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Year: 1872

\ romantic marriage was solem-
nized in St. PauPs church, in East
one Hundred and Seventeenth St,
last night, the couple being Mr..
Thomas Fagan and Mrs. j. Read
Ii was the climax Of a case of love at
first sight, and the raising of a Uoor
young man TO afliuence.


Mr.. ThOs. Pagan is the son of the
late James T. Pagan, who was su-
perinteRdent of Wards Island
Young Pagan led a lively and fast
life prior 10 his fathers death, and
thus naturally incurred the old gen
tlemau's displeasure. He was cut
OF with a shilling. Thomas then
l'sensibly went to work to earn an
honest living. Being young, of pre-
possessing address, he soon obtain
ed employment with Mr.. Patrick
Martin, house painter in Harlem.


About this time he was sent by
his employer TO brighten up the in
terror Of the lonely dwelling of the
buxom widow of the late JOS. Read,
a gentleman who had acquired a
large fortune in Washington mar
ket. The widow was decidedly Ia
ken with young Fagan on his first
appearance in the house, and watch
ed his work with apparently deep
interest In fact she followed him
from room to room, scarcely leaY-
ing him alone for a minute. This
made Thomas a little nervous, and
being rather sensitive he imagined
the widow suspected him of dishOn-
esty. The longer Thomas remained
in the widows dOmicile the closer
she watched him. Finally it made
him so uncomfortable that he re-
solved to stand il no longer.


He informed his employer of this
state of affairs, and another man was
sent in his place. This did not suit
the widow, and when the new paint
er made his appearance she bade him
return to the shop and send Pagan
to do the work, saying that She
wanted him and none other TO work
for her. Pagan was accordingly
sent to finish the job. While Pagan
was busily at work, Mrs. Read step
ped up to him and asked him whcth-
or he was married. On being au-
sweIed in the negative, she said
''Then l am going TO take advantage
of the leap year, and make you a
proposition of marriage"


But, my dear madam" said the
Young man. blushing to the roots of
his hair, ''you must surely be jok-
ing; we are strangers, and l am sure
that you do not mean what you
say"


''If you think that | am Joking.
and do not mean what / say, Just
put on your coat and go with me to
my lawyer, and will make over TO
you fifty thousand dollars worth of
property" said the bouncing wild
0w.


Young Pagan, convinced by her
manner that she was in earnest,
straightway accompanied her 10 the
lawyer, and a deed was drawn up
giving to Pagan fifty thousand dol
lars worth of property, which he
was to become possess of on the day
of the marriage. Pagan, after the
agreement had been made, gave up
his work. He can be seen daily rid
ing through the city behind a fast
horse, which draws a stylish turn
out, and he is one of the best dress
ed men 10 be seen on the street.
Whenever he meets one of his old
chums he halls him and says, 'Well,
boys, this is better than painting,
eh?7
Year: 1872

The Rev. j. 3. Hawthorne, of
Louisville, said in a sermon last
Sabbath :


Family worship should have a
very prominent place in the reli-
giOus training OF children. An altar
should be erected in every house
hold, to which father or mother day
by day should come with their chill
dren, laying upon it offerings of
prayer, thanksgiving and praise
Yonder sun shines upon no object
more lovely to the eye of God than
that habitatiOn where He is honor
ed by the morning deyotions of a
Christian family. The mighty stars
look down from their distant homes
upon no scene more beautiful than
a pious household assembled at eve
ming twilight to thank the Giver of
all good for the blessing of the day,
and to invoke His guardian care
through the watches of the night
Such a home is a little heaven be-
low. Every mind is calm, every
heart is happy, every face is bright.


"Ths night is filed with music,


And the cares that intest the day


Fold their tents like the Arabs,


And as silently pass away"
Year: 1872

About five years ago a youth, ap-
parently fifteen or sixteen years of
age, called at the publishing house
of John Z. Potter & Co., in Phila-
delphia, and offered q manuscript
story for publication. Mr.. Potter,
the head of the firm, who happened
to be in at the time, smiled at the
idea of one so youthful aspiring to
appear in literature as the author of
a book; but finally, at the urgent re-
quest of the boy, consented TO keep
the manuscript few days and look
it over. When he had done so he
was convinced that the story, while
evincing lack of polished educa-
ton on the part of the boyish au-
thor, possessed considerable merit
as an exciting novel, some of the
scenes being described with won
derful power; and, after consulting
with the other members of the
house, decided to publish it. When
the youth called a few days after
ward he told him of his conclusion,
and it was agreed that the author
should receive a royalty of en- cents
q copy on all sold. The story was
duly published in book form, under
the title Of White Rocks, and since
that time 10000 copies have been
sold. But what is singular about it
is that the youthful author has new
er been seen or heard of since, and
there is now due him the sum Of
$l7, 900 as copyright on his story.
Year: 1872

