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Year: 1872

or tell you of the efforts made to catch the
.-adroit thief. He was no peddler, but a clerk
in that very law Office from which the let
ter was sent telling us of the diamonds. He
managed to delay the letter to my father
for post or two; hastened away himself
and obtained my pin.


We never found him; we never heard of
him. lie must have gone off somewhere
over the sea with his prize. My poor, toll
ing father, always gentle, did not reproach
moj but even TO this day the regret lies
heavily on my mind for what might not
have dono for him and the dear children
with all my money!


And the lady who had given me the pin
did not know until she was dying the val
ne it was of, and that caused the stir. All
me! II was one Of those chances in life that
perhaps we all miss on occasion; the "tide
in the affairs OF men that taken at the food
leads on to fortune" Aud about my Grim
son dress? For n long wnile, shabby though
| was, l could not look at IL or let it he
made up. But time soothes troubles. And
Vi must say that It made charming gown !;
and one who was an artist saw me in il and
made me his wife, So perhaps it all hap
poned for the best.


But Tn sure hope that wicked ped,ller
who made believe TO speak like a for
eigner the better 10 take mo in--came TO be
hanged. .-Ar1oSy.
Year: 1872

Y UY, SEE AND READ
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Year: 1872

In the New England States the acreage
is an average but the condition above. In
the Middle States acreage and condition
are an average. In most Of he Southern
States the acreage and condition are be.
low average, but in Louisiana and Texas
above.
Year: 1872

From the Duluth Nimesotian


The CONSTRUCTION OF THE Nol.rHE9N
PACIFIC DOCKS CoMdENCED by refer
ence to our advertising columns, the cit
liens of Duluth and the rest of mankind
will see unmistakably, that at last things
are working in earnest. We trust doubt
ers will now lie convinced that the North
ern Pacific Docks are reality; ''for see
ing is believing by all the rules of pop
ular logic the world over.


It is understood that the company at
the time of letting, will reserve the right
of apportion ing the work of timber get
ting and delivery as they may deem
proper. This subdivision of the con-
tracts will permit men of smaller CAPT
tai to have chance on the work; and
tend also to forward it.


During the past week the engineer
ing for the Docks has continued. The
Year: 1872

SAD AFFAIR.-James Daniels, who resides
about seven miles from Auburn on the Grass
Valley road, while chopping block, with axe in
one hand and holding the block with the other,
by some accident made miss lick and chopped
the fore-finger of his left hand off close to the
palm. After wrapping the wound up carelessly
he started for this town for the purpose of
ing surgical aid. On examination by Doctors
DuBois and Todd, it was decided that the finger
on account of the shattered condition of the bone,
would have to be amputited at the third joint.
This operation was successfully performed and
the patient is now walking around town, appar-
emily at ease.
Year: 1872

The progress of the age, go marvellous
and startling. exacts of journalism com
mensurate spirit and enterprise. and such
the conductors of the Missouri REPUBLICAN
endeavor 10 infuse into all varied depart
ments. Intimately identified with every
effort for the Advancement Of the West and
South the REPUBLICAS has long been the
ACKNOWLEDGED reflector and exponent Of the
material interests Of those sections But
its sphere is not confined 10 the West aud
South. The concerns OF the nation are dis
cussed in its columns, and the intelligence
it prints is gathered from all quarters of
the globe


independent and fearless the REPuBLIcAS
is never subservient to cliques coteries.
Its highest aim is TO be the organ Of the in
telligent thought Of the people. Its mission
is teach. 10 elevate TO reform, and its
political creed embraces those great prin-
ciples of liberty and government which
form the groundwork of our Union, and of
which the Democratic party has long been
the only true exponent in America.


