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Year: 1873

The party who receives the support of
the press must give the press its conf
denee and assistance, or it will necessa
rily become weak and inefficient, or look
elsewhere for encoura cement.
Year: 1873




Considering the gloom OF the hour better bust
ness in government securities was done at both
boards than might have been expected, late prices
being generally well maintained. The demand is
on account of prominent investment and the de-
cline in rates has been by no means prop0rtionate
to the surrounding depression. The late quota
Year: 1873

A Long Branch correspondent writes /:
"My feelings are capable of bearing up
against an ordinary amount OF strain,
but when they are put to the test Of
listening to q spooney couple making
love every night for three weeks, it is
more than an ordinary single young
man ought to be expected to stand
There is a young man here who has
been engaged for three weeks in dill
gent effort to kiss a girl, and has not
yet succeeded. They sit near my win
dow on the second balcony till midnight,
Any fellow who wouldn't get as far as
kissing 8 girl after three weeks love
making, is a milksop. Every night it
is the same story. As 1 lie down on
my lonely couch, wooing the slumber-
ing god, am kept awake by this young
mans persistent begging for kiss.
Year: 1873

i


One of our citizens who has been
troubled with a severe cold on the
lungs, effected his recovery in the
following simple manner: He boiled
a little boneset and hoarhound TO-
.gether, and drank freely of the tea
before going to bed. The next day
he took FIVE pills, put one kind Of
plaster on his breast, another under
his arms, and still another on his
back. Under advice from an expes
rienced old lady he took all three oIf
with an oyster knife in the afternQ6h,
and slapped on a mustard paste in
stead His mother put some onion
drafts toshis feet and gave him a lump
of tar to swallow. Thenhe put some


hot bricks to his feet ssand went to
bed. Next moaning, another old
lady came in with bottle of goose
oil, and gave him q dose Of it in q
squill, and an aunt arrived about tho
same time from Bethel, with bum
die of sweet fern which she made
into tea, and gave him every half
hour until noon, when he took a big
dose of salts. After dinner his wife


who had seen a fine old lady, of great
experience in doctoring, on Franklin
street, gave him two pills of her
make about the size Of an English


walnut and of a similar shape, and


two tablespoorfuls Of homemade bal
sam to keep them down. Then he
took half pint Of hot rum at the
suggestion Of an old sea captain in
the next house, and steamed his legs


with an alcohol bath. AT this crisis
two of the neighbors arrived, who
saw at once that his blood was out of
order, and gave him a half gallon of
spearmint tea, and big dose of cas-
ter oil. Before going to bed eight
more new pills. wrapped about his
neck a flannel soaked in hot vinegar
and salt, and had feathers burnt upon
a shovel in his room. He is now
thoroughly cured, and full of graft
tude. We advise our readers to cut
this out and keep it where it can be
readily found when danger threatens.
.Danbury Neaus.
Year: 1873

v y prepared to furnish the Ell
WAN FERTILIZERS to planters on
the most reasonable terms. They can
furnish certificates from the most relia-
ble men showing that the use of the
Etiwan Fertilizers has increased their
crops from one hundred to four hundred
per cent.


They would call special attention to
the ETIWAN DISSOLVED BONE,
which is growing more and more popu-
lar every year as an excellent fertilizer.
This is used for composing with Cotton
Seed and Stable Manure, and those who
have tried it, cheerfully testify to its
merit. BY the use Of it, two tons of
manure can be secured at less cost
than one ton of the Standard Fertilizers.
The earlier the compost is prepared the
better, hence we would advise all our
friends who contemplate using the
Dissolved Bone to send in their orders as
soon as possible.


Jan. SO, 1872, A.
Year: 1873

Some time ago a Danbury man


loaned an eye doctor one hundred dol
lars to start in business The trade
vast very good, and the eye doctor
sunk the money. What do you sup
pose his bucker did2 Sued the doctor?
Not at all. He just got an umbrella
with hooked handle and carried it
under his arm. Three months after,
ward that eye doctor paid back the
hundred dollars, and next spring will


lead one of our most accomplished
heiresses 10 the altar,-DanJury Nescs
Year: 1873

The Ticket nominated at the Re-
publican State Convention last week
is unanimously and heartily endors-
ed by the Republican press of the
State. It is with pleasure that we
place such a ticket at the head of our
columns. Some of the Democratic
journals have opened their batteries
upon Gov. Carpenter, because he was
supposed at one time to be friend
of Ex-State Treasurer Rankin, and
and because the Grand Jury Of Polk
county refused to indict Rankin.
Others of them, including the Mari
on County Democrat, have not yet
informed their readers that any nom
nations have been made for State Of
ficers, although they find room for
columns of howl against the salary
grab and Rankin theft which the
people kneW ali about and condemn
ed months ago.


