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Year: 1874

1t is a singular fact that whenever
State or municipal election owa-days
goes against the Democracy, the Radical
newspapers, one and all, assure the pub
lie that the result is a decided and posi-
tive indication of loss of confidence in
the Democratic party But whenever the
Radicals lose an election, according to
Radical logic it is no indication whatever
of any popular verdict against the Repub-
lican organization. This has been forci-
bly, illustrated by the peculiar and amusing
comments recently made upon the Con-
neticut election by the Radical journals
who will not allow their own rule to work
both ways. "Under all the circum-
stances" says the Philadelphia Press,
''there is really no great Significance in
the result, unless the Democratic majority
should prove to be unusually heavy"
Now the great significance of the result
is beyond the shadow Of doubt, that the
Republican party has been weighed in the
popular balance and found wanting, and
no possible amount of special pleading
will put any other aspect on the case
| Baltimore Gazette.
Year: 1874

A New York correspondent 'goes on"
as follows Since the early days of
paint, powder, and court-plaster patches
the ladies have not disguised their natu-
raj compilations as completely as they
are doing at the present time. Not
long ago one could tell lady the mo-
ment ne saw her now it is impossible
to tell Murray Hill belle from one Of
the den1i-D1OHde. Your own cousin.
perhaps your sister, too, blacks her
eyes and paints her face after the fash
ion which We used to think belonged TO
an entirely different class of society.
I am utterly surprised when looking
around me at the theatre or opera to see
persons whom 1 know to be ladies
painted like ballet girls. One is utterly
bewiidered at the matinees. The young
ladies who follow the fashions appear
with their faces painted, and often en-
amelled, their eyes blacked, and some
times with their lips painted red after a
peculiar French style, and their hair
brought down low on the forehead, and
plastered in regular scollops an inch
above their carefully corked eyebrows.
Then their lips are so heavily loaded
with a salve-like preparation that talk
ing becomes an impossibility and kiss
ing utterly ont of the question. Over
this conglOmeration they wear a thin
veil of the palest gray. sometimes dot
ted with black, which heightens the
effect to an astonishing degree. Under
all this stuff they may have a most
beautiful complexion, but that is not
the fashion, so they cover it out of
sight but preserve 1t by bathing their
faces in cold cream on going to bed.
To say that these ladies look downright
fast would be doing them scaDt justice.
Year: 1874

BEFoRE.
Lett NJ igbt it out friend things have gone too
God must judge the couple leave them as they are
Mhlchever ones the Ruiltless, TO hts glory
Ana whichever one the guilt's with, to my story.
Why, you would not bid men sunk in such a slough
strike no arm ont farther stick and stink as now
Leaving right and wrong to settle the ernbrofnent
Heaven with snaky hell IN torture and enrichment.
Which Of them's the culprit, how must he conceive
us but decent to profess ones self beneath her,
san ole must not be too much in earnest either
Better sin the whole sin, sure that God observes;
Ihen 60 live his life out life win try his nerves
"nen The sky which noticed aIl, makes no disclo-
And the earth keeps mp her terrible compogure,
Let him pace at pleasure past the walls of rose,
Fluck their fruits while grape trees Craze him as he


goes,


For he gins 10 guess the purpose Of the garden.
with the sly mute thing beside these for a warden.
What's the leopard-dog thing constant to his side
leer ana lie in every eve on its obsequious hide
When will come an end Of all the mock abeisance
Ald the price appear that pays for the misfeasauce
So much for the culprit. Who's the martyred 1nan2
Let him bear one stroke more, for be sure he can.
He that strove thus evils lump with good to laaven
Let him give his blood at last and get bis heaven.
Once more-Win the wronRrr at this last Of all
DaTe 70 say. % I did wrong, >" rising in his faTq
No ?Let 90 then-both the fighters to their places
While count three, step you back many aces.


