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Year: 1872




Once upon time the legend runs,
an editor in u Western city was in
duced by his evil genius to indite a
description of an evening party,
wherein he referred by name to the
fascinating Miss as "the pref
tiest girl in this town. During the
succeeding twenty-four hours he re-
ceived visits from sixteen big brothers
of young ladies other than Miss -,
followed by two-and thirty admirers
of the said big brothers sisters, and
their collective expressions of dissent,
in the form of cowhide switches and
boots of like material were so forcibly
impressed upon him that for many
days and nights he was forced to
write his editorials standing, and to
sleep in the attitude in which the
serpent was condemned to crawl on
account of somewhat similar con-
nection with Ewes full fig" for the
fall season. Since then Western ed
itops have been naturally cautious as
to naming any particular name in
conjunction with a singular superla-
tive adjective, and have adopted the
more prudent course of lauding gen
orally the entire fair sex of their res
pective sections. Thus, journal
which aspires TO State repute an
nounces that " the ladies of Arkansas
are by common consent admitted to
be the handsOmest and most graceful
in the Union )" country organ may
narrow the bounds of it's admiration
in the assertion that "the Cass county
girls are well known to be the pref
test in the State;" whilst a village
paper may without fear claim the
same distinction for the maidens of
its own small neighborhood. In this
way able-bodied admirers are pacified
and big brothers become harmless
animals. But sometimes untoward
emergencies will arise, and the now
prevailing American custom of decid-
ing by ballot who is the fairest at a
church fair, bids fair to place the rep
resentative editor at an unfair disad-
vantage. He is, of course, expected
to publish the choice of the church
majority, or the winner of the agri-
cultural detttr puIehrorima to do this
boldly and without a word Of approx
ing comment savors Of discourtesy !;
and yet editorial acquieseence may
entail the traditional male relatives
and lovers of all the disappointed can
didates. In such a predicament now
stands one of our Western contem-
poraries. The fair has been held, the
prize awarded and the proceedings
transmitted to the editor; but that
lackless wight, after long and prayer
full meditation, reluctantly, though
resolutely, declines to put in type the
name of any prize female, unless she
be COW, a mare or a pig.
Year: 1872

of the last twelve years. They would
gladly return to what seems to them
the golden age of the republic, when
ladies needed not to parley with and
humor their nurses and chamber
maids, and when every gentleman's
right to larrup his own niggern was
beyond question. But even these are
fully conscious that the shadow will
never recede ON the dial-that what
has been can never return. Pride of
opinion and reluctance to confess de-
feat may sometimes impel them to
talk foolishly; but their idle vaporing
is OF just as much consequence as that
OF the maiden sisters who died few
years since in their native New Jersey,
proud to the last that they had ever
been faithful subjects of His Majesty
George III. (under whose reign they
were born) and his lawful successors
on the British throne. If "The Lost
Cause shall ever be seriously re-
vlved by the losers, the winners will
be compelled to fight their battles DER
again. Until then, it were absurd on
our part to renew the contests of
1o6O-64-68. Let the dead rest, un-
less they should insist on rattling
their bones in their coffins so as to
annoy and impede the workers above
ground. For the present, we decline
to admit that what has been well done
during the last ten years can possibly
be undone.


The issues of 1872 will soon be
commandingly set forth by the Ma
tlonal Conventions about to be held.
Let every good citizen regard them
without prejudice and decide upon
them as he shall deem most conducive
to our country's well-being.
Year: 1872

A Boston girl, whose gallant on a
ride, contrary to her wish, insited on
stopping at tobbaeonist's for cigar,
took advantage of his leaving her
mistress of the situation and the We
hlcle to drive to her paternal abode,
In front of which the abandoned one
some hours afterward, found his con-
veyance.
Year: 1872

The first of the new civil service
rules, which are now being prepared
by the commissioners, will provide
that hereafter fidelity to the United
States shall be a prerequisite to any
appointment to office.
Year: 1872

Suffrage; but he does not suppose
they will thereupon be fused into one
party. On the contrary, he presulnes
that there will still be parties, and
that they will give more earnest heed
to Economic or Industrial issues than
they have recently done. Heaven
speed the day
Year: 1872

a gentleman who resided in this
city has related to us a strange story
of superstition and barbarity, which
he claimed had happened in this city
recently. Our informant was a Ger
man, and the parties in the story are
Polanders, but their names we could
not learn. The story, as related to
us, is substantially as follows: About
the first of December or last of n ovem-
ber young Polish woman gave birth
to a child. About two days after
ward she died and was buried in the
City Cemetery. After about five
weeks the wife of the brother of the
dead woman was taken very sick, and
it was thought she would die.


