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Year: 1872

The Democratic candidate for Congress made a
handsome appeal to the friends of local self-gov-
eminent in the Odd-F Fellows Hall last night. The
meeting was largely attended and one Of the most
enthusiastic that has been held during the cam
paign. Mr.. Wright's calm and dignifed manner
before his large audience and the clear and precise
manner in which he referlvd to the topics under
discussion met the views of his Democratic listen
en who exhibited their appreciation in numerous
rounds of applause. When the meeting adjourned
every one seemed gratiSed with our candidate and
expressed the utmost confidence in his election by
q large majority.
Year: 1872

The Gazette does not know how many Repub-
licans are on the juries drawn by the Democratic
Levy Court 1t raised the issue that Marshal
Dunn's Circuit Court jury had so few Democrats
that it was partisan. > Commercial.


We at least know that the Democratic Levy
Court put no negro Republicans on the jury.


Marshal Dunn's I. U. Court jury was SO filed
with negro Radicals that Tho Court became
ashamed OF it, and ordered more intelligent
Jury hence the last jury is respectable. if was
partisan in numbers and character.
Year: 1872

A correspondent Of the Rogersville Re
porter. writing from Rutledge, states that
that on Monday last n crazy negro named
King Dotson, while working in a field be-
longing to Mr.. Wood, suddenly quit
work and came toward that gentleman's
house, and stopping at a fence, drew his
knife softly across his own throat. Mr..
Wood became alarmed for his safety, and
hastened to inform Kings brother of the
state of the case. While he was gone, a
colored man passed up the street, and be-
ing slightly acquainted with King, stop
ped with him a moment. The usual salu-
tations passed between them, and King, in
the friendliest manner conceivable, reach
ed out his hand, but no sooner did he get
hold of the others hand than he drew him
unexpectedly down on the fence, and
with a quick, nervous stroke, cut his
throat from ear to ear. Then, az if fear
full of retaliation, or feeling assured that his
work was complete, he dropped his hand
and ran off q short distance, but soon re-
turned to his former position.


After considerable trouble, the maniac
was secured, though not until he had
wounded his brother slightly in the breast,
and lodged in the Rutledge jail The
wounded man had his injuries attended to,
which are very severe, but not considered
mortal
Year: 1872

We clip the following vigorous senten-
ces on this subject from the New York
Observer! =!


A minister is not 50 good o pastor or
preacher who mingles actively in political
controversies. His mind is pre-occupied
by them. His spiritual nature is degraded
and clouded and soiled. The temporal rath-
er than the eternal, the seen not the uL-
should not, forget under any circum-
stances, the personal relations of men to.
things near and tangible; aud if he preaclA-
es the whole Gospel, he will constrsin
men 10 actin the fear of God when they
vote, as when they pray. But no minister
was ever an active partisan in politics, and
when he sought only the spiritual instruc-
ton of his people.
Year: 1872

Al the solicitation Of friends, and the inclination
Of my own feelings, hereby announce myself as an
Independent Republican candidate for the o0cc Of
sheriff Of Crawford county at the next election.
appeal to the free Independent voters of the county


irrespective Of party for their support, promising
them that IL elected | will administer the Office Of
Collector and Sheriff ia strict conformity to law. We
arc In dead carno, in this matter, and shall urge our
claims In all the townships Of the county and will
uy to meet the voters at the various appointments


Very respectfully. T. &, SINGLETON.
Year: 1872

Make It point to leave all business on the
day of Registration and attend to this all.im-
portant matter. You will find 1t the best days
work you ever did. Let every leading demo-
crst and liberal constitute himself a commit
tee to see that every man is out. See also
that your Supervisor attend, to his duty.
Year: 1872

Be patient with little ones.


