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Year: 1868




They have some affecting weddings out in
the fat country, beyond the trees.


Ia the semiruFal district Of Ninona,
Hves among several other people, q good
Jolly fellow Of justice Of the peace. One
fair day after the ten By twelve dispensary
had been swept, there was a step heard on
the stair, and avery vigorous rap at the
door


Come in. said the justice


! handsome, black-eyed, Spanish looking
woman entered. 1t was a clear case of q
senorita, Of the New Mexican brand She
had on a short wo0Ien dress, wooden soled
shoes; spotted red cheeks, black hair, and
eyes that snapped like the lock of a shot gun.
la a Spanish accent, and in the worst possi-
be English, she said


You make justieia acquia You the
law man


Yes, madam; be seated


Want paper; want paper 10 take the
man.


just then stout French halfbreed en-
tered the room, lie was unable 10 speak q
dozen words. and be looked either scared or
bashful The Justice saw at once that
there was q marriage to come of, and turn
ing to the woman said


want paper TO take this man p


Yes; want paper me teach hlm. -
Nice woman, thought the justice.


IAN right. as he turned to the man and
said you know this woman; can take
herr"


Tie man shook his head and muttered
uniuteliigible words.


"Ah. I see; cam talk English; well, new


He ran into the street, invited few
friends up stairs, and then said to the wo-
man.


You want to take him p


Yes, me pay


An right


Then turning to the man, who stood,
trembling


@You take this woman, for better or for
worse, and promise to keep her


Jmph . and several mods Of the head.


Then in the name Of the law, and by
virtue Of the authority 10 me vested; L
pronounce you man and wife. And he
stepped forward before the woman could
saw a word and kissed her red lips.


Sap came her hand IN his face, and she
clutched his hair. The new husband jun
ped TO take the woman away, and TO protect
Ecr. as the man supposed, whel IN selt-da
fence the iustice gave him rap OF the nose.
The woman pitched into the new husband,
who IN turn pitched into her, and tor about
five minutes there was general busting.


At last the parties were separated, when
tho man and woman took another turn at
each other, tie blood and hair flying in
every direction. Down came the stove,
over went the table, clatter Went the chairs,
and into the street Ike mad went the justice
with the bosom Of his shirt looking like
warranty deed covered with red seals


A crowd rushed up stairs and found the
man and woman lying on the floor, the wo-
man on top, and compelling the newly made
husband with q Will


The newly married couple were separated,
when through the aid Of two interpreters 1t
wa discovered that the parties. occupying
adjoining shanties 10 the lower part OF the
town, had got into a dispute over some
stove pipe that was claimed by both, and
from words they had come to blows. Each
party had hastoned to the Justice for war,
rant for the other, with the result as stated
above.


The last news from there was that the
parties had gone in search ofanother justice
to uumarry them
Year: 1868

ALL THEgE-A whole family in heavenl
Who can picture or describe the everlasting
Joy! No one absent. No father. or moth
er, nor son, nor daughter are away. In the
world below they were united in faith, and
love, and peace, and assembled together.
Before the throne they bow together in uni-
ted alteration. On the banks Of the River
Of Life they walk hand 10 hand, and as 4
family have commenced a career Of glory
which shall be everlasting. There is here
after to be 10 separation in that family.
No one Is to lie down upon a bed Of pain.
No one to wander in the arms of death.
Never in heaven Is that family to move
along in the slow procession, clad in the
habiliments Of woe, TO consign one Of its
members to the tomb God grant that
10 His infinite mercy, every family may be
thus united
Year: 1868

ILL Do IT TOMORROW. There were
two boys in a school | used to 60 TO when !
was young, which was about forty years
ago. One was remarkable for doing with
promptness and perseverance whatever he
undertook. The other had habit Of put
ting of everything he could + Il do It to-
morrow, was his motto. Il Il DO Il now,
was the motto of the other boy. The boy
who loved to put things off had the best
natural talent. but be was oGtstripped IN
the race of life by his neighbor, whose mot
IN was. s'I'Tl do il now. Let that be your
motto. Never put off till tomorrow what
can be done to day.
Year: 1868

WHILE a gang of telegraph men were
stringing wire from reel in a wagon, the
horse being driven along slowly, a country
man rushed up to the driver, and, IN the IN
nocence of his heart, informed him that he
was losing hjs load; that his wire was scat
tered an along the road behind him.
Year: 1868