The Platform made at Des Moines
last week. as well as the ticket, is re-
ceiying earnest ratification every
where except from such of the oposi-
ton as can see no good in anything
eminating from Radical source.


1t isjust such Il platform as the peo-
pie and the party demanded. Every
resolution rings with bold and earn
est words showing that the party is
with the people on all those questions
of reform which the necessity of the
times demand.


With this ticket, and this platform
the party goes before the people
with the belief that its record, its
principles and its promises are at
least as good as those Of that party
which is just now ready to humble
itself and pretend to surrender soul
and body, principle and name for tenn


porary success at the polls. Having
nothing to lose mot even o good
name-its hollow pretence Of laying
its total assets at the feet OF
the farmers, does not ehtitle
it to any great credit. That its mas
ses are dishonest and corrupt we Will
not believe, but that their leaders are
more to be trusted than other men is
not evidenced by the record OF votes
| in Congress on the salary grab. which
| all den0unce. 1t will be remember.
ed that nearly, or quite twO-thlrds OF
the Democrats in Congress voted for
the greb, and less than half the re-


pubiicans voted with them. -
The campaign now opening in Iowa
| is not likely to be so much contest
between PARTIES AZ usual. 1t Will De
more personal campaign, and the
choice will be between men. There
will probably be less differences be.
tween party platforms than hereto
fore, and less willingness to keep
lstrictly within party lines.
Year: 1873

But why should ! stand in this
sweltering heat to talk about the
Democratic party? 1t is like kick
ing corpse. At least that party is
80 near like corpse that / don't be.
lieve it would sweat if it was packed
in this room. Thanking you again
for your partiality, and pledging you
again my best efforts in behalf Of Z
people and a State which have ali
my affections, ! will close.
Year: 1873

You must elect your work. Yeu shall take
what brains you can, and drop all the rest.
Only so can that amount of vital force accum-
ulate which can make the step from knowing
to doing No matter how much faculty of
idle seeing man has, the step from knowing
to doing is rarely taken. 1t is sep out of a
chalk circle of imbecility into lruitfulness.-
Emerson. refs- p. r l
Year: 1873

One of the most experienced underwriters
now in Boston expresses the belief that oiled
rags occasion more fires in this country than
any other single cause-a fact not very duly
appreciated by those who daily use them,
and suffer them to lie round loose and ignite,
or throw them into heap and thus increase
the danger.
Year: 1873

A literary bachelor, who is very fond Of
talking about his writings, was, not long ago,
in company abusing children roundly, when
a young mother remarked: "If women bore
people any more about their babies than you
do about your books. agree with you that
they ought to be kept out of good society"
A sudden silence fell upon the authorial
Malthus for the remainder of be.evening
Year: 1873

An Amherst man owns very profitable
dog. He has sold it several times, but It al
ways returns again in due season, no matter
how far it is carried. In the course of time
that dog will make a competency for bis own
Year: 1873

A gossiping correspondent states that the
late Thomas Starr King was the first person
who ever encouraged Bret Harte to write, as
suring him he could develop genius if he
would only 60 resolutely to work and dig it
out of his brain. Tae same letterwriter an
nonnces that Mrs. Hate is one of eight
daughters of Judge Griswold, deceased, all of
whom have married men of more or less dis
Year: 1873

