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Year: 1872

The Grant Democrats are preIa ing to
hold their boiling convention at Louisville.
They have secured the country for enough
sore-heads and ira tors to make respectable
showing. They may get few hundred to-
gcther, but each one will represent his own
vote and no more. That the call has met
with no responce is evident from the fact that
no movement, with single exception, has
been made in its favor and that has been
made by one man. 1t is the deadest failure
of the kind ever witnessed.
Year: 1872

"WHAr are you about, my dear?" said
a grandmother to little boy, who was
idling about the room and casting furtive
glances at gentleman who was paying a
visit. 81 am trying to steal papa's hat out
of the room without letting the gentleman
see it, for papa wants him to think he is
out"
Year: 1872

To be conspicuous, ne matter at what
sacrifice, is the aim of class of people who
call themselves thinkers, reformers aud phi
lanthropists. Any cause they indorse they
subject to ridcule, and seem to do more
harm than good. But after all 1t is the ex-
tremists who do picket duty on the right and
left, leaving a smooth road between the two
for the army of progress to pass through.
Year: 1872

"ToP-KNoT, CONE DowN!"- suffering
youth, unable longer to endure his woe in
silence, says: elf man were to take his
seat at any place of amusement and keep
his hat on, he would be hustled out or hand
ed over to the police. But women, night
after night, go with the most preposterous
pile of rigging on the top of their heads, just
as high as mems hats, and keep the unhappy
men behind dodging the never quiet pile,
and never giving for one moment a clear
view of the stage Or performers. Ladies,
how can your"
Year: 1872

How TO DO Ir-If you wish to build up
the business of the town you live in, always
consider every branch fourishing and in an
independent state of existence-so much 80
that your individual patronage is not re-
quired. If you wish to purchase groceries,,
dry goods, drugs, boots and shoes, hats and
caps, or anything you need, go to the cities
and make the trade. If you desire any
wagon, carriage Or buggy, patronize one Of
the manufactures in Sacramento or San
Francisco. you wish to subscribe for a
newsI aper, go away from home to do so;
your home paper can get along without your
aid, although yon owe to it a large portion
Of your prosperity. If you wish a brief.
card, circular, bill'head, catalogue or any
other job of printing done, send it to the city,
although you have those at home who
could do the work just as neat and as cheap
as the city printer. In short, patronize those
who are abroad, and the poor and needy you
will have with you always. This is the way
how not to do it.-Yolo lail.
Year: 1872

1t was at watering place. country
hotel, where there was spring of horri-
BILE water. which tasted like-well [ can't
think of anything disagreeable enough
to compare it to-where all this hap
pened. 1t was at the end of the season,
and the fall winds were beginning to
blow, and most of the ladies and gentle
men who had been spending the summer
enjoying the pure air and making believe
to enjoy the horrible water, were expect
ing to depart in day or two. On the
particular afternoon of which am writ
ing, a large portion of the company were
out on lawn, and several of them had
croquet mallets in their hands. But they
were not playing They were all gathered
around a tall pine tree, which stood in
one corner of the lawn. This tree had a
very long, slender trunk, with a few
branches, almost at the very top. And
on one of these branches there hung a
lady's hat-a pretty little hat trimmed
with flowers and lace, with blue veil,
which was now wrapped around and
around the branch. This hat had just
been whirled from the head of the young
lady who owned it, by sudden gust of
wind This lady was very much annoyed
by the accident.


It's too bad," said She Il am going
home tomorrow, and this is the only hat
| have to travel in. And l can't wait
here until can send to the city for an
other


No said she. 4 don't want to travel
in bonnet, OF a straw hat, either Can't
somebody get my hat down.?


Look here. boys, cried one of the gen
tlemen, to some of the walters who were
just coming out of the house, III give a
dollar to any one who will get that hat :


The walters then came down to the
tree and one of them started to climb it.
But he found it hard job. The bark
was smooth, for pine tree, and by the
time he had gone up fifteen or twenty
feet he was glad to slide down again.


