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Year: 1872




TIE HARBoR.-Some fifteen or twenty schoon-
ers are laying to, out of the way Of the ice Two
barks and one ship, are also in, waiting for the
ice boats.


SPECIE PAYMENT The crews on board Of the
three square riggers" have recently been paid
of, and in gold, too. and New Castle ia reaping
a benefit, without paying any premium. These
jolly tars are making it lively with their jnging
gold.


SLEIaHNd.-The sleighing is excellent-never
better, and improves with the increase Of travel
in sleighs Every one who can, is enjoying the
sport.


TIE NEW PRR.-The severe cold weather
vetoed the finishing Of the new pier, and moth
ing more can be done till the weather moderAtes.


THE TAsKEB LoAN.-The new Building and
Loan Association organized here week or so
since, seems to be in q hourishing condition.
Nearly three hundred shares Of the stock have
been subscribed for, and more are wanted. The
Association adopted the name Of the Tasker
Building and Loan Association.


GRAIN SHIPMENrs.-There is q large amount
or grain arriving here by rail, for reshipment by
water. 1t comes, principally, from down the
State and Eastern Shore. Three large vessels
are now at the wharf, taking in cargoes.


THE FAR-The Catholic fair in progress for
some time past, closed last evening, with very
satisfactory results. A few articles remain to be
sold at auction this ovoning.
Year: 1872

1t is about time to squelch the story that the
suppression OF the New Orleans Times was a
piece Of despotism of Judge Durelfs Court. As
the difficulty is one between the Times editor


and an old business partner, who is rabid Dem
tcrat and has nothing whatever to do with poll
tics, it would be well enough to cancel the lie
that has been sent abroad at once. Weed is a
bankrupt and is charged with swindling his part
ter since he went through the Bankrupt Court
Year: 1872

The STREET RAILWAY. = The City Railway
Company have been making strenuous efforts to
oiently clear to admit of the cars running with
double teams. The effort was abandoned last
evening, and this morning. at an early hour, the
large snow plow was put to work, and several
small plows have been engaged all day in clear
ing the tracks. There is a large amount Of snow
to be moved, but the work goes bravely on, and
by Monday all will be well again, If no more
snow falls in the meantime.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Bcecher was in an unusually talk
ative mood last night. aud discoursed
familiarly in his lecture room about the
various ideas Of death. He did not
think it an evidence of special Christian
grace to be willing to die. He don't
think it natural for the young or TOR those
full of the activities OF life TO desire TO
die. 1t is better to be willing 10 live and
do the duties OF life. When Paul said
that II was better to depart he was an
old man in prison. II an October pippin
says il is ready to drop is that any reason
little green apple in June should be
ready ? 1t is the business of green apples
to get ripe. All the representations Of
tho New Testament about death are full
of cheer and Lope. For Paul TO die was
to go to Christ. Dying is not growing
short of breath and feeble of pulse; it is
flying up to the All-loying Soul OF the
universe. It is going to sweet compan'
ionship. We struggle on through the
world, finding little companionship, but
we 90 TO the spirits of just men made
perfect. We 90 where all The conditions
lift us up to realm OF nobility. There
all is in concord. There is no selishness,
no hardness and crudeness, and rudcness
or revenge; all are working UP with one
sweet impulse with the great genial ere.
ative force of Divine love. These
thoughts ring in my soul like the bells
Of far off city drawing me thithcrward.
Dying is the easiest thing men do. The
suffering is in life; but rs rule men die
rs easily as door turns on its hinges.
Dying is going home, not TO supineness,
not to Oriental luxury, but tc supreme
activity. where every part is developed
and cultured in the realm of love. Bless
God Tor the privilege of dying My
brother Charles, who was always in
dying mood, once congratulated my
father upon the fact that lie couldn't live
much longer. "Umph,' said the old
man. IL don't thank any of my boys to
talk to me in that way. don't want 10
die. II | had nv choice, and it was right
to choose. would fight the battle all
over Father" continued Beecher'
twas war horse. and after he was
turned out to pasture, whenever he heard
the sound of a trumpet. he wanted the
saddle and bride. ~. Y. Herald, Sat.
urdGy.
Year: 1872

