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Year: 1869

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As we stated last week The
Democracy are secretly organ.
izing in every part of the
State. Last Wednesdays Gin
cinnati Gazette contained the
circulars sent to every one Of
their committees in the State.
Their plan is as complete and
systematic as a lodge of the
knights of the Golden Circle.
They propose to hold no pub
lie meetings until after the
Goth Of this month, and urge
the polling Of eUery tOaonShip
and school district, and re
quire the result to be sent to
the State Central Committee
by the 25th of this MONTH
Secret meetings are being held
everywhere to carry out this
programme. "Doubtful vo.
ters" are to be put in charge Of
''some friend" and is not to be
allowed to pass out Of his
hands on election day and eve.
ry Democrat is urged and re-
CURED to vote by noon.


This is. The work that is being
done by our opponents. Will
We meet them by the same
vigilance and activitys Lei
the Republicans of Vinton
county bestir themselves
The whole object of this great
effort of the Democracy is to
carry the Legislature which is
to re,district the State for the
election OF Congressman.
Year: 1869

The election in Vermont last
week resulted in a Republican
majority of about 10000. The
vote was light. There was
falling off in the Republican
vote since last fall Of about 80
per cent and a falling off in the
Democratic vote of37 per cent,
being a relative Republican


gain of 4 per cent. ara nalG3
Year: 1869

DEMocRAElc, newspaper are
making fun Of one Of the AL.
dermen of, Washington City
because he is a barber. We
wish there were some Demo.
cratic politicians who would


make an honest livelihood in


the tonsorial profession or in


any other way.
Year: 1869

INDEPENDENT CANDIDArE.--Henry Schuler
announces Today his intention to run Inde-
pendent, for Member of Assembly. IF it is
as difficult for him to tell what he is politi.
cally, as it is for those who have known him
for o series of years, there can be no doubt
of his having found about the only way be
can get bis name before the people. Many
consider his candidacy joke, that he is try.
ing to make himself conspicuous, in order to
create sale for his lager beer. If that is his
object Bixel, Bowman, Weyer, Muller, and
other brewers should consider the matter
we'll in business point of view. Possibly it
might be we'll for then to give US FIVE dollars
to announce that they are candidates, and
thereby accelerate the sale of their lager also.
No doubt Schuler will have good time dur
ing the canvass whioh will end in the people
admonishing him to stick to bis beer making.
that he is better for that, than for Leg
islator.
Year: 1869

FIRE AND Loss OF LlrE.-The Valparaiso
Quartz Mill situate on Jackson Flat near
Tuttletown was entirely destroyed by fire on
Monday night last. There was no Ole within
less than quarter ofa mile ofthe mill when the
fire broke out, except Marcus Tiedemann.
When persons attracted by the light arrived,
they found the building completely enveloped
in flames. Tiedemsnn was lying on the
ground with his feet towards the door Of the
room te occupied. His feet and legs were
roasted and charred, the skin on the body was
badly burned. He lived nearly two hours af-
ter being found. The origin of tho FIRE is not
known, it is supposed that he was taking a
bath, as he was in a nude state when found,
and seeing tie place on Ere he rushed to
the door when he was at once suffocated BY the
smoke and flames causing him to fall where
his body was discovered. lie was quite an
old man aged sixty-three years. was generally
known by the name of Thomson and has
lived in that vicinity for several years. He
was large stout active man for his aga,
highly esteemed by all bis friends and &C.
quaintances. His body was brought to Sono-
ra and buried on Tuesday last
Year: 1869

