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Year: 1872

The contractors have begun laying the new concrete walk, which is to extend from the New England House to the low CT end of South street. and it will be- com pleted in short time. The contract spec ifies that the walk shall be six feet wide and the work of the best quality, so that it will be credit to the place. After this contract is completed it%is probable that the same style of walk will be put down in River street. and in other localities.

 On Saturday last, Mrs. H. schover- ling was Mding out, and in driving of from Town bridge turned short, or in some other way upset the carriage, throw ing out all tho occupants and hurting her self considerably. She was accompanied by her children and by Mrs. Wm Scho- serling, none of whom were injured.

 Every thing is being done to make the fair. of the village Improvement As sociation a grand success, and it is to be hoped that none will fail to attend who can possibly be present. As already an nounced the fair will be held on the even- ing of the third and during the day and evening of the Fourth of July in a spa cious tent which will be erected on Main street. In addition to the attractions inside the tent it is rumored that there will be a fine display of fireworks on the evening of the Fourth. 8ISo.
Year: 1872

willingness to give those complaining of the large companies any fair hearing or even an opportunity for investigation. The conduct of MT. Hall, the chairman of that committee on the part of the House, is in marked contrast with his course, last year, when he was one of the loudest op- ponents of Consolidation.
Year: 1872

A good wife is the greatest earthly
blessing.


A man is what his wife makes him.


1t is the mother that moulds the char.
acter and destiny Of the.child.


Never make a remark at the expense
of the other; it is meanness.


Never part without loving words to
think of during your absence. Besides,
it may be that you will not meet again
in life.


Never both manifest anger at once.


Never speak loud to one another, un-
less the house is on fire


Never reflect on past action which
was dome with good motive and with
the best judgment at the time.


Let each one strive to yield oftenest to
the wishes Of the other. which is the mu-
tual cultivation of an absolute unsei6sh
ness.


Never find fault, unless it is perfectly
certain that a fault has been committed ;
and even then prelude it with kiss. and
lovingly.


Never allow request to be repeated.
Il forgot is never an acceptable excuse.


Marry into different blood and tenn
permanent from your own
Year: 1872

Etiquette Of the Streets.
The following from the Paris CORES


pondence of the Baltimore American


gives one pleasant idea of the stree,


manners Of the "most polite city in the


world :"


American ladies visiting Paris are ap,
to be much annoyed until they learn the
etiquette Of the streets. They are liable


to compromise themselves if they appear
alone upon the thoroughfares without the
observance of certain rules which time


has rendered fixed aud immutable. In
the first place. respectable young lady
IN Paris never appears on the streets in
any thing but black dress, unle.s hen


with male escort or an aged duenna If
in light or white dress her character is
liable to be mistaken. especially if she
should be young or interesting Then if
she is without escort che must, to main
tain her character push straight forward.
without looking to the right or left. II
she should etop to look in at the fne dis.
plays in the store windows, for which
Paris is SO famous. she must not be enr-
prifed if some of the young men who
lounge around the cafes walk up to her,
nudge her elbow, and enter into a con
versation. 1t is the practice of the den,i
monde to thus stop when gentleman is
approaching whose attention they desire
to attract, and the masculinet of loose
morals CHOSE to regard any one who may
stop to look at the gorgeous array of dia
monds in a window as having invited
their attention.


So also in riding. a lady seated alone
in carriage, either on the street or in the
Bois dc Boulogne, is regarded as reserv-
ing the seat beside her for any chance
gentleman whom she may attract. Thus
ladies who have no male escort either
take servents with them. when they ride
'r borrow neighbor's child. if they have
none of their own. To ride alone would
be to invite insult or offensive attention.


