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Year: 1870

THE Detroit merchants have unit
ed in an agreement to make change
hereafter in silver. Many dealers
in New York are doing likewise.-
We will be back to specie payment
before we are aware of IL.
Year: 1870

p THE Davenport Democrat SAYS
they had big drunk i'm Ft. Dodge,
and the same paper also says the
democrats were victorious. There
fore, we conclude the first assertion
to he correct
Year: 1870

that those bold defiant energetic prrseverng
ini business always those whose generatve
gans are in perf- t health!


iou rever hear euch complain of heing melancholy
of nervousness or palpifaon o' the heart They
er afraid they cannot succeed in husiness they
come sud AMI discouraged; they always petite and
pleasant in the company ladies' look and them
right in the face nf downcast looks other
meanness about them. do those who keep
the organs inflated by running to These will
only
Year: 1870

but also those they do business with or for


How many from hadv cured disease from the ef
fects Of self abuse and about that
state Of weakness r those that renced the
general system much TO induce almost every other
disease
Year: 1870

spinal affections suicide, and almost every other form
disease which humanity is heir and the vt
the trouble scarcely suspected and have
for all but the right one.


Diseases ofthese organs require the of Durctic
Year: 1870

reduced and claim that II IL the intention OF the
management 70 make general reduction OF wages
throughout the country. On the contrary secretary
Palmer autoritatvely contradicts these allegations


and says further 1t Is no part OF their purpose TO
reduce wages. Tnis ~ the issue, ana botn parties
refuse " yield be dictated 10. The operators all
over the country, as IL well known, have formed q
Protective League and hence the strike Is very gem
era and Formidable The public sympathies as usual
irrespective OF the special merits oi THIS case are
warmly with the operators. 40 far as this locality ana
region are concerned, the "srikcrs" have met WIN
very general endorsement from the patrons OF the
western Union line ana assurances lhat they VIII
''sce tncm through ana q considerable amount OF
money Is said to have been put up for That purpose


The western Union management need no ADVICE
from us, but are entitled 10 know the situation. But
the business OF the country cannot be permitted 10
stand still to favor anybody. The people want tue
news OF the dly-the Associated Press report;-and
whenever the Western Union line iai.s TO give It
from such cause as this and any cause short OF
thunder storm hurricane II must sustain I'M
mense loss of prestige. "Give US back the old ope-
rafors or put new ones In Their places; give the
news at whatever sacrlilce.n THIS the public sen
timcnt and the sentiment Of the press everywhere.
Year: 1870

1t will only cost you dollar to buy bottle of Ed
WARD WILDER's CHILL ToN1c which is purely vegeta
Bile, and will not only you any of your family
of Chills and Fever Fever and Ague and every form
type and variety of Malarial Paluda Fever of flee
tions but will entirely drive them from the system,
which no other Chill medicine now made will do Don't
buy any of the old and than valueess nostrums
but only Edward Wilders Chill Tonic, as a cure is
guaranteed in all cases.
Year: 1870

the publication, but the fact, of guilt
that does the mischief.


Reverend Cooke, it will be seen by
the dispatch elsewhere printed, indi-
Gated upon his return little of that
spirit of repentance, which alone can
charitably dispose the public to ward his
late disgraceful exploit. If the Prod
igal Son had returned heme flourisbing
a revolver and trying to punch the
head Of every newspaper man of the
period who had inserted his name in
the Police reports, we doubt If public
sentiment about his fathers household
would have allowed any contributions
to his stock of Ornamental jewelry or
permitted al extravagant butchers
bill to be run up in order to furnish the
fat veal of paternal forgiveness. He
would more likely have been sent to
the lookup and at an early day con-
signed to the consultations of the chain
gang. And so this theological brother
may learn that confession of the JUS
tice of current criticism will corral the
sympathiss of the public, much moro
readily than cursing the critics.


