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Year: 1873

The City National Bank building Is being
painted pensiye cream color, in front, and a new
ash and walnut alternate stripe floor has been put
down, making about the same improvement in
this concern that j. made in 4 man who puts on
a clean shirt and pair Of new boots. Proud'
M c,,or.cg
Year: 1873

OLD SETTLERS NEETISG.-The officers of the
La Sale Co. Agricultural Society propose to
tender the use of the Fair Grounds for the an
nual meeting of old settlers free Of expense, the
old settlers TO furnish their own police.
Year: 1873

No efforts will be spared to make the MAINE
STATE PRESS more acceptable to its patrons. Indeed
the Publishers will not relax their efforts to make
the paper necessity to those who have been accus-
toned to read it. We pledge that during the year
1873, the Weekly PRESS shall be more NEWSPA-
PER than ever, so that the family that thoroughly
reads the paper will have all the current events of IL
day.
Year: 1873

An Eastern man who wrote to the editor
OF Nebraska paper inquiring what kind of
houses people livein in that State,wa inform
ed that the houses were all built out of doors,
and so low between the joints that the CHM
ney stuck through thereof
Year: 1873

The story ofBen Wade's objection to lis
daughter marriA age to a carpenter is authori-
tatively contradicted, on the ground that in
the first place he made no such objection; in
the second place his da lighter never was en-
gagged to the carpenter in question ;and in the
third place he hadn't any daughter.
Year: 1873

A writer in the West Union Scion,
who signs himself Impartial" thus
refers to one of the evil consequences
of the general neglect shown by par
ents in regard to the management of
the schools, in which their children
are being educated:


Statistics show that three terms
are as long as teachers on an average
follow teaching. As some teach much
longer, a greater number must teach
less, and is it strange that a man
should be very Indifferent how he
does his work when he has no inter
est in making forhimsef q reputation
as o workman? On the contrary is
it not natural for him to get through
this term as pleasantly as possible,
when he intends it to be his last?


And here is subject to which par
ents are strangely Indifferent. They
seem to think that when they have
furnished their children with books
and started them to school, they have
done their whole duty. Not one in
ten ever sees the inside of the school
house while school is in session. If
the children like the teacher, it is all
right, if not it is all wrong, and 'it
amt worth while to send them, for If
they don't like the teacher they won't
learn" Teachers know this is the
way their patrons estimate them, and
in order to gain the good will of the
children, sacrifice school discipline.
the most important essential of the
school room. They hurry their sehol-
ars from one book to another, for
they must seem to progress whether
they learn anything or not. And
such always Will be the case until
parents take more rational view of
the subject, and subject the teacher
to the same rigid scrutiny that the
employee is subjected to in any other
calling.
Year: 1873

In Utica, as in some other places,
there is q liquor store, and on the
floor above it is the office of a doctor.
Just over the front window of the
beverage-shop the doctor has placed
the following sign: He who deals
out poisons deals out death" Tenn
perance people as they went by grin
ned at this awful warning, and the
man of fluids below was naturally in
dignant at this label upon the quail
ity of his refreshments. It turns
out, however, that the doctor meant
no insinuation against the quality Of
his neighbor's merchandise. He is
a healer of the herb and root school,
and his sign was merely intended for
a hit ct the regulars, who prescribe
arsenic and the like. Perhaps he
unconciously placed his sign where it
would ''do most good"
Year: 1873

If your income is five dollars day.
spend but four. If it is one dollar,
spend eighty cents. Fit but ten cts,
spend nine. If it is three potatoes,
save half of one for seed. Thus you
viii gradually acquire something,
while, if you spend as you go, you
will never get ahead, but every sun
set will look upon you poorer than at
sunrise, because you have used un-
proftably one day more of strength
and your allotted term of life.
Year: 1873

honorable position honorable if it is


made SOY those who are poor, those


who can come here and live as well as


the average members of the commr-


nifty i've throughout the land, we do


all that ought to be expected.