OF course, We have high and very
sincere admiration for General Malone,
President of the combined lines of rail
road from Norfolk to Bristol. By his tact,
energy and skill he ha5n,ade trunk rail
road that for efficiency i'll conduct, the
character of its rolling stock and the
snaoothness of its road bed, is not sur


passed in the United States. But, while
we glory in his ability to overcome almost
insuperable difficulties, we can not forget
the interests of Memphis. We must have
a through and direct route to the East, and
inasmucil as the Charleston Railroad is ir>
recOverably i'm the hands of the Southern
Security Company, whose interest it is to
have an uncomfortable interest in connect
ing roads to the sea, we are hopeful that,
in the pending lawsuit in the Morristown
Chancery Court, he will bc defeated and
the Security people be triumphant. We
are for whatever will build up Memphis,


and hope that since Malone can not agree
to terms the Security will be able to find a
way beyond Bristol by line of its own,
ria Asheville, North Carolina.-lfcnsphSs
appeal.
Year: 1873

One of the Ohio papers tells about a
brave little boy out there who found
broken rail on the railroad track, and per.
ceiving the peril in which the train would
be placed If it should come dashing past
without warning, sat out on the fence for
five long hours in the bitter winter cold
of the accident to his father, who is local
editor of paper published in the neigh
boring village
Year: 1873

The Boston Land Company, in which some of our
wealthy citizens are interested offered at auction.
yesterday, at tho Merchants Exchange Reading
Room in that city, 23oOO shares of the stock at the
upset price of SO per share There was large at
tendance, and the bidding was more spirited than
had been expected, the first lots selling at Sc to
SO 80 and the price running up to Ss 12s, with the
closing sale at IS. This we learn provides the Com
pany with all the cash required for the extensive
improvements contemplated and already in progress
and places the large estate substantial financial
basis The extraordinary demand for skilled and
other aborers to build up the burned district of Bos
ton, and the certainty of large influx of population
has attracted attention to the unmportant suburbs
nearest to the city, and given rise apparently to an
unusual demand for that class of property.


The Eric Railway Company report weekly earn
nps commencing Nov. /, 1872, az follows:
Year: 1873

The Tucson public school, John Spring l teacher, closed another quarter last Mon- day. Quite a number of prominent citi Zens were present. An examination of the pupils occurred and in some respects they exhibited remarkable progress. The readiness with which many neatly write out the correct English of Spanish senten- ces pronounced to them, IS very gratifying as well as hopeful. A few exhibit much progress in arithmetic anI some in gcOg- raphy. Averaged up, the most notable ad- vancement appears in penmanship and translations. Governor Stafford distribu- ted seventeen prizes to the more deserv- ing as shown by the teachers report

 Encouraging remarks were made to the pupils by several of those present. Chief Justice Titus gave the boys some excel lent advice, and expressed himself pleased and surprised at their progress.

 Don Soano Leon spoke to the boys in Spanish, the substance of which is furn- ished us as follows: After what we have seen and heard this afternoon, I must say that you have made remarkable progress. It is my earnest wish that you will not relax in your studies for single moment, for remember forever that time lost can never be regained neither by money nor anything else; and if you attain any posi- tion in public fife, which I am sure some of you will, never forget that our Gov ernor gave you the first opportunity to be educated. Recollect always that through his efforts, troublesome as they were, the poorest boy in this community can now receive an education without money com ! pensation, and by which he may make of himself an ornament to society. There fore, boys, improve the time well for it is short. Show that you are worthy of the generosity extended to you in this school, and never forget what you owe to the founder of it and to the patience of your teacher.
Year: 1873

LATE letter by Col. T. A. Scott to San Diego says no delay in work on the western end of the Texas and Pa cific railway is intended; but will be carried on in compliance with his agreement and the law of Congress.
Year: 1873

II Some of the Kansas papers keep making
months at Captain King, of the Commonwealth,
because he is good looking. They call him the
pretty man." Kansas editors, as general thing,
are frightfnlly ugly; but they should not be en-
vious if occasionally one is handsome. Perhaps,
if they would ask him to, King would, for their
qualification, take the smallpox, fall into the
fire and burn his nose of, or let a mule kick one
side of his face of, driak until the end of his
nose blossmed, or split his upper lip, or gouge an
eye out, or pull his front teeth, and replace them
with artificial tnsks, or adopt some other mild
and harmless means TO place himself nearer ON an
equality with the rest of ms.
Year: 1873

" Somebody (Ben. Simpson, we beieve) says,
speaking of Crozer's way of operating, that if
he were to go to Heaven, and old Peter were to
open the gate wide and tell him to come in, he
would hang hack, and the next morning it would
be found that he had tried to get in by digging
un,ler the wall. Pretty COED; but Ben. Simpson
will never get into the Senate into Heaven,
either by having the door opened to him or by
digging under the wall
Year: 1873

