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Year: 1872

In commenting upon the letter OF UoF' Cur-
tin accepting the Liberal nomination and indoIsng
Buckalew, The Philadelphia Press says:
To-day in printing this letter, strike bitter blow
M tbe Ring for no man dares charge Andrew O. Curtin
with being untrue best interests OF the state over
which he well ruled and the men whom he denounces
now the people will denounce at the ballOtboX in Oeto-
ber Bu this letter is but the cracking OF shots along
the srmsh line and the crashing thunder OF the great
s IL vet TO come Within the next week the power or
the ring will be virtually crushed, or PennsJ lYanlans
are no longer AS the pirate galley which mas so
long usuped the place Of the snip oI state goes do"n ~
her fate, we can say:


MdshIps with iron keel


struck her ribs or steel


Down her black hulk did reel


Through the blatk water
Year: 1872

On one occasion during Wellingtop's cams
paign on the Prennees, that "Great Captainn
being displeased with the dispositions General
Pickton had made for receiving the assault of
Marshal Soust, who meuaced him in front.
ordered the plan TO be entirely changed, But
the difficulty was to delay the attack of French
until the change could be effected. This the
"iron Duke" accomplished in person, in the
following manner: Dofing his cooked. hat
and waving it in the air, he rode furiously to
the head of regiment, as if about to order a
charge. Thereupon rose tremendous cheer
from the men, which was taken up by corps
after corps until it reverberated along the
whole extent of Pickton's line. AS the roar
died away, Wellington was heard to remark,
musingly, as if addressing ghimself-"Soult is
skillful but cautious commander, and will
not attack in force until he has ascer.
tanned tho meaning of these cheers.-
This will give time for the sixth division to
come up aud We shall beat him." It turned
out as anticipated. Soult, naturally enough,
supposed those tremendous shouts announced
the arrival of large reinforcements, and did
not attack until too late. Had he struck at
the right moment he would have won an easy
victory as it was, he met with bloody re-.
pulse.


This was strategy. Not the strategy of
books. but the strategy of genius, engendered
and executed in the same moment. There is
no such thing laid down in Jomini. The
idea was born Of the occasion and carried ont
on the instant
Year: 1872

We notice that this we'll known pentlcman
is spoken of in connection with the nom;ra-
tion for Congress from our adjacent district in
West Virginia. Now that his political disa.
bilitics are removed, we should suupose that
the presentation of his name before the CON-
vention would make his nomination as sure az
his election would he afterwards Tie would
be most acceptable candidate to all branches
OF his own party. Conservatives would re-
member that he was the mover of the COM
mittee of thirteen in the Congress lust before
the war-the last effort made to restore har>
mony and prevent the war which epsued
that he coupselled moderation and concjlia-
tion. and exertcd all his euergy and his brill
liant eloqncnce to save the country from the
ruin that came upon it. Virginians will re-
member that when the die was cast. he stood
true to his native State and never faltercd in
his devotion to her; that he served her both
in council aud the field, in the Confederate
Congress and with Stouewall Jackson: tha.
although his house was burned hy the same
vandal who presided at the murder of Mrs,
Surratt Gen. II Hunter and his family scattered
he never turned away from the right. but
followed our flag until it went down at Ammo
mattox. And now in this time of incapacitv
and corruption, his ripe experience. scholarly
attaipments and unapproachable integrity
would commend him to the best men of all
parties. He has lived in quiet since the war,
but we hope to hear his voice soon again upon
the hustings. With him once more ON the
floor OF Congress, we would begin to see a
better representation for Virginia and the
South IN our national legislation


