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VOL. I.
PLATTSMOUTH. N. T., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8, 1865.
NO 31.
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WILLITTPOTTEKQER
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
PLATTSMOUTH - - NEBRASKA.
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or S..1.1 er. thnr - w. nJ niloot . Acent
tor th p-rrha-r art .-ale of L-n.l, and I Iry pr..pcr
t. Lfinif of Ttnemrut-. Ptn nt of Taiaa in all
art.of Nel.raf.a and Wrtrro Iowa. Attend, to
a; lns-ine... rtainin to Get.eial Land, Insurance,
1 ravine and t'..ilcct.on Airrnry.
J-(,t, r i- all hiii-ire?. n.en in Nebraska.
ruttMUwaib. S. T., May 15. 1W.
PLATTE VALLEY
G. W.CRCW,
PROP
I am piepare.l to fu-ni.h a'l who mr faor me
WUb thnr t,troiia((. , With lodg-ir. .1. giniea'. or
a,ardt.tbe-eek O.W.CKOW.
I'latiMuouth. April 1?, yl
MRS. L. GCLDING,
PRACTICAL
MID-WIFE,
, Ba prac.icd .uccIful y lor s.rral ye 1 a in K.
' 1 ouia and im Lravenoiih rny. r aoucaled. pro-fi-.tona
17. to Coalou. a K.
Mn. G.xlii K ha : mauently l-aed in ibu cuy.
f.r-wiH' tn the north- eat part ol town.
Jay 13 it
FOR SALE !
Thirty desirable business
and resi-
dhnce
LOTS IN PLATTSMOUTH.
Ten thousand acres of prairie and
her
LAND IN CASS COUNTY.
Terms to euit cash purchasers.
tim-
r. 11. wHiii.tR.
Krai rtate An',
Jdb 6, bi3
Conrt Horn, l'lat ruiouth.
NATIONAL MILLS,
DENVER. C. T.,
WHITTEMOEE& CO , Proprietors,
Hn all kind' of (H-aln at b'sl.efct maiketmt. Th
attratt. n .(thr nh irn a era of Nebraska 1 call-d
to the .uptrlo laciliti.'. atTonUd hii y these m.ll
la eon.itinif ii to a.-b the wh-at inf n idfo. the
Cclarad toa.k. t. S 3 ui
FOR SALE.
Eight or T 11 Tliorough
brd American
MERINO RAMS
They ere bred by J. S. Walker, Wanning Conmy.
K. V., and .irtd i-t h.a raii.ou . Id aiork tu. k
dei " aden" wm bred by w.rt. Ci'UiHf
t Vermont, acd l. a balf tuolhrr of hi ce b aird
Wk Monitor" -'Old Haden"' h. .hum 3 I S
J-Hinda of w.l of one yar'a ,iaw:h. For luitber
Ufariaatioa inquire of
J. Jf. WISS. rtttnwuth, or
4 C B WAlJi$B, Oar Font.
is
Mil. IV' A SB Y II AS A MOST UOR-
iiible: vision.
Saint's Rest, (wich iz the Stait uv )
No Oewej,) Oct. 1G, 1865. :
Last nite, weary and disgusted with
readin eleckshua returns, I picked up a
volum ur Cammeir Poems, and red
that splendid peese, "The Last Man.''
Ca mine 11 is a poiclc iber ain't no doubt
ur it. Ef my too partial friends ain't
too partial, 1 can tvfiop him on the sub
lime, but on the pathetics I acknollidge
him ex my sooperior. Ba that ez it
may, the poem made an impression on
my mind, wich is proof that there is
uihin into it, and my mind wuz a dtvel
lin onto it ez I sunk into slumber.
Ez yoomal I hnd a dream, and sich
a dream may I never her agin.
