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Year: 1872

Smt Why are you people of the East
allowing yourselves to become 80 demoraized over the
Pennsylvania eiectonf telegram in one Of our morn
ing papers informs that the rooms OF the Liberal Re-
publican Committee ia Washington have been closed
and chat Committee will do more workf Is this
the way they give up a fight that is half won The
Georgia election is worth 10 us than the Pennsy


yana fraudulent election TO the GRANTEES. Now s tho
time TO work and do our best Can't you people In the
East take care Of EewYoTk, New-Jersey and Connect
Year: 1872

WHEELING, W. Va, July 1G.
To the Editors OF the IntellIgencer.


If 1t takes 100000 Of the Wheeling
taxpayers money TO bring the terminus
OF a foreign railroad into the city of Wheel.
ing, how much persuasion would it take
TO procure an exercise Of some interest by
those In authority, in regard to having
street lamps lighted during every dark
night? Question. l am poor uniortu.
nate who is compelled to labor Tar into
the night for what little l get of this
worlds goods, and it is not at all pleasant
to add TO that misfortune the continual
dread of falling down and breaking my
neck while trying to pick my way home
in the dark. For the information Of all
whom it may concern" aud strangers
especially, l will state that 1t Is better
Caiter night to take the middle of the
streets when desiring to traverse the city,
as they are smoother than the sidewalks,
and not so full Of pitfalls. ALONE.
Year: 1872

TEMPERANCE REvlvAL.-Quite revival has
recently commenced in the different tempe
rance orders in this city. All of them are
adding to their numbers every week, aud
there IS probability that other divisions and
councils will soon be formed in those por-
tons of the city where now there are none.
AS an evidence of the renewed interest in
the cause Of temperance. we will mention
that at the meeting of Springfield Division
held on Thursday night there were three
separate limitations of members into the
Order, and the meeting was consequently
protracted until q late hour. A large num-
ber of members was in attendance, all mani
testing the greatest interest in the proceed
ings. The officers for the present quarter
were installed by the local deputy Of the
Division.
Year: 1872

ton Of the Deficiency Appropriation
bill, which was finally adopted, as fol-
lows: That the Secretary of the Treas
usy be, and he his thereby authorized
and directed to pay to the lawful
owners or their legal representatives OF
all cotton seized after 30th of June.
1865, by the agents ofthe Government,
the net proceeds without interest, OF
the sales of the said cotton actually
paid into the Treasury of the United
States, provided that the receipts there
of shall be taken and received in full
satisfaction of all claims against the
United States for or on account of the
seizure of said cotton, and sufficient
sum for such payment is hereby appro-
priated, and the Secretary of the Treas
ury is hereby authorized to prescribe
rules and regulations for the ascertain
ment of all necessary facts for the
execution thereof. The Senate amend
men;s to the judiciary Appropriation
bill were then disposed OF, after which
the tariff and tax bills were recon-
mitted to the Ways and Means Com
mittea with instructions to report a
bill reducing the tariff to ninety per
cent. of the present rate.
Year: 1872

No man has any right to expect or
even ask for clearer light OH his path
when he is not walking by the light
which he has.


Thousands of Christians are at a
stand in their Christian life because
they do not live according to the light
which they have. They habitually
disregard clear convictions of duty,
either allowing themselves in some
habit or feeling, which conscience con-
demns, or neglecting some duty to
which conscience calls them. The
ship may float in deep water, vet not
advance, even though the wind and
tide favor, if its anchor be cast. The
enc little sinful habit allowed. NAV
hinder child of God and stop all pro-
gress, while If he would be true to his
own convictions, he would speed on
ward to the haven of his desires.


A person who has no convictions to
guide and steady him is a mere floating
hulk, driven by every wind, drifted by
every current. a


BE not such q one. Be true to your
convictions in everything. Ifyou are
sure of course, follow IL; if you are
sure it is wrong, forsake il at once.


Such decision in one case prepares
you for deciding more easily and
promptly in another. Begin with the
first sin you discover in yourself, and
hew it to pieces.
Year: 1872

A thief running away is scamp;
but a policeman's chase after him is q
scamper.


