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Year: 1874

State. The President is in danger of making
himself butt of public derision if, at the
beck of every inefficient State Governor he
feels bound to warn insurgents to disperse
when il is notorious that no insurgents are
assembled, and to bid purely imaginary peo-
pie to retire to their respective places of abode
under penalty of being fired into by federal
troops


What does President Grant propose to do
when the five days have elapsed which he al
lows for this fictitious dispersion? Will he
fight this visionary insurrection, this fgment of
an over-excited political imagination, this
shadow, with the same zeal with which he bids
it avaunt If he sends federal troops to Vicks-
burg at heavy public expense how viii he
employ themp Not in dispensing insurgents,
for none are collected there; not in restoring
order, for no city is more orderly; not,
surely, in restoring the negro Sheriff, Crosby,
for be has resigned, his resignation has been
duly accepted, and he has no better title to
the office than any other negro in the State.
There will be nothing for federal troops to
do at vicksburg if President Grant should
improvidently order them there. The pre-
tended insurrection is mere chimera,
against which bayonets and discharges OF
musketry would be ridiculous.


Ii the President absurdly thinks he is bound
to accede to every application of this kind,
whether it has any foundation or not, he is
sorely in need Of sound legal advisers. The
Year: 1874

mt it,
1t hath been said, for all who die
There is a tear;
Some pining. bleeding heart to sigh
Der every bier
But IN that hour OF pain ana dreau
Who will draw near
Around my humble couch and shed
One farewell tear?
Who'd watch lifos last departing ray
In deep despair,
And soothe my spirit on its way
With holy prayer? .u
What mourner round my bier will come,
In weeds OF woe,
And follow me to my long home,
Solemn aud slow?
When lying on my clayey bed,
In icy sleep,
who there, by pure affection led,
Will come and weep;
By the pale moan impant the rose
UpOn my breast,
And bid it cheer my dark repoSe,
My lowly rest?
Could but know, when am sleeping
Low in the ground, ,
One faithful heart would there DE Keeping
Watch all night round,
As'if some gem lay shrined beneath
That sods cold gloom,
'Twould mitigate the pangs OF death
And light the tomb
Yes inthat hour, if ! could feel


From halls of gee
And Beauty's presence one would steal


In secercy
And come and sit and weep by me
III nights deep noon,
On | would ask of memory


No other boon.
But all a lonelier fate is mine,


A deeper woe ,.
From all love in youths sweet time


soon must go; .,,
Drawn round me my pale robes of white,


In a dark spot
To sleep through deaths long, dreamIess hiel


Lone and forgot.
Year: 1874

greatly shocked the sensibilities OF that
nation. For instance, they would speak
to the ladies and hand things to them
deeds which were gross insults in their
ewes. Then they would hold CONVERSE
ton with people Of the lower classes
which eifectually debarred them from
intercourse with the upper circles OF
society,
Year: 1874

managers OF that company would do
well to examine into its merits. 1t can
be operated at less expense than the
same power supplied by horses or mules.


We had view of the city from the
roof of the Custom House, the largest


building in the corporation, and from il
could see the crescent sweep of the river
that gives name to the city, and note the
acres Of sugar sheds in one quarter of the
city and of cotton presses in another


we learn that some attention is being
directed to the cultivation of rice and
hopes are entertained that this crop,
which is said to be more reliable than,
and equally Us profitable a., sugar or CO..
ton, will yet come to be the chief staple
OF New Orleans trade. In the present
depressed condition of business in that
quarter and in view of the fact that the
trade which gave New Orleans its former
prosperity and wealth has been already,
to great extent, diverted into other
channels, anything which promises II
foundation for hope of better times is
eagerly grasped at. But whether or not
New Orleans ever regains her former
prosperity, and whether or not the city
is good place to live and grow rich, no
one of the Knights Templar who have
recently been there will deny that it is
u delightful place ovisit, and there is no
one of that number who does not in his
heart desire to go there again. We
know of some whose fondest remembrance
of the place is not of its buildings or its
commerce, or even Of the festivities q!
the gala week, but over these and
stronger in their magnetism than all else,
are bright GOES, handsome faces, and
graceful forms, that predominate over all
other recollections, and still in fancy
beckon the pilgrim back. l..
Year: 1874

