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Year: 1873

The snow had begun in the cleaning,


And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway


With q siience deep and white.
Every pine, and FIR, and hemlock.


Wore ermine too dear for an Earl
And the poorest twing the elm tree
Was fringed inch deep with the pearl.
From sheds new-roofed with Carrara
Came Chanticleer's mufied crow,
The stiff rails were sOftened to swan s-dOWn,
And stin huttered down the snow.
I stood and watched by the window


The noiseless work Of the sky,
And the sudden hurries of snow birds.
Like brown leaves whirling by.
I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn,
Where little head-stOne stood


Where the flakes were folding it gently,
As did robins the babes in the woods.
Up spoke our little Mabel,


Saying, Father, who makes It snow -
And told her Of the good Ai-Father
Who cares for us below.
Again looked at the SNOW fau,


And thought of the leaden sky
That arched DER our first great sorrow
When the mound was heaped 60 high.
I remember the gradual patience


That fell from the cloud like snow,
Flake by fake healing and hiding


The scar Of that deep stabbed woe.
And again to the child I whispered,


81 The snow that husheth all,
Darling, tho Meroiful Father,


Alone make it fall"
Then with eyes that saw not, kissed her,
And she kissed back, but could not know
That my kiss was given to her sister
Folded close under deepening snow.
Year: 1873

The pencil marks you ses around this
paragraph Cthus) mean that your sub
scription is out OF unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


ET We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance
Year: 1873

THE gentlemen from New York inter-
ested in the construction of the Iron
Mountain and Helena railroad, left yes
terday for home. We learn that they
have made propositions which will, if
acceded to, speedily adjust all the diff
culties in the way of the construction of
the road. These gentlemen are known
to the leading capitalists Of our city, and
strong efforts were made to induce them
to become interested in two or three en-
terprises here. The presidency of one of
our important ro&ds was, we understand,
offered and declined, for the reason that
they are committed to the Helena and
Iron Mountain road, and are resolved to
put it through. They are gentlemen of
large means, and are much inter-
ested in the people and prospects
Of Arkansas, and stand pledged to help
the road for which Captain Maccabe
and other gentlemen have been work
ing with might and main for the past
three years. We congratulate the gen.
tlemen of this road that they have at
last succeeded in accommodating all the
differences that at one time intervened
and almost interrupted the work, and
hope that our friends in Helena will
soon be able to rejoice in the completion
Of their most important line of road.
Year: 1873

OK this page we publish an advertise
ment from General Wright, announcing
his purpose 20 publish, through Boyle
& Chapman, Of this city, Official Con-
fedcrate Reports Of the War. We hope
the response of the public in subscrip-
tons will be such as to encourage the
General in the prosecution Of a work
that is very much needed Up TO this
time we have only had personal memo
ries and personal views of the war be-
tween the States, from tine Confederate
side, and the public win no doubt hail
with delight the publication of a work
that has the Endorsement of thelate Con-
federate Congress as to the authen-
ticity and value Of its contents. As we
understand the scope of this work of
General wrights, it will be esimply a
compilation of official reports ehrono-
logically arranged, put in shape that
win show the progress Of the war on the
Southern side, the victories and defeate,
and the resources in men and materials,
with which our people were enabled so
long to contend with superior numbers.
Such work is needed in vindication of
the military prowess of the South, and
we have no doubt it will find as many
purchasers at the North and among
Northern soldiers, as at the South and
among Southern soldiers. We be-
speak for General Wright the help
Of every one able to give him
help in what will be with him a labor of
love, and that whatever ex-General, or
other officers of the late armies of the
Confederacy have, that is likely to add
to the completeness of the work,
will be sent him in time for its use in
the proper place. This work should
have, and we hope viii have a large and
extended sale.
Year: 1873

A bill was introduced which provides
that incorporated towns and cities of be-
tween eight and twenty thousand in
habitants may issue bonds to the amount
of one hundred and fifty thousand dol.
lars, bearing ten per cent, in addition to
the amount that may be already OUT
standing, to be authorized by simple
Year: 1873

The proposition for Constitutional
Convention has not formally come up
vet, but it is working among the mem
bers and leavening them. When the
members met, there were not many
friends of the movement to be found;
now they are numerous in all parties
and from all parts of the State. When
the proposition comes up, mistake
very much if its supporters do not Ge-
velop unexpected strength.
Year: 1873

