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Year: 1872

It is conceded by all that Judge Jerc-
miab S. Black, Of Pennsylvania, is one of
the leading men Of the country lie has
been reported an uncompromising anti
Greeley man. This he is not. An out
and out Democrat he would like to vote a
Democrat into the presidential office, and
thus secure reform by aud through those
with whom he has so long aIiiiatcd-but
though believing in all this, he has Just said,
both Of measures and of men that


The amendments to tho constitution
must stand. 1t is true that they were Sc
cared by fraud aud violence, but that does
not matter now they are adopted. All the
governments that have ever bccn cstab
lishcd have been the result either of fraud,
violence, or accident * X


The effort to reform these evils certainly
deserves the assistance of all good and
patriotic mcn. While the cause seems
we'll nigh hopeless, still | believe that
great good can be done by arrcstiny at
once the march to dcspotism. There is
&c rtainly Il chance to save something from
the wreck rejoice to sec such feeling
awakened in the breasts of the people
The defeat Of Grant aud the suppression
Of the evils his administration has brought
upon the country would indeed be glori-
ous result. ""ris n contamination de-
voutly to be wished" know nothing Of
Greeley personally, aud l admit that the
opinion have formed of his character
from other sources is most favorable. But
one thing all admit, he is an honest man.
No person, believe, has ever charged him
with corruption. The fact that he will be
elevated to power by a coalition of The
good men of all parties would alone be sui.
ficicnt guaranty Of the purity and straight.
torwardncss of his administration. A par
ty composed Of such elements can have
Lat little cohesive power, aud the adminis-
tration which depends upon it for support
must tread cautiously in very narrow
path. would have very little fears of
Greeley or any other sensible man going
very far astray on any question under such
circumstances.
Year: 1872

A MYSTERIOUS LAKE-On the high
est peak Of the range Of mountains east of
Lamoillc Valley is a lake which, although
known to exist, has rarely been visited by
white men. We have heard of men who
have been there, but never has our thirst
ing vision teasted upon the form of Cau-
casian who had tho assurance to say that
he had seen the mysterious lake whose
waters kiss tho clouds and draw from them
the fountain which supplies the rivers and
streams in the vale below. But still it is
there. 1t is said by the most reliable In
liaus in that portion Of Nevada that!a large
body Of water exists behind the highest
peak in the range mentioned We can SEQ
from our window tho tabled spot. Around
its crystal waters the red man was wont,
in days of yore, to gather his household
gods and drink Of its waters, which had
such nutritious qualities that no other food
was required. In the marsh at the eastern
end of the lake were innumerable focks Of
ducks, while beneath were fish Of all sizes
and kinds. The shore of the lake is GOV.
cred with luxurious growth of every
type Of vegetation known to the temperate
zone. We announce our intention of drink
ing of its waters on the 4th of July. or as
soon as party eau be raised who will take
in wind enough before starting to last up
tho mountain and back.-ElkO Iadepc,s-
dent.
Year: 1872

THE PROTEST AGAINST GRANT.-In
1867 protest against Grant by the Re-
publican party and his election by the peo-
pie was issued from Washington. 1t EN-.
braced sixteen reasons why he should not
be elected, and is said to have come from
the pen of Colfax, who afterwards accepted
the second place on the Grant ticket.
Some of these reasons are as forcib!e today
as they were in 1867, and we quote them
He has had all he deserves at the hands of
the people. He could not deliver an in
augural address. Because at this particu-
lar period in the history Of our great coun-
try We need on able and experienced states
man in the White House. He has proved
a failure in every capacity except the mil
itary. We have one hundred better men
for President. There is more truth in
these reasons in 1872 than there was in
1867. Then it was assumed that he was
incapable Of discharging the duties Of
President. Now VIC know he is so. He
is failure as q statesman, failure as an
executive officer, and rotten and unscrupu-
lous as politician.
Year: 1872

