The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 6, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 June 1870 — Page 1

SEER——————— J : 53 i [HE ' NATIONAL BANNER, ¢+ . Published Weekly by - JOHN B. STOLL, LIGONTER, NOBLE COUNTY, IND X - ‘.o : : © TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : 3 Strictly in‘BAVANCe. ..coou ivrreiinsiiniin..s2.oo ¥ T his riB published on the Cash Prim?lz, its Prm‘etg)raﬁlmgg thatit is just ag right for him to demand advance pay,as it is for City pubdlishers. ¥~ Any person sendin]g aclab of 10, accompanied with the cash, willbe entitléd to a copy of the paper, for one year, free o(charqe. i WM. L. ANDREWS, E A Surgeon Dentist. Mitchel’s Block, Kendallville. All work warrantdd. Examinationsfree. 2-47 S J. M. DENNY, Attorney at Law,—Albion, Nobleco., Ind Will give careful and prompt attention to.a - business entrusted to his care. : 3-6 : LUTHER H. GREEN,'_ Attorney-at-Law & Notary Publie. LIGOCNIER, = - = - INDIANA, Office on Cavin Strcet; over Sack Bro’s. Gro* . cery; opposite Helmer House. 41+8-1y ~ JAMES J. LASH, ' Gteneral Fire & Life Ins. Agent, ) KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. : - Oflice in Mitehell’s Block. Represents all first-clagg ‘corapanies in the United States. . b v et e e e e G. ERICKSON, M. D, : Will give spccla&attention to Office Business, from 10 A. M, to 3 r. ~ for the treatment of-Chronicand Snrgical Diseases, Charges reasonable. Office in rear of Drug Store, No. 1 Mitchell’s Block, _ - KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. June 1, 1870, g AMERICAN HOUSE, "L B HATHAWAY, Propr., LIGONIER, - - - - - INDIANA,

HELMER HOUSE, AS'. B. lIELM]’JII’, Prop")',' 2 ILIGONIER, - - - INDIANA. This Houge has been Reﬁtted. and Réfurnished J o in YWirst Class Style. s 1.. COVELL, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public, LIGONIER, INDIANA. Oflice, 2d Floor in Mier’s Block, Cavin Street. 2O DR, W, ORUM, » ) S Physician and Nurgeon, Ligomier, » = « . Indiana. OMice one door sonth of L. Low & Co’s Clothing Store, up fetaim, ; f Mayl2th, 1869. "SAMUEL E. ALVORD, -Attorney at Law, Claim Agent, and Notary Public, Albion, Noble Co., Ind. “ Business in the Courts, Claims of soldiers and heir heirs, Conveynncinﬁ. &c., promptly and-care-fully attended to. Acknowledgments, Depositiong and Aftidavits, taken and certified. | E. RICHMOND, Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, Cavin street, Ligonier, Indiana. Special attention given to conveyancin’g and collectiona, Deeds, Bonds aud Mortgages drawn up . and all legal businers attended to promptl-ynnd accurately. May 26th, 1868,

E. D. PRESTON, M. D., HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, "LIGONIER, INDIANA. : Office \ne door south of L. Low & Co.'s ftofe, up stairs. Office hours from 9 to 11,'A. »., 2 to, 4and 7 to 8 p. M. - Can always be found by inquiring at, the American House. 4 48 7 il ¢ D. W. ¢. DENNY, M. D., Physician and Surgeon,— Ligonier, Ird. Will promptly and fajithfély attend to all calls in the line of his profession—day or ni}ght-*.{u town or any distance in tli(r;eomltrg. crsons wishing his serviecs%@%&ht, ‘will find him at his father’s residence, first door east of Meagher & Chapman’s Hardware Store, where all ealls, when abseut, should Qc left. : 141 - — - PR, - - .f’ - - - G. W. CARR, o . ! Physician and Surgeon, ‘- LIGONIER, < - - - - - IND., Will promptly attend all ealls intrusted to him. Office on 4th St,, one door east ef the NATIONAL Banner office. ' 3-43 F.W.STRAUS, BANKER, Buys and sells Domestic and Foreign Exchange. Passage Tickets to and from all the principal parts of Europe, at the most liberal terms.— Special attention given to collections. Money taken on deposit, and Merchants’ accounts solicited, and kept on most favorable terms. 42 SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. | Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c., Choice Groceries, Provisions, Yankee Notions, & The highest cash price paid fer Conntr& Produce May 13, '6B-tf. . SACK BRO’S, 'NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS | e | : WOLFLAXKE, IND. - Notice is hereby given that C. R. Wiley and Samuel Beall have entered into a co-partnership n the Merchandise'business, and that they have just unpacked a lurge stodk of Dry, Goods, Boots and Shoes, &e. Call and see for yourself. . g ; WILEY & BEALL. Wolf Lake, Nov. d, 1869.-27tf y y