BETTING ON ELECrIoSs.-An interesting q
decision of the Supreme Court of California
on bettirg on elections will be found in anoth-
er column. The case was that of Johnston
VS.. Russell, appealing from the Sixth District
Court. Johnston, plaintiff, made several bets
on the Presidential election last September
RUSSELL was the stakeholder. Plaiutlff al
lowed the stakes to rest without demanding
the withdrawal Of his own or any part of the
same till the 23d of November, when, from
the published election returns it became GER
tain that he had lost bis money. Then he
sent the stakeholder, Russell, written notice
not to pay the money or any part of 1t over TO
the winner, and that il be did, plaintiff would
hold the stakeholder responsible for his part
of the stakes. Russell did pay the money to
the winner, and hence this suit. The Court
decide-Sanderson writing the opinion-frst,
that gambling on popular elections is against
public policy, and therefore illegal; second,
that money wagered may be recovered ut law
if the party who staked it makes demand
for the same before the event on which lie
wagered has been decided third. that if the
better allows his stake TO remain in the staxe-
holders hands, without any demand for its
return until the event has been decided he
cannot then come into Court and sue for its
recovery. This was what the plaintiff did in
the case decided. lie waited and stood upon
the laws of honor till he found he had Lust,
and then he appealed from the laws of honor
TO the laws of the land. The Court was
unanimously of opinion that to allow hiin this
appeal would be to encourage fraud. They
reafhrm the dictur of the Court of Errors of
New York, in Vischer VS.. Yates, as the law
of California. which was that either party
might dsaihrm the wager aud recover bis
money Of the stakeholder at any time before
the happening of the event upon which the
wager was made; but that the loser could
not recover of the stakeholder after the event
had happened and he had lost bis money
tba: in that case. as to him, the wager bad
become an executed contract, and his repent
ance had come too late." The conclusion Of
the opinion is that. latter the money has
been lost and won, neither party ought to be
heard in Conrt of justice. "-Sacramento
Union, July l7th.
Year: 1869

SUICIDE OF A FEMALE GAMBLER
Nina Smith, amarriedwoman aged
As, residing at the corner Of 9th
street and 9th avenue, was found
dead in an clubhouse attached to-
her dwelling, she having hung
herself with IS rope. The body
was taken down and a physician
summoned, but life was entirely
extinct, and the fact of her death
was notified 10 the coroner The
deceased was a native of Germany
aged As years, and lived with
her husband. She had been accus-
toned to gambling at neighboring
policy shop, and it is said the rea-
son for her committing selfdestruc-
tion was, that she had recently
lost heavily while gambling, and
feared the consequences that
would be likely to follow when
her husband had been apprized
of her singular speculations..


" Y: World.
Year: 1869

A Newmarket couple attended
one of the fashionable churches of
Boston last Sabbath, and to the
surprise of those in the vicinity
where the party were seated, the
bride fell fast asleep. Her friends
laughed at her for her sleepy.
appearance, when she excused
herself by saying that her rest, of
late, had been much disturbed
Year: 1869

to hold the same opinion still, par
ticularly when she knew it to be
a grounding. She knew it was
a skunk-bc knew it was a hog.
She knew different. The scene
Of the former Christmas Day was
re-enacted to a nicely, and both
went to bed exhausted, with
blacker eyes in her head and less
hair on his. They were repentent
and silent next day, and spent the
year without speaking; but when
the anniversary arrived the same
scene was gone through with re-
ligious precision, and has been
gone through with every Christ
mas since. The people for miles
around have become aware of
these annual idiosyncracies in the
lonely and peculiar paire and look
forward with much interest to the
Developments Of the coming
Christmas. 1t may may be prop
er to remark, for the sake of per-
spicuity, that the lady's eyes, from
being originally a. light gray have
become a coaIy black from the
periodical dying which her con-
siderate husband gives them and
his hair has entirely disappeared,
owing to the yearly operations of
her long fingers.


There are various opinions en-
tertained as to when the war will
end, but the general belief is that
the lady will use up the old man
in a few more fights.
Year: 1869

To the Honorable Board Of Assistant Adseu city Of New


Orleans:


Genaeme1s-In consequence of the very bad
condition of the streets under my control and the
numerous complaints concerning the same, deem
Year: 1869

All who have real estate for sale or to let,
and those desiring to purchase rent such property


will find It TO their interest TO advertise In TIE TRIBUNE
Its aggregate circulation exceeds that OF any other
paper, and In addition to this advantage THE TRIBUNE
Will be found not only NewYork and all Its cities and
villages but In every state and Territory throughout the
Union. Tho advertisement should DO as brief as wit
allow Of tho advantages claimed, being made clear tho
reader We would especially dweii the fact that the
subscribers for the three editions OF TIE TRIBUNE Daily
Semi Weekly, and Weekly, comprise individuals every
business profession consequently advertisements in each
read by all classes THE TRIBUNE devOtes especial
attention 20 reports Of sales OF real both city
and country thus addng greatly to tho valuo OF IT, col


umns advertising medium. Tho charges for adyer
Using arc as foows DAILY TRIBUNE, Is per line
for each insertion; WEEKLY TRIBUNE 50 per line: sEsu.
WEEKLY TRIBrSR. 25 cents per line. About words of
Wide columns average ne Terms, cash In advance.
Year: 1869

