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Year: 1870

For the purchase of the best, and at the time
the cheapest, Boots Shoes and Hats we know of no
one to whom we can more candidIy recommend Our
readers than ]. B. Lewis, No. Texas street. whose
stock is the largest and best selected in this city By
a long experience and with reputation for honesty
and fair dealing he has built up an extensive trade,
retaining old customers and constantly gaining new
ones, and is now one of the most popular dealers
know Of That he is enterprsng and knows the worth
of printers ink, his advertisements show.
Year: 1870

The editor of the Natchitoches Times knows old
lady in Arkansas who knits all the stockings IN
her county-not so remarkable when the explanation
is given that she s the only in the county uho
doesn't go barefooted.
Year: 1870

Dcbby was such queer old thing Ia
scarce can tell you what she was, ID.
She squinted her eyes, and mumbled her lips,
And twisted her thumbs from knuckles to tips,
And her voice Was shrill and cross-


Debby lived In queer old house


Az gloomy and rough as she @
Weeds and brian ran wild In the yard.
And the garden soil Was barren and hard


With its one half.leaness tree.
Nobody cared for Debby much.
Nobody tried TO care
Till one sweet maiden whose heart bestowed
Such riches Of love they overfiowed,


Had found poor Debby Ware.


Debby at frst was shy and cold,


For love was 30 strange to her.
But never heart is wholly bad.
And never life but may be glad


II Its waves IN angel stir.


And Debby learned for coming friend


With joyful watch to gaze s.. .r
She trimmed the thistles from gate to door.
She brushed her garments and sanded the floor
With thrifty wOmanly ways.


Debby was such queer old thing,


But when the sweet maiden spoke, H'
The mumbing mouth and the squirting eyes,
Answered with gentle and wise replies,


As her hearts long silence broke.
The maiden with Christly love had brought
The plying Christ to her,
And peace unwontei ilumined her mein
Like one whose dwelling Of old had been


Buta vacant sepulchre. .....
Life's highways have many 9 tomb


With tenants Of grief and sin
Where are the angels through briars and weed.
To find the door OF their gloom and needs


And walt upon Jesus int


A little love for the Masters sake


Is o triaing thing to spa'c,
But II poor Dcbby should stand at last
With the white robe over her queerness cast,


Would Il be triAe theref
Year: 1870

A gentleman writing from Glasgow
relates the following incident
Whilst walking with a friend in a
garden near Ealkirk, we observed two
bees issuing from one of the hives,
bearing between them the dead body
of a comrsde with which they few for
the distance of ten yards. We fol-
lowed them closely, and noted the
care with which they selected con-
yenient hole at the side of the gravel
walk-the tenderness with which they
committed the body, head down
ward, to the earth-and the solicitude
with which they pushed against it
two little stones, doubtless in memo-
riam. Their task being ended, they
paused for about a minute, perhaps to
drop over the grave of their little
friend sympathizing tear, and then
flew away"
Year: 1870

Mrs. Samuel Lautblin, of Me-
troplitan, ILL.,, had a husband who
got drunk and abused her. He
tried to kill her a few nights since,
when she took up a spade and
knocked out a thimbleful of his
brains, all be had. We are glad
she spade him off his abuse. If
a certain other lady had done the
same few years ago, there would
have been no Mcfarland trial to
bore people.
Year: 1870

Inc young man bowed, and his
father continued


"When l see a young person
voluntarily render respect to the
aged, am constrained to admire
him or her as a relic of good po-
liteness which reigned over show
and heartlessness when / was a
lad. 1t is all hollow ceremony
now, my dear; and il the old man
cannot stand without assistance he
lis thrown down and trodden upon.
But there is a march, or my ears
deceive me. Alfred, do you need
a further hint, or must a rheumat-
ic old father set you an example
of courtesy p


eff Miss Winchester will permit, +"
he said, offering his arm; and in
a few moments they we're lost in
the throng of promenaders.


Mr.. Sutherton seemed bent on
showing his gratitude to the lady
for the kindness rendered his fa-
ther, for he scarcely left her du-
ring the evening, and at the close
of the week followed her to Ma
hant, where he continued for two
months the bette noir of Fitz James
and the enemy of all young fops
who aspired to the hand and for
tune of the beautiful Miss Win
chester.


