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The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1872-02-07
WISDOM AND TRUTHS.

Kind words do not cost much.
He is good who does good to others.
BE thou as chaste as ice, as pure as
snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
A promise should be given with
caution and kept with care.
Equity judgeth with lenity, laws
with extremity.
He that will sell his fame, viii also
sell the public interest.
The prodigal robs his heirs, the
miser robs himself.
The great secret of success in life, is
for man to be ready when his cppor-
tuniiy comes.
The greatest men live unseen TO
view, while thousands are mol qualified
to express their influence.
One of the most important rules OF
the science of manners is an absolute
silence in regard to YOURSELF
In proportion as we ascend the So
cial scale, we find as much mud there
as below, only it is hard and gilded.
True liberty consists in the privilege
of enjoying our own rights-not in the
destruction Of the rights of others.
Difficulty excites the mind 10 the
dignity which sustains and finally con-
quers misfortune, and the ordeal
refnes while it chasteus.
Envy is strongly characteristic of
littleness of mind; truly noble and
generous man feels no enmity towards
successful rival.
BY united effort, the theorist and
the practical man may accomplish
much, which neither could effect alone.
The wise man stands firm in all
extremities, and bears the lot Of his
humanity with divine temper.
Drunkenness is the parent Of most
other vices. 1t quenches the salutary
power of reason, and makes us the
sports Of raging passion.
To be well spoken Of, YOU must die.
Even a pauper, when dead, is men,
toned without asperity, and that is as
much as any pauper can expect.
The triumph of wit is to make your
good nature subdue your ccnsure; to
be quick in seeing faults, and slow in
exposing them.
Ill nature is contradiction to the
laws OF providence and the interest of
mankind; it is a punishment no less
than fault to those that have it.
The only qualification a covetous
man gives his neighbors is to let them
see that he himself is no better for
what he has than they are.
One cannot learn everything; the
objects of knowledge have multiplied |
beyond the powers of the STRONGEST
mind to keep pace with them all.
What we do for ourselves, will soon |
be forgotten; what We do for others.
may be the vision to cheer the soul
when the eye can no longer behold the
loved ones.
Men are found to be vainer on ac-
count of those qualities which they
fondly believe they have than those of
which they really have,
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1872-02-07

Fever and AFue cured Tor fltv cents.-
There is not q remedial agent ia this world
that will cure Fever and Aguc, aud MI other
Molarious, Bilious Scarlet, Typhoid. yellow
and other Fevers (aiied by RadraUs PWs)
SO quick as Rad,cays Realty Roi,E Fifty
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01
ANYTHING TO BEAT GRANT,

The Savannah Neacs very wicked
ly says: ''The wheat harvest has
not been without some bearing on
the November elections. A contra
band in Clayton county recently got
his head tangled in a steam thresh-
ing machine and went up in a show
er of chat. Well-anything to beat
Grant. "-Talladega Watchtoaoer.
Just so, this clipping taken first
from the Savannah Neaos, and en-
dorsed by the Talladega Watchtosoer
shows to what extent the Democrats
are willing to carry this miserable
senseless battle cry of Anything to
beat Grant 1t shows to colored
men that the Democracy don't care
what overtakes the negro, so they
succeed in beating Gen. Grant
They don't care if every negro were
driven into the sea, it would so re-
duce the Republican vote, that Gree.
ley, the champion of modern De-
mocracy, can be elected next fall.
We ask you colored men to read this
carefully and see whether you car
support party that is willing to have
every negro ground up in threshine
machine in order to elect Mr.. Gree
ley.-ALdbdnaG Republican. Es e
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under which he now does business 70,
HIMSELF Us '
John Gleddin could not deny it,
for he saw, in his Uncle Moses, the
man whom he had so meanly taken
the valuable watch. He tried to say
something, but the words choked
him; and he stood like whipped
cur before his relative Finally he
mustered up courage to ask his uncle
to forgive him. r ~lEsa,
Il may forgive YOU, answered
Uncle Moses, fbut / cannot take you
into my confidence yet. / think you
had better GO home and sleep upon
it. Let us both sleep upon it.
would rather not talk Of it now. The
wound is too fresh
John Gledden was no more anxious
TO stop than his uncle was to detain
him and without further words he
took his departure. Once more at
the Office he thought of the watch he
had sold, and of the two hundred
and twenty-five dollars profit he had
made; and the conviction was forced
upon him that his great operation
was likely to prove very heavy
settler upon his greater expectation.
And SO it ultimately proved. I'm
ole Moses could not take the dishon-
est, INSCRIPTIONS nephew to his
confidence, nor to his love nor could
John muster the impotence to claim
the tender egards of one whom he
SO meanly and so unmitigatedly
wronged and abused. The result
was that the true-hearted printer ere
long left the type setting to assume
the wealth which Uncle Moses
deemed him worthy and well quail
fed to enjoy. What the pawn-broker
may gain in time we cannot say; but
if he ever regains the confidence he
has lost, it will be when he has
shown by his works that he regards
truth and honor as of more value
than the sordid profits of such op-
erations as have heretofore soiled
his hands. -Ledaer.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01
DEATH OF PRESIDENT JuAREZ.
MI Iutu "a

General Racha telegraphed from
Monterey, this afternoon, that Pres.
ident Juarez had died on the night
of the 18th inst, from an attack of
apoplexy. which had seized him at
o'clock in the afternoon of that
day, and ordered that, that the flag
of the government should be placed
at half mast. The news was receiv.
ed by all classes with astonishment,
and was not credited until it was
confirmed by second disptch from
General Racha. The presidency OF
the republic will devolve upon Teude
De Tejoda, justice of the Supreme
Court, and until recently secretary
CT the foreign affairs in President
Juarez's cabinet, but lately in obpo,
sition to the Government and re.
garded as sympathizing with the
reyolutionlsts, although remaining
in the city of Mexico and taking no
active part With the insurgents until
congress shall order an election to
fill the vacancy. Aa
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01

A wag was requested by an old
lady to readaa newspaper for her.
He took it up and read as follows !:
"Last night, yesterday morning,
about o'clock in the afternoon, be-
fore breakfast, hungry boy about
40 years old, bought a big custard
for a levy, and threw it through a
brick wall nine feet thick, and jump
ed ovec It, broke his right ankle off
above his left knee. and fell into a
dry mill pond and was drowned.
About 40 years after that, on the
same day, an old cat had nine turkey
gobblers a high wind blew Yankee
Doodle on frying pan, and killed a
sow and two pigs at Boston, where q
deaf and dumb woman was. talking
to his aunt Peter" Whereupon the
old lady, taking long breath ex-
claimed, ssDo tell ~
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01
HOW THE QUAkgRs WILL VOTE.

An old friend up in Keokuk county
under the date of the 18th inst:
"DEAR HAwK-EYE 81 have been
of late frequently asked why so many
Friends are going for Greeley To
put the matter to rest ! think / can
safely say there is not single sound
orthodox Friend in the United States
that will vote for Greeley. No, we
can't go for Greeley when we know
if he is elected it viii be putting the
Government into the hands Of the
rebels. And, further, as President
Grant is the only ruler of any nation
who has seen fit to. recognize our
Peace principles, it would be q let
down and reproach to the Society
of Friends to talk of going for Gree
ley. Friends have taken very little
stock In Horace since he bailed jeff
Davis. AS an individual, / would
as soon vote for Davis as for Gree
ley. have no idea what I have
written will be contradicted."
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The Des Moinss ReD,sbz;co,

Z
The Des MONIES Republican says:
ga funny joke, and all the more
palatable its truth can be vouched
tor, occurred at prominent church
not far away 1t seems that wor-
thy deacon had been industrious in
selling new church book, costing
seventy-five cents. At the service
in question, the minister, just before
dismissiag the congregation, arose
and said ,-----------,----- --
GAIL those who have children to
baptize, will please to present them
next Sabbath"
The deacon, who by the way was
little deaf, having an eye to selling
the books, and supposing the pastor
was referring to them, Immediately
jumped up and shouted,- -
GAIL you who havn't can get as
many as you want by calling on me,
at seventy-fiye cents each" 500.
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POPULAR ADJUSTMENTS.

Last SaDDath afternoon Rev. H..
L. Sherman, of the Methodist church
at Iowa Falls, preached sermon
on popular Amusements," the
pitch of which we give below, fol-
lowed by some comments of the Sun
day School Superintendent, who ed
its the Iowa Falls Sentinel.
The speaker laid down the prem
Uses "that recreation, to be much,
must follow work." and therefore an
idler has no right to give judgment
or opinion in the matter. 1t is nee
essary for health and life that man
should laugh, and he that never
laughs needs either repentance or
pills-tor the fault sometimes lies in
the liver. Recreations should not
be expensive, not hurtful to health,
not tend to corrupt, not be surround
ed with evil associations. lie thought
parents should provide home amuse-
ments for their children, and make
home happy place. Parents should
come down to a level with their
children and romp with them, make
them think that home is the center
of all happiness. The latter part of
the sermon was directed to croquet,
and we never heard the game SO
we'll defended. He said it was en-
phatically "home game" Simple,
inexpensive full of amusement and
pleasure, healthful and proper. In
fact the speaker talked as if he had
been playing croquet and some one
had been finding fault with him for it.
We cannot give even sketch OF
the sermon in question, but will say
that it contained great deal of sound
sense, and some advanced positions
which the speaker is evidently right
in taking. If, after the above i'm
perfect sketch we are permitted to
say few words on our own hook,
we will say that we agree with the
speaker exactly on croquet, although
we rarely play the game. Further
we will find no fault with the man
who has billiard table in his own
house away from the evil associa-
tons of the saloon. Further, We be-
lieve in letting your children dance
at home in good company if they
want to dance. Further that all
these games and things, around
which the devil has thrown his arm
as ownership, and which he uses to
destroy and allure by mixing the
poison, should be wrested from his
grasp and taken home to be used
there. 1t is said that the devil has
all the nice music. This is all wrong.
Let US have the violin and all its
waltzes, marches, and quicksteps for
our amusements at home. The day
for long faced, vinegar visaged, All,
me christians is gone by, and the
straight laced, herrified and gloomy
Christians belongs to the age that
has passed. We want laughing,
merry christians to show the world
that heaven lends part of its sun
shine and gladness to the believer
heart. The truth "to the pure all
things are pure" applies here. Our
observation is that those boys and
girls who are straight at home, are
the very ones who 60 to excess in
after life. Let US open our hearts
and homes to these amusements and
our children will never steal away
to a hay loft to play cards, or go in
the dark to play billiards, or trave
miles to attend disreputable shin
dig. .... ~
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01
A SUM ER DAY.

There's a gaping rent in the curtain .
That longs for a needle and thread;
There's garment that ought to be finished
And book that wants to be read.
There's a letter that ought to be answered,
sg Tn ere are cIote to fold away, .
And know these tasks are wanting
And ought 10 be done to day.
- But how can l mend the curtain .-.
III While watching the silyery eloud2
And how can finish the garment -
When the robin calls SO loud ..---
And the whispering trees are telling q .-a
5.' Such stories about my head, -
That cannot but lie and listen
And the book is all unread. ...s
II try to read the letter, ..E
l am sure one half the words a.a
Will be in the curious language
#E fmy chattering friends, the birds,
The lilacs bloom in the sunshine, rr. -s
The roses nod and smile, ...a
And the clothes that ought to be folded
And ironed, must wait awhile. .-. r. .
lie in the cooling shadows,
And gaze at the summer sky.
Bidding the cares and troubles,
And trials oflife pass by.
The beautiful summer blossoms
Are falling at my feet,
And the dreamy air is laden .. ..r. .....-
With their odors rare and sweet, .
The honey bees hum in the clover,
The grasses rise and fall, aa....-
The robin stops and listens
AS he hears the brown. thrush call.
And the birds sing to me softly,
The butterfly flies away
Oh, what could be sweeter than living
This beautiful summer day ... .......
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01

DIslNFEcTANTs.-Durmg the hot
season, in town and country, the free
use of disinfeetants, about the cellar,
out-h ouses and back-yards will con-
duce very much to the health and
comfort of all. And you need not
pay five or ten cents per pound for
chloride of lime for this purpose.
A good article can be made at home
cheaply. Half bushel of salt dis
solved in a half barrel of water, then
dissolve half a barrel of lime with
the salt water, and you have at once
enough chloride Of lime, for yourself
and your neighbors. There is no
patent on this prescription, and all
can by it have the atmosphere about
their premises pure and healthy. +.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01
he Republicans claim North

The Republicans claim North
Carolina by 10000 majority; the
Opposition by 5000. 1t depends
upon the Ku-Klux which prediction
shall prove true. If the Khan can
carry out their plots to overawe Re-
publican voters in the sparsely-set.
tied portions OF the State, the DEM
ocratic victory will follow. We
hope no effort will be spared on the
part of the authorities to protect
every citizen in the free exercise of
the elective franchise. .E su..
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01
Established July 1850.
NOVEL PAIR OF STOCKINGS.

Il believe women will do good
deal for a Dance said an old NJ. D.;
,they are immensely fond of sport.
L remember once in my life ! used
to filrt with one who was a great ia.
yorite in provincial town where
lived, and she eenfded to me that
she had no stockings to appear in,
and that without them her presence
at a ball was out of the question. 2
That was a hint for you to buy the
stockings said friend. 81 5dr .B
No; you're, out said the doctor.
'She knew that | was as poor as.
herself; but, though che could not
rely on my pnrse, she had every con
hdenee IN my taste and Judgment,
and consulted me on plan she had
formed for going to the ball in prop.
er trim. Now, what do you think it
was @ els EIa2tS 5a54# i@st
'To go in cotton, 1 suppose re-
turned the friend. ,i7,aJ 600.
sOut again, sir. You'd never guess
it, and only a woman could have hit
upon the expedient. 1t was the fash
ion in those days for ladies in full
dress to wear pink stockings, and she
proposed painting her legs. ..a
painting her legs!' exclaimed his
friend. 80.
sFact SIR said the doctor; sand
she relied upon me for telling her if
the cheat was successful u .- ..a
'And was it 20 asked his friend.
Don't be in hurry, friend. !
compiled on one condition, namely :
that / should be the painter
ooh! you old rascal said the
friend. astaa 8. .aaa ...a..s y.
Don't interrupt me, gentlemen
said the doctor. Il got some pink,
accordingly; and l defy all the hos.
iers in Nottingham to make tighter
fit than / did on little Jennie. A
prettier pair of stockings i never
saw ..g ..r.
'And she went to the ball?'
'She did, -...""''
and the trick succeeded "@.
$50 completely said the doctor,
shat several of the ladies asked her
to recommend her dyer to them. So
you see what woman will do to go
to dance. Poor Jennie she was a
merry mink. By the by, she boxed
my ears that night for a joke l made
about the stockings. Jennie said
|, stor fear your stockings should fall
down while you are dancing, hadn't
you better let me paint pair of gar
tiers on them?' -aaa $500 -
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SOUTHERN oUTRACES.

A specimen outrage appeared on
Independence day near Chattanoo-
ga. The non-partisan account of the
affair is as follows: t-
A colored picnic, on the morning of the
Fourth, went to Aliens Springs, forty-two
miles out on the Alabama and Chattanoo-
ga Railroad. When they arrived there
they found some white men, mountain
roughs, armed with guns and clubs, having
other arms stacked in an Old house short
distance off, The colored people had paid
$40 for the use of the grounds The whites
sold whiskey to the blacks in the woods
and disturbed the dancing. The blacks re.
monstrated, causing i'll feeling. Six more
whites came in the afternoon. At O'Clock
the blacks started for the train, when the
whites attacked them. The blacks re,
sisted with pistols, driving the whites to
the woods, where they rallied, and firing
with buck shot wounded five, mostly in
the arms and legs One who was wound
ed in the back will probably die. Three
whites were shot. John Smith, white, in.
terposed In favor of the blacks and was
shot through the breast The train was
fired on after it started, and one black was
shot in the hand. The roughs said they
had near cleaned out the Dutch who came
down once, and now they would clean Out
the niggers. The roughs were not dis
guised.
Quite a number of similar affairs
occurred the same day in other parts
of the South The notable thing
about these outrages is that not q
single arrest has been reported.
There is nowhere in the South any
dominant disposition to protect tn.
negroes in their constitutional lights
The almost sole reliance of the black
man is upon national protection.
Place the General Government in
the hands of the candidate of the
Ku-Klux Khan, and desolating re,
gion of terror would inevitably fol
low. This consideration should be
enough of itself to prevent any hu
name and just citizen from support
ing the favorite Of Tammany and the
Khan Chicago Journal. A.tit
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unscrupulous person writes

An INSCRIPTIONS person writes as
follows to the New York Coenser-
ciaI Advertiser {: "They tell this
story today fDr. Henry, WHO'S stay
ing at the Grand Union The other
day he was called upon to attend
Gratz Brown in New York, when
Gratz facetiously and foolishly re.
marked 1t is seldom, Doctor, that
you arese honored as to be called
to attend a Vice President p oh,
no. replied the Doctor, 4 attended
Vice President (?') Frank Blair in
,6s, but yoatr case IS a good deal
9s0rse than his f'' 20. 2tA.
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b. In 1862 the rebel Gen. Beauregard
wrote /: cit is high time to proclaim
the flag /; let the execution of aboli,
ZIONIST prisoners be by the garrote."
In 1872 he writes eve must all
unite under the banner of the consti-
tuition and the laws, reunion and re-
form, honesty and universal amnes-
ty; that banner has lately been
raised at Cincinnati under the lead
ership of Greeley and Brown" -
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01

"a purely selfish interest," Mr..
Greeley once remarked, attaches
the low, rufhanly, criminal and dan
gerous classes to the Democratic
party And now a purely selfish
interest attaches Mr.. Greeley to the
lewd, ruf6anly, and dangerous class
es. Sic transit, etc.; and it is more
than probable that Horace will be
horribly sick of his latest transit.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01
1t has generally been supposed

1t has generally been supposed
that the softshell crab is indigenous
to the sea. Gratz Brown has ex-
ploded this fallacy. Borboun coun-
ty, Kentucky, is its favorite resort.
In winter the crabs are taken
straight" but in summer they
should be cooked in sugar, lemon
and ice, and eaten with a straw. 1t
is a remarkable genital fact that an
overstock of crabs in the head often
produces snakes in the boots CHI
cdgo Journal. E9i 10 a8a-@.4 Ga-a .l@El
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01

The last issue of the Jasper Re,
publican announces that Robert Ry-
an, Esq, of Newton, member of
the Liberal Republican State Com
mittee, has repudiated Greelyism,
and comes out squarely for Grant
and Wilson, MIN. Howard, of the
same place, a delegate to the Dav-
export and Cincinnati Convention,
also deserts the mongrel party and
returns to straight Republicanism.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01
Of the cutting downof foresttrees

H~sSHi b tStOhHgOi IOISSItIbSb
wnlcn Is SO Constantly going ON in
this country, Wm. Cullen BRYANT
says: '1t is a common obsery alton
that or summers are becoming dry-
er and our streams smaller. 7paEe
the Cuyahoga as n;illustratioi,g PIT.
ty years ago large barges Of goods
went up and down that river. Now
IN the, ordinary stage sof water: a
skiff can hardly pass down 55ihae
stream. Mtny boat of. fifty iotUns
burden has been built and loaded on on
the Tuscarawas at New Portage,.
aud sailed 10 New Orleans without
breaking bolk. Newtheeritcr hard
~ affords enough water at New
Portage inr tho canal. The sane.
may be said of other streams. They
AIRED drying up. And from the same
cause the destruction of our forests
the summers are growing drier
and our winters colder.'' 80. s..z. !. aa.
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The "Ida Greeley' is the name
of a Southern political club. which,
we are informed, has adopted a gray
uniform and intends to make tour
oftthe North. How the soreheads
and copperhead confederates will
rejoice at the sight of the orebel
gray To Republicans the. spectacle
will be suggestive only of the livery
of weil-whipped rebels.
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Total.


Total. ,Oo2, 556.S5
The total amount of defalcations,
covering over three years of General
Grants term, is about s., 097 ,963.64.
To steal this sum it required over
two hundred dishonest officials, and
out of this number one hundred and
thirty-seven were appointed by An
dy Johnson. Yet Andy is in favor
of honest Horace, and with his
usual vigor drinks daily to the sue
cess of the reform movement. What
happy combination of immaculate
reformers Bill Tweed wants an
honest treasury. Andy johnson
wants free trade and the tax remov-
ed from whisky. The pirate Semmes
wants loyal navy, while jeff Davis
and Alex. Stephens fill up the back
ground and desire a pure judiciary,
that can make the .kIux outrage
constitutional. Greeley can satisfy
them all. #-.a H.. .aH
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q A,young lady caused a Clermont
photographer much trouble by per-
sistenly sucking her dress under her
feet, because some one had told her
that the operator viewed his subjects
upside down in the camera. !
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"a Statistics show that one woman in
one hundred marries the man she
loves. : safee