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Year: 1872




Training girls for household duties ought to
be considered as necessary as instruction in
reading, writing an arithmetic, and quite as
universal. We arc in our houses more than
half Of our existence, and it is the household
surroundings which affect mcst largely the
happiness or misery Of domestic life # the
wife knows how to keep house" if she IN
derstands how to set table, if she has
learned how things ought 10 be cooked, how
beds should be made how carpets should be
made, how carpets should be swept, how the
furniture should be busted, how The clothing
should be repaired. and turned and altered and
renovated if she knows how purchases can be
made to the best advantage, and understands
laying in Of provisions; how to make them 80
farthest and longest; if she appreciates the
importance Of system, order, tidiness, and quiet
mauagcmeutof children and servants, then she
knows how to make a little heaven Of home !;
how to win her children from the street how
to keep her husband from the club house, the
gaming table and the wine cup. Such family
will be trained to social respectablity, to busi-
ness success, and to efficiency and usefulness
in whatever position may be allotted to them.


It may be safe to say that not one girl in ten
in our large towns and cities enters married
life who has learned TO bake a loaf Of bread,
to purchase a roast, to dust painting, to sweep
a carpet, or to cut out aud ft and make her
own dress. How much the perfect knowledge
Of these things bears upon the thrift the COM
fort and the health Of families may be conjec-
tured, but ne: calculated by figures. It would
be IN immeasurable advantage to make be-
ginning by attaching kitchen to every girls
school in the nation, and have lessons given
daily in the preparation of all the ordinary
articles OF food and drink for the table, and
how to purchase them in the market to the
best advantage, with the result Of large saw
ing Of money, an increase Of comfort, and
higher health in every family in the land.
Year: 1872

The following is said 10 be one Of the most
brilliant articles written by the lamcntel
George d. Prentice:


"The fat Of nature IS incxorabie. There is
no appeal for relief from the great law which
dooms us to dust. We flourish and fade as the
leaves Of the forest, and the flowers that bloom
and wither in day have no Trailer hold upon
life than the mighticst monarch who ever shook
the earth with his footsteps. Generations of
men will appear and disappear as the grass,
and the multitude that throDg the world to-day
will disappear as the footsteps on the shore
Men seldom think Of the great event Of death
until The shadow falls across their own path
way, hiding from their eyes the faces Of loved
ones whose living smile was the sunlight Of
their existence. Death is tho antagonist Of
life, aud the cold thought Of the tomb is the
skeleton Of all feats. We DO not want to go
through .hs dark valley, although its da.k
passage may lead to paradise; we Do hot want
to lay down in the damp grave, even wi.h
princes for bed-fellows. In Tic beautiful
drama, Of Ion the hope Of Immortality, SO
eIoquently uttered by the dcaih-defoted Greek,
finds deep response in every Thoughtful soul.
When about to yield bis young existence as
Sacrifice to fate bis Clemantha asks if they
should meet again, to Which be replies have
asked that dreadful question Of the hills that
look eiernal--of tie clear streams that flow
forever of the stars among whose fields OF
azure my raised spirits have walked in glory.
All were dumb but as gaze upon thy living
face, | feel that there is something in The love
that mantles through its beauty That cannot
wholly perish. We shall meet again, Gcman-
TIA. !"
Year: 1872

Thomas Dunn English having been invited
to join the Blantou Duncan party, replied that
when he wished TO re-occt Grant he should
vote for him, straightout. and not go whipping
the devil round the stump by throwing his
vote away at a time when the very salvation
Of the country required it to be wisely used
Year: 1872

It is officially stated that three millions Of
letters vent to the Dead Letter Ofiice last year.
and that they contained a sum exceeding three
millions of dollars in money, drafts, checks
and so forth. Nincty-two thousand dollars Of
this was in cash. 1t is estimated that on an
average every letter that goes into that Office
loses a dollar to some one. Fifty-eisht thou
sand letters had no county or State direction,
four hundred thousand lacked stamps, and
three thousand were posted without any adj
dress st all What commentary is this on The
absent mindcdness and yagaries Of our poTu-
laticn. Part of the mistakes arise, no doubt,
from ignorance and from weak-minded per
sons, and a good many from that mental ab-
sorplion characteristic Of our intensely active
people OF the four hundred thousand letters
going to the Dead Letter Office for the want
Of stamps portion, probably, were stamped
and Uncle Sans imperfect glue would not
stick. Curious romances might be woven out
of lost letters. The extraordinary facts thus
officially reported ought to have the effect of
making our people more careful in stamping,
addressing and mailing their lettcrs.-N J.
HeraN
Year: 1872