COP IN NATURE. He who balances the
clouds and hung the earth upon nothing,
notices the fall of the sparrow. He who
gave Saturn his rings, and placed the moon
ike a ball of silver in the broad arch Of the
heaven, gives the rose leaf its delicate tint,
and made the distant sun to nourish the
violet
Year: 1868

CoNUNDRUaIs. What best describes
and most retards a pilgrim 2 A Bunyan
bnnion)


Why do birds ID their little nests agree?"
Because they d fall out if they didn't
Why is a dishonest bankrupt like an hon
est poor man Because both fal to get
| rich


Why is a mouse ike load of hay Be-
cause the cat Il eat it.


When is a recruit supposed TO be raw ?
Until he has been exposed 70 fire.


What adventure made Dick Whiting
ton fortune A purr adventure.


What sort of blades were the Roman En-
perors Augustus and TIberius TIE blades
that formed pair of Caesars Of course.
What roof covers the most noisy tenant?
The roof ofthe mouth.


When is Q sermon Ike a round shot
When it comes from a cannon's mouth.
Who was Jonah's tutor Whale, who
brought him up.
When shall we have another war with
| Turkey? Next Thanksgiving day
What magazine would be likely to give
the best report Of fire A powder maya
zine.


Why is love Ike the letter r Because
it makes many a Mary marry.


why is the letter d ike ring?' said
young lady to her accepted, one day. The
gentleman, like the generality of his sex in
such situation, was as dull as hammer.


Because, added the lady, with very
modest look at the picture at the other end
Of the room, ace can't be aoed without it. .
Year: 1868

Truth Adhere always rigidly and un-
deviatingly to truth; but while you express
what is true, express it in pleasing man
ner Truth is the picture manner is
the frame that displays it to advantage. If
a man blends his angry passions with his
search after truth, become his superior by
suppressing yours, and attend only to the
irstness and force Of his reasoning. Truth
conveyed in austere and acrimonious Ian


guage, seldom has salutary effect, since we
reject the truth, because we are prejudiced
against the mode of communication. A
man may betray the cause Of truth by his
unreasonable zeal, as he destroys its saluta-
~ effects By the aerimony of his manner.
Whoever would be a successful instructor
must become mild and afectionate friend.
Year: 1868

4 small BOY out west, was assisting his
father to mark sheep with paint and brush.
The father would catch sheep and say to
the boy, Mark that After the job was
done, the boy started for his home, which
was some distance. and was overtaken by
minister on horseback, who, seeing the boy
barefoot, invited him to ride behind him.
After the boy was seated he began to cate
ehise him thus.


My lad, do you attend the Sabbath
SCHOOL,?


No !! was the reply


You should attend the Sabbath School,
mark that All good children should at
tend both church and Sabbath School, mark
that =


After many more remarks Of this kind the
boy replied:


1 have marked your back all over now,
and it looks Ike thunder.
The reverend gentleman was somewhat
astonished when he examined his coat.
Year: 1868

Is there somewhere beneath the sun,
Where crystal waters ever run,
Where hope and love are just begun,


An endless summer land
A land where only Junes abide,
Where waving branches ever hide
Their forms who walk the streams beside


By balmy breezes famed?
Here hope and love are on the wane
We look for cryst streams in vain,
Amid our burning thirst and pain,


Dry waters of cleaning SHOWS
Are round about us everywhere;
And in the dreary fields of Care
We long for valleys green and fair


Where joys unceasing flows.
There is an endless SIMMER time
Where hope is always in its prime
And love becomes thing sublime,


Beyond the fleeting years;
Its blooms shall gladden. us erewhile;
Our lives shall be as one long smile
Undimmed by any thought of guile


Or aught Of bitter tears.
Sweet summer time bright summer land
To be by thy soft breezes famed,
With glad content on every hand,


Who would not long and pray p
To lose desires in pure delight
To see no dark December night
Fall on the years with chilling blight,


But Junc's eternal day =?
O, ye who work, and, f.inting wait
For brighter skies and kinder fate,
Gods tender love may antedatc


The blessings looked for long?
For you to-morrow's sun may rise
In the unending summer skies,
And ontof sorrows pleased surprise


Swell up joyous songl
Year: 1868

MAKING BUTTER in THE FALL.-The
month of October should be a good one for
butter making. The price is always high
er than in the summer months, and the fall
feed can be placed out by feeding corn
stalks, or what is better, sound corn.


