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Year: 1873

/ thought, tonight, to see thy face,


And mourn not for the sun gone down;
But now the shadow in his place


Hangs on my cheated heart its frown.
1 could not doubt that thy dear voice


Would cheer me more than bird or Lutte
How can my heart tonight rejoice,


With bird and string and voice all mute
The breath Of June upon my cheek


I bore, impatient for thy kiss;
My fainting lips their anguish speak,


The sweetness of thy breath to miss.
Oh, why did thy sweet steps delay,


Since bird and song and breeze are gone
Sighted for hope of thee, the day


Without thee night puts sackcloth on!
We're 1 away, thou shouldst not chide


One needless moment Of delay;
I seek my sunshine at thy side


Thy voice my song, thy smile my day,
Year: 1873

The struggle going on between Cuba and Spain is one of the scan- dals of the age. That it has not been put an end to long ago IS principally owing to the unwill- ingness of the United States to act in an unfriendly manner to- ward Spain, or to throw any ob- stacle in the way of it's progress toward republican government.

 That our Government would be justified in interfering is un- deniable. The right of every na- tion to worry, persecute and mas sacre its own discontented subjects is, in its way, quite as great a fallacy as was the pretended right of every planter to "larrup his own niggers." So the non-in- tervention idea is simply the off spring of selfishness and cowar- dice. The Cuban insurrecti0n against Spanish rule has now been progressing for about six or seven years with considerable vicissitude of fortune for both

 sides. The insurgents have not been able to expel the Spanish forces from the island nor to cap pure any of the large towns or cities. Their want of military or ganization and their lack of war like munitions have compelled them to do their fighting on the mountains and in the woods. On the other hand, the Spaniards have never been able to gain any decisive success over the rebels, much less to disperse them. The only result of the struggle, so far, ihas been the sacrifice of hundreds
Year: 1873

POWER OF CoMPREHENsIoN.-I was
said of Thoreau, we believe, that he could
take up any given number Of lead pencils
without counting. A celebrated trapper
once assured us that he could tell how ma
ny balls he had in his bullet pouch by plac-
ing his hand on II, and without stopping TO
count them, and added :-"I can tell the
number of bullets instantly, without stop
ping, as you pronounce a word without
spelling It," Southey was accustomed to
take in the substance Of book in turning
the leaves over continuously, glancing
down the pages. Houdon, the magician,
trained himself TO quickness of perception,
when boy, by running past shop win
dow at full speed, and then trying TO tell
what was in IT, We once saw man on a
canal boat who was amusing himself by
going from passenger TO passenger and tell
ing almost every one whore he had seen
him before, on such train, in such a street,
giving date and place 10 people with whom
he had never exchanged word. This
training of the faculties in particular direc-
tions is carried to marvellous extreme by
back -woodsmen, trappers, and men who
guess the weight Of animals. Perhaps
the most remarkable instances are the
markers who leap from log TO log at the
mouth Of boom, standing on the log, and
translating instantly an old mark into
new one, remembering what equivalent to
give for each of hundred marks, aud
chopping II upon the log in the time that
II floats Its length. 1t is said that Thoreau
knew the relative order of Towering of all
the plants in the Concord woods, and knew
of-the-way things besides.-Hearh and
Home.
Year: 1873

ny ALICE CAREY
have in my memory little story,


That few indeed would rhyme about but me;
'Tis not of love- nor fame, nor yet OF glory,


Although little colored with the three
In very truth, I think as much, porohance,
As most tales disembodied from romance.
Joe lived about the village, and was neighbor


To ovory one who had hard work TO do;
II he possessed genius, twas for labor


most people thought, but there one or two,
Who sometimes said, when he aroso to go;
"Come In again and sec us, Uncle Jael"
The "Unclo" was a courtesy they gave


And felt they could afford to give to him
Just as the master makes Of some good slave


An Aunt Jomima, or Uncle Jim;
And Of this dubious kindness Joe was glad
Poor fellow, It was all he ever hadi
A mile or away he had brother


A rich, proud man that people didn't hire;
But Joe had neither sister, wife nor mother,


