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Year: 1873

In the name of God, Amen
Timothy Doolan Of Borrydown-
derry,in the county of Glare far
mer; being sick and wake in my
legs, but of sound head and warm
heart :-Glory be to God !-do
make the first and last will the
ould and the new testament, first
| give my soul to God, when it
pleases Him to take it, sure no
thanks to me for l can't help it
then, and my body to be buried
in the ground at Barrydowndery
Chapel, where all my kith and
kin that have gone before me,
and those that live after belonging
to me are buried, pace to their
asbes, and may the sod rest light.
ly over their bones. Bury me
near my godfather Falix O'Flath-
erty, betwixt and between him
and my father and mother who
lie separate altogether, at the
other end ofthe chapel yard. I
lavea bit Of ground, containing ten
acres -rale ould Irish acres-to
my eldest son Tim, after the death
Of his mother, ii she lives to sur


vive him. My daughter Mary
and her husband Paddy O'liegan
are to get tho white SOW that's
going to have twelve black bonifs.
Teddy my second by, that was
killed in the war of Amerikey,
might have got the pick of tho
poultry, but as lie is gone, I'll
lave them to his wife who died
a wake before hlm; bequeath
to all mankind the fresh air of
heaven, all the fishes of the Sc
they can take andall the birds
of the air they can shoot, I lave
OF them the sun, moon and stars,


leave to Peter Rafferty,, a pint
poteen l can't iEish, and may
God be mercitul to him.
Year: 1873

A STRIKE by freight train brake
men on the Eastern Division Of
the Atlantic and Pacific railroad
is now in progress, and trains
have been somewhat delayed for
two days. The strike was occas-
ioned by q change made by tho
company in tho mode ofpayment.
Year: 1873

Edwin, a once popular English
actor, is credited with the author
ship of one of the briefest and
most effective sermons ever de
livered. His text was, "Man is
born to trouble, as the sparks fly
upward" and this was the sermon:
81 shall consider this discourse
under three heads; first, mans
ingress into the world secondly,
mans progress in the world |;
thirdly, mans egress out of the
world; and


First, Mans ingress into the world is naked


and bare,


Secondly his progress through the world is


trouble and care.
Lastly, His egress out Of the world is nobody


knows where.


We shall do well there If we all do well here.
! can tell you no more if preach for a


wear"
Year: 1873

With view to the fall trade, we respectfully
announce that these Mills are now completed,
and that we will take pleasure in showing sam
pies of all our goods now manufacturing to
dealers or others inferred. We manufacture


PEARL HOMINY, GRITS AND SAMP,
Year: 1873

two distinguished members of their reignln!g
dynasties To speak first Of the bride. she is
the daughter of the Gar of all the Russlas,
the sister of the Czarewitch, destined Que day,
according to the ordinary probabilities OF llie,
to ascend the throne of Russia, as Alexander
III. AS to the royal bridegroom, apart from
his rank as Prince of the blood royal OF Eng
land, he is the heir to the Dukedom OF Co.
burg, the brother-in-aw of the Grown Prince
of Germany, and Of Prince Louis of Hesse;
and both bride and bridegroom are connected
by a Kindred family tie of almost blood rela-
tionship with the Crown Prince of Denmark
and the King of Greece. In the whole al
manach de Goths" there will not be found the
names of any royal couple entitled to claim kin
ship with so many and SO powerful sovereIgns;
In these democratic days the dignity OF royal
dynasties depends rather on the magnitude OF
their possessions and on the greatness OF their
power than on the antiquity OF their lineage.
The Geulphs, it is true, were sovereign princes
centuries before the Romanoffs were heard OF


in the ranks of royalty and the Prince, as
son of Queen Victoria, stands 10 the succession
to throne which was great and powerful for
hundreds of years before Russia emerged from
barbarism. On the other hand, the Emperor of
Russia may fairly claim to be the equal OF any
European sovereign in rank and dignity, and
the children of this Anglo Russian union may
Justly boast hereafter with equal pride that
their father was son of England aud their
mother dnughter of Russia.
Year: 1873

