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Year: 1873

God OF Clemency,


God OF Mercy,


Save Rome and France,


In the name OF the Sacred Heart.


The music OF 1t is very pretty and was quite
touched by the patient merrimenr OF this light
minded folk under difficulties which would have
made an Ango-saxon feel wicked. The Cure
dear innocent MANI who led each OF these parties
Of broken-down pilgrims always marched reso-
lutely at their head, comforting his weak -kneed
brethren both by example and precept. Ii was
easy to perceive that he seldom knew much of
roads OF travel what he had dconscientiously
read up in the railway guide; and that this pill
grinage the great event OF his quiet lfe turning
out far otherwise than he had expected. His nock
indeed, do not lose confidence in him, though ne
has led them thus into confusion most confounded,
but, possibly, he feels himself that the martyrdom
he has SO long dreamed OF and coveted, as human
nesh may covet It, has already commenced.


ONE wHTEHAI17D OLD MAN


stands up before his people, who are singing near
an upset omnibus in the middle OF the road, and
stops our carriage with outstretchod hands and an
authoritative gesture. There are two cripples OF
bis nock, and he demands, as one who claims


A RIGHT IN HEAVENS NAME,


that we shall carry them on to the next village,
where they may rest till the upset omnibus can be
mended and made TO Jingle again. lie also

asked for aims (and wondered what 1t cost the
grand old man 70 do SOY for two apprentices OF
Lyons who had lost their money and we're far
from home without sou.


On we glide through a trout country, which
factories have now made so rare In Europe; on
by old farms, where the cattle browse lazily on
sweet pasture, and by water mills where the miller
Qapes and marvels in his .grotesque doorway and
tousles bis night cap all awry with amazement;
on by babbling bridges and by shallow fords. We
hear the suIlen threat of the snow as 1t thunders
down with shout and curse from
It's mountain stronghold, captured at last by
the fierce rays OF the SUM- and 1t troubles the
stream and 1t frightens the boor as it hurries
away down cataract and river to baw for reinforce
ments from the Winter King holding high state
already in the northand and last advancing hither
with his white banners spread amid the winds and
storms H
We ssa the new.ned0ed partridges trying their
Year: 1873

A great amount of very pcrnicious
twaddle has lately been published on
the subject OF the alleged overwork in
which many OF the greatest, and pos
sibly some Of the least, men of the
present generation indulge, in the pur-
spit either Of wealth and fame, or high
social position. Work is divine
Without work, human life would be
intolerable, and man would be little
else than q sponge, an oyster, or q
limpet upon the rock, which only ex.
ists to imbibe the nourishment that
they are too imbecile or too powerless
70 seek. But like all tho abundant
blessings spread around mankind,
vork is only beautiful and good in its
degree. IL muet bo used, and not
abused. Too much of anything is
not good for us. Vice itself is but
virtue degenerated and dissipated by
being forced into extremes. In like
manner, work, II not carried beyond
the point at which all the functions of
mind and body are exercised without
undue strain upon either, is one of the
greatest, If not the very greatest of all
the blessings that are showered upon
tho human race. There is far too
great disposition in oil countries to
look upon labor as something inflicted
upon man as a curse for his disobcdi-
enco, TO interpret literally, and not
according 10 the spirit, the penalty
laid upon Adam, and 10 take advant-
age.of the misintcrpretations to shirk
labor altogether, or to impose it un-
duly upon the weaker This doctrine
requires not only encouragement, but
disproofj for the inevitable result of
its adoption would be either to reduce
men TO tho state Of savages, when the
only labor undertaken would be that
Of the chase OF wild animals or the
capture of birds and fish TO provide
food for the sustcnance OF life, or the
establishment Of slavery, when mono
but slaves would work upon the com.
pulsion Of their lord and masters
But work, looked upon with the eye
of reason, is the choicest advantage of
our mortal state, the only motive
power that keeps not only men, but
the solar system and all the countless
orbs of the boundless universe OF God,
in condition of healthy and progress
sivc perpctuity.
Year: 1873

