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Year: 1873

and in combating them give them
character and standing. If what is
said about you is true, set yourself
right at once if false, let it go for
what it will fetch. If a bee stings
you, would you go to the hive and
destroy it! Would not thousand
come upon you! 1t is best to say
little respecting the injuries re-
ceived. We are generally the losers
in the end if we stoop to refute al
backbitings and gossipings we may
hear by the way. They are annoy
ing, it is true, but not dangerous so
long as we do not stop to expostu-
late or scold. Our characters are
formed and sustained by ourselves,
and by our own actions and pur-
poses, and not by others. Let us
always bear in mind that "calum-
matters may usually be trusted to
time and the slow but steady jus
tico Of public opinion
Year: 1873

Pay no attention to slanderers OF
gossip mongcrs. Keep straight
on in your course, and let their
baclkbitings die tho death of ne
glect. What is the uso of lying
awake nights brooding over the re-
mark of some false friend that runs
through your head like forked
7 What is the use of get
ting into IVORY and fret over a
gossip that his been set aloat to
your disadvantage by some med
dlesomo busybody who has more
time than character. These things
cannot possibly injure you unless,
indeed, you tako notice Of them,
Year: 1873

A sensational story comes from
Sheffield, England, to the effect
that lady there has just met, in
the person of O minister of the
Gospel, burglar whom she several
years ago discovered under her bed
one night as she went to retire.
She gave no alarm, but l1nelt and
prayed so fervently for the recla-
nation of sinners with guilty pur-
poses in their hearts, that the
burglar left her unmolestcd, and
from that night dated his reforma-
ton.
Year: 1873

y carpet-bagger came home
from a Southern city the other day,
and told friend ''Thore was q
motion to run me for mayor but
the majority of the citizens wanted
to run me out Of town and-I
came away
Year: 1873

After quoting the account of dream

 which is said to have influenced Hiram

 Powers to become 8 sculptor, the Bridgeport (Conn.) Standard relates another incident of the kind, where the question as to the life-profession of the dreamer was decided. It says "An aged member of the Episcopal Church who was well acquainted with Rev. Dr. Berhanns, of Newtown, said that when 8 youth, and before he had ever seen any minister of that denomination at tired in his clerical robes, he dreamed of seeing some one standing by his bedside dressed in a peculiar manner. The dream left astrong impression upon his mind. Some time afterward he at tended an Episcopal church, and to his great though agreeable surprise he saw that the minister was dressed in robes precisely the same as those he had seen in his dream. These circumstances de- termined his future course. He became a communicant and ultimately min- ister ill that church. In his old age he resided ic Newton, and there are doubt less many in that town, if not through out this and other States, who remem- Der him as 8 faithful and devoted pastor,
Year: 1873

When people feel the need of an acid If they would let vinegar alone, and use lemons or apples, they would feel just as we'll satisfied and receive no injury. A suggestion may not come amiss as to @ good plan when lemons are cheap in the market. A person should then purchase several dozen at once, and prepare them for use in the warm, weak days of the spring and summer when acids, especially citric and malic, or the acid of lemons, are so grateful and useful. Press your hand on the lemon and roll it back and forth briskly on the table to make it squeeze more easily then press the juice into a bowl or tumbler-nevex into a tin strain out all the seeds, as they give a bad taste. Remove all the bulb from the peels, and boil in water-a pint for a dozen bulbs-to extract the acid. A few minutes boiling is enough then strain the water with the juice of the lemons put pound of white sugar to a pint of the juice; boil ten minutes, bottle it, and your lemonade is ready. Put tablespoonful or two of this lemon syrup in glass of water, and have cooling, healthful drink.
Year: 1873

