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Year: 1872

"Within three months after
Greeley's Inauguration there will be
a general Jail delivery of the official
delinquents in the United States of
America" is the cheerful prophecy
of the distinguished Democratic ora
tor who spoke at the Court House
on Tuesday night. The people are
satisfied that such would be the case,
and prefer to keep Grant in Office
another term. The "official delin-
quents" are in the jails and peniten-
tiaries, and should stay there until
they serve out their terms. We
know it is hard On General Shields
friends, but the honest people can
stand it Missouri Democrat.
Year: 1872

A man out West undertook to
play with lion at the menagerie
the other day. He says he finds it
mighty hard to write with his left
hand, but that he missed his eye
more than anything else. His nose
was always trouble to him.
Year: 1872

BY MISS JENNIE A. NELSON.


NO. XIV.


DEHRA Doom, NORTHERN INDIA,


May ., 1872.


The weather here is now almost
as hot as our July, but at night we
have such a delightful breeze from
the mountains that we can sleep
very well. Since the hot days have
come, we get up at Al o'clock, COM
mence School at 6, and get through
at II A. M. when we have our
breakfast, and then make the
children go to bed and sleep two
hours. 1 forgot to say that at 81
we have recess, and our "ChotG-
Hagri," or little breakfast.


l have the charge of the whole
School now, and it requires much
firmness to hold 81 of these indians,
but get on very well. To-day had
to show them off little to some
officers of the Government, who are
visiting the Schools. One of the
gentlemen was a nephew of Lord
Lawrence, so l was told. One was
Colonel Off Native Regiment who
are the guardians of the Doom.
They are a noble set of men, who
were true and loyal during the
Mutiny. In my next 1 will give
you an account of a Reception
which was given them here. They
have fine band, which plays on
the parade grounds every Monday
evening, when all the English peo-
pie appear in full dress in their car
riages. The young gentlemen and
ladies are generally on horseback
1t is very gay scene.


The heat is becoming very op-
pres5ive. All the old Indians COM
plain greatly, but [ do not feel it.
They all say have brought Amer
can ice with me. Every one says
that the first season we are in India
we Go not feel the heat as greatly as
we do afterwards. This is the ex-
perience of all who have been here,
and seems very strange. The Hin
doc word for "Fan" means an "Air
Maker"


l have for my company and as
Sistance now in the household affairs,
(the Woodsides having gone up the
mountain a very kind English la
dy, whose husband was an officer in
the army. She came here on a
visit, and when it was found necess-
ary for the family to leave, she
kindly offered to remain with me.
She is an intelligent, humble, de-
voted Christian, and we are becom-
ing very fond of each other.


To-day is a day of fasting and
prayer for all the American Stations
and [ have no School. We had
Hindustani service at Z this morn
ing, and will have prayer meeting
this evening.


In a former letter l spoke Of Ruth
Robbins, the little child your Sun
day School are supporting, and that
she would get one of the older girls
to write a letter for her to the Sum-
day School. 1 send you this just as
ii was written by one of the older
girls for Ruth. She seems to feel
she has a peculiar claim upon me
now. Her eyes look very large and
bright whenever she sees me, and
she and her sister run to take each
of my hands whenever 1 go into
their part of the building. They
are very good children; give us no
trouble. They almost always have
a smile on their faces. l always
have to ask them which is which.
This is
Year: 1872

There was an old lady all dressed in silk,
Who lived upon lemons and buttermilk
And thinking this world was a sour old place,
She carried its acid all over her face.
Another old lady, all dressed in patches,
Lived upon nothing but lucifer matches;
SO the world it made her strangle and cough,
And sure as you rubbed her you set her of.
Another old lady, all sunny and neat,
who lived upon sugar and every thing sweet,
Declared, when she heard OF their troubles she


'never!''
For the world nice she could live on forever.