Now look Att, Mr.. President. The


last law that was passed fixing the


salary was passed in 1866. Gold at
that time, if I recollect Alright, was


about lbs or 150, and there was an


income tax of about 5000 on every
one Of the salaries that was drawn
Gold has been going down and the
prices of commodities have been de-
creasing, SO that in reality the salary
has been increasing ever since 1866,
and the income tax has been taken off.
The salary is to-day more in reality
than it was then. Now we propose
to increase that salary and to carry
the increase back two years. I admit
that no member can on the present
salary come here and bring his family
and live, even in the manner in which
not the richest, but many of the mod
erately eircumstanced people here do
live; and I suppose that there are
not many members of Congress who
when they do come here, either to the
House or to the Senate, expect to
bring their families and make their
homes here. There are not very
many that are able to do it. But we
must in this matter preserve that
moderate degree of salary which will
not make oficelseeking desirable for
the purpose of making money, and
which viii be in accordance with the
true theory of the plain republican
habits OF our own people.


I think with the Senator from Yer
mont Mr.. Morrill, that this is very
great mistake, and that there is not
member from Congress who has par
ticipated in this legislation for the
purpose of carrying our salaries back
for two years that VIII not regret it.
I do not think it is sound in princi-
pie; and while I could perhaps make
as good use of this money in paying
my family expenses as any member of
Congress, I do NOT feel that I would
be justified in voting for this bill, for
the reason that it is carried back, and
for the additional reason, that it is
putting the salary up above the IN
come enjoyed by the very large ma
jority of the farming community and
of the manufacturing community, GER
tainly far above the laboring eomnu-
nifty of the country, and if we do
strike fair average, that which we
have now we ought to adhere to-


These are the sentiments of q man
of conscience and honor, and pro-
test made with becoming delicacy
against the tendency to extravaganza,
which is mining official integrity and
engendering corruption in high places
throughout the land.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Jones lately sought to remove
a grease spot from his coat tail by the
free use Of benzine, and then stood
close to the stove so that the odor
might svaporate more quickly. He
was quite correct in his theory, but
unfortunate in his practice, for he
was turning cartwheels through the
window, and there was not enough
coartail left to make "weskit" for q
doll baby. He does not ride horse
back now, and sleeps on all fours like
a mule.
Year: 1873

am composed of letters.
My first is in pink, but not in blue,
Ny second is in sandal but not in shoe,
My third is in night, but not in day,
Ny fourth is in August, but not in May.
My fifth is in body, but not in head,
My sixth is in blue, bot not in red,
My seventh is in river, but not in sea,
My eighth is in gnat, but not in bee,
Ny whole il the name of the debGter of the Union
School.


HillsborO, o:
Year: 1873

''ssA DENSE FoG.-The fog yesterday
morning was SO thick at Ayletts, in King
William, as to penetrate clothing like a


smart shower of rain. The sun was not
seen until late In the morning. Nearly
every one is down with the ague and fever.


Qunine has full sway. :
Year: 1873

The MATRIMONIAL SEASON. This is


or should be, the season specially favorable


to matrimonial endeavor. It is generally


thus. Doubtless the clerk Of the hustings


court y knows how it is himself,u being


officially required to give those little bits Of


paper, the. possession of which denotes a


mans right to double his earthly felicity


by becoming responsible for some fair crea-


ture's board and clothes. We should be
sorry to think that the recent financial


pressure had operated to repress the matri-
monial ardoriof the Richmond youths, bnt
sadly fear that such may have been the
case. t=si,k Efa,sf ss8r


}g There is something in the manner and
movement of newly-nade couples that
singles them out from the old married
folks, and which to an experienced party is
lrresistibly amusing. They enter the din
ing room arm in arm, and cling together
until the necessity of taking separate chairs
at the table divides them, and when they
inish again oscillate together for the pur-
pose of making dignified departure.
There is no occasion for their being pointed
,qt, as their manner proclaims at once,
Behold a newly-married couple !" We
ike to see them. t ses
Year: 1873

The money market has been active to borrowers
on call, on pledge of the ordinary Stock Exchange
collateral and the more general rate was per cent
in gold alternating with per cent currency inter
est Before the close of the market as much as
thirty-second and interest had been paid. The
closing quotations were Z to z, gold The higher
prices of stock and the larger business doing
made the demand moro active. There is nothing
new to note in the paper market, and choice grades
still move at 8 to per cent.


