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Year: 1873

Elsewhere in the GAZETTE will be found azd
advertisement announcing officially the reopen.
ing Of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal fOi
trade The Secretary in private note says, "aiteI
six weeks constant work, day and night We have
navigation re uncd, on The line Of the Canal
though many supposed that navigation would moi
be resumed this year"


Certainly the P..sIdent and other officers of
this important work are deserving of the hearty
thanks of the people aud of congratulations at
their hands, for tie success that has attended tbeiI
courage aud energy IN slsrnly meeting and repair
ing the terrible disaster that befell these works.
Such energy will be appreciated; aud as the ne.
cessity for the preservation of the work has been
more fully shown by the great breach In its banks
and the consequent suspension OF the operation Of
the Canal, We should not be surprised If in few
yelrs hence the disaster would be viewed as ben
EFT, and be productive, finally, of financial gain
and an expansion in its ability TO accommodate
the trade much earlier than was expected.
Year: 1873

The Radicals OF Maryland held convention
re-ently and passed resolutions calling upon tho
Legislature to repeal the Registry Law, except
for the city Of Baltimore This was certainly an
evidence of great change 10 the minds Of these
people. They passed the law, and the constitu
ton requires the General Assembly to provide bv
law, for uniform registration of the names of ali
the voters in the State But the law was made
WAen CressWell and Others of his party supposed
tiey could carry all the union men in Maryland
over to the Radicals and with negro suffrage and
test oaths forever thereafter hold the power which
they had abused so snamefully by depriving about
one-thrd of the Democrats of their legal right TO
vote. Their registry law is now restriction that
prevents their getilng into power again by means
OF fraud, negro repeating and other illegal votes
and Of course they want it repealed. Radicalism
cannot long flourish where there is fair and honest
dealing at the polls.
Year: 1873

Are becoming very anxious about the taxes for
the present year They tell Us that the people
are very slow In calling TO pay, and some OF them
fear they will have to proceed to collect by inforc-
ing the law which they are very 10th TO do. The
law does not require the collector to go from door
10 door as formely, and as the taxes have been
dne Tor some months, We take the liberty 10 urge
'hose who have not paid to do so at once. The
collector in the city arc Thos D. Gibson and
Lewis Mccall The former may be found at the
swan Hotel and the latter in Institute building
Year: 1873

SLEEPING IN A COLD RooM.-HaWs
Journal of Heath says that cold bed
chambe always imperil health and in
vite fatal diseases. Robust persons may
safely sleep in a temperature of forty or
under, but the old, the infant and the
frail, should never sleep in room where
the atmosphere is much under fifty de-
grees Fahrenheit.


All know the danger of going direct
into the cold from very warm room.
Very few rooms, churches, theatres and
the like, are ever warmer than seventy
degrees. If it is freezing out of doors it
is thirty degrees-the difference being
forty degrees more. Persons will be
chilled by such change in ten minutes,
although they may be actively walking.


But to lie still in bed, nothing to pro-
mote the circulation, and breathe for
hours an atmosphere Of forty and even
fifty degrees, when the lungs are always
at ninetyeight, is too great a change.
Many persons wake up in the morning
with Inflammation of the lungs who went
to bed well, and are surprised that this
should be the case. The cause may of
ten be found in sleeping in room the
window of which had been foolshly
hoisted for ventilation. The water-cure
journals of the country have done an in
calculabe injury by the blind and indis-
criminate advice Of hosting the window
at night.


The rule should be, everywhere, during
the part of the year when fires are kept
burning, to avoid hosting outside win
dows. 1t is safer and better to leave the
chamber door open, as also the fire place
then there is a draft up the chimney,
while the room is not so likely to become
cold. If there is some fire in tho room
all night the window may be opened an
inch. 1t is safer to sleep in bad air all
night with a temperature under forty.
The bad air may sicken you but cannot
kill you; the cold air can and does kill
very often.
Year: 1873

