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Year: 1873

" | kNow THAT NY REDEmER LlyETH. -
On Christmas night Of lS7l. the writer Of
this article sat beside Horace Greeley at
Steinway Hall. New York city. where was
being given Handels great Grafton of '' The
Messiah During the major part Of the
performance he sat apparently lost in
thought, if not in a doze, and seemingly
ob.iyious to all that was going on. But
when Miss Kellogg appeared and Slng the
great soprano solo '' know that my Re
deemer liyeth, he raised up. his face was
suflusedNyith joy. his bright eye was dimmed
With a fear. and he listened with that steady
and intense esmeStness 80 peculiar 10 him
when interested When it was finished no
hands more loudly applauded than his. no
face beamed forth such great satisfaction and
he murmured to himself those grandest of
all the words Of the world. " know that
my Redeemer liyeth." Then again came
the pre-occupied look, nor did it change
until Mis- Sterling sang the ccntralto recita-
tive, " Then shall come to pass that which
is written .. Death shall be swallowed up
in victory, when the same Joyous look Of
satisfaction lighted up the face no one could
look upon and not love.


\ few DAYS ago he turned wearily- ON his
bed Of pain, and the old light came back as
he muttered, '' know that my Redeemer
liyeth - few hours more and - it is done. -
Death was swallowed up in yietory-the
victory Of lifetime, fighting for the right
over wrong the truth over error for
reason over prejudice for peace and love
over war and hate-the victory of a we'll
spent life, emitting soul to life eternal after
death. This Is his victory and he needs no
eulogy or monument The heart-beat Of the
nation is the one, the imprint OF our foot
steps on the face of time the other-more
lasting than marble. more enduring than
brasS.-TroV Press.
Year: 1873

liver us from such horrible death We
wrote our names on slips of paper in case
we should die in the tunnel. At last we got
off and were taken back to Modane, the
same place we started from. When we ar
rived at the station such a scene shall never
forget. Some women were in commissions !:
men were weeping; some had to be carried
from the coupe my sister and both faint
ed when We put our feet on safe ground
We had kept up wonderfully in the tunnel,
and no harm had happened to US except some
cuts in the face from spinters of glass. The
mismanagement that night was shameful,
and hope the world may know the facts as
they really occurred We have read several
accounts in the papers, but they misrepre-
sent the disaster altogether, and they dare
not say how frightful it was. Some of the
ladies are injured 50 that they cannot be
moved for a month
Year: 1873

self or herself vows of celibacy, even if he
afterward apostatize. The question has to
be decided by the courts of law, and no doubt
Is felt that the judges will rule that the ex-
eteption does not apply to persons who have
left the Chatholic Church and wish to avail
themselves of the rights of secular citizens.
This seems to be one of those few cases in
which it is the spirit of the law that killeth,
and the letter that maketh alive We trust
that the magistrate who will have the dis
entangling of this knotty question, like the
d" heavy father" at the enpof comedy, will
say to the fair plaintiff, Take him and be
happy?'-an aspiration in which we beg to
assure her that we most cordially unite
IndepeQdenf
Year: 1873

After twenty years Incarceration therein,
a man named Phelps has just been pardoned
out Of Clinton prison by Governor Hoffman.
He was resident of West Troy, y. Y.
Learning one day that his wife was untrue
to him, he fashioned with his own hands a
knife blade, with which he killed her. He
was arrested, tried and sentenced to be
hung, but through the intercession Of promi-
nent men of West Troy the sentence was
cOmmnted TO Imprisonment for life. During
these twenty years his department in the
prison has been faultless, and he has done a
large amount of valuable work for the state.
His services we're so valuable" says the
Troy Times, THAT Immediately after his
release be was engaged to oversee the
machinery in the prison at five dollars per
day He will remain in this position until
March, when he will start for the West,
with the intention, at the age of fifty years,
of commencing life over again. Nothing
can induce him to visit the scene Of his for
mer prosperity, his wife's unfathfulness and
his own crime" The case suggests its own
moral.
Year: 1873

. By THOMAS HOWARD.


Not on the earth,
Hath beauty bloom, hath beauty pover
This is alone its natal hour


The chamber Of its birth


Here the germ dwells
And. prone TO silence and TONIGHT
II burns To love and life and night


As daisies in our dells.


