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Year: 1875

Mr.. Dawes, Chairman OF the Ways and
Means Committee, is expected to return To
Washington tonight. In this event. Irwin
The recusant witness, will be brought to the
par oi the House. Irwin says he has regainei
ms health to such an extent as To be able 10
lace the speaker and be able to make known
why he should not be committed to the coal
mole Tor contempt. He is well satisfied with
the result OF the Pacific Mail inquiry in New
York, and thinks the evidence taken there
only su0stantiates what he previously testi-
fed TO.
Year: 1875

In the Great Exhibition of 1851, an
American specimen of iron paper was
first exhibited a lively competition in
iron rolling ensued among British iron
manufacturers, excited by the above
challenge from America, as to the thin
ness to which iron could be rolled cold.
Mr.. Gillot rolled sheets the average
thickness of which was the eighteen
hundredth part of an inch Ia other
words, one thousand eight hundred
sheets piled upon each other would col
lectively measure an inch in thickness,
while the thinnest tissue paper to be pur
chased in the statiOner's stores measured
the twelve hundredrh of an inch.


These very thin iron sheets are per-
fectly smooth, and easy to write ON, al
though porous when held up to a good
light 1t may be out of place, consider
ing the great interest that is taken by
those connected with that great branch
OF industry, the iron trade, to give few
curious particulars as to the extent iron
can be welded, and the thin sheets that
can be rolled out. Brother Jonathan
little thought what II hubub would be
created in the old country when from
Pittsburgh he sent that wonderful letter
written on sheet made from iron, which
took no less than one thonsand sheets TO
make an inch in thickness; she dimen-
sions being eight inches by five and one
hall inches, or a surface of forty four
inches, and weighs sixty-nine grains
Year: 1875

She stood breast high amid the corn,
Clasped by the golden light of morn,
Like the sweetheart Of the sun,
Who many a glowing kiss had voa
On her cheek an autumn flush
Deeply ripened such blush
In the midst of brown was born.
Like red pOppies grown with corn.
Round her eyes her tresses fell ..
Which were blacklist none could tell
But long laShes vailed light
That had else been all too bright
And her hat, with shady brim,
Made her tresSy forehead dim =
Thus she stood amid the stocks.
PraiSing God with sweetest looks.
Sure, said, Heaven did not mean
Where I reap thou ShouldSt but CLEAN
Lay thy sheaf adOwn and come,
Share my harvest and my home ....
Year: 1875

THE spelling matches which have be-
come so prominent in the cities, are but
the transfer of an old country practice
to the city. From time immemorial tine
spelling matches have been as much a
recreation in country places as singing
schools, and they have served to while
away many a long winter evening They
disuse, from long continuance; but tile
revival of the practice in the city has
served to stir the country to little more
than its wonted interest in it. Pittsburg
Commercial
Year: 1875

The rebel iron-eiai Nerrimae is a
tough customer for the wreckers to han
die. For twelve years they have been
exploding powder around her remains,
and they are digging and blasting away
at her still.
Year: 1875

VERDI is said to be writing a funeral
symphony, with chorus, for tine transla-
ton Of the remains of Donizetti from a
rural cemetery near Bergamo to n spIen-
did sepuleher prepared for them in the
Cathedral Of that eity.
Year: 1875

This is how Mary Kyle Dallas says it
feels; Take a man and pin three or
four large tablecloths about him, fast
eEed back with elastic and Iooped up
with ribbons; drag all his own hair to
the middle of his head and tie it tight,
and hair-pin on about five pounds of
other hair and big bow Of ribbon
Keep the front locks on pins all night
and let them tickle his eyes all day +;
pinch his waist into a corset, and give
him gloves size too small, and shoes
ditto, and a hat that will not stay on
without a torturing elastic, and frill to
tickle his chin, and little lace veil to
blind his eyes whenever Inc goes out to
walk, and he will know what woman's
dress isi''
Year: 1875

SoRRowING HOUSEHOLDS. - Not a
hearthstone shall you iiui on which
some shadow has not fallen, or is about
to fall Further than this. you will
probably find that there are but few
households which do not cherish some
sorrow not known to the world; who
have not some trial which is the r peculiar
messenger, and which they do not talk
about. except among themselves; some
hope that has been blasted; some ex-
pectation dasl ed down; some wrong,
real or supposed, which some member
of the household has suffered; trembling
anxieties lest the other members will not
succeed; trials from the peculiar tenn
permnent of somebody in the mouse, or
some environment that touches it sharp
ly from without; some thorn in the flesh
some physical disability that eripples
our energies when we want to use them
the most; some spot in the house where
death has left his track, or painful lis
Jennings to hear his stealrhy footsteps
coming on.-Dr. SeaTS.
Year: 1875