- NEW MILLINERY GOODS, ; % —~AT— Mrs. Joanna Belts; 3 On Cavin Street, = - NEW STYLES FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1870, Just received from Baltimore and Chicago, Fancy Goods, Hair Braids, Switches, Wedding Bonnets, Mourning Bonnets, Baby' Caps, &c. h}nrch 30, 1870.-48 I 4 : ’ . Joili.N GAPPINGER’S HARNESS, SADDLE And Leather Establishment, Has been removed to Gappinger & Gotsch’s New Block, (fq_;'merly Rossbacher’s Block,) A'ENDALL VILLE,. - - INDIANA, The highest Price ?aid for Hides, Pelts, &c., and the trade supplied with Leather, Findings, &c., at lowest fignres. ¥ ‘ CADTHBRES . J. BITTIKOFFER, VLo DEALER IN » T 'WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEW'LRY,SILVER WARE, NOTION S, Spectacles ofe;'very Description, 7 &c., &c. &e., &c. - Allkindsof work done upon the shortestnotice and warranted as to durabﬁitg. Shop in Bowen’s new Brick Block, Kendallville, Indiana. | . 2-81 H. R. CORNELIL,, s Who may always be found at his .~ PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS, 18 prepared to take all kinds of pictures in the latest styles of the art. . . i PARTICULAR ATTENTION paid to eopying old Deguerreotypes and Am-: brgtvytoes' ig{owar’ds, M:H ﬁuls‘rg{’gg. ork warranted satisfactory in all cases. Ligonier, Ind., Feb. 23, 1870.-43

§ A. GANTS, Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, LIGONIER, » - INDIANA. B : o d AT ol W st P n their line. (’ 4 % _;?:::)f Over 10 o o et S years justifies N o T e e them in sayiug B ; L 'ch:: englere ::: W = f’ P ' XA e . stow their patronage. #~Office in my building Uav!n&reeg | e R Tttt ELKTART BOOK BINDERY, b |at the.office of the | ; EXBALD OF TRUTH," F'A!H‘BT, _—‘/ ~ - e - IND. - We take flieasure to inform our friends Jnd'ﬂu publicin gerteral, that we have established a | Book Bindery, In our and are pPrép: o al ing, | | [ a 8 Pa y " ! - zinés, Mus ,;glomptly and . apr. wh,”gsﬁ{' dp e% 7. FUNK.

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Vol. 5.

T MR.PETERS FIRST WIFE. ‘Dear; dear ! no toast; eggs boiled as hard as brickbats, and the coffee stone cold.” - And Mr. Peters arose from the table in a temper by no means amiable, and rang the. bell violently. There was, no answer. He rang again, a third, a'fourth time, and’ still no answer | Out of all patience, he went to the door and called—‘Maria ! ‘Maria !’

A slight little woman, dressed in soiled, tumbled wrapper, with hair in a state of direful confusion, answered his summons. She had one of those bright faces which nature intended should be decked' with continual smiles ; but now, all its roses in bloom, it was drawn to its full length, and the large blue eyes had a serious or rather doleful expression, totally at variance with their usual joyous look. Her voice, too, had lost its melodious ringing sound, and was subduned to a diemal whine.

‘What is it, Joseph *’ ‘Where is Bridget ¥’ ’ ‘GGone out for me. 1 want more ribbon for my ascension robe.’ Mr. Peters said a very naughty word, and then continued : ‘Cold coffee, hard eggs, breakfast not fit to eat. 4

‘I wish,’ whined his wife, ‘you would think less of temporal matters, and turn your attention to the great end of life.” - ‘

‘Haug it all, madam, I like to enjoy my life while I have it. Here I was, the happiest man in the United States, with a pleasant home, a chatty, cheerful wife, and good, quiet children; and now, since you have joined the Millerites, what am I? - : ‘Oh, Joseph; if you would only, come into that blessed circle.’ ~ ‘Oh, Maria, if you would only come out of it. - Whete are the boys ’ ‘l'm sure I don’t know.’ . ‘Arg they going to school to-day?’ .‘No, dear Joseph.’ ; ‘For what reason, madam *’ ‘My dear, ‘their teacher has /given up the school, and ia turning her mind to more exalted objects. Oh, Joseph, turn now, while their's time. You have, still a week for preparation and repentance.’ , | . ‘Repentance ! Well, when I take up! the subject, it will take more than a week to put it through.” And Mr. Peters put on his coat and took up his hat. j | ~ ‘Joseph,’ said his wife, “you need not send home auy dinner. 1 shall be ! out, and I'll Jake the boys over to. their uncles to dinner.’ |

‘Joe made no answer, unless the violently emphatic manner in which he closed the door was one. =~ Muttering with anger, ‘he strode into a restaurant to make a breakfast. Here he was hailed by one of his friends, Fred. Sommers, who looked wup as he heard Joe’s order. ;

‘Hello !” he cried, ‘you here ? What are youdoing here at breakfast time ? Wife sick 7 ' - 4 ‘No. ‘Had a quarrel ?’ No.! : ‘Gone to town 1’ ' Mol i ‘Then why don’t you breakfast at home ? Chimney on fire?

SNO _¢Servants all dead 7’ v : . ‘No.’ ! *Well, what in thunder is to pay.’ - ‘Maria’s joined the Millerites.” Fred. gave a long, shrill whistle, and then gaid : ‘Going to ascend next week.’ i - 5

“Yes, and if I don’t commit suicide in the meantime, you may congratulate me. . I am almost distracted.— Can’t,get & decent meal, ehildren running riot. servants sancy, house all in confusion, wife got the blues, either quoting the speeches of the elders at me, or sewing on a white robe, and groaning every third or fourth stitch. Hang it all, Fred, I’ve got a mind to take poison, or join the army.’ ‘You have an enchanting picture, but I can suggest a cure.’ o ~ ‘A cure!’’

