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Year: 1869

1t has become a sort of popular-els
most national-iaiih that 1t Is not possible
10 be truly happy unless you drink.
Among certain classes-and they are by
no means exclusively the lowest-drink is
the beginning ana the end of everything.
The vesy uame of liquor is held to be syn
onymous with enjoyment, and the dearer
the liquor the more il is priced and coveted.
Yet every man who Is not a downright
tlrunkard, is well aware that the pleasures
of drinking arc, beyond a certain point, a
mockcry, dclusion, snare. put it 10
any one who has stood half the night at
the bar, or sat half the night in a club
room, drinking, smoking. and bandying
reckless talk, if the enjoyment of such an
evening has been anything like that of a
few quiet hours at home, with book or a
newspaper The evil influence of tavern
pleasures on the health is too obvious 10
be denied by any one. and the i!lusery
nature of the pleasures themselves would
OS dnNSHAoOAS osso, ~ thC pCASono nO iA>
dulge in them did not deceive
themselves and put the truth out of sight.


Ne one ever brought any good out of a
drinking bout yet. Ii is short, feverish
spasm of animal enjoyment, which leaves
nothing behind but moroseness regret, bad
temper, sclf-reproach and headache.
should like to ask you, sir, il you say your
prayers whenyeu come in in that state? Nc
you don't. You are ashamed to say them
You postpone them until you have purged
yourself, your mind and your lips by more
sober and rational behaviour. Next night
when you pass the hours quietly with a
book or friend, you feel that you have
had real enjoyment, and that the time has
passed pleasantly, that you have learned
something, and that you have not injured
yo.. r. health. You are not ashamed to say
your prayers, you get up next mornina
with clear head, u good appetite, and an
increased faculty for work and enjoyment
All the Yecr Round.
Year: 1869

mistook a young Gypsie for him. He
was thick set like John, and had the same
dark complexion, and appeared not dis
pleased when taken for him; but the moth
or put him to proof. She still had John s
psalm book and conformation text, and he
who did not know it, and could not tell
who his god>parents were, and what had
happend to him on the day when Brosi's
SEVERN had returned with the English
woman, and what later when the new
town we'll was dug; he who did not know
these and other tokens must be pretend
er Still Marann always lodged the young
Gypsie when he came 10 the village, and
the children in the street called John a(,
| ter him.


John was also proclaimed a deserter
from military duties, and although
his mother said he was too Short and
had escaped as being under the standard,
yet she well knew that he would not es>
cape punishment on his return, and she
thought that he kept away on this ac>
count. 1t was very singular to hear her
pray in the same breath for the welfare
of her son, and the death of the reigning
prince; for she had been told that when
the reigning prince died, his heir upon ac-
cession to the government would pro-
claim general amnesty for all past of
fences.


The schoolmaster each year presented
the paper to Marann, IN which John was
proclaimed, and she placed it in her
psalm,book; but this year it was well for
Marann that she could not read, for the
teacher gave her another paper instead of
the proper one. The strange report ran
through the whole population of the vil>
lsge, where ever two persons met 1t was
spoken of, and it was said: They tell
Black Marann nothing. 1t would kill her.
This report had came from the minister at
Paris, containing information from AL,
giers and the intelligence passed through
all the higher and lower officers until it
reached the common council: That John
Winkler of IIoldenbrunn had fallen in a
skirmish in Algiers.


ltwas spoken of in the village as some>
thing very wonderful, that so many high
officials should take so much trouble
about John who was dead. But the care
ful transmitted news paused here. AT a
sitting Of the com:nOn council it was re-
solved that Black Marann should not be
told. II would be cruel to embitter the
few remaining years of her life by robbing
her of her last hope.


