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Year: 1873

hhb OATEb AND HEX COMPANY.


On Friday and Saturday evenings, Mrs. James
A. Oates and her Company will appear at the
Opera House. in this City. Newark news
paper speaking Of this Company, says -


Mrs. Oates brings to her aid not only the
freshness and vivacity Of YOUTH but charm
that is rarely Witnessed on the stage. the charm
OF aspeouliar innocence that has rendered her
career remarkable in dramatic annals She
never seems to realize that she ia on the stage,
and is consequently devoid OF affectation or un-
due reserve. Smiles and good fortune have at
tended her professional labors, and even now,
after an experience of several years. every the
atre seems to her like her parlor At home and
the audie nee like old friends


Criticism is at once disarmed and the specta-
tors feel that they are In the presence OF a lady
whom II is pleasure to meet and whose hos
pitality b being extended to them She acts
with feeling rather than art. Her voice is rich
and cultivated, and apart from the fact that she
means to make every one happy or Joyous around
her and enjoys herself in doing 80, her singing
il delicious. The impression upon each auditor
is almost understandable. and instead OF saying
we've been e the opera, people say i've have


'Her company is good one, and numbers
many performers who have already established
themselves as favorites. Prominent among them
is Mrs. Annie Bondinot, whose husband will be
remembered by many opera goers as an accom-
plished actor, and bass singer Of puch wonder
ful power that he bid fair to eclipse every artist
in his line the world had ever known. Mrs. Bon
dinot comes from musical family, and is much
esteemed personally. The arrival OF Mrs. Oates
Is always an event to be made much of, and her
departure leaves pang OF regret as deep as that
caused by the absence OF those who are nearest
and dearest to the social circle. She will ever be
regarded, by the public as sister, friend, or
DrOteQ0.n
Year: 1873

One Of the very best acts Of the Legislature is
the vote in the Senate, yesterday, reconsidering
the adverse vote on the bill to so amend the
Constitution. rs to allow General Incorporation
Act, aud the subsequent passage Of the bill.
This. being adopted by the House and approved
by the next Legislature. will become an Amend
ment to the Constitution, and at the session of
1875, we can have good general law passed. 1t
will be one Of the best measures in aid OF our in
dustrial growth, and in reduction OF the expense
Of the Legislature, within our reach.
Year: 1873

Many complaints are being made by our
business men, Of the action O, the city
treasurer in refusing to take certified
checks upon our city banks in payment of
gas and water bills. Certainly this action,
whether by direction Of the finance com
mittee or on his own responsibility. shows
d want Of confidence in our banks which
is unwarranted in the present condition OF
our finances, and should at once be cor
rected. Such q course tends to idiscredit
our banks and to prevent that full restora-
Ition Of confidence which is now the one
thing needed by our people. Our banks
are sound, and are emily embarrassed as all
tho people are BY the preseat bad system Of
finance. ~ is p time now for all business


men to stand by each other and wait and


work for measures Of relief which must be
promptly passed upon the reassemnb9liing ,of Of
Icongress.ool 4iI 81 i,s.dl y ~ bl5Ha 40 gIE79A
Year: 1873

CAsToRIA.-Is more than substitute
or Castor OIL 1t is the only safe article in exis-
tence which is sure to regulate the bowels. cure
wind-colic and produce natural sleep. 1t is
pleasant to take. Children need not cry and
mothers may Sleep
Year: 1873

RET "IFs EVER, HAVE THE POWER 1
WILL RENDER THE SCHOOL FEATURE
OF THE CONSTITUTION MIGRATORY
1T SHALL NEVER BE CARRIED OUT
by ANY VOTE OR ACTION OF NINE
AR. Z. Daniel, IN a Speech before the Virgtnta
Legislature at its last session.
Year: 1873

TEE CASE BEING ALTERED, Al
TIERS THE CAsE.--It sounds very we'll to
tell the owner of big house and plenty to
eat to live out of doors as much as he can.
but when it comes to giving the same ad-
vice to a poor devil who has no home or
grub, the case is entirely different. 1t is,
then, like adding insult to injury.
Year: 1873

