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Year: 1872

The New York Evening Mail puts
the case thus:


There is too much lying On every
hand we meet with cxaggeration,
oquivocation, deception. We call il
lying, and every man or woman who
varies one jot from the slrictest fact
and truth is indeed liar.


The exprcss-man agrees most SOL
cmnly to deliver q trunk for you at a
certain place by certain hour. He
delivers 1t the day aflcr the time
promised, and thus lies. The grocer
promises to send you the best tea in
the market. lie takes the first his
hand lights upon without any care for
the quality, and he dispatches IL to
you without twinge. He is liar
The printer promises to do your work
cheaper than it can be done else here
it town. Ho forgcts his promise
charges you what he pleascs- and lies.
The tailor agrees to deliver suit of
clothes without fail by six in the even
ing. You got them in the morning,
and the tailor is liar. The dentist
pledges his word that your teeth as
filled by him will all be right for
dozen years. The filling comes out in
six months, and tho dentist lies. A
man over the way is in the need of a
temporary loan. You lend him a
small sum, which he promises by every
thing sacred to return at a given time.
He keeps it month over time and is
liar. An auctioneer tells you that a
certain picture is by master artist,
when he knows it was painted by a
fourth rate painter. llc lies, and is
not worthy of trust. A salesman lies
about his goods. A boot maker Lies
about your boots. The jeweler lies
about your watch. The gossippor at
the dinner table tells exaggerated sto-
ries to astonish the ladies', and is moth
ing less than a liar. The florist as
sures you that his flowers were picked
in the morning, when they are nearly
two days old. The book publisher
advertises that his book is selling by
the tens of thousands when he has not
sold a thousand. lie is liar and one
door from the murderer.


Everywhere, everywhere we hear
lying, lying, lying. Men and women
who would knock you down if you
called them liars, lie every hour
Deception. Canvassers lie about in
surance companies. Brokers lie about
stocks. Editors lie about politics.
Exaggeration and misrepresentation
rule the hour and its curse.


Gentlemen-ladies- cannot the
truth be told always and evcrl Why
all this deception and lying? Why so
much falsifying and cheating? In
the name Of all that is true and good,
we beg Of you TO


DO ,lS Won nvrCc
Year: 1872

paper live exponent of correct po.
litical ideas and a reliable chronicle OF
all important events; but be should
not give up too much of bis space to
politics, even in the midst Of heated
campaign. Ho should aim to make
his paper complete compendium Of
general news, and by 80 doing no will
steadily increase the circulation and
the influence Of his paper and put
money in his pocket. If country
newspaper is sickly and pays poorly,
as a general thing II is the publisher
who is to blame. The people arcrca-
py and willing to give liberal support
70 newspapers which meet their wants.


II all who are attached to tho Edi-
tprial Association Of tho State should


oetcrmine 70 INT tho politics OF this
commonwealth TO q higher and purer
P'aae OF thought ana ac'lon, ana should


Ntcailiy adhere 10 such a resolve, they


couio soon remedy the evils oil winch


lne P'opie complain. no aouse could


stano Deiore 'heir comoihed assaults


DISHONEST ana mercenary politlc'ans
Year: 1872

The statistics furnished the State
Government by the Mine Inspectors
in the anthracite region are almost
complete for tho year 1871, and are of
a more than ordinarily interesting
character. The death record in these
statistics furnishes most powerful
proof of the fact tina. the Mine Venti-
lation law is not enforced as il should
be, or the list OF deaths for 1871 would
not, and could not, be so great. We
present IT here rs nearly correct as il
is obtainablc at the time;
Year: 1872

A young lady, about to be married,
insisted on having certain clergyman
TO perform the ceremony, saying:
"He always throws so much feeling
into tho thing; and | wouldn't give o
fig TO be married unless IL can be done
in a style Of gushing rhapsody"
Year: 1872




of men who can announce such plat
form in the face of such practice. 1t is
said that the ancient soothsayers could
not look each other in the face without
laughing, and we can imagine what
scene there was when this clause was
announced, and what a CHASTITY grin
must have passed around the circle,
with Morton trying to look solemn, Ben
Butler giving his cock-eye a more know
ing leer, and John Logan turning his
gaze to the West and counting to HIM
self the profits to be made from his ex-
pected dealings with the Teton Indians.
In the same section they make myste-
rious mutterings about practically crea-
ating tenure-Of-office for life, and the
only sensible deduction we can make
from it is that they propose to renew the
game of Stanton as. johnson. They
have seen the handwriting on the wall.
They know that their party has been
weighed in this scale and found want
ing, and that they must be soon driven
out from the place which they have
polluted, and hence they propose 10 tie
the hands of the incoming administra-
ton by a system of appointments to
Office, which they describe as not quite
practically creating a tenure-of-Office
for life" If Grant Is elected, they may
continue in their former line of policy.
If Greeley is elected, they propose to
bring the power of the Senate to bear
against him.


