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Year: 1866

FATAL MI.;ISo ACCIDENT On Wednesday
last man named George u. Lille, while at
work in lis claim near Sport Hill. about a
mile from town. was SO severely injured rs
TO cause his death in 4 few hours is nc
one was present at the moment the accident
occurred. the precise manner in which he re-
ceived his death is not known. but the cir
cumstances are supposed to be as follows
Mr. Lille was engaged in running an open
cut to his claim at the time. Fifteen or twen-
" feet from the bottom of the ground sluice
a huge boulder protruded from the side oi
the bank. Thinking that it might become
loosened and roll down upon him, it is sup
posed that he was trying to disengage it.
when it suddenly started, and before he could
get out of the way. caught and carried him
with it into the cut breaking his skull and
crushing his abdomen in the most horrible
manner. A physician was sent for but the
unfortunate man breathed his last shortly
after his arrival. Accidents of this descrip-
tion are becoming of frequent occurrence late
ly. and in almost every instance they are the
result of carelessness.
Year: 1866

ATTEMPT TO EScAPE.-On Sunday evening
last, two of the prisoners confined in the
county Jail, Brown and Wilson, attempted to
escape. The prisoners are not locked up in
the cells during the day. but are allowed the
freedom of the corridor. When the door
was unlocked for the purpose of giving them
their supper, the two Aon'5res above mention
ed made desperate effort to pass the
officers, jailor Peek and Deputy Sheriff Bates.
and make their escape. A severe struggle
ensued in which the prisoners got the worst
of it, and were glad to relinquish their object
and return to their quarters. There are a
number of notoriously bad characters con-
fined in Jail at present. and too much caution
cannot be exercised by those having them in
charge.
Year: 1866

LlvELY.-The stock of goods in a grocery
store in town was sold at auction, by the
Sheriff. the latter part of last week and the
fore part of this. The sale occupied several
days, and a large crowd was in attendance
during the whole time. As a generel thing
the goods brought iteir full value. Sheriff
Oliphant performed the duties of auctioneer
admirably, and it is owing to the fact that he
took the trouble to offer the articles in small
parcels, instead of dumping" them off, that
. heavy sacrifice was avoided.
Year: 1866

commissioner aforesaid with such other fees
as may be deemed reasonable by such commits
sioner for such other additional services as may
be necessarily performed by him or them, such as
attending at the examination, keeping the prison.
er in custody, and providing him with food and
lodging during his detention, and until the final
determination of such commissioner and in gei
eral for performing such other duties as may be
required in the premises; such fees to be made
up in conformity with the fees usually charged
by the officers of the courts Of justice within the
proper district or county, as near may be prac-
ticable and paid of the treasury of the United
States on the certificate of the judge of the dis
recoverable from the defendant part of the
Judgment in of conviction.


SEC. And be 1t further enacted, That when
ever the President of the United States shall have
reason to believe that offences have been or are
likely to be committed against the provisions of
this act within any judicial district it shall be
Lawful for him, in his discretion, to direct the
trict to attend at such place within the district,
and for such time as he may designate, for the
purpose of the more speedy arrest and trial of
persons charged with violation of this act; and
it shall be the duty of every judge other officer
when any such requsition shall be received by
him. to attend at the place and for the time there
in designated.


SEC g. Amd be it further enacted That it shall
be lawful for the President of the United States,
or such person as he may empower for that pur-
pose to employ such part of the land naval
forces of the United StateS or the militia, shall
be necessary to prevent the violation and enforce
the due execution OF this act.


SEC 10. 1nd be it ftt.ther enacted That upon
all questions of law arising in any cause under
the provisions of this act final appeal may be
taken to the Supreme Court of the United
States"
Year: 1866

rro those who get up clubs OF hVe or more suo-
seribers one copy, gratis, will be furnished.


