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The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-05-16


man for breach of contract under the Ioiio"-
ine curious circumstances: She had Il 1arifi
which he wished to purchase. and she oflefea
the property and herself for twenty Thousand ''a
dollars. refusing ia sell one without the
other. He accepted. paid the money, 2ot
tho title-deels to tile land, and felt 50 salts
fed with his bargain that he restored o'.e
half of it to her.
as that halt was herself sh declined the
generous gift with thanks, aaet insisted f't'
she,,ld marry her. He refused. and she SUES
him for breach OF contract. and there is
o,o.v reason to believe she will win the SUIT.
Now If man can't do what he likes with
his own, it is hard indeed.
If we are to be sued and made to suffer the
nonalties of the law every time We see III g
indulge in piece of thoughtless generosity
| some Of the kintlliest feelings Of our common
nature vii! receive shock that will rove Ia
/ +aI to them. lf we buy a piece OF WOODED
/ land and determlpe to make the former OWL
/ or . present of the wool, shall he sue as for
breach of contract!
/ It We buy we'll stocked farm, and con-
elude to give pig, COW. or narse away
shall we be plunged into q lawsuit! Il Is
unnecessary to cite further examples rs
nroof Of the absnrdity Of the whole ai1a'r'
/ If ve were that man we would marry our
persecutor join half a dozen clubs. a mason
4 ic lodge, a military company. and sporting
club. and try to make her as comiorsaple az
4 nossih,e-upler the circumstances !-lEA-
change.
] Nevertheless it was clear breach o.
1 pronaisc of contract.
i THE Dolly VARDEN.-Fhe Washington
4 Stnr thus describes dolly Warden:
4 s.Dollv Varden'' Is a MORE antique dress pat
Il tern and it is made OF some material. ana !
cut biased at the top aud bottom and tFsa''
i med wi h Honiton polonaises ard tube roses
with pcplum running two ehains and three
4 Il ks to the Southwest from The starting
8 noint. around the skirts OF civilization, ahe
! nfnned together with a patent seffac'ihs
safety rin. The figures are SO large that !
takes eight dress patterns to show then, OF
to advantage.
a Fancy farmer sent in the following true
reaort az his agricultural operations TO TN
4 assistant assessor oi the revenue tax Mr.. N
4 Ny farming operations have 20 report y
follows: NY cattle baYe eaten ZIP n'y crops
lantI my hired men have eaten UP all ms
i cattle.
-Smiil, and Jones were at the menagerls
ana the conversation turned upon Darwin
.I theory Look Mt that monkey SAID Sini1ll
.ahink Of its being Al, sinsievelopctl human.
/, s.Hunns,,.'' SAID Jones eentemptnons'y, ~
The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-05-16

SWEET sister Now. don't be cross boy
have this nice Jam ma has left IL. saross
boy 'Shan'l! Don't like il. Fain't halt So
good as ii she had forgotten her keys and
we'd prigged in
The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-05-16

Loving wife at BrigIton:s s'rhc horrM
surf makes me keep my .nnath shut sar-
castle husband: s.Take some Of It home
with yonsu
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The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-05-16

Smith and Jones were at the menagerls'
and the conversation turned upon DarMi'i's
theory. ..I.ook Mt thai n,onkey;' said Smith,
.ahink OF its being All ilntievelopcss Anniall. !
s.Humal,.'' SAID Jones eentemptnons'y, "a
n, more human than [ am
The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-05-16

AL.p, converted Il gcntleaeaa to sie r.
male suffrage dnc,r,ne the ether shiy. Hs
me. llrr III the stree, tIiringa storm, ana
lent her his nnli,rella: slle has mt rrInrnesi
ii. and III heii:ses now tii;sf women snnuiu
have Just tle sane privileges Is spesi, aud ne
more
The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-05-16

At hast. after long, long waiting. the san
tary d"tachmcnts came 10 me.
The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-05-16

i LtsGrus YsinGr.t long brifissst-7,-iil
a,ct lie longest III the wnrlt'---lson the lice
Of the aIobilr AMI Montga,nery Railroa't II
extends from Tensas station to the city OF
Mobile. distance II tifiefn miles, crossing
tie Mobile and fenSas rivers. and inelrsiing
rr,s.a a. aMs--nne FIR each at thu nsvigable
channels info which the rivers are dtvitet.
Tile br,l ~ itself y constructed oi woati. .a,t
ifs :irrs cr supports reirpn eyli,,ders which
/ rest OH snIi,. suftscc Of yeatieii piles
driven down evenly.
The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-05-16

