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Year: 1871

PERSONALITY II. Hull left last week for
New York, aad will remain there and at other
eastern markets several weeks, selecting spring
goods. He will buy largely this season, and
will obtain heavy stock Of fine carpets of new
styles and patterns. He will look through all
the fashion emporiums and select the very new
est and most elegant styles of ladies' dress goods
OF which his assortment will be larger and more
complete than ever before. The new goods will
begin to arrive in day or two, and it will pay
you, If you wish anything in the line of goods
usually kept by Mr.. Hull, to call and see the
new stock when it arrives.
Year: 1871

Thousands of men breathe move and
live, and are heard of no more. Why ?
None were blessed by them; none could
point to them as the means of their re-
demption; not line they wrote, not a
word they spoke, could be recalled; and
so they perished. Their lights went out
in darkness, and they were not remem-
bered more than the insects of yesterday.
Will you thus live and die, man immor-
tai Live for something Do good,
and leave behind you monument of
virtue that the storms of time can never
ehace Write your name in kindness,
love and mercy on the hearts of those
you come in contact with, and you will
never be forgotten. Good deeds will
shine as brightly on earth as the stars in
heaven Chalmers
Year: 1871

There is the soundest common sense
in the following paragraph from the
Manufacturer and Builder;


Why is it that there is such a repug-
nance on the part of parents to putting
their sons to a trader A skilled me
chanic is an independent man. Go
where he will his craft will bring him
support. He need ask favors of none.
He has literally his fortune in his own
hands. Yet foolish parents-ambitious
that their sons should rise in the
world, as they say-are more willing
that they should study for a profession,
with the chances Of even moderate sue
cess heavily against them, or run the
risk of spending their manhood in the
ignoble task of retailing dry goods, or of
toiling at the accountants desk, than
learn trade which would bring them
manly strength, health and independ
ence. In point Of fact, the method they
choose is the one least likely to achieve
the advancement aimed at, for the
supply of candidates for "errand
boys dry goods clerks and kin
dred occupations, is VIGOROUSLY over
stocked; while, on the other hand, the
demand for really skilled mechanics Of
every description is as notoriously be-
Year: 1871

Perception of beauty is one of the
most decided characteristics by which
man is distinguished from the brute.
Ne discover no symptoms of admiration
in animals of a lower grade than our
selves. The peacock exciies no defer
ence from the splendor of his plumage,
nor the swan from her snow-white
feathers; and the verdant fields, in her
summer bloom, attract no more than
as their fowery sheets allure the insect
tribe. who in their turn are followed by
their foes. To man alone belongs the
preroeative of appreciating beauty, be.
cause admiration is graciously designed
as the means Of leading him on to moral
excellence.
Year: 1871

There is period of time which comes
to all men, when entire isolation is the
law of their being. 1t is that hour


when we come to die,


And let the fashion of the world go by"


Love has gone hand in hand with
them through life. 1t has strengthened
and eomforted, and been all in all,
through the changes and shocks of time,
but though it shudders and weeps and
goes up in agonized prayer, it is di-
vorced from the spirit which stands face
to face, with the mystery behind the veil.
Face to face, and utterly alonel The
vision lost to earthly things, the tongue
palsied to mortal utterance, the ear deaf
to the dear familiar accents, the scroll
of time rolled up, and the infinite space
of eternity coming into view. A very
lonely hour. Men call themselves iso-
lated on trackless desert without hu-
man companionship. But the sun, the
stars, and the earth are there, and in
them they find guides to direct their
steps. Fears and hopes alternate in
their throbbing breasts. Theyare por-
ton of the great world of humanity, and
this is only temporary severance from
its interests. All human faculties are on
the alert to find an issue from the silent
waste, and the mind is busy with
thought of the home-welcome when the
desert is passed. Never in fact is life so
clearly defined, more sharply accented,
than in those moments of accidental or
intentional isolation. Where thought
errs, it is on the side of exaggeration.
The aims of life seem greater than they
really are, and like the shadow on the
Brocken, the smallest human outlines
take on gigantic proportions. But the
lonely hour has none of this. The pal
sled hand has made its last mark and
forgotten its cunning. The throes of the
new birth have stiaed all memory of the
old. There is a blind reaching for aid,
and if il comes not FROM the angels, God
pity the wretch whose lonely hour may
measure itself by eternities; who dies
from the companionship Of the world to
find himself forever alone.
Year: 1871




The Folly of Attempting TO Con-


tinue Young.


