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Year: 1870

The contest Of Thursday in the stock market
between the s'bulls" and ''bears" proves to
have been only preliminary skirmish to q
struggle of immense proportions It was q
sort of picket fire which has brought on
general engagement. Yesterday the ''bears"
advanced to the attack in force and by bold
charge drove back the wavering lines of their
enemies. The latter rallied later in the day
and retook their lost ground and carried the
war into Africa. The fight now surged back
upon the ground of the s'bulls" who were
driven once more from their stronghold by the
s'bears" who held the disputed ground at
nightfall. The battle is not by any means
over, however. AS the fighting progressed it
developed the presence of several of our
financial giants who at first were not supposed
to be engaged. Thus yesterday Daniel Drew
was discerned amid the generals of the
''bear" army, while Commodore Vanderbilt
was suspected of marshalling the hosts of the
''bulls' for the reason that several of his staff
officers were discovered riding about the field.
In fact, one Of the latter encountered the vene-
rable Daniel in person on the middle of the
battle field and came near engaging him then
and there in passage at arms. Wall street
was dull and stupid place week ago. But
it is now brimful of exciting interest.
Year: 1870

posed in Connecticut to do away with the
two State capital system, and have but one,
which will probably be Hartford. The
next thing to be done is to build a respectable
State Capitol, the present concern being only
ft for q country court house in some one-horse
Western Territory.
Year: 1870

TIMELY CAUToN.-Fairs for the relief OF
French and German sick and wounded are
being gotten up in all parts of the country. 1t
would be we'll to ascertain whether responsible
parties are connected with these truly humans
tartan projects.
Year: 1870

IT IS proposed to postpone tho San Do
mingo treaty sixty days, to give the Pres
ident an opportunity to send to the Island
a commission Of eminent ciazms; with o
small committee Of Congress, to make
thorough examination of the whole sub
ject of the dcsirability of tho purchase,
but more particularly in rtEbrencC to the
desires Of tho people Of SIN Domingo rs
regards annexation, and to learn the
amount of money involved, and tho exact
amount Of debt which the Unitotl7 States
will be required to assume-thc commits
sloners to 90 in a Government vessel, and
return In time to make a report to the
present session of Congress. Tho best
kind Of postponement would bean indetl-
mite pOstponemCnt Of the whole matter.
Year: 1870

THERE arc signs in that most sensitive
Of indicators, the New York money and
bond market, that tho Funding Bill is
likely to be defeated outright or so fal
shotn as to bs harmless. AZ present this
measure hangs like a milestone about the
neck of not only speculation but every
kind of legitimate business. Everybody
Is afraid TO branch out or venture any.
thing, This depressing suspenseis Is about
to come to an end. A delegation repre-
scntEng the National Banks was before the
Ways und Means Committee Monday
and their facts and arguments have evil
IDENTIFY made M impression. The search
ing discussion to which this measure has
been subjected since itpassel the Senate
Inns shown that successful funding is i'm
practicable in tho present condition Of the
country, and II forced would produce wide
spread disturbance and disaster; that the
measure itself would be u failure and
would cost the country much moro than
1t could save If successful. Tho best
practical financial men OF New York and
of the West are avcrse to Mr.. BoUT%ELIH
attempt to refund the 5-2O debt now.
They believe If Congress viii simply let
alono q year or two longer, business will
recover tone aud confidence, the country
upldly rccupcratc, things willadjust them
selves to tic gold standard, the credit Of
tho Government steadily improve, and
that in very few years the debt niay jbc
refunded without COnvulSion or disaster
at u lower rate of interest than is now
practicable. The next funding will OF
ought to he the last for about forty years
If we wait say tiveyears, and can then
fund ut A per cent, the aggregate Of
interest in the forty years would bc
much less than If VIZ fund ut once two
thirds Of the debt at4 and 5, even sup
posing It were possible TO do SO. We be-
licvc, therefore, that in regard to its re-
motor operation, rs wOll US iLs immediate
effect, which would be TO injure tho busi-
ness and production Of the country BY
breaking up the basis on which our whole
banking system and the general financial
structure Of tho country rest, thls fund
ing measure Is best postponed. It's a
matter of pride and ambition with Mr.
boutwell, to carry 1t through, and in
other ways to make u fine show for his
administration Of the Treasury but in
his zeal he Is liable to ovcrtlraw tho re-
sources Of the country, at time when the
losses Of the war arc beginning to be
iolt and industry is much depressed. (, Phe
business men OF tho country are better
Judges just now than Mr.. BOUTWELL, how
far 1t Is judicious to press them by now
legislation. IfCongrcss would let funding
alone and tighten taxation some fifty mil
lions, 1t would have happy effect and do
much to restore confidence In theblsineSa
future rs well rs In tho common sense OI
COnVrrSS
Year: 1870

