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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
The Wind and the Moon.

BY GEORGE MACDONALD.
Said the Wind to the Moon. y will blow you out
You stare
In the air
Like ghost IN chair,
Always looking what am about:
I hate to be watched; will blow you out"
The Wind blew hard. and out went the Moon
So, deep
On heap
Of clouds. to sleep
Down lay the Wind. and slumbered soon
Muttering low, i've done for that Moon"
He turned in his bed she was there again
On high
In the sky,
With her one ghost eye,
The Moon shOne white and alive and plain.
Said the wind. l will blow you out again"
The wind blew hard and the Moon grew dim.
With my sledge
And my wedge
1 have knocked off her edge
If only blow right fierce and grim
Ihe creature will soon be DINNER than DIM.
He blew and he blew, and she thinned to a
"0ne puff
More's enough
To blow her to snuff!
One good puff more where the last was bred,
And glimmer, glimmer, glum will go the thread
He blew great blast and the thread was gone
In the air
Nowhere
Was moonbeam bare;
Far off and harmless the shy stars shone;
Sure and certain the Moon was gone!
The Wind he took to his reyels once more;
On down
In town,
Like merry-mad clown.
He leaped and followed, with whistle and roar
What's that?" The glimmer1ng thread once
more!
He few in rage--he danced and blew;
But in vain
Was the pain
OF his bursting brain;
For still the broader the moon-scrap grew,
The broader he swelled his big cheeks and blew
Slowly she grew--till she filed the height,
And shone
On her throne
In the sky alone,
A matchless. wonderful, silvery light
Radiant and lovely--the queen of the night.
Said the Wind, What marvel of power ana I
With my breath.
Good faith |
l blew her to death
First blew her away right out of the sky
Then blew her in what strength am l I"
But the Moon, she knew nothing about the affair.
For. high
In the sky,
With her one white eye,
Motionless, miles above the air,
She had never heard the great Wind blars.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
Couldn't Tell Why,

A near-sighted gentleman met an &C
quaintance one afternoon, whom he
saluted by name. "That amt M
name," protested the other. That
amt your name?n repeated the other,
with some asperity. Certainly not,
said the stranger. "What's the reason
IL ain't?" demanded the near-sighted
gentleman, with a severe look. But not
having prepared himself for such ques-
ton, the abashed stranger shrunk away,
but finally answered, "rm id if L
know; but can prove it."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
A Lost Opportunity.

A Texan tells this story of lost OPP
portunities: "Now you see." said he,
7'land was cheap enough at one time in
Texas. I've seen the day when could
have bought square league of land,
covered with fine grass and timber, for
a pair of boots"
"And why didn't you buy it ?" asked
his companion.
Didn't have the BOOTS" said the
Texan.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
Human BlOOdhOundS.

The Pontiac (Mich.) Gazette, speaking
OF the colored man, Edward Harris,
whose wanderings through the country
while suffering from disease have been
noted, says: The first intelligence we
have of Harris is that he stopped at the
Waverley House at Flint, stating to the
proprietor that he was sick, and unable
to 60 further. A physician DIR. Axford)
was sent for, who pronounced his disease
the smallpox, and requested that he
might be kept closely until arrange
ments could be made for his protection.
Instead OF obeying this humane advice,
the keeper of the hotel drove him off,
and got him on a car bound south, thus
lending his aid in distributing malig-
nant disease, that might have been put
out Of the way of further mischief if the
precautions of the physician had been
needed. This was the first error, if we
can call such deliberate cruelty by so
convenient name. When the conduc-
tor called for his fare; Harris acknowl-
edged he had the smallpox, and was
without money, and was dropped at
Grand Blanc at night, poorly clad and
half starved. Thence he started
through the snow, on bitter cold even
ing, with the fever raging in his veins,
to walk to Holly. The news, however,
preceded him, and before he reached
the town an officer met him holding a
loaded pistol at his head, compelling
him to make circuit Of the village.
His feet were now so swollen from the
cold that he carried his boots in his
hand and walked oarefooted through
the snow. Pursued like savage beast,
without food, slowly freezing in spite of
a high fever, he reached Davisburgh,
where he found brief respite, but was
soon started again on his way, after be-
ing detained for stealing, and reached
Pontiac, when, after wandering about a
few hours, he was finally taken in
charge by the city officials and confined
IN rudely constructed shed, where,
after brief struggle with the disease
and the cold, the poor fellow died on
Monday night, and it was with the ut
most difficulty that any one could be
found to bury him on Tuesday night,
but it was finally accomplished. The
old sieve used as a pest-house was i'm
mediately burned.
The late DIR. Marshall Hall, of Eng
land, said: If l were seriously i'll of
consumption, would live out of doors
day and night, except in rainy weather
or mid-winter; then would sleep in an
upholstered log house. Physic has no
nutriment, gasrings for air cannot cure
you monkey capers in a gymnasium
cannot cure you, and stimualnts cannot
cure you. What consumptives want is
air, not physic-pure air, not medicated
air-nlentv of meat and hraad y
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
A Great Western Waif.
From the London (Canada) Advertiser