(TO he HOufiuueH
Year: 1869




A woman who leads solitary life, and
bakes and COT ks her own food entirely
alone, is called an 'Eigenbrstlerin.' and
such person usually possesses all kinds
of cxc0niricities. No one was better en-
titled or more inclined to be an 'E;gen-
bratlerin' than Black Siarann, although
she never had anything to bake, for pota,
toes and Cat meal pcrridge were what she
lived on. She was always distracted in
thought and was distant to every one
But towards autumn she was In restless
condition. she was always muttering to
herself, and she would also address people
of her own accord, particularly strangers,
passing through the village; for she wish
ed to be informed whether the masons
had returned home for the winter, and
whether they had any news of her JOHN
When she had boiled and washed the lin
en- she had bleached during the summer,
and continued at this work the whole
night long, she was always talking to her
self. Nothing of what she said could b
distinguished, except this phrase at in>
teryals: THAT is for thee and this for me-
for she made il a practice 10 say twelve
pater>nosters for John, hut on washing
lights they were countless. When the first
snow fell she was always very cheerful
He would certainly come home now as
there was no more work to do. She then
frequntly spoke to q white hen In the
coop, and told her she must be killed
when john came home.


Thus she had done for many years, un.
til the people in the village grew tired Of
telling her: il was foolish to be always
thinking OF Johns return. But it had no
effect, and she thus became more and
more unpopular and disagreeable to them


II was eighteen years this harvest since
John departed, and John AIicheal Wink
ler was proclaimed every year in the Ga>
zette, and this would continue until, he
was fifty years Of age. He was now in
his thirty-sxth year.


There was rumor in the village that
he had joined the Gypsies. and his moth
er, on account Of the resemblance, once
Year: 1869

The gold market was alternately weak and strong,
and the extreme Haetuation one and oDe-quarter
per cent. The opening price was the highest the
decline being started by the antcipations OF the
July interest and assisted by the excessive rates for
carrying which kept pace with the general money
market. Midway Of the week sudden assumption
of strength by the toregu exchanges led to expecta
tions OF necessity for gold shipments, but the
fall in five-twentles here and a sharp advance in
them abroad filed the market with bills drawn
against exported bonds and gold yielded TO its
lowest point, reaction closing Its course during
the week, which is fully shown IN the following
table,
Year: 1869

VIVA W ASASs


STAND BY THE EREPUBLICAN.PARTY.


l appeal to you, my Republican
friends, upon this brief and impor-
tant reference to the questions of
the past and future, whether we may
not wisely cling to the standard of
the great party to which we belong.
1t has solved many difficult prob
lens, and certainly from its compo-
sition is able to solve the less diff
cult problems in the future. Il has
always been true to liberty in its
broadest sense. 1t has always been
true to the interests of labor and
laboring men. It founded the
homestead system in the. West. 1t
developed a variety OF industries
which are now the foundation Of
your prosperity. 1t, without diver
sion, maintains our common schools,
and all feasible plans for social and
physical development. Ohio has
been since 1854, with two partial
exceptions, leading prominent Re
publican State. In 1862 you elected
majority of Democratic Represen-
tatives to Congress. What did you
gain by it? The modification of
Ohio Representatives thwarting Mr..
Lincoln in the dangerous period of
the war. Ohio faltered two years
ago. And what was the result of it
the last Legislature. / can not
go into detail but by general repu-
tation, can say it was the worst
we ever had. This experience has
been very promising.


The Democratic party is no long
er the bold, fearless organization of
olden times. It watches around for
crumbs Of comfort caused by dis
affection in our own ranks from
personal motives, or hangs like
barnacle to questions with dema-
gogism in them. Two years ago it
was pledged to tax United States
bonds by the State They knew
they could not do this. They talk
about paying the public debt in
greenbacks, when the great want is
to make the greenback in the pocket
cf the laboring man as good as
gold. In Ohio with her great
wealth and resources, with her proud
history and hopeful future, we have
rh~ need Of the Democratic party.
Let them go and establish the seat
Of power in Kentucky and the late
rebel States, where hate of the
Union, and love of slavery still lie
slumbering-needing only the revi-
wing influences Of the Democratic
party to bring them into dangerous
life again. Let them appeal to pref
udices and passion-ours is the duty
to march onward. We have ticket
with General Hayes at it's head, de-
serving our confidence and support.
We have a Legislature to elect, who
will be charged with your local
interests, and I trust will avoid the
extravaganza and folly Of its prede-
cessor. We have q cause and an
administration to sustain, which
represent all the vital principles for
which we have contended for fifteen
years, and we have country to save,
now great in its power, but still
greater in its example. L claim
that if we may judge of the future
by the past, its honor, safety and
prosperity can still be trusted to the
great party that guided its counsels
in the civil war and under whose
. administration it has reached the
highest prosperity
Year: 1869

1 do not consider it necessary to
say much about reconstruction.


