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Year: 1868

The subscribers call your attention to a new Fertilizer prepared by the Lodi Manufacturing Co.,, made from Night Soil, Blood, Bones and Offal of New York City, called

 DOUBLE REFINED POUDRETTE. which is an entirely different article from the common Poud.ette made in former yearc. u is double the strength of the old kind, fine as four, free from coarse impurities, and is as strong and effective as any superphosphate in market although sold for only twenty five dol lars per ton.

 This article has only been used one season, butt effects have astonished every one who have tried it, and the company confidently as- sert that used in quantities half as large as was formerly used of the common Poudrette, that 1t vii! not only double the crop, but ripen it from ten days to two weeks earlier. I s This makes it by far the cheapest and most preferable manure ill market

 For pamphlet and further information apply to THE LODI MANUFACTURING CO. 46-3m 66 Cortlandt St. N. Y.
Year: 1868

The weather played the mischief with Mir. Baldwin's concert last week not with the music, that was all and more too than was promised, but the attendance was small, and at the urgent request of those who did not go, as we'll as of those who did attend, it will be repeated Wednesday even ing April 29th, at the meeting house in South Cornwall, if the weather favors; the first fair evening thereafter, if 1t does not. Lovers of good music should go and hear it.

 Rev Mir. Potter is laboring in North Cornwall, this week. Meetings are we'll at tended-people coming from all parts of the town filling the house Sunday. It is a continuation of the interest that has been manifest nearly all winter.

 Active business opens later than usual this spring. The weather has afforded but little opportunity to engage in farming.

 The quantity of milk for New York is constantly increasing, there being about 220 cans per day. West Cornwall as yet, is ahead in the number of cans sent. fur nishing about one fifth.
Year: 1868

HAVING SOLD MY INTEREST TO MY
former partner in business. Robert l.. Weakley.
l take pleasure in saving that our business
transactions heretofore have always been AMIGA
bic, and can safely recommend him to my
friends and the public as one in every way trust
worthy and reliable in business. and respect
fully solicit for him d continuance Of the liberal
patronage heretofore ex tended to the late firm


r. b. YARRKOUGh.
fsbq1 Og
Year: 1868

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Sec l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly Of the State of Iowa,
That when any corporation organized
under the law of this State, or any
individual, has obtained or hereafter
obtain from the board Of supervisors
license for tho construction of toll
bridge across any of the rivers Or
streams Of this State, such corpora
tion or individual may take and ap-
propriate so much private property
in the line of such bridge as shall be
necessary for a right of way therefor
in such width as such corporation
or individual may desire, not exceed,
ing sixty feet.


Sec 2. Said right Of way shall not
only extend from ono terminus Of the
bridge to the other, but continuously
from aud to tho point Of the roads or
streets which said bridge is to accom-
modate and thus connect.
See 4. II fthe owner of such proper
ty over which said right Of way ex-
tends. shall refuse to grant the same,
the sheriff of the county shall, upon
application Of either party, appoint
six disinterested freeholders Of the
county to assess the damage, which
the owner, or any person having. an
interest in or Improvement on the
property to be taken, will sustain
by reason Of the appropriation there
Of; and all the provisions Of ofscction
1877 of the Revision Of 1860 shall
be held applicable to and govern the
action ard rights Of all parties con-
,cerned in tho proceeding tho same
as if it were herein set cut ct length.
except that the word bridge shall
be read fer ard whore thc word rail-
road now occurs in said section.


Sec 4. Sections 1915. 1919, and
1920 Of article 8 Of chapter 3d.. Of
the. Revision of 1860, shall also
govern the method of proceeding in
such cases 90 far a. the same may
be applicable.
Year: 1868

eg At the request of Mr. John Her man of Falls Village we hereby inform and give the Sentinel to understand that he is at his house and not trying to avoid ar- rest, as insinuated in that paper.
Year: 1868

