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Year: 1869




General Slocum, in his lecture on
military Lessons of the War;"
tells the following story in reference
to the battle of Bull Run:


The influence of our officers over
their men, and the state of our dis
cipline, is best illustrated by an in
cident which occurred on the field
in the heat of the battle. An off :
GER, who has since become very
prominent and well known through
out the country, was then in CON-
mand of a brigade on the right Of
our line. While riding over the
field, he discovered a soldier con-
cealed in a hole in the ground, which
was of just sufficient dimensions to
afford him shelter. The General
rode up to him, inquired as to his
new regiment, and ordered him TO
ioin it at once. The man looking
him full in the face placed his
thumb upon his nose and replied:


"No you don't old fellow; you
want this hole yourself"
Year: 1869

TRIMMING LAMPs.-Some always
use a pair of shears to trim lamp
wicks. never do. A better way,
and one which / invariably practice
is to pinch or wipe off the black
crust with a piece of paper; you
may keep a cloth for the purpose, if
you wish.


You will find that the flame will
be perfect in shape, and exactly in
the centre of the lamp chimney, and
also that the wick will last twice or
three times as long. Quite desid-
eratum in the country, whore l
have known it to be necessary TO
harness the horse and drive to town
for lamp wick.
Year: 1869

The following is the paper referred to last
week, submitted by Rev. JAMES SHAW, d. D.
Of Wlndham, to the Western Reserve Synod,
at its recent sitting in this place, formally


adopted by that body. The appalling ma
turc of the facts endorsed in the report are a
sufficient reason for putting aside all false
delicacy in the matter, and treating the sub
ject like any other evil, with freedom and bold
Year: 1869

At Echo, on the Union Pacific Railroad, tho
o.he. Cay, three freight trains stood upon the
main track; when word came flashing over the
telegraph from the superintendent: "a loco
motive and tender, with steam mp, and with


nobody on board, have broken loose from


freight tram and started down the grade."-
an then there was Lurrying to and fro. In


9 rcJ seconds came another message: "She
Las Just passed Castle Rock Station" Never
were three trains got of upon siding with
less delay. Then the workmen piled seepers
high upon the track lest even that should not
stop her, and she should Go murder further
down the road, they tore up the rails below.


Just as this was accomplished she came in
sight. She Shot through the slcepers like a
bullet through pine board, sending them fly
ing in all directions, and darkening the air
| with spinters but ut the broken track she
| iumred up and down with vexation, and a.
naily plunged headformcst, into hillside
She had run twenty-siX miles in twenty-nins
minutes-the best time yet made upon the road.
Year: 1869

Our laws severely punish any one, who shah
commit this crime upon another person but
we have no laws topunish her, who shall com
nit. it upon herself The principal in this
crime is usually the mother. But in most ca
ses, 1t is done with the knowledge, consent and
encouragement of the husband and father. Ii
there is one more guilty than another it seems
to be the husband.


Having none of the risk TO run, and none oil
the pain to bear, he consents and encourages
his wife to go forward, Then they employ
some one accustomed 10 do such things, He
has no inducement TO do it, except the fee he
is to receive. The deed is his, but the spirit OF
the murder is in the hearts of those who en-
ployed him. Our laws should surely punish
the employees az much a. the employers.
Year: 1869

We would call the attention Of strangers visiting
the city to the large and varied assortment Of choice
CLOTHING to be found ut RALDwIS'S, corner OF
Tenth and Main streets. This IS an old house,
having been in business here over thirty years, and
what they represent good and cheap can be re-
lied on. Gail and see them If you wish anything
in their line, anu you will be pleased.
Year: 1869

Woman Beaten to Death--A Husband the


Alleged NIurdercr-A horrible Spectacle.


