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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23
For the Hartford Herald.
ME0DLERS.
TAYLoETowN, KY, June 10.

TAYLoRTowN, KY, June 10.
Mr.. EDIroR:-If you consign the fol-
lowing to your waste basket, or light
your fragrant Havana" with it, and
smoke in utter obHviousness of this effort
of a youth unknown to fortune or fame,
it will be call right"
Meddlers are, of all persons, the most
contemplate, and are despised by persons
who make a business of attending to their
own affairs. Whole>souled, broad mind
ed. liberal-hearted people regard med
dler as something so mean, insig-
nifcant and little-minded as to scarcely
demand their notice, were it not that
they are always forcing themselves into
notice. Their sphere of happiness seems
to consist in prying into other peoples af-
fairs. There is no business TRANSACTION
can take place without their knowledge.
Oh, no, they must know all about it,
ard, if they have the least dislike to eli.
ther of the parties engaged, they will do
all they can to cause disturbance. II
Satan ever has any emissaries on earth,
meddlers surely fill the place. They are
so little.hearted, narrow minded, and dew
ilish, they cannot endure to even see
an intimacy between two individuals
without gossiping about it, and trying 10
find out what such intimacy means, and
do all they can to disturb the relations
existing between such individuals. They
feel and know that all truly undetermined
people have no confidence in them, and
do not trust them with their plans and
prospects, therefore they are jealous and
envious, and do all they can to cause dis
turbances, quarrels, and strife among
friends. Ifthere is anything in phreno-
logy, the bump of inquisitiveness. if ex-
amined, would be found to actually dis
figure such individuals heads, it being SC
largely developed. If you start on q
journey, they must know where you are
going, how long you are going to be gone
when you are coming back, and what you
are going for. The next thing then is tc
make all haste and publish it. If they
hear any story in regard to neighbor
detrimental to his or her character, they
must publish it. They are only happy
when the air ia fetid with scandal, 80 that
in every breath they draw they can in
hale the troubles of their neighbors. They
would be supremacy blest were theil
neighbors at war, and general chaos the
order of the day.
If this description happens to offend
any one, they will be APP to kick, but il
| does not matter.
Let us have peace. II. B. 7.
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weary years. 1leave you with kind friends
who will be to you as near as possible
what have been. Guard your pathway,
lest you fall into snare, and blight your
life as did mine"
"Oh, motherl mother" sobbed the agon.
lied girl. "What have to live for, after
you are gone? Four long years have
studied faithfully, to brighten your life
with my talents, and just as the fond de-
sire is about to be accomplished, Death
with his icy sickle comes to cut my treas
ure from me,'
Daughter daughter" exclaimed Mrs.
Green, from the anguish of her soul, do
not talk so. 1t is Gods will. Listen,
have one request to make, and it is my
last. Your father is living, l know
Tell him, should you see him, that for
gave every wrong, and that my last prayer
was that God, too, would forgive him
Farewell, my daughter! farewell!' And
closing her eyes, gently she fell into the
long and dreamless sleep of death.
Oh! how terrible is DEATH Even the
thought makes one wretched. 1t enters
the chamber of those nearest and dearest
to us, leaving our hearts and homes void
and cherries. Yet, how sweet the thought
that, although we are often Obliged to part
with loved friends, we meet again in that
star better land" where our happiness is
undimmed by single tear.
Then, cheer up, little heroinel Bright
err days are in store for you. For, as the
poet says,
| ''Who hath not lost fricnd?"
Next morning, when Latta arose from
her sleepless couch, she went to the room
containing the remains of her mother. and
most keenly did she realize the fulfillment
of her dream. Twas but yesterday she
arose from her slumbers a happy girl
The scene had indeed suddenly changed.
She knelt beside a coffin, and raising the
lid, found her mother lieing there stiff
cold-deadl
Continued next week.
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Washing Not Taken In.

