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Year: 1868

and nobody after that could ever get him,
to break horse to pace. orI a


When Ulysses was in his twelfth year
he was very small of his age. At that
time / had taken the contract to build
the Jail in Brown county. The prison
part was to be of logs hewn foot square
and fourteen feet long. These had to be
hauled about two miles from the woods,
where they were cut, to the site of the
Jail. / generally used small medium
sized horses; but happened to have one
very large one. A Aneighbor had another
about the same size, and Ulysses was so
anxious that / should buy him, that he
said to me one day; "Father, if you will
buy that horse will drive team until all
of the logs are hauled" ! agreed to do
it, but without any idea that he could
possibly hold out to work the team over
week, he was such little bit of fell
low. even hired another man to work
the team, and told him to go along with
Ulysses; but not to let him know until
the boy was tired out, what he was hired
for. The man accompanied him for
number of days, when he came to me
and said: "There is no use in my going
with that boy any longer; he understands
the team and can manage it as well as /
can, and better too. There's no use in
my following him round"


One day, after hauling a load, Ulysses
took the team out and said to me: 'The
men are not in the woods hewing to-day,
and there is no need of my going back
this afternoon, as | can keep up with
their hewing tomorrow and there is
nobody there to help load" Nobody
there to help load?" said l, "why how
did you load this morning? ?" "Oh,
Dave and | loaded, he answered. Dave
was the name of the big horse / had
bought. "You and Dave loaded? what
do you mean?" said I, for / considered
it absolutely impossible that child of
his size should have got such immense
logs into the wagon without help. eyes,
said he, Dave and loaded. l took a
chain and hitched on to the end of the
logs, and we managed to get them in"


He then explained how it was done.
A large sugar tree had been felled, so
that it lay aslant, one end resting upon
the ground, and the other elevated. He
had hitched the horse Dave, to the end
of hewn log, and hauled it up on to
this sugar tree, the end projecting over
far enough to back the wagon under it.
Three made lona. and "ireh he had
got three hauled up in this way, he backed
the hind end of the wagon up under
them, and hitching the powerful horse in
front by means of long chain which
extended over the whole length of the
wagon-body, he pulled them, one at a
time, into the wagon. This was much
talked of in the neighborhood, as it was
considered great achievement for boy
of his size. He worked the whole seven
months, and until the job was finished,
hauling these logs and other materials
for the building, with the exception of a
single week.
Year: 1868

An Arkansas correspondent Of the New Or
leans Picayune tells the following story OF tho
manner in which justice is meted out to men
in that region:


Some years ago man without family or
relations lived in county in this State, and
was possessed Of an estate worth $4,000. he
went TO New Orleans and was absent for years
without being heard FROM The Probate Judge
granted administration upon bis estate, wound
it up, and discharged the administrator. Tho
man at length returned; he had been to MeIi-
co. lie applied to the Judge for his property,
when in open Court the following dialogue
took place:


Dead man-If your. Honor please, want
my effects returned to me, as you see l am not
dead yet


The Court know that is, I, as man
know that you are alive and in Court; but as
Court, know that you are dead; for the re-
cords of the Courts say so, aud against their
verify there is no averment. So says Lord
Coke and good many books never read.


Dead man-But want my property. and
it's no matter to me whether your records lie
or not. am alive, have not transferred my
property, and to deprive me Of it without my
consent is without all law.


The Court-If you insinuate that this Court
lies, the Court will send you to jail.





Dead man-Send dead man to jail'


The Court-Mr Sheriff, take the apparition
out.


Sheriff-Be thou ghost or goblin damned.
I'll speak to thee Come on let's go take
drink.