And baked his corncake at his cabin fire
After the days work, hard for you or me,
But he was never tred-hov could he bof
They called him dull but he had eyes Of quickness
For everybody that he could befriend;
Said one and all: "How kind he ia in sicknesa,"
But there Of course, his goodness had an end.
Another praise there might have been given
For one or more days out of every SEVEN
with his old picksre swung across his shoulder,


And downcast eyes, and slow and sober tread
He sought the place Of graves, and each beholder
Wondered and asked some other who was dead
But whom he dggcd all day, nobody thought
That he had done whit more than he ought.
At length one winter when the sunbeams slsnted
Family and cold across the churchyard snow,
Tho bell tolled out-aasl a grave was wanted,


And all looked anIiousiy for Uncle Joe;
His spade stood there against his own roof-tree,
There was his pickaIe toe, but where was he7
They called and called again, and not replying;
Smooth at the window and about the door
The snow in cold and heavy drifts was lying


He didn't need the daylight any more.
One shook him roughly, and another said:
"Aa true az preaching, Uncle Joe is deadl"
And when the wrapped him In the linon, fairer
And finer, too, than he had worn till then,
They found picture-haply of the sharer


OF sunny hope sometime; or where or when,
They did not to know, but closed his eyes
And placed II in the coffin where he lies.
None wrote his cpitaph nor saw the beauty
OF the pure love that reached into the grave,
Nor how In unobtrusive ways Of duty


He kept, despite the dark; but men less bravo
Have left their names, while not willow bends
Above his dust st-poor Joe, he had no friendsl
Year: 1873

Leslie COmbs-A Kentucky AnecdOtc,
Gen. Leslie Combs made speech at the


raising of Clay pole in Paris, KY, during


the campaign of 1874. He was so confident


on this occasion that he promised to climb


that tall pole backward, from the staunchions


at the bottom to the mccoon cage on the top,


if the Kentucky statesman should be defeated


by the unknown candidate from Tennessee.


1t was rash promise, and the memory of


his hearers after exhibited u very annoying
tenacity. In his stump exercises after that,
the enthusiastic and sanguine General could
never indulge in extravagant promises or
rOse-colOred predictions without encounter
ing flashes. of country wit that put him on
the defensive. He never got done explaining
that he had failed to climb that pole accord
ing to promise, only because it had been cut
down and removed before he could get there.


Recently it transpired that two sections of
that same blue ash pole were still standing as
gate-posts in Paris, and in order to stop the
clash of the country editors round about, the
General consented to appear ION Thanksgiv-
ing day and perform the long deferred feat
of climbing. Sure enoughi when the ap-
pointed day came he arrived bn the cars, was
welcomed to sumpteous breakfast, forti-
fled with some old Bourbon lhade during the
campaign of AZ, he made good his promise.
and made besides happy speech from the
top of the gate-post. His hair was as black,
his eyes as bright and his step as brisk when
he did this as when he made the speech that
led to it in 1874. He was captain in the
war of 1912, and is still so youthful in spirit
and appearance as to be regarded with sort
of superstition by the people of Kentucky.
AS time writes no wrinkles on his genial face
they begin to suspect that he came over with
Ponce de Loen, and was the only one of the
party that found the fountain Of youth.
Year: 1873

The Queens walks and drives are not con-
fined within her own policies; she crosses the
Dee almost daily, and is quite as often seen


on the opposite side of the river. She al
ways uses an open carriage, but not always
the same Sometimes it is a wagonette, some
times low pony pheton. No guard Of
honor accompanies the royal equipage, how
ever. Her trusty attendant, John Brown,
sits on the box beside the coachman, and
when there is not room for him there he
rides on horseback by the side of the carriage


No fuss attends the Queen. An outrider
little in advance of the royal carriage clears
the road, and the Queen goes quietly on her
way, with smile and nod for any who
may chance to meet her. But as a rule her
Majesty is not intruded upon when she ven
Sunday, and then it is strangers only who
run after her. The cottagers do not annoy
her, and she comes and goes without moles-
tation. Indeed they make point of keep
ing out of the way when the white horse of
the outrider appears in sight. Should the
Queen, however, happen to come unexpect-
edly upon her subjects by Deeside, she is
differently acknowledged. The Queen and
her ladies frequently ''pcnic' in the woods
or on the hillside should it be handler. Ma
terials to make fire and cooking utensils are
taken in the carriage, and tea is made on the
green sward, and handed round in rustic
fashion without any ceremony. At these
afternoon ''teas" the Queen has no special
chair of honor. Her seat is pretty often on
the clump of tree, with her cup in her hand,
or any other casual resting place that turns
up conveniently. Excursions are made also
to various places of interest, and every corrie
and glen within reach has been visited by the
royal family, Court CJrcugar
Year: 1873




