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Year: 1870

The estimable lunatic continued to rant in
the same lucid strain until his wind gave
out, when he announced his intention of leav-
ing the house to aid the Shrieking Sisterhood
in their endeavors to free themselves from
the CALLING yoke of the oppressor-man.-
Chicaqo Times, Mdq 81.
Year: 1870

AND STILL THEY CoME.-Lang has received
another shipment. This time it is a splendid
lot of butter for Winter use-know it is good
because we tried it. Also, some of the finest
yellow corn-meal ever brought to this place
fresh as fresh can be-the teamster had to wait
at the mill until enough was ground to give him
load. See Langs advertisement He paws
particular attention to filling orders from the
outside
Year: 1870

PnREN0LoGICAL.-Dr G. Jordan has been in
town during the past week. He delivered a lee
ture on phrenology on Tuesday evening to an
average house. On Wednesday evening he felt
a few heads in the presence of a small audience.
Although the Doctors lectures are very interest
ing and give good satisfaction, he has not met
with as much success in this vicinity as he de-
serves
Year: 1870

New FLAG.-The German residents of Weaver
vile have prepared a new flag with which they
propose to celebrate the capture of Paris or the
conclusion of peace. The flag in question is of
the finest silk, nine feet long, five feet in width,
of three wide stripes-black white and red--and
is the standard of the North German Confedera-
tion, now in use On the battle-felds of France.
Year: 1870

OF COURSE everyone who reads the JOURNAL
and who does not-knows that A T. Corbus
keeps store at Indian Greek; but, perhaps,
some are not aware that he is one of the very
best business men in our county. Well, he is /;
and that is the why the people of that sec
tion patronize HIM and do not go away from
home to buy their supplies.
Year: 1870

The Board of Supervisors meets next Monday.
A great amount of business is to be transacted
at this term. Parties having claims against the
county will do well to hand the same to the
Clerk of the Board on or before the first day of
the session.
Year: 1870

The DEEP HoLE-is now down about 1873 feet.
The work has been delayed several days because
of the indspostion of Mr. Richards, who has
charge of the work The shaft is now below the
hard bedrock of which we spoke last week the
bottom is in a hard cement gravel, showing no
gold water is increasing.
Year: 1870

How THE FRENCH EMPEROR WENT TO
BATTLE.-European papers state that the
baggage of the French Emperor, which
preceded him to the seat of war, looked
more like travelling hospital than like
the traps of a general. 1t contained,
among others, large medicine chest, three
kinds of bathing tubs, and some other
bathing apparatus. an invalid's easy chair,
a stretcher of peculiar construction, and
great deal of other medical and sick room
apparatus. The horses of the Emperor
which were sent to the front were most
carefully selected from the Imperial stables
by the Emperor's own valet. He picked
out the tamest and genslest brutes he could
find, and even went SO far as to buy some
horses, not so much for their beauty and
spirit, for they show very little of either,
as for their meek and gentle demeanor.
Before they were sent 10 the front, they
were exposed to q great deal of artillery
firing to accustom them to the roar of can
non, the only thing their rider will prob
ably hear Of the battle, and took the last
vestige of spirit they still possessed away
rom them. Tho valet was also most par
ticularsin examining the saddles for the
use of His Majesty, had all doubled wad-
ded, and had extra paddings put on the
back
Year: 1870

A gentleman was one day opening box
of dry goods His little son was standing
near, and, as his father took the packages
from the box, he laid some of them on the
arm of the boy. A young friend and play
mate of the merchants son was standing
by looking on. As parcel after parcel was
laid upon the arm of the boy, his friend
began to fear that his load was becoming
too heavy, and said


johnny. don't you think that you have
got as much a. you can bear 2


Never mind answered Johnny. in 8
sweet happy tone, father knows how much
can carry


Brave, trusting little fellow He did
not grow restless or impatient under the
burded. There was no danger, he felt. that
his father would lay too hea7y a load on
him. His father knew his strength. or rsth-
er the weaknss of that little arm, and would
not overtask it. More than all. his father
loved him. and therefore would not harm
him. II is such a spirit of loving trust
in Him that God desires all his children
to possess.
Year: 1870

