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Year: 1873

Mr. Ingalls,, our Senator. is q fully
competent tn do valuable service to the State.
ALI he wants is o fair chance, justice, and the CO.
operation of the people of Kansas. 1t is what no
United States Senator from Kansas has ever yet
received and il is to their credit that they have
accomplished anything whatever for the State.


Gen. Lane had many bitter enemies, and many
faults These enemies pursued him upon all oc-
casions, compelling him to waste time in fighting
them, and in fortifying and strengthening him.
self that should have been devoted to the service
of the State. 1t was this desire to be in favor
with the Administration, that he might control
patronage for his own benefit, that led to the IA
tai blundcr resulting in his death.


Ever since Pomeroy's FIRST election, he has been
the subject of constant denunciation and abuse.
It was charged that he robbed the starving peo-
pie Of Kansas to buy his first election; that he
bought his second election outright; and that he
has been thief, land grabber, and public
plunderer, on all occasions.


Senator Ross was poor, yet tue cry was raised
that somebody else bought his election for him.
His own conduct in the Senate rendered him an
easy victim to this fire in the rear, and he never
amounted to anything in the Senate.


The same cry of corruption has pursued Sena
tor Caldwell, since the day of his election. His
prosecutors have never given him peaceful day
in which to labor for the interests of the State,
and have done all in their power to deprive him
of influence.


Already the hounds are on the track of Ingalls,
He is charged with bribery in q case now being
investigated by Congress, and rumors are put in
circulation that he he will not bs allowed his
seat, before the time has arrived for him to claim
his seat.


Was there ever another State in which the
public men were villifed and relentlessly pur-
sued by a venal, envions revengeful pack Of
political cursi They will abuse q man without
ceasing. charging him with all the corruptions
and crimes in the catalogue, and then keep the
fact prominently before the public, that strang-
ers call the Rotten Commonwealth" They
will sander and break down public officer, then
abuse him for not having influence. The rotten
ness is in those who keep up the cry; they arc
the who giving State an infamens
name, and retarding the advancement of her in
terests.


For decency's sake, let the new Senator 90 to
Washington without being smeared over with
filth, and give him at least half chance to show
whether he can lie Of service to our people.
Year: 1873

~ They are unearthing numerous frauds in
the State Auditors Office. That honest reformer,
Thoman, was fraud from the beginning of his
term; and We have no doubt that he SO piled
fraud upon fraud, that it will occupy most of the
time Of Auditor Wilder, during his entire two
years, in unrartling them.
Year: 1873

= 1t has been suggested that denunciation of
Yorks condnct may be kept mp until it creates a
reaction in his favor. He is just now in exceed
ing bad odor all over the country; but there is
such a thing as abusing man until the public
sympathy is excited in his faver, and he is re-
garded Ms n martyr. Do not abuse him into some
important position.
Year: 1873

II York, in his testimony, stated that Pom
eroy told him that Col. Moonlight was one of his
spies in the AntiPomeroy camp, to create discord,
and carry information to him, and that Moonlight
was under pledge to vote for him, If his vote were
necessary to his election. We heard that same
story from several sources, long before the elec-
ton took place, and are inclined to believe it,
Year: 1873

~ Senator Ingalls, is the recipient of hundreds
of letters, on all imaginable subjects. Among
Others, was one from some person in Brooklyn,
who stated that he was Republican, an expert
enced editor, and a vigorous writer, and that he
and his brother owned a good printing office.
with which they would like to locate somewhere
in the West. He closed with saying that if In
gals would recommend some good place in Ran
sas, and make it an object for them to come, they
would do so-meaning that they would like to
become his organ, and receive his patronage
Ingalls, wrote in reply, that Quindaro, Lecomp-
ton. Sumner and Geary City were now all with
cut newspapers, and he thought an enterprising
newspaper man might do well in either place, by
Locating and growing up with the town!
Year: 1873

Snow IN LoSpoN-Tclegrams by Ocean
cable, in describing snow storm in England


and particularly in London. say that the snow
fell to an extraordinary depth in city and conn


try" 1t was six inches deep" in the city Of
London, and the dispatches say tha, travel was
almost entirely suspended; omnibusses and cabs
ceased running, and scarcel. vehicle Of any
description was seen in the streets during the
day. II English omnibusses and cabs can,
run when there is only six inches Of snow on
the ground what amount of travel would there
be with foot or two of snow in the streets
Year: 1873

