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VOL. XLIVJ
RICHMOND, WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, DEC. 10, 1 874.
f Wbl Number,
I a76 J
NO. 40.
quarterly . ...mLL. 100 06
mx mourns
Three mouths - u
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! 1 Xetiees rents per line.
RAILROAD TISK-IABtE. . . '
Pittsburg-, Cincinnati sad Si. Louts
Railway. :
PAN-HANDLE BOt'TE. ,
COSDKJCSKD TIME CARD. COM' BUS N'D IN
DIANAPOLIS DIVISION NOV. 15. 1874.
GOtKG WKHT. .
No. 2. i No. 8.
PitUburscl 20 pm
Coluiubus;12:lA u'tj
No. 6.
1:50am
4:00 piUlO:5aiu
MU'ord. 1:11 am; 5:38 pmjIir.io.-Mn
... IMS
'18 am 6:50 Pin 12:10pm
i:wpiu
I'rliaii.
Pinna. J 3.-01 am, tfcoo pin
BrudJuuJ 3: Main I 8:30 pm
Greenv'le.. 4:10 am; Jim. 4
Klelim M 5:20 am 10:2. am
CambrlW 63 am 11:10 am
Knlehts'n' thai am 1122 pm
lndlu'pUs.,8:25am 1:30 pm
2;pm
2:2Spin
No. 10
8:50am
5: d)pm
6:35pm'
7:20pm
8:lKpm
8:30pm
9:15pm
10:10pm
4:10pn!10:42nm
D-.01piujll:23pm
0:25pmi 12:55pm
GOISO EAST.
I No. 1.
India'plis.
Knights'n
Cambii'ge
Richm'iid
GreeuVle.
Brad Jan.
4:50 am
6:5S am
No. 8.
7:00 pm
8:39 pm
6:33 am 1 9:20 pin
7M0anvi:uu pm
8:23am! So..
No. 6.
tnqua
Urb
8:55aml 70 anv
9-.l5aral 7:2 ami
ars. lo:lOam 8:40 mn
Milfoi-1... Ht:.'ilaia! 9:40 am
Columbus 11:50 am 11:00 am
Pittsburg.. . 7:l- pin' .
Kos. 1.2, and 7 run Dally
9:35am
10:57am
It :45am
12:25pin
2:15pm
No. 7.
4:55pm
68pin
0:42pm
7:2-pin
8:20pm
8:50pm
; Dallf, except Sunday.
2:12pmi 9:lHpm
3:)pin io:i;tpiu
4:35pm 10:55pm
5:55pm 1 1:55pm
2:25nmi 7:25am
All other trains
Richmond
d
Nov,
Cnlens;o Division.
15, 1874.
CiOINO NORTH.
, No. 2. 1 No. 8. No. 10.
Clni-Innat. .J 7::t0am 70 pm
lUchinond jWiHlam 10:10 pm
Hagerat'n. ll:l(tsni ;10:52 pm
Newcastle 12:10 am ;ilr21 pm
Anderson. ,:. 1:10 pm . . 12:18 am
Kokorao 35 pm 2:05 arn
Ixxcansp't. ... 4:oopm ...... 8:10 am
Crown it 7:20pm 6:20 am
Chicago.. 98 pm . 8:00 am
" 0OI'G SOUTH.
, 5f0. , 1. No. 3. j
Chicago. 7:50 pin 8:20 am . j . .
Crown It.. 9:40 pm 10:04 am !
Logansp't. 12:55 am 1:20 pm I
Kokomo... 2:05 am 2r28 pm
Anderson. 8:42 am 4:11 pm
Newcastle 4::am 5KW pm
Hagenit'n. (Wain 5::M pm ;
Richmond 550am 8:20 pm ;
Cincinnati 9:00 am 9:25 pin
No. 10 leaves Richmond dally. No 1 leaves
Ctiicago uaily. All other trains run daily,
except wunaay.
Little Miami Division.
Nov. 15, 1874.
. . ooiro WBST. '
Pittsburg
DresJunc
Columb 's
fiondon
Xenia
Morrow -Clncinati
Xenia....,
Dayton...
Rlehra'd..
Ind'polls.
No. 2.
20 pm
IWWpml
l5sm
8:40 am
5:15am
No. 4.
5:00 am
No. 6.
1-jOam
7:23 am
10:0-") am
2:30aml 7:10am
6:00snt!Uam
8:28 am
10:.'t0am
-7:20 am
J 8:10 am
10:10 am
1:80 pm
12:15 pm
2:oO pm
12)pml
1:15 pm
n.M pm
8:25 pm
No. 10.
8:50 am
2:59 pm
5:10 pm
6:88 pm
T.t pin
9:(r7 pin
10:45 pm
8:1) pm
9:00 pin
GOIKG EAST.
NO. 1.
Ind'polls U.