From the FatS6urg Chronicle of yesterday


one Of the most horrible mNrders that has ever
occurred in this vicinity was perpetrated some time
during last night at house on Fifth avenue, three
doors above the Soho run toll gate, the victim being
o married woman named Isabella Campbell
wife OF Thomas j. Campbell, an express
driver by occupation. The first knowledge OF the
murder was obtained by Mayor Brush shortly before
o'clock this morning. The Mayor was coming
down Fifth avenue to the Office when he was over
taken by Campbell, who had hls little boy aged
about years, In his arms. He stopped the Mayor
and stated that his wife had accidentally fallen
down stairs and killed herself, aud that, fearing
some OF the neighbors might accuse him OF
numbering her, he wanted TO give himself up
He was considerably under the influence
OF liquor, and the Mayor called two officers, who
took him in custody The officers then went back 10
CampGes house with him, aud found the CHASTITY
corr Sc of q woman lying dead on the fiooT OF the
Kitchen Evidence sufficient TO satisfy the officors
that brutal murder had been committed was seen
at q glance; and placing the child in care of a
neighb0r they proceed at once TO the lookup with
their prisoner. They then informed the MAYOR of
what they had discovered and several officers were
despatched to take charge Of the house
Year: 1869

HARD on THE LADIES. Some old
fogy ian old dilapidated bachelor Of
couse,) gets off the following at the
expense Of the ladies: "Taken a.
class, women can contrive more out
landish and ugly fashions than one
would think possible without the
gift Of inspiration. Take for in
stance the waterfall. First, It rep.
resented a bladder of Scotch snuff;
next II Is hung down q woman's
back like q canvass covered ham;
afterward II counterfeited a turnip
on the back Of tho head now it
sticks straight out behind, and looks
like a wire muzzle on agrey hound.
Nesting in the midst Of this long
stretch Of hair, reposes a little batter
cake Of q bonnet like a jockey sad
die on long backed race horse"
Year: 1869

BEAUREoARD's PLEAsASrRY.--But
what young man is that whose
raven locks and mustache may be
seen wherever beauty and grace
reign most decidedlyi Some one
whispers that it is General Beaare-
gard, the great engineer and gallant
soldier; but surely that cannot be,
for the last time I saw that great
chieftain his hair was as white az
the driven snow, and his bronzed
features were not those Of the ball
room gallant. But another look
convinces me that my friend is right,
especially when l remember the
ready reply made by the brave
chieftain to one Of tho bellies who
twitted him on this change. "When
! was in commmand Of an army"
said he, I used to dye my hair white
to impress my soldiers with q proper
respect for my age and position; !;
but after the war closed, and the
necessity passed away, ! allowed 1t
to return to its natural color" May
his locks never turn gray, and may
he live long to enjoy the society of
which he Is so bright an ornament.


Cor. Richmond Dispatch.
Year: 1869

Many young persons are growing up


with the idea that industry-especially
manual industry-is not quite respec-
table. There is no modern notion that
more completely cuts at the root of
wholesome sentiment and of national
or individual prosperity than this.


Whether idleness takes the form Of
street-lounging and gossip that begets
more fctive vices, or Of the dreamy SEN
iimentalism that fritters away life in
vague fancies, or of the busy idleness
that occupies itself in a hundred ways
to avoid the steady, energetic pursuit
of regular duty, it is equally cul pable in
its character and perniciOus in its effects.


The lethaFgy shown by many young
people is productive of many evils,
In the body it is a predisposing cause
'of many forms Of disease the want of
healthy excitement and occupation
leads too often to intemperance in eat
ing and drinking ''to pass away the
time, and this in its turn, briugs fever,
indigestion and depression, and makes
the frame less able to Withstand the
attacks Of any disease. A large pro-
portion of the drunkenness and dissi-
patton of various forms so common,
may be traced directly to this source.
Its effect on the mind is bad. While
producing instability of purpose it is in
time followed by hamiliating sense
of inferiority. No man has a right to
60 through life, whatever his position
may be, without honest regular and
useful employment of some kind.
Year: 1869

A family owned about fifty hens.
the cholera broke out among them and
in three days more than half of them
were sick or dead. The lady knew
that -four and whisky or even -four and
water was an excellent remedy for
diarrhea and that -four and wheat
bran would cure the seours Of cattle.
She thought she would try it on the
hens. She took flour and partially
mixed it, not wet enough to become
sticky, but in fakes and particles; she
fed the hens in the evening. he
boiled four pods Of red pepper in two
quarts of water and sat FIR their drink
She repeated feeding -four twice N
next day, and there we're no more new
cases. Those that wers sick tied n
five days--tbirty lived and tweetv died.
Viii some one test this remedy. Ifred
peppers are not at hand use black pep
per or giDger.-Fraak2ia Conafv.-Ea
State Journal
Year: 1869

