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Year: 1872

Mr.. Deraick Dodds writes as iol-
lows to the Capitol about the branch
railroad between Baltimore and
Washington:


But about this railroad. Of course
I want it ABOLISHED, every one does.
The reckless velocity with which tho
trains are run between here and Bal
timore is absolutely frighttul.
was delighted years ago when
this road was established, because l
thought We had rid Of tho old rick
ETY. and dangerously fast stage coach
es, but the speed they are beginning
to run the trains on this road is
worse yet.


Now every one knows that Baltl
more is forty miles from Washing
ton, if 1t is an an inch, aud three days
and half Is plenty quick enough tor
the trip, but the managers have al
ready reduced the schedule time to
three days and four hours, and with
making the engine fires too hot, and
racing with cows along the road, and
all that, the conductors are even
cutting that time down.
Why, it was only the other day,
on the down trip, we happened to
spy old Simmis mule about two miles
out Of town. What should the reck-
less wretch of an engineer do but
clap on full steam and race every foot
Of the way into the district. We
did MT exactly pass the mule, but we
caught up with him twice, and came
into the depot neck and neck, and
which was putting the most, the mule
or the engine, you could MT have told
to save your lite.


Now it was all very exciting and
all that, l know, but I had mt pur-
chased an accident ticket, and l don't
believe the other four passengers had
either. This was all wrong, Mr.. Ed
itor, all wrong.


And then on another occasion, I
remember, we came within hairs
breadth of having a very serious ac-
cident The engineer had gotten off
to snow ball a chlpmunk. and the
conductor was miniing young wild
ow's baby for hcr-the result WIS
that the train happened to get on .
down grade and was started of at .
terrific rate, every bit OF tour miles
an hour, l should think.


We were just half mile above the
Annapolis junction, and the first
thing we knew-there being no one
to whistle and wake up the switch
tender-we were turned off into the
Annapolis road and went down the
wrong track at full speed. Imagine
our CONSERVATION. when just at this
moment we heard whistle, not q
| halt mile ahead OF US, OF tho An.
napolis up tram.


We were paralyzed with terror
Here were two trans on the same
track approaching each other at the
dizzy speed just mentioned. Evident
| ly our time had come! In few
short hours the engines would meet
and then-destruct,on.


With great presence of mind q
minister ON board organized = prayer
meeting. Pale but calm the doomed
band Of passengers sat, and though


with tho very shadow Of death upon


them, raised their voices In parting
hymn.


"Send for tho basgage-master,
Year: 1872

We find lining the she'll thin
skin, which, when kept in . healthy
condition by the albumen OF the egg,
is impervious to air, but if the egg
remains too long in one position, the
yelk being heavier than the albumen,
gradually sinks through II, and
comes in contact with the skin, and
having none ofthe qualities requisite
for keeping the skin fabricated ~
healthy, the skin pon becomes dry
and pervious to air, which penetrates
through it TO the yelk, causing the
mass to rot. Therefore the true
plan is to keep the yelk in its central
position. By doing this the egg can
be preserved for . long time. Ny
plan for accomplishing this, is to take
. keg or barrel, aud pack the eggs
on their sides. end to end, laying :
tier until layer is filed; SO till tho
barrel 10 full. Use oats for packing;
jar them down as much a. is required
to keep them in their place-heaA
up the barrel ready for market
BY rolling the barrel about . quartsr
around every lew days, the yelk et
the egg will be kept as required la
Year: 1872

We have reduced the prices on
many kinds Of goods we have to sell,
and will offer them at figures, that
cannot DO Objectionable to those de-
string to purchase.


On Summer dress goods we will
hereafter give special Inducements,
offering some of them even hel"w
cost.


Now is the time fer good bar
gains at our store, and those in
search of them will find it "pursc
item" to call and see us.
Year: 1872

petition. signed by Jesse Sharpe and about
GOO other persons for the allowance of farmers
to sell from either the curbs OF Market or King
streets, was presented to Council last evening.
The petition was referred to the appropriate
COMMITTEES. who will inquire into the
matter and report upon the practicability of the
petition at the next meeting. We fail to COM
prehend the sentiment of the people, generally,
of the city IL they are dissatisfied with the pres
ent location of the markets.
Year: 1872

The replies Of the Republican candidates for
the Legislature to the Workngmen's interroga-
tories, show that they stand fair and square in
favor of Reform. This is the position assumed
by the Republican party. and the people should
see that it is supported.
Year: 1872

TAKING CoLD.-If cold settles on the
outer covering of the lungs it becomes
pneumonia, inflammation of the lungs, or
lung fever, which in many cases carries the
strongest man to his grave within a week.
If cold falls upon the inner covering of the
lungs, it is pleurisy, with its knife-like
pains, and its slow, very slow recoveries.