There is a palpable fraud attempted
ia the dispatch of which we speak. We
refer to the passage which declares that
the friends of both parties arc satisfied
that the lady in the case "has returned
from her enforced tour as pure as when
she went away" The first inclination
is to inquire how pure a young
lady must be to run away with mar
ried man, whether the difference be-
tween that sort of purity and positive
impulity is worth preserving and
whether granting all that is claimed,
it would not be more satisfactory to be
informed that the lady in question
is as pure as when she first knew
Reverend HORACE CooKEi The iAti-
nation of forcible abduction, con.
veyed in the words enforced
tour" is also rather thin. What
ever else there may be in the case, there
is not the slightest indication of the
use of violence. 1t has been palpable
from the start that the parson never
carried that girl off against her will.
Aud yet when we think of the sad
hearts that were wrung to agony
by her disappearance, the intense
modification Of these whose lives she
lighted and whose joy she was, We can
forgive much TO the loving purpose that
would save her fair fame from blot, even
at the sacrifice of truth. Let them pre-
serve her reputation if they can't
is to be hoped her recent experience
will be the guarantee of her propriety
in future-and hereafter let those
who are interested in her and her class,
bestow an intensely watchtul optic
upon the male associates of their wards
and daughters, no matter what STATEN
those associates may fill.
Year: 1870

A correspondent of the Medical Ga
eette, who is q practicing physician,
comes to the rescue of the babies
against what he denounces as their dead
ly enemy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup. He says he was called to
see an infant that was in a
dying condition, apparently from the
effects of narcotic poison, and he was
assured that it had taken no medicine
but the soothing syrup" The doctor
took the bottle and had some of the
syrup analyzed by skillful chemist,
and the analysis showed that each
ounce of the stuff contained nearly one
grain of morphine. A dose for an in
fant three months old, as prescribed by
Mrs. Winslow's printed directions, con-
tanned an amount of morphine equal to
ten drops of laudanum. This is or
dered to be given to the child
every two hours, in certain eases,
and double the quantity to a child
Of six months old. AS children are very
susceptible to the influence of opium, of
which morphine is the active principle,
four drops of laudanum having been
known to kill an infant of months, and
az the manufacturers OF Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup sell annually about one
hundred thousand two-ounce bottles in
the single State of New York, the reader
can form some idea of the number of
babies that are soothed to perpetual
sleep by this ncstrum. Mothers had
better fall back on catnip tea.
Year: 1870

The scandalous escapade of New
York clergyman with q young lady of
his congregation, has been ended by the
voluntary return of the gay, gushing
pair, the restoration of the lovely
lamb to the patsrnal fold, and the ig-
nominious apprehension of the reverend
rake himself by the police. Reverend
HORACE COOKE (for such is the title by
which the chief author of this mess OF
scandal is known in the flesh) upon his
defense pleads injured innocence in a
manner not altogether devoid of inso-
lence' He especially exscrates the
press, which institution he solemnly
AYERS is bent upon the destruction OF
the church, particularly his branch OF
the church, an end sought to be accom-.
plished by publishing to the world the
details of his late unclericsl performance,
1t will be a sufficient answer to Mr..
COOKE, as we'll as others who take simi.
lar positions with regard to such publ.
cations, that if the shepherd don't stray
out of the legitimate Pastures, don't
lead any of the gentle portion of the
flock to partske of forbidden waters, in
brief don't put off tho parson and play
the devil, neither himself nor the church
will be brought into disrepute.


But SO long as there are bad men In
the pulpit, so long will these clerical
scandals be talked about by Che news


papers, not to injure the church, but ir
the discharge Of the lawful duty of fur


nishing news to the public. And Il


harm does come to the church, it is moi
Year: 1870

LATEST FROM THE LADIEs.-Since the
introduction of Phalon's Jitdlid or Sal.
ration for the Hair, ladies who formerly
used dyes are universally abandoning
them. They find the new article so
harmless, so clean and pure, so pleasant
to the senses, and with all so superior
as means of renewing the original
color, that they absolutely shudder
when they think of the filthy stuff they
once used.
Year: 1870

A country girl coming from the field,
was told by her cousin that she ''looked
as fresh as daisy kissed with dew"
SWELL, it wasn't any feller by that
name, but il was Steve Jones that kiss
ed me. I told him that every one in
town would find it out"
Year: 1870

am told by gentlemen from Green
brier that Joe Caldwell is still in the
Board of registration and perhaps also
a registrar in Greenbrier county. How
is thisi Was he not removedi
Yours, &C.,


OCCASIONAL ENQUIRER.
Year: 1870

without any special complaint, except grad.
ual declination of bodily strength and nervous
erergy, will find in the TONIC a FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDEVIG0R as RE
FRESHING AND EXT HILERATING A.
POOL IN HE DESER TO THE SAND
SCORCHED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER
Year: 1870