The late rebel States are gradually
assuming their rights as equal States
in the Union; labor and capital are
adjusting themselves to the changed
relations of master and slave. The
productions of the South will this
year approach the highest produc-
tions before the war. If the Repub-
lican party has committed any
error in its policy ofreconstruction,
it has been on the side of -liEerality
and generosity. Nearly all the
rebels have been restored to their
political rights, and / hope the
time is not far distant when gener-
al amnesty will be a safe and pru-
dent policy. The election of Gen


eral Grant saved, I believe, Sec
ond civil war. His administration
will secure to all classes peace and
protection. Thousands who were
implacable enemies of the Union
are now acquiescing in his policy.
We may proudly point to the gen.
eral acquiescence of friends and
foes in the South in the measures
of this administration as the most
ample defense of the wisdom and
moderation of the Congressional
policy of reconstruction, so tiercely
denounced by our political oppo-
nents. This policy being no lon
ger hindered by the factious eva
sions Of Andrew johnson, and now
fairly put iE execution by General
Year: 1869

The national banking system was
never party measure, but sprung out
of the vital necessity, during the war,
of absorbing State bank paper. 1t
accomplished this purpose and has
furnished us an admirable currency
of uniform value throughout the
country, and based on the highest
securities. 1t must have two addi-


tional qualities, without which it
will not be sustained by any party.
The circulation must be more equal
ly distributed among the States, or
it must be open and free to banks
wherever organized, and it's notes
must be paid in specie. This can
only be when the United States
shall resume specie payments on it's
notes. These two conditions COM


piled with, the system, in my opin-


ion, will be the best banking system
ever organized in any country. 1t
is hardly necessary for me to prove
that paper money must exist in some
Year: 1869

There is one kind of expenditure
to which the people ought not to
object, and that is the payment of
the public debt. The public debt
may be, with a redundant currency,
diminished more easily than here
after, when our bonds rise to par in
gold, and our currency is equal to
gold. 1t has always been the
policy of the United States to dis
courage standing public debt, to
provide for it's early payment. We
Year: 1869

How TO KEEP BUTTER SwEET.-It is
the easiest thing in the world. Simply put
it in clean jars and cover with srong
brine. This will keep pure butter year,
fresh and sweet as we know by experience.
1t is almost equally as good to put in oak
casks, headed tight. This is equivalent to
canning fruit The brine in the case of
the jar acts as heading, keeping the air
out But butter should be made well; we
have never experimental on poor butter.
Work out the buttermilk till you have only
pure ''beads," clear as ram water; but do
not work so much as to brake the grain, in
which case you have tough, heavy arti-
Gle in Winter, and grease in Summer.
Such butter we advise no one to try to
preserve Cor Rural World
Year: 1869

BRIGHAM YoUNG's eldest son is in New
Haven. His business is to negotiate, on
behalf of his father, for the building of
several cars to be used on the branch from
the Pacific Railroad to Salt Lake City.
The New Haven Palladium says: Before
he had been in the city two hours he had
received number invitations to dine out,
and it is understood that the freedom of
more than one private mansion had been
rendered him. He is accompanied by his
favorlte wife, young lady of very agree
able manners and charming physique. For
the benefit of the ladies we will add that
her toilette is in the latest style, and of the
best manufacture"
Year: 1869

How TO KEEP A GATE FROM SAG
GING.-A correspondent of the Rural World
suggests the following plan, which he has
tried with good results: "Set the hang
ing post three and half feet in the
ground, lamp well at the bottom, on the
side opposite the gate; then dig trench
six inches deep fom one post to the other
in this put three-by-four scantliDg, or a
pole of white oak, black walnut, mulberry,
or some other lasting timber, seeing that it
jnst fills the space between the two gate
posts, and cover with earth, and the gate will
stand as you hang it till the post rots off,
Year: 1869

A Mechanic in Memphis has produced
plan for low pressure steamboat, which
he claims will have double the speed of
any one now in use, while it will cost little
more than boats on the old plan. 1t can
also be run at half the expense for labor
and fuel. 1t is divided into compartments,
water and air tight, and cannot be snagged
SO as to sink. Fire in the hold can be
confined to single compartment, and will
be readily extinguished by steam, for which
suitable apparatus is provided.
Year: 1869

