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Year: 1872

Our dispatches this morning announce


the death of the most remarkable man in


many respects that has ever lived on this


continent. James Gordon Bennett, found


er and proprietor of the New York Herald


died yesterday, aged about Y years and


not II as the telegraph reports, was


born about the year 1S00 at New Mill,


Kerth, Banffshire, Scotland. At the age of
10 he bid farewell to the land of his birth
and sailed for the West in search Of fame
and fortune, both of which he has been
successful in finding to his hearts content.
He first betook himself to the occupation
of teaching in Halifax, but his nature was
too impulsive to admit of his pursuing
this occupation long. Three years after, he
went to New York, which proved the field
of success in journalism, such as has not
often been achieved by man. After short
connection with the press he accepted a
situation on the Charleston Courier and
remained in that connection for several
months, when he again returned to New
York and issued proposals for the estab-
lishment of a commercial school. This
not proving successful, he went into the
Iecturing business, delivering lectures on
political economy. In 1925, he made his
first attempt towards establishing public
journal. He purchased Sunday paper,
the New York Courier, which proved
failure, and he was employed as a writer
and reporter for several New York jour-
nails. He was connected with various
other papers up to May, 1885, when he
issued the first number of the Herald,
with which journal he has been ever since
identified, and which has attained q circu-
latiOn the largest of any daily paper in the
United States He has never stopped for
difficulties, but has pushed his business
with q zeal and energy which at times
appeared to border on recklessness. How
ever much the world may have differed
with him in his views, and in the various
plans resOrted to for the accomplishment
of his ends, all join in admiring his zeal
as worthy of good cause, whether exert
ed in that behalf or otherwise.


He has undertaken and accomplished
enterprises before which common men
would have stood abashed. Though he is
gone, the work of his hands is strongly
established, and when his remains have
mOuldered away in their mother dust, the
Herald will stand as living monument
of the energy and business capacity of
James Gordon Bennett, the poor Scotch
DOy-the American milli OnairC.
Year: 1872

COVERING UPTHE SCAR.-A distinguish
ed preacher of London, in speaking of the
proneness of Protestant denominations to
observe each others defect rather than ex-
Cellence, says


When an eminent painter was requested
to paint Alexander the Great so as to give
perfect likeness of the Macedonian con-
queror, he felt difficulty. Alexander in
his way, had been struck by a sword, and
across his forehead was an immense scar.
The painter said, 'If retain the scar, it
will be an offense to the admirers of the
monarch, and if omit it, it will fail to be
perfect likeness-what shall I do ?u He
hit upon happy eXpedient; he represent
ed the Emperor leaning on his elbow with
his fore-tinger upon his brow accidentally,
as it seemed, covering the scar upon his
forehead: Might not we represent each
other with the finger of charity upon the
scar, instead of representing the scar deeper
and blacker than it actually is? Might
not Christians learn from heathendOm a
lesson OF charity, of human kindness and
of love?
Year: 1872

We are informed through a source we
cannot doubt, that Mr.. Samuel HutChisOn
cut white oak tree down, three feet
through, in ObiOn river bottom three or
four miles from Troy, few days since, in
the center of which he found live frog of
ordinary size. The tree was perfectly sol
id, no crack or hollow in it, save a hole or
cell foot in length, and of sufficient
width for his frogship to exercise by climb
ing up, and turning around in it: The
hole or cell was perfectly slick as though
his frogship had exercised daily ever since
it had been in there, which may have been
five hundred or more years. Can any one
tell us how old tree of the above order Is
when it arrives to the dimention above !?
Will some one tell Us how the frog got
there, and how old his frogship is?-Ifoy
Times.
Year: 1872

