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Year: 1870




w Z have HAD eur Banner on the
outer wall. with PRICES SO Low that
no firm in the State Of Ohio undertook to
meet US. We have driven our foe to the
wall, and occupy The field without fear.


We have siIeneed all men who years ago
assumed some power Of competition. They
are now willing TO confess conhdentiaIIy
that there is no use trying to meet or beat
US in prices, because we are game on
Clothing "set-to." Their only hope is in the
ignorance Of their customers. who VIII not
look around to see the difference in our
prices and theirs. which amounts to at least
Year: 1870

Here we have Jackson's testimony
that he was so hardly beset by the gall
liant onslaught of our troops as to be
constrained to send for re-entorcements
to General Lee, who was yet thirty miles
distant. and therefore could not furnish
him the least assistance. Had Porter
come into action at this juncture. with
his splendid corps, it would undoubtedly
have turned decisively in our favor the
tide of battle. He therefore stands
clearly and justly responsible for our
failure to overwhelm and destroy Jack
sons army on the goth, and upon his
hands is the blood of every one of our
brave men slain on that sanguinary
field. Scarcely a greater military crime
was ever committed, and as Porter was
not a coward. we are forced to attribute
to a reasonable purpose, concei ca ana
executed as part of one of the most asIo-
cious conspiracies of the war; IT'S oh'y


rational explanation.
Year: 1870

theimperial household he was informed
that from that day it would be his duty
to watch over the safety of Louis Napo
leon, to accompany him everywhere
abroad and at home, except in the int.
rior of the palace; and that no one
would be allowed to approach the per.
son of the Emperor without his having
been informed of the desire beforehand.
During the Emperor's travels in the
provinces, the gems d'armes and the po.
lice were to be only under his orders,
and all responsibility would rest upon
his shoulders.


Thus it was that the poor illiterate
boy came to live in intimacy with the
sovereign of our day, and the Corsican
shepherd became the secret agent Of the
Emperor, who employed bin in some
of the gravcst affairs and most start.
ling adventures with which hi3 life
abounded even in later years.
Year: 1870

The certain cure for neuralg in is found
in judicious eating and exercise and
not only so, a permanent cure cannot
be effected in any other way, while
these are always efficient.


In neuralgia the blood is always too
thick, impure, and in excess; and as
diet and exercise combine to remedy
these conditions, some rules in relation
to them are desirable. These will be
adapted to sedentary persons, to those
who live indoors generally, as women,
students, bOokkeepers, and the like.


1t is rather better to eat thrice day,
morning, noon, and night; that is, as
soon after sunrise as practicable, for
breakfast; dinner about o'clock; sup
per before sundown.


Eat othing whatever between meals


Breakfast, a single cup of coffee OF
tea, some cold bread and butter, with 8
dish of berries or stewed fruit in sum.
mer time, and nothing else; in winter,
meat, fish or poultry, or, in their stead,
couple of soft-boiled eggs.


Supper should be made of cold brea d
and butter, and cup of warm drink
of some kind, and nothing else,


Dinner the same as break fast, adding
only vegetables and some fruit, raw OF
stewed, as dessert, and nothing else.
A different kind of vegetablc may be
taken every other day for variety; the
kind of meat may be changed at each
meal.


The object in the specification above
made is to discourage variety of meals
because it is this which tempts all t.
eat too much. Persons at times have
felt at the table that they had eaten
enough; but on seeing very inviting
dish unexpectedly brought in, good
meal has been eaten of this last variety
The general and hurtful error is that
too great variety is spread on our ia.
bles, not only occasioning trouble o
preparation and great loss, but also
positive injury in the temptation of tn
appetite. The reader may try il upol
himself on any two days. A dinner o
one vegetable, one kind of meat ano
bread; at dinner the next day, let {
great variety be presented; he will ea
double the amount at this repast, will
this remarkable differences; an hou
after the first meal, he will be entirel!
comfortable, will feel as if he had eater
quite enough; an hour after the latter
there will be decided discomfort, (
fulness, a feeling as if some kind of re
lief were desirable. and in too many
cases resort to the decanter, with tht
vain hope of riddance in some way
1t cannot be denied that the first step
toward Incorporate habits have beer
taken in using liquors to remove tn,
unpleasant consequences of over. eating
A very great aid toward overcoming
habit of too hearty eating will be foun'
in sitting down to table with onl,
three varieties of food.-Dr. Hail
HedIth By Good LiUing.
Year: 1870

