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Year: 1872

We are very certain il did in the case Of
the most cou teous gentleman in Laporte
The old citezen-the young citizen-or
any other citizen-or even the occasional
visitor to the city of Laporte, who don't
know Major JOHN WALTON, is entitled
to ver,- little respect from anybody Nat
urally OF genial disposition, which was
developed and polished by culture, he has
kind greeting for everybody As re-
tail dry goods merchant he had ample
scope for his politeness-and he used it so
eifectually that when the Wings came in
to power, under the administration Of
General Taylor, he was appointed to the
responsible and lucrative office of Post
Master He was some times little alb
sent minded On one occasion, soon af-
ter he was installed as Post Master, his
young clerk, who boarded with him, re
turned from his supper to the Post Office
rather late in the evening, anG the Major
met him at the door, grasped his hand
cordially, and very blandly inquired the
state of his health and the condition of
his wife and family. The Majors mis-
takes were, sometimes laughable; but
they always paid, as was evidenced by the
fact that he was entrusted for eight years
with the office of Auditor of Laporte
county, one of the best Offices in the coun-
ty-and everybody knows his politeness
had more to do with his promotion than
his politics.
Year: 1872

There is abundant evidence of the fact
that most of the Liberal Germans who
will attend the Cincinnati Convention 90
there in the interest of scheme to ahol-
ish the Presidential Office, and substitute
therefore single legislative body, clothed
with executive power Some such idea
has long been the cherished dream of
German radicals, and while harmless
enough when it stands alone, it becomes
significant when connected with 're-
form movement like the present, and es-
pecially in view of the fact that the Ger
mans will probably take little stock in the
Cincinnati movement if it does not con-
form to their ideas 1t will be entirely
safe to predict, though, that the men who
attend at Cincinnati will not be in favor
of abolishing any office whatever-Indi-
ara ,Joz-7l1I
Year: 1872

Such course viii effec tually check all progress
or improvement. Evils exist, so much we all ac-
knowledge; but shall we admit that power
less before those evils? This is plea of weakness
that does not become US as men or statesmen. It
is possible that first efforts at reform may be i'm
perfect; but because we cannot frame q perfect
system at once, shall we therefore do nothing? By
experiment we shall learn, and if a course of i'm
Year: 1872

her face with her hands. And thus
she was when the strong man gather
ed her up in his arms as if she had
been a baby, and held her, sobbing to
his breast.


There were enough gaping at them,
heaven knows, and turned my eyes
away moment, and I saw two boys
in threadbare roundabouts standing
near, wiping their eyes and noses on
their little coat sleeves, and bursting
cut anew at every fresh demonstra-
ton on the part OF their mother.


When / looked ut the stranger
again he had his hat drawn over his
eyes; but his wife was looking up at
him, and it seemed as If the pent up
tears Of those weary months Of watt
ing were streaming through her eye
lids. ...
Year: 1872

In New York, ladies when on pro-
menade, wear belt Of leather around
the waist, to which Is fastened a clasp
which holds an umbrella Of brown
or purple silk on one side, so that q
lady may carry an umbrella without
being obliged to take her hands out
of her muff.
Year: 1872

1t is easy, no doubt, to journey alone
n the broad sunshine and on the
beaten highway of our lot; but over
the midnight plain and beneath the
still immensely Of darkness the travel
er seeks some fellowship for his wan
dsrings. And what is religion but the
midnight hemisphere of life, whose
vault Is filed with the silence Of God,
and whose everlasting stars, If giving
NO clear light, yet fills the soul with
dreams Of immeasurable glory?
Year: 1872




The disreputable editor of the New York
| Sun recently made serious charges against
Secretary Robson. Congress appointed a
committee to investigate. The result is
the following as told by Crounse to the
New York Times, on the 7th:


