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Year: 1873

HERsCHEL V. JOHNSON, OF Georgia,
strained at q gnat, tut went into the
rebellion without a wry face. The great
portion OF the story he himself revealed
at the dinner the Macon bar gave him
the other day. He said that once only
he ran for the Legislature. His party
was largely in the ascendency. Before
the election he attended barbecue,
which was followed by q shooting
match. We quote zone Of the SOW
ereigns' approached me and asked for a
dollar to enable him to purchase a
chance in the match. replied, my
friend, were l not candidate, l would
cheerfully give you the desired sum,
but how could take the oath OF office
if elected should l comply with your
reouestT The irate voter replied,
We'll, if you are too mean to pay a
dollar to aid your election / will zee
that you are beaten. And sure enough
I was defeated"
Year: 1873

Mr.. Bonner has driven different
horses to road wagon in the fastest
time ever made in that way. at all dis
tances from a quarter Of a mile to two
miles. He has driven Startle a quarter
of mile to road wagon in 33 seconds,
which is the fastest time ever made to
road wagon in that distance. He has
driven Dexter half q mile to road
wagon in LOCI, which is the fastest
half mile to road wagon ever driven /;
and the same horse full mile in 2:2lf /,
which is the fastest full mile to road
wagon ever driven. Lucy Palmer and
Flatbush Maid he drove two miles to
road wagon in 5:0li. and that perform
suce for the came distance has never
been equaled.
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsE-The Commissary
General of the United States, after trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch" was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
Year: 1873

NEITHER SICK NOR WE'LL The
members of the medical profession are
the. recognized guardians of the health
of the community; and yet, strange as it
may seem, the vast majority of cases of de
ficient health deznot ordinarily fall under
the notice of the physician. Moreover,
those cases are not only more numerous,
but more important, than such as receive
professional treatment They have a great
er influence upon the general average of
physical comfort, and upon the hyglenic
condition of the public generally, than have
graver disorders. We can see from all
this how desirable it is that We should be
put in possession Of some remedy for those
multiplex little ills that cause us, never
theless, so much wretchedness. DIR.
Gottlieb Fisch,s Bitters is such remedy
By regulating the action of the liver, and
by stimulating digestion and secretion il
seems to oil afresh the wheels of life and
to make the bare sense of existence itself q
| joy


This subject continued next week under
Modern CiUilizattOn
Year: 1873

We offer our entire stock of ladies un-
derwear at cost to close it out. Also great
bargains in dress goods to make room for
fall stock, Shawls at cost Lace points
at cost Grenadines from ten cents per
yard upward A large line of the eele-
brated Moline quilts at about half cost of
manufacturing. In fact we have the best
stock of good goods to be found in Rock
Island and wish to run it down as low as
possible. WADswoRTH 4 PARSONS.
Year: 1873

CATARRH-Use Rennes Pain Killing
Magic Oil freely on the forehead and nose,
externally, and also inhale the strong odor
of the Oil from cloth, time after time,
to act on the mucus membrane, cleansing
healing and also mix the Magic Oil with
water, and gargle the throat often Try
this for a few days, it don't cost much.
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
of all the principal starches in the country,


decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch" was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention Of consum-
Year: 1873

THE KEYSTONE SALOON HAS BEEN RE
| moved to the corner of Moline Avenue and Rail
road street within five minutes walk of the new


Railroad Depot. where the Proprietor will be hap.
5sdIm JAMES McELROY
Year: 1873

the most gallant officers in tho service, whose


bravery has been tested in the most signal man
ner, and to whose hcroism and skill Gen. Custer
and others have borne public testimony. That no
should now bo surplanted by o young Lieutcn-
ant, who has never seen any service ct all, and
whoso only public net has been to make q
European tour in government vessel, is aimply
rank and cruel injustice to those officers who
have seen hard and dangerous service. II Presi-
dent Grant had desired to give his son start in
military life, Le should hayo cent him to tho
Modoc lnva-bod, where he might have had q
chance to flesh his maiden sword, show what
sort Of stuff WIS in him, and demonstrate
his fitness to step into tho place Of soldier who
is every inch & hero. We a1e glad to know that
Lieut.. Grant himself was opposed to tho trans-
for, and thought it both indelcato and unjust
but was constrained against his own inclinations
to nccopt the position which was thrust upon
him. At the same time. this fact does not re-
icye tho President or his family from tho cba-go
Of insufferablo selfiBhness and injustice, and will
not lessen tho indignation which tho announce
ment has caused in this community.
Year: 1873

