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Year: 1868




There is something sad and melan-
choly associated with the above caption.
The last drink, or the last drop. To some
it is key note of sorrow of the deepest
kind, filing the heart with unutterable
grief 1t is separation efttimes of kin
dred spirits, souls and companions, for
ever from life. 1t is the dividing line
between time and eternity-between life
and death. The last; how sad in many
things and to many people. The sad
part is not to be portrayed there is
another side of the picture to look at, for
there is brightness in partings and there
is pleasure in sadness. The last drink ?
Is it so that the last drink has been taken ?
Yes it is true. Well, then, the man is
q man again; the bonds that did bind
him have been rent asunder, and the
body and spirit of the drunkard is once
more free; yes, free to walk in the sun
light of the days-the starlight of the
night; to move and act on the earth and
among men as q man, and enjoy the
pleasures of life in their tullness. The
last drinks it so? Yes. Then look
at the smiling faces of the little loved but
neglected ones at home. See how fondly
they cluster around the redeemed father
when his days work is finished and he
returns home. Hear their jovial prattle
listen to their voices, full of sweetness
and gladness. The last drink has been
taken. What change has taken place
But this is not all the change that has
been wrought. You look inside and
observe the little ones who are so happy
at home because pa has taken his last
drink. You see the fond and loving wife,
the devoted mother, wreathed, as it were,


in smiles of joy and beauty, full of love
and earthly bliss, seated at home with her
little cherished ones-all happy. What
a pleasant picture to look on Who
would not admire and love to behold such
bright picture Yetit isso. The change
has been made, because the last drink has
been taken. The cup that once was so
fondly loved has been dashed to the
earth, and broken into fragments
Year: 1868

we shall submit quietly to this and simi.
lar outrages now preparing2 Is your
spirit so basely contemplate as to lead
you to thus insult, degrade and murder
your ellow-countrymen ? II not, in the
name Of God and Of justice, speak at
once, and speak in voice that tyrants
can neither fail to hear nor disregard
Marion Commonwealth.
Year: 1868

Members of Congress are beginning to
see that Congress is not exactly the
American Government This is we'll.
The sooner the majority in that repre-
sentative body clearly understand the
fact, which is daily becoming more fs-
midar and better understood by men OF
all parties, who make and unmake mem.
bers of Congrass, we shall the sooner get
back to our normal condition as free
people, living under representative gov
ernment. The signs of the times are,
that the voters generally throughout the
United States have had enough of Con-
gressional humbug. Congressional tyr


amy and Congressional reputation Of
sacred constitutional obligations. Every
day Congress is widening the breach be-
tween them and the people, and, as they
are not likely to follow sound advice, and
still persist in pursuing illegal means OF
perpetuating their own power. con-
centrated as it is in the hands of few
audacious leaders, we presume that moth
ing can stay the irrrepressible conflict.


These short sighted Radical leaders
have, all along, fsncied that by grasping
more unlawful power and welding it
over :he heads Of the people, they we're
strengthening themselves as rulers.
Never was there greater mistake. 1t is
this which is estranging Republicans by
thousands from their support. 1t is this
very foolish and outrageous conduct,
that is rolling up the msjorities against
Radicalism all over the North. Their
attempted usurpstion Of the prerogatives
OF the President and Supreme Court, Is
losing them, as it ought, the support Of
all reasonable men all over the Union.
The signs Of the times are, that Radical
domination is about to be checked and
abruptly terminated BY the white people
Of the United States.-Piffsbnrq Post
Year: 1868

two hundred and forty, and sometimes
rise to two, hundred and sixty in number
each year-giying an. average of near
two hundred and fifty per annum. This
seems to imply a certain fixed law that
governs even this crime. This aud kin
dred facts ought to give a starting point
to Investigations that should lead to
better understanding of the problem.
Year: 1868

q To Cover SHKEP Rack WITH GRASS.


The following method is recommended


by a German horticultural association.