TERRIBLE DIsAsTER.-The steamboat
Stonewall, was burned on the Mississippi
river on Wednesday of last week and over
two hundred out of two hundred and seven
ty-five persons who were ON board, were
burned to death or drowned. She was
only about two hundred yards from shore;
but it was impossible to render assistance.
There was but one small boat, and the con-
fusion was so great that the life preservers
were thought of and used by but few.
Year: 1869

When will people learn to know bet
Ter than to assert that it cost no more
TO keep good COW than q poor one?
The thing is Being harped and re-harp-
ed constantly. Now the thing at first
glance is sufficient to convince any in
telligcns man that this cannot be the
case. Do twenty pounds Of butter
require no more nutritive matter than
ten! You might as well say it doesn't
contain more. The cow that doublea
her butter in year giving 100 instead
OF 20O pounds, does size require no more
food to make the extra 200 hounds?
According to the theory afoat this is
SC. lt might as we'll be said the 400
pounds require no more; and that cow
oug of milk VIII put Oh no more flesh
qat) than one giving milk, which We
know IS not the case. Equally we'll do
we know that the more butter that is
maue the more food and nouriehment
is required. This thing has often
enough been tested. we have knowl-
edge of this neutrality-suspicious.
ough.


= good COW requires more pasture
and more hay depend upon that. You
do not sec the difference in pastures
you do rot note and estimate in sum-
mer; neither do you in winter, because
your cows is dry or give but little milk.
Besides promiscuous feeding will pre-
vent you from telling the difference.


Inc most rrotit in purchasing a cow
common breedl is to buy ono that has
been neglected. Hero is chance for
Improvement, while at the sa.ae time
the profit on the increased feed is re-
allied, for it must forever be an axiom
IN stock-Taistng that our profits are on
the products ths5 are consumed--the
feed tha5 ) converted into flesh, fat.
butter and cheese. You cannot get
these rs wc have said without just their
e4uivoient in gain, eJc.


BY improving your ordinary cow,
you increase the proilh on her and her
product. She will sell for more and
you VIII realize more from her milk.


Push the fodder then; rass all through
your animaIs thst you can. This will
give them growth fat and milli--what
you are after if you are true farmer
Journal Q. Agric;At.sre.
Year: 1869

There may be romance connected


with she love of fresh young hearts;
their wooing and their wedding, but to
me there is no affection so beautiful as
that between an aged man and his
wife.


When | see such couple, | always
think OF the far-away days, when for
them love was young, and gave pleas
ant hours of wooing, dreamy Gavs of
coartship, and finally crowned their
happiness at the altar,


Together they have drank of Iife's
joys, and with elasped hands knelt sor-
rows shrine.


Away back in the days that we know
nothing of, memory holds tor them sa-
cred hours and scenes. Scenes of ioy,
the nurture of the tender birdlings chat
have found their way into the parent
nest, their pride, their joy; perhaps the
aged mother is even now dreaming of
the day when her daughter was a baby
in her arms, or led by her hand. Or OF
the brave sons who have one by one
gone out into the great world to fight
their battles with fate, or be bourne un-
resisting on its tide.


Now for them are all the tender
home-tles lC Osened, and only the va
cant places by the hearthstone, and now
and then a letter, or flying visit, re-
main. Yet, in all these years has their
welded love grown stronger, and no
memory of joys past is dearer to them
than the sad visions of hands clasped
over the cold forms of their loved dead.


White head-stones CLEAN here and
there amid the memory of their past
Joys, and the hearts tears proclaim how
sacred is sorrow sanctified by love.
Year: 1869

Here is the face of merchant; See
how pious he looks; he is showing GUS
toner his fine goods, tomorrow he will
advertise to give away his whole stock.
He is always sacrificing his himself for
the trading public.


Here is the doctor: See how pleasant
he looks; his head is out of the window
in the night time; he is telling some one
to stop ringing the door bell, but the
person is deaf and does not hear. Would
you like to be doctor and ride ell night
in the rain and never get your pay.


Here is the face of blacksmith: He
is shoeing a kicking mule on a cold win
ter's morning. He has just skinned his
fingers; can you tell whether his mouth
is made up for whistling or praying?


Here is the face of lawyer: See how
honest he tries to look; he keeps rogues
out of Jail; do you think that is right?
Here is one paying him money. win
he take it? He will walt long time.


