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Year: 1872

The printed page, what is il? 1t is a
little. apiece of paper, and on it are a few
characters in ink, stamped by the press.
We look at it for q moment, the eye
glistens, the heart hastens its rapid
beat-we laugh, for it is a numerous
touch from the pen of Mark Twain or
Charles Dickens-we weep, for it is the
recital of a story of outrage or sorrow
we exult, for victory has been won
by patriot arms, or power wrenched
from the hands of despotism-we are
depressed, for defeat has come to some
cherished cause or purpose. What is it
that exerts this mighty power over the
human intellect? 1t is thought influ-
encing thought-mind in contract with
mind-the coming together of two cur
rents of that subtle agency which we
cannot see or handle, but which sets in
motion the whole framework of each
individual man, and propels him to the
accomplishment of whatever is done in
the world. O.! the pote mt power of
the printed leaf! for by it we talk to
each other when far apart, and through
it famous man may speak into the ear
of every man on the globe.-W. N.
Potter.
Year: 1872

riage relation occupies so much of the
public attention, the following views of
the late Theodore Parker on this sub
ject are not without interest:


Men and women, and especially young
people, do not know that it takes years
to marry completely two hearts, even
of the most loving and well assorted.
But nature allows no sudden change.
We slope very gradually from the era
die to the summit of life. Marriage is
gradual, fraction of us at time. A
happy wedlock is long falling in love.
l know young persons think love be-
longs only to the brown hair, and
plump, round, crimson cheeks. So it
does for its beginning, just as Mt. Wash
ington begins at Boston Bay. But the
golden marriage is part of love which
the bridal day knows nothing of. Youth
is the tassel and silken flower of love,
age is the full corn, ripe and solid in
the ear. Beautiful is the morning of
love, with its prophetic crimson, violet,
purple and gold, with its hopes of days
that are to come. Beautiful also is the
evening of love, with its glad remem-
brances, and its rainbow side turned to-
ward heaven as well as earth. Young
people marry their opposite in temper
and general character, and such mar
riage is commonly good match. They
do it instinctively. The young man
does not say, "My black eyes require to
be wed with blue, and my over-vehe-
mence requires to be little modified
with somewhat of dullness and reserve"
When these opposites come together to
be wed they do not know it; each
thinks the other just like itself.


Old people never marry their oppo-
sites; they marry their similars, and
from calculation. Each Of these two
arrangements is very proper. In their
long journey, these two young opposites
will fall out by the way great many
times, and both get out of the road;
but each will charm the other back
again, and by-and-by they will be
agreed as to the place they will go to
and the road they will 60 by, and be-
come reconciled. The man will be
nobler and larger for being associated
with so much humanity unlike himself
and she will be nobler woman for
having manhood beside her that seeks
to correct her deficiencies and supply
her with what she lacks, if the diversi-
ty be not too great, and there be real
piety and love in their hearts to begin
with. The old bridegroom, having a
much shorter journey to make, must
associate himself. A perfect and COM
plete marriage is, perhaps, as rare as
perfect personal beauty. Men and wo-
men are married fractionally; now a
small fraction, then large fraction.
Very few are married totally, and then
only, think, after some forty or fifty
years of gradual approach and expert
ment. Such large and sweet fruit is
a complete marriage that it needs very
long summer to ripen in, and then a
long winter to mellow and season it,
But real, happy marriage of love and
judgment between noble man and wo-
man, is one of the things so very hand
some that if the sun were, as the Greek
poets tabled, a god he might stop the
world in order to feast his eyes on such
a spectacle.
Year: 1872

When lady would compose her
mouth to bland and serene character,
she should say bosom, and keep the ex-
preston into which the mouth subsidies


until the desired effect upon the COM
pany is evident. If, on the other hand
she wishes to assume distinguished
bearing, not suggestive of sweetness,
she should say brush, the result of
which is unfalliable. If she would
make her mouth small and pretty, she
must say flip, but if the mouth be al
ready too small, she must say kerchunk.
Year: 1872

posed upon me and shall be very glad
of the opportunity to address you at
greater length later in the session, and
when our labors shall have closed"


The reports of the committees closed
the days work, and at four o'clock the
convention adjourned until ten O'Clock
Thursday morning.
Year: 1872

