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Year: 1872

ploy his leisure hours, and form nucleus
around which his thoughts may gather, in
stead of going abroad i'll search of the blues
when mlsfortunes ttun up.


If every man, able to labor, who has come
to the head Of Lake Superior within the last
fifteen years, had settled himself upon some
spot of ground, ci her large or small, for
farm or garden, aud diligently applied him
self to make home, As beautiful and pro-
ductive as he could, what IA different aspect
would this whole region present from what
it does now.


Men become miserable when they settle
down into condition of dependency upon
others, and rise TO enjoyment in life about
IN proportion To the measure of providing
for their own wants by their own labor. If
the truth Of this could only be realized, and
acted upon, how soon we should see many
Of the imaginary ills and evils Of life disap-
pear. The old cry ''No man hath hired
ready in the mouths of those who dislike to
labor and bear the burden and heat Of the
day, as it ever was.


We would say to the idle man, Do you
really wish TO be employed? Ifso, and no
man will hire you, hive yourself; and what
will you set yourself to doing; that is the
point for you to consider Ifyou are real Y
in place, where you have no interest III
any thing, and nothing you can labor TO
improve, nothing TO do but watch, and wait
for others TO do something that may tuin
TO your benefit, some mistake has been
mlde, and you are in place where you do
not belong, and where you have no business
to stay.


Find some useful occupation; if yon can
not find it where YOU are. seek it elsewhere; /;
if you can not get such wages rs yon wish,
work for what you can get. An industrious
community seldom waits long for prosperity.
Year: 1872

One great cause of SO much discomfort
and misery in the world, is, that so many
are the mere haagerS-on to Others, and
never seem to have a thought that thy can
do anything for themselves


We believe there are men in the world
who are possessed of superior intellects, aud
who are better calculated, than the mass OF
men to lead off in important enterprises
and we believe also that every man ought
to assume some responsibilities, and under
take some tasks for himself; if he does not,
woe be to him when his leaders meet with
M sfortune, and following the instincts OF
nature, look out only for themselves and
leave their dependents to look for some
thing new to turn up. Every man ought te
have some occupation of his own, 10 EN-
Year: 1872

We clip the following from the Madison
Democrat of the 2nd inst:


Senator Matt Carpenter has introduced resoIu-
lion in the Senate asking for information as TO the
proceedings that have been taken in the courts to
restrain the digging of canai Minnesota point
This is the canal by which Duluth proposes 10 steal
the harbor of Superior Ciy aud through the cooperl
ton of Federal officials has almost succeeded The
people of Wisconsin however will be somewhat sur
prised that their senator who paid $4,000 out of
the State Treasury for attending to this very case
should be compelled to call upon the Secretary OF
War or the Attorney General for information as TO
what proceedings have been taken IN the courts TO
restrain the digging of this canal


For Mr. Carpenters information we might say that
proceedings begun in federal court to restrain
the work and Judge Miller granted an lnJuaeuon
This was set aside by the Secretary OF war without
any authority whatever and the work allowed 10 60
on and would have been completed had not the eie-
ments which above the influences OF any Wash
ington ring nterered and filled up this little ditch
and completely damned the little harbor OF Duluth
Since the Injunction granted, almost a year ago,
until the present time not a word of objection has
been heard from Mr.. Carpenter though he was pad
the exorbitant of $4,000 10 take charge OF the case
for Wisconsin. The whole circumstances in this mat
ter are rather suspicious One OF the most powerful
railroad rings in the country is interested in Duluth
and its efforts steal the harbor of Superior shows ITS
unscrupulous character. Senator Carpenter by his
long silence and the resolution he has now introduced
has convicted himself of gross negligence OF the inter
of his client If the past life of tee honorable
senator was not without reproach and his integrity
above suspicion the circumstances OF the case would
lead mistrust that he is neither ignorant nor
innocent concerning this matter as he would gladly
have the country believe.


