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The Lottery Maniacs.

LOTTERY buyers may be classified in
regard to special characteristics in hume
rous subdivisions. There is the man who
once secured small prize, and has since
spent twenty-fold its amount in the vain
hope of obtaining a successor of more re-
spectacle proportions. There is the man
who knows man who heard a fellow
talking of another fellow he once knew
who had drawn " capital" and he cites
the misty tradition as a certain sign that
he is sure to have the same luck. There
is the man who saw the new moon over
his right shoulder the previous evening,
and augurs from the accident that he is
to have good run of luck. There is the
man who wOos the goddess Fortune in
dashing haphaZard style, and pulling out
the first ticket he happens to get his fin
gers on, resolutely turns his eyes ceiling
ward, SO that he can thrust it into his
pocket without seeing what numbers it
bears; he has an unfaltering belief that
this way of doing the thing is vastly supe-
rior to any other, and is certain to brig a
prize sooner or later There is the man
who is an exact opposite, and makes the
selection of his ticket a matter of close
calculation of chances by looking over
the drawings for a number of days to get
precise information as to what numbers
have been drawn, and from this shadowy
foundation divine what ones will be
drawn. He is devout believer in the
solemnly uttered axiom of the lottery
dealer, that during the year each number
is drawn an equal number of times; and
if any one has not been drawn for several
days, he begins to purchase tickets, bear
ing it with an unquestioning faith that is
amusing to an unbeliever. There is
another man, however, whose faith in his
power of divination is as amazing as the
case cited is amusing; and this is the in
dividual who is certain that selected
combination of numbers is sure to be
drawn, and who rushes in frenzied haste
from one office to another looking for the
ticket bearing it, and, inconsolable if he
does not find it, nevertheless does not let
fortune give him the slip altogether, but
plays the numbers in that dclusive game
called policy. This sort of buyer can
never be mistaken. He is the person
who rushes into an office, eagerly calls for
the g Kentuckys," hastily looks over the
tickets, departs as hurriedly as he came,
and of whom the man behind the counter
remarks, before he is fairly out of ear
shot, lone of the sharps-he's going for
a sure thingn'-" Lottery Gamblers" Iy
Edcrard C,upsey, IN AprA Golo1y.
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Apples.

WITH us the use of the apple, as an ar
ticle of food, is far moderated. Besides
containing a large amount of sugar,
mucilage, and other nutritive matter,
apples contain vegetable acids, aromatic
qualities, etc, which act powerfully in
the capacity of refrigerants, tonics, and
antiseptics, and when freely used at
the season of mellow ripeness they prevent
debility, indigestion, and avert, without
doubt, many of the ills which flesh is
heir to-" The operators of Cornwall,
England, consider ripe apples nearly as
nourishing as bread, and far more SO than
potatoes. In the year 1S0l-which was
year of much scarcity-apples, instead
of being converted into cider, were sold
to the poor, and the laborers asserted that
they could - stand their work " on baked
apples without meat ; whereas a potato
diet required either meat or some other
substantial nutriment. The French and
Germans use apples extensively, so do
the inhabitants of all European nations.
The laborers depend upon them as an ar
ticle of food, and frequently make din
ner of sliced apples and bread. There is
no food cooked in as many different ways
in our country rs apples, nor is there any
fruit whose value, rs an article of nutri-
ment, is as great and so little appreciated
- NuteF CHge J1UFHtd.
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officer whose lawlessness is the subject of
complaint. In this, how singularly con-
spicuous is the resemblance between
Ulysses and Washington!
Washington deprecated nothing 50
much as party combinations formed to
further the ambitious designs of aspiring
men. Such party combinations, he said,
"are likely, in the course of time and
things, to become potent engines, by
which cunning, ambitious and unprinci-
pied men will be enabled to subvert the
power of the people, and to usurp for
thems elves the reins of government; de-
stroying, afterward, the very engines
which had lifted them to unjust domin-
ion" With what singular fidelity does
this language of Washington express the
manifest sentiments of Ulysses Grant,
Shortly after the retirement of Wash
ington from the Presidential office, in
1897, a British journal, published in Lon
don, commented at some length upon
in American statesmen, and especially in
Washington. 1t may be best to cite the
exact language of the British critic:
"On two occasions, at the distance of four years,
personal character and the public interests have
produced an orderly and unanimous election of the
Chief Magistrate of the United States sCitout one
eren TIE smallest, measure Of procvrement
Tho execution of the office of Chief Magistrate
has been attended. through term OF four years
{: eight with a circumstance which to an admring
world requires no commentary; native citizen of
the United States, transferred from private life to
that station, has not, during long tenn appoint
ed single relation TO any office Of honor eaOiu-
Neat.''
What British newspaper, even in this
day of bitter feeling between the two
countries, will speak in similar terms of
commentator of our Presidential
Ulysses Is not the resemblance be-
tween the administration of Ulysses
and that of Washington, as exhibited
in the foregoing, entirely obvious to the
British mind? Is not Ulysses expecting
to be returned to the high office of Chief
Magistrate " without one, even the small
est, effort or measure of procurement ?"
During his occupancy of the Presidential
Office has it not been noted by all the
world that he has not appointed a sin
gle relation to any Office honor or emolu-
ment?"
Where were the wits of Mr.. George
Bailey Loring, Plutarch, Federal Office
holder in the city of Boston, that he
should omit to dIlate with the gushing
enthusiasm which manifest1y is his ma
ture, upon these additional and altogether
striking points of resemblance between
Washington and Ulysses Grant. Chicago
Times
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CANTON, MISS, SATURDAY, MARCH 30 1872

