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Year: 1872

The New York UoTld states that jusiaab@e horeicIdA
ts now held to Include g the OF every who
Kills any other account Of any WOMAN, aud of
every woman who kills eny man my account what
ever"


The question whether 3 man has right to.
kill his niece because she voluntarily enters on
life Of shame is now to be decided This in
wolves the question whether q life Of shame ia
not itself as severe punishment as the wrath
Of man or God can devise for woman.
Year: 1872

1t is fortunate that the first important
conviction under the kukIux law should
have been man of local prominence and
general good character. Samuel Brown
of York Co., South Carolina, is a large
land-holder, formerly magistrate, and
old enough to be free from the temptation


of mere wantonness and sociability. Yet
it is clearly proved that he belonged to a
band which had committed at least one
murder and many outrages. His punish
ment will show his poorer and more igno-
rent neighbors that even Iaw1essness
which is popular is crime.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1872

TIHE SUCCESS OF THE CHRONICLE


l. is already assured. 1t has met with
the most flattering reception wherever it
by our friends in a proper spirit, and our
circulation is as wide as we had any right
to expect under the circumstances. But
with the beginning of the New Year, we
desire to renew our zeal, and to push for
ward our enterprise, until it shall not only
be the
Year: 1872

When you see little fellow-mortal
Without fixed and fearless views,
Hanging on the skirts of others,
Walking in their cast-off shoes
BOwing low to wealth or favor,
With uncovered abject head,
Ready to retreat or waver,


Willing to be drawn or led
Walk yourself with frmer bearing
Throw your moral shoulders back;
Show your spine has nerve and marrow,
Just the thing which ho must lack.
Year: 1872

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel Diabetes, Drop-
sy lncontinence of Urine Brights disease Albuminu-
ra and in where there Brick dust deposits or
the water is thick. cloudy, mixed with Substances like
the white Of egg threads like white silk or there


IS morbid dark, bilious appearance, and white Bone
dust deposits. and where there is prcking burning
and pain in the small of the back and along
the lOins. In all these conditions Railways Sarparii-


Ian Resolvent aided by tbs application of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back and
the bowels regulated with one or two of Radway's
Regulating Pills per day ill., soon make complete
cure. In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
and discharge water naturally without pain and the
Urine will be restored TO its natural clear and amber
or sherry color.
Year: 1872

Some one has felioniously stolen from
the REPUBLICAN, Office, a satchel, made
Of oil cloth, one shirt, black neck tic
with flower woven on each tab. and 8
new pair of nine dollar black pants, the
property Of Abram Clark, an employe OF
the office 1t is supposed the articles
were taken by Fisher, one of the scoun-
drels who attempted to rob Henry Bra
kel Saturday night f4th inst.


Fisher brought shirt and some hand
kerchiefs to the Office and left them, un.
doubtedly for the purpose of making an
excuse to be around the Office that he
might pick up such articles as he fancied.
He took away the articles he bad left in
the Office without the knowledge of any
one in he office He pretended to be an
agent for travelling .heatrical company.
Year: 1872

we are glad to see that many Of orr
cltlzens are taking advantage of the low
price OF corn to lay in heavy supplies of il
Tor fuel. We have experimental with II
The last week, and find that it is an admir-
able substitute for both wood and coal
and that at present prices there is both
economy and comfort in its use.


"A ton OF corn, thirty three bushels, at
seventeen cents per bushel, is $500 We
consider this equal to cord OF hard wood
as supplied and measured in our markets
at 81; the cutting of this cord, 81. 1.5O-to
tai, $3.50. Thus making a saving of
nearly three dollars cord


, For kitchen fuel it is superior to wood
except hickory, and cheaper than that
1t makes very hot fire with great blaze.
Wejudge that three tons of corn are
equal to the heat of one ton of hard coal
While in economy of its use it is equal fo
one and half tons of coal. In small
families and small houses there is always
great waste of hard coal, while there is
none in the use of corn. Besides this
there is the public benefit of retaining in
the country all the money we send to
Pennsylvania for coal, and feed our far.
mers by consuming products.-Coun
oa Bluff Nonpors1


