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Year: 1870

A SAD CAsE.-A young lady, Miss Del
trick, aged eighteen years, whose parents
reside In Henrico county, is said to be raw
ing mad and SO unmanageable that it has
lunatic asylum for treatment. She is repre-
sented as being very handsome, and at one
time quite belle in her neighborhood,
Sheriff Smith will take charge Of her this
morning and convey her to the Eastern Lu-
Datic Asylum at Williamsburg.
Year: 1870

TIE OFF1GE OF THE POLICE JUsT1oE.-Thc


office Of the Police Justice has been esta-


blished in tho room opposite that of the
Chief Of Police in the Old Market Hall,
where Justice White can be found at MI


hours through the day.
Year: 1870

Every woman is wise enough and care
lul enough to secure for her house plants
every lii of available sunshine during The
cold winlc: months. Great point IS taken
to get southern exposure for them. In.
deed if one can secure no other than
north window for her plants she has too
much loye for these unconscious, mani
mate things to keep them ut all. She
would rather leave them out in the cold
to die outright than linger out a martyr
existence in the shade.


Folks need sunshine quito as much rs
plants do. Men and women who have !
fair degree OF strength and the use ot
their legs can got out into the world and
get a glimpse Of the sunshine now and
then, and II they choose 10 do so let them
live in rooms with only northern eN-
posurc but lit is possible, Let us secure
rooms into which every ray OF sunshine
that falls in Winter may enter, for the
little babies who are shut mp IN the house,
uvaids who cannot leave their rooms,
and aged people who are too infrm to
get out OF doors. Let Us reflect for n
moment that these classes Of persons il
kept in rooms with only north windows
will snilcr just rs much from the absence
of sunshine, rs green growing plants
would do in the same room. and their
suffering is of account in proportion as Il
human being is belterlhan geranium or
y fuchsia. Everybody knows how
bright, sunny day in Winter gladdcns
every one who is situated so as TO enjoy
il. Let US make some sacrifice if need he
in order to give the feeble ones their
measure OF sunshine Laws Of LIFE.
Year: 1870

The Christian Union says 1--WE all
know here and there men and women
who seem to be always young. We meet
them at certain epoch OF their lives,
and after years of great changes and tolls,
and various experiences and discipline,
we meet them again, expecting 10 find
them worn and discouraged-in n measure
overcome in the war they have been wag-
ing. On the contrary. they have the micn
and port of victors; what we call trouble
has made them strong. What is the Sc
cret of the clear eye, and the smile around
the lips 50 frank and joyous that it is NJ
most infantilc? What is their secret ot
their uniaiing belief in right, of their un'
tirng defense of what men call romance?
Is it not because they live on plane so
high that they are able 10 get at first hand
constant supplies OF life from that spirit
ual realm whore youth is eternal? The
divine essence which we call soul is, 81
long rs it keeps in communication with
its source, independent OF chance or
change. These men then, who never
grow old. live where they can get an in
nux OF life from God. SO powerful is
this divine energy that ono glance of the
soul into the realm where are The sources
of life, will countcract the thousand trials
incident to its temporary improvement.
Our bodies must, according TO the laws
OF nature, fall to decay; but blessed are
they who keep up such IN illumination
within, that the building is gloriied till
the very moment Of It's fall.
Year: 1870

The VALUE OF IRIALS.-Ihc dark days
OF trial and perpicNity, when we are en-
yironed by care and adversely, arc the
DAYS when the true character IS brought
out and the real strength Of the soul fully
developed. No man knows what he
may accomplish until his endurance has
been proved by the ordeal OF adversely.
Were there nothing to Try his stamina he
would never become aware OF his ability.
People may dcplore the yeXations of life
as they please, yet when serious reilec-
ton is employed upon the subject they
will be forced 10 admit that trial is rs nec-
essary to the requirement of full mental
strength as severe training is TO the de-
velopment of the physical frame. As a
general rule, people undcrratc their pow
crs Ct endurance and were Il not that
hard,hips were sent upon them, and the
path OF life made rough occasionally, they
would degenerate into imbccIlcs.
Year: 1870

