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Year: 1873

The Commissioner OF Indian Affairs does
not credit the report from Texas that all of
the kiowas are off their reservation except
Santanta. He says few of the Kiowas may
have been depredating in Teas, out ne
Goes not believe that anything like 800 are
on the war path.


He has received recent advices from the
agent of the Kicvas and Comanches, and
when the latter were heard from they were
all quiet and on their reservation. He feels
confident that Santanta and Big Tree are
disposed to keep faith with Governor Davis
and the government. and they will hesitate
long time before again placing themselves
in a hostile attitude.
Year: 1873

The Rock Island Union takes strong
grounds against the way the farmers
movement is managed. While pretending
to be their friend it lectures the yeomanry
with great severity, and in late article
went so far as to virtually call them pack
of fools. What the Union has its eye on
is not plainly seen by US, but it undoubted-
ly fatters itself that it sees chance to
make few needed dollars in some other
direction than in aiding the farmers in
their fight against monopolies, and is bent
on improving it. 1t is not impossible that


the farmers will, sooner or later, make


their influence felt on the worldly prosperi-
/ ty Of the Union. - Gensseo Republic.
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commissary
General of the United States, after trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Stared" was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article This
is fact worthy the attention Of consun-
org
Year: 1873

CATARRH-Use Renne's Pain Killing
Magic Oil freely on the forehead and nose,
externally, and also inhale the strong edor
of the Oil from cloth, time after time,
to act on the mucus membrane, cleansing,
healing and also mix the Magic Oil with
water, and gargle the throat often Try
this for few days, it don cost much
Year: 1873

A nice point of law is pending
for arbitration before the Pittsburg
courts. Some eighteen years ago
young Irishman in the City of
Belfast fell in love with . rosy
checked girl ofhis own neighbor-
hood, and no sooner had he done
so than he popped the question and
met with a point.b}ank refusal.
Not caring to stay where the
sorest disappointment of his life had
fallen upon him, he bade adieu to
friends and settled in Smoky City.
Seventeen years passed and be
still remained single, sober and in
dustrious, with one image imprint
ed upon his heart. Meeting q
friend from his native city he in
qGired concerning his first and only
love, and learned not only that she
was alive and doing well, but Still
unmarried. With characteristicim
pulse be renewed the suit by letter
and received a favorable reply.
As he sent the passage money
his betrothed started right on, the
signals by which he should know
her having been pre-arranged.
What was the cruel chagrin Of
the long-faithful lover 10 see not
his rosy-cheeked fair, but woman
some ten years older. He assured
her that there was some mistake,
but she had his written contract
to show. An explanation revealed
that she was second cousin to the
woman he supposed he was ad-
dressing, but bearing the same
name and daughter OF q man bear
ing the same name as the other
ones father. Moreover, she in
sisted upon the fulflment Of the
contract or its equivalent. His Of
fer TO pay her fare back was refus-
ed as an insult to her injured afec-
| tions, and aEegal board Of arbitra-
ton are trying to make up their
minds about it.
Year: 1873

TIE CoTToS CRoP.-The Columbus
(Ga.) Inquirer says: We have now to
call the attention ofcotton planters to the
fact that the planters ofTexas are report
ed to be preparing for very large cotton
crop in that State next year. They made
a superintendent corn crop this year
and most of them will have to hold over
so as to allow them to apply nearly al
their labor to cotton. Most planters ir
Georgia and Alabama also made more corn
than usual-thanks to very favorable sea
sons-will next year feel freer to DO their
best in the production Of cotton. These
facts are worthy Of consideration in
"pitching the crops" Of 1879.
Year: 1873

After some further converSa-
ton, the admiral called for his
barge, and, with the feet engineer
and the captain: came on board
our ship. Sauchich was sent for,
and when confronting the stern
old Dahlgren, quaiIed and covered
like thief detected. He told con-
Trajectory stories, interlarded with
protestations of innocence, until
he was shown Willie Deans knife,
and asked to explain how it came
to be stuck in the yard, when he
assumed an impudent and defiant
attitude, and said they could not
make murderer of him, etc.