The above tells more than thousand
arguments against the cost and difficulty
OF transportation between the West and
East Just what the remedy is or where
the power lies to apply it is difficult to
say, but it is clear that the present rates
OF tariff amount to almost an embargo on
the shipment of grain. The great need
OF the Western country is cheap transpor-
alton to the sea board Indiana Journal.
Year: 1872

SOLDIERS HOMEsTEADs.-The provisions of the
Soldiers Homestead Bill which has just passed
Congress and received the signature of the Prcsi-
dent, are as follows: Every officer, soldier, sal
lOr, or marine who served IN the war for period
exceeding ninety days may, in settling upon the
public lands under the homestead laws count the
period Of his service as a part of the five years
residence required to obtain a patent to one hun
dresl and sixty acres. The actual residence on the
land must he at least one year. Six months are
allowed after the location of the land before the
residence upon il must commence. Persons dis
charged for wounds or disability may have their
whole period Of enlistment counted. In case of
the death of a person who wOnld be entitled to
the privileges of the act his widow, if unmarried
or minor children, if the widow be married or
dead, are entitled to its benefits. Any person to
whom the bill gives the right to acquire land
may have the same entered and the required
settlement and residence made by an agent. This
is the most important feature of the bill, for a
comparatively small number of soldiers will
themselves become homestead settlers. The
right to transfer their privileges to an agent will
doubtless be of considerable value to them.
Year: 1872

There is q good deal of hnmbug about Lane not
SnD'ng members Of the Legislature to vote for
him, because he had not the not money to do II
ne was the father Of bribery and corruption in
TINS state: Although he had not much money to
operate with, he was bold to offer by himself, a.
well q thronZh his friends Offices that were sup
posed to be xorth money, for votes. And he
openly boasted of it AFTERWARDS in the most puI-
hc and shameless manner, and his friends have
never pretended to deny it. We suppose it was
any less attempted bribery, for Clarke to offer
wood the mail agency than il was to offer him
sS,OOO provided he did not get the agencyf Out
upon such drivel.-Wyaadotfs Gasefte.
Year: 1872

y The Liberals are boasting that HENRY
WARD BEECHER spoke in favor Of their movement,
the other day. So he did in favor of ANDY JOHN
SONS Treason, but it DIDN'T do him a bit Of good.
We believe BEECHER claims to be in favor OF
GRANT; but BEECHER, outside of his own circus.
doesn't amount to much.
Year: 1872

1t is announced that in his will, Ed
win Forrest will leave his entire prop
erty, even his wardrobe and valuable
library, to be usel for the foundation
OF a Home for Disabled Dramatic
Artists. Sixty acres of ground within
the limits of Philadelphia have been
made over to the corporation of that
city for the purposes set forth, and in
after years those members of the 'dra-
matte profession whose lives have not
been crownedIwith successful gains may
enjoy the comforts of beautiful home,
surrounded by reminders of their art.


Mr.. Forrest said to friend less than a
month ago, that this project had been
the main object of his life for thirty
five years, and that he had made ample
provision for carrying it out. 1t was
his desire that the endowment should
be legally perfect; that there cnn,d lie
no 1nesti," before the Courts ah"ut
the title. Further, he said he wished
his bequest to be so closely understood
that no one would doubt Lis motive.
Year: 1872

wonder what day Of the week.


wonder what month Of the year,
Will it be midnight, or morning.
And who will bend over my bier?
What a hideous fancy t. come


As ] wait, at the foot of the stair.
While Eleanor gives the last touch
To her robe, or the rose in her hair!
Do 1 like your new dress-pompsdour?
Do I like yom' On my life,
You are eighteen, and not day more,
And have MT been nix years my wife!
Those two rosy boys in the crib
Up stairs are not ours, to be surei-
You are just sweet bride in her bloom,
All sunshine, and snowy, ana pure!
As The carriage rolls down the dark street
The little wife laughs and makes cheer
But. Il wonder what day of the week,
wonder what month of the yearl


January Atlantic.
Year: 1872

PROBABLE RECOVERY OF Mr.. APPLETON
Those in charge of d. w. Appleton at the City
Hospital feel encouraged this morning in the
belief that he will recover from the terrible
burn he received at the lookup in Ward 16 on
Monday night. Yesterday there was imminent
danger of his losing his life, his stomach indi-
eating that he might have received some inter-
nal injuries. This morning he was able to take
and retain his diet. He is also more comforta-
bic than he was yesterday.-Journal
Year: 1872