Henry Ward Beechcr, in his Yale
College course of lectures on preach.
ing, has u description OF the "revi'
valist" of the day, which contains
much sound sense rs well as humor;
"Most revivalists that have known
are men with immense bellies and
immense chests and big underheads.
They are men that carry great
deal of personal magnetism with
them; q scnsuous magnetism, too,
and they have a great power of ad-
dressing the undermine; and they
will set feelings undulating like
waves, and will carry men on them.
l do not believe you could preach
with effect to the boatmen and the
gamblers Of Arkansas and to all the
rlff.ratf Of the community, those who
really live down in the cellar of
their heads, unless you brought the
motive Of fear to bear upon them.
If you could in any way bring the
higher feeling in their natures to
act in and of itself upon the lower
ones, there would be regeneration
in that direction.


But, ordinarily, men that work
among those classes are largely OF
the cath, blessed with vigorous cir
culation and great power Of throw
ing out sympathetic influence upon
men, and because they preach large
Year: 1873

From MIS- Barnham's last fashion letter.


The EXTREMIST phase of the fash
ionable Scant effect was reached
Sunday by a lady who walked W
Fifth Avenue in a navy blue camel's
hair dress. Not 4 pucker or 4 visi.
BILE seam, or 4 particle of trimming,
broke up the beautiful surface OF
that woman. She was one unbcnd-
Ing level, and how she got in that
straight jacket of . dress | couldn't
imagine till | took Il q rear view OF
her, and found she was buttoned up
behind from neck to hem. Two
unobstrusivc box plcats lurked in a
shy way each side Of the opening:
otherwise that garment looked like
bloatcd pantaloon leg. And walk
wei! she couldn't walk very well
anu in case of fire that woman would
be fried in her own fat. You sec
economy must begin somewhere.
Ii cloth is used for the ruffs why the
skirts will suffer, and mercy knows
what is required for the big silk
fences built up about the female
head just now. being one OF the
short-neck-never-quiet kind, can't
wear these at all.


These ruffs come now IN all colors
ready made, and ont Of respect to
the donor l mounted one of these
affairs with my usual recklessness.
This particular one was very high,
had buckram, hair-cloth, spiral
springs and q wire round the top,
1t obstructcd my view each side,
but it was fashionable, and should
wear blinders, l suppose, if it was
"the s.yle." With much difficulty
4 hat was pursuaded to ride on top
Of this ruff, and out l sailed. Turn
ing the first corner my head went
round in advance of the rest of me
and nearly sawed off my inside
ear. Meeting a friend l nodded ia
miliarly and brought up with my
nose gushcd. Pretty soon after my
back hair got hitched at the rear
and felt like little boy hanging
over garden fence with a nail in
the seat of his trowsers. SO The
next time / met friend l cut hel
dead and desperately marched on,
looking neither to the right or left.


went home and applied bread
and milk poultice to my sacrificed
neck, and Griswold's salve to my
ear, and a wet rag to my nose, and
sat down on that ruff and mashed it
Year: 1873

| hav finally cum to the conklu-
shun that beer as beverage is
not intoxicating.


I hav been told so by German
who SAID he had drunk it all night
long, just to try the experiment, and
was obliged to go home entirely
sober in the morning. l have seen
this same man drink eighteen
glasses, aud if he was drunk, he
was drunk in German, and nobody
could understand it. 1t is proper
enough to state that this man kept
Il lager beer saloon, and could have
no objection in stating what was
not strictly true.


beleve to the full extent Of my
experience that | never drank but
three glasses of lager in my life,
and that made my he'd wist as tho
it was hung on the end of string,
but | was told that il was owing to
my bile being out of place, and |
guess that it was 50, for never
billed over wuss than | did when l
got home that mite. Ny wife thot
| was going to die, and I was afraid
that l shouldn't, tor it seemed as
tho everything | had eaten in my
life was cummin to the surface, and
| believe that if my wife hadn't
pulled off my boots ust as she did,
they would have come laundering
too.


OH; how sick | WIZ! Fourteen
years ago, and | can taste it now.


| never had SO much experience
in so short time.


