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Year: 1869

ened, falling hair checked, and bald
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair where the follicles are destroyed,
or the glands atrophicd and dccayed.
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
of foulng the hair with pasty sedi-
mcnt, it will keep it clean aud vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those dcleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious to the hair, the Vigor can
only benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for q
Year: 1869

President GRANTS RESIGNATION CALLED FoR-Tbat
Radical Of the Radicals, Wendell Phillips in article
published in the AntSlavery Standard. demands of
the President immediate resignation. The article ac
cuses the fallen idol Of the Republicans with ncapa-
blity, stupidity and criminal negligence. The bill Of
Indictment curiously enough corresponds with that
preferred by the Democrats Reciting in detail the
fearful state of affairs in the South describing them Of
course to anything bat Republican tyranny and mis-
management, Wendell continues:


Meanwhile Grant recreates excessively. Rational
recreation in itself is good, and sometimes very i'm
portant If be absolutely needs and is likely
tinue to need mueh he ought in the present condi
ton Of affairs to resign that the country may have
what it very much needs-a President in fact as well
as in name. No thoughtful observer of the tendency
Of affairs during the past six months but feels that the
potless drifting of this summer has been toward dan.
gers with which little later it will be most difficult to
grapple"


Pilotless drifting highly descriptive Of the aim
less course of the ship Of state under Radical manage
ment. Yet not only Grant, but the whole Radical
unta will be held responsible by the people for this
drifting toward danger.
Year: 1869

An excellent reason Why you should purchase you
boots, shoes and hats from J. B. Lewis, No. Q Texa
street. is that he purchases his goods for the cash
Another good reason is that his goods are made fou
the best of stock and certain give satisfaction
Year: 1869

TERRIBLE RENCoUNTER.-L Last
Saturday the usually quiet town of
Lagrange was the scene of a most
terrible and bloody fight between a
man named WitherspOon, formely
merchant Of thai place, aud q country.
man namde King. The difficulty
grew out of an old business matter,
and was aggravated by mean whisky
on both sides. King, after being
shot through the arm and lungs
and he received every shot while
facing his implacable foe-fOrced
Witherspoon into store, knocked
him down with his pistol, which had
failed fire five times, and beat his
head until life was thought to be
extinct. The last shot fred by
Witberspoon accidently wounded
Young man named Branchford in one
of his legs. The fight is said to have
been the most desperate that has
ever occurred in the place, or even
in the district. 1t is thought that
neither King nor Witherpoon can
possibly survive their frightful
wounds.-Ndshville Press.
Year: 1869

The economy of old ladies who
have never tasted of the sweets of
matrimOny is proverbial. One of
this class, a resident of a down. east
village, was seen on several occa-
sions to carefully gather up and put
away for safe-keeping all the Re.
publican papers which she could lay
her hands on. Upon being asked
the reason for this species of fru
gality and her apparent affection for
this kind of publications, she replied
that she used them for making
soap, assuring her listener that they
were superior to wood ashes for that
purpose, inasmuch as they we're all
pure and unadultersted lye.
Year: 1869

The London Herald tells the
following story: Net many years
since certain miners, working fat
under ground, came upon the body
Of poor fellow who had persisted
in the sufocatiug pit forty years
before. Some chemical agent to
which the body had been subjecled-
an agent prepared 10 the laboratory
Of nsture-had efecthally arrested
the progress Of decay. They brought
it up TO the surface, and for a while
till it crumbled through exposure to
the atmosphere, it lay the image Of a
fine sturdy young man. No con-
yulsiop had passed over the face in
death-the features were tranquil
the hair was as black as jet. 80


No one had recognized the face-a
generation had grown since the miner
went down into his shaft for the last
time. But tottering old woman
who had hurried from her cottage
at hearing the news, came up, and
she knew again the face which
through all these long years, she
had not forgotten.


The poor miner was to be her
husband on the day after that on
which he died.