A SAD SToRY.-One of the saddest of stories
is that briefly told in our dispatches Tuesday
morning, of Mr. d. W. Appleton, young man
of highly respectable family, rich, well educat-
ed, and of unusual talant and promise, who,
while crazed by drink aud confined in a station
house in Neponset set fire to his cell, and was
terribly, and beyond doubt, fatally burned be-
fore he could be rescued. There is no need to
point the moral of this event. 1t cannot be OBJ
scured or evaded. Mr.. Appleton was grand
son of Daniel Webster, whose name he bore.
but his descent from that eminent man ONLY
makes his own deplorable weakness and its
awful consequences more conspicuous. One
Circumstance connected with the affair, which
made its tragical end possible, seems to call
for severe censure Mr.. Appleton, when found
by the police grossly intoxicated, was confined
in a wooden building used as lookup, and
left there alone, as it was not place where any
officers was kept constantly on duty. In his
drunken frenzy, it is supposed, for no one
knows the facts, he set fire to the room for the
purpose of burning hole through the wall by
which he might escape.


CANAL NAvIGATIoN.-There. appears to be
danger that the use of the New York canals
will be greatly crippled this season for want of
water. The Syracuse Journal says that with
the exception of Otisco Lake, none of the res
ervoirs of the Middle Division of the Erie canal
are full, and the draught to be made upon
tnem Tor hiling the canals will largely reduce
.he quantity of water which they now contain.
other reservoirs on the line are low and will be
exhausted early in the season unless heavy rain
fallsintervene. The reservoirs on the Cbeonoo
canal are in similar condition There ia great
danger that navigation on the Cayuga and
Seneca canal may be suspended, and the Chem
ung canal is very low.
Year: 1872

THE coalition between the Democrats and
a few personal friends of Senator Ferry have
been successful in defeating Gen. Hawley,
the Republican candidate for the Senate in
Connecticut. The Senate needs few men
of Gen. Hawley's character and his defeat is
a source of general regret on the part of
Republicans. There are those who speak of
him for the second place on the Presidential
Year: 1872

Some of the free traders who were at Cincin-
natl, working for the nomination of Adams, are
now busily engaged in getting up concerted
movement to secure the nomina ton of Adams
and Groesbeck at Baltimore. That there will
be a nomination at Baltimore is becoming daily
mora cartaiu
Year: 1872

Reflect THAT sound mind and body are tho
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
happiness Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly d.,rk.ns u the view, The mind
becomes shadowcd wi; h despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the nappIncs. ot
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1872

The public are requested to give their attention to the above circular of S J. GOLD, who has been so long engaged in the business of Heating, and manufacturing apparatus for it.

 The plan upon which this new ap- paratus is made and operated is entirely new and novel.

 It is constructed upon the most sim pie and yet the most efectual principle of Heating yet discovered.

 There are a number of them now in operation in different parts of the coun- try, and the results of the trial have been very gratifying to both the invent or and manufacturer.

 The economy in the use of fuel and it's heating capacity is tuly wonderful, no such results having ever before been achieved by any previous invention,

 It is only designed in this notice to call the attention of the public or any who may wish to secure what the in- ventor says in his circular above,- 's ample warmth without injury to health" ,"-to this new invention which probably will come into general use in all our country homes, as well as in the homes of the wealthy who live iu the large cities and towns. It is subject of interest to all who have homes where health, comfort and pleasure are sought after.

 Any person who may wish par ticulars about the size, price or descrip ton of the apparatus, or any intorma tion whatever, are requested to call ant see 0ne in operation, or address
Year: 1872

N DESIRE to express my gratitude to my many N customers for the very liberal patronage they have given me in the past. All orders for

 Fruit and Ornamental Trees received by mail or otherwise will receive prompt attention, Address W. T. SAUNDERS,

 2ltf LAKRvuLEs CoNNs
Year: 1872

TVNHE INVENTOR, who has been actively engag

 A ed for the past twenty years in introducing to the public his several systems of Warming Build ings with Steam and Hot Water, by methods well known throughout the United States and Canadas has, at the solicitation of numerous friends finally produced a more economical Heater, which en- bodies all the excellent qualities of Steam and Hot Water heat, with the simplicity of Hot Air Furnace construction.

