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Year: 1869

From the Americus ttii. } Courier.


We have been given the particulars
of case In this county In which tho
Lride was betrothe,l To three brothers
and married to two OF them, which IL
rather remarkable.


On the 9Th Of August, 1860, a young
man came to Americus and procured
license to marry an cstimable young
lady residing several miles from this
city; went home and was married In
the afternoon of that day. lie was
attacked by congestiye chill, which
terminated his death the following
Saturday, the stricken bride follow.
Ing his remains to their last resting
place, clothed in the same suit In
which her heart had been made glad
10y becoming his bride.


On the following August, 1867, the
second brother OF the family came to
.Americus for the same purpose which
had brought the deceased one tho
year previous. On his way home,
rejoicing in happy anticipation of
making the worthy widow OF his
brother his own bride, ho was caught
I'm q heavy rain, and arrived at homo
with his clothing thoroughly satu-
rated, from which he was taken with
a congsstive chill the Same evening,
and died the evening previous to tho
marriage, which was to have taken
place tho following Sabbath. Again,
instead of listening to the merry
ringing OF the marriage bells, the
death knell was heard, and funeral
procession took the place of the mar
riage feast. ae..# ..


Some time during last mcnth the
third brother of the deceased pro-
cured license ami was happily mar
rled to the twice bereaved lady. -.#
Year: 1869

A dispatch to the New York Tribune on
Monday, speaking of the nominations sent
to the Senate, says:


The bona tide list came later in the day,
but not before the Senate adjourned, and
General Porter conveyed it back to the
White House, to be produced again to-
morrow. The President, being asked to-
night by leading senator some of the
names in this list, said he did not remem-
ber them. He only knew there were half
dozen maniacs that we're we'll recon-
mended to leave tho country, and that he
should be glad to get rid of them.
Year: 1869

A gentleman from Paris paid a visit to
country dame, in whose parlor he saw the
portrait of lovely woman OF about five
and-twenty. Upon the entrance of the
lady the visitor naturally asked her if the
picture was family portrait, and was told
that it represented her deceased daughter;
"Has it been long since you lost her
asked the gentleman. "Alas, sir, repheo
the lady, she died just after her plrtn'
represent her as she would appear it she
had lived until now"
Year: 1869

A particularly painful, but not necessa-
rily fatal accident occurred in Syracuse,
New York, on Wednesday last. While a
woman named Jane Cromwell was assist
ing in the cleaning of some windows at one
of the principal stores, she slipped from
the ladder upon which she had been stand
ing, and falling, was caught upon an iron
hook which projected from the building.
and swung in mid air. The iron entered
her right arm just below the shoulder,
tearing the desh in the most shocking
manner. Being heavy woman, her with
ing undsr the excruciating pain only made
matters worse, and before aid could reach
her, the flesh had torn out and let her
down. A physician dressed her wounds,
which are very serious. and pronounced it
most narrow escape from death, as had
the wound been a little deeper she would
have bled to death.
Year: 1869

If there is any one thing that is
abominabls, it is to have two interesting
young men, walk into church, looking
dirty, snd even filthy, with a mouth full
of tobacco, take scat by you with their
understandings smelling Of the odor of
the barn, and themselves squirting the
juice of tobacco en- the floor. These
nice yoHng men, shave no regard for
silk dresses, or, in fact, any kiAd Of a
dress. They spattcr them with perfect
impunity, and seem to regard them
selves as entitled to all the seat room,
and as the only occupants Of the church
Of any importance. Such young men
ought to learn that the churches are
not tho like Of bar.rooms, and their
duty when in church, is to behave
themselves, aud be careful to shake off
the odor of the barn nest and hen
roosts, before entering church. 1t will
be better for all concerned. And then
by all means spare the floor, ladies,
dresses, and the carpets by leaving of
chewing tobacco during service.
Year: 1869

the Law Of the finger ring if = gentle.
men wants wife he wears = ring on
the left hand ifhe is engaged he wears
it on Secone finger if married on the
third aad on the fourth if he never in.
tends 70 get married Like m hayes and
when Lady is not engaged she wears
a diamond ring on her first finger if en-


gagged on the Second if married on the
third and on the fouth if she intends tu
be maid when and when m hayes =
gentleman has = Lady in his eye and
yet not engaged to her wears in addii
ton to the ring . Complete suit O.
Clothing from peter zeller mammoth
Clothing store on main street = Little
below the Bank austin min.


