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Year: 1877

The over-zealous friends of Mr.. Jack
son have done that gentlemans case great
injury by giving it political coIoring,
and abusing our own citizens of the
Democratic party as well as the Governor,
the States Attorney General, the Sec
retary of State, and the Sheriff, who
were all friendly to him and ready to do
him any service they could So far as
we can see Mr.. Jackson las been the
victim OF this political turn, and is wholly
irresponsible for it. Our reporter has
several times sought for facts in the case,
and each time has been denied any con-
ference. We have stIiven to give the
1acts in the case and while we said
nothing to the injury Mr. Jackson found
1t necessary to say more than we wished
to do to protect others of our own people
whose reputation is quite as dear to them
and their friends as Mr., Jaokson's is to
him and his friends.


The meeting yesterday was compara-
lively secret one from which the press
reporters were excluded, at least ours
were, and we are therefore compelled To
take such information as we can get.
Year: 1877

And now Kellogg comes to the front
and gives notice that Hayes and Nichols
shall go down with him, if he shall be
made to 60 down, by demanding an In
vestigation of the overthrow OF the
Packard government under the direction
of the Louisiana Commission. Well, If
there is anything or anybody about the
Louisiana business that can't stand day
light, the cause of justice will be served
by getting down to the bottom facts. The
very worst thing that can happen would
be the admission of Kellogg, the chief of
the Louisiana criminals, to seat in the
Senate solely because he is criminal
and employed his trained experience In
crime to manufacture a pretended csm-
mission as Senator.-Times.
Year: 1877

Whatever credence may be given TO
particular rumOrs from Utah, says the
New York Tribune, it is sufficiently GER
tain that in various parts of that terri
tory an uneasy feeling is existing among
the Mormons, which Brigham Young is
doing nothing to allay. Indeed, his
public utterances, if they are correctly
represented, are anything but pacific.
He is said to be preaching a crusade,
which the Gentiles of the territory natu-
rally regard as preached against them
selves. OF course, compared with Nor
mon population, they are a mere
handful, and they may we'll indulge in
some apprehension of violence. In Salt
Lake City specially they are greatly out
numbered. We are further informed
that the military preparations of the
MOrmons are considerable; that drilling
is going on continually, and that arms
have been shipped in great numbers from
the east.


Brigham Young and his more unscrup-
ulous devotees are doubtless laboring
under great apprehension. The vigor
displayed in the trial and execution of
Lee has proved conclusively that the
temporal power in Utah is no longer in
the hands of the Latter Day Saints. We
do not know precisely what they may
have to fear, but their record, as they
know better than anybody else can, is
quite enough to make them anxious.
Their power and authority, once so great
and almost unquestioned, are gone.
Assassination will not help them, while
they are no longer, as they once were,
defended by distance and great deserts
from the weight of the governments Is
hand. 1t is hard to see what they can
hope ultimately to accomplish by COM
plete defiance of the federal power, or by
a resort to the madness of massacre. But
there is an unreasonable because it is a
fanatical element in the Mormon popu-
latisn, which has not been sufficiently
taken into account. 1t is just possible
that Young himself may have been made
reckless by a term so prolonged of ire
sponsible authority. Greater men than
he have lost their heads under difficulties
comparatively less.


But whatever may be impending, we
may be sure that the beginning of the
end is near. If the Mormon leader, cou-
tenting himself with a spiritual despot-
ism, shall finally yield obedience to the
laws, he may die quietly in his bed, and
his sect may peacefully disappear after
him. If he permits himself to be misled
inte sanguinary acts which will be sheer
madness, he will be summarily and
sternly dealt with. His vanity may mis-
lead him into an exaggerated estimate OF
his resources and OF his local advantages;
but to those who consider them with in
difference they do not seem great enough
to be alarming. The United States
wants neither the will nor the power to
deal strictly and summarily with the
Mormon strength, such as it is; and we
believe that it will do so.
Year: 1877