1t is an interesting and important fact
that the more grave diseases Of the heart
are not painful, or but slightly so. Not
unfrequently the first disturbance of its
action which attracts attention indicates
an advanced and incurablc stage of a
disease that has been in progress months,
and perhaps years.


The converse OF this proposition is emil
nrntly truc-namely nervous and tunc-
ton. disorders of the heart are painful,
or otherwise distressing, often TO IN APP
parently alarming extent. How many
suffer from palpitation and believe they
are afflicted with fatal disease Of the
heart? How many have pain about the
heart and cannot be convinced that
there is no disease OF that organ? How
many have irregularities OF the pulse,
and suppose the heart must be in the last
stages of disorganizalion? 1t will inter-
est this class Of real sufferers to learn
some of the causes of their distress, and
to what their srfferjngs may be attributed.


Palpitation and irregular action OF the
heart are often experienced in persons
between the ages Of sixteen and twenty
years they are, or have generally been
growing rapidly, are of delicate appear
ance, and frequently are addicted to some
vicious habits. In such persons, tho
blood is thin and poor, and the heart and
nerves fail to perform their proper func-
tions for want OF support. Derangement
of the stomach often gives Ijse TO these
symptoms, and they may persist for
long period from this cause. A lady who
for years suffered, from violent paroxysms
of palpitation, which many physicians
attributed to organic disease of the heart,
happened on one occasion TO take some
medicine which induced vomiting, and
this act was followed by immediate re-
covery. Subsequently. whenever she
had the symptoms of an approaching at
tack of palpitation, she resorted to an
cmetic, which not only gave relief to the
paroxysm, but finally relieved her alto
gether. In another case a patient en-
tered hospital suffering severely from
violent action of the heart; he was bled
and blistcred, and purged without benc-
fit; having taken large dose ofmedicine,
vomiting ensued, and immediate and per.
manent relief.


Tea, and especially green tea. is very
liable to disturb the hearts action when
used by susceptible persons. And there
Year: 1870

If sheet OF paper on which a key
has been laid, be exposed for some min.
utes in the sunshine, and then instan-
taneously viewed in the dark, the key re-
moved, faded spectre of tho key will be
visible. Let this paper be laid aside for
many months where nothing can disturb
il. and then in darkness be laid on plate
of hot metal, the spectre of the key will
appear This is equally true Of our minds.
Every man we meet, every book we read,
every picture or landscape we see, every
word or tone we hear, leaves its image
on our brain. These traces, which, under
ordinary circumstances, are invisible,
never fade, but in the intense light of
cerebral excitement start into prominence.
just as the spectral image OF the koy star
ted into sight on the application OF heat
Ii is thus with all the influences to which
we are subjected.
Year: 1870

is no doubt that an immense number Of
persons in every community suffer from
minor forms of heart arrangement, duo
TO the use oftea. A physician once called
upon brother ph ysician. in great alarm,
saying: 81 have called upon you to re-
quest you would let me die in your house
His pulse was scarcely discernablc. and
extremely irregular. He stated that he
had drank 4 great deal of strong green
tea during the preceding night. On CIV
ing him stimulent, he fell asleep, and
on awakening. his distressing symptoms
had disappeared.


A literary gentleman, accustomed to
much night work, was accustomed to
take large quantities Of tea, which finally
produced its results. lie began to have
violent action of the heart. distress and
oppression about tho chest, and feeling
of impending death. He became con-
yinced that he had extensive disease of
the heart, and hence was low.spirited,
fearing he should die in one OF these at
tacks. At length he found it impossible
to walk without holding on TO the fence
through fear of falling, and in one in
stance got down upon all lours to cross a
level space. He was cured by abstaining
from tea and taking sea-voyagc.


