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Year: 1870

One OF the objections urged by ladies
against the work done by sewing
machine, is that it is irregular and not to be
relied upon unless done with great care.
If they will take the trouble to cali at the
agency of the above named machine, corner
of Canal and Dryades streets, they will see
that work done on it cannot possibly be Oh
.iected to for that reason.
Year: 1870

The Washington correspondent OF
the Cincinnati Gazette tells a good
Joke on one of the Dent family. He
went to the Patent Office to get an
office and meeting gentleman whom
he supposed was connected with that
department, but who in fact was not
the following conversation took place :


Are there any Assistant Examiner S
positions vacant?


Wag-Yes, sir.


Mr.. Dent desire to apply for one.


Wag-But vino are you, sir2


Mr.. Dent-My name is Dent, brother
of General Observation-Disclosures Of the
President, sir.


Wag-The devil you arel Well, you
are Just the man we want.


Mr. Dent-How is that, siri


Wag-You are just the man we
want This is the only department in
the Government that has not got a
Dent in it, and we want you, sir. We
must have You. When can you come
down?


The pleased expression that had
covered Mr.. Dents countenance at the
first intimation that he was wanted
gradually faded, as the wag ran on, and
lust as a company Of bystanders broke
into a laugh, the gentleman who had
done so much for the country, and
wanted to do 80 much more, disappear
ell in the corridor.
Year: 1870

The Secretary of the Treasury has dI-
rected the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to sell one million in gold each
Wednesday, and to purchase one mil
lion of bonds each Thursday during the
month of December.
Year: 1870

A BEAR SToRY.-The Lake City
Leader vouches 'or the following: "One
day last week a little son Of Mrs. Thos
Harney, some eight or nine years old
while out rambling in the fields and
up and down the bluffs, some four miles
out OF town on the Hazlett Cooley
road: discovered an old bear with sew
eral cubs following her, and had
series of adventures with her, which
are, to say the least, astonishing almost
beyond degree. When he first discov-
cred the old bear she came up to q
spring as anybody else might do, to
get a drink Of water. When she went
away he noticed that she had some
very small cubs with her, and following
her be managed to capture two that
struggled behind, being unable to keep
up with the rest of the family. He
ran back with these some eighty rods
before her bearship missed her children,
when the old lady came tearing back after
them, atfectionately putting her arms
around the youngster, thereby gently
prevailing upon him to release the two
kidnapped members ofher family, which
she Immediately coaxed away. Moth
ing daunted, however, the young hero
pursued closely after them, and when
the little family stopped to take dinner,
the boy bravely went up and patroniz-
ipgly patted her ladyship's back without
her deigning the slightest recognition
in return. Subsequently he captured
another of the cubs and had taken il
a half mile and into an open field, when
he saw the old bear after him again
a wagon standing near at hand, the
youngster made tracks for that, tossed
the cub into it, and was about to get in
himself, when Mrs. Bruin came up
raised her arm, and with one affec
Tomato slap took off his pantaloons at
clean as if he had beer sitting on nitro
glycerine. The boy, however, wen
into the wagon and the cub out Of it
when his mother again very kindl!
took him back to his little brothers an,
sisters"
Year: 1870

Some few Of the papers in Minnesota
are favoring the proposed calling Of an
extra session of the Legislature by
Governor Austin to take additional &C.
tion concerning the old railroad bonds.
It is now quite evident that the num-
Der Of bonds required by the act to bo
deposited before the lands can be dis
posed of, will not be forthcoming.
Many Of the holders demand full pay
ment in cash, and will accept nothing
less. We certainly trust that Governor
Austin will not impose upon the people
of this State the expense, not to say
vexat;on, Of an extra session of the
Legislature we believe ho will not.
They had to bear the burden of q
special election, and the act for the
benefit Of the bondholders was passed
by having this election at an unusual
and unfair time Of the year. Enough
hos been done already. If the men
who hold these bonds do not feel dis.
posed to take advantage Of the very
liberal offer of settlement that has been
made, let them wait the course of events
and take what they can get. The peo
pie have been put to expense enough
already, aud will not tamely submit t.
anything further for the aggtandize
ment of men uho have but a yer,
slight claim upon their consideration
The lands can be quite as satisfactorily
and much more bene6cially, disposed O.
in the furtherance of internal improve
ments the object for which they wer'
originally granted. p.
Year: 1870

