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Year: 1871

Not long since Swiss shepherd boy,
only fourteen years of age, was tending
a flock of sheep among the hills in the
Canton Grison, when a bear made a raid
upon the flock and seized two of the
finest sheep. The courageous little fel-
low attempted to drive the bear of by
beating him with a stick, but bruin turn
ed upon him and he was forced to run
for his life. The bear was gaining rap


idly upon him, and there was, seemingly
no escape. when suddenly the lad be-
thought himself of a narrow ravine, three
hundred feet deep, close by, which he
thought he could leap, while he hoped
the bear would not notice it, and fall to
the bottom. DashiDg on, half wild with
excitement and dead, he reached the edge
of <he precipice, the bear close at his
heels. The chasm was upward Of six
feet wide, but the lad cleared it by a
desperate bound, and landed safely on
the opposite side. The bear, as he hoped.
did not see the ravine, and fell headlong
to the bottom, where bruised and bleed
ing, and unable to rise, the shepherd lad
found him, anG having no weapon with
him, succeed in killing the animal by
dashing out his brains with heavy stones.
Year: 1871

He HAD NO FEELING-A man was
sick with rheumatism, and fellow went
round to the professors and told them it
was the queerest case on record. Tie
said the man had no feeling You could
stick pins in his body and he paid no at
tention to them at all. He was perfectly
numb. SO the doctors got together, and
called on the sick man to experiment -
All arrived with pins and needles and
bodkins. The man was asleep, and they
all got around him and each one stuck
his pin into the patient. The man rolled
over and looked at the crowd, and thought
they had come to dissect him, so be took
chair in one hand and bed-post in the
other, aud drove the crowd thence. They
are now around with their heads tied up
looking for the man who said the sick
man h ad no feeling.
Year: 1871

Papa" said little urchin to his father
the other day, 81 saw printer go down
the street just now


"Did you. sonnys How did you know
the person was printer p


Because l do, pa


But he might have been carpenter,
black smith, or a shoemaker"


"Oh. no, papa; he was aprinter-likely
an editor-for he was gnawing bone
and had no stockings on. The crown was
out of his hat, and his coat was all torn
| am certain he was printer"
Year: 1871

| On reasonable terms.
| By strict attention to business. he hopes to


receive q liberal share of public patron


age Give him call and inspect his styles


of cutting and workmanship before going
| elsewhere.
Year: 1871

Than ever was before brought to this town.
which he is prepared to make to order in the
LATEST AND MOST LNPR o VED STYLE,
And in a manner that will defy all competi-
ton. He also manufactures to order, all
Year: 1871

WHAT NExT.-Wishin the last twelve
months the leaders of the Democratic par
ty have made the most gigantic efforts to
retrieve what they have lost, or in ,other
words, to save the party from the yawning
gulf to which they are surely drifting.


We remember the address of the Demo-
cratic members of Congress at the close of
the last session, and what dull impression
it left upon the minds of its readers. We
know that the New Departure creature
OF yesterdays only serving to make
confusion worse confounded in their own
ranks. We are convinced that the frauds
of the Tammany ring that are being un-
earthed in New York city cannot be the
most favorable for their cause. +a


Only few months since the leaders of
the Democracy predicted an entire revolu-
tion in political circles, resulting, as mat
ter of course, in the Strengthening of their
own party lines, but as yet no sign of en-
couragement has been given them-not a
single election, either State or local, having
been held lately, the result of which would
give them any chance for hope.
Year: 1871

The report of the Board of Visitors to
the Military Academy at West Point does
not seem to receive the approval of all of
the Visitors. But the most remarkable
point of difference between those gentlemen
is upon an article which certainly ought to
command the instant and hearty approval
of every man who knows anything Of the IT.
regularities which lack of discipline has
brought into the academy. And yet three
of the Board of Visitors took exception to
an article which recommends severer dis
cipline, and especially cessation of that
familiarity between cadets and officers
which has been SO fruitful heretofore OF
abuses and disorder. West Point is not a
creditable institution in many respects, and
Judging from our abstract of the usual an
nual report of its condition, it is not in a
fair way to command the confidence and es-
TEEN of the country.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1871