FROM Inc London (Canada) Advertiser
The monotony of the trip of the
accommodation train from the Bridge
to London, on the Great Western Rail
way, on Monday night was revived by a
rather strange incident. Shortly after
the train left Hassishurg some ladies in
one OF the passenger cars called the at
tention of the conductor to disagree
able noise, like the whimpering and
shutting of a puppy, which appeared to
come from a seat close by. The con-
ductor looked beneath the seat, but
could find nothing of the kind. Still
he could hear the smothered sounds
and searching farther discovered a
small bundle on a seat, covered over
with an old newspaper. Uncovering it
he was astonished to find contained a
bouncing boy baby, apparently less than
week old, struggling hard to release
itself from the wraps that surrounded
it. The ladies took charge of the little
stranger until the train reached the
city, when it was handed over to the
Station Master. The company, we un-
derstand, have for the present taken
charge of the infant and given it out to
nurse. There is not the slightest clue
to lead to the discovery of the unnatu.
raj parent who so heartlessly abandoned
the little fellow to the mercies of the
world.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15

A VETERAN colored man of Mobile was
married lately at the age of eighty-three !;
and took occasion to remark during the
ceremony that he had been married
thirteen times already, but never got
out license before.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25

BURIAL OF GENERAL PATTON ANDERSON
AT the funeral of General Patton Anderson.
i'll Memphis. Tenn, Sunday, among the pail
bearers were Generals n. b. Forrest, Pillow,
Gordon, Brown, and Adams. The Ledger
of Monday relates the following concerning
the dead General:
"Nine years ago yesterday the battle of
Chicknmauga was fought. On that day
General Patton Anderson, of the Confede.
rate army, and General Lyttle, Of the Fede.
raj army, warm personal friends-met face
to face with their biigadeS, and after fierce
struggle General Lyttle, the geutemanly
soldier and imIassioned poet, was killed and
his brigade rcpulscd. A short time previous
GeHsral Anderson met General I.yttle at
Bridgeport, and Il mutual interchange of
courteSies took place even on the eve Of bat.
tie. After the fight some Of the soldiers
captured the personal effects of General
Lyttle, and upon learning this General An
dersOn caused the articles to be turned over
to him, and he forthwith had them conveyed
to General Lyttle's family. Nine years after
that occurrence General Anderson closed his
eyes in his last long sleep, and in the great
mysterious world of spirits, perchance, has
Joined the man whom he never ceased to
remember rs friend though he recognized
him as al enemy"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25

/ AraryAL op TIE PEausrAa.--Thse steam.
Iship Peruvian. az announced by sfeiegfapp'
arrived at Norfolk, Va, Monday from Liver I'VE
! moo, in thirteen dsys. slies brought MY;
three tire passengers, inglading thirty Height Eng
| lisb ten Irish, and I've returning Ameriean
tourists. Gsnsral spend!eton, former chie'
of artillery Of General Lees army, and {. z
Fulton, Esq, editor of the Baltimore Anaer,'
can, were the most distinguished passengers,
Mr.. PcutlIeton was accompanied by his vile
and Mr. Fulton by,~his two daughters
Among the other, passengers we're three
Young ladies'. who were met at the wharf by
three young gentlemen who arrived at NOR.
folk some time since. and who had made ail
ARRANGEMENTS to be united with the ladies OF
their choice, who were expected upon TINS
ship. Monday night the services OF the rev.
MIR. Barton, rector of Christ church, were
nut in reduisition, and six hearts were maze
happy. The following is a list of her cabin
and intermediate passengers: Cabin-Messrs'
W. II. Thornbury and lady, R. c. NJ. Young
w. E. Wright, II. Button, General Pendie-
ton and lady of Lexington, Va, {. {. Full
ton and two daughters. Intermediate
james Whitney, wife, and child Il. h. L.
Chapman, Emma Smith, Caroline smith,
Louisa Smith, Alfred Smith, James Smith,
Amelia Mckee, Arthur Mckee, Florence
Mckee
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25

