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Year: 1873

THE ANNALS oP yoRwlCH, CONN, IL THE GREAT REBKl-


LlOS OF ls6l-65. By MALCOLM AcG. DANA STo. pp so


J. n Jewett q Co.


The distinguished pastor of the Second Con-
gTegatOua Church in Norwich has performed patriotic
as well as pious in the preparation OF this in-
terestug memorial volume. 1t contains complete list
OF the Norwich people who left their fresdes and fam


lilies 10 serve IN the Union armies fleets during the
civil war In connection with the general narrative an
account is also gwen of the action Of the citizens who
remained al home aud OF the itself its corporate
capacity The energetic of the chief magistrate
OF the State Governor Buckingham is described in suit
able terms illustrating effect the spirit of the peO
ple and the ardor OF sodiery The unanimy OF the
population the breaking out of the war was remark
seemed to animate every citizen. Heart throbbed to
heart and lip spoke to lip with oneness of feeling that
seemed ike a divine inspiration" Earnestness Of pur-
pose and conservation Of life gave signal promise Of
ultimate success During the whole contest, there was
but faint opposition TO the liberal appropriations for the
support Of the war There also singular prompt
ness OF action, wen energy OF spirit The town
was kept advance Of the calls made upon it for men,
one of the attractive features of the volume s the
biographical notices of the young men who fell in the
service OF the country during the war. Their record Is
ample aud excellent The perusal Of their brief history
go ch in promise and noble performance, exhibit
ing the glow Of youthful fire. with the devoted elfsacr
fee OF the martyr, strs the blood like the trumpets
sound variety Of authentic statistical details, In
addition TO the military narrative, increases the hisor
ca value OF the work, while its typographical beauty
aud weeNecuted illustrations make IL ornament TO
the library.
Year: 1873

Will our friends interest themselves a
little in procuring subscribers for the Re
PUBLICAN. Each one of our subscribers
can if they try, induce at least two OF
their friends to take the paper. A little
encouragement of this kind wiki be a
great help to u.s.,
Year: 1873

From the Clarksy1lle chronicle.


The cry against the Assessment law may
be not altogether without cause. The
works of man are rarely perfect, and it is
sald I'm practicable in legislative body, di-
Vided by partisan interests and conflicting
selfish views, to gre effect to the wisdom
of the few, generally found in such assem-
bIies. A half dozen men Of large expert
ence and honest patriotism could have
framed law embracing all that is good,
and discarding all that is Objectionable, IN
the Law iDIquestion. But The government Is
the peoples; their chosen representatives en-
acted the law, aud it is IS little as the people
can do 10 give fair trial to the work OF
their own hands and to take upon them
selves the responsibility for that work in
stead of raising a hue and cry against it
and irving to fix the responsibility Of its
imperfections upon any shoulders but their
own.


Every assessor and sx-collector-every
intelligent observer in the State, knows
that the laws heretofore regulating the as
sessmens and collection of taxes, were
grossly defective; that under then, tens OF
thousands of acres land escsped taxation,
and that there was, as now, an almost unl'
versal disposition on the part Oh thS PeoPlo
to make the smallest exhibit of taxable pro-
perty in order to reduce their debt to the
State. 1t was this fact, not less than the
necessity for maintaining the honor OF Ten
nessee by paying its debts, that demanded
a more stringent law-one that would bring
TO light all the taxable property aud thus
enable the State to pay the expenses OF It's
government and meet the interest on Its
debt. The machnerj for accomplishing
this obiecs NAV be embSrrassingly compll-
Gated, but since it is the work of the people
through their authorized agents, it is not
asking too much OF them to reserve then
denunciations and maledictions, at least un-
til that machinery has had fair trial, and
should it fail, then to remember that their
own neglect Of dutyto the State, demanded
more stringent laws aud that they selected
the age is who framed them.
Year: 1873

A MoNGoLIAN maiden was sold for S575
at Chinese auction in Idaho a few days
ago. Her purchaser having done so much
bidding for her she is to do his bidding here
after. If it were not that the late Mr.. Lin
coin had absolutely abolished slavery in the
United States we should say that this looked
very much like il.
Year: 1873