Methaut the epidemick, wich is now
devaslalin Europe, hed struck Noo
York. For a time, it struck down all
classes. The proud Caucafhen, the
hid jus nigger, the noble red man ur the
forest, and the almond-eyed Chinese,
all, all, fell afore the ruthless destroy
er. . 13 ut at last it abated, except so far
as the nigger wuz concerned. The
white man wuz spared, so was the injun
and the Chinese, but among the A'ri
kins it raged with redoubled fury. O,
it was cruhin ! The planter looked
abroad, and lo! the stalwart feeld hand,
wich was wuth SI ,500, was a cold
corpse, and the feeld was unplowed.
Agin he looked, and alas! the brawny
wench, wich alluz bore him a picanm
ny, wich was wuth S100 as soon as
weaned, wunst per year, and by a little
extra whippin did a full year's work,
was prostrate in the cold embrace ur
dfih. Agin he looked, and wo. to him,
the octoroon, for wich he paid S2.500
and whose girl babies he cood sell in
Noo Orleans as soon as they was 1G
for S3.000, on akkount of their bavin
his blood in their reins, was torn from
hi lovin grasp by the stronger hand of
disease, and wasn't wuth a ropper for
iiny purpus.
The DrMnocrisy bekum alarmed. The
indt fatigal.le lead.-rs whispered: "The
nigrer is fadin away poin he becums
exiiuck ! " Whereupon a consultation
ur the head men was held. In view
of the crisis, a pair one male and one
female, was selectid and examined by
n committee of expert examiners in life
insurance companies. They was pro
nounced perfeck specimens entire
souud and free from di-cae. These
two was locked up in a room, in a
healthy then, and twenty four of the
most eminent phjticians of the country
was detailed one to. ttay with them
one hour of each day, that, in case tlm
disease struck em, the remedies might
be applied tu-wunst. that, from these
two. the rce might be propagated, and
the cappytle of the party be preserred.
Dut all to no purpose. The lst nig
ger in the Yoonited States perished,
and finally these two were struct, and
notwithstaudin the precautions adopted,
they too died !
There was a season Nacher sympa
thiztd with the party in its alllicshuti.
The hearens was clothed with leaden
colored clouds, athort wich, ever and
anon, flashed gleams of loorid lite.
Low-voiced thunders muttered omi
nously, and birds and beasts run howlin
o'er the feelds. D. ay horses fell dead
upon the stony streets, and wild beasts
ruhed frantically from their coverts,
and snapped fooriously, madly, at wat
ever came in their way.
The last of the Afrikins were layin
prostrate in the hail. Fertiandy wood
entered, and as he seed em, he bustid
into tears. "Farewell," guhed he, a
long farewell, last of.a cussid race!
You was our tower of strength; you
was our corner stun; on you we bilded!
Hatred ur you gire me the Irish rote
of Noo York. O, how cheerin it was
to see them lambs bust your heads, and
innocently hang you up to lamp posts !
But yoo'ni gone yoo'm gone and
heniz4th life's a blank to me. Fare
well, rain world! for wat is life with
out a nigger!" aud seizing a jack-knife
he suw stickin out of the nigger's pock
et, he ftuck ;t into his stummick and
tslh i across the deceest Afrikins, ex
pired 'peeeful!y.
Franklin Perse approacht. "Ala!
and art thou one? Too troo, thou art!
In life thou wurt lorely. 'Twas thou,
alone, that made me President ; thv
w.ioly hed was my steppin-stun to place
and powei' Thou wast my right-bower,
my Ifcft aud ace! xEf I wai a Demo
cratic Saropson.'thou wast the bait wich
the Deliler, Death, hss' sheered orf.
Fernandy, I kum! I kum!" and seezin
the jack-knife from hi hand, he plung
ed it into his bowels, fallin across Fer
nandy. Valla ndygum approacht. "I. too,
must say farewell." said he, kisin their
cold features, "for thou wast my anker.
Thou twast, who made me Congress
man thou exiled ine, aud bate of thee
gare me S30.000 in ten cent pieces
when I was in Canady. Do I want to
go to Congress agin? No! no! I shood
be dumb, for the main-spring of my
elokence lies heref'and, takin the jack-
knife, he immersed it in his bowels, an
fell across Peerse.
