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Year: 1873

We heard q story told the other day that made
our eyes moisten. We have determined to tell it,
jus rs We heard it, to our little ones


"a company Of poor children, who had been
were preparing for their departure to new and
distant homes III the West just before the time
for the starting OF the cars, one OF the boys was
noticed aside from the Others, aud apparently We
ry busy with q cast-OH garment


The superintendent stepped up to him aud
found that he was cutting small piece out Of
the patched lining. Ii proved to be his old jack
ct, which having been replaced by q nav one, had
been thrown away There was no time 10 be lost
Come, John, come = said the superintendent
what are yOu going to do with that old piece OF
calico 2"


"'PiSase, SIR slid John, Il am cutting il to
take with me. My dear dead mother put the I'm
ing into this old jachet for me. This was q piece
Of her dress, and it's all ShaH hare 10 remember
her by'' And IS the pOOr boy thought of that
dead mothers love, and Of the sad death bed
scene IN the old garret where she died, he cover
ell his face with his hands, and sobbed as IL his
heart would break.


''But the train was about leaving. and JOIN
thrust the little piece OF calico into his bosom, u
remember his mother by hurried into q car, and
was soon far away from the place where he ha(
| seen so much sorrow.


We know many eye will moIsten as this stO
ry Is told and retOld througAou the country, ant
many prayer VIII go up to God for the father
less and motherless in all great cities and in al
places.


Little readers, are your mothers still spared I
your Will you not show your love by Cheerful
obedience That little boy who loved SO we'll, W
are sure, obeyed.


Bear this IN mind, that if you should one da
have to look upon the face OF "dear dead moth
er," no thought would be so bitter as to remen
Der that you had given her pain by your willfu
ness or disobedience
Year: 1873

Heartless cynics will rejoice to learn that
Sergeant Bates has become 30 pOos that he
has been forced to lay down his flag and 90
TO work like q common mortal 70 obtain bread
for his family. Indeed the case Il 90 bad that
the sergeant Is unable to publish beck Of his
travels
Year: 1873

1t seems little less than farce that so much
trouble and cost should be caused by the trial of
such murderer as West His own confession
before Coroners jury could scarcely be set
aside by any jnry. The case will consume sew
eral days, and perhaps a week, 1t is said.


The Washington Chronicle says that Senator
buckingham of Connecticut has not drawn his
extra back pay. Very good but has he merely
LETT 1t here where he draw it hereafter or has
he, turned it back into the Treasury, where 1t
cannot be drawn? That is the question and a
good deal of this back-pay virtue is as shall in
its Pretencc as Deacon Buckmgham's celebrated
performance in whitewashlng the frauds of the
New York Custom House
Year: 1873

horse in waiting and dashed off before the
alarm was given Pursuit was instituted as
early as possible, but up to dark he had not
been reeaptured His wife had dcarried the
revolver enyeloped in her pannier and had
horse in waiting. She was arrested


DEs MONIES, Sept. Son Friday even
ing young man by the name of Guernzy,
living near Gilman, was struck and killed
by lightning. He and his father were re
turning home with two teams laden with
coal. The bolt descended, striking him in
the back of the neck and appears to have
killed him instantly. His father was with
the team behind, and was knocked sense
less When he came to, he found his SON s
team lying prostrate in the road. apparent
ly dead and his son hanging out of the
wagon by one foot, which was caught in the
spring of the seat.


| NASHUA, Sept. S.--Diehl, the murderer
of Blair, was to-day sentenced to thirty
years in the State prison.
Year: 1873

In healthy condition the skin is kept
supple by an oily secretion, which answers
the same purpose as oiling leather Dur
ing warm weather this secretion, in com
mon with all the other secretions of the
skin, is more abundant thanh cold. When
it is insufficient the skin becomes dry and
harsh and on those parts of the body
where the skin is thick and subject to
motion as on the hands, it readily cracks
or assures. The amount of this secretion
is so much reduced in cold weather that
the frequent washing of the hands with
soap causes them to chap readily, and this
the more certainly if the soap is not wash
ed off The alkali in soap is usually in ex-
cess, and this combines with the oily Sc
cretion, aud so deprives the skin of its nat
ural lubricator To prevent the hands
from chapping, then, be careful to wash
all soap from them thoroughly in clean
water This will ordinarily suffice; but, if
not, it will be necessary to make good the
removed oil by using KENNEDY S SALT
RHEUM OINTMENT, sure cure for all
skin diseases of whatever name or nature


