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Year: 1872

Bishop Persico, who was on the
steamer Virgo, bound from New York
to Savannah, on her last trip, made a
most remarkable escape during the
prevalence of storm. He had left the
supper table just before the vessel was
struck by heavy wave, and endeavor-
ed to pass along the deck to the state
room cabin. He had not proceeded far
before ne was Jared off his feet, slip
ped, and fell headlong and PROSTATE
directly through the railing, his head,
shoulders, and a portion of his chest,
hanging over the vessels side. With a
spasmodic effort he threw his arm
around post, but had no power to
help himself up. There he hung
shouting fvr succor, his strength fail
ing, and his eyes staring down into
what seemed must inevitably be his
watery grave. Seconds then appeared
to him like hours, and another moment
would have exhausted his strength; but
his cries were heard, and the venerable
prelate was rescued. His escape was
truly Marvellous -Gharleston.C Courier,
October 18th.
Year: 1872

A man who has been sick unto death.
and very often, at sea, writes an ac.
count ofa recent voyage for India. and
how he circumvented the attack:


My remedy was this {: I did not.
like SO many passengers who felt so
we'll and jolly with the sea breeze and
still water, go down to dinner, but sat
quietly on deck till such tine "a I felt
little hungry, and then went down to
my berth, had some toast, lying down.
though it was then rough and we were
IL the open sea, and slept we'll dur1ne
the evening aud through the night. I
did not get up next day, though I felt
quite vel, but at the stewards favor
ate quite good breakfast ana dinner
lying in my berth. I arose on the
third morning, feeling perfectly we'll,
and from that day and all through the
voyage, I took my meals at the table,
ate heartily, having found, as I then
believed, and still am assured of, per-
feet cure for sea sickness. may men.
tlon that fully one third of the passen.
gers were sick, and q number did not
make their appearance at the table till
a day or two after me, and can only
attribute my unwonted immunity from
the miserable complaint to lying in my
berth till such time as my system had
become accustomed to the rolling and
motion.
Year: 1872

The errant Prince, the Grand Duke
Alexis, who was here a year ago, has
been drifting with regal leisure around
the world. touching occasionally upon
communicable point and then drop


ping out of sight for season. At last
advices he was hobnobbing with the
Maharaj jah of Jahore-whoever he NAV
be-and receiving at the hands of that
monarch the entertainment common to
the country. The principal tete for the
editication of the Grand Duke was a
contest between tiger and a buffalo.
10 make the combatants equal, the
tiger was given opium and the buffalo
arrack. This comparative arrange


ment was somewhat overdone. When
the curtain rose the tiger tried to sneak
away, but the intoxicated buffalo was
eager for the contest. The tiger fell a
victim after some little clawing and
chewing. This spectacle ended, tstes
and banauets followed, His Majesty
drinking the health of his royal guest,
and Alexis responding in the brief but
sufficient phrases with which his Amer
lean entertainers vera made familiar q
year ago.
Year: 1872

An air-gas patent is now in litigation
in London. As its name implies, gas
is manufactured from air by a process
which dispenses with coal altogether,
and the new illuminator is said to be
infinitely purcr, besides being much
ches 'er, than the ordinary coal gas.
The new gas is also said to he appli-
cable for heat and power, and to threat
en- TO snpersede steam engines. There
seems to be no question whatever az to
the Importance of the discovery, the
law case turning entirely on the valid
ity of the patent and the remuneration
claimed by the rival inventors.
Year: 1872

SOME capitalists arc soon to make
Rome much more attractive as place
of fashionable resort. A whole quar-
tier is to be built in the grandest style
of architecture, and two canals are to be
cut to bring the salt water of the Med
iterranean to the city, so that there
mny be sea: baths, and a race. eoutse is
also to be established.
Year: 1872

from land end to lands end, that all may
read, and reading, believe, that for the
countless millions who are on the road to
an un,imely grave with bilious complaints
there is but one truly great Snd reliable
remedy, AMI that is
Year: 1872