Let neither their slow understand


ing ror their occasional pertness


offend You, or provoke the sharp


reproof. Remember, the world is


new to them, and they have no


slight task to grasp, with their
unripencd intellects, the mass Of
facts and truth that crowd upon
their attention. You are grown
to maturity and strength, through
years Of experience. and it il! be-
comes you to fret at the little child
that fails TO keep pace with your
thonyht. Teach him patiently
as God teaches you, cline upon
line, precert upon prccept; here y
little. there q little" Cheer him
on in this conflict with mind in
after years his ripe, rich thought
shall rise up and call you blessed.
Biic patiently the endless oucs-
tionlny Of your children. Do not
roughly crush the sprlnging spirit
of free inquiry with an impatient
word or frown, nor attempt, on
the contrary, long and instruc-
tive reply to every slight and
casual question. Seek, rather,
to deepen their curiosity, convert,
if possible, the careless question
into a profound and earnest in
quiry. Let your reply send the
little questioner forth, not so much
proud Of what he has learned,
as anxious to know more. Happy
you, it in giving your child the
fragment of truth be asks for. you
can whet his curiosity with a
glimpse of the mountain of truth
lying beyond; so you will send
forth a philosopher, and not q
silly pedant, into the world. Bear
patiently the childish humors Of
the little ones. They are but the
untutored pleadings Of the young
spirit for care and cultivation.
lrritated into strength and hard
ened into habits, they will hunt
the whole of life like fends in des-
pair, and make your little ones curse
the day they were born; but COR
rected kindly and patiently, they
become the element of happiness
and usefulness. Passions are but
fires that either scorch US with
their uncontrolled fury. Or may
yield US a genial and needful
warmth. Bless pour little ones
with a patient care of their child
hood, aud they will certainly con-
secrate the glory and grace Of
their manhood to your service.
Sow in their hearts the seed of 4
perennial blessedness ; it's ripened
fruit will afford you a perpetual
joy.-Mother's Friend.
Year: 1872

ted fellow. He turned and fled.
Being dumb he could never make
anyone understand what he had
seen, and probably had never
tried to do so. His mind must
have been very much impressed
and he must have understood
when people were talking Of Mau-
rice being about to marry, and
have had some idea Of preventing
it, he wandered from home,
found his way to the garden, and
evidently climbed over the fence
to get into it. 1t vas guarded
with spikes, so he cut his hands
and feet. Finding the lower part
Of the house fastened he went up
the covered stairway, the door
was unfastcncd, he opened it, and
produced the effect described up
on Maurice. Hearing the SER
wants coming up stairs he rushed
away. | suppose be remained
from home some days, and as this
WIS usual with him no one dreamed
Of connecting him with the death
Of Maurice ; but God had used him
as an instrument Of retribution,
and his life was thus not a useless
one. The links of the chain thus
complete, | laid them before the
public, thus fulfilling the charge
of the dying woman.


Years have passed, and the two
fold tragedy is well nigh forgot
ten yet old folks like me will re-
call it On i night like this, and
tell it for u ghost story, and at
the same time to verify the truth
Of the provcrb "Murder will out"


THE END,
Year: 1872

Henry Ward Bcecher has writ
ten this: I never saw any body
do anything that did not watch
him and sec how he did it, for
there is no telling but that some
time | might do it myself. | was
going across a prairie: my horse
began to limp. Luckily | came
across q blacksmlth's shop but
the smith was not at home. l
asked the woman Of the house if
she would allow me to start the
fire and make the shoe. She said
[ might if / knew how. So L
started the fire and heated the
shoe red hot and turned it to fit
my horses foot. and pared the
hoof and turned the point Of tho
uais out. as l had seen the black
smith do, so that in driving it in
to the hoof they should not go
into the quick, and shod the horse.
At the next place I went to, l
went Immediately 10 a smith and
told him to put the shoe on prop
erIy. He looked at the horses
foot and paid me the greatest
compliment that | ever received
in my life. He told me that if
| put on that shoe l had bet
'.er follow blacksmithing all my
life. Now, | never could have
known how to do this if | had
not looked on and seen others do
it.
Year: 1872




Here the scene and the occasion
seemed to come in their full force
upon Laughing Bill, and he in-
dulged in a brief cachinnation. II
was the first time the reporter hid
an opportunity Of Judging what q
splendid laughcr he is. He lau ghed
all over. His whole body seemed
to Join in it, and yet there was no
apparent effort used by him. 1t
bubbIed up naturally, and music
ally as the notes OF song issue
from the mouth Of Il prima donna.


