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Year: 1872

The following is "a fair illustration
of what industry and perseverance,
may effect from small beginning
with very small article:


Twenty years ago all the slate pen.
clls used were manufactured IN Ger.
many. She then supplied America
with that commodity. In 1850 there
was young man living in West
Rutland, Vermont, eighteen years OF
age, who fortunately discovered a
supply OF stone tor making first
class article OF slate pencils. He be-
gan by whiting out the pencils and
selling them to the school children.
Being better article than that tor
sale in the stores, he found ready
sale for all he could whittle out.


He argued that it they would sell
thus readily at home, they would sell
readily everywhere. He became
possessed OF the idea that there was
a fortune in the business. aud his
dream has been realized. This quar-.
ry OF slate pencil stone was situated
in a large ravine tour miles north of
Castleton, VT, near Bomeseen Lake.
The land on which it was situated
was for sale at one hundred dollars.
He purchased it, and began opera
tions by saving out the pencils and
whiting them round.


The business of making them grew
immensely on his hands. SO that it
was impossible to keep clean order
book.


Machinery was invented to tacili
tate the process, which has reached
something like PERFECTION, and enor
mously increases the production Of
pencils. At present the quarry and
mills are owned by joint company.
They are valued at three hundred
thousand dollars. From fifty to one
hundred thousand pencils are turned
out daily, and upwards OF hundred
hands are employed in the quarry
and the mill.


After the stone is quarried it pass.
es through four processes before it
is made INTO pencils. It is sawn into
rectangular blocks five inches by sew
en-, and split by hand into slabs of
the same length and breadth. which
are carefully assorted. These slabs
pass through q machine which shaves
them all to uniform thickness of a
vuarter Of an inch, when they are
ready for the final process.


The machinery tor reducing tbeae
slabs TO penciles consists of iron
plates fitted to receive them, fastened
to an endless chain which passes over
rollers at either end.
Year: 1872

An act to create an additional land dis


trict in the State of Nevada.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That all
that portion of the State of Nevada, en-
braced in the following described limits, to
wit: commencing at the corner common to
townships twenty-fOur and twenty-five
north, range fOrty-four and fOrty-five east,
Mount Diable base and meridian; thence
running due east to- the eastern boundary
line Of the State of Nevada; thence north
on said eastern boundary of said State to
the north boundary of said State; thence
west on said north boundary of SAID State
to the eastern boundary of the Carson land
district; thence south along said eastern
boundary of the Carson land district to the
place of beginning shall constitute separ-
ate land district, to be called the El1o land
district, the Office of which shall be located
at ElkO, in ElkO county, State of Nevada:
which location may be changed by the
President of the United States from time to
time as the public interest may require


SEC. :. That the President shall appoint,
by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, or in the recess of the Senate.
register and a receiver of public moneys for
said district, and said officers shall reside in
the place where said land office is located.
and shall have the same powers and receive
the same emOluments as the same officers
now receive in the other land districts in
said State.


Approved March 70, 1872.
Year: 1872

An act to authorize the construction of a


bridge across the Mississippi river at or


near the town. of Clinton, in the State of


Iowa, and other bridges across said river,


and to establish them as post-roads.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America IN Congress assembled, That it
shal be lawful for any person or persons,
company or corporation, to build bridge
across the Mississippi river, at such point
on said river, within fifteen miles of the
town of Clinton, in the State Of Iowa, as
may accommodate the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad and its connections on
the west side of said river, and to lay
on or over said bridge railway tracks for
the more perfect connection of any rail
roads that are, or shall be, constructed to
the said river at or opposite said point,
under the limitations and conditions here
matter provided; that said bridge shall not
interfere with the free navigation of said
river beyond That is necessary IN order to
Year: 1872

An act. supplementary to the act entitled


IAN act to prevent the determination of


fur bearing animals in Alaska"


