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Year: 1874

DARE You HESITATE, when a frIghtful cough is sowing the seeds of consumption or bronchitis in your lungs or throat, to send for the only remedy? Never was there a cough or cold that could resist the healing operation of Hale's Honey Hore- hound and Tar. Crittenton's 9th Ave nue. Sold by all Druggists.

 Pikes Toothache Drops cure in 1 min ute.

 Manufacturing the best Scale ill the world, and making it point to spare no expense in order to maintain the reputa tion acquired and during Q prosperous career of over forty years, the Messrs. Fairbanks are always full of orders. Their business thus far this year is largely in excess of the same period in 1873. Among their orders in January was one for twelve Railroad Track Scales. Last week the Company made eight hundred Scales. They also purchased for immediate de- livery seven hundred tons pig iron; but at the rate the furnances are now consum- ing iron, this amount will last less than two months. On Monday of this week they received an order from Chicago for twenty-two five-hundred bushel Hopper Scales. America leads the world ill this branch of industry, and the Fairbanks Scale is the acknowledged standard.
Year: 1874

AN Epglshman, Robert Southwell, wrote the
following lines of much merit, two centuries ant
a halfago:]


THE Topped tree in time may grow again,


Most naked plants renew both fruit and flower
The sorriest wight may find relief from pain,


The driest soil suck in some moistening shower
Times 90 by turns, and chances change by course
From foul TO fair, from better hap to worse
The sea of fortune doth for ever flow,


She draws her fayors to the lowest ebb;
Her tides have equal times to come and go,


Her loom doth weave the fine and cOarsest web
No Joy SO great but runneth to an end,
No hap SO hard but may in time amend.
Not always fall of leaf, nor even spring;


No endless night, nor yet eternal day;
The saddest birds season find to sing,


The toughest storm a calm may soon allay.
Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,
That man may hope TO rise, yet fear to fall.
chance may win that by mischance was lost.


That net that holds no great takes little fish;
In some things ALL in all things none are crossed
Few all they need; but none have all they wish
Unmingled joys here to no man befall
Who least have some; who most, hath never all.
Year: 1874


sage, and since then the mother and one child
have died and another child was in preca-
rious condition. A microscopic examination
of portions of flesh taken from the lungs,
limbs and. other parts of Mrs. Eilers' body
revealed the fact that the whole system
swarmed with trichina. In Jumps of flesh no
larger than pin-head We're found from fif-
teen to twenty of the encysted parasites. 1t
is supposed that Mr.. Eilers' life was saved by
the violent purging and vomiting which he
underwent the next day after eating of the
sausage.


On the morning of the 21st as the last forms
of the New Orleans Bulletin were being con-
geyed to the press they were taken possession
of by the police and locked up in the station
house. The editor says the seizure was made
without legal process and for the purpose Of
suppressing the paper because it had OPP
posed the Kellogg administration.
Year: 1874

The bridge painter who fell overheard
at Niagara, and succeeded in getting
front seat directly over the edge OF the


falls, says he never in his life saw such
grand and imposing spectacle; also, tnat
he never knew the true beauty OF arope
end till he got hold of it on that occasion
Year: 1874

THE prevalent custom on the part OF
most women of wearing the hair twisted
into a mass on the top or back of the
head, and the more modern and still more
pernicious custom of loading the head
with false hair or substances resembling
it, is frightful source of headache, and
indirectly cause of dyspepsia.-Ea-
c7,11lqe.
Year: 1874

The officers Of the Society desire to express
their thanks for the generous support and the
universal interest manifested in the success of
former Fairs, by the people OF the county.
They have elected general commendation, and
many persons from abroad have pronounced
ours the leading County Fair In the State.


With great confidence we now present the
Premium List for 1874, revised and enlarged,
with several new features added among them
the entirely novel idea of Offering articles Of
Silver Ware as premiums which will be on ex-
hibltion during the Fair, and be presented to
the successful competitors at O'Clock on the
last day.


The prospects for large and interesting
Fair were never 80 good as now, and we bespeak
from the people their hearty and generous sup
port. assuring them that every facility will be
offered for the fair display Of every article or
animal on exhibition.


F. NJ. MANNING, President.
A. c. GLIpDEN, Secretary. 1909
Year: 1874

Never handle q gun unless you
know hew, nor suffer any person
over whom you have control to handle
one, unless Aa knows how. You have
no right to enlanger your own life,
or the lives of others by handling
dangerous weapons in any other than
the safest manner.