GETTING THEN OUT.-A family nam
ed Prather occupying house on Crog-
han street. have paid no rent for three
months, and the landlord has been try
ing to get them out. He took away the
front steps as a gentle hint, but they
lived right on. Then he got hold Of the
front door key, but they went around 10
the side door. The landlord then put a
carpenter in the parlor to make repairs,
but the family moved into the kitchen,
and were stiIl happy. After due cOnsid-
Grafton the landlord took the windows
out Of the parlor and bedroom, but the
family had good stove and plenty Of
wood. Next. after learning that he had
not discouraged his tenants, the owner
Of the house went IN and removed all
the doors and windows, leaving the pure
air Of heaven rushing through the old
coop like runaway mule He thinks
they will leave in day or two, but ii i
doubtful. as pedestrians who passed the
house in the afternoon saw the children
/ playing horse in the windows. and the
father seated on the bed mending rat
] trap.--Buyitngtoqs free Press.
Year: 1874

She was expecting him Saturday
night the parlor curtains were down,
the old folks notified that it was healthy
to 60 to bed at eight o'clock, and john
ny, bribed with cent, permitted him.
self to be tucked away at sundown. He
sneaked up the path, one eye on the dog
and the other watching for the "old
man, who didn't like him any too well,
gave faint knock at the door, and it
was opened and he was escorted into the
parlor. He said he couldn't stay but a
minute. though he didn't mean to 90 for
hours She wanted to know how his
mother was if his father had returned
from York State and if his brother
Bills rheumatism was any better and
he went over and sat down on the sofa,
so as not to strain his voice. Then con-
Versatlon tagged. and he played with
his hat, and she nibbled at the sofa tt
dy. He finally said it was beautiful
evening, and she replied that her grand
father predicted snow storm He said
he guessed it wouldn't snow. as the
moon wasn't crooked enough to hang a
powder-horn on the end, and she said
she didn't believe it would, either. This
mutual understanding seemed to give
each other courage, and he wanted to
know if she had seen Bill Jones lately.
She hadn't, she said. and didn't want to.
Then they went to talking about the do
nation visit which was to be given Elder
Berry, and he carelessly dropped his
hand on hers-his right hand, while his
left arm sneaked along the sofa and got
behind her shoulders.


She pretended not to notice it. and he
looked down at his boots and wanted to
know if she thought mutton tallow rot
ted out boots faster than lard and lamp
black. She couldn't say, but she had
an idea that it did. He had just com
menced to lock fingers with her, when
she discovered that something allied the
lamp. She rose up and turned the lamp
down half, making the room look dim.
1t took him five minutes to get hold Of
her finger again. and SIZE pretended to
want to draw her hand away all the time.
After long pause he lowered his voice
to a whisper, and said he didn't see what
made folks love each other. She bit her
handkerchief and admitted her igno-
rance. He said that he could name a
dozen young men who we're going to get
married right away, and his left arm
fell down and gave her hug. Then he
went over and looked out Of the window
TO make sure that it was or was not 60
ing to snow, and, coming back, he turn
ed the light down little more, and then
sat down and wanted to know if she did
not want to rest herself by leaning her
head on his shoulder.


All, me We have all been there, and
who Of Us cared a cent when the old
clock struck twelve, and we five miles
from home ? The old man was fast
asleep, the watchdog gone a-yisiting.
and the handsomest girl in the country
didn't see why we need be in hurry.
/ Lyndeboro, n. H. has no lawyer. no
doctor, no tavern ard no erog shop. JET
within the limits Of one school district
/ ii has twenty-three sewing machines and
one knitting machine. This Is only get
/ ting on sew-sew.
Year: 1874

COOP LANGUAGE.-Young people
should acquire the habit ofcOrrect speak
ing and writing, and abandon as esrley
as possible any use of slang words and
phrases The longer you put this off,
the more difficult the requirement of cor
rect language will be; and if the golden
age of youth. the proper season for the
acquisition of language. be passed in its
abuse, the unfortunate victim will most
probably be doomed to talk slang for
life. You have merely to use the lam
guage which you read, instead Of the
slang which you hear, to form a taste
in agreement with the best speakers and
poets in the country.
Year: 1874