tinct now, since the board had been re-
moved
'.Ho,c are you aU?"
| summoned courage to answer, "Nluch
better,' And then there came low
laugh, ghostly enough, certainly, to have
caused our blood to curdle had We not
been aware of the identity of the apparent
ghost
And so it was all explained, and the
mystery of the haunted closet cleared up.
| There was, as Mr.. Walton had said, a
speaking tube communicating between
the office-room and the distant nursery
placed there, doubtless, by the eccentric
English naturalist, DR.. Mather, for his
own convenience; and he, on leaving the
house, had simply carelessly boarded over
the mouths of the tube, not dreaming of,
or Indifferent to, the consequences of this
negligence. Probably it had been these
very mysterious sounds which had driven
away the last occupants of the house; and
certain it is that, but for the fortunate dis
covery of their source, we ourselves might
have been won over to the ranks of spiritu-
alists and ghost -belevers. Such results
have, ere now, been produced by slighter
causes than these.
The explanation of the various sounds
heard by us in the office-room is very
simple. The corresponding mouth of the
tuDe WAS III Il cloScl III TIE nuTScTN, pre-
cisely similar to that in the office. Nom
ma Abbey stored in this closet the various
cups, phials, etc, used in the nursery,
and, to secure these from the children,
the closet was generally kept locked. 1t
was the opening and shutting of this
closet door, with the grating of the key
in the rusty lock, that had SO often
alarmed me; and when it was open, and
a search going on among its contents for
some special article, the noises thus made
and the words spoken in the closet, could
be heard, more or less distinctly, in the
office Also, when the closet door was
suddenly shut to, it would produce a cur
rent of air through the tube sufficient to
slightly open the loosely hung door of the
office cupboard Master Freddy's idea of
setting a mouse-trap in the closet, baited
with poisoned food had added much to
the effect of the mystery; and it was
little Mary's voice which had pleaded so
pathetically for the three victims of her
brothers experiment, imploring that they
might be buried under the magnolia
tree.
Mr.. Walton used to say that it was al
most pity that the secret of the tube
should have been discovered, and there
by so capital a ghost story spoiled.
ne1's Monthly
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The People will Repudiate the Bar
gain.

