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The Hartford herald., 1880-10-06

The Boston Post, i'm referring to the
Maine election, makes these well-timed
remarks: ave have the Republicans
ON the run, and it is our own fault if We
do not keep them 81. or course, rs
soon as they recover from this shock
they will look about to see what tles-
perate eXpedient can he adopted to
break the force of their disaster and re-
cover the ground that has been lost.
They are not right in expedients, but
they still have one which they always
rely upon in times of peril. That is AN
extra turn on the crank of the assess-
ment mill. Probably it will be tried
Porters, hOuse-cleaners and all kinds of
laborers who draw pay from the Nation
al Treasury will be asked to swell the
campaign fund and strengthen the sim
ews of war, while another review of the
hundred thousand office-hOlders will be
had, and strict orders will be given that
both officers and privates attend with
full pOcket-books. We warn Democrats
to be on their guard. Now is the criti-
cal time. The country is with them,
but the Republicans are sly and unscru-
pulous, and will stop ut nothing that
offer them the slightest chance of relief
points. Ii ought 10 be easier, with all
this extra prestige, to carry the former
State than it was to annihilate the Re-
publican majority in Maine, while the
latter was considered reasonably certain
before and ought to be unquestionably
so now. But eternal vigilance is the
price of success. Ii will MT do to rest
for an hour. Let the banners he kept
flying and Democratic truth proclaimed
in every town and hamlet. The DEM
Ocrats are alert and confident. The Re-
public,ns are cOrrespondingly demOral-
ized. The ,ioaters' will come over to
Democracy like sheep following their
leaders. They go with the tide, and
there can be no question of the set of
that. The Republicans will try to buff
fet it, but We must make il so Overwhel-
ming that the waters of IA solid South
and u practically solid North will rush
together and constitute the grand Pa
cific sea of national harmony and pros
perity."
The Hartford herald., 1880-10-06
THIS DOES NOT sEEM LIKE HOME
To ME-.

Lines suggested by hearing Miss
Mamie Atherton use the foregoing ex'
preston, and inscribed to her as friend
Dempsy:
This does not seem like home to me-"
AS in the days of NOre;
For faces loved, ana forms 81 dear,
Are with me now no more.
My happy childhood's days were spent
Beneath this old rOof-trec:
But o, so many now are gone
That made II home to mel
our mother left us ere the spring
Come with its wealth Of flowers,
And gone were sunshine, joy and peace
From these sad hearts OF ours.
The house, the scenes are Stili the same,
They look ;ts they did thcn,
But mother, sister, friends are gone
'Ttt1U Hc'cr BE- home dJdiH!
Some of our treasures still are left;
But q, il is not home
As ii was then; for some are dead,
While Others far oil roam.
1T does not seem like home In me"
Its joys are not the same
As once they were, when thcy were here,
Before these changes came. ~
We love the faces i'm our home
hut ., we look around:
We list for tones that do not come,
And vacant chairs" abound.
'ris heart-wealth makes our homes 81 dear,
And when our treasures flown,
We call IL home; for some joys dear
We still do call our own.
But when we list for words 50 true
That ncVermOre Will come,
And long To press our lips To these
That evermOre are dumb,
And grasp AT hands i'm viewlesS air
That yield no pressure true;
We cal homo, and home il is,
But not the home kHetc!
God bless all bereaved hearts and lead
them to find in heaven all the treasures
lost.
The Hartford herald., 1880-10-06
q Printers Dream.

A printer sat i'm his Office chair. his
boots were patched and his coat thread
bare, while his face looked weary and
worn with care. While he sadly think
ing Of business debt, old Morpheus
slowly round him erept, and before he
knew it he soundly slept: and, sleeping,
he dreamed that he was dead, from
trouble and toll his spirit had fed, and
that not even a eOw-beH tOlled for the
peaceful rest of his eowhide sole. As
he wandered among the shades, the
smoke and seoreh in lower Hades, he
shortly observed AN iron door that
creakingly swung ON hinges ajar, bat
the entrance was closed with q red-hot
bar, and Satan himself stood peeping
out, and watching for travellers there
abouts, and thus to the passing printer
spoke, and with growing voice the
echOes woke: "Come i'm, my dear, il
shall cost you nothing. never fear; this
is the place where cook the ones who
never pay their subscription sums, for
though in life they may escape, they
will find when dead il is too late; i
will show the place where melt them
thin, with red-hot chains and scraps OF
tin, and also where l comb their heads
with broken glass and melted lead, and
If Of refreshments they only think,
there's boiling water Tor them to drink;
there's the rei-hot grindstone to grind
down his nose, and red-hOt rings to
wear ON his toes, and il they mention
they don't like fire I'll sew up their
mouths with red-hot wire; and then,
dear sir, you should see them squirm
while ! roll them over and cook to a
turn" With these last words the prin-
ter awoke, and thought it all a practical
joke; but still at times 50 real did seem
that he cannot believe il was all
dream; and often he thinks with q
chuekle and grin Of the fate of those
who save their tin and never pay the
printer.
The Hartford herald., 1880-10-06
4 Kentucky ScoandreI.