BISMARCK ON GRANT Very signi6
cant and most important is the opinion of
Bismarck in regard tothe Presidential cleo
ton, which the great restorer of German
unity causes to be printed as special ed
itorial in his personal organ, the Berlin
Provincial Correspondent. He says:


1t is with great regret that we see some
of the politicians and journals OF the Uni
ted States unconscientious enough as to stir
up the German voters of that republic
against General Grant on account of his
position during the German Franco war
We have repeatedly stated, and do so here
again, that this Government has not been
able to find any fault with the course pur-
sued toward our country by General Grant
during that war; on the contrary. he has
given us many and valuable proofs of his
sympathy for our cause.
Year: 1872

Too VIOLA T-There is a man in Der
by, Pennsylvania, who purchased bull
dog, which he proposed to turn loose in his
store at ight in order to scare away burg
lers The first evening after he obtained
possession of the dog he locked it iu the
store and went away happy man The
next morning, early, he went around to the
store and unlocked the door, The dog was
vigilant-the man was surprised to see how
exceedingly vigilant that dog was-for no
sooner was the door opened than the dog
seized the owner by the leg suddenly, and
seemed to be animated by an earnest and
vigorous resolution not to let go until it bad
removed at least one good mouthful And
the man pushed the dog back and shut the
door on his ribs until the animal relaxed
its jaws, and then the man kicked the dog
into the store, and shut the door as if he
was in hurry to do something Then he
suspended business for week, and spent
the vacation firing at that dog through the
windows. and down the chimneys, and up
through the cellar ceiling with q shot gun,
trying to exterminate him. And that mer
cantiie establishment did not open for trade
until the man had paid twice the FIRST cost
OF the dog to the dogs former owner to
come and take it home and then, when
be got in, he found that during the bonn.
bardment holes had been shot through
mackenl barrels, and molasses kegs, aud
Goa, oil cans, 30 that there was misery and
ruin everywhere. Dogs have no more
charms for tn 1t man.
Year: 1872

We wish to call special attention OF the citi-
zen of Van Buren,. to the announcement OF
Prof BRUUN. that the Band of which he is
leader will give Concert on Thursday eve
ming Ourc is indebted to this gentleman
in A great measure, for the proficiency at
tanned by our Brass Band, and it is no more
than due him, that some testimonial of thii
kind should be literally patronized Aside
from what is due him on the score mentioned
he will give Concert well worth the price
of admission Let Us have "a big turn out
old folks As well rs young,


THURSDAY NIGHT. DECEMBER 27TH
Year: 1872

of the location of said bridge for distance Of seven
miles, and erect and maintain breakwaters or use
such other means as may be necessary to make
channel for said river, and conine the flow OF the
water TO a permanent channel and to do whatever
may be necessary to accomplish said object but shall
notnpede obstruct the of the said river
and all plans for such works or erectons upon the
banks Of the river shall first be submitted to the Sec


SEC; 3. That any bridge built under this act, and
according to its limitations, shall be lawful struc
ture, and shall be recognized and known as post
route, npon which, also, higher charge shall be
made for the transmission the Of the mails
the troops, and the munitions of of the United
States than the rate per mile paid for their raspor
to the said bridge.


SEC. 4. That In case Of any litigation arising from
any OBSTRUCTION, or alleged obstruction to the free
navigation OF the Missouri river at the
ing OF sad bridge and caused or alleged to be caused
thereby the cause shall be commenced and tried In
the district courts of either judicial districts of Mis-
souri, Kansas in which the said bridge or any por
ton OF such obstruction touches and the right to al
ter or amend this act so to prevent or remove all
material distractions to the navigation Of said river
by the construction of said bridge hereby expressly
reserved and all such alterations, when required by
law shall be made at the expense Of said bridge
pany and the plan which such bridge is intended
to be built and shall be built shall be first submitted
to and approved by the Secretary Of War.


