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Year: 1871

Cornwall.

 A little son of Wm. Bennett met with q sad accident one day last week, while en gagged in playing with an ax. He severed nearly the whole of his left hand at his wrist, which may prove as warning to small boys to let axes alone.......T The fol- lowing are the particulars of an attempt to rob the Post office in this place. Two young men passed through the village, and looked at the said office in manner that to the police suggested burglars and accor- dingly number of young men volunteered to guard the building, and with the aid of shot guns revolvers base ball bats &c. to deal out summary punishment to any one who prowled about the premises. If any one had desire to carry off pound of lead inside of himself, he could have had the opportunity very easy by passing across the stoop of the building, as the guns all had "fox charges" in them. After waiting till the sun rose, without an attempt to punish burglar, they retired to their homes satisfied with their first experience as the vigilance committeeman am happy to see that the Colonel is going to do some- thing on tue roads. 'Better late than never" as X. Y.Z.
Year: 1871

"lf you want to make the ruin ola
child sure give him liberty after dark -
You cannot do anything nearer to Insure
bis total ruin than to let him have liberty
to 50 where he will without restraint
After dark he will bo sure to get into
communication With people that will un-
derminc all his good qualities, | do not
like to speak to parents about their chill.
drcu. Their child cannot, will not lie,
when his tongueis like bendod bow; he
will not drink, when there is not saloon
within mile oflis fathers house where
he is not as well known rs ono Of It's own
accantcrs; he never does iniquitous things,
whom he Is roeking in Alth. Nineteen out
ofeycry twenty allowed perfect freedom At
night will bo wounded by It. There is
nothing more important than for child to
beat home at night, or, il hc is abroad,
you should DO with him. II he is to sec
any sights or take any pleasure, there is
nothing that hc should sec that you should
notsco with him. 1t is not merely that
the child should DO broken down, but there
arc thoughts that never ought to find a
passage Into mans brain. AS an ocl, II
he wigglc across your carpet, will leave
his slime which no brushing can ever ef-
face, so there orc thoughts that never can
DO got rid Of, once permitted TO enter; and
there are individuals going round with OBJ
scnoe books and pictures, that will leave
ideas in the mind Of your child that will
never bc clIaced. do not believe in a
phild's seeing life, as it is called, with its
damnable lust and wickedncss, to have all
bis imuginations sct on fire with tho flames
Of hell. Nobody goes through this fire
but they are burned, and they cant got
rid Of tho scars"
Year: 1871

A great increase 10 the order Of Free.
masons has been shown lately in this coun-
try, by the multiplication Of lodges and tho
erection Of new Masonic buildings. A
census Of the order, just taken, shows that
this increase is real one. Over 10000
new members have been initiated during
the past year, tho entire number now
reaching nearly 100000. Tho reason Of
this prosperity lies probably, as much as
10 anything else, In the social attractions
Of Masonry. The lodge supplies tho place
OF q club to its members, and the enter.
tainmcpt it affords is On acceptable relief
to men wearcd with tho caros Of business,
To this are added the more substantial ben
eGts Of mutual assistance in distress, for
which tho order is celebrated, so that the
wonder is rather tha. it docs not increase
faster than it does.
Year: 1871

A young Pennsylvania who made or.
rsnscmcuts to marry against the wishes Of
some Of his relatives, was last week taken
from his bed at dead Of night by masked
men, carried to the woods, and being tied
to trOc naked, was beaten with heavy
whips until nearly dead. Two Of the per.
petrators Of the outrage have been ar
rested.
Year: 1871

INDUCED from childhood in the ha-
bitual use OF them all. The fact that
many who have not employed these
stimulants have also lived long does
not disprove our. proposition. 1t is
useless to follow the subject from this
point of view, for, like all other SUBJ
jects argued pro ct con in the light of
examples, it is liable to become so
entangled in maze of verbiage and
assertion that proves nothing, and
all engaged in it find themselves in
the end just where they started from,
nobody convinced, and sense of
having made themselves ridiculous in
the pursuit of a shadow the prevail
ing feeling.


