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Year: 1869

Why is it that the rainbow
and the clouds come over u,
with a beauty that is not OF
earth, and then pass away and
leave us to muse on faded love.
illness? Why is it that the
stars that hold nightly festivals
around the midnight throne are
placed above our limited facul.
ties, forever mocking us with
their unapproachable glory?
And why is it that the bright
forms Of human beauty are pre-.
sented to our view and then ta
ken from us leaving the thous
and streams of affections to
flow back in almighty torrents
upon the human heart? We
are born of a larger destiny
than that Of earth. There is q
land where the stars will be be-
fore us like islands that slum
ber in the ocean, and where the
beautiful beings that pass be
fore us like a meteor will stay
in our presence forever.
Year: 1869

A company Of gentlemen in Reno


were, not long since, Willing an even.


ing away by singing songs and relating


anecdotes, when one asked for the


song of "Would / were a boy again y


at which "Old ri Ute," John X. Love.
Joy) who was present, broke out as


follows; "A boy again Who would


be boy again IL be could To have


the measles, mumps and itch, TO get


kicked by bigger boys and scolded by
older brothers, TO stub your toes, to


have the belly-ache from swallowing
cherry stones, to get lousy helping


Mike do his sums, 10 have chapped
hands and frozen toes, TO get your
ears boxed, to get spanked with slip
pers, to get whaled by thick headed
schoolmaster, 10 have visitors come to
school aud tell you how miserably
weak and stupid you were when you
were born, and to ask you what would
have become of you at that interesting
time in your life if your parents had
not been so kind to you, 10 eat at the
second table when company comes, to
set out cabbage plants because you are
litlle and consequently it won't make
your back ache much, to got hit in the
eye witffrozen apples and soggy snow
balls, to cut your finger, TO lose your
knife, TO have a hole in the rear of
your only pair OF pants when your
pretty cousin from the city comes to
see you, TO be called coward il YOU
won't fight at school, 10 DO whaled at
home if you do fight at school, to be
struck after little girl and dare not
tell her, to have boy too big for you
to lick to tell yon your sweetheart
sqnints, to bo made TO 90 TO bed when
you know you ain I bit sleepy, TO have
no fire crackers on the Fourth of July.
no skates on Christmas, TO want
piece Of bread and butter with honey
and get your ears pulled, to be kept
from the circus when IL comes to
Town and when all the other boys 20,
to get pounded for stealing roasting
ears, to get run by bull dogs for trying
to nip watermelons, to have the canker
rash, catechism aud stone bruises, TO
be called up to kiss all the old women
that visit your mother, TO be scolded
because you like Maggie Love better
than your own dear sister, to be told
of what a scorching time little boys
will have who tell lies and arc not
like George Washington, to catch your
big brother kissing the pretty school
ma'am on the sly, and TO wish you
was big so you could kiss her too, aud
-and-why damn beinga boy again"
Crescent.
Year: 1869

Some of the doaoons down East
seem to have had a bad practice of
snoring loudly while in church, which
appears TO disturb some folks there, as
a Maine paper recently had the follow
ing polite note for one of them "Dea.
con-- is requested not TO commence
snoring TO morrow until the sermon
has begun as some persons in the
neighborhood Of his pew would like
to hear the text |"
Year: 1869

A daughter is almost always right
when she endeavors to initiate her
mother Dut we do not think the
mother is equally right when, at a
period Of life, she tries all she can TO
initiate her daughter.
Year: 1869

THE TRUE LIFE.-The mere lapse of
years is not life. To eat, and drink, and
sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the
light; to pace round in the mill of hab-
it, and turn the wheel of wealth; to
make reason our book-keeper, and turn
thought into an implement of trade
this is not life. In all this but poor
fraction of the consciousness of humani-
ty is awakened, and the sanctities still
slumber which make it most worth while
to live. knowledge, truth, love, beauty,
goodness, faith, alone can give vitality
to the mechanism of existence the laugh
of mirth which vibrates through the
heart; the tears that freshen the dry
wastes within; the music that brings
childhood back; the prayer that calls
the future near; the doubt which makes
us mediate the death that startles us
with mystery; the hardship that forces
us to struggle; the anxiety that ends in
trust-are the true nourishment of our
natural being.
Year: 1869

Any amount and every class of Insurance required
can be placed at this Office in the best Companies
and at as low rates any agency in the country.


