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Year: 1868

MURDER IN FRANKLIN, ME.-A sad
tragedy occurred in Franklin, Han
cock county, Me-, last Monday. John
Paul Gordon is trader in that town,
and Emerson Uran was a farmer,
who was employed by Gordon to haul
goods. On the day named, Gordon
approached Uran, who was sitting
upon pile Of railroad ties, and told
him he wished him to haul some goods
to his store. Uran replied that he
was sick and couldn't work. Cor
don repeated his demand and struck
him pleasantly with coat which he
had in his hand. The man repeated
that he was sick, and put up his goad
stick which he had in his hand, ap-
parently to keep him of, but without
the intention of injuring him. He
however happened unfortunately to
touch him, which so angered Gordon
that, going to wood pile. he seized
stick of wood-which was quarter
of a siX-inch spruce-and struck at
Uran; the latter put up his hand and
warded off the blow, receiving Sc
we're bruise upon his hand, when Cor
don struck him a second blow, this
time crushing in his skull and infict.
ing so severe an injury that Uran nev-
er spoke afterward, but died during
the following evening. Both men
were of good standing in the commu
nifty, and no ill feeling had ever exist
ed between them. 1t was evidently
a sad case of yielding to an ungov-
ernable temper. There were five or
six men near by, but they did not sus-
pect any serious trouble till it was too
late. When Gordon took the stick
they stepped forward to interfere, but
before they had time to prevent it, he
had struck the fatal blow.
Year: 1868

uOlOuo; DuJ IluuOi ohOpo duOuhU Ia
all parts of the city where absinthe
may be said to be the staple drink;
and lately several have sprung up
which, to attract the youth of Paris
to them, dispense the insidiouS be e.
rage at the hands of pretty women.


The COWARD TRADUCER. - The
midnight assassin, VIII o stealthily
breaks in upon the sanctities of the
private home of family, and thrusts
his stiletto into the heart of slumber-
ing innocence, is no greater villain
than he who assaults his neighbor's
good name-invades the hallowed
courts of the temple of his we'll
deserved and hard-earned fame
breathes blight and mildew upon his
spotless reputation-and leaves in
his tortuous track, the slime and
venom of the basilisk.


The sentiment has been most truth
fully and graphically enunciated, that,
he who can choke the sweetest flow
ers of social love, and taint them with
disease-and in the paradise OF earth
ly bliss, where the plants of virtue
flourish, spread the malaria OF moral
desolation-the poison of hatred and
distrust-who gladly would. were it
possible, crush his neighbor's charac-
ter to dust-grind to powder every
vestige of his public honor and pri-
vate value, and build upon the ruins
who can write infamy upon the
brow of others to prove his own puri-
ty-is neither man nor beast, out a
heartless demon.


Those who have seen their dearest
interests tampered with-who have
known what it is 70 have the priceless
gem OF a good name sullied by the
pestilential breath of cold Implying
slander-these best can say, the ca
lumniator has no heart,-no con-
science,-no soull If the lightning's
flash ever darts from heaven to strike
the guilty down, II Will blast the hopes
of murdererS such as these.


But bad as Is the vile defamer of
the living-yet far worse, is he who
exhumes from the peaceful shadows
OF death, the departed victim of his
envy, to hold him up to the gaze of
the world, as target at which to hurl
the peStiterouS shaft of his malignant
hate.


In such monster, there is to be
found no trace of the image of God
but in room Of this, is seen every ap-
palling and disgusting lineament of
the. arch fend of perdition.-Rer. Z.
Fuller, Er. Paper.
Year: 1868

Nor long ago one hundred and thirty
guineas were found in well in Philadel-
phia. Samuel Morris writes to the Pitts
burgh Commercial as follows: -