RUNNING IN DEBE.-There is nothing that makes 0 man more contemptible in his own eyes than owing money when he cannot pay it. He feels that he is in a false position that instead of ranking with the respectable portion of society he ought to take his position with the meanest classes, for he is walking about under false colors in other peoples clothes, feeding surreptitiously from other peoples tables, living in houses, lodging, and using furniture that do not belong to him, and that if he were to act like an honest man, and pay for what he has, he must dress less, eat plainer food, and dwell in back streets he would then be far more respectable man than the scamp who willfully incurs debts which at the time he knows he cannot pay. Many an honest man is brought into untold endorsements by an extravagant and thoughtless family, and by the pernicious system of long credit giving by retail merchants. Now this system of buying on credit is sim ply ruinous, and really creates habits of extravagance ;; it seems so easy to look forward to meeting payment which is six months distant ! Keep out of debt, my friend. Pay cash for every article which you or your family require, and regulate your expenditure according to your income, trusting nothing to the future which the present cannot provide for. Better little privation now, than debt and ruin hereafter.
Year: 1872

POISONED HERsELF.-A couple of young ladies from the country came into Peoria, Ill few days ago for the pur- pose of attending the Normal School, and having obtained rooms on the bluff, took possession of them. They had not been in possession long before they found that the rooms were infested with mice and rats. They therefore procured some arsenic, and in the evening one of the ladies spread piece of bread with butter. and putting on some of the poison, covered the whole with some sugar. Instead of immediately putting the deadly viand where the animals she wished to kill would be most likely to get at it, she foolishly laid it on the table and prepared another piece of bread for herself Tn the same manner, of course emitting the arsenic. This piece she laid on the table beside the other, and taking up book, drew chair beside the table and commenced reading. Absorbed in reading and yet conscious that she was hungry she, without look ing up, reached out her hand and took what she supposed to be the harmless food. But she had taken the wrong piece as she suddenly found, and phy- sician was hastily summoned. He re- mained with the sufferer all night and the next day until he thought she was out of danger, although very sick.
Year: 1872

tom of the canoe, and l saw it quiver--
only slight spasmodic movement-and
all was still.


All that night 1 sat there at my watch,
and steered my canoe. had my second
pistol ready, for l knew not surely that
the wretch was dead. He might be wait
ing to catch me off my guard, and then
shoot me. But the night passed slowly
and drearily away, and when the morning
broke the form moved not. Then step
ped forward and found that Gustus Karl
was dead. He had fallen with his knife
true to his aim, for it struck very near to
where my heart must have been and the
point was driven so far into the solid wood
that had to work hard to pull it out, and
harder still to unclasp the marble fingers
that were closed with dying madness about
the handle.


Swiftly flowed the tide, and ere the sun
sank again to rest had reached Logans-
port The authorities knew the face of
Gustus Karl at once, and when told them
my story they poured a thousand thanks
upon my head. A purse was raised, and
the offered reward put with it, and tender
ed to me. / took the simple reward from
the generous citizens, while the remainder
1 directed should be distributed among
those who had suffered most from the Wa
bash robbers depredations.


found Knapp sick and miserable. He
was burning with fever, and the doctors
had shut him up in room where we'll
man must soon have suffocated.


Water--water give me water ~ he
gasped.


Haven't you had any ?" l asked.


He told me no. threw open the win
dows-sent for pail of ice water. And
was on the point of administering it when
the OLD doctor came in. He held up his
hands in horror, and told me it would kill
the sick man. But forced him back, and
Knapp drank the faithful beverage. He
drank deeply and slept. The perspiration
poured from him like rain, and when he
woke again his skin was moist, and his
fever was turned. In three days he sat in
his saddle by my side, and together we
started for Little River. At Walton's
settlement found my horse fully recovered
and when l offered to pay for his keeping
the host would take nothing. The story
of my adventure on the river had reached
there ahead of me, and this was the land
lords gratitude.
Year: 1872

When failing health, or cross event,


Or dull monotony of days,
Has brought me into discomfort,


That darkens round me like a haze,
/ find it wholesome to recall


Those chiefest goods my life has known
Those whitest days, that frightened all
The checkered seasons that are flown.
No year has passed but gave me some;
o unborn years, nor one Of you
So from the past l learn-shall come


Without much precious tribute due.
can be patient, since amid


The days that seem so ovrcast,
Such future golden hours are hid


And those see amid the past.
Year: 1872




We know of no more singular case of
canine sagacity, says the Hartford Times,
than one that was related to us few days
since. The gentleman who owned the dog
lived at the time the occurrence happened,
in SOuthington. 1t was good while ago.
His dog, a fox hound, was bit in the nose
by red adder. This is snake whose ven-
omous quality is only inferior to that of
the rattlesnake. 1t will always kill a man.
The dog, though bitten, continued to as
sail the snake, and succeeded in killing
him. To the surprise of his owner, who
witnessed the combat, the dog then turned
and fled with his best speed towards home,
the house being two miles distant. The
people at the house saw him come rushing
up the road and plunge into the open Gel
lar-way.


