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Year: 1873

Reflect TINT q sound mind and body arc the
most ncccssMrv requisites 70 promote connubial
hnrniness. indeed, without these che journey
through life becomes - weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkcns to tho view, tho mind
bccoucs sh:lctowed with despair, and filled with
tho IN melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is bghted with our own
Year: 1873

DEATH FROM SMOKING.-Th following sad
warning is put on record by the New York
correspondent of the Buffalo Commercial
Adrertjser. The use of tobacco is bad enough
when begun in mature life, but it is infinitely
worse when the foundations of the habit are
laid in early years, as seems to have been the
case here:


A case in my own intimate acquaintance has
this very week appalled, large circle of friends
in this city. The victim was exactly of my own
years, and companion from early childhood.
For thirty years, at least, he has been a daily
smoker of the choicest cigars, but in all his
other habits temperate and regular, and of
excellent cOnStitutiOn-One who, of all men,
would have laughed at the suggestion that
tobacco was killing him


A week ago last Sunday night, he was
stricken with the progressive paralysis, charac-
teristic of nicotine, and on Sunday night he
died.


His death was most pitilul. First, sight was
lost, then speech, then motion of the neck,
then motion of the arms, and so on throughout
the body, and he lay for fortnight unable to
move or make sign, save pitifu, tongueless,
nartculate eOund, which sometimes rose to
almost frantic effort all in vain, to make known
what he wished to say to his family or friends
for his consciousness and mental faculties
were left unimpared till within two hours of
the last, to aggravate to the uttermost the
horror of his situation-a living soul in dead
body


The sense of hearing was left unimpaired so
that he was conscious OF all around him, while
incapable of communication with them as if
dead, save by slight sign of assent or dissent
to question. The doctors were fully agreed
that tobacco was the cause Of this stroke.
Year: 1873

An Iowa newspaper asks the following con-
undrums DO the spirits of the departed
ever appear upon earth? Are they permitted
to return, and hold visible communion with
former friends? Do they hover about us?'
Now for the reason Of these interrogatories
A young man died in Princeton township,
leaving a widow who subsequently engaged
herself to man in California, with whom she
had been acquainted formerly. But No. l
appeared to her, and lifting his finger said ::
Postpone your marriage!" He came again
few nights AFTER and repeated his POST
pone your marriage p She was very much
frightened, but her friends told her that it
was the nightmare. Still the dead husband
kept coming and kept saying the same thing.
Then he appeared to the mother of the lady,
and this time he varied the monotony of the
warning, for he said; "Have Sarah's mar
riage postponed" So the poor widow wrote
to her atfianced and had the nuptial put off


Now, what came next? What but San
Francisco newspaper containing marked &C.
count of the arrest for robbery OF the Califor-
MIA lover, and of his incarceration for want of
bail. Furthermore it spoke of his wife and
children as deserving of sympathy, and assist,
ance of the charitable. So ghostly Number
One did not appear for nothing; and the
widow is perhaps, in her gratitude more in
love with her husbands shade than she ever
was with the substance.-N T. Tribune
Year: 1873

TALKING ABOUT ONES HEALTH.-If there
is anything in the world to destroy one S
health, it is the perpetual consideration of it.
In much that relates to body, mind, heart and
soul, we must let things take their own way
The stomach resents being talked about, we
find, and refuses to digest for man who con-
tinually gossips about it. 1t was put into
the darkness, so that we might not see it. If
it had only been made as transparent as glass,
and we could have seen the special effect of
every article put into it, we should have be-
come so nervous" about its operations, that
shortly, the whole human race would have
died off, Doubtless, the Psychologist and the
student of dietetics will give us some knowl-
edge and wisdom; but they will sacrifice many
victims by their minute inquiries and cautions.
One of the best of them all that we ever knew,
had one fundamental principle to impress
upon his deciples, "eat your victuals and 90
about your business" A vaetudinarian, long
suffering, refusing this and that, and cutting
down year by year the list of wholesome arti-
cles for his food, at last bethought himself it
were as we'll to die of fulness as starvation
and went to his accustomed restaurant at din
ner time, and ordered full meal like any
other man, to the amaZement and incredulity
| of the attendant that always waited on him
and on inquiry of the results of his boldness
he replied he was as well after a full and va.
rious meal, as after all the littleness he had
! been accustomed to practise
Year: 1873

