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Year: 1870

To the Editors of the Union and American:


The citizens of the fifth Chancery Divi-
sion are deeply interested in making a wise
selection of a Chancellor for said division.
When we come to look over the fifth divi-
sion, we find no man SO emiDently quail
fed to fill that distinguished position as
James W. Mcuenry, Esq, of Carthage,
He is mn Of great experience as a
lawyer, few equal to him in legal acquire
ments in Tennessee. He is one whose
talent would do honor to the Supreme
Bench, and if elected Chancellor will give
entire satisfaction to the bar and the peo-
pie. A VOTER.
Year: 1870

The Senate amendment to the House
bill to incorporate the United States Free
hold Land and Emigration Company, and
confirm certain legislation in Colorado,
was concurred in.


On motion of Mr.. Schenck the House
insisted on amendment to funding bill and
agreed TO a Committee of Conference
on Senate amendments.


The tax bill was referred to the Commit
tee on Ways and Means.
Year: 1870

THE FAST MAN OF THE PERIoD.-The
fast young man of the period, if weighed
in the balances of purity and justice, will
be found wanting Catch one of these un-
thinking, unframed creatures of custom
and appetite, and put him into the scales,
and you will be astonished to find how
light he is; he is lighter than vanity. His
head is light, for he has put nothing in it /;
his heart is light for it is hollow; his
pockets are light, for he has spent his
money for liquor and tobacco. The
heaviest part of his person is in his
stomach that is capacious, and crammed
with food which digests slowly because it
is picked in whisky. Analyze him. A
fine hat fit for better head, (see hatter's
account; fashionable suit of clothes (not
paid for); a neck-tie mot of hemp; hair
oiled and perfumed by the barber (who is
shaved by his customer; mouth filled
with large quid Of tobacco (for which he
has not paid quid pro quo)i body satu-
rated with alcohol. Who will copy such a
model, made up of whisky and tobacco ?
Foul breath coined into foul speech,
diseased body dressed at other peoples
cost in the highest style of fashion. He is
not temperance man; he can hardly be-
come man until he becomes temperate.-
Temperance AdU0cdte.
Year: 1870

SAYING Hateful THINGs-What
strange disposition is that which leads peo-
pie to say hateful things for the mere
pleasure of saying them You are never
safe with such a person. When you have
done your best to please, and are feeling
very kindly and pleasantly, out will pop
some under-hand stab which you alone
can comprehend-a sneer which is masked,
but which is too well aimed to be misun-
derstood. 1t may be at your person, your
mental failing, your foolish habits of
thought, or some little secret of faith or
opinion confessed in moment of genuine
confidence. 1t matters not how sacred it
may be to you, he will have his fling at it /;
nay, since the wish is TO make you suffer,
he is all the happier the nearer he touches
your heart. just half dozen words, only
for the pleasure of seeing cheek flush
and an eye lose its brightness, only spoken
because he is afraid you are too happy or
too conceited. Yet they are worse than so
many blows. How many sleepless nights
have such mean attacks caused tender.
hearted men2 How after them, one
awakes, with aching eyes and head, to re.
member that speech before everything
that bright, sharp, wellaimed needle Of a
speech that probed the centre of your
soul Household
Year: 1870

GETTING well into the middle of telling
good story, and then utterly forgetting
just the very point of it.


Going more than 20 miles some fine
morning to be married, and then remem-
bering when at the church, that you have
left the ring behind you ..a


Getting through successfully the first
verse of a song, and then completely for
getting the remainder. ...-..


Having just posted an urgent begging
letter to a friend, suddenly bethinking that
you have spelled his name wrong, and
feeling pretty sure that this is likely to
offend him.


Recollecting, on your way home after
supping at your club, thatyou promised TO
fetum and have an early dinner, and escort
your wife and her mother to the play,


"A Sad Spectacle--A young colt with
Year: 1870

THERE is a wonderful diversity among
animals in respect to the number of their
eyes. In mammals, birds, reptiles, and
fishes they are limited to two, and are al
ways placed on the head. The greater
part of the surface ofthe head Of the house
fly is covered by an aggregation of about
10000 eyes and in the dragon-fiy they
number about $4,000, and may be easily
seen by the use of a magnifying lens even
of very small power.


They are not always confined TO the
head alone. In spiders and scorpions there
are generally eight or ten of them in one
or more clusters, on the dorsal aspect of
that part of the body which is formed by
the union of the head and thorax.


