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Year: 1870

West Virginia temporarily remains the
only State in the Union which clings to
the despotic policy of Test Oaths and
Acknowledgement. Thatstate of things,
of course, cannot last over another
election. The future is therefore any
thing but promising TO the men whose
acceptance of Democratic support last
October ruined them in Radical estima-
ton and whose forgetfulness of their
pledges now must lose them many
friends on the other side of the political
household
Year: 1870

The Senate last evening = by vote OF
II too, concnrred in the House resolu-
ton for the impeachment of NAT HAIR
RIsoN. Receiving an intimation OF what
was coming this eminent scoundrel
packed up his traps an hour or two in
advance, and skedaddled to escape the
service of notice. His hasty flight is
tue completsst possible confession of
rnilt
Year: 1870

IF YOU ARE SUFFERING OR HAVE SUI


| fered from involuntary discharges, what
effect does it produce upon your general health?
Do you feel weak, debilitated, easily tired
Does little extra exer.ion produce palpita tion
of the heart? Do your liver or urinary organs
or your kidneys frequently get out of order
Is your urine thick, milky or sloppy, or is it
ropy on settlingP Or does thick scum rise to
the top? Or is sediment at the bottom after it
has stood awhile? Do you have spells of short
breathing or dyspepsia? Are your bowels con-
stipated2 Do you have spells of fainting or
rushes of blood to the head? Is your memory
impaired? Is your mind constantly dwelling on
this subject2 Do you feel dull istless, moping
tired of company, of lite2 Do you wish to be
left alone, to get away from everybody? Does
any little thing make you start or jump? Is
your sleep broken restless? Is the luster of
your eye as brilliant? The bloom on your cheek
as bright2 Do you enjoy yourself in society as
wellt Do you pursue your business with the
same energy? Do you feel much confidence
in yourself2 Are your spirits dull and tagging,
given to fits of melancholy? If so, do not lay
it to your liver or dyspepsia. Have you restless
nights? Your back weak, your knees weak, and
with but little appetite; and you attribute this
to dyspepsia or liver complaints
Year: 1870

that those bold, defiant, energetic, perseverng,
successful business men, are always those whose
generative organs are in perfect health2


You never hear such N en- complain of being
melancholy, Of nervousness, or palptation of the
heart. They never afraid they cannot sue
ceed in business; they don't become sad and dis
couraged; they are always polite and pleasant
in the company of ladies, and look you and them
right in the face-none Of your downcast looks
or other meanness about them. | do not mean
those who keep the organs inflated by running
to excess. These will not only
Year: 1870

CORRESPONDENT of ;he Hearth and Home re-
commends the following simple and, as he says,
effectual plan of soaring birds from grain or
fruit Suspend piece of looking glass by a
string, SO that it may swing in every direction,
which gives the appearance OF something coming
and scares off the birds Not even the most foo
hardy of birds viii remain in the neighborhood
oe the scare crow.
Year: 1870

SAIe distinguished politician to bis SON
- Look at me ! began as an alderman, and
here am at the top of the tree and what is my
reward? Why, when die my will be the
greatest rascal in the United States" To this
the young hopeful replied @ Yes, dad, when
you die, but not till them"
Year: 1870

CINcINEATlAN dreamed three years ago OF
seeing friends funeral, and that friend has
since drank himself to death with cheerful reg
nlarity, dying on the date seen on the coffin
plate of the vision,
Year: 1870

The following is veritable transcript from
the record Of a will admitted to probate in the
State Of New York 81 bequeath my body to
the grave, my soul to its Maker, and the remain
der Of my property to my wife"
Year: 1870

AN experienced physician has discovered, in
the course of long and varied practice, that
every one wishes to go to heaven also, that
most people are willing to take great deal OF
diSagreeable medicine first,
Year: 1870

BUsHEL of ripe tomatoes brought into fam
lily will drive out a box of Doctors pills-well,
give the pills the same chance and they'll drive
a bushel of tomatoes out Of the same family on
" double quick"
Year: 1870

How many men, from badly cured diseases,
from the effects of self-abpse and excesses, have
brought about the state OF weakness in those Or
gans that has reduced the general system so
much as to induce almost every other disease
Year: 1870

