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Year: 1872




II cant make out how it is that Bill
Pratt algsys gets such good places,
said Harry Underwood, the basket
makers son, to smother lad, as they
we're cutting rushes by the brook side


And Harry was not the only one that
thought thus, for "Bill Pratt's luck"
was the surprise Of many like himself.
Bill was certainly no pattern Of clever
ness, Of beauty or strength; he could
MT do more thaa Uthcrs, not so much as
some, nor could he do it SO we'll as many (;
but for all that it was quite true that he
always had good places, good wages aud
good character. When he left. one
master to 60 to another it was generally
sid, ~ would not part with him if |
could help it; he is good boy, and was
90 obiging."


This was tho secret Of his being so
we'll liked, and of his good luck" be
was $50 obliging."


Did the shepherd, the wagner, the
bailif want a job dono at q moments
notice, whilc they were busy at work
it was only to get sight Of Bill Pratt,
and it was as good as done; for Bill
- -.e.jj hsrry through hfs own business,
without feeling 1t a trouble, in order to
help: The cook never had to look for !
eggs; Bill would hunt high and low and |
all around to find them for her. Aud !
many other little jobs would he do in the
dairy, and anywhsrs else, without stay.
ing to be asked SO that be was u great
favorite. lie did not do this to gain
favor, for then he would have tried to
please those only who would do him O
good turn for it. If he saw younger
boys in trouble, he would try and help
them out of it and he put on his shoes
again after having taken them off, ono
pouring rainy night, to walk three miles
to town for q parcel containing a new
gown, which the carrier had neglected to
bring for tho kitchen girl, who was cry.
ing her eyes out because she would not
have it to wear next morning at her sis.
tsr's wedding


But 1t was not so much what Bill did
as how hs did it. that made people like
him he always seemed as if pleasing
Others was the greatest pleasure be had.
And if he couldn't do what was asked,
bis way Of saying mo" was more agree.
able than many peoples Yes" often is.
Bill grew up the same, and through life
has prospered.--The Cot,ager.
Year: 1872

The Fremont Weekly Journal
Republican in Principle,
And will be devoted to Politics, Local Mat
ters, Literature and General News.
The aim Of the Publisher is to make the
JoUENAL afrSt-class Family Newspaper.









AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM
Year: 1872

EVIDENCE is daily accumulating that
Tuscarawas county is the greatest iron
aud coal region in Ohio. In addition
to many items heretofore given through
these columns on this subject, the fol-
lowing has recently been brought to
our attention: A gentleman in the
eastern part Of the cOunty states that
an Eastern company is leasing all the
ore and coal lands they can find along
the line of the proposed Wheeling and
Lake Erie railroad, and contemplate
erecting a furnace about four miles
southeast OF New Cumberland.-T1-
caracas Adroc1te.
Year: 1872

RAILROAD ELECTION PosTPoNED.-The
Board Of Supervisors Of this county, at
their meeting yesterday, postponed the
election upon the question of taking
two hundred thousand dollars stock in
the Northern and Southern West Vir-
ginia railroad, until the general election
on the fourth Thursday in August. The
voters Of the county can stay at home
and work their crops" on Thursday.
Those who are appointed as delegates
to the Grafton Convention can all go,
as they will not be required to stay at
home to vote-ClarkSbtTg Telegraph.
Year: 1872

utive session Of the Senate to-day the
matter of the premature publication Of
the treaty by correspondents was dis
cussed, under a resolution reported from
the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Every member present was obliged to
state, on his honor, that he had not fur.
nished copy, or had been in any way
responsible for said publication.
Year: 1872

will run q e sewing machine without the
least labor Of the lady-she has nothing
to do but hold her work in place and it
executes the work quickly and better than
by the use OF the feet of the ladies, thus
relieving our wives and daughters OF
much hard labor and saving them from
the many Inconvenience and diseases To
which the ordinary sewing machine sub
jects them. Mr. rhos c Thackston is
the General Agent for this -pring-powrr in
West Virginia, aud will advertise aud ex
hibit it the coming winter in Huntington
and all the principal towns in the State
1t is destined to lie grand success.