Wars WAsTE.-Give me the money
that has been spent in war, and l will
purchase every foot of land upon the
globe Twill clothe every man, woman,
and child in an attire of which kings
and queens might be proud. | will build
a school-house on every hillside and in
every valley over the earth; | will build
an academy in every town, and | will
endow it; a college in every state, and
FIJI it with able professors; will crown
every hill with a place of worship, con-
secrated to the PRONUNCIATION of the gos-
pei of peace; | will support in every
pulpit an able teacher Of Righteousness,
so that on every Sabbath morning the
chime on one hill should answer TO the
chime on another around the earth's
wide circumference and the voice of
PRAYER and the song of praise should as
cend like a universal holocaust to heav-
en.-RafuS ,SterenS.
Year: 1874

WILSON STREIGHT of MoultOn, Iowa
advertises in the papers that his wife is
about the worst woman in the world
that he cannot keep her Streight and
Cyrus Cation has proved himself not
Joseph. This is good joke on Cyrus !
As the husband has made his affairs
public we wish he would tell US why
his wife became ''disreputable woman"
as he advertises her to be. and if he has
always been the kind. virtuous husband
he doubtless promised to be. Many a
man thinks it very proper to be husband
to any and all women; to roam at will
in secret glens and to fill the soul of his
wife with spirits of hell. But she must
wash dirty shirts, sit up nights and take
to her arms all of him that comes back
from embracking some other woman,
and thank God that she has a husband .
Not that Wilsen Streight was that kind
of a man. but as he comes before the
public dragging his wife by the hair,
we really would like to know all about
it. and to know who flung the first stone ?
Year: 1874

People Of Chicago and the
Northwest DO you realize
that the Chicago Exposition
will POSITIVELY close on
the 10th day Of October,
in TWO days? Only TWO
days in which to SEQ the
greatest Industrial Exposition
Of this country! Only TWO
DAYS MORE in which to sec
and study the finest display Of
Works Of Art ever opened to
public view in America. None
need delay coming expecting
that it will be postponed, for
it POSITIVELY will not.
Year: 1874

The story is told of father, "well-

 to-do, but rather impecunious. A few

 weeks ago he had Q marriageable daugh-

 ter. She had been courted by the son

 of neighboring farmer for a number

 of years, and had grown so tired of it

 that she expressed a desire to have the

 dream of her life realized before the

 end of the present year. The lover, it IS but just to say, was also anxious,

 He wished to avoid the necessity of

 having to journey night after night over lonely road during yet another winter.

 The father of the young girl, thus pressed from within and without, was almost on the brink of despair. He could not afford to disburse the neces. sary funds for such wedding feast as he would be expected to provide. The crops had all been gathered and sold, and the butter for two or three months pledged in pawn ent of debts. To in-' cur any further obligaJ ions was not to be thought of. For nights he lay awake, turning the m alter over in his mind, until he finally discovered way out of the dilemma. The next morn ing he thrilled his daughter with pleas ure by announcing at the breakfast ble that he had decided to consent to her marriage, and was willing that the ceremony might take place as soon as the arrangements could be perfected. . Then there was Q meeting of the re- spective parents, the day was fixed. and list of the friends and kinsmen of the intended son-in-law carefully made out. To this was added the names of nearly every farmer residing in the county. The day of days came round at last; the roads were hard with frost. the sky was clear, and the guests be, gan to arrive at an early hour. The house was soon crowded until barely standing room remained. The barn was used to increase the accommodaI tion. The marriage ceremony over, and the young couple started on their way to the nearest railroad station. nothing. remained to be done but to | discuss the viands and wines, At length the time arrived for breaking up the company. The farmer, after hay ing good-humoredly appropriated all the compliments he could get, walked lelsurely to the front gate, and there took q position from which he was en- abled to demand payment for dinner and horse-feed from each of the guests. The proposition was received as a capi. tai joke, and it is said that every per son present, not even excepting the clergyman, willingly paid the "tax,
Year: 1874

We were pained to learn that gen. tleman who has been in the habit of entertaining and astonishing his neigh. bors in this vicinity by gracefully light ing hls cigars with currency, has car pet bag at a Stockbridge hotel doing duty for board bill. '.S--2 7

 The position of usher in a country ohm ch must be singularly lucrative to permit the holder to appear in new boots every Sunday. Il f1--'T.'