An exchange very appropriately re


marks that every poor labOriag maj
should buy himself a town lot-ge
that paid for, and then work to get Che
necessary improvements little herr
and little there will in due time pro
duce you a home of your own, and
place you outside of the landlord:
grasp. Remember that $50 a year in
rent will, in very few years, pay fol
your own home, and the money it costs
you to move and shift about, will, with
out any loss Of furniture and of time,
pay the interest of five hundred dol
lar mortgage against your property un-
til you can gradually reduce it to moth
ing. You can all buy in that way
why do you not risk it! If you fail
you are no worse Off you succeed,
as any careful man is sure to do-You
have made home and established a
credit equal to another which will start
you in business. Poor men, take our
advice, buy one of the lots now offered
for sale and see how much better it will
be for you and your family FIVE years
after this.
Year: 1869

When she revived and apparently re-


gained her consciousness, she still main.


tanned her strange silence. This con-


tinued many weeks; when it partially


passed away, her friends saw with in


expressible grief that her reason had
.fied-that she was hopelessly insane


But her madness was of mild and
harmless nature. She was gentle and
peaceable as ever, but frequently sighed
and seemed burdened with some great
sorrow which she could not herself
comprehend. She had one peculiarly
which all that knew her must reeollect !:
this was a wild fear and careful avoid
snce Of men. She could not, she would
not, be confined, but was continually
escaping from her friends, they knew
not whittier.


While her parents lived, they, by
their wstchful care and unwearied eff
forts, in some measure controlled this
sad propensity; but when they died
their stricken child became wanderer,
homeless, friendless and forlorn.


Through laughing springs and rosy
summers, tramp, tramp, tramp-no
rest for her of the crushed heart and
crazed brain.


l remember her as she was in my
early childhood, toward the last of her
weary pilgrimage. As my father and
elder brothers were frequently absent,
and as my mother never closed her
heart or door on g Crazy Lucy" she oft
en- spent an hour or two by our freside.
Her appearance was very singular. Her
gown was always patched with many
colors, and her shawl or mantle was
worn or torn, until it was open work
and fringe. The remainder of her mis-
erabls wardrobe she carried in bundle
on her arm, and sometimes she had a
number of parcels of old rags, dried
herbs, &o,


In the season of flowers, her latter
ed bonnet was profusely decorated
with those which she gathered in the
woods or by the waYside. Her love
for these and her sweet VOICE were all
that were left her of the bloom and
music Of her existence. Yet no; her
meek and childlike piety still fingered. |
Her God had not forsaken her, down in |
she dim chaos of her spirit the smile of |
His voice at eventide, and she was not |
afraid. Her Bible went with her
.verywhere-a torn and soiled volume,
out as holy still and it may be, as
lesrly cherished, my dear reader, as
he gorgeous copy now lying on your
able, bound in ''purple and gold" and
Vith gliding untaruished upon its deli
ate leaves,


Thirty years from the time of this
0ournful history, on a bleak autumnal
vening, rough country wagon drove
a the town Of c.. It stopped at
he almshouse; an attsnuatsd form was
fled up and carried in, and the wagon
umbled away. This was Lucy Dufton
rought to her native town to die.


She had been in decline for some Ii
months, and the miraculous strength t
Fhich had so long sustained her in j
'eary wandeFings at last forsook her !
tterly. Her sister had died some J
me before; and the widowed husband a
ad soon after removed to the West; I
} Lucy had no friends, no home but q
be alms-house. II


One day about week from the time a
her arrival, Lucy appeared to suffer f
realty, and those about her looked for
er release almost impatiently; but at a
Year: 1869

JUST received large lot Of Quinine,
which we will sell cheap for Cash.
Persons wanting this article had better
lay in supply for the summer, as 1t Is
likely to be higher.


