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Year: 1875




At first it was thought the inscription
was the result of hesrtless hoax, per-
petratsd by some person who picked the
piece up on the beach, wrote the words,
and threw it back into the sea; bnt the
friends of the late S. P. Moody have
identified the handwriting as his. It is
supposed that when the vessel was go
ing down he wrote his inscription on
one OF the beams of his state room with
the faint hope that the board woald be
found and his friends informed of his
fate thereby. II such were bis purpose
it has been attained by the casting up
OF the fragment. after 1t had foated
nearly 100 miles on the breast of the
hungry sea, and reached the shore with
in sight of the deceased gentlenan's
home. The feelings of man taking
leave of life under such circumstances
can neither be imagined nor described.
Coionist.
Year: 1875

A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.-A gentle
man walking along Beacon Hill beach
on Sunday picked up piece of painted
board (evideatly part of the Pacific's
wreck) on which was written in pencil
these words, in the position We have
placed them:
Year: 1875

An election for members TO a
Convention to form Constitution
and State government has been held
in Colorado The constitution
which may be adopted by the peo-
pie at an election la July next is TO
be duly certified by the President
Of the United States. II is then
made his duty by law to issue his
proclamation declaring the State
admitted into the Union on an
equal footing with the original
States, without any further action
whatever on the part Of Congress.
Accordingly Colorado will take
part in the next presidential elec-
tion having three electoral votes.
Year: 1875

Scarcely the next thing in order, but
one of curious interest, is the hero oil
Balaklavs, one of the immortal Six
Hundred who was in that fatal charge
Of the Light Brigade, Of which Tenny.
son sings in such strains as to keep ii
forever in our memories. This hero
who has lived to tell the tale was a mere
lad, a private in the regiment, and,
resident now for some time in this couu-
try, yields to the desire OF those who had
heard him in private conversation, to
give public lecture, or properly speak,
ing an account of his experience. A
simple, uncultiYated fellow, though by
no means rude in language or manner,
his description of the battlefield, and
the illustrations by diagram upon the
blackboard were both spirited and i'm
pressive 1t didn't need much oratory
to tell that story when the speaker had
had such personal experience and subse-
quent contact with all that was left of the
noble Six Hundred. A cavalry saber,
used to further the illustration gave fierce
suggestion and dramatic effect to the
whole. In the course of the account
Mr.. Edgar-for thisis the hero's name
read correct copy, whichhe had obtain.
ed from England, OF the order from Lord
Raglan to the Earl Of Lucan which was
so strangely Misunderstood He says
that the Light Brigade numbered 673
men when it went down into the Valley
of Death. OF this number 1876 an
swered at the next roll-call though, in.
Guiding those taken by the Russians 235
escaped the fearful csrnsge-443 being
lost in the brief fight over the Russian
field pieces.
Year: 1875

Young ladies cut this out and pin it
on your bonnets:


No young lady ought to feel herself
qualified to become wife until she is
sure she understands how to do the most
that can be done with her husband 8
money. The management of house
hold is not a thing to be properly and
safely entrusted to hireling hands, A
servant is broken reed for the head Of
a family to lean upon. There are a
thousand little ways in which real
shrewdness and enterprise are required
in order to use it to the best advantage;
and there are thousand other ways Of
saving money open only to those who
have studied Alright the art of economy.


The Turkish proverb has it that "a
prudent woman is a mine of jewels, y
and, like many other Oriental sayings,
this is beautiful for the truth it embodies
A wasteful housekeeper not only ac-
tually robs those for whom she under
takes to manage Of the comforts it is
her duty to provide for them, but keeps
her husband head over ears in debt and
makes tie domestic life of poor man
continued series of experiments in
stunning it from one day to the next;
in keeping the stomach full, though the
purse be empty.
Year: 1875

From the Petersburg (Va.) Index


A leading physician of the city in
forms us that himself and his brethren
Of the physicking fraternity are very
much beset in their practice by the col
ored female associations of the city
Whenever sister is taken sick they
flock about her with the best possible
intentions in the world, and with the
worst possible results. Our informant
went to see a sick colored cook day OF
two ago, and found her room crowded
with sisters in regalia, one-third oi
whom were exhorting her to repentance,
while second relief consoled her with
prospect Of the funeral they were going
to give her, and the third division pre-
seribed for her mess that would kill a
cat
Year: 1875