Things have come to such pass 10 London
that to marry and remain "in society" on less
than E3,OOO year, is a perfect impossibility.
NOW the men and women with 5000 year
are lew; to remalnin society ia more valued tina n
domestic life outside of that charmed circle,
aud the consequences are that marriages "in
high life" yearly become fewer There are
other consequences of still more powerful ma
ture one hears of them every once and a while
at Divorce court. have just been reading
one Of them. A pretty little woman with yell
low hair-a Becky Sharp, if you please, but a
Becky Sharp as Becky may have been-had
been married TO an army officer, who had
nothing but his pay TO live on. They were
happy for one year they quarrelled the second
year; the third year they were happy again, for
the little woman had discovered plan for al,
ways giving her husband good dinners, keep
ing herself smart with jewelry, and yet asking
him for less house keeping money than before.
One day came an anonymous letter. revealing
the secret Of this financial feat, and-you know
the rest. The little woman had been sworn in
the witness box, and asked by the counsel
whether the captain had been brutal or neglect
fulP "Oh, no." she sobbed "he was always kind
but he used to look 80 miserable at seeing me
poorly dressed, and at having such poor dinners
and was afraid he might take to dining away
from home and leaving me, and l could not
bear TO think of it, for loved him more than


than anything on earth, and do now" The
little woman wept her blue eyes red, the honest
captain cried like a boy; but the Sickeisian
mode of arranging these things not being in
vogue here, he insisted on his diVoace, goi it,
and his wife is now walking the pave at the Hay
market.
Year: 1873

No Intelligent mind can resist the eOnclu-
sion that the United States is rapidly becOm-
ing the home Of monOpOlies. There is scarce
ly any enterprise that will admit Of cOnsOlida-
ton around which the tolls Of the mOnOpOlist
are not Immediately thrown. Once thus i'm
prisonsd it is held with a grasp that it seems
impossible TO unlOOse, and the result is that
we are monopoly ridden in a thousand direc-
tons, where there should be full and ample
room for free competition.


This mOnopoiIzing spirit would not properly
be regarded as reprebensible, were it not for
the fact that no sooner Is power thus obtained
than iE is shamelessly abused, and always at
the expense Of the masses. Under the spe-
ciOus caption Of public cOnveniences" the
greatest wrongs are perpetrated, and, strange
TO say, the injured parties become almost i'm
medlately submissive, and hug the chains
with which they are 50 cruelty fettered.


This cannOt always prevail. A change must
and will come, and sooner perhaps than many
are now disposed 70 believe. This crushing
out Of individual enterprise In order that the
few may amass wealth, must ultimately reach
the full extent Of Its tether, and then will
come the reVulslOns. The millions viii not
always Be patient and tEactable.--Phild. Star.
Year: 1873

The City Council have purchased the school
house Of Messrs. jackson and Bond for a city hos
pitAl. This is q worse investment than the park
There ls no immediate use for & city hospital
There are no patients ready to put into it. and we
do not know where they are to be had, unless
portion of the inmates of the county aims house is
transferred to this building. Then it is to be re
modled and furnished aud a superintendent, ma
tron, physician, nurse and other help is to be pro
vidcd at yearly salaries. When these people all
get there We presume, they are to sit down and
wait until some workman gets his toe or finger
mashed, or his leg broken, or skull cracked And
these misiortunes must happen 70 q stranger or
man who has no home in our midst, before even
such an unfortunate will allow himself to be car
ried half mile to have his wounds dressed. The
only way this state of AFFAIR." which will exist, can
be prevented is to turn the so-caled hospital into
a city aims house which it is sure to become. As
a matter Of course, no distinction on account of
race or color" will be allowed within ats wallis
and it will Be easy to all it with certain class Of
voters. The whole thing is q "Sst up job" by
which the former owners are enabled 10 rid them
selves Of property which would not have sold for
anything like as much money at auction. HAD the
owners been Democrats they wOald not have found
purchaser in the Republican City Council at any
S1ch figures.


