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Year: 1871

THE FRENCH FAIR.-AIechanics hall was
showily fixed up last evening for the fair Of
Father Primeaux' church, and the managers
say that the sum of money realized from the
first night was larger than they had expected.
The hall was surrounded by tables loaded with
pretty trinkets, one of them being filled with
Statuary, and, in addition to the attractive dis
play, was the excellent music furnished by the
French brass band. Among the articles drawn
last night, was a silver watch by Oliver Barnard,
an easy chair by Samuel Paris, a ton of coal by
Jennie Logan, and pair of blankets by Nellie
Higgins. There are several articles of greater
value to be drawn tonight, and there will be
some excellent singing by the United CathO-
lie choirs. The fair will be continued two nights
more
Year: 1871

Ex-Governor VANCE, Senator elect from
this State, is now in Washington asking
for q removal of his political disabilities,
with view of his admission to his scat i'll
the Senate. The reports of his chances are
conflicting. Well informed newspaper
correspondents differ in regard to the mat
ter. While some say that there is not the
slightest probability Of the removal of his
disabilities, and that there is much and
strong feeling in opposition, still the gen
orally accurate correspondent of the Baltl-
more tS,,,S says that bill for the relief of
Senator VANCE will probably pass at an
early day, as several Republican Senators
and quite number of prominent Radical
members of the South have said they
would vote for it. including two or three
from New England


In the meantime General Abbott is
making an effort to hold on to the posi-
ton, through palpable 1alsehood, hop
ing to make up for the want of truth and
force in his claim, by the bitter partisan.
ship of the Senate. His present claim is
altogether as honorable as the tenure by
which he holds his present term.
Year: 1871

BY the terms of the present Constitution
all judicial officers from the Chief Justice
down are elective by the popular vote.


The inevitable result of this feature is
to render the judiciary partisan in it's feel
ings and in its decisions. To our mind
nothing can be moro disastrous to liberty
and to the rights of the citizen than this
necessary consequence of the elective sys-
tenn. The effect of this innovation has al
ready been felt to the injury of good gov
ernment-to the detriment of public in
terests, and TO the temporary overthrow Of
civil liberty. The iniquitous attempt of
Governor Holden to inaugurate civil war,
es means to perpetnate waning Radical
power in this State, was based on the par
tisan action OF partisan Judge, who de-
clined to hold his courts-falsely alleging
as the reason for his refusal that his life
would be jeopardized by going into Ger
tain counties, whereas it was we'll known
that the Radical Sheriffs of those counties
had never experienced any difficulty in
serving process and making arrests, and
that the people were entirely submissive
to the law.


So, also, nothing can be more at vari-
ance with the high duties of a judicial of
fcer than the conduct of our partisan
Chief Justice, who officially suggested to
the Governor to act on the tyrant's plea
"that the safety of the State is law high
er than the Constitution by which
many innocent citizens were arrested with
Year: 1871

The London correspondent Of the New
York Commercial and Financial Chronicle
writing under date OF December 10th, says
that money is so abundant in that city that
a reduction of the Bank rate of discount
to two per cent is talked of in some quar-
ters. 1t is astonishing that. with the vast
absorption of English capital in the few
years by loans, joint stock companies and
numerous other heavy outlays, there
should be such q plethora of money still
in banking and com mercial circles as to
bring down its value to SO low a figure. In
New York interest ranges from five to seven
per cent. in the daily open market, whilst
in London, it can be had readily in any
amounts. at less than three. Surely, with
such immense and continual accumula-
tiors of wealth, the trade of England, both
foreign and domestic, must be on -four
ishing scale
Year: 1871

A gentleman perhaps an insurance stock
holder and directory was riding down
Broadway one afternoon with his little son,
who, observing the array of ornamental
signs of insurance companies along that
thoroughfare, and being of an inquiring
panies, my son, thoughtfully answered the
old gentleman, are gotten up as asylums
for retired merchants"
Year: 1871

The Secretary of the Treasury has au-
thorized the assistant Treasurer at New
York to sell million Of coin on each
Thursday of the present month, and to
purchase two millions of bonds on the first
and third Wednesday, making total sale
of four millions of coin and a purchase OF
six Millions Of bonds during the month
Year: 1871