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is
hereby, authorized to appoint one agent
and three assistant agents, who shall be
charged with the management of the seal
fisheries in Alaska, and the performance of
such other duties as may be assigned to
them by the Secretary of the Treasury and
the said agent shall receive the sum of ten
dollars each day, one assistant agent the
sum of eight dollar each day and two as
sistant agents the sum of six dollars each
day while so employed; and they shall
also be allowed their necessary travelling
expenses in gong to and returning from
Alaska, for which expenses vouchers. shall
be presented to the proper accounting Off
GERS of the treasury, and such expenses
shall not exceed in the aggregate six hun
dred dollars each in any one year; provided.
that such agents shall never be Interested
directly or indirectly, in any lease Of the
right to take seals, nor in any proceeds NOR
profits thereof, neither as owner. AGENT.
partner or otherwise.


SEC. 2. That the Secretary Of the Treasury
be, aud he is hereby, authorized to erect q
Year: 1872

An act to create an additional land district


in the State of Minnesota.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
President of the United States be, and he
is hereby, authorized to establish an addi
tiOnal land district in the State of Mime
sofa, embracing all that part of the present
Alexandria land district which lies north of
township number one hundred and thirty
six north, and west of range number thirty
five west of the fifth principal meridian,
and to fix from time to time the boundaries
of thereof, which district shall be named
after the plaoa at which the office shall first
be established; and the President shall
have power to fix from time to time the To-
cation of the Office for such district.


SEC. ,. That the President is hereby author
lied to appoint, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, register and receiver
for said land district, who shall be required
to reside at the site of the land office for
said district, who shall be subject to The
same laws and responsibilities, and whose
compensation, respectively, shall be the
same as that now allowed by law to other
land officers in said State


Approved March II, 1872.
Year: 1872

Il was many and many year age,


In kingdom by the sea,
That maiden there lived whom you may know
BY the name Of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
was child and .Ie was child,


In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with love thatwas more than love
| and my Annabel Lee;
With love that winged seraphs Of Heaven


Coveted ncr and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,


In this kingdom by the sea,
4 wind blew out Of a cloud, chilling


Ny beautiful AnDabel Lee;
So that her high born kinsmcn came


And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in that sepulchre


In this kingdom By the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,


Went enyying her and me;
Yes that was the reason Gas all men know


In this kingdom by the sea-
That the wind came out Of a cloud by night


Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love Il was stronger by far than the love
OF those who were older than We
or many far wiser than we;


And neither the angels in Heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,


Can ever diseyer my love for the soul
OF the beautiful Annabel Loei


VI.
For the moon never beams without bringing III


dreams


OF the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but feel the bright ego
OF the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the nght-tide, | lie BY the side
/ Of my darllng-my darling-my life and my bride


In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Year: 1872

News comes to Us from abroad that With re-
nswed health the Prince of Wales has again re-
turned to bis former dissolute habits. During
late visit to Paris, 1t is said, be resaled him
self with as much dramatic lewdness a, il was
possible for that wicked city to afford, and that
lie left picture shop In great distress because
he was unable to purchase an indecent work
Of art that attracted bis fancy. Il is Ito old
story
Year: 1872

Special to the Louisville Courier journal.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-The highland
ed action of the President In overthrowing g
by his bayonet the State government chosen
by the people OF Louisiana, and installing
anew the old game Of plumber, has dissapa-
ted all the hopes which Southern men ever
had formed that Grant would pursue gen.
erous policy towards theiSouth. The gener-
al comment Is that it is the most emphatic
stride towards military despotism which
has yet been taken by the President. It is
believed by well-informed parties that these
proceedings were all instigated by Grant
himself, and were not the result of bad ad-
vice. Durell's usurpation Is supposed to
have been planned here; and it is said that
he is aspiring TO seat on the Supreme
Bench when Judge Chase shall vacate.
Grants object is thought TO be the elevation
of one of bis personal household to the
United States Senate. The committee from
New Orleans are reported on their way
here, and it is possible that their advent
and the Presentation Of their memorial to
Congress may produce more agitation Of
the subject than has yet occurred. The
most striking circumstance connected with
this outrage is thatnO man has yet been
found in Congress to lift up his voics against
it. With many, this springs from the ut
ter bopelessness Of making any effectual
stand for liberty, and belief is fully avow-
ed that the Government is surely and stead
lily running Its course to an empire. So far
as. the United States Supreme Court is con.
cerned, its decision is not looked forward to
with any interest, as no one expects it to
make an issue with Grant. The opinion is
general that it will decide against granting
the writ ofprohibition and will thus turn
over Louisiana to the carpet-bagger Durell
and bis associates. The decision is expect
ed tomorrow.
Year: 1872

