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Year: 1873

Behind the purple islands


The sun had sunk to rest;
But floods of gold and crimson


Still glorified the west.
And at the western window,


With baby on my knee,
] sat to watch the splendor


And let dear baby see.
His soft hand clasped my finger,
He sat erect and still;
A strange, sweet awe and wonder
His spirit seemed to fill,
AS if he heard God speaking


From out the glowing skies.
And all the soul was listening
In his large lustTous eyes,
I've often seen men hearken


For Gods great words of grace
With far less serious feeling


Than lit the baby's face.
What solemn sense of grandeur
Within the small mind wrought?
How did the far-off beauty


Impress the baby thought?
No word of mine could reach him,
He faced that light alone,
AS if before him glistened


The steps of Gods white throne.
And in that infant presence


My thoughts with reverence trod |;
/ saw his angel looking


Upon the face of God!
All! Lord, who lowest children,
Thou talkest to our child,
From out Thy crystal heavens
Thy face on HIM hath smiled.
o let its brightness never


Be hidden from his eyes
Thy tender love illume


His pathway to the skies!
Year: 1873

jackson county gave 164 Prohibition
votes This was one of the counties the
party was going to carry. There were
ten counties in this State that did not
give single vote for that ticket. among
them Hamilton, and the total vote of the
ten is over 10000 or about one-sixth of
the entire vote of the State,-Marietta
Rs0ister
Year: 1873

A consequential young fop asked an
aged country sexton if the ringing of a
bell did not put him in mind of his lat
ter end mo sir" replied the grim old
grave-digger, but the rope puts me in
mind of yours"
Year: 1873

Dealers and manufacturers of the i'm.
portant article of sugar have lately expe-
rienced disturbance of the even tenor,
of their ways by the announcement of
new chemical discovery, by which sac
charine commodities may be produced
as by magic, without the troublesome
and expensive methods of cane growing
and grinding. The new discovery is
credited to NJ Jouglet, a French en-
gineer, and his process is alleged to IN
volve the mere bringing together OF GER
tain common and cheap articles, from
which the best qualities of sugar are
rapidly and economically produced. The
process is claimed to be the subject OF a
patent, which is at present in the hands
of a large company.


We imagine that the stock of the COM
pany will be for sale on the market
long time in advance of the sugar, and we
advise sugar manufacturers not to shut
mn their existing establishments just at
present.


There is undoubtedly room for inn
proyement in the manufacture OF sugar,
and many diligent students are engaged
upon the subject. Every year adds 70
our knowledge and facilities for conouct
ing this great industry, which is so ex-
tensiye and involves so much capital,
that the smallest economical advance, IN
| anv of its processes, is a matter OF I'M
nortance to the world. But we should
about as soon expect to see the steam
engine superseded by the hot air machine
| as to find the present sugar process
aside by the novelty now arr -ses set


The production of : -nounced.
means from ", sugar by chemical
means .arious materials, is by no
new thing, having long been
practiced. Thus starch, treated with
warm diluted sulphuric acid. is converted
into sugar. 1t is cheaply produced, and
an extensive manufacture is carried on.
This product is known as grape sugar, or
glucose, and the only drawback to its
substitution for cane sugar is the fact
that grape sugar has only half the sweet
ening power of the cane. Starch sugar
is employed to adulterate honey and
cane sugar, and is used in lieu of the
latter in various saccharine preparations.


The cheap and common materials sug-
gested by this French engineer may refer
to rags or other refuse containing woody
fiber, such as cotton wool, paper, etc.
Exhaustive attempts have heretofore
been made by chemists to induce people
to eat their linen rags, after a cooking
which converts them into sugar. This
consists in treatment with sulphuric acid,
by which means fine crystalline article
of sugar may be produced from old col
lars and shirt tails But rag sugar, like
that from starch, lack sweetness, and the
stuff is unsuited for the popular taste.
Year: 1873

ton cords; but with ribs Of rock and
bands of steel. After we have imbibed
the first drop that can intoxicate, taste
or desire to drink is acquired or produced
which, if too frequently INDUCED, grows
stronger, assumes the sway, oyerleaps the
bulwarks Of virtue, beats back and SUBJ
verts reason and like an imperial Caesar
waves its mighty scepter over the mind
and reduces it to base subserr'eDcy. A
drunken sot is as useless in this world as
a"parslytic mocked by the sound Of dance
and song and revelry, standing dumb
and motionless amid the eternal harmo-
nies of nature" The base inebriate


