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Year: 1872

This body adjourned on Saturday to meet
again on Thursday next, the 4th inst. when it is
supposed the Error lists will be corrected, as
the clause of the Law providing that no " new
names " shall be added, after the last day of
March, does not apply to those already assessed
and illegally returned az delinquents. The reso-
luton requiring these men to appear personally
in order TO have their names returned ON the list
is Unprecedented, and extremely unjust but we
hope that as many as can, without too much
sacrifice, will go forward and answer to their
names, as the punishment of the offenders will
not compensate for the loss of their right to
vote.


The Assessor of Wilmington Hundred, re-
turned an additional list, containing So names,
which they cannot refuse TO add TO the previous
ones, without doing injustice to some highly
respecaL citiSens, besides depryng the county
of considerable amount Of tax, that would be
pal by them, and being guilty of malfeasanee
in Office.
Year: 1872

Gerald Massey, the well-knOwn pO-
ct, in 4 recent lecture at st. Georges
Hall, London, said that some twenty
two years ago he was invited to see a
clairvOyant read without the use
of her eyes. He was asked to place
his fingers over her eyes, so as to pre-
vent her from being able to see. He
knew so little of what was expected
of him, that he placed his fingers so
wide apart that she could see between
them. This lady afterward became
his wife, and he found that this read
ing by abnormal vision was a tact.
He had never properly understood it
before. Since then, however, he had
seen her read so hundreds OF times,
and convince hundreds of people.


Many persons had been prepared
for the acceptance Of fspiritualism from
what they saw of he elairvOyance.
Not only did she read books in this
manner, but the human body itself
appeared to be diaphaHOus 10 her,
She had been made use Of in hospi-
tails to diagnose diseases and prescribe
for them. Her power was just the
same whether her eyes were bandag-
ed or not; in fact, if the eyes Of the
flesh were open she could not read
at all. a young man once asked her
if she could see the pain he had. She
said that he must have suffered the
fracture Cfa rib, as one bone was over
tapping another The young man re-
piled that he had suffered such a frac-
ture, and that he had always feared
that the bones had not been properly
set. On another occasion an officer
came with a friend. He was dressed
as private gentleman. He had lost
a carpet-bag, and wanted TO know if
il could be found by means of clair
vOyance. She described the bag and
contents, amongst other things a
brace of curious silver-mOunted pis-
tolls OF Indian workmanship, then a
something she could not identify.
Turning 10 the officer, she uttered a
scream. He wore an artificial arm;
his own, which he had lost in action,
was in the bag, and that was what
she had tried to describe.


One morning on waking up at sew
en- o'clock she informed her husband
that his mother was dead. On being
questioned as to how she knew, she
said that she had seen the black
edged letter put under the bedroom
door. At eight o'clock Mr.. Massey
himself saw the letter containing the
sad announcement put under the
door.
Year: 1872

In an article on the disagreement
of the jury in the Fisk case, the New
York Tribune remarks:


'FThe case was so full Of cOmpliea-
tiOns disconnected with the man is
sue Of fact, there was so much on
both sides to cOneeal-and, singulaTly
enough, it was the prosecution which
had most TO suppress by its frequent
ObjectiCns-that a confusion OF the ju-
~ was the most natural eOnsequenceC
three weeks Investigation and argu-
ment The necessity OF pro-
tecting some bad characters eompli.
Gated and greatly weakened tire case
Of tine prosecution We heartily thank
District Attorney Garvin that he as
sumed that grave responsibility and
ssved us from a great public SCANDAL.
The counsel for the defence, as they
said, might have taken the roof of
the Grand Central Hotel, and revealed
scenes Of licentiOusness and insamy
which would have shocked the whole
com munity and thereby perhaps
strengthened their case. We thank
them that they had the moral courage
to present their argument witiuut re-
sort TO such an infamous and dOubtft
practice"


Is it possible that the above was in
tended u be sarcastic ,
Year: 1872

My father was n poor man. A large
and growing family was dependent
on him for its daily bread. Coming
home one wintry evening from a
weeks toll in neighbOring town
with ten hard earned dollars in his
pocket, he lost them in a slight snow.
Long and fruitless was the search for
them. After the snow was gone, again
and again was the search renewed,
with the same result. The snow fell
and melted again for a whole genera
ton, and still the story of the lost
dollars was fresh in our family circle /;
for a silver dollar in those days was
larger to a poor man than the fall
moon.