The house and lot, short distance from It, built
by Mr.. Finn, would have answered the present
purpose OF the city quite as well, and it sold fer
81, 500 lis scandalous abuse OF power that our
City Council will continue its wasieful and extTav-
agant courke.
Year: 1873

At a meeting Of North Carolina special taX
bondholders at New York, last week, Rsverdy
johnson gave his opinion that the bonds are bind
ing upon the State, and that the holders can en-.
force the collection Of the interest through the
United States courts. He said that he WOnld un- :
dertake and carry TO q final decision the case Of
the bondholders for a fee in hand Of 5000 and an
additional fee of $4,000 If the suits terminate
SUCCESSFULLY either in the courts or by acceptable
compromise. A resolutiOn was adopted that the
bondholders present subscribe pro rata share of
the expenses, and that bOndholders not present be
requested to send IN their assessment and sub
scriptlons. The suits win be begun at as early q
date as possible.
Year: 1873

TIE FoURrH.-With the exception of one ac-
cident that will prove fatal no very serious in
jures were sustained during the celebration OF
the Fourth of July in this city. But this aecl-
dent alone should impress the Council with the
great duty they owe our citizens through the
prevention by law of the firing of cannon and
pistols in the streets
Year: 1873

trolled by State or County lines; but in the item
of newspapers, the people want those printed in
their own County; and as for all legal printing.
they are compelled to have it done in their own
County, however much they may desire to patron
ize outside papers. Waite CIoudis literally squeez-
ed in between the States Of Missouri on the east Ne
Lraska the North, and the County of Brown
on the west, with not very friendly community
on the south; so that a newspaper there is actu-
ally cut of from all support except from the town
and small scope of adjacent country.


We deeply regretted the necessity of the re-
moval, fer we liked the town of White Cloud,
and there are many associations connected with
1t which We shall never forget. But few enc
mics whom We were unfortunate to have
there and elsewhere, seized upon the occasion TO
make capital against us. They held out that we
were going back on the people who had stood by
us for so many years, because We had become
miifed at trifing occurrence, and that we
wanted to come to the County Seat in order to
"run" the County. These assertions, kept con-
stsntly before the people by men urged ON by
their hatred, and who had nothing else to do had
their effect upon the unthinking, and npon those
who were unacquainted with the facts. For
time the tide ran strong, and the unprlncipled
men who set it going made use of it to the fullest
extent. But their day has gone by. The people
realize the miserable state of society and OF pub
lie affairs that has been brought about By false
issue, and the reaction has SET in. They begin to
understand that we acted for the best; and these
speedy failures of newspapers set up by our enc
mics, where we labored for 50 many years, con-
vinces the fair-thinking that We left for better
reason than spite, and that We labored harder
and made more sacrifices to remain among them
and keep up paper than any other person, back
ed by our defamers, is able willing to do We
are content to trust the sober second Thought Of
the people.
Year: 1873

" Our farmer correspondent from District
No. 60 takes issue in favor of assessing County
officers upon their salaries We still believe that
a promise upon the part of aspiIant for
Office is a fiinsy dependence, and leaves the
question at loose ends. The only true way is to
fix these things by law, and then let them alone,
as long as the law is complied with. And rs to
members of the Legislature, if they are the
creatures and servants of the people, they are
entitled to respect. Petition has ever been rec
ognized as the proper way for people to make
known their wishes to their representatives. in
legislative bodies. Members o. lie Legislature
are not recognized as servants in the same light
that oxen are; and it is hardly the approved
thing to issue commands and directions to them
in the same way that oxen are driven. After
comforting that dignity upon a citizen, do not
place him in position to deprive him of all dig
nifty, even that of independent manhood.
Year: 1873

My advice, then (' advice, gratis, y to the gen.
tlemen who planning to make a new party il
this: First find ont what great question of pub
lie policy is likely to divide pnblic opinion. Next
find out if you can, the right side of that ques-
tiOn. Then take your stand mantully on that
side of the question, and let your party consist
of those whom yOu can find to stand with You.
Do not make yOur party first and then invent an
issue, but remember that only new issue, and q
live one, can make new party.-Dr. Leonard
Bacon, in Christian Unopi.
Year: 1873

II One of the dying groans Of the White
Cloud Leader, is to the effect that somebody in
that town rented a house to a person who has
made a bawdy-house of it. This is awful We
just know that the confidential friends aud adv-
snrs of the Leader cannot sleep on this account.
They will sell nut and leave. There just
about dozen men we could name, of the Leaders
political clique, who would lose their appetite
at the very thought of bswdy-house being in
the same town they live ini
Year: 1873

n If Senator Morton and some others were
too honest to draw their back pay steal, because
the principle was wrong, why did they let it
stand suiject to their order until they were
forced by pnblic opinion to return it to the
treasury Why did they not, like Senator Sum-
ner, take the very earliest opportunity to spurn
the amount, and place it beyond their reach and
poweri Too thin, boys.
Year: 1873