AFTER.
Take the cloak from his face, and at first
Let the corpse do It's worst.
How he lies in his rights of a man!
Death has done all death can;
And absorbed in the new life he leads
He recks not, he heeds
Nor his wrong nor my vengeance-bOth strike
On his senses alike,
And are lost in the solemn and strange
Surprise Of the change.
Hal what avails death to erase
His oHense-ny disgrace?
would we were boys Of old
In the held-by the fold
His outrage, Gods patience, mans scorn,
We're so easily borne.
I stand here now, he lies in his place
Cover the face.
Year: 1874

The innumerable articles which ap-
pear continually on "How to AXE tho
farm pay" says The Germantown Tel
egraph, are enough TO make a horse
sick. People should know by this time
that fortunes do not grow. but are
made. Once in while a person may
stumble over a fortune, as lightning
strikes tree but these are providen-
tial occurrences and are not in the every
day hands of man. A man may have
the most fertile soil and raise the big
gest kind of crops but il he has not
brains enough to know how to go about
selling what he has to the best advan-
tage, somebody else will reap the best
profit. not be. Or he may have the best
knowledge in the world as to where the
best market is, and the best knaok Of
finding out who will give the best
prices; but If he has no judgment as to
what crops to raise, or how to grow
them, he does not get along. How to
make the farm pay is altogether matter
of brains. It is no more OF a practical
question than how 70 make the mill
pay, or how TO make the store pay. Not
more than half the men IN the world
have any brains to spare. The other
half have more than they need. They
spare a little for those who are short,
bat charge a big interest for the use
fdaraoF
Year: 1874

The Pail Mall Gazette says sThe
diggings at Pompeii are just now going
on with vigor. What has been brou ght
to light In the course of so many years
is really, after all, only q small part Of
the city, and every search below the
ground adds something to the stock. It
Is certainly startling, as the spade and
basket are busily at work, to come sud
denly on a large painting of Orpheus
with the beasts listening 10 his music,
fresh brought to light after its lucky
imprisOnment of eighteen hundred
years. The charm is perhaps a little
broken when We find that the columns
of the newly discovered house are, like
those of so many of the houses of
Pompeii, no real columns at all, but
masses of brick covered with plaster.
Bat the picture is certainly one of the
most striking among the moral paint
ings in the buried city. It is TO be
hoped that nothing will induce those
who have the management of these
works ever to fall back on tae old bad
way of carrying everything of to the
museum at Naples. a painting or any
thing else loses more than half value
if carried of from the place for which
it is meant. In a museum it IS simply
d 5pbclMeH II us Owl place IL - part
of a whole. For objects which, for any
cause, cannot be left on the spots where
they are found the museum which is
forming in Pompeii itself, not that at
Naples, Is clearly the right place. For
the rest, the simple course is that which
is now followed, that of roofing IN the
buildings where perishable objects, like
paintings, are found. Leda showing
her children to Tyndareus is worth ten
times as much in her own place, on the
wall where she was first painted, than
if she had been carried of TO keep com
pany with Briseis and Iphigenia among
a crowd Of ether objects which were
never meant to be seen altogether"
Year: 1874

short time. By pouring water which
has been cooled in the vessels nearly TO
the freezing point over the ice after il
had been packed, at suitable intervals,
when the temperature of the air Is be
low the freezing point, a compact mass
of ice may be formed Of more value for
use than a much larger quantity loosely
packed. Even in winters favorable to
the production Of ice, the sbJve method
may be found the most convenient and
cheaper for filing Zoe houses.
Year: 1874

Next to the skin they wore a coarse
white linen shirt, and a thick pad under
the right arm to guard the brachial arte-
ries. On the right arm was placed a
thick leather glove and a silk sleeve,
then sleeve of quilted canvas about
an inch thick, an elbow-pad Of leather
bound on with straps, and a canvas
bandage over all. So thick we're these
bandages that it was impossible to let
the arm hang by the side. A tightly


twisted silk handkerchief extended from
the little finger along the outside of the
wrist to guard it. A large thick leather
apron, slit in the middle SO as to be
fastened to each leg with straps, COW
cred the lower part of the chest aud
extended below the knees. To prevent
an accidental wound In the eye a pair of
iron eye-gOggles were strapped on, fur
nished with glasses for those who were
short sighted. A padded neck guard
completed the dress. Thus swathed
and bandaged up, the appearance of the
cOmbRtants was rather comical as, with
their huge bandaged arms supported by
friends, hey walked with a slight swag-
ger around the room, waiting till the
umpire had taken his seat. The sec
Onds were provided with arm guards
and feather-pecked caps, with neck
guards like small holsters, and with
swords, not to protect their principals,
but to prevent foul play. The umpire,
watch and notebook in hand, soon took
his seat, and the weapons were handed
to the sWordsmen. The swords have
a very large iron barred hilt, something
of the shape of a claymore hilt, but
much larger. They are quite straight,
about three-quarters of an inch wide at
the point. They are very thin and fex-
ible, and low-tempered, in order that
they may not be brittle, and require
constant Strengthening during the fight.
They are very sharp at the point for
about nine inches; the rest is blunt.
Year: 1874

