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Year: 1872

An indignant southerner, in speaking
of New England, says that one half of
the farms are so barren, that you might
NOW them with a razor, and rake them
with fine tooth comb, and yet not get
enough to fodder grasshopper for a
month.
Year: 1872

A YOUNG man from the country was
looking at the telegraph poles and
lines the other day, finally asked n
gentleman whats them things for"
He was informed that the telegraph is
what they send the news over the coun-
try with. Country's remarks were
extremely characteristic. lyon
don't say so? then right here shall stay
till see one newspaper shoot through
the bottle neck, II il takes till dark.
Year: 1872

DIAru OF AN OLp SOLDIER. The death
of Sylvester Mattinglcy. noticed in our
last issue. has something of historic in
tercst. Mr.. Mattingley was soldier OF
the war Of 1912 and his services to his
country in that struggle were. we learn,
recognized at his death and long had been
By liberal pension from the Government.
The fast narrowing circle of patriotic men
who have "come down to US from form
er generation" makes a special notice Of
his death appropriate. He was in the
10Th year of his age and bore through life
the character Of an upright man and a
useful citizen.
Year: 1872

but 1t was too late to do anything, as we struck
her Immediately afterwards; in fact we struck her
nearly as soon as we saw the light


O. Did you get clear of her easilyf


A. Yes we backed away, and then headed into
the dock at Newport.


Q.-Why did you not stop at Newportf


A. Because there did not appear to be any occa-
sion to do SO. While we were laying at the New
port dock I went into the engine room and asked
the engineer II she had any water In her, and he
told me about half an inch. Twas then satisfied
that she all sound and started for Fall River.
O. When did you find she was leakys


A. When close to Providence Island the engineer
told me that she was leaking little then got the
pumps to work, aud supposed that would soon
clean her out, but afterwards, when In the pilot
house, spoke through the tube to the engineer,
and found that


THE WATER WAS GAINING RAPIDLY.
concluded then that the best thing to do was to
beach her. and consequently ran her ashore.


Q. win she be a total loss


A. Oh, no. have got diver to work, and with
the aid OF the pumps which expect from Boston
and Providence she will probably he anoat to-mor-
row evening. viii take her then to New York for
repairs.


@. How will the passengers get from Fall River
tO-nightf


n. lhc oiu COiouy VIII tuko tneNI. SHe VIII prOD-
ably leave Fall River about eleven p. NJ, and win,
consequently, be little late in New York; but that
will not matter so much as tomorrow is Sunday.


@. Win you take her DOWN


A. No. will send her In charge OF Captain Col
lins, one of our regular pilots.


Q. Did you not get any warning from the bark
before you struck herr


A. None at all; and have since learned that the
man OH watch was just coming up the gangway
when we struck her.


The HERALD correspondent then returned to New
port and as he entered the harbor noticed the
three masts Of the ill-fated bark, one OF which
light was burning as a warning to all cruisers to
give her a wide berth,
Year: 1872

The River Queen and the Miller Steam


ers Collide ON the Hudson River.


Shortly before midnight Of Friday collision oc-
CURED between two Hudson River steamers, or
West Point light. At the time spoken OF the pas
senger and freight propeller Daniel s. Miller, OF the
Poughkeepsie and New York line, was bound NORTH
on the west shore nearing the turn In the river al
West Point. At the same time the New Hamburg
and New York passenger and freight boat River
Queen, side-wheel steamer, was bound south,
near the same spot According to passenger on
the Miller, that boat slgnaed the River Queen to go
to the westward and the River Queen answered
accSETds!ngly: Hstead e gong z the xeatyarYd,
however, she shcered to the eastward across the
Miller's bow Then it was seen that q collision was
inevitable, and 1t came. The Miller struck the
River Queen on the starbOard side at the forward
gangway crushing down her guard and tearing
away portion OF her upper deck. without stop
ping the Miller passed on, while the River Queen
n0ated away and down the stream a short distance,
when she stopped, as though an examination OF
injuries received was being made. Not being cut
into below the water line, she came on to New
York. Her pilot tells q different story from the
above about the collision He says they were
bound south and TO the eastward OF a tow. AS soon
az he observed the Miller he blew two whistles
for her to SO to the left. which signal was
danger the pilot of the River Queen rang his engine
bells to slow, stop and back, endeavOring to avoid
collision, but the Miller bore right down on them,
striking the River Queen as stated above, He says
there were two pilots in his pilot house at the time
who can testify to the above, and also thirty or
forty passengers who saw it all. He is certain tnat
the Miller paid no attention to them whatever, but
ran right into them The damage to the River Queen
Is about eight hundred dollars. 1t was certainly
boats had many passengers on board. The night
was perfectly clear and starlight, and when the
collision occurred the steamer John L. HasbrOuck
which runs opposite days to the Miller, was in the
vicinity, bound south.
Year: 1872

The revenue IL In q nourishing condition.


