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Year: 1873

The Lanest gives an account Of an extraordi-
nary operation In which the nerves of the left up
per extremity, from their origin at the vertebTal
column almost to their insertion at the hand were
raised from their beds and subjected to stretching
and pulling The patient was a soldier, who had
been struck ON the nape of the neck by the butt
end of q musket, and Nwing the injury there
was the most violent action Of the muscles
of the upper extremit ended by & loss Of SEN
sation in the akin over the same. This continued
for nearly two years, when the operation was per
formed by making three long incisions, one on
Gle the nerves were raised, submitted to the ma
nipulatlons described above, then returned, and
when the wounds healed the parts were entirely
restored to their normal state.-Se7 divers for
March
Year: 1873

course the question whether vessel shall be
dispatched up river must be largely de-
termiped by the prospect of bringing back q
freight especially as il is the down freights
upon which the profits of these enterprises
mostIv depend. To what extent it may DO
possible to predict the rise or fall OF rivers, IL
is yet perhaps too soon to specify; put even
forty-eight hours information IN advance
would frequently be of service. AS all the
meteorological conditions which occasion the
changes in the level Of rivers are known
many hours beforehand, we may larry nope
that accurate observations will soon enable
the probabilities of the latter 10 be predicated
on the former.


The calculations of the Signal Service
Bureau have materially increased In accuracy
with experience and the extension Ofthe system
We see it stated that ninety per cent OF inc
predictions now prove correct, which is large
gain on preceding years. But for SPECIFIC
localities the probabilities" that are correct
in the main, may prove practically erroneous.
Thus, rain was predicted for the Middle States,
yesterday, but none fell in this city, and
whoever made or unmade engagements there
upon was disappointed. We are informed that
by providing additional observing stations anu
other special means involving some expense,
calculation of probabilities" for this city
and vicinity could be furnished from the
Bureau that would not be liable to such
discrepancies. The hour as well as
the day of approaching storms could
be named in advance. The enormous inter
ests which are at stake upon a change in the
weather within ten miles of our City Hall,
make this an important consideration. The
closing of the sashes of greenhouses and cold
frames, one night last Fall when the weather
report indicated q heavy frost, prevented the
loss of many thousand dollars. The movement
of all outgoing ships is now dependent on
these reports. Is it not worth while to ask
whether this city cannot afford to pay for a
special report7 We recommend the inquiry to
the Chamber of Commerce.
Year: 1873

We have at intervals recorded the steps
taken by the Signal Service Bureau toward
securing river reports. Now that measures
are matured for obtaining these reports in
more definite form and from q much wider
area than was at first under consideration, we
may safely anticipate the advantages which
the new arrangements will provide. Already
largo values have been saved to commerce by
the early advice furnished of waters swollen
by Spring freshets and Ice-gorges; and two
instances are specified in which the conse-
quent removal of freight and lumber TO less
exposed positions preserved property esti-
mated at far more than the entire cost of the
new system of reports.


The extension of the system has special ref
erence to keeping q record of the rise or fall
of rivers day by day throughout the year. A
very large proportion Of our navigable rivers
cease to be suck over q large portion of their
course during the Summer months, and an
inch Of water moro or less, determines the
success or failure of extensive commercial en-
terprises. The movements of cotton, produce,
and coal are to great extent determined by
these considerations. An unusually early fall
of water in the Ohio has sent up coal to twice
or thrice its ordinary prices, putting fortunes
in the pockets OF the owners who delivered their
cargoes andruining those who were stranded. OF
Year: 1873

The Third Avenue rapid transit scheme has
gone through the Assembly without much
delay; we may suppose that its progress
through the Senate is also well prepared.
The bill, as passed yesterday, is substantially
an authorization for the Third Avenue Rail
road Company to build an elevated road
along the line now occupied by their street
tracks. Since we are to have abundant COM
petition in various projects for rapid transit
it is relief to know that this last competitor
is very much in earnest.
Year: 1873