The gentleman now doubled his offer,
and another tried, and another, but nei-
ther climbed as high as the first man.
Then another gentleman added two dol
lars to the prize, and more walters came,
and also boys from the hotel and the
neighborhood, and they all tried and all
failed. By this time there was quite a
lively crowd around the tree and a young
man in a red necktie said it was real jol-
ly-ever so much better than croquet
Then three more gentlemen added tw,
dollars each to the prize, and the excite
-ment became intense. Evrybody who
could climb at all tried the tree, but nc
one got one-third of the way up. Then
as it was necessary to keep up the fun
and his money seemed very safe, the
young man in the red nec-tie offered five
dollars more. And just at this moment
Jimmy Clark came running down to sex
what was the matter. Jimmy was about
eleven years old, bright, smart fellow
and as active as cat. His mother wa,
! a widow,w lived on a very little farm
Year: 1872

The Spring and early Summer wore
away, One letter came from Darrell.
A letter such as he might have sent to
any chance acquaintance, full of hints of
gay doings here and there-nothing
more. One little note Vesey wrote his
mother, to say she could not make the
promised visit. Darrell had said nothing
in his letter of coming for her. '.And
tell Darrell at the close of her note
'that ! am saving any amount of gossip
against writing him some day." But
the ''some day never came. Absence,
like strong light, brings out hidden de-
fects, and Vesey knew now that he was
man selfish and vain, who had played
with her heart He had held it in his
hand, weighed and measured it and her,
and had cast both aside as worthless.
Year: 1872

The centre of the city is like the palm
of hand From it the long fingers
stretch out one over the mill-dam an
other along the flats; the longest of all
bridges the river, and then going on and
on, the straight wide streets steadily
rising until it overlooks the bay, suddenly
bends like the crook of finger, until its
tip touches the water.


1t is ladder hill of difficulty-to
the dwellers at this end of the town,
most of whom began life at its foot, in
the dingy shops and tenement-houses
there, and have slowly struggled up;
some to the long blocks of comfortable
dwellings; others, going on still farther,
have reached the most pretentious point
of all-that lying close down to the water
upon the other side.


There is an air of newness, a flavor of
Jonah's gourd about the Italio- Chinese
pagodas with French roofs here. They
seemed; indeed, to have sprung up in a
night, the dampness of the mould still
clinging to them. There pa straining
after pinnacles and towers and top-knots
in rchitecture-after effects quite dis
proportioned to means in landscape
gardening, and, in fact, an evident at
tempt to crowd to their utmost capacity
the present limited space and time


This is the foundation built upon the
rock--gold. Another generation will
develop the fine arts, and possibly the
sciences.


In the meantime will tell my little
story.


Paul Hayes was sent here to preach
the Gospel, for there are churches. Some
of them, even so soon, are beginning to
pride themselves, not upon their sanctity,
but upon the high social position of their
members in other words, upon the dis
tance at which they live from the foot of
the street, which is their social scale.


Fortunately Paul's church was not
among these If one has to deal with
ignorant people, it is better to take them
in the rough. Iron in it's natural state
holds wonderful possibilities, But iron
spoiled in the smelting-what can one do
with it?


His church was only mission chapel,
supported by richer society of the same
denomination his people-the men and
women to whom one goes with ungloved
hands. But he was young and strong,
and believed himself called of God, which
is the best preparation for any work.
He threw aside his books and read men.


There are few exceptions to the
houses | have described in the more aris
tocratic part of the town. One will suf
flee to prove the rule. 1t stands away
from the street, just below the staring
white hotel that crowns its rise. 1t is
square, of stone, and painted white
Upon one side is a pleasant garden
Possibly it was built in colonial times
when the salt, salt wind swept in here
, from the sea, unbroken by anything save
these walls and scattered remnants O
| forest trees. It has so far caught tn,
spirit of modern times as to don a man
sard roof but the tall Corinthian pillar
still remain, as well as the wide ston,
: steps, with lion couchant upon eithe
side
Year: 1872

