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Year: 1872

Man has been defined by philosophers to be
gregarious, a social, and a political animal;
and in nothing does his nature come out so
thoroughly as when he dimes For this he mar
ries, because it is not good for man to dine
alone for this he gives dinner parties on small
means, aud ruins his liver because he Is social
and not content with his wife $ company; for
this he passes beyond the social circle round
his own mahogany trees, and goes to public
dinners. Every good thug, we are told on
high authority, is shown to be good by its eX-
cess on one side. This is eminently the case
with dinners Dinner is good thing, even
alone; better with your wife; and best with SIX
or seven-with other good friends Now comes
excess, and this shows itself in public dinners.
! | wonder where the man now Is who first IN
vented themY Certainly, in a warm place. vi
all horrid things, commend me to a public DIN
ncr. Dinner, that should be calm, soothing
operation, to be carried on under the eyes OF
! few witnesses; dinner-that balm to the weary,
that food to the hungry, that pourer-in Of salad
! oil and Bordeaux wine upon the troubled spirit,
the next best thing in the world after sleep tC


be turned all at once into a scramble for susie


nance; where everything is done i'll haste, and


yet everything comes slowly; where all the ho
dishes are cold, and the cold hot; where every


one is chilly in winter, and roasted in summer


where no one knows his place, and where


when all is over, no one can find his hat, where


though last not least, after a man has stuffeC


himself at the unreasonable hour of six p. Nj.
with the most indigestihle messss, he may b.


called on by any idiot of chairman to make
speech for some charity which he knows to be


swindle, or in honor Of some sentiment uttere


by some man who is confessedly one OF tn


greatest impostors of the day Let no one b


beguiled into going to a public dinner on an


pretext. If they make you a steward pay you
Z money, and don't 90 to the dinner. If the
I want you to speak, speak in the morning, or a
a noon, or at night; but don't destroy your d
S gestion and your temper at once by postprau
| dial utterances after i'll masicated food TIL
f stomach, as we all know, like the Ten Con
y mandments, is too serious subject for triainl
" Three Ia One
Year: 1872

One would think that Fashion would let US
alone at the burial of our dead. She faunts |
herself with haaghtiness and pride in our
homes, social circles, and churches; and with |
a tyranny more cruel than Nero's, crushes out
of us all that is beautiful in naturaness and
all that is lovely in realness, until we become
mere things, renowned only for fixiness and
primpiness. By the monster, Fashion, we are
forbidden to do anything from the impulses Of
an honest, earnest heart, because it may be
improper. Her mandates forbid us to dress
our bodies, which are unlike anybody else's


body, out of style, under penalty of being put


ont of society. With all this sway over our


manners and dress, the greedy, senselcss


goddess, Fashion, ought to be satisfied. But
b er greed for dominion is insatiate. She enters
the house Of sorrow where the dead are, and


when the minister of Jesus comes to make


sanctuary out Of our homes, to give us comfort,
! Fashion puts us as far away from him as posi-
| BILE by seating us in some out-Of the-way room,


in the second or third story, while the man OF


God is placed in narrow hall to talk to the


walls. Fashion, during the religious services


at funeral drags us from our dead ones, when
| the impulses of the heart are to linger about


the precious clay long as we can. Where is


the reason or necessity of conducting funeral


services in this way? Why should the heart,


in its greatest of grief, be made to yield to


the order OF custom and habit which are only
other names for fashiOn-when out of harmony


with natural impulses. What does nature


teach us ? and what do our own impulses de-
! mand? That we may linger about the bodies


of our dead ones until the last moment; thai
the minister of Jesus should come into the
very presence Of the sorrowing and the dead,
! and face to face speak the words Of comlor
and admonition.


When we buried our sister, cruel Fashion


attempted to walk rough-shod over us and ou
dead, but we said no ! and bid her stand back
and trouble US not in our grief. We all sa
about the coffin in the parlor of the old home
t stead, just it had been our wont in othe
!, days, only this time with sorrow and not will
q joy. The minister of God came into the room
: where we were and talked sweetly Of God
J. promises face to face with us


# II we are the servants Of Fashion everywher
- else, why cant we do as we please, and as on
l. hearts dictate when we bury our dead.
!. Fashion rules US in all other times and places
IS let her dominion be broken in times of sorrow
D, and in the house of mourning