to m hayes former Customer Bnt
who Lately had you BY won you walk
into my Beer Saloon and try Som wine
or Beer i've Cards dice and games to
make it pleasant here oh no gave the
Practice upi Lead q difFercnt Life
spend the evenings at my home with
baby and my wife for'i will Joine the
templars good and with them j will stay
till the dealers in Liquid poison Shall
all have pissed away when this you SCI


- JOHN T. ASHER
Year: 1869

written for IN Brown in albert Lep BY


m John T Asher dead Beats news
papers too have their Barnacles and
dead Beats Who are to stingy to SUBJ
scribe for paper and too Cowardly to
steal it. But not too proud to Beg one
the austin expenses has arrived At the
following sensible Cont Clusion, it is an
imposition that we will not longer tol-
crate II the paper is worth reading it is
worth paying for. the paper Costs But
y few cents per week to an individual
while in the aggregate outlay to the
publisher is many hundreds Of dollars
the dead head List has Been marked
out My friends are not 80 seriously
annoyed in the foregoing porticular as
our Louisville Cotempora But some Of
your patrons are more egregiously Bored
the transcript Left for an houest shoe
maker up street supplies 4 arc informed
scme Eve or six .cnterprsisng men and
business men in the neighborhood with
the reading Of the news to say nothing
Of the scores of Loafcrs who drop in
Just to Look over the paper which


never has anything in it Of course AZ
the folks up that way are. .praCtiCine
Economy in the news Line suggest the
propriety Of getting up = Joint stock
Company take one Copy Of the trans
cript Call ward meeting every even


ing and read from'a ssore Box viii


furnish the Box gratus but not .tht
paper gratus John +. Asher.
Year: 1869

MUrrLER Losr.-While out slay-ri.
ding one day last week one Of the boys
lost his muffler. The finder will receive
the thanks of the owner and be reward.
ed by leaving it at this office.
Year: 1869

Qu1TE a number of drunks are re-
ported since the commencement of the
Holidays. To say the least, men will
have their day, and We presume it is
but just to give them credit for soberncss
three quarters Of the year. 1t matters
not, if a good time is only had just now,
nor does it account for much, if the hair
pulls, the eyes get red, and sickness at
the stomach prevalent. 1t is all in
the pieces.
Year: 1869

MARr1No is astonishing our people.
His performances are truly wonderful
He goes from here to McGregor.


The Minneapolis Tribune comes out
in a new dress, looking clean and
neat. The TrtJnmc is one of the best
daily papers published in the West, for
news and general information.
Year: 1869

The New York Tribune is seeking to
prove that "the country is not being I'M,
poverished by the tariff or by reason of
the burden Of our national debt" The
proof consists that we Me making a
great deal of improvement, public and
private, and that the income tax was
greater in New York in 1868 than in
1867. Now, because man is able to
bear up and to carry for some distance
an immense and oppressive load, does
not prove that it is no burden, or that he
will not ere long sink under it.


In regard to the income tax, the facts
prove what the opponents of the bonded
debt and of a high tariff have always as
serted, that their effects were calculated
to make ''the rich richer and the poor
poorer" No one pretends that the great
bondholders and lordly manufacturers,
with their exhorbitant protection from
the people, do not make large dividends.
That is the trouble-their dividends are
too large, while the masses are too small.
Thus the great city of New York, where
there are $4,000 income taxpayers, 75O
return one-h half of the whole amount
That amount is SS4,000,000. In all our
large cities we find a similar state Of
things. Property and incomes are con-
centrating in the hands of limited few.
1t is the debt and the tariff which are
largely responsible for this. 1t consti-
tutes one of the great reasons why we
should be rid of them 1t is the many
whom we desire to be prosperous and
grow rich That cannot be under our
present financial and debt system.
Year: 1869