A number OF absured stories are going
the rounds of the press as to the dispOsl-
ton of the remains of J. Wilkes Booth.
The latest is by Captain Oliver p. Leslie,
of Pittsbnrg, who states that the body
was sunk in a lake seven miles
below Alexandria, Virginia. The in
controvertible facts are as follows:
The remains were ordered to be
delivered to the friends of Booth by
President Andrew johnson. John H.
Weaver, the undertaken, of this city, was
sent to Washington by his family to
bring them home for interment. A box
was taken up from the arsenal building
and delivered to him. 1t was brought
by him to Baltimore, and was examined
by him and reporter of the Gazette at
his room on West FayettN street, near
Holiday. They found in it a skeleton
wrapped in an army blanket. When the
blanket was taken of the skeleton was
covered with a powder having the ap-
pearance of sOap-stone, and on being
rubbed between the fingers it disap-
peared Just as soap-stOne will do. On
the right foot was an army shoe, cut
open at the top its entire length, as if to
accommodate a swollen foot. The other
was large cavalry boot. The reporter
of the Gazette examined the bones in and
above the shoe, and for some time could
find no injury. Believing the remains
to be those of Booth, the reporter made
a persistent examination, and at last dis
covered the leg was fractured clean
through lust above the ankle. The frac-
ture was clearly marked, and the por-
ton below the fracture being lifted out
of the box, the ends of the bones were OF
| a pure whitness, leaving no doubt as to
| the fact that Booth in leaping from the
| box has fractured his right leg and not
sprained it. Still, the identity of the
| remains were not satisfactorily estab-
Iished, especially as there was no portion
of the spinal vertebre missing and no
[ mark of any bullet upon them. A
brother of Booth was sent for, who was
| told by Mr.. Weaver as to the doubts as
to the identity of his remains, and Mr.


Weaver requested him to think of some
popularity, if any existed, in the struc


ture of his brother that would forever
remove any doubt. After thinking for {
brief while, the brother said that all h'
could remember was that his brothe


had his tooth plugged with gold in I


peculiar manner. He described the 10


cation of the tooth, and drew with {


pencil the shape of the plug, which wa


of unusual size. The teeth were takel


out, and the tooth was found plugge'


Just as described by the brother, ant


forever setting at rest any question


the identity of the remains. The re


mains were buried in GreenmOunt ceme


tery, in the same lot with his grand


father, father, and other children OF Tn


family. Baltimore Gazette.
Year: 1877

Much OF the happiness of life depends
on our outward demeanor. We have
experienced the charm of gentle and
courteous conduct; we have been drawn
irrestibly toward those who are obliging,
affable and sympathetic in their demeanor


The friendly grasp, the warm welcome,
the CHEEKY tone, the encouraging word,
share in creating the joy of life, while
the austere tone, the stern rebuke, the
sharp and acrid remark, the cold and in
different manner, the curt and disre-
spectful air, the supercilious and scornful
bearing, are responsible for more of hui
man distress, despair and woe than their
transient natures might seem to warrant.
Year: 1877

before peace shall reign again; the long
expected European crisis has. arrived and
the nations of the old world stand aghast
at the spectacle in which they may so
soon be called upon to play part for
life or death
Year: 1877

In all diseases affecting these organs,
whether they secret too much or too little
water; or whether they be afflicted with
stone OF gravel, or with aches and pains set
tied in the loins or over the regions of the
kindnevs these Pills should be taken accord.
ing to the printed directions, and the Oint-
ment should be well rubbed into the small
of the back at bed time. This treatment
will give almost immediate relief when all
other means have failed
Year: 1877

Is the great blood purifier, Syphilis, and re-
moves Fimplcs and Humors on the face


Reason should teach us that blotchy, rough or
pimped skin depends entirely upon an internal
cause, and outward application can ever cure the
defect.
Year: 1877

Is now employed at Younger's shop,
and all kinds of work in that line is
done in the best manner and at reasona-
BILE prices. Liberal discounts will be
given to the trade. All work guar
anteed.
Year: 1877

We want to sell all the goods we
can to othe good people of Milan and
vicinity; but We are perhaps old fog
gies about our method of business.
We never pull our customers around
on the street. We can't say to them,
We can sell them goods cheaper than
any one else. Weare trying to make
money in legitimate way, and can
sell goods as cheap as any frst.class
house. A big lot of goods forinspec-
ton and on sale every day and night,
except Sunday. at The Emporium.