A gentleman says: "Going to Cape May the
other day saw young man leaning over the
railing Of the upper deck, and with considera-
bic violence giving to the winds and the sea the
contents of his stomach. just at this iuncture
one of the boat officials walked briskly by,
asked in a patronizing manner Sick, sirY'


g You don't suppose Tn doing this for fun,
do you ?" said the poor fellow Indignantly, as
soon as he could recover his breath.
Year: 1873

THE Seasonal marked difference of opin.
ion exists respecting the watering-place patron
age this year. Some persons think it will be
unusually large, because the summer will prob
ably be long and hot, and because most Of
those who can afford it are determined to go
away somewhere. Other persons believe that
the Vienna Exposition, the closeness Of
money, and the backward season will act un-
favorably upon the warm weather resorts.
Tne next six weeks will show which view is
the correct one.
Year: 1873

At school in Green County, Iowa, the
scholars caught skunk and put it in tho
schoolma' ans desk, thinking she would smell q
mice and give them holiday. She wasn't
one of that kind She took spring clothes
pin, fastened it on her nose, went on with the
exercises, and let the scholars enjoy the
perfume
Year: 1873

Never marry a man until you can have seen
him eat. Let the candidate for your hand,
ladies' pass through the ordeal of eating soft
boiled eggs. If he can do it and leave the
table-cloth. the napkin, and his shirt unspot-
ted, take him. Try him next with sparerib.
If he accomplishes this feat without putting
out one of his own eyes, or pitching the bones
into your lap, name the wedding day st once
he will do to tie to. 80
Year: 1873

Another Illinois verdict of $4,000 for breach
of promise suggests the question why it should
be so hard to alter a mere intention to commit
matrimony when it is so easy to dissolve
marriage already consummated; and further,
gives rise to the reflection that if breach-of-
promise laws were repealed there would be
fewer of aplications for divorce.
Year: 1873

The Rev. Mr.. Ancient has rival in pastoral
devotion in Tennessee-a clergyman who in
the first place refuses to receive any pay from
his congregation. To support himself he
teaches school and cultivates his own farm.
When his church needs help, he starts upon
lecturing tour, and thus raises the needed
money. This is highly honorable in the
clergyman, but how about the congregation ?
May there not be such a thing as sel6shly
leaving pastor to bear more than his share
Of the burden? t....... =.
Year: 1873

A common epitaph in Arkansas cemeteries
is. Eve will meet in heaven, husband dear.
According to a Western paper, this explains
why the men of Arkansas are generally con-
ducting themselves so as to go to the other
Mace
Year: 1873

An Ohio postmaster has received letter
wherein the writer proffers curious request,
as follows: III you can & will ascertain the
names Of Some rich old maid Or widow worth
from thousand to $4,000 or more let me
know by return mail and will pitch in and It
| make it tie the Knot, it is a hundred dol,
lars in your pocket Keep this profound
secret between US two if it gets out all IS
spoiled | am pour but want to marry rich.
Year: 1873

A Philadelphia woman refuses to let her
husband 60 on fishing excursion. because he
was very apt to be drowned when he went upon
the water, and, moreover, did not know how 10
swim any more than goose.
Year: 1873

A Mrs. King had surprise at Shawnee
town the other day. 1t vas an accident
that Mrs. King happened to be at Shawnee
town. She did not intend to go there, but
the steamboat Jennie Howell, on which
she was travelling, struck a snag and sunk
in the Ohio river. Several Of the passan-
gers were drowned, and among them some
children. Mrs. King had chilC on board
whom she mourned SIS lost, and was taken
to ShaWneetown without her babe. Ihe
Jennie Howell sunk deep in the water, and
the next morning men went to the vessel
to recover the bodies of the lost. Soon after
daylight mattress was discovered floating
ia the cabin, which was filed with water
nesrly to the ceiling. Upon examina-
ton child, little boy, was dis
covered on the mattress sleeping as
peacefully as if nothing unusual had hap
pened. His bed was not very dry, for it
had sunk good deal from soaking but still
sustained its living freight. In due time
the child was sent to Shawneet0Wn, where
the other passengers had been landed the
evening before. Its coming made an ex-
element among the wrecked travellers,
for more than one mother had lost
children by The disaster. 1t was a
touching scene when Mrs. King recog-
nized the child as her boy whom she had
mourned as lost or nearly twenty-four
hours. The preservation of Moses in the
bulrushes was not 50 miraculous as the
safety of Mrs. Kings boy. He had been
tossing about on the waste of waters In the
cabin all night, and was brought to his
mother a'i4e in the hour Of her deepest
woe.
Year: 1873




