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Year: 1872

We do not vouch for the truth of the fol-
lowing, which we clip from an exchange /.
There is a. banker in Philadelphia, by the side
of whose handwriting even the pennanship
of Horace Greeley seems symmetrical and
beautiful. Well, this banker was prosecuted
by life-insurance agent who wanted him to
take out policy. The victim stood it for n
while, but finally one day he kicked the agent
out of the office, Then the tormentor began
to send notes to the unhappy wretch, explain
ing the endowment system, and asking If any
of his aunts ever suffered from torpidity of
the liver. AT last the banker wrote to the
heartless fiend as follows: "You diabolical
scoundrel, if you send another line to me
will come around to your office and blow out
what little brains you haye!" When the life
insurance man received this he turned it up
and down, and held it sideways and stood
before mirror with it, and examined it with
a microscope, and called in six or seven ex-
perts; but, after all, he couldn't determine
with any degree of certainty what it meant.
To ascertain, he presented it at the paying
teller's desk in the bank, and that worthy,
without moment hesitation, paid $5, 900 on
it, believing it to be check for. that amount
There is one agent less in that city than there
was week or two ago, and one more banker
who betrays symptoms of insanity when the
subject of ife-insurance is mentioned in his
presence.
Year: 1872




A LIBERAL NEWSPAPER OFFICE BLOWN UP BY


CARPET-BAGGERs-THE PENALTY FOR Ex-


POSING ADMINISTRATION THIEVES.


jBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNB.l


RALEIGH, Oct. 11.-Last night, at l2l o'clock, the
Office of The Sentinel the leading Liberal paper In
this State was blown up by keg of powder placed
in its press-room. The press was blown to pieces,
the building thrown down. and the roof OF another
house torn off. The type was broken, the cases up
set and much other damage DONE The outrage was
beyond question, the work of the Grant party. In
tho job-offce q paper containing three OF iour
pounds of powder with burning fuse was found.
There was also powder among the ruins. The edl-
tor the Hon. Josiah Turner jr has done more in tho
last three years to expose the viainies of carpet
baggers and Administration thieves than all tho
other papers in the State put together. He has been
unrelenting and is hated by the Ring most heartily.
They tried to take his life by shooting at him
in his Office. Eight of them attacked him
in the day time, and his life saved only by his
cool bravar, 10 hong itl, Cwo pistols which
he drew. They have twice shot ut his wife. His
press was broken only two or three months ago by
carpet-bagger at night and cost 800 for repairs
They have gone into his Office at night and over
turned everything and now they have blown up his
Office His pross-one Of Hoes steam power-cost
$500. The whole thing is n political outrage
Only the day before he had referred to the corrup-
ton of Judge, who is charged with having in his
possession $1,000 in North Carolina bonds, and also
to another officer who had received bonds. The best
men of the city are very indignant; denunciations
loud and deep are heard on every side. The Admin
istration people are lying tremendously and declar-
ing that Turner did it, just as they avow that he
shot at himself aud his wife; but everybody under
stands it, They wish to break the force of the blow
The Sentinel appeared this evening in half sheet,
bold and defiant.
Year: 1872

A LIST OF UNFINISHED RAsCALs AND THEIR


CRIMES


The following is the article alluded to in our
speciaI dispatch which Published in The Sentinel
on Thursday last:


There has been work for the Grand Jury Of Wake
under the beneoent acts OF reconstruction than for that
OF any county In the State For the smaller oenses the
Grand Jurors have not been slow 10 make pr0sentmcnts
woman for stealing towel and pitcher Id IN the pen-
tentiary serving an une Ipired term OF two years.
The plans aud schemes for pluDderjDg the state OF
Year: 1872