Subscribers who were cut off from us during the
war. and whose time of subscription had not eN-
pired, will be furnished the paper free on the
restoration of communication, until the time be
filled. If they desire the paper longer after that
time, they must renew.


cross X mark on the paper indicates the eX-
piration of the subscription.
Year: 1866

GIFT ENTERPRISE SwINDLERs.-N Notwith-
standing the frequent exposures which these
swindiers have received in the public press,
they appear to flourish heretofore, bearing
out the old adage that Gas long as there are
fools in the world there will be knaves..
Scarcely day passes that mayor Hoffman does
not receive communications complaining of the
swindlers who operate these enterprises" The
victims invariably reside out, of town. 1t is al
most incredible that people can be found foolish
enough to believe that by sending certain sum
of money to particular address, they will re-
ceive in exchange an article of twice the value
of the cash remtted. Yet the number of peo-
pie who actually have faith in this appears to
be on the increase. The law is powerless in the
matter, for in order to convict the swindlers it
would be necessary to prove negative. Ia the
meantime, they are reaping rich harvest from
those who actually believe that circular offer
ing something for nothing is sent in good faith.
-Ne,c Fork Times.
Year: 1866

DANGERS OF HAsTY BURIAL In debate
in the French Senate on the petition setting
forth the danger of burying those who are not
dead by hasty interments, Cardinel Donnet,
Archbishop of Bordeaux, recited three cases of


living perso1s supposed to be dead, whom du-
ring his experience as priest he had saved
from burial. In two cases there was complete
restoration of life--one Of the persons rescued,
lady of distinguished family, is now happy
wife and mother. A fourth case, told by the
archbishop, accounts for his long sustained at.


ention to the subject. He said I:


La the summer of 1926, on close and sultry
day, in church which vas excessively crowd
ed, young priest who was 10 the act OF preach
iog was suddenly seized with gidd:aess 10 the
pulpit. The words he uttered became indis-
tinct, he soon lost the power of speech, and
suuk down on the floor. He was taken out or
the church and carried home. All was thought
to be over. Some hours after the funeral bell
was tolled, and the usual -preparatio Ds made for
the interment. His eyesigbt was gone, but if
he could see nothing like the young lady have
alluded to he could hear, and need not say
that what reached his eaIs was not calculated to
reassure him. The doctor came, examined him
and pronounced him dead; aad after the usual
inquiries to his age and the place of his birtb
etc., gave permission for his ioterment next
morning. The venerable bishop in whose cath
edral the young priest was preaching when he
was seized with the fiji came to his bedside to re-
cite the De Profunds. The boy was measured
for the coffin.


Night came on, and you will easily feel how
inexpressible was the anguish of the living be-
ing in such situation At last, amid the
voices murmuring around him, he distinguished
that of one whom he had known from Infancy.
That voice produced q marvellous effect and su-
perhuman effort. Of what followed need say
no more than that the seemingly dead man
stood next day 10 the same pulpit. That young
priest, gentlemen, is the same young man who
is now speaking before you, and who more than
forty years after that event, implores those 10
authority not merely to watch vigilantly over
the careful execution of the legal prescriptions
with regard to'ioterments, but to enact fresh
ones ir order to prevent the recurrence Of ire
parable misfortunss.
Year: 1866

lie wraps me round with his riches,


He covers me up with his care,
Aud his love is the love of manhood,
Whose life is living prayer
have plighted my woman's affections.


have given my all in oil,
Aud the flowers ofa daily contentment


Renew their sweet lives ere the fall.
And yet like an instrument precious.


That playeth in an olden tune,
My heart in the midst of its blessings.


Goes back to q day in June
To q day wh,n beneath the branches


stood by silent stream,
And saw in its bosom an image


AS one seeth o face in dream.
l would not resign hts devotion, :.


No, not for q heart that lives! ID.
Nor change one jot my condition


For the change that condition gives;
should mourn not more for another. I"


Nor more for another rejoice, @SsS,d
Than now, when weep at his absence,


Or welcome his step and his voice.
And yet like an instrument precious,
That playeth an olden tune,
My heart in the midst Of its blessings,


Goes back to day In June
Tota day when beneath the branches
stood in the sbadowy light,
AMI heard the low words Of n whisper i


as one heareth voice Ia the night.
Year: 1866

Is election day. Every voter should
tern out. DO8iphsn must be the Banner
County Of the State. and full vote is
necessary to make her so. Besides. the
vote indicates the population and pros
psrity Of country. Let US poll such q
vote as will place Doniphan County iu 8
leading position in the State, by exhibit
ing her real growth in population, and 9
proper political sentiment.
Year: 1866