While cordially congratulate you on the activity
Of trade and industry, hope 1t will be borne In
mind that periods OF unusually rapid changes In
prices of commodities and IN the value Of labor are
likewise periods which more than ever call for the
exercise of moderation and forethought.


THANKS TO THE GREAT GrvER.


In bidding you farewell ask you TO Join with me
in acknowledging the abundant mercies OF Almighty
God, and imploring their continuance.
Year: 1872

The Royal Mandate Read by Commission sum
moning Of the Commons and the Scene in the
House Of fLords-What Her Majesty Thinks Of
the Geneva Arbitration and the National
Situation-Cansdian Action Under the
Treaty Of Washington Diplomacy
With the Great Powers-Slave


Trade Suppression-Army Re-


form-The Ballot Bill


and Irish Question.
Year: 1872

We passed over some fifteen miles of this
new road on the construction train yester-
day. The track from Alexandria to Col.
chester is laid, and is being rapidly ballast
ed. 1t is a splendid piece of road, and
passes through fine farming region. At
Colchester a bridge is being built over the
Occoquan, resting on piers, 20 foot above
the water, so as to enable vessels to pass
under it to Occoauan. This bridge is a
fine structure, and will be completed in
about six weeks, if the weather is at all
favorable.


The track will be ready through to Guam
tico by the middle of April or first of May.
Then we shall have direct communication
by rail with Washington. 1t will make
great change in our relations with the bus
mess world, when we can get into the cars
after breakfast and be in New York in the
evening. 1t is understood that the time
between Washington and Richmond will
be inside of four hours.
Year: 1872

We have heretofore suggested, in the
body of an extended article, the reference
of our financial condition to commission
of distinguished and disinterested publicists.
Such commission, sitting here and at
Wheeling, alternately, hearing all sides,
and familiarizing itself by travel and wide
consultation with our condition, would be
safe advisers at this crisis. This course
would be dignified, on the part of Virginia,
and if accepted by West Virginia, would
settle promptly all questions pending be-
tween the two sections of the old State.
The people, the general public, and the
creditors would be likely to unite in the
support of a plan, enanating from such a
source. T


We think that a proposition for such
commission made by our Legislature would
go far to place the State in proper atti-
tude before the country. E
Year: 1872

RoWDYISM IN .CHURCH.-It has GER
tainly come to pretty pass in the present
age OF enlightenment, when the ministers
OF one of our leading churches is called
u,ipon, to declare he will station policemen in
the church, to prevent disturbances during
the hours of worship, as has been done by;
the minister of st. Paul's Episcopal church
in this city.


If somebody would take hickory stick
and give these blaekguards good mawling
with It, every time they expose their bad
breeding, we think there would be virtue
in it, not to be found in the presence of a
policeman.


We seldom hear such complaints among
our colored friends, whose conduct at their
places of worship, will put to shame the
guilty parties who visit the most fashion,
able and intelligent church in the city.
Or. Minnegerode has been throwing grass
at these rowdies long enough to sa tisfy him
there is no virtue in persuasion.
Year: 1872

STILL THEY CoME.-W return
thanks to Mr.. Aaron Wissler, of Columbia
Furnace, Shenandoah county, for club of
seventeen subscribers to our weekly edi-
ton.


Our friends are coming up to the work
most nobly, and we confess we feel vain OF
the success which greets our efforts from
every section of the Old Dominion. We
shall endeavor to merit the confidence and
appreciation of our friends, by furnishing
them q journal equal to any in the State in
general news, agriculture, scientific mat
ters, &c.