WOULD Not HAVE lT.-A few
days ago Il lady went into book
store in this city and purchased Il
very handsomely bound copy of
|Byron's work, for $40. After she
had taken it home sne discovered
Fin it an autograph letter of By
|mn's, and thinking that the writ
kng had been done on the fiy-leaves
BY some one in the store, she took


the book back and indign lntly
|dems nded that they should take
the writing out" saying that she
wished to present the book to "A
gentleman friend, and she did not
want it scribhled up like that"
lThe clerk quietly remov d the
offensive, leaves, and the lady de-
parted with the book much better
|satisfied. The clerk reserved his


Raugh until she had departed. .-


Nacra2neRtO Record.
Year: 1873

The mail train on the E. & e. Railroad
ran into freight train on a side track above
Vincennes last night, breaking up several
freight cars and the locomotive Of the mail
train. No one seriously hurt.
Year: 1873

A letter from Goodrich, Ontario says


Rumor from Blind River, a numbering


stream that flows into Lake Huron, an


nounces singular and singularly fatal


accident. A lumberer named williams


sent batteau load of pork, -four and oats


up to the woods in charge of seven men


four of whom were from Ashfield, the


others being French Canadians from the
"Ottawa country" The trip should


only have occupied two days, and when
a full week had elapsed Mr., Murry, an
associate of Williams, becoming alarmed
at receiving no tidings of the men, made
inquiries about them. A lumberer stat
ed that as he came down the river he
saw the depot where the provisions
should have been stored, near which
their batteau was lying, half filled with
water, but showing no signs of oecupa-
ton. Preceding to the depot, Mr.. Muir
ry entered the building. He found the
pork stored away in one corner and the
flour in another, while the oats were in
a confused heap in the center of the floor
some of the bags being broken. A faint
odor, as of decaying flesh, proceeding
from this pile, almost gave deadly fin
ish to the conjecture that beneath it
were mysteriously buried those whom
he sought. On clearing away the bags
the smell became more pronounced, then
a human hand showed itself, then all
the bodies came to light.


OF course the manner of their deaths
could only be guessed at, but the story
told by the circumstances under which
the bodies were discovered was plain as
print. The sacks of oats had been piled
in high narrow pile along the side of
the building opposite to the fireplace.
The men had gone to sleep in woodman
their feet to the fireplace.
The pressure from the superintendent
mass had burst seam in one the lower
bags, from which the oats had ran till
the pile had sagged, and with one tre-
mendous crash fell on the sleeping men
who were taken in trap. But one of
them seems to have had an opportunity
to fight for his life, his six fellows hay
ing been crushed and stified as they lay.
He had made q esperate struggle, which
has but suffled to increase his torture as
the bags had been torn by his hands and
teeth till he had been smothered by the
oats.
Year: 1873