 Notwithstanding the largu sale and universal approval of Colds Steam and Water Heating Apparatus" it's responsiveness has impeded its general introduction and use. To remedy this de- feet has long been the study of the inventor, who is now satisfied that in thir new Heater, he has secured the only plan whereby persons of moder- ate means can enjoy in their homes, the comfort of ample warmth without injury to health and that his new method meets a demand long felt, and must when well known, supersede all other Heaters. No one desires, if it be avoid ed, to put into his home heater which will cer- tainly impair the health of those who inhale the air vtiated by contact with highly heated surfaces All other Hot Air Furnaces DO heat the air too hot because of the very limited amount of superficial surface exposed to the fro, so that much of the surface is oftex heated to redness; the proportion of surface to the Aame of fire in this new System, is TEN TIMES GREATER than the common Hot Air Furnace, and part is overloaded; in deed it ia adjusted on such correct scientific prn ciples, that every part of the surface is equally warmed.

 In the new Furnace tue valuable result is secured of an apparatus with all the merits of g Steam Heater, with tue simple construction of tho Hot

 Air Furnace, avoiding all the delsterious effects o | that kind of heat.
Year: 1872

Love and romance by telegraph
are one of the institutions of this
enterprising age. Mr.. Scudamor,
Superintendent of Government tel
egraphs in Great Britain, in report
ing on the effects of employing male
and female operators, says that it not
only ''raises the tone" of the men, but
leads to friendship, and even matri-
monial engagements, at opposite ends
of the line He gives an instance OF
q youth in London and maiden at
Berlin, who became acquainted and
engaged in that way, and were hap
PLY married The mutual thrill of
their young hearts pulsated along the
wire, and we are afraid that the single
thought of their two souls may at
times have delayed the more prosy
matter that was waiting for trans
mission. Love by electricity is fine
invention, and we shall soon have
marriage by steam, and the danger of
explosions and blow-ups will be much
greater than at present.
Year: 1872

1t is startling fact that three quarters
of the crimes are committed in the night


All the vices nestle under the wings of the
dark. The opportunities for undetected
indulgence abound in the evening, and then
temptations are most numerous and seduc-
tive. Most men are too busy in the day.
time to drink or gamble, or indulge in other
vices. They would shrink from being seen
hanging about a bar, or lounging at the
club, or playing euchre and whist for mon
ey, or talking with questionable characters


But their business reputation would be
compromised were they to do by daylight
what they do without hesitation by gas
light. And it is the evening indulgence
that units for morning work, and finally
breaks the credit, and destroys the health,
and demoralizes the manhood. Three
quarters of the young people who go to
ruin take the first steps on the downward
path in the evening. We want no better
key to a mans character than to know how
he spends his nights. -[Selected.
Year: 1872

Q H. !


The strong attachment of subscrib-
.ers to well conducted newspapers is
fully confirmed by publishers. "Stop
my paper" words of dread to begin
,ners in business, lose their, terror af-
ter paper has been established for a
term of years. So long as a paper
pursues a just, honorable and judi
cious course, meeting the wants of
its customers in all respects, the ties
of friendship between the subscribers
and the paper are as hard to break
by an outside third party as the links
which bind old friends in business or
social life. Occasional defects and
errors in newspaper are overlooked
by those who have become attached
to it through its perusal for years.
They sometimes become dissatisfied
with it on account of something
which had slipped into its columns,
and may stop taking it; but the alb
sence of the familiar sheet at their
homes or offices for few weeks, be-
comes an indispensable deprivation,
and they hasten to take it again, and
maybe apologize for having it stop
ped. This we believe to be the com
mon experience in the history of all
established newspapers. No friend
ship on earth is more constant than
that contracted by the reader for a
journal which makes an honest and
earnest effort to merit his continued
support. Hence, the newspaper
which is conscientiously conducted
becomes d favorite in the family.
Year: 1872




