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Year: 1872

ciplined, for when we consider chow use
doth breed a habit in a man." it is OBJ
vious that even this ''wide blessing" may
be strangely abused We may, therefore,
fairly ask, what is the quantity of sleep
which reasonable person should be con-
tented with ?


Yet this is still a somewhat difficult
question. We have seen it stated that
tall and bulky people require more sleep
than short aud thin people men than We
men and all auimals sleep longer In via
ter than in summer. Age, constitution,
climate, occupation, and variety of in
cldeGtal causes must be taken into con-
sideration


The faculty of remaining asleep longer
than Is necessary cannot be INDUCED Id
without impairing the strength of the
body aud mind The continued depres-
sion of the nervous system and excessive
Transportation occasion physical debility,
which the Intellectual faculties from con-
stantly slumbering in a state of inactivity,
become gradually enfeebled


In state Of health the amount of sleep
required to restore the nervous energy



hours We believe that sic hours is with
some constitutions sufficient. but it is not
so in all cases. Yet we hesitate not in
saying that there many woman who is
constantly employed in house work" gets
no longer period of rest, particularly il
she has a flock of little lambs to clothe
and care for. Yet we answer most en-
phaticaly that she really requires seUen
or eight hours sleep to sufficiently refresh
her for the labors of the following day.
The laws of nature may be tampered
with, but they cannot be subverted We
may step out of the paths she has pre-
scribed, but we cannot go far beyond
them with impunity. 1t needs scarcely
any evidence to prove that the day was
intended for exercise, and the night for
repose yet many persons, forgetting that
this is the order Of nature, endeavor to
what is familiarly called "turn day into
night" The result of this bad custom is
sooner or later severely felt.


Whatever may be the quantity of sleep
required, early rising is essential to health,
aud promotes longevity. Nevertheless,
the morning suooze has, we confess, many
TEN ptations and we trust "a woman who
is constantly employed in housework"
will not be dealt harshly with if she does
indulge occasionally in just one more lit
tie nap.


We Americans, as class, spend too
much time in unnecessary labor. While
/ we arc the slaves Of fashion, as we are to-
! day, we must expect to work, and in many
instances deprive ourselves Of hours of
sleep. Let us hope for more uniformity
of customs and habits before many years
shall pass away.
Year: 1872

A man in Pennsylvania has invented
rat trap that is made to operate upon the
selfish passions of the poor rat and lure
him into trouble The Mechanic and
Farmer, in description of the trap, says
that mirror is set in the back part of
the device, beyond the bait, aud as his
ratship is out on a foraging expedition he
espies the bait, and at the same time he
believes his own image in the mirror to
be another rat making for it on the oppo-
site side. This is too much for rat
nature to stand aud be cool over, so he
rushes for the bait and is caught.
Year: 1872

The undersigned does hereby most respect
fully offer himself to the voters of Monroe
county as a candidate for the office of County
Commissioner. If elected he promises to dis
charge the duties of the office with fidelity and
to the best of his ability.


J4COB FRABLE.
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Year: 1872

The other day man in Kentucky, find
ing neighbor pinned to the ground by
tree that had failed on his leg, lifted it
off. After the excitement was over he
and two others tried to lift the tree again
but could not bulge it,
Year: 1872

Can it be possible that rogue can
climb the outside brick wall of lofty city
mansion to the second story window with
no aid but that of strong india rubber
suckers ? Yet this is said of Forester,
the supposed Nathan murderer.
Year: 1872

l know a quiet city,
A silent, peaceful city;
A beautiful, strange city


Upon a sunny hill;
Where daisies fair are growing;
Where Summer winds are blowing
Along the earth's green bosom,


Aaown the streets so still.
The streets are long and narrow;
The brown thrush aud the sparrow
Their little nests have builded,


Amid the fower-aecked grass
The robins carol in It;
You hear the song of linnet;
Whenever this strange city


Your footsteps chance to pass.
The houses in this city
This still and peaceful city,
Where never human pity


The dwellers need nor ask
Each roof the grasses cover,
The green blades each lover
OF haunts, where thrush and plqyer


Within the sunlight bask.
There are no sounds of sorrow.
No longings for tomorrow;
Nor pain to bear and borrow,


Within its silent streets;
But all is peaceful over
The green grass and the clover,
AS days go drifting onward,


Above its calm retreats.
And there our dear ones weary
OF treading pathways dreary,
With souls bowed down with sorrow


Have often turned for rest
And in that fair white city,
That beautiful, strange city,
No thought of pain nor pity


Can touch the .dweller's breast.
OF peace, so sweet and tender,
SO wrapped about with splendor
OF rest, which you can render


About each low laid head;
We shall reach this city,
Sometime, by thy sweet pity,
And there will find q dwelling


Among the silent dead.
Year: 1872

COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. July 2.