Once for all, there is no misery so dis
tressfuI as the desperate agony of try
ing to. keep young when one cant. |
know an old bachelor who has attempted
it. His affectation of youth, like all af-
fectations, is a melancholy failure. He
is rapid young man of fifty. He plies
innocent Young ladies with the pretty
compliments and soft nothings in vogue
when he was a spoony youth of twenty.
The fashion of talking to young ladies
has changed within thirty years, you
know, and this aged boys soft nothings
seem more out of date han a two
year old bonnet. They make you,
think, somehow, of that time-honored
frog story wherein is set forth the dis
covery of galvanie electricity. When
YOU see his old fashioned young antics
his galvanic battery, so to speak-and
hear the speecnes he makes TO the girls
in their teens, when he ought to be talk
ing to them like father, you involun-
tariIy call him an old idiot, and long to
remind him Of that quaint rebuke of
Grand old John: "Thou talkest like
one upon whose head the shell is to this
very day"


That is how he seems. He is old enough
10 have been almost full-ledged before
Won were born, and here he is trying to
make believe that he is still in the days
of his gosling green, with the shell stick
inc on his head to this day Itisa mel
ancholy absurdity. One can't be young
unless one is young. Only once it is
riven to us to be untried and soft. and
cushing and superlative, and when the
time comes for it all to go, no sort of
effort can hold back the heeting days. =
From the June number of Lppincoffs
JG0Gzine
Year: 1871

The San Francisco Alta says that the
passengers on steamer in the bay the
other evening were spectators in fine
encounter Between seal and large
sturgeon, which paid no attention to the
vessel, but continued the combat, dash
ing the waters into a foam until the
steamer passed. The seal secured
good hold of the fish, and raising his
head above the water several times,
shook the sturgeon as terrier would a
rat
Year: 1871

yond the supply. The crying need Of
this country to-day is for skilled labor;
and that father who neglects to provide
his son with q useful trade, and to see
that he thoroughly masters it, does him
a grievous wrong, and runs the risk OF
helping by so much to increase the stock
of idle and dependent, if not vicious,
members Of society 1t is stated in the
report of the Prison Association, lately
issued, that of fourteen thousand five
hundred and ninety-six prisoners con-
fined in. the thirty States in 1867, sew
enty-seven per cent, or over ten thou
sand Of the number, had never learned a
trade. The fact conveys lesson OF
profound interest to those who have in
charge the training of boys, and girls,
too for the active duties of life.
Year: 1871

HUXLEY UPON SP:RITUALIsM.-
Huxley. the English scientist, has a
decidedly poor opinion OF spiritual
ism. Being invited. a while ago, to
assist at tine Investigation of the per-
formancrs OF medium, he respond
ed sharply. as follows


| regret that am unable to accept
the invitation OF the council OF the
DlalectIcaI Society to cooperate
with a committee for the investiga-
ton of - spiritualiem ;; and for two
reasons. In the first place, L have
no time for such an inquiry, which
would involve much trouble and
iunless it were unlike all inquiries
of that kind | have known much
annoyance. In the second place, |
take no interest in the subject. The
only case Of " spiritualism | have
had the opportunity OF examining
into for myself. was as gross an I'M
posture ~ ever came under my no.
tice. ButsupVoSing the phenomena
to be genulue-they do not interest
me. Ii anybody would endow me
with the faculty Of listening to the
chatter of old women and curates III
the nearest cathedral town, | should
decline the privilege. having better
things to do. And if the folk in the
spiritual world do not talk more
wiselvanl sensiblv than their friends
report them to do. put them in the
same category. The only good that
L can see IN a demonstration of the
truth of - spirituaIiam is to furnish
an additional argument against sui
eide. Better live crossing sweeper
than to die and be made to talk twad
die by a medium hired at a
guinea seance.
Year: 1871

LONDON Oct 1s, 1871.
Dispatches from the Hague report the existence
OF serious and widespread dissatisfaction on the
part OF the people against the members OF the pre-
sent Cabinet OF the King OF Holland.


