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Year: 1873

locality the advantages of the par
ticular one in which it has been es-
tablished.. 1t does this better than
it could be done in any other way.
And not only this, but it chronicles
the events of interest which occur
in the neighborhood, and does its
part toward keeping its readers in
formed concerning the progress of
the outside world. AS the village
increases in size its sphere enlarges,
but it never neglects its important
work of doing all it can for the in
terest of the people in its locality.
In this respect it occupies position
which can be filed by no other
journal. No outside Journal knows
rs well as it the wants and necessi-
ties of its community; none save it,
were they ever so well cognizant Of
them, have the space to devote to
their consideration. No paper out
side of Michigan either will or can
pay the same attention to Michigan
affairs as the leading journals in
Detroit; neither can any paper out
side of county in the State do for
the people of that county what the
local paper can. Many incidents
are of constant occurrence in a
county which have no particular in
terest except to the people of that
county, and the local paper is the
only medium by which they can be
brought to the notice of the people
interested.


The local papers all 'hroughMich-
igan arc doing a good work for the
people. Their efforts are deserv-
ing of appreciation and encourage
ment, and they should be well sus-
tanned. The people sustain them.
Indeed, they should not be COM
PEELED to ask this. Their support
is duty which should not be neg
lected, for every dollar which is ex-
pended in any way in their behalf
will be returned ten-fold.


One of the first duties of the peo-
pie is to patronizc their local pa
per.-Eree Press.
Year: 1873

In q small town on the Schuylkill
river there is a church in which
the singing had run down. 1t had
been led by one of the deacons
whose voice and musical powers
had been gradually failing. One
evening the clergyman gave out
the hymn, which was in an odd
measure and rather harder than
usual and the deacon led off. Up
OIL its conclusion the minister rose
and said: Brother B will
please repeat the hymn, as / cannot
pray after such singing The
deacon very composedly pitched in
to another tune, and the clergyman
proceeded with his prayer. Having
finished, he took up the book to
give out the second hymn, when he
was interrupted by the deacon
gravely getting up and saying, in a
voice audible to the whole congre-
cation: "Will Mr.. make an
other prayer. 1t would be imposs-
ible for me TO sing after such a
prayer as that"
Year: 1873

In the United States the march
of civilization is no more fully Illus
trated by anything than it is by the
institation of local paper. A few
hamlets have been scarcely collect
ed together before some cnterpris-
ing young man establishes news
paper. Very often this is done
when at the best the newspaper
will receive but bare sustenance,
while the cases are not rare in
which the protector must depend
for n livelihood on something be-
sides the patronage he receives
But the village grows, and so does
the paper, and the latter is no more
indebted to the former for the in
creased patronage it receives than
the village to the paper for its own
increased growth. The paper is q
pioneer-a pioneer fully as deserv-
ing Of encouragement and support
as is the pioneer who, with his axe,
first enters the dense wood, and
clears d home for himself and his
posterity. II is the local paper
which brings to the eye of those
who are dcsirous Of trying their
fortunes in a new and unoccuried
Year: 1873

Talk about q woman without n
baby, man without wife, ship
without q ruddor. What is the
lack of each Of these individuals
or things to that of aman without
ON advertisement He is a hope
less cuss, o "goner in the commu-
nifty" Talk of being successful in
business. You might as well talk
of ascending to tho moon on a
creased moonheam. People point
at him in the street, and say -
"Poor Cassius has lean and hun
CRY look" 1t may, however. be
consoling to him TO reflect that when
he dies he will be advertised at last,
and gratuitously at that
Year: 1873

In response 10 This the Gazette makes this ex
traordnary and iuadmissible defence Of Mr. Bay
ard


"Doubtlcss Senator Bayard entertains the opin-
ion that had Washington been alive when his na-
tive Virginia was Threatened with coercion and
the destruction Hf its sovereignty by an armed
Invasion he would have been found en the side Oi
Lee and his state" -tt..