A discussion is going on in the newspa-
pers concerning what Col. Forney relates,
in the fifty ninth number of his interest
ing Anecdotes of Public Men," about a
conversation between him and Gen. Raw
Inns in regard to Gen. Grants having the
Presidency for two terms, on condition
that he would kindly consent to accept it
for one term from the Republicans. We
are inclined to think there is good deal
in Col. Forney's story.
1t appears that just at the time the
affair is alleged to have occurred, Grant
was negotiating with the Democrats
about accepting their nomination and
this fact was known to many leading
Republicans, who had become nervous on
the subject. 1t is quite likely that at this
iuncture some of them conferred with
Gen Rawlins, and persuaded him to try
and get Grant out of the hands of the
Democrats, and induce him to take a
nomination from the Republican party.
negotiation was in this ticklish condition
that Col. Forney's article in favor of
making Grant the Republican candidate
was shown to Grant, and that therefore
he imposed the conditions about running
for a second term, which were reported
to Col Forney by Gen. Rawlins.
These conditions are characteristic of
Grant. When it is proposed to give him
anything, he desires to have the present
as valuable as possible, and when he
gets hold of really good thing he doesn't
like to give it up. Therefore the word of
Col. Forney is quite sufficient to convince
the American people that when Grant
was asked to stop coquetting with the
Democrats and agree to become the
Republican candidate, he was quite will
ing to accept the Presidency at their
hands provided he could have it for two
terms.
Besides this, the whole negotiation, as
detailed by Col. Forney, was conducted
by Grant on such a purely money making
basis that nobody will doubt that Gen.
Rawlin's report of the conversation be-
tween him and Grant was strictly correct.
Grant evidently regarded the negotiation
as huckstering transaction,-am mere ques-
ton of whether he could accumulate the
most cash and get the most presents by
sticking to his Generalship or by becom-
ing President for one term, with con-
tingent remainder in another. We insist,
therefore, wholly aside from the undoubt-
ed veracity of Col. Forney and Gen.
Rawlins, that Grants course as to money
making and gift taking since he became
President is of itself sufficient to establish
the truth of this story.
But the more important question is,
Who is bound by this arrangement? 1t
seems to have been entered into only by
the party of the first part-that is, Gen.
Grant. Surely neither Gen. Rawlins nor
Col. Forney undertook in this transaction
to bind even the Republican party; and
much less were they authorized to speak
for the American people, who will put
their quietus upon this nice little plan at
the polls in November.-NeaoY York Sun.
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4 Rabid Bride.

ABOUT eleven weeks ago young lady
named Cox, daughter of Miles Cox, Of
Stoddardville, went into the yard to kill
some chickens. The dog followed her,
and, picking up one of the chickens, ran
off with it. she chased him with a stick
to recover it, and coming up with him, he
turned upon her and bit her in the arm,
decorating it fearfully. Her mother and
brother, coming to the rescue, were also
badly bitten by the Infatuated beast The
wounds healed, however, and nothing
more was thought of the matter.
The young woman was engaged to be
married to young man living at Colds
boro, named Alfred Kerrick, and the we'd
ding was appointed to come of at that
place about two weeks ago.
On the wedding morning, as she was
about TO perform her ablutions, the sight
of the water sent shiver through her
whole system and frightened her, and at
the breakfast table the coffee had such an
effect upon her that she spilled it over
the table. She then complained of feel
ing unwell, and her friends advised her
to remain at home, but she said she did
not want to disappoint AL, and, accom-
panied by sister, proceeded to Colds
boro, where the wedding ceremony was
performed.
Immediately after this she was seized
with spasms, bearing all the indications
Oh nNuTopnDDld. III one Vi uct IuSiu III
tervals she warned the company that she
would bite them if they did not keep away
from her But" said she to her hus-
band, al, You need not be afraid, l
won't bite you"
In one of her paroXysms she bit a lady
who was endeavoring to soothe her. 1t
was the wife of Doc. Hoffman, who drives
the stage from Goldsboro to the Sand Cut,
on the ID. l.. e w. r. +.
Coon bar huS that
she would not bite him she was seized
with commissions, and, laying back in his
arms, died.
The other members of the family who
were bitten by the dog have not, as yet,
displayed any symptoms of the disease,
but they live in hourly dread.-PfHst0B
Pt) G0se'te.
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77lg-4DFL OF. BATTLE HOLLOW
BY BRET HAErE.
War of the Rebellion. 1864. }