*While the fight WAS raging on the afternoon
Of the 18th, the writer suggested to Gen. Lee
that we make new line in rear of the line thFn
held, and when the fight was going on, Zig line


to throw out the salient and TO connect tLo faces
soma tour or five hundred yards to the left and
right OF salient and this was done; and at, or 8
little before day. line WAS retired 10 this ne Y
Year: 1871

Your every day toilet is part of your
character. A girl that looks like fury
or "sloven" in the morning is not to be
trusted, however finely she may look in
the evening. No matter how humble
your room may be, there are eight things
it should contain, namely: A mirror, wash
stand, soap, towel, comb, hsir, nail and
tooth brushes. Those are just as essential
as your breakfast, before which you should
make good use of them. Parents who
fail to provide their children with such ap-
plisnces not only make great mistake
but commit sin of omission. Look tidy
in the morning, and after the dinner work
is over improve your toilette. Make it q
rule of your daily life to "dress up" for
the afternoon. Your dress may or need
not be anything better than calico; but
with ribbon or flower or some bit of or
nament, you can have an air Of self-respect
and satisfaction that invariably comes with
being we'll dressed. A girl with fine sensi-
bilities cannot help feeling embarrassed
and awkward in ragged and dirty dress,
with her hair unkempt, should neighbor
come in. Moreover, your self-respect
should demand the decent appareling Of
your body. You should make it point
to look as well as you can, even if you
know nobody will see you but yourselE-
ETchdR1e.
Year: 1871

Sleepless people-and they are many
in America-should court the sun. The
very worst soporific is laudanum, and the
very best, sunshine. Therefore, it is very
plain that poor sleepers should pass as
many hours as possible in sunshine, and
and as few as possible in the shade. Many
women are martyrs, and yet they do not
know it. They shut the sunshine out Of
their houses and their hearts, they wear
walls, they carry parasols, they do all pos
sihle to keep off the subtlest and yet most
potent influence which is intended to give
them strength and beauty and cheerful
ness. Is il not time to change all this, and
so get color and roses in our pale cheeks,
strength in our weak backs, and courage
in our timid souls? The women of Amer
ca are pale and delicate; they may be
blooming and strong, and the sunlight
will be potent influence in this transfor-
nation. -RuTdl NeIo Yorker.
Year: 1871

In Maryland they have Colored man
whom they style the African Fire King.
Recently he gave an exhibition of his
"powers to a select company. After ap-
plying red-hO shovel TO the bottom Of
one of his feet without making any i'm
preston on him, also licking the shovel,
still red hot, with his tongue, without even
drying the saliva in his mouth, and taking
a red-hot anthracite coal from stove,
without scorching his hand or fingers in
which he held it, he asked if there were
unbelievers" present. One individual
stating that he remained unconvince5, the
Fire King, as the story goes, put shovel
in the stove and partially filed it with
shot, and when the shot got pretty hot he
stirred them with his naked fingers till the
lead had melted. He then took the shovel
in his right hand and poured the hot
melted lead in his left hand, and then
poured the burning solution into his
mouth, kept it there till it cooled, and spit
it out in a lump. After this latter per-
formance, the "unbeliever expressed
himself entirely satisfied. The Fire King
said "that was only $40 p5 performance;
if they would make him up $50 he would
show them something worth seeing"
Year: 1871

THE Governor of Ohio has received a
letter from Dundee, Scotland, making in
quiries as to the suitableness of that State
for Scotch colony, which is about to
emigrate bodily to this country.
Year: 1871

Urinary and Womb Diseases Gravel, Diabetes, Drop
sy Incontinence of Urine, Brehts disease Abuminu-
the water is thick cloudy mixed with substances ike
the white Of egg, threads like white silk or there
morbid dark, bilious appearance and white Bone
dust deposits. and where there is prickng burning
sensation and pain in the small of the back and along
liam Resolyent aided by the application of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back. and
the bowels regulated with one or two of Radway's
Regulating Pills per- day, viii soon make complete
cure. In few days the patient viii be enabled to hold
and discharge water naturally without pain, and the
Urine will be restored to its natural clear and amber
or sherry color.
Year: 1871

raging and the cold intense. had
scarcely emerged from the, water un-
til the Ice was formed on my moeca~
sins, and / endeav,ired In valnto free
myself from the Ice with my knife.
| could not stop, but must Keep In
motion to keep from freezing. MY
hands were both frozen, but 7 drew
the frost from them by immersing
them In the water of tile slough aud
eeyering them with snow. If ever
mortal had good reason to give up
the fight, to lie down and die. | be-
Iieve / had then; but / had firmly
determined to keep on trying, aud
unhitching my horse, started, as |
supposed, toward the Lizard. After
travelling until sun rise, 1 found that
1 had completely turned around In
the night, that Is / had lost my
course and had been travelling on my