The difference between a ahotei-keeper
and the indiscreet publisher of the
Times Is that one lets out rooms and the
other lets out rumors. .fifR


The reason why certain ritualistie
ladies so revere their pastor is that they
are, met2phorically speaking, the owes
of the flock, while he is the Ever.


Simple as may seem the little bivalvs
it takes all the forces of nature to make
a clam; but in England it only takes
Mr.. Disraeli to make clamor.


What distinction can be drawn be-
tween a sausage made of sporting dog,
and other things generally? Why the
former Is ate setter and the latter il ct
ceterer. - lglld


The highest praise we can award
to the best of our sex is to say. that
he is "all man." but the average
women of the period is all manner.
Which Is an argument not heretofore
i'm favor of female suffrage.


As an instance of how the present
administration transcends the tradi-
tons of our government it may be OBJ
served that while our national emblem
is only fowl the political doings at
Washington are continually becoming
fouler.-M Y World. 't -
Year: 1872

II was sick with bad cough and my
lungs were very much affected. l became
so bad under the treatment of my physician
for Consumption, that feared that should
die. Hearing of the remarkable cures that
had been made by the use of DR.. VIM. Halls
BalsAm for the Lungs, dismissed my ply
sician and took it, am happy to say that
it cured me. i believe it to be the best lung
medicine known"
Year: 1872

Mr. RENNE claims that the name "MAgiC
oh is his trade mark, =" and that any per
sons who use that name for medicine do Sc
al TIER peril, as much so as though they
stole any other property of his, besides heiy
extra naeanRess! The genuine Rsnne's Pain.
Killing Magic Oil is what the people want
and will have.
Year: 1872

Gold in New York 1923. Currency,
here, buying at ssc. selling at 80.


Exchange On San Francisco ] Of l per
cent. premium.


Rates of interest vary according to
amount money can be had for from J
to l per cent.'a month.


The cause for the rise in gold is said to
be on account of an increase in the rate
Of interest to per cent, by the Bank of
England, which has had the effect to call
much coin from the United States. The
advance was made in England because of
the buying in by the German Empire of a
great portion Of the bullion being inn
ported. for what purpose it is unknown,
but probably for coinage OF to put the
country on a war footing.
Year: 1872

We are sorry to learn that is some
sections of the county an attempt is


bsing made to Introduce religion, or
csther sectarianism, into sha ooStcst for
county Offices. On the Democ.atic
ticket there are candidates who arc mem.
bers of different religious denominations,
as veil as those sho hold to no par,ics-
lar faith, and why prejcdices of this
nature should be introduced, we see no
reason. Yet it is being done. 1t was
used against some Of the candidates be-
fore the primary election, and Se uuder-
stand will be persisted in at the general
election. Let oil good christians dis.
the move, whether It comes
from protestant or catholic, for no good
can come Of it, and a religious war that
sll border on disgrace will en.ue if made
a question In this campaign. 1t Is nee
essary that W should elect good men to
Office, and to deny that every religious
denomination is blessed with many such,
is an arrogant piece Of folly. On the
ticket supported by tho HeraM, we find
an Episcopal. q Catholic, Christian,
Presbyterian. a Methodist, and others
whose religious belief We know nothing
about. This is enough to show that the
Democrats voting at the primary election
snored any such issue, and will ignore
i when they cast their votes at the gen.
'ral election. We say emphatically,
'rovn down this mixing of religion and
politics.
Year: 1872

Don't bet on the election or you lose
your vote. Section II article 9 Of the
Constitution Of the State of Missouri i.
as follows. "No person who shall make
OF become directly or indirectly, inter
estsd in any bet or wager depending upon
the result of any election, shall vote at
such election"
Year: 1872

Nor FoUND.-Mr. p Hughes tells us
that the boat which the young man, Choate,
used has not been found, that he is aware
of. 1t seems that at the time Choate ven
tured out in the boat, all the other men
folks about the place were engaged some
distance from the ferry, and that when he
expressed desire to Mrs. Hughes to prac-
tice rowing the boat, she told him that she
feared he.was not able to manage the craft,
but be went out on the river, notwithstand-
ing, and was undoubtedly drowned.
Year: 1872