The Sacramento Union, at times, has shown
disposition to be classed among respectable
journals, and to treat with some degree of fair
ness the people of the Southern States; but
the cloven foot is frequently exhibited beneath
this assumed garb of honesty and fair dealing
choice morsel, under the caption of "Anotber
view of it:''


against the Republican party because, as it says


One-sixth of the army of the United States is being
employed to annoy the people and carry the elections
for the Administration by force and violence" That
is narrow and exaggerated view Of the situation.
Admit the truth of the statement that sixth of the
army is employed at the South and it follows that
there must be some reason better than those given
by the Enquirer for so employing troops. What is
it? This: that Southern rufians encouraged by un-
repentant rebels and Northern copperheads like the
Cincinnati paper, have forced the Government to
acts of war in order to protect the lives and property
of Union Citizens. That is the main reason why a
sixth of the army is kept in South Carolina Georgia
and North Carolina and why they will and should be
kept there until the spirit of rebellion and murder is
broken and subdued. 1t may be true that the people
there harassed and annoyed at this and that the
elections don't go they would if the rebels and
sassins under the specious plea of State right had
full con rol OF them But these are merely Incidents
and if they disagreeable to the people, their best
plan get rid of them is first to help the troops rid
them OF the rebels and assassins.


The wholesale branding of the people of the
Southern States as rufiians and unrepentant
rebels could only emanate from such foul and
malignant source. The assertion that the
spirit of rebellion and murder existing in the
South necessitates the employment of one.
sixth of the army of the United States could
only be made by lying, white-livered fanatic
possessed of the instincts of a brute, and not
those of gentleman The malgnancy dis
played by the Union in treating of the South
ern people or of their affairs, and its constant
attempts to revive the slumbering auimosties
which were engendered by our national con-
flict, will advantage that paper but little with
the thinking people of the reading public.
Denominating the people of the South "rebels
and aSsassins" has about had its day, and for
paper claiming to be Independent, the Union
exhibits a wonderful opaqueness of vision in
its review of affairs in the South. A party
whose waning fortunes can only be bolstered
up By the wholesale SANDER and yilifcation of
one section of our country and its inhabitants,
must sooner or later 60 to the wall; and pa
per, the columns OF which TEEN with such ma
lignant abuse, must eventually be repudiated
by the people.
Year: 1872

The Emperor of China is soon to be mar
ried, and has imported a pair of elephants to
assist at the ceremony His future consort is
undergoing careful training in the etiquette
of court life. For three years the looms of
Nankin, Hongchou and Canton have been en-
gagged on the silks and satins for her bridal
trousseau, and just now they are announced as
completed, at q cost of nearly halt million in
the sun for his emblem, goes forth in car
drawn by elephants, his bride, who represents
the moon, is to be borne to her palace in q
palanquin composed entirely of strings Of
pearls. 7s
Year: 1872

STATUE OF GREELEY.-A subscription has
been started in New York city for the purpose
of erecting statue of Horace Greeley to be
placed opposite that of Franklin in one of the
public squares of that city. The sum of $4,000
was subscribed in one day.
Year: 1872

REsIGNED.-Vincent Colyer has resigned
his position as Secretary of the Indian Peace
Commission, and it is now to be hoped that


General Crook will no longer be obstructed in
his policy Of whipping the Apaches into subjec
tiOn. wi
Year: 1872

EDUCATE Your DAUGHTERS. There
is not girl on earth, whether the daugh-
ter of prince or pauper, who if made q
perfect mistress of all household duties,
and we're thrown into community
wholly unknown, would not rise from
one station to another, and eventually
become the mistress of her own mansion,
while multitudes of young women placed
in positions of ease, elegance and afflu-
ence, but being untitled TO fill them will
as certainly descend from one round of
the ladder to another, until at the close
Of life, they are found where the really
competent started from. Mothers of
America, if you wish to rid your own
and your children's households of the
destroying locusts which infect your
houses and eat up your substance, have
pride in educating your daughters to
be perfect mistresses of every home du-
ty; then if you leave them without q
dollar, be assured they will never lack
warm garment, bounteous meal, or q
cosy roof, nor fail of the respect of any
one who knows them.
Year: 1872

Several gentlemen ia this city and in
the country have come to US complain
ing Of the prostitution Of the pOstofiice
to the bare purpose Of partisan Congress
men, who send out Grant documents by
the million under their illimitable
franking prerogatve. We have one Of
these before us now which contains q
"eutu on one side taken from Harper s