The star-fish or flve-hngers, familiar to
every one who has spent any time on our
seacoast, has an eye on the tip of each ray
or arm. In the sea-urchin, which is homo
logically nothing but a star fish with the
ends of its rays drawn close together, the
FIVE eyes are gathered in a circle around
what is considered the hinder portion of
the body.


The scallop has numerous eyes on the
edge of his mantle, extending from one
end of the animal to the other, and form
ing q semi-circle. Some marine worms
have them in clusters, not only on the
head, but also along each side of the body,
even to the tip of the tail, and they are
connected individually and directly with
the medium nervous cord. If we descend
TO the lowest forms, we find many in
fusoria which have neither eyes nor
nerves. and yet it is easy TO see that they
are sensitive TO light, for they either seeI'
or avoid it-Dr. Clark IN Hours at HOHse,
Year: 1870

ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE-John M. Wood, of
North Adams, Mass, who was reported to have
been garrOted and robbed, had the good fortune
to win the affections of q young lady i'm New
York, who dying lett him her property, and this
was supple lemented upon the death Of the girls
mother by all Of her fortune. Altogether Wood
received about $50 900 in money and an elegant
residence in the metropolis. The story of his
courtship is somewhat romantic. He was on his
way to New York on board one of the Troy
steamers, when he met the young lady. They
fell into conversation, and it was soon evident
lady was desperately In love with him. Whether
she forced the courting, or whether he first told
his love- we are unable to say; but it was not
long before Wood was the happy possessor of the
information that the young lady had loved him
because Of his resemblance To young man to
whom she had been engaged, and who was torn
from her by the rude hand of death. She loved
him not SO much for himself as for another;
and dying she testified her devotion by leaving
him all her property-Ttoy Times.
Year: 1870

New DEPARTMENT BUMDryGs.-The Joint
Committee on Public Buildings Of the Senate
ard House held a meeting last evening, and
agreed to recommend a plan tor the erection of
new State, War, and Navy Departments on the
sites now occupied by the War and Navy De-
paItmenIs. similar to the Treasury Department
building; but in case it shall be determined to
build State Department only, they recommend
that the site be Judiciary Square, fronting on
street.
Year: 1870

THE DIsCHA GGEs AT THE NAVY YARD-The
Vice President laid before the Senate this
morning a memorial from the Sixth Ward Irish
Republican Club, asking a continuance OF the
work at the Navy Yard Referred to Committee
on Appropriations.
Year: 1870

In regard to the various Judicial offices
to be filed at the ensuing August election,
there is none more important to the great
interest of the people than County Judge.
This is especially the case with the admin
istration and settlement of estates, and thei-
management by guardians, executors, adj
ministrators, etc. This should require a
man as County Judge of undoubted quail
fications, with kindness, accommodation and
appreciation of the wants of the humblest
of our citizens. 1t is particularly the
claims of p G Silver Perkins to which l
wish to refer, and who has in these re-
spects given the most undoubted evidence
in his life among us and such was the
confidence of the people Of Williamson
county that he was elected to the Legisla-
ture in 1919, and County Judge in 1859,
by fine vote on each occasion over
strong opponents; and such the sat
isfaction given to the bar and people
that most of the business of the
Chancery Court was transacted in his
court, when the two courts had concurrent
Jurisdiction: and such was his devotion to
right that he sacrificed himself in the dis
charge of official duties required of him by
law, though warned of the consequences.
He has never been an office-seeker, and
only asks now that his opponents allow
him to try one term in his native county.
will not say that one of his opponents
through age and infrmity, requires more
ease in his decline than he may suppose,
or is allowed by the duties of County
Judge; nor that the other, through long
/ continuance in office, has had no time to


attain the statutory requirements of being
'Iearned in the law" or even to have prac-


ticed it; but Perkins, though not SO robust


as the one, nor infirm as the other (though


suffering constantly by an old wound, is


now in the full experience OF age and


practice, with the legal attainments Of
| thirty wears of closest study. Nor will /


say that either of his opponents were hold
ing Office by military authority during the


war. or that either has grown rich from the
emoIuments of Office; but Perkins was
deprived of his Office, his house burned,
his little all lost by the casualties of war.


