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Year: 1871

I A BUSINESS SToRY.-A good story is
told of a business meeting among certain
Quakers about proposed canal, when one
Of the most influential men present opposed
the project on the ground Of its being a spec
ulation. This was of course unanswerable;
but among the objections, he went on to say;
J." When God created the world, if he had
wished canals, he would have made them. Z"
Upon this, weighty friend" Gone of their
terms rose up, and said slowly, in the into
ming Voice in which they always speak in
weeting, And Jacob digged WELL" and
sat down. The influential man Immediately
retired into private life, but he bought some
shares in the canal for all that.
Year: 1871

\ great event will occur tomorrow,
which will be fraught with JOY to come
fortunate individual. A capital prize Of
fifty thousand dollars in tho Louisiana
State Lottery will be drawn by the pur-
chaser of the lucky number. As only
twenty thousand tickets are offered for
sale. the holder of one Of these tickets Is
quite sure to draw the tempting prize-not
glittcrins gold. but genuine greenbacks.
Each ticket costs only twenty dollars; and,
consequently. If the prize is drawn by come
one who purchases one ticket only. the
profit on the investment will be forty nine
thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars
1t is just impossible to make a more profita-
bio investment than that. and only one
more day remains to make the investment
for the drawing will take place tomorrow
at eleven o'clock. The public are invited
to witness tho drawing, in order that it
may be seen that fair play prevails on that
occasion.
Year: 1871

Coal is coming down in a double sense
1t now retails for dollar a barrel. Three
hundred and fifty thousand bush Els ar
rived here Wednesday. and seven hundred
thousand bushels moro have gone below
Louisville since the last report In about
a month Pittsburg coal will be down to
seventy .6vo cents barrel.
Year: 1871

THE RIGHT MAN CAUGHT.-A colored
man by the name of Henry Banks was
tried yesterday for throwing paving stone
at Policeman Charter on Saturday night
last. 1t will be remembered that Char tel
arrested a man of like color the same night
for using indecent language in the street,
and violently resisting the officer VINO took
him to the station house. While on the
way to the lookup, and near the bridge
which crosses the canal ON 9Th street
Charter was assaulted by party who EVIL
dently intended to take away the prisoner
and then it was that the cobble-stones were
thrown. Two men have been previously
arrested on suspicion, but were discharged
there being no evidence to convict them
In this case, however, the private watch
man, who was near by at the time, idaati
fed Banks rs the man who threw the stone
Justice White required security Of him in
the sum of $50 for his future good beha-
yior.
Year: 1871

COMMITTED TO JAIL FOR STEALING MONEY.
A young white woman by the name of Betty
Anderson was arrested Tuesday for stealing
$l5 in United States currency from MIR.
w. N. Wheeling. The case was tried
yesterday before the Police Court, and upon
the statement of the gentleman the woman
was committed to Jail for sixty days. She
had no witnesses, but when asked by the
that she knew nothing Of his money.
Year: 1871

EBUSISEss OF RICHMOND ON THE lHCREASE.-
Judging from the rush Of business ut The LEE -
gallery for the beautiful Iverines We have to
the conclusion that city is destined to become
great place. Our little children cry to be taken
4 the LEE.
Year: 1871

On Thursday last the vile came to Wash
inston to ascertain if her husband had OBJ
tained divorce, to which he was Of course
entitled by reason Of her abandonment.
Stayihg with some friends on 11th street,
she began investigating, and found that he
had taken no steps in that direction. On
Saturday she heard report that the col
,oneI was living in the northern section Of
the city with young girl whom he called
his daughter.
Year: 1871

We are notat liberty to Gvulse more at
present. Suffice it to say that the New York:
er, ON condition that he would ut once fur
nish her with such documents rs should
secure her,a divorce, and in consideration
of the pitiable plight his first wife and
children would be in, generously agreed to
let him go unpublished for his infamous
crime,
Year: 1871

and o request from the young lieutenant
for permission to correspond with her on
his return to the seat Of war. This request
was thoughtlessly granted, anda CORE
spopdence, especially ardent on his part,
followed. In January OF the same year he
visited her while she was staying with some
relatives in New York city, and there
Year: 1871