DIsGRAcEFUL On Monday night DIR
Jordan, an elderly gray haired mao, was
announced to lecture on phrenology at the
public School house, but the audience was
slim and some of the boys made them
selves hoarse by yelling outside, aud finally,
entered the building exringushed the lighls
leaving the Doctor in total darkness, aud
to grope his way down rickety fight of
stairs as best he could The next night
the Doctor obtained permission, and lee
tured in the Union Church, thinking that
he would enjoy peace and protection within
its sacred precincts. Mistaken idea! As
soon as the elder portion of the audience
had dispersed, crowd of about twenty
youngsters proceeded to raise particular
thunder, by calling the old gentleman
opprobrious names, cursirg singing dog
gerel. stamping. pounding on the floor, etc.
Such conduct is dlsgraceful to the town,
and should be guarded against in the future
Shasta once had the reputation of bein,
an orderly town, but of late it has retro.
graded in that respect
Year: 1872

From the salt Lake utah Review.


On the eve Of Brigbam's departure
a levy was made upon the several
quorums OF Seventies, Twelves, etc,
and even poor women q very few
borrowed q small amount to pay for
bonds and attorneys on the part of
the Prophet after his departure. In
this way about ten thousand dollars
were raised outside Of perhaps every
public treasury, especially the NUM-
cipal, which does not admit Of even
report to the tax and license prayers.
When the matter shall be fully inves-
tigsted. II will most likely be found
that funds for future settlement have
been amply provided. In order to
save the English Banks deposits and
the ready cash on hand, the several
quorums OF Seventies and the several
smaller lights have advanced the
necessary travelling expenses for the
present; which must be admitted To
be very clever on the part of the dyed
in-the.WoOl saints
Year: 1872

It Is true that labor costs more in this
country than in England, but it is
generally worth more. Those manu-
tacturing establishments in which an
immense capital is invested and a
large fOIee of labOrers employed are
less carefully organized than ours,
and have prOmiscuOUs mass of ig-
nofaut and flI-trained operatives,
whose work is not worth more in pro-
portion to its cost per head than that
of the more efficient workmen here.
Our Iaborers, whether in shipyards or
factories, work ia smaller companies,
and are therefore brought more COM
pletely under the supervision of
responsible Overseer or of the employ
er himself. and moreover are as q
rule much better educated and better
trained in the mechanical processes
upon which they are engaged. The
superior value of intelligent, skilled
labor, under the direction and super
vision of competent men who have
themselves a thorough practical ac-
uuaintance with the details of the
work under their eye, will be obvious
to the duIlest comprehension. That
the mechanics of this country are q
highly intelligent and cultivated
class of citizens, while those of Eng
Abtltl ifG lBilOIdilb anu Btu
of proletairs, we do not claim; but
that there is a wide difference be-
tween the same classes in the two
countries cannot be denied, and this
difference is so great that any master
Bhip-builder will declare that the
same amount OF work can be done
in better manner here with fewer
men than in any part Of Great Brit
ain. This alone OYerbears in a great
measure, if not entirely, the advan-
tage of cheap labor; but there Is yet
another thing in our smaller and
more thoroughly organized establish


ments which tells strongly in our
favor, and that is the more general
use of labOT-saving machinery. In
the iron-wOrks OF this country huge
cOntrivnnces may be seen in operation,
whereby a few men will raise from
the ground and transport to a distant
point masses of engiRery or iroh
framework weighing scores of tuns,
while on the Clyde a swarm of work.
men will be employed with much
ruder appliances to accomplish the
same thing.-N Y World.
Year: 1872

Large as the cattle trade may seem,
it is yet in its Infancy, not only IN IN
Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, on the
Platte, but throughout the United
States. The rapid increase OF our
population both from foreign and do
nestle sources, demands a correspond
ing increase of food, and at present
there is no product of cattle that
is anything like equal TO the demand.
Beef can be raised on plains, and de-
livered, at six cents per pound, and
until that is done there need be no
Year: 1872

The following is that portion of the
Governors message to the extra session
of the Legislature, which refers to COM
mon schools


