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Year: 1871

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Year: 1871

LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
THE KU-KLUx COMMITTEE ADJOURNED
MOBILE COTTON FOR LIVERPOOL
THE FERRYBoAT DISASTER
FIFTY NINE DEATHS
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO INJURED
ALLOWANCE TO PRINCE ARTHUR
ITS DENUNCIATION IN PARLIAMENT
MEETING IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Protest A Against the Allowance
THE MEETING BROKEN UP
Year: 1871

NEURALGIA is cured by the use Of Renns's
Pain.Killing Magic Oil. surest of anything
We ever tried; in fact, it cures any kind Of
pain or lameness, and is an article every
family should keep IN the house. Sold BY
our merchants.
Year: 1871

The New York Tribune thus speaks of the
Young Mems Christian Association of that
city:


New York is crowded to suhocation with
young men from all parts of the country it is
the arena to which every ambitious boy brings
his shrewdness, or skill, or strength, for final
success or defeat. He has cut loose from
home, old acquaintance, old habits; hei NOR
bid to-day with vanity in his hot young blood
and strength; morbid tomorrow with anger at
his own nsignfcance in the crowd; homesick,
perhaps, and ashamed of it shut in by the in
different hurrying multitude Oh himself, his
petty failures or petty successes. No boy will
be compelled into isolation that We all know
least of all the genial hearty fellow, eager for
sympathy and comradeship, whose power and
promise are worth the most. lie cannot cross
the street that vice does not open dozen
avenues for him to enjoy society, friends, pleas
ure ; avenues where every aesthetic taste he
has is cunningly gratifed, while q sure hold is
laid on his animal nature to drag him down.
What shall he do? He that lives in solitude, >
says La Rochefoucauld, :" is either brute or
god. The ordinary young man is neither.
True, the churches are open, but Sunday
schools and prayer meetings require for their
enjoyment a certain amount of active piety
which it is most likely he has never felt. He
enters the only pleasant doors accessible to





upon him, and he goes down, with that end
less, wofu caravan that have gone before. Now
it is for this boy and his fellows that the Asso.
citation are doing their work. They profer
him help from the hour he arrives in New
York, stranger and alone hold out their
hands with hearty goodwill, giving him a
chance at once for what he will probably most
feel the need-an entrance into society of cul-
tured and wel-bred people. Religion is not
thrust Extensively upon him their building,
as costly and complete as the most expensive
clubhouse in the city, offers him the means
for the strengthening and amusement Of both
body and mind at the triAing outlay Of few
dollars per annum. He finds music, art, sci
entific and popular lectures, a gymnasium, par
lors fitted up with elegance, billiard and chess
rooms no means have been left unused to
turn the bright ard cordial side of an honOra.
BILE lite to the gallant young fellow who is fight
ing his way manfullv alone.
Year: 1871

A PROPER THING TO DO.-At the Whining
ton Methodist conference a resolution has been
adopted condemning gift enter
prises, aud gambling at church fair" It
is somewhat surprising that these practices,
INDUCED in and encouraged by
great many good people, have not been discOun-
tenanccd by all church authorities. Though
they do not seem to regard those lotteries and
chances " adopted to raise money for good
purposes, in the light Of gambling, yet they
are in reality nothing else; and they are calcu-
lated to do great mischief in familiarzing
young people with species of demorazing
influences from which they should be sedulous-
ly guarded 1t is a long time since we felt
obliged to Danish all favorable mention of them
from the columns of this paper, together with
fairs generally 1t would be good thing, now
that the movement has begun, for the leading
people in our church congregations to try to
find some other way to raise money than by
" fairs and bazaars. They interfere sadly
with the regular course of retail business !;
they injure the trade of worthy class Of retail
dealers who are mostly women they generally
come at a season of the year when these poor


people should be reaping their harvest after


the long dull season OF summsr and tall ; and


they bring the voluntary and gr0taitOus labor
of wealthy families into competition with the


compelled labor of the poor needle women


who have to depend on their earnings for their


daily bread.-Phild. Ledger.
Year: 1871

Said distinguished politician to his son =
" Look at mel l began as an alderman, and
here am at the top of the tree and what is
my reward? Why, when I die, my son will
be the greatest rascal in the city" To this
the young hopeful replied: "Yes, dad, when
YOU die"
Year: 1871