 A lengthy article is in circulation telling how to make mustard plaster. And article telling how to successfullv dodge one is what smitten people want. .lt

 There IS nothing quite so exhaustinp to village newspaper man as to write ap a complimentary notice of @ local exhibition, in which there are thirteen performers who design sending copies of the paper to their friends.
Year: 1874

Leases not seldom contain covenant

 that the tenant shall keep the premises

 in good order and repair. As to just

 what this covenant may mean, however.

 there is considerable difference of opin.

 ion, and sometimes the intervention of a judge and jury are necessary to settle

 the question. A case of this kind has

 been on trial in the Superior Court of

 Baltimore, in which the iudge. in

 charging the jury, described the legal

 aspect of the matter. The work "keep. i"

 he said, implied an obligation to put the premises in repair if they were out

 of repair when received, and to keep

 them so, for 1t would be Idle to stipu-

 late to keep in repair what is not in re. pair and the covenant was, therefore. equivalent to 'put and keep and de- liver up," in good order and repair.

 The real difficulty, however, was in the words "good order and repair" These words, he said, meant such reason. able condition of fitness as belongs to houses of the age, class and condition. as good repair for one might not be for another. 1t was not necessary that m tenant should repaint and re- paper, but only to keep the paint and paper in such condition as is consistent with use not allow the house to be de. faced; use it with proper and reasonable care and deliver it up as it may be left after such care. The judge remarked that there was no custom or rule of law by which an outgoing tenant was com pelled to repaint and repaper, unless under distinct and we'll defined agree ment to that effect. On the other hand there is no implication that the tenant shall keep the promises as received, The obligation to keep in good order md repair does not mean to keep the house in the condition in which it is 'eceived, but in a condition that is .lE v
Year: 1874

A young married man, named Thomas Sage, has met with his death in a trlghtful manner at the Old Mills Colliery, Paulton, Somerset, England, where he was employed as chief en- gineer. It appears that it is custom every Christmas to clean out the boiler. Sage entered a small arch under the boiler for the purpose of tapping it. He turned the tap, not noticing that culvert through which the water should have run was stopped up. The water, in consequences, flooded the tunnel. The deceased, finding no other means Of exit. attempted to escape by rushing through the boiling water but that he was unable to do, as the way was stop ped by grating through which he had crawled on entering the tunnel.
Year: 1874

We noticed in one of our exchanges this week the statement of Dea. John Hodg- kins, of South Jefferson, Me whose son was cured of incipient consumption by the use of Johmson's Anodyne Eminent. We refer to this at this time as tending to corroborate the statement we made last week in relation to this Lniment as applied to consumption.-LCom
Year: 1874

If Congress had employed as much scientific skill in the arrangements of its " Reconstruction Policy" at the close. as the War Department did in the beginning of the war in arranging for the manufacture of what WAS called Steridan's Caudiry Condition Po,o- ders for the use of Cavalry horses no doubt the Union would have been restored long ago -Erchdnqe
Year: 1874

[Boston lJuly Ply Dispatch to the New York Times


The mother of Jesse Pomeroy, the boy
murderer, has made a statement to GLOBE
reporter concerning the mania of the boy,
and upsetting the theory of his being marked.
which has been widely published. She SAID:
''Before going into the butcher business my
husband worked in the navy-yard ut Charles
town, where he was employed for period OF
ten years. He was at work there four years
before Jesse was born, and remained there
until he was nearly six years of age. 1t was
after this lie went into the butchers business.
He did not kill cattle, but carried the car
casses about the market. l never saw an
animal of any kind slaughtered. do not
believe in the theory Of Jesscs being marked.
The statement regarding the visit OF the three
physicians is false. The only gentleman OF
science that questioned me on the subject OF
to he able to understand Jesse's mania at all.
l have frequently received letters from per-
sons in all parts OF the country, principally
in the West, asking for some of Jesse 5 hair,
and other absurd questions, that have not
paid any attention to. The story of Jesse
sticking knives into raw flesh is also false.
think his vaccination had more effect on him
than anything else. He was vaccinated when
be was four weeks old, and shortly after his
face S-okc out, and lad the appearance of
raw flesh, and some fluid issued from the
wounds that burned my arm when it dropped
on it, from which fact Judged the fluid was
poison. This lasted until he was six months
old, when his whole body was covered with
large abscesses, one of which was over his
eye, and cccasioned the cast or fallen appear
ance that ne wears at present. AT the time
it was thought he would die, but he recovered
slowly, and Doctor Lane, who attended him.
stated that all the sickness was occasioned BY
vaccination.