LORD ELDoN, once speaking of cir
cumstantial evidence, remarked: II
remember once, in case where l was
counsel, that the evidence for a long
time did not appear to touch the priS'
oner at all, and he looked about him
with the most perfect self-control, evil
IDENTIFY feeling himself perfectly safe
At last a surgeon was called, who stat
ed that the deceased had been killed by
shot, guu.shot wound in the head,
and he produced the matted hair, and
stuff cut from and taken out of the
wound. 1t was all hardened with blood
A basin of warm water was brought in
TO court, and as the blood was gradual
ly softened, a piece of printed paper
appeared, the wadding of the gun,
which proved to be part of ballad
The other half had been found in the
mans pocket when he was arrested
lie was hanged"
Year: 1870

A most horrible murder, commit
ted nine miles south of Lima, Ohio
has just come to light. A man
named Andrew Brentlinger murder
ed his wife near his house, on last
Monday afternoon about 2 o'clock,
by stabbing her eight times in the
breast and four times in the abdO-
men. He threatened the lives OF
his children if they informed on
him, and by direction of him
two of his sons buried the body
near the house, and then, in order to
remove all traces of the grave,
plowed and narrowed over the spot.
Yesterday his children told some OF
their neighbors of the affair, and an
examination was Immediately made
which revealed the crime in all its
horrible nature. Brentlinger has
since confessed and is now confined
in the Lima Jail. His trial will
probably take place at the present
term of court. The age of the
murderer is so, that of his victim
but 25. This was his second wife.
He claims to have murdered her on
account of her being too intimate
with q neighbor ...
Year: 1870

Twas sitting reading one day by
my freside. As it was getting dark
l shut my book and looked at the
fire. The black poker and the
bright poker were lying side by side
in the fender, and by the fire light
could see the bright poker reflect
ing angry flashes of indignation Oh
his humble brother.
"What are you doing here by the
side of me, you smoky, black, in.
delicate poker2 Your proper place
is down in the ashes there, with you
leg under the fire."


I'Last time they poked the fire
they put me here, SIR" said the little
black poker. .....


you've no right to be put here
on the andirons. The idea of youl
coming so near a bright-polished
poker like mer'


"Sir, if 1 am black, it shows 1 am
not idle and useless"


"But you smell so disagreeably OF
fire and smoke, 1 can't bear you near
me-"


The poor little poker mustered up
courage to say: "Sir, if l smell OF
fire and smoke, it is because, being
a pokerI do poker's work; but
you sir,are clean and bright because
you lie here all day long doing moth
ing. You, sir, are not a poker, but a
dummy" '"-


Bravo! little poker, said I, and as
the fire wanted stirring, l took him
up and did it, and stood him up
right in one corner of the fireplace,
with his head far above the fine
dummy. ..r


Before honor is humility
G. a. d.
Year: 1870

The melancholy days are come, the sadest OF
the year,
OF wailing winds, and naked woods, and
meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn
leaves lie dead; = - {
They rustic to the eddying gust, and to the


rabbit 5 tread.
The robin and the wren are flown, and from the


shrubs the jay,
And from the wood-top calls the crow through


all the gloomy day.
Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers


that lately sprang and stood
In brighter light, and softer airs, beauteous


sisterhood?
Alas. they all are in their graves; the gentle


race of flowers
Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and


good of our. iAl
The rain is falling where they lie; but the cold


November rain .tt IH.-
Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely


ones again.
The wind flower and the violet, they perished


long ago,
And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid


the summer glow;
But on the hill the golden rod, and the aster in


the wood, cee
And the yellow sun-fower by the brook, in au-


tumn beauty stood
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven,


as falls the plague on men,
And the brightness of their smile was gone,
rom upland, glade, and glen. - - -