~ ‘Yes, if you will promise to take my advice, I will make your home pleasant, your wife cheerfal, and your children happy.’ " ‘Do it," cried Joe.. ‘l'll follow your word like a soldier under his superior officer. - What shall Ido 7’ s " At tea time Mr. Perers entered his heme, whistling. Maria was seated sewing, and there was no signs of preparations for the evening meal.’ ‘Maria, my dear,’ gaid Mr. Peters, ‘is teayeady ' - : ‘I don’t know,” was the answer; ‘have been out-all day attending meeting.’ ; ' EOh, very well ; never mind. Attending meeting ! You are resolved then to leave me next week ?’

‘Oh, Joseph; I must go when I am called. -

‘Yes, my dear, of course.: Well, 1 must resign myself, I suppose. By the way, my dear, has it ever occurred to you that 1 shall be left a widower with three small children? I think I am a handsome man yet, my love ; and Joe, walked over to the g{ms, passed his hand throuﬂ: his hair, and pulled ‘up his collar. Maria looked up rather surprised.’ B

. -*You:see, dear it is rather a relief for you to go quickly, youknow. Itis® wearing on the nerves to havea long illness ; and besides, my dear, there will be no funeral expenses to pay, and that will be quite a saving.’ - Mrs. Peters’ lips quivered, and Ler large blue eyes ﬁlﬁad with tears. Joe longed to quit his heartless speech, and comfort her, but he was fearful the desired effect was not yet gained. ‘So, my dear,” hé continued, ‘if you must go, I have been thinking of getting another wife.’ “What,’ cried Mrs. Peters. ‘Another wife, my love. The house must be kept in order, and the boys cared for,’ : ‘ The grief was gone from Maria's face, but her teeth were set with a look of fierce wrath, o ‘Another wife, . Joseph ! Arother WY cining el e good auccessor. I deliberated a long ‘time, when | was a bachelor, between

her and yourself. You wi'l like her; she is your bosom friend.” = ““What, Sarah Ingraham !’ ? ‘Yes, my dear. ﬁ%ink't‘hat on the day you ascend, 1 will marry Sarah Ingraham.’ , ‘What, that good-for-nothing, silly, empty-headed old maid, the mother of my children. What!" . ‘Well, my dear, it seems to be the best | can do. Don’t want -to leave my business to go courting. and she will have me, you know.” i No doubt® Oh, you great, brutal, hateful —— .

i . ‘Stop, my dear, don’t fly into a fury. We will try to spend our last - week in happiness. Oh, by the way, I have a proposition to make. ' ‘Gio on, sir. . Do not spare me.” . ‘Ah, yes, that is the very thing I wish to do. I know your mind is entirely engrossed with your ascension, and T wish to spare you the care of the house. Suppose you invite Sarah here to-morrow, to stay here a week _or two.’ ; ; " “What !’ : el

“Then We can arrapge our . matrimonial preparations in the evening, while you are at the lecture,, , “What.’ e : v o=

_ And you can leave the house in her charge all day. That will give you plenty of'time to go, and she can learn the wayg of the house.’ ‘What!’ -

‘And, my dear, one little favor—lt may be the last. Stay at home one or two days and show her around where you keep things, and 8o on, so that ghe won’t have trouble in keeping order after you go. - You will do thik to oblige me won’t you ”’ £ Mrs. Peters, for an answer, rolled up the ascension robe into a ball, and fired it at Joe's head. The cotton, gcissors, workbasket, and tableclcth followed each other in rapid succession, and he was unable to fly. Then Maria’s rage found vent in words. - ‘So, you are going to marry Sarah. That's the reason you whistled so nice when you-came in. But you shan’t marry her, sir. = You shan’t have that gratification. 1 will stay, if it.isonly to spite you: 1 tell you, Mr. Peters, that T won’tgo! - ‘But, my dear, you must go, if you are come for.’ Ty P

‘1 won’t go.’ s ; ‘But congider, my dear.’ oy ‘Won’t go.” 9 ‘But what will Sarah think of It 7” ‘Sarah, don’t dare to mention Sarah to me again. ' [—l oh, |am fairly choking. And the little woman threw herself into a chair, in a fit of hysterics. : R Next morning Mr. Peters met Fred. in the street. Well, old boy, how goes it ¥’ ‘Fred:” was the reply, ‘1 am the happieét man in the world. 1 have regained my wife and domestic peace, and got rid of a busy, tattling old maid, who, under pretence of loving my wife, was everlastingly interfering in our household arrangements.’ ‘Then Mrs. Peters will not ase¢nd, will she 7’ : s :

‘lf Sarah is to be my- second wife, and step-mother to my children; Mrs. Peters has concluded that, on the whole, she won't go.’ ‘ : i - B— : ‘A Good Word for Good Humor. Every man should be sober sometimes. I once knew one. so unfortunate as to be sober all the time, and yet an honest man. We have known men that never smiled, or seldom, whose faces were as rigid as an jron mask, and yet they were kind, simple, aud really reliable. = i But such are exceptional cases.— Uniform sobriety is presumptively very much against a man. He who gives no play to the gentler feelings has something the matteggwith him . that should be looked into'before one trusts him. - :