HENS IN PLACE OF DoGs.-Therc
is hardly a family that does not throw
away enough table scraTsto to feed at
least half dozen hens; and many that
keep nuisance in the shape Of a dog.
that does no good, but costs more than
u dozen good hens, complain that they
cannot afford to keep hens One dog
in ncighborhood is generally greater
trouble to the neighbors than a flock
of hens would be; for if hens are well
fed at home they will rarely 60 way
But who ever saw dog that was not
a pest, running across the newly made
garden and sticking his nose into every
thing? Kill off the ours and give the
food to the hens, and you will find
pleasure as well as profit in so doing.
Those that are of value as watch-dogs
could be retained, while the host Of
snarling. dirty ours would give place
to some more useful pet.--Pcultry
Standard.
Year: 1872

tHe INusNlllc tTcss


A young man from an Eastern city,
who has been visiting rural rfriends in
this vicinity after seeing farmer
thresh out u Flooring" of oats the
other morning, asked and received
permission to swing the fail few
minutes, upon assuring the agricultu-
ralist that. he was perfectly familiar
with the art of threshing.' Expector-
ating upon his hands, the young man
went at the oats, but at the first pass
knocked the horn off a new mich COW
that was leisarely chewing her cud in a
neighboring stall. The second swing
caved in the head of the farmer, who
thought he was safe enough as long as
he roasted on top of the tanning mill
in the end of the barn, but without
discovering the havoc he was making,
the city artist kept at his labors: the
third blow fell upon the oats the fourth
killed setting hen i'll manager
near by, and the fifth pass of the dead,
ly weapon was the best Of all, for it
came around the young man boomer.
ang fashion, and taking him under the
lower jaw, knocked him down, and thus
put stop to the work of slaughter
The mere fact that the city ''thrcsher
returned to consciousness an hour be-
fore the farmer did, allowed the for
mer to get several miles out of towr
before his efforts at threshing oats were
discovered by his neighbors.
Year: 1872

The Titusville Press says: can in
toxicated printer in East St. Louis
wandered into a shoe shop in a fit of
mental alteration and set up several
stioksful of shoe pegs, and took proof
Of his matter in the boot press before
he realised his awful condition"
Year: 1872

D1 STELLA VI LACKAWANNA.
If l should 60 back some day


If the breath of summer morn
Should watt me, as if in play,


To the spot where l was born;
And leave me helpless child,


Meath the roof that sheltered me
When the storms without were wild,
Or the skies were fair to see:
Would the creed of my childish doubt
BE merged in glad romance,
BY the grand life stretching out,


In a broad, untracked expanse
Would the air with castles glow
Or the clouds weep golden rain
Would the years dare cheat me so
If were a child again
If Fate should restore to me


The joy Of vanished time,
When l rocked on stormless sea
Or roamed in peerless cline
Would the glamour of youth again
Be sullicd BY sense'ess tears !
Or the sting of causeless pain


Embitter the rainbow years d?
Would love with the reckless faith
That the soul Of woman dare
And follow again the path


Each step but u cruel snare!
Would the pangs of death be sweet,
If dying each day for one
That wandered with untrue feet


To the shrine Of an alien sun
Would l pale with woman's grief
Or flush with woman's scorn-
Should the veil of my fond belief
BY traitors tooth be torn?
Would break my foolish heart


For the false VOWS man might speak
Oh, tears from my eyes that start
Oh, woman within 50 weak
If the wings Of summer morn


Should carry me back, ONE diy,
'Mong the hills where was born
would walk the same blind way;
With a treasure each morhing lost
And hope at each sunset fed
And the tn ings loved the most
Around me, lying dead.
Year: 1872

One of the saddest instances of
woman's foitblessness with which we
have ever met was that Of the wife Of
man in Syracuse. 1t seems that the
couple had arranged that for six months
the husband was to get up and
make the kitchen fire, and that the wife
was to perform the task for the sue
ceeding six months. The mans half
year expired on the 2l, and on the
morning of the Sd the woman suddenly
died. He is nearly brokenheartcd
over his a!fliction. He says if he could
only have forescen this bereavement
he would have shuffled her out Of bed
at daylight every morning since May.
Year: 1872

Be thorough in you work for God.
Do it as the Lord would have you. If
you are in the service Of others be as
faithful to their interests as you would to
your own. Remember God sees you. If
you are the head of family RUE it for
God. Have religion respected in your
house. Keep the devil out. as far as it is
in your power to dn so. Keep no one in
Your employ whose "evii communications
corrupt good manners Be sure that
your rule Of household government is
scrptural, then s,aadf4stly insist upon
obelitnce thereto.
Year: 1872

