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Year: 1871

Though that class of girls is by no means
extinct, still they are not SO numerous as
might be wished. There is nothing half SC
sweet in life, half so delightful or so loveable
as a nice girl. Net pretty, or dashing girl
but q nice girl. One of those lovely, likely
good hearted, sweet faced, amiable, neat, natty
domestic creatures, met within the sphere OF
"home," diffusing around the influence of hel
goodness, like the essence of sweet bowers.


A nice girl is not the languishing beauty
drawing on the sofa, and discussing the last
novel or opera, or the giraffeing like creature
sweeping majestically through the drawing
room. The nice girl may not even play or
dance well, and knows nothing about using her
eyes, or coquetting with fan. She never
languishes, she is too active. She is not given
to sensitive novels, she is too busy. In the
opera she is not in front to show her shoulders
she sits quiet and unobstrusive at the back oi
the box, most likely. In fact it's not often we
discover her. Home is her place.


Who rises betimes and superintends the
morning meal? Who makes the toast and tea,
and buttons the boys shirts, and waters the
flowers, and feeds the chickens, and brightens
up the parlor, and sitting room. Is it the Ian
guisher or the giraffe, or the "elegante ?"


Not bit of it; it's the nice young girl.


Her maiden toilet is made in the shortest
possible time, yet how charmingly done and
how elegant her neat dress and collar


Breakfast over down TO the Kitchen to see
about dinner, and all day long she is up and
down, always cheerful and lighthearted. She
never ceases to be active and useful until the
cay is gone, when she will polka with the
boys, or read, or sing old songs and play old
tunes to her father and mother for hours to-
gether. She is perfect treasure, is nice girl
When sickness comes it is she who attends
with unwearying patience in the sick cham.
Der. There is no risk, no fatigue that she will
not undergo; no sacrifice that she will moi
make. She is all love, all devotion. l have
often thought it would be happiness to be i'll tc
be watched by such loving eyes, and tended
by such tair hands.


One of the most strongly marked character
istics of ga nice grip is tidiness and simplicity
of dress. She is invariably associated in my
mind with high frock, plain collar, and the
neatest of neck ribbons, bound with the most
modest little brooch in the world. never
knew "nice girl" who displayed profession
of rings and bracelets, and who wore low dres.
ses or splendid bonnet.
l say again, there is nothing in the world
half so intrinsicaly good as "nice girl."-
She is the sweetest flower in the path Of life
There are others far more stately, far more
gorgeous, but these we merely admire as we &C
by. 1t is where the daisy grows that we like tc
rest.
Year: 1871

TAKE HOLD AND LIFT.-A teacher Of the Freed
men was sitting at the window of her room
watching two negroes loading goods into cart
One of them was disposed to shirk the other
stopped, and looking sharply at the lazy one,
said


"Sam, do you expect TO get to heaven? y


eyes"


s'TheR take hold and lVt'


There are great many Christians in our
churches and Sabbath schools who expect to go
to heaven, that would do we'll TO strengthen their
hope Of going there by taking hold and lifting
some of the burdens which they let their brethren
bear alone
Year: 1871

German Bitters stand without an equal, acting


promptly and vigorously upon the Liver they


remove its torpidity and cause healthful secre-
ton of bile-thereby supplying the stomach


with the most indispensable elements of sound
digestion in proper proportions They give
tone to the stomach stimulating its functions,


and enabling it to perform its duties as nature
designed it should do. They ;mrart vigor
and strength to the entire system, causing the
patient to feel like another being-n fact, Civ
inr him a new lea go of life
Year: 1871

First Floor East School and Dress Suits.
and Little Lads Clothes
Second Floor-Larger-size Goods and Half
Price Lots.
Upper Foors-Reserve Stock and Extra Fine
Goods.
NOTE Bay These and all our Goods are
not bought from Wholesale Houses but are
of our own manufacture many of them
made in our own building, under our own
examined and Sponged, and made only for
our Regular Retail Trade so that Custom
ers can take them with the utmost conf
deuce
Year: 1871

TAXATION OF HOMESTEAD LANDs.-The juno
tion City Unios thinks it time that the question
of the legality Of taxing lands entered under the
are not now placed upon the tax rolls for the rea-
son that the Commissioner of the General Land
Office has decided that land covered by home
stead entry is not taxable; but this is not COM
petent authority upon that subject. In many of
the Western Counties such lands are almost the
only ones from which taxes can be raised to carry
on their local government.
Year: 1871

