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Year: 1871

CARE OF HoRsFs' LEes.-Few men
who h; nile horses give proper attention
to the feet and legs. Much time is spent
on morning rubbing, brushing aud smooth
ing the hair on the sides and hips, but at
no time are the feet examined and proper
ly cared for Now, be it known, that in
this six thousand year old world of ours the
feet need more care than the body. They
need ten times as much-for 10 one respect
they are almost the entire horse. All the
grooming that can be done won't avail any,
thing, if the horse is forced to stand where
his feet will be filthy. In this case the
feet will become disordered, and the legs
will get badly out Of fix, and with bad feet
and bad legs there is not much else of the
horse fit for anything. Stable prisons gen.
orally, are terribly severe on the feet and
legs of horses, and unless these buildings
can afford dry room, where horse can
walk around, lie down and roll over, they
are not half so healthy to the horse as the
pasture, and should be avoided by all good
hostlers in the country.
Year: 1871

Of the same size anf general Character as
THE WEEKLY. pnt>with q greater variety of
miscellaneous reading, a1d furnishing the news
to its subscriber with greater freshness because
It comes twice week instead of once only.
Year: 1871

..- COMMUNICATED.


Believing that theFarming interest Is the basis
of all trade and prosperity, and that that which
Injuries the country Injuries the town, and that
the rate of interest, now allowed, is prejudicial
to the welfare of our State, as at present
circumstanced, send you another article on
''l2 per ct. y TRADE.


sIt is stated, says the Alexandra Gazette,
by some of the newspapers OF the Old Dominion
that many of the land owners in Virginia ex-
press willingness to sell their estates, the
burden of taxation and the inefhciency of the
labor system prevailing here being more than
they can bear Within few weeks the best
lands Of the State, have deprecated twenty
per Ct in saleable vail lue. t..


On this, the Tenth Legion says: Many
farmers in the Valley section of the State have
long since expressed, not willingness, but
desire to dispose of their best farming lands,
but they cannot do so without making great
sacrifice of that which has always been consid-
cred better than gold. But the cause
assigned by the Gazette-the inefhciency OF
the labor system-does not apply here
The depreciation is mainly attributable to that
abominable enactment which makes m oney yield
in interest almost three times as much as the
best producing lands of the State. hen the
war closed and the people began to realize their
condition, farms were thrown upon the market
and their owners realized their full value Land
Agencies were springing up in every county
town in the State, and catalogues descriptive
of hundreds Of farms were issued coach and
train loads Of buyers from Pennsylvania and
other Northern States, were examining and
purchasing farms, but we think we speak the
truth when we say that we have had but two
purchasers in this neighborhood since money
became worth twelve per cent, and one of these
was a reckless humbug who stole horse and
left for parts unknown. The other was a gen
tleman who came few days ago, and after
finding a property to suit him, asked the pro-
prietor what interest he wanted on the deferred
payments, He was told six per cent, and a
sale is altogether probable. But in majority
Of cases the farmers, upon whom the burden
of the war fell most heavily, are compelled to
ask twelve per cent, upon payments IN ordel q
to meet their own obligations given since the
passage of this ruinous act. "tG
Year: 1871

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
happiness Indeed, without these, the journey
through life becomes a weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowcd with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1871

The symptoms of Liver


Complaint are uneasiness


and pain iii the side. Some


times the pain is in the
shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The stom-


ach is effected with loss of
appetite and sickness, bowels


in general costive,. some
times alternating with lax. =
with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss


of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation of hay


ing left undone something


which ought to have been


done. Often complaining of
weakness, debility and low
spirits. Sometimes many of
Year: 1871

Especially, who have become the Victims of
Solitary Vice. and dreadful and destructive
habits which annually sweep to an untinely
grave thousands Of young men of the most e1-
allied talents and brilliant intellect who might
otherwise have entranced listening Senates with
the thunders of eloquence or walked to e1tacy
the living Tyre may call with full confidence.
Year: 1871

