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Year: 1875

A LATE number of the New Or
leans Republican contained eight
columns of advertisements of prop
erty to be sold for taxes, over seven
of which were devoted to city taxes
and less than one to those of the
State. While the State Government
is Republican, the city government
is Democratic, as it has been nearly
ever since the war; The total State
tax amounts to one dollar and fifty
cents on the hundred dollars, which is
a very high rate, but the city tax is
two dollars and fifty cents on the
hundred dollars. Query: If the
Republican State Government is bur
densome, eXtravagant and corrupt,
how is the Democratic City Govern
ment to be characterized?
Year: 1875

The New York Tribune says the interest
awakened by the placarding of a reward of
e100O for book of scandalous gossip concern
ing the royal family of England seems to have
no further foundation than q practical joke, or
the attempt of an interested person to make
market in this country for republication of
Huish's scandalous ''Memoirs of George the
Fourth''-a book not at all rare. 1t proves on
inquiry that none of the book-dealers who
posted the placard knew whence it came; most
of them received it by mail, and to one firm it
was sent inclosed in a copy of the North Amer
lean Review. a well known house in Broad
way caused it to be placed in their windows
without thinking Of being in any way held to
account. 1t was an afterthought, on finding
that the placard attracted crowd about the
windows, to place beneath u poster OF the
"Greville Memoirs" and this is the only foun-
dati)n for the story that the pacard was deVls-
ed as an advertisement of those volumes Dy
their publishers. The house in question atter


wards caused inquiry to be made at the address
given for the Mr.. Brown named, ana sign


with that name was found in the top story, but
NOT the nerson himself. The firm has already


received letters from several persons in differ
ent parts of tho country, who undoubtedly have
copies of Huish's took, as well as from owners
of other scand9lous books, who seem to think
their possessions may in some way be made
available. 1t is rather curious that within q
few days person whose name is well known
to the public, has approached first the publish
ers referred to, and afterwards others, with a
proposition for the republication of the volumes,
which he shows cautiously, but declines to let
go out Of his hands. His statement is that the
book was given to him in London during the
Chartist agitation by Chartist, who advised
Year: 1875

ONE of the foreign correspondents COM
plains of the French syste n of Instruction
because it does nat require each student to be
proficient in various branches of knowledge,
aud makes of each too much of specialist.
The great desideratum, the correspondent
thinks, for anybody, is not SO much perfect
culture in one direction as general culture in
all. Exceptions may be taken to this dictum.
The process of making Admirable Crichtons
out of American youth has been tried, and is
laUghable failure. Too many of them know
little of everything, but not enough of any
thing to be of use. TIE great value of the
French system is. its training of specialists.
BY means of this training it has been enabled
to contribute more to the physical and exact
sciences, and to the arts than any other ma
ton in existence. Give us fewer universal
men, and more specialists.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return reserve commu-
nicatons that are not used.
Year: 1875

NEW York papers are discussing the Curl
osities of contingent funds. There is ample
opportunity in the discussion to furnish much
entertaining reading. A contingent fund is
the most curious thing in the world, Except
a British discussion on American politics.
Year: 1875

