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Year: 1872

Col. Hoge, of California, at the re-
cent State Convention, made speech
which shows what man thinks and
what he may resolve to do when par
ty discipline has more control over
him than principle. Here is what he
said:


Mr.. PRESIDENT: 1 am so modest
that am hardly able toreturn thanks
to the convention for the homer they
have conferred upon me. I do not
intend to make any speech just now.
1 feel of course compelled to submit
to the order Of tie convention, al
though l have already been on the
State Central Committee long
enough. Thought 1 to have been re-
tired on the pension list. But, mas
much as my friends desire me still to
work for them, I shall do as well as
l can, no matter who carries the ban
ner, and that is saying a good deal
T Laughter and applause. 1 have
been too long a Democrat, Mr.. Pres
ident, to have any hesitation, any
doubt, or any disposition whatever
to shrink any duty imposed upon me
by the party,or to swallow any candi-
date on any platform they may cram
down my throat. Applause. There
has been a great deal said upon this
subject here. I did not think then
the time, and 1 do not think now the
time, to express my sentiments upon
these matters. I am willing to wait,
and shall wait, for the action of the
great council of the party at Balti-
more. I shall follow their orders; I
shall submit to their DEGREES, whether
they harmonize with my sentiments
or not. Cries of "Good," and ap-
plause. But 1 am free to say, Mr..
President, that it viii be the bitter
est pill to me that ever I swallowed
to vote for a Republican great
laughter and applause Of any stripe.


Applause. won't say what 1
would like to say, because 1 may
have to swallow it hereafter. Great
laughter. 1 am going to leave my
self free to do it without choking if
can. Laughter. But I would
like once more to cast q vote for an
old true-blue Democrat. Great ap-
plause. would like to 90 down
fighting the old flag and for the old
principles if we cannot win, let US go
down with honor. Applause. Let
us 90 down under the old flag,
ing for principle, and not in a scram-
bic for contemplate Offices. Ap-
plause. But 1 might say a little
too much. Applause. [ will
swallow Whatever.dose the Baltimore
Convention administers to me Zap
plause no matter how nauseOus
may be the draught. And that is
the best 1 can say on the subject,
Mr.. President. 1 again thank the
convention for the honor they have
done me, and I will serve them.
Year: 1872

THE SEWING MACHINE is one of the
greatest improvements of the age, and at this
day and age of the world every family must
and will have one. This fact appears to be
perfectly understood by all Sewing Machine
Companies, consequently every company is
making every effort in their power to put
their machines forward, and to make sales as
rapidly as possible. They employ every per-
son they can get, and three-fourths of those
employed are not fit for the business, conse-
quently the country is now overrun with men
and boys representing themselves as Sewing
Machine Agents, and everyone claiming to have
the best machine, when, in fact, they know
nothing about machines, consequently the
business has become a nuisance-it is over
done and overrun with unprincipled agents,
and almost every farmer breads to see one
stop at his gate.


But to lay all prejudice aside, the New vii
son is the only First-class Machine in America
that is sold at a reasonable price; a price with
in the reach of every family. The New Will
son stands to-day at the head as being the best,
the simplest, the easiest to manage, the most
durable, and by far the cheapest. The Wilson
now costs $500 more to manufacture than any
other machine in America, and is sold for
S25,0 less than any other frst-class machine.
This simply because it is not in the "Com-
bination." This machine is sold for Just what
it is worth, while all others are sold from
$500 to $4,000 more than they are worth.


The undersigned has been selling the Will
son for one year at his Grocery and Crockery
Store in Fremont, and has sold Five Hundred
Machines, and nearly all have been sold in
Sandusky County, and have never yet had
an agent out soliciting sales or boring the peo-
pie to buy. Every machine has been ordered
This, think, is the largest sale that has ever
been made in the county. This fact of itseli
is certainly sufficient evidence that the ma.
chine is a good one. All other companies have
drummed and bored the people nearly tc
death to sell their machines, and in very many
instances people have bought simply to get rid
of the agent Now, we claim that the proper
way, and the only way, to buy Smachine, is tc
60 town and see and try all the machines anG
select for yourself buy machine in the same
way that you buy dress, or set of dishes
or dollars worth of sugar. There are now
some six or eight different kinds of SEWING
Machines represented in this city, try then
all, select for yourself, and do not be hum
bugged by agents, and nine out of every ter
will buy the Wilson. p. CLOSE.
Year: 1872

GAS I have said, Sarah was a live
ly girl. Wishing to test my courage.
no doubt she had crossed the fields
thus taking q short route, and
eyading me until our tragic meeting.