In the d iscussiOns Of the vital questions
which must arise within the next twelve
months the REPUBLICAN will be found al
the front pointing the way. not waiting TO
be shown. The Missouri Policy, with
which it is prominently identified, is al
ready recognized as furnishing the only
hope of relief from the oppr, ssions Of the
dominant party. y mas struck q respon-
sive chord in the hearts of the people and
will continue to grow in popular favor till
il finds its crowning glory at the polls on
the 4th of next November


To induce the formation of clubs the fol-
lowing liberal scheme of premiums has
been arranged. Besides the continuance of
the present extremely low club-rates and
the commission of ten per cent. allowed to
the getter-up of the club. TwENTY-FouR
GRAND PREMIUMS, eight for each edition. are
provided, the extent and value of which are
practically unlimited being wholly depend
ent on the efforts of the agent. From nifty
to fifteen per cent. of the hole amount OF
money collected by the agent will he re-
turned as q premium according to the follow
ing scheme:
Year: 1872

Is without doubt the best Political and
Family Journal in the State and the best
evidence or its character aad appreciation
OF its readers is found in the fact that but
few who subscribe for il ever cease taking
it. Each number contains thirty-six coll
umns Of choice reading matter.
Year: 1872

In order to do our full part in the great
campaign of next year, now 80 close upon
us. We wish to put our Daily paper ia the
hands Of every intelligent man who lives
near enough 10 this city 10 get daily paper
from here the same day it is published.
That It's price may not put IL beyond the
reach Of any man, we have determined on
the following
Year: 1872




A suggestive example of the lack both of
common sense and humanity in our present
system of treatment of convicts was given
last week in Philadelphia. Two men, Mara
and Dougherty, some time ago were committed
to the Penitentiary for an attempted brutal
assassination Both, through political infiu-
ence were pardoned by Gov. Geary few
months since. Now, the point to which we
wish to call attention is the utter inetiiciency
of tho treatment which society awarded to
these men, not only to amend them, but to
protect itself. Instantly, upon the commission
of their crime, the costly machinery of po-
lice force, courts, judges, lawyers, and juries
is set to work upon them; they take their
places in an expensive establishment in
corps of criminals, for whose support and Sc
clusion the community is more heavily taxed
than for the education of its youth.


But what is done to remove these cOnvicts
out of the dangerous classes into the order of
useful law-abidng citizens2 An Intellectual
effort is made to teach them trade, it Is
true. But the natural expectation would be
that this penitentiary, with every other, would
offer itself as a hospital to the Christian world
where every sincere follower of the Great
Teacher would hasten, to strive to heal this
collection of moral leprosy. But the fact is
that this great mass of disease and corruption
of soul and mind is left to the care of hired
and oyerworked chaplain, whose single Efforts
be they ever SO strenuous, must prove inef-
fectual. Upon one of these men the good seed
sowed did, however, yield fruit. Upon receiv-
ing his pardon he gathered his family about
him, showed no sign OF resuming his
drunken habits, but, procuring tools, anxiousy
sought for work at his old trade as carpenter
1t is impossible for him to find it. No shop
will receive him into its doors. The man and
his family, eager and sincere in searching for
honest work, are absolutely reduced by society
to the alternative of starvation or of going
back toE their criminal practices. The other
convict did not waste time with any such
futile and hopeless attempts at virtue. He
went quietly back to his old associates and
habits, and as a sign of the wholesome and
curative effects of prison treatment, made the
first use of his freedom in. numbering his ben
efactor and personal friend, who had procured
his release


The story is one of those texts which preach
its own sermon, and needs no deduction of
ours. There is scarcely. however, costly
palace prison or house of refuge in the coun-
try which does not suggest the question, TO
"wbat purpose was all this waste y
Year: 1872

Although we are told that nothing can be
authoritatively communicated concerning the
doings of the Geneva Tribunal, we are also
informed that a Supplementary Case has been
submitted by the English representatives.
This counter blast. it is understood, is to the
effect that Great Britain did use due diligence
in preventing the escape of the Rebel cruisers
so far as local law was effective to that end
This is no new plea, and it has already been
answered, as the American representatives are
said to have again rejoined that the ordinary
principles of international law were not ap-
piled in these cases.
Year: 1872