A LIVELY CAMPAIGN IN TIE YAlLEY.-On
Tuesday evening last A. B. Cochran, Esq,
and J. n. Lisgett, Esq, delivered speeches
in Bridgewater, in Rockingham county, in
favor of Greeley and Brown. On Wednes.
day evening last speeches in favor of Greeley
and Brown were delivered in the court.
house in Harrlsonburg by Colonel James II.
Skinner, of this place; Moses Walton, Esq,
OF woodstock, Shenandoah county, and
ha,or i. b. Borst, of Luray, Page county. A
political discussion occurred at New Hope, i'm
this county. on last Thursday between Hon.
John i. Harris, nominee Of the Conservative
party for Congress from this district, and
Colonel Charles i. o'Fer1nlI, who is running
as an independent candidate in opposition to
Harris. At the same place on Saturday last
coioEei James Ii. Skinner delivered an able
and eloquent address In behalf of the sIec.
ton Of Greeley and Brown. .,,s,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25

4 VIRGINIA TowS.-A correspondent OF
the Alexandria Gazette says surprise IS ex'
pressed that the water power at Occoquan
has been permitted to lie dormant so long.
1t could and ought to he made second
Lowell. Joseph Janney, Esq, is running q
fine Touring mill which Is capable of turn.
ing out from seventy-five to one hundred and
twenty barrels of -four per day also fine
saw-mll. The exports from OccoqIlan are
in part 200 cords of wood per week, 1,ooo
flour barrels per week, 5000 hoop-poles PEI
week. $4,000 pounds Of sumac the season
(Which comprises about three monthsl and
other articles unnecessary to mention. The
finest granite quarries are immediately upon
the river
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25
DEATH OF DISTINGUISHED MEDICAL ARMY

DEATH OF A DISTINGUISHED MEDICAL ARMY
OFFIcER.-Dr. David Camden DeLcon.
Acting Surgcon-Gencral of the Southern
Conlederacy in its earlier days, died Mt Santa
Fe, New Mexico on the Sd instant, aged
about fifty'years. He was native OF South
Carolina, aud after graduating at Philadel-
phia entered the United States army rs sur
geon and served through the Seminole war
in Florida. AT the breaking cut Of the McNI-
can war he went with General Taylor TO
the Rio Grandc, was present Mt most of the
battles which led the vict0rs to the gatcs OF
Mexico. and entered that city when it sur
rendered. riding at General SCOTS left band.
For these services, rs well as for gallantry
in action (whem commanding officers were
killed or wounded and he took their place.,
DR.. DeI4eon twice received the thanks OF
Congress, hut was again assigned to frontier
duty in Mexico on the ground of his great
energy and hlrdihood. When secession took
place he ranked very high on the list in his
department was in sight of its highest place
by seniority. Yet he was one of the first OF
the southern officers of the army 20 tender
his resignation. When he did SO he was
sent for by his old commander and friend
General Scott, who refused to accept it. al
the same time Offering to send him to the
northwestern frontier with the pledge that
he should he kept there while the strife con-
tnued. In the alternative OF his refusal
General Scott threatened TO put him
under arrest, giving him few hour,
for his decision. He returned home
packed his trunk, and immediately
started for the South, and reported to Mr..
Davis, then Provisional President of the
Confectionery, who assigned him the diff
ticult but important task of arranging the
Medical Department, at the head of which
he acted for several months, until the resg-
nation of Dr. Moore (who ranked him in the
old army, under Mr.. Davi>s rule. gave that
another department, and to various places
during the war until it closed in disaster and
defeat, he shared the struggles and the suf-
ferinss of his brethren. When all was over,
with several other officers he passed from
Texas into Mexico, vowing he never would
return to the conquered South until she was
free. After Il years trial of Mexico he left
1t i'll disgust and returned to New Mexico,
whore he had been stationed for many years
and owned property. There he planted and
practiced his profession until his death. His
last years were darkeued by exile, disease,
and suffering.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25
me- BARGAINS IN POPLINS, DRESS
GOODS. ORGANIZES, La WINS, PERCALES

