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Year: 1872

Ings of his grief and another woman
presided at his table the postman's
arrival with q pOsthumous letter at
the end of each lunar revolution be-
came very malaprOpOs and quite de.
stroyed, with its dismal memories,
the pleasures of his new honeymoon.
His freshly-chosen bride, too, became
Jealous of these mysterious missives,
and threatened to tear out the eyes OF
their author, but on being told who
the author was cOntented herself with
burning the epistOlatory productions
of her predecessor as often as they
came.


A Boston girl, who had more than
once during the continuance of q long
engagement shocked her lover, .
pious burGher of the Quaker City, by
her declamatiOns in favor offree love,
completely disgusted him when the
time for marriage drew near by refus.
inc to submit To the performance of
the ceremony, and offering herself to
his eonnubial embrace without the
sanction of the religious rite or legal
authority. In vain he demonstrated.
She nrofessed herself ready to undergo
ali the pains and pleasures of the
marriage state, but submit to the ty-
ing of the nuptial knot she would


NOT. And when he demanded her


reasons for her extraordinary dislike
to the idea of clerical or magisterial
Intervention she claimed that were
she bound irrevocably to him he
would take no pains to please her,
but were she free to leave him at any
time, her happiness would be his
chief thought to provide for; and
then, too, she wished to bestow her
affections and embraces ON another
man IL at any time she should cease
to love him. A. this candid avowal


of her versatile proclivities, he pro-


fessed to consider the engagement
broken, but this she would not allow /,
and has entered complaint against
him for breach of promise Of marriage.
The case promises interesting de-
velopments at its trial, as, Of course,
the defense will be as above, that
"Barkis is willinm but the lady not
Year: 1872

26. Whenever anything for which State
license is required is to be done within the


said town, the council may require a town


license therefor. and may impose tax there
on for the use of the town. But no icense
to sell strong or spirituous liquors, or wine.
beer, ale, porter or drinks of like nature with-


in the said town; gor within one mile of its


corporate limits, shall be granted by the Board


OF Supervisors of Jefferson county. unless the
Year: 1872

The Republicans have won another de
cided triumph in Connecticut not with


standing the great exertion that have
fbeen made by the Democracy. The Chi
cago Times gives up the ghost completely
| in the following language.


New platforms and borrowed label,
are perfectly useless There must be .
new bottle to contain the new wiue. Sui
is the lesson Of the Connecticut exneri-
ment Only those who are stone blind caa
fail to see and understand it.


The Times in the article from which the
above is quoted gives the New York
World thorough overhauling in language
much more emphatic than polite. 1t is
therefore abundantly evident that the Dem
ocratic leaders are not at all happy over
the returns from the Nutmeg state. The
elements of opposition to the Republican
party are already as harmonious in thei,
domestic relations as family of hyena.
on short allowance. The organs of the
party have repeatedly asserted within the
past two months that they would swallow
anything, or subscribe to any principle.
to get Office. Sensible men of the party
are getting throughly disgusted with thi.
shifting. shifting. thriftlees abandonment
of principles, or rather lack of principle
| for the party was always negative in its
articles of faith, rather than positive.
When the Chicago Times gives up the
ghost, there can be little hopes for the less
erlights OF Democracy. The party first be
come dishonest, then disloyal, then rotten
and thoroughly corrupt in every fiber Of
its body politician ulcer eating into the
vitals of onr country's prosperity openly
allied with everything that is good. 1t has
become disgrace toAmerican institutions
and American civilizations. It should be
buried out of sight. never to be disturbed
again forever. now that its most sagacious
leaders demand it's former burial its epi-
taph should be, Died for its country :
good" In such oblivion as this great
but generous public would be satisfied tc
soon forget that it had eyer been the most
dangerous and most demoralizing organ
ization that ever existed on this continent


But can the party die? we don't believe
it. The elements of which it is composed
have always existed, they always will exist.
These restless spirits of decentralization
find congenial home in the Democratic
party and no where else. We do not
want, nor will we have them in tie Re-
publican party. Democracy may change
its name 1t can never change its nature
no more than a leopard can change it.
spots or an Ethiopian his skin. So long
as ignorance. crime. superstition, 5igotrJ
and gullibility are prominent characters
tic of a large proportion of our people
Democracy in its primary and only really
significant politica. sense is sure to exis
as an organized political force, whose in
fucnce will be more or less potent il
shaping the destinies of our government
Year: 1872