~ According to the best information we can
get CHRIST did pot appear in the vicinity of Fill
more, Mo-, the 18th of June, according to pro-
gramme. 1t is supposed he received a hint that
HUsToN was going to he there, to try to get up a
debate with him. and he backed out.
Year: 1871

~ We have often heard the expression, that
certain men stood as good chance of being struck
by lightning they did of being elected to office.
In Kansas, this does not seem to be So poor n
showing as may be supposed. Almost everybody
can be elected to Office in Kansas and almost any
body stands chance of being struck by lightning.
At least, it is this year. Calculating upon the
ratio of the past few weeks, at least every third
man in the State stands chance of being hit be-
fore the lightning season is over.
Year: 1871

TOOMDs AND ANEW WAR.-The Richmond (Va.)
Uhig, in article Oh Gen. Toombs, says:


For our own part, we should not regret to see
this new war begin, with T0ombs and Davis the
only volunteers. Judging by the love they bear
each other, they would he much more apt to pitch
into one another than into the Yankees. The last
time we had the pleasure of seeing Gen. TOombs
during the war; he was in high disgust with jeff"
Like Wigfall, and, believe, Clay and other
conspicuous southern leaders, he had become
thoroughly convinced of the incapacity of Davis
and did not hesitate to express the conviction that
our doom was sealed, unless he could be got rid
of. Conversing with Mr.. Wigfall, about the same
time, about this confessed incapacity of our chief
asked him why he and his friends had put
him upon usi' He replied he (D.) had ceased to
be the man he was. He and Clay had talked this
matter over the day before, and they both con-
cluded he had let down. The agony which this
conviction of Davis incompetency, among those
whose hearts were devoted to the cause can new
er he told. Inevitable defeat staring them in the
face through the Incapacity of our leader, for
which there was no cure and from which there
was no escape, made many grow gray in a single
night,
Year: 1871

Not so BAD AS THAr.-Some of our exchanges
seem to have misapprchended our remark, made
several weeks since, that twcnty-one newspapers
had died in Doniphan County, since the Chief was
started. They seem to have understood us to say
that all those papers were started for the purpose
Of running the Chief Ont. That WAS not our msan-
ing. number of those papers were legitimate
enterprises, and endeavorrd to make a living by
honest means. What we meant to say about run
ming out the Chief was, that about of pa
pers had been started, that Thought they had
special mission to run out the Chief. All the pa
pers thus referred to were not published in DOni-
phan County, and probably but few of them were
started for the especial purpose of out the
Chief We know of a few that were started for
that express purpose; but most Of them included
that among several great duties that they felt
themselves called upon to perform.
Year: 1871

THE STORY OF THE TRIBUNE.-The New York
correspondent of the Rochester Democrat writes as
follows of the Tribune:


Harrison's funeral day was the birthday of the
Tribune. That day, as opened Edwin ID. Nor
gan's Wholesale store on Front street, where Ihad
a clerkship, / saw that a small sheet with the
above title had been thrust in. On examining its
proposals learned that it would be issued daily,
at nine cents per week, and that its editor was
Horace Greeley, well known as the log-cabin man.
Before hour had passed the little folio was for
gotten, nor did it get patron in that concern
til a long time afterwards, for it had no CONNER
cial value. But the solemn dirge that marked the
funeral pomp was the welcome of that newborn
journal which seemed inspired with vitality, en-
durance and the highest moral herosm. Born
amid this scene of sorrow, the Tribune has always
been imbued with sympathy for the masses, and
has won an enviable name as the friend of human
ity. of the entire force which was enlisted in
this great work Of building up the journal, Gree
ley is the only one left. During the thirty years
which have INTERVIEWED he has labored chow in
tensely no one but he know) the place
where he commenced. The Tribune is the only pa
per in the city which has not changed its locality,
and it was the first to make that spot centre for
journalism.
Year: 1871

They are not parted, though their feet
Have wandered far in different ways;
And though they nevermore may meet
On winter ewes or summer days;
It matters not though realms divide,