The Democrat, if our information is cor
rect, is very far out Of the way in asserting
that Senator Carpenter "was paid 5000 out
Year: 1872

LITTLE Rock, December 27.-To-day
the weather has moderated little, but
neither the ground nor the ice thawed
any. The ice is four inches thick on the
river; a light twO-hOrse wagon passed
over on it to-day. The ferrybOat cut a
road through the ice in order to run.
The ice-dealers have been engaged in
getting out and putting up ice all day.
The weather is cloudy, with indications
of snow. The city is entirely out Of coal
No trains on the Memphis road IN three
days, on account of the difficulty in
crossing the river at Memphis.
Year: 1872

The money market presented no important features,


its course being simply repetition OF yesterdays report
Opening steady at 6a7 per cent the market became
easier the afternoon and at the close balances were
offered at per cent. In the market for commercial
paper the business small and sales reported at tho
usual rates prevailing Of late Government bonds havo
been steady, but not moving with any special activity
The 1se7s were most in request and sold at 1S the mar
ke being somewhat unsettled by Of the irregular
course OF god and the foreign quotations. Fisk Hatch
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, Janusry 24.-The verdict
of the jury over the bodies burned at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel was returned last
night, and is to the effect that the ser
wants came to their death by suffOcation
and fire under the following circum-
stances: The rooms they occupied
opened on the corridor and were closed
at both ends; their means of egress were
by way of narrow platform; the stair
case was built entirely Of wood, up
which the fire was burning; small sky
lights opening into the roof, windows
opening into each room; said windows
being closed by wire screens. The jury
further find that the proprietsrs of the
hotel gave orders to facilitate the escape
Of the inmates, in order to preserve life.
We further recommend that the proper
authorities be requested to Immediately
inspect every hotel in this city, in order
TO prevent the recurrence Of a like
calamity.
Year: 1872

Observing a custom halloWed by the
most sacred associations, and, peculiar
to our section Of country, tO-d Twill be
observed as a holiday in the APPEAL
Office, and there win not be a paper pub
Ished tomorrow.
Year: 1872

The Quincy Oily City Council met in special
session Monday night to consider the enforce
ment Of the Sunday liquor ordinance. The vote
was ten for not enforcing one for enforcing !;
one absent. Strange aa it may appear, the vote
for was by Henry Meisser, a German. This will
probably end the subject until the city election
revt anrinv
Year: 1872

A Passenger Shoots q Thief who At


tempts TO Pick his Pocket.


Yesterday morning when the South
bound train on the Memphis and Louisville
railroad was between Mckenzie and Paris,
the passengers were very much excited by
the report of pistol. A passenger fell in
with a thief who engaged in friend
ly conversations and so far seduced the con-
idence ofhis intended victim that he en-
deavored to pick his pocket while sitting
together. Seeing his object, the passenger
drew his pistol aud fred the ball hitting the
pick pocket in the elbow. The wounded
rascal was arrested and carried to Memphis.
The passenger, who was justified in the
act he did was not molested but left the
train upon its arrival at Mckenzie.
Year: 1872

Grain men of Chicago estimate .he corn
crop of this year at twelve hundred and
fifty million bushels-the largest ever raised
in the United States. They have had
killing frost in all the Northeastern States,
but corn is generally out of the reach Of
harm.
Year: 1872

quainted with it 10 tho exercise Of
his calling.


Most honorable to the profession
is the story OF Harding, the printer,
who bravely bore imprisonment rath-
er than reveal the authorship Of the
Drapicr Letters; and the printer
sitting in his cell calmly refusing the
entreaties of his friends must stand
in q far noblcr light than the church
magnate and celebrated wit, who,
dressed in tho disguise of low
Irish clown, sat by llstening TO the
noble refusal and the tender impor-
tunitics, only anxions that no word
or glance from the unfortunate print.
or should reveal that beneath the
rough dress of q poor peasant was
hidden Dean Swift himself, bent
solely upon securing his own safety
at the expense Of the printer. Swift
covered before the legal danger
which Harding boldly confronted;
and, unequally rs the world has al.
lotted the need OF fame to the two
cambatants, the wit and the printer
both fought the battle for The liberty
Of the. press, until The sense Of an
outraged community released the
typographer from the peril 80 nobly
encountered.


Sir Walter Scot,'s authorship of
the Waverly Novels, although known
by twenty persons, including nam
Der OF printers, was so we'll conceal
ed that the great novelist could not,
even in his matccless vocabulary, find
words Of praise sufficient to express
the sense Of his grateful acknowledge
ment aud wondering admiration for
the matchless fidelity with which his
had been preserved.