VIArOR.
Year: 1872

psraded in brand new and SNOWY uniforms At
Sing Sing Prison the male and female convtc@
give thanks over an s'extra" dinner; and the mot
ley inmates OF the County jail were supplied
through the liDerality OF sheriff BrundAge with an
abundance OF roast turkey and other Kindred re-
minders OF our national prosperity.
Year: 1872

The New York Joura4 Of Commerce of
recent date has an able sticle Oh the impor-
tance Of judicious advertising. We make
the following extract: E''People who sit
nervously in counting hotses, or behind their
goods, waiting for customers to take them by
storm, and make no effort to let the world
know the bargains they have to offer, will
find the season very unWopitious. Many OF
those who have spent large sums in hiring
drummers and paying for other well-known
appliances of trade, have effected large sales
but swallowed up too large share of the re-
ceipts in such enormous attendant expenses.
The best remuneration has been found by
those who have returned to more legitimate
0ld-fashioned methods of pushing their busi-
ness. We say it, not simply because we are
interested in this line of expenditure, but as
our best advice to all who wish to be enter
prising and to secure a large custom, there is
nothing now so effective to this end as judi
cious advertising. A little advertising might
be like gentle touch of the whip to poor
DObbins horse, "A mercy thrown away;' but
liberal outlay is almost certain to bring in a
large return; and this will last even beyond
the current season. We do not believe that
any one who has valuable service or desira-
BILE property to offer, can fail of reaping
rich harvest by continuous advertising on a
Iarrp scale -
Year: 1872

We understand that the Cosmopolitan
Hotel has been sold, but to whom. or for
what purpose it is to be used, we are not in
formed. viii publish full particulars so soon
as we learn them.
Year: 1872

Boston girl, who had more than once
during the continuance of a long engage
ment shocked her lover, pious burgher OF
the Quaker City, by her declarations in fa-
vor OF free love, completely disguised him
when the time for the marriage drew near
by refusing to submit to the performance of
the ceremony, and Offering herself to his
cOnnubial embrace without the sanction of
the religious rite or legal authority In
vain he demonstrated. She professed her
self ready to undergo all the pains and
pleasures of the marriage state, but sub
NIT to the tying of thenuptial knot shewould
not. And when he demanded her reasons
for the extraordinary dislike to the idea of
clerical or magisterial intervention she
claimed that were she bound irrevocablv 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 embrace on an
other man fiat any time she should cease
to love him. At this candid ayowal of her
versatile preclivities ne professed to consid-
er the engagement broken, but this she
would not allow, ara has entered com
plant against him for breach Of promise of
marriage. The case promises interesting
developments at its trial, as. Of course, the
defence will be as above, that Barkis is
wiliin but the lady not.
Year: 1872

By a recent decision of the Post Office
Department., the law regarding sending
newspapers by mail has been made more
clearly defined than 1t has heretofore stood.
No name or memorandum can be made on
newspaper inside of the wrapper on
which the address is written. Ii is barely
permissible to mark an article with pen or
pencil More than this subjects the paper
to letter postage, and the viclator of the
law to line. No printed card, handbili or
advertisement, no written notice, letter or
slip of any kind W aatsoever, must be folded
in the paper. To do any Of these things
is to violate the law. Printed slips pasted
ola the outside or folded in papers or peri
odicals, soliciting notices, are also violation
of the law Senders of transient papers
can send bundles of printed matter by
weight at transient postage charges. but
must not send any written matter in such
bundles.
Year: 1872

We also could not include sl5G0 in the apporton-
mert o the county tax for tie reason that That am
covers the amount of Illegal sale which should be
char ged 10y the county clerk when making out the
assessment rolls Of the respective besides the
general taxes levied ali OF which respectfully sub
lIttea. Fred Schmltk.
Year: 1872

No. 81 PoDlar street was soon found
1t was narrow, dark entry, lighted
by a red lamp which gave a ghostly
and a murderous light. Paul went up
the winding stairs, and found at the
top door with placard, on which
was printed with a common pen:
Year: 1872

a certainty. Then it got clear to every
us more ingenously than the younger ones.
AS the incapable old lady deaf as stone
and so blind that she had to peer through
her glittering glasses, with eyes always half
closed, and so hungry that she had to stop
the train for luncheon basket he had
played upon us the neatest trick of all.
Where on earth were the thick iron-gray
hair and whislers by which we were to
have identified him? But by the time the
police saw the whole thing clearly it was
too late to follow up any clue to him.