HODGSON & DUNLAP.
Year: 1869

Last winter we had a fair specimen OF
the discriminating" ability of the Leg
islatgre. The first and strongest seces-
sionists of the State were admitted to
practice law. The small-fry of the profes-
sion, poor, friendless and uninfuential
rebel lawyers, were continued in their
disabilities, while the men who had led
them into rebellion were restored to the
privileges of their profession. There
was no question as to past acts or pres
ent "leyalty." The men who professed
to be most friendly to the Republican
party got through, no matter what their
status since or during the war. One OF
the most notable instances was that OF
a man who in 1868 called Convention
at CharlestoB to get up another Demo o,
cratic organization in this State because
the regular organization recognized the
legitimacy of West Virginia. That mans
petition went through with a rush,
when the explanation was offered that
he was merely trying to SOW dissension
in the Democratic ranks. Give the
Legislature the right to maintain or
remove disabilities, and we may expect
to see it relieve just as many rebels as
will agree to vote the Republican ticket
and no more. Such policy would
enfranchise no man who would make
an honest voter, for the man who will
bargain away his right to think for
himself is not honest. Besides this
four fifths of each session for five years
would be taken up with the consjdera-
ton of applications for relief. A con-
tinued WEAKNESS and vexstion of spirit
on the part of the people and q practi'
cal neglect of all proper legislative bust
ness would be the result of this PROPOSE
tion to give the Legislature this control
over the question of suffrage.


The trouble with the Times and with
all others of its class, is how to get out
of this snarl without damaging the
"loyap party. Let them rest assured
that they cannot save it by any device
for making mems right to vote depend
upon the ticket they vote. That is the
substance of the Times proposition; it
just perpstuates the rottenest feature
of the present proscriptive system. II
won't win.
Year: 1869

WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use Of either of these
remedies! They win cure every case of ma.
RASMUS, without fail.


Thousands of certificates have accumulated
in the hands Of the proprietor, but space will
allow of the publication Of but a few. Those
IL will DE observed are men Of note, and Of such
standing that they must DO believed.
Year: 1869

And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
restore In a measure the energy and ardOr Of
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
FORMS and give health and happiness in their
ipfp
Year: 1869

1t is a we'll established fact that fully one
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or, 20
use their own expression, "never feel well"
They are languid, devoid of all energy, extreme
ly nervous, and have no appetite.


To this class Of persons the BITTERS OF the
TONIC, is especially recommended.
Year: 1869

T
Asor serted with others asincorporators OF the
Central Elevated Patented) Railway" BILL We are re-
ouesed by Mr. Asor say that the Of his name was
without his permission, consent, or knowledge as he s
opposed TO all railroad measures for the City of New
Nor
Year: 1869

morning departed taking with him wallet containing
s2j and valuable papers belonging 10 his % eSn


uanio The prisoner is also accused OF having stolen
articles at various times from the hotel where ne was
employed He was locked up at Police Headquarters.
Year: 1869

HEAVY VERDICT FOR BREACH OF PROMISE.
A breach ofpromise case was recently decided
In the county court OF Warren county, Illinois,
In which the defendant, q man of considerable
wealth, set up the plea that the young lady
was OF African descent. Several medical wit
nesses testified that personal examination
disclosed indubitable Indications of African
blood in her veins, although she was perfectly
white and had moved in the best white society
in the country. Others, however, declared she
had no African blood. Tho Jury rendered
verdict in her favor to the amount of $1,000.
Year: 1869

No CHANGES have yet been made in the
Navy Department by Secretary Borie He was
engaged great portion Of to-day with ADM.
raj Porter, in acquainting himself with the
duties pertaining to the Department and
necessary changes to be made
Year: 1869

REMOVAL OF THE REVENUE DRPARrMBNr.-
The removal of the Internal Revenue Depart
msnt from Riggs and Plants building, corner
OF 18th and q streets, to the north wing of the
Treasury Department, was commenced this
afternoon, but it will probably be a week or
ten days before the entire clerical force is in
the new building.
Year: 1869

0 venalem urbem D city which can
be bought, if .hou couldst only find a
purchaser! These were the words OF
Iugurtha, speaking of Rome, the capital
of an empire then sunken so low. flour
own republic should now find an historian
equally just and fearless, what a sorowful
picture would he have to reveal of ou,


moral and political condition, showing
everywhere the deepest corruption.
The halls of our Legislators have be-
come public markets In which individual
honor and character are offered for sale
names, which had the highest reputation
in the country, are hung out like mer
chandise in the show windows with the
price attached thereto, at which they
can be had by every one and for any pur-
pose.