A thief is contemplate being, of
course; but in many cases hard want
forces men 60 sin. Poverty is a fearful
straih ON mans honesty. The poor man
who lives an honest life is entitled to more
credit than The man of wealth. The one is
forced to fight against temptation, which
comhs to him under the guise of want and
necessity; the other has no motive except
greed or ambition to tempt him from
the path of rectitude, Yet when the poor
mani sins against the laws of the land, how
few sympatflize with him, or seek to
shield him from the penalty incurred. He
has no friends, and the heaviest penalty
that can be inflicted is considered light
enough for him. When the prison doors
close behind him, hope is shut out forever,
for he knows the pardoning power will
never be asked to interfere in his behalf.
Butithe rich criminal is looked upon as
simply unfortunate heis lionized; Justice
bows in his presence, and seems to ask his
pardon for the unpleasant relations which
it bears towards him If he seonvicted, it
is an exceptional case; his sentence is
made as light as possible; his prison life Is
lighaened by pleasant enioyInents, and
cheerful assurance that his confinement
will be short; and he soon walks forth,
the recipient of executive clemency.
Year: 1873

DY ROSE TERRY COOKE.
There is a new song irl my lips,


A song that fits to-day,
The music of a quiet atream


Upon its seaward way
The monotone of such content
As to ii mortal life is lent
The song tiny river sings


That through meadow glides,
Half hidden by the waving grass
Its level course divides;
At last f0rgetfHl of the hills


That Yexed so long its infant rllls.
Not yet its chant of victory
Re-echoes from the shore;
Not yet is all its duty done,


Its rush and labor oPer;
But ocean neareth every day,
And bright is life THAI glides away
A little hymn of graf tltude,


Like BIZ d-songs from their nest,
NY heart must fashion into speech
And utter from its rest
A tender voice of thapkfulness
For love that loyeth most to bless.
The slow speech of weary child
That, wandering lost and lone,
Comes unaware on home at last
And nestles TO its own,
Wrapped all at once in warmth and peace,
Where all the storm and straying cease.
Ali can it be, Of last, at last,
The time of toll and tears,
OF bitter tr, uble overpast,


That hope again appe RS
That after all this weary strife
live to thank thee, Lord, for life
To gather up the broken clue


And tread the path again
With quiet hope and ithankfulness
trad SO long with pain,
To trust again with such faith
As once was wounded unto death?
Lord, keep me closer at thy side
AS life the sweeter grows,
Lest forget in this content


The thorns beneath the rose.
Tat, dear as home 8nd love may be,
| find them still mostdear with Thee.


N. Y Independent.
Year: 1873

We have had very backward, cold
spring, and much cloudy weather bul
not q large fall of rain. The putting
in of crops was late, from two to four
weeks later than usual still it is cheer.
ing to note that Notwithstanding the
lateness of the season, the promise,
now at the close of the spring months,
is very encouraging. Fruit bids fair
to be abundant Of all kinds, save
where as in the case of the grape vines
and peach trees, the cold winter has
killed the vines and trees. The moist
damp weather Of May has made Ger
tain good hay crop, and has been
beneficial TO wheat and oats. Corn
planted before the middle of May, has
much of it rotted, and has been or is
being replanted. The last ten days
weather has, however, been favorable
for corn, and it is now coming on
well. All things considered, the out
look for an abundant yield from Moth
er Earth this season may be considered
good. No better growing weather
could be asked for than we are now
snjoying, and the ground has been
just moist enough this spring to leave
it in good mellow condition when
stirred,
Year: 1873

The publicity given to messages
written on postal cards may be avoid
ed by the use of invisible ink, the direc-
tion to "hold to the fire" being written
with ink. In France invisible ink is
sold for this purpose.


