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Year: 1868

To the owners occupants of Lots abutting on IN
West side of Seventh street between York and CHI
cago streetsn the oir Ward of the Village of Man
itowoe County of 11anitowcc State OF Wisconsin


Take notice NAT At meeting of tie Board OF Trus-
tees Of said Village the Nth day of Nay 1865,
petition sgne by half of the owners or occupants
oil the lots above mentioned praying thai said Board
cause sidewalk be EuiIt on said Seventh street as
above described wa unanimously granted by said
said fourth ward were ordered notify the owner or
occupant any lot adjoining suoh contemplated side.
walk 70 ke the at his own proper cost ana
charge within 30 days after the publication of this
notice, aud that, if such work is not done in tho
time required. the shall be done by contract to
the lowest responsible bidder and tive expense thereof
charged TO the lot lots property chargeable tars
with. = $3.50


Dated May 26th 1865.
Year: 1868

WASHINGTON, June 2G, 1865.
The Reconstruction Committee has now
under consideration bill to abolish the
New Orleans municipal government alto.
gether, and place the control of city affairs
in the hands of an administration appointed
by the Governor elect, by and with the ad.
vice and consent of the Senate.


The city government so instituted is to
continue until the State Legislature pro.
vides for new election.


The bill will pass both Houses if it shall
appear that a necessity exists for it.


SPECIAL.
Year: 1868

The committee on the District of Colum
bia have made a report to the Senate on the
resolution heretofore referred to them, in,
structing them to inquire into the alleged
facts connected with the election of Mrs.
Kate Brown, the colored woman in charge
of the ladies' retiring room of the Senate,
from a passenger car of the Alexandria and
Washington railroad company in February
last.


They stated that they find the facts to be
as heretofore stated; that Congress has al
ready provided IN the charter that the COM
pany shall not make any discrimination
on account of race or color; that Mrs.
Brown has instituted suit against the COM
pany for damages and injuries sustained,
aud that the policeman who elected her
from the car has since been dismissed from
the service of the company.


If the result of the legal proceedings
which Mrs. Brown has instituted shall not
be satisfactory, or the conduct of the cou-
pany in the future shall not be satisfactory,
the resolution can be taken from the table,
and the charter Of the company be re.
pealed, or such measures adopted as shall
at the same time be considered necessary to
protect the rights of passengers upon that
road. They therefore recommend that the
resolution, for the present, be laid upOU
the table,
Year: 1868

The written confession of Deacon An
drews, suspected of numbering Cornelius
Holmes, at Kingston, Massachusetts, few
weeks ago, says that he met Holmes, and
they were walking together on the evening
of the murder, which he (Andrews) thus
describes: He then asked me to walk q
little ways with him; told him / was tired,
and thought we had better 90 home. We
then started; he took me by the hand and
drew me down the road on which his body
was found. He stepped up on to the bank
on the left hand side OF the road, where his
hat was found among the trees, and asked
me to come in there. / told him | should
not go. He again asked me to come in there.
I told him Il shall not He then came out
from among the trees, looking like msd.
man. He caught hold of me and threw me
down, pulled my pants open; got on top of
me, ana treated me very roughly. | caught
up a stone that WAS near my right hand


and struck him with it on the side of the
head. He caught me by the beard and by
the hair; think We tell once or twice. 1
felt ! must kill him TO save my lie, but
can not remember all the circumstances,
but that / atterWard threw two stones on
his head, then ran over the stile up to the
cemetery pond, and washed the blood from
my face and hands. Several times he has
attempted something of this sort before y
This confession has scarcely any weight, as
there are facts which show it absurd. The
grand jury, it is understood, have found a
true bill against Andrews for murder.
Year: 1868

