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Year: 1871

Was compounded for those not inclined to extreme
bters and intended for use In cases when some al
Tonic properties of the Bters; Each bottle Of the
Tonic contains one bottle of the Bitters combined
with pure SANTA CRUZ rum, and favored In such a


manner that extreme bitterness OF the Btters Is
come, forming preparation highly agreeable and
pleasant to the palate, and containing the medicinal
virtues of the Bitters The price of the Tonic s0
must take into consideration that the stimulant used
is guaranteed to be Of pure quality. poor article
could be furnished ut cheaper price but Is II not bet
ter to pay a little more and have good article: A
medicinal preparation should contain none but the
best ingredients, and they who expect to obtain q
cheap compound will most certainly be cheated.
Year: 1871

thy with his frame, remarked feebly
that he was consid'ahle shuck up like,
and vOuchsafed no other explanation.
Even to his wife lac only said that he
felt purity considerable shuck up like,
and that the boys would have to get
on tonight without him. There are
some scoundrels whose very malignity
is shaken out of them for The time be-
ing by a thorough drubbing.


I'm afraid you're going to have
trouble with your arm, Bud" said
Ralph';enderly.


Never mind; putt in my best licks
fer Him, that air time. Mr.. Hartsook."
Ralph shivered little at though of
this, but if it was right to knock Jones
down at ali, why might not Bud do it
heartily as unto the Lord? Gideon
did not feel any more honest pleasure
in chastising the Midianities that did
Bud in sending Pete Jones away con-
shuck up like.
Year: 1871

We fee! completely demolished
by the Abingdon Jifyiaiaa. After
reading the last issue we are in no
mood to enjoy our breakfast or to rise
from our prostrate condition. La the
language of Dan Ryan that last issue
has "hit us most an omnipotent jarr. p"
If it were Lot for the fact that We
have promised to close the Canvass
for delegates to the next Legislature,
We would, while down, commence
kicking and continue TO kick indef
initely. We have heard some few
hard heads intimate that it is best to
submit to irreversible fate. but we
don't believe any sensible Editor of
any such excellent paper as the Bris-
tol Ne,cs should accept ANY such non
sensical assertion as true. It is only
our promise which restrains us.
Year: 1871

The experiment of treating insane
patients in families is being made in
Massachusetts,, aud so far it has been
tried, with encouraging success. In
each of four country houses purchased
by the trustees of the Worcester asy-
lum are now living from five to elev-
Ell men and women taken from the
asylum. Those had been chosen who
did not need confinement nor eoer-
ciOn, and whom il was thought safe
to leave under the care of trusty wO-
men of some experience. The re-
straint of imprisonment is abolished.
they were living as free as il in their
own homes, with open fields, sweet
country air, and the bright sunshine
to render them cheerful and happy.
A visitor to these cottages writes to
the Boston Advertiser that it is not
easy to describe the difference be-
tween the looks of their occupants
and those confined in the asylum.
They seemed, almost all, very happy.
Many of them were busy with the
work of the house, or their own work,
and all appeared to be cOntented,
there, being a pleasant home look
about them which it was delightful
to see. To any one who has been in
telligent and well-bred men and wo-
men, so free from any appearance Of
insanity that a casual visitor might
converse with them for hours with
out observing any indications of
disordered intellect, impatiently pa
cling up and down the confined wards
of an asylum like Gagged animals in a
menaperie the inheritance of such a
reform in the treatment of the insane,
if it is practicable, must be apparent
at glance. For violent maniaes, Of
course, a strict restraint is necessary
bat this class forms but a small pOr-
tion of those who compose the popu-
lation of a lunatic asylum.
Year: 1871