The death Of a venerable Canadian elclts from
The British Standard the remark Thus has passed
away from our midst one of the landmarks OF the
country We do not remember TO have seen moro
curious misuse Of two very much misused words
finn thia
Year: 1873

It seems hardly necessary for Us to say that
widows of the age of 9S, however strong in their
general health, are not in situation to make long
pedestrian excursions. Widow Polly Hollis of Hol-
brook Mass, and of the above age walked from her
own home to the residence of her son. the other
day. and then died. II is so hard for some people TO
feel or to admit that they are old.
Year: 1873

We shall tautalize all collectors Of relics when VIC
state that among the curiosites Of the Western he
serve Historical Society at Cleveland Is the writing
desk of the late Right Honorable Edmund Burke.
There is given in The ClereIdnd Leader long account
of it, which we do not propose to reproduce. It
seems to have been and TO be still remarkable piece
of mahogany furniture with no end of pigeon-hoes
and other conveniences dear to the man Of method
When it is closed it has the appearance" as we are
told. "of little house with curved roof" And it
was upon this very desk, we suppose, that the Let
ter to Noble Lord" was written.
Year: 1873

An extension of American influence IN the
direction of the Republic of Liberia Is un-
doubtedly desirable. Commodore shuieiu!
who has just made report OF late VISIT
of his ship to that interesting young
nation. thinks we ought to establish
line of steamships between this
country and Monrovia. This is not so clear,
We ought to extend more active and practi-
cal sympathy to this American outpost on the
"bonndaries d" of civilization however, and we
commend Commodore Shufeldts report to
those who wish well of the little African ex-
periment in self-government
Year: 1873

sweet scene of domestic bliss, the only happi.
ness which has survived the fall of man. is do
scribed by the Miami Ohio newspaper as happen
ing there. Paterfamilias went home full Of Bac-
chus. Still desirous of prolongng the convyialties
he gave his children to drink Of hard cider address
ing his wife at the same time in language Of the
most impassioned descrption-energetic but not
affectionate Then the DeighbOrs came in. They
tied the bacchanal and laid him on the bed. Then
his wife more, probably, in sorrow than in anger
chastised him with a whip-and served him right
Year: 1873

Is tobacco injurious This question, it is claimed
by the ant-tobacconists has been settled at Hart
ford, Conn, where a hOgshead of the weed rolled
from the dray and broke the teamsters leg. Bot we
think that this incident fixes nothing to smoking
masticating or snufing 1t simply gives rise to an
other intricate question, which is,lWill the coming
teamstcr cart tobacco' This is problem which We
shall not undertake TO solve
Year: 1873

After much oogitation, the Supply bill comes
from the Senate Finance Committee, consid-
erably shorn of it's fair proportions. To cut
down such an intricate bill one million dol
lars is no light task; but it has been done.
Now, watch the Senate and Assembly and see
how the amounts cut out by the Committee
will be put back again. Discussion of the
bill, always so deeply interesting to members
will be so long that it is likely we shall have
the day of adjournment postponed until next
week, or even the week after. There are
numerous jobs waiting for a chance to slip
into the Supply bill before it is finally in the
Governors hands.
Year: 1873

1t is thought to be very extraordinary thing that
Messrs Cain and Ranser colored members OF Con-
gress from South Carolina, should have nominated
white boys who exceed in the competitive exam-
nation for West Point cadetships IL Is to be hoped
that the time will come when such a circumstance
will excite no attention. These Congressmen show
good sense if a sense of justice be good and if all


their kind will be equally fair half the troubles q
not all of them in South Carolina. will disappear
There must always be two parties to a concIhatiOn
Year: 1873

Gov. Dix, as was expected, has vetoed the
Local Option Prohibition bill The ground of
his objections stripped of all verbiage, Is the In
cluding of malt liquors in the list of beverages
which may or may not be sold. He thinks that
no municipality should have the privilege of
voting on the question of licensing whisky
shops. because the bill, as passed by the Legis-
lature, shuts up the voter to but one choice on
all liquors, including ale and beer. In other
words, because the proposition to be submitted
is too sweeping in its character it should not be
laid before the people at ALL This line of reason
ing. whether sound or not, will not satisfy those
who believe that the ale and beer clause was put
into the bill for the express purpose of killing it,
Year: 1873

