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Year: 1871

II our neighbor Philadelphia has speciality, it is


Justice Going through the streets the stranger Is


confronted at every turn, from the State-Housc 10


the milk carts by wooden statues or glarng portraits


of the blind goddess scales in hand, or OF Penn hn
self weighing out beads to the Redskins. one IS
tempted to suspect marriage between the two on
some lucky day long ago. and that the ylrtuous
PbiIadelphians are the legitimate offspring OF the
match We began to doubt the possibility Oh thlS


lately. finding the allegiance which the SOBER
Ouakers are paying to professional Roughs. faro-
houses in New-York are at least kept under pre-


tense Of cover. In Philadelphia the Thieves mead
quarters is cheek-by-jowl with tho Continental


eouaIly under the protection Of the police and when


the successor of Tim Hag9erty inaugurated his reign


bv shooting one officer and clearing out the others


from the Mayors Office the city authorities were the
first to pay him the homage which was his oue'


Last week however, child was arrested on charge


of assault and battery and bound in the sum OF
S4OO TO keep the peace. Now here the superior
acuteness of our neighbOrs sense OF justice comes
ont Why waste time and money in trying to re-
form incorrigible offenders when crime can be so


easily nipped in the budi DOgberry advises his of-


GERS: "If you meet thief take no note of him, but


LEFT him CO. and presently call the watch and thank
God YOU are rid of knave;" adding, Ii you hear
child cry call its nurse But DogbeTy himself


never would have devised the expedient Of extract
ing the original depravity out of mewling baby by


means of the police. Only the descendants OF Penn


know how to draw the teeth of the young bear while
| they keep out Of the way Of the old one.
Year: 1871

1t is strange that opera-oving people do not see
that there are limits beyond which theatrical ova-
tions are absurd. Patti, for instance, upon her
benefit night at St. Petersburg, called before the
curtain seventy-fye times three times was sent for
to come to the Imperial box and was presented with
diamonds and other jewels valued at $4,000 francs.
We like good singing; but the performances of the
angels If we may imagine them engaged for opera
would hardly be worth this profuse reward There
is this to be said for legitimate dramatic perform
ances they never lead pit, box, and gallery into
such insane demonstrations as vocasts and dancers
provoke. Good plays are of higher intellectual
grade and less Of the earth, earthly.
Year: 1871

Harvard has been very slow in accepting Yales
last boating challenge and when she does so
the proyiso that all American colleges shall be per-
mited to enter the race. Yale prefers to fight it out
with Harvard alone at least until her past defeats
shall be atoned for and the ill-feeng bred by last
Summers half-undecided contest shall die out. We
see however no reason for any hesancy on the part
of Yale in entering contest where her victory may
be over many opponents instead of One especially as


victory over Harvard will lose none of its signi-
cance if it includes other vanquished crews The
probabilities now point to union College regatta at
Springfield, or possibly at New-London.
Year: 1871

Last Thursday was observed as Fast Day, and
also as a Day of Humiliation and Prayer, in Massa-
chusetts. As evidence of public repentance, there
were afternoon and evening performances in all the
Boston theaters, mainly for the benefit of the sub
urban population AS further evidence, if any were
needed, there were many baseball matches. In or
der to get themselves into a serious frame of mind,
many members of the General Court made an excur-
sion to Plymouth Rock. OF course they ate no din
ner but strictly medtated upon the fasts voluntary
and involuntary kept by the Pilgrim Fathers.
There was pleasant holiday, but no humiliation
to speak Of
Year: 1871

The New-Jersey Senate on Wednesday prevented
the passage Of the bill for incidental expenses be-
cause the House-after refusing to allow its own
members 800 each for stationery-would not agree
to an amendment allowing the Senators $50 each
for the same. We think the House did well in thus
refusing to recognize this stationery swindle, for
such it certainly Is. In many cases members sell
their order at discount for cash. and can name
one man who peddled his paper among the stores of
his own village.
Year: 1871

Some years ago the editor of the Jones.
borough (Tenn.) Wig thus announced
bis intention Of bringing out q religious
paper: "We feel competent to the task
Of editing andpublishing work on politics
one on religion, one on science, and anoth-
er on anything you please, all the same
time! Our genius is bounded on the east
by the rising sun; on the west by the hor-
izon; one the south by the shores Of time;
and on the north the farthest limits Of truth
light up our pathway by day and by night
We could say moro about our abilities, and
we would do so but for our great modesty.
Let those who are in doubt as to our tai
ents subscribe, either for the Wing or the
Reuiew, and, our word for it, they will
soon say of US, MS the Queen Of Sheba
said Of Solomon, half has never yet been
told"
Year: 1871