BADLY CUT.-Two colorcd men got in
to personal difficulty yesterday afternoon
at the house on lower Main street known as
"New Found Out !" during which one of
them received a wound in the abdomen from
knife in the hands of the other. DR..
jackson was called in to attend the wound
ed man, and though we did not learn the
exact nature of the wound, it seems to be
the general impression that. it is of a very
serious nature. The man who did the cut
ting was arrested this morning by Detec-
tives Parker and Craddock. The case
will come before Justice White tomorrow
morning.
Year: 1871

| OUGHT TO, BUT THEN / DIDN'T.
If Mr.. Stewart, editor of the Page Con-
riey, and who was a member of the late
Democratic convention, has one qualifica-
ton above another, it is for writing long ed
itorials.


They generally take up two or three coli
umns in each issue of his paper. In one of
these long articles he has discovered to us
what we have had curiosity to know ever
since the adjournment of the convention,
and that is, who the one may" was in op-
position to the admission of the negro dele
gates to seats in that body.


He says-"We were one Of those who
did not vote for their admission, because we
had our notions, too" and yet he says:
"Even our black brethren who were admit
ted from the city of Richmond, showed
that they were gentlemen in their manners
and bearing, and that being now our equals
before the law, that they had the right to
ask a participation in the deliberations in
which they concurred and which were to
effect them and their race for veal or
woe.v s1E 3m


If they had right to be there, and were
gentlemen in their manners and being"
why did you not vote for their admission
We answer for you. Your party is hypo-
critical. You come from aregion that can't
accept the ''new departure while your
brethren in the East would like to buy
few negro votes, and do accept. o! ye
generation of vipers, how long you will
thus defame your past history and blot the
fair escutcheon of the past by pursuing q
course so hypocritical as to disgust the ho-
nesty of the fair minded politcian---if there
be any ? Mr.. Stewart asserts that the
body was composed of .fae-looking "Vir-
ginia gentlemen, &C." OF course he in
cluded himself in the ring.
Year: 1871

BARBARous.--A colored member of the last
North Carolina Legislature is working as a bar
ber on Broad street, in this city.


We clip the above from the Enquirer of
this morning. We conclude the barber re-
ferred to was Republican member of the
North Carolina Legislature. His being at
,cork now, is an evidence that the North
Carolina Legislature was not as great a
source of profit to its members as was the
last one of Virginia. 81


lsis more commendable to be at work,
than loafing around spending the stealngs
acquired by railroad and funding bill jobs,
as many Democratic members are now
doing.


We have Cooley, the Democratic door
keeper, in barber shop on Main street,
while Abram Hall, Democratic door
keeper of the Senate, is following his pro-
fession of white-washer. The conduct of
both Hall and Cooley is commendable,
neither Of whom, we suppose, obtained any
Of the ill-gotten gains pocketed by their
Democratic friends.
Year: 1871

SKATING RINK.-That very pleasant
and fashionable resort, the Skating Rink,
will open for the season on Saturday night,
the 10th inst. Skating is delightful and
healthful exercise, and we feel confident
that many of our citizens will be gratified
at the prospective reopenmg of the Rink.
The institution is under the management of
the Assembly Hall Association, composed
of young gentlemen of character and high
standing in the community, which is an
earnest that the Rink will maintain repu-
tation Of the highest order among the places
of amusement and recreation in our city.
Year: 1871

RAID ON THE ''NEw FOUND OUT."-
A squad of the police made raid on an
establishment on the lower part of Main
street on Saturday night, known as the
New Found Out" The proprietor, a
colored man by the name of Reynolds, and
about twenty others who were enjoying
the evenings entertainment, were arrested
and carried to the first police station-house.
Year: 1871

The COMING AGRICULTURAL FAIR.
As the time is rapidly approaching when
the Virginia State Agricultural Fair will
be held in this city, it becomes the duty of
those who feel an interest in its success to
stir themselves, and interest the people of
the State on the subject. =


We know of nothing which has greater
effect TO keep people away from our annual
fair than two very important causes. -,


First-The district or county fairs held
in different sections of the State during the
fall. H 7.s


