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Year: 1867

About the stransest thing we ever heard
of occurred here on last Friday, ID inst.
Mr.. SchOelhurtz, a we'll known citizen who
lives in a small frame house near the depot,
went fishing to the lighthouse dock with a
couple of friends Their luck did not seem
very good, as bur one black bass and a few
perch we're all that had been captured, and
the interest in the sport naturally began to
flag. While Mr.. Shoelhurtz was examin-
lining his watch, very fine one to which a
black ribbon and a seal were attached, his
line being left carelessly in the water, a sud
den heavy Jerk that nearly took the fish
pole from his hand, and so startled him that
in trying to grasp it with the other hand, in
his excitement he somehow let 60 of his
watch, which struck his knee and bounded
off into the water, his line Though very
strong one. parted the same instant with a
snap. Regrets, though naturally INDUCED
in to some extent, were useless, so the party
continued fishing for couple Of hours at-
ter the accident, and then rowed homewards
with light string of Ash, Mr.. Shoelhurtz' 5
i'll luck having followed him so peristently
that he had actually caught nothing. When
nearly back to the starting point they were
oyertaken by fishing boat, and being
ashamed to exhibit their catch to their
friends, as unlucky fishermen always are,
they concluded to buy few fsh to add to
those honestly caught, agreeing not to tell
tales on each other as to the manner in
which they we're obtained-MT. ShoelhuItz
purchased an eight pound black bass and
three small ones. As he was carrying the
fish home he thought ne saw something
sticking in its gils, which on closer
inspection proved to be fish hook that
very much resemblcd the one he had lost in
the afternoon, and it was with a kind of
savage Joy that he anticipated eating the
prime cause of his i'll luck but the stran-
gest Of all, upon cutting the fish open he
found his watch, which had not even stop
ped ticking Erie Pa Dispatch.
Year: 1867

Hope oN!-A bankrupt merchant return
ing home one night said to his noble wife
my dear, [ am ruined, everything we have
is in the hands of the sheriff y


After few moments of silence the wife
looked kindly into his face and said:


"Will the sheriff sell you? Oh! no! Will
the sheriff sell the children? OH no! Will
the sheriff sell me2 OH no! Then do not
say we have lost everything. All that is
most valuable remains to us-manhood,
womanhood, childhood We have lost but
the result Of our skill and industry. We
can make another fortune if our hearts and
hands are left US
Year: 1867

Ii you should ever meet with an accident
at the table, endeavor to be composed: A
gentleman carving a tough goose had the
misfortune to send it entirely out of the dish
into the lap of young lady who sat next to
him on which be looked her full in the face
and said with the utmost coolness-' Madam
| will thank you for that goose.
Year: 1867

An Irish judge had the habit of begin par
don on every occasion. At the close of the
assizes, as he was about to leave the bench,
an officer of the court reminded him that he
had not passed sentence of death on one Of
the prisoners as he had intended. Dear
me, said his lordship, 81 really beg his par
don.
Year: 1867

A Washington special says: It is stated
that friend of the President has gone to
Richmond to urge the Legislature Of Virgi-
MIA to adopt the measures proposed in the
military bill so as to become State in the
Union as speedily as possible. The Legis-
lature is holding secret sessions In conse-
nuence
Year: 1867


Dim shadows gather thickly round,


And up the misty stair we climb,
The cloudy stair that upward leads,


To whore the golden portals shine,
Round which the knee'iug spirits wait
The opening of the Golden Gate.
And some with eager longing SO,


Still pressing forward, hand in hand,
And some with weary steps and slow,


Look back where their beloved stand
Yet up the misty stairs they climb,
Led on by the angel Time.