A HELpMEEr-A country paper tells Of
smart wife that helped her husband to raise
seventy acres of wheat. The way she helped
him was to stand in the doorway and shake
broom at him when he sat down to rest.
Year: 1871

Some one asked Miss Bremer, "What do
you think when SO many people come to see
YOU p Il wish that was handsomer, was
the honest and womanlike reply of the charm
ing Swedish novelist.
Year: 1871

An indianapolis genteman's claim for d.
vorce is based on the ground that when he
married, four weeks ago. his wife's hair was
hIack hut now it is red enough to entitle her
TO the front rank in torchlight procession.
Year: 1871


PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES


TABLE MOUNTAIN. 1870.
Which l wish to remark
And my language is plain
That for that dark
And for tricks that vain,
The heathrn Chinee is peculiar,
Which tho same would rise to explain
All Sin was his name;
And shall not deny
In regard to the same
What that name might imply
But his smile it was pensive and childliks
As | frequent remarked to Bill Nye.
1t was August the third.
And quite soft was the skies:
Which il might be Inferred
That All Sin was likewise:
Yet he PLAYED it that day upon William
And me in way despise
Which we had a small game,
And All Sin took hand;
1t was cuchre. The same
He did not understand;
But he smiled as he sat BY the table
With smile that childke ami bland.
Yet the cards they were stocked
In way that gri1ye.
And my feelings we're shocked
At the state of Nye'S sleeve;
Which was stuffed full of aces and bowera
And the same with intent to deceive.
But the hands that were played
By that heather Chinee,
And the points that he mada
" ere quite frKhtfu to see
Till at last he put down a right bower
Which the same Nye had dealt unite me;
Then looked up at Nye,
And he gazed upon LIE;
And he rose with a sigh.
And said. " Can this be-
Wear ruined by Chinese cheap labor"
Aud lac went for that heather Chlnse.
In he scene that ensued
did not take hand.
But the floor oft strewed
Like the leaves the strand
With the cards that All Sin had been hiding
In the game he did not understand.
In his sleeves. which were long,
He had twenty -four packs
Which coming it strong,
Ye; state but the facts,
And we found on his nails which we're taper
Which is frequent in tapers-that's wax.
Which is why remark,
And my language is plain,
That for ways that are dark,
And for tricks that vain,
The heathrn Chinee is peculiar
Which the same l am free to maintain


IF. BRsr HARTE, In the Overland Month
Year: 1871

The sickening sensation of Thursday
was the establishment of morgue for the
exhumed remains Of the mighty fire. This
repository is the hearse and car
riage room of lower class undertaken,
on Hubbard street, near Halsted, few
blocks from the freight depot of the Pitts
Year: 1871

A SUCcEss.-The entertainment
given in Lenahan's Hall on Monday even
ing was In every respect q success All
parts Of the performance we're well sus.
tanned, much to the credit of those having
them in charge. The nusic, both vocal and
instrumental was highly spoken of by many
good critics The Charades and Proverbs
were rendered much better than might have
been expected, many of those taking part
never before having appeared before an
audience in any role


The attendance was all the Hall would
accommodate, Including the very best peo
pie of oar City. The receipts ran over $50
Year: 1871

1T would seem that some of the
legal fraternity Of Southwestern Wiscon.
sin do not, behave themselves with prop-
er decorum at all times when away from
Nome, or to have n good reputation for
honesty. Who the unfortunate man is.
referred to in the item from the Richlapa
County Recorder bclaw, we know not. but
feel sure he is not Mineral Pointer.


Lawyers from the Southern part of the
State would do well to bear in mind that
we remember old debts, and If our side
walks get too narrow for them they will
be dunned If they forget little matters Of
ten years standing.
Year: 1871

PuritNnism Wounded I'm the House of It's
Friends-A Boston Cleric ON Theatres aud
Dancing.


The Rev. J. L. Hatch lectured in the Olympic
Theatre, Boston, on Sunday evening last, on


THE THEATRE AS MEANS OF GRACE"


The report of his address in the Boston Herald
Gays he prefaced his remarks by a selection
from the writings of Hood, denouncing the
practice of some persons of donning the cloak
of religion to cover their hidden deformites,
and of assuming to feel holy horror of indulg-
ing any of the propensities of human nature.
The speaker then contrasted the


PRINCIPLES OF TRUE AND FALSE RELIGION.