In thousands Of other instances
similar fieellty has been exhibited,
and it is a part OF the protessioal
honor of printer not TO disclose
wantonly, or from venal motives, the
secrets OF any Office in which he IS
employed.-I Am ericas Encyclopedia
Of Printing.
Year: 1872

Gsest-sHow comes this dead fly
in my soup:"


Waiter-"In fact, sir, I have no
positive idea how the poor thing
came to its death. Perhaps il had
not taken any food for long time,
dashed upon the soup, ate too much
Of it, and contracted an Inflammation
OF the stomach that brought on death.
The fly must have very weak con-
stitution, for when served the soup
it was dancing mcrrily on the sur.
tace. Perhaps-and the idea pre-.
sents itself only at this moment-it
endeavored to swallow too large
piece of vegetable this, remaining
fast IN his throat, caused choking IN
his windpipe. This ID the only rea-
son l could give for the death OF this
insect"
Year: 1872

the carrying out Of few simple
principles Of honesty and economy,


which President Grant announced a
year ago. There can be no more
beneficicnt natural genius than is
found in tho power to perceive, and
enforce those principles. And hav-
ing aided in the election of Grant, it
gives us pride and Joy to be able a:
the close Of the first year OF his Ad-
:ninistration TO point the country TO
the results that have already been
achieved; to speak Of the growth OF
the national welfare as shown in the
financial improvement no less than
in the contamination OF the peaceful
policy Of reconstruction.
Year: 1872

~ aa


Medical experience proves that, in
chronic diseases, the greater number OF
deaths occur before dawn. This is en-
inentfy true of brain disease, and of all
those related cases where death results
from an exhaustion Of power, over
work, excessive excitement or nervous
prostration. 1t is st the hour of
o'clock in the morning that the life
force is at its lowest ebb, and succumbs
most readily to the assault of epilepsy,
or the fatal lethargy that comes in those
yividly beautiful picture-dreams, for
which medical science has, as yet,
found no name, and of which it
has taken no sufficient cognizance.
Nine tenths of those who die in this
hour expire in their sleep. In many
such cases, if friend were at hand to
awaken the sleeper when the attack
comes on, or If he were awakened by
some accidental noise, he might by the
use of a few SIMPLE precautions, prOlong
his life for many years; for the shock
that proves fatal to the man wrapped
in deep sleep, when the system is pas
sive and relaxed, would be victoriously
repelled were it armed with all its
waking energies. Men who do brain
work, and who are on the shady side
of forty, should be on their guard
against this insiduous enemy. They
should beware of o'clock, A. NJ, for il
is a perilous hour. Do you find your
self unable to sleep when you retire for
the night, exhausted with your days
work? Do you in vain turn from one
side to the other? Does your brain per-
sist in working when you fain would
have it rest?-Do old saws and scraps
of rhyme repeat themselves in your
memory with wearisome iteration, de-
flying your utmost efforts to silence
them? Then ]. say to you, beware!
You viii be sure to sleep at last. 1t is
only question of time, for, soon or
late, nature will assert her rights
MedicdL Journal. ...snJ
Year: 1872

p Oh it was terrible runawayl You
see, an umbrella was carrying man


and it frightened the buggy and. ii
started TO run off with the horses and
they ran over on the lsmp-pest and
knocked the sidewalk down and upset
a little baby who9 was carrying his


mother in her arms and struck some
apples and knocked all the applewo-
men out Of the peanut stand and then
they went down lightning like q streak
of the street and knocked q couple OF
milk and four cans ofmen out Ofa milk
wagon and knocked three lspokes out
of one of the horsess right legs, and
took the hide off the wheel and I fell
out and run q mud puddle into my
head clear up to- my shoulders and the
mud got, full of mouth and ears and
eyes and III never get oyer it and it's
-AWkUG... u --rIr....- go. IL.
Year: 1872

1t is cruel and cowardly in any man
to speak to woman under his own
roof ina manner that would forever
disgrace him, if heard under another.
But how many do it, seltishly forget
ing the tears and bitterness they have
caused, and selfshly expecting, if they
remember it all, that on their return
the domestic sky will be without
cloud. More the pity when it Is. Then,
indeed, is there danger in the air; for
then toe often comes deceit, and hypoc-
risy and indifference.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Gray, the council for the Levy Court, after
q brief address to the members, yesterday, on
the nature Of their duties, retired, feeling las
we are pleased to belieye,) regret and shame at
the course the Court has taken. This must be the
position of every fair and honorable man. The
case is not one for mere partisan quarrel; it is
one in which every honest man is interested. If
citizens residing in the county, who have been
assessed and returned to the Court and many
of whom have actually paid their taxes, are to
be left off the lists of taxables, for the purpose
of taking away their votes, then the rule of law
is ended, and the control of fraud begins.