Gen. Tom Brown, the republican can
didate for governor, addressed large and
enthusiastic assembly, at the court house,
in this place, this afternoon. He spoke
for about two hours, reviewing at length
the record of both the democratic and re-
publican parties. He claimed that the re-
publican party had carried out to the let
ter every pledge it had ever made; that it
had saved the country from being over
thrown by the foul hand OF treason, and
that it was rapidly paying off the public
debt at greatly reduced rate Of taxation.
He felt that the republican party should
congratulate itself over the fact that it was
not ashamed of its past record, but upon
the other hand, could point with pride to
its achievements fought in the interest of
their country and the inhabitants there
of, without distinction TO race or color.
while the democrats were very anxious TO
turn their backs upon their past records,
looking only to the future, asking the
people to forget the past and place them
in power for the accomplishment OF
which they were willing 10 turn their
backs upon their political principles and
take up the man who had been their life
long enemy. The meeting CLOSED with
three rousing cheers for Gen Brown, and
three more for Grant and Wilson
Year: 1872

The Board of Supervisors have been in session
this week, but we have been busy and our col
umns were so crowded that it is necessary to
defer publishing any portion of their proceedings
until our next issue.
Year: 1872

CATHOLIC CHURCH FEsTIvAL.--The young
ladies of the Catholic Church making ar
rangements to hold a festival for the benefit of
the church in Auburn, which will take place at
Music Hall about Tuesday evening the 2Sth
inst The arrangements are not yet completed,
that we can announce the programme i'll
this issue but it will be in the HERALD next
week, when we shall speak more fully of it and
the objects of its worthy managers.
Year: 1872

THE CuLMINATIoN SHow.-The Lewis Brothers
Charles, Andrew, Arthur A. and Albert n.y.
company gave performances here on Wednesday
and Thursday evenings last. We attended on
Wednesday evening. and must say it was good,
and exceedingly funny. The largest and best
pleased audience greeted the performances that
we ever seen on an occasion of the kind since the
building of the hall The performances were
too many and varied for us to attempt to de-
scribe. The illusions were up to the standard
of the best performers, and in some particulars
exceeded our most sanguine expectations. The
balancing and aerial feats of balls, plates, etc.,
were extremely good and deeply interesting. The
orchestral selections were rendered in mastery
style. The tableaux were brilliant, enchanting and
of the purest moral design. But the sde-splitting
fun came in when the East India magnetism and
Egyptian mesmersm performances commenced
Those who witnessed these scenes will not ask
us to explain them, and those who have not had
better keep track of this show until they can.
The company, we believe, will perform in most
of the towns of our county, and the best thing
we can now do, both for the company and our
readers, is to say, go and see the Cmmnaton
show. These gentlemen now have homes and
landed property in Solano county, and intend to
reside permanently in California They are
pleased With Auburn and our people, and author
ize US to say that at any time the Band and Hall
Association and any other charitable object re-
quire their services they will come here and per-
form, donating two-thirds of the net receipts to
the Band and charitable object named. We think
we may safely say we accept this offer in the
name Of the people of this community.