Old Jeemes Bookannon, Voorheer,
Brite, and Florence, and in fact, all the
leaders of the party North, lo the num
ber of suthin over 200, kdin up, and
each makin a short orashen, stuck
theirselres with the jack-knife, fallin
across each other, as cord-wood is piled
Finally, I felt it a dootr I owed to the
party to foller soot. Seezin the jack
knife, I made ray orashen (wich was
teihen!) and was about to sever my in
testines, when I seed a quart bottle
stickin out of the nigger's pocket. Draw
in it 4th I pulled the cork. Glory! it
was whisky ! Two sucks and it was
gne the room tpun round, and I fell
senseless on the top of the pile of dead
Democrats.
Jest then Horris Greely cum in :
"Behold Democrisy!" sed h, "as it
was in the beginnin so it is in the end
in. Nigger at the bottom, whisky at
the top, ind a clink in the middle," and
holdin hid nose, he shambled out of the
room.
I awoke in a cold sweat, happy to
find that it was only n dream; that the
nigger still lived in all his cussitood,
and that we still hed suthin to go on.
PiTROLEUM V. NaSBT,
La It Pnstr ur iho Chunk ut the rs'oo
Dispensashun.
sew i.meisval rcve.mc
decisions.
The laws regulating the payment of
internal revenue are very explicit, and
the decisions of the Commissioner in
r-lation thereto have been so few aud
.lear that a wayfaring man, though m
fool, need not err as regard their re
quirements. Two of the points, beiug
not exactly understood, the Commis
sioner has recently added the following
self-evident necessary rulings in rela
tioj to the future construction of the
law : . '
Interested parties will please lake
notice that widows arc not required, lo
pay a tax on the income their husbands
might have earn-d if they had lived ;
neither are their second husbands re
sponsible therefor.
A man may deduct the rent of the
house he lives in, whether he pays the
landlord or not ; that's the landlord's
business.
A speculator who has made "fifty
thousand dollars this year on wheat, can
not deduct seventy five thousand dollars
lost four years ago on cheese.
A young man, who is entirely de
pendent on his aged mother for support,
is not required to pay her income tax.
The following is very important:
When a man and his wife each have
tipparate incomes and don't live togeth
er, and the wife boards with her aunt,
who is a widow and has property of
ber own in oil s'ocks, and the husband
is in the hnbit of paying his wife's
board or milliner's bill, the tax for
which he is liable will depend on the
amount of his revenue, if he has any.
His wife' aunt cannot be held respon
sible for his income unless the man
should die and leave no property, then
the assessor may remit ihe aunt's in
come tax except upon what the actu
ally owns
fi-S An orator, in appealing to the
"bone and sinew," 6aid: "My friends,
I am proud to tee around me to-night
the hardy yeomanry of the land; for I
lore the , agricultural interests of the
country, aud well may I lore them, fellow-citizens,
for I was born a farmer
ihe happiest days of my youth were
-pent in the peaceable arocations of a
son of the soil. If I may be allowed
to use a ' figurative - expression, my
iriends, I may say I was raised but we en
iwo-hilla'Iof corn." "A pumpkin, by
thunder!" exclaimed an inebriated chap
just inl front! of -the stage. Speaker
suddenly disappeared. ; .;.:
THE ORIUIIVAL. FENIAXS.
IAISH TRADITIONS AND HISTORY.
The following account of the ancient
Fenians of Ireland is from Morley's
"writers before Chaucer:"
"Irish tradition says that the Fenians
were an ancient militia, or standing
army, employed only on home service
for protecting the coasts from invasion.
Each of the four provinces, says the
tradition, hadt band; that of Leinster,
to which Fionn and his family belong
ed, being called the Clanna Baoisgne.