PRICE 50.CENTS Sold by druggists.
3-ldly
Year: 1873

Every housewife of neat and tidy habits
takes especial delight in keeping all the tin,
copper and iron ware of her kitchen as
clean and bright as painstaking labor can
make them. A pride in this direction is
commendable, and always meets the smil-
ing approval of the ''tyrant man" who
pays the household bills. Remember that
Sapoho is the only thing on earth that will
make an old tarnished tin pan or rusty
kettle shine as bright as new. And by the
use of Sapolio tits the quickest and easiest
thing in the world to keep every utensil il
a high state of polish
Year: 1873

We see by the Chicago papers that
PROCTOR Il GAMBLE have reduced the
price Of their long established and popular
brand NOTIFIED GERMAN SOAP, its pres
ent price and superior quality makes it the
cheapest as well as the best soap for con-
sumers 6-23d3m
Year: 1873

TO say that Mir. Chase was morally
courageous would be mere truism.
When he thought he had discovered the
path of duty. he folloNed it To The end,
caring not whether it led him or what
dangers besvt ii OH either side. A young
lawyer declaring himself against slavery
Year: 1873

The possession Of q few dollars often
makes all the difference between happiness
and misery, aud no man. especially withO
family dependent upon him, can bo truly
independent unless be has a few dollars
reserved for time Of need. While ex.
treme carelessnCss as to the expenditure Of
money will make rich man poor, q wise
economy will as certainly make a poor
man rich, or at least make him to a co.,
siderable eXtea! independent Of the capri
ces Of employers aud Of the common Vicis-
situdcs Of life. Nothing is moro import.
ant to poor man than the habit Of saving
something; but bis little hoard will soon
begin to grow at rate which will surprise
and crafty him. Every working man
ought to have an account at some savings
bank, and should add to it every week dur
ing which be has full employment, even if
the addition Is but dollar ata time. If
be does this, be will soon end the dollars
growing into tens, and these into hundreds,
and 10 little time he will beiu possession
Of a sum which is constantly yielding on
addition to bis income, which secures him
reserve fund whenever one is needed,
aud which will enable him to do many
things, which without a little money he
would be pOWerless to do.
Year: 1873

A Girl who Never saw Young Man.


An old man who lives near st. Helena,
CAL, in a wild solitude, has very pretty
daughter, aged 10, who had never seen
a young man till her father took her to
San Francisco the other day to see the town
She was dressed up prettily, for ths 6rst
timo 10 hor life, and hOr silks and ribbons
aud the gay sights almost turned her
bead. But what most interested her was
that hitherto unknown boiug-the young
man. Every time Sho saw one shO would
FIX her eyes earnestly on him aud actually
made several attempts to get away from
the old mau, that she might cultivate the
acquaintance Of these young gentlemen,
so that be irSlly caught her and, led hor
by the hand, After be got on The boat for
Vallejo, on the hOmowurd trip, he felt
pretty safe and concluded to take drink. =
lie took several, and 10 bis absence the
daughter made the acquaintance OF two
Pprigbtly young men on tho boat, aud she
was so fascinated With malO society that
she made arrangements to fOrsake her old
father and go With them. She success
fully gave her father the slip when they
left the boat for the cars, aud The iufatuat-
ed girl was slowed between them in q
smoking car, But her father found her
and whirled her out Of that car 10 the live
licst manner, and kept bis hands Oq her
till they reached home, Hewill not dare
expose her to such peril again, and the
poor girl is destined to close confinement
out Of the world Of young men unless she


runs away.
Year: 1873




Wars IN A KIss'-What's in o kiss
Really when people come to reflect upon
the matter calmly, what can they SEQ 10 a
kiss? The lips pOut slightly, and touch
the check softly, and then they just part
and the job is complete! There is q
kiss 10 the abstract. View it 10 the ab'
stract. take it as it stands, look Of it
phiIOsphiCaIly, What is it after all2-
Millions upon millions Of souls have been
made happy while millions upon millions
have been plunged into misery and despair
by this kissing, and yot,when you look into
tho character ofthe thing, it is simply
poutiug Of the lips In every grade of
society there is kissing. 60 where you
will, to what country you will, and you
are perfectly sure to fud kissing gbGFO
is howeyer, some mysterious virture 10 q
kiss, aud We devOutly hope it may never
go out offashiOu'
Year: 1873

Some women arc 50 delicate that they
are afraid to ride, for fear of the horse
running away; afraid to walk, for fear tho
dew might fall; afraid to sail for fear the
boat might upset; but they are mover afraid
to get married, which is more riskful thap
all the others put together.
Year: 1873

There is promise Of a novel sensation
for some Of the reporters who will accom-.
pauy Professor Wise in his transatlantic
balloon voyage. The sensation will prob
ably De that Of taxing water.
Year: 1873

Father Burke Upon Temperance.


