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Year: 1871

KEEP HIM Down. When poor man at
teinpts to attempts t. show that there is
no monopoly Of genius, and that God hath
given as free and noble soul to the lowly
as to the great-he is not only opposed BY
tie class above him, but envy and scorn'are
too often his portion among his fellows They
do not like to see themselves outstripped by
one whom they have reckoned no better than
themselves, and instead Of encouraging,
dampen his ardor, and grieve his heart with
sneers, and cold, because envious, counsel
The next class above him love not TO see a
man who has naught to boast of but noble
soul, no treasures save those of mind, pre-
suming to take his place among them, and
there is one universal shout of "K eep him
down." This upward struggle which the
poverty stricken genius has to endure, has
daunted many mind and discouraged many
a breast, and has kept many man, formed
to be a light in the world, in poverty and
darkness to the end of his days. Because of
this many noble spirit has concealed its
own flame of brightness, many noble and
free man, of whom the world was not worthy,
has gone down, down to the grave with all
the wisdom of the soul untold -"have died
and made no sign"
Year: 1871

Whatever be our earthly lot,


Wherever we may roam,
Still to our hearts the brightest spot
Is round the heart at home;
The home where we received our birth,
The hearth by which we sat,
No other spot on EARTH


Will ever be like that
When winter, coming in its wrath
Piled high the drifting snow,
Safe clustered round the cheerful hearth
We watched the freight glow;
Nor brighter seemed the ruddy flames
Than did our hearts, the while
A loving mother breathed our names,
With sweet approving smile.
When wearied with our eager chase
Through many tangled path,
How sweet the dear accustomed place,
To talk around the hearth;
And still, by our toll and care


We feel ourselves oppressed.
Our thoughts forever cluster there,
And there alone find rest.
Bright promise of the rest above,
Sweet shelter from the storm,
Home hallowed by mothers love,
Hearth by that love made warm
Though wildly roared the storm without
What rocked we of the cold.
What place forany fear on doubt


Within that loving fold?
And when some little trouble weighed
Upon the childish heart,
Till from our brimming eyes it made
The gushing tear-,lrops start:
How quick before the genial glow,


We felt each sorrow cease.
And back tho cIystal current flow,
To flood our hearts with peace
And brighter with the passing years
Seems childhoods sweet employ,
And even sweeter still appears


Each well remembered Joy.
Around the cheerlul hearth AZ home,
Where we in childhood sat,
No other spot where er we roam,


VIII ever be like that.
Year: 1871

The following rates, AS FIXED BY LAW, WILL be
charged for all legal advertisements and notices


For the first insertion, one dollar and fifty
cents per square of two hundred and fifty ems,
and one dollar per square for each additional IN
sertion, up to four and thirty-hve cents per
square for each subsequent insertion.


r5y- All legal advertisements must be plainly
written and the number of insertions must al
ways be marked on the margin Of each adver-
tisement, or they will be continued and charged
accordingly. The publisher will not be rcspon-
siblc for faulty or gal manuscript.
Year: 1871

County DIGNITY Judge Chase, Of Ver-
mont, was a man of excellent sense, and
withal great stickler for the dignity of the
courts. A case of very trihing importance,
having well nigh ran the gauntlet of legal
adjudication, came up at length to the high
est courts in the State. The couse! for the
plaintiff was opening with the usual apollo
gies for a frivolous suit, when the subject
matter, "to wit, one turkey of great value,
ETC., catching the ear of the judge, he called
out: "Mr. Clerk strike that case from the
docket. The Supreme Court of the State
of Vermont does not sit here to determine the
ownership of a turkey
Year: 1871

THE GULF SrREAM.-A writer gives the
following graphic description of the Gulf
Stream: "There is river in the ocean. In
the severest drouth it never fails, and in the
mightiest floods it never overflows. Its
banks and its bottom are of cold water,
while its current Is warm. The Gulf of
Mexico is its fountain and its mouth is the
Arc ic seas. 1t is the Gulf Stream. There
is in the world no other so ma ajestic flow of
water Its current is more RAPID than the
Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume
more than a thousfld times greater. Its
waters, as far out as the Carolina colsts, are
of an indigo blue. They are so distinctly
marked that the line of junction with the
common sea water may be traced by the eye.
Often one half of the vessel may be perceiv
ed floating in the Gulf Stream water, while
the other half is in the common water of the
sea. so sharp is the line and the want Of
affinity between these waters; and such, too,
the reluctance, so to speak, on the part of
those of the Gulf Sire im to mingle with the
waters of the sea- In addition to this there
is another peculiar fact. The fishermen on
the coast of Norway are supplied with wood
from the tropics by the Gulf Stream. Think
of the Arctic fisherman burning upon their
hearths the palms of Hayt; the mahogany
of Honduras, and the precious woods af the
Amazon and Orinoco.'
Year: 1871