Though boundless seas between them roll,
For still, defying windand tide,


Heart yearns to heart, and soul to soul.
They are not parted-only those


Are parted whom no love unites
Their absence breaks not our repose,


Who have no share in our delights;
They may be by our side, and still


As far from us as pole from pole,
Who lack the sympathetic thrill


Of heart to heart, and soul to soul.
Year: 1871

In the wording of the call for a Re
publican State Convention, the Commit
tee did not deem it necessary to state that
the delegates would be elected under the
ntto apportionment of last winter 1t
was supposed this would be understood,
as a matter Of course, as that is ROl0 the
law But, as some inquiry has been made
on this subject, we would say, that it is
under TIE ncto apportionment that dele
gates are to be chosen In some cases.
changes of territory in districts, may
have disarranged local committees and
perhaps in some instances, divided COM
mittees into two districts but it is not
likely that any district is left entirely
i6ith0ut any member of committee. =
Such membe or members of such com
mittees as remain within the boundaries
of any district as at present constituted,
either Senate or Assembly, will be
expected to call the conventions in the
districts in which they now reside State
Journal.
Year: 1871

D. II Craig. late general agent of the
New York Associated Press, is said to
have perfected his new system of tele


praphy, to the development of which he
has been devoting his time and means
for three years past, with results that
can hardly fail TO effect an entire revo-
luton in telegraphy, by reducing its cost
to rate very little above the present
rates Of postage 1t is claimed that by
this new automatic system it is perfectly
practicable to transmit with absolute
accuracy, over a single wire more than
sixty thousand words an hour; a speed
more than sixty times greater than by
any of the systems now in use. Tele-
grams which under the Morse system
now cost several dollars will, it is said,
be reduced to a comparatively few cents,
which if true will make its value almost
inestimable TO the press, the mercantile
community and the public at large.
Year: 1871

The prospects for the establishment
of new democratic paper at Padueah
appears to nettle our usually placid
neighbors of the Kenwckion 1t says


Certain politicians in the First District
want an organ in Paducah They want
to be pufFed. They are nothing unless
they are pulled. For Gods sake says
one. "cail me a great man" "Insert
this article giving my history and my
noble virtues, says another Well let
them have their paper. Let them be
covered over with the saliva Of praise
and aauery Still they won't be great.
The people with an infallible instinct will
detect the cheat They know a sham
by the same sense which enabled Falstafi
to discover his Prince in the dark Al
the penny trumpets in the land can't
drag them from obscurity and give them
a place in the popular heart
Year: 1871

rom the new 1ork Herald.


Again We have the report that Russia
and Germany are arming against one
another. Our special dispatch few
days ago was the first to signalize the
existence of a secret understanding be
tween France and Russia on the one
hand, and between Germany and Austria
on the other The Paris Journal Patrie
now gives the most positive confirmation
to the report of our correspondent. ad
ding significantly that General Lefo, the
French Ambassad9r at St Petersburg
but lately the War Minister at Versailles
has accompanied the Car on mill
tary inspection. Under these circum
stances the fact alone that Theirs should
have chosen his former War Minister for
the post of st. Petersburg cannot be void
of meaning. The armament of both
Russia and Germany are said to be on
gigantic scale. Making, therefore,
some allowance for exaggeration, we be
gin to think that these rumors must
have some sort of foundation. 1t is,
however, difficult to conceive that France
should 60 to war in her present situation,
and Russia, single handed is cetrinly no
match for GERMANY
Year: 1871

The San Francisco Examiner says:
We have never felt greater confidence in
the result of an election than we now feel
All the signs betoken a glorious Demo-
cratic victory. From every quarter Of the
State we are in receipt of words of good
cheer and encouragement. We feel no hes
itaney in predicting a greater Democratic
majority than in 1867. Indeed, as we view
it-and we wish our contemporaries to
make note of what we say Haight will
carry eoery county IN The State.
Year: 1871

THE election which took place in St.
Louis on Thursday of last week demon
strated the significant fact that the Ger
mans of that city who last fall united
with the Democrats in electing Gratz
Brown Governor over the administration
candidate, have taken final departure
from the Radical party. The Demo
cratic candidate for Presiding Judge of
the County Court was elected over the
Republican nominee by 1900 majority
Every effort vas made by the Radicals
TO recover the support of the liberal Ger
mans of the city, but without avail. The
correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
thinks the German vote of Missouri ire
vocably lost to the Republican party, and
considers this certainty in the event of
the re nomination Of Grant.
Year: 1871