The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury, published yesterday, is call
ing forth no little blowing from the ''loy
all press It shows an apparent de-
crease inthe public debt of sixteen mil
lions during the month. Now the state
ment is eithera fair one, or it Is not.
If it is fair, then there is no reason why
each succeeding month should not show
corresponding decrease, SO that in
twelve months the debt should be de-
creased nearly two hundred millions,
There is littls doubt that an unusual and
unexpected hmotrit of receipts on tie
last few days of the quarter, which are
yet to be balanced by current expenses,
has enabled the Department to make this
fair showing. Nobody pretends to say
that the reduction now claimed will be
repeated monthly. ......


The Washington correspondent Of the
Pittsburgh Commercial says:


The unexpected decrease is due to two
facts, first, the receipts of Tuesday and
Wednesday were astonishingly large,
and warrants for expenditure quite small
so that there is good deal more money
on hand than usual The expenditures
in July must be heavy, and it is not like
ly much reduction can be shown i'll the
next statement


All Of which amounts to an admission
that when the July expenditures arc
met large portion of the July receipts
having already been anticipated, there
will be an increase over the present ex
hibit of debt.


We are not saying that this report has
been doct ored for the occasion. Weare
ready to concede the most that is claim
ed for it, viz that it is due to the receipt
within two days of collections equal to
the receipts of Zen ordinary days. This
must be followed by a falling off here
after. The rapid reduction which this
report will cause the people to look for
will not be made. Then will come dis
appointment and reaction. Before the
Fall elections are over, the Republican
managers will rue the day that Secre-
tary Boutwell, sent out a report virtually
pledgIng the Administration to reduc
ton of sixteen millions per month. Fes-
tina lenta is a good rule, especially when
an Administration is making promises
to the people. Within two months the
Radical press will be as busy III explain
ing why the debt was not reduced in
July and August, as they now are in
boasting of the reduction in june
Wheeltng Reqister Sd inst 5-
Year: 1869

IaSAn exchange suggests that the
Grant Administration is certainly guilty
of very grave piece of injustice in not
giving Sanford Conover a position. No
man has ever suffered more or swore to
more lies for the benefit of the Radical
party than Conover. He went to the
penitentiary for the benefit of the party.
Let it not be said that he is unfit for posi-
ton SO long as Joe Holt holds a place.
Holt was really his accomp!ice, and they
were worthy co o-laborcrs. Conover furn-
ished perjury and Holt paid for it. Let
them not be separated. So much grace
and virtue ought never to be divided be-
tween Government Bureau and a State
Penitentiary 1t ought to be concen'
trated in one institution or the ether, so
that Loyalty and Radicalism could poin;
to two Of its jewels in the same set
ting.
Year: 1869

EFIn Rhode Island a white man can.
not vote unless he is the owner of one
hundred and thirty-four dollars worth
of real estate: yet at the next session OF
the Legislature, the Radicals will adopt
the Fifteenth Constitutional Amendments


by which ali the worthless negroes in
the State can deposite their votes in the
bailot-box In the estimation Of the
Rhode Island Radicals, a white man
must own house and lot in order TO be
equal in value and Importance to anegro


who is simple beauty unsdorned. !,
Year: 1869

THIS Hotel has been rcftted recently, and


i is now in first rate order. The table is
supplied with the best, and the traveller will
find his lodgings superior to most country
hotels. The stabling is new. ejl5Y.
Year: 1869

A rescued brand from the burning gives
the following directions for eIuding
the flames and smoke in burning buildings,
the remembering which may enable some.
body to save himself from the dust Of ashes


AS smoke and heated air always ascend,
an escape may frequently be etfcted with
out Inconvenience by crawling on the hands
and knees when it would be impossible to
avoid sufFocation in an upright position. II
the smoke is very dense, worsted stocking
or a piece Of flannel held over the mouth
and nostrils is ssgreat protection to the lungs.
Year: 1869

A new and complete stock OF staple and
fancy dry goods, notions &c, just received,
and will be sold cheap for cash.


have also the pleasure of informing the
public that | have resumed the merchant
tailoring business, and have also full and
complete stock Of the best ready made
clothing AMI gents furnishing goods.
Year: 1869

The New York Sun is said to be getting
more aud more republican, and gaining fa.
yor because Of the fact Union.