The Chicago Tribnne has correspen-
dent travelling in Europe, who is un-
questionably the biggest liar on the
face of the earth. In a letter from
Prague he says, speaking of bath he
had taken at the Rhine Falls:


After had come out, dressed myself,
and was walking leisurely toward the
Schloss Faufsn, | noticed two young
women in single garment on the eve
of plunge. One of them went quietly
into the water, but the other, more from
mischief than modesty, looked archly
over her naked shoulder, as if to attract
nv attention. Then she ran behind a
tree not half so broad as herself, and
peered around its trunk in way that
might have been inviting to men less
severely moulded. The exercise she
took picturesquely disarranged her very
scant wardrobe, and her rogulsh eye
twinkled at what she conceived to be
fine sport. She was quite pretty: the
day was charming, and l had nothing
in the world to do. If had been Ru-
bens | should have sketched the Dymph.
Her hair was flaxen and her eyes were
blue, like the mistress he is always put
ting in his pictures, though | am glad
to say she was not half so tlashy. But
l did not give way to my artistic feel.
ings on the occasion. l merely walked
on to admire once more the beautiful
falls. heard the girls laughing and
splashing in the water. l did not look
hack. remembered what happened TO
Lots wife and Orphsus." He did not
look back! If he didn't it was because
the parent of the girl was there with a
double. .barreled shot gun, threatening g
70 shoot him on the spot if he did,.
Year: 1869

GOVERNOR STEVENSON stands pledg-


ed to the removal of all registrars who


become candidates for elective offices.
A number of registrars in this State are


now candidates for such offices. For
example, Mr.. A. Fl. BLAKE, President OF
the Board of Registration for Putnam
county, is a candidate for the office OF
Supervisor in his township. We know
nothing derogatory to his character,
but we know that it not right to give
candidate the power to determine who
shall vote at the election in which he is
interested. If Governor STEVENSON
means to do what he says he will make
a removal in this and in every similar
case. The fact that he has so far shown
no disposition to make changes in such
cases, shows that his professions have
little or no connection with his acts.
Year: 1869

There's beautiful isle in the long ago,
All flooded with golden light,
And river that flows by the margin green'


Whose waters are wondrous bright.
There's bark that glides with snowy sah'
And the music of silver oar,
That carry US back to the shining gates
OF that beautiful past once more;
All every heart holds some sweet dream
of a beautiful long ago.
There were bright hopes nursed In the long age


Sweet flowers we gathered there,
And the walls of this beautiful past are hung


With many An image fair;
nd oh there Is room for the feet TO tread
This path Of the by.gone years.
There are Joys that bloom in memorys fields,


And q font for our bitter tears,
And that font holds many hallowed tear


We've wept in the long ago.
There are heavy dreams the heart holds dear,


Bright dreams Of the long ago;
And sacred tears for perished hopes


That will return ne more.
And thus in the tangled web of life


We weave our smiles and tears,
Yet the soul has holy memories


That cling to departed years;
All drop the silken curtain now,


Of the beautiful long ago.
Shut out the light of those perished years,


Close the door Of the past again,
And hush the yearning thoughts that fill
Thy thoughts with so much pain;
Then roll the heavy stone against


That sepulchre-tbe heart
Why should those burdened forms again


To life and beauty start3
The future may hold some dream as bright


As those Of long ago.
Year: 1869

Anna Dickinson leaves San Francisco
in rather bad odor. She stirred up the
hornets of the press there, and they
sting her with as little compunction as
though she were horrid man. In one
of her recent lectures there she declared
that the women of California were Gun
womanly," and that it would have been
fortunate for the people of that State
had the majority of the female settlers
had been sunk in the sea instead of liv-
ing to curse the earth-or words to that
effect. For a carpet baggeress, the
San Franciscans thought this "little
rough" and the Times declares that it
"calumniated the women of this State
in most outrageous and unjustitiable
manner" that it was "flippant, igno-
rant and basely, sensational attack"
and that "she has slandered the women
of this coast wantonly and grossly"
To all of which we can bear testimony.
Strange that in their warfare against
the tyrant man these "reformers" should
find it constantly necessary to direct
their heaviest shetted guns against the
women. They, of all others, should re-
member the advice of the gentle bard:


Then gentle scan your brother man,


Still gentler sister woman;


Though they may gang kennin wrang,


To step aside is human.
Year: 1869

Without any special complaint except grad


ual declination of bodily strength and nervous
energy will find in the TONIC A FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDLNVIG0R AS RE
FRESHING AND EXI HILERATING AS
A POOL IN 1HE DESERT TO THE SAND
-SCORCuED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER
Year: 1869

FIRE THIS MoRNING.-The alarm OF
fire between one and two o'clock this
morning was occasioned BY the burning
of Addison's Nut Factory, East Wheel
ing, between Lindsey street and the
creek. The building, frame one, was
q total loss, and the machinery and stock
were badly damaged. The cause of the
fire is not ascertained.
Year: 1869

When chickens roost above the NOV,


1t spOils the hay for horse or COW.


Keep accounts With every field you
cultivate, and you will be gratified at
the results at the end of the season.


Mixing n-feed with strong suds of
common soft soap, is recommended
both as a preventive and cure OF gapes.


Men often make unlucky investments,
but hardly anything else is so certain to
pay in the long run as judicious tree
planting.


One of the aims in farming should be
produce as far as possible everything you
consume-to buy nothing you can raise
yourself


The shortening of q tap.root, says an
exchange, is of no more injury to tree
than IS the shortening of the fnger-nalls
to man.


An noft-recurring question among farm
ers is, what is the average yield of straw
to an acres The Pennsylvania farmers
believe the average crop of rye straw to
be one ton.


The value of manure depends upon the
amount of plant-food present, and upon
the availability of that food, as deter.
mined by its solubility, and the state OF
chemical combination in which it ex-
lists.


A correspondent of an exchange ad-
vises American farmers to adopt the rule
OF many English farmers-thatis, never
to allow two white.straw crops, such as
wheat, oats, barley and rye, to follow
each other.


Stagnant or foul water is Injurious to
all animals. 1t causes blood poiso ming,
and this leads to many febrile COM.
plants, and is one of the great causes
of abortion in cows and other animals.
Its use should be guarded against by
farmers.
Year: 1869

The fact that strong loan, in toler-
ably dry state, will absorb and hold the
fumes of yard manure, in alternating
layers in common compost heaps, shows
that manure we'll mixed with, or turned
under the soil, may be applied to loamy
land in much larger quantities than is
often done in practice, without danger
of passing off in air or of being washed
out by rains.
Year: 1869

A BLAZING WoRLD.-In the year
1866 star blazed up in the constellation
of the Northern Grown, rapidly attaining
the second magnitude. It soon began to
decline in brightness, falling ID twelve
days to the eighth magnitude. 1t was
su bjected to spectroscopic observation by
William Higgins shortly after it began
to fade. This experienced observer was
surprised with the phenomenon of two
distinct spectra. One of these was the
ordinary spectrum of dark lines, showing
the existence of a photosphere of inean
descent solid or liquid matter, inclosed in
vaporous atmosphere. Overlying this
was spectrum consisting of four bright
lines. This plainly proved the existence
of second source of light, shown oy it's
peculiar spectrum to be a luminous gas.
Two ofthese lines were the prominent
hydrogen lines, and their great bright
ness showed the gas to be hotter than the
photosphere. The conclusion was OBJ
vious the observer beheld a blazing
world A sudden food of free hydrogen
gas had apparently burst from the inter-
ior of the star, and was fereely burning
ing contact with some other element.
The intense heat of this confagration had
also heated the photosphere, SO as to rem
der its spectrum more vivid. If, then,
the stars are thus liable to become en-
wrapped in the flames of burning hydro
gen, we may speculate as to what would
be the fate of the inhabitants Of the
planets were our sun to emulate the yag-
aries of its sister orbs aud burst out iu
mighty confagration.- Nag
! ozine for Nay.
Year: 1869

- Gated himself, would respectfully inform
Tho Citizens Of Water!own and vicinity that he
is prepared to do all kinds of, Dental Work.
All ork warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Ofice on Main street over Post office.
Year: 1869

