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Year: 1867

There is in Richmond, Va, Young
married woman who is very strongly af-
fieted with a mania for initiating the
growing of a morning cock, while in
state of somnolence. We are assured
that at the hour appointed by nature for
chanticleer to frighteu away the midnight
prowlers from yawning grayeyards, the
fortunate husband of the Growing wife"
on the first night of his marriage, was
reused from his slumbers by most lusty
growing Or opening his eyes, what was
his astonishment to behold his better half
seated in the middle of the connubial
couch of coDjugal bliss, tapping her
wings and Growing in most loud and
clear voice stretching out her neck after
the most approved rooster fashion -
Thrice did she thus 'herald in the morn,'
and then sank back and slept on.


In the morning he spoke to her about
it, and was not more surprised than a.
unused to learn that she had been born in
the country, and that a favorite .' Shauc-
hal, which roasted with his feathered
family in the hem coop near the window
of the maternal bed chamber, frightened
her mother by his loud growing, and thus
the child vas marked" And ever
since she has been want to wake the
echoes of the coming dawn by initiating
"ye rooster" and still, each morn she
" flaps her wings and crows" The pa
per which gives the above adds: Some
persons may question the truth of this
remarkable incident, but we can assure
them that it is true in every particular,
and be vouched for by responsible par
ties who have known the lady from in
fancy, and the moral of it is, that ladies
who do not desire " growing children"
should not sleep too near the hen coop.
Year: 1867

We heard very pretty incident the
other day, which we cannot help relating.
a young lady from the South, it seems
was wooed and won by youthful physi-
clan living in California. When the en-
gagement was made the doctor was rich.
having been very successful at San Fran
cisco. 1t had not existed six mouths
however, when by an unfortunate invest
ment he lost. his entire help" The
event came upon him, it should be added,
just as he was about to claim his BRIDE
What does he do? Why, like an honor
able and chiyalrous young fellow as he is
he sits down and writes the young lady par
ticulars of the unhappy turn which had
taken place in his fortunes, assuring her
that if the fact produced any change Of
feelings towards him, she was released
from all the promises she had made to
him. And what does she, dear good girl?
Why, she takes lump of pure gold,
which her lover had sent her in his prog
perity as keepsake, and having it man.
ufactured into ring, forwards it to him.
with the following Bible inscription en-
graved in distinct characters on the out
side: Entreat me not to leave thee
or to return from following after thee;
for whittier thou goest l will go, and
where thou lodgest | will lodge; thy peo-
pie shall be my people; and thy God my
God; where thou diest 1 will die; and
there will | be buried; the Lord do so to
me and more also, if aught but death part
me and thee" The lover idolzed his
sweetheart more than ever, when be re-
ceived this precious evidence of her devo-
tion to him both in storm and sunshine
We may add that fortune soon again,
smiled upon the young physician, and,
that ,>he subsequently returned to the
North to wed thet sweet girl he loved,
and who loved him with such an undying
affection. Young ladies who read the.
Bible, as the heroine of this incident
seems to have done, are pretty sure to
make good sweethearts and better wives
-LOajsUiILe Journal.
Year: 1867

A writer in the New York Observer
gives the following amusing and novel
plan of curing baulkly horse "The way
to cure baulky horses is to take them from
the carriage and whirl them rapidly round
till they are giddy. 1t requires two men
to accomplish this, one at the horses head,
the other at his tail. Don't let him step
out. Hold him to the smallest possible
circle. One dose will often cure him /;
two doses generally will, and three doses
is final with the worst horse that ever re-
fused to stir. I've seen very baulky


horse started of lively as lark, by mere
ly having the remedy talked Of Try it"
Year: 1867

A poultice of onions, applied morning,
noon and night for four days, will cure a
felou. No matter how bad the case.
splitting the finger will DO unnecessary.
if this poultice be used We have seen
it tried several times, and know that thes
remedy is sure, safe aud speedy one
So says an e4chabse
Year: 1867