Just as he was giving vent to
these remarks, and while the ad-
miral was studying lis villainous
countcnancc, a cry Of horror arose
from aft, where the crew had just
hauled up the propeller from the
water at the wish Of the chief en-
gineer, and there, jammed and torn
into an almost unrecognizable
mass, was the body of Willie Dean,
with Sanchich's knife sunk deep
in the breast and through the
heart. Portions Of his clothing
had filled the slot and jammed the
shaft, as the vessel backed over
and caught up the body with her
propeller.


l now lost my temper, and all
sense Of respect for my superiors,
and catching Sanchch by the
throat. [ forced him aft to look
upon his horrible work. I pulled
the knife from the ghastly wound
and held it under his eyes, charg.
ing him with the murder.


One long hellish look in silence
he gave the corpse, but with the
rapidity Of lightning, he snatched
the knife from my hand and sunk
it to the handle in bis own breast,
instantly falling dead at my feet.


Never shall | forget the counte.
nance Of this murderer, as he lay
in the cold, dull rays of a Decem-
Der sun, stiff and dead, within ten
feet Of his victim, whom he had
fondly imagined down deep in the
sea but it was wllled otherwise,
for murder will out.
Year: 1873

A man in Youngstown bet thirty dol
lars one bitter cold day that he could
walk to Warren. He spoiled forty
FIVE dollar suit of clothes, fourteen
dollar pair of boots, paid . doctor ten
dollars to thaw out his ears, and was
arrested at Warren as suspicious
character and locked up two days in
Jail He won his bet.
Year: 1873

lis thought in Salt Lake City that
Brigham Young will never pass another
year above ground. When be dies thirty
seven widows will mourn his loss, and
one hundred and seventeen children will
be fatherlesS.
Year: 1873

One Of the most remarkable dis
coveries supposed to be made by
modern science is the drifting Of the
stars. Richard A. Proctor, Secretary
of the Royal Astronomical Society,
claims the merit Of first suggesting
the possibility Of there being in fact
no fixed stars; but Professor Higgins
is said to have first demonstrated the
fact that certain of the stars, notably
Sirius, are wandering through space
with almost incredible rapidity. The
undulatory light waves are the critic
ria by which this approach or reces-
sion is formed, and the rate at which
they strike the eye OF the observer
gives the proof of the stars coming
toward the earth or going from it.
If the waves come in quicker success
sion than from luminous body at
rest the source of light, according to
a well known law, is approaching;
if, on the contrary, they come in
slower succession than from a lumi-
nous body at rest the source of light
is rcceding, Not only does this
"star-drift "-as Mr.. Proctor calls it
take place with single stars, but
groups, with rhythmic motion, are
circling among themselves, sometimes
drifting silently, swiftly, mysteriously
in common direction, sometimes in
tervolved in a manner at present un-
accountable.
Year: 1873

1T Is often said that "dirt" is
healthy, and that those children
thrive who arc sent out to make
mud-pies. That may be true; but /
incline to think that the "letting
alone" should have good share of
the credit Of health-giying,


Put comfortable clothing on your
little one. Give him room enough
to experiment i'll the use of his arms
and legs where there are no pitfalls
to entrap him. Give him harmless
things to play with, the simpler the
better, and then judiciousiy let him
alone and he will be more likely to
be amiable than if you bedcck him
with fine garments and put him into
an elegantly-furnished room with
delicately-constructed toys to play
with and two or three grown people
to take care Of him.
Year: 1873

