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Year: 1873

through the portfolios and creep


through the tightly -battened doors.
For the space of q minute the vessel


lay in that position, and then slowly
righted. Should l live a thousand


years, / will never forget the sensa-
tion of that moment, when life seemed
to tremble in the balance.


Our brave, skilful captain had cho-
sen his opportunity well. The PROV
of the ship received the full force of
next wave, ard we are now in better


condition. We were cleaving the


waves instead Of presenting broad
surface to their stroke. Toward noon
the fury Of the storm somewhat abated.


The waves, although running high,
did not chase each other SO fariously.
A new topsail was rugged up, and we
put about again, and ran with the
wind. It was perilous voyage nearly
the whole way. Capt. McMickman
said that for thirty-five years on the
ocean he had not had so rough pas
sage. The storm seemed to gather it's
force again as we neared the Irish coast,
and when we got into the Channel it
was blowing a furious gale; so severe,
indeed, was it that we were unable to
make Queenstown. Night came on,
and we were without a pilot. We sent
up rocket after rocket, but there was
no response. No boat could live in
such a sea. We passed the spot where
the Cambria went down with all hands
on board, in just such a gale; passed
the spot where the Royal Charter was
dashed to pieces on the rock-bound
coast, leaving scarcely one to tell the
tale. Cautiously we felt our way in
the inky darkness. Every few rods
the captain drew bucket of water,
and, dipping the thermometer into it
would judge Of our locality by the
temperature of the water. So that
night of anxiety, of dread and appre-
hension, passed away, and when morn
ing broke we had crossed the bar, and
Liverpool was in sight.
Year: 1873

We copy the following from the
Boston Herald. The method Of fumi-
CATION might be adopted here with
profit:


Some years ago Mr.. Porter, who now
has charge of the Maolis Gardens at
Nahant, was living in Boston and had
a house full of young and old people
as boarders and dodgers. All Of a
sudden young man in the house was
taken down with the regular black
smallpox. OF course, there was great
CONSERVATION in that house, hut pos
ssibly nothing like what there would
W t6.day u7fdefs the Sd}ne cfrcttmstan-
ces. Mr.. Porter, though he had never
had the disease himself, neither had
any of the other inmates Of the house,
took entire charge Of the young man.
He put him in !. room Oh the ground
floor and carefully nursed him with
his own hands. The disease took a
strong hold of the young man and
medical men gave him up, saying that
he could not live; but MIR. Porter
thought differently, and still carefully
nursed him. In the meantime none of
the boarders left the house, while dur
ing the young mans sickness Mr..
Porter went daily to and from his
house attending to his business, and
eventually the young man recovered.
No other person in the house was
taken down with the disease, and no
person took the disease outside the
house by coming in contact with Mr..
Porter, and the only precaution that
he used about the house to. prevent
himself or others from taking the dis
ease was the following: in the sick
room, in the front hall and other parts
of the house he placed small plates of
coarse salt, and upon this salt he daily
poured about large spoonful of the
oil of vitriol. This created a .vapor
which perneated the whole house. 1t
was a perfect fumigator, and not at
tended with any unpleasant smell.
Mr.. Porter, before leaving the sick
room, always thoroughly fi,migated
himself. with this vapor, and thus did
he prevent the spread of the disease,
while he is quite confident that it also
was beneficial to the sick man; and
to-day he is confident in his own mind
that if the same fumigator was used in
houses where persons are sick with
the smallpox that it would prevent
the spread Of the disease. As we now
have board of health composed of
gentlemen who are willing to receive
suggestions, and if Of any worth to
adopt them, to stay the spread of this
terrible disease, this information is
most respectfully submitted. Certain
", it is worth trying.
Year: 1873

The argument Of Senator Black
burn in favor of the enactment of q
new printing law is SO logical and
conclusive that even the enemies of
the measure must confess to its sutfic-
iency. The Legislature must meet
the ostracism Of the democracy upon
it's own ground. If merchants or
other citizens are to be driven by ter
ror and reproach to the support of
'papers that they condemn as enemies
to justice, truth and the people, then
the occasion has arisen to justify an
exceptional measure in order to meet
this weakness Of the public. There
is no use in evading the matter be-
cause~it is unpleasant but it should
be met at once us a duty.-State Reg
iSfcr
Year: 1873




Times.