Hush, love! lie is beyond US now.
Those strains Of music have carried him
to heaven, from whence they came"


The poor old man vas dead. With
the contamination of his hearts wish his
quiet. ugpretending unoffending lie had
passed out into q new existsnce


There were loud growls in the music
loving world, but nothing ever came of
them; for Richard C!avering removed
their singing bird SO defly lha, few
knew the cause of Ler fight and now
she sing only to him, aud to her brood
of young Claverings.
Year: 1872

A MAN sold farm few days since as
perfectly level , The buyer went to
look at it. and found mountain on it
= But" said the man, "ihe land will be
perfectly level-afler you take the hill
away sell you the level land under
meath aud throw in the mountain
Year: 1872

AS often as we ask for daily bread end
for pardon of our trespasses, we are
taught to pray, Lead US not into temp
,ation," petition which is equivalent 10
an en,rcaiy that the providence of God
may so order events as to preserve us
from those sadden end surprising onsets
of the evil enc, under which many strong
men have fallen in the day Of trial.
Year: 1872

Down below all the crust of human
conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank
an artesian well into source of happi-
ness so pure and blessed that even yet
the world does nos believe in it.
Year: 1872

RELIGION ought to sweeten and soften
the whole man A>Christian ought to be
a polite man not necessarily. with the
airs and grace of mere fashionable socie-
ty. but certainly with genuine heart
poiiteness.
Year: 1872

SHELLY x STAMBAUGH always keep up
~ their stock of GROCERIES and viii not
be eAcelled either in the quality or price OF
their goods in this line. Give them n cali
tefore going elsewhere.
Year: 1872

The Indianapolis Sentinel presents this view
Of the subject a. expounded by Mrs. Woodruff
herself


Victoria Woodruff lectured at the Academy
of Music in Chicago, on Saturday night. She
came and spoke on Social Freedom" or, az
she elegantly expressed it, "came with heal
ing on her wings for the bruised hearts and
crushed affections of humanity" She declared
that she was a free lover; that she had an in
alienable, constitutional and natural right to
love; that she might love whom she pleased,
for as long or short time az she pleased; that
she bad, beyond a doubt. perfect right to
change her husband as often as her dress if
she wanted to, that she would love 10 spite Of
Jaw or order, and that if ever she ceased to
love-it would be some years hence. She also
declared that "promiscuity in sexuaEty is slnl-
ply the anarchial stage of development" and
We don't doubt it in the least She added:
g As promiscuity ia the analogue to anarchy,
so is spirituality to the scientific selection and
adjustment" which nobody can deny. In con-
cluson she said the love that l cannot CON-
mand is not mine; let me not disturb myself
about it, nor attempt to ilch it from its orig
inal owner. A heart that supposed mine has
drfled and gone. Shall l 90 in pursuit. Shall
forcibly capture the truant and trans6x it
with the barb of my selfish affection, and pin
it to the wall Of my chamber Rather let me
leave my doors and windows open, intent only
in living SO nobly that the best cannot fail to
be drawn to me by an irresistible attraction"
These are noble aud free hearted sentiments
Leaving the doors and windows open is o bold
idea-especiaIly for Winter but even 10 the
best Of weather it has its inconveniencee. We
should recommend simply leaving the latch
string out.
Year: 1872

AN EXrEkIMENT.-Four boys at Yonkers,
New York, recently, found a couple Of cans OF
n'.ro-glyce1ee in cut on the line of new
railroad as an experiment dropped a rock
on one dtthem to see what effect, If any, it
would have. Their curiosity was satisfied, as
two OF them were left. frightfully wounded, to
account for the sudden disappearance of their
companions.
Year: 1872

SESsinrE.-Senator Trunbull takes time
by the forelock by declining to serve as Chair.
man of the Senate Judiciary Committee. This
will relieve Grant and his partisans Of the lit
deposition.
Year: 1872