But not on earth
Hath beauty grown beyond the flower
The life that, in a day or hour.


toes to another birth


And all we see
Oi beauty is a -limmer bright
Is but the promise OF night


The glory that's to be-


When, in the skies.
The spirit doth unfold and And
Lies hopes grown perfect to the mind,


For beauty then il sghs


And beauty there
Compares with beauty here below.
A mornings golden skies aglOw


With murkiest clouds compare


The forms We love
And cherish for each faultless line,
But shadows are Of those divine


That we shall know above


So let Us live
In love Of nature, not OF art,
That each NAV then, with reFerent heart


FIT homage have te give.


December Gaidry
Year: 1873

On MEAL FOR Cows AND CALvEs.-When
cows are in profit, a little extra feed, in the


shape Of oil meal, will be amply repaid in
the yield of milk and butter. 1t must not
be supposed that because COW is on pasture
there is no longer any need for stimulating
food. The fact is that with an ample sup
ply Of grass, the appetite of the COW for the
meal is quite a vigorous as during the win
Year: 1873

The SOCIAL EVIL HosPITAL ArST LOUIS
By the Inauguration of this institution. We
expect to do more than to attack the evil in
physical point of view We expect. also,
to reach it in moral point, by establishing
a reformatory institution, where those who
are disposed TO enter upon new life will
be taught the means of honest self-support,
and thus placing in their hands the means
Of resisting the temptations that. owing to
their dependent condition, caused them to
fall. All this will be accomplished without
any expense to the city, as the tax that is
levied on these people, (and which, it is
said, they eheerfully pay,) is ample to pro-
vide all and more than the necessary funds
to carry out this object And while on this
subject, and as many are of the belief that
the fact of legally regulating houses of
prostitution causes an increase Of the evil, |
am happy to be able to state that such is not
the fact. There has been an actual decrease
of the number Of these houses and their in
mates since the establishment of this law,
and the decrease in disease is fully so per
cent.-Address Of Mayor Brown Of 81.
Louis.
Year: 1873

Janer Conraddy, Of the Raymond Street JAIL in
which the murderess Of Charles Goodrich, Kate
stoddard is confined, has been constrained to diet
his fair prisoner in order TO curb her natural
tendency to impudence, and to dispel an
air OF haaae,r which she has assumed. Up
to within the past week Kate was fed rom the
table of the keeper, and she was constantly find.
ing fault with the fare and giving impudent orders
TO the assistant Keepers. On Friday last she was
furnished with the coarse prison are, OF whcn she
imperiously declined to partake. For two DAYS she
eat nothing and on Monday last partook very
slightly OF food. Since then she refuses to eat,
avorrng her intention to fast until proper nourish
ment Is laid before her. AS she Is said to be In
very delicate condition 1t is probable that the jailer
will be compelled to relent and supply the muir
deress with more palatabe diet than the coarse
food served the ordinary inmates or the cells Miss
Stoddard occupies one OF the debtors rooms Her
trial Will take place during the October term OF the
Court OF oyer and Terminer.
Year: 1873

This body, that has already cost .ne
State one hundred and five thousand ooi'
lars as weeee 1t stated, meets In adjourn
ed session today, to remain in session
We know not how long. The particular
features of the legislation contemplated
We shall not now speculate upon in the
absence Of proper iniormationfurthe than
TO say that we understand that change
In our system Of taxation is medltated
by prominent member Of the Senate in
the interest Of the wild land ownership o.
the State. The proposed change, If we
are correctly Informed, proposes to re-
model the present system so as to lay
more Of the taxation on the cities and
towns Of tho State, that is upon manulac-
turers and merchandise, and make II
easier 10 hold large bodies Of unproduc-
tive land on speculation in the wild re-
pIous Of the interior.