The disaster, defeat and flight from the
city of Dana, Bartlett, Gibson ct al. has
been the principal subject of unanimous
expression that there never was such an
overwhelming, humiliating and disgrace
full overthrow of the vile purposes of bad
men. The last escape of Dana and his
scribbler OH Friday night was that they
would privately furnish to the committee
on Saturday list of witnesses who, they
said, could be summoned to prove the
charges made. Nobody believed this could
be done, and it was not. Dana and his
hackers fled the city, at noon of yesterday,
without notice to the committee, and the
investigation went on last night in the eX-
animation of six witnesses who were con-
cerned in the very matters which the
charges pretended to cover. The evidence
of DR.. Broadhead, Second Controller of
the Treasury, the law officer whose fiat is
higher than that of the Secretary or Presi-
dent on the legality of the payment of the
SecOr claim, was conclusive. He passed
the claim because it was strictly i'll accord
ance with law. Every man who is con-
cerned in any of the transactions covered
by the charges will be summoned, and the
investigation will not suffer for want of a
prosecution. 1t will be pushed through to
q conclusion vigorously.
Year: 1872

From the Chattanooga Times of the 10th
we take the following account of the eff
fects of the storm on the night of the Sth


The Memphis train due here yesterday
morning at 4:30 arrived at P. NJ, being be-
hind time twelve and One-half hours. The
track of the Memphis and Charleston road
was not seriously damaged by washing,
the detention of the train from Memphis
being due to the submerging of the track
the greater portion of the way from Mem
phis to Huntsville.


The mail agent on the train that arrived
Yesterday evening informed us that they
ran through not less than one hundred and
fifty miles of water from one to three feet
deep. 1t was necessary to stop the train at
short intervals and "take soundingsn
ahead to ascertain the condition of the
track.


The track on the Nashville and Chatta-
nooga road is badly damaged between Muir
fresboro and Wartrace, some fifteen miles
of track being badly wrecked, culverts torn
out and bridges gone. The half of the
bridge over Stone river is gone.


Some of the scenes described by the Of
ficers of the trains were thrilling and al
most beyond belief. One of the conduc-
tors stated that his train ran some distance
besidea new made torrent one hundred
and fifty yards wide that completely
drowned by its terrific roar the noise of
the train. He saw whole fields submerged;
in which he saw plow handles visible
above the raging flood.


The train that left here on the w. 4. a.
r. r. for Atlanta at $50 yesterday morn
ing met with serious accident at Tunnel
Hill. The engine upset by one side of the
track giving way under it, falling on
wood-passer, a negro, and crushing him
to death. The track was blockaded by the
accident so as to detain the Atlanta train
due here at LEO yesterday so that it did not
arrive until four in the evening.
Year: 1872

On yesterday lad named Willis Meredith
was arrested by Sheriff Gossett in Raccoon VAL
charge of stealing coat. vest ard hat from an
old COlOred man named Dennis Moore He ad-
mitted having taken the articles mentioned and
told who he had sold them to and where thew
could be found.


His mother was very much distressed at his
conduct but told him if he was guilty She did
not want him to come to her house any more
He came to town wearing the stolen hat, she
having taken his brothers hat which he was
wearing when arrested, and after preliminary
trial before r. D. Jourolmon, Esq, was COM
mitted to jail bare-headed, the owner having
him. The father of the boy is said to be a
worthy and industrious man.
Year: 1872

Frederick Douglass will be delegate
from this district to the National Conven-
ton OF Colored Men, which meets at New
Orleans, the 10th of the present month,
ana Will probably be the President of the
convention. Efforts have been making
by the runners of the Cincinnati office
seekers Convention to influence the ac-
ton of this Convention of the colored men
on the supposition that the colored vote
can thereby be DETECTED from Grant but,
judging from the small influence of the
particular colored men said to have been
approached, they have little chance of sue
cess.-N Y, Times.
Year: 1872

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes Drop
sy( 1nc0ntlnence of Urine, Brighs disease Albumin
r and in where there are Brick dust deposits or
the water is thick cloudy, mixed with substances ike
the white OF an egg threads like white silk or here
Is morbid, dark, bilious appearance, and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is a prickng, burning
sensat and pain in the small of the back ard along
the Oins. In all these conditions Railways Sarparl
liam Resolyent, aided by the application of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back and
the bowels regulated with two Of Railways
Regulating Pills per day will make a complete
cure In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
and discharge water naturally without pain, and the
or sherry color.
Year: 1872

