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Year: 1872

CINCINNATI, Jan. 1S.-The Judges of
the Common Pleas Court some time ago
appointed a committee consisting of AttOr-
ney General Ampt and two other gentlemen
to examine the transactions Of the County
Commissioners and financial affairs Of the
county. The committee submitted to-day
a voluminous report in which they show
serious informalities in the administration
of county business. Over have a million
dollars in the aggregate have from time to
time been transferred from one fund to an
other, and used for purposes not contempla-
ted in the original levy.


Exposition.


Preparations are making for much more
extensive industrial exposition next fall than
any hitherto held. The guarantee fund
alone will be four times that Of any previous
year.
Year: 1872

The following rules, from the pa
perB of DR.. West, according to his
memorandum, are thrown together
as general way-marks in the joIr-
ney of life:


Never ridicule sacred things, or
what others may esteem as such,
however absurd they may appear to
you.


Never show levity when people
are engaged at worship.


Never to resent a supposed injury
till know the views and motives OF
the author of it. On no occasion to
relate it.


Always take the part Of an absent
person who is censTed in company,
so far as truth and propriety will
allow.


Never think worse of another on
account of his differing from me in
political and religious subjects.


Not to dispute with man who is
more than seventy years of age, nor
with a woman nor any enthusiast.


Not affect to be witty, nor to jest
so as to wound the feelings of an
other.


To say as little as possible of my
self and of those who are near to
ne.


To aim at cheerfulness without
liberty. Never to court the favor
of the rich by fattering either their
vanities or their vices.


To speak with calmness and dc
liberation on all occasions, especially
in circumstances which tend to irri-
tate.


Frequently to review my conduct
and note my feelings.
Year: 1872

Children keep our feelings fresh.


The heart often grows old before


the body; and the hearts growing


old has often a good deal to say to


the bOdy's growing old before its


time. I've seen men old at thirty,


and men young at sixty, Children


bring q man back to his early DAYS;


they make a man to be a boy and a


woman to be a girl once again. l
saw your doctor the other day play


ing cricket with his little boy, six
| years old; he had five stones set one
| atop of another for wickets, and his
crooked walking stick for a bat; and
the young chap was working with all


his might to bowl him ont. The
doctors whole heart was in the
game, and he laughed fit to split his
sides; and all this while there was q
grand cricket match worth seeing
going on in the next field. Why
wasn't the doctor therefor he had
been a great cricketer when he was
young? Because the youth is our
fresh time, and what brings us back
to youth brings US back to the old
fresh thoughts and feelings; and
this was just the way the doctor
used to play with his brother when
they were children-long, long be-
fore he thought of giving anybody
physic, and when he took precious
little of it himself. The child was
drawing away the doctors mind
from his cares-and, poor man, he
had plenty Of them at the time-and
stirring up his spirits. Depend up
on it, his blood coursed more quick
ly through his veins after that game
of cricket than it did before.


Children give us healthy springs
and motives for work. A child
makes the parents feel that they are
looked forward to rs providers-Of
course, under GOd-for He is the
great provider for all. 1t makes a
man feel himself to be somebody
when he gathers the children round
him and looks at them, and says to
himself, "They're all looking to
their mother and me; I'll buckle to
like man, and they shan't want if
1 can get.'


It is not something to feel ones
self valued; to feel, "well, however
little 1 may be made of in the world,
1 know a place where I'm put at e
higher fgurer' No man should be
ticketed up a bargain in his own
house; bargains don't pay anywhere,
least of all at home. There was a
Mrs. White, 4 neighbor of mine in
former times, and she used often to
say, 81 like my husband always to
come to a rising market-the price
of him is always going up. am
always raising it; and the good mans
feeling himself more precious to US
all every day. IT'S IL fine thing,
and better than any drink in the
world to cheer a man up, to have the
testimony of ones duty; and when
Joseph sees the children, and fat
upon them, depend upon it he's
happy; if he weren't happy lie
wouldn't call me mother in the
way he does"
Year: 1872

We copy the following sensible
remarks from the Chattanooga


Times:


From every quarter we hear the
cry of hard times, no money, busi-
ness dull and dropping, until it
would almost seem that the country
was tOtUering on the verge of finan-
cial ruin. Yet closer view of the
situation will convince all but the
most incorrigible grumbler that we
are really in q prosperous condition.
The wheat crop now being harvested
is the best that we have had for
many years, and viii be sold at a
good price. Our manufacturing in
dustries, particularly the iron inter
est, were never in a more prosperous
or hopeful condition. So far as our
own immediate locality is concern
ed, we have every reason to be very
hopeful for a prosperous ensuing
year, with every prospect for a very
decided increass of prosperity for the
year following. The fact is that
perpetual croaking about hard times
produces a stringency i'll money
matters. Suppose A to have a few
dollars, B comes to him with a small
account for payment. A reflects:
These are hard times. If I pay
out this money I may not get any
more for some time" So he puts 3
of, and when G comes to B for his
little bill, B has not got the money
because A did not pay him. And
so it goes on through the whole al
phabet until A goes to Y for an ac-
count, and it is discovered, or would
be if traced back, that X cannot pay
A, because A having themoney had
declined to pay B a few days ago.


It is astonishing how great an in
debtedness can be cancelled, and
how much more life can be impaired
to business if, instead Of growing
hard times and boarding every dol
lar, men would pay their little ac-
counts whenever they have the mon
ey.


OF course no business is ever as
profitable during an exciting pOliti-
cal campaign as ct other times, be-
cause so large an amount of time,
which is money, is taken up in
hearing political speeches and at
tending grand rallies for the preser-
vation of the Union and constitu-
tional liberty; but more than half
the stringency of money matters
complained about is caused by the
imagination, in the manner we have
indicated.
Year: 1872

What is the doll wife but a toy


to her husband? an expensive one


too, at times, and surely never sat


isfactory! He buys her as thing


to play with, to amuse himself by


dressing in dainty attire, to take
! pleasure in hanging about witt


chains and necklaces, in showing


off to his friends as his latest acqui


sition-his live doll, his pretty pup


pet that laughs and talks and


dances and coquetts just as we'll a;


if she had a reasonable amount o.
brains beneath her chignon; g


thing he calls by his own name and
labels wife, but who is only his
plaything and toy when all is done


He gives her no confidence, makes


her no companion; he would as


soon think of telling his griefs to
his favorite setter as of telling them


10 her, and Jocko in the stable yon.
der has as much share in his deeper
thoughts as she. But sue is his
wife; and names are respectable.
And what she is to her husband so
is her baby to her. Many u woman
knows no more of the value of mater
nifty than is to be found in the sim
pie amusements which a baby af-
fOrds. It is her doll-a thing for
which to devise pretty frOcks and
hoods and cloaks, and horribly in
convenience the poor little soul in
the wearing thereof; a thing to dan
die and kiss and delight to make
crow and kick, to look with admira-
tiOn at its dimpled little feet, to
wonder at the aimless foolishness of
its eternally clutching hands, to
talk nonsense and make laugh.
But when it cries, when it is i'll;
when naughty; when a nuisance
then the toy, though not broken,
will not be cherished; though baby
will not be i'll treated-sometimes,
however, if the doll mother is of a
petulant nature, the doll baby will
get a slap or a shake by way of
philosophical reminder Of virtueus
behavior-yet it will be sent up
stairs to nurse" to be produced
again only when it is in better play
ing condition, and not troublesome
or annoying. All this is very nice,
no doubt; and one likes to look, as
on a picture, at the pretty little
mother with her pretty little baby
the Dora woman of sweet nature
and no kind If sense; two babies
together OF different stages of deyel-
opment, but both babies; but when
it comes to the grave realities of
life, then our doll is ofno avail, and
the wisdom Of making mothers Of
such like-giving children to be
trained and educated by children
is one that is open to serious ques-
tiOn. Still, while men like live
dolls in the place Of women, the sup
ply will be kept up; and, while girls
are not able to unite the sweetness
and playfulness of the child to the
sense and wisdom of the woman,
there viii still be this wide division
between dolls and doWdies, babies
and grim females, STILES and
strong minded women, as it exists
now.
Year: 1872

It is predicted by French astron-
Omers as a scientific fact, that the
earth will cease to reyolye on its AK
is-will burst, burn or tumble to
pieces-will come to an end the
coming fall. And strangely enough,
the learned men Of Italy predict the
end at the same time, differing only
in asserting that the destruction
will be caused by fire. The prophe-
siers maintain that an inconceivable
immense subterranean fire is now
consuming the bowels Of the earth;
and refer to the recent fallings in
of the eartn's surface near Vesuvius,
and the changed appearance Of mat
ter vomited from the crater as proof
positive of their theory. Coming
from sources-including some Of
the greatest students in the world
the prediction is at least worthy OF
a consideration.
Year: 1872

Though tangled hard life's knot may be
And wcarily we rue it,
The silent touch of Father Time
Seme day will sure undo it.


