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Year: 1873

Last Day OF the Hazeltine Exhibition.


To-day and this evening will be the last occasions
Of viewing the Hazeltine pictures, at 81 Broad
way, as an entirety as tomorrow the removal Of
them to Clinton Hall Will commence, in order to
admit Of the sale beginning there on Tuesday even
ing. The few sales which have as yet taken place
in this city during the present season have proved
that it Ia an excellent time In which TO buy
pictures. More bargains are to be had now
than at any former time within proximate
recollection. Almost every kind OF picture
is included in the exhibition that
closes to-day. There are landscapes by some OF the
foremost European artists, conversations and in
tertors, executed with the utmost finish and ex-
hibiting in their multitude or accessories a
miraculous degree OF technical skill; seaport and
winter scenes, interiors OF churches several
laughable drolleries, views OF towns and villages,
and at least one nude female figure, commendable
for the truth OF its flesh ttuts, the delicacy OF its
drawing and the sensuOus but unvolnptuous
treatment The principal members Of this really
fine collection were named Yesterday.
Year: 1873

GOT Our Foor IN 1.-two weeks ago, We pub
lislled short article relative tn the manner of
disposing of certain cases in the Courts. We did
this at the particular solicitation Of an attorney
practicing in the Courts Of this District who a.
sured MS that the matter of complaint was not
confined to this District, but existed in all the
Districts in the State. Had We supposed that it
was an especial drive at Judge Hubbard We
should not have printed word Of it, for no per-
son has more respect for Judge Hubbard, than
we have. But ~ it was taken, and the lawyers
Of the Troy bar this week publish card, denying
that any such ground Of complaint has ever exist
ed, to their knowledge. We are credibly inform
ed that one lawyer after reading our article, de-
clared that it was true and expressed his senti-
meHts. The name of that lawyer appears in the
card of denial. We do not admire this way Of
encouraging an editor to pitch into some wrong
practice, or approving of it when he does do it ;
then sliding ont, when it causes an unpleasant
ness, leaving him to shoulder the blame.


One thing we are resolved upon: hereafter,
mon having personal grievances to air, must do
it over their own signatures; or, If we undertake
the job, We shall name our authority in the same
article.
Year: 1873

Last weeks Repsblicsn, in slmost column in
answer to the Chief, scatters over good deal Of
ground, part of the time condemning ms for what
same Of our friends may have said or done, and
part of the time condemning our friends for what
whe have done. 1t expresses surprise that We
should be insulted at anything that could be ssid
Of fus-inasmueh - we have pitched rather rough
ly. from time TO time, into persons who have
wrUnged NJ, it seems - think that it has right
to accnse us Of slmost every crine short Of mur-
der. The publisheD Of that PAYER, or 1t least enc
Of them, hastalked very knowingly, in conversa-
tons in miscellaneous company, about !" that
C,009," and how We would play ont when that
WAS gone; and the authorized agent aud business
manager whom they sent out to solicit patronage,
last summer, made it part of his business, wher-
ever he went, to notify the people that the CHIEF
would not last longer than six months. As an
offset to this, they complain that some friend Of
ours has spoken unfavorabiy of them.


Now, We propose to get ail the work We can,
and expect the ReYsblicas to do the same. We
are very thankful for all that our friends do for
ms; and If men arc to be held accountable for
what their friends do, We would remind that pa
per that some of its friends not only do not pat
ronize us but do all in their power to keep others
frnm it. But wa do not propose to growl at them
because they prefer the Repsklioa..


But as these discussions are profitless, we shall
close by referring to the statement in the Repsb-
iicans article, to the effect that had told some
body that the CHEF had not paid expenses since
our removal to Troy. That il all fiction of the
first water. We never told the editors Of the
Republican, nor any Of their friends, nor any Of
our friends, nor made any remsrk that could pes
sibly Ike construed into an intimasion that the
Chief had not paid expenses. If we had done so,
We would have told what was not true-and,
leaving out Of the dispute all question whether
we could be induced to tell lie or not, it is not
reasonable to suppose person would indulge in
q lie for the sake of iniuring himself
Year: 1873