1t is really a matter of surprise that


our bills of mortality are not vastly


greater than they are. We make this


remark not because of the filthy con-


dition of our streets, though 1t would


be as fully appropriate in that diree-


ton, but because of the decidedly inn


pure atmosphere in which SO many


persons eat, drink, sit and Sleep


There are thousands who during the
summer season declare fresh air 20 be
indispensable to their existence, but


who as soon as the cold weather sets
i'll as carefully exclude the pure air of
heaven rom their sleeping apartments
as though every Whit OF, it brought
.contagion and death. Two, three,
four and sometimes more persons will
sleep in a room of moderate size, from
which every vestige of pure air is ex-
cluded. The atmosphere of such a
chamber MAY be pure when its oct u
pants enter it, but an hour or two at
ter it becomes wholly unfit for healthy
inhalation. Talk 10 such, persons of
the danger and they will ridicule you.
One OF the best methods of convinc-
ing such incrcdulous people is to have
one of them step out of doors into tho
pure air, and after inhaling it for five
minutes return to the crowded and
non-Ventilated sleeping apartment
If the vitiated atmosphere that salutes
him as he enters does not convince
hIm of his error, the only way is to
let him pursue his own foolish course
and waste his health by inches.' Ii
summer breeze is healthfuI, SO is the
breath of winter, to a man in sound
health, and those who would have
their children stout and strong should
keep their sleeping apartments thor
oughly ventilated in the winter as
we'll as in the summer season..
Year: 1871

SUNSHINE AND LEEP.-Sleepless
people-and there are many in Amer
ica--should court the sun. The very
worst sophistic is laudanum, and the
very best, sunshine. Therefore, it is
very plain that poor sleepers should
pass as many hours as possible in the
Sunshine, and as few as possible in the
shade. Many women are martyrs,
and yet they do not know it, They
shut the sunshine cut of their houses
and their hearts, they wear walls, they
carry parasols, they do all that is
possible to keep off the subtlest and yet
most potent influence which is intended
to give them strength and beauty and
cheerfulness. Is it not time to chana
to this, and get color and roses in our
pale cheeks, strength in our weak
backs, and courage in our timid souls?
The women of America are pale and
delicate; they may be blooming and
strong, and the sunlight will be po~
tent influence in this transformation.


Rural Neo Yorker.
Year: 1871

Gold is obtained from the mine by
digging the earth, and from the miser
by digging his soul. Men of groveling
disposition expend not and hoard with
care, saying that the hopes of expend-
ing are better than having spent.
You will see one day according to tho
wish of the enemy, the money left and
the wretch dead.
Year: 1871

Whatever is highest and holiest is
tinged with melancholy. The eye of
genius has always plaintive express
sion, and its natural language is pathos.
A prophet is sadder than other men
and He who was greater than all pro-
phets was "a man of sorrow and ac-
quainted with grief"
Year: 1871

There are many shining qualities in
the mind Of man, but there is none
more useful than discretion; it is this,
indeed, which gives a value to all the
rest, which sets them at work in their
proper times and places, and turns
them to the advantage of the person
possessed of them. Addison.
Year: 1871

Like a morning dream life becomes
more and more bright the longer we
live, and the reason of everything be-
comes more clear. What has puzzled
us before seems less mysterious, and
the crooked paths look straighter as We
approach the end.-Richter.
Year: 1871

When you have anything to commu-
nicate that will distress the heart of
the person to whom it Concerns, be
silent in order that he may hear from
some one else. o nightingale bring
thou the glad tidings of spring and
leave bad news TO the owl.
Year: 1871

1t is by piomulgation of sound NOR
ais in the community, and more espe-
cially by the training and instruction
of the young, that woman performs
her part toward the preservation of a
free government. Webster.
Year: 1871

BE GENTLEMAN AT HoME.-It is
cruel and cowardly in any man to
speak to the woman under his roof in
a manner that would forever disgrace
him, if heard under any other. Yet
how many do it, alas and even go
their ways after it, selfshly forgetting
the tears and bitterness they have
caused, and selfshly expecting, if they
remember it at all, that on their return
the domestic sky will be without q
cloud. More the pity when it is Then
indeed, is there danger in the air; fol
then too often comes deceit, and by
pocrisy, and indifference.
Year: 1871

LIVE CATTLE WEIGHED BY MEAS
URE. The only instrument necessary
in a measure with feet and inch marks
upon it. The girth is the circumfer-
ence of the animal just behind the
shoulder blades. The lenghth is the
distance from the shoulders blades
The superficial feet are obtained by
multiplying the girth and length. The
following table contains the rule to as
certain the weight of the animal:


If less than foot in girth, multiply
superficial feet by eight.