49, (war of the Rebellion, 1851
No, Iwon't-thar, now, sol And it amt nothin',
And thar's nary to tell that you folks yer don't
And its Belle, tell us, do.' and it's Belle, is it
And .swot's this yer yarn of the Major and yous''
Till I'm sick OF it all,-so am, but s'pose
Tibet is nothin' to you.- Wen then, listen! yer
goes:
1t was after the fl light. and around all night
Thar was poppin' and shootin' pow erful sight:
And the niggers had fled and Aunt Chic was abed,
And Pinky and Milly were hid IN the shed;
And ran out at daybreak and nothin' was nigh
But the growlin of cannon low down in the sky.
md saw not a thing the spring.
But splintercd fence rail and broken-down
- swing
And bird said ..Kercheei'' as it sat on tree,
As if it was lonesome and glad to me;
And filed up my pail and was risin' to 90,
When up comes the Major cantcrin' slow.
When he drew in is reins, and then
On the gate-post his bride, and-what does he
But come down where 1 sat; and he lifted his
And he says-well, thar ain't any need to tell
IT was some foolishness, sure, but it mounted TO
this
Tibet he asked for drink, and be wantcd-a kiss
Then said Il was mad) '.For the water my lad,
You're too big and must stoop; for kiss, it's as
You amt near big enough And I turned in a
huff,
When that Major he laid his white hand on my
cuff,
And he says, You're a trump. Take my pistol,
don't fear,
But shoot the that insults you. my dear
Then he stopped to the pool, very quiet and cool,
Ieavin me with that pistol stuck there like fool
When thar flashed on my sight, quick glimmer of
light
From the top of the little stonefence the right
And knew twas u rifle. and back of it all
Rose the face of that bushwhacker Cherokee Hall ,
Then felt in my dread that the moment the head
OF the Major lifted. the Major dead:
And l stood still and white. but Lord, gals, IN
spite
OF my care, that derned pistol went off in my
fright
Went of-truc Gospil and strangest of all
1t actooally injured that Cherokee Hall.
Thet 8 all-now. go long. Yes, some folks thinks
it's wrong.
And thars some wants to know to what side be-
long;
But 1 says. SERVED him right - and CO. all my
might,
In love or in war, for fair, stand-up fight:
And as for the Major-sho! gals. don't You know
Thct-Lord ,--thar's his step in the garden be-
low.
--iHdntic Monthly.
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in TIE land claims it by right of a bargain,
and intimates that he consented to accept
it once only on condition that he should
have it twice, he offers wanton insult to
the office, and to the people who
have the hestowal of it. Col.
Forney and the Presidents adherents will
certainly renominate him; but on the
matter of rejoicing him, the people will
have something to say, without regard to
bargains made four years ago.-Nissouri
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The Collage CoUrdAt says some members
of the Yale class of 1871 lived ON $3.50
per year, and others expended $500. e.,
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Il is reported that the eN-Prince I'm
periil of France ill visit the United
States next summer. He is now sixteen
years of age, and is said TO speak. five Ian
guages tluently.
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was of no use to us. The roar of the
surf prevented any communication and it
was evident to us that the deck on which
we 1oated must soon go to pieces. In
few moments the breaking up commenced,
and we were all thrown into the surf. Bv.
the kindness of those on shore, nearly all
were saved from the pilot-house and up
per works. [ am unable to say at present
how many of the crew and passengers
were lost with the hulk"
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Current Opinion.
CAN THEY BE TRUsTED.-THE TRUE ISSUE.
From the Inter Ocean.