IN. Y. Cor. Rochester Dem. and Chronicle.l


As some of our readers who have read
about the recent Wall street corner may
misunderstood the term, / will explain that
it simply means in this application just
what it does in common parlance. Men
are cornered when placed in difficulty
from which there is no escape. The great
effort in Wall street is to accomplish this,
and the man that can best succeed is the
hero of the day. The same kind of trans
action has been attempted In merchandise,
but it is not SO practicable as in stocks. If
a man could contract with number of
dairymen for large amount of butter, say
at thirty cents per pound, and then should
secretly poison all their cows, he would
certainly have them in ''corner." This
would be considered crime. of outrageous
character, but it is just what Wall street
men are daily trying to do. In order to
''corner" others they will destroy values and
thus commit direct robbery. Hence if they
fail to accomplish this they need expect no
quarter. 1 inquired of one of the lucky
men the reason why he was SO hard upon
victims. ''Sir," said he, ''what business
had these men to sell property that was not
their own; what business had they to sell
my property 20 1t must be confessed that
this is true view of the case. When a
broker who has not dollars worth of
Northwestern contracts to deliver thous-
and shares of this stock at 80 within thirty
days, hoping that he may depress it by
some trickery SO as to make handsome
profit, then it is simply Just retribution he
should be made to smart for it. This is the
retribution that such men as Henry N.
Smith and Daniel Drew have been called to
suffer. Who viii pity them?
Year: 1872

give herr" said the doctor, examining
the baby.


'Nothing, doctor, said the mother,
sadly.


''No sweet oil, butter, molassesl
even lard would have done"


Nothing, doctor" said the mother
again, her lip quivering little now;
''no butter, molasses, or even lard"


The doctor bent a pitiful face over
the baby, and he gave his directions
in low voice; but he stayed patient
ly by her until he saw the difficult
breathing relieved at last, and the lit
tie creature sleeping safely in her era
die. He had found time to note the
three empty stockings by the chimney
before he went; and he rightly guess
ed that in house so poor there was
nothing to fill them. But whatever he
thought aboutit, he made no remarks,
and when the baby was out of dan
ger he went away. The tired mother
slept late into the next morning, with
her rosy little treasure folded close in
her arms, and the womanly little
daughter came quietly down the lad
der and began to build up the fire
from the Goals that still smouldered
in the white ashes. She saw the
stockings, empty still, but she had not
the heart to take them down. Her
fingers were cold and stiff, and some
how she found it hard to open the
door, but when it did come open,
there was big basket fastened to
the latch, heaped with bundles great
and small. She took it down, half
doubling if she really were awake,
and read upon the top in big letters,


"Merry Christmas from Santa
Claus to Ted and Mattie."


1 cannot tell you half there was in
it, but even the turkey had been re-
membered, and though there was not
a word to make one suspect anybody
but Santa Claus, yet I happen tc cknow
that Dr.. Ashley had no turkey for his
Christmas dinner, though he certainly
bought nice one the day before
hand; but one thing I do not know,
and that is, where they had the mer-
riest Christmas, at the white house
on the hill, or the little log house at
the four corners.-[ Little Corporal.
Year: 1872

The old nest swings on the leaaess tree,
The red sun sets in the west;
think that like two brown birds are we,
Left last in the empty nest.
All the young ones are afar and away,
Each sings with his chosen mate;
Twilight is closing our lightsome day,
Though the crimson flush lasts late.
"Tis trembling step comes down the path
You could erst so lightly tread;
Changed is our thought of the grave old earth
That is keeping in trust our dead.
o comely facet that l knew so fair;
Soft cheeks, that are sunken now,
love the gray in your faded hair,
The lines on your thoughtful brow.
The past grows a book to understand,
The future has gifts to bring,
As sit by the fire and hold your hand,
And finger the worn gold ring.
My own true wife, who is dearest now
For al that the years resign
For the timid love, for the spoken vow,
For the home that is yours and mine.
For hopes We shared, and for tears we shed,
For comforts in days O'ercast;
For the trust that we hold to meet our dead,
When the shades of life are past.
Griefs that are over left US gift,
They Lit rs lamp of light;
Soon shall Gods sun shine clear through the lift
And there shall be no more night
Close to my side, dear wife that I love,
With your thin hand fast in mine;
So will we wait for the light above,
Till the morning star shall shine.


1Chambers' Journal