stance, it is believed that of four men killed, there was but one very bad one; but suppose there were two or even three, and only one innocent vic- tim, is this not enough to make all good men view the acts with horror which cost guiltless man his life ? If Mexican residents or citizens insist, as many do, that Gandara was inno- cent, they must bear in mind that the Baker family, William Mcfarland, and others of the well-known slain by their lawless countrylnen, were wholly free of guilt and were posi- lively good men to all mankind also that Rancho Gandara, under fear of his own life, as he doubtless was, killed man who intended no harm to him, just before receiving his own death shots. Let both sides be fairly considered, and let all, whether Mexi- can or American, and especially those who complain of these frightful kill ings, do what they can to prevent them. Our Mexican population can do much in this respect, and they know the Mexican Government affords a complete refuge for her citizens who murder and plunder ours.

 We beg of both classes not to hold either responsible as a class. Let in dividuals of each be dealt with accord ing to their acts. Let every man s own conduct build him up or tear him down, and make no one the sufferer for another's crimes. Will our Mexican population, as well as American, bear this in mind and act upon 1t! They must do their share to prevent inno- cent Americans from being slaugh- tered, if they would have their own saved from a like fate.
Year: 1872

p'e' They repfoved the people where
wary worked for letting her 60 home
alone' without SO much as drop of
brandy to support her, after she had
fallen into a swcom from exhaustion
before their eyes. The coroner added.
on bis own account, that be thought the
reproof was thoroughly deserved. AT:
ter that, the crayat end was given back
to me, by my own desire; the police
saying they could make no investiga.
tlons with such a slight clue to guide
them. They may think so, and the
jury may think so; but, in spite of all
that has passed, I am now more firmly
persuaded than ever that there is some
dreadful mystery in connection with
that blow on my poor lost Mary's tenn
pie which has yet to be revealed, and
which may come 10 discovery through
this very fragment of cravat that I
found in her hand. cannot give any
good reason for why think so but l
know that if 1 ka! been one of the
jury at the inquest nothing should
have induced me to consent to such a
verdict as Accidental Death.


TO BE CONTINUED.
Year: 1872

From the Pitts6ury (Pa.) Commercial.


Some twelve or fifteen years ago,
when land in the (now) outer wards of
the city was regarded as of little value,
and when those who farmed it imaein-
ed-if they ever gave the subject a
thought at all-that Pittsburg would
never grow beyond the boundaries
OF the old nine wards, a beautiful
tract of fifty acres, overlooking the
Monongahela, opposite the City Farm,
was owned by a man whose chief
characteristic was his uuyielding de-
termination never to submit to what he
might deem wrong or an imposition.
He had, on one occasion, to employ a
physician, as most men have and, the
doctor, like most other doctors, ex


pected pay for his services. He sent in
his bill to the farmer. and the farmer
refused to pay: He had made up
his mind not to pay the bill and that
was enough. The dootor brought suit.
The case was finally submitted to ar
bitrators, who cut down the bill, fixing
the amount justly due at Eve dollars.
The farmer still refused to pay-de-
clared he never would yield. TIE
doctor got stubborn too, and vowed
he would have his money. The
magistrate gave judgment against the
farmer but nevertheless, he adhered
to his purpose not to pay. An execu-
tion was issued, the property was seized
by the sheriff and advertised for sale.
The farmers mind was make up, aud
was not to be changed either by Sher-
IFS wJits or the advice or entreaties of
friends. The property was actually
sold on the execution, based on the
five dollar judgment, and of course
wss "knocked down" at a mere song.
The farmer was thus divcsted of his
title, and was eventually compelled to
surrender possession. After the sale he
was offered his property back if he
would pay the judgment and costs,
but he refused to do so. In a few
years after the farm sold for s3,4OO to
a gentlem an who kept it eight or rine
years. Then consolidation came and
it changed hands again at an enormous
advance. These purchasers held the
property until last year, when they
sold it to the Homestead Bank for the
handsome sum of 100000. This CON-
pany, within the last few days, under
their admirable system of selling lots
for homes, disposed Of over 100000
worth of this same land, and still have
over one-third Of their purchase uo-
sold !! Had the farmer been as de-
termined on holding fast to his prop
erty as he was determined on throw
ing it away he would have made
himself rich, or left handsome for
tune for his heirs.
Year: 1872

eIAiA IoIAeHteu Ny tuaV AiASA'A"A aPPie'
hension OF the past night, that she
would die without my knowing it-die
without say,ug one word to clear up
the awful mystery Of this blow, and set
the suspicious at rest for ever which
l still felt whenever my eyes fell on
the end Of the old cravat.