MORAL:
Now, children, take your choice
OF the food your hearts shall eat;
There souTish thoughts, and birthstone thoughts
And thoughts all good and sweet;
And whatever the heart feeds on,
Dear children, trust to me,
Is precisely what this queer old world
VIII seem to you to lie.
Year: 1872

The Boston Advertiser thus point
edly says: The only reason why
the South is willing to accept Mr..
Greeley is because they know him
to be erratic and irresolute, and al
ways weakened in a great political
crisis. They think they could use
him as they used Pierce and Buch.
auan. They can carry out the pro-
gramme of driving out the "Goths
and Vandals.p They know that
Grant will stand by the whole coun-
try; that with him there will be no
favored section. Another rebellion
will not be allowed to hatch in his
cabinet. 1t is for that reason that
the Southern Democrats are willing
to do "anything to beat Grant" 4"
"anything for revenge"
Year: 1872

A little girl went into a drug
store the other day, and said to the
proprietor, in half whisper, "If
a little girl hain't got any money,
how much chewing-gum do you
give her for nothing?"
Year: 1872

What will be the quantity of salt water on the
earth's surface, allowing the same to be 90-1OO of
the whole surface of water and the earth to be en-
tirely round, with circumference of 25,0CO miles,
the average depth of the water to be 900 feet and
to be solved from geographical dats7
Year: 1872

There was man in Mauch Chunk,
Pa, few days ago with a patent air
brake for railroad ears for sale. He
claimed it would stop a train going
at the highest rate Of speed in half It's
length. There wss certain railroad
man up there who treated this sCg-
gestion with scorn, and said he yoHd
wager large sums that the air r-brake
wouldn't stop train any quicker
than any other brake. So he Dor


rowed the co1trivance and Fixed it on
an open car on the Switchback Rail.
road, and went up to the top OF
Mount Pisgah to get fair start. He
let Fer come down the inclined plane
for awhile until she began to move
along ct the rate OF sixty miles an
hour, and then he suddenly placed


his foot ON the brake and put it-on


with full power. One minute slster
the eye OF any solitary traveller pass


ing through those wilds might have
observed car standing perfectly still
On the track and q railroad man go
ing down hill among the blackberry
bushes and underbrush hesdforemost
at the rate--say of forsy-six miles an
hour. He was carried home on 8
stretcher, and now that railroad msn
not only has perfect faith in the avail
ability OF the air-brake, but he is con-
vinced that it would be good thing
if some man would invent a machine
for taking the fiatness and general
decentralization, as it were, out OF
mutilated noses.-ExchanJe. ''
Year: 1872

This IS the season of the year when
the large city newspaper and maga-
zine publishers are sending out their
prospectusses into the country, and
every postOffice is flooded with "great
inducements" to subscribers for this
and that periodical. This is all right,
provided you do not lose sight or the
fact that you have q newspaper nesr-
er your own door that is hundred
times more closely identified with
your prosperity, and more sincerely
interested in the welfare OF your own
neighborhood and county, than all
the city publications combined. a
cotemporary says on the subject ::
Do the city papers say anything in
regard to your own country ? Moth
ing. Do they contain notices Of your
schools, churches, meetings, improve
ments, and hundreds OF other local
matters of interest, VIII b the county
papers publish without pay? Not an
item. Do they ever say word cal
culsted to draw attention to, our
county and its numerous thriving
towns, and aid in their progress and
enterprise? No. o line. And yet
there are men who take such con-
tracted views of the matter that, un-
less they are getting as many square


inches of reading matter in their
county papers as they do in a city
paper, they think they are not get
ting the worth Of their money. 1t
reminds US Of the person who took
the largest pair of boots in the box,
because they cost the same IS The
PAIR much smaller which it.-Con-
neautville Courier and Record .. h
Year: 1872

e According to the Niagara Falls
Gczette one of the night engineers in
the New York Central yards at Sus-
pension Bridge experienced two rad
icaily different sensations in a very
brief period of time few nights ago.
While running his engine he observed
a man ON the track in the immediate
front, but too late to give the signal
of warning before passing the spot.
The ponderous machine was stopped
as soon as possible and the trembling
engineer took the back track with
gloomy forebodings to look up the
corpse. His feelings can probably be
better imagined than. expressed when
he met the object Ofhis search coming
to meet him with fists doubled up,
aud other indications not favorable to
the bodily comfort of the engineer.
A speedily executed right-about-face
movement was made, and the engin-
eer outdistancing his wrathful pursuer,
reached his engine and fed inglori-
Ously from the scene.
Year: 1872

