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Year: 1873

Almost every family in Pittsfeld, Mass,
keeps Rennes Pain-Killing Magic Oil in
the house for use People there, where it
is made, know how good it is to cure pain,
and if you try it fairly you will hardly be
willing to live without it in the house. 1t
is sold hv vour merchant.
Year: 1873

From lands end 10 lands end, that all may read,
and reading, believe, that for the countless mil
lions who are on the road to an untimely grave
with bilious complaints there Is but truly great
and reliable remedy. and that is
Year: 1873

the right 20 run their oars from the mainland over tho
track the Central Pacific Railroad Company said
island. and thereupon haye reasonable facilities and
accommodations for doing business under such rules
and regulations shall be prescribed by the said
Central Pacific Railroad Company; but each Company
avaing itself OF this privilege shall first pay TO the Cen
tra Pacific Railroad Company just proportion OF the
cost OF the improvements said island the expenses
such proportion TO bo measured and determined by the
benefits which said railroad company may derive from
the use OF said main track and island and n case OF
any Disagreement between such railroad company
and the said Central Pacific Railroad Company as TO the
amounts TO be paid and 10 the use and occupancy or
said track and island the same shall DO determined by
the Secretary of War subject to the approval OF the
President Of the United States fropided That the said
Central Pacific Railroad Company, aud any other rail-
road company avang itself OF the privileges OF this act
shall receive and deliver freight and passengers which
shall pass over their lines of road part there
OF, without extra charge at one or more points con-
vnent for business or travel on tho western shore of
said bay and withing the corporate limits Of the City OF
Ban Francisco Prooded rther, That the said Central
Pacific Railroad Company shall make no charge for
wharfage for freight or passengers which have passed or
pass their line OF road part thereof


And be further pr0vded, That Congress full
power whenever in It's Judgment may be proper 10
do. to authorize by law any other railroad company
companies to construct and maintain It's or their own in
dependent connections with and Of that part Of the
island OF Yerba BueDa the OF which Is by this act
granted that shall not be actually occupied for legiti
mate railroad purposes under law of Congress at the
time said subsequent legislation may be had.
Year: 1873

The storehouses of Winter seem to be in
exhaustble although a weary world has been favored
to safety with storm, sleet, and snow.


The air was thick with snowfakes at dawn yesterday,
notwithstanding the intense cold, and the weather


moderated the became soggy so as to pack easily
lodged upon the crust that remained from the last
storm.


Although there was heavy tbsw In the evening,
good sleghing is insured for week to Delays in
ira yel obstruction to traffic. and all the incidents OF
snowstorm, repeated yesterday, and the rivers
were filed with floating ice.
Year: 1873

Ine democratic and liberal papers
of the country are all the time saving
that they are independent journals !;
that helceforth, they will strike for
themselves, by themselves, and where
they please. 1t is question Of some
moment to know when they shed
their muzzle. So far as we can OBJ
serve, these Independent journals be-
came such Immediately after the party
to which they belong died and was
buried. That is to say, tied to an
old, dead, oderous party, reeking with
rottenness, and stained in reputation
by treason in its lifetime, it is not to
be wondered at, that they slough of
and label themselves independent
journals, as the boy did his cut of a
horse, SO that the people might know
the animal.


The changfng coiors OF democratic
papers for q few years past, Eve mean
the osteneibie change In colors,) has
been SO varied and frequent, that they
might properly be classed among the
chameleon species. 1t is amusing
sometimes, to see a man swell with
bravado and affected independence,
and yet ont of print, crawl around in
oil sorts of filth and in and out at the
eonvenience Of anybody for pecuniary
or political gain. If these journsls
are now independent, we suppose
they were once not So If they are now
honest speaking from out the
abundance of their own hearts, per
sontra, they mean they were once not
so. The peacock spreads its tail and
struts because it is its nature so to do,
but it is not the nature Of honest, in.
dependent men, to spread the fact for a
show in print as the peacock does its
faf1
Year: 1873

Tho Richmond (va.) Enquirer, 1,


one Of the old papers of the country


and especially representative organ


Of southern chivalry. At tho seat Of


the Confederate government during


the rebellion, It was perhaps more


than any other paper, the organ Of


JEFF. Davis. Like all the southern
Journals, or nearly all, during the late


election, it put itself on its good be-


haviour to show that the Liberal Gin.