In their sixth section they say
they will oppose any further grant of pub
lie lands TO public corporations. Most
Year: 1872

THE THIEVING CARPETBAGGERS
are a mournful fact they do erist there,
and l have seen them % Thus the two
are presented to us, and We
unhesitetingly accept Horace Greeley as
our choice. 1t Is Idle for men now to
talk about straight Democratic tickets.
The race Is made up. The issue is upon
or Grant-and We must
Year: 1872

She was hanging on his arm half low
ingly, and they both were looking up
at the queen of night He said tender
ly, bending down his head, DO you love
the moon o. She answered in low voice,
"Yes" He replied with deep tender
ness and feeling in his voice, ''Would ]
were the moon" They passed on while
we momentarily thought. No cards.
Year: 1872

There must be something done to pre-
vent those horrid mistakes of druggists
clerks. One of the careless fellows lately
gave a young man in Manchester bot
tie of mucilage instead of cologne, The
youth went to church, and after applying
the contents of the bottle freely to his
handkerchief, and applying the hand
kerchief freely to his nose, he was in no
condition for devout worship. He was
heard to mutter something that ended
with, an ''n"-and it wasn't amen,
either.
Year: 1872

In Scotland they have narrow, open
bitches, called sheep drains. A man was
riding a donkey one day across the pas
ture, and when the donkey came to a
sheep drain he would not go over it. So
the man rode him back short distance,
and turning around, put the whip to him,
thinking, Of course, that the donkey 60
ing so fast would jump the drain before
he knew it. But not so. On they came,
and when the donkey got to the drain
he stopped all of sudden, and the man
went over Jacks head No sooner had
he touched the ground than he got up,
and looking the donkey straight in the
face, he said: Very weel pitched but
then how are ye going to get over yer
self %
Year: 1872

The Wman'S Eaposttor Mormon
Journal, has been publishing articles in
favor of polygamy, and giving instances
of happiness in the plural marriage state
As an offset to some of the stories, the
Salt Lake Tribune gives the following
which is vouched for as strictly true


A few years ago there lived in the
town of Spanish Fork man who was
blessed with a loving companion She
was the wife of his early years, kind,
loving, and affectionate. She fairly
idolized her husband, his love for her
being equal. They lived only as those
do who love each other with pure affec-
ton. But the Elders were continually
advising the husband to take another
wife, telling him it was the only true
road to salvation.


"But," said he, ''my poor wife would
60 crazy. She could never be satisfied
with that state of life


"What p said the bishop, 'do you
pretend to be governed by your wife ?
Are you going to lose salvation that you
may please your wife? 1t was damn
ed foolery like that, that played the dev-
il with man in the first place for pleas
ing a woman Adam was driven out of
the garden of Eden and, like him, you,
to please your wife, would throw away
your salvation. Now, | advise you to
take another wife as quick as possible OF
else dread the i'll will of the Lord"


Hearing this, the poor fellow was pre-
vailed upon to take another wife. He
did so and as he said, his poor wife be.
came frantic. After suffering with grief
for few months, she became hopelessly
insane; then her love turned to the
most deadly hatred. She was continual.
ly swearing vengeance against her hus.
band. In the course of time her hus.
band died, and the funeral procession
passing her door, she ran out, and fol
lowing the hearse, threw stones at it tht
whole way to the grave, eursing at tn,
dead man as the cause of all her troub
le. In few months, she herself passed
away.