The tactics of Trains lawyers, yesterday, in
endeavOring to prove him insane by the wit
nesses who testified for the late prosecution,
was unworthy practice, but it will hardly be
thought justification of the Judge for disre-
garding the demurrers of the jurymen
to the verdict which he ordered to be entered.
Train is a nuisance of whom the public would
gladly be relieved his consignment to
lunatic asylum we doubt not is charitable
act both TO himself and the community; but we
cannot afford to have relief at the cost of law.
II is, mite possible that Judge Davis in sum-
marty cutting the KnUU III JnIs snguIur Uaso
has not kept strictly within the law. If so.
his prompt action yesterday may lead to un-
fortunate results.
Year: 1873

The Rev Mr.. Ancient has a rival in pastoral devp
ton in Tennessee-a clergyman who in the hrss
place refuses to receive any pay from his cOngrega
ton. To support himself he teaches a school and
cultivates his own farm. When his church needs
help he starts upon ecturng tour, and thus raises
the needed money. This is highly honorable in the
clergyman, but how about the congregationi Nay
there not be such thing selfshy leaving pastor
TO bear more than his share of the burdeni
Year: 1873

1t is reported that ex-Gov. Jewell OF Con-
necticut is to be appointed to the vacant
Russian mission. We may therefore again
congratulate the President upon meIitorous
act For although Gov. Jewell has no special
preparation or fitness for diplomatic life, and
although in a well organized civil service he
would not have been thought of for such
position, yet he is man of such sterling
worth of character, such genial and kindly
nature, and has borne so honorable part
hitherto in every public and private relation
in which he has been known, that his selection
for new honors and dignities will be generally
and heartily approved, without much criticism
of its appropriateness.
Year: 1873

Apropos of Mrs. Livermore's late
lecture on the above important ques-
ton, the Davenport Democrat thus
sensibly makes answer:


Bring them up in the way they
should go.


Give them n good, substantial, COM
mon education.


Teach them how to cook good meal
of victuals.


Teach them how to wash and iron
clothes.
: Teach them how to darn stockings
and sew ON buttons.
dresses.


Teach them to make shirts.


Teach them to make bread.


Teach them the mysteries of the
Kitchen the dining room and parlOr.


Teach them that dollar is only one
hundred cents.
within their income the more they will
save.


Teach them the further one lives be-
yond their income the nearer they get
to the poorhouse.


Teach them to wear calico dresses,
and do it like queen.


Teach them to wear thick, warm
shoes.


Teach them to do marketing for the
family.


TEACH them to foot up store bills.


Teach them that God made them in
his own image, and that no amount of
tight lacing viii improve the mode.


Teach them every day hard. practi-
cal common sense.


Teach them selfreliance.


Teach them that a good, steady,
greasy mechanic, without a cent, is
worth a dozen oily-pated loafers in
hroadcloth.


Teach them to have nothing to do
Year: 1873

There is in all the wide area of hu-
man sinfulness and human woe no one
lever upon which turns more misery
and more wretchedness than the $50
cial glass" taken "only with a few
friends" 1t is the stepping stone to
the paths of intemperance and pov-
erty-the dagger that stabs the devoted
wife to the heart, and brands the brows
of her innocent children with that
most shameful of all marks, "a drunk
ards child.n OF course no one thinks
himself in danger; he can always stop
himself in time; no fears need be en-
tertained for him. o, no, he is per-
fectly safe; his seIf-control is remarka-
ble. But does he always do it? Does
no evil consequence ever result from
the "innocentn God save the word, }
practice of ''treating a friend OCCASION
allyn


