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Year: 1868

One day little bantam rooster
with a high top-knot, was exceed
ingly vain, because he had so many
feathers to his legs that he could


hardy walk, seeing goose duck her
head in passing 1nder bar at least
six feet high, thus acosted her !:
why thou miserable, bare-lcgged,
pigeon-toed scavanger Of the high.
ways; thou fool of three elements |!
not content with ANONYMOUSLY
crawling under a fence, thou must
even nod thy empty pate, by way
of confessing thy inferiority. Behold
how we bantams do these thiugsp
So saying, with q great deal of puff
ing and fiuttering, with the help of
his bill, he managed to gain the top
of the fence, where he clapped his
wings, and just on the point of crow
ing In triumph, when a great hawk,
that was sailing over his head, poun-
ced down upon him, and seizing him
by the top-knot, carried him off
without cerimony. The goose look
ing up took q side view OF the affair,
significantly shook her feathers, and
the next time she passed under bar
she bowed her head lower than ever.
Year: 1868

TANNING SHEEP SRISs WITH THE
Wool oN.--Take the skin upon
board with the flesh side out, then
scrapc with q blunt knife, next rub
IL over hard with pulverixed chalk
until 1t will absorb no more. Then
take the skin from the board aud
cover 1t with pulverized alum. double
half over with flesh side I'm contact,
then roll tight together and keep dry
for three days, after which unfold lt
and strech II again ois 3 board or
door. and dry In the air and II will bu
ready for use. Nice white Sheep
skins make handsome door mats,
cushions, n warm spread To put ON
the floor for baby to cit on in winter
time and to serve many other Useful
purposes.
Year: 1868

The mercantile houses whose cards compose
this column are carefully selected from the lead.
ing firms in Chicago as those whese extensive
operations and widespread reputation entitle
them to the first rank In commerce The busi.
cards of these establishments in their several
trades have been classified i'm alphabetical order


forming comprehensive synopsis OF business
information, upon which our merchants can rely.
Year: 1868

We know the parties referred tc, and
know some of the facts to, be true. Be-
fore the war there lived in this city a
man and his family, consisting Of a wife
and son, the man was;well known here
in business circles and highly respected.


He was a man Of wealth., but his
home was for him the most miserable
place on earth. His wife, who had
once been handsome, sensible indust-
rious, and cheerful, lost her health and
t4mper. and made all who associated
with her unhappy. For long time
her husband did everything in his
power to make her happy but in vain
- His efforts seemed to increase his dis


comfort and misery. .At'last he be-
came Indifferent to her complaints and
deaf to her scolding This drove her
mad; but still she lived with her hus-
band and vas cared for by him. lp time
paralysis was added to her numerus IN
iir1nities of body and she became al
most as helpless as child The family
removed to the coun1 y, and while the
husband, his afflicted wife, and walt
ing girl were sitting by the fire one eve
ming, his wife rose from her seat and
made an effort to cross the room just
in front Of the fire. but her paralyzed
limbs refused TO serve her, and she fell
SO near the fire as to be in imminent
danger of being seriously burnt The
girl sprang forward to rescue the prs


trate and afflicted woman, but the hus.
hand fohade il and delared she should
either get up hcrelI or b., burnt. SIZE
Law before the fire until the pain in
dnced by the burning of her diseased


flesh restored her senses. In her agony
She turned her head her eyes fell up
on her husband, and, with the, elo-
oueuce of one suffering. excruciating
pain, implored him to take her from
the ire... With inhuman coldness he
sade her got up herself. she made an
Year: 1868

In view of the action taken by twenty
one gentlemen of Virginia in regard to
the Branch Road, and the known inter
est felt by the most practical, substan-
tial and energetic business men of Hele-
ma in securing the construction of the
main Northern Pacific Rail Road through
the great heart of Montana, is it not
proper, expedient, and essential to our
best interests that mass meeting
should be called at once. to express the
sense of this business community and
correspond with the officers of the North
ern Roadf The issue is made.
Year: 1868

a mass meeting of the citizens OF Vir-
ginia, was held at the Masonic Hail. for
the purpose of expressing the feeling OF
the community in regard to the Branch
Road. Acting Governor Tufts in the
Year: 1868