"Onc day." continued Laughing
Bill, some few years ago, | ar
rived at Chambersburg, Pa. You
must know I'm q stove drummer
for a Philadelphia mandatory,
and travel a great deal. l had
heard there was great laugher
in Chambersburg, and therefore
thought I should like to meet
him. By George, as I entered
the National Hotel | encountered
him. l am sorry / can't give his
name. ! knew it was the fellow
because he was laughing at the
time, and because there was GER
tain ring in it which proved to
me that he was a genuine laugher.
and that there could not be two
such Iaugbers residing in the same
town. l determined to tackle
him then and there. | felt my
reputation was at stake. | don't
say this in a spirit Of egotism
! but l determined to crush him
Without waiting to inquire what
the fun was I began. | had not
laughed more than five second:
before could see that the fellow
! knew be had met his superior
Pretty soon he showed signs O
exhaustion. He began to get ou'
Of breath. and at last quit entire
ly and withdrew into the clothes
room | continued laughing as
| knew all about what had occa
stoned the hilarity. The othe
persons in the room laughed a
Year: 1872

,


DO Nor DESpIsE SMALL Things.
The possibility Of great change
being introduced by very slight
beginnings may be illustrated by
the tale which Lockmann tells of
q vizier, who, having offended his
master, was condemned to pcrpet-
ual captivity in q lofty tower. At
night his wife came to weep be-
low his window. "Ccase your
grief" said the sage; go home
for the present, and return hither
when you have procured a live
black beetle, together with 4 little
ghce Cor buffaloe's butter), three
clews, one Of the finest silk, an
other Of stout packthread, and an.
other Of whlpcord; finally, stout
coil Of rope" When she again
came to the foot of the tower,
provided according to her hus-
bands commands, he directed her
to touch the head of the insect
with little Of the ghee, to tie one
end OF the silk thread around him,
and to place the insect on the
wall of the tower. Seduced by
the smell Of the butter, which he
conceived was in store somewhere
above him, the beetle continued to
ascend till he reached the top,
and thus put the end Of the silk
thread in possession Of the vizlcr,
who drew up the packthread by
means Of the silk, the small cord
by means of the packthread: and
by means Of the cord, Il stout rope
capable Of sustaining bis ow1
weight-and SO at last escaped
from the place Of his confinement.
Year: 1872

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL DIsAyOwS GOING


FOR GRANT--A SPIRITED LETTER.


IBY TELEGRAPH TO THB TRIBUYEI


SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April 9.-Gen. w. +. Bartlett
OF Plttsfeld one of the most gallant of the fighting
soldiers In the war; sends communication to The
Republican concerning statement that he was q
candidate for delegate to the Philadelphia Conven-
tion, and would go for Grant He declares himself
as follows:


AS had some time previous TO the date Of the above
article declined to allow the OF name, cannot
suppose that the selection would be approved. But 1t
seems to only the part Of candor to declare that
while am fattered TO learn that my name has been
considered in connection with distinguished posi-
tion am not to be counted on to "go for Grant," II
that means as fear 1t does, blind allegiance to the
group Of politicians under whose control Gen. Grant has
unfortunately placed himself and whose solcitude seems
to be greater for the Republican party than for the
welfare Of the country. But I am willing, as know
thousands OF other good soldiers and good Republicans
now counted go for Grant, and good men OF all
parties are waiting, for the nomination OF man whose
administration shall be above suspicion not ABOVE IN
yesgaton who he used abused by any set OF
selfish politicians of any party who will illustrate inc
true meaning OF "Civil Service Reform" by benehtrng
and enriching the nation and not the individual whose
ability as statesman is balanced by his integrity as
man, whose great services to his country IN
the darkest DAYS Of our civil war, when single
handed at the English Court he stemmed the tide OF
foreign Intervention with skill and fearlessness unsur
passed can never be forgotten by those to whom the
honor Of their country is as dear her success whose
name is Charles Francis Adams and whom, if the Cn
cnnati Convention shall have the wisdom to nominate
the people will have the independence TO elect.


