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Year: 1869

Pr. du Chien Tragedy.


As everything connected with the recent
murder Of the druggist, ExoRY WR1cHr,by
Doctor Miller, interests the public, we
copy from correspondent Of the Chic. 90
Journal, the following dying statement:


Emory Wright, the person murdered on
the 10Th day Of January, 1869, at Prairie
du Chen, Wis, by Daniel Miller and his
wife, Mary Miller, to wit: About
o'clock on the morning of January 10Th,
some one came to the window of the Office
at my drug store and tapped at the win
dow. asked what was wanted. Some
one replied: II want q prescription put
up The voice was wOman's voice. l
told her to go to the front door, and sot
up and let her ir. Mrs. Miller came in
and handed me prescription to put up.
About this time, Daniel Miller, known as
DR.. Miller, came in and said he was sorry
to trouble me, but he did not want the
ingredients put up together. Iput up the
prescription in the manner requested. The
woman then asked what the charge was.
| informed her seventy-fve cents. She
handed me a FIVE dollar bill. went into
the Office aud opened the safe, and took
out tho change and handed it to her. DR..
Miller at this time, stepped behind me,
and struck me three blows on my head
with soldering iron. At the third blow
the iron flew of the handle.S seized the
iron and struck Miller on the head. The
woman then seized my arms, and Miller
put one arm around my neck and cut me
in the mouth with some sharp instrument.
l thought he intended to cut my throat
About this time the woman let 60 Of me
and ran out of the front door. Miller then
stabbed me twice, once in the right side
and once near the pit of tho stomach
Miller then ran to the front door and was
locking it, when l ran past him and went
through the glass pane in the other door.
After got to the street saw woman
run up Bluff street, near the Mondell
House. thought she was the same wo-
man. The man that Horace Beach, Geo.
NJ. Rising and DR.. Conant brought into
my room to-day, about 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, is the same person who struck
and stabbed me. The foregoing state
ments are made by me under the full
belief that l have no chance Of recovery
from my injuries, and that I am now on
my death>bsd, and these are nay dying
declarations.
Year: 1869

BuDDHIsT TRICKERy.-Mr Blodget wrote
from Pekin Passing down the street, a
few days since saw Buddhist priest sit
ting by the wayside ''in confinement =
He was inclosed by little house, made of
small square strips Of wood, latticed, and
of course open on every side, covered by a
roof; the whole just large enough for his
chair and himself, in usual sitting posture:
The frame, of oak or elm, was perforated
at every intersection by spikes which
bristle at the poor man whichever way he
turns, and theoretically allow him no rest
by night or day until they are removed.
A price is fixed on each spike, and the
money, when paid in by the plying spect-
ators, goes into the treasury for the re-
pairs Of the temple. The price of the
spikes varies so as to give opportunity Tor
the poor and rich alike to make their con-
tributions. The spikes which aim at his
eyes are thirty ounces of silver each.
Some of them might be bought for sing
le dime, There he is fed and he lives
for months, or year even, in this cell OF
torment, to wiring money from hearts in
which avarice, want, compassion and
superstition struggle for the supremacy.
Year: 1869

We find the following excellent Parody
going the rounds of our exchanges. Who
the author is we don't know, but We pre-
sumo it was written by some crusty old
Bach, whose course of true love failed to
run smooth


s.TELL ME YE WINGED WINDS"
Year: 1869

Alexander Hamilton said to an intimate
friend Men give me some credit for
genius All the genius l have lies just in
this When have a subject iu hand
study it profoundly Day aud night it is
before me- Iexplore in it al its bearings.
Ny mind becomes pervaded with it. Then
the effort which I make, the people are
pleased to call the fruit genius Il is the
fruit Of labor and ihought


Mr. Webster once replied to a gentleman
who pressed him to speak on a subject of
great importance. The subject interests
ue deeply but | have not time There,
sir, pointing to huge pile Of letters on the
table, is pile of unanswered letters to
which I must reply before the close Of the
ssioa (which was three days off l have
10 time to master the subject so as to DO it
justice -


But Mr. Webster, & few words from
you would DO much to awaken public at
tention to it D"


IF there is 50 much weight in my words
as you represent, it is because | do not
allow myself TO speak On any subject until
my mind becomes imbued with it.


Demosthenes was once urged to speak
on a sudden aud great emergency. Il am
not prepared, said he, and obstiuately re
fused.