A good old minister of one of our New
England Baptist churches was agreeably
surprised by the intelligence from one OF
his flock that five individuals had ex~
pressed strong desire on the next Sum-
day to have the baptismal rite performed
upon themselves.
After its performance, however. he was
somewhat surprised and chagrined that
only one of the five joined the society Of
which he was pastor.
A few Sundays after the same elder
waited on him with the intelligence that
ten more desired immersion.
And how many of them will join the
society,"" queried the minister.
Two, regret to say, are all we can
depend on, was the reply.
Very WELL" said the good old man
"you may as well inform the other eight
that this church doesn't take in wash,
ing
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23
Catching a Cannon BaIl---An Astonisi,
ing Feat.

hhS Htsti.
An extraordinary exhibition was re-
Gently given at Jardin Mabille, Paris,
which is thus described by a correspond
ent of the New York World
There has been performing here, at
the Folies Bergeres, a man named Hol-
tum, an American, who has a cannon
fired at him, and catches the ball in his
hands This prodigious feat was witness
ed nightly, and although the actors pres
ent avowed that there was no trick. Pierre
Veron, Of the Monde Mtstre, would not
believe it. lie said that the cannon ball
must be thrown to Holtum from the stage
The latter made bet of 5000 francs that
he would perform the feat under condi-
tons which left no room to doubt; and
when the bet was taken, Veron designated
Mabille as the place for the trial. All
the journalists of Paris were invited, and
they found Holtum there before his cam
non. 1t was examined with minute care,
and the heavy ball was passed from hand
to hand. 81 am no longer in my own
house, said Holtum; you are master
here, and you must watch over all the ar
rangements." Having carefully aimed and
dashed his cannon, it was charged, and
Holtum took his place against plank
target some ten yards away. This was to
show that the ball was solid, and the
force of the powder great enough to send
it through the plank. Holtum got the
aim of his gun, and then placed his head
in a certain position against the plank,
giving the command to fire. The ball
just grazed the hair and broke through
the plank, rolling some twenty yards
further on. The same ball was picked up
by the journalists, who again charged the
cannon and sent home the ball, and this
time Holtum caught the ball in his hands
as neatly as he does nightly upon the
stage. He won his bet, and no one seem.
ed disposed to accept his offer of 5000
francs to any one who would perform the
same astounding feat The physical force
required must be enormous; but Holtum
showed his strength by tossing up cannon
balls as if they were so many oranges.
The only precautions taken are very SIM
pie; he wears very thick leather gloves,
and covers his breast with many thick>
nesses of thin paper to form sort of cui-
rass. This looks to me like very dam
gerous feat, and particularly the first part
oft, where Holtum places his head against
the target hall an inch below where the
ball will probably strike If the powder
should chance to be defective, some day
there might be an accident. 1t is like the
foolhardy trick of putting ones head into
lions mouth. One day I fancy tina
ball will snap his head very neatly off.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23

The Chicago Tribune says that the
President in his third term letter has sail
"what he means, and said it in terms so
concise that the wayiaring politician.
though a fool, may comprehend" Itap-
pears that the editor Of the ThiJ-1'e.
whether fool or not, did not compre-
hend, for he says that the letter banish-
es the third term specter. As a matter
of fact. the letter is an open bid for the
third term.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23
An ImDerturbable Witness,

Mr.. Dallas, once Vice President of the
United States, while practicing law, was
counsel in case in Philadelphia, and Mr..
Scheerer, noted politician, was called in
as a witness. The following questions
were put by Mr.. Dallas: "Mr. Scheerer,
were you in Harrisburg last June?" Last
June, did you say, Mr.. Dallas" ayes,
last June, don't repeat my question but
answer it." After some minutes OF study,
the answer came: mo. Mr.. Dallas, was
not in Harrisburg last June" "Were you
in Harrisburg last July?' Here he re-
Elected again, and slowly said, "No, Mr.
Dallas, | was not in Harrisburg in July"
"Were you there last August, Mr.. Scheer.
er| The witness again medtated and
said, mo, Mr.. Dallas was not there in
August" "Were you there in Septem-
ber?" Here Mr.. Scheerer reflected longer
than before, and replied, mo, Mr. Dallas
was not in Harrisburg in September u
Mr.. Dallas became tired Of this barren re-
suit, and, raising his voice, said, Mr..
'Scheerer, will you tell the court when YOU
were in Harrisburg" Mr.. Dallas" sait
Mr.. Scheerer, 81 never was in Harrisburg
| in my life"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23
AN ORIGINAL NOVELETTE,.
q 5ieroine of Tu-1au.
WRITTEN FOR THE HARTFORD HERALD,
BY VIOLA.
CHAPTER III.