1t is announced that the Liberal
Republicans of this county will send
a delegation TO the Cincinnati Con-
vention. We are glad to hear it.
We do not know who they are, but,
since they are in opposition to Grant,
il is all right. The opponents of
opinion, can fraternize with them,
aud clasp hands in solemn pledges
to restore an honest administration
of the Government. If there be
Liberal Republicans in Tennessee,
let them come to the front, for by
that sign they will be recognized as
honest politicians and undoubted
patriots. They are not asked to
adopt Democratic tenets, nor do
they expect Democrats to fall into
their party views. In the presence
of one gigantic issue, is no apprO-
pirate place to fish up minor aues-
tions, and no time for citizens to
palaYer about creeds. By the sue
cess of the Liberal movement the
Democracy will gain nothing that
every citizen will not gain There
will be no hot cakes for them after
the election of Davis, or the candi-
dates of the Liberals, whoever he
may be. There will be no warm
nests for them, and no high poles to
roOst on. They will back into the
drudgery currents of life and float
on with the great body of the peo-
pie. Cannot a Liberal Republican
cooperate, just one time, with such
men?-MeHlphiS Ledger.
Year: 1872

Air castles are as old as Adam, as
L believe there is not a man, woman
or child but what has or is build
ing them. And they will continue
TO build and to be built so long as
there is a living person on the earth.
The child looks forward to the time
when il will have grown up TO man
hood or womanhOod, and tells what
il will do and be when Ii reaches
that passage of life.
Year: 1872

Teach a man to think meanly ana
contemptibly of himself 70 cast on
all sense of character and conscious
ness of a superior nature, and moral
persuasion can no more act upon
such a man than if he were dead.
Year: 1872

Hons Du CoMBAT.-we don't like to
bit a fellow when down, and so forbear
to reply to tho feeble and despairing wall
that came from the Register yesterday on
the Railroad question. We learned a day
or two ago that the editor Of the Registsr
had told his friends he found about
three.fUurths Of the merchants and man.
ufacturers Of the city were against the
subscriptions, and Il they didn't know
what was good for them 1t was not worth
while for him to continue the vain effort
to convince them. In other words, he
surrenders. When the engineer quits, Of
course the wheels ofprpgress" must stop.
Year: 1872

Il was nearly dusk when the cortege reached the
Cemetery and drew up near Mr.. Greeleys vault on
Locust Hill, whittier only month ago he had fol
lowed the coffin of his wife, The open vault, con-
tanning the bodies Of his wife and three departed
children, was surrounded by dense mass of people
through whom the police with difficulty cleared
the way. There was short and simple
ceremony - merely o brief prayer, and a
blessing during which the weeping relatives stood
before the entrance TO the vault, and the pa-bear
ers grouped themselves opposite with uncovered
heads. Then the body Of Horace Greeley was de
posted in its last restingplace and his daughters
descended and laid upon the coffin their tributes OF
flowers.


So rests the great journalist, the statesman, the
philosopher, the honest man. He has gone TO bis
grave with the lament Of the whole people; he viii
hold place In their hearts 60 long as Americans
know how TO honor patriotism, unselhshDess. and
Christian
Year: 1872

~ee anu csfiy noPontsnco'


Miss Marian Huntington, q
young Miss of seventeen sum.
mers and native of Georgia, ar.
rived in this city some time ago,
in company with a female relative,
and is at present stopping at q
Broadway hotel.


A short time since Miss Maria
became engaged to a Mr.. Conklin,
of this city, and for short time
all went we'll. She was then re
siding in Jersey City, and has a
friend, an Englisbman, named
Henry Walker, who was also
smitten with her, but she seemed
to care nothing for him till a few
days ago, when she quarreled
with Conklin, and in moment
of anger and spite she went with
Walker to an Episcopal minister
and was married. After the cere.
nony was over her husband &C.
companied her home, but by the
time she reached the door real
izing sense of her fpolisEness took
possession of her, aud giving him
one kiss, she bade him depart and
never see her more.