times the patient wife scalds her
right hand, or runs silver under
the nail Of the index finger of that
hand, and it is then the man clutches
the needle round the neck and, for
getting to tie knot in the thread,
commences to put on the button. 1t
is always in the morning and from
five to twenty minutes after he is ex-
pected to be down in the street. He
lays the button exactly on the site
of its predecessor and pushes the
needle through one eve, and carefully
draws the thread after, leaving about
three inches of it sticking up for the
lee way. He says to himself: "Well,
if women don't have the easiest time
| ever see." Then he comes back the
otherway and gets the needle through
the cloth well enough, and lays him.
self out to find the eye, but in spite of
great deal ofpatient jabbing the nee
die point persists in bucking against
the solid part of that button and IL
nally, when he looses patience, his
finger catches the thread and that
three inches he had left to hold the
button slips through the eye in d
twinkling and the button rolls lei
snrel y across tie floor. He picks it
up without single remark, out of
respect for his children, and makes
another attempt to fasten it. This
time when coming back with the nee.
die he keeps both the thread and but
ton from slipping by covering them
with his thumb, and it is out OF re-
gard for that part of him that he
feels around for the eye in very
careful and judicious. manner, but
eventually losing his philosophy as
the search becomes more and more
hopeless he falls to jabbing about in
a loose and savage manner, and it is
just then the needle finds the openr
ing and comes up through the but
ton and part way through his thumb
with celerity that 10 human inge-
nuity can guard against. Then he
lays down the things with few IA
miliar quotations and presses the in
jured hand between his knees. and
then holds it under the arm, and fl
nally jams it into his mouth, and all
the while he prances about the floor
and calls upon heaven and earth to
witness that there has never been
anything like it since the world was
created, and howls, and whistles, and
moans, and sobs. After while he
calms down, and puts on his pants,
and fastcns them together with a
stick, and goes to his business a
changed man.
Year: 1873

nelghbors were dispersed and Casper
stood convinced that an 'ingen' might
not be the best brace for Madge's
nerves, when her hand was dressed
and her grandmother was quavering
song in the corner, Madge turned
such a look on Charley as even that
stout-hearted fellow could not stand.
he leaned close to her, and not vet
having washed the smoke off his face,
was as Vulcan-like a lover as YOU
could desire. But Madge, always
saw the god, not the mechanic.


'Oh, Charley! how can make a
little nest for you now? After the
feeling of tonight is over you will
wish You had married anybody rather
than a manned grill


Unwise Madge! She drew her fate
upon herself. / do aver that to this
day her nose is much fiattened by the
vice-like punishment Charley made
her suffer for that speech.


When he came in next evening he
laid a paper in her lap and watched
the pale face expand and blossom
while she read a deed Of gift to her
of the prettiest cottage on the pretti-
est street in the city. The company
which Charley served, and which
could do handsome things as well as
thoughtless ones, begged her, in a
flattering note, to accept the gift as a
small acknowledgement of their obli-
cations to her.


How could she make little nest
for him?' asked Charley, looking at
her through brimming eyes.


why, with her hands, after all,
answered Madge, crying.


And this will always be the pret-
tier hand of the two,' said that fool
ish fellow. touching the bandaged
one.
Year: 1873

The Danbury Ne,0s is the best
digestive pill that has yet been dis
covered. Here is an item concern
ing buttons that should be read i'm
mediately after hearty dinner, or
late supper, and is warranted to
make the reader proof against dys-
pepsia: 1t is bad enough to see a
bachelor sew on button, but he is
the embodiment of grace alongside
of married man. Necessity has
compelled experience in the case of
the former, but the latter has always
depended upon some one else for this
service, and fortunately for the sake
of society it is rarely he is obliged to
resort TO the needle himself. Some
Year: 1873

A very accomplished young lady
of Washington, daughter of Mrs.
Anna H. Dorsey, the well known
writer, has invented and obtained a
patent for an invention by which the
driver of street railway car can be
effectually guarded against all inclem-
encies of weather and which is the
realization of all that could be desired
to effect so phiianthropic an object.


This very valuable improvement
has been carefully examined and
highly approved of by various gentle
men competent to judge OF its merits,
and we trust will not only be gener-
ally adopted by our rail car compa-
nies, but will also prove a source of
fair and just remuneration to the
young inventor. We are informed
that this patent can be applied with
slight expense to any car.
Year: 1873

Old Casper came home about sun
set. His pick was on his shoulder;
so was his old wool hat for he thrust
it far back from his wrinkled front.
Casper had bend, as if he had been
half persuaded these many years to
go on hands and knees again, so
heavily time sat on his back and so
close to the earth did his daily labor
draw him.


He was good natured, trotting
old fellow working his mouth eagerly
and training his bleared eyes as he
approached the towns draggled
skirts, for very thinking of his old
folks-his old woman and his little
gal.