The month sped by on golden wings,
and, as Latta had said, twas hard to part
with those she loved, yet the stern neces-
sity of an education compelled, and she
went almost without a murmur,
Mary Ellis was an amiable, good hearts
ed girl. She and Latta had been associated
from their earliest youth, and there had
always existed between them the most de-
voted affection for each other. But they
were entirely different in every respect
Neither was ever known to entertain the
same opinion. Mary was blonde Latta
brunette. Mary was forgiSiving, and for
getful of wrong done her. Latta was the
reverse, and treasured the memory OF
wrong endured and longed for reprisal and
vengeance.
Mr. Ellis accompanied the girls to school,
kindly placing them in charge of the Ma
tron, and with many parting injunctlons
left them to their studies.
As is often the case, the months flew by
UNDECIDED, and year was gone before they
realized its existence. Latta was very stu.
dious. applying every spare moment either
to reading or writing. On first entering
school her compositions had been greatly
admired, so much so, that she had beer
prevailed upon several times to send hel
manuscripts to some literary paper. They
were invariably published, and were uni.
versally praised as productions of grear
merit and rare promise of future distinct.
ion in the world of letters.
will not tire my patient readers will
wearisome details of school life. Foul
years had passed. Latta and Mary wer,
beginning their fifth and last term. Imag'
inc Latta's surprise and grief, when, ont
morning as she was entering the school
room, a telegram was handed her, convey
ing the affecting intelligence that he
mother had been stricken with sudden anC
alarming illness and desired the presence
Of her idolized daughter
Not many hours elapsed before our he
roine was vending her way homewarC
with sad and forlorn heart Mrs. Eli
met her at the door, and tried to cheer he
with the thought that Mrs. Green wa
come better. Bat she, too, broke down
and was obliged to weep with the bereavec
girl Her mother welcomed Latta will
a sad yet happy smile, clasped her closel,
TO her breast, babe her sit down, held he
hand in here, and said:
''oh, / do thank God for sparing me t
give my darling, my last blessing"
She was then seized with a spasm @
coughing and was obliged to be lifted u
TO prevent strangulation. Her illness ha
told plainly on her. She who was ono
so beautiful, was now reduced to mer
skeleton. Her face was as pale as marble
except hectic spot that burned on eacl
cheek, and one could easily discern tina
swift consumption had developed itself
and was rapidly carrying her to her las
restlng-place-ths grave.
After regaining her power of speech
Mrs. Green drew Latta still closer to her
and said: eyes, Latta, l am surely goin
from you, my darling. Ny pilgrimag
has almost ended. Do not weep, darling
Rather, rejoice that / am going to III
home have been longing for 50 man,
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Butler, being interviewd, said: 81
am giving my attention now to patent
rights and questions of law, and conse-
quently I know nothing about General
Grant or political questions, and nothing
could induce me to discuss the subject
In the language of the confirmation SER
vice, Il have renowned the devil and all
his works" Important. if true; but has
the devil really lost his best friend? Time
will tell.
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The Professions and the Presidency.
II. B. T..

The Professions and the Presidency.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The confident prediction by so old and
intelligent a statesman as Hon. Alexander
II. Stephens that the next President of the
United States will be a journalist, suggests
the inquiry as to how the different profes.
sions have Jared in the past in the distri-
button of that honor. A hasty review of
the list will be found to result somewhat
as follows:
Washington, soldier, Tyler, lawyer,
Adams, lawyer, Polk, lawyer,
Jefferson, lawyer, Taylor, soldier,
Madison, statesman, Fillmore, lawyer,
Monroe lawyer, Pierce, lawyer,
J.Q Adams, lawyer, Buchanan, lawyer,
jackson, soldier, Lincoln, lawyer,
Van Buren,, lawyer, Johnson, lawyer,
Harrison, soldier, Grant, soldier,
1t is true that jackson was a lawyer as
well as soldier-a judge as well as q
general-but as it was his career as a
fighter that made him President, he is
credited to that profession. So Pierce was
a brigadier general in the Mexican war;
but he didn't distinguish himself peculiar
ly as a warrior; so we apply to him the
correlative of the proposition that we ap
piled to his great Democratic predecessor.
1t should perhaps be explained with re
spect to Madison that he studied law, but
seems to have been drawn into public life
too soon to make any progress in the prac
tice.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23