Always handle gun as if it was
loaded; never let it point at yourself
or any one else; never point your gun
at any living thing unless you mean
to kill. Hardly a week passes that
tie papers do not report that some
idiot has snapped a gun at some one,
supposing it uuloadcd, and therefore
had the misfortune to kill human
being.


Always carry your gun at half-cock,
never with the hammer upon the cap.
This rule is invariably v:oloted. A
few experiments demonstrate its cor
rectness.


Half-cock your gun; if it will pull
of on this condition, take an Ak and
split the stock, bend the barrel and
sell it for old iron.


fit will not pull of, put cap on
the cone and let the striker down
unon it; now strike the back Of the
hammer with a stone or against the
door jalah, and if the striker fits the
cone decently we'll the cap will be
exploded. This is what happens
when man carrying a loaded gun
with the striker down upon the cap,
shoots himself, while riding in a
wagon, or tnmbling down, or climbing
over fence or stone wall.


Put a cap on the cone and let the
Year: 1874

striker back almost to half-cock and
let it fall, if the main spring is good
for ANYTHING the cap is exploded.
More accidents have happened this
way than any other. A gun is car
ried through underbrush, dragged out
Of boat, pulled on the ground by the
muzzle; your dogs jump upon you; the
hammer cTches in your clothes in
your olota2mth athg; I'm IN either of these, and
in hundred other ways, the hammer
is liable to be drawn back to almost
half-cock, and then let fall upon the
cap.-lf it is a good one an explosion
ought always to follow.


Now half-cock your gun, draw the
hammer back nearl y to fall cock and
let it fall. I. will stop at the half
cock notch, aud no blow Is given. So
always carry your gun at Lall-cock,
Ifycu cock it expecting to get shot
and are disappointed, hold tae mnzzle
straight up in the air, and let the cock
back at hall-cock,


If you know Of no other way Of as
certainlng whether gun is loaded or
not than by putting it in your mouth
and blowing, Or if you feel inclined to
draw the cap, retire to safe distance
and at once blow out your brains, be-
fore you kill or MAIN other people by
stupidity or carelessaess. ---lncEIcar1
Sportsman.
Year: 1874

A lovely womap necessarily eXer-
cises a great deal of power; but the
foolish girl that relies solely on he'
color and regularity Of features, and
neglects the cultivation Of her mind


is melancholy spectacle. Her sell
fish little heart, her barren little head


lord it already over cheap, superficial
beauties, and will soon leave nothing
behind but a dreary waste. Her lit
lie victories are temporary, her little
failures lasting. She can never be
a power. She can scarcely help
being y drag. Her companion must
be among the commonplace, not to
say the vulsar, for she has nothing in
com,non with the lofty and the grand.
She would gasp on the heights. She
can assinilate nothing beyond the ma
terial. There is danger that she will
soon be unable TO rise above the mean,
Year: 1874

Gerritt Smith is in favor Of third
term, or anything else that will keep
the Democrats out Of power. Smith
is like he man who wouldn't 50 to
heaven if certain other man Sot ad,
u.ttaLCo there.
Year: 1874

cross-purposes through unwise human


Intervention; that there should be born


individuals the currents of the unive rse


but since there Is deep and everlasting


law TO control tho things of creations,


and reconcile disturbances, and wiso


disposer OF events, such variations, are


to say the least, unlikely AMI it seems to


Us after all. about time for general dec


Iaration of disbelief in the existence of
any such thing as i'll luck. alt is not in
our stars, bot in ourselves that we arc
underings." The great poet OF humanity
tells, aud reason coniesses the truth Of
the statement. The person who is in
earnest never is unlucky. Does that
seem like harsh Judgment Let US re-
member then. that the person who 10 in
earnest neglects no method OF terrifying
his purpose Determination. pOrsever-
ence. and industry work with him; no
avails himself OF every instrument; he
leaves no fact unlearned, no stone unturn-
ed; he bends men to his will; he has
nothing to do with any circumstances be.
yond his control, but. like Napoleon, he
controls circumstances; and when all
else disappoints he seizes the elements.
and the very "stars in their courses"


fight against his adversary; for him there
is no such word as fail. To the ono in
earnest the worst stroke OF fortune will
not constitute i'll luck. Ilo knows the
lickle.goddess TO whose worship he will
not bend is as two faced as the statue Of
Janus, and that il she turns her flowing
view at first, he can always compel her
smiling one. For i'll luck. so called, is
frequently only blessing in Disguise
This any mother knows. the manhood of
whose drunken son makes her regret the
agony she suffered at the prospect OF
losing him in his babyhood; this the ma
ton learned when the first disaster 10 its
arms at Bull Run woke il from the apathy
Ol hSsuIduCc, anu IOuscu ~ W ouuihOu
all its strength tor conquer in tho grea.
struggle.


