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Year: 1872

Article l. Whereas, The consti-
tuition Of our country, that sacred
Magma Charta, whereby the founders
of the American Republic sought to
protect and to perpetuate that form
of government, which they left as a
sacred heritage in trust for future
generations, requires greater care
from the citizens to protect it from
illegal innovations and whereas,
history teaches us that Democra-
tic form of government requires
great vigilance to protect it from
the usurpations and innovations oi
inscriptions, fanatical or ambitious
politicians and political factions or
parties and whereas, great dill
gence has not been duly exercised of
late years, and discord and civil war
swept over our land, and changes
and innovations incompatible with
the spirit of liberty and the prin-
ciples of the Democracy have been
made, or forced illegally in our form
of government: Now, therefore, for
the protection of our country against
recurrence of these evils, and to
protect and to perpetuate a Demo-
cratic and truly Republican form of
government in our land, we, whose
names are hereunto affixed, do here
by constitute ourselves an Order, or
Brotherhood, to do and accomplish
the objects herein mentioned.


Art. II. The name of this Order,
or Brotherhood, shall be "THE
AMERICAN CRUSADERS" and who, be-
ing indoctrinated with the convic-
ton that Eternal Vigilance is the
Price Of Liberty" deem it their duty
to exercise such upon all occasions,
and while SO doing we hold our
selves firmly bound, in duty and in
honor, to God, our country and our
selves, to do all acts within our
power that will tend to maintain,
protect and perpetuate on the North
American Continent q Democratic
or truly REPUBLICAN form of Gov
ernment; to zealously watch those in
office, under the people and to see
to it that they perform their duties
according to the spirit of the law;
to discountenance, expose and pun
ish all corruption In those in whom
the people have put their trust; to
form q more perfect nucleus around
which all the iucOngruous political
elements, opposed to innovation,
Year: 1872

Facing the bayonet
When soldiers face the bayonet, they take the
chance OF life or death; but when private citizens,
deceived by the pretences of unscrupulous dealers
apply PoISONs TO THEIR HEADS to change the
color OF their hair they have idea Of the terrible
risks they run. The nrst analytical chemists have
endorsed hair dye as free from everything dele
terlous to health viz:


CRIsTADoRo's EXCELSIOR DYE
Let the wise and prudent stick to that It imparts
shades of color that are perfectly nfe-ke and is in
all respects the very best


REMEMBER, THE SWORD
Is not more dangerous than the lead compounds in
the market, and that the EXCELSIOR DYE contains no
lead. As a dressing after dyeing, use


CRIsTADoRos HAIR PRKsERvATIvE
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Year: 1872

We are having a very strange spring
here in Orwell. Farmers are putting
their seed into the ground and the frost
is coming out of the ground. If they
can meet without damaging each other
we shall expect in due time to reap a
bOuntiful harvest


The sun and the wind have given
us good roads and a soil dry on the sur
face to work upon. But our cattle and
sheep are still In our yards, and not on
a thousand hills. The willows are just
beginning to put forth leaves, and what
has been so long brown and scar is now
slightly tinged with green. Speaking
from the husbandman's standpoint we
should say "the one thing needful is
rain.


1t is not very sickly with US at pres
ent. aside from those suffering with
chronic difficulties. There have been
a few cases of meningitis and two
deaths.


Perhaps some of your readers would
like to know where they can obtain the
best fruit trees Mr.. O. S. Branch, one
of our enterprising citizens, conceived
the idea a few years ago that fruit trees
raised in this climate and soil would be
better for this region, than those brought
to us from York State and the more
distant West. He accordingly began
the development of this idea, and is now
supplying the surrounding. towns with
all varieties of the most beautiful and
thrifty trees to be found anywhere in
the markets, all Of his own rearing. |
write this for the benefit Of those read
ers who would replace the missing and
dead trees in their orchards with living
and more hardy ones. 5.
Year: 1872

Before you ask favor of any man,
lust consider three things: First. Can
YOU not avoid it? Second. Can the one
YOU apply to grant it? Third. Would
You, if your places were reversed, do for
your friend what you ask him to do for
Yourself? 1t is well to think Of this,
as it may change the whole question.


DO not think of one falsity as harm
less. and another as slight, and another
as unintended. Cast them all aside
they may be light and accidental, but
they are ugly SCOT from the smoke Of
the pit. for all that; and it is better that
our hearts should be swept clean of them,
without one care as to which is the larg-
est or hlackest.-[ Ruskin.