They we're rough people, of course
who were looking on T; a liberal edu
cation and refined feelings are not
deemed essential to the man whose
work is to get up coal or even tin;
but there were no dry eyes when the
gray-headed old pilgrim cast herself
upon the youthful corpse, and poured
into its deaf ear many words of en-
dearmeut unused for forty six years.
1t was touching contrast, the one SO
old, the other so young. They had |
both been young those long years,
but time had gone on with the living |
and stood still with the dead.
Year: 1869

A young man under age applied
at Minnesota land Office for a farm
under the homestead law, but was
denied, on account of being unmar-
ried. He returned in just an hour
with remedy hanging on bis arm.
Year: 1869

A meeting of the descendants of John
Smith was recently called to be held in
Rhode Island, but the State not being
large enough to contain the family it
was found necessary to adjourn to Con-
necticut.
Year: 1869

FIFTEEN GREAT MIsTAKrs il
great mistake 20 set up our own standard
Of right and wrong. and Judge people ac
e3riius!y. It IS great mistake to meas
ure the enjoyment of others BY our own.
TO expect uniformity Of opinion IA this
world to look for judgments and expe-
rience in youth 10 endeayor to mould all
dispositions alike no, to yield in imma-
terial trifas ; to look for perfection in
fallen world not to aim at perfection in
our own actions to worry ourselves and
others with what cannot be remedied
not to alleviate all that need alleviation,
as far as in our power not to make al
I5wancos for the in6rmities of others to
consider everything impossible which wa
cannot p rform to believe only what
our faito minds can grasp; to expect to
he able to understand everything. The
rreatest Of all mistakes is to live on y for
Tine, when any moment may launch Us
into Eter nifty.
Year: 1869

shawl was washed 1t was never quite so
pretty as it had been, but it was not spoiled.
And never wanted to complain because
Nellie's was brighter.


''Iu spite of all her cheerfulness. mamma
grew thinner and paler as the summer wore
on One beautiful Sabbath afternoon, ear
iy in September, mamma and l were out in
the garden behind the house, picking shell
beans for our late dinner. Soreway do
not think there was much to make meal
of in the house, but mamma only said,
Wen have some nice succotash for dinner,
children. | was trying to separate an un-
ripe bean pod from its stalk without pulling
up the root, when kind Of mist came over
till | found myself laughing and sobbing and
clambcring right up, up to my papa's shoul-
der, in the dining room, and he was kiss
ing aud hugging all the children at once,
strong cheerful voice, about the accident to
the boat which had prevented his getting
home the night befure. and about the farm
in Wisconsin, without tree, or a fence, or
house on it when he went, but which was
now nicely ready for our new home, when
weshould go to it next spring. Crops had
been good, he said, and he had been kept
longer than he expected, in order to secure
them.


Mamma grew stronger after that, and
there was 4 servant in the kitchen, and
went to school. But after we had moved to
the new country, and the farm was paid for,
and comfort and plenty smiled all around,
then mamma faded away from our sigh.


''0ne day after she was gone, found the
little shawl in an old chest of drawers.


When ] came to live in home Of my
own. brought it With me- Il was fra
GRANGE for me now besides the lavender.
To-day laid it out for LiIla's shoulders,
when 1t is a cold morning in the breakfast
room .


Harry laid the little folded shawl across
the back of chair and went quietly away
In another moment, Lila had it grotesques
ly wrapped about her shoulders, and said,


Tell me mother story, mamma
Year: 1869

Coon BYE-1t is a hard word to speak.
Some may laugh that it should be, but let
them. Icy hearts are never kind. 1t is a
word that has ehoked many an utteFance
and started many tear The hand is
clasped, the word spoken, we part and are
out upon the ocean of time-we go to meet
again, where, God only knows 1t may be
soon, it may be never. Take care that your
good bye" be not a cold one-it may be the
last that you can give. Ere you can meet
your friend again death cold hand may
have closed his eyes and chained has lips
forever. All he may have died in thinking
you loved him not Again it may be long
separation. Friends crowd onward and
give you their hand. How do you detect in
each good bye the love that fingers there;
and how you bear away with you the mem
ory of these parting words many, many
days. We must often separate. Tear not
yourself away with careless boldness that
defies all love, but make your last words I'm
ger-give the heart its full utterance-and
if tears fall, what of it? Tears are no;
unmanly
Year: 1869