A half-witted and full-fledged politi-
cal charlatan, writing from Frankfort
10 the Louisville Commercial, prOfesses
10 see way for the election of Garfield
10 DO it, however, he insists that the
New York State Legislature must meet
ana select electors, instead of letting the
eight hundred thousand voters i'm that
State say how the State shall 90. This
thing was suggested early i'm the can
vass by some obscure and venal news
papers and men i'm the State of New
iork, Out the monstrOus proposition re-
ceiVed no encouragement from the
liiasscs or the decent men of the party,
ana the thing died out and no scoun-
drei IN that State at this day will so far
ihtilhe himself rs to revamp the mis-
cradle, r'iscally proposition. a Frank
tort inlscre;int has been bold enough to
resurrect the proposition, and knaively
iiislsts that II the Democrats had such
AN opportunity they would not fail to
make Use of it. Herein he basely lies,
anu II he has any sense ut all he knows
u. On no occasion and at no time i'm all
the history OF the great Democratic
party can he point to II single effort of
the party, or even bare squirting at
anything so mOnstrOus, so offensive to
win honest impulse, and So dslstarlly
craven and stealthy as the proposition
made by him. That IA Legislature,
electei two years ago, when no mortal
IN the State had the most remote idea
that the plan of electing President
was to be at all interferred with, should
now, because of probable defeat before
the people of the candidate for whom "A
majority of that Ipuislaturp l. svmna-
thizing he invoked to reverse the order
of things, ~ we'll as the voice of the
people, is too mOnstrOus for honest con-
sideratiOn. and is deserving the keenest
invective from all honest men. The
author of the article must either be an
eN-convict or some impecunious office
holder. BE 1t as il may, he is more de-
serving cell within the penitentiary
walls, or the anathemas of all honest
men, than the free air of Frankfort.
The Commercial give the dirty commu-
nication space without any comments.
-IF0in6iedier.
The Hartford herald., 1880-10-06
IDoss't Grusss ble.

Don't be a grumbler. Some people
eontrive to get hold of the prickly side
of everything, to run against all the
sharp corners and find out all the dis
agreeable things. Half the strength
spent i'm growing would often set things
right. You may as well make up your
mind to begin with, that no one ever
found the world quite rs he would like
il but you are to take your share OF
the troubles and bear it bravely. You
will be very sure to have burdens laid
upon you that belong to other people,
unless you are shirk yourself, but don't
grumble. II the work needs doing and
you can do, il, never mind about other
persons who ought to have done it and
didn't. These workers who fill up the
gaps and smooth away the rough spots
and finish up the job that others leave
undone, they are the true peaeemakers,
and worth a whole regiment Of growI-
ers.
The Hartford herald., 1880-10-06

Did you ever know a man who grew
rich by fraud, continue successful
through life and leave fortune at his
death:
This question WAS put to a gentle
man who had been ina business forty
years. After rejecting a while he
said:
"Not one. / have seen many men be-
come rich as il by maic and win golden
opinions, when some little thing led to
an exposure OF their fraud, and they
have fallen into disgrace and ruin.
Arson, perjury, murder, and suicide
are common crimes with those who
made haste to be rich regardless of the
means"
Boys. stick a pin here. You will
soon be men, and begin tn act with
those who make money. Write this
good mans testimony i'm your mind,
and with il put this word Of God: "He
that hasteneth to be rich hath AN evil
eye, and eonsidereth not that poverty
shall come upon him."
Let these words lead you to resolve
to make haste slowly when you GO into
business i'm the matter Of making moa-
ey.
The Hartford herald., 1880-10-06
t'enterfown.
September 20, 1850.