~ Let young woman with no hair
but her own, and that simply dressed
enter a room filed with those whose
heads are elaborately built up with a
profusion of purchased locks, and See
WHO will te most admired 1t isa great
advantage for woman, in these days ef
artifce, to remain herself, and thus be
unlike every one else A simple dress,
white or black, will produce the greatest
effect when SURROUNDED by the most gor-'
geous costumes These serve, as aif
were, as frames for the former, and wo-
men are often forced to confess that they
have drapcd themselves magilifcently.
at an immense expense, for no other
purpose than to heighten by contrast
the beauty of rival In act,they have
been wearing dress which is very be.
coming to-ethers.
Year: 1870

When does tailor serve his custom
ers ILL When he "gives them fits
Which letter is the choice Of old Ia
dles9 I (tea.)
Which letter do naturalists admire
The B (the bee.


Which letter takes up more than hall
the world2 The c (sea:


Why is hall-door porter the greatest
rascal in the universel Because he is
continually taking people in.
WHAT'S the best way to find happiness
Look in the dictionary.
When is a conundrum dangerous
When it is given up by physician.
Year: 1870

In those days men would flock in crowds
to catch glimpse Of that rare and bes-
sed spectacle, woman Old inhabitants
tell how, in certain camp, the news
went abroad early in the morning that a
woman was come They seen calico
dress hanging out wagon down at the
camping ground-sign of emf igrants from
over the great plains. Everybody went
down there, and a shout went up when an
actual bona fidc dress was discovered hut-
tering in the wind The male emigrant
was visible. The minners said "Fctch
her out !" He said at is my wife, gem
tleman-shc is sick-we have been rob-
bed of money, provision, everything by
the lndians-wc want rest" Fetch her
out We've got to sec her." That was
the only reply. lie fetched her out and
they swung their hats and set up three
rousing cheers and tiger and crowded
around and gazcd at her and touched her
dress, and listened to a memory rather
than present reality and the they col
lected $4,000 in gold and gave it to the
man, and swung their hats again and gave
three more cheers, and went home salts
! fed.


A year or two ago dined in San
Francisco with the family of pioneer
and talked to his daughter, a young lady
whose first experience in San Francisco
was an adventure, though she herself did
not remember it, as she was only two or
three years old at the time. Her father
said that, after landing from the ship,
they were walking up the street, SER
want leading the party with the little
girl in her arms. And presently huge
miner, bearded, beltcd, spurred and
bristing with deadly wccpons-just down
from a long mining campaign in the noun
tains evidently. barred the way, stopped
the servant, and stood gazing, with face
all alive with qualification and astonish
ment, Then he said revently "Well, il
it amt child !" And then he snatched Il
lite leather sack out of his pocket anC
said to the servant "There's $3.50 il
dust, there and I'll give it to you to LEI
me kiss the child" That anecdote, is true
But see how things changs. Sitting a
that dinner table listening to that anec
dote, if had offered double the money
for the privilege Of kissing the same child
would have been refused, Seventeen
added years had far more than double
the price.-Cor. Buffalo Express.
Year: 1870

l[LondOn Correspondence New York Trlb.


une.l


There is, hear, possibility that
woman suffrage will be carried this
very next session of Parliament in
credible as such a thing may appear at
first sight. II can only be done, of
course, BY a party government, and
equally Of course. 1t is the Tories who
contemplate adopting i; as a party
measure. Mr.. DisFaeli's education may
be tried once more. though he will
scarcely venture to insist that the ex-
tension of the suffrage 70 women Isl
merely carrying out the traditions and
creed Of the only constitutional party it
is 10 be put upon the more ineligible
and interesting ground that it will pay.
One of the most cautions advocates Of
the measure in Pertinent regards such
a step as not only possible. but pr0ba-
BILE If taken, the bill will be likely
to pass almost una5imOusly, since the
majority Of liberals are quite alive to
the danger of being outbidden BY their
old enemies is such q matter. and they
certainly will not vote against IL as a
party. On the merits of the question
they would divide. Sir John Cole
ridge for instance, IS warm advocate
for woman suffrage, and Mr.. Bright is
equally strong against ia It is pretty
generally felt that since the concession
suffrage 20 women, no
very logical reason can be adduced fOr
refusing them the Parliamentary. The
suffrage resting here on property
qualification-for household and lOdgel
amounts to that-the arguments that
can be used against it in America are
not applicable here, and there seems
no middle course between admitting
women 10 the franchise on its existing
basis, or substituting manhood in the
place of household suffrage. Whether
the Workingmen would come into a
scheme of universal suffrage instead Of
manhood suffrage, is very doubtful
However that may be, the leading ad
vocates of the woman's movement are
extremely hopeful Of a nearer success
than would have been thought posi-
BILE six months ago by the most conf
dent of them You may rely on their
judgement with more security than on
that of some of the same movement 10
America. And it can do no harm to
repeat that the really able, clear head
ed, aud moderate men and women who
control the movement here have no
desire to be identified with a move
meut Of such scope as is attempted in
America.
Year: 1870