The DISCIPLINE OF THE PRUssIAN ARMY.
A Berlin letter writer thus describes
the drill of the Prussian army 4:


The discipline and daily routine of ex-
ercise for this Prussian army is to all for
eigners a source of never-ending wonder.
The early morning is devoted to cleansing
e policing } the quarters and correcting
any irregularities which may have arisen
out of the previous days duties. Later
In the forenoon the hours are given to study
arithmetic, geography, geometry, theory
and practice of military science land even
singing is not neglected. Great Importance
is attached to the studies of the soldiers,
and by attaining certain advancement in
knowledge, each one. after satisfactory ex-
animation, can shorten his term of service
from one to two years. In the afternoon
of each day the bodily culture is attended
to, and this consists not only of purely
military drill, but also of every variety of,
physical exercise calculated to add either
strength or suppleness to the human form
running. leaping, vaulting, balancing,
bayonet exercise. lifting, shooting, blending
altogether such an innumerable variety of
movements that no muscle of the body is
without its daily exercise.


These squad drills are followed by COM
pany and regimental parades, and at short
intervals by grand field movements of
brigades and divisions, and these once or
twice year by grand army movements,
with mock battles. l have not been fortu-
nate enough to witness one of the grand
tactics, but the exercises in detail by COM
pany, battalion, squadron or battery, and
in particular the artillery movements seem
to me as near perfection as patience and
practice can make them. Ali this perfec-
tion of preparatory knowledge and prac-
tice must of course, have its weight on
the struggle of actual war; but if there
is any ground for doubt as to the power of
the German militia, would it lie in the
too great reliance which is here placed on
scientific knowledge and consequent dis
trust of quick common sense, which is
not too overburdened with acquired wis
dom7
Year: 1870

A writer in the Chicago Tribune gives
this description of the needle-gun, which
will probably play an important part in the
coming battles in Europe:


al. The range of the needle-gunis is from
one thousand two hundred to one thousand
four hundred yards.


2. The movements of loading are execut-
ed with the right hand as follows An
upward stroke with the palm of the right
hand against the chamber knob opens the
breech, the cartridge is inserted into the
cavity of the barrel, push forward and
downward stroke of the chamber knob with
the right hand close the breech, and anoth-
er push on the needle chamber with its
spiral spring. completes the loading, and
the rife is ready for fire. During the
whole movement the gun is held with the
left hand, at ready


g. The gun is never loaded or reloaded
while at aim, simply because it is so i'm
possible to do so.


f. The powder is not ignited at the real
end of the cartridge, but next to the ball,
where the igniting matter is placed in a
kind of paper mache; and this is what
gives more power to the ball, the powder
burning from the front to the rear.


5. The cartridge is made up-ball in
front, ball socket with igniting matter,
powder. The shape of the ball resembles
the shape of cucumber, and is called long
lead (lazg blei.)


6. The recoil of the gun is only when it
becomes very much heated and the air
chamber filled with the refuse of powder.
When clean no recoil is felt at all.


I. In case the needle should break or
bend or otherwise become useless, a new
one can be inserted in less than five Sec
onds; each soldier carries an extra supply
of about six needles.


1t is not so much the superiority of the
needle. gun over 9th er breech-loaders which
has secured, and, in all probability will, in
the present struggle, secure success to the
Prussian army, as it is the thorough educa-
ton of each individual soldier and his per-
feet familiarity with his weapon.
The needle-gun was first used in Prussia
in 1S4S and 1s49, in Baden and Schles-
wig, and not having been deemed effective
without an entire change of tactics, and
especially on skirmish instruction, was al
most condemned.


! The Prussian army has but one calibre
for all small arms, SO that infantry or sharp
shooters can be supplied with cartridges
from any cavalry, pistol, or carbine car
fridge wagon"
Year: 1870

calico dresses, as obliges every humane boy
to run to the relief of his sweetheart all on
fire


No doubt many an old gentleman will read
this article with face growing more and
more full of smiles, and take off his spec
tacles at the end. and looking kindly over at
his aged dame, will say, I" Do you remember.
.. Well. well. father. YOU are too old to be
talking about such youthful follies. !" Never
theless she smiles and looks kindly over at
the old rogue, who kissed her that night,
proposed on the way home, and was married
before Christmas YOrk Ledger.
Year: 1870