Postmaster General Creswell is again given
q generous space in the columns of THE
TRIBUNE, this morning, that he may defend
his action on the Chorpenning claim. The
charges in this matter have been widely cir
culated, and the POstmaster-General is GER
tainly none too early in meeting them. But
it is unlucky for him that, like nearly every
other spokesman for the Administration, he
finds himself placed on the defensive, the
moment he mounts the stump.
Year: 1872

harmonious doings of the Convention and The
epigrammatic platform which was adopted as
worthy Of all praise ard imitation. Iowa
elects this year Secretary of State, Treasurer,
Auditor, Attorney General, and Register OF
Land Office
Year: 1872


meek. It was the building of new railroad which
discovered this extraordinary being who is OF an
age passing tho limits Of uncertainty and who pos
sesses ingenuity of the most diabolical and
earthly kind IL was necessary that the road should
pass through part Of her property. proceeding TO
which she objected violently that the authorities
could only assess the regular damages and assume
the right Of way. willy-niy. The tbunderous tor
nado of her wrath was roused but not until tho
trains began to run did she commence active
war. Then, when locomotive came up
one day, it found rail fence built across
the road and the venerable dame seated on top in
the center Of the track with determination and def
ance blazing in her eyes Would she get of No,
she would MT. The engineer and the conductor ex-
hausted themselves in threats and commands but
all in vain-like Napoleon at st. Helena, she sat
firmly and surveyed the with vociferous dis
appreciation. The train must go on-there was moth
began to make the rails fly did the gentle lady
hasten from her perch and the train disappeared
she executed wild dance of rage her desecrated
land. Some time after that her genius, and the
sweetness and light Of her nature inspired her 10 oil
the track before the advent of long wood train.
OF course the car-wheels spun about heplessly and
the train was Indefinitely delayed, while Madam.
with folded arms. stood on lofty hilltop and.
like the eagles of the republic laughed ont in scorn
What she will do next none can guess and the rail
road people, who have a deadly fear OF her,
commended to say their prayers regularly when they
approach that part Of the road.
Year: 1872

THE COMMITTEE ON PROTESTS,
Alderman Wilder, Chairman, met at ten O'Clock
A. M, and took up the case OF John Gien. who
claims that he was voted for as Comptroller, and
that such votes not returned according to law
by the officers OF election. He prays that they be
canvassed, and that, as he received majority OF
votes ior that position he be admitted to the office
Mayor Hall appeared before the committee in re-
gard to the case, and asked that its consideration
Be postponed for one day, which was granted. The
case of Rapp, who contests the election of Timothy
j. Campbell for Assembly also came up hut was
not finished. AS regards the Gillen Comptrollershp
contest,


Is somewhat intricate. According to the constitu-
tion the Office OF Comptroller Is elective ap-
pointed as the legislature may direct. but it Lad
always been elective up to 1866, when Connolly
was elected, the first case of appointment to the
0fice occurring in october, 1871 when the present
Comptroller Green was appointed. In the tax
levy OF 1870 clause was inserted terminating the
ONCE within five days from the passage and au--
thorizing the Mayor to appoint the Comptroller
II thought by the Ring that Connolly could not
go before the people and secure an election, and
his official figures were too valuable to risk, and
the tax levy clause was to guard against such q
disaster.


THREE OBJECTIONS,


new clause. One was that 1t might have been in
serted surreptiiousy after the passage OF the tax
tional according to the provision relative to private
or local bills aud the third, that the Legislature
had no power to terminate any elective Office cx-
cept by It's abOlishment


ITS CoNsTITUTTONALrTY


was indeed so doubtful that In 1870, when the
Young Democracy ran Tappan for Comptroller
against the Tweed wing Connolly preferred taking
the chances OF election to the chances and investi
CATION OF law suit, and was run for the ONCE by
TamInany and elected. Some OF the Committee on
Protests hold that there was no more call for an
election then than there Is now, for the same laws
hold good now that held good then.


In 1871 the amended charter declared valid the
previous legislation. Green was appointed after
wards, ard


THE QUESTION on WHICH GILLEN's CLAIM RESTS
Is whether the amended charter Is the legal basis
for Green's tenure, or whether he holds his office
according to the constitution until the regular
election for his successor.


