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Year: 1871

u In May the lawyers Of San Fran
cisco designed making an overland trip to
the East. The courts, in consequence, have
taken two months recess. About the
same time the physicians Of Boston were
to have made an excursion to San Francisco.
1t would perhaps be uncharitable to sug-
gest that there is an unprecedented alb
seuce of funerals during their trip.
Year: 1871

~ A large number Of the leading
mercantile houses of Chicago have agreed
not to advertise 10 any Sunday newspaper.
believing that the growing practice Of
Sunday advertising tends to prevent the
proper observance of the Christian Sab
bath, and that the moral, religious and
business interests Of the city would be
promoted by its discontinuance"
Year: 1871

cay Major Powell who last year coa-
ducted an exploration Of the upper Col
orado and Of the great Canyon Of that
river, will conduct another this gear IN.
der the auspices of the Smithsonian insti-
tute. He will be gone two years.
Year: 1871

Owing to the element which fishes in.
habit, less probably is known about their
mode Of life than any other class of sni-
mails Where, however, it is possible to
keep them in an aquarium, or where from


lack Of timidity they may readily be OBJ.
served in their native streams, much that
is curious aud interesting has been learned
concerning them. Although cold .blooded.
they are by no means passionless but have
their loves and hates, like many another
creatures Of higher organization. These
traits are most strongly manifested about
the breeding season and during this
period the males will sometimes fight to
the death for possession of the females.
When once their claim has been estab.
lished, they often evince the tenderest and
most loving care Of their companion while
she is engaged in the performance Of her
maternal duties. The stickleback, though
small fish, is exceedingly puguacious,
aud unhesitatingly attacks not only its own
kind, but much larger fish, aud indeed,
any other object which happens to come
in its way. The males fight each other
desperately during the spawning season,
biting and gouging their antagonists with
their raised lateral spines, which they are
sometimes observed to use with fatal ef.
feet. Pride also seems to be an element
of their natures, for at the end of one of
these combats the victor puts on the most
gorgeous hues, his variously -colored body
glowing with astonishing brilliancy, while
the vanquished with his surface as dull as
his opponents is brilliant, sneaks out of
sight with an air of the meanest insigni6.
canoe. Unlike most fishes, the male stick
leback prepares sort Of nest in which
the female deposits her eggs. An observ-
er of their habits has the following on his
behavior when the female comes out of
her hiding place and surveys the nest
which he has made for her: " He darts
around her in every direction, then to his
accumulated materials for the nest, then
back again in an instant, and as she does
not advance, he endeavors to push her
with his snout. and tries to pull her by
the tail and side.spiue to the nest. When
the eggs are hatched, the male at once as
sumes the duties Of nurse, and for long
time guarding the young, gently leading
them to the nest when they would stray
too far. and courageously defending them
from the attacks Of enemies" Male sal


mon and male trout are as pugnacious as
the little stickleback. Two salmon have
been seen to fight whole day without
either gaining the mastery; and while
the females are engaged on the spawning
beds. the males are usually occupied in
fighting away their rivals. The battles
which thus arise often end in the death of
one or other Of the combatants.-Galary.
Year: 1871

Men of thought, be up and stirring


Night and day;
Sow the withdraw the curtain


Clear thewayl
Men Of action, aid and cheer them


As ye mayl
There's fount about TO stream,
There's light about to beam,
There's warmth about to glow,
There's flower about to blow,
There's q midnight darkness changing


Into gray;
Men Of thought and men Of action,


Clear the wayl
Once the welcome light has broken,


Who shall say
what the unimagined glorics


OF the day7
What the evil that shall perish


In its ray?
Aid the dawning, tongue and pen;
Aid it, hopes Of honest men;
Aid it, paper,-aid It, type;
Aid it, for the hour is ripe;
And our earnest must not slacken


Into play.
Men Of thought and men Of action,


Clear the way!
Lol clouds about to vanish


From the day;
And brazon wrong to crumblo


Into clay.
Lol the Rights about to conquer;


Clear the wayl
with the Right shall many more
Enter smiling at the door;
with the giant Wrong shall fall
Many others, great and small,
That for ages long have held us


For their prey.
Men Of thought and men Of action,


Clear the way!
Year: 1871

Lot poets sing Of love and sorrow,
OF dreams that vanish with the morrow,
OF Joys that hope and fancy raise;
For mc, I'D rather sing the praise


OF hashi
What dish did mother use to make
That went so well with johnnycake,
When children round the board we clustered2
Alas the joys we found in mustard


On hashl
What gave us boys our youthful vim?
What made our girls 20 neat and trim?
What built our bodies, gave us muscle
T. endure life's stern fatigue and tussle?