The stock market was intensely dull ana the day
viii probably 80 on record as tho ducst OF the
year. The amount or business could hardly have
been less on the sulriest afternoon Of q dog day.
The variations In price were triiing until after the
sudden relaxation in money above noticed, when u
feeble effort at activity responded to by con-


siderable advance in quotations. Tnis much can be
said for the markc. nowadays, and those interested
may give II such Interpretation as they please Its
rise Is moro sudden whenever money Is easy
than It's decline Is rapid when money
II scarce. Seven per cent gold caused
decline OF hardly onequarter per cent this forenoon


Five per cent currency caused jump OF ,s a x per
cent. Doubtless artificial assistance has helped
these variations; II so. the problem Is the more
complex. With reference TO the new issue OF
Wabash 1t is stated tnat tho company have SIMPLY
sanctioned a sort OF debenture on a leased branch
OF The road running between Lafayette and Bloom
ingion, which does not In any way mar tho inter.
OF the stockholders. The transfer books OF the
Wabash Railroad Company VIII In futurc DC at the
Union National Bank, In Wall street. Late In tho
afternoon Western Union was W better request on
Year: 1871

James Farrell a fireman on the tug boat Morgan,
reported at the Ffth precinct station house last
night that during quarrel with the engineer Of the
tug boat U s. Grant, at the foot OF Spring street.
North River, the latter stabbed him IN the right
cheek and left leg. The wounded man was at
tended by police surgeon, ana left for his boat.
AS the Grant lett the dock shortly after the ARRAY
the engineer made his escape.
Year: 1871

The French are distracted with the.
problem of subduing anarchy and re-
storing order; England is in despair
over the enormous increase of pauper-
fl,;,- within her borders Spain isafaara-f
- Led with imbecility 'snu IN this
country we are anNiouSly considering
what is to be the result of the general
decentralization of lawmakers and the
rapid increase Of Legislative robbery.
Reasons without number are given for
this sad state of things; but the one
fundamental reason is II lack Of sound
moral and religious training, not only
in the schools but in the family circle
also. The lust for riches and selfish
personal enjoyment OVerbears moral
principle, and the result is the present
decentralization which is work
ing woe on every hand.


"A little that a lust man hath is more and


better far,
Than is the wealth OF many such ms lewd


and wicked arc" t',--f
Year: 1871

From the Geographic report we get
of Greeley's speech ut the reception
given him in New York the other
evening, it is quite plain that Horace
is profoundly disgusted with the car
pet-bng vag,bOnds in the South. We
shall await the arrival of the Tribune
with an authentic report of that speech
with no little interest. We take it for
granted that in all essential qualities,
in falsehOod, cowardicc, venality and
corruption, combined with an inortli-
nate and overwhelming desire to steal,
the carpet-hagger is the same every
where; and assuming this to be fact, we
are ut no loss to account for the disgust
which has caused the gorge of Mr..
Greeley to rise. Looking ut the vnga-
bonds who surrounded and took charge
of him during his brief stay in this
city, the wonder is, not that he is dis
gustcd, but that any decent man, any
one who ever associated with gentle


men, could encounter such cattle and
live! Webber and the "PcOria hog"
little Jackobson and Mckee, Furlong
and High Court Brown, Chancellor
Hill, and the negro Furniss, Albert
Johnson and old Stringer, bringing up
the riff raft and tail and Of all that is
most disreputable in radicalism, consti-
tutcd the especial friends, guardians,
cOunsellors and protectors of Mr.. Gree
ley, while here, and we do not marvel
at his disgust. Fortunately for the
philosopher, the weather was cooler
then than now. With the present high
temperature we should not like to take
risk on Mr.. Greclcy's life; indeed, we
considered his escape at the time moth
ing less than a Providential intcrposi-
ton. If he thinks he can do such des-
perate things with impunity II second
time, we invite him to try it. He may
wear charmed life, but the moral
filth and villainy concentrated in his
entertainers will be altogether too much
for the sturdy vegetarian.
Year: 1871

Many IL discouraged mother folds her
tired hands ut night, and feels as if she
had, after all, done nothing, although
she has not spent an idle moment since
she rose. Is it nothing that your little
helpless children have had some one to
come to with all their childish griefs
and joys? Is it nothing that your hus-
band feels "Safc'' when he is away to
his business, because your careful hand
directs everything at home? Is it noth-
ing when his business is over that he
has the blessed refuge of home, which
you have that day done your best To


brighten and refine? Oh, weary and
faithful mother, you little know your
power when YOU say, ''I have done
nothing" There is book i'll which Il
fairer record than this is written over
against your name.
Year: 1871