The Hartford Times, now one of the Dem
ocratic advocates Tor the nomination Of
Chase for the Presidency, lid Of him, May
%, 1865:


is it not remarkable that the Chief
Justice Of the supreme Court Of the United
States. robsd in his judicial ermine, should
step down from the bench and 90 around
the country making eectioneeripg
speeches Is it not singular that he should
write letters to organize party to support
himself for the Presidency, and then travel
from State to State. making up issues
against the President-giving opinions pc
fore negro crowds aud other audiences upon
questions that may come before his court
for final settlement? Such reprehensible
conduct never before disgraced the bench
Of the Supreme Court, and il can not be too
severely rebuked,
Year: 1868

of all knowing business men. He
looks sharper at visitors than of old,
and his depositors are beginning to
complain of discount strings being
drawn tight. The gloom hanging
about the financial portals of his in
stitution and a vacant Office with a
roll of carpeting to let on Carondalet
street, is the sum and result of all the
brilliant anticipations of that firm
with a new wrinkle.
Year: 1868




!; ONcB.A WEEK says; Here is . row
ofordinary capital letters and figures7Ti
.siSS SIX Xxx XZZZZ 3333S888
They are such as are made up of two
parts Of equal shapes. Look earefal-
ly at these and you win perceive that
the upper halves of the characters
are vepy little smaller than the lower
halves-so little that an ordinary eye
will declare them to be of equal size.
Now turn the page upside down, and,
without any careful looking, you will
see that this difference in size is very
much exaggerated-that the real top
half of the letter is very much smaller
than the bottom half. 1t viii be seen
from this that there is a tendency in
the eye to enlarge the upper part Of
any object upon which it looks. We
might draw two circles of unequal
size, and SO place them that they
should appear equal. t.". '"t''" F" 30
Year: 1868

flung myself on tie bed to pass a
wretched and fearful night.


Another footstep, slower and feebler
than my sisters disturbed me.


alfred my son, shall l come n"
she asked.


I cannot tell what influence operating
at that moment, made me speak adverse
to my feelings. The gentle voice Of
my mother, that thrilled through me,
melted the ice from my heart and 1
longed to throw myself upon her neck
but l did not My words save the lie
to heart, when l said | was not sorry.
l heard her withdraw. l heard her
groan. longed to call her back but 1
did not


I was awakened from my uneasy
slumber by hearing my name called
loudly and my sister stood by my bed
side.


Get up Alfred Don't wait min
ute !! Get up and come with me. Mother
is dying.


l thought was yet dreaming, but 1
got up melancholy and followed my sis
ter. On the bed, pale as marble lay
my mother. She had not undressed.
She had thrown herself on the bed to
rest; and rising to go again to me, she
was seized with a palpitation of the
heart, and senseless borne to her room.


cannot tell you my agony as l look
ed upon her-my rem orse was tenfold
more bitter from thought that she never
would know it. | believed myself to
be her murderer. | fell on the bed be-
side her l could not weep. My heart
burned within my bosom-my brain
was all on fire. My sister threw her
arms around me and wept in silence.
Suddenly we saw a motion of mothers
hand-her eyes III closed. She had re-
covered consciousness, but not her
speech. She looked at me and moved
her lips. | could not understand her
words.


Mother, mother p 1 shrieked, SAY
only that you forgive me-


She could not say it with her lips,
but her hand pressed mine. She smiled
upon me and lifting her thin white
hands she clasped my own within them,
and cast her eyes upwards. She moved
her lips in prayer and thus she died I
remained still kneeling beside that dear
form, till my gentle sister removed me.
The joy of youth had left me forever.


Boys who spurn mothers control,
who are ashamed to own that they are
wrong, who think it manly to resist her
authority, or yield to her influence, be-
acare Lay not up for yourselves bitter
memories for your future years.
Year: 1868

COULDN'T GET THE RIGHT FLoP.-
In the year of 1913, during the Miller
excitement in the usually quiet town of
Durham, old "Aunt Sally H." who
would "weigh nigh on to 200 pounds, 3"
got all ready to ego up" and one even
ing in meeting, in the midst of warm
season of exhortation, she arose and
said-"Oh, brethren and sisters, bless
the lord I'll soon get away from this
wicked world I'm going to meet the
Lord in few days. My faith is
powerful strong! Oh, yes, powerful
strong it is ! So strong" continued the
old lady, extending her arms and
motioning then like goose on the
wing, "that it does seem as if could
fly right away and meet the lord in the
air


The minister, who was as great an
enthusiast on "going up as the old
lady, encouraged her by exclaiming,
'try, sister, try Perhaps you can fly,
if your faith is only strong enough. !"
"Well | can," she exclaimed, 81 knoU
| can and | wM !"