If any man shud tell me that la
ger beer wuz not intoxicating, shui
believe him; but if he shud tell me
that | wuzn't drunk that mite, but
that my stumick was out Of order,
shud ask him to state in a few
words, jest how a man felt and
acted when he was set up.


If wasn't drunk that mite, | had
some ov the most natural slmtums
that man ever had and kept so
| Der.


In the first place, it was about
eighty rods from where | drank the
lager beer to mi house, and | wuz
Jest two hours on the road, and had
4 hole bursted through each one ov
my pantaloon neez, and didn't have
eny hat, and tried to open the door
by the bell-pull. and hiccupped
awfully, and saw everything in the
room tryin. to get round on the
back side ov me, and in sitting
down on a chair, and did not wait
long cnutf for it to get exactly un'
der me when it wuz going round,
and | set down little too soon and
missed the chair about twelve
inches, and couldn't get up soon
enough to take the next one that
come along; and that amt awl: mi
wife said was as drunk as beast.
Iflager beer is not intoxicating it
used me most almighty mean, that
/ know.


Still l hardly think that lager
beer is intoxicating, forI have been
told so; and l am probably the
only living man who ever drunk
emmy when his liver was not plumb.
| don't want to say anything
against harmless temperance bev'
erage, but if l ever drink emmy
more, it will be with mi hands tied
behind me and mi mouth Eried
open.


l don't think lager beer is intoxi.
eating, but if l remember rite, |
think it tastes to me like a glass OF
soap suds that had a pickle put tew
soak in.
Year: 1873

ly to the under class, men who arc
moved by conscience and by moth
ing else, they preach these acerh
and terrific doctrines, and preach
them with all the imagery that has
come down to us from the medieval
times, with hoois and horns, and all
manner of exaggerated statements.
| have heard revivalist in my pul.
pit make statements to my cougrc
CATION that, if | believed them to
be true, would make me abandon
the Christian ministry was going
to say, abandon decent society and
:orswear my race! lie stood there
and afterward, when | was with
him, he appeared to have no com
punction-and he began with this
declaration, that the mind was
capable Of infinite development and
increase Of capacity.


Well, that is pure supposition to
start with. But, assuming that, he
went on to say that it would go on
increasing forever in power ol
thought, and power of susceptible.
ty, and power of enjoyment, and
power of suffering. That being
granted, lie went on to say that il
men ever went to hell they will in.
crease forever and ever; and when
he came to the application, it was
this: Il have no doubt said he,
and his great white eye gIistencd
rs he rolled it around the audience,
that there are men sitting by me
who will by and by be in hell, and
will have grown and grown and
grown in the power of suffering
until they have reached point at
which they will suffer more in a
single minute than all that suffering
of the damned from the beginning
of creation to the present hour


There was his logical inference:
and then he multiplied it and wen,
on, saying that there would be mul.
titudes and multitudes of them
there, while the angels were sing
ing glory to God, and while God
was looking over into the pit and
seeing that terrific scene, enjoying
himself, he wanted me to believe
that, and then worship God. Now,
where you deal with men in commn.
mites in that way, it is you who
are to blame, the reactions are some
times very terrific in revivals."
Year: 1873

Gather the sacred dust


Of the warriers tried and true,
Who bore the flag Of our nations trust,
And fell in the cause, though lost, ssiii


just,


And died for me and you.
Gather them, one and all!
From the private to the Chief.
Come they from hovel or princely nal,
They fell for US, and for them should


fall


The tears, of nations grief.
Gather the corpses strewn
Der many battle plain;
From many grave that lies so long,
Without q name and without stone,
Gather the Southern slain.
We care not whence they came,


Dear is their lifeless clay!
Whether unknown, or known, 10 iame
Their cause and country still the same
They died-and wore the gray.
Whenever the brave have died,


They should not rest apart;
Living, they struggled side by side
WHY should the ehand of death divide
A single heart from heart. .
Gather their scattered clay, .-.-
Wherever it may rest;
Just as they marched to the bloody fray;
Just az they fell on the battle day;
Bury them breast to breast.
The foenian need not dread r..
This gathering of the brave;
Without sword or flag, or without sound


less tread,
We muster, once more, our deathIess


dead


Out of each lonely grave.
The foeman need not frown;