IT is said that there is no hope of there
ever being large supply of female type set
ters in the market. AS soon as a girl be-
comes proficient and valuable compositor,
some male printer marries her, and that puts
an end to work in the printing office.
Year: 1871

well, wilIsee about H." said Emma.


mamma.


And 80, on her next birthday, Emma
Dad present of q beautiful cspaav bird
in . cage. ta.
She was 80 much pleased with the cift
that fors whole month she would rise
before the sun, and come down stairs to
leed the little bird and give him water.
She named him Fan.


But, when shc had kept the bird a
month, she had present of o Rne rev
doll from her uncle; and, after that she
did not think quite SO mucc Of poor Fan,
snd one day che forgot to give hts seed


Then she thought she would try never
to forget him again; but she did forgot
MIN. There was to bc q grand dolls
party; and Emma was to max new ball
dress for her doll Grace.


For two days she lot the poor bird 20
without food or water and on the morn.
ing OF the third day, when all at once
the thought Of him came into her head.
she ran down stairs, and found him on the
door Of bis cage, dead


She took the lifeless thing in one hand
and the cage 10 the other, aod went to
her mamma. 1t made mamma very sad

to know that poor Fan had died through
Emma's lack of care


Emma was sad, too; and at last, after
the little girl, mamma kissed
her. and said. LET this teach you, my
lear, that duty is something We must
'ever forget; and that We may owe n
lsty ovep to- poor little bird, to forget,
II shall never forget my dear little
'an, said Emma. bursting into tears once
nore.-lda Fay in Nursery:
Year: 1871

Spcculation in stocks continues tame, and
rthout any features of sufficient interest to record.
The inclcmency of the weather. and the fact that the


Cleveland Convention took up new matters relative
to Lake Shore has dampened the ardor of OPERATOR
AID the market appears to be- left To take care OF ITSELF
which IL Is doing praiseworthy manner. In no par
tcuar stock has there been any notable movement pu-
ness being limited throughout the list though well dis
trhuted between New-Y0rk Central stock and scrip,
Reading Lake Shore, Ohio and Mississippi, North
Western Common and Preferred, Rock Island, st.
Paul and Western Unoa Telegraph. The
other prominent shares neglected. the business In
investment and dividend paying stocks being limited as
will he seen by reference to the Official list printed al the
head OF the column. The miscellaneous shares were
steady and express stocks quiet and firm. The market
has been steady throughout the day. the fluctuations
being confined within limits, as shown In the
following table Of the highest aud lowest prices of active
stack. for the day:
Year: 1871

In reading the accounts of the terrleib
accident which befell an eronaut in In
diana, the thought is naturally suggested
that the mental torture of the unfortunate
man during his descent must have been
horrible in the extreme. 1t is possible,
however, that the spectators suffered more
during the time than the victim himself.
So long as he clung to the balloon his
emotions of terror and despair must have
been fearful; but after he let 60 his hold
it is likely that cessation in great mea
sure ceased. A woman who, through the
giving way of an elevator in New Eng
land hotel few days ago, was precipitated
from the third story to the ground, says
that all she recollects of her descent is that
it seemed very long time before she
reached the end of her involuntary jour-
ney. And sailor who recently fell from
the mast Of vessel in Detroit describes
the sensation of falling as not disagreeable,
producing in him trancelike condition
in which consciousness was not wholly lost !;
but he says the time he was in the air
two or three seconds-seemed prolonged to
five minutes.
Year: 1871

We clip the following Quaker Printer
Proverbs from Rowen's Newspaper Re-
porter


Never sendest thou an article for pub
lication without giving the editor thy
name, for thy name oftentimes secures
publication to worthless articles


Thou shouldst not rap at the door of a
printing Office, for he that answereth the
rap sneereth in his sleeves and loseth
time.