No good man desires this cheats and scoun-
drels only can sympathizo with it. To attempt
to defeat the public will by such outrsges upon
dscency and honesty is proceeding which in
suits the desire of the great body Of the COM
munity.


Moreover such work will not serve the end
for which it is intended. Resort to fraud has
never been profitable in the end. 1t deserves
rebuke, and when exposed, as these proceedings
most thoroughly and completely will be- it will
receive rebuke, in such degree as will over
whelm the guilty parties who resort to it.
Year: 1872

THROAT AND LUNG DIsEAsEs.-Most
of the throat and lung diseases, which
indirectly lead to consumption, are occa-
stoned by sheer carelessness. A delicate
woman often sits for two or three hours
in crowded theater or church, breath
ing an atmosphere tainted by the exha-
latiors from the lungs Of hundreds of other
people, her system is exhausted, her skin
is excited by unwonted action, and when
she leaves the building and goes out in
the cold air her blood is suddenly driven
to the interior of the body, and then en-
sues a more or less permanent congestion
of the some of the internal organs-usu-
ally the air tubes in or leading to the
lungs. This process being repeated many
times, chronic bronchitis is finally es-
tablished in persons otherwise healthy,
and life is ever after rendered miserable
by this periodical overheating and sud
den chilling of the body, even if the
more dangerous malady, consumption,
does not interfere, and put the abused
body into the grave.
Year: 1872

BEAR FIGHT.-Joseph Ellmaker and
his wife have made small clearing in
jackson township, Potter county, on
which they have comfortable log cabin,
small barn, several head of cattle and a
few pigs. About nine O'Clock on Thurs
day evening, Mr.. Ellmaker heard great
commotion among his cattle and pigs
at the barn. On rushing out to ascer-
tain the cause, imagine his surprise on
finding that an old bear and two cubs had
thrown the calf down and were preparing
to drag it out Of the yard. The cubs were
running around swapping their teeth and
uttering half suppressed growls of delight
at the prospect Of a square meal"


Mr.. Ellmaker returned to the house at
once and made preparations to attack the
bears. He seized his rifle, and his wife
armed herself with a long handled double
bitted axe. Thus armed they advanced
to the attack. The bears, made bold and
ferocious by hunger, did not seem inclined
to give up their prey. Rising upon their
launches the old bear showed fight, and
the cubs crouched behind her, snarling
fercely. Mr.. Ellmaker raised his rifle
and fired at the black monster, thinking
that if she were killed the cubs could be
easily despatched or driven off. But he
missed his aim, and only broke the fore
paw of the animal. With fierce growl
of rage the old bear rushed at her assail-
ants, followed by the cubs. They stood
their ground for few minutes, Mr.. ELL
maker clubbing his rifle, while his wife
cut one of the cubs severely in the shoul-
der with the axe.


The rage of the animals became fearful,
and the danger of facing them at once
became apprent. Retreating rapidly to
the house, they barred the door and pre-
pared to defend themselves. Mr.. Ell
maker reloaded his rifle, and firing
through the window killed a cub. The
old bear now attempted to climb the log
house but owing to her broken paw could
not do so. Another shot from the rifle
wounded her severely in the head, when
she set up the most hideous howls of rage.
The animals loitered around until mid
night, when they retired and all became
still. In the morning the old bear was
found dead about six hundred yards from
the house, and the cub lay where he fell
in the early part Of the engagement. The
other had disappeared in the forest.