Here Is widow: How sad she looks:
she has lost he's husband; do you think
she will get anotber? Che will try
hard.


Here is the face of a constable: See
how meek he looks. Would you like to
be constable and keep town quiet
and get knocked down four pairs of
stairs and have your tace smashed iat
Year: 1869

The faculty and other officers of this
venerable and famous College, have de-
termined TO celebrate, in an interest
ing and imposing manner, its reopen
ing and reconstruction. and have unsn.
imously invited Patrick Henry Aylett,
Esq, to deliver an address upon the
occasion appropriate to the revival OF
an institution which has educated so
many men Of distinction and useful
ness, and performed so important a
part in the literary aud scientific his
tory of the country.
Year: 1869

The opinion of the Supreme Court
in the Yerger ease, is regarded by the
Radicals as fatal blow at the re con-
struction acts of Congress. Radical
senator's nowi in Washington say that it
will result in setting aside the entire
work of reconstruction in the South.


There is a good deal of speculation as
to what action the President will take.
Some say lie will instruct Gen. Ames
to disregard the writ of habeas corpus on
the ground that Mississippi is unde
military rule, and that the writ is inop-
erative there. While the decision gives
the President considerable uneasiness,
and was not unexpected to him, those
best informed say lH will bow to thr
decision ofthe court, and cause Yerger
to be delivered to the civil authorities.
Year: 1869

Owing to the dilapidated condition of
our pockct-book, We print but halt
sheet this week. We hope our delin-
quents will take hint and pay up
The next will be given through differ
ent channel.
Year: 1869

The Indiana press is engaged in discus.
sing the question Of greater certainty in
conjugal relations The fact that woman
accidentally discovered lately that she WAS
wasting her atIectonRte wa.chfulness on a
sick husband who had divorce from her in
his pocket has alarmed the mated women
of the State. A husbandtenure bill will
meet the emergency.
Year: 1869

A child at the Davenport Orphans Home
was found dead in its bed few mornings
ago. 1t is supposed to have died from the
effects of potion Of medicine which had
been prepared for some one who was sick.
The contents of its stomach are to be ana.
Used by Prof Hendricks, Of the State Uni
vprsjty.
Year: 1869

Postmaster General Creswell don't care
to know the politics of anybody in his de
partment. The fact that any man is found
in is a conclusive argument to Creswell that
be should be out and he goes. y few days
ago he dismissed clerk from the depart.
ment who is reported to have occupied his
position for nearly fifty years.
Year: 1869

A MAMMOTH CAyE N NEVADA "A Ne
yada letter gives the following descrip-
ton OF cave which, in many respects,
bids fair to rival the great Mammoth
Cave OF Kentucky;


We have rival Of Kentucky'a great
natural wonder the Mammoth Cave Of
Nevada This cave is situated in
spur Of the Buckskin or White Noun
tain Range, and about 20 miles this
OF Patterson, or so miles from Treasure
City The entrance is on the south
side OF an isolated butte, on hiaceaoho,
and near us base. The opening is so
low that a man must sioop to enter IT,
but ~ feet IN tho vault in tho limo
stone it widens rapidly Turn toward
the east, and you pass through cham
Der after chamber Of immense propor-
tions, some Of them Of such vast hight
that the light Of torches fail to show
any sign Of a roof Mr. Murphy, with
party, penetrated 5000 feot from tho
entrance nearly mile and found no
end, They saw many chambers in
which immense tongues of limestone
hug from the roof in places almo I
touching the Goor, and in others sta.
lactites and stalagmites abonnded, az
IN the Mammoth Cave Of Kentucky
They found traces Of burnt sage brush,
showing that the Indians had been as
I'm as they went; and the guileless sons
Of the soil told them they had penetrat-
ed five days journey into the cavern,
found lake full OF fish, aud yet saw
no end to the succession Of lofty cham
bers stretching out before them. 10
was always a very poor Indian aud Civ
on to lying Mr Murpby's party got
out of material for torches, lost their
way and were glad enough TO grope
their way baak as best they might, not
caring TO make second attempt TO
fatbom the mysteries deep hidden in
the bosom Of the mountain A hotel is
to be built there, aud il is is thought
that the Cave will in time become
great place Of resort