A day or two ago the Supreme
Court Of Louisiana rendered Il. decis-
ion going to the very vitals of the
pending difficulties in that State, and,
in the judgment Of good many able
lawyers, raising serious question
whether that decision by the highest
court of the State did not absolutely
obviate any demand or pretext for
any interference i'll any, even remote,
manner by any branch of the national
government. This important decision
the press reporter at New Orleans
mentioned in the briefest possible
paragraph, not touching the essence
Of the Judgment, and not even NEIL
tioning that the dissenting Justices
failed to renderea directly diverse de-
cision, but only expressed doubts as
to the jurisdiction Of their court IN
the case.


This latter point we should have
been certainly ignorant of but for the
information furnished by our Wash
ingtou correspondent. Yesterday,
however, the pretended Governor OF
the State, the very individual who is
completely set aside by this decision,
gets into print with a bombastic proc
lamation several inches long, travers-
ing and defying the decision, and,
quick lis a flash, here comes our
: competent" reporter with conf
plete copy Of the McEnery trash. We
can not quite think such man is an
unprejudiced reporter Of current news,
capable of sending such as is instruc-
tive but on-partisan.
Year: 1873

The HOUR OF DEATH.-Deatll, in a
natural way, comes to more persons
i'll the >neighborhood Of five o'clock in
the morning than at any other hour
in the twenty -four; the fewcst about
the hour of one in the afternoon. In
the early morning the world is still,
the atmosphere is heavy with the
damps Of the night, and the body de-
bilitated, often, with the long fast
from supper time, with nothing to
rouse the spirits or the circulation.
At about one o'clock in the afternoon
the air is most generally full dried by
the sun, has more life, more oxygen
in in it, hence it is more purifying,
more invigorating, while the bright
daylight itself has an elevating, vital
izing tendency. These facts should
he borne i'll mind by those who are
nurses to the sick; for by extra atten-
tons of various kinds the critical hour
might pass, and, if so, the patient
is more liable to live over for another
twenty-four hours. 1t is said by OBJ
servant physicians that each seventh
year Of life is critical which means
that every seventh year Of life is liza
BILE to be fatal, but that if passed over
with improved health it gives rea-
sonably certain lease of another seven
years for example, the most of those
who become consumptive do SO about
the age Of twenty one-a year sooner
or later, but twenty-one is the largest
average when the disease becomes
decided. About forty-two, the six
times seven, is by far the most critical
time Of life in women. If that is
passed healthfully, they have a good
chance of seeing three-score. It will
perhaps be found that a largernumber
Of persons die within a year or two
including sixty three than at any other
specified time between forty-nine and
seventy. These things suggest that
increased attention should be given to
the health at these critical periods.
Year: 1873

A man out west wants a patent on
an invention calculated to prevent the
bungling method Of executing crimi.
nails that has now grown SO common
In case the vertebra Of the condemned
are not scientifically dislocated ut the
first fall, the rope Instantly lowers
the victim safely to the ground, 1assoes
tho Sheriff and his assistants, jerks
them fifty feet into the air and drops
them OH the nearest picket fence.
This device is known as the "Auto-
matte Avenger."
Year: 1873

Boarding house chicken soup can
be made, it is said, by hanging up a
hen in the sun so that her shadow shall
fall into pot Of salt water. The only
trouble is that On a cloudy day the
soup is liable to be weak.
Year: 1873

WE are informed that man was hung at Salt river on July 3. He was supposed to have killed B. F. Griffin last February. About the time he suspended business in the val ley, he stole a COW and otherwise de- ported himself against the statutes of this Territory in such way that it was believed none but lynch la W would ever be meted to him. So they gave him full dose of that. It's a bad way to hang man without legal process, but when legal process will not hang men who deserve to be, citi- zens sometimes lose their patience or get to laboring under fits of "emo- tional insanity" and string up cul- prit or two. If statute law is not en- forced, some other kind will be sooner or later.
Year: 1873

