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Year: 1875

SOME time ago a beautiful and intelli-
gent young lady informed her intimate
friends that she was. engaged to be mar
ried to Mr.. A. Last Thursday night was
fixed for the wedding, and number of
cards of invitation were sent out. The
guests assembled, but, no bridegroom ap-
pearing, at a, late hour they withdrew,
full of sorrowful sympathy for the lady
and fierce indignation against the man
who had SO overwhelmed her with morti-
fication and disappointment. On the next
day the lady was a raving maniac. The
gentleman in the case, however, asserts
that he was not engaged to the young lady,
and had no idea of it, nor did he know
anything about the welding that was ap-
pointed for him. He doubtless tells the
truth, and the arrangements for the we'd
ding on the part OF the unfortunate young
lady were but the premonitory symptoms
of the insanity afterward fully developed.
-Rtctmond Va.) Journal.
Year: 1875

TOR sALE-A WELL ESTABLISHED HAY. GRAIN
T and commission business in connection with
age warehouse: stock and Good Will To be dis
posed a sacrifice to tue right party $500 cash
required, No. 50 Front street
Year: 1875

YVyHE MAGNOLIA HAS BEEN FITTED


up in the most attractive style possible.
with u view to the convenience and comfort
of patrons. The proprietor desires to call the
attention of customers, friends and the public
to his superior stock OF
Year: 1875

We hold il to be absolutely essential to the
preservati IN of the liberties of the citizens that
the several States shall be maintained in all
their rights, dignity and equality, as the most
complete and reliable administration Of their
own domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks
against anti-republican tendencies. Every
attempt on the part Of the Federal Government
to exercise a power not delegated to it in the
Constitution, or to exercise a delegated power
in any manner not therein prescribed, is an act
Of usurpation, demanding the instant and un-
qualified condemnation Of people jealous of
their liberties. And we hold that any uneon>
stitutional interference by the General Govern
ment with the local affairs of any State 20 any
extent or under any pretense whatever should
be at once condemned by all classes of every
section of the Union, as all such acts tend to
the destruction of our Federal system and the
consolidation Of all power in a centralized des-
pOtism
Year: 1875

Backward, turn backward, Time in your
flight" is a sentiment that often finds a
resting place in our hearts.


For the long ago, with its shadows ard
lights mellowed by distance, is fairer and
sweeter than things which the present only
half How often we hear it MUIR
INJURED: "If it could be as it was long ago,
how much happier would l be-how diff
ferent would be my life! If could but
recall my childhood, and live my life oven
again, would control my acts and deeds
so as to render the remainder of my days
happy and peaceful.


We often hear the drunkard speak Of
the long ago, as he reels from side to side.
In time past he was noble and promis-
ing youth, with everything in his favor,
and with but an effort he could have at
tanned for himself happiness and honors
that are well worth striving for. But,
poor, degraded wretch. he is cared for by
none; he is cast aside by every bysfander,
and the finger of scorn is pointed at him.


Often do we see the once loved and
cherished daughter sit and weep over the
long ago. How we'll can she remember
when, at the knees Of a loving mother,
she was taught the first lessons oil life; and,
as she advanced in years, listened to a
mothers good and cheering advice, and
TIE praise and honor of noble father.
Now she sits lone and weary, dreaming
over the long ago, and of the sad time
when the last ties that bound her heart to
earth were severed, and when, by the grave
of the dearest object to her on earth, she
touched the hands that were clasped in
death, and pressed last kiss on that brow
which was go cold and pale. Now she is
as it were, on the stormy ocean Of time
left to battle with its waves and reefs ant
shipwrecks alone.


Thus we often hear some afflicted ont
murmur, as he lies upon his bed of pain
dreaming over his misspent life and hi
childhood days which were passed in idle
ness. And now he only asks for his you'll
back again, that he may improve his time
and 'make his acts most potent for good.
But can bis youth be restored? The an
swer is emphatically, No!


The days of the Long Ago are now oh
scure. They have passed from us. Blu
how easy in fancy to wander back, AM
imagine ourselves almost as we were il
the past and whether our lives have beel
spent proftably or not, whether we cal
reflect back upon the long ago with pleas
ure or sorrow, Memory, one of the great
est gifts that God has bestowed upon man
will stand before us with the past STAN
ped upon its every feature. A. E. W.


CANEYvILLE, KY, June. 1875.
Year: 1875

Two MILES WEST OF McHENRY,


Ohio Co, KY, June %.