Expiration Notices Promptly Given.
Year: 1869

saw her, but it was highly probable the
other had been forced out in the strug-
gle which robbed her of her life, and the
physician, for the first time making a
minute examination, found that the tooth
upon the right side had been forced from
its place but was still adhering to the
gum. He easily pushed it back to its
proper position, and there was the head
without discrepancy between it and the
description of Ada Ricard.


The detectives found other witnesses,
and among them the hair-dresser who
had acted in that capacity for Ada Ric-
ard during many months, who, in COM
mon with all the others, fully confirmed
the evidence of Charles Ricard. The
identity of the murdered woman was
therefore established beyond question.


Naturally the next step was to solve
the mystery Of her death. The detect
ives went to work with unusual caution,
but persisted in the task they had as
signed themselves, and were slowly gath
ering the shreds of her life, to weave
from them thread that would lead to
the author of her tragical death, when
they were suddenly " Aoored," to use
their own energetic expression. Ada
Ricard herself appeared at down town
New York hotel. in perfect health and
unscathed in person.


The explanation was simple The
whim had suddenly seized her to go to
| New Orleans, and she had gone without
leave-taking or warning. 1t was no un-
usual incident in her wandering life, and
her speedy return was due only to the
fact that she found the Southern city on
ly military camp under the iron rule
of General Butler, and therefore an un-
profitable field for her.


The CHASTITY head became more of a
mystery than before. The baffled de-
tectives could again only look at it help
lessly, and send descriptions of it over
the country. AT last it was seen by n
woman named Callahan, living in Bos-
ton, who was in search of daughter
who had gone astray. She instantly pro-
nounced it to be that of her child, and
she was corroborated by all the members
of her family and several Of her neigh
bors. The identification was no less spe-
cific than before, and the perplexed au-
thorities, glad at last to know something
certainly, gave Mrs. Callahan an order
for the body. Before, however, she had
! completed ner arrangements Tor It's trans
fer to Boston, q message reached her
from the daughter, who was lying sick
in Bellevue Hospital, and so the head
once more became mystery And such
it has always remained The body told
that female who had been delicately
reared, who had Jared sumptuously, and
had been arrayed in costly fabrics, had
been foully done to death, just as she
was stepping into the dawn of woman
hood and that is all that is known. Her
name, her station, her history, her vir-
tues, or it may be, her frailties, all went
down with her life, and were irrevocably
lost. There is every probability that
her case will always be classed as unfn-
ished business. - GALAXY for March
Year: 1869

is only pastime, a relief from self and
ennui. To such, that which is most ex-
citing, most thrilling, that which least
taxes the reflective powers, and most ex-
cites the imagination and fancy, are
most attractive, and sought for. Read
only to fill the passing hours--the
thoughts it called into being die with the
occasion. Nothing deep and permanent
that the mind may assimilate to itself re-
mains with it, and thus the productive
ness of its nature becomes impaired by
the repeated passage Of that which
reaches only and tramples its surface
By this weak, unsystematic and desulto-
ry habit of reading, the mind acquires
a distaste for all that is healthy, quiet,
and thonght-giving in character. Thus
the true object of reading, the widening
of our mental powers and vision, and the
forming of pure tastes and thoughts is
lost in the ephemeral kind of reading
matter chosen. There is a misuse in the
quality.


2. And greater misuse often in
the quantity. There is gormandizing
of books as well as of food The mind
not unfrequently is SO overloaded that it
cannot work. A heterogeneous mass
from all sources is so continually being
hurled in upon that it is continually baf-
fled in all of its attempts to create sys-
tenn or order in its realm. Read less
and think more, is good watchword for
many student Select carefully and
read only so much as can be thoroughly
assimilated into the fabric of the mind.
The value of so reading is exemplifed
in the case of many a hard working
man, whose reading is little in time and
quantity, yet whose knowledge is clear,
smoothly cut, and definite in all of its
parts, while the man Of leisure and many
books not unfrequently has dim, cloudy
vision Of everything, yet knows clearly
and definitely nothing.


The very common desire to taste of
every new publication as it appears
meets fit counter in the habit of one
of the wisest of men, who says: When
ever hear of a new book | go and read
of an old one." And truly the old au-
thors may be said to have given US the
SEEDS of thoughts They have been the
| quarry men in the mines Of thoughts,
while those that followed have been
sculptors and beaten into systems and
creeds of the huge masses they have
rolled forth.