stepped in the vilest debaucheries does
not regard the deep sepulchral tones of his
muffled conscience, which at times, like an
ancient Sybil, utterS its fated oracles. Go
and expostulate with him in regard to his
reckless course, and to excuse himself he
will speak Of mysterious fatalism that
extends iN dark and monotonous decree
over all things and gives to blind contin-
gency sort of universal dominion. lie
will tell you that he is the victim Of an
inexorable destiny, and that his course
through life and final fate was predestina>
ted by the Almighty; when, at the same
time his slumbering conscience awakened
by such paltry excuse. tell him he is a
liar and that he is the victim Of his own
gross and sensual appctites, combined
with the internal Vaccinations of hell.


With the evils of intemperance thus set
before us, let us swear eternal hatred to
the damning bowl filed with the dark
beverage of hell" Let the death.song of
intempeI ance be sung, and let the sweet
enhancing symphonies OF the melodlous
birth-song of a more glorious era ring out
through these mountain gorges, more rap
turous to the ear than the strains that Or
pheus played when he descended into the
mystic labyrinths of the mythologic bell
to regain his loved but lost Eurydice.


In closing, remark that the man who
has the baseness Of heart and turpitude
Of character in this enlightened 10Th GEN.
tury, when the gospel is pouring its full
blaze of glory all over our land, to veto
bill, which has tendency to alleviate
the heart-rending sutferings caused by the
sale Of Intoxicating liquors, is more de-
serving Of the censure, apprehension, and
detestation of mankind, than that heart.
less incendiary and imperious tyrant Of
Rome, tue implacable Nero, who fred the
imperial mistress Of the world and danced
by the lurid light of its thousand blazing
temples and burning palaces. Such has
been the SYNONYMOUS conduct Of Gov.
Brown who vetoed the late liquor law,
and by this infamous act has drawn upon
himself the hatred and curses of those
made poor and wretched and joyless by
the inebriation Of husbands, fathers and
sons. I remain. w. II. F.
Year: 1873

The following, WEIGH We copy from the
Scientific american, should be remsmber.
cd:


Three persons out Of four would rush
right up to the purning individual and
begin to paw with their hands without
any definite aim. 1t is useless to tell the
victim to do this or that, or call for water.
In fact, it is geneally best not to say a
word, but to seize blanket from the bed
or any woolen fabric-if none is at hand
take any uoolen material-hold the cor
ners as far apart as you can, stretch out
higher than your. head, ana running bold
ly to the person, make motion Of clasp.
ing in the arms, mostly about the saoul.
ders. This Instantly smothers the Ere and
saves the face. The next instant throw
the person on the floor. This is an add.
tional safety to the face and breath, and
any remnant Of fame can DO put out more
leisurely.


The next instant imwerse the burnt
part in cold water, and all pain will cease
with the rapidity of lightning. Next get
some common -four, remove from tho
water, and cover the burnt parts with an
inch in thickness Of -four; if possible put
the patient to bed, and do al that is pos,
sibls to soOthe until the physician arrives.
Let the -four remain until it falls off IL
self, when a beautiful new skin eau bs
found. Unless the burns are deep, no other
application is needed. The dry -four
for burns is the most admirable remedy
ever proposed, and the information ought
to be impaired to all. The principal Of
its action is that like the water, it causes
instant and perfect relief from pain by OK
cluding all the air from the injured
parts.
Year: 1873

We have seen IL frequently stated that
corn stepped in a solution Of saltpetre
would germinate more quickly and grow
more rapidly than if soaked 10 pure wa.
ter. We tried the experiment last Year..
and with everything else equal, the coin
that was stepped in pure water out grew
tho other from the very start. We do not
believe the corn will absorb enough Of
the saitp'trs to effect it in any way
Southern Planter. e'
Year: 1873

FEMALE EXTRAYAGVNCE AND FEMALE
LovELINEss-The are women III New
York whose wardrobe costs them, or ra-
ther their fathers and husbands, near
S2O,OOO annually, and there are a great
many who think themselves economical
because they manage to dress upon So,
OO0 to $1,000 n year Few things can
be more thorough waste than this, which
must spring either from reckless prodi-
gality or from a wretched vanity TO be
resplendent in clothes 1t speaks i'll for
the taste of women who cannot look
both attractive and elegant on $1,000
than those who spend ten times that
amount.