EDITOR HERALD:-Having seen nothing
in YOUR valuable paper from this vicinity,
l will try in my feeble and awkward man.
ner to write something about the pros-
poets of the crops, if you think it worthy
a place in your columns.


Corn, wheat and oats look fine The
wheat is nearly all ripe enough to har-
vest. One or two crops were harvested
last week, and, if we don't have too much
rain, everybody in this neighborhood
will get done this week. If it continues
wet, as it has done for two weeks, twill
injure wheat in the shock.


Corn is growing very fast, and the
weeds equally as fast-for it has been too
wet to plow for some time, and the weeds
have got very good start of some of our
corn.


The rain on last Monday night washed
the ground considerably, and swept every
fence 'clear and clean" wherever there
was a branch. 1t was the most rain
that was ever known to fall in one nights
time in this neighborhOod. 1t was an
eight inch rain.


Your paper is welcome visitor every
week to me, and hope when times get
better to get up club.


Last Sabbath we had the pleasure Of
hearing an elegant sermon delivered by
E. V. Phipps, at the Central Grove
Schoolhouse, near E. Miller's.
SUBSCRIBER
Year: 1875

THERE arc ten thousand store clerks
in Kentucky whose salaries averagefive
dollars a week, but they couldn't part
their hair in the center and whisper in
church if they were working on farms
or at trades for two or three times the
money.
Year: 1875

A CalhOon man, who doesn't belong
to the temperance society, found a
twenty-four foot snake coiled around
his wife's neck the other night, as he
was about to get into bed. Springing
back he seized a chair and tried to
knock the serpent off. For the space
of half an hour the neighbors thought
they were manufacturing earthquakes
in that house. He + confined to his
bed, and regales sympathizing visitors
with the particulars of an imaginary
wrestle with a mules heels, while his
wife dances about the house with a
strip of court-plaster on her chin, a
springy step, sparkling eyes, and every
once in a while motion of her elbows
as though she were about to flop her
wings and crow the cock-a-doodle-doo
of victory.
Year: 1875

Rudolph Won Gardenfeld, chief ply
sician in the Bavarian army during the
Napoleon wars, tells the following ::
"Once I was gathering plants In a
small forest near Moisen. Suddenly
1 came upon a man who was lying on
the ground, and whom | at once sup
pesed to be dead. On drawing near
to him, however, 1 perceived he was
still alive, but in a fainting state.
Vigorously 1 shook him; at last he
opened his eyes, and asked me, in a
lamensable and scarcely audible voice,
whether L had any gnuff with me.
When gave in a negative answer he
fell back into his former condition. L
now went in search of snuff, and was
fortunate TO meet a peasant, who kindly
came with. me to the fainting man, and
gave him some pinches of snuff. The
man soon recovered, and then he told
me that he had 20 go certain distance
as messenger, and on starting IN the
morning, had forgotten to take his
snuff bex. AS he went along so violent
became his craving for snuff, that he
was completely exhausted, and had
fallen down in a swoOn at the spot
where found him. But for my op-
perfume arrival, he said that he must
surely have died"
Year: 1875

GustGve Planche was poor, as liter
airy geniuses generally are. He sub
mItted to his poverty half through a
stocial disinterestedness and half
through a carelessness which came from
his temperament, treating questions of
interest with the disdain OF poet and
the simplicity of a child. The editor
of the "Revue des Deux MOndes"
tried to clothe and feed him without
alarming his pride, but with Indifferent
success. On several occasions he en-
tered into conspiracy with the hiIer of
Planche's lodgings to steal the critics
worn-out clothes and replace them with
new, made after the pattern and color
of the old. Planche being absent
minded, did not remark the substitu-
ton. This absent-mindednes was one
of his most striking traits. One day
some one remarked black stain on his
trousers, and spoke to him of it, adding
that it was the more conspicuous being
on gray. 'What gray ?" asked Planche.
MY breeches are brown" 'What, do
you call that brown ?" The critic
looked down at the article in question,
and saw that 1t was Individually gray.
"Yet would have sworn that it was
brown" said the wearer. He evidently
thought of garment he had worn in
time past.


In his wanderings he sometimes did
not return to his lodgings for two or
three days at time, when the landlord
took advantage of these absences to
rent his room for a night or two. Two
or three times Planche returned unex-
pectedly, when the landlord persuaded
him that be occupied another room
than his own. At first Planche, on
these occasions, thought there was
some mistake, but when the man of the
house repeated with an air of convic-
tion that the room into which he was
ushered belonged to him, and pointed
to his books and papers for which he
had quick memory, he allowed himself
to be persuaded.