H1QerStoUn Free Press
Year: 1872

A CANINE MARrYR.-The following story is from the Nashville Union: When contumely is sought to be given a person the name of the dog is often used, and yet this brute most frequently of any other is mans best friend and faithful protector. Wednesday afternoon as Mrs. w. G. Woodruff was in her yard near the race track she saw mad dog making towards her, evidently desirous of making an at- tack. Being some distance from the house too far, in fact, to reach the door before the mad dog could seize her, the alright ed lady thought of her own faithful dog, which she called to her assistance. Hear. ing the screams and call of her mistress, the dog, with an alacrity which seemed to spring from consciousness of impending danger, bounded forward in time to attack the mad dog just as the infuriated beast was about to seize Mrs. Woodruff. Now ensued conflict between the two dogs which lasted two or three minutes. ena- bling Mrs. Woodruff to get into her house and shut the door. It was doubtful which would prove the mastery, when colored man came to the scene of conflict. No sooner had he neared the dogs than the rabid one attacked the colored man, who, having picked up fence rail, defended himself as best he could. It was with difficulty he kept clear of the dog, which endeavored to spring upon him, but was finally felled to the ground and then killed by the colored man. Mrs. Woodruff's faithful animal was badly bitten and con- siderably worsted, though it had saved the life of it's mistress. Afterwards this dog gave evidence of hydrophobia. when it was found necessary to kill the animal which had saved human being from a horrid fate.
Year: 1872

The result of the college regatta at Springfield, says the World, will un doubtedly encourage boat-racing. The prestige of Harvard, notwithstanding the defeat of Harvard last year, was still so strong, that if either Harvard or Yale had won the race, the effect upon the smaller colleges would have been to dis hearten them. The cost of equipping and furnishing a university crew is felt even by the large constituencies of Har- yard and Yale, and in the smaller col leges, where the cost remains the same and there are fewer students to bear 1t, it becomes 0 real burden. It will not be undertaken unless there seems fair chance of winning, and a victory by either Harvard or Yale this year would have made that chance seem small to the most sanguine undergraduate. But Yale, in @ field of six, was very bad sixth, not because the crew was q bad crew, but because the crew adhered to an ex although Harvard pulled capital race and came in ali excellent second, did not win. Next years race is utterly un- certain, and next years race will conse' quently not lack for contestants If it IS 0SCaOllSueu IIdL UOaGluS duO UOdU~EuC- ing are to increase and prosper in our colleges we have to face the question whether the growth of boating and boat racing is good thing. And about this question we have very little doubt. It is true enongh that study is the business of student, and that whatever takes him from it is an injury to him. But in fact the hardest students are very often the best oarsmen. The members of the six crews which rowed at Springfield, stand, as we are informed, much above the average in their classes, and more than one boat held the best men in their classes. If a student does not subordin ate boating to it's proper place it is not because it makes hlm less studious.- The choice is not between boating and study, but between boating and other diver, sions, most of which offer no compen. sation at all for the time and money they cost. This cannot be said of boating. It is surely a good thing that man should have sound body whether or not he is able or anxious to enclose 8 sound mind in it,
Year: 1872

ATTEMPTED ExroRr1oN.-The burning of Chicago involved the loss of all the off, cial records of title to real estate in Oook county, and last winter law was passed by the Illinois Legislature for the relic f of property holders, which provided for the purchase at fair price of certain books and abstracts of title which were preserved from the flames, and are the property of private parties. These books comprise in all about two hundred vol. tunes and belong to three firms who act AS one party in thei. negotiations with the authorities. It appears that fair price for these books, which tend to show a continuous chain of title to all the real estate in Cook county. according to the views of the owners is $75O,000. The county Board is unable to see the matter in that light, but do not know what they can do about it. The Tribune proposes to call in commission of disinterested parties. as in the case of the condemns ton of land for public uses, to decide what would be fair price for the records but does not say by what authority it would compell the abstract men to ac- quiese in the decision of such commis- sion,
Year: 1872

They sat in the sun together. Till the day was alm est dene And then at it's close an angel

 Stepped over the threshold stone. He folded their hands together,

 He touched their eyelids with balm. And their last breath floated upward Like the close of solemn psalm. Like bridal pair they traversed

 The unseen, mystical road, That leads to the Beautiful City,

 Whose Builder and Maker is God. Perhaps, in that miracle country,

 They will give her lost youth back, And the flowers of vanished Spring-timt Shall bloom in the spirits track. One draught of the living waters

 Shall restore hls manhood's prime, And eternal years shall measure

 The love that outlives time. But the shades they left behind them The wrinkles and silver hair Made sacred to us by the kisses