The people of Copenhagen have q
way ofremoving snow from the streets
which seems at once practical and cx-
peditious. The town authorities give
u small sum OF money 10 owners of
horses and wagons as u sort Of retain
ing foe, for which they are bound, i'm
mediatcly after any fall of snow, 10
send their horses and wagons and cart
it away at so much per day. 1t is
dumped into the river, or upon the
ice, If the river is frozen. So well
does the plan work that six inches
fall of snow is often removed within .
day and half.
Year: 1873

A very handsomely dressed young
man, who was waiting at his horses
head for his girl, Sunday afternoon,
and desired TO demonstrate to tho
watching neigbbors how familiar ho
could be with such an animal, put tho
head Of the noble beast in bis. bosom,
and just then the animal sneezed, and
well anybody who has seen horse
snoeze can picture to himself the state
of that shirt bosom, collar and vest.
just as well as one Of the old masters
could do IL
Year: 1873

The extrayagance Of the Administration is now
beginning to be felt at Washington, and the news
is flashed over the wires that Congress, at tho aP
preaching session, will be asked to make large ap
preparations for deficiencies for the present year.
and consider heavy estimates for the next year
The deficiencies, it is said, will be greatly in ex-
cess OF those for any year since the beginning Of
Grants administration. The decrease In the
customs receipts indicates that the Appropriation
Committee will have very serious work before it
iu opposing demands for large expenditures. 1t
already appears 10 be a matter of some doubt
whether the revenue for the present fiscal year
will meet the expenditures that have already been
provided for by law, and the deficiencies which
Congress will be asked to allow, and there il
much apprehension in the Treasury Department
lest Congress will authorize expenditures which
can emily be met by an increase Of taxation"
Year: 1873

1t now appears 10 the dull apprehension Of the
city functioBaviss thai the so-called "City HOspi-
tai" is an elephant on their hands. They end Just
what we assured them would be the case that 1t
was not required, aud would be found q costly
aud useless afair-absorbng largely of the funds
OF the city, without rendering an equivalent.
Having discovered this. and finding the city short
of funds there is nov, told, an effort being
made to get the Wilmington Hospital Society TO
accept Of the buildings and take charge of the
so-cAlled "Ciy Hospital" Whether that Society
Will agree 10 this or not we do not know. But a.
the building is not such they desire nor the To-
eaton where they preferred, we presume tue
proposition will be declined. The best thing the
city do is TO sell the buildings for what they
will bring and save further cost. The longer the
hospital is kept the greater will be the cost and
ten thousand dollars year is too much to be
wasting these dull times, with an empty treasury
on our hands. Bad management is the order of
the day with the Council. 1t is illustrated fully in
the English Bull" and the City Hospital" at q
e)st OF about fortythousand dollars. II all other
IT Insactions are on par with these we cannot he
surprised that the city is short of funds SO early
after the taxes have been collected.
Year: 1873

A correspondent Of the Providence Press
gives 81 ma interesting information about factory
life in Rhode Island forty years ago. During
the summer the operatives we're wOrkeds four
teen hours day. beginning Ab halfipaA Afour
in the morning and working until halE,Past
seven or quarter TO eight in the evening, with
half an hour for breakfast and three quarters Of
an hour for dinner. In winter the hour for
closing at night was half past seven, except on
Saturday when they quit work at drrS. THIS
WAa continued for years, until young girl,
employed in one Of the factories. died after a
brief illnee. Physicians decided that the
cause Of her death was over work. The mill
owners then held meeting, and resolved 10
shorten the time Of labor to twelve and three
quarter ho1Ts in summer. Overseers received
about IS per week. They were cruel task mas
lers, and beat and abused their operatives most
bruiually. One boy was lifted from the hooF
by the hair Of his head by an overseef and held
until the air came out by the roofs In a
manufacturing village near Providence a rope
was tied around the waist Of young girl, and
che was hung from a window over a stream Of
water about thirty feet below. She died from
fright. The situation of the factory operative
has been much ameliorated within the past
forty years, hut their is room for improve
ments.
Year: 1873

Our trade from the people Of Litchfeld and vicinity has been very large the past ten years, but of late, is has grown to such huge Dropor- tions that we desire to address 8 few words to our patrons ill that locality, through the columns of the Enquirer. that they may know what We are doing, and intend to do. in the way of merchant dizing. the present season; and at the same time 10 express onr grateful thanks for the gen erous patronage heretofore extended to us. With the hope on our part, that this same contid -nce, pleasant feeling, and liberal patronage, may be continued indefinitely, shall not approach you, at this time. or any other time, with high sounding words. laudating in extravaGant an guage our goods, as we regard snch a system of advertising as preduticial to the interest of the advertiser. to say nothing about outrasins truth. Our object Is simply to call your attention, ill a few brief. modest words. to some of our goods, eff which. .at this of the year, every family is in want. With this introduction. we proceed to invite you to personal examination of our
Year: 1873

The Weather In This City Yesterday.