1t appears that there is supersti-
tious idea among the Polanders that
if one of family dies, unless the head
of the corpse is cut off, the whole fam
| lily will be likely to follow in rapid
succession. However, if after one
has died, another is taken sick, if some
of the blood is procured from the
dead body and administered to the
patient, he will recover. In accor-
dance with this superstition, our in
formant alleges, the husband ofdthe
| sick woman went to the burying
ground on the night of Jan. 2, five
weeks after interment. dug up the
body, cut off the head, and took from
it blood and other liquid, which he
administered to his wife as amedieipe.
| That after this the sick woman's NAL
ady assumed the form of smallpox,
from which she recovered, and she is
now entirely well. Our informant
claimed that many witnesses could be
brought to corroborate this story, and
from what we learned we are to be.
lieve that there Is some foundation
for the story. The person who gave
us our information knows the name
of the Polander in question, but would
not disclose it,
Year: 1872

CAMP BOWIE, May 14, 1S72.-I see by your valuable paper of the 11th instant, an account of the murder of young man named Henry Abraham,

 by the Apache Indians, but give no due credit to the soldiers who found him, and who endanger and peril their lives in every way and at all times in this part of the Territory. But cit izen must put in statement and take all the credit, who knew nothing what ever about it till after he was buried. Now, MT. Editor, if you please, allow me 8 few lines in your paper, to make Q statement as an eye witness to the transaction, viz: This mail that comes from the East is generally due here between 5 and o'clock on Sun- day morning. But in this instance, 1t being delayed and not putting in an appearance some hours after it was then reported to I. s. Haskell, Captain Company F, Twenty-third Infantry, commanding the Post, who i'm mediately sent out Corporal and four men we'll mounted and armed of of D Troop, Fifth Cavalry, who went about fifteen miles out and then came back, bringing no tidings or traces of him. On the following morning without any notification whatever. and without further delay, great credit being due to the officers of the Post, Sergeant M. Edd, of D Troop, with ten men under his charge, started out to find him, 10 matter where he was, with the success as before brought to your notice, travelling all day and the greater part of the night, without food or rest for man or beast. And for citizen to put in his state ment without giving the soldiers any credit whatever, but looking more like censuring them, therefore if you will allow this letter in full ill your paper, you will confer great favor on an OLD SOLDIER.
Year: 1872

The caption TO this article is really an
important one. and how to advertise,
and where, is the secret which we shall
attempt to convey TO our readers. We
shall consider first the subject: how to
advertise. The advertiser, in order TO
get his wares before the public, should
never be satisfied with one ortwo inscr-
tions. As the constant dripping of wa
ter will make sn impression upon even
the hardest rock, so nothing but liberal
and persistent advertising can make the
impression desired upon the community
AT large. The first or second insertion
may possibl! escape the eye, or if seen.
be forgotten. But the constant reminder
in the columns of the newspaper must,
by the very force OF circumstances, be
notircd, and generally be commented
IIpOu.
Year: 1872

Nearly all animals become sick from
improper eating. In nine cases out of
ten the digestion is wrong. Charcoal
is the most efficient and rapid correc-
tive. 1t will cure in majority of cases
if properly administered. An example
of its use-the hired man came in with
the intelligence that one of the finest
cows was very sick, and kind neigh
Dor proposed the usual drugs and pOis-
ons. The owner being ill, and unable
to examine the COW, concluded that the
trouble came from some over-eating,
and ordered teacup of pulverized
charcoal given in water. 1t was mixed,
placed in junk bottle, the head held
upwards, and the water, with its char
coal, poured downwards. In five min
utes an improvement was visible, and
in a few hours the animal was in the
pasture quietly eating grass. Another
instance of equal success occurred with
young heifer which became badly
bloated by eating green apples after a
hard wind. The bloat was so severe
that the sides were almost as hard as q
barrel. The old remedy, saleratus, was
tried for the purpose of correcting the
acidity; but the attempt to put down
always caused coughing, and little
good. Half teaeupful of fresh-pow-
dered charcoal was next given. In six
hours all appearance of bloat had gone,
and the heifer was well.-Country Cen
ttemdR.
Year: 1872