From OmahR-Red Cloud and Party


en- route to WashlEgtOn-COpy Of


the Speech BED cloud Intends 20


Address TO the President.


OMAHA, May 29.-Red Cloud and
party arrived from Fort Loramie yes
terday evening, in charge of Major
General Smith. The party will leave,
via the North Western Railroad, for
Chicago, this afternoon. Red Cloud
was interviewed, and gave the follow
ing as the speech he intends TO de-
liver to the President:


Great Father Thousands of miles
away, where the suns last light falls
on the big hills, have left my people,
to come and look my Father in the
face. AS the light makes us see all
things around US clearly, so may the
Great Spirit make our talk plain, that
we may understand each other, and
that our counsels shall be as brothers
who have met to smoke the pipe Of
peace.


Father, / have heard that you are
great and good. Listen to me, my Fa
ther. and let your ears hear one your
children who comes from the wig
vans of his people, with truth in his
heart and no lies npon his hips. I have
made many treaties with your Com
missiQners, and they have promised
many times, but have never kept their
promises; aud | have now come to
see my Great Father, myself, so that
we eaa understand each other, and
make no promises we do not mean TO
keep. They have told you that | am
a murderer, but | do not understand
it in that light. You, Great Father
have driven me away from my cOun
try-tbe only country / had to raise
my children on. Tell me, Father
could any living man on this
earth stand such a thing as this
Suppose | should go to your country,
tear down your fences and steal your
cattle and your hogs, would you stand
| by and have no word to say? No
Father, l know you would not. In all
| the troubles of my people, the white
man has been the first aggressor
Father, we are not towards. We
know that you are great, and that
you can crush us with your mighty
/ power, but we believe you are good
aud that you will protect your child
rem vixen they come to you for Wha


they believe is theirs. They ask you
to listen TO US, to do by us as a gOoC
father should do by his children, anC
to LET US carry back TO our brothers
/ and our people the assurance that the
] Great Spirit has smiled upon US, and
that the Great Father is the Indian
friend and the Indian 5 protector.
Year: 1870

IL the .Imericoa Psapie. Greeting =


am commissioned to procure the
name and address of every person in
the United States who takes a friendly
interest in Woman's Enfranchisement
In order to complete this roll of honor,
l hereby request every such person, i'm
mediately on reading this announce
ment, without waiting long enough to
forget or neglect it, to take pen and
ink. write the name and address legibly
and forward the same, postage paid
trfling cost which you will not be-
grudge to good cause. ANYBODY
sendln. in one envelope all the names
in i family, village or association,
will render a helpful service. Three
thousand American newspapers will
obfigc brother editor by generously
printing this card in their columns.
rhe purpose Of this registration Is to
know to whom to send important doc
uments. Frie.ds Of the cause are
urged to respond so simultaneously
that their letters shall fly hither like a
snow storm. Sign at once. And the
day will come when your children and
children's children will be proud of the
record.