If cold settles in the joints, there is
rheumatism with its agonies of pain, and
rheumatism of the heart, which in an in
slant sometimes snaps the cord of life with
ne friendly warning. 1t is of the utmost
practical Importance, then, in the wintry
weather, to know not so much how to cure
a cold as to avoid it. Colds always come
from one cause, some part of the whole of
the body becoming colder than natural for
time. srtiF


If man will keep his feet warm always
and never allow himself to be chilled, he
will never take cold in lifetime, and this
can only be accomplished by due care in
warm clothing and the avoidance of drafts
and undue exposure. While multitudes of
colds come from cold feet, perhaps the
majority arise from persons cooling off too
quickly after becoming little warmer than
is natural from exercise or work, or from
confinement to warm apartment
| Woods Household Magazine.
Year: 1872

vile OF Secretary Fish may in the meantime
arrive at some understanding and enable
the arbitrators TO commence their work.


"The arbitrators pass their time charac-
teristically. Count Sclopis, as a courtly
and loyal gentleman made an excursion to
pay his respects to the Princess Clothildc
at her villa, on the shores Of Lake Leman,
where he passed the day in the charming
antique chateau. Baron D'Itajuba must
have felt great anxiety at being unable TO
visit his daughter, who is lying i'll at
Frankfort. Citizen Staemphe is to be seen
taking his beer at little table in front ofa
cofe. Sir A. Cockburn is least recognized.
He takes TO his carriage for exercise only.
AS yet there is very little acquaintance be-
tween the members of the court. The sit
tings have been so short and abrupt that
there has been time only for the merest
ACQUAINTANCE.
Year: 1872

A disagreeable incident seems to have
in some degree interfered with the com
fort Of three hundred passengers on
board the vessel Glenarvney on its yoy-
age to Calcutta. One night when they
were slumbering tween decks in the
straits Of Malacca, they were disturbed
by the gambols of black panther who
had escaped from cage in which twas
confined, and amused itself by making
springs over their PROSTATE bodies.
Their screams having attracted attention,
every available means of exit was thrown
open, and all the passengers reached the
deck in safety. One man alone appeared
to have suffered from the claws of the
animal, large strip of skin and flesh
being torn off his back. As the panther
could not be found, it was concluded
that he must have jumped out of the
port into the sea, and the next evening
the passengers settled down in their
quarters as before. During the night,
however, the panther turned up again.
Some stores being required from forward,
one Of the Chinese lascars was sent
down 10 get them, when he presently re-
turned, exclaiming in trembling accents,
"Tiger gotee down there" The cap
tain, determined to stand no further non-
sense, Immediately sent for his breech-
loading rife and cartridges, and went
down the hatch by himself, and ordered
it to be closed after him, for fear the
beast should again get on deck, and
cause further annoyance and alarm to
the passengers On reaching the deck
of the storcroom and looking around


the large yellow lit eyes of the animal
glared down on him from the top of some
spars slowed along by the ships side.
Taking advantage of the dim light ad-
mitted by the port, the captain took a
steady aim at what he considered the
center Of the animals body, and fred.
Still the yellow eyes glared on, until a
second shot being fred, the panther


measuring seven feet eight inches in
length, rolled dead at the captains feet,


to his great relief, and no doubt to that
of his passengers also. m
Year: 1872

The San Francisco Post says; Shortly
after Bret Harte arrived in California he
called upon a lady whose acquaintance
he had formed on the steamer, and upon
being asked the usual question, How
are you pleased with California; d" re-
piled: 81 am disgusted; never was so
disappointed in all my life. Why, would
you believe il, have been forced to
drive laundry wagon to keep myself
from starving; and should not have
found your residence had | not called
next door to take away dirty clothes,
and seen your boy in the yard. II is
certainly noble trait in the character
Of Bret Harte that he preferred to stoop
TO any honorable means TO gain his liv-
ing, rather than run in debt or be a tax
on his friends. he was as much gen
tleman then carrying dirty clothes, as
be is now as the boon companion Of the
first geniuses Of the land. He at that
time won host of friends by his uni
iormly kind care Of his sister, his neat
appearance and refined manners.
Year: 1872

President to join with the Italian govern
ment in its protest against the intolerance
and cruelty praeticed towards the Jews of
Roufnania. Adopted.