"This was not so long ago, either,
gentlemen, but what might now be
as hale and strong as any Of you
here-but practical joking ruined
my life. Do you wonder that I hate
the subjectT''
Year: 1872

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.-P Persons at a
distance desiring information from this point can
address me. If the subject does not require much
investigation few postage stamps will be suffi-
eient remuneration.
Year: 1872

Put away the little dresses


Mammals boy is four years old;
Spare awhile the silken tresses,


Shining in the sun like gold;
For, though papa seems to fear it,


None little girl will see
In the sturdy form with trowSers


Ending at the dimpled knee.
From the cap, with waving feather,


To the snug and shapely boot,
Copper-toed for stormy weather,


Perfect in the boyish suit;
Belt and button, cuff and collar,


All as neat as neat can be;
And the crowning pride the trowsers,


Coming to the dimpled knee.
All my boy, the house is ringing


With the shouts of glad surprise
And, myself, l feel like singing


For the beaming of your eyes.
Would that mother-love could follow,
And her darling always see
Just as happy as this birthday,


With the trowsers at the knee
OFF to play, so qpick, 20 eager,


How he feels the thrill within
Of the restless, boyish nature


He to all mankind akin
Four ! with what contempt he gazes
On the girlish robes Of three
One would think he'd long been wearing
Little trowsers to the knee.

Co. my boy all angels watch you
In the gladness Of your day;
Clouds will come and rain and sorrow,
But they still are lar away.
We will chill with no forebodings,
Yet, Pll pray on bended knee,
Wheresoe'er he drifts, my Father,
Let him not go far from thee!
Year: 1872

At length it is proved that man
has more vanity than woman
This is the way it came to pass
A curious investigator watched
while Thousand men passed a
looking glass used as sign on the
Sidewslk in Broadway. The re-
suit of his observation showed
that nine hundred and ninty.nine
men glanced complacently at their
image as they passed. The other
man was blind. Four hundred
and 6fty-two women passed during
the same hour and half, and
none of them looked in the mirror
all Of them being engaged iu-
tently examining each others ap-
pearance and dress.
Year: 1872

One day last summer, a far
mer's wife in Stark county, India
ma sent out to her husband in the
field, his d rner in a basket Soon
after eating it he fell sick, and
came TO the house, bringing the
basket with him. As soon as he
arrived he was seized With a con-
vulsion which terminated in death.
His wife paid no attention to him
until she had secured the basket
and its contents. The man who
took the basket into the field was
afterward found to be the guilty
wife's paramour. The pair were
arrested for the murder of the hus.
band, and their trial is now in
progress at Knox, the county seat
of Stark county.
Year: 1872

Aman appeared lately In Mauch
Chu unk with a patent air. brake tor


railroad cars, for sale. He claimed


that it would stop train going at


the highest rate of speed in halt
its own length.


There was a certain railroad
man up there, who treated this
suggestion with scorn, and said he
would wager large sums that the
sir-brake wouldn't stop train any
quicker than any other brake.
So he borrowed the contrivance
and fixed it on an open car on the
Switchback railroad, and went up
to the top of Mount Pisgah to get
a fair start. He let her come
down the inclined plane for while
until she began to move along at
the rate of sixty miles an hour,
and then he suddenly placed his
foot on the brake and put on the
full power. One minute later the
eye of any solitary traveller pass
ing through those wilds might
have observed a car standing per-
tectly still on the track, and a
railroad man going down bill a.
mong the blackberry bushes and
underbrush head foremost at the
rste--say of furty.six miles an
hour. He was carried home on a
stretcher, with an abiding faith in
the success Of the invention, but
thinks it's usefulness would be i'm
proved if some other man would
improve upon the machine, so as
to avoid the certain demoraliza.
ton overtaking those who Use it.
Year: 1872