Through memorials from the State
Teachers Association, and from other
sources entitled to high consideration, l
was solicited to call your attention spe-
cially to the importance of providing for
the creation of the office Of Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction. No desire has
been manifested in communication with
the Executive Office to present the ques-
tions of schools and education for your
consideration, further than to ask the ere
alton of this office and provide for it pro-
per salary.


need not say more than / have hereto
fore done upon this subject. Its import
ance cannot be Over-estimated, and hope
YOU will not fail to meet the questions at
once in such manner as to meet the Just de-
mands of the country. y report will be
submitted to you on this subject.
Year: 1872

The Philadelphia Press speaking of the
arrangements that are being made for the
Centennial celebration in 1876 says:


The Centennial Commission yesterday
adjourned, to meet in this city on May %.
1t was in session just seven days, and III
that time accomplished an organization,
made itself familiar with the project, its
grandeur and importance, and perfected
many minor details, among them the Sc
lection of the site for the exposition build
ing, and an invitation for plans and
! estimates for the same. One of the best
results of the meeting was the cultivation
Of thorough good understanding be-
tween the commissioners and our authOri-
ties and the people. However national
the character of the enterprise, the work
of arranging and preparing for it is large
ly local, and must necessarily be co-OpeTa-
tive. We have shown to the commissions
ers that we are willing to do our share of
the hercuIean labor incident, and we think
have won their affection and confidence.
Year: 1872

1t is really the snly illustrated chronicler of fashion
in the country. Its supplements alone worth the
subscription price of the paper While fully maintain
ing its position mirror of fashion, it also contains
stories poems, brilliant essays. besides general and
personal gossip.-iBostOn Saturday Evening Gazette


There never was any paper published that so de-
lighted the heart OF woman, Never mind if it does
cost you new bonnet it will you ten times the
price in the household economy it teaches.-PrOvi-
dence Journal.


The young lady who buys a single number of IIar-
pers Bazar is made subscriber for Iife.-.New York
Evening Post.


The Bazar is excellent Like all the periodicals
which the Harpers publish, it is almost ideally well
edited and the class Of readers for whom it is intended
the mothers and daughters in average famiieS-can
not but profit by its good and good taste, which,
we have no doubt day making very many homes
happier than they have been before the women began
taking lessons in personal and household and social
management from this goOd-naturcd mentor.-LThe
Nation n. Y.
Year: 1872

He is stout-looking old man of seventy
one years, his body showing large bones,
and slightly bent with the weight of time,
his face smooth down to chin whiskers,
his hair frosted by many winters, his fore
head broad and high, his lips firm, his eye
bright his face kind and his voice low and
gentle. Such is Brigham Young. His
troubles of the last year are telling fear
fully upon him, and unless his enemies
relent and give him and his church some
peace, it is evident that he will be moved
hence ere long.
Year: 1872

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes Drop
sy( Incontnence of Urine Brights disease Albumin
ria, and in where there Brick dust deposits
the water is thick cloudy mixed with substances like
is a morbid dark, bilious appearance, and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is prcking, burning
sensation, and pain in the small of the back and along
the loins. In all these conditions Railways Sarpar-
liam Resolvent, aided by the application of RadWay
Ready Relief to the spine and small Of the back and
the bowels regulated with one or two of RadWay' 8
Regulating Pills per day will, soon make complete
cure. In few days the patient will be enabled 10 hold
and discharge water naturally without pain and the
Urine will be restored to its natural clear and amber
or sherry color.
Year: 1872

Viii, in from one to twenty minutes AFFORD ease an
comfort and this medicine rapid in stopping pain
can be purchased for fifty cents per bottle at alIa9s
every druggists and country merchants store on thl
continent and within one hours distance OF almOi
every habitatiOn in the United States
Year: 1872

My father was a poor man. A
large and growing family was de-
pendent on him for its daily bread.
Coming home one Wintry evening
from a weeks toll in a neighboring
town with ten hard-earned dollars in
his pocket, he lost them in a slight
snow. Long and fruitless was the
search for them. After the snow
was gone, again and again the search
was renewed, with the same result.
The snow fell and melted again for
a whole generation, and still the
story Of the lost dollars was fresh in
our family circle; for a silver dollar
to a poor man in those days was
larger than a full moon.