A French doctor, by an examination OF
matrimonial statistics, has discovered that
out of one hundred blonde women thirty
seven remain old maids by the wayside,
while out of one hundred brunettes only
eighteen stop without husband. A little
three-year girl, to whom he impaired this
information, asked him to make her a
brunette.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23

Yesterday, when white-washer upset
a pail of white-wash on parlor carpet
doing $50 damage, he said to the grief
stricken lady of the house; 81 was a-going
to charge ye sixty cents for dis white
washin', but in view OF dis disastah, I'll
put de figgers down one half"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23

Now somebody is telling about a lady
with mouth so large that two dentists
worked on her lower teeth at the same
time without in any way hindering the
work of another tooth contractor who was
putting up staging to DO little job on
the upper teeth.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23

Trey materialize to some effect in
France. "At seance in Paris lately, the
spirit OF Catoncbe, the famous thief, was
called up, and came so practically that
nearly every one present subsequently
missed watch or purse"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23

DR.. Berry, the Radical candidate for
Treasurer, Gays he cant do much, but
proposes to hing the women. We men,
tened it to a Radical lady the other day,
and she said, dat white man better keep
his hands off DIS niyger-he had!'-G!as,
laW VMlM
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23

The "boss" grasshopper has been heard
from. He took the window blinds off a
poor widows house in Phelps county, Mo-.
and then he roasted on the fence and asked
her, "Come now. Are you ever going to
bring out that cast-off clothing, or do you
want us to starve?'
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
A MATCH.
ny ALGERSoS swINBUKSE.

61f-N-Ne' ." ANDN hNhs
If love were what the rose is,
And / were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather,
Blown fields or Powerful closes,
Green pleasures or gray grief;
If love were what the rose is,
And / were like the leaf.
If were what the words are,
And love were like the tune,
With double sound and single
Delight our lips would minglc,
With kisses glad as birds are,
That get sweet rain at noon;
If were what the words are,
And love were like the tune.
If you were life, my darling,
And l, your love, were death,
We'd shine and snow together
Ere March made sweet the weather,
With daffodil and startling
And hours of fruitful breath;
If you were life, my darling,
And /, your love, were death.
If you were thrall to sorrow,
And were page to joy,
We'd play for lives and seasons,
With loving looks and reasons,
And tears of night and morrow
And laughs of maid and boy;
1fyou were thrall to sorrow,
And L were page to joy.
If you were April's lady,
And were lord in May,
We'd throw with leaves for hours,
And draw for days with flowers,
Till day, like night, were shady,
And night were bright like day,
If you were April's lady,
And were lord in May.
If you were queen Of pleasure,
And were king of pain,
We'd hunt down love together,
Pluck out his flying feather,
And teach his feet a measure,
And find his mouth a rein;
If you were queen of pleasure,
And / were king Of pain.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23

Carteret County, N. c., is the abode of
fair and fat matron weighing $40 pounds,
one of whose stockings is utilized as an
exact bushcl measure,
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23

4 man may wear the color of cardinal
on his nose and yet not be strictly religions
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23

Praise is not valuable unless it comes
from one who has also the courage to con
denim.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23

How to make a good puff-Send a pub
Usher fifty cents a line f0r them.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-06-23

The ragged edge of Il POOR mans coat
gives him great anxiety this spring
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-04-01
DYING OF HUNGER.