The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year. as Indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
Pharmacy, HERALD Building
Year: 1873

which is a small Republican reduction.
Independent candidates for county offices
are very numerous. The Democrats had
no ticket cut in this county, and there will
be much delay in counting the vote.
Year: 1873




The cholera has been very virulent in
East Tennessse, more 80 in Jonesboro than
In Greeneyille, and has produced a panic
In the former town the like of which has
never before been witnessed in that part of
the State. A correspondent of the Knox
vile Press and Herald. writing from Wash
iDgton county, July 81, says:


"The greatest CONSERVATION prevails all
over this community, especially along the
line Of railroad. l was at Johns n City to-
day, and although not a case of serious
sickness is to be found in that place, many
of the families are leaving, and for two or
three miles around Jonesboro, they are
moving away. One or two cases have oc-
CURED ia the country with those who left
Jonesboro, and it is difficult to get any one
to take them iD."


trated so far up into East Tennessee, and
with the character it has assumed in that
section, it is no wonder 1t has caused the
greatest alarm among the people.


Speaking of the prevalence of cholera In
East Tennessee, the New York Herald
says: ave have noticed that in districts
where the soil rests Immediately on lime
stone foundation the cholera is spt to be re-
markedly virulent and difficult to battle.
Doubtless there is some chemical property
IN limestone water which favors the disease,
and in all limestone districts, therefore, we
would advise The people to use rain water
IS far as possible, especially for drinking, as
preferable to the purest and coolest water
from their limestone springs. We have
been advised by an experienced West In
dian that in cholera season he has known
in an infected district, much good to result
from the boiling Of spring or well water for
drinking purposes, and even of rain water
that is becoming STALE"
Year: 1873

\ SrEE SoAcE.-A Young lady in Cohoes
was dressing for party the other evening
Her little niece was chewing gum and watch
ing her. The little one asked the Young
lady if n certain other young lady, who was
going, had beau. She was answered in
the affirmative. She then asked the ques-
ton with reference to n second lady. receiy-
ing similar answer. Miss Curiosity then
asked her aunt if she had man. The lat
ter replied in the negative, to see what the
little one would say. The child stopped
chewing the gum. removed it from her
mouth, and after gazing at it wistfully for a
moment, held it out with a sudden generous
impulse, saying, 'Well, guess You had
better take this gum along. then" Young
ladies, if your regular escorts fail to appear
when you need their services, do not despair,
but following the quaint wisdom of the
child, take some gum along, and YOU will be
happy.
Year: 1873

with cold, or benevolently wiping the nose
of little boy who has lost his pocket-hand
kerchief. In some form or other he is for
ever thrusting himself before the public. He
is like the last new liniment-always in the
way.-Neic York Times
Year: 1873

This little sentence should be writ


ten on every heart and stamped on
every memory. 1t should be the
Golden Rule practiced not only in
every household, but throughout the
world. By helping one another, we
not only remove thorns from the path
way, and anxiety from the mind, but
we feel p sense Of pleasure in our
own hearts, knowing we are doing a
duty to fellow creature. A help
ing hand. or an encouraging word is
no loss to us, yet tits beneftto 9th
ers. Who has notheeded the aid and
encouragement Of q kind friend? How
soothing when perplexed with some
task that is mysterious and burden
some, to feel a gentle hand on your
shoulder, and to hear kind voice
whispering DO not be discouraged;
I see your trouble; let me help you.
What strength is inspired what
hope created what sweet gratitude
is feltl and the great difficulty is
dissolved as the dew beneath the sun.
shine. Yes, let us help one another
by endeavoring to help and encour.
age the weak and lift the burden ol
care from the weary and oppressed


that life may glide smoothly OF and
Year: 1873

had become so great, anu tnvif W
pressions so severe, that the existence
Of white men was at stake, was there
no nobler and more manly method Of
meeting the danger than by welcom-
ing the doctrines of the most violent
advocates of social equality? Twen-
ty we'll armed, determined men could
certainly have been found in Louisi-
ana to strike one bold, daring blow
and end the danger. True enough,
such n course would have put the
State under martial law but it would,
at any rate, have taken Louisiana out
of the hands OF the scoundrels who
had placed the very existence Of her
white population al peril.