Gumbs, who lives next door to us, has
bought a new dog. he needed new one.
His last dog used to bark all night in
the yard until, in frantic desperation, we
would shy our boots and cologne bottles
and furniture at him. But he always
went on worse; and in the morning Gumbs
would come calmly out and gather up those
missiles and carry them into the house
He has more than twenty pairs of our
boots and slippers in his possession, be-
sides chair legs, and cakes of soap, and
hair brushes, match safes, and towel racks.
And he never had the manliness to offer TO
give them back. Onthe contrary, he trained
that dog to sit by the front gate and to
seize us by the leg when we came out,
three or four times a week, apparently for
the purpose of securing some more Boots.
But we poisoned him one night, and the
next morning Gumbs threw the carcass
Gumbs returned it. We both staid at
home that day, and spent the tue in hand
ing the dog to one another over the fence.
Then we hired an Irishman to stand there
night and day to return the deceased to
Gumbs' yard. Then Gumbs also hired an
Irishman. 1t was exhilarating work. Tle
corpse rapidly trayersed that fence six Or
seven thousands times every twenty -four
hours. He must have become familiar
with the route, even If he was dead. at
last he wore away With so much handling,
aud on the last day the Irisbman whiled
the hours by flinging only the tail at each
other. Our Irishman at last buried the
tail and resigned. And now Gumbs has
got new dog. It will be excessively sin
gular if we do not fish for that dog some
eveEing. soon with a goldfish line and
piece Of beef, and run him up all OF sud
den to our window, and launch him into
the sewer. No dog owned by man nam
ed Gumbs shall exult over us.
Year: 1872

An newspaper publisher lately gave no.
tice that he intended to spend fifty dollars
for "a new head" for his paper. The next
day one of his subscribers dropped him the
following note: "Don'5 do it-better keep
the motley and buy new head for the
editor"
Year: 1872

i


Statements are frequently seen go-
ling the rounds of the Radical press
to the effect that farmers have no
taxes TO pay or account of the in
crensed expenses of the national gov
ernment. Let us see If there are
mo taxes for farmers to pay" No
farmer can consume peck Of corn
meal unless it is made from corn
raised on taxed land, plowed by a
taxed plow, drawn by taxed gears;-
unless it was hoed with taxed hoe,
cultivated with taxed implements,
gathered in taxed wagon, drawn
with taxed horses, thrown in taxed
CRIB, sheHed on taxed machine,
| measured in q taxed measure, taken
in taxed sack and ground in tag
ed mill, sieyed witE o taxed sieve,
mixed in taxed pan, stirred with q
taxed spoon, saIted with taxed salt,
put into taxed bake-pan, baked in q
taxed stove. laid on taxed plate, cut
with q taxed knife, and lastly, eaten
by q pretty heavily taxed farmer.


"No taxes for farmers" is very
silly assumption for Radical papers
to make when every farmer knows to
his sorrow that tax enters in at every
door of his dwelling; it stares him
in the face when he sits down to his
meal, it finds a place at his freside;
it is omnipresent; it never leaves him
in the outgoings and incomiDgs, and
tax is impressed upon everything
which conduces to his comfort or IS
necessary to his being. Taxation is
the Demon which Radical misrule
has let loose upon the country to
pursue TIE farmer and everybody
else Except bondholders) with re-
lenting, merciless power, and from
which there is no escape, except in a
change of policy which will secure a
more economical administration of
public affairs. The only remedy for
the farmer, the laborer, the mechan-
ic and professional man is a change
in the administration of this govern
ment. Farmers, vote for a change
and thus relieve yourselves of the
great weight that oppresses you.
Year: 1872

EXPANDING THE LUNGs.--Step in.
to the purest air you you can find
stand perfectly erect, with head and
shoulders back, then fixing the lips as
if you were going to whistle, draw
the air through the lips into the lungs.
When the chest is about halt full,
gradually raise the arms, keeping
them extended, with the palms of the
hands down, as you suck in the air, so
as to bring them over the head just as
the lungs are quite full. Then drop
the thumbs inward, and after forcing
the arms backward and the chest
open, reverse the same process by
which you draw your breath, until
the lungs are empty. This process
should be repeated Immediately after
bathing, and several times during the
day. 4 is impossible to describe to
one who has never tried it, the glori-
Gus sense of vigor which follows this
exercise Home and Health.
Year: 1872

A traveller who spent some time in
Turkey, relates the following beauti-
full parable:


Every man has two angels-one
on his right shoulder and one on his
left. When he does anything good.
the angel on his right shoulder writes
it down and seals it, because what
has been done is done forever
When he does anything evil, the an
gel on his left shoulder writes it down
and waits till midnight. If before
that time the man bows his head and
exclaims, Gracious Allahl / have
sinned-forgive mel the angel rubs
out the record; but if not, at mid
night he seals it, and the angel on
the right shoulder weeps.
Year: 1872

[ have been particularly impressed
with the different modes of opening
farms and building homes in the west,
especially by the poorer class of people.
Many, / think, who live in the old east
ern states and never saw any of the pi-
oneers' life, have an incorrect idea of
the amount of labor impended, and the
many inconvenience it is necessary for
one to put up with, to get a home in a
new and unsettled country, although it
has been cleared by nature of the wood
and stone.


You have newspaper accounts of the
many who are building homes in the
west and thus accumulating wealth in
an incredibly short time. Pamphlets
are circulated, putting forth the unpar-
alleled inducements offered by the far
acest to those who wish to get homes ca
sy but seldom do the writer's mention
the many who come west, with ideas
gathered from these resources, expect
ing to find farms all ready to plow and
put in their grain, which will afford
enough to meet all expenses, pay for
the land in its wild state, and build a
house to live in.


Now propose to present the subject
as nearly as possible, in the same light
] see it in.


First, let us look at the length Of
time necessary to reduce the soil and
prepare it for the first crop. A person
taking claim in the spring, or early
summer, can spend the breaking season
in turning the wild sod, which will cost
him three dollars per acre on smooth


prairie, and more in proportion to tf'


number of grubs (roots Of small bushes,


in the soil. This season lasts until th'


middle of July when the grass gets to-


tough to rot readily.


From this time until cold weathe
he can work out for from sixteen t
twenty dollars per month or from one t
, three dollars per day. Through tn
, winter he can work at odd jobs unit
spring when he can back-set his break
f ing and put in his first crop, which wi
f be ready to harvest in July and Angus
: and generally yields from twenty to fol
Y ty bushels to the acre. Thus he spenc
d sixteen months to get the first crol
Year: 1872

four to six months of the time being
spent entirely on the land and in har-
vesting, stacking and thrashing his grain.
The remaining time being the poorest
working months of the year. t}}


As return for this labor, he gets
for his grain from fifty to ninety cents
bushel and pays the expenses of thrash
ing, storing, and drawing the grain to
market. 81 I.4... ~


Now if a poor man come here, as ma
ny do, without the means of buying a
team or hiring his breaking done, and
hires the money to get this done, pay
ing from twelve to twenty-four per cent
interest; gets trusted for his fencing
material or spends his time keeping cat
The same TOT MS ueDJs, NOW MUCH VIII
remain of this first crop after paying
the expenses :?


The second crop is generally spent to
get family provisions, and build a house
to live in. Machinery and tools for
tilling the soil and securing the crops
will take two or more crops, and if the
land be preemption, another crop is
used, thus taking five years at least to
secure farm which, under favorable
circumstances, will bring from one to
three thousand dollars. -.


To be sure, some clear their farms
and become independent at the close of
five years but many have to work an
extra two years to prove up on home
stead OF pre-emption


Trying to get too much land and pay
ing the high interest allowed in this
state are the means of more discomfort
and failures than any other cause.


A person who can command from five
to ten hundred dollars to make begin
ming with and put the improvements
on, necessary to comfort, and to render
the cultivation of his land easy, can
take homestead and at the close of
five years will be Independent of debt
and well situated to carry on his farm
on profitable scale. But most people
who have this amount of money, buy
land that has been improved, paying
, from one to two thirds down and mort
gaging the land for the balance at
twelve percent, thus starting in debt
: and working on the short arm of the
5 lever,-many soon become disguised
r and curse the country or 60 back to tel
| their sad tale to their eastern cotempo
: raries.