No matter who comes or goes in


Brooklyn, what strangers preach or


stars shine, Plymouth church is al


ways crowded. Mr.. Beecher has


opened his season with unusual health
and spirit. His great lecture room,


plain as a Plymouth barn, is full from


week to week. And even the parlors
adjoining have to be opened to ac-
eommodate the throng. a great many


people attend the Friday night meet


ing from other churches, who do not
hear Mr.. Beeoher preach. The Friday
night meeting is unique, and unlike
anything on the continent. 1t is
crisp, sparkling and entertaining
The singing is hearty and full. -Four
hymns are usually sung. There are
no omissions but the hymn is sung
straight through. Two brethren are
called upon to pray between the sing
ing, and ten men do all the PRAYING.
One of the ten is invariably called
upon year after year. Why the circle
is not enlarged it is difficult to tell
The Scriptures are not read. At the
conclusion of the third hymn Mr..
Beecher gives his Talks He sits
in his chair during his address, never
rises, but is very much at his ease
He holds his hymn book in his hand
throws one leg over the other-teet-
ers back in his chair-shoves the Bible
back and forth nervolsly--changes
the position of his vase of flowers
and twisted round from side to side,
without the slightest idea
of what he is doing. His talks are sell
dom over twenty minutes, whent he
is thrown open for questions
a few remarks are sometimes madeb by
the brethren, and the meeting is then
closed with a rousing song of praise.
The whole service seldom exceeds one
to Boston Journal.
Year: 1871

Among the hard eases developed


by the fire, is the following: An aged


gentleman-toO old to begin life again


yesterday called on a member of


the legal fraternity for advice. The


savings Of lifetime, of nearly three


score years Of untiring effort had been


invested in United States bonds


amounted to between 5000 and


S6O,OOO. His wife Lad always taken


care of the precious documents. To
provide against accidents she had


been the habit oil keeping them in
large stone jar, sunk below the cellar
floor and covered with sand. About
a year and half ago his wife died


leaving him alone. Subsequent to


her death the old gentleman, as a
more business-like manner of doing


things, took up the jar and had the


bonds transferred tH z safe. A day or
two since the safe was taken from the
debris, and all that was left of the
SB0, 200, or thereabOuts, was some
biackened ashes. The bonds were
not registered, nor could the old gem
tleman remember the number of a
single bond, nor could he tell OF
whom or Of what bank they were
purchased. All that he could re-
member was that he lad made ample /
provision for his old age by life Of |
ample industry, and now ne was !
thrown upon the world alone aad not I
enough of the worlds goods left to I
buy himself a breakfast. The case
was a sad one, but only one of thou /
sands Of the same kind CHICAGO 1
Nail. Z
Year: 1871

Oceans are gone, as separation, and


only exist as communication, for q


wire has been thrown across and the


nations are connected. The whole


world receives the influence of all


that happens. These things are Just


beginning. The world is coming to-


gether and becoming 50 related to


common sympathetic centres that it


will soon be one. The whole globe


is coming into the actual condition of
one household. Where are mems


hearts and where are their eyes, that
they give away to doubt? What shall
we say of the Church? o, the poor
journey of the Church. The Church
has been anything but divine: it has
been human, intensely human, but
the Church has always testified of the
unity of the race. Sci
ence is Gods elect, not knowing yet
His full mission, destined yet to be
the regeneratOr of religion, and when
the old revelation written on the
rock is put alongside of the revelation
Of Christ Lesus, the two together will
be better than either alone. But,
though we may take all that helps,
We can't afford to give up our faith in
God. And at the last day that which
will stand highest will be self-saeri-
fee and love, as shown to US by the
example of God in Christ Jesus.
Year: 1871

Two men engaged in the eOnstrue-


ton of Ditch No. 1S3 in WOOfeounty.


relate a singular circumstance to. the


editor of the Sentinel. The ditch leads


through marshy swamp, which has


not probably in the recollection of the
oldest inhabitant, been as dry as this
year, and even with the present great
drOuth, the team of horses mired 20
badly that in some instances they
had to dig and pry them out from
among the sunken bOgs where they
became entangled. In one place
while plOwing, and about q feet
below the surface, they came upon a
literal patch of huge mud turtles.
some of which were as large on the
back as the bottom Ofa windsor chair.
and so firmly imbedded were some of
these tough customers, that they
Obstrueted the plOW, and threw it out
of the furrow the same as q stone or
root would do Five or six of these
lusty fellows would sometimes be
turned out by q single furrow. They
bad probably sought this moist spot
from some distance as the best place
to go into winter quarters.
Year: 1871

