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Year: 1872

SINCE the death of Greeley, the news
papers are agitating the question Of how
the Electors in his favor will vote. A
Southern paper suggests that they should
vote for Grant and make his election
unanimous. A Baltimore dispatch of
December 1st says the Electors of Mary
land Greeley were to hold meeting to
decide in the matter. The Importance
attached to the vote seems to be the
bearing it will have on the nomination
four Years hence.
Year: 1872

A MOVEMENT is on foot to remove the
county-seat of Butte county from Oro-
vile to Chico, and the citizens of the lat
ter place have subscribed the funds for
the erection of new county buildings.
Under the new laws of last Winter only
majority vote is necessary to remove
the county-seat, instead of two-thirds
vote MS before
Year: 1872

THE O'Conor Democratic ticket polled
1,25l votes in this State Mt the last cleo
ton, and it is probable that double that
number would have been polled had
straigth-out tickets been sent all over the
State
Year: 1872

THE universal regret at Gen. Meade's
death will be intensified by the reflection
that his native city has supplied a poet
who sings his memory in such doggerel
as this:
lie scaled the bold heights, the summit OF


fame;
For the good of his country he toiled up the


same.
Year: 1872

At half.past one clock this morn
ing private Waterman discovered a
small fame at the rear Of the new
Masonic Hall, corner Wentworth and
King streets, on the first floor, and on
entering the building, found that it
proceeded from pile of shavings,
placed in such a position as to indi.
cate an incendiary purpose. The
watchman extinguished the FIRE, which
had jnst begun to burn, and sent word
TO Lieutenant Heidi, of the Detective
Force, in the meantime keeping close
watch upon the building. Lieu.
tenant Heidi reached the Hall in a
few minutes, and sionde thorough
search of the premlsss, but failed to
find any trace of the incendiary
This attempt to destroy ono Of the
finest buildings of the city ovinccs q
degree of wickedness in tho perpetra
tor that would hesitate at nothing
and We sincerely trust the fend may
be discovered and fittingly punished
- Charleston Republican.
Year: 1872

Lately I had young mule taken
with blind staggers, aud it was bad
case. A friend advised me to mash
up the gum Of camphor (say half an
ounce y divide and put in each ear,
fill tho ear with rags or paper and
tie, to prevent his Hopping it out,
[ did 70, and to my delight my mule
was we'll in less than two hours. nnd
has been at work ever since. - Home
Journal.
Year: 1872

buggy, my cold ride out, my colder
ride yet before, and my disappointed
wife, to whom / had promised the
fee.


But, kind reader, I want to assure
you that gave them '.abouf dollars
worth" Ii ever couple got the full
value of their money, they did for ii
kept them Standing there one min
ute, 1 kept them there three-quarters
of an hour, and was marrying them
all the time. / confess / did not offer
prayer-I know it was wrong-but i
was determined that John should
have ga dollars worth; :" and / think
by the way he stood, first on one foot
and then on the other, he was satisfi-
ed with the cheapness and quantity of
the ceremony. Indeed, | am persua-
ded if John and Mary, or either of
them ever get married again--though
nothing but death can cut the knot L
tied that day, not even the. divorce
law of their own beloved Indiana
say am satisfied that about ten cents
worth will do them next time.


/ reached home Just in time to go
into the pulpit, cold, tired and hungry.
l am afraid / did not feel very pious
that night or the next day, when I adj
ded four dollars to my fee, out of my
scanty purse, to pay for the hire of
my horse and buggy; but since then
| have gotten in good humor about il,
and am sure it has afforded me more
than dollars worth of fun. l hope
the relation of this, E:my first we'd
ding" may serve a pleasant purpose
in these columns.
Year: 1872

Under the leaves is the acorn sleeping


Waiting the summons to wake and rise;
w hen into life. from its covert peeping.