answer to my look Of inquiry, Those arc
workinsgirls and seamstresses employed
to make mems garments. Their compen-
satiou, reckoned in your money, would be
four to six cents each for shirts aud eigh-
teen to thirty cents for trousers, and about
double that amount for coat And yet"
continued the Don, taking me confdcutially
by the button hole, 8" it is one of the beau
ties of the Capitalization plan that all these
excellent people have to bear their share
Of national burdens, while enjoying our
national blessings, under tho benefcicnt
working Of the great machine"


l made no comment on this at the mo.
meut, for I was engaged in looking at an
object iu another direction, towards which
I turned the glass. It was small cottage,
having garden attached, with nothing
remarkable around it, yet giving external
evidence of the frugality, taste, and neat
ness of the owner.


To this small cottage and its comfortable
surroundings I saw group of officials
similar in appearance to those at the re-
ccption-going and coming. Pondcrous
tones and iunumerable printed blanks,
together with writing materials, were borne
by these persons.


Merely dctaahmcnts of our Ex-traor-
binary army Of assessors and collectors" +"
said the Don, with unusual emphasis on
the Ex., and yawn.


He was evidently weary, and I closed
the fungiscope and returned it to him, for
which he thanked me and added:


"Only the most common working Of the
most tangible portion of the great machine
"A part which is far too easily seen-bc-
ing apt to provoke inquiry from the igno-
rant aud uncultivated many, who cannot
understand why the cultured few should
control and not pay when the other class
do"


Don Henriques brushed fly from his
spotless coat sleeve and lit cigar, offer
ing me one. declined.


A shadow had fallen on my spirit.


The government of No Mans Land to
the superficial observer might be all that
had been claimed for it, by its legion of
interested speakers and newspapers, whose
plaudits are not published as official"
but the workings of the great machine
as revealed through tho fungiscope-
showed, l thought, hollowness, falsity,
tinsel glitter wholly at variance with
truth.


had seen enough.


Refusing all solicitations to prolong my
stay, I hurried to my balloon (did men,
ton that the favorite route is traverscd by
balloon y, and left for home at once, ar
irving last Thursday.


In view of the short time I was absent,
perhaps it is not strange that few of my
intimate friends should declare that they
were not aware that had been away, and
that the funsiscope, and all l saw through
it, were myths!


AS we'll might they declare No-Mau's
Land myth or doubt the existence Of
William w. Shakespeare!
Year: 1872

Tho weather throughout tho West has
been hot for the past few days. The lat
est crop report is favorable, showing that
tho yield of wheat will be fully an aver
ago, while the oat crop will bo unusually
large. The corn crop promises to be as
large as ever known.


"A lady sent an article in behalf of
Grant and Wilson to country journal
published in one of tho Wcstsidc coun-
tics. The article concluded with "your's
for tho right" but when it appeared in
print it read, "your's for the night" Who
wouldn't be for her side ou those terms!
Year: 1872

His marriage, as we have seen, had
doubled his estate, increasing the
number Of slaves to more than eighty;
and the profits of his profession had
added three thousand acres to his
paternal farm. There had gathered
about him, too, on his mountain-top,
including his own family, his sisters
brood, his mother and brother, his
italian gardeners, the mechanics en-
ployed on his house, and his over
seers, a patriarchical household of
thirty-four persons. His presence at
home was peculiarly needed at all
times; for his wife was not one of
those robust ladies of the Old Do.
minion who could conduct a planta-
tion as well as their husbands; and
she was generally absorbed In nour-
ishing life more feeble than her
own. It was for snch reasons, as VIZ
may presume, that he now withdrew
from a profession that compelled
him to be long absent from Abe
marie. He felt himself strong enough
to trust his future to glorious agri-
culture and the manly, homely arts
that facilitate agriculture. He might
build mill for his and his neigh
bors' grain; he might keep few
boys at work, making nails for his
county; he might convert some OF
his wood into tim Der and little of
clay into bricks; but, henceforth to
the end of his days he derived the
greatest part Of his revenue from the
culture of the soil. He was q farmer,
as his father had been before him.