The story of the human race is the
story of Gods temple Unbelieving
souls are the rubbish TO be removed at
the judgment day. Ask yourself
s.Am ! on that foundation, or am | of
the rubbish - Do you love Christ
Then you are in the temple. The arcbi-
tect has keen eyes, and goes around look
ing to see that all the lives Of the tenn
pie are erect, that nothing may give way.
III. NJ. Scudder.


1t would sometimes seem as if mo-
therhood were a lovely artifice of the
great Father, to wean the heart from
selfshness by a peaceful and gradual
process. The babe is itself in another
form. II is so interviewer and identified
with the mothers life. that she passes by
almost insensible gradations from her
self to it; and day by day the instinc-
tive love of self wanes as the child-loye
wakes, filling the heart with thousand
new springs of tenderness. II Harriet
Beecher Stowe.
Year: 1872

you any idea of my feelings when / ar
rived there. 1t was one enormous bruise.
and the next morning | thought that
during the night | had been converted
into wood, for my legs, arms and back
had a decided objection to making any
movement whatever Mount Nesuvius is
indeed CHEEKY little elevation, and
should recommend any person who is
troubled with rheumatism TO go up it,
or, rather to come down it, for, better
masculine exercise / don't think is to
be found anywhere
Year: 1872

TuE New CABLE ENTERPRISE. A
company has been organized in England
for the purpose of spanning the Allan
tic with another cable. lis capital is to
III. about six millions of dollars, and al
though only a third of this amount of
stock has been subscribed for up to this
time. the regulations of the company.
AS well as its purpose, have been made
public The cablris in process Of manu-
facturc. 1t is to be the product Of the
latest inventions and the best skill. The
line is to bear the name of the Great
WESTERN Lands End is to be the Euro
pean terminus. From this point It's
course will be to the Bermudas and
thence to some point on the United
States coast Rye Beach is mentioned
as the probable terminus. In case this
rumor should prove true, we suppose
Boston would straightWay monopollZe
all the glory, if not all the benefit of the
cable. Another line is also contemplate
ed from Bermuda to one of the West
Indian islands, thence in the course of
time to South America. By a contract
with the Great Northern Telegraph
Company of England, the new organi
zation will receive all dispatches from
the nations of Northern Europe as well
from China and Japan. The rates of
the new company have been announced.
They will he one pound sterling for ev-
cry ten words, large reduction from
the present cable tariff. There is every
reason to beli,vet hat it will become a
Formidable competitor Of the present
lines
Year: 1872

THE FIRST RAIL.-It is expected that
the first rail on the Lake Ontario shore
railroad will be laid in Oswego on or
about May 18th. The first locomotive
is finished and awaiting shipment to Os-
weg0. This road, it will be remembered,
is an important link in the New England
railroad which is to be built through the
Sacandaga Valley by way of GlenS
Falls and Fort Ann to Rutland to con-
meet with the Portland and Rutland.
While Rutland lays still like the dog in
the manger, the roads are building point
ing directly towards her, and she will
probably, by her inaction, allow them
to be directed on the east to Montpelier,
and on the west to the Hoosac Tunnel
route, and from Whitehall north. This
will be the eventual result of her mac
ton, and will make good the boast OF
Whitehall ''that Rutland will be left out
in the cold"
Year: 1872

THE Duty on Wool joint resolu-
ton of the Legislature of Ohio has been
presented to Congress opposing the re-
duction of all duty made by the ways
and means new tariff bill on foreign
wool. The resolution sets forth that the
citizens of that State are greatly interest
ed in the wool-growing business, and
that it requires protection to carry on
the trade that is at present in its infancy
and not able to compete with foreign
markets and productions.
Year: 1872

CRUSHED TO DEATH.-As Chandler
Titus was stepping from the engine to
the platform. ON the through freight
train, at North Thetford, on the 27th
ut, he fell under the tender and was
crushed to death. lie was in the en-
ploy of the railroad company st New
bury, and had come home. as usual, on
the train, Saturday, to visit his family.