For each square rod to be planted, take
half a pound of lawn grass seed, and


mix it intimately and thoroughly with
about six cubic. feet of good dry garden
earth and loain. This is placed in a'tub.
and to it liquid manure, diluted with
about two-thirds of water, is added, and
is well stirred in, so as 70 bring the.wfele
to the consistency of1mortar. The slope
is to beJeleaned off and made perfectly
smooth, and then well watered, after


which the paste justmentioned is to be
applied with trowel, and made as even
and thin as as possible 1s Should it crack
by exposure to the esair, it is to be again


watered and smoethed up, day by day,
until the grass, makes its appearance.


which will be in eight or fourteen DAYS,
and the whole decleyity will soon be GOV.
cred by a close carpet of green.
Year: 1868

for the Academy. Not that the man
vas smaller, perhaps, at the Academy
than in the Tribune but he was out OF
his element.


This terrible ordeal finished, the new
member passes into the hands Of the
critics for a fortnight, and If he be a
sensitive man be will not sleep ON bed
Of roses. Then be must be presented to
the Emperor-the law requires it-sech-
nieally to present him with a copy of his
reception speech. But suppose him to
be political adversary of his Majesty.
the situation becomes gravel What did
we see, for example, the other day !?
We saw two mortal enemies Of His
Majesty, the Count de Remusat Presi-
dent Of the Academy, and NJ. Jules
Favre-the first a Minister of Louis
Philippe, and man who stigmatized the
eonhseation Of the Orleans property as
brigaHdism, aud the other a man who
refuses even to go to the opening Of the
Chamber by the Emperor so as not to
take the oath of respect to TIE dynasty
and fidelity to the Constitution from His
Majesty-we saw these TWO radical haters
of His Majesty obliged to 20 to the pal
ace, and to be friendly. The trial was
rude one, and We no longer wonder that
fautsaiLs become empty 80 rapidly. There
are certaIn shocks from which man
may not hope to recover Thus the road
Of the ambitious Is, after all, a rough
one to travel


The Institute of France comprises five
bodies The French Academy. of which
We have been speaking above, forty
members the Academy of Sciences.
sizty-three members-the hardest worked
and most useful Of all the sections; the
Academy Of Inscriptions and Bellies
Lettres, forty members the Academy
Of Fine Arts, forty members. and the
Academy of Moral and Political Sci
enees, forty members.


Persons may be members of more
than one Academy. All of them re-
ceive a slight contribution from the Gov
ernment, and are expected to give official
opinions for the guidance Of the Gov
ernment on the various questions that
may be submitted to them Their utility
in centralized Government like that Of
France Is undisputed. The first one.
the French Academy, the one the most
difficult to attain, is the one least useful
IN practical sense to the Government,
and on account of its hostility to the
dynasty, has been threatened with ami
hilatiOn MALAKoFP.
Year: 1868

The shove words wee the last request OF
lad to his mother. IS he was dying from starva-
tion She found three grsinsin the corner OF
4 pocket in bis ragged Jacket. and gave them
10 him. II was all she hai the Whole family
were ptrishiug f.om famine
Year: 1868

TNE whispers of lioentious people
are always entitled to suspicion. They
are to be found at every corner their
avocation is as disreputable as their
company is dangerous, What the law
prohibits may sometimes become more
general from the very prohibition
aud those who pander for the main
tenance Of sin, frequently fall into
crime. ee ah '.f5& .taE sisof
Year: 1868

The agents of the Freedmen's Bureau
and some of the Federal military officers,
who are quartered in the Southern commu-
mites, bitterly complain that society ig-
nores and excludes them from all recogni-
ton. Only those arc excluded from the
respect and recognition of gentlemen who
uphold the infamy Of negro equality, and
these should be. If white man argues
that the negro is the equal of his own race,
let him seek and find among the negroes a
fit and congenial companionship. 1t is the
practical application of his own doctrine,
to which he cannot object, without expos
ing the mean and corrupt hypocricy of his
pretended creed. The real white people
don't believe the negroes are their equals,
though they entertain for them the kindest
feeling and always treat them with respect
and Justice. If the scalawags prefer the
Abvssinians, it merely illustrates the princi-
pie that men always rise or sink to their
proper level. .-RepubItcdn.
Year: 1868

The following is a picture drawn by a
Northern Radical newspaper of the negro
rule in st. Domingo, after they have had
fifty years experience as rulers of about the
fairest spot of earth


The latest news from st. Domingo is that
the country is in anarchy, and the prisons
are full Of course there must be some
sort of governing force in existence to keep
the prisons full ; but this is probably about
the full extent of its powers. It is painful
to see such rich and charming part of the
world given up to ruin and savagery. 1t
is grievous to see the control of such a
country in the hands of such people. But
we see no help for it. And we may rest
satisfied that if there be any lower depths
of human degradation than that which
they have reached, it will not require them
many years to sink to it. If tie popula-
ton would resort to cannibalism, and de-
YOUR each other out of existence, it would
probably be the best thing that could
happen.
Year: 1868

MISS CARRIE BELL SINCLAIR.