SUBSTITUTE FOR MANURE.-The
following recipe for raising pota.
toes is worth the price of any pa.
per for one year to o farmer who
is short of manure. 1t is as good
as the superpbste of lime, and will
not cost half as much. It has
been tried two years, and is good
on dry land: r#a .... -


Take one cask of lime and slake
it with water, and then stir in one
bushei fine salt, and then mix in
loam or ashes enough that it will
not become mortar it will make
about five barrels. Put half q
pint in a hill at planting. All ma.
nures containing potash are par
ticularly suitable for the potatoe.
Ashes contain more than any 9th.
er natural fertilizer, and should be
freely used and carefully saved
Any farmer seeing the analysis Of
the ashes Of potatoes can readily
imagine what fertilizers produce
the greatest effect, and what the
plant most needs. -. $50,
Year: 1870

AMERICAN WINEs.-The same
conditions which produce good
apples and peaches can produce
good grapes. Diversity of soil
and climate will give diversity of
product; warm sunbeams, clear
skies, and dry atmosphere will
ensure sweetness and flavor in
the fruit, and richness, body, and
bouquet in the wine In most of
our varieties there is IN excess of
flavor to beStempercd down by
cultivation. Many of them arc
suPerabnndant in sugar, while 9th


ers yield a juice whose color is SO
deep that it too might be deemed
excessive, if it were possible for
wine to be too red. And if the
musky flavor of the foxes is by
many disliked, be it known that the
important family of frost grapes,


VttSs oesta0iLts, have none of it
whatever, but only such delicate
bouquet and SAVIOR as the most fas-
tidious European taste may accept.
With such materials we must be
poor cultivators indeed if we fail
soon to produce something better
than what Europeans now send
for our drinking, and in time some.
thing equal to what they keep for
their own.-Harper'S -Magazine.
Year: 1870

We labOrand labor, but there is just
as much nGnREity for recreation as
for labor. We cannot live without it ;
not even the laboring man.


=. Exercise is all we'll enough but it
must be the right kind. The mind as
we'll as the body wants exercise. But
it wants something else, as well as the
body; it wants change; it wants to
get into new channel, get new life
infused into it. Thus it will rest the
limbs to labor, with the inactive man.
1t will rest and strengthen the mind.


We should lay out our plans for re-
creations as well as for work. There,
never was a truer saying than that "'alf
work and 10 play makes Jack a dull
boy"


Dyspepsia settles upon the people.
If they stir about and act, mentally
and physically, there is no chance tor
it to do this. So lie blUcsnnui, and
tedium may be dIssipated i'll this way.


They are but the same general
thing, bred by doing nothing, or 20
ing only one thing.


We must get out of the one rut, if
we have been in that alone, and taste
the variety of life. Man was made
for it, it is the habit from time i'm
memorial, and cannot be dispensed
with. With it comes health and en-
jOyment.
Year: 1870

EXPECTED COALITION AGAINST THE MINISTRY.


PARIS Thursday, May %, 1870
In the Corps Legisatif tomorrow an inter
peation will be submitted to the Government on the
cause of the dissolution Of the Plebscitary Committee
Ministerial journals express fears that the question
raised this point may result in coalition OF the
Right and the Left wings Of the Corps against the Min
istry


Its announced that this occasion the LEFT" will
declare itself Constitutional party and will signify Its
willingness to accept power under the Empire, If 1t Is
permitted to carry it's programme Mr. Picard rs the
leader In this movement and viii be the chief OF the
party which is to be called the Constitutional Left"
Year: 1870

New ORLEANS, May 4.-In the shoot
ing last night between John Bennett
local reporter on the Picayune, and ex-
special police officer Smith, the latter
was dangerously, and the former slight
", wounded Ex-special officer deepest
was shot and dangerously wounded
during the difficulty. The cause was
animadversions in the Picayune on the
special Metropolitan Police force and
the publication by Smith ofa scurrilous
circular on Bennett.
Year: 1870

The beneficial effects Of these Bit
tiers can be attested by thousands
who have used them and acknowI-
edge them superior 10 any thing OF
the kind ever before offered to the
public