The law of labor is equally binding on
genius and ueliocFiry.
Year: 1869

No young man who has just Sc Dse Of his
own value will sport with his character A
Watchful regard to bis character in early
youth will be inconceivsble to him in all the
remaining years of his after life. When
tempted TO deviate from strict propriety of
department, he should ask himself, Can l
afford this Can l endure hereafter to
look back upon this


1t is of amazing worth to a young man to
have pure mind; for this IS the foundation
of pure character mind, in order to
be kept pure, must be employed in topics Of
thought which are themselves lovely,
ehastened, aud elevating. That the mind
has in its own power the selection of Its
theme of meditation. IF youth knew how
irightful we're the moral depFivations which
a cherished habit of loose imagination pro-
duces on the soul-they would shun them
as the bite OF serpent The power of
books to excite the imagination is a fearful
element of moral death when employed iu
the service of vice.


The cultivation of an amiable, elevated
and glowing heart, alive to all the beauties
of nature aud all the sublimities Of truth,
invigorates the intellect, gives to the will in
dependence Of baser passions, and to the
affections the power Of adhesion to
whatever is pure, good and grand, which is
adapted to lead out the whole nature Of a
man into those scenes Of action and impres
sion by which its energies may be most ap
propriately employed, aud by which lis high
destination may be most efectualIy reached.


The opportunities for exciting these iacuI-
ties in benevolent aud self denying efforts
for the welfare of our fellow men are SO
many and great, that it is really worth while
10 live The heart which is truly evan
gelically benevolent may luxuirate in an age
ike this. The promises of God arc inex-
pressibly good, the main tendencies ofthing>
so manifestly in accordance with them, the
extent Of moral influence is so great, and
the effects of its employment so visible, that
whoever aspires after benevolent action and
reaches for things that remain for US, to the
true dignity of its nature, can find free
scope for his intellect, and all inspiring
themes for the heart.
Year: 1869

We are often addressed by young men and
persons of family for information in regard
to this, that and the other place. with
view OF emigrating from their old homes 10
some new place. The most Of these letters
are from the South, and their Inquiries are
in respect to the West and the Territories.
Ia answer to all OF these inquiries, we would
say honestly and from experience. in the
words with which we head this article. "If
you can earn a lieing, stay at home r And
who cannot do best where he is best known
but rascal ? It is delusion to suppose
that one can do better somewhere else than
at home, where be was raised. or has long
lVed-a delusion which experience fully es-
tabishes in 80 cases in every hundred.
Young men with small means can do no
more in the west than in the East, North
and South, and as is too often the case,
much worse. Ii takes more money to make
living in the West, as general thing, than
elsewhere; more money and greater labor,
tor prices Of labor are no greater; wages are
really lower, than elsewhere, If the emf
grant is a farmer, be finds land but little
cheaper, and the cost of establishing him
self, and Of getting his products to market,
much greater than in more populous neigh
bUrhOods. rs in the past fortunes are
not acquired in the West honorably at this
age The labor in the mines is the hardest
IN the world and the return not as great as
that earned by any good citizen in any Of
he cities. To make money easy in the far
West needs large cash capital, or stock
Of mean whisky Few are doing SO well in
Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah and
Nevada, or east of these territories in Iowa
Nebraska, Kansas aud Minnesota-as those
who follow up the line Of construction on
the L. z. R. R., and scll rot gut whisky to
the hands employed. What young man,
who reads this, would give up his friends
and home in the South or East to make
money by such means We know OF what
We speak, when we say that al that has
been said OF the hashy towns cf the West
aud the wondrous inducements held out to
emigrants, are delusions. There is nothing
but deception in store fer al who rely upon
the coloringS put upon the West by those
whose interest it is to delude people into
emigrating westward. We say to all, il
you can earn living at home, stay there
If you can make living where you are, it
is perhaps more than you viii make in the
West. Stay at home-do the best you can
act honorably-be discreet and judicious,
and you will be happier and weaIhier in
time than if you are led about by popular
decentinns- = Hntchnlnn-
Year: 1869

How completely the pastoral life Of the
East now reproduces the pictures so vividly
drawn for Us in the Scriptures, has been
many times remarked, but it Is long since
We have seen so eloquent and striking a de
scription of a scene which fulhlls these con
ditions as in the following picture of a mod
ell patriarch among the Algerines, from Mr.
Henry Black burns Artists and Arabs:


Around the camp this evening there are
groups of men and women standing, that
bring forcibly to mind those prints of the
early patriarchs from which we are apt to
take our FIRST, aud perhaps, most vivid i'm
pres,ionS ofeastern life; and we cannot Won
der at French artists attempting to illus
trste Scriptural scenes from incidents in
Algeria. There are Jacob and Joseph, a.
one might imagine them, to the life; Ruth
in the fields, and Rachel by the well and
there is patriarch coming down the noun
tain, with light about his head as the sun :
last rays burst upon him, that Herbert
might well have seen when he was painting
Moses with the tables of the law. The eE
feet is accidental, but is perfect in an artis-
ric sense, from the solemnity Of the man,
the attitude of his crowd of followers, the
grand mountain forms which are partially
it up by CLEANS Of sunset, and the sharp
-hadows cast by the throng. This man nIay
have been a warrior chief, or the herd of a
tribe; be certainly was the head Of large
family, who pressed round him to anticipate
his wants and do him honor. His children
seemed to be everywhere abori him; they
were his furniture, they warmed his tent
aud kept out the wind; they begged for him,
prayed for him, and generally helped him
on his way. Looked upon as a colored
statue, he was in some respect perfect
type of beauty, strength, and dignifed re-
pose-W hat we might itly call study, as
he sat waiting, whilst the woman prepared
his evening meal: but whether from a moral
point of view he quiet deserved all the res
pect and Difference that was paid 10 him,
IS another question As picture, as we
said before, he was magnificent, and there
was regal air with which We, clad in the
custom of advanced civilization, coul not but
admire and envy. He had the advantage
of US in every way, and made US feel it &C
cutely. He had splendid arm, and We
could see il; the finer contour and color OF
his head and neck were surrounded by white
! folds, but not concealed
Year: 1869




GOETHE tells the following story, which
amusingIy illustrates the capacity of the
Rhinelanders for drink: The Bishop Of
Mayepce once delivered sermon against
drunkenness, and after painting in the
strongest colors the evils Of over indulgence,
concluded as follows: But the abuse OF
wine does not exclude its use, for II Is @rlt-
ten that wine rejoices the heart Of man.
Probably there is not one in my congre
CATION who cannot drink four bottles of vine
Without feeling any disturbance Of his senses
but If any man at the seventh or eigh h bot
tie so forgets himself as to abuse aud str ke
his wife and children and treat his best
friends as enemies, let him look into his
conscience, and in future always stop at he
sixth bottle. Yet if after drinking eight,
or even ten or twelve bottles, be can still
take his Christian neighbor lovingly BY the
hand and obey the orders of his spiritual
and temporal superiors, let him thankfully
drink his modest draught He must be
careful, however, as to taking any more, for
it is seldom that Providence gives any one
the special grace TO drink sixt, en- bottles at
a sitting as it has enabled me, its unworthy
servant, to do without either neglecting my
duties or losing my temper.
Year: 1869

A STORY is told of an old hunter in Mich
igan, who, when the country was new, got
lost in the woods several times. He was
told to buy pocket compass. which he did,
and friend explained to him its use, He
soon got lost and lay out as usual. When
found, he was asked why be did not travel
by the compass He stated that he did not
dare to- He wished to go north, and he
tried hard to make the thing point north,
but twant no use; 'tvould diddle, diddle,
diddle right around, and point southeast
every time p
Year: 1869

THE instructive and universal taste OF
mankind selects flowers for the expression
of its finest sympathies, their beauty and
feetingness serving TO make them the most
fitting symbols Of those delicate sentiments
for which language itselfseem almost too
gross q medium.
Year: 1869

FlGHT hard againsta hasty temper. An
ger will come. but resist it strongly. A
spark may set house ON fire A tt ct pas
sion may give you cause to mourn all your
life. Never revenge an injury
Year: 1869

DURING the late war after long march,
a captain ordered as sanitary precaution,
that the men should change their under
shirts. Tie 0. s. suggested that half OF the
men only had one shirt each. The captain
besitated for a moment, and then said !;
Military orders must be obeyed. Let the
men change with each other.
Year: 1869