Who will be the next to send us another
club.
Year: 1872

Governor Warmoth's action in try


ing to prevent the consummation of
the Wiekliffe warrant swindle, by
which the State treasury would be
mulcted to the tune of a hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, has not as yet
been turned to his injury by any of
our contemporaries. No matter how
proper his acts and commendable his
motives, we are so accustomed to see
his official deeds distorted into frauds
and rascality that wenaturally looked
for it in this case. 1t is true no
praise has been accorded for his earn
est desire to protect the public inter
ests, but the failure to misconstrue
his purposes must be taken as a most
encouraging sign of reformation in
certain quarters.--F, o. Republican.
Year: 1872

The following act, entitled San Act
to amend article six hundred and
forty four of the Code of Practice"
was passed at the last session of the
General Assembly and approved by
Governor Warmoth April %, 1872:


SECTION /. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representative
of the State of Louisiana in General
Assembly convened, That article six
hundred and forty -four of the Code of
Practice be amended so as to cores
pond with article one thousand nine
hundred and ninety-two Of the Civil
Code, and so as TO read as follows ::
The sheriff cannot seize the linen and
clothes belonging to the debtor or his
wife nor his bed, nor those of his
family; nor his arms and military ac-
coutrements; nor the tools and in
struments and books necessary forthe
exercise of the calling, trade or pro
fession by which he makes living !;
nor shall he in any case seize the
rights of personal servitude. of use
and liabitation, of uspfruct to the es-
tate of a minor child; nor the income
of dotal property nor money Gsrge for
the salary of an officer; nor wages /;
nor reeonlpense for personal services ];
nor house or kitchen furniture to the
value of six hundred dollars.
Year: 1872




We think there are stronger rea-
sons than any yet suggested in favor
of a pOstponement of our Demo-
cratic State Convention. On the
first day of May the Cincinnati Con-
vention viii assemble. What its &C
ton will be, and 10 what extent il
may affect the political situation,
cannot now be known. 1t may or
may not nominate a President tial
ticket. II it shall, il is not settled
as to what the action of the Democ-
racy will be. With three candidates
in the field, it would become a ques-
ton as to the course the rank and
file Of the Democrats should pursue.
They would inevitably divide as be-
tween the Democratic and Liberal
Presidential candidates, part think
ing il best, in order to defeat Grant,
to vote for the Democrat, and others
thinking il best to vote for the Lib
eral. If, before the national forces
adjust themselves and the heat Of
the contest comes on, we bring out
a gubernatorsal candidate, may not
he and the people who brought him
out, possibly find themselves in an
tagonism? y Democratic candidate
supporting the nominee OF the Ma
tional Democracy, might find him.
self confronting another Democrat,
but one advocating the Cincinnati
nominee. Whether there is force or
not in these suggestions, we cannot
too strongly advise the postpone
ment of our State convention. Let
US nominate our candidate for Gov
ernOr when the national contest has
assumed definite shape Memphis
Ledger.
Year: 1872

A f. for your upper ten girls,


With their velyets, and satins, and aces
Their diamonds, and rubies, and pearls,


And their milliner figures and faces;
They may shine at party or ball,


Emblazoned with half they possess;
But give me, in place Of them all,


The girl with the calico dress.
She is plump as a partridge, and fair


As the rose in its earliest bloom;
Her teeth VIII with ivory compare,
And her breath like the clover perfume
Her step is as free and as light
As the fawns whom the hunter hare press
And her eve is as soft and as bright


My girl with the calico dress.
She Is cheel ful, warn-hearted and true,


And is kind to her father and motheri
She studies how much she can do


For her sweet little sister and brother
If you want companion for life,
To comfort, enliyen and bless,
She is the right sort of wife
My girl with the calico dress.
Year: 1872

The evils of the world are not to
be overcome by thinking at them
out of the windows Of a comforts
BILE and costly mansion, nor by sigh
ing over them as you feel the fever
ish throb of the worlds pulse in
your mornings paper, but by pour
ing broadside of justice into every
stronghold Of oppression, and lay
ing the healing hand of charity up
on every Wronged and wounded
heart. The velvet-footed sentimen-
talist, who sheds tears over reports
of crime and Wretehedness as he sips
his coffee from giided china, and
then orders three tickets at the
opera, and drives q bargain like 9
piowshare through a widows home
is the DEVILS own.
Year: 1872