Neither do thou loaf about, ask ques-
tioDs, or knock down the type. or the boys
will love thee like they do shade trees
when thou leaveth.


Thou shouldst never read the copy on
the printers case, or the sharp and hook
ed container thereof, or he may knock
thee down.


Neither inquire thou of the editor for
news, for behold it is his own business at
the appointed time to give it thee without
asking


1t is not right that thou shouldst ask
him who is the author of an article, for his
duty requireth him to keep such things to
himself


When thou dost enter his Office take
heed unto thyself that thou dost not look
at what may be lying open, and concerneth
thee not, for that is not meet In the sight
of good breeding.
Year: 1871

We speak, we speak of the loved and lost'
Who have gone to the land abeve,
And the mists of the river of death are crossed
By the rainbow of their love.
Sad hearts are yearning in hall and cot,
To pillow some dreamless head
But we know the beautiful changes not,
And our darlings are not dead.


By the beautiful gate


They watch and wait


Till our feet shall cease to roam.


And over the river. that sings forever.


The dear ones gather at home.
The voice of their melody wanders free
Thro' the wall of our broken song !
And the CLEAN of their snowy robes we see,
When tue earth grows dark with wrong;
We feel the touch of a vanished hand.
That thrilled in the days of yore;
And leads us ON to the summer land,
Where they live forevermore.
We speak when the work of the day is done,
Of the dawning by and by,
And number our treasures one by one,
In eur Fathers house ON high;
And oft we think when our rest shall come,
Of the meeting there will be,
Where the good and the beautiful all go home,
To the city beyond the sea.
Year: 1871

A WEDDING in a convent, writes a cor
respondent, is the last event which this
century lacked In order to be crowned as
the most wonderful of ages, and it ''has
come to pass" Berlin is the boastful
mot er of this striking novelty. Despite
the whitening influences AID the thousand
eyed guard of cloister life against the fatal
weapons of Cupid, an orphan maid, who
was reared by the Ursulines, was woed and
won by Lansberg knight, and recently
married by him in her convent home.
The Mother Superior stood instead of the
parents of 10th parties, and the wedding
was gay. All the company except the
bridegroom were in petticoats.
Year: 1871

The Detroit Post says A young lady
of Chesaning went to the new bath house
the other day, and the attendant asked her
what temperature she would have. With
an ingenious smile the sweet child Of
nature replied: II don't care for none"
and she was shown to her room.
Year: 1871

IT is said that if tree is felled while in
leaf, and allowed to lie until the foliage
withers, the wood will be the soonest sea-
soned, as the leaves will draw al the sap
before they die
Year: 1871

WHAT IT IS TO BE A WIDow.-' think it
must be a jolly thing to be young wild wv ="
| heard this remark the other day in grOup
OF laughing girls | think | can remember
saying such thing myself in the careless girl
lSh times. DO you know, girls, what it is to
be a widow? 1t is to be ten times more open
to comment and criticism than any dem0tSeHe
could possibly be. 1t is to have men gaze as
you pass, first at your widcw's cap, then
at your black dress, until sensitive nerves quv-
er under the lntllctOn. 1t is to have one i'll
natured person say, wonder how long she
will wait before she marries again ?" and an
other answer, Until she gets a good chance


| suppose. 1t is now and then to meet the
glance of real sympathy, generally from the
poorest and humblest woman you meet, and
feel your eyes fill up at the token, so rare, that
it is, alas unlocked for 1t is to have your
Gear fashionable friends cOndOle you after the
following fashion: "Oh, well it's dread
full loss. We knew you d feel it, poor dear !"
And in the next breath, You'll be sure to
marry again, and your widows cap is very be-
coming to you. But it is more than this to
be a widow. 1t is to miss the strong arm that
you have leaned upon, the true faith that you
knew could never fail you though all the
world might tOrSake you 1t is to miss the
dear voice that uttered your name with ten
derneSs none other could give it. 1t is to hear
never more the well-known footsteps that you
few so gladly once to meet; to see no more the
face that, to your adOring eyes, seemed more
lovely than any other; to feel no more the
twining arms that folded you so lovlngy-the
dear eyes that looked into your own said, so
plainly that, whate' er it might seem to Others
yours was the farest face earth held for him.
1t is o fight with a mighty sorrow as man
fights with the waves that Overwhelm him,
and to hold it at arms length for awhile, only
to have, in hours of loneliness and weakness,
the torrent roll over you, while-poor, storm
stricken dove you see no haven of peace in
the distance but heaven
Year: 1871