The same is the rule in London, and
almost throughout Europe The fact is
that the more respectable classes seldom
walk the streets. In London you never
zee what We would call at home well
dressed lady. Those who seem and un.
doubtedly are reputable, are arrayed in
plain suits of black, evidently intending
and desiring to shun rather than court
observation. A finely dressed female in
London is invariably regarded as a wo-
man of loose character if she have no es-
cort with her, and even then she must
carry very demure face and her escort
must not put on any foppish airs if he
does not desire to compromise the charac-
ter of his companion. But black dress
and fast walk, as if in a great hurry.
is the only thing that will insure for a
lady, alone in the street, entire freedom
from improper attention or insult. The
only finely dressed females on the street
in Europe are those of bad
character
Year: 1872

LEARN to do something, young man.
and learn it well. Set it down that no
man ever succeeded in this world with
out knowing how to do some particular
thing better than hi. fellows. Whether
it was in store or in a tinshop. in bank
or on the box of an express wagon. ex-
press wagon. excellence was shown, and
made the beginning that is the founda-
ton of a succpssful career. Hard work
is the price asked for success, and it can
be purchased with no othef kind Of cur
rency.
Year: 1872

BY MRS. JOAQUIN MILLRR.
No more in volumes olden


Culling and coming all day;
Take yoIr winged steed to yon mountain
And loosen him there to play;
o mountain, rise up from my Poet
And show your grandest peaks:
Let your bird from the brown cliffs call hil
While she cries and wildly shrieks..
Let him sing of the homeless hero
Who loitered around your base.
When man, in a spacious freedom,
Dived for the camp and the chase:
Sing of the heightened pack trains
That wound through thy solitudes-
Of the song that never echoed


In the wildness of other woods.
Sing of the weary miner.


rS1s2lsd Mh9 lSPffb sssY sss lonesome Sss eulches
And climb bed to a summit Of snow;
In the dead and lonesome silence
He lighted his red camp fire,
And it warmed the heart of the forest,
Reaching up higher and higher.
And the gray side of the mountain
Comes forth with scenic show;
With q group Of pautomime shadows
Wandering to and fro;
And the sound of the sea comes to him
Like thunders of distant cars;
The brook leaps up from the canyon
And catches the listless stars:
The camp fire SINNERS beside him
In rhyme with the crickets drone;



And he drinks bis tea alone.
A CHASTITY skull of the red man


Shines out from the fern leaves there:
Alas, and alas, poor miner,


Thine own is as smooth and barrel
The mad blaze snaps at the pine boughs
That culver and waver and fall,
And the shadow leans over the dead logs,
Lengthe hened and crooked and tall.
From the wild and gloomy forest


Comes the cry Of a lonesome owl;
From the dark ravine up breaking
thTeat a savage RTOWl:
But his rifle stands by the fir-tree-
In his belt a knife and brace;
So he dreamily looks in the campfire,
And q smile plays ever his face.
Down in the gulch he has sifted


Some sand that is fine and black
There is gold lying under the boulder
And under the rivers track.
Now down on the side of the mountain
He strays in rambling quest
OF level nook by O fr-tree


To spread his lonely rest.
In dreams sweet visions come to him
More bright than the gold below.
For he dreams that the woman is faithful
Who was false long years ago;
He hears her loving whisper.


And they pledge their vows anew.
And hand in and the dreamland
They wander Though and through.
o Poet, sing of my aero;


He is weary d h cmeiess and old.
And he sleeps by his dying campfire.
Dreaming of Love and gold.
In his wild woods q shrill note echoes,
And dead leaf drops from the stem.
And shadow stirs under the fr-troe--
Go. sing thou in numbers of them.
Year: 1872

The Mobile Tribune reports this nice
little goat story: At o clock yester-
day evening the crowd at the New
Orleans, Mobile and Texas railroad,
waiting for the Unbound train, were
witnesses to a feat accomplished by a
goat that puts to the blush all the
thrilling performances Of the Rolans
and Hanlons. The goat had been en-
ticed Into the large feed warerooms Of
Ober It Anderson, BY the tempting
display OF mountains Of we'll filed
corn sacks. Being observed BY one Of
the employees OF the establishment,
who made for the intruder with q
broom handle, the animal jumped on
the sill Of an open window In the sec
ond story Of the building, and after
casting Que longing, lingering look
behind" at the golden cereal strewn
upon the floor, sprang gallantly into
the air, as wild stays are said to do In
dime novels about Indians and things,
aud fell. not upon Government street
wharf, but upon the canvas covering
OF a portable negro restaurant, under
meath which six or seven sleepy poll.
tIcIans were sitting at the time. The
fastening of the canvas gave way. let
ting the goat down uniwured, and the
negroes, Imagining that q retributive
streak Of Lightning had fallen upon
them, fled In dlsmay from the spot.
Year: 1872