We publish in full this important doc
ument in another column. 1t is brief,
but direct, explicit, distinct; and earnest
ly expresses the author ideas and opin-
ions in way which will meet the appro-
baton of every thinking unprecedented
man in the whole country The leading
papers, published in all sections. are en-
thusiastic over it, and well they may be-,
for it gives unmistakable evidence that
we have a man of the people, one who
will watch over our interests one whom
the politicians will find infexibly oppos-
ed to all their schemes and wire pulling /;
one who will make honesty the chief con-
sideration when appointments for office
are talked of; in fact it shows that we
have the right man in the right place


We Will not specify the important ideas
and principles enunciated, because all
will read it and each Will form his own
opinion of it. We can only say, let the
people rejoice and take courage, the year
Of jubilee is at hand Congress and the
President are in strict harmony, and now
we may reasonably hope for season Of
greater prosperity than we haye ever be-
fore known The Nation is at Peace.
Year: 1869

When the effort was made to impeach
Andrew johnson for high crimes and
misdemeanors, the TRIBUNE favored the
movement from the first We believed
the man had it in his vile heart to make
himself Dictator we thought he was
studying the best means of accomplishing
that end, and for that reason we longed
to see him sent to private life and man
placed in his position who would execute
the laws of the land and govern his action
by the Constitution. Many thought we
were mistaken in this opinion. They
were deceived by Johnson's professions
of regard for the Constitution and when
the Senate failed to impeach, they rejoic-
ed. But now the mask is off and the
traitor stands revealed in all his hideous
deformity. IN his farewell address may
be found these words: with large
''army and augmented authority, it would
shave been no difficult task to direct, at
pleasure, the destiueS Of the Republic,
"AND MAKE SECURE MY CON
''TINUANCE IN THE HIGHEST OF
''FICE KNOWN TO OUR LAWS.
Let the people whom | am addressing
from the Presidential chair. during the
''closing hours of laborious term, con-
slider how different would have been
the present condition had | yielded to
the dazzling temptation Of foreign con-
quests, Of personal aggrandizement, and
''the desire to toEel8 additional poa0er. y
After reading that we are compelled to
believe the man is either an idiot or
a doubly dyed traitor and those who have
watched him for the past four years know
he is not an idiot. Still it is madness foc
him at this late day to expose his hand,
whenSbe must know it viii only bring ad-
ditiouaf contempt upon his memory.


a paper published in this place gave
vent last week to the following interest
ing sentence: Exit johnson, thou brave
defender of Constitutional liberty, al
though to-day the splendor of your
fame (?) is clouded, by the foul SLAM
der of your enemies, future generations
"will do justice to your name"


This reminds US of stery. A man
arrested for crime was before the court
ior trial Trembling from head to foot
he asked his lawyer if he thought he
would have justice doue him. Il donot
think you will, replied the lawyer, as
this Judge is opposed to capital punish
ment. We do not think future gener-
atoms will do justice" to johnson $ name,
tor, like Benedict Arnold, he has done
too much evil to be forgotten; his infamy
viii hive when his bones have gone back
to dust. ~''
Year: 1869

The Herald says of the new cabinet
We see IN tilis law cabinet that Grant
has given the managing republican poli
tican vide berth that he has chosen
his men for business, and as his subor
dinates, and with not the remotest idea
that they are to be his masters or his CO.
equals in the administration.


The Tlbune says the new Cabinet
means business. Emphaticaily each man
was chosen by General Grant expressly to
aid him In carrying out the programme of
economy and integrity, embodied in the
inaugural


The Tunes saysthe Cabinet, as whole,
will not commend itself to the favor of
politicians, because it has not been taken
from their ranks, nor are the men who
composed it sufficiently we'll known to the
public at large to command in advance
the full Confidence of the community. :
But in the very freshness Of its character,
in the fact that its members arc business
men rather than politicians, and are like
ly to make the practical interests of the
country their first care, we see ground for
believing that the Cabinet will, by its
practical working, yindicate the wisdom
of its selection


The World says Grant has made such
a Cabinet as no politician would have ad-
vised; SUI n Cabinet as no newspaper
could have conjectured Cabinet which
fills his political opponents with wonder,
and his political friends with suppressed
dismay. 1t derides the appointments,
and says not one has ever been known in
the councils of the nation