Commend thar person who,
choosing the best authors, reads little
but often and makes his own what he
reads. Tell me of his noble purposes,
purity of taste and thought, and | shall
| believe. Commend me to his friendship
for | know it is like his bosk friends
pure and strong. Says wise man -
"Were | to pray for taste which should
be source Of happiness and cheerful
ness through life, and a shield against its
ills, however things might go amiss, and
the world frown against me, it would be
a taste for sound, thoughtful reading"
Year: 1869

DEPLOYTNG AS .SKTRAIISHERs.-Th
competition between the Henderson
packets is becoming quite lively, and
" strategy, my boy. fine strategy = is
being resorted to, to secure freight
and passengers. The following will
illustrate: On Friday night last the
officers of both the packets learned
that there were two head OF cattle and
one or two passengers to be had by
running down to a warehouse some
mile and a half below the city, and
each determined to secure the prize
by slipping quietly down, at early
dawn, and before the other could get


steam up. just before daylight the
.Sallie ". slipped her cable aud with
out the tinkling Of bell, dropped
out from shore and made off at full
speed for the lower warehouse. So
quiet were her movements made, and
with such celebrity, that Capt. Martin
and Hoon Miller, thu pilot. were left
ashore and had to follow in skiff.
The Mollie Norton slipped out quietly
a moment later. and also ran down
to secure the coveted freight and pas
sengers. and in order to make it doubly
sure. the bar-keeper of the Norton re-
sorted to the strategy of deploring
as skirmishers. to use the language
of a distinguished army surgeon, and
so started out from the river in the
direction he supposed the cattle and
the passengers would come. The
hour was an early one, the neighbor-
hood strange one, aud as Field eau
tiously threaded his way through the
dim shadows of gray morning, he was
somewhat startled to find man or a
boy picketiDg each fence corner along
the lane, having been previously sent
out or |" deplored as skirmishers' By
the Sallie V,whiehisuceeededin sscur-
ing the freight. Field says he viii &C
down the night before, on the mex


occasion of the kind, and picket the
whole shore himself alone. Though
the competition is warm. the mos
friendly relations, we are glad to say
exist between the crews OF the com


peting boats. as4
Year: 1869

NEW QUARTERS. = The Young
Mems Christian Association of this
city have leased the room occupied
last year by the Board of Trade, over
the Merchants National Bank, which
they are fitting up in handsome style
for the use of the Association. They
expect to be able to occupy it on
Thursday next, and will probably
hold the Young Mems Prayer Meet
ing. there on Friday morning.
Year: 1869

JOB WORK.-It is generally under
stood, at home and abroad, that there
is no successful competition with the
JOURNAL Job Office in Southern In
diana or, indeed, anywhere west of
Cincinnati. -
Year: 1869

NIGHT SoHooL.-There is no better
way in which apprentices and the
working classes of our young men can
spend their Winter evenings than in
attention to mental Improvement and
greater advancement in study One
Of the best means to the accomplish
ment OF these objects is a we'll
conducted night school. We are
pleased to hear Of the successful
establishment of such school by
Mr., Luke Wood, in the lower rooms
of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, Mr.. Wood is a graduate Of
Wabash College, and well qualified
for his work. We advise young men
who have leisure Winter evenings, to
spend them in the eight school.
Year: 1869

portions OF the State, but the soil Is rich and fertile.
This conaguraton OF the country however, affords
many charming sites for houses. the ground sloplng
on 10 every direction from each successive elevation
covered with the native grasses present the appear
ance Of magnificent meadows newly mown.


Toward evening as we approached the rope ferry
over the Platte river two men on horseback were
seen haetening towards US. One OF them was the
ing Welearned that he was bound for Forest City
to get q drink, and II we would walt till he came
back he would take across the river Forest City
is q point ON the high tabeland and where there u
little more than store and saloon Hts return to the
river before morning being more than doubtful, We
did not wait, but worked our own way across the
ferry. After riding All that day since noon and
through the night, we finally arrived at Lincoln
about sunrise Ia the me ling.
Year: 1869

u ,s doubtful II there exists another maritime
city in the civilized world that present the
spectacle OF so many mean, dilapidated and rotten
wharves and piers as this, the great commercial
mart Of the western Hemisphere.