All the morning the streets are
crowded with vast throngs of people
moving to and fro. The day is delight
full and the display of bunting from the
public buildings all over the city is u
spectacle of the grandest character. AT
the Academy of Music flags are numer-
ously displayed, extending far across
the streets. The academy was filed
long before the hour for assemblage of
the convention: The delegates were
all seated at about half past ten, enter
ing the hall amid the warmest demon
ctrofiopS of enthusiasm
Year: 1872

SiXty,four years after the estab-
lishment of the Bank of England,
the first forged note was presented
for payment, and to Richard Will
liam Vaughn, a Stafford linen dra-
per, belongs the elancholy cele.
5rity of having led the van in this
new phase Of crime in the year
1858. The record of his life does
not show want, beggary or starva-
ton urging him, but a simple de-
sire to seem greater than he was.
By one of the artists employed
land there were several engaged
on different parts of the notes. the
discovery was made. The crimi-
nal had filed up to the number of


twenty and deposited them in the
hands of young lady to whom he
was attached, as a proof of his
wealth. There is no calculating
how much longer bank notes might
have been free from imitation had
this man not shown with what ease
they might be counterfeited. From
this period forged notes became
common. His execution did not
deter others from the offence, and
many a neck was forfeited to the
halter before the late abolition of
capital punishment for that crime.
Year: 1872

The aggregate carelessness
of the American people is strik.
ingly shown by a statistical
statement in the Postal Record
of the number of letters sent to


the Dead Letter Office during,
a single year. 1t appears that
during last year nearly three
millions Of letters were received


at that office, of which sixty
eight could not be forwarded
for the reason that the county
and State were left off the di-
rection ; four hundred thousand
were unstamped, and more than
three thousand were mailed
with no direction at all.


Some OF the unstamped let
ters may have lost their minia-
ture portraits Of American
statesmen through the non-ad-
hesiveness of Uncle Samuel's
mucilage, but how three thou
sand persons could mail simply
blank envelopesp passes our com
prehension. 1t must be that
they were bound to write a let
ter to some disagreeable ac-
quaintance, to fulfil the letter
of the law Of correspondence,
and thus deliver themselves
from the burden Of "owing a
letter" without the correspond
ing obligation Of receiving an
answer, or else the American
people are wonderfully careless.


The strangest part Of this
statement is that there were
found in these letters money Or
ders to the amount of two mil
lions Of dollars. That a tired
lover or cold friend should
write tender epistle and trust
it to the hands Of a post-office
clerk, in an envelope innocent
of even a single line of direc-
ton, is perhaps possible ; but
that old John Cashdown should
send off letters to his business
correspondents in the same fash
ion is hard to be believed.
Year: 1872

This earth's weary waiting time,


The world is full of sorrow,
But soon within cloudless cline


Will dawn brighter morrow;
For that we watch, for that we wait,


1t is the same old story,
And some time through the Futures gate
VIII come the promised glory.
Not ours, perchance, the bliss of those


Who greet its full appearing,
Yet still triumphant o'er all foes


We know that it is nearing;
When truth and right shall grandly rise,


And yield to no depressing,
And on all hearts the opening skies


Shall shower their richest blessing.
But while we look with eager trust


For every welcome token,
1t may not come till "dust to dust''


Has DER our graves been spoken.
We helped the precious seed to sow,


We bore it forth with weeping,
Not ours the harvest-joy to know,


Not ours the golden reaping.
Thank God that One can see,


Fen from each small beginning;
Nor counts the life in vain to be,


That boasts no outward winning.
Without thought Of human praise


Well bravely bear each burden,
Until beyond these mortal days


We clasp the longed-for guerdon!
Year: 1872

A laywoman in Providence,
a millIner by trade, but never
theless a fayOrite exhorter at the
elect, thus gave her reasons for
a belief in the existence Of q
Supreme Being: Sisters, l
am just as confident that there
is a God asI am that there are
bonnets in Paris; and that |
know for certain, as | yesterday
received from there a choice as
sortment of the most fashiona-
bic styles, which / will trim
with more taste and sell lower
than any milliner in the city"
Year: 1872