A country editor who carries concealed
weapons is searching for tho writer on
health who sent tho editors wife circular
recommending that carpets should be take
On up and beaten every month.
Year: 1871

The postofice department is congratulate
ing itself on the increased prospect Of max
ing tho postal service self sustaining. II
is found that tho revenue thereof for tho
present fiscal year is $l,0O0,000 more
Than last year.
Year: 1871

Society is full Of wretched men who per-
petually carry moral cancer in their hearts,
and writhe under unconfessed remorse and
shame, which embitter their lives. The
temptations to sin are insidious,and promise
we'll at first; but those who yield to them
find the promise lie, the expected sweet
a bitterness in the soul, and all the effects
like the poison ofasps and the sting Of ad-
ders. Low, vulgar sinners fear the pen
altics of civil law; but these are trivial
compared to the scorpion lashes which a.
wait men Of conscience and honor who
violate moral law and incur the moral re-
suits Of per6dious deeds.
Year: 1871

The journals to day have reports of the
discovery Of conspiracy in Paris for the
restoration OF Napoleon, 1t is stated
that the Napoleon prefect of police, Pie
tric, was at the head of the conspiracy
here, and that he was acting under direct
instructions from the emperor.


LoNDoN. Sept %
Year: 1871

What is it that makes all those men
who associate habitually with women su-
perior to others who do not2 What makes
that women who is accustomed and at
ease In the society Of men superior to
her sex in generai2 Solely because they
are in the habit of free, graceful, con-
tinued conversations with the other sex.
Women in this way lose their friYolity,
their faculties awaken, their delicacies
and peculiarities unfold all their beauty
and captivation in the spirit Of intellec-
tual rivalry. And the men lose their
pedantie, rude, declamatory, or sullen
manner. The coin Of the understanding
and the heart changes continually. Their
asporities are rubbed of, their better
materials Polished and frightened, and
their richness, like the gold is wrought
into finer workmanship by the fingers of
women than it ever could be by those Of
men. The iron and steel of their char
aeters are hidden, like tho character and
armor Of a giant, by studs and knots of
good and precious stones when they are
not wanted in actual warfare.
Year: 1871

II is safer for me to abstain than Ia
to drink. If l should indulge in drink,
/ am afraid / should not stop at the line
which many call temperance, but should
become slave to the habit, and with
others of stronger nerve and firmer pur-
poses go down to a drunkards grave. II
Indulge, | / am not safe. II abstain,
my children will not be cursed with a
drunken father. We talk of the dignity
of human nature, and of relying upon
our self-respect for security but there
is no degradation so low that man will
not sink into, and no crime so hellish
that he will not commit when he is drunk


There is nothing so base, so impure, SO
|mean, so dishonest, so corrupt that a
man will not do when under the law OF
sin--of appetite. Safety is to be found
in not yielding ourselves to that law


But if it could be proved conclusively
to my own mind that could drink and
never be injured, yet with my views on
the subject, it would be my duty to alb
stain. / could not be certain but others,
seeing me drink, might be influenced to
drink also and being unable to stop,
pass on in the path of the drunkard.
My example would, in that case, be evil;
but / ask, am | my brothers keeper 2
Yes, am responsible for my influence,
and lest it shall be evil, / am under n
high moral and religious obligation to
deny myself that which may not injure
me, but will injure him. If l neither
taste nor touch, nor handle, nor counte-
nance, then my example will not lead
others to become drunkards. - Governor
buckingham. i ~ "
Year: 1871

Perhaps the best instance of economi
cal generosity on record is that of the
old lady who told the preserver of hei
life that she would not diminish the re-
ward heaven had in store for him by
offering him anything in this world
There are quite number Of good pious
people in every community who would
be likely to initiate the old lady's ex.
ample under similar circumstances
However, we do not intend to preach a
sermon on the subject, but merely to re-
produce little anecdote which we find
in the Troy Times. A few days since a
certain lager beer proprietor of that city,
who is noted for his closeness, lost his
pocketbook containing upwards of 5000
A young man had the good fortune to
find it, and discovering the name of the
owner upon some papers in the pocket
book, he returned it to him safe and
sound. The grati6ed Teuton, after
counting the money and finding that it
was all right, thus addressed the finder:
" Bob, you is one honest man. / tells
you what I'll DOLL shake you for the
lager"
Year: 1871

from ruin to ruin, and from
fort to palace, with spectacled eyes wide
open, the stump of cigar in his mouth,
and quotations from Mother Goose on
his tongue. One of the strangest effects
of this experience upon the bluff ex-
Senator is the cultivation of reveren-
tial spirit, as seen in his reflections upon
the ruins of the Convent of St. Francis


