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Year: 1872

burying itG With what face
have led you into blunders in
four successive presidential
nominations, the last the great.
est Of all; for in that we dis.
banded the Democratic party,
and took on Republican prin.
ciples and a Republican candl.
date; now trust us and we'll
try it again. The country is
delivered from the scheme
planned upon the monstsous
reckoning that a ring oftraders
could sell and deliver nearly
half the popular vote of the
country in a mass, and it has
the satisfaction that the men
who contrived this vile scheme
are disgraced and laid away on
the shell, after having stripped
their party of all that could
furnish bond OF cohesion.d
Year: 1872

clans can not transfer thu


Democratic party in a mas


like a drove of swine. Tht


belief that they could do thii


was the ground of their scheme


10 divide the Republicans by


making Horace Greeley The


Democratic candidate. While


they counted the Democratic


party as a mass of dumb brutes


they recognized a superior


class in the Republicans by


reckoning that they would no.


be held by the official action


of their party. Thus in bolt


ways was their scheme an in,


suit to the Democratic masses


But while they were counting


on dividing the Republicans


they split the Democratic PAR.


ty. They all admit now that


they got al! the Republican


votes they expected, but that


they failed because Democrats
would not vote for Greely. 1t
is the most valuable lesson oil
tire election, because a mass
of voters, comprising nearly
one half of the popular vote
OF the country, that could be
transferred by set of party
managers at will, would, be q
centralizing of power in the
hands OF few that would be
most destructive to Liberty.


1t is an illustration of the
blind folly or dishonesty of
men that they, while they are
,Fying to carry out a scheme
to get possession Of the gov
ernment, which depends wholly
on the ability OF a few mana
gers to transfer the vote Of
their party in a mass, will
prate about the danger Of cen
iraiization. No such danger
Gus Capitalization has ever
been fancied as this would be.
II would be an absolute oil
garcby, with subjects as alb
ject and unreasoning as those
Of the King OF Ashantee. Yet
the scheme which was worked
up prior TO the Cincinnati con-
venlion, and was carried in
that, and then in the Baltimore
convention, was based wholly
on the assumption of Demo.
cratic managers that they
could sell and transfer the EN-
tire Democratic party in this
manner. And Greeley's nego-
tlation with them, and his de-
sire to receive the Democratic
nomination, were al founded
upon his confidence that the
Democratic managers could
make the Democratic masses
vote az they directed, even
though it were for candidate
who had been a bitter enemy
and a most elaborate and vol
luminous reviler OF them.


Their base reckoning has
failed. The failure is ignomin
ious. In such a course defeat is
not merely the loss of all but
honor. 1t is the loss OF honor
and all. They have disinteg-
rated their party and left it
either principles, char
acter or organization, and have
filed it with crop OF recrim-
nations and revenges. How
will these men ever come be.
tore these voters again and
propose to lay down q party
policy and TO lead them in ili
How can they talk OF the Dem
ocratic party, or of its .princi-
Piles, or '.rganization again, af
ter'they have thus officiated in
-. 49, -.
Year: 1872

be able to loralize the brain mischiei


which leads 20 suicide. We are ready


to admit Inst excessive work OF an
ill-noulished brsin would be likely to


increase that state of mal-nutrisio1,


but We cannot shut our eyes to the


fact that but for the common sequence
OF goIt atheroma, and cerebral soft
ening, the event which has called forth
these remarks would probably never
have happened. Taking this view
OF the matter, let Us ask ourselves if
medical science could have averted
the catsstrophei We have no hesi-
tation in saying that had the Judge
been Willing to implicitly follow
medical advice, his fate might have
been at least warded for q time, il not
entirely prevented. Had he been
willing not merely to forego all
mental work, but to abjure every
thing which could in any way foster
his constitutional tendencies, that
state of cerebral NAL nutrition which
wes the indirect cause of his death
might have been indefinitely post
pOned.
Year: 1872

ciples aal ths men OF the greli or


ganiazsion which brought to them


liberty and citizenship. Summers


egctism will hardly suffer from the


rebuke administered to him on Tues
day. although as a sensible and hon.
oracle man he would resign the
position he holds at the hands of the
Republicans Of Massachusetts, and
let them chose some one who repre-
sents their opinions. After the grand
vindication of the President by the
people Of the country, Summer will
probably cease his personal we are
against the Executive aud retire,
gloomy and profound, within him.
self, where he can admire his own
grandeur and reflect upon the fate
which oyertakes those who prove
treacherous to the principles of
freedom and the interests of their
country.
Year: 1872