She was standing near window
which was raised because of the op-
pressive heat-for it was Summer
With her lankerchief in one hand and
her fan in the other, she mounted the
seat, and thence to the top of the pew
and gave leap into the air with fly
ing motion of her arms, expecting to
assend heavenward But the law of
gravitation was too much for both her
faith and the gravity of the audience.
Down she came with an enormous and
not very angelic grunt, shaking the
whole house, with the conclusion.


She arose, folded her wings, and with
great meekness sneaked back into her
seat and went to weaving back and
forth, evidently disappointed. The
next evening some of the young folks
asked ner:


"Aunt Sally, why didn't you fly last
night when you tried so hard p


81 couldn't get the right flop on,
was the neek and conclusive reply.
Year: 1868

STORM SIGNs.-It's sign of storm
to tread on anybody's toe that has
corns.


It's sign Of storm if you waken
the baby on wash day.


Pts sign of a storm to call baby
ugly in presence of its mother.


It's a sign of storm to start a yarn
about your neighbor at an ale house,
and some one runs and tells.


It's sign of storm to spit on the
parlor carpet and your wife sees it.


It's sign of storm to speak i'll Of
your wife's relations.


It's sign of storm to tell your
wife she looks horrid in that last new
bonnet.
Year: 1868

Cor THE WRONG PANTs.-A mar
ried man was engaged on night work in
Fon du Lac, and was accustomed to
being absent from home every night in
the week A night or two ago he was
suddenly taken ill, went home at an
unusual hour, and retired without light
ing lamp. He had not been in bed
long when his wife, in the most plain
tive and agonizing tone also complained
of having been taken suddenly sick, and
pleadiugly asAed him if he did not feel
well enough to go down to drug store
and get her some medicine Although
quite sick himself, the husband readily
consented got up, donncd his gar
ments, and proceeded to the store as re-
qnested. While there he discovered
that he had on another mans pants, and
returned to find his own missing.
Year: 1868

The ATHEIsT-During the month
of November, 1S43, a clergyman and
an atheist were on one of the night
trains between Albany and Utica
The night being cold, the passengers
gathered around the stove. The athe-
ist was very loquacious, and was soon
engaged, in controversy with the
minister. In answer to a question
of the latter as to what would be a
mans condition after death, the athe-
ist replied, "Man is like pig; when
he dies that is the end of him." As
the minister was about to reply, red
faced Irish woman at the end of the
car sprang up, the natural red of her
face glowing more intensely with pas
sion, and the light of the lamp falling
directly upon it, and addressing the
clergyman in voice particularly
startling and humorous from its i'm
passioned tone and the richness of its
brogue, exclaimed. "Arrah, now, will
We not let the baste alone? Has he
not said he was pig? and the more
you pull his tail. the louder he'll
squale." The effect was electric
The clergyman apologized for his for
getfulness, and the atheist was mute
for the remainder of his journey
american Messen ger.
Year: 1868

In rosewood cradle baby lay,
It's mother was stitching, stitching away,
On little robe of white;
One foot on the rocker, she hoped to keep
Her frolicsome baby fast asleep,
To finish her work that night.
In every stitch she wrought,
That loving mother fastened athought;
Hopes for that little one,
And smiled on her baby in happy pride,
As it slept in its cradle by her side,
Till the little robe was done.
Then she folded up the cambria and lace
And kissed her little ones chubby face,
That smiled in its sinfant glee.
She tossed it up and down in the air
"How pretty you'll look little babe when


you wear


That little new robe said she.



In a rosewood coffin the baby lay;
Its mother had wept the night away
Watching its dying breath.
With it pressed to her bosom she prayed


to keep
Her darling baby from going to sleep
In the cold, cold arms of death.
They buried the babe in the garments


just wrought,
Whose every stitch had hopeful thought
From that loving mothers sight;
On marble stone she wrote with tear,
"How many hopes are buried here
In that little robe of whitew
In the Saviour's arms baby lay,
From its rosewood coffin far away,
In the realms of love and light.
The angels agarment had folded about
Its little form which will never wear out
A seamless robe of white.
I-DGihJ Alta California
Year: 1868

TRUST IN GOD.-My father was,
you know, hunter of men, and d
fisher of men. He used to hunt
squirrels and catch trout. And he
carried his venary and piscatory in
stincts into the pulpit-as he ought
to have done.