Is Who will first be true to nature, and the
% own hearts, and set an example of freedom an
RS naturalness in services for the dead, that tn
'e living may have all the comfort possible
T. T. j. f. CLYMER.
!. PTTTsFTELD, MASS, Aug. 20, 10.
Year: 1872

Rev. G. III. STURGEON, the eminent English
Baptist minister, on the occasion of recent
address, said he was thinking about calling
the preachers together and having strike.
He was quite sure that very large proportion
of the preachers of all denominations did not
earn anything like SO much as the men who
laid the stones of that building. There were
many of his own students-men who were
doing good, useful work-who, if they earned
as much per annum as an ordinary laborer,
would think themselves well off. How was it
possible to expect minister to contribute to
the various works, and to mingle as one Of
themselves in society. ..if he were not supported
adequately? Further on, Mr. Spurgeon allu,
ded to the spirit of "caste," which divided
10 many classes of society. He hoped, he said,
they were not respectable. There was nothing
in the world he hated so much as respectable
ty. The respectable sovereign never spoke to
the respectable half-soverign, the respectable
half sovereign utterly ignored the existence OF
the half crown, the latter, in. its turn, looked
with contempt upon the sixpence, while silver
had no knowledge of its relation to copper.
There was as much caste to be found in English
society as ever there was 10 Hindostan aud


what people termed responsibility wa:
simply dislike to mngle one with the other
! He should like liberty equality and fraternity


and to see people shake hands no matter o


what class, every Sunday.
Year: 1872

A correspondent of Boston paper, writing
from Newport, says: "The belle of the season
here is a Philadelphia lady, who has been q
belle for over half century, and whose hair is
az pure and white as the paper on which
write. She is charming. She is never out of
practice when asked for music; she is ready
to entertain anyone, and she does it as few
young ladies can do. Il should be furiously
jealous, said Kate, last night, after watching
her hold court in the hotel parlor, were | her
husbandH do not believe this better half OF
hers ever felt more proud when he led her to
the altar, than he did last night when he car
ried her off up stairs from among an admiring
crowd"
Year: 1872

A FAITHFUL LOVER The most faithful
lover who has a name and being outside of the
trashy novels, lives in Danbury. The parents
Of the young lady are opposed to this compau-
ionship, but it don't make him proud. Some
times the old gentleman reaches him with his
boot before he cgn get over the fence, but the
of that; he only smiles at the despoier of his
pants when he meets him, and calls it heap


ing Goals Of fire on his head" Saturday even


ing he thought he would get up surprise for
the old chap. He put paving stone in
each Of his coat tail pockets, and started for
the fence as usual. The Old man let out for
him with increased enthusiasm, and caught
him,-caugat one Of the paving stones against
his head. Then he laid down on the grass
and said, 81 die by the hand of an assassin. +"
But the young man passed on without word,
and smiled the most heavenly smile of for
giveness ever seen on that street,
Year: 1872

No matter how the chances are,
Nor when the winds may blow,
My Jerry there has left the sea
With all Its luck an woe;
For who would try the sea at all,
Must try it luck or no.
They told him-Lor', men take no care
How words they speak may fall
They told him blunt, he was too old,
Too slow with oar and trawl,
An this is how he left the sea
An luck an woe an all.
Take any man on sea or land
Out oi his beaten way,
II he is young I will DO, but then,
If he is cid an gray,
A month will be a year 20 him,
Be all to hlm you may.
He sits by me, but most he walks
The door-yard for a deck,
An scans the boat a-goin' out
Till she becomes speck,
Then turns away, his face as wet
As If she we're a wreck.
The men who haul the net an limo
Are never rich; an you,
My Jonny here-a grOwn-up man
Is man an baby too,
An we have naught for rainy days,
An rainy days are due.
My Jerry, diflident, abroad


Is restless as brook,
An when he left tho boat an all,
Home had an empty look;
But will win him by an by


To like the window-noOk.
cannot bring him back again,


The days when wo were wed,
But he shall never know-my man
The lack o. love or bread,
While can cast stitch or fill


A needleful o thread.
God pity me, I'd most forgot


How many yet there be,
Whose goodmen full as old as mine


Are somewhere on the sea,
Who hear the breakin bar an think


o. Jerry home anne;
Year: 1872

In chemistry, the best way to separate two
bodies is to introduce third. The same holds
true in other departments. TO increase thu
distance between pair of lovers, let little Viii
lie walk into the back parlor with lighted
candle in his hand
Year: 1872