We hope Senator Bayard does not entertain
such opinion. We think he surely cannOt
Certainly Jew men in this latitude, At least, would
uniIe with n.-CommereiaE


The Commercial may know Senator Bayard's
opinion on the subject better than tho Gd=efte J
but nevertheless, We adhere 10 the opinion we have
advanced. But that was certainly not the only
reason that induced the Senator TO accord
'praise" 10 "General Lee in his address nt Char-
lOttesville."


the late General Lee was as much noted for
the purify Of his character, aud his wisdom and
learning, az he was for his grea; abilities as \
military leader. So pure 4 character is rarely
found ~ military circles in any country and
having preserved his name from ALI bemish while
passing through the terrible war, there is little
wonder that the people Of Virginia and the
South should regard him with such veneratiOn.
Afer all they only re-echo the praise which the re
nown OF, this great soldier has called upon the
American character


But we will not stop here. Seeing that the
purest aud best men of Virginia were on the
side of Lee, we have no doubt that had Lincoln
been living in the South In 1850 and participated
in the politics Of that day. he too before the close
Of the bloody contest, would have been found on
the side OF Lee. And we think that Lincoln in
some OF his remarks during the war himself init
mated that he could not tell where be would have
been found in such a contingency.


1t is not singular that Senator Bayard should
chose the first character in the South to hold up
70 the collegiate youth OF Virginia as an e1-
amplar. On The contrary the choice was appro-
pirate, and more especially so because Of the fact
that General Lee had but lately died at the head
Of the literary Institution he had, at the close Of
The war, resolved TO devote his life in building
up and re-establishing And In this noble work he
had succeeded beyond the expectation of his
most sanguins admirers.
Year: 1873

seven. Greek cities had an odd number
of gates, the French peasantry have, a
knack of making cut lucky and unlucky
years for great personages, by adding
together the year Of our Lord, the digits
which compose that number, the age of
the individual, and the number of years
between his birth, marriage, or some
other notable event in his life - an
elastic sort of process, which can be
made to prove anything we wish.
Year: 1873

A Hartford subscriber writes that he
is Just recovering from smallpox, and
will be on in few days to renew his
subscription. We hope he won't mind a
little thing like that. We will send the
paper and wait for the money. We will
wait cheerfully. We amt of that ava
ricious kind of people who will grab for
money as if for very life. We despise
such things. There's no earthly reason
for his coming on; we will wait.-Dan-
b,t,.,, Ne,re
Year: 1873

'Max Adeler," tells the following: Before


Mintzer joined the temperance society ne would


some times make beast Of himself by getting
drunk One night some of his companions
finding him asleep on the sofa of the club house,


rubbed his nose with phosphorus for several
minutes, and then took him home. There was
a mirror in the hat rack, and the entry was
dark Mintzer's nose glowed like an aurora
borealis. When he caught sight of the re-
Election in the glass, he remarked that it was a
most extraordinary thing that Mrs. Mintzer had
left the light burning, and he moved up to the
hat rack to turn off the gas. After fun bling
around among the umbrellas and hat pegs few
moments for the stop cock, he concluded that
the light must come from candle, so exerted
himself to blow it out. The more he puffed
the brighter 1t shone Then he seized his high
hat and tried to jam it down over the candle.
AT last he became mad, and snatching up an
umbrella, he resolved to smash that candle il
it took him all night. He aimed terrific blow
at it and broke the mirror into vulgar fractions.
Aroused by the clatter, Mrs. Mintzer came to
the head of the stairs, and observing phos-
phorus light fitting about in the darkness be-
low, she began to scream. But when Mlntzer
at last made himself known, Mrs. MintZer grid
ed herself fer action. She suddenly slid down
the bansters. and sezing Mintzer by the head
light which cleaned from his face. she led hin
up firmly but vigorously. He thinks she must
have compressed the organ with a certain de-


gree of force, for when he arrived at the SECOND
story the cherry glow had disappeared. HI
let's Mrs. Mintzer turn off the gas now, and she
ALWAYS sits up for him when be is out at night.
Year: 1873


Not costly dress nor queenly air;
Nor jeweed hand, complexion far;
Nor graceful form, nor lofty tread;
Not paint, nor curls, nor splendid head
Not pearly teeth nor sparkling eyes;
Nor voice that nightingale outvies;
Nor gaudy gems, nor fabrics fine;
Nor breath as sweet as eglantine;
Not all the stores of Fashions mart;
Nor yet the Establishments of art
Not one nor all of these combined
Can make one woman true refined.
'Tis not the casket that we prize,
But that which in the casket lies;
These outward charms that please the sigh
Are naught unless the heart be right
She. to fulfill her destined end,
Must with her. beauty, goodness blend;
Must make it her incessant care
To deck herself with jewels rare;
Of priceless gems must be possessed
In robes of modest beauty dressed
But these must clothe the inward part,
Adorn and beautify the heart.
For virtue. truth and modest worth
Are richest ornaments of earth
She who doth all these goods combine
Can mans rough nature well.refne-
Hath all she needs in this frail life,
To fit for mother, sister, wife
He who possesses such q friend
Should cherish well till life doth end.
Woman, in fne the mate should be,
To sail with man O. er life's rough sea;
And when the stormy cruise is Der,
Attend him to fair Canaan's shore
Year: 1873