In view of all the facts, we do not see how any candid American can accuse Con- gress of the eagerness for impeachment imputed to them by their adversaries It is now two years since the breach between Congress and the President became irre- concileable. At that time there were not wanting plausible grounds for impeach- ment, and there was more than the two- thirds Republican majority necessary to remove the President, had they desired to use their strength for mere partisan pur- poses. Yet the House refused to pass res- olutions of impeachment. During the past summer, Mir. Johnson used every ef- fort, short of an absolute refusal to execute the law, to impede the operation of the Re- construction Acts. Nevertheless. the House, on re-assembling again, voted down impeachment. The correspondence be- tween the President and Gen. Grant show ed an evident intention on the part of the former to break the Tenure of Office law. l The Reconstruction Committee of the House, nevertheless, refused to report an impeachment resolution.

 l At last President Johnson evidently came to the conclusion that the House dare not impeach him under any circumstances, and ventured on the high-handed course of action reported in another column. He has at last convinced not only the Repub- lican party in and out of Congress, but ev- cry reasonable man in the nation, that his removal can no longer be safely postponed.
Year: 1868




The subscriber for the past ten years engaged
as cutter 1T Mr.. Cones Merchant Tailoring Es-
tabli.hmcnt would inform his friends and the
citizens Of Rock Island and vicinity, that he has
opened a New Merchant Tailoring Establishment
for the purpose Of manufacturing to order first
class fine custom work to those that have been in
the habit Of getting their garments cut by us,
while al MT. Cones, we would extend an invita-
tion to call on US at our new establishment, and
to those that caunot get suited in Rock Island
aud are in the habit of sending east for their gar
ncnts we would invite them to call and give
trial. feeling confident that can suit them in
every respect. We have handsome assortment
Of fine Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestings, together
with a large variety of splendid French Coatings
and Trcots in different shades and colors for fine
business suits Also fine Beavers in different
eolors for OyercOats,-all Of which we will make
to order in the best aud most fashionable manner
atlower rates than the same class of goods can be
obtained either side Of the river. Call and
examine our styles, and compare cur goods and
prices with those engaged in the same business


THOMAS MCCULLOUGH,
Moth side Of Third Street, near the Post Office


Davenport, Iewa.
Formerly cutter at Cones.


n. B. The outing department is under our
own supervision. oy29dly
Year: 1868

weeks and he barely kept body and soul to-
gether on the pay he received Then he wa,
put into better position. Then he rose tc
be clerk, and no clerk so hard working, "a
faithful, 20 interested, in all this great house
as himself Ne saw his chance, and counted
up in his busy brain every point in tn,
game.


In five years from the time he sat on q
bench pounding nails straight, he sat on the
managers scat, and hammered the crooked
ins and outs of the business straight Dur
ing his clerkship he never missed q single
day and no morning went by without his
reporting promptly at seven O'Clock. He
saved money and married, and prospered as
the years went by. Go up Broadway to-day,
and you will see his name shining in golden
letters over the entrance Of one Of the largest
and finest establishments In that building
is seventeen millions Of dollars worth Of
stock His trade extends all over the land.
His fortune is princely And even now,
though the great merchant is getting gray,
and the old-iime energy is waxing slow, new
light will come into his eyes, and a new life
into his form, when he tells Of those past
days Of striving, and says 10 the young men
around him, " Work, if you would succeed I;
be a true, faithful, earnest clerk, if you would
become merchant Of position and import
ance Z"
Year: 1868

take to be the architect Of his warehouse, and
to place the desks, drawers and pigcon-holc.
OF his counting room, as for him to divine
from his omniscience the most convenient spot
Tor her cupboards. In the same manner, il
trees are 70 be cut down or left standing OF
fower-beds to be laid out around the house,
her taste should be consulted fret, for the
sight Of these things must delight or chafo
her all day long, while they are Of very little
practical consequence to tho husband in the
evenings, which are his chief time at home.
Again, the homestead should belong to the
wife in fee-simple she has a right to the
nest in which she rears her young, and ought
70 be assured that it can never be torn from
her by those reverscs of fortune to which, in
this country, all are so liable. Women all
feel this, though they are apt to lack the cour.
age to say IT. and if their comfort and con.
yenience were once more paramount at home,
IT they were quite certain that the spot to
which they are SO often advised to confne
their aspirations really belonged to them, and
was wholly within their control, they would
gladly assume the responsibility, and strive
with much greater alacrity than they do now
to force their husbands to acknowledge the
ability Of their generaship, and to appreciate
the delights Of home.-Horper's Bazar.
Year: 1868