There they found him energetically paw
ing up the moist earth of the cellar bottom,
into the hole thus made he stuck his nose,
and then, and holding it there, he paved
more dirt around his head so as to bury his
nose and face out of sight.


They could not call or coax him away;
and there he staid-so far as the family
were observers of him-for two days, with
his nose and face buried in the moist ground
in the cellar. Then he came forth all well.


How did that dog know that that singu-
lar treatment would save him.


% Bud Dodington was one day walking
down Bond street, London, when bor-
rowing acquaintance rushed from the op-
posite side Of way, and expressed great
delight at meeting him, "for," said he
al am wonderfully in want of guinea"
Dodington WINGED, and taking out his
purse showed that he had no more than
half a guinea.


ga thousand thanks p exclaimed the
prosecutor half forcing the coin from be-
meath the owners fingers, "that will do
very well for the present" When they
had parted the impudent borrower turned
back to Dodington, saying:


By-the-bye, when will you pay me that
half guinea ?'


"Pay you what do you mean9'


Why, intended to borrow guinea OF
you, and have only got half but I'm not
in any hurry for the other. Name your
own time only pray keep it,"
Year: 1872

There is touch of pathos about doing
even the simplest things for the last time. Ii
is not alone kissing the lips Of the dead that
gives you this strange pain. You feel il
when you look your last upon some scene
which you have loved--whon you stand in
some quiet street, where you know you will
never stand again, unless, indeed, you come
back some day to the old haunts," and wan.
der among them an unwelcome ghost.


The actor playing his part for the last time
the singer whose voice is cracked hopeless
ly, and who after this once will never stand
before the sea Of upturned faces disputing the
plaudits with iresher voices and fairer forms
the clergyman who has preached his last
sermon-those all know the hidden bitterness
Of never again"


How they come to US on birthdays, as We
grow older Never again young-always
nearer and nearer to the very last--the end
which is universal, the last thing" which
shall follow all the other last things and turn
them, let us hope, from pains to JOY.


We put away our boyish toys with an odd
heart-ache. We we're too old to walk any
longer on our stilts--too tall to play marbles
on the pavement. Yet there was a pang
when we thought we had played with our
merry mates for the last time, and life serious
grown-up work was waiting for us.


Now we do not want the lost toys back
Life has other and larger plays for us.-May
ii not be that these, too, shall seem in the
light Of some far-of day as the boyish games
seem to our manhood, and we shall learn that
death is but the opening Of gate into the
new land Of promise
Year: 1872

{" never saw sheep harnessed up before"
said Harry as he turned over the leaves of a
big book on natural history, and found a pic
ture of sheep drawing little two-wheeled
cart.


Do you know what natural history means
1t means a history or description of animals,
birds and fishes.


4" Let me see, said his mother. So Harry
brought the great book and laid it in her lap.


"Ah, yes" she continued, I" it is a sheep
that lives in Syria and Egypt, and other parts
Of Asia and Africa, and has a long, heavy
tail which sometimes trails on the ground
This tail usually weighs l5 or 20 pounds
but when the sheep is fattened it sometimes
gets to weigh 20 or so, or even $50 pounds
The sheep cannot carry it then, so little
cart is made to lay it on, and the sheep draws
it about"


What is the use Of such big, fat tails 2"


The people when they kill the sheep, use
the fat of the tail, which is not at all like
talow, for butter"


Harry shut up his book and put it away,
and went out to play and his mother kept
on sewing, and forgot all about the sheep
with the cart. After while she heard a
great racket outside the window, and looking
out, she saw Harry and Nep. He had fas.
tened his cart to the dog, and as Nep would
not let his tail lie in the cart he had tied his
white tippet to the end of the tail Nep did
not understand those proceedings, and was
frsking about and wagging his tail, with ev-
cry wag setting the tippet flying in the air,
and every few steps overturning the cart.