Rlehmnd
Uayton... 8:30 am
Xenia, 1 9::t0am
CincimiU' 7SM)m
Morrow -.1 8:28 am
Xesia i 9:85 am
London ...10:43 am
Columb s 11:45 am
DresJunc 1:67 pm
No. 8.
12:50 am
2:03 am
85 am
6:25 am
Pittsburg! 7:15 pun 120 pm
No. 5. t No. 7.
9:35 am
12:40 pm
8:46 pm'.
1:20 pm
2:49 pmt
32 pm
7:10 pm
8:40 pm
9:45 pm
55 pm 10:55 pm
m pm ii:ot) pm
8:8ipm 22 am
2oaiu 7:2oam
Nos. 1, 2, 8 and 7 run IhUly to and from
Cincinnati. All other Trains uaiiy, except
Sunday. w. t. u'bkikiM,
Oenl Passenger and Ticket Agent.
C.B.n. Wayne Railroad. .
OOIBa NORTH.
i R ml A ex.10-.00 am
Portland ac....40pm
j (HIINIl BOITH.
Portland ac... 9:00 am
O R m'l A ex. 6:25 pm
Mail Tli
- Table.
GOING NORTH Including nil places sup
plied (rom the Chicago R. It., and the Ft.
Wayne R. U. closes at 10:30 a. m. ,
GOING SOUTH 1. Including Cincinnati
and all pointa beyond, clones at 7:3 a. m. ,
2. Including all places supplied from the
Cincinnati Railroad, 60 p. ni.
GOING EAST Including all places sup
pltol Irom the Columbus It. R., and
all Eastern and Central States, closes at
100 a. 111. Via Dayton and Xenia Rail
road, closes 6:00 a. m.
GOING WEST 1. Including Indianapolis
and all points beyond, closes 10:00 a. m.;
2. same as above, closes 7:30 p. in.; 8. in
cluding all points supplied by the Indi
anapolis Railroad; also, Chicago and all
points west and northwest, closes 80
p. m. .
To Webster, Williamsburg and Bloomings
port, ou Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day, at 20 p. m.
To Cox's Mills, White Water.Bcthel and Ar
ba, on Monday. Wednesday and Friday,
at 12:00 m.
To Ablngton, Clifton and Liberty, on Mon-
dy and Friday, at 7:00 a. m.
To Boston, Beechymire, Goodwin's Corner,
and College Corner, on Tuesday and
Friday, at 12:30 m.
, MAILS ARE OPEN
At 8:00 a. ra. from Indianapolis and Cincin
nati and beyond.
At 110 a. m. from Cincinnati, way and
through mails.
At 40 p. m. from East via Columbus Hail
road, and Dayton and Xenia Railroad.
At 70 p. m. from North, via Chicago Rail
road and Fort Wayne Railroad.
At 80 p. m.froru Indianapolis and beyond.
Oflloe open from 70 a. m. to 7:30 p: ni.
On Sunday, from 9:00 to 10o a. in.
Dec. 1 1874. B. W. DAVIS. P. M.
Look After the Eyes.
Multitudes of men and women
have made their eyes weak for life
by the too free use of eyesight,
reading small print and doing fine
sewing. In view of these things it
is well , to observe the following
rules in the use of the eyes :
Avoid all sudden changes be
tween light and darkness.
Never read by twilight or on a
very cloudy day.
Never sleep so that, waking, the
eyes shall open on tho light of the
window.
Do not use eyesight by light so
scant that it requires an effort to
discriminate. -
Never read or sew directly in
front of the light of a window.
It is best to have the light from
above, or obliquely, or over the
left shoulder.
Too much light creates a glare,
and pains and confuses the sight.
The moment you are sensible of an
effort to distinguish, that moment
stop and talk, walk or ride.
As the sky is blue and the earth
green,- it would seem that the ceil
ing should be a bluish tinge, the
carpet green, and the walls of some
mellow tint.
Thomomeni you are instinctively
inclined to rub the eyes, that mo
ment cease to use them.
If the eyelids are glued together
on waking, do not forcibly open
them, but apply salve with the
finger and then wash your eyes and
lace with warm water.
The Democratic Party.
f shall the democratic party De re
stored to power? No question of
more momentous consequence was ever
, , 1 . 1 . " 1
addressed to me A-merican peopie.
Those who are now disposed to an
swer it in the affirmative should first
consider what the distinctive charac
teristics of the Democratic party were
hen ltwent outof omce in lsbl. We
have but to recall the opeuing Bcepes
ol the rebellion a cowardly, cringing
Democratic President, a treacherous,
treasonable Democratic Cabinet, defi
ant, threatening Democratic rebels in
the benate and liousc ot Congress ut
tering maledictions against the iNorth,
and shaking off the dust of their feet
against the Union as they haughtily
stalked away to join the insurgent
armies or to accept civil office under
the Confederate States Government;
wretched Democratic leaders skulk
ing behind constitutional technicali
ties that the constitution, the laws,
liberty itself, might the more easily be
stricken down. This, in brief, was
the situatton the nation playing with
a gigantic rebellion for the stake of its
lite, and the Democratic party l-etting
on the rebellion.