A young gentleman, by the name of Foote, graduate of Yale, died recently from the effects of over-exercise at row. ing while in College. Wilkie Collin theory that excessive physical training IS destructive of the vitality of the sys- tenn has been good deal derided by critics who are at least as capable of judigng as the distinguished novelist. The case here cited, however, is not the first to prove that MT. Collins theory is scarcely so wide of the truth as his op- ponents profess to believe. Healthy development of mind or body would naturally seem to depend upon giving all the faculties and muscles regular and moderate exercise, without over- working any. What constitutes Cover working is the question, and that, we fancy in most cases, must be settled by the individual himself according to the effects produced upon him.
Year: 1873

As tale that is told, as vision,

 Forgive and forget; for say That the true shall enjoy the derision Of the false till the full of tho day. Ay, forgive as you would be forgiven; Ay, forget, less the ill you have done Be remembered against you in Heaven And all the days under the sun. For who shall have bread without labor And who shall have rest without price? And who shall hold war with his neighbor With promise of peace with the Christ! The years may lay hand on fair Heaven; May place and displace the red stars, May stain them, as blood stains are driven At sunset in beautiful barss May shroud them in black till they fret us As clouds with their showers of tears May grind us to dust and forget us, May the years, o, the pitiless years! The precepts of Christ are beyond them; The truths by the Nazarene taught, With the tramp of the ages upon them, They endure as though ages were naught; The deserts may drink up the fountains, The forest give place to the plain; The main may give place to the mountains, The mountains return to the main Mutations of worlds and mutations Of suns may take place, but the reign Of Time and the tolls and vacations Bequeath them, no, never a stain. Go forth to the fields as one sowing, Sing songs and be glad as you go, |, dc 4lo44 4,1x

 ing,

 And bear some fruit whether or no. And the sun shall shine sooner or later, Though the midnight breaks ground on the

 morn, Then appeal you to Christ, the Creator, And to gray-bearded Time, His irst-born.

 JOAQUIN MILLER.
Year: 1873

With his last words he ordered that she should be beheaded, and he drew his final breath while gazing on the blood which flowed from her headless trunk. He died in 1860, after reign of thirty fo11r wears
Year: 1873

THE BRAVE ENGINEER AND FIRE
MAN.-William ID. Guild, the engineer
on the train at the time Of the Rich
mond Switch { Il. L. disaster, of which
we gave an account last week, could not
have perceived the break long before
the dreadful moment came. But though
he might have made an effort to escape,
he staid firm, shut off the steam, applied
the brake, and went to his death with
his face to the front. He was instantly
killed, probably by the steam from the
broken boiler. Through the cab window
his body could be seen burning, and
when at last the fire was subdued and
his charred remains we're found, his
hand still grasped the throttle. The
body of the fireman, George Eldred, was
found as he perished, the coal shovel in
his hands, as if he was just putting coal
in the furnace. According to all ac-
counts Guild was a noble fellow, and
lived as he had died, with the confidence
and honor of ali that knew him. His
home was in that part of Providence
known as Elmwood, his house being
close to the railroad crossing. When
ever he passed this spot, whether in day
light or darkness, he used TO sound a
short peculiar signal on the locomotive
whistle as greeting to his wife and a
notification that he was "all right. -
Year in and year out that signal never
failed. The regular passengers came to
know it, and on hearing it would say,
" There's Guilds signal to his wife,"
Saturday she missed it for the first time
and will never hear it again. George
Eldred, the fireman, had many friends
and was highly esteemed. He was en-
gagged to be married to young woman
in Westerly.
Year: 1873

One of the saddest tragedies on record
is the Alders fratricide near Chicago,
several days ago. Two young men,
brothers, quarreled, got to blows, and
one of them, in the frenzy of passion,
stabbed the other with a small knife,
killing him. No sooner had he commit
ted the act than be was so completely
overwhelmed by sorrow that it is doubt
ful whether his reason will withstand the
test; and to add still further to the sad
ness of the event the father of the young
men, while on the witness stand at the
coroner's inquest, on Saturday, suddenly
became insane. The family are Hol-
landers, and the murderer who walls
and weeps continually over the bloody
deed to which an ungovernable temper
impelled him, now lies in jail to await
the action of the Grand Jury.
Year: 1873