Then, darling, wait;


Nothing is late


In the light that shines forever.
We faint at heart, a friend is gone;
We weep, for a grave is filling;
We tremble at sorrows on every side,
At the myriad ways of killing;


Yet after all,


If a sparrow fall,


Our Lord keepeth count forever.
He keepeth count. We come, we go,
We speculate, toll and falter:
But the measure to each of veal or woe
God only can give or alter.


Then why not say,


From day to day,


"Thy will be done forever"
Why not take life with cheerful trust
With faith in the strength of weak.


ness;
Doing the best we can to walk
With courage, yet with meekneSs;


Lifting the face


To catch Gods grace,


That lights the soul forever?
Forever and ever, my darling, yes,
Goodness and love are undying;
Only the trO lbles and cares of earth
Are sure in the end 10 go flying.


Fleeting as bubbles


Are cares and troubles,
And "nOw' is a sprite that tricks us


ever,
Till it floats and is lost in the vast


Forever"
Year: 1872

William went right out and batted


them in the eye, he did.


And then, at last, when all was


over, Mary didn't sit in the room


while they dressed her in white, and
mixed orange blossoms in her water


fall, and then go gently downstairs
with six bridesmaids at her heels
and stand up with her William, and
weep gently while she was being
married by the minister, and then
get lots of presents, and then 90 to
her new house and live all through
the happy years with Billy, and
never know sorrow or trouble any
more. Why, of course she didn't,
for it wasn't her style, you see.


She just rushed upstairs and put
on her pink muslin and sun bonnet,
and had nary bridesmaid, ana went
to the magistrates and never wept a
particle, and got no presents; but
fifteen cents from the old man to
pay her car from home, and when
she got to the magistrates she just
rose off the bench and told Billy
she didn't see much use in splicing,
and that she didn't like him anyhow;
and so she went home, and Billy he
went with her, and told her he
wasn't sorry, as he did not want her,
and he guessed she was hard on her
clothes, anyhow, and so they never
got married, and the whole thing
turned out wrong; but 1 couldn't
help it, for I amt going to put facts
on record that amt so. But it amt
a bit like any novel that 1 ever read,
so there must have been something
about this fellow and Mollie
that 1 could not find out, so I'll
have to let it slide as it is.-Nsw
York Standard.
Year: 1872

I was awakened one night by the
dreadful wheeling of our little girl,
then about five years old. In a mo-
ment 1 saw that she was almost dy
ing with Group. 1t is my opinion
that any other person in town but
myself would have run or sent in
great haste for a doctor. But what
did we do? My wife took her in
her arms as she lay in the bed, not
even getting up, wrapped her up
well and put her hand on the child s
neck, extending it a little down on
the breast, and thus lay still. In
about fifteen or twenty minutes she
felt perspiTatiOn begin to come be-
tween the child's flesh and her hand.
BY this time the Wheeling began to
abate. In twenty minutes more
she was so much relieved that she
fell asleep, and by morning was
quite well.


This was sig or seven years ago,
and we have never had another case
of Group in our family; and I have
never had the opportunity of trying
this remedy since until a shorG time
ago, when 1 was staying over night
with a nice young couple, whose
eldest and only child is about five
months old. About one o'clock 1
was awakened and asked what l
would do for q child that had the
Group. l could hear distinctly from
the room in which I slept into
theirs, that ominous and dreadful
wheeling which must be arrested,
or death is at the door. Without
getting up, 1 related the above
case, and then turned over and fell
asleep again. / knew nothing more
of the matter until morning, when
the glad young husband and father
told me that his wife followed the
example of mine, and with the same
happy results-the child was well.


Few know what a powerful effect
a well persons hand has on the flesh
Of one that is sick.


One of my children was once
taken with cello about bed time.
She WAS soon crying aloud, and
seemed to be in the most excrucia-
ting pain. I wrapped her up in a
blanket and sat down by the fire.
Ny wife creased her feet with tai
low and held them to the fire, while
l put my hand on her stomach and
held IL there. l think in about
twenty minutes she began to per
spire. Pretty soon she fell asleep,
and next morning was well.