The New York Mail relates that a number
of young ladies', school teachers of New York
city, are spending their vacation at a some
what pretentious seaside hotel on Long Island,
and have been in the habit of participating in
the parlor hops which of course constitute
an important feature of the evenings diversion
But at a recent fashionable (?) arrival in the
person of lady who is wealthy enough to buy
out the whole establishment, caused a change
IN the programme. This lady objected to
assOciating with school teachers, aud the latter
were requested to refrain from joining in the
dance; and like sensible young ladies they
preserved their own dignity by refusing to
enter into controversy with the lady of "many
stamps. But the circumstance coming to the
knowledge of the landlord he laid the subject
before lady guest of superior intelligence and
high position in the metropolitan world of
fashion, who speedily reversed the order of the
dancing parties, and the name of the lady who
objects to the society of school teachers has
been dropped from the roll Of the fair jewellers
hotel.
Year: 1871

BONE FELoN.-Of all the painful things,
can there be anything so excruciatingly painful
as bone felon? We know of none that flesh is
heir to. AS this malady is quite frequent and
subject to much earnest considerations we give
the latest recipe for its cure, which is given by
that high authority, the London Lancet"


AS soon as the disease is felt, put directly
over the spot fiy-blister, about the size of
your thumb-nail, and let it remain for six
hours, at the expiration of which time, directly
under the surface of the blister may be seen
the felon, which can be instantly taken out
with the point of needle or a lancet"
Year: 1871

A deaf old gentleman, walking lately in his
side of the wall. Imagining some one called to
him, he cried, Here, and turned his ear
trumpet in the direction of the wall. The
milkman in his hurry took the trumpet for the
servants pail, and delivered quart of milk
therein
Year: 1871

During late performance of the Lady of
Lyons at the Mormon theatre in Salt Lake
City, an old elder got up and Indignantly
walked out of the house with his 24 wives
muttering, g won't stay and see play where
a man makes such an awful fool of himself
about one woman I"
Year: 1871

Urinary and Womb Diseases Gravel Diabetes DrOp
sy ,Soppage of Water, IncOnlnence Of Urne Brehl's
Disease, AlbuminurIa. and In all cases where thore
brick dust epOsits the water thick cloudy
mixed with substances like the white of an egg or
threads like while silk, there is a morbid, dark
bilious appearance and white bone dust pOsils and
when there is a prckIng, burning sensation y hen
passing water and pain III the Small OF the Back and
along the LOins
Year: 1871

| Through the recent terrible struggle which

 has convulsed Europe, this country has al.

 most lost sight of the people who have fought

 and are still fighting for liberty at our very

 doors It has at different times been declared

 by the Spanish authorities tha6 'the rebellion

 has been crushed, that the last of the insur-

 gent leaders has surrendered or been taken

 prisoner, etc, but the most reliable informa-

 tion, from disinterested sources, declare that

 the prospects of Spain to dictate the affairs of Cuba, were never, since the opening of the rebellion, more gloomy than st present Per- haps the most evsntful battle of the war was

 that fought about the first of last month, in

 which the Spaniards acknowledge the loss of

 l6O men. Reliable accounts hint at much greatar loss to the Spaniards than that stated.

 This is trulya war with Spain-charaoterizs

 by all the brutality and ferocity which have ever distinguished that people No prisoner is ever exchanged and happy is he who falls in battle compared with him that is made prisoner of war; In the latter casa he is sxe-

 eutsd, and if he be a leader, is subjected to every indignty before being put to death The Cubans have but to retaliate so that the war has assumed rather the character of war of extermination than otherwise The Spaniards hope to conquer by pillaging and destroying ihe country in their line of march, with view to the reduction of the Cubans by starvation, while the latter declare that they will gain their independence by pursuing a tike course hence the work of destruction continues and likely to continue while there are hundred Ilsn left on eitker side.
Year: 1871

