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Year: 1875

A SINGULAR DREAM AND ITS STRANGE
FULLrILLMENr.-Thef following curious
dream and its prophetic fulltillment may
serve to interest those who are curious
as regards premonitions and present.
ments of death. A lady of the first res
pectability vouches for the truth of the
story, and from the parties we have not
the least hesitation in publishing it as
a fact. Not more than month ago
our lady informant's mother dreamed
that she was on visit at her fathers
house in Baltimore. While there her
father called her into an unoccupied
room containing only two somber look
ing coffins. She asked him why he
kept such mournful reminders of the end
of man in his house, and for whom
were they intended I His only reply, as
he pointed to the coffins, was, zone is
for me and the other for you" There
was nothing of the usual feeling OF ter
ror produced by such dreams expert
enced by the lady ON this occasion, and
the dream made little impression on her
mind at the time. But a week scarcely
elapsed before she was summoned to the
death bed of her father, and on Sunday
last she Joined him in the spirit world.
Will any one say the dream was not a
presentiment of death ?-Cumberiand
Times.
Year: 1875

Would you like to know the secrets
Of your neighbor's house and life?
How he lives or how he doesn't
And just how he treats his wife?
How he spends his time of labor,
Whether sorrowful or gay,
And where he goes for pleasure,
To the concert or the play?
If you wish it I will tell you


Let me whisper to you sly
If your neighbor is but civil,


1t is not your business why.
If my friend, instead of prying


Into other mems affairs,
If you do your own but justice,


You will find no time for theirs.
Be attentive to such matters


And concern yourself alone,
And whenever fortune flatters


Let your business be your own.
One word more by way of finish
Let me whisper to you sly
If you wish to be respected,


You must cease to be a pry.
Year: 1875

A NEEDLE IN THE HEART.-A little
girl in San Francisco, CAL, accidentally
forced a needle into her chest while
leaning against a windowsill. A physi-
clan was called but was unsuccessful
in finding the needle, although search
was made, and the integuments of the
chest divided to the breast-bone, i'm
mediately over the wound. The child
had broken it off in an effort to extri-
cate it herself. The needle had pene-
trated the chest, from which it was
quite impossible to extricate it. The
child died in few days, and an autopsy
revealed a wound in the right vertiele
of the heart produced by the needle. :
Year: 1875

An Irishman went fishing and
among other things he hauled in large
size turtle. To enjoy the surprise of
the servant girl he put it in her room.
Next morning the first that bounced
into the breakfast room was Biddy,
with the exclamation, BE jabers I've
got the devil what devili inquired
her master. why. the bnll-bed bug
that's been ating the children for the
last two months
Year: 1875

A TAX ON BAcHELoRs.-A bill has
been made the special order in the state
senate of Tennessee, which contains the
following section: "That bachelorism
is hereby declared privilege, and every
male inhabitant of this state over thirty
years of age, being Of sound mind and
enjoying good health, remaining un-
married after the first day of May, 1875,
shall pay fine of ten dollars annually"
Old maidenism, from some cause or
other, seems to have been left out.
Year: 1875

Gail Hamilton never wrote a truer
word than in some advice she gives 10
young girls on lady-like behavior. She
says "Wildness is thing which girls
cannot afford. Delicacy is thing that
cannot be lost and found"


Yet how many young girls we know
in this bold age, who affect this very
wildness and coarseness OF behavior, and
fancy it shows a spirit of independence,
that is quite a charm in young woman
hood. They openly despise young girls
who blush at rude remarks, and shrink
from drawing attention in public pla-
ces. One might almost think when
looking at these "wild girls, that the
''brazen aye" had come again. With
what bold, rude stare do average wo-
men look each other over, when they
meet in public places How loudly
many young misses converse on the
street or in places OF public resort
What rude behavior the more daring
sort are frequently guilty OF, even in
the very face of public opinion. l saw
young miss of perhaps fourteen; day
or two ago, who invited herself to ride
with lad whom she knew, in q cart
he was driving. The boy was perhaps
sixteen aud full of mischief, so he laugh
ingly fourished his whip around as he
did when boys attempted to hang on
for ride. Nothing daunted, she still
persisted in clambering up, when Will,
to end the matter, inst tipped her jauuty
hat in the brim with his whip and tum-
bled it off in the dust. Of course she
was obliged to pick it up and the laugh
ing boy travelled on looking back and
shouting merrily. She was greatly
provoked, and loud in denouncing his
rudeness, but ! wanted to whisper TO
Miss Nelly, "If you play with whales
you must take whales play ) if she
wished to be boy in behavior she
must not complain that they meet her
on her own grounds.