Along both the North and East rivers, as far as
the eye can reach miserable specimens OF New
Yorks wealth and greatness In the shape OF decayed
docks and piers may be seen. why 1t IS that this
state OF aairs should exist IN city where so much
OF the wealth OF the world Is stored is a mystery
that wiser heads will have TO solve. Babylon and
Tyre, which have passed away and Venice, which
still remains monument Of her former greatness,
after having each attained the zenith OF prosperity,
dwinded into ohscurity. But 1t canno. be possible
that New York is following IN their footsteps yet
the present state OF the commerce OF this city and
the diapidated appearance Of its wharyes almost
warrant the belief.


Foreigners who land mere from alnerel2t seaports
Of the globe are struck with the miserable condition
OF our wooden piers or landing places and ridicue
them Liverpool can boast OF granite piers that
have withsto0d the test OF centuries. Bayrc, Bre.
men, and even Rio Janeiro, whose shipping interests
cannot be placed IN comparison with those OF New
York. have each their docks built OF substantial
masonry. and, In iact there is scarcely seaport OF
any pretenson In Europe but can put to shame this
city on the subject Of docks The Improvement of
the wharves has been the subject OF earnest discus
sion In both the Legislature and Common Council,
but nothing or dennlte character has been accom-
plished. Last winter, in the Legislature, an clabo.
rate bill on the subject ofwharf improvements In
this city was presented and Its passage warmly
urged. The bill advocated the granting OF more
power to the Commissioners OF the SINKING Fund,
allowing them to act with greater liberty, but by
vote OF the majority OF the members OF that Legls
lature the bill laid on the table for an indefinite
period.


The following Is the amount OF revenue derived
from the rentage OF docks and slips during the past
four years, collected by the Comptroller
Year: 1869

The Boston TrareleT makes light Of our Couu-
sil Of Cencors in the f5lling irreverent fashion.
Vermont has one luxury, which. We believe, Is
enioyd by no other Staie-a sort Of perpetual
motion, known Council OF Censors IL Is
a body Of thirteen men chosen periodically, whose
duty it is 70 see that the fundamental law of the
State is enforced, and 70 recommend such amend
ments to the constitution they may deem nee
essary. In pas: years their duties have been
small, and their recommendations unheeded, and
the office has gradually fallen into contempt.
But the Office was a creation Of the constitution.
and a. the councillors would not recommend Its
discontinuance, there seemed TO be no way OF
reaching them, and SO, ike useless machine,
the council has been kept running because there
was no rower OF stopping it. This IS the year
for electing a new council, and, an inventive
genius has made discovery which IS likely TO
enable the people get rid Of this useless body.
Acting on his suggestion, ticket has been nom
mated composed Of men pledged to recommend
a change Of the constitution abolishiDg the
council. and the State IS likely to get the benefit
Of the first really useful work Of that body, and
to enjoy the unusual spectacle Of nuisence aha
ting itself
Year: 1869

Sailed Is the tumult OF the day.


It's glaring sun has dropped away.


And in the pause 'twixt day and night
Our thoughts wheel home from giddy flight.
Like yonder swallows, whom this hour


Brings back to haunt the old church tow-r.
And there, against the sky, the bell
Stands slantwise, dropping out knell
Across the graves, for one more day
80 htely born, now dead as they


Who sleep beneath the mellow chime


mat once, for them marked passing time.
Oh bell thou liftst fitting voice


10 help young weddei folk rejoice,
Or chant grand pathetic strain


As dust returns to dust again;


And now the tints Of earth and air.
The hush and sweetness everywhere
Too subtle for our speech to we'll,
Find utterance in thy slow. long swell.
Some wanderer from an unknown shore
Where music chimes iorevermore
In never jarring harmony,
| think must dwell, a soul in thee.
And when the moon behind thee passes
And paints thee, black, on silvered zrasses,
A peal too fine for mortal ear
The shadow rings for stars to hear.
Year: 1869