Mirth itself is not always honest.— But it tends to openness, to sincerity, to sweetness. M‘;rth has better stuff in_it to make a man of than sobriety has. It, too, is used sometimes as a mask for hypocrisy ; but not half so often as sobriety is. Only consider how many men quite empty and worthTess, inwardly neither rich nor forceful, are kept a going by the mere trick of gravity. i ' ‘When some men come to you it is like - sunrise. -~ Everything seems to take new life, and shines. Other men bring night with them. The chill shadow of their sobriety falls upon every innocent gayety, and your feelings, like birds at evening, stop singing and go to their roost. : Away with these fellows who go owling through life—all the while passing for birds of paradise. ! He that cannot laugh and be gay should look well to himself. He should fast and pray until his face breaks forth into light. i : T—— -—— Transﬂ@n!lnu in the Night. | A gentleman anxious to ascertain the effect of transplanting at night instead of by day, made an experiment with the following results. - He transplanted ten cherry trees while in bloom, commencing at four o’clock in the afiernoon, and planting one each hour until one o’cloci in the morning. Those transplanted during the day time shed their blossoms, pro‘ducing little or no fruit, while those -planted in the dark maintained their condition fally. He did the same with ten dwarf trees, after the fruit was one third grown. Those transplanted during the night perfected thfell)r .crop, and ‘showed no injury from having been re‘moved. With each of these trees he removed ' some earth with the roots.— The incident is fully. vouched for, and if a few more similar experiments.produce a like result, it will be a strong argument to horticulturists, ete., to do -such work at night.— Exchange.

A lovely girl in Towa recovered a hundred and forty dollars damages in a breach of promise suit against a perfidious lover. Her lawyer congratulated her on the amount,. when she exclaimed, with a ferocions glare at the mulcted defendant, - and = nervously clenching her fingers: I'd give every penny -of it just to have one good pull at his hair,’ e

LIGONIER, IND.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE =, 15720.

Death of th&: Eldest Son of Henry Clay e e | At thirty years of age Theodore Clay was a promising lawyer. He was the image and the hope of the statesman whose fame was on every tongue. It is true that there were whispers of wild living and of indifferent morals, that somewhat tinged the fair repute and even darkened the future prospécts of this action of a noble house. ,gtilfl it was hoped that these were but' the result of youth, and would be cast aside when circumstances called upon the matured man to assert himself and make his talent felt in the community. ¢ ' It was at this turning point in his life that Theodore Clay bégan to pursue, with an unwearied perseverance that caused his friends ‘great uneasiness, a young lady of Lexington, whom he had long loved hopelessly. The object of his attachment, who is" at the present moment one of the brigthest ornaments of Kentucky society, repulsed firmly but kindly, every attention offered by the infatnated young man, after his meaning had be: come manifest. It was of no use, he would not be refused, and followed his fair fate in the streets by day and wandered in the neighborhood of her home by night, in an annoying man-. ner, until it became evident that he “was all there,” to use fhe soft phrase: by which a kindly peasantry express insanity. Subsequent violent demonstrations tended to confirm the impresgion, it being related that he went to the house of Mr. —— and demanded his daughter at the pistol’s point, until at last the wretched truth could no longer‘be ignored and confinement in the asylum became a stern necessity. This was accordingly done (in 1832, we believe,) his father providing for his support at that time, and leaving ten thousand dollars in his will, the income from which was secured to Theodore for life, 'That life, after thirtyeight years of imprisonment in what in his earlier days he was wont to call “a good boarding house, but having gsome of the biggest fools he ever saw as boarders,” has just closed. For nearly thirty years he was one of the: most noted of the inmates, but his graceful manners and flow of conversation rendered him an object of interest to all visitors. He labored under the hallunciation that he was George Washington, and was fond of assuming the traditional attitude of the father of his country.! At the occasional balls given to the inmates (averaging some five hu?dged in number) he was always exquisitely dressed, in the style of his day, aiidiwas the beaun par excellence. During all these long years, despite his general gentleness and cheerfulness of manner, he was restless and discon: contented, and required close watching, it never, in fact, being considered prudent to leave him go out into the grounds without attendants. . About the year 1860 his condition began to grow worse, and he soon after became demented, continning in hopeless idjocy until a few days since, when Death, a greater healer than Time, placed him again upon an equality with ‘the peers of his manhood, who had gone before him to the God who creaced him and did with him according to his inscrutable will. And so ends as sad a story as the. truth of his tory ever commanded to be written, Two sons of Henry Clay yet survive him, T. H. Clay, ex-minister to Honduras, now residiug on his place “Mansfield,” near Lexington, and J. M. Clay, ‘the raiser of “Kentucky,” and one! of the greatest turfmen livmg. : ¢ T

- NEURALGIA.—Some time since we published, at the requesat of a friend, a receipt to cure neuralgia. Half a drachm of §al ammonia, in an ounce ;of camphor water, to be taken in a tea‘spoonful at a dose, and the dose repeated several times, at intervals of five minutes, if tlre pain be not relieved at once. Half a £ozen different persons have since tried the receipt, and in every case a cure was effected. In one the sufferer, a lady, had been affected for more than a week, and a physician was unable to alleviate her suffering, when a solution of sal-am-monia in camphor water relieved her in a few minutes.—Alta Californian. — e —— — ° The telegraph very.rzcently inform‘ed us that Mr. Grant had been on a 'visig to his brother-in-law. The next report is that he has purchased an es‘tate near Bladensburg ‘for twenty thousand dollars. Mr. Grant is ‘making money somehow. His salary will not pay the expenses of his manner of living, for “oun gold and silver dishes <he famously does dine” and has szores of military laqueys to do his bidding. Where does the money come from ?— Has the gold speculation reshlted so ‘favorably or are the protectionists and bondholders holding him with hooks “of gold '— Evansville Courier.