cinnati movement under Greeley, was


sincere, humble acceptance Of the


past. Now 1t uses the following In


temperate language:


"It 10 OF vital consequence to our
peace and prosperity to remember, and
always act ON the remembrance, that
the Republican party IL our sworn foe,
and the foe of every Southern COM
munity, by the vety nature and consti-
tuition of the party itself. It was born
of rooted hostility to US; 1t has lived
and Aourished on our despoiling, and
it will die with curses on 10. It has
sown the seed and cultured the spring.
ing stalk Of every social and political
evil which Athlete Us"


This paragraph was called ont by
the action Of the President in the


Louisiana muddle. It il not q matter
of wonder to us at oil, though it may
be, or at least ought to be, to such
a. Senator Sumner and his followers.


It is often that the veriest knaves
put on the show of the Saint, and
hence, while we were willing to treat
the South with the utmost considers
ton and kindness, we have not been
willing to hand over to its keeping,
the government Of the country. We
are unwilling to give our head into
the care of the man who has given it
terrible icks, in attempting to put it
in chancery, no matter how penitent
he is by word Of mouth. This out
burst. Of wrath; this silly nonsense
this mendacious, libellous charge upon
the Republican party, given above
from the Enquirer, shows that our
estimate of the treacherous nature of
the South has been correct. =


If the Enquirer means that because
the Republican party held that slavery
was henious offence against God and
man; If it means.. that the Republican
party believes that from the voice of
the fairly expressed will of the whole
people, is derived all proper govern
ment, to be obeyed until reversed in
the same manner; If it means that the
Republican party sets It's face like flint
against treason in every form and from
every source; ifit means that the Re-
publican party is determined to carry
on this government on the principles
of honesty, economy and universal
and political equality of
all men; il, we say, 1t means that the
party has maintained all
the above principles and therefore is
the enemy Of the Sonth>..- rAanls. We
shall not deny the charge. The truth
is as the Enquirer well knows, the ad-
and the Republican party
pray for peace, for reconciiia-
ton, but inhexibly upon the basis of
the principles above named, but demo-
ocracy South, and We may say, largely
North, stubbornly and wilIfully op-
pose peace and fan the flames of dis
cord as the Enquw~ does in the above
quotation.
Year: 1873

You may get through the world but twill be very slow
If you listen TO all that is said as you go;
You'll be worried and fretted, and kept in stew,
For meddlesome tongues will have something to do


For people will talk.
If quiet and modest, you'll have it presumed,
That your humble position is only assumed,
You're wolf in sleeps clothing, else you're fool
But don't get excited, but keep perfectly cool,


For people will talk.
nd then if you show the least boldness of heart,
Or slight inclination to take your own part,
They will call you upstart conceited and vain;
But keep straight ahead, don't stop to explain,


For people will talk.
If threadbare your dress, odfashioned our hat,
Some one will surely take notice of that,
And hint rather strongly you can't pay your way
But don't get excited, whatever they say,


For people will talk.
If you dress in the fashion, don't think to escape
For they criticise then in different shape
You're ahead of your means, or your taors unpaid
But mind your business there's naught to be made


For people will talk.
Now the best way to do is to do as you please,
For your mind if you have one, will then be at ease.
Of course you will meet with all sorts of abuse:
But don't think to stop them-'twill be of no use


For people will talk.
Year: 1873

The FIRST MARRIAGE.-We like short court
ships, and in this Adam acted like sensible
man. He fell asleep bachelor and awoke to
find himself a married man. lie appeared to
have popped the question almost Immediately
after meeting Mdlle Eve, and she, without any
Irritation or shyness gave him kiss and her
self. OF this first event in this world we have,
however, our thoughts, and sometimes in a
poetcal mood have wished that we were the
man that did it. But tho deed is done. The
chance was Adams and he improved it, We