He leaves wife and one child. He
was a hard working man and had~work-
I'd with horse power at threshing and
saving wood for % years in succession.
Year: 1872




We have heard recently Of numbers of
persons from our own and other Counties
leaving the State and swelling the tide of
migration westward We must believe
that it is a false idea entertained by many
that their condition can be bettered by re-
moval out Of the State. Ignorant people
suppose that the West is one vast El Do
RADIO, with green fields and luxuriant pas
lures, abounding in all the comforts Of life,
and FLOWING in milk and honey" This
is an entirely mistaken notion A For
man who has to depend upon his own la
Dor and bodily exertions for support for
himself and family can succeed as well in
South Carolina as anywhere. He will be
obliged to work wherever he goes, and he
will be Sadly deceived if he thinks that,
by removing somewhere else, he will find
escape from manual labor Capitalists
may find richer fields for speculation than
this State affords, and undoubtedly can
make more profitable investments else
where, but there arc so few of this class
left among us, that our words can scarcely
beaddressed to other than the laboring
class of people, the bone and sinew of the
country


There are some things that can be said
in favor of emigration, such as relief from
an oppressive government and burdensome
taxation, but these are only temporary
evils, which will pass away in u few years,
and our State will be as prosperous as she
ever was.


Trouble and vemtiens lie in the path of
the cmigrant He Will have to encounter
unknown dangers and perils. He goes
from amongst kindred and friends to the
land of strangers This picture is not
'overdrawn, nor too highly colored. 1t is
only too true. We ask our fellow-coun-
trymen to study it, and when there springs
up within them a desire to desert old Car
olina, remember what little they can ex-
pect 10 gain in so doing They have re-
maincd with the mother State in her pros
perity, and shared her glory Let them
not leave her in her helplessness and hui
initiation, but stick to the old ship, and if
she goes dovn, go down with her.-Fair-
field Herald
Year: 1872

to loose their lacerated victim, gave them
a good beating all round and sent them
into different cages. The laeerated Ven
turelli was Immediately conveyed to the
Hospital of the Consolaaone, where
ether was administered to him previous to
amputation of the right arm Hopes are
entertained of his recovery.
Year: 1872

eY The New York Star pays the fol-
lowing just and deserved compliment to
to the late General Robert e. Lee.


"The fame of Lee, indeed, may havo
been exaggerated by some of his partf-
sans rs a general, but We are at loss to
conceive what sort of friend this can be
who thus comes forward to depreciate
him at time when death has precluded
ali reply. 1t was his fate indeed to bo
ultimately defeated by Grant, when his
resources were utterly exhausted; but,
Notwithstanding this result, we have no
hesitation in saying that he was as supe-
rior TO Grant as the Great Napoleon was
to the Duke of Wellington, though sub,
dued by him. and that posterity will
place him in the front rank OF modern
oro1s
Year: 1872

crushed to earth will certainly rise again
anyhow, whether we try to keep her down
or not, we may be patdoned,: for saying
that, as consequence of the violent ef-
forts of the yonng man, he found himself
standing up in that room, holding in his
mouth nut in which were fixed double
set of porcelain teeth, belonging to the
aforesaid maiden. II was embarrassing
in certain sense for all parties; the young
man thought it would be soothing to the
feelings of the company if he went home
Other and less psrilous games are ln1vosue
at Doylestown this year.
Year: 1872

THE KEY OF DEATH-The following singu-
lar tradition is related of key in collection
of curosities preserved in the arsenal at Ven
ice: About the year 1000 one of those dan
serous men. in whom extraordinary talent is
ouly the fearful source of crime and wlckedness
beyond that of ordinary men, came to estab-
li>h himself as a merchant or trader IN Venice
The stranger, whose name was Tebaldo, be-
came euamored of the daughter of an ancient
house, already affianced to another. He dc:
maudcd her band in marriage, and was, OF
course, rejected Enraged at this. he studied
how to be reveuged. Profoundly skilled in the
mechanical arts, he allowed himself no rest un
I'll he had invented the most formidable weapon
that could be imagined This was key of
large size, the handle of which was so con-
structed that it could be turned round with lit
tie difficulty. When turned it disclosed a
spring, which, on pressure, launched from the
other end needle or lancet Of such hneness
that it entered the flesh and buried itself there
without leaving any external trace.


Tebaldo waited at the door Of the church in
which the maiden whom he loved was about to
receive the nuptial benediction. The assassin
sent the slender steel unperceived into the
breast of the unsuspecting bridegroom. The
wounded man had no suspicion of injury, but
seized with sharp and sudden pain in the midst
of the ceremony, he faiuted, and was carried
to his own house amid the lamentations Of the
bridal party. Vain was all the skill of the
physicians, who could not divine the cause OF
this strange illness, aud in few days he died.