The Hon. A. H. Stephens Of Georgia, IL a
recent address at a meeting at Alexander for the
benefit OF an orphan asylum and free school Of
that city, related the following anecdote:
poor little boy, on a cold night, With no home or
roof to shelter his head, no paiernal, maternal,
guardian or guide to protect or direct him on
his way, reaching at nightfall the home Of a
wealthy planter, who took him in, fed and lodg
ed him. and sent him on his way with his bless.
ing. These kind attentions chsered his heart
and inspired him with fresh courage to battle
with the obstacles Of life. Years rolled; Prov-
dence led him on, and he reached the legal
profession. His host had died; the cormorants
that prey on the substance Of man had formed
a conspiracy TO get from the widow her estates.
She sent for the nearest counsel 10 commit her
cause to him, aud that counsel proved to be the
orphan boy long before WELDON. ed and entertain
ed by her deceased husband. The stimulus OF a
warm, tenacious gratitude was now added TO the
ordinary motive connected with the profession.
He undertook her case with will not be resis-
ted he gained it the widows estate was ss-
cured to her in perpetuity, and,' Mr.. Stephens
added. with an emphasis Of emotion th At sent an
electric thrill throughout the house, " that bOy
stands before you"
Year: 1873

AN EXTENSIVE MANUFAcTURE.-The largest
comb factory in the world is at Aberdeen, Scot
land 1t is said to coptain thlrtY-sx furnaces for
preparing horps and tortoise-shell for the combs,
aud no less than 100 iron screw presses are
continually performing the operation of stamping
them. Steam power is employed to cut the combs.
The coarse combs are stamped or cut out, two
being cut In one dice OF time. The fine dressing
combs are cut by hne saws, some so fine as to cut
forty teeth In the space of one inch and revolving
fve thousand times In the space of one minute
There are some two thousand varieties OF combs
made, and the aggregate number produced, OF all
these different knls, is eight millions annually,
quantity that If laid together lengthWise, would
extend about seven hundred miles, The annual
consumption Of ox-horns at this manufactory Il
about seven hundred thousand, and the annual
consumption of hoOfs amounts to four hundred
thousand aud the consumption Of tortoise-shsl
and buffalo horn, although not so large, Is cor
respOndingly valuable hoof undergoes a:
many as eleven distinct mechanical and artistic
operations before It becomes finished comb
Year: 1873

A few days ago a young woman named
Bertha Ash, who previously had lived at
knightsville, Ind, where she had married
respectable young man named William Ash,
returned to the town and Committed suicide
When first they were married the couple had
lived together lovingly. but the husband took
to drinking and finally set Up. saloon in
which his wife acted as waitress. It was not
long before she lapsed from virtue, her hus-
band deserted her and LEFT her to care for their
two children. From bad she went to worse
and SoOn became a common prostitute wan
dering abOut from place to place. On Tuesday
last she, IN company with another woman, re-
turned nom TeTre Haute to her old home and
the two went together to a coal shaft south of
the village. Bertha opened the shaft doors
which led to pit sixty-seVen feet deep, and
although the engineer shouted and warned
her Of her danger she placed one foot on the
slight elevation before the door and deliberate
| ly plunged iutO the abyss She was killed al
most instantly. Her body was placed in a rude
coffin and with it her terrified companion re
turned to Terre Haute
Year: 1873

A certain old lady who has been famed
for sour looks and not very sweet words,
touching the various accidents Of life,
was observed to have suddenly become
very amiable. "What happy change has
come over you?" said a neighbor-
why, to tell you the truth, l have been
striving all my life to have contented
mind, and have finally made up my
mind to sit down contented without it,"


A farmer lost gimlet in the woods
near Monticello, MINI, three years ago,
and the other day cut down an ironwood
tree, fast in the forks of which he found
mot a eimlet, but three quarter inch
auger! He is sorry he didn't wait year
or two longer, as two-inch augur is
just what he wanted. F"r
Year: 1873