FREDERICK KAPP, the German patriot,
writing from the Rhine to the New York
Nation, makes glowing and effective ap-
peal for intelligent American sympathy for
Prussia in the war. He says:


Well, we will stand and repel the new
attack 1t will be a war between the Teu-
tonic and Latin races, which Napoleon
tried to bring about in 1864, when he
broke into Mexico, and which was only
put off by the defeat of the slave-barons
in Richmond. We Germans by fighting
out this war will prove to the world that
the civilization of the present century is
stronger than the medieval traditions and
robbing propensities of reckless gamblers
that the genius of civil liberty is more
firmly established in Europe than the
despotism of the French autocrat; that
the labor of generations performed in the
interests of peace and humanity is better
keystone of social order than the bloody
work of even the most efficient agents O.
Year: 1870

There is an island on the coast of Vir-
ginia where the people in times past have
not been righteous overmuch." During
the past year missionary has labored
among them with considerable success.
Not long ago, as this good man was busy
working in his shirt sleeves on new
church that was in theproeess of eonstruc-
ton, stout sea captain hailed him:


Are you the minister here ="


" Yes sir"


well. I've got ten dollars for you"


" For the church : -


"No; for yourself. like your way
of doing things here. I've come to this
island for CLANS good many years, and
have always found them thousand or
fifteen hundred short when 1 got home 1t
will pay me to have you keep ON preach
ing doctrines which will make the people
count their clans honestly.-Ez.
Year: 1870

CoMPRoxIsISG MArTERs.-The age of COM
promising is not entirely passed. a rather
bashful young man, not q thousand miles
from this town, after long and arduous
eourtship, found himself one bright evening
the betrOthed of pretty girl, the very pink
of modesty, He was about to take his de-
parture, and after lingering about the door
for some time be declared and protested to
Miss SIlie that he couldn't and wouldn't 90
until she had kissed him OF course Miss
Sallie blushed beautifully red, and vowed in
turn that she could not and would not do
Ehat-she never had done such thing and
never would until she was married. The al
tercation became exciting until the gentleman
got huffed and declared if he couldn't kiss her
he wouldn't have her, and was marching of.
She watched him TO the door, and seeing he
was in earnest, and that she would lose him
unless something was done, she said coax
ingly, &" Come back, then I'll split the diff
ference with you, You may squeeze my
hand. - Gloucester Advertiser,
Year: 1870

AN ECCENTRIC PoET.-One calm and
clear moonlight winter night. when the
snow lay deep upon the city streets and
roofs, Mr.-was making preparations
to retire to bed, when the front door-bell
was rung. He aroused his negro servant
boy, who was nodding on his stool by the
chimney corner, and sent him to open the
door to the late visitor. he said that no.
body was at the door, but that gentle
man was standing in the street, talking to
himself and tossing his arms about.


Mr-now went to the front door
himself When he opened it he found
one, evidently gentleman-he could see
that by the Notwithstanding on the
pavement facing him.


Was it you who rang my bell 7 he
asked


Yes, sir was the reply. I owe you
an apology for disturbing you at an hour
50 unreasonable. But the fact is, some
thoughts have come into my head which /
wish to commit to paFr; and seeing q
light in your back window, (the house
Year: 1870

prove TO him that he was not his own mas
ter The shame of his bondage he felt


keenly, powerless as he was to break the
chains. The week after left home his
wife left also for visit to her fathers.
She took the children, one a young babe
three months old, with her. Mr.. p. was
to follow her in fortnight. She never
saw him again. One night he went to his
solitary home. Possibly he had been
drinking; no one ever knew-opened his
photograph album, covered his own photo
graph with piece of an old envelope, that
it might no longer look upon the picture of
his wife on the opposite page, and wrote
her, on scrap ofpaper torn from letter,
this line of farewell:


al have fought the battle as long as / can. 1t is
no use. will not suffer my wife and children to
suffer with me a drunkard's shame. Goodbye. Sod
have mercy on you and me-"


The next morning, long after the streets
had resumed their accustomed activity,
and other houses threw wide open their
shutters to admit the fragrance of flowers,
and the song of birds. and the glad SUM-
shine, and all the joy of life, that house
was shut and still. When the Office clerk,
missing him. came to seek him, the door
was fast. Neighbors were called in. A
window was forced open. Lying upon the
bed, where he had fallen the night before.
lay poor Charlie p. A few drops of blood
stained the white coverlet. 1t oozed from
a bullet wound in the back of his head
The hand in death still grasped the pistol
that fired the shot.