Let us review step by step the life of
the degraded sot whom we saw lying
prone upon his face in the mud a few
evenings since. His was once a hap
py home, peace and plenty smiled at
his hcarth-stone, and his wife wore the
shining light of joy in her blue eyes as
she sung her evening lulalby to his
rosy, well-clad children. He meets an
old friend one evening, as he is hurry
ing home TO his darlings. They have
not seen each other for years, they
must really have "a drink togeth-
er, just in memory Of the glad old days.
His friend is such talented fellow
has just come to town, TO address its
citizens on the great political questions
of the day. Our once happy man must
really hear him speak, and he straight
way forgets that his wife is waiting
supper for him at home, and that the
little ones are doing their best to keep
their heavy eyes unclosed to kiss papa
Year: 1873

goodnight" All il forgotten for th,


time, and In the excitement of TIN


hour time flies on spangled feet, unit


the closing of the triumphant adj


dress.


Then friends crowd around the gifted
! orator to give their need Of praise to
his God-lille genius, and rs crowning
testimonial of their high appreciation
of the same, they insist on his adjourn
ing with them to the nearest saloon to
"take II drink" OF course he cannot
refuse. He is so proud of his s'thiclily
budding laurcls that he feels in good
humor with all the world, and his poor,
misguided friend is borne along with
the tide, and the hour of midnight
finds him seeking his home with foul
breath and unsteady gait, bringing
with him to its sacred hcarthstonc n
blight as destroying to all domestic
bliss as is the shade of the deadly lupas
to those who sleep beneath its branches.
Thus the ball is started that, in almost
every instance, stops only with the
bounding pulse of life.


And yet they tell US there is no dam
ger in an occasional drink. How often
we hear man say, 81 never intend to
be seen drunk, but | take drink when
| want it," TO all such we would say, in



the language of Holy Scripture, "He
wholoves the danger shall perish in it,"
and again, "a prudent man forseeth
the danger, and hideth himself; but
the simple pass on and are punished"


Pause, while there is yet time. Think
of the mother and sister who will weep
over your inevitable disgrace and mis-
cry you do not turn from the dazzling
path Of fancied safety you are treading.
Ortimay bea lOvingwife and lairhaircd
children look trustingly to you for COM
fort and happiness. In the name of
these holiest of all holy ties, dash the
accused glass to the earth, and count
no man your friend who would tempt
you to raise the sparkling poison to
your lips.
Year: 1873

In every exchange that meets our
eyes we read of the precautions that
are taken in other cities to arrest the
progress of the fatal diseases that are
striding abroad through the land. In
the course of time, those scourges OF
humanity will surely reach Dallas, and
it behooves US to prepare, while there
is yet time, to blunt the edge Of the
destroying sword, by Kidding all public
and private places of any decayine
matter calculated to give rise to sick
ness in our midst. Carbolic acid and
lime are greatly needed in almost every
thoroughfnrc Of the town, and we would
urge upon the city authorities the ne
cessity of bestowing upon these things
their immediate attention.


An epidemic, or, to put ii in its mild
est form, sicilly season, would inter-
ferc very materially with the growth
of our city, and we should have every
possible precaution Of cleanliness and
disinfection used to keep from our
doors the fell destroyer which always
follows in the wake of malarial fevers.
Let the city authorities look to this at
once and rid our citizens of some of the
stagnant filth that now sends forth its
balcful breath to poison and destroy.
Year: 1873

Few farmers are aware of the great
profits to be derived from the raising OF
broom corn. Two crops can be raised
every season, as it will take only nine
ty days for each. The yield is two
thousand poands per acre, and this will
bring in cash six cents per pounds, de-
livered ut the Brenham industrial
works. The proprietor will furnish
gratis, to those who wish to plant, all
the seed necessary. Drouths never af-
feet this crop, and our readers can see
at II glance that it is more profitable
than cotton. Let two or three acres be
planted as an experiment, and our
readers will thank us for calling their
attention to this matter.-Brenham
Times
Year: 1873

and uninteresting at home among
Their children. If they have not men
tai activity and mental stores sufficient
for both, let them first use what they
have for their own household. a ST.
lent house is dull place for young
people, a place from which they will
escape If they can. How much useful
information, OH the other hand, is of
ten given in pleasant family CONVERSE
ton, and what unconscious but excel
lent mental training in lively social
argument. Cultivate to the utmost all
the graces of home conversation.
Year: 1873