back track, and had actually returned
to the spot where ] had taken, or
gather attempted to take my lunch
the day before. This. was Of course
not very encouraging to one hungry
and wet as I was. As IL always the
case, with one who has so completely
lost his bearings as 1 had. 1t was diff
ficult for me to believe that had
made so great O mistake, but there
was the very spot where my horse
had fed the day before, and finally
1 consulted a pocket compass which
I had with me, and satisfied myself
,tnnat the sun was not on that partieu-
lar morning rising on the wrong
side. lost no time In retracing my
steps. / was on foot leading my
horse, for l did not dare TO mount
him, and could not il I desired to,
for my moccasins were completely
encased In ice and l could not get
my foot In the stirrup, nor could /
spring into the saddle. The storm
which had slackened toward morn
ing, soon after sunrise resumed its
reign, but with dimished force, the
wind not being so high as the day
before, yet sufficient to drive the
snow in binding clouds on all sides.
sa OF the second days journey can
only say that 1t was one continued
struggle In my determined effort to
reach a house. or course I was
greatly fatigued, having been con-
stantly on the move for more than
twenty-four hours, eating nothing.


.sE# [To BE CONTINUED. lax.
Year: 1871

RoBBING THE PEOPLE. q year
or SO ago it came to light that Congress
man Washburne, now minister to France,
sought to secure clerkship for lady in
Washington, who was to discharge no
duties in the position to which she was
assigned, but was to remain 10 the house
of Mr.. Washburne and teach bis children
the French language. The people Of the
United States were thus to be taxed to
hire French teacher for the family of a
Congressman who was drawing five thou.
sand dollars year and mileage for his
services. This was considered most con.
temptible on the part of Mr.. Washburne :;
but what shall we say of another and a
similar case alleged to have come to light
in connection with the management of
affairs there? 1t seems that there is a
negro clerk in the treasury department
drawing a salary Of twelve hundred dol.
lars year, but who has no more knowI-
edge of affairs there than the man in the
moon. Though paid as a clerk he re
mains at the White House as barber
the male inmates of that establish meut
being too peuurious to pay for their own
shaving. A government barber!
Year: 1871

NORTH Missouri RAILRoAD.-The st..
Louis Times says that the North Missouri
railroad is about to pass into the hands
Of new owners, with NJ. J. Jessup of
New York at the head. The plan is to
bid the road of at the sale, which is to
take place in August, under the second
mortgage-the eight millions of stock
and the floating debt, which amounts to
two or three millions more. If the scheme
works, the Illinois, Missouri and Kansas
Association, which is the name of the
proposed new organization, will purchase
a road worth twenty millions, and capa-
BILE Of paying a dividend upon that sum
of seven or eight millions, or a little
more than third of its real value.
Year: 1871

JOSH BILLINGs.-Is the non. de plume of H.
w. Shaw Shaw is northern man, whose
peculiar sayings AMI orthography have given
him a notoriety which stands instead of fame
A writer photographs him as follows: He is
one of the queerest looking men that | have
ever seen, and impreSses one with the fact
that nature intended him to make others laugh,
and at the same time to instruct them. He is
about forty five years of age, six feet tall, with
large nose, sunken eyes, heavy eyebrows, high
cheek bones, large mouth and ears. His fore
head is low, his hair reaches TO his shoulders,
is coined backwards and is black, mixed with
gray. He wears a mOustache, and all over his
chin has whiskers about quarter of an inch
long aud the color of his hair. He stoops
slightly in his shoulders and dresses in black.
and buttons his vest up to his collar, the latter
being very large and roughly turned down.
His appearance alone is enough to make you
laugh His voice is rather gruff, and he speaks
slowly but distinctly. He can make one feel
jolly when others would utterly fail.
Year: 1871