The sapling rises in mute surprise.
Years pass away. and the oak in its glory


Heayenward its giant branches heaves:
Yet the King of the Forest, so grand in story,
To-day is sleeping under the leaves.
Under the leaves are the yioiets dreaming
Meekly bowed is each delicate head
w WaIt1ng the vernal sun. whose cleaning
Can call them forth from their lovly bed
Soon VII they crown. in peerless slendor
Fit for the garland that Love so fondly
\ ct Springs best gifts. so sweet and tender
To-day are dreaming. under the leaves:
Under the leaves are loved ones resting
Silently resting, side by side:
w aiting the Last Great Day. for testing
! The Faith in whose keeping they lived and
One by one. they left US at the Summons fearful.
And many q love and stricken heart griyes
For the friends whose presence made Lille so


cheerful


To-day are resting, under the leaves
Under the leaves we soon shall be lying
Caring for nanght that Mortals may dol
Done with the Livingi yes, and the Dying,
Few brief days-yery b ief at the longest
For Health can grant only short reprieves-
And then the weakest, not more than the strong


est


Will all be lying under the leaves
Year: 1872

While we, as citizens of Territory,
can have no voice in our national affairs.
yet it may be fortunate. in this: That
we have more time to attend to our own
immediate concerns; to purify our own
body polite. Reform in the admins
tration of public affairs is the universal
cry. and upon this theory the trammels
of party and of party discipline are be-
ing thrown off, party distintions are
being laid aside. and the great majority
of al, parties will unite in the one pur-
pose of placing in Office only those hav-
ing the prerequisites of honesty and
capability.


That complete and radical change
in our own county affairs is absolutely
necessary, there can be no doubt.


The statements of the officials them
selves, are sufficient to ests bllsh this
fact..even if other evidence was want
ing. The cause is plain, a long contlnu-
anee of the same men in Office lnvarla-
blv tends to corruption: there IS no
Year: 1872

Very few people, the London Spectator
suspects, as yet understand the enor-
nous importance and complexity of the
next great task which the government
stands pledged to undertake. Mr..
Gladstone has promised next session to
reform our whole system of local gov
ernment, with view to its reinvigora-
ton in the representative sense-that is,
he has pledged himself to examine, re-
adjust, and Tighten a system of taxation
as complex and almost as burdensome
as that of the kingdom before the intro
duction of free trade, to invade the last
stronghold of privilege, and devise a
representative constitution applicable to
provinces hitherto governed almost ex-
clusively by nominees of the Crown.
With the towns, which are included in
the scope of his measures, there will not,
we imagine, be much difficulty. Ii the
Premier, with his splendid genius for
finance, can devise new modes of giving
them revenue, so as to prevent the
increasing pressure on rental from be-
coming dangerous to civilization-which
requires that the people be well lodged
he will add greatly to his popularity,
but we imagine that no very radical
change viii be made in the principle of
municipal taxation. We wish it could
be made, that the millionaire could at
least be made to pay little more for
his municipal privileges than the profess
sional man who happens to occupy as
large house, but the difficulties in the
way may prove too great even for Mr..
Gladstone's courage and tenacity. 1t is
in the counties that the change must be
greatest, and in the counties that the
difficulties will be the most numerous
and the most embarrassing to govern
ment which, itself composed in great
part Of squires, has always to reckon on
such matters with the banded squire
archy. The ballot will greatly facilitate
reform in this direction; but even with
the ballot hanging over them, the
squirearchy will not, we predict, yield
jot of their privileges without forcing a
dissolution.
Year: 1872

Greeley ON the ThIrd-Ticket Movement.


BRIDGEPORT, CONN, August 29.-
Mr.. Greeley arrived here yesterday, and
was the guest of Mr.. Barnum. A Gree
ley meeting in the afternoon adjourned
to Barnum's house and called him out.
He said that he was on a personal visit,
thanked the crowd for the compliment,
and then said:


"Allow me to make a single remark
in reference to one aspect of the great
struggle going on in our country. STRAIT
egy in politics is the tribute which the
craft pays the strength. The wOlfskin
proving too short, the fox's tail is
pressed into service to piece out. You
see this day a great party struggling to
avoid defeat by distracting and breaking
up the host which are opposed to it.
You would not have the Federal office
holders working so hard to get up a
third ticket, if they were not sure that
between the tickets already in the field
the verdict was against them. The eff
fort to distract the host on our side is a
confession of despair, and as such re-
ceived confessions remain, the despair
is not likely to pass away
Year: 1872

MONTGOMERY, August 29.-Reliable
reports from all points in Alabama rep
resent the destruction of cotton BY the
worms more thorough than ever before.


