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Year: 1874

always had great passion for
balls, and can enjoy such an occa-
sion equal to any man in the world.
1t is truly delightful to witness the
taste with which the fairer sex fix
themselves up for the special occa-
sion. 1t shows elegant taste to see
a young lady Of light complexion,


red hair and freckled face, dressed


in garnet, with pink ribbons and


gay flowers in her hair; or n lady


with dark hair, eyes, etc, with
green dress, ribbons, etc. 1t is
enough to charm the heart Of tad
pole.


/ attended a ball, and must con-
fess that the festivities of the even
ing were of the finest order. Miss
Il, ho has a pair of swapping
black eyes. and glossy black hair,
was present, dressed to kill. She
wore a new coru-colored silk dress.
and bows of deep green, with blue
ribbons interviewer in her raven
tresses. She was just my idea Of a
beautiful woman, and l was bent
on an introduction, for | was desir-
Gus of having waltz with this
queen of the evening. l was sue
cessful. We waltzed half the length
of the ball room, when l made a
slight misstep, and accidently tore
the dress skirt off the waist of Miss
R. OF course l appologized,
and we started again. My partner
caught her foot on the rough floor,
and in her endeavor to keep her
balance, managed to set her heel
square on my great toe, which tore
the nail off; but / declared that il
did not hurt, and We continued
The third time around the room, ali
awkward fellow just behind Us.
backed square against my partner
as we came to halt, nearly flooring
both Of Us.


Next we tried q cotillion. Ev-
erything in our set was perfection,
and no mishaps occurred, although
Just before the last change we were
obliged to wait little while the
musicians were looking for rosin,
in the bar-room. Just as we went
to promenade, / stepped on lemon
peel. and-well, the floor caught
me. Wha. a roar of laughter. i
took Miss Il TO seat, and the
next day ! sent those trowsers to
the tailor for repairs. To this day
protest in the strongest terms
against the practice of throwing
lemon peels on hall room floor.
Year: 1874


De moderate in all things,
Excessive in none,
In great things and small things
The King on his throt,e.
The Soldier, the peasant,
May learn in n word
To moderate tho sccpter.
The spade and the sword.
Be moderate in eating.
Nor ait AT the board
Like miser bent over
His long-gathered hoard.
De Moderate in drinking,
Nor drain deep the bowl,
For deaths at the bottom
In wait for your ,oll.
BE moderate in thinking;
The bow too long bent
Has never the shaft
TO the mark with forc, SAINT!
De moderate in friendship,
To MI but n few,
And these to your bosom
Clasp, trusting and true;
If Poverty stands ut
The door, you may test
By the touch of his cold hand
Your bravest and beat.
Be mo 'era'e in love
While YOU are ardent and young;
But if your hearts fame
Find won't through the tongue,
Let it be like an unsheathod
Patriots svori
Even ready TO act


In accordance with your word.
BE moderate in censure,
Nor deem it unwiso
To shut OH the faults
OF another your eyes;
For IL through glass
He may look upon yours
With microscope TOO.
Be moderate in eating,
For over much wealth
Insures not contentment,
Nor pleasure NOR health;
But blessed with sufficient,
Give some TO the poor
Enough if you Just


Keep the wolf from the door.
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Year: 1874

QUAKER SUppER.-We again call spe-
cial attention to the Quaker Supper and
Apron Festival, on Thursday evening,
in aid of the Congregational Society.
The supper will be choice and abundant
There will be music by the band. No
admission fee. We bespeak for the
ladies under whose auspices the enter
tainment is'given, great success.
Year: 1874

IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM THE CoLLEC-
TOR OF CUs1oMs RESPECTING FoRE1GN
GooDs INTENDED FOR STEoKEEN RIVER.
The Collector of Customs thinks it
right to give public notice that no port
on the Stickeen River, has yet been de-
clared port of entry by the Govern
ment at Ottowa. ard that under these
circumstances, and until orders to the
contrary are issued by the Government
all foreign goods intended for the mines
at Dease Lake and its neighborhood
must be entered, and duty on them
collected, at one of the existing
ports of entry in British Columbia.
Every facility will be given for passing
such goods, in other cases, at Victoria
or EsquiInalt. On foreign goods ALREADY
passed up the North Coast and intended
for these mines, duty will be collected
at the Boundary post or at Bucks Bar,
and on payment of duty they will be al
lowed to be taken for consumption into
British Columbia.
Year: 1874