WA medical man, discoursins upon
sleep, makes this remark: "One man
may do with little less sleep than an-
other; but as a general rule, if you
want a clerk, a lieutenant, lawyer, a
physician, Legislator, judge, prcsi-
dent, or pastor, do not trust your in


terests to any man who does not take
on the average eight good solid hours
of sleep out of every twenty four
Whatever may be his reason for it, if
he does not give himself that, he will
snap some time just when You want him
to be strong" Eelt1 sag ts5.
Year: 1873

HURT.-A couple of weeks ago, Ben
Essick was driving "dog" in the end
of log, when his mall struck knot on
another log which turned it from its course
in such way as to catch one of Essick's
fingers between the log and end of the
mall handle. Although very painful,
Ben thought nothing of it until within
day or two, when piece of bone began
to show itself, showing that the bone had
bscn mashed. Ben forthwith took the
injured digit to DR.. Lord for treatment,
and it is now improving nicely.
Year: 1873

The human body is a machine, and
therefore cannot endure forever but, like
watch or sewing machine, it will last
much longer if properly regulated and
duly repaired, than if no pains were taken
to keep it in order. The great object of
everyone who desires long and healthy
life should be to put the body in condi-
tion to resist the life threatening influences
by which we are all more or less sur
rounded and no invigorant and correct
i've atpresent known so effectively answers
this purpose as the vtalizing elixir which,
under the unpretending name of Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, has been for more
than twenty years the standard tonic of
America. In crowded cities, where the
atmosphere is contaminated with the ef-
huvla inseparable from large populations
In marshy regions, where the soggy soil
rceks with miasma on the prairies and
In the forests, where every Fall the air is
tainted with exhalations from rotting
weeds and grasses, or decomposing leaves
in short, in every locality where malaria
exists, this powerful vegetable antidote is
urgently needed. Fever and ague, bill
ious fevers, dysentery, congestion of the
liver, jaundice, rheumatism. and all dis
eases which are generated by infected air,
impure water, or sudden changes of tenn
perature, may be averted by Strengthen
ing and regulating the system in advance
with Hostetter's Bitters. Autumn is al
ways season of peril, especially to weak
susceptible organizations. Even the more
vigorous are apt to be in some measure
depressed by the humid atmosphere, load
ed with deleterious gases produced by
vegetable decay. The Fall is period OF
the year when the renovation and regula-
ton of the living machine is peculiarly
important, and the Bitters should there
fore be taken daily at this critical season.
Year: 1873

SHOULD BE ESToPPED.-Timber, suita-
BILE for fuel is very scarce in the immedi-
ate vicinity of this village, oak particu-
larly. Hard wood now has to be hauled
distance of from four to eight miles and
before many years cannot be procured
except at longer distances and must con-
sequently be sold at exorbitant prices, it
being even now $40 per cord. In view
of this fact, would it not be we'll for our
people to protect the young timber now
growing, and prevent It's being destroyed
until of sufficient size to meet the demand
for fuel We are led to these remarks
by having observed that the Chinese of
this neighborhood are cutting down innu-
merable small oak trees, from two to four
inches in diameter, which, if allowed to
remain would in few years become for
ests of excellent timber. We do not claim
that the Cinnamon have not as good a
right TO cut down these bushes as any
body else, for no one has that right, but
if the destruction of these young forests is
allowed to continue we will soon be with
out fire wood. The white men know this
and cut none but the large trees, and the
Chinese should be made to do likewise.
While in many other counties of this
State the people through their Supervisors
are offering rewards for the planting Of
trees, here unlimited destruction is allow
ed to go on without interference, and
that too, by race which has yet to sig
Nifty the slightest interest in the future
prosperity Of the State. The people Ger.
tainly have moral, if not a legal right
demand that this uncalled for destruction
of the source of our future fuel supplies
should at once cease and they should
take measures to enforce the demand
without delay.
Year: 1873

AccIDENT.-Judge John Murphy, SAYS
the Gilroy AdUocate of last week, met
with severe accident Friday night
Herring some hogs in his garden, he took
his ist)l and fired once or twice to scare
them out. In endeavoring TO fire again,
the cylinder would not revolve, and while
trying to remove the obstacle with his
left hand it went off, carrying away the
/ p Of his thumb.
Year: 1873