Was there, during all the dark
hours of the war. any suspension of
Democratic hostility toward the tie
publican party, which, foot to foot
with the toe. waged a douDttui struggle
for the preservation ol the Union?
Historv has made its record, and it
points to no instance where the Dent
ocratic party rose above bitter ana uu
relenting partisanship to the dignily
of a consideration of the superior
claims of the Constitution and of the
country. Witness, as the culminat
ing act of a uniform course of carping
criticism and open opposition, the res
olution ot the Democratic iNational
Convention of 18G4. When the re
bellion was trembling on the verge of
helpless collapso, that convention, re
presenting the principles and the per
sonnet ot the iiemoeratic party, sot
emnlv declared the war a failure and
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impudently demanded that terms ot
peace, latai to the unity 01 tne nation,
he ottered to the chietn ot the uonted
eracv.
How much better 13 the Democratic
record since the war? W hich of the
amendments, now a part of theCon
stitution. did it support: Which ot
them did it not oppose with every
weapon ot political wariarer v nai
act ot reconstruction did the Demo
cratic party not oppose with the mott
heated denunciation no less than the
last resources of entreaty and argu
menu .But the amendments were
adopted, and the measures of recon
struction were supported by a vast
majority of the people as essential to
the future peace of the country no
less than as acts of common justice in
atonement for crimes done against a
despised race in the abused name of
liberty. Do the American people re
gret that they crushed out the rebel
lion.- freed the negro, made him a citi
Zen, ' and conferred upon him the
right of suffrage? Do they regret
that thev pursued the rebels from
Atlanta to the sea," and finally brought
them to bav at Appomattox Court
House? Do they regret that they
raised the flag from the dust where it
was trailed bv James Buchanan and
the Democratic party in order that
rebels might trample and spit upon it?
t they do they are in accord with the
Democratic party as it was and as it
is; for no single act of the Democratic
party can be pointed to as evidence
that, as apolitical organization, it has
not been pervaded by the stunt ot
treason during every day and hour
irom 1861 to 1874. And what we
mean by treason, as applied to the
Democratic party, is a state of violent
and unyielding protest agaiust every
uodamental act ot the republican
party from the time of arming to resist
rebellion, down to the adoption of the
ast statute growing legitimately out
of the constitutional amendments.
And wo unhesitatingly declare that
there is no evidence in the recent
course of the Democratic party that
it has not been and still is hostile to
Constitution as it is, and inexorably
bent on the restoration ox the Consti
tution as it was. 'We are aware that
few will believe it possible to circum
vent the Constitution or ignore the
etter, or nullify the spirit of the
amendments. Few will believe the
Democratic party capable of a base
ness so great as the withdrawal f rom
the colored race ot all the protection
afforded by the reconstruction laws.
standing between them and their for
mer owners and their would be re-en
slavers. We are aware that in these
times, when great events succeed each
other in rapid, almost bewildering
successes, while it reduces him to vir
tual slavery. It was through the
negro, in slavery, that the Democratic
party retained power the last dozen
years of its anti war life; it is through
the negro, deprived of the exercise of
the right of suftragc, that the Demo
cratic party expects to regain control
of national affairs. It follows logically
that the Democratic party is, by the
very force of circumstances, the foe of
equal political rights. It hopes to
mount to place and power through
the practical denial ot the right of
suffrage to the negro; once in place, it
will continue to disfranchise him as
the guaranty of its retention" of power.
To those who decline to interest
themselves in the question of morals
and humanity as entering into politi
cal science and political practice, we
desire to put the question: How long
is the country likely to remain at
peace with the Democratic party raised
to power through a studied violation
ot the principles upon which tne late
War against rebellion was prosecuted
to a susocssful issue? With the
crushing out of the rebellion, Lincoln
thought peace would come, ana come
to stay. It did come, but will it "stay"
if the principles lor which jLiocoin
strove, and the country strove, are
suffered to go by the board. This is
a question ot vital consequence to tne
capitalist, the merchant, the banker,
the manutacturer, the tarmer, tne me
chanic, the laborer to everybody.
lor, when war breaks out, taxes rise.
War not only mows down men, but
unties the purse strings of every citi
zen and robs him of a share of his
earnings. Is there any reason to be
lieve that the country will suner those
principles to be abandoned for the
preservation ot which it so recently
offered to sacrifice everything but
honor? If there is no doubt on this
point, then there is no safety in en
trusting the conduct of affairs to the
Democratic party; no safety to the
honor of the nitron, no safety to the
pockets of the people. The Demo
cratic party means reaction; is the
country ready to take one backward
etepf I he Democratic party brings
to the front those leaders who, during
the rebellion, were the most pro
nounced enemies of the Union; is the
country ready to support men now
who were willing to see the country
go to pieces then? We think not; be
cause, morals and humanity aside, the
people cannot afford to do wrong in
politics even in a purely economic
point of view. Inter-Ocean.