Septciiiher 10, 1851.
Editor Herald
Sickness-mOstly of Il malarial char
acter-is quite common'in our eommu-
nifty just now.
VIM. Hamilton and wife, who got
shot some time ago, are getting well.
Mrs. Laura Bishop is fast recovering
from injuries sustained from falling
from "a horse Il week or ten days ago.
Ernie, a two year old son of Cas-
Morton, while playing with II glass
6umbler broke it and cut his hand SO
BADLY that he came near bleeding to
death, but We are glad to note he is
@hotIt WELL
Az infant child of $. w. and s. Nj.
Rowe died yesterday, the 26th inst.
Heary Williams returned Saturday
from DkIquoin, ILL.,, to which place he
had been on business. y UVltpI
A. w. Campbell, of Montgomery
county, ILL.,. spent the most of last week
i'm this place visiting his sister, Mrs.
DIR. Sanders.
Jacob G. Warden, sub-agent of +. j.
Rowe, is getting out alarge lot OF hick-
Ory timber on Jno. 5. Miller's land for
buggy spOkes, which is the first of that
The Hartford herald., 1880-10-06

kind of timber gotten out in this part
Of the county.
Dee Rowe, of near Spring Lick, is
home on visit.
Sunday was Il gloomy day for DIR.
Benefits meeting at Walton's creek.
suppose he had IA small audience.
Several sorghum factories" are in
full blast i'm this section.
There will be large amount of the
weed manufactured this fall. would
tell something about tobacco and things
but they are with us about us they are
everywhere else in the county; but will
be in time for next crop season.
SNOOKs.
The Hartford herald., 1880-10-06
SIGBSCRIPTION RATES.
DIRECTORY.
COUNTY DIRECTORY.


CIRCUIT COURT.
lion. Lucins z. Liitic, Judge, o,wensDoro.
Hon. Joseph Noe, Ailorncy, Calhoon.
r. l.. SuIlen,ser, Jailer, iIartfDrd.
Ciarenee HanlwiclS, CLERK. Hartford.
nsITs NssssT s1,s ssr basrIier
a.. W. Bunger, Hartford :. 4. Taylor, Bea-
Yer Dam; 4. II. Cooper, Fordsville; :. L.
court begins fourth Mondays in May and
November, aud continues four weeks each
term. -
Ben. Newton, Judge. Hartford.
Capt. sam. X. Cox. Clerk, Hartford.
J. Z. SandcTfuT, Attorney, Hartford.
Court begins ON the first Monday in every
QUARTERLY COURT.
Begins on the third Mondays in January,
April, July and October.
COURT OF CLAIMS.
Begins on the first Mondays In January
and October.
OTHER COUNTY OFFICERS.
Armistead Jones, Assessor, Hartford.
Gol. W. n. Porter. Surveyor, Cromwell.
\. II. Baird, School Commissioner, hafiiord.
PoI.ICE COURTS.
HartforI-F. Z. Morgan, Judge, second
Mondays i'm January, April, July and October.
W. a. Haden, Marshal.
Beaver DAM. 4. Cooper, Judge, first
saturday in January, April, July and October.
Cromwell-P. W. Gilstrap, Judge, second
saturday in January, April, July and octo-
Der. W. 4. rilGord, Marshal.
Cersalvo-Henry Tinsley, Judge, second sat
uriay in January, April, July and October.
Vacant, Marshal.
IIamilton-Wm. Hamilton, ST., Judge, post
Office address, McIIenry, Courts held third
saturday In January, April, July and October
Wm. Hamilton, Jr, Marshal, p"si-oihce ad-
Rockport-D j Wilcox, Judge, Wm. Tinsley
Marshal. Courts held first saturdays an
January April, July and October.
Ro>ine-N. Il. Rains Judge, 4. Nj. kal"y
Marshal. Courts held hrst saturday in Janu-
AIRY. April, July and October.
JUSTICES COURTS.
FoRDsvILLE.
n.P.wi,hsrs, Mar. Z June sept. Dee
A.. u. Taylor, Mar. 10 June sept. Dec. 5
]. ID. Holbrook," II III 10 q" 10
HARTFORD.
\. D. Bennett, Mar. June Sept! Dee
l. ID Rivers - " - L" 2l {" II
RocgPoRT.
W. l.. Rowe, 20 . q "a
VIM cannon lar f5si Is June sm IA Sept. ls Dec. 10
J. ID. Miller, q" IL IL ID ID
rfH'ff CROMWELL. HT.
r. ~. Porter, Mar. ~ June Is sept. Il Dec. u
Melvin Taylor" ~ +" ~ Is Is
CoNsTABLEs.
Forisville- Bradneld, Post-otiice
address, Forisville.
Buford-IhoS. =, Taylor.
Hartford-J. 4. stevens. Post-oflice Beaver
Rockport T. n. Bishop. Post-oniee Center
town.
CrImwell-J. W. Daniel. Posi- office Crom-
well.
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Mclean County Chat.
CALIOoN, KY. Sept. %, 1880.