The following extract from the above en-
titled poem, written by one of the sweetes
muses. that ever warbled the simple history
of nations dead, commands in the chastt
simplicity and beauty of it's poetic express
sion, apart from the object with which i
was penned, the sympathy of our people
It is written for the purpose of securing
funds whercwith to decorate the graves O.
our heroic dead. A complete copy of th'
above poem can be seen at the Gazette
office, by those desiring to purchase, in aie
of the noble work to which its author ha
dedicated this poem


Oh gallant Heroes ye who sleep


Beneath our banner bright;


Who struggled with true bravery,


For freedom and the right


What need of marble monuments


To tell thy deeds of glory,


When every humble soldier-graye
Has proudly told the story


The fallen flag, though folded now


Never to wave again,


Is sacred still, for oh that flag
Bears not single stain.
The bloCi of our brave hero sons
Has deeper dyed its Bars
The honor of the South's as bright
AS its unsullied Stars.
And you, who meath your country's flag
Faced the dread battle-tide
Who for that country bravey fought,
And for her freedom died
The grave of every fallen son
Is now hallowed shrine
And wreaths of laurel and OF song
Ger each we proudly twine
Year: 1868

Cory O'Lanus met member of the
Methodist Conference from New England
and he says this happened :


"How is it, my sanctifed FRIEND" said
I, "that being down on the use of tobacco
you endorse Grant, who is the champion
smokist of the country ? He can smoke
more cigars and talk less than any other
man in the United States, yet you go fol
him 2"


"Ah, my beloved friend, said the con,
dom in this the groveling worms of the
earth cannot penetrate. We would exal
Grant that he may be visible throughou
the land as warning and an example tc
youth of what man who opens his mouth
only to eject tobacco smoke amounts to-
when he is smoked out"
Year: 1868

Those Republicans who have thought that
fidelity to party required them to defend the
Congressional scheme Of reconstruction, as
q whole and in all It's parts, find it hard
s!edding about this time They hardly
know where they are, or what they shall be
called to next. 10 make everything sure,
and cover all Possibilities, they might well
modify their confession of political faitl, and
put in comprehensive form, something like
this: We are for the Congressional plan of
reconstruction as it was, as it is and as it
shall be, world without end. and to make
all safe over night, DR.. Watts famous sleep
in7itcr might be used in this modified form


Now lay me down to sleep


My reconstruction faith to keep;


II it should change before | wake,


The latest sort I'll try to take.
Year: 1868

A dismal sound of beating rain


Is heard against the window pane,
The heart of Nature throbs with woe;
Her dreary tears unceasing flow.


The naked branches toss and sigh;


No star CLEANS in the clouded sky. ..
The ghosts of buried flowers moan,


And streams reply with wailing tone.
Draw up your chair; shut out the night
Home never seemed before as bright.
We need no. care for outside gloom
Within this cheerful lighted room.
The wind may roar with gusty mirth--
a fire is blazing on the hearth. rn
What sight across my vision swept?
n sudden shiver o oer me crept.
| saw from out the embery rise,
Dim shadowy forms in ghastly guise.
A crowd OF faces, white and gaunt,
And worn, alas, with sin and want.
Their eyes gave forth a hungry glare,
And yet were hopeless with despair.
Their scanty garments thin and old,
Gould not keep out the damp and cold.
And oh they looked so pinched and blne:
The chilly storm had pierced them through
The vision vanished whar'it meant
l knew too well, and why twas sent.
In household cheer and warmth secure,
We never should forget the poor.
This lesson God would have us learn,
And part Of what lie gives return.
Year: 1868

Do not be led to believe that Sterling's Ambro-
sis containing two bottles in q box at 81 90 is the
same article Steriing's Ambrosia Oil for the
hair. My Ambrosia Oil has connection what
ever with any other preparation sold The Am
bsosis Oil is an improvement on all other hair
preparations and is put up in one bottle in neat
package bearing the name of Sterling Bloomer
the back and price so cents on the front label.
Year: 1868