Thus to the one in earnest i'll luck Is an
impossiblity. The leaden weight laIls on
him. but does not crush him; he seizcs
and transmutes il into precious metal. and
stamps on every piece the the image and
superscription OF Cesar. lle knows that
he is OF as much Importance as any OF
her atom OF the universe and stands mp
boldly before Fate, sure that he will be
taken care OF. 1t is only the one who
crnges under the shock OF circumstances
that can really be called unlucky; and ho
will always be so who sits down and
bewails his luck, and feels aS if there
were a conspiracy among the stars. aud
whole attention OF the solar system were
turned upon his ruin. And we can be
tolerably sure that when people seem TO
be presistently unlucky. it is quito their
own fault, and more than than probably
is owing TO the fact that they conduct all
their enterprises in the way the Dutch
man did when he got off his horse in or
der to get on better.
Year: 1874

An inebriate, some little while back,
got into car and became very trouble
some and annoying to the passengers. so
much SO that in was proposed TO eject
him; but kind hearted and reverend
doctor. who was also passenger inter
posed for him and soothed him into a
good behaviour for the remainder OF the
journey. Before leaving, however, he
scowled upon the other occupants and
muttered some words of contempt, but
shook hands warmly with the doctor. and
said: "Good day, my friend; see you
know what il is TO be drunk"
Year: 1874

The Cleve land Herald says that at
the dress reform convention at Planes
Vile, Mrs. Vibbert came to the front and
said that she stood there q radical for
dress and sinner before God, "for, five
years ago, gave up my short dress to
keep peace with friends, and from that
day have not dared 10 pray"
Year: 1874

In obedience to popular vote anthor-
izing the issue of 100000 worth Of city
bonds for the purpose of paving several
of our principal thoroughfares, the Sec
ond Branch of Council last night
passed an appropriate ordinance.
There seems to be an impress
sion that the ordinance will be
defeated when it comes before the other
branch of Council, but why this fate
should overtake it when more than three
ffths of the voters voting at Especial
election held to ascertain the sense
of the people ia relation to
the matter have recorded their wishes in
its favor, is one of those things that will
excite inquiry and perhaps provoke un-
pleasant remark Ths city needs good
streets. There is nothing that is more
complained of in winter than the condi-
tion of the thoroughfares which this
ordinance propOsesto pave. 1.-THE Coun-
ell proposes to initiate the Arkansas man
who did not repair his roof in winter be-
cause it was then too wet, nor in summer
because it was not then needed, it is time
that the people were informed of the
fact. If the paving is to be done at all
it should be done ut once.
Year: 1874

THE MooN's ORBIr-We commonly re-
gard the moon as satellite Of the earth,
and We are taught at school and in our
textbooks that while the earth travels
round the sun, the moon travels round the
earth. But in reality this is erroneous.
or a. least suggestive Of error. The moon
ought to be regarded as companion Plan
ct, travelling with the earth round the
sun. The distinction is not all fanciful
one. The earth is not the body whose
force the moon chiefly obeys: she is at
traciei n,osc than twice as strongly by the
sun.


II the motions OF earth and moon could
be watched from some far 6;stan. stand
point, the observed movements would by
10 means suggest the idea that the moon
was circling round the earth; and. in fact.
II the earth were concealed from view
while her satellite was thus watched. the
moon would appear to ciscuit round the
sun in an orbit which could not Be dis
tinguishcd from that which the Garth her.
self pursucs.
Year: 1874

The above clubs played fair game on the
Prospect Park grounds yesterday afternoon before
5000 spectators. There were several hundred
carriages also present Bunce, OF the Nassaus
was the rst to toe the plate and went out for one
run, Daley scored another when the Namelcs3
went TO the bat and went out Tor one.
In the second and third the Nas-
saus scored one and TWO while the
Nameless were whitewashed. In the remaining
innings the former made two to the atter's three,
leaving the score to IN favor of the Na-saus.
on the Nassau side the pitching or CASSIDY and
the catching OF Thompson were very effective.
The following is the score:-
Year: 1874