The sun has for some time devoted much
of its valuable space to denouncing Grants
appointments to office. Are we to suppose
this accounts for its increased favor?
Year: 1869

RosroN SnoR AND LEATHER MARKET-In the boot
and shoe market there has been a brisk movement
during the past week, and the shipments Of goods
have been unprecedentedly large, amounting to some
fifty thousand cases. which is fully thousand in
excess of the corresponding week Of last year. These
heavy shipments are due to the decline in through
freight charges to the South and West which has in
duced manufacturers hurry mp their work, and dis
patch orders placed with them early in the season.


[Boston Commercial Bulletin Tth


The new Is cent currency is slowly working into
circulation. 1t sa trfe longer than the new 10 cent
issue, but of the same width. On the right hand OF
the face is three-qna portrait of yonng hand
some helmetted grl-much pleasanter to contemplate
byway of variety than pictures Of grim treasury officials
even the veneIated fathers of the republic. The
back of the note is mass Of lathework with the Gus
tomary legend.
Year: 1869

Simple item wants Allison for
Senator because of his honesty.
II Allison is honest then there 10
not knave on the face of God 8
foot-stool ; and if simple item is
ignorant Of the fact We give him
the credit Of being an exception
among the doughty Coloncl's sup
porters.
Year: 1869

ELEcTIoS RErURSs.-The official returns Of the
vote Cast at the late election 10 this county
canvassed by the board of Supervisors on Mon
day last, and the result appears in our columns
to-day. The credit Of electing the majority of
the Republican nominees must be given to Re-
publicans of lower Trinity. Had they been as
badly demora!ized as was the case in every
other part of the county, there would not have
been more than two of our ticket elected
Lower Trinity will do to bet on.
Year: 1869

CHANGE OF BAsE.-Louis Damn has removed
bis shoe shop from the Hoslinger Einfalt build
ing to the frame building adjoining the New
York hotel, where he will be found at all times
ready to attend the wants Of his patrons.
Year: 1869

1t is hereby ordered TINT the clerk of this board
issue certificates of election under his seal Of
County Clerk to each and every county, town
ship and district officer who has received the
highest number of votes, hereinbefore set forth
and stated
Year: 1869

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and efectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair Is soon restored
to its original color
Nth the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1869

Cow YARD MANURE. = The American
Stock Journal has the following in relation to
the Importance of saving the manure of the
COW yard .-..


"Talk to farmer about the value of ma.
nure and the importance of collecting and
saving it for future use, and he is aslonished
that any one should suspect that he is not
master of that subject and practiced it to the
last shovel full. Then take walk with him
TO his summer cow yard where the milking is
done mornings and evenings, and the lane
leading to it, and you will find the droppings
OF perhaps six months or a year scattered
about and tramped into the dust and partially
washed away by the rains, to the amount of
cart loads. One cart load of this is worth
more than two from the barn yard, as any
practical gardiner will tell you. But the far
mer looks upon these droppings, many of
which are reduced to powder, as beneath his
notice.


There is a waste that might have added ten
bushels OF wheat to his granary, or ton of
hay to his haymow if it had been collected
every week and properly applied. One hours
labor every week would have saved all this,
which would have been worth more in pro-
ducing crops than ton of so called phos-
phate, at the cost of sixty dollars in cash.
These drOppings always make their mark
when applied to the land-the phosphates
not always. These remarks do not apply to
all farmers there are many honorable excep-
tions, and their fields show it to their adyan-
tage; but there are too many to whom it will
apply, and their fields tell tale too, but not
much to their credit. We hope some of them
will take the hint and do better in future.
Fields are terrible telltales."
Year: 1869