be numbered among "tne wicked ones" cannot
conceive now they could sleep a single
night without horrid dreams haunting them
aud urging them 10 do something to stop the SLAM


der, II SANDER ir should prove TO be. And what
from hearing the gossip which must have been 80
prevalent In the City OF Churches. and who have
before looked up to these men as saints In the
household OF God Must we decry all religion as
humbug and simply cloak to cover SIN I
trust not. Emerson says "HypocrsY Is the
homage that vice pays to virtue" Whichever
way the great battle ends, 1t cannot be but that
great lesson will be given for all to study and
proft by who desire to act Justly In the sght OF
God. A. NJ.
Year: 1874

Our friend Col. Tom Claiborne-and
we are proud to call him friend-dOes
not appear to advantage in the role
of martyr. His complaint that the
UNION AND AMERICAN has taken a
hand against him in the Congressional
race is altogether at variance with the
policy to which this paper has ever
faithfully adhered. Whatever our per-
sonal preferences, We advocate the
claims of no man who has not been
designated in the usual way as the can
didate of the party. Should Col.
Claiborne receive the nomination at
Clarksville, he may count upon our
hearty support, but we do not care TO
be held responsible for the hard knocks
he may happen TO receive from his
competitor in the hot encounters of the
canvass.
Year: 1874

IT is now said Beecher's statement
was so garbled by his lawyers that he
threatens to come out with a supple
mentary about twice as long. And the
end is not yet. Just think of those
lawsuits to drag on for another four
wears
Year: 1874

THE Secretary of the Immigration
Board at New York, estimates falling
off of about fifty per cent. this year
from last. Immigrants have been so
large a factor IN the growth and pro-
gress of this country, that the reason
for this decrease becomes an interest
ing problem. a partial explanation
may be found in last years panic.
Perhaps half the foreign-bOrn
that reach our shores in ordinary years,
do 30 On passage money advanced
by friends who have preceded them.
Last fall and winter thousands Of in
dustrious naturalized citizens were
thrown out Of employment for months.
They found it difficult enough to sup
port themselves and families, without
saving anything to help friends
and relatives across the bripy
deep. Aside from this explana-
ton for the sudden decrease this
year, II must be confessed that the con-
ditiOn Of the poorest classes in Great
Britain and ireland is ameliorating
every year, while in this country it
daily becomes worse. If this double
process continues at the present rate
for the coming decade, America viii
possess no attractions for the foreign
er, and all immigration Will cease.
Year: 1874

OwING 10 the dullneSs in business and
the scarcity of labor there is more suffering
IN New York city at the present time than
was ever known before. MANY of the
working women are without employment
and stout and active young men by the
hundred apply for any vacancy that may
occur.
Year: 1874

The man or woman who is deferred
by its length from reading Judge
Guilds Erin address, in this mornings
UNION AND AMERICAN, will miss one
of the best things that has appeared in
print for many day. 1t is-well, it
is so thoroughly characteristic of the
man who delivered it as to defy de-
scription. None but "old Jo Guild"
himself can be his parallel.
Year: 1874

The stagnatiOn In business the Eastern markets
has given rs opportunities to make LARGE CASH
PURCHAsES under the most favorable conditions and
enables to offer to goods exceptionally
Low Prices.


We have deferred announcing the arrival of NEW
GOODS until entire stock in arranged for
exhibition We now prepared with a large and
unusually weselected which excelled
in market embracing article gentIemans
complete outfit.


Our stock of GentIemen's Clothing for Fall and
Winter in medium and fine goods surpasses in fit
style and make. anything offered by
stock pay no manufacturing
profit buy exclusively for CASH thus enabling us to
offer extra Inducements in prices
Year: 1874

How SHOULD A LADY FAsTEN Her
STOCKINGS ? CARRIERS, OR WHAT-liow
shall woman fasten her stockings so as
not to interfere with the circulation Of
blood, or spoil the shape of the le-that
is, what measurs shall be taken to pre-
vent shrinkage and warpage Of the le--,
let US see--of the Honi soil qui nal y
penSe? After the most careful research,
as far as our limited facilities would allow,
we arise from our explorations and hum
bly, tender the following suggestions


Wear them short, and let the tops bub-
BILE over the shoe in form Of lace, Ia
beer.mu


If you will have them long, rut muci.
lage inside and stick 'em to you.