But there is another standpoint
from which the matter can be viewed,
which all understand, and that is pub
lie interest and the welfare of trade
and commerce Let us suppose for
a moment that the entire trade in the
small luxuries of comparatively light
individual cost should suddenly ter
inmate What would become of the
thousands of producers of tobacco,
cigars, smokers articles, confections,
and the whole fraternity of dealers
in wares of no actual value in them
selves, but which man in a civilized
state, with his artificial wants, de-
mands? Still this is hut a narrow
view, and refers only to the compare
lively few through whose hands these
productions reach the consumers.
The entire agricultural population Of
whole States and nationalities would
find themselves at a stand-still idle
for want of a market The incentive
for operations being removed, the
operations would cease; universal
bankruptcy would ensue; trade would
come to a dead halt; commerce
would languish the worlds shipping
would rot upon the untraveled seas :;
all manufactures would die; famine
and pestilence would brood over the
earth; and the blackness and silence
of chaos would envelop all things.
The trade in these and kindred COM
modities keeps money in circulation,
builds cities, covers the ocean with
the white winged fleets of the nations,
any is really the source of all mate
rial prosperity, individual and collect
i've, and we cannot afford to "despisc
the day of small things"
Year: 1871

Henry P. Seymour, disgusting miser,
was unearthed by the Hartford police the
other day, in state OF filth that beggars
description. In the midst OF Il mass OF
nastin-ss was dirty lounge, on which
the old man had slept, while in an ad-
joining room was the decaying carcass
OF hog, which had probably been there
for weeks, till it was almost completely
decomposed, and the animal lite IN and
upon it was crawling in every directi n.
Seymour was escorted to the station
house, and measures taken to clean out
his den and apply chemical purifiers.
Year: 1871




May We never see an old friend with a new
face.


May the heart that melts at the sight Of sor-
row always be blessed with the means to re-
lieve it.


May the frowns Of fortune never rob inno-
cenco of its joys.


May We be slaves TO no party and bigots TO
no sect.


May we never natter our superiori 81 insul,
our interiors.


May we never fling away powder by shoot
ins crows.


May those who inheri, the title Of gentle
men by their birth deserve i; by their actions.
May the wings Of liberty never want
feather.


May the bosom Of liberty netcr be blight
Cd.


May satan never pay visits abroad nor re-
ceve company at home.


May we never be influence by jealousy nor
governed by interest.


May we never seek applause from party
principles, but always deserve it from public
spirit.


May we distinguish the weeds from tho
flowers.


May Hymen never join those hands whose
hearts are divided.


May genius and merit never want friend.
May we fly from the temptation we cannot
resist.


May the polc-star of hope guide us through
the sea Of misfortune.


May poverty always be days march be-
hind us.


Riches to the generous and power to tbs
metciful


Riches without pride, or poverty without
meanness


Sunshine and good humor all over the world
The rose Of pleasure without the thorn.
'Tis we'll for some that fortune is Llindfodcd.
as many are unworthy Of het favoB.
The life we love with those we love.
Integrity in those who wear the robes Of
justice.


Good luck till We are tired Of It.
Frugality without mcanness, and friendship
without interest


Dignity without pride and cOndcsccnsion
without meanness.
Year: 1871

No man ever prospered in the world without
the cooperation of hi. wife. If she unite in
mutual endcayors, or rewards his labors with
an endearing smile, with what confidence will
be resort to his merchandise or lis farm, fly
over the land, sail upon the seas, meet diff
Guilty, and encounter danger, if he knows that
he is not spending bis strength in vain, bat
that his labor will be rewarded by the sweets
of home Solicitude and disappointment en-
ter the history Of every mans life aud he is
but half provided for bis voyage who finds but
an associate for happy hours, while for bis
month Of darkness and distress iu s.ympathiz-
ing partner is prepared.
Year: 1871