RErNsTATED.-By an order from the War
Department Major Patrick Hart. who was
recently ordered to report at Washington
for duty, is rcinStatcd in his position as
superintendent of the Richmond National
Cemetery, in recognition Of his services as
lrlttcry commander in the Fcderal army.
Year: 1872

FIRE LAST NIGHT.-At twenty minutes
past II o'clock last nightan alarm of fire was
turned in at station q, corner Twenty-titth
and Broad streets, which was caused by the
partial burning of an unoccupied framed
dwelling on the corner of Thirtieth and N
streets. The fire is supposed to have been
the work of an incendiTy. e.,
Year: 1872

A good story is told of writer for an
English penny magazine, who, in con
sideration of thirty shillings week,
was furnishing cheerful serial, wherein
the proneness of the characters to COM
NIT crimes in the first chapter was only
equaled by their promptitude in meet
ing violent deaths in the last. This
apprentice lacerator of the popular SEN
sibilities didn't put pepper enough in
his cream tarts to suit the editor, so he
was told one fine Tuesday that his SER
vices would not be required after the
end of the week. Burning to avenge
himself of his enemy, he gathered all
the characters of his story on board a
frigate, steamed out fifty miles from
land, set fire to the magazine and blew
hero, heroine, heavy villain, minor per-
sonages, all, into eternity. Then he
wrote at the bottom, TO be continued
next week." drew his thirty shillings
and left the Office with a sweet smile.
The next incomer was man of genius
and fertile in expedients, SO he sent out
a yacht with lot of new characters on
board, which picked up all the persons
essential to the plot after the explosion,
and on went the story, as merry as a
marriage bell.
Year: 1872

A writer in the English Mechanic ad-
vises its readers not to put implicit
faith in carbolic acid as q disinfectant,
as he believes its merits to have been
overrated. AS deodorizer he considers
it far inferior to ordinary chloride of
lime, the effect lasting only short time.
He finds that the vapor of chlorine is
very much superior for the purpose, as
it always destroys the vitality Of infec-
tious and diseased germs, which carbolic
does not. To completely disinfect an
apartment that has been occupied by a
patient suffering under smallpox,
typhus fever or other diseases, it is only
necessary to vacate the apartment after
stopping up the openings, and placing
in different parts of the room several
plates containing a quantity of common
salt on which a little vitriol has been
poured. The vapor of chlorine will be
Instantly evolved, and will annihilate
all infection with which it comes in
contact. 1t may be used even in rooms
containing sick persons, if the quantity
envolved be so slight as not to incon-
venience the lungs of the patients.
Year: 1872

An order recently came from Eng
land. from the Marquis of Exeter, for
the spawn of certain kinds of fish found
here, which have not been introduced
into the waters of that country. The
Marquis is said to be much interested in
fish culture. This order, received by
Hon. R. V. Roosevelt, one of the Fish
Commissioners, was sent to Seth Green,
who has Just filed it. Mr.. Green has
put up, in proper packages for trans
portation across the Atlantic, quantity
of the ova of the salmon trout, which
will, no doubt, go safely to their destina-
thin, and there be developed in good
order. A quantity of young white fish
were also put in cans and sent with the
trout. The order came too late to send
the ova. It is more doubtful about the
success of this experiment of transport
ing the developed fish. White fish
have, however, been kept alive in a can
of water twelve days, and the time
these will be enclosed will not greatly
exceed that A messenger left for New
York last night with these fish. 1t is
hoped that the experiment will be sue
cessful, and that some of the European
fish may be in like manner transported
to American waters and made useful
to our people.-ROchestcr IN. ~ AdUer-
Year: 1872