S. S. Cox delivered the principal
speech at the Democratic Ratitica-
ton meeting at Brooklyn, New York
on the 23ult. in which he said, in
regard to paying the public debt:


1t should be paid by an extension
over a fair period of time, s'accord-
ing to the letter and spirit of the
laws under which it was contracted y
This is the Republican platform, /
would as the Democratic platform
says pay it in ''lawful money!
Lawful money. to Democratic mem
ory, means something that chinks +;
and as that part of the debt about
which there is much useless logon
achy in Congress, and such lucid
equivecation, in both platforms, is
not likely to mature for some time,
1 would not anticipate. Certainly
for its payment, as for other reasons
[ would never issue an other dollar
of irredeemable, debauching, elastic
greenback currency. Moving on to-
ward gold and silver as the standard
of all values, snd in the interest of
labor and commerce, we should do
as Horatio Seymour proposed in his
speech of 11th' March, "demand a
policy of peace, order and economy
and by gaming that, lift up the ma
tional credit, help the taxpayer ano
do justice to the bondholder, ano
thus make our currency as good as
sterling coin.'' Thus would have
one currency for all, and that cur
rency that of the Constitution.
Year: 1868




There can be but little doubt of
the fact that it is the deterlsined
purpose of the Democracy, with the
effective aid and cooperation of the
Ku-Klux Klan, to carry the ten
Southern States for Seymour This
may seem under the circumstances
a rather h eayy contract, but, when
the issue is, as Wise has justly said
IN Richmond, whether the Lest
Cause shall be regained or forever
lost, what superhuman; efforts will
not be put forth to recover, under,
Seymour what they lost under.
Davis - T.. or Il .,HI .s8- fEss
In many sections of the South
the negroes will be forced to vote
the Seymour ticket under threats Of
instant death, and SO systematic
will be this organized scheme of in
timidation that military force will
be everywhere needed to secure the
freedom of the ballot box. It is
best that the Republicans should be
prepared for the worst, and early
take steps to prevent the will of the
loyal majority from being defeated
by the disloyal minority OHIO
State Journal.
Year: 1868

Governor Seymour never made a
single speech in favor of the sup
preston of the rebellion-never aid
ed enlistment in any manner or
shape whatever, never contributed
one cent to the Sanitary Commits
sion, and never was known to give
to any charitable enterprise, al
though he is reported to be worth
three. million dollars Cleveland
Leader.
Year: 1868

town meeting Is soon TO he held in
Rutland 10 see if the town will vote to
bond itself TO aid in building railroad
from that point to Woodstock, the prin-
clpal uncompleted link in the projected
PrOtland and Rutland line
Year: 1868

secured by First Mortgage upon so productive a
property are among the promising and reliable se-
curities now offered. No better Bonds can be made.


portion of the remainder of this Loan is now
offered to investors at
Year: 1868

hundreds suffer on in silence, and hundreds OF
Others apply vainy to druggists and doctors, who e
'ner merely tantalize them with the hope OF cure
or apply remedies which make them worse. I wonld
not assert anything that would do injustice to the at
hicted, but am obliged to say that although IT NAV
reproduced from excessive exhaustion of the
oflife, by laborious employment, unwholesone air
and food, profuse menstruation the use OF tea and
Coffee and frequent childbirth it is far oftener caus
ed by direct irritation, applied the mucous men,
brane of the vagina ITSELF


When reviewing the causes of these distressino
complaints it is most painful to contemplate the at
attendant evils consequent upon them. 1t is but sim
pie justice to the subject to enumerate few of the
many additional causes which so largely affect the


lite, health and happiness OF woman in all classes OF
society, and which, consequently affect more or less
directly the welfare OF the entire human family The
mania that exists for precocous education and mar
riage, causes the years that nature designated tor
corporeal development to be wasted and perverted
in the restraints otdress the early confinement nj
school, and especially in the unhealthy excitement
of the ball room. Thus, with the body half clothed
and the mind unduly excited by pleasure perverting
in midnight revel the hours designed by nature for
sleep and rest the work of destruction is hall accom-
plished.