ENRAGED MULEs.-Out in Mari
on county, lows, recently, q farmer
butchered hog and got some blood
on his coat sleeve, and when he vent
into the stable to hitch up his mulesp
they smeIled the blood and became
furious, raving and snorting, and at
tackled him with violence like wild
animals, striking and kicking and
biting with all their might. They
inflicted a severe wound on his head !,
and doubtless would have killed
him. had he not crawled under the
mapger, where they could not reach
him He was finally rescued from
his dangerous situation but the
mules continued so enrAged that feI


a number of days no person vsntur'


ed to attempt to unharness them


The mules had always been perfect
ly gentle and docile before.
Year: 1872




The Clinton (In.) Register makes
the following sensible remarks,
which we most heartily endorse, and
as they fit our case exactly, we give
them place in our columns with the
hope that they may serve to awaken
an interest in the building up of our
city;


Now is the time we will have peo-
pie coming into our community 10
look for business locations. To all
such you should bid hearty well
come. If they wish to buy lots to
build or erect manufactures on.
don't drive them away by asking q
fabulous price for your land. We
have many advantages, butw must
not presume upon them aud hope to
make fortunes out of a few feet OF
land that we perhaps inherited from
our grandfathers. Such policy as
this has given the death blow to
many rising place. Land is plen-
ty in this country, and unless we
sell at reasonable rates, we drive
men of means and enterprise away
o other points. The true plan is
to sell cheap 10 those who will i'm
prove, as it builds up our town and
increases business for every body
To those who wish to buy for spec,
ulation you may ask as much as you
please, for such people are not nee
| ded here, we have too many already
| But to all such as will improve
| lend q helping hand and a cheering
word; we want something here L
wake up the fossils, and new, widt
awake, enterprising men who meal
business are the kind to do it,
Give all such hearty welcome, ant
encourage them every way in you
power.
Year: 1872

The helpful life is the holy life.
Holiness is help; sin is hindrance.
At whatever point we touch life to
help 1t, in whatever way we help
the world aud do not hinder 1t;
whether oy our praye1rs, Snu SonS, ~
church, or by the creation of loco
motive, or the construction of q
railroad, or the painting of q picture
or the writing OF a book, or the dig
ging of drain, or the forging OF 9
horseshoe, or the fighting of a bat
tIe-in whatsoever thing we do, il
we really help and do not hinder
then that is a holy life. And in
whatsoever way we hinder the
world, and stand in the way Of iti
life, its healthy, heartily growth, by
i'm the largest sense, then that, being
the reverse of helpfulis is sinful life
Robert COIycr.
Year: 1872

Those who prate of principles
and the integrity of parties seem, to
us at least, 70 misunderstood the is
sue that is upon the country. We
have not taken the troubled TO de-
termine whether we edit a Demo
cratic paper. Nor shall we take
that trouble. We see a great issue,
a tremendous problem to be solved,
and we are ready TO cooperate with
any man who wishes to drive the
Grant party from power. We have
passed the issues that once divided
parties. They have become the
smouldering fires that mark the
places where the old patriotic par
ties use to encamp. We have been
hurried far beyond them, and TO at
tempt to warm ourselves IN their
dying embers is madness. The
simple question is how to beat
Grant. When he is beaten his
whole progeny of corruptionists are
beaten and turned out TO shift them
selves. The great rings are beaten,
nepotism is beaten, the brothers-in-
law, the forty-ninth cousins and the
Dents are beaten. The wild voy-
age of the ship of State is arrested
and brought back. The Constitu-
ton that has been trampled under
unhalloWed hoofs springs back with
elastic bound into full force. No
matter by what combinations this
great work is accomplished. No
matter if the Democracy go for the
Republican nominee of the Cincin-
natl Convention. No matter if old
Democratic platforms are pushed
aside for the present. So much the
better. When the victory is gained,
when the corruptionists and all the
rest are driven from place, though
the Democracy may not be in pow
er, they will have achieved the gran
dest feat of our age. Such an event
will mark q point for q new depar-
ture, and parties will divide, not
upon national hates, but upon prin-
cfple. The Liberal Republicans are
sound on most of the material ten
cts of the Democracy. As 1t is, the
Democracy, acting for itself, has no
hope Of beating Grant. Its only
hope is an alliance, platform or no
platform, with liberal Republicans.
Memphis Ledger.
Year: 1872