After all. it is the woman who be
comes the clothes, and not the clothes
that becomes the woman. Ii i sJTprls-
ing how well a woman, who has 4 clear
understanding Of such matters, can ap-
pear with a slender wardrobe, and to
what admirable use she can put well
regulated economy. For some mysieri-
Gus reason she who is plain, even home
ly, hopes to hipe her plaineSs or homeli-
ness by arraying herself IN an extraya-
giant variety. She does not know this
course only emphasizes her absence of
personal charms and calls attention to
her want of grace. She who is lovely
by nature can dispense with vast deal
Of the mantuamakers art, and be all the
more beautiful for her surrounding sim
plicity.
Year: 1873

LESSON FROM ONE ADyERTsEMENT-
Two or three days ago there was an ad-
vertlsement in the Ledger, stating that
a Young man was wanted in railroad
Office. Within twcnty-tour hours there
were nine hundred and eighiyJf0e aP-
plicants for the place left at this Office
for the advertiser. While the occurrence
shows incidentally the extent to which
advertisements in the journal meet the
notice of the particular persons whose
attention. it Is desired to attract we make
mention of it for anotherpurpose. There
is no social error more prevalent, and
but few that are more lamentable, than
that Of the fond, indulgent mothers and
shortsighted fathers who allow their
bows to grow up with no other business,
trade or occupation, than that they pick
ur in the way Of ''cIerking, about otii-
ccs and stores. Al such parents or
guardians can see from the number OF
applications for one clerkship sent TO one
advertiser in one day fair indication
OF the number Of clerks, or persons who
desire 10 be clerks, who are valnly seek
inc employment III that capacity. There
is fearful excess OF young men, and IN
deed Of men of mature age, who desire
to go into Offices or stores to write or
to do anything" as some Of them eX.
press it. When such persons get out OF
employment they generally have long
and weary waits-month after month
and year after ycar-before they can
get other places, for the reason indica-
ted in the above fgures-there are
thousand persons at hand to fill any one
vacancy that occurs. No one should
bring up boy so that his only or chief
qualification for useful employment in
his manhood is his fitness to act as clerk,
kookkeeper or attendant in an office or
store. Mine times out of ten the boys
and men so brought up lead lives OF dis
appointment and renury,-Philadefph'H
Ledger.
Year: 1873

The following temperance lecture on
the scaffold was delivered 10y George
Driver, who was hanged at Chicago
couple weeks since. for the murder OF
his wife :


Il haven't very much At all 10 say,
Mr.. Sheriff, but will remark before | 20
that hope We ali here before me see
where am standing now. Twas drink
ing whisky brought me TO this. Only
for it, wouldn't be in this place now.
De We see this rope, NIL ofye around me
here 2" The doomed man caught the
moose in his hand and held it up. "Ye
do well when We drink that bad whisky
to think of this rope that is going To end
nv lie" This apostrophe producede'-
ident sensation among the auditors
many blanched faces were visible, and
the GOODNESS of the poor fellow Won the
respect of al present "ln five minutes
III be where none OF us can tell where.
We can only say to trust in the good
ness of God. In Him put my trust
this dav. Give up drinking whisky
Young men, and all of We. Give 1t mp,
or twill bring ye to hurt some day. be
sober. and Toe good to your wives and
kind to everybody. Whisky will make
the best man mad. he'd as good u
wife rs any OF We has now, and If had
not been drunk Id never have taken
her life, nor would be here myself.
But whisky, | say it again, whisky
brought me to this. had that pistol IN
my Rocket. and when she enraged me !
caught ii in my right hand. In chang
:rg it to my lett it went off and shot
her. Ii was tie poisonous drink that
was n me that did not let ne see what
was doing. 0, avoid liquor, let me say
to you once more That day when |
slot my wife didn't know what was
doing until the thing was over. Then
it occurred to me that might have hurt
tIcpoor thing, 50 came back, and the
constable told me what had done, and
nc arrested me for it, My last words
are to We all, look at my position stand
ing on this gallows let it be warn-
iug to every one to keep from getting
in the same trouble and meeting the
same bad end. May God in Ills mercy
receive my soul.
Year: 1873




