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Year: 1868

The connection between the king.
dom of God and our daily bread Is
closer than generally believed 1 am
far from asserting that truly good
man may not sometimes getinto troub-
les without any fault of his own, for
God often puts his people into the cru
chile, that like gold they may come
out of it all the purer. But this I
make bold to say, that where man
has come so low that he has nothing
TO eat or drink, as rule. theie is some
thing wrong in him. He is either a
lazy mar or a 6runkard, or dishonest,
or unmanageable, or something else Of
that sort, There must be some hidden
evil within him which causes him to
succumb under the evil of the day.
Our Lord is not such q shepheard as
sends the sheep that follow him into
barren wilderness where there is no
food. 1t is a trihe to Him to open His
hand and TO literally feed man and
beast. How much more viii He fill
with food and Joy the mouth and the
heart of those whom He knows as
His servants, and friends, and breth-
rem, who labor not as men pleases, but
to please Him, there all in all.
Year: 1868

KIND FoLKs.-The man who makes
you a present you do not want the
friend who gives you 50 much advice !;
the lady who insists you have not made
out your dinner; the old gentleman
who is starving himself tolsE up money
for you; the shopkeeper who abates
the price of an article Just because it
is you; and the mother who lets the
dear children do as they please. -a11


HAPPY FoLKs-A child with rattle;
a small chap drumming on a tin pan
a schoolboy on holiday two lovers
walking BY moonlight a gent inbibing
3 sherry cobbler; boy sucking new
cider through a straw; two country
misses over an ice cream I; and a newly
married couple over the first baby.


GENTEEL FoLKs-Tne young lady
who lets her mother do the ironing
for fear of spreading her hands, the
miss who wears thin shoes on a rainy
day; and the gentleman who is asham-
ed to be seen walking with his father.


INDUSTRIOUS FoLKs.-Fhe young lady
who reads romances in bed the msn
who never has time to attend to his
own business but plenty for everybody
else. the man who rises at FIVE in the
morning to get his 'bitters," and keeps
bis hands in his pockets the rest Of
the day. a-a
Year: 1868

There is tender pathos in the fol-
lowing incident from the North British
Nal. 1t suggests the sad thought that
many a home is made utterly desolate
by q mothers death, and that children
are often ruined by the loss Of her
comforting and restraining love.


Some gentleman passing through the
beautiful village Of Renton, in the Vale
of Leven, Dumbartonshire, about nine
o'clock at night, some time ago, had
their attention directed to a dark
object in the eburch-yard. On going
to ascertain wAt it was, they found q
boy OF tender years lying fat on MS
face and apparently sound asleep over
recently made grave. Thinking it
not very safe bed they took him up
and asked him how he came to be there.
He said that he was afraid to go home,
as his sister, with whom he resided, had
threatened to beat him. -.--...


"And where does your sister hVs?"
asked one of the party.


''In Dumbarton," vas the answer.


"In DumbaFtonAnearly four miles
of and how came you to wander so
far away from homer


81 just came" sobbed the poor little
fellow, because my mothers grave
was here" ESQ So


His mother had been buried there q
short time before, and his seeking
refuge at her grave in his sorrow was a
beautiful touch Of nature IN this child,
who could scarcely have yet learned
/ IN raaliza the frt1a oho oraofar of that
separation which knows no reunion on
earth. Thither had he instantly wan
dered to sob out his sorrows, and to
moisten with tears the grave Of one
who had hitherto been his natural pro-
teetor, for he had eFideRtly-erisd him
self to sleep.
Year: 1868

Ny house on Washington Avenue. formerly
owned by Jacob II. Baldwin, has the oldest
Plastic Slate roofin town. Come and see it and
thin you will agree with me that you would not
exchange It for the best shingle roof in town.