ToTAL ARsTINESCE.-A bill is now pend.
ing in the Massachusetts, Legislature to pro.
hibit the sale of malt liquors in that State.
It is creating quite stir and considerable
feeling in the old Bay State, The lager beer
party have an accomplished advocate Of their
interests in the person Of George S. Hilliard.
one of the Yale College professors, who made
an argument before committee Of the Legs-
la,ure in favor Of the sale Of malt liquors as a
promotive of practical temperance.
Year: 1873

Here is another illustration
of the dangers attending the
use of tobacco. On a train
between Pantucket and Taun-
ton, a brakeman threw a quid
of the vile weed at an express
agent, and the latter resented
the affront by shooting a bag
gage master. This is a case of
the indirect effects of tobacco,
to be sure, but so far as the bag
gage master is concerned there
seems to be no doubt that il is
highly injurious. -7yL.I1
Year: 1873

There is some talk among
the church people of Des IS
Moines of furnishing means to
to educate Hardin, the reform
ed gambler, for the ministry, a
profession to which he desires
to devote himself: why not
reform some Of the preachers
and educate them as gamblers?
Year: 1873

never.setting sun, amid a scene of silent
desolaton, and frequently mutiled in dense
fog awfully Insignificant, alien and alone.
Suddenly they are "beset with ice" aud find
themselves contemplating IN aspect of nature,
"such as the painter might imagine, or the
poet, with his lying license, might invent,
or the Imagination of sleeper could fancy
in dreams of night" A great storm is blow
ing over the unfrozcn sea far away, but the
schooner, fastened to a bit of ice, whose two
projecting tongues keep off the pressure OF
the outer ice, which has closed them up with
in two hundred yards, lies in deep calm. A
boat is lowered, and the men sit in dead 81
lcnee in it, watching for the nar-whal, which
are blowing near, and throw up little jest Of
vap5r from the blow-holes on either side of
the head.


THE HARPooNER IS READY,


the tubs and the line ar prepared; but the
narwlal is difficult game; he goes at tremcn-
dous speed, and his range of vision is wide /;
so that when he is dragged on to tho ice,
with his spotted hide and polished horn, he
is trophy of the first class. Great hordes
of this curious mammal travel through the
Arctic seas, tusk to tusk and tail to tail, like
a regiment of cavalry thousands strong, and
their play in great ice-circled water-wastes is
wonderful to see. as their dappled sidescurve
close to the surface and the fitting swords
are thrust above the waves in their reckless
lunges; or they suddenly skim along the sur
face, curve their backs, and plunge headlong
down following the vagaries Of some chosen
leader. When the crew of the schooner had
killed their first narwhal, they made vast
fireplace out of his remains, the opening be-
tween the ribs serving the purpose of a CRATE,
packed in wood and oakum. and set fire to
the materials in order that the odorous
fumes might attract any bears that might be
in the neigh5orhood But neither narwhal
nor bear causes snch exc tement as the real
fright whale" the tremendous


GIANT OF THE SEAS,


with the likeness of mans head and face
in the roof of his mouth whose coming is
waitod for in specchless expectation, whose
capture is the hardest work that men can do,
whose value repaysfor all the labor and all
the risk, even men who have no eyes for the
beauty and no sense of the sumlimity of the
scene. They are sailing on silver sea, in
the wonderful arctic sunli ght, which is unlike
light in any other region in the still, intoxi-
eating air, which fills their veins with life
and thrills them with a strange happiness;
past iridescent caves rising out of the pure
water-they can see far back into them,
where the upper edges are festooned with a
dazzling ornament like network OF lace
composed Of fine gems the fringe CLEANS in
the prismatic light with every motion of the
waves, and the fary-halls with awful sound.
What marvellous, constant beauty and life
where man is only brief accident.
Year: 1873

vine command as 'in it Qhe Sabbath, thou
shalt do no manner Of work Without la
Dor there can be no genuine rest; yithout
rest to recuperate the exhausted energis6uof
the mind and body, there can be no efficient
labor. Incessant labor would soon exhaust
and destroy the power of laboring; constant
rest would soon result in paralysis and
death, or in those reactive conditions of the
nervous system to which the term "unrest"
might more properly be applied. The two
must alternate with each other in order that
the physical and mental systems may be pre-.
served in normal and healthy state, and
that either the uses or enjoyments OF life
may be properly secured.
Year: 1873