The Danbury News supplements that
story about the girl in South Norwalk
who caught IL husband by writing her
name and address on the lining of Il
hat she was trimming, with the follow
ing: "This is an old trick played By
several of our girls, one of whom in
particular had an eventful experience.
She stitched her name inside the lining
of a hat beneath the statement: II am
thine; wilt thou be mine? aud sent it
adrift. After various vfciSsitudcS 1t
was purchased by a gentleman, and
took a position on his head. One day
the lining became loose, and in endeav-
oring to fasten it his eye rested upon
the sentiment and name, and invoIun-
tarially exclaimed, On fool When
Martha returned to her home that day,
she was taken to a retired part of the
cottage and warmed up with a strap


The gentleman who got the hat was
her father.'
Year: 1871

South will follow wherever the Demo-
cratic party of the North leads. 1t is
obliged to do so. 1t can not act with
the Republican party. Itrecognizes III
the Republican party the author of all
it's suffering and all its humiliation. 1t
recognizes in the Democratic party a
host of friends at the North who are
anxious to ameliorate our condition
and to restore us to our privileges and
rights in the Union. The one party is
the patron and backer of the negroes
of the South; the other sympathizes
with and wishes to help the white race
of the South"
Year: 1871

TRANSMISSION of blood from II lamb to
I, man was performed in Wilmington,
North Carolina, last Friday. The sub
.jcct was Il colOred man, an inmate of
the city hospital, who has been suffer-
ing for some time past, and who has
lately seemed in danger Of death from
mere exhaustion. When laid upon
the table he was too weak to talk and
appeared to have but a few hours of
life left to him. When his vein was
opened but one drop of blood fell from
it. The carotid artery of the lamb was
opened, and the blood was forced from
thence, by the palpitation of the ami
MAILS heart, through Il small glass tube
into the patients cephafic vein. In
this way about eight ounces Of blood
was conveyed from the lamb to the
man. The operation was entirely sat
isftctory in its results, and the patient
is now doing very well.
Year: 1871

SPEECH OF GEN. FRANK P. BLAIR.
In responding to his nomination for
United State Senator by the Democrats
of the Missouri Legislature, General
Blair said:


81 shall endeavor to carry out, as
far as have the ability, the principles
proclaimed for me by the friends who
placed me in nomination. l am a
Democrat, and I am also Liberal.
Upon tie platform which was an
nounccd in our recent eletion, and which
gave back to Missouri her liberty and
her free lom, upon that platform l
stand with all men who will stand with
me. 1 hope and believe that new
and brilliant career is now open for our
State; that we will wisely leave not in
our hearts the spirit of retaliation for
the wrongs that we have suffered IN
this State, because we have higher
and nobler mission. We have to do
with greater objects than graphing with
things that are gone and cannot be rem.
edied. It is our duty, and highest
and noblest, to go forward to aid our
fellow-citizens in the Southern States to
the liberties which we have achieved.
And T know no. better way to ac-
complish that than to call to our side
the noble and generous allies who aid
ed US in our recent struggle. We have
another duty before US. 1t is the duty
to strike down those monstrous mo-
nopolies with which the millionaires in
the East have sapped the life blood of
the people Of the West. In this duty
We need these same allies, and with
out them We cannot succeed; with them
we will achieve. results equally glo-
rious as those which We achieved In our
late contest in November.
Year: 1871