About mile away lived another
father of a family in similar circum-
stances. He, too, knew how much a
dollar cost, dug out of the heart of a
rocky farm. At least once, or Oftener,
every week for forty years, he had Oe-
casiOn to pass our door, giving and
receiving the common neighb0rly
salutatiOns, and every time with a
weight increasingly heavy on his
conscience. But all such pressure
has its limit; and when that is reach
ed the crash is greater for the severi-
ty Of the strain. In this instance il
was as when an old oak Tends its
body and breaks its limbs in falling


One day, completely broken down,
he came to my father in tears, con-
Tossing, "I found your dollars lost in
the snow, forty years ago. They have
been hard dollars to me and / can
carry them no longer. I am come To
return them and ask your forgive
ness, and as soon as ] can I will pay
you the interest"


The scene was like that when ia
cob and EsaU met over the ford Jab-
box.


He did not live long enough to fur
nish the interest, but quite long
enough to furnish a practical COM
ment on the text, 'Th9 spirit Of man
will sustain his infrmity, but w0un-
ded spirit who can bear? Who will
say that conscience, though slumber-
ing in this life, will never awake to
punish the offender in the life to
come?


If any man wants hard nlORelJ, let
him get it dishonesty and he will find
it the hardest money he ever saw
hard to keep, hard to think Of, and
hard to answer for in the day of judg-
ment
Year: 1872

W, our HOlO correspondent, says
that a lifelong Democrat upon being
asked if he could "go' Greeley, re-
piled that the situation reminded
him of an incident that occurred in
the mines. A party of miners took
up claim and elected one of their
party cook, who was to serve in that
capacity until some one found fault
with his cooking. In that event the
fault-fnder was to take his place and
do the cooking himself. George b
was the first to fill the position, and
everything went on smoothly for u
week or two, when George got tired
and resolved to have some one find
fault if possible. So he mixed up his
dough one morning for breakfast,
putting in equal parts of -four and
salt. All sat down to breakfast, and
Bill J-was the first to break bis
cult. He tasted it, smelled 1t, and
tasted it again, and said: Hell
I'll be id if this amt the saltiest bis
cult ever got hold of-6ut' said he:
suddenly remembering the contract,
"it is good p! Now, the Democrats
are in the same fix. Greeley is the
saltiest pill L ever got hold of, but
then he is gOOd.-Sdn Francisco
Bulletin.
Year: 1872

With reference to the alleged aband-
onment Of principle by the Demo
cratic party, and its acceptance Of the
position Of the Liberal Republicans,
under the lead Of Greeley, the New
York Staatszsituug tDemOcratic1
says:


1t is an unholy alliance that was
entered into; q pOstpOnement OF the
strife which will break out with all
the greater bitterness, as soon as the
present danger, to meet which the
union is effected, has been averted,
and which must break out with all
the greater fury when each side shall
accuse the other Of over-reaehing.
Year: 1872

We learn that Brick POmeroy hes
finally disposed Of mis- interest in the
La Crosse Democrat to the. NEIL who
have been running it during his alb
sence in New York. Bricks expert
ment in running a red-hOt Democrat
ic daily in New York las resulted in
his losing all the wealth he had aecu-
mulated from the diabOlieal system Of
journalism of which he was the inven-
tor. His La Crosse paper succumbed
to the judgments Of his New York
creditors.
Year: 1872

TEE PHILADELPHIA AND WEST CHESTER NARROW


GAUGE.


The West Chester Record says:


The engineers engaged in surveying the route
of the proposed narrow gauge railroad from
Philadelphia, via Newtown Square and West
Chester to Downingtown, reached Sugartown on
the Saturday before Christmas. There the corps
were dismissed till after the holidays when the
running of the remainder of the line will be done.
The chief engineer walked over the balance of
the proposed route to West Chester and says the
road can be built that far very cheaply with the
exception of little expensive work between
Darby and Crum creeks.
Year: 1872