The Goveynment bond market was unsettled
under the influence of lower gold, and the uncer-
tainty as to when and how many bonds Secretary
Boutwell, will call in. The new Fives and Ten
Forties were well supported, the chief business run
ming to the FiveTwenties of 1867 and 1863 as being
the bonds most remote from redemption. The
market closed steady the basis of l6i to 16s for
1858. Fisk & Hatch report as follows at 4 p M:
Year: 1873

The penCil marks you see around this
paragraph 0thus) mean that your sub
scriptiop is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
We are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
ana appreciate the necessity OF such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor


$ we enter no new names on our
books without the money In adYa,ce-
Year: 1873

THEY are now shipping dressed beef
from Denizen, Texas, to New York city,
and it is thought this viii lower the
price Of beef in New Yerk and increase
the revenue of the producer, as it does
away with the old droYer system,
Year: 1873




The first Sunday in the new house is q nota-
BILE day. There is an entire absence Of old land
marks, and strange weird newness on everything
and you can't lind your shaving soap. You
start for scuttle. 1t is in the bottom Of bar
rel In the garrett You take the dripping pan
When you change your shirt you look Tor il fret
II is in one OF the bureau drawers which are pill
ed one upon another, in the parlor, and you hnd
you must lift half ton OF carpets and feather
Oeds before you can get down to the drawers
After you have lifted them down and searched
them through, it is remembered by your wife
that the desired garment Is in one of the bar
rels-the one in the shed she thinks although
i may be in the garret, and yet it would be Just
like that stupid carmAn to have carried that bar
rel down cellar. You attack one Of those
barrels, and are surprised at the result
bedquih comes out first then pie-tin next 3
piece OF cold ham neatly done up in your vest
and packed away In the missing scuttle. Below
is an assortment of ironware and . length of q
stovepipe, half loaf OF bread, q couple of
towels and rolling pin. You begin TO expect
you Will eventually come upon G coal mine, and
perhaps some dead friends. Then you go down
IN the barrel again. and come back with a
pleasing assortment OF stockings and half
emptied medicine bottles. The way you come
up this time leads you to consider the barrel
itself 1t has caught in the back OF your vest
and made the cloth let go it took on one.haf OF
one sleeve, and created a sensation on the back
OF your hand as il . bonfire had ragged there II
Is quite evident the cooper who built that barrel
was called away before he commenced to clinch
the nails You invountarily grasp the rolling
pin as If You half expected to see him. Then
you call the girl to repack the barrel, and start
up stars TO look after something that is easier
to find but finally change your mind and pass
the balance OF the day IN digging carpet tacks
ana worthless WOOD from the palms Of your feet
and concOctlng lies about the wealth of vour
nncle aud the moon looks through the window
at nlght. aud touches up with q glow of bur
uished silver, several lengths Of stovs-pipe. a
half dozen odd chairs. sheet of diogy Zinc
and barrel with bed-quilts foAming over ne
top DdHhury Netrs
Year: 1873

Our correspondent ct Bsrlin, Md, reports
soms signs of progress in that quarter. The
rector Of the Episcopal Church, q young man
who served in the Confederate" Army, during
the war, is preparing class OF oolorei converts


for confirmation in the Church, by the Bishop
of the Diocese. To be sure this is not q new
thing colored people have long been part and
parcel Of the Episcopal Communion but it is
not very common thing, and especially not, in
Worcester County within the last twenty years.
Year: 1873

While doing SO the needle dropped from
his fingers into the hay. He pulled the
hay about him into, bunch and then
lifted it carefully and carried it TO the
barn floor. and there separated it straw
by straw, and really found the needle. he
said that then he felt as if he could again
face his mother. 1t was the only needle
his mother owned, and there was none to
be had nearer than Carlisle. The same
old man told me that Hamilton's mill at
Mexico was the nearest mill, and it was
eight miles away A sort of bride.
path was made from the settlers to the
naiN BY cutting away the sapplings SO as
to admit CT the passage of pack horse
Oue neighbor in taking a grist home,
would have been killed by wolves had it
not been for two stout dogs that kept
them of His horse was fractious, and
he had dreadful time before he got
home with his grist.