LETTER FROM SCHUYLER CoLFAx-HE PRoposEs
TO RETIRE FROM PUBLIC LIFE.-The BROOKLYN
N T., Union, of September 7th publishes let
ter from Vice President Colfax, who writes


thank you for your good wishes in my be-
half but | intend, with this term, to close my
public life absolutely | will then have had
eighteen years of continuous service at Wash
ington, mostly on stormy sea, long enough for
any one and my ambition is all grati6ed and
satisfied. General Grant will doubtless be re-
nominated, and think, should be. My articles
and speeches show my faith in him and my res
pect for him; but the people will want some
Eastern or Southern Vice President, and should
have one. | shall leave public life voluntarily
and without regret, and expect to go into act
i've business My friends here all know of this
determination, and | assure you it is no pretense
but reality. This is the last campaign in
which shall participate, and feel happy at
the prospective release from the exactions, cares
misrepresentation and excitement of political
life, as the student who is about to graduate and
go forth from the walls in which ne has been for
years, free from professors and critics. When
you think it all over you will concede that it is
wise determination.
Year: 1870

A STRANGE PErITloN.--The Virginia City I'm
terPr'se Of the llth inst says; "a petition from
Maria Susie, French lady, was read at meet
ing of the Board Of Aldermen last evening, in
which the fair petitioner prays to be allowed
to wear male attire. She states that she has
worn masculine habiliments for twenty years,
and wishes to continue to do so. Being about
to open an establishment in this city for the sale
OF California wines, she wishes to be protected
against arrest for dressing in male attire against
which there is city ordinance. With her petit
tion she sent document bearing the signature
of the Clerk of the District Court of Amador
county, California, which was given her as Il
protection against arrest, and which speaks of
her as an industrious and virtuous woman and
one possessed of considerable real estate in that
county. With this document which is certified
to and countersigned by the French Consul at
San Francisco, it appears that she made a trip
to France and other countries in Europe. The
document states that she first adopted male at
tire in 1850, upon her arrival in California that
not finding anything to do in San Francisco,
and not wishing to lead life of prostitution,
she dressed in mems clothes and went to work
in the mines where she made money enough to
start in business"
Year: 1870

There are at least 10000 men in this State
who can comply with the requirements Of tho
present Registration Act, as infamous as it is.
but who have been either denied registration
by the tools Of ambitious Governors, or have
been stricken from tie list after they had been
legally registered. All Of these men can re-
quire the Registrars TO enter their names upon
the list Of voters, under the following sections
Of the Act Of Congress passed TO enforce tho
18th amendment. 1t will be observed that
any Registrar who refuses TO register any man
who is willing tocomply with the requirements
Of the Registration Act, makes himself liable
10 the party dgriered in the sum Of $500, in
addition to full cost and such allowance for
lawyers fees as the court shall deem just and
proper, and further fine Of $500 and impri-
soameHt- Wheelinq Register.
Year: 1870

1t is said that Mrs. Whittemore, during her
husbands late Congressional canvass, was in
the habit Of kissing every negro woman she
met Now she must find what consolation she
can in the thought that kisses, like virtue, are
their own reward.
Year: 1870

WASHINGTON, February 28.-A gen.
eral order from the headquarters of
the army states that the Fourth Mill
tary District has ceased to exist, and
by direction Of the President the State
Of Mississippi is attached to the De-
partment of the Cumberland, with
Brevet Major General Cook command
ing. This order Is a necessary Sc
quence to the admission of Mississippi
TO representation in Congress.


The Senate judiciary Committee
has not yet finally determined on a
report in regard to Georgia, and a re-
port is expected to be made Thursday.
It is understood that the committee
will recommend the acceptance Of the
Legislature. The question of the SEN
atorship has not been considered.


