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Year: 1875

Beg to inform their patrons and the public in
general, that in order to make room for their
large importations of Fall and Winter goods
bought by Mr.. Eugene Meyer, presently in
Europe, they have determined to make
clearing out sale of all their stock of Spring
and Summer goods for
Year: 1875

Profanity never id any man the
least good. No man is the richer,
or happier, or wiser, tor it COM
mends no one to any society. 1t is
disgusting to the refined abomina~
bic to the good insulting to those
with whom we associate; degrading
to tho mind Improbable; no edless
and injurious to society.
Year: 1875

a boy in Jamaica was driving a
mule; the animal was sullen; stopped
and turned his arched neck upon the
boy ae if in derision and contempt.
"Won't go, will you3 Feel grand do
you2 | guess you forget your father
was Il jackass."
Year: 1875




GENERAL ITEMS s-Tho chief disease
that reigns this year is folly.


Every is an arcitcqt OF his own
fortune.


Not that which is much is we'll
but that which is we'll is much.


The worlds great mon hnve not
commonly been great scholars.


Tales have q strange passion for
telling themselves out of school


AS there is q silver lining to every
cloud, it will bo seen that thcro aro
bright spots to be observed through
the depressing business inactivity
that is upon US. Tho prospects of
good crops, peace and plenty in tho
land, is very like silvor tying to tho
hard times.


AT the funeral Of q woman in Slaw~
son, the other day, n ncighbor in at>
tendance, feeling it necessary to say
something sympathetic to tho afflicted
husband, kindly observcd--"You'vo
got splendid day for tho funeral.


Tho Government has just added tho
portrait of Jefferson Davis, Secretary
of War under President Piercc, to
the War Department. collection. Bot>
ter lato than pevor.


Castor oil is an excellent thing to
soften leather.


Brown papor is an excellent thing
to polish tin with.


Lunar caustic carefully applied so
as not to touch tho skin, will destroy
warts.


MAN.-Without dosirc and without
want would bo without invention and
without reason.
Year: 1875

When I was boy, there was but
one permanent ambition among my
comrades in our village on the west
bank If the Mississippi River. That
was, to be steamboatman. We had
transient ambitions of other sorts.
but they were only transient. When
a circus came and went, it left us all
burning to become clowns; the first
negro minstrel show that came to our
section left us all suffering to try that
kind of life; now and then we had
hope that if we lived aud were good,
Col would permit us to be pirates.
These ambitions faded out, each in its
turn; but the ambition to bea steam
boatma1 always remained.


Once a day cheap, gaudy packet
arrived upward from St. Louis, and
another downward from Keokuk.
Before these events had transpired,
the day was glorious with expectln-
cy; after they had trauspired, the
day was dead and empty thing.
Not only the boys, but the whole
village, felt this. After all these
years can picture that old time to
myself now, just as it was then; the
white town browsing in the sunshine
of a summers morning: the streets
empty, or petty nearly so; one or
two clerks sitting in front of the Wa
ter Street stores, with their splint-
bottomed chair tilted back against
the wall, ciins on breast, hats siouch
ed over their faces, asleep, with shin
gle shavings enough around to show
what broke them down; a SOW and a
litter of pigs loafing along the side


walk, doing go1I business in water
melon rinds and seeds; two or three
lonely little freight piles scattered
about the "levee;" a pile of "skids."
on the slope Of the stone paved wharf,
and the fragrant town drunkard
asleep in the shallow of them; two
Or three wood flats at the head of the
wharf, but nobody to listen to the
peaceful tapping of the wavelets
against then; the great Mississippi,
the majestic. the magnificent Miss
issippi, rolling its mile wide tide
along, shining IN the sun; the dense
forest away on the other side; the
point" above the town, aud the
point" below, bounding the river.
glimpse and turning it into sort Of
sea, and withal very still and brill
liant aud lonely one. Presently a
film Of dark smoke appears above
one ofthose remote points instant
ly negro drayman. famous for his
quick eye and prodigious voice, lifts
up the cry, "S-t-e a m-bcat aeon
ing !" and the scene changed The
town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake
up, furious clatter of draws follow.
every house and store pcurs out a
human contribution, and all in a
twinklmg the dead town is alive and
Year: 1875