To BE CONTINUED
Year: 1873

BEWARE OF INGRATITUDg.- Insult
not misery, neither deride infirmity !; nor
ridicule deformity. The first shows in
humanity, the second folly, and the third
pride. He that made him miserable,
made thee happy to lament him; He that
made him weak, made thee strong to sup
port him. DO not show thy ingratitude
to thy Creator by despising any of his
creatures
Year: 1873

BLOWN Across THE RIvER-On Sunday eve
ming young man on a scow, lying IN the river at
New Castle, attempted to come ashore in q small
row bost The wind was blowing so tiercely
however, that it was not only impossible to make
any headway against it, but the boat was unable
to withstand its force, and was blown across to
the Jersey shore A companion shore started
out in another boat to his assistance, but he
found himself in the same predieament, and
joined his friend on the other side Of the river
They were compelled TO remain there ell night
and re. urn in the morning
Year: 1873

BEwARE OF HER.-A colored woman il trav.
cling around begging money representing that
her husband is laying dead at home and she
needs assistance to bury him. On Friday lady
toUk her name and address and went to the
place where she said she lived, and found that
there was no house at the place and no person oi
her name living in the neiRhborhood.
Year: 1873

aSN" \ smart man ut Sanduskv put
arsenic in n bottle of wine, hoping that
a burglar would drink it, and his wife
placed it among one hundred other bot
ties. The smart man is now wondering
which is the bottle.
Year: 1873

WHY WILL YE DIE, On YE OF LIT
TIE FAITH ?'-The following wel-written
article is from the Davenport Democrat of
December 10, 1872, and is powerful re-
minder to the afflicted:


The most insidious, deadly and distress
ing malady attacking the human frame, is
pale consumption, stealing into the maid
ems bosom, flushing her cheek, blanching
her skin, and feeding like living worm of
death upon her vitals A lover may
fondly gaze into her eyes, the brilliant
sparkling is but forerunner of dissolU-
ton. A mother may listen to her mid
night breathing, it is but a muffied drum
beating her death-knell. A father may
fondly try to save her, but too frequently
his efforts are in vain, her bridal bed is the
burial case; her bridegroom, death, the
silent consumer of her lungs is at work,
and physicians have no remedy. the phar-
nlacopeian drug which can keep her from
her destiny Sad as this view is, there is,
happily. bright side Providence has
garnered up in the storehouses of vegeta-
ton, a sovereign balm in the juices of
plants to arrest the fell destroyer, to heal
the eating ulcer, to renoyate the failing
lung, to bring health strength and vigor
to the wasted frame. The keen eye of
science has searched for it, the chemist $
skill has selzed upon it, the retort and
alemblc have extracted it, and the remedy
| is produced which will stay the progress of
| the stealthy death fend. The result of
this careful study of nature is Allen S
Lung Balsam, this is the consumptive S
/ hope, the declining patients cure. Thou
sands have entered upon trial of it with


distrust and fear, who now live to record
its snatching them from an early grave, and


who are ready to testify to.its merits. Let


the consumptive take it and be benefited.


"Why will We die, oh, ye of little faith p
Year: 1873

Some ladies suffer dreadfully with the
headache and this causes their hair to fade.
Natures Hair Restorative is sure RENE
DIV for the ache and will restore the color
of blanched, gray or faded hair. See ad-
yertiSement
Year: 1873

$4,000 IN CASH FOR $l.-We call the
attention Of our readers to the advertise
ment in another column of the Nebraska
State Orphan Asylum. Here is a chance
to win fortune in Public Legal Drawing,
and aid noble charity.
Year: 1873

Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil mixed
with water and molasses is excellent for
colds, and it cures cholic in children
Women find its use excellent TO cure head
ache, or any rhemutic pain, and it is clean
to use. Try it for burns or scalds Sold
by all the dealers.
Year: 1873

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

In order the general wish and expectation OF the
public and the ticket Tor the full payment the
nncen gifts announced Tor the Fourth Grand CHIT Concert
OF the Public Library OF Kentucky the
termined to postpone the Concert and Drawing until
Year: 1873