BOXING EARs.-"Children's ears should
never be boxed" so writes an eminent sur
geon in the Popular Science Monthly
Though the statement will doubtless be re-
ceived by many juvenile reader in the light
of self.cvident proposition, there may yet
remain few parents and rural pedasoguees
to whom the reasons for the abolition OF this
form ofrebuke may be of interest. We have
seen. writes Professor Hinton, that the pas
sage of the ear is closed by a thin membrane
especially adapted to be influenced by every
impulse of the ar, and with nothing but the
air to support it internally. What then,
can be more likely to injure this membrane
than sudden aud iorcble COMPRISING Oh
the air in front of it If any one designed
to break or oyerstretch the membrane, he
could scarcely devise more effective means
than TO bring the hand suddenly and forcl-
by down upon the passage OF the ear, .hus
driving the air violently before 1t, with no
possibility for its escape but oy the mem
brane giving way. So reasonable are these
conclusions that there was not needed even
scthe high authority of the writer for the sub
oucut statement that many children are mad
deaf by boxes on the ear. 1t Is unfortunate
however. that this and many other rcbukes
of the same order prccedc the reason and
hence safer general order may be
issued to the intent that no child should
ever receive any form of corporal punish
ment until the parent or preceptof has stop
ped to rcason-frst with the child and then
with himself
Year: 1873

From the Augusta Constitutionalist.


While we write, we read in Northern
journals that, to obtain currency for cotton
sold in New York, the services of a broker
must be obtained and premium of four per
cent. must be paid. This is astounding.
The currency itself is only local promise
to pay. 1t possesses no. nature value Its
sole value is that part is made legal tender
by law carefully based upon war-making
power, and the remainder redeemable in an
irredceniable tender engraved note. And
yet, whithal, We have financial crash. The
Government " suspended" when it issued
greenbacks The National banks suspend
ed when they issued first notes redeemable
in all irredeemable currency; and they sus-
pend now for want of that currency: 1t is
agreed that the volume of currency is more
than double the commercial necessities Of
the country; but just at the time when it is
needed to move the crops, it unfortunately al.
ways happens that it is not available; and
when currency becomes scarce, prices go
down, and the farmer gets less for his crop,
than the price which the natural law Of sup
ply ana demand W0ulu warrant.


Now, it is just as we'll known in Liverpool
and New York that cotton growers have CIV
en- their obligations payable in November, to
carry on their planting operations, as it is
known by the farmers themselves, 1t is
equally we'll known that the cotton has to be
sent forward to meet these advances And
further, it is perfectly well known that the
banking capital of the South is utterly in
sufficient when compared with the two hun
dred and fifty millions requiree to pay for the
cotton crop. This is true picture of the
financial situation, of which cotton buyers
are thoroughly advised and of which they
calculate to take the advantage. Now, what
remedy has the cotton planter? There are
no banks to come to his relief. He is at the
mercy of the money lender, and the Manches-
ter spinner and the Lowell spinner, unless
some mode of relief can be devised? Yes:
Get out of debt-keep out of debt. This is
the remedy, and the only one which can be
devised in the present condition Of the
South.


The Farmer out of debt can hold or sell.
The farmer to be out of debt must grow his
own corn and meat. The farmer out OF debt
with corn and meat, can hold his cotton q
much longer period than the spinner can af'
ford to let his machine lie idle


Here is good work for the Oranges. 1t is
idle to talk about affecting an organization
which will possess money power adequate
to the purchase or control Of cotton crop
of the value of TWO or three hundred mil
lions


But that combination, which can induce
cotton planters to KEEP OUT OF DEBT, will
most effectually do that which no artificial
moneyed corporation could ever effect.


Let the Oranges adopt as their notices:


Buy for Cash.