If less than three and more than
one, multiply superficial feet by eleven.


If less than five and more than
three, multiply superficial feet by six
teen.


If less than seven and more than
five, multiply superficial feet by twen'
ty-fve.


If less than nine and more than
seven, multiply superficial feet by thir.
ty-three.


If less than eleven and more than
nine, multiply superficial feet by forty
two.


Example,-Supposo pig to meas
IRE in girth two feet, and length one
foot and nine inches; there would be
three and a half feet, which multiplied
by eleven, gives thirty>eight and a hall
pounds as the weight of tho animal
when dressed In this way, the weight
Of the quarters can be substantially as
certained during life.
Year: 1871

If we can imagine a man, such as
the world by many shining example
has aided us to imagine, who lives in
the upper realm Of thought, entirely
upon his spiritual capital who for
love of his fellow men will give his body
to be burned and his goods to feed the
poor, we have had more comprehen-
sive glimpse of the material that the
heavenly host is made of than will be
granted us this side of an arrival there.
Year: 1871

Louisville boasts ofan eighteen-year
old belle who can lift a tub of clothing
from the ground to an elevation OF
four feet, and have the clothes line
white with tie results Of the labor Of
her own little white hands in a short
while. Meantime her mother sits in
the parlor taking her ease in her old
age. As soon as this becomes gener-
ally known the railroads running into
that city will have to run extra trains.
Year: 1871

The brow of Labor wears wreath


OF honor, wrought by hands OF love,
Whose flowers shall triumph over death,


And ripper grow above.
When God shall can the toiler hence,
And crown him with his recompense,
Then shall all stains of mortal sense,


All imperfections die,
And in their place shall shine the grace


OF Immortality.
When Toll makes Virtues self his bride,


And walks tho path where angels


might
Together walk, all-purified,


Without enc fear OF blight,
Then may the eyes of mortals see
How pure how Heaven-hke can be
Mans earthly glory, and how free


From wantOn shame and sin:
Then may We learn how brightly burn


The souls great fires within
The lowliest creature of His hand


May work great ends, toll not ia vain
For every humble act is grand,


II it be free from stain.
The selfish monarch ON his throne
Who calls all victories his own.
Tho bought with blood and curse and


groan,


Let no man emulate;
Virtue alone hath ever shone


Diyinely pure and great
Riches. and high degree, ani power,


Stamp not the value of the man;
They may but live short. weak hour


They only mark the clan.
But Labor, if il be the right,
Thought humble, in His equal sight,
Is great as though it owned the might


of crowns and wealth combined:
Its works. if pure, shall stand, endure,


Long as tn immoral mind.
Year: 1871

We shall support the doctrine Of an
equitable division of taxation among
oil classes, a faithful collection of the
revenues, economy in the expendi-
lures conformably with the exigen-
'ltS OF the State or Country aud the
discharge Of every legitimate obliga-
ton.
Year: 1871

LONDON, Dec. This mornings bulle-
tin states that there was an increase of fever
in the case of the Prince early in the even
ing yesterday, but as the night advanced the
the fever again partially sub
sided. The prince remained comparative
ly quiet through the remainder of the
night.


The Earl Of Chesterfield died to-day Of
typhus fever. He contracted the disease
about the same time and the same locality
as the Prince.


LATER-The death of the Earl of Ches-
terfield intensiies the anxiety for the Prince
of Wales. The public uneasiness is so
great as to have perceptible effect on the
markets, which were generally dull and fat
The Queen has returned to Windsor from
Sandringham, where sheh has been watching
by the bedside of the Prince. The festivi-
ties usually given by the court on the 1st of
Wales, were abandoned.


Continent Smallpox.


Smallpox in virulent form is spreading
in Plymouth and vicinity. The authorities
are building special hospitals for those
stricken with the disease, and have adopted
stringent sanitary precaution.


Dixie Disturbances.