The world knows no victory to be compar-
ed with victory over our own passions. The
struggle of life is between the flesh and the
spirit, and one or the other finally gains the
ascendary. Every day, and every hour of the
Christians life, is this contest going on, and
sad it is to think how often it is that victory
is declared in favor of this earth, with its SIN
ful passions. The Apostle Paul, after having
labored long and earnestly in his Lords SER
vicc-after having done more for the spread
Of the truth than all the other Apostles, still
felt that lie was human being, and liable at
any time, through the weakness Of his flesh,
to lose all 8" | keep under my body, says he,
and bring it into subjection, lest, after !
have preached the Gospel unto others, my
self, should be castaway." Ifthis watchful-
ness was needed on the part of this aged and
long-tried servant Of Cod what care and dill
gence ought we to exercise, lest we should
lose all in an unguarded hour? Our pathway
through life is thickly set with snares FOR our
feet The soductions of passion, the allure
ments of vice, things to arouse our anger and
stir up our hearts feelings, await us at every
turn Of lifes devious ways, and blessed indeed
is that man, or that woman, that meets them
all without harm.
Year: 1871

A youth cleaning up San Francisco print
ing Office found keg Of black sand. Another
boy bet him the spruce gum that il was pow
der, aud he took the bet. A coal Of FIRE was
gently but firmly dropped into the keg.-
There was no insurance on the building. The
two youths are supposed to have gone into tia
country looking for spruce gum.
Year: 1871

A Cincinnati wife had little SQUAD
bic with her husband and joined trav-
elling show. Her husband told her if
she went with it she could consider
herself no wife ofhis She went The
show was a failure. and after two
weeks absence she found herself 200
miles from home without friends or
money, and had to walk back. She


can't find her husband and is in a ter
rifle fix Oh what brutcs men are :
Year: 1871

SLuRs ON WoMEN.-At dinner, at
which no ladies were present, a man,
in responding to the toast, woman
dwelt almost solelyo the frailty of the
sex, claiming that the best among them
were little better than the worst the
chief difference being in the surroun-
dings.


AT the conclusion of the speech a
gentleman rose to his feet and said:


Il trust the gentleman, in the appli-
ton of his remarks refers to his own
mother and sisters, not ours"


The effect of this most just and
timely rcbuko was overwhelming con-
fusion and shame.
Year: 1871

said that three million dollars annual
ly are taken from the pockets of the
country people by the various swim
ding establishments in New York city,
who spread their alluring ADVERTISE
ments all over the country, and get
small sums by mail. The American
3gitulturist has, with commendable
enterprise, ferreted out and exposed
many Of these swindling tricks; but
a shorter and simpler way is this-Nev,
er trust your money, not even pos,
tage stamp, to any person whose repu-
tation you know nothing about. The
bigger the promises, the more likely
you will be caught. Avoid all these
advertisers who offer you remedies for
nothing-there will be gouging behind
men do not pay for costly advertise-
ments for the sake of gratuitous labor.
Avoid all gift establisments-they
will get twice to ten times as much out
of you in some way, as they give you.
Avoid all persons who sell watches, or
jewelry, or dresses, or anything else,
greatly below market price-they will
surely cheat you in some way. Honest
men find better way to bestow chari-
ty.- Country Gentleman.


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Fun AT HoME.-Don't be afraid
of a little fun at home, good peoplel
Don't shut up your houses, lest the
sun should fade your carpets, and your
hearts, lest hearty laugh should shake
down some of the musty old cobwebx
there. Ifyou want to ruin your sons,
let them think all mirth and social
enjoyment must,be left on the threshold
without when they come home at night.
When once home is regarded as only
place to eat, drink and sleep in, the
work is begun that ends in gambling
houses and wretched degradation,
Young people mast have fun and
relaxation somewherej if they do not
lind it at their own hearth-stones, it
will be found at other less profitable
places. Therefore let the fire burn
brightly at night, and make the house
nest delightful with all those little arts
that parents so perfectly understand.
Don't repress the buoyant spirits of
your children; half an hour of merri>
ment around the lamp and fire light at
home blots out the remembrance of
many a care and annoyance during the
day, and the best safeguard they can
take with them into the world is the
unseen influence of bright little do
mestic sanctum.
Year: 1871