The cab which had taken the eccentric
old lady and her parcels and flowers from
Euston was lost in the city and could not
be tracked. A high reward was offered
for information, but no one ever won it.
My firm belief is that it was no legitimate
ly licensed cab at all, but one belonging to
the gang, and part Of the finished fraud.
l verify believe, too that somewhere now
though perhaps on the other side of the
channel, those three practiced knaves enjoy
hearty laugh over that December journey
by night-express.


Davis still assures me, with the most
cheerful confidence, that he shall yet have
the pleasure some day of trapping three of
the most expert and slilful thieves in
Britain. wish felt as sure of it.
Year: 1872

Thanksgiving Day was marred by a sad
fatality on the Binghamton and Syracuse
Railroad. No doubt the occurrence will be
called an accident. A line OF the end of the
despatch shows that it was not. We are told
it was caused by the worn-out condition Of the
track. How should the track be worn out
The road is not old nor largely used. Or how
can there be worn rails on any road with
out the company being responsible for all
resulting damagesP In this case we have
train wrecked; only one person was killed
outright-the noble engineer, who stood
bravely to his post while his engine was
wildly racing over the ties, and died in the
discharge of his duty. Many others were
hurt-quite likely some will die. That the
consequences were not more serious is the
strange part Of the matter. Clearly this is a
case for which the authorities Of the road are
to blame. A careful inspection Of the track
would have detected the insecure rails, and
certainly thorough administration would
have replaced them with sound ones. Now
we have slaughter and injury to many persons
who trusted their lives to ths reckless rail-
Year: 1872

road management Such abuses, with similar
fatal effects, will continue till it shall become
certain that the company will be held in dam
ages in every instance. When the corpora
tions are thus made to feel their responsibility
through their treasures they will begin to
take the requisite care for the safety of pas
sengers No other appeal will secure their
attention to the duty they owe the public
which SO literally supports them.
Year: 1872

character which have been already noticed in
our telegram news despatches-are specially
reported in detail in the HERALD to-day The
loss OF the Guatemala occasioned the loss of
thirteen lives as it is now stated, and the
infiiction OF intense suffering on the sur
vivors
Year: 1872

The Weather i'm This City Yesterday.


The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty -four hours In
comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
Pharmacy, HERALD Building:-
Year: 1872

From the objections urged by the Dem
Ocratic press to the style and substance of
Governor BroWnlow's defense of himself
and his State against the aspersiOns of
Representative Beck, it would appear that,
notwithstanding his infirmities, the Ten
nessee Senator. can still strike home. The
manner in which he has retOrted to the
declarations of Mr.. Beck, that his only
refuge from the penitentiary appeared to
he in the Senate,n is characteristic, and
might have been expected by the Ken
lucky member or any other man who was
at all cOnverSant with Governor Brown
lows career. Those who find fault with
his style might as we'll remember that the
style of his asSailant was anything but po-
lite. When a man is told he has taken
refuge from the penitentiary, it implies
that he has been guilty of felony, and a
severe answer must come in course. An
prv men do not pick out fine words, and
Governor BrOwnlow has always been no.
ted for his propensity to call spade a
shade. 1t was certainly a mistake to i'm
pute to him a want of integrity, for men
who differ widely from him in opinion
believe him to be strictly honest, and his
political foes at home have vindicated him
in that regard. There is no kinder man
in the world to his friends than Governor
BrOwnlow, and, perhaps, as necessary
offset to this trait, no more unrelentlng
enemy. Nevertheless, he is as easily con-
| clliated by a kind and courteous word as