WHAT A Boy DID FOR HIS DADDY -
Among the sufferers by the MarysviIie
flood was a clerical gentleman who has a
son in this city following the profession
Of "a Bohemian, and connected with "a
financial paper. When this dutiful Off
spring received u report of the flood he
telegraphed for information regarding
the condition of his venerated father
He replied in a note written on the lin
ing of his hat, having temporarily Ioeat-
ed his stndy on the roof of his domieile,
where he was hanging on the ragged
edge of despair, lashed to the chimney.
Without considering for a moment the
enormous sacrifice, the young journalist
Immediately threw ON the market five
shares of Pill. Sheridan mining stock,
which he had purchased at the time of
greatest imitation, and the proceeds he
invested with characteristic dexterity
in dice game and doubled the amount
The full sum was promptly transmitted
to the afflicted sire by the next mail
Such instances of filial affection and
fidelity are truly affecting. San Fran
cisco CdH
Year: 1875

The Va. Legislature seems de-
termined to place the Road burden
on labor, and let capitol enjoy the
work. 1t seems to us ,zhat any
man fit to represent county,
could see the injustice Of this. Is
it not evident that the poor man
and the rich man are personally
not equal in the pleasure of good
roads? The rich man has his car
riagc and Lis wagon, and the poor
man neither. But suppose we let
this pass, and presume that labor is
brough into demand and made more
remunerative by improved roads.
Still we lave the property of the
rich man increased in value there
by, while it is thus placed still far
thcr from the poor mans reach
We think all men with inevitale
exceptions, should be required tc
work certain number of days, OF
have it dcne, and then property
should be taxed for the remain
! der
Year: 1875

clasping both arms around his knees.
and as she exclaimed with scream
MY dear, WHAT'S the matter?" Gold
frog, internal Lizard. or frozen snake. T"
gasped The old msn. He cried aloud
for the servant girl, and made her
bring him the sock in the tongs, and
as he shook il out she was to get lick
at it's head with the shovel. His wife
had JUS warned him to mind how he
shook the thing, and covered up her
head in the sheet when out fell the
sponge. Everybody cav the trick
then! That boy WAS in the next room
yelling like CEmanche, and the old
man hunted around an hour for a key
TO get in the boys door but the moth
eT declared he shouldn't whip him,
that Tom Wss just like her in her
young days, when she pushed another
girl off rock wall for the fun of see
ing her fall, and the old man went
pacing down to his store feeling there
was a heap of fun IN this world, but
that be was getting most too old to
kick up his heels and ENJOY it. Now,
if you "an find boy to beat this Ra-
leigh chap, trot him QUIT. &. EU-
ans IN Rdieigh Sentinel.
Year: 1875

A Hillsboro' street boy is the life of
the family. The other night he put a
wet sponge i'm his fathers sock, hn0w-
ing the old man was afraid OF lizards
and sich and kissiHggood night to dear
mother he retired To his little bed TO
await developments in the morning.
The dawn was breaking and the old


man had just rubbed his eyes at the
fire. and opened on his back-leeth
with morning yawn, when he picked
up his SOCK 10 shin il on in hurry
but his toes hadn't more than touched
bottom. before zip flew the seek, and
the old man looked around for good
Jumping place, and he squatted frog
fashion on the edge Of his wife's bed
Year: 1875

There was little man,


And be had-a little gun;
And his bullets, they were made of lead
lead-leed.


He went to the South


And he burnt his little mouth
When be sent back word, I'm not afraid
frdid-fraid.


Now this bully little man;


With his bully armed band,
Had hatched up planning nice-nice-nice
Says he: It's pity
If you'd just call them banditti
I'd settle up your business in thrice
thrice-thrice.


Go On my little man,


And work your little plan,
For you have the support OF all of us-us-
US.


