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Year: 1873

when they are a little out of latitude. called
his attention directly to the fact, 1T is thus
and so: do not get away 100 fast: DO not de-
clare too much because when you do we can
not very readily get you out of this pit :;
now look at this thing; the reason is thus
and So With all this my friend over the
way from Ohio. was not very well satisfied;
he jlst simply subsided aud seemed TO say.
"Oh, this is workin: vel! enough; the Re-
publicans are doing our work; foolish we
would be if we We're to enGeavor 10 do any
thing now; we might make them all look
the same way and prejudice our cause they
are dong it all for US. We have got a great
Carpenter Of the Senate. He will manu-
facture us most magnificent building ont
OF this rough material 60: up by the cum
ming Governor" And thus we have pro
gressed. and il IS now just exactly four
o'clock in the morning, and l will drop the
subject
Year: 1873

THE WEST VERDICr. Elsewhere we Civ


the opinions of the press on the West verdict
1t shows the unanimity of condemnation
and the scope of argument Not a singl
journal endorses this travesty upon Justice
The DeldoC1reaA, while it uses the whitewasl
brush vigorously, does not wish to be under
stood as attempting to act as their apoi0gists
or as trying to justify their verdict" We d,
not know what else to call its criticism, bu
give its explanation for what it's worth Bu
for the fact that it occupies the position i
does, we believe its denunciations would be as
marked as any of the rest quoted


The Phila. Ledger, it will be observed
earnestly commends the charge of the court tc
public favor. The verdict was bad enough,
but if the Chief Justice had sustained the plea
of Ex-senator Salisbury, that the confession
of crime carries with it the criminals excuses
in justification, so that to receive one involves
the admission of the other, the court would
have set up precedent in Jurisprudence that
would have been even worse than the verdict.
Settle that as a principle of law and every
murder would be excusable. The murderer s
own word would be beyond impeachment,
while his crime might be even more repulsive.
if possible, than Vests. The Chief Justice
charged in the interests of humanity and COM
mon sense when he laid down the argument
that, to reduce homocide in self defence to this
degree, it must be shown by sufficient proof
that TIE slayer was closely pressed by his
assallant, and the jury must be satisfied that
unless he killed the asailant he was in immi-
nent danger either of losing his own life or
suffering enormous bodily harm.


We are not of those who give a political
aspect to this verdict True, the jury were a
Democrats, and most Of them think, in all llproba-
bility, that it would have been better if West
had killed all the ''niggers' instead of one. but
the verdict is condemned without regard to
party bias. 1t was the selection of the Jury on
the part of the defence that cleared the
prisoner. They were "hero worshipers" and
Vests council was their hero. They knew
what their hero expected and they would
not have disappointed his expectations for all
the murderer's lives in the United States
hardly for their own lives. They were simply
honest. Nothing could have changed their
verdict They ran counter to the charge of the
court, common sense and the peace of society,
bat they accomplished what they honestly
thought Mr.. Salisbury wanted them to
accomplish.
Year: 1873

The Establishment of John w. Flick on
Main Street, opposite the Bank, has of late
become such a necessity to the community,
that existence would be dreary without it.
MIR. Flick's Cream and Ices, together with
the most complete stock of Confectionery and
Fruit, have sort Of magnetic attraction for
all lovers of good things, while his excellent
Bread and Pastry is praised by all, whoever
have used it. But this is not the only reason
we say so; there is another point, which every
economical housekeeper has in view by pur.
chasing at this place. This is the cheapnes.
OF every article sold which has convinced
many, that it is more profitable to buy their
Bread, Cakes and Pies, than to bake them.
selves, especially in warm weather. A visit
to Flick's will convince any one of the correct.
ness of our view of this establishment and
also Of the fact, that they can have the very
best for the same money, as otherwise the
ordinary and common articles will cost.
Year: 1873

"Ho i, were cheering So Justify, found themselves
rolilng peL-mell over each other, some even
pitching into the cabin, and three of the party
Iparely saved themselves from pitching head
long over the stem into the creek. Fortunately
no one was hurt very badly, and what was 3


Olg scare at first was soon accept in ludicrous
sense 10 see hurrahs so suddenly checked
anu humanity so indiscriminately piled up was
even more than the risibes of the indiscrim;.
nate pile could stand. The boat was set square
in short time. N '''i'


