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Year: 1872

was not difficult for him TO decide upon the ques-


ton of FRIENDSHIP and felt justified in saying Gree


lev life long abolitionist, could not possibly he
| less his friend than Grant, whom he charged as
favoring the Cnban government as one oi slavery
regret that our commssary department gave
way slit,le too soon. The fact presume is, that
he liberal meeting produced such healthy SEN
saticn that we didn't have quite provision enough,
but as old brother joe arrived about that time
and opened up his battery soon after dinner, we
thlnk the peoples carniverous disposition gave
way to enthusiasm. since We have heard 10 grunl-
bling about the eating part Of the business


We must acknowledges democrats, We have
been little tender footed in approaching old Joe
Brooks, although the liberal republicans are and
have been very much for him. But after he made
such lasting impressions in the way of solemn
pledges to stand square upon the liberal platform
if elected and was so out spoken against the ma
tIonal and state administrations, and, 1t was such
new doctrine from republicans that We could but
saw, almost thou pursuadeth me" to go for
Brooks.


He said as to the late enfranchsing bill he was
willing to give the minstres the benefit of the
doubt in the state and then, five have a registra-
tion according to law, he would beat Hadiey l0,-
900 votes. If he could not, he did not want to be
governor and that a man who could not beat Had
ley under fair registration ought not to be gov
ernor


He referred to tie fidelity of the democrats who
surrounded hiW oppressed his willingness to
trust them, wasssT proud to see the issues Of the
past forever brfltd and to see Americans who
were one and the same. strike hands over the blood
and ruins of the war and march Oh to an honest
these are not quotations but the
import of part Of his speech.


The county convention went off quietly and the
day was generally characteristic for good order.


In conelEsiSs allow me to say that the county
under the direction of the chairman,
l.. l.. Whtticf may been success, and is doubt
less the best organized county in the state. If
you are asked hsw Franklin county is, say it is ]
foFs tori domestic and Staple
-sohsRr.sfl
Year: 1872

LOCAL PApERs-The New York Times
puts in the following good word for local pa
pers: You might nearly as we'll forget your
churches, your academies and school houses,
as to forget your local paper. 1t speaks to
ten times the audience that your local minis
ter does, and if it has any ability at all, it is
read eagerly each day from beginning to
end. It reaches you all, and if it has low
er spirit and less wisdom than sermon, it
has D thousand times better chance at you.
Laying, as it does, on every table, in almost
every house, you owe to yourself to rally
literally to its support, and extract from it
able. heightened character as you do from
any educator in your midst. 1t is in no
sense beneath notice and care-unles your
self are beneath notice and care-for it IS
your representative. Indeed in its character
it is the summation of the Importance, inter
est and welfare ofyouall Its the aggregate
of your own consequence, and you cannot
ignore it without miserably depreciating your
selves
Year: 1872

ANOTHER EXAMPLE The young men
have another example Of shipwreck in the
nainful experience of the Boston Post Office
clerk, who has lately been detected in pur-
loiping valuable letters and appropr;ating
their contents to his own use. For more
than two years, he has gone along smoothly
in his villaiy, sporting gaily with the brood
of fast young men, and keeping his misdeeds
out of Sight, until he had embezzled some
twenty thousand dollars, and, as he thought,
pretty safely laid away part of it for his fu-
ture requirements. But he greatly erred.
The base deeds could not always be conceal
ed. A bold front would not save him. Ly-
ing and deception were no protection. The
detestable thing must needs come out to the
full gaze of beholders, and there was no reme-
dy.