THE Attorney Generals office in Wash
ingtOn is in receipt of information to the
effect that many of the prominent citizens
of South Carolina who have become refu-
gees under the Ku-Klux act will not return,
Notwithstanding the recent letter of the
Attorney General, unless some specific
statement is made that they personally will
not be prosecuted. They represent that
unless the persons who are to be exempted
from prosecution are especially named, the
Interpretation of the new policy of clemen-
cy will be left entirely with the local prose-
cutting officers, who, it is stated by these
refugees, are certain to se Influenced by
local prejudices and would be quite likely
to select for prosecution those whom the
President may mean to exempt.
Year: 1873

The st. Louis Republican intends that
1t is too soon to decide whether the Repub-
lican party is most indebted for its present
moral character to its colored or to its white
element; but the paper is sure it is not the
same patty that was so terribly exercised
about Buchanan's disregard of constitu-
tional limitations and his contempt for local
self-government in Kansas; and that it cam
not be the same party that was so shocked
by the reckless and prohigate expenditures
OF his administration and the political bias
OF the supreme court under it. But the
Republican proceeds to settle the matter


thus: "The question of identity is settled


when we compare the gnsts which were
strained at then, with the camels are swal-
lowed now. Moreover, there has been a
striking change in the leadership. The


men who led 'the party of freedom from


chaos into light, from impotent obscurity to


glorious triumph, are exiled from its coun-
ellis or buried brokeu-hearted in forgotten


graves, while its stupendous patronage
is chiefly controlled by men who Joined


it only when convinced they could not crush
it. Greeley and Chase, and Sumner and


Trumbull, were supplanted by Butler,
Grant, Creswell, and other supporters of
the Buchanan administration, not to men,
tion score or so of gentleman distinguished
for their support of the administration of
president Dayis. The nest we are asked
to honor because it was built by the great
apostles of freedom is full of surreptitious
fedglings now. Those that cry out of it
most clamorous for crumbs are batched
from cuckoos' eggs. So the large infusion
of African voters is not the only change to
be considered in determining who is respon-
sible for the appalling decentralization of the
Republican party. We know that the pollt-
ical union of white and black Repub licans
in welding the power of our govern
ment has resulted in prodigious corruption
such as neither race was ever guilty of bS
fore; we know that this union has produced
an organization without any moral, re-
semblance to the party from which it sprung
aud whose name it bears; but when we
anaIyze its characteristic delinq uencies, we
find them the product of the white polit:-
clans vices Tended with those of the joyous
African in such harmonious exaggera-
ton that both races stand acquitted
of its enormities--the compound is
worse than either of its compo'
nepts ever could or would make it. The
inventive daring of Wall street or the
thrifty genius of New England would have
been alone unequal to the conception and
execution of the preternatural rapacity
which tri1mphs now over the labor of the
cou try. The cearest manifestatio of Af-
rican influence in the party, aside from its
tendencies to hero worship and imperial
ism, is the polygamous propensities Of its
present leaders. The old Republican or
gAniz alton declared war against those twin
relics of barbarism, polygamy, and slavery
The later, having mounted barbed steeds
Year: 1873

An Iowa clergyman was just unreasonable
enough to want his salary, and when the
church failed utterly to pay him any con-
>idelablc portion Of it, he sued aud recovered
Judgment. The matter was recently made
the subject Of investigation by Il council OF
inquiry, and that tribunal arrived ut four
solemn tindlngs-viz., THAT the church did
wrong in falling TO pay its pastor his salary;
that the pastor did wrong in suing the
church; that the church should apologize TO
the pastor; and that the pastor should apollo
oiZe to the church" jack Bunsby would
have found it hard to beat that.
Year: 1873

THE RIcnMoND FRAME STORE is the best
place In the city get Il cheap and good frame.
Frames kept constantly on hand anil made to
order at the shortest notice at the very lowest
price. Don't forget the place, next TO the DOLLAR
STORE, corner Ninth and Main streets.
Year: 1873