One of the most annoying complaints


in the range of medical knowledge is
cod in the head. But you would not
think so. No newspaper which pub
fishes intricate recipes for complicated
diseases, tells, even in the most vague
way, how to cure cold in the head.
No volume on physiology comes to its
relief. No doctor in regular practice
pretends to know anything about it. 1t
is the wandering Jew of ailments. 1t
invades every household with impunity
and snaps its feverish fingers in the very
face of science. And medical science
promptly lodges, and is glad it cam
The man with cold in his head is a
mournful fabr ic to contemplate. He is
ostracised from company. He is bar
red out from the family circle. He
loses his interest in everything but a
stove and handkerchief, and were he
called upon to give an expression it
would be found that his idea of heaven
was place where stove foundries and
cotton mills were about equally divided.
His eyes are watery, his skin is drawn
tight to his flesh, his nose is swollen, of
q fiery red, and sorer than strange
dog. What he mostly fears is the draft,
but in spite his most active endeavOrs he
is sure to get into it; and he is hardly
able to conceal his surprise at the pres
sure of business the family is subjected
to, which keeps the door open about
two-thirds of the time, and establishes
an almost uninterrupted current of air
about his legs. Screwed up back of the
stove, with his nose like beacon shin
ing above it, he patiently holds his hand
kerchief to the blaze, and finally slips
into mental calculation as to which
will first lose its moisture-his cotton or
his blood. There he sits all day, with
handkerchief as flag of truce tender
ed by the fire in his head to the fire in
stove, and at night he goes scudding
through cold hall, sneezing at every
leap. Long after every one else is
asleep he starts up with terrific sneeze
and finds that his feet are sticking out
below the quilts, and that the handler
chief, which he meant to have carefully
located fer just this emergency, is no.
where to be found.-Ddnbury Ne,cs.
Year: 1873

The Atlanta Herald has q headline,
s'Iron and steal business"


One of the attractions at Tennessee
fair,w was price of one bushel OF potatoes
tor the ugliest man rider.


While witnessing game of baseball
out West, boy was struck on the head
the bawl coming out of his mouth.


A lady reporter, sent to an agricui-
tural fair, wrote of a lot of pigs: "They
are too sweet to live minute"


A dandy is chap who would be Ia
dy if he could; but as he can't, does all
he can to show the world that he's not
man.
Year: 1873

This winter will be hard one. Work


will be scarce and money scarcer. AL


ready the great manufacturing firms


have discharged many of their hands,


and those who have not dismissed en-


rloyes have reduced wages SO low that


the effect of the two is not very differ


ent. To beg, to steal, or to starve seems


the only solution to the problem of life
for those enforced idlers. When there
is scantiness of work, there is inevita-
bly, plentitude of crime. 1t is stated
that twenty thousand men and women,
dependent on their daily earnings for
support, were out of employment last
winter in New York; and it is feared
that the number this season may be
doubled. Many of them must wander
into the country in search of the labor
they cannot find in town. When they
ask at your door tor work, try to find
for them. if it be only for a
few hours. Trust them, even if their
be uncanny. Give them
work, and pay them for it. Money
that comes without labor is generally
the least charitable of gifts. To live
upon pecuniary aid that has had no
equivalent, is to lose self-respect, and to
lose self-respect is to lose the balance
wheel of healthy organization.


Engage all the help this winter you
can possibly afford. Have your sewing
done, not by expensive modistes, but by
the poor who stitch by the Gay or job.
Hire the chore-woman for an extra
cleaning, now and then. Let the wash
boy do the errands You have
been in the habit of doing yourself
Compensate them for self-respecting
toll, instead of making them the recip-
tents of mortifying charity. Do not
save pennies, and call it economy, by
performing the task which, by the law
Of mutual help, belongs to others. 1t
is keeping from them that which is their
right. Refrain from buying luxuries,
if you will, but do not take frsm the
needy, through a mistaken idea of thrift.
-"Home and Society,"" Scribner for Jan
Year: 1873

From a private letter written by C.
Burritt Waite of New York to his pa
rents we extract details of the loss of
the steamer by which Miss Waite was
drowned, that will interest many of our
Year: 1873

A writer in the Times, who has been
boring the worthy Secretary Of State for
the past few days, yesterday gravely asked
this question:


Now. will tho gentleman whose duty It Is
to lay before the people the acts OF the
Legislature, explain by whom the sub
Joined note, on the front page Of the official
volume, was signed


NOTE BY THE SECRETARY OF s1ATE.


Acts Nos. 81 to l0l, inclusive, printed in
this volume under the title Acts Passed by
the General Assembly of the State Of Louis
lana, at the Second Session of the Second
Legislature, begun and held in the city OF
New Orleans, January !, 1872, were not
signed by the Governor in time TO be
bound with the laws of 1872 and are, there
fore, included in this volume.