The man who does not sport swallow-tailed
coat in a watering-place ballroom stands poor
chance of dancing with the elite, while drum
mer on a salary Of ten dollars a week, if his
coat-tails are bifurcated and he can waltz,
mingles with the good and the beautiful as he
chooses,
Year: 1872

The Scientific American devotes con-
siderable space to the subject of light
ming rods. The question whether they
are really protection is answered in
the affirmative. But it insists that the
value of the rod depends mainly upon
its ground termination, The end ought
to terminate in layer of soil perma-
nently wet. And the end of the rod
ought also to expose to this soil as large
a surface as possible. Permanently
moist earth is found only at considers
BILE depths-say at the level of water in
| the wells of the vicinity.
Year: 1872

We give below a table compiled from
official sources, which will show pretty
plainly the cost of q carpet-bagging of
fetal compared with native. The in
ternal revenue is their richest pasture,
and here is the way they crop it:
Year: 1872

Those Of our Subscribers who change
their residence this Spring will obIiso
US by giving early notice of the name
of the Post Office to which their paper
was sent, as well as the one to which
they have removed.
Year: 1872

New Vmdsor--0n Saturday last We
we're visited by Que Of the severcst
snow storms Of the season. It began
early in the morning and continued
without intermission, during the greater
part of the day. The wind blowing
perfect hurricane from the north east
drifted and whirled the snow about ut
fearful rate, Tho cold was intense
and very few persons had the courage
to venture to any considerable distance
from their own doors.


Some Of our farmers are almost ia
despair about their grain, which appears
to be injured beyond hope Of recovery
At this time last year, the grain fields
and meadows were quite green, but
now, even if the snow were gone, it
would be impossible to iud patch OF
vordure anywhere in the ueighborhood
Whole fields of clover have been frozen
out and utterly destroyed, so that the
prospect for hay aud pasture is no bet.
ter than the prospect for gr 10.


Our farmers arc auxiously waiting
for thaw in order to finish plowiug for
corn, an operation which was so sum
marily stopped last tall by the early
freezing weather. The water is still
low, aad the millers' spirits are still
lower, while aour is on the rise, owing
to the fact that the mills are unable to
grind as fast as formerly.
Year: 1872

The festival held by the lady members of the
Methodist Church at Hoxse's Hall, closed last
night. The Mechanics Cornet Band enlivened
the large company present with their choicest
music. The fine pound cakes were sold at a good
price, and with the liberal patronage bestowed
the ladies are gratifed at the success of the fes-
tival, which was true financially and every 9TH
er WaV
Year: 1872

The popular Clothier and Merchant Tailor,
S. Bissinger, has returned home again from a
visit to the North and West, where he laid in a
large stock of merchandise in his line. We
recommend Mr. Bissinger's establishment to all
those in want of clothes, His stock comprises
everything in the line of Mems Wear, and is
selected with great care, Judgment and taste
All those calling on him will find polite atten-
tion and fashionable goods to suit the taste of
the most fastidious.
Year: 1872

On yesterday, while Messrs. Ed. Russell and
Jack Allen were cutting out a chute at San
ford's wharf, they found in about two feet wa
ter the barrel of an old fashioned pistol, the
cases of gold watch and a pair of socks and
shoes The gentlemen will make further in
vestigations tomorrow Who can account for
the mystery? Perhaps some of our old citizens
of Knoxville or surrounding country may be
able to throw some light on this mysterious sub
ipct
Year: 1872

The area of cloud and rain will extend eastward over
the south Atlantic Middle and New England States.
with falling barometer and sOutherly to easterly winds
tonight Rising barometer, westerly to nOrtherly
the uppcr lake region and Ohio Valley tonight and
probably over the Gulf States and the western portion
ofthe South Atlantic and Middle States on Saturday.