 The angel imprinted there We'll hide away in the meadow

 When the sun is low in the west, Where the moonbeams cannot find them, Nor the wind disturb their rest. But we'll let no tell-tale tombstone,

 With it's age and date, arise Der tho two who are old no longer

 In their Fathers house in the skies.
Year: 1872

SANDsPoUrs IN NEvADA.-For several hours there were visible from Virginia City, Nevada, on Twenty-one mile Des- ert, five or six tall columns of sand, sucked up by as many whirlwinds. At sea, these would have been waterspouts, but upon the desert they were only what we call sandspouts. The columns appeared to be ten feet in diameter and one thousand feet in height. Although they waltzed about over the plain for two or three hours, they never came to- gether or never lost their cylindrical form, and when they dld go down they went down at once all falling together. These sandspouts, says local paper, are we'll known to all old prospectors and seem to indicate change of weather. We have frequently seen in the Forty mile Desert. east of the lower Sink of the Carson, not less than ten or fifteen of these tall sand columns moving about over the plains at the same time. It is seldom that they come together, but when they do they dart forward like two fnshes of lightning, and an explosion like heavy blast ends all, and the two columns of sand at once fall to the ground Those who have not been upon our great deserts and who have never wit messed the,e grand sandspouts or the wonderful mirages, have bRt little idea of the romantic grandeur of these ap- parently uninteresting wastes of sand.
Year: 1872

FRANKLIN's INDEPENDENCE af- ter his establishment in Philadelphia, Franklin was waited upon by one of the wealthlest men of the city, who offered him an article for publication in his newspaper. The publisher glanced his eyes over the piece, ana requested the the following day the author called, his article. "Why sir, rejoined Frank lin, 1T am sorry to say that I think it grossly scurrilous and defamatory. I have concluded not to publish it. ? "Sir!n cried the gentleman, in amaze, "do you know what yon are doing Do you think what the influence of my

 self and my friends may be, either for or against you, as we choose to exertit?" 1T have thought of it, said Franklin, with solemn earnestness. son account of my poverty hesitated, and tried to persuade myself that the publication of the article in the present issue of my paper would be pardonable. Last night, when my work was done, I bought a two-penny loaf, on which, with a mug of water, I made my evenings meal. Then I laid me down in my greatcoat, with roll of paper for my pillow, and slept soundly until the break of day, when another two-penny loaf and mug of water afforded me sufficient breakfast. And now, sir, since live very comfort ably in this manner, why should pros- titute my press to personal hatred or party passion and malice, for 8 more luxurious living ?" The gentleman de- parted utterly unable to longer face the incorruptible man /; but he dld not he. come Franklin's enemy. On the con- trary, his admiration for the sterling character and moral worth of the poor printer, led him to offer his devoted friendship, which was accepted, aud which remained true to the end.
Year: 1872

NINE HoURs.-The great lockout in the building trade which occurred in London q short time ago has terminated by compromise between the master builders and the workmen, which is sub. stantially triumph for the nine-hour movement. The master masons have made an arrangement by which hereafter niue bours are to constitute day 8 work but the reckoning is to be made by taking the average of the whole year, giving less than nine hours in winter and enough more than nlne hours in summer to equalize the time. The carpenters agreed to abide by a code of working rules to be settled by board composed of an equal number of employers and workmen,
Year: 1872

A MAN MOVED ALL TO P1EcEs.-The Indianapolis Ne,cs says: William Hamil:- ton, who lived near Tipton, was thrown across the cutter bar of moving ma chine by the giving way of seat. The guards caught his right foot and jerked the whole body in front of the knives, and he was mangled from feet to hips. The right foot was cut nearly in two, the right heel cut completely of, the calf cut to the bone in many places, and huge gash cut in the right thigh. On the left side be lost toe, and tho heel and ankle were badly cut and two fingers were cut from the right hand. His right leg was amputated~ at the ankle, and toe and two fingers taken from the left side. He died the same night.
Year: 1872

A Chinaman dying left eleven sheep and three sons-and making will, left one-half of his estate to his oldest boy, one-fourth to the next, md one sixth to the third son. They wished to divide without killing 8 sheep, but could not see how to do it; so they sent for wise man. Sending to his own fold for a sheep, he put it in with eleven. Now take your half said he to the oldest, and he did so,-6, the second, take your fourth-3; the younger, take your one- sixth, and begone-2; and they all did so, when the wise man drove his own sheep home. Was the division accord ing to the will?
Year: 1872

The Vital Drain.