What good are charitable institu-
tons, public or private, when persons
ran die Of starvation right in the city
unknown to them? A Mr.. Madder
living at 2S4 May street, was found
dead yesterday, and his wife almost so
from want of anything to eat. The
husband had been dead three day $,
and the woman did not have money
WIKI which to procure his burial or
lood for herself, nor had she neighbors
Interested enough in her to tell the
Nouaty Agent of her needs Chicago
JgU7,gl
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-04-01
PROSPECTUS
THE
Milwaukee Advertiser.
Daily, Sclni.vvcekiy a. Weekly.

The Advertiser is an Independent, Republi-
can newspaper, devoted to an impartial dis
custom oil all political, social and ethical cues
tiohs that challenge the attention of intelli.
gent readers from day to day. Its editor
helped To mauSurate the Republican party OF
the stalc and nation, and has defended its pol
icy ana measures TO the best of lis ability
ever since It's organization, through the pow
er'ui medium OF the daily press. He believes
the kepubhean party and some of its self
appointed leaders have been guilty of grave
errors in the past, which OUGHT and MUST be
corrected, and that the best place to secure
this reform Is within its own camp, and by
the counsel and advice of its own wise and
good men. II the effort at publication fail,
then 1t Is the duty OF every free and indepen-
dent American citizen to help overthrow the
party, and TO form new associations that Will
preserve cur Institutions, and enable the peo-
PIE OF these states to rest in the security of
their liberties. Thes the Bdvertiser, while Il
Is always ready to commend the wise beni-
'lcienl pc,icies of the Republican party, is not
the blind organ OF that party, bound to de
TEND lis errors at all times and insensible to
It's faults but 1t will bold itself free to com
ment upon its men ard principles In a candid
and non.partizan spirit.
Rhe Daily Bevertiser il published o'clock
every afternoon, Sunday excepted,
Rhe SCIENTIFICALLY Bdvcrtlser, containing all
the news OF three days, is published every
Tuesday and Friday.
The Weekly advertiser, well filled gener-
al news, family and political paper, is pub
lished every Friday morning, and is one of the
pest ana most popular weekly papers In the
Northwest,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-04-01
AN ANCIENT CITY.

The Cityeof Nice, once SO famous
in church history, it seems, is one OF
The most beautiftl cities in Europe.
Colonel Forney writes one Of his let
tcrs FROM that place, and says that a
loycIier spot never came more fully
fuisheu from the hands of nature, and
never was more gratefully adorned by
The genius Of man. A settled popula-
ion Of 10000, increased by annual
visitors during the winter and early
spring to $4,000; its situation on the
Mediterranean, WITH splendid back
ground Of hills, the snow-clad noun.
tans, tsare than one hundred miles
off, clearly visible on cloudless day,
It seems TO lie in alcrescent, unvisited
by fogs, and rarely by clouds, its val
eys clothed with olive, orange, Zig,
and lemon trees, with here and there
,he palm and the spme. This is the
10Th of February, but the flora is al.
ready exuberaut. Walking through
these clean and level streets, we pass
elegant villas bounded with hedges OF
cactus, oleanders, aloes, and castor.
o.i trees, with tea roses in bloom,
while the very air is heavy with the
fragrance Of mimosa and orange bios
toms.- Chicago Jownal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-04-01
destructive Floods In Tennessee.

\ water-spout at Fayetteville, on
sunday, caused an immense oveftio W
u Norris Greek, which swept away
''..S, logs, furniture, hogs, cattle.
'".'p, houses, of the small village sad =
'..'! and completely, inundated Arm
'a'hgs house and his blacksmith
y" p, and the contents were washed
r"tI the family barely escaping.
".. steam sawmill was lifted up and
'..ei down the stream. Carigc's
.>...ery Is gone, together with many
'.tier establishments. The damage
over 100000. The water-spout
aaa1cd half an hour, until IL fell
.-e1.ed into lureps as large as nail
= IL knocked holes in the roofs
houses, and many animals were
u. Another water-spout occurred
LFchhnrg, carrying away two
.Nefies, an immense amonnt of rails
many outhouses. The hail came
mex that the stream was covered
...1 mass of ice. Hundred of cattle
,.e drowned.