S. PARISH.
lam fully prepared with the best material,
and shall give my exclusive attention to the
supplying Of this roofing. and all work viii Be
done under my own supervision; believing IN
the old maxim that he who BY the plough would
thrive, himself must either hold or dive


S. PARISH
In addition to the making Of new roofs. Plss-
tic Slsteis the
Year: 1868

L II


The undersigned haying taken charge Of the
above named Hotel, generally known as The
Lanich House, situate on the corner of Market
AMI Second Streets Ciearield, Pa, desires to in
form the public that be is now prepared to accom-
modate those who may favor him with call
The house has been re-ftted and re furnished
and hence he fatters himself that he will be able
TO entertain customers in a satisfactory manner
A liberal share of patronage Is solicited;


June r. 1857 A SLIME
Year: 1868

And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
Upon them with all its attendant ills.wili find in
the use of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an elixer
that will instil life into their veins restore
in a measure the energy and ardor of more youth
full days build up their shrunken forms, and give
health and happiness to their remaining years.
Year: 1868

same advice and persuasion, and con-
WINGED once more Of his folly, the haunt
ed man retnrned to his home. That
night more vivid than ever, more terribly
real than before, she came TO his bedside
and upbraided him for his want of ailec-
and would not leave him until he had
promised to remove the cause Of all her
suffering. The next night with friend
he repaired to the sexton, who was pre-
vailed upon to accompany them, and
there, by the light of the cold, round
moon, the body was lifted from its mar
row bed, the napkin removed from the
face of the corpse. That night she
came to his bedside once more, but for
the last time. Thanking him forhis kind
ness, she pressed her cold lips to his
cheek and came again no more"
Year: 1868

VISITS FROM A DEAD WIFE.-A paper


at Monongahela, Pa, vouches for the
truth of the following singular story


+" Not very long ago, the young and beau
tiful wife of one of our citizens was call
ed to her final account, leaving her hus-
hand sad. disconsolate and berett. She
was buried in the adjacent cemetry, and
the husband returned to his disconsolate
home, but not to forget his loved one.
She was present with him by day, in spirit,
and in his dreams by night. One pecul-
iarity of his dreams, and one that haunt
ed him-being repeated night after night
was this: that the spirit of his wife
came to his bedside and told him that
the undertaken had not removed from
her face the square piece of muslin OF
napkin, which had been used to cover
her face after death; but had screwed
down her coffin lid with it upon her, and
that she could not breathe in her grave
but was restless on account of the nap


kin. He tried to drive the dream away
but it bided with him by night and
troubled him by day. He sought the
consolation of religion, and his pastor
praved with him, and assured him thai
il was wicked to indulge such morbid
fancy. 1t was the subject of his owl
netition before the Throne of Grace; bu
still the spirit came and told anew tn


story of her sufocation. In dispair n


sought the undertaken Mr.. Dick, y, VIII
told him that the napkin had not beel
removed, but urged him to forget tn


circumstances, as it could not be an


possible annoyance to inanimate ella.


While the gentleman frankly acknow


edged this, he could not avoid the appal


ition and continual stress upon his MN


becan to tell upon his health. AT iengt


he determined to have the body disinte


red and visited the undertaken Tor Uni


nurpose. Here he was met with u
Year: 1868

receiving aiG from the Washington au-
thorities, we should be compelled to pay
a still greater tax than the present for
the aid and support of the revolution
which Blair threatens, and for which
the entire South is ready so soon as n
Democratic victory shall be announced.
With the financial policy of the New
York Convention adopted, and the credit
of the country thereby ruined, the ma
ton would be compelled to pay cash
down for all its expenditures, where it
now gets trusted for a number of years,
and the Immediate burdens of taxation
would be thereby increased to such an
enormous extent that many would be
tempted to leave the United States for
the purpose of escaping the load. We,
of Montana, should be compelled to bear
our share of the burden, to pay twice or
three times what we do now perhaps,
and that too. so fBr as the Republicans
are concerned, for the establishment of
principles in direct opposition to our
own.


1t will thus be seen that, although we
cannot vote, we have an interest in the
campaign, which is not exceeded by that
of any portion of the Union. BY the
election of Grant and Colfax, we have
much to gain, 10y their defeat, much to
lose. This being the case, we shall not
fail TO keep our readers well informed
concerning the progress of the Presiden-
tial contest and those indications which
point 10 its probable result.
Year: 1868