There was no excitement whatever IN or about the
Department OF Public Works at any time yesterday.
The storm OF the day before when everybody who
considered himself sympathizng friend OF the
"Boss' was on hand TO show at least, by sending In
his card, tnat he was not among those VINO were
willing to join In the hue and cry against him. had
evidently wearfed out the perseverng callers.
so the railways and the dark passages which
lead 10 The Croton Water Department were
comparatively deserted. To be sure early
In the forenoon there was small
number OF the everyday petitioners on hand
men who had all sorts Of TO ask OF the Boss
and who nad an idea that II they could only get
near him they would be certain 10 get what they
wanted. what had become OF Tommy Costello they
were at TO ascertain, and they ran about here
there and everywhere, IA the Railways, seeking him
An out ofway places. hoping that he might be pro-
pious enough, n found, 10 send in their little slips
Of paper Hitchman too, mad gone no one knew
where and so poor Hart and Haligan and Baiiger
mad 10 take the brunt the small battle all TO them
selves until the last straggler OF the forenoon had
gone his ways In peace. There were, however,


CALLERS ON THE "Boss"


who did not wall ~ The Railways, Aud who came 70
Year: 1871

BACKBONE.
When you see a fellow mortal
Without fixed and fearless views,
Hanging on TIE skirts of others,
Walking in their cast-off shoes,
Bowiug low to wealth or favor,
With abject, uncovered head.
Ready to reject or waver,
Willing to be drove or led.
Walk yourself with frmer bearing,
Throw your moral shoulders hack,
Show your spine has nerve and marrow
Just the things which his must lack.


A stronger worI


Was never heard


In sense AMI tone


Than this backbone.
When you see theologian
Hugging close some ugly creed,
Fearing to reject or question
Dogmas which his priest may read;
Holding back all noble feeling,
Choking down each manly view,
Caring more for signs and symbols
Than to know the g ood and True;
Walk yourself with frmer bearing,
Throw your moral shoulders back,
Show your spine has nerve and marrow
Just the thing which his must lack


\ stronger wori


Was never heard


In sense and tone


Than this back bone.
When You see politician
Crawling through contracted holes,
Begging for some fat position
In the ring or at the polls,
With no sterling manhood in him,
Nothing staLle broad or sound,
Destitute of pluck or ballast,
Double-sided all around;
Walk yourself with frmer bearing,
Throw your moral shoulders back,
Show your spine has nerve and marrow
Just the things which his must lack.


4 stronger word


Was never heard


In sense and tone


Than this, backbone.
\ modest song and plainly told
The text is worth a mine of gold;
For many men must sadly lack,
\ noble stiffness in the back.
Year: 1871

The ARCTIC ExpEDITIoN-The U. s.
steamer Perriwinkle, in which Captain
Hall will this summer make an expedition
to as near the north pole as he can ge,, is on
the ways at the Washington navy yard re-
ceiving complete overhauling, and when
the workmen are done with her, the stout
little vessel will be almost as good as new.
Heavy timbers are being used to strength
en- her, and inside her sheathing there will
be coating of cork. She will have in her
two boilers, one of which viii use blubber,
the only fuel accessible in some portions
of the Arctic region. To protect her pre-
peller when she reaches the ice-felds she
will carry propeller WELL Constructor
Delano, under whose direction several of
the former Arctic expeditions have been fit
ted out, has the supetintendence of the
work, and is giving his personal supervi-
sion to the fitting out of the vessel, which
is of 387 tons burden, and will probably
take not more than one or two guns. The
ex xpedition will leave here in May or June.


Washington Star.
Year: 1871

Washington, March 4.-The President
has received but few visitors in the past
two or three days, his time being occupied
with business consequent upon the close of
the session.


The Secretary Of the Navy will notify
the new members of the next Congress on
Monday to nominate candidates for the
Naval Academy. The number of appoints
ments to be made is forty.


The Secretary Of the Treasury has been
notified by the First National Bank of
New York of its intention to subscribe for
$1,000,000 of the new five per cent. bonds.
Jay Cooke g. Co. are also large subscribers,
and the Western national banks will also
take large amounts. The books will be
opened for subscription on Monday next.