"Never mind, Nep, III teach you yet. If
you don't be good dog and let your tail lie
in tn g cart. III have TO tie il down"


But the next jump brought Nep quite out
of the harness, and away he capered, looking
back roguishy, as much as to say, No you
don't, old fellow


Harry was about to follow him, but just
then lady passed by, her long trailing skirt
sweeping the walk and gathering dirt and
dust. Harry stood looking at her until she
was out of sight, and then turning to his
mother, he said


Mother don't you think ii would be a
good plan for ladies who wear tails to their
dresses to have little cart to keep them up
out of the dirt ?"
Year: 1872

christians might avoid much trouble and
inconvenience If they would only believe what
they profess, that God is able to make them
happy without anything else. They imagine
that il such dear friend were to die or such
aud such blessings were removed, they should
be miserable whereas God can make them a
thousand times happier without them. To
mention my own case God has been deprv-
ing me of one mercy after another but as
enc has removed, he has come in and filed up
its place. Now when am a cripple, and not
able TO move, am happier than ever was
in my life before, or ever expected to be ! and
if | had believed this twenty years ago, |
might have been spared much anxiety. If
God had told me some time ago that He was
about to make me as happy as could be in
this world, and then had told me he should
begin by crippling me in all my limbs, and
removing me from my usual sources Of enjoy
ment, should have thought it avery strange
mode of accomplishing this purpose. And
yet how is His wisdom manifest even in this /!


DR.. Paysoa.
Year: 1872

MAKING THE BEST OF IT,-Little Minnie
only three years old, to amuse a homesick
cousin who was staying at her house, brought
out her choicest playthings. Among these
was tiny trunk, with bands of gilt paper
for straps, very pretty toy but Freddie
bent the lid too far back, and it broke off,
He did not mean to do this and when he saw
what he had done, he was frightened, and be-
gan to cry. Then dear little Minnie, with
her own eyes full of tears, said


Never mind, Freddie just see what .
cunning little cradle the top will make I"


That was certainly great deal better thar
fretting. She made the best Of il.
Year: 1872

"A father had taken his lite girl into his
cellar to carry up the pieces Of wood he
should saw. As the child was standing with
outstretched arms, receiving the cut pieces
from her fathers hands, stranger stopped
aud looked in the cellar door. Seeing that
she apparently had quite load, and that her
father was still adding to the burden, he said,
Z" am afraid you have too heavy load"
She with all the trust and simplicity Of low
lug child, answered, Father knows when
have enough" Christian, our Father knows
when We have enough, and the heavier tho
load and the more severe the cross, the more
of strength aud grace will he give US, his
dear children.
Year: 1872

Stock Jobbers very frequently get news
ahead of the regular source of press iniorma-
ton Long before the news Of the disaster
to the steamship Bienvile reached the news.
paper offices in New York, the sbarpers in
Broad and Wall streets had the intelligence
and made themselves busy in taking advant.
age of it. Before the third edition Of the
evening papers appeared on the street nearly
$4,000 shares of the Pacific Mail stock had
changed hands.
Year: 1872

A fireman of No. , Fire Company
told our reporter that he had ordered the
Hook and Ladder Company 70 leave.
When asked for an explanation, he
said he would send up a column Of water
which would freeze instantly, and make
his men climb it, if it became necessary
to send a man above the roof to see how
the old thing worked.


Even while this last line of this story
is written, the firemen are at work,
having the flames under control. The
clock strikes two, and there is little
more to tell of the fire Of this morning.
MIR. Bilbow's loss is thirty-fOur hundred
dollars, while that of Feucht & Lochart
is unknown.
Year: 1872

Not more than half of our subscribers
received their paper yesterday. This
failure was occasiored 10y the bursting
Of a water-pipe connected with our ma
chineTy in SO destructive a manner that
the repair Of il occupied the whole Of
the day, and compelled us to give up all
idea OF serving the remainder. 1t win
be seen from our columns this morning
that we more than make up for any loss
sustained by them, or our advertising
friends. We publish double the usu1
quantity Of matter found in our Monday
issues, and reinsert all the advertise
ments sent in for Sunday alone. This,
with AN extra edition Of over two thoI-
sand, will, we think and hope, satisfy ev-
erybody. The accident was unlocked foT
and unavoidable. We shall hereafter
endesvor to be prepared for its possible
recurrence, and save all necessity for
explanation, which we dislike very
much in this case having to make.
Year: 1872