SENATOR Howe may take courage with
his bill for the establishment OF National
University: the World opposes 1t and
tries to ridicule it by misrepresentlng 1t.
Every thing the World attacks IS more
likely to succeed. Nothing is so fatal to
any measure q its advocacy.
Year: 1872

SOLDIERS LANDs-A Washington
dispatch says that the United States Sen
ate has passed bill allowing the time Of
service of soldiers In the Union army, to
be deducted from the time which. under
the homestead laws, is usually required
TO perfect titles to public lands. The
time of dead soldier may also be deduct
ed by the widow OF heirs of the same in
case they may desire to claim home
stead. This will be good news to many q
one of the defenders of the Union.
Year: 1872

Yesterday was rather day Of comparative relief
from the excessive heat OF the passing season. The
forenoon and early afternoon sultry as usual,
but in the evening a cooling breeze set In which
did much to reduce the temperature to endurable
closeness. Judging from the freshening rains Of
the day previous and yesterdays pleasant change,
there is still some hope that the hottest part OF the
season is not yet to come. There was one case OF
sunstroke yesterday, Edward McCusker, poor
street sweeper, who succumbed while at work In
the Fourth ward and who lies at the Park Hospital
almost hopeless case.


The following record VIII show the changes IN the
temperature for the past twenty-four hours in COM
Indicated by the Thermometer at Hudnut's Phar-
macy HERALD RuildinU.-
Year: 1872

REVOLUTION IN FIJI The Ausralasan mail
at San Francisco brings intelligence that the
FIJI Islands are undergoing incipient revo-
luton" and that the existing government is
powerless against it. The despatch does not
state whether the anticipated change applies
to the matter of the everyday dietary of the
natives or whether it is merely political
and of an anti-dynastic tendency. This
is q very serious omission on the part of
the news reporter. If the trouble of the
Fijians is merely gastronomic or of homely
culinary nature, we have nothing to do with
it, If it is for freedom, independence,
democracy and self-rule, we, of course, sym
pathize with its promoters, and the American
government will no doubt, accept accomplished
facts should the people win, notwithstanding
the executive embarrassment which may ensue
in Washington on account of our having
already treaty of amity and friendship with
King Thakambou-who may be deposed by
this time, for all we know to the contrary-con-
Grmed by the signet OF the great whales tooth
which is duly suspended in the State Depart
ment.
Year: 1872

THE GOLD MARKET begins to show signs of
the usual summer rise in the premium, be it
this time more or less Yesterday the price
touched 114S or within a trife of the highest
in nearly year. The movement is this time
helped by wealthy clique, whose existence
and intentions have already considerably agi-
tated The placid Mr.. Boutwell,. SO far his
resistance has been only silent watching of
the scheme
Year: 1872

A UNITED STATES PRoTEcToRATE of por-
ton of the South Sea Islands has been, as we
are informed by telegram from San Francisco,
formally assumed by an American naval officer
on board one of the national war vessels. We
presume his action is all right.
Year: 1872

Our AUsTRALAsIAN DISPATCHES news
from Australasia, telegraphed to the HERALD
from San Francisco, is quite interesting and re-
assuring of solid, substantial, healthy colonial
advance. Valuable mines of copper had been
discovered the yield of gold was fair and the
wool trade remunerative. There were politics
aud official aspirations and party man0uvres
inevitably; but the governments control a
people who are still young in the exercise of
the franchise, and consequently able to bear a
good deal of that sort of thing without injury
to the general interest
Year: 1872