CALIIOoN, KY. Sept. %, 1880.
Editor Herdisi: ~
Times are awful dull.
Two men were jailed here last night
for breaking into house.
The big brick square will soon begin
building, then, | hope, we will have II
little buster town.
The high school has increased to fifty
scholars, and Miss Miller's to forty; a
very goOdly number. sse
Last saturday the ease of the Conn
monwealth against Warren, Jefflreys
and Jones was called before Judge
Rudy Jeffreys was tried and discharg-
ed. Warren and Jones Were held over
until December Circuit Court.
The boys that went to see Barnum's
show paid for 1t, you bet. uy
/ think if Garfield is elected he ought
to make &. Gates Speaker.
remain yours for Hancock, McKen-
zie and the HERALD. g
The Hartford herald., 1880-10-06

Some gentlemen Were remarking on
the entire absence of resemblance be-
tween two brothers. al consider them
strikingly alike" said one of the party.
"Alikew exclaimed the astonished
group; "why, what resemblance can you
possibly see between them" "Well,
they're both contounded FOOLS" was the
reply.
The Hartford herald., 1880-10-06
For the Herald. |.a.
THE BURGLAR.
BN CICERO SUTTON.


The burglar came down like wolf on the
To the big iron safe full of silver and gold;
And his vision of wealth was us grand as
could he,
For there were the dollars like sands Of the
sea.
Like a slow creeping serpent when summer
* green,
That keen-visaged burglar Mt midnight was
seen;
Like the serpent when winter his warning
ON the morrow that burglnr was captured
and gone.
For the watchful policeman looked in as lac
passed,
And caught the poor burglar and held him
Then the blood of that burglar rum sluggish
and chill
As he felt the cold handouts that thwarted
his will.
Then they led him away with his hands safe
Between two polcemen-a man on each side:
And the frost chilled his feet as he trod the
cold turf, ......t ...tr- ..r
For they We're as bare as the rock meath the
surf.
Then they left the poor burglar all haggar,l
and pale. r....... g..
To make himself easy all night in the Jail
lie tried and he failed, for he was not alone,
For where is the Jail where fieas un-
known. ...
His burglar companions are loud in their
wall,
For he's gone up Ia Frankfort and has taken
the vail:
No more shall they hear the low, rally ing
word,
From the poor. captive burslar-their trust
worthy pard.
FoRDsyILLE, KY, Sept. %, lsSO.
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CuuRcH pIRECToRN.

Baplisi-Services first Sunday and sunday
night in every month and saturday night
prcceding-W. 4. Bennett, Pastor
NJ. r.. Church South-Seryices third Sunday
and sunday night and fourth sunday night
in each month-Rev. j. :. Mcdaniel, Pastor.
Methodist Episcopal tcolorei). = Services
every Sunday inorning aud night. sabbath
SCHOOL at y A-N.-lieN. Jas. Taylor, Pastor.
The Hartford herald., 1880-10-06

Physicians Prescriptions at Gao,
l serves OF MT r. r. kmby salesman and
this he
~ ~
They innate
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nounSment that }. l.. Taylor had been
elected TO fill (icn. Gariieid's uneXpired
term in the House. That settled many
of our anxious doubts as to John Is
future career destination etc. etc. The
sly dog not to let any of his friends
know anything about. We at once
wrote him congratnlatory letter,
modcstly limiting that any crumbs
thrown in the way Of the CHRONICLE
would bc received with gratitude and
with sentiments of the most distinguish
ed consideration we were his obediant,
etc, when We happened 10 notice that
the paragraph that had 80 eIated us re-
fcrred to j. b. Taylor, of Ohio. Con-
found J. B. Taylor. we don't believe he
amounts to continental anyhow
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Alexander Ramsey, of Minnesota, the

Alexander Ramsey, of Minnesota, the
present Secretary of war, will he a
prominent candidate for tie Minnesot
senaior,hip. lis principal opponent
will br Mcmillan, whose senatorial rcrm
expires next Marcl. The CREcSllIE
prays for the succcs. of Ramsey, and is
at a loss whether 10 admire the stub
bornncSs or dcspiee the loollShneSs of a
people that can desire to return non
entity like Mcmillan instead Of a states
man like Ramsey
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1880-12-11

The Juvenile monster Jesse Pomcroy
is liable TO &c Heard ofin the world once
more if the following can be relied upon
from he hicago Times
Jesse romeroy's recent attempt TO es-
cape from the Massachusetts state
prison has not been fully appreciated.
1t lranspircs that with three-inch saws
he took OF the heads of eighteen inch
bolts in his window grating and cut
from the boiicr plating Il piece over II
foot square. He filled these apcr,ures
with soap, and painted it in a manner
TO deceive die keenc-t eye. His mother
is charged with carving him the saws
with which he performed these teats.
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special meeting be called by the rresi.
dent.
+. ?. MQULrc:, F. E. SrEARNs,
Secretary. :. President.
A Thioving Rat.