The organ of vision is considered the


most delicate organization of the human


frame; yet many who were born blind


have been enabled to see by surgical
operations, and the following is an inter.
estlng fact concerning one Of that class


A youth had become thirteen years Of
age, when his eyes were touched by a
surgeon. He thought scarlet the most
beautiful color; black was painful. He
iancied every object touched him, and he
could not distinguish by sight what he
perfectly we'll knew by feeling; for in
stance, the cat and dog. When his sec.
ond eye was touched, he remarked that
Year: 1875

AN IMpRovEMESr.-The old stone steps at
the entrance to the yard in front of the Hem
rico County courthouse have been removed,
and substantial iron gate. after the style OF
those around the Capitol Square, has been put
nm instead.
Year: 1875

Each part will contain 20 quarto pages, in.
paper. A superb title-page, richly illumin.
ated in red and gold, will be given with the
first part and the printing OF the entire work
will be a worthy representation of the "Alden
Press" which is a guarantee of something
beautiful and valuable,
Year: 1875

1t was a wild, seQuestered spot,


On the bank Of the Bois Dorce,
Whsse rushing waters tarried not


In their race for st. Louis Bay.
And there sat by the side of the yellow stream
A fisherman, bearded and broad Of beam;
And he anglea for perch, with skill supreme,


The whole Of that summers day.
The fish were shy, or the bait was stale,


Or the water too muddy Iween.
For never perch tapped his silvery tail


On the bank where the fisher was seem
Not a bite, not sign of q nibble, to show
That here in the depths Of the broad bayou
Were perch, or pike, or pompano,


Or garf1sh pearly green.
As the yellow sun was going down,


70 the sound of the marsh-hen's cry,
The fishernlan's brow was marked with frowl


And his broad breast heaved with a sigh;
For his hook was fast in a hidden crag.
Waterlogged boUgn, or the root OF tag,


Such as wave where the naiads lie.
To his feet arose that fisher brave


That fisherman broad Of beam
And, with delicate care. essayed to save


His dipsy ana hook from the stream.
Twas delicate care and delicate touch,


But more than a little was mucn too much,
A 5erk too many, pull too strong,
And prone on his back he lay, along
With prickiy prongs of cactus plants,
That pierced the linen of blouse and pants
? In band, and body, and seam.
Did he rave and tear his shaggy hair,


AS men are wont TO QOE
This fisherman-did he curse and swear


Until the air turned blue?
Far from it. One brawny hand he laid
On his port eide, where many blade
OF cactus had gone through;
The other he slowly raised aloft,


As he heaved heavy sigh,
And then, in accents sad and soft,


Helen Blazes I" heard him CRY.
How sweet methought, is the love that queIs
The evil passion that rises and swells
Within the troubled soul.
When pain excites, the wicked swear,
Or disappOintment corns, or care,
Leave woe, instead Of comfort, there,
And misery holds control!
Sweet Helen May thine influence
Bide ever with him thus;
Thy spirit sOothe the rage intense
That prompts the spoken cuss;
For men will rage, and men will swear,
AND carry on, ana rip and tear,
And break the decalogue everywhere,
If thou, dear woman, be not there
To counsel and to keep them clear
OF things iniquitous.
Year: 1875

[AIr. Charles Warren Stoddard has introduced
into his book of South Sea Idyls the following
poem. 1t is little knOwn:l
Cast on the water by careless hand,


Day after day the winds persuaded me;


Onward drifted till a coral tree
Stayed me among the branches where the sand
Gathered about me, and ONLY grew,
Fed by the constant sun and the inconstant dew.
The sea birds build their nests against my root,
And eye my slender body's horny case.


Widowed within this solitary place
Into the thaukless sea I cast my fruit:


Joyous thrive, for no man may partake
All of the store bear and harvest for his sake.
No more heed the kisses of the morn;
The harsh winds rob me of the life they gave;
watch my tattered shadow in the wave,
And hourly dro0p and nod my crest forlorn,
While all my ibres stiffen and grow numb
Reclining the tardy ships, the ships that never


come.
Year: 1875

dant in persons of the most robust as
of the most debilitated health. They
are at home in the muscles, in the heart,
in the ventricles of the brain, in the
ball of the eye. They are generally
and are not necessarily, as was. onue
supposed, confined to q special animal.
The parasites of fish have been detected
living in the intestines of birds and
there are some that, for the purpose of
development, must, pass into the
economy of a second animal.
Year: 1875