THE attention of the readers of the
APPEAL is directed to the very valuable
property on Union avenue, to be sold to-
day at Trustees sale, embracing ten or
twelve lots Of about five acres each,
with one of the best residences in the
city. The advertisement viii be found
on our first page.
Year: 1872

The women of Italy are beginning a
novel crusade against foreign fashions
in dress. 1t is to be hoped that it will
be an effectual one, for the models with
which they propose to replace those of
the French are to be taken partly from
the most graceful and artistic of the
unique garments pictured by famous
Italian painters. Native artists in
gowns viii aid in this queer reformation,
and a monthly journal viii advocate it
strenuOusly.
Year: 1872

1t is one of the severest tests OF
friendship to tell man of his faults
If you are angry with man, it is not
hard to go to him and stab him with
words, singing his soul to madness, or
disgraeing him in the presence of his
foes; but so to love man that YOU
cannot bear to see the stain of sin upon
him, and to go to him alone and speak
painful truths in touching, tender
words--that is friendship, and a friend
ship as rare as it is precious.


Few indeed have such friends. Our
friends pet us, and praise us, and fat
ter us, and justly us in all we do, for
fear they shall hurt our feelings, and il
IS left for enemies to rip the coverings
from our faults, and tear our wounds
open, and teach us when we are at the
point of the sword.


Iffriends would reprovc us more.
enemies would wound us less, and find


less opportunity to pierce and rend our
hearts with their fierce repreaches.


Do you wish to be my friend? Will
you then tell me my faults to my face
Will you do it in season, before you
are out of patience or angry? Will
you still tell them to me though am
inpatient and annoyed at your faith
fulncss? Will you tillpress the truth
tenderly home upon me, until |
am calmed and convinced, and pcni-
tent? Will you refuse to be an enemy.
and not allow yourself to be counted
as a stranger, but keep on in faithful
dealing till you have won me from the
wrong and led me to the right? If
| greet you and welcome you, for
faithful are the wounds of a friend,
but the kisses of an enemy are deceit
temperance Herald.
Year: 1872

Z. We demend system of Federal
taxation which shall not unnecessarily
intefere with the industry of the people,
and which shall provide the means
necessary to pay the expenses of the
government economically administer
ed, the pensions, the interest on the
public debt and moderate annual re
duction of the principal thereof: and
recognizing that there are in our midst,
honest but irroconcilable differences OF
opinion with regard to the respective
systems OF protection and free trade,
we remit the discussion of the subject
TO the people in their congressional
districts and the decisions of Congress
thereon, wholly free of Executive inter
ference or dictation.


s. The public credit must he sacred
ly maintained, and we denounce rcpu
diation in every form and guise


2. A speedy return 10 specie pay.
mont il demanded alike by the high.
Year: 1872

THE LEADING EVENING PAPER


OF THE CITY


Is THE


EVENING TELEGRAM.
MORE FACTS or IMPORTANCE,
GREATER AMOUNT OF INFORMATION,
COMPLETE RECORD OF DAILY EVENTS,
PAPER FULL OF LIVE AND INTERESTING


NATTER,
EDITORIALLY INDEPENDENT OF
PARTIES AND CLIQUES,
WITH THE LARGEST CIRCULATION,
THE EVENING TELEGRAM.
Year: 1872

THE SECRET OF LARGE CRors.-
An exchange says:


Plough deeply and at once,
plant good seed only and then cul.
tivate well. Do no. be afraid of
frost. If it comes and bites down
a part, do not plough up, but save
what is left and replant only
where killed. Many a crop has
been plonghed up when four.
fifths Of it would have come on,
again. And if all be killed it will
not be labor lost to have planted.
as it will only make yonr ground
better for second planting
Plant early and you will, with
good cultivation, be sure Of 9
bountifal yield.