he Is aroused by an angry and improper
one, and people should be careful how


they tamper with a dying hon.- Wash.
| Chronicle
Year: 1872

We are glad to learn of the arrival at
Knoxville of the Messrs. Gale, recently
from near Rochester, New York. These
gentlemen have purchased the farm five
miles from Knoxville, known as the
Esperandieu farm, through the Real Estate
office of Charles Seymour, and have moved
to their new quarters. The farm is finely
located and under the skillful manage
ment of the new owners will do1btless
soon yield a large return.


We shall be glad to welcome ID .te far
mers from the Empire State. Division OF
our large farms and the work Of men VINO
own the soil they plow is what we need 10
make this valley blossom as the rose.
Year: 1872

A new division of Sons of Temperance
was organized at Temperance Hall on
Monday night, with tlattering prospects OF
achieving great good.


A movement is on foot and steps have
been taken to organize lodge OF Good
Templars with every indication of success;
Pushing men have the matter in hand ana
application has been made to the Grand
Lodge for charter.
Year: 1872

We take great pleasure in acknowledge
ing the receipt of the first number of the
Chattanooga Daily Herald, published and
edited by Mr.. Samuel Bard, formerly of the
TI1le GeOrgjaIe, Atlanta. The Herald is
Republican in its politics, live looking
and reading paper, and we sincerely hope
NAV prosper. Chattanooga needs a live
naner that will help build up its material
interests and make known to the world its
location. advantages and prospects. In
this day of progress a live newspaper does
more to build up city than any other
agency. Public spirited people everywhere re
recognize this, and you cannot better Judge
of the life and prosperity of city than by
its papers. The Herald starts out In IN i
good cause, is published in an enterprlslng
growing community, and we heartily WISH
it entire and speedy success.
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-At a meeting OF
the German Republican Committee of this
city, last evening, a resolution was adopt
ed, which says that while adhering to the
National nominations of the Republican
party, they will act in municipal affairs
with any party of honesty, working for
reform
Year: 1872

We desire to return our hearty thanks
to Prof. J. L. Lowery and Hodgson's
string band, for their exquisite music and
aid in adding to the enjoyment of the fes-
tivities of Monday evening, at Turner
Hall. We desire TO return thanks also to
the members of the Knoxville Turn We
rein for the use of their hall and kindness
to Us on the same occasion.


A. NJ SPIRO d Bro.
Year: 1872

On Thursday night next, at HoXsle,S
Hall, the Thespian Corps, OF this city, VIII
perform the stirring tragedy OF Damon
and Pythias. For weeks they have Deeh
rehearsing and making every preparation
to make the occasion a grand success. The
object is to assist the knights of Pythias
in fitting up their splendid hall, and it is
hoped that our citizens will make liberal
investment in the purchase Of tickets,
which they can find at the book stores.


The rehearsal last night gave evidence
Of care and patient training and our cltl-
zens will have an opportunity OF witness
ing play worthy of their patronage.
Year: 1872

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes, Drop
sy( Incontinence of Urine Brghts disease, Albumin
ra and cases where there are Brick dust deposits or
the water is hck, cloudy, mixed with substances like
the white Of egg threads like white silk there
is morbid, dark, bilious appearance and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is prieking, burning
sensation, and pain in the small of the back and along
the lOins. In all these conditions Railways Sarparil
liam Resolvent aided by the application of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back and
the bowels regulated with one two of Railways
Regulating Pills per day will, make complete
In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
Urine will be restored 10 its natural clear and amber
or sherry color.
Year: 1872

The Northern Pacific Railroad Company through
its Financial Agents offers for sale its First Mort
gage 73O Gold Bonds. They fall due i'll 80 years,
bear 3-1O per cent gold interest payable semi-annu
ally. are exempt from United States tax to the
holder and are secured by first and only mortgage on


l. The Railroad, its Right of Way, Franchise, Roll
ing Stock and other Property.