IT Wasn't HER HUSBAND, AFTER
ALL A story has gone the rounds Of
literary gossip about an attached pair of
names not unknown to fame, who we're
literary and of good taste. The lady,
thinking that as she and her husband
were all in all to each other, it was as
well they should remain so, desired of
the hostess that there might be no intro
ductions to the other boarders, which
was observed. Various tender passages
between the amiable pair on their way
TO and from the dining-room edited the
family during the season. In time a
Boston man came to board, and on his
way to the basement at dinner, going
down late he heard light laugh behind
him, and a figure not so light as the
laugh sprang on his shoulders and claim
ed ride down stairs. The Boston man
took things coolly, carried his burden
down into the dining-room, and shot her
into a vacant seat at the table. The la
dy looked up TO dnd her husband already
there before her, and every eye was
turned to watch these extraordinary pro
ceedings. There was nothing to be done
but to burst into tears, which she did
Neto York Tribune.
Year: 1873

One of those horrible yet common
crimes. as they are getting to be nova
days, the murder Of wife by hus-
band, which occurred the other day, at
the town of Vienna, N. y, had an added
element Of horror, in its consequences to
three helpless little children. The MUIR
derer, Robert Pierce by name, killed his
wife by Draining her in bed with an axe,
after which he left the house, without ap
parent thought or care for the children.
Three days after, the corpse Of Mrs.
Pierce was found by relatives, lying, face
downward, in her own blood, on the
floor near the side of her bed. Her in
fant child, little over year old, was
lying nearly dead in its mothers gore,
near the feet of the the corpse. Crouch
ing under the clothes Of the bed, within
three feet of the corpse, we're two other
children, the oldest about four years old
and the other about two. The children
wore almost frozen, starving and insensl-
BILE, from the fright and the want Of
food and warmth, which they had not
had for nearly forty hours. The four
year old child, which was born before
the marriage of the unhappy couple,
singularly enough is the only witness Of
this awful crime who can tell the tale.
While being carried from the house of
blood she said that her father and moth
er had quarreled on Friday night, and
that her father had struck her mother
with an axe. Then he took his gun on
his shoulder and started out and left
them alone. She and the two year old
child were in the cot-bed within two feet
of her mother when the murder was
committed. The infant was on the bed
with its mother. She knew her mother
was dead, but feared to leave the house.


On Saturday the eldest child crawled
out of bed and obtained q crust, which
she divided with her companion as they
crouched under the bed-clothing. Tney
had no light nor fire from Friday night
until they were taken to their grand
fathers home, at noon. IL is said that
the infant child, found lying in its moth
er's blood, will probably die from the
effects of hunger and starvrtion, endured
for forty hours. It's limbs were cold and
clammy with blood when found, and it
would seem to be "a charity if it would die.


Pierce was subsequently found dead
la he woods near the house.
Year: 1873

In Utica, as in some other places,
there is liquor store, and on the floor
above it is the office of doctor. Just
over the front window of the beverage
shop the doctor has placed the following
sign: =" lie who deals out poison deals
out death" Temperance people, as they
went by, grinned at this awful warning,
and the man of fluids below was nat
urally indignant at this libel upon the
quality of his refreshments. 1t turns
out, however, that the doctor meant no
insinuation against the quality of his
ueighbor's merchandise. He is a healer
Of the herb aud root school, and his sign
was merely intended for bit at the reg
ulsrs who prescribe arenie and the like.
Perhaps he unconsciously placed his
sign where it would do the most good.
Year: 1873