II this project should take definite
shape and become success we can in
form the governing element In our poll.
tics that the truly loyal Democracy Of the
Panhandle will hsvs q rden to bear in
the next election that will drag upon
their strength very severely. In saying
this we are not Of course acting as the
sanitary agent Of the Democracy. with q
view TO protracting their lease OF life In
the state, but simply to notify them that
the people hereabouts are now well load.
ed down with taxation, and that they
will discriminate with great deal OF
unanimity against any party that under
tAkes to add 10 their burdens. Party
leslty ats rather lightly upon them at
best, as was shown in the JACOB vote last
year, and It will be well, therefore, for the
masters oil assembly to keep wild land
spectators in the back ground as much
IS possible.


We shall rely on our friend Gen. PAM
NELL conveying these views more fully
and authoritatively to those chaps at Char.
lesion from the ginseng and pennyroyal
regions. They won't hear Moses nor the
prophets, but we think they will hear the
General. He eau tell them for US how
the Camden ring was bursted in this reg.
lon by the reading and writing portion of
the party last year, and how the same
thing can be done again when necessary.
He can explain to them that the old ira
dltional policy of the wild land jobbers is
played out; that this is an age Of railroads
and manufactures; that the sight Of NANCY
cattle browsing on the sage lands of the
speculators Is q relic Of Bourbonism; and
that X West Virginia Is ever going to
amount to much It is to come from new
order Of things, especially from manulac.
turing.


We think that the General can elabor-
ate these ideas down to level with
their understanding by mixing them with
sgood deal Of 0s and 90 democracy dis.
solved In little spirits. Truth lies atthe
bottom Of a well 1t Is said, and those gin.
seng fellows think that genuine democ-
racy Is truth in the shape Of sediment at
the bottom Of q glass Of tansey bitters.
This superstition Of theirs the General
understands and will no doubt improve
10 the advantage Of his constituents.
Year: 1873

The END OF THE WoRLD.-The band of
brothers and sisters who are encamped on
Terry island in the Connecticut river,
where they are awaiting the end of the
world, seem to be perfectly sincere in their
faith. They do not set the exact day for
the grand transformation act, but they
nave perfect confidence that ii will come
some time before people begin to date their
letters "lS74." They are described as rath-
er a motley set, some of them being famil-
lar enough with the Bible to make shrewd
argument as to the meaning of the prophe-
cies upon which they base their faith, while
others in the company are content TO fol-
low the reasoning Of their abler associates,
without troubling themselves to think
much about it. They have charts upon
which the end of the world is demonstrate
ed as clearly as can be desired by those
who want to believe, and they are consistent
in making no provision for food, fuel or
clothing beyond the present year. Three
times before the year has been fixed upon,
and the enlightened few have put them
selves in readiness. They think that now
they have "dead sure thing" on 1t, and
are quietly abiding the issue. The
Waterman, of Merden Conn.,, organ of the
Adventists, has resumed publication, al
though the editor confidently asserts that
"belore the issue of another paper the G BOD
will have mot in the immortal Kingdom
Business was suspended fortnight ago, in
expectation of its patrons departure for
another sphere.
Year: 1873

DIR. q. Is. POST would inform his
friends and the public that he is prepared to perform
thorough manner; Contour Filings executed in Gold
and warranted to give satisfaction. Every New Dis
coyeIy Improvement that is Of real value will be
offered to his Patients as it is made known to
the Profession. He has the eA elusive right to use
Fulsoms Patent in Brattleboro, which il the best
mouth.


GAS, ETHER, and NARCOTIC SPRAY used for
extracting Teeth without pain.


Refers to more than two thousand persons that are
wearing teeth made by him,


OFFICE and RESIDENCE at the Junction of High
and Green Streets, BrattlobOro,


Can extract at house


Brat,leboro, oct. o, 1873. tai
Year: 1873

1t was the 9th Of November, and it had
been steady storm all day, rising at dark
into Il terrific gale, and we awokc at mid
night with such tempest beating about us
as we bad never felt. The wind came in
pillows, you might say, rolling against the
side of the huusc, and the snow and hail
swept in furious ed1ies, while the sea rose
upon the rocks, and flooded the garden,
and roarcd with unceasing thunder. We
were Quaking in the unnamed fear that
night storm brings, with all the horrors
from the unknown elements of darkness
and preternatural force, and when we heard
the first minute gun, and did not believe
we heard it, we sprang ont OF bed and ran
to look for the light Of the lighthouse but
the light was out and we found by-and-by