And now having for the first time since the
war "a white mans chance" and having
been so long on the losing side, we think
his hopes of success should not be blasted,
but fully realized by his election to County
! Judge, for which he is SO ''worthy and well
qualified" A VorER.
Year: 1870

Our contemporary in his 'side verse
notes, says that as soon as the Maxwell
House elevator arrives, we will issue an
"extra" That's just what we are going to
do. A friend of ours has volunteered to
take up in the machine a copy of the
Banner, where for a once and a wonder, il
too, will be elevated. We are going, also
to invite our alley neighbors up from theil
obscurity to see the show, and insist tha
they enjoy on the occasion the hospitalitiel
of friend Kean in partaking of gooj
square meal, deplorable to them as tn,
after may be. Prepare TO
the occasion, bows
Year: 1870

now complete in every department of the
trade. Our Goods viii be found most
elegant and superb, unexcelled and un-
rivalled in excellence, embracing Foreign
and Domestic Fabrics of the choicest and
test designs, being mostly handmade
and warranted in every instance to give
entire satisfaction. We earnestly invite
the attention of all who desire good goods
which are manufactured with q specia.
view to first-class retail trade.
Year: 1870

To obtain a good nights sleep sponge
the entire length of the spine in hot water
for ten or fifteen minutes; this will llreduce
the circulation, quiet the nervous system,
and induce sleep better than any drug.
Year: 1870

THERE is every prospect that the farm
crs of New England will have occasion
this year to be grateful for an abundant
harvest. The appearance of the crops
indicates a year of plenty, and the earth
promises to yield the husbandman an am
pie return for his labor. Corn and pota-
toes especially are forward and thus far
have escaped the pests which are so de-
structiye.
Year: 1870

WE are told that an ultra-f fashionable
Young lady at one of the watering places
dresses ight times day-that is, adopts
eight entirely different outfits. Of
course the day spoken of is intended to
mean twenty-four hours. No lady can
make an elaborate toilet under two hours;
SO this young person must devote six
teen hours to the hard labor of dressing
and undressing, and have only eight left
for eating, sleeping, walking, riding,
dancing, flirting and reading. Her la,
bors are, at this rate, more arduous than
these of a washerwoman. Indeed, they
are more wearying than those of rail
way labOrer.
Year: 1870

COMPUTING INTERrsr.-Here is new
rule for computing interest. 1t is so
simple and SO true that every banker,
merchant or clerk, should post it for ref
erence. BY no other arithmetical process
can the desired information te obtained
by SO few figures: j


Six per cent.-Multiply any given mum.
Der Of dollars by the number OF days of
interest desired, separate the right hand
figure and divide by six; the result is the
true interest on such number of days at
six per cent


Eight per Multiply any given
amount of the number Of days upon
which it is desired to ascertain the inter
est and divide by IS, the result will be
the true interest for the time required.


Ten per Multiply the same rs
above and divide by 36, and the result
will show the interest of ten per cent
Year: 1870




tTHUNpERGUsT - Halls Journal Health
has the following


Don't come Down into the breakfast
room Of morning with a thunder cloud
over your pitiful phiz What are you mad
at? Have you note to pay in bank and
NOT dime TO meet it =? Have you the
headache Did the baby wake you from
a sound sleep? Has the newsman failed
10 leave you the morning paper; or has
bill been presenter at yonrdoor, bright and
early, which you know very well ought to
have been paid long ago to the patient
baker, the needy dressmaker, or the begriu-
ed mechanic? May he you have cut your
face while shaving, or Stumpcd your toe
against the cat, or broke your watch spring
in winding it up. May be you are rutllcd
because you have suddenly remembered
that you have failed to meet a business en-
gagemcni yesterday; or took short turn
on friend, or cheated somebody, and that
it is about being found out, otherwise you
would not have cared the snap OF your fin
ger about it, Perhaps as you entered the
door and scanned the breakfast table you
missed some iavorlte ulsh


But, does one Of all these occurrences
Justify you in clouiing the whole house.
hold, in hurting the feelings Of your chill
dren. i'll dlscouraging the servants and out.
raging the guests at your table ? The man
or woman who comes to the family table
with q scowl is brute in nature, and only
wants an opportunity to bring cut his lit.
tl,ncss and meanness.


