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Year: 1872

The Grant men are trying desperate
ly to believe the contest already settled
in their favor, but in truth their alarm
is as vivid as ever, since the majority
has fallen Off eighty per cent In North
Carolina, twenty per cent in Maine and
flve per cent In Vermont. If the ten-
dency settles the conflict 1t will be Far
mer Grant next year and President
Greeley.
Year: 1872

a four-year old female went into
drug store the other day, and said to
the proprietor in a half-whisper: off
little girl hain't got any money, how
much chewing-gum do you give her
for nothing ?''
Year: 1872

In all the town of Brattleboro, says a newspaper correspondent, there is not lovelier spot than the place where Col. Fisk is buried. The village cemetery is on the top of hill, sloping down on one side to the Connecticut, on the other catching all the glories of sunset, as across the churchyard grass the rays of the setting sun finger longest. The lot which Col. Fisk purchased, only few months before his death, is one of the pleasantest in the cemetery; it overlooks the Connecticut, and is evenly terraced down the side of the hill; overhung by trees, it is yet neither dark nor gloomy, for the sun strikes through the boughs all day, making fickering shadows on the dark soft green of the grass, and touching the flowers that always adorn the spot into new freshness and bright ness. In the centre of the lot is the grave of the Colonel. with plain marble slab to mark it until the monument shall be finished. At each corner is rustic basket filled with creeping ivy, and bright blossoming geraniums and yer benas. Beside baskets, too, stand on each side of the grave, filled like the others. On the grave fresh flowers are placed daily by the loving hands of his wife, and they are not allowed to fade before others take their place. Just at the end of the upper terrace, looking of over the river and up the beautiful val ley, are two rustic chairs, and here Mrs. Fisk spends her mornings, watching the gardener as he arranges the flowers, and planning new additions to the already almost perfect spot. It is so quiet here, away from all the noise even of a country town, that one can scarcely realize what restless spirit it is that lies here under the green sward. in the spot where nothing is heard but the murmur of the river, the low twittering of the birds, and the rustic of the wind through the tree-tops on the hillside. The very soul of calmness and peace broods over the place, and tumol and the fretfulness of busy living seem as far away as though they were not. Of course many visitors are attracted to the spot, and scarcely one comes to the village who does not make pilgrimage to that quiet grave overlooking the river and brooded over by the mountain shadows. The lot is surrounded by granite coping, which will be in place in Autumn,s and the monument is to be made by MT. Larkin G. Mead, of Florence, sItaly, who'is also 8 Brattleboro boy, and schoolmate of Col. Fisk. He has just sent photo graph of the design to Mrs. Fisk. The base is to be large square of marble, with four ife-sized figures at each corner representing Music, Drama, the Railroad and Steamboat. Between each of the figures at the side is an urn, exquisitely carved, for flowers; Ill front is a bas relief of ColoneI Fisk: at the back the inscription from the centre of the marble rises an obelisk. This monu- ment will not be completed until next year, and the cost will be $30, 1000. It is to be of the finest Italian marble.
Year: 1872

RorUND1TY OF THE GLOBE. There are sensible gentlemen who begin of late to express their dissatisfaction with the common opinion of the globes roundity. Not many centuries ago, very celebrated European theologians decided it was as perfectly flat as 8 dinner plate, and consequently there must be jump ing off margin somewhere in the unex- plored distance. With this explanation the people were perfectly satisfied, as the decision emanated from an eminent source. But after while the narratives of seamen and the speculations of mathe- maticians were productive of doubt and finally an overthrow of the pancake ex- plantation, as it was called So it has been settled opinion quite long enough for the production of thousands of books all of which in some way admit the truth of the declaration that this earth is nearly round ball. Very well, but at an unexpected moment, three learned doubters -Messer. Wallaces, Carpenter, and Hambden- are laboring under a problem designed to show that the right form has not yet been ascertained. What shape it may have after their manipulations have been completed nc one knows; possibly it may turn out to be parallelopipedon.
Year: 1872