There is one rule In life which may be said
to have no exceptions, and that Is that the i'm
portance of man in society, as well as the
esteem in which he Is held, is governed by, or
is in exact proportion to- the depth and full
ness Of his purse This principle pervadcs
the entire mass of society. and seems to re-
move from the heart all charity for, and hui
manity to. that portion Of mankind who are
not blessed with money. An excmplifcation
of this occurred in the ease of our friend CAL
lalan. of the Colorado party.


in passing through little town, Mr.. c.
being advised Of the fact that hi, party were
out of bread, taking just enough money from
his trunk to purchased few loayes. told them
to drive on, and he would overtakc them. and
going 10 store purchased quantity of the
bread, and then, in imitation of the illustri-
Gus franklin, put 1t under his arm, and start
ell after the wagons. ltwas towards night,
as he emerged from the town, on his way to
join his comrades. just outside Of the town
the ROADS fork, going in opposite directions.
of course our friend took the wrong one. and
hurryng his steps, went farther and farther
from the party for whom he was searching,
Night was drawing her mantle of black ath-
wart the skies, and still he was no near
er to his companions. A pervading sense Of
emptiness determined him to stop at house
to get something to cat. Now, in the first
place, II will be remembered that Mr.. G. had
expended all the money he had with him for
bread, and in the second place that this bread
which he had purchased was the property of
the party, and he would not eat it. He told
the gentleman OF the house the predieament
he was in; bat that astute individual told him
he had seen his Kind before. and politely in
formed Mr.. &. that he was not ieeding tramps.
Our friend moved on, determining that at the
next house he would say nothing about being
n moneyless man, until he had got something
to eat. lie did so and feasted, after which he
informed the gentleman Of the house of his
condition. and was materially aided in his de-
parture from the door After he had walked
short distance, he laid down under tree, and
slept, In the meantime his companions, be-
coming worried because OF his protracted alb
scnce. prosecuted n search. and the next NOR
ming found him. He has determined to re-
main with the wagons, and If it should be
necessary for him to leave them, he will take
the advice Of Iaso to Cassius. Put money in
thy purse
Year: 1875

Our young friend, Tom. McGee had a
river. This is the way it happened. A white
boy. who was driving the team. drove il
down into the river as it had been his custom
in order to let the wheels soak The descent
into the water is very steep. and, before the
driver was aware. the team was in the cur
rent, and could not be turned. The boy see
ing the danger jumped ont of the Wagon.
Fritz ran down and succeeded in cutting the
pony loose, and it got to the shore, but the
mule and Wagon were carried out into the
current and lost,
Year: 1875

Ts- Frozen peaches will be shipped to
Europe this summer in large quantities
A successful experiment was made last
year, and it was demonstrated that fruit
kept frozen during the ocean voyage
thawed out fresh and fine of flavor upon
arrival in England. where it was sold a,
enormous prices.
Year: 1875

GIVE CREDIr.-Thc world would
move on smooth, aud people be happi-
er if the efforts 10 please and to do
good were always properly appreci-
ated and due credit givcn. A little
praise or we'll done goes long way,
and acts as happily as the old far
mcr's grease. he found it the best
thing and used it liberaly like wise
man; wife, children, cook, chamber
maid man servant and all came for
their share and worked better for it.
The mood of application was to give
them praise when any thing is done
well, and an encouraging word or
smile whom in difficulty. There is a
word of meaning in this thing.
Grease of this kind is a lever which
lifts burdens from the brow, lightens
the heavy, heaviug heart, and by its
happy influence every thing moves
cheorfully. Practice it reader, if any
one does mot good acknowlagc
it, if you see any one trying 10 do
right encourage that one. Don't be
sparing of praise, give good share
to wife, husband, children, servants,
friends. Wear smilo always and
not Il frown. What a happy world
this would be if there were moro OF
this kind of grease used. We would
be band of brothers indeed.
Year: 1875

How TO ALLEVIATE COUGH
The London Lancet, which ought to
be a good authority, says: "Anodynes
narcotics, cough mixtures and lozen-
gcs, are practically of no good, and
but loo often increase the debility and
hasten the fatal end. The best meth
cd of easing cough is to resist it with
all the force Of will possible, until the
accumulation of phlegm becomes
greater, then there is something to
cough against, and it comes up very
much easier, aud with half the cough
ing. A great deal of hacking and
hemming and coughing in invalids is
nervous, purely nervous, or from the
force Of habit, as is shown by The
frequency when thinking about it,
and the comparative rarity when the
person is so much engaged that there
is no time to think about it, and the
attention is compelled in another d.
rection."
Year: 1875

Playing there in the sun,
Chasing the butter flies,
Catching his golden toy,
Holding it fast till it dies;
Singing to match the birds,
Calling the robins at will,
Glancing here and there,
Never moment still


Like child.
Going to school at last.