"A unseen hands roll back the door,


The light that floods the very air
Is but the shadow from within,


Of the great glory hidden there
And morn and eve, aud noon aud late,
The shadows pass within The Gate.
Year: 1867


How many pounds does the baby weigh


Baby whs came bat a month ago.
How many pounds from the crowning curl
To the rosy point of the restless toeg
Grandfather ties the kerchiefs knot,


Tenderly guides the swinging weight,
And carefully over his glasses peers


To read the record 'sonly eight.
Softly the echo goes around:


The father laughs at the tiny girl
The fair young mother sings the words,


While grandmother snooths the golden curl
And STOPPING above the precious thing


Nestles a kiss within a prayer,
Murmuring softly, Little one,


Grandfather did not weigh you fair.
Nobody weighed the baby smile,


Or the love that came with the helpless one
Nobody weighed the threads OF care


From which woman's life is spun.
No index tells the mighty worth


OF little baby's quiet breath
A soft, unceasing metronome,


Patient and faithful until death.
Nobody weighed the baby soul,


For here on earth no weight there be
That could avail God only knows


It's value in eternity.
Only eight pounds to hold a soul,


That seeks no angels silver wing,
But shrines it in this human guisei


Within so fral and small thing
o. mother! laugh your merry note;


Be gay and glad, but don't forget
From baby eyes looks out a soul


That claims home in Eden yet.
Year: 1867

EAT Your BRoWN BREAD FIRST. 1t
is plain, but faithful saying, CIT Yo,q
br0lgA tread first; nor is there better rule
for young mans outset in the world.
While you continue single you may live
within as narrow limits as you please; and it
is then you must begin to save in order to
be provided for the more enlarged expenses
of your future family. Besides a plai n
frugal life is then supported most cheerfully:
it is your own choice. and it Is to be justified
on the best and most honest principles in
the world, and you have nobody's pride TO
struggle with, or appetites to master, but
your own. As you advance in life and sue
cess, it will be expected you should give
yourself greater indulgence; and you may
then be allowed to do il both reasonably and
safely.


.-s--.lzl1- 4 -lssS@Lamb' old associates
are now dead. They that lived so long, "
as he says, and fourished SO steadily, are
all crumbled away" The beauty of these
evenings was that every one was placed on
an easy level No.one out-talked the 9th
eTs. No one--not even Coleridge-was per-
mitted to out-talk the rest. No one was al
lowed to hector another nor to bring his
own grievances too prominently forward so
as to disturb the harmony Of the night. Ev-
cry one had a right TO speak and to be
heard and no one was ever trodden or
clamored down as in some large assemblies
until he had proved that he was not entitled
to a hearing, or had abused his privilege. l
never in all my life, heard so much unpre
tending good sense talked, as at Charles
Lambs social parties. Often a piece of
sparkling humor was shot out that illumina-
ted the whole evening. Sometimes there
was a fight Of high and earnest talk that
took one half way towards the stars. Lamb
Memoirs
Year: 1867

What the Conservatives are Doing


Gen. Clanton, Chairman of the Con-
servative Committee of Alabama, has issued
an address to the conservative people of
the State, in which he thus advises them


The committee will take no action until
they have obtained the opinion and advice
of our wisest and best friends North and
South, with whom they are in correspond
ence. We cannot afford to act hastily in
a matter involving Onr existence as a free
people. Our cause is that of constitutional
liberty. mistake may prove fatal to all
that We hold sacred in this life.


The committee earnestly recommend the
formation of Conservative Clubs in every
county IN the State where not already or
ganized, on the first Monday in January.
most thorough organi zation is essential
to success. The Secretaries of Central
Clubs at the several county sites are re-
quested 10 forward to the chairman of the
Executive Committee, at Montgomery. the
names of the President and Secretary. as
1t will be necessary TO communicate with
them as soon as our policy is determined
In the meantime it is to be hoped that no
good man will be idle-there il work for
all.