The former was discriminating, proving all
things, and holding fast to that which was good.
The latter was overbearing and dogmatic. The
former favored a full and fair encounter between
truth and error, and "who ever knew the truth
to be put to the worst 2" The theatre and the
dance have always been put under the ecclesi-
astical ban, and have received the severest cen
sure of rigid moralists. But


HUMAN NATURE CANNOT BE SUPPRESSED.


Men clothed in gown and bands. or dressed in
little brief authority" which they wear with
as much pride and pomposity as any fop his
fanciful toggery, Ray strive with severe counte-
nance and rigid, Puritanic restrictions to subdue
think they have conquered, and have got il safe
under their thumb, up il jumps


LIKE A JACK-IN-A-Box,


full of life and vigor to their great fright or at
least to their extreme displeasure and disgust
The speaker claimed that many of the worst
and most immoral people he had ever known
had been those who never went to the theatre.
but considered 1t a stepping-stone to hell; while
very many of the best men and women in the
world have been those who occasionally attend
the theatre and regard its influence,


AS FAVORABLE TO GOOD MORALS.
He (Hatch) practsed as he preached and in the
instruction of his little daughter brought her to
the theatre and had her taught to dance at home.
The contrary ground had been taken by very
able and sincere men, but in most cases these
grounds were not the result of investigation and
personal knowledge, but were taken from hear
most able exponents of these principIes. none
other than Henry Ward Beecher, was like an
owl in an ivy bush, reading lecture to a lynx
on the sin of sharp-sightedness The lecture
was very well received by the audience and
was frequently applauded
Year: 1871

FRIDAY, April There was no meeting OF the
merchants at the Commercial Exchange this morn
ing, and the movements in BreadstuGs were of a
limited character.


Cotton is but little sought after. The current
Year: 1871

Machines warranted and kept in repair years.
We have fitted our rooms neatly and comfortably,
and should be pleased to have you call and sec our
machines IN operation, and examine samples OF
work, at any hour of the day or evening AT all
events call and see us before purchasing elewhere
Year: 1871

The reputation which the SINGER has gained Is
such that it needs no comment hare. BefoI buying
machine inform yourself on the sterling merits Of
all and chose that one which will meet yourwants


the best Do not take any ones word for it but see
for yourselves. We viii take it as a favor, if any
one Will Ike the Singer and put it beside any ma
ching that is manufactured and test the results in
regard to variety, quality and uniformity of work.
simplicity of machine, liability to get out of order
and facility Of management, &c. All we ask is a


trial. We sell on the unparalleled terms of
Year: 1871




From thp clGrksburg Conservative.


Now that the Flick contest is past, and
that low, mean, humiliating compromise
Is carried by the votes Of Democrats, We
cannot help recalling to memory reasons
why II is 50. In this county we laid the
question 30 bare before the people, that
any man might read and understand, and
the result Is majority Of 300 against rat.
iticatiOn. The same result would have
been In many other parts Of tho State If
the tue face had been put upon the
amendment, and the voters made 10 I'm.
deHtand what the question really was.
We do not propose TO say word moro
for or against the amendment. But we
have word to say in regard 10 The shame
ful, vascillaung cOwardly course pursued
by many Of our editorial contemporaries.
We have the most unbOunded respect for
the paper which from first to last In
good faith advocated the adoption Of the
amendment, but we heartily despise the
newspaper niau who straddled the fence
and tried by saying nothing 10 keep his
chances carefully poised with both sides.
A policy man is always mean man.
Policy Is but another name for deceit,
and the man that harbOrs either Is
not 10 be trusted. And yet in this canvass
Of question which embraced Vi
tai points, papers that claim high rank
nrespectability were as mum as the num-
mics Of Egypt, or II they said aught, you
could read from 10 lizard and not. find
which side Of the question they favored.
Such papers ought 10 hide their faces
hereafter, or at least be willing To fall In
the ranks and follow, instead Of trying 10
lead public sentiment Perhaps the most
notorious case Of this kind Is that Of the
Wheeling Register. It's proprietor was
elected on a platform oppoSed 70 the amend
ment, voted for It In tho Legislature,
apologized and tried 10 excuse himself
for voting contrary TO his confessed opin.
ions, and then with his tongue yet culver.
ing with his u didn't go to do It." he runs
bis paper oil through the canvass, and rs
carefully balances himself on the rail,
ready 10 jump on either side, as ever waS
any otheraCrObat or tight.rope performer
And yet this man Is chairman Of the
Democratic State Committee, and as.
sumes 10 be its leader. Verify, IL the
Democracy arc 10 be led by such o COW.
ardly leader, then there Is little else than
continuation Of defeats can be expected
lori and we are not certain but 1t de.
serves nothing more.
Year: 1871

