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Year: 1867

Here are few practical thoughts
from the pen of Prentice, of the Louis
vile Journal, which 1t would be well
for those to read who think il does not
pay TO advertise. He says:


eve have been carrying on the Lou
isville journal between thirty-six and
thirty-seven years. During all this
time we have known 70 man of busi-
ness i'm this city to fail who advertised
literally. And we have known no one
to succeedin any considerable, if even
i'm respectable, degree who didn't adj
vertiseg literally Do yon tell us, oh
candidate for the custom and good will
of TIE community, that you cafI't afford
to advertise because your business ia
dull.? All! why is it dull? Listen,
and we will tell you. 1t Is dull because
you don't advertise because IL is dull;
SO that the vacant circle Ii complete
We tell you IL you nre doing III to ad-
vertise that you may do well aud If
you are doing we'll, advertise .tffsf you
may do better Set high Your gnark of
business success, and advertise up to it.
You can do so, If syeu ssiH, even In hard
times. A little nerve Is needed i'm ad-
vertising as we'll as In using an y other
effective means OF success. Your men
who have no more nerve than a wet rag
advertise little or none at all. You
may suppose that we are giving advice
that we think would benefit ourselves.
Yes, we do think that it would benefit
US. And ii you do not agree with us,
he wise enough to act ctaccordingly."
Year: 1867

The following beautiful extract Is
from the letter of "A Woman in
Washington :" .s-.s...


/ saw a pile Of knapsacks left behind
for safe keeping by the boys who went
TO the front and never came back.
The eloquence of those worm eaten
and mouldy bags cannot be written.
Here was o piece Of stony bread uneat-
en-, the little paper of coffee, the little
smoked tin cup in which it had been
boiled SO often over the hasty fire on
the eve of battle. There was the letter,
sealed, directed and never sent for the
soldier could not always get stamp.
Here letter half written, commencing /:
Dear Wife-how L want to see you. -
|" Dear Mother-my time is nearly out. y
The rusty pen, just as it was on the
half filled sheet, by the gallant and
loving hand which hoped SO soon to
finish 1t. Here were photographs O:
the fayorite generals, and dear ones at
home. Here were letters of heart. bro
ken love, and loyal to duty and hope,
faith and cheer, written mt home and
here was the testament given him
by the woman he loved best, soiled
and worn. For the American soldier,
II he rarely reads 1t still would carry
his testament as a dear talisman to
save him from all harm. Here were
those nementoes of the brave. loving
life gone out. They never came back.
The mourners at home do not all know
where they fell or where they were
buried. 'aE


To one unfamiliar with the soldiers
life, those relics might seem little, To
me they seem all love, all suffering, all
heroism. | look on them, and again
seem to see long lines of arching
men file past dust covered and warm
on their way to battle. see the roads
of Virginia shimmering i'm the white
heat, lined with exhausted men, lying
down to sleep and die, after the last de-
feat; hear the cry of wounded, the
moan of the dying; see the half filled
grave, the unburied dead. All the
awful reality of war comes back. So,
too, do knightly days aud daunt-
less men. Peace walks amid the May
time flowers, and already our soldiers
seem almost forgotten. Days of war
and deeds of valor seem like dreams
gone hy @ p
Year: 1867

AN EDITOR IN HEAVEN. Under tho
above caption an exchange gives long
obituary notice.of deceased brother
editor. The following is the closing
paragraph:


"Sbould we not then rejoice that our
late friend of the scissors and Quill Ia
In heaven? In that paradise the cry OF
more copy will ne, ,er again fnll upon.
his distracted ears. There his enjoy
ments will no more be interrupted BY
the growls of the unreasonable subscri.'
ber, or the duns of the paper maker
There he will enjoy entire freedom
from the detractions and misrepresent-
ations OF political opponents, and tho
caresses of ofambitious political nspirants.
In that blest abode he is no more TO be
troubled with illegible manuscript or
abominable poetry. No rival editors
will there stcal his thunder, or his
items and typographical errors shall
know him no more forever
Year: 1867