-Four other large crafts, in different stages of
completion, are now under way, one to be a
large brig, the heaviest tonnage ever built here.
Year: 1873

deed was committed in seidefence, or that it was
not murder. although the jury may have felt their
legal obligations to give the prisoner the benefit of
all doubts and therefore, rendered The verdict in
the case"
Year: 1873

It will now be time for putting up hogs
for fattening, and the quicker they are Ct to
kill the more will be the profit. Before the
weather gets excessively severe it wllrtquire
less feed to get them up to the proper weight
If left till the seyc e cad sets iG they will
have to be supplied with rutions sufficient
not only TO enable them to progress with
the fattening proce s, but also with an ex-
cess offOod TO keep up animal heat. There.
fore, those who may be % situated as to
enable them to accomplish il should com
mence feeding forthwith. First AID lore
most, procure for them and mix in their slops
hJur Of sulphur, a teaspoonful for each, and
give it two or three times a week fr Two
or three weeks. Afterwards give them a
handful OF powdered charcoal every few days
or mixture Of ashes and salt. These CON
diments act as regulators Of the bowels, and
puts them in condition afterwards to do
their work of fntteniag with great zest.
Soft food, such as roots. apples, pumpkins,
sqnashes, should first be given, and il
cooked, and have added to them meal and
bran, the more readily they will faiten.
Soft corn, as husked ont, may then be added
to their messes. Although we cannot hope
to induce many to attend to the process Of
cooking. still we have reason to believe that
even 10 supplying nnground corn in this
condition will result IN saving Of q fourth
OF the food requisite.
Year: 1873

SHOT HMsELF.-Mr. Frank Macan shot him
self at his residence, Tuesday evening. As he
was pIttiDg his pistol in the bureau drawer he
struck the hammer against II which caused it TO
explode, the ball lodging in his left arm. DR.
Askew was called in and dressed the wound
He is suffering severely but the wound is not
considered dangerous. The ball is still Ia his
arm it being deemed inexpedient to extract it
Year: 1873

Every night of the year an average Of
two hundped and sixty men and women,
outcasts of society, destitute strangers
and incorrigible vagrants find shelter
and rest in the various police station
houses of New York city. Seventy-fve
per cent. of these dodgers are undeserv-
ing of aid, but it is preferable to have
them under police surveillance at night
than to allow them to roam about the
streets and take advantage of the care
lessness of servants to commit petty
depredations. Ten per cent. of the
worst class, as Investigations show, are
either professional mendicants or are
boarded by relatives, and in the course
of the year acquire knowledge of every
station-house in the city. The rule in
station-houses has been, where the ap-
plicant for lodgings is known to be
undeserving and has for several nights
in succession been accommodated, to
prefer charge of vagrancy against him
or her and let q magistrate act. Vicis-
situdCs of trade and labor have much to
do in the winter months in filling the
station-houses with dodgers. Of the %
per cent. of honest dodgers the bulk
consists of strangers to the city looking
for employment and of emigrants wait
ing for funds from or intelligence of
friends. There appears to be but little
inclination on the part of the ward de-
tectives to become acquainted with and
classify the numerous petty thieves
who, when out of luck, claim the sta
ton houses as their homes.
Year: 1873

Don't be afraid of little fun at home,
good people. Don't shutup your houses
lest the sun should fade your carpets,
and your hearts lest happy laugh
should shake down some of the musty
cobwebs there. If you want to ruin
your sons, let them think that all mirth
and social enjoyment must be left on
the threshold when they come home at
night. When once home is regarded
as only place to eat, drink and sleep
in, the work is begun that ends in
gambling-houses and degradation.