No actress is remembered in Nashville
more favorably than the charming little
Lotta, and every one will feel deeply shocked
TO hear of her death. Ben. DeBar, the well
known manager, himself no mean actor, re-
ceived a cable dispatch in New Orleans last
week giving news of her death in the south
of France. She had broken down from
over-exertiOn, and had been sent there to re-
cuperate and it will be hard for those who
remember her to realize that that bright little
girl was the victim of disease and death.
Poor little Lotta None ever combined as
she did jollity, ',aicete and witchery; and
John Brougham described her best as "the
dramatic cocktail" She was frolic incar-
nate, and of all the stage names in our men,
ory hers promised to be the longest on the
roll. Beneath the ripple Of perennial mirth-
fulness she had sober seriousness and a
sense of higher duties. She was confirmed
in the Episcopal Church in the Crescent City
several years since, and had good friends in
the profession who will mourn her truly
-NashriNe Banner. "a j. '' "...
Year: 1873

To The Editors Of the Richmond Dispatch:


saw report in Wednesdays paper of a
woman coming to Chester and being allowed
to die Of neglect. The reporter did not get
it right. He ought to have known the
people in this section better. ! will give
you a statement Of how it was, as it should
be made public:


On last Tuesday n colored man named
Jordan Brown brought his wife to Chester
on the train from Richmond anu put her in
the house where the railroad hands stay.
without any of them knowing 1t, and said
he was going for wagon to take her to her


mothers. The report got out that she had
the smallpox, and none of the hands would


go near the place. About thEse hours after


wards one man went in to see her and make
a fire, as it was very cold and dark, and he


rather confirmed the report. All expected


her husband back to take her away or attend


to her through, the night. No one could
doubt it; but he did not come until next
day, when he took her away In cart He
left the cart in the woods about three miles
of with the womun in it, aud went back to


Chester that night and took the train for
Richmond, and has not been heard OF since.
| He did not tell where he left her, but said
she died on the road.


DR.. Cheaiham was out hunting next day
and found the cart with the corpse in it, and
told some colored men who were cutting
| wood to bury her. He told them that sbt


did not have the smallpox. So they wen
and had coffin made and buried her.
Brown ought to be arrested.


Respectfully, B. BUTLER.
Year: 1873

The statement in your last Saturdays
issue in regard to the surrender to his mo-
ther by Judge Wexford of an orphan boy,
at one time in the asylum. was incorrect in
one particular. The chief difficulty in the
case was the fact that former president oil
the asylum had omitted to take the ",orit-


ten REIMBURSEMENT" Of the mother. .l


This boy was adopted by lawyer of high
standing In the county, who had in his will
made ample provision for his future sup
port. The boy had been in the gentleman's
family three years, and was sent, at the re-
quest of the mother, to this city clearing a
present. during the late holidays, and was
detained by the mother, and fiually arrested


bv the officers of the county, as mentioned
by you. This seems 4 hardship to the gen.
teman and lady who had confided their
adopted son 10 the care of his mother for II
few days only.


\ case quite different from this occurred
some weeks ago. A boy sent to gentleman
in the country by the asylum was stolen away
By the mother and brought to this city, but
after remaining with his mother and father
a month or two returned Of bis own accord
to the gentleman in the country, though ne
had to walk many miles TO reach his former
home. w. w. PARKER.
Year: 1873

"If you wish to be miserable -
says Chas. Kingsley, you must
think about yourself; about what
you want, what you like, what re-
spect people ought to pay you,
what people think; and then to
you nothing will be pure. You
will spoil everything you touch !;
you will make sin and misery for
yourself out Of everything God
sends you; will be as wretched as
you choose"
Year: 1873