This is what the Montgomery
Journal has to say about it:


We hope that those who are
ever ready to make use of our
columns to advance the interests
of themselves or friends, will re-
member that our columns are to
US what the merchants coffee,
mol,sses or caIicoes are to him.
They are our stock in trade and
our only sources of living, The
merchant gets pay for his calico
which enables him to live and
prosper, and unless we get some
remuneration for the use of our
columns we cannot live. Besides


this, the business man pays rs tor
the space he uses in our columns,
and hereafter the politicians will
have to do the same, or they will
not find their names or eftusions
in these columns. 1t we make
any discrimination it will be In
favor of our business men.
Year: 1872

An exchange puts it thusly 80
We would say with earnestness
to the man with p ragged coat,
unshayed beard, dilapidated bat
and halt frozen and halt starved
wife and children, step q minute
No industrious, prudent, sober
man is ever so poor but what be
can wear decent clothes, dress ur
his family and have plenty to eat


Either quit slouching around ga
looms to sponge whisky and spend.
ing what you earn, or else 60 and
drown yourself.
Year: 1872

A man who went out West
with the view of investing money
in the establishment of a paper
mill, has discovered what he re-
CARDS as an excellent site for the
business, in Iowa, because, as he
says, there are more rags there in
proportion to the population than
in any other place he ever saw.
Year: 1872

A Pittsfeld paper tells the
following: Did you ever hear
of being chased by a saw log,
as it chanced to a French Ca
madam out in Curtis woods last
week? 1t happened .thuswise.
They were cutting timber from
the brow of the hill in these IA
nous woods, and rolling it to
the bottom where a steam saw
mill is to sbe erected. The
Frenchman was attempting to
manipulate Q huge:log for a safe
descent, when he discovered it
was getting the best of him.
He was on the under. side and it
would not doto "let It slide" so
he screamed for help but no help
came, His strength was surely
and rapidly failing and there
was nothing to do but to run
from it, and run he did. The nat
ursl philosophers say that log
gains in rapidity as il descends.
It is otherwise with human legs
on run, even, as in this case,
when the descent is steep and
icy. There was no turning out,
and the log gained with terri
BILE rapidity on the frightened
Canuck, and was just now on
his heels, when luckily he es-
pied a hollow in his path, which
he popped in and the log went
crashing over him. And that
is how a saw log chased a
Frenchman.
Year: 1872

lHdaS 0Iol AuUIcsb VI bAo 1 iiuSiPoA SAisA


From the Cherokee Aduocate Of the 10th. we


learn that Hon. WM. Z. Ross was unanimous


ly elected Principal Chief OF the Cherokee


Nation, to ill vacancy caused by the death OF


Hon. LEWIS DOWNING. Mr.. Ross is one OF


the able,t, if not the ahlest man Of this Ma


tion, and we believe this honorable position


ceuld not have been more worthily conferred
Mr.. W. Z. Ross was informed by a Commit.
/ tee of the Senate that he had been duly elect


cd and was then escorted to the Senate Room,
where in the presence Of both Houses and


many citizens he took the oath of office; after


which lie addressed those present as follows
| To the National Council, Friends and Fe!lor-
| CitiSeBs -


It will not be expected of ME to say much


more than return you my thanks upon the
| present occasion. The recent death of the la


meuted Col. Downing caused vacancy in the
| Executive Office of the Nation, which it be-
came incumbent upon the National Council
| to fill. In the exercise of a clear C0nstitu-
tional right and duty, you have called me to
| that vacancy. While | have neither sought
nor desired it, the peculiar circumstances Of
the ease have not left me at entire liberty to
consult my own feelings in regard to it.
there fore accept the position. conscious cfthe
difficulties which surround it. with an earnest
purpose of meeting its responsibilities with
whatever ability, fairness and integrity may
be able to command To those whose gener-
ous confidence and support have elevated me
TO the chieftaincy of the Cherokee Nation.
extend my heart felt thanks, and in so doing.
venture 20 offer to them respectful admoni-
tion that to their prudence, wisdom and just
ice will be largely due whatever OF success
and popular satisfaction may attend my short
administration of its affairs. To those who
may entertain views differing from those Of
the majority of the National Council. upon
the grave crisis present in the history Of our
common country, | have only sentiments Of
kindness and conciliation to express. l may
be permitted to utter the hope that my official
conduct, with their forbearancc and the sup
port due to my position will he such as to Sc
cure their respect and confidence.