To the Editor of Tie Dallas Herald:


The time has at last arrived when
you rs 4 party, representing seven
tenths OF tho property, Intelligence,
virtue and patriotism of the State can
once more exercise the rights Of free
men, unawed by power AMI I'M
shackled by chains. Your mission is Il
high one--no less than controlling the
ship of State, now lifted from the rock
and shoals of political degradation,and
guiding it successfully on the voyage OF
peace, justice and prosperity.


70 the Democratic party is commit
ted this great work. Its mission Is one
of peace and the restoration of popular
liberty. 1t has no vindictivc malice to
crafty, but great achievements to ac-
complish. While ignoring persecution
on the one hand, they cannot on the
other, as rational beings, shut their
eyes to the past, nor ignore the fact
that to the party in power in this State
for years past, they owe the palamities,
prosecutions and outrages under which
they have suffered.


These facts, rs men of common sense,
they cannot forget. They can and will
join hands in this work with upright
men, regardless of party affiliations be-
fore and during the war, including those
who since the present State admins
tration came into power, have opposed
and manfully denounced its wrongs
and the bitter degradation il and its
instruments have inflicted upon them.
But to break down the barrier between
political virtue and public liberty on
the one side, and unbridled tyranny
and oppression on the other; this the
Democrats of Texas will not do. The
gulf between Democracy, long disfran-
chiscd and down-trodden, and Radical
ism, as long developed in this State, is,
and for years to come must be, in n
general sense, impossible.


On the second of December next,
W lllt vi Nilt
Legislature, and for the first time in
seven years, you will have free and
untrammeled election for all State Off
GERS, an entirely new Legislature, and
for all county officers, excepting those
elected in 1871 and 1872. Yo have five
and half months in which to select
your candidates and conduct the can
vass. The State Democratic Conven-
ton will assemble about the first of
September-tw and a half months
from this time. Let our party, by a
free and fair system of primary pre-
cinct meetings, select good men Ito
represent them i'm that body.


Let the same course be pursued in
selecting delegates to each District
Convention for the nomination Of a
Senator and three Representatives.
Give ample time and notice of time
and place for each precinct meeting.


There is abundance of time TO allow
the Democratic voters throughout the
country a full and fair opportunity for
calm and dispassionate action. Avoid
everything like precipitate haste or un-
fairness. Adopt the same just line Of
action for the nomination of county
officers. BY such a course all fair minded
Democrats will see that justice is done.
They viii be united and harmonious,
Year: 1873

and the Radical attempt now being
made in other parts of the State to SOY
dissention, and to get up so-called in
dependent Democratic candidates, will
utterly fail and Deccmbers sun will
see Texas once more free, with an hon
est government of our own choice.


A DEMOCRAT.
Year: 1873

THE REASON WHY-The immediate
cause of premature fading or blanching of
the hair is an obstruction of the oil vessels
which afford the coloring matter The re-
mote causes may be general i'll health,
trouble of mind, etc. Hence, in order to
restore its natural color and beauty the
oil vessels must be restored to their nor
NAL condition 1t is on this principle that
Natures Hair Restorative is compounded,
and it has proved a complete success, wher-
ever faithfully applied. 1t is not poison
Gus dye, consequently the effect is gradual,
and in severe cases two or three bottles
are necessary to produce the desired re-
suit See advertisement.
Year: 1873

VIM. Renne & Sons, of Pitts6eld, Mass,
make speciality of Renne's Pain-killing
Magic Oil, and the demand for it is steadi-
ly increasing year after year, and its use
by the families of our country is becoming
very common for curing all kinds of pain,
and can be used externally and internally
safely with success. Try it. Sold by most
dealers in Medicine.
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
Of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention Of consum-
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