I'm only little girl, but l think l
have as much right to say what l want
to about things, as boy. hate boys;


they're SO mean; they always grab all
the strawberries at the dinner table, and
never tell us when they are going to
have any fun. Only l like Gus Rodgers.
The other day Gus told me he was GO
ing to let off some fire works, and he
let Bessie Fette and ME go and look at
them. All Of us live in hotel, and
his mothers room has a window with a
balcony. His mother has gone out to
buy some creme de lis to put on her face;
and he went and got eleven Loxes Of
lucifer matches, and ever so many pieces
of CASTLE soap; he steeled it from the
housekeeper. Just when she went to
put them in her closet, Gus went and
told her Mrs. Nettle wanted her min
ute and while she was gone, he grabbed
the soap and matches, and when she
came back, he watched her; and got
real mad, and she scolded Della, (that
is the chamber maid, and said she
knowed she did it, and was real glad,
because when 1 was turning somersets
on my mether's bed the other day, Del
Year: 1869

The following letter was addressed to
a young man who had fallen in love with
a girl, aud was about to start on q cam
paign against her:


MY DEAR FRIEND-Before you begin
your assaults upon the affections Of Miss
Smith, with whom you tell me you are
in love, let me offer you few words of
counsel. Never be ashamed to take ad-
vice from an older man than yourself.
Gray hairs bring wisdom, discretion,
and he who with simple reverence
heeds the warnings that fall from aged
lips, and guides his footsteps thereby,
will win enduring success, and be
blessed in generation. It was venera-
Year: 1869

lady had magnificent cat. Mrs.
Jones, neighbor, ordered her servant
to kill it, as it alarmed her canary. Tho
lady sent mouse traps to all her friends,
and when they had caught two or three
hundred she put them into box which
was forwarded to the neiyhbor, who ca
gerly opened what she thought was
some elegant present, when out jumped
the mice, to her great horror. and filed
the house. AT the bottom of the box
her ncighbor, saying, Madam, as you
killed my cat, take tile liberty OF send
ing you my mice"
Year: 1869

Mcssrs. Editors: In sending you the
enclosed, permit me to express my own
qualification, as well as that of all right
minded persons in the community. at
the high moral stand you have taken
against lntemrerance and its accom-
panying evils in our midst.


May you be successful in your battle
for the right.
Year: 1869

RNr Persons from this section of the country visiting Memphis, should bear in mind, that the Commercial Hotel is not only one of the best, first class hotels of the south west, but the prices are so moderate that the most partic- nlar could complain of them. When you go to Memphis be sure and stop at the Commercial. Jefferson St. bet NJ lin and Front Streets.
Year: 1869

sH~ We are highly gratified to pub fish notice of special school meeting in this district. It is very commenda- ble, and everybody should feel and take an active interest in matter of so much importance to the country. We are much in need of public schools many children are deprived ot the means of education, and when this sys- tenn of common schools is put in ope- ration it will be in the reach of every one. The law requires apublic school taught three months in the year, and it requires the trustee to call together the legal voters of the district to select site and vote tax for the purpose of building house and employing teacher. Many of the districts have already put their public schools in operation, and we are satisfied this district will take an interest and attend the school meet inc. and vote the necessary tax to build respectable school house--one that will answer for years to come. This district is No. 4, and embraces all oNownship 4 N, West, and N, w, an N, 8 w, in Prairie county. Benj BlsNney has been appointed trustee and win aIp all that the law requires to carry iaA operation public school in this distrisN

 BsJ- There are &great many who are very fond of dri fking good ale, but de not know where to get it at. Moses HolshouseA. who keeps the Star sa loon, is Said tdshaye an extra quality ol that beverage on hand, and IS at hi' post all the time to dispense Ii to 'hos' who give him call
Year: 1869

the pure peaehy Complexion which follows the
use of HagaBs Magnolia Balm. 1t is the True
Secret of Beauty. The Fashionable Ladies' in
Society understand this.


The Magnolia Balm changes the rustic Coun-
try Girl into City Belle rapidly than any
other one thing.