OuR INDIAN PoLIcY.-If Government should
let out the question Of dealing with the Indians,
especially the Modocs, to q commission Of high
toned cusses as il has the civil service business,
and should, by some strange freak, appoint MS on
that commission We think we conld bring them
in short order. Those officers renowned for their
learning and accomplishments, should be recalled,
and permitted. to remain among those who could
appreciate their learning and accomplishments.
We would send for Wild Bill, Marshal of Abilene,
and appoint him eommander-in-chief We would
tell him to rake and scrspe the border the plains
and the mountains, cull ont, personally inspect,
and pick such as suited him. of whatever class race
or color-men that filled his eye, and that he
thought he could depend upon. We would tell
him to choose his own time and mode. without
interference or orders from elsewhere, % that he
clean-d out and exterminated the Modocs or
other Troublesome tribes in the speedest and most
thorough manner possible; then bring in his bill,
or take bis pay a. he went. We would insure
that in very few months the trouble would
cease,
Year: 1873

~ Senator Pomeroy authorizes the statement
that he intends living east hereafter, and there
fore will not bc a candidate for the Senatorial
vacancy. We cannot sec that the latter PROPOSE
tion is consequent upon the former; for he has
heretofore resided in the East, and been sena-
tor from Kansas. But we cannot blame the old
man for not wishing to change climate at this
late stage of his life.
Year: 1873




THE DARK SIDE.-Some of the Kansas papers
are copying and making capital ont Of an article
from Nebraska paper, which fears that the pub
lished accounts of the late snow-storm in that
State will have tendency To keep immigration
ont. 1t is . poor subject for capital. That same
storm ragged as fearfully in North western Kansas
as it did in Nebraska, and the suffering, from all
accounts, was worse Such storms do not often
visit any country; but when they do come, they
pay NO regard to State lincs- This homestead
mania is inducing men to drag their poor women
and children half clad and half fed. out into that
bleak, unprotected region. where they are bound
to be exposed to untold hardships and suffering
for years come. We like well enough to see .
large emigration, and recognize pioneers as a ne
cessity in new country; but it is bad enough
to see stout men plant themselves on the cheer
less frontier in pursuit Of visions that will never
lie realized, much more 40 the thousands of iane-
cent and helpless, who are dragged along to .
life of privation and suffering, without their con-
sent, and perhaps against their wishes. There is
vast deal of humbug in this homestead mania.
Year: 1873

ADVICE TO KEEP FROM SIARvING.-The sage
advice given by certain sheets, to relieve tho
pressing burdens and wants Of the farming COM
munity, is to start manufactures. We suppose
they want the farmers, who are not able to pay
their taxes, to build cotton and iron mills This
reminds us of poor fellow, who was about down
to the bed-rock, happening to see an advertisement
announcing that, for ten cents, certain mode of
making . speedy fortune would be furnished.
Here was his path TO salvation. He sent off his
last dime, and in due course of time received .
printed slip, laying down three roads to wealth,
- follows:


al. Start bank. Money is made moro rap
idly in the banking business than any other.


"2. Get up . valuable invention. Men have
suddenly sprung from poverty to wealth BY time
ly invention.


"3. Or advertise in the papers that you will
impart valuable information on the receipt of ten
cents. Yos have no idea how rapidly We are
making money in this way"
Year: 1873

| BE DUFF PORTER.
Idolatry is but the enthronement Of tho ideals
Of men who are ignorant Of the True God.
In the domain OF the Intellect, al is indi
gidual-eelfsh.


Our instinct is tho revelation OF God ani
the consciousness of our immortality.
Mo trial is there which, even at the most
critical instant, docs not see it's gloom ill1l-
minated by the wonderful uprising Of Hope.


If Genius lays Nature under tribute, it i
for materials, not inspiration.


One needs the effect Of giving quite aa
much as the other needs the gift.
God never forgets anything. All His works,
from the creation Of q world to tho tinting of q
leaf, are fnished-porfect.


One good deed may bo felt through all time,
and entail its consequences into eternity.


No forms arc Eo varied, 80 graceful, 80
grand, SO majestically, SO terribly sublime even,
~ those tho Great Sculptor caryes in the
cicudR.


There Is certain moral altitude where Faith
becomes knowledge.


When we arc subdued by sickness it eeemB
possible for us to fulfil pledges, which the old
yigor comes back and breaks.