He has been arrested and is now awaiting
the issue of the trial for his foolishness and
crime. Let young men read the lesson
There is no safety but in honest and fidelity
DO you see it, young man?-N j. Mechanic
Year: 1872

The Columbus (Ga) Enquirer says:


A prominent and highly intelligent plan
ter of Russell informs US that planters in his
section have determined to stake their all on
cotton again this year. Lastye they made an
honest effort to make bread, but owing to the
unpropitious season almost failedin both corn
and cotton. As a consequence, they com
mence this year badly in debt and with lit
tie or nothing to eat. In this situation they
haze resolved TO make one more effort to get
out of debt and better their circumstances;
Of course advice from newspapers Will
amount to nothing when used to dissuade
people from such suicidal policy. But it
FTeaiiy TaiH does seem that the experience of the
past five or six years ought to induce planters,
to 50 diversity crops as to at least be sure Of
bread and meat. With a four million cotton
CROP this year prices will again run low and
still further tend to impoverish our section
Year: 1872

ghe Police Board yesterday morning
passed resolution instruoting every mem
Der OF the force, from the superintendent
down, TO obey the mandate Of tho Eighth
District Court, in respect to General Heron
and his yighs 60 the Office of Secretary Of
Year: 1872

a curious marriage has just taken place
inone Of the Partisan churches. The bride
groom, while marrying his bride, was utterly
unable to give her his hand. The reason
was that he had no hand left (nOr right
either) to extend to ber. 1t was fortunate
that it was not the bride that was in this
condition, as the service would have had to
be dispensed with on account of the ring
fOrmality.


The fact of the case was that the brave
Gen. Sumpt, the bridegroom, had lost both
his hands at the battle of FrGschWiller. He
had been ordered to carry a message Of the
greatest immediate Importance to another
part of the battle field, and just as he gath
cred up the reins Of his horse in both hands
a shell burst and deprived him of both Of
them at the same instant. Since then he
has been made General and Commander Of
the Hotel dcs Invalides, although this place
had been formerly abolished. Ii is said,
however, that some genius has made him a
couple Of iron hands which serve so well,
mechanically, that he eau write his name
with one Of them. 1t doesn't make much
difference what member Of the body is lost
nowadays -sCience'Can supply it.
Year: 1872

To the Editor of the Union and American:


LAWRENCEBURG, June "A, 1S72.-At an
early hour upon the morning Of the 22d
inst, the farmers from the different portions
of the county began to pour into town, and
by 10 o'clock quite a respectable sized audi
ence had assembled to hear the speech Of
Col. j. b. KiIlebrew. At one o'clock he
commenced and for one hour and half he
rivett9d their attention by his mastery di--
course Of the advantages which our State
offers to the farmer and manufacturer, and
the disadvantages under which we
labor for the want of an organ-
lied system of common schools. His
arguments were so clear and telling tFat l
could only wonder how it was possible for
a man to listen to such reason and not be
convinced. During his stay he collected
quite a number of important statistics Of
the manufacturing and agricultural inter
ests of our county. L need not say that his
labors here proved fruitful. The name Of
KillebreW has for several months been
familiar household word in almost every
family in the county. We only regret there
are not more like him. DELTA.
Year: 1872

1t was an early question whether the
Apostle Paul was married. The passage in
the epistle to the Corinthians in which he
speaks of himselfas unenCumbeTed with do
mestic cares, does not preclude the notion
that he might have been widower-does
not even prove more than that be went on
his missionary journeys alone. On the
other hand, he speaks Of his assent to
the death of Stephen, and of his COM
mission from the Sanhe6rim - funC-
tions and powers that could not have
well been exercised by man who
was not a member of that council. But we
are expressly told that this great assembly
of The Jews included only fathers, to secure
q merciful Interpretation of the law. An
early explanation, too, Of the 'true yoke fell
low" at the church to Phillippi, whom he
bids labor to reconcile or assist EnOdia and
Syntycbe, recognizes the wife of the apostle
in the phrase. The epistle was, it may be
said almost certainly, written from Rome,
and during the time of that imprisonment
in which the perils of the apostles situation
were aggravated by sorrow, and ultimately
the deseri1n of many among his friends.
Year: 1872

One Of the tried and true Democrats of
Hickman county writes US as follows:


''Your valuable paper is eagerly sought
for and thoroughly read by many in old
Hickman, and the people generally are well
pleased with the idea of electing Greeley
and Brown over Grant and Wilson, more
especially since they see a chance of this
accomplishment without a disorganizatiOn
# the Democratic party. Occasionally we
ind a life long Democrat that honestly
thinks that Horace is a bitter pill to take,
which most Of us admit if we only look to
the past and not to the future; but let US re-
member that we are working for the future,
and put our shoulder to the wheel and
work together in harmony, and we shall
have strong hopes that al viii yet go well
with uS.n
Year: 1872

TIE st. Louis Republican points out one
class of persons who are sure to be unit
for Grants reelection. It refers to that
nondescript class never heard of in this
country till Radicaism came into power,
and never to be heard Of again after Radi-
calism shall be turned out of power-the
carpet-baggers. There are not great
many Of them, and they do not form very
strong voting body, but every one of them
is for Grant.
Year: 1872

IN response to many inquiries upon the
subject from parties both North and South
who are interested in the bin, for
refunding the cotton tax, the Washing
on RepubEicaa says it is still pending in
The Ways and Means Committee, and will
De reported by them early in the December
ession. Both houses have been commit
i in direct manner to its passage, and
particularly to the uncOnstitutionality of the
tax.
Year: 1872

IF all the charm bells which have been
sold and said to have been cast from the
Chicago Courthouse bell were genuine,
what. a large bell that must have been. 1t
must have weighed more than two thou
sand tons, or ten times as much as the
Moscow tinker. In view Of the success Of
this scheme, a WISCONSIN paper suggests
that the bell on Mrs!LeaTy's COW be manu-
featured into Courthouse bells, and declares
it would make one for each Courthouse i'll
the country. There is no limit to Chicago
enterprise and expansion.
Year: 1872

A GENTLEMAN was staying at a country
house, when, hearing great clatter below
one morning, he looked out and saw a cou-
pie of grOOms holding one of the servant
maids on a horse, which they led with diff
Guilty once round the yard. He asked them
what it all meant. "Well, you see, sir" said
they, "we're going to take the horse to mar
ket to be sold, and want to be able to say he
has carried a ladY."
Year: 1872

THE best feature connected with the
South Africa diamond fields is the discovery
that the Cape country is one Of the richest
agricultural regions in the world. From a
country almost barren Of people it will III
time become of the most thickly settled
portions of the globe.
Year: 1872

CHICAGO, June IS a melancholy
feature Of the reconstruction of the city
is almost thk daily loss Of life by derrick
accidents. John Hogan was a victim to-
day at Well street ViadUCt.
Year: 1872

Some years ago, when the writer was re-
porter upon al Eastern paper, it devolyed
upon him to write for the same edition an ac-
count OF the presentation of gold-headed cane
to the Rev D. Nudge, the clergyman of the
place, and the description of a patent hogkilling
and sausage machine that had just been put
in opperation at the factory. Now, what
made Dr. Nudge mad was this The iucon-
siderate buccanccr who made up the forms got
the two locals mixed up in frightful man
ner aud when we went to press, something
like this was the appalling result


"Several of the Rev. DR.. Mudge's friends
called upon him yesterday, and after a brief
conversation the unsuspecting hog was seized
by the hind legs and slid along beam until
he reached the no. water tank. His faiends
explained the.object of their visits, and present.
ed him with very handsome gold-headed
butcher who grabbed him by the tail, swung
him round, cut his throat from ear to ear, and
in less than a minute the carcass was in the
water.