Qua LEGISLATIVE DKLEaATIoN.-Ift the
Districts in this County elect the csndi.
dates for Representatives now before the
public-those announced last week-Do-
uiphan County will have 9 delegation in
the Legislature that will be credit and
an honor to her, and of which she may
Justly be proud. No other County will
send an abler set of members. Tho only
way 10 which onr County can ever COM
maud the influence in the State to which
she is entitled. is by choosing men Of
ability and energy to represent her.
Year: 1866

To have made and sold so great a
number of Machines is an evidence
of the marvellous and universal
popularity of the Wheeler & Wilson
Machine, and everywhere through
out the babltable globe, where fab
rics are sewn into human apparel.
1t has maintained its reputation
through eight years of bitter com.
petition as the Leading Family
Sewing Machine of the World. The
fact that this popularity LASTS, is
proof that it is merited.
Year: 1866

The NATIONAL DEBr.-Democrats
not unfrequently complain of the Ma
tional debt incurred for the suppression
Of the rebellion. They do not take into
account the fact that the war against
the Government was instigated and
engineered by Democrats, because a
constitutional majority of the people,
acting strictly within the rules of the
law, saw fit to repudiate their policy,
and eject them, as unworthy servants,
from the high places Of power in the
Government. No doubt vast public
debt is an evil, to be avoided whenever
practicable. But there are evils much
more serious than any public debt yet
incurred. National disintegration-
subverting the principles Of popular
Liberty, entailing the loss of National
dignity, and preparing the way for
anarchy-is immeasurably worse. But
there would have been no debt, if Dem
ocrats, when beaten at the polls, had
submitted, as they ought to have done,
to the solemn verdict of the people.
Rather than submit, they preferred to
plunge the Nation into the horrors
of civil war. Now, they turn their
displeasure against the existence of a
burden imposed upon the country by
their own acts.-GoId Hill .Ners.


NATURAL CURIosITIEs.-In the mid
die Of the great Humboldt salt bed is a
fine fresh water spring, about twelve
feet in diameter. It has been sounded
to the depth of $50 feet, without finding
bottom. There are other smaller springs
of fresh water, the bottoms of which
have never yet been sounded by lead or
plummet. Some Of these springs are
warm, others cold. On one side Of this
salt field is a volcanic mountain, now
burnt out. The shape of the crater is
distinctly to be seen. One side of the
mountain is split of, allowing the lava
to flow out down the side of the noun
tain. and far out into the plain, where
it is yet to be as plainly seen as when
the mountain first burst asunder.
Year: 1866

T1NHIS LARGE AND COMMODIOUS HOTEL


Il is situated r Humbug Valley. Pumas county


in a beautiful and healthy location. The rooms
are large and airy and well furnished. The table
is at all times furnished with the best the market
affords; the stabling is of the best. 1t is "home
tor the traveller" For the invalid a fine soda
spring. celebrated for its healing qualities, is ad-
joining the Hotel. A liberal share of patronage is
solicited. A. J. WOOD, Proprietor.
Year: 1866

T5HHE PROPRIETORS OF THIS FAvORITE


4 Hotel would most respectfully inform the trav
cling public and permanent Boarders that the ST
NICHOLAS is now being thoroughly REPAIRED
ENLARGED AND IMPROVED IN ALL ITS
DEPARTMENTS, and they are now prepared to
offer superior inducements to their patrons and the
public in general.


Business men and travellers will find the ST
NICHOLAS second to no Hotel in the State
whether regards LUXURY, COMFORT OR
ECONOMY.
Year: 1866

CAUTIOUS MEN.-Some men use
words as rifemen do bullets. They
say but little. The few words used go
right to the mark. They let you talk,
and guide with their eye and face. on
and on, till what you say can be an
swered in word or two, and they
launch out sentence, pierce the mat
ter to the quick and are done. You
never know where you stand with them.
Your conversation falls into their
mind as rivers into deep chasm, and
is lost from sight by its depth and
darkness. They will sometimes sur
prise you with a few words thpt 60 to
the mark like gunshot, and they are
silent again as if they were reloading.
Such men are safe counsellors and true
friends in every case where they pro-
fess to be such. To them truth is
mere valuable than gold, while preten-
sion is too gauzy to deceive them.
Words without point are like titles
without merit, only betraying the
weakness of the blinded dupes who are
ever used as promoters of other mems
schemes.
Year: 1866