Mr.. Cotton. Jesse counsel, had long ill.,
terview with him yesterday morning, and
says that the boy looked somewhat palcr than
usual, but otherwise was not much changed.
He told the same story in relation to the muir
der of Katie Curran as that given a: the in
quest 10y Chief Savage. On being asked why
he did the deed, he said: 81 do not know;
couldn't help it: it is here" accompanying
the word ''herc' with Il gesture indicating it
was in his head He wished his parents had
sent him to sea. and said that if he was let
out he would 60 to sea and never come back.
He was also of the opinion that when he grew
to be man he could resist the temptation to
do snch bloody deeds, but at present the
temptation was too strong for him. He was
perfectly cool during the interview. but not
SO collected as he has been hitherto, and
stated in answer to a question that he had
confessed because he was uneasy about The
murders.
Year: 1874

"ln the Of the Presidents salary, alone, we
too little. but as for the members of Congress, we
always considered their pay quite equal TO the
value of their ervices."-C0mmerciai


And yet the Commercial justides Mr.. Lofand
for voting to increase their pay to $4,000 and
travelling expenses. We have yet to see the first
line 10 the Commercial condemnng any single
member for taking The SALARY grab" who was moi
u Democrat, while there were two Radicals that
took it and kept 1t to one Democrat tha; did SO
This fact, together with the fact that the Radical:
had large majority of both Houses, is sufficient
TO stamp the law as party measure. But in al
ditlon, the head OF the Radical party, the Pres
dent, made the act law by signing the bill ant
keeping the back pay
Year: 1874

SHEPHERDS REJECTION ENRAGES HIN.
The Washington despatch to the New York
Tribune says:


When the result was announced to the Presi-
dent he was in a towering rage, and his express
eions in regard 10 the Senate are said TO nave
been anything but complimentary. He at once
sent In The name of ex-senator Cattell, OF New
Jersey and he was at once confirmed The COM
mission as it now stands would be satisfactory
were it not for the general belief that It's mem
bers will not serve, and that on receiving their
designations President Grant will fill their places
with members of the old Hng.


The six Senators who voed in the affirmative
are said TO have been Messrs. Patterson Clayton,
Spencer, F flanagan, Sargent and Jones.


That is the kind OF a man to whom 4 Radical
Congress voted double the pay given to either OF
the Presidents who preceded him some OF whose
names are so interviewer with the worlds history
Us to bo already regarded as the most eminent
champions OF tho most liberal ag" and their
numes are already immortalizci among the nc
blest and best Of their race. How low this mon
ey getting President sinks in comparison. de
cent man drunk would hardly have acted worse





The Presidents Carpet tag2ing


Expedient.


The action Of President Grant in appointing
carpet-baggers to the highest offices in the gov
eminent Of the District of Columbia, is certainly
one OF The most reckless expedients We have yet
been required to chronicle. As tins Is done not
withstanding the open aud oppressed condemna-
tion oil carpet bag government, the President
must be desrous OF counting public censure OF
uusble to find an honest man OF high character
in the District who Will take am office under him,
and submit, as he no doAbt would have 10 do, to
the dictations of such men "Boss" Shepherd
who will most likely still continue to run the
government in the interest OF few contractors
Tor the money that can be made out OF jobs at
two or three prices. When President Of the
United States adheres to such characters as Boss
Shepherd 1t is time Tor every decent party 10 join
10 request for his resignation and retirement
from the high position he dsgraces.