 It necessary to the health of the body that its hausted aud refused particles should be carried off by excretory and it is equally that the waste matter thus expelled should be replaced by new clements derived from dgested and sssimilated food is evident therefore that good digestion and perfect assm ation are essential bodily visor and Is cause Hostetters Stomach Bitters powerfully assist these processes that is regarded by the intelligent classes whose opinions founded observation, the only absoste specific for dyspepsia and its attendant ils at present known. When the system. either from constitutional oauses overwor excess anxiety act ual disease is In an unnaturaly relaxed condition something more than it's exhausted particles passes through the pores Vitality leaks through these venta ges. Elements which should remain in the blood and enrich it evolved and that fluid becomes then wat and incapable of removing the -ods of the body fast as they decay The consequences emaciation debility, nervousness loss of spirits and general perhaps rapid decline of all powers of life. It Is in cases like this that the soratve properties of Hostet ters Bitters most conspicuous. The first two or three doses sometimes produce change in the feelings and aspect the invalid that s perfectly astonishing and by persevering of this superatve vegetable tonic aeratve the vital drain is to be arrest ed ths strength reinsateo the flesh restored the sttution reinforced and the brain relieved of the cloud that obscured 1t.
Year: 1872

If you want to be well dressed wear the Elm wood collar. If you want to be economica wear the Elmwood co lar. If you want to f el comfortable wear the Elmwood collar. For sale at all Gents Furnishing stores.-Cona.
Year: 1872

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
happiness, Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly dsrkcns to the view the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filed with
the me anchoy reflection that the happiness OF
nnoths is blighted with our own.
Year: 1872

We have rich and racy letter from our
Clarksvine correspondent giving the recent
developments Of the Johnson men and
Radicals Of that county in their endeavors
to form Legislative ticket there. tbs too
lengthy for publication, but the Democrats
of that county and district are vide awake
and viii give solid vote for the whole
ticket
Year: 1872

AMONG the risks which foolish girls run
in clipping with fascinating fellows on short
acquaintance is that of finding themselves
bound for life TO criminals and outlaws.
The wife Of Billy Forester was a guileless
school girl OF sixteen in Boston when she
ran away and married him in 1869, and did
not know his real character until two years
after. An eioping couple were inter
rupted at New Bedford the other day by
the arrest Of the youlg man for burglary.
The girl in this case narrowly escaped a
severe penalty for her folly.
Year: 1872

A country merchant having procured a
new clerk, walked him up in the morning
after he was hired at most unreasonably
early hour, BY calling out that the family
were sitting down TO the table. ''Thank
YOU" said the boy, as he turned over in
bed to adjust himself for g new nap,
thank you, but | never allow myself to
alt during the night" eN Etf'
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-MIs. Greeley, who
last night exhibited signs of improved
health, had relapse this morning and is
now in critical condition.


MIDNIGHT-Mrs. Greeley is worse and
her death may be expected at any moment.


San Juan.


The decision by the Emperor William
in the matter of arbitration of the North
west boundary giving The island Of San
Jaun to our government, is regarded as a
most important advantage in the point of
defence on our extreme Northwestern from
Year: 1872

The colored people of our county are
making all the necessary preparations for
their Fair, which commences next Thurs
day, and will continue for three days. They
have made arrangement with the Nash
vile and Decatur Railroad to pass all visit
ors to said Fair for half price. The man
ayers intend making it surpass any colored
Fair that has been held in this State. Jordan
McGewan's band of your city has been
anOapnd To nlav
Year: 1872