W. L. BARTLETT.
Year: 1872

white would be impossible undor such light. "But
these lights rolexes and it is nearly impossible to
say what tones may be assumed even by the warmest
light reflected from cool surface that we cannot
actually convict these parts fasehood and though
sAoud have liked of the picture better had they
been slightly warmer cannot but like the color OF
the picture better with them as they arc"


And, finally, speaking Of certain material difficulties
that Turner had to contend WITH and TO the deficiencies
or faults in his works that result from these difficulties,
Ruskin says: Notwithstanding, In some chosen exam
pies of pictures of this kind will name three Juliet
and her Nurse the 'old TGmeraire,' and the Slave
shipD do not admit there at the time Of their
first appearing on the walls Of the Royal Academy
any aomoasiraby ayoidable faults 90 nov
aeny that thore may be- nay that 1t is likely
there arc but there is living artist u Esope whose
Judgment might safely be taken tho subject, who
could without arrogance affirm Of any part Of such
,,c,urc that e. was wrong. believe myself that
these works are at he time OF their first appearing as
perfect as those Phias and Leonardo; that Is 10
say. incapable in their way 9f any Improvement con-
ceivablo by human mind" MoaSfn f"in'eFs' NVi ~
T. lSS


II NAV trust our own impression OF this splendid
and poetical picture Ruskn has exalted s terror at
the expense its beauty Certainly 1t is Terrible put tue


beauty OF color and line makes almost forget a times
how terrible In tho lower corner there seen
the leg Of drowning man with the shacke still round
the ankle and o crowd OF ravening sharks and other
ash arc swarming about it, leaping, diving
ayine. but so beautiful IN their multtndinous
curves and opane irdescence-ther own delicate hues
OF emerald and pearl oyerad and made splendid by the
reflected glory Of the gold and scarlet Clouds ana all
this mrrored in broken spendor in the waterthat the
eve IL never tired with gazing and the satisfied senses


mako the heart almost nsensibe to the cruel TRAGEDY
1t is certainly astonishing picture, but 1t is mposs
Ole wo should think judge fairly unless we look
at 1t as the work Of great imaginative
poet, and decline TO search TOO euriousy iof
demonstrations Of its literal truthfulness to nature
Turner great student Of nature and in the course
long industrious life he had accumulated an I'M
number OF observations but long before he was
q naturalist he a great poet and he knew very well
when 20 shut his notebook and draw upon his maSina
ton for his facts. This picture is Of imagination all
compact
Year: 1872

The jersey City charter election took place
yesterday but there not much interest shown, ana
tho storm contributed TO mako tho vote very
light only about G,50O votes were cast, OF
but little more than half tho number
cast at the gubernatoral election last FALL The Demo-
Gratis elect their Mayor by majority OF about soo and
the Board Of Aldermen will probably be equally divided
and be composed Of six Republicans and six Democrats
The following is the vote which at o'clock was almost
canvassed, and will not be materially changed:
Year: 1872

Saturday afternoon boy, about eleven
years of age, while crawling along the
leads of house on Third street, uear
Bryant, for the purpose of clearing the
obstruction in the water pipe, stepped and
rolled over the edge of the roof. In his
desperate efforts to save himself he sue
ceeded in grasping the raised edge Of
wood and tin that boarded the roof, and
so hung. suspended by his hands forty
feet above the street, utterly unable to
regain his footing. The accident was
witnessed by a woman on the opposite
sidewalk; and her screams brought at
once to her side three men who saw, with
horror and amazement, the predicament
of the poor boy, who, without a cry or
struggle, was hanging over certain death,
with only the frail grip ofhis weak hands.
They ran across the street into the house
and up stairs toward the attic when as
they reached the second story, a sudden
thought struck the last man, and he let
his companion go up without him.


Underneath where the boy was hang
ing is small, old fashioned porch which
projects out about three feet from under
the center window Of the second story,
and out of this window the woman on
the opposite side of the street, and those
with her, saw man step on the porch
and look up. AS he stood he was i'm
mediately under the boy, but too close to
Year: 1872

the house for his apparent purpose, the
boy hanging just over the railing: he
stepped over the latter, and with his feet
resting on the edge of the platform of
the porch and one hand grasping an iron
support, he waited. In the meantime
the other two men had reached the roof,
and were descending. when they discover
ed the impossibility of reaching the boy
in safety, and one of them called for
rope.


