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Year: 1872


Thou hast joined thy sister that just before.
Passed Ger the river to the other shore.
Her pirions glonmed bright from that home ;


fair,


And she sang sweet songs IL welcome thee there
No went where never fading flowers bloom.
And oh our hearts we're FLIED with grief an


gloom.


And We wopt when thy sweet spirit had flown.
SO bitterly thy loss did we bemoau-
We miss the poems from thy deft irgcrs,
And the memory of each song still lingcr,
perchance now thou art singing some sweet


song,


Glory crowned, amid the bright angel Thong
OH wait downward the melody 30 sweet,
Tint it may cheer us, till in heaven we Inect
For nortals on earth arc often weary.
While all the world seems so dark and lrcHry.
Aud oft our labors, and every care,
And our sorrows, seem more than we can hear
Then watt tho melody down TO gladden.
Our hearts, which things nf this world 81 sad


den.


Oh, We miss thee, much more than We can tell
And the songs and poems we loved so we'll
But thou ART gone where pains anI sorrow


cease,


Attended by Purity, Love. and Peace
And 50 we will not wish to recall thee
From whence thy spirit is so glad and free.
Year: 1872

COPENHAGEN, Tuesday, Nay 7, ls7I


The action of the police authorities IN for
bidding the members OF International Society from
holding meeting this city Sunday. and the subse
auent arrest Of the President and Treasurer Of the
branch here, gave great excitement among the
members Of the organization large number OF per
sons gathered in the streets and created consid
erabe alarm by their Violent denuneiations
of the Government They were finally dispersed By the
police and at present all quiet 1t has been deemed pru
dent however TO place military guard around AL the
public buildings and the palaces until the excitement
has entirely subsided. The leading members OF the
Society IN this city will be prosecuted for high treason
The police adopting energetic measures to Jnppress
any tumult which may arise.
Year: 1872

THERE is A FUTURE.-It cannot be that
earth is mans only abiding place. 1t cannot
be that life is bubble cast upon the ocean of
eternity, to float q moment upon its surface,
and then sink into darkness and nothingness
forever. Else, why is it that the high and
glorious aspirations which leap like angels from
the temple of our hearts are forever wander
ing abroad unsatisfed2 Why is it that the
rainbow and the cloud come over US with a
beauty that is not of earth, and then pass off
and leave us to muse on its faded loveliness
Why is it that the stars which hold festival
around the throne are set above the grasp of
our limited faculties, and forever mock us with
their unapproachable glory9 And why is it
that forms of human beauty are presented to
the view and then taken away from us, leaving
the thousand streams to flow back in an Al
pine current upon our hearts.
Year: 1872

How TO EXTRACT CoFFEE-If coffee, af.
ter roasting, were made as fine as flour by
pounding in mortar, it could be extracted so
much better as to require no more than two-
fifths as much as if it were only coarsely
ground An equally strong extract can be
made by allowing water to stand on the grounds,
as by giving it boil or by iltering through it.
The latter method is the true one for retain
ing all of the aroma. When coffee beans are
roasted, an empyreumatic oil is produced,
which, being very volatile, is expelled il the
coffee extract be boiled. 1t is better to make
the grounds as fine as -four, and to extract by
liberation and never to boil
Year: 1872

ABOUT STOPPING PAPERS."-The Ncc
Northeast gives the following sensible advice
to those who for every fancied grievance order
their paper stopped:


"A conscientious editor while liable to mis-
takes, will get back in the right place quicker
under good counsel and showing of his error
than if be is treated with indignity and ordered
to stop the paper We never knew paper
compelled to suspend from such causes 1t pro-
vokes but does not convince. We have never
had but two papers stopped on account of any
particular article in the Ner Northeast and
they were each for different ones In neither
instance did we have the slightest conviction
from such peremptory request that we had
erred. 1t rather strikes an editor that his
arguments are unanswerable, or his Judgment
not considered worth appealing to- in both of
which cases he is liable to act as any other per-
son and sail for his subject with embittered
purpose. A local paper is
a material benefit to community. and its peo-
pie are blind to their own interests if they do
not encourage it when right, influence it to
the right when wrong, and sustain it financially
to the best of their ability, while it is right, or
evidences desire to be. In these matters
we speak without reference to the political
views of local papers, as ordinarily, except
where two are published in one town, or dur
ing campaign, politics are subordinated to
local interests, and the man that cannot read
the views of an opponent without injury to his
principles has not got them fixed enough to be
OF much interest
Year: 1872