A day or two since a gushing
young man of Des Moines received


by an unknown messenger present


Ia stuffed pigeon. 1t was besuti-


full specimen of texidermy and pleas


ed the recipient Immensely. He


supposed it was the gift of a charm


ing young lady to whom he had been
particularly attentive, and overjoyed
at the thought, he immediately sat
down and indited a tender epistle to
her, thanking her for the present and
many touching illusions to
the dove and what it symbolizsd.
The pigeon wss placed on bracket
in his place OF business, and was
much admired 10 a short time,
however, it was noticed that the out
spreading wings of the bird were be-
ginning to droop; then a villanous
odor became apparent, and then the
emblem OF love was kicked out of
because some graceless
wag had sent tbe youth frozen pig
con instead of stuffed one, and as
soon as it thawed lis antiquity be-
came oderously apparent. Texider-
my is at q discount in that quarter.
Iona State ReJister.
Year: 1872

Having made large adiiiionst to ogrestablish-
inent in the shape OF material of the latest
style, and having employed experienced and
careful workmen, we are prepared to execute
orders for every variety Of PLAIN AND FANCY
JOB PRINTING with neatness and Dispatch
The addition of Steam Power TO our establish
inept affords us great advantages over most
country offices in the way of low prices and
asst work Call with us and be con vinced.
Year: 1872

Has written a letter to our State Gen.
trail Committee, declining the position
of Elector for this Congressional Dis
trict. He declines By reason of sick
ness in his family and pressing prOfes-
sioual business The Democracy of the
District, indeed of the State, will regret
to be denied the pewer of his eloquent
tongue iu the pending campaign.
Year: 1872

EGee SpeeCh.


Close upon the heels of the Cooper To-
stitute colored row, comes anolher illus
tratiou of the African idea OF free speech
Tabbs Gross. a colored man FROM Ar
kansas, is u mem Der of the Liberal Dem
ocralic party. and in that capacity ad
dressed Greeley meeting in Coviugtou,
KY last Saturday evening. Alter the
meeting, and while crossing the river
TO see his family, he was warned by two
of his race that it would be dangerous
for him to 90 to Cincinnati. He went,
however, and during the night was wait
ed upon by twenty colored men, who
professed to be acting under instructions
from whites. and informed him that he
must leave the city by certain train next
day or run the risk of loosiug his life
He sent for friend TO visit him, but the
friend replied that he dared not to do so,
aud advised Gross to get out of Cincin
natl as soon as possible. He accordingly
returned 10 Covington where he was
again waited upon by some of the colored
Radical fraternity, aud told that he
would not be allowed to speak there
again. So the matter stands at the
present time.


We eau assure the colored people that
such persecution as they have visited
upon Saunders and Gross is likely to do
theminfnite damage, and if perseyered 10
Will surely lead to most unfortunate con
sequences. Saunders hits the truth ex
actly when he says 10 his card, that the
outrage perpetrated by Grant aud his
friends al Cooper Institute, lis calculat-
ed to widen the breach between The two
races, and tends directly toward the des.
truction and extinction Of the colored peo
pie" The same may be said Of the
treatment to which Gross was subjected
These events appeal to men of all classes
and all parties, and must inevitably ere
ate popular option which will be heard
and felt hereafter. The coIored people
caD, perhaps, afford to join in resiIing
Greeley aud Sumner, their life-Ioog
friends and champions; but thew cannot
afford to cut their own throats as they
apparently are trying very hard to DO now.
If they have an atom of common
sense or discretion. we shall hear of no
more such disgraceful proceedings as
those which recently transpired in New
York and Cincinnati.
Year: 1872

Now that the position of Elector for
this Congressional District is vacant
made so by the resignation of Gov. King
we believe the appointment of Capt
VIM c. Clark, of Graves, would meel
with the hearty applause Of the people
of this District. He is brilliant, ready
and able political speaker. We know
moi If he can accent.
Year: 1872