VIM. CARPENTER,
OF this city, while out hunting last week,
met with severe accident. He was dis
charging bis loaded gun, when the breech
flew out, striking him in the face, causing
an ugly cut, and filling bis face with burnt
nOMdar.
Year: 1872

The latest files Of the leading Brit
ish newspapers show that the death
Of Mr.. Seward was published prompt
ly in all parts Of the kingdom. Most
of the chief organs Of opinion deYOte
a large space to the obituary, and
make such editorial remarks as show
that our affairs and public men are
carefully studied by our cousins over
the water. Though in some cases Mr.
LincOln's Secretary Of State is named
as having been diplomatic adversary
whose skill and firmness gave the
English Cabinet hard work, their es-
Inmates Of his character are generally
generous and appreciative, while on
all hands he is accorded the credit OF
being one Of those most directly in
fiuential in putting an end to African
slavery I'm our Union.
Year: 1872

Seated by the corpse of his depart
ed spouse walked strong man, Us il
his heart would break. His dishev-
clieu hair was moist with the sweat
OF agony, and his clenched hands aud
swollen eyes told how deep and ell
crossing WAS his grief. rhcrc was
also strong odOr of stale gin in the
apartment. To him came Il man clad
i'll broadcloth and bearing bundle
of tracts, upon the odd page OF each
one Ut which was printed the adver-
tisemcnt of Life Insurance Compa-
NY enueavored to console the be-
rcaved and weeping relic. Then up
rose the weeping wIdower i'll wrath,
and rcbuked the Tract insurance
Agent. You talk OF sympathy" he
exciaimed; ''you who were nul sed III
the iap OF industry, and weaned OH
the pap bottle Of business! y. man I!
you can never know how great was
my loss. She was q pattern wife.
Nine years had we dwelt together.
during which time never had TO do
Il stroke OF work. Why, You poor
wretch ,she sometimes made four dol
lars and Il half with her washing!
Never, never will find the woman
who can fill her place. Aud whisky
is so burned expensive, now, too!'
The strong man bowed himself over
the remains and sobbed like child,
and the Insurance Agent turned away
with Il sigh, nor did he waste u single
tract OIL the broken hearted and dis
lructed widOwer.
Year: 1872

In the juvenile way we do not re.
member to have seen anything better
than this, which we quote from rural
journal of Massachusetts. The cdi-
tor had seen a contest bctween an
ant and a cankcr worm, in which tho
latter was killed and carried off for
food: and this recalled an anccdotc
Of little boy with tow at one ond Of
him and toe at the other, who said
that he loved his mother best, but in .
,traight-out husking InaSch he'd bet
on his aunt. r..
Year: 1872

were concealed there. Finding that
all was secure, he would then hail the
family and order the man and boy to
leave. which they never failed to do.
With his rife on his arm he would
then advance to the cabin and direct
the woman to prepare his dinner or
break fast. MS the case might be. The
woman feared and lcathed him, but
was afraid to refuse, knowing that he
would shoot her down at the first
word Of remon.trance.


Two Federal soldiers, in camp
seven miles from the spot, concluded
Year: 1872

A North street man went off Sat
urday noon for half day of fishing.
When lie returned lie had walked
thirteen miles, lost a $40 watch,
sprained his thumb, spoiled an Sll
pair OF pants by sitting down on his
luncheon, and caught a four-pound
mud turtle. lie got back in time t.
help the doctor cut from his oldest
boys foot one of the several fish
hooks he had left at home. lie took
a cursory view of the situation, and
went to bed.-(Danbury News.
Year: 1872




a wholesale liquor firm in Patter.
son, n. j., were surprised the Other
day at the absence of a revenue stamp
just affixed TO n barrel of whisky by
the Assistant Assessor, and as the!
could not sell tho liquor without the
stamp, and the stamp could not b,
duplicated, they were in an awkward
fix. Suddenly they remembered that
q man had been seen sitting ON the


barrel Immediately after the stamp
was pasted on, and on finding that


gentleman aud looking under the
tail Of his coat the mystery was
solved. After some trouble the
stamp was transferred from the in
nocent man TO the barrel, and the ex-
citement subsidized.