: G. III. Dewing.
q ShelbVyille Aup ri 1870
Year: 1872

by more generous harvests. | hold that


Vermont may wisely proffer to many of
her industrious sons inducements to
stay at home which should outweigh their
inducements to seek homes elsewhere.
But these propositions I barely suggest,
leaving their consideration to the intel
ligent and forehanded yeomanry of this
State. Should they respectively decide
that they can afford to drain bogs and
plant trees, and subsoil, and fertilize as
vigorously as I have on my own little
farm, she will have at least half mil
lion people at the taking of the next
federal census in 1880. For though she
may never grow grain so luxuriantly or
make meat so eheaply as some of her
attanua ages and attractions which those
who, after once enjoying them, have
pitched their tents elsewhere, and per-
haps better trained to appreciate than
the sons who have never abandoned her
soil. No hills are greener, no skies are


brighter. no waters purer, no air more


brac1ng than hers: and l do not know
that any other State affords better COM
mon school education to the great body
of her sons and daughters than she does J;
and gratefully proclaim my indebted
ness to her schools for the better part of
whatever training in letters and the rud-


iments of science [ received. One of
the most eminent of her sons, the late


Stephen A. Douglass borrowing an ex-


preston of Daniel Webster's remarked


that "Vt. was noble state to emigrate


from y and this if rightly considered is


no slender praise. A philosopher reck-


oned it among the chief blessings which


attended our earthly pilgrimage to be


we'll born; and he is, in an important


sense, well-born, who has reason to be


proud of the land in which his eyes first


opened to the light. And surely no son


even by adoption. of Vermont, ever re.


garded her history without glow Of


pride in her renown.


Foremost in the war for independence


she had probably more men and boys il
the army which compelled the surrende
of Burgoyne, than she had left at hom'
} with strength to raise and aim musket
and she never faltered in the darkes
hour of any subsequent struggle fo
! freedom and right. She had no torie
1 in the revolution, and no slave hunte
: ever tracked his quarry to her soil an
: failed to be sent home bahied and defeat
: Uu Irer PasG gives assurance and ju.
| titles confidence as to her future. Will
4 our country maintains her liberty an
e her greatness, the virtues OF -,
), will be precious portion of the natior
1 al heritage; and if this country is de'
S tined, in the providence of God, to illus
e trate the frailty of all things earthl
n and material-if corruption shall d.
d bauch her legislation and palsy her maj
S ly strength-let US never doubt that th
S last struggle of expiring liberty will
i made among these green hills-that fro
e their SUBMITS the eagle; will take figl
/ to some land beyond the ocean whel
e justice is not bought and sold as me
Is chandise, and man disdains to traffic
i the rights of his fellow men.
Year: 1872

A sentimental and spoony youth hav-
ing in transport of ardor told his love
that "a hundred million years of eoerni-
ty might pass away and still better
would he love her," the young lady
naively remarked that at the end of
eternity she would reciprocate his at
tachment.
Year: 1872

A dispatch from Springfield says -
AN AnimmcnscLibcral Republican move
mcnt is on foot in this city. and in a few
DAYS call will be issued convoking II
State Convention to select delegates to
attend the Cincinnati Convention. The
names to the call will embrace about all
the prominent Republicans in the State.
Some OF the names to this document
are already with the regular Radical
call for the State Convention Of May
%" If something is not done pretty
soon TO check this Liberal Republican
movement North and West, we are APP
prehcnsivc the Radical party will be
ruined beyond hope.
Year: 1872

a bucolic who was in Athens last
week attending Court, and who was de-
tanned until after dark, has a fearful cx-
pcricnce to relate of what he saw and
endured in the vicinity of the Old Gum
Tree, Just beyond the Lowry Bridge
over the EaStanrlcc. We would print
it. except that il is too incredible for or
dinary belief aud dwarf, the horrors of
the second death which one occasional
" hears Numbered from the orthodox
pulpit. It's sufficient that we admon-
ish all who have occasion to pass the
spot to do so before it is thoroughly en-
vclopcd in the shadows and darkness of
night. especially if they have had nip
or two at the cheap article of whisky
which is rctailcd somewhere about the
town.
Year: 1872

Recently in New York private meet
ing was held composed of Young men
of the Republican party who are OPP
posed TO the denomination of President
Grant; and n complete organization
was formed in some ten or fifteen wards.
1t is expected that thirty clubs will be
thoroughly organized soon. They do
not express their preference for any
one person or candidate for the Prc,i-
dcncy.