Miss Nelly has outgrown the respect
of all the neighborhood. An easy-go-
ing mother has lost all command over
her, and it is something fearful to look
forward to her future. Gail puts it
very strongly when she says :"Bad man.
ners in a woman is immortality" but
certainly they often lead to immortality,
and give occasion for society to pass its
harshest judgements on those guilty OF
such offenses. Remember this, that
wild girls are always objects of suspl-
cion, and if they could hear half the re-
marks made about them they would
dread to show their faces on the street.
Year: 1875

THIS Peach ripened the past season In


this city the latter part, OF June, nearly
two weeks before any other variety was in
the market. am refldy to furnish the peo-
pie of this county with 1000 of these choice
Peach trees, and seven other choice varieties,
Year: 1875

states that no further extension of exclu.
sive gold standard appears to be probable
for some time to come, and that an In.
creasd demand for silver may be reasonably
expiatsd, but not sufficient to cause a ma.
terial alteration in the present valuation Of
gold and silver, which is about to II un-
the title of money and the money system Of
the United States.


THE DIRECTOR


states at length the general principle which
govern the monetary systems, the import
ance maintaining uniform standard Of
value, and that all experience has proved
the precious metals, and particularly gold
to be least variable and the best adapted
for circulating medium of all known sub
stances, the units OF the money of account
OF all countries as associated in modern
civilizations, were originally based on or


DECLARED BY LAW


to be represented by certain weight of
metal in the form of coins and by being so
fixed become the basis of exchange and
measure of contracts, the discussion of a
money system for the United States soon
after tile adoption of the Federal Constitu-
tion and passage Of the act of April I'd,
1893, establishing gold and silver as the
monetary standard, are referred to and the
statement made that no act of Congress be-
fore that Of February 18th, 1862, made any
thing but the precious metals a legal
tender. This pronounced to have
been radical departure from
the sound principles on which


OUR MONEY SYSTEM


was originally based and could only be justi-
fed as war measure in time Of imminent
Peril. The director concludes his observa-
tions under this head as follows GA
forced paper currency is well known to be
from various causes subject to
frequent fluctuations In value and
unlike the precious metals
is wanting in the property of self-adjust-
ment under the operation of supply and de-
mand, and for these reasons alone must al
ways prove an uncertain system upon which
to conduct the business and exchanges of
the country" ..
Year: 1875

HEAVY FoG.-For two weeks past a
dense fog has hung like pail over our
little village, only two or three times OPP
enlng enough to admit the sunlight for a
lew hours. This fog, as we learn from
exchanges, is general and equally heavy
throughout the State. The past two nights
nave been cold and frosty and continu-
ance of such is expected to dispel the fog.
According to Noonan's rain gauge, the
moisture generated by the fog measures
one-fourth of an inch. On the mountains
above the fog-line the weather is said to
resemble Spring.
Year: 1875

HAPPILY DIsAPPoINTED.-M w
Simpson is engaged in running a tpnnoI
on West Weaver, working alone A
man passed the tunnel Friday morrirr
and noticed that the mouth of if bad
caved passing on to i'm pson's cabin and
finding it without an occupant, he con-
cluded that Simpson must be covered m
in the tunnel. He Immediately came 70
town and told his story, when couple of
our humane citizens started for the scene
OF the supposed accident Arriving there
everything indicated that Simpson was
covered in the tunnel and they went to
work right Justify to unearth him. When
they had removed nearly all the cave.
the supposed-to- be- buried Simpson an
peared on the hill above the tunnel and
INDUCED in a good laugh at the expense
OF his anxious friends. One of them is
OF the opinion that had they found him
in the bottom of the tunnel, as they ex-
pected, he would not have laughed SO
heartily.
Year: 1875