Walker, who, it seems, loved
her dearly, has done all in his
power to get her to change her
mind, but she remains firm, and is
now trying to get a divorce. He
corresponds with her and address
ses her by her maiden name, and
she answers his letters, but they
carry no hope to his sad SOUL
The singular part of this singular
transaction is the fact that the girl
has made mp her quarrel with
Conklin, and he visits her nightly,
and they are to be married as soon
as she is legally free from her
present husband. Both parties
are well connected, and Mr.. Conk.
lin lie doing business as clothier
in Fourth avenue, near Cooper
Institute ~. Y. Daily Ne,os.
Year: 1872

"THE horse that frets is the
horse that sweats," is an old say
ing of the horsemen, and it is inst
as trne of men as horses. The
man that allows himself to get ir.
ritated at every little thing that
goes amiss in his business, or in
the ordinary affairs of lite, is a
man that will generally accom-
plish but little and will wear out
early. He is a man for whom
bile and dyspepsia have a particu.
lar fondness and for whom child
rem have particular aversion.-
He is a man with a perpetual
thorn in the flesh, which pricks
and wounds at the slightest
movement; a man for whom life
has little pleasure and the future
small hope.
Year: 1872

A FRIEND of ours a few days
ago employed a colored woman to
pick cotton, agreeing to pay her
fifty cents per hundred. He acas-
ually askeI her how much she
could pick in a day. She replied,
something over three hundred
pounds. He told her to 60 ahead
and he would payjber one dol
lar per pound for every pound
over three hundred that she would
pick. On weighing the result of
the days labor she had three
hundred and eleven pounds.


The one days work cost him
twelve dollars and a half.


[Chester Reporter.
Year: 1872

The prominent character of the
Scot is well illustrated in the fol.
lowing;


In Scotland they have narrow
open bitches, called sheep drains.
A man was riding a donkey
across a sheep pasture, and when
The donkey came to a sheep drain
he would not 60 over ir. So the
man rode back a short distance,
and turned him around and put
toe whip to him, thinking, of
course, the donkey, going 80 fast,
would jump the drain before he
knew it. But not 80. On they
came, and when the donkey got
to the drain he stopped all of sud.
den, and the man went over Mr..
Jacks head. No sooner had he
touched the ground than he got
up, and looking the donkey
straight in the face, he said -
"Very well pitched. But how
are you going to get over
yourselfw
Year: 1872

Never give up IL is wiser and better


Always to hope than once to despair;
Throw OF the load Of doubts cankering fet-


ter,


And break the dark spell Of tyrannicel


care.


Never give up or the burden may sink you,


Providence has kindly mingled the cup,
And in all trials and troubles bethink you,


The watch of lifo should be-Nevsr give


up.
Never give up there are chances aud chang


es.


Helping the hopeful a hundred to one,
And amid the chaos. high wisdom arrangss


Ever success--it you'll only hope on.
Never give up for tho wiscst is boldest


Kuo wing that Providence mingles the cup,
Aud Of all maxims the best rs the oldest


Is the true wutchword of-Never give up.
Never give up! though the grape shot may


rattle,


Aud the full thunder cloud over you burst,
Stand like rock, and tho storm or the battle
Little can harm you, though doing their


worst.


Never give up! If adversely presses,


Providence has wisely mingled the cup,
And the best counsel in all your distresses


Is the stout watchword of-Never give up.


MADE HIM PAY.-Wben Gener-
al Jackson was President a heart.
less clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment ran up All Indebtedness to a
poor landlady to the amount of
$50, and ihen turned her off as he
did other creditors. She finally
went to the President with her
complaint, and asked him if he
conld not compel the clerk to pay
the bill2


He offers his note," she said /;
" but his note is good for moth.
ing"


"Get his note and bring it to
me-" said the President.


The clerk gave her the note,
with the jeering request that "she
would let him know when she got
the money on it!


Taking it to the President, he
wrote " And, ew jackson "on the
back of it, and told her she would
get the money at the bank.