Weeklly, the journal Of civilization, show
ing Horace Greeley in full view Of q
ruined Southern home rubbing his
hands in gleeiul satisfaction at the pros
pects Of the wretchedness and dilapida-
ton before him. Two Confederate sol
diers,One with an arm in a sling and the
other hobbling along on crutches, view
the remuants Of a once happy homt
The wife and mother is sitting az the
fire place-the only part Of The building
left standing-while her children are
about the ruins in starvation and rags.
Underneath Is the title Of the piece,
q Bringing the thing Home, or Reasons
Why the South should Not Vote Ioi
Greeley On the other side Of The
sheet are four columns Of closely printto
matter, giving "Greeley's Amnesty re-
cord All this came here IA an engei-
ope under the frank Of one Plat, M. o.
and the people have 70 pay for al this.
Year: 1872

There will be a noble contest to-day
between the four horses entered for the
trotting match. The entries will be
seen in their proper places.


Major Jack Hays proposes to have an
other Pigeon Shooting match at twelve
O'clock precisely, to accommodate gen
tlemen who have been disappointed IN
not getting in heretofore.


Many premiums are to be awarded in
the DEPARTMENT. of ladies' fine workman
ship. Altogether there will be an in
teresting day at the Fair.


1t has been suggested that our busi-
ness men close their houses to-day to
give their employees and families thsop-
pOrtuuity to enjoy one days recreation
in examining the beautiful handiwork
Of our own fair ladies and other attrac-
tons to be seen on the occasion. We
heartily indorse the suggestion, and
most respectfully suggest TO our mer-
chants that they exhibit at least that
much interest in an Institution which
has exeTted every energy of its officers
and directors to promote and encourage
the material interests of cur section of
the country. Let every business house
be closed to-day.
Year: 1872

MIR. BEECHER's NIEw.-Henry Ward
Beecher, in an article in the Christian I'm
ion, touches, as usual, the vital issue in the
present campaign. lie says: 1.-THE demo-
cratic pledge to let the constitutional amend
ments alone does not meet the case. The
danger of the colorcd people has been and
is, not oppression by law so much as op-
preston without law. Their legal status
as voters has long been practically estab-
lished we owe little more to the democra-
cy for voting that they will not interfere
with that, than for voting that secession


must not be attempted, or that gravitation
shall not be interiered with. What we do
want is practical guarantees that school
teachers of negroes shall not be driven a
way that black men shall not be whipped
and murdered that terrorism supported
by occasional violence shall not keep them
in virtual serfdom." After alluding TO the
fact, that violence against the negroes does
exist at the South, and the still more ugly
fact, that respectable people upheld it, he
adds: ave may be asked if we like inter-
ference on the part of Congress and the
President to repress outrages like those of
the Ku-Klux. Mono more than we like
bitter medi cine. But we would rather have
the medicine than the disease. Further,
in the event of Gen. Grants recollection, we
do not look for much such interference. II
the republican party triumphs, there will
be little need of it. The simple fact that
the government stands as the avowed
friend of the black man, aud his protector
if necessary, win itself be the best protec-
tom But should Mr.. Greeley bo elected,
we believe the result would be accepted
however contrary to his own wishes-by
the lower elements in the Southern white
population, as a signal of the ''freeing of
the white man." which to their mind
means inferiorty of the negro. The new
President would come into office with his
hands tied by his new party associations.
And the democratic nlne-tenths of that
party, though they may accept negro equal
ity as fact in the statute book, have any,
thing but zeal toward making it fact on
the sOiln
Year: 1872

WHY GEN. GRANT Is RUNNING FOR A
SECOND TERM.-Talking with Herald re-
porter while sailing on the st. Lawrence
river among the Thousand islands, Gen.
Grant explained why he was candidate
for re- election "I was not anxious to be
president second term, but l consented
to receive the nomination simply because
/ tn ought that was the best way of discov
ering whether my countrymen, or the ma
jority of them, really believed all that was
alleged against my administration and
against myself personally. The asperites
of an election campaign will give my po-
ltical opponents and my personal enemies
an opportunity and an excuse TO say all
that can be said against me. That oppor-
tunity do not grudge them, and depend
on the people TO rebuke or indorse me, as
they see fit. All those who have treated
me unfairly have now a chance to declare
themselves. The mere fact of my having
occupied the position have already enjoy
ed was an honor to me, which, i trust, 1
shall duly appreciate. But attacks were
made upon me long before had fulfilled
my term and before l had ever thought of
a second term. I reluctantly consented to
enter upon this second struggle, and I
would not have done SO at all if did not
feel desire TO know whether the majority
of my fellow citizens were willing TO aid
my enemies in fastening ISLANDERS upon me.
Besides am anxious TO ascertain whether
the republican party, whose choice l again
happen to be, is to have its policy sustain
ed or not"
Year: 1872