HOME MADE INK.—The ink is a beautiful black, flows freely, and does not in the least corrode the pen. Itis far superior to the usual acid inks, which will spoil the best steel pen in a few hour’s use. In fact, we have no ink we like so well as this. It .is made thus : To five gallons of water at boiling heat, add one-half pound loiwood, one-half oz. bichromate potash, and one-half oz. prussiate of potash. Your ink is 51611 made and ready for use. The cost is six cents per gallon.—Oakland News.

“PITCHED !”—A clergyman was reading for the instruction of his eongregation, one Sabbath morning, a chapter in Genesis. The last sentence on the page was, ‘“And the Lord gave unto Adam a wife.” Toring two leaves, instead of one, he continued : ‘And she was pitched, withont and within I’ He had got into the deseription of Noah’s ark. :

A young ‘gentleman recently found himself in company with three young ladies, and generously divided an orange between them. ‘You will rob yourself,’ exclaimed one of the damsels. ‘Not at all’ replied the innocent ; “I have three or four more in my pocket !’ G !

. From the Russelville, Kentueky, Herald. ' Horrible Crime-Retributive Justice. We are informed that a horrible crime was committed by a ne%m man, nson.hthe I‘%)erson of a white lady named Mrs. Newman, in the neighborhood of Greenville, Kentucky, on last Friday. In the morning the lady told her husband that she and her son were going to spend the day at a neighbor’s house, and if they did not return that night he need not feel uneasy. Between her own and her neighbor’s she was met by the negre, who violated her ;’Frson. then murdered her and her son.’ he next morning the husband started to his neighbor’s farm to escort his wife and son home, and found them ou the roadside brutally murdered.— The news zoon spread—men collected —investigated the matter, and soon were satigfied a 8 to who was the guilty wretch. . He was arrested that day, and 'made a full coufessiom of his guilt. While in the hande of an officer he was taken possession of by the gxcited populace, who at once decided to smear him with tar and burn him at the stake; but while the party appointed to procure ' the/tar was gane, the populace became impatient and hung the negro to a tree until he was dead. His head was then severed from the body and posted in the publie square of Greenville, on.a stake’'set- in the ground in front of the court house, and no one was allowed to remove it. = The leaderg of the populace are said to be radi-_ cals ; 8o the radical papers can not raise a howl this time in relation to one of their party being murdered by Southéern Kuklux ! As for us, we care not who were the leaders, they did a deed that deserves commendation in all such cases, before they go into the hands of the lawyers. - :

Steel —New Process of Manufacture. The Allentown daily News states: that a number of gentlemen of that place have formed an association for manufacturing steel and iron by what is known as the. “Excelsior process” patented in 1869. They have commenced operations and have already succeeded beyond their most sanguine expectations. The steel made by the puddling process Has been rolled into a light wagon tire, three-eights by sev-en-eights handsomely finished, strong and hard. A large number of chisels and other tools have been made in which any desired “temper can be secured, and some of the most experienced mechanics have used and worked this steel and declare it to be equal to the best cast steel for strength and retension of fine sharp edge under hard use. At the Allentowa Rolling Mill they rolled several ateel top rails with such perfect succe-s that when the first rail was run out the puddlers and the rollers cheered, The lower part of the rail was made of wrought iron and welded so perfectly that by placing a short picce of the rail under the powerfal erasher at the mill it broke length wise in'the iron below the weld. The manufacture of steel under this process it is claimed, costs but a trifle more than wrought iron.

Abount High-heeled Shoes. It is” important for ladies to be informed that the prevailing fashion of high-heels, if we may take the opinions of ,anato%ists‘ and surgeons, and others who ought to know; is preducing very disastrous results. Leading the wearer to walk on tip-toe instead of on the ball of the foot or the heel, it throws the museles and sinews of the leg out of gear, and twists and torne them in a very objectionable manner. The constant ‘strain damages the form of the leg, and causes positive disease.— One of its most- carious effects is that of destroying the symmetry and beauty of the leg in that respect which'is universally considered 80 attractive and charming, as that, when. nature has has failed- to fulfill its work, resort is had to artificial means of supplying the . deficiency—in other worda, it shrinks and dwindles and finally wastes away those graceful protubernances called, for wantof a better name, the “cglven? : --ﬁﬁ‘,«.‘.b — . Ought to Open their Eyes. A farmer writing from Wisconsin in relation 'to the condition ~of the finances, says of his ‘brother farmers :—lt opens their eyes when it takes ten bushels of wheat to buy a pair of boots, and six bushels to buy a barrel of salt, and all other things in the same Ao o e

- The farmers have had their eyes closed too long, and wheun they do get them open, they will be astonished at the length of the nap they have taken. We hope the lésson they are now receiving will induce them to support a differént kind of policy than 'that which has made a pair of hoots cost ten bushels of wheat.