NEW CONSTITUTION A special meeting of the
Delaware Steam Fire Engine Company was be Id
On Tuesday evening for the purpose of acting on q
new constitution. The old consultation had been
adopted years ago, before the advent of steamers,
and the introduction of new and advanced regula-
tons, and had not since been materially altered


new constitution suitable to the advanced state
OF the hmes and the present status of the Compa-
Dy, vas therefore prepared aud adopted at this
special meeting. ! -
Year: 1873

ALFRED WALTON. Druggist No. 2]5 Marke
street. respectfully informs his friend and the public
in general that he keeps hand all descriptions OF
medicines, and that competent person is at all
times ready to prescribe for such sick as call at ths
store and that no charge is made except the regular
price of the medicines the same rice as they would
pay anywhere else: but that ne one is visited n;
their residences
Year: 1873

Boston, June 4.-The Massachusetts
Medical Society at its meeting to-day voted
to expel the homeopathic physicians whose
being one dissenting vote.


CLEVELAND, June AT the session Of
the American Institute Homeopathy to-day
the President stated that ne had received .
telegram from Boston announcing that the
Massachusetts Medical Society had to-day
expeiied seven of its members for practic-
ing homeopathy. The announcement was
received with shouts OF derisive LAUGHTER
and uprosrous applause. DR.. j. L. Tai
bott, of Boston, one of the expelled mem
bers was loudly called for and on mounting
the rostrum explained the situation of affairs
in Massachusetts, showing up the conduct
of the society. in expelling men from a So
ciety and stigma.iziDg them sguilty Of dis
honorable conduct simply because their
views Of medical practice differ from those
ofthe majority.


His account or the trial elected great
laughter. The great power of the news
paper press through the country, he said,
had been excited unanimously in favor of
homeopathy and against the bigotry and
intolerance of the aliOpathists. The latter
were held up to publidderisiOn by the press.
The result of the prosecution had been that
through the almost universal sympathy of
the people of Massachusetts,, one hundred
thousand dollars were raised for the equip
ment and endowment of a homeopathic
hospital in Boston, and the establishment of
homeopathic college there as part of the
Boston University, an institution established
through the magnificent bequest of the
late Isaac Rich with fund of several mil
lion dollars.
Year: 1873

So"a Of our friends do not like the late
assessment law, aud find great trouble in
eiviu- in their tax able property. If the law
is rightly understood we think all will be
pleased with il. We think that strict
assessment and light tax the very thing for
farmers. Heretofore there have been thou
sands of large capitalists in our State re-
ceiving the benefit OF millions Of dollars
without paying m re tax than an Ordlna-
~ farmer, simply because there was no way
to get at the amount Of money under their
control. The late law will force the cspi-
ialist, on his oath, 10 make known the
amount of his wealth, and taxes him ac-
cordingly, thereby giving TO all classes
eoua.ifv.-H Humboldt Journal.
Year: 1873

ACCORDING to oar dispatches this morn
ing the Court OF Claims / Washington is
driving IS profitable business for Uncle
Sam as the famous Geneva Arbitration.
Eigh cen million dollars is enough saving
for ore day.
Year: 1873




Again has that jocular reprobate who
tells such awful stories on everybody in
the Danbury .Meus been" doing of it."
and in this wise:


It is bad enough to see aibachelor
sew on O button, but ne is the embodi-
ment of grace alongside of a married
man. Necessity has compelled experi-
ence in the case of the former, but the
latter has always depended upon some
one else for his service. and fortunately
for the sake Of society, it is rarely he is
obliged to resort to the needle himself;
Sometimes the patient wife scalds her
right hand, or runs silver under the.
nail of the index finger of that hand.
and it is then that the man clutches
the needle around the neck, and for
getting to tie II knot in the thread com
menccs to put on the button. It is all
ways in the morning, and from five to
twenty minutes after he is expected to
be down street. He lays the button
exactly on the site of it's predecessor,
and pushes the needle through one eve,
and carefully draws the thread after
leaving about three inches of it sticking
up for lee way. He says to himself,
Well, if women don't have the easiest
time l ever see" Then he comes back
the other way, and gets The needle
through the cloth well enough, and
lays himself out to find the eye, but in
spite of great deal of patient jabbing,
the needle point persists in bucking
against the solid parts of the button,
when he loses patience and finally
catches the thread, and that three inches
he had left to hold the button slips
through the eye in twinkling, ard the
button rolls leisurely across the floor.
He picks it up without a single remark,
out of respect for his children, and
makes another attempt to fasten it.
This time, when coming back with the
needle, he keeps both the thread and
the button from slipping by covering
them with his thumb, and it is out Of
regard for that part of him that he feels
around for the eye in very careful and
judicious manner, but eventually losing
his philosophy as the search becomes
more and more hopeless, he falls to jab-
bing about in a loose and savage man
ner, and it is just then the needle finds
the opening and, comes up through the
button and part way through his thumb
with a celebrity that no human ingenuity
can guard against. Then he lays down
the things, with few familiar quota
tions, and presses the injured hand
between his knees, and then he holds it
under the other arm, and finally jams it
into his mouth, and all the while he
prances about the floor ard calls upon
heaven and earth to witness that there
has never been anything like it since
the world was created, and howls, and
whistles, means, and sobs. After a.
while he calms down, and puts on his
pants, and fastens them together with
stick, and goes to his business a
changed man, 9s hie '''' 3i1 a..7 is1-' -


N
Year: 1873

There is no better way for stranger
to Judge Of the business enterprise and
liberality Of place, than by consult
ing the advertising columns Of its local
papers. One may be assured that the
man who makes his business known
to the world is up with the times, and
wastes no money in the purchase Of
goods that are out of date. What we
have said applies particularly to the
firm Of Fisher & Co., whose fine jewell
ry establishment on Main street is one
Of the most attractive features Of our
principal thoroughfare. The inquiring
purchaser can always find an attract
I've advertisement of Fisher & Co. 's
goods In the papers, and he Is equally
sure Of finding magnificent stock Of
goods in their store. Just now their
new supply of fine holiday goods is at
tracing especial attention. The taste
and Judgment shown in the selection
Of their stock is only equalled by the
lavish expenditure of money in placing
before our citizens such q display Of
elegant and costly works. Those who
are ready to buy watches, jewelry, or
holiday presents Of any kind should
look through Fishers stock.
Year: 1873

II we understand anything, and We
think we do, then the thirteen-year-
old son of General Danna possesses
this quality in an eminent degree.
Master Richard Danna has accom-
plished q feat that but few youngsters
of his age could have done, in driving
his fathers ambulance and handling
six-in-hand mule team from Prescott
to this place through the most severe
storms that have been experienced
since the winter of '62. A feat like
this is the best evidence Of the stuff Of
which the old army was composed.
We would like to cultivate the &C.
quaintance of master Dick and keep
him amongst us as q model for the
rising generation of our city. His
honored father should be proud Of 80
worthy q scion. sks=89e
Year: 1873




DEAR RURAL: If you are willing,
| will say few words through your
columns to the boys, while l am
willing the men should listen.


Dear Boys-Did you ever see q
lovely plant overshadowed and
choked by great, ungainly weeds till
it had no strength to bud or bloom?
just so would the coarse and noxious
weeds of profanity shadow your
character and choke from your heart
every sweet blossom of purity and
refinement.


I hope there are many among you
who never use bad language of any
kind. but want to warn you all
against profanity. First, it is ex-
ceedingly sinful to take the name of
God in vain and how often do we
hear the name of our blessed Jesus
Christ. who died for us, profaned.
Any boy has some influence, be it
more or less and if he INDUCES him
self in the use of profane language.
he places a very bad example before
his acouaintances. Besides, this en-
snaring practice would surely bring
you into bad company. and evil COM
panions would lead you to many other
vices. Vicious boys would soon
trace you and flock around you, while
the good could find no pleasure in
your society. IL you have a true
friend on earth-one who seeks your
best interests-you may rest assured
that that friend would suffer deep
sorrow and humiliation If you were TO
entangle Yourself either with bad as
sociates or the disgraceful fault OF
which have warned you.


Every boy should possess a certain
independence, to enable him to stand
Year: 1873

The American Who Slapped The Baron.