They have eaten the leaves until the
fields are as bare as after a frost. The
naked condition of the plant reveals the
fact that mature fruitage is not so great
as usual at this season of the year Fears
are almost universal of bankruptcy
among the planters. No one expects
that the crop viii equal that of last year.
Year: 1872

CHICAGO, August ga jacksonville
dispatch says that a terrible tornado
passed over the city and vicinity last
night. About one half of the roof Of
Capp's wooden mill was torn of, and one
third of the roof of the Jacksonville
wooden mills. The walls of the Methodist
Episcopal church in course of cOnstruc-
ton were blown down. Several barns
and small houses were upset and torn to
pieces, while shade and forest trees were
snapped of and sent whirling through
the air with terrific force. Corn
and fences through the country are
fiattened. The damage done is great,
though no lives were lost as yet heard
of. The storm is the severest that has
ever visited this locality in years.
Year: 1872

A Grant orator speaking in one of the
New York districts recently said: Z" /
look upon the public press as public
nuisance, and the people ought to arise
in their majesty and put down the news
papers which malign our President"
Year: 1872

Never send thou an article for
publication without giving the editor
thy name, for thy name oftentimes
secures publication to worthless arti-
cles.


Thou shouldst not rap at the door of
printing office. for he that answereth
the rap sncereth in his own sleeves
and looseth- time.


Never do thou loaf about, and ask
questions or knock down type, or the
boys will love you like they do nade
trces-when they leaveth.


Thou shouldst never read the copy
on the printers case, or the sharp
hooked container thereof, or he may
knock thee down.


Never enquire thou of the editor
for the news, for behold it is his busi-
ness at the appointed time to give it
to thee without asking. 1t is not
right that thou shoulds ask him who
is the author of articles for it is the
duty to keep such things unto him
self.


When thou dost enter his office,
take heed unto thyself that thou dost
not look at what may be lying open
and concerneth thee not, for that is
not meet in the sight of good breed
ing.


Neither examine thou the proof
sheet, for it is not ready to meet
thine eye that thou maycst under
stand


Prefer thine own town paper to.
any other, and subscribe immediate
ly. ~.


Pay for it in advance, and it shall
be we'll with thee and thine.
Year: 1872

We should never allow ourselves to
forget that nature intended us for warm
blooded animals. In this climate of sur
prising changes, we are very apt to for
get it, especially in the fall and spring.
AT such seasons, when we freeze and
simmer on alternate days, there is en-
gendered in us a certain recklessness,
which takes no heed of cold or heat,
dampness or dryness, and receives all
tempera lures with the same front, gen.
orally delenceless one. 1t is certainly
very troublesome to change front as
often as the weather, and there is a
prejudice in American minds against
such change, which has great deal to
do with the rapidly increasing popula-
ton of our graveyards. People like to
have some stability Of purpose, and if
they can have it in nothing else they
will try to have it in their dress. They
will not make change until they
mako permanent one for tho season.
No matter how hot it is in the spring,
they will wear spring clothes until sum.
mer and no matter how cool it may be
in August, summer clothes must be
worn until fall shall actually set in.
Thus ofttimes suddenly and with sad
results we find ourselves approaching
| the condition of the fish, and lizards
for the chill, that alert fc erunner of dis
ease, is ever ready, in our climate, to
take advantage of circu nstances.


We suppose that the e are no people
in the world so Indifferent to the de-
mandS Of the weathor-especially cool
weather-as Americans, and one reason
of this is that very many of us are
ashamed TO keep warm. To wrap up
and button up, and to put down win
dUws whenever there is a chilling
change in the air,srgues, to most minds
a namby pamby eagerness to be well
that isrepugnaut to the hardy American
soul. So, rather than be laughed at, We
shivcr We prefer tragedy, the grave ia
the ridiculOus.-HOme and Society, 1,