The Pittsburg Post is anx-
ious for information, 1t asks
Can any yof our Republican con-
temporaries furnish us with the
Chairman pro tenn, of the Grant
Committee of Jersey City P
We mean the one selected to
act while the regular Chairman
is serving out his nine months
term in the penitentiary Of
New Jersey.
Year: 1872

The New Orleans Republican
says that a man lately died in
one of their hospitals of a strange
disease, and a post-mortem exam
ination revealed the fact that his
stomach was coated nearly an
inch thick with marble dust
The Republican adds that the
man was an excessive drinker Of
soda water.
Year: 1872

The Mexican General Rocba, at
the capture Of Zacatacas, killed the
wounded and piled them up with
those killed in tie fight, after which
be saturated the CORY mass with
turpentine and disposed Of it finally
by setting 1t on fire.
Year: 1872

A man was announced to lee
ture on nitro-glycerine before the
Troy Scientific Association. Alter
waiting a half,hour for his audi.
ence, the door opened cautiously
aud the janitor threw in tae key,
asking the lecturer to lock up
what was left of the building when
he got through.
Year: 1872

THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER The Cleve-
land Herald makes the following truthful
observations concerning country papers, and
,he duty of giving them wholesome support


The local paper is an absolute necessity to
the county and community where it is pub
lished. All the city papers cannot supply
the place of the home paper. That should
be the first love of every man, for with the
paper the locality is identified. The paper
gives the county and town where printed
much of their importance in the world, and
gives in detail the local news, which cannot
be gained by any other source. Every days
issue of the paper is so much local history,
and the rise, growth and development of the
town and county can be measured and re-
corded only by the local newspaper that is
constantly gathering its items. People do
not properly appreciate their home ncwspa-
per. They measure the value of paper too
much by the number of columns it contains.
The home paper at any price is the cheapest
paper one can take, for in it is found the in
formation to be obtained from no other
source.
Year: 1872

How TO ACQUIRE Coop MEMoRY.-We
read too much and think about what we
read too little; the consequence is that most
of the people we meet know something, in a
superficial way, about almost everything.
Not tenth part Of what is read is remem-
bered for month after the book or newspa-
per is laid aside. Daniel Webster, who had
rich store Of information on almost every
subject Of general interest, said that it had
been his habit for years to reflect for short
time on whatever he read. aud so fix the
thought and ideas worth remembering in his
mind, Any one who does this will be sur
prised to find how retentive his memory will
become, Or how long after reading an inter.
esting article the best portions of it will ro-
main with him.
Year: 1872

RoUGH FROM A PREACHER. Missouri
paper is authority for this; A Round Like
camp-meeting minister, Father Jennison,
says; "Woman and the devil turned every
thing upside down in the beginning, God
had given to woman special gift for inau-
ence that he had withheld from man. But
Satan had got her in early life, and she had
kept up her wickedness ever since. l tell
you, my dear sisters, the devil hasn't left
you alone yet. Satan refused to smite jobs
wife because he know che was one of bis
best allies"
Year: 1872

New CuRE.-Under tie head of "Novel
Cure for the Consumption" the Indianal oils
Etening Journal publishes the following:


A young lady in this city, sick with dis
ease of the lungs, was told that if she would
get n young puppy and raise it, the dog
would take the consumption of her hands
and she would get well. She did so, and
as the dog grew it was noticed that the ami
NAL acquired a hacking cough, while tho
lady grew rapidly better. In the meantime,
however, she had become much attached to
her canine benefactor, and did everything
that could be done for him, 1t was of no
use, however. consumption, the fell de-
stroyer, had fastened upon poor jacks vitals
and a few days since he passed in his checks,
The young lady is in robust health, and
firmly believes that the dog seved her ;fc,
Year: 1872

A LOUISVILLE wife, wishing to get rid Of
her husband OF short notice, sent him into
the collar with kerosene lamp for pitcher
Of cider. She gave him just time to get the
cider in one hand apd tho lamp in the other,
and then shouted "murder." She had cal
culated vol. The doomed man sprang up
the steps, the lamp fell, apd--the woman
was free,
Year: 1872

When men forget their love of gold,
And love their honor more;
When truth is only current coin,


And counted Ger and Der;
When men love freedom for its sake -
For all as we'll as one
And, for the greatest good, their work,
From day to day, is done;
When men throw self aside and live
For some just purpose high,
Then will the glorious era come


When none shall fear to die.
Year: 1872

SOME young men at For Wayne went into
a restaurant and dined to the amount Of
several dollars. One young man proposed
to pay the bill, when another young man
stopped him, and he proposed to pay This
game was played by all, when it was pros
posed to blindfold the waiter, and the one
he caught was to pay the bill. While the
waiter was cropping Ground the room the
dead beats made good their escape.
Year: 1872

LINES on PRAYER.