There were rows of dismal frame
huts all around, built by railroad
companies for the purpose of penning
as many Of their employees families
at time as possible. They rep0se
gloomy and barn-like, squat on that
sandy foundation which scripture
condemns. swarming with legions of
tallow-headed children. Women,
sharp at the elbows and sharper at the
face. were raising clouds Of pork
smoke from their respective kitchen
affairs. In fact the whole ncighbor-
hood reeked with the smell Of grease.
and discovering was SO warm a Lap
londor mi ght have rosonted it Bat
Casper's nose was not delicate. He
trotted over the cinder sidewalk nod
ding this way and that, glad there
was such a fine air and that his old
/ bones were so near home.


'Thar's the little Gal, as usual he
chuckled as he turned a corner and
found Madgie on her lookout at the
gate. She was comforting sign to
see in that neighborhood, so tidy fair
in calico and braids, and the pink
flesh color Of youth. 1Cu wondered
why she had been no further up town
and draped in something costly; why
her deft fingers had never learned
there were ten keys to unlock a soul
which slumbers in rosewood and
which rises at a touch like some bless
ed genii, to comfort all ills and fill
all thoughts; you wondered why
some high bred father was not COM
ing home to her now. But then this
old man would have found it so hard
to do without her. Then, too, Madge
might never in her life have struck
the royal heart which was now in
her hands, which she held her bank
against all the future and the interest
of which was the only income which
she wanted.


There you are, grandpap cried
Madge.


Yes, and there you are, Madgie;
and here we both are, Madgiep enter
ing the open gate and casting down
his pick.


He put his hands on both sides of
her head and gave her sounding
smack on the cheek.


'Supper's ready


Yes, yes; just wait until | get
little of the smut off my hands and
neck. It's been powerful hot, dusty
day


Casper trotted through the little
barn allotted to him, hailed his old
wife, who sat ready to pour his tea,
and after blowing and plunging
through deal of water, returned to
his family with shining countenance
and handful of onions.


Il jist pulled these up for a relish.
They're cooling, ingens is. You tend
ed that ingen bed, didn't you,
Madgie?'


Grandma and l.


EAnd we wanted some of them in
gems for Market said the old wife,
eyeing the sacrifice severely. 'We
amt got no ground to throw away
raising luxuries for ourselves


well, well, MOTHER pleaded Cas-
per, dipping his fragrant sphere IN
Year: 1873

The years of the present century
hitherto remarkable for the number
of their distinguished dead were 1882
and 1859, The twelfth month of 1872
must now be added to those memo
rable predecessors-perhaps indeed,
it surpasses them in the length of its
catalogue of departed genius and
worth.


In our own country we have lost
such prominent statesmen and poll
Year: 1873

THE Good Templars are arranging to
give an oyster snppcr and entertainment
IN Friday Of next week, at th,ir Hall
1t is safe to promise hat the supper will
equal any ever spread in the cirv, and
the occasion one Of peculiar pleasure
Year: 1873

OBsTRUCTING THE STREETS. - We
have alluded to the obstruction OF streets
by vehicles Of various kinds before, but il
must be patent to the minds of all who
have to traverse them to any extent that
it is fast becoming nuisance. Scarcely a
day passes that we do not see vehicles
stopped on the street crossings or the
horses standing there, and pedestrians in
passing from side to side have to get out
in the mud in order to accomplish that ;
and further, parties are in the habit of tie
ing their horses in the street and they FREE
quently mount the rostrum--pavemen we
mean-and parties passing have to run the
gauntlet, thereby endangering life and
limb in the attempt. s.


What we have thus far said is so we'll
known to all especially to the authorities of
our city, that people are beginning to get
accustomed to it. We don't intend to get
used to anything Of the kind. and as long
as it is permitted, just so long do we
intend to protest against it. We would
call the attention of the city authorities
(or fear none of them have observed it) to
the condition of Twelfth street. where the st.
James hotel is being built, and ask if it is
not simply shameful that astrcet should be
obstructed in such manner. Mr.. Police
man, 60 there when wagons are unloading
their material and see if people can cross
on the tagging much less vehicles pass.
More anon.
Year: 1873