THE YEAR sEvESTI-fwo.rrhe year 1879
contains fifty-svo sundays. September and
December eseh beginning on 4 Sunday.
January. April and Ilsfv on Monday .--octo-
Der is the only month beginning on Tuesday !
February began aud ended orThnrsdav.,
Consequently we had five Thursdays, which
will not occur again until the year 1900 Tfts
wear 1890. February will have ffye sundays
which will not ncc.ir agair. siatii the yesf,
1920. The year 1871 began OH sunday ami
ended or si,a,lay. This will occ''r again IN
1ss2 and every eleventh. year tllcreasfer.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07
Buffalo Bill I'm Cleveland.

BUFFALO BILL" the original, genuine
'Bill," who has lifted more hair, wiped
out more redskins, killed more grizzlies,
and raised more particular mischief gen.
orally upon the plains than any other
man, according to Ned Buntline, passed
through this city on Friday last, on his
way East. Buffalo William only stopped
in this city long enough to ''carrol' suffi-
cient provisions at the depot dining hall
to last him to Buffalo He was attired in
the usual buckskin suit so often described
in 10-cent works of fiction, and created
much CONSERVATION among the sable
walters by eating his beef entirely raw
and cutting his bread with bowie-knife
that he had twisted around among the
vitals of scores of Indians, as the notches
on the handle prove. He wore a gray
shirt, upon which flashed the fifty-cent
solitaire that Alexis gave him for his SER
vices in the recent buffalo hunt that has
flooded the country with cheap meat and
nearly ruined the butchers. While leis-
urely awaiting the departure of the East
ern Express, "Bill" amused himself by
throwing his railroad ticket in the air
and shooting it full of holes with his re-
volver, often putting six bullet holes
through the same before it fell to the
ground. While thus engaged, tobacco
dealer came into the depot, bringing a
large wooden Indian which he intended
to express to Painesville for cigar deal
er's sign.
No sooner did B. b. see the blood
thirsty demon of the forest than a change
swept over his countenance like a cyclone
over duck-pond. Giving an ear-pierc-
ing yell, that would have delighted timid
young ladies who want to wear earrings
but dare not have their ears pierced by
the ordinary means, William gave leap
seventeen feet into the air, and came down
on the white-wood savage like thousand
of brick; quicker than the lightning's
flash he stabbed the unsuspecting Indian
to the heart, and before the latter could
use the Tomahawk that is immovably
fixed in his hand, he was cut into mince-
meat, and his enemy waved aloft the
wooden top-knot that had decorated his
finely carved head. The bystanders stood
aghast at the fearful tragedy, and the train
moving off at that moment, Buffalo
Bilp' stepped on board as calm as ever,
saying, as he removed the slivers from his
knife, waugh! another red devil wiped
out. Skinfiint, my old comrade, you are
almost avenged!'-C -C1ereldnd Leader.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07
OyerwOrk.