70 The world is so given to lying, nova
days, that when man confesses to having CON-
mitted murder, people don't know whether to
believe him or not This is the predicament
they are in, relative to the Nathan murder, in
New York
Year: 1873

had taken the rLrcc degrees Of Page, Esquire,
and Knight. as they are now conferred in
every city of America. But they do claim
that from the beautiful legend that has made
the names OF those two noblc-hearted sub


ects Of Dyouisils immortal they have drawn
lessons which in their application do great
rood in sutuI world, and form bond of
friendship which nothing shall estrange,
while nothing but death itself shall separate
motlcr Knight from brother Knight.
Year: 1873

A PARsoN was making a call on lady
who made il n rule never TO speak i'll OF
others, and observed it so closely that she
even justified those whom she heard evil
spoken Of. Before the old lady made her
appearance in the parlor, her several chill
dren were speaking of their mother, and
one Of them playfully added Mother
has such habit Of speaking we'll of eve
rybody, that if Satan himself were the
subject Of conversation, mother would
find some virtue or good quality even in
him." OF course this remark elected
some smiling and merriment, in the midst
OF which the old lady entered the room,
and being told what had just been said,
she Immediately and involuntarily re-
piled, " Well, my children, wish we
all had Satan's industry and. perseyer-
ance."
Year: 1873

Sioux CoURTsHIP.-The Sioux are,
perhaps, mentally, morally and physi-
cally the best body of Indians on the
plains. As wives, their women are faith
full, and if young woman becomes lewd,
they pass her on the prairie. That is to
say, they take her out of the village, stake
her down on the ground, where she is left
for three nights, subject to outrage by
the roughs of the tribe, who can kill her
if they wish. She is, after this, made to
carry wood, water, and do hard labor in
the tribe, and is forever disgraced. Po-
lygamy is practiced in this tribe, but not
extensively. A man may have as many
wives as he can keep, but must buy them.
The universal price Of vile is pony,
for white man an American horse. A
squaw once bought becomes tho immedi-
ate property Of the purchaser, but he
must catch her. Men have bought wives
and never been ablo to catch them. Most
Of them, however, are quite willing to be
caught.


An Indian, several years ago, took
fancy to an officers horse and tried in
every way to purchase him, but the officer
would not part with the animal. Finally
the Indian offered him his sister, beau
tiful girl, in exchange for the horse.
Fearing he would steal or MAIN tho ami
nal, and not wishing to offend him, the
officer gave the Indian the horse, but de-
clned to receive the girl in return. The
young lady, however, was informed she
was sold, and so the matter stood.


After waiting q long time for her hus-
band to come and claim her, she one day,
as he rode by the camp, put herself in his
way, when seeing he took no notice oi
her, she naively asked: Why don't
you catch me ?" The officer who had
never seen her before, inquired what she
meant, when she roundly told him she
was his wife, and not at all pleased that
he had not come for her. He never
claimed her, but she was regarded by her
tribe as the white mans squaw, and at
last accounts was still single and waiting
for her husband.
Year: 1873

An amusing incident occurred recently
in the smoking car of railroad train be-
tween Shelby and Cleveland. A woman
with poodle dog entered!the car just pri-
or to the departure of the train from the
first point, and after depositing her dog on
one seat, turned over the back of another
one, so that each seat faced the other one.
Together she and her canine companion
thus monopolized two entire seats.


Appearances seemed to indicate that
the ear was one exclusively for the con-
venience of those addicted to the use Of
the "weed," and of this fact she was
soon apprised by the conductor, who ad-
vised her to take another car, informing
her at the same time that the accommo-
dations in the way of seats in the other
coaches were superior to those whore she
was then. However, she insisted on re-
naming, urging that her presence would
deter the occupants of the car from smok-
ing, and she would consequently expert
ence no discomfort from tobacco fumss.-
Long before the train reached this city
however, a gentleman sitting directly in
front of her produced his case, and TAX
ing therefrom cigar, began putting away
at it in manner that seemed particular
ly calculated to aggravate the strong
minded woman Immediately back of him.
In an instant, by stratagetic movement,
she wrested the obnoxious cigar from his
mouth and threw it out of the window,
exclaiming, If there is anything | do
hate il is tohacoo-smokc." The passen-
gers who had witnessed the affair were
convulsed with laughter, but the offend
ing smoker suppressed whatever emotions
may have been struggling for expression
in words or action and maintained thro'-
out the same imperturbable gravity that
had characterized him from the first.--
Calmly rising from his seat, he opened
the window nearest him, fastened it up,
and reaching over The seat back of him,
took that woman's poodle dog and threw
him out of the window and rs far beyond
MS possible, at the same time saying, " If
there's anything l do hate it's a poodle
dog"