The House went into Committee of the
Whole, Wheeler in the chair, on the sun
dry civil service appropriation bill, W hico
appropriates $l7,54f, ,673.


Having progressed as far as the tenth
page Of the bill, the committee rose and
the House took recess till half-past Z
o'clock.


The evening session was to be for the
business of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs
Year: 1872

THE HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION.


Great fears have been entertained at
Washington that the Grant project of auth
orising the President TO continue the sus-
pension of the writ Of habeas corpus during
the Presidential campaign would succeed.
A Western Republican member OF Con-
gross is thus reported by the Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati CONNER
ciGL, writing on May II:


"The member remarked that be greatly
feared that the scheme TO keep in force the
Ku-Klux law until after the Presidential
election would be successful. When he
was reminded OF the fact that many of the
most clear-headed Republicans III the House
bad refused, yesterday, 70 support BEller's
plan for continuing the law, he replied that
these same men had emphatically refused a
wear ago to support the law when it was
first introduced, but that they lad sue
cumbed under The power ofparty discipline
and had voted for it,"


a Washington dispatch of May 10 says


s. The Senate fears that the habeas cor
Pus extension bill will fail in the House,
and hence the earnest desire to delay ad-
s2urIRlent by recalling It's resolution from
lie House to adjourn the 29th inst. The
iioUse, having kept the resolution two
mo1ths, is not disposed to accommodate the
Senate, especially Jas the House feels pref
ty confident that no bill giving Grant the
power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus
during the Presidential campaign can be
passed. The Democratic members at least
are resolved that there shall be no such leg
lation at the session"


The telegraph reports that the Senate
resolution to adjourn sine die on the 29th
last. was agreed'to by the House Monday,
so there is hope now that this mjschiev-
Gus piece oflegislation win expire that day.
Grants henchmen in the Senate, prominent
among whom is the vindictive Morton,
lave thus been thWarted in their efforts to
harrass and annoy the white people of the
South.
Year: 1872




The proposition referred to being sub
mitted, there were various resolutions in
troduced and considerable discussion,
when finally the following resolution,
offered by Esquire Wade, was adopted, to-
wit:


Be it resolved by this Court, That the
further consideration of this question be
deferred until the July term, and the pau
per lunatics be cared for at the State
ASYLUM upon the terms already agreed
upon with the Superintendent; and the
committee be continued, and that they
make further investigations and examine
as far as possible all places put upon the
market.


The following resolutions offered by Es-
auire Me&eham, were adopted:


Resolved, that it is the sense Of this court
that upon the election Of commissioner OF
revenue that any appointments heretofore
made by the judge cease, and that such ap-
pointments be declared at an end, aud that
the said commissioner elect be placed in
charge of all books for the collection OF any
and all back revenue due the county as pro-
vided for by section 10 Of an act passed
Dec. 6, 1871, entitled an act 10 provide for
the sale of lands which have been sold Tor
taxes, etc.


Be it further resolved, that the Judge OF
this court be required to place The sad COM
missioner in possession OF the b0Oks as re-
quired in the above resolution.


The meeting throughout was more har-
uonious than usual, there being nobody in
a bad humor at the hour Of adjournment.
Year: 1872

Worthy Of Note. An exchange says there is
scarcely a day passes that we do not hear.
either from persons coming into our Office or
IN some o.her way. Of the success Of Johnson,s
Anodyne Liulnent in the cure Of coughs cold
SO prevalent about town just now.


II we can benefit the readers Of Tho Ameri-
can any by recommend ing Parsons Purgafive
Pills to be the best snf i.bilious medicine in the
country, we are willing To do So We have
had about as good chance TO know As any one, /,
Year: 1872

The payment of small bills is a


matter Of much more importance


than is generally attached to it.