L is mistake to suppose that labor is an
unpleasant condition of life. 1t is a matter OF
experience, that there is more contentment at
tending to any kind of occupation than there
is in looking for some occupation. Attend
therefore to your business, and regard your
business as being worthy of all your attention.
Working men are apt to consider that their
occupations alone are laborious, but in that
they are mistaken. Labor of mind is generally
even more fatiguing than labor of the body,
and it is quite erroneous to suppose that others
do not work as well as we do, simply because
their work is different from ours Labor is
the earthly condition of man, and until the ma
ture of man is changed, the want of something
to do will always produce all the horrors of en-
nui. Gambling and other reprehensble dissi-
pations are all owing to the fact that human
nature cannot support state of idleness. To
live without purpose is to lead very restless
life


The CUBAN WAR CLOUD First the Man
chester colored company determined to voun-
teer for Cuba la the event of war with Spain,
then the Carney Guard, and now the Attucks
Guard, Of Richmond also colored follow the
example of the over-the-river patriots We
like this, for there are thousands of Africans
held 10 bondage in the Queen of the Antilles, y
and it is but right that their North American
brethren should go to their aid. We ap-
preached colored man last evening at the
Whig office and urged him also to volunteer, but
be couldn see it. He said he was sixty y-seven,
had three wives, and was father of thirty-three
children He added, be was never going to
''Cuby, San Domingy, or any other of them
wild islands. if the negroes never was sot free. "
Rich. Whig.
Year: 1873

A word or two with you In short time
you will be meu Try and be good men. Not
longtaced, whining, sanctimonious church dead
beats, but good. square mep. Not sneaks.


drunkards or hangers-on the skirts of others
but out and out men OF individual ideas. Do
not aim TO be politicians, for as lot they are
set of poor devils. TOO lazy to work and not
smart enough to beg Work out your own
IDEAS. D MT go to sleep in the old ruts, to be
run over by men OF eaergy when they come
tearing along Learn to rely upon yourselves.


Dant run your legs off after girls Suck to
your bnsiness and be straightforward, reliable,
Industrious aod right up and down in all busi-
ness affairs, like an cid fashioned saw, and girls
will run after, and catch you, too Keep away
from saloons If you would save your health
aud money. If you attend church to go home
with the girls, don stand out of doors till you
catch the epizootic; but go in and toast your
ungodly shins by the fire; join ia the chorus,
be ready TO march as soon as the benedictlon
has been pronounced, then make for the very
sweetest bird in the bush. 1t you love girl
and want 80 marry her, don't grin like horse
collar, wriake y. ur nose, bite wart on your
little foger, and back iato it like a baby in a
kettle Of hot mush, bat ask like a man. Start
in business before you are old enough to be a
grand daddy Find out early in life if you are
fit for any hing, wear your suspenders crossed
behind, have mind OF your own, stick to your
shop when yeu have one to stick to, and 10 ten
years you will be on the sure road to fortune,
aud the great work of life becomes easier after
that. 1t you feel like writing for 9 newspaper
write for this one ASK whatever question you
will Tellus how you are getting along Dom


stay at home till you sour, but get out IL
the world and stretch your legs Pitch in, and
in nine times out cf ten you will succeed :
Hang back and the world will move away from
you. But, then. all American boys know that
Year: 1873

Arguments Why No Insult Was offered to the
Am lean Flag The virginius Was Not a United
States Vessel Burriel Ae ted Only in Accordance
With Law-The Telegram from Spain Concern
ing Minister Sickles
Year: 1873

In the Senate of New Jersey, yesterday, a bill
was introduced requiring the Morris and Essex
Rlilroad Company to pay tax on the entire cost of
their road and appSndages. In the House the
Corporation Committee reported adversely on the
New Jersey Railroad bill, aud aEer some discus
sion the adverse report was adopted by vote of
81 to 20. A motion to reconsider was defeat
eI-34 to 81, thus killing the bill
Year: 1873