The manner in which the Philadelphia prisons
are kept may be well illustrated by tho terrible
tragedy that was enacted In a cell at the Tenth
District station, on Tuesday evening, when poor
old man named John Cruikshank, who was a
little intox cated was hustled into q cell with
another man who murdered him by cutting his
throat from ear to ear. The keepers paid no at
tention to the tight and the condition Oi the
murdered man was not discovered until after the
murderer had been discharged and also another
prisoner who had been put in the same eel, which
was so dark that he fell over the body OF Cruik-
shank, whom the murderer said was dead drunk,
at the same time grasping the new conner by the
breast leaving a mark with his bloody hands
which was used as proof Of his guilt in few
hours afterwards.


nothing 10 the horrors of the bad managed
prisons of Philadelphia and New York, and their
people know it.


Had such horrible deed as this been commit
ted in prison in Delaware, the Press, Telegraph,
B~l1etiR and other Radical papers would have
charged it all to the want of intelligence and the
need Of more moral code, and perhaps have pro-
posed to supply our people with "missionaries."
Our prisons are better kept and our laws are more
humane aud more Kindly administered than
theirs, and they know it but dare not offend
those from whom they get an occasional ad-
vertisement or news item by making public the
facts.
Year: 1873

One OF the strongest opponents, among our ex-
changes, of "local option" is the New York
Journal Of Commerce, also one of the very ablest
and most moral in its tone. The contest in that
State over the local option Law passed by the New
York Legislature, has been very hot, and the pro-
hibitioniss have not spared Governor Dix for
vetOing that law. On the contrary they have de-
nounced him very severely. Most of the news
papers have expressed their opinions on the sub
ject, but none have been more open and direct
than the journal Of Commerce, from which We
takoIth following;


An OBSTINATE FAcTIoS.-What strangely OBJ
st;nAte persons these Liquor Prohibltionlsts are.
Because they cannot have Local Option law pre-
ciseIv after their own h0art-and on the simple
question whether q vote for against selling ale
and cider shall be taken with or separate from .
ballot on the sale Of spiritueus hluOn-they viii
have no law whatever. Governor Dix, in advis-
ing that beers, &c. should be made the subject Of
a distinct vote has hit upon the one thing possible
for making Local Option Law operative, though
we do not believe the use of hquors, spirtuous or
fermentsd, would be reduced by the law to any
sensible extent but, the contrary, We hold that
the evils of intsmperance would be increased by
It, or by any other measure to coaTco people out
Of drinking what they please. The Prohibition
ists cherish the contrary idea Therefore, Tor con-
sistaney's sake, they ought to back the Local Op.
tion bill In its modified form as Last before the
Legislature 1t Is not exactly what they asked
tor but it differs only from the original bill in
proposing to give people TIE night 70 vote sePa-
rAtely on the beer and cider question. 1t recOg-
nzes the great principle Of local option, for which
the ProhIbltionIsts have been clamorinR, Is much
now as before Theoretically, it puts the subject
before the people in q much better shape for the
Temperance cause fer, whereas all the large cities
and towns throughout the State would cast an
emphatic "NO" against the inclusion OF the lighter
Nth fhA afron1 aut0Wica-
ting drinks there are places here and there, We
suppose, where the sale Of Whiskey and rum would
be forbidden on one ballot, while the sale Of bsers
aud cider would be permitted on another.
Year: 1873

Perhaps the most false, wilul and serious
charge that has been made against the Democrats
In the Legislature is the following, having its
origin certainly in political malaee; and intended
for political effect


Threatening to take seltgovernment from our
people and put their affairs and money Into the
control of irresponsible commissions"


In those three lines our people are urged to be-
lieve what is in every sense untrue. There has
been no threatening TO take self.government
from our people and put their affairs and money
into the control of irresponsible commissions.
Nor has the Legislature been asked TO do so.