The conference committee on the South
ern Pacific railroad bill have agreed to
attach to the bill the branch roads to New
Orleans and California, in which shape it
is claimed the bill will undoubtedly pass.
Year: 1871

Herr Won Wickede, of the Cologne
Gazette. describing an excursion he made
from Belfort to Pontalier, says:


Heaps of forsaken corpses mouldered
away among the bushes and in the bitches
of the high road Not far from Mont
beliard doctor and I found eight French
men dead in one house, and already in an
advanced stage of decomposition. Among
them lay wounded man still alive, and
who cried out for help in a lamentable
voice. We took him out with some difficult
ty and laid him in the open air. He was a
little man, scarcely seventeen years Of age,
student at Aviguon. A Prussian grenade
had torn his two legs below the knees. HE
had remained in this state seven whole
days without being attended to, without
water, and entapgled among all other
corpses. He had wrapped up his wounds
in the rags of his uniform, aud the cold
had stopped the hemorrhage. He had
crawled up to his companions, and had
taken bits Of biscuit out Of their pockets,
which sufficed for his subsistence be had
Stacked bis burning thirst by drinking the
great fakes of snow which fell in at the
window He had lived thus for a week.
The unhappy man has been .taken to
Switzerland, and the doctor thinks he will
live.


Horse flesh is now the principal food of
the inhabitants Of the country and have
myself seen bevy of famished women
throw themselves upon a dead horse like
a pack of wolves, and tearing it with all
sorts of instruments swallow morsels quite
raw. have even been told-but | do not
vouch for the truth of this--that the un-
fortunate people have eaten human flesh
taken from the remains of the dead SOL
ders. This is the eighth campaign have
been through, but neither in Algeria, nor
in Italy, nor in Bohemia, not even in Sles-
wick, have seen sights SO horrible.
Year: 1871

Some of the Jenkinses report that Lily,
or Lille, is to be the fashionable name for
young ladies in New York during the
coming summer. In one sense the name
is appropriate to them, since "they toll
not, neither do they spin," and it Is abso-
lutely certain that Solomon in all his glo-
ry" never could have been arrayed like one
of them. Lily has also another fitness,
which is that it rhymes toleraby well with
silly, an adjective that applies aplly to any
girl idiotic enough to change her given
name for stolen one.
Year: 1871

O0unteyJeit-To prevent any of our cit,-
zen5 from being victimizea by $40 bills on the
farmers and Manufacturers National Bank,
of New York, large number of which are in
circulation, we give the following facts: The
note is poorly executed, and may be easily de
tected. 1t is printed on heavy paper, and on
the face the shaded lines are very coarsely cut.
The back is a centre piece of De Sofa discover.
ing the Mississippi, and on the left the arms of
New York State. On the right side of the CEN
tire piece is an eagle and shield. A single
glance at this latter will undeceive any one
upon whom it is endeavored to pass the bogus
note.
Year: 1871

The OwnioaI at the Skating Rink. last
evening was grand success, when it is con-
sidered how iucement the weather was. The
hall was early filled with visitors despite the
falling rain. large number of the pupils
appeared in fancy dress, and the scene pre-.
sented was very enlivenng. 1t is the general
desire that the carnival should be repeated at
an early day. We would suggest to some of
those who are in the habit of masking on such
occasions, that the grotesque and Ridiculous
can always be freed from vulgarity or even
indelicacy, and that this should always be
done. =
Year: 1871

daughter ever call on you for money to buy new
dress or bonnet? You supply their wants with
pleasure Of course. But they are sickly-tee-
bic and emaciated, and always grunting and COM
plaiuing when you go home Now GLADDEN. their
hearts hy sending to the drug store and procuring
bottle Of English Female Bitters, which will soon
restore them to health.
Year: 1871

ONE OF the cars attached to Train
which arrived at Detroit on Tuesday even
ing, was found to contain a little girl about
five years old, to whose cloak was pinned
a paper inscribed "This girl goes to
Kendaleille, Indiana" No one could be
found in the train who knew anything
about her, and lady en route to her home
in Toledo, took the child, expressing her
willingness to keep her until her friends
were heard from.