Murder and Robbery by two Negroes.


MEMPHIS, Dec. 16.-A horrible crime
was perpetrated here on Saturday night last
on Poplar street Boulevard, just outside of
the city limits. About nine O'Clock two
negroes entered the grocery store of j. b.
GipnochiO, an Italian, and asked for some
cheese, while he was serving them one Of
the negroes struck him with wagon stan
dard, breaking his jaw and telling him.
They then rushed into the adjoining room
where his wife was and beat her until she
was insensible, then seeing their little
daughter asleep on a bed they threw a
heavy trunk upon her, and thinking they
had killed sll of them they proceeded to
rifle the store. In the meantime the little
girl who was only slightly hurt escaped and
alarmed the neighbors who hastened to the
scene to fad the aged couple Neltering in
their blood and the assassins gone. The
police are in search of them to-day. No
hopes are entertained of the recovery Of
Ginnochio or his wife owing to the severity
of their wounds and their advanced age.
Year: 1872

Not long since | met gentleman who is
assessed for more than a million. Silver was
in his hair care upon his brow, and he stoop-
ed beneath his burden of wealth. We were
speaking Of that period of life when we had
realized the most perfect enjoyment, or, rath.
er, when we had found the happiness nearest
to being unalloyed. "l'll tell you, said the
millionaire, when was the happiest hour of
my life. At the age of one.and twenty had
saved up $500. | was earning $500 year,
and my father did not take it from me, only
requiring that | should pay for my board.
At the age oil twenty-five | had secured a
pretty cottage, just outside of the city. |
was able to pay just two-thirds of the value
down, and also to furnish it respectfully. |
was married on Sunday Sunday in June
at my fathers house. My wife had come
to me poor in purse, but rich in the wealth OF
her womanhood The Sabbath and the Sab.
bath night we passed beneath my fathers
roof, aud on Monday morning went to work,
leaving my mother and sister to help in pre-
pairing home. Ga Monday evening when
the labors of the day were done, | went not
to the patornal shelter, as in the past, but to
ulJ uhu bNu HOhlts Auc uoi1 ut-
mosphere Of that hour seems to surround me
even now in the memory. | opened the door
Of my cottage and entered. laid my hat
upon the little stand in the hail, and passed
on into the kitchen--our kitchen and dining
room were all one then. pushed open the
kitchen-door and was in heaven The ta-
BILE was set against a wall the evening meal
was ready, prepared by the hands of her who
had como TO be my hepmeet in deed as well
as 10 name and by the table, with throb-
bing, expectant look upon her lovely and low
ing face stood my wife tried to speak, but
could not could only clasp the waiting
angel to my bosom, thus showing to her the
the ocslatic burden of my heart. The years
have passed long, long ycars-aud worldly
wealth has flowed in upon me, and am hon
ored aud enved but, as true as heaven,
would give it all--every dollar-for the JOY
of the hour Of that Juoe evening in the long,
long ago.
Year: 1872

