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The Fitchburg, Mass, Sentinel. an

The Fitchburg, Mass, Sentinel, an
excellent paper, is going to start a
daily. We are glad of it. We start
ed a daily once. We ran it nearly
four months, and then paused. Since
then we take lively interest in such
enterprises. We have no doubt the
Sentinel people will make the daily.
work, and we are quite positive it will
make them work. A man who goes
through life without having started a
daily paper misses a rare and valua-
ble experience. Falling down stairs
with cook stove will hardly com
1,ensate him.-Danbury News.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-05-31

Newspaper mistakes are scarcely
unavoidable. Every issue of many
Journals iAsolves the placing Of $50
900 types. Out of that number some
will be wrongly placed, in spite of
the best Of care. A Pittsburg paper
made rath er ridiculous blunder late
ty and yet there was only one letter
out Of place. The editor said "The
Legislature pasted (passed) the bill
over the Gsvernolns head"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-05-31

4 family ia Vermont, on resuming
intercourse with the external world
after the winters seclusion amid inn
penetrable snowdrifts, are horritied to
fiad that they have for several weeks
been breaking the Sabbath in secular
pursuits and keeping Monday holy
Instead. ..
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-05-31

A Wilkinson County (Ga.) man be-
came convinced the other day that a
woman's temper is very irregular. He
had been moulding some bullets, and
had neglected to cool off the ladle in
which the lead had been melted. While
he was counting the bullets his wife
came into the room humming tender
love song. Suddenly the song ceased
and the man was made aware that
something had happened by catching
an adjacent cotfee-mill on the bridge
| of his nose. The unhappy wife and
mother had taken this picturesque
mode of informing him that she had
picked up the ladle by the hot end.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-05-31

DIVIDING TIE CoLoRED VOTE.-
Those who claim to he the conserva-
tie politicians of this State wonder
why they have not succeeded in di-
viding the colored vote. Other classes
OF voters are divided in their political
sentiments, some being Democrats
and some Republicans, and why should
there not be the same diversity among
the negroes? The reason is manifest.
1t is q general impression that the
conservatives wish to divide a ques-
ton which, in it's nature, is indivisible,
that of suffrage and the right to seek
and hold office. They concede suffrage
and all civil rights, but have not shown
themselves willing to see colored men
seek and obtain important official
stations. 1t is not likely that any
portion of the colored people of the
South will give up their adhesion to
the Republican party until opposing
parties shall become as willing to re-
ceive them on terms of equality in
the nominating caucus as we'll as at
the polls. This question can not be
divided, and the conservatives will
fare better if they will palpably take
one side or the other of the aggregate
issue. 1t is not in reason to expect
the colored people will willingly con-
sent to be rated good fish at the polls,
and spoiled meat in the division of the
spoils of Office. We speak Of this mat
tersimply as Il practical question under
the laws as they are, and without any
reference whatever to the disputed
policy of universal uffrage.-Crcsccn,
MtY.
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70 settle a bet q petition was re-
Gently presented to = worthy citizen
of Detroit, Mich, praying for the abo-
htion Of the fire and police depart
ments and his own execution. He
glanced at the first few lines and
"chalked" down his name.
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Space. Hlwk. mo. lsnos. smosll ".

4 Milesian astounded grocer by
entering his store with this request !:
Mister NcGra, would you lind me
an empty barrel Of -four to make a
hen-coop fur me dog :"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-05-31

A professor, preaching to class Of
eollegians about the formation of hab-
its, said recently: "Gentlemen, close
your ears against bad discourses." T"
The students immediately clapped
their hands to their ems.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-05-31
Wearing a New Boot.

The Danbury Ne,rs says: It is a lit
tie singular how well pair Of boots
can be made to fit at the store. You
may not be able to get your foot only
part way down the leg at the first
trial, but that's because your stocking
it sweaty, or you haven't started right,
and the shoemaker suggests that you
start again and stand up to 1T, and he
throws in a little powder from a pep
per box to aid you. And so you stand
up, and pound down your foot, and
partly trip yourself up, and your eyes
stick out in an unpleasant manner,
and every vein in your body appears
to be OIL the point of bursting, and all
the while that dealer stands around
and eyes the operation as intently as
if the whole affair was perfectly new
and novel to him. When your foot
has finally struck bottom there is a
faint impression on your mind that you
have stepped into an open stove, but
he removes it by solemnly observing
that he never saw a boot fit quite as
good as that. You may suggest that
your toe presses too hard against the
front, or that some of the bones in
the side of the foot are too much
smashed, but he says this is always
the way with new boot, and that
the trouble will entirely disappear in q
few days. Then you take the old
pair under your arm and start for
home as animated as relic of 1872,
all the while feeling that the world
will not look bright and happy to you
again until you have Drained that
shoemaker.
You limp down town next day, and
smile all the while with your mouth,
while your eyes look as if you were
walking over an ovsterbed barefoot.
When no one is looking you kick
against a post or some obstruction,
and show i. fondEess for stopping and
resting against something that will
sustain your weight. When you get
home at night you go for those old
boots with an eagerness that cannot
be described, and the remarks that
you make upon learning that you,
wife has disposed of them to a widow
woman in the suburbs are calculated
to Immediately depopulate the earth
Of women and shoemakers generally
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-05-31

Which travels at the greatest speed,
heat or cofds Heat, because you can
easily catch cold.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-05-31

The Legislature of Rhode Island
has legalized marriages between blacks
and whites.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-01-31

4 wcD1D with Q bundle in her arms
followed l7 another woman and a big
black dig. went 81 the steps 81 80
sidney street, just behind D, Rich
DoLt.
'-st.e2e an7news?" as,eda a vonans
voice in tie .a,'. o.. 50 auxiouslg.
Yes" said Mss Car-i4. stepping
fo~wsed ard putting { b-1dls in tie
wgman's arms.
Oh tie hugginc ard kissing ard tic
bundle satup end laughed, and screamed
AID Jumped from ore 10 tie ot-er, ard
hadn't tie least d what al the fuss
was about. O,d Tasso, Who IcIt stIict
watch Cvcr Per, was I'd within al
inch + apoll,3y. ard Carrie and sally
came near not getting lone until
morning.
Peep les Lty1 "a uaEc ;as.n 60 mari
v.5..a s...a t..a. s..g calls he pace ,-an-
the- g-aLdma's, and i aLy day you
sa1 a b'E black dog trolung across The
cry, you may know it IS 7 $50 going to
...t-vy st-cv. :or LIS daily beel-stezk,
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-01-31
SITS A YEAR

After Peep had disposed Of p coed
deal Of bread and milk, they proceeded
to question her, but It vas small salts
faction. What's your name, dear"
crored Sally.
Peep"
"That else. darlinC?"
NO. aint darling, Use Peep"
Now tell me, pretty, your name,
and you Shall have some sugar." sad
sally.
Ponce"
Ponce what"
NO, Ponce H,ole-, don't 90 knoy?''
said Peep, with great indignation.
"TLat is papa's naneT" said Carrie.
"Shsn't toll any more, " said Peer,
eating sugar coollT.
"Oh, yc5." said Carrie, supplying
more sugar, what does mother call
paraY"
PAN"
Well. ether PEOPLE coll him Nr.--"
NO. 'ev don't call him AI.sser-er-eg-
g. tall him 'dcttor."
.o-- 60 se. ;f +,,o-,a L . 49, ,-;+T .
-oo--.-.;,-- ,',,-, 49, ~ 81, -.
II, !. - - ~ - on.f,,,- :, s..a
e.r- a-o, oan,+ ,a7I ,o.f.r, ~ har g,
7,bo,o -~os ~ sr,ol, rer,a or7 D.,
-as ,,st+fr, - s1eo,,- 90 90, oo,;-
,,7vLo,a docs rona I've ,,osl-od Carrie
&c - ~aso,+
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1T, IL. O. --,iT;4 s.i, - , r.rr
4,,l:, :, ;; - ~. -. -. / -. "
80 .',o- 49, roua,,-s - -. - - .,
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-01-31
II Z EC.-'s a-g4-ze.

PERHAPS Percy 6.d It wHo2 lie wet TO
s.lo0l-ParCy was vsly forEcteu.; or 4
might Lave been Florence when lir.
Hale went away Iorerce was apt 70
be nervous when 5Gr. Hale was a. tie
house; but at any rate, the front door
was open, and Peep Wy soon found il
oat-. They called her Pep. because her
t",o bright eyes saw everything, especi-
ally everything they ought not to SEE.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-01-31

ignorant, and those who were most like
y, from neglected circumstances or Vi
cious influences, TO lose all chance Of
improvement, if he turned them away.
As soon as they were able 70 read he
begged clothes for them. that they might
attend Otler schools; keeping the gar
ments al his own house. and recurring
the children to come there and dress.
and return the clothes at night. IS his
means wee 50 scan-y Il required t e
utmost care and diligence on hts part
to exc out sufficient for hts benevolent
projects. Thus year hy year Ee Iabored
IN without any pecUniary reward.
Moments that ne could snatch from
sleep were spent in making toys FOR tie
little children IS rewards, or induce.
mants to them % learn.
Besides mental instruction, ne taucht
them practical knowledge, showing
them how to nerd shoes and cook
their food When they ve-e sick he
would prescribe for them; persuading
tie older scholafs 10 nurse the younger.
Thus in every wy he lsb7-ed for the
elevation Of the place where lie lived.
which was Portsmouth, England, set
ting an example Of rare benevolence.
One winters evening, about fifteen
years after The commencement Z this
rratuit0us school. q wei ,ldresS-d. intel.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-01-31

. restraint they are more easily led than
driven. Taey do few things by rule. :"
The combativeness Of the boys is large
and their destructive propensity is al
most ruling passion. This IS shown
IN I. { way they resent real or imaginary
insults and by the reckless destruction
OF their toys. clothes, books, seats and
desks. Still they are usually kind-heart-
ed. Whenever our young men and wo-
men attend schools Of q higher grade
than the common. in other counties.
they generally rank among tie best Of
their classmates, both in scholarship and
department.
! Inst.t4t".-This was led At Couders-
. port. in October. Prof. T. 4. Allen
way tLe c'ief Instructor. 3frs. A ?
R-nial D.ehl and Amos Stevens. ESQ.
Were tae others. The former co, fined
her instruction mostly to elocution, and
tie latter. lis to penmans,iY.
During one or two Il tie evening
sessions Ms. Diell related several in
terestins things, mostly Of an educa-
tional character, in connection With her
recent European travels. Prof. Aliens
instruction to teachers, concerning
''ocaCol Work, . was SO well classified
and generally SO practical. and lis
Talks" 81 the evening s. assions. 10 "a
rents and s-,ool officers, " sIe 50 plain.
.1-.d " e1 -r-IT - Lid -. li,-,, .j.+ -Eo
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-01-31
report Of tho Superintendent Of
Common Schools for Potter
Cf-.--r----
I. Personal Agencies -p,-.,,t.

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among these .,r.r. =. - ''.C.e ... .
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to classify 10, ", y - - il.'17
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y
she brought them out there we're the
marks Of four little teeth on each apple.
and Peeps mouth exactly fitted the
marks.
Owing to her constant devotion, poor
Snip had but two kittens left One
came to an untime.y end by being
wrapped IN a shawl and left in grand
mas chair with the stern charge 20 20
"Tit str!t to sleep" Grandma. who
weighs nearly two hundred, had Laen
rocking back a1l forth for nearly N
hour 5zf2re Peep remembered tie kit
ten. and then size shook out IF the shawl
d kitty that would never need TO be put
70 sleep again. Percy buried il after
Peep had gone 10 b-i. aad she never
missed il. The second was drowned
by Peeps holding it so long in water
Ito be washed al pity and not ky"
snip vas almost exhausted tucc,ug the
remaining two from ban . cellar, from
call5~ TO gsrret, yet q kitten was con
stantlg dropping from E0m-Dply's
pocket, OF rolling from Uader &
cushion.
It was Peep 10 scrubbed the 1oor
with q damask napkin AMI bowl of
gravy, Peap vl0 filed the taa cau.stc.
with water to see e little Ges swim. "
and Peep wlo poured water into tae
meal barrel end made "z7oncakss. :"
But tits was tne f~=. tina she Lai
found the from aoo- open. Sle had
beat h=r head tn i was u,ac- 2rJ blue
AGAINST the dor. s1c had uirchcd hcr
enonrs IN the CRACKS and tfoLr4 h-r-s
in the toes o. he,s7.,-,s-,s. r..rI.asr ars,.-
iYr il: but now i was v.d. o,an and
nobody ne.-.
Sic slipped ct or =As sid. -zl:.
There was E ,oy-ly l:..!e brown dog
running uY street. aid P-ay ra1 aAls.
lin. U the STREET. taaa a zl,-7.
across n s7n.-a. .-.a j'.e uc.ls Ea-. s.d
the aacEmen stopped their horses, an
tie young da-1;as dew IN 70 Let ta-
little white dress and tiny blue ho7ts
Hutcer a5ues lin. 4 b.E man c&u2 (
-er inst as she C1a7lP3 the Sidewalk.
q" V@eCo ag2y2ug gong LITTLE walf, e4E"
he sad.
= isnr = -g:A. - sail Peep s.oltly
brt TO l.g n IN held .er las.
" You're .nsc,"le said.
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John Pounds, the Shoe-Mender.
! ATR0E s7oa7.
/ Why, Bennie, what's the matterY''
inquired John Pounds. tie shoe-mend-
CT, Of his little nephew. child of about
four years Of age, who was sitting on a
broken cricket in tie little yard where
he lived, crying bitterly.
The boys laughed At ny crooked
feet, and I can't play Ike other child
ren, and have a good time" sobbed
Beunie.
l am so-ry for you, Bennie," re-
Joined Uncle John in 3 kindly tone.
but cheer Up, little man, and I viii
Ste If cannot help vou. II were z
rich man you would soon te all right.
but patience sld perseverance can ac-
comyE8h a great deal, aud maybe {
sh0e-mender Can Jc as clever IS the
doctors. Come, suppose I carry you
down t. the shop. I want to measure
your feet and see II I c.nnct make them
whole sg.in, 50 that you VII lie able to
run ab0It as much IS you want to.
VIII you be brave 10y and not mind
4 Atue pain, il order 10 set wlll2"
Yes" answered Eeuuie, no: know
ing Wat ..a promised.
Il a.n not SINE that T can cure vou.
Bennie," Pounds added, fearing to III
crease the boy, u.se,ics II he failed in
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-01-31
G. sEEukLE.
VI A Z y I r W OREER
C0UDERSPORT, PA.

.-,1-=s, Foot-falar. etc. Clrs,gss p, o-7e-
e. q 4ly other !. ace. >'-'
- - .stE a. C-acs Of J0rRxAL 4 >.Eys r7v,.
a. 4S0S'Fe pronpt zgSsr&tCul -
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d. p. \EFTF.
CARRIAGE FACTORY,
CDCDER,PDET. PENN

Enrs ~ wa-r--r-lr-r. P.aeg.rt--f7g
2. g.. rage LE.E-ra. e - EeFs#..r.- T--=
7--h lcat-ess aut Durability. CGs-g-~
24-5-lr
New-York tribune., 1873-03-14
.JUDICTARY Reform.

The present Police Justices have not
shadow of a chance at Albany. Popular
prejudice sets against them so strongly that
they cannot hope to stem the current. But az
if this formidable opposition were not enough,
they have encountered another obstacle The
Custom-hOuse Ring has snulfed afar the
patronage involved in the measure, and
claim it. Last Fall, when they were scheming
for a nOn-partisan victory, they promised this
reformation of the courts and the patronage
which would arise from the removal Of the
Judges to the Council of Political Reform, and
thereby gained the support of that infant
(then still-born) organization. Now the Ring
feels strong enough, though not yet fairly out
of its shell, to break faith with the
abortive Council; and has framed new bill
to remove the Justices and give the appointing
power to District-AttOmey Phelps and Presi-
dent Vance of the Board of Aldermen Gus
tom house, and Mayor Havemeyer (Reformer).
The consequence is the revolt of the Reform"
Council, whose leaders bitterly bemOan that
the patronage is taken away from them. But
the public will rejoice, independently of these
considerations, that the removal of the JUS
tees is assured. 1t is not encouraging, GER
tainly, TO know that the Custom-house Ring
will have and hold and misuse this additional
patronage; but it is impossible to arouse the
least sympathy for the Council which deliber-
ately bargained for patronage and were swim
died out of it. We care little to whom the
power is given; the present state Of public
feeling in this city is such that notOriously
corrupt men cannot he appointed, and the
sentiment of the Bar is so improved that the
organization of the minor courts is virtually
compelled.
In Brooklyn. too spirit of reform is abroad
which cannot fail to work good. Thus far
only the District-Attorney of the county has
been arraigned, but the inquiry into his alleged
Offenses, even though it fall short of success
or is smothered, cannot but purify the judicial
atmosphere in a district heretofore painfully
corrupt. We have published the charges
against Mr.. BrittOn and his defense, If indeed
he can be said to have made any plea by his
general denial and his arraignment OF the
counsel who drew up the charges against him.
We are panied to see this demonstration on
Mr.. Britton's part; it savors too much of the
demeanOr of Barnard and CardozO when ac-
cused in like manner, year ago, and preju
dices Judgment against him. There is no de-
fense so weak as the abuse of the plaintiffs
attorney. Col. A. G. Davis and Judge Morris
figure before the public in this prosecution
solely as the counsel Of the Committee of
Fifty.
Mr.. Britton is not called upon TO prove them
base, but himself uncOrrnpted; and the public
has no consideration for any side or minor
peEsOnoI issues such as he makes with then.
The people of Kings County remember that TO
New-York tribune., 1873-03-14
A LATE SUICIDE,

Last week Scotchman living in one of the
outermOst suburbs of Philadelphia, after a day
or two of melancholy moping, put dose of
poison one night into a glass of porter, and,
after giving it to his wife and child, drank
the dregs himself. His mother-in-law was
wakened by the groans of her daughter, and,
possibly because his victims received the first
attention they were saved; but before morn
ing the poor Scotchman had tested the wis
dom of his experiment and gone to COM
pare the experience of the next life
with the evils which had proved too heavy
for him in this. After he was dead, as usual,
"a diligent search was made to discover the
"cause of the rash act" We are used to watch
ing with calmness our fellOw-traveers pushed
to the very verge of the great precipice, and
neither help nor hinder them; but once let
them fall, and all the world is agOg to find the
pebble on which they slipped at last There
really seemed to be no reason why this poor
fellow should not have kept his footing. lie had
no trouble at home, but, on the contrary, was
a fond husband and father: had no debt, was
sober and industrious, photographer by
trade, employed in shop where fair wages
were paid, and where he was already noted
by his employers and fellOw-w workmen as an
intelligent man; fond of hair-splitting de-
bates like the majority of his countrymen;
and especially of expounding to his comrades
the injustice of the rich to the poor No evil
dence was adduced to show that the wages
paid him were not liberal in proportion to his
work: they certainly were three times as
much as he could have received in Scotland.
The truth, however, was that this litho-
grapher, like twO-thirds of the emigrants of
the working classes TO this country. had
false idea of the real chance open to man
through the free institutions of the United
States. He had a conviction that suffrage
made all men absolutely equal, and that it
needed but successful clutch or two for him
to grasp rank, power, wealth; whatever he
had envied in those fortunate classes at home,
from which he was shut out by inexorable
barriers of birth. We need but go into our
own houses to find the same gross mistake.
Biddy in the kitchen and John in the stable
are insolent and careless simply to
show that they are Gas good as"
their employers Culture, refinement, knowl-
edge, count for nothing in their eyes. When
they discover that there are grades and ranks
in men and minds with which the polls have
nothing to do, they grow fractions and discon-
tented, leave their own proper standing
ground, and never find any other. This poor