This militia is said lo have been paid
by the King, billeted on the people in
the winter, but to have lived in the sum
mer by the chase. And these are im
agined to hare been the qualifications
of a Fenian: "Every soldier was re
quired to swear that, without regard to
her fortune, he would choose a wife
for ber virtue, her courtesy, and her
good manners; that be would never of
fer violence to a woman; that as far as
be could be would relieve the poor, aud
that he would not refuse to fight nine
men of any other nation. No person
could be received into the service un
less his father and mother, and all his
relatives gave security thai none of
them should revenge his death upon
the person who might slay him, but that
they would leave the matter to his fellow-soldiers.
The youth himself must
be well acquainted with the twelve
books of poetry, and be able to compose
verses. He must be a perfect master
of defense; to prove this he was placed
in a field of sedge reaching up to his
knees, having in his hand a target and
a hazel stick as long as a man's arm.
Nine experienced solaiers, from a dis
tance of nine ridges of land, were to
hurl their spears at him at ence; if he
was unhurt he was admitted, but if
wounded he was sent otT v:h a re
proach. He must also run well and de
fend himself when in a fight; to try
his aciiviiy he was made to run through
a wood, having a start of a tree's
breadth, the whole of the Fenians pur
suing him ; if he was overtaken or
wounded in the wood he wa refused,
as too sluggish and unskillful to fight
with honor among such raliant troops.
Also, he must have a strong arm and
be able to hold his weapon steadily.
Also, when he ran through a wood in
chas his hair should not come untied ;
if it did he was rejected. He must be
so wift and light of foot as not to break
a rotten stick by standing upon it; able
also to leap over a tree as high as his
forehead, and to s'oop under a tree that
was lower than his knees. Without
stopping or lessening his speed he must
be able to draw a thorn out of bis loot
Finally, be must take an oath of fidel
ity. The Rer. Geoffry Keating, who
wrote a "History of Erin" in the year
1630, gravely says : "So long as the
terms of admission were exactly insist,
ed upon, the military of Ireland were
an invincible defense to their country,
and a terror to rebels at home and en
emies abroad." Goll McMorna had
slain Fionn's father, Cumhaid, in battle,
and was Fionn's mortal enemy in early
life. Afterwards he made a peace
with him, aud fought under him as a
chieftain of the Connaught Feniana.
But the supremacy of the Clanna
Bioi.-gne led to feuds, and at last Fionn
and bis clan, defying the throne itself,
were attacked by all the forces of Eriu
except those of the King of Munster,
who took part with him, aud suffered
carnage in the battle of Gabbra, where
in Oisin's son, Oscar, and the King of
Cairbra fell by each other's hands.
Fionn, who was absent, arrived only in
time to close his grandson's eyes, and,
after this defeat peace had no sweets
for him and war no triumphs. Fionn
died at last, it is said, by the lance of
an assassin.
"It is noticeable, however, that the
Fenians were uot confined to Erin. In
the ancient poems on the battle of Gab
bra we reaa of 'the bands of the Fions
of Alban,' (Alban being the old name
of Scotland Nonh of the Friih of Forth
and Clyde ) and the Supreme King of
Breatan, ( Breatan being Southern
Scotland, of which Dunbreatan now
Dunbarton "vas the chief seat.) be
longing to the order of the 'Feinno of
Alban; and also that 'the Fians of
I Locblan were powerful.' Now, Loch
Jan was an ancient Dame of Germany
1 North of the Rhine, bur when - Nor
wegian aud Danish pirates appeared in
the ninth cerrtory they were called
Lochlanaels, and the name of Lochlan
was transferred to Norway and Den
mark. It has been argued from thi.
that Fenians were not a militia of
Gaels, but that they were a distinct
Celtic race, connected with the only two
races who are spoken of as baring
come in oldest time from Lochlan
namely, the Tuatha de Danann and the
Cruithen. They are thought to have
been some of the Celts who preceded
the Germauii peoples now occupying
the North German shore and Scandi
navia.