The scene which follows beggars des-
cription. The car resounded with peal
after peal Of laughter, and as the extreme
ludicrousness of the affair became appar
ent to the principal actors in it, they too,
joined with the rest. Despite the recent
incident to the loss of her poodle dog, the
woman could not repross her inclination
to laugh at the unexpected finale of the
affair.
Year: 1873

THE Norway Maelstroom Of the old
school books-as most people know al
ready is q myth. At certain stages OF
the tide there is something like whirl-
pool, and in bad weather the place is r
dangerous one, even for large vessels,
but If these are wrecked it is by being
dashed against the rocks, or by founder
ing-not by being drawn into vortex
in 1850, an official report was made on
the subject by Mr.. Hagerup, Minister OF
the Norwegian Marine, who says that
more violent currents of the kind are TO
be found on the coast Of Norway, but
the worst Of them is not as bad as the
Maelstroom of the old stories.
Year: 1873

A LAWRENCE man allows his wife 81
a week for pin money, with the under
standing that she shall forfeit ten cents
for each absent button, and the SAME
amount for each cup fpoor coffee. Thii
arrangement has been going on for two
years, and the day has not yet come when
he could claim ten cents.
Year: 1873

A CINCINNATI pedagoguenamed Rapp
recently raped pupil on the skull with
a quarto grammar, as the only way Of
getting a pint o grammar into the
youths head; and the experiment was so
successful that the subject thereof went
into decline and parsed away.
Year: 1873

EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE DAILY DISPATCH


New YORK, Sept. 2O.-Union Trust
Co. suspended at half past 10 to-day. 1t
announces that it will resume on Mon
day morning. Stocks are going up and
down lively and several sales are made
under rules which would imply that
failures had taken place, though only
one is made known yet, that of A. G.
White. Western Union touched 60
The suspension of the Union Trust Co.
will very likely make unavailable the
Year: 1873

The President having designated
next Thursday as a day of national
thanksgiving, it is hoped the feast
will be observed in our town.
There are few localities the people
of which, nave more reason to be
thankful, than Bristol.
Year: 1873

"Unless you give me aid" said a
beggar to a benevolent lady. Il am
afraid shall have to resort to some
thing which I greatly dislike to DO"
The lady handed him a dollar.
and compassionately asked, "Wbat
is it, poor man, that I have saved you
from? Work. was the mOurnful
answer.
Year: 1873

'This was n bitter blow to my moth
er, and a source of very great disquie-
tude 10 myself, for I loved Edward
very deeply. His country and my
country were not the same. L blush
to confess it but L considered every man
outside the rcvolted States as my enc
my. A year later found me with a
rifle on my shoulder and butternut
suit on my back [ never could hear
where Edward had gone, but | knew
he Was among the Union forces some
where. Many a Yankee prisoner had
l interrogated upon the subject, hoping
I might find some one who knew my
brothers whereabouts, but all in vain.
Twice 1 was taken prisoner. but by
good fortune l managed to escape, and
reioined my regiment.


1.-The changes and chances of war
at length found me at Corinth. In all
the scrapes l had engaged l never was
wounded until L stood up to fight
there.


''By some means, I don't recollect
how 1T occurred but during the battle
/ discovered that about q dozen of our
fellows and myself were separated from
our regiment. In our endeavor To get
back, we got entangled in the Federal
lines and had TO conceal ourselves. AT
length; however, we were discovered
and the Federals commenced to fire on
us from a slow-stoue wall, where they
laid. There didn't seem to be more
than twenty of them, so some of our
bows proposed that we should charge
through them. We instantly agreed
TO it, and IN five minutes more, We
were dashing forward under their fire.
We never reached them, for before we
got halfway nearly all our fellows were