When DR.. Cornelius, who was Sec
retary of the American Board, died,
father had dark day. II cannot un-
derstand,' he said, "what the Lord
means, when his work needs just such
a man as Cornelius, and he takes him
away in the prime Of life, at time
when he is carrying on that work sue
cessfully, and there is nobody to take
his place." Yes there was. DR..
Wisner took it. But he carried it
only few years, when he died. |
very distinctly remember the morning
when father was preparing the ser
mon to preach nvor DR.. Wionor.
The wheels dragged heavily. He was
very much cast down. Though | was
quite young he said to me, Henry, it
is all done it is all done! | cannot
see what the Lord means. He is
making breach on breach. There is
so much to do and so few to do it
He is taking the best of them"


In his own life he worked as though
he thought that if he stood from I'M
der, part Of the heavens at least
would come down. He used to stand
with his shoulders straight up, as
though he thought he were helping
to carry the universe. 1t was not
fancy-it was the instinct of work.
There was the sense of work in him
clear TO the bone and marrow.
think. | love to work as we'll as he
did; but | got from my mother what
he did not from his. | have carried
all my life long a sense that the work
was so vast that no man, | did not
care who it was, could do more than
very little; that He who could raise
up children from the stones of Abra
ham. could raise up men when he had
a mind to, and men of the right kind
and put them in the right place; that
after all the Lord was greater than
the work; and that it was of no use
for me to fret myself, and set mysel
up to be wiser than Providence al
| was called upon to do was to work
up the measures of my wisdom anc
strength, and be willing to 60 where
ever God sent me: and that then


was to be content.-H. W. BEECHER
Year: 1868

THE SKY.-What is the blue sky,
so grandly arched above our heads ?
The ancient Greeks supposed it to be
a solid substance, spread above the
earth at an immense height, in which
the sun, moon and stars were set like
diamonds in a ring. The upper sur
face was laid with gold-the pave
ment Of the gods.


In pagan countries, somewhat SINH
lar notions still prevail. A convert
ed heather said to his missionary
teacher that he thought the sun, moon
and stars were holes in the sky,
through which came streaming down
to the earth the brightness and glory
of the heavenly world.


But, in reality, the sky is nothing
more than the air we breathe. In
stead of the solid arch, towering SO
many thousands miles above US, where
our childish fancy placed it, the blue
sky is nothing more than the ocean
of air in which we live and move
And as to its distance from us, it is
all within three or four miles. For
travellers, who go upon high noun
tain tops, tell US that they no longer
see any blue sky above them there
where the air is so thin that they
pant for breath, but only the black
ness Of empty space.
Year: 1868

A Rocky Mountain correspondent
of the Athens News says that he has
seen both Grant and Colfax at differ
eht times riding on the drivers seat
down those mountains. where the
grade is so steep that the boot of the
coach will sometimes be in advance
of the head horses!
Year: 1868

The Mobile Register talks IN this
way:


ave are asked to get on our knees
and confess lie which we do not be-
lieve, to dishonor ourselves as self
convicted traitors and beg pardon for
committing treason, while in our in
nermost hearts we believe we only
fought for the principles of free gov
ernment embodied in our common
Constitution. And we are of those
who to-day believe that the blood
poured out in this war as a protest
against the "unconstitutionalism" of
the Republican party was a necessary
libation to the genius of free Ameri
can institutions, and will yet, under
Heaven, prove the salvation Of the
American Constitution.
Year: 1868