We are Offering and will sell our
entire stock of mems fine clothing Mt
tempting prices at The Emporium.


We have Just received a beautiful
line of Window shades in nice colors.
These shades are complete. Hang
ings ready attached. Come and see
them at The Empoviuna.
Year: 1877

To the young gentlemen and Others
wanting nice clothing: We are carry
ing nice stock of all gra des and
styles, and are selling as reasonable as
any house i'll our town at


The Emporium.
Year: 1877

Wecan't put everything we keep
in the paper, but call here Efor any
thing you. need. Most Of tke ,neces-
sary articles belonging to the dry
goods line are to be found in our store,
and we sell them about as cheap Us
YOU can buy them anywhere at


The Emporium.
Year: 1877

Our late style Suitings that We are
selling at 10 and 10 cents per yard
pleases all the ladies, and we think
the best and prettiest goods we have
offered this season for the money.
We try to please the ladies at


The EmpOrilHe.
Year: 1877

Ho for the sch odl girls.and all the
little girls who walk in the mud
Come to our store and see the pretty
Croquet Rubber Sandals. They will
keep your feet dgy AMI preserve your
shoes nice and clean. They are cheap
at The Emporium.
Year: 1877

The scene is laid within half a mile
Of the City School. Twenty,one Of
the largest boys gathered in solemn
council in one corner Of the yard and
decided that they were too big to be
licked by any schoclteacher walking
the face of the earth. After arriving
at that decision conspiracy was en-
tered INTO. The biggest boy in the
crowd was to bring on a conflict with
the teacher as soon as possible, and
the other twenty we're to back him.


"Death to towards !" shouted one,
as the plan was all fixed.


"No backing down-no hesitation !!
cried another.


"a rush together-one wild yell
one mad struggle, and victory will be
ours !" yelled the smallest of the lot


1t was desperate plan.


The school.housc was not defended
by even Calling gun.


1t might be the commencement of a
rebellion which would not end until
every school house in the land was
turned into an establishment for the
sale of mourning goods.


Scene second came on fifteen min
utes later. The innocent teacher
looked around upon her scholars with
out the least suspicion that a fierce
rebellion was brewing. The clock
ticked the same as ever The boy
across the street pounded on an old
tin pan, the same as ever. The big
conspirator was suddenly seen to
throw paper wad across the room.


He was ordered to come forward.
He said he didn't want to.


1t was moment of peril, but the
teacher didn't realize it. She walked
down the aisle, took the big conspira-
tor by the collar, and in ten seconds
he wondered whether he was down
cellar or up in the garret, while twen
ty other boys grew white around the
mouth, bent to their lessons with re-
newed energy, and mentally whisper
ed:


"Be still, thou wildly. beating heart
wait till | grow foot or two
more !"


The big consplrator is now thresh-
ing them in solemn succession. He
reached number eighteen yesterday
Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1877

1t cannot be that earth is mans on
ly abiding place. 1t cannot be that
our lire is a bubble cast by eternity,
to float a moment upon its waves and
sink INTO nothingness. Else why is it
that the high and glorious aspirations
which leap like angels from the ten-
pie of our hearts are forever wander
ing unsatistied ? Why is it that the
rainbow and cloud come over IL, with
a beauty that is not OF earth, and then
pass off to leave us to muse on their
loveliness Why is it the stars which
hold their festival aronud the mid
night throne are set above the grasp
of our limited faculties, forever mock
ing us with their unapproachable glo-
ry? Aud, finally, why is it that
bright forms OF human beauty are pre-
seL,ed to our view and taken from us |;
leaving the thousand streams OF our
affection to flow back in an Alpine
torrent upon our hearts