A green rustic lad came years ago to the
metropolis from Connecticut village. Al
home he had done very well in an humble
way, but had shown no very marked ability
He had read and heard of the wonderful city
He made up his mind he could do something
in it. When he reached the city no place
seemed open to him. Day after day he hunted
for business. Want stared him in the face,
He would not give up and go back to his
friends Dropping into large drygoods
house one day in the search for work, he
CHANGED to come face to face with the propri-
etor. We have nothing for you to do, sir, -
this great business man said, in reply to his
inquiry. But, stay, what can you do ?" he
continued, ''you seem to be an honest-looking
lad"


"Oh, sir, can do anything only try me,
foniy-giye me chance to do something p
And the tears came out, aud trickled down
the cheeks of the almost discouraged, forlorn
boy, though he tried as hard as he could to
repress them. will take the lowest, poor
est place. and do my best y


He was engaged and set to work. lie was
sent down into the cellar and commenced his
business career in New York by pounding out
bent-up nails, which had been thrown ina
pile beside the packing-boxes, so they could
be used again. This was his work for two
Year: 1868

mer whose strength has often raised hin
above the stormy waves, but now exhausted
sinks amidst the surgcs.


Why should the old love the old or kis,
the old, unloving lips ? Ah why shouldn't
thcy2 Does affection grow old Does the
true heart feel the indruity Of years Does
it grow old when the step becomes unsteady,
AMI the hand hangs down


Who shall say that the heart Of the old
wife was not as young and warm as in those
carly and brighter days, when he wooed and
won hcr2 The temple Of her earthly hopes
had fallen and what was there left for her
but to sit down in dependency among its
lonely ruins, and weep and die Or. in the
spirit of a better hope, await the dnwninp of
another day, when a hand divine shall gather
its sacred dust, and rebuild for immortality
its broken walls.


May the old wifss kiss, that linked the
living with the dead be the token of holier
life, that shall bind their spirits in that bet
ter land, whore tears are wiped from all faces.
and the days Of their mourning are ended
Year: 1868

We smile when children cram their little
purses with shankless buttons, bits of earthen-
ware and the like, faneying the rubbish mon-
ey Our smile is kindly, but there is an air
Of plying condescension about it, as much as
to say "poor little ignorant things it does
not take much to tickle them" But are
they a whit more foolish than full-grown men
and women Look at the trumpery that
tickes u.s. They can play in the dirt with
their toys Their fun is whole-souled, roll
licking fun. They have no fear of their make
believe money being stolen or lost, No Wis
ions of breaking banks ; no misgiyings about
risky Investments keep them awake o'nights
nor spoilst stresssappettes by day Silks and
Jewels give them no concern. When they
play they play with all their might, tumbling
head over heels, perfectly obivious Of the
rules of polite society and the exactments of
etiquette If the confeetioner refuses to
give them candy for their suppository coin,
they pout little, perhaps, but in five min
utes the disappointment is forgotten. We
big folks, with our stocks and coupons, and
bonds and mortgages, and cash in hand have a
thousand times their anxiety, and it is very
doubtful if these evidences of wealth make us
half as happy as the rudest playthings make
the children of the poor. The boy of ten who
plays at hop-scotch or pig-in-the-ring on the
sidewalk mi ght well be envied by the specu-
lator, who CANDLES for a "golden Chain or a
wooden leg" in the gold room or stock mar
ket.-N Y. Ledger,
Year: 1868

THE DYING WIFE.
Raise my pillow, husband, Dearest
Faint and fainter comes my breath
And these shadows stealing slowly,
Must, know, be those Of death.
Sit down close beside me, darling,


let me clasp your warm, strong hand,
Yours that ever has sustained me


To the borders Of this land
For your God and mino-our Father
Thence shll ever lead me on
Where upon throne eternal.