A very good story is told of a gen.
tleman in E, who is a very worthy
citizen, who had farm a short distance
out in the country, which he leased to
tenant, the lsndlord to get two>fifths
of the crop. When the crop was saw
ed, the tenant saddled his horse and
took the landlords share to him tied
up in a handkerchief, who upon seeing
the bundle, asked what was there
"Your share of the wheat" says the
tenant. Landlord: my what" Ten
ant: "Your share of the wheat" Land
lord Take it back take it back
and next year if you only have five
grains, bring them in a wagon, but
never come again on horseback"
Year: 1871

DIR. Hall is certainly correct in saying
that the healthlest scent in the world
is no scent at all, where the air is so
pure that the breathing of it attracts
no attention whatever; and the only
perfect deodorizer is perfect cleanliness
of person and premises. 1t is especial.
ly important in summer time to put on
clean clothing often; wash the body
every day; to go around and through
the premises often, from cellar to attic,
and allow no pile Of dirt, dry or moist,
oaal whatever, to remain for a single
moment. Dampness should be especial
lyguarded against; ever room in house
should be thoroughly aired every sun.
shiny, day, the earlier in the morning
the better.
Year: 1871

NEW MEAT MARKET-Nick Williams
will open his new meat market this morn.
Jag st the corner Of Poplar and Twentieth
streets, where he will keep constantly on
hand all kinds of meat and the very best
in the market. He will not permit any
butcher in the city TO excel him. Nick
knows his business, and earnestly invite.
the public to give him call al his new
stand. If
Year: 1871

A new biography of the Prussian
Premier has the following:


There is nothing of the actor about
Count Bismarck, as is SO often the case
with eminent politicians. Not, however,
that blind confidence is to be placed in
the frankness with which he is accus-
toned to startle the world. All who have
had dealings with him thoroughly well
know how much faith they may put in
those surprising, confidential revelations,
which are calculated to bewilder-now
by an excess of sincerity, now by an ex-
cess in the opposite direction, according
as circumstances dictate. He is q great
smoker, and his habit contributes to the
recklessness of his appearance. While
he was ambassador at Frankfort, his
particular enemy, Herr Won Rechberg,
called a council of the members of the
Diet at his house, and received them in
his dressing gown. Count Bismarck tQ
pay him in his own coin, Immediately
drew his cigar case out of his. pocket,
took a cigar, offered a second to his
neighbor and said, while lighting his
own, and without waiting for an answer.
"You have no objection, dear Count?''
This levity, which is apt sometimes to
give offense, is connected with the activ-
ity and restlessness of his mind, which
desires to do, to see and to know every
thing for itself He tormented the very
life out of the Chambers and the press.
But as soon as he thought that he could
win over deputy or journalist by con-
fdence or an explanation, he took pains
to attract him, and on such occasions he
not seldomly entered in the easiest way,
and often without the slightest reserve,
into conversation concerning the ma
chinery of the State.


In 1S49 he sent a challenge to the
editor of Rladderadiseh (the Berlin
Punch). Later on, during his ambassa-
dorship at the Diet, the public strongly
suspected that he wrote secretely for
that paper, particularly whenever a
specially good skit appeared on an Aus
trian diplomatist. But it was in commit
tees of the House that he liked best to
let himself go just as the humor, now
reckless and defiant, now winning and
genial, might seize him.
Year: 1871

The great Blood Purifier and delicious drink, War
ner's Vnum Vita, or Wine of Life, is free from any
those who require stimuant. It is splendid appe-
zer and tonic and the finest thing in the world for
cious article ever offered to the public far superior to
is more healthy and cheaper. Both male and female
young old take the Wine of Life 1t is in fact
and free flow of lively spirits, will do well to take
the Wine of Life. 1t different from any thing ever
quart bottles.
Year: 1871

A writer in the Gardeners Magazine says
that Lord Macaulay's speeches were like Lord
Br0ugham's written out beforehand, learned
by rnte, and then poured forth i'll the House
Of Commons apparently without anything but
the very slightest appreciation or meaning.
There are but two speeches of Macaulny's that
make any pretension to be impromptus--that
in reply to orator Hunt on the Anatomy bill,
and that on the war with China and it does
not require the eye of critic to trace out con
siderable passages even in these that had been
iotted down Mt his desk and turned over in his
memory in the course of his walk from Lin
coin Inn to the House. This habit of pre-
pairing his speeches grew upon him so strongly
in the course of years that it was a positive
pain and embarrassment to him at last to be
called upon to speak even a dozen sentences
| otf-hand.
Year: 1871