The public debt statement will be
Issued tomorrow.


The expenditures on account of pen
sions within the past few days have
been very heavy, but the indications
favor a slight decrease.


The official notifications from all the
States which have ratified the Fif-
teenth Amendment have not vet been
received, which accounts for the delay
in the official Proclamation.
Year: 1870

New YORK, February 2S.-Hon.
Henry L. Dawes, in a speech at
Nashua, New Hampshire, on Satur-
day, said: There is an earnest, con-
scientiOus effort in all branches of the
Government to see to it that there
shall not be dollar more appropria-
ted for the next year, than this. [ was
charged yesterday afternoon, by the
President himself, with this message.
He told me to assure the people of
New Hampshire that this exhibit /
have made here Of the successful col
lection and the economical expendi-
ture of money during the present
year is an earnest and a pledge of
what it shall be in the year to come.
Tell the people of New Hampshire
that during my administration there
shall be no ascending scale of public
expenditures, but whenever or where
ever the closest scrutiny shall disclose
the possibility of cutting off a dollar,
it shall be DONE"
Year: 1870

The Memorial dc Ia Loire, French
newspaper, reports the statements Of
the eexecutioners Of Arras and Amiens.
IA regard TO experiments made with
the heads Of various decapitated crim-
finals. In 1854 the eXeeutiOner Of
Amiens guiIlOtined a young woman
who. In order to inherit the small sum
Of not quite three hundred dollars, had
Doisoned a whole generation Of rela-
lives. After the execution he found
her head fastened to the border of the
horrible basket by her teeth. Her jaw
bones were so strongly eOntrated that
she had bitten holes through the will
low texture Of the basket. Another
time he executed a butcher twenty-five
years Of age. The scafiOld was erected
in an open field, and the head did not
fall into the basket but rolled on the
ground. When the eXecuuoner at
tempted TO take il up he found that II
was fastenrd TO the ground. The
mouth of the decapitated head, during
its last cOnvuls1Ons, had seized bunch
OF grass, and, in taking il up, it still
KENT a piece Of sod between the teeth.
a third time he executed an italian,
who struggled most terribly for life
during the last few moments. After

the operation was over, the head in
the basket was found to be
covered with a triple layer OF bloody
sawdust, and the mouth was filled with
N. The head had evidently moved
several times and turned itself around
in the basket. A fourth case Is, per-
mans. the most horrible of all yet re
ported. The same exeeutiOner had
decapitated laborer, who did not
struggle in the least against his de-
capitation. But when the Dody was
brought to the cemetery and taken
out Of the basket, not only was the
whole frame most horribly distorted,
hut the head had bitten into the up
sf,ar mart of the leg with such force
fhst q piece of the flesh had to be cut
lo1f to enable the executio ner to Law
The corpse into a coffin which the
fanfly had furnished.
Year: 1870

NOli-me-Tangere, Lupus, or Wolf Cancer


Scirrhus Cancer-EungOus Cancer


Rose Cancer-Spider Cancer.


make a great speciality in the treatment Of
every description OF cancer and tumOrs and
have a special department devoted to this
branch OF disease.


How many cancers and tumOrs are wrong
fully treated by certain charlatans styling
themselves Cancer Doctors"


After being pronounced incurable, will
take any one of these cases in hand. and
make a permanent cure.


My terms for treating cancers, etc, viii be
based on the age and condition Of the patient,
and the positive certainty Of cure.
Year: 1870

The present aspect of the eastern Oues-
ton" illustrates the curious revolutions which
occur in human affairs. Fourteen years ago
Russia, humiliated in the Crmean war had to
accept such terms as victorious France and
England chose to prescribe. The most far
sighted of statesmen could not then have pre-
dicted that at the present time the relative
situation OF the powers concerned would be
80 greatly changed. The effect of the change
Is truly marvellous. Russia for the first time
discovers that the treaty of Paris has not
been scrupnlously kept and very cooly con-
cludes that it is no longer binding upon her.
This instance may serve as warning to other
victorious powers not TO be too exacting. In
the time Of their calamity the consequences
OF grasping too much will begin to react upon
them.