BY A. t. CHER.
Son. Why pray?


Do you not say


"Our God is infinite;"
That "He knoweth best what is right,
What is best, and when It's best to bestow


How We,


~ / do not see,
Can make Him change His mind
We know that He is very kind,
But it would indeed to me seem strange
If we by simply praying could cause God to
change.


Gods law


somewhere saw


Or heard, is writ in gold,
And that it is so very DID,
And perfect, making all things for our use,
Or for our good-when misapplied they then
abuse.


will not pray.


Until I see how we
Can be blessed by asking. To me
1t seems, if God is Interchangeable, there
Is no good to US, or others, done by praying,
FATHER My son.


Thou hast begun


This conversation well.
From what thou sayest can tell
have not taught thee right, while in thy youth;
If SO, thou have better knowledge of the truth,


Praying


Is not saying:
"Great God, may be blest,
And from the sins of Satan rest"
Entire devotion in some proper place,
Alone can fit US to receive our Makers grace.


We do


Not. nor may you


Expect His protection
Hy exciting his affection.
For as long as Creations lamp shall burn
God will be immutable--He can never turn.


"why pray.


Then" did you say?
By praying you will find
A change produced in your own mind;
Enabling you Gods blessings to imbibe,
As you drift along on lfes rough, uncertain tide


say


That you must pray,


If you would hope to be


A dweller in Eternity.
But do not think that God will change His plan
For that would bring the Deity as low as man.


My boy


My noble boy,
In hopes that you will pray
Always hereafter, would just say
Before l leave, the change must be in.you.
Hoping you'll pray until you find that change,


Adieu.
Year: 1872

IF you were told that there was river
above the clouds equal in size to the Msss
sippi or Amazon; that this river is drawn
out Of the sea more than mile high; that it
is always full Of water, and that it is more
than % 900 miles in length, reaching around
the globe, you would call it very extrava-
giant assertion. And yet not only is this
assertion substantially true, but very much
more than this is true. If all the waters in
the sky were brought into one channel, they
would make a stream more than fifty times
as large as the Mississippi or the Amazon.


How many are there in the sky? just
as many as there are on the earth. If they
were not first in the sky, how could they be
on the earth If it is the sky that keeps
them full, then the sky must always have
enough to keep them full; that is, it must
always be pouring down into the sea.


II is computed that the water which falls
from the clouds every year would cover the
whole earth to the deptlr of five feet; that if
the earth was a level plain, it would spread
over it an ocean of water five feet deep,
reaching around the globe. The sky, there
fore, has not only river of water, but a
whole ocean of it. And all has come out of
the sea.


The sea, therefore, is the great inexhaust-
ible fountain which is continually pouring
into the sky precisely as many streams, and
as large as all the rivers in the world are
pouring into it. 1t is this that keeps the
ocean the same level from year to year. If
it were not sending off into the air precisely
as much as it receives from the rivers, it
would be continually rising on its shores,
and would finally overflow the lands of the
earth.
Year: 1872

Experience has demonstrated to me that cash
business is the only safe business. Acting upon
this have determined, that on and after th>
fifteenth of October, shall sell goods only for
cash. In the meantime, those who are indebted
to me are requested to make payment To do
business l must hare money. Imperative neceso
sity demands It, My capital is to O great ex-
tent in the hands of my customers and l must
have it. Those in arrears will take due noLice
thereof and govern themselves accordingly. To
my customers l exten d sincere thanks for past
patronage, and solicit continuance of the
same under the cash system, promising to sell
goods much cheaper than can be done on credit
My books show accounts due me of about three
thousand dollars and must collect it.