L never see young man dallying with
the wine while it is red within the cup,
that l do not think of Charlie P, and
his bitter but fruitless battle. Church
Union.
Year: 1870

evitable tendency TO make even
party friends afraid to talk loud
and express their honest dissent
from any proposition Of the dis
pen scr Of Office. Think as the Cor
erner thinks. In plain words.
crook the pregnant hinges 50, and
you will have a child. This state
of party feeling ought not to be
desired aud will not be desired hy
a Governor, who has proper res
pect for the people and does not
look on himself as being In fact
the people. If a party man ven
lures to criticise, to condemn what
he honestly believes wrong, he is
twitted with the fact that he has
failed to get Office himself, and is
therefore base malcontent. Thus
every inducement is offered to
shut the mouth, or if it be open
cd to utter false words; TO cajole
and fiatter. Popular election cuts
up these evil plants, these upas
trees which shed their poison.
Gus dews in the garden and
destroy all the fair trees Of
liberty, yes cuts them oil up by
the very root How many men
are there who will not aatter
Neptune for his trident, or honor
the Devil for his burning throneg
Such men abound in the ranks of
the people. Some Office seekers
are equally independent, but they
are too few to count, and their
very state Of dependence destroys
their influence.


/ shall devote the next number
specially to the consideration Of
the subject as itaffects the colOred
people lately admitted to the right
Of suffrage, and particularly desire
its exercise. l hope they will
listen to what an early friend says
TO them; not new and reluctant
convert; not one who has been
whipped into the concession of
their rights, but an old and out
and out advocate on principle.


ALPHA.
Year: 1870

THE Jackson Pilot notices the
arrest Of Frank and Elijah Wood,
said to have killed a colored man
in Attala county.


The same paper says the concert
Of the Blind, at that place Wednes.
day night was a fine affair, tie sing
ing and instrumental music being
excellent.
Year: 1870

Why Is ITI-Why is It that city
scrip should sell for fifty and sixty
cents on the dollar when our reve-
nues as a city are as large as they
are aud no debt of consequence
hanging over US; and when our un.
selfish aud good Wharf and Har-
Dor Master buys them up at a
heavy discount and pays them over
to the city's treasury as cash at par?
Year: 1870

Governor Holden, Senator Abbott and


Judge Tourgee, of North Carolina, still
keep on writing to the papers their accu-


sations, recriminations and explanations
about who was responsible for the &C


knoWlegod fraud of saying that 1000 or
5000 houses in that State had been broken


open by the Ku-klux-Klan. We have no
personal interest in the quarrel, and do


not care upon whom the lie sticks at last /;


but it is worth our while 10 know that


they all own it to be lie, and that the
most extraYagant statement now clung to
as to the number of houses fractured by
the mysterious marauders is limited to 400
OF 500! The Munchausenism originally
appeared in the New York Tribune, and
was straightWay made the text of exciting 8
editorials in all the Radical press, calling
upon the Federal Government to eXtermi-
ate the Ku- -Kluxes. All of which occurred
about the time of the North Carolina
election, and wa6 meant to rebound to the
profit of Holden and the other Radicals of
that State-as it did not, as the sequel
showed. Governor Holden, and the OtIer
parties to the triangular newspaper duel,
seem to think they are making a clean


breast of it when they confess that the


number of houses ransacked by the Ku'


Kluxes was only one.tenth of that at first
stated. But what assurance have we that


that is the truth May not fuller CON


fession of some one of the three bring


down the number to 40 or so, or even 4 or
| 5? We haye no trustworthy data about


the ku-K -Klux misdeeds in North Carolina


or elsewhere but it is perfectly evident


that they have been grossly exaggerated


for political effect. Hereafter, when we


see astounding statements of the outrages


committed by those gaunt and sheeted


bugaboos, just before election, We shall


know how much credence to give them.