When it became due the clerk
refused to pay the note, but when
he learned who was the endorser,
he made haste to "raise the
wind" The next morning he
found a note on his deck, saying
that his services were no longer
required by the government-and
it served him right.
Year: 1872

force on her devoted head was ruined
for all such future demonstrations
will now make matches and tooth
picks-the poltroon who would not
stand and accept in meekness and hu-
manity the evidences of the womdn's
alfec lion, bestowed with such striking
and marked effect, had left. The wo-
man has lodged a complaint of assault
and battery, and the police are anx-
iously searching for a male African
whose face is striped like a Pawnee
Chief in his war paint, and who has
an aversion to cowhides and women"
Year: 1872

Next morning she was found alone, and
dead. My wife told her had gone to
California but she never thought OF
writing until Barker started for the
mines, when, belle wing that circum-
stances might bring me in contact with
my own child, without knowing 1t,
she thought best to venture letter on
the chance of finding me If still alive.
1t was addressed to San Francisco, and
sent to me by friend of earlier time,
who was also a wanderer in the country
before the gold days. The letter direct
ed me to come here and find Cyrus
Barker, whom / already know that
he was the head Of the family VIII ere
my child had been left.


Next year, in 80, when the family
arrived, l framed an excuse TO go below
and then, for the first time, saw my
own daughter.


"Ah, boys" drawing a deep breath,
sit was hard work TO keep from taking
the little one in my arms; but you can
imagine my delight when she took TO
me 80 readily and confidingly.


During the after years, while she
was growing toward womanhood, my
resolution to hold the secret of her
parentage failed in power with every
day. One evening, two years ago, I
told her, and since then have been a
happy man, until the day when the
Johnsons coupled her name with in
fanny"


The loud and expressive opinions of
those who had gathered in from all the
surrounding camps, after the prisoner
had resumed his seat, were with some
difficulty stopped by the efforts of the
sheriff and the oft repeated "Order!
order ~ from the Court.


Little other testimony was taken.
The prosecuting Attorney had lost in
terest in the case, and il was allowed to
go to the jury without argument.


The jury was out only long enough to
take q vote; but the verdict "Not'guil-
ty" had been robbed of its pleasant
surprise and consequent excitement. 1t
was, doubtless, the first case on record
in California, where the criminals
testimony was accepted for its full val
ue.


Cap whispered as we passed into the
free air once more, that l should go and
tell Dawn how and why the trial ter
minated; father had listened to the
story for himself and went away with
queer look on his face; an indecision
between delight and sorrow.


On the watch, for a messenger with
news, good or bad, Dawn read the ver-
dict in my face, as she came toward me,
for in another moment she was in my
arms, and was wicked enough to stop
with my lips the murmured words,
"Oh, thank God ~


Then, while we walked slowly home.
ward, 1 told her the story Overland
| Monthly.
Year: 1872

Only one song can sing


She is mine;
All things with the echo ring


She Is mine.
Ever young and ever old,
Love laughs at the story told


She is mine,
In her eyes, read each day


She is mine.
In each words hear her say


She is mine.
Music, roses, light, perfume,
Fill for me the wide earth's room


she Is mlnc.
Year: 1872

Jerry Parker testified that Cap, while
coming up to the express office, had
been insulted repeatedly by the John
sons, who we've stationed at the differ
ent saloons, waiting his arrival that he
turned after he had passed and walked
quietly up to where the mon stood,
bearing his usual unrullled countenance
and in calm natural voice, told them
he did not wish to be drawn into troub-
BILE the stain of two homicides-forced
upon him-already darkened his name
among the people; they knew that, al
though the victim of one was their
brother, he had taken his life from no
ill'will-nOt until he had used every
means to avoid violence, and had been
forced from every attempt at pacflca-
tion.
Year: 1872

Forms of expression are sometimes hung
together in such style as to produce curious
result. Here is Governor Ponder who recon-
monds the people to ''implore Divine aid, ac-
"cording to general usage, and in pursuance of
the recommendation of the President
Year: 1872

THERE must have been break in the
blockade at Charleston few days ago,
as we received mail matter from there
yesterday. We bring report of matters
in Convention and Legislature up to the
latest dates thus obtained. We find very
little in the reports Of the Legislature that
is of theslightest value as news, and con.
fess for ourselves that we DON'T banker
after such reading as the Convention re-
ports furnish. We hope our readers may
have different tastes and may relish the
four or five columns Of the solemn doings
of the solons which painful duty asjour.
nalists obliges us to inhict on olem this
morning.
Year: 1872

srEuBENvrLLE had a small fire yester.
day morning. The frame dwelling o.
LEWIS McELFREsu was discovered to bt
on fire in the garret. A hole was cut in
roof and it was soon extinguished. I Th.
water froze on everything it touched, and
WALTER MCELFREsH, a young man, slip
ped on the icy roof and fell to the grourt
receiving severe injuries.
Year: 1872

tons together with three or four for the repeal Of tho
Classification aSt. There also some to protect tho
trading pubic from the extortions Of railway companies
The Druggists bill 10 regulate the practice OF pharmacy
and the sale OF poisons In New York City was passed.
with only scgle vote IN the negative The bill does
chiefly occupied the consideration Of local bulls In
Committee OF no general interest.