THE following is the manner in which the
editor of the ,Honesdale Herald gives q man in
town free puff: "a grocer wants us to puff
a lot of butter he recently purchased, and
sends us q pound as specimen. The butter
don't need puff from us. 1t is old enough to
speak for itself 1t outranks anything we ever
saw. Forty cents pound"
Year: 1872

The Japanese make a paper which bears
any amount Of soaking without injury. just
the material on which to print shares of cor
porations that take frequent occasion to water
their stock. Egsl
Year: 1872

A YOUNG lady requested to be released from
her marriage engagement on the ground that
when contracted she believed her lover 70 be
a !" duck" but had since found him TO he
goose. aa ,Aa9 sH
Year: 1872

I'VE take no note Of time but from


its loss. y The years come and 60, and


we mark their commencement and theil
termination, the one following hard
upon the other. Whether we have been
immersed in cares and duties. or whethe,


we have experienced vivid pleasures, OF


whether the time has passed w quietly
that we have taken but little notice OF ita
fight, we have yet gone once more
through the round OF months, and again
the New Year comes up TO claim its place
ia the coming history Of the days that
are to be.


In the short interval that comes be-
tween Christmas and the New Year wd
have an opportunity of reviewing th(
past and anticipating the future. Wd
pause, and look back wards and forwards|
We look before and after, and pine fol
what is not.


Perhaps this is 10, or perhaps We rel
joice in the attainment OF some Objeel
We have desired. There are few peoI
ple-we wish there were many-whO caI
say that they have reached the SUNNI
Of their ambition. II was our chance d
meet with one of these fortunate peopl(
the ether day, an' she said " I IN
very happy; I have everything / wisl
for" II does one good to hear now and
then of person whose utmost wish ha}
been gratifed. We trust that among
our readers there are some to whom th4
Old Year has been thus bOuntiful. There
are no doubt others who will have TO say
Of the passing time,


He gave me fiiend, and true, true-love,


And the New Year will take them away
Let us hope that in such c,.ses as thes
the New Year will not only take away
but will give also will give abundantly
so that it shall be remembered more 70
its gifts than for what it has taken.


Let us all turn to it with apticipation
of better things in the time that is Z
come. We hope that the new leaf whic
is to be turned over will make wonder
f,a difference in the style of the chapte
that is about to be written. OF courl
we are sure that in many instances
will not, but the present is season
looking forward with hope and conf
dence. and we would not spoil pleasan
by any gloomy forebodingz
For our readers, and for all those VIII
are dear to them, we wish Happy Ney
Year in the fullest and best sense Of tai
phrase,
Year: 1872

A LAD, witness said in st. Louis
court, "Give me the least grain of truth
for basis, and can ruin the character
of any woman in the world" Let goe-
sips ponder this remark and they will be
brought to q realization of its truth.
Year: 1872

DECIDED: - Covlngton, Ga, has q
Debating Society. The question last
d scnssed by this august assembly was.
Which is the more useful, paper or
gunpowder." The President was for a
long time in great doubt as TO hich
side had produced the strongest areu.
ment, when one of the powder side arose
and very gravely said: "Mr. President
Spose dar was bar out dar wat de door
and you was to go dar and shake de-
paper at him, you'd see what de bar
would do. But jes shoot a cannot Al him
and mark de result. calls for de ouero
ton. The President forthwith decided
In favor Of powder.
Year: 1872

IN due time brought about Q cifcum.
stance that was the astonishment and the
sensational topic of all the neighborhood
yesterday. Sure enough, on Monday
evening this same lady gave birth TO =
boy baby weighing twenty pounds.
Year: 1872