Tomorrow" the maid said, blushing red,
Tomorrow and my love will be we'd"
She little thinks if the groom will press
On her fair, clear brow cold caress,
If you whispered his name but ever so low ;
For ere the morrow, with grasping breath,
She is wed to the phantom-n man called Death,
And stark in her bridal garments lies, :
The love light faded from her eyes.
The merchant bends with throbbing brain,
Greedily counting loss and gain:
Does he reckon the cost of coffin and palli
Does he ever think of death at all
No! for tomorrow, he says, III go
Out in the field where the roses blow;
III order palace fair to see,


And its spacious halls will ring with glee:
And this house is built-O, fair to see,
With the silent worm for his company.
On the crowning peak of life's high hill
| The Iight-haire man looks forward still,
Unheeding the moments that steadily flow,
Whirling the thread of life as they go.
To him, bowed down meath the weight o.
years,


The morn of dread no nearer appears
Then when he walked with careless feet
! Adown the stream of childhood sweet
The youthful maid, the strong, stern man,
And tottering age, of the morrow plan.


In the pride of your strength, brave man


beware,


And youth and age, in time prepare!


For though to-day the sun beams bright,
To-morrows clouds may obscure its light;
And he who walks in health to-day


Tomorrow may be but senseless clay.


There's spectre glides with noiseless tread
This night he may stand beside your bed


And many there be, now laughing loud,


Who will ere the morrow fill q shroud.
Year: 1866

NOBLE SENT1MENT.-"Th is an
agreeable world after all. five would
only bring ourselves to look at the
objects that surround US in their true
light, we should see beauty where
before we beheld deformity, and listen
to harmony where before we could
hear nothing but discord. To be
sure there is a great deal of anxiety
and vexation to meet we cannot ex-
pect to sail upon summer sea forever;
yet if we preserve calm eye and steady
hand, we can so trim our sails and
manage our helm as to avoid the quick
sands and weather the storms that
threaten shipwreck.


1--WE are members ofone great FAM
ily; we are oil travelling the same
road, and shall arrive at the same goal.
We breathe the free air, we are sub
iect to the same bounty, and we shall
lie down on the bosom of our common
mother. 1t is not becoming then thai
brother should hate brother it is moi
right that neighbor shouldinjure neigh
Dor. We pity that man who can harbol
enmity against his fellow; he loses hal
the enjoyment of life he embitters hi
own existence. Let US tear from oul
eyes the colored medium that invests
every object with the green hue o
jealousy ond suspicion turn q dea
ear to the tale of scandal; breathe tht
spirit of charity from our lips \; and from
our hearts let the rich gushings o
human kindness swell up as from ,
fountain, as the golden age will be
come no fiction, and the island of thu
blessed bloom more than Hesperial
beauty"
Year: 1866

1 Several divorces were granted
last week in the New York city courts
on the ground of infdelity. and the
number of similar cases now pending
in the different courts of that city is
between seven and eight hundred.
Year: 1866

Several ofthc newspapers in Kentucky
are taking q very sensible view Of the
labor question. They argue that if the
people will only exercise little patience
there need be no difficulty about procur.
ing labor from the freedmen. The latter
have been suddenly cmancipated. They
have gained their Freedom, and arc now
in o condition wholly new to them
Naturally they are elnted, and feel little
like going Immediately to work for their
old masters. Forbcarancc should be the
word at present. In short time the
novelty Of their position will die away,
and the colorcd people will then realize
the fact that they must support them.
selves. IF the farmers pay them fair
wages there will be no trouble, and the
spring will find them willing and anx.
ious to enter the employ Of their former
owncas: The advice is opportunc, aud
may safely be followed BY the late slave
holders Of other States in the South.
Year: 1866

In the Patent Office Report for 1861
there is an account from the South Of
France, which states that forty eight and
a half tons Of Sorghum (green) have been
raised on one acre of ground. How much
It will lose 10 drying l have no idea; but,
this much / do know, that soWn broad
cast at the rate of two bushels 10 the acre
it will yield more feed than anything
have ever tried in the way Of grass. /
have tried it for two years and have found
the yield truly surprising should
think more than two tuns of dry feed
but never having weighed it, Icannotspeak k
positively, but am perfectly satisfied that
it IS far superior to anything I have ever
tried, not even excepting Hungarian grass
so much lauded some years ago.