Ono of the burdens that bends tho buck Of
Society, and breaks it though it be as carnel's
back, is tho sickness that does not need to exist.
What has rai6ed tho world, what has trained
mans faculties and given him mastery over Ma
ture, but Pain7


--He was one OF those children, so deserving
Of pity from all, who haye fathers and mothers,
and yet are orphans.


"A woman will make rs long and az patient g
tug in life as camel, If you only give her kind
word now and then, and show her g bit Of green
comfort at tho end.


Tho Goth and Saxon conquered and pos
sessed the earth because the mother OF their
children was also the divinity Of their homes.


While tho philosopher grows gray in igno-
rance among his cruciblcs, evory girliah mother
is being Illuminated by every kiss Of her child.


Man will not be- truly man until no shall
labor seriously to accomplish tho mission which
Earth expects Of him.


Let every man regard himself as an act Of
God, his mind q thought Of God, his life
breath Of God.


--Whnt we are accustomed to cali Chance is
but the result Of forces acting unexpectedly, or
under conditions not anticipated by us.


in nine cases ont OF ton, no mans lifo will
be success II he does not benr burdens in his
childhood.


Hight alongside Of this troubled life, that is
aeon aad temporal, may lie the green pastures
and the still waters Of the unseen aud eternal,
and they who know us better than We know
them: can at any time step across that little rin
that TIC call Death, and minister to our comfort
Year: 1873

of the roll was in cramped hand, which
he could not be positive about. He was


1. J. Barron had seen Boyd's handwrit-
ing but was not sufficiently familiar with
it to swear to it. Was familiar with
Chumleas hand and identified several
names as in his hand. Was allowed to eX-
anime the roll during recess of the
Year: 1873

ture acted wisely and in accordance with the
win Of the best people in Texas, and deserve
praise.


Q. Repeal of the school law.


Yes, the old law, which was full Of in
iquity and united to the situation and
means Of our people. was repealed, and a
new one, better suited to our condition and
ability, was enacted. This was right and
we are ready at all times to defend it.


We have thus gone through with the
whole batch Of charges, and they amount to
nothing but Radical Misrepresentation and
cant. They viii have no effect upon the
honest people of Texas, and We presume it
was not expected they would have any.
The Radicals of Texas are merely keeping
up show of opposition, so that their lead
ers may not be wholly forgotten at Wash
ington, and be enabled to secure Federal
positions, where they may not and plunder
at pleasure, with Grant to uphold them
and none to make them afraid.


We shall make the Davis address the sub
ject of future article, this being already
longer than we designed.
Year: 1873

Aise Preservation of Game and Fish.


We believe there is nothing in the
general laws Of Texas to prevent the
killing Of game and Of fish in any
manner and at any time that people
may choose. So extensive is our territory,
and so thinly has It been settled heretofore,
that it has not been deemed advisable to
enact any laws restricting the freedom Of
all persons in this respect. Many kinds Of
game and fish have been so abundant that
few people have ever thonght of their be-
coming scarce and needing any protection.
Yet in many portions Of our State both have
been greatly diminished, and the time is ap-
proaciiing, II it has not already come, when
something should be done, unless VIC are
willing to see our woods and prairies empty
Of game. and our inland waters destitute of
fish. Blost, If not all, Of the older States
have passed laws regulating the time and
manner Of killing deer, grouse, quail, etc,
and also restricting the season and mode of
taking the more valuable kinds of fish. It
is not permitted to kill game at time when
they are breeding, to shoot deer at night by
freight, or to catch quail, or partridge, as
they are sometimes called, by driving them
into nets, and thus committing wholesale
slaughter.