Fitz James Eustace had long
been his cousins suitor, and it was
with ill-concealed chagrin that be
now saw himself thrown into the
shade by the son of the 'wretched
specimen who ought to have found
"a place out of decent peoples COM
.pany.


Early the next year there was
a marriage ceremony performed
In the Old South Church, and AL
fred Sutherton as the groom and
Isabel Winchester as the bride.
An elegant house on Beacon street
received the young couple, for he
is engaged in business in Boston,
and every year the hale old Gen.
eral comes down from his house In
N to visit his children.


So you see politeness gained
husband tor one woman, and it
will bring happiness to all if they
will bet practice it; for true polite.
ness springs from the heart; and
is but the effervescence of akind-
ly Christian spirit, anxious to
promote the well-being of those
with whom it comes in contact.
Year: 1870

Philadelphians who never
washed before will now have an
opportunity to clean up, as fifteen
thousand dollars have been appro-
priated for free public baths
One man tried the experiment of
bathing few days ago, and was
surprised to find pair of drawers
and an undershirt that he had no
recollection of putting on. He
was an editor.
Year: 1870

GENERAL LoNGSTREET.--The La
Grange (Ga.) Reporter says:


When man once starts down
the declivity of ruin he descends
with great rapidity to the bottom.
General Longstreet once held a
warm place in every Southern
heart for his great bravery and
fighting qualities and devotion to
the Confederate cause. In an
evil hour he yielded to the temp
tation of Federal pap and became
a Radical, for which he was made
an officer of the customs at New
Orleans. But he has let himself
down, down, to lower depth of
polical degradation! He has been
appointed by the Radical Cover
nor, Adjutant-General Of the
Louisiana State Militia. Every
body knows what militia means,
and can appreciate too wildly the
downfall and degradation of Long
street.
Year: 1870

wedding in Bridgeport, Conn,
was interrupted for a moment, the
other day, by an apparently sane
gentleman, who stepped up to the
bridegroom at the altar, tapped
him on the shoulder, and said, in
an audible whisper, "Before this
little affair goes any further, l
would like to know one thing
who will build the fres?"
Year: 1870

A funny man in Alexandria,,
Va, the other evening bade his
wife and children goodbye, telling
them that he was going to kill
himself. He then jumped into
the well of an old lee house in that.
locality, but crawled out through
a dry drain that opened on the
side of a hill near by, and watched
with delight the efforts of a large
crowd which soon collected to fish
him out of the water at the bot
tom of the well.
Year: 1870

Luella Snively, of Indiana, "set
up" with her beau on a recent
Sunday night, and had to put him
IN the wardrobe to keep him out
OF sight Of the old man, who, on
his arrival, sent her to bed. The
young man in the "calm and still
night" attempted to escape, and
got a charge of buckshot from the
paternal rife. Unfortunately the
record stops here.
Year: 1870

A paper is published in the
Cherokee Nation, one page of
which is printed in what is sup
posed to be the Indian Tongue.
One of its exchanges says: "It's
the worst case of picked tongue
we have come in contact with
The page looks like there had
been nitro-glycerine explosion in
a type foundry"
Year: 1870

Ohio puts in its claim for the
champion of remarkable memory.
1t claims that a man in Salem, in
that State, can tell from memory
the weather of any and every day
since 1827-that he distinctly re-
members whether any day was
clear or cloudy,warm or cold, rainy
or snowy.
Year: 1870

The Huntington Courier, speak
ing of the necessity and propriety
of conventions at the present time,
says:


The people are all free agents,
and one man has as much voice
in the regulation of these matters
as another, if he chooses to use it.
If there are such things as the
'cliques and rings" the Republic
an speaks about, (and we very
much doubt their existence outside
of the Radical partly, there is no
better way in the world to break
them up than for the people to as
semble together and freely inter-
change views on the situation.-
By SO doing our best men will be
brought out, harmony and good
feeling will prevail, and We shall
have the satisfaction of seeing our
offices filed with good and relia-
bic men, and the "cliques and
rings" will have to "cave."
Year: 1870

The following is a veritable
transcript from a record of a will
admitted to probate in the State
OF. New York; bequeath my
body to the grave, my soul to its
Maker, and the remainder of ny
property to my wife,"
Year: 1870