Exactly what General Beauregard
expects 10 gain by his present course
we cannot imagine, The negroes
whose votes he expects to obtain will
not place credcnce in the sincerity Of
his declarations and it will be ut
terly impossible for him to unite the
whites on any platform OF social
equality with negroes All, then,
that he can possibly effect will be the
division of the whites in crisis
which demands their complete unity.


Under the plea of necessity the
South has, for eight years past, made
concession after concession. and in re-
turn has obtained nothing but op-
preston a"d contumely. Is it likely
that the movement inaugurated by
General Beauregard an'l his allies
will produce any more ralatah!e re-
suits? If political success depends
upon concession to negro arrogance
be we'll fixed, he will find the adven-
turer more than his match. There is
not single privilege he can offer to
the negro that he carpet Dagger has
not already offered him and between
the two, the negro will trust the ad-
venturer. STOPPING, then, will not
even enable him to conquer. Not a
negro will vote his ticket, who would
not have voted it upon promise to
respect his political rights and to
protect him in their exercise. On
. the other hand, thousands of white
men, disgusted and indignant. and
feeling that the concessions offered
are humiliation to their race, will
abando9 the political field in disgust,
and thus leave Louisiana more hope
lessly in the hands of carpet-baggers
and other scoundrels than ever.


General Beauregard has not only
committed gross blunder, he has
committed crime against his race
and his people. His resolutions cannot
elevate the negro, but they can drag
white men down to Che level of ne
groes. 1t would have been better to
have re-enacted tie sceneseof the
barricades in the streets of New Or
leans, than to have given to despair
of succor that cowardly form which
abandons pride Of race, pride of birth
and devotion to principles, and by
basely surrendering everything-even
manhood-sought to retain two pitt
full gifts-pitiful when placed beside
right and liberty, little money and
few years of life. Alas we fear
that Louisiana perisbed when Lee
surrendered
Year: 1873




3 Not without the deepest possible
regret, do we find published in the
Nashville papers note from General
Beauregard, in which he avows him
self the father of the amalgamation
resolutions. He says that they had
become a necessity: that it was a
question of existence with them.


We cannot understand the necessi-
ty that impels white Southern men
to make such startling concessions
to an inferior race, as those proposed
by General Beauregard and his ad-
herents. Does the General mean to
tell lis that the existence of white
Louisiana depends upon what his
resolutions call the "unifcation OF
the races Is their existence depen-
dent upon the sweeping away in one
blow OF every barrier that four cen
Year: 1873

the fount of bitterness may yield
sweet waters, and He whose willing
hand is ever ready to aidSas will re-
ward our humble endeavers, and ev-
cry good deed will be as bread cast
upon the waters to return after
many days. if not to us, TO those we
love ~
Year: 1873

No one remedy is louder
called for by the necessities of


the American people than a
sure and safe cure for Fever
and Ague. Such we are now
enabled to offer, with a perfect
certainty that II will eradicate
the disease, and with assur-
Year: 1873

The cab drivers of the city of
York lately had an opportunity to
show the advantage labor had over
capital, when they struck work after
conveying to the annual charity
ball the largest number Of the most
fashionable people of England
They refused to listen to reason, ex-
postulation or anything else, and
left the ladies and gentlemen to
make the journey home on foot,
after dancing all night in the airy
toilets they had shonc in at the
ball.
Year: 1873

MARsHAL,s OFFICE,


POrthnT. Nov. 10, 1873.
Your attention IL respecrfully iuvieed IL
the following City Ordnance which it n
my duty to enferees