Tcbaldo again demanded the hand OF the
Young maiden from her parents, and received
second refusal; they, too, perished miserably in
few days.


The alarm that these deaths, which appeared
almost miraculous, occasioned, excited the ut
most vigilance Of the magistrates; and when, on
close examination of the bodies the small ln-
strument was found iu the gangrened flesh ter
ror was universal; every one feared tor his own
lie The maiden thus cruelty orphaned had
passed the first month Of her mourning in con-
vent, when Tebaldo, hoping to bend her to his
will cntreated to speak to her at the gate. Her
reply was most decisively ln the negative.


Tcbado, beside himself with rage, attempted
to wound her through the CRATE, and succeeded.
the cbscurity ofthe place prevented his actious
from being observed. On herreturn to her room
the maiden felt pain in her breast, and uncov-
ering it She found it spotted with single drop
of blood. The pain increased; the surgeons who
hascned to her assistance, taught by the past,
wasted no time in CON lecture, but, cutting deep
into the wounded part, extracted the needle be-
fore any mortal mischief had commenced, and
saved the life Of the lady. The State Inquisi-
ton used every means to discover the hand which
dealt these insidious and irresistible blows
The visit of Tebado to the convent caused
suspicion to fall heavily upon him. His house
was carefully searched, the infamous invention
discovered and he perished on the gibbet.
Year: 1872

Reflect that sound mind and body are the


most necessary requisites to promote connubial
ha nniness. Indeed, without these the journey
th rlapugh life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
nrosuect hourly darkens to the view, the mind
ppecomes shadowed wi h despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that sne happiness Oh
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1872

There is man in Darby, Pa, who
purchased bull dog, which he proposed
to turn loose in his store at night in or
der to scare away the burglars. The
first evening after he obtained posses
sion of the animal, he locked it in the
store and went away happy man.
The next morning,early he went round
to the store and unlocked the door, The
dog was vigilant-the man was surpris-
ed to see how exceedingly dilliSent that
dog was-for no sooner was the door
opened than the dog seized its owner
by the leg, suddenly, and seemed to be
animated by an earnest and vigorous
resolution not to let go until it had re-
moved at least one good mouthful. And
the man pushed the dog back and shut
the door on its ribs until .the. animal re-
laxed its jaws; and then the man kicked
the dog back into the store as if he was
in hurry to do something. Then he
suspended business for week, and
spent the vacation firing at the dog
through the windows, and down the
chimneys and up through the cellar
ceiling, with shot gun, trying to ex-
terminate him. And that mercantile
establishment did not open for trade
until the man had paid twice the first
cost of the dog to the dogs former
owner to come and take it home; and
then, when he got in, he found that
during the bombardment holes had been
shot through mackeral barrels, and mo-
lases cans, and coal oil kegs SO that
there was misery and ruin everywhere.
Dogs have no more charms for this
man..
Year: 1872

Always tell the truth; you will find
it easier than lying


He who gives trifle meanly, is far
meaner than the tritie.


Men looking at the faults of woman
should shut their eyes.


If we seize too hastily We may drop
as hastily.


Experience is a torch lighted in the
ashes of our delusions.


Better be upright with poverty than
wicked with plenty.


Time never sits heavily upon us bit
when it is badly employed.


Whatever you dislike in another take
care to correct in yourself.


Resolve to perform what you ousht
and perform what you resolve.
Year: 1872

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A railroad train in Maine recently
ran into flock of sheep, whereupon
an old ram, the patriarch of the flock,
indignant at tue way his, charges were
treated, lowered his head and went for
the iron horse The cow-cateher struck
him and threw him up on the forward
part of the engine, when the fireman
ran out and before he could fall or jump
off, caught and held him until the train
was stopped. He was found to be a
good deal hurt, and having one OF his
horns knocked of. II, is understood
that the horn is to be presented to the
New York Tribune, with, a statement
that the locomotive wasn't injured at


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Year: 1872

A man who is not able to make bow
to his conscience every mornings is hard
ly in condition to respectfully salute
the world at any other time Of the day


To seek tile redress of grievances by
going to law, is like sheep running fo1'
shelter In a bramble-bush.
Year: 1872