like the notion of getting married in q garden.
Il is a good taste. We like a private wedding
ADAMS was private. No envious beaux were
there; no croaking old maids; no chattering
aunts and grumbling grandmothers. The birds
Of heaven were the minstrels, and the glad sky
hung its light upon the scene. One thing about
the wedding brings queer thoughts to US, spite
of scriptural truth. Adam and his wife were
very young to be marricd-some two or three
days old, according to the sagest speculations
Of theologans-mere babies-larger, but no
older, without experience, without house,
without pot or kettle-nothiug but love and
Eden.
Year: 1873

yXTANrED-A FURNISHED PARLOR AND BED
w room in house on the fiat plan; location between
third ami Forty streets Fourth and Sixth
avenues Address PRIVATE LUXURY. Herald Up.
town Branch Office.
Year: 1873




When Ralph got hack to Miss Nan
cy Sawyer's, Shocky was sitting up in
bed talking to Miss Nancy and Seman-
tina. His cheeks were little flushed
with fever and the excitement Of tell
ing his story theirs were wet with
tears. Ralph" whispered Miss
Nancy, as she drew him into the
kitchen, II want you to get buggy
or sleigh, and go righ. over to the
poor-house and fetch that boys moth
er over here. It'll do me more good
than any sermon ever heard to see
that boy in his mothers arms to-mor-
row. We can keep the old lady over
Sunday"


Ralph was delighted, SO delighted
that he came near kissing good Miss
Nancy Sawyer, whose plain face was
glorified by her generosity.


But he did not go to the poor-house
immediately. He waited until he saw
Bill Jones, the Superintendent Of the
poor-bouse. and Pete Jones, the Coun-
ty Commissioner. who was still some
what shuck up like, ride up to the
courthouse. Then he drove out Of the
village, and presently hitched his
horse to tho poor.house fence, and took
. survey OF the outside. Forty hogs
nearly ready for slaughter, wallowed
in . pen In front Of tho forlorn and
dilapidated, house; for though thu
Year: 1873

fluenced too much by steamboat
men" (or any other men, as there will
be such who will say that this or
that, or the other thing cannot BIS
done, because such has not been their
way OF doing such things.


The times are ripe Tor improved
processes of doing the great works
which help the greatest numbers
the farmers.


Very respectfully,


JAMES WEIGH.
Year: 1873

The following was written by q
father to his son in college:


"My dear son-I write to send you
new socks your poor mother knit for
you by cutting down some of mine.
Your mother sent you ten dollars
without my knowledge and for fear
you would not spend it wisely have
kept back half and only send you
five. Your own mother and I are
well except that your sister has got
the measels, which we think would
spread among the other girls ifssTom
had not had them before, and he is
the only one left. hope you will
do honor to my teaching. if you dc
not you are donkey and your moth
er and are your affectionate par
ents."
Year: 1873

eSAO tAAC
lying politicians.


God grant that the day may soon
dawn when the very bone and sinew
of this land will arise in their might,
And, conscious of their sovereignty,
asserts their rights. We believe that
the pothouse and hummer politicians
have had their day, that the railroad
kings are coming to the full end of
their ropes, and that the farmers arc
to be the executioners. There is not
an honest man in the land who would
not like to see an old French gull
lotine set up on the prairies of Hi
nois, aud witness the heads of the
nonopolists and the political thieves
who back them, roll into the basket
This is the language OF Revolution.
In France it would send us to Jail.
but our reward would be a stupen@
dous awakening of the people. In this
boosted free country it will probably
be laughed at as puerile by the
monopolists, but if it spurs on the
farmers in their revolution, we will
be repaid.


Let the Oranges organize
Year: 1873

You think your lot is hard because


You have to earn your bread
Better wear out BY labor, man.


Than rust till you are dead
Better by far the boon of toll.


With joys that come not 10th,
Than ldleness and listlessness.


Than fortune linked to sloth.
~ Think him not always blest who owns


Broad fields and mansion proud;
His dark days may know no comfort man,


HIS heart may be low bowed;
For wealth. sir, often brings unrest,


And cares that will not die,
AND gold and land and treasures vast


May bring one misery.
God made you. sir, to do and dare,


70 own steadfast heart;
To win rewards of labor, man.