This splendid Tonic is now used by all
classes Of people for every symptom of
Stomach out of order"


The secret of it is this: Plantation Bit.
tiers are certain to correct the juices Of the
Stomach, set all its machinery at work and
enable it TO resist and throw off the approach
ing danger. The tendency of the operations
of Nature is always towards a cure all she
needs is little assistance at the proper time,
How much more reasonable and sensible it is
to help her along with gentle, yet power
ful Tonic. than to deluge and weaken and
defeat her curative processes with poisonous
drugs and fiery mixtures, which only stupefy
and plant the seeds of disease and death.
Year: 1868

MoNGREL TRICKERY.-The morning
black and tan says:


michigan Democrats are in desper-
ate strait. They are obliged to choose
between their love of whisky and their
hatred of the negro. If they vote
against the new constitution, they vote
to fasten upon themselves for the next
fifteen years, most stringent liquor
law. On the other hand, if they vote
for it they must endorse negro suffrage"


This bare-faced confession of the das-
tardly tricks of the black aud tan Leg
islature of Michigan will not be lost
upon the masses Of the people of this
Slate. 1t is an indication of the con-
temptible tactics to which the leaders
of the Radical party are prepared to re-
sort, even in Pennsylvania, to carry out
their favorite dogma of negro suffrage.
The Democracy, it is well known, are
everywhere opposed to sumptuary laws
laws by which Yankee fanatics of the
old prosecuting Puritan breed seek to
regulate what the people may eat and
drink-but no man, with any regard
for truth, can say that the Democ-
racy are more addicted to whisky
drinking than the Radical party
The Radical leaders are we'll aware
of this fact. Although they pos
sess majority of about thirty-thousand
voters they know (and by this piece of
trickery they admit the fact) that they
cannot carry negro suffrage with their
own vote except by threatening to deprire
the Radical party Of lis rkisky. By this
dirty, scheme they admit, first, that the
masses of the Radical party are OPP
posed to negro suffrage; and, second,
that the Radical party is whisky
party.-Hdrrisb. (Pd.) Patriot and Union.
Year: 1868

They have q new way of granting di-
vorces in Rhode Island. The minister
who tied the knot tore up the marriage
certificate, and pronounced the parties
free. He did so at the demand of the
parents of the bride and groom, who
were quite too young to take the mar
riage vow.
Year: 1868

A few days ago as 4 clerk in a Syra-
cuse drug store entered the liquor cellar
for the purpose of drawing some liquor,
he discovered large rat standing on
it's hind legs, drinking whisky as it
dropped from the faucet, that had not
been properly closed. As lie neared the
rat, he made very awkward effort to
escape, but he reeled and staggered like
n drunken man. The clerk, pleased
fortunate animal" allowed him, after
several zigzag movements, to enter his
hole.
Year: 1868

4 girl at one of the colored churches
in Nashville, whose religious zeal got the
better of her during services on Sunday,
fell upon hot stove, and before she
could be rescued was burned so badly
that her life is despaired of.
Year: 1868

Rev. Pliny II. White, president of the
| Vermont Historical Society, writes to the
Historical Maga,ine In Vermont the coin


age of money took place at later date than


in any other of the states. This was not
| quite necessity, but it was a result of that


sturdy Independence which characterized all
the movements Of the Green Mountain bows.


Refused admittance to the Union, they felt


perfectly assured that if the United States
could do without them, they could do with
out the United States in regard TO money Ms
in regard to all things else. In 1885 the leg
islature granted Reuben Harmon Jr., ofRu


pert, the exclusive right of coming copper
money within the State for two years. lie


had already made preparations for coming,
and would perhaps have engaged in the bust
ness as private enterprise, as others had
done in other states, but the legislative ap-
preparation and the exclusive privilege we're
worth having. He was required to give
bonds in the sum of FIVE thousand pounds, and
TO make no coin weighing less than a third
Of an ounce Troy. His establishment is de
scribed by the historian Of Rupert in the Yer
mont Quarterly Ga-etfe, as follows


d" His mint was located in the northeastern
ly part Of the town, little east Of the main
l..
small stream of water called Mill Brook.
which empties into Pawlet River. 1t was
small building, about sixteen by eighteen
feet, made Of rough materials, simply clap
boarded, unplaned and unpainted At the
east end was the furnace for melting the cop
per and machinery for rolling the bars in
the middle Of the room the machinery for
cutting and at the west end that for stamp
ing The latter was done by means Of an
iron screw attached to heavy timbers above,
and moved by hand with the aid of ropes
Sixty coppers per minute could be stamped.
although thirty was the usual number
The mint building is still standing (S5D, |
but its location is entirely changed, having
adjoining town of Pawet where ii is now used
as a sorn house.