THE Mosr ALARMING SIN.-"If were
called to point OUT" says DR.. Crosby, the
most alarming sins to-dsy-those which are
most deceitful in their influence, and most soul
destroying in their ultimate effeets-I would
not mention drunkenness with all its fearful
havoc, nor gambling with its crazed victims,
nor harlotry with its hellish orgies but the
love of money on the part of men, and the
love of display on the part of women. While
open vice sends its thousands, these fashion
able and favored ipdulgences send their ten
thousands to perdition. They scar the con-
science, incrust the soul with an impenetrablc
shell of worldliness, debauch the affections
from every high and heavenly object, aud make
mau or woman the worShiper of sell; While
public opinion to think himself or herself
Christian; while the drunkard, the gambler,
or the prostitute is not deceived by such
thought for moment
Year: 1871

SOCIAL HONoR.-Every person should eul,,
tiyate nice sense of honor. In hundred
different ways this most fitting adjunc' of the
true lady or gentleman is often tried. For
instance, one is the guest Of a family where,
perhaps the domestic machinery does not run
smoothly. There is sorrow in the house un-
suspected by the outer world. Sometimes it
is diSsipated son, whose conduct is shame
and grief to his parents; sometimes a relative
whose eccentricities and peculiarites are a cloud
on the home. Or, worst Of all, husband and
wife may not be in accord, and there may be
often bitter words spoken. and harsh recrimi-
nations. In any of these cases the guest is in
honor bound to be blind and deaf, us far as
| people without are concerned. 1T a gentle
word within can do any good, it may well be
said but to go forth and reveal the shadow
of an unhappy secret to any one, even your
nearest friend, is an act of indelicaey and
meaaness almost unp plralleled. Once in the
sacred precincts of any bone, admitted to its
privacy sharing its life, all that you see and
hear is sacred trust. 1t is as really contempt
ible to gossip of such things as it would De tC
steal the silver or borrow the books and forge
! to return them.
Year: 1871

II isn't all in bringing up"
Let folks say what they will!
To silver scour pewter cup.
1t will be pewter still
Fen the wise old Solomon,
Who said, Train up a child"
II mistake not, had a son
Proved rattle Drained and wild.
man Of mark. who fain would pass
For lord Of sea and land,
May have the training Of a son,
And bring him up full grand
May give him all the wealth Of lore.
or college, and OF school.
But after all, may make no more
Than Just decent fool!
Another, raised by PenurY


Upon her bitter bread
Whose road to knowledge is like that
The good to Heaven may tread
Lilies got spark Of Natures light
He'll fan it TO fame,
Till, in ITS burning letters bright,
The world Elay read his name
If it were all in bringing Gp,"
In counsel and restraint,
Such rascals had been honest men
I'd be. myself, saint!
Oh it isn't all in bringing up"
Let folks say what they will
Neglect may dim the silver cup
II will be silver still!
Year: 1871

HINTS TO FARMERs.-By the Fat Con-
tributor. "A correspondent asks US what We
think Of late blowing. Flowing should not be
continued later than ten or eleven o'clock at
night. 1t gets the horses in the habit of stay
ing out late, and unduly exposes the plow.
We have known plows to acquire the spring
halt and infAmmatory rheumatism from late
plowing Don't do it.


TO another correspondent who wants as to
suggest good drain on farm, we would say
heavy mortgage, at ten per cent. will drain it
about as rapidly as anything We know of.
When you make cider, select nothing but
the seundest turnips In boiling your cider
use plenty of ice, and when boiled hang it up
in the sun 20 dry.


A pick-ax should never be used in picking
apples. 1t has tendency to break down the
vines and damage the hive.


The cold weather should suggest to the hu-
mano farmer the necessity of scod cow shed.
The following is receipt for making good
cow-shed: Poura pailful of boiling hot water on
her back, and If that don't make good COW
shed-hcr hair-we are no prophet to any
body
Year: 1871

Men AND WOMEN Providence has so made
the sexes that women, like children, cling to
men; lean upon them for protection, care and
love; look up to them as though they were
their superiors in mind and body. They make
them the suns Of their system, and they and
their children revolve around them. Women,
therefore, who have good minds and pure
hearts want men to lean upon. Think of their
reverencng drunkard, fool, a liar, or liber-
tine If man would have a woman do him
homage he must be manly in every sense;
true gentleman, not after the Chesterfield
school, but polite because bis hear: is full Of
kindness to all one who treats her with re-
spect, even Difference, because she is woman;
who never condecends to say silly things to her;
who brings her up to his level, if his mind is
above hers; who is ambitious to make his
mark in the world, whether she encourages
him or not, and who Is always pleasant and
considerate, but always keeping his place as
the man at the head and never loosing it.
Such department, with noble principles, q
good mind, energy and industry, will win any
woman in the land who is worth winning.
Year: 1871