Accounts OF speedy and effectual
cures of cancer BY the use Of clover tea,
continue to reach us from NIL directions.
From Brooks County, Georgia, q respon-
sible gentleman writes 10 the Knoxville
Whig, giving the case Of lady who had
been afflicted for eight years with can
Ger which had resisted the efforts Of the
best medical skill 10 effect a cure OF even
an alienation of the disease. Tho can.
Ger had attacked her on The right cheek,
just below the eye, and had eaten pretty
much all that side of her face, together
with the eye, and the greatest portion OF
her nose. This lady has been complete
ly cured in few months by the use OF
clover tel. The led clover is used the
tops are boiled in water, and the tea is
nsed externally and internally. About
quart day should be drank, and The tea
should be used rs wash twice every
day. This remedy should have the Wild
est publicity 1t is inexpensive. and II 1t
should lail TO effect a cure, in any case IL
can certainly do no harm. .--Sts'l.
Year: 1872

An instance OF quick work, by which
very profitable wages were earned, has
come to our knowledge, which we think
worthy of public mention, the names OF
the parties being withheld by request
Not long since there was employed 10
one OF the large shoe manufactures in
this city. u young lady whose duty 1t was
10 fasten the taps and soles Of ladies
boot, together, preparatory TO lasting
This Is done after the taps and soles are
dinkcd out, by first pasting and then Sc
curing them By two nails. One day u
gentleman was in the mandatory where
she WAS employed, and observing her ce
lelity OF movement, raised question as
to how many she could prepare in one
day One OF those having the manage
ment of affairs, expressed the opinion
that she could do twenty eases in ten
hours. The gentleman first mentioned
could not credit this, and offered to stake
81 900 against $500 that the feat could
not be accomplished. The wager was ac-
cepted, the young lady made acquainted
with the fact and asked if she could do it.
She replied that she was willing to try.
provided she could have share OF the
money she should win This was agreed
to and the task commenced. At y o'clock
the mex, day she had eleven of The TWEEN
ly cases finished and packed ready ior
the aster, and ut ten minutes inside the
ten hours the task was completed. The
incredulous gentleman paid the wager OF
one thousand dollars, and the winner
handed The young lady five hundred oi it.
This, together with the sum earned by
doing the work, made pretty fair wages
for one day, and ony one can see by lit
tie calculation, that she had to keep pret
ty busy. There were in each case sixty
pairs, four pieces to n pair, making
two hundred and forty pieces to be
handled, and as many nailsto be driy-
Ell. In the twenty cases there would
be forty eight hundred pieces to take
care of in ten hours. which was done ;
thus averaging four hundred and eigh-
ty pieces an hour. or eight in one
minute. This is an actual fact, and the
smart girl is at present doing snug lit
tie business of her own in central por.
ton of our city. If this can be beaten
bring along the one who can do it,
Lynn Reporter.
Year: 1872

G.. w. Curtis says, with much OF truth,
The counsel OF the world to the young
man is, MY son believe that everybody
is selfish and wishes 10 get the better Of
you" Now man could rs reasonably
live upon a diet OF chokc-cberries and
expect to be well as live in such a faith
and expectto be morally fresh and sound.
Men are very much what YOU make them
that is to say what you expect them
to bc. Ilyou expect man to be mean,
he will probably seem to YOU to be so.
For, however generous he may really be,
through your mask OF mean expectation
you cannot discover it. Believe me, there
is something very much worse than be.
ing cheated, and that is the feeling that
everybody wants to cheat YOU. And, IL
you observe closely, you will find that
the happiest people of your acquaintance
are not those who always make the sharp.
est bargains. and who always expect TO
be taken in il they are not on the alert,
but those who deal unsuspiciously, and
who care more tor their own selt.respect,
than for the kind Of respectability riches
buy"
Year: 1872

HONE CHKEREuLNEss.- MANY child


goes astray, not because there is want OF
prayer or virtue at home, but simply be.
cause home lacks sunshine. A child
needs smiles as much as flower needs
sunbeams. Children look little beyond
the present moments. II thing dis.
pleases they are prone to avoid it. Ii
home is place where faces are sour and
words harsh and faalt6nding are In the
ascendant, they will spend as many
hours as possible elsewhere. Let every
father and mother, then, try to be happy.
Let them look happy. Let them talk to
their children, especially to the little
ones, in such way as to make them
Year: 1872