Where word is found necessary to sus-
tain the sense of the context, or where one
word has been obviously mistaken for
another, the word supposed to be proper is
supplied, but in brackets [thusl


PC. DESLONDE, Secretary Of State.
The gentleman whose "duty it is to lay
before the people the acts Of the Legisla-
ture," is the Secretary Of State himself.


Not an act is published in the official jour


nal without his attesting signature, and


none are included in the pamphlet volume


without such attestation. As for the note


in question, it was placed in the book


without the express authority Of Mr.. Des-


londe, but as it only says Of act No. 10l


that it was received too late to 60 into the


volume for 1872, which is fact that no


one disputes. we do not see that any harm


has been done.


No laws are distributed officially by any


one except the Secretary Of State. He is


supplied with the entire edition. If he


thinks proper he can make use Of the


note placed at the beginning Of the vol


ume; if he does not wish it to appear he


can order his clerks OF any other person


to remove it. At all events, he is response
BILE for it if he issues the volume with the
! note in it. But the note is form which


was adopted by the Secretary OF State


some years ago. and appears in each
| volume of the laws since 1869. It was


used by Bovee and Heron. and the fore
1ldu OA luo p1AAIAAS OAASS' "AeAo0' WA


sulting Mr.. Deslonde, made the customary
correction this year by printing his name
instead Of Bovee or Heron. The State


Printer is responsible for any error that
| has been committed. but he is not
aware Of any. The statement contained
in that note is true. And beside. the


whole edition was delivered to the Secre-
tary of State, note and all. He can use his
discretion in the matter. He can send
out the laws with the note OF without il,
or be can send the note out alone without
the laws. In either case the State Printer
will have nothing to do with it. We are
only required to take care that no law is
promulgated or published that is not
properly attested by the Secretary OF
State, and to be careful that none thus at
tested are left out


As for act No. 101, We are informed by


Mr.. Mentz, who was acting Secretary Of
State on the tenth Of January, 1873, that
he was directly ordered by acting Cover
nor Pinchback to have it published.
Year: 1873

vive the hopes of our people, and secure
the cooperation Of our State and city au-
thorities. We may expect, moreover, that
the cities Of the great West viii unite in
promoting this great object, and that the
corn farmers of the West will find in q free
way to the ocean, and across this ocean
the great relief from all the distractions
OF which they now complain. This is but
one view Of the interests of New Orleans
as seen from abroad. They can only be
announced. and no. even enumerated
within the limits Of a newspaper article.
Year: 1873

Organized by act Of the Legislature
during the height Of political excitement
III Ills city. and at time when everything
that could be said was urged against it
and its presiding judge. the Superior Dis
trict Court has closed it's labors for the
season, having rendered more good SER
vice to the State than probably any other
like judicial tribunal has been able to &C
complish. The frmness, discernment
and unhinching integrity Of the presiding
Judge have combined traits Of character
which have been of incalculable value to
the State during the trying times through
which she has just passed. They have
enabled the State to protect its credit
when it was ,uthlessly assailed by enemies
from without in league with pretended
friends within They have aided in de-
feating and setting at naught the machina-
tons of the unprincipled and mercenary.
They have been the fbres' which have
made the judicial arm strong against evil
doers. In the six months of its existence
great deal Of work has been done in this
court-the most of it work in which the
public is directly interested-and il has
been done in such manner that the most
bitter partisan can not but acknowledge
the Justice and fairness Of its decisions
And when the bitter political feeling
which the events Of the last campaign
engendered has died out, the most implaca-
BILE will thank the Legislature for estab-
fishing the Superior District Court, and
praise Governor Pinchback for appoint
ing Jacob Hawkins TO preside over its de,
Gberations.
Year: 1873

IN the late editorial convention in North
Carolina Captain William Biggs gave IN
his experience as follows: He had been
several years conducting q newspaper, most
of which had been spent in raising the
rpeans of doing it.
Year: 1873

A spread-eagle orator wanted the wings
OF a bird to fly to every town and county,
TO every village and hamlet in the broad
land; but he wilted when naughty boy IN
the crowd sang out, "You'd be shot Tor .
.oo,o hatora won had flown a mile"
Year: 1873

have extended the area of freedom by
striking the shackles from the limbs Of
four millions Of slaves, and investing them
with the rights Of citizenship. Let them
also revere independence day.
Year: 1873

Mondays kilograms show that
the fears of the French Republicans,
expressed when Mcmahon was elected
President of the Republic, were too
well founded. They looked upon his
election as wedge to prepare the
opening for the introduction of monar-
chy; they thought President was
elected that King might succeed.