that its iron pillars had been snapped eff
like flower r-stems. We dressed, and sum


moned the servants, and those that could


keep their breath labored out with lanterns
TO the hluif now aud then throwing them


selves down in order not to be blown with
the drifting snow Heaven knew where |;
and they tried to kindle bonfire, but II
was useless-the storm extinguished faster
than they could rebuild it. So they came
back, and we lighted up ali the seaside
windows of the house, aud we waited to-
gether, the mnule-gun still booming, till
at last we thought we heard il long after
there was no sound but the terrible sounds
Of tho Storm. But after a while the gale be-
gan to abate, and we dropped asleep, on the
sofa, ON the hearth-rue, any where, and
Year: 1873

CLERICAL VITA celebrated clergy
man of the Baptist persuasion, personally
known to many of the Oldest inhabitants
OF this city, was once waited on IAN old
woman and young man, who desired
him to join them in marriage. Much to
their surprise, he utterly refused to per-
form the ceremony. Being asked the
reason for his conduct, he replied: ~ am
always ready to marry young man and
a young woman for such match con-
slider is often of Gods making and l
will marry an old man and young wo-
man-for such match is one of mans
making but l will not marry an old wo-
man and young man--for such match
l believe to be the devit's making."
Year: 1873

ANCIENT TIMBER.-P Probably the old
est timber in the world which has been
subject to the use of man, is that which
is found in the ancient temples of Egypt.
1t Is found in connection with stone work
which is known to be at least 1000 years
old. This wood, the only wood used in
the construction of the temple, Is in the
form Of ties, holding the end of one stone
to another in its upper surface. When
two blocks we're laid in place, then 1t APP
pears that an excavation about an inch
deep was made in each block, into which
an hour-glass shaped tic was driven. 1t
is therefore very difficult TO force any
stone from its position. The ties appear
to have been made of the tamarisk or
chittim-wood, of which the ark was con-
structed, a sacred tree in ancient Egypt,
and now very rarely found in the valley
of the Nile. Those dove-tailed ties are
just as sound now rs on the day of their
insertion. Although fuel is extremely
scarce in that country, those bits of wood
are not large enough to make it an object
with the Arabs to throw OF layer after
layer of the stones for the coveted prize.
Had they been made of bronze, half the
old temples would have been destroyed
ages ago, so precious would they have
been for various reasons.
Year: 1873

Among the illusions swept away by
modern science was the pleasant fancy
that the moon was habitable globe, like
the earth, its surface diversified with seas,
lakes, continents and islands, and varied
forms of vegetation. Theologians and
savants gravely discussed the probabili-
ties of its being inhabited bya race of
sentient beings. with forms and faculties
like our own, and even propounded
schemes for opening communication with
them, in case they existed. One Of these
of Asia series of geometrical figures, on
u scale SO gigantic as to be visible from
our planetary neighbor, on the supposition
that the moon people would recognize the
object, and Immediately construct similar
figures in reply! Extravagant and absurd
as it may appear in the light OF modern
science nothing but the great expense
stood in the way of actual experiment
but the discussion was kept up at inter.
walls, until it was discovered that ii there
were people in the moon they must be
able to live without breathing or eating
or drinking. Then it ceased.


There can be no life without air. Beau
tiful to the eye of the distant observer,
the moon is sepulchral orb--a world OF
death and silence. No vegetation clothes
its vast plains of dcsolation, traversed by
monstrous crevices, broken by enormous
peaks that rise like gigantic tombstones
into space, no lovely forms of cloud float
in the blackness OF its sky. There day
time is only night lighted bya rayles'
sun. There is no rosy dawn in the morn
ing, no twilight in the evening. Tn,
nights are pitch dark. In daytime tn,
solar beams are lost against tho jagge(
ridges, the sharp points of the rocks, %
the steep sides of profound abysses; anC
the eye sees only grotesque shapes relieveC
against fantastic shadows black as ink
with none of that pleasant graduation anC
diffusion of light, none of the subtle
blending Of light and shadow, which
make the charm of terrestrial landscape
There is no color, nothing but dead white
and black. The rocks reflect passively
the light of the sun; tho craters and
abysses remain wrapped in shade; fantas'
tic peaks rise like phantoms in their gla'
cial cemetery; tho stars appear like spots
in the blackness of space. The moon is II
dead world /; she has no atmosphere.
Year: 1873