Sir Charles Dixie addressed a meeting at
Ballow last night. During the evening the
audience became very disorderly. There
was some fighting and the meeting broke up
in confusion.


The Sydieate.


The final settlement of the United States
funded loan was made to-day without dis
turbing the money market, the bonds
closing higher than ever before, the loan
advancing to 903 gold, because the settle
ment was anticipated. The portion of the
loan unsettled at the opening of the books
to-day, was only twenty millions dollars,
and of this the taking of nearly fifteen mil
lions was arranged in London, leaving less
than six millions undisposed of with the
Continent to hear from. There is no doubt
that the whole of the loan in European
markets will be taken.
Year: 1871

louisville, Dec. 1.-The Criminal
Court of Clark county, Ind, convened at
Charleston to-day. Judge Denham deliv-
cred a long charge to the grand jury on the
subject of the Park tragedy and subsequent
lynching. He charged them to investigate
the murder of the Park family
and also to investigate thoroughly the cir
cumstances of the lynching. He styled the
latter murder, ridiculed the idea of the ne
groes' confession under the terror of death
being of any value, and referred to sixteen
similar murders in that circuit in the last
four years. He ordered them to inquire
whether the Sheriff, JailOr, or
any officer or Constable had neg
lected his duty in the last case by fail
ing to use all possible means to prevent the
execution Of purpose; also to inquire if any
Grand Juror was concerned with the mob
and concluded with solemn charge to do
their duty courageously and thoroughly.
Year: 1871

from Lne Ollcs IIess.


We agree with the Trenton Gazette, that
tIis lease is no doubt an advantageous con-
tract for the State. The penitentiary has
sustained itself during but a small part of
lis existence, and if it can be made self
supporting by leasing i, it is well enough
for this to he done if the security of the
prisoners and the interests Of the State are
il no wise jeopardized.


BY this lease the penitentiary viii be the
source Of small revenue to the State.
This is not Objectionable. If the peniten-
iiarv welded a large amount to the State she
might be tempted to enact severe laws
and to enforce them with too much rigor.
Bat a small income from convict labor can
give rise tono evils, AM W only!hope that the
terms of the l-aSe viii be carried out to the
lvieT.
Year: 1871

In the Lower House of the Diet yester-
day the triennial army budget passed a sec
ond reading by small majority. The items
of expenditure were sharply criticized.
looked at the time as if the budget would
be rejected, the opposition was so strong
and determined. But the Ministers warned
the House in the most significant manner
that it should prepare for the future; that
France contemplated revenge for her defeat
and would seek it as soon as the indemnity
was paid. The. only safety for Germany
was in her army, and that should neither
be weakened nor neglected. 1t was only
through these representations that the gov
ernment sucee eded in carrying the bill.
Year: 1871

On Monday evening, between 9
and 10 o'clock, we were star led by
hearing the discharge Of firearms, as
if a skirmish was going on in Main
street, near the court house. Upon
proceeding to the spot, we learned
that aaparty of the United States
soldiers, stationed here, had opened
fire upon a crowd at the corner Of
Main and Liberty streets, and that
two negroes were wounded, one in
the arm and one in the thigh. We
saw both the wounded. The first
had a severe flesh wound in the fore
arm, which he received as he was
proceeding toward the place of con-
fict, some 100 yards distant. The
other, a quiet lad, received a ball in
the thigh, the result Of which may
yet prove fatal. The next day a
third negro was brought into town
with a flesh wound in the head, who
said that he had received the wound
from the firing of the soldiers the
night before, and that he had fed in
to the country. We learn also that
one Of the soldiers was. wounded by
a pistol shot in the leg. This, we
hear, was the first shot fired. An
investigation will be made, and the
truth, whatever it be, will, doubtless,
be ascertained. Some i'll feeding, it
appears, had existed between some Of
the soldiers and some negroes.