Captain Teach, better known as Blackboard" made his appearance about 1716, off Port of Spain, Trinidad, plundered and burnt brig laden with cacao, and when Spanish brig came in and cautiously cannonaded him at a dis tar ce, sailed leisurely out of the Boca Grande. Little would any Spanish guarda costa trouble the soul of the val liant Captain Teach, with his six pistols slung in bandoliers down his breast, lighted matches stuck underneath the brim of his hat, and his famous black beard, the terror of all the merchant captains from Trinidad to Guinea River, twisted into tails, and tied up with rib bons behind his ears. How he behaved himself for some years as ste1ocious human pig" like Ignatiu Loyola before his conversion, with the one virtue of courage, how he would blow out the candle in the cabin, and fire at random into his crew, on the ground "that if he did not kill one of them now and then they would forget who he was ;" how he would shut down the hatches, and fill the ship with the smoke of birthstone and what not, to see how long he and his could endure certain place-to which they are, some of them, too probably gone how he had buried his money, or said he had, "where none but he and Satan could find it, and the longest liver should take all ; how, out of some such tradition, Edgar Poe built up the wonder full tale of the "Gold Bug; ;" how the planters of certain southern states, and even the Governor of North Carolina, paid him blackmail, and received black mail from him likewise and. lastly, how he met a man as brave as he but with a clear conscience and clear sense of duty, in the person of MT. Robert May nard, first lieutenant of the "Pearl, !" who found him after endlessedific iculties, and fought him hand-to-hand in Obere- cock River, in Virginia, ''the lieutenant and twelve men against Blackboard and fourteen, till the sea was tinctured with blood around the vessel;" and how May. nard sailed into Bathtown with the gory head, black beard and all, hung at his jibboom end-an this is written-in the books in which it is written, which need not be read now, however sensational, by the pubic,
Year: 1872

evening David Carlton and Captain Tom walked out upon the verdant lawn, and their hearts were attuned to that blissful worship of the Infinite Goodness which only those can know whose lives have been spiritually pure and truthful.
Year: 1872

MR. RESNE claims that the name Magic
Oil " is his ''trade mark aud that any per
sons who use that name for a medicine do SO
at their peril. as much 40 as though they
stole any other property of his, besides Hei
ertrd meaHness! The genuine Rsune's Pain.
Killing Magic Oil is what the psops want
and will have
Year: 1872

The railroad traveller will 6Dd a remedy
thai 10 pleasant and perfectly harmless, aud
q sure preventive Of the evil effects from
constipation or chsngs of water and diet, by
using simmons Liver Regulator
Year: 1872

apement and humiliation. Their pastors want to
shield them from this reproach. A member of the
last Assembly told me, that in order to save his
church from modification, he subscribed two hum
dred dollars to swell the amount Many of our min
listers are ready to do the same thing We felt that
we could speak freely, because in Presbytery the
average salary is over three thousand dollars The
vantage in the columns.


AT this point, the hour of adjournment arrived
and the Assembly adjourned till 81 O'Clock this
auaninn
Year: 1872

A sure test is the manifest tendencU
of the doctrines-their obvious infiu-
ence upon life and character. A false
doctrine does not tend to make men
better; nor does q true one tend to
make them worse. The fruit of every
tree must be according to the trees
own nature. As saith the Scripture /:
Every tree is known by his own
fruit. For of thorns men do not
gather figs, nor of a bramble-bush
gather they grapes" If the manifest
tendency Of any doctrine is to repress
the lower part OF our nature and stim-
ulate the higher; if they reveal to us
q more exalted wisdom and loveli-
ness in the Divine Being, and a more
perfect order in the created universe
than we had seen before; if they in
spire US with deeper love and rever-
ence for the Word and works of God
If they give us q clearer view of our
own characters, and awaken an earn
est desire while they show US the
way to improve them; if they tend 10
make US more humble and self-deDy-
Ing, more thoughtful of the welfare of
others and more eager to promote it,
more resigned and cheerful under the
various aiiotments of life-more sin
eere, honest, humane, mereiful, just
and kind-more like the Heavenly
Father in the spirit and temper of our I
minds; if any doctrines have this !
tendency, they proclaim their eharac-
ter and origin with sufficient clear
ness. We may be sure that doctrines
which thus lead the soul upward to I
God and heaven, must themselves |
have come down from God out of
heaven.-EUanQelist.
Year: 1872