ScribHer'S for NCUemJer.
Year: 1872

Last evening a young man named Hugh
Mitchell stole into the room of a colored wo-
man named Blanchard, living at the place of
Mr.. John Long. on Broadway, between sec
ond and Third streets, and pocketed a gold
watch, gold dollar, a bracelet and breast
pin. In attempting to make his escape from
the premises he was caught by colored man
employed about the place, who found the
stolen treasures upon his person, and held
him under arrest. About three years ago
Mitchell was known here as notorious
house-breaker, and, although he was not over
sixteen years of age, he was quite successful
in his exploits, and practiced his profession
in a manner that was novel and peculiar. He
raised net coon, and so trained the animal
that wheyer its master would put it down
upon the ground it would run Immediately in
to the nearest house. Mitchell would take his
coon about the street in his arms, ostensibly
for the purpose of showing it off and when in
front of residence he wished to enter, he
would let the coon down. In an instant the
well trained animal would scamper OFF to-
wards the house, and its master would follow
in pursuit. If there happened to be an open
ing anywhere about the building, the coon
was sure to find it and enter the house at
once. OF course, the people of the house
would allow the master to come in after his
pet, and while the family and the servants
were lending helping hand to effect the cap
ture of the runaway, Mitchell would busy
himself with every opportunity by picking up
| little things here and there in the rooms in
| which they passed after the slippery little
beast. Mitchell kept up-this game quite sue
cessfully for some time, but was finally caught
and sent to the penitentiary for a term of
| three wears. About month ago he was par
doned out by Governor Leslie, after remain
ing in the prison about year and half


His parents and people had left the city dur
ing his confinement, and gone to another sec
ton of the country to live; but as soon as he
was released, young Mitchell returned to
Louisville, it seems, to follow his old pursuits.
He is now only Is years of age, and made
quite genteel appearance when brought to
the station house last night. Doubtless this
I act will send him back to the penitentiary


and when he returns to the walks OF honest


men, he will have learned that honesty is the


best policy.-LOuispille Courier, Jan. 24th.
Year: 1872

A NEW AND CAREFUL BRIDEGROOM In CieVe-
land kept the wedding ring in his mouth dur
ing the fore part Of the ceremony, so that ne
could find it when the proper moment arrived.
He numbled along all right until the minister
wiuked at him, as hint to produce the ring;
when in his nervousness he swallowed it, and
there being no stomach pump on hand, ne was
stood on his head by three gentleman to rec ov-
er the golden pledge.
Year: 1872

az am afraid" said /, ''you will never
find husband to agree with you, Fan,
or one with the necessary early train
ing"


az may not,n she replied, "but hope
the boys of the next generation may be
better educated than to feel it kind OF
proper to lie in bed, or even sit and toast
their toes and read the morning paper,
while the woman they profess to love is
hurrying to get them an elaborate meal,
lest they growl over muddy coffee and
plain toast"


'There is another point of the subject
that will bear thinking Of" said 1. IA
mans days work is generally done al
six o'clock, and he has his evening fol-
rest and recreation, while most wives
and mothers who have not plenty Of
servants work. till q late hour of the
evening, often three or four hours aftel
the husbands work is done. 1t seems to
one it is only equalizing the thing fol
him 10 start in first in the morning, and
let her rest, and if they both agree to it,
I see nothing improper in it."


Improper r' said Fan. ~ hope the
time will come when the impropriety
will be on the side of those husband.
who selfishly seek their own comfort
and ease at the expense of their hard.
worked wives"
Year: 1872


"Oh, very well! he answered, without
change of tone.


Getting more reconeiled to her new


"Yes.u


I'm glad to hear it. Few of us can
pear an entire change in our surround
spiritsp


lie did not reply to this remark, but
changed the subject.


Mrs. Baldwin met her husband almost
at the door. She had been watching for
MIN at the parlor window. l noticed
that he kissed her tenderly and put an
arm about her waist, spite of my pres
enee. Her face was all alive with pleas
ure, and its whole expression so differ
ent from what it was when | last met
her, that l could but wonder at the
change. Her manner toward me, her
husbands friend, was very cordial, and
quite i'm contrast with what it had been
at previous meeting Then she was
depressed, absent, and i'll at ease, and
when she looked at her husband her
face, instead ofIighting up, grew strange
ly Swallowed.