Sec. 5. That the Saint Joseph Bridge Building
Company after the passage Of this act shall not have
the right to assign the charter which said company
holds by assignment from the Saint Joseph and
Denver City Railroad Company, and which was
granted to said last-named company by virtue Of an
act of Congress- approved July fourteenth, eighteen
or persons; nor shall said bridge building company
be permitted under the said charter so obtained
aforesaid, from the Saint Joseph and Denver City
Railroad Company, to construct any other bridge
than the one now being constructed at Saint Joseph,
Missouri lsIr


Approved, March g. 1872
Year: 1872

HOWARD GLYNDoN, writing for the New
York Erening Mail, says:


have already alluded to the fact that there
is but one thing which you may be morally
certain that an American woman will do
when she sits down to a table, in any cline,
at any hour, and under any circumstances,
and that is, if she be free agent, she will or
der cup of tea. Before going any further /
wish to qualify this sweeping assertion. She
is almost equally as likely to kiss baby on
first sight Now, kissing baby means, with
Strangely enough, such kisses as men give
only to women, women always reserve for ba-
bies. No lover and no husband in the world
can throw one Of them in so fine frenzy as
the sight Of small, roly-poly mass of pink
and-white flesh, done up in embroidered fan
mel, tucked nansook, and pink ribbons. But
the charm gradually wears away after the
child is year old; and am not able to GER
tify whether its first freshness lasts over that
time in the mans case.
Year: 1872

There is a place in Oregon called
Smoky Valley, where the people have
a very curious way of cooking. They
do not have the JIOubie of making a
fire every morning when they wish
to get breakfast. They just walk out
with their kettles, coffee pots and
whatever else they need, and cook at
the boiling spring. The water seems
a great deal better tn an common boil
ing water, and all they need to do is
to hang their kettles in it for a short
time and their food is nicely cooked.
They are able even to bake in it. The
bread is put into tight saucepan, and
lowered into the boiling flood for an
hour or two, and then drawn up most
exquisitely baked. Meat is cooked
and beans, which are the miners
great luxury. 1t takes but a minute
to cook eggs, or to make a pot of cof-
fee or tea; but if there should chance
TO be "slip 'tWixt the cup and the
lip" the food would be gone beyond
recovery.
Year: 1872

see clear to the new Post Office build-


ing. which, at that distance. seemed


unharmed, but which, in reality. was


chlpped and seOrched on the side


nearest to the force of the fire towards


the water front. One could see as Glr


as the skeletons of the shoe and lee


ther business in Pearl street me-


two decent youths EMPLOYED mn IN


Saturday in leather house on Fed-


eral street. They said they were ont


Of work now and were looking wisf.
fully toward the ruin of their Store.


What a pity about these six bar


rels OF apples" said one to the other.


1 asked an explanation. This firm IL
appears had drdmmers in New Haulp-
shire, who thought they were getting
6argainsin buying apples cheap, and
they are roasted now, and the boys
could not get at them. think the
Boston drummers as class will lose
heavily by this great misfortune. The
stencil of burning leather came to-
ward me in heavy gusts, and was
overpOwering in this vicinity. Every
where among the ruins men were at
work digging out from among the hot
orlek safes. 1 saw one safe standing
on solitary column two stories high,
with It's door warped and smoke is
suing out of the interiors; bad pros
pect for those who owned it. In High
street / saw a single pillar OF brick
six stories high standing. 1t looked
as if gust of wind would send it
across my path. On the water front
there was one fierce bonfire yet burn
ing, composed of 5000 tons of coal.
Flremen were playing on it, causing
immense volumes of smoke. / no.
ueec that the great heat attracted
currents of cold air towards the
burning pile, and ever and anon a


my, whirling pillar of ashes and
smoke would play like a mOekeTy Of
sport around the devastion. In the
United States Sub Treasury and Post
Office building the destruction was
confined to the dome of the former
and and the foreign depot in the lat
ter. The mails were transferred to
the Custom House, and business was
partly resumed at grand old FaneuiI
Hall this afternoon.


