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Year: 1871

To tho Editors Of the Boston Daily Advertiser:


l see in your issue of to-day the
contents of the telegram announcing
my capture and escape from the
Kentucky Ku-Klux. AS the account
is somewhat defective in detail, l
give you herewith the affair as it
occurred. l visited my native
State in behalf of "The National
Association for the Spread Of TEN
pcrance and Night Schools among
the Freedmen" and had spoken to
large numbers Of them at Louisville
and ether places, and was on my
way to speak at Pleasureville, 4
place half way between Louisville
and Lexil, gton. l arrived at Pleas
ureville depot at little after six in
the evening, and was met by a
colored man who informed the that
the meeting was to take place five
miles in the country. After wait
ing some little time for team
which was expected, we started on
foot, thinking we should meet the
vehicle. We walked on until dark
overlook us, and meeting no team
l began to feel apprehcnsivc that
all was not right. The man with
me, however, assured me that there
was no danger, and we went on.
But we shortly after heard the trot-
ting of horses both in front and in
the rear, and before l could deter
mine what to do we were surround
ed by some eight or ten men, three
of whom dismounted, bound my
arms behind me with cord, re-
mounted their horses and started on
in the direction l had been travel
ing. The man who was with me
disappeared while I was being tied.
The men were not disguised, and
talked freely amongst themselves.
After going a mile or more they
stopped, and consulted moment or
two, the purport of which l could
not hear, except one of them saying:
"Lawrencc don't want a nigger
hung so near his place." They
started again; l was on foot, rope
had been attached to my arms, and
the other end to one Of the horses.
| had to hasten my steps to keep
from being dragged along by the
animal. Soon they turned to the
right and followed up what appear
cd to be cow-path.


While on the road my hat fell of,
and | called out. to the man behind
and said, "I've lost my hat" ''Iou
will need no hat in half an hours
time,'' he replied. AS we were
passing a log-house on this road a
man came out and said, in tremb-
ling voice, "Jim's dyine!' All the
men now dismounted, and with the
exception Of two, they went into the
building. l distinctly heard the
cries, groans and rawlings OF the
sick man, which satisfied me at once
that it was an extreme case OF dc
lirium tremcns; and as l had treat
ed that malady successfully by the
hypodermic remedy, and having
with me the little instrument, the
thought flashed upon my mind that
/ mi ght save my life by the trial.
Consequently, ! said to one OF the
men: 81 know what's the matter
with that man, and l can relieve
him in ten minutes" One of the
men went into the house, related
what had said, and the company
came out. The leader, whom they
all addressed as "Cap," began to
question me with regard to my
Year: 1871

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, author
Of "Gates Agar" thinks it an emil
nently Christian work to circulate
the following interrogatorics among
the women of the country:


"How much more power of endu-
rance does it require to NOW a field
in the sun on July day than to
cook three meals for six men and
family Of children over blazing
Goals?


Ii field work is more exhaustive
to the system than house and dairy
work, why is it said that two-thirds
of the women in our insane asylums
are farmers wives?


How does it happen that wom-
an has not the physical strength"
to follow the carpenters trade, who
is able to take in washing "tor
living?"


How much more muscle is need
ed for lifting ladders and adjusting
joists, and striking nails, than for
wringing blankets and scrubbing
over. .alls?


BY what laws of comparison do
We infer that woman that can
stand at the ironing table ten hours
day, with the thermometer at 90
degrees in the shade, her stove on
full draught, and tie windows clos
ed, lest the irons cool, cannot prac-
tice the stonemason's trade for lack
of physical strength?


Did it ever occur to you that
woman who can sweep 4 room can
drive an omnibus? That the dust she
takes into her lungs on Saturdays
may possibly be as injurious to them
as the oversight and lifting of
trunks which would fall to her lot
in the charater of . baggage mas
ter?


What is to prevent the woman
who can faultlessly superintend the
"housc cleaning" of large cstab-
lishmcnt from qualifying herself to
be an sable and lady-like" railroad
conductor?


Is a woman who can take a large
family through the scarlet fever
without assistance likely to find her
self too weak in body to bear the
physical burdens incumbent upon
the profession of lawyer?