HARD WORK TO Henry Ward
Beecher says: There was man in the
town whore was born who used to steal
all bis firewood. He would get up on
cold nights and 60 and take it from his
neighbors' wood-piles. A computation
was made, and it was ascertained that he
spent more time and worked harder to
get his fuel. than he would have been
obliged to if he had earned it in an hon
est way. and at ordinary wages. And
this thief is type OF thousands of men
who work great deal harder to please
the devil than they would to please God.'
Year: 1872

1t is a common fallacy in regard to
diet that brain. workers need less nutri.
ment than muscle workers. The changes
of tissue in the brain that take place dur
ing study and thought are very important
and very rapid, and must be replaced by
abundant food.
Year: 1872

the Cincinnati Convention and that the
President had been caught in a trap
get for him BY Congress at the iRstIgation
OF his enemies. Behold how plain a
tale shall put that down. 1twas in the
Presidents message of the 5th OF De
cember, 1870, that these words were
used: Il call the attention Of Con-
gress to an abuse of long standing
which 1 desire to have reformed; /
refer to the civil service Of the country.
That first utterance had been made four
months before the provision had been
put in the appropriation bill to which
Mr.. Butler had referred as the origin
of the movement; but that provision
did not compel, but merely authorized,
the President 10 devise come means ior
betteriug the public service.


After an exciting discussion between
Messrs. Garfield and Butler, the civil
service bill was recommitted-yeas %,
nays 79.


After action had been taken upon
various measures reported from the
Committee on the District of Columbia
the Speaker laid before the House a
message from the President in answer
to the resolution introduced by Mr.
Beck and adopted by the House, call,
ing Tor information as to the cause o
the suspension Of habeas corpus in
South Carolina, in which the President
detailed the reasons on which he based
his action.


Without further important action
the House adjourned.
Year: 1872

We HOPE IT Is TRUE-We heard
last night, from a somewhat reliable
source, that Taylor Strauder, the negro
murderer, had been arrested at Cleve-
land yesterday. We hope it is true.
Subsequent developments show that
Strauder had made his arrangements
for killing his wife on Wednesday, the
dav before the murder. He collected
every dollar that was coming to him for
work done, and took the hatchet up
stairs at night, desiring to kill her dur
ing the quarrel he purposely raised
on Wednesday night. 1t would seem
as if his heart failed him then, but IN
the morning OF Thursday he carried
out bis terrible plan, selecting an hour
when his escape was almost a certainty,
when but few persons were awake and
when the train on the Cleveland and
Pittsburgh road gave him immediate
transportation northward.
Year: 1872

The success OF the New Weed Sew
ing Machine is beyond question. The
extraordinarily rapid increase of sales
is the practical test, the percentage Of
increase being greater than that OF any
of its rivals. 1t is in every respect ad-
mirably adapted to family use. 1t sews
easily, rapidly and smoothly, and seems
to have attained the acme OF perfection
in all its appliances. Wherever it has
been fairly tried it has come to be
regarded as the Standard Sewing Ma.
chine of this advanced age OF improve
ment
Year: 1872

new YORK, April l9.-Iesterday
there was much anxiety at the City
Hall and in political circles generally as
to the success of the new charter in the
Legislature, and when it became known
that it had been passed. sui stantially as
coming from their hands, the
anxiety gave way to excitement. The
prospect Of clean sweep being made
through all the municipal offices was
much commented on.
Year: 1872

Girls are the most unaccountablest
things in the world-except women
Like the wicked flea, when you have
them they amt there l ean cipher clean
over to improper fractions, and the
teacher says do it t1rst-rate; but l can't
cipher out a girl, proper or improper,
and you can't either. The only rule in
arithmetic that hits their case is the
double rule of two. They are as full OF
Old Nick as their skin can hold, and
they would die if they couldn't torment
somebody. When they try to be mean
as pusley, though they amt as mean as
they let on, except sometimes, and then
they are good deal meaner. The only
way to get along with girl when she
comes at you with her nonsense, is to
give the tit for tat, and that will fun
mux her, and when you get girl fun
muxed she is as nice as q new pin A
girl can SOW more wild oats in a day
than boy can NOW in year, but girls
get their wild oats sowed after a while
which boys never do, and then they set
tie down as cain and placid as a mud
puddle. a2f a'' 81.