The Prince of Wales is again in the
hottest of hot water. Returning from
Italy and spending few day in Paris,
Wales found himself, it seems, wholly
unable to resist the facinations which
proved fatal to his reputation some years
ago, and millions of tongues are wag-
ging over his relapse. After railway
journey of seventeen hours from Geneva
to Paris, the uninteresting invalid, in
stead of going to bed, as he ought in
common decency to have done, went to
to see an indecent piece performed in
one of the most indecent theaters of
that wicked city. This would have
been bad by itself and the occasion Of
much scandal; but, the very next eve
ming he took his wife to witness still
more indecent performance in a still
more indecent place. And so on and so
on, while they remained in Paris. To
intensity the general horror and dis
gust excited by Wales conduet,the cor
respondents are careful to report that
the places of amusement thus assidu-
ously patronized by the Prince, are
places to which no French gentleman
even pretending to respectability, ever
goes and much less takes his wife. This
royal scandal may to some seem un-
worthy of mention or thought, espe-
cially at our distance from the scene.
Really as a part of the chronicle OF the
time it is about as important as anything
that has lately attracted the attention
of the world. Such behavior cannot be
insignificant or without consequences
in the heir apparent of the British
crown, whose recovery from danger
Gus sickness only few weeks ago was
the occasion of the thanksgiving serv-
ices which all remember. 1t is impos-
sible not to reflect that those demon
strations of vehement loyalty were
largely an expression of hopes founded
on the probable effects of the Princes
recent peril upon his character, and
that the stories of misconduct which
Americans read almost with indiffer-
ence convey bitter disappointment and
blight to all such illusions. Wales is
no longer a boy or even a very yonng
man, and by his lapse into the old evil
ways he has probobly revived all the
odium which his illness had efaeed,
and confirm his reputation as repro
bate for whose reformation it would be
folly to hope.
Year: 1872

A FARMER in Pennsylvania who
thoroughly underdrained his land
says the money thus used paid him
better than if he had invested in
bonds or bank or railway stocks, as
his capital is doubled every fifty wears.
Year: 1872

At time like the present, when labor Is scarce


II Is important that farmers who are interestetj
should give attention to any improvement that VIII
tend to their relief. In the Geiser Separator The
farmer will not only find friendly Labor "a wing
machine but n
Year: 1872

ONE Of of oar exchanges puts it after
this fashion: There is nothing known of
the ex-carpet-bag Governor Of Georgia. He
is fugitive from justice, but as bis name
is not Tweed, there is no mention made of
the fact in the telegraph dispatches.
Year: 1872

THE submarine cables have been found
20 work so well, and are so much less La
ble to accidents than overland wires, that it
is proposed to adopt the system on the
great lakes. A notice appears in the Tor
onto (Canada) Gazette, the official organ Of
the Dominion Government, that application
will be made at the next session of the
Canadian Parliament for the passage of an
act to incorporate the Northwest Submar-
ine Gable and Telegraph Company" The
object Of the corporation is to lay cable
from some point on the shores of Georgian
Bay or Lake Huron, in the Province of
Ontario, through and under the waters of
Georgian Bay and Lake Huron to Sault Ste.
Marie, thence through and under the waters
Of Lake Superior to Silver Island and
Thunder Bay, and from that point overland
to Fort Garry in Manitoba. The entire
length Of submarine ca,t,ile would be about
five hundred mills, or more than one-half
Of the entire length of the line.
Year: 1872

The charge of Judge Strickland to the
Grand Jury of the United States Court
Wednesday is published to-day. The
Judge said there is existing a most peculiar
and startling state of affairs. Polygamy
was nothing compared with the bloody des-
pOtism which it forced and perpetuated
above the people--a despotism so strong
that many are afraid to demand eXamina-
ton or make inquiries about murder COM
mitted at their own doors. l charge you
with being in at the death of the most ter
rible relict of the barbarous blood of atone
ment. The killing of an apostate to save
his soul is murder.
Year: 1872

CHICAGO, Jan. 12.-Early this morning
an attempt was made to burn Myers Opera
House by kindling fire in McKay's dry
goods store, directly under it. The fire
was discovered and put out before much
damaOe was done
Year: 1872

States agent acted without authority in
making them read payable in gold or silver
coin. 1t is further stated that the legal ten
der act Of Congress authorizes the payment
of greenbacks in Just such q case as this.