There is realm where the rainbow
never fades where the stars will be
spread out before us like the islands
that slumber in the ocean, and where
the beautiful beings which pass before
US like shadows will stay forever in
our presence George d. Prentice.
Year: 1877

Would the diamond seem such peerless gen
If it measured one foot around
Would the rose leaf yield such sweet per


fume


If it covered yards of ground
Would the dewdrops seem so clear and pure
If dew like rain should fall ?
Or the little woman be half 30 great


If she were six feet tall {?
'Tis the hand as 80 It as the nesting bird
That grips with the grip of steel;
'Tis tho voice as sweet as the summer wind
That rules without appeal
And the warrior, scholar, the saint and sage
May fight, and plan, and pray,
Tho world will wag to the end Of time
In the little woman's way.
Year: 1877

1t is remarkable fact that we
cannot explain, that the boy who does
not know the gun is loaded is never
theIess always to be found at the safe
end of gun. Providence ought to
look after this little arrangement and
reverse it occasionally.
Year: 1877

The Cossack cavalrymen are all COM
paratively young men and have young
wives. Whenever they set out on o
campaign, they buy white scarf or
handkerchief to take with them. At the
close of their period of service, they re
turn to their villages and are met by the
whole population. Now wife who has
been unfaithful to her lord, kneels down
before him in the road, puts her face IN
the dust, and places her husbands foot
upon her neck. This is a confession Of
guilt, and at the same time prayer for
forgiveness. If the husband then covers
his wifes head with the white scarf, it
means that he forgives her and agrees to
forget her fault. If the white handker-
chief is not produced, the woman returns
straight to her fathers house without
again entering her husbands dwelling,
and divorce is pronounced. A war cor
respondent recounts tragical story
which soldier told him on the Danube.
A returning Cossack was informed by a
malicious neighbor before he reached
his home that his wife had been unfaith-
full. His comrades perceived that he had
all of sudden taken to drink and dissi-
patton, although he was not man given
to these vices. When he reached his
village his wife, as he feared, came for
ward, knelt down, and put her face in the
dust at his feet. The spectators saw him
look at her as she lay in the dust for q
long time. Two or three times he put his
hand in his breast for the white hand
kerchief as if be were going to cover the
repentant woman's head-two or three
times the movement was restrained.
Finally, as if driven by sudden impulse,
he drew his sword, and with one stroke
severed her headfrom her body. The pun
ishnent for the crime was two months
imprisonment, while the malicious neigh
bor who had taken the trouble to inform
him beforehand of his wife's misconduc
was sentenced to Siberia for thre
years.
Year: 1877

Mind must be the emancipation of the
farmer. Science, intelligence, machin-
ery-these must liberate the white bond
men of the soil from their long slavery.


When look back and see what has been
done for the farmer within my brief
memory, I am full of hope for the future.


The plow, under the hand Of science, is
become a new instrument. The horse
now hoes the corn, digs the potatoes,


mows the grass, rakes the hay, reaps
the wheat and thrashes and winnows it /;
and every day adds new machinery to
the farmers stock, to supersede the
clumsy implements which once bound
him to his hard and never-ending toll.