There is in Philadelphia young married
woman, who is very strongly afflicted with
mania for initiating the eroaing Of the morn
ing cock, while in state of somnolence. We
are assured that at an hour appointed by Na>
ture for chanticleer to frighten away the mid
night prowlers from yawning grayeyards, the
fortunate husband Of the Growing wife, on the
first night Of his marriage, was reused from
his slumbers by most lusty Growing. On
opening his eyes, what was his astonishment
to behold his better half seated in the middle
Of the connubial conjugal bliss, tapping her
wings and growing in a mos. loud and clear
voice, stretching out her neck after the most
approved rooster> fashion. Thrice did she thus
'heeald in the morn,a and then sank back aud
slept on. In the morning he spoke to her about
it, and was not more surprised than amused to
learn that she had been born in the country,
and that a fsyorite Shanghai which roasted
with his feathered family in the hen.coop,
near the window Of the maternal bedchamber
frightened her mother by his loud growing,
and thus the child was marked And ever
since-ycs even when babe lying in the
cradle, she has been won't to wake the echoes
of the coming dawn by initiating 'sye rooster
and still each morn she ''faps her wings and
crows As the business of the husband re-
quires him to rise early, he is rather pleased
than otherwise to find his wife possessed of this
additional accomplishment, which dispenscs
with the necessity Of alarm clock, though
having heard his grandmother say that the
'crowing Of hen indicated i'll luck, unless
her head was Immediately cut off, he is in
some doubt Whether in order to secure good
fortune to his house hold, he is not in duty
bound to stop his wifes Growing by seyeriug
her musical throat.
Year: 1867

We cut from an exchange the following re
ceipt: "To q pint of water add thirty drops
(about half a teaspoonfnl of liquor Of chloride
Of lime. Wash in this two and half pounds
of rancid butter. When every particle Of the
butter has come in contact with the water,
let it stand an hour or two; then wash
the butter well again in pnre water. The
butter is then left without any odor and has
the sweetness Of fresh butter. These proper
ations of lime have nothing injurious in
them.'


The same paper says:


.sWe forthwith obtained some Of the most
rancid butter, and it was bad enough for any
stomach that had more sensibility than
wagon Wheel We doctored it as per recipe,
and when placed on the table by the side Of
new, good butter, very able judges could not
distinguish which was the new butter. Here
is fact worth years subscription to pa
per-
Year: 1867

We clip the following from the Chicago
Republican, and commend it to the consid-
GRAFTON of our readers


what tells so readily the standard of
town or city as the appearance of its news
paper; and its youth or age can as well be
defined by the observing, by a glance at its
newspaper, as though a personal observa-
ton had been made. The enterprise of its
citizens is depicted by its advertisements-
the liberality by the. locks of the paper
Some papers show good, solid, healthy
foundation, plethoric purses and well-to-
do appearance generally others show a
striving to contend with the grasping
thousands around them, trying to wrench
out existence from the close-fsted comma
nifty around them An occasional meteor
ic display in its columns of telegraphio, Of
local or OF editorial, shows what it would
do if it had the means, but cannot continue
/ in the expensive work, until the support
comes which ought to be readily granted.
A newspaper is like a church it wants
fostering at the commencement, and for a
few years, then, as general thing it can
walk alone. and reflect credit upon its To-
cation. Take your home paper, it gives
you more news of immediate interest, than
the New York or other distant city papers ;
it talks for you when no others will speak
in your favor when other localities belle
you, it stands up for your rights you al
ways have a champion in your home paper
and those who stand up for you should GER
tainly be we'll sustained. Your interests
are kindred and equal, rise or fall together
Therefore, it is to your interest to support
your home paper, not grudgingly, but in q
liberal spirit, as a pleasure, not as a disa-
greable duty, as an investment that viii
amply repay expenditure.
Year: 1867

A RADICAL member Of the West Virgin
ia Senate is charged with stealing hog,
and member Of the House for "lifting"
a carpet sack and overcoat. 1t used to be
that honest men made laws for the punish
ment Of thieves, but under the Radical
dispensation we have presented the strange
spectacle of thieves making laws for honest
people.
Year: 1867

THE Sosfth, published at Ibervills, La,
says; We viii here take occasion to urge
upon our planters not to fail to make their
own corn this season. We pay no tax on
corn produced at home. but an internal tax
when We bay it, Let US not be SO foolish
as to think we cannot raise our own corn
aud proyeuder. 1t can be done easily aud
pays better than either cotton or sugar.
Year: 1867