In consequence Of this early strain upon her sys-
tem unnecessary effort is required .by the delicate
votary retain her situation In school at later da
thus aggravating the evil. When one excitement is
over, another in prospective keeps the mind morbid
ly sensitive to impression, while the now constant
restraint of fashionable Dress absolutely forbiddnp
the exercise indispensable to the attainment and re.
tention of organic health and strength the exposure
to night air; the sudden change of temperature the
complete prostration produced by excessive dancing
must OF necessity, produce their legitimate effect Al
least an early marriage caps the climax of misery
and the unfortunate one hitherto SO utterly regard
lees of the plain dictates and remonstrances of he,
delicate nature, becomes an unwilling subject o.
medical treatment. This is but truthful picture O.
the experience of thousands of our voupo woroan


Long before the ability to exercise the functions
the generative organs, they require an education OF
their peculiar SYSTEM com posed of what Is
called the tissue, which is in common with the fe-
male breast and lips, evidently under the control Of
mental emotions and associations at an early period
of life; and shall subsequently see, these emo
tons, when excessive lead long before puberty,
habits which sap the very life OF their victims err
nature has selt-completed their development
For Female Weakness and Debility, Whites or Leu.
corrhea Too Profuse Menstruatlon, Exhaustion Too
Long Continued Periods, for Prolapsus and Bearing
Down, or Proapsus Uteri, we offer the most perfec
specific known:
Year: 1868

FEMALES, owing to the peculiar and importan,
relations which they sustain their peculiar organza
ton, and the offices they perform, are subject to
many sufferings. Freedom from these contribute in
no small degree to their happiness and welfare tor
noce can De happy who are ILL., Not only so. bpt no
one oil these various female complaints N long be-
sunered to run on without involving the peners,
health ofthe individual and are long producing nor
manent sickness and premature decline. Nor 10 4.
pleasant to consult physician for the relief of these
various delicate affections, and only upon the most
urgent necessity will true woman so far sacrifice
her greatest charm to do this The sex will then
tnahk us Tor placing in their hands simple specitics
which will be found eicacous IN relieving and cpr-
ing almost every one OF those troublesome complaints
peculiar to the sex.
Year: 1868

If you wish TO keep town from thriv-
ing, don't put up any more buildings than
you can conveniently occupy yourselves
If you should accidentally have an empty
dwelling and any one wants to use it ask
him about three times the actual value for it.
Demand Shylock price for every spot Of
ground God has given you stewardship
over Turn cold shoulder to every me-
chauic or business man seeking a home
among you. Look at every new conner with
a scowl. Run down the work Of every
new workman. Go abroad for wares rather
than trade with those who seek to do busi-
ness in your midst Fail to advertise or in
any way support your local paper, SO that
people abroad may not know whether any
business is going on in your town OF not
Wrap yourselves up with yourselves, and
cover yourselves up with coat of inpervi-
Gus sel6shness. There is no more efFectual
way to retard ihe growth of town than
actions like those enumerated.
Year: 1868

The want of this age are men who ale
not for sale, men who are honest, sound
from center to circumference, true to the
hearts core; men who will condemn wrong
iu friend and foe, in themselves as well ss
others; men who will stand for tie right if
the heavens totter and the earth reel; men
who can tell the truth, and look the world
and the devil right in the eye; men that
neither brsg nor run; men that neither flag
nor finch; men who have courage without
wbistIing for it, and Joy without shouting
to bring it; men ia whom the current OF
everlasting life runs still and strong; men
too large for sectarisn limits, and too strong
for sectarian bonds; men who do not shiVeF
or cry, nor cause their voices to be heard
ir the streets, but who viii not fall nor be
discouraged ill judgment be set upon the
earth; men who know their message and
tell it; men who know their duty and do il;
men who will not lie; men who are not too
lazy to work, nor too proud to be poor; men
who are willing to eat what they have earn
ed, and wear what they have paid for.
Year: 1868

Every mother is an historian. She
writes not the history of empires or of na-
tions upon paper, but she write her own
history in the imperishable mind of her
child. That tablet aud that history will re-
main indellible when time shall be no more.
That history each mother shall meet again
and read with eternal Joy or unutterable
grief in coming ages of eternity. The
thought should weigh on the mind of every
mother, and render her deeply Circumspect
and prayerful aud faithful in her solemn
work in training up her children for heaven
and Immortality.