There is no doubt that am the only per-
son living who knows anything about how
that gold came there, or where it came
from. And feelI am only doing my duty
when disclose the facts of the case, for
the benefit of the present lucky one. The
following statement was made to me by
my father, Isaac Morris, who was born and
raised in Chester county, Pennsylvania,
and removed to Washington county in the
year 1884, where he located on a farm. In
The following year 07S5) he hired man
to work on his farm, who had been sol
der in the British army during the revolu-
ton. This man disclosed the secret of
stealing purse from an, officer Ga mess
mate Of his), while encamped outside of
Philadelphia (no doubt it is now the heart
of the city,, containing one hundred and
thirty guineas, and, being fearful of detec-
ton, he secreted it in an open well, climb
ing down into the well and putting it in a
crevice of the wall, above the water. Be-
ing ordered, a few days afterward, to march
hastily, he left without having time to re-
move IL OF, perhaps, ne ulu not nave any
desire to carry it with him, for he often de-
clared he would like to have the money,
but he would never go to recover it. He,
however, described the place SO minutely
that my father, being well acquainted with
the city and suburbs, knew the exact lOca-
ton of the we'll. In the fall Of 1889 he
went to Philadelphia with drove of hogs,
and in company with cousin, VIM. West
"a brother Of Benjamin f. West, that world
renowned artist), proceeded to the well for
the purpose of obtaining the hidden treas
ure, but found that it had been planked
over and pump put in the WE'LL Fearing
trouble, they came away without making
the object of their visit known to the own
er. Now have no hesitation in saying the
gold that has been found is the same that
was stolen by that man, and confessed by
him to my father.
Year: 1868

THE Old Guard for April presents the


following choice sugar-plums for Demo


cratic babes:


"A Northern Democrat warns the


people of the South that they "must not


believe for one moment that the sentiments


proclaimed by the New York D0y Book


or the Lacrosse Democrat, are the senti-


ments of the united Democratic party of


the North" The two papers here named


equal in circulation nearly all the other


Democratic papers in the United States
And it is, furthermore, within bounds to


say that seven-tenths of the Democratic
papers of the North abjure such Democ
racy as is sent forth by few such papers
as the New York World. We have no
doubt that the MGSsSss5ppGdns correspond


ent was in Lincoln's war, either as a con-
tractor or an officer He has upon him
the stains of the blood of men who fought
for liberty, and he wants to see the Demo
cratic party planted upon the basis of the
Abolition war; but that he will never see
The rank and file Of the old Democratic
party hate that war as they do the devil,
and no Democratic victory shall ever be
won on platform recognizing the justice
of either the principles OF the results of
such war. x = \ The Democratic party
Is DdIdlyZcu dllSl ny lto lOiiS
cringing before usurpation and despotism.


The back volumes of the Old Guard will
attest that we foretold that such would be


the effect of the inglorious submission to
the Lincoln usurpations. A hundred men
of the pluck and patriotism of Wilkes
Booth, at the start of these terrible despot-
isms, would have saved our country from
all it has suffered and is suffering-would,
indeed, have preserved constitutional lib
erty, and saved the Government from de-
struction. But, alas even now the Dem
ocratic press seems stupefied by the din of
barbarous revolution. Instead of blowing
the loud bugle-blast of resistance, of quick
and fierce resistance to tyranny, they


seem to be studying how they shall
most gracefully shrink away from the


manly struggle to preserve our liberty.
They proclaim, loud enough, that our lib
critics are perishing; but, with the next
breath, they whisper that we must take
care that nothing rash or violent is done
that is, the rashness which is destroying
| liberty must be met with nothing stronger


than whispers and inglorious submission
| If they were asses, they could not bow
their necks to the yoke of their master
with more admirable. docility. A people
who will submit to despotisln for day


nay, for minute-have given up the prin-
ciple of freedom. The moment any man
| begins to play the dospot he forfeits his
right to life. This has been sacred max
| i'm among all free people. If the Demo
cratic press were hired by the Mongrel


Rump to counsel the people to keep still,
and let the work of usurpation and ruin go
peacefully on, it could not more faithfully


serve the purposes of the Mongrel party.
'1But we are going to vote them DOWN.


Behold, o, dolt in one-half your country


no voting can be done, except at the com
mand of the military acting as tool OF


the Rump, and in the other half it must


be done under the pressure Of bribery, in
timidation and fraud, Freedmen donot
Year: 1868

strobe toward the terrible wardrobe, say
ing, in voice Of thunder:


"Hold there! or you are dead man p
He went quite close. Fan and stood
breathlcss, waiting for the report we
thought certain to come, peeping half in,
when suddenly Franks pistol arm drop
ped and the next instant he dropped him
self on the floor-and such roars of laugh
ter as he burst into never heard before
nor since.


"Oh Lord oh Lord r' he yelled, rolling
on the floor, while we stood IN amazement.
"Come in, girls come in, and see your
robber He wont hurt you. Oh, mercy,
mercy! Hold me, somebody, or I'll
burst!'


Wondering doubling, half frightened,
half provoked, Fan and | went timidly in
We ventured near the fatal wardrobe and
saw the truth.