And act noble part;
He placed you here to do your best,


To do all good you can,
And show that steady industry


And honor make the man.
What though some pass you on the way


To gain the sought for prize?
What though the clouds may gather man,


And stormy be the skies?
True manhood. sir, is shown when dark


The prospect may appear,
By marching onward-even on


With courage not with fear.
Labor is noble, where it stands


Up for the right and true.
When er it does the best it can


And braves all troubles through,
Its full rewards must some day come


To crown the toilers head
Who deems it better far to work


Than rust till he is dead
Year: 1873

old fellow, remember if ANYTHING happens
we must pull together When YOU hear
my bands strike up The Watch on the
Rhine, then listen close, or you viii hear
next Bonaparte crossing the Alps"
Year: 1873

In the Legislative proceedings OF Thurs
day, in the House, as reported in the Union
and american, we find the following:


After roll call and reading of the journal,
Mr.. Kerr, of Shelby, rose and called the at
tention Of the House to the statement of a
morning paper to the effect that certain
distinguished gentlemen from the Eastern
and Western divisions of the State are
said to be preparing for hostile meeting,
upon the soil of a neighboring State in vio-
lation OF existing statutes, and especially
in violation and disregard of the proyis-
ions of bill now pending before this Cen
eral Assembly, which makes it a felony
punishable with confinement in the pene-
itentiary, and ineligibility to public offices
in this State forever, in any of its citzeni
to return to the State after having left it
for the purpose of fighting duel,


Mr.. Kerr said the pending bill was not
retrospective in its purposes, but by espe-
cial clause was only to apply to such cases
as should arise after its enactment. AS the
author of the bill he desired to exempt
from its provisions such of our warm blood
ed and generous young men as during the
war and since had been unfortunately
connected with any Of these affairs of dis
honor, and not require the "anti-duellng
oathn of Office to be administered to them,
as to the past, but only for future offences.
If rumor be correct, it is not hasty, ire
sponsible boys who are bringing this fresh
trouble and disgrace to the State, to the ma
ton, to families, to communities, to indi-
viduals, but men, matured men, men of
great power and influence at home and
abroad, men who have in the past held
high and honorable public station, one at
least, if not more of them, at present filling
places of important and responsible trust.
He would therefore move q suspension of
the rules of this House to put the pending
bill upon its second reading, SO as to adj
vance necessary legislation to be in time
for the distinguished would-be violators of
the peace and dignity of the Common
wealth of Tennessee. The rules were at
once suspended and the bill passed on its
second reading without a dissenting vote.
Year: 1873

Reader" i'll the Press and Herald Of
this morning, still sticks to his text and
insists that the drunkard ought to be pun
ished for getting drunk, and says that the
plea in his behalf is mawkish sentiment
ality. If that is true, it would be we'll if
the sentiment were contagious, for if any
are deserving of sympathy it is certainly
the drunkard and his family. "a r..
True, man is a /" free agent" and the
changes have been rung on the expression
by every friend of the liquor traffic since
the temperance reformation commenced


and specious theories advanced to lessen
| the tide of drunkenness, but my observa
ton for twenty years past has been that
| the opponents of these new ideas seldom
take an active part themselves in contrib
uting to the practical work Of saving men
| from dissipation.


| The progressive spirit of the age de-


mands that steps be taken to lessen, and
| if possible eradicate, the evil that is under


mining our entire social system, and 1T Is
| to be hoped that the friends of sObriety, in
| the Legislature and out of it, will not be
| deceived by these 'gift-bearing Greeks" +"


who come at the eleventh hour with phar-
| isaical prOtestatiOns, yet never put their
| own hands to the plow. trfgt
| What would be thought of man who


would say that the proper way to obtain


wholesome water from an impure source


was by cleansing the stream when the
| spring was the. seat of the impurlty? and
yet. Readers" position is the same. He


evidently has but little love for the Sons


of Temperance-an order which has saved


more men from perdition than any other


means of grace outside of the church-and


sneers at the efforts made to lift the fallen


wishing instead to render infamous those


whose weakness is their only crime.
| Son OF TEMPERANCE.
| Knoxville Feb 22
Year: 1873