An American is surpassed, says cor


respondent of the Christian Register, to
see the conditions of life as fair as they
are here in Ireland. The squalor of the
low Irish is not so pronounced by Dub
lin and its environs as in the Irish
quarters of Boston or New York. Peo-


Pile are not so huddled. AS the cabins
are but one story high, the pigs cannot


be kept in the attic. On Sunday the


poor people are quite as well dressed.
In regard to these things, the aspects of
Irish life have greatly improved during
the last half century. So many have
emigrated that there is better chance


for those that remain. A curious law
is in force here by which all the loving
must be married, and all the dead bur-
led, before twelve O'Clock, noon. As in
England, marriages must be in church
or chapel. There are no marriages at
home. And if one goes to the great
cemeteries in the vicinity of Dublin, ,,'as
the hour of noon approaches, he will
see funerals coming, some of them in
hot haste lest the noon-bell should
strike, the gates be shut, and the burial
have to be deferred to the next day.
The professions are not allowed to en-
ter the cemetery; but the bodies are
borne in, and the friends may follow on
foot. If the deceased be a Catholic,
the priests say few words over the
coffin just inside the gate, and then it is
borne on very much as matter of bus
iness. The irreverent and unceremo-
nious way in which dead people, espe-
eially if they die in poverty, are put in
to the ground here is amazing. One
notices, too, that the priests are laid
with their heads in the direction oppo-
site to the heads of the people, so that
in the resurrection at the last day, when
they rise out of the dust, they will
stand face to face with the members of
their congregation. noticed one grave
in which were buried seven Jesuit IA
theirs, one upon another, and could not
but imagine what deal of good tenn
per and gracious Difference to each other
would be needed at the last trump to
prevent discord and scrambling out in
some selfish, uncomfortable and awk-
wardly irritating way. But these are
great mysteries, and the earnal reason
may not pry into them. The church
knows that the seven fathers will come
out of it all right at last, and that is
enough.
Year: 1872

The world stretches widely before you,
A field for your muscle and brain;
And though clouds may often noat s'er you
And often come tempest and rain,
Be fearless of storms whichko'er take YOU
Push forward through like a man
Good fortune will never forsake you


If you do as near right as You can.
Remember the will to do rightly,


If used, will the evil eonfound;
Live daily by conscience, that nightly
Your sleep may be peaceful and sound,
In contests of right never waver-


Let honesty shape every plan,
And life will of paradise SAVIOR
If you do as near right as you can.
Though foes darkest scandal may speed
And strive with their shrewdest Of tact
To injure your fame never heed,


But justly and honestly act,
And ask of the Ruler of Heaven


To save your fair name rs a man,
And all that you ask may be given,
If you do as near right as You can.
Year: 1872

CHICAGO Uct y, 1877.


To-day is the anniversary Of the great fire, and
many people celebrate 1t by removal to new quar-
ters in the rebuilt portion Of the CITY, The Tribune
appears this morning In its new form Of eight
pages and is Issued from its rebuilt office In the
burned district. Both the Times and Tribune pub
llsh sixteen pages this morning, largely devoted to
a review OF the great calamity and the wonderful
restoration OF the city.
Year: 1872

Parliamentary Conservatism and Class Prejudice
Against the Progress Of Emancipation-The
Address to the Crown in Reply to the
Throne Speeoh-Failure Of the


Emancipationist Movement


for an Amendment.
Year: 1872

A.-Bcsides Being a Most Delightful
luxury, the RUSSIAN vAPoR BATHS, Is East Fourth
street. harden and fortify the skin render IL In
susceptible the influence colds rheumatism and the
many other diseases due to this important organ.
Year: 1872