Let us have peace." The Chicago
Tribune very pathetically says:
Louisiana wants peace. The whole ,
country wants peace, and peace must
be had. It it be necessary to have
peace in Louisiana, that the State
should pass out of the hands of the
men who are in office, then let it be
so."
Vicksburg has found peace by
Causing the city and county to "pass
out of the hands of the men who are
(wore) in office." Peace was bought
with the lives ot twenty or thirty
lazy, worthless negroes. Peace
came on the heels of the resignation
of Republican officials compelled by a
mob ot Democrats. I he magnanimi
ty of the White Leaguers of Vicks
burg to the connuered negroes is beau
tifully exemplified in the following
peaceful resolution adopted by a mass
meeting 01 Democratic citizens ot
Vicksburg:
Unsolved, 'J hat while we are iully
satisfied that Peter Crosby has caused
armed negroes to march on the city,
and should therefore be held mainly
responsible tor all the blood that has
been shed, we recommend all good
citizens to'abstain from inflicting any
personal violence upon him. and that
we will use still further efforts f 0 have
him removed from office in some legal
manner.
Of course Crosby is responsible for
all the bloodshed, becasue he dared
to hold the office of Sheriff, and be
cause he dared to protest against
being dispossessed by a mob. But
these magnanimous whites, having
kicked Crosby out ot ofhee, and hav
ing slaughtered twenty or thirty ne
groes because they objected to the
oiitnmaptr a t it 1 rC x-w rrcti t n rr ixnfiAn
their fellow assassins against lynching
Crosby, lhe country ought to be
grateful that Crosby's life is to be
spared. But the country should be
prepared to hear next that, with the
merciful purpose of saving Crosby's
life, he has been Dlacea under a guard
of assassins, taken into the bush and
shot by another party of rescuiing as
sassins. Meantime, while negroes
were being shot by the score in and
around Vicksburg, the President's
succession, the record of even recent solemn declaration ot his purpose to
1 a. t 1 x II ' I 'lrtnlAi)n iri f l-i ! nrrs'' V twAttiainna r
history makes but small impression on
busy, preoccupied mind. Uut we
should not overlook the fact that only
a dozen years ago a third of the entire
population of the country subsisted
almost solely off the enforced toil of
some millions of negroes: that these
poor wretches were bought and sold
like cat tie; that they were whipped un-
mercitully at the will ot the owner;
that they were not unfrequently killed
to gratily malice; that the black woman
had no protection against the lust of
the white man in a word, that they
were slaves, borne down beneath all
the cruelty, oppression, and suffering
which that horrid condition, human
slavery, implies.
It will not be disputed, we think.
that the great mass ot the white peo
ple of the South are ol the opinion
still that a state of slavery is the prop
er condition of the negro. Jeff Davis
says so; all Southern Democratic lead
ers says so whenever there is not in
view an immediate object to be pro
moted by a concealment of real opin
ions. The Georgia labor laws, the
attempt to pass a peonage bill in Tex
as, and a like effort now in progress in
Arkansas, show plainly enough that
the purpose of the white people of the
South is practically to re-enslave the
blacks. But there are nianv people at
the North who are ready to say:
"Away with the Southern question;
let the South do as it pleases with the
negroes; we have freed them and con
ferred upon them the right of suffrage;
let them work out their own salvation."
To such we reply: It is more perilous
to abandon the negro than to defend
him; he cannot be got out of American
politics until he is fully recognized as
an integral part of American politics,
with rights which all white men
are bound to respect. Holding the
right of suffrage; but forbid len to ex
ercise it, the negro becomes an un
willing ally of the Democratic party,
forced to contribute negetively to its
enforce with rigor'' the provisions of
the Constitution was being transmitted
from the Capital to the remotest
quarters of the land:
Wrhile I remain Executive, all the
laws of Congress and the provisions
of the Constitution, including the
amendments added thereto, will be
enforced with rigor.
It is perhaps not out of place to say
that it is now quite evident that
neither the Constitution, nor the
amendments, nor the laws of Congress
can tie enforced in the commonwealth
of Mississippi through the mild influ
ence ot fetate papers Inter-Ucean
FACTS FOR THE MARRIED.
A Hnsbnnd Without a Fault And a
wife 4 hat was Still Better.
From the Territorial Enterprise.
After having been married some
weeks, it came into the head of a
young husband in this city, one Sun
day, when he had little to occupy his
mind, to suggest to his wife that they
should plainly and honestly state the
laults that each had discovered in the
other since they had been man and
wife. After some hesitation the wife
agreed to the proposition, but stipula
ted that the rehersal should be made
in all sincerity and with an honest
view to the bettering of each other, as
otherwise it would be of no use to
speak of the faults to which marriage
had opened their eyes. The husband
was of the same mind, and his wife
asked him to begin with her faults.