''If there's been grand dinner, always
get the party to settle before leaving. The
dinner bill, my son, is never so severely
scrutinized over night as when gentleman
looks over it next morning.
Year: 1869

DR. A NJ. HILLS desires to inform his patients
and the public generally, that he has associated
with him in the practice of Dentistry. S. P SHAW,
d. D S who is graduate Of the Philadelphia
Dental College. and therefore has the highest
attestations of his Professional skill


All work done in the Office will hold myself
personally responsible for being done in the most
satisfactory manner and highest order of the pro-
feSsion.


An established practice of twenty two years in
this place enables me to speak TO my patrons with
confidence.


Engagements from distance should be made
by letter few days before the patient designs
coming lCleardeld. June 3 lS6S-iy
Year: 1869

THE Chicago correspondent of the New
Orleans Republican writes a spicy letter to
that paper on the subject of Chicago grain
dealers, from which we clip the following


"The grain speculatOr is a rakish-loOk-
ing chap, anywhere from twenty-five to


fifty, wears the tightest and most striped
breeches, mounts nobby tile and sports
the gayest necktie out; drives team, very
natty and fast always-(who ever saw a
grain speculator on foot y tools down in
the morning to the Board, and tools up
in the evening to hear Molly twank on
the piano; lunches at 'Delmonico's' and
after dark-let me whisper it very LOWS
seen going into the European with
Molly on his ARM another bottle for
No. 6o-or is seen coming down stairs very
late from the neighbOrhOOd OF 'Aiken's,
muttering something about his great lack
of foresight in not 'coppering that there
ace


"Whence comes the grain speculator,
and whittier he goes when he has played
himself out, no mortal man knows. He
appears suddenly, resplendent in jewels
and striped shirts, and like comet dashes
across the horizon of the grain market, and
disappears as rapidly after short, and
sometime brilliant career, as he came. The
grain speculator is indeed wonderful
man. His rooms are magnificent and are
always filled with mirrors and tobacco
smoke. He loves with love that is more
than love, all games Of chance, and no one
ever need spoil for a bet while the grain
speculatOr liveth, as he will stake his bot
tom dollar whenever he has one chance in
fifty He has travelled this wide world DER,
Year: 1869

We heard good joke on a resident of
Dog Creek the other day. The party re-
ferred to is a bachelor and lives on the
wagon road. A few days ago an emigrant
wagon from Oregon came along and
camped near our friends place. The head
of the family soon made himself acquaint-
ed with the proprietor of the premises, and
asked him why he didn't have woman to
keep house for him. The answer was that
he intended to marry just as soon as he
could find woman willing to enter the
bonds of matrimony. The Oregonian re-
marked that he could find him partner if
he would take her The bachelor said that
was right into his hand, and the emigrant
invited him into his camp. The emf
grant called upon bouncing damsel of
about twenty years, and informed
her that the gentleman accompanying
him was ION the marry" and willing to
take her for better or for worse. the dam
sci, delighted with the prospect, advanced,
and, seizing our friend by the hand, assured
him that she was glad to see him, and was
ready to marry him at the "drop of a hat"
while the old lady hastenedup to congratu


late her darter" on her good luck. Sur
prised and alarmed at the serious turn mat
tiers had taken, our friend, who is constitu-
tiOnally opposed to the institution of mat
rimony, endeavOred to explain by saying
that he was only joking and did not want
to marry. At this the Oregonian became
indignant, and the would-be bride request
ed her father to take his rifle and "drap
the varmint in his tracks," At this affec-
tiOnate suggestion the bachelor left for his
Notifications, the last thing he heard being
the voice of the old lady consoling her
''darter" with the remark that it was best to
let the blk go."-Shastd, Cdl., Courier
Year: 1869

We clip the following from the NewYork
Tribune; it is true, and we commend it to
every one who has interest,where he re-
sides:


Nothing is more common than to hear
people talk of what they pay newspapers
for advertising, &c, as so much gioea in
clarity. Newspapers, by enhancing the
value of property in their neighborhood,
and giving the localities in which they are
published reputation abroad, benefit all
such, particularly if they are merchants or
real estate owners, thrice the amount
yearly ofthe meager sum they pay for their
support. Besides every public spirited
citizen has laudable pride in having a
paper of which he is not ashamed, even
though he should pick it up in New York
or Washington.