What will come out of present complica-
tions it is impossible to foresee. The English
people in their present temper may be hurri-
ed into war involving great expense and
bloodshed and of uncertain issue. They are
peculiarly sensitive to movements like te
present one OF Russia. 1t is very generally
believed that Russia has designs not only
against the integrity of the Turkish Empire
but against the British possessions in India.
The Russian government disclaims any de-
signs against Turkey as calculated if carried
out to unbalance and disintegrate the Russian
Empire by causing rush of population to
the South, leaving the North without any
great center to keep active its social forces
But this view of the case, though plausible, is
far from removing the apprehensions of the
public in Europe and it is difficult to believe
that Russia would be unwilling to make an
acquisition go valuable in itself as Turkey.


Should England 60 to war with Russia it
would afford another instancesof historic ret
ribution such as she ought to expect for her
conduct to Us during the rebellion. 1t would
of course be base to take advantage of Eng
lands difficulties to exact more than
a fair compensation for the injuries
we have sustained by her misconduct.
But if England is not willing to be just cx-
cept when in trouble, it is right for us to
make her trouble our opportunity and secure
fair settlement of our claims against her.


1t is not probable that the government will,
In the event of England's becoming involved
In a war, take Gen. Buffers: advice and pre-.
sent to that country the alternative of war or
the REIMBURSEMENT of Canada. The people
of the Provinces, according to the principles
OF modern political ethics, must be consulted
in that matter and it may be that they are
not yet ready to share our blessings. But it
would be by no means an astonishing result
of England's engagement in continual troubles
If the ties that bind her North American
Provinces to the old world should be loosened
and they should gravitate toward the great
Republic A
Year: 1870

The New Haven Palladium says a gentle
man at present residing in Middetown, re-
ceived telegram week ago stating that his
wife, who was visiting at the time in Ohio,
was dead. He Immediately started for Ohio,
but before leaving made all proper arrange
ments for the funeral in New Haven selecting
pail bearers, church, ETC. On arriving at the
place where his wife was, he was surprised to
find her alive and enjoying her usual health
Explanations followed, when it appeared that
his wife was expecting Eto leave for Middle
town at the time; but not feeling well enough
to undertake the journey concluded to post
pone it for few days, and in order to relieve
the mind of her husband who was expecting
her, told an Irishman to go to the telegraph of
flee and send a telegram that she was Sick
The stupid fellow went and telegrapbed that
she was dead. 1t is sufficient to state that the
mourning of the gentleman was turned into
joy, and the funeral is postponed for an indef-
mite period.
Year: 1870

A Singular Will and an UntaNable Legacy.


recent case in Allegheny has revealed n
curious loophole in the legacy tax. This impost,
as is well known, is levied, supposed to be, on
all property devised, and is graduated according
to the nearness of kin between the deceased and
the beneficiary. On property left to n child the
tax is only about one per cent. On property
uncle or cousin still higher; and on property
left to stranger five per cent, we believe, is
the Government toll. In every case the law
supposes some beneficiary, and makes no pro-
vision for cases in which there may be no bene-
iciary its trainers not supposing doubtless,
that such cases were possible. 1t seems, how
ever, that q man died recently over the river;
who, cutting off his wife with cent and
leaving small bequest to his brother devoted
the bulk of his property, some 5000, to the
absurd use of building o monument to him
self. The cent he left to his wife, we sup
pose, is subject to the legacy tax; the bequest
he gave his brother certainly is; but the
monument money is exempt from taxation,
because there is no beneficiary real or construc-
tive, in the case. See how this works. Had
this man left this money to his friends, or given
1t to the poor or to some charitable institution,
or had he devoted it to the cause of science or
art or education, or made any conceivable
worthy or sensible use of it, the Government
would have reached out its hand and taken its
percentage therefrom But inasmuch as he de-
voted 1t to the most useless object that could
human being the Government refrans from
touching a cent of it, and it remains n fund
sacred to the purpose of erecting monument
which shall hand down to future generations
the memory of human folly and posthumous
vanity
Year: 1870




Disaster ut Oxford, Miss.- Seven Disasters
In One Month-Feeiing of the People.