There are not a few who, III times


when business is q little depressed


and the prospect for the future


seems more than usually unsettled,


will hold on to their cash in hand


and tell all tie collectors who wait


on them with overdue bills to "calI


again." while the payment would


not give them any serious imon~


venieDcc and would accommodates


large and deserving class Of crcdi-
tors. Indeed, we know of nothing
that in a quiet way would 90 50
far to give animation to the mar
kets throughout the country as the
universal tuliillnent Of obligations
at tie first opportunity. Ifall the
little debts for the discharge Of
which the debtors now have lie
cash actually on hand were paid
at once, the wheels Of business
would be fabricated and a general
jollity" soon prevail throughout
the land. The first serious effect
on trade of any public excitement
comes from the sudden check Of
those little streams. 1t is true the
large transactions are arrested, but
ifeyery body went to paying these
little debts the check would be mo.
mentary, as business would he forced
along the current thus continually
renewed. Let every man whose
eyes fall on these lines pay out his
ready money for bills lie knows 10
he due, and not stop until bis pock-
cts are cmpticd. Probably before
this is realized the return current
will reach his pocket, too, and lo
be liable to fill his obligations.
There is as much money as ever;
as much currency as ever. Who
stops its flow? Let it move on for
q prompt payment fills now due,
and new business will catch the in.
Splration and start of'upon a fresh
gallop, Ne'r York JowuM If
Commerce.
Year: 1872

OLD NICK NoNPLUssED.-This is a
story in the Old dRd NeW' A man had
sold himself to the devil, who was to
possess him for certain time unless he
could PROFOUND question to his Satanic
Majesty which he could not answer, he
being allowed TO put three queries to him.
The time came for the devil to claim his
own, and he consequently appeared.
The first question the man asked was
concerning Theology, to which it caused
the devil no trouble to reply. The second
he also answered without hesitation.
The mans fate depended on the third.
What should it be?


lie hesitated and turned pale, and the
cold dew stood ON his forehead, while he
shivered with anxiety, nervousness and
terror, and the devil triumphantly sneeer-
ed. At this juncture the mans wife
appeared in the room with a new bonnet
on her head. Alarmed at her husbands
condition she demanded to know the
cause. When informed she laughed and
said, g can PROFOUND a question which
the devil himself cannot answer. Ask
him which is the front Of this bonnet. :"
The devil gave it up and retired in dis
gust, and the man was free.
Year: 1872

A sToREKEEPER at Quincy, Illinois,
having a pup that habitually upset the
paint cans in the rear end Of the store, rub
bed the dogs nose in the spilled paint as n
reminder that he must not do 50 again.
Last week the animal again spilled the
paint, and, observing that his master was
engaged in waiting on customer, the
docile pup rubbed his own nose in the
mixture and ran bowling out the back
Year: 1872

A RURAL visitor to the menagerio in
Central Park, a day or two since, on see
ing the young guanaco, an animal re-
markable for the length of its neck, ex-
claimed By gosh how that follow
must enjoy a drink"
Year: 1872

Below we give the instructions for con-
trolling the smallpox contagion, which
have been indorsed by the State Board
OF Health. The system is the same as
that which proved SO effective in arrest
ing the progress Of the disease in Lowell,
Massachusetts, and have received the en-
tire appreciation of the State Board
Year: 1872

OF TRINITY COUNTY
OF TRINITY COUNTY
OF TRINITY COUNTY!
OF TRINITY COUNTY


OF TRINITY COUNTY!
OF TRINITY COUNTY
OF TRINITY COUNTY
OF TRINITY COUNTY !
OF TRINITY COUNTY !
OF TRINITY COUNTY 4!
OF TRINITY COUNTY
OFF TRINITY COUNTY !
Year: 1872

very day after the adjourn


ment Of Congress leave the


capital with q cavalcade of


dogs, mules, carriages and hor-
ses, and start off to the sea
shore? When before did a
president associate with low


blackguards? l pause from
sheer contempt, which chokes


me.


