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Year: 1872

1t is not to contemplate an aimless and
purposeless existcnce,-golden youth gil
ding by, fastening by, wasting precious
opportunities, no aim, no object in view,
just like ship under full sail and well
manned, but No rudder, only drifting, no
barber in view, going with the tide, or per-
haps with rudder in good working order,
but no port itNiew, only sailing you know
not where. Have an aim in life, and a
noble one. Aim high, and you will hit
something above your level. Are you a
student? Be not satisfied to get through
your studies or recitations without CEN
sure from your teacher, but study hard to
acquit yourself with honor but not con-
tent TO creep along on the level, but walk,
yea, run even, up the rugged hill where
honor sitteth at the peak. Are you a
mechanic? If SO, learn your trade we'll,
not contenting yourself with being an av-
erage workman, but strive to become mas


ter of your art, always bear in mind the
old adagc. '.What is worth doing at all, is
worth doing we'll" Strive to be lead
er, not follower. First have an object,
aim high. and then zealously labor to ac-
complish your object; success is sure to
follow earnest ceasing .oil. The contes-
tants in the Isthmian races had an object
in view, and every sinew and nerve was
bent to obtain the object. 1t was the
crown at the end of the race. Life is a
race, and many are on the course. You
must either run or be trodden under foot !;
the multitude is moving on you must not
look behind, or defeat is certain. Lead
off in the train, and you will gain the
crown at the end. Those who daily will
never reach the object, but viii fail at
last. Reader, have noble object in
view, and then with all your might press
forward until You reach it, and it is yours.
Year: 1872

The last issue of the New York Cup
per gives the following Legendary incident
in connection with picturesque spot on
the banks of the 81 father of waters


On the whole line Of the Mississippi
river there is not perhaps any grander
scenery than that about Lansing, Louisi-
ana. 4 short distance below the town,
on the west side of the river. stands mo-
bic bluff, shooting up almost perpendicu-
larly to the height of four hundred feet.
The base of the bluff, which is only few
rods from the waters edge is fronted by
sloping beach. thick set with ssHni1as


ROUGH, JAGGED ROCKS, laa
among which a few stunted trees and
shrubs grow. The summit of the blufi
falls of gracefully into a fine level tract of
land, covered in summer with luxuriant
Year: 1872

one corner of the vehicle blushing, red a


a peony, while Josiah was hesitating


WHETHER TO POP THE QUESTION NOV
or wait awhile. A second half mile wa


passed and still silence reigned, broker
only occasionally by the crack of Josiah


whip against '.Nancy's" lean sides. Thel
now entered forest bording on Josiah'i
domain, and out of the sunlight JOSIAH
grew belder He began to talk about hi:
crops and another mile was passed still
he could not muster up sufficient courage
to say the word which must decide his fate
For -txo long and weary years the lassie
had also waited and watched for the ques-
-tion, and now faiaF


,sTe1 DSL"BARKIs WAS wILLN,"


yet unable to ask her. Outwardly silent,
but inwardly fretting and fuming, this
queen Of country damsels sat revolving in
her mind how she could bring mat
ters to crisis. At length as the horse
stopped for an instant ou the brow of the
hill to nibble bit of grass, she bsthought
herself of plan she begged her love- to
go to farm house not far distant. and
bring her cup of cold water Then the
sly creature kept watch until he was half
way back to the carriage with the cup,
and partially hidden from view by grove
of trees. when


SHE SEIZED THE WHIP


and punched it into the horses ribs with
such force as almost to cause them to
cra.k. ..Nancy" gave a spring forward
and rushed madly down the hill, John
hastily dropped his cup of water and flying
in hot pursuit. AT length he reached
them after hard run, the shay lay
broken and overturned in the middle of
the road, the horse was quietly browsing
the grass near. by, while Mary Ann, her
face as pale as marble, and her beautiful
white dress soiled with the dust, lay ap-
parantly


INsENSIBLE A SHORT DISTANCE OFF.