Twas hash
What gave our soldiers health and vigor
To storm the fort and pull the trigger
To wade through all wars bloody scenes7
Excuse the word, o potent beansD


Twas hashl
Then hence, o love away, o grief!
Wen sing the marriage Of King Beef
And Queen Potato. Here's a bumper
Deep be thy dish, and broad-I vumper!-


Hashl
Year: 1871

Poltce Court Repo't.-Not wishing to


drag before the public the names of persons


oil respectabllity, who sometimes, from


various causes, are brought for trial before
the Police Justice, and our wishes in this
respect not having given satisfaction to per-
sons whose arrest and trial are noted in our
paper, we have concluded for the present
to suspend the publication of the Police
Court reports, except where cases of i'm
Portance are brought up for trial. We
hope this determination will be satisfactory
to all parties, and that no further cause of
complaint will be given. Should we con-
clude in the future to publish the proceed
lngs OF this court, it will be with the dis
tmct understanding that our reports shall
be full and complete, and that all persons
tried in this court will be treated alike.
Year: 1871

AN organization known as the "Young
Republicans" and composed of the young
men OF the party, has been formed in New
York State for the purpose of curing the
disaffection and clearing up the feuds which
have so long destroyed the influence and
defeated the party in that State. These
young men come to the front at an oppor-
tune moment. The old leaders have ridden
them long enough, and there is need of an
infusion of a vigorous and healthy manhood.
Year: 1871

THE Democracy in New Hampshire are
already losing the fruit of their victory in
the spring. The "Assistant Democrats. y
as the Labor Reformers have been named.
do not appear to be over-anxious to sup
port every partisan scheme their allies NAV
bring forward.
Year: 1871

The commencement exercises of tho
Richmond Female Institute will take nlace
Tonight at the First Baptist church. These
exercises usually attract large audience,
ana prove to be very interesting. The pub
Year: 1871

Judge Walton, in, his charge to the
jury in the Hoswell case, at Augusta,
Me-, laid down the law for jealous hus-
bands III STYLE that would seem rather
odd in this latitude. The ground taken
by this Judge is that the law against
murder Is a just law. and that the pen.
atty must be enforced upon the crilni-
nal, no matter what his provocat ion
may have been. In the present instance
the killing appears to have been done
when the prisoner had reason to believe
that his victim was in the act Of adul-
terry with his wife. Judge Walton was
"by no means certain that the prisoner
was not led to commit the fatal net by
his knowledge Of the result of the Sick
les and Mcfarland trials, and that those
cases have been the cause Of many. MUIR.
ders. These cases," contfnted the
Judge, "are useful only as beacons to
warn jurics against similar verdic,s.-
Their great notoriety is owing to the
fact that they were decidedly wrong
Intelligent and honest jurors should
know them to shun them. Ny belief is
that lenity to such offenders is cruelty t.
the innocent; that the introduction of a
lax administration of criminal law sac
fiflces more lives than It saves"
Year: 1871