THE fist dauy.
The fust baby haz bekum one of the
fixed stars of life; and ever since the
fust one was born, on the roog side of
the garden of EJen, down tew the lit
tle stranger of yesterday, they have
never failed tew be aabudget of mutch
joy an event of mutch gladness. To
wake up some cheerful mornin.and see
a pair of soft eyes lookin into yures
to wonder bow so mutch buty could
have been entrusted to you to sarch
out the father, or the mother, in the
sweet little fase, and then lose the sur
vey in an instant of the buty, as ihe
lading Angel lays before you to play
with the golden hair, and sow fond
kisses upon this little bird in yure nest;
lis this that makes the fust baby, the
joy of awl joys a feast of the harte.
Tew find the pale Mother ngin bi yure
sidemore lovely than when she was
wooed tew see a new tenderness in
her eye, and tew hear the chastened
sweetness of her lafl, as she tells some
thing new about "Willie" tew love
her far more than ever, and tew find
oftimes a prayer on yure I'ps lis this
that makes the fust baby a fountain of
plesure. Tew watch the bud on yure
rose-bush, tw ketch the fuat notes of
your song-bird, tew hear the warm
prase of kind friends, and tew give up
yure hours to the treture lis this that
makes the fust baby a gift that Angels
hav brought yu. Tew look upon the
track that life takes-.-tew see the sun
shine and shower tew plead for the
best, and shrink from the wust tew
shudder when sickness steals on, and
tew be chastened when death comes
lis this oh! lis ibis that makes the fust
baby a hope upon arth, and a gem up
in heaven. Josh Billings.
SOIll7ovFL'l7
A worthy woman lost her husband.
In the midst of her grief, she was
anxious thai his remains should be duly
honored according to the "proprieties."
She did the best she could with ber con
tracted premises to make the needed
room. Before the hour came for the
services, or the expected friends and
relatives arrived, in came the snuffy
Mm. Grundy, on a preliminary call of
curiosity or inquisition.
" Laws me," the exclaimed, through
her nasal organ, as she peered about;
"how nice you do look all fixed op
for ihe funvral very smart, indeed.
Burrowed some cheers, didn't ye ?
Bless me! got a new clock, too, tiuce I
was here last there in a corner, hain't
ye?" '
"Oh, no! oh, col" rocked out and
groaned out the disconsolate widow.
"Thai's my poor dear dead
hurbanJ. We had lo stand his coffin
up on end to make room enough for
company oh! oh!"
m w
Z-&f Two damsels passing through
a depot a day or two since, were hav
ing an animated discussion on the sub
ject of coitTure. One exclaimed, "What
do you think, Maria? It took me thir
ty-fire minutes, this morning, to make
my water-fall."
JfST "Dar are," said a sable orator,
add.-essing his brethren, "two roads
tro dis world: de one am a broad and
narrow road dat leads to perdition, and
ihe oder a narrow and broad road that
leads to sure destiuction."
"If dat am de case," aid a table
heater, "dis cullud indiwidual takes to
d woods "
t'3 "Sir," asked a newly-fledged
Legislator of a fellow-passenger on the
Hudson river Railroad, "are you going
to the Legislature?"
"No. thank God! not so bad as that
I'm going to the State Prison.'
IJ" The system on which Brigham
Young conducts his matrimonial affairs:
"Qaick retirns and email raorazTS.
VAEE4M3It.II mlU AS A MILI
TAItY MAN.
We find in the JIac a-Lhtzk Prits
the speech of Col. Donu Piatt, made at
Dayton the night befora he election.
His description of Vallandiham's ap
pearance as a military chieftain is reli
able:. "Why, do you remember, my fellow
citizens, that previous to the late war
this Cleenenl L. Yallandtghain was a
Brigadier General. I remember it, for
I saw him. I happened to be in Day
ton when the Governor of Ohio, on
special invitation, came here to inspect
the military and naval forces of Moat
gomery county. Oh, you needn't laugh,
it was a big thing; indeed, I may say
it was immense. An independent com
pany of thirty men, trussed up like
woodcocks prepared for the rpu aud
Brigadier General Clement L. Yallau
digham and siaff. Why, it ttruck me
that the style and name should have
been Brigadier-General Clement L.