KEEP IT Our IA disposition seems
to Be occasionally cropping ont here and
there. to mix the County Seat issue in
the canvass for County officers. We
find great anxiety manifested to bring
out certain men. apparently because they
went strong for some certain town for
County Seat; and then, sgaiu. We end
determined opposition to other men,
otherwise unobjectionsble, because their
course on the County Seat question did
not suit some people. It should be re-.
membered that all the rivals in that
County Seat matter have their friend
ships aud their grudges. and have an
equal right to intrude them in the County
canvass and if that is to be made an
issue. there is no telling what will be the
result, except that merit will be lost sight
Of. and probably some Of the County Of
6ces be filled with "sticks." This is Q
MISTER in which the public are interested.
snd they should discountsnsnce oil such
issues.
Year: 1867

TJim Lane ran . career Of open las.
civiousness in Ksusss. and achieved po
litical success. There are q number OF
men in the State. who imagine that they
can rule the politics Of Kansas by imi-
tating bis example. Let them go slow
Sam Patch made some wonderful leaps.
bat went under at last and nine men on:
Of ten would split themselves up from the
crotch. upon their very 6rst attempt to
do as he did.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admOnish the Southern
people to be self-Teliant. snd shall do what We
may be able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro
ducts. To this end We will pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversiG-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

DY A CONSOLIDATION OF TIRE ASH
VILE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH, and by the generous and united
support of the UNION AND DIsPATCH By the
patrons of both the former papers. the Proprir-
tors are enabled to present a Newspaper hithe
to unsurpassed in this city or State


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY
NEWS, our paper will compare favorsbly ilh
the best in the entire country; and in sayin7
this we only repeat the expressions Of many
our patrons. who are most capable Of iudsingin
uch matters.
Year: 1867

And kindred topics. we shall also give an ey
tensive variety Of valuable and interesting mat
tef-the best adapted to the farming classes 1i
our State, which will. in a great measure, sup
ply the placs OF family agricultural paper.
Year: 1867

So long as aorong exists, from the per-
version of right, so long will moral and
social evils be in existence, and the advo-
Gates of new basis for the principles of
society, find a cause for work. The con-
sideration Of the great evils which threat
en- our race, [ leave to mightier minds
than mine. But there are certain things
in our domestic economy that seem to me
subjects for earnest and serious thought /;
evils which we as women have to do with
either to eradicate or to encourage in
growth. [ mean in regard to dress, as it
affects our health We know that health
is boon most priced when lost, but how
few of us know how to secure it. To you
girls am going to talk most especially.
[ may shock you, but I think a little
mental electricity may serve to wake you
up. In how many Of our prevailing fash
ions do we see the least regard for the
laws of health. To begin at the head of
the subject; [ might say something of
bonnets, but when [ look at them / see so
little ground for complaint that I pass
them by, What I regard as the greatest
Year: 1867

! HEAVEN help the man who imagines
he can dodge enemies by trying to please
everybody. lfsuch an event succeeded we
should be glad of it-not that we believe
in man going through the world trying
to find beams to knock his head against |;
disputing every mans op n on. fighting and
elbowing and crowding all who differ with
him. That again, is another extreme.
Other people have right tc their opinion
SO have you don't fall into the error of
supposing they. will respect you less for
N maintaining it, or respect you more for
turning your coat every day to match the
color of theirs. Wear your own colors
in spite of winds or weather, storms or
sunshine. It costs the vascillating and
irresolute ten times the trouble to wind
and shuttle and twist, that it does honest
manly independence to stand its ground.
Year: 1867

ton, Illinois, who were taken to Davenport
on a requisition from Gov. Stone, charged
with being accessories to the theft committed
by Oscar Schenck the young horse thieflate-
ly confined in Scott County JAIL have been
released from custody; the evidence notsub-
stantiating the charges made. In fact there
was no evidence to show that they knewany-
thing about the matter or had anything to do
with it-while there was evidence that they
bore good characters in the community where
they reside
Year: 1867

Cry CoUScIL.-The people expect every
member of the city council to be present, this
evening, and stand squarely up for the peo-
pies rights, on the ferry matter. We hope
the record will show that every member was
present and voted for the peoples side of the
question.
Year: 1867

SHOVEL OFF YoYR RSIDEwALKs.-There is
an ordinance of this city to compel lazy peo-
pie to clear their sidewalks of all obstruc-
tions, and the police will invite them to call
at ESQ. Sweeney's Office and make a contri-
button to the city treasury, unless they ge to
work and shovel off the snow A word to
the wise is sufficient - -.
Year: 1867