The rector of the Episcopal Church at
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ordered
the church bells to be pealed before sun
rise on Easter morning. The inhabitants
thought it was an alarm of fire, and when
the real cause was made known, so much
indignation was felt that lively church
fight has been going on ever since.
Year: 1873

THE publicity given to messages writ
ten on postal cards may be avoided by
the use Of invisible ink, the direction to
"hold to the fire. being written with
common ink. This checks the inquisi-
tiveness of post Office clerks who have
not the time to make applications. In


France invisible ink is sold for that pur-
Year: 1873

AN Iowa justice OF the peace refused to
fine a man for kissing a girl against her
will, because when the lass came into
court he was obliged to bold on to the
arms of his chair to keep from kissing
her himself
Year: 1873

AN Arkansas huntsman named Sellers
reproved his dog for some misdemeanor
with the butt of his gun, and the double
load of buckshot that was deposited in his
stomach proved too much for his diges-
ton.
Year: 1873

The following nice picture Of Antoine, the ne
gro Lisutenant Governor Of LOUISIANA, Is found in
the New Orieans Picdyt1ie "A rather good-look-
ing mulatto woman was last night brought into
the First precinct station by a man named Ward,
who had her locked up on the charge OF disturbing
the peace The Woman's name Is Elizabeth Pat
ton and she tells the following singular story -
That man Antoine has got mighty big since he has
been elected Governor. l have known him long
time. knew him before he got 40 high. knew
him when he was using soap and razor for liv-
ing. No, I'm not married to him; but he's q mar
ned man. This evening was walking along and
1 saw him in the cofSe-house At the corner Of
Franklin aud GasqOet sts.i he was taking drink,
and sent my little girl in 10 call HIM he came to
the door and ne said Get out don't you speak 70
me- told him thought that was pretty way
70 speak to his child. and then he struck me with
his cane. or course Was not going TO stahd that
I had q plate In my hand, and threw It at HIM,
and then he had me arrested, and got that dirty
niRReF, Ward, to come and make charge against
NE :; be was ashamed or afraid TO dc II himself
IN liz him for this night in the lookup; I'll expose
MIN. All care for now IL my children"
Year: 1873

islature providing for the running of one Sunday
train on each OF the railroads. At the frat glance
ii will strike Ike reader, probably, as a very ex.
cslleut arrangement Many persons wish to
spend Sunday in the country, amid the cOOlness
and shade Of its green woods Many other resi-
dent there desire to come to the city to church -
Both classes are debarred the privilege. Near
some cities we know that church trains are run
regularly and prohtably. They start about ten OF
fifteen miles from the city, and reach their dssti-
nation at about hali-pasl ten. They return about
one.
Year: 1873

On Tuesday afternoon a fatal accident took
place in West Chester. A child Of John Carroll,
proprietor of the West Chester Hotel, aged two
and half years, was temporarily left alene by its
mother in a room in the second story, when she
was alarmed by its terrific screams Upon hasten-
ing TO it she found it standing at the head OF the
stairs and its clothes on fire from head to foot
In her attempts to extinguish the fire by wrapping
CARPET around about it she burned her hands very
severely, but did not succeed in her efforts until
some parts Of the child's body were burned to q
crisp. 1t appeared the chlld had found some
matches, add IN playing with them set IRE TO its
clothes. The little sufferer survived about two
hours, during which time its screams could be
heard over the entire neighborhood.
Year: 1873

McMahon's famous speech at Sedan has been
reproduced of late by the French papers, and its
appeal to their national love Of 'glory" will not
be in vain AS he spurred to the front the gallant
soldier cried out


Let me show these kings and princes who
screen themselves behind their legiOns that a
Marshal OF France knows how to fight, and, when
beaten, how TO die"


Fortunately he did not fall, and nov that he
has been eleYnted TO the Presidency he should
make It his vision by day and dream by night to
show his countrymen how to live.


One hundred and thirty dealers in butter and
cheese met in New York yesterday, and voted
TO establish an exchange. Their annual trans
actions are said to cover 50,000,00o.