The Mercantile Library in this city was
opened on Sunday for the first time. and
the heavens did not fall nor were the foun-
tains Of the great deep broken up. About
300 young men availed themselves of the
opportunity to sit in the pleasant reading
room and find instruction and entertain
ment in the quiet perusal of books, which
is something. If the ministers want to
keep the young life of the city from drift
ing into the library, they must present more
attractions than the library. With Scott
and Dickens, Huxley and Spencer for II
walls, they can not hope to hold their own
without putting a generous supply OF hui
man nature, science and soul into their ser
mons. Perhaps the opening of the libraries
on Sunday will be the best thing that has
happened for the pulpit and those who sit
under its ministrations.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Beecher ventured into the discussion
of Darwinism two Sundays ago, just far
got him entirely clear of the monkey tribe
he was content He had quite as soon have
a monkey for mis- father as some of the men
about here. But the preacher did not state
the difference between these men and the
much abused monkey. Probably he did not
care to enter into microscopic analysis in
the pulpit. He does not care where he
came from, but is considerably anxious
about where he is to go. So are some of
his Evangelical brethren.
Year: 1872




RoGERsvILLE, August %, 1872.


While we rejoice at the success of our
Republican friends in the various States,
in uniting upon strong and able standered
bearers, there is no selection that is more
gratifying and encouraging than that fire
tried patriot, Judge r. II. Butler, as the
true Republican standered bearer for
Congress from the First Congressional
District.


The action of the true Republicans of
this good old Union and Whig District is
applauded by the true friends of the Gev-
ernment. 1t has sent thrill of joy into
the hearts of every man and woman who
were true friends to our glorious Union in
the dark days of treason and rebellion.


Since the nomination of VIM. B. Carter,
by the Democratic Rebel Convention of
this District, many of the Conservatives of
ferent and say if they take sides they will
go for Grant and Butler, while many of
them have came out openly in favor of
Grant and Butler. / could give you the
names of some Of the best Conservative
men in Hawkins county, who are for
Grant and Butler, but it is prudent to keep
quiet at the present. Ofone thing, howev-
er, you may rest assured: We intend to
carry this District for Grant and Butler by
5000 majority.


will venture to say further, that If ex-
President Johnson runs as an independent
candidate, for the State at large against
General Cheatham, the Republican major
ity in this District will be still greater.
Year: 1872

Ihysiclans Use Them In Their Practice.


1t is almost universally the case that Thysl'
clans condemn what are generally known rs
LIVER PILLS Is NOT A PATENT NED
ICINE, yet its composition (the result of years
of study is known only to himself, and SO
palpable are their valuable curative proper
Ties that very many Of the first Physicians IN
the South and West have adopted them ~
their practice, and recommend them to thell
patients.
Year: 1872

Better than grandeur, better than gold,
Than rank and titles thousand fold,
Is healthy body, a mind at ease,
And simple pleasures that always please;
A heart that can feel for another's woe
And share his joys with genial glow,
With sympathies large enough to enfold
All men as brothers, is better than gold.
Better than gold is conscience clear,
Though tolling for bread in an humble sphere
Doubly blest with content and health,
Untried by the lust of cares or wealth;
Lowly living and lofty thought


Adorn and ennoble poor mans cot,
For mind and morals in natures plan
Are the genuine test of gentleman.
Better than gold is thinking mind,
That in the realm of books can find
A treasure surprising Australian ore,
And like with the great and good of yore,
The sage's lord and the poets lay,
The glories of empire passed away,
The worlds great drama will thus enfold
And yield pleasure better than gold.
Better than gold is peaceful home,
Where all the fireslde charities come,
The shrine Of love the heaven of life,
Hallowed by mother or sister or wife,
However humble the home may be,
Or tried with sorrow by heavens decree,
The blessings that never were bought or sold
And centre there are better than gold.
Year: 1872

Between one and two O'Clock yesterday after
noon young man named Washington ward
resident OF Trenton, while driving team from the
railroad depot to his father's marble yard, at the
above place. was violently thrown from the wagon
In consequence OF the horse becoming heightened
and running away. He met with instantaneous
death. The surgeons who examined the body say
that the young mans neck was broken In the fall,
and that instant death was necessarily the result.
He leaves q wife to mourn his loss. He was an es-
timable young man, aud much sorrow 10 ielt at his
uattmey death.
Year: 1872

An incident, strikingly. illustrative Of


the customs and discipline of the Ger


man army, is reported from Coblenz


A few days ago the band of the Twenty


ninth regiment we're performing, en-


civile and on their own account, at q
coffee garden in the neighboring village
of Lahnstein. Among the company
present was Lieutenant in the regi.