Each newspaper on this HIT IL rood modium through
which advertisers may communicate with the people OF
tho county In which publlDhed. BY advertingin tho
onrs la tho advertiser reaches vast numbers Of people
whom ho cannot roach through tho instrumenalty Of the
daily newspapers.
Year: 1873

EDITORIAL "CLEAR GR1T. We had
hoped to be able to keep our readers, even
during the prevalence Of the epidemic,
posted on the news of the day, but as we
have before stated, nearly all our attaches
are sick, and we have3been forced to re-
duoe reading matter to three columns.
All the telegraphic operators are down
With the fever, and we are consequently
unable to obtain the press dispatches;
and finally the mails from many localities
have been stopped, and our exchange
list thereby greatly reduced. Under
these circumstances, we can do nothing
more than furnish the local news of this
city, and the Times Of late has appeared
more like a neurological journal than a
newspaper. However, SO long as we can
do nothing more than find a man in town
who can and will set type, and while a
single member of oHr business, editorial
or reportoriaI, Keeps on lis feet, the
Times win make its regular appearance.
A newspaper should know no fear while
there is a human life it can chain to its
service it should keep on its course.
Neither war, pestilenee nor death should
check its course or still its voice, and
amid all, it should live in eras of peace
and prosperity, to fulfill its usual mission,
well known to all-in seasons like this
TO chronicle the dead and preserve tho
record of human misery and human her
oism.-yaaesepo,t, Ia Times.
Year: 1873

The following anecdote of Rev. Mr..
Bently, well known among the clergy Of
olden time, is given by correspondent
of the Salem Register:


One nightat late hour the doctor was
disturbed at his studies by a rafting sound
among some wood, which sawed and split
for his study Ere, had been left by the
teamster the afternoon previous too late
to be properly housed. He rose, went
to the window and saw woman filing
her apron with wood, which she hastily
carried away. He resumed his seat and
recommended his study. Shortly after
the same noise occurred, and on looking
out second time he saw similar opera
ton, the woman filed her apron to its ut
most capacity. When she had gone he
returned to his book with tender pity in
his heart for destitution which sought
relief in this lonely, dreary, not to say
sinful manner. By and by he was start
led by heavy crash of falling wood, and
hurrying to the window beheld the poor
woman casting the very dust of the wood
from her apron. He remained notion
less, his gentle heart filed with commits
Grafton.


She swiftly departed and soon returned
heavily laden with wood, which she threw
on the pile as if it were indeed the sac
cursed thing" The DOCTORS compassion
and curiosity were now intensely excited.
He followed her retreating figure till he
discovered her residence, and thus ascer-
tanned who she was. What she was, was
no mystery to him. The last hour had
shown him her virtues lofty height. He
called early the next morning on Mr.. B.,
the wood dealer, and directed him to send
half cord Of his best wood, sawed and
split, to Mrs. --, but by nosmeans to
let her know from whom it came, which
was readily promised. Mr.. BIS team
ster, who happened to be within earshot,
though out of sight, was not so bound,
and when he tipped the wood into the
poor widows yard, replied to her eager
inquiry who sent it by,relating the con-
versation he had overheard. So


The conscience stricken woman, feel
ing that her sin and her repentance in
the lonely darkness Of the midnight hour
were known and understood by another
heart beside her own, fastened without
delay to the house of the benevolent man
to express her gratitude and her sorrow,
and in deep humility and bitterness told
him the temptations to which her extreme
poverty had reduced her of breaking the
eighth commandment. Sir" she said,
though my heart was wrung with an
guish at the sight of my poor shivering
little ones, could not keep it my con-
science would not let mel" "Say no
more, my good madam" said the good
man. 81 saw it ALL saw you whip the
devil in two fair fights"
Year: 1873