If, when you come TO the breakfast
room. you are sad from discouragement,
from fatigue, from Illness, from losses you
are excusablc, and you have our sympathy !;
but to meet tho family with trown, and
east gloom over the whole household,
simply because every thing has not gone
exactly according to your sovereign pleas.
ure--you, poor pitiiul worm of the hour;
why. it is suprcmely ridiculous that any
thing else than contempt for 1t is simply
impossible
Year: 1870

Much confusion exists in the public
mind in regard to the distinction that may
exist between deodorisers and disinfect-
ants. and it is probable that in many cases
persons have relied upon mere deodoriz-
ers when the truth was that the danger
lay deeper than any mere disagreeable ef-
feet produced upon the olfactory nerves.
We have many deojorissrs, while there
are but two or three really efficient and
generally available disinfectants, and it is
quite possible that an apartment might be
very thoroughly deodorised and not at all
disinfected. Let Us take, for example.
the case of room, the atmosphere Of
which has been exposed to the efluvia
arising from the excavations of sick per-
son. The odor may be very offensive,
but the peculiar vspors to which the odor
is due may not really be the dangerous
portion of the effluvia. A room in such a
condition may be horribly offensive. butit
may not be actually more dangerous than
it was while merely infected with the pro-
ducts of respiration proceeding from the
lungs of the sick person. A house per-
fumed with the aroma of boiled cabbage,
or with the peculiar odor Of the little ami
NAL known as the Mephtis americana
would be exceedingly unpleasant. but in
neither case would it be dangerous, while
a house might smell very sweetly. and yet
be deadly with the infection Of smallpox.
The truth is, that while in some cases our
senses are very safe guides. in others they
are anything but trustworthy.


For the removal Of bad edors We have
several very efficient and simple agents.
Cotton or linen rags. or brown paper
slowly burned, that is. consumed without
fame, give off an empyreumatic vapor
that very e6ectually destroys or overpow-
ers most bad odors. We have found it
especially ef6cacious in the case of ammo
uiacal odors, and We therefore attribute
its action to the presence of pyro-acetic
acid. Coffee subjected to the same pro-
cess is one of the most agreeable and eff
cieut of our dcodorizers., Not only is
there the usual empyreumatic products
which would tend to modify the vapors
producing the odor, but there is an essen
tial oil of agreeable aroma, and this tends
still further to mask or cover up oil bad
smells. Both these deodorisers do some
thing more than merely overpower the
bad smell-a result which is the only ef.
feet produced by perfumes. The latter
We therefore regard Is worthless, aud the
same msy Be said Of tho psstiles that are
Year: 1870

FIsHKILL, n. Y, August 9.-Sherif Ken
worthy this forenoon was served with an
injunction restricting him from proceed
ing with the sale of property OF the Hart
ford and Erie Railroad Company, in
Duchess county
Year: 1870

SPURIOUS UuMILITY.-Thc Rev. Mr..
Hatcher. in his address before the Alumni
of Richmond College on last Friday eve
ming, made the following capital hit at spu-
riouS humility:


"ln mentioning those who do not apprc-
ciatc themselves 1 do not embrace all who
employ the language of Self-dcpreciation.
One need not live long to discover that the
vclnacular of modcsty is the adopted dia-
lcct of vanity. In many the habit of self
depreciation springs from an itching pas
sion for praise. 1t is one Of the tricks OF
conccit to croak abroad its tale OF worth
lessness as a means of provok.ng COM
mendation of its worth. The lover laments
his want of merit, not because he feels it,
but simply to force the fair and blushing
choice Of his heart TO say again and again
that he is the very crown and perfection OF
Adams race. The wife bemoans the wreck
of her beauty and the badness of her bread,
not from any low opinion OF her beauty
or her bread, but purely as hypo-
critical and jcsuitical cXpedlent for ne
ccssitating an extra caress. The preacher
groans diSmally, so I am told, over the dry
ness of the very sermon he considers his
best in the hope of exciting demonstra-
ton in favor of himself. The atlcctionate
mother of Uriah Heep has heap of little
Uriahs who do the humble for the pur-
DoSe."
Year: 1870

SUMNER ENcAMPMENT OF CADETs.-Gene-
raj f. ii. Smith has notified the proprietor
OF the Rockbridge Alum Springs that the
cadets of the Military Institute will camp
there for the summer. The presence OF the
corps at the Rockbridge Alum will make it
still more popular place of resort for
seekers of health, rest, or pleasure.
Year: 1870

SUPREME Court DECIs1oNs.-Robert Moore vs.. A
Britton Appeal from the Fourth District Court o
New Orleans. Mr.. Justice Howe delivered the opn
ion of the court.