Before any one could move to the aid
of the exhausted boy, he with shrill
cry let go his hold and fell. As he ap-
preached the man on the porch, the lat
ter was seen to reach out his free arm
under him. and then the boy was grasp
ed by him. A cry of horror went up
from the crowd as the man was seen to
stagger and swing around the end of
the porch with his load but his hand
held its grip on the iron, and moment
afterwards he carried the boy through
the window and turned him over to his
mother, who had only just realized that
something was wrong. The name of the
man whose presence of mind enabled
him to save life, and whose courage
made him forget the risk of his own, is
Campbell Williams.-Ch. Bulletin.
Year: 1872

A CAPITAL HIT.-The fallacy of the
one term dogma was incidentally ex-
posed in forcible light, by Senator
Carpenter, in his recent speech on civil
service reform Taking up the ideas ad-
vanced by Senator Conkling, that if the
President is to be limited to one term.
why not Senators and other officers, he
said:


As part of this reform scheme, the
Senator from Massachusetts (Sumner)
had proposed a constitutional amendment
rendering President who has served
one term Ineligible for reelection. This
would be treating General Grant more
severely than Jefferson Davis, because,
although the latter is disqualified by the
Fourteenth Amendment, it is still with
In the power of Congress to remove his
disabilities, while President Grant would
have no means of relief from his
| Laughter. If the doctrine was true
that one term of service was enough to
demoralize public officer, then the Sen
ator from Massachusetts must be him.
self very thoroughly demoralized by this
time, and being man who sets princi-
Piles above all personal considerations,
he would of course take his hat and
leave the Senate forever Immediately up
on the adoption of his amendment.


DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH A
HoG.-As William Kane, a young
man in the employ of Zenas D. Riggs,
ESQ.,, at Port Jarvis, near Warwick,
was endeavoring to drive a savage
boar into a pen, the animal turned
upon him and drove him into a corner
near high board fence. The boar
leaped at him with the ferocity of a
tiger, but Kane kept him at bay for
some ten minutes with pole, which
was his only weapon. Finally, by a
tremendous leap, the animal came so
near that the pole was useless. As he
made the spring, Kane jumped over
him, but in doing so the boar drove his
tusk through a thick kip boot, end al
most completely through Kane's foot,
throwing him back into the corner
Before the beast could persue the adj
vantage he had gained, Kane was up
and running for Gear life. The boar
followed him to the door of the yard
striking him once above the knee, cut
ting cash six inches long and an
inch deep at one end. The ferocious
animal was subsequently secured in
his pen.
Year: 1872

A story is told of a man in Connecti-
cut who fell from the roof of a fve-story
building to the sidewalk; but as he struck
on the thick soles of his rubber shoes he
bounded back within a quarter of an
inch of the roof, and so continued to
bounce, the distance decreasing by only
quarter Of an inch each journey. He
subs1sted on hash, inclosed in rubber
balls, which he managed to catch on the
bound, and at the end of a month was
restored to his family.
Year: 1872

The following curious combination of poetc terlni-
ations was taken from an old paper. 1t may afford
ONE pleasure to lovers OF the carious


THE PROPOSAL.
Most worthy of estimation,
After long consideration,
And much meditation
On the great reputation
I've a strong inclination
To become your relation
On your appreciation
OF this declaration,
shall make preparation
To remove my situation
To more agreeable station,
And if such oblatiOn
Is worthy of observation,
And can obtain commiseraton,
1t will be aggrandiZation
Beyond all calculation
OF the joy and exultaton


OF yours,


SANS DIssIMULATIoN.


THE REPLY.
SIR,


/ perused your ovation
With much deliberatOn,
And little CONSERVATION
OF the great infatuation
OF your weak imagination,
To show such veneration
On so slight foundation;
But after examination,
And serious contemplation
suppose your animation
Was the fruits of recreation,
Or had sprung from ostentatIon,
TO show your education,
BY all odd enumeration,
Or rather multiplication,
OF words Of the same termination.
Now without disputation
Your laborious application
To so tedious an occupation
Deserves cOmmemOratiOn;
And thinking imitation
sufficient qualification,
l am, without hesitation,


Yours
MARY MODERATIoN.
Year: 1872

President Grant is reported as saying
in regard to the alleged Irregularities in
the New York Custom House: "My mind
is clear upon one point. Every officer
under the Administration, who has in
any way been connected with the irregu-
larities in New York, will be dismissed
at once. 1t makes no difference if every
man now holding Office in New York
should be dismissed | shall not wait
for any report or resolution of the Senate,
nor even for absolute proof of overt acts
The fact that officers have so demeaned
themselves as to be open to suspicion, or
to bring scandal on the service, or to
dissatisfy the large mercantile classes,
is enough to justify a change. These
Senators are no more anxious than | am
to purify the service, and l shall be glad
to do my share in the work. -