Sow it in good ground, as early as il
can be nut in order: harrow smooth. the
fner the better and when the seed is
sown. 60 over it with a hush 5t must not
be covered deeply, and If the seed is good
it needs no soaking. Let those who
think so favorably of corn fodder try the
sorghum, and / do not think they will
bother with corn.


Ny horses and COWS prefer it to any
kind of feed / can give them I have
tried them repeatedly, aud they will leave
the best timothy for the sorghum and eat
it up clean. The blades we pull from the
cane we grow for syrup, are preferred by
the stock to corn blades, and they will
devour it with the greatest avidity. By
sowing early it can be cut with a strong
cradle at the best time for curing proper
Iv. After being cut few days / have it
tied up In bundles and cooked the same
as wheat or oats. The quantity Of seed
sown to theacre prevents the stalks grow
ing thick, which renders it easy to cure.
Year: 1866

About two years since, says the New
Y ork Tribune, a German chemist Ia Buf-
falo claimed to have discovered a process
whereby the starch Of Indian corn might
be readily transmitted into sugar, where
of it has long been known as the chemic-
al equivalent His patent was bought
soon afterward, by company in New
York, who have since been experiment
ing with it, though as yet no marketable
sugar has been made under the patent.
That which alone has been produced in
any quantity is what is known as grape
5ugar-differing in the form of its par
ticles from cane sugar, and not conVerti-
ole into the latter by any known process,
nor acceptable as a substitute therefor.


Syrup Of a very fair quality is made Of
corn under this patent, and may be to
any extent We do not consider it so
Intensely sweet as cane or maple syrup Of
equal density, but we could detect no al
10y or other fault In it. We should judge
that 100 gallons of corn syrup are about
equal to 75 Of equally thick cane syrup.
The color of the two does not materially
differ The starch of the corn is seper-
ated for syrup precisely as it is for the
production Of the edible cora starch Of
commerce, and we presume the tFansmu-
tation of starch into sugar Is akin to that
whereby alcohol is obtained from grain.
A busheI of corn yields three gallons Of
syrup, worth 70 cents per gallon. The
residuum gluten, bran, &c., sells at ~
cents per bushel, for feed.
Year: 1866




Some young ladies regard marriage as a
fairy land, where vioIets and roses perpet-
ualIy blossom; where the cedar tree and
the cinnamon ever flourish where the
waters of tranquility and sweetness unin-
terruptedly flow. Tell them there are
briars in their stead-though they do not
contradict you, yet they do not credit you,
for they believe that their love, their de-
votedness for each other, viii exempt them
from the cares, the vicissitudes and anx-
ieties pertaining to humanity. All lovers
before marriage conceive that their destiny
viii be an exception to the general rule
The future with them viii be t0gjour cO1s-
Ter de rose. Could you give them a sketch
in the page of their future history, they
would not believe word of it they would
set you down as misanthrOpe, a painter
of gloomy and unnatural scenes, an in
imical represser of the hopes and aspira-
tions Of youth. The dark spots that the
telescope of your experience might dis
cover, they would regard but as mole
hills in the moon. If they would but re-
feet little, how much misery they would
avoid
Year: 1866

Two years ago! How much I've lost
In those two feeting years;
A sunny face is hid from view,
And memory hath its tears
I've lost the music of her voice,
That I was wont to hear;


The tinking of a silver bell
Could not have been more clear.
I've missed the patter of her feet
Upon the pavement walks;
I see not dancing in the breeze
Those curly, auburn locks.
How much how very much I've lost,
Since Jennie went away
No other voice can sing so sweet
The words Of ''Happy day"
I've lost the sweetness of her smile,
That ever fingered there,


Upon that young and lovely face
Twas ever pure and fair.
I've lost the love-Iight of her eyes,
And all her winning ways;
I've lost her in her Innocence,
And all her childish plays.
Why do say I've lost so much?
A mother can't forget;
And doesn't ey'ry look and way
Still live IN memory yet?
o mol o not she is not lost,
Though a vacant chair sits by our hearth
Jennie is an angel now,
She's only lost to earth.