Paris correspondence Baltimore Americana


Letters from Vienna to the Lon
don papers record the fact that a
young Austrian officer has received
merited punishment at the hands Of
an American gentleman for insulting
an American lady. When describ-
ing the lives these young Austria4
officers lead in one of our letters
from Vienna, the fear was entertain.
ed that some of your readers might
regard the picture drawn as an ex-
aggeration. This incident tends to
the substantiation of our assertion
that in any other community such
impudence would not be permitted.
They daily and hourly insult ladies on
the street, and protect themselves in
their infamous course by the duelIo,
their proficiency in broad sword ex-
ercise placing the civilian who may
resent their insults completely at
their mercy. The American gentle
man who punished this young scamp
declined to meet him, on the ground
that he had proved himself TO he no
gentleman tat no gentleman would
wantonly insult lady.


This will. probably, have the effect
OF rendering them more careful in
future as to the nationality of those
they under axe to insult. SIS this
young scamp is a present the laugh
ing stock Of all Vienna. They swarm
by thousands in all parts of the city,
and make the practice of insulting
every young lady Of any personal at
fractions whom they may meet, pro-
vided she is unprotected. It is for
this reason the young girls of Vienna
are seldom permitted by their par
ents to 90 alone on the street, The
officers never ass ,ciate with civil; ans.
by whom they are regarded with
aversion. d the latter avoid coming
in contact with them. knowing that
to resent an insult is TO receive
challenge. The idea that a man who
would wantonly insult lady is no
gentleman. has pleased them great
ly. and is probably the hardest blow
the duello has ever received in Vien-
m. 1t has had the effect of teaching
these military scamps a good lesson.
Nothing can be more cowardly than
for man. whose daily business is to
handle sword. to challenge a man
to fight who has probably never
drawn one from scabbard. Itwonld
be about on par with q blacksmith
challenging a quill.driver to fight
with sledge-hammers.
Year: 1873

up for what he knows to be right, no


matter who or what resists him. The


lack of this independence is a stum-


bling.block over which very many


fall into temptation. Do not be led


through the world, boys, by low


set of Ioafers, unworthy to be your


leaders. Be independent; have, a


mind of your own; find where the
right is. and uphold it then you can
respect yourself and be respected by
others-even by those who desire to
lead you astray; while on the other
hand. thev could but despise you, in
their hearts. for demeaning yourself
in doing what all knew to be wrong.


Putting aside the wickedness of
you cannot be gentle
man, even in worldly sense, and
use rough or profane language for
this vulgar habit would transform
you into an ill-bred, unmannerly
boor, and stamp the unmistakable
mark of a nobody upon you-and
thus you would be excluded from re-
fined and intelligent society. Who
desires to be nobody? Think of
this, boys, when you are tempted to
swear! Avoid all slang expressions.
They are often but the prelude to
this vile evil. To those, young or
old, who have already formed the
habit, l say-''It is never too late to
nend." Resolve at once that you
will prove yourself stronger than the
habit. If in a moment of anger or
you fail, do not be dis
outraged, but persevere till the hid
sous monster is trampled beneath
7our feet.
Year: 1873

IT is said that the Nebraska Tn
dians are allowed to ride free on all
trains they can jump on while the
latter are in motion. The tribe is
being reduced very rapidly. This is
by all odds the most effective and
economical system of dead-heading
ON record.
Year: 1873

To the County Court CLERKS:


I respectfully request that you
notify me. by the Goth of October.
as to whether the Trustee of your
county has executed his school bond
in accordance with the 44th section
of the school law.


Very respectfully,


W. MoRRow. State Treasurer.
Year: 1873

1t seems that our sister State, Ten


nessee, is making such efforts in behalf
of the so-called Centennial Celebration
and Exposition of 1876, as meet the
approval of our Philadelphia breth-
rem. There has been a good deal of
talk about this affair, which locks to
US ike big advertisement and specu-
lation for the City of Brotherly Love,
but we have yet to see that any extern
siye preparations are being made in
Virginia in connection Herewith


All the sentiment about frafernal
feeling and reconciliation resulting
therefrom, is the merest bosh which
can hardly deceive anybody.