Have them long enough to tie about
your waist, using the knot 70. a paner.


Edge the tops with steel, and fasten a
load-stone to your corset.


Fasten 4 strap to each stocking, extend
them gracefully up each side of the body,
and attach, with blue ribbons, to the ear
rings.


Pin them to some other article of
clothing in their immediate vicinity.


Hold still, nov: : we are doing this for
your own good.


Fasten them to a nail and 60 bare
footed.


Attach a small balloon to each stock
ing.


Make them out of material that will
draw up.


If you are thirty-five and unmarried,
make hole near the top Of each stock.
ing and button it to your knee.cap.


These are all the methods that suggest
themselves to US at present, and Of the
number some one or more may be deemed
worthy of adoption. We have taken .
sudden and lively interest in this matter
and shall not rest until the needed re-
form is brought abou. Woman's limbs
shall not be hampered, and knotted, anc
deformcd, if we have enough inventive
faculty to bring to light new and health
full ways of wearing the stockings, ant
we think we have We shall continue
our investigations into this subject, ever
at the hazard Of getting our neck into th'
matrimonial moose. What the women o
this country most need is not suffrage, ,btI
symmetry not rights but nationality
not place in our legislative halls, but
place to fastcn their stockings. Let al
true.hearted men join with us in scare
for that place Charlton (Mo) BrunS
lricker
Year: 1874

How GERRIT SMITH RUINED MAN.
"A large propotion of men never can or
will accumulate or keep capital The
best illustration of this fact that we have
ever met is that of Gerrit Smith and his
schoolmate The latter, on the death of
his father, came into possession ofa farm,
with house furniture, stock, implements,
and all things necessary to a comfortable
home and paying business but he sold,
lost by the sale, sold his next home, and
the next always losing, until he was land.
less and very poor His old schoolmate,
who was giving away his large pstrimony
in small parcels to landless men, gave
him a house and lot but took the precau-
ton to deed it 10 his children. For a
N,ile the restless man was happy in his
new home, but SO, grew tired of it, and
wanted TO sell out When he found that
it was not in his power to render himself
aud family homeless once more, he exclam.
ed in great bitterness; There Gerrii
Smith has ruined me lie believed this
and never iorgave the man who had pre-,
vented that which would surely have
made his fortune


Taking care OF Il baby aud sewing hut
tons on wife's shoes were adduced in
trial the other day, as evidence tending
to show husbands affection for a wifi,
whom he subsequently shot.
Year: 1874

\ countryman sent to Pittsburg deal
er in photographs for picture Of his wife,
who died forty-four years ago, giving a
general description of her. He inclosed
fifty cents to pay for the same. A
photograph was selected from large as
sortment, and proved entirely satisfactory
to the unsophistica'ed granger.


An Italian jury recently acquitted a
prisoner on most ingenious plea. A
tax collector of Naples absconded with
public money amounting to two hundred
thousand dollars. He was caught,
brought back and tried, but the jury ac.
quilted him because the money he had
stolen was the peoples money, and, as he
was one Of the people, he was part owner
Of that money, and of course it would be
monstrous to convict man Of stealing
what was his own,
Year: 1874

A BISHOP ON CREMATIoN.-Tha cml-
neDt prelate, the Bishop Of MauohOotor,
in England has declared himselfin favor
of cremation. At the conservation Of a
burial ground at Bolton, he said that it
had been proposed by an eminent London
physician that, instead Of burying our
bodies iu the ground-a practice which
was said to entail sanitary mischief and a
great loss of valuable land--we should
burn dead bodies; and it was now a
question Of tho cremation of bodies, in
stead of their nterment He felt sort
of shudder at the idea of burning the
dead, and yet the time might como when
the idea would become familiar to their
minds, and in hundred years OR go it
might perhaps become the custom for
bodies to be burned. People who had
believed in immortality in previous times
burned the bodies of their dead The
ancient Romans believed in Immortality,
and yet they believed in burning the
bodies of their dead. Cremation was
certainly quite as decent as the practice
of interment, for anything that he saw,
and urns containing the ashes OF the dead
were more picturesque than coflius. He
simply, however, referred to the subject
because he wished his hearers to dissoci.
ate the resurrection from physical con-
ditions. Could they suppose that it
would be more impossible for God to
raise up body at tbe resurrection, il
need be,out Of elementary particles which
had been liberated by the burning, than
it would be to raise up body from dust
and from the elements of bodies which
had passed into the structure Of worms
The omnipotence of God is not limited
and He would raise the dead whether He
has to raise or bodies out of church