'Ihe tenant or occupant, and in case there should
of any building lot of lond bordering not more
than one hundred agd fifty feet on any street. lane
court square, or Public place within the city, where
there Is any footway or sidewalk, shall, after the
ceasng 10 M ct any snow, If in the day time within
three hours nd If In the night time before ten of
tne CLOCK OF the forenoon succeeding, cause such
snow to be ,;emoved from such footway or sidewalk
and In DEF aut thereof. shall forfeit and pay sum
not less IAN two dollars, or more than ten dollars;
ana or each and every hour thereafter that the same
snail rsJ main such footway sidewalk, such ten
an, occupant, owner other person. shall forfeit
ind pay sum not less than one dollar, nor more
than ten dollars. Aud ii such building lot should
extend more than one hundred and fifty feet, any
street land it shall be the duty Of such tenant OF
occupant, owner other person, to remove such
snow from the footway sidewalk for the space of
hundred and fifty feet, according to the proyis-
ions and subject to the penalties aforesaid"


s'The provisions of the preceding sectou shall also
apply to the falling Of snow from any building"


"whenever the sidewalk, or any part thereof ad-
joining any bu lding CT lot of land on any street
shall be encumbered with ice 1t shall be the utv III
the occupant. and In case there Is occupant the
owner, any person having the of such build-
ing or lot cause such sidewalk to be made safe and
convenient, by removing the ice therefrom. or Inv hv
covering the same with sand some other suitabis
substance; and in case such owner or oocupant ~
other person. shall neglect to do for the snacs ~
ray not less than two nor more than five dllars a,d
like sum for every day that the same shall contin-
ue SO encumbered.


The above ordinances will be strictly enforced


GEO. w. PARKER
noZou City Marshal.
Year: 1873

No efforts will be spared to make the MAINE STATE
PRESS more acceptable to its patrons. Indeed, the
Publishers will not relax their efforts to make the
paper necessity to those who have been accustomed
to read it. We pledge that during the year 1874 the
Weekly PRESS shall be more NEWSPAPER than
ever, 30 that the family that thoroughly reads the
paper will have all the current events of the day.
Year: 1873

The use of tobacco has so much ex-

 tended itself in the present generation

 that we are all obliged to make decis-

 lon for ourselves on the ancient contro-

 versy between its friends andenemies. We

 cannot form reasonable opinion about

 tobacco without bearing in mind that it

 produces, according to circumstances,

 one of two entirely distinct and even | opposite classes of effects. In certain

 states of the body it acts as 8 stimulant,

 In other states as a narcotic. People

 who have dislike to smoking affirm

 that 1t supplies but this assertion, at

 least so far as the temporary conse-

 quences are concereed, is not supported

 by experience. Most of the really bril-

 liant conversations that I have listened

 to have been accompanied by clouds of

 tobacco smoke; and great deal of the

 best literary composition that is pro- duced by contemporary authors is wrought by men who are actually smok- ing while they work. My own experi- ence IS that very moderate smoking acts as pleasant stimulus upon the brain, while 1t produces temporary lassitude ot the musular system, not perceptible Tn times of rest, but an appreciable hin- drance 1n times of muscular exertion. It is better, therefore, for men who feel these effects from tobacco to avoid it when they are in exercise, and to use it only when the body rests, and the mind labors. Pray remember, however, that this is the experience of an exceedinplv modrrote smoker, who has mot yet got himself into the general condition of body which is brought on by a larger indulgence in tobacco. On the other hand, 1t is evident that men engaged in physical labor find muscular stimu- lus In occasional smoking, and not temporary lassitudo. It is probable that the effect varies with it's individual cases, and is never precisely what our own experience lead us to imagine For excessive smokers, it appears to be little more than the tranquillizing of a sort of uneasiness, the continual satis- faction of continual craving. I have never been able to ascertain that mode rate diminished intellectual force but have observed in excessive smokers a decided weakening of the will, and a. preference for talking about work to the effort of actuallabor. The opinions of medical men on this subject are so much at variance that their science only adds to our uncertainty. One doctor tells me that the most moderate smok- ing IS unquestionably injurious, while others affirm that it is innocent. Speak ing simply from self-observation, I find that in my own case tea and coffee are far more perilous than tobacco.-From toe Intellectual LVe, by Pbizi1o Gilbert H0n1ertOn.