Soon as may be practicable | shall take oc-
casion to recommend to your consideration,
such measures oflegislation as may be deem
ed necessary or conducive to the public well
fare In the meantime. | suggest that y0u
proceed diligently for the few remaining days
of your Constitutional Session in the passage
of such Bill. as may be required to meet the
ordinary expense Of the Government, and as
your knowledge of the wants Of the country
may demand.
Year: 1872

ET- A Washington telegraph dispatch
OF the 18th. says that the Supreme court
70 day decided the celebrated Cherokee
land case in favor Of JOY, the purchaser
OF the land from the tribe. holding that
az the United States had not enforced
forfeiture against the Indians for taking
part in the rebellion, their title could not
be impaired BY its entry and occupation
by tho settlers, whose title 10 declared
void.
Year: 1872

ET II God has put US in trust with
any office, our business is to approve our
fidelity to him, employing the talents
which he has lent us; not puffed up with
any distinction which he may have made
between US and others, but remembering
the solemn account that we must shortly
make bsfore him, when he calls us to
give an account Of eur stewardship.
Year: 1872

S If your God hates ilolatry why
does He not destroy it?" hesihen ask
ell. And they answered him, Behold,
they worship the sun, the moon, the
stars; would you have him destroy this
beautiful world for the sake Of the fool
oh q
Year: 1872

AT first glance the results of yesterday
as represented by our latest dispatches this
morning, are eminently unsatisfactory
That these elections have been carried by
the wholesale use of money-the peo-
pies own money used to stif8e
all their nobler inssincts-is
terribly evident, and affords q ffightful
proof of the corruption that reigns supreme
over this once bright land. Appalling as IT
is, it should not unnerve the friend of re-
form; for it proves the sad, woeful, ter.
rible need for reform.


Nor is the dark cloud without its silver
lining. This triumph Of Radical corruption
has been dearly purchased. Unless Grant
ism made some show of carrying these
elections all was lost. It W as with them last
desperate chance. The cohorts of corruption
have hazsrded their all on the cast Of the die.
Their corruption funds have been well nigh
drained in this effort. Their victory is al
the cost Of exhaustion. They cannot re-
peat the gigantic fraud in November; they
win not have the means. We must press
them all the harder. Let Greeley men
take heart. Onward Right onl For
Greeley and the right
Year: 1872

Again Is heard the same old story, that
oft repeated tale Of love, confidence and
ruin, and comes to be seen q Withered life
while youth was brightest and hope the
highest. Too often the dread robbery of
moral happiness Is made, and too fire.
quent the blushing cheek Of shame is but
the imprinted dye Of guilt and of disgrace
removeless. Near four weeks ago young
woman, withal beautiful In feature and
graceful in form, came to this city, and
claimed to be from Louisville, Kentucky.
Her nervous look and the terrified paleness
which at times crept over her ruddy cheeks,
hiding its natural color like the snow would
the rose leaf, told the story at once, and
explained the indelicate reason of one so
young and unknown leaving her
home, perhaps of wealth and luxury, to
dwell mid strangers. Remaining near two
weeks at a hotel, she repaired to tae shanty
of an aged colored woman who lives in
humble poverty though with contentsd char
ity on Front street. Here child was born
and the unfortunate woman remained un-
til Saturday last, when she took the one
o'clock train avowedly for Louisville, leav-
ing the infant with the colored woman aud
promising to return in q few days, stating
bIldb ueT NlSlL W
whom she had that morning received
telegram and a sum Of money. Since
leavi0g nothing has been heard from this
woman, whose child is still with the old
colored woman who says she will keep it
kindly, though she wants some kind father
and mother to adopt the little outcast.
The statement that the young woman is
from Louisville is untrue. The dispatch
received from her friend was from small
town in Kentucky, on the line of the Lou
isville and Nashville Railroad. Near this
point she left the train and her former
home is known though not stated in this
connection. The unhappy woman while
here refused to tell her name, give her
parentage or see any one. Though peni-
tent and evidently deploring the miserable
condition to which the confidence of love
and the honor of affection had consigned
her, she tCre her name from prayer book
and bible, not even wishing the eyes Of
the most sympathetic and charitable to
read it. Were we disposed to publish
what is known concerning this affair 1t
would bring tears to many and
mantle with blush of shame the
cheeks of unsuspecting ones whose
uncloaded hearts little feel that blighting
curse which dishonest manhood has caused.
Again let us caution the reckless man OF
sin, and once more, ere late the hour, warn
with fearful lesson of ruined confidence
and outraged affection.
Year: 1872