Young people must have fun and re-
taxation somewhere. If they do not
find it at their own hearthstones, it will
be sought in other, and perhaps less
profitable places. Therefore let the fire
burn brightly at night, and make the
home ever delightful with all those lit
tie arts that parents so perfectly under
stand. Don'trepress the buoyant spirits
of your children half an hour of mer-
riment round the lamp and freight of
home blots out the remembrance of
many a care and annoyance during the
day, and the best safeguard they can
take with them into the world is the
unseen influence of bright little do
nestle sanctum.
Year: 1873

A Kansas letter speaking of the late
Gen. Jim Lane, one of the early border
men of that State, says: Lane sleeps
under the shadow of the State Univer-
sity of Kansas, amid the memories that
he made famous and that made him
great. He was a great man. 1t made
no odds how well you knew the intrinsic
debauchery of his life or the cursedness
of his character, you could not stand in
his rugged presence without feeling of
awe and respect born of admiration
for the very qualities In him which in
other men are despised and loathed.
Edwin Forrest was not his superior in
dramatic intensity and impetuosity. He
commanded men as lion or tiger might
awe lesser beasts. He could walk into a
crowd that welcomed him with the click
ing of hundred revolver locks, and in
five minutes every man in that crowd
would have spilled the blood right out
of his own heart in fighting for Jim
Lane. He could stand mute before q
kissing and groaning mob, and in two
minutes you could have heard the
breath of love in the air rustic the
scented tresses of q maiden in the hush
WlllCll MOulu D6 blltIt. Lie COulu bldINl
before an audience, speaking to them
with those great, cavernous eyes of his,
while his lips were shut and still, raise
his hand, and every one would rise with
his gesture; lower his hand, and every
one would sit down obedient to the Won
derful electricity of his will. He was
one of those men whose utter failure to
comprehend that there is such thing as
danger made his courage of no particu-
lar credit to him. His impulses ruled
him utterly, and he could never see any
thing between himself and the object
be sought. If there was an obstacle, he
always looked right over the top of it,
and walked over or through it with the
same unheeding unconcern. The pos
sibility that there was or might be any
thing which he could not overcome, was
q suspicion that his mind had no room
to entertain. And when he pulled the
trigger of his own Derringer, with its
cold muzzle against his lips, L doubt if
he realized that there was any danger in
the act. The narrowest escape Gen.
Jim had was when Lawrence, his home,
was sacked during the war. Jim was
one of the men watched particularly,
but in his night clothes he escaped from
the back door, just as the attacking
party were laundering at the front.
Gen. Jim escaped to his corn field near
the house, the pursuers close upon his
heels. The darkness of the night and
short time allowed the pursuers, favored
him, and Gen. Jim Lane escaped to still
further figure in the history of his State.


1t is true that just after the first Bull
Run fight, Wisconsin Governor pro-
posed to make Lane Colonel of a regi-
ment of his troops. Gen. Sherman
heard of it, and taking the Governor to
knoll in front of his headquarters, he
pointed to the lunatic asylum on the
Washington side, simply saying, "Gover-
nor, if you want crazy Colonel for your
regiment, go there and get one-don't
take Jim Lane" Lane did not get that
regiment.
Year: 1873

Some men seem to be sent into the
world for purposes of action only. Their
faculties are all strung up to toll and
enterprise; their spirit and their frame
are alike redolent of energy. They
pause and slumber like other men, but
it is only to recruit from actual fatigue ;
they occasionally want quiet, but only
as refreshment to prepare them for re-
newed exertion, not as a normal condi-
ton to be wished for or enjoyed for
itself. They need rest, not repose.
They investigate and reflect, but only
to estimate the best means of attaining
their ends, or to measure the value of
their undertaking against its cost; they
think, they never mediate. Their mis-
sion, their enjoyment, the object and
condition of their existence, is work ;
they could not exist here without it;
they cannot conceive another life as de-
sirable without it. Their amount of
vitality is beyond that of ordinary men
they are never to be seen doing nothing
when doing nothing else they are always
sleeping. Happy souls Happy men,
at least
Year: 1873

Why do I love my darling 80 ?
Good faith, my heart, hardly know,


have such store Of reasons:
Twould take me all a summer day
Nay, saying half that could say


Would fill the circling seasons.
Because her eyes are softly brown,
My dove, who quietly hath flown


To me as to her haven?
Because her hair is soft and laid,
Madonna-wise in simple braid,


And jetty as the raven?
Because her lips are sweet to touch,
Not chill, nor fiery overmuch,


But softly warm as roses
Dear lips that chasten while they move,
Lips that man may dare to love,


Till earthly love-time closes
Because her hand is soft and white,
OF touch 80 tender and so light,


That where her slender finger
Doth fall er move, the man to whom
The guards Of Eden whispered, Come!"
Beneath its spell might linger
All, me what know or what care I?
Or what hath love to do with "why?"