AS we look ont upon the world, we behold
one continuous wave Of change reminding US
that we live in d world of dsquiet and turmoil.
The busy throng are fastening to and fro in
eager search of greater happiness Some choose
scenes of revelry and nirth others more
wisely prefer the road to fame by learning's
steep ascent, while the great mass, mad with
hopes delusive phantom, wildly rush for the
goal of wealth leaving home, kindred and
friends, Drawing dangers, and even death itself.
for the consummation of their darling scheme /;
blindly forgetting, that though seated on heaps
of gold, and basking beneath wealths uncloud-
cd sun to-day, to-morrow's light may find them
poor as Lazarus of old while the tattered
beggar of yesterday, who craved morsel at
their hand, to-day may be a millionaire
Such is life; variable and uncertain. Still life
was given US for some great purpose, and
since this is SO, nothing should swerTe us from
the great end thereof; for when the cup of
mirth and pleasure has been drained, bitter
will be its dregs. And when on fame's high
dome you stand and gaze far down, and look
forward to the things that are beyond, You feel
that you have not gained true wisdom. And
worldly wealth, alas, how triiing is it, when
compared with the true wisdom that comes
from above


" In him, then let your portion be,


Cleave unto him, who's all in all,


While trusting him you cannot fall,


And He will take you home at last,


Your trials Ger, your changes past.
Year: 1871

Marrying for money in the expectation Of
soon becoming rich widow or widower, is a
very uncertain speculation. A California cor
respondent Of the Chicago Tribune gives an
account Of gentleman formerly in the Span
ish army, who long ago married widow lady
fifty-seven years Of age, who was possessed of
great riches, with consumptive tendency and
no membranes. She was much older than
the bridegroom, but her prospects fer an ex-
tended lease Of life were very poor, aud the
mercenary husband congratulated himself on
the probability of speedily coming into full and
undivided possession Of her fortune. But alas
for the uncertainty Of human hopes! that in
domitabe woman with a consumptive tenden-
cy, in defiance Of all laws Of probability, con-
tinued to live on until fifty-scven more years
had expired, and has only recently departed,
at the ripe age of one hundred and fourteen.
Year: 1871

In Hartford, fifteen or sixteen years ago, i
boarded at the same hotel with practical
joker named Terry. A couple OF his pranks,
which have never been in print, may be worth
telling. For two weeks, Notwithstanding our
grumblings, we had been suffering, about fifty
of us, under the infiiction Of exasperatingly
tough beef, with no PROSPECT Of relief, until
Jim Terry effected a permanent cure. CUT
ting lot Of jujube paste into strips ho snug
gled tho tough materia! into the dried beef
plates. That evening there was Pulling, and
tugging, and wrestling with the dried beef all
along the double line. Not man, woman, or
child could make even an impression on it with
their teeth. After some futile attempts, one Of
the boarders exclaimed, dssparingly:


"The beef gets tougher every day."


They've been tanning it SO We shouldn't
wear 1t out with our teeth" said ono.


"And IT'S sugar coated" said another, as
the paste began to dissolve in lis mouth enough
to disclose the taste.


The nature Of tho substance was soon dis.
covered, but the wrathfnl landlord was a good
while finding ost the author of tho joke,
though he had his snspicions. After he did
become certain, In consequence Of confession
by the culprit there was SO little real comfort
for Terry about the hotel that he felt obliged
to change to another. enjoyed his company,
and went with him. lie was not idle in his
new place. BY quick, adroIt blow he could
divide an egg lonsitudinally with bis knife,
and, after removing tho contents, put the two
halves of the shell together, SO that when
stuck back in tho sort Of cruet used to hold
boiled eggs, the deception would not be ap-
parent.


One morning ho had flushed manipulating
a whole vessel full Of eggs standing pear him,
when waiter .ook them to The other end OF the
table on the order of hcsby lady. men
tior this duality because, though fat men arc
good natured, 6eshy ladies arc not apt to DO
cross. She was mad anyhow, about the
soup the day before. She broke or took apart
one Of the frauds after another, to the aniusc-
ment Of the spectators, till she got out Of pa
tience and speaking to the waiter, said, with
smile tho shape Of a hash chopper, John,
couldn't you drop some o these shells into tho
chicken soap to-day, SO as TO come as near as
you can to giving Il A chicken tasto?"