One is almost sure to be disappointed
when he first enters the interior of Jeru-
salem. However carefully he may be
preparedagainst surprise, he will scarce
ly escape it in more directions than one.
The filth of the city will surprise and
annoy him. One who comes to Jeru-
salem from Egypt can endure great
deal in this direction, but even he will
have attained to high degree of equa-
nimity if hedoes not occasionally lose his
temper amidst the superabounding filth
of the city. And what is worse, it seems
to gather most about the most sacred
places. You cannot: with any comfort,
approach through the old bazaar of the
cotton merchant what was doubtless
the Beautiful Gate" of the temple
without holding your breath. The Mo
hammedans, while guarding with the
keencst vigilance the sacred inclosure
from the pollution of infidel feet, seem
quite regardless of the intrusion of filth,
and it often gives one relief, when trav-
cling these dirty streets, to think that
the Jerusalem of the Bible lies half
hundred feet or more beneath the pres
ent surface.
Year: 1873

In truth, all literary men who have
bias in favor of living must live by other
means than pure literature. To earn
81, 600 year is the maximum for the
best of them, and this requires wear Of
nerves and brain that may not be long
endured.
Year: 1873

By recent act of the Cortes, Spain
is to be divided up into q confederation
of States, which will .-bes entitled to
elective representatives, something after
the manner Of this country. The
foreign policy Of the country is to be
the same as heretofore. The discipline
of the army is to be rigid. Slavery is
to be abolished in all her possessions.
Martial law will be Immediately pro-
claimed against the Carlist insurgents.
Year: 1873

We are now in the midst of the heated
term, and the dangers of sunstroke are
again imminent, and cannot be to care
fully guarded against. Below is given
what is said to be specific against sun
stroke, which may prove useful in the
communities in which this paper cir
eulates: "About a yeal since I saw in
q newspaper an account of d case of
sunstroke, written by the party him
self. After suffering q long time from
the attack, and having to considerable
degree recovered, he experienced suffer
ing even from the rays of the moon.
This led him to the reflection that it was
not altogether the heat of the sun that
produced prostration. After much re-
search he discovered that the injury
came from the chemical and not from
the heated ray. He was guided to this,
by observing the fact that a photograph
could not be taken through a hollow
glass. Accordingly he lined his hat with
two linings-one of orange yellow to
arrest the chemical ray, and one of green
to arrest the heat ray. Thus prepared
he went where the rays of the sun were
most intense with impnnity. It is well
known that the negro is seldom or never
sunstruck. The color of his skin over
the skull being of the orange yellow may
assist in accounting for the fact. l
practiced upon this suggestion all last
summer, lined my hat with green and
orange yellow paper. and had confidence
enough in the truth of the theory to
neglect my umbrella, which l had never
done before. 1 mentioned it to many,
who tried it also, and i'll many cases that
came under my observation they uni
fornIy asserted that the oppressive heat
Of the sun upon the head was much
relieved"
Year: 1873

Very few of the sudden deaths which
are said to arise from disease of the
heart, edo really arise from that cause.
To ascertain the real origin of sudden
deaf hs, experiments have been tried in
Europe, and reported to scientific
congress held at Strasburg. Sixty-six
cases of sudden death were made the
subject of a thorough post-mortem ex-
animation in these, only two were
found who had died from disease of the
heart. Nine out of sixty-six had died
from apoplexy, while there were forty


six cases of congestion of the lungs
that is, the lungs were so full of blood
they could not work, there not being
room enough for sufficient quantity of
air to enter to support life. The causes
that produce congestion of the lungs are
cold feet, tight clothing, costive bowels,
sitting till chilled after being warmed
with labor or rapid walk, going too
suddenly from close, heated rooms into
the cold air, especially after speaking,
and sudden and depressing news oper-
ating on the blood. The causes of sud-
den death being known, an avoidance of
them may serve to lengthen valuable
lives which wonld otherwise be lost un-
der the verdict of "heart complaint. +"
That disease is supposed to be ,inevita-
BILE and incurable; hence many may
not take the pains they would to avoid
sudden death if they knew it lay in
their power.
Year: 1873

The Young Mons Christian Association OF
this city have secured the Exposition Building,
commencing Dec. TO- for tho purpose of exhibit
ing the Bazaar OF all Nations,- tho same plan
aa tho Boston Bazaar, which was recently so
successful in TINT city. a committee from Bos-
ton is already horo to lend it's assistance in the
matter. Tho superior conyeniences and size Of
tho Exposition Building ought to make tho
hibitad In Dnat0u.
Year: 1873