A good looking, thriving sheet helps
property, gives character to locality, and
in many respects is desirable public con-
venience. If from any cause the matter
in the local or editorial column should not
be to your standard, do not cast it aside
and pronounce it good for nothing, until
satisfied that there has been no more labor
bestowed upon it than is paid for If you
want a good readable sheet it must be
supported. And it must not be supported
in a spirit of charity either, but because
you feel necessity to support it. The
local press is the power that moves the
neOple
Year: 1869

In the town of Newcastle, in England
there was man who went by the name
| of Patient Joe. He worked in Goa
mine. He was called Patient Joe, because
if grief came to him, he would say, "It's
| all for the best; those who love God shall
ind that all things work together for
| good"


If all things went well with him,
Joe would praise God; and if things went
| i'll with him, he would praise God still, and
say, God knows best what is for my good.
We,mu not judge of things by this life
| alone, there is life to come after this; and
| things that may not seem good for us here
may be good for us there.


In the coal pit where Joe worked some
of the men would jeer and laugh at him
when he said, It's all for the best" There
was man of the name of Tim, who would
miss no chance to laugh at joe
One day, as Tim and Joe were getting
ready to go down into the deep pit, Joe,
who had brought his dinner of bacon and
bread with him, laid it on the ground for
moment. Before he could take it up, a
hungry dog seized it, and ran off


Ha, ha ~ cried Tim, that's all for the
best, is it, Joe9 The loss of thy dinner is
all for the best, is it, man? Now stick to
thy creed, and say, Yes"


"Well, do say Yes" said Joe, "but, as
| must eat, it is my duty to try to get back
my dinner. If get it back, it will be all
for the best; and if don't get it back,
why, it will be all for the best just the same.
God is so great, that He can rule the
smallest things as well as the largest"


So Joe ran after the dog; and Tim, with
laugh and an oath, went down into the
coal pit. Joe ran long way, but could
not catch the dog. At last, Joe gave up
the chase, and came back to the mine
thinking to himself that the men would all
have a good laugh at HING


But he found them all pale with alarm
and awe What a narrow escape you
have had, Joe" said one of them "The
pit has caved in, and poor Tim is killed.
If that dog had not run off with your
dinner, You would have gone down with
Tim into the pit and been killed too"


Joe took Of his hat; and while his
breast heaved, and his cheeks grew pale,
and the tears came to his eyes, he looked
up to heaven, but said not word.-7he
Nurseru
Year: 1869

DURING the fortnight which ended last
Saturday night, the telegraph line between
here and Chicago was mysteriously inter
fered with-sO that no message could be
sent, and all dispatches were sent by way
of Racine and Savanna At first the
trouble was laid to the high water some
where, but after the various streams sub
sided, the trouble continued the same as
before In the day time, however, the
line worked as well as could be desired


After a week of nightly search for the
cause of the break, it was discovered last
Friday evening, in the shape of long
iron rod, which miner at La Sale placed
against the wires upon quitting his work


The rod was knocked down, and the line
worked well enough. The miner was
warned that repetition of such a dis
posal of his working tools would result in
trouble to himself as well as to the tele-
graph company. He was utterly amazed
at the power of his rod over the wires,
and thought the telegraph was mighty
quare thing to be sthOpped by the likes O.
that rod. ."-Daoenport (lo@a) Gazette, I'd.
Year: 1869

"A lady while out berrying at North
Granville, N. Y, came upon a corpse with
the throat cut from ear to ear. She
dropped her pail of fruit and rushed for
the villagers, who at once repaired to the
scene 10 hnd that the corpse had come
to life and run off with the berries The
clever rogue had stained his neck and
breast with berry juice. ''
Year: 1869

We place the names of the Repub-
lican County nominees at the head
of our columns this morning with
pleasure. They make ticket we
can cheerfully and cordially support,
and urge others to support. While
the nominations are not all OF them
just the precise ones we would indi-
vidually have chosen, of course, yet
we are willing, as all Of us ought to
be, to forego personal preferences and
support good men when duly nomi-
mated. Where there are important
offices to be filled, there will be many
aspirants; and of course many must
be defeated. Let those who failed
this time, and their friends, remen-
ber that there willcome future years,
and rally now to the standard raised,
as they would have others rally to
their own.