The raid against the brigands of
Thessaly by the Turkish troops seems
to be carried on with energy by Mehe-
met Ali and his subordinates, and ex-
pectations are fondly entertained of the
complete exterminatlon before long of
these interesting ruffians. In the mean
time, the adventures of the brigands
are well worth the attention of sensa-
tional novelists, who will seldom find a
more favorable opportunity for gather
ing elastic materials which may be
easily stretched to the length of three
volumes by the exercise of little inge-
nuity.


The hero Of the hour in Thessaly is
the brigand chief Stratzo, who lately
distinguished himself by carrying of
the bride from the midst of a nuptial
procession, and who is now the object
of hot pursuit by the Turkish troops.
The bride who was thus abstracted is,
it is stated, young lady of no incon-
siderable personal attractions, who had
trided with Stratzo's affections by re-
ceiving numerous gifts from him, and
consequently, according to the notions
of the country, had no right to bestow
her hand upon any one but the brigand
1t is probable that she was not altogeth-
er unwilling to be carried off by STRAIT
20, who after her abduction departed
with her to Olympus, where he re-
mained for some time secure from the
pursuit of Mehemet Ali Pasha. He
subsequently, however, was imprudent
enough to descend into the plain, and
the Turkish general having learned that
he was hiding in the district of Alias
sonia, sent ninety men to scour that
part of the country; but Stratzo and his
band had again given the soldiers the
slip, and taken up their winter quarters
on the other side of Olympus, where
the authorities possess far less energy
and determination than the Turkish
general.
Year: 1874

The Cincinnati Commercial, speak
ing of the closing scenes in the ad
ministration of Governor Noyes, of
Ohio, and of the Inauguration of Gov
ernor Allen, says:


Hundreds of guests had called, and
scores were calling, to say their good.
bys to Governor Noyes. Among those
who entered the chamber, however, was
an old man, thin, wrinkled, pale, and
gray-haired, and much bent by age and
manifest suffering. He timidly asked
to see the Governor, who stepped aside
to window with him. The old man
said he would have called before, but
had been sick. He came at that late
hour to make an appeal for the pardon
of an erring son who had been confined
in the Penitentiary for seven years, and
who had three more to serve.


"What is the name of your son?''
asked the Governor. The old man gave
it. Governor Noyes then, without
making him any definite reply, re.
quested him to step into his private
room and wait till he was at leisure.
The fact was, the pardon had been
granted early that morning, and the old
mans daughter had already gone to
carry the pardon to her brother and ac-
company him from the Penitentiary to
the Governors office. In few min
utes the liberated man arrived with his
| sister neither eyDectinp to find the
other there, and the father not dream
ing that the pardon had already been
granted. One can readily imagine the
scene as the Governor conducted the
two to his private room. The son flew
to his father and embraced him, and
then, finging his arms around the Gov
ernor's neck, covered his face with
kisses. The old man, overcome by the
great happiness of the moment, sank
into his char, sobbing like child.


There were no dry eyes in that room,
and those who, few minutes later,
were talking and chatting with the re-
firing Governor in the reception room,
little imagined in what touchingly
pathetic scene he had been a partici-
pant. The liberated man has wife,
and child eight years old, a sister, and
aged parents. 1t will be pleasant re-
Election during his lifetime to General
Noyes that it was one of the last acts
of his executive power to fill one house.
hold with the sunshine of happiness,
and restore the beloved one long sepa.
rated from them, who had fearfully
condoled for his crime.
Year: 1874

There is a true hero living at North
Boscawen, N. H., and his name is
Jonathan Plummer. 1t will be remem-
bered that in the summer of 1871 an
old building at that place suddenly
settled, and one corner of it swayed
over on the railroad track. The pas
senger train was due in few minutes,
and this Mr.. Plummer, young and ac-
tive trackman, discovering the danger,
promptly seized an axe and cut off a
post of the building in order to swing
the structure from the track. He ac-
complished his purpose, and endeavored
to leap from his dangerous position,
but was crushed and mangled in the
ruins. In a moment the train, behind
time, swept by with its passengers in
safety. The brave section man was
found to have been terribly injured in
his spinal column and lower limbs, and
to this day has never been able to leave
his bed. The railroad company has
furnished a cottage at North Boscawen
for himself and wife, and continue him
at half pay upon the section-roll. Mr..
Plummer is free from pain only a
small part of the time, but in his mis-
fortune he exhibits a patience and
cheerfulness that stamp him with the
highest nobility Boston Journal,
Year: 1874