Buy nothing that can be raised on tte plan
tation


Ram ,ofLiuo ,JOon cyef7f
Year: 1873

LABOR AND REsr.-I.abor during the day
that ycu may rest during the night; labor
during the week that you may rest on thS
Sabbath; labor during this life, Qor God
and your own regeneration.) that You may
rest in the next. six days shalt thou Ia
bor and do all thy work." is as much d.
Year: 1873

rs hereby given that application will be made
i to the Legisl ture at its next session Tor the
opening and establishing Public Road. from
the Black River Road three or four miles from
Camden, to the DishOpvlls Road at or near the
Big Hill.


July "a om'
Year: 1873

Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon's advice to the
gentlemen who are planning TO make new
party is this:


First. find out what srea: question OF
public policy is likely to divide public opin
ION. Next. find out, i. You can, the right
side of that question. Then take your
stand manfully on that side of the ques-
ton, and let your party consist Of those
whom YOU can find to stand with you. Do
not make your party first ana then inven.
an issue: but remember that only new
issue, and live one, can make a new party.
Year: 1873

COLUMBUS, August There are wild
rumors afioat in the neighborhoOd of
this city as to cholera in this locality.
A talk had this evening with four physi-
clans shows that from the best informa-
ton obtainable since July 5th there have
been twenty-four cases Of cholera out
side Of the penitentiary, and eighteen
cases were fatal. There are now but
six cases in the city, and two Of these
are Of a mild type.
Year: 1873

The Commissioners appointed to inquire into
the charges against General Foreman Manning will not
render decision till the next meeting Of the Park
Board 1t appears however, that the department has
been glad to get rock refuse for filling purposes and has
had said refuse when 1t could be had for
nothing Manning, having rock filing TO dispose
Of set men to removing It, thus applying to him


self rule which had been in force In the case
OF other residentA. IL would appear, also, that
his accusers, FOremen iiodges and Delehant,
in going to the Finance Department to complain, In
stead OF to the Park Commissioners, committed an i'm


proprety which the department mas justly taken
exception TO- II was especially bad In view OF the fact
that the Finance Department stopped the pay OF the
men whom Manning put ut the work whereas they only
0beyed the orders OF superior The Department itself
ls yet IN iormatye state. Tue Committee Bylaws
the members OF the Board will be occupied In prepara
tOns for perfectng the organization The aDpropri alton
which was 50 long waited for, maae toward tue
close Of the legislative session. and the
Year: 1873




HAPPY NEW YEAR.-Auother round
in the ladder that leads to Eternity has
just been completed, and q new ono bo.
gun. As we approach our destiny, the
rounds appear to form more rapidly than
did those over which our feet have ALREADY y
passed. We may look down and count
the number wo have climbed, but how
high We have yet to ascend this ladder
of time, how many rounds our feet have
yet to press, before we reach the summit
ofths mount that will give US an uninter.
rupted view Of the vast fields of Eternity,
no man can tell. We may only build
and climb, and if we would do our duty,
leave q structure by which others may be
assisted in the ascent. Wishing our
patrons a happy new year, we renew our
labors in the field Of journalism, hoping
that We may accomplish some good, and,
MS it is human to err, asking their for
bearance for any defects that may appear
in the "round" VIC have now begun.
Year: 1873

DON'T READ THIS. if you do,
whoever you nay please take look
among the old dusty shelves about your
house, in out of the way boxes, in your
libraries, or wherever you may have
stored away books or thrown them care.
isssly, and see if you haven't one or
more books that belong to Troy Social
Library. These books are scattered over
the town, many of them taken from the
Library in the absence Of the Librarian,
and nothing is known Of them except
that they are not where thcy ought to
be. Dusty, homeless books, rustic your
leaves and haunt tho houses where you
are with all the horrors, without any Of
the pleasures, which you record, until
they will be glad to return you.
Year: 1873

SAD ACCIDENT.-Mr. James Norton,
who lives near Old Alexandria in this
county, on the 3Olh ultimo accidentally
shot, and it is thought fatally wounded,
his wife. On the morning Of that day he
was sitting in chair in the house clean.
ing his rife preparatory tc taking hunt.
The gun was laying across his lap, the
breech resting on the floor, and had
slided beyond stairway near which he
was sitting; without noticing this he
drew the gun towards him, when the
hammer struck the stairway, dischargins
the load. His wife was standing oppo.
site him in the room, ana received the
load in her left side, just below the ribs,
the ball ranging up and coming out on the
opposite side near the right breast At
last accounts she was still living, but lit
tie hope Of her recovery is entertained.
The young husband is almost distracted
with grief. They have been married
about two years.
Year: 1873

our curiosity till We get the Presidents
message.