REMAINs.-Voge, the boy who was SO
brutally beaten by Kopp desired to go to
San Francisco this week, but remains by
request of the officers until after the meet
ing of the Grand Jury.
Year: 1873

We see by the Chicago papers that
PROCTOR u GAMBLE have reduced the
price of their long established and popular
brand NOTIFIED GERMAN Soar, its pres
ent price and superior quality makes 1T the
cheapest as well as the best soap for con
sumers. 6-23d3m
Year: 1873

You can't fool me, said an Irishman
to a merchant who was trying to sell him
a bottle of something instead of Renne's
Pain Killing Magic Oil Mister, you
cant fool me. An i've used Renne's
Magic lie ever since Mike jam d his foot
so bad and did'n the Magic lie cure it in
tirely? An it's good stuff, an it's me
that wants a bottle of that same. You
can't fool me !" Patrick was right
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General of the United States after trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch" was the best that could be procur-
ed. and the government from that time TO
the present are buying this article This
is fact worthy the attention Of c0nsum-
Year: 1873




The Mayor of this city has for some
time exercised the power OF paying GER
tain liabilities Of the city, or allowing
them to 20 unpaid, and this without
giving any public or official notice Of
Intention to pay, or intention to with
hold payment when due. When pay
ment has been 10y him resolved upon,
ne has selected when he would make
the payment, and 70 which of several
debts due, and similar in their nature,
he would give the priority of payment.
The sum OF sll which is that the citi-
zens pay the tax and elect a City Coun-
ell TO attend to their business, but some
Of the most important functions are dis
charged Dy the Mayor, who fails even to
communicate to the Council the steps
he has decided to take. This be did
when be decided not to pay coupons Of
the city when they became due, without
communicating to the City Council
what was the condition Of the city treas
ury, explicitly making such failure to
nay unavoidable-also when he decided
TO pay coupons Of given six months in
preference to paying Others also due.
The officer who by his mere will and
judgment thus decides to do or leave
uudone, exercises very large powers.
Do the charter and laws Of the city con-
fer those powers uPon the Mayor OF
Memphis? The eighteenth section of
the City Charter says the Mayor shall
give the City Council information in
writing Of the stste Of the corporation (;
recommend measures; supervise the city
officers; see that the city ordinances are
enforced; approve or veto laws passed
10y the Council; suspend derelict city
officers; call special sessions of the
Council; furnish at least once IN three
months, a statement Of the financial
condition Of the city; have the powers
of d magistrate; sign bonds, warrants,
notes and other evidences of indebted
ness, and contracts. These are the du-
ties, but not one word is said giving the
Mayor the power lately exercised, and
exercised in a manner never publicly
announced, but yet by some means
known to parties constituting what is
popularity known as "a ring" who used
that knowledge to buy coupons when
quoting at fifty-five cents on the dollar,
that they might be sold when the
change wrought by the executive hand
Of the corporation became known. A
proceeding so fraught with danger,
so damaging TO the interests and
character of the city, must not pass
unnoticed and unreproved.
Year: 1873

James Bogy, son of the Senator elect,
was before the Missouri Senatorial
Bribery Committee yesterday afternoon.
He visited Jefferson City prior to the
Senatorial caucus, to aid in the election
Of his father, by using his influence with
the members, especially Senator Razier,
who was for Blair, and who he finally
persuaded, on the score Of old friend
ship, to vote for his father. He had but
small amount OF money with him,
and didn't see any thousand-dollar bill.
He knew that there was connection be-
tween his father and General Doris.
Nothing was brought out during the ex-
animation in any way duplicating
young Bogy or his father in the use OF
money to procure votes.
Year: 1873

District Attorney Phelps states that
he has afIidavits in his possession alleg-
ingt.Ia five Of the Jurors in the Tweed
Gaze were approached, and also allowed
themselves to be approached during
the trial II is further charged that the
action Of these jurors was governed in
consequence. When further proof Is
obtained action win be taken by the
District Attorney: The counsel for pros
ecutiyn say that they were powerless to
prevent bad men from going on the
jury, because under the new jury law
they had only three challenges in a case
for misdemeanor like Tweed's. A new
jury bill is soon to be presented to the
Legislature for consideration.