Such is the history of the fire in
orief up to the present. Tonight
the city is picketed around the burned
district and looks as if in possession Of
an enemy.


From thirty to forty lives nave
been lost in the eonflagration. There
IS something in the indOmitable pluck
of the American which looks this
great disaster in the eyes with a resO-
lutte heart. 1t Hooks now as if Boston,
like the fabled giant of old, who arose
every time he touched
the clay, would lift itself up from the
ruins of the fire with renewed beauty,
faith and energy.
Year: 1872

morn how many years


Let John twelve then but two know
And wet with
The yellow quiet road
The
And the meadows had lost their ing
shocks of corn way
How How the pumpkins like nuggets of in the open ugows
Where children misty
We moving nOy could chepy bought
The wasn't large for both boys thought
For the IinOy the dear old home far away
The land cheap and the yield great and we have enough divide
But another we never were well that is mean say
Not whence moved
welved i've years in the minOy sickly


Ali all!
& All all were down my DomD11 dead and meyer got & over t % %


And Ehraim looks after the he Ohe best


He said to Father growing Od time had sorne rest
You by the not the tOOm which had to
like Jason Black;
And asohs hair wore the while this mans hair white
All. what time in of his flight


God bless fend Come sit you down. and tell know
ofneighbors wen remembered il whom knew long ago.


Pm the dear old stamping ground and broush little John boy
said signing friend.
or folks who were ten and whom SO WELL
And the will hardly changed they to-day
your


And tIy Sa and the sod the debt
And where they went It's knew forget
time he lay low;
a as-lets eel think it is
his oldest have heer'n tell,
Gave drink and playing cards and isn't doing WELL
81 them ALL but
again
march 20
And orphan sorry sights
Your membe Grey. handsome. true,
For his father best friend had named his boy for
and he sleeps
Where Missispprs tubd tide in restless surges sweeps"
h-mor enough; plainly
heo N left that
things and tomorrow with little John my boy
in the Inoy
Year: 1872

A celebrated divine who was re-
markable in the first period of his
ministry for q boister0us mode of
preaching, suddenly changed his
whole manner in the pulpit, and adcp-
ted q mild and dispastionate mode of
delivery. One of his brethren then
inquired of him what had induced
him to make the change? He replied,
when 1 was young, l thought it
was the thunder that killed the peO-
pie, but, when 1 grew older and wiser
l discovered that it was the lightning,
so determined to thunder less and
tighten more"
Year: 1872

At a recent spiritual sitting there was
present a woman who mourned the loss
of her consort; and as the manifestation
began to respond, the spirit of the de-
parted Benedict appeared upon the
scene. Of course the widow was now
anxious to engage conversation with the
absent one, and the following dialogue
ensued:


Widow Are you in the spirit
world ?"


The Lamented-''I am"


Widow How long have you been
there ?"


The Lamented-.'O some time.


Widow-''Don't you want to come
back and live with your lonely wife ?"


The Lamented-'' Not if | know my
self It's hot enough here
Year: 1872

SENATOR SUMNER.-Half dozen lib
eral Republicans have had interviews
with Senator Sumner and tried to per-
suade him to make a speech in Faneuil
Hall on the political issues of the day.
They wanted him this time to leave all
personal allusions to Grant out of the
question and speak solely from the stand
point of reform. They further endeav-
ored to persuade him to deliver the
speech afterwards in the West and
South. Mr.. Sumner gave no definite an
sWcr
Year: 1872

A telegram from Washington, datet


Sunday, says the President has ordered


Secretary BOUTWELL, and Collector Ar


THUR to prepare some substitute for th,


New York general order warehouses, and


put 1t into operation as soon as the repor


Of the committee Is made. Unquestiona


bly, this very proper order, but 1t Is ont
that ought to have been made lonf
ago. Ever since Senator PATTERsoN's


ltetrenchment Committee made their in.