All goods delivered to customers in the city
free OF charge III. n. MCLAIN,


sep29tf Market Square.
Year: 1872

We have also for sale large and varied list of conn
eral lands in large and small tracts For partial list
of country property invite attention 10 the Weekly
Office NO CHARGE FOR SHOWING PROPERTY
Year: 1872

Edmond About was arrested on charge
of high treason for an article written in the
.Soir, of the 26th of October, 1871. At
first he was placed in the company Of a
man accused of murder, then removed to a
room once occupied by Napoleon, but now
really tenanted By malef actors condemned
10 die. On being examined, he did not seek to
defend the article complained of, but simply
observed to the Magistrate that the Prus-
sian Government was committing an as
founding blunder, which would immensely
benefit both Mr.. About and his country
men, while it would do their conqueroTs
corresponding injury. "Those," said About
addressing the Court, "who were hesita-
ting whether to choose the French Nation
ality or not, will be IN doubt no longer in
the face of this arbitrary prosecution.


"The new book which l am about to
publish will have a concluding chapter,
which will sell many more editions than
had expected. My new journal could not
have wished for a better start than that
which you are providing; and what is more,
you have secured me a seat in the National
Assembly as the Alsatian and PFussian rep
resentatiye."


The charge was pressed vigorously
against him by the Government Prosecutor,
but the council, after a long deliberation,
declared they could find no reason for COM
mittjng him for trial. - Bismarck saw the
blunder as fully as the prisoner, and
dropped About as quickly as possible. As
the matter now stands, About is being lion
lied in France.
Year: 1872

An unusually distressing case has come
before one of the New York courts. A
Mrs. De Vries was arrested on charge of
attempting to abduct her own child, and
was bound over to keep the peace toward
the child and the father. The story of her
wrongs and misery is very short one,
though it extends over period of eight
years.


Eight years ago the woman gave birth to
a daughter, and during her sickness Mr..
DeVries, her husband, had her sent to
Blackwell's Island as insane. At the end of
a year she came out Of the asylum, found
her husband divorced from her and married
again. The child has been given into his
custody by the courts.


The poor woman went to work in shop
and worked for seven years making herself
decent support. Some time since Mr..
DeVries' second wife died, and he was
about to marry again. The mother, yearn-
ing for her little girl, went TO Mr.. DeVries'
house to ask for her. She found the girl
alone, and was caressing her when the
father came home. He dragged the daughter
away and caused the arrest of the mother.
She will make last effort to have the case
reopened before the courts.
Year: 1872

The Savannah Republican says editorial
ly: ave have, on indubitable authority,
that on the morning of Wednesday last
from sixty to one hundred special United
States deputy marshals were secretly sworn
in and furnished with blank warrants to
arrest any of our citizens they might regard
as interfering with the freedom of elections,
under the amendments, and sent to the
polling place. This whole thing was done
secretly-these men were furnished with no
badge, nor any external evidence Of being
United States officers; and their attempting
to arrest citizens would inevitably have led
to resistance on the part of those thus in
terfered with by irresponsible persons, and
possibly to a general riot. The sneaking
way in which the thing was done inspires
the suspicion that these men were sent in
the double capacity of spies, in the hope OF
their picking up some crumbs Of comfort
for their employers, to give pretext for in
terferiug before or after with the popular
verdict-and as instigators of riot, had it
paid to make one, which, fortunately for the
peace of our city, itdid not"
Year: 1872

From day to day the display of goods is
increasing, and everything is now assuming
a business-like aspect. There must, OF
course, be a beginning, but possibly the
attendance might have been a little greater
if the exposition had commenced ten days
later, for the hurry and confusion and delay
of exhibitors might then have been avoided,
and visitors would have seen everything in
complete and perfect order.


However, under the circumstances, the
exhibitions in every department are entire
~ satisfactory, and the attendance is quite
as large as could have been expected. We
predict that the number OF visitors will con-
tinue to increase, and that when the thea
tres close, the spacious halls of the Expo
sitiOn building will be nightly thrOnged
with ladies and gentlemen, who will prone
made them by gaslight.


Jaeger's band continues to play every
evening, from the Carondelet street bal
cony, and most delicious music is created.


As the tickets of admission are only
twenty-five cents each, we advise every
body to go to the industrial exposition.