The French people carry the practice
Of smoking to a degree of perfection
which constitutes it almost fine art.-s
The men smoke, the women smoke and
the boys smoke. Whether the girls aud
babies smoke we know not, but they
have SO few of them that it does not,
perhaps make much difference whether
they do or not. The effect of smoking
in boys Is said, by All old medical writer
who has been investigating the subject,
to be most favorable to the development
not Of a manly, noble, healthy character.
but Of pallor. anemia, palpitation of the
heart, diminution of the normal
ground Of red globules, dyspepsia, want
Of intelligence, and o liking, more or
less decided, for strong drink. This in
formation must be decidedly gratifying
to the sevans of science who have so
often proved tobacco to be SO wholesome
a narcotic. Added to former evidence,
it will make an argument SO strong that
even that enthusiastic laborer against its
use, George Trask. will perhaps see the
folly of doing any more, and give up
his work of distributing tracts broadcast
to induce boys to let tobacco alone. or
course, they will not let it alone. It's
effects on French boys is incontestible.
What better evidence do they want that
they can use It? And then, again, this
same authority has noticeda very strong
objection to breaking off. He says
"Thoss who abandon the practice before
any organic LESSONS are produced, per-
fectly recover their health" This II
unfortunate. Why should boys wish to
be SO unlike other. people as to bo
healthy? II they arc sickfy they can b,,
petted and pampered, escape work, and
die and 60 out of this naughty world
early. But seriously, why do boys ever
smoke?, Because the example is set
by tlieir elders. They are the most per.
fect imitators in the world. They like
to try their hand at what they see others
doing. Set them good example and
they will follow 1t. Set them bad ono
and they will follow that, too.-Heratd
Of UcaHh. .....
Year: 1871

A DISCOVERY We understand that =
party Of mountaincers have ut length been
able to pcnc'ratc tn the great basin of tho
middle fork Of the Kaweah River. This
region has, heretofore, only been viewed
from the summit Of the Sicrras. The party
referred to procured the service If MI old
Indian; he led the party short distance up
the second north fork and then, instead Of
pursuing the course generally followed by
parties making IN effort in this direction,
lie turned back around the edge Of certain
big bluff rock, and ascending behind it soon
led the party into rolling country covered
by the most magnificent pincry in this por.
,i"n of the State. 1t is said that there IL
the evidence Of al old Spanish trail having
run into this region, hut that no one has
been able to follow it beyond n certain point
where large slide has taken place in the
bluff There is u legend that mine of the
precious metals was once worked by the
Spanish in the region referred tn, that tho
miners were murdered l'y the Indians, and
that an English company were left In p.'s.
session Of y Chart containing diagram Of
this mine. 1t will be but short time DO.
fore the truth Of this legend Is tested Tho
pinery referred 10 is nearer to Visalis than
any Of the present lumber mills Nisali0
Delta.
Year: 1871

They err who assume that General
Butler did not know what he was
about when be wrote bis letter which
pui Speaker Blaine 90 tho offensive.
The Essex county statesman may not
have been successful as n soldier, but
that De knows The theory OF war, both
in the field aud in politics, it we're
idle 20 dcny Bgtlor goes for bigger
game than Blaine. Tho friends Of
the powder Wonder has been sitting q
long while on the cork OF that
bottle which Grant So kindly provided
f1r him, and be courts an att.ck from
the White House which win warrant
bis cutting ihc strings Benjamin is
a Sumncr man-his constituents and
the people of Massachusetts are for
Samner-and when the Tines are
prouiticus DC wiz cut tho strings, and
together Sumner. Butler and Phillips
will make ID warm tor the man of the
Galeua grocery. Aud who doubts
the result in that fight of brains
against dulincss and greed World.
Year: 1871

CINCINNATI, July 12.-The anniversary OF the
founding OF the famous Davidson fountain cele-
brated around porphyry base Of the structure in the
presence of large number OF ladies and gentlemen this
morning. Speeches were made by Henry Probosco and
others The drinking fountain by which The people will
be supplied at the public expense with ice water was
thoroughly tested The water by passing through 1000
feet of coed pipe surrounded by ice is kept constantly
at 40 degrees temperature.
Year: 1871

Desire to call the attention of the CONS
muniiy to the fact that have removed my
GUN SHOP to the upper floor Of my build
ing, where ] can be found at all times, ready
to do any work that may be iDtrusted to me,
at short notice and with satisfaction.


| also keep on hand good lot Of
Year: 1871

From the New York World, Demo
craft:


"a One pretty certain eonse-
quenee Of this quarrel viii be the de-
feat of the Presidents Santo Domingo
job. There was only five majority
against Sumner in the Senate caucus,
and those Senators who opposed the
wishes of the President in caucus will
have as little hesitation in voting
against his scheme in the Senate. A
treaty Of annexation, which requires
tWO-thirds of the Sen ate to ratify it,
would be defeated by superhuOus
votes; and if an attempt should be
made to carry the project by a joint
resolution, the Republicans will be so
divided that the Democratic votes
may turn the scale against il. But a
defeat of General Grant now will be q
personal and pOliti cal humiliation,
whereas, if he had not provoked this
quarrel, the failure Of the SantO Do.
mingO project would have little sig
nificance. Another consequence Of
this quarrel will be an organized Op.
position to the denomination of Gen.
eral Grant as the Republican candi-
date for President. The contempt in
which he has long been held by intel
ligent Republicans who are best ac-
quainted with him, has now found a
good excuse for Utterance, and from
this time forth the Republican party
is divided into a Grant faction and an
anti-GTant faction"
Year: 1871

From reports aAoat it seems that the
United States is to become the refuge of fallen
monarchy. The ex-Emperor Napoleon is
said to be negotiating for the purchase of an
estate on Long Island, while the deposed
Queen Of Spain wants to buy the famous Jumel
estate not tar removed
Year: 1871

MISS E. j. HESS,


TlAK ES this method of informing the Ladies
j of st. CLAIRSVILLE, and Vicinity, that
she is engaged in the Dress Making Business
and is prepared to do all kinds of work in that
line on reasonable terms She may be found
at the Fast end Of Town in the House owned
by Thomas Parker. noil3m
Year: 1871




We would have greater cause for re-
joicing if we did not see so many rea-
sons for regarding this new departure
as Trojan horse-a new device of the
enemy to steal into our. camp, and be-
tray cur cause. What do they mean
by denouncing the extraordinary
means by which the amendments were
brought about? The only means by
which the amendments could be adopt
ed was by q vote of two-thirds of each
house of congress, ratified By three
fourths of the States. Was this consent
given? lfso, the amendments are the
supreme law. Do they dispute the
fact? If not, why this back-handed
lick at what they ratify and agree to
enforce? Again: What do they mean
by vigorously applying the democratic
rule of strict construction to the amend
ments? Does this conceal some covert
purpose to defeat them? Is this new
Kentucky resolution of '9s, containing
the heresy of secession and notification?
The 14th amendment is, mainly, only
Year: 1871

There is much truth and poetry in
the following beautiful paragraph by
Mrs. Sigourney:


Man might be initiated into the varie-
ties and mysteries of needle-work; taught
to have patience with the feebleness and
waywardness of infancy, and to steal
with noiseless steps around the chamber
of the sick; and the woman might be in
structed to contend for the palm Of sci
ence; to pour forth eloquence in SEN
ates, or wade through fields of slaughter
to throne. Yet revoltings of the
soul would attend this violence to ma
ture, this abuse of physical and intel
lectual energy; while the beauty of
social order would be defaced
and the fountain of earth's felicity
broken up We arrive, then, at the con-
clusion: The sexes are intended for
different spheres, and instructed in con-
formity to their respective destinations,
by Him who bids the oak brave the fury
of the tempest and the Alpine flower
lean its cheek on the bosom Of eternal
SHOWS. But disparity does not neces-
sarily imply inferiority; the high places
of the earth with all their pomp and
glory, are indeed accessible only to the
march of ambition or the grasp of
power; yet those who pass with faithful
and unapplauded zeal through their hum
BILE round of duty are not unnoticed by
the Great Taskmasters eye-and their
endowments, though accounted poverty
among men, may prove durable riches
in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Year: 1871

Persons who talk most do not always
think most. question whether persons
who think most-that is, have most con-
scious thought pass through their minds
necessarily do most mental work.
:" Be aye sticking in a tree, Jock; It will
be growing when you are sleeping" So
with every new idea that is planted in a
thinkers mind. 1t will be growing when
he is sleeping An idea in the brain is
not legend carved on a marble slab;
it is an impression made on a living
tissue which is the seat of active nutri-
tive processes. Shall the initials carved
in bark grow from year to year with the
tree? and shall not my recorded thought
grow into new forms and relations with
nv growing brain2 Daniel Webster told
one of the greatest scholars that he had
TO change the size of his hat every four
wears. His head grew large as his intel
lect expanded. Illustrations Of this same
fact were shown me by a famous phre-
nologist in London. But organic men,
tai changes may take place in shorter
spaces of time. A single night Of sleep
has often brought & sober second thought
which was a surprise TO q hasty conclu-
sion of the day before.-O. W. Holmes.
Year: 1871