They are all powerless now Il
We gather them here, and we lay them


down,
And tears and prayers are the only


crown


We bring, to wreath each brow.
And the dead thus meet the dead,
While the living DER them weep;
And the men whom Lee and StoneWall


led;
And the hearts that once together bled ;
Together still shall sleep.
Year: 1873




DALLAS, October l5.-This morning
about three o'clock fire broke out in
a block between Main and Market
streets and Elm and Jefferson in q
irane building. The fire department
vas unable to do efficient work in time


O save any part Of the block, which is
:ow mass of ruins. The roofs OF the
buildings were constructed OF frame
work which added materially to the
progress OF the flames which soon be-
came uncomfortable. Great gloom is
cast over the community as some Of
the largest business houses in our city
are DESTROYED.
Year: 1873

WOULD you select man to make
laws whom you would kick out Of your
house, and whom YOU wouldn't trust in
your hen COOP Certainly not. And
vet by stayingat home to day, you give
half s vote for just such man. 20 to
the polls and vote ard work for Pan
SRIL
Year: 1873

WHEN the bully and the hlack-leg
presents bis personal and professional
issue for approval al the polls, it is
safe to presume that the intelligence
and respectability Of the community
will decide it to his satisfaction.
Year: 1873

II THERE Is \ MAN in the community
who is striving for excellence as a ruff
An aud a rowdy, he will not find a con-
genial candidate in PAYNELL. Let
him vote fox JlaswEBNEY and feel him
self exalted
Year: 1873

Though it is not the Office of secular pa


per to impart religious instruction, the occas-


ional publication of sermon is, perhaps,


unobjectionable, provided always it is flee
from odious comparisons and reflections. II


it abounds in these it becomes obviously Of
fensive, and in proportion to the number and


respectability of the parties unjustly dispar-


aged. Such sermon, I conceive, was that


preached in Park street pulpit of this city, on
Easter Sunday. land published in your columns
on Tuesday last. That the publication of this
sermon could not fail to give offence, and
justly so, to large number of your readers,
will readily appear when you reflect that It
was studded with unprovoked and ill-founded
attacks and aspersi0ns on nearly all Christian


churches, and On the most sacred beliefs of
all who profess and call themselves Christians
in any accepted sense.


The sermon opens with gratuitous assault
on four-fifths of Chrrstendom for observing
s'times and seasons" or particular days."
misconceiving and mistaking the groun Is on
which these days are obscene. 1t then proceeds
in an equally reckless way to travesty the
doctrines held by the Orthodox (so-called)
and ehds by virtual denial of the New Tes-
lament history of the resurrection of Christ,
representing it as question of no interest or
Importance whether Christ rose from the
dead or not; clearly implying, however, that
tue SIOTy VI tuc TtSuTTeCtlOu WStS uOIuluS EuG
an idle tale. Such, have no doubt, the
preacher believes it to have been, ian idle
tale) and would not hesitate to challenge
his belief on this vital question.


Now submit, Mr.. Editor, that there is
nothing in such a sermon to entitle it to the
exceptional distinction of publication in the
columns of business and family paper, which
goes into hundreds of households, where it is
received on the confidence of the heads of
those families that its columns will not be
made available to those who, having lost their
own faith in the authority of the Gospel, can
find no better use for their talents than devot-
ing them to the destruction Of the faith of
others, more favored than themselves.


Ifit be said that vou make no distinction
between orthodox and heterodox, but publish
occasionally sermons from both with equal
friendliness. the reply is this: Reports of SER
mons which contain only sentiments COM


mon to all Christians and moralists are of


course admissible, and possibly some of those
which advocate the views of sect, If the tone
be not insulting to the intelligence and char
acter of your patrons, who in this case are a
large majority of your readers. This distinc-
ton appears to me perfectly plain. The only
wonder is that the Park street minister should
have set il at naught, and that you should
have become party to his bad taste, in con-
senting to convey to him the use of your col
umns. ASA DALTON,