Josiah's attempts to raise her were of
no avail until, becoming thoroughly
frightcne3, he began to cover her cheek
with impassioned kisses, calling upon her
to live for him. Then, and not till then
did the beautiful thing deign to open her
eyes, when. with tears gushing forth, she
said; ''Oh. Josh if you'd only said it
afore. this never would have happened"
Year: 1872

was chanting the death requiem, which
told that she, too. had decided there to
end her life. Her father, the medicine
man, knew the meaning of the song, and
with step as light and swift as tigers,
he ascended the path, stole up behind her,
seized her in his arms, and bore her
away. In the morning the bodies were
inferred with all the ancestral rights of
Indian burial, the band went gloomilv
away, and since that time no camp. fire
has been lighted upon the rock but the
view from the height is as grand as ever.
and men have agreed that the place shall
always be known by the name of the
Lovers Leap.
Year: 1872

as bad, if not worse, than the girl wanted
him he was always on the point of say
ing something, but never yet had it got to
his expectant listeners ears At length,
at the end of two years. Mary Ann got SO
excited over it that she could hardly wipe
her mothers dishes, while Josh would
stop and lean upon his hoe in the cornfieid
and think to himself: why am Isuch
born fool? l really think she'd have me
if I had only gumption enough to ask
her" With this he determined to take
her to ride that very day, and have set
tlement once for all. AT first he thought
he would hire livery rig and go in style,
but the expense deferred him. aT


'DARNED. IF DAp's SHAY AND OUR NAG


WONT DO, SHE NEEDN'T HAVE ME-"


So said Josh, as be threw down bis hoe,
put on bis coat and started to the house
to hitch up old Nancy and get his
sweetheart. The chaise, which had done
service for many centuries, was drawn ont,
and Josiah, arranged in RULED shirt front,
scarlet necktie, dark blue vest, and white
linen pants, with ess ia s.
swALLow-TAIEED COAT AND srovE
PIPE HAT,


the colored meustache displayed to the
best advantage, stepped m behind the
fiery steed and drove for bis 1ulcinea.
She seemed coquettish about ..going out
in the hot sun with man she wasn't en-
gagged to. even if he had gone with her 50
long :" but she was persuaded. and Josh
helped her into the SHAY Without
word Of conversation between them, the
first mile was passed. Mary Ann sat in
Year: 1872




growth of grass and flowers, while brinl
fof the steep ends abruptly in broad, ma.


ked rock. from which charming view ol


the river, both above and below, can be


had. Upon the rock the Indians used to


meet to -ea-1 z arzs a-s ll sa9EI =
~ RECOUNT THEIR DEEDS OF WAR,


engage in their wild dances, and view the


face of nature so pleasantly spread out in


broad beauty below Here, long ago, a


band belonging to the tribe of the Winnie.


bagos had camped for the night. Among


their number was En-ow-kaw-kaw, a


beautiful girl, the daughter of Waw-ma-
| na-kaw-kaw, the medicine man, of the


tribe. There was two young men in the
company, Observation-Disclosures, coming
thunder, and Rob-kaw. the great hunter.
They were great favorites with the father
of the maiden, and he had often burned
incense to the Great Spirit for victory; to
the one, and practieed countless incanta-
tions that the other might return safe and
successful from the hunt. The regard
which the father had for each held him
back from either a. word or a sign that
could in any way decide the contest in
the maiden's breast as to which of the
two she should choose. The slightest in
dication from him would have settled the
case. but he would not do it. Thus mat
ters stood on the night when III
TIE BAND STOOD ABOUT THE CAMP FIRE
on the broad rock overlooking the great
riyer. The rivals, sitting in silent gloom
at the fire, eyed each other apart. and
though they never talked together on the
subject of their jealousy, they instructive
ly understood the whole difficulty. In
full view, where the unsteady freight fell
warmest, sat the lover, En-ow- -kaw- kaw,
Oh mat, weaving a necklace of beads.
She looked prettier than ever before in the
eyes of the dusky wooers. They glanced
at each other. At last enc of them
spoke word which the other construed
into menace, when they both sprang to
their feet, and IN the first moment of rage
challenged each other to test of courage
for the hand of the young woman-a test
no less hazardous than that of


LEAPJNe OVER THE BROAD ROCK
to the level below. LII an instant they
hung away their blankets, and, each eager
to be first, ran to the edge and leaped off
at once into the pale moonlight and sleep
of death. The men went down the wind |
ing path, and on the side of the bluff
stretched out the mangled bodies of the
foolish lovers on the green grass, and
while they stood in dismal sorrow around
them, wild, wierd strain was heard from !
the rocks above.
Year: 1872

A correspondent of the Herald from
Ashtabula tells the following story:


On farm, not many miles from Ash
tabula, there resided, until recently, a
brown haired, blue eyed, ,fair-complexioned
buxom country maiden, who would have
been happy as the day is long, but for the
fact that josiah, a bAshful country
lad, the owner Of large farm and a little
eolored moustache, the admiration of the
the girls and the envy of the boys for
miles around, had been persistently court
ing her at the paternal mansion for two
years. but could never be brought to pro
pose. Yet
Year: 1872

growth of grass and flowers, while brink
rof the steep ends abruptly in broad. ma
ked rock. from which charming view of
the river, both above and below, can be


had. Upon the rock the Indians used to
Year: 1872

If person falls in fit. and begins to snore
loudly, with a very red face, it is appOpleXv.
Let him be seated so as to favor the blood going
downward, away from the head applying cold
cloths TO the head, or cushions of equal quanti-
ties Of snow or pounded ice and common salt.
If the person is perfectly still, face pale, and
there is no perceptible breathing, it is fit of
faintng. Do not touch him except to loosen
the clothing then keep Oft five or ten feet dis
tant so as to allow the air to come in make no
noise and there will very soon be a calm,
quiet return to consciousness and life, for it is
only a cessation OF the circulation of the blood
to the head. But suppose there is a very violent
motion of the hands and feet and all sorts of
bodily contortions it is epilepsy. Let the man
comfort until he is tired you can't hold him
still F; all your efforts only tend to aggravate
the trouble and to exhaust the strength all
that ought to be done is to keep the unfortunate
man from hurting himself. There is no felt
suff ering. for as soon as he comes too he will
tell you that he remembers nothing whatever of
what has passed, appears to be the only calm
and self-posesaed person in the whoecrowd, and
is apparently az perfectly well as before the oe-
currence. Dizziness often comes instantaneous
ly, and we begin to reel before we know it, Shut
the eyes, whether you are walking along the
street, looking over precipice, ascending a
ladder, or climbing ships masthead the fear
Of dizziness disappears instantly if you look up
ward.-iidirS journal Of Heath.
Year: 1872

Ectry Ecening hopes that the Gazette will
come out so strongly for Equal Representation
as to prove that it is not party question. In
answer to which hope, the Gazette is dumb as
door-post on the subject OF course.
Year: 1872

In the House, at Washington, yesterday Mr..
Hooper, from the Committee on Banking and
Currency, reported adversely the Senate bill for
the redemption of three millions of the Three
Per Cents, monthly, and the bill was tabled by
large majority.
Year: 1872

An old lady at the West went to hear
Emerson lecture, and liked him. The only
drawback was, that the subject announced
in the papers was Destiny" which she
took for dentistry, and never discovered
her error until too late to consider the pro-
duetiOn from that altered standpoint.
Year: 1872

Down THE RIVERA friend at Cox's
Bar, under date December 18th, furnishes
the following items "All the miners in
this section have their claims ready for
water and are now patiently waiting for
it to come, when they expect to do big
thing in the way of sluicing the deep
banks. McElvany & Wiltshire have
their claim in better working order than
ever before they have just finished a
four-foot flume, and expect to take it out
as big as ever when water comes. w. A.
Pattison has made great improvements
in the old Smith claim and will no doubt
do we'll this Winter. Job Hedges has his
claim in working order and thinks of talk
ing out more of the precious dust this
season than ever before. At Little Prair-
ie, Drain Treat is busy getting his claim
ready for water and he proposes to make
rate Just as soon as the water comes to
do it with. On Tinsley's Flat, Thomas
Price and Billy Kinds are at work in
the old way of picking and shoveling into
boxes, and are making money. John b.
May is on Big Bar has good claim
and number one water-right. William
McColum is at the Corral diggings and
intends to prospect that section thorough
ly this Winter. A. j. Tinsley is still at
his old stand ard is doing as well as ever
in the way of trading. He is going to
make great improvements on his stock
ranch in the Spring, by putting up new
buildings, fences, and SO on. But must
close for this time"
Year: 1872

THANKS to our old friend p. p. Martin
for late San Diego papers. The people
of that city expect lively times and rapid
improvement consequent on the building
of the Southern overland railroad.
Year: 1872