Second--The expense of coming and that
incurred during the stay in Richmond.
T of course, it is impossible to control the
first of these causes, but it strikes us as be-
ing more important and of more value to
exhibitors, to make tie fair of the State a
grand success than it is to surfeit the peo-
pie with an indefinite number Of minor eX-
hibitions all over the State. We must not
be considered as an opponent of the smaller
affairs, but the friend of the great and
more important State Fair.
by the friends of the State Fair, is to, if
possible, have the fare reduced from the
rates the different railroad companies have
been charging visitors. Their habit has
been to charge half fare-a greater price
than the regular charges on most Of the
Northern roads. a


The most valuable acquisitions to our
State Fair usually come from the Valley
and Southwest, the two points farthest
from Richmond, which cannot be reached
from either section at less cost than six
or eight dollars. If, instead of this, the
different companies controlling these routes
would reduce round trip tickets to $3.50
each, there would be ten persons attending
our annual exhibitions, to where there is
now one. The difference in numbers would
more than compensate for the reduction of
fare.


Let our railroads try the experiment. or,
if afraid to do this, let the friends of the
Fair appoint an agent in each, to ascertain
how many persons would attend if prices
were so reduced, and we are satisfied they
would soon find such an increase, as would
pay our railroads better, and bring the
largest crowd to Richmond this fall that
ever was seen here before.


Let them also arrange with our hotels
and boarding-houses for a reduction of
prices, instead of the usual plan of charging
more, and then we can confidently expect
such a crowd as will trouble us to accom-
modate.


Unless some such arrangement is made
we may expect simmer attendance each
year, until our annual fair will become
merely name without real existence.


Our intimate acquaintance with the VAL
ley and Southwest, enables us to know
that the question of expense is always con-
sidered in this matter, and that just as soon
as we can place an attendance within reach
of the masses, the whole of those two sec
tons will be largely represented.


We are not advised of the time when the
fair will be held here, but we do hope that
its friends will go to work as early as pos
sible to make the approaching one the
grandest fair ever held in Virginia.
Year: 1871

A deceitful man is more hurt.
full than open war.


A fox should not be on the jury
al. "A goose's trial.


Jnetice will not condemn even
the devil wrongfrlly.


A nod from q lord is o break
fast for a fool.


A good word for q bad one is
worth much and costs little.


An old dog cannot alter his
way Of barking.


An idle brain is the DEVILS wor.
ship.


A penny worth Of mirth is
worth a pound of sorrow.


Avarice increases with wealth.
A small leak will sink a great
ship.


Bacchus has drowned more
mon than Neptune.


Expect nothing from him who
promises a grea. deal.


Draw NOS thy bow before thy
arrow be fixed.


Grieving for misfortunes is ad-
ding gall to wormwood.


Good bargains are pickpockets.
Give neither counsel nor salt till
yon arc asked for it.


IIave not the cloak to make
when it begins to rain.


He who would catch fish must
not mind getting wet.


He is idle that might be better
employed.


lie who would stop every mans
mouth, must have great deal Of
meal.


He that makes himself an ass
must not take it i'll if men ride
him.


He that knows not when to be
silent, knows not when to speak.
lie that fears you present will
hate you absent.


an ass goes travelling, he'll
not come home horse.


IT better were within, better
would come out.


1t is more easy to praise power.
ty than to bc"r it.


1t is hard for an empty bag to
stand upright.


1t is q pity that those who
taught us to talk did not also
teach us when to hold our tongue.
Year: 1871

SUsprcIoN.-Any body can tar
nish the reputation Of an individ.
nal, however pnre and chaste. BY
uttering suspicion which his en-.
emics will believe and his friends
never hear Of A puff of idle
wind can take Up a million of the
seeds Of the thistle, and do work
Of mischief which the husband
man must labor long and hard to
undo; the floating particles being
too light to he stoppod.
Year: 1871

The legislation and government Of the
State. Aud II II can be proved. be


sides, that its operations win be a.
speedy as they are sure, We think
that the people will have found in
cumulative voting q plain, simpls ano


practicable remedy for the worst evil.
which oppress them"
Year: 1871

THosE who think our cultivated
lands must grow poor as they
grow old, will find food for reflec.
tion in the fact that not MANY
years ago the average yield OF
wheat per acre in England was
about ten bushels-it is now over
thirty. Brains accomplished il.
Year: 1871

WASHINGTON, March 10.
There is no doubt that q large majority
Of the House are still anxious to close the
session after passing the concurrent resolu.
ton tor tho appointment Of o joint com
mittee to investigate Southern affairs,
being opposed to Tic passage of bill on
the subject during the present session.
General Butler will tomorrow renew
his eifor to introduce his antl.Ku Klux
bill.