Well now after all had been through,
don't feel foolish to have to tell what we
did see?"


The terrible robber was an innocent,
rolled-up aaap which stood in the corner,
leaning against the wardrobe, upon the
top of which hung Franks best coat and
hat. Nothing more, nothing less. As soon
as he could, Frank explained how his
clothes got there.


We had, the morning before, attended a
little morning wedding at one of ourneigh-
bor's. After coming home, Frank, chang
ing to his working clothes, had carried his
best things into the parlor, and being in
haste, hung them upon this map which
hung in the corner, for me to put away,
instead of putting them inside the ward
robe. But he forgot to tell me they were
there, and in arranging the room | had
not noticed them Thus they became the
innocent cause of so much suffering


Yes, it ac0s suffering. Laugh if you like


u can laugh now-but / tell you / didn't
laugh then, and | never will forget that
night. The worst oft is, Frank won't forget
it either. The scrape will afford him food
for fun for the rest OF his natural life 1
never hear robbers spoken of where he is
without wanting to run, for he is sure to
tell the story of my adventure and set
everybody to laughing-thoughI I've heard
him say himself that when he looked in the
glass and saw the reflection he would have
sworn that what he saw was bloody
robber And don't care what it was. |
felt as bad at the time as if there had been
bloody robber," every bit and grain /;
and | think it is hateful to laugh at me
now; don't you ?-Meriden Recorder.
Year: 1868

call this voting. In one half the Union
no man can vote except as the Rump per-
mits. That insult to the sacred principle
of liberty and selfgovernment should be
instantly wiped out, if need be, in the
blood of the tyrants. Those who talk a
softer language than this have to thank
either their cowardice or their shallow
ness. x II A dungeon -bo-
somed wretch of the appropriate name of
Fogg who, it is said by his neighbors, was
brought up a sheepthief now edits nasty
newspaper rag of the African persuasion
at Concord. He abuses the editor of the
Old Gatord with just the sort of slang that
we should suppose an ignoramus brought
up to the business of sheep p-stealing would.
His paper is The organ of Grant and the
social dirt of New Hampshire. He looks
like a sheep-thief and lies like one
Year: 1868

TAKE two sheets of pasteboard paper OF
any convenient style-say three feet long
by two feet wide. Bring the ends together,
and glue or paste them tight, each sheet by
itself; and they will look like two pieces
of paper stove-pipe. Cut thin, round
boards exactly to fit in the ends of these
paper cylinders. Carefully glue or nail
them tight Now you have two air-tight
paper drums with wooden heads. Take a
pole of any length you desire-three feet
or twelve feet-let one drum be fastened to
each end of the pole Now balance this
pole with the drums ON each end on nice
pivots in the middle Then bore gimlet
hole through the end of one drum, and you
have good farmers barometer. One
drum is air-tight; one has hole in it. So
there will be more or less air in one drum
than there is in the other according as the
surrounding air is dense or rarified. Con-
seouently, in dense or heavy air the tight
drum rises, while the one with the pin hole
in it goes down Crosswise through the
middle of the bar or pole should run stick
as large as ones finger, foot long, with
wire gudgeons, on which the instrument
should vibrate or teeter. Let the ends of
the pole be,slightly lower than the middle,
that the whole may not make a summer
sault; smear all with glue or OIL so that the
air may enter only in the puncture men
toned Have something you can slide
through the bar, to keep it nearly level.
Mark, if you please, figures along the pole
to show how far you have moved the bal
ancing poise; though for this there is little
need This instrument may not be so per-
feet as a costly barometer, but for all prac-
tical purposes it is all one could ask; l
have had one more than a year. look at
it more than a dozen times day. They
could be made as long as barn, and placed
in loft, with an indicator, to show the dis
tant mower when to make his hay.-BoSton
J0urram Of Chemistry.
Year: 1868

OUTWARD politeness cannot be learned
in set forms at school, for, at the best, twill
be hollow and deceptive; genuine polite
ness, ike everything else genuine, comes
from the heart.
Year: 1868

Fire at Mlfmd.-The Sussex Arqus
says Our town was considerably alarmed
last Thursday evening about six o'clock,
by the cry of fire. 1t was soon found to
be in the dwelling of Rev. j. Leighton
Mckim. Before the fire was discovered
it had been burning for some time, and
when we arrived on the spot seemed ready
to burst forth through the roof in several
places. Prompt action was Immediately
taken by the crowd that had assembled
and owing to the proximity of the creek
a half hours faithful work was sufficient
to subdue it. VIII this suggest the prac-
ticability of having an engine 2"
Year: 1868