There is a mystery about this effect
of the weather on piety. Sabbath heat
seems hotter; Sabbath cold colder,
and Sabbath rain wetter than that of
any other day. For the same measure
of heat or cold or rain on a week day,
will not keep him from his usual
business. We need a Sabbath Alma
nae, calculated for our churches, that
will show, by its weather scale, when
it will be safe for a vigorous Christian
to expose himself on the Sabbath by
going to the house OfGOd Such an al
manac would enable superintendents
OfSabbath schools, to know whom they
could depend upon in the church,
Sabbath school and prayer meeting.
1 have recently been examining mi
crOscOpic views of the different snow
flakes, hundred or so of them.
would suggest to our curious savans
an examination of Sabbath snow to
see if it has a popularity sharp and in
furious crystal.-AHOn.
Year: 1872

The Cincinnati Commercial, which
is "some where else" every two or
three days, after winking at the liberal
Republican movement has this to say
of il now:


The dissolution Of the Democratic
party, as an organization, is the sine
qua mn of Liberal Republicans. The
St. Louis Republican and the Cincin-
natl V'OiEsbLdtt lay this down as fun
damental. The Liberal Republicans
are 10 name the candidates and draft
the platform the Democracy are to
follow at a respectful distance, hat in
hand, vote for the candidates, and
subscribe to the creed. Larger pre-
tensions on smaller capital have not
been made in these latter days, but il
may be the Democracy are in such =
fix that they will consent to the terms
and pass under the yoke. The Con-
neeticut Democracy hold their State
Convention to-day, and We shall see
whether they are prepared 10 go into
bankruptcy and close out the concern.
Year: 1872

A would-be author was advised to
trv the effect of one of his compositions
on the folks at home without confess
ing it authorship. His mother fell
asleep his sister groaned, his brother
told him to hold up as they had had
quite enough of that shower of words
without wit, and at last his wife tapped
him upon the shoulder with the
sweetest possible ''won't that do r. He
then saw how it was himself, buried
his portfolio, recovered his digestion,
and has been a happy man ever
since. What blessed relief to editors
and the rest of mankind would more of
our literary aspirants try this prescrip-
ton.
Year: 1872

EDITOR PLAIN DEALER 1T sounds
well to enlightened and honest men to
have the professed organ Of the Repub-
lican party lecture the Legislature now
in session, but the readers Of the Times
would not lecture them on the same
subject the Times man does, for they
believe it an unwise and needless ex-
pense to publish the laws because not
10 laws enacted are Of any public i'm
portance whatever and if published
would not be read by one man in a
hundred. The comments of the Times
man, as usual, are the fruits of cold
selishness, fearing loss of patronage to
his paper and willing to have the now
over-taxed Taxpayers be taxed 5000
to 500 for publishing local laws of no
practical Importance whatever. The
Times mans fault finding comes with
i'll grace from the editor of newspaper
the columns Of which are sealed against
any and all suggestions of needed re-
forms in the modes Of doing the town
and county business and reducing the
number of officers, and the pressing
need for return of the business now
concentrated at the county seats to the
towns.


TO say what is matter Of common
notoriety viz: That certain county
official has dlrring four years set in hi.
official chair and openly violated tn,
law and in, and BY such violation ha
injured numerous widows and orphans
included, would be held by the Time
Year: 1872

The Good Time Coming.


This is not very long poem, bu
there is great deal in it:
"When men forget their love of gold,


And love their homer more;
When truth is only current coin,


And counted DER and DER;
When men love freedom for it's sake
For all as we'll as one
And for the greatest good their work,


From day to day, is done;
When men throw self aside and live


For some just purpose high,
Then will the glorious era come


When IL one shall fear to die.''
Year: 1872

Good wheat bread and butter is
the staff Of civilized life. Take
away wheat bread and butter from
our families for a few generations,
and who is prepared to say that civ
ilization would not glide easily to a
state of barbarism? There is. a
sound philosophy in this sugges-
tiCn; because there is no other kind
OF human food that is so admirably
adapted to the human frame, inclu-
ding noble brain, as good wheat
bread. Civilization has seemed to
keep pace with the production of
wheat, and refined society the world
over has seemed to exist coeval with
the whcaten loaf