We are happy to be able to announce
that the comic Independent has decided
TO follow the advice which we recently,
in spirit of kindness, gave it, 1t will
devote its columns exclusively to COM
edy in the future, and make none of
those dull attempts at logical reasoning
for which il is go emineltly untitled. To
be sure its stories are very old, that of
the ram and mellet," TO the minute de
scriptlon of which il devotes a half col
uInn of it's last issue, having been
already heard and repeated not less than
7169 times by every man, woman and
child above the age of Eve years in the
country, but then second hand wit is
more end urable than original stupidity,
and we can conscientiously state that
the Independent is improving. The pa
per contains one really good joke,
although the subject is horrible one.
In speaking of the recent earthquake in
South America, il calls it one of those
fatal workings OF nature such as the
history of the past gives no account of
The history referred to was limited in
it's considerations to Pike county. Mis-
souri, .
Year: 1868

horns of a dilemma. either of which
he can choose. He may admit that the
charges against Mr.. Potter are
untrue and that he has sworn
falsely, or he may, on the
other hand, admit that he is rascal of
the first water, willing TO defraud the
Government for two or twenty years
provided he can thereby retain profits
able Office. and willing, also, during the
whole of that time, to play the part of
a snake in the grass for the purpose of
compelling his employer to continue
him in his service. Take your choice.
Either alternative serves as an annihi~
lator to any ambition you may have TO
be classed among honest men. Mr..
Crounse concludes his card by saying
that he cannot be bought. This is so.
He has already sold himself beyond re-
demption, and even if this were not the
case, there is not an assayer's scale in
the city sufficiently delicate to weigh
his very rare principles, and there is
not in the Territory a gulch producing
a grain of gold sufficiently fine to place
in the other pan as a purchase price
Year: 1868

To provide for the Adjournment of Courts in
the absence of the Presiding Justice.


BE IT ENACTED, by the King, and the Legisla-
tire Assembly Of the Haieaiidn Islands, IN
the Legislature Of the Kingdom assembled:


SECTION l. If no Justice of the Supreme
Court shall attend any Circuit Court at the
time which it is appointed to be holden, the
Circuit Judge, or if no Circuit Judge be in
attendance, the Sheriff may open the Court
and adjourn the same from day to day, and
from time to time, until the attendance Of some
Justice of the Supreme Court; but no such
adjournment shall be for longer time than
three days, unless there shall be produced and
recorded by the Clerk, at the time Of such ad-
journment, written order by the Chief JUS
tice of the Supreme Court, fixing the day to
which said Circuit Court shall stand adjourned.
SECTION 2. The s73 section of the Civil Code
is hereby repealed, and SO much of the Ss5
section of said Code as provides that the sess-
ions Of Circuit Courts shall not extend, during
any one term, beyond the period of fourteen
days, is also repealed.


Approved this 30th day of April, 1868.


kANEHAMEHA K.
Year: 1868


To provide for an Additional Term of the Cir
cult Court in the Third Circuit.


BE 1T ENACTED, BY the King, and The LegisLa-
tire Assembly Of the HaWaiiaH Isiands, in
The Legislature Of the Kingdom assembled:


SECTION /. A term Of the Circuit Court shall
be holden at Waimea, on the Island of Hawaii,
within and for the Third Circuit Of the King
dom, on the first Tuesday of November in each
year.


SECTION 2. The term of the Circuit Court
now appointed by law to be holden on the first
Tuesday of September, within and for the said
Third Circuit, shall hereafter be holden at
Hilo, on the first Tuesday Of May in each year.
SECTION 3. Either term may be adjourned to
the other seat of Justice in the Island of Ha-
waii, appointed for holding said Circuit Court,
whenever, in the opinion of the Justice of the
Supreme Court presiding at the same, the in
terest of public justice shall require such ad-
journment.


SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon
its passage, providing that the term Of said
Circuit Court appointed to be holden during
the present year shall be held at Waimea, on
the first Tuesday of September, anything in
this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, but
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court may
by his written order direct the Sheriff to ad-
journ the same to any day not later than the
first Tuesday Of November Of the present year.
Approved this I'd day of May, 1868.