PRINCE BISMARCK is compared by some
one to a crop.ear,d bull dog IN appear
nee His bald head and thick form
leased in the ungraceful soldiers coat
eve said TO aid in the illusion, He holds
On we'll, too.
Year: 1874

Oluclnnall Enl NOV. 4.


Well. the day that We have 80 long
watched for, and which We never had
a doubt would finally come is at hand.
The dark night of oppression has at
last been broken by the sunlight Of
popular influence. The clouds of ad-
versity, which have been piled almost
to the zenith, are being dispelled, and
the horizon Of the future is clear be-
fore u.s. To have 80 brilliant an awak.
ening will almost compensate rs for
the many years we have spent in the
wilderness of defea. and misfortune.


Once more may we hope for the re-
viVal Of the good old halcyon times,
when the people of this Union were all
indeed brcthren-when the shadow Of
the soldier ana of martial law shall
disappear beneath the FecolleetiOns Of
a sorrowful past Once more let US
hope that when we have full Demo-
cratic success the wheels of industry,
which have been 50 elOgged, viii be set
in motiOn--when capital willno longer
be idle and the laborer unemployed, and
when with gladness we may hold the
Centennial IF our Independence as a
jubilee even beyond that which it COM
memOrates-


This gIorions result viii send shrills
OF Joy 10 the hearts of ten millions Of
Southern people, our kinsmen and car
-cOantrymen. This, indeed, will be
LAY. Of heartfelt gladness from the
Delaware to the Rio Grande. This
victory Of the Democracy and their
alhes in the North viii Do more 10 ''re-
construct Tho South than al Radi-
calism could do in a hundred years
The Southern people VIII now begin to
think that they gain live in the United
States, and that they nave a voice IN
their government.
Year: 1874

New York Special 70 Chicago Times.


Rumors are ahOat tonight that prOmi-
nent morning journal has been sold during
the week to a number ofwealthy Hebrews,
who have long been desirOus of owning a
paper to. represent their interests. IL is
said the journal will not undergo an out
ward or editorial change for some months;
it will not appear 10 be in special sympathy
with the Hebrews beyond doing them JUS
tice. The reason for selling the paper is
asserted to be its steady and heavy loss for
two years past and the need of money on
the part of the principal proprietor.
Year: 1874

Irnow looks as if we may claim
10000 majority for Porter. The re-
turns from East Tennessee are meagre,
but in the Middle and Western Sec
tions Of the State he is much farther
ahead than mad been anticipated, IN
view of the light vote.
Year: 1874

WHILE the contest which termina-
ted in this county on Tuesday with such
gratifying results was marked by an
unusual degree of apathy on the part
of the people, it cannot be questioned
that much lighter vote would have
been polled and the triumph of the
Democratic ticket inperilled but for
the County Democratic Executive Com
mittee's admirable management and
vigorous prosecution of the campaign.
From the date of their appointment
to the close of the polls, they worked
increasingly for the success of the
cause. If our majority was not as
large as the important issues dt stake
would have seemed to demand, the de-
iciency was certainly not caused by
any lack of exertion on the part of the
Committee. Capts. Ewin and Dodd
who served successfully as chairman,
and Mr.. A. H. Lusk, the efficient Sec
retary, are justly entitled to the thanks
of the party for the exceptionally able
manner In which they have performed
their respective duties.
Year: 1874




THE friendsof Judge John A. Camp
bell seem to think that We were some
what harsh with him during the late
canvass. We found the Judge in bad
company, and fought him with the
legitimate weapons of political
warfare-nothing more. AT the
time of referring to him as having
held ajudicial position under Brown
low, we failed to remember the fact
that he had decided the Infamous fran
chise law to be unconstitu-
tional, on which account he
was in bad odor with the proserip-
tionists of that day. Those who
claim to know him best say that dur
ing the four years he sat upon the
bench in the ClarksYille Circuit be was
fair and impartial in his rulings. His
private character has never been
questioned, so far as we know,
and, though he has shared
the fate of the improper assO-
ciates with whom he cast his political
fortunes, we are willing to believe that
it was as much his bad luck as his
fault.
Year: 1874