SECRET PRAYER.-MeG never take
so firm a hold of God as in secret.
Remember Jacob. Thou shouldst
pray alone, for thou hast sinned alone,
and thou art to die alone, and to be
Judged alone. Alone thou wilt have
to appear before the Judgment seat.
Why not get alone to the mercy seat ?
In the great transaction between thee
and God, thou canst have no human
helper. You are not going to tell
him any secret. You may be sure he
will not betray your confidence
Whatever reasons there may be for
any species of devotion, there are
more and stronger reasons for secret
devotion. Nothing is more embarass-
ing and disturbing in secret prayer
than unpropitious circumstances
Great attention ought always to be
paid to this point-"Enter into thy
closet" says Christ. He says not a
closet, but thy closet. The habit of
secret communion is supposed to be
formed. The man is supposed to
have a closet-some place in which he
is accustomed to retire for prayer
some spot consecrated by many a
meeting there with God-some place
that has often been to him a Bethel.
The Saviour uses the word to mean
any place where, with no enbarass-
ment either from the fear or pride of
observation, we can freely pour out
our hearts in prayer to God. No
matter what are the dimensions of the
place, what is flooring or canopy
Christ's closet was a mountain, Isaac's 8
a field, Peters the house-top.-Neu-
ms.
Year: 1868

have bought the Marble Works in Barton, and
removed them to the basement of Kimball &
Pierces Store, where they can do as neat work
as at any other shop in the County. They war
rant their work to please all who may have it.
by calling upon them before purchasing else
where. Remember the place.


UNDER KIMBALL & PIERCE'S STORE.


Barton. Nav 30. lS6S-22
Year: 1868

81 do not think there is woman
in the land whose cheek would not
flush with anger and indignation, if
you should even hint to her that she
is deliberately laying a groundwork
of habit which would end in making
drunkard of her boys. She would
vehemently deny the fact, and gather
her darlings to her bosom, with a
shudder at the bare possibility of their
meeting such a.fate.


Every mother knows, from the ser
mons and books and essays upon the
subject, that have flooded the land
but more still from her own instincts
and heart-beats. that no one in all the
world has such an influence as she has
over the future man and woman
now the little confding child on her
breast.


wonder if she thinks of the still
stronger power she holds for veal or
woe over ler unborn babe. [ won
der if she eoes back further still, even
ere she mar'ies the man who is to be
the father Oi her children, considers
we'll what sort Of a bias he will give
| their natures. and what kind of an
example he will set before them :;
whether he is d strong appetites and
weak selfgoverlment or not a; whether
they can live in such harmony that
their children will be always carried
on the strength Of love and wisdom
through all the temptations of youth,
feeling that h)me is both harbor and
anchor during every storm. Does she
realize that the food she prepares to
eat-if rich, heavily spiced and salted
gives them an appetite for stimulat-
ing things; that the domestic wines
which she manufactures as innocently
as she does her jellies and cakes, give
her children their first taste for some
thing stronger than water to drink ?


Does she ever think that the ale
and porter which her physician advi
Ses her to use freely when nursing
her children, are nursed into then
stomachs, carried into their blood
and brains, and thus-the last thing
she would dream of-their taste il
forming for them, and the natural in
stinctive dislike of child for liquor
taken away?


Does she know that the bourbon
and brandy, few teaspoonfuls day
for strength and medicine before th'
birth of the child, all through the in
timacy Of child and mother, has its in
fuence and effect, until, when tn
temptation comes for him to driGl
for the pleasure of it, her warning
My child, do not touch the cup lose
its force; for against it rise his stronj
appetites, and the remembrance tha
u0 noa ovv" her take of the same? p?


There is one thing | think mother
should teach their children from


first dawning Of evil in their


and that is self-control. | have d


a young man full of gSSSnes. and


ent say: 4 have


taste Of liquor, an


have not. the pol e tn
temptation Is it allNisVwn fault
Can we raise our children weakly
and then conscientiously tell them t
be strong? Teach them to COVER
their little passions and tempers an
appetites, and they will be stron
enough for great ones by and by.


If every mother would be convir
ced of the Importance of all thes
seemingly little matters and faithful
abide by her own convictions of rigt
, and wrong in regard to them, woul
!, not the coming generation see muc
fewer weak men struggling hopeless
ly against their appetites and sinkin
into drunkards' graves"
Year: 1868

~ NJ PERRY, the old and experienced Ben
Il tist ofOrleans County is still at Barton,
and in readiness TO attended to all work pertain
ing to his profession in a prompt and efficient
manner. Also to extract teeth without pain, by
the use Of Nitrous Oxide Having one of the
best Apparatus in use. Charges reasonable as
those Of any respectable Dentist. Please call.
Advice gratis


Barton. Oct. q. 1867.