THE picnic Of Auburn Public School last Tues
day fell on an unpleasant day. The attendance
was not 80 large by one-hdf as it would have
been had the day been pleasant one, and, to
make the matter worse, about half-past one
o'clock rain set in end drove the picnickers
from the grove with damaged plumage and in
jured feelings at the clerk Of the weather Not
to be beaten in this way they adjourned to Music
Hall and concluded the days fun by feasting
frolicking, music. dancing. etc. In the end it
was nip and tuck whether the weather or pic
nickers had the best Of it.
Year: 1872

= The CRoPs.-The hot and dry weather we
s-have experienced for the last three or four
weeks has accelerated the opening of cotton
IN nearly every portion of onr Parish, and to-
day scarcely planter can be seen who is not
busily engaged in gathering the staple In
d fact, some of our planters viii be unable to
pick their cotton as fast as it opens. The crop
will no doubt be abundant; aud we have
heard the opinion expressed that the fall
weather will set in before the entire cotton
crop will be gathered, and that much of this
valuable staple will be lost in consequence.
Here is an excellent opportunity for those
seeking for work. The corn is safe, and an
ABUNDANT crop it is: the fodder has been
gathered iu isllnost'every locality, and to-day
the planter is smiling and happy, with only an
occasional dread of catterpillars; however, we
should note that thus far they have done very
little damage, none to speak Of in fact, as the
loss Will not amount to one bale in fifty, in the
Parish. .sses
Year: 1872

E An unexpected rush of advertisements
being handed in towards the last Of the week,


compells MS to omit other matter of impor-
taDce prepared for this issue; but as such
accidents don't happen often nowadays we
hope our readers will not complain this time.
Year: 1872

. We are happy to learn that Messrs.
Landry 81 Godefroy, wholesale grecers of New
Orleans, have met with such success in their
business as to necessitate removal of their
business stand to more convenient building,
and have leased the large four story building
4s Old Levee ST., for number of years. Mr.
Godefroy's many friends in this Parish will no
doubt be pleased to learn OF our ex-fellow
townsman's success. We commend the firm to
our readers, and speak from experience when
we say they are fully prepared to fill all orders
entrusted to them in a satisfactory manner
Their card will be found in another column.
Year: 1872

We are authorized to announce Mr. CA
MILE Fl. .MELANCON as q candidate to re-
present the Parish of st. Landry in the lower
House of the Legislature, at the election of
November next
Year: 1872

am candidate for the office of Sheriff of
the Parish of St. Landry at the election to
be holden in November next. For what the
people of St. Landry may expect of me in
that official capacity in the future, refer to
my past survices as the executive Deputy of
the present Sheriff G. C. DITSON
Year: 1872

The above contemplate fling might be en-
titled to some notice did it not emanate from
q sheet that has not yet dared even to hoist
in its columns any of the tickets National or
State-now in the field, thereby plainly inti-.
mating that IL is still for sale. @
Year: 1872

We hear from many quarters an encOur-
aging report of the progress of the Liberal
cause in Maine; but the remark is sometimes
added that the vote for Greeley in November
will largely exceed the vote for our candidates
on the State ticket next month. We have no
means of knowing how many of the anti
Grant Republicans mean to support the regu-
lar Administration ticket in September; but IL
may not be amiss to remind our friends in
Maine that if they mean to revolt against
Grantism and its Rings, corruption, nepotism,
and other attendant evils, the time to revolt
is now. They cannot safely support the Grant
nominee for Governor. and yet expect to poll
a large vote against Grant at the Presidential
election. There are thousands of doubtful
voters in every State who always go with the
current, and most Of those men will be gained
or lost to the Liberal cause by the result of
the September contest A victory for us then,
or even a large reduction of last years Adj
ministraton majority, will not only encourage
our party to fresh abors and enthusiasm, but
bring us a valuable reinforcement Of recruits


1t is q great mistake therefore to suppose
that the State election is of little consequence,
and that Liberal does his whole duty when
he resolves to vote for Horace Greeley in
November and meanwhile to support the regu-
lar Administration ticket. This putting off
reformation to the last minute is as perilous
as q death-bed conversion. Every vote by
which the Grant majority is reduced in Sep
tember will cOun ten or twenty votes for
Greeley and Brow in November. The Grant
managers are keeay alive to this fact and are
expending every fort to keep up their vote
to the figures of III. They are deluging the
State with dOcurents, and sending their
heaviest stump-spakers there; and they ex-
pect to win the nnrary by persuading them
to vote for Perhamuow, and postpone their
bolt to a later opprtunity. Friends of the
Liberal causel do mt be deceived. The way
to beat Grant is to 90 against Perham. You
cannot afford to put off your work till the
eleventh hour
Year: 1872