1 will give you in as few words as possible
an account of small speculation that 1 en-
tered into with hundreds of others. When
the Atlantic and st. Lawrence railroad was
in contemplation, and efforts were being made
to raise the means to construct it, which
may not be inapropOs at the present crisis of
the Portland & Ogdensburg road, 1 was
firm believer in the great value of the road to
the city of Portland and vicinity, as well as
the country through which the road should
pass Though not so much faith in the cash
value of the stock, which was secondary
consideration.) 1t was the road that was
looking for my profits from. Without money
and very little real estate l d, termined to add
mite in proportion to my size, to the gener-
al fund, being fully satisfied if the road should
be completed, and l should continue a citizen
of Portland, and the stock should be worth
less, should still be much better off than
without the road. Having full faith in this
view of the case subscribed for ten shares,
twice as much as my share would have been
If the city had been taxed for the whole road.
WChe W WOTh, ptiu my ihoeiA'S ~ N'
became due. The result was better than my
most sanguine expectations; nor did have
to wait to have the road finished before re-
ceiying returns for my money. The money
that was paid for stock was soon paid out for
materials, to laborers, mechanics, traders, and
tbey in turn paid it out for their supplies, and
II was but short time before l could count
over railroad money the second time; or as
our friend John Neal would say it was mere
" taking the ''money out of one breeches
pocket and putting it into the other"


At the end of ten years l balanced my
account with the railroad. My cash receipts
foi the same amount of business increased,
at a very low estimation 5000 per year; my
real estate for which l paid $500, and with
out the road would not have brought much
in advance, / sold for 100. sold the stock for
81 per cent and interest. There are
many items of value for which / have not
credited the road, and after making all de-
ductions | cannot strike the balance less than
$4,000 in favor of the road, ON this small be-
ginning.


Now believe that there is as good or a
Year: 1872

A NEVADA PAPER, speaking of the rarity
of the atmosphere at Virginia City, says that
ballet dancers are frequently unable to go
through their part, and encores are impossi-
Bile. Persons arriving from places near the
level of the sea, who are at home rapid walk
ers, soon find themselves brought up with a
round turn, and either spit blood or bleed at
the nose. Little brisk walking is ever seen in
the city. People do not seem so active as
they really are, for the reason that they have
been compelled to adopt gait which, if not
lazy, is at least leisurely. Hot weather is felt
much more severely, and is much more debil-
itating than at the sea level. When the ther-
mometer marks 80 degs. in this elevated re-
gion the air is Of much less value than it is at
the sea level under the same heat. Pigeons
that fly very strongly in California are almost
like unfledged birds when brought here. Lots
of pigeons brought from California for pigeon
shooting matches are often almost worthless,
as upon being sprung from the trap they will
fiutter and come to the ground before going
two rods
Year: 1872

SQUASH BUGs.-A correspondent of the
Hartford Courdnt gives some advice which
may be useful here as well as there, about the
treatment of these pests:


'Now that our squash, cucumber, and
melon vines are past the danger from cut
worms, there is another pest which must be
got rid of now if at ALL There is, besides the
small striped black and yellow bug, which
does not seem to be doing much damage this
season, another larger and uglier chap that
is now beginning his summer campaign. He
is about half an inch long, nearly oval, of a
dark, slaty-brown color, almost black He
has wings, but at this season does not use them
much. He is not agreeable as an intimate
acquaintance, and it, you press your friend
ship upon him he ungratefully emits an
abominable odor, which housekeepers (only
few of them, we hope will recognize as sim
liar to that of the bed bug. Naturalists tell
us the two are nearly related, and certainly
any one who has had anything to do with
both would pronounce them at least first
cousins. For this reason you will naturally
incline to let him alone, especially as
he does not at present appear to
eat your vines. You will find him
skulking about among the young plants not so
much on the leaves as under them, and most
often under the two oval seed leaves that lie
close on the soil at the root of the plant
Fhey know well the superior quality of your
Hubbard squashes, and it is there you will
find them by twos and threes during these
June days, apparently doing their best to keep
cool and rest. Their quiet demeanor, how
ever, is very deceptive, for they will soon be-
gin to lay their eggs, and when the housewife
goes out in July to gather her first summer
squashes, she will find the bugs, with their
ash-colored broods, whose name is legion, and
whose odor is most villainous, swarming over
the leaves by the thousand, not now quiet,
but lively and hungry, devouring the vines
with wonderful rapidity, and often destroying
the whole crop. If crocodiles are easiest de-
stroyed in the egg these pests can be killed
easiest before they begin to deposit their eggs.
With two fiat strips of wood-pieces of shin
gle, for instance-you can easily catch and
crush the bugs without befouling your hands.
They are not numerous now, and are so large
as to be easily seen, and besides they move so
slowly, and so rarely take wing that they sell
dom escape. By going through your vines in
this way twice day, for few days now, you
may save the whole crop of your kitchen gar
| den."
Year: 1872