GLAD fruition, enjoyment and rest,
ought to be the farmers lot in winter. If
crops are all stored, animals well shelter
ed, buildings in good repair, why not
have little relaxation? Why keep the
mind and body on a strain the year round?
Excessive use of the lantern to lengthen
the winter day is wrong. If your indus
try is prolonged as many hours in winter
as in summer, you may have some dis
count to make on the years of your future
active usefulness.
There goes a young man who hires a
farm of 160 acres, sells milk, and gets
m 1ney faster than some of his neighbors
who own farms. He is up at four o'clock
in the morning. Nature protests, but the
alarm of his faithful eightday clock sets
up its clang, and, more obedient to his
will than his inclination, he springs from
his warm couch and cuts one or two
hours from his rest. He will gain money
enough from those milk-cans to buy a
farm in Iowa. "But," says an experienced
man, with gray hairs, STOPPING shoulders,
large finger.joints and trembling nerves,
''he'd better not do so, for he is cutting off
the years from his life, and planting seeds
of rheumatism that will come up and give
him right smart crop before he is sixty
l tell him that his countenance begins to
look old, even now, and if he don't stop
burning his candle at both ends, he will
sometime be worse off than one of the
foolish virgins who had no oil in her
lamp"
Play on a violin two hundred years and
its tones are not less mellow-it loses not
in brilliancy or value, though you keep it
vibrating night and day; but this "harp
of thousand strings" must not be over
strained or abused, else its form will
become bent, its strings broken, its
voice cracked, and its usefulness at an
end.
81 am played out" said Uncle Robert.
am lame and cannot work. When
was twenty 1 could leap over any of these
fences. / could lift more weight than any
one of my age hereabout. i could work
sixteen hours a day in my shirt-sleeves
the year round. / bought farm, lifted
the mortgage in few years, and then got
money ahead. l dreamed that / would be
a fat, easy, rich old fellow. joke and laugh,
and take the good of my labor; but here
am at sixty, the flesh all off my bones,
and so full of pain that half the time
life is burden. And this comes of let
ting the dew fall on ones shirt-sleeves,
putting on too much steam, and playing
out ones best cards before the game i:
two-thirds finished. &c. p o., an Rurdl
Home.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07
The Northern Pacific Railroad.

We have taken frequent occasion du-
ring the past year to speak in terms of
praise of the great enterprise of building
the Northern Pacific Railroad. We have
referred to its importance commercially.
to its paying prospects, to the broad acres
and vast wealth which it will unlock to
civilization, and to the complete security
offered to investors in first-mortgage land
grant bonds. We are now prepared to
say that our favorable predictions are to
be amply verified. The progress of con-
struction has been so satisfactory as to
convince the skeptical, even, that the
road will be speedily built. The sale of
the bonds has been above the most san
guine expectations of its fiscal agents
amounting to many millions of dollars
during the year and so great is the con-
fidence of holders that during the recent
panic but 50, 900 of these bonds were of
fered to the agent for repurchase The
line is completed across the State of Min
nesota, which, with the purchased lines
gives a total of SO miles of finished road
now under the control of the company
and the contracts now let, to be completed
during the next year, will increase the
miles of finished road to over / 200. Set
Elements along the line go hand in hanC
| with construction, and are greatly stimu
lated by the richness of the soil and tn,
general adaptability of the country to re
munerate labor. The enterprising citi
zens, who are the pioneers, go forward
prepared to build churches, establish
schools, to carry with them the crownin!
graces of learning and religion, as well a
morality, industry and enterprise, ant
with the railway, the telegraph, and tn
post-office, to be speedily followed by tn
newspaper, the hardships and difficultie
are scarcely felt. This, the greatest en-
terprise of the day, is being prosecuted
and managed in all its phases upon tn
highest principle of wisdom, integrity an,
economy, and will prove to be the great
est success among modern railroad
schemes.-N y. Independent.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07
The Cadi's Decision.

A POOR Turkish slater of Constantine
pie, being at work on the roof of house,
lost his footing and fell into the narrow
street upon man who CHANGED to be
passing at the time. The pedestrian was
killed by the conclusion, while the slater
escaped without material injury.
A son of the deceased caused the slater
to be arrested and taken before the Cadi,
where he made the most grave charge,
and claimed ample redress.
The Cadi listened attentively, and in
the end asked the slater what he had to
say in his defense.
Dispenser of Justice" answered the
accused, in humble mood, ait is even as
this man says; but God forbid that there
should be evil in my heart. am pool
man, and know not how / can make
amends"
The son of the man who had been killed
thereupon demanded that condign pun
ishment should be inflicted upon the ac
cused
The Cadi meditated few moments,
and finally said:
at shall be So"
Then to the slater he continued:
Thou shalt stand in the street where
the father of this man stood when thou
didst fall upon him"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07
Aggravated Indigestion.