TALLY,-The White Cloud Leader makes news
paper death number twenty that the Chief has
bad to record in Doniphan Comfy, since it start
ed fresh grave will be found in this Beuder's
field of newspaperdom. Nexti
Year: 1873

lwish it to be distinctly understood
that have nopersonal grievance against
Mr.. Beecher's tradncer. l deal with
him simply as common enemy to tho
peace OF the community. In these days
OF evil speaking aud heartless assaults
upon the good name of innocent citizens,
1t Is necessary to the general welfare
that reprobation swift, sure and re-.
morscless should overtake the man who
seeks to destroy the reputation Of a
fellow being. by uniounded aspersions
upon him. We had a great deal too
much of that sort of thing during the
last Presidential campaign. 1t was
overdone SD grossly that it recoiled up
on its authors. Nevertheless, the prac-
tice has no. ceased and lying about
political opponents has become so gen
eral, that one does not know what to be-
lieve. But while this decentralization
may weaken the force of every philippe
against actual wrong doing, however
conscicntiously pronounced, it is none
the less an imperative duty to visit
condign chastiSement upon all violators
OF the ninth commandment.


YARMOUTH.
Year: 1873

Nor MUCH HuRr.-When the termi-
nus was located at Tacoma, many timid
persons, both friends and enemies, ina
gined that it would be the ruin, or at
least great setback to the prospects
of Seattle. Subsequent observation has
dispelled that delusion. In looking over
the city, it will be seen that there are
more elegant private residences in the
course of construction than ever before
at any one time. Two assessments
have been levied upon the stock the of
Gas Company and promptly paid, and
the works are under contract and in the
course of construction. Measures are in
a most encouraging state of progress for
organizing joint stock company for
the purpose of building a first class ho-
tel. More persons of capital and enter
prise are now making arrangements to
invest and engage in business in this
city than ever at any one time before.
The subscriptions to the railroad stock
are such as to afford the greatest hope
Of success. The long period of inactive
waiting for the Railroad is succeeded by
an active determination to improve our
own unrivalled advantages.
Year: 1873

RIVAL Town. Our exchanges from


abroad fall into the error of speaking of
Tacoma as "rival town." 1t never


was a town at all. and was the rival of
nothing. 1t had no element of town
or anything to make town out Of; nei.
ther population, commerce, commercial
facilities or anything about it to attract
either. It is simply speculative crea-
ture of railroad Ring. like wildcat
stock, got up to sell. Nobody buys
there with any purpose of holding or
more than temporarily improving, and
few sales are expected to be made bat
to foreigners. The Railroad Co. has
no interest in the town, and no engineer
of the Company ever reported in favor
of the location of the terminus at that
point. The location was made by the
Commissioners, solely in the interest Of
Year: 1873

The Ring, before 1t had been ascertained
if the place could be approached by
railroad, and it has since been demon
strated that no such approach can be
made upon "a practicable grade. The
whole thing is swindle upon the Rail-
road and an attempt to swindle others.
Where the matter is understood, there
will never be sales enough of the town
plat to pay for cleaoing, and it never
can be rival to any town with natural
advantages.
Year: 1873




WORDS OF CHEER. The leading jour-
aals throughout the country have al
most unanimously expressed their
strong condemnation of the manage
ment of the Northern Pacific Railroad,
and have as unanimously given their
endorsement to the project of building a
railroad from Seattle to Walla Walla :.
The Sacramento Union closes an article
ON that subject with the following ad-
monition and encouragement:


eff the people concerned really want
the road they must make up their minds
to build narrow guage road and see to
il that it is constructed in the most eco
nomical way that can be devised. with
out wasting time at Washington. The
natural wealth Of the country, the fine
climate, the fortunate situation of the
termini and the prospective rapid in-
crease of population are facts greatly
encouraging to the enterprise"