Till the country in a roar,
Spread your name from shore to shore
And get US in devil Of a lhuss-muss-
nIuSg.
Year: 1875

Cooley has had some trouble with one of
his hens. She wanted to set, and he didn't


want her to. He put her in a barrel, ducked


her at the pump, threw her into the air and
reasoned with her, but she would persist in
going back to the nest. Finally he put a hot


porcelain egg under her; but she skipped
about until it cooled, and then she returned
and sat on the egg with the air of having
resolutely determined to hatch set of crock
cry and a couple of flower pots out of the
porcelain deusion. Then Cooley resolved to
blow her off. He placed half pound of
gunpowder under the nest, and laid slow
match out into the yard. As soon as he saw
the hen seated, he went into the kitchen to
get light. Meantime, Mrs. Cooley went
nto the hen-house to hunt for eggs and to
ascertain if that idiotic chicken was sitting
yet. Then Cooley came out and fred the
train. In couple of minutes there was a
fearful explosion. a second later Mrs. Cooley
emerged precipitately from the door with her
mouth full OF feathers, her hair full of b]az-
ing straw and warm blood, and an assort-
ment of drumsticks, gizzards and claws dis
tributed around over her dress. Then she
made dash at Cooley. What the result was
do not know. But I met him on the fol.
lowing Tuesday with court plaster on his
nose and a look of subjection in his eyes, and
he informed me confidentially that the next
hen of his that wanted to set, might Get in
peace throughout the ages of time and all
through the unendlng cycles of eternity be-
fore he would bother himself about her,
Mac Adeler. ....
Year: 1875

When papa asks some of his dear old cron-
les to dinner, and they come in high neck
cloths and ut-of-date black coats, and you
girls fancy it does not much matter what you
put on-the limp muslin that hangs awry, or
the good gown that never did fit well, but
which it would be a shame to put away
don't for moment imagine that they do not
see it. If you have an ugly and easy way of
doing up your hair, keep it for another occa-
sion. 1t will pass better with young Foodle,
who may take il for the new STYLE than with
these old gentlemen. He will bear with it,
perhaps even approve of it. if he has only
never seen it before; but they will wonder
what in the world the child has done to her.
self. No more Observant spectator in the
world than your silent, unimpressible-looking
innocent old gentleman
Year: 1875

We herewith present illustrations Of the
centennial memorial medals, the idea OF
which was first originated by Ex-Governor
VIM. Big!er, of Pennsylvania, member OF
the Centennial Board Of Finance.


The United States Congress, by special act,
authorized the United States mint in the city
of Philadelphia to prepare series of beauti-
full memorial medals, bearing appropriate de-
signs, to be issued by the Centennial Board
of Finance to such Of our citizens as desire
to purchase them. This was done in order
that every one, while possessing in them an
evidence of their patriotism and sympathy
with the approaching International Exposi-
ton in 1876, should participate in three stated
advantages. BY the first, each person will
contribute bis Or her mite towards insuring
the proud success Of the national undertak-
ing. BY the second. the name Of each por-
chaser will be inscribed on the grand role of
subscribers to the triumphant ratification of
the immortal Declaration Of Independence.
BY the the third, each person will become
the pOSsessOr OF an elegant and artistic me-
mento of the great event. which may be
handed down as AZ honored heirloom to sue
ceeding generations. In order that the cost
of the medals might be brought within reach
of all, they are of three descriptions-in
bronze at 81; in silver, at $3 and in gilt, at IS.
Our illustrations approximate in size the
fret onH third mentioned. tho second hninU
the size of the American dollar, with the OBJ
verse design, but bearing in the center OF the
reverse the inscription, Sin Commemoration
of the Hundredth Anniversary of American
independence, 1876" surrounded by the
words, "By authority Of the Congress Of the
United States"
Year: 1875

DO they miss me at hOme--dO they miss ne
IT would be an assurance most dear
TO know that my name Was forgotten.


Az though ! had never been there.
To know that my tailor and landlord,


Aud the banks where my paper is due,
And hosts whom now cannot mention,


Had banished me quite from their view.
Do they miss me at hOme-dO they miss meH
When the market for money is tight,
And collectors in haste are pursuing


Their debtors by day and by night?
Do the friends who loaned me "ffty,'


And the others who loaned me 'ten,'
Heave sigh of regret as they miss me,


And wish they could see me again?
Do they miss me at home-do they miss me?
When no longer I'm seen upon Change.
And do those who were wont to assist me
Say, "His conducts Internally stranger"
Does the ShylOck who loaned me his money,
TO bear me to regions unknown,
Look in vain for occasions to dun me,