that Hartranft will receive the full Republican
vote of the State. 1t is difficult to conceive
that tho sense of shame should have been 80
driven out of the hearts of good citizens by
the power of party discipline. Last year in
New-York the indignation at the frauds of
Tweed and his associates was so universal
that in the election there was but one ques-
ton, and that was between honesty and theft.
Thousands of Democrats voted against their
own ticket because they imagined it tainted
with fraud, and the State, with large Demo-
cratic majority, fell into the hands of the Re-
publicans simply because Tweed and Connolly
and the rest had committed their robberies
in the name of Democrats. Yet Pennsylva-
mans eomplacently tell US that there is no
prospect of any such revolt of Republican
conscience. in their State.


There was never clearer issue between
right and wrong, between honesty and dis
honesty. 1t is patent to every voter in Penn
sylyania who can iead that Hartranft is man
saturated in fraud and illegelities. BY sworn
afidavits, by letters Autographed and pub
lished in his owl handwriting, by extracts
placed in evidente from the books Of his
brokers, it is proved that he corruptly used
the public funds for stock speculations while
Auditor-G General; that he made use of secret
official information to deal in stocks which
were raised or depressed by his official acts.
These are events of yesterday. The money
thus gained is in his pocket-part of it, doubt
less, employed in this canvass. His partner
and associate, being more careless or less
influential than himself, is now expiating in





Mr.. Hartranft was nominated because of his
bad character. lie was chosen by the corrupt
Ring of Harrisburg, at the head of which is
Simon Cameron, not on account of any ability
or influence he possessed, but simply because
as Governor he would stick at nothing which
his managers demanded.


Nominated against himis a candidate entirely
above suspicion from every point of view.
Mr.. Buckalew is man with thoroughly clean
hands, He is a good lawyer, and a man of
such solid and useful knowledge of public
affairs that we may properly give him the
much abused name of statesman. Probably
not an intelligent man in Pennsylvania but
thinks he would be better Governor than
Hartranft. He is supported by the entire
Democratic press and by no less than twenty
Republican newspapers in the State. Many of
the most prominent Republican politicians re-
fuse to vote for Hartranft, and declare the
State disgraced if it elects him. When Gov.
Geary was elected over Packer in 1869 he re-
ceived 5O.4O per centum of the votes cast to
1890 thrown for Mr.. Packer, only 1896 major
ity in total of 57s.5OS. The merest breath of
popular feeling would have carried it the
other way.


TO say now that when Buckalew stands for
honesty, intelligence, and capacity, in its high
est expression, and Hartranft is proved to
mean fraud and corruption in its lowest mani
festations, there are not honest and independ-
ent men enough in the State to elect the
former is the most savage attack upon the
character of Pennsylvania which could pos
sibly be made.
Year: 1872

The fact which most plainly proves the cor
ruption and heralds the fall of systems and
dynasties, is the decline Of public conscience
in their later days. There is nothing so strik-
ing in the pictures which Michelet and Martin
have drawn of the closing years of the old
regime in France, as the fact that in the re-
gions of the court vice had ceased to be con-
sidered thing to be ashamed of. Only last
year we had a similar experience in this city.
The Ring of bandits who held the town and its
treasury in their grasp had left off hypocrisy
They imagined the public conscience dead.
They saw nothing evil except losing money,
nothing good except making it, When ac-
cused of theft they did not take the trouble to
Justify themselves. They simply asked with
that insolence which comes from impunity of
crime, "What are you going to do about
"it9 The only tyranny which sur
wives in our day is this tyranny
of corrupt and thievish Rings. We have no
secret police, no Bastiles, no lettreS de cdehet
as the instruments of an absolute and un-
questioned authority. But an almost equal
power is exerted by combinations of rascals
who work purely for money, and who find in
corruptly handling the revenues of great COM
mOnwealths the strongest incentive TO exer-
ton and the means of rewarding their re-
taineB This is only rendered possible by
the existence of strong party spirit which
shall blind the honest masses to the faults of
their leaders, or even induce them to condone
their crimes for the sake of partisan victory.
Every advance, therefore which can be made
toward enfranchising politics and journalism
from the dctation of the machinery of or
ganEatiOn is step gained in progress toward
purG government. Our victory last year over
the Tammany" Ring was full of incalcula-
BILE benefits to the present and the future.
The work must be, of course, continually re-
newed. But it will always be easier for last
years struggle.