Iu order that our people may be saved from
extravagance and unnecessary expenditures by
the partisans in the City Council, the Democrats
of this city aud we believe some of the opposition
party, too, have addressed petition to the Legis-
ture, asking that law may be passed erecting
Board Of Commissioners, empowered TO make
the necessary Improvements 10 our city water
works. This bill we believe has been sent TO
the Legislature. We have not seen 1t, and arc
not acquainted with all OF its provisions, But We
have the authority of gentlemen who have seen
It,. for saying that it provides that the Com
missioners shall be substantial freeholders, resi-
dents in this city, and requires that they shall be
sworn 10 discharge faithfully the duties the act
empowers them TO perform; and before entering
upon such duties they shall each give good and
sufficient seeuriIyto tie amount OF about SS5,O


This docs not look like putting our "moncy in
the hands OF irresponsible commissions"


But the bill doe: not stop there. Ii empowers
the majority of the present City Council TO ap-
point one OF The Commissioners; the minority to
appoint another and the Mayor to appoint the
third. So that the gentlemen named would com
pose a commission Of our city taken from both
parties; and would not be SO liable TO the charge
of political influence and paNy corruption.


With reference 10 the men who would be ap-
pointed to compose the Commission we are en-
tirely In the dark. But certainly if they were
appointed by the Council aud the Mayor 'selt-
government would still remain Wial our people.
The Council and ths Mayor now appoint men TO
ofiec-the Mayor from the Democratic party aud
and the majority Of Council from the Republican
party. The Commission asked for by the Demo
crats would represent both parties and would
certainly not be so subject to the charges which
are generally made against partisans.


II any parties are liable TO tie charges made
against the Legislature with regard TO this bill i'll
would be the Democratic party OF this city, and
those who have urged It's passage. Bat Why abuse
any one : Why not rather prove by fair and open
criticism that the act is not necessary and would
be injurious. Is not the resort to abuse proof
that the Commission would be an improvement
and result In a saving 10 our peopleF
Year: 1873

Recent proceedings in one of the EuElish courts
have brought to light singular story, while ex-
hlbiung in exceedingly unpleasant view the
practical effect of certain English laws. In the
year 1925 lawyers clerk, young man OF good
family and education. was tried on the charge OF
stealing two watches from his employers office.
The accused had become addicted to drink, and
from the evidence 1t seemed doubtful whether he
actually intended to steal the watches, or merely
pocketed them in a drunken freak. Under these
circumstance he was fined one shilling only for
the unlawful possession of the property, after
which he went to Australia. In the year 1851 he
disappeared and after a long time his next OF kin
took out letters OF administration under the sup
position that he was dead, whereupon the Grown
at once claimed forfeiture on the ground that he
had been convicted of felony. There were two
sums in dispute, one Of 100000, the other OF
$4,000. The Vice Chandler has declared the
claim of the Grown to the larger sum only made
out so that the representatives of the family are
permitted 10 retain the $1,000, while the Crown
sppropYiates the sum of 100000 because nearly
halt century ago the late owner OF the property
was convicted OF an offence which was then con
sidered sufficiently punished by fine OF one shii-
Year: 1873

The Reading Tunes makes the announcement
of the elevation Of negro 10 the ofice of Justice
Of the Fsace as follows.


Delaware county has the credit of electing the
first colared man in this State to the position Of
Justice OF the Peace. The 'Squire's name Ii
Thomas Hazard, and the citiEens Of ThornbnTy
in the county named, elevated him to the rank OF
Justice


How long will it be before the Radicals OF this
county will elevate negro to office? This ques-
ton is being earnestly discussed by our 'darkiss,
many of whom assert that they have been hardly
dealt with by the Radicals, and not benefited at
al by the mere right to vote white Radicals into
fat Offices
Year: 1873

WE are glad to be able to quote re-
mark like this from our excellent Demo
cratic) contemporary, the Moorefeld Id
vertiser:


We now turn our attention 10 our own
party, and we will give 1t the same atten-
ton and warning as we did the opposition.
IN a certain sense all parties are Corrupt"
and need the careful watch OF the press
and the people, and Gs far as we are con.
cerned, we intend TO expose all extrava-
ranCe and wrong doing even though our
own party be the one guilty. In n word
we care not from what organization cor
ruption springs, VIC are going to fight it
down, and help to dethronc 1t.
Year: 1873

ed for before he performs the act AS
well might the Legislature inquire Of him
who he intends to commission as private
Secretary or Secretary Of State,or whether
he pays his board bill at the Hale House,
or the suit that he wears Is paid for in ad
vance or bought ION tick" Either Of
these interrogatories would be Just as
reasonable as TO ask the question contain.
ed in Mr.. Knotts resolution. In my
opinion the Governor will treat the thing
with silent contempt, as he should do.


The mud Is about six inches deep in the
streets of the P. s. BY morning, from
present indications, It will be to the
Jacket pockets" HENRY.