CHRISTMAS TREE.-During the past
week, number of our people here have
been busy with preparations for the cele-
bration and tree on Christmas Eve, and
everything bids fair for n pleasant time.
The Theater is tastefully decorated with
1e,toons and notices in evergreen, and
the trecs-thrce in numb ber-havc been
placed in position and will be loaded with
ornamental trimmings, etc. Parents and
Others who intend to make presents by
hanging them on the Tree are requested
to have them at the Theatcr on Monday
next, rs it will be impossible to receive
the presents and make proper distribu-
ton of them in single day. A member
of the Committee will be in waiting at
the Theater during the day and evening,
and all articles left there will be properly
taken care of and distributed according
to the wishes of the donors. The festivi-
ties will begin at precisely seven o'clock
on Christmas Eve and it is hoped that
all will assemble at the Theater promptly
by that time. Don't forget that the pres
ents must be handed in on Monday.
Year: 1872

DRAWING TO A CLOSE. - One issue
after the present and the JOURNAL will
have closed its Seventeenth Year. There
are a number of our subscribers who are
delinquent in sums ranging from So to
$50, and these are the ones TO whom we
now address ourselves and ask them to
Pay Up. We shall endeavor to furnish
every one indebted to us with statement
of his account up to January lst, 1873.
Should we overlook any person who
knows he is behind, the mistake will be
rectifed and bill forwarded as soon as
the oversight is reported at the office.
We don't make out bills and write let
ters because we like to do so, nor pay
postage simply because we desire to pat
ronize Uncle Sam ; but when we send a
bill to man we expect to receive the
amount of his Indebtedness in return. ii
you desire to pass the next year in hap
plness and peace, start in with your pa
per paid for.
Year: 1872

SO intellect is only phosphorous
on the brain, after all. At least thus
reasons Paris medico in forty quarto
pages of Il report to the Academy of
Sciences. According TO him you have
only to introduce phosphorus into the
skull of an idiot, and YOU at once turn
him intoa man of genus. We are not
told, however, how the phosphorus is
to be introduced.
Year: 1872

s= A four-year old female went into
a drugstore the other day, and said to
the proprietor in half Whisper" If
little girl hain't got any money, how
much chewing-gum do you give her for
nothing.
Year: 1872

joyment of that hour! The feeling of
warmth, comfort and security can only
be experienced after severe hardship,
and with the rain pe!ting and old Bor-
cas- singing his solemn refrain.
Year: 1872

QUrrE A Funny JoKE.-A wife in De-
troit seeing paragraph in the paper to
the effect that matrimonial couples in
Illinois get divorced just in order to
have the pleasure of fresh courting and a
new honeymoon" induced her husband,
after much persuasion, to consent to Il
divorce, just for the fun of the thing.
When the divorce was obtained, eX-
husband was astonishcd to find that the
courting and honeymoon of his wife
was to be done with another fellow.
He doesn't think divorcing for fun very
funny after all. His wife sees where
the laugh comes in, but he never did
have any appreciation of Lumor.
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, February "Details of the
accident on the Lehigh Valley railroad
state that the anguish and dismay of the
passengers who were tumbled down the
embankment were most fearful The en-
gineer, fireman and two or three others
came at once to the rescue of the sufferers.
The first body drawn out from the fore
part OF the car was a cOlOred gentleman,
whose features were almost destroyed His
face and forehead were crushed up, and,
though warm, he was quite dead. The feet
OF colored woman were next seen, ex-
tending from part of the car that was
still burning. In q few seconds the broken
and charred timber was removed, and the
dead body of full-grown person was ex-
posed. Near this body was that of another
cOlOred female, daughter of the first men,
toned, about thirteen years old. In addi-
ton to the young girl the cOlOred woman
had also an infant, carrying it in her arms
when she entered the train. Search was at
once instituted for it. Around on the oppo-
site side of the car, about eight feet off, the
little creature was found, with its BODY
curled up and crying out Justify for its
dead mother. The child had received NO
injuries of any moment While several of
the crowd were engaged with the child, the
dead bodies of two ladies were drawn out.
Both were well dressed, of apparently re-
spectacle birth, but greatly disfigured
about the head and neck by the severity of
the wounds that had caused their death.
Five dead bodies were stretched side by
side on the snow, each being soon soaking
III the blood that was flowing from their
open gashes and horrible bruises. A wild,
picture was presented.
Year: 1872

A Chicago girl, hearing that her lover had
been stricken with small pox, insisted upon fly
ing to his bedside and becoming his nurse It
was a severe case, but she was unoeasing in her
devotion, and principally through her care and
skill the patient recovered. And now she her
self fell a victim to the complexion destroying
monster, and although she survived the attack,
at its close the beautiful pink and white of her
fair face had flown forever, and from being the
prettiest girl in Chicago, she became one OF the
plainest.