"A man and his wife riding near
railroad track at Columbus, Indiana, got
into an argument as to whether they
could cross the tack before the train came
along. She said they could and he said
Martha, it is impossible" He was cor
rect. and they were both buried in one
grave.
Year: 1870

Though the French armies have not borne
their eagles with much glory through the
Prussian lines, there is at least chance that
the customary relations may be reversed and
Frenehmen be carried by the eagles OF the
Jardin des Plantes over the heads OF The IN
vescng forces. An eagle in harness must be as
heartrending spectacle as Flora Temple in q
garbage cart, but We are grayely assured that
An ingenious Parisian has devised a means Of
employing this doeile bird in the traction Of
balloons, which are thus rendered entirely in
dependent Of the current of the wind. The
process is very simple. You attach yOur team
TO the car-four good healthy eagles can draw
q large balloOn-and dangle in front of them


a piece of meat tied to a long pole. They 90
for the meat, but you see they mover oyertake
Year: 1870


BAlf4.


The returns of the late election in Alabama
led us TO infer that the State had been lost to
the Republicans by q small majority of 5000
or so. 1t had gone for Grant two years before
by over 4,2OO, and the causes which had led to
this change of more than 1000 have not been
heretofore clearly apparent. But it would seem
from late revelations that the gains OF the
Democracy are not to be attributed wholly to
honest sources. Intimidation and outrage
were employed and the most hoinOus crimes
committed to drive legal voters from the polls.
In one instance fifty -four negro voters were
wounded in an attack upon a mass meeting,
not a single white man being injured. False
| returns were issued in some instances and no
returns in others and every effort was made
to Obstruct the electors and falsify the returns.
The origin of the difficulty was serious enough,
and it is to be feared that Its consequences
may prove graver still.


The presiding officer of the Senate, "a Re
publican, was restrained on Saturday last by
an injunction issued on the application of the
Governor and Treasurer of the State, both of
whom are Republicans, from counting the
votes cast for the candidates for those two
Offices. The ayowed purpose of the officials
was to secure legal inquiry into the validity of
the election. The Senate, which is almost
unanimously Republican, obeyed the injunc-
tiOn, and, after the Speaker had declined to
announce the vote for the two Offices named,
that body adjourned. This seems clearly the
proper proceeding under the circumstances.
But the Senate had no sooner retired than the
new Leutenant-GOvernOr was sworn in, and,
taking the Speakers chair in the House, an
nOunced himself as the presiding officer of
the joint convention, although he was the
only person present who was in any sense q
member of the Senate. He thereupon counted
the vote for Governor and Treasurer, and
declared the Democratic candidates duly
elected. The new Governor took the oath,
and would have taken possession of the Execu-
tive Office, had not United States troops pre-
vented. These have since been withdrawn,
and the Republican Governor and Treasurer
hold Office now by the material aid of Sher-
if's posse, composed of negroes


Gov. Smith has sent TO the Legislature n
message defending his course, the principal
points of which we publish elsewhere. His
right to contest the validity of the election
seems undoubted; we do not understand how
the inquiry which seems necessary could well
have been otherwise instituted, and We trust
the solution Of the trouble is to be intrusted
exclusively to the courts. Neither SheriG''s
posse nor United States army is likely to
make the issue any clearer or establish the
rights Of tho contestants more securely.
Year: 1870

We find this plant in newspapar which va
forced to copy from THE TRBUNE the Report Of .he
Commissioner of Internal Revenue:


There is good deal Of indignation Just now among
certain officials over the premature publication Of t r
Reports. First NJ all Mr. COSs friends succeeded In ce
ting his Report into the newsp pers before ibe
Pr sdcnt whom is supposed to be made. Next tho
Report OF Gen sherman found its way into the public
prints before it reached the secretary Of War; Thn tho
Report Of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue got ou
and was actually printed m NewYork while tho Acting
Commissioner and his assistants protesting THAI
not single copy of it could be got out OF the official
grasp. The Report OF the Internal Revenue Commits
soner was to be had last evening for two hundred
dollars"


How sad that th, mourpful newspaper was tempted
10 expend two hundred dollars!
Year: 1870

We hear of the Hon. b. T. VhittcmOrc,
who was hustled out of the House of Repre-
sentatives for selling cadetships. He is
elected to the State Senate of South Carolina,
and is made Chairman of the Committee OF
EnSrosscd Bills-a place in which he will be
reasonably free from temptation. OF course, the
touching confidence which this mans cOnstilu-
ents still entertain in his integrity is at once
gratifying to him and to ourselves. His
neighbors are ut full liberty TO bestow upon
him all the merely local trusts OF which they
have tho disposal; but the seat in Congress
was national matter, in which every citizen
of tho United States had an interest. So long
as Mr.. VS. constituents keep him severely Mt
home, we promise not to complain great
deal
Year: 1870

ocqulesced in the assumption of authority by
this Committee, but only with the understand
ing that the arrangement was temporary.
When Mcssrs. Favre, Gambetla, TrOchu, and
their associates refuse to let the people decide
whether they shall keep the reins of power or
hand them over to somebody else, they may
justify themselves on the ground Of the mill
taTy necessities of the moment, but they can
not pretend TO be Republicans.
Year: 1870

When the system of rapid transportation, by
means of Pneumatic Tubes, was elucidated
several months since, il was received with
hat curiosity and skepticism which all inven-
lions of importance encounter. We publish
Dn the second page another article on the same
subject. Forty years ago the claims of the
Stephensons as to the possible achievements Of
heir locomotive and iron railway sounded far
more preposterous than those now put forward
In behalf of the Pneumatic Tubes for purposes
Of TRANSPORTATION.
Year: 1870

The station agent at Richmond has an ele-
plant on his hands that he don't know exact
ly how to dispose of. Some time ago a worth
less horse, mere frame, came to him as
freight, consigned to gentleman in Rich
mond. The station agent put the horse in 4
stable, and has ever since fed the animal with
oats and hay, at an expense OF over $40, but
still the owner does not appear to claim his
beast. The other day there arrived by freight
wretched looking cavalry saddle and rusty
sabre, with a request that the horse be ex-
ercised daily. Any one who wants to buy 0
horse cheap can find one at Richmond.
Year: 1870

perfumery vender is plying his vacation
in this region. He draws a crowd around his
wagon by selling dollar bill for seyenty-fve
cents, 50-cent piece for forty cents, and so
on. Manifold are the modes of quilting the
public!
Year: 1870

The engine Portland, with car attach
ed, about five o'clock on Saturday morning,
run against freight car at the depot in thi.
city, throwing the car from the track and
somewhat injuring the locomotive. The ac-
cident was caused by the switch being placed
in a wrong position. The car was loaded
with shorts. The forward beam of the engine
was broken and the brass cylinder scraped
Year: 1870

New Phase OF the "bOOdlo' Game,


Philadelphia has been flooded for years past with
holding out such splendid inducements that some
OF unsuspecting citizens have ventured and as
consequence, been sold. The latest dodge or this
kind came TO the knowledge OF the Mayor this morn
ing when citizen handed him printed letter and
circular which he had received yesterday Dy mall.
The letter was as follows:-


My Dear Sir You have been recommended TO me as
companyinR sheet. -. .
AS in your town acting for me az present
you will undertake the business at one will in this
deyate from usual custom OF recurring all
cash advance, and upon receipt OF ten dollars by
express, guarantee sincerity, will send
full of such goods wish trusting TO
your homer pay the balance soon as turn the


know that you find it TO your interest 10
faithfully Positively samples will be given away or
The express charge for sending the money should be
prepaid you deduct the amount from the SlO to
p am trusting TO your honor this affair, but know
that you cannot afford to deceive me.