The San Francisco Bulletin says: 5. ID. Bald
win of Marysville has secured patent from Washington
as the dscoverer Of process of making paper from the
California tue, known in botany Scrpus aeuStries
He has been experimenting with the tue as material


for paper number OF years. and has succeeded in pro-
ducing fine pulp, capable OF being made into the best
quality Of writing and printing paper. Using tho tnes
cut June he obtained from 80 to GO per OF pulp


fine and strong Sea Island cotton. His discovery has
been carefully tested by experts in the paper business
this country and Europe, who satisfied that il fur
nishes most economical paper stock which Is destined
to come largely into The process of reducing the
reed to pulp very simple and cheap and 1t believed


larger percentage can be obtained by taking the tues
later in the season. when fully matured Mr.. Badwns
discovery Is one OF great interest to the paper trade aud
as the ue abundant here IL promises TO be Of great
value TO California. We believe 1t IL Intended embark
in the manufacture soon as the necessary
rangemcnts be made. The practical utility OF the
discovery evidenced by the fact that in Europe another
variety OF lake reed is already being largely used
the manufacture Of paper that the prices OF certain sorts
reduced, ana paper, into which this
teral enters being imported into this State from
Europe cheaper than it be brought from the East
With such abundance OF the material at hand 80
much cheaper than rags other stock used In this
country it ought 10 be feasible to give eat impetus
f-making IN this state.
Year: 1872

GEN. LOGAN made au effective speech
at Galsburg on Thursday evening. He
passed the old Democratic party in rapid
review, and showed how, after every
hope had been dashed to pieces and
every other resource had failsd, it had
fastened on Horace Greeley, hoping that
he would bring salvation. He showed
clearly that the election of Greeley would
be Democratic victory, and predicted
that the people were no more eager to
bring the Bourbons back to power than
they were il "a or '6S. There was loud
and prolonged applause when he declared
that


The Republican party, now denounced.
took hold of the affairs of this country by
the consent of the people, when there
was no security or peace IN this land IN a
time of tumult aud confusion IN time OF
angry passions aroused and in the midst
of angry aud threatening clouds OF deSol-
ating war. and its management OF the
old ship of state has been brought through
the turbulent and stormy seas OF commo-
tion and strife and been quietly moored
aud peace and happiness and prosperity
have been brought to the home Of every
man within the confines Of the nation. "


He argued with great reason and good
sense, that IF the people of the republic
continue to be brave, they will manifest
no desire to summon turbulence again,
and fling away the peace and prosperity
that have been achieved
Year: 1872

The PUBLIC DEBT. The official
statement of the national debt on July
shows that there has been reduction
during the month Of June in the total
debt, after deducting cash in the Treasu-
ry, of 2,O5l, ,035. Had it not been for
the change made in the tariff the receipt
of coin would have been larger, and,
consequently larger reduction shown
in The debt, but the detailed changes
are of more Importance. For instance
the 20 bonds outstanding have been
reduced about ten millions and the three
per cent. certificates one and half mil
lions, making material reduction to the
annual interest charge
Year: 1872

The sheep and-goats party may get ali
the comfort they can out of the follow
ing, from the New York Stats Zeitung /:


Some Bohemians of the German press
are at present doing mischief with lists
purportlng to give the position Of the
German American press, by which they
can only design to speculate upon the
credulity of the Angola press
and its ignorance of the German press.
Every German newspaper man knows
that these lists throw no light at all upon
the position Of the German press. We
have at least $50 German exchanges, and
among them all there are not six that
really work for Greeley, and not dozen
that desire to see Greeley iDdorsed by
the Democratic National Convention but
on the other hand, along Of few dozen
that are apathetic, there are perhaps a
hundred who give evidence of the most
decided apathy to Greeley. And we
would be willing to guarantee that some
weeks before Greeley will leave the Pres
idential arena not German Greeley pa
per will exist.
Year: 1872

The electoral vote for President in 10
will be considerably greater than it was
in 1868, under the previous apportion
ment. Many states have increased their
respective votes, and several States
which did not vote at all in 1868 will now
take part in the election. The following
table will show the electoral vote in 1868
with the popular majority in each State
for Grant or Seymour. and also the
number of votes to which each State will
be entitled in 1872.
Year: 1872