A Paris correspondent writes Not
withstaDdiDg the cold weather the
spring bonnets are out in full bloom
and beauty. They are very, very
pretty this season, and very becoming
TO almost any style of feminine face.
The old graceful gypsy shape, set rather
on the back of the head, yet coming
well forward, and fitting closely and
snugly over the back hair, is the most
in vogue. The hi2h brim of the front
stands ZIP somewhat too much above
the head for actual beanty, but when
the spacs is filled in with flowers the
effect is good. Flowers are TO he worn
in lavish profusion Every fashion
able bonnet now looks like a perambu-
lating bouquet. Flowers fill up the
brim, load the front, wreath the crowd,
and dangle in long, dropping sprays
over the wearer's shoulders. Rice
straws and the c0arser straws are in
great favor. A very beautiful bonnet
which was shown me was made of rice
straw. The exterior disappeared com
pletely under a wreath of wheat. oats,
and poppies, and long sprays of oats
dropped at the back. The high brim
was lined with black velvet with a
single bow of poppy-colored silk set at
one side. Another was of black straw,
with broad scarf of white matelasse
Surah tied around the crown aud held
down in front by large cluster OF tea
roses. Over the crown was laid a row
of mingled white and black ostrich
feathers, ten being employed to form
this garniture. A wreath of tea-roses
inside the brim and broad strings of
white matelasee Sarah completed the
whole. A delicate and graceful bonnet
for young girl was composed OF rice
straw, with q wide puff OF blue silk
around the crown the brim was lined
with blue silk and filed in with pale
pink rosebuds. All these we're OF the
gypsy shape. Another very pretty and
youthful looking bonnet of rice straw
had the wide brim that was so popular
last year; it was lined with pale blue
silk, the brim raised at one side and
confined with bow, and a wreath of
forget. me-nots encircled the front the
crown was shaded by two long and very
rich pale blue ostrich feathers. A shape
specially reserved for young girls IS
somewhat like an inverted saucer, which
does not sound very effective, but which
on the head Is very stylish and pretty"



BRITISH POLAR EXPEDITION. Nearly
all the petty officers who will compose
the crews of the Arctic exploration ex-
pediGonary ships have been entered at
Portsmouth, and allowed to go on leave
of absence until the ships are commits
stoned. Like the officers, the seamen
and marines are all volunteers. Only
men of very good character and of the
very best constitutions are taken. The
medical examination is especially strict.
The height is limited 70 between five
feet six inches aud five feet nine inches,
and the age TO between twenty-five and
thirty. one years. In Consequence OF
this standard many young, active men,
and tall, powerful ones, are disapPolnt-
ed in their wish TO join.


1 ~. /. l..
Year: 1875

LIVELY ADVICE. -" How shall I adj
vertise ?" asked timid merchant Of his
more enterprising neighbor How2
why adyertise-do it, go it, make a
break-you are not advertising while
YOU are asking 'how aud while you
ask how, somebody else is taking in the
custom, Start-that is the point You
will soon get into doing it the right
way, while if you act as some folks do
and ask how TO day and how to-mor-
row. and keep up asking TO the end OF
your days, you will never advertise at
all, and very likely never be worth
cant
Year: 1875

A writer in the Home Journal SAYS
" A woman never quite forgets the man
who has oncs loved her. She may not
have loved him ; she may, indeed. have
given him the No instead of the Yes he
hoped for ; but the remembrance that
he desired q Yes always softens her
thoughts of him, and would make him,
were he reminded of it, friend for
ever. There may be girls who make a
Jest OF discarded suitOrs but they are
generally very young. and the wooing
has been something that did not be-
token much depth of tenderness. There
are mercenary offers, too, that only
awaken scorn and hate in a woman
woOed for money and not for herself;
but really to have touched a mans
heart is something not to be forgotten
while she lives. Always she remembers
how his eyes looked into hers; how,
perhaps, be touched her hand with his,
and how her heart ached when he
turned away without that which she
could not give him. She loves some
one else. Some other man has all the
truth of her soul-always has and al
ways will have-but she cannot forget
the one who turned away from her and





is glad when she hears of his success,
grieved when she knows that ne has
suffered and when some day she hears
that he is married she who has herself
been married lopg years, perhaps she
who, at all events, would never have
married him-is she glad then? I do
not know. A woman's heart is very
strange thing. l do not believe she
knows herself. Glad? Oh, yes and
is his wife pretty and nice ? And then
she says to herself that he has quite
forgotten, aud that, OF course, is best
and cries little"