yards. or whether He has to call our re.
mains, like the remains of some ancicn


Roman, out of an urn in which they wer,
deposited two thousand years ago.
Year: 1874

In hospital in Montpelier, France, is
patient who has just swallowed ther-
nome jer left on the table, while suffer
ing from temporary delirium. They
have a great deal of trouble with him
now. When he drinks hot coffee that
thermometer ties up against the roof of
his mouth hard enough to lift his hat
OF, and when he eats ice cream it gets
down in his boots and worries his cOrns.
Year: 1874

A goat is more inexpensive than agree
able, and will live on almost anything;
but capricornus in Buffalo was an ex-
ceptiOn to the rule the other day in re-
gard to inexpensiveness. It gOtintO the
house and had a regular blow out on a
Panama hat, three linen shirt bosomsY,, a
box of cigars, and part of a partially
constructed new bonnet.
Year: 1874

A Louisville papa did not seriously
object to the proposed elopement of his
daughter with dry goods clerk. Hap
pening to get wind of the plan, he merely
lay in wait for Augustus, and sent him
away with the impression that remark
ably healthy young mule had played a
tattoo with his heels under his coat
tails
Year: 1874

A man who will go to the cemetery
with his wife on Sunday and weep over
her first husbands grave and walk home
without cross wOld shall have our vote
every time he comes up for office.
Year: 1874

To THE PoINT-An exchange
says: Compare the publisher of a
newspaper, who has to go all around
the country to collect his pay, to a
farmer who sells his wheat on credit,
and not more than % bushel to any
person. If any farmer will try the
experiment of distributing the pro-
ceeds of his labor over two or three
counties, with an additional one,
two or three distant States, for one
year, we will guarantee that he will
never, after that years experience,
ask publisher to supply him with
a paper year OF two without the
pay for it.
Year: 1874

FARMERS in want Of q seeder
should see the Prairie City, for sale
by A. A. Given q Co. This seeder
is a tavo1ite with all who have used
it. Every one warranted to work
perfectly. Cash will buy cheap ;
and good terms will be given to
those who want time. Call at Rus
sells warehouse.
Year: 1874

UP to the time of going to press
we hear nothing from the Board of
Supervisors in session at Dodge
vile yesterday and Tuesday. We
expect to lay tull report of proceed
ings before our readers next week.
Year: 1874

The VAN BRUST SEEDER is ac-
knowledged to be second to none
in the world. Every farmer who
has used one will use no other. See
A. a. Given IL Co., who have this
excellent machine for sale, and will
sell cheap.
Year: 1874

The warm weather Of the past
few days, aided by the rain,and hail
Of Monday night and Tuesday has
dissolved nearly every vostigc of
snow, and taken nearly all Ice out
of the grounds; as a consequence
the roads are bottomless, travel al
most suspended, and business duller
than at any time since last harvest.
1t is just such an experience as is
necessary, however, to usher in
Spring, and people endure it with
philosophic content,
Year: 1874

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph Cthus) mean that your sub
scriptieF is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at cnce.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone VIII pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


81 We enter no new names on our
books without the money IN adrarce-
Year: 1874

The comparatively severe loss in
French's division was accounted for its
positiOn-on the descending crest of
Kenesaw-where it was exposed to the
fire of about fifty guns and by the
turning of his line of skirmishers.
That of Cheatham's was principally
in the reserve, which fought in open
ground, unprotected by intrenchments.