vestigation and report on this general
order scandal, Secretary BOUTWELL, and
other Treasury officers have wanted the
President to do what he Is at last re.
ported TO have done, but some influence
more potent than that Of the Secretary oI
the Treasury has kept LERT and sFoCK.
ING and their fellow plunderers in their
places and at their work Of extortion and
robbery. Now It Is stated at the Treasury
Department that the investigation com.
mittee which has just concluded It's labors
in New York, has not brought to light
any facts not already known there, but
that the testimony substantiates all the
charges made by Mr.. PATTERSON
in his report submitted about ono year
ago. When the proposition to make this
investigation was being angrily debated
in the Senate, 1t was stated by Senator
PATTERSON and others that abundant
evidence as to the corrupt practices in
the general order business were to be
found in the sworn testimony taken by
Mr. PATTERsoN's committee; that that
testimony had long been in the hands Of
the President, and that on the strength Of
II Mr.. boutwell, had urged that the
abuses disclosed by that testimony be
reformed. Itwas asked then, and peril
nently, why they had not been reformed,
the matter depending entirely on the
will of the President; and 1t is an inquiry
even more pertinent now. If there is
need Tor this reform now, there was need
for ii year ago, and the President knew
then just what he knows now about this
need. But public opinion had not then
ripened as 1t has since into the stern de.
mand that now exists that corruption and


public plunder, whether in high places or


low, shall have an end The debate in the
Senate and the wide publication Of the tes.
timony taken during the recent investiga-
ton have concentrated the attention of the
whole country upon the abuses Of the
New York Custom House, and the public
demand for reform, greatly intensified


within few months by the developments
in the municipal affairs of New York, Is
too powerful and persistent TO be longer


ignored. President Grant dare not longer
refuse to clean out the den of thieves in
the New York Custom House. The order
to do this is in the right direction and we
hope to see it promptly and relentlessly
enforced; but candor compels us to say,
as to President Grant, that we should


have a better opinion Of his sincerity in


protesting desire to reform the civil ser.


vice If he had given the order many
months ago. is. tfa 4t.2 all ''f.
Year: 1872

COpDIAL COOPERATION OF LIBERAL REPUB-


LICANS AND DEMOCRATS


An interesting correspondence has recently
nassed between the Liberal Republican and Democratic
Committees of Tennessee which serves TO throw some
lcbt unon the suaton Of the campaign in that state
The Chairman of the Liberal Committee addressed
long letter to the Democratic Committee reviewing the
action of tbe Cincinnati and Baltimore Conventions ana
strongly urging co0peraion the only means ct carry
ing the State As the only important point IN the way
OF success the letter urges assurance from the DEM
ocrats tnat they acting in good faith ITO eject our
ticket" IL says ait will be necessary to cause quite
considerable detection from the Republican ranks 10
do this il will be ndiSpensaby necessary TO satisfy nose
members Of the Republican party who are dsSatSncu
with fbe present Administration who honestly desire
a complete reconciliation between the North ana


t e SUI - * *" 30, ~ 6n,sybat snnTeLensfve that the
Democratic party WILL if invested with power seek
10 disturb the settled sSues OF the war; hai tne vOWa
OF the political principles by that party at Baltimore
was made in good faith and sincerity. Convince the dis
c6n5nt6d portion Of the Republican party OF TINS ana
there is hut little doubt but that such 9elecon WI
take Mace as will secure the election OF the Cincinnati
and baltimore Joint ticket. Convince them TO the con,
traryhat is, that the Democratic party IN what u Gd
was NOT sincere but intended thereby 10 secure ue-
fectiOn from the Republican party by decet-anI the
election of that ticket will be by no means certain


The letter urges as step to the confidence or
doubtng Republicans the nomination Of an electoral
ticket by the Democrats composed equally OF Liberals


The response to this appeal from the Liberal Rcpuh-
cans was immediate and hearty. The chairman OF tne
Democratic Committee wrote letter the following uay
i'm which he said: have doubt that the Democratic
state Convention will, when il meets on tie Yst OF
August place Liberal Republican on the electoral tcket
for the State large. and that the Democratic
Conventions will place a sufficient number OF LlO
era Republicans the ticket district electors TO give
satisfaction the Liberal Republicans OF the state
is doubtful whether there Will be meeting OF the state
Executive Committee before the assembling OF the state
Convention cannot therefore, give you authoritative
ly the views OF that committee. But give you my IN
dyidual opnion confirmed by the individual opinion
of other members of the committee, and OF leading mem
bers OF the Democratic party IN various portions OF the
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