81 have seen the retribution of the Lord 7"
he exclaimed, as he passed out of the
shattered doorway. Probably no other
member Of the Commission had observed
it, and now it remains for Mr.. Wade to
explain whether that makes for Or against
the annexation of the island.
Year: 1871




Assault with Rraas EnueIEIes and ViO-


IatiOn-Arrest and Confession OF the


Two Murderers.


The brutal murder of Miss Pardonner,
at Attica, has been the absorbing topic of
conversation for the last two days In this
city, since the perpetrators Of the act
have been ascertained and their arrest ee-
cured. The principal actor in the bloody
affair Is a young man named Greer Hart.
we'll known IN this city as Bully Hart,"
said to be q son of Isaae w. Hart, of Az
tica, q young Lam named Manfred Brown
ing, and the proprietor of a lung-testing
machine, whose name our informant was
unable to learn. 1t appears that on
Thursday night last, the night after the
murder, Hart went TO bed very much un-
der the the influence Of liquor and IN his
drunken stupor "talked IN his sleep" In
the presence Of his wife and mother-in-
law, In such manner as led them to be-
lieVe that heiVas one Of the guilty party.
The next morning his wife accused him Of
the crime, and he confessed Il, but charged
her not to say anything about 1T, threat
ening her life if she did. The dread Sc
cret was, however, too much for her to
keep, and in the afternoon she divulged
it, and Hart was arrested, upon which he
confessed everything. He says that on
the night of the murder he was watching
the girl while she was engaged in milking
the COW. He threw q clod of dirt into her
pail, upon seeing which she emptied it,
and went into the house and washed it
out. During her absence he drove the
COW through the alley and to the rear Of
Rogers soap factory, the girl following.
| Arriving there, Hart approached and
struch her on the head with apair Of brass
knuckles, which felled her to the earth.
| Browning and the other man then came
up, one of whom stuffed handkerchief
| into her mouth and choked her. The Two
latter then proceeded to violate her person.
| At the conclusion of their hellish work
they discovered that their victim was dead.
They took up the body and hid 1t IN
chicken coop near by, where 1t remained
until two o'clock in the morning, when
they removed il and deposited it In the
canal, where it was found. Hart was
locked up Friday night, and the Others
Saturday morning.


After the facts became known the town
of Attica was fearfully excited, and there
was strong talk Of taking the criminals
out of the ealaboose and hanging them
When onr informant left the calaboose
was surrounded by three or four hundrrd
persons, who seemed intent on swift and
sure punishment, but it is to be hoped
that better counsel prevailed, and that the
law Will be allowed to take its course
Young Hart is represented as hard boy,
and has been 30 for several years past. At
least he has that reputation here, where
he is we'll known among q certain class.
1t is also said that he Is married TO Wo-
man whose reputation was At the time
none of the best. The other two parties
are not so well known. sUs
Year: 1871

PINcHBEcK, of Louisiana, is one of the
leading colored representatives., and said
to have considerable talent. He was put
out in the cold by Grants bayonets-
when he made the following speech:


Is it possible we are to be put down BY
the government we have sustained? If
that be the case, the sooner this govern
ment is torn down and a monarchy built
upon its ruins the better.