This feeling found expression last night in the
shape OF riotous proceedings, which set on foot
by q portion or the inhabitants. A mob assembled
in front OF the residence OF the Minister Of the Col
onies and stoned the house, breaking windows and
doing other slight damage.


Troops have been quartered in the city for the
purpose OF suppressing any further disturbances.
Year: 1871

Comptroller Connolly has received a large mum
ber Of bids for purchasing the city markets, and
they have all been referred by him to the Commits
sioners OF the Sinking Fund for their action al
their next meeting, which Will be held some day
next week.
Year: 1871

Tammany Hall was dark, dreary and dismal last


evening. No lights were visible, and no outside


crowds showed that men within felt that victory


was theirs. On the contrary every surrounding


manifested defeat, and It was plain from glance


a. the headquarters that not only was something


wrong, but that even ruin was impending. And
this was especially for the reason thai the light
heads who delight in dsporting themselves In front
OF democratic headquarters were very much down
they were In serene state OF mind felt
that because their day was over. they should
hide themselves IN obscure barrooms 1t was won
deriul what change had come over the hiQhnyers
Q, Inc .ammany n,ng s,es o.; during ;st the day
had been hovering around the neighbornood
or the Tammany headquarters IN the e::ss,,y
afternoon disappeared toward evening as the
fuller returns were announced, sinking away
as 30 many scaded crows who. without their feath-
ers looked upon their lives as OF shorl Duration \
Tammany Hall did not have at any part Of the day
even the rem0test show OF livcliness OF victory
did not even put IN an appearance or fight and
the result was that inquisftve passers-by excogi.
tated in detected mental perturbation as to The
state OF things as they were as they are and as they
are likely to be.
Year: 1871

AgalRss 50 for Shandiey there was not note
OF rejoicing. simply an ammo, ing, compassionate
out the list There was no vulgar dlsplay or feeling
at any time throughout the night Even


OUTSIDE THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS


there was not single cheer; nor were the TAM
manyites present subjected to cruel taunts.
The motley crowd on the pavement ~ tne
street. and diling the main hallway OF the
building stood almost silently, waited patiently i0r
such information was given them Dy those VINO
passed outside, and when satisfied that the police
returns sustained the reports OF the earlier hours OF
the day they retired quietly to do their tndivdua
mourning or rejoicing In some more congenial pace.
To the old politicians and to those who were merely
curious lookers-on the scene at headquarters last
evening Will be remembered long
Year: 1871

THE ACCURATE BoY.-There was a
young man once in the office of West
ern railway superintendent. He was oc-
cupying position that four hundred
boys in that city would have wished to
get 1t was honorable, and it paid
WE'LL" besides being in the line o. promo
tion. How did he get it? Not by hav-
ing rich father, for he was the son of a
laborer. The secret was his beautiful
accuracy. He began as an errand boy.
and did his work accurately. His leisure
time he used in perfecting his writing
and arithmetic. After awhile he learned
to telegraph. At each step his employer
commended his accuracy, and relied on
what he did because he was just right.


And it was thus with every occupation.
The accurate boy is the favored one
Those who employ men, do not wish to
be on the constant lookout as though
they were rogues or fools. If acarpenter
must stand at his joarneyman's elbow to
be sure that his work is right, or if a
cashier must run over his book keepers
column, he might as well do the work
himself as employ another to do it in that
way; and it is very certain that the en-
ployer will get rid of such an inaccurate
workman as soon as be can.
Year: 1871

A SAD SToRY.-In this county resides
man, who, fifteen years ago, was as
promising as almost any young man in
his native place-a village in Maine
He contracted the habit of drinking. He
married fine young woman, came West
and settled in one of the towns in this
county. He kept on drinking, and soon
became confirmed drunkard. Now
comes the saddest story OF all. Their
child is cross-eyed, tongue-tied, and half
witted, and in walking staggers from
side to side, just as drunken man does.
Can you picture anything more painful.
Fond du Lac Commonwealth.
Year: 1871

Any amount and every class of Insurance reqnired
can be placed at this Office in the best Companies
and at as low rates as at any agency in the country


Expiration Notices Promptly Given.
Year: 1871

shreds upon his hands and forehead, he
carried water and poured it on the infat-
uGted group, while the ignoble crowding
went on madly among the swiftly roast
ing crowd. The tumultuous struggle
had been from the frat loathsome, un-
reasoning fear; moments coolness, a
moments cessation of the frightful effort
to wedge downward, would have given
life to all. The time came, however,
when the faithful Merrill, stripped al
most of clothing and burned beyond
recognition, bad to give up the heroic
effort, and plunging through the darting
fame, dashed his burning body in the
we'll. Earlier in the catastrophe half
dozen heavy sleepers had found tardi-
ness their salvation from the potatoe
patch, and they darted into the timber
belt, which had been carefully burned
out long before to keep the fire from the
houses. Here, prone on the ground,
they protected themselves while the mad
crowd not ten yards away roasted in
their blindness, The falling trees could
be guarded against, but nothing could
save from the encompassing fre in the
ciearings.


ESCAPE OF AN AGED MOTHER.


One came, too, whose frail chance of
life the meanest creature, struggling in
that hot pit, would not have refused, an
old lettering, half blind, trembling wo-
man, mother to the owners of the mill.
She must have been forgotten in the first
rush, for when she came toward the po-
totoe patch it was filled with swarming
crowd thrown prone upon their faces in
the shallow depths of the potatoe pit
Seven of her kindred writhed in that
hideous knot. Passing on with decrepit
step, the venerable mother, whose "a
years had not worn out GOODNESS and dis
cretlon, came upon a great bowlder near
the edge of the timber. Climbing on
this, although half suffocated, she cover
ed her head with her skirts, and with
clothes carefully tuckedup from the run
ming flames, kept for hours en- the back
Of this unique salamander. The only
son that came out of the fire with his
life, il is said, did not forget his duty and
aided his mother to this forlorn refuge.
Be that as it may, with a thick blanket
well wetted over her body and her skirts
out Of reach of the hot incendiary sand
the brave old lady perched on that rock
through the long night of agony, every
shrek Of her roasting kindred splitting
her ears, and their burning bodies almost
within reach of her helpless arms
Twice through the night she received
succor, once from her son, who came up
and wetted her covering, and once from
the barn master, Bush, who also bathed
her head and gave her cool water to
drink. Through the whole unspeakable
tragedy of piteous cowardice ran this
vein Of simple fortitnde and heroic en-
durance.
Year: 1871

The steamer Thuringa to-day, TOOK out $500 specie


The money market has been easy and without notable
feature the supply being abundant at and per cent
q, call and an per cent for choice commercial paper


The Government bond market heavy during the
early Boards but improved in tone in the afternoon,
closing steady The Treasury will buy s2cOO 62Os to-
morrow


psk A. Hatch report as follows at b. IN.
Year: 1871

AN ACT granting pensions to GER


tain soldiers and sailors Of the war


of eighteen hundred and twelve,


and widows Of deceased soldiers.


BE it enacted by the Senate and
House OF Representatives Of the Uni
ted States Of America in Congress
assembled, That the Secretary of the
Interior be, and is hereby authorized
and directed to place on the pension
roll the names Of the surviving Off
GERS and enlisted and drafted men,
including militia and volunteers, Of
the military and naval service Of the
United States, whoservcd sixty days
in the war with Great Britain Of
eighteen hundred and twelve, and
were honorably discharged, and 70
such other officers and soldiees a.
may have been personally named in
any resolution Of Congress for any
specific service in said war although
their torn Of service may have been
less than sixty days, and who 1t no
Year: 1871

VII.


The most common of all sales, ARE
sales of personality, which term in
cludes, in this connection, everything
but land and debts.


/ There can be no valid sale Of
personal property for the price Of
$50 and upwards, unless there be de-
livery Of the property sold, or some
part of it, or unless the buyer pay
or secure the price, or a part OF it,
or unless some note or memorandum
in writing of the bargain be signed
by the party to be charged by such
contract, or his lawful agent. Thus,
if A and B meet and agree together,
that A will sell B his horse for $50
and B agree to pay that sum for the
horse, if nothing more be done, the
sale is invalid, and A cannot recoy-
er the price from B, nor can B get
the horse from A. But if, in addi-
tion to this, B pay to A IS, as a
part Of the price for the horse, or
give his note to A for the $50, or
any part Of it, or If he deliver to "A
another horse, or note on another
person, or any other property to hold
as security until the price be paid,
then the sale Is valid. And the sale
would also be good, if A then de-
livered the horse to B, though no
part Of the price was paid or deliv-
cred. And if the sale Of articles in
bulk, as corn, salt -four, cotton etc,
If the sale be made for all the bulk,
as crib Of corn, or pen Of cotton, or
ten bales Of cotton then packed, at q
price in gross then agreed on, as for
slOo or 5000 or $500, then the sale
viii be good, if any part Of the corn,
Year: 1871

Two cases of smallpox were yesterday taken
to the hospital from No. So Annst The patients stated
that they reached Boston Dec. 20, by the steamer
ssmaria; that smallpox and measles were prevalent on
board during the voyage and that on the arrival OF tho
steamer Boston the sick removed from the vessel
by the authorities and the remaining passengers were
allowed TO go TO their destinations without being sub
jected 10 Quarantine
Year: 1871

The female alligator will not allow the
male to approach her nest. He has glut-
tonous habit of eating her eggs, thus neces-
stating her laying more, which she does
not like to do. So, when she catches him
in that neighborhood, she thrashes him on
general princ;ples-he either has done
mischief or intends it; at any rate, he is
meddling in domestic matters and deserves
snubbing. l am told that it is really
amusing to see the big bully stick his tail
between his legs and sneak off, the very
image of the hen-pecked husband, after
one of these conjugal seedlings. He is
not by any means a model husband, and
although he takes his thrashing kindly, he
revenges himself by watching until the
eggs are really Matched, and then eats up
as many of the causes of the family dis
pute as he can catch. Young alligators
don't like to know their own fathers.


heard of few instances where these
creatures have attacked grown men they
are fond of children and show their at
tachment to the offspring of other people
as they do to their own. In one instance,
where a man was crossing a ford, he was
seized by the leg, but when his dog plunged
in, the alligator left his leg to take the
more elegant morsel. In another instance,
an alligator struck ON mule pulling a
cart, and bit out out two spokes from one
of the wheels. leaving tooth sticking in
one as a memento of the visit. He hurried
off with great speed, on the lookout, sup
pose, for dentist.


Gators like dogs, pigs and young
darkies. The dog is special favorite.
The whine of an alligator is easily mistak-
en- for that of puppy, and may mislead a
young and Inexperienced dog. A wise
Florida dog will not go boldly down to
the water to drink; he learns by expert
ence after having been eaten once or twice.
If the shore is open, he will draw all the
alligators to one place by barking, and
then scampers off to some other place
| where the coast is clear; or he will creep
down to moist spot, tail down, body
crouched, eyes skinned. and ears up,
| pushing his paws before him, slowly to
Year: 1871

The four year old son of neighbor eyn.
ced an ingenuity and perseverance in an
emergency which brought present reward,
and augurs well for his fertility in expedients
hereafter.


lie was spending part of this last sum
mer with his grandfather, who is country
merchant, and, boy-like, was both anxious
for candy aud not bashful in making It known.
One day his mother forbade his asking it
agaa he solved the difficulty in this wise
The next time he went to the store he hung
around for long while with entire obedience
to the command, but finally an idea struck
him and walking up boldly to his grandfath-
er, he says, Grandpa, | wish you would
give me some candy ioitiont my asking for
a." OF course grandpa took the hint, aud
the boy got his candy. But such an evasion
of her order hardly satisfied the mother, and
so she explained to the little shaver that what
he said was really asking for the candy, and
told him he must not do so any more. He
promised obedience, and obeyed in this man
ner; Soon afterward, going to the store,
some one asked him how he gct along this hot
weather. lie quickly aud ingenuousIy replied;
" Pretty we'll Bat I'm agfM siceafy--fg
candy" Who doubts that this perspira-
ton" was relieved, if candy would do il?
II is certain that no further candy eopmapdl
were laid upon him, A