In accordance with their fears it is
now proposed to establish monarchy,
based on the old charter of 1914.
This means that an attempt will again
be made to degrade France by putting
an imbecile king-Bourbon or Orlean-
ist-upon its throne; it means that re-
publicanism may again prove failure
in France, and misgovernment may
again be the rule.


When the noble France of past his
tory fell, when she lay bleeding and
torn beneath the German rule, every
historic heart bled with her; when
she rose up still bleeding and put on the
garments of freedom and began to
heal her wounds, every heart rejoiced.
1t was then hoped that the troubles of
France were over; that she had en-
tered upon the safe and open sea of
liberty and free government. But it
seems not to be. More trouble rises
up in the distance before her. What
will be the result only prescient
mind can foretell. Let us hope for the
best.


In this emergency, grand old Thiers
is again seen hurrying back to be-
loved France to meet the storm. AL
though France forgot him, he can not
and will not forget her. When he shall
have passed away, when the historian
shall sift out the good in each mans >
life, and shall raise mental monu-
ment to his memory, that of this
grand, good, old man will be shining
and prominent among those of the
purest and best.
Year: 1873

This morning the HERALD publish
es the list of all the Oranges establish
ed in this county. The great motto of
the Oranges is dnti-monop0ly. This is
also the watchwOrd of the HERALD.
There is no doubt that the Changers
will be hereafter more important ele-
ment in controlling politics than now
exists in America. Its members are
hard-working honest farmers, and
men all opposed to the duplicity that
now exists amongst Office-holders.
Their object is to purify the morals of
the political field. That is the HER
AIDS object too. This newspaper and
the Changers Societies are alike new
enterprises and they are both succeed
ing. Every honest agriculturist should
be Granger, and the progress of the
Society will be carefully watched and
noted in these columns.
Year: 1873

The San Francisco NeWs Letter of the
4th instant is, as usual, full of fun,
blrsphemy and news. In one page it
quates beautiful translation Of "Veni
Sancte Spiritus," and in another it is
grossly offensive to any man who be-
lieves in the existence of Supreme
Being. While the general perusal of
one part of the newspaper convinces
any one that from the first page to the
last it is full of solid thought and keen
wit, it is impossible to,avoid OCCASION
ally stumbling on something that is as
needlessly blasphemous as it is bad
and shocking.
Year: 1873

RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA.-At a
meeting of the Dominion Board of Trade
in Ottawa, few days ago, this resolu-
ton was adopted:


Resolved That the Executive Council
be instructed to memorialiZe the gov
ernment in favor of the appointment of
commission to act with that of the
United States, if it should be named, or
to take such other means as will best
respond to any action on their part to
carry out the treaty of reciprocal ira de
with the United States.


The National Board of Trade of the
United States on several occasions have
asked Congress to appoint commi ssion
for the purpose here contemplated, and
other bodies representing commercial
affairs in different parts OF the country
have done the same. Several gentle
men representing these bodies were ad-
mitted to seats in the Dominion Con-
vention, and discussed this subject, TAX
ing the sensible ground that free trade
would he OF mutual benefit to The United
States and Canada. Congress could not
do a better act at this session than TO re-
spond to this good feeling between the
commercial interests of the two coun-
tries by the appointment of commits
sion to carry out their views.
Year: 1873

read the others heart fully and per-
fectly. And yet, not even then did l
tell him Fortunes story. l longed to
do lit was on my lips again and
again-but l was expecting her return
with my father every moment, and
feared to be interrupted when l had
once begun. SO the time went past,
and l was yexed with myself when it
was gone, that my tale was still un-
told.


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