And now, when comes the calm mild day, as


still such days will come,
To call the squirrel and the bee from out their


winter home;
When the sound Of dropping nuts is heard,


though all the trees are still,
And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of


the rill.
The South Wind searches for the flowers whose


fragrance late he bore,
And sighs to find them in the wood and by the


stream no more.
And then think of one who in her youthful


beauty died.
The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded


by my side.
In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the


forests cast the leaf,
And we wept that one so lovely should have


life so BRIEF
Yet not unmeet it was that one like that young


friend of our,
So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with


the flowers.
Year: 1870

A most singular series of inter
ruptions in public worship occurred
in a church in neighboring State
few Sabbaths since. First the pas
tor, having left something in his
study, gave out a hymn which he
thought long enough, and went after
it. But the hymn was not long
enough, and the congregation waited
and the organ footed some little time.
The sermon proceeded some ten
minutes, when, next, a lady in the
front seats fell screaming in fit of
epilepsy, and stopped everything.
Quiet being restored, the sermon
went on, disturbed at intervals by
the movement of one or two who
were in attendance upon the sufferer,
when suddenly there was stir and
a shuffiing noise from the rear seats,
and lady who had tainted was
borne hastily out into the porch.
Again the preacher proceeded, and
in a few minutes more another rus
tie was caused by the sudden faint
ness of a third, who did not quite
swoon away, and was laid gently
down in a back pew.-Congregatioa-
aliSt,
Year: 1870

The human hand is so beautifully
formed, it has so fine q sensibility,
that sensibility governs its motions
50 correctly, every effort of the will
is answered so instantly, as if the
hand itself were the seat of the will
it's actions are so free, so powerful
and yet so delicate, that it seems, to
possess a quality instinct in itself,
and we use it as we draw our breath,
unconsciously, and have lost all rec
objection of the feeble and ill-direct-
ed efforts of it's first exercise, by
which it has been perfected. In the
hands are twenty-nine bones, in the
mechanism of which result strength,
mobility, and elasticity. On the
length, strength, free lateral motion,
and perfect mobility of the thumb,
depends the whole power of the hand
its strength being equal to that OF
all the fingers. Without the feshy
ball of the thumb, the power of the
muscles of the thumb is the dis
tinguishing character of the human
hand.
Year: 1870

The world is advanced to a high
point of attainment in science and
art. The progress of invention and
improvement has been, especially of
late years, prodigiously rapid; and
now whether we regard the science
of nature or Of art, of mind or of
morals, of contemplation or of prac-
tice, it must be confessed that we
live in wonderfully improved pc
riod. @ #7F af Tir}atf L-
Where is all this knowledge?
where does it dwell? 1t dwells in
the minds of the present generation
of men. 1t is, indeed, recorded in
books, or embodied in the various
works and structures of man. But
these are only the manifestations of
knowledge. The books are nothing
until they are read and understood;
and then they are only sort of
shorthand, an outline, which the
mind fills up. The thing itself, the
science, the art, the skill, are in the
minds of living men; of that gene
ration which is now upon the stage.
That generation will die and pass
away. In thirty years all now living
will be gone, or retired from the
scene, and a new generation will
have succeeded. This mighty pro-
cess is constantly going on silently,
efectually, inevitably; and all the
knowledge, art, and refinement now
in existence, must be either acquir-
ed by those who are coming on the
stage, or it perishes with those who
are going off, and is lost forever.(?)