THE CoTToN CRoP.-Partial reports
received at the department of agriculture
from the cotton regions to July lst repre-
sent much wet weather, which in several
states makes the crop backward in matur.
ing. The Indications are that whatever
may be the injury to the crop from this
and other causes, the deficiency will, it is
supposed, be supplied by the larger plant
ing area than heretofore, and therefore il
is believed the crop of this year will al
least be equal to that of the last.
Year: 1873

not unlikely, you are conveying the inhn-
ence that shall turn the scale of some
ones Immortality. Dismiss therefore,
the thought that you are living without
responsibility; that is impossible. The
true philosophy of doing good is, first of
all and principally to be good-to have a
character that will of itself communicate
good. There must and will be active eff
fort where there is goodness Of principle !;
but the latter we should hold to be the
principal. thing, the root and life of all.
Happiness is promised not to the learned
but to the good.
Year: 1873

There is a pecuniary mystery


hanging around the average New


jersey Legislator. difficult to pen


citrate. This mystery came in


with railroad legislation. We


can remember when Legislator.
man got his board in Trenton for


three dollars per week, and


was flush and happy on his three
dollars per diem. He received
nothing but his legal pay, and
earn red snug sum OF MOI ey home
with hlm at the end of the session
Ills surplus hundred dollars were
IN solid silver coin. with no stain
OF treachery or dishonesty upon
8 single piece 1t is not so now.
Within the last few years we have
known members who had to bor-
row he money that brought them
to Trenton. They took double
rooms at the principal hotels at
cost double that of their State
pay for the session. They night
ly reyeled in costly wines at five
dollars per bottle. They had
cords OF cigars at twenty-five cents
each, and their rooms were filled
" ith visitors, who ate and drank,
and smoked at the apparent ex-
pense Of one whose apparent re-
sources were but three dollars per
diem And on the adjournment, I.
such legislator went home to.
bald q handsome new house, buy
a tarm or display valuable bonds
TO the admiration of wife and chill
iren, and to the astoni.hment of /
bis friends.


Railroads are great invention.
So is a modern New Jersey Legis- /
Iator.-State Sentinel and Capi-
tai.
Year: 1873

The steamship Saragossa was
lately put upon the ways az Bal.
timorc, supposed to need only new
caulNiig and copper. The caulk-
crs got tc work, and the seams be
tween the planks dressed out with
the OIs preparatory to driving


in the new oakum. Imagine the
astonishment Of the caulkers when
one day the iron, subjected only


to "a feeble blow, went clear into


the ycssyl. A closer inspection


resulted, aud it was discovered


hat for a distance of eighty feet
on each side of the keel, aud he


meath that portion Of the ship


were the boilers rest, planks which
eight ears ego were three and
one-haIf inches thick were now


mere boards Of one half inch in
thickness. They were not worm
eaten, and in all appearances
were sound as when first spiked
and bolted to the huge skeleton
of a ship. And here a lesson
in the power of friction may be
aptIy illustrated. Beneath tie
boilers of the Sarsgossa it WAS
discovered that PARTICLES of coal
had dropped from time to time.
and the mere motion of the YES
sci, as she rocked at sea, had
shaken the loose pieces OF miner
al from side to side on the planks,
and worn them to the thickness
of board. used in the ordinary
sklff, suCn as are used on our
creeks.
Year: 1873

A certain baggage-smasher
on the Wilmington and Balt;-
more railrond had fearful at
tack of nightmare the other
evening. He dreamed that some
man came along to his car with
n splendid new trunk that had
never been touched. And the
dreamer got hold Of that trunk
and soused it down upon the
floor three or four times, and


jumped on it, and hacked it up
with an ak, and split cal oil on
it, and smeared it with chalk
marks. And then he dreamed
he pitched it out the car win
dow, and was about to explode
keg Of gunpowder under it,
when the engine Of the down
train struck him, and he awOke.
He found his vile standing o..
yer him with a chair, and rap
ping him on the head with ear
nestncss. In his sleep he had
hold of baby's crib, and had
been waltzing around the room
With it, and ramlning it up a
gainst the wall, and pounding it
with the pitcher, and trying to
heave it out Of the window,
while the infant, spilled upon
the floor, yelled like brigade
of Soshone Indians. 1t was
the conclusion of the chair Ill
the hands Of tie indignant moth
cr that made him dream about
the locomotive striking him.
When his friends now ask him
the meaning Of those Jumps up
on his forehead, he says moth
ing, but seizes the nearest vaIise
and goes through all the exer-
cises that he dreamed about.