me- BARGAINS IN POPLlNS, DRESS
GOODS, ORGANIZES, La WINS, PERCALES
ALSh.
LINEN GOODS for boys
TOWELS. NAPKIG'S,
ALPACaS. &C., &cz-
THOMAS X. PRICE Il CO, during the present
month. 10 relieve the tctfjum Of dog days Will
rlose out many styles of SUMMER GOODS without
regard to cost. No list OF prices IL glyen but each
article will show for ITSELF .r-.s.
Also on hand, received recently by steamer and
express, t.-..-
NEW and PRETTY PRINTS, In American -ud
English; FL. ..... -- ..-..s..
WHITE and COZ ,ORED PlQUEs, 95 to Soc.
BLACK GRENADINES;
BLACK DELANEs: ...
LISEN-BOSOM SHIRTS GAUZE SHIRTS
HOSIERY. every grade:
LINEN and LACE COLLARS and CUFFS; ..'--
BL aCK and COLORED RIBBONS;
BELTS. CORSETS,
KID GLOVES,
THREAD GLOVES,
BUsTLES. new styles;
SHEETINGS, both linen and cotton: ...
PILLOW LINEN aud IRISH LINEN: ..s
DRILLINGS and CASSlMEREs. for gentlemen;
CLOTHS. YESTINGS, &c. a.. ...--..-... ....
NEW GOODS DAILY.
T.R. PRICE CO,
aus IDOL Main street, corner Eleventh.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25

The FASTEST TnREE-MILE TRoT.-Nothng
more clearly indicates the advantages OF
careful selection and perfect training than
the Improvement Of hate years in the speed
and endurance of American trotting horses.
Thirty years ago they were ugly, cawky,
and with very little shape or bottom. When
Dutchman, on the lSt Of August, 1879, was
trottcd three miles under the saddle in 1872
hv Hiram Woodruff it was regarded rs Il
wonderful performance. The horse was a
miscrably ugly brute, but pretty fair specl-
men of trotting horses of that date. From
that day until last Saturday the time of
Dutchman hud never been beaten. Num-
bprs of horses have sprung up who
have made their mile and repeat in.
side of the twentics, but us an exhibit
ton of endurance 7::i3a for three miles had
never been eqmalcd. At Prospect Park.
on Saturday the 21st Of September, the
mare Huntress made the same distance in the
unprecedented time of 7:215-tbat is, eleven
seconds faster than the best time ever pre-
viously made.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25

NOT Capitalization Saturday week, I'D
San Francisco, an importing merchant SOLD
a 81 900 set of diamonds which he had i'm
ported for Carl Schurz's wife to testify his
gratitude for assistance rendered by Senator
schurz in the way Of advice in getting bill
through the Senate. They were sent to Mrs.
Schurz, but returned by Mr. Schurz with a
remark that both he and Mrs. SchuIZ felt
that as the wife of Senator of the United
States sue could not afford to wear diamonds
until her husband could afford to purchase
them for her, and were constrained to refuse
this beautiful gift.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25
1ho ceiling Of the Repub,ican party to.

The feeling of the Republican party 10
wards the white people Of the South is pre'.!
well under .tood Notwithstanding hve OF sI'
Of those very white people themselves nave
undertaken 10 gloss over Radical hatred 70 u
and show the party in very io'ihs ''sh''
They preach forgiveness, while their c'ieh.>
from whom they expect their pay, utterly
renudiate their sermons. The New lofs =
nues is Jealous but indiscreet as an organ
and in Its issue OF Monday gives complete
erposf of the feeling OF hatred that nus Tue
Gs.sT Radicals. In a speech on saia't'a!
ont West MIR. GREHLEY said, IN ad'oc''.'ns
universal amnesty. that Il people wanted 10
vote for TooMss, while he did not want 70
elect him or men like him, yet he had no
right to say that other people should not vote
for him. The Times, commenting Oh ehS'
says: ss- a.
.Tbis makes square Issue. which Is easily
met. If MIR. Greeley wants to KNOW VINO
hive the right TO say that Jefferson Da's'
Roinrt TooIrbs, and their companions IN
Matching the treason Of 1861. shall not again
hold office In the United States, we answer,
The American people. These men are, a'l
fecbnicalities aside, wicked traitors. Had
then been hung as such seren gears ago me
scltoie ,corld. including majority q me
sout,erners, ,couid hare conceded me Jusace
of their fate. Weare now asked 10 remove
from our s!attte-book the last trace OF dlsal,-
proval of their treason and invite the South
to send them to the United States Senate. TO
this there can be but one answer. ANY man
who proposes it must be as baRd as q bdt ~
the temper of the people. Any man who,
like MIR. Greeley. proposes to count southern
votes, is US wrong-heartcd as he is wrong
headed" .t"
This is emphatic and clear enough. No
man can now mistake the meaning of the
Radical party-the heart Of the Radical
party. This writer thinks the "whole
"world, including majority of the south
"erners," if JEFFERSON DAVIS and ROBERT
E. LEE and TooMBs and SToSEwALL JACKSON
had been hung seven years ago, "would
have conceded the justice of their fate.' We
have rarely seen greater blunder than the
thinking or the publishing Of such senti'
ment as this. Many more rash avowals like
it would disgust and drive off the dozen
men in Virginia who are acting with the
GRANT party, for none of these dozen-to
their credit he it said -went into it with any
hatred Of their southern fellow-citizcns.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25