The Cincinnati Commercial OF the 7th
says:


Somebody wants to know what will be
done with His Royal Highness the Tocoon
of Tennessee, with seven rattles on his
tail. We are happy to inform him and all
others curious on the immediate future of
the distinguished visitor to the late Expo
sition, that be will be transferred TO the
Cincinnati Society of Natural History and
fed on palatable small yermin as long as it
is agreeable to him. In case of death be
would be nicely picked or stuffed, and
shelved to "point moraP with the
adornment of his tail.
Year: 1872

We call the attention of our rerders to


the Mayors proclamation requesting the
closing Of all business houses and the pub
Lie schools on Friday next, in order that
everybody can attend the Fair on that day.
We hope our business men viii comply
with Mayor Kercheval's request and chg :
up. Large crowds from distance locs<
our city annually to witness the Fair, and
our merchants derive q great benefit from
their visits. Let every house in town close
doors and give their clerks an opportunity
TO witness the interesting sports OF the day.
Year: 1872

THIEVES are scarce in Siam, and the
reason is obvious: When one is convict
ed, he or she, it makes no difference
which, is put in bag and laid upon the
ground, face downward, with the throat
resting upon the sharp edge of a triangu-
lar block. The eXecutioner then pounds
with heavy club on the back of the neck
until the victims head is bruised off. The
poor kleptomaniac is gently prepared for
the final operation by judicious prelimi-
nary scourgings.
Year: 1872

GRANT AND WILSON CLrB-The iBoys in Blue
propose to organize Grant and Wilson cam
paign club and will meet for this purpose, to-
morrow evening, at the Grand Army room, In
stitute Building. Membership is limited to one
hundred. The only qualification required is to
be veteran of the late war
Year: 1872

SINGULAR AccIDENT.-Mr, ShephardP Martin
fell from the second story window OF his home
on Saturday night. and injured himself painfully
Martin was sleeping beside the window, from
which he fell.-SuSSeL Journal.
Year: 1872

a REASONABLE bear, near the Catahdin


Iron Works, in Maine, approached a hut
IN which some meat was stored, and tried


70 push the door open, but failing in this,
ne went 10 the windows, which were
closed by shutters, and removed one from
each side of the cabin, for the sole pur-
pose, no doubt, of making sure his retreat,
for II attacked from one window, he
could jump from the other and so escape,
he then went and took q piece of meat
and departed as he came. This game
was so cleverly performed, that the own
ers OF the cabin who were concealed in
the bushes near by, let him depart in
Year: 1872

The knowing ones tell us that the only
way to get pure port wine, is to go to
Oporto, raise the grapes, press the wine,
put It into the cask yourself and ride on
it all the way home.
Year: 1872



 At last the House has expended it's ora tory and come to a vote on the Capitol question. The majority in favor of the one capitol amendment was only seven teen. Unless this majority is largely in- creased in thenext legislature there will be no chance of the two thirds vote necessary foritssubmission to the people. We should judge that the most remarkable speech of the debate was made by Mir. James E. Babcock of New Haven, who apostro- phized the skull of MT. Dixwel, the friend of the regicides, after the manner of Ham let in his famous interview with the skull of Yoriok. It always seems little unfair for live man to take advantage of dead one in that way, but when we consider that MT. Backcock is just as much fossil as Dixwell, or Hamlet, or Julius Cesar, the appearance of impropriety vanishes.

 We notice that the New Haven papers claim that the Representatives opposed to the amendment represent majority of the population of the State. If that is the case why cannot New Haven safely sub nit the question to the people and settle it forever? as43 ss-