The removal of Senator Simmer from his

 position as chairman of the Committee on

 Foreign Relations, st the instigation of the President, has shaken the republican party throughout the country to its very centre. Logan in his defense of Sumner expressed the oPinon that such would be the result, and ths opinion expressed through the Press of the country fully sustans his views. The old, but homely adige which says, i'givs 6 thief rope enough and he will hang himself is here very strikingly sxempIi6ed: The republican thief has helped himself to an indefinite length of rope aud the result is that the beast is abou 10 strangle himself
Year: 1871

We have just received from the manufacturers In Phil
adelpha of he finest assortment OF The above art
ces tn ever offered to The citizens OF Wilmington
Among them u an entirely new brace known as The
Year: 1871

" When blue Is made against this paragraph it
denotes that the subscription expires the pesk. We
shall he pleased to have 1t renewed give much no
ce in order that the subscriber not any nunbers
Year: 1871

The President and his DISTINGUISHED party spent
YESTERDAY very quietly st the FNrn Avenue Hotel
Mr.. Frederick Grant was confined t0 his quarters
the most OF the day, and was not slsible to the
naked eye. General Sherman rode up from the
Astor House In the evening and renamed
with the President until Q late hour. Tho
General was waited on during the forenoon
by large number OF friends VINO
wished him pleasant jourHey in the
Old World and safe return. There is nothing
concerning the projected trip Of the distinguished
party to be sscertained further than what has
already been published. the Wabash. which u to
take General Sherman, Mr.. Grant and party on
board &C New YORK, had not arrived IN the bay at
late hour last night. II she comes In the morning
her guns will probably add 70 the roar Of welcome
which Will herald the approach Of the Grand Duke
AexiA Fl M te .gNw 9at#. .st
Year: 1871

Issocistes to be. The Reps5sioon also thinks
This ID the suspicious time for some Of our
great men, without regard to party, to unite
In bringing forward, FOR the next Presidency,
some pure man Of the North who has no past
record of which he may be ashamed, or with
which he may be justly reproached. Does
our Virginia contemporary point to such .
man q Charles O'ConOr? rN
Year: 1871

Look into the baby-carriage, and see tn,
bright face that gladdens some home. Sc,
the ruby lips and dimpled cheeks, and most
of all, the shining eyes, which set US wonder
ing what their future may be. What
world Of possibilities is centered in that lit.
tie being just launched on the broad ocear
Of life And who can tell what its destiny
may be, or what Time has in store for it +? In
these little buds Of promise, we see the en-.
bryo of the future nation. We take pan.
oramlc view of the past, present, and future,
and we sec at glance how frail we are, How
weak, yet how mighty how small yet how
wonderful is that little creature If we
could only follow out each peculiar character
istic which hath spoken itself into life, in the
mechanism Of that little mystery could trace
from cause TO effect, so as to learn a lesson
therelrom, we should then know the sigui6.
cance ofeach little upturned face. We should
be more tender; more lenient to the erring,
should know how to pity the unfortunate (;
how to do good deeds, and speak kind words,
and we should oil be better and wiser for
looking into tho baby.carriagc.
Year: 1871

As general rule, the best place for a
young man to begin life is right where he is


lie need not 60 a hundred, or three hundred,
or a thousand miles away from home to try
the world; that particular spot where he
lives is part of the world, and just as good
place to try as some other particular spst
three hundred miles off. 1t is very com.
mon mistake for youngsters, who have not yet
butted their tender heads against the hard
angles Of the world, to imagine they possess
superior talent, if they only had an opportu


nifty to exhibit it, If they live on farm, there
is no chance there to show their genius il


they live in a country town, it is entirely too
small to spread their wings in. They yearn
for great city where talents are appreciated


and imagine that there is field for them to
rise to eminence and wealth, and yet they
had better stay right where they are and make
their beginning in the locality where they were
raised. they really possess genius, or specia
aptitudes, they may first develope them, and
test the metal they are made of, in the limit
ed sphere Of their native place, and, If the ex.
pertinent proves satisfactory afterwards trans.
fer them to wider sphere Of action. Thous.
ands of young men who go to great cities to
try the world, find the world in such cities too
much for them, and learn, too late, that il
would have been better for them to make
their trial in an humber and safer sphere.