Some years ago, when the writer was re.
porter upon an Eastern paper, it devolved
upon him to write for the same edition an &C.
count of the presentation Of gold-headed
cane to the Rev. D. Nudge, the clergyman OF
the place, and the description of a patent hog.
killing and sausage machine, that had just
been put in operation at the factory. Now,
what made DR.. Nudge mad was this. The
inconsiderate buccaneer who made up the
forms got the two locals mixed up in fright
full manner, and when we went to press, some
thing like this was the appalling result:


"Several of the Rev. DR.. Mudge's friends
called upon him yesterday, and after briei
conversation the unsuspecting..hog was seized
by the hind legs and slid alonga beam, until
he reached the hot water tank. His friends
explained the object of their visit, and pre-.
sented him with very handsome gold.headed
butcher, who grabbed him by the tail, swung
him round, cut his throat from ear to ear, and
in less than minute the carcass was in the
water. Thereupon he came forward and said
there were times when the feelings overpower-
ed one, and for that reason he would not at.
tempt to do more than thank those around
him for the manner in which so huge an ami.
NAL was cut into so many fragments was sim
ply astonishing. The doctor concluded his
remarks, when the machine seized him, and
in less time than it takes to write it the hog
was cut into fragments and worked up into
delicious sausage. The occasion will long be
remembered by the doctors friends as one Of
the most delightful of their lives. The best
pieces can be obtained for fifteen cents pound
and we are sure that those who have sat SO
long under his ministry will rejoice that he
has been so handsomely treated"


Mad? Well, about nine o'clocknext morn
ing the office had been abandoned by every
man but the advertising clerk, and he ascen-
ded to the roof and robed himself in boiler
iron, so that he could watch the venerable
clergyman tearing round down there in the
street with his congregation, all wearing the
panoply of war, and carrying butcher knives
and things. The next day we explained and
apologized, but the doctor stopped his sub
scription and began to take the rival paper.
Exchange.
Year: 1872

LIVE FOR OTHERs.-What is the use Of
living, unless you can better some soul and
bring it nearer to God? What gain like
to this can the days give one? To cheer the
despondent; to lessen the grief Of those who
mourn to draw by the irresistible attraction
of sympathy and personal goodness the erring
to your side; to impress the fretful with the
nobility of patience, checking their noisy
complaints by the gravity of your silence; to
Tighten the burden of poverty pressing on so
many backs; to supply the young with a
worthy ambition-that is to live. Woe to
such as die unregretted; whose departure
brings no moisture to the eye! Woe to the
rich man whom the poor of his neighborhood
Year: 1872

The OLD-FAsHoNED MoTHER.-Thank
God some of us have an old-fashioned mother.
Not a woman of the period, enameled and
painted, with her great chignon, her curls and
hustle, whose white jeweled hands have
never felt the clasp of baby fingers; but
dear, old-fashioned, sweet-voiced mother, with
eyes in whose clear depths the love-light
shone. and brown hair, threaded with silver,
lying smooth upon her faded cheek. Those
dear hands worn with toll, gently guided our
tottering steps in childhood, and smoothed our
pillow in sickness, even reaching out to US in
yearning tenderness when her sweet spirit was
baptized in the pearly spirit Of the river:


Blessed is the memory Of an old-fashioned
mother. It flows to US now, like the beau.
tiful perfume of some woodland blossom.
The music of other voices may be lost, but the
enhancing memory Of hers will echo in our
souls forever. Other faces will fade away
and be forgotten, but hers will shine on until
the light from heavens portals shall glorify
our own. When in the ftful pauses of busy
life our feet wander back to the old homestead,
and crossing the well-worn threshold, stand
once more in the low, quaint room so hallowed
by her presence, now the feeling of childish
innocence and dependence comes over us and,
we kneel down in the molten sunshine,
streaming through the Western window-just
where long years ago we knelt by our mothers
knee lisping "Our Father" How many
times when the tempter lured US on, has the
memory of those sacred hours, that mothers
words, her faith and prayers, saved US from
plung ing into the abyss Of sin ! Years have
filled great drifts between her and us, but they
have not hidden from our sight the glory of
her pure, unselfsh love.
Year: 1872