The minds of children are very suscepGi-
bic and easily impressed. A word. look,
frOwn, may engrave an impression upon
the mind of q child which no lapse Of time
can efface or wear out. You walk along the
sssshoTs when the tide is out and you form
characters, or write words and names, in
the smoothe white sand which is spread
out 80 clear and beautiful at your feet, ac-
cording as your fancy may dictate; but the
returning tide shall in 3 few hours wash ont
and efface all that you have written Not
so the lines and characters of truth or error
which your OOnduct imprints on the mind
of your child. There you write impress
ions for the everlasting good or III of your
child, which neither the foods nor storms
Of earth can ever wash out, nor deaths cold
| fingers ersce, nor the slow motion ages oi
eternity oblitsrats. How careful. theps
should each mother be in her treatment oi
her child How pFaYerful and how ssri-
Gus, and how earnest to write the eternal
truth of God on bis mind Those truths
which shall be his guide and teacher when
her voice is silent in death, and her lips no
longer move in prayer in his behalf in com
mending her dear obild % her God.


For what was Eve crsatsd? For Adam e
Year: 1868

J. N. Mackenzie Of this place has BOW
on exhibition and for sale the renowned
Automaton Clothes Washer and Boiler
which is creating such sensation in Nash
vile. If requested they will be furnished
to parties for trial. Call and get one. q
Year: 1868

f'Is there heart that never sigheci
Is there tongue that neve liedl


Is there an eye that never blinked3
Is there tongue that never drinkedi
Is there a woman that never faintedf
Or is there one that never printedf
If 50; then heart and tongue and eye,
Must tell a most confounded lie.P
Year: 1868

Six HUNDRED MILES OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAIL
ROAD are now finished and in operation. Sixty miles
of track have been laid this Spring, and the work
along the whole line between the Atlantic and Pacific
States is being pushed forward more rapidly than
ever before. More than 1900 men employed and
IL is not impossible that the entire track from Omaha
TO Sacramento, will be finished in 1869 instead OF
1870. The means provided are ample, and all that
energy, men, and money can do to secure the com
pletion Of this great national work. at the earliest
possible day, will be done.


The UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY receive ::


/. A GOVERNMENT GRANT Of the right OF way, and
all necessary timber and other materials found along
the line of its operations.


@ A GOVERNMENT GRANT of 1880 acres of land
to the mile, taken in alternate sectops on each side
of its road. This is an absolute donation, and will
be q source of large revenue in the future.


3. A GOVERNMENT GRANT of United States Thirty
year Bonds amounting to from $4,000 to $4,000 per
mile according TO the difficulties to be surmounted
on the various sections 10 be built The Government
Year: 1868




BY the above table we find that for the four months
the gross earnings average s. 939 per me against s22O
averaging per cent. As there Is for suppos
ing that the working expenses OF the roads have been
increased materially In connection with this ENLARGED
Year: 1868

The report Of the state of religion in the
United States, prepared by Rev. Henry b.
Smith, d. d. Of the Union Theological
Seminary, and presented to the Grand
Conference Of the Evangelical Alliance,
and recently in session in Amsterdam, is
a document of great interest and value,
containing within a small compass vast
amount of information in regard to the
state and progress of religion in this coun-
try. We condense from it the annexed
statistics which viii be found convenient
for resarence;
Year: 1868

Michigan-Radical Michigan---on Mon
day last voted upon a new Constitution
for that State. O,ic of the main features
OF the proposed Constiluuon-indeed.
the one feature for which the Convention
was gotten up, and the new Constitution
presented to the people-was that of ne.
gro suffrage The Convention would not
submit the question ofnegro suffrage as
a separate proposition to the people, as
it did that of the Maine law, liquor pro


hibition, but embodied it in the new Con.
sttution as substantive part of it, with
the expectation that the people would, in
order to carry the Constitution, which
contained some popular features, swallow
negro suffrage. But SO repugnant is ne
gro suffrage to the people Of Michigan
Radical, as majority of them are-that
rather than admit negroes to like politi.
cal privileges with themselves, they voted
down the whole Constitution by thou.
sands of e majority. They declared that
their State Government was made by
white men and that they mean that white
men alone shall continue to control it
The Radical leaders labored hard to Sc
cure the adoption, by the people, of the
negro suffrage Constitution. They ap
pealed especially to party feeling, declar