A ball was given at CamptonYille, Yuba county, California, recently, which was attended by certain lady who resides some distance from that place. She had baby that could not be left at home. Arriving at Camptonville early in the evening with her baby, she put up at the Globe Hotel, kept by one Jones. She told Jones she was desirous of attending the ball if she could find some one who would take care of her baby. Jones, being. all accommodating fellow, pro- posed that he would " father" the "young 'rln " dd interim. The lady accepted the offer with joy, and putting the baby to sleep, laid it down gently in Jones' bed, and then went to the ball. Up to midnight Jones made frequent visits to the room, to attend to the wants of his precious charge. From that hour the babe, so far as Jones or its mother was concerned, was left alone, for Jones fell a victim to, sleep. It happened, however, that stage driver was asleep in room nearly opposite to the one oc- cupied by the babe. About one o'clock A. M, says the North San Juan Times, the babe began to cry fearfully, and to appease it the stage driver took it to his own bed, and kept it quiet the remainder of the night. He was up and off by daybreak, before the mother returned from the ball, and before any one was stirring in the house, leaving the babe fast asleep in his own bed. An hour later the ball broke up, and the mother returned to the hotel. She went straight to Jones room to see her babe. Lo 1! and behold it wasn't there-neither was Jones. Soon the whole house was in an uproar, and search was made for the missing babe, but all in vain. In the meantime the whole town was startled by the information that child had been stolen and carried away. Finally, it was remembered that the stage driver had slept in the house that night, and that possibly he might know something about the missing child. He was telegraphed to on the subject, to Downieville, and in the course of few minutes reply was received from him, which read as fol- lows: 'sFrank Rampin: You will find the child in my bed at the hotel" On the reception of the telegram the mother rushed frantically to the stage drivers room and found her precious babe lying in his bed fast asleep.
Year: 1875

The practical value of that wonderful invention, the sand blast, has now been demonstrated in such a variety of methods and applications as to admit of no doubt in regard to it's permanent place in operative mechanisms. It re- produces on glass the finest steel en- cravings, it carves the most delicate de- signs on cut glass, it engraves cameos, and it does in five minutes work which would take the most industrious stone cutter hours to accomplish-solid granite and marble dissolving before it quicker than snow melts in hot sun. And all this is the result of the simple principle that sand will act on the surface of glass and other minerals, but not upon any vegetable or animal substance; so when a surface of glass or stone is partly GOV cred with paper, cloth, leather, grease, or ink, the sand will fall harmlessly away from the paper, etc., but will eat into the mineral as certain acids eat into steel.
Year: 1875

A Wisconsin schoolboy handed in the following composition recently: "I go to school to learn to read and rite and siphor to slide on the ice and traid off an old knife if I have one, in summer to pick wild flowers and strawberries and to get out of work hot days, some boys has to go to school to get out of their mothers road, but would rather stay in winter than to go to miles and set by cold stove and freeze my tose. I like to go to school to see the teacher scold the big girls when they cut up. some goes to school to fool but go to study when we are old we can't go to school and then wewill feel sorry that we fooled when we was young and went to school. I don't get no time to fool anyway for I have enough to do when it comes to my geography"
Year: 1875

The following description nfthe
recent Masonic clam bake is from
the pen of Mart V. Brown, in the
Albany, (Oregon) Democrat:


At Olympia the clam-bake was
the grand feature, and was partic-
ipated in by some 500 persons.
As many of our readers, like our
self, until this event, never saw
clam-bake, we shall here give them
some idea of one. The first thing
is to get the clans, which is done
by making a contract with Indians
to go down into the woods when
the tide is out, and drive up the
clans from their native heaths, the
said Indians being promised one
half the wool and half the increase
when they bring the clans to the
contractor. Then everybody who
wants baked clamsassemble at the
clam corral and help lasso the
poor creatures and drag them
bound head and foot, to a great
burning pile upon which they
throw them and let them bake.
The feathers are not picked off
the clans, but are allowed to re-
main to preserve the flesh from
being too suddenly scorched while
the baking process goes on. They
are shaken well while baking and
are carved with a meat cleaver as
soon as taken from their funeral
pile The bones are taken out
and the meat soaked in coal-oil
and gin, when it dissolves into II
liquid and is poured into a great
big hole in the ground, dug in the
shape of a duck pond, and every
body who wants baked clans get
down on their hands and knees
and drink out of this pool with
their mouths. It'll" "lapping good
truck" and will fatten people up
faster than any other grease we
know of. No well-regulated fam
lily can afford to be without clam
bake during the dog days. We
think we have made this process
of clam-bsking clear to every
thinking discerning mind and are
sure We have conferred a lasting
benefit on heretofore benigbted
world.
Year: 1875