DANGER OF STIMULANTs.- man IS
no less than q deliberate suicide who
drinks tea, coffee, or ardent spirits ut any
kind, to induce him to perform work in
hand when he feels too weak to go through
with it without such aid. This is the
reason that the majority of great orators
and public favorites die drunkards. The
pulpit, the bench, the bar, the forum,
have contributed their legions of victims
to drunken habits The beautiful woman,
the sweet singer, the conversationalist,
the periodical writer, has filled but too
often the drunkard's grave. The best
possible thing for man to do when he
feels too tired to perform task, or too
weak to carry it through, is to go to bed
aud sleep week If he can; this is the
only true recuperation of brain power;
the only actual renewal of brain forces,
because during sleep the brain is, in
sense, at rest, in condition to receive and
appropriate particles of nutriment from
the blood which take the place of those
which have been consumed in previous Ia
Dor. Mere stimulants supply nothing ;
they only goad the brain, force it to q
greater consumption of it's substance, un>
til that substance has been SO fully ex>
hausted that there is not power enough
left to receive q supply; just as men are
sometimes so near death by thirst and
starvation that there is not strength en-
ough left to swallow anything, and all ID
over. The capacity of brain for receiving
recuperative particles sometimes comes on
with the rapidity of lightning, and the
man becomes mad in IN instant; in ar in-
slant falls into convulsions. IN an instant
loses all sense, and he is an idiot I'VE re-
peat, there is rene wed force for the brain
only in early and abundant sleep.
Year: 1874

Thirteen years ago young man woocd
and won young lady in village not far
from Davenport. The parents Of the girl
uo!ec.ed, ana there was deal of trouble
out hna!ly the couple were marriel at the
nome OF the bride. Three months after.
the bridegroom desire. to move to Cali
Iornla, but the family of his wife opposed
ner emigration. and the result was that til e
husband started for the Pacific coast with
out her. After the first SIX months no
tidings from the husband were received !:
ana In less than year news came that he
was dead. In 1865 tue widow married a
young man who had recently arrived from
Germany; and her second husband was
entirely ignorant of the fact that his bride
was widow. But where Ignorance is
bliss, it's folly to be wise." Shortly after
the marriage the husband purchased a
farm in Scott county. and on that farm
the couple have lived ever since, and sew.
eral children have blessed their union.


Four weeks ago the first husband of this
woman arrived in Davenport, and on
making inquiries learned the history of
his Wlfe's marriage. Then he rode out to
see her. 1t was fortunate for her liege
lord was away from home. for she was
very much affected. She told him that she
supposed he was dead, and so married an
other, and chided him for neglecting her
as he did. He had q long slory to tell,
the real glst Of it being that he had de-
termlDed never 10 return until he became
rich. And here he was-RICH! But his
wife was miserable in his prcsence-and
he was miserable, too.


The end OF the conference was. that the
first husband returned to Davenport to
consult a lawyer-and the end Of the con
sultatiOn was, that the husband went to
the wife and had another long talk with
her, and then the two separated, never to
meet again, for the man determined to
cross the ocean and spend the balance Of
his days in Germany The day that he
left.the wife entered her suit for divorce
on theground of deserlion; the notice was
forthwith served on the defendant. and
he accepted service. AT the next term of
the Circuit Court the defendants name
will be called, and there will be no re
sponse. There will be default, and decree
of divorce granted. And maybe the wife
will be married asccond time to the father
Of her children, and 50 remain cOntcnted
in the delightful home iu which she now
lives in elegance aud comfort. Dayen-
port lowa) Gazette.
Year: 1874