The LAND VS.. THE SEA.-The Bos-
ton Advertiser says: England is grad
ually approaching America. If the
process which has been going for many
hundreds of years continues unchecked
for as many thousands, the inhabitants
of the State of Labrador, may look
across the gradually narrowing waste
of waters in the year of our Lord ll,s7l,
and see the west coast of England so
near that the Atlantic will be reduced
to strait. 1t is well known fact that
the sea is encroaching slowly upon the
east coast Of England, and that on the
west the land is gaining on the sea =
The latest startling reminder Of this is
a laudslip at Whitby, q town on the
sea to the north of Scarboro'. The
people living under what is known as
the East Cliff late one night in Decem'
Der last were aroused from their slum.
bers by the cracking of the walls and
ceilings, which told them that their real
estate was about to be "conveyed' in
manner unsatisfactory to the owners.
The alarm spread, aud by moonlight
the people prepared to remove their
goods. The mass of earth moved stead
ily but slowly, and by the next night
it had como to rest, large part of
the village and the whole of the village
graveyard had been pushed out to sea,
where the waves were tearing to pieces
the frail houses and preparing their
forces for a new attack on the cliff
Fortunately the motion of the caving
earth was so slow that there was no loss
of life, but the destruction of property
was great, 1t is eighty-three years
since q similar slip occurred near Whit
BY, but elsewhere on the coast the pro-
gress of the sea has been greater and
not less perceptible because unmarked
by extensive caving like that which
has Just taken place. On old York
shire, maps are still to be seen on the
present coast line, the names of dozen
places "lost in the sea-" and authentic
record exists chat Hornsea, now coast
town, was once ten miles inland. A
similarly hostile movement of the ocean
is destroying, with irresistible attacks,
a portion of the coast of our own be-
loved New Jersey.
Year: 1871

COOP CoFFEE.-A lady who knows
what good coffee is, has handed us the
following for publication. If some of
our boarding houses wilfproft by it, we
will think the space it occupies we'll
paid for. Having picked over the cof-
fee, wash it nicely, parch it evenly in
the oven until the berries crack open;
when thoroughly brown, (not burned }
let it stand until lukewarm; then beat
the yolks oftwo eggs to froth; stir
through this warm coffee and set 1t in
the oven minute to dry. TO make it;
take the ground coffee, one tablespoon
full to pint of boiling water; stir it up
with cold water first, and set on the
back of your, stove; let it simmer half
an hour; stir the grounds down when
they rise, and use good cream.
Year: 1871

have been written by an editor who was
insane, for certainly no sane mau could
dream anything so improbable:
7 had a dream tho other night,


When everything was still;
dreamed that each subscriber
Camc up and paid his bill


Each woro look of honesty.


And smiles were round each eye,


AS they handed over tho stamps
They yelled, "How's that for high I"
Year: 1871

Here are few extracts from Don
Quixote:


Beauty in a modest woman is like fire
or sharp sword at distance; neither
does the one burn nor the other wound
those that come not too near to them or
to theirs.


Keep your mouth shut and your eyes
open.


The absent hear and feel but lily.
Self.praise depreciates.


The dead to the bier, the living to
good cheer.


All women, let them be ever so home
ly, are pleased to hear themselves praised
for beauty.


Squires and knight Grants are subject
to much hunger and i'll luck.


Liberality may be carried too far in
those who have children to inherit Of
them.


Virtue is always more prosecuted by
the wicked than beloved by the right
Gus.


Every one is the son of his own
works.


Honey is not for the mouth of an
ass.
No padlocks, bolts or bars can secure
maiden 50 we'll as can her own natural
reserve.


Wit and humor belong to genius
alone.


The wittiest person in the comedy is
he who plays the fool.
There is no hook so bad but something
good may be found in it.
We are all as God made US !. and often
times great deal worse.


Let the hen live, though it be with
the pip.


We cannot all he friars, and various
are the paths by which God conducts
the good to heaven.


Covetousness bursts the bag.


1t is easy to undertake, but more difli
cult to finish a thing.


This is equally applicable to all ranks
whoever is ignorant is vulgar.


BY the streets of by and by one
| arrives at the house OF Never.


Between the yes and no Of Il woman
would not undertake to thrust the point
of pin.


Patience and shuttle the cards.
a soldier bad better smell of gunpow
der than musk.


Other mems pains are easily borne.


A bad cloak covers q good drinker


Pray devoutly any hammer on stout
ly.


When thing is once begun 1t is al
most half finished.


Lay bridge of silver for flying
enemy.


The jest that gives pain is not jes
worth making.
Year: 1871

A French scientific journal contains
an account of various experiments made
in France OH the best method of pre-
serving eggs-a subject of much impor-
tance there. Among the various pro-
cesses the best and at the same time
one of the simplest, was found to con-
sist in rubbing some vegetable oil Din.
seed especially on the egg, this prevent
ing any alteration for sufficient time,
and proving to be much more satisfnc-
tory than any other plan hitherto rec
commended.
Year: 1871

Hogs that are much confined, and
cannot get to the earth. will frequently
be benefited by having little charcoal
to them; and Il trifljng quantity Of
birthstone, mixed in their food OCCASION
ally, is an excellent thing.
Year: 1871