sonrv and the Christian Church
are established are nearly identi-
cal, no less closely related are the
objects which they seek to attain.
To elevate the human race, to lift
mankind from the condition of
creature toward that of Creator, to
bring the mind of man into har-
mony with the universe and its
Divine Architect, is our common
purpose, and let US assure you
friends, We, as true Masons, have
an especial pleasure in laying the
corner stone of a building devoted
to these high and noble ends.
We shall feel that we have an in
terest in these walls as they arise
from day to day. May neither
envy, discord nor confusion inter
rupt nor disturb the peace and good
fellowship of your work. We
confde to you some of the lessons
we learn from the instruments YOU
will here use. May the Trowel by
which you spread the cement
which unites in one common mass
these stones, teach you to spread
the cement of brotherly love and
affection, that cement which should
unite you into one sacred band or
society of friends and brothers,
among whom no contention should
ever exist, save that noble con.
tentiOn, or emulation, rather, of


who can best work and best agree.
May the plumb by which these
perpendiculals are tried, the
square by which you square your
work, the level by which you
prove your horizontals, teach
you to walk uprightly before God
and man in your several stations,
squaring your life-work by the
square of virtue, ever remember
ing you are travelling on the level
of time toward that undiscovered
country from whose bourne no
traveller returns.


We bid you God-speed in your
work. May the Great Master
Builder, who, without AK, or sound
of hammer, or any tool of iroB, but
by His own almighty will plucked
these rocks from their resting
place in the bosom of the everlast-
ing hills and laid them here on
this quiet hillside for your use
may He be with you in all your
work, bless you in all your under
takings, and at last bring us all as
perfected living stones into His
temple not made with hands eter-
nal in the heavens.


Hon. .Elwood Evans, Acting Grand
Secretary, then made some very
appropriate remarks concerning
the enterprise, which were happily
received, but our limited space,
precludes their insertion at this
time. The benediction was then
pronounced by the Grand Chap
lain, the people dispersed to
their homes, the Masons and
Red Men again formed in process
sion and marched to their respec-
tive halls, and the notable pro-
ceedings Of the day were ended.
Altogether the scene was one well
calculated to interest and instruct
the beholder.
Year: 1875

A case in which a man was charged for the fourth time with breaking the same window, after having been already sentenced to terms of imprisonment ex- ceeding twelve years, came before a police court in England. The prisoner gave the name of Richard Hampton, aged thirty-three, and said he had no home. He made his first public appear ance at Woolwich in 1865, when, in order to get locked up by the police, he broke pane of glass at the shop of 8 watchmaker, and attempted to steal some watches, for which he was convicted and sentenced to nine months imprisonment

 Directly he had served his time he re- turned to Woolwich, broke the window 8 second time, and was sentenced to hard labor for eighteen months. A third time he repeated the offense, without loss of time, and when being tried at Maidstone assizes, he told the judge he should do the same again as soon as he had the chance, whereupon he was sentenced to the full term of ten years penal servitude for shopbreaking with intent to steal, after previous conviction. After serv- ing nearly eight years with good con- duct, he was released on ticket-of- leave. He walked straightway to Wool wich, reported himself to the police as a convict on license, and then revisited the shop, dashed his fist a fourth time through the square of glass in the old corner, and waited to be taken into GUS tody. He declined to say what reason he had for visiting this particular shop, but said that he should break the win dow as often as he had the opportunity. The justice committed him to prison for month, at the end of which he will be taken back to complete his term of penal servitude, his ticket being forfeited.
Year: 1875

How many lives are, so to speak, mere relics of an ended feast, fragments which may be either left to waste, or be taken up and made the most of For we cannot die just when we wish 1t, and because we wish it. The fact may be very unromantic, but it is a fact, that 8 too large dinner or false step on the stairs kills much more easily than 8 great sorrow. Nature compels us to live on, even with broken hearts, as with lopped-of members. True, we are never quite the same again, never the complete human being but we may still be very respectable, healthy hu- man being, capable of living out our three score years and ten with tolerable comfort after all.