LOOK TO YOUR ISTEgRsT.-We would advise all


who are in want of good picture to go to CANT
BELLS old-established aud well-known gallery. coz


ner of Ninth and Main streets. Their work Is equal
to any made In the city, and much cheaper.
Year: 1873

AMYKos.-Ihis Is u preparation for the toilet and
Is in every way superior 10 ofthe kind that
has ever been offered to the public before. The only
place to get it is at the DOLLAR STORE, corner Of
Ninth and Main streets.
Year: 1873

THAT HANDSOME CHECKED MUSLIN WHICH LEVY
BROTHERS are now selling at soc. per yard Is
really worth sec. Tbey have just received niue
hundred aud sixty ysrts more q their stock, making
the assortment ln.tter than ever.
Year: 1873

fore must have been somewhere secreted on
The premises awaiting the departure Of all or
the most of the family, and the whole affair
shows conclusively that the murderer was
familiar with the house. etc. He entered n
side door, which opened back against the
wall In such way as TO leave q triangular
corner behind II.


Near the door was a fireplace, on the side
oi which, just at the door, sat Mrs. Jones,
Whie on the other side, away from the door,
saS mrs. Doz'cr. One step inside the door
paced the murderer by Mrs. Jones's side.
behind the door was


PIECE or wHlTE-oAK WOOD,
ABOUT one or two feet long, and abouf as
large as n mars arm, having the bark on one
side OF it. 1t was placed there in the morn.
ing by small boy, who had brought il in
with other fire-wood. With this Mrs. Jones
was struck not more than one or two licks
on the side of ber head. which completely
parted her skull all around. With one hand
ut the side Of her face and the other at her
side she was found lying beside the chair in
which she was sitting when struck, her posi-
ton indicating that she must have been


KILLED INSTANTLY.


Her pocket was torn from her dress, and
her KEYS taken out and used to open the
various drawers about the house. So she
was found with the cotted blood from her
head on the floor where she lay. In it pieces
Of the bark of the wood were found, several
pieces in her bair, and the piece OF wood
was covered with blood and placed again
behind the door.


Mis-. Dozicr received many licks upon the
top of her head with the same OF n like in
strument, which crushed her skull into so
many pieces that the whole could be raised
up and moved about by raising the scalp by
the hair. Her arm was broken, her shoul-
dcrs severely bruised, and her lingering
broken and mashed into the finger upon
which she wore it. Her keys were not
taken from her pocket. HerSpcclacles were
left in the window beside which she sat, and
the newspaper she was reading was on the
floor near her. The murdered being bare
footed, and having gotten some Of the blood
on bis feet,
Year: 1873

MURDER AND SUICIDE IN PHILADELPHIA.


PHILADELPHIA, July 3l.-A terrible murder
and suicide took place this evening in this city The
victims are Edward schusterreter aged % years, and
his wife Mary aged 25 years. whom he had been mar
ried two months.


They did not live well together, and have constantly
quarreed their marriage. He thrown out OF
work two weeks ago. and they lived with the wife's
father, at No. COO South Secondst After supper this
evening they retired to ther apartments on tue third
floor.


About o'clock the wifcs father went up stairs and
found the body of his son.in-aw lying the floor On
further investigation his daughter found IN another
apartment also dead with her throat cut from ear to
There had evidently been terrible struggle be-
tween them, rs marks OF blood were found In both
rooms.


schusterreiter had killed his wife with razor and
mad put end to his lie by taking corrosive sub
Innate. No of quarreDg or disturbance had been
heard by the other members OF the family. Alarm was
instantly g1ven ana crowd soon gathered around the
house. OF which the police took charge Jealousy Is sup
posed TO have been the OF the terrible tragedy
Year: 1873

LAWRENCE, July 31.-At the session Of the
Kansas State Grange to-day, resolutions were passed
deprecating the prominence given TO horse racing at
State fairs and calling upon the farmers to oer
ally support fairs, that there might be no occasion
for depending on racing as a means OF making
money Resolutions adopted on the transportation
question tho most important of which was demand
ing that either farming property be taxed as railroad
property is upon tho basis OF its income, railroad
property we'll farming property TO be taxed on the
basis Of value independent OF income resolution was
also passed expressing sympathy with the settlers on
tho Usage ceded lands.
Year: 1873

Nj and half Two


The hurdle race was a complete burlesque, for the
brute sorre Dan who has often been the cause OF
serious accidents in races where he was allowed TO
start that he ought 10 be ruled of every racecourse,
fell at the second hurdle directly front Of Bind Tom
and Village Blacksmith, causing both 10 refuse. Blind
Tom was at last induced 10 jump IL, some
lengths be,ind Mary Clark, whom he soon passed,
as she was with difficulty got TO leap the
hurdles 1t being the first time she had ever been tried
to jump them and leaving her he won the race by just
half mile; the gray marc iust taking the hurdle at
the halfmile post as went under the string; Mary
Clark taking second, and serrcl Dan third money.