KAMEHAMEBA r.
Year: 1868

Especial Dispatch to the Star.l


NEW YORK, March ia special Washing
ton dispatch 10 the World says that Attorney
General Stanbery has rendered his resignation
to the President, in order that he may be LETT
free to act as counsel for Mr.. johnson in the
Impeachment trial The resignation has not
vet been accepted
Year: 1868

E- In matters of great concern,
and which must be done, there is no
surer argument of a weak mind than
irrcsolution-to be undetermined
where the case is so plain. and the
necessity so urgent; TO he always
intending to lead new life. but new
CT to find time 10 sc; about IL.
Year: 1868

AJ~ The worst thing that a man
who has rendered himself amenable
to satire can do, is to turn waspish
under the lash. 1t is related of n
wrinkled old woman that, becoming
angry with her looking glass, she
shivcred it to pieces--but alas, every
fragment reflected her blemishcs, and
she wept to see that she had only
multiplied the ugly image which she
had sought to destroy. So it usually
is with the individual who is too
thin-slsinned to endure satirical
squib with equanimitv. 1t is bad
policy to rush into a hornets nest to
avengc a casual sting or two. If an
antagonist worthy of your steel en-
deavors to turn you into ridicule,
meet him with his own weapons if
you have them at command. If not,
and if yon cannot by plain tale put
him down, grin and bear it. I'm
perturbable good temper is an etlec-
tive means of defence against lima
tured sarcasm. The laugh is never
long against the man who meets rid
icule screnely.
Year: 1868

The coroncr's jury in the cases Of the
tlirty.nine persons slaughtered by the An
COLO disaster, on the Buffalo and Erie Road,
find their deaths were caused by the last two
cars being thrown off tho track bya bent
axle in the forward wheels Of the rear truck
Of the rear Car Of the train, ''tho axle being
50 bent (by causes which VIC hsvo been un-
able to discovery that the wheels dropped
from the end Of tho frog inside Of and did
not lap on the wing rail, thereby forcing the
opposite wheels Of that truck of tho rail
und the car off the track" The car had
been inspected on that trip, but the bent
axle was not discovered, and could only have
been discovered by mechanical tcsts more
accurate than the ordinary inspection. The
cause Of tho disaster seems to have been all
Of q character to clude ordinary or even ex-
traorlinary vigilance, and tho verdict Of the
Jury will absolve the company from blame
in the general judgement Of tho public
NJ y Tribune.
Year: 1868

road them" replied the conductor, attempt
ing to go on with his duty. iat se.. 81.


''The price Of ticket" said Beau is "one
dollar, my beaver cost me v. Your
good sense will at once show you that there
is balance Of four dollars in my favor, at
any rate."s f4a .t.t - = u


Tho conductor hesitated. Beau looked
like q gentleman to any one not perfectly
well posted up in the human face; he was
well dressed, and his indignation appeared
most honest wan"


''I'll sec you after I have collected the
tickets" replied the conductor, passing on
through the car. -a...


Beau sat in silent indignation, frowning
at everybody until the conductor returned,
and came and sat down by his side.
Beau then, in an earnest undertone, that We
could only overhear occasionally, talked to
the conductor ''like q father" and VIC saw
the crest fallen man Of tickets pay the hat
less passenger four dollars!


The trick was at once seen through by
both my friend and myself, and the next
day over bottle Of wine at the Monument
House, Beau told us he was hard up, hadn't
o dollar. picked up an old hat at Gadsby's
hotel in Washington, clapped his cup in bis
pocket, and resolved that the hat should
carry him to Baltimore; and it did, ,cith
four dollars in the bargain. '..a.
Year: 1868

Gold and legal tenders arc coming into
collision in the courts, and the question will
have to be settled without delay, because
the balance cannot remain in its present un-
even condition much longer, without Sc
riously affecting the commercial interests Of
the whole country. The question will have
to be settled, too, upon the basis Of com.
mon sense. For instance, when it.":is con-
tractcd that liabilities shall be met in gold
they should be liquidated in that material,
just the same as if it was contracted that
they should be liquidated in cotton. or iron,
or any other substance. But if the contract
con aims no such spt ci ic.tion, then it FLOWS
naturally, that the debt shall bc liquidatcd
in money, which means the legal tender Of
the country. This is the common sense
view Of the matter, and this view, we have
very little doubt, the courts will take Of the
subject when it comes before them for final
adjudication. As this time there is con.
flict Of judgment in the lower courts, both
in this city and in the West; but the pub
lie rely upon tho Supreme Court to put the
matter to rest bya prompt decision. "
T. Herald.
Year: 1868




A CoLoRED DELEGATE VIsITs GRANT,
The white Radicals having failed to elicit
any decided expression or opinion froinGen.
Grant, they sent negro to try his luck a
few days since. The Evening telegram Of
the oath tells the story as follows:


General Grant had novel sort Of an ap.
plicant for admittance to his presence this
morning. About halEpast ten O'Clock a re-
spectacle looking sable citizen made his ap-
pearance, and asked to have an interview
with the General of the Armies He was
told that he must send in his name, where
upon colored citizen sat down on indicated
a letter to General Grant, in which he ex-
planned that he was representative of his
African brethren Of the South, and came on
their part to discover Grants views on the
topics Of the day, and more especially re.
garding the rights of the negro. The letter
was taken to Gen. Grant, who sent back an
answer that ho was military officer, and
did not desire any conversation on political
topics. The colorcd delegate, however, re-
fused to be snubbcd in this way, and enter
cd into an argument with General Dent on
the subject. lie told Dent he wanted mere
ly to take back with him some comforting
assurance that Grant was the friend Of the
negroes and that he deserved their support.
Dent informed him that when Senator
Wade called Oil Grant tho conversation was
devoted mainly to horses and not to politics.
The colored citizen said he did not want to
talk horses--that he took no interest in that
subject, but in other Of more use to general
humanity and great political rights. Dent,
however was almost as rcticent on these
matters as Grant himself and SO the Afri-
can delegate, after repeated efforts ut pump.
ing, retired disappointed.
Year: 1868

Maj. Francis d. Skunk, who dicd DC
cember 10Th, was the third son Of, tho late
Governor Francis II. Skunk. Ho entered
the West Point Academy in ls49, when in
his seventeenth year, and graduated in 1853,
third in class Of which the late General
M'Pherson was head. After service ofsome
years at various arscnals as Ordnance officer
and at West Point as on instructor in chem.
istry, he accompanied the army 10 Utah in
1858, at the time Of tho threatened war
with the Mormons, and remained in that
Territory till the troops wcro withdrawn
In 1861, at the breaking out Of the rebellion
he was Ordnance Officer, at the Washing.
ton Arsenal, and continued in that response.
bic and laborious position until he sailed in
the autumn with the Port Royal expedition.
After service Of some months as Chief Of
Ordnance at Hilton Head, he was transfer.
red to the staff Of General Pope, where he
held the same position during the diastrous
campaign Of that officer in front Of Wash.
inQton. After Pope's removal he was as.
signed to the staff Of General Mcclellan,
and was with that great soldier at Antictam
and South Mountain. He served for o brief
period on the staff Of Gcncral Burnside,
was relieved at his own request, and after
few months spent in charge Of the Allegheny
Arsenal, was made Chiefof Ordnance Of the
Department Of the Gulf, with headquarters
ut New Orleans. Here he remained until
the war was nearly closed, when he was or.
dered to Richmond, where he has remained
since that city was captured. He was Chief
of Ordnance on the staff Of General Scho-
field at the time Of his death.


To those who knew Major Skunk, it is
needless to say anything Of his great heart
and brilliant mind. Thoroughly vcrsed in
the scvcrest studies Of his profession, he
spent his military life in positions Of high
trust, and filed them well. There was no
officer Of the old army better known than
he, or warmer friends than those whose
tears have been shed over his untimely
grave. He was cut off most unexpectedly
after an illness Of but few days, in the
very maturity of his strength. Ills memory
will long live dear to many fond, womanly
heart, and in many brave, manly one.-
The highest tribute that can be paid him is
to be found in the fact that those who knew
him best loved him, one and all, with the
truest and tenderest affection.


The remains ~urc taken to Harrisburg for
interment. The age Of Major Skunk was
little more than thirty five years. York Ca
spfjp
Year: 1868

The most cheering news reaches us
from Michigan In that State, says the
Detroit Free Press, there is net q town
nor school district in which large Demo-
cratic gains are not reported. In three
of the Congressional districts these gains
already figure up more than enough to
carry than for the Democracy. This,
with the reduction of the Radical major
ities in the other three, and the excellent
chance of also carrying two Of them,
gives us every confidence Of carrying the
State for Seymour and Blair, and for
John Moore and his associates on the
State ticket. Let the work continue
bravely on. 1t has thus far met with eu-
coursgement beyond the hopes of the
most sanguine. There is everything to
hope and expect if there is no int0rmis-
sion. Every day we are gaining as the
people read, listen aud reflect. The De-
mocracy in this campaign are with and
for the people. 1t is only necessary that
the people should realize it to secure
their support.