At time when busy and capable
men shrink from public office with a
feeling resembling horror, it may be
well to note that few per- sons have ever
preformed public duty at such sa-
criice of personal feeling and pri-
vate interest as Thomas Jefferson.
Even in old and highly organ zed
communities, the head of such
household can be i'll spared but in
Virginia, in a remote county, In
region where trained labor did not
exist, aud where men OF much capa-
city could seldom be hired at all, and
never for loog, where rudest men
titled a new soil with rudest imple-
ments, and those men were slaves,
nothing but the masters eye could
prevent the most reckless wafte and
uinous mismapagement. Every,
frontier plantation was, of necessity
a little kingdom, in which the mas
ter had to furnish the whole daily re-
quirement of authority and guild
ance. If a wood-chopper broke leg
or a blOod-vessei, it was Jefferson
who was summoned: and if the baby
had the measles, it was Jefferson
who must prescribe. When the dam
gave way, or n wheelbarrow broke
down; if a shop caught fire, or the
lettuce way nipped By the frost; if
the cattle g5t into the wheat, or the
small pox into the negro quarters;-
it was still the master who had to
furnish the brain and nelve for the
emergency Tbera was never ye-
riod, during his public lie, when he
had not reasons for remaining at
home which most men would have
felt to be suficient.-FromH the At
antic Monthlytor May.
Year: 1872

wards had any symptoms of hydro
phObia, although many of them
were seriously wounded by dogs
known to- have died of Rabies. 4
number of very interesting incidents
connected with the application of
this "stone" were related to us, and
we regret that the length of this ar
ticle forbids our giving any Of them
at present,
Year: 1872

morning are completed. In some
cases the odor arising from carious
teeth is combined with that of the
stomach. If the mouth be well
rims d with teaspoonful of the So
luton of the coloride in a tumbler
of water, the bad odor of the teeth
will ba rom ovad
Year: 1872

For this purpose, almost the only
substance that should be admitted at
the toilette is the concentrated So
luton of chloride of soda. From
SIX to ten drops in a wine glass full
OF pure spring wates, taken imme-
diately aftgr the operatio'ae "f tia
Year: 1872




FRESH NEGET,BLEsAND SWEET SALADS.
Those who value fresh vegetables and
sweet salads will have none washed in
the garden. Neither the one nor th,
other sh-uld be washed until they are
just about to be cooked or eaten. Even
potatoes lose their flavor quick after
being washed so do carrots and tur.
nips while water will speedily become
tainted in summer in contact with couli-
flowers and cabbages, and thus destroy
their freshness and flavor. The case is
still worse with salads. Ifwashed at all,
1t should be only before they are dress
ed, and they should be dried and dress
ed Immediately. Nothing ruins the fla
vor OF vegetables, and renders good
salading uneatable, sooner than water
hanging about them. If lettuces are
quite clean, they make the best salad
unwashed but if washed the operation
should be done quickly and the water
instantly shaken out, and the leaves





dried with clean cloth. But, alas I!
how often are th y cut and washed in
the garden in the morning, and pitched
into the water into the scullery sink
until wanted. What French arsisis
would be mad enough to rinse out his
salad juice, and then recharge his let
tuces and his endives with semi-putrid
water 3?


The best practice is to remove all
supurfuous earth by scraping or rub.
bing and all rough tops or leaves by
cutting. Enough tender leaves may
still be left on caulifowers and broccoli
to overlap the flowers Salad should be
sent in from the garden with most of
the outside leaves and main root on
| The tender leaves are easily tainted and
injured by exposure, and if the chief
root is cut off sharp much of the juice
oozes out at the wound. Where yepe;a-
bles and salading have 10 be bought from
a town greengrocer, the conditions arc
altogether different. Not only washing
but soaking often becomes requisite to
restore something like pristine crisp
ness.
Year: 1872

OK The TRAcK.-The other day
heard mother tell her little son to do
something. - In a minute" he said.