The independent newspapers and public men
in Pennsylvania are now engaged in an earnest
and hopeful struggle against Ring not less
corrupt, not less shameless than that which
we put under our feet last year Yet there is
one assertion frequently made by the Admin
istration papers in that State, which if it were
true would prove how. much less hopeful is
the prospect there than with US, They say
Year: 1872

The Liberal Republicans of this State expect
to support a Democrat for Governor, and are
very willing to do so. They only insist that
he shall be an undOubted, conspicuous, de-
term1ned foe of every form and shade of
corruption, Legislative, Municipal, or other.
Let his name be symbol of purity and honor
and they will work and vote for him with
enthusiasm. With such candidate they can
sweep the State by majority never yet given
for any party or candidate, while any other
would inevitably drag down the ticket. They
have no choice as to the man, so that bis
hostility to corruption needs no Endorsement
and laughs calumny to scOrn.


AS to our City, if candidates of doubtful in
tegrity or tarnished reputation are presented,
no matter by what party, they will be repu-
dated and beaten at the polls. 1t would be
wasteful for such to manipulate primaries and
pack nominating conventions, for they are
certain to be beaten if their names shall be
submitted to the people. No Tweeds or
James Woods are to be returned this Fall
unless by fraudulent counting, and the many
mistakes of last year are to be corrected with
resolute energy. Let the tainted take warn
ing, and shun disgrace by keeping in the shade
till their evil deeds shall have been forgotten.
Year: 1872

root wav and in a manner which would sat
isfv and convince the public. It's examination
was made on a fxod and carefully elaborated
plan to test the legal issues involved, and the
truth of charges previously put forth by
former employees of the Asylum. To have
bribed two physicians to certify falsely
bis madness would have been to provo
only that there were rogues IN the
profession hence it wasi decided to feign
insanity and test the scientific knowledge of
the committing physicians. Two reputable
physicians, medical student, .and profess
sional nurse, pronounced the man ga violent
climatic, dangerous to himself and Others
1t was charged that strangers to patients
sometimes committed them. 1t was therefore
decided that absolute strangers should be en-
mitted men without examination. The JUS
tice who sent our reporter to Blooming
dale never saw him at all, and does
not know the names of the persons or
physicians who made the application. The
Governor of the Asylum to whom application
was made for admission declared that the
physicians at the Asylum would receive no
patient without his Endorsement. 1t was
therefore decided to avoid this Governor alto
gether, and in spite of the strict regulations
the physician in charge received the
patient. and without even asking the name
of one of the gentlemen committing mm'
and after an examination OF less than
one minute, consigned him to the
ward for excited patients. The reporter was
directed to study carefully the character OF the
attendants and physicians, the condition OF
the apartments, nature Of the general treat
ment, whether cruel or kind, the character
of the meals supplied, and to obtain the
statements of any persons whom he mad
reason to think sane. 1t was also charged
| that the physicians connived at the re-
moyal of patients for whom writs Of habeas
had been procured, having some means
of communication with the Court by which
thew were advised in advance of such pro-
ceedings. 10 test this question writ Of
habeas corpus was served, but the prisoner
had not been removed, and 10 suggestion
was made of removal. But strenuous efforts
to keep the matter from the courts were made,
and finally with success.


The detailed story Of these adventures to
be told by the reporter will be plain, un-
vanished tale, without reservation of names
or facts and we are sorry to say that it will
be adverse to the institution, and reflect pain
fully on the law of commitment and its ad-
ministration in this city.
Year: 1872

lence have all been on his own side the pro-
vocation has been nothing but abuse in a
newspaper-and if that could justify Gaming,
John Thomas's skin would all. have been
caned off long ago. Yet so little idea have
this man and the party for whom he speaks
of the true principles of republican govern
ment and the responsibilities Of President,
that they imagine the army of the United
States has right to usurp the functions Of a
constable and justice of the peace, because
two or three men have got into street fracas.
And the worst of it is that Grant is very
much of the same mind.