And wish l again were at homer
But know that my memory fingers


Around the dear place, as l roam;
And while I've my wits and my creepers


They'll miss me-they'l miss me at home:
Year: 1875

Leaving a stock on the lst April ,463 tons
or nearly six months consumption of
the whole United States to evade the
duty of the new tariff, which, if put at
three cents per pound, will amount to
So, 659, ,913 so, CT at five cents per pound
to S6, ,099 ,S56. This we call pretty good
bonanza to take from the pockets of the
retailer and consumer and place in the
hands of the operat +. We do not be-
lieve it will work. The time of high
prices has gone by; the whole mercan-
tile world is prostrate from excessive
speculation, while consumers have
quietly but sturdily resolved that their
support shall be withdrawn from every
scheme that promises a renewal of the
fictitious prices which have been rob-
bing them of their substance for the
last ten years. The party in congress
which will father such a scheme in the
face of Presidential election would
commit hari-kari by so doing, for the
people would not stand it, and we
think the merchants protective assOcia-
ton and the country dealers would
make their voices so powerful in their
districts, and would so thoroughly ven-
tilate the iniquity to the consumers, that
no sane politician would dare to sustain
IT.
Year: 1875

SAN FRANCISCO, November "A The
Victoria Standard, received by steamer,
says efforts will be made to procure the
attendance Of the captain and crew Of
the Orpheus at the inquest on the bodieg
of the victims OF the Pacific disaster,
and searching inquiry will be made as
to the cause OF the disaster. Charles
Thompson, one OF the crew Of the ship
Orpheus, has not sworn to the statement
before the notary public in Port Town
send, which charges the captain of the
Orpheus with having been the cause of
the disaster. He says that on raising
the lights Of the Pacific he was ordered
by the second mate to head for it, and a
few minutes after the captain came on
deck and ordered him to again put her
upon her course. About three minutes
afterward he was ordered by the captain
to let her luff, which he did. After this
the captain signifed his intention to the
speaker, for which purpose a light was
kept dead ahead until the two vessels
collided, then the steamer followed the
ship, the people on board shouting and
calling on the captain of the Orpheus to
stop and rescue them, but he did not
heed their cries, but kept on his course,
! and the steamer was soon lost to view.
Year: 1875

TO-DAY has been set apart by the
proclamation of the President Of the
United States, and the governor OF the
State, as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer. In Difference to these proclaim
stions, nearly all our places Of worship
will be open for religious services, the
banks snd public offices will be closed,
the courts will suspend. In the after
noon and evening our places Of amuse-
ment will be open. Wehope our people
will enjoy themselves, and that the day
may pass away without anything Of an
untoward nature happening that can
rob it Of the felicities incident to it, or
mar in the least the pleasure thatshould
prevail.
Year: 1875

The New York Herald gives the


following lamentable account of the
suferings of the poor in that city;


"Driven by the inclement wealth
er from the streets, the poor daily
enter the ST. Johns Guild relief
rooms in Earick street in great
numbers. Covering, cold and wet
in the passage-ways, the throng pre-
sented yesterday a spectacle e!en
more painful than that which has
been daily witnessed at this place
during the past week, Shivering
wretches in thin clothing, their
roughly shod feet wet with the melt
ing snow, were wedged together and
few words were spoken, while all
eyes were fixed on the door of the
main office with look of despera-
tion and hopefulness. "Ill news"
it has long been said, travels fast"
and certainly the understanding that
the Guild had little left either in the
treasury or in the store room, was
not slow in communicating itself to
the eVer-Increaslng Many
face becomes expressive when the
doleful news is told where all ex-
pressions before seemed dead. In
this motley gathering were the young
and the old. Pale-faced and half-fed
little ones, whose stockingless feet
looked blue and frost bitten as they
emerged from under thin, tattered
skirt and were lost in a pair of
broken shoes, many sizes too large
for the wea-er; young mothers with
gatherings of wee. pinched children
hanging to their skirts, and men and
women bowed down and decrepit
from--all these made up the hungry,
shivering congregation ofthe wretch
ed
Year: 1875

The Store that Never Advertises.