Certain Radical papers are maxi
ing a blow because Democratic
Delaware whips thieves publicly,
instead of imprisoning them
We think it is rather mean, but
then something must be done
unusual, as most of the victims
are Radicals who have been in
in Jail in other States so much that
confinement is no punishment at
all.
Year: 1870

The San Domingo investigation
looks worse and worse for the adyO-
Gates of the purchase the more deep
ly and thoroughly it is pushed.
A dispatch from Washington states
that it has been proved before the
Senate committee appointed to in
vestigate the case that David Hatch
was held a prisoner by the Domini-
can government because it was fear
ed that if at liberty he would dam
age the prospects of annexation. 1t
is impossible to characterize this
gross outrage on an American citi-
zen as it deserves, and while salts
faction should be demanded of the
Dominican authorities, it ought to be
the closest possible scrutiny into all
the details of the scheme for the
purchase and sale Of the island.
Year: 1870

To the People of Sandusky County.


We take the pleasure in submit
ting to you our revised and newly
classified Premium List for 1870,
and ask, your careful examination
oft, and your hearty cooperation
with us in making the coming fair
one long to be remembered for it's
excellence.


1t will be observed that the man
ayers have concluded to open the
list to competition from all quar-
ters, and they hope by this change
to secure amuch larger display and
attendance than heretofore, as well
as to promote a spirit of improve
ment which will be alike creditable
and beneficial to all clcsses.


1t is intended to have the new
fair grounds fitted up in style that
will be creditable to the society and
be appreciated by the public. New
Halls will be erected, for the exhibi.
ton Of Fruits Flowers and Plants, as
well as for the productions of the
Mechanic Arts; and an abundance
of new stalls will be erected for the
accommodation Of stock of all kinds
and every arrangement possible
made for the comfort and convent
ence not only Of exhibitors but Wis
litors.


We therefore confidently inyit,
Iyour hearty co-operati on and infl
ence, to assist US in making the fai
} as pleasant and profitable to all a
| it should be. w. H. ANDREWS Sec
Year: 1870

The Baton Rouge Courier
says work is being rapidly push
ed forward on the New Orleans,
Baton Rouge and Vicksburg
Railroad. A large gang Of
hands is employed grading for
the track just below the city.
Year: 1870




We believe that a long list of
citizens of New Orleans and
other parts Of the State who
profess to be friends of Louisi-
ana do not wish to have an hon
est Legislature and a faithful
State government. They can
not use honest rulers SO profit
ably as they can the men who
now rule the State. Heaven
protect the people II Planter !
Banner.
Year: 1870

consummate art, in appearing
absolutely frank, yet never
telling anything which is not


wished to be known, in being


pleasantly chattyrand CONVEX
sational, yet never committing


ones self to a statement Or an


opinion which might be used


against one afterward-dYs ce-
las artem, in keeping ones own


counsel as well as in other
things. 1t is only after a long
acquaintance with a person of
this kind that you find out that
he has been substantially reti-
cent throughout, though ap-
parently so frank. Caught by


his easy manner, his genial
talk, bis ready sympathy, you
have confided to him not only


all you have of your own, but
all you have of other peoples;
and it is only long after, when


you reflect quietly, undisturbed
by the magnetism Of his pres
ence, that you come to the


knowledge OF how reticent he


has been in the midst of this
seeming frankness, and how
little reciprocity there has been
in your condolences together.


You know such people for years
and you never know really
more of them at the end than
you did in the beginning. You
cannot lay your finger on a fact
that would in any way place
them in your power; and
though you did not notice it at
the time, and don't know how
it has been done-now you feel
that they have never trusted
you, and have all along care
fully avoided anything like
confidence. But you are at
their mercy by your own rash
mess, and if they do not destroy
you it is because they are reti-
cent for you as we'll as toward
you; perhaps because they are
good-natured, perhaps because
they despise you for your very
frankness too much to hurt
you; but, above all things, not
because they are unable. How
You hate them when you think
2 of the skill with which they
l.
took all that was offered to
them, yet never let you see they
gave nothing back for theiro own
i, part-rather by the jugglery oi
manner, made you believe they
were giving back as much as


they were receiving! Perhaps


it was a little ungenerous; but


they had the right to argue


thati you could not keep youl


own counsel you would not bt


likely to keep theirs, and it was
n only kind at the time to let you


hoodwink yourself. so that yot
y might not be offended. In man
ner genial, frank, conversation


al, sympathetic-in substance


absolutely secret, cautious, new


er takeu off their guard, neve


seduced into dangerous conf
!; dences, as careful for thei
d friends as they are for them
: selves, and careful even TO
!, strangers even unknown t
1 . -
Year: 1870