Send only by express


tIetsrnally yours.


Please this sheet to remind of the oircum
stance, and recoect that all remances must be sent oy
Remembsr r. my terms cash. and positively no sam.
pies given away Don't write b, mall as u will be
Of postage and trouble. shall not get the letter
State particularly the amount and denomination OF the
bills requ cd carry prices in tul TO ohviate mis-
tkes Be particular to SEND an money Dy
with the freight ch.Tges prepaid ana return TINS letter 70


The circular contains numerous cautonary
paragraphs ali OF which are calculated TO deceive
the unwary. The writer explains ms business IN Tue
following sentence 81 have quantity or fac stntles
OF Qreenbacks or Treasury notes, OF as fine quality
as are in circulation, which can supply you with on
easy terms"


OF the result OF the recent trials in the United
States Court in which number OF people were con-
ycted OF being concerned In this, otherwise known
| as the Doodle" game.
Year: 1870

II seems % us that e is impaI-
tant the public should have infoF-
nation Of the statistics Of the
trade and commerce Of our city.


During some Of the past year we
endeavored to give approximate
estimates Of our cotton trade but
found Il q difficult and unsatisfac-
tory task with no very useful result
owing TO the inaCCuraCy Of our roe
ports which constantly fell below
the truth.


Ills, as we say, important that 9
growing city like ours should have
opportunities Of judgiBgOf her trade
and commerce and It's increase.


The beginning Of q new season is
Ut hand and we earnestly hope to
see this idea inaugurated and car
ried out. We will not presume at
present to suggest how 1t should be
done but we trust that the Mayor
and Board o. Alderman will pass
an ordinance making It incumbent
upon some city official to take and
preserve statistics Of all goods,
merchandise, &C., received and
shipped from he.e by rail or water,
also the cotton shipped by rail or
river as we'll as quantity on hand
say at the end of each month.


We believe that the enforcement
Of this plan by appropriate legisla'
tiOn will meet the wants and wishes
Of the community and suppose
that consultation with our excel
lent Chamber Of Commerce viii
result in developing q practicable
way to do the required work.
Year: 1870

is a pure blooded white man, q
native of Ohio and about 80 years
of age. He was in the Federal
Army during the late war; enter
ing the service as a private in a
three months regiment from Wis
consin, and was severely wounded
at the battle of Bull Run. After
his term of service expired, he was
appointed lieutenant in a New
York regiment. He was again
wounded during the seven days
fighting around Richmond, and was
promoted Captain. At Gettysburg
hereCeived another wound, and was
chosen Major Of his regiment At
the close of the war he was bre-
veted Lieut.. Colonel; and carpet
bagged into this State in time to
be elected by the Republicans OF
Yazoo county to the constitu.
tional, black and tan convention.
At the last election he was chosen
State Senator from the same
Icounty.
Year: 1870

The great fire in Chicago was in
its height when vast pillows Of flames
were surging through portions Of the
building, sweeping everything rapidly
into a mass Of red ruin. 1t was
evident to all that the walls could
not long resist the force Of that fiery
hurricane, and that a grand crash
was at hand. Still, the men were
seen, through the red-lighted windows,
working bravely in the effort to say.
property. Orders had been given
some time before to rush in and car
ry off goods, and the orders had been
obeyed. But now it was seen that
danger was too near, and that, in a
few moments the lives Of all who had
gone within the building had been
sacrificed. The spectators became
wild with terror and excitement. One
Assistant engineer, seeing that the
heat was intense, called frantically
to the men to come out. Policeman
Brown rushed into the building, at
the imminent risk of his own life, and
loudly called to them to make their
own escape. He returned, and barely
got from the door into the street,
when the crash came. It was the
side wall between Thacher's and
FarwellS building-125 feet between
the two stores. 1t fell with one pro-
longed and deafening crash, and The
men went down with it to their fiery
graves. A wall went up from the
crowd, a strange, inde8cribable cry.
or sob, that spoke of horror and
dismay. A moment before, and the
men and boys, fifteen or twenty ol
them-some said thirty-had been
seen on each floor, with boxes and
bundles on their shoulders. In an
instant they had disappeared, crushed
beneath the ponderouS walls. and
sutfocated in the flames. Horrible tc
hear and see. The wall went clean
through to the very basement. Not
a soul escaped Of all who had been
within. The terrible catastrophe
seemed for a time to deprive people
Of their reason. Shrieks Of women
were heard from balconies where
they were standing to look upon the
dreadful scene. Men clutched one
another in a sort Of wild delirum
Several persons, horror-stricken a