ENIGMA.-It lives in Italy. though it is
found no where on the face of the eaFth.-
Though it is known to be in all cities, yet
it was never in any town, village or ham
let. Itis always found 10 kitchens and
bitches, though it never was in a house or
trench. Wherever wit and frivolty exist,
there it may be found, though it is always
out of humor. Though it figures in hab-
its, yet it was never seen in dress. It is
always the companion Of pity and charity,
yet it has nothing to do with religion. It
is noti existence, yet, without it, mans
spirit would be broken. It is in SwitzeF-
land and Brittany at the same time, and
yet it is in neither What is it? Echo
answers I tt
Year: 1867

Pound DELIvERY.-Some little excite
ment was created about town last Sunday
morning from the fact that lady, wife of
one Of our Lake captains, broke into the
hog pound on the north side and rescued
two swine belonging to her from the hands
of the Marshal. She claimed that the bars
of her yard were taken down by boys, who
maliciously drove the property away in
order to receive the fee of fifty cents fol-
each animal. If this is tue, she was per,
fectly right The idea of paying boys fifty
cents for catching hogs, and thus enticine
them to steal, is a very bad plan, and
should not be sanctioned Hogs should not
be allowed to run at large, but tempting
boys to be scoundrels should be abandoned
by the Board of Trustees. Our boys are
bad enough now, and money should not be
offered them to make them worse.
Year: 1867

The SoUTHERN .CRop The tobacco
crop goes into market about this time. =
The yield isreported to have been good,
and the price of the weed, although not SC
high as it was last year, is high enough to
make it very profitable business. We hope
that it will afford material relief to the to-
bacco-raising portion of the South. The
wheat crop in the northern tier of South.
ern States promises unusually we'll, and il
no unforeseen blight falls upon it the peo-
pie will have enough and to spare. Every
human person must devoutly hope that the
South has already seen its worst days, and
that the coming harvest will be abundant
in every part of that severely stricken por-
ton of the country.
Year: 1867

REyfEw OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. -
We must confess that the semi annual Re-
view of the Fire Department last Monday
was tho poorest we have yet seen. Badger
Engine Company was out in very small
force, but the engine and apparatus were
in good condition and worked well. Tor
rent Engine, as usual, was well manned,
but the hose was in deplorable condi-
ton The Board of Trustees should see
that this fine Company is not lacking any
needed apparatus.
Year: 1867

DIFFERENCE OF OpINIoN.-Tuo great
newspapers, the New York Tribune and
Manitowoc Tribune, disagree in opinion as
70 the justice Of the release of JEFF DAVIS
on bail. The former holds the following
language


2" He is at liberty to go where be pleases,
and not at the South alone, but equally at
the North, his liberation will be hailed as a
victory Of common sense.


While the latter sheet condemns the
transaction, and hauls GREELY :" over the
Goals " for his action in the premises in the
following indignant style:


- And then to think Of old Greely going
bail Tor such vile reprobate Alas for
Horace How are the mighty fallen -


We fear that GREELY will never get over
the above brilliant and caustic attack if he
gets glance at the number of the Manito
voc Tribune containing the wicked article.
Year: 1867

Too BAD.-The principal editor Of the
7rJune feelc so sickened and down hearted
at tie release of JEFFERSON DAVIS that he
intimatss bis unwillingness to go to another
war with the South. We hope be will
reconsider the matter, for it il certain that
thould such an unhappy contingency arise
GRANT and SHERMAN would resign their
positions rather than go 60 into battle with
out his aid.
Year: 1867

MORE TIMBER large raft of
timber for the harbor was brought here on
Saturday from Two Rivers. Mr. SMOKE
is carrying out his contract to the letter.
The government could not find better
man for the job.
Year: 1867

CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused
in the town of Granville last evening in
a society fair, which may serve as a warn
ing in the future to originatOrs and con-
ductors of tableaux. It appears that, at
the fair in question, one of the tabIeaux
! represented the burning of a " fair mar
tyr at the stake. A young lady who had
volunteered to officiate as the "marytr,"
was tied to a stake. in accordance with
aye ancient custom, and the traditional
tagots were piled up around her, at what
was supposed to be a sase distance.