I understood it all. The true and loyal
husband had supplemented fidelity with
tenderness. / saw this in every WORD,
and tone, and action. The half-proud
courtliness of manner-the dignified re-
preston of feeling-which had so hurt
and chilled his loving little wife, and
held her away from him, We're all gone,
fused by the tenderness he permitted to
go forth in speech and act.-Tender and
true Yes, he was all that now and
his sweet young wife felt herself to be
the happiest woman in all the world.
Year: 1872

a very small degree of brittleness," and
he severed a twig with his pruning hook
and gave it me to test its pliability,
which found to be very great. 1--WE
always avoid" said he, 'placing this
shrub near the fence, for it is so exceed
ingly flexible that the wind blows the
branches over, around and through the
fence in such a manner that it is almost
impossible to tell whether the roots are
within the enclosure or not. Its neigh
bors form a very favorable opinion of it
on first acquaintance, which it is ena-
bled TO maintain with most of them for
time by its much smooth talk and fire.
quent protestations of affection. But
when injustice and oppression prevail,
and it becomes necessary to innovate on
the customs and laws controlling the
garden, Instead of leading in the van,
Policy (for such is its name) falls in the
rear, and is sure to wait until satisfied
that the innovation will be adopted be-
fore it consents to appear in the ranks
of REFORM"


The gardener then led me to q remote
corner of the garden, where grew a
stately, wide spreading tree, whose
thick evergreen foliage afforded cool
shade from the burning rays of the sun,
which had now reached the meridian,
and whose fair, fragrant flowers, un-
moved by the passing air, followed con-
stantly, with unbowed heads, the daily
revolution of the sun.


''The name of this tree" said the gar
dener, "is Justice. In regard to its So
eial standing with its neighbors, it is
not very popular. They take offence at
its plain, truthful sayings, and consider
it unrefined because destitute of that
prevarication which is considered so es-
sential to polite conversation. Thus
Justice often receives the Sights and
sneers Of the giddy throng, remaining
steadfast to principle and apparently
unmoved at beholding homage bestowed
upon others less worthy. Although
passed by UNDECIDED and neglected
throughout the long summer of peace
and prosperity, yet when the winds Of
adversely blow through the garden and
revolution impends over the heads of its
inmates, then they appeal TO honesty
and seek refuge under the canopy O
Justiee.n


Thus Truth and Justice, Hope and Love,
Throughout the earth's broad field may move
But Envy, Stratagem, Deceit,


Z With ignOminy shall retreat.


SALEM, March %, 1872.
Year: 1872

In trip last week through the burned
region of the towns of Brussels, Union,
Nasewaupee, Gardner and Forrestville,
we appreciated what we had not seen in
its full effects before-the dreadful tenn
pest of wind and fire which swept over
that country, on the night of the Sth Of
October Wherever view across the
couHtry could be obtained nothing but a
black and desolate scene presented it
self to the eye. Areas frequently Of
ten miles in length and breadth, present
ed no living thing to the sight-no living
trees, no growing underbrush, and even
no tracks on the snow indicating the
presence of rabbit or squirrel. The
besom of destruction has not only
blighted this living growth, but it has
also eaten into the ground and killed
the seeds and germs, so that the spring
may open and the summer come, and
yet no green growth will spring up to
start vegetation anew.-Erchange.
Year: 1872

The Country Gentleman says: Take a
pan or shovel with burning Goals and
sprinkle upon them common brown
sugar, and hold the wounded part in the
smoke. Ina few minutes the pain will
be allayed and recovery proceeds rap
idly. In my own case ru sty nail had
made bad wound in the bottom of my
foot The pain and nervo US irritation
was severe. This was all removed by
holding it in the smoke for fifteen min
utes, and was able to resu me my read
ing in comfort. We have often recon-
mended it to others with like results.
Last week one of my men had finger
nail torn out by pair of ce tongs. 1t
became very painful, as was to have been
expected. Held in sugar smoke for
twenty minutes, the pain ceased, and IT
promises speedy rec every. ur
Year: 1872

The New York Observer, which, from
sad experience, knows the bitter secrets
of unsolicited communications gives ad-
vice to writer's for the newspapers. See
how editors lecture on the subject
" Omit the be ginning of your essay
Most writers, not used to the press, i'm
agine that newspaper article, like an
oration, should have an exordium, an ar
gument and conclusion. Not at all.
The argument is all that is wanted.
That is, state your case say your say
and stop. Do not take time and space
to get into the subject, and more to get
out Of it; but come to it instantly, and
stop when you are done.