There we're two causes that produced
sin, and the first and greatest was drunk
enness. After Noah came out of the
ark, he was innocent Of sin, but he com
pressed the grape and made wine, which
he drank and was made drunk. He was
innocent of the knowledge that there
was intoxication in the cup, and there
fore he committed a sin unwittingly. A
sin was committed by his son. who, when
he saw his father overcome by the wine,
scoffed at him, and thus committed a
sin. Gods wrath again came upon men,
and the curse followed.


Another Of the greatest sins was com
mitted by Lot when he fed from the
threatened destruction of SodOm and
took refuge in the wilderness with his
two daughters. His daughters made
him drunk on wine, and it was then
that he committed the sin that is ac-
cursed of God. All the wickedness OF
Sodom failed to seduce Lot from the
paths Of virtue, but wine overthrow him,
and caused him to commit the greatest
Of crimes. Seldom never conquered Lot
sober, but the invisible spirit OF wine
conquered him.


The sin Of drunkenness destroys the
soul as we'll as the body. 1t destroys all
selfrospeot, the esteem Of friends, and a
mans love for his family. Man is the
image Of God, and whatever defaees that
image is q sin against our Maker. God
was the author Of two creations-the
invisible and the visible The invisible
is the world Of spirits, inhabited By the
Creator and his hosts Of angels. After
creating heaven, He saw that there vas
a void, and BE then created the visible,
which is the earth and the rest Of
Year: 1873

the route of Versailles. Several months
later the new countess left France and
established herself in Florence, where
she built a splendid palace on the banks
of the Arno. But ten years after ennui
seized her, and she wished to again see
Paris. Every day at the moment when
Napoleon and the Empress came from
the Tuileries, Miss Howard showed her
self in a superb equipage and dazzling
toilet. Rnmor said that the Empress
was furious. Some days after a perform
ance at the Italiens, during which the
English woman, covered and occupying
a box directly in front, had amused her
self by cycling through an opera glass the
woman who had stolen her 'Poleon, Miss
Howard was found suffocated in her
he'd y
Year: 1873

material creation, and to harmonize the
whole he created man after his own
image--half an angel and half a brute.
No matter what sins we commit 1t is
almost impossible to destroy the divinity
that is within us. When a man commits
mortal sin, it destroys his soul, but His
image still remains, for it is the image OF
God. Sin may dis6gure, though it does
not always kill the body. Drunkenness
destroys both mind and body. A man
may commit many sins which do not rob
him of his manhood. What deprives
him of reason? Drunkenness


1t deprives you of your power OF will;
it disables you from guiding your own
footsteps, and often deprives you OF
speech, A man that is drunkard is
not man. he is beast. He is below
a beast We say of a dead man that he
is corpse. What is the difference be-
tween drunkard and a corpse2 A
dead man may be the image of God, but
a drunkard is the image of the devil. II
you want to destroy your manhood, or
commit suicide, the way to accomplish
it is through the intoxicating bowl.
Year: 1873

An old gentleman and his wife went to


Chicago the other day in search oftwo miss
ing daughters, and stepping into theater
for an evenings relaxation, found their
promising otfspIings skipping it in the
Year: 1873

LITTLE Rock, Jan. 3.-Ths convention
of the Reform party Of this State convenes
tomorrow. H. Is understood that Senator
Rice is urging the setting up Of a separate
State government to compel Congress to
take some action in regard to the late elec-
ton in this State, Leading Democrats op-
pose the movement, and it is thought it
will not he carried into effect.