A Troy paper gives the following sad
scene from real life. One evening, while
the audience was deeply inerested in a
play at the theater, young child was
observed walking down the aisle with
quick and anxious step. Her face
and eyes betokened weeping, and even
yet the unwiped tears were trickling
down her pale cheeks. The little one,
after glancing hurriedly and anxiously
down the aisle, darted forward toward a
young woman sitting near the stage, and
bending over behind her, faltered out be-
tween her sobs, "Oh, dear oh dear I
Father's-dead ?' The young woman,
startled by the sudden intelligence, ex-
claimed, "Oh, my God; my poor father."
and hastily arose, and, with the mounful
and mourning messenger, left the gay
place of pleasure for the darkened cham
of death. The scene was noticed by a
number, and for little time afterward
there was not murmur of applause nor
sign of smile by the audience. As
the play progressed the depression wore
away, and soon the sad scene of real life
was forgotten in the painted representa-
ton on the stage.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Wackup, married man of Bridge
port, quit work early the other afternoon
and went home 20 fix up for the purpose
of spending the evening-or, rather, half
the night-with number of his friends.
He found his wife lying upon the lounge,
enjoying a sick headache, but he couldn't
find clean shirt. Mrs. Wackup said
his shirts were washed, but not ironed,
and she was too i'll to do it, and it was
the girls afternoon out. A shade OF dis
appointment clouded his brow, and rush
ing into the kitchen, he slammed the
| door with much earnestness, and fortu-
nately found an iron on the range nice
and hot. Then he dived into the basket
of dampened clothes, and found one of
his shirts at the bottom, just as he ex-
pected.


He spread the garment out on a table
without first removing the oil-cloth cover,
and hurriedly consulted his watch. Then
he couldn't find the iron holder, and sub
stituted his pocket handkerchief, and
after burning four of his fingers and
breaking one of the commandments, he
landed the hot iron on his shirt bosom.
He thought the garment had a strange
look, but supposed it would assume its
proper shape when ironed-and he showed
the iron up and down, like jackplane.
The labor seemed so easy, that he men
tally said he had mind to follow the
business for living. Then he undertook
to turn the shirt, and just because it ad-
hered to the glazed table cover, he gave
il a violent jerk, adding at least six inch
es more to the split in the back.


Then he noticed for the first time that
he had set the hot iron on the tail Of the
garment, and scorched hole in it as
large as his hand, and in his haste to re-
move the smoothing machine he neglected
to use the holder and dropped the hot
fraud on his choice toe; and when Mrs.
Wackup, who was startled by the inten-
sity of his language, entered the kitchen,
holding her head between her hands, she
discovered her husband hopping about
the room on one foot, clasping the other
with both hands. The sympathy that
Mrs. Wackup rendered was not of ma
ture that her bistered husband yearned
for just at that particular moment. She
placed her arms akimbo, and Indignantly
observed


"Ain't yon ashamed of yourself, you
old fool dancing the can can around
here, and your poor wife nearly dead,
too and"-here her eyes rested upon
the wreck on the table-"and if the old
idiot hasn't gone and ruined my best
chemise o, the-the-"


Wackup didn't tarry to hear his infu-
rated bette- half finish the sentence, but
adroitly lodged the broom-handle, and
limped out of the room and up stairs to
bed, without his supper. The next
morning he told his friends that the rea-
son he failed to keep his engagement was
he was suddenly attacked with cholera
morbus at the supper table, and liked to
have died during the ight.-No,71Stow
| He3'uId
Year: 1873

OBSTINATE VANDERBILT.-The enor-
nous prestige of Mr.. Vanderbilt has ear
ried everything he touched to prices
which those OH the inside knew to be ut
terly without justification. The reaction
was inevitable, and it goes us far 10 the
other extreme. For the wild panic that
has accompanied the fall, and for the
needless and wicked sacrifices that are
entailed, we have mainly to thank the
obstinate old man who refused to save
the Union Trust Company by paying his
debt. The sum that he declined to pay
though on that eventful night his friends
and followers labored with him till mid
night to persuade him to do this simple
justice--was million and three,quarters.
Those who know what share he holds of
the stocks that 60 by his name, estimate
his own losses, by reason of that nights
willtul refusal, at nearly or quite twenty
millions. He has his reward.-N. Y.
Tribune.
Year: 1873