He was somewhat reluctant, but his
wife insisted that he was the first to
propose the matter, and as he was at
the head ot the house it was his place
to take the lead. Thus urged, he be
gan the recital. He said:
My dear, one or the nrst faults 1
observed in you after we began keep
ing house was that you a good deal
neglected the tinware. You didn't
keep it scoured as bright as it should
be. My mother always took great
pride in her tinware, and kept it as
bright as a dollar.
"I am glad that you have mentioned
it, dear" s'aid the wife, blushing a lit
tle; "hereafter you shall see no speck
on cud or wan. .Fray Droeeed.
"1 have also observed," said the
husband, "that you use your dish-rags
a long time without washing them,
and then finally throw them away.
Now, when at home, I remember that
my mother always used to wash out
her dish-rags when she was done us
ing them, and then hang them up
where they could dry, ready for the
next time she would need them
Blushing as before, the young wife
promised to amend this iault
The husband continued with a most
formidable list ot similar faults, many
more than we have space to enumer
ate, when he declared that he could
thmkot nothing more that was worthy
ot mention
Now," said he, "m dear, you be
gin and tell me all the faults you have
observed in me since we have been
married."
The young housewife sat in silence;
her face flushed to the temples, and a
great lump came in her throat, which
she seemed to be striving hard to
swallow.
"Proceed, inv dear; tell me all the
faults you have observed - in nie, spar
ing none!
Arising suddenly from her seat, the
little wife burst into tears, and throw
ing both arms about her husband's
neck, cried:
' My dear husband, you have not a
fault in the world. If you have even
one. my eyes have been so blinded by
iuy love tor yott that lone as e
have-been married 1 have never once
observed it. In my eyes you arc per
feet, and all that you do seems to me
to be done in the best manner and
iust what should be done."
Uut, inv dear, said the husband.
his face reddening and his voice grow
ing husky with emotion, just think.
1 have L'one and lound all manner ot
fault with you. Now, do tell me some
of my faults; I know 1 have many
ten times as many as you ever had or
ever will have. Let me hear them."
"Indeed, husband, it is as 1 tell
you; jou have not a single iault that
1 can see. w hafever jTou do seems
right in my eyes; and now that I
know what a good-for-nothing little
wretch I am, I shall at once begin the
work of reform, and try to make my
self worthy of you."
Nonsense, ray dear, you know
sometimes 1 co away and leave you
without any wood cut; I stay up town
when 1 ought to be at home; 1 spend
my money for drinks and cigars when
1 ought to bring it home to you; I
JN o you don t, cried his wife; you
do nothing of the kind. I like to see
you enjoy yourself; I should be un
happy were you to do otherwise than
just exactly as you do!"
God bless you, little wile! cried
the now thoroughly subjugated hus
band; "from this moment you have
not a fault in the world! Indeed you
never had a fault; I was but joking
don't remember a word I said!" and
he kissed away the tears that still
trembled in the little woman's eyes.
rsever again did the husband scru
tinize the tinware nor examine the
dish-rag never so much as mention
one of the faults he had enumerated;
but soon after the neighbor women
were wont to say:
"It is wonderful how neat Mrs.
keeps everything about her huse.
Her tinware is always as brmht as a
new dollar, and I do believe she-not
The Press on the Message.
Taking the message altogether, it
will not be found mischievous. The
sins of the document are those ol sug
gestion. The President has been al
most as carelul about committing him
self to anything definite, as if he were
a member in good standing of the
Democratic party, and his name was
Bill Allen. Cincinnati Commercial.
The country owes a debt of grati
tude to President Grant and Secreta
ry Bristow for their earnest efforts to
lead it pack to specie resumption. By
what method that end should be
reached is a question of secondary im
portance. lhe first necessity is to
bring the country and Congress to de
termine that by some method the end
shall be reached as speedily as possi
ble. Firmly adhering to this posi
tion, which, since his veto message of
last spring, had been abundantly vin
dicated by events, and especially by
the complete failure of legislation
looking toward expansion as a means
of relief, the President suggests a
method by which specie resumption
can be attained, and the Secretary of
the Treasury sets forth the same plan
somewhat more in detail. St. Louis
Democrat.
The message is notable for what it
does not recommend, as well as for
what it does. It does not recommend
the undertaking of the trans-continental
canals, as the suppositious
organ at the capital led most people to
expect, but it leaves these earth-disemboweling
schemes to the Congres
sional Transportation Committee. To
them and to Congress is left the ques
tion whether the Union shall be bound
together by water-bands. He does
not recommend additional legislation
to enforce the civil and social rights
of the freedmen, as in two former
messages. He seems inclined to leave
this to the logic of events. The
phrase is our own, and we know not
what it means, but it sounds well.
Cincinnati Gazette.
the
any of
Prescription for the Cure or Drun
Henness.