Foolish spending is the father Of


poverty. Do not be ashamed of work,


of hard work. Work for the best


wages, but work for half price rather


than be idle. Be your own master,
and do not let society or fashion swal-
low up your individuality-hat, coaJ
and boots. Do not eat up and wear
out all that you earn.-COmpel your
selfish body. to spare something for
profits saved. Be stingy to your own
appetite, but merciful to others ne
eessities. Help others, and ask no
help for yourself. See that you are
proud. Let your pride be of the right
kind. Be too proud TO be lazy TOO
proud to give up without eonqneTing
every difficulty too proud to wear
coat that you cannot afford to buy;
too proud 10 be in company that you
cannot keep up with in expenses
too proud too lie. or steal, or cheat;
too proud to be stingy.
Year: 1871

that State were infuriated at the
massacre at the River Raisin, and
their battle cry was, " Remember the
River Raisin." It was only with
difficulty that the Indian prisoners
could be guarded. SC general was the
deposition of the Kentnekians to
massacre them.
Year: 1871

But 1 beseech the childred to begin
life by resolving never to touch, taste
or handle the Intoxicating cup; to
walk by the light that God has given
you, and not TO plunge into those
troubles which may be avoided by be-
ginning life Alright. Pledge yourselves
to temperance, and give you the ex-
ample of my own life to show you
what it will do for you. At the end
you will be ready to thank God that
he has rescued you from life of in
temperance.
Year: 1871

What Is Truth l--DiSeOurse by Rev. Chauneey Giles


"What is Truth ?" John xviii, 3S.
Such was the text chosen by Rev.
Chauncey Giles, ,ofthe Swedenborgian
| church, yesterday The congregation
was unusually large, and the discourse
was marked for profound reasoning
and pleasing illustrations. He said we
often make q great mis- axe from not
knowing the Limitation of ouI pow
ers as from the inherent nature of the
questions we attempt to investigate.
The finite mind can only discern and
learn the nature OF the qualities and
relations of substances and FORMS
What substances are in themselves no
one can tell. In the doctrine of our
Church we are taught that


ALL GOODNESS AND TRUTH


have their prominent origin in the
spiritual sun, and flow into man from
il. How can goodness and truth come
from a sun? All scientific truth comes
from the material sun We often
think of truth as originating with
man, or as in some way dependent
upon the human mind for its origin.
But man has no more lower to Origi-
nale truth lllau ne mas


TO CREATE A DIAMOND.


All that we can do is to discover or
perceive truth. There are no alb
stractiOns in the universe; there was
no qualities separate from their sub
stance. If we take metal we speak
of its hardness or softness, its ductili-
ty, &c. But the qualities nowhere
exist abstTactly. There is no such
entity as hardness or rsoftness-nosOfU-
ness without something to be hard, or
sweet or soft. So of living forms. If
qualities. The conclusion we arrive
at. then, is that there is


NO SUCH THING AS ABSTRACT TRUTH.


The minister illustrated his views
by a piece of gold that never changes
its position of itself. We can discover
no motion, but we find IN it this truth,
it is inert-dead. If we examine it we
find that the gold yields. This is an
other truth; and we name it sOftness.
So we may 90 on until we have ex-
hausted all our powers in testing the
gold and its qualities. These qualities
are the trutks; they existed Just as
L
He proceeds to illustrate it further by
the plant, and said that
TRUTHS ARE THE ACTUAL PROCESSES OF


GROWTH
that are going on in the vegetable. If
we subject our own nature 10 the same I
we find an entirely distinct /
and higher order OF truths. We must /
pass from the material to the spiritual, (
and, according TO the ideas usually /
entertained. we pass into the regions
Of pure distractions. Every truth is
the orderly action of the relative play
and vibration of the various spiritual |
forms which compose the whole spir-
tual body, and which are as innu-
nerable as those in the natural body.
If we could trace all these activities
If the mind and body to


THAT SOURCE IN THE DIVINE LIFE,
md follow them to where they act
md are reacted upon by other spiritu-
Il forms, we should have a perception
If all finite truth.
Year: 1871

were begun by the singing of several


very appropriate and impressive


hymns by the children, led by Miss


Ada Gilbert Shortly after the sing


ing commenced Mr.. Greeley entered


walking slowly up the aisle, and cast


ing about him beaming glanees, full
of benevOlence and qualification. He
then stepped upon the platform, drew


off his brown overcoat, laid his black
slouched hat on the floor and settled
down to contemplate the scene. Sew
eral notices were hung about the
room, and in front of the desk was
large basket of white blossoms min
gled with trailing green. Mr.. Greeley
began his address in his ordinary con-
tone, much as if he were
telling 2 story interspersed with di-
dactic reflections to friends who were
highly pleased at listening to anything
he might say. His subject was
Year: 1871