The Judge stuck to II that, so far as his
Court was concerned, he was dead, and be
should stay dead. The poor fellow went into
chancery and spent all he made in Mexico.
Year: 1868

aud Kindred topics. We shall also give an ex


tensive variety Of valuable and interesting mat
tor--the bost adapted 70 the faSmihg classes o,
our state. which will. in a great measure. sun
ply the place Of a family agricultural paper
Year: 1868

AANaNaA AsNl'bANf AyShtNhApOA - AoOO'


After leaving the President, the Louisi-
ana delegation succeeded in securing Gen
Grant as he was smoking a cigar. After
addressing him and wringing his hands
with frantic fervor, the General made a
few remarks. He said that when be was in
the vicinity of the Red river he always
found the climate healthy, and thought Il
was a pleasant place generally. He stayed
there altogether about fourteen months.
The first six months Of the time only two
Of their men died, and these not from the
insalubrity of the place. One of them had
his brains knocked against tree, and the
other quit drinking. The Louisiana dele
cation laughed heartily at the Joke in the
close Of the speech, but the General ex-
hibiting symptoms Of losing patience the
delegation then retired, whereupon he
again resumed his cigar.
Year: 1868

THE CHICAGO PLArroRM-The resolutions
of the Republican National Convention are
so manifes:ly nor. .committal and insincere as
to excite the disgust of the respectable por.
lion of the Republican party. The New
York Times. while supporting the nominees
"spits upon the platform" as follows:


A Republican convention in 1868 ought to
have been able to present something more
effective than promises. The party has been
in power long enough to have gathered a
rich store Of performances. 1t should have
been able to go before the country with a
record of services rendered in regard both
to retrencbment and taxation. The public
purse has been for years altogether in its
hands. 1t has had exclusive management OF
the appropriations and exclusive power over
the forms and amount Of taxation. How
happens it, then, that in platform intended
to set forth its claims to a continued conf
dence it has nothing better to offer than
resolves in favor of reforms which il has OBJ.
stinately and culpably neglected? Why is
1t that no serious attempt has been made TO
enforce even moderate economy, and that in
consequence, the abolition of taxes must he
followed by their reimposition or by u large
addition to the debt? These are weak spots
in the party Us record. They are condem
nation to its recent congressional career, and
sorry exemph6cauon of fidelity and capacity
in fiscal and financial affairs. OF course its
IN the past are not a reason for
omiiing pledge for the future. But they
detract somewhat from the strength of the
platform as relates to these subjects, and
may also serve to moderata the confidence
every Republican is supposei to feel in the
hold Of his party upon the intelligence and
patriotism Of the country.
Year: 1868

BEAUTIFULLY ExPREssEp.-The Democrats
of Springfield, Illinois, held an immense and
enthusiastic ratification meeting on the ed
of July. General John a. McClernand ad-
dressed the meeting and after highly eulo-
gizing Seymour and Blair said:


These arc the men whom the Democracy
have nominated. and the platform of princi.
plies uron which they stand is equally wur-
thy OF your acceptance and support. The
principles of Democracy are coeval with


liberty and the rights Of man. They are the
principles of the Constitution which bind
together these States as a common VIII lie,
and which lately upheld the American peo
pie in degree of prosperity unexampled in
the history of nations. They recognize vir
tue and intelligence as the basis and stay
cf all Tree government, and acknowledge the
right and capacity of the people to govern
themselves. They affirm the equality Of the
States. and forbid Federal interference in
their domestic institutions. They set bounds
to the action of Congress, and would ex.
clude from their jurisdiction whatever is not
nominated in the Federal bond and does not
concern the States as a collective whole
They condemn class Legislation, as tending
to make the rich richer and the poor pourer-
as tending to build up II privileged aristo
cracy upon the ruins of liberty and the
rights of the people. They are opposed to
the policy that would create public debt
and preserve it as public blessing that
would impose burthensome taxes as o means
of strengthening and enriching the hands of
power. They are in favor of plain govern.
ment, void OF pOmp, protecting all and grant.
ing favors to none. They reject the dogma
that public debt is a public blessing, and


nculcate the Cuty of paying off the Govern.
ment Indebtedness as rapidly as may be, IN
legal tender notes when available, except
where the law expressly calls fer payment
in coin. They eninin, as an imperative duty.
the correction of existing abuses in the public
administration the rctrenchment of extrav.
agant and unnecessary expenses the repres.
sion and punishment of peculation and cor.
ruption in Office the revision and simplifica.
ton of our complex reverue system; the
encouragement of honest industry and useful
public enterprise; the equalization of taxes
so as to reach oil classes according to the
value of their property, and last, but not


least he firm and effectual maintenance of
the rights of American citizens against the
world, wherever they may lie and wherever
the place of their nativity. tremendous
applause.) With this platform and these can.
didates to personify it, will not, shall not,
our march to victory be as certain as the on.
ward sweep of the Mississippi to its outlet in
the Gulf PAS majestic and glorious as the
blazing course of the sun from the eastern
hemisphere to the meridian heavens? (Great
and prolonged applause.)
Year: 1868