A FAMILY in Boston "believe in the
doctrine of mortifying the flesh by alb
staining from the use of tea, coffee,
meat and all stimulants, and in order to
keep the passions under restraint, they
administer bsatiDgs to each other daily,
and this practice is continued until the
the patient is thoroughly converted. >"
All this came ont in police court, the
head of the family having been arrest ed
for trying to beat the doctrine into his
wife.
Year: 1875

Now that the joint committee Of citi-
zens and members of the general coun-
Gil for a revision Of the city charter hiss
been made up, We trust its members
will lose no time in getting to work, and
that ID a few days We shall have re-
port that the people, who desire reform,
will cheeriully adopt.
Year: 1875

AT THE conclusion of the proceedings
of the United States senate yester&y,
Attorney General Williams laid before
that body the report of the United States
attorney for the Western District OF Ten
nessee in regard TO the Trenton troubles.
The report was ordered TO be printed,
and lie over for future consideration.
Year: 1875

ed that some who wish more to defeat


johnson than elect their favorite. also
desire compromise candidate. Such a
state Of affairs will do anything bur ef-


feet q OmbiDation against Johnson.


A GREAT POLITICAL CoTERIE.


AT no time since the war has anv
occasion convened in Tennessee such an
assemblage OF talent and distinguished
citizens as are4nOw assembled in this
city. The Supreme and federal courts.
the legislature and the senatorial con-
test, have caused the most eminent citi-
zens of the State to flock here. Judges,
politicians, lawyers and others are here
from every section, and the social gath
eriDgs at the Maxwell house, CONNER
cial hotel and other places of public hos
pitality are OF the most pleasant and
brilliant character. The first inn
preston that takes hold OF a
bOdy's mind, in searching into the
situation OF affairs in this place, is the
vast difference between the character of
the politicians here and in the States Of
Mississippi and Louisiana. There the
carpetbagger element is thrown omen to
the public gaze, amid all its vile insight
illness, while here We find the best men
IN the State occupying the places of
prominence aud trust. When one is in
troduCed to q member of the assembly
or an officer of the State government of
Tennessee, he feels like he has met one
OF his own people-one with whom he
shares g common interest, and who
brings back the pride and confidence re-
posed in the Olden time in the officers of
the government. l have met number
of the peoples representatives. AS a
class, they are new in the field of poll
tics, and this may account for the re-
markable energy they display in
hardening faithfully and incessantIy
in the line Of their duty. Nashville is
not a gay place at present, and don't
suppose it ever was, Judging from the
appearance of things. But when any
thing of the kind is on hand, it is enjoy
able enough, from the fact that those
who engage in it display every requisite
that pleasure requires. For genuine hos
pitality the State of Tennessee is far
above any of her sisters. From the lone
cot in the wild mountains of East Ten
nessee to the pretty bowers of the West
ern district, the hospitality of the Ten
nessean is without a parallel. On the
eighth instant
Year: 1875

The comptrollership investigating
committee have organized and are at
work. The general impression among
those bsst informed is that both Gov
ernor Brown and Comptroller Burch
will establish their entire Innocence and
fully refute any belief, If such there be,
Of tbeJ eomplieity with the alleged sale
Year: 1875

The colOrcd Masons of the State OF ILL.,
nois. will meet at Chicago some time
next month. \ number of the prominent
colored men OF this city are now making
arrangement, to participate in the event.
Judge Bird, of this city, who i, said to be
one Of the most fluent and eloquent coli
orcd orators in the state, has
been invited to act in the capacity of ora
tor of the day.
Year: 1875

The city authorities are becoming very
strict and diligent, with a view to driving
from our midst that dreaded disease, the
small poN. The house situated on the
corner of Twelfth and Walnut streets has
been fenced in. In u manner that prevent,
any one from passin. by il. TIL, Is a
good idea. and we sincerely hope that
those who have the matter In charge will
succeed in their efforts to drive out The
pestilcMcc.
Year: 1875

We notice whenever there is a fall Of
snow about one-half of our citizens do
their duty and the other half neglect it,
in the way of clearing off snow. One
fact however, is far more singular. The
pedestrian around our town, if he is only
a keen observer, viii notice the most
tardy are those with the best means to
engage some one TO do the work for
them, and yet leave their sidewalks al
most impossible for children. Our
Marshal certainly Can not visit all with
notices within few hours after each
fall Of snow, but we fear (or hope) some
.of the offenders win yet one day be
"caught mapping" e"
Year: 1875

The members of the Empire Band de-
sire to thus publicly recognize with
gratitude the distinction and kindness
evinced by a number of young ladies OF
our city who so generously and efficient
ly assisted in the decoration of OperG
Hall for the celebration of their first an
nual ball, on New Years eve.