Nothing at this fime is better calculated
TO produce division and discord i'm our
ranks than the announcement of candidates
for office. Let it be demonstrated that the
ambition of our people is subservient to
patriotism. Should it become advisable TO
change our policy timely notice will be
given.
Year: 1867

The Paris Intelligencer says: "The season
for killing hogs has about closed. 1t has
been unusually favorable and the slaugh-
ter has been the largest for many years.
We have heard no estimate made of the
amount of pcrk there will be in the county,
but it is not too much TO say it is consider
ably in excess of the home demand. We
have noticed several lots for which no
purchasers could be found, and as further
evidence Of its plentifulness it is ranging
from seven to eight cents, while further
South it is ranging at much higher prices
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people TO be solfreiant, and shall do what we
may be able 10 irduce the sstabIishment Of
manufactorisr in our midst tor our home pro-
ducts. To this end we will pay special attention
20 the COST and sTATIsTICs Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversif-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
nent Of Southern resources
Year: 1867

ID the public at large, that he will keep on
hand fresh and full supplies of all articles in the
provision line, which he will sell on terms to suit
the cash basis of trade. A liberal share of pat
ronage is respectfully solicited, at his stand on
Third street. july1
Year: 1867

There is q remarkable unanimity in the
more sober.minded Of the Republican and
other journals in their dissent from the propo
sition to impeach The President. One oi
our weekly contemporaries has made some
very truthful observations upon the subject,
as follows:


There is no public justice to vindicate,
no public policy to secure, that cannot wait
till new President in the ordinary course
is elected and inauguratsd; but simply party
disappointment to resent, and free scope for
party measures Of questionable constitu-
tionality, and still more questionable public
utility, to be obtained. There is no public
reason for the rash action. The present Con-
gress and the next will have q more than
two-thirds majority in both Houses, and The
President is, and can be, no serious obstruc-
ton TO any legislation really demanded by
the country, even supposing him to be as far
wrong in his policy as the majority in Con-
gress pretend. The country and the world
will regard the movements for impeachment
as mere party movements, and will condemn





on Radical ground, for them, and no good
can come from them, whether successful or
not, but much evil.


1--WE have read the formal indictment
drawn by General BUTLER. Wehaye listened
to all that has been said by the most emf
nent among the advocates Of impeachment
and we have examined closely and impair
TALLY for ourselves the acts Of THE PREsI
DENT, and we have not been able TO discover
the shadow Of q reason on which to grounC
an impeachment The movement for 1t Il
simply movement dictated by party spitt
and personal resentment; and it would be I
fatal day for our republic when the Chic
Magistrate OF the Union could be arraignet
by the grand inquest OF the nation, and pu
on his trial for political differences Of opin
ion, or on mere personal or party offences.


"THE PRESIDENTS real offence is, that h
has differed from the majority in Congress
on the question whether it belongs to Con
Rress or 10 the Executive to recognize re
organized State as State in the Union
He claims that the several States that Sc
ceded, having reorganized their respective
governments in accordance with the Consti
tuition Of the Union, they are now States IL
the Union, and should be treated as such BY
Congress. In this, whether right or wrong
he only follows the precedent set BY Presi
dent LISooLN and the Thirtyseyenth Con
oress. The Executive, in accordance with
the legal opinion Of Mr.. Attorney Genera
Bars, recognized the loyal government COL
Year: 1867

This evening MAGGIE MITCHELL presents
her Little Barefoot to the admiring gaze Of
the audience at the National Theatre. 1t is
an entertaining play, full Of humor, pathos
and interesting incidents. MAGGIE and the
play seem to have been made for each other.
Year: 1867

DURING THE DEBATE on the reconstruction
bill in the House yesterday Major General
STcKLEs occupied a seat on the floor for a
short timei and when the appropriation bill
was up in committee the Secretary of State
came in and occupied a seat beside Mr..
STEVENS.
Year: 1867

New YEARS SpoRTs.-New Years passed
off very quietly in Mokelumne Hill. With
the exception of shooting match and toler-
ably interesting dog fight, there was nothing
at all going on. We did not see man whose
appearance denoted that he was entering upon
the untried, mysterious future of the new
year in state of intoxication. 1t certainly
speaks well for the morals and habits of our
citizens, and we think that very few towns in
this State are our equals in this respect. The
shooting match commenced about noon and
was kept up until darkness put an end to the
bloody scene. Mr.. Werle. the gentleman
who furnished the turkey for the match, re-
allied small fortune in the course of the
afternoon, and when long after dark the boys
had fired away all their ammunition, the
gobbler was relieved from his unpleasant sit
uation, he was found to be in just as sound
and healthy condition as he was before be-
ing used for target. He was not even fright
ened, If that turkey lives until 1t is killed
at Mokelumne Hill shooting match, unless
a blind man should happen along and take
shot at him, it will live to be venerable
bird, surely.
Year: 1867