Her lover had attended her through her ill.,
ness, but when he saw how fearfully she was
changed his love for her departed, and when
the marriage day drew near, he refused to ill
his part ef the contract. She took his refusal
very calmly no reprOaches came from the
once pretty mouth which had lost its prettynesf
in saving the ungrateful one from death. Hell
cheek, which the te-tale blood used 80 often {
tinge with rosy red, retained it's color, and she
married an 0ctogenarian worth $500, 900.
Year: 1872

Hon. Benjamin Wood stated, last evening at a
meeting of the National Democratic Association
in New York, that Mr. Greeley had said to him
that he would remain iii the field, no matter
whom the Republican Convention might nomi-
nate but that he might possibly withdraw should
the Democratic National Convention make an
Independent nomination.
Year: 1872

CITY TAX ON BANK STocK.--According to
the assessment ordinance recently passed by
the City Council. bank stock is not taxed in
the hands OF holders. Persons who have
included such stock in their returns are re.
questcd by the Commissioner of the Revenue
TO call ut his office in the City Hall.
Year: 1872

The Carrie Porter, Mary Emma and Vivid win
the prizes In their respective classes. The JOd
Jefferson and Mary G. Campbell are also the pr0ba-
BILE winners in their classes, but the Regatta Conf
mlttee could not decide last evening without the
correct measurements, so as to calculate the time
and Cruiser. The club were very fortunate In tieiv
selection OF the day, as the weather was charming
and there was pleasant breeze throughout tia
entire race
Year: 1872

They all then hauled up point closer In the wind
and started for Success Rock There was now =
very pleasant breeze, and the yachts were going
fast through the water. The yachts turned Success
Rock Beacon fOllOWs:-
Year: 1872

I,
The steamer Great Republic sailed AZ noon to-day
for Yokohama with three-quarters Of million in
treasure.


With one or two unimportsnt exceptions the
press OF this city aud state are unanimous In de-
n0unclng the verdict In the Fair case as m0ckcry
OF Justice.


An earthquake shock OF three seconds duration
was experienced here this morning
Year: 1872

the landing, the only one out OF the SIX
vessels that had been saved.


The R. w. Skillinger, lying at the
foot of Broadway, and next above the
Champion, was towed into the stream
by the Newport ferry, Cincinnati Belle,
after which Captain Air had come down
and taken command and dropped down
below the suspension bridge out o!
danger in few minutes. The Robert
Burns and Mary Miller were also for
tunate enough to get out of danger by
cutting their cables and drifting away
with the current. The Bodman was
tied up just below the Cincinnati and
New Orleans wharf boat; in perilous
situation had not the flames, which
fercely attacked the wharf boat, been
subdued.


The Commercial Gays:


So far as we could learn it was not
known that any lives were lost. ltwas
reported that the second engineer OF the
Argosy had not been seen since the
alarm, and there was some fear for his
safety; and there was the same report
about the second bar keeper of the St.
Charles.
Year: 1872

Railroad Accfucnt-A mrse NumoeF


Wounded.


BUFFALO, March THE New York
special express train, leaving Buffalo at
7:l5 A. NJ, met with an accident when
about two miles beyond East Buffalo,
which, had it occurred at some other
point on the road, where there vas an
embankment, would probably have
caused serious loss Of life, and per-
haps such would have been the case
had it not been for the slow rate OF
speed at which the train was running.
The accident was occasioned by the
bolt which holds the driving rod be.
ing let down, instantly blowing itself
into the ground, lifting the engine from
the track, and when it came down the
force was such as to break two Of the
rails. The engine and baggage car
passed over safely, but the smoking car
and two coaches were thrown from the
track, one Of the latter going over on
its side and taking fire. The flames
were put out with snow by the passeu-
gers. Nobody was killed, but quite a
number were hurt. The wounded were
brought TO this city and quartered at
the National Hotel and their hurts at
tended TO- The railroad company did
all in its power to alleviate the suffer
ings OF the wounded, most OF whom
will be able to proceed on their travels
in a day or two.
Year: 1872

JAMESTOWN, March AT about !
o'clock this morning, William Clark, a
brakeman on the jamestown and
Franklin railroad, while helping to turn
an engine on the turn table at this
place, was caught by the pilot of the
engine, which rolled him under it, in
juring him go seriously that he died at
half.past eight.