Dangerous winds are not anticipated.
Year: 1872

Urinary and Womb Diseases Gravel, Diabetes, Drop
sgt lncQnunence OF Urine, Brights disease Albuminu-
the water is thick, cloudy, mixed with substances lks
the white OF an egg threads like white silk or there
morbid, dark, bilious appearance. and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is pricking burning
senSat on and pain In the small of the back and along


liam Resolyent, aided by the application of Radwsys
Ready Re lief to the spine and small of the back and
me bowels regulated with or two of RadWay's
cure few days the patient will be enabled TO hold
and d ch Tge water naturally without pain and the
or sherry color.
Year: 1872

ASSESSMENT CoMMTTEE.-The Republican As
sessment Committee held meeting last even
ing, which was largely attended and the subject
IN hand thoroughly considered. A determined
disposition was eyinced to punish the parties
through whom over hundreds of the citizens of
New Castle County have been disfranchised
Year: 1872

SLEEr1NG WITH THE DEAD Jack Temple
was very brave man and very good one too.
There was no better man in the country side.
Sick men were always glad to get him, and
in desperate cases when everybody else was
broken down, Jack was invariably sent for
and kept, because he never broke down.
With this preface, Jack must tell his own
story in his own words:


"W hiatt" exclaimed, "slept with a dead
man? That is a little too hard, Jack"


at is the truth, if ever | told it. You
remember Arcliy Anderson, don'tyou?"


every WELL"


81 slept with him, and it came about in
this way. Every body was so broke down
when he died that they couldn't set up with
the corpse "lwoudn't do for the corpse TO
be left by ITSELF so they brought out an old
ham, some cold biscnt, and bottle Of whisky
(what's one bottle Of whiskey to me?) built
up good fire, but forgot to get any wood
to keep it a-going; and there | was alone in
my glory. Archy was laid out on the bed I,
and ! sat by the fire till it burnt spang out.
The whskey had gone and died out long be-
fore. got chilled to my very vitals-you
know how cold man gets when he loses
sleep, any way and was afraid I'd ketch
my death if didn't do something ! hated
to disturb the family all broke down as they
were, and what to do didn't know. They
had laid Archy out on the bed, with good
thick guilt on it, too. i got colder and colder,
and couldn't keep my eyes off that bed to
save my soul But plague take il all they
had put Archy right in the middle of it.


"At last could stand 1t no longer. So !
went up to the bed, turned down the sheet
and looked Archy full in the face. He looked
mighty peaceful. So says TO him, says,
Archy, old fellow! you and me was good
friends-wam't we, Archy? You never hurt
me while you was livin', and be dog if
b'live you'll hurt me now-wll you Archy?'
lie never said nothing, so jumped right in,
coverd up, and SLEPT like a top till after sun
up But the funny part was, when woke
up and saw the dead face lookin' up at the
ceilin" | made one leap and lit plum in the
fireplace. never was so skeered in all my
life, and didn't quit trembp for half an hour
But I'd heap rather sleep with dead man
thon live one. Dead men can't spoon, it's
true, but they don't snore, nor kick you in
their sleep, nor pull the kiver off you, nor
uothin.' They are first rate bed-feliows, aud
Year: 1872

Northern hills--,he girl with misty violet
eyes aud sunny hair.


The same who, two days later, looking
over the paper, saw among the list of the
wounded in that terrible battle the name that
was dearer to her than any other,


The same who, five days later, Knocked
at the surgeons Office of that hospital, and
made inquiry for a wounded soldier, whose
description Ben answered precisely.


"Stay moment" said the surgeon, and
produced the little bit Of pasteboard. 81
found it in one of the rooms: your face
brought it to my memory


"Show me where you found this ?"


But what need to proong ny story?


Perhaps every one would not have taken
that great brown hand in theirs and kissed
that pale forehead as little Ella did, when a
moment later, she was ushered into where
Ben was lying.


But she did, and he, great awkward fel-
low that he was, actually cried as she sat
there and told him of his mother, who was
unable to come when they read the news,
and of poor Charlie, sleeping so quietly in
the chrrch-yard at home.


But II was long before he was again the
same great. strong breasted fellow that he
had once been.


But both health and spirits seemed to
come back to him more rapidly after a GER
tain day in the early spring when he and El-
la had gone to see Charles grave, and, sit
ting there 10y the head-stone, she had told
all about the poor fellows death, and of his
little sweetheart away down in the sunny
South, and of the message he lad left her,
to be sent with his picture.


All this she told him sitting there by the
little green mound-and more--for when he
gathered the little hands within his own,
and, looking again into the misty depths OF
the violet eyes, asked her if she could love
such great, old, awkward bear as he was,
she told him yes.