Through love of isolation or the fear
of being assisted, he kept his address
secret. For long time even the editor
of his magazine, NJ. Buloz, did not know
it, and only discovered it by accidert.
He saw him in little hat shop having
his reddish brown hat, ia ertreHlis, put
under the iron, and drew near ana over
heard the address. 1t is hardly neceC-
sary to say that new hat found its
way to his lodgings, and that he did
not note the difference between it and
the old one.-The GGtdry for February.
Year: 1875

Some men draw upon you like the
Alps. They impress you vaguely at
first. inst as do the hundred faces you
meet in your daily walks. They come
across your horizon like floating clouds
and yet you have to watch while be
fore YOU see that they are mountains.
Some men remind you of quiet lakes,
places such as you have often hap,
pened upon, where the green turf and
the field flower hang over you and are
reflected out of the water all day long.
Some day you carelessly drop line
into the clear depths, close by the side
of the daisies and daffodils, and 1t goes
down. down, down. You lean over and
sound deeper, but your line doesn't
bring up. What deep spot that is
You think, and you try another. Inc
reflected daisies seem to smile at you
ont of the water, the turf looks as
green as ever. You never thought OF
It. bnt your quiet lake is unfathomable.
You are none the less impressed from
these facts that it is a quiet lake.


William Quarterly.
Year: 1875

Winter makes nations mainly by
driving men into social unities, and
obliging them to live with each other
and devise ways for their amusement
and instruction. In a mild climate,
where there is no necessity for men to
dwell under a roof, they wander
abroad, and in a great measure dis
perse with each others society, so that,
although they may have a certain
amount of clrsory enjoyment, they are
comparatively uninstructed. But, in a
severe climate like this, when the cold
season shuts men out from the field
and they retreat from their ordinary
avocations, and the days are short and
the evenings are long, the dwelling be-
comes a school-house, and there must
be conversation and reading. Under
such circumstances the family is q
centre of knowledge; and, if there be
any leaven in it, centre OF Christiani'
zation.
Year: 1875

Twas evening. and before my eyes


There lay a landscape gray and dim;
Fields family seen and twilight skies


And clouds thst hid the horizons brim
| SAVIOR was it that dreamed?-


A waking dream ?-I cannot say;
For every shape as real seemed
As those that meet my eye to-day.
Through leafiess shrubs the cold wind hissed
The air was thick with falling snow;
And onward. through the frozen mist


saw weary traveller 30.
Driven e'er that landscape bare aud bleak,
Before the whirling gusts of air,
The snow-fakes smote his withered cheek,
And gathered on his silver hair.
Yet on he Jared through binding SHOWS,
And murmuring to himself he said
1.-The night is near, the darkness grows.
And higher rise the drifts l tread.
deep, deep each Autumn flower they hide;
Each tuft of green they whelm from sight
And they who journeyed by my side


Are lost in the surrounding night
81 loved them; oh, no words can tell


The love that to my friends bore;
We parted with the sad farewell


OF those who part to meet no more.
and /. who face this bitter wind.


And DER these snowy hillocks creep
Must end my journey soon and find


frosty couch, a frozen sleep.
As thus he spoke, q thrill of pain


Shot 10 my heart, closed my eyes,
And when opened them again


L started with glad surprise.
Twas evening still, and in the West


A flush Of glowing crimson lay.
saw the morrow there and blest


That promise of glorious day.
The waters, in their CLASSY sleep.


ShOne with the hues that tinged the sky,
And rugged cliff and barren steep


Cleaned with a brightness from on high.
And one was there whose journey lay
Into the slowly gathering night.
With steady step he held his way


Ger shadowy vale and cleaning height
/ marked his firm though weary tread,
The lifted eye sni brow serene,
And saw no shade of doubt or dread
Pass DER that travellers placid mien.
And others came their journey o'er
And bade good night with words of cheer;
Tomorrow we shall meet once more.
lis but the night that parts us here"
And l, $ he said, ''shaIl sleep ere long
These fading CLEANS Will soon be gone
Shall sleep, to rise. refreshed and strong,
In the bright day that yet will dawn"
heard; I watched him as he went.
A lessening form, until the light
OF evening from the firmoment