The Tribune says: s.Now let the re
Elective and honest Mormon answer wha
was it that poor distracted wife curset
and stoned because of her blighted life
Was it not polygamy p
Year: 1872

a PoMoLoe1cAL WONDER the re-
cent fair in Derry, N. H., large and
handsome apple, we'll colored, was exhi-
bited, on the cheek of which was a per-
feet figure of a goose. The apple was a
reddish purple, while the figure of the
goose was entirely green. Those who
didn't understand how it happened were
filled with wonder Suppose they try
it. Keep any portion of the surface o1
the apple from the light and see what
the result will be.
Year: 1872

The New York correspondent Of the
Boston Herald writes:


lin looking over your issue of the past
week l see that you have been tempted
into copying the romantic story of Miss
Ida Greeley's alleged engagement to the
purser of the Inflated Missouri. | was un-
fortunate enough to be the original pub
Usher OF the report, my information be-
ing derived indirectly from the gentle
man himself, and ain happy now to have
the opportunity to correct it. 1t is gaining
widespread publicity and has been source
OF great annoyance to the young lady.
The facts are these: One of the late Mrs.
Greeley's peculiarities was to keep her
daughters as much out of the society of
young people as possible. So strictly has
This discipline been enforced that 1t has
been matter of common notoriety where
ever the Greeleys have lived. Mrs. Greeley
and her family returned from their trip to
Nassau two years ago, on the Missouri.
The purser was very attentive to the in
valid old lady, and she took quite . fancy
to him. After their arrival here Mrs.
Greeley invited him to call upon her at
Chappaqua. despite Miss Ida's remon-
strances that this departure from her rule
in favor OF a gentleman would set people to
| talking. Mr.. Purser called and stayed a
week The young ladies received him
courteously and Mrs. Greeley thought moth
ing too good for him. When he returned
to New York he found that the steamer
was not ready to sail, and he Immediately
telegraphed to Chappaqua that if it was
agreeable be would go up and spend two
or three days more with the family. Miss
Ida, who had become annoyed at the young
gentleman's evident regard forher, refused
10 answer the telegram, but he went to
Chappaqua notwithstanding. and stayed
| three days. After that Miss Ida never saw
him. probably because she had come TO
| loathe the very sight of him. He seems to
have been either very weak-minded OF
very unprincipled, for he threw out many
| hints of his intimacy with the family and
Miss Ida to his friends in this city, and
when rallied at his supposed engagement,
had not the manhood to deny it. His story.
under the circumstances was readily be-
lieved. He is dead now, but justice to
Miss Greeley requires this correction.


1t is fact not generally known that Miss
Ida Greeley is devout Roman Catholic


In her childhood she was so wild and full
of mischief that she was a source of great
anxiety to her invalid mother and work
bound father. They sent her to convent


and the Sisters converted her. Miss
Gabrielle follows her mothers belief"
Year: 1872

A remarkable instance of the effect
of fright in dream occurred in an
interior tosn Of Wisconsin reoently.
A young man, school teacher, just
married, spent an evening in reading
to his wife incidents of Indian life and
warfare in tho western country. Co.
ing to bed with his mind filled with
the subject, he dreamed ofliving some
of the scenes he had been reading of,
during which he had lost his scalp at
the hands of redskin, receiving
thereby terrible fright. On being
awakened by the stir in the house in
tho morning he found himself unable
to speak, and could only oommuui


cate with the others by writing--thu,
| relating his dream. At last accounts
he had not recovered his speech.
Year: 1872

AS Senator Sumner pithily says,
"the best way to resume-'s TO re-
sumo" Tho pretext upon which the
Government bases is action, viz. :
that the gold in the Treasury must be
held to pay off the interest bearing
bonds, is clearly ridiculous, for the
mere fiat of Congress making Treasua
ry notes Of equal value with gold
would give such confidence in the
currency that holders of bonds would
as soon receive their interest in notes
as in hard money. Thus confidence
in tho paper currency Of tie country
would be restored in one moment. 1t
requires no tedious process, no long
monotonous debates in Congress, to
effect what the whole country except
handful Of monopolists 80 much de-
sire, and what would do annmount Of
good sufficient in the ends attained
to justify its effectuation even if it
were not intrinsically right and just.
Of this there can be no doubt.