These fagOts were saturated with an in
hammable fluid, and, when ignited, they
were at once all in a blaze-in fact, the
fire eneircled them like fash. For about
a minute the martyr stood her ground
nobIy, and the whole was producing a
brilliant and pleasing effect, when the
young lady suddenly screamed, to the
CONSERVATION Of the assembly, as that
had not been understood as a part of the
programme. Those present were so as
tOnished that they stood motionless for
some seconds, when one young man, who
regained his presence of mind, saw plain
ly the thing was being overdOne, and he
made an attempt to rescue her, and sue
ceeded. He was Just in time to save her
from being badly SCARED. As itwas, her
arms and head-dress were scOrched. The
subsequent exercises can be easily imag-
ined-BOSt0n ITareler.
Year: 1867

\ LOVING couple at Sharpsburg, XIV.
arrived at that time of life when they think


sixteen and twenty for each are meant, q


had appointed a recent Thursday evening


for the celebration of their nuptials, but


unfortunately the young gentleman who


procured the license failed to make his


appearance with that important document.


and after waiting a long time the minis


ters patience wore out and he departed.


Another clergyman was sent for. but owing


to the lateness of the hour and the in
cIemency of the weather, he refused to
comply, and the ceremony had to be post
poned till the next day. In the mean
time the person having the license ap-
pearcd. and in due time on the morrow
the minister was enrOUte for the residence
of the bride but on arriving on the banks
of the classic IIinkstOn creek, the food
had placed an impossible barrier in his
way. Not to be thwarted this time, how
ever, one Of the bridal attendants swan
the stream with the license, the bride and
groom, mounted on horseback, drew near
the waters edge. The minister mounted
a stump, and from the opposite side of
the stream, proceeded to solcmnize the
rites according to the statutes
of Kentucky. Thus, says the Carlisle
Mercury, were Perry Jewell and Hannah
Shrout, both Of Bourbon county. made
one flesh and bade go on their way re
iOicing.
Year: 1867

Two young ladies in San Francisco.


the other day, in crossing street in op-
posite directions, happened to meet face


to face, and as it was very muddy on


both sides of the crossing, neither would
turn out of the way, but stood glaring at
each for about a quarter of an hour
During that time a crowd of about three
or four hundred people assembled, the
street was blocked up, and traffic had to
come to a stand-still. The females we're
young and well-dressed, and looked as if
they ought to have had better ideas Of
than they exhibited. The
crowd hooted and jeered, and appeared
to enjoy the scene amazingly. At length
a policeman came along and compelled
one Of them to take the right "as the law
directs" D." The look Of concentrated hate
given by the party who had to step of
the walk is said to have been indeseriba-
BILE.
Year: 1867

\ GooD Will We heard the other
day, of a man who once lived within q
hundred miles Of New Albany, who was
possessed Of a large property, but like
all men, be their property large or small,
he had to die, though dying he did what
most mon wouldn't do; he left a will
bequeathing half of his wealth Cbeing
childless) to his wife, for her use as long
as she remained single, the other half to
be given to her when she marries again.
If such acts were more frequent, charm
ing widows would be more charming, and
much shorter liyed.-N 4.
Commercial
Year: 1867

ed in Ohio, with authority to do all the
acts which counties may of right do.
And having thus shown its lawful author
ity it is reserved to another chapter to
show the doings under it.
Year: 1867

As the eight athletic creatures took
their places at the starting point, the
excitement ran high; they were, like
the old Roman athletes, stripped for the
contest, the only garment being a short
petticoat, which reached within about
six inches of the knee.


Our informant, who stopped his tray
els for a day to witness this novel race,
was struck with the magnificent dcvel-
opement of muscle displayed by a swar-
thy looking belle, and he forthwith bet
his pile on Sesoguiche.


There were other finely developed
creatures IN the lists, but none whose
bright eye, clean limbs, hard looking
flesh and apparent gutta- -percha elastic
ity of motinn, drew so wildly up on his
imagination, and so powerfully upon his
purse.


THE START AND THE BETTING.


The whole bevy were off at the word
go, amid the widest excitement, and the
Year: 1867

ACCIDENTAL ID EATH By YHANGING-Another
warning as TO the effects OF hanging for fun has
lust taken place IN Utica A boy named O. o.
Buffers, aged 10 years, attempted TO show some
smaller Children the manner in which people
hang themselves. Making one end of a line
fast, he threw the other over a beam and made
IL fast TO his neck. He was Standing on A
horse, when be tumbled over and fell break
ing his neck. HIS mother arrived ana tried 20
loosen the line around his neck, but could
not II was then cut, and in five or six min
utes be breathed ais last
Year: 1867

NRw YORK, May 3.-The Times Paris cor
respondent states that a private letter from
Berlin mentions that Bismarck recently de-
claied 10 foreign diplomat that it was i'm
possible TOR him 10 make any confession with
regard To Luxemburg. He could not consent
TO Its neutrality or to withdraw the troops
from the fortress or admit that the question
was open 10 negotiation, and even if Prussia is
willing Germany would not hear TO II.