Chairman Wilder holds that the legislation was
unconstitutional. and Connolly held ONCE only until
election, while, the amendment to the charter being
legal Green holds by Its authority, and cannot be
ousted now. However. there may be rare develop
ments In this outsiders raid on q rich ofice.
Year: 1872

A well-known physician in one OF
our large cities was walking one even
ing, when coming up behind rather
forlorn-looking couple, he perceived
that they were jangling about some
thing; and as he passed, the husband
reproved what had evidently been
some expression Of repining on the part
of the wife in the following terse,
though morally unsound proposition /;
"You was drunk yesterday, and you
was drunk day before yesterday, and
| should like to know what more you
could have unless you was a hangel in
heaven %
Year: 1872

And also in pursuance of an act approved
the 10Th day of April 1874, directing the
mode of selling seated lands for taxes, and
the several acts supplementary thereto the
following tracts of seated lands and in and
out lots in the said County of Forest afore-
said, or so much thereof as will pay the
arrearages oftaXes and costs accrued there
on will be exposed to public sale at the
time and place aforesaid for the sale of
unseated lands, and be continued by adj
journment from day TO day if it should be
found necessary so to do.
Year: 1872

Now, there is nothing weak man
likes so well as to be considered strong ;
nothing n hen-pecked man likes so
much as to be regarded rs a tyrant. II
YOU ever hear n man boast his determi-
nation to rule his own house, you may
feel sure that he is subdued. And a
hen-pecked husband always makes a
great show of opposing everything that
looks towards the enlargement OF the
work or privileges of women. such
man always insists on the shadow OF ali-
thority because he cannot have the sub
stance. 1t is great satisfaction to him
that his wife can never be President,
and that she cannot make speeches IN
prayer-meeting. While he retains these
badges of superiority, he is still, IN
some sense, head of the family.-EdrdTd
EggleSton IN Hearth and Home.
Year: 1872

New ARGUNENTS.-Ther is a cease
less call for new arguments to convince
the opponents of Woman Suffrage.
"Why don't you bring US something
new?n But the old is not answered.
'The consent OF the governed is held
by all to be the basis of just govern
ment." Apply the principle say we.
ave have heard that, till we are tired
of il" says the enemy. Women ought
not to be reckoned politically with idi
ots. "YOu are all the time saying that,
tell us something else" This is done
to every argument which cannot be an
swered, to every principle which ought
to he but is not applied.


The Suffragists have borne this with
endless patience, while they have laid
deep and sure the foundations on which
will one day be built a government
which will not make political and legal
distinctions based on sex; but the peO-
pie will be the rulers and the ruled.


We have now arrived at a stage where
it is proper for us to apply new methods.
We have this TO propose when a candi-
date is nominated or suggested for any
Office, either Town, County, State or
National, the combined influence of all
Suffragists shall be against the candi-
date who shall be against suffrage for
women, no matter how worthy and
valuable he may be in all other respects.
He is the enemy of the political rights
of women, and his nomination is "nOt
fit to be made" This argument viii be
felt and needed.


There are now many advocates of
Woman Suffrage. They are a power.
BY tongue and pen their influence is
everywhere. There is scarcely a town
in which Is not some woman, whose
steady, determined opposition would de-
feat Il candidate who would rank her
with idiots VOmdiFS Journal.
Year: 1872

Somebody once said that the women
OF to-day are so eXtravagant in dress,
and so helpless in other respects, that
none but rich men can afford to marry.
and foolish people have been saving the
same thing, or something very like it,
ever since. Every time a man fails in
business, people take q mental inven-
tory OF his Wife's wardrobe and cry out.
Poor fellow he was ruined bv her ex-
travagancer