AN INVOICE OF GIRLs.-The Truckee
Republican, of October 18th, says: The
report was circulated yesterday that
about fifty manageable girls from Low
ell, Massachusetts, were on the emigrant
train on their way to Los Angeles, and
would be in Truckee about midnight last
night. The report was true so far as the
number of girls and their coming was
concerned. The excitement among the
bachelors in this place, in consequence of
the news that such precious invoice of
freight was near at hand, was most in
tense. Some of the most susceptible
young men, who had been boasting of the
superiority of the Eastern girls over Cali
ifornia's daughters, went down on the
eleven o'clock P. NJ. passenger train, thus
to be able to obtain a fair view, and make
the acquaintance of some of the fascinat.


ing Lowell damsels. The train, with its
feminine cargo, arrived shortly after mid
night. The bachelors who went down to
Boca are mum over the trip. They got
awfully sold. There was scarcely pref
ty girl in the crowd. One had lost her
teeth, and appeared to be cumming her
way across the continent another was
deaf, and several had glass eyes one
had hair-lip, while the most promising
looking one in the crowd was tongue tied. .
One of the bachelors undertook to pay
his "distresses" to this one, the most like
ly one of all. and actually offered her his
hand, name, and home in Truckee.
She puckered up her mouth for half an
hour in the vain endeavor to answer him
and probably would have succeeded had
not the remorseless conductor cried out
"An aboard" and started up the train.
Year: 1873

PRAYED AT A MARK, AND HIT r.
A clergyman in Columbia. Pa, recently
tested the efficacy of prayer by introduc-
ing into his supplicstion tho words, "Oh,
Lord, bless and enlighten the young man
in the pink necktie and the maiden in
the blue bonnst and gray shawl. who
are profaning the sanctuary by kissing
one another in pew nunaber 6s !" and We
have eminent authority for the assertion
That tho kissing Immediately stopped.
Year: 1873

A NEW invention is the swimming COL
lar, thin, light India rubber tube, which
is placed around the neck, and inflated
by means Of a small tube long enough to
reach the mouth. The collar is enclosed
in a case of elastic cotton, which sustains
tho outward pressure. The collar weighs
about two ounces. but its buoyancy will
raise a persons head above the water,
and float him safely.
Year: 1873

AT the examination of a school not far
from London, young tyro in declama-
ton, who had been told by the teacher
that he must gesticulate according to the
sense, in commencing piece with "The
comet lifts its fiery tall" lifted the tail Of
bis coat to horizontal position.
Year: 1873

One days life off this land of the cac-
tus, says correspondent writing from
Mexico, was painfully similar to anoth-
er, save that exception may be made in
favor of gallop of sixty miles inland to
the city of Colima, place of some 5O,-
600 inhabitants, that toasts itself at the
foot of the smoke-capped volcano of the
same name. Whether a better type of
persons are sometimes found on this
route of travel, know not, but in a
course cf wanderings that has unavoid-
ably brought me in contact with the
lower grades of many races, | have new
er met in three secutive days so
many cut-throat looking countenances
as those who seemed to regard us with
an eye to business, on the stony high
way that crooks over the mountains to
their town. Shaded from the ardent
rays of the sun by heavy felt hats, that
often are not less than three feet in di-
ameter, their jackets and slashed trou-
sers jingling with the numberless metal
lie buttons with which they delight to
adorn themselves, a gaudy blanket
thrown over the shoulder, the insepara-
BILE machete, or long knife, belted to
their side, and revolver (when it can
be affordedD stuck in the crimson sash
that is twisted round the waist, their
general appearance is picturesque in the
extreme and agreeable to look upon,
could you cease to remember the little
weaknesses to which they are subject
when finding themselves numerically
superior in the vicinity of a well-flled
purse. The hot winds of the coast had
Drowned our compilations to hue
almost as swarthy as their own Sol had
robbed our habiliments of all definite
color; and the dust had removed every
trace of cleanliness from our persons.
We bestrode mules, so wretched that
they seemed ashamed of their own ap-
pearance, and our tout ensemble must
have been so disreputable that, COM
bined with our numbers, the swarthy
toll gatherers evidently judged us
birds of too poor q feather to pay for
picking, though in a land where it is
customary to permit journeyer to re-
turn home clothed in no more fashion
able garment than that provided by
nature, their consideration was doubly
commendable.
Year: 1873