ing that, as negro suffrage was funda-
mental feature of the Radical policy, it
must be sustained if the party was to be
continued. But the people couldn't see
it in that light. The party managers also
appealed to their party friends to vote
for negro suffrage to strengthen the
hands of the impeachers in Congress !;
but neither could the people be seduced
from their convictions of right and duty
by that appeal. They rejected negro
suffrage as part and parcel Of our polit-
ical theory and practice This Is about
as hard fall as the Radical managers
have lately received. 1t is, however, the
will OF the people. Is not that, too, the
voice of God Chm Enquirer.
Year: 1868

lie is the noblest man Of whom our free
country can boast; whether at the work shop
or at plow, you find the same noble hearted,
free and independent being. And ii there
is a man in society upon whom welook with
esteem and admiration, it is the lndepen-
dant, sober workingman. We care not
whether he be farmer, mechanic or common
Iaborer- whether hi tolls are endured iii
the workshop, the fill, or the coal mine;
whether his home is in the baokwoods or
the neat cottage our admiration III the
same. What happy picture he presents;
what a reward for his labor, who, by his
own unaided exertions, establishes for him
self respectable position in society; who,
commencing in poverty, BY his skill and as
siduity, srrmounts evafy obstacle, over
comes every prejudice, and finally succeeds
in forming character whose value is en-
hanced by those who come after him; Such
man we prize as the noblest work Of
which human nature Is eapable-the high
est production she can boast And let it be
borno in mind by the young working man
inst entering upon the stage Of active life
let il ever lie at the foundation and by the
moving spring of all his efforts-that this
situation he must strain every nerve 20 at
tain. 1t can be attained by oil. Untirfng
Industry aud virtuous ambition never fail
to find their reward. They never yet were
exerted in vain, and never will be while
honesty and Justice find home in the hu
man breast. 1t was remarked by an elo-
qrent writer, that the working man who
had no inheritance but virtue is the sole
king among men, and the only man among
kings. y


'HeenVics not tho son orease,


Nor lord in princely hall,


But bows before the wise decrees,


In kindness meant for ALL" E'
Year: 1868

~Sn Nno pAySAS0A duu
moral universe. If He does not gov
ern and control results there is univer-
sal anarchy. He cannot control results
without controlling all the causes. If
every event were not fixed in its own
place, in the great chain or cycle
which is working out some purpose,
things would be constantly "going con-
trary," as you express it, with the Gov
ernor of the Universe and He would
be no governor, but a guesser. How
He harmonizes the working out of His
purposes, by human agencies with free
| dom of the human will and human &C.
countability, do not understand any
more than I understand how He makes
an acorn become an oak but I believe
the ono fact as firmly as I do the other.
Witness the cruci6xion., God certain
ly intended that Christ should be cru
cited just as He was for the minute
particulars were described in advance.
The Jews had no thought Of doing
anything but gratifying their own
wicked hatred. They took and with
wicked hands cruclfed and slew the
Lord Of Glory" but where would have
been the whole plan Of redemption if
they had failed to do this? We may
arraigu Ged for injustice in ,punish;ng
them as He did for executing His de-
cree, but We have no jurisdiction in
the case. =:


Why did He ordain sin7 L do not
know, but catch glimpse of the pur-
pose in this view. What We call good
and evil are 50 inseparably connected
that they must be parts Of great
whole. Volcanoes bury cities ; but
they are the safety valves Of the great
steam engine which has been running
in the heart of the globe from creations


~ -.
Year: 1868

TERRIBLE DEATH.-Last Fail man named
Perry was left upon one OF the islands in Lake
Seperior to attend to the light. house upon II


The supply of provisions left with him was
small, and the winter closed in with severity
and no comm unication could be had with him


This spring, as soon as ii was possible, brother
proceeded to ascertain his fate, when his body
was found. He had been starved to death He
leaves wife and family in Rock vile, Canada.
Year: 1868

~ When the cholera last visited this couu-
try with maIignancy. it will be remembered
that its advent was prepared by an extremely
wet May and a hot June. The cradle of the
pestilence was found in the organic decompo.
sition induced by such unnatural conditions.
Common caution would lead us to look for the
same consequences TO follow this year. and TO
prepare against them by extraordinary vigil
lance and hygienic precautions Of all kinds