The WORK GOES ON.-The subscrip-
tions to the capital stock of the Seattle
ana Walla Railroad justify the Trustees
in making the positive promise that a
corps of engineers will be put IN the
field to survey the route by the first OF
September, and that ten miles of the
road will be constructed and in running
order by the first day of January next.
This is a good beginning and an
earnest of ultimate success; but there
should be no tagging or delay on the
part of any interested in the work.
Year: 1873

THAT HENRY A. WISE, who hung JoHN
BRowN and prosecuted Repabllcanism
more ferociously than any other man in
the South, should be found seeking the
Republican nomination for Governor ol
Virginia, Is an astonishcr. 1t is strange
but true. It serves to show how pro-
ioundly the conviction is taking hold ol
the South that the theories Of the Re
publican party are right and irresistible. If
the Republican party could only be true
10 its carly principles and professions-if
it could only keep itself free from the
guile that sooner or later creeps in TO cor
rupt and destroy every successful pOlit-
ical organization-whO could foresee tho
end Of its ascendencyH
Year: 1873

like to go:a-fishing. In fact, / always
was great lover Of plscatoral pleasures.
think we may safely class "going a-fish-
ing" under the head of hereditary diseases.
1t generally attacks the male sex at the
early age of years, and increasing as they
grow older it reaches Il o grand climax or
turning point when they are about 80, af-
ter which it begins TO decrease very grad
ually. Boys like 10 go a-fishing. have
known boys 10 work for three weeks like
Trojans, for the sake of trapsing Off
through the grass and bushes some rainy
day to catch half-a- dozen little trout, not
as large as their index finger. But 1 was
going TO describe the various sensations of
going a-fishing. When you start in the
morning your ambition is good. No pleas
ure so great as that which is derived from
going a-fishing, you think. When you
get to the brook you bait your hook and
commence your labors, or pleasures, as
you may think them. Ifyou are fishing
in open land you will catch few small
fish. Pretty soon you get into the woods,
and oh /! how the musquitoe will bite.
If you are smoker, you light your cigar
that helps little, but ii is impossible to
keep them all away. Just as you are ang-
ling for large trout, and he gets ready to
take your hook, about gross of musqui-
tees will settle on your face. You let go of
your pole with one hand and strike for the
"varmints." You kill two mosquitoes,
but you find the exertion has thrown your
line out of the water, and away the trout
Lne, L., -.
to coax him to bite by holding the worm
invitingly before his hiding place, but it is
no go. After you have been fooled that
way dozen times you begin TO feel pro-
voked. Down goes your pole and off comes
your hat, which you swing among the
mosquitoes at a fearful rate, and in a mo-
ment you wouldn't know that there was
one in the woods. You pick up your pole
an "go' for another trout and just as you
are congratulating yourself on your sue
cess in getting rid Of the mosquitoes,
"ping" comes one and lights on your right
ear. Before he gets fairly engaged in
blood letting he is followed by score of
his comrades, which make themselves at
home on your nose, cheeks, forehead, and
any where they can get a chance. You be-
gin TO feel Disguised, and think you will
go home. You wind up your line and
start; and after travelling what from you
feelings is about IA miles, you arrive at
home nearly furnished, your face and
hands looking as knolly as Vermont
COW pasture, and feeling as if you were
having an attack of salt rheum. You are
utterly disguised with fishing, and think


you will never go again feeling that lasts
you a week, when off you go again to ex-
perience the same sensations as before, for
the privilege of catching a dozen little
| trout. MERLE ALLADYN.
Year: 1873

4 prominent lawyer who had kept a
large deposit for some time in the Broad.
way Bank, New York, drew it out and
placed it in the Atlantic Bank When
the Broadway failed, last winter, he
felicitated himself upon the cha &C he
had made. Early in the spring he took
his money from the Atlantic and put it
in the Union Trust Company. Soon
after the Atlantic closed its doors and
he was delighted to think how lucky he
had been in not leaving his funds in its
custody. When the run begau on the
Union Bank he hurried to the bank,
and, by three hours of excitement, anxi-
ETY. and crowding, he carried of his
balance and lodged it with Howes n
Macy There he felt confident it would
be safe, and was confouuded on learn
ing that they had also suspended. He
is now of opinion that it was his destiny
to have his money in some failing bank,
ing-house, and that if he had changed
it hundred times, the ultimate result
would have been the same.