From the Art Review.l


Give your apartments expression
character. Rooms which mean nothing
are cherries indeed Study light and
shade and the combination and arrange
ment of drapery, furniture and pictures.
Allow nothing to look isolated, but let
everything present an air Of sociability,
Observe a foom Immediately after a
number of people have left it, and then,
as YOU arrange the furniture, disturb as
little as possible the relative positions OF
chairs, ottomans and sofas. Place two
or three chairs in conversational attl-
tude in some CHEEKY corner, an ottoman
within easy distance of sofa, chair
near your stand of stereoscopic views OF
engravings and one where a good light
will fall on the book which you may
reach from the table near. Make little
studies of effect which shall repay the
more than usual observer, and do not
leave it possible for one to make the
criticism which applies to so many homes,
even of wealth and elegance" Fine car
pets, handsome furniture, few pictures
and elegant nothings-but how drearyl'
The chilling atmosphere is felt at once,
and we cannot diyest ourselves OF the
idea that we must maintain stiff and
severe demeanor, to accord with the
spirit of the place Make your homes,
then, so cozy and cheerful that, if we
visit you, we may be joyous and unre-.
strained, and not feel ourselves out OF
harmony with our surroundings.
Year: 1871

The Brooklyn Eagle, writing on news
paper work and workers, aptly says Of
newspaper men: "There is no peace in
our war. There is no rest for the weary.
Space is no more annihilated by tele-
graph than time by journalism. The
evening and the morning are not merely
the FIRST day, but all the seven. Night
is annihilated as to all its quietness Of
repose. Every minute of every hour OF
the twenty-four is occupied by some
workers doing some work that shows IT
self in the newspapers of the day and
afternoon. Repetition is as impossible
as rest. Facts are ever new. Comments
must be as fresh as facts, and the edition
is a remorseless giant that eats up all
the seconds. The making Of a news.
paper is perpetual motion in a thousand
fields. In such a work, demanding
eeaseless effort, permitting no pause,
exacting external and ever varying ex-
ercises. Il is impossible for wheat 70 be
unmixed Of chat, for accuracy not to be
impaired by mistake, for injustice not
occasionally to be done.
Year: 1871

from us, leaving the thousand streams Of
our affections to flow back in Alpine
torrents upon our hearts? We are born
for higher testimony than that of earth.
There is a realm where the rainbow
never fades; where the stars will spread
before us like islands that slumber on
the ocean, and where the beings that
pass before us, like shadows, will stay in
our presence foreverl
Year: 1871

A dressmaker was poisoned to death
in New York, a few weeks ago, by making
up a green tarletan dress. SO much of
the arsenic entered the pores of her skin
that she died a few days afterward.
Year: 1871

OF the narrow over the wide track, in an
economical point Of view, is even greater
tuah IN freight trains, as easily can be de-
M monstrated by analysis of the respective
c'st OF operating each style of road. No
na,era, found anywhere in Illinois
with which to make good country roads.
except at few points where the limestone
crops out OF the surface of the ground, In
nine-tenths af the State there Is absolu,elv
no material to be had for macadamizing
or plsnking roads. There can be nothing
better for the turnpike prairie mud roads


which are almost impossible for most of
the very portion Of the year when the far
mers have most time 10 take their crops to


market, than the narrow-track railway.


1t Is the best salution of the difficulty that,


perhaps, will ever be devised or provided.


They are so cheaply constructed that they


may run through every township, and in


sight OF every farm in the state. The re-


pairs needed on such roads and rolling


stock would be light, in comparison with


that on the common kind, and accidents
would be loss frequent and altogether less
destructive in life and property. The un-
prodtab bleness of the New York and Eric
road, and its inordinate cost for repairs.
and greater frequency of accidents are


Justly attributable to its six-foot gauge,
which must ere long be Abandoned, as the
road will never yield satisfactory profit
until that is done.