The last brother-in-law provided for, Geo. W. Dent, appointed to be appraiser of merchandise at San Francisco, is an old-time democrat, and in that respect resembles his venerable father, who is now a member of the presidential hovsehold; and who is by no means chary in expressing his anti radical sentiments.. Mr, Geo. W. Dent is said to be.a remarkably fine tooking man,and the smartest in his i‘;ﬁijly. . Collector Casey, of New Orleans, also a broth-er-in-law, it is. understood, is about to resign and be appointed naval ' officer ‘of that port. . %3 o

The New.-York . Tribune; says the adoption of the fifteenth amendment “tolls the knell of buman bondage throughout the civiliz¢d: world.” Does' Ireland or Poland think Bo} Nonsense - human bondage is presented in man{ forms in places :where the | fifteenth. amendment : was: never heard of ; and even in our own:land the emancipation of human bondage is not completed.— The African is free, but:the poor white men of this fair land :axe groaning under the monied monopoly-that pdid for the release of the black man’s chaing V' Almost m;mﬂs enougli ‘Fnblic Bpirit to .ief;wiping to have her. atber's honse used as a court house, _Coal oil sprinkled abontthe entrance of the hive, is a sure remedy tp drive away robber bees. L

. Sunday Toys. . A correspondent wishes to' know whether any lady can recommend any Sunday toys for very young children—fourteen months old. She finds Noah’s Ark is not safe, as they break off the limbs from the figures, and put them in their mouths. It is perhaps a little difficult to give an opinion on 8o important a question; indeed some flippant persons would esay that such emall folks dont’t know the difference between Noah and any of the animals he sheltered. But there is no doabt that great imgnessious may be made on children by the introduction of Secripture toys and games. A good effect might be produced if a sofa cashion, for instance, were laid acroses the doorway, so that when the head of the family came home he would siumble over it: this would typify the “Fall of Man.” Or the parents and children might get into a large empty bath, and thengal'l the water tapapbe turned on: this would be a good illustration of “The Flood.” Again, with a water jug, a lighted candle, and a poker each, a few persons might get up a good imitation of Gideon’s assault on the Midianites, Many more games might be suggested, but these would be hsuﬂiciem, at any rate,’ to begin with.

./ Delusions of Girlhood. The following is- a bit of Fanny Fern’s experience : : ~ 1 used to believe in school frienship. That delusion ended when Arabelra Triplet told mutual friends that 1 was years and years her senior, knowing what a fib s{e told. : I uged to sufter pangs of anger because of woes.of beggars. Since then I have seen one unstrap his wooden leg in a area and run off gaily on two legs of his own. Another threw a loaf of bread in the gutter, and I saw a third who had all day been yelling, “Please assist the blind,” carefully examining bis collection of ten cent stamps b’v the light of a friendly apple woman’s candle. ' " I used to put the greatest faith in lover’s vows. - Now, 1 do not believe a man means anything he says to a woman, uhless it is gomething disagreeable. Fes I used to believe in faithful servants. Since then I have hired girls from intelligence offices, and lost all my handkerchiefs but one. ;

I used to believe in beauty. Since then I have seen a bewitching belle take off half her hair, all her teeth, the best of her complexion, two pounds of cotton batting and a corset. : - ————— — Care of the Feet. - Persons living in the country are generally too careless about their feet, and bodily health and comfort are injuriously affected by the neglect. On thia subject the Scientific American gays the people who are careless about their feet do not consider that the largest pores of the body are situated at the bottom of the feet, and the most offensive matter is discharged throngh these pores. When the stockings are worn, without change; from the beginning to the end of the week, they become completely saturated with the offensive matter. 111-health is generated by such treatment of the feet.— The pores are not repellants but absorbents, and the feetid matter, to a greater or less extent, is taken back into the system. The feet should be washed every day with pure water, and also the armpits, from which an offensive odor is also emitted, unless daily ablution is practiced. Stockings ghould not be worn more than a day or two at a time. They may be worn one day and. then dried and sunned, and worn another day, if necessary.