Learning to read and write,
Puzzled over his slate,


Busy from morning till night.
Striving TO win a prize,
Careless it is gone,
Finding his JOY in the strife,
Not in the thing that's done.
Busy in the eager tide,


Buying and selling again,
Chasing the golden prize,
Glad of o transient grain;
Always beginning anew,
Never the long task DER,
Just rs it used TO be-


The butterfly before.
Seeking a woman's heart,
Winning it for his own,
Then too busy for love,
Letting it turn to stone.
Sure of his plighted truth,
What more had a wise to ask?
Each day his daily task?
A child to pine and complain!
\ child, to grow so pale!
For want of some foolish words
Shall woman's faith fall?
Words he said them once
What need of any thing more?
Does one who has entered q room
Go back and wait at the door?
Baby Mary and Kate


Never can climb his knee;
Motherly arms are open
"Father is busy you see"
Too busy to stop to hear
A babble of broken talk.
TO mend the .umping-jack,.,
Or make the new doll walk.
So busy that when Death comes
He pleads for little delay,
IF not to finish his work,
At saelt q word 10 say
4 word to wife ond child.
A 2entance to tell the truth,
That he loves them now ut last,
With the passionate heart o


youth.
The kisses of Death are cold,
And they turn his lips 10 stone;
Out OF The warm bright world
The man goes all a lone.
Do angels wait for him there
Over the sOundlcss sea?
He goes, and came. the helpless


weight.
Year: 1875

BROKE HIS NEcK.-Charles Muir
ray, q prisoner on his way from An
dcrson to the pcnitentiary for stealing
carpet bag, jumped out of the car
window, falling on the timbers of q
bridge below Ninety Six and break
ing his neck.
Year: 1875

Miss Louisa Kern, an aged lady of
Grcenvillc, walked out Of a window
which opened to the floor one night
last week and fell to the ground from
the second story. She died in few
days. 90
Year: 1875

LONDON, February 25th.-The Rev.
Hubert Williams, curate of the Es-
tablished Church and married man,
has come to grief and shame He
formed an improper intimacy with a
peasant girl of his parish; and one
night, after spending some time in her
company in the fields, he gave her his
watch and chain, worth about "a. On
his return his wife asked him what
had become Of his watch. He replied
that he had lost it and she insisted
that u reward should be offered for it.
In a few days the watch was found in
a shop where the girl had sold it, and
she was arrested for the theft. The
clergyman had the wickedness to
come into court and swear that he had
not given it to her; but the girls
statement.was plain, it was corrobor-
ated by a number of witnesses who
had seen them together, and after a
trial lasting several hours the jury ac-
quilted her; thus branding the rever-
end gentleman as not only lewd but
lying man.
Year: 1875

THE people of the Southern part of
the county are moving along in the
line of progress. The first ditch under
the conditions of the new irrigation
law, is now completed for the distance
of one and one-half miles, and by
Fall thirty thousand acres will be
under irrigation in the vicinity of
Anaheim. The ditch now in course Of
construction is on the North side of
the Santa Ana river. The supply of
water is sufficient to irrigate at least
one hundred and fifty thousand acres,
and in a short time the enterprising
people of the Southern end of the
county will be utilizing every drop of
the Santa Ana. The crops about Or
ange and Anaheim-those that were
well put into the ground - will be
good
Year: 1875

THE stealing of TOBY ROsENTHADs S
great picture, Elaine,n from a gal
lery has created profound sensation
in San Francisco. Why or for what
purpose any one should cut from its
frame and carry off noted picture, is
an enigma to the wise and a puzzle to
the police. History furnishes several
instances of this kind of theft, and in
most cases we believe the theft was
committed by persons whose love Of
the picture had become an insane
mania. They stole their love, as q
man will steal and carry off the
woman he loves. Elaine" will be
discovered, and when it is, it will be
found in the possession of wild en-
thusiast, who loves it more than he
loves his honor or his life.
Year: 1875

IT is reported that the leaves Of the
eucalyptus tree are sovereign reme-
dy for the rhumatism. Application of
the leaves to the affected parts does
the work. There is nothing said about
the effect on chronic case, and to
test the matter we suggest that ton
or two of gum tree leaves be applied to
our City Council.
Year: 1875

There are only few men in this coun-
try who can rise up with church choir,
notice that the rest of the congregation
is down, and stand there five minutes
without believing that his coat doesn't
fit him.
Year: 1875

A Tenth, which cost only s5. can draw any
Of the following, and will be received by the
company at any time in six month, - $ in
the purchase of e20 Bond.