As a sure cure for Olauhea. Loss
Of Appetite, Fever and Ague ChoI-
era Morbus, CoIic, Dyspepsia, Gen
eraI Debility or Nervous Headache,
this medicine has no equal It IS
especially recommended TO persons
travelling, as tending to counteract
the effects Of change Of water


These Btters should be found
upon the Sideboard Of every family,
as we'll as the Bar Of every weII-regu-
lated Hotel.
Year: 1870

THE only position of the body which
requires no muscular exertion is lying. 1t
is the proper attitude ofirepose, and one
in which feeble strength can be longest
preserved. We may sit in different pos
lures, but in every sitting position the
muscular organism is taxed more or less.
To sit easily the back must be supported,
for otherwise we have the permanent con-
traction of the posterior muscles of the
trunk, and are soon fatigued, as we may
easily learn by trying to extract comfort
from a three legged stool. When seated
on chair, with the hack supported, the
muscles are slow to contract, and cOnse-
quently we are not so liable to fatigue. If
we want to be comfortable in our sitting
rooms, we should use long chairs in order
that the back and head may be supported
But if we are bored by disagreeable call
ers. short-backed chairs are the proper
articles of furniture for the parlor. For
then we are assured that we bore our
friends while they are doing their best to
bore US, and possibly the fatigue traced to
contracting muscles will cause them to
cut short their calls. Cushioned chairs,
long, and so arranged as to enable one to
adopt a recumbent position, must be
classed among the true luxuries of this
advanced age. Reclining in one of them
we experience little fatigue, since we keep
the muscles from contraction, while the
soft yielding cushion permits an equal
distribution of pressure upon all the diff
ferent points of the body corresponding
to the base of support.-Ihrf, Field and
Farm. ''s}f
Year: 1870

GENERAL BoYNToN, the Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette,
tells the following incident, showing how
sharp clerk brought to light one of the
tricks of that honest fraternity known as
government contractors:


:" A clerk in the interior has done and
said good thing. Contractors who bid
for stationery in the Departments have a
trick Of bidding very low upon all articles
which do not come into general use, and
very high upon the staples. This has the
effect of making the average of bills low,
and at the same time. affording a large
profit. One of these contractors had
marked blue ink, quarts, down on his
schedule at one-eighth of a cent per doz.
en-. A day or two since he was surprised
at receiving an order for eight dozen. He
hurried up to the Department in person.
The chief of division knew no great ne
cessity for such flood of blue ink, and
the clerk ordering it was summoned to
explain the sudden demand. He replied
that nothing unusual had occurred to in
crease the call for the ink, but that he had
not thought it worth while to order less
than cents WOrth.p TFF{ fF fRhF fltat
Year: 1870

INVENT into shop the other day to buy
what the drapers call SCENTS hose" A
smiling young lady was behind the counter,
and when 1 had made an appeal to her to
show. me some socks, was somewhat
doubtful what course of action ought to
pursue in order to demonstrate to her the
length of my foot. As am not bur-
lesque writer, it was clear chat could not
lay my boot on the counter and say, with
all my. SOLE" nor could l paraphrase Dib-
din's Jack Tar, when he spoke of the
dancer who $50 daintily handled her feet"
The little. woman, however, speedily re-
moved my first perplexity, though only to
plunge me into another.


"Will YOU" said she, "please to double
up your fist, and Jay it on the counters"
Year: 1870




{ FORCING natureSto yield that which is
evidently poor return for our labor, is
at best poor policy, and yet this is exactly
the course many cultivators OF the SOIL are
constantly pursuing; for they cannot un-
derstand why crop should be. grown at
"a prefit in one locality and not IN another.


If man reads in the newspapers an
account Of the immense profits realized by
certain parties in the cultivation OF any
particular kind of fruit or grain, he says l
can do what others have done, and to
prove it he Immediately commences an in
vestigation in relation to- the, culture, cost
and prospective price in market; and ii
these appear satisfactory, he embarks in
the enterprise, with every expectation OF
realizing profitable return for the labor
and capital invested. But with all the
energy usually displayed in such cases,
and with abundant capital, and soil and
climate apparently favorable, a disastrous
failure may be and often is the result, in
consequence of an unfavOrable location.
We use the word in it's broadest sense, for
it may apply to climate, soil, markets, or
even to sections of the country where
laborers cannot be obtained in sufficient
numbers to do the work required.