A country deacon went home, one evening, and complained to his wife that he had been abused down at the store shamefully. One of the neighbors, he said, called him a liar. Her eyes flashed with indignation. ‘<Why didn’t you tell ‘him to. prove it¥’ she exclaimed. “That’s the very thing—that’s the trouble replied the husband; that’s just.what I did do; I told him to prove it—<and he did prove it /7 bl Oiby e ) A satirical French author says :— ‘When I lost my wife every family with: which I am acquainted offered me another, but when I lost my horse ! not one of them offered to make him | good. o j : e — ———— If poultry is infested with lice, damp | the skin under the feathers with water, | then sgrinkle a little sulphur on the | skin. Let the -bird be covered with | insects or parasites, they will disap- l pear in the course of twelve hours. E e el ! To kiss a rosy cheeked girl, and | find your mouth filled with Venetian red, and she growing pale on it, is truly awful. | ‘ . A rual ediior in Indiana thinks the “plebicitum’ is a new kind of “French biseuit,” something like a Boston cracker. : . ' ; . i —*o’—'-——:‘—‘— i Condemnation of Radicalism. Viewed in a partisan sense, the election l of 'yesterday 'was ‘full of significance.— Aside from . local politics, which bave. nothing really of a partisan character in ‘ them, there was a national issae which | can not be ighored. Why did the rural Republicans manifest so much indiﬂ'er--' ence?: . Why has the State been: carried for the fourth successive time, and by so | enormous a majority, in the face of Presi- | dent Grant’s success with our finances ?— ' We think that the answer to these questions can be found in the acts ot congress, The people are not content with what is going at Washington. They disapprove of the gigantic strides the national Legis lature is ,tg,kini.tcw,ards an absorption of: all power in the Republic. They think. it abont; time the usurpation of Con%re;q 1 shall cease. Some semblance of local: power i¢ demanded by the people of this State, who do not propose to. permit Gon-, gress to.zir;iftl;ot pains and ' penalties upen, their directly chosen officers, and an other. ‘ways deprive thie great 'gom%quwmlih of ‘every right of government. <ln 4 measure, tho Wiiolehsurs GFthe people. was Mabi. fested yesterday gg” abggsh;s . Next November we shall be disappointed if they d:;‘ not: munifest it‘byﬁ'igm"‘ and: giving ‘an ‘enormous’ majority «g ! e e thas ¥7e (1 dependent.) - ot i

.., AN EXTINCT RACE. . Girls, a« &' race, areextinet. A genuine girl will soon be sufficiently a curiosity to be put in a glass case and -exhibited at a museum, along with the giantsand fat women ; not but that a real girl is not worth all the giants and adipose females ever dreamed of by showmen, but because of theirscarcity. . e By the term “girls” we mean girls, not “old girls” who wrinkle their noses when other people talk about ‘getting married, and talk in stage whispers of the bondage and slavery endured by patient, loving wives; mor those who fear younger are liable at any moment to commit matrimony, and who arenaturally touch-me nots, and” flowers already selected for choice bouquets, -but those darling, delightful, romping, roystering creatures who tised to make up the*short dress brigati_é, and thought it capital tun to go out into the country, and climb fences, chase birds and butterflies, regardless of the fate of their lacing strings, if they were silly etiough to invest in them, and do girlish things geterally to tlie intensified delight of big and little boys, and young men, and old men, too, or the matter of that. Things that showed that they were full of life and health and happiness. ° = But they are gone—gone ke the ame: thyst dews of a summer morning, and men of thirty 'begin to talk about the delightful joys of the olden time, when boys did not go to the bad at fifteen and girls of twelve were not marched like French soldiers on dress parade. = :

How much sweeter than simpering compliments ‘and 'screeching opera airs was the full-toned laughter of the girls we knew that bubbléd and gushed up from their happy pure hearts and rang out clear and silvery, till it made the robins and goldfinches skip out of their nest high up-in the topmost branches, and eet the magpies and thrushes to gabbling like echoes. B Talk about your gilded drawing-roomms, pianos and organs, and frosted confccts overtopping the silver ware of salon-like dining-rooms, in-connection with a-chil: dren’s party. It is like playing the Dead March in Saul for a galop, or Old Hundred for the lanciers. = ..

Boys' and girls' partiés used to be like the revelry of the gods, where nature was all and art was nothing. Where they kissed for love that was the purest and holiest ever breathed ‘trom human lips, and the happiest hearts_that ever made life's sweetest music throbbed and thril led under gingham beltsand velvet waistcoats; where the girls” didn’t simper, and pant and coquette and act the hypo crite, but were frank and outspoken, and if Matilda Smith thought. that George Jones was a “rude boy, and shouldn’t hold her hand nor put his arm sround her waist, no, not for anything in the world,” she told him so quietly at first, and if he annoyed her afterward with improper at tentions, -she wonld tell him so “hefore people.” They had faith in almanacs and clocks in those days, knew nothing about fashionable hours, and looked npon a good, jolly time as one of life’s sweetest boons. R . ,