At last the doctor eame back.


II think you may safely clear your
mind of any doubts to. which that bit
Of stuff may have given rise," he said'
"she was, as you supposed, detained
late by her employers, and she tainted
in the work-roon They most un :
kindly let her 60 home alone, without
giving her sny stimulant, As soon as
she came to her senses again. Nothing is
more probable, under these circum'
stances, than that she should faint a
second time on her way here. A fall
on the pavement, without any friendly
arm to break it, might have produced
even worse injury than the injury we
see. l believe that the only ill usage
to which the poor g,rl was exposed was
the neglect sho met with in the work
Year: 1872

If I had the heart to give any
thought to it, I should be inclined to
wish that the Church could afford to do
without SO many small charges for
burying poor people, to whose friends
even shillngs are of consequence. But
it is useless to complain the money
must be raised at once. The charlta.
BILE doctor-a poor man himself, or he
would not be living in our neighbor-
hood-has subscribed ten shillings
towards the expenses and the coroner,
when the inquest was over, added FIVE
more. Perhaps others may assist me.
If not, I have fortunately clothes and
furniture Of my OVID to pawn. And
I must set about it without delay !;
for the funeral is to be. tomorrow, the
thirteenth. The funeral-Mary's fun
eral 1t is we'll that the straits and
difficulties I am In, keep my mind on
the stretch. If had leisure to grieve,
where should I fad the courage to face
tomorrow? -...


1. Thank God, they did dot want me
at the inquest. The verdict given
With the doctor, the policeman, aud the
two persons from the place where she
worked, for witnesses-was Accidental
Death. The end Of the cravat was
produced, and the coroner said that it
was certainly enough to cast suspicion {:
but the jury, in. the absence Of any
positive evidence, held the doctors no.
tion that she had tainted and fallen
down, and 50 got the blow on her tenn.
Year: 1872

IT appears that the principal object of the visit
Of RED CLOUD and his crew to Washington Is to
obtain further supplies of ammunition. which had
been withheld by the agent on account OF the fail
urs Of the Indians to deliver up certain murderers
Of white men. II RED CLOUD is really what he
prstsnds to be--the leading chief OF the Sioux
naton-hs ought to be able to secure the surren-
dor Of assassins to the national authorities. So
far he has done nothing but hold pow-wows and
devour Government rations, Is the Commission
Of Indian Affairs going to let the Indians have
more powder with which to commit more muir
dsrsp One way to stop depredations would be
to hold the chlofs. real or pretended. responsible
for the acts of their followers.
Year: 1872

awkwardIy irritating way. But
these are great mysteries, and the
carnal reason may not pry into
them. The church knows that
the seven fathers viii come out Of
it all right at last, and that is
enough. ca
Year: 1872