In 1856 the Legislature granted Harmon an
extension of his privilege for eight years from
July 1887, allowing him the first three years
without compensation, requiring him to pay
into the treasury OF the State two and a half !
per cent Of all that he should coin during the |
remainder of the term The weight Of the |
coins was fixed at four pennyweights fifteen |
grains each. Harmon then went into the |
business somewhat largely, taking nine other
persons into partnership, and carrying on an |
establishment in Ulster County, New York. |
as well as in Rupert. As there are no coins
extant Of later date than 17SS, it may be |
presumed that the business was not continued |
much, if any after that year, and that the
State Treasury was never any richer for the |
two and a-half per centage reserved,
Year: 1868

Suddenly there was a rushing through al


oat field, as if mad bull were coming. W,


looked toward the house, and saw the farmer


and his two boys on fence, the women il


the door, and the bulldog bounding toward


US. We saw it all we had been discovered


The well trained dog had been sent to hunt


US out, and, as the matter appeared, it was
safe to bet he was doing that thing right
lively.


10 out run dog was not to be thought of.
There was no time to lose. He came for us Just
as We reached front seat on limb, above


his reach,


Here was precious 60 vicious bulldog
under the tree, and farmer and two big
boys ready to move down on our works. 1t
was fight, foot race or fangs.


The farmer yelled out to his dog" watch
hime, Tge,"


Tige proposed to do that little thing, and
keeping his eyes on us, seated himself under
the tree.


Then spoke this ugly farmer-Just hold
thar, stranger, till we get breakfast then
wen come and see you, If you are in a
hurry, however, you can 60 now! Watch
him, Tge!


We surmised trouble-vcry much for
twice had that old man of bulldogs and
agriculture elegantly walloped innocent tour
lists for being on his suburban premises. His
reputs ton as peaceman was not good and
there arose large heart toward our throat


Time is the essence of contracts, and a
saving ordinance for those in trouble. We
had stout line in our coat pocket, and
large hook intended for rock bass if we fail
cd to take trout. And, as good luck would
have it, We had a nice sandwich and piece |
of boiled corn beef in our other pocket.


We called the dog pet names, but he
wasn't on it. Then We tried to move down,
when he move up. At last we trebled our
bass line, fastened the great limerick to it,
baited it with the corn beef, tied the end of
The line to limb and angled for dog.


Tige was in appetite. He smelt of the
Deef, it was very nice. He swallowed it, and
at still with his eyes on US for more, but
With no friendly look beaming from his
Not any!


When we pulled gently on the line, it was
asst. Tige yanked and pulled, but it was no
lse The attention of the canine was di-
erted from us-his business was being done
N another line


We quickly slid down the tree-coming
ear blistering our legs doing it-seized the
asket and pole, and straightway went thence
omewhat lively


We found our string of fish and reached
he buggy anda commanding spot in the road
n time to see the sturdy yeoman move
1rth.


We saw him and his cohorts, male and fe-
lale move slowly, as if in no haste. We
sw them look up the tree. We saw an anx-
Jus group engaged about the dog. We
anne quickly home, and kindly left the bass
ne and hooks to the farmer.
Year: 1868

The Rev. John p Hubbard, Of Westerly,
R. l., the Episcopal clergyman who recently
exchanged pulpits with a Baptist minister,
notwithstanding the written prohibition of
the bishop of his diocese, has published his
reply to the letter of Bishop Clark, in the
Providence Journal. lie says that any canon
forbidding such interchange would be con-
trary to the fundamental doctrine of the
Church and would certainly be contrary to
the plain teachings of Christ, % and therefore
such a canon would not be binding on his
conscience. Believing his action in the case
to be right and proper, in which he is sus-
tanned by the congregation to which he minis
ters, he appeals from the judgment of man
shall all soon stand.''