But jolly parties are not the style now. They wouldn’t suit for the laces and furbelows of -the girls, and ‘the fine clothes for the boys. With all the glitter and glarc of latter day parties, they are melancholy affairs. Everything is prim and solemn, There is a perfume of flowers, and & shimmer of gaslight reflected from polished mirrors throughout the rooms and halls. - Chairs, sofas and fete e totes are arranged with the utmost precision, flowers iu alabaster and porcelain vases sit gingerly on spider legged bubl and marble and marble center tables Teady to be destroyed in the first fomp. i And what a solemn ¢oncourse of unhap py little marniking are the guests. . The: girls dressed in the hight of fashion, in silks and satins, bedizened with lacesand pearls, their bright, shiny hair crimped and crumpled and murdered by the hands of a-French artist, Taced till they gasp forbreath, and their feet tormented with tiny boots, laced or buttoned about their ancles ‘till thiey walk with difficalty;— while young gentlemen of fourteen adjust _heir neck ties, scan their polished boots for the slightest flaw, pull on their spotless kids with“the eare and importance of a French beau,and hand their partners to seats according to the strictest rules of etiquette. ai i i : And when they dance, what a solemn mockery it is upon good cheer. = They go at it with such a severe politeness, dignity, precision and amplob, that one would think that a platoon -of inexorsble mous: tached dancing-masters hell their batons over them. A solemn mockery—but that is not the phrase' to expressit. There'is no trace of the child or the girlin the whole performance. . . . L "The silks and satins, and lacesand gewgaws and farbelows, rob the little ones of what diminutive modicum of enjoyment there nnght otherwise be in the party of | the period. Everything is artificial to the last degree. Even:the littleones are made to think as well as act artificially, and a.si a.consequence; they: are even deprived of | the ‘opportunity of being women in the true sense of the word, for as they were never girls they can never be women, * _ Give us anything else than those suto matic specimens that are now called gitls —beings who cin romp and laugh ald‘ enjoy life, and who will grow up into ‘heaithful and useful women, worthy to be. the mothers: of Presidents and the wives of statesmen and warriors — charming creatures, too, with peach bloom upon. their cheeks and the.shimmer of stars in. their eyes, and from: whose 'voices the song-birds can- take lessons to advantage —genne g, and. oot gickc fowers th -@cm?ﬁhl'%:;, ath of heaven's pure: bracing air, Wwither in-their heaurifal sunlight.— Pittsbirg Post. = " B Al Wb | The Hoo. J. L. Worden, of Fort Wa tot oof v Ohildrn the other weck Hoth mu%znmﬁ themdiptime.: ~ - =

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No. 6.

Tug Cincinnati Gazette in'a fit of gen- - erosity to the Hnqguirer for voluntarily defending it, the Gazette, against the charge of a city contemporary that a subordinate position on the New York 7Tribune is greater than that of a Gazette correspondent, offers to wager any agreed amount a 8 follows: (“That the Enquirer can fur’ nish & man who, ‘with one hand tied behind him, shall write a better editorial, in. lesas time, on progection, on leaving the city for a farm, than Hoace Greeley can with both hands free. —On that the Z7«quirer can furnish a man who, lying flat on his back, can write"in one word all ‘that Horace Greeley knows about tarm‘ing, which he is taking an indefinite series of articles to tell.” : _ o T R P ¢ WHERE FLIES COME FROM.—-Flies will=oon be abundant, and most people wonder where they come from. Our readers, if they ‘remember the following para -graph, can answer the inquiry: The eggs -of the house fly are lnid in decaying vegetable’ matter, such as dead leayes and—especially‘in the manure of stables, ahout seventy or eighty being the nsual number. These soon | hatch, and the larvsgrows rapidly, feeding upon the substances found near it. After a short time the outer skin hardens, and becomes brown and tough, forming a case shaped like ia little barrel divided into rings. The trans formation of the larve is quickly made, and the animal is soon ready to emerge as & perfect insect. ' _ : ey o . Onp PARrsoN BrowNl.OW, the rottenest - man in America, except Moxa Morton, -once prayed that if he died at the North his coffin might be made open at one end so that he could crawl away from the aholitionists, This was ‘about the time le argued in favor of the divinity of slavery at Philadelphia, with the Rev. Dr. Pine. ‘Since the old hypocrite hus become a fif" teenth amendmenter, he has bought a lot in a'grave yard at Knoxville; 1n the Africsn department, and wants to be buried ‘there. The fun of the arrangement consisis in the fact that the- negroes objeet, as they do not desire to associate with the old reprobate, even.in the grave. A forced association in‘the latter days of lns life is as much as they can stand. Sl —_———— e —— " INsEcTS. ~~ The annual fight must be kept up. Wherever a tent caterpillar's’ ‘nest i 8 to be seen, there is a challenge to combat. The insect will get the best or it if it is sllowed time. Make it somebody’s business to destroy every pest, and let that somebody be yourself, if you wish it done faithfully. Jarring the trees and catching the insects upon a sheet or other .convenient receptacle, is the only certain wmode of warfare with the curenlio yet known. Begin early in the season; and early in. the morping. All washes and “invigorators” plague the inventor more than they do the curculio. = - .

~ Ix a letter to an editor of the Amei icax Agriculturist, John Johnston writes: “If gou put & good sounding be!l on one of your Cotswold sheep, the dogs will not be 8o apt torvm‘;rt them; but the best thing I ever tried is a little strychnine on a piece of meat—and .if the meat is tainted they’ find it better. T have often [g’nt rid ot dogs in this way. 'Put it sround your yards in the evening, and if the dogs come you will find some dead ones in the morn. ing: ' I onee’ got two in a morning, and several timesione)” = :

-IN reply to an inquiry, the American Agriculturist says. “Potatoes, cubbages, beets, rhnbarb, and radishes will not mix if planted near each other unless you raise seed. Corn shows the mixture the first season.. Pumpkins, melons and cucumbers do not mix with each other ; the different varieties of each crop mix readily, but the ‘mixture does not generaily show itself in the fruit until the next generation. Va-. rieties of beans and peas mix more or less probably by the agency of insects” . s b — A frait grower tells of the following ‘novel method of getting rid of worms in trees: “He bored a down mh? hole ‘nearly »tbrongh,,_,_,»‘__ _tree, filled it with e ouad. (he of te troe en masme, making a feast for eitik T s ;Qﬁck. The trial was on a locus heo, b‘lt ~our friend intends to try it on fruit trees”