Persons who are predisposed to dyspepsia, find
their suferngs from this cause greatly aggravated
by damp weather, easterly winds, and sudden
changes from mild to a chilling atmosphere. In
the spring, therefore, the pangs of indigestion
seriously augmented by the atmospheric variations
peculiar to the season, and it Is incumbent upon
all who desire to pass through the ordeal Of its
cold mists and nsalubriOus gales with easy stOm-
achs. and untormented by the indescribable tor
ments which accompany dyspepsia. to tone and
strengthen the digestive organs with healthful
and effective vegetable invigorant and no one at
all familiar with the medical record of the age,
can question for one moment that Hostetter' 8
Stomach Bitters is the Tonic best adapted to this
purpose.
The credentials of the Great Restorative are un-
equaled in number and character by those of any
other advertised medicine in the world. II ever
there preparation TO rank as a National Rem
edy, this wonderful specific has fair claim to the
title. For period of twenty years il has literally
been the Champion Tonic and Alternative on this
side of the Atlantic. In popularity it has never
been approached by any of its would-be competi-
tors, and its annual sales far in advance of
those of any other medicine of its class. that COM
parsons would be ridiculous. One of two conclu.
ciOns is inevitable. Either the American people
are deficient in common sense, and incapable OF
rational discrimination, Hostetter's Bitters i:
the best preventive remedy for indigestion, fever
and ague, bilious remittent fever, constipation
rheumatism, nervous complaints, and all maladies
of an epidemic or endemic type. The reader will
judge for himself which of the two conclusions i:
most consistent with fact and reason.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07

now utterly groundless, with the endorse
ment of respectable Republicans, ana eih-
barrass the party,
4. We declare our answering confidence
In the integrity, patriotism and Jealous de-
vution to the public interests of the present
Chief Magistrate of the nation, and we
pledge ourselves and the Republican party
TO abide by, support and carry to victory the
platform and candidates presented to the
people by the National Convention TO be as
ssmbled at Philadelphia, on the 5th day of
June next.
s. That in our opinion the true policy of
the Government toward those lately III re
bellion against its authority is general for
universal amnesty; and to this end we en-
dorse the recommendation of the President
of the United States in his last annual mes
sage to Congress.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07
MISSOURI.
The Missouri Republican platform is as

The Missouri Republican platform is as
follows:
We, the Representatives of the Republi-
can party of the State of Missouri, in Con-
vention assembled, declare as follows:
l. We congratulate the people of Missouri
and the United States, that the principles of
the Republican party, enunciated by the Ma
tional Convention of 1868, and which have
determined the internal and foreign policy
of our Government, have realized the bless
ings of peace and prosperity at home, and
Vlndlcated the honor, stability and power of
the American Republic among the nations
of the world, and we reaffirm our adherence
to those principles
g We heartily indorse the present Nation
al Administration in its conduct of national
affairs, and point with patriotic pride to its
great and lasting achievements. 1t has given
to the country peace and prosperity; it has
fulfilled its pledge that the will of the people
should be the paramount law of its action; it
has established the credit of the country on
a frm financial basis, and by a steady adher-
ence to its obligations and to its plighted
| faith, enhanced the value of public securities
and appreciated the national currency to the
verge OF gold standard; it has reduced the
| public debt beyond all precedent and in the
same time relieved the industry of the coun-
i Try from vast burdens of taxation necessarily
imposed upon the people for the preservation
OF the Republic; it has rebuked corruption
| and dishonesty wherever found to exist and
with firm, unsparing justice it has meted out
punishment wherever the law has declared
punishment to be due; it has corrected the
ABUSES and chronic evils inherited from the
past' IL has lnaugurated and made Jealous
endeavors to secure practical and efficient
ClVli-Servlce reform; it has adopted a sue
cessfui and humane Indian policy; it has ex-
ecuted with firm hand the will of the peo.
pie as expressed in the Constitution and laws
of Congress, and, finally, it has negotiated a
treaty with Great Britain in settlement of in.
tricate and threatening complications, which
is no less glorious as vindication of the
honor OF the American flag than it is distin
guished in establishing great and Christian
principle of international law.
8. That inasmuch as the discouraging ele
ments of other States are now looking to
Missouri for the confirmation of their hopes
of division in our ranks, we take this occa
sion to proclaim to the Republicans of the
Nation that the party in this State is now
united, vigorous and enthusiastic; that there
is no cause for schism, and there is nc
schism, and it will poll the full Republican
vote of the State for the nominee of the Ma
tional Republican Convention; that the pres
ent so-called Liberal Republican faction, i
considered apart from the Democratic party
as it should not be, is contemplate in mum
bers, too feeble to organize, and too cunnin!
to expose its weakness by separate organi
zation-a mere clique of disafiected persons
seeking to perpetuate division, which il
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07
Our Great Inland Metropolis COMM z
Out of the Fire.