This is chance for gain and no chance for
Year: 1875




The canvass in this State promises to he
peculiar. There is no division of parties on
the currency line. Both of them are fully
committed to honest money, and Ncw-lOrk Is
solid AGAINST imitation. The issue in this State
will be largely peculiar TO itself and yet pos
sessed of national Importance. 1t will he IA
square fight between the honest men and
the thieves. 1t is the duty of both the Re-
publican and Democratic Conventions to
pledge the masses whom they represent to
the support of the crusade against the
canal thieves. 1t is equally the dnty of
both, but it is rather the necessity,
if not the opportunity, of the first.
Not only because the Democratic party is
pledged in advance by the terms of the call
issued by the state Committee, bat because
the Republican party, through the dis
ingenious and foolish opposition of some of
its organs rests under suspicion OF being in at
least tacit alliance with the Ring. Every ex-
pedent by which this movement for genuine
and permanent reform could he hampered and
brought into contempt has been employed to
the full by these shifty journalists. More than
this, it is the general expectation that the
more desperate of the thieves who have hth-
erto used the Democratic party for their nefa-
rious purposes will now give their votes and
their influence to the Republicans, in
the hope that Gov. Tden's prestige in his
own party may he destroyed by defeat. The
suspicion that both sides may be ready for
such an alliance is justified at least by various
votes in the Legislature last Winter. the last
and most conspicuous of which was the defeat
of the Absolute Removal bill in the Assembly
by the solid vote of the Republicans, aided by
purchasable Democrats and Democrats who
were recognized members of the Canal Ring.


To frustrate whatever political ambitions
Gov. Tiden may cherish is an entirely legiii-
mate work for his opponents, if ii is done by
legitimate means, but they cannot afford to
accomplish it by the aid Of thieves. This is
not question of Presidential aspirations, or
of politics at all. The thieves belong to both
parties, and there have been times when both
parties seemed to belong to them. 1t il IA
straight and clean an issue between honesty
and fraud as was ever made. Tho charges
have been grave and explicit; the proof,
as furnished by the most thorough
investigation that has been seen in
American politics since Tammany was over
thrown by its bank books, is complete and
overwhelming. In controversy of this kind
there is only one side for the honest voter to
stand on. Both parties should he found there,
and that party which makes this party issue
will get rout for its pains. The Republican
Convention cannot avoid placing itself on
record. Silence will mean sympathy with the
thieves. The honest voters of all opinions
will lock to it for an OutspOken declaration in
behalf of canal reform Can the Republican
party, by adopting any other course, afford to
take its stand by the side of a Ring older than
Tammany and no less corrupt!
Year: 1875

Our last English exchanges show that the
people are beginning to understand why the
Prince of Wales is going to India, and that
the object which we suggested is the true mo-
tive, and not the indulgence of the portly
young man in his rising ambition to wing an
elephant instead of pigeon, and still less any
benciicent fatherly desire in the Premier to
give to his education the liberal consummation
of foreign travel The English press begins to
hint boldly that II. Il. II. is sent out as con-
veDicnt puppet on which to hang the
regalia and pOmp of royalty which il
Year: 1875