Tobacco produces the greatest degree
Of irregulsrity of the heart, especially in
the young and susceptible. Hysteria,
protean disease, gives rise to great
variety of heart arrangement. Young
women. when subject to much emotional
excitement, suffer from palpitation, with
n choking sensation, as if something were
rising in the throat. These symptoms
may increase until they reach a painful
degree Of intensity. Persons who have
suffered from sunstroke, or been over
heated, often have irregular action of the
heart for long period. Mental excite
ment and long continued depression often
lead TO n arrangement of the hearts
action


The nerves Of the heart are also sub.
ject TO neuralgia, and the pain is some
times extremely severe. The popular
term, "brcast pang," is a painful con-
dilion OF the nerves of the heart, coming
on suddenly, and fixing the sufferer in
the position which he had taken, and al
most completely irterrupting respiration.


In the treatment of all these forms Of
mere dcrane eemen; oil the heart, he first
and most necessary thing 10 do is to re.
move the cauSc-lhat is, 10 avoid all
those causes which produce the disturb
ance. II it is tea, tobacco or other sub
stance which the person is accustomed to
use, omit it altogether; il i; is weaken
ing habit, correct it above all, consult a
good physician, and tell him frankly
every cause which il il suspected creates
the difficulty For temporary treatment,
stimulent, rest, and the application OF
mustard over the heart, arc important,
and generally give prompt relief.
Year: 1870

They seemed to those who saw them meet
The worldly friends Of every day,
Her smile was undisturbed and sweet.


His courtesy was free and gay.
But yet, if one the others name,


In some unguarded moment heard,
The heart you thought so calm and tame
Would struggle like captive bird
And letters of mere formal phrase


Were blistered with repeated tears;
And this was not the work of days,


Bat had gone on for years and years.
Alas, that love was not so strong


For maiden shame and manly pride
Alas, that they delayed so long,


The goal of mutual bliss beside
Yet what no chance could them reveal,
And neither would be first to own,
Let fate and courage now conceal,


When truth could bring remorse alone
WEAvERylLLE, December 2lst, 1870
Year: 1870

TAKE NorIcE, We have heard that our
item of last week, under the above head, has
been msconstrued into a " hit " at the WhaBg-
doodle. In justice to the gentleman who sent us
that sheet, we will here state positively that such
was not the case, but that we referred to an en-
tirely different matter
Year: 1870

CHRISTMAS IS CoMING.-Yes and Weaverville,
the dullest town in creation just now, is not 60
ing to celebrate. No Christmas tree; no dance :
no social gathering of any kind. Well, we are
not surprised. Times are bad and money is
scarce. Our people have lost all energy. We
wonder that they even remember when Christmas
comes. Probably we would not if the children
did not remind us of the fact. In former times
we were wont to gather together and enjoy our
selves in various ways and, when the "wee
small hours" approached, go to our homes and
retire with consciousness of having done our
duty. But those are things of the past. Money
was plenty then and we felt gay. We are dis
gustcd. Outside towns with not one-fourh the
population of Wcavervile are going to have a
'good time, but we will have to stay at home
and ponder over times we have had and-and-
and-wish it would storm Well-we didn t
know what to write when we started, and if the
readers of this item make anything out of it,
they can do better than the writer. At any rate,
we wish you all a Merry Christmas"
Year: 1870

CALENDARS for 1871 will be furnished to our
subscribers throughout the county, during the
coming week. Should any fail to receive one,
they will be supplied by sending to or calling at
this Office.
Year: 1870

DoN'r forget the Dancing Party which Leonard
is to have next Friday. There is no holiday
party to be given here, and we do not know of
any better place to 90 and have real good time
than to Douglas City.
Year: 1870

The BILL REPEALING THE DISTRICT UsURY
LAw-The District Committee Of the House of
Representatives to-day recsnsidered their &C
tion in regard to the bill for the repeal of the
usury law, and will tomorrow report bill al
lowing interest by contract at ten per cent, fol-
lowing the general features of the present law
Of Illinois in regard to the subject.
Year: 1870

STORM SIcNALs.-A general order was yester-
day issued from the War Department, in which
the chief signal officer Of the army is charged.
subject to the direction of the Secretary of
War, with the special duties of tl,e observation
ard giving notice by telegraph and signal of the
approach and force OF storms, under the provis-
ions of joint resolution of Congress authorizing
meteorological observations at military stations
in the interior OF the country and at other points
Year: 1870