Sac spoke again /; but it was one, two.
three, four, five minutes before he mind
ed her. 1t makes me think of the
switch-tender' boy. What if he had
waited minute before he minded his
father ? A switch tender in Prussia
was Just going to move the rail. in order
to put coming train of cars on side
track. when he caught sight of his little
son playing on the track. The engine
was in sight and he had not mo-
ment to spare. He might jump and
save his child, but he could not do that
and turn the switch in time and if it
were not done, the on-coming train
would meet another train. and terrible
crash and smash take place. The safety
Of hundreds Of lives depended on his
Year: 1872

Horace Greeley is candidate SUD-
ported by those who believe that the
administration of the Government
should be conducted by statesmen hav-
ing a knowledge of the affairs of Gov
ernment, who are not office-holders for
personal profit; by those who think that
efficiency and honesty should be re-
stored to the public service; that unjust
and unnecessary taxation should be
tbolished; that all adventurers should
be driven from place; that tne political
equality of all men should be established
and enforced; that the military should
be superseded by the civil authority (;
that the National Government should
attend to Its own affairs, leaving the
people to manage their Local Govern
ments for themselves; that, the war be-
ing over, peace and union, harmony
and order. should exist in all parts OF
the country; that industry may prosper
and enjoy full remuneration for its labor.
these are the two men, one of whom Is
to be chosen, in November next, the
President of the United States.-Chicd-
90 Tribune.
Year: 1872

The English papers cordially welcome
the nomination of Grant and Wilson,
and are bitterly hostile to Greeley and
Brown. The fact is of little import. ex-
cept as showing how English sympathies
tend. The Times is not very compli-
mentary to either Grant or the American
people, when it says: "Gen. Grant S
negligence and nepotism may be fla
grant but the moral sense of the nation
is not Ugh enough to discharge him
from office ON tn It account -
Year: 1872

The Pope, at a public audience lately,
said the misfortunes of the Catholic
Church dated back to 1S4S. Hefurther
stated that the existence of the two
powers in Rome at the same time was
impossible. The report that he is pre-
pairing to leave the city is false.
Year: 1872

A temperance lecturer, being seen
coming out of a tavern wiping his lips,
efIectually disarmed suspicion by ex-
planning that he had q severe tooth
ache, and only went in to get aelove TO
put In his tooth.
Year: 1872

NJ. NORM, IN a paper read before one
of the scientific associations Of Paris,
holds that outlets for the escape of bad
air should always be at or near the
floor of a room, and the inlets for
fresh air near the ceiling, or at such q
height as to prevent the sensation of q
draught. The carbOnic acid produced
by, the breathing of people in room,
instead of being allowed to vitiate the
entire. atmosphere, should be at once
discharged at its source. This discharge
is besfefIected by suction, and to main.
tain this suction, nothing more is re.
required than ordinary fireplace. This
being the case, the same system Is ap-
plicable to ordinary dwelling-hsuses,
as well as to public buildings the dis
placement Of foul air by the mechani-
cal forcing in of fresh ARM NORM
maintains, is far less effectual, and re-
quires more attention than the suction
system. 4e- 80, 81
Year: 1872

EpIzoorIC The horse disease still pre-,
walls here, to the Inconvenience OF every
body, and to the stagnaton of business
generally Horses that were first taken
are recovering, but will not be fit 70 r
duty for week or two yet Those that
have been well are getting sick, and soon
it will be hard to find any that are not
or have not been smitten But few
deaths are yet reported, 1t is said the
chief danger lies in exposure or work
too soon after disease is broken. Re-
ports from places where the disease has
prevailed say that most deaths were after
the horses were thou -ht to be well and
put to work; when dropsy or lung fever
resulted, from which nearly fifty per cent
die. Oxen are in demand, and lucky ia
he who has team Of bovines that an.
derstand "haw" and gee
Year: 1872

By an arrangement between the City
'ouncil and the Board of Supervisors of
Mineral Point town, the contempt fines
imposed by Judge Miller are to be paid
by the two corporations jointy-the city
paying GO per cent and the town 40 per
cent This is equitable e,and will no doubt
receive the approval Of the people.
Year: 1872

An effort to organize club and fur
nish a room, where young men may spend
their evenings instead of at saloons, is
being made, Such an organization could
but result in good if properly conducted,
as it would be under the management of
those whose names appear on the list Of
proposed members.
Year: 1872

Woop for fuel has been greatly in de-
mand the past week, and the man who
could get to town with n load was sure Of
ready sale at good price. We have
heard of as high as ten dollars per cord
being paid for small lots From six to
eight has been the ruling figure.
Year: 1872

For the Newsdeaer.