A WHOLE PEOPLES OPNIoN,-When ma
tion o forty millions accepts and endorses as a
STANDARD RESTORATIVE an article that has
had the fullest opportunities of testing during
period of twelve years, who can be so absurd
ly incredulous as to doubt the excellence of the
preparation? PLANTATION BrTTERs has pass
ed through this ordeal and is now the most
popular proprietary medicine on this continent
1t would be difficult to find an adult of either
sex between the Atlantic and the Pacific, or be-
tween the northeast corner of Maine and the
Gulf of Mexico, who does not know, either
from personal experience or observation, that
this renowned vegetable remedy is the purest
tonic and stomachic and the finest Alternative
and regulating medicine at present before the
world. As a preventive of, and cure for, dis
eases generated by malaria, and as a specific
for dyspepsia, rheumatism, and all nervous and
bilious affections it is admitted to be fairly pro-
nounced the FAAoRITE HOUSEHOLD Tonic
AND ALTERATIvE of the Western Hemisphere.


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Year: 1872




better chance to increase the value of the
property and business ofthe citizens of Port
land and ogdensburg and the country and
villages through which that road will pass as
tnere was between Portland and Montreal
twenty-five years ago. Now if every man,
and tc0mdn too (women have rights
in railroads) who have the honor
and prosperity OF our city and coun-
try at heart would sit down and
make an intelligent and fair estimate of
the cash value it will be to their property and
business, and subscribe one-half of the
amount to the stock of the Portland & Og-
densburg railroad, clearing one hundred per
cent. on the first Investment, there will
be plenty of money to finish the road, and
that mountain gorge will soon rattle as Ii a
little earthquake were passing through it..
As to the certificates of stock and the exam
pie, would have them carefully filed away,
in some of the fire-proof boxes now being fur
nished in the city, for the especial benefit OF
our children and grandchildren and we
ought to be satisfied with leaving so good a
mark and doubling our money on our proper
ty and business.


L am in the habit of comparing the value of
property with what ii costs. Now will the
p. q o. railroad be worth to the cities of
Portland and Ogdensburg and the towns and
villages through which it shall pass as much
as It will cost? believe that every man who
will look through it with the eye of a states
man, will pronounce it worth four times as
much.


As to our brother Enterprise we wish
him God-speed. Manufactures and railroads
are twin sisters-each is lever to the other.
We wish him fair field, hope he may enlist
an army of Spragues and Lawrences. Spread
ing two million dollars among our working
population would vitalize business immensely
|. sisfF ~-este VnRRIraf aAr a kpEu-nrEs'a
Year: 1872

TEN BEcAUsEs.-A hundred reasons might
be given why Lyons Katharion should be used
by every intelligent human being in preference
to any other preparation for the hair, but ten
will suffice. Here they are: Because it nour-
ishes the fibres, multiples them and makes
them grow because it thus prevents them from
whitening and bleaching; because it removes
the scurf and dandruff which choke them as
tares choke the golden grain; because it keeps
the scalp cool and prevents sruptions; because
it renders the hair as lustrous as satin; because
it makes it plant and elastic; because it is a
fragrant and fine dressing; because it does not
soil the pillow the cap or the hat; because it is
without rival in cheapness, and because no
other article sold for the same purpose, in this
or any other country, possesses all, or even one
half, of these invaluable properties.


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