But the other side?--who


and what is Greeley? | take


it for granted that Greeley is


is to be the opposing candidate


to Grant There is no doubt


about it. The people have al.


ready nominated Greeley-not


the members of Congress, the


editors Of prominent papers, or


the politicians. The warmest
advocates of Greeley are
among the yeomanry of the
country. A man of brains un-
dee an old white hat, is worth
twelve men like Grant. [ have
not always agreed with every
thing that he has said, but |
have always found him man
of high integrity and love Of
country. His name is familiar
in everv household, and his
advice and encouragement to
the poor and struggling have
endeared him to the hearts of
the people. If he is presented
to the country as Grants op.
ponent, there can be no doubt
about his election by the peo-
pie. No, my Republican
friends, the hand writing is on
the wall. He will be endorsed
to o.morrow; and in November
next the old white hat will be
taken off in the White House
its owner will be elected
over the man who was once
honered, but betrayed his trust.


General George w. Morgan
was the next speaker. The
General confined his speech
mostly to the extraordinary
and criminal wastefulness
which has marked the Repub-
licar management of the pubs
lie funds. He said we were all
contrymen, and he trusted that
the canvass inaugurated to-
night would be conducted in
such a manner that they could
all continue friends. He elab.
somewhat the partisan
efforts OF the Administration
to preserve the bayonet and
other outrageous laws, which
were happily foiled through
the efforts Of the Democrats
and Liberal Republicans in
Congress. He said that in no
legislative assembly in the
world was q grander victory
for liberty won than when the
law was overthrown
by this coalition. During the
twelve years past the party in
power had had control of more
revenue than ever mortals han.
died before During the last
seven years the men in power
have collected an amount of
taxes in excess of all the prop
erty in the United States; and
what have they done with it?
Has It been applied on the
public debtY The amount
collected is 100000, 900 more
than was the public debt at
the close of the war, and that
debt has only heen reduced
1884, 100000. When the old
peaoemaker unfurls his flag
then I willg before the peo-
pie and prove all that | say
The speaker showed the un-
blushing front which public
robbery and swindle put on


by citing the case OF the japan.
ese mail line of steamers, the
postage revenue of which nett
ted $4,000, but which was
voted subsidy of $l,000,0O0
a yearl This robbery, which
the mass of the Republicans
suffer from as well as the Dem.
ocrats, was beginning to be
popularity appreciated. The
present attitude of the Demo
Gratis was a magnanimous atti-
tude. For the sake of the
Year: 1872

Ofall things in the world that are
"betier late than never" going to bed
certainly ranks first.


There is a difference between bonnet
and hat as worn by the ladies now-a-
days. If the strings are tied under the
chignon it is hat if under the chin, a
bonnet.


A box containing a black bear was
received at an express office in San Fran
cisco the other day, and outside: " Black
bare-et you don't want to get bit, keep
your fingers out of the crax."


A Southern editor promises, with his
wife's assitence, to name baby each
year after the person who shall furnish
the largest list of subscribers to his
paper If any dispute arises as to the
claims OF rival canvassers, he will settle
it with twins. Amy industrious editor
can prosper if he has good wife,
Year: 1872

A sheriff who had writ to serve, ,ascer-
tanned that the defendant was dead and
tossing the paper over the wall of the
cemeiry, he made return upon the writ
that be had left the summons at his last
usual place of abode.


Those who close the door of science
will ever be in the dark.


When is charitity like bee ? When
1t begins to hum.


A new name for thight boots--A corn
crib.


The embers of the dying year--Scp-
! tember, November and Deeember.
Year: 1872

Some men are born mean, sou,e achieve
meanness; and some have meanness thrust
upon them, TO choose between which Is not All
easy matur


A Florida Jail not having had an inmate in
four years. the commissioners have turned II
into corn crib
Year: 1872

GENERAL GRANTS INCoRRUPTIBILITY.-
In the "Life of General Grant," compiled by
Charles A. Dana, an instance showing the
incorruptibility of the hero of the volume is
given in foot note on the 102 page:


''While here lat Memphis, Jan. 1861 Grant
was approached by an acquaintance from St.
Louis with proposition to permit the sale of
salt along the Mississippi River, within the
rebel lines, upon condition that he should re-
ceive half the profits, which would have been
enormous. 1t is hardly necessary to state
that this offer was scorned, and the person
making it treated with such contempt as to
overwhelm him with shame. The news OF
this attempt and its signal failure doubtless
spread among the cormorants who were
fattening upon the misfortunes OF the coun-
try, for nothing like its repetition is known
to have occurred"


This testimony is from the pen of man
who is now one of the most spiteful and au-
dacious maligners of General Grant,"