So Of fish-the time Of catching them is
also defined and restricted, and it is forbid
den to take certain kinds in the rivers and
small ponds by nets, or by poisoning the
waters, or catching them in any other
way than by hook and line 1t is possible
that in some of the States they may have
gone too far in this matter, and we are not
prepared to say how far We should go in
Texas, but we are convinced that something
should be attempted in the way of protec-
tion and preservation, both of game and
fish. We think the fire hunting of deer
should be interdicted, for this is dangerous
as well as undesirable, and the netting of
quail should be forbidden- There should
be law against using the seine in our
smaller streams and ponds, by which in a
short time the fish may be utterly EXTERN
mated No poisoning of the waters should
be allowed, another dangerous practice,
and the builder and owner of any dam
should be compelled to have stairways, as
they are called, so that the fish may pass up
easily in the spring, when they are seeking
the sources of streams to deposit their
spawn. The construction of dams across
our rivers, without these necessary accom-
modations for the passage of fish, cuts off
offcctually the supply in the upper waters,
and soon brings about scarcity, if not
total deprivation. All this is wrong, and
a remedy should be provided. II was the
intention of our friend, c. S. West, Esq,
of this city, an accomplished sportsman, to
have drawn upa proper game law, includ-
ing fish as well, to be laid before our Legis-
lature for their consideration and action !;
but we suppose the great pressure of legal
business prevented him. We have thought
it proper to call public attention to this
subject, that it may be discussed freely be-
fore the meeting of the next Legislature,
that it may be prepared to do what is right
in relation to it.
Year: 1873

Some where we come across the fol
lowing 1t is too true we believe, and
we reprint it in the hopes that it msy re
mind some thoughtless ones OF duty
they owe and have heretofore failed TO
perform;


How mary pale. lifeloss women you
see in the West, and in the East, too, for
that matter. Young, fresh looking NO
men marry, and ia five or ten years you
husbands look as well as on the day Of
their wedding. One cause of this is com
plicsted housekeeping When man un
dertakes business. he finds learned
men ready to assist him; he knows what
there is TO do, and secures help accord.
ingly A young woman goes to house
keeping very often without any help at
all, or perhaps with one awkward girl,
like the wife in this respect There are
three meals to be got every day-that
means cooking; and then comes the
dishes to be washed after each meal 1t
would take about forty five pieces for
breakfast and supper, and seventy for
dinner for family of five--one hundred
and sixty five pieces to be carried from
the kitchen to the dining room every day,
washed and carried back If you have
SIX rooms in your house there is one to
be thoroughly swept and cleaned daily,
besides brushing mp the others, making
beds, bringing in the wood and carrying
water


Twice week there is bread making,
twice week yeast making, one day
washing, one day ironing, pantres and
safes to be washed out once n week.
daily work to be attended to, besides in.
Vulnerable jobs in the way OF preserving,
jelly making, picking, curing hams, put
ting down pigs feet, looking over apples
twice in the winter, making hogshead
cheese, mincemeat, thorough house
cleaning twice year, drawers, etc by
the dozen


Then suppose the housekeeper has a
baby; an average six months old baby,
that weighs about eighteen pounds. Sup
pose she has this child in her arms thirty
times day Ga cross infant is taken up
more frequently, and often she is OBJ


iged to work with the right arm while
ca ry'ng the burden Of baby about with
the left. Who is it that says there is
nothing in gymnastics equal to the en-
duranee Of mothers arms Even when
the days labor is accomplished, and she
goes to bed, she still holds her baby, and
does not sleep soundly for fear of rolling
on it, or its getting uncovered she must
attend to its wants several times in the
night, and must be iu a constrained con.
dition for fear Of disturbing it.


i have heard women say they wonld
give almost anything for night Of un T.,
disturbed sleep "wth no care on their
mind. Then in the morning up and at
it again Don't you see why women get
pale, and why sonnet mes a little cross,
and how their husbands wonder that their
wives don't look pretty and dress well.
and entertain them as they did before
they were married?


The wives don't reason on the matter !;
they thhk it all the mems fault, and then
they turn cross, and so things go at skies
and sovens, and this is the place where
womeh's 5 rights should be taken hold Of
| do not think voting would help that
very much; women's labor should be
made study
Year: 1873

EJ' "A strong alum water is sure death
to bugs of any description, Take two
pounds of pulverized alum and dissolve
solve in three quarts of boiling water, al
lowing it to remain over the fire until
thoroughly dissolved Apply, while hot,
with q brush, or what is better, use a
syringe to force the liquid in the cracks
OF the walls and bedstesd. Statter also
the powdered alum freely in all these
places, aud you will soon be rid of these
insect nuisanccs which fill one with dis
gust
Year: 1873

~ One watch set right will do to t,y
many by; but, on the other hand, one
that goes wrong may be the means Of
misleading . whole neighborhood. And
the same may be said of an example.
Year: 1873

PARAMOUNT, Fillmore county, Neb.,(


July l, 1873.