Had passed, and he was lost to sight
Atlantic.
Year: 1875

The Bible promises blessings to the
merciful, but we hardly think the bene-
diction will fall on that man who, with
his heart and purse open to the woes OF
his human neighbor, will pass heed
lessly by the mute agony of some dumb
animal for are we not all "His crea-
lures, and the work of His hands.
Year: 1875

Use OF Cars WHIsKERs.- one
must have observed what are usually
called the whisEers on a cats upper
lip. The use of these in a state of ma
ture is very important. They are
organs of touch. They are attached to
a bed of close glands under the skin,
and each of these long hairs is con-
nected with the nerves of the lip. The
slightest contact of these whiskers with
any surrounding object is thus felt
more distinctly by the animal, although
the hairs of themselves have no feeling.
They stand out on each side of the lion
as well as of the common cat, so that
from point to point they are equal to
the width of the animals body. If we
imagine, therefore, a hon stealing
through a covert of wood in an imper-
feet light, we shall at once see the use
of these long hairs. They indicate to
him through the incest feeling any
obstacle which may present itself to the
passage of his body they prevent the
leaves which would give warning TO Its
prey, if he were to attempt to pass
through too close a bush, and thus, in
conjunction with the soft cushion OF
his feet, and the fur upon which he
treads, they enable him to move towards
his victim with a stiffness even greater
than that of a snake, which creeps along
the gass, and is not perceived until ii
is cooled around its prey. These ami
mails are all beasts of prey, and thus
we see how even these seemingly use
less hairs become great helps to them,
and how wisely God prepares every
creature for its work.
Year: 1875

THERE is a dog belonging to a Con-
cord fire company which always takes
it upon herself to spread a fire-alarm,
and makes a great ado aboutit. When
a fire broke out, few days ago. she
rushed to sleeping fireman and, seiz-
ing him by the throat, walked him. She
then went to the house of another fire.
man, and, having called him out by her
loud barking, fastened upon his clothes
and tried to hurry him up.
Year: 1875

From the Gold Hill News


Sitting here in our sanctum and
thinking, our eye mu5ingiy falls
upon, and the hand toys with a
little trinket, a keepsake, as the
world goes, a u0de Daecatna. 1t is
of no particular value as values
are reckOned, but it is useful to
the hand and a treasure to the
heart. A Thousand times taken
up, thousand time used, a thOus-
and times found in readiness, it
has come to be like a fond friend
waiting to anticipate, want and
ready to supply it. And Yet it is
but trinket; a senseIeSs thing;
merely the old dragoon revolver
we wrenched. from Buffalo Bill,
when he came charging in here
to obliterate us for writing police
item about him. We buried him
in our little graveyard, back of
the office; but we can never gaze
upon that little pistol without a
feeling of admiration for his mis-
fortunate temerity.


That claSsically moulded limb,
picked and dried, hanging on
the wall, is the left shank of Six
toed Pete, the great Mud Springs
desperate, who came to remon-
strate with us for publishing his
marriage under the head of
''deaths." 1t was printers blum
der, not ours, but no matter, we
riddled him with that revolver
and then took off his leg at the
hip joint with the first Slash of
our trusty little hatchet; we should
have completed his dismember-
ment had he not ran away, coward
that he was. His two big broth
ers who came for that leg and re-
venge, both rest in our grave
yard, back of the Office; peace to
their ashes.


The Jagged and knotty old Fee
ice war club in the corner, this
dilapidated nose and broken Jaw,
as we'll as this bullet which we
still feel evermore stinging away
i'm the interior of our right lung,
were left us by old Blifkins, the
editor of the Gospel BWgIe, who
came on from the East to kill us
for connecting his name with the
Beecher scandal and proving that
he was the father of Bessie Turner
as we'll as the bosom friend of Su-
san B. Anthony. Our trusty piS-
tol and little hatchet did not fail
us, and he too lies, editorially, in
our quiet little graveyard back of
the Office.


THAT elongated scOop-shaped
mementO which we use for a
waste basket was once the ear OF
a Virginia City newspaper repOr-
ter. He would persist in stealing
our items, so we were obliged to
cut off his ear with our little
hatchet, fallaciously thinking that
would stop him. His head goes
next.