1t will make a large difference in the
milk of any cow, whether or not they are
housed when frost comes. They shonlAa
be always put into the stable as soon as
the nights become at all cool. and fed with
little batting of good food. They should
especially, be MIXED clean. 1t may take
longer to do this in November than it does
in June, but it should be well and faith
fully done, and what with good food and
| clean milking, We believe that the product
| of butter on most of our farms, during the
present mouth, can be increased, above
] the average, at least twenty per cent =
Year: 1868

wit, till he begun to love the evil things
of which he heard, and you found at
last that the bottom of morality was de-
stroyed in him, could any apology be
made to your Could any ything be SAID
that should stand between the indigna-
tion of your SheArt and the seducer of
your boy2 And should you let your
bauch and destroy child of the Lord
Jesus Christ, for whom he died-could
you ever make an apology for it2 When
you have destroyed man, is there any
excuse that you can give7 Will it be
enough in the ejudgment day to say, "I
did not mean tor" Was that all the
care you had7 Was that the whole of
your dutyP viii you, by your word
or example, cause men to stumble and
destroy them? and then will you cover
their griefs and your responsibility
with no broader vail than this-"I did
not mean TOT"


Young ladies, women, the worst use
to which you can put your beauty,
your attractive manners, and the fasci-
tion of your sweet dispositions, is to
tempt your young companions and
friends to indulgence. Woman, who
has suffered SO much of mans vices;
woman, who has been the victim since
time began-she can not afford to tempt
men: Every interest of purity and
dignity and honor should lead
every woman and every maiden
to set her face, aud her sweet
and strong example, against ev-
cry thing that is of the passions, every
thing that is of the appetites, that the
young may strengthen their good reso-
1ut1ons. Dehort them from Indulgence.
Take them by the hand, and let them
feel that they rise in the court of love
In proportion AS they forswear every
thing that is unmanly and every thing
that is gross, and it can not but be that
in the end you will reap joy abund-
Year: 1868

President of the United States was an
imbecile; that in all his acts he was
governed by an intense hatred Of the
South; that he was n tyrant and des-
pot, and was constantly aiming to sub
jugate and .humiliate the people Of the
South. They proclaimed the war a
failure almost at the very hour that it
was becoming the grandest of triumphs;
they arraigned their own Government
for violating the Constitution, and tax.
ing away the rights and destroying the
liberties Of the people, but censured the
Davis Government for nothing; they
apologized for the rebel atrocities at
Fort Pillow and AndersOnville; they
magnifed the genius and abilities Of the
rebel chieftains and belittled the achieve
ments of the Union leaders; and they
are to-day holding up for the veneration
and admiration of mankind the So call
ed virtues of the military leader OF the
most atrociously criminal rebellion in
all history, and at the same time are
not only disparaglng the great achieve
ments but viIlfying and defaming the
character ofthe great chieftain to whose
courage and skill we are indebted for
the final triumph over the last armed
enemies Of the United States


And now this same Democratic par
ty Of the North has combined with all
these public enemies which have just
been vanquished by the loyal armies OF
the Union, to disgrace and defeat that
chosen leader of the Union hosts by
whom. theyf were vanquished. The
rebels, with the aid of the Democratic
party North, hope to gain that victory
over Grant in peace which they were
never able to gain in war. These are
some of the crimes for which the Dem
ocratic party will be held to answer by
the people in November and in after
years,
Year: 1868

The New York Times, which favors
the negro scheme for the United States,
has the following about the African par
adise Of San Domingo:


THE latest news from San Domingo is
that the country is in anarchy, and the
prisons are full. OF course there must
be some sort Of governing force in ex-
istencc to keep the prisons full but this
is probably about the full extent Of its
power. 1t is painful to see such rich
and charming part of the world give 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 hu.
man degradation than that which they
have reached, it will not require them
many years to sink to it, Ifthe popula.
ton would resort to cannibalism, and de-
your each other out Of existence, it would
probably be the best thing that could
happen.


fla hundred years of experiment by
the negroes of San Domingo has resulted
in state Of society to which cannibal.
ISM would be an improvement. what
may be expected after few years Of trial
in the Southern States ?-Bostoa Courier.
Year: 1868

EF Suppose a man owns skiff; he
fastens the skiff to the shore with a rope
made Of straw; along comes a Gov; COW
gets into the boat; turns around and eats
the rope; the skiff thus let loose, with
the SOW on board, starts down the stream
and on its passage is upset; the COW Is
drowned. Now has the man that owns
the COW got to pay for the boat or the
man that owns the boat got to pay for
the COW?