A CLEAN IN DARK PLACE.-It is rarely
that an editorial sanctum is the witness of
such a pleasing little episode as that which
occurred in the room of our neighbor, of the
ARGUS, yesterday. 1t seems that Young
couple, who had come to mutual under
standing ON the matrimonial question were
looking for magistrate to tie the knot. Not
finding one they chanced into the ARGUS of
flee to make some inquiry as to where some
one could be found to make the 'twain one
flesh" Just at this opportune time, Judge
Wilson was passing and was called in and
performed the simple service on which de
pends SO much of future bliss or woe. After
the ceremony was over, the Hon. Judge and
our neighbor Col. Danforth, treated them
selves to the luxury Of


Zone sweet sip


From the rosy lips"


Of the blushing bride 1t makes our mouth
water to read the affecting account of the
ceremony, with its little after-piece, in last
evenings ARGUS. And we have only to say,
that any nice young lady who wants an edi
torial greeting such as the above. can be ac
commodated in this Office at any time, she
need not wait until she's bride.-Tnioa
26h. T.


o you naughty man-''on your fathers
side"
Year: 1867

| warren County, what the
Radicals Propose


| The Radical doctrine of negro equality
| is doing its work wherever that party is
so far in the ascendency as not to fear the
sober second thought of the people. Only


latthem succeed in striking the word


sWhite" from Ohio's old fashioned free
Constitution, and in making our State
Government a mongrel affair, and negro
equality will everywhere be exhibited in


all its hideous detOrmity, despite the finer


feelings and wishes of portion of the
| white people. We are reliihly informed


that over in Springboro, Warren county,


where the Radicals have the entire con.


troll of the schools and of all the township
and village affairs, the a bolition Directors
have admitted into the WHITE SCHOOL and


placed side By side with the white children
lsEvENTEEN NEGRoEs Democrats, Conserv-
atives, tradesmen, laboring men. how do
you like the picture? Should Radicalism
succeed how long will it BIZ till you have
the same state of affairs in Dayton and all
over the State! These facts are significant
and ought to make deep impression on
the minds of the people. Already has it
been proclaimed by a Radical in Dayton
that he wished TO see the time when negroes
would be admitted in our Board of Educa-
ton to sit side by side, and vote and t, in
that honorable and responsible body, WITH
the white members! Do the people wish
that any more? aIe s-r a-
Year: 1867

Our SUFFER1NGs. Among our pleasant re-
miniscences Of Scotland is the Rev. John
Caird, the author of the celebrated sermon
entitled 'Rshgion in Common Life, preached
before Queen Victoria. His manner, when we
heard him, was very animated and indeed
iIapassioned, and We thought wanting ID that
selfpossessiou so necessary to the best effect OF
public speaking. This incident has been
brought forcibly to our mind by reading SER
mon Of his on participation in the sufferings Of
Christ from the text "Rejoice, inasmuch as
7e are partakers of the suferings OF Christ"
The following passages from the sermon will
interest our readers in this time of our common
agony :-Southera Chauchman.


1t is strange what power there is in suffer
ing. to unite in deepest intimacy those who
nave nobly borne it together. No bond of
union 80 close as the bond of common sorrow
no brotherhood so true as the brotherhood
Ofcalamity and misfortune. 1t would seem
as if the affections could never be welded so
firmly as when they have been exposed to the
fiery solvent of adversely. Perhaps it is that
We never so truly understand each other, as
Thsn great trials sound the depths OF our ma
ture, and show to each what IS in brother
heart. Or it may be, that love Is strengthen
~ most OF al Dy the CIllls anu Hai0Suips eu-
dursd for the sake of its object. But what
ever be the explanation, we know, there is a
subtle influence in pain and sorrow to knit
fellow sufferers heart to heart, as no partleipa-
ton in joy can ever unite them. The surv--
7ors of the wreck who can recall the. days and
hours Of exposure and danger, Of alternating
hope and despair which they bore together; ;
he remnant Of the forlorn hope who. have
stood side by side while shot and shell were
raining around them or the few brave and
true hearts who have struggled together
through the protracted and terrible siege, and
whose friendship is cemented by thousand
associations OF sympathy and endurance, can
not choose but feel in each other deeper than
common iterest.
Year: 1867