An English technical periodicalpoints
out an easy way of testing whether wa
ter is good and fit for general use. 1t
says:


"Good water should be free from
color, unpleasant odor and taste, and
should quickly afford lather with a
small portion of soap. If half pint of
the water beplaced in perfectly clean,
colorless, glass-stoppered bottle, few
grains of the best white lump sugar
added, and the bottle freely exposed to
the daylight in the window of warm
room, the liquid should not become tur-
bid, even after exposure for a week or
ten days. If the water becomes turbid
it is open to the grave suspicion of
sewage contamination, but if it remain
clear it is almost certainly safe. We
owe to Heisch this simple, valuable, but
hitherto strangely neglected test"
Year: 1874

WI ANA OHS gNeA sROOO ~
Note by OUe.-Our fuel is burned in
two stoves, our coal hods are filled
every morning and must last through
each day. To regulate the consump-
tion, we have two sticks of unequal
lengths these are used to measure the
emptiness of the coal hods. When
noon comes the first stick must just
reach the level of the coal in each hod.
The second stick is to adjust the
amount to be burned from noon until
four o'clock in the afternoon. The
quantity remaining in each hod after
that must last until we retire.


On Thursday by inadvertence the
drafts in the stoves were kept open too
long, and evening found us without
coal in the hods, and as our family is
regulated by perfect system, it was
not allowable to take more coal from
the bin (all defalcations result from
Thursday taking part of Fridays
coaD, consequently the baby ught
cold. By Friday bad case of Group
was developed, and on Saturday morn
ing our little darling passed on. AS
the head of the family was returning
homeward on Friday evening he not
ticed piece of paper suitable for
kindling in the gutter, and stopping to
pick it up he slipped and irremediably
tore his panlaloons. So that our


1. Expenses for the week as shown be-


fore are. re........................... So 95
2. Expenses for new pantaloons. .... 90
3. Funeral expenses and expenses of


last sickness of infant. .......... 80 90


$44 35
Or at the rate for one year of 50, 906 20.


My husband claims the second item
to be the result of an accident, and the
third item he considers as one of the
mysterious dispensations of Providence
which mortals may not investigate.


For my part, and confdentially, Mr..
Editor, 1 do wish you would publish
some plan of life which would give us a
little more variety for our bill of fare
and also, if you can consistently do so,
advise the fathers of families not to ad-
here too strictly to preconceived sys-
tenn of living, and thus save for many
fond mother the presence of little ones,
who are darling treasuses, even if they
know naught about the harmonies of a
perfect code of domestic economy
Boston Journal.
Year: 1874

That band of thieves pursuing their
nefarious operations under the protection
Of the name of American Congress have
succeeded at last in spending very pleas
ant winter at Washington City, squan-
dering the peoples money and wrangling
over their own perfidious acts Warsaso
Union.


The above is a sample brick from the
last number of the Warsaw Union
Something has happened to the editor OF
that paper, which has thrown him into a
violent passion. No man in a happy
state of mind would speak so disrespect.
fully Of the peoples representatives, who
come from all parts of the Union, and
represent the Democratic as well as the
Republican party. There may be disnon-
est men in Congress-very likely there
are-but to denounce Congress as tanG
Of robbers, is going little too far ever
for a native.
Year: 1874

The Laporte County Agricultural
Society is giving considerable attention
to the bringing out of fast horses. Large
premiums are. offered for the most speedy
trotting and pacing horses. There is con-
siderable sport in horse racing and great
many gamblers will be attracted to La
porte to engage in it; but the agricultural
society will lose more in reputation by
encouraging it. than they will gain by
entries for premium and gate money. II
will be well for the Patrons of Husbandry
% watch the Agricultural Society bust
ness.
Year: 1874

DENTIST. Office 2d story Post Office Building.
l y Teeth extracted without pain, by the use of
Nitrous Oxide Tor Laughing Gas>. TEETH: from
tooth 10 full sett, cheap that the rich and
poor can al get them. Office open all day except
Mondays and Tuesdays. I3+tft