The following is said to be one Of
the most brilliant articles ever written
by the lamented George ID. Prentice;


But the fiat OF nature is inexorable-
There is no appeal for relief from the
great law which dOoms US to dust
We flourish and fade as the leaves Of
the forest, and the flowers that bloom
and wfther for day have no frailer
hold upon life than the mightiest
monarch that ever shook the earth
with his footsteps. Generations of
men Will appear and disappear as the
grass, and countless multitudes that
thrOng the world to-day will disap-
pear as the footsteps on the shore.


Men seldom think of the great event
Of death until the shadow falls across
their own path, hiding from their
eyes the traces of loved ones, whose
loving smiles were the sunlight Of
their existence. Death is the great
antagonist OF life and the cold thought
Of the tomb is the skeleton Of all
feasts. WedO notwRDf TO go through
the dark valley, although its passage
may lead to Paradise; and with
Charles Lamb, we do not want to lie
down in the grave even with princes
for bed fellows.
Year: 1872

How TO MAKE LIGHT.-The Paris
Figaro gives the following method
of obtaining light instantaneously,
without the use Of matches and with
out danger of setting things on IRE =
Take an obloDg vial of the whitest
and elearest glass, put in it piece OF
phosphorus about the size of a pea.
upon which pour some olive oil, heat
ed to the boiling point, filling the vial
about one-third full, and then seal the
vial Theoretically. To use it, remove
the cork and allow thesair to enter the
vial, and then recork it. The whole
empty space in the bottle will then
become luminous, and the light OBJ
tained will be equal to that of lamp.
As soon as the light grows weak its
power can be increased by opening
the vial and allowing a fresh supply
of air TO enter. In winter it is some
times necessary to heat the vial be-
tween the hands to increase the fuidity
of the oil. Thus prepared the wal
may be used for six months. This
eontrivance is now used by the watch
men of Paris in all magazines where
explosive or infiamable materials are
stored.
Year: 1872

Bow low the head-do reverence TO
the old man, once like you. The


vicissitudes Of life have silvered his


hair and changed the round, merry
face to the worn vissage before you
Once the heart that beat with aspira-
tion was crushed with disappOint-
ment, as yours, perhaps, is destined
to be. Once that form stalked prompt
~ through the gay scenes of pleasure,
the beau ideal Of grace; now the hand
Of time that withers the flowers of
yesterday, has bent that figure and
destroyed that noble carriage Once
at your age, he possessed the thousand
thoughts that pass through your
brain, now wishing to accomplish
deeds equal to a height in fame; anon
imagining IL dream that the sooner
he wakened from it the better. But
he has lived the dream very nearly
J; the time to awaken is very
near at hand; his eye never kindles
ut old deeds Of daring, and the hand
takes firmer grasp Of the staff. Bow
low the head, boy, as you would in
your old age Oe reverenced.
Year: 1872

Bias bands and small fiounces Is the
latest fashionable style of trimming
silk undershirts. .ef


The breaking of a wedding ring is
said to be a sign that its owner viii
soon be widow.
The latest fashion at parties and
Germans is 10 hang a mistletoe bough
between the folding doors.


bridesmaids dresses this season cost
IS much as that Of bride, and are
made of as rich and costly materials.


An artificial rosebud worn in the
buttOn-hoie, is now considered quite
the correct thing by our BOciety young
men.


The latest style In rings and brace
let's is In the shape Of serpent, with
ruby eyes, and the back studded with
small precious stones.


Fiehus, or tight-fitting eapes, or
waists Of velvet plush or velveteen
the color Of the dress are very much
worn with street costumes this season.


Black silk costumes trimmed with
Chinehilla and the fur Of the silver
fox, are very elegant for receptions,
for the street, although rather con-
spieuous.


A bachelor says CALI he would
require in a wife would be a good
disposition, beauty, good figure and
connections, conversational talents,
elegant and polished manners and
money.