The reported withdrawal Of Gov.
Palmer from the list of aspirants for
the Radical Gubernatorial nomina-
tion in Illinois viii doubtless prove
to be correct in every particular.
When Governor Palmer was Cen
eral Palmer, and a soldier serving
in this part of the country, he sig
nalized his devotion to free institu-
| tions and the civil law in many
ways. His administration OF the
executive department in Illinois has
proven him to be the friend OF local
self-government and civil service
reform. He and his friends have
been in unconcealed revolt against
the President for a long time
Therefore in arraying himself by
the side of Judge Trumbull as a
Liberal leader he carries out the


tendency and direction Of his whole
public career. He will be reelected
Goyernor OF Illinois by an over


whelming majority cast for him and


AGAINST the Radical consolidators.-


CIoyrier-,TOurRdL.
Year: 1872

A HINr.-Who would forget this
beautiful suggestion, which is found
in the mouth of Jennie Deans in her
address to the Queen:


"When the hour of trouble comes
and seldom may it visit your lady
ship-and when the hour O. death
comes to high and low-long and
late may it be yours; Oh, my leddYl
it is ma what we hea done for our
sells, but what we hae done for ith-
ers, what we think on most pleas
antly.n
Year: 1872

GOLDEN WoRDs.-Without any
regard TO Presidential combina-
tions, Judge David Davis deserves
well of his country for the utter
ance of these golden words from the
bench of the Supreme Court, in the
Milligan case:


S"Ths Constitution of the United
States is law for rulers and peO-
pie equally in war and in peace, and
covers with the shield of its prOtee-
ton all classes of men, at all times
and under all circumstances. Nc
doctrine involving more perniciOus
consequences was ever invented by
the wit of man than that any of its
provisions can be suspended during
any of the exigencles of the Govern
ment. Such a doctrine leads di
rectly to anarchy and despotism
| but the theory of necessity on which
it is based is false, for the govern
| ment within the Constitution hai
all the powers granted to it which
are necessary to preserve its exis


tence, as has been happily provided


by the result of the great effort t
throw off its just authority"
Year: 1872

SEEsIBLE.-Lorenzo Dow was
once travelling in the west, and hav-
ing occasion to stop over night at q
public house somewhere on the Mis-
sissippi, he was greatly annoyed by
the loud and bOastful conversation
of a lot of river men and desperate
characters who had assembled in
the bar-room. Each one was noisy
in praise of some favorite weapon
of defense and offense and their dis
mute was divided between revolvers
and bowie knives, when one turned
10 Dow and said: "My friend what
weapon do you carryT" Common
sense, and mind my own business,
repIied Dow, and from that moment
his reputation was established.
Year: 1872

Medical experience proves. that, in
chronic diseases, the greater number of
deaths occur just before dawn: This
is eminently true of brain diseases and
of all those related cases where death
results from an exhaustion of the vital
power, through overwork, excessive ex.
citement, or nervous prostration. It is
ut the hour of o'clock in the morning
that the lite-force is at its lowest ebb,
and succumbs most readily to the as
sault of epilepsy, or paralysis or of
the fatal lethargy that some in those
vivldly beautiful picture dreams, for
which medical science has yet found
no name, and of which it has taken no
sufficient cognizance. Nine-tenths of
those who die i'll this way expire in
their sleep. In many such cases, if a
friend were at hand to waken the Sleep
er when the attack comes on, or if he
were to be awakened by some accident
al noise, he might, by the use of a
few few simple I'M precautions, TONS prolone
for the shock which proves fatal to the
man wrapped iu deep sleep, when the
system is passive and relaxed, would
be victoriously repelled were it armed
with I'LL its waking energies. Men who
do brain-work, and who are on the
shady side of 40, should be on their
guard against this insidi ,us enemy
They should beware of five o'clock a.
M, for it is per1lous hour. Do you
find yourself unable to sleep, when you
retire for the night, exhausted with
your days work. Do you, in vain,
turn from one side to the other Does
your brain persist in working when you
would fain have it rest; Do old saws,
and scraps of rhyme, repeat themselves
in your memory with wearisome itera-
tion, def, ing your utmost efforts to ST.
lence them 2 Then, I say to you, be-
ware! You will be sure to sleep at
last. 1t is only question of time );
for, soon or late, Nature will assert her
rights.