Thus we see what wonders some
times result from very simple things.
l believe that most of our diseases
might be removed, or rather prevent-
ed, by things just as simple. If peo-|
pie could generally learn how to
cure their diseases without medi-
cine, or rather how TO keep well, so
that they viii not need medicine, it
would save the doctors a great deal
of trouble. And this I assert may
be done. Men may so live as to
avoid nineteen-twentieths of all the
Affections that are common TO hu-I
manity. Men may so live as gener.
ally to live without sickness, and
die only of old age and without
pain.


At some future time I may take
up this subject again.


j. Il. HAGGARD.


2. S.-Only yesterday I wrote
the above. Last night one of my
children was taken with collie from
eating heartily Of roasting ears. a
hand was applied to its stomach,
and relief was obtained in a few
minutes. !. X. II.
Year: 1872

TO the Editor of The TrIbune.


SIR Recent articles in the papers relating
10 the Delaware. Lackawanna. and Western Railroad
Company and the Central Railroad Company OF New
Jersey to require short explanation The mat
in dispute not the construction OF the part OF the
contract Of consolidation relating TO joint dividends for
that Is simple enough but the validity and existence Of
the contract itself Acting under the advice Of counsel
the Delaware Lackawanna, and western Railroad Com
many were nduced by the action OF the Central TO bring
the matter before the Court OF Chancery IN NewJersey
so as to get a prompt and conclusive settlement
OF the whole question. BY tha decision OF the
Court the Companies may now he considered
restored 10 their original position OF independence
Nothing has done by the joint companies to alter
the orina positions Of either company, and their az
fairs lave been 10 way mixed Tue dividend de-
cared by the Central OF earnings will he paid on
the 21s Full reports OF the affairs OF the company VIII
continue be made TO the stockholders as heretofore
Tie reexecution the contract will be submitted to the
khoders OF the Central but Ms Is exceedingly un
popular it is probable that the vote will be overwhelE
ingIy against IL. JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON.


OGtce Central r. r. Co. Of Ner7Jersey. sept o. 1874
Year: 1872

The people Of North Carolina are given
to understand that the failure to arrest the
thief, Littlefield. and his delivery to the al
thorities Of this State, was owing to his
surrender by his bondsmen aud his arrest
and imprisonment in Florida on an indict-
ment for bribery. 1t tnrns ont that this is
a mere excuse framed by his Radical pro-
tectors.


The Tallahassee To1idioo, Of the 18th
instant, says;


Littleficd is not - juesed quite yet. AT
ter the scare created by the arrival of the
requisition from North Carolina was over,
he was bailcd from "the custody of the
Sheriff of Leon county, and has since
been at large.


The indictment found against him in
Leon Circuit Cour., which furnished TO
Governor Reed plausible excuse fer dis
regarding the North Carolina rcquisition,
is now really Of little or no consequence,
and ought not any longer to remain in The
way Of the States discharging clear duty
which she owes to sister jurisdiction.
Since the Indictment was found, the mate
rial witnesses in the case have died, and
there is now no possibility of proving the
charges against him. This being fact
known to tho prosecuting attorney of the
Circuit where the indictment was found, the
Judge ofthe Circuit ought to hold special
term ofhis court, if necessary, to dispose Of
the matter. The time for shielding such a
notorious swindler has passed. Our repute
as State is injured 10y the continuance of
judicial farce which is a rcproach to JUS
ticc and a disgrace to the government
Let there be an end Of fooling. The Nash
vile Union and America1, well sells {" If
there be an honest, bona tide intention try
Littlefield in Florida, on n charge Of crime,
why, let the case 20 on and the laws of the
State be vindicated. But if this Florida
prosecution is simply pretcxt for shield
ing a scoundrel from the punishment due
his crime-as public opinion regards it
then is the whole proceeding most shame
full one, and deroSatory to the character of
the NtatC.N
Year: 1872

guess better at one guess than the Chief
Justice of the State can rule aft r able ar
gument and mature reflection, aided by
King Leah and William Shakespeare