William A. Stone, one of the Canasto
ia iucendiaries, by profession lawyer,
thirty years of age, was found guilty of
arson in the first degree. In passing sen
tence upon him, Judge Murray said :
You have been convicted by the jury,
after fair trial, of arson in the first de
gree. With the verdict thiuk no one
can complain the evidence fairly war
ranted that conclusion. Aud there is no
palitation for your offense You arc lib.
orally educated you became mem Der
Of the learned profession. You knew
crimes against the law and the couse
quences, and yet under this light and
knowledge you committed this offense.
1t is most aggravated one; it was not
dwelling. You have committed to the
flames many habitatious. You have sent
out into the dark night many families.
They have been obliged to go forth fear
ing for their lives What could have in
duced you to commit such an act heaven
and you only know But justice has
overtaken you at last. Henceforth you
are to be deprived of society and all its
pleasures aud advantages. 1t is to be
hoped that you will seek the pardon OF
Heaven The sentence Of the court is
that you be confned in the State Prison
at Auburn during the term of your ma
tural life"
Year: 1874

Soon our winter schools will begin to
close, and we desire to call the attention
Of directors to the importance of holding
public examinations near the end of the
term. We would suggest this course !:
Let the board of directors pass a resolu-
tion that all the schools in their district
shall hold public examination before
the end Of the term let day be agreed
upon for the examination of each school !;
let it be arranged that one director at
least shall be present at each school on
the day of the examination, and, in addi
ton, a committee of citizens may be ap
pointed to attend, and then, let all the
people Of the district receive an invitation
to be present If such programme be
adopted aud carried out the schools will
be benefited, directors will have a good op.
portunity of seeing what has been done,
and the people will learn to appreciate
more fully the great work Of public in
struction. The exercises of school on
examination day need not be confined to
reviews of the branches the pupils have
studied. Music, eocutionary perform,
ances, essays, and little speech making
may properly be introduced at intervals
to give variety and life.-Penn. School
journal.
Year: 1874

A freshly imported Pstlander, who had
engaged himself as a waiter at one of the
hotels, was ordered by one of the guests
to bring him napkin. Now this was an
article that Pat had never heard of ia all
his life, and to save his soul from purga-
tory lie could not tell what the gentle
man meant His Irish blood forbade him
displaying his ignorance, so he went of
as if te comply with the order. Presnet
ly thought struck him, and be returned
to the gentleman, saying: "Faix, sir,
and will ye be PLACED to take something
else, the napkins are ivory divil of them
ate up"
Year: 1874

dohn Fowler, of Cherry township, But
ler county, Pa, went "away to the wars"
IN 1862. Her was married when he left,
and 10 addition to a wife, he had three
children. John was also the owner Of a
farm of one hundred acres, and it we'll
stocked besides. Sometime after he en-
tered into the service of his country, he
was taken prisoner by the rebels, and then
the next news which reached his home
was that he had died while in the hands
of the enemy. His wife, or supposed
widow, married a young man, only nine,
teen years of age, about five years ago,
with whom she is now living on the farm.
A few days ago the supposed lost soldier,
John Fowler, returned, but looking quite
different from what he did when he left.
His wife, it is said, does not recognize
him, or care to recognize him, while the
neighbors say he is the vertable and real
John Fowler who went to the war Af.
ter being about the neighborhood of his
alleged old home for few days he left,
but before doing so gave notice of his in
tended returu on the first of April to re-
claim and repossess his farm. He does
not make or intend to make any demand
for his wife, but does for his farm, and if
so, we presume there will soon be some
legal proceedings heerd Of A singular
fact about him is that he never wrote a
letter or sent any word home and as yet
gives no very satisfactory account for his
long absence. There are various supposi
tioDs, among them that he had become
insane after being taken prisoner and
confined in some Insane Asylum in the
South. But how this and other matters
may be will yet have to come to light.
His wife married the second time in
good faith and honestly believing him
dead, and, it is said, bears good cbarac-
ter. We give the case as we have heard
it, SO far, and if the said returned John
Fowler proves to be genuine and not an
imposter it will create rather an interest
ing state of affairs in his family. His
wife drew pension until her second mar
riage. but no administration was ever had
on his estate, and the farm remains just
as it was when he left.
Year: 1874

The Towanda Item says: "Three
years ago letter was written in Oswego,
New York, to an old lady in Towanda,
conveying intelligence of the death of a
sister, and, strange as it may seem, the
letter was not delivered until about one
week ago, when it was received by the
one it was intended for, and what may
seem stranger still, is the fact that it con
tanned the first intimation she had re-
ceived of the death of said sister"