No account is taken of his club ex-
penses, or his unnecessary restaurant
bills, or his fast horses, or the vanity
which prompted him 70 buy bigger or
finer house than he needed. Nothing
IS said of his dress coats made bv some
Monsieur Snip, who charges extra price
because he calls himself an ''artist
tailor" The man may have gambled
his money away, or have lost in reck-
less stock speculation, for all anybody
knows to the contrary, while his wife,
believing him to be rich, has dressed
and lived only as his circumstances
warranted, doing it, too, only for his
sake, that he might not be ashamed TO
introduce her rs his wife Or if She had
been as eXtravagant as he, the fault is
usually his so long as the fact remains





troll the course of any proper wife
Women are often eXtravagant. The fac
cannot be denied. But that they ar,
more so than men is by no means true
As 4 rule, every woman wishes to liv,
within her husbands income, and il
nine families out of ten all the econO
MIXING is done by the wife. This con
stant iteration of the charge agains
women, however, has secured a kind 0
passive acceptance for the theory, anC
nothing is more common now than fo
the young men with salaries of two o.
three thousand a year to lament thei
inability to marry, because women ART
so extravagant. One of these has re
Gently told the public through the news
/ papers how it takes all his salary of TIVE
thousand dollars to support a singl,
man, and looking over his bills of item.
and finding that it takes fifty dollar:
worth of perfumery every year to keel
him sweet, we quite agree with hin
/ that he should not marry.-Hcdrth dao
/ Home.
Year: 1872




HOME WORDS.-Kind words cost moth
ing, yet how prone men are to forget
theml Often one goes on his weary way,
full ofcare and full Ofgrief, feeling that for
him all is trouble and all is toll, when
but simple word of encouragement or
look of sympathy would cheer his
soul, and rouse him from despair y
child will often dry its tears when kind
ly spoken to, and soon will fade away
its childish sorrow.


If each one of the sons of men would
only speak a single word of kindness or
of consolation in fellow mortars ear
between the gray dawn of evening, how
would the burdens of the cares of life
/ tighten, how would the shadows flee
from off mems brows y gentle word
can never loose its power. Its sweet
fragrance will gently float along the
coming years-lOng after the tongue
which uttered il has mOUldered in the
dust.


Often the despairing and hopeless he
ing has been snatched from the very
edge of the suicides grave by the power
of loving word of cheer and sympathy.
He stops and lists; the sound of a melO-
dious human voice whispering its COM
fort breaks on his ear, and melt his
hardened heart, as they float along like

the strains of far-ofr music on the calm
air of night. He turns; the abyss of
despair no longer yawns before his
stumbling feet, and he is saved. An
erring one may be reclaimed from the
paths of sin, and almost from the re-
gions of the lost, by an arm of love
stretched out for rescue. Speaking a
kind word here and there is like scat
tering seeds upon the broken ground
which in due season will bear fruit.
. How desirable is the presence of one
who has ever hanging on his lips
ready for utterance, 4 word of love
His entrance into any place is like ;
bright dancing sunbeam, warming tn,
hearts and reviving the spirits of all
Eyes sparkle with JOY when he ap
proaches, and shadows flee away. WheI
death snatches one from our household
and we gaze upon the features of ou
departed dear one, then we will neve
. regret the gentle words spoken and tn
kind acts done; but we viii regret ever,
unkind sentence that has ever issuel
from our lips.
Year: 1872

How EASILY BUTTERsIS SPOILED. -
\ farmers wife writes: "Of all the prod
ucts Of the farm, butter is most likely to
be tainted by noxious odors floating i'm
the atmosphere. Our people laid some
veal in the cellar, from which blood
flowed out and was neglected until it
commenced to smell. The result was
that a jar which was then packed
smelled and tasted like spoiled beef
Another lady reader observed that there
was pond of filthy, stagnant water a
few hundred feet from their house, from
which an offensive eflluvium was borne
on the breeze directly to the milk-roOm
when the wind was in q certain direc-
tion. The result was that cream and
butter would taste like the disagreeable
odor coming from that pond, and when
the pond was drained we had no more
of the damaged butter.
Year: 1872

If there is q phrase in the English
tongue for which we have an especial ab-


horrence, it is that of ''old maid" and il
there is class of society whom we espe-
cially respect and admire. it is the class
designated by that uncouth and intolera-
BILE appellation. 1t has always been the
fashion, since Eve was tempted by the
Devil, to satirize and vilify the female sex,
and of all classes Of the female sex. the
."Old Maids. as they are hideously de-
signated, have received the brunt of the
battle. have formed the forlorn hope Of
the feminine gender. and been ..blown
up" on every possible and impossible oc-