THE RACING.


The first race OF the day mile dash for purse OF
$500 for which the entries Crockford Quits Sun
Rise, Minnie W., Valley Brook, and Sue Ryder In the
pools sold at the cubroom the night previous and on
the morning OF the race Crockord had been favorte,
selling 800 $50 against the field. After being gal
oped the early morning he was found to be lame,
and Mr. Grinstead his owner, promptly withdrew him.
In consequence Minnie W. became the favOrite. The
Year: 1873

The Attorney, General has sent an opinion
upon the subject of the frauds in the Freedman's
Bureau to the War Department. The questions
submitted were with reference to money taken
from the Treasury officers Of the Bureau by
means of forged receipts and vouchers for
bountes due colored soldiers, and by means Of
receipts and vouchers fraudduently procured
from them. The opinion required was upon two
points: lst La case where the guilty parties
cannot be prosecuted, what should be the course
10 order to procure the protection Of the inter-
est of the Government and of claimants? Sec
ond. When prosecution is not barred by the
statute limitations, what action should be had,
and to what extent is the late Commissioner OF
the Bureau of Refugees freedmen and Aban-
doned Lands, and his chief disbursiDg officer,
responsible?


The opinion is that any military officer de-
tailed for duty in the Freedman's Bureau who
misappropriates money or violates the rules
and regulations governing disbursing officers of
the army may be tried by court.martial, and
that claims against other persons who have OBJ
tanned money by fraud can be prosecuted GRIM
inally if two years have not elapsed, and can
also be sued in the civil courts of the United
States. There is no statute limiting the time
within which the Government can begin a
civil suit, but suits for penalties and double
damages under the act Of March 2, 1868, must
be begun within six years.


The Attorney General says the chief disburs-
ing officer is Of course liable both civily and
criminally for his own misconduct. sHow far
that officer is liable for the acts of his subordi-
mates the Attorney General says it is impossi-
bic to answer without copy Of his bond and
without more information regarding his ap-
pointment and employment than he has been
able to obtain.


MEsHEs OF THE LAW.-Hardly has New
York secured a Governor who refuses to COM
mute sentences and to let loose convicted mur-
derers upon society than a new way of escape
opens itself 1t is now said that the notorious
Rosenzweig will elude further punishment for
his crime through the fact that the law which
he broke was legislated out of existence by the
passage of the new law making malpractice, at
tended with fatal results, punishable with death.
On the other hand, Stokes, Simmons and King
are said to have chance of escaping the death
penalty through the new law requiring proof
of deliberate intent to kill for conviction of
murder In the first degree.
Year: 1873

How TO MAKE FENCE PosTs LAST For
EvER.-A correspondent of the Western Rural
says, and it is worth preserving:


I discovered many years ago that wood could
be made to last longer than iron, in the ground
but thought the process SO simple and inexpen-
sive that it was not worth making any stir a.
bout would as soon have popular, Eastwood,
or quaking ash, as any other kind of timber for
fence posts. | have taken out Eastwood posts
after having been set seven years, that were as
sound when taken up as when they were first
put in the ground. Time and weather seemed
to have no effect on them. The posts can be
prepared for less than two cents apiece. For
the benefit of others I will give the recipe.
Take boiled linseed oil aud stir in it pulverize
charcoal to the consistency of paint. Put a coat
of this over the timber. and there is not man
that will live to see it rot.
Year: 1873

The n Y Democratic State Convention will
be held probably at Syracuse in the early part
of September. The Liberal Republican Con-
vention will be held on the same day. 1t is
understood that the latter will indorse the
Democratic nominee.
Year: 1873

Among the great discoveries of modern science, few are of more real value to mankind than this ef- fectual remedy for all diseases of the Throat and Lungs. A vast trial of its virtues, throughout this and other countries, has shown that it does