The Times edItorially. says nothing could
De more SIgninCant that the speech with which
the klng OF Prussia closed the first session OF
The North German Parliament. All reticence
rs now cast aside and whatever importance
france and Austria may attach to the treaty
OF Prague, il ~ evident at Berlin that neither
me sovereign nor the people dream that the
German national unity is Il matter with W hich
!oreIgn Powers have any business to concern
themselves.


Paris correspondent says he l. assured
thar preparations are making TO have the
French army ready for an emergency. and ii is
better prepared for sudden call than MANY
suppose.
Year: 1867




D0- In Paris some one has been
making an analysis of the air we
breathe in a theatre or other close
house, containing thousand per-
sons or more. He carried into a
theatre at ten o'clock at night a bot
tie Of ice placed on plate, aud then
collected the vapor which rapidly
condensed on tue outside of the bot
tie and flowed down ON the plate.
AT first this vapor thus collected had
the smell, the taste, and, so far as
could be determined, every chemical
quality belonging to the waters ofthe
most deadly fever marshes. Under
the microscope, this water was first
clear, but aoon, that is to say in q
week, it was found to be full of fine
animalcul@. 4 little later on, these
animalculm had grown, and the big
ones were seen pursuing and devour-
ing the little ones. Still later on,
at the end of two months, the water
was thick with animalcul@, various
forms were seen, and still the work
of destruction was going on. At
last, but three hideous monsters were
seen - microscopic monsters, Of
course, since they were contained in
q drop of water-and these were still
fighting to see which would devour
tho other. At the end of three
months the water became clear and
miasmatic again.
Year: 1867

EpTonIAL Fl Newspaper people are
proverbally temperate as well as virtu.
ous, We believe one Of the craft did
got tightly slight few, days ago, and
the following local appeareF in his
paper next day: ga. .ai


Yesterday morning about four o'clock
p NJ, a small man named Jones or
Brown, committed arsenic by swallows
ing a dose of suicide. The verdict of
tho inquest properly returned Jury that
the deceased came to the fact in accor-
dance with his death. He left child
and six elderly wives TO lament the end
of his unfortunate loss. In death VIC
are in the midst of lite,'
Year: 1867

The campaign is moving in that
noble spirit Of independence and ar
gutnentative power that is carrying
home conviction to the heart and
Judgment of every person who is well
disposed to the good order and hap
piness of the country. In the hands
ofthe faithful patriots of the country;
devoted to the cause of Constitutional
liberty; the Union of the States and
the Constitution unimpaired and
with facts that can not be refuted, the
Democracy is making rapid strides in
the midst of the peoples and the hope
may be favorably entertained that
Ohio will redeem herself from under
the curse and thraldom Of the fanati-
cal faction Of the North who have
well nigh ruined the country, and
threaten its entire destruction. =
Whenever you can find man that
will stop and talk with reason upon
the difficulties that now endanger the
entire people, you may reasonably en-
tertain the fond belief that that man
hasan interest for your happiness as
well as his own. And when you find
a man, of this character, you have
found, one who has not laid aside
principle and become dishonest. On
thesother hand, when you find a man
who is lost to all reason and common
senses who knows nothing to say but
"traitor," "copperhead," and "sym-
pathizer, you have found man with
whom. it would be dangerous to trust
your life. He has become a raving,
wild, crazy fanatic, and knows not
how to talk, only to abuse you and his
neighbor; perhaps the only friend he
hasowho would do him the smallest OF
favors, he regards as a traitor" "
"rebeBy or "copperhead."


Travel the country over and You
find this class Of men in almost every
neighborhood- -1men who have become
strangers to law and order and tram
pie under foot the Constitution Of our
Government. With such men there
is but little hope. They pray for war
again in.preference to peace and har-
mony and the happiness of the entire
country
Year: 1867

ARE you in favor of giving
the Negro the right of suffrage,
the right to hold Office, the right
to sit on juries and try men Of
your own color, the right to force
his choldren into your schools
and into the seat with the chill
dren ofyour white neighborwho
is not able to send his children
away to a select school? We
think you will vote MO!