Yallandigtudenhammtr and staff
Laughter. This was the military
as for the naval force I cannot say. 1
suppose upon the "ragin canawl," you
had a show abjet as imposing as the
Brigadier-General. I was standing on
the balcony of the Philips House when
the General came sweeping round.
"I taw kim but a moment.
llrthiiik. I sec liiia now.
With botub-ahelS woiked upon Lis tall,
And war upon bi. b:ow." Laughter )
'He was on a tremeuduus charger,
and had ft is breast Mulled out like a wet
nurse, and his bebitid I ke a buuty tail
ed rooster. Excessive l.iughier His
epaulettes dazzled the eye, his tearful
sword banged to and fro, and wide as
your streets are, they were not wide
enough for him. He came on canter
ing, caracoling aud cavorting. He
scared a woman with a child in her
arms on one corner, be upset nu n pie
stand on the other. And so he swept
by, out of the present, I believe, into
a glorious future. How secure our
country is wi h such defenders, thought
I. Great Clem! valiant Cle.n! ride to
glory. Ah! my friends, the vmniy of
human wishes. The war came; and
did Clem. like Job's war-horse, smell
the battle afar? Yes. my friends, and
immediately ran into the tall grass and
washed off the paint. And when he
came out bis swelling bo.-oin had wilted,
his bulbous behind had culLpsed ; nil
the pride, pomp and circumstance of
glorious war had disappeared, and the
late Brigadier-General Clement L.
Yallandigiudeuhammer appeartd as
Aminidab Sleek, the angel of peace.
This villainous sail petre, digged from
the bowels of the harmless earth, and
exploded inslitlls makes many anangel
of peace, who was bt for brave as Ju
lius Ca?sar on parade.'''
FA EE PLAXTIXO.
Fiiie.nd Culm an; 1 am very much
surprised at the general ignorance, or,
rather prejudice, against Fall Planting.
I plant everything from the smallest
shrub or rose bush to the cherry, pear,
peach and apple, with greatest success.
In the fall of 1SG3 I planted several
hundred shrubs, rose, peathev, cher
ries, pears, &c, and on y lost mue in
the whole lot, while similar trees "heel
ed in" the ordinary way, without pro
tection, were nearly or quite half ol
them destroyed.
I always earth up round each tree
about ten inches high, and almost cov. r
ihe smaller shrubs, 4c, thus turning off
the water in winter, and preventing ihe
plants from being diavvn out by ihe
frost. In early spring level oh, and I
will warrant twice the growth of fpnog
planted plants.
In the month of January, '62, 1 sold
a geutlcman 200 apple aud some other
trees, which were immediately planted
by experienced hands. The plow was
run through each way to hill them up,
and early in the spring the earth was
turned away with the p!ow. with but
Imle after cultivation, and 1 challenge
the State to show me larger trees of
ihe same age, spring planted. II.
Rural World. '
sal A sergeant, paseiug along one
of ihe t-ireets near the Tower of Lon
don, observed one of bis men sitting
against the wall. . He was the. worse
for liquor, and on asking him why he
did not go home, he replied, "Ob, Ser
geant! all the bouses seem to be pass
ing me; sol think I bad belter wail til.
the barracks come, and then I can go
in without any trouble."
CERE FOIt DRirthLMM SS.
"An Exiled Pole," describes in an
English paper, a cure for drunk nners.
He says that the paiit nt is si ut i p in
a room ai.d debarred from ail ctu.n u
nication except with his physician. As
often as he pleases spirits are given
bim mixed with tw .-thirds of water.