Spring has passed. quickly away,
and bright, golden summer is upon
us. The brown unattractive prairie
has given way to carpet of green,
literally changing the face of the coun-
try. The brightest flowers are here
in the greatest abundance, and
strange birds keep a continual chat
teFing from morn till ''dewy eve." and
the heaviest dews do fall here of any
place l ever saw. 1t has been very
pleasant here for few day, and the
heat would be oppressive were it not
for the constant breeze. Last Friday
the mercury stood 80 ''in the shade"
We had thunder storm last night.
which has cooled the air, and it is
pleasant to-day.


l. Crops are looking we'll. 1t is esti-
mated that wheat will average tWen-
ty-three bushels per acre, and sod
corn twenty to twenty-five bushels.
That is the easiest crop raised here
One span of horses break the new
ground the first time, and the corn is
dropped through the sod by compli-
Gated little machine that ibis imposRi-
BILE for me to describe. 1t needs no
care or attention till it is ready to be
gathered some husk it, others break
the ear from the stalk husk and all,
and husk it as needed for use. Corn
is used to some considerable extent as
an article of fuel.


The sod houses are simply sods two
feet long and one foot wide, piled one
above the other till the desired height
is reached. Then among the better
class it is covered with two layers Of
matched flooring with tarred paper
between to keep out the water; and
plastered inside with water lime, and
a floor. But the poorer class are sat
isfied with bare black walls and the
earth for q floor, while the roof is of
brush and straw and dirt. Surely,
not very desirable place to live.


There gre great many snakes here,
the poisonous rattle-snake being
visitor much too often for conVe-
nience. l do not go into the cellar
without stopping to listen for the buz-
zing sound which is sure indication
of its presence. And right here LET
me give the remedy here used for the
bite 1t is one tablespoonful OF
gunpoWder, one of salt, and the white
of one egg; make and apply in the
form of salve. They tell me it is an
unfailing remedy. hope may never
have occasion to use it.


1t is Jast approaching the glorious
Fourth. | see Ravenna is to have its
share of festivities at that time. We
are by no means behind the times out
here. There are to be three ceIebra-
ton within reach of us-one on the
Blue River; one at Fairmont, and one
at a grove some distance southeast of
us.


We are to have an ice-cream festi-
val at the courthouse here next Tues
day evening under the auspices of the
Presbyterian society, and probably
plenty of lemonade; but nothing
stronger; for there is not saloon in
Fillmore county. This is fact we
are proud to acknowledge, and we
hope it will be long time before we
shall have to change our record.


There is plenty of room here for
all live men that wish to come. ttNone
other need apply.f


But, perchance / may be trespassing
on your time, so hasten to say ''good
night" BELLE BIGELoW.
Year: 1873

A correspondent who says that he
is a day-laborer, at fourteen shillings
day, inquiries of the New Y ork Sun
what is the difference between Con-
gress which passes a bill to rob the
Treasury, or the President who lob
bies for the passage of the bill, and
makes haste to sign it after it is passed
in order to increase his own salary,
against the law, and the cashier who
robbed the Atlantic Bank? Both
Congress and President were intrusted
with the safe-keeping of money be-
longing to others, and so was the
cashier of the bank; and each took
advantage of his official power and
opportunity to steal it without per-
missionlfrom those to whom it be-
longed.


The correspondent is entirely right
in his Judgment, and he does not put
the case too roughly. He is right also
when he says that the laboring men oi
this country will at last have to pay
this plundered money and it will be
well for them if they consider the
facts maturely before the next election
Year: 1873

RESTORATION OF A NosE.-In one of
the German medical periodicals DIR.
Malfath describes the treatment of a
man whose nose had been cut off by a
sabre. The wound was through the
cartillaginous part of the bridge of
the nose, dividing the left ala along its
posterior third, the septum through
its middle, and the right ala, two lines
behind the anterior angle of the nos
tril. The piece cut off was taken up
from the place where it lay on the
ground, cleaned with cold water and
reapplied, being secured in its place
by means of sutures. A week after
the injury dry scab began to form
on the left ala, and extended in the
course of three days over nearly the
whole nose. Granulations gradually
formed, healing went on steadily, and
now careful examination is required
to detect any trace of the injury.