A people which is sound in its inner
most core will bloom anew, after having
overcome a severe crisis, to greater
strength and stronger health but has
the ordeal, through which we have passed
in the war of universal liberty against the
curse of slavery, made as better citizens?
left us healthier people? No, the
disease had eaten so deep into the moral
vitals of the people, that great deal OF
corrupt matter has been left behind,
which we perceive only now, and which
must be removed, if there is strength
enough left within US, or else we must
sink lower and lower until final extinc-
ton.


We call the conflict of these last years
a war for universal liberty and human
rights, We deck with the choicest flowers
the graves of the braves that fell in that
sacred strife, but grand words and sweet
flowers cannot save us or our country; the
former are too cheap and vanish in the
air, the latter wither only too soon, and
behind them our deeds limp along on
miserable crutches-oh, how slow


The North prides itself to have battled


for an unprotected enslaved race in the
South, and how difficult, how almost i'm


possible is it, even for these Northern
States, to acknowledge the equal rights OF
this still prosecuted race.


That noble feeling for full! liberty cannot
so easily be renewed in people that


has nursed slavery for so many years, or
considered it an unavoidable fact, dire
necessity, with which the Constitution of
the republic had entered into an uncon,
trovertible compromise.


Slavery has fallen, but through the
long years of its existence it has corrupted
our own moral aud political life. If any
people suffers crimes and wrongs to exist
without trying to suppress them, it must
find its own virtue decreasing and that


very rapidly. Slavery has not only injur
| ed the negro and totally unmoralised the
slave holder, but has infected with its


poison of perverted conceptions and


wrong views even the people of the free


States, and it will only be the justice ot
events, if we fall prey to the cupidity
and corruptibility of individuals, and il


the atrocities which we have permitted
to be practiced on others, should now
avenge themselves on ourselves.


No people can for any length of time
be connected with any evil. without itself


becoming corrupted by it.
Year: 1869

appointment, one fact is established,
that the Revenue during the first three
months of his administration amounts
to five millions more with the new officers,
than in the same three months of last
year, and that besides on our National
debt ten millions more then was calculated
haye been Cancelled. This is certainly a
good commencement and it will be on the
increase as long as fraudulent officers and
revenues -swindlers are convinced that
Grant demands capability, honesty and
Integrity as the FIRST requisites for holding
public Offices.
Year: 1869

The assumed fact that the removal of
the stay law in Virginia, will throw
large quantity of land INTO market,
and thus gives purchasers Virginia
lands TOR soug, is a mistake. The
land laws Of Virginia are as far as we
know, different from those of any other
State. Our original law makers made
it very difficult co take a mans land
from him. and we will reap the benefit
OF their foresight. In this State land
can not be sold under execution. but
can only be subjected by a bill in chan
eery, after ali personality is exhausted,
and It appears to the officer, that the
rents from the land for live years will
not pay Off The Judgment; and even
then it will not be sold unless the price
offered appears sufficient to the conrt.


Thus it viii be seen that no large
quantity of land can be forced into
market, though a judgment operates
fine on it.


In this county, the prospect of an
early completion through il OF the A.
l.. s. Ii. r. R., makes rise in land a
certainty, and if purchasers wish lands
here it is advisable to make their invest
ments at once. .-ClGrAc County Courier.
Year: 1869

For every man whose heart is broken
1--WE use phrase current in its roman
tic sense among women, and which
among men denotes the state re-
vealed by profuse smoking and spas
modic devotion to Enthusiastically
have their eyes open. and are on the
whole sometimes considerably improv-
ed by the process. We forget to whom
is due the credit Of the remark that a
mans usefulness dates from the time ne
loses his interest in woman; but with
out going so far, we are content to rest
upon the conclusion of our own expert
ence--that until man has had one or
two serious Irritation he is not TO be re-
lied on for earnest effort,