N, Y, Journal of Commerce,
Year: 1870

SPIRITS TURPENTINE.-In this article we have
change to report for the week just ended
There has existed steady demand each day, and
79 gallen for Southern packages. Receipts have
been very small, and there is very little stock
Year: 1870

The new elections for the North German Reichstag
VIII take place on the 18th OF September and those
for the Prussian Chamber OF Deputies Will follow
shortly AFTER as the government intends to cOnvoke
the Parliament at the commencement OF the month
OF October
Year: 1870

Take twenty boys of sixteen; in
our or any city in the State, and
let them 60 to work, three or four
in q dry goods store, boot and
shoe, or blacksmith establishments
and printing Offices. In ten years
they will become men of twenty.
six, and the majority of them will
then be about as far along in the
business as they ever will be-
One or two only in each of the
above branches will be esta biish
ed in business for themselves or
connected with some firm doing a
good business, and the rest will
be barely getting a living and
growing about their poor luck
Now, We assert that there is good
reason for their poor success, and
that luck has but little, ifanything
at all, to do with it. If we take
the trouble to ascertain the real
facts in their severa! cases, we
shall find that those young men
who became masters in their
trades, or leadiug men in their
persuits, were not afraid to work,
and were determined to succeed.


They look beyond the day and
week. They made themselves val.
liable and useful to their employ
ers, by being always faithful, refi.
able and willing to do what they
could for the interest of those for


whom they worked. When a
press of business came, they were
ready and willing to work extra
hours and without sulking or
grumblirg, we'll knowing that
business must be attended to
when it came, and that there were
plenty of dull times during the
year, which would more than
counterbalance any extra brisk
ness of the busy season. To sum
it oil up, these young men iden.
tilted themselves with the es:ab
lishment where they. were employ.
ed, became useful to their employ.
ers, in fact fixtures, who couid be
lily spared, and in due course of
time, having gained experience,
were invited to take a hand with
the already established house, or
else boldly stride ont for them.
selves. Here, then, is the lesson,
which is, if you wish to become
successful masters, learn first to
become faithful eervants.
Year: 1870

A FoRTEEN YEAR old boy at San
Antonio, Texas, pointed q six
shooter at his father just to scare
the old man. A funeral there
don't attract hardly any attention.
The boy and his ma were abort
the only ones who cried.
Year: 1870

The Obcrlin College junior class, thinking a
recent sweltering morning was not warm
enough, built up fire in their recitation room,
ard when the hour for recitation came, and
with 1t the professor, the heat was almost sut
locating. The professor stood his ground. and
made the class sweat before they got through
With the joke
Year: 1870

Nothing betrays so much as the voice,
save perhaps the eyes, and they can be
allowed, and so far their expression hid
den. In moments of emotion no skill can
hide the fact of disturbed feeling, though
a strong will and the habit of self control
can steady the voice when else it would be
failing and tremulous. But not the stron-
gest will, nor the largest amount of self
control, can keep it natural as well as
steady. 1t is deadened, yelled, compressed,
like wild creature tightly bound and un
naturally still. One feels that it Is done
by an effort, and that if the strain were
relaxed for a moment the wild creature
would burst loose in rage or despair, and
the voice would break out into the scream
of passion, or quiver away into the falter
of .pathos. And this very effort is as ell
oquent as if there had beeh no holding
down at all, and the voice had been left to
its own impulse unchecked.


We all know the effect, Irritating OF
soothing, which certain voices have over
us and also we have all experienced that
strange impulse of attraction or repulsion
which comes from the sound of the voice
alone. And, generally, if not absolutely
always, the impulse is true one, and any
modification which increased knowledge
may produce is never quite satisfactory.


Certain voices CRATE on our nerves and
set our teeth on edge, and others are just
as calming as these are irritating, quiet rs
like composing draught, and setting
vague images of beauty and pleasantness
aflOat in orr brains.


A good voice, calm in tone and musical
in quality, is one of the essentials for g
physician-Ihe "bedside voice." which is
nothing if it is not sympathetic by consti
tuition. Not false, not made up, not sick
ly, but tender in itself, of a rather low
pitch, well modulated, and distinctly har-
mOniOus in its notes, it is the very opposite
of the orators voice, which is artificial, in
its management and made voice. SAT-
URDAY REVIEW.