THE HUTCHINSON FAMILY arrived in town
this morning, on their way to fulfil a series of
engagements in the principal Southern cities,
and have consented, at the earnest request OF
large number of citizens, to give a concert on
Saturday night for the benefit of the Young
Mems Christian Association, at Lincoln Hall.
Every body knows the Hutchinsons. They
were the pioneers in the family concerts. which
soon became and continued for years the leading
popular amnsements in this country and
Europe; and it is no disparagemcnt to others to
say that none that followed at all equaled them
in excellence or popularity. The simplicity,
beauty and perfect harmony of their music;
their wit and genial humor; the high position
they have always occupied upon every question
OF public morals, and their patriotism and sac
nfces for the cause of tine country during the
war, are known everywhere. We bespeak for
them crowded house.
Year: 1870

Not month ago young girl was mar
ried to Charles Norton under peculiar cir
cumstances. 1t was his only way Of es-
Gaping heightened incarceration in .
folen's cell. son his part" says the
Omaha Republican, che entered the new
estate with no feeling of affection for the
woman he was obliged to call wife. She,
poor thing, an unsophisticated Danish girl,
was all love for the man who had won her
virgin heart. She lavished on him the
endearments which he had first sought and
then spurned. A marriage under such
circumstances could not be other than un-
happy. He fretted in the yoke; she PIN
ed under his neglect.


"Not two weeks ago he attempted to
take his own life, but he was snatched
from the jaws of death by timely interior
ence. When his young wife learned that
she was the actual cause of his laying vi-
olent hands upon himself, she felt that
her cup of sorrow was full. When she
found that she was not only unloyed but
spurned by the man to whom she had
pledged her young hearts love, she could
bear no more. Thinking, perhaps there
was rest if not love, on the other side of
the cold, dark river, she resolved to
plunge into death, hoping by this rash act
to drown her misery. To accomplish this
she procured large dose Of, morphine,
and retired to bed. But she was discov-
cred by some persons in the house where
she was boarding. Medical aid was sum-
moned, and by the administration Of pow
erful antidotes she was restored to con-
ciousness. Thus two who we're as unhap-
PLY mated have each sought an eternal
divorce from each other, but failed.
Whether they will now apply to the courts
for divorce, or live together as loving
husbands and wives should, till death
doth them part, or no remains to be seen.
Year: 1870

Yes, my sweet little wife, this is love in o cot


tage
And scanty enough save in love, is our store;
But We'll heed not the eroakings of envy or do


tage
That Glove flies the lattice when Want opes


the door %
For look in your face and of Fate Pm defiant;
Brave, brave is the heart that for loved ones


mret care,
For the battle of life I've the nerve of giant,
And you 0, your bright eyes are honest and


fair
So little We'll care for such adage as that is;
I'll work while you watch till our struggles


are ore.
And if you, with your bright eyes look we'll to


the lattice,
l, love, with my strong arms will safe keep


the door.
Year: 1870

The general belief that the bed of the
deep ocean is as far beneath the reach of
direct examination by scientific men as
the substance of the solid earth at the
same depths, has been dissipated by the
success of some bold English investig gators
in directly exploring the depths of the sea.