We frankly confess that there were
some things in the County Conven-
ton itself with which we could not
feel suited; but they are past now,
and we donot propose toargue about
them. With all the nominees but
one, we have personal acquaintance.
All Of them, we believe, are old and
well-known citizens, with perhaps
one exceptions; and two of them have
been soldiers.


This paper will also contain the
names of the Democratic nominees;
but as they will only beobtained just
as we go to press, we shall have no
time to comment on them this week.
1t may be taken for granted that
they will be unanimously supported
by their party, without scratching,
whoever they are; and the Democra-
CIV will leave no stone unturned, no
possible effort untried, to secure their
election. The campaign this year
must be short, but our opponents
will make it venomous. Unless eX-
perience deceives us, we may look
for all sorts of false reports about our
nominees. We earnestly hope all
such reports will be credited to their
proper source, and considered accor-
dinghy.


Little room is left us this week for
argument. Next week, and until
election, we shall have further oppor-
tunities. But let us all remember
duly that the time is now short, and
earnest and united effort is necessary
if we would elect our nominees and
place our noble County side by side
with it's sister Counties in the onward
march of progress wherein our own
proud State of Iowa leads the van.
Come, then, united and firm, and
rally for the victory.
Year: 1869

HoRsEs.-A certain cure for founder


in horse, some think, is to stand him


in water up to his belly. | have known


it practised for fifty years; and swathing


the legs in 'cot water, vinegar and sugar


oflead, are all good ts some extent but


a founder must he relieved suddenly, OF


the horse will show stiffness in his ac-


ton and have deformpd and callouS, ten
der hoofi.


Water applied Eto the legs I do not
consider positive cure; the disease must
be attacked at the root, by bleeding
asd purg5ng; a few drops of blood taken
from below the fetlocks will hasten his
recovery. But the most certain and
quick remedy that | have ever known
is green gonrd. Take large green
gourd, cut it up; put it into a gallon of
water, and boil it down to quart. Strain
the liquid and drench-in' twenty-four
hours the horse will be perfectly him
self. The gourd is a powerful diuretic,
and will cause the horse to stale the
most offensive odor.


In 1922, traded for two fine young
mares in Augusta, Ga. | rode one Of
thep to Kentucky, and my servant the
other. Early one morn;ag, at the cross
ing of Clinch river, Tenn, we found one
Of the mares so badly foundered that she
could not be led out of the stable. | pro-
cured green gourd and drenched her as
directed above, and directed the servant
to remain until she was able to travel, !
that he would reach home in
three OF four days after me; the next day
after my arrival he came in, with the
mare in as good plight as if nothing had
RuraL World.
Year: 1869

The most extraordinary railroad event
of this railroad age is in preparation
the magnificent ttrans-continentsl excur-
sion which, in the coming month of
July, is to open the Pacific Railway
route from one ocean to the other. It
will be the worlds great representative
gathering, that will meet in the heart
Of the continent to see the the last rail
spiked home, From this side the party
will consist of one Thousand guests, in =
superb train of forty-five cars, finished
expressly for this occasion. DIR. Durant
will, we learn, commence the excursion
proper at Omaha, leaving it to guests
from all over the country to reach that
point by their own choice of routes. at
the head of the list of invited guests will
be President Grant and his Cabinet
There will also be delegations of our
foreign cousins from over the water
We learn that the Pullman company
are building several splendid sleeping
and commissry cars for the call to be
made on these facilities. Altogether it
will be an affair in American railroad
annals unlikely ever to be surpassed,
since no possible achievement of equal
magnitude waits to be performed.-Chi-
cagO Republican.