But like girls frst-rate, and guess
the boys all do. / don't care how many
tricks they play on me-and they don't
care either The hoity toitiest girls. in
the world can't always boil over like a
glass of soda. BY and by they will get
into the traces with somebody they like,
and pull as steady as any old stage
horse. That is the beauty of them. So


let them wave, l say; they will pay for
it some day. sewing on buttons and try
ing to make decent man of the feller
they have spliced on to, and ten chan.
ces to one if they don't get tie worst OF
it, .r- hr- -. .r.. r..
Year: 1872

The fact is, that, as life becomes con,
centrated, and its pursuits more eager,


short sleep and early rising become
impossible We take. more sleep, than


our ancestors, and We sleep more be;


cause We want more. Six hours, sleep


will do very well for plough-man or q


brick layer, or any other man who has


no exhaust IN but that produced by


manual labor, and the sooner he takes
it after his labor is over the better. But
for a man whose labor is mental, the
stress of work is on his brain and nerr


vous system, and for him who is tired
in the evening with day OF mental ap,
! plication, neither early to bed nor early
to rise is altogether wholesome. He
needs letting down to the level off're;
pose. The longer the interval between


the active use of the brain and his rer
tirement to bed. the better his chance Of
sleep and refreshmeEt. TO him an hour


after midnight is probably as good as


two before it, and even then his sleep


will not SO completely and quickly ..rc,-
store him as it will his, neighbor who is
physically tired. He must not, only go


to bed later, but lie longer. His best
sleep probably lies in the early mornf
ing hours. when all the. nervous excite.


ment has passed away aad he is in alb;
solute rest. 49,
Year: 1872

Tire great newspapers are those which
look for news, not advertisements
With the news comes circulation, and,


when circulation commer.ds, the .adYer-
tisements seek the paper, not the paper
the advertisements. Make your news,
paper SO good, SO full of news, ESQ
truthful, so able, that people must take
it; make its circulation SO great That ads


ve-tisers will plead for the priYilegc-af
getting into it--5those. seem to me the
two great business commandments sof
our better journalism. When at last we


get our feet pimted on this solid
ground, no newspaper can afford to sup
press or soften the truth in any business


interest More and more the trade of
selling advertisements is getting redu-
ced to as plain basis as. the trasle, of
selling -FOUR and potatops,, }. where the
money paid over the counter represent
the exact selling price Of the article
bought, and there is no dream of fur
ther obligation on either side. By and
by We shall see all reputable journals
stop depreciating9 their own wares by
admitting that it is necessary to call ths
attention to an advertisement in the


eading columns, to get It seen; treat
as preposterous the request that therp
shall be some notice of theatre or lee
ture, "just to accompany the advertise,
ment, you know take as an insult the
suggestion that IL an editorial could be
made speaking well of the capabilities
of region and its need of a railroad
there would be a heavy advertisement
of railroad bonds; utterly refuse, ON


whatever specious plea Of public as well
as private interest, to suffer one line to
appear as reading matter which The ed
itor did not select because he thought it
of more interest than any other matter
it mig bit displaces and the paper did not
publish without a penny ofspay Some
of the reforms, in the case of any But
the strongest journals, will come slowly,
for they amount to revolution but come
they will--pot because publishers will
be, more disinterested than now, butibe.
cause, looking to the rights of readers,
their paramount Importance to the news,
papers they support and the imperative
need Of keeping faith with them, pub.
fishers will see such reform to be sound
business policy, and any other course
to be business quackery-Galdry ~
Year: 1872

Cut in small pieces one pint of dried
peaches, wash them, and boil in just
enough water to cover them. When
they are tender, add two table spoOntuls
of brown sugar, and boil few minutes
longer, when they will resemble cooked
raisins Make a stiff batter of three
eggs, one tablespoonful Of butter, one
teacup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful
of soda and two of cream of-tartar, sift-
ed in quart of -four. You will not
have to use all of the flour-just enough
to make q stiff batter Stir your peach
es in the batter and bake in buttered
pan, and you will have Il delicious pud-
ding, which no one can tell from one
made of raisins. Serve with butter
sauce
Year: 1872