When we arrived upon the scene
of action, we found the acting Inten-
dant, Capt. G. Richardson, already
there, eadeavoring to allay the ex-
citement and to prevent further
bloodshed. Capt. Lloyed, commander
of the post, with detachment OF
his men, was also soon upon the spot.
We hear that threats had been made
before night against the soldiers.
But whatever may have caused the
riot, we trust that the investigation
to be held will bring it out-Sumter
News.
Year: 1871

CADET SMITH AGAIN IN Hot WA
TER.-The Washington correspon-
dent of the Baltimore Sun writes
as follows to that journal under date
of,the 22d instant:


The trouble is not entirely over
with the celebrated negro cadet Smith
yet. It seems that when the second
cadet of his color, who was appoint
ed early in the present summer, was
sent to West Point, he was placed
under the charge Of Smith, who was
to initiate the new conner into the
mysteries of his sposition. Charges are
now brought against Smith to the eff
feet that he is hard, tyrannical and
oyerbearing, and that he treats bis
protege with "a genuine savage cru
city" In several instances the Off
GERS of the institution have been
obliged to reprimand Smith for his
inexcusable conduct. The new me-
gre cadet is said to be very popular
with his white associates, end to be
extremely afable in his address.
Year: 1871

/ 80 -.
A party of mounted men, various
ly estimated in numbers at from fifty
to one hundred, entered this town a
little after midnight yesterday morn
ing, and, after posting notices on the
postoffce in the lower part of the
town,.near the hotel, upon one of the
Office doors of the buildings allotted
to the officers of the court, and upon
a telegraph post near the railroad
avenue, withdrew quietly and SO
mysteriously that no one is able to
give any clue to their route.


The notices purport to emanate
from the headquarters of the Ku
Klux-Klan,. and contain warnings to
such as are engaged in buying seed
cotton "a practlce that is carried on
to a shameful extent, and which en-
courages unlimited thefts in the cot
ton fields and hints to the carpet
baggers and scalawage, who are STIR
rirg up strife between the races, to
desist under penalty Of being visited
with summary punishment. The
orders conclude with a friendly call
to the colored people to unite with
them as the friends of order and
good government, to root out the
enemies of both white and colored
men. On the whole, the document
was aimed at fragrant abuses, and
was full Of peaceful assurances, espe-I
cially to industrious and honest ne
groes. The movements Of the party
were quietly conducted with the
signal Of the whistle, and since their
departure not vestige of infor-
nation is known Of them. and not a
single threat or. act of violence has
been reported of them.
Year: 1871

The Radical party is in bad luck
lately. Not long ago it blew its own
trumpet in special blast, announ-
cling to an appreciative public that it
was the party Of intelligence, morali-
ty and honesty. Ithad scarcely done
so before New York Tribune cor
respondent blurted out that it had
had placed the government of South
Carolina in the hands of semi-barba-
rians, Mr.. Greedy denounced its
Southern carpet-baggers as gangof
thieves, and It's President for politi-
cal reasons pardoned a convicted
bigamist. Its claim to honesty seems
10 be sharing the fate of the rest OF
it's pretensions. In the midst Of the
clamor it is making about the mil
lions alleged to nave been stolen by
the local Democratic officials in the
city Of New York, its Secretary of
the Treasury is accused of conniving
at an exorbitant contract for stamp
paper, so little fitted for the purpose
that il has facilitated frauds upon the
revenue to the amount of four Or FIVE
millions annually. -


Corruption in the city of New
York is, at the worst, matter affect
ing only the million Of people who
live there. Were all the charges
against its local government fully
established, they would only show
that the voters Of single city did
not know how to provide themselves
with an honest administration. The
other thirty-eight millions of people
in the Union are neither responsible
for the local governmental that city
nor able to reform it. But they, and
the million in New York: also, are
interested in the honest and economi-
cal administration of the Treasury
Department at Washington, and
when the fountain-head is poisoned,
the whole stream of national admin
lstratlon running from 1T Is tainted.


1t is significant also that while the
personal difference between Mr.. Bout
well1and Gen. .Pleasonton arose out
of the contract for stamp paper, the
main reason semi-oficially given for
the removal Of the latter from Office
is thatin Interpreting doubtful clauses
of therevenue laws, he decided against
aplethoric treasury and in favor Of
the over-burdened taxpayer. ARadi-
cal official may do many things; but
two seem to be forbidden him-stop-
ping stealing from the Treasury by
contractors, or stopping official robbie
ry of Taxpayers ito raise the money
for contractors to steal.