How simple is the reason
love her, for she is my love,
And shall while stars shall shine above,


And season follow season.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Turner, of England, will not
amuse his children next Christmas with
stories of Santa Claus because he is
disgusted with that fabulous person.
Last Christmas he determined to sur
prise the little ones by descending the
chimney and playing Santa Claus for
their benefit. So he dressed himself in
fur oversoat, loaded up with toys,
went out on the roof and jumped into
the fue. When he was about halfway
down he stuck, and could goneither one
way nor the other. Then he began to
yell for help. Mrs. Turner's brother,
who lived in the house, thought it was
burglar, and he fired both the barrels
of his gun up the chimney at him. And
then Turner felt more dissatisfied than
at first. The neighbors thought from
the excitement that the chimney must
be on fire, and in ten minutes the fire
department was out, and sixteen half
inch streams were pouring down the
fue on Turner. Then he wanted to get
out worse than ever. At last, when the
truth was known, they tried to lift him
out with a rope, but without avail and
eventually they were compelled to un-
build half of the upper part of the
house to release him. 1t cost him one
hundred pounds for repairs and wear
and tear of body and mind. And now
he don't care whether Christmas ever
comes or not.
Year: 1873

the Credit Mobilier and the salary grab;
and if Senators choose to disdain its
opinion upon those subjects, let them
hear the voice of the Republican press
assuring them that Republicans are i'm
patient of much that they see, and de-
mand change in many things. The
confirmation of nomination like that of
Mr.. Shepherd, Indifference to public
feeling upon the salary grab, spirit OF
extravagance, would all belong to that
class of acts and tendencies whose accu-
mutation would compel thoughtful men
to wonder whether party which allows
them is still indispensable to the welfare
of the country. This was the question
that the Conscience" Wings asked when
the Baltimore Convention of 1852 sur
rendered to slavery, and the Whig party
was gone in 1856. This was the question
that the Free-soil Democrats began to
ask in 1874, and from that moment the
party was doomed. This is the question
which the Republican press and Congress
can, if they will, prevent such men from
asking of the Republican party.
Year: 1873

again, unknown to himself, has found
himself, placed upon the Republican
ticket, as gentleman, eminent for his
virtue, integrity and intelligence, yet it
was no sooner known that he was a lead
ing Prohibitionist than he was slaugh-
tered without remorse and his election
highly probable under other circum-
stances, became impossible Henceforth
there are Republicans here by the hun
dred who will support democrat rather
than a prohibitionist Such say, if the
the defeat of Republicanism and we must
have democracy, we might as we'll help
some democratic friend.


As a State result of this Prohibition
folly, the Prohibitionist will probably see,
in the Legislature, general slaughter of
all liquor laws and repeal of obnoxious
ones. Of course having defeated their
friends the Republicans, the Prohibi-
,tionists cannot expect aid from them,
and the Republicans are in no temper to
give it..


The Prohibitionists have in effect said
to their friends the Republicans, you
must aid US or we will defeat you.


The Republicans have never believed
that the Prohibitionists would show
themselves such cursed fools. But they
have done SO, and henceforth, for twenty
years, Prohibition will be buried as deep
as the party was which it has resurrected.


This is Prohibition funeral The
only party seriously defeated is the Pro-
hibitionists. The Republicans know
their strength and will make it felt here
after


The Democrats know their weakness
and none are so astonished at their sue
cess as themselves.


The Prohibitionists without having ex-
hibited enough political wisdom to cause
a belief that they know anything will be
made to feel, that in the temporary de-
feat of their best friends, they have lost
for years any hope of success as polit-
ical party in Ohio.


To this the Journal says Amen. 1t has
always been warm supporter of temper
ance and the temperance movement, as
social reform, outside of politics. 1t
has always opposed, also, the making of
temperance a political issue. From
henceforth the Prohibitionists have COM
PEELED the Journal to be more cautious
how it encourages temperance, and to be
more vigorous in opposing its introduc-
ton into politics. When temperance
laws are repealed and other legislative
troubles occur in this direction, of course
the Prohibitionists will look in vain for
hostile criticism in Republican papers,
They have caused the Republicans to
feel that the Prohibitionists advocating
temperance have most intemperately
caused their best friends to be beaten;
and as in individuals, so in parties
those who injure and defeat their best
friends soon will haze no good friends.
Year: 1873

e There is clever lad in Binghampton,
New York, who will get his living in this
world and no mistake. For playing tru-
ant maternal authority cut off his supper.