And gathering the weeping form to his
heart, he fel. that he was indeed very rich III
the legacy which bis friend had left him.
Year: 1872

THE GEORGIA AISvEsTIGATIoN.--The sub-com-
mittee Of the Georgia Ii gisature completed their
investigations in New York last week, and found
that the books OF the State Treasurer do not show
an increase OF Georga's debt to its full extent by
several millions. The increase of the debt of the
State for three years was sixteen millions.
Frauds OF the most gigantic character have been
perpetrated by the issue of bogus bonds. An
other Georgia legislative committee snowrin New
York further examining these bond frauds, and
it is said that they will decide against the validity


of fraudulently and illegally issue bonds and lia-
bilities leaving it to the Legislature to determine
what accord be given to present holders.
Year: 1872

pubrcans to rush into tho Cincinnati Con-
OF Gen. Grant There are very few people In
this part of the world who IN danger OF suf-
locating with admiration for Gen. Grant Those VINO
are making most noise about running him Tor reelection
are In the habit private conversation, OF admitting
that he bundered from the day OF bis inaurston
and piled bunder upon bunder mountain high Iney
express the most cOntemptuous opinions OF hlm but
claim that he Is a1ecessity Now. do not Oeneve IN


one man necessity q republican form OF government
Year: 1872

A SlcKENING CRIME. A wealthy Danish
lady, just married, had an arm torn from
her body in the late railroad disaster in New
Jersey. On one of the fingers of this arm
was diamond ring of great value. When
the arm was searched for it was found thal
one of The train hands had stolen and secret ed
it to obtain the ring. The arm and rin2
were recovered, and the lady is in fail
way to recover. Human depravity cannot
be described by human language.
Year: 1872

To aid IN the good Of the country, the sal
walton of the people and the perpetuity Of
peace, happiness and republican institutions
in America, we will furnish the PLACER
HERALD from now to the Presidential election
for ONE DOLLAR in advance This copy
is sample of what it will be in this cam
paisn. Republicans and Democrats, get up
your clubs, and send in the names with the
money.


n. B.--We will send the Herald 10 all
responsible parties for the campaign for two
dollars if Greeley carries California, and
nothing # it goes for Grant
Year: 1872

We have had the following article, which
appeared in the California Demokrat, a
German paper, on the 18th inst, translated
by lady friend


at might be interesting for a good many OF
the readers of this paper to know that on the
9th OF June of this year, Congress passed law
ordering that from the lst of August there shall
be no more ten gallon kegs of beer sold.


This order was received from Washington by
the department Of the United states Internal
Revenue Office of this city, only day before
Yesterday; and, at tie same time, directions
we're given to all collectors to send back to
Washington all stamps for ten gallon kegs which
were not sold by the 3lst Of July.


ANYBODY who doubts the truth of this most
singular, and at the same time most arbitrary
law, can assure themself of its existence by
making inquiries at the office OF the Internal
Revenue in this city.


Without giving any value to this law of Con
gress we call the attention of the public and the
brewers on this coast to it,and leave it to them to
take steps to have the law modified or taken
under revision.


1t would seem that this law was passed to
catch the brewers. Grant and his ring will
have agents out to buy up all the ten gallon
kegs and sell new eight gallon kegs. When
Congress meets in December the law will be
again changed to ten gallon kegs and the
Grant ring will have the old kegs on hand to
supply the brewers. Why, this about as
good thing on the brewers as the red
sandstone quarry was on the government
for Grant and his thief pimps.
Year: 1872

A LIBERAL Republican writes us that be
and his neighbors know and acknowledge
that Grant is in the hands of thieves, and
that they have determined to take him out
by voting for Greeley.
Year: 1872

JUST thirIy-three days after Grant was
nominated by his officials, the remaining
handful of his support here hauled up his
name on sireamer 1t was thoughtful il
them to do this before the news from Bali.
more was announced, as then there might
not have been enough left to do he job.
Year: 1872

New VoLuME.-On the first day of this
month the Daily Examiner entered on its
fifteenth volume and eighth year. The E;r-
ami,,er has reached an age that no strict
party paper ever before attained in San
Francisco, and now announces that it will
continue its proud career, prospering and to
prosper, which is welcome news 10 us and
the Democracy Of the entire State. Passing
over an occasional slight difference with the
Examiner, we are proud to endorse it as
the chief central organ of the party in the
State, a position it has won by roldness,
consistency, ability and a firm and unfalerine
adherence to Democratic truths and doc
trines. We wish it and its proprietors every
success in all the future.