There is no way by which knowl-
edge can be handed down but by be-
ing learned over again; and of all
the science, art, and skill in the
world, only so much will survive,
when those who possess it are gone,
as shall be acquired by the succeed
ing generation. All the rest must
perish.


There have been periods in the
history of the world when tyranny
at home, or invasion from abroad,
has so blighted or blasted the con-
dition of society, that knowledge
has perished with one generation
faster than it could be learned by
another; and whole nations have
sunk from condition of improve
nent to one of ignorance and bar
barity; sometimes in a very few
years.-Edrdrd EUerett.
Year: 1870

So you like the smell of good
cigar, do you? Well, 1 have heard
young ladies say so before, but al
ways thought if I was in their place
1 would not tell of it. Whatever
you may say, nobody will think
you like the nasty, sinking thing
for its own sake. Why, it almost
strangles me. And after my papa
has been smoking, would some
times almost rather he would not
kiss me. 1 don't believe he would
want to kiss me, if he should smell
tobacco smoke in my breath. I am
sure he would not call me his rose
bud again very soon. I am very
certain men don't like tobacco
breaths in other people. I wonder
if that is reason they don't kiss
each other.


How do you know they don't like
tobacco smoke? Well, l can read
some and don't I see ''no smoking"
up around in ever so many places?
And when I ask my papa what they
did it for, he said because it was
not nice to have tobacco smoke
from other peoples mouths puffed
into our faces. My papa said that
himself. And then on the ferry
boat, l see the men flocking into the
ladies' cabin, because their own is
full of tobacco smoke. But I don't
see any ladies go into the mems cab
in to get the smell of the smoke.
And they don't scent their hand
kerchiefs with it nor put it into
their bouquets. 1 should think if
they like itso we'll, they would have
essence of smoke among their CO.
logne bottles.


Bah! nobody will make me believe
that a clean, sweet young lady cares
any thing about the smell of a ci-
gar, unless their is man behind it.
And the men don't believe it, either.
They may not say so, but they keep
a thinking, and they think you say
it to please them, the egotistical
fellows. Perhaps afterward they'll
say as my brother Bill said, the
next day after you professed to like
his cigar smoke. He said it made
him think Of the young lady that
took few whiffs now and then, when
she was lonely, because it made it
smell as though there was a man
around Young Peoples Helper.
Year: 1870

The call for the Republican Con-
vention of Vsnderburgh County, for
the nomination of the county officers
to be elected at the October election,
is published this morning on the
fourth page. II will be seen that it
has been determined to make it a
mass convention, and not one Of Sc
lected delegates; so that every Re-
publican voter in the county is enti-
tied and invited to attend. cast his
vote, and use his Influence for the
candidates of bis choice. It becomes
every faithful Republican. therefore,
to be present at the Convention, and
see to the selection of good, true and
competent men to fill the various of
fees. The approaching election will
be the most important one for county
purposes ever held. 1t is no time
now to allow the affairs Of this county
to pass into the hands Of the Demo
cratic managers, who are rushing
the city into bankruptcy and oppres


sive taxation.
Year: 1870

Will be made under the supervision of three
Sworn Com mission ers gentlemen of well kno
integrity and high standing After deducting
the expences of the entertainment the balance
of the money will be appropriated to the objects
for which tho ASSOCIATE formed, viz the
introduction of European Labor into the South
EN- States.


The reputation and character of the 1ncorpor-
atOrs of this Association, coupled with everv
safe gu ri that the law of the land can throw
around it, is guarantee that the distribution
will be Honestly and Fairly m ade, and that every
protection will be given holders of Tickets in
any part of the country.


In order to give the rich and poor, an oppor-
tunity MT this
Year: 1870

That was bitter joke of the man in
New Jersey who put quantity of Jalar
in some beer his friend was about to
drink. The funeral was very generally
attended.-Esc7t0nge.