The following doleful description
of store that never advertises. is
commended to those merchants who
think they can do business without
patronizing the printer:


The store that never advertises is
probably one of the most solemn and
dreary spectacles to contemplate
that is ever spread out before hu~
man vision. From the outside it re-
sembles hearse house with mourn
full variation. Occasionally some
one steps in to inquire, with becom~
ing solemnity. if there has been a
death in the family, or to ask where
that store is that the paper tells
about But aside from these and a
few withered crOnies who drop in to
discass the causes which led to the
Revolutionary war, the quiet of the
place is never interrupted. One of
the proprietors, ifs there are two,
posts the last years accounts in
Ntietih Ob q e@lit Vic CtACI
tells how folks did when he was q
young man, q story which, if told
well, makes first-rate legend. They
don't keep any clerks and only half
keep themselves. Timid boys say
when they 60 by the store, that the
place is haunted, and the hlrrying
business man refers to it as the old
place where Slow & Easy used to
keep store a great many years ago.
The only difference between day and
night is. that in the night you are
more liable TO bump your head
against the faded out sign board
that drops from the door casing. and
which was -oaee1 Luminous with the
gaycolored word store Saoh In
stances are terrible warnings to men
of the present age, not to try to do
business without advertising.
Year: 1875

THE DUrsnt (Miss.) Advertiser gives
an account ofone Of the fiercest tornsdos
that ever visited that section Of country
which passed almost centrally through
the county, its course being up Black
Creek Valley and little north Of east


Il was fully q quarter Of mile wide,
south Of the "rske," but only about one
hundred yards north Of it, ss indicated
by the fallen timber on the different
sides. For fully two miles, the bed Of
Black Creek is literally filed with the
debris OF this most horrible cyclone
There is 10 means, says the Advertiser, of
estimating the pecuniary damage that
has been visited upon the people who
resided along the track Of the storm,
but it must amount TO a large sum in.
deed, as there are many places where a
great deal OF timber and fencing was
destroyed that cannot be enumerated in
the space OF sn ordinary newspaper ar
ticIe. However great the pecuniary loss
may be, the whole community has rea-
con TO congratulate themselves that
amid all the devastation, so far as is
known, not a human life was lost.
Year: 1875

CH0ULD not be regarded as a tridins'
ailment--in fact nature demands the ut
most regularity OF the bowels, and any
deviation from this demand paves the
way often 10 serious danger. 1t is quite
as necessary 70 remove impure accumu-
latiOus from the bowels as it is to eat
or sleep, and no health can be expected
where a cOstive habit OF body prevails.
Year: 1875

"To be caught in tight place,
with twenty fathoms of water above,
and Stiffness, as of death around
you, slender cord your only means
Of communication with those above
to be caught in tight place, !
say, under these circumstances, is
about enough to craze man out
right! | can tell you, sir,"-and
the old diver leaned back in his
chair and fixed his eyes thought
fully on tho roaring FIRE before
which we were seated-"I can tell
you, sir, it's often toss of penny
with us when we once get in among
the timbers of an old wreck if we
ever come to the surface again


81 remember a pretty tight fix l
got into when diving into the Con-
queror, up the Sound, and off the
Connecticut shore. She was COM
ing in from the Mediterranean, af-
ter three years cruise with the
"middies," and went down in a
gale in sight OF home, with every
soul on board. / was young then,
and anxious to be the first sent
down into her, for the sake of the
reputation it would give me, for
reputation meant money, and mon
ey, you see, was the only reason
Nettie and / were deferring our
marriage. You can understand
how matters stood, and how glad |
was when in receipt of orders to
make the first dive into the old
man-of-war.


"The sea was running pretty
high as / was carried down in my
heavy armor from the deck of the
steamer to the float alongside,
where the ropes by which TO haul
me up again were fastened on; the
india rubber tube, through which
I was to be supplied with air, was
adjusted, and l stood listening to
my final instructions before being
put overheard.


"Now, dear boy" said my old
friend and instructor, Lott, the fa-
nous deep-sca diver, who came
forward to close the little glass
window in my helmet, take good
care of yourself, aud don't stay long
below. The currents are swift and
treacherous about here; and keep
an eye to your ropes, or they'll get
tangled. Now, then, good-by, old


fellow, and good luck to YOU and
with a pleasant smile be closed the


glass door before my eyes, and las
Year: 1875

ground at the northwest corner of the house.
Goodbye. Meet me on the Eternal ground.


CRISSY.
Mr.. Hacker went to the corner of the house
indicted in the note as the spot where the re-
mains were to be buried, and found that his
daughter had staked out there a space for her
grave