 These |" fragments of lives, how they strew our daily path on every side Not house do we enter, not 8 company do we mix with, but we more than guess we know-that these our friends, men and women, who go on about the world doing their work and taking their pleas ure therein, all carry about them a secret burden--of bitter disappointments, vanished hopes, thrilled ambitions, lost loves. Probably every one of them, when his or her smiling face vanishes from the circle, will change it into an other, serious, anxious, sad happy if it be only sad, with no mingling of either bitterness or badness. That con- plete felicity which the young believe in, and expect almost as 8 matter of cer- tainty to come, never does come. Soon or late we have to make up our minds to do without it, to take up the frag- ments of our blessings, thankful that we have what we have and are what we are above all, that we have our own burden to bear, and not our neighbours. But, whatever it is, we must bear it alone and this gathering up of frag- ments, which am so earnestly advising, is also thing which must be done alone. Mss MotLOcE.
Year: 1875

We hear of corners in wheat, in stocks, and in almost everything that men can speculate in. Scgi6ner's Monthly tells us how corner is managed, as follows

 A B and 0 combine their means and credits to make corner in July. They therefore quietly begin in May to buy corn to be delivered in July. They gradually buy all the corn in the market, and, of necessity, must buy all that ar rives, paying for the latter whatever is demanded. When @ purchase is thus made, seller and buyer put up margin, either in cash, or certificate, or deposit. As soon as the corner becomes known, there is an effort made to break it. The settlement takes place at three P. M. on the last day of the month. Those who have sold corn to the corner and have no corn to deliver, pay the difference be- tween the price at which they sold, and the ruling price at the close of business on the last day. As the corner has thus purchased sometimes five times ss much corn as there is to be had, amounting to millions of bushels, and the price has advanced ten cents bushel, the profit is enormous. As the prices advance, additional margins are required. Those failing to put up the additional margins, lose what they have already put up. The anti-corner factions seek to so crowd sales on the corner as to exhaust it's capi- tai and credits, and render it unable to buy at the advance prices. Thus, the corner is compelled to send out in the country and buy for cash all the corn in sight, to prevent having it rushed into Chicago at the last moment. These are exciting times. Corn at such 8 moment may be purchased of the corner for shipment, from six to fifteen cents 8 bushel less than it is selling for on change for delivery during the month. Each time there is a corner, there is a crash, sometimes of the corner men, and at other times of the anti-corner men. The whole proceedings are of such qut s. tionable honesty, that the Legislature of Illinois has declared the operation of 8 corner to be felony. Corners are at- tempted in wheat, oats, barley, pork, and lard, and some of them have been quite successful in pecuniary way. It requires nerve, audacity, and money. or credit. Recently bank here went into a corner, issuing it's certificates of de- posit for margins; the corner failed, and so did the bank, and the certificates have never been paid.
Year: 1875



 From childhood's hour have not been As others were-I have not seen As others saw-I could not bring My passions from common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow-I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone And all loved-I loved alone. Then-in my childhood-in the dawn Of most stormy life-was drawn From ev'ry depth of good and Ill The mystery which binds me still. From the torrent, or the fountain From the red cliff from the mountain From the sun that round me roll'd In it's autumn tint of gold. From the lightning in the sky As it pass'd me flying by From the thunder, and the storm And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of heaven was blue Of demon in my view. ,,
Year: 1875

THE nice weather We have been
having is abou, ended, aud it will be
to the interest of everybody to pro-
vide themselves and their boys with
some of the celebrated MuscGtine
Boots before cold weather sets in. Il
will he still more to the interest of
everybody to know that Stewart the
shoeman, is the sole agent for these
boots, and therefore the only one in
Cedar County that handles them.
We ask every man in Cedar County.
that wants good, reliable handmade
kip boot to call At our establishment, i,
and examine tho merits Of the Mus
catine boots-leaving him to Judge
as to the superiority of these boots
over the thousand and one kinds Of
cheap Eastern boots with which the
market is flooded. Stewarts shoe
store, next door to Hammonds bank.