Ought not any woman who is able
to be her own nursery maid to be
able to harness a horse? Is it any
more unpleasant business to har-
ness u horse than to be a nursery
maid?


Docs not every housekeeping and
homc-working woman perform tasks
as uncleanly, as distastful, as much
calculated to render her coarse, nn-
comely, unrefned, "unlady-hke." as
the large majority Of those from
which she is debarrcd by fear Of
these results?


Are most honest occupations from
which public sentiment excludes
women more foreign to the self-re-
spcct Of y woman than most to
which she is secluded?


How do you know for what wom-
en- are physically qualified till we
have undertaken to learn rather
than to asSume!"
Year: 1871

1t is understood that he is to do
all the crrands, to go to the store,
the post-otiicc, and to carry all sorts
of messages. If he had as many
legs as centipede they would tire
before night. His two short limbs
seem to him entirely inadequate to
the task. He would like to have as
many legs as wheel has spokes
and rotate them about in the same
way. This he sometimes tries to
do; and people who have seen him
stunning cart wheels" along the
side of the road have supposed he
was amusing himself and idling his
time; he was only trying to invent
a new mode of locomotion, so that
he could cconomizc his legs, and do
his errands with greater dispatch.


He practices standing on his
head in order to accustom himself
to any position. Leap-frog is one
of his methods of getting over the
ground quickly. He would willing
" 90 on an errand any distance if
he could leap-frog it with few 9TH
er boys. He has natural genius
for combining business with pleas
ure. This is why, when he is sent
to the spring for a pitcher Of water,
and the family are waiting at din
ner table, he is absent so long; for
lie stops to poke the frog that sits
on stone, or if there is pump
stock toput his hand over the spout
and squirt the water little while.


lie is The one who spreads the
grass when the men have cut it; he
mows it away in the barn; he rides
the horse to cultivate corn, up and
down the hot, weary rows; he picks
up the potatoes when they are dug;
he drives the cows night and morn
ing; he brings wood and water and
splits kindling; he gets pthe horse
and puts out the horse; whether lie
is in the house or out of it, there is
always something for him to do.


Just before school in winter, he
shovels paths; in summer he turns
prindstones. He knows where there
are lots of winter greens and sweet
flag root, but instead of going after
them, he is to stay indoors and pare
apples and stone raisins and pound
something in u mortar. And yet
with his mind full Of schemes OF
what he would like to do, and his
hands full of occupations, he is an
idle boy who has nothing to busy
himself with but school and chores.
The Baptist Union.
Year: 1871

ELECTION DAY IN AuEUrN passed of ve1y quiet
and the best OF feeling prevailed in both parties.
The Republicans voted the National wards
solid though it required some effort, and in one
ease tho Judiciary had to bo used to corral and
secure the vote Of one yellow fellow who had
vowed his determinat on to vote the Democratic
ticket The effort to cast his first vote of one Of
the new dark voters was great, or the price he
received ON turning from the task, was too heavy
for him, and he fell in front Of "Uncle Sans"
post-ofice. Republican candidate was seen
with the hook OF his cane around the new voter s
neck, endeavcring to raise or drag him cut Of
sight, but it was no go; Cuffy was too weighty.
The Mexican blooded voters were also captured
by our Republican friends; the exact figure they
cast, we have not learned. In lieu of these, some
six or eight old-line. white Republicans voted
the Democratic ticket. With all the new voters


we carried tho precinct by an increased majority
over that OF Seymour in 1868, by ten votes


There was more scratching done than ever before
since party lines were drawn, and in this the
Republicans did most Of it.
Year: 1871




This little burg is situated north and south Of
. delightful glen, through which runs the river
Auburn, On either side Of this magnificent river
can be seen the .brave old oak" and the female
laurel entwined in fond embrace, disturbed only
by the cold winds Of winter Here, too, can be
seen its once limpid waters, but now turbid
and agitated stream, slowly winding its course
in a westerly direction until probably it becomes
a tributary to some other river Of greater magni-
tude, and thus lost to view.