SrATEMENTs.-We have already sent
numerous bills to those who are delinquent
On The JOURNAL books, and shall serve
O'nerS likewise ere long. We desire that
eSch one shall know how he stands at the
'ommencement of the New Year, and
expect as many to settle as can make it
convenient to do so.
Year: 1875

DISTRICT CoURT.-On account of the
non attendance of Judge Rosborough, no
December term of the District Court was
held in this county. There was no bust
ness that could come before the Court,
had he been here.
Year: 1875

A rich and eccentric Belgian re.
siding at Vermond (Aisne) lately
wrote to his relatives to come and
see a coat he had ordered. They


imagining the invitation meant q
breakfast, went, and were astonished
TO see series of coflins, which the
original was trying one after the
other. He had caused them to be
made by a number of different join


ers. At last he found one which
suited him, laid down in it, took
some poison, and expired suddenly.
Year: 1875

The action of the Convention on
the public school question has very
greatly jeopardized the safety OF
the new Constitution. We cannot
find il in our heart to defend an in.
strument which has thus ignored
the great distinctive feature of the
new modern age of intelligent
progress. The forthcoming address
may be strong enough to force ii
down the throats of the people, but
we doubt it.
Year: 1875

A recent letter from the senior
editor OF this paper, now in the
north soliciting for it, brings to us
the pleasing intelligence that soon
our weekly paper, the Examiner
and fatron, will be increased to
twice its present proportions. And
tn this end and for ,b;s nurnosa wa
Year: 1875

A YOUNG lady in Springfield, Mass,
who four or five years ago injured her
spine by coasting accident, has since
that time exhibited some extraordinary
abnormal. symptoms, which the Union
thus describes "She is subject to a
strange variety of attacks-all due, doubt
less, to one general cause, yet queer
enough to be classed phenomenal. Some
times she is blind; again, she is stricken
with deafness; subsequently recovering
both these senses, she will sing and play
with an ease and dexterity which, it is de-
clared, were impossible to her before her
accident. To-day she may be in appar-
emily good health tomorrow she may be-
come helpless, and remain bedridden for
weeks. A particularly distressing form
of her malady is the closing up OF her
throat, so that she can only take liquid
food, and that through tube. On one
occasion she received gentleman caller
with much cordiality and grace, and then
Immediately got down on all-fours and
crawled under the table, refusing for
some time to speak or stir; yet she is moi
considered insane, as her mind is most Of
the time perfectly clear. During her sin
gular illness she has acquired great love
for morphine, which she now eats in large
quantities. Strange to say, she seems te
thrive and grow fat upon it, and there il
probably no girl of eighteen in Spring
field who is fairer or more attractive ir
person than she, in spite of this habit ant
the many and severe trials she has beer
called to pass through"
Year: 1875

THE following extracts are taken from
ex Senator Henderson's speech before the
Jury in the Avery case at st. Louis, ana
contain the language which gave oftense
to the President and for which the latter,
supported by his entire Cabinet, ordered
his discharge as assistant in prosecuting
the whisky cases at St. Louis:


What right had Babcock to go to Douglas
to induce him to withdraw his agents?
Douglas was placed In his position to
see that the revenue laws of the Gov
ernment were properly enforced. Nhat
business, then, had Douglas with him?
When an official goes into office
he should be free and independent OF all in
tiuences except that Of law, and if he reeog-
rizes auy ott er master then this Government
is tumbling down. What right has the Pres
ident to interfere with Commissioner Doug
lass in the proper discharge OF his duties, or
with the Treasurer? None; and Douglass
showed lamentable weakness OF character
when he listened to Babcock's dictates. he
should either have insisted that his orders, as
they existed, be carried out, or should have
RESIGNED his office. Now why did Douglass
bend the supple hinges Of the knee and permit
aDy interference by the President? This was
Douglass own business, and he stood re-
sponsible for it under his official oath. lie
was bound to listen to no dictation from the
President, Babcock, or any other officer, and
it was his duty to see that the order was
carried out or to resign. Would that we had
officials who possessed more OF that stefner
stuff of which the office holders ofolden times
were made. Why do they not leave their Oh
flee when they cannot remain there honora-
blvs Is it to continue that because man
holds an office at the hands of another he Is
to be a bonded slave?
Year: 1875

SENATOR MORTON will reintroduce at the
present session, his bill to provide for count
ing the electoral votes for President and Vice
President, and to abolish the twenty-second
joint rule of Congress, under which the votes
are now counted. Under.this rule the House
may reject electoral votes, even though the
Senate accept them, and so the election Of
President be thrown into the House. Mr..
Morton's bill provides that no electoral vote
shall be rejected except by the concurrent
vote of the two bodies. There is danger that
the Democratic House may take the election
of the next President into its own hands, by
throwing out upon trifing technical objec.
tions, the electoral votes of the Republican
states.
Year: 1875

In the contest just begun in the national
House this winter "the first blood" must be
credited to the Republicans. The effort made
by the Democratic leaders to revive the
Louisiana.question was defeated; but they
made manifest disposition 10 disregard the
Wheeler compromise, agreed to by them last
spring. The country will not view with COM
placency any attempt to reopen the trouble,
and will look with suspicion upon those men
who seek to make party capital out of the
dissensions in that unhappy state.
Year: 1875

The Democratic papers are frightened


the thought that some of those Southern Rep.
resentatives in Congress may think out loud
this session, and so spoil Democratic chances
for success next year. The burden of their
cry is, Be careful and not tell the truth. The
Richmond Wing puts it this way: 'Let
everybody on the Conservative side of the
House be guarded in words as we'll as votes"
Year: 1875

The colors in the new carpet on the floor
of the National House are suggestive. The
carpet is Of a gray ground with blue pattern,
symbolizing, it is supposed, the composition
ofthe majority, the major portion of which
wore the gray in the 'late onpleasantness."
Year: 1875

The seventh message .of President Grant
to Congress will be read with more than
ordinary interest. As has always been the
case with President Grants annual commun-
ications to Congress, the present one embrac-
es brief summary of the events, workings
and condition of the various departments of
the government for the past year. In this
respect the present message like those which
have preceded it, is model.


As is fitting in the message of the Centen-
NAL year, the President has set forth the
growth of the nation and the development
of the country and its resources during the
first century Of the nations existence.


The President renews many of his sugges-
tions AID recommendations of last year,
among which are those favorlng return to
specie payments and the modification of our
naturalization laws.


The position the President has taken in
recommending constitutional amendment
requiring all the states to maintain free
school system, free from sectarian influences
and beyond sectarian control and basing the
exercise of the right of suffrage upon an edu-
cational qualification after given date, will
attract universal attention. Here and there
his suggestions will provoke the hostile criti-
cism of partisans, but the intelligent people
of the nation will most cordially endorse the
recommendations and suggestions of the
President


Those who have been led to expect scme-
thing of sensational character respecting
Cuban affairs or some explanation for the re-
Gently activity at the navy yards, will doubt
less be disappointed.