York World, commenting upon
the recent fiascO of the Atalanta
crew in England, says: "Their
ridiculous failure to represent
American muscle at the 'Interna-
tional Rowing Match has dis
gusted everybody. What in the
world, people say, did they take
such immense pains to get awfully
beaten for? No one, except those
who lost their bets, cares a peg
for the Atalantas in the abstract;
but the idea of an American crew
deliberately crossing the broad
Atlantic, boarding the British
lion in his den, and then allowing
themselves to be ignominiously
beaten, in a trial of strength and
wind, by the base representative
of an EFFETE monarchy, is too
harrowing-in fact, to use another
agricultural figure, in compliment
to the rustic Chappaquan, it is too
subsoil plowing-for peaceful con-
temptation. AS Margery Fleming
would say, 'it is what human ma
ture itself can't endure How
much easier for the Atalantas to
have stayed quietly at home. and
sworn, with that breath they seem
to have so Wofully lost in the race,
that they could whip the cock
neys out Of their boots if they'd
only a mind to try. But that in
estimable privilege they have for
feited by bringing the matter to
an open test. Falstaff was right
Discretion is the better part Of
ValOr' in nInety-nlne cases out OF
a hundred. Before they try con-
clusions with the sons of peril
dious Albion again, our boys
should make sure Of their wind
and muscle, as we'll as their pluck,
change their system of quick
stroke' rowing-which is good
for q START but not for long and
hard pulling-and then, when
giving or accepting a challenge
they may have some reason to
hope for success. AS it is, their
brave promise and poor perform
ance is but 'delusion ard a
snare to confding sportsmen
green enough TO bet on the success
of a crew trained according to the
unphiiosophical American Sys-
forr7 ~
Year: 1872

AL AkACAAV0u 40 QUA kAAoNAS SsJ -
a correspondent of the Christian
Register, to see the conditions Of
life as fair as they are here in Ire
land. The squalor of the low Irish


is not so pronounced in Dublin
and its environs as in the Irish


quarters of Boston or New York.


People 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 we'll dressed. In re-
gard to these things the aspects of
Irish life have greatly improved
during the last half century. So
many have emigrated that there
is a better chance for those that
remain. A curious law is in force
here by which all the lC wing nust
be married, and all the dead
buried, before twelve O'clock noon.
AS in England, marriages must
be in. chHseh Or chaple. 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 enter the ceme-
terry; but the bodies are borne in,
and the friends may follow on foot.
If the deceased be Catholic, the
priests says a few words over the
coffin juss inside the gate, and
then it is borne on very much as a
matter of business. The irrever-
ent and unceremoniOus way in
which dead people, especially if
they die in poverty, are put into
the ground here is amazing. One
notices, too, that the priests are
laid with their heads in the direc-
ton opposite 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. I noticed one grave
in which were buried seven Jesuit
fathers one upon another, and
c)uld not but imagine whata deal
ofgood temper and gracious defer
ence TO each other would be
needed at the last trumpet to pre-
vent discOrd and scrambling out
IL some selfish, uncom fOrtahie and
Year: 1872

We copy the following from the st. Louis
Debocrat:


Our corn dealers are all unhappy Cir
Cumstances have so cOnspired to tighten up
on them that they cant turn a wheel, as
the steambOatmen say. There is a good
shipping margin on corn for Liverpool, aud
some Of our dealers have pushed forward
large amounts to New Orleans, with the
design Of shipping it to that port, but there
is no ocean tonnage to be had, and the corn
is laying in the New Orleans elevator "eat-
ing its head Oft" One week ago we bad a
good Eastern demand for corn by rail, but
a ring of railroad agents was formed here
and put the price up On the corn men, and
now those who hold corn here in elevator,
which they would like to ship eastward by
rail, are in no better condition than the poor
devils who sent theirs to New Orleans. The
entire maize machinery is in a state of CON
gestiOD, and, as we before stated, dealers
have got the blues. Why the railroad ring
should adhere to its late unCalled-fOr un-
timely aud nOnsensiCal advance in rates,
when the only thing they can earn is i'll
will, we can not see. They are blocking up
our trade without bepefiting themselves a
cents worth. We should suppose the Ohio
and Mississippi and Baltimore and Ohio
roads were Independent enough to stand
clear Of all combinations and keep the rate
at point which would give employment to
their cara and keep the corn trade Of the
city healthful.
Year: 1872

IuIS Is IIOn Tue New Iberia Sugar Botrl:


We mentioned two weeks AGO that Nrs
Lynes, the lady who was charged with tba
murder of negro girl at Thibodauy. had
been taken to Franklin for trial befora
Judge Train, of the Third District Court
We are now glad to be able to announce
her acqUittal after an impartial trial The
unfortunate lady the wife of an Episcopal
ministerl had the sympathy of all good eiti-
zeus of this entire section, and are rejoieeu
to hear of her acquttal.