THANKSGIvING-DAY.
Two centuries and half have passed,
Since on old Massachusetts soil
The first Thanksgiving-day was blest
By her few noble sons of toll.
In sixteen hundred and twenty-one,
(The pilgrims came the yeai before,)
Thanksgiving-day was first begun
BY them, upon our eastern shore.
Most of the crops came in quite good,
Although some failed through nature'slaws
But as they had enough for food,
They had for thanks sufficient cause.
To catch some fowls four men were sent,
Who were successful ere they came
SO we can see the day was spent
4 In part, at least, by eating game.
These men of old upon our shore,
With what they had were satisfied
They did not grieye because no more
Was gathered in on every side.
Their failures were forgotten then;
They let no clouds obscure che way;
But like true philosophc men
The bright side was their theme that day
This was the way it had its birth
Among the pilgrims. long ago,
And it has spread till every hearth
In all the region that we know
Doth celebrate this ancient feast
BY turning from the common way:
If nothing more, they do, at least,
"S;utf fuller on Thanksgiving-day.
1t is a day of festive scenes, 5.aI
With old friends gathered round the fire,
The clock does not disturb our dreams
BY warning us to soon retire
Our troubles now are all forgot;
No shadows cross our happy way
We are commended with our lot
Because it is Thanksgising-day
There are dark days in every life
AT least to us they seem to be
But il we look beyond the strife
brighter picture we shall see'
When we, instead of mourning long
Wheneer failure doth appear,
Shall break forth into praise an song,
And each one be of hearty cheer
And thankful are. in oil our hearts,
For all the blessings We receive,
And overlook the little darts
That cause us oftentimes to grieye' Il
Then shall the world most truly see,
Though shadows fit across our way
That all our lives will truly be
One happy, bright, Thanksgivins-day-


C. F. Sp9ord-
JoHssos, Vt
Year: 1872

yNANTED--A SITUATION AS CHAMsERMAID OR
w seamstress IN first class hotel private family;
cnn speak the German language fluently Address
MARY CABLE box 400 New York Post office for three
days
Year: 1872

IT WAvERLEY PLACE SECOND BLOCK FROM
l. Broadway.A lady TO 90 out by the day to families
in This city who having had several years experience in
the business OF cutting fitting and making ladies dresses
oilers her services to those who desire to have their
work done at their own houses is u good designer and
trimmer; al o chdrens clothes included Call ad-
dress DRESSMAkER for two days.
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-All the news centers
here have been thronged during the entire evening TO
ascertain the result North Carolina No State election
within memory has excited in this city much interest


and great dissatisfaction expressed at the meager dis
patches received From all sources thus far heard FROM
there seems to be little doubt Of a Conservative
dictory This judgment is reached by comparing the
present vote so heard from with that of 1870 and
Inv considering the large gains the part of the Con
seryatives In the doubtful districts Even the Grant
men do not appear doubt that six of tine eight Con
gressmen win be for the Greeley ticket and that
the Legislature viii be largely in favor Of the
Liberals In addition this all agree that the
Liberal candidate is elected by large majority Many
heavy bets have been made that Merrimon, the Demo
cratic candidate for is elected by 10000 major


y and although many have been offered tha the
Democrats would carry the State no takers have been
found and the Grant people 10th to bet even on
majorltes. Although the wires have been interrupted
and trustworthy returns meager on account OF the
storms which prevented free communication the senti
ment on all sides largely I'm favor of the Liberal ticket