Sixteen quarts of pure milk are re-
quired TO make one pound of butter,
and ten quarts to make one pound of
cheese. When butter is forty cents a
pound, and cheese eleven cents, one
pound of butter equals in value sixteen
quarts of milk, and returns two and
one half cents per quart to the dairy
man. But one round of cheese from
ten quarts Of milk only gives him one
and one eleventh cents pcflquart for the
milk.-Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1872

The following record viii show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty -four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year, as Indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts
HERALD Building s.ettt.,t
Year: 1872


at o'clock, for the purpose Of reorganzing the
Party, appointing Judges to hold the Democratic
Nomination Election for Sheriff and Coroner. and
to attend to such other business as may be deemed
necessary for carrying forward the approaching
important election campaign.


1t has been wisely said that the price of liberty
Is eternal vigilance; and it behooves every man
who loves his country. its institutions, liberal
laws and social rights, to be present and aid by
his countenance and influence in retaining those
sacred rights we have SO long enjoyed. and which
are now threatened by an insdious enemy and
willy foe.
All white men who cherish their country, and
would unite with the Democratic party in an
honest and earnest effort to sustain the laws,
reduce taxation, reform abuses and benefit all
classes of our people, are cordially invited to
attend


The meeting will be eloquently addressed by
gentlemen of the party.


SWITHIN CHANDLER,


Chairman of Last County Meeting.
Year: 1872

TIE Comptrollersbip of the State Treas.
ury is one question for the immediate con.
sideIation OF the rev General Assembly
which should not oe mixed up with party
politics. For, in the election of that officer,
is, to great extent, wrapped up the fnan-
cial standing Of Tennessee for the next four
years. The length of time prescribed and
the compensation paid members Of the Gen
eral Assembly, neither admit or justify that
body, nor any Of its members, in that sys-
tematic thinking and development of q tinan-
cial policy, only TO be attained through the
most careful thought and enlarged expert
ence, past or prospective. Members of the
Legislature are not paid enough nor given
sufficient time, with the brief limit OF seventy
days, to devise such financial policy as
will relieve the State, assuming that such a
desired cOnsummaiion is at all feasible.
The i5ea has been suggested that before
the State can find relief from its
present financial embarrassnents, il will be
compelled to Clothe some responsible and
competent citizen, or number of citizens,
with the necessary power to act, and to be
paid for the acting. The late Constitutional
Convention limited the pay Of members of
the Legislature TO a per diem Of four dollars
and the number OF days to sit, not more than
seventy. So ifevery member should hap
pen to be a VeTitable SolOn, time would not
admit of the development Of policy Of State
finance. The present pay of the Comp
troller Of the Treasury throws that office
open 10 the competition of third-rate men
as well as of tirss-class men. What is i'm
peratively demanded is TO pay somebody to
do financial thinking for the State, and af-
ter they shall have thought-to act, if pos
sible, 10 lit our State credit from low to
a higher and honorable standard. The
salary to so important an Office as that of
the COmptTollership of the Treasury, it
seems to us, should be increased to such re-
muneratjon as would make that Office inde.
pendent Of and free from temptations to
speculate. It should also be supplied with
sufficient clerical force to do the routine Of
fee work, TO leave the Comptroller free to
think and devise. For so responsible and
important an UfiIe-never more urgently
responsible and important than in the pres
ent financial situalion-should be selected
the est man possible TO be had, regardless
of politics. Without disparsgement of the
efficiency of any aspirant, and without re-
tleC.l,l upon the previous conduct of the
functions Of the Office, this prerequisite
should be imperative. Selecting such az
officer, upon such conditions, there might
then e selected from among the best tinan-
Cial minds il The State, such a number of
persons as would be required, in the judg


ment Of the Legislature, to constitute an
able Financial Board for the State-such
clizsns to hold no other official position.
We Cifsr these suggestions for what they
may ne worth, though we should be per-
fectiy reconciled to any better programme
Uf 2 icy for the future that may be sUbsti-
,uted and agreed upon. In any event the
question is one worthy of timely and grave
consideration and the most judicious legis-
i.Liys action -ReDubBcdn Banner.