Rector of ST StanhnnS
Year: 1873

SENATOR BAYARD of Delaware has writ
ten letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
returning the amount of bis back salary to
the department.. Mr.. Bayard says he voted
for increase of salary to prevent the defeat of
the executive legislative and judiciary appro-
priation bill to which the salary outrage was
appended by Gen, Butler to avoid the expense
OF an extra session which would have been inn
peratively necessary in consequence of the fail
ure. The cost of such a session would exceed
the expense of the back pay and would be gen.
orally preiuiicial to the interests ofthe coun
try. Mr.. Bayardsays that he opposed the meas
ure in the conference committee by which he
was member hut joined in its report fof the
reason above stated. Gen. Garfield also op-
posed the section; SO if any other member of
the committee had been opposed to it, it
would have been lost in conference.
Year: 1873

TIE charter just passed by the New York
legislature for the city of New York fails to
meet the approval Of any Of the leading New
York papers. The Times says that the Sem
ate is mainly responsible for its adoption and
that the Assembly concurred in the amend
ments of that body when it was found that the
measure was the bestthat could be secured and
much better thau the existing Tweed charter.
1t finds some satisfaction in the fact that the
greater part of the Tammany ring are legis-
lated out of Office though there is too much
yet remaining. The principal objection is
that the Mayor and Aldermen cannot be held
to strict account for the conduct of the City
government under its provisions, for the Leg
islature has tied their hands by placing the
character of the most important officers be-
yond their control.
Year: 1873

10 tAc fUttOr OF Wc f>FcSS.


When the old-fashioned Democrat used to
swear that the "nigger" was naturally and
manifestly so inferior to the white man that
he could not take care OF himself and at the
same time insisted that he must become a
property holder in order to vote, while the
Caucasian ought to exercise the sacred right
of suffrage, although unable to pay poll tax,
we used to ridicule the obvious unfairness of
the old-fashioned Democratic mind. But
fear that we Republicans of the most pro-
gressive aud latest school must plead guilty to
a ltill greater inconsistency. 1t has been re-
pea.edly laid down in the columns of your
valuable paper that capital punishment is quite
too barbarous penalty for the modern mur-
derer, that death is altogether too severe
punishment for the white man who, like Fos-
ter, without provocation murders an unof-
tending fellow passenger of his own blood,
language, complexion and faith. And yet I
gather from this mornings paper that Capt.
Jack, a red Indian, pagan, without the Sum-
day school influences which surrounded the
late Mr.. Foster, maadened with the recollec-
tion, of the frauds of dishonest Indian agents
who had palmed off upon his tribe poor rum
and worthless goods for the heavy appropria-
tions which Congress had, under the old sys-
tenn intended for the Modocs, has been guilty
of lack Of discrimination, and wreaked his
natural vengeance upon the wrong white men
is to be consigned to death without word of
remonstrance from the PRESS!


Now what I want to know is this. If hang
ing is too bad fol the white graduate of the
Episcopal Sunday School of New York, even
though, he murders his fellow, without provo
cation, why put to death, the ignorant hea-
then for killing an alien to his race and that


in time of war and after great provocation


from men of the same nation and of the
same faith and complexion as his victime


Is there not, Mr.. Editor, something pitiful-
ly weak in the sentimentality which weeps
over the execution of cold deliberate villains
of our color, and demands the instant execu-
ton of ignorant impulsive wretches Of copper
hue? And is there not fatal feebleness in
theories which, like those of the anti-capital-
punishment men rear their imposing front
when nobody feels in danger but are sure to
vanish into thin air when murderers really
mean business? CONSISTENCY.
Year: 1873

Languor, lassitude, an indisposition to engage in
any actual employment mental duness and melan-
choly are evils which materially detract from human
enjoyment, and they are experienced in greater
or less degree, according to the temperament and
constitutional tendencies Of the individual by Large
proportion of the community in spring To rouse
the physical and mental powers from this sluggish
condition tonic and imperatively raquir-
ed and Hosteters Stomach Bitters is the only med
icinal preparation in existence that is thoroughly
adapted to the work. The first dose produces gen.
ial glow throughout the system which is an earnest
Of permanent relief. As time wears on and the tonic
and regulating properties Of this pure and agreeable
vegetable remedy takes full effect every trace Of de-


bifty, nervousness and hypochondr Ia vanishes and
mind and body become alike alert and vigorous.
Year: 1873

An active intelligent with ability for the bus-
ness, wanted to take an agency for Portland and
vicinity, of one Of the most popular Lite Insurance
Companies In this country For information address
p. o. Box 739. apr3sn3w