A good story is told of well-known
Episcopal Bishop of neighboring dio-
cese. We refrain from givingt the name,
from appreciable motives of delicacy.
The Bishop is very staid, glum sort of
a good man, and the last one in the
world to enjoy joke, especially one on
himself. A waggish friend, meeting him
the other day in a car, astonished him
by exclaiming, after a reference to his
high-church principles:


"Why, Bishop, 1 hear that on Easter
you appeared inyourpulpit with crown
and palm p


"What p exclaimed the Bishop, in
astonishment. Nonsense You know
better"


eyes," repeated the other, "with a
crown on your head and palm in your
hand"


cit is libel Who could have start
ed such story?" responded the dis
tinguished prelate, warmly. But,
pshaw ! it is idle to talk about it it is
SO absurd" "


The conversation was changed, but
the Bishop did not forget his friends
words they preyed on his mind and
worried him ); he was afraid the libelious,
atrocious report should get into the pa
pers, and then it would become popu-
larly accepted fact which there would
be no denying.


He sought his friend the next day at
his Office, for the purpose of learning
the origin of the outrageous story; but
the other, who is considerable of wag,
sorely vexed the spirit of the accom-
plished prelate before he would make
any satisfactory explanation, and then,
with laugh and twinkle of the eyes,
he exclaimed:


"Why, Bishop, haven't you a crown
on your head, and palm inyour hand ?
See ?"


The Bishop was SO much pleased with
the explanation that he succeeded in
raising a laugh; though the expression
of fierce solemnity that settled on his
features as he left shortly after leads
his friend to believe that he did not
thoroughly enjoy the joke.
Year: 1873

Tamaroa, ILL.,, has been shocked. The
incident which has 50 disturbed Tamaroa
is singular one. About five weeks
since William Farmer, lad of fifteen
years, had a slight misunderstanding
with his mother, who is widow. He
wanted a new pair of shoes, and his
mother did not get them, either through
forgetfulness or lack of means.


The boy said pettishly that he would
match her for not getting the shoes.
He disappeared that day. His mother
supposed he had run away for the pur-
pose of carrying out his purpose of
matching her, and gave herself little
concern about him, thinking he would
return when he got over his pet. In
fact, she had information which led her
to suppose that her son was engaged at
work on the st. Louis and Cairo Narrow
Gauge Railroad.


She was, therefore, in good spirits
over the absence of her boy, until the
unexpected shock which she received a
day or two since. Mr.. r. II. Nicholson
and one of his hired men commenced
moving some lumber which had been
piled near the town, but had fallen
down, and were almost driven from their
work by stencil that proceeded from
it. Displacing q heavy mass of oak
lumber, containing about six hundred
feet measurement, they found under it
q crushed human body, which proved
to be that of the missing boy.


Az tba ooronar'c avopoin otiOp Iub oh
followed, little girl, Mollie Neviles,
stated that she saw William Farmer on
the evening of his disappearance about
sunset, standing on the lumber pile be-
meath which he was found dead. The
girl testified that after her first sight of
him she turned around to go into the
house, heard the lumber fall with a
crash, and afterward heard meanings in
that direction.


She then went into the house and in
formed her aunt, Mrs. Gamble. Mrs.
Gamble soon after started out to make
an examination, when some of the other
children called her attention away, and
she forgot all about the incident, until
her memory was refreshed by the dis
covery of the body. The body was so
much crushed, it is said, that the boy
could not have lived if he had been re-
leased from the dead-fall Immediately.