SUICIDE. DR.. n. A. Ware, native Of Vir-
ginia. and formerly surgeon in the Pacific
Mail Company's line of steamers, committed
suicide at Nangasaki, japan, on the 10th in
slant, by taking laudanum. He had written
Il letter to the United States Consul stating
his intention and his reason-povcrty DIR.
Ware was the adopted son of John a.
Thompson, Esq., of Jefferson county, West
Va, who married Miss Steptoe, Of Lynch
burg.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25
McGUIRE'S SCHOOL. -..
IfA EIGHTH SESSION.
FRANKLIN AND ADAMS STREETS.

]. j. MCGUIRE. Jr., university Of Frginia.)
Principal. Mathematics. sc.
F.. {. EENABtE university Of Nirginia), All
Client Languages, &c.
JOHN MARTIN. n. A., Washington and Lee
University Modern Languages. &c.
(30THl OF SEPTEMBER. and closes with the last
week In June, 1879.
The school-house will be enlarged and improved
as 10 warmth and ventilation to meet all pos
sible requirements.
The organization provides for preparatory class
and rs many regular classes will prepare STU
dent TO enter the universities Or to go into bust
ness"
TERMS FER QUARTER-PAYMEHTS IN ADVANCE
Preparatory tluss-a charges ............. Sio
Regular classes--tuition, except In languages
other than English ........:.:....:. II 80
Languages other than English, each ...... z -
Sons of clergy men-al charges. .......... IL 20
Proper deductions made when Il parent sends
more than one sou.
Circulars IN the bookstores or apply to the Trnci
pal S04, west Grace street. Sc ?-cCd:wstdm
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25

AsoruER MATCH FOR BAssETT.-lt was
thought by some when Lonslclow retired
from the track that Kentucky's racing glory
retired with him. The races now III pro-
grcss at Lexington, KY, have developed an'
other prodigy in the shape of War Dance
tilly, Aurcola, half-sister to Herzog. owned
bv b. G. Thomas, of Lexington. In two
mile-heat race Friday she made the second
two miles in $3.50. Bassett's time in IA two
mile dash i'll the kcnncr stakes in 1871, was
1854. Th, time is beaten by Aurcoh by a
quarter of second, weights up, after hav-
in. already run two miles in 1914 Thus
Aurcola has displayed wonderful speed and
endurance, two qualities that will make her
a dangerous antagonist of Bassctt or any
other horse.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25

A. II. STEPHENS ON THE GEORGIA STATE
ELECTloS.-Hon. Alexander FL. Stephens has
published letter regretting that Governor
Smith, the Democratic candidate for Gov.
ernor of Georgia, iudorses Greeley, but eX.
pressing the hope that it "will not cause Us
to withhold from him our support for the
Governorship Of the State"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25

MORTALITY OF BALTIMoRE.-There were
one hundred and siXty-four deaths in Balti
more last week, including eight from small
pox, being an increase of four over the deaths
from that disease last week. .-.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-25

Elk Governor WILLIAM SMITH AND Ex-
LIEUTENAST-G SHELTON +. LEAKE, of
Virginia (both popular speakers, have been
invited by the National Democratic Com
mttee to canvass the State of Ohio.