The time for the final adjournment Of
Congress depends upon the Senate.


President Grant will return from Phila'
delphia tomorrow morning.
Year: 1871

President Grant arrived here yesterday
afternoon and in the evening dined with
the Hibernia Society at the st. Cloud
Hotel. His visit to the city is supposed
to have some connection with the up.
pointment Of collector for this port.
Year: 1871

TIC government is devoting much time
to the consideration Of the subject Of
maritime and mercantile laws. The quCs-
tons ut present under consideration and
which will be the first decided upon, are
those relating TO the excessive taxes on
bonded goods, and a revision OF the nayi-
cation laws


z II Is said that the new loan Is for the
purpose Of Converting q loan Of $50, ,0OO, 900
francs contracted by the Tours delegation
Of September. ThG government Bank Of
France will not ask payment Of the sup
Elementary interest, except in case Of per-
sons who avail themselves Of delays ac-
corded by the new law,


The French army Is being rapidly reor-
ganiled and the men are nearly all armed.
Year: 1871

TELL Your WIFE.-If you are in
trouble, or quandary, tell your wife,
that Is If YOU have one, all about it at
once. Ten to one her invention will
solve your difficulty sooner than all
your logic. The wit of woman has
been praised, but her instincts are
quicker and keener than her reason


Counsel with your wife, or your mother
or sister, and be assured light will flash
upon your darkness, Women are too
commonly adjudged as verdant in all
but purely womsnly affairs. No phi,
losophical student of the sex thus
Judges them. Their intuitions or in,
sights are subtle, and if they cannot
see cat in the meal,tub there is no cat
there In counsclling man to tell
his trouble to his wife, we would 90
further and advise him to keep none
OF his affairs secret from her. Many n
home has been happily saved and many
a fortune retrieved, by mans full con,
hdence in his "better half" Woman
Is TAR more a seer and prophet than
man, II she have fair chance. As a
general rule, wives coniide the minutest
Of their plans and thoughts to their
husbands, having no involvements to
screen from them. Why not recipro,
cate, if but for the pleasure OF meeting
confidence with confidence? We are
certain that no man succeeds so well in
the world as he who, taking partner
for life, makes her the partner for all
his purposes and hopes. What is
wrong of his impulses or Judgment,
she will check and set right with her
almost universally right instincts.
"ielpmete' was no insignificant title
as applied to mans companion. She
is meet help to him in every darkness,
difficulty and sorrow of lite. And
what she most Graves, and most de-
serves is without which
love is never free from shadow.


journal ofAe Farm.
Year: 1871

Out Of the three hundred and seven
million passengers carried last year on
the English railways, only seventeen
were killed by "causes beyond their
own control" This is les, than half
The number killed during the same
period by orange-peel thrown on the
London pavements, which would seem
to prove that it is just twice as safe to
ride on English railroads as it is to walk
on the London streets.
Year: 1871

Guest-"liow comes this dead Nv in
my soup?" Waitsr-"In fact, sir,
have no positive idea how the poor
thing came to its death. Perhaps it
had not taken any food for long time,
dashed upon the soup. ate too much Of
it, contracted an inflammation Of the
stomach which brought on death. The
fly must have a very weak constitution,
for when | served the soup it was dam
cling merrily on the surface Perhaps
and the idea presents itself only at
this moment--it endeavorel to swal-
low too long a piece of vegetable; thi,
remaining fast in his throat, caused a
choking in the windpiPe. This is the
only reason could give for the death
Of this insect"
Year: 1871

Ihe Ne'0 York Post, in an eloquent
article on forest destruction, urges
every one to "repeople the waste places
with trees" We know of but one
other piece of rhetoric so charming in
ITS abandon, aud that was the request
Of raddy for 'the loan Of broad axe
to saw barrel in two, to make hen,
Year: 1871

What can be a more desolate spec
tacle than an old maid sitting on an
inverted half-bushel, in a cold kitchen,
with her feet on the brim of a slop-
bucket, pearing her corns with a case
knife, by the light of tallow candle?
Year: 1871