The message, like all OF: President Grants
communications to Congress, is sensible
and business like document. 1t furnishes
the information which Congress and the peo-
pie desire, and makes number of recommen-
dations which the people will most heartily
endorse if Congress gives them no heed.
Year: 1875

To the Senate and House Of Representatives


In submitting my seventh annual message to Con-
gress in the Centennial year of national existence
free an Independent people, it affords me great
pleasure to recur to the advancement that has been
made from the time of the colonies, one hundred
Year: 1875

OhH1m0 StUiCO Wy OhhA auu OVAVmDAh'


Chill has made reparation in the case OF the whale
ship "Good Return seized without sufficient cause
upwards of forty years ago. Though she had hither-
to denied her accountability the denial was never
acquiesced in by this government and the justice Of
the claim has been earnestly contended for that it
has been gratifying that she should have at last ac-
knowledged it. The arbitrator in the case Of the
United States steamer Montago, for the seizure and
detention Of which the government Of the United
States Of Colombia held accountable has decid-
ed in favor of the claim. This decision has settled
question which was pending for several years, and
which, while it continued open might more or less
disturb the good understanding which it is desirable
should be maintained between the republics.


Reciprocity with the Sandwich Islands.


reciprocity treaty with the King Of the Hawai-
ian Islands was concluded some months ago. AS it
contains stipulation that it shall take effect
til congress shall enact the proper legislation for that
purpose copies of the instrument here 18th sub
mtted in order that if such should be the pleasure
of Congress the necessary legislation upon the sub
ject may be adopted.


The Virginius indemnify.


In March last an arrangement was made through
Mr.. Gushing, our Minister to Madrid with the Span
ish government whereby the payment was to be
made by tbe latter to the United Statee OF the sum OF
$soOo in coin for the purpose of the "relief Of the
families or persons Of the ships company and GER
tain passengers of the Virginius." This sum was to
have been paid in three inatallments Of two month
Year: 1875




recommend that some suitable provision be made
by the creation of special court, or by comforting
the necessary jurisdiction upon some appropriate
tribunal for the consideration and determination OF
the claims of aliens against the government of the
United States which have arisen, within some rea-
sonble limitation Of time, or which may hereafter
arise excluding all claims barred by treaty provisions
or otherwise 1t has been found impossible to give
proper consideration to those claims by the execut i've
department OF the government. Such tribunal
would afford an Opportunity to aliens, other than
British Subjects to present their claims on account
Of acts committed against their persons or prop
erty during the rebellion, also to those subjects of
Great Britain whose claims having arisen subsequent
to the ninth day of April 1861 could not be presented
to the late commission organized pursuant to the
provisions Of the treaty of Washington.


Ocean Telegraphy.


The electric telegraph has been an essential and
indispensable agent in the transmission of business
and social messages. its operation on land and
within the limits of particular states is necessarily
under the control of the jurisdiction within which
1t operates. The lines the high seas. however, are
not subject to the particular control of any gov
ernment. In 1869 concession was granted by the
Year: 1875

A young man in Lancaster, Ohio,
sent a dollar to firm in New York
who advertised a receipt to prevent
bad dreams. He received small slip
of paper on on which was printed,
DONE 20 to Sleep"
Year: 1875

SALT ON HAY.-At late meeting
of the Elmira Farmers Club, Professor
Hoffman said; I want to enter my
protest against the use Of salt on hay.
It will prevent the barn from burning
but it damages the hay. Cattle will
eat salted hay but it is not good for
them. | would rather use lime if ono
or the other must be used, I start
with the proposition that the very best
feed for COWS is grass, but we cannot
have grass in winter SO we make hay.
The true plan is to get that as near
like grass as possible. Let us combine
bulk and quality as we'll as we can,
and we shall be doing as we'll by our.
selves and our cattle as we can.
Year: 1875

The original copy of the declaration
Of Independence, which has been in the
patent o(Iice at Washington for years,
has faded so that the signatures are
scarcely visible, and -a-skilled penman
is to so over the document with the aid
OF a strong microscope and retrace all
the signatures so as to make them dis
tinct aud legible,


JoEs MrtoIuL il 10 such poor health
that it is thought he viii be compelled
TO withdraw from the parliamentary
Year: 1875

contest in Tipperary, This may be as
easy method as any of getting rid of
a very disagreeable customer, and both
his constituents and the government
party in the British parliament may
conp1atnIate themselSes unon il