the spectacle, were completely over
come, and swooned away. The ru
mors which circulated as to the mum


ber of men who had fallen beneath
the walls, gave them all the way from


fifteen to fifty men. 1t was simply


impossible to tell how many wert


there. Many a home will be in


state Of dreadful anxiety until tn,


list is filed, and many hearth vii


be desolate when the names are made
known,
Year: 1870

The following extract from the
letter of Gov. Hoffman, of New York,
written to the counsel of the murder
er Real who was executed, last Fri
day, in reply to a final appeal for
clemency in an extension or commuta-
tion of the sentence of death, posses
8es interest for every thoughtful
reader, in these days Of mania for
high crimes. After recapitulating
the circumstances of the foul mur-
der for which the culprit was to suf-
ter, the Governor says:


1t is now claimed by the prisoner
that Smedick had for long time
prosecuted and abused him, and had
on more than one occasion beaten
him with a policeman's club. In sup
port Of this assertion You have filed
with me several er parte afidavits.
Smedick is dead. His mouth is clos
ed, and there is no one who feels it
duty to yindicate him against the
charge. Assuming it to be true, it
does not justify or excuse the prisoner.
1t shows, however, a motive for his
crime, and that he had reason to de.
sire to be reyenged. 1t is not disput.
ed that the last occasion upon which
it is said Smedick maltreated Real
was about three weeks before Real
shot him: time enough. surely, for
the violence of passion to cool, al.
though it seems not enough for the
spirit of revenge to disappear. 1t is
now also claimed on behalf of the
prisoner, and he asserted it the day
after the murder, that Smedick came
up to him on the night in question and
struck two blows at his head with q
club, whereupon he shot him. The
prisoner not only did not assert thi:
on the night of his arrest, but the
evidence on the trial plainly con
tradicts it. You have submitted tt
me two er parte affidavits bearing OF
this point, made since the trial anC
very recently. The circumstances
under which they appear to hav,
been made, and the reasons givel
why the parties who made them dit
not appear at the trial, compel me t.
reject them as unworthy of credit
You point to the recommendation o
mercy, made by the jury, when the.
pronounced the verdict of guilty.


have duly weighed it. | cannot, o
course, say what led them to max
It, nor can find anything in the evi
dence to justify it, or to warrant m
in needing it. You present to me
also, petition for commutation Q
sentence, signed by more than fv
thousand people, together with letter
from many men, for whose opinion
have great respect. All of whicI
have been considered by me. I ar
well aware how much sympathy 70
Real now exists. The murders


man, sent out of the world withou
Year: 1870

DELIRIUM TREMENs.-The following
vivid description is from one of John
B. Coughs lectures:


a once knew man that was tor
mented with human face that glared
at him from the wall. He wiped it
QUIT was there, perfect as before.
He stood back some PAGES, and saw
it again. Maddened to desperation.
he went to it and struck it again, and
again until the wall was spattered
with blood, and the bones Of his hand
were broken,-all this in beating out
phantom. That is the horror of
delsraana treme'ss. | remember when
it struck me-God forgive me that /
drank so much as to lead to it, al
though not one-half so much as some
who drank with me. The first glass