Fraternally, THEODORE TIL1oN
Editor of the Independent, Box 27S'
New York City.
Year: 1870

review before her. Well might the bro
ken sobs arise from that desolate heart


Charley did not wait for reply; but,
hearing ring at the door bell, he slip
ped down. and ran away to answer the
/
Year: 1870

A meeting of the Cuban League was held
at the spngler House last evening. Gen. NJ T. McMa-
hon. the Chairman said THAT tne resolutions presented
to Congress relative 20 the Cuban had not met
with the SUCCESS anticipated resolution was sent TO
Senator Sumner for presentation 20 the Senate but the
Senator thought IL not strong enough and wrote
resolution which went much further An address was
presented 10 the Republican Convention relative 10 the
Cuban cause but reply HAD yet been received After
some discussion IL resolved to send an address to
the Democratic Convention at Rochester The Hon. I,
Stewart said that no thought every member OF Congress
in favor of Cuba and that no lack OF sympathy
found IN that quarter IL asO resolved 20 send an
address every national and State representative fully
setting forth the objects condition. and prospects of tho
league II was ststel that tho League not IN debt


but was In need OF funds, and s12s was collected.
Year: 1870

ANOTHER INDICATION Parties who have been
hunting in the mountains of this section inform
US that the wood-rats are this Fall building their
nests in trees, whereas for several seasons past
they have built them upon the ground This is
said to be a sure sign of extremely heavy
winter
Year: 1870

THE WEATHER.-We were greeted with very
slight sprinkle and some thunder, Thursday
night. AS we 60 to press, the sky is dark and
the clouds lowering, and every other indication
of heavy shower coming
Year: 1870

SECURE ticket to the Grand Award of Pre-
miums the cause is good one. Help the lit
tile ones, and at the same time help yourself.
We would not object to that $4,000 Premium.
Tickets only So so each. See advertisement.
Year: 1870

JUST REcEvED.-M. Lang, this week, received
a large quantity of extra quality fresh butter.
This is something that cannot be had at all times
SO you had better lay in supply while you can
get good article.
Year: 1870

These Machines are specially adapted for the
use Of farmers, being able to sew grain sacks
and heavy clothing with the same facility as the
usual family work-making a more durable seam
not liable to rave as is the case Of the loop Or
chain stitch
Year: 1870

preparing the way in the not distant fu.
ture for a conflict to which tho Great
Rebellion" was but a child's play and,
having given our warning, we tell them
that if blood shall be shed, it must be on
their head, and not ours. The Demo-
cratic party have been aud are now doing
their utmost to guard agaist unwise legis-
lation iu the interest Of the coolies; We


have taken the ground that these people
are curse to our land we have argued
soberly; dispassionately, disinterestedly in
behalf of our common race, and we shall
not be held responsible in history by CON-
ing ages, if in the future gathering Of
half.starved, idle laboriug men in the
streets of our great cities prove the pre-.
cursor of war of races on the American
continent.
Year: 1870

A Po1NT WE'LL TAKEN.-The New
York Herald makes sharp point in re-
gard to the Southern States being required
to ratify the 18th Amendment as condi-
tion of restoration to the Union. As they
could not be trusted to come in and then
ratify it, they ratified first and then came
in. They were, therefore not in the I'm
ion. Either all the reconstruction laws Of
Congress are invalid, or these Southern
rati6cations of the 10Th Amendment are
invalid. IF the States were in the Union.
there was no need to admit them, and if
they were not in the Union they could not
participate in making laws for the States
that are in.
Year: 1870

MEN WHO WIN WOMEN.-God has 50
made the sexes that women, like children,
cling to men-lean upon them as though
they were superior in mpd and body.
They make them the suns Of systems, and
their children revolve around them. Wo-
men who have good minds and pure hearts,


want men to lean upon. Think Of their
revereucing drunkard, liar, fool, or a
libertine. Ifa man would have q woman


to do him homage, he must be manly in


every sense q true gentleman, not after
the Chesterfield school, but polite because
his heart is full of kindness to all one
who treats her with respect, even defer
euce, because she is q woman; who never
coudescends to say silly things to her
who brings her up to his level, if his mind
is above hers who is never over-anxions
to do right; who has no time to be frivo-
lous with her. Always digni6ed in speech
and act; who never spends too much upon
her never yields to temptation, even ii
she puts it in his way; ambitious to make
his mark in the world whether she en-
courages him or not who is never faniliat
with her to the extent of being an adopted
brother or cousin who is not er.careful
about dress; always pleasant aud consider
ate, but always keeping his place Of the
man, the head, and never losing it. Such
department, with noble principles, good
mind, energy, and industry, will win any
woman in the world who is worth winning
Year: 1870