There is a curious prescription in
England for the cure of drunkenness.
by which thousands are said to have
been assisted in recovering themselves.
lhe recipe came into notoriety
through the efforts of John V. Hall,
father of the Rev. Newman Hall and
Captain Vine Hall, commander of
the Great Eastern steamship. He had
fallen into such habitual drunkenness
that his utmost efforts to regain him
self proved unavailing. At last he
sought the advice of an eminent
physician, who gave him a prescrip
tion which he followed faithfully for
several months, and at the end of
that time he had lost all desire for
liquors, although he had for many
years been led captive by a most de
basing appetite. The recipe, which
he afterward published, and by which
so many have been assisted to relorm,
is as follows: "Sulphate of iron, 5
grains; magnesia, 10 grains; pepper
mint water, 11 grains; spirits of nut
meg, 1 drachm; to' be taken twice a
day." The preparation acts as a ton
ic and stimulant, and so partly sup
plies the place of lhe accustomed
liquor, and prevents that absolute
physical and moral prostration that
follows a sudden breaking off from the
use of stimulating drinks.
A Moving- Scene In m Portland Hotel.
A most painful sight, one which
moved to tears several ladies who
witnessed it, occurred at a hotel in
Portland, a day or two since. A fine-
s . 1
ly dressed, gentlemanly appearing
man. a stranger in the city, was stop -
' ping there, and had with him his son.
a bright appearing boy ot seven or
; eight years of age. The father had
1 evidently been on a protracted de
bauch, and on the day in question had
come to the dinner table with every
nerve in a quiver and . his system
shattered. He had eaten nothing for
a day or two, and the little boy, with
plaintive appeals, was urging him to
partake of food. He was so intoxica
ted that he could not lift his saucer to
his lips, and the child, his little heart
almost bursting with grief, was
obliged to wait upon him as if he were
an mtant.
onlv washes, but iron3 her dish-rags!'
And the neighbor men were heard to
eay: "What a steady fellow M has
got to be of late; he don't spend a
dime where he used to spend dollars.
and can never be kept from home half
an hour when he is not at work. He
seems to worship that wife of his
Presevere against all discourage
ments. Keep your temper. Employ
leisure, study, and always have some
work in hand. Be punctual and me
thodical in business, and never pro
crastinate. Never be in a hurry.
Preserve self-possession, and do net
be talked out of conviction. Rise
early, and be an economist of time.
Maintain dignity without the appear
ance of pride; manner is something
with everybody, and everything with
some. Be guarded in discourse, at
tentive, and slow to speak. Never
acquiesce in immoral or pernicious
opinions. Be not forward to assign
reasons to those who have no Tight to
ask. Think nothing in conduct unim
portent or indifferent. Rather set
than follow examples. Practice strict
temperance, and in your transactions
remember th i final account.
A member of the Legislature, from
a northern county, writes that it has
already cost him fifty dollars worth of
stamps in answering letters from ap
plicants for office in the gift of the Leg
islature, and he now swears that he
will not vote for any man who fails to
eend a stamp when he addresses him
and expects an answer. Messrs. Roe
and Lanham have not been subjected
to this tax.
True love has its usual unpleasant
course in the bosom of a woman in
the upper part of Evansville, Ind.,
who loved not wisely but too well.
Her lover presented her with a late
style set of false teeth to replace those
missing from between the lips where
his were wont to stray and steal the
dew of love. But coldness finally
came, and he sought another object
lor his anechons. fche. too. happen
ed to be toothless, and the lover had
recourse to her whom he had deserted.
and the teeth were wrested from her
and presented to the new love. No. 1
wants the assistance of the police to
recover the apparatus wherewith she
disposes ot her usual pabulum.
a a i 11. sv
A leiiow rusneo into omce ODe
morning with the interrogation
'What s the difference betweeD the
mice that have just been eating my
All present subsided, and he gasped
ineyre potn senpenewersi and
then proceeded to the door.
"I have come for my umbrella.
said a lender ot it on a rainy day to a
friend. "Can't help that," said the
borrower, "don't you see that I am
going out with it? Well, ves." re
plied the lender, astonished at such
outrageous impudence; "yes, but but
what am 1 to do?" "Do?" said the
other, as he opened the umbrella and
walked off, do as 1 did borrow one.
We do not expect to find
messages of President Grant
the polished rhetoric in which some
of the early occupants of the execu
tive chair were fond of indulging, or
any of the compact logic for which
Mr. .Lincoln s state papers were re
markable. And yet the future his
torian, looking to these annual com
munications as sources of information
upon the condition of the country at
the time of their issue, will find few
that are more valuable to him than
those which bear the signature of U.
S. Grant. General Grant's idea of a
Presidential Message is that it should
be a summary of national affairs as
they are presented in the workings of
the different executive departments.
He indulges in very little theorizing
or abstract reasoning; when he has a
recommendation to make he puts it in
blunt and understandable English,
andyhaving stated his views on the
subject plainly and concisely, he leaves
its extended consideration to Congress
and the country. In our judgment, a
much better 6tate paper can be mod
eled on this plan than upon the former
one of converting the annual message
into a finely written essay on govern
ment and political economy. St.