CUBAN AFFAIRs-THE DEPARTURE OF
VALMAsEDA most notable event men
toned in our budget Of Cuban news this
morning is the departure Of the late Captain
General Valmaseda yesterday from Havana,
en- route for Spain. 1t appears that on inn
mense concourse assembled on the occasion to
bid him farewell, and we presume that there
was more a feeling of gladDess than of sorrow
among the assembled multitude in witnessing
the departure of the man whose cruelties
against the Cuban insurgents constitute his
most conspicuous claims to distinction. We
cannot doubt that the government of King
Amadeus in this matter has acted in Difference
TO the general opinions from the public press
of the civilized world, touching the savage
policy adopted and pursued to the last by
Count Valmaseda in his efforts to suppress the
Cuban rebellion; and from the high char
acter of General Ceballos, the newly appointed
Captain General Of the island, we are con-
fident that more humane and enlightened
policy will now be tried against the insurgents
than that of Valmaseda, which has so signally
failed In short, abandoning the policy of ex-
termination, we expect General Ceballos will
do what he can to deserve success in adopting
the policy Of amnesty and conciliation.
Year: 1872

Thanks to that Divine Providence which
watches over the fall of sparrow, New York
has clean streets. The abundant dashing
showers of Monday, pouring their torrents
upon the three hundred miles Of our paved
streets, have conferred upon rs o boon for
which we have long looked in vain to the we'll
paid contractor. Clean streets for once we
have. and are grateful Fierce sunrays during
the past fortnight, in spite of the exertions of
Captain Thorne's broom brigade, had devel-
oped smells that threatened disease. We now
have nothing which could offend the
most sensitive nostrils, and the air
of yesterday. though at full summer
heat, was as wholesome and pure as
that which sighs through the mountain
passes of the Adirondacks or crests the waves
at Long Branch. Nature taught us in her
copious flooding the true way to secure clean
and healthy city. The practical water-cure
is upon us, and our filth is buried in the ocean
tides at our feet. Shall we never learn the
lesson and wash our streets with the abundant
water which surrounds us?


New York can easily and cheaply become the
cleanest city in the world, and the healthiest.
just now the death rate of Philadelphia, where
there has lately been slight scarcity of water,
has advanced beyond our own. We have had
no lack of that inestimable blessing, pure
Croton water, and should thank the wise pru-
dence of those who provided it for us in such
unstinted measure. With clean streets and
abundant water rightly used we shall
have little cause to fear epidemics as a result
of summer heats.
Year: 1872

Editor Nebraska Advertiser:


The Sabbath School at the High
land Baptist Church held one of their
monthly concerts on the afternoon OF
last Sabbath. The house was COM
fortably warmed and filed to over
flowing with an intelligent and ap-
preciative audience. D. Y. Culbert-
son was the acting chairman, and
Miss Ellen Bagley the organist. Their
parts were admirably performed.


There were present large choir of
good singers, who rendered many of
our choicest Sabbath School songs
with great skill, and with deep and
heartfelt devotion.


The recitations, the essays, the
songs, and the selections which the
children gave US were attentively lis
tened to by all, and the character of
the exercises were such as to intensi-
fy our appreciation of the moral pow
er which is pent up in the brains and
activities Of the children of this cOun-
ty. Upon whom does the response
bility rest that these forces, so Nigh
ty for good when truly developed,
trained aid directed, shall contribute
their utmost to a grander and high
er civilization. Are they to be left in
the hands Of the few and the inexpe-
III nt h
ers will not? Their value to good So
ciety, to the material, intellectual and
moral wealth of the nation, call loud
Iy for better treatment at the hands of
the present generation. We find a
noble band of men and women in the
Highland church doing work OF in
calculable value. There are others
there that might and must assist
them il they desire to utilize all the
forces by which they are surrounded
to the attainment of the highest ulti-
mate perfection of society. There
must be no idle brains. No hands or
hearts not in the good work.


This concert has awakened a new
interest in the Highland school, and
the parents are now pledged to great
er efforts and more earnest work in
the prosecution of their duties as they
now view them. Profs. Dye and
Sykes, of Brownville, aided the choir
as none but men of their experience
can.


Your correspondent being called
upon at the close, made few remarks
to encourage the children, and to
arouse the consCiences of others to the
grave responsibilities which are rest
ing upon the shoulders Of each to
push this good work onward to its
highest and grandest attainment.