- They evidently don't believe in
cheap legislation down in Alabama. Some
enterprisiog reporter has been figuring ur
the cost Of the General Assembly Of that
State for the last month and comparing il
with the work done, and he finds that the
people have to pay just 5000 for every
bill that reaches the Governors table!
Year: 1870

TIE FOoT LATHE FOR \ PROFESSIONAL
MAN. trust my admiring reader will
not think | have taken up a new fancy or
have become hobhyhorsical. 1t is now
over 40 years since became the owner of
lathe. 1t was clumsy. wooden concern
even t" the driving wheel, and the whole
apparatus cost but seven dollars. Since
then | have seldom been without one
though always, till very lately, had some
very cheap, second hand affair, But the
difference in the enjoyment of il good tool
over a poor one is imncasurablc.


1t you want tool to be the center of
all manner of tink"rin. and mcnling. or
for exercise that is gentle and cheap or
for calling the mind eli from anxiety or
hard thinking, or for the training Of the
boys in the family, or for hca!thiul and
artistic creations, know Of no instrument
to be compared to the lathe. Unlike the
horse, it does not eat it,elf up in Il single
winter, nor demand Il hired man to groom
it, nor fill your clothes with the smell of
the stable if you groom it yourscH. 1t
will not get spraincl or lame. 1t is easily
kept in order and the results are so quick
so varied and so beautiful that you never
get tired of it, 70 men in my profcs.ion
and to artisans. and to men of taste and
means united, | can hardly speak of it too
warmly. In Europe, many 1T the very
best amateur turner's are among the pro
fcssors aud clcrsy.-Hcc. DR.. Ioli
Year: 1870

The Hartford Times sees clearly and ex-
presses felicitously the meaning OF Radical
reconstruction. 1t says


Georgia under reconstruction was
Democratic. The army was sent to stifie
the voice of the people, and force it to
vote Radical and for GRANT in the next
Presidential election.


"On a full and fair vote-negroes ana
all-Tennessee was Democratic. The Rad
icals in Congress are moving to stifie the
voice of the people and force tho State TO
vote as they decree.


"These are lessons. Do the people
read Do they understand the meaning!
The Radicals are cutting away the frame
work of free institutions. The people may
stop it, or they may submit till their votes
are no longer respected or counted.
Year: 1870

The meeting of the Board of Directors
of this Company, which was to have oc-
Cured by appointment in this city on
Thursday, the 21st instant, was necessarily
changed to take place at Goldsboro', IN
consequence of the detention of the Presi-
dent and attorneys at Raleigh on the day
previous in the matter of the injunction
case before Judge Watts. This case, by
an iuterlocutory decree, entered by the
Company, was set for hearing on the 9th
instant before Chief Justice Pearson at
Chambers, in Yadkin county.


We are pleased to learn that at this
meeting of the Directors an entirely salts
factory arrangement was effected between
the Company and Mr.. Robert Harvey, the
Contractor, By which the latter guaran-
tees the completion of the bridge over the
Pee Dee on or before the first day Of July,
and agrees to put large force on the road,
amply sufficient to finish up the road to
Wadesboro' without delay. On the part
of the Company means have been provided
to satisfy the Contractor that he may safe





prosecution of the bridge work and gradp
alton.


We are thus pleased to lay before our
readers promises and evidences o. renew
al of work in earnest on this important
railway which is destined to prove of SO
much benefit TO the trade and commercial
interests of Wilmington. Once across the
Pee Dee las we are promised it shall
be in two months) and completed to
Wadesboro' and drawing upon the fertile
fields of Anson and the surrounding coun
ties, we not only begin to see q large in
crease in the transportation Of produce,
but are aetnally enabled to catch a glimpse
of the ultimate completion of the road tc
Charlotte. This is indeed encouragement
and brings with it a renewal OF confidence
in the certainty of success, which We trus
will soon be attained.
Year: 1870

The action of the Supreme Court in dis


missing the legal tender cases upon the
motion of counsel for the plaintiffs does not
finally di>po So of the question at issue. 1t
merely pos'pones the subject until the
next term of the Court, when a new case
similar to the one dismissed will come up
for argument. The announced decision of
the Court stands. however, as law until the
next session II the Court, or until the
other case is disposed of.-N. 7. Express.