The Senate Excise Committee gave hearing 10 several
citizens from parts OF the State among them
Senator 0DOnnel the bills before the Legislature
the liquor question Most Of the speakers favored the
proposition for local probitionthat ia 70 submit the
question OF license no license 20 the people of the
towns and villages throughout The State.
Year: 1872

The party Of hunters proceeded upon
their way down into the st. Louis Park,
and there, ON the second day after leav-
ing their comrade, went into camp and
waited. Becoming uneasy at his long
absence, and fearful lest he might have
come to harm, the party started back to
search for him. They discovered him
upon the following day, halEstarved and
too weak to walk They inquired of him
where he had been, and accused him of
following after the Ute Indian women,
of whom he was very fond. He said he
had been lost, bpt exhibited the nuggets
to the party, informing them at the same
time that in valley northeast of Pike
Peak there was plenty of it. They ex-
amined the pocketfull Of nuggets, and
found they were pure gold They then
demanded to be ted by the old man back
to the golden valley, which he agreed to
do. They started back under the guild
ance OF the old man, but after thorough
search for about three days the old man
was unable to distinguish the same val
ley where he had found the gold. The
mountainecrs, believing that the old man
had deceived them and had got his gold
nuggets from some Ute Indians, who
always had shpBdsHee Of the precious
metal, and, naturally indignant at CHAT
they termed his wanton deception and its
consequent delay, they tied him up to a
tree and whipped him. They whipped
hiEs for delaying them and then for de-
eeiving them. Rpt the old man always
maintained that he found the gold near
the base of Pixies Peak


THE WHIPPING.


had a curious effect upon the old gold
hunter. He became reserved and a
and when be returned to
Kansas City made his home and his
with old "Peno," the old
man who died about year ago in this
city one hundred and twenty-five years
Of age. He was nearly the same age as
Peno, and liged 2 few years ago at st.
No, where he hsd bfen |
taken by his protector, Mrs Chouteau.
He became quite deaf before the dis
eovery of gold was made in 1853, and |
though he had suffered the taunts and
ieers OF his friends for years, for what
they tsrHed his lying and crazy idea
about gold at Pixies Peak, he never
could be made to understand that the
gold he discovered thirty years before
had been rediscovered and his veraeity |
and sanity both vindicated by lapse Of
lime. Jet honor be given to those to
whom honor is due, The frst white
man to discover gold was an old French |
lrspper from Kansas City, whose story,
If believed at the time he made the dis
covery, would have been the means of |
settling the plains and valleys of Col
Or ado at least thirty years ago.
Year: 1872

The Democratic leaders arc sore Y


porpIexol bv the unexpected result
in the Granite State They would
gladly make a combination with the


Republicans s,reheads (says the Wash
inrron X,Dujlirau,) if it insured them
success. bat they are beginning to
think that an alliance with them is on
ly "A source Of weakness and Of disaster.
Year: 1872

The bee from the clover bloom
Is ready to lift his wings;
| found him gathering honey
Out of the common things.
The bird to the maple bough


The twigs and the stubble brings;
He is building his love cottage
Out of the common things.
The poet sits by himself-


What do you think he sings
Nothing! He gets no music


Out of the common things!
Year: 1872

A few days after the Chicago fire, a
reSpectabIy-dressed lad Y LETT three
bright and handsome children at the
Protestant Orphan Asylum, ST. Paul,
promising to return in a few DAYS.
She has never been seen since and the
children are unable give any account
of themselves, except that they love
their parents and want to 80 back to
them.
Year: 1872

Cuckoo is a thoughtful young wO-
man Of an analytical turn of mind.
She recently evolved the following
from her inner consciousness 'Fhe
majority Of women care but little
about suffrage. If the back of car
seats could only be followed out so as
10 admit Of bnsties lapping over, the
ballot might.go to thunder for all they
care