All the beauty and order Of the world
around you fail to meet and satisfy your be-
ing you must 60 behind the visible machinery
and organization of the universe for such
resting place only when you have reached
the great Source and living Origin ofall things
can you obtain what the heart Of mau re-
quires. Man himself, in his own inner nature.
is u witness to his own wants and his own
necessities, aud it is idle to tell him that he
needs nothing more than to see the order aud
development OF life. 1t is idle to tell him
that he must be content to remain in Ignorance
of the origin aud Lord Of the world, or be con-
tent to indulge guesses about Him. His heart
Graves something more, feels that something
more is required than law and commandment,
and, Just as his intellect will not be satished
with the reasons which silence . child in re-
gard to the great questions which come under
his observation, 90 he has other powers and
faculties az essential to him a. the intellect
aud II is contrary TO his nature to depart in
peace with the assurance that this deep spirit
ual nature is the only part Of humanity that
must remain forever uugrasidsd aud uasn'
swered.
Year: 1872

Your railroad, when you come to under
stand it, is ouly device for making the world


smaller and as for being able to talk from
place to place, that is, indeed, well and con-
yenient but suppose you have, originally
nothing to say. We should be obliged at last
to couiess, what we should long ago have
known, that the really precious things are
thought aud sight not space. 1t does bullet
no good to go fast for his glory is not at all
in going, but 10 being, M
Year: 1872

The Indians on Round Valley Reservation, CAL,
are said to be literally starving to DEATH the food
doled out to them by the reservation authorities
being insufficient to Keep soul and body together,
Year: 1872

PROHIBITION IN ENGLAND.-England
has for number of weeks been under
going genuine agitation" of kind
long familiar to this country in connec.
ton with "Permissive Prohibitory"
Liquor bill. The object of the bill is to
allow localities to prohibit the sale of
liquors in public houses if the electors
shall so vote. The bill will doubtless be
defeated, for, however Englishman may
recognize the evils of drunkenness, they
are by no means ready to prohibit drink
ing absolutely under any circumstances.
The opposition to the bill comes directly
from those to be affected by its provisions
"a large number, and inAuential-and
indirectly from those who believe the
principle of interference is wrong, as we'll
as impracticaole. The experience of our
country is very freely quoted and we re.
gret to say with more general admiration
for our "cuteness" in getting around q
prohibitory law, than with any conviction
that we have at all successfully solved
one of the most vexatious and complex
problems Of modern society.-N. Y
Times.
Year: 1872

An English paper publishes a after
from Congressman Fry of Maine, on the
workings of the pronibitory law. Mr..
Frye was Prosecuting Attorney for ten
years, and is well qualified to speak, as
he does, with great confidence ON this
question. OF the effects of the law he
says: at has done more good than any
law upon out statute books, and is still
at work. With its provision you can
effectually close every liquor shop out
side your cities, and in them make the
selling of ardent spirits very dangerous
and risky business" He does not be-
lieve there is a man in Maine, not pre-
judiced by reason of being seller, or
drinksr to excess, or by party passion,
who will not agree that its blessings have
been incalculable.
Year: 1872

The Boston committee on invitation to
the Jubilee have engaged twenty suits Of
rooms at the Revere House, six of which
will be reserved for President Grant and
Cabinet. Mr.. Gilmore announces that
the last link in the chain of foreign en-.
gagemen.s and foreign business matters
has been successfully accomplished.
Letters were received from Minnesota
and Tennessee, stating that over a thou
sand people from each of those States will
attend the Jubilee, provided the usual
commutation in railroad fares could be
made,
Year: 1872

On Wednesday evening the Court House was filled with an audience as- sem bled to hear our Delegate to Con- gress. There being no politlc4l con- test, his speech was more in the shape of a report of what he had attempted to do in Washington and wodld try to do if reelected. We think 1t was considered by all present clear, satis- factory statement. MT. Mccormick spoke for an hour and half, and in view of his severe illness of last year, his hearers were agreeably surprised at his easy manner and apparent good health.