1t appears that Professor Thompson
and DR.. Carpenter, with the aid of new
contrivance for dredging, have succeeded
in bringing up at different times loads of
nearly half ton of deposits from depth
of fourteen thousand feet Tor two miles
and two thirds) below the surface. There
are but three or four peaks in Europe
which are higher above the sea level than
the sea level is above the depths thus ex-
amined. The result of this examination
have not yet been finally embodied in the
sciences on which they bear, but enough
has been published of them to show that
some of the common doctrines of geologist
and Psychologist at least need revision. 1t
is stated that the depths where the press
ure of the water is more than four hun
dred tons to each square foot, where the
cold is always below the freezing point of
water at the surface, and where not one
particle of light from the sun or air can
penetrate, there are beings, animals of
much complexity of organization, and with
eyes as perfect in every respect as those of
the fishes and reptiles best known to us.
Another striking discovery is that these
creatures, found in the limestone mud of
to-day, are in all important respects like
those found by geologists in the limestone
beds of Europe, referred by them to an
epoch of the earth's remote formative his
tory, millions of ages ago. But removing
their degrees a few miles, the explorers
find the sea deposing sandstone fossils
which geologists have always referred to
another epoch, remote from us, indeed,
but also divided by unmeasured years
from the former. Here they are, building
side by side these two widely different
classes of fossiliferous strata; Sand the
discovery that they may actually coexist
upon adjacent Surfaces" says DR.. Carpen-
ter, "has done no less than strike at the
very root of the customary assumptions
with regard to geological time" The
New York Evening Post, commenting up
on the testimony thus brought up from
the depths of the sea, expresses the opin-
ion that this discovery affords the stron-
gest support to Sir Charles Lyells theory,
that the past changes of the earth are to
be studied as the result of forces now in ac-
tion upon it; that the whole science of
geology is one vast expression of the uni
formity of law; that in final lesson, in
short, is that which was long ago an
nounced in Holy Writ: "The thing which
has been, that is that which shall be, and
there is nothing new under the SUM-"
Year: 1870


Kiss and make friends with me old year,
Kiss and make friends with me;
We have been foes too long old year,


Kiss and make friends with me.
Here arc my lips, they are fresh and red,
And yours are as pale as can be-
Withered and old, and almost dead
But kiss and make friends with me.
Cold is your hand, and your pulse is not
So strong as it used to be /;
Let all our quarrelling be forgot


Kiss and make friends with me. n
You have been wrong, ond have been wrobs.
My bark that you sent to sea,
Builded so worthy and so strong,


Has never come home to me.
Prayer was her anchor, and Hope her float,
And Joy was her pennon free;
You wrecked my love with that little boat
But kiss and make friends with me.
You have been wrong, and hNye been wrong
promised, on bendCd knee,
To sing to the world a sweet, true song,


That would live after you and me.
l said would glorify God, old year,


And you, with my minstrelsy;
My voice, like my heart, has been faint, old


year


But kiss and make friends with me.
This is the night that Christ was born,


Meath beathlehems star, and we
Should all be friends on the Christmas morn
But kiss and make friends with me.
Year: 1870

was, TO her who had promised to be his wife;
and after having Jolly good time, they all re-
turned to town. Verdant accompanied his
wife to her npartnerts over the lager beer sa-
loon, and passed the day in her company,
He bad also given her for safe-keepins all the
money he had left. When night came, tho
bride treated him eoldly; the services of the
proprietor of the saloon were secuted, and the
disconsolate husband was rudely elected from
the house. The reat day he was obliged TO
borrow money enough to purchase his break
fast with, and some frieuds secured him pass
on the railroad to his home, He cannot un-
derstand the affair, and is 10th to believe that
one so fair could be so cruel. Worse than all,
he don't know whether he is married or not.
The names of all concerned in the matter are
suppressed, as the affair win lose hone Of its
interest thereby. .
Year: 1870

NEW ORLEANS, August u, lS'e.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN:


fAr bovine correspondent experienced
an irresistible disposition to butt some
thing, upon reading a paragraph IN the
PicGya4ne this morning, which processes to
administer some wholesome advice to the
Governor in regard to the appointment OF
City Park Commissioners. The writer says
none but citizens OF well-known standing
should be appointed, or else the Governor
or somebody else is likely to be suspected
of q conspiracy 10 encourage stupendous
fraud.


What sort of well-known standing does
he mean? There are men of well-known
standing who stand very low, and some who
stand very high. This may be applied
either morally, physically or politically. If
applied politically, the term is very vague.
Men of well-known standing in the party
harness are not always the most reliable
when it comes to managing questions IN
volyinr large future property interests.
Morally it is equally vague. Men OF well
known rascality are certainly not the right
sort, and many men OF well-Anown honesty
are often equally incapable.


Honesty, without brains, Industry, colir-
age and firmness, is of very Little value, but
if the Governor viii appoint men with all
these four qualifications combined, it mat
ters very little whether they are well known
or not. Iours, TAURUS.


TIE Duprez and Benedict Hinst-els have
not been scalna6 IA renorteC
Year: 1870

There's not heath, however rude,
But hath some little flower
To brighten up its solitude,


And scent the evening hour;
There's not a heart, however cast
By grief and sorrow down,
But hath some memory Of the past
To love and call its own.