When farmer begins to use machinery
and study processes of other men, and
to apply Ills mind to farming so far as he
can make it take the place of muscle,


then he illuminates his calling with new
light, and lifts himself into the dignity
of man. If mind once gets the upper
hand it will serve itself and see that the
body is properly cared for. Intelligent
farming is dignifed living. For a farm.
er who reads and thinks, and studies and
applies, nature will open the storehouses
of her secrets, and point the way to Life
full of dignity and beauty, and grateful
and improbable leisure.-J G. Holland.
Year: 1877

At Belchertown, Mass, ON Amherst
couple, named respectively Fry and
Boil, were married under rather exciting
circumstances. The girls father didn't
want her to marry the man. so the latter
took her to a place where her sister was
employed till the wedding could be ar
ranged. The sister, however, was also
opposed to the match, because the same
fellow had previously made love to her,
and so she locked tue bride expectant in
her room. After q nights incarceration
she jumped from the window and joined
her lover at the hotel. The clerk Of
the house drove off furiously for e clergy
man, and the Methodist pastor was just
beginning the ceremony when the sister
appeared at the window to forbid the
bans. The certificate was all right,
however, and the minister concluded to
20 on, but in his excitement he read
most of the baptismal service, begin
ming: "Whereas, all men are born in
SIM and repeated the names OF the
couple he last married. The clerk held
the door 80 that the sister couldn't come
in. On the following Sunday the girls
father came to the church door and
called the minister from his Sunday
school class to demand of him why he
married his daughter, at the same time
admitting her legal age. Meanwhile the
groom has lost his place at Amherst, and
left for parts unknown.
Year: 1877

It appears to be fact that the Ger
man society for the introduction of Gre
nation has paid the sum of fifteen thou
sand marks to the town of Gotha to coV-
er the necessary expenses of erecting a
cremation apparatus. Strict regulations
have also been published by the police,
ordering the examination by competent
medical officers of all bodies submitted
to he burned, so as to prevent cremation
in all cases where the causes Of death
have not been properly ascertained. In
order to still further guard against
abuse, bodies sent to Gotha from abroad
are to be subjected to the same, or even
more stringent, rules before being re-
ceived for the operation. At first, no
corpse is to be burned unless the deceas-
ed had expressed n wish to that effect,
and the relatives have approved.
Year: 1877

When the French finally reduced
Constantine, one of the Algerine cities,
in 1S4S, the palace of Hadj Ahmed cx-
cited general admiration, and the women
of his large harem caused unusual
curiosity and compassion, from the tales
spread of his cruelty to them. He
sprang from wealthy family of the
place. and had been khalifa under the
Bey Brahamcl- Rabbi, but exciting the
jealousy of that ruler, fled to Algiers.
There he won the goodwill of the pasha,
and in 1926 became himself bey of Con-
stantine.


His crueltics were the theme of every
tongue. A summer-house used to be
shown in his garden where he was nc
customed to sit and smoke, while his
harem, all attired in their finest array,
passed one by one before him. They
were required to keep their eyes cast
down, their arms folded across their
breast in modest attitude. One day
one of these women, as she passed
through the garden, plucked an orange.
The Hadi Ahmed ordered her hand to be
nailed up to the tree.


One of his four wives was al italian
girl named Aicha, carried off, when O
child, with her brother. She was n
uueenly young woman, and, after the
French occupation, was instructed, and
in time married French officer. Her
influence had been great with the Hadj
Ahmed, yet when her brother, after ris-
ing to high rank in the army, dis
covered finally that his sister was in the
harem, the Hadj Ahmed put him to
death for daring to ask to see her.
One day some Of the women found a
pipe, and, to divert themselves, dressed
one of their number in turban and
robes, and set her up to smoke while
they waited upon her. Hadj Ahmed
burst in upon this childish scene, tore
his mock representative from her seat Of
honor, had her mouth sewed up NJ a
punishment for daring to place his pipe
within it, and ordered hec to be put to
death.


From time to time, during his rule,
two men would be seen at night, one
bearing to the height overlooking the
valley of the Roumel long box open at
each end, the other a white sack from
which smothered moans escaped. Halt
ing at three stones, the box was placed
on the middle one, the sack slipped in,
one end of the box raised, and the sack
shot out down aprecipice of six hundred
feet. Some hours later men approached
the sack on the rocky bank of the river,
opened it, took out woman's corpse,
and conveyed it to the grave.


This monster lived many years aftel
his overthrow, and died an object OF