All that renders the editorials of the
New York Herald so heavy, and give
them such weight upon the people, is
the fact that they are double-leaded.
Year: 1873

There is curious relic TO be seen in
the Holy Trinity Church, Minories,


London. II lis nothing less remarkable
than the head of the Duke of Sussex,
the father of Lady Jane Gray. 1t is
kept in small tin box. There is a
mark as if cut from an AK on the neck.
The skin is very like thick parchment.
Year: 1873

excessive, but this would afford no ex-
cuse for legislative usurpation. This
committee, not content with meddling
with matter beyond their control, and
endeavoring to six bail, " go further and
usurp the functions of the jury. The
trial was to take place at a future day,
certain publieations-which were ad-
mitted to have been made-were charg-
ed as libellous, and defense had been
interposed that the publication was not
libel because the several charges were
true. This committee, notwithstanding,
this condition of the case, proceed with a
pretended trial of the truth or falsity of
the charges contained in the alleged
libel. Courts had been established, by
the same power from which they de-
rived their legislative existence, to try
and determine these very questions, and
were soon to pass thereon. Regardless
of this, the committee take up each
charge separately and report upon their
truth or falsity. They declare one charge
to be true and another to be untrue, but
not to amount to much after all. If this
is not usurpation we know not where
to find instances thereof. 1t is not only
usurpation of the most dangerous kind,
but it is, also, tampering with justice.
The Legislature of New York, through a
majority of one of its committees, de-
clares to court and jury that certain
charges, which it is their sole province
to investigate, are true and others false.
What mattered it to the Legislature of
New York, in the question under consid-
alton, whether the charges were true OF
not? If they had the right and power
to examine this question of amount of
bail, to investigators, in other words,
try-the matters of fact and law involv-
ed in this particular case, they have the
same right and power in all cases. If
they have it, the Legislatures of all
States have it, and the independence of
courts are at an end.
Year: 1873

by persons who had failed of success
from lack of work and proper develop
ment of their faculties.


In the natural world we recognize the
truth that there is no event without an
adequate pre-existing cause, and what
is true in this field is true in other fields.
In all animate creation there is a certain
law of growth, and which stops at fixed
limits, as it has not the base on which
the grander structure can be built But
in man the scope is almost boundless.
The employment of our organs and
faculties in obedience to the law is an in
dispensable condition of growth and de-
velopment."


Mr. Willard then proceeded to show,
by numerous illustrations, what success
can be obtained by ordinary persons in
most any pursuit, by sufficient prepara-
ton and training of their faculties, both
physical and mental. He showed that
no one had ever yet reached the limit of
his powers. lie showed how that there
was lying dormant in every one re-
sources which, upon being brought in
play by unexpected emergencies, would
produce grand results. He claimed that
there was in reality no such thing as
genius May be a Napoleon might
arise once in a century. We most of
US build magnificent plans, but too many
sink down into an indolent indifference
afterward, and the cause of our failure is
in ourselves, owing to a lack of prepara-
ton.


The lateness of the hour prevents
more lenghthy extract from the honora-
BILE gentlemans instructive, elegant ad-
dress.


The concert in the evening was, of
course, quite fine and well attended.


Castleton has reason to be proud of
the right royal manner in which she has
provided for and sustained everything
necessary to render this anniversary a
most entertaining and successful one.
Year: 1873

he will see fair specimen of the lands in
the whole county, as those of Fork Creek.
Bat Creek and Tellico Valley are equally
as good. The others may be more rolling,
but possess the same mineral power of re-
cuperation.


The health and longevity of Monroe
county and a portion of Western North
Carolina is shown by the census. From
the high table land in the centre of the
county, the lands descend to the Gulf of
Mexico, giving q prominence as to
health, furnishing good air the coun-
ty being free from fevers or chills, without
any disparagementt to other counties.


Mr.. Editor, all Monroe county asks Ia
for the enterprising man or woman to come
among us, with labor, brains or money, and
they will find We have not over-statsd the
resources and climate of East Tennessee.
THE proof of the pudding is to eat it. y
The price and quality of the lands and
other surroundings will determine the in
ducement to actual settlers. Let them
come! PROGRESS.
Year: 1873

The farmers in this vicinity have gener-
ally commenced cutting their wheat,
though the weather for some days past has
been unfavorable. They are now, howev-
er, fairly at work, and in a few weeks we
shall know the extent of the crop. The
grain as far as we have heard, is good, and
the chances are that the market will open
at fair price. When the threshers get
started we hope our friends will keep us
advised in regard to the yield. A larger
breadth than usual was sown last fall, and
we think there will be o right smart sur
plus for shipment.-Athens Post.