The latest style Of bows for theneck
are of point or Valeneiennes lace,
made In the shape of q pyramid, small
at the top and large at the bottom,
and is made to, cover the whole front
of the waist.


White lace wells, dotted with black,
are no longer worn, as they make the
face look as II enamelled, and give q
g fast i'rloOk to the quietest dressed
lady. Plain tulle, pointed in front
and edged with maltese lace, is the
style now most preferred.


The latest fashionable ornament for
adorning lady's hair Of an evening
is 8 bandeau Of small gilt bells, which
tinkle softly with each motion of the
wearer's head, and are pretty accom-
paniment to the music and running
fire Of small talk.


Some New York ladies wishing to
put down the high priced dressmakers
and milliners, have formed a society
and agreed to make their own dresses
and bonnets, and show an amount OF
skill which Is not equalled or exeelled
by even the French Hlodistes.
Year: 1872

There was man in Mauch Chunk,


q few days ago, with apatentAir brake


for railroad cars for sale. He claimed


II would stop a train going at the high


est rate Of speed in half its own length.


There was & certain railroad man up
there who treated this Suggestion with
scOrn, and said he would wager large
sums that the air brake wouldn't stop
q train any quicker than any other
brake. So be borrowed the contri-
vance and fixed it on an open car on
the Switch-back Railroad, and went
up to Mount Pisgah to get fair start.
He let her come down the inclined
plane for a while until she began to
move along at the rate of sixty miles
an hour, and then he suddely placed
his foot on the brake and put il on with
full power. One minute later the eve
of any solitary traveller passing thro'
those wilds might have observed car
standing perfectly still on the track
and q railroad man going down hill
among the blackberry bvshes and un-
derbrush head foremost at the rate
say of forty-five miles an hour. He
was carried home on a stretcher, and
now that railroad man not only has
perfect faith in the inYailRbility Of the
air brake. but he is convinced that it
would be q good thing II some man
would invent q machine for taking
the hRtness and geaeral .demoraliza-
ton, as it were, out Of mutilated
noses. 1t is recorded that he has
solemnly assured all his friends that
be will never try 1t again.
Year: 1872

Somebody remarks that little fish
seem to have the most sensible ideas
of start in life-they all begin on
small scale-and there is as much
truth as wit in the saying. Begin
small. Countless sermons have
already been preached from that text,
but until the practice comes up 20 the
preaching there would seem to be
need OF more yet 1t is not so easy
for a young cJuple who have been
brought up In comfort and luxury to
go backward in the social scale, and
begin according TO their means. It
seems like descent, and it is hard to
make il gracefully. Better that it
should be done, however, at first, than
to have to come 30 1t after a brief
period of luxurious living; for, in that
case, the last state is apt to be worse
than the first. Emulate the little
fishes, therefore, and begin on small
scale.
Year: 1872

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Mrs. EwelI, wife OF the confederate
General Ewell, after having spent
many anxious days and nights at her
husbands bedside, was stricken down
with the same disease from which he
was suffering, and survived only three
or four days. The loss of his wife
caused reaction in General, RRell's
disease, and his death speedily follow
ed. Mrs. Ewell was the daughter of
the late Judge Campbell of Nashville,
and was born in St. Petersburg, while
her father was the representative of
this government at the court of the
Gar. The Louisville Ledger has this
romantic narrative OF the marriage Of
General EWell: ....


In early life there was a settled mel
anchoIy, almost bordering on morose-
ness, about General Ewell, which
impressed his army friends with the
belief that he had been the victim of
some tickle false ones heartlessness.
This, however, was not the case. He
had scarcely attained his majority
when he first met Miss Mary Polk
Campbell, the lovely and accomplish.
ed daughter of Judge George w.
Campbell, of Tennessee, andR mutual
admiration sprung up between the
gallant young army Ionicer and the fas-
cinating belle, which soon ripened
into love. Butthe fates were not pro-
pitious. The parents objected to the
match so persistently that General
Ewell, becoming piqued, did not
press his suit as vigorously at the
time as he would otherwise have done.
The duties of military life carried
him to the frontier; yet Throughout
all the stirring campaigns in which
he bore CONSPICUOUS part he earned
with him the imAga of his early love,
dreaming, in the pauses Of the battle,
of the time when be might yet win
from the unwilling hands of fame a
distinction which should commend
him to the fathers esteem.