In "a OF defeat The fact Of the Rebellion IL entirely


ignored They refuse 20 see while the yictOrs are nound
20 use their triumph to perpetuate tho true ngIs
and meaning Of their government they NOT eontF1ptd
by mere legal quibbles based the letter OF the Jaw


All the questions brought before The supreme court
Year: 1867

lie Il the man spoke to You about. lie II
hard abOrng and has the Oi being able To do
moro work than any man in NJ the numbering
business, or farm Before he knew Of my being an
Agent he made application In some other Company here
In ana referred to my brother
his friend, and he flod out his application ~
being at times incorporate. That Company has made him
policy hut he will not take t until be hears from this


never heard Of his beng unable 10 walk but at times,
not oe is that YOU would notice that he had been
drinking Ho s hnrlaboring man, and do not think
his ntemperance has injured him. lie has always taken
more less contracts Of GOyernnent


whlch will give you some Idea ~ hs
business qualifications and ITO not think him more III
temperate than formerly.


do not think he Is in the daily use OF liquors
have given you n the Information have


Respectfully yours,
Year: 1867

PROBATE-IOwA COUNTY COURT-IN THE
j matter of the guardianship of Mary Daniel, Will
lam Elizabeth and Sarah Eyans, minor heirs OF Reese
Evans deceased. On reading and filing the petition
Of Henry D. Grifiths, guardian of said minors, rep
resentng among other things that they the said wards
are seized ofcertain real estate in Iowa Co. Wis and
it necessary that the Should be sold and ay
ing for license to sell the same, anG it appearing to
the court from said petition that it is necessary in
order to maintain and educate said minors to sell said
real estate is ordered and directed that the next of
kin to said wards and all interested in said es
tate appear before the Judge of this Court on the
29th day of June, 1867 at the house in the viii
lage of Dodgevie, then and there to show cause Qf
any there shall beg why license should not be g
prayer of said petition. And it is further ordered
that copy of this order shall be published for three
successive weeks prior to said day OF hearing IN e
DopaEvILLE CHRONICLE a weekly newspaper circulat-
ing in said county.


Dated June !, 1867. M. STItODE,


3Sw3 County Judge.
Year: 1867

The time is rapidly drawing near when
the voters of this state will be called upon
to express at the polls their approval or
disapproval of the law prohibiting the sale
of intoxicating liquors, as amended by the
Legislature Of last winter. On the first
Monday, or Sd day of june, this decision
will be rendered. The question is not one
between prohibition and license. Maine
already stands emphatically pledged to-
prohibition. It has been her settled policy
for years. The issue to be met is simply
whether the people of Maine will sustain
the legal prohibition Of the liquor traffic
by making the penalties for the violations
of the law seyerer and more effectual than
they now stand on the statute book. The
law, as it now stands, does not subject the
rumseler tc the penalty of Imprisonment
except il default of paying his fines when
convicted. The amendatory law adds to
tho fine the penalty Of Imprisonment, as
follows:


Single sales-First offence, 80 days i'm
prisonment; second offence, 60 days i'm
prisonment.


Common seller-First offence, three
months Imprisonment; second offence,
four months Imprisonment.


Keeping drinking house, &c.-First Of
ond offence, six months Imprisonment.


Keeping liquor for illegal sales-For
each offence, three months imprisonment.


REMARKs.-The above shows precisely
what is in the pregnant future, and near
at delivery in every part of the country
unless there be at once sweeping reforms.


First, in the liquor traGc and kind of
dealers.


Second, in the matter Of drinking to ex-
cess, and the practice of treating.


To the first, it is plain that better liquors
and better men for selling them must be
chief objects to be seen to.


To the second, drunkenness must be
stopped, and the social practice of treating
and thus friend demoralizing friend, and
the chief enemy of man thereby helped in
its work Of ruin, must be left off.


1t is plain and naked truth that of late
even drinking men-bad men with rem
nants of goodness left in them, are becom-
ing hostile to the liquor business, and be-
gin to long for the day when it shall cease.