We don't know who organized the
above manner of stating a fatal occurrence,
but it seems to be quite generally fol-
lowed by newspaper photographers. 1t is
delicate way of putting it, and reads
much better than when one says she died
amid the most horrible and excruciatine
agonies" We get the whole story and
our sensibilities are not unnecessarily
shocked.


The new style of paragraphing affords
a fine field for the exercise of ingenuity
in conveying the intelligence that the
man died. Variety, freshness, and a
cheerful, not to say facetious vivacity
might be mingled with the briefest noti-
ces of fatal casualties that might other
wise be utterly neglected by the reader,
or briefly glanced at. As, for instance, in
the following:


A man in New Hampshire the other
day eat fifteen dozen raw oysters on a
wager. The silver trimmings alone on
his coffin cost twelve dollars and thirty
five cents.


John Smith in Nebraska said he could
handle rattlesnake the same as snake
charmer. The chnrlishness of the under
taker in demanding pay in advance de-
layed the funeral four days.


A circus rider in Texas tried to turn
three somersaults on horseback the
other day. The manager sent back to
New Orleans the next day for another
somersault man. .-.-


A man in New Jersey couldn't wait for
the cars to get to the depot, and jumped
off, His widow has sued the insurance
company.


Few men would attempt to dry damp
ened gunpowder in kitchen stove. A
man in Canada did. His afflicted family
would be glad of any information as to
his whereabouts.


In Massachusetts, the other day q nan
thought he could cross the track in ad-
vance of locomotive. The services at
the grave were very impressive.


A man warned his wife in New Or
leans not tolight the fire with kerosene.
She didn't heed the warning. Her
clothes fit his second wife remarkably
well.


A boy in Detroit disregarded his moth
er's injunction not to skate on the river, as
the ice wac thin. His mother don't have
to cook for 80 many as she did into one
Cincinnati Times. 0
Year: 1870

side of the mountain. 1t is said that his
name is quite different over there from
his name here, and that both these names
are different from the one he was born
with. l-


The past two weeks have been very
busy ones in the vicinity of oDowner,
Bolton & Aliens mill. The way has been
thoroughly blocked up with loaded teams
much of the time and the number of saw
logs deposited in their yard has some
days reached about four hundred. More
than fifty teams have visited the mill in
a day, most of them bringing two or three
heavy loads. The saving is kept up night
and day and about $4,000 feet of sawed
lumber is taken out every twenty-tour
hours. The timber is mostly that which
was prostrated by the hurricane last fall
Year: 1870

A MORMON TRouBLB.-A young Scotchman
turned up recently at the mines near Virginia,
Nevada and declared that he had just escaped
from Salt Lake City In consequence OF having
been advised into marrying of his own sister bv
Brigham Young. He emigrated to Salt Lake q
mon religion. and continued to be true 70 the
iaith until his sister insisted on marrying him.
ard then he thought it about time to make him
self scarce.
Year: 1870

of wicks, as shown in the cut, the oil in
(A) will be raised by capillarity into (D).
The latter being provided With suitable
exit for the oil, delivers the same to little
wheel (R). thus causing it to turn At the
same time the oil falls back into the trough
GAY, to be raised again BY capillarity to
(Dl, etc"


Now, if the problem can be solved in
theory, it can be solved in practice, unless
BY theory" our worthy German contem-
porary means imagination. A very simple
experiment would have shown the worthy
editor the fallacy of his theory" Let
him take two cups or tumblers placed on
palpably different lebels, and by means Of
wicks try to raise oil, water, or ny other
fluid from the lower to the upper. He will
find it impossible to do it. The fluid will
not rise and oUertaO,O at the upper end Of
the wick 1t will rise and fill the wick,
but it will not overflow SO as to drop into
the upper vessel. On the other hand, if
wick, arranged as in the cut, should touch
the surface of the fluid in the upper vessel,
it will rapidly carry all the liquid into the
lower trough. The whole device is due to
ignorance Of the physics of capillarity.