We find the lowest order of inteli-
gences standing on a potato. Only
one step above this class, another
order is found on hoecake. One
degree above this we meet
with the class that has risen
in the scale of being, as high as it is
possible for mortals to rise, on a
pan cake. Head and shoulders
shove all of these classes we find
the highest order Of inteligences
with large and well developed brains
and noble characters, standing Sc
curcly on their wheaton loaf. No
other food can excel the wheaton
LOAF, because it furnishes more and
better material tor the human than
any other food.
Year: 1872

Earnestly desiring the election of
the Candidates Of the Cincinnati
Convention, and being for the ticket
without conditions or limitations,
and certainly not proposing to Fe-
fer the question Of the election of
these nominees to any other conven-
tion to assemble at some future time
at Baltimore or elsewhere, and feel
ing that their present earnestness
cannot be abated or defeated by the
action of any convention to be as
sembled in future, and that neither
the honor of these candidates nor
the certainty of success should be
embarrassed by some proposed indie
finite action, we submit the follow
ingaddress to our fellow-citizens
Of Tennessee:


The Democratic party in cORven-
ton have submitted an electoral
ticket in part, and by resolution in
dicate determination to complete
that ticket in future. We object to
that course for the following rea
sons:


First-It is without precedent
that one party, as such, should make
out an electoral ticket for another.


Second--It is unjust to the pcO-
pie of the State to 90 before them
for one ticket, and procure an offer
to procure their votes for that tick
ct, when the elector so voted for is
uncertain and undetermined Wheth-
er in the Electoral College he will
so vote, and especially so when the
condition upon which hs final ac-
tion depends is beyond his control


Third-This action embarasses
the efficiency of the caadi lates as
well as the honor and usefulness of
their administration when elected.


FourJh-The electors upon the
Grant ticket will soon be in the
field, and 10y whom are they to be
met? By electors who can not tell
until after the convention at balti
more who they are for, and who will
certainly be at liberty, should the
convention make nominations, to
throw the Cincinnati nomination
overheard.


Fffth-We deny that there is any
act or resolution offered by the letc
State Convention which positively
binds the electors put forward, or
to be put forward, to the uncondi-
tional support Of the Cincinnati
nominees; but on the contrary we
assert that instead Of closing up all
the avenues TO the Baltimore Con
vention, this convention intention
ally left the same open, and desig-
mated members favoring the plan
finally put forward and now adopt
ed, urged the Convention to oppose
the resolution offered by q delegate
from Shelby to the effect that the
Democracy would support the nom
inees Of the Baltimore Convention,
should that convention make n
nomination, on the ground that the
resolution offered by the majority
already provided for that, iu this,
that if they sent delegates to Balti
more, thev would be untimely bound
by its action.


Sixth-As IN duty bound by the
action of the Cincinnati Convention
we propose in due time 10 submit
to the people Of Tennessee a full
electoral ticket, and ask the people
who earnestly favor that nomina-
ton to cooperate with us, yromi-
sing unconditional support TO the
ticket. Having nailed our banner
to the mast, we intend 70 keep It
hying until the people take it down.
or advance it still higher in Noyem-
Der next.


TSirnedT EDWARD II. East.
Chairman State Central Committee.
Year: 1872

1t is not acts which blacken the
soul; it is not conduct which de
stroys. These are but the holes
which the worms, bred in the very
fiber of the wood, have eaten. These
are but the fruit and visible witness
of a disease which holds the entire
body in its power, making the veins
its channels, every drop of blood its
servant every pulsation of the heart
its salve. The thoughts destroy.
The imagination puts the knife's
edge to the jugular vein of virtue,
and lets the precious current out.
You cannot reform a dTunkard uu-
less you first reform his mind.
What needs to be done is to have
the craving for stmulants taken
out of him. Over against his inor-
dinate desire you must raise up
some stronger repulsion, which
shall be more than 4 match for his
appetite for liquor. This is the
true philosophy in every branch of
morals. You must change the man
himself if you woul change his
habits. There is no life so hard as
relig3on-life to man without rcli-
gion.