Eighteen hundred and sixty-six, laden
with its burden of pleasing recollections, Bit
ter experiences, crushed hopes, joys and
SORROWS incident to the varied life allotted to
mortals, has passed away never more to re-
turn. The history of another year of our
lives has been chronicled in the ponderous
tome of the recording angel, and our deeds,
whether good or evil, are recorded and sealed
up, not to be opened until the day of judg-
ment. Expiring amid the festivities of the
holidays, the old year has been gathered
with the centuries gone, and while we well
come the new, still we are not altogether
without regret for the past. Although its
pathway is strewn with broken hopes and
dark shadows, here and there are memories
sweet and fragrant which linger pleasantly
around the recollection. The past and the
future seem almost to meet on the dividing
line between the old and new, and crowd
aside the present. The dark and unknown
future is before US. We have entered upon
an untrodden path, where new scenes and
objects will arise to engage our attention.
Life is ever-varying. God, in His infinite
wisdom, has benevolently veiled the future
from the eye of mortal man, and truly is it
said that -" Ye know not what day may
bring forth" Whether joy or sorrow, pros
perity or adversely, health or sickness, is to
be our lot, is known only to Him Who
doeth all things WELL The year eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven commences auspic-
iously. As nation, we are at peace with
all the world. Our commerce whitens every
sea and our flag commands respect wherever
it floats. All branches of industry, mechan-
ical pursuits, agriculture and manufactures,
are in the most fiourishing condition, and
our country was never more prosperous than
at present. The finances of the country are
assuming healthy aspect and point to the
speedy extinction of the enormous national
debt incurred during the rebellion. The line
policy pursued by the recreant johnson has
had the effect of postponing the reconstruction
of the seeded States for season, but let us
hope that ere another year has completed its
cycle, that the United States of America, the
giant republic of the West the pride of the
free and the terror Of tyrants, will be more
firmly united than ever in!the bonds offrater
nal friendship and good will. Should this
be accomplished during the present year. and
the starry emblem of our country again wave
in triumph from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
from the hills of Maine to the broad prairies
of the far West, enshrined in the hearts of a
free, happy. united and prosperous people,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven will mark
one of the grandest and most glorious epochs
in our history
Year: 1867

RULES COOP HERE AS ELsEwuERE.-Do
you want to make friends: Then be sincere
candid and charitable. Do you wish to be
respecteds Then respect yourself; be nea,
and clean, honorable and high-minded. And
above all things, if you wish to understand
the art of making and keeping money, mind
your own business.
Year: 1867

Great E,5couragemenk 1t viii. fill the
souls of the. delegates to the State ConYen-
ton with fresh courage aud hope to find that
the loyal militia bill and the loyal suffrage
bill have both become laws at the time of
their meeting They need this great en-
couragement Nas6eflls Press and Times.


Shouldn't wonder of course the militia
viii give yoU courage just the same as an
armed host did to Beast Butler while in New
Orleans.
Year: 1867

with no proper field for their stimulant con-
ditlon, is about as certain and infalliblC a
process for bringing them forward in the
way which they should not go as we can


think Of. The topic is not a particularly


pleasant Ole for husbands and brothers, and


unless doctors pull UP In their zeal for strong


and blood heating drinks, it is likely to grow


more and more unpleasant. Even children,


like their elders, are presumed to suffer from


low tone. They too require wine and malt


liquor, and what they are thus supposed to
require they have given to them in appalling
abundance