The verdict of the jury was that the
deceased came to his death by accident.
All the circumstances, however, give
rise to the suspicion that the boy might
have intended to hurt if not kill him
self, to be match for his mother.
Year: 1873

To ONE WHO ASKED HIM OF LADY's GRACE.
1 like her brown small hand that some time


strays,
To find the place, through the same books with


mine.
like her feet-and o, her eyes are fine;
And when say farewell, perhaps she stays
With downward look, awhile, love lingering
Then quick, as she would have that pain soon


over.
L like the mandolin whereon she plays;
L like her voice better than anything.
Yet like, too, the scarf her neck doth cover
Also the little ribbon in her hair.
like to see her stepping down a STAIR
And well 1 like the door that she comes


through.
And then you know am that ladys lover,
And every new day there is something new.


OF HIS LOVE FOR LADY.
know not if love her overmuch-
But this know, that when unto her face
She lifts her hand, which rests there still a


space,
Then slowly falls-'tis 1 who feel that touch
And when she sudden shakes her head with


such
A look, soon her secret meaning trace;
SO when she runs think It's 1 who race.
Like poor cripple who has lost his crutch
am II she is gone; and when she goes,
know not why-for that is a strange art,
AS if myself should from myself depart
know not if love her more than those,
Her lovers But when she shall fall asleep,
1t ls not who will be left to weep.
Year: 1873

SPREADING MANURE IN THE FALL.-A
neghbor was querying what he had better
do with bis balnyard manure, of which be
had large quantity. 1t was was piled il
the yard last summer, and he wishes to ap-
ply it to field intended for corn next year.
Was it Lest to let i. remain in large piles till
next spring, or draw it on the field
this fall and distribute it in small
heaps to be spread just before plou ID
ing, or draw and spread il evenly this fall
We should draw it to the field now while the
ground is hard, aud time is not as valuabl.
as it may be next spring; then we should
spread 1t evenly, provided the surface is not
so steep as to be subject to washing by win
ter and spring floods. If it IS, we should
prefer leaving it in small piles, to be spread as
soon as the trost is out next spring. We
have found from experience that much
greater benefit is derived from manure il
1t be applied to the sod in the fall
than il 1t be put on only just previous to
ploughing in the spring. There is no loss BY
evaporation or fermentation, and the only
thing to be guarded against is washing, es-
pecialy during sudden thaw, which moves
good deal OF water over ground, aud this
even is not so large as many suppose. The
advantages gained by fall manuring comes





manure by the rains and melting SHOWS,
and the decomposition OF it in the sod or sur
lace of the soil. 1t is then ready for the
plant to use Immediately, which thus gains
vigorous grow'h early In the season. II
would be u good plan to harrow the field
after the manure is spread, as this assists to
distribute it evenly and brings it closer to The
surface.


Manure may be applied in autumn in
many instances to much advantage. Young
fruit trees which do not grow fast enough
may be greatly benefited by spreading a
large circle of manure about them: straw
berry ground Is enriched and the plants pro-
tected 10y thin, coarse coating; dwarf pears
in exposed places are shielded from cold
winds; and lawns are improved by an even
sprinklng of fine compost, The same prin-
cple of enrichipg and protecting, and of the
diffusion of liquid manure by the rains be-
tween the present period and that of the be.
ginning of growth in spring, applies to all
crops. whether to the garden or farm, and in
order to illustrate further this advantage we
repeat the statement lately made by Colonel
Waring, on portion of whose farm he had
made several vain attempts to raise roots,
partly from having ploughed the lard too
deeply and turned up a sterile subsoil. A
heavy top dressing changed its prodnct from
less than halt a ton OF grass, ox-eye and sor-
rel, to -four thousand pounds per acre of very
fair hay.
Year: 1873

Among the novelties of the season Is a scarf
of the old fashioned lace called Grecian net
Scarfs OF this kind have come in ali the deli
cate colors common to ties, and will be worn
around the reck and shoulders as fichus, OIL
over thehead for the opera or ball, with the
opera cloak.
Year: 1873

All persons of the same age not insured at the
with good hablts healthy VOCATION residence, &c,
&c who are hysically sound are taken at much
lower rates than in the old plan, where the long
with long lived ancestry must pay higher rates.


Any person may be rated free by calling at either