The two dead bears were secured and
dressed. The old one weighed $50 pounds,
and the cub 193.- WiItiomSpolt (Pu.)
Gazette.
Year: 1872

1NTEMPERATE CONFESSIONS. - Presi-
dent Hopkins, of Williams College, is
thoroughly good and greatly loved, and
he is stately and dignifed old gentleman
withal. All these excellent qualities
added a quaint effect of contrast to the
suddenness of the following answer which
the worthy President once received, and
which illustrates the principle that "ridi-
cule is the test of truth" In the railroad
cars one day, the President deserted one
of his students, youth of regretable
habits in point of dissipation, wearing at
that moment the haggard and disheveed
looks of one not yet over the effects of a
hard debauch. Stepping up to the young
man, looking him sternly yet sadly in
the face, the President said, in deep
and impressive tone:


been on drunk ~


So have l" was the answer.


Those confessions, however, do not i'm
ply anything inconsistent with right
belief about intemperance. The follow
ing, however, does. A we'll known ply
sican in one of our large cities was
walking one evening, when coming up
behind a rather forlorn looking couple
he perceived that they were jangling
about something and as he passed, the
husband reproved what had evidently
been some expression Of repining on the
part OF the wife, in the following terse
though morally unsound propositions:


" You was drunk yesterday, and you
was drunk day before yesterday, and
should like to know what more you could
have unless you was hangel in heaven"
-GaIary Cgub-room for Ap,U.
Year: 1872

DRYING BEEF.-It is stated that flies
can be kept from beef hung up to dry, in
warm weather, by the use of black pep
per. Heat shovel red hot and sprinkle
the pepper upon it. The smoke will rout
the flies at once. Follow this up three
or four days as occasion may require, and
the flies will give it up.
Year: 1872

A RURAL visitor to the menagerie in
Central Park, a day or two since, on see
ing the young guanaco, an animal re-
markable for the length of its neck,
exclaimed: "By gosh how that fellow
must enjoy drink"
Year: 1872

The sportsmen on the west coast Of
Florida discover where the oyster beds
are by drifting along the coast in a small
boat on cloudy day. When they are
drifting over an oyster bed they hear n
clicking like that produced when tele-
graph instrument is in operation.
Year: 1872

PHYsIoLoGIsTs say that man requires
thirty-three ounces of solid food per day
in order to sustain vigorous lie. His re-
quirements for one year would be 1852
pounds, or less than one-half the yield of
an acre of wheat, at not more than a cost
of ten days labor for one man.
Year: 1872

EULoGIsTs are sometimes indiscreet.
A New Hampshire paper describes a
recently deceased citizen as "a thoroughly
honest man he was perfectly resigned
to die. He had recently been married. I"
Year: 1872

AN Indiana paper says that since the
story has been told how Judge Brecken-
ridge married a country girl that he saw
jump over rail fence with pail on her
head, all the rural damsels are putting
pals on their heads and jumping rail
fences from morning till night. As soon
as they see carriage coming along the
road with man in it, they snatch their
pals and go for the fence.
Year: 1872

AN injured husband in Dayton, Ohio,
caught his wife just on the point Of clipping
with some handsome man. He took n
terrible vengeance by locking up all her
good clothes and then telling her to go.
Year: 1872

TO KEEP WORMS FROM DRIED FRUIT.
Put the fruit in common muslin bags,
with little sassafras bark scattered
through, a handful of bark to bushel of
fruit, and no worm will trouble it.
Year: 1872

variety OF sensational reports concerning rumored


changes the Cabine the probable withdrawal OF En-


gland from the Geneva Conference the reduction In
the Bank Of England specie lines OF a4Sooo ana te
consequent expected rise in the dscouns rate ana the
anticipated heavy exports Of specie at the close of the
week. had the effect of advancing the price OF gold from
I3i to IlIh, the market closing firm at ia with the
present speculation backed up 30 strongly py
the bear interest in stocks an explanation
Of these rumors is not wanting-still the
Secretary 1t in his power to change the course OF the
market by selling extra amount OF gold tomorrow


as an offset the large purchase Of bonds to-day ana
thus render available portion Of bis present supply OF


useless gold. In the goldloan market the rates were
81 g. A. and per cent for carrying. The Assist


ant Treasurer redeemed in called bonds sI7co total
OF s653s and paid out in coin interest on the public
debt $4,000 The days business at the Gold Exchange
Bank was as follows Gold cleared tCO7720oo gold bal
ances s673273 currency balances, s2162S5 The fol-