Ten dollars is the largest fee gives
to Boston minister for performing
the marriage ceremony even at the
most swell weddings. Nine times
in ten, after the honeymoon, the happy
couple are unanimously Of the opinion.
Year: 1871

A fellow who was recently caught
with a bagful of burglarious imple-
ments, in answer to the question as to
what he intended to do with these
things, responded that he was only
going to make proposals for some
Government bonds"
Year: 1871

There is good deal Of excitement prevalent IN
this city at present in regard to the drawing
Of the lucky numbers IN the Hamilton Opera House
Lottery, which took place at Hamilton Ohio. on
February 25. Many who have paid five dollars
apiece for tickets extremely dissatisfied that
the name OF the winner of the first prize-the
Opera House at Hamilton-and his residence have
not been given by the managers or agents Of the
lottery, and others declare that


THIS PRIZE HAS NOT BEEN DRAWN


at all, and that the scheme Is humbug. There was
a report that q Jerseyman had drawn the prize,
No. 2s,ss9, but this story was originated in the
purely imaginative brain OF one Of the clerks in the
Central Agency, In Wall street. who is noted for his
ample supply OF ''chin music" lady from Greene
street, in this city, who refuses to give her name
was fortunate enough TO secure prize OF $1,000,
winner OF another 81 600 prize.


r. c. Devln, OF No. 2 Wall street. who is the prln.
cipa agent In this city, In answer to inquiries made
by HERALD reporter, stated that he could not give
the names OF the winners Of prizes as almost In.
varlably those who won suns OF money in lottery
in public print Great numbers ol people have called
at the ONCE In Wall street during the past few DAYS
to ascertain who had won priles and most OF these
people were actual purchasers OF tickets which
they were informed had turned out blanks. One
middle aged lady, who called with ticket which
she mad bought was quite indignant because there
was no prize for her. and she stated that she believed
that the thing was u humbug, and that sle did not
Opera House had been won by any actual
holder OF q ticket. The imaginative clerk, how
ever, gave her such a heavy dose Of barney that
the lady let the office, wishing to be convinced at
any rae. For the information Of the readers OF the
HERALD the list of prizes drawn is given below and
q few specimen letters from people who nave evil
IDENTITY drawn blanks. IL is to be remembered that
30 900 tickets ut five dollars each sold ana
the opera House at Hamilton Is said 10 have cost
Sis 900 10 construct, and would probably bring un-
der the hammer one. half OF that sum.


LIST NUMBERS DRAWING PRIZES AT THE HAMILTON
Year: 1871

if the young lady saw the realistic side
of the question without the gloss anc
roseate hues Of poetry, she would not
believe she had been very highly com.
plimented by the offer.


Young ladies who happen to marry
late, should bear in mind, if they get
a good husband at last, they have
done we'll by waiting; and if any get
a bad husband, it is proof they did
not wait long enough; but if they
never marry at all, they may console
si1chselyes with the thought that they
have escaped world of trouble, and
that there is always some married wo-
man who envies their lot.


Golden .4qe.
Year: 1871

nay- As the season of frosted feet is
just setting in, the following remedy
for relieving will come quite handy
to some unfortunate Dissolvea lumv
of alum in a little water, and bathc
the part in it, warming it before the
fire. One or two applications are sure
to give relief


A friend gives us another simple
remedy. ltis this-put table spoon
ful of salt in each stocking and wear it
in the boot or shoe for two or three
days.
Year: 1871

A Lynchburg (Va.) paper gives the
following incident Of the late terrible
flood in that State:


ga mother and several little children
were making their escape from a narrow
neck of land which lies between the riv-
er and the canal, when they were amaz-
ed to find that the bridge was already
gone, and their Only hope was to cling
on to the abutment Of the bridge until
the angry waters should subside. But
as they stood there clinging to the ahut-
ment, the waters CONTINUED to rise high
er, while in the deep darkness they
could hear the crashing of trees and the
thunders of bridge-timbers, that were
wildly dashing all around them. They
had been in this desperate condition for
some time, when the little girl felt that
her strength was gone, and with a wild
shrek of terror, she exclaimed, kiss
me, mother, for l can't hold on any
longerr and with the warm pressure of
that mothers lips upon her cheek, she
was swept away land was seen no more"