Thereupon he came forward and said there
were times when the feelings overpowered one,
and for that reason be would not attempt to
do more than thank those around him for the
manner in which so huge an animsl was cut
into so many fragments was simply astonish-
ing. The doctor concluded his remarks, when
the machine seized him, and in less time than
it takes to write it the hog was cut into frag-
ments and worked up into delicious sausage.
The occasion viii long be remembered by the
doctors friends as one Of the most delightful
of their lives. The best pieces can be obtained
for fifteen cents pound, and we are sure that
those who have sat so long under his ministry
will rejoice that he has been SO handsomely
treated"


Mad? Well, A6outnine o'clock that morning
the Office had been abandoned by every man.
but the advertising clerk, and he asconded to
the roof and robed himself in boiler iron so
that he could watch the venerable clergyman
tearing round down there In the street with
bis congregation, all wearing the panoply Of
war, and carrying butcher knives and things.
The next day we explained and apOligized, but
tho doctor stopped bis subscription aud began
to take the rival papers. "-Erchaage.
Year: 1872

THE EFFICACY OF Strange
as it may seem, it is nevertheless true,
that a meeting of Methodist ministers
lately held in New York had under Sc
rious consideration Professor Tyndal's
proposed prayer test-that is, that every
one shall unite in prayer for some partic-
ular thing, known to be good in itself,
and see whether the prayer will be an
swered or not. The Professor suggested
that all, with might and main, should
pray for rain, (no rhyme intended) and
if rain came it would then be decided be-
yond the peradventure of a doubt that
united prayer would be answered, and
that hereafter it would only be necessary
to pray long and loud in order to get
anything we wanted. But the heavens
were cloudless, and no token of an ap-
preaching storm was visible consequent
ly, after a prolonged discussion, it was
decided that such test would be impious
and atheistical. Whether the conference
communicated with the Signal Bureau at
Washington is not known, but without
doubt the weather probabilities were agi-
tated under the rose"
Year: 1872

THE RAILROAD.-From our exchanges
Of late date we learn that surveying part
les of the Central Pacific Railroad have
been ordered out on the line OF the Cali
fornia ana Oregon Road above the new
town Of Rcdding, the present terminus.
One party, it is stated is now at the
mouth of Spring Creek engaged in estab-
fishing the grade and setting the stakes.
Another party is at the mouth of Pit
river, having established Winter quarters
at that place. From these facts it would
appear that the Company intends to ex-
tend the line as fast rs possible, and that
in another year new terminus will be
established and Reddng be nothing more
than way station.
Year: 1872

IMPORTANT TAX SUIT.-The property
of the Central Pacific Railroad was taxed
in Placer county, in 1868, at about $24,-
600, for State and county purposes. The
Company refuse d to pay said taxes,
taking the ground that the road is in part
the property Of the United States and
therefore exempt from local taxation. AS
a consequence the matter went to the
Courts, and in both the District and the
Supreme Court of this State was decided
against the Railroad Company, where
upon, on a writ Of error, the Company
carried the case to the Supreme Court OF
the United States, where it will be heard
on the 4th Of Decent Der. Attorney Gen
eral Love is now in Washington where
he will appear for The People.
Year: 1872

IN the coming session Congress will be
asked to make an appropriation for an
audacious mechanical feat. The work is
nothing more than the adding of a story
to the General Postoffice building at
Washington, not by building it up from
the present roof upwards, but by raising
the immense structure twenty feet in the
air and erecting the additional portion on
the Old foundation walls. The General
Postotiice covers an entire square. The
outer walls are of MARBLE three feet in
thickness the inner walls are of brick.
All the rooms are foored with slate.
bedded upon groined brick arches. Chief
Architect Mullet is the protector of this
magnificent undertaking in architecture
and dynamics, and intends that his lift
ing and building shall not in the least
interfere with the business usually trans.
acted at the central point of our vast
postal system,
Year: 1872

OVERLAND MoNTHLY.-The Dccem-
Der number Of this Pacific Coast monthly
is before us, and its pages fairly sparkle
with Poetry, Narrative, Historic Essays,
etc; not line its contents but what is
interesting. With this number closes
the Ninth Volume, and the publishers OF
the O0ertdnd have reason to be proud of
the results Of their effort to publish lit
erary magazine on this Coast. Persons
who desire to subscribe should begin with
the new year and the new volume.
Year: 1872

EPIzooTIc. - This disease has made
its way South and the Southern cities are
seriously affected. A Memphis dispatch
says that scarcely horse or mule is seen
on the street and that business is suffering
in consequence. Michigan dates state
that the deer in that section are affected
with something similar to the horse dis
ease and that they are dying by hundreds.
Year: 1872