Harvest is now on hands and from what
we have been able to learn it is likely to
turn out better yield than was expected.
The heads are we'll filled, though the stalks
are too thin on the ground, having frozen
out considerable during the cold weather
in the spring. There will probably be
fair average yield in this county, provided
the weather is favorable for harvesting,
which has not been the case for the past
few days on account of the heavy rains
iSWeetwater Enterprise.
Year: 1873

Letter from Vienna TO the Baltimore American by c.


G. Fulton.J


The Germans in the United States, and
those Americans who affect fondness for
lager beer, don't drink it as it is drank in
Germany. They rush into q restaurant
and gulp down two or three glasses and
move on. Here a German never thinks
of finishing his glass Of beer in less than
ten minutes, and to drink it without eat
ing something at the same time, even if it
is only crust of brown bread. In fact, a
German in the Fatherland is constitutions
ally opposed to doing anything in a hurry,
and especially to drinking beer with
"rapid speed"
Year: 1873

The old court house was sold at Athens
and brought Sis, the purchaser being Mr..
Cleage, contractor for the new building
The Post says that during the war it was
used as q military barracks, both by the
Rebels and the Federals, and as the work
OF demolition progresses some strange de-
velopments may be expected. But we
don't believe that a soldier was ever MUIR
dered there by some of his comrades and
buried beneath the floor; or, if such was
the case, that the ghost of the poor fellow
is at all responsible for the strange and un-
earthly noises that have occasionally been
heard about the building, or for the lurid
lights which sometimes gleam through the
openings in the cupOla, at the solemn hour
of twelve, to the utter disgust of the man
who lights the street-lamps. The other
story, that there is a large amount OF
greenbacks concealed behind secret panel
in one of the jury rooms is too preposterous
to be entertained for moment.
Year: 1873

Professor Rosenthal gives the fol-
lowing explanation Of the parhoge-
mic action of exposure to cold: Sup
pose an individual to have been
subjected to an elevated tempera-
ture, such as that Of ball room or
theatre, or to have engaged in vio-
lent exercise; the cutaneous vessels
are dilated, and in q state more or
less akin to paralysis, and in all
cases more slow to contract than u.s.
ual. If at this moment the same
person be exposed abruptly and
without any intermediate transition
OF q temperature, especially to a
current OF cold air, q considerable
loss OF heat will be observed upon
the surface Of the body. The blood
which has thus cooled externally
comes back into the internal organs
and cools them suddenly; which
circumrtance alone may, IN an or
gan predisposed to disease, become
the active cause of some severe ma
lady. The cutaneous vessels, on
their part, become contracted, driv-
ing out the blood which they con-
tanned, and thus produce kind of
hyperamia, which in itself may ex-
ercise q morbific action. This
cause, however, is usually only an
accessory one, at least in cases
where the temperature has been
much elevated. The vessels have
lost their tonicity, and do not cen.
tract suddenly. But if the danger
from collateral hyperemia is thus
diminished that from refrigeration
is increased.-Harper's Magazine.
Year: 1873

We know perfectly well that some
persons lace themselves too tight,
although it is not at present fash
ionablc to do 50. We know, too,
that many women have seriously
injured their health, while some
have sacrificed life itself on the
shrine of slender waist. But the
wearing Of the corset does not nec-
essarily, and in fact, does not COM
monty, end in tight lacing; while
lacing, and that too of very hurt
full sort, may be, and frequently is,
accomplished without the use of a
corset at all. We have seen mems
clothes worn as tightly as any cor
set ever was. The condemnation Of
tight lacing is perfectly just, Of
course, as everybody having the
smallest knowledge of anatomy
knows. But many who meyer lace
wear corscts, and derive great ben
eft from their use. 1t is certainly
very absurd to demand that these
people shall forego a comfort Civ
ing article of apparel merely be-
cause they could turn it into an in
strument of torture if they were
fools. They find that TO put the en-
tire weight of their clothing upon
their shoulders is to cause them
selves pain, and in order to divide
it they let part of their clothing de-
pend upon their hips for support.
10 do this without u corset it would
be necessary to wear the garments
altogether tighter about the waist
than they should be worn, and to
bind them around single narrow
zone, which would be both uncom.
Portable and unwisc. The corset,
however, distributes both the weight
and the pressure over the strong
muscles of the hips, and, rs it is
less yielding than the flesh, it obvi-
ates the necessity of tight waist
bands altogether. The corset, pro-
perly used, in other words, furnish
es the very best remedy for tight
lacing, particularly now that taper
waists have gone out OF fashion,
Hearth and Home.
Year: 1873