A bill to provide for tho payment
of duties on imports in Treasury notes
was introduced in tho House of
Representatives on Monday: and
referred to the Committee on Bank.
ing and Currency. 1t is to be hoped
that this committee will report ia.
vorably, and that Congress will take
steps Immediately to resume specie
payments.
Year: 1872

We were promised, on high-sound-
ing words, and nasal twang, after
tho most recent election on record in
this County, that the pink Of purity
would overhaul and unearth the great
financial faro dealings of the chief
Sachems Of the bond dealers but the
last Indications are that there has
beon n wine drinking at tho chiefs
parlor, that the mountebank of q re-
former, the seven million suprooter,'
came in among the first of the guests,
and drank the first bumper to tho
success of the financial policy of the
ring : then came renewal Of obliga-
tions: burying of tho hatchet, q
drink all around, mutual admiration,
q review Of the former success in ras.
oalities then few tears Of repen-
tance thN an affectionate embrace,
and all was serene and delightful
again, and the great gamblers in
politics originated now game, in
which each was to play an important
part, ir order to deal into each Others
hands, and rob tho innocent grccnies.
If the people Of this State expect any
reform from the Falstafs and Dick
Turpins, they have moro credulitv
than we gave them credit for. There
will be no reformation in this State
until the present horde of speculators
and wire workers are driven from
place and power. Lot the people re-
member that the only reform that
will do any good is to come Ivy COM
pletely overthrowing tho present
dynasty" "-Mtssionary Record.
Year: 1872

The Buffalo IN. ~ Courier, in an
litorial bearing the above caption,
sys:


GA Western Republican Journal
makes the observation that threo
years of Radical Legislation in
Southern State is q calamity equal to
q Chicago FIRE. This proposition is
borne out by an exhibit which the
New York Tribune has just given of
the condition to which the wretched
State of South Carolina has boon re-
duced by its Radical despoilors."


Here follows an extract from the
editorial of the New York Tribune
which appeared in our columns on
Saturday last. The editor of the
Buffalo Courier continues thus.


"We feel safe in predicting that no
punishment whatever, except such as
a righteous Heaven may elect to send,
will ever reach these thieves. Their
party will cover their tracks, and de-
precate such talk as tho Tribune holds
as 'disloyal,' and will pooh. pooh every
honest statement Of their rascalities
in timo to come, just as it has been
doing for six years past. Moreover,
when the people of South Carolina
make their next desperate effort to
escape from the clutches Of the Radi-
cal banditti, the whole North will be
told that it is the outbreak of n
new rebellion, and Federal troops will
be sent to take care of tho polls and
put down sKu Klux.' 1t needed only
tho exertion of her regal will for a
single day to free Now York city
from her brigands, but some of the
Southern States have been struggling
in tho clutch Of far moro desperate
thieves for years, and still struggle in
vain. The worse than Tammany
thieves who have made six Southern
States bankrupt, and the sum of
whose robberies is estimated at two
handred and fifty millions, have been,
and still are, sustained by tho whole
moral power of the Republican party,
and Mt need by the military power of
the Federal Government
Year: 1872

In the garden for family purposes
new asparagus beds should be made
now without delay, though any time
this month with answer. The best
plan in making these beds is TO cxca-
vate the earth, whether 1t is soil or
not to the depth of from twenty to
twenty-four inches. remove all the dirt
except the soil. and commence to fiji
up with good layer of horse manure,
press It well down, then layer of soil
and then manure again, leaving the
richest manure for the last eight or ten
inches. Plant two year old roots of
the, Colossal variety, three feet apart
each way, with the crown of the roots
from six to eight inches beneath the
surface.


Keep the beds clear of al, weeds
grass. etc. The plants will make con-
siderable growth the first season. and
the third season there will be some
spires fit to cut. The fourth season.
three years after planting, the bed may
be considered in its full maturity. No
salt should be applied until the bed is
fully established. While there is no
better fertilizer than salt for a bed
once fully producing crop. TO be APP
plicd-carly in April and as soon after
the fall dressing of manure as forked
in as may be convenient--it is death to
the young plants. Salt destroys the
weeds and grass. and must be kept
from box edging and young trees. or
it will destroy them o.-Ger1,aatonn
Ieiegfuyh.
Year: 1872

Those whose incomes do not exceed
*2,000 year, would do well to bear in
mind that the consciousness of that
fact does not exempt them from certi-
flying to their incomes for the past year.
They are compelled by law to testify to
the fact for the guidance Of the Asses
sor in thorough performance of the
duties of their trust.
Year: 1872

TIE GRAZING BILL AND A REMEDY. Mulch
has been written and more said about a late
act Of the Legislature referring to what is
now known us the "suburban grazing" bill.
BY reference to the Code Of 1860, chapter G.,
it will be seen that the late act does not Gre
ate so great hardship on the suburban resi-.
dents as it was imagined. The Code pro-
vidcs the remedy. Any person may take up
an estlnv found Oh his land; and by inform
ing justice Of the peace, having the animal
appraised by three trechodcrs, posting the
appraisemcnt, de-, at the courthouse door,
and publishing Il notice in a newspaper three
times, soon stop all trespassing Of animals Oh
his land