Meantime the daughter, with that
high sense of honor peculiar TO her
race, and q filial devotion almost
without parallel, addressed herself as
best she could to the meek obserYan-
ces of a dutifll life-ceasing to COM
municate with, yet in secret cherish
ing, her hearts one idol. Another
won her hand, and in her twentieth
year she married an estimable gentle
men and settled with him on beau
tiful farm near Spring Hill. Tennes-
see. A short time before the war she
was left widow free to bestoW her
hand again on whom she would. But
she had never forgotten her girlish
vows. Through all the stormy life of
him who first won heraffeetions she
followed, with her prayers and tears,
her idol-her hero-who was winning
laurels on distant fields. And when
at the battle Of the Wilderness, in
May, 1854, he was stricken down at
the head Of his columns, Mrs. Mary
Polk Brown laid aside all minor con-
siderations and few on the wings OF
love to his bedside, nursing him
through all of his sufferings until he
was again able to take command. It
was shortly after his recovery that
the dream of long and eyentful life
was realized by the consummation Of
of his early hopes, and these twain,
devoted in youth, parted for the
quarter of a century, met at last in the
shadow of declining years to pledge
anew that faith which had vaxed
stronger through the trying ordeal Of
a long separation
Year: 1872

CHICAGO, January 29.-Mechanics
and laborers from various parts of the
country are making great mistake
in coming to this city in search Of
work. The supply Of labor Of all
sorts is far in excess OF the demand,
and will be for two months TO come.
What building is going on is done
slowly, and depends on the weather.
which is too severe for outdoor work,
while the real work of actively re-
building will be delayed till spring.
WOrkingmen not understanding this,
are pouring in from all quarters,
spending their last dollar to get here,
and appealing to the Relief Committee
for aid when they find no work to be
had. Those journals which are urg-
ing these people TO come here at
this season are unintentionally doing
wrong, adding to city already over
burdened with the destitute.


TSignedl M. FAIRBANKS.
Chairman Of the Employment Com
mittee and Relief Society.
Year: 1872

FROM Tue smyrna IlmeS.l


When Congressman Biggs in his usual tlip-
pant and frothy manner, claimed for Delaware
the best free school system of any State in the
Union," he was ignorant of his subject or re-
gardless of a seruons. The local items of al
most any paper in the State, at almost any time
he may glance over them would teach him bet
ter. if he is not preyersely blind. Let any one
look over the local items OF the Times this week,
il he desires to know how the system works,
Facts are stubborn things" and such these
simple news items are.
Year: 1872

What an unfortunate fellow the
local editor is, to be sure, and how
much is expected Of him. If man
buys a new horse or buggy, or if his
COW can bawl three times without
winking, the local is expected to pro- ?
claim that fact with great flourish.
If he starts a two-penny business, bis
first thought is to bribc the local with
five cent cigar to write five dollar
puff. Indeed, he thinks it the mission
of the local to make his fortune for
him by free blowing He will take
the local to one side and point out
the superior qualities Of rat-terier
dog, and coolly ask him to give the
pup hoist. lie don't care anything
about it only Spriggips has q dog that
he thinks is a buster and some of 'em
wanted his dog put in just to take
the conceit out of Spriggins. Oh, yes,
put it in by all means. Everybody
wants US to put it in that they are
the Great | Am but nobody SAYS,


Here, local put yourself inside this
new suit of clothes, or throw yourself
outside this oyster stew, or stuff this
watch in your pocket Oh, no, of
course not; that would cost something.
The shoe is on the other foot, you see.
The local is supposed to know every.
thing about other peoples business,
and is supposed to show up all the
actors of every family broil in town.
If the vile tongue Of scandal finds
victim people wonder that he
don't run about with his note book
and gather up the vituperative bits
Of SANDER for the paper.-Er.