You have probably noticed what
a thoughtful woman your wife is.
She never forgcts anything, and
when she goes down cellar after an
article she is sure to bring up some
thing else she may Ded. She calls
that "making her head save her
heels" Once in q while she may
neglect something, but that is be-
cause she has so much on her mind
that she can't think of everything
at once, and if some people had as
much to do and keep track of as she
has, there would be nothing done
at all. After she says this, it is
time you either left or busted your
self with something else. We never
knew man who continued the con.
versation to appear satisfied after
wards. She exhibits this thought
tulness in many ways, but more par
ticularly some night when you have
just got to bed, and neglected to
leave a match near the lamp. Then
she starts up with the examination:
81 declare ! forgot to set emptings
tonight, and there isn't only bread
enough for breakfast" So you get
up, and skim around Tor a match,
and, after securing o light, accom-
pany her to the kitchen, where you
hold the light while she goes thro'
the operations required in "setting
emptings." And after you have
stood around in your bare legs for
ten minutes, holding the lamp in one
hand and frequently slapping your
self with the other, you 60 back to
bed oppressed by the consciousness
that in some way you are response
BILE for the whole trouble. Dan6ury
Nescs.
Year: 1873

The cruelties attending the col
lapse of the Dubuque Savings Insti-
tuition are no doubt many since it
was principally the depository OF
the poor. We have heard of in
stances, which, perhaps, are but the
counterpart of a hundred others Of
equal poignancy.


p. Be, an old man, nearly
blind, with large family depend
ing on him, recently sold small
farm, the result ofyears savings, for
$500 which he deposited in the In
stitution. His sister, an elderly wo-
man now lying at the point of death,
at his instance, deposited all the
money she had, $500, there, also.
Should she die, which is more than
probable-betwecn them there is not
money enough to bury her.


Mr.. and Mrs. C--y, a worthy old
couple have been for years saving
out of his hard-earncd pittancc, do:-
lar by dollar, sum to buy them a
shelter and a home to spend the re-
naming years of life. The fixed
sum necessary to meet their ambi-
tion was 81, 900. The old lady was
made the custodian Of the fund. AS
the old gentleman could squeeze out
from their actual necessities dol
lar, he placed it in the hands of his
wife. Sometimes it was one dollar
sometimes two, and rarely greater
amount. Recently, in the course Of
long years Of strictest economy, the
$1,000 was gained. A few days be-
fore the bank was closed, while the
old gentleman was looking about
for place suitable, within the pow
cr of their capital to buy, the old la
dy became nervous over the keeping
Of her money at home subject to
burglars and. thieves, and quietly
slipped down to Mr.. Babbagc, with
out acQuainting her husband and de-
posted the money in the savings
bank.


Now the old lady is carrying q
load at her heart, for she has not the
courage to tell her husband that she
has so disposed of the gleanings,
and the old gentleman is without a
suspicion of the misfortune that has
befallcn him.


Another instance of similar cast
is that of Mrs. D., the wife Of a
poor laboring man, who has been
boarding up every possible dollar
through the summer, to buy his win
tcr's fuel. She had saycd up $50
by week before the savings bank
closed, and fearing she might lose
it if she carried it on her person, or
that it might be stolen or burned if
she kept it at home, deposited it in
the bank. Winter is near at hand
and her husband is without employ
ment, and that half hundred was
their all.


Mr.. M, an old man of sixty,
whose days have been spent in work
ing at laboring work, had by dint
of frugal economy saved about
$1,000. This was deposited in the
savings institution. Now, with eye
sight so frail that he cannot see to
read in the day time-and with
strength only sufficient to saw an
occasional cord of wood, he finds
himself impoverished and without
means to pay his daily board. He
had hoped that the savings of his
stronger days together with what he
might be able to earn by chores in
after life, would keep him until the
silent messenger should call him.


We might recite other similar in
stances, but these will suffice for the
present, to show what cruelties may
flow from mems bad actions.-Du-
buQue Times.