There has been n lively com
petition for the possession OF
Rulof's head. Three different
parties opened the grave at
Binghamton at night, with a
view to disinter the part of the
body which had never been
buried. The prize was in the
hands ola committee ordoctors,
who found 1T almost as difficult
to reach his brain as other
people had 10 get at his moral
consciousness. She skull was
from three -eigh;hs 10 half an
inch thick--the average thick


ness OF ordinary skulls being
less than a quarter Of an inch.
The scalp was Of a toughness
to match, and the cords of his
neck are said, with a slight
tendency to exagseration, 10
have been as heavy and ctrone
as those of an OK. Altogether,
Rulof' seems to have had ex


cep,ional natural advantages to
fit hm for the dangers incident
to the lite OF a criminal; and as
his unusually large brain was
chiefly developed around tie
base, the strong animal vigor
and general absence of moral
perception in the man are,
doubtless, satisfactorily ex-
claimed to all students of the
philosophy of the cranium.
Year: 1871

arc ma Q strong by using the Bit
ters or Tonic. III fact, they are
Family Medicines. They can bo
adnaiHistered with perfect safety
TO a child three months old, the
most delicate female or n man OF
ninety.
Year: 1871

our VAT clnims against the Federal Gov


ernmenf f9r 81. 193.76l Sc to meet fu-


ture deficits. Moreover, with the in


debtedness Of The State paid, the tax on


banks assurance and oil companies, divi-
dends Of turapikes roads, railroads. and
the rent Of the Penitentiary, amounting
annually . SIS, ,257 "a, would then, less
the interest o. the school bonds of sS7, :
900, go into the treasury proper, instead
of, as new, into the Sinking Fund.


Many Of the stocks are netting little or
no income. All of them together do not
average sIx per cent, the rate of interest
we pay upon our outstanding indebtncss.


But. besides fhis. there are four hun


dred thousand dollars cash in IL Sink
ing Fund vhioh until recently paid no
Interest. This sum is even now on de-
posit IN the banks at only three per
cent.


~ an; esalpd es Its report il
the following language Without the
adoption i some such views as herein
recommended, it is believed that the rate
of taxation viii have to be materially in
creased to meet the annual deficits of the
revenue poper. Shall we, then, increase
the burden aud rate Of taxation after we
have declsred by solemn legislation that
money was worth ten per cent, rather
than sell stocks aud bonds that do not
realize six per cent. upon their market
value, or use large fund of surplus cash
that never pays over three per cent, and
generally hone at alll"


Entertaining these views, the committee
the enactment of a law provid
ing that the Governor shall within thirty
days, appointa discreet person. other than
a member of the Board of Commits
sioners of the Sinking Fund, as an agent
to negotiate for and purchase, by and
with the consent and approval of the
Governor, the outstanding Indebtedness of
the State, maturing after the close of the
present fiscal year


We present the substance of this Sen
ate report in an editorial form in order
to draw the especial attention Of our
readers to this important question Ken
tucky is perhaps the most fortunate Of
all the States in her monetary affairs.
Let our financial men look to it that she
soon linquidates her present small debt,
and is kept financially uninvolved for
the future.
Year: 1871

The proprietor of this celebrated medi-
cine Justly claims for il a superiority over
all remedies ever offered to the public for
the safe, certain, speedy, and permanent
cure of Al que and Fever, or Chills and Fever,
whether OF short or long standing. He re-
fers 70 the entire Western aud Southwest
ern country TO bear him testimony 70 the
truth of the assertion, that in no case what
ever will il fail to cure, if the directions are
strictly followed and carried out. In a
great many cases q single dose has been
sufficient for cure, and whole families
have been cured by single bottle, with a
perfect restoration OF the general health.
It is, however, prudent, and in every ease
more certain 20 cure, if its use is continued
in smaller doses for week or two after the
disease has been checked, mare especially in
difficult and long standing cases. Usually,
this medicine will not require any aid 10
keep the bowels in good order; should the
patient, however, require cathartic medi-
cine, after having taken three or four doses
of the Tonic, a single dose of BU Ii s VEG
ETBALE FAMILY PILLS will be sufficient
Year: 1871

SENATOR WILSON, the godfather and
baptizer of the Republican party, says
that party may date its downfall from the
time of the removal of Senator Sumner
from the Craftsmanship of the Committee
on FOREIGN Relations.