Germany ana Brazil; and the reports OF the Official
journals OF the Brazilian government now before US
ls not adapted to lessen the embarrassment. Ac-
from the fact that German sailors enjoying the
company OF the women In o house OF questionable
fame, and cast out OF doors police On1cial who had
come to quell disturbance Of course the police
man called for aid, and since this did not suffce
the night took on greater dimensions, and was not
put down until lieutenant with his men made his
appearance upon the ground. Since, besides this.
the arrested sailors were set at liberty on the I0l
lowing day there Is not the least ground for the
Intervention OF the government We are curious to
now how those journals that began to blow ON tho


ig horn Will effect decent retreat.
Year: 1872

The Enormous and Profitable Business Done by
Them Last Year-The Vessels Employed,
Voyages Made and Passengers Carried
Between New York and Europe


Might Not an American Line


Live If Properly Managedi
Year: 1872

. Winter set in here in earnest on the
18th, 10th, 18th and 18th inst, by four heavy
frosts and ice. We have had some very light
frosts previous to the 18th, but net sufficient
to do any harm to vegetation.


This sudden cold spell must have hurried
our sugar planters up with their grinding, and
all are now engaged sugar making for fear
that a warm spell may and sour the cane
affected by the frost
Year: 1872

Of the resolution, calling on the President
for information as to his motives for send
ing United States troops in Arkansas, and
the facts on which such action was based,
when Clayton at once made issue with his
colleague, as to the subject t-matter COM
planned of He averred that no State in
the Union was more peaceful and quiet
than Arkansas, and that if further troubles
and dissensions arise there it twould be be-
cause ex-Cenfederate Generals had formed
secret military combinations to prevent,
by force, the Inauguration of the regularly
elected Republican State officials To this
statement Rice rejoined that Republican
combinations of military character had
also been formed with the unconcealed
purpose of preventing Brooks from being
sworn in as Governor of the State This
merely personal squabble was allowed to
proceed to some extent, when the Senate
took the matter in hand, and, by strict
partisan vote, referred the resolution of
inquiry to the Military Committee Messrs.
Fenton, Trumbull, Ferry Conn, and
Upton voted with the Democrats against
the reference
Year: 1872




One farmer hurt his knee with pitchfOrk. and
in spite of the best care and skill he died in less
than two weeks with lock jaw. His neighbor far
also hurt himself the same season. Just as bad.
and in about the same place, but he Immediately
commenced the free use of Renne's Pain killing
Magic Oil on and in, the wound, and lost only two
or three days, and was soon well. We think the
use OF our Magic oil would have saved the other
mans life.


Use Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil.
8 sizes Trial 'HIt works like a charm, N


Use Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil.
8 sizes Medium. . 1T works like a charm y


Use Renne's Pain killing Magic Oil.
sizes large ut works like charm j


Use Renne's Pain-Killing Magic Oil.


1T works like charm. g"
The wonder of the world to cure Pain. Try it
The wonder Of the world 10 cure Pain. Try it.
The wonder of the world to cure Pain. Try it,
Sold by all the druggists, merchants and grocers
Inquire for ii BY the full name where you usually
trade. WM. RENNE & SONS, Manufacturers. Pits
field Mass, Sold by John BengstOn. Rock Island
For sale by Emil Coehler Druggist Rock Island.
Year: 1872

From lands end TO lands end, that all may read,
and reading, believe, that for the countless mil
lions who are on the road TO an untimely grave
with bilious complaints, there Is but truly great
and reliable remedy and that is
Year: 1872

honors according to her rank, profuse
exhibition of the flags Of all nations,
among which those Of Great Britain and
the United States, fraternally entwined,
were most conspicuous. 4aFtH


We are told by the London press that
this interchange Of high civilities will
have gratifying effect among all the
royal families of Europe. Since his
visit to Turkey, Prince Frederick Grant
has dined with Bismarck under the pat
ronage of his excellency Mr.. Bancroft,
the American Minister to the Court of
Berlin. General Sherman was in at
tendance upon the Prince, as usual
We are informed in connection with the
above items, that so gratifed is the Pres
ident with the reception of his children
abroad that he will send two more to
Europe during the approaching summer,
of still younger age than the Princess
Nellie, and will probably make trip
across the Atlantic of few months him
self Should the ides of November turn
out favorably), in order to refresh him
self after the fatigues of his reelection.


Apropos to the above, we learn from
the World that Wisconsin newspaper
of the p. o. division of late prints the
personal pronoun of the third person
singular with capital H, whenever it
marshals in the title Of the President.
This shows how we float along
Year: 1872

n wOrO 10 our PRIMARY COnVen-


tions-The Right Mem for the Righ {


Places.