A San Francisco gentleman recently
visited dentist for the purpose of
Willing away halfhour or SO, and,
while there, lady came in with a little
girl, wanting tooth or two drawn for
the latter. The child cried when placed
in the chair, and declared that she
would not have her teeth attended to
unless the strange gentleman would have
a tooth drawn first, and to please the
little patient, he took her place with a
wink at the doctor. The latter took
two or three instruments, while the gen
tleman reclined in the chair smilingly
gazing at the ceiling for the assurance
of the watching child, and, after softly
poking at two or teeth, to the horror of
the obliging gentleman he commenced
boring into his jaw where a tooth had
once been extracted, and, before he
could offer a protest, a tremendous
wrench brought out large root, which
the doctor held up to the child with a
diabolical grin on his face. The gentle
man rolled off the chair, and, with an
expression of unutterable pain in his
countenance, gazed a moment reproach-
fully at his friend and left the Office.
The little one did not seem to be greatly
encouraged by the exhibition.
Year: 1872




There is family living in the North
western part of the township of Ross,
in this county, whose depravity and dis
regard of human feelings seem to mark
them as exceptional specimens of the
human race. They fight from one years
end to another, and peace only reigns
when exhaustion from their contests
ensues. Last week at a terrible quarrel
and subsequent fight, a little child some
two years old, clinging to her mother 8
dress, by the sudden movement of the
woman while chasing her cold man" ="
was thrown into kettle of scalding
water which was set down upon the
floor Notwithstanding its cries, the
mother did not stop for a moment until
she had driven her husband out OF
doors and bolted the door, when she
came to the rescue of the child, but it
was frightfully scalded, SO much SO that
it died soon after. Not long before, at
one of their fights, one of a pair of twins,
boy, had his leg broken by becoming
involved in the melee, and after the
funeral of his last child, the older one
was taken charge of by some neighbors,
and it was found that the bone had
commenced healing of its own accord.
leaving a great bunch on the thigh and
the leg deformed. The child had lain
in bed ever since the injury without
medical assistance. An investigation il
to be had and the family will be pro
ceeded against.
Year: 1872

Persons who prof Tess to have lost all
faith in "poor humanity" may take a
crumb of comfort from the experience
of Mr.. Hirsch, who is at present a
resident of Louisville, KY. About
seventeen years ago, this gentleman be-
friended young man named Sonnen-


berger by advancing him, on his per-
sonal security, goods to the amount of
$3.50. Sonnenberger was to have gone
on a Southern tour with peddler's


pack, but instead of SO doing took ship
for California. At the Isthmus of
Panama, he met the brother of his
benefactor, from whom he obtained the
loan of mule to transport his goods.
Nothing further was heard of him up to
recent date, when letter came to
Mr.. Hirsch announcing that his former
protege, after weary pilgrimage over
the world, had at last found fortune in
the diamond mines of South Africa, and
was now desirous of paying the amount
of his indebtedness, principal and in
terest. Cases of this kind, although OF
rare occurrence, have tendency to
show that chain of untoward events
has often prevented many an honest
fellow from giving practical evidence Of
gratitude for acts of kindness rendered.
Year: 1872

The process of lion tanning is elabor-
ately described by a writer in the Lon
don Daily Ne'Os, part of whose story we
copy:


Whatever is the reason, the forest
lions are more intelligent and teachable
than those bred in confinement. The
lion-tamer begins by taking the feeding
of them into his own hands, and SO gets
them to know him. He commences
feeding them from the outside of the
den, then ventures inside of one at a
time, always carefully keeping his face
to the animal and avoiding any violence,
which is mistake whenever it can be
avoided, as it rouses the dormant devil
in the beasts. Getting to handle the
lion, the tanner begins by stroking him
down the back, gradually working up
to the head, which he begins to scratch,
and the lion, which, like the cat, likes
friction, begins to rub his head against
the hand. When this familiarity is well
established, board is handed in to the
trainer, which he places across the den
and teaches the lion to jump over it,
using whip with thong, but, not for
the purpose of punishment.