NECESSITY OF PATRoNIzING HOME Insurance
CoMPANIEs.-There is nothing like patronizing
home industry. The more keep this maxim


in view the more certain will be our progress


toward wealth. All corporations, of whatsoever


nature, whose tendency is to withdraw capital


from this State, without affordng any adequate
| compensation, should be frowned down. Many


OF our foreign insurance companies are precisely


of this nature. They employ a general agent,


with two or three assStants-gather in vast sums


of money, in the way of premiums, which are


Immediately sent East to aid in opening canals


and building railways. Now, we have plenty of
| insurance companies of our own, and quite as


responsible in a pecunary point of view, if not


more so, than those of Liverpool, Connecticut


and New York. II they are well patronized as
| they should be, capital which would otherwise
be diverted from the State will be retained


within its limits. Everybody is complaining of
hard times-hard times which arise solely from


our people not paying due heed to all the i'm
portant necessity of not being their own manu-
tacturers and patronizing their own financial in


stitutons. 1t is calculated that there are over


three millions of dollars paid annually TO foreign
insurance companies. For this there is sort


of compensation, or at most trivial one. But
of the three millions they receive they do not


pay one hundred thousand dollars per annum in
the way of compensation for losses. Hence it is
easy to perceive TO what tremendous extent
our people the losers by patronizing these
| foreign corporations. Very frequently when,
after having sustained losses, they endeavor TO
| recover on their polces, they are treated with
| the utmost contempt, and told to avail them
| selves OF the tardy process of the law. Our


companies are regulated by our own laws, and


all subterfuges by which the payments of polces


may be avoided are carefully guarded against.
We content ourselves on this occasion with
| throwing out these few crude remarks at fu-
| ture time we shall have considerably more to
| say this topc.-San Francisco Tribune.
Year: 1870

NOTHING IN THE PAPER.-The Richmond Exam
iner has spicy chapter on the subject of news
papers, elected by the stereotyped remark of
indffernt readers after scanning the - miniature
world" of daily issue of news that " there S
nothing in the paper" 1t says:


And men are always grumbling about their
papers, and insinuatng how much better they
could do it. They talk as hippantly about " fine
articles on every imaginable subject as if they
could effect such change. Let some of these
Overweenng philosophers try ii for one hundred
and fifty days in succession. And then they
think it is nothing to '' select for newspaper
You have merely to run the scissors through
half dozen exchanges and you have got matter
enough Now this is the most important and
the most difficult department to fill on news
paper. Very few men have the slightet idea how
TO do the work. 1t requires thorough newspaper
Haan-who knows the public appetite well-who
knows what is going on in the world-and who
knows how to write and pack column into a
dozen lines. Men who skim a newspaper and
toss it aside little reflect how much brains and
toll have been expended in serving up that meal.
Busy heads and busy hands have been toiling all
day to gather and prepare those viands, and some
vast buildings has been lit from cellar to garret
all night to get that paper ready for the aewsboy
by crack of dawn. Nothing in the paper -
Nothing in your head that's what's the matter.
Year: 1870

The TAGRANT ACT.-Although this ordi-
nance has been in force but short time, its
good effects are already apparent to any
one who has any business with the police
court or is compelled to be on the streets
at any hour of the light The construc4
ton of the law as regards certain infa-
nous class called street-walkers is par
ticularly rigid, and the consequence is that
instead of ladies and gentlemen being
crowded off the sidewalks after nightfall by
squads of bEzen negro women scarcely one
is seen. Should such one stop only for
moment to talk with any one she is imme-
diately escorted to the nearest station-house
by the first policeman who happens along.
We also notice q great diminuLion in the
little assistant junk dealers (black and
white) who were always ready to lay hold
of anything in the shape of metal from the
keys of church and iron railings in 4
graveyard to bar Of pig-iron or a red-hot
stove. This ordinance seems to have taught
them


The perils that do environ
Year: 1870

STATE CONSERVATIVE CoMMITTEE.-A
meeting of the State Conservative COMMIT
tee is called for this evening at O'Clock
at No. 1901, corner OF Twelfth and MAIN
streets, A full attendance is desired.
Year: 1870

either in cash or notes, and all compau-
les incorporated under the laws of this
State shall be required to pay said tax
upon upon premims received in other
States, unless like tax is required in
the State where the said premiums are
received.