Chicago merchants, before the fire, had a
firm hold upon the trade of the Northwest,
acquired by long continued efforts to meet
its wants at the lowest possible prices. The
whole country is interested in having this
city Of oar O,cH making retain its CONNER
cial position. Competition gives us cheap
goods, and it has been feared that the fire
would cripple her energies. But we assure
our readers that the principal houses are pre-
pairing for heavier business than ever done
before. The old and deservedly popular
house of John V. Farwell IL Co. now occupy
a building put up since the fire, 135x19O feet,
six stories high-nearly double the room
formerly occupied. This would indicate that
they intend to maintain their well-earned
reputation, and we are sure that after being
twice reduced to ashes in two years, our
merchants will second their efforts with such
recognition as their energy deserves.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07
Pimples, Eruptions, Rough Skin.

The system being put under the influence
of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
for few weeks, the skin becomes smooth,
clear, soft and velvety, and being Illuminated
with the glow of perfect health from within,
true beauty stands forth in all its glory.
Nothing ever presented to the public as
beautifier of the complexion ever gave such
satisfaction for this purpose as this Discov-
cry. The effects of all medicines which OPP
crate upon the system through the medium
of the blood are necessarily somewhat slow,
no matter how good the remedy employed.
While one to three bottles clear the skin of
pimples, blotches, eruptions, yellow spots,
comedones or "grubs," a dozen may possibly
be required to cure some cases where the
system is rotten with scrofulous or virulent
blood poisons. The cure of all these dis
eases, however, from the common pimple to
the worst scrofula is, with the use of this
most potent agent, only matter of time.
Sold by all druggists. COS
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07

A BACHELOR who wrote to New York
paper complaining that he could not live
on 81 900 year, received the following
answer ''It seems to be common mis-
take with young men to regard wives as
luxuries, which they hope to purchase
when in position to do so. In that case it
naturally follows that they regard them as
expensive Now that is the wrong idea
entirely. No doubt there are women who
look upon marriage as merely a means OF
being well provided for, but such are in
/ the minority. The greater portion oil
American girls are willing to be help
mates to the men they love"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07
WESTERN HOMES
WANTED.

A We want one live business man to act as General
Agent in each county Throughout the states
for the sale OF our goods They staple nouF.
needed BY everybody. and sell rapidly from one
years end to another. Agents make as high
s3.tU per year clear money: Others can do equally
a. well. No shadow Of humbug about the busi-
ness IL i thoroughly legitimate IN all It's details
aad requires but s5s5H esl liiGit~ begin ffh. II
you want good payin periaan business ad-
dress. AT once, for particulars W.. W. NORRIS
& CO. q ilh AvePDe. Pittsburgh. Pa.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07

THE CHfLDREN's HoUR.-Among the
contents Of the March number are: The Sick Kit
ten: Nettie's Lesson, tiliustrated) by Madge Car
rol; The Star by s Jennie Jones; The Little Nurs-
ling, by Clio Stanley: the White Owl, by Laura s.
Hagner; The Soldiers Squirrel, by NJ. o. j.; Coun-
sells for the Young; The Face in the Glass, illus
trated) by Hester A. Benedict; The Stolen Apple,
by Mary E.; About Mountains, by Aunt Lizzie;
The most magnificent Park in the World, etc, etc.
Published in Philadelphia, by T. 5. ARTHUR &
Son. S125 year. Five copies for s..
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07
ARrurR,s HOME MAGAZINE Among

-fI-fN'-f1sIsNI1
the good things in the March number are: Sophie
Mansfield. by Mrs Lydia p. Palmer; Use; Good Life,
Long life; waif, by Josephine Fuller; Curious
Incident; Other Peoples Windows. by Pipsissi-
way Potts; Over at Last, by Mrs. Hattie F. Bell
Under the Snow; Always Begin Right; Which Is
the HeiressS The Test for Burning Oils: Six in
AL by Virginia F. Townsend; The Passing Year;
Saturday Night; Visits OF Angels, by Rev. David
ID. Hudson; Mothers Department; Boys and
Girls Treasury, etc. Published by 7. :. ARTHUR
& Son, Philadelphia. - a year; four copies
fOrS