This Is hopeful
Year: 1871

Was compounded for those not inclined to ex
treme bitters, and is intended for use in cases
when some alcoholic stimulant is required in
connection with the Tonic properties of the Bit
ters, Each bottle Of the Tonic contains one bot
tie of the Bitters, combined with pure SANTA CRUZ
RUN, and favored in such manner that the ex-
tremS bitterness of the Bitters is overcome,
forming a preparation highly agreeable and
pleasant to the palate, and containing the medici
nal virtues of the Bitters The price of the Tonic
$3.50 per bottle, which many persons think too
high. They must take into consideration that the
stimulant used is guaranteed to be of pure
quality. pure article could be furnished at a
cheaper price, but is it not better to pay a little
more and have good artieleG A medicinal prep
aratiOn should contain none but the best ingredi-
ents, and they who expect to obtain a cheap com
pound will most certainly be cheated
Year: 1871

Now is the time to work the corn.
A good yield cant 10 obtained without
good cuitivatios. II il useless to talk
about it. Do you want q good crop
Afty, seventy Eve or one hundred bush.
els per scro2 If 90, work the corn !;
plow IL 6rst deeply, then not quite so
deep, and finally finish with the oultiva-
tor as shallow al possible. Keep out
the weeds. They rob the corn of mois-
turo and plant food, lii not necessary
10 this latitude to hoe carefully three
times before laying BY as al the East,
but all weeds should DO kept out BY the
hoe or plow and cultivator. The ground
must be kept moist and mellow, If the
corn would grow luxuraut and give
largo ears. f'.Fii 9ae. ,''1' ~ ~


We mako . practice Of seeding our
corn fields to rye when the corn Is laid
BY the last time. We do not see that
it Jdimiuishes the corn yield at oil, and
1t makes splendid pastursge for oil kinds
Of stock 10 winter. Tho green rye keeps
stock healthy. the bowels open, and the
animals in q thriving condition. Stock
do not require one. third the hay and
corn or oats, If they have access to o.
good field Of rye in winter. In fact,
they will keep in good condition on the
rye, unless it is covered by SNOW or ice,
when they would have to be fed. If
used for corn land, by turning over tho
green rye the following spring q large
addition OF fertilizing material is added to
the soil, and the succeeding corn crop
will avail itself Of it. it.-Colman's Rural
Year: 1871

Having on hand large quantity Of Collar and
Harness leather, all cf OUR OWN TAN, and
having taken extra pains in tho tanning and
Gnishig off by stuffing it with Meats Foot Oil,
and knowing that by sending it to tho St. Louis
market our farmers could never reap the benefit
ture of
Year: 1871

We find the following in the Scientific
Press: Greasing buggies and wagons is
of more importance than some people i'm
agine. Many wheel is ruined by oiling
too plentifully. A well made wheel will
endure constant wear for ten to twenty
years if care is taken to use the right kind
and proper amount of oil; but if this mat
ter is not attended to, the wheel will be
used up in five or six years, or may be SOON
er. Lard should never be used on wagon ;
for it will penetrate the hub and work it's
way out around the lemons of the spokes
and spoil the wheel. Castor oil is good
material for use OH iron axle; just oil
enough should be applied to a spindle to
give it light coating; this is better than
more, for the surplus put on will work out
at the ends and be forced by the shoulders
and nut into the hub around outside of the
boxes. To oil an axle-tree, first wipe the
spindle clean with a cloth wet with tur-
pentine. if it won't wipe withoutit. On a
buggy or carriage, wipe and clean off the
back and front ends of the hubs, and then
apply very small quantity of castor oil, &,
for some especially prepared lubricator
near the shoulders and points,
Year: 1871

Your correspondent, Mr.. Townsend A.
Thomas, surely does not express more than
a fitting eulOgy for our town when he says ::
"Athens, with its fine schools and
churches, commends itself to the stranger
in strong language that her people are
literally disposed in favor of education
and christianity, and necessarily refined
and cultivated" If Mr.. Thomas could
have seen our quiet village at other times
he surely would have been more favorably
impressed; for during the past few weeks
Athens has been rather destitute of any
thing to interest or amuse.


The last term of Circuit Court held here
failed to excite unusual interest, there be-
ing but one case that was scarcely spoken
of outside of the courtroom by those not
personally interested-the case of The
State VS.. Mart Shook, for shooting Jim
McGill, colored, excited some comment on
the streets. Not very strange that it
should. The strongest case of murder
without provocation, the testimony of
which it was ever our privilege to hear,
only received the verdict of guilty of vol
untary manslaughter and sentence to the
penitentiary for tlOO gears. Two other in
dividuals were found guilty of the crime
of swindling, and were sentenced to three
gears in the penitentiary.


Some have pronounced the verdict in the
Shook case as gross perversion of justice,
and many said that it would be impossible
to hang man for shooting negro, under
any circumstances, with such a jury as
tried Shook. Gov. Senter has since par
doned Shook.