JARVIS S. CHURCH.
Year: 1872

Until within the past few months
the every visit of the editor of this
paper to Omaha was heraIded through
the columns of the Herald, and the
editor of that sheet has oftentimes
complimented us, editorially, both as
a writer and gentleman. But no soon
er did we take up the defense of Col.
Furnas, than the Herald man let loose
his vials of wrath and vituperatiOn
upon our head. We have got to know
DR.. Miller so Well that we accept the
vindictive filings lie makes at US as
compliments OF which any honest
Republican might feel envious. Es-
peclally do We so esteem that thrown
at US in his issue of last Sunday. It
was feeble effort at ridicule, which,
like an overloaded gun, exploded at
the breech, and didn't come within
a row Of apple trees" of hitting the
object aimed at.
Year: 1872

Strangers in the city will find the
Union Hotel first-class in every par
ticular. The rooms, beds, tables, and
in fact everything that tends to the
comfort of the traveller, are carefully
looked to by George and his estima-
BILE lady, assisted by first-class corps
of artistes in the dining room and
kitchen. Try the Union once, and
we are sure you will not go away dis
satisfied, but will stop at no other
House while in the city.
Year: 1872

Hetzel was never so well prepared
to clothe the people as now. His
stock is immense, and has been mark
ed low down. In the line of over
coats he can defy the world to COM
pete, having $1,000 worth of every
grade Oh hand. Give him a call. He
will allow none who need clothing to
grumble as to price. He bought his
goods to sell and he cannot be under
sold,
Year: 1872

On Tuesday night last the river at
this point blocked with gorged ice,
and the mail had to be conveyed
across by skiff and foot. Last year it
froze across on the night of the Goth
Nov, thus rendering this gorge the
anniversary of its immediate prede-
cessor,
Year: 1872

We have for sale, quarter medium
Nonpariel press, good as new, which
we will sell for about half its cost, to
make room for a smaller one. We
warrant this press as represented.
This is rare chance for printers
wanting a good quarter medium press.
Year: 1872

Stevenson & Cross cordially invite
the public and their generous patrons
to call and look through their large
stock of groceries, hardware, etc, and
they hope by attention and honorable
dealing to increase their large trade
now established. Come all.
Year: 1872

On this day of A D., personally
appeared before Master, and


-, Servant, known to me (or salts
factorily proved to me by the oath of A,
3D. 10 be the persons executing the above
Contract, and the same having been by
me read and explained to them, they sew
orally acknowledged that they understood
the same and that they had executed the
same voluntarily and upon the terms and
conditions therein set forth.


SECTION ,. In order to carry out the
provisions Of this Act, the Minister of
the Interior is hereby authorized to ap-
point Agents IN each election district of
this Kingdom, who shall have the power
10 take acknowledgements to the Con-
tracts authorized by Section 14l7 of the
Civil Code.


SECTION 3. The officer taking the ac-
Acknowledgement shall be entitled to fee
Of Fifty Gents for each Contract, to be
paid by the Master, and no charge shall
be made for the certificate of acknowledge
ment on the copy of the Contract fur
nished the servant; Provided, however
that no officer shall take an acknowledge
ment to any Contract in which he is inter
ested


SECTION 4 The officer before whom
the acknowledgment as above provided
Is taken shall cause the money advanced
to be paid to the servant in his presence
and shall keep an accurate record of the
Year: 1872

The notabilities of Paris are drop
ping off fast. Recent excitements
and privations have doubtless short
ened- many a life there, and the ne
crology Of the year will be very
heavy. Hardly a post arrives which
does not bring news of the death Of
some Partisan celebrity about whom,
whether great author or famous
tailor, or distinguished pastry cook,
there are hosts of clustering assOcia-
tions. The last to 60 has been For
nici, the oldest cane seller in France.
He was known as "La Boule dor"
The man was a cook under Louis
XIV, messenger at the Ministry Of
Finance under Louis XVI, soldier
under the Revolution and under
Bonaparte, then a dancer, then beadle
in church, then open air dentist,
and finally dealer in walking sticks.
This last was the only trade he found
profitable, and in it he made hand
some fortune. It is said Forniei
left good share of this to the great
great-grand-daughter Of a girl he
was in love with in 1870.
Year: 1872

Thou art the Wayl
All ways are thorny mazes without Thee;
Where hearts are pierced, and thoughts al
aimless stray,
In Thee the heart stands firm, the life move
f-ce;


Thou art the Wayl


Thou art the Truth
Question the ages break against in vain
Confront the spirit in its untried youth;
It starves while learning poison from the grain