Casting one fond look at the authoress
of his existence he paused at the door to
say: Mother, l am going to die, and
when am no more. wish the doctor to
cut me open and look at my stomach.
The maternal heart was filed with awful
forebodings; and the maternal voice
asked what he meant. al wish it to be
known" he answered, that died of
starvation" This was enough. The small
boy was triumphant, and retired to his
little bed gorged to repletion.
Year: 1873

How comfortable for young wife to
feel that her husband is bountiful pro-
wider, and that she will never want for
the necessaries of life. A newly married
man was recently directed by his wife to
order some yeast, and not having very
we'll defined idea of yeast himself. he
told the baker to send up q couple of
dollars worth At nine o'clock next
morning three men might have been seen
tugging and sweating up the front stairs
of that mans house with cask of yeast
Year: 1873

When man milks COW he should
not attempt to smoke cigar at the same
time A young man out in the country
tried it, and got along well enough until
he lowered his head and touched the
cows flank with the lighted end of his
weed. The next instant himself and
cigar were dreadfully "put out" The
COW introduced about two tons weight
into one of her hind-legs, and then pass
ed it under the mixers left jaw. When
he ceased whirling around, and myriads
of stars had disappeared, he said farming
was the hardest work man could put
his hands to.
Year: 1873

Altogether the most audacious of put
up Jobs was one arranged by two San
Francisco grown,up hoodlums. One in
suited rich young lady, and the other
promptly ran up and knocked him down.
He saw her home, of course, her father
gave him twenty dollars and place in
his store. and the trick was not discov-
cred till the father and girl spied the two
in close consultation one day.
Year: 1873

A stranger in Detroit street car when
asked for his fare, pulled off one of his
shoes and drew up fifty cent shinplas-
ter, remarking that if little prudence
on his part would prevent he didn't pre-
pose being left penniless in q strange
city by having his pocket picked
Year: 1873

A pious but ignorant lady in Worcester
attempted, lately. to sequestrate light
ed reminscence of the Fourth in the
shape of giant fire-cracker from one of
her offspring, and with the exception of
a hang-nail and the groundwork of q
thumb, she doesn't wear any fingers
worth mentioning just now
Year: 1873

A colored clergyman, while passing through
a North Carolina plantation the other night:
came across pig-pen. The pig was sleeping
sweetly. The parson stopped 20 think anl
looked around. The night was dark there
was nobody near. He aroused that pig and
the pig only awqke to ind him feeling for bis
jugular vein. The vein was reached after 4
struggle, the pig was execn'ed and the dark
clergyman bore him in triumph through the
darkness of the night to the home and Gre of
bis Diuah. This parsou now sleeps in bis
little cell.
Year: 1873

A colnred man residing near Newtown, in
the Inwer part OF Maryland, intending to give
his little boy a whipping, seut him for a switch.
The child did not return, aud for some tine
his absence was not noticed When bis father
went to look for him he found him lying beside
the barn dead. He had remained out till be
had frozen.
Year: 1873

thought. reasoned and talked as the Apostle beau,
tfuly and truthfully said, ''as child !" 1t was
mere "baby talk - but in the full development OF
the infinite state we would think and speak as
men. The meaning or the phrase,


1--WE SIZE THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY,"
was defined to be looking through a metallic mir
ror, which only imperiecty reflected the object
looked at. But in the world where there was no
shadow, but where all was pure and transparent
their knowledge would be true and ar-reaching.
the sentiment sometimes expressed by Watts and
Charles Wesley faith and hope, as the text dis
distinctly affirmed, woud forever abide, but the
greatest OF them all was love. Faith belonged TO
spirits who where dependent upon an independent
God, and as long as there was an attanment 10 oe
reached or q mission to be performed nope must
also remain. Charity or love was renection OF
the divine nature This love OF God was shed
abroad in the hearts OF all who believed III the
Lord Jesus Christ.