from the cambridge tMassl Herld.


There lives a family in Dorchester
county, every dark-eyed male member
Of which for the past fifty years has
gone blind at the age of 20 to 25 years.
Those with blue eyes have escaped the
terrible aff1iction. There is a tradition
about this singular circumstance which
we lay before our readers as we heard
1T. Some sixty years since, so goes the
story, beautiful black-eyed girl of %
from some cause or other lost her eye
sight. Her misfortune brought penury
and want with it.. Being reduced to
beggary, she was wont to go abroad
asking aims. During one of her journ-
eys she visited the neighborhoOd in
which resided the ancestors of those
who are now sightleSs. Instead of her
helpless condition exciting, as it should
have done, feeling of sympathy, she
was treated with ridicule by some OF
the younger members of the house her
evil star had led her into. Two of the
boys, as matter of mere deviltry, took
her out, promising to conduct her to a
place where plenty awaited. Instead
of giving her a safe conduct, they car
ried her into swamp and left her. 1t
is said that she cried out beseeching
them to put her on the public road,
but they needed not her lamentations.
Finding herself about to be deserted
among the tangled brushwood, she
turned her prayer to curse, asking her
Maker, in her own revengful anguish,
to punish her betrayers, by making
their offsprings for seven generations as
helpless as she was. 1t is said that she
was found dead in the swamp, having
perishing from hunger and cold. This
may seem somewhat romantic, but
false or true, it is assuredly fact that
the male offsprings of the family re-
ferred to lose their sight as Indicated
Hundreds of persons in Dorchester
county will certify it. a ,5t
Year: 1871

A young man OF the name of Joseph
recently tickled a young lady in church
on North Bars Island, in Ohio. The
lady squealed, and the preacher barred
his arm sailed into the worshippers
powerful" He said woman and men
should no more set together under the
droppings of his sanctuary. But, even
with the possibility of being tickled be-
fore their eyes, the ladies refused to be
separated, and on the very next even
ing all sat together. The preacher was


on ana eroagn1 before es mae se
ofthe peace. Ajury wasdemanded, and
no juror should be a member of the
church. Three days the trial lasted,
but at last the oppressed went free, and
now In church they tickle each other as
of yore, to keep awake In an amusing
manner. .s..
Year: 1871

Ajuvenile, who during the past week
has visited newspaper Office, handed
to the teacher composition entitled
"How to Make Newspapers" in which
he thus describes the process: E


"The Headmen sit down to their
desks and write on little pieces of paper
what to print in the paper. Then they
put them in box and send them up
stairs. When they get them upstairs a
man takes them and gives lot of other
men every one a piece of this paper.
The man that the paper is given to
takes the types and fixes them one af-
ter another so they read when the pa
per reads. A man then takes the words
and puts them in a box as they are to
be in the papers. Then he takes the
box and puts it in some machinery and
makes it go back and forth, then there
is boy who stands over the machinery
and pokes the paper in, and then some
hooks bring it down over the box with
the types in, and the types have ink on
and print on the papers then there is
hooks that take the paper up and lays
it on table then they fold them and
sell them, the end John M"
Year: 1871

2 Suppose man and a girl were mar
ried and-which is of course impossi-
ble-that, at the time of the hymenial
contract, the man was thirty-five years
old, and the girl five; which makes
the man seven times as 9ld As the girl.
They live together gpta the girl is ten
wears old-this makes him forty, and
four times as old as the girl; they live
until she is fifteen, the man forty-fiye
this makes the man, three times as
old; they still live until she is thirty
this makes the man sixty, only twice
as old. And now, as we havn't much
time to work it out, perhaps somebody
will be good enough to tell us how long
they would have to live to make the
girl aS old as the man. -..---
Year: 1871