"A plato Of apples was being passed
round to group Of children. There was q
fine red one at the top, which q little gill
took Low greedy you are said her
next neighbor, to take the largest! !
meant to take that myself


WHAT proof have we tha. thero was
sowing in the timo Of David We read
,ba, he was hommcd in on every side
Year: 1868

l have stated without twenty dollars in my
pocket, and without dollars worth of securities
of any name or nature except the threa1Oate
garments which usually take with me when
travelling. Although upon an errand OF mercy,
did not feel iusti6e in encroaching upon the
sacred hours of the Sabbath, especially since my
counsel would not use that day TO finish up my
aflidavits. Accordingly made arrangements to
depart as early on Monday morning as possible.
Meeting gentleman with an enormous roll of
papers which could not read and he declined
TO read to me, 1 carried them back TOR
examination. Seeing about seVenty-fve
other gentlemen in waiting, each appear
ing to have bundle equally large, l
feared that there would not be room in my
car TO carry all the gifts of my frienls; and,


like General Grant and unlike my friend Judge
Davies, being Indisposed to shake hands with so
many, l decided to toIeeo any public demonstra-
tion, aud to take my car at point further up
the road unknown 10 my many kind friends in
waiting. The money of the Erle Company is not
and has not been under my charge, but is now
in the treasury, where it ought to be and has
been siIce the present Board of Directors were
entrusted with the charge of the corporations
affairs. The rival Receivers can get ~ the funds
just as easily now as they could before left
town. l am not so easily frightened by a law
suit as to run away either with my own money
OF that Of any one else. JAMES FISK, JR.
Year: 1868

in their carriages for half an hour, awaiting the
coming death, without telling them to alght.
The driver of the goods train had put on ali his
steam to overcome the resistance of the snow,
which had probably been in some measure
diminished by the passenger train before 1t.
Either he did not see the danger signals, or
saw them too late, for be paid no attention to
them, but rushed iuto the doomed train at full
speed. All the carriages in the rear OF
the passenger train we're completely
smashed at once, and formed gigantic barri-
cade some forty or fifty feet in height. The
number of soldiers who were either killed on the
spot or died OF their injuries shortly afterwards
exceeds forty: similar number have been
severely and about thirty slightly injured. Toe
mass of broken carriages was so great that 1t
could not be entirely cleared, nor could all the
bodies be recovered till the following day.


very unfortunate circumstance connected
with this accident gives 1t some slight resem-
blance TO that of Abergele, beyond that OF the
great loss of life. In one of the carriages there
was a considerable quantity of sulphuric acid


The vessels containing it were shattered to
pieces by the shock and the acid, running out
ia all directions, while it increased the tortures
of the wounded, PROBABLY gave tnem a speedy
release from their suferings. Another very
dreadful railway accident happened to goods
train on the same day at Geislingen, about ten
miles north OF Ulm. Several lives were lost


and a great number OF carriages we're destroyed
Year: 1868

All Nevada is excited Just now by the stories
of the richness Of the silver mines in the
White Pine district, and the Nevada Enterprise
gives the following account of those dlggings:-