ment, who requested one of the bands
men to perform a certain piece, and was
told with considerable insolence that
Lieutenants had no right to interfere
with band when out of uniform and
perfor ming for their own benefit This
led to an alteration, during which the
young officer so lost all selfcontrsl that
he drew his sword and slashed the offend
ing bandsman across the face, but hap
PLY only inflicting slight injury. The
man, either pretending or believing that
he was severely wounded, fell PROSTATE
on the ground. A scene of indescriba-
BILE confusion ensued. The burgomeister
of the village, who happened TO be pres
ent, demanded the officer sword, and was
asked if he wanted TO be treated in a simi.
ldT way. n ItpOIb WAS cOOu ClISuldlCul lndt
a civilian had been mortally wounded
by an officer, and the greatest excite
ment was manifested. The lieutenant
and several other officers who happentd d
to be present, were surrounded and
booted by the crowd, and at one moment
it seemed doubtful whether it might not
be necessary to send to Coblenz for an
escort. However, the lieutenant was
conveyed on board a steamer, and so
returned TO his garrison. The matter is
being investigated. and it is anticipated
that the officer will have to cool his
blood in fortress for few weeks. No
doubt tradition exists in the German
army, it it is not actually law, that an
officer in uniform, if his honor is assailed
by blow or insulting language, is bound
10 vindicsto it with his sword, though his
adversary may be unarmed. The pres
rnt inquiry may help to decide what a
German officers duty really is under
such provocatiOn.
Year: 1872

vert to the sheets Of water beyond, or
along the vistas that open in every direc-
tion-you will always see the deep green
refreshed by thriving showers of rainbow
spray. But at length everybody begins
to collect about the Bassin de Neptune
the bouquet af the show; and here, at a
given signal, such numberless fountains
throw their tall spires into the air and
play about the God of Ocean and Amphi-
trite, seated in their triumphal car, that
the crowd, French though it be, bursts
out into audible admiration.


But the heavens resent this intrusion
on their domain; as though attracted by
the rising shower, the rain, which has
been threatening all day, begins to fall,
and there is general sauve qui peut.
The "Grandes Eaux" at Versailles
never play alone.


Most American people have seen this
show, but comparatively few have taken
the trouble to investigate for themselves
the unparalleled beauty and variety of
the park. Your thorough-going tourist
does " Versailles in one day, running
through the galleries till his legs fail him
and his head swims. In this state he
staggers on to the terrace, pronounces
the gardens very formal," and goes
home we'll satisfied with his Regents
Park. Even if he repeats his visits, he
repeats the process of fatigue, and
knows the grounds no better than on
the first occasion. The separate bosquet
are indeed so much hidden, that he may
be pardoned for overlooking at least
three-fourths of them. But, If he wishes
to appreciate the place thoroughly, let
him, if only once, "do the park as
thoroughly as ne does the museum, and
he will return enraptured with the extra
ordinary variety and beauty of all the
labyrinthine tickets, each one of which
has cachet of its own. In some there
is as much wildness as in an English
park, while all are embellished by some
artistic work of intrinsic value.
Year: 1872

cal man of the party, after all hands
had taken in the situation, inquired if
Ward was agoin' to make that there
location2" The undaunted Olympian
calmly rspiied that he was, and to the
universal amazement set forth, hand
over hand, on the slender wire, the
length Of which was SO great that what
he undertook seemed totally impossible.
A roar of derision followed the gym
nast's departure, but presently fears for
the safety of fellow-creature fearfully
suspended over the raging waters begot
better feeling Il he fell, he must almost
certainly perish. The river was tearing
along at a tremendous rate, and, what
with the width and the velocity of the
current, the strongest swimmer would
have no chance with it. Some
of the miners ran down the
bank, far below the wire, hoping to
find boards or ropes to thrust into the
stream to increase Wards chance of
saving himself when he should fall. He
had now arrived at near the middle, and
suddenly he paused, hanging fifty feet
above the water. The blood of the
spectators chilled with horror. 1t was
evident the man was exhausted, and
must soon drop into the river. He hung
straighter and straighter, and at last one
arm dropped nerveless by his side.
There was groan of sympathy, and all
eyes strained at the coming catastrophe.