BY order, BAND COMMITTEE.
Year: 1875

C1EAN1INEss is said to be next to god
liness. Those who may lack the latter
will doubtless rejoice to learn that
STAUsMYER S Co., Front street, are now
offering five cakes of Buffalo soap for
ouarter.
Year: 1875

after the first of January ,ce shall
hare to prepay the postage on all
papers GOING OUT OF THE
COUNTT. Subscribers at dis
taace please note THIS fact, as ,0e shall
only send to those ,oho pay in odcance
after that date, as eUe cannot afford
to acat for our pay and pay postage
also.
Year: 1875

The prospects are fair for very
large peach crop in Maryland and Del.
aware this season.


The residents on the river bank
near Port Jeryis are still filling their
ice.hOuses from the deposits Of the great
ice gorge of last March.


The following notice comes from
Elk county a. Kash pade for littel
HALVES nut mourn two daEe DID," That
fellow never fooled bis time away loAf~
Ing around spelling schoos.


Here Is another potato bug RENE
dy A: A farmer says, that If at night a
fire Is build at 10th ends Of the potato
patch the bugs can be seen Tying tow
ards the light, and that they drop into
the flames and are burned to death.
The experiment is certainly worth try
ing,
Year: 1875

Work OH the tag end of Route No. 10,
from Court street and Broadway down
to Fifth, began promptly at O'Clock to-
day, and the prospect is that cars will
soon be running over the whole route.


The completion OF this line will prove
great benefit 10 the people Of Walnut
the want OF this means Of reaching the
business part Of the city.
Year: 1875

The steubenyillc Gazette does not per.
haps see the point Of our remarks on the
question Of an excessive issue Of IRE.
deemable paper money, in connection
with low tariff, as clearly US we think
we see 1t ourselves. Our point Is simply
this. Such an issue Of paper money nOtu-
rally begets the most urgent necessity for
a high tariff. Why2 Simply because
IN irredeemablG currency initiates the
cost Of producing every article OF manu-
facture, including the price Of labor, aud
thereby exposes our own markets, Mt our
very doors, to the competition Of foreign
nations. AT this particular time we have
not only what is known us n high tariff
but likewise a gold premium OF II per
cent to protect our manufactures, and
still they are undersold In our own
markets by certain lines Of foreign
goods. Now suppose we produced these
goods on II gold basis, would we
not 10 the extent Of II per cent
at least, be in n better shape to protect
ourselves2 Most certainly we would
But that is not all. The gold premium
has not for years represented the true
status Of our inflated prices. Prices, gen
orally speaking, have been inflated lar
beyond the gold premium. Why and
how2 Simply because the government
has been fighting the gold premium, and
keeping it down arti[cially. Had the
government pursued different policy,
the gold premium would have stood for
years past at from twenty to fifty per
cent, instead Of At from ten to twenty
per cent. 1t would in that case have
come much nearer representing the true
measure OF imitation in prices in this
country. As 1t is, however, goldhus been
demoralized, that ia made an article OF
commerce, and was really sold by the
government below what 1t was WORTH


Our neighbor at steubenville needs to
understand that he cannot possibly have
cheap currency and low tariff. The
two will not mix any more than oil and
water. Wocan supply him with nitro.
glyccrine recipe for blowing up this
country quick. 1t Is thousand millions
Of paper money and a lop tariff. What
we need, as we lower the tariff, is to APP
pro4imuto the specie standard. This is a
natural mixture, and the two will chcmi.
cally and congeniully combine. The other
two will not. They form deadly cxplo-
siye,
Year: 1875

PARIS, June ls.-Tho bureaus Of the
Left have resolved to offer no amendment
TO the constitutional bills as they come
from the Committee Of Thirty, and to
take all possible steps to hasten the date
OF tho final dissolution OF the Assembly.