WALK1Na.-How few men or
women Of our country seem to
find pleasure in walking. Look at
our cars and omnibuses daily filled
with those who prefer riding in
stead. Among those able to chouse
their mode of conveyance pedes-
trians are the exception rather than
the rule. Gentlemen who have
the good sense to walk often, ex-
press regret that ladies, on every
occasion, resort to the carriage,
instead Of employing their muscles
in this healthful, grateful excer-
else. 1t is refreshing to meet, now
and then, with those who have, by
experience, proved it's benefits and
its pleasures. Said Doctor Of Di-
vinity the other day-one often
seen upon our streets in manly vig-
or-"l have ever been a walker.
During my student life more than
once I walked from Newton to
Providence" A slender, refined
lady, after serving the cause Of our
country and humanity as nurse of
our soldiers, was sent to Europe to
find health, and there learned to
walk. In Scotland and Germany
twenty and even thirty miles OF
that animating, life-giving exaelse
was no uncommon exploit SAD
she: "Now I think nothng OF ten
miles" May the exrnple OF this
noble little woman. moving about
upon her mission Of healing, she


will vet ME herself known
among o : ~ US T e considered worth Of
limitation
Year: 1872

ty be given fer the coinage Of a silver


dollar that shall be as valuable as the
Mexican dollar for use in the China


trade, as means of facilitating trade


with our Celestial friends. ~ aa


The Secretary presents strong ar
gumonts against the abandonment OF
our national banking system, which


has, been sometimes proposed. He


considers the bank. paper and our
greenback currency the necessary
compliments Of each other. If the


banks alone furnished the circulating
medium, they would be able TO in
crease or diminish its volume at
pleasure, and thus hold the most i'm.
portant business interests of the
country at their mercy. But, argues
the Secretary, there should be provi-
sion for certain degree of elasticity
in the currency, on account Of the
regular recurrence of large tempo
rary demand for money 70 move the
crops to market every autumn. The
power to meet this demand, he in
sists, should be lodged in the financial
department. Of the Government. As
to return to specie payments, that
can be reached by relative or actual
contraction of the currency As tho
country is not now prepared for the
actual withdrawal of any part of this
medium, the only course is
to await growth and development
Of the country and its trade which, if
there is no proportionate increase of
paper, will gradually equalize the two
kinds of currency. This point, the
Secretary thinks, will be reached at
no distant day, through the increase
IF our population, and the more gen
.ral Use Of paper money in the Pacific
States, Texas, and the South general


",
Year: 1872

Civility costs nothing, and is Of
ten productive of good results.
Here is an instance


A local doctor of medicine at
Bath, England, has just had leg
acy of twenty thousand dollars, and
a comfortable house, left him by a
lady who was only known to him
by his once Offering her a seat in
his carriage.


A gentleman known to the wri
ter once assisted a very old and
feeble man to cross from the Lon
don Mansion House to the Bank
of England. This crossing is a
very dangerous one, especially at
midday, when the city ful! of cabs,
omnibuses, drays, and other pom
derous vehicles. When the old
gentleman had got safely across,
he exchanged cards with his obi
ging young friend; and there the
matter rested. Some four or five
years after this incident occurent, a
firm OF London solicitors wrote to
the young gentleman who had ta-
ken pity on the old man, inform
ing him that a legacy of five thous-
and dollars and a gold watch and
chain had been left to him by a
gentleman who "took the oppor-
tunity Of again thanking him in his
will for an act Of unlooked-for eli
vility.' 1t is not likely that all
will have gold watches and chains
left to them, or neat little bundles
of crisped notes; but it is certain
that acts of civiiity are productive
of sufficient results to our inuer
selves to make it worth our while
to practice them whenever we find
the opportunity.
Year: 1872

HAPPINESS AN Essential TO BEAUTY.-
Do not think you can make a girl lovely if
you do not make her happy. There is not
one restraint you put Oh good girls nature
there is not one shock you give TO her
instincts or affection or effort-which will not
be indellibly written on her features with a
hardness which is all the more painful be-
cause it takes away the brightness from the
eyes of innocence, and the charm from the
brow of virtue. The perfect loveliness of a
woman's countenance can only consist in that
majestic peace which is founded in the mem.
ory of happy and useful years--full of
sweet records; and from the joining of this
with that yet more majestic childishness,
which is still full OF change and promises
opening always modest at once, and bright
with hope of better things to be won and to
be bestowed. There is no old age where is
still that promise-it is eternal youth
Ruskin