Redness, Sunburn, Tan, Freckles, Blotches and
all effects of the summer Sun disappear when it
is used, which rivals the Bloom Of Youth. Beau
ty is possible to all who will invest rs cents at
any respectable store and insist on getting the
Magnolia Balm,
Year: 1869

Many years ago and invalid physician while visiting the
their health experienced and wtnessedmany surprising and
Rum there produced theinval who s
seeking health and inquiry and investigation, obtained full history
It's medicinal BE was delighted and surprised and after his recovery
occurred determined possible the sole right manufacture
and sell Il in the United States


result his lahs for himself and suffering humanity
celebrated PLANTATION 5TERS thus made known the world PLAN
TATIoN BTERs being merit founded upon principles aad
relying wholly upon vegetable medicinal effects worked rapid revou
ton history medicine and became household word all the civilized
cabass TSsox tasman health and the demand for
the PLANTATION BTTERs far exceeded the abilities the rro supply


Notwithstanding large importation st. z Rum made expressly for the
pounding these 8 the quantity inadequate therefore became necessary
that arrangements extensive scale abroad should made and
dispatched st. Thomas for that purpose E fortunate in securing and
leasing several plantations the largest and most productive estates the
island Houses stills and erected as if by magic which utterly aston


hed the natives The services experienced and natives the island
cured and the rps the PLANTATION BTERs in position
supply their laboratory with all the perfectly pure st. z Rum needed manufae
turing GREAT DysPEfc aoaATos represents
the natives crushing the and otherwise preparing for the stills and


As apHe Fever and Ague Intermittent and Muus Feve Dyspepsia and
diseases the
history the world Over FIVE million bottles disposed annually They


adapted old and young male and female They agreeable taste and always
an imme
Year: 1869

The Chicago Tribune of the 4th inst.
says: 1.-THE wheat crop Of Great Brit
ain was an ample one, and the de-
mand on the United States was so
much reduced during the fall that
prices declined rapidly, the downward
course of the market being made more
extensive by the financial stringency
which followed the locking up of so
much capital in October and NOvem-
Der last by the New York railroad
rings. But the great drOuth Of the
summer in the British Isles, though
favorable to the growth of wheat, OPP
Grated most disastrously on the root
crops, and it is now found that the
farmers there have been feeding the
wheat so literally that their cattle and
hogs are beginning to seriously dimin-
ish the quantity on hand, thus ma
king the "Old country" much more
dependent on US for the supply of the
coming summer than has heretofore
been deemed possible. Private adj
vices to this effect were received in
our market yesterday, and the eOnse-
quence was q material advance in the
price of wheat. 1t is not we'll to be
too sanguine, but the indications now
are that our grain owners will yet be
reimbursed for the losses of the past
six months by considerable appre-
citation of this important cereal!'
Year: 1869

Every editor of a paper will appre-
eiate the truth of the following pas
sage from some Of the writings OF
Capt. Marriatt 1T is not the writing
of the leading article itself, but the
obligation to write the article every
day (or week whether inclined OF
not, in sickness or in health in aff1ie-
ton, disease of the mind, winter and
summer, year after year, tied down to
the task, remaining in one spot. 1t is
something like the walking of thou
sand hours. / have a fellow feeling,
for I know how q periodical will wear
down ones existence. In itself it APP
pears nothing; the labor is not mani
fest; nor is it the labor, but it is the
continued attention which it requires.
Your life becomes, as it were, the pub
lication. One days (Or week's) paper
is no sooner corrected and printed,
than on comes another. 1t is the tone
of Sysiphus and endless repititiOn Of
toll constant weight upon the intel
lect and spirit demanding all the ex-
ertions of your faculties, at the same
time that you are compelled 70 do the
severest kind of drudgery. To write
for a newspaper is very well, but to
edit one is to condemn yourself to sla-
very. Ali of which is true as preach
ing.
Year: 1869

A Boston journal, the Common
1UeaEth, makes the rather exaggerated
statement that every afternoon after
three o'clock some twelve to fifteen
United States Senators are so drunk
that they are unable to attend to busi-
ness. The Washington correspondent
of the Missouri Democrat also says that
"the coming session of Congress will
see the certain death and entOmbment
of three men now in the United States,
all from drink. Take away the pay
and good clothes of these three men,
and they are already tavern suckers
and parasites of the most abject sort.
l saw one of them at a friends house,
only yesterday, ask for a glass of
whisky as soon as he entered. He took
it with both hands, which shook and
rocked rather as in some theatrical ex-
aggeration of drunkenness than in
the real light of common life, and to
see his greedy lips slip by the glass's
edge, cheated like Tantalus by his own
nerves, was dreadful. He is no worse
than two others; but happily his term
expires on the 4th of March.