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Year: 1875

Is Upton getting as bad Is Massa.
chusetts in excess of womenf The
boys tell Of recent instance whore
. fellow went back on his girl and
had four applications for the vacancy
in less than twenty-four hours. Only
be who is safely married can feel
secure and happy nowadays; and
this, jointly with the weather, !,
probably the reason Why We have
from three to siE weddings - ss'
pouncs each week,
Year: 1875

FoRGY & GILBERT are all the time
putting new pictures on exhibition
at their studio. A further descrip-
tion of their work will be in order
soon-pcrhaps next week. In the
meantime We advise all to step in and
see for themselves.
Year: 1875

PKrTY LARCENY is growing oil toe
frequent in our town. Wood piles
clothes lines, corn cribs, cellars and
hen roosts have been successfully in
vaded Of nights BY predatory cusses
Only last Sunday night deputation
of these gentry took from N. Fair.
child about 80 pounds of fresh pork
and about half as much soap grease,
which they evidently mistook for the
leaf lard, that lay near at hand. Mr.
F. thinks perhaps they had better
come back and rectify the error.


However this may be, nothing is
surer than that some member Of the
theiving fraternity will one of these
fine evenings turn up with an extra
hole in his hide. A number Of our
citizens have preparations already
made for this kind Of business, and
more will make them.
Year: 1875

bay, and upon which the scene Of op-
erations took place. In the morning
the dog, which was usually chained
there was found dead, having been
poisoned, and a pane OF glass was cut
out Of the sash in the door. Why they
failed to penetrate the store is best
known to themselves. Daylight may
have been approaching too rapidly, OF
they may have become aiarineu lIplLl ISl,
the occupants Of the sec ond story Were
not aroused, or they might not have
got off 50 easily.
Year: 1875

BuReLAKoUs.-On Sunday night
last an unsuccessful attempt was made
to enter the store Of Waterman q Katz,
Of city. The burglars approached
the building from the rear end to which
Is attached wharf extending into the
Year: 1875

philosophy teaching by examples. The
game of political diplomacy which the
Confederate leaders are now playing can
not succeed permanently. The North will
never yield the principles for which she
contends. The emancipated citizen of
the South will never consent to be the
menial and political serf of the white man.


The consequences of this mad and criminal
experiment are as plain as that two and
two make four. 1t will end in another civil
war. Let US retraee our steps while there
is time. HUMANITY.
Year: 1875

The social penalties Of being paryenu in Berlin
must dctract a great deal from the pleasure oi get
Ting rich Herr Won Schifcr-Yot madc a great for
tune as proprietor of the BG:0r gazette OF fashion,
and, being philosophical citizen as well as a
wealthy one was some years ago raised to the rank
of tie nobility. His son, however. was refused at
mission to the Cuirassier Guards account OF ms
low birth" He was Il gallant young fellow, ana
entering regiment of the line the Iron Cross
in the late war and fell brayoly at Nionyllle, rnor
insisting that his wounded honor drove him to SELF
destruction. Society in Berlin now threw open IFS
doors to the publisher of the Bd:ar and in short time
his daughter was ailianced to Count Frederick Eu-
lenburg rich higl-born, and cousin of the somewhat
too celebrated homicide, Count Ncnd Won Eulen-
burg who has just been bctrothcd To the daughter OF
Prince Bismarck. All the of society thercupon
broke ont afresh. The aristOcratic officers of the
particularly housekeeping regiment of The imperial
body-gnard 10 which Count Frederick belonged as
snrcd him with the most distinguished consideration
that they must decline the honor OF his acqIaint


auce He challenged thcIn ana laid IA complaint be-
fore his colonel and " hen the colonel sided with
them he challenged the colonel too. For this inirac-
ton of military discipline he has been sentenced to
a wears Imprisonment in fortress. and AL Berlin Is
now ON the All rirc 10 know what viii happen when
he comes ont. The Emperor, the Royal Princes and
the powerful Euenburg family all take his part