To the Editor of the Public Ledger:


Our county convention is near at
hand, and it beheoyes us to consider well
its Importance. On it hangs all our sue
cess at the polls. Our delegates must
be wary and wise in their selections, else
they will see their blunders reflected in
their defeat Good men must be chosen,
or bad men will rule from the ranks of
the enemy. If they are hasty in their
choice they will have abundance of
leisure to repent of their folly. Ours is
a party surcharged with power. Hence
the valuable, the practical and the think
ing men of the community are too
10th to come forward and do their
duty in this important hour. What
is everybody's business too often
turns out to be the business Of no.
body. The enemy are lying in wait for
some such contingency. II has hap
pened before, and will again happen,
unless we are on our guard. Therefore
it is, we say, let us be prudent, be care
full and be not weary in well doing. We
have done well for our State in the past,
and we have it in our power to con-
tinue it interminably unless an over
weaving pride Of power shall cause us
to stumble and fall. Let us select the
right men for the right places-men of
moral worth in the community, men
whose lives are not an everyday re-
proach to them and their associates.
Let us dispense with pot-house politi-
clans and street-corner luminaries, who
lean against lamp posts and vie with the
burners in luminizing upon what
ever happens to surround them.
We want men who will honor
the stations they fill and adorn them, IN
stead of those whom the offices must
raise fromldeserved obscurity to batten
on the emoluments of their places,
which they never could have attained
had merit and true worth been the stan
dard of selection. We want to have
done with the idea that man is all ami
NAL and that his vote can only be reached
by pandering to his appetite or to his
venality. Let not the question be,
How many treats can he stand at
one gulch, but how does he stand in
the moral estimation of his fellow-men2 ?
Men whose integrity is above the shade
of shadow of suspicion; whose words
are their bonds; whose every avocations
are in the use of their brains (instead of
their bellies) for the advancement of
their kind. M


These men may be secured by our
primary conventions. Let them send
men who will reflect in the county con-
vention the voice of those they repre-
sent and not those who are in danger of
being led into bale Influences by the
triggers and clap-traps of party maneu-
vers. So let us have a care in their
selection. Without going into particu-
lars we will say that the Grand Jury
report has fallen upon us with stunning
effect. We are not individualizing when
we say there is surely something wrong
somewhere. These things could not be
so; matters could not be in this wild
confusion if all was right. Certainly,
there is something in very offensive
state of decomposition in the kingdom
of Denmark. 1t remains for the people
to correct this with their ballots.


TAXPAYER.
Year: 1872

The days went by, and Christmas came
bright and cold. BY special permission
of the matron, Johnny was carried into
the small rcccption-loom, and lay there
stretched out ON soft, low cot by tho
side of the table.


A tall evergreen tree stood in the mid
die of the room, with plenty of candles
on the boughs and while the rest of tho
little patients were Keeping Christmas
together, in the hospital wards, and find


ing that their tree was very full of pres
ents, Johnny was down below.


Mary and little Kate, clean and neatly
dressed, were at the table with them.
And there were the matron and resident
doctor, Ns well ms the two dodgers.


Some one else will have TO tell you, for
| cannot, how happily that day went by.
How Johnny and his sisters ate turkey
with cranberry sauce for the first time in
their lives. How the mince pic was par-
ticulnrly good, as even the matron and
doctor declared. How they spent tho
whole day telling stories and singing
songs for these three happy, cheerful
faces, whose only memories had been Of
| blows and Of love for each other. How
the doctor clappod our young medical
student on the back, and told him hc was
"a good fellow, sir - How Johnny and
Mary md Katie laughed until they cried;
and how, in the evening, the big tree was
all lighted up.


SO the two dodgers adopted these chill
drcn into their care that day, and called
! the doctor and matron to witness that
they intended TO help them on in tho
world as much rs possible. And when
they went home that night, their hearts
were full Of charity to all mankind, even to
tho lady who played upon the piano
and sang scales. And they unanimously
agreed that Christmas Day spent in
doing good was the happiest kind OF
celebration for when you make others
happy, you arc happy also yourself.


1t has been several years since that
time. Johnny's leg became perfectly
well, and he was SO patient during his
sickness rs to win the love Of all around
him.


Mary and Katie grew up to be pretty.
bright-eyed children, and were taken
from the Home into a pleasant family.
And / have never heard that either OF
the two dodgers grudgcd any of the time
or money spent in getting Johnny his
situation, where he could learn to read
and write, and could go on orronds, or
that they were Of the opinion that the lit
tie girls were trouble. And it mado
them faster friends as we'll as better men.
Year: 1872

The principal street suits this season are
of the Jerome style, between the sack and
frock. The one or two deviatiOns are not
so dissimlar as to be nOticeably and radi-
cally different. The old English style Of
walking coat is also in vogue, with flaps on
the side and pockets behind. The material
is not particularly dissimilar to what has
been used heretofore: plain and striped.
There is a new French material in the mar
kpt for shirting, of alternately dark and
white cOlors, of which shirts cost s. each.
The quantity and variety of shirts open be-
hind is large, not costing on an average
more than those open in front. The upper
part of a new necktie called the
tsCan-can," is of satin, and the lower
part of corded silk. One side of the Gre
versible" necktie is composed of light cOlOrs
and the other of dark, and either can be
worn optionally. The market is well
supplied with gents wear generally, and
the demand is largely increasing in the


wholesale trade. There is now large
trade with Alabama, Georgia, Eastern Ten
nessee and Southern Kentucky that hereto
fore coIverged in New York. Purchasers
have discovered that agents of the primary
manufacturing houses in New York sell to
all alike. The Nashville merchants can
afford to sell actually cheaper, in some re-
speCts, than the New York jobber, because
of the difference in his rent compared to
that of the other. The difference between
rent here more than covers the cost Of
transportation of articles purchased from
the New York iObbers. Country mer-
chants, approaching this, are now purchas-
ing in Nashville instead of going elsewhere.
Year: 1872

FrOmsthe jackson Wing and Tribune.


The Mckenzie (Tenn.) Times peers into
the future through remarkably clear glasses.
1t says of the reform movement:


"While we, in common with majority
of the Southern people, are trying to care
as little as possible for politics, sO-called, we
can not nor do we wish to repress a natural
desire to see the government of our country
once more in the hands of honest men
men who are not heart and head corroded
by greed or sectional hate. Such men
would surely give us all we ask for: consti-
tuti0nal laws faithfully administered; and
this we must have if we are to maintain
our free institutions. The tone Of the lib
eral press throughout the country, whether
of Democratic or Republican prOclivities, IS
therefore gratifying TO us, as we think 1t
must be to the refecting masses.


''We are as far from wishing to see the
Democratic party broken up as anybody can
be; not for any peculiar reverence for the
name, nor from any senseless spirit OF Obe-
dience to party orders; but because we think
it an organization which after some puriti-
cation will yet find itself strong enough to
give our country such government as the
best interests of all its people require. We
believe the real disOrgauizers are those who,
knowing that defeat would be inevitable,
urge the Democracy to enter the Presi-
Dental contest, confiding to its own party
strength
Year: 1872

A Philadelphia house will soon publish
GA Diary of Pickpocket,r written by
lady in the trade during her incarceration
for plying it.


a New York mechanic is at work on the
model of steamship which he believes can
be made to cross the Atlantic in six days,
Year: 1872

WE WILL BE PREPARED TO PUR-
w chase all tile WOOL that may be offered
us during the coming season, and 10 pay hOt o. 9hly
the highest price ia Cash, but to pay as much as
can be realized in any market when expenses OF
shipping are deducted,


win be glad,to furnish quotations when Spring
shearing commences.
Year: 1872

OLD DEMooRAT.-Me have letter from
Ohp'r, signed as above, with request to
publish. 1t is an invariable rule Of all
respectable and responsible editors and pub
fishers to publish no anonymous communica-
TONS no matter how laudable or praisewor-
thy the contents may be. This fact we have
made conspcuousy public eight or ten times
since we took charge of the HERALD. The
Justice and absolute necessity of strict OBJ
servance of this rule will be readily under
stood by any gentleman who will imagine
himself in our position. We do not want
he name to publish it, but simply to know
the author and the real responsible party.
Will an "Old Democrat call at this office, or
f a personal acquaintance drop us line
giving his true name