The romantic incident of the Atlantic
disaster has been the discovery that one
of the men, common sailor, and one
whose life was sacrificed in efforts to
save others, was young woman OF about
twenty or twenty-five years Of age. Her
sex was not known until the body was
washed ashore and the rude clothing re-
moved preparatory for burial. She had
served as a common sailor for three voy-
ages, and was favorite shipmate with
all. She is described as having fewer of
the vices incident to sailors life than
is usual, but she was nevertheless, as
jolly an old tar as any of them. One of
the survivors of the crew in speaking of
her, remarked, didn't know Bill was
woman. He used to take his liquor as
regular as any of us, and was always
begging and stealing tobacco. He was
a good fellow, though, and l am sorry
he was woman" The most singular
part of the whole story is that the wo-
man was an American, and was about
the only one of that nationality belong
ing to the crew. Who she was and
where she came from, and her motive for
leading such strange lite Of hardship,
never was and never will be fully known.
Year: 1873

At California fair several bottles of
strained honey were exhibited, when
man put bottle Of caster oil with the
rest. Several old ladies sampled it, with
the natural result. The opinion of all
who tried it was that the bee who made
it was a fraud. One old lady said that
even bees had got to cheating nowadays.
Year: 1873

Ono of our citizens who had bcor
troubled mith a severe cold Oh the
lungs, effected his recovery in the
If,llowing simple manner. He boil
ed u little boneset and hoarhound
together, and drank freely OF the tea
before going to bed. The next day
he took five pills, put one kind OF
plaster on his breast, another under
his arms, and still another on his
back. Under advice from an expert
enced old lady, he took all these of
with an oyster knife in the afternoon
and slapped on mustard paste in
stead. His mother put some onion
drafts on his feet, and gave him n
lump of tar to swallow Then he
put some hot bricks to his feot, and
went to bed. Next morning another
old lady came in with q bottle Of
goose-oil, and gave him n dose If il
in q quill, and an amt arrived about
tho same time from Bethel, with O
bundle OF sweet form, which she made
into a tea, and gave him every hall
hour until noon, when he took q big
dose of suits.


After dinner, his wife, who had
seen a fine old lady Of great exper-
ieuce in doctoring, on Franklin
Street, gave him two pills Of her
make, about the size of an English
walnut, and a similar shape, and two
tablespoonfuls Of a homemade bal
sam, to keep them down. Then he
took half pint of hot rum at the
suggestion Of an old sea captain in
tho next house, and steamed his legs
with an alcohol bath. At this crisis
two of the noighbors arrived, who
saw at once that his blood was out OF
order, and gave him a gallon OF
spermint-tea and a big does Of castor,
|oil. before going to bed, he took
eight of now kind of pill wrapped
about his neck q flannel soaked in
hot vinegar and salt, and had feath
ers burnt on a shovel in his room.-
lie il now thorougly cured, and ful
Of gratitude. We advise our readers
to cut this out, and keep it where il
can be readily found when danger
threatens.
Year: 1873

HE temperance people Of Indianapo-
lis, held rousing meeting Tuesday,


which was participated in by q large
number Of the most respectable citizens.
The Sentinel says:


Father Bessonies, Of St. Joseph's Cath
olic Church, being called upon for q
speech. said that be had been told be
would hurt himself by appearing as a
temperance man, and be wished TO have
1t appear that he was not afraid TO de-
clare himself The speaker said, in his
opinion, it was necessary, in order to
make people temperate, TO teach its prin-
ciples In childhood 1t was very hard TO
get ideas into old head; you must take
people when they are young. In ref
erence to the law, the speaker said the
law was made by our Representatives,
who could not in any sense be called fam
atics- We should follow and obey the
law, now that il is passed. He admitted
that all Of those who are opposed to il
have right to test its coDstitutionality.
but until il is declared unconstitutional
II Is our duty TO obey it. l do not see
why men should oppose the law. They
say sometimes that the law will make
more drunkards than ever. Ii that is
the case. the saloon-keepers should be
very much in favor Of it. have but in
q few instances seen men who have made
their money BY selling whiskey; they
generally die poor. He said further. the
Catholic Church was, as a general thing,
in favor Of temperance, and in his opin-


ion was sustained by many o. his fel-
lOw-clergymen with whom he had con-
suited. We have too many of these loy
doggeries and saloons, and the blood OF
their fellow-men cries out against the
keepers Of Them. They are the crying
evil Of our country. He said further that
all who are in favor of law and order will
give the Law their support, so there may
I've here . community OF Aw-abiding
temperate men.
Year: 1873