A MAN AND HIS WIFE (NO CHILDREN GER
n mans. speak good English and French read and
write English and German the man TO care OF horses
and gardener to do housework In general the wife
housekeeper and TO do honsework in generaD wish
Meyers HOTEL No. Battery place. opposite Castle Gar
de
Year: 1873

MARROW ESCAPE FRO. nRoWNlNG'
On Monday last, as Hon. D. I. "as"y.
president of the Board Of RegstyatrSn G!
this county, in company with his wife,
were attempting to cross the Terre Noir
creek, the water being much swollen, the
buggy in which they were riding, got in
to swimming water, and drifting down
the stream, they were thrown out of the
buggy. Mrs. Casey clung to log and
sustained herself above water until assis-
lance arrived and she was extrcated from
her perilous condition without serious
damage Judge Casey was not so fortu.
nate, but only saved himself from drown
ing by clinging to the buggy, AMI when
rescued life was nearly extinct, but we
are glad to learn that he has entirely re-
covered and is ready for business, altho'
the rumor prevailed in town for day or
two that he had since died from the ef-
fects Of his impromptu bath From all
we can learn their escape from a watery
grave was almost miraculous. .-Arkedei-
phio standard.
Year: 1873

Sd says that:


Gov. Baxter has designated the Helena
World as the official journal for Monroe
county. This is one more evidence that
the governor is laboring to give satisfac-
ton to majority of the people. The
Augusta sentinel was formerly the adver-
tising medium for that county. although
we have been assured that it did not cir
culate ten papers in the county The
World has several hundred subscribers
in Monroe, comprising large number
OF those mostly interested, and who will
now have an opportunity to sec legal ad.
rtisements inserted in it. We are glad
the governor has made this change at the
present time, which is no more than
simple act Of justice to the people OF
Monroe. BY doing so he only confirms
what we have previously said, that bis
policy is not changed.
Year: 1873

tSy- Don't fail to come out and Register on
the l1th, or during the FIVE DAYS following.
as the Board of Review will be in session dur
ing that time Only little over half of the
voters have been Registered.
Year: 1873

MURDER NEAR SAN DIEGo.-The San Di- ego Union of August 30, gives the history of another horrible murder in Milquatay valley, near the Mexican boundary line, August 26. An Indian came on horseback to the house of MT. Speck twice, and rode away after talk ing to Mir. S., then came back and asked him for some salt to put on his horses head where he had knocked the skin oil by beating him with his gun. Mir. Speck turned to go to the house for the salt when the treacherous red skin shot him in the back, killing him in- stantly. This was done in the pr~sence of Mrs. Speck who ran for a shotgun, but the Indian ran away at once, leaving his horse. Mrs s. then took her two children and walk ed two miles to neighbours, the alarm was given and the people of Milquatay turned out to capture the murderer, and one party tracked him to place where he had fortified himself with three other Indians in the rocks The party not being strong enough to dis lodge them sent for more help, and would most likely, effect capture.

 The Union justly says that something de csiye must be done to put final end to the deeds of blood along the Mexican line which are perpetrated by half-breed Mexicans and Indians.
Year: 1873

This celebrated military corps Of the Golden
City, under command OF Captain C. s. Mcdonald,
will arrive on Monday and will be received by the
Seventh regiment, whose guests they'wi be while
in the city. On Monday evening they will attend
the Union Square Theatre in body. On Tuesday
Colonel Clark and his regiment will entertain them
at dinner at the Seventh's armory, anu on Wednes-
day Will escort them to The City Hall, where
they will be reviewed by Mayor Havemeyer
National Guard. This organization, which
is Company OF the Second regiment, National
Guard, OF California, possesses truly exceptonabe
and most enviaule reputation Tor the perfection OF
It's discipline the novelty and lightning ceerty Of
Its dril and especially as exempiihed III the value
thoroughly organized and under strict discipline.
The rules OF this organization are Of the most
stringent description for the maintenance OF a
high moral standard among the members, and any
infringement Is visited with q neavy tine or dis
missal, entaing loss Oi social caste. IL Is to be
hoped tnat the cadets will give some public exhbi
ton Of their skill while they remain IN the city.