The Athens Post has failed to arouse
great enthusiasm on the subject of New
Court House," and it is feared there is a
sufficient number of narrow-minded voters
in the county to kill the measure should
those in favor of it fail to turn out well on
election day. Such would not speak high
ly of the liberality and good taste of Nc
Minn county, and it is to be hoped the
Posts sound views will prevail.


The general opinion now is that the
county will vote No School tax"


The Gilbert Sisters paid flying visit to
Athens and gave an entertainment on last
Tuesday night, but was not largely atten
ded. 1f7t 14


Mrs. A. M. Meeker will deliver lecture
this evening at the Court House. "Mat-
rimony as it Was and Is" Some of our
young folks think the subject is very inter-
esting and propose, if possible, to learn
what she knows, thinking ".that which is
learned may not be lost" c. M. M.
Year: 1871

The Supreme Court of the United States
on Monday met in council and decided,
by five to four, that the legal-tender act did
apply to contracts made before the war,
as well as to those made during the war,
and that it was constitutional, thus re-
versing the decision of the last term of the
court that the law did not apply to con-
tracts made before its passage. Justices
Miller, Swayne, Davis, Strong and Brad
ley voted to sustain the constitutionality
of the act, and Chief Justice Chase and
Justices Nelson, Clifford and Field voted
in the negative. The full opinion of the
court will not be written out before the
October term, but the fact of the decision
will be announced when the court reas-
sembleS.
Year: 1871

This is personal" taken from a coun-
try journal: "a young lady takes this
method of informing certain young man
that the next time he desires to gaze upon
her forty-five mortal minutes without
winking his eyes, she will consider herself
highly favored if he will close his mouth,
and not sit there like young robin await
ing the parent bird.n
Year: 1871

A mothers supreme devotion TO her
child was strongly illustrated recently in
Kansas City, when a Mrs. Britt plunged
into deep cistern to rescue her little two
year-old boy who had accidentally tum-
bled in Unable to swim herself, she yet
wildly plunged around until some men
coming to their help both were drawn out.
The little boy was unconscious, but hap
pily was restored. fcl
Year: 1871

preparation of roots and herbs warranted to be
strictly vegetable and can do injury to any one.


1t has been used by hundreds. and known for the
last 40 years of the most reliable ecacious and
harmless preparations ever offered to the suffering III
taken regularly and permanently it is
Year: 1871

The Washington correspondent OF
the Cincinnati Enquirer writes:


One of the saddcSt spectacles present
ed in the Senate Chamber in these days
is the bio cushioned chair which holds
the last of the mortal remains OF Parson
Brownow, of Tennessee. 1t sits just at
the left of the Presidents rostrmm, on
the skirmish line. There they bring
every day the withered remnant Of the
Apostle of Hate, and over that char
there seems to hover, at all hours, the
black Angel of Death, Sallow and ema-
ciated trembling with palsy in every
limb. he sits and watches the proceed
inos around him with what seems a
fearful interest, and only the little light
which burns dimly in his once vicious
eve is left to tell you of the fierce spirit
which in times past, inhabited that ney-
er very progressing frame. His right
arm lies by his side, and the thumb OF it
twitchcs and vibrates with the REGULAR
ty Of a heart beat.


They set glass of water upon his
desk. but he never moistcns his lips
Papers lay before him, but their neat or
der is never disturbed. There is no
more expression upon his shadowed,
pinchcd and leathery face than You
would expect to find upon the index Of
the mummy in the British Museum
One can look upon the still vigorous
vet stricken Morton, and feel that he
bears the rctlibutive imprint of vice, but
one cannot contemplate poor Brownlow
without an expression Of generous sym
pathy. He seems to be waiting his
summons. There may be much Of the
old vitality in him yet, and ii may be
many days before they carry him into
the Chamber for the last time. 1t
seemed as though at times to-day, his
old viperous nature returned to him and
he ycarned to mingle in the heated de
bate. But the present, with its tur-
mois. and the future, with lis hopcs,are
but mists to him. He can only look
back over kis pathway strcwn with
wrecks and lined with rank weeds OF
bitter hate and partisan seltiShncss.
Year: 1871

The editor of the Washington Chron-
icle saws that brother editor Is dis
gruntled." The brother editor is re
pressing his feelings until he can find
out the meaning of the word He has
worn out two dictionaries already hunt
inc for it, and is seriously contempla-
ting coming on to New York 10 inter
view the anthes Of eWords and their
Uses. V