So also are all other di u.ks, as well as
beer, (, fFVe.or wine mingled with one
third of water. The various kinds of
solid fot.d are nil i r.-ptred with brandy;
consequently thf patient is in a atate of
continual intoxication. This lasts about
five days. At the end of ihal lime, the
patient implores oilier food, aud ever
afterward the tmell of alcohol acts as
au emetic.
JCST If four cats wiih sixteen legs
can catch fourteen rats with forty-two
legs, while u woman with two tongues
it saying Jack R binson, how many legs
must eight ra s have lo get away from
the same number of cats in two min
utes, due allowance being made for
tare and liei?
JK3" The Legislature of Mississip
pi has elected Gov Shaikey to fill the
unexpired term of Jeff. Davis in the
United States Senate.
CSyAn exchange say.: "Gov. Pir
p.mi, of Yirginia, called upon Mr.
Chirk, comptroller of currency, r!e-i,t-Iv,
and in course tf conversin'on stated
thai the Southern people "wouldn't
rtand such d d nonsense" ns b ing re
quired lo help pay the national deb' ;
whereupon Mr. Cl.irk politely indicated
to the Governor the direction of ihe
door.
Erar A manied bidy found her two
tons qiiiirrelii g.nnd iu hopes of putting
an end to their difference, utiered the
following: "You youtjg rascals, if you
doiid.sist directiy, I'll tell both your
fathers."
A toiiiiirjmau being a witness
ir. a court of justice, was a-tked by tho
counsel if h was born in wedlock.
"No, sir." answered ihe man, "I was
born iu Lincolnshire."
JJfSj1" A married man who wi re
cently at a whist party, when he pro
posed t. o home was asktd to stay a
little longer. "Weil." he rt plied, -perhaps
I may as well; my wife is proba
b'y as tnnd as he can be."
Greek m ti.l being itske 1 wh.t
fortune "he could brinjr to her husbiini,
repliel. 4I will bripg h"'in whut p ,1,1
ennnot rurnhnse heart unpiitu-d. and
virtue without a st.-iin, which it nil lh.it
descended to me from my p irents.
3r""Tliere'fj two wvi of doinr; it,"
aid I'.it to liim-elf, as he M'o.-d minin
and wiiitinp; for a job. "If 1 save ma
four thousand d jil us, I inu-l 1 tj t.p two
hundred dollars a year for twenty euri,
or I can put awny twentj dollors a year
for two hundred years now which, snail
I do?;
Cirk for Necralgia Utilf u dr:ichm of
nal-ittmuoniiic in un ounce cnamphor wit
ter, a teaspoonfull to be taken ut h dose,
and the dose rppr.-ite . sereral times, at
intervals of five minutes, if the pain bo
not relieved at once. M my persons huve
tried this remedy, and give it high re
commendation. Diptaeria Do not lorget that in this
and in other ore throat diseases, rljw
eating of pure ice, broken up in small
pieces, and fur hours at a time, id aroutig
the very best remidies. It should be be
gun at once, as soon an the soreness up
penis, aud a bad attacked may be pre
vented. Cure for Frlox As eoon as the part
begins to swell, get he tincture of lobe
lia, and wrup the pari affected v.i.h a,
cloth saturated thouroushiy wiih tha
tincture, aud the felon is dead. An old
phyaiciuu say he ha known it to cu.o
in itacoie ot c-iai'H, and it uever fails if
applied in season.
(JTIn the dining room uf ibe principal
hotel of Nanti'c'nei. is posted a notior:
' Guests will please arrange themselves
as to present a festive appearance."
fjyWhal a fortunate thing for the
United States that, in addition to its Ni
agara Falls and the Mississippi River, it
bus the Elair family.
There i a physiological reasoa for
calling this a fast age. The human pulse
has quickened from seven to ten throbs a
minute, over that of fifty years ago, says
a recent writer n progress
rpyin making each letter of tha ordi
nary alphabet, must take from three
to seven strokes of the pen.
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