Essay ON TOBACCO BY A SMALL Boy
Tobacco. grows something like cabbages; but
| never saw none Of it boiled, although l have
eaten boiled cabbage and vinegar on it, and |
have heard some men say that segars that
were given to them on election day for nothing
were cabbage leaves. Tobacco stores are
usually kept by wooden Injuns, who stand at
the door and try to TOOL little boys by Offering
them bunch of segars which is glued into
the Injun's hands and is made Of wood also.
Hogs do not like tobacco neither do |. To
bacco was invented by man named Walter
Raleigh When the people first saw him
smoking they thought he was a steamboat,
and as they had never seen steamboat, they
were frightened My sister Nancy is girl
don't know whether she likes tobacco or not.
There is young man named Leroy. lie was
standing on the steps one night, and he had a
segar in his mouth, and he said he didh't
know as she would like it, and She said, = Le
roy, the perfume is agreeable But ncx
morning, when big brother Tom lighted hi


pipe, Nancy said, Get out of the house, yOl


herrid creature, the suell of tobacco make


me sick" Snuff is Injun meal made out o


tobacco took little snuff once, and the1
| Sneczcd.
Year: 1871

They mix things considerably in China. A
man tailor may be seen wo, king diligently at
a lady 5 dress for about six cents day, and
a washerman will wash and iron your clothes at
81 a hundred while boatmaus wife may be
seen tugging at the oar or handling the sails


like man, often, too, with baby on her
shoulders.
Year: 1871

An American circus company, with twenty
six horse chariot. made public parade In
Florence, Italy, few weeks ago, when the
streets were thronged as for a holiday, and as
the abrupt angle of some narrow, ancient pas
sage was skillfully turned, the crowd gave
their applause as heartily as if to some sue
cessful hero returning from fight.
Year: 1871

An amusing story is told of Joe Jefferson,
who could not get check cashed at a Phila-
delpha bank because no one ceuld identify
him At last bright idea struck him, and
turning to the teller he said in the well-known
tones of Rip Van Winkle, :" If my little dog
pathetic little speech brought recognition, and
the check was paid.
Year: 1871

A ToUCHING INCIDENT. The world is full
Of mournlul incidents. How little DO we know
of the poignant sorrow myriads of our fellow
creatures are compelled to suffer. The follow
ing touching event event we take from the
Boston Journal:


An express man upon reaching his office
early one cold morning in January, observed
on the sidewalk. long, heavy box; which his
practiced eye at once identified as containing a
corpse. Upon the end of the box shivering
with cold, sat little hslf-clad boy, about sew
en- or eight years of age. Addressing him
kindly, he said:


:" My lad, don't sit there, you will freeze
come in and sit by the stove"


Bursting into tears the little fellow replied
No, | can't come my mother is in this boz
aud promised her that | would not leave hel
until we got home.


Deeply affected with the touching devotion
of his brave little fellow, he finally succeeded
| in convincing him Of the entire safety OF hi
precious charge, and taking him to neighbOr
ing restaurant, gave him a warm breakfast, an,
then learned the particulars of his story. Hi
f.ther died about year previously, IN remot
village in Minnesota, leaving his mother /
poor health and nearly destitute. She died bu
a few days before the boy $ sad journey, chars


ing the little hero with the duty of convey


ing the remains to her friends in distaI


State, and furnishing him with (all she had)


sum of money barely sufficient to carry thel
} both by freight cars TO their destination. III


little fellow had actually ridden night and da
in freight car with his melancholy trust, nev,
for moment lOosing sight OF it.
Year: 1871

The recent action of the New York Democ-
racy in Withdrawing the name Of Governor
Hoffman, of that State, from the next Presi-
dental contest virtually determines that their
candidate will come from the West, and the
action of the New York Leader, the organ of
Bill Tweed and Tamm!any, in naming ex Sen
view of the fact that New York voted solidly
great number of times for him in the New
York convention in 1885, would justify the
prophecy that he will be their next candidate,
nous verrons.