The Senate took recess for half an hour
at the expiration of which time it re-as-
sembred, when Mr.. Edmunds said it was
evident they could not get the Presidents
message to-day on account of the time to
be consumed in swearing in members and
organizing the House. He therefore
moved that the Senate adjourn until y
O'Clock tomorrow, which was adopted.
Year: 1873

Sixty cents a day is considered good
wages for a working man in any of the
European countries, except Great Brit
ain, where the wages are somewhat
higher. Ia the Tyrol silk region and in
Italy they often do not get more than
ten cents. In the country in Germany
ten eents is the common pay. Women
there often get but FIVE cents. In Swe-
den, men often work from four o clock IN
the morning till nine in the evening, and
do not get any more. During the war
many poor women in Berlin were hired
to knit stockings for the soldiers for i've
cents. The profits Of the poor who keep
petty shops, sell trinkets in the street or
act as suffers, do not average more than
three or four per cent. BARRIERS in Ber-
lin, since the raising Of their prices, get
Eve cents for hair cutting and two and a
half cents for shaving. Servants at ho-
tells get from three to eight dollars a
month. Servant girls in private families
often get but ten dollars a year. Some
times these classes cannot get work at
any price.
Year: 1873

That alteration which young man
gives TO a woman whom he feels TO be
greater and better than himself, is
! hardly dis.inguishable from religious
| feeling. What deep and worthy love is
not so2 whether Of woman or child, or
art or music. Our oaresses, our tender
words. our still rapture under the in
| huence Of autumn sunsets, or plllared
vistas, or calm, majestic statues, or
Beethoven symphonies, all bring with
them the consciousness that they are
ruere waves and ripples in an unfathom-
BILE ocean of love and beauty; our emo
ti,1n in its keenest moment passes from
ex preston into silence, our love at its
hig hest food rushes beyond its object,
and loses itself in the sense Of divine
mystery. Is it any weakness, pray to
be wrought on by exquisite music, to
feel its ondrous harmonies searching
the subtlest windings CT your soul, the
delicate ibers of life where no memory
can penetrate and binding together your
whole being, past and present, in one
uuspeakable vibration, melting you in
one moment with all the tenderness, all
the love that has been scattered through
the toilsome years, concentrating IN one
emotion of heroic courage or reslgna-
ton all the hard-earned lessons of self
renouncing sympathy, blending your
present Joy with past sorrow, and
your present sorrow with all your past
ioy? If not, then neither is it weak
ness to be so wrought upon by the ex-
ouisite curves of a womans cheek and
neck and arms, by the liquid depths of
her beseeching eyes, or the sweet child,
ish pout of her lips. For the beauty OF
lovely woman is like music; what can
one say more? Beauty has an express
sion and far above the one woman's soul
that it clothes, as the words of genius
have a wider meaning than the thought
that prompted them; it is more than q
woman love that moves US IN woman s
eyes; it seems to be far-oh mighty
love that has come near to US, and
made speech for itself there; the
rounded neck tho dimpled arm, move
us by something more than their pretti-
ness, by their close kinship with all we
have known Of tenderness and peace.
The noblest nature sees the most OF this
impersonal expression in beauty ut is
| needless to say that there are gentlemen
with whiskers dyed and undyed who see
none of it whatever) and for this reason
the noblest nature is often the most
blinded to the character of the one
woman's soul that the beauty clothes.
Whence, I fear, the tragedy of human
life is likely to continue for a long time
to come, in spite of mental philosophers,
who are ready with the best recipes for
avoiding all mistakes Of the kind
George Eliot.
Year: 1873

And then, with a groau, the Duke drop
ped into a seat.


"I see il all, said he. The raseals
have robbed you Of the second bracelet.
There was no messenger sent Tor the
bracelet. The man to whom you gave
il was no officer, but bolder thief than
he who robbed you Of the first.


And so it proved. The bracelets were
never recovered and the Russian ambas-
sador recalls the last fete day OF the
fallen Emperor with a sigh, for i made
him poorer man by many millions oI
francs than he was when he handed his
charming wife into his carriage and bade
his coachman drive to the opera.