From the number of dead counted
from his breastworks, Lieutenant Gen
eral Hardee estimated the loss of the
troops engaged with his corps at five
thousand and in his official report,
dated July Both, Major General Loring
estimated that of the Army of Tennessee,
which assailed his corps, at twenty-five
hundred.


think that the estimate of northern
officers OF their killed and wounded on
that occasion, "near three thousand,
does great injustice to the character of
General Sherman's army. Such loss,
IN the large force that must have been
furnished for decisive and general at
tack by an army of almost a hundred
thousand men, would have been utterly
Insignificant trifing to discourage,
much less defeat brave soldiers, such
as composed General Sherman's army.
It does injustice to southern marksman-
ship, too. The fire of twenty thousand
infantry, Injured to battle, and in
trenched, and of fifty field pieces
poured into such columns, frequently
wi hin pistol-shot, must have done much
greater execution.


DEATH OF GENERAL POLK.


The death of General Polk is thus re-
counted:


In the evening, of the thirteenth Lieu
tenant General Hardee expressed ap-
prehension that Bates division, posted
on Pine Mount, might be too far from
the line occupied by his corps, and re-
quested me to visit that outpost, and
decide if it should be maintained. We
rode to it together next morning, ac-
companied by Lieutenant General Polk,
who wished to avail himself of the
height to study the ground in front of
his own corps.


Just when we had concluded our ex-
animation, and the abandonment of the
hill had been decided upon, party of
soldiers, that had gathered behind us
from mere curiosity, apparently tempted
an artillery officer whose battery was in
front, six or seven hundred yards from
us, to open fire upon them at first
firing shot very slowly. Lieutenant
OeHeTal L ok, uncOuSclOusiy eApOseO Dy
his characteristic insensibility to dan
ger, fell by the third shot, which passed
from left to right through the middle of
his chest. The death of this eminent
christian and soldier, who had been dis
tinguished in every battle in which the
army of Tennessee had been engaged,
produced deep sorrow in our troops.
Maj ior General Loring, the officer next
in rank in the corps, succeeded tempor-
arily to its command.
Year: 1874

acting together for our mutual projection
and advancement, as occasion may re.
quire. We shall avoid litigation as much
as possible by arbitration in the Grange.
We shall constantly strive to secure en-
tire harmony, good will and vital broth
erhood among ourselves, and to make
our order perpetual we shall earnestly
endeavor to suppress personal, local.
sectional and national prejudices, all un-
healthy rivalry and all selfish ambition.


They propose to do away with middle
men; favor cheap transportation deny
that they are enemies to railroads or
other corporation, but are opposed TO op
preston in any form; to excessive sala-
ries, high rates of interest, and simply
desire self protection will advance the
cause of education, and advocate agri.
cultural and industrial colleges; deny
that the order is political organization !;
declare that no Grange can discuss po-
litica or religious questions or call con-
ventions, etc.
Year: 1874

From private letter recently received
from Missouri, We learn the following
remarkable incident: Some four years
since young man was arrested in Pal
myra for deliberately numbering young
lady to whom he was paving suit, be
cause she rejected him Bail was refus
ed. and he was imprisonedin the county
Jail From some cause or other his trial
had been continued from time to time
until about three weeks since, when it
came off Strange to say,when the jury
announced their verdict, guilty the young
man dropped dead upon the spot -Gai-
ldtoh 1ennsaSesdn.
Year: 1874

know not what will befall me! God hangs q


mist DER my eyes:
And DER each step of my onward path He


makes new sense to rise,
And every joy He sends me comes up a sweet


and glad surprise.
1 see not step before me as tread the days of


the year; -...
But the past is still in Gods keeping. the future


His mercy shall clear.
And what looks dark in the distance, may


brighten as 1 draw near.
For perhaps the dreaded future has less bitter


ness than think;
The Lord may sweeten the water before stoop


to drink;
Or, if Marah must be Marah, BE will stand


beside its brink.
1t may be there is waiting for the coming of


my feet,
Some gift of such rare blessedness, some joy so


strangely sweet. =
That my lips can only tremble with the Joy


cannot speak.
Oh, restful, blissful ignorancel T'is blessed


not to know,
1t keeps me quiet In those arms which will not
let me go,
And bushes my soul to rest on the bosom which


loves HE so.
So go on not knowing would not if I


might; a
I would rather walk on in the dark with God,


than go alone in the light
I would rather walk by Him with faith, than


walk alone by sight.
Ny heart shrinks back from trials which the
future may disclose,
Yet never had sorrow but what the dear


Lord chose. r.t.-
So send the coming tsars back, with the whis-


pered word, HE knows"