When I came here, some two weeks ago, oil
that could be seen Of Ophir was few diiaplda'
ted houses, standing as monuments to show
where once stood the fourishing city OF that
name. But to-day we have the "Miners' Home
saloon opened, large and extensive hotel all
but finished very commodious restaurant De
France) is completed, convenient addiNon
made to the saloon on the corner OF Main and
Good Friday streets, and desideratum long
felt by many has been fulfilled in the erection
Of shoemakers shop. In the morning the ma
terials were brought from near Grass Valley. In
the evening the house was built and the man
eobbling away with his awl and end, and now ne
has cot the run OF business, he is counting the
quarter and half dollar pieces at a satisfactory
rate. There have also been additions made to
house or two on River street, south OF the town.
and more are expected to be done shortly. I'M
aginary houses and bridges, livery stable bar
Der shop, several dwelling cottages, and another
hotel to be called the Ophir House. Bridge
across the Auburn river, in order to facilitate
traffic between Auburn and Newcastle,-said
traffic, presume, will enter the town through
Auburn street, as it will afford easier grade.
As the traffic from Newcastle is expected to be on
q large scale, there will be an independent bridge
put across said river for passengers only. al-
most forgot to mention that we have watch
makers shop on the corner of Maine and St.
Patrick streets So you that our town IS
wonderfully improving. But the sceptic will
ask From whence comes all this excitement and
adornment of Ophir7 My answer would be,
does he know that we surrounded by rich
and almost Incredible mines, and as those mines
increase by Development the town OF Ophir will
increase in magnitude. And what the mines Of
mines Of Nevada for Grass Valley and Nevada
City, SO will the mines of Auburn do for
Ophir. And beg to assure the sccptic that the
day is not distant when shall have all our
public buildings necessary fo- great town
such as town hall, postofice printing Office
law Offices. etc, and ultimately we shall be in a
position to enjoy glass of good beer, coming
direct from the Cphir Brewery. F.


OrH,n, AuoUsT 30th.
Year: 1871

How TO MAKE MoNEY.--Send to the American
Publishing Company, Rutland, Vt, for their
beautiful Specimen Book, and make ten dollars
the first day you show the book. Read their
advertisement in another column, concerning
the Parlor Album, and you will get full particu-
lars The Parlor Album contains more beauti-
Establishment than any other work extant The
Specimen Book is sent free on receipt of postage.
Year: 1871


Us not the tone of the following excruciatingl
dis nalll


Oh, her hair is as dark as the midnight wave.
And her eye like the kindling fire,
And her voice is as sweet as the spirits voice,
That chords with the seraphs Tyre.
But her nails are as sharp as a tOasting fork,
And her arms are a. strong as bears;
She pulled my hair and she gouged ny ere,
And she kicked me down the stairs.
I've got me an eye that's made of glass,
And I've got me an eye that's new;
The wig is frizzled in corkscrew curls,
And my eye is a couded blue.
She may shake her knuckles full in my face,
And put the lamp to my beard,
And hold the broomstiek over my head
But I'm not at all afeared.
For I've bound her over to keep the peace,
And I've bought me crab tree cane;
The policeman viii come, and the justice too,
II she NEEDLES with me again.
Ny head was a week in the linen cap,
And my eyes a month in the patch,
never thought that the torch Of love
Would light such rhinestone match
Year: 1871

The successful life of Mr. Jacob Strawn.
the prince of American farmers, is attrib-
uted to the close observance of the follow
ing maxims. originated by himself:


When you wake up. do not roll over,
but roll out. It will give you time to
ditch your sloughs, break them, harrow
them. and SOW with timothy and red clo-
YER. One bushel of clover to two bushels
of timothy is enough.


Make your fences high and strong, so
that it will keep cattle and pigs out.


If you have brush. make your lots Sc
cure and keep your hogs from the cattle.
for if the corn is kept clean, they will eat
it better than if it is not.


Be sure to get your hands to bed by
seven o'clock. they will rise early by force
of circumstances.


! Pay hand. if he is poor hand. pay
him little more; it will encourage him
to do still better.