An era Of good feeling can best be
restored BY the press of the North and
their public men. Let them speak of
US kindly and manifest such a conf
dence in our good faith as will make
that good feeling rest upon a more
solid basis than the excitement and
of our money as such an
can secure. Let their pub
lie men stop writing magazine articles
calling our fellow citizens, who rep
resented us in the late war, traitors
and conspiratOrs. IF the past is to be
forgotten, some of the forgetfulness
must be manifested as well by the
North as by the South. 1t takes two
parties to make a bargain, and to en-
force it, both parties must comply with
its st;pulations.-AbingdOn Vfrgia-
ion.
Year: 1873

A good many editors-andw we notice
they are generally the ones who are
guilty ofthe most unblushing thievery-
are eternally sneering at those members
of the editorial staff whose business it
is to make cullings from exchanges
These would-be critics convict them
selves of dishonesty or stupidity. They
either know nothing of the highest
functions of the editorial profession,
or are dishonest enough to sneer at it
for the sake of little cheap wit.


The newspaper man who uses his
scissors judiciously, culling such mat
ter from his exchanges as will please,
amuse and instruct his patrons, is like
ly to be possessed of the highest ele
ments of the critical, discriminating
intellect. He is certain to be a fine
judge of human nature, and to thor
oughly understand the bent, and the
peculiar mental tastes of the multitude
wlo patronize his sheet. And the
chances are that he can write a better
leader than the conceited fools who
sneer at his vocation. For, as we have
hinted, first rate clipper, the editor
who knows how to turn to the best ac-
count the thoughts of his cotempora-
ries, is of necessity, no mean critic !;
and a good critic is always a good
writer. We would like if this twaddle
about scissors might cease; but we
suppose so long as the profession is
afflicted with pretenders whose brains
are destitute Of any other material for
a joke save .his thrice worn out clap
trap, we must put up with it.-CHatta-
aooga Times.
Year: 1873

A great many people are apt to hit
upon happy ideas in society, and when
they 90 home they write them out for
publication; and most of these good
folks knowshow hard it is to begin an
article satisfactorily. A word to them:
commence with your very finest writ
ing and most beautifully-rounded
sentences. Introduce your subject in
the most elaborate. style, be poetieal,
rhetorical, didactie, as your mood may
be. and when you think. fit gradually
drop into the discussion of the sub
iect-matter. When the article is fin-
ished. begin at the opening sentence,
and read it until you find you have
commenced to say something to the
point. Stopat this place; strike out
everything before it, and let your ar
ticle begin just there. You will then
probably find that it opens well, and
that BY collecting sill your labored
composition in one place where it can
be be readily stricken out, you will have
saved yourself all the trouble that
would have been necessary had it been
scattered through the article.
Year: 1873

The census statistics on disease
show that out oft 1872 263 deaths in
1850, 69, $50 were from consumption.
There are comparatively few sections
of the country that are free FROM the
disease. A few counties in West
Virginia, the Florida peninsular, and
portion of Georgia exhibit freedom
from it, or rather from cases origina-
ting there There is also small sec
ton of country in Central New York
that is well-nigh free from it. Min
nesota and California, with the cxeep-
ton of strip of country north and
south of the Sacramento and around
San Francisco, can be put down as
well-nigh exempt from this terrible
but there are no other sec
tions of the country where the disease
does not figure very prominently in the
list New England appears
to be dreaded by consumptives, the
deaths in this section being one in ten
of those from all.
Year: 1873

In one of the cities of New Hamp-
shire, some years since, a man named
H was elected mayor, and very i'm
portant he thought his position. Dur
ing his term of Office a fire company
sent word that they should visit his
city and continue several days. The
mayor called meeting of the city
council to see what should be done to-
ward entertaining them. He wanted
to show the hospitality of the city in
its most munifcent form, land proposed
that collation. should be given to the
strangers.


And what" asked one of the alder
men, do you propose to put on the ta-
Bile for the collation."


We'll give them" said his honor
in reply, hot coffee and sardines."


One of the council thought that sar-
dimes and coffee were hardly up to the
mark for hungry firemen.


Il know better" cried the mayor in
angry tone. "Sardines are hearty and
will be just what the men need.


Perhaps" said an alderman, This
honor does not know what sardines
are"


The mayor sprang to his feet, angry
all over.


Il know" he shouted, what sar-
dimes are as we'll as you do, or any
member of the board. I've eaten
enough of them in my life. They are
easily prepared. Just take two pieces
of bread and put piece of ham be-
tween them, and then your sardine is
made"


His honor sat down amid roar of
laughter.