Gradually this board is heightened,
the lion jumping over it at every stage !;
and then come the hoops, etc., held on
top of the board to quicken the beasts
understanding. To teach the animal
to jump over the trainer, the latter
-stoops alongside the board, SO that when
the lion clears one he clears the other,
and half dozen lessons are ordinarily
about sufficient to teach this. To get a
lion to lie down and allow the tanner to
stand on him is more difficult. 1t is
done by ficking the beast over the back
with n small 0ticklino - Uhip and at
the same time pressing him down with
one hand. By raising his head and
taking hold of the nostril with the right
hand, and the under lip and lower jaw
with the left, the lion, by this great
pressure on the nostril and lip, loses
greatly the power of his jaws, so that a
man can pull them open and put his
head inside the beasts mouth, the feat
with which Van Amburg's name was 80
much associated. The only danger is
lest the animal should raise one of his
fore paws and stick his talons in, and if
he does, the tanner must stand fast for
his life till he has shifted the paw.
Year: 1872

The Hartford Times is responsible for
the following: There is in this city a
dog that can sing. We state the fact
unqualiiedly, on the testimony of all
the members of the family of the gen.
tleman who owns him. The animal in
question is a large mouse-colored grey
hound about six or seven years old.
His attempts at singing, though GER
tainly not very musical, are unmistak-
able and they have been observed for
the last two or three years. He does
not sing alone, but when he hears GER
tain members of the family singing, he
joins in" This is more particularly
the case with one lady of the house,
who, if she begins to sing when the dog
is about the place, is pretty certain to
obtain a canine accompaniment. If she
is heard singing up stairs, and the dog
is shut out below, he will raise rum
pus till he is admitted to the room
where she is, when he will ".join in, -
keeping very good time, actually keep
ing-so we are assured-on the same
key, rising with the singer to the higher
notes, in kind of blended whine and


howl, that is yet neither like the voice
of dogfnor anything else, but showing
something of musical ear. When he
reaches note too high for him he will
stop and wait for the cadence of the
song to reach the lower notes again. In
his rising notes he lifts his head as we'll
as his voice. When his owner enters
the room he will suddenly stop, and not
another note can be got out of him
while his master remains. In fact he
dislikes to have anybody present except
the one whom he sings with. His
voice is improved, and he sings better
than he did" He may yet sing with
Nilsson. There are II good many pup
pies following in her wake who have
neither the music nor the sense of this
Year: 1872

One of the contractors under the
Board of Public Works of Washington
is the latest victim of one of the New
York firms that deal in bogus
jewelry and counterfeit money. He re-
ceived box on Saturday by express,
charges 1870. Paid them, took the box
away, and soon came back in great ex-
element, with the box open, showing it
to be filed with shavings and scrap
iron. The Republican says the chances
are that if the counterfeit money had
been received, in few days some of the
Woodworking laborers in his employ
employ would have been partially paid
for their services with it.
Year: 1872

Some years ago, when the writer was
reporter upon an eastern paper, 1t devolv-
ed upon him to write for the same edition
an account of the presentation of gold
headed cane to the Rev. DR.. Nudge, the
clergyman of the place, and the descrip-
tion of patent hog-killing and sausage
machine that had just been put in opera
tion at the factory. Now, what made
DR.. Nudge mad was this The incon-
siderate buccancer who made up the
forms got the two locals mixed up in a
fiightful manner, and when we went to
press, something like this was the appall-
ing resnlt:


"Several of DR.. Mudgc's friends called
upon him yesterday, and after a briet
conversation, the unsuspecting hog was
seized by the hind legs and slid along a
beam, until he reached the hot-water
tank. He explained the object of their
visit, and presented him with very hand.
some gold-headed butcher who grabbed
him by tie tail, swung him round, cut
his throat from ear to ear, and in less than
minute the carcass was in the water
Thereupon he came forward and said there
we're times when the feelings overpower-
ed one, and Tor that reason he would no
attempt to do more than thank those
around him, for the manner in which Sc
huge an animal was cut into so many
fragments was simply astonishing. The
Doctor concluded his remarks, when th'
machine seized him, and in less time thai
it takes to write, the hog was cut int
fragments and worked up into deliciou
sausage. The occasion will long be re
membered by the doctors friends as on
of the most delightful Of their lives. TIL
best pieces can be obtained for fftee
cents a pound, and We are sure tha
those who have sat so long under hi
ministry will rejoice that he has been $
handsomely treated"