In his opinion, Chief Justice PEARSON
says the act Of the Legislature is Constitu-
tional "unless like King Leah the State
has divcsted Itself Of all Of the attributes
of sovereignty and divided the kingdom
among ungrateful children" We beg
leave 70 suggest TO the sage Of Richmond
Hill that his difficulty may have
originated .iust here for the reason
that the Federal Court was unable
to appreciate The value of King Lcah's case
i'll n Court Of Law, or the correctness of
VIM. Shakespeare as Reporter, If the North
Carolina Chief Justice, had stuck TO his
old fashioned and more apt illustrations, and
had declared in bis own familiar phrase
that when his Radical brethren attempted
to tax these Railroads, they had :, walked
up the wrong passenger, OF had got the
wrong SOW by the car,' he would have had
better luck. We respectfully suggest to
the Chief Justice that the next time he
attempts to overrule Judge WATTS, lie had
better let = fine writing alone. Alas
Poor PEARSON. We wish not 10 cxult in
thy humiliation, but if we should do SO,
We frankly confess the sin of it and say.
& it's naughty, but it's nice"
Year: 1872

pleased with the course of the Middletown iran
script Just at this time. II hopes to get at least
one vote out of that establishment for Grant. We
presume in this way. The Democrat who does
not vote at all is counted "hslf vote tor Grant
There being two connected with the Transcript
the Commercial multiplies the two halves INTO
one whole negative. As this is the day of pro-
sress, We should not BE- surprised to hn4 as the
election approaches that our neighbor across the
way had become disgusted with Its prospect here
and abandoned even this slight hope for Grant
votes.
Year: 1872

The New York Sun says The Shenandoah
Valley shows but little sign OF the devastation
done during the war. All Is again plenty and
prosperity there, the fences replaced, the lands III
grain, and the stock replenished. No tourist
travelling through the valley could detect the
marks OF the prolonged conflict which has made
the section famous. There Is "A steady immigra-
ton Of the most desirable kind, and Northern and
Southern men live together Us if there never had
been any strife between them. Yet In the face Of
these facts the GRANT organs contend that tht
war is not over and that GRANT should be 10
elected in order 10 conduct it to victorious con
clusion.
Year: 1872

Now Y0Fk Tor CF06I6y aII OVeT'


There has been great skedadling from the HAD
teal Party in the State Of New York. Already SIX
Of the state Executive Committee have announced
themselves for GREELEY and against GRANT How
many more will follow, time can only tell But
it is possible number more have already done SO
also who do not wish to make ths lr position known
40 early in the campaign.
Year: 1872

opinion OF the Associated Press Agent


WASHINGTON, May 25.-The House was
in session until eight o'clock this morn
ing, over the call of the calendar, upon n
trifing claim from Missouri, ,and adjourned


until Monday.


The Senate had a twelve hours eXecu-
tive session over the treaty. The proba-
bility still seems to be that it will fail. 1t
Is regarded as political measure, and that
Grant falls with the treaty. Every ma
chinery of the Government is brought to
bear to secure the adoption of the supple
mental article.


Reports to the War Department mention
the concentration of large party of In
dians to Obstruct the progress of the North
ern Pacific Railroad, on the west side of
the Missouri river. About 1000 members of
tribes hostile to the whites are preparing to
operate in amass againstthe builders of the
road. They are said to be well supplied
and equipped. Some of the stakes which
were driven down by the road surveyors
have already been pulled up by savages.
SUCCESS OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL TREATY


The amendment to the supplemental
treaty was adopted by large majority.
The details are unknown, but the result
appears to be an administration defeat.
Year: 1872

Il is not often that the name of Stephen A
douglass is connected in our minds with any
hing outside of the political arena, but there i
beautiful poetical effusion of his which is {
cedit alike to heart and intellect:
Bury me in the morning, mother;


Oh let me have the light
Of one bright day on my grave mother,


Ere you leave me alone with night.
Alone in the night of the grave, mother,


"Tis thought of terrible fear;
And you will be here all alone, mother,


And stars will be shining here;
SO bury me in the morning, mother,


And let me have the light
Of one bright day my grave. mother


Ere Pm alone with the night.
You tell of Savior's love, mother,


| feel it is in my heart
}ut oh from this beautiful world, mother,


'Tis hard for the young to part;
Tor even to part when here, mother,


The soul is fain to stay,
Tor the grave is deep and dark, mother,


And heaven seems far away
"hen bury me in the morning, mother,


And let me have the light
of one bright day on my grave, mother,


Ere I'm alone with the night.