IN 'NCIDENT.-At recent meeting or
the British Association for the promotion
of something at Brighton, the tnssey lIt-
tie mayor of the town conducted Louis
Napoleon and Eugenic to front seats, and
seated them near Lady ourdett-Coutts.
Persons who remember back as far as
1913 may recollect a paragraph that float
ed about in the papers of that day, which
said. 1--WE learn that n amarrage has been
arranged between Miss Burdett Coutts
ana Prince Louis Napoleon, now of Lon
dom" l.. n. was then very impecunious,
and would have liked right well the ten
millions of dollars then possessed by the
young lady. Poor Lady BOZ She now
has an income of million of dollars a
year. which troubles her. Recently, it
is said, a certain bishop, with whom she
had been acquainted for many years, ap-
piled to her for money to help build a
church. She had so much confidence IN
the bishop that she signed a blank check
and gave it to him. She had no doubt
that he would fill it up with as much as
two, or perhaps three, thousand pounds
The bishop filled it up with thirty thous-
and, and that was the last money or the
last word he ever got from Lady Burdett
Coutts
Year: 1872

MIXED. the New York Tribune
reporter, who feigned insanity to get
INTO Bloomingdale asylum, said to one
of his attendants Say, Jerry, the
patient interrupting with tumble some
thing like the following 81 have Just
been thinking what fine meat pie n
hippopotamus would make monkeys
are very entertaining company if; the
temperature of pond of frozen ice cul-
inmates properly in the coeflicient of
expansion it Will then he the duty OF
the proedros to ascend to the rostrum
and having driven out over the shell
road TO Pontchartrain to bet on the ace
when one is still out and three cards are
left; you know Just as well as / do that
hate to speak cross to you-say, Jerry.
Year: 1872

POSTAL GoUGING In the DAYS Of heavy
postage no one had the slightest scrup,
IN cheating the revenue. Persons leaving


home, whether for inland or foreign ttaveI
were importuned by friends to carry let
tcrs for them to Other friends. An Itea
prevai ed that If the letters were carried
"opcu that is-unsealed ed-there was {
intraction OF the law, and that consequent
lv no penalty could be eXacted Tnis wa-
a popular error. The law, moreover, was
evaded IN another way. \ newspaper was
sent by post in an envelope; inside the
latter a long epistle was often written in
invisible ink. generally milk. When this
was dry the writing could not be seen.
BY holding the paper to the fire the writ
jng came out in sepla color, and the law
was broken. The post office authorities
discovered this pretty trick, and parties
were threatened with prosecution but a.
the receivers invariably protested that
they did not know who the senders were


it was almost impossible to obtain con


viction. Sendcrs, indeed, grew 4 little
nervous, and many changed their method
Of conveying information in spite o, the
law In place of writing in milk on the
covers OF newspapers. they made slight
dots in ordinary ink, under such printed
letters As suited their purpose for convey


ng intelligence. This was troublesome
for both sender and receiver, and 1t was
therefore used only for brief messages.
The postal tax pressed most heavily on the
poor, but the ingenious poor discovered
means to evade it. For instance, son or
daughter in town despatched letter 70
parents in the country who were too poor
10 pay the postage. The parents declin-
ed to take such letter in, which they had
a legal right TO do. Returned to the
General Post-Office. the letter on being
opened was found to be a blank sheet OF
paper, The fact is that parents and chill
dren had agreed to send these blank
sheets IS indications that all was well
with the sender: the receiver got that
much of news and had nothing to paw for
it. The letter was never taken in unless
a peculiar mark IS on the cover which
that sometng ot Importance
was to be read within. - Temple Bar,
Year: 1872

Judge Farwell, of Chicago, has refused
to grant divorce on the ground of the
repeated and extreme cruelty of the
husband, which repeated and extreme
cruelty" appeared to consist of threat to
shoot some indiscreet youth who was too
attentive to his wife.
Year: 1872