Suddenly the "0lympian acrobat,


with yell of Hoop, lal" sprung to
the top of the wire and stood there calm
ly on one leg. Had his Satanic Majesty
Unexpectedly presented himself to the
gaping miners they could not have been
more astonished Immediately after,
Ward executed hornpipe on the wire,
hung off by one foot, then by his chin,
and cut divers other astounding capers,
each more incredible than the other.
jerusalem at last burst from one
honest miner, Of wider showshop expe-
rience than his fellows" Dern my skin
eff it amt that circus actor see down to
Frisco" Ward went on his way to To-
cate" rejoicing. OF course the returns
of the new ledge were of speculative
richness, and of couse all the California
papers ring with the fame of the agile
gentleman who "does the Zampil. "
Such is the advantage in auriferous
countries of being an "0lympian aero.
bat" 1t is the happy fate of California
to outstrip all other regions, and GER
tainly Blondin, in all his glory, never, in
its practical results, got on to string


to such good purpose as this.
Year: 1872

We often take picture of young
man, then Of young lady, sometimes a
group of two; then the bride in her we'd
ding dress with its long train; then in
due time the baby, first in its long
clothes, then in its short ones, then in
his first pants, then as he goes away
from INA" to boarding school, when he
comes home in the school uniform, when
he cultivates his first mustache and whis-
kers, and again his girl, and again on
through the same routine. So you see
the romance.
Year: 1872

RAIN CLoUDs.-A few weeks ago rain
cloud burst and washed away the road-bed
OF the Honesdale branch of the Erie Rail-
way for distance of about one hundred
feet. Cloud-bursts are of infrequent oc-
currence In the Atlantic States, but they
are quite common in Nevada and else
where. In the extreme West. A cloud
burst Is not waterspout, though the two
are often eonfounded in the popular mind.
A waterspout results from a whirlwjnd,
which gathers quantity of water from
the face OF the ocean Or some other broad
surface, and whirls it upward and through
the air.
Year: 1872

The frank and emphatic letter of Gener-
al Dix, which we published on Saturday,
must have decided influence on the Pres
idential contest. 1t has in it the same
ring of patriotic determination that his
famous dispatch had to shoot down who
ever attempts to haul down the American
flag General Dix is known to the whole
country as one of its most enlightened, dis
interested, and experienced statesmen.
His long public service. both in peace and
war, and the spotless purity of his charac-
ter, must lend to any expression of his
opinions all unusual weight. But when
that expression is accompanied, as in this
case, by the evidence of so much earnest
ness and seriousness of conviction, it must
arrest the attention of every candid and
thinking mind,-Ncw York Post (L,sde-
peadeRt)
Year: 1872

To tie Editor of the Nea0 York Times.


Having been several years connected
with prominent religious journal in this
city, | am struck with the unanimity OF
the sentiments of nearly all the religious
press in regard to the impending political
crisis. know of but few, if any, Protest
ant religious papers among our exchanges
but that support the Administration heart
lily; and is there nothing in the fact that
the great majority of the christian people
of this country are heart and soul praying
that we may not be delivered into the
hands of the Philistines. The religious
press is great power in the land, and will
stand shoulder to shoulder with such able
advocates of right and justice as the New
York Times.


| read the Tribune till got disgusted
with it,


New York, Saturday, August 8, 1872.
Year: 1872

The glorious victory in the olu NoIGn
State is all the more glorious because
wrung from desperate foe'


The last party contest in the State was
in 1870, when the Democracy carried it by
995 majority on the State ticket, electing
five ont of seven Congressman, and leg
isIature with A Democratic majority. The
RonubJicans last Thursday carried the
state by over thousand, gain of over
five thousand, elect three Congressman, a
gain of one, and choose a legislature, prob
ably Republican, a large gain, certainly.
This is victory and glory enough for one
State
Year: 1872

CARRYING THE WAR INTO AFRICA
The cable conveyed a report from Suez yes
terday that the Egyptians were invading
Abyssinia with view to conquest, and
that it was thought that they would defeat
the Emperor, who was advancing to meet
them.


1t is long since Egypt distinguished her
self in arms, but from the broad intelli-
gence displayed by her rulers in late years,
in developing the country, there is at least
room from the suggestion in this unlocked
for move of the beginning of great change
in. the condition of Africa.