Always feed your hands as well as you
do yourself, for the laboring men are the
Year: 1871

1 don't know any business more aatter-
some than the tavern business. There
don't seem to be anything to do but stand
in front Of the register with . pen behind
the ear, and see the guest enter the house
then yank bell rope six or seven times
then tell John to show the gentleman to
976, and then take four dollars and fifty
cents next morning from thepoor devil Of
traveller and let him went.


This seems to be the whole thing. (and
it is the whole) in most cases.


You will discover the following descrip-
ton mild one of about nine hotels out
of ten between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. ACROSS the United States in .
straieht line. 80.


Your room is thirteen feet nine inches
Year: 1871

BY j. G. SAKE.
Beneath the hill you may see the mill


Of wasting wood and crushing stone;
The wheel is dripping and Gathering still,
But Jerry the miller is dead and gone.
Year after year, early and late,


Alike in summer and winter weather,
He pecked the stones and calked the gate,
And mill and miller grew old together.
Little Jerry''-'twas all the same


They loved him we'll who called him SO;
And whether he'd ever another name


Nobody ever seemed to know.
Twas "Litte Jerry, come grind my rye;"
And "Little Jerry come grind my wheat"
And 'Little Jerry'' was still the cry,


From matron bold and maiden sweet.
Twas sLittle jerry on every tongue,
And thus the simple truth was told;
For Jerry was little when he was young,
And he was little when he was old.
But when in size he chanced to lack,


Jerry made up in being strong;
I've seen q sack upon his back


As thick as the miller and quite as long.
Always busy and always merry,


Always doing his very best,
A notable wag was little Jerry,


Who uttered we'll his standing just:
ssWhen will you grind my corn, sayf'
''Nay," quoth Jerry, ''you needn't scold;
Just leave your grist for half day,


And never fear but you'll be tolPd."
How Jerry lived is known to fame,


But how he died there's none may know:
One autumn day the rumor came


''The brook and Jerry are very low"
And then twas whispered mournfully,
The leech had come, and he was dead;
And all the neighbors flocked to see:


"Poor Little jerry" was all they said.
They laid him in his earthly bed


His miller's coat his only shroud-
''Dust to dust, the parson said,


And all the people wept aloud.
For he had Stunned the deadly sin


And not grain of over-toll
Had ever dropped into his bin


To weigh upon his parting soul. 3.
Beneath the hill there stands the mill


Of wasting wood and crumbling stone;
The wheel is dripping and Gathering still,
But Jerry, the miller, is dead and gone.
Year: 1871




We publish in another column this morn
ing the notice of the Secretary Of the
Treasury, that books are now open for sub
scription to the new United States loan.


The leading features of the new loan are
q reduction of the rate of interest and an
increase in the time the bonds are to run
before maturity. Long dated bonds are
preferable to those of q shorter date, and
command higher price on this account
1t is supposed that the whole of the public
debt will soon be absorbed in the proposed
new issue of bonds at the respective rates Of
four, four and half, and five per cent per
annum. The subscriptions are pouring in
rapidly, and when once the loan is taken
up BY spectators, regular investors will be
compelled to pay an advanced rate, SO those
who want chance should be in time.
Year: 1871

PER ANNUM FOR THE HERALD. In order
to place the HERALD within tho reach Of
every family 10 the county, We have RE.
DucED the price of subscription to ST.
and ask all our friends to send US ONE
MORE name With their own. We are
determined to print CHEAP and newsy
paper, not in the interest of any one
ueighborhood, but Of the W II o l. (
COUNTY.
Year: 1871

INTERESTING TO TAKERs.UP OF
STRAYs.-Our attention has been called
TO the fact that quite o Aumber Of the
tatess.sp Of s.ssys have failed 70 comply
with the law respecting the same. All
strays not called for by che owaers si,hiu
twelve months are to be reported to the
Treasurer Of the county by those taking
them up, who are required to pay into the
treasury for the benefit Of the school fund
one. half of the appraised value Of the prop


erty and ifthis is not done the Court may
order the Sheriff to sell such strays and
pay over the whole amount to the school
fund. There ore now at least seventy
fvo strays posted in this county that
come within the requirements Of this
law, and we understand the Court con
templates issuing an order for their sale
Year: 1871