Thou art the Truth


Thou art the Truth
Truth for the mind, grand, glorious, infinite
A heaven still boundless Ger its highest growth
Bread for the heart its daily need to meet;


Thou art the Truth


Thou art the Light
Earth beyond earth no faintest raw can give
Heavens shadeless noontide blinds our norta
sight:
In Thee we look on God, and love and live:


Thou art the Light


Thou art the Rockl
Doubts none can solve heave wild on every
side,
Wave meeting wave of thought in ceaseIess
shock;
On Thee the soul rests calm amidst the tide:


Thou art the Roekl


Thou art the Lifel
All ways without Thee, paths that end il
death;
All life without Thee with Deaths harvest rife;
All truths dry bones, disjointed, and void Of
breath:


Thou art the Life!


For Thou art Love!
Our Way and End! the way is rest with Thee
D living Truth the truth is life in Thee;
o Life essential life is bliss with Thee;


For Thou art Loysl
Year: 1872

Lord Brougham uttered this noble
sentiment: ut was the boast of
Augustus that he found Rome Of
brick and left it of marble. But
how much nobler viii be the soves-
eign's boast, when he shall have it
to say that he found law dear and
left it cheap; found it a sealed book
and left it living letter; found is
the patrimony ofthe rich and lett it
the Inheritance of the poor; found it
the two edged sword Of craft and
oppression and left it the staff Of
honesty and the shield Of innocence" )"
It is for the people Of this country
to attain to so just an appreciation
of this sentiment, that they shall re-
quire their public servants to be
guided by it.
Year: 1872

ANY person in the city of Fremont, or county of
Sandnsky, wanting Insurance. either Lie or Elre,
will find it their advantage to call on me. have
line of companies unsurpassed. With polley
signed by me your insurance Is as certain as
United States Bond.


Policiescarefully written on all descriptions OF


property, and in case Of loss payment promptly


made from this office.
Year: 1872

This is what neglected teeth would say ii the,
could remonstrate with their owners and mar
this, the teeth cannot perish or become black o


yellow If the SozopoNT is used daily. eodSw
Year: 1872

There is a new style suit which will be very
popular this winter 1t IS named after the IA
nous songstress "Lucca," and is thus de-
scribed:


.This is an elegant train made with corsage,
over-iress and train of heavy black gros-grain
silk the upper skirt caught up in the back
and fastened between the shoulders with a
full bow and ends, while the train sweeps in
undulating folds over the underdress, or is
gathered at a moments notice into bOuffant,
elegant pOlonaise at the back, thus combining
two most desirable garments in one"


In a Main street emporium Of fashion Sat
urday the entire dress was exhibited IN nne
tissue paper, with all the parts cut, notched,
and so admirably arranged in duplicate in
large envelope that il would be impossible for
the purchaser to make a mistake in getting
m the dress at home,
Year: 1872

John Howard Payne's body
lies unhonored in the soil of Tu-
mis-. The author Of the immor-
tai song, "Home, Sweet Home"
had but little in life of the plea
sures of the home of which he
sung; and, being dead, it has not
occurred until very recently to
any of the admirers of his song
to remove his body to his native
land. 1t is now intended by the
Faust club of Brooklyn to en-
deavor to bring his remains home,
or should it fail in this, to at
least erect a memorial to him at
his homestead on Long Island.
Year: 1872

IMPORTANT CHANGE.-The San Francisco
Reel Estate CUculdr contains this:


In e,ling legal instruments it has hereto
fore been the practice TO afiix the seal by
merely making q scrawl with a pen, with
the word ''seal'' written within it, or write
the initials 81. s." This practice has the
authority Of several decisions Of our Supreme
Court. 1t is matter of grave doubt, how
ever, whether this is now sufficient, because
that part of the political Code" now in
force provides that, ''when the the seal of
Court, public officer or person is required
by law to be affixed to any paper, the word
seal includes an impression or such seal up
on the paper alone as well as upon wax Or
wafer affixed thereto" 1t wonld seem from
this that scrawl is no longer sufficient, but
llat seal of some kind, or its impression
upon wax, or on the paper, is essential We
would advise strict compliance with this
provision Of the Code; it may save much
after trouble,