Sits his loved and only Son
I've had visions and been dreaming
Der the past Of joy and pain,
Year by year I've wandered backward,
Till was child again
Dreaming Of girlhood, and the moment
When stood your wife and bride.
How my heart thrilled to Loves triumph,
In that hour Of woman pride.
Dreaming Of these and all the earth chords
Firmly twined about my heart
oh The bitter, burning anguish,


W hen first knew we must part
IL has pas.ei-and God has promised
All thy footsteps to attend
lie that more than friend or brother,
lie II be with you 10 the end.
There no shadow DER the portals,
Leading 10 my heavenly home
Christ has promised life immortal
And It's lie that bids me come
w ben HE trials wait around thee,
And its chilling biiews fssed
Thoul thank heaven that M spared them
Ih0ul't then feel That call is well %
Bring our boys unto my bedside
My last blessing let them keep
But they re sleeping, do not wake them;
They u learn soon enough to weep
Tell them often Of their mother,
Kiss them for me when they wake,
Lend them gently in life s pathway,
Love them dnuhly for my sake
Clasp my hand still closer, darling,
This, the last night Of my life.
For Tomorrow shall never


Answer when You call me wife
Fare thee well, my noble husband
Faint not meath the chast ming rod
Throw your strong arm round our children,
Keep them close 10 thee-and God.
Year: 1868

mote Judge Cardozo to the Supreme Court last No
vember II Is claimed by the friends of the Judge
that lie is backed by twelve Thousand votes all for
him, and for him alone and that these can only De
diverted from the common cause, or secured 70 u as
Judge Kussel's name appears on OF is apsent iTon %
the ticket either as the candidate OF Tammany Haii
or the democratic Union party Mr.. Bediord,s claim
viii be strongly urged on the Tammany General
Committee by men OF great and controlling
influence In the party, and who VIII neither liner
ask nor of1er any compromise In attaining tnelr
object In this matter. In the democratic Union
ranks Judge Connolly Is talked OF as the candloale
OF the party For the ONCE Of supervisor the same
party talk OF nominating william G. Conner, late
County Clerk; but Tammany has selected for TINS
office her strongest man, William II. Tweed ana WIZ
hardly fail In electing him.


The Mozart party Is showing no signs OF life. Its
great creator and leader has evidently retired from
the field OF party strife. He has, II Is said, but one
aspiration connected with p0itics-that is to aid
the democratic party OF the nation In the effort
to elect democratic candidate TO the Presi.
dency, and then take formal leave or
politics In every shape. The democratic Union party
are holding together and profess to be ready 70
nominate the strongest candidates that can be found
against the candidates OF Tammany for every once
to be filled In November next. How far the 0rgani-
cation will carry out the threat OF opposition remains
to be seen: but In the presence Of the oversnadowng
influence OF Tammany In city political affairs, it s
not likely that the democratic Union party Will long
hold out on an independent course OF action. Tam
many's power Of absorption just now Is lrresisnpe,
and will speedily cause to disappear the last Vesge
Of opposition from democratic quarter
Year: 1868

fuences are at work to insert new items which
are so monstrous and barefaced that the rascals
in the city did not dare to put them into the
bills, but hope to get them put in at the last
moment by their brother rascals III Albany,
when the honest members will not have time
to expose the swindles, and in the racket
and confusion of legislative dissolution may not
even discover them. Filthy, a large number
of capacious Democratic maws, belonging TO
fellows who all along have hOwled against
Albany government, are aching and gnplng
just now lest the appropriations to pay their
uneaIned salaries and stealings may be handled
roughly il the bills are reported in time for
examination, or passed too deliberately to adj
NIT of the additions and betterments which
loafers in Office so crave and covet Sixthly,
large and perfectly solvent body of contractors
and jobbers of all sorts, sizes, and grades, with
surplus funds to invest in legislative virtue,
in the joyful hope of getting them back ten
fold are resolved that these great bills shall
not be passed in time to be printed, or even
engrossed, before the Legislature adjOurns,
but that they shall be kept in some convenient
place, for the purpose of putting in amend
ments, striking out Objectionable restrictive
clauses, af1ixing fraudulent slips, and being
manipulated in all sorts of wicked ways, be-
fore the bills are engrossed and sent to the
Governor, who has hardly any choice except
to sign them. Finally, who shall say to what
extent members of the Legislature are inter
ested in these billsq Are not three sparrows
sold for a farthingq Are we not required to
conceal from the right hand what the left hand
doeth? Some legislative sparrows have their
farthings paid down; others receive theirs
circuitously. The tax bills OF the city
contain provisions in which members OF
the Legislature are likely to have an inter
est which no sagacity can ferret out and prore
Nav, some of the members of the Legislature
from this city are holders of city Offices, and
are drawing fat pay for imaginary services
here while log-rolling and walowing in cor
rupt legislation at Albany. They are robbing
us in two places at the same time, and they
do not wish the Tax Levy prematurely reported
The final cause of the delay, then, lies with
certain members of the Legislature. But the
primary and most directly responsible cause is
the Municipal Committee, and especially its
Chairman. Alexander Frear we call upon you,
the people call upon you, the taxpayers call
upon you, honest men throughout the State
call upon you TO REPORT! Let us see this
bantling of tedious CESSATION; let us handle it,
dandlc it, and show its pretty, innocent tea-
lures to admiring friends. Report REPORT !
RFpORTi
Year: 1868