Terrible Aecidcnt.-Miss Sarah Gull
breth, of Dover, met with serious accident
on Monday evening. Whilst holding a
lamp at the head of the cellar way for a
boy to see how to get some coal she lost
her footing and fell down the fight of steps.
The lamp was broken in the fall and the
oil split on her, which becoming ignited,
communicated to her hair and clothing.
Her face, left shoulder and arm are terrib
ly burned, her hair burned off and her eyes
entirely closed. At last accounts she was
in critical condition. She is about go
years of age.-Sussec -4,yus.
Year: 1868

There was a lad who at fourteen was
apprenticed to a soap boiler. One OF
his resolutions was to read an hour
day, or at least at that rate, and ne nae
an did silver watch, left him by his un
Gle, with which he timed his reading
by. He staid seven years with his
master, and said when he was twenty
one years old he knew as much as the
Young squire did. Now, let us see how
m,Ich time he had to read in seven years
at the rate OF an hour each day. 1t
would be 1856 hours, which at the
rate:of reading hours day, would be
equal to three hundred and ten days ;
equal to forty-five weeks equal to IL
months: nearly a years reading. That
time spent in treasuring useful knowl-
edge would pile up a very large store.
/ am sure it is worth trying for. Try
what yen can. Begin now. In atter
wears you will look back upon the tasS
as the most pleasant and profitable you
ever performed.
Year: 1868

Procure quantity of the petals, of
any flowers which have an agreeable
fragrance; card thin layers OF cotton,
which nip into the finest Florence or
Lucca oil; sprinkle q small quantity Oh


fine salt on the flowers, aud lay layer


of cotton and one of flowers alternately:


until an earthen vessel or widemouthed
glass bottle is full. Tie the top close
With bladder. then Law the vessel in
n souIh aspeet TO the heat of the sun,
aud in fifteen days. when uncovered, a
fragrant oil may be squeezed away
from the whole mass, quite equal to the
hiohlv valued otto of roses.
Year: 1868

thIIsiasm and labor always tell, unless
each effort is in new direction. The
trouble with people generally is they
lack faith, direction, persistency and
tensity. The man who draws q hand-
cart night not be a poet, but with the
riQhU sort of pushing he would leave
that useful vehicle far in the rear, and,
in time, come to drive his spanking
span. Every honest trial well follow
ed up will be sure to be Il gain
Year: 1868

Meyerbeer's grand opera of Robert lie
Diable' will be given at the opera tonight
with Nine. Audibert in the role of Alice.
This great opera is too well and favorably
known to the habitues Of the opera in New
Orleans to require us to urge all lovers OF
music to secure boxes.
Year: 1868

The Crescent City museum on st. Charles
street, opposite the hotel, is open day and
evening, and is supplied with innumerable
curiosities worth seeing. Do not fail to
step in and take look at the museum.
Year: 1868




The law Of Tennessee requires Admins
traitors to publish insolVeut notices In q
newspaper a written notice carries out
neither the spirit or letter of law, but it does
no injustice to all interested parties and lays
the Administrator liable for damages to ell
who are losers by his .non-conformity with
the law. We quote from the code Of Ten
nessee, section ,330:


The Clerk lof the t'ounty Court) < <
shall make an order upon the executor or
administrator, Co give notice by advertise
ment in some newspaper published within
the State, and also at the court house door Of
the county, for all persons having claims
against said estate to appear and file the
same, authenticated in the manner pre-
scribed by law, on or against day to be
fixed in such notice, which shall not be less
than three nor more than six months after
tb, date of notice; and any claim not fled
',aEore the day fixed, or before an ap-
On Oh Of the funds OF the State is
ptogl'aesotji 1a atoji e forever barred both N law
and equity
Year: 1868

READ THIs.-Those who have lost their
fortunes by the war, or in any other way are
involved beyond their ability to pay, and ia
tend to avail themselves Of the benefit of
the Bankrupt law, should remember that,
unless they file their petitions By the first Of
March, they cannot do so, after that time,
unless their estates win pay fifty per cent
Of their Liabilities.
Year: 1868

Robert J. Walker and Jerry Black are en-
gagged in the cases which are to be brought
before the United States Supreme Court, at
the present term, to test the constitutionality
of the reconstruction laws
Year: 1868