Mad Well about 8 o'cloc


that moring the Office had been abondone
by every man but the advertising CLERK
and he assembled to the roof and robe


himself in boiler iron. so that he coul
watch the venerable clergyman tearin
round there in the street with his congr,
cation, all wearing the panoply of wi
and carrying butcher knives aad thing
Year: 1872

he merely sent the last letter he had re-
ceived from Michigan, with the iuscrip
ton, Copy this" As the end of the
story is already told, according to the in-
artistic fashion of newspaper romance, it
is useless to dilate upon the easily guess
ed circumstances leading to it. Of course
the Canada teacher wrete timidly, again to
express the happiness she felt in the
prosperity of her former lover, aud the
hope she had that he might yet appreciate
her past action. OF course he wrote
again, then, to know why he had been
so cruelty abandoned to himself at last,
and of course there was an answer to
that. In short, after fifteen years of
separation and apparent alienation, the
mature man of nearly forty and the
maiden of not quite so many summers
found that they were rich enough at least
to resume their old relation SO as the
Detroit Post goes on to tell, the lovers
met again last week by arrangement at
the house of friend on Lewis street iu
that city, and, going from thence in
travelling array to the residence Of Bish
op McClosky, were married happily at
last. Their wedding journey was to
Philadelphia, where the bridegroom had
prepared a luxurious home for the recep-
tion of his bride, and there, very likely,
they are enjoying honeymoon worthy
of hearts so tried and true Not very
exciting nor dramatic was their story, to
be sure, yet it involves enough of the
truest heroism of common lfe-euough
of fine womaniness and hearty, whole
some manhood-to make it worth a
second telling.
Year: 1872

A correspondent sends the following to
the Baltimore American. Corned brain
and corned feet are offensive to the com
munity as we'll as hurtful to the indivi.
dual. Many however totter along our
streets without grog shop aid, or high
heeled shoes Modes of cure are numer-
Gus, and feet doctors make living By
their inventions. Cutting with knife
is dangerous, as it cannot be so carefully
guided, and provokes the evel it would
destroy. Outward application often fails,
because the hard flesh is only softened
and not removed. 1t is only hindered in
its pressure for time


Here is tried remedy: Go to your
hardware merchant and purchase rat
tail fle-a fiue one as long as such ami
mails tail He will understand and hand
you the article Wherever there may be
callosities on your body rub them down,
only stopping when the under flesh be-
comes sensitive. If necessary continue
this frequently until healthy state of
the place affected commences. If you
see fit to promote more rapidly the growth
of good flesh, rub with Gil. But remove
the latter before filing, as the drier the
surface the more operative the file. No
other application is necessary, except
when the callosity is removed and the
cuticlc is sound underneath, reduce what
nail


may remain of the corn with the Gnger


What are called Japanese files are
sold for the same purpose, but they are
rough and injurious, at least inferior to
the common rattail file.


Certifcate-The writer has used, the
fle more than one year, and removed
every bit of hard flesh on face, foot and
hand. He has 10 pain in walking"
Year: 1872

1t is the duty of every man to do all in
his power to advance the interests and
prosperity of the community in which he
lives. Yet there are great many per-
sons who seem to have no idea of exert
ing an influence beyond the depths of
their individual pockets If they have
by chance or industry, or any other way,
secured large portion Of this worlds
goods, their whole desire seems to be to
get little more. They want just an
other tract of land which joins them; an
other corner lot which will be very valu-
able some day another house to rent or
few more shares Of bank stock The
general interest they never think of, and
the active use OF their accumulated wealth
for the public advancement has never en-
tered the narrow portals of their braiu.-
Their money is locked up, draw ing inter-
est, or if perchance, put into active use, is
done so in such manner, and guarded
by so many restrictions, that they ere not
subject to the causualties of business,
but come on all occasions for the lions
share.
Year: 1872

4 ease of rather troublesome exact
ness Oh the part Of Down East lady is
reported. Il woman called at grocery
store recently aod made some purchases.
paying cash therefore. An hour after
ward she returned in some agitation,
and inquired, if pocket book had been
seen ; she had lost hers and hoped they
found it. Nothing had been seen of it,
and search was instituted, when the lost
article was found behind barrel in front
Of the counter Another half hour pass
ed, aud again she appeared, this time ask
ing if any one had tampered with her
pocket book while at the store, as the
money was not all there.


Glow much is missing 2" inquired the
trader


Zone cent" was the reply.


'Here John, said the storekeeper.
"give this lady one cent from the draw
er."


She took it and went on her way re-
joicing. Later Next day, we under
stand the woman bought cents worth
OF hairpins the day before, and forgot it
when she missed the pocket book.