OXFORD Miss, March /.


The terrible accident two miles out of Oxford,
which resulted in the death of twenty-five per-
SONS and the serious woundlng of forty more,
has excited q profound indignation throughout
this portion Of the State. The particulars. rs
published in the Herald, are In the main correct;
but it should be distinctly understood that the
train did not in any sense run of the track, but
that the horrible affair came from the well-known
rottenness of the trestle timbers of the bridge
work spanning the gully over which the train
was about to pass. The facts in brief are these:
The regular morning train, after leaving Hum
boldt at high speed, reached Buckne tresIle,
the engine and baggage car crossing safely but
the other cars were precipitated below. The
last car hung by the track at an inclination OF
fifty degrees with the perpendicular, and passen-
gers were crushed together and packed like sar-
dimes at the lower end, with stoves, chairs,
seats, etc., on top. Many perished there from
suffocation. The others were killed by bruising,
contusions, and fatal blows The conductor had
an iron bolt driven through his head and suffered
instant death. The dead and wounded are being
carefully attended. On Friday last there was
another disaster nine miles beyond Durant,
which resulted In the delay of the train for
twelve hours. The cause was the absolute rot
tenness and worthlessness of the trestle work at
that point


people TO the inevitable danger attending travel
ON the road. The Mississippi Road to-day is
unit for fuse, is rotten, shaky, rickety, and is
the worst siaughter-house in the Union. Seven
accidents have occurred in one month, with the
prospect of an increase as long as the iron
ASSASSIN is allowed to continue its murderous
travel. The road bed is no more stable than
shifting sands. No repairs to speak of have
been made since the war, and these accidents
have resulted from criminal negligence and
brutal indifference. AS soon as the great smash
ND was over the company burned the cars and
trestlework, and, as people here believe, to
cover evidence of the rottenness to the trestle
timbers. In many localities the rails yield
frjghtfully as the cars speed over them, and
often at the joint there is an untitled space
of several inches The road throughout ii
Year: 1870

WHEELING, w. Va, March 4.-The Legisla-
ture adjourned this morning at one o'clock. A
large amount of important legislation was left
unfinished for want of time. The contest over
the capital question ended on Thursday night in
retaining the location at Charleston. This is
therefore probably the last Legislature that will
assemble in Wheeling. The Governor and heads
of the State departments will leave for Charles
ton in q few weeks
Year: 1870

and dressed in tow cloth in summer and
Sleeps gray cloth in winter. In 1920 labor
ers were hired for twenty-five cents day for
all work except moving, for which they re-
ceiyed fifty cents. Since then great improve
ments have taken place in machinery, each
improvement of course compelling greater
OF smaller number of laborers to change their
occupation, and encounte ering rs a natural
consequence the bitter hostility and denun-
ciation,of those whose immediate interests
were thus affected. Yet the wages of labor
ers and the prices of all those articles in
which labor IS a principle ingredient have
steadily advanced, while the prices of
manufactured Igocds have as steadily de
clined, bringing them within the reach of a
constantly increasing class Of consumers
Great numbers OF cheap laborers from abroad
have immigrated 10 our shores, exciting at
first as much opposition as improvements in
machinery, and producing an effect nearly
similar. In the former case the native labor
er became a superintendent of unskilled labor,
as in the latter he became a manager of ma
SHAhSl1' NdP4tai anu liuiLlsldllOH nave COn-
tributed to the elevation of intelligent labor
in the past and so they are likely to do in the
future. Experience will probably dispel the
fears now entertained as it has similar rayz IN
the past.


How much cooperative enterprises will =,
complish toward making capitalists and labor
ers work together in harmony, remains TO be
seen, and will depend very much upon the
adaptbility of the cooperative system to all
branches of industry. This has not as yet
been fully tested