The best argument against drunken


ness was drunkenness itself. 1t push


es itself upon public notice, as a drunk


en- man, although loathsOme and dis
gusting, buttOnhOles his friends and


blows his reeking breath in their faces,


despite their Efforts to get away. III
talked for months as Goethe talks l
could not make the argument stronger
than it now is. Men addicted to drink
l have known to argue for hours in
the endeavor to prove that the use of
liquor was right. They knew that it
is not, but the raging thirst defies
reason and defies remOnstranee. fit
were upon me now all the demons of
the neither world, if they were before
me with burning pitchforks, could lot
keep me away from the grOgshOp. So


IT'S IDLE TO WASTE WORDS


on an established truth. 1 begin at a
different standpoint. The evil can
only be assaulted successfully when
in its early stages. We have many
books full of moral appeal-but, in
spite of all their truths. there are hosts
of people who will begin the drink in
the new year which will soon open.
I've heard our friend Cough sbeak
time and again when l was thrilled
and moved by his burning eloquence;
but l always found something wrong
in his way of presenting the argu- /
ment. 1t is weak, because it tends to 1
indulge mans self-conceit, to put /
men on their self-assurance and to
lead them into temptation by causing
them to rely on their own power Of /
will. That frailty is in the hearts Of
most people. Appetite is stronger
han reason. To drink the first glass
Of liquor is wrong and perilous. We
ian admit all that may be said, On the
1ther side. that it imparts a glow and
to consciousness. But if
his exbilaration rests on stimulants,
Year: 1871

How A Boy WAKES UP-The he lies
in his crib, nut cub of four years. He
sleeps the sleep of healthy childhood. In
the same position he lay when he dropped
into unconsciousness, one arm under his
head one leg kicked out from under the
coverlid. He is perfectly motionless His
round cheek pillows itself on the extended
arm, and his leg seems to have been arrest
ed in the middle of the last restless kick,
as the curtain fell over his blue eyes, and
he was fast asleep. You can scarcely per-
ceive his regular respiration. A train of
cars thunder by without noise-he might
be carried across the street without awaken
ing. 1t is morning; daylight streaming
into the windows; the sun shines on the
hill tops. The sounds of stirring life are
beginning to be heard about the house.
Watch the boy. Still and motionless as a
figure of marble As you look, the gates
of sleep are suddenly unlocked. He is
awake in twinkle-awake all over His
blue eyes are wide open and bright-his
lips part with shout-his legs fly out in
different directions-his arms are in rapid
motien-he fops over with spring--in
ten seconds he has turned couple of sum-
mersaults, and presents before you liv-
ing illustration of perpetual motion. There
is no deliberate yawning, no slow stretch
of indolent limbs, no lazy rubbing ofsleepy
eyes, no gradual becoming awake about it.
With snap like pistol shot he is
thoroughly awake and kicking wide awake
to the top end of each particular hair
The wonderful thing about it is its sudden
ness and completeness
Year: 1871

HAV1NG PURCHASED THIS NEW HOTEL
i j the above named will hereafter conduct it as
hrst class house, and guarantees satisfaction
to all who may favor him with their patronage


TIL Z TABLE


will always be supplied with the best to be had,
the Rooms and Beds will be kept clean, and none
but the best Liquors and Cigars will be offered at
the Bar. May 26, 1877
Year: 1871

GA writer who talks like an expert.
enced man, says, an editor may write arti'
cles for years right along, which meet
with your decided appreciation, but you
will give him no special praise for it. Ii
he happens to write few lines which you
do not approve you will get into terrible
rage, and declare you will never forgive
him for it.
Year: 1871

A disconsolate husband thus bewails the
loss of his wife, and apostrophizes her
memory:


Thus my wife died. No more will those
loving hands pull off my boots and part my
back hair, as only true wife can. Nor
will those willing feet replenish the coal
hod and water pail. No more will she
arise amid the tempestuous storms Of win.
ter, and gladly HE herself away to build
the fire without disturbing the slumbers of
the man who dotted on her so artlessly.
Her memory is embalmed in my heart Of
hearts. I wanted to embalm her body,
but I found could embalm her memory
much cheaper.


procured of Eli Midget, a neighbor Of
mine, very pretty gravestone. His wife
was cousumptive, and he kept it on hand
several years in anticipation Of her death.
But she rallied that spring, aud fits hopes
were blasted. Never shall forget the
poor mans grief when asked him to part
with it. "Take it, Skinner, and may you
never know what it is to have your soul
racked with disappointment as mine has
been !" and he burst into food of tears.
His spirit was indeed utterly broken.
had the following epistle engraved up.
on her gravestope: ITO the memory Of
Tabitha, wife of Moses Skinner, Esq, gen.
tlemanly editor of the Trombone. Terms
three dollars year, invariably in advance.
A kind mother and exemplary wife. Office
over Coleman's grocery, up two flights Of
stairs. Knock hard. We shall miss thee,
mother, we shall miss thee. Job printing
solicited" Thus did my lacerated spirit
cry out in agony, even as Rachel weeping
for her children. But one ray Of light
penetrated the despair of my soul. The
undertaken took his pay in job printing,
and the sexton owed me little account I
should not have gotten any other way.
Why should We pine At the mysterious
ways Of Providence and vicinity. (Not .
conundrum.) I here pause to drop silent
tear to the memory Of Tabitha Ripley,
that was an eminently pious woman, and
could fry the best piece Of tripe ever
flung under my vest. Her pickup dinners
were q perfect success, and she always
dotted on foreign missions.
Year: 1871

Mayor Kalbnescn and a large number of the
most prominent builders and mechanics of Brook
lyn were present yesterday at the opening OF the
rooms OF the Mechanics and Traders Exchange OF
Brooklyn, at 339 Fulton street, near Myrtle avenue.
For the past few years the mechanics and builders
have been IN the habit OF transacting their business


In the whlSkey shops in the vicinity of the City HAIL
and have consequently felt the need OF an lnStit
tiOn sdch as was opened Yesterday.
Year: 1871

There is no funnier reading in the
world than some of the printers blum.
ders that go the rounds of the papers.
Here are a few that laugh or two may
be found in;


In the Office of New York paper
there stood in ype the report Of a ser
mon, and paragraph about the career
Of a mad dog. In "maling up" these
two cot mixed, and the readers of the
Year: 1871

Would thou vert growing mid the whispering
grasses,


BY some sweet shadowed stream,
Whose tranquil tide the snow-cloud dimly glasscs,
Faint, dying, like my dream.
Would that the dew upon thy leaves were lying,
And not this rain OF tears.
The breeze above theo-not my bitter signing
For the lost hope of years.
Would that the lips whose passionate carressing
Gave to the leaves a sweetness not thine own,
And family murmurcd Farewell" and blessing,
Ere they had silent grown.
o perished blossoms lost, lost friend and lover !!
o light of day, shaded in swift eclipse
Soon may thy sister blooms with beauty cover
My silent heart and lips


-Galdrn
Year: 1871

The day for the execution of Ruloh
is fixed on the 18th Of May--lcss than
a month hence yet the onl y concern he
manitests as his end approaches is lest
his book, a treatise on philology, should
not have Justice done to its merits when
he is gone. He has lately been CORES
ponding with Prot Seclye of Amherst,
OH this subject, and not long since was
visited by Prof Mather, Of the same
college, to whom he expressed the deep
feeling he had on this point. He de.
sired the Professor to test his knowledge
Of Greek, and in the conversation
showed a very remarkable familiarity
with the Greek authors, particularly
Nenophon and Homer, seeming TO know
by heart nearly all of Xenophon's Mem
orabilia in the original. He is certain,
ly one of the most extraordinary instan
ces on record Of great scholastic attain
ments, combined with u life of low and
desperate criminality. There is no
chance that his sentence will be repriev
ed or extended and every indication that
his present temper of mind will continue
till death.