The Milwaukee Sentinel has discover
ed a new blessing to our people as re-
suit of the war:-ssIn various ways the
war shows itself in our people. They
are no longer subject to panic. Before
1860, either the Chicago fire or the Bos-
ton fire would have caused q Bull Run
Commercial disaster. Now such ca
lamity finds them nerved for necessary
action. The croakers of the press pre-
dicted a financial crash the next day af-
ter the fire. The mass of business men
meet the exigencies, as our soldiers stood
to their guns in the later battles of the
war; Our people are calmer, steadier,
frmer, more courageous Ill misfortune
since the stupendous crisis of the rebell-
ion than before. A nation that sternly
gave, directly and indirectly, six or eight
thousand millions of its treasures and
poured out its precious blood like water
to preserve its life, is not likely to faint
in financial Mysteries at the sight of one
city in fames.'
Year: 1872

Captain Charles Vincent sailed from
Boston for Culcutta in the month of Aug.
1868. He left, in quiet town near
Bangor, Me-. young girl of eighteen to
whom he was betrothed. Capt. Vincent
was but twenty-five when, on that Aug
ust day, his ship Laura Sheldon stood
gaily out to sea. No anxiety was felt
for his safety until nearly year had
elapsed, and no tidings had been receiv-
ed at home. Years came and went, and
hundreds of staunch East Indiamen
sailed into American harbors, but never
word regarding the ship Laura Shell
don" was received. In the meantime the
young girl, faithful to the memory of
her sailor lover, remained unmarried, re-
fusing many advantageous offers from
suitors her equal in social position and
intellectual culture, for she is lady of
superior mind. Through all these 20
years of silence she had been hopeful,
and indeed cheerful She has never
| despaired of the return of her lover
On the 10Th day of September letter
was received by her aged mother post
marked Liverpool 3" The writer was
Captain Charles Vincent, now man of
"a years. He asked her to inform if
her daughter was still unmarried, and
said if the reply was to that effect that
he should sail at once for America. The
mother Immediately answered this letter,
carefully concealing everything from her
daughter. On the first day of November
last, Captain Vincent alighted from the
stage at the door of his betrothed. Of
the circumstances of the joyous meeting
of the long separated lovers we are not
permitted to speak; they are too sacred
for the public ear. Capt. Vincent S
story would fill a volume. The Laura
Sheldon" was shipwrecked in the Indian
ocean, and only the captain and one
sailor survived. They were rescued
from their perilous condition on raft
after two days by a brig bound to China
In one of the Chinese seaports Captain


Vincent lived for years, a clerk in al
English trading house. He wrote sew


eral letters home but received no answer
He gradually became prosperous in bust


ness, and will return to China in few


months with his bride.
Year: 1872

A few days since young lady of Ur-
bana, Ohio. who had been i'll short
time, died, and the body was prepared
by sorrowing friends and attendants for
interment and placed in the coffin. The
night before the day of the funeral a
number of young lady watchers were
seated in the room adjoining that in
which the coffin had been placed, when,
greatly to their CONSERVATION, the figure
of the dead girl appeared before them
and spoke family. When the horrifed
attendants had somewhat overcome their
fright and seeing that the supposed
corpse was really thing of life, they
took measures to care for their friend SO
startlingly restored to them almost from
the grave. and received proper attention,
and is now likely to recover.
Year: 1872

A man who was driven out of Virgin
ia on account of his loyal sentiments,
ON hearing that Grant had carried the
state, sang out:


-oh, carry me back to Old Virginia" &C.
and the last seen of him he was making
preparations to go.
Year: 1872

A Poughkeepsie couple, just married,
stopped in Albany, N. Y, and the hus-
band left his bride at hotel while he
went to get check cashed. In his abb
sence her father appeared and induced
her to depart with him. and when the
husband discovered her fight he said he
could stand it as long as she could, and
Immediately started West