Two more bills will be fled before Judge
Caldwell tomorrow by candidates on the
Reform ticket at the late election who claim
to be elected. The frsl case comes up for
argument Monday.
Year: 1873

1t is the clear duty of the press Of
the country to make vigorous and
united effort to restore public conf
dence. We have had our panic and
are reaping its effects, but there is
no reason why there should be this
long continued fear of undefnable
future calamity. Every one knows
that our crops are abundant-more
so, probably, than they have been for
years. Our coal mines, timber for
ests and cotton fields have not suffer
ed from the paric, and the wants Of
the people everywhere remain the
same that they were two months
ago. Europe must have our grain,
and our own people must have the
products of our own manufactures.
There is no reason that cotton mills
and locomotive works should close
their doors, as if clothing and loco
motives were never to be again in
use. If necessary, let prices and
wages be adjusted in accordance with
the new conditions brought about by
the panic, and let mills run ON half
time; but do not let us present the
spectacle of people too much fright
ened to do anything but stare one
smother idly in the face, and thus
bring about the distress that little
GOODNESS and courage can avoid.
There is abundance of work for every
one in this country; and if the press
viii do its part to revive courage and
confidence, SO that capitalists and
Observation-Disclosures labor, weneed
dread no further financial panic
IN Y Granhic.
Year: 1873

The Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road Company, which is understood
to be unable to pay the interest due
on its bonds on November 1st, is
one of those enterprises which illus
trate the unsoundness of the basis on
which railroads have lately been built
1t was built with the proceeds of
bonds almost exclusively, and its
bonds have found a market on a faith
that believed in all things Its bonded
debt is SIS, 10000 and its floating
debt, $S,00O,OOO; while its capital is
s.. Its projectors expected
its earnings to pay the interest; but,
inasmuch as it traverses a country
which has all its resources yet to de-
velope, and is in itself mere link in
the grand chain of a through route
from the East to the West, it has
found itself unable to compete sue
cessfully with the Baltimore and
Ohio road and the other through
routes to the East. The route of
the road is a good one, and the coun-
try traversed by it must eventually
be productive one, but the road
has been built before its time, and
the present traffic on it is not sufi-
cient to opperate it and pay interest
on the cost of its construction. It
will, no doubt, in the course of time,
develope paying trade, but in the


z eantime, while this work of develop
ment goes on, the bondholders will
be clamoring for their interest, and
will clamor IN vain. Had the road
been built with actual capital, the
capitalists interested could have
waited for what the future will bring
forth; but the bondholders will not
wait, and the end will be bankruptcy
for the road and numberless quar-
rels over who shall own and control
it.
Year: 1873

Democrats cut singular figure in
Massachusetts,. In their State Con-
ven5ion, they denounced the salary
grab in unmeasured terms, and even
went so far as to declare that those
who voted for or received the back
pay, had forfeited all claim to the
confidence or respect of the people.
Nevertheless, with this resolution
squarely before them, they nomin-
ate,l and elected General Banks to
the Senate, well knowing that he
advocated the salary bill, back pay
and all, in Congress, and pocketed
the swag on the passage of the bill.
That is q good sample of genuine
Democratic consistency.
Year: 1873

The Secretary of War, who was in
New York on the 18th, is reported to
have said to an intimate friend who
called on him: "You are aware that
1 have been. considered somewhat
blood thirsty on this matter, but the
entire Cabinet are now of my mind.
At Cabinet meeting we were a unit,
and if the American people are not
satisfied with the measures resolved
OH at that meeting to vindicate the
National honor, they must be very
hard to please"
Year: 1873

Aunt Lucy was standing beside
an open French window when Mr.
Caperne went into the drawing
room, and he knew at once that the
easy-chair drawn up near was for him,
for the man whose past had been q
hard battle single-armed, upon whose
life for many a weary year had fallen
no touch of gentle fingers, no whis-
per of womanly solicitude. There
was rose in the bosom of her light
/ Spring dress, and a tall arum thrust
forth its blossom from behind her.


Mr. Cnperne saw all this in one
hurried glance. He will see it again
many time in days to come. It
became for him one of those photo
graphs which the brain has trick of
taking, for our ceaseless torment or
happiness. She came forward to
meet him, holding out her hand, and
in his eagerness he quilted the arm
on which he leaned He was weak
er than he had thought. The car
pet grew unsteady beneath his feet,
the tall arum multiplied itself a dozen
times; and, but for that outstretched
hand, he must have fallen.


'You have been imprudent" said
Lucy, quietly. ''My mother should
have kept you prisoner little longer,
though I know how weary the days
must be-"


It was the voice he had heard in
the wood, nearer to him now, speak
ing to him, and about him.


"Wearyl" repeated Mr.. Caperne,
slowly. 81 think that they have
been the happiest days ever spent"


She turned from him half smiling,
as Tony gave vent to a whistle of
boyish contempt for such an idea of
happiness.