The happiest household in the world is
that in which courtesy is new every morn
ing and fresh every evening, like the
celestial benedictions-How many Of us,
brethren and sisters, make home the rag
bag OF Ill humors and caprices, and wretch
ed moods of every kind. while we care
fully bide them from the stranger When
the guest arrives, We slide chair over
the rent in the carpet, and slip tidy of
the worn edge of the sofa cushion, and lay
a prettilv bound book over the inkstain
upon the parlor table cloth and so at bis
coming the flying hair is smoothed. and
the sour tone is suddenly wonderfully
sweet Shriyelled old autumn blooms in
moment into rosJ spring. And how is
youth to know that this house, where
everything seems to smile. is not always
as warm and as sunny as he finds it?
Yet this young woman so neatly dressed,
so quietly hammered, SO fascinating to the
young man, may be the most s'ineficient"
of human beings. Still he can never
know it until it is too late. He cannot
put it to the proof He takes the divinity
upon trust. All he knows is that she is
a woman, and that he loves. And wheth-
er he thinks that household intelligence
and thrift and endless courtesy come by
nature, like Dogberry's reading and writ
ing, or whether he assumes that, having
mother, his peerless princess has been care
fully taught all the duties of queen, or
whether, as is most probable. che knows
only that he loves. the duty of the parent
is still the same.-Horper' Magazine.
Year: 1871

Two painters were employed to fresco
the walls of IA cathedral Both stood on
tie rude scaffold constructed for their
purpose, some forty feet from the floor


One Of them was sd intent upon his
work that he became wholly absorbed
and in admiration stood off from the pic
ture, gazing at it with intense delight
Forgetting where hc was, he moved back
slowly, surveying leisurly the work of his
pencil, until he had neared the edge of
the plank upon which he stood. At this
critical moment his companion turned
suddenly and, almost paralyzed with hor-
ror beheld his imminent peril; another
instant, and the enthusiast would be pre-
cipitated upon the pavement beneath.
1t he spoke to him, it was certain death {;
if he held his peace death was equally
sure. Suddenly he regained his presence
of mind. and seizing wet brush, flung it
against the WALL scattering the picture
with unsightly blotches of coloring. The
painter few forward and turned rpon his
friend with fierce upbraiding but start
ing at his gastly face, he listened to his
recital of danger, looked shudderingly
over the dread space below. and with tears
of gratitude blessed the haud that. saved
him.


Just so VIC sometimes get absorbed i'll
the pictures of this world and in contcln-
plating them, step backward, unconscious
of our peril when the Almighty in his
mercy GasheS our beautiful images, and
draws us at the time we are complaining
of his dealings, into His outstrctchcd arms
of compassion and love-
Year: 1871

Bayard Taylor writes as follows to the
N y 1'rjLuAc.


In walking out this morning l came
across long beam projecting from the
gable of house directly over ravinc.
There was a slight platform under the
beam and short rope dangling from its
end. What a fearful place this for a
swing" | said. Yes, SO it is," said my
friend, "and man took fearful swing
there not four months ago" How was
that ? said |. "Why, thus it was, a man
shot another man in cold blood. He was
arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to
be hung. He was known to be desperate
vagabond. and an incendiary, and suspi-
cions of many dark deeds were upon him.
His chances FOR escape through executive
clemency or legal technicalities were con-
sidered by many of our best citizens who,
on the whole, concluded to make a sure
thing of it. They therefore went in a
body the Jail, escorted the prisoner to this
spot, and after solemn presentation of
the facts in the case, they told him to pre-
pare for death, and they adjusted the rope
about his neck. No sooner was the knot
secure than he swore California oath
no id coward should have the glory of
choking him to death, and leaped down
the chasm. He came to the end Of the
rope before he did to the bottom of the
chasm, and so was clicked to dealh at
last" This little incident is scarcely
worth mentioning, it being an affair of
such common occurrence here, but. as one
of the ordinary phenomena of mining
country, have not felt at liberty to omit
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