This Society proposes to favor our citi~
zens with another one of their grand con-
certs on next Friday night at Staub's
Opera House. They have had under prac-
tice for some time past, under the leader
ship of Prof. Knabe, Mozarts 18th Mass.
A general rehearsal will take place at the
Opera House on Thursday night. Full
particulars will probably be made known
during the week by advertisement and
hand bills. All those who have heretofore
had the pleasure of being present at one
of the concerts given under the aupices of
this Society will not fail to avail them
selves of an opportunity granted to again
enjoy q real musical treat. -
Year: 1873

Says The Bridgeport. Standard: Alas.
We fear thAt our mortal eyes shall never
again bchold that Train rushing through
our land, just about the time that the
people here recall him the people there
demand that he ascend the throne Of Queen
Victoria, aud they will 90 hang on to bis
eoat-tails that he can never tear himself
away from tho shores Of Albion.
Year: 1873

The walworth Parricids-soms Of


the Causes Which Led to the Fear


full Tragedy.


NEW YORK, June ia Saratoqs


special gives the following account


of the causes which led to the wal


worth parracide:


Mansfield Tracy Walworth was


thrown into the society Of his stem
sister, after his fathers marriage to


the widow of Col Harden, and with


out the idea occurring to their SEN


iors that they would ever dream Of


being anything nearer to one anoth-


er than brother and sister. Mrs.


Walworth was q strict Catholic, and


the marriage between the young


people would have been extremely


distasteful to her, since, in the views


of the Churches, this relationship by


her new marriage was such as to for


bid the forming of closer ties; but


the young people knew nothing Of


these ecclesiastical regulations, and
cared little for aught save them
selves, and so grew to love each 9th
er strOnglY,-so deeply, indeed, that
the passion after while obscured
their reason. Then they secretly
plghted the troth to each other, and
took up the relation of man and wife.
A few brief months Of wild happi-
ness followed, As was inevitable,
the secret exposed itself, when the
betrothed wife was evidently about
to become a mother. Then s scene
of recrimination followed. The
young compile made the excuse that
they had promised themselves to
each other, and recognized one an
other by solemn words of agreement
between themselves as man and
wife, and that this agreement accord
ing to civil laws, was marriage.
There was then but one resource left,
and that was to make the best Of an
unhappy passion, and unite them by
formal ceremony of the church. To
this cheerful assent was given, and
1t was accordingly done. The mar
rlage that had become a necessity was
formally solemnized, and three
months afterwards Frank II. Wal
worth was born. As might be ex-
Dected, when the passion cooled the
couple looked upon each other with
changed eyes,. and each came to
hink that their choice would have
been different had they not been
brown together in a common house
lold- Hence it happened that they
Iuarreled, and finally separated.
Each was jealous Of the other, and
'ach despised the other for youthful
weakness and indiscretion. Letters
'assed between them, containing
ecriminatien, and some Of their
TRANCE missives came into the pos
ession of the young parricide.
Caunts upon his mother angered
i'm, and there is reason to believe
hat he totally understood the refec-
ion made on the subject of his own
He thought his father
on his mothers chastity af-
er marriage. Fired with false chiv-
Try, ne did not question his moth
r, and the mother naturally con-
ealed her weakness from her son.
t was enough for him that a slur
ad been cast upon her name and
is own. He took his fathers life,
nd thereby published his mothers
arly frailty to the world. Her best
riends lament this more bitterly
han the murder for which her son
J imprisoned.


The correspondent says: "This
tory is freely canvassed by all resi-
ents Of Saratoga, where the mar
age caused great scandal at the
me. Itaecords with what I know
bout the history Of the WalWorth
smily.'
Year: 1873

DIR. LIBBEY-


Dear Sir: feel it a duty owe you as well
as the afflicted, 10 acknowledge the wonderful
cure you have made in my case The long
continued sore throat and bronchitis was a
source of great annoyance and alarm to me
for n number Of years, but since you prescrib-
cd for me feel no trouble there, and have no
fear of a return of the complaint. The dispO-
siiion was strong to scrofula consumption
that, l think, entirely changed. Ny other
difficulties are entirely cured. Ifpeople only
would give your remedies fair trial, l feel
confident you would benefit all you say you
can. Yours truly,


MRS. MARTHA PARKS