How TO BEAUTIFY YoUR EooMs.-The
first condition of success in furnishing
either large or n small room is that


there must be no over crowding This
is absolute. When outline is lost, beauty
rs matter of fact, is lost also. We must
all know many drawing rooms in which.
perhaps, the worth and beauty of each
individual thing is indisputabie, on en-
teriug while the first thing that strikes
one is sense of inconeruity. what
might have been an art collection is de-
Graded to the level of an cid curiosity
shop Most women are born with love
of beauty. But generllly, unless this
love is cultivated aud trained, it runs to
waste and fritters itself away upon small
things. Women 60 into n shop and
hover over counter for an hour, en-
crossed in the purchase of fifty minute
things. each one of which is pretty
enough in itself if taken mp in the hand
and inspected; but not one of which can
be clearly defined at distance OF two
wards and not one Cf which repays the
trouble Of the minute inspection. These
are packed away in shiny cabinets that
are blazing with oromolu scroll work, on
spindle legged what nots that seemed to
be designed for no other earthly purpose
than to he knocked down at brief inter-
walls, and on mantle pieces that confuse
ones vision and mnddle mes brain
during the long periods when the need
of being near the fire forces one to face
them. II is a better and higher system
of economy to buy two or three good
bronzes or marbles, on which the eye
can always rest with pleasure, than to
spend ten times the sum on heteroGe-
nous mass of the parti colored rubbish
which many accumulate, Gin order,
they call it. "to take off the naked look
of their room" Better the naked look
ten thousand times than the false deco
rations.
Year: 1872

THOSE Amherst professors are fear
fully malicious fellows they have to
keep awake through their own sermons
and won't let anybody else sleep in
peace. The other day one of thom
cried out, in the middle of gently so
poritic DISCOURSE, Wake mp tint
young mani" and half the students
aud faculty woke mp the other half, not
Knowing, Of course, which was the
Young man meant, and some nf them
Nd not get amy more sleep that morn
ing.
Year: 1872

A MOTHER was amused the other day
to hear this bit of argument" from
her little boy: Mamma. 1 don't see
how Satan turned out to he such II bad
1 low; there wasn't any devil to put
him ND to it,"
Year: 1872

So it ever is The true Nan is at
once Shekinah and Commentary; and
the Augustest Verities take form and
find expression not less IN what he
is than what he says. The seer as
well as what is seen, the prophet as
well as the prophecy, the messenger
as we'll as the message, the apostle
as well as the epistle, are freighted
with revelations of God. And, in
watching the ebb and flow of the
blood in lofty, devout souls, there
comes in upon one better sense of
the rhythm and meaning of the pulse
beatings of the Great Divine Heart,
By every throb Of life which has
been cast IN the mould Of the Spirit,
and by every utterance which has
leaped from his lips in answer to the
broodings and moving Of the Holy
Ghost upon a responsive nature, the
Everlasting Gates are being lifted
up, and We have a nearer and clearer
view OF the King of Glory, who waits
for faith and love, for pure heart and
the clean hand, which shall one day
usher him in. And I am sure one
cannot look on this struggling, short
lived Robertson with any penetra-
ton of vision, cannot draw near him
with sympathetic appreciation, with
out feeling that new comprehension
of the Master has been born in him
that he has, somehow, been
brought nearer to the blessed Son OF
Man, and that key has been fur
nished with which he can better IN
lock eternal secrets it holds, and get
a more vital Interpretation out OF
that old, old Story of the Cross.


Down beneath all that looks like
the simple, ordinary routine of life,
in the secret chamber, where one
stands face to face with this real
man, form appears, a voice speaks,
q radiance, shines, a presence touches
and the feeling comes here, at last, is
one whose right hand can lead very
near to the Holy of Holes Myste-
ries become less mysterious, light
grows more luminous, beauty puts on
| the grace of diviner comeiness,
love woos and warns as though it
were breath swept in from the better
land, right walks invested with the
sanction of higher authority, duty
loses sternness and passes over into
a sense of privilege and impulse, au
life grows deeper and finer, and each
fact of life swells into master proper
tions, as one walks with him and
listens to his speech; for his words
sometimes very simple and calm,
sometimes vague and hesitatin E
sometimes impe;uous aud glowing
with the holy heats of an awful inner
intensity-have somehow the high
prophetic art of falling on dull ears
and stirring sluggish souls like
echoes from the infinite and the
eternal.