About a mile away lived another
father Of a family in similar circum-
stances. He, too, knew how much
a dollar cost, dug out of the heart Of
a rocky farm. At least once, or Oft
'ener, every week for forty years, he
had occasion to pass our door. CIV
ing and receiving the common neigh
borly salutations, and every time
with a weight increasingly heavy on
his conscience. But all such pres
sure has its limits, and when that is
reached the crash is the greater for
the severity Of the strain. In this
instance it was as when an old oak
rends its body and breaks its limbs
in falling.


One day, completely broken down,
he came to my father in tears, sI
found your dollars lost in the snow
forty years ago. They have been
hard dollars to me, and I can carry
them no longer. l am come to re-
turn them, and ask your forgiveness,
and as soon as I can I viii pay you
the interest"


The scene was like that when ia.
cob and Esau met over the ford Jab-
box.


He did not live long enough to
pay the interest, but quite long
enough to furnish practical COM
ment on the text. "The spirit Of
a man will sustain his infrmity, but
a wounded spirit who can bearY'
Who will say that conscience. though
slumbering in this life, will never
awaken to punish the offender in the
life to come?


If any man wants hard money, let
him get it dishonesty, and he will
find it the hardest money that he ev-
er saw-hard to keep, hard to think
of and hard to answer for in the
Judgment day.-Christian Weekly.
Year: 1872

How pleasant it is, after midnight has passed
To be quafing and joking and smoking:
'Tis too bad that forever the pleasures don't last
But give place to reaction provokingl
For the vine may be bright and the weeds


may be right,


But, believe an old roisterers warning,
You buy the delight and the mirth of tonight
N.A,a eadache the following morning.
Oh, the higher you soar the more fearful the fall
The more the Campayne has been sparkling,
The worse will its memory be to recall,
On awaking, with agony darkling.
For the greater the height the joy took fight,
The earth's dull sObriety scorning,
The worse is your plight when the mirth Of


night


Brings its headache the following morning
No matterl It's better to suffer the pain
Than forego all indulgence in pleasure:
Do not balance too closely the loss and the gain
But believe that you get the full measure.
Then yeH revel despite the thorns hid from


sight


Mid the roses our temples adorning,
Though the fates will requite the delight Of


tonight


With headache the following morning.
Year: 1872

A debating society discussed the
question SIS it wrong to cheat a law
yer| After full discussion and ma
ture deliberation the decision was,
'NOt wrong, but too difficult to pay
for the trouble.
Year: 1872

We observe with satisfaction that the Com
mttee on Commerce and Navigation has been
instructed to investigate the charges against
the Harbor Masters of this city, whose extOr-
tiOns have already been repeatedly exposed IN
The TRIBUNE. Their intermeddling, their OK
actions, and the indirect taxes which they levy
through cOllusiOn with the tOw-bOat COM
panies, form a burden upon commerce more
universal and scarcely less outrageous than the
Quarantine blackmail. Scarcely anything is
more desired by our shipping merchants than
the complete reform of the present harbor
system and the appointment Of honest men TO
administer it, The Committee is also in
structed to make inquiry concerning the Pilot
Commissioners. Such investigation can do no
harm, although We are not yet aware of any
evils in that direction requiring Legislative in
reference.
Year: 1872

The Charter has not left the way of pro-
crastination, even now that an overwhelming
majority sent it into the Senate, where the nat
ural expectation of timely passage is turned
to disappointment. New discussion ID to be
heard on its various provisions during this
week and the whole of the next, but with
what purpose it is difficult to imagine, as i'm
portant changes at this late day are next tc
impossible. The Senate wonld better serve
the public interests at this juncture by pass
ing promptly this measure and Fastening on
to work that is urgently in need of instant
attention.
Year: 1872

The plan of eleCting pOstmastors by the
people, now agitated in Congress, is not new
one, and has generally been received with favor
whenever discussed. 1t would he only reason
able to permit the people who must use the
post-ofices to choose the person who is to
serve them To make the postmastcrs elective
would be to cut off large and fruitful source
of official corruption, and would summariiy
blot out a vast horde of Nasbys, North ana
South-a consummation devoutly to be wished