The President and other prominent public


men have an abiding confidence that the
Supreme Court viii, in a case which will


soon be before it. decide the reconstruction
] acts Unconstitutional
Year: 1868

LIFE IEsURANCE.-Every man who has q
family to provide fer, should insure his life
for at least Eve OF ten thousand dollars
Here is what the editor of the West Ten
nessee Wing says upon the subject:


"The moro we have examined into the
principles of Life Insurance the more are
we satisfied Of Its great Importance to those
who have families to provide for. So i'm
pressed with its Importance we took out a
policy several months since, for ten thousand
dollars-and we have slept sounder, had less
anxiety Of mind about the proper provision
for those dependent upon US, than we ever
experienced before. No man, whose family
have to depend on the precariousness of life,
should neglect this great parental duty.


Take out a policy in the reliable St Louis
Mutual Life Insurance Company-MeMa-
hon & Otis, general agents, Memphis, Tenn.
Year: 1868

GLAD TO HEAR 1.-THE Memphis Ap-
peal takes back all it ever said in favor Of
Gen. W. T. Sherman as a suitable man for
the Presidency. We are glad to hear it, and
hope that every paper in the land who favor
ably made use of the name of Sherman in
connection with Democracy and the forth
coming National Convention, viii do as the
New York Day Book and Memphis Appeal
has done. Sherman is a soulless monster
unfit for any position save that of chief of
some of the scalping tribes of Indians who
revel in deeds of blood beyond the confines
of civilization. Drop him he won't dol
Year: 1868

We clip the following item from the Holly
Springs (Aiss.) Reporter Of the Sd inst,


We saw large numbers of freedmen in
town during the recent holidays, and never
before have we seen them looking so ragged
and friendless. They had no money to en-
JOY the Christmas with, and stood about
upon the corners and sidewalks looking for
saken and piJifui Their clothing was in
patches, unclean, and in many cases scarcely
covering their nakedness. They had no
homes for the present year, no money or
provisions to live upon, and yet they seemed
indifferent as to the future. Their condition
Is the result of radical freedom and radical
teaching, and we can but feel sorry for them.
Had they worked faithfully last year, and
let Gill and his meetings alone, their condi-
ton might have been different. We doubt
if they viii do any better THE year
Year: 1868

The Louisianaconyention, now in session,
adopted the following as tue thirteenth az
ticle of the Constitution: All persons shall
enjoy equal rights and privileges travelling in
this State in any conveyance of a public
character, and all business places or other
kinds carried on by public charter, or for
which license is required by either State,
parish or municipal authority, shall be
deemed places of public character and
shall be open to all without discrimination
as to race or color
Year: 1868

TIE YEAR l86S-How many lingering
hopes that were to have been realized in the
year to which we have just bado a last
solemn farewell have been forever crushed
by the dawn of 1868 and how many newly
born, whose tender wings are yet scarce
fIedged. are lowering IN the chill air that
breathes so strangely 'round the natal feasts
of the new born year Though our hopes
have been blighted, let US again renew them,
looking still to a brighter future where care
and sorrow never come nor clouds obscure
the golden light of eternal sunshine.
Year: 1868

A DREAM XITHIS A DRKAS-The
EugiIsn language IurnlsDcs very few
instances where so much pathosis inten-
sified in so few words rs the loAewing
poem by Edgar A. Poe;


stand amid the roar


OF a surf tormented shore


And ! hold within my baud


Grains Of the golden sand
How few, yet how they creep
Thro my fingers TO the deep,


While weaT-while | weep,
oh God can not grasp


Them with tighter clasp


oh God can | not save


One from the pitiless wave


l. all that we see seem


But dream within a dream
Year: 1868

the future may be know not. / ne.
er expect or desire to be a candidate for
Office again. 1t w2aid however, crafty
me exceedingly if the democratic party
would take ground which would assure
the party against all attempts to subvert
the principles of universal suffrage es-
tablished in eight, and to be established
in all. of the southern constitutions
Then, think. the future of the great
cause for which i have labored so long
would be secure, and / should not regret
my absence from political labors.
Year: 1868

Iuthe death Of Major Alexander our
people have lost valued citizen-one
who has spent much of his life for the
good of his country and people, and one
who was greatly respected by his neigh
bors and our citizens generally Truly.
may il be said of him, that he lived " al
Year: 1868

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Is TIE GREAT DIURETIc.
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Is THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER.
Beth prepared according to rules Of Pharmacy and
Chemistry and the active that can be made and are
sold by Druggists everywhere.