The proprietor of cotton factory
put this notice ON the gate; "No cigars
or good looking men admitted, In ex-
PLANTATION he said; "The one will set a
flame agoing among my cotton, and
the other among my girls. l won't
admit such dangerous things into my
establishment. The risk is too great" "
Year: 1871

The Noble County Republican says
the wheat crop of that county looks
very badly, and the prospect now is
the farmers will hardly gather enough
next harvest to balance the seed sown
last fall.
Year: 1871

to Grind on the Capitol grindstone, and (if
eIected) spend a Winter in close, unwhole-
como otmospberc. among undesirable COM
panions, for SO per day


If tbey are, you can afford to go ahead.


Won will have to tcork. No substantial sue
ooss ia otherwise attainable. Get the names Of
five hundred citizens who are heartily with
Won. Have each call a meeting of his friends
and neighbors in his own house to talk the
matter over and form little auxiliary to your
movement So soon as may be, transform
these auxiaries into Election District Associ-
ations and have one in each Election District
so nearly as may be. Draft some out of these
voluntary auxiliaries to form new auxiliaries
in the districts which they severally inhabit.
Keep out of public halls and grogshops so
long as you can, meeting in parlors while
those afford the requisite capacity, and gath
ering strength silently and unobserved.


Make your nominations, after careful in
quiry and repeated conferences, early in Sep
tember. Have few Mass Meetings, posters, or
public appeals But, when your candidates are
agreed on, go quietly each of you to your
butcher, your grocer, your carman, your tailor,
your barber, and tell them what you are about
and why they ought to unite with you in your
efforts.


A lucid appeal to the good sense of tenants,
showing how profgate municipality does
and must increase their rents, will do good,
provided it shall reach them through the
hands of those they esteem and confide In.
None are so oppressed by official prodigality
as the Laboring Poor, who fancy themselves
all but exempt from its baleful effects


Again we say, Select your candidates before
they shall be supposed to have any chance OF
election. Better men will then consent to
run. while self-seekers will stand Off And be
sure that the public instinctively knows one
sort from the other.


"Pity," says Carlyle, that the world can
mot be reformed by what the newspapers re-
"port as Tremendous cheering y" But then
it can't be, and you may as well understand
first as last that the effort involves work,
pluck, cost, and stubborn resolution.
Year: 1871

The complications arising from the strike OF


the coal miners in Pennsylvania have reached


point which seems to Gov Geary to render


necessary a complete and final settlement lie


has therefore issued his Proclamation calling
upon the military forces of the State to hold
themselves in readiness for extreme measures.
He also gives notice that he will employ
against the unlawful schemes of the railroad
companies the remedies afforded by the law;
and he issues a stirring appeal to the people
at large to sustain him in this courageous and
patriotic attitude. The whole country Will


Join Gov. Geary in wishing for final and
thorough canvass and decision of the merits
of this most impractCable quarrel. The ac-
counts of rioting and murder are repre-
sented by our own well-informed correspond
ents as exaggerated but it is evident that a
state of disorder and excitement exists which
may at any moment result in violence unless
promptly pacified.
Year: 1871

More persuasive appliances having failed,
the Ring proposes 10 try the logic of the
bully and the prize-Gghter on the recalctrant
Mr.. Weed. OF the brutality and indecency Of
this performance we do not propose to say one
word it is what was to be expected from
the low creatures chosen by the dominant
party in this quarter of the State to govern
us, and while we accept their rule we need
express no astOnishment at its results What
more concerns us is the effect this stupid
Democratic quarrel may have on such
iniquities as the Two Per Cent bill;
and its lesson is not far to seek. No possible
excuse will serve any Republican who absents
himself from any vote on any stage of the BILL
under whatever unexpected circumstances, or at
whatever unusual time. Gentlemen! we may
not be aided by these Democratic broils; but We
must improve every chance to present an un'
broken front at every stage. Mark the absent
Republican, and count him bribed traitor
to be trusted nevermore