The phrase, Sound on the Goose" origin.
ated in Pittsburg, Pa. That city, some years
ago, was SO overrun with this aquatic fowl


that its sidewalks became in an intolerable
condition. A public meeting was held on the
subject and, ut it, the determination of the of.
Tending bird was decided on. A charter
election soon following, the two candidates
for the Mayoralty were questioned as to what
would be their action in the premises in case
of election. The one who was 'souud on the
goose question" was elected and from that
day the phrase crept into general use among
politicians.
Year: 1868

NOTHING TO Do BUT FIND FAULT.-The
Dramatic Chronicle tells much truth in the
three last lines of the following paragraph


In the next place, we are satisfied that the
best thing that can happen to the Republ-
cans is to get whipped. They have had
hard time of it for good many years. They
have had to run the Government through the
war times and all through the reconstruction
times, being subject to adverse criticism and
abuse. The Democrats have had no respon-
sibility devolved upon them. They have had
only to look on and find fault.
Year: 1868

PlETY HILL, June l, 1908.


Mr.. EDITOR Perhaps few lines from
this locality might not be unacceptable to
you. As community we are moving along
as usual and as some of us have not much
business of our own to attend to. we try to
assist our. .neighbors who are not as fortunate
as we are in this respect.


After very pretty general run of the
measles we are enjoying the usual.good health
for which this place is noted.


Mcpherson Co. have cleaned up, and the
result, understand, is quite satisfactory, the
amount being several thousand dollars. This
proves that Piety Hill is by no means worked
out. By proper work these mines will yet
yield large pay.


The quicksilver mine on South Fork is
said to be good for sore eyes. This mine is
undoubtedly very rich, but like several other
rich lodes in that district, it will require men
of means to develope it.


Petty & Co. have their new saw mill
nearly completed. when they will be able to
furnish any quantity of good lumber at a
reasonable figure.


Politically we are somewhat divided, but
when the day of final action comes Piety
Hill will, as usual, cast ner majority
vote on the side of Right and in favor of the
winning candidates, Grant and Colfax We
have strong ticket, and it will be elected
The unreconstructed Democracy here have
organized club, but will in the end have to
confess that they labored in vain. McPher
son, Mertz, and other spirits of less note are
running the machine, and with the aid of the
other spirits (under the cork hope for sue
cess. Poor deluded soulsl


Speaking of spirits brings me to notice the
Free Love Association which is in full blast
here. Yes, Mr.. Editor, if the mediums are
to be believed, we have spirits from the other
world appearing in horrid forms that totally
eclipse the frightful pictures we used to see
of his Satanic Majesty. These spirits are
said, many of them, to emanate from the
internal regions, and as there are said to be
as many "lying spirits in heaven as on
earth," |, for one, am at loss to know
which to believe. The table-tipping portion
of this humbug, of course. no one not af
ficted with this free-love mania attributes
to the power of spirits from the unknown
world. The dire and sad effects of this
licentious business have not as yet made
their appearance though longer in coming
they will prove the more disastrous. One of
the recognized principles of Spiritualism is
that man is permitted and allowed to love
another mans wife or daughter better than
his own, provided, spirit. through a medi-
um, informs him that his present affinity is
not agreeable. What wide door does this
open to the depraved and licentious usts of
bad men and women, and yet there are
persons found in their circles who know, or
ought to know better than to lend their in
fuence in behalf of such nefarious business.
Let every lover of decency frown down
such humbuggery. VOTER.
Year: 1868

KIT CARSON the most famous of American
frontiersmen in this generation, is dead
The story of his life would possess the inter
est off dozen romances, besides being most
valuable contribution to our history, and we
trust it will be written by competent his
toriau
Year: 1868

ONE OF YOU CAN'T, AND WE PITY
~ you. You have tried every remedy but the
oNE destined, by its intrinsic merit, to supercede
al similar preparations. it is not surprising you
snouid De reluctant to try something else after the
many experiments you have made of trashy COM
Pouhds ioisted ON the public as a certain cure but
Year: 1868