3 Its Traffic or Net Earnings.


g. A Government Grant of Land averaging on COM
pletion of the Road about $4,000 acres per mile of
track.


The Road follows what is known as the Valley
Route to the Pacific, fanlled most of the way by an
excellent country and is assured in advance of a
vast and profitable traffic which already awaits its
completion. The work of construction is steadily
and satisfactorily progressing the settlement OF
the adjacent country and the building of towns
keen pace with the advance of the road large
body of the COmpany's lands is already in market,
and the proceeds of sales will constitute Sinking
Fund for the redemption of the COmpany's Bonds,
which are convertible at 10 into the Company
Lands at market prices


Believing that these bonds, both in point of safety
and proftableness constitute such security as judi
cious investors can approve, we recommend them to
the public. Government bonds and all marketable
securities are received in exchange at current quota
tions without cost to the investor.
Year: 1872




The audiences which assembled at McVicker's
Theatre on Monday and Tuesday evenings we're
composed Of q class of people whose attendance
upon any performance implies compliment.
The house was well filed On each OCCASION, and
the fact that it was so, in the face Of strong
counter attractions, themselves Of character
tending to call out the fashionable, and critical,
must be taken as IN evidence of the warm es-
TEEN in which Miss Jane Coombs is held in Chi
cago. Her reception WAS Of the most cordial,
kindly character, and her efforts to please were
rewarded by the most enthusiastic appreciation.
She acted wisely in choosing for her opening
assumption the role Of Lady Ieazle in sheridans
splendid old comedy, "school for Scandal"
as it is in that character, the standard and
the test Of all female comedy representations:
that Miss Coombs was best and most faYorably
remembered by Chicago theatre-goers. She was
Year: 1872

Materials made Of wool, or wool and silk are
much used for costumes aud morning dresses.


Many dresses are made with perfectly plain
skirts the garniture of the dress being left to
the tunic and bodice in fact, II the material il
a rich and handsome one, it is considered much
more disingte, and certainly better taste, to
have nothing to disaTsnge or disguise the ele.
giant fall of the drapery.


Silk of a lighter make, or any materials that
do not fall into handsome folds, are still worn,
trimmed with ruches and bias folds and hounces
OF all sizes and styles.


Velvet will be much used as a trimming on any
material - few broad velvet bands ON skirt,
the same on the tunic. revefs and high cuffs OH
the bodice with handsome sash bow form the
most ladyite and at the same time fashionable
trimming possible.


Some very elegant little vests are being made
with basques and without Sleeves in velvet
they are a charmii finish to a now toilet and
are very useful to wear with one whose bodice IL
slightly passe in style or quality, They are al
ways open at the throat enGnur or en chale, ,anU
fastened with buttons. Buttons. by the bv, art
very fashonably worn as a trimmer, either il
velvet or fancy. Some are made in silver anu
various metals beautifully chased and ornameu
ted.


Polonaises and tuncs Of all kinds are made
much longer and much less bOuflante in faci
for cloths and extra thick materials they will moi
be looped up at all j.; of course in this case they
will not be cut nearly so wide round in the skirt,
the fulneHs consisting merely Of abox plat al
the back of the waist, fastened by two buttons.
Many Of these caAaques will have velvet waist
coat. cuffs and pocket. .s.--.


Walking dresses are made the same length a.
those worn last month. As the time of snow
and mud advances they will be short enough t.,
clear the ground.
Year: 1872

A traveller was once making q
pedestrian tour of tho Alps, when
suddenly, in anarrow path, he came
face to face with a large brown bear.
He drew revolver and was about
to fire, when, to his amazement, the
bear cried out, Don't fire." 1t
turned out that the pretended bear
was a man employed by some
guides, who sent him out dressed in
a bear-skin when they had a timid
traveller to escort. At a preconcer-
ted spot the bear would rush upon
them; and when put to fight by the
exertions of the guides, the traveller
never failed to reward their courage
and devotion by a handsome pre-
sent, of which the bear received a
liberal share.