FORT FETTERMAN, WYo., Dec. 5, 1880.
The telegraph manager at the above
station has had serious trouble with q
mountain rat, who visits his Office re-
gurlarly, and the rat is so old and cum
ming that all efforts to capture or destroy
him have been without effect. The
manager sees the rat frequently-during
the last month he has stolen each and
every article Of value, which he could
carry away; all the copies of messages,
pen holders, important documents, cable
dispatches, and other articles too numer-
Gus to mention have been taken by Mr..
Rat to his place Of hiding, but his latest
effort surpassed all others. While the
operator was absent for dinner, the rat
paid his usual visit TO the Office, and at
tempted to carry of the telegraph
machine by winding his tail around the
telegraph key, he managed to haul the
instruments half way across the table,
but the wires prevented his carrying it
off, and the operator returned from
dinner just in time to witness the per-
formance through the window. These
are just few instances Of his destructive
actions, and the operator is so bewidered
that he has applied for instructions to
the various offices. He says the rat or
manager must resign, and from present
indications the rat seems to have the
official documents under his control, and
possible will retain possession.
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TO OUR PATRONS.

Owing TO the sudden exodus of the
CuRoSIcrE material to the streets on the
of the fire, and the consequent
of nearly all Of our standing
matter, ads, etc, we are~able TO get out a
half sheet only, but the amount of read
ing matter j. but slightly curtailed, and
we trust our patrons will accept our ex-
cuse for this issue Of the CHRONICLE
ahriNCcd
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II speaks well for the moral progress
of the people of South Carolina, that
the code duelo has become SO obnoxious
there that bill is nov before their
legislature, to punish with death the
killing Of man in what is called an
affair of honor. 1t also provides that
persons leaving the state for the pur-
pose of settling puncliiio shall bc
deemed guilty of IA mislemeanor.
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Charges for Publication Of Patent anc
other Notices

From the pcadwuoi Press, Dee l.
The commissioner OF the general land
office has modified his ruling contained
in circular dated April -, 1880, in re-
gard to the charge, of newspapers for
the publication of patent mining claim,
and other land office notices. Under
the ruling the amount, allowed was less
than the legal rates charged ty the
papers for other advertisements and
notices, and there was no distinction al
lowed in the noticcs-thc charge for one
occupying given space being the same
as for one only of half the same space.
The receiver and register of the land of
flee here, represented TO the commits
sioner the injustice Of his ruling, and
now the commissioner has modified SO
that the charge will be As in all other
advertisements the same, viz : according
to the space occupied. The following is
the letter of the commissioner received
to-day:
DEPtRIMENI OF HE |
GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
WAsHINGroS, ID. c., Nov. 22, 1880.
Registers and Receivers United States Laad
Odiccs:
GENTLEMEN: 1t has been represented
to me by the publishers of newspapers
and numerous other persons Interested
that the rate of compensation prescribed
by me and promulgated in official cir
clllar of April -, 1880, for the pq!,. 81
ton of notices of intention t9n.@rnrI';,ohln
patent to mining clainlfSn II - .nn,In h '''''''
''io ~ ',i'''l .,,aa,tti CATION OF the former
.;nn,'I,. ,'iUr ny 'sdditional facts have been
nN..1sit To my attention, and am led
=, believe that Il more ust and Satlsfic-
tory rule wouId be to make the price to
lie charged for the publication of such
notices, depend upon the space which
they occupy in the columns of the
newspapers designated by the registers
For the reason stated have conclud-
cd to modify the former circular III tins
respect and direct that hereafter the
maximum charges for such notices shall
not ex eed five dollar, for each ten lines
of space occupied where weekly news
paper is designated rs the medium ol
Publication, and seven dollars where :
daily newspaper is designated, said sums
to be in full payment for publication II
each issue of the newspaper designated
for the entire period required by law.
| Ii should be borne in mind that thes'
notices must not be so abbreviated as u
curt..ii the description essential {" > per
I iect notice, anu ''tht a,,lS ia,es aFc' es
tablished upon the understandin. tina
they are to be in the usua. body-type a
nonpareil
For the publication Of citations in con
tests or hearings ii.volving the characte
of lands, The charges shall not excee'
eight dollars for five publications II
weekly newspapers, or ten dollars TO
publication in daily newspaper 10
thirty days.
You will give due notice hereof to al
persons interested.
Very respectfully,
j. A. WILLIAMSON,
Commissioner.