I'm that case it was lucky I
dropped into the Cor" said Tony.
"But it is an odd notion. 1 know I
shouldn't ike it; and TN sure Aunt
Lucy wouldn't either. Why, she's
out all day long, amongst the flow
ers, or pigeons, or the green ducks,
such swell ducksl Mr.. Caperne.
You wouldn't believe what a quack-
ing they set up at the sight of us !!
But you shall see them. Here comes
granny; and now, Aunt Lucy, go to
the piano, and we'll have a jolly
evening"


Mr.. Caperne leaned back in his
chair, and listened. Through the
open window he felt the soft Spring
air, all fower-scented, on his check,
as he watched the tiny white clouds
chasing each other, and fell into q
hazy sort of speculation upon the
strange chance that had brought him
here; and through all his thoughts
rang the music of Stephen Heller's
"Sleepless Nights, full of wonderful
pathos and wild abandon.


When the music ceased, and Mr.
Caperne looked up, the clicking of
madame's knitting needles ceased too,
abruptly. She gave him little per-
emptory nod from her seat in the
corner, rose up briskly, like the reso-
lutte nurse she was, and then he knew
that his evening was over, and he was
to be sent away.
Year: 1873

The following tender missive was picked
Up in the ladies' sitting-room of the railway
depot at Dayton, one day last week:


Dear Charles, do you love me as much
as you did at quarter to II last night! Say
you do dearest, and it will give me spirit to
20 down and tackle those cold beans left
from yesterday" The answer sent was,
eyes. hoist them in. my angel"
Year: 1873

A preacher in Scottish town took up a
collection one recent Sunday, and found,
WI en- his hat was returned, that there wasn't
a cent in it. II thank my God, " said he,
turning the hat upside down and tapping
the crown of it with his hand, ''that have
got my hat back from this congregation
Year: 1873

Young lady to beau, of whose company
she IS getting tired; II hope you are not
nervous, because that clock has queer
effect on people. All my gentleman ac-
quaintances start when it strikes ten, and
it's just going to strike; SO if you are nerv-
GUS perhaps you had better go home before
it begins He went
Year: 1873

Whenever we hear a man making dis
paraging insinuation in regard to his moth
er-in-law, we always feel like saying to him,
''Sir, you never would have been anywhere
if your father had never had mother-in-
law "
Year: 1873

When are ladies like loaf sugar? When they are
re6ded.


What IS the difference between a sailor and a
becr-drinker? One puts his sail up and the other
puts his ale down.


When is baby not baby? When it's tea
thing. (Teething)


What creatures took the smallest amount Of bag
case along when they entered the ark? The cock
and the fox; they had only one comb and one brush
between them.


What is the difference between temptation and
eternity? One is vile of the dell, and the other
is . dell of while.
Year: 1873

Five years since Noel Caperne
found Julian Dudley's name on the
bit of music; five years since he lay
on the grass, reviling the pleasant
music of the wood, which Jared upon
his misery; and he was back again;
gray amongst his hair, WEAKNESS in
his look and listless gait; back beside
the brawling Cor, wondering dimly
what had brought him there; stirred
to the very bottom of his soul by the
sweet and bitter memories that hung
about the place, but rigid as ever in
Year: 1873

FURTHER DELAY ~ THE MwILLIAMs TRIAL.


The Hudson County courtroom was densely
crowded, yesterday morning the deepest interest being


felt in the conclusion OF the McWhams and Doyle trial.
II was felt that upon the charge OF Judge soudder
largely depended character Of the verdict and the
friends OF the accused anxious 10 know what il
would be- The disappointment consequently great
when II found that O'Brien the twelfth Juror was
again sick and unable TO attend With 70 giving
the the jury yesterday, II possible the adj


ourned until y O'Clock but at that time the Juror
unable leave his bed, aud adjournment was had
for the day As OBrnn IL suffering FROM Intermittent
fever he will probably be- able % attend this morning.
when the charge will be delivered aud the
the Jury The friends OF the accused confident OF
acqutta unless the charge OF Judge scnider IS IL


TcctY against them, and IL generally believed that
tho Will be out FOR long time. and that the result
Year: 1873

own market thus drawing the trade up town. tn s
theory gains credenee among influential and
II by no means improbable that the Board OF Health
Will be influenced in considering the subject Of the
removal Of the stands around Fulton Market by their
desire 10 disprove TINS theory.