Those who turn out their cattle to Craze
letting them run at large, since the passage
Of this law. will, after reading this item
probably be more careful Of their animals
and those on whose lands they have been
running. ny seeing that they have 4 remedy
within their own hands, will now so to work
with a greater certainty that they slallreaI
what they SOW
Year: 1872

The TnEATRE.--De Castro drew full
house last evening, and the performance was
one of the best of its kind. The suspension
act was most surprising and remarkable
feat. After tue show there was free distri-
button of gifts, Which created great deal of
delight and not little amusement.
Year: 1872

TYroGRArHlcAL.-The Committee Of Ar
rangements Of the Richmond Union have


selected the Exchange Hotel as the head
quarters of the members of the international
Typographical Union during their stay in
this CITY in June next. ...re.
Year: 1872

at is r,,mored that the Crown Prince of Germany
will DAY visit to the United States next autumn"
and that his headquarters when IN Richmond Will be
at f. d. SPENCE i SONS fashionable clothing store.
Year: 1872

TIE TELEGRAPH SClIooL.-The second session
of this institution will commence April 18th.
Young men desrous of learning useful and profit
able business in very short time and at merely
nominal cost ehould call OH Messrs PAINTER &
McGoyERS, 1910 Main street, and enter at once
Year: 1872

MALE OHruAS. .SoclErY.-The, Richmond
Male Orphan Society is now in very -four
ishiug condition. There are in the asylum
about fifty boys, all of whom are regularly
taught and well taken care of by the super
iutcndrnt. Mr.. Gill. who is admirably quail
fled for the position which he holds. There
arc u number of applications always OH file
for boys from this asylum, and as great care
is taken to procure proper homes for the boys
when they arrive ut suitable age to leave
the asylum, tut few are ever returned or
have 10 be taken from those to whom they
sre apprentlccd.


There are amongst Others two applications
now in the hands o. the president for boys
one from druggist and the other from a
prominent law iirm-hoth Of this city. Each
of these gentlemen promise, if the qlalitca-
tions Of the boy is sufficient, to teach him the
business i'll which they are respectively Gu
gagged.


There il still much work to be done in this
city by this clcemosyrayv institution, and the
directors hope 70 add much to its usefulness
when tue annual appropriation OF 500 from
the city shalt have been paid over to them.
Year: 1872

The Sacramento Chameleon and a
number of other Democratic papers are
kiyi-ing" at great rate over large
sized mares nest" newly discovered by
them. They have it that George c. Cor
ham will make fight for Senator against
Booth, and that Gorham has the say on
the Republican party in this matter.
The cry of Gorham Gorham !" at the
beginning of every political campaign is
worn-out political dodge. When An
thony u Co. denounce George G. Gorham
of nonsense can no further go. The
assertion that Gorham and Booth will
be pitted against each other is in our
opinion sheer fabrication intended
to stir the political pool so that certain
evil-disposed persons may fish in its wa
te7s to better advantage. While we
think that strict justice to the people of
this State requires that neither of these
gentlemen should enter the Senatorial
arena, still if they wish to do so it is GER
tainly their privilege. So far as the con-
test inside Of the Republican organization
is concerned, there are several competent
men whom we should prefer to Gorham,
and Newton Booth is one of the number.
But whenever the contest is narrowed
down between the men who are now seek
ing to shiver the Republican organization
in this State and George G. Gorham, we
are emphatically for Gorham.
Year: 1872

Too THIN.-We notice that some of
our California exchanges are bowling a
great deal about number of workmen
having been discharged from the Mare
Island Navy Yard, November SOth, and
try to force the conclusion that these
men were merely hired for the purpose
of aiding the election of the Republican
Congressional nominee in this District.
They don't seem to understand that Ma
Wy Yard affairs are directed from the
head of the Navy Department at Wash
ington. Mare Island is not the only
place where the force was cut down. In
Eastern dispatches of December 1st we
see that 800 men were discharged from
the New York Yard and 500 from the
Charlestown Yard on the same day. 1t
has always been the practice to reduce
the force on the Navy Yards during the
Winter months.