A correspondent of the New York Evening


Post says: -r -T El


At the last session Congress provided for the
retirement of judges OF the Supreme Court,


and one at least of them ought to resign. 1t
is sad sight to see judge of the highest AM
most important judicial tribunal of the land
brought into court and helped out of court


and then sleeping when learned counsel are
addressing the court upon questions of law,
in whose decision the sleeping, infirm, feeble
old jnrist rnust boar pare. Judge Grier oi
pennsylvania, ought to resign. Public ius-
tice demands it; because he is unable to dis
charge the duties of his place. He has been
an able, excellent, honest, upright Judge
man of great ability and of high char
acter; and he owes it to himself and to his
family, and to his place in history, to re.
sign, and to pass the remainder of his days in
calm and undisturbed quiet A man ought
not to remain in any public position when he
is not able to discharge its duties, especially
after his government has made provision for
his support. He owes duty to the State as
well as himself, and the feebleness of age The
accumulation of years, the weakness Of the
physical and mental powers, all demand thai
he should retire, and allow one in the vieor O
his years to take his place. 1t is to be desired
that man equal to Judge Grier, when he wa
appointed by President Polk, in 1886 will b,
selected to take his place on the bench. II
may be difficult to find such man; but such
a man can and should be found. "
Year: 1869

In the Of Tnmmany Hall the time consumed In
admitted therein at time be computed
varied and held different pars OF
the building and the people are constantly going IN and out
balls and the people going IN and at all hours,
largest number OF admitted at time and the time
In leaving the building cannot easily be computed


The report contains besides, o full description OF
every new building commenced or the plans for
which have been submitted to the department. BE.
sides this 1t contains 0 large amount or mscella-
matter winch ls valuable to those Interested
In the growth OF the city, and Will amply repay .
careful Derusai..
Year: 1869

/ From the KanFas City (Mo.) Times, 9th


Last Friday lady of modest persona


appearance, and seemingly about twenty
eight years of age, came to our city auc


took a room at one of our hotels. She
had with her bright little girl, some six
years of age, and mother and child re-


mained quietly in their room for day oil
two. Then the mother would 60 upon
the streets early, and frequently would be
gone until nightfsll. Attracted by her
singular behavior, and fearing that the
woman might need some restraint from a
mental disease, the landlord awaited an
opportunity to speak to her and to satisfy
himself of her sanity. He approached
her in as gentle a manner as possible,
and inquired if she were not distressed
ebeut something; and the poor woman's 6
story was sorrowful enough, God knows,
to have crazed her. She said that eight
yeara ago she married a man in Burling-
| ton, Iowa, and that for several years she
was perfectly happy. OF this union two
children we're born-a boy and the little
girl with her. By degrees her husband s
| love became estranged. He began to
drink hard and to abuse her. One day
in his delirium he struck her heavy
blow, from the effects of which she has
not yet recovered, and, perhaps, never
will. The wife, in her own name, pos
sessed q little property, which, in her
blind confidence in the man who had mar
risd her, she transferred to him, and
which he at once turned into money. One
day he took the boy under pretense of
visiting his sister-in law-the only sister
of the wife--and since that time the sis
ter and the boy and the husband have
never returned. This was FIVE years ago,
and the abandoned and sickly wife, made
almost an invalid by blow from her hus-
band, has through all these painful years
hoped and preyed on that the brute would
return. Why, it is hard to understand
but who yet has ever rightly understood
all the devotion and intensity of true
woman's heart? About month ago she
heard that her truant husband was at
work in grocery house in Kansas City,
and. as soon as she could get sufficient
money for the journey, she FASTENED on
here, determining to tell no one of her
intentions and to 60 day by dsy upon the
streets until she could discover him, be-
lieyine that il she could but see him
again he would come back to her. This
explained why she had so often stolen
ont into the city, and why at nightfall
che had often returned tired, weary and
sick of hope deferred and expectation
bsfHsd. She told this simple story to
the landlord with streaming eyes and
begged him not to let her name be used,
as her husband might see it and seek to
elude her again. A day or two ago she
received certain information that the
man was in LeaveRworth, whittier she
has gone, and it is to be hoped that ifthe
brute is found he will be so manipulated
by the law that to his life's end he will
care for aud protect the =oman who is as
much too good for him as an angel is for
a devil.