do not lie quietly in their places,
like those of the aster in your garden, but
wave about in the water, while the Opelet
generally clingS to rock. How innocent
and lovely it looks on its rocky bed. Who
would suspect that it would eat anything
grosser than dew or sunlight? But those
beautiful waving arms, as you call them,
have another use besides looking pretty.
They have to provide for large open
mouth which is hidden deep down among
them-so we'll hidden that one can scarce
ly find it. Well do they perform their
duty, for the instant foolish little fishlet
touches one of the rosy tips he is struck
with poison as fatal to him as lightning.
He Immediately becomes numb, and in a
moment stops struggling, and then the
other beautiful arms wrap themselves
around him and he is drawn into the huge,
greedy mouth and is seen no more. Then
the lovely arms unclose, and wave again
in the water, looking as innocent and
harmless as though they had never touched
a fish
Year: 1870

A paragraph from the Boston Journal
Of Chemistry has been going the rounds ol
the secular press, in which the writer op-
poses the practice of evaporating water
upon stoves and furnaces, ON the ground
that the air cannot be "dried up or burned
up" and that none of its natural moisture
is expelled from it by heat. Truly, "a
little learning is a dangerous thing" and
we have here just enough knowledge dis
played to cover q deal Of mischieyOus ig
nOrance.


In the first place, it may be news to the
chemical gentleman in question to learn
that there are certain physiological phe-
nomena connected with excessive or de-
fective humidity of the atmosphere; that
under the latter condition, owing to the
affinity of air for moisture, the respiratory
surfaces will be refrigerated and dried by
unusual evaporation from them; and that
whole surface of the body. Now, granting
that. in literal sense, none of the existing
moisture is expelled from air by raising
its temperature, an immense relative re-
duction of its humidity is thereby effect
ed Suppose, for instance, that the at
mosphere of room of two thousand cubic
feet contents have its hygrometric capaci-
ty for moisture satisfied on freezing
morning. We build good fire in stove
and warm this room to, say, 750 Fahren-
heit; aid in doing this we 50 reduce the
relatice amount of moisture, that at least
a pound of water is required to bring the
air to the same condition in which we
found it, And, what is more, the thirsty
air will have this water in some way, and,
if we do not supply it by evaporation,
from external sources, will, to use vul-
gar but appropriate slang phrase, take
it out of our hides" For our own part, We
prefer the former alternative.-Amertca tca,
lToJ;ro1 In,syfs
Year: 1870

the physician watched, as he thought,
to note the last vital spark take its
flight. His limbs became stiff and
cold; all pulsation seemed to cease,
and the breath appeared to have left the
body. Mr. Day was duly laid out and
dressed in the habiliments of the grave
his eyes closed by the aid of coins, and all
necessary preparation made for his burial.
Of all these arrangements he was quite
conscious, but had not the strength to
make it known. Before the time arrived
for his burial, his old physician, who had
attended him during the earlier stages of
his suffering, happening to have business
in the vicinity, and hearing of the decease
of Mr.. Day. called to see him, and while
looking with pity upon the cold form of
his former friend and patient, he imagined
that he could discover signs of respiration.
Upon closer examination he ascertained
that he was correct, and he at once set to
work to restore to life the supposed dead
man. He succeeded so well that Mr.. Day
passed through Omaha yesterday, appar
emily well and hearty, and able to tell his
own story. He says this occurred in Sill
yer City, Idaho Territory.-Omaha Re
publican. Jan. o.