Mr.. Alexander Frcar, Chairman of the NUM-
cipa Committee of the Assembly and Member
from New York why do you not report the
City Tax bill and the County Tax bill I You
other two city members of the Committee, you
two from Brooklyn, and you two from the
rural districts why do you not compel Chair
man Frear to report these tax bills, or ask the
House to compel him to report them' Mem
bers of the Assembly generally why TO you
not order these vastly important money bills to
be Immediately rep0rtcdP The hundred days
of legislative life are running ont like the sands
of the retired physician, but the great tax bills
Of OVER TWENTY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, Which
are to be wrung chiefly from the lab0ring men


of this city i'll the shape Of Rents, Food, and
Clothing, are still persistently held back. Why
are thet held back? Ask the Ring and they
can tell you, if they will Ask the Honorable
William NJ. Tweed, the Honorable Mayor Hoh-
man who "says nothing about local taxes" the
Honorable Peter b. Sweeny, who has great
power with his party, and many other mighty


honoIables who run the Democratic machine,
and perhaps they will tell you, and perhaps they
will not But We assume they will not, and


therefore we will state for them some reasons
why these bills are not reported. In the first
place the eyes of the people are looking for
them-the wide-Open, deep-Searchng eyes OF


the people, who desire TO see, examine, and


fight the monsters. If an Albany tax levy


hates anything, it is the light, and the scrutiny
which follows when it is dragged forth into the


light. Secondly, short AS is the remnant of the
hundred days. it is too long by far to suit the


peculiar character of the Tax Levy. The men
who have charge of it fight in ambush like


Indians. They prefer a surprise to an open


field, and q most dsagreeable surprise are they


preparing for the tax paying people Thirdly,
the Committee at Albany are doing the bidding
of the Ring in the city and the Ring wish the
levy kept back to the last moment for fear
that all the jobs, frauds, and Infamous yllainies
with which they have crammed it may meet
with stern resistance on the part of honest
Assemblywen. FoWthly, powerful political in
Year: 1868

Connecticut holds her State Election to-day.
We have not Wanted our conviction that the
Democratic majority of last year will now be
wholly overcome, though we certainly hope
and trust that it may be. We feel entire con-
fidence that the State is Republican by at
least Two Thousand majority provided every
legal elector shall vote once only, and
no others shall vote at ALL But we know
that some voters are absent from the State,
and cannot return to it to-day, while others
will forego their privilege through needless
ness, illness or preOccupatiOn, and good many
illegal votes will be pOlled-every one of these
influences conspiring to reduce if not overcome
the Republican majority. We say to our friends
to-day, as we have said all along, You can
succeed if you all do your best: Do 1T, then,
and electrify your brethren throughout the
land with tidngs of victory which will
practically settle the next Presidential Elec-
ton


Our very latest dispatches, reaching to II
o'clock last night are OF the most hopeful
character. Excellent judges, who have labored
throughout the canvass, count upon hand
some Republican majority and one of the most
prominent of the Democratic orators is said to
concede their defeat. But lose not vote .
Trust nothing short of downright hard work !!