1t is true that more failures result from
negligence on the part of cultivators than
from other causes still there are instances
innumerable where no human precaution
or care could prevent failure after an
enterprise was once begun. We have
only to cite the many failures in grape
culture caused by selecting an unfavorable
location for the vineyard. -


Farmers, as we'll as fruit growers, often
make great mistake in undertaking to
grow certain crops for the purpose OF COM
peting with those men who 3are more ia
vorably situated than themselves. A man
who has to depend upon railroad communl-
cation must not expect to grow heavy,
bulky crops like potatoes, hay, and coarse
vegetables, and successfully compete with
others who can send these articles to
market by water. But it is not neces-
sary that we should enlarge upon this
point, for every observing man must
be aware that upon location depends in a
great measure the success or failure OF al
most any enterprise in either horticulture
or agriculture; and what should these les
sons teach if not that every farmer should
grow those particular crops which succeed
best in his locality, or, IN other words,
those that will return the greatest profit ?
Let those who are in favorable locations
for growing apples continue to plant trees
and extend their orchards until the mar
kets are fully supplied. Farmers who can
grow wheat successfully should never dis
card it's culture for the sake of trying
some other grain of which they know but
little or nothing. To ship corn by rail.
road from Illirois to New York would
leave the producer very small sum for
his labor; therefore it is better to feed to
stock at home and ,hen send it in the con-
densed form of beef and pork.


The advantage that one section of the
country has over another is not half SO
great as many people honestly believe, but
it is the adaptation of pursuits to surround
ing circumstances that controls wealth or
poverty.-Hearth and Home.
Year: 1870




WE have before us some data furnished
by a resident of Sitka, which shows,
among other things, that there is an extent
of country bordering on the coast of Alas
ka, equal to twenty miles in width and
seven hundred miles in length. in which
the white and yellow cedar predominates
How much more extensive the Cedar
Country" may be, our informant did not
know. The cedar timber is, then, mex
haustible. Our redwood timber covers a
limited area, and at the present rate of de-
struction will not last fifty years. The
time will come when the cedar forests of
Alaska will be more famous and greater
source of wealth than are now the red
wood forests of California. Probably no
tree is now growing upon the Pacific
coast of so much real value as the red
cedar of Alaska.-San Francisco Bulletin.
Year: 1870

A CLERGYMAN in Lexington, Virginia,
who served as chaplain in the Confeder-
ate army, from the beginning to the end
of the late civil war, sends us an account
of the following strange incident, which,
he assures us, may be depended on as
strictly true: r


Among the Confederates wounded at
the battle of Antietam, who fell into the
hands of the Union forces, was a young
private of good family, named F., from


the mountain region of Virginia He was
a boy at school when the war broke out,
and abandoned his studies to shoulder a
musket in the army of General Lee. He
was shot through the lungs at AntietAm,
and, after lying for a long time on the
field, was carried to Union hospital, and
tenderly cared for by Maryland surgeon
attached to the Northern army, under
whose skillful treatment the young Vir-
ginian soon became convalescent. The
Marylander conceived strong liking for
his patient, and, procuring his release on
parole, took him to his own house, where
he remained in comfort and security until
he was exchanged, when he returned to
the Confederate army. aaa ia9n =


Some time late in the war, the Mary
land surgeon, while with his regiment in


Virginia, got separated from his comrades,
and, being cut off from joining them by


Early's cavalry, took to the woods to
avoid capture, and wandered for several


days among the forests and mountains


until ne became utterly exhausted with,
fatigue and hunger. In this desperate
strait, he resolved to apply for help at the
first house he should come to, even at the
risk of being arrested and consigned to a
rebel prison. He soon reached dwelling
of the better class, in which he found at
home an intelligent looking lady and
several small children. He made himself
known as surgeon in the Union army
and asked for food and shelter. The
lady replied that Federal surgeon had
been very kind to her son while prisoner
of war, and for his sake she would do
what she could for the stranger. This
remark led to mutual inquiries and expla-
nations, from which the Marylander
learned that the house to which he had
thus accidentally wandered was the home
of Young F, his patient from the
field of Antietam 1t may easily be inn
agined that he was warmly welcomed to
its hospitalities, and provided in due time
with the means of regaining the Union
lines in safety.-Appseton's Journ0l.