1hUSIEDs-THE Fl.
From the Inter Ocean
The Springfield Republican, the fairest
and most conscientious of the former Re-
publican Journals which still support Mr..
Greeley's candidacy, published signif
cant article, few days since, in which
under the head Can They be trusted p"
1t essayed to present the true issue in the
pending campaign. In The first part of
Its argument it conceded the point that
Mr.. Greeley would be, Gnd ought to be
defeated if those who are supporting him
could be proven guilty of a desire to
make way with the results of the war. to
overturn the constitutional guarantees of
universal freedom and citizenship and
either to again attempt the disruption of
the Government or to force the payment
of Southern war debts and the pensionlng
Of rebel soldiers. The Republican does
not bubble over the point that it is Mr..
Greeley and not his supporters, that is to
be voted for but, with candor that is re-
freshing just now in Confederate organs,
it comedies that an Admins ira ton must
take its character from the overwhelming
majority of the men who support it, and,
therefore, if the supporters of Mr.. Greeley
can be truthfully charged with the pur-
pose to do or to attempt to do any of these
things before enumerated, he should be
defeated were he ten times the better man
that Mr.. Bowles believes him to be.
The candor of the Republican very
greatly simplifies the true issue involved
in the contest between Greeley and Ora Mt;
and agreeing with it fully in this propo-
sition, we are willing to accept argument
upon the second and vital question: What
IS the purpose of Mr., Greeley's support
ers, and in what direction will they color
and shape his Administration To learn
this properly, man of common sen sc
ready to apply the same rules of action to
this duty that lie would to the commonest
affair of every day business, must go al
once to those who can speak en- cathedro
for the great majority of Mr.. Greeley's
supporters. For we suppose, by this time,
no man is insane enough to believe that
nine-tenths of his following will be other
than Democratic, and that of the most
ultra and virulent Democratic type de-
veloped in the past fifteen or twenty
years. The men who precipitated the
country into rebellion; who upheld the
fortunes of the Confedracy to the last
whose treason cost us the long and bloody
war who sacrificed half million of lives
and billions of treasure in the mad effort
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A Greeleyite writes from North Carroll
ma; "My faith in the wisdom of univers
sal suffrage las been more shaken since I
have been in this State than ever before"
Poor fellow! His faith will be more
shaken when he hears from the other
States. The trouble is, the Greeleyites
are on one side and the people on the
other.-z0ge0o Blade.
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HH ANDRE, Manufacturer, Wholesale and Re.
NE tail Dealerin Cigars, Plug, Cut, Oh Wing
andSmoking Tobacco, Snuff, Pipes &c. iscigars
are lmade from bestqualities of domestic and
imported tobacco, and sold to tit trfde a. Lowest
cash rates Also, constantly on land som efinr
Neerschaum pipes. Orders promptly filled Base
ment Lyman's building, cornerof Main and Mae
ket Streets.
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~ DOAN, dealerin Dry Goods, Staple and Fan
40 cy Goods, all kinds Of Cloths, Ready Made
Clothing, Gents Furnishing Goods HTf and Gaps,
&c, &c. Let it be remembered, thai we keep
nothing but irstclass goods, and further | wi
not be undersold in this any other western ethyl
EimLall's Block, Main ST. Kenosna, wis
1v1S
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SID whitaker % CO., Manufacturers q
HGo Ii 4ard Patent eamless skeins Steam
engines and boilers, and all kinds Of Machinery
Also SielghShoes, Cauldron Kettles, Sash Weights
&C. Repairing done to order. We have bought
rom the general agent, S. s. Drum, the x tras be
longing to the Screw Power Reaper and Mower
and will do repairs upon the same, and also upon
any machines now in use.
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ENELLoWs & co. No. Kimball's Block. Keno
II sha, Dealers in staple and Fancy Dry Goods
Yankee Notions, Carpets, Oil Cloths, &C., &c
None but the best quality of goods purchase and
those sold as cheap as at any other Houseln the
city. lYI5
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mn YRoN A. BAKER, Attorney and Counsellor
AVE- Law, Real Estate Agent and Justice oftbe
Peace, Conveyancing and Collection O f Claims
promptly attended to on liberal terms. Office in
Kimball's Block, cor of Main and Park SITS. wi
Renosha Wisconsin
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NE EAT MARKET. Main Street, KenosLa, Wis
I'VE The choicest of all kinds of Meats, Sa PORK
Corned Beef Smoked Hams, Sausage. &c, de-
constantly on hand. Prices always reasonable.
% WIN. ENGLE 81 co.
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nRS. GATCHELL and CLARY. Office
NJ at DR.. Clary's residence, corner of Park and
chicago St., where DR.. DIARY can be found day or
night. DR.. GatchelIs residence at Oak Grove
SanltariuM Family cases supplied and REALIZED
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nEWEY 81 SINCLAIR, General Dealers In
kP hardware stoves of all descriptions, sheet
iron, zinc, hollow ware, nails, brads, door
hangings, shot, powder. &C., &C. Everything
usually found in frstClass hardware store con-
stantly on hand and soldas cheap as the cheap
est. 32tt
81 Main street Kenosha, Wis
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mnHNsoN,s BOOK sTORE

EgAHNEN BROTHERS, No. 70 Main st. Ke 2osha
az Merchant Taiiors We keep constantly on
Aand well selected stock of cloths, Gents Fur
nishing Goods, Ready Made Clothing, Hat and
sold as cheap as at any other establishment the
city. lyl9
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a, IL URG,

Has removed his Barber Shopt TO No. 81 Main ST
first door north o Thos. Enghsh's shop, which
building hehast horough lyrenovatedan and fitted up
in the bes possible manner. and where he WILDE
happy to meet his old customers, all who reqUit e
his services in the art tOnsorial,