Louis Globe.
The full text of the message, which
is printed elsewhere, dees not remove
the objections founded upon the
synopsis which appeared in yesterday's
Times. The President fails to indi
cate a policy that will inspire the con
fidence of the country. On the con
trary, he leaves to Congress to devise
some means that will relieve the pre
valent business depression and restore
the prosperity which financial iniprov-
dence and political mismanagement
aave brought about, lhere should
be no delay in returning to specie
payment, exclaims the l'rcsident!
Ihen why not indicate a way in which
t is to be done, without throwing the
responsibility upon a congress inimi
cal to the proposition. A definite
recommendation could have done no
harm. Such, for instance, as the re
tirement of the $26,000,000 of legal
tender notes which tho Treasury put
out during the panic; and a law for
the cautious funding of an additional
quantity ot greenbacks in five per
cent, bonds, with a change in the
banking law, making bank issues free
on a pledge of government securities,
three per cent, of the interest ou the
bonds to be retained while they are
so held in pledge". St. Louis Times.
The Frsrrant I.lmberg-er.
Some folks don't like the odor of
Limberger cheese; but there are peo
ple that can't appreciate the flavor of
a well developed polecat. One even
ing, not very long since, a gentleman
had made his preparations to attend
prayer meeting with his wife. Prior
to starting he came down town to his
place of business, and while there an
acquaintance discovered that he was
about to engage in Wednesday even
ing devotion. Accordingly he put up
a villainous job. Procuring a huge
slice of the. most fragrant Limberger
cheese to be had, he watched his op
portunity, and just as the gentleman
stepped out of the door to go home for
his wife, slipped it in his pocket. The
parties repaired to the church and
were soon seated side by side in a
comfortable pew near the stove. Soon
the cheese began to grow loud. The
sisters turned their heads about and
looked as if a kraut barrel had explo
ded. The deacons elevated their
noses and thought of the third plague
of Egypt. The preacher smelled a
great smell and the wife of the uncon
scious odor casket nudgeVher spouse
and inquired if he didn't smell some
thing. "Mariar, it's awful," he re
sponded; "it must be in the coal."
The more the assembly speculated the
louder the odor became, and finally
all hands united in hurrying the pro
ceedings to a close. Arrived at home,
and while preparing to retire, the gen
tleman discovered the cause of the
unpleasantness, and removed it on a
couple of chips. Iowa State Regfster.
The Kplder Johnny's Composition.
This is an insect that catches flies
in a net like a fish-net, but not in the
water. The net is called a web, and
wen it catches dust instead of flies it
is a cobweb. The spider knoes he is
ugly, so he stayes a good deal at home,
but ugly wimmen goes to church and
walks in the street more than pretty;
but they are both in the same buis-
niss which is trappin'. In California
they has spiders that scorns to spin
webs, but goes out and cetches game
like other beasts of pray. They are
about the size of a girl baby, and a lot
of pizener. These is tar antulers.
When an injin has bit hissclf with a
tar autuler he fils his skin full of
wisky and steals a blanket to rap his-
self id, and hunts a place where his
body will be most in the way. 1 hen
he lies down, and if the pizen don't
work all at once, he sings the deth
song of the brave, and that nocks
him. We was tole this to our house
by a travler who said he guessed he
knew a tarnel site about injins and
tar antulers, though he hadn't never
been to college. But Uncle Ned, he
says it is best to git a good edduca-
tion first, and then thro in injins and
tarantulars accordin' to taste.
Itrnin and the Shepherd Boy.
Not long since a Swiss shepherd
boy, only fourteen years of age, was
tending a Hock of sheep among the
hills in Canton Grisons, when a bear
made a raid upon the nock, and seized
two ot the finest sheep, lhe courage
ous little fellow attempted to drive
the bear off by beating him with a
stick, but Bruin turned upon him,
and he was forced to run for his life.
The bear was gaining lapidly upon
him. and there was seemingly no es
cape. Suddenly the lad bethought
himself of a narrow ravine, three hun
dred feet deep, close by, across which
he thought he could leap, while he
hoped the bear would not notice it,
and fall to the bottom. Dashing on
half wild with excitement and dread,
he reached the edge of the precipice,
the bear close at his heels. The chasm
was upward pf six feet wide, but the
lad cleared it by a desperate bound,
and landed safely ou the opposite side.
The bear, as he hoped, did not see
the ravine, and fell headlong to the
bottom, where, bruised and bleeding,
and unable to rise, the shepherd lad
found him.