The result is now in the hands of liquor
sellers for such reforms as will arrest the
Incorporate storm about to break upon the
country, and sweep away licensed liquor
selling as in the State Of Maine


The liquor sellers of each county ought
to meet at once and agree upon certain re-
forms and rules of action to meet the pub
lie views.


What say yon? Can the liquor bust
ness be moralized, made obedient to law
christianized? Or must it stand up an
outlaw to be knocked down and trod upon
by its own victims, cooperating with its
life long enemies? Is there no God to
guide this business, no law but that of
brute force to regulate it, and no home it
call it's own.
Year: 1867

~Gcncral Grant is reported to have
said recently in conversation with Judge
Carter, that if he was made candidate
for President by the party which support
ed the government during the war, he
should not feel at liberty to refuse such
nomination.
Year: 1867

FALSE ECoNoMY.-Dr. Charming says !:
No language can express the cruelty or
folly of that economy which, to leave a
fortune for child, starves his intellect
and impoverishes his heart There should
be no economy in education. Money must
pever be weighed against the soul of a
child. 1t should be poured out like water
for the child's intellectual and moral life.
Year: 1867

w Whitman & Co. are making pre-
parations to move their stock of goods
from their present stand to to store lately
occupied by James Jones as shoe shop.
They have secured good stand, and we
trust they will receive their full share of
patronage.
Year: 1867

IN PROBATE-IowA COUNTY COURT. IN THE
matter of the last will and testament of Thomas
Flint deceased. Letters testamentary having been
this day issued to Mary A. Flint of said county, and
twelve months from the date hereof being allowed
and limited creditors to present claims against
said deceased for examination and allowance 1t Is
ordered that all claims and demands against the
tate of said deceased bc received and adjusted before
the Judge Of this Court and for that purpose he will


be a. his Office in the village of Dodgevie on the hrst
Monday of each month"; during the term above limit
ed. And it is further ordered that said executrix
without delay cause copy of this order to be pub
tshed for four successive weeks in the DopGEEIILE
EuRoSIcLg weekly newspaper circulating in the
county of Iowa; and also that she like copy
to be posted up in four different public places iI said
county.


Dated May %, 1867. L. STRONG,


36-4w County Judge.
Year: 1867

The Government is now having
made, at Hartford, Conn, one hun.
dred battery guns Of now invention.
Fifty of them will have one-inch
bore, and the balance onc-halfinch
bore. This gun is quite a curiosity TO
look at. The main characteristics
are, that il has series of barrels, with
carrier and lock cylinder, rigidly
fastened to the main shaft, and rotat-
ing simultaneously and continuously
by means OF a crank, the cartridges
being fed into the carrier from feed
boxes, thence driving endways into
the rear ends of the barrels, then ex-
ploded and the empty cartridge with
drawn, without any pause in the op-
Grafton. The incessant loading and
firing are produced by the simplest
kind Of mechanism, there being less
parts about the gun than in the Spring
field musket This gun can be dis
charged at the rate OF two hundred
shots per minute. One Of its features
is that there is no rccoil which can
effect the accuracy Of the aim. When
the gun is sighted at n given object,
the samo aim can be maintained at
the will Of the operator until thousands
of discharges take place.


A lateral train motion of the gun
may be kept up If desired while the
gun is being discharged, so that a
perfect sheet Of balls can be made TO
sweep a section Of any circle within
its range As there is no escape Of
gas at the breech, all the force OF the
powder is expended in giving velocity
TO the ball. A consideration which is
claimed to be Of the very first impor-
tance in this gun, is that every cart
ridge must be either discharged or
Withdrawn from the barrels, thus pre-
cluding such results as were shown on
the battlefield of Gettysburg, where
of the 2S,574 muskets collected after
tho battle, $4,000 were found to be
loaded, 1900 Of them containing two
loads each, and 5000 being charged
with from three TO ten loads each, the
cartridges often being loaded without
breaking them, and many inserted
with the ball down first. The gun is
light and easily transported One of
the sizes now being made at the ar
mory discharges $500 inch calibre
balls, and weighs 225 pounds. The
other size discharges balls OF one inch
calibre, (nine ounces in weight and
weighs between 500 and COO pounds,
The first named has a range Of about
one mile, and the latter upward OF
two miles.