How little mankind in general and Ameri-
can in particular, enjoy life, compared with
what they might enjoy by simply exercising q
little more fore.houeht in the selection Of
their homes aud bestowing little more labor
aud care around aud within them. The
homes Of America will not become what they
should, until a true idea of life shall become
mlre widely implanted. The worship of the
" Almighty dollar does more to degrade
American homes and the life of those homes,
thin anything--than all things else Here,
utility is the God of almost uniyersel wor-
ship. The chief end of life is to gather gold,
and that gold is counted lost which hangs a
pilture upon the wall, which buys choice
hower or shrub for the yard, which brings a
TOY or a book to the eager hands of child
hood that time is counted wasted that is
spent with wife or children, in a ramble after
wild flowers, or autumn leaves or nuts, in
building rustic vase, or arbor in the yard,
or IN training to ways artistic the growth of
vine, or hedge or tree. Is this the whole
Df human life Then it is poor, meagre and
almost undesirable thing.


Z \ child will go forth from such home as
2 l.s horse will 60 forth from .siallmslad 70
influence of such home upon him in afte
life will be none at ALL or nothing good
Thousands are rushing from homes like thos,
every day. They crowd into cities and into
villages. They swarm into all places where
life is crowned with higher significance; and
the old shell of home is deserted by every
bird as soon as it can fly. Ancestral home-
steads aud patrmonial acres have no sacred
ness and when the father and mother die,
the strangers presence obiterates associations
which should be among the most sacred of all
things.


A radical reform is needed. We would
have you, who already possess home of your
own, abandon, at once and forever, all thoughts
of deserting it and you, who have no chosen
abiding place, should early select one, though
its acres be few or its buildings humble, and
let that choice be your permanent choice.


Then We would have you set yourselves
earnestly about improving aud identifying
that home. We would have you build up tor
yourselves and your children, a home which
will never be lightly parted with-a home
that shall be to all whose lives have been as.
sociated with it, the most interesting and pre-
cious spot on earth We would have that
home the abode of divinity, proprety, beauty
grace, love, genial felowships, innocent amuse'
ments and happy associations. Out from sucl
home, we would have good influences flow
into neighborhoods aud communities. In
such a home we would see noble ambition tax
ing root and receiving all generous culture
We would have you consider whether yor
1 ought not to be more in the habit of seekin!
honor for your descendants than your anees
tors thinking it better to be nobly romem
bered than nobly born; aud striving to live 5,
that your sons and your sons sons, for ages t,
come, might still lead their children reyeren
rally to the doors out of which you were car


tied to the grave, saying, Look, this was hi
house from that spring he drank that tre
he planted"
Year: 1868

Our departed is not in that hole, and we scorn
to say our farewell over IL Let the SHOWS
fall heavy, if they will, and the windragc pit
ilcss and wild above, our4 it shall be to thank
Thee, Father, Lord of the warmer cline, that
our dead one lives with Thee" Practically
almost nothing will more surely compel a
faith in immortality, even if one chances to
be unbclieying, than to bury friend in the
winter. And, as a matter of fact, it is not
in the fresh, outbursting life Of the spring or
in any softer season Of the year, that we think
Of Immortality with half the tension that we
do at the winter funerals We ask for it in
stinctiycly, as we do fire for a cold.
Year: 1868

THAT was avery shrewd way that was ad-
opted in the olden time in Zurich, to test the
truth in divorce cases. When II compile asked
to be divorced on account of incompatbility
Of temper, they were first ordered to be shut
up for fortnight in a single room, condemned
endure each others society continually. They
had but one room, but one bed, but one chair,
one plate, one knife, and one fork In every
act each was dependent upon the courtesy Of
the other AT the end Of the time, If they
still desired to be divorced, the request was
granted, but il usually happened that before
the time came sympathy in misfortune had
reconciled them to each other
Year: 1868