It is a strange anomaly in social
economy that strikes should be so
frequent when the complaints ot hard
times are most general throughout the
country. At a period when employ
ment eveu at any living wages is at a
premium, there are often thousands
of men idle in a single city, as was the
case recently with the 'longshoremen
of New York. In nearly all instances
of this kind, the blame for such a
voluntaryi idleness rests with the
trades-unions, which profess to have
the interests of the great army of la
borers at heart. The dictation of
these bodies extends to members that
have no grounds of complaint what
ever. It makes no difference that
some employers may be willing to pay
the wages damanded, and the men
whom they employ anxious, personal
ly, to continue service; the orders of
the union admit of no distinctions,
and compel all to strike without even
as much as an excuse for so doing.
Compulsory idleness, when there is
not a shadow ot principle to be se
cured by it, is, ana especially in times
like the present, little less than a
crime, arid rebellion against the ty
ranny of the unions would be the
most manly and sensible policy.
The English Poultry Review very
consistently recommends an increased
consumption of eggs as food. It says.
"excellent sandwiches may be made
of hard-boiled eggs and brown bread
and butter; eggs spread on toast are
ht tood tor kings; a poached egg
that is, one dropped irom the shell
into hot water is not only clean and
handsome but a delicious morsel;
eggs are better flavored without salt
or pepper, a little sweet butter being
the best dressing; persons who eat
eggs freely may live to the age of 80 or
90; and lastly, eggs contain much
phosphorus and the best food for
those persons who are deficient m
brains." This last idea is of the ut
most importance to many persons.
Kansas City, Mo., December 8.
About 3:30 this afternoon, as the
Kansas Pacific train reached Muncie,
a" few miles west ot this city, live
masked men flagged and stopped it
cut off the passeDger coaches and
1.1 1
moved tne engine and express car
some distance forward, and robbed
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s safe of about
127,000. One can of gold-dust, for
Kountz Bros., New York, containing
$5,000 was also carried off. AH were
large men and rode bay and brown
horses, amjiyrere heavily armed with
Henry rines ana revolvers. The ex
press com nan v offers a reward of $10.
000, the Kansas Pacific Railway Com
pany 5,000, and Governor Usborn 2,
500 for the recovery of the funds and
arrest of the perpertrators.
The St. Louis Journal tells this
story, which will give joy to the heart
of every man who has ever taken a
trunk with him on a railroad journey:
"A pleasing incident is told us by a
clergyman who has just returned from
a health trip. He relates how a bag
gageman on a far Western railroad
was so impelled by the force of habit
that he began to knock around and
kick and jam the trunk of an elephant,
a managerie company having loaded
the beast on a flat car. The force of
habit in the trunk was also strong, and
the heap of blood and bones beside
tne track demonstrated that for once
in a railroad encounter the trunk had
the best of it. As above remarked,
this incident comes from the lips of a
clergyman lately returned from a
western trip, taken for his health."
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Never waste your time; waste some
body else's.
The Captain's tieese.
An old whaling captain, who had '
spent the whole prime of his life on '
the ocean with but indifferent suc
cess, having scraped together a few
thousand dollars, retired from the
sea, moved into the country with ,
his family, and bought small '
farm. One of his nehrhbors said
to him after he setlled on the farm:
'Captain K, you've got a nice pond " "
on your place, and you ought to
have a good large flock of geese.
It s a grand place to keep em, and
they'll be profitable to you." "Yes,
I think they will, said the captain,
'I ve got some nice ones to Bell :
ye," continued the kind neighbor.
You come over and pick em out : '
yourself." So the captain selected
a suitable number, making his
choiue as he would among a school
of whales when "brought to, or as 7
a boy would from a basket of ap-
Eles. Li the s pi ing folio wing he 7
appened to be visiting at the .
farm of another neighbor, and
among other things inspected the'
geese, making comparison in his '
mind highly favorable to his own
judgment "Don't think your birds '
are so handsome as mine," he re
marked. "Do you have any eggs
yet?" . Oh, yes, they have been
laying freely for this month or
more." "WelL I don't know how
'tis," said Capt K. "I've got the
handsomest flock that I've seen .,
any where this season picked 'em
one by one from my neighbor -Jone's
flock, and I feed 'em high to.
But not an egg have they laid yet.
I only wish you would come over
and see 'em. Perhaps , yon can
give an idea how to manage 'em." .
His friend did "come over and see
'em" the next day, and, as soon as
he could speak for laughter, he.
enlightened the ancient mariner as
to the cause of the non productive
ness by informinw him that they
were all ganders! '
England's
By a late decision of the United
States District Court (N. Y.) persons
represented as stockholders in Na
tional banks are held liable for its lia
bilities even though they may have
transferred their shares. - In other
words it is made the duty of stock
holders to see that such transfer is
made on the books of the bank. This
construction of the law will probably
annoy many persons who have trans
ferred their stock without relieving
themselves of future liability.
Amelioration of War.
The Brussels Conference decided
on the prohibition of poisoned arms,
as well as of the murder of any dis
armed man, the use of explosive pro?
jectiles, and the declaration of "no
quarter." Russe de guerre are con
sidered lawful. Fortified places can
alone be beseiged and open towns are
not to be bombarded. In a bombard
ment all buