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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-10-16

The Brodhead Independent comes
outin favor of Magoon, for the reason
that it has found Thompson guilty
of shameful duplicity on the temper
ance question. 1t speaks of MIR. Ma
COON in this language: "In his charac-
ter we find all that is needful to make
him an honorable man, possessed Of a
disposition and qualifications to serve
the people, as we'll as the nation, with
the highest degree of credit to him
self and sa abstraction to the Third
Congressional District Of Wisconsin"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-10-16
YoR REGISTER OF DEEDS.

the candidates were John l.. Taylor OF
Linden, introduced by gentleman who
gave the convention to understand that
Linden demanded representation on The
ticket,) Richard Dunstan. of Wyoming,
Joseph E. Higgins and Richard Arundel,
of Dodgev;lle, D. A. Fairchild, ofLinden,
and Matthew Burns Of Highland. Richard
Dunston was nominated on the second
ballot, the votes standing as follows:
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-10-16
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pofor,, County Conyention.

Reform County Convention.
The Reform county Convention which
met at Dodgevill on last Saturday was well
attended, most of the towns being repre-
sedted by full delegations. The delegates
generally had arrived early in the day, but
owing to the log-roilling and button-holing
on the part of candidates, they could not
get the opportunity to assemble in the
Court House till about an hour alter the
time appointed for the meeting.
Finally, at about two O'clock portion
Of the delegates having found their way
into the Court room, w. FL. Peck, chairman
of the R form County Committee, who
had been waiting some time, rose, and with
an impatient look toward the door, SAID
that the hour having passed at whichth con-
yention was called to meet, he would call
the convention to order and nominate Good
win Lowery,of Wyoming, as temporary
chairman.
The nomination being ratified, Mr.. Low
ery took the chair. and after some delay
w. II. Peck was appointed temporary
Secretary, and committees on credentials
and permanent organization were appointed
which Undue time made their reports, which
were adopted.
The following is list Of the delegates
Town of Mineral Point.-Chales j.
Bracken James Weber, james James, W m.
B. Parkinson.
Miffiin e. w. Sylvester, George ".
Strong, James Hurd, Thomas Pateheld.
Clyde.-James Burnes Welcom Hoxie.
observation-disclosures Cutler W. e..
Hooking John Rowe Jr., Robert Wilson
John Trench BENZ Elan O.. @ Smith ID.
j. Briggs Richard Arundel Thomas Lar
| sen Casper Eulberg Joseph u. Higgins
| George L. Frost.
Ridgeway.-Joseph PAUL James Ryan
Saml. Roberts Thomas <. Ryan David
Llyod Thomas Mahony Mat O'Nie. John
| ONiel.
Wyoming.-Richard Dunstan Goodwin
Lowery John NJ. Levake.
Moscow.-John McKina John Shanly
| P. Mcdonald.
Arena.-4. @. Meigs Stephen ". Daw,
son G. M Ashmore Isaac Farwell VIM. IL.
Rowe Alexander McCutchen Geo. Hos
kins.
Linden, George Warning John Com
fort John Lee Thomas Sanguin John lay
lor John NJ. Hitchcock.
Pulaski.-W r. Spenser r. Fl. Kinzie
B. A. Gabler T. A. Reuter- H. A. Hampton
John Gallagher.
Waldwick james Heath Joseph Beech
er James Kitchen.
Mineral Point city 1st ward.-M. NJ.
Oothern John O'Doud VIM. Healy X.
L. Read NJ. M. Strong Vim, II. Peck.
I'd, ward-Cyrus Lanyon John James
Corneilns James George Crawford Hugh
Oonnaughton,
ighland.-Richard Kennedy O. O. Cur
nolch James Kennedy Sen., John Billings
Mat Byrne Huston Cunningham Martin
Phaen Ancton Imhof John Muldoon dr.,
DR.. Gordon Andrews J. ?. SchoIvn.
The permanent officers were, Goods q
Lowery, chairman; W. Fl. Peck, Secreta-
ry; Cyrus Lanyon and Richard Dunstan,
assistants.
Geo. L. Frost, Of Dodgeville, and John.
Levake, of Wyoming, were then appointed
tellers, and the convention proceeded u
the nomination Of candidates for the vari
Gus county offices.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-10-16
FOR TREASURER.

the names of B. Thomas, Sr., and Oryllle
Strong, both Of Dodgeville, were announced,
but Mr.. Strong's name was withdrawn
before ballot was taken, and on motion
Mr.. Thomas was nominated by acclama-
&{ov
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-10-16

The name of Matthew Burns, of High.
land, was the only one presented for
COUNTY CLERK,
and as a great majority of the delegates
knew nothing about him, he was NOM
mated by acclamation.
John Grass and Ferdinad Frederick
both Of Mineral Point, were nominated as
candidate for the office of
CLERK OF THE COURT,
and the hoice fell on Mr.. Grass, on the
first ballot, which stood as follows:
FREEZER =. 10
.. u Smiths
About all the 'lesser lights of the
legal profession en- the Reform side were
ready to be sacrificed as candidate for
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
but on the second ballot NJ. j. Briggs, of
Dodgeville, was chosen as the victim.
The ballots stood:
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STATE SENATOR.

Mr.strong, ofMifHn, presented the nam
Of David Mcfarland, Of Highland, who war
nominated on the first ballot, the vote
standing as follows:
OAFlu 81. ~
John Lee of Linden ...........,.
VIM. Z. Rowe, of Arena...-........... .........
Goodwin Lowery, Of Wyoming. ................. 2
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-10-16
FOR SHERIFF,

the names Of Jas, Ryan, of Rdgeway,
Ed. D. Baker. of Linden, and Hugh Con
naughton, Of Mineral Point, were pre-
sented. Jas. Ryan was nominated 90
the first ballot, as follows:
-..." 81
Baker..".-. .."-.... %
Connaughton.........
John Ryan
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-07-08
A Thousand Year ola House.

The loitiest house, and the most perfect
in the matter of architecture, | have ever
seen, was that which a wood-chopper occu-
pied with his family, one winter, in the for.
ests Of Santa Cruz county. 1t was the
cavity Of a redwood tree, two hundred and
forty feet in height. Fire had eaten away
the trunk at the base, until circular room
had been formed sixteen feet in diameter
At twenty feet or more from the ground
was a knot-hole, which afforded egress for
the smoke. With hammocks hung from
pegs, and a few cooking utensils hung from
other pegs, that house lacked 10 essential
thing This woodman was in possession of
a house which had been a thousand years
in tho process Of building Perhaps on
the very day it was finished, he came along
and entered in. How did all jack.knife
aud hand-saw architecture sink into insig-
uifcance, in contrast with this house in the
soitudes Of the great forest Moreover
the tenant Jared like a prince. Within
thirty yards Of his coniferous house, u
mountain stream went rushing past to the
sea, In the swirls and eddies under the
shelving rocks, If one could not land half-a-
dozen trouts within an hour, he deserved to 20
hungry, as a penalty for his awkwardness.
Now and then a deer came out into the
openings and, at no great distance, quails,
rabbits aud pigeons, could be found. What
did this man want more than nature fur
nished him? He had a house with a
"cupola two hundred and forty feet high,
and game at the cost Of taking it. This
Arcadian simplicity would have made a
lasting impression but for a volunteer re-
mark, that nothing could be added to give
life a more perfect zest. Well, yes" !"
said he, 4" | reckon if you are going back
to town, you might tell Jim to send me up
a gallon of whiskey, and some plug to.
bacco." 1t will not do to invest hollow
treee with too much Of sentiment and po.
etry. If that message had not been sug.
gested, we should have been under the delu-
sion, to this day, that the lives of those
people, dwelling in house fashioned one
thousand years ago, were rounded to per-
feet fulness, without one artificial want
Overland Monthly.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-07-08

Last evening as we were walking leisurely
along, the music Of choirs in three churches
came floating out into the darkness around
us, and they were all new and strange tunes
but one-it was not sung as we have heard
it, but it awakened n train of long buried
memories that rnse to us even as they were
before the cemetery of the soul had tomb
in it.
1t was sweet "Corinth they were sing
ing-strains we have seldom heard since
the rose color Of life was blanched f.; and we
we're in a moment back again to the old viii
lage church, and it was summer afternoon,
and the yellow sunbeams were streaming
through the west windows, and the silver
hair Of the old deacon who sat in the pulpit
was turned to gold in its light, and the min
lister, whom we used to think could never
die, so good was he, had concluded cap
plcation and exhortation,' and the village
choir was singing the last hymn, and the
tune was Corinth"
1t is years-we dare not think how many
-siuce then, and :" the prayers of David,
the son of Jesse, are ended, and the choir
are scattered and gone. The girl with blue
eyes that sang alto, and the girl with black
eyes that sang air-the eyes of the one
were like the clear June heaven at noon.
They both became wives, and both mothers
and they both died Who shall say that
they are not singing Corinth still, where
Sabbaths never wane aud congregations
never break up y There they sat, Sabbath
after Sabbath, by the square column at the
right of the leader, and to our young ears
their tones were the "sou OF music. -
That column bears still their penciled names
as they wrote them in those days of June,
lS3--, before dreams of change had
overcome their spirits like summers
cloud.
Alas that with the old singers most of
the sweeter tunes have died upon the air
but they linger in memory, and they shall
yet be sung in the sweet reunion of that
song which shall take place by and by in
hall whose columns are beams Of morning
light, whose ceiling is pearl, whose floors
are all gold, and where hair never turns
silvery, and hearts never grow old. Then
she that sang alto, and she that sang air,
will be in their places once more.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-07-08

from your little circle the best loved, The
brightest, what would you do ? bar your
door, and put on garments of mourning
crouch in darkness, and talk Of death ?
No, believe not! Your home would
be halowod as never before. You might
question, perhaps, why He had not chosen
the whito-haired saint $50 ready to go) in
stead of the one who seemed the very light
and stay Of your life but He knew you
would want comfort after He and your
darling we're gone. So lie said Let not
your heart be troubled"
With your loved one safer in His keeping
than yours, you would begin to think Of
heaven as hoae. What a new, wondrous
meaning would that phrase, "pilgrms aud
strangers bring
Here htve we no continuing city, but
we seek one to come, '-ah you would re.
peat that text over and over when you saw
the empty chair.
What were the rest Of His worlsl al
go to prepare place for you. will come
again yes for you, in little while.
col IT it were not no " lie would have told
you"
Aud friends, dear friends, plo is it that
caters now our homes, sometimes in the
first, sometimes in the second watch-even
at midnight you may have to arise and let
Him in-rto is it that whispers come ~
Who lays His strong arm about the
trembling form that you cannot support,
and carries it through the valley Of the
shadow Of death only the had0ag2 ?
Mark the words
Is it not Christ-the risen Saviour, the
loving Master, who promised to come for
His own-the Hriag Christ, who conquered
death
Whether our years be few or reach the
full tbree.score and ten, let our lives be so
bid in Christ that for US there will be no
darkened windows no mourning garments,
but only song Of praise that we have
" departed to be with Him, which is far
better ~ Christian at Work.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-07-08
A Temperance Fact.
by SIDNEY SMITH.


| don't like that red nose, and those
boar eyes, and that stupid downcast look.
You are a drunkard. Another pint, and
one pint more a glass Of giu and water,
rum and milk, cider and pepper, glass OF
peppermint, aud all the beastly fluids which
drunkards pour down their throats. 1t ia
very possible to conquer it, if you will but
be resolutc. | remember a man in Staf-
fordshire who was drunk every day Of bis
life. Every farthing he earned went to the
ale house. One evening he staggered home,
and fouud, at late hour, his wife sitting
alone and drowned in tears. lie was a
man not deficient in natural affections be
appeared to be struck with the wretohed.
ness Of the woman, and with some eager
ness asked her why she was crying al
don't like to tell you, James, she said,
d" but if | must | must /; the truth is, my
children have pot touched a morse of any
thing this blessed day As for me, never
mind me | must leave you to guess how
it has Jared with me- But not one morscl
Of food could beg or buy for those chill
dren that lie on that bed before you aud
am sure, James, it is better for us all we
should die, and to my soul | wish we were
dead" Dead said James, darting up
as if a flash Of lightning had darted upon
him dead, Sally You and Mary, and
the two young ones dead Look at me,
my lass, you sec what | am now-like a
brute. have wasted your substauce-the
curse Of God is upon mel am drawing
near to the pit of destruction-but there's
an end. Give me that glass, wife" She
gave it to him with astonishment and fear.
He turned it topsy turyy and, striking it
with great violence, and flinging himself on
his knees, made a most solemn and affect
ing vow to God of repentance and sobriety.
From that moment to the day Of his death
he drank no fermented liquor, but confined
himself entirely to tea and water never
saw so sudden and astonishing change.
His looks became healthy, his cottage neat,
his children we're clad, his wife was happy
and twenty times the poor man and his
wife with tears in their eyes, have told me
the story, and blessed the evening of the
fourteenth Of March, the day Of James's
restoration, and have shown me the glass
he held in his hand when he made the vow
of sobriety. 1t is all nonsense about not
being able to work without ale, and
gin, and fermented liquors. Do lions and
cart horses drink ale It is mere habit
If you have good nourishing food you can
do very well without ale. Nobody works
harder than the Yorkshire people, and for
years together there are many Yorkshire la
borers who never taste ale.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-07-08


TnE GENTLENEss OF PowER.-There is
no gentleness in the world like that which
is manifest by power To sec strong,
giant-built man meet in the way little
child, and raise it up, and say to it, "bless,
you, my darlingi" to sec his great, coarse
hands, and his arms that are like bears
paws, go down, and accompanying the act
with some sweet words, lift the child up to
his bosom--that is most beautiful sight
There never was a brcast-pin in mans
bosom to be compared with sweet little
child. To see a slender pale-faced woman
and mother take up child is beautiful
we expect that but to see a great, brawny
man take up child, with tenderness and
gentleness, is beautiful indeed. Everybody
mayes at that. A little child shall lead
them"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-07-08

HHronr, EssAYs, OnArioSs. and other Document.
% Que sixth Gencml Conference oi the Evangelical
fditd by Rev. Philip sohaif u. D. and Rev. s..
Ifcrwus Primo, d. D. Ncw York Harper Bros.
The rc-ultof thi- grand Evangelical Alliance
c3mo- tous in g3ldly royal octave volume Of
seven hundred and seventy three pages, closely
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reading here, good for scholars, good fox sun
day schools good i0r families, and good as a
sisn VI still further progress. Tie literary
and theological banquet served up In these
hundred essays 90 theme. -o various, i- ab4n.
iaui enough % satisfy every want Those who
lsc dry reasoning con God i % tcir heart 5
content, those whc like wit and fancy, t1o.
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course the essays are Of unequal merit, Some
OF them are absolutely dull some of them are
-lightand superficial but the majority Of them
are able, learned, fair in statement, iu good
temper and good taste When we consider
the proia.sel purpose Of the meeting, broth
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Rau0ual.-n-t miiiness Of the anta.ouism
is quite remarkable TO specify the document.
best worth reading in this vast collection.
nearly all Of them by dignifed "doct9rs. ''
would be inyidious The subjects Of the essay
arc a saier guide than the names Of the au.
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ers can be expected 90 go through the whole
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B. NJ
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-07-08

ruE Lirf ANu pEArH or JouN OBJ BtRyEyElD, "A
Npc4ic ot Holland Ith r. AioW NJ the Primary
Causes and Movement. % the Thirty feart War
l1 John Lohrop Motley %. q. L.. ILL.,. ID. lH tWg
volumes with Illustrations. New YORK. Harper a
brothers.
John Of Barnoycld docs not como before "a.
now for the first time in the passionate dcluea
ton Of the historian Of the Netherlands iii.
life here is taken up from the unfinished story
and carried on to it, tragioal close His.
torically, th, episode Of the Dutch quarrel be
tween Church and State, of the intrgues of O
sensual prince Of the iaDaticism Of an ignor.
ant populace, has less dignity than the wars On
a larger scale which Mr. Motley ha. before de.
scribed. But we find here, too, the same warm
cllorng, the same care for details, the Same
enthusiastic perti-auship, which made per
haps the defect, while they made the charm, OF
the previous histories There will he u,
pretense, however, that Mr. Motley in hi,
yehemcnce Of feeling. las fllsifcd historiel
truth His facts are well youched and atte-tet
from the yencious archives which he has con
suited and copied. Long ago other nations
and even the Holanders themselves, had set
tied the question Of the nlamy of this judicia
assassination, the worst blot, perhaps, on The
history Of Holland. A great many personagei
come before us in the yolumes-kings, mobiles
generals, statesmen, scholars, preachers, poll
ticians and villains, men and women, wise anC
weak and the author lets US know what h'
thinks Of them, no matter whether they are
English or French, or Dutch or German. Fo
sale at Phinnoys.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-07-08
Moral Courage.

Have the courage to face a difficulty,
lest it kick you harder than you bargained
for. Difficulties, like thieves, often disap-
pear at a glance. Have the courage to
leave n convival party at the proper hour
for doing so, however great the sacrifice /;
and to stay away from one upon the
slightest grounds of objection, however
great the temptation to 60. Have the
courage to do without that which you
do not need, however much you may
admire it. Have the courage to speak
your mind when it is necessary that you
should do so, and hold your tongue
when it is better you should be silent.
Have the courage to speak to poor friend
in seedy coat, even in the street, and
when a rich man is nigh. The effort is less
than many people take it to be, and the act
is worthy Of king, Have the courage to
admit that you have been in the wrong, and
you will remove the fact in the minds of
others, putting desirable impression in
the place of an unfavorable enc. Have the
courage to adhere to the first resolution,
when you cannot change 1t for better one,
and to abandon it at the eleventh hour,
upon conviction.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-07-08
Moral.

A nut dropped by a squirrel fell through
the opening in the middle of an old mill.
stone which lay upon the ground, and being
thus protected, grew into a thrifty saplng
that shot up through the opening. In few
years it had incseased so that it filed the
space, and was firmly wodgod to the sides Of
the heavy stone. Still it grew, and in a
few years more, little by little, it lifted the
entire weight clear from the earth, so that
a man could sit beneath it. All was done
by atom after atom, borne by the sap to the
growing trunk. Think of this, my little
man, puzzling over long division in arith-
metic little by little of thinking and work
ing will take you through fractions, rule Of
three, and those terrible problems at the
end of the book, by-and.by; but be sure
that little by little is not neglected. And
you, hard.working lad on the farm, or in
the shops, look at Franklin, Watts, Morse,
Field and thousands more who have lifted
the weight of circumstances that would hold
them down like mill-stones, aud who have
by their steady perseverance risen above
their fellows, easily bearing their burdens,
and keep peggiug away"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-07-08
The Sweetness of Home.


He who has no home has not the sweetest
pleasure of life he feels not the thousand
endearments that cluster round the hal.
lowed spot to fill the void Of his aching
heart, and while away his leisure moments
in the sweetest Of ife's joys Is misfortune
your lot? You will find friendly well
come from hearts beating true to your own
The chosen partner Of your toll has smile
of appreciation when others have deserted
a hand Of hope when all others refuse, and
a heart to feel your sorrows as if they were
her own Perhaps a smiling cherub, with
prattling glee and joyous laugh, will drive
sorrow from your care-worn brow, and en-.
close it in the wreaths of domestic bliss
No matter how humble that home may be-
how destitute its stores or how poorly its
inmates are clad, if true hearts dwell there
it is yet a home A cheerful, prudent
wife, obedient and aifectionato children, will
give their possessors more real JOY than
bags of gold and worldly honors. The
home of a temperate, industrious and honest
man, will be his greatest Joy. He comes to
it weary and worn, but the music of the
merry laugh and the happy voices of the
children cheer. A plain, but healthy
meal awaits him. Envy, ambition and
strife, have no place there, and with clear
conscience he lays his weary limbs down to
rest in the bosom of his family, and under
the protecting care Of the poor mans Friend