We have for some weeks as much as possible
refrained from giving anything but passing
notice of the White Pine excitement. But it has
all the time been growing and increasing IN
might, until ut last 1t has gained such strength
and assumed such importance that we cannot
well ignore It,. The smouldering volcano must
soon burst, II not this winter, surely next
spring. There Is no getting around it, the Whlte
Pine mnes are rich-wondertully rich. All
the letters received from there and all the men
who come in from there tell the same story
Parties who have examined the mines say that
they are doubtless the richest ever discovered
in any part OF the world. MIR. William Wood
burn, of this city, who spent some Gays IN the
mines, says that he believes there is enough
silver in the one small range OF mountains in
which the White Ptue mines are situated TO pay
off the national debt, large as it is. His account
OF the ature of the silver deposit agrees with
that OF all others who have visited the mines,
namely THAT it appears 10 be vast stratum
of limestone, as, wherever shafts have been
sunk through the Limestone cap, the ,rica
ore has been found. In some places
surface through crevices, while in others
the shaft must be sunk to the depth of ten to
thirty feet before the ore is found. The depth
of the deposit is not known, no shaft having yet
cut through it. The Eberhart Company, the
Oldest in the district, have drilted In one dlrec-
ton distance of one hundred and eighty feet,
with CrOSs-orltS sixty TO seventy leet III lenBCu,
and have sunk shaft some thirty-hve feet 10
depth, and all in a solid mass OF ore, worth from
$500 to don't phoo phoo !-S20,000 per ton
On Chloride Flat, somewhere on the same noun
tain tue same kind of ore has been found by
every shaft that has passed through the lime
stone. All the miners who have "struck ile"
have piled about their shafts large heaps of
ore, ranging in value from 5000 per ton up to
the Iightful figures we have yentnred to
mention above. We might make out long
list of the lucky ones, but as it might create
an lnconvenient excitement among their poor
relations we refrain. 1t is enough to say
that men who were about our streets four
months since without cent are now worth so
much silver that neither they nor any OF their
friends can calculate its value because, you see,
they don't know rhe length, breadth, nor thick
ness of their pile. All from this vicinity say
that White Pine is the poor mans paradise. MI.
Woodburn is OF the opinion that there will be in
the MINES by the lst of next April population
of 20, GOO persons. Ali the stories of the severity
of the winters there do not prevent pI opIe from
running thither; they are going every DAY. No
one now asks. "Are you going to White PineH
The question is "When do you go?" AS an Offset
to all the above it is but far Tor to add that
there are many persons who believe the mines
are too good 10 last, and who believe that the ore
deposit Is Of no great thickness.
Year: 1868

THE GREAT PACIFIC RAILROAD is being
pushed forward with most remar kable energy
Fourteen hundred and fifty miles of the rail-
road between Omaha and Sacramento are now
in successful operation. There are only about
three hundred miles yet to build, of which two
hundred miles are graded and ready for the
rails. First mortgage bonds of Union Pacific
Railroad for sale at l02 and interest and first
mortgage bonds of Central Pacific Railroad at
lQ3 and interest.


DE HAVEN d BROTHER


No. 40 South Third street
Year: 1868

On and after the first day of April next tho
subscriber will be found at the above stand,
here he will be pleased to see his old-eustom-
ers and all others who may want any thing in
the WATCH or JEWELRY LINE


mar l9--tf Z. s. FLEMING.
Year: 1868

necessary requisites to promote connuDial hap
pness Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes e weary pill grimage; thu
prospect hourly darkens to the view, the minC
becomes shadowed with despair and filled VIII
the melancholy reflection that the happiness q
another becomes blighted with your own.
Year: 1868

The Governor of Tennessee and Sc
Nor Editor of the Knoxville Wing,
publishes in his paper of the sth instant,
a lengthy correspondence betweeu him
self and Judge Hawkins relative to the
affairs OF the Nashville and Northwest
ern Railroad The animus and evident
purpose of that individual may be plainly
inferred from the following Introductory
Year: 1868

We are constantly hearing favorabl reports from wife of Mark Anthony, of this city, and living at No Locust Street, afflicted with a felon on the

 finger, was recently induced to make trial of the Salve. Almost instantly she experienced relief from the pain, which had been almost unendura- ble. Every other remedy proved unavailing. Those who have tired it once satisfied of it's merits, and nothing will induce them to be without SUD- ply.-FdN RiUer Nears 12 4w
Year: 1868

Gen. John Beatty, Republican, was elected
Representative to Congress from the Sth Dis
trict of Ohio, on Monday, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Mr.. Hamilton. Hi:
majority was over one thousand. Last Nov
ember the Republican majority for Governor
was only 246 in the district This result is the
more important because the Democrats put
their whole strength in the canvass, with the
intention of making it test case to show the
"great reaction" that had taken place in favor
of the Democracy. Owing to the closeness o.
the vote last FaA they expected that the "re
action would be sufficient to cause the sue
cess Of their candidate, but the result show
that the great reaction" has all gon,
back"