do not miss at death; whom the widow
and fatherless do not mourn as a departed
friend whose departure is advertised, not in
the obituary Of the press, but in the sudden
absence of little luxuries from the bedside of
the sick, and needed comforts from the homes
of the Door!
Year: 1872

saH The Office of religion is, not to drive us
back upon ourselves in anxious self-criticism,
but to take US out of ourselves and unite us
to the whole, in loving selfabandonment. A
man must take himself for better or worse,
and forget himself if possible; so shall he
soonest arrive at the beatific vision.
Year: 1872

But he had no time for the indulgence of
such thoughts. Without trusting himself
with another backward glance, he hurried
out through the gate, across the fields beyond;
Pedro all the time lying down beside the
handkerchief, and looking after him with wist-
full eyes.


TTo BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1872

COURAGE TO Do RIGHT.
We may have courage; all of us,
To start at honor's cal,
To meet foe, protect friend,
Or face a cannon ball
To show the world one hero lives
The foremost in the fight
But do we always manifest


The courage to do right?
To answer No! with steady breath,
And quick, unfaltering tongue,
When fierce temptation, ever near,
Her syren song has sung?
To care not for the bantering tone,
The Jest, or studied slight;
Content if we can only have


The courage to do right?
To step aside from fashions course,
Or customs favored plan;
To pluck an outcast from the street,
Or help fellow man?
If not, then let us nobly try.
Henceforth, with all our might,
In every case to muster up


The courage to do right.
Year: 1872

WHY JEFFERSON DIED PooR-It is rela-
ted of Jefferson that he might have been a
rich and not poor man, as he was, but for
the multitude of admiring visitors who throng-
ed Monticello from years end to years end,
and literally ate him out Of house and home.
AS many as fifty strangers sometimes swarmed
in upon him in single afternoon. They
came on horseback and in carriages, and doz-
ems of them stayed all night, and many Of
them stayed for days and even weeks. No
other man of whom we have any record was
ever so overrun by visitors for 50 long q Pc
riod. They came from all lands and belong
ed to almost every rank in life. It was not
possible to turn them away. Jefferson had to
stand the punishment, and he stood it bravely
and with at least outward serenity Of spirit,
although his inward struggles were terrible.
He finally sold his library, perhaps the best
then in America, and the choicest possessions
he had on earth. He also sold some Of his
land. A few friends, and even the Legisla.
lures Of few States, tried to help him. But
these efforts were of no avail. His affairs
grew worse and worse. He finally petitioned
the Legislature of Virginia for permission to
dispose of his estate by lottery; but before
the act was passed he died, and his estate was
sold at auction by his creditors, and his heirs
were turned from their ancestral door forever.
Year: 1872

The Scientific American says it is
impossible to construct a burgular-proof
safe, for the thief, with his cylinder of
compressed hydrogen and oxygen. can
in few seconds burn holes of any size
IN the hardest metal, his fire drill, en-
abling him in a few minutes to work
his way into the strongest safe that was
ever constructed. To what perfection
crime is getting. r
Year: 1872

The entrance to the legal profession
in New York State is hcnceforth to be
somewhat more carefully guarded. BY
authorization Of the last Legislature the
Court of Appeals has Just prescribed a
Get of rules and regulations, among
which is one that every applicant for
admission to the bar mrst have served
three years as an attorneys clerk, or
two years in such capacity besides ihav.
ing attended regular university lectures
one year.
Year: 1872

A clergyman down east, opposed to
the Introduction of instrumental music
in the church, but overruled by the
congregation, gave out the next Sunday
morning at the commencement of the
service, 1--WE will now fiddle and sing
the following hymn"
Year: 1872

1T rs no disgrace not to be able to do
everything; but to undertake, or pre-
tend to do, what you are not made for,
Is not only shameful, but extremely
troublesome and vexstious.-Putarch.
Year: 1872

The following is from the New York
Evening Post:


"Iho Times finds its efforts TO make
a partisan affair of the great reform
movement checkmated by the conspic.
uous facts that Democrats have been
the leaders of that movement here and
that It's principles ere neglected and
trampled under foot by the Times
allies in Washington, It is therefore
naturally out Of temper. But we trust
it will see that it is not wise nor even
possible TO 'smash the machine 10
break in pieces the city and State re.
form movement, simply because it will
not assist t.e plans Of the custom-house
faction"
Year: 1872

Three noted days are upon us. This is
All SAINTS Day. Tomorrow viii be lottery
day. That is, the great single number
drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery
will then take place. Over 400 valuable
prizes will then be drawn for and dis
tributed among as many lucky individuals
who may chance to hold winning tickets.
The aggregate amount to be drawn for is
$3.50, ,OO0, and the highest prize drawn will
be $50, 900. The majority Of the prizes.
however. are large. any one Of these i
sufficient to make the fortunate possessor
happy for life, if wealth can make him
happy. 1t need hardly be said that in
order to win prize it is necessary to buy
ticket and as the drawing takes place to-
morrow, there is no time TO be lost. And
after lottery day comes election day. We
are to have this on Monday, and We shall
be very much mistaken if there are as many
prizes drawn there as viii be drawn To-
morrow in the Louisiana State Lottery
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, October 3I.-A negro was
hanged here to-day for wife murder,


a telegram was received here tonight
from New York, giving a report prevalent
there to-day that the treasury had issued
five additional millions of greenbacks. 1t
can he stated with truth, and about which
there is no official concealment that
four or five millions OF the reserve OF
forty four millions, the issue Of which
the Treasury Department considers is
left to the discretion OF the Secretary,
was made use of when the Assistant Treas
urer at New York was instructed to buy
bonds and sell gold apart from the usual
monthly programme This was on the sew
enth OF October, more than three weeks
ago. Since that time no further amount of
the reserve has been used. nor is there
the least probability it viii again soon be
drawn upon. The transaction to which re.
ference l. made was 70 meet an extraor-
dinary contingency.
Year: 1872

Elsewhere is published this morning in
the REPUBLICAN, another partial list Of the
names Of parties included among those who
have enormously or f:audulently registered
or can not be found.
Year: 1872

LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS


an ISSUE OF GREENBACKs


pRIAL OF MAYOR HALL
DISAGREEMENT OF THE JURY
BURNING OF THE MISSOURI
SUFFERIEGS OF THE SURVIVORS
MOVEMENTS OF GOVERNOR WARM0TH
OPENING OF LOUISVILLE CANAL
coal TOW AT CINCINNATI
TIE HORSE DISEASE EXTENDING
Year: 1872

THERE are romances as well as TRACE
dies of the Commune which are now
coming to light, and among them are
some which threaten 10 test, the acumen
OF the antiquarians who may seek, CEN
tury hence, to write the history of this
uprising. The part which petroleum
played in the great destruction will never
be fully known, and equally strange will
then appear the stories of the little death
syringes" which were to extermnatc the
invaders amid their successful occupation
of the city. 1t is established before the
committee Of enquiry that instruments
answering to the ancient poire d'dngoisse
were actually made and distributed for
use upon the Prussans. They were
although no one had been found who has
seen them-little India-rubber tubes, fill
ed with prussic acid, armed with short
and sharp ''fang" which would at once
lniilct wound lite noticeable, and inject
a drop of instantaneous poison beneath
the skin of the victim. In the form of n
tblmble, worn upon the taper finger of a
Virtuous Parisienne, these weapons were
to deal with every gallant embrace a
Prusslan may gain from his fair enemies.
No less than twenty-thousand of these
Internal machines, it is said, were made,
and perhaps it is well that Bismark re-
strained his army Of occupation within
strict limits, and prevented the familiar
intercourse OF victors with the vanquished
for which the female portion of Paris was
so we'll prepared.
Year: 1872

We call the special attention of the Public
to the fact that these Companies do FIRE
Insurance business exclusively hence
their Assets are pledged Solely to their
Patrons as security against Loss by Fire,
and are not weakc and diminished by Ma
rine, Inland and Life Liabilities, as is the
branches. Those desiring


RELIABLE FIRE INSURANCE
at fair rates. are invited to apply at the Offices
Of the above Companies.
Year: 1872

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Year: 1872

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