The defendant who sued as endorser Of prom
issory note, claimed that he was discharged


l. By an extension of time granted to the maker
without his consent.


@ Because he was never duly notified of the non
payment of the note nor demand of payment made
on the day the note matured.


1t appears from the evidence that the plaintiff exer
csed great fobearance towards the maker of the note
but he does not appear to have given time so as to
preclude himself from suing, to suspend the recourse
of the ndorser in the latter had chosen and
bring suit himself
Year: 1870

THE Texas AND New ORLEANS RAILRoAD-From
letter to the Galveston News dated from Houston,
learn that the Texas and New Orleans railroad is to be
put under repair to Orange the first division of the
Texas ne to the Sabine river, at which point the road
was finished and in running order at the time of the
beginning of the from Houston, distance of LOT
miles gap of 156 miles still remains to connect the
Texas line to the Louisiana line, from New Orleans to
Brasbear JimplecGte.
Year: 1870

The emigration of negroes from the border States
to the Gulf States continues. In Virginia, Maryland
Missouri, and Kentucky, the black population is rap
idly decreasing. And the havoc made with the
in the extreme South by the war; and the subsequent
destituton and disease growing of their dleness
and incapaeity to take of themselves, s being
somewhat stayed by the Of reinocements from
the border States. The opportunities for obtaining
work to which they accustomed has also proved
powerful incentive, and the advantages to the negroes
of emigration forth to them by men of their
own color who have entered the field with the view Of
ameoraing the condition Of their race in the border
States.
Year: 1870

MEL.P AND p R R.-The locomotive the
branch of the NJ E. L. P. and P R. R. is now running
to Black Cypress and the of the iron horse
be heard daily it the depths of the pine forests
onwards to the main line of this grand railroad enter
prise. May the work go bravey on towards its early
completion Our citizens must wake up from legarthic
slumbers and take interest by helping this vast in
stitution to Its final success. Jjmplecute.
Year: 1870

Farmers in this vicinity are generally manifesting
extraordinary activity in their preparations for the
coming spring work Fences are being repaired,
grounds cleaned off and everything put in readiness.
So far as we are informed as little difficulty is being
experienced in contracting with freedmen at any
previous time. We expect to see more land in culti-
vation in Smith county this year than before since
the war; and again express the hope that due aten
ton will be given to the raising of supplies for home
consumption. fTyler Reporter.
Year: 1870

BUSINESS FA11UREs-1he Condition Of Business
writer in Hunts Merchant Magazine says that a ma.
ority of the suspensions recently have been those of
small firms, whose combined liabilities are scarcely
equal to those of single frstclass house. Most of
the failures among the dry goods commission houses
have arisen from the firms assuming the responsible
ties of manufacturers, and taking the risk of unproft
able mill properties. He believes there is really much
in the present condition of the country to bespeak sat
isfacon and confidence, and that fair survey OF the
field warrants the expectation of steady prosperous
business in 1870 and that the mercantile community
need less to be cautioned than encouraged
Year: 1870

young man who goes here by the euphonious
cognomen of "Wild Bill" but whose real name, we
believe, is Hendricks, shot and seriously wounded
man by the name of Moore at Canton, in this county,
one day last week. We are not in possession OF par
ticuars except that we understand whisky was the
mild incentive "Wid Bill is now being modified
into "Gentle William by residence in Jail.


IL Tyler Reporter 18th.
Year: 1870

We are in receipt of some valuable information
which will gladden. the hearts of Southern people
throughout the length and breadth of this land. Pris
oners who are now confined in military prisons will
not be executed by the findings of military courts as
has been the case since the close of the war; and those
who are confined in military dungeons will be released
as soon as the civil laws are established


Jefferson Jimplecute.
Year: 1870

Contains no more acknowledged powerful and effect
i've medicines than those Of the vegetable kingdom.
At the time is fact beyond dispute that such
medicines leave in the human system bad effects.
Therefore, it should be mans study to avoid all medi
cnes that in any form contain the least part of any of
the many mercurial and arsenical preparations.
Year: 1870

purely vegetable 1t acts the sick and enfeebed


like charm, giving them renewed vigor and strength.
The old and the young also ladies confined to the
house. ought to it freely there is nothing that
gives such appetite, at bringing up the tone of
the stomach, thereby giving health and vigor to the
system.