Sec. %. Be it further enacted, That
all causes which may be commenced
hereafter in the Courts of the State in
which it is sought to enjoin or delay the
collection of any taxes imposed by COM
petent authority, shall be regarded as
preference cases, and the Conrt shall
proceed to final trial and determination
of the same at the earliest moment com
patible with the ends of justice; and up
on dissolution of any injunction here
after granted to enjoin or delay the col
lection of any such taxes so leviee or
imposed upon any person or property in
this State, the Chancellor or Court Or
dering such injunction to be dissolved,
shall enter decree against the person
suing out the same, and his securities
on his injunction bond, ten per cent. OH
the amount OF all taxes, the collection
of which was so enjoined or delayed,
and all costs of suit, and said decree
shall be enforced as other DEGREES are en-
forced, and the money collected and
paid into the proper treasury.


Soc. %. Be it further enacted, That
1t shall be the duty ofthe District Attor-
ney to appear and represent the State or
county in all suits at law or in equity,
growing out of the revenue or other
laws, in the result of which the State or
any county is interested; and when the
District Attorney is unable to attend to
such cases, or when, in the opinion of
the Judge or Chancellor, additional
counsel may be necessary, it shall be
the duty of the aCourt to appoint the
same, and to order them to be paid a
reasonable compensation out Of the State
or County Treasury, as the State or any
county may be enteresed in the suit
peading; and such compensation shall
be paid on the presentation of certified
copy Of the order of the Court appoint
ing said counsel, and fixing said COM
pensation.


Sec. "a. Be it further enacted, That
all laws or parts of laws, which are iu-
consistent with the provisions of this
Act, and all laws iu force at the date of
the passage of this Act, uthorizing the
levy of State taxes in this State, be, and
the same are her ebv repealed; and all
laws relating to the public revenues, or
their assessment and collection, in force
on the first day of December, 1860, not
inconsistent with this Act, or the Con-
stitutien, are hersbs continued in force;
and this Act to take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.


APPROVED July 9th, 1870.
Year: 1870

Bk, of any animal under the
age Of one year,Sexcept as a
boye provided. The cost of
said books to be paid out of the
Treasury in the manner re-
quired by law for the payment
of other printing for the use of
the State.


Sec. 2. Be it further enacted,
That it shall be the duty of the
Assessor to call upon each tax
able inhabitant of the county
for a list of all his taxable prop
erty, and each inhabitant shall,
when required, give in to the
Assessor a true list Of all his
taxable property, and shall sign
said list, when entered on the
Assessors book, and make oath
to the accuracy Of the same,
which oath the Assessor shall
administer, as follows:


"You, A. B., do Solemnly
swear (or affirm, that the list
of property which you now rem
der is a true and just account
of all the property you are re-
quired to render, as subject to
taxation on the first day of Jan
uary last, in your own right, or
that Of any other person for
whom you ought to give in the
taxable property. So help you
God"


And the fact of oath or af-
frmation having been made, as
above provided, shall be noted
in the column of remarks. In
case any person shall refuse to
make such oath or affirmation,
the Assessor shall note the fact
in the column of remarks, and
should it afterwards appear that
the person so refusing has not
given in a full list Of his prop.
erty, or that which he was re.
quired by law to render, the
property so omitted shall be
entered on the book at double
its ordinary value, and taxed
accordingly.


Sec. 8. Be it further enacted
That it shall be the duty of the
Assessor to list each aud every
person in his county, and to as,
Sess all the property, personal
or real, therein, and any person
who shall refuse to give in a list
of his property or any property
which he is by law, required tc
assist in listing, or refuse tl
make the oath (or affirmation
required by this Act, shall for.
felt the sum of one hundred
dollars, to be recovered in the
name Of The State, for the use
Of the Common School Fund;
and where any person shall re,
fuse to give in a list of his prop
erty, which by law he is requir-
ed to do, the Assessor shall as
sess such person according to
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