1t is possible that this spreading taste for
much strong drink may be in some measure
a product of the salutary reaction against
accticism in all its forms. IF so, it would
be a very evil accident of very wholesome
movement. For to abandon an acctic life is
not to seek Il life bristling with artificial ex-
citement. 1t is possible to avoid aceticism
without sacrificing that natural simplicity
which is the perfection of living. People
who arc constantly supporting the hurry and
press of their lives-or. in the case of
many women, supporting their heavier bur
den of vacancy and cnnui-by stimulants.
slowly increasing in quantity, are placing
of life beyond their reach IF
men worked little less, and women a little
more, and were able to rise Il little nearer to
the old poetic ideal of ..plain living and
plain thinking they would find themselves
quite braccd enough in tone to Withstand the
disorders of the time. Anv-
how, it ID pretty certain that alcohol bcgcts,
in both sexes, quite as many characteristic
disorders of it's own as those which it is as
,umcd to correct Saturday Rericr.
Year: 1867

ANY philosopher who chooses to go to a
ball, and take his stand near the buffet, or
survey the supper-table with an obseryant
eve, will see that the ld-fashioned beverages
which cooled but not incbriatcd are indeed
supplied, just for forms sake but that they
have entirely lost their ancient popularity
He will see young women dash off much
champagne and claret-cup, in the course of a
single lively evening. as would have more
than sufficed their grandmothers for month.
The case and familiarity with which they
drink is worthy of the most accomplished
freuuenter of New York bar. That the
results are not more astonishing than they
are is in itself most satisfactory proof of a
seasoned head. At dinner may notice
the taste for stimulants The after
noon tea is beginning to be tea and some
thing else. 1t is rumored, no doubt through
some married Clodius who has abused his
position to peep in upon the mysteries of the
Bona Dea, that even the taste of spirit is not
absolutely unknown to fair lips. Even the
youngest matrons have begun to feel the
necessity of that brandy and water which is
prescribed for their overtasked lords. They,
too, have become persuaded, to use the doe
torial phrase, of the necessity of keeping up
the system. A woman who has been IA
mother a twelvemonth, if she has got within
ear-shot of plausible and sympathetic ply





ders of our day being Enthusiastically dis
orders of the low type. In alarm lest she
should bring up an enfeebled offspring, she
flies to the usual spirituous tonics. Brandy
and water at bed time is the great disnfect-
ant against the grievous evils of our civiliza-
ton. 1t is the supposed secret of a genial
life and vigorous progeny. The consequence
es of this alcoholic panic among women are
obviously more Objectionable than it's conse-
quences among men. For women, rule,
are little idle and little vacant The wo-
men who take wine most literally are COM
monty the most idle and the most vacant OF
all. The effect of stimulants upon people
with active interests is bad enough in one
way its effect upon people without active
| interests is more than bad enough in another
way. If ladies had their &C rights and SO
were allowed to work more, then they might
also be permitted to drink more. But TO
stimulate people, and then to provide them
Year: 1867

H-E-R-E We CoME-There was 4 we'd
! ding in church in village near Chicago,
recently. which was attended by Il crowd of
people, the bride being the famous belle in
that section, and the bridegroom an ex-
volunteer captain. There is a story about
him that was revived with great effect at
the wedding. He was in the frontier SER
vice. and one day $50 the story goes) be
went out to hunt a bear He had been away
from camp Il few hours, when his voice was
heard family in the distance exclaiming-


Here we come,"


In little while the same cry was heard
again, but nearer; then it was repeated at
intervals. nearer and louder: when finally
the bold captain emerged from bit of
woods near the camp, running at the top of
his speed. without a hat coat In
he came to camp, shouting, &" Here We
come


Here who Gomez" inquired brother
officer


why, me and the game" gasped the
captain, pointing to IA big bear who showed
himself at the edge of the woods. took =
long look at the camp, and then with
growl at missing his expected meal off the
captain, disappeared in the woods again.


But why didn't you shoot the bear, and
then bring him in?" inquired one.


Whats the use in shooting your game"
said the captain, testify. when you can
bring him in alive as [ did?


The story got home before the captain
did, and was in everybody's mouth. The
other night, as the captain led his intended
bride into the church, with the pride and
grace so readily inspired by the occasion,
some wicked wag sang out from the gallery:


" Here We come F."


Which was followed by such a shout of
laughter as that old church never heard
before.