Faribaut MINI, Oct. l7th 1862


Ed. Middlcbury REGISTER - Once
more | am "out west" heaven forgive
me. But we couldn't all be noblemen and
live east. That delectablc atmosphere of
refinement, literature and art, might get
unwholesome if crowded with people Of
so vulgar tastes as those who prefer to
live "out west" During most of last
summer Twas east, stopped in Middlebury,
met several of New England's great-men,
who were making their annual pilgrimage
to the College anniversary to give their
dimensions and show how much they have
grown during the year. | find that most
of them have grown small in an inverse
ratio as they grow older. Some of the
recent graduates who were in college with
me have become rich, eloquent and pow
erful. Next time | meet them | shall
expect to find them reduced physically,
pecuniarily and egotistically. At least /
shall hope they will come within the range
of the human afinities that make man
social and companionable if not erudite,
great and distinguished


The autumn has come and | am not
aware that it is much different here from
what it is with you. Perhaps it is
little more aristocratic there, puts on
more colors, your sunlight makes it more
modest, its bushes more softened and
suppressed. And your mountains and
valleys give it attractiveness and grace.
But it has its lessons here. The time
when we love the woods and open air
charming, health bestowing season From
my window, for miles, glows the great
prairie, no longer green and thrifty as in
spring time, but dark, solemn and desert.
ed. The sun goes down and the long fire
tracks CLEAN through the sedge, bridge
the river at the foot of the bluff, and pour
into my room floods of effulgence. | owe


this prospect to the autumn, for with the


spring comes the thick foliage of the trees


which hide the sunshine and the view of


the landscape, and give me instead, bird


songs, and refreshing GOODNESS. The mel


oncholy Of autumn is apt to test the sin


cerity of our faith in nature and revela-


tion. With every falling leaf there is a



suggestion of decay, waste and ruin. The


lessons of autumn are in themselves in


complete. The heart aches, the bleak and


naked branches give no cheer. We faint,


no reviying sweets come from the dry,
dead, stems Of the flower shrubs. A per-
petual autumn without the hope of spring,
} the thought of death without resurrec-
tion would chill the blood and predispose
to lunacy or suicide. Autumn and spring
, 90 hand in hand. One supposes the
other, as light does darkness. An autumn
5 fully isolated in thought from everything
: but itself, its wild screaming winds, sad
: landscapes, its skeleton forests and that
s lonely oppressive sense of dying things
n which weighs upon the spirit, | say, the
5 perpetual presence of death unconnectcd
= with hopes of a new life would drive q
), philosopher mad As it is there are wover
h into its melancholy, shining threads
g What would otherwise be desolation, i
q natures economy, her provision for tn,
y future, an outlay of everything, vast
Year: 1869

A SPECIFIC FOR CANcER--Among the
latest discoveries is a reported specific
for the cure Of cancer. Tho following
paragraph from the North american aud


United States Gazette of Philadelphia, pre-
sents the history Of a remarkable case


If it be true, as we have reason to believe
it is, it will be valuable knowledge.


"lnyentions are generally the result of
investigation and study, whilst discover
les are frequently made when another eff
feet than the one obtained has been
sought. An interesting confirmation Of
the correctness Of the latter remark has
occurred to Israel II. johnson, Of No.
l19 Market street, who recommended
weak solution of carbolic acid as wash
to correct the stencil of large and often
sivo cancer. But the application almost
Immediately removed not only the stencil,
but also the pain, and ultimately effected
a cure of the disease. Since then this
remedy has been used with such satsfac-
tory success in numerous cases of cancer
ons complaints, that if Friend johnson
had been disposed to keep the composition
secret and sell cancer lotion, so many
high testimonials Of its efficacy could have
been produced as would have attracted
public attention. But as sufferers from
cancer or cancerous sores may, of them
selves, or under the advice of physician,
test the utility of the wash, its compost
ton and mode Of use are here given, viz
One-fourth of one ounce of carbolic acid
in ono quart of water, applied at least
three times per day. Friend johnson
sometimes recommends the carbolic acid in
the proportion of one-eighth of an ounce
to quart of water, to be taken in doses
of one table spoonful three times day.
Year: 1869

\ female teacher in one of the public
schools of st. Louis seized a little boy
who had violated one of the rules, by the
hair dragged him across the room, pound,
ed him with a ruler on the neck, head
and back, and then threw him against Il
steam pipe, fracturing his skull. That
night he was taken ill with brain fever
and there is said to be no hope Of his re-
covery. The wretched woman who COM
mitted this outrage is only nineteen years
old.