and gush of their paper manlfestOes OF reiorm
we hold up to them the paper promise of
dollar issued upon the faith of that Govern
ment which they want to get hold OF to purify
and reform, and we say, "Never mind this
"large discourse about reform. Heres
"promise made by the Government. 1t has
"not been redeemed. Leave off making these
"milennial pledges of an era OF truth
"and purity; they cost nothing, and come
"to nothing. Here's promise that the
Government got dollar for issu-
"ing and must pay dollar 10
redeem-if we trust you with the Govern
"ment, what will you do with this piece OF
"paper that isn't the platform OF a party,
"but the solemn promise of a nation y This
is a fair test of the sincerity OF the gentlemen
who are so eager to give us reform. The
Democratic party has no such record in the
purity of its administration whenever and
wherever it has had power, or i'll the lnvarla-
bly, high character and unimpeachabe integ-
rity of its chosen representatives, that we
should take its bald promises of re-
forms without question. Nothing ia easier
than for political party to discourse
in this large way upon the abstract question
of reform. And nothing is easier than to forget
it, or to fail in reducing beautiful theory to
hard unsentiment1l practice. The general rot
tenness so graphically described by our Demo-
cratic friends Is rather in the nature of an alb
stracton the paper dollar under the theory
of the inflatonstS is a concrete lie. 1t may rs
we'll be understood first as last that no de-
pendence can he placed upon the word or bond
of party which talks all around the abstrac-
ton, but never looks the concrete promise OF
the paper dollar fairly in the face.


1t is idle to talk about leaving the currency
question open until the great reforms so Hip
pantly catalogred for us shall have been con
slinmated. With fundamental falsehood as
the basis of business, trade and currency, what
il the use in putterlng over the great crop oi
frauds and lies and dishonesty OF all sorts
which overspread The surface OF our politics
1t is dishonorcd currency, and the growing
familiarity in the popular mind with the idea
of ultimate population. ont of which spring The
greater portion of the dishonest practices, great
and petty, which honcycomb our politics. 1t
is only guackcry to treat the prevalent cor
ruption with lotions and liniments; the disease
lies deeper than the skin; it is in the blood,
the circulation; that must be first purified; /;
and that done the prolific source OF iucalcula-
BILE mischief WIKI have been closed. We do
not undertake to predict upon what issue the
campaign of 1876 will be mainly fought 1t
may or may not be the currency question
which the rag-money Democrats of Ohio have
pushed so conspicnousy to the front. Whether
it be that or the question of Administrative
Reform which Gov Tildens vigorous
administration has made so prominent, or
whatever it be, one thing is certain, to wit !:
that no party can represent the issue of
Reform in any sense without broadly recog
nizing the currency question the basis
and beginning of all reform, the hardpan on
which to bald up public virtue as well as
public faith.
Year: 1875

tn dazzle India, and restore her 10
her much impaired loyalty. AS soon a. this
motive is fairly set before them, too, the En-
glish are shrewd enough to question the prob
able success of the remedy. The amount OF
eco. 900 il miserably small, if considered as a
price to buy back the allegiance of the native
princes Some of the great Indian feudatOrles
have already set aside half that sum for the
decorations and display with which they intend
to welcome their future King; while 1t VIII
not, when divided, amount to more than
$500 apiece. The discussions in Parliament
on the giving of this sum, the churlsh alIu-
sions to themselves, the expectation openly
expressed that the money would be repaid by
presents from them to the princely visitor, the
calculations as to what should be done with
these prcsents-whether they should Ike sold to
reimburse the treasury or go to swell the
"already gorged pockets of the royal family"
all this and much more of like nature has
been before now republshed' in the Indian
papers and read by the native princes.


The English press find their chief difficulty,
however, in the doubt whether the Prince Will
personally produce the desired effect The
causes of the disalectiOn of the Indian provinces
are openly discussed Stories of the long-con
tinued inbumanity and injustice of English rulers
are brought to light and especially the habit OF
tyranny and insult which even the manner OF
the English underling expresses when address
ing natives of the highest rank. The most
ignorant American STAKEHOLDER did not speak
to his field hands with more arrogant con-
tempt than young English cub, the un-
trained scion of some wealthy house.
will use to q man whose gencalogy runs
back through princes for Thousand years, and
who in learning and thorough breeding Is the
equal Of the first of Englislimcn. Doubts are
expressed whether, should even the Prince
himself prove deccntly courteous to Indian
gentlemen, the young men who accompany HIM
will be so. Whatever good or i'll results may
follow the experiment of the Royal progress,
thc result must be beneficial if it awakens the
English nation to knowledge of the facts of
the case,
Year: 1875

The fall in Turkish securities in London is
natural in view of the insurrection in Bosnia
and the disordered state of the Ottoman
finances. Lately the Grand Nizier instructed
the Governors General of the Empire to try
their hand at financial and civil service reform,
but it is not expected that his request will be
needed or that any radical remedy for the
large deficit i'm the revenue will be found.