We cannot gaze upon that waste
basket without a sentimental de.
gree of reflection stealing diagon-
ally across our sensibilities. Over
flowing as it now is, with rejected
Year: 1875

A USEFUL INVENTION. - A


Frenchman has just invented q
simple, little apparatus which will
probably sweep away ere long the
match trade. 1t is called the
Electrical Tinder Box, and is small
enough to be carried in a cigar
case. On opening the box you see
q platinum wire stretched across.
Touching spring the wire red
dens suffiently to light a cigar.
At will, you can introduce into a
tiny sconce a mesh of cotton Steep
ed in spirits of wine or petroleum,
which, taking fire, does service
as a VeilJeaGSe, or nurses lamp.
The hidden agency which heats
the wire is q small electric battery.
Year: 1875

The SANITARY Journal says: cal
most all living nature bathes after
some fashion or another; the
cleansing and invigorating of the
vegetable and animal kingdoms
by the dew and the rain, are but
notifications of the bath. Bath.
ing was enforced as a religious
duty by the Jewish and also by
Mahometan laws; frequent ablu-
tions were made to form part of
their religious rites. Among the
Greeks and Romans, bathing be-
came most luxurious pastime.
In Russia, the vapor bath is in
general use, from the Emperor to
the poorest serf. DIR. Clark in
forms us that throughout all Fin
land, Lapland, Sweden and Nor
way, there is not hut so desti-
tute as not to possess its family
bath, to which every member of
the family resorts every Saturday
at least, and every day in case of
illness. The use of the bath is
equally general in Turkey, Persia
and Egypt, among all classes from
the Pasha down to the camel
driver and Arab boatman."


In the variable climate, like
ours, once a week is often enough
to bsthe in the winter, and it is
doubtful whether bathing at all
during the cold months is attend
ed with advantages. People of
delicate constitutions are SO liable
to cold that to take bath is to get
a cold. Of course the fault is not
in the bath. We were witness to
a case of guest of the AstOr
House whose Turkish Bath made
him a raving mailman, that could
be held down in his bed only by
the strength of three men. He
had taken cold by exposure too
soon after using the bath. Chill
dren are numerically and cruelty
treated, often killed by forcing
them into a tub of water when
they were crying and struggling
to resist it, by doing which the
perspiration became checked, pro-
ducing commissions and disease.
We know of a lady, now eighty
three, a case reported in the
Scientific american, some years
ago, who attributed her long life
and health to being exempt from
bathing. OF seven children, who
were bathed every day, all of them
dying with the same disease, she
by mere circumstance escaped the
bath in early childhood to ripen
and mature to healthful old age.
Children when bathed should be
put into water warm enough to
give comfort; but as these matters
are attended to by nurses, better
let the child be cleansed with a
wet sponge, and rubbed dry brisk
ly, by which no danger will be in
Cured from ignorance and lazi-
ness. FE.<...Ettts
Year: 1875

The opponents of Senator Chandler
in the Michigan Legislature say that
the balloting in the Republican caucus
on 7 thursday night decides nothing
He received 81 votes in the caucus but
~ in the Legislature are necessary to
elect,
Year: 1875

{. A. kmsbury writes as follows,
in Forest and Stream, of a bath i'll
the Dead Sea: ''Reaching at last this
most remarkable of all the seas and
lakes on our globe, we prepared to
take a bath-and such a bath | can
hardly expect to take again. | had
previously bathed in numerous seas,
lakes and rivels, but never did | enjoy
such bath rs this. The specific
gravity of the water is such from its
holding in solution SO large portion
Of salt (265 per cent? that one floats
upon its surface like cork. At the
time there was only gentle ripple
upon the sea, and being 4 good swim
mer, | at once struck out into deer
water. | soon found that | could not
only swim and float with wonderful
ease, but that I could actually walk
i'll the water, sinking only to arm-pits
Discovering this fact, | made for tho
shore, and taking DR.. c., one of oul
party, who could not swim, by the
hand, led him into the sea where the
water WAS many tathoms deep. Al
first he was quite reluctant to follow
me, but he soon gained confidence OF
finding that there was no danger Of
sinking, and he cnjoyed the novel
bath as much as if he had been al
expert swimmer. Should the bathel
allow the water to get into his moutl
or ewes he would suffer considerable
abatement i'll his enjoyment on &C
count Of its salt, bitter, and irritating
nature. No fish can live in this sea
but various kinds of ducks abounC
here at certain seasons Of the year.
The water was as clear as ordinar,
sea water, its temperature was agree
, able, and it has no feeling, and alto
gether its action on the surface o-
the body was such as to develop
those pleasurable sensations pertain
ING to the sense of touch, accom-
panied by the most delight exhilera
| ton"