 Of course the Indian question was considered at length. He said the eff forts for peace with the Apaches were demanded by the sentimtnt at the East, but he believed there would be no further interference with General Crook, who enjoyed the full confidence of the President and the War D part ment. General Howard's S recent mis- sion was simply to try and induce Ca chlse to go upon reservation, and he (Howard( had orders not to interfere with any military movements The Eastern press had given Cachise a great name and many good people thought that if he could be brought to terms, all would be right in Arizona General Howard had made all earnest and courageous effort to conciliate Ca
Year: 1872

If there is any one animal that is
particularly detestable, it is one of
your growlers. He growls at his
wife, aud children, at his grocer,
butcher, merchant and tailor. He
growls because his dinner is ready
and because il isn't ready. He
groWls when there are buttons on
his shirt and when there are no but
tons on his shirt; his coffee is not
sweet enough or it is too sweet; his
victuals are cooked too much, or
not cooked enough; the children are
too dirty or they are too clean, the
weather is too cold or too hot. His
growing Is heaviest at his newspa-
per--tbere is too -Inuch or not e.
nongh OF poetry in il; too much pol
itics or not enough; too much Of the
sensation or not enough, and 50 on
GA in fnitUBl. His growing is new
er ending, never ceasing, and when
he dies he viii get up big growl
at the devil for keeping such hot
fires during the warm weather.
Year: 1872

Winter scenery has charms of its
own, that yield TO no other season.
On a clear winter day, the landscape
often has a depth OF coloring such
as no other time of. the year affords.
An indescribably soft and tender
atmosphere rests upon the earth,
through which glows the deep pur-
pie and blue of the distant hills.
The whiteness Of the snow gives to
the scene a celestial purity, a sug-
gestion OF heavenly things.


There is abundant beauty, too, of
the minuter kind. What is more
delicate and exquisite than the ira
against'the sky z And every snow
storm works a myriad miracles of
dainty architecture. IL clothes the
black spruces with hundred feath-
cry plumes. Ii hides every insight
iy object with soft white mantle.
Under its touch in single hour the
whole earth is transformed, and
masquerades in every variety OF
beautiful aud grotesque apparel.
Then, as by the quick changes of a
magician, comes a sudden shower
or thaw and again frost, and the
sun rises upon a world clothed in
diamonds.


But the deepest charm which ma
ture has in winter is that which
night brings forth. The earth is
not more unlike in summer and in
winter than are the heavens, Com
pare the mellow glory with which
the harvest moon foods the earth,
with the cold, bright light of the far
of moon Of winter. And the win
ter stars-what sight that is given
10 man so stirs his sense Of awe and
mystery, so moves him TO rejoice
and reverence and adore:


1t seems to us that in the severity
and sternness of winter, the moods
which nature suggests are higher
and more heroic than the milder
seasons inspire. When the earth
abounds with every fruitful thing,
when the warm air wraps US, and
the wind breathes gently, the sense
of these things bring great delight.
But when the blood vuickens to re-
sist the cold, and bound in frost and
snow, the earth seems under the
power of some mightier lnfuen {
than those which minister TO the
physical man. then we seem to come
closer into the presence of the Inf
mite One. Let one stand in the
forest at night when the ground is
white about his feet. and look up
through the network of the great
branches to the stars blazing from
their infinite distance, and listen TO
the mysterious voices OF the wind,
and he may well feel himself within
the courts OF God. - Christian
Union
Year: 1872

THE POLITICAL CURRENT.-The
passive policy is making such head
way that il now exerts-paradoxi-
cal as it may sound "a controlling
influence in shaping political events.
Our special dispatch this morning
from jefferson City states that the
Liberal Republicans are likely to
nominate Presidential candidates
before the meeting of the Philadel-
phia Convention, while our Wash
ington dispatches make the an
nouncement that the National Dem
ocratic Executive Committee will
not meet till after that convention
This is carrying out the passive pol
icy to perfection, and looks to the
shaping of events so as TO bring
about the desired political coalition
which is expected to sweep the coHn.
try. That the Administration i
frightened at the drift of the politi-
cal current may be seen from the
Washington dispatch TO the New
York Herald, which we print else.
where. The Herald, by the by, ha:
been for weeks predicting Grants
reelection, but, ike 4 safe political
seer, it is now learning to pipe an.
other tune.-BdRRer.