The people want the everlasting Cost IN
one form or another, fully brought Il, every
Sabbath--as much, at least, as would save
those hearers. who by the rroViuehtlal APP
pointment of God, are ne'er 10 near "hotner
sermon ere they p"'s INTO eternity. wen
does the writer renember hearing remark
able illustrates of these words from the lips
of n Gaithf,I servant of God long since de-
parted, On one Monday morning he was in-
formed diat man who, the preceding evening
had listened to his discourse in his usual
he.fh, had suddenly been ushered into eterni-
~. His personal responsibility to preach the
Gospel to men, as dying men-as to those
who for aught he knew, might he about to
appear at the bar of God-at once flashed
upon his mind. Rising anxiously from his
seat. he proceeded to examine the manuscript
of the sermon which the departed soul had
last heard, with the intensely earnest hope that
he should find in it as much Gospel truth as
had it been there and then, through the grace
of God, understood and believed by the de-
parted hearer would have saved his soul. To
his inexpressibe grief after the examination
was over, he found the contrary. He saw
that the hearers might have believed every
word of that discourse, and remained unsayed
The sermon was scriptural and well prepared


lacking in nothing save the gospel suited to 4
dying man. Penetrated with sense of hi'
unfaithfulness on that one occasion (tor, gen
orally, he was distinguished for the constancy
ardor, and faithfulness with which he preach


ed the glorious Gospel and for many seals tC
his ministry,) he burst into a food of tears
and falling down at the mercy-seat, confessed
before God with much contrition, his dreaC
omission and ere he rose from his knees h,
made the solemn vow that, with Divine help
to the day of his death, he would neve


preach sermon without setting forth as mucl
of the glorious Gospel as would if truly be


lieved, save any unregenerated soul then pres
ent, who might be about to enter the world o
spirits.-Crisis Of the Church Of God.
Year: 1868




We do not propose to expend much
space during the presidential election in
refuting slanders on Gov Seymour from q
partisan press which has INDUCED in thia
sort Of warfare till its reputat on for veracitJ
has become thoroughly rotten, and We
allude to one OF these Characteristic radical
arguments in the Sentinel Of yesterday,
merely for the purpose OF making the truth
more conspicuous by contrast.


In the midst of the war Gov. SeJ mouf
was taken up by the people of New York
and made governor of that great state, and
in sllusion to this fact, the Sentinel says:


mo sooner was this accom- plished than he
threw off his disguise and became probalyd
a more mischieyous enemy of the govern
ment than any other one man north or
south. He used the whole of his immense
power to, obstruct the work OF subduink
the rebell.6G by withholding so far as he
could or dared men and supplies.


The actual truth is that Gov. Seymour.
contributed more physical force from New
York to the successful issue OF the war, In
proportion to the size Of the state even;
that was contributed by any other. eastern
state, and he contributed far more moral
force to the Union cause than the national
administration itself, with its whole brood
Of Its othce>hunting dependents thrown in.
More than this, when he saw Washing
ton endangered, of his own accord he hurs
ried the state troops of New. York for
ward to the scene Of G nfict ID Pennsy ylvania,
and it was through his well directed and
almost superhuman efforts that the Union
army was saved from the destruction td
which they had been doomed by the imbe,
cility and political chieanery of the federal
administration And so n,arkod ocH
effective were Seymour's services at this
crisis. that the secretary of war was COM
pelle1 from sheer shame 10 issue an order
returning the thanks Of the president to
the governor Of New York for the exs
traordinary degree of efficiency and patri.:
otism manifested by him on that occasion.


1t is ii the face OF this official order,
signed by Stanton in the name of Lincoln,
that the Sentinel exhibits its putrid PAT.
tisanship by attempting to deceive its
readers as to Gov. Seymour's record.
Year: 1868

streets we're again silent. Take it all in all,
1t was such q demonstration as one may
expect to witness but once in lifetime, and
which will be remembered always. 1t was
q voluntary and spontaneous uprising Of
the people to testify their JOY and thank
fulness in the promise which the wise action
OF the New York convention gave for the
future welfare of the country, and which
was rendered more marked by comparison
with the dat and spiritless manper in which
the news of the nomination of GRANT and
CoLFAx was received here. The demo-
Gratis Of Manitowoc county are wide awake,
and will roll up majority of 1900 for
SEYMOUR aud BLAIR this fall.
Year: 1868

GENERAL GRANT has not positively fixed
upon the time when he will leave here for
Boston. He will, however, start towards the
close of the week, returning to New York to
remain there Monday and Tuesday.