GREAT MEN-We always think of
great men as in tho act of performing the
deeds which grive them renown, or in
stately attitudes of repose, grand, gloomy
and majestic. And yet this is hardly
fair, because even the most gorgeous
and magnificent, of human beings have
to bother themselves with the little things
oflife, which engage the attention of us
smaller people. Nodcdbt Moses sndfled
and got angry when he had a severe cold
in his head and If Fly bit his leg While
he was sitting in the desert why should
we not suppose he did not -jAmp,up and
use violent language and rub the sore
place? And Cesar, isn't it tolerably GER
tain that he used to become furious when
he went up stairs to get his slippers in
the dark, and found that Calphurnia had
showed them back under the bed so that
he had to sweep around wildly for them
with broom-handle? And when Solo
mon cracked his crazy bone, is it unrea-
sonable TO suppose that he hopped around
the room and looked mad and felt as
if he wanted TO cry? Imagine George
Washington sitting on the edge of the
bed putting on clean shirt, and growl-
ing at Martha because the, buttons We're
off; or ST, Augustine with an apron
around his neck having his hair cut or
Joan Of Arc holding her front hair in her
teeth, as women do, while she fixed up
her back hair on Napoleon jumping out
of bed in a frenzy to chase q mosquito
around the room with apillow; or Marin
Luther in his -night-shirt trying to put
the baby to sleep at two O'Clock in the
morning; or Alexander the Great with
the hiccups or Thomas Jefferson get
ting suddenly over a fence to avoid a
dog ;or the Duke of Wellington lying in
bed with the humps; or Daniel Web
ster abusing his wife,because she hadn't
tucked the covers at the foot of the bed
or Benjamin Franklin pairing his corn
with razor; or Jonathan Edwards at
the dinner-table wanting to sneeze just
as he gets his mouth full of hot beef; or
Noah standing at his window throwing
bricks at the cat.--lInc Adeter.
Year: 1873

PINING, sickly women should 90 to
Colorado if they want health and strength.
Mrs. Pratheruwas not able to sweep her
own room when she lived in Ohio, but
the other day, after living in Colorado
one short year, she chased her husband
half mile with pitchfork.
Year: 1873

WHEN we SEQ one of those dear little
lurehins about town plunge his dear little
lips In tin horn, and hear the gentle
music that is apt'to follow, we arc prone
TO think that the precious little man de-
sires to keep the "Fourth" fresh in his
memory-+and we wish him no i'll. But
when we have heard that kind of melody
for aboutan hour a half, we survey the
little gentleman with a curious eye, aud
wish the Lord Almighty wanted just
such a boy WotertoWn Times. sasa
Year: 1873

A DowAGIAC Mich butcher takes
the bones out of his meat before selling it
now. de had a dream the other night,
in which he found himself at the celestial
gate, but confronted by a mountain of
bones, which an attendant spirit said were
what he had sold to his customers, and
he must climb over them if he would en-
ter heaven.
Year: 1873

A GOOD little boy in st. Albans, told
his big brother that if he would put his
toeupon the chair he would cut it off.
His big brother laughingly complied,
when the little fellow chopped it off with
a hatchet. The good little boy couldn't
tell lie, and viii probably haYe his head
head put on postage stamps hundred
years hence.l
Year: 1873

''THE RIGHTS OF THE WooDBERRY PEoPLE."-
A correspondent of the Woodberry Gazette of
filth instant says:


"Having noticed several communications in


the Gazette, with reference to the prosperity


and welfare of Woodberry, together with its
many facilities and contemp platIons of further
advancements by the perfection Of the Narrow


Gauge Railroad, and Hampden Passenger Rail-


way, which in my humble judgment, will add
to its advancement and be the means probably
oflessening the pre- posterous impositions placed


upon the citizens OF Woodberry by the North


ern Central Railway. Having been a resident
of Woodberry for some time, will state by my


own knowledge, l have frequently seen as high
as seventy five passengers get on the train at
this station for the city, which, think is a


very nice revenue for the Company, atthe price
charged, and as yet there is no station house


for the accommodation of its passengers not
even a platform to aid them in reaching the


train, but ladies are obliged to wait in all
kinds of weather, and also wait for the assis
tance of gentleman to help them on the train.
| think the matter has been tolerated long
enough, and if there is not something done soon
by the Railway Company for the accommoda-
ton of its passengers, would advise the citi-
zens of Woodberry to patronize the new lines


when completed, which will be done at an ear
lv period. Further, the charter calls for but
three cents per mile for each passenger, and
the people of this place are charged fifteen
cents to Baltimore, a distance of two and a-half
miles, with no station house or platform, but


plenty of imposition.


"To obtain the land necessary for station


house has been the prevalent excuse of the


Company, but if they will only come out here,
the land can be secured"