Of all the inhabitants of Memphis,

 says 8 correspondent, writing of the

 yellow fever there, perhaps not 10000

 sleep within the city limits; the rest

 leave in the evening and remain in the

 country till morning. Many of those

 who thus have left have been seized on

 the GETS and perished miserably at the

 various stations, for so intense is the

 fear of the disease that the country

 people turn from citizens as from lepers, and will have nothing to do with those

 who have any appearance of being af

 fected. Indeed, the heartlessness and iuhumanity which generally accompany such terrible plaques as this have been conspicuous here. The brood of Satan thieves, pickpockets, and burglars seem to have been about the only per- sons who have thriven during the past month. They have come from other cities to prey upon the dead and dying, IS upon the living. Singularly enough, the drinking saloons have not found their account in the plague, although during such visitations drunkenness and debauchery generally hold high carniv Il, the people becoming reckless and ready to drown their fears in the diversion of alcoholic drinks. Out of Setween thirty and forty such saloons, which commonly are open from one years end to the other, all are closed but one, and this by no means does a thriving business. The boldness of the desperadoes is something simply won derful. Unhappily, where all are dying, the dead have often to be left for hours without attention, and in such instances it is often found that, after death, their persons and rooms have been robbed. Several arrests of men and women ac- cused of such dreadful work have been made, and it is likely to go hard with the sacrilegious villains. Some under takers, in the press of business, have refused to make returns to the Board of Health, and others are accused of hur. rying corpses off to their shops and keeping them there until they should find time for burial. There are not, indeed, hearses enough for the work, and sometimes so many as nine corpses are placed in one wagon and driven at | full speed to their last resting-place. The horrible spectacle of the horses of such wagon running away with their ghastly burden is said to have been witnessed. the dead being thrown from the tumbril into the road, and some. caught by their drapery, dragging on after the clattering wheels.
Year: 1873

In these balloon days, says a corre- spondent, I am reminded of an extra ordinary ascension made during the war in Northern Ohio. The aeronaut had gone up frequently; was accounted courageous and sagacious in his bu~i- ness ; and had such amiable and ster- ling qualities as to render him highly esteemed. He had Q very pretty wife, to whom he was devotedly attached. As frequently happens, she did not love him in return, and this he very soon learned to his sorrow. He adver- tised another balloon voyage, and, at the time named, all was prepared. His wife was in the enclosure, and just be- fore he stepped into the car he went to her and kissed her tenderly, saying that he hoped Heaven would make her happy that he loved her so much that he would not for a moment stand be- tween her and her peace. His words had such significance that the blood started to her face and the tears to her eyes. Ere she could collect herself he was in the basket, the ropes were cut, and he was shooting through the air. Days. weeks, months passed, and the popular aeronaut was not heard from {; nor were there any tidipgs of the bal. loon. It was universally supposed that he had met with fatal accident-that he had probably gone so high that the silken bag had burst, and destroyed his life. More than 8 year after, fragments of skeleton, with bits of clothing, were found on the shore of Lake Erie, also the remains of gold watch bear ing the initials of the missing aeronaut. The mystery was then solved. He had ascended with the deliberate int. ns of leaping from the balloon at certain elevation, knowing that by such means he would escape the suspicion of sui. eide; and he desperately carried out his desperate determination.
Year: 1873

A PRov1DENT1A1 MAN.-This title now justly belongs to physician who has added to the list of medicines 8 new remedy, which appears to include all that is most valuable in the old pharmacopmia, and not to include any of the drawbacks with which the so- called specifies of the Faculty are chargeable. The Providential man is DR. JOSEPH WALKER, of California, whose VINEGAR BITTERs have achieved, in the short space of two years, degree of popularity never before attained by any advertised preparation in this coun- try. We have too much confidence in the shrewdness of the American people to suppose that this sudden and sur prising celebrity is the outgrowth of a delusion. Indeed, we have reason to knew that it is founded on innumerable and we'll authenticated cures of almost all the bodily ills that flesh is heir to. Not the least among the merits of the famous Tonic and Restorative, is it's entire freedom from alcohol, as well as from all mineral drugs. It is composed exclusively of rare vegetable extracts. Com,