Ill superintendent shall be elected and
qualified under this act


SECTION H. Whereas, an emergency
exists for the immediate taking effect Of
this act, it shall take effect and he i'm
force from and aftcr its passage.
Year: 1873

Dastardly Attack Upon a Gentleman In


Harlem by an Unknown Person-Acid


in His Face and Eyes.


At half-past seven O'Clock last evening second
attempt to take the life OF MIR. Walter Gibson the
proprietor OF local Harlem Sheet was made by
some inhuunan scoundrel. At the time named, as
Mr. Gibson was returning to the office and had got
about 100 feet from the avenue down 125th street,
man stepped forward, and, uttering the words
"Mr. Gibson" threw the contents OF small tin
cup which he held In hand lull into his face and
eyes, and then jumped into buggy standing close
by and drove of rapidly before he could he stopped.


The contents OF the tin cup were vitriol OF the
strongest kind, and the agony Of the unfortunate
victim was excrucattng. His call OF murder at
tracted immediate attention, and he was taken
over to DR.. Marsh's store, the corner, and such
remedies applied as were ut for the case Dr. Patch,
who was sent for, pronounced the injuries as very
serious, the loss OF one eye being nearly certain,
while the other Is much injured. His neck and face
are also earfully burned but there Is no 10
apprehend that his Injuries are mortal.


A Mr.. f. F. Cheshire noticed buggy standing at
the corner OF the street near his Office, and saw
two men in IT, one Of whom got out and paced the
pavement until Mr. Gibson's appearance. When
next Mr.. ,r Gnesnires @ attention was attracted he
fellow make motion as II throwing something
and then Jump into the buggy, which was driven
rapidly away away ovtnrs turning down l2ith street
dark Mr. Cheshire took no particular notice
OF the men and would be unable to Identify them
He noticed that the. horse was fine animal and
the buggy was an open one. A boy by the name Of
Gage was also q witness OF the occurrence. He
describes the man a. having red whiskers and
being OF broad and stout build. He would be able
TO recognize him again. These were apparently
the william as being stout and burly, but beyond
that he can say no more.
Year: 1873

company have written to Commissioner van
Mort stating that they will provide wooden pave
ment which will not ror or wear as the present.
nayement had DONE they creosote the wood, and
TINS preyent decay. The sap, which causes the
Secay is driven rom the wood, and in It's place ID
supplied coal tar OIL " the presence OF which de-
cav of animal or vegetable matter is impossible.


Their bid Is to repave all the present wooden
paved streets for 447o02 SO. They warrant
the work TO last as long as any other pavement.
and give Guarantees 10 that eject
Year: 1873

and have no hesitation in saying that If the press
during his second term as was done during the
first the people win vindicate their nrst and sec
Ond choice by renominating him in 1875. You have
awakened among the people in Ohio. 1t is as.
tonlshing. The sentiment expressed by them
heard the subject talked OF among, ofiicials In
Washington, so cannot say what the views OF
these gentlemen are. But look at 1t for q moment.
Do the people OF the country want to be accused Of
having conferred their choice for President
upon man destitute Of republican
principless Is not that what might be inferred
from the agitation OF the subject OF CRsarism?
do not think Grant has the remOtest idea OF third
term; but II he il to be vili1ed and his admin
istration abused for the sake OF abuse the people
will insist on his accepting thisd term. For my
part am not in favor OF IT now nor would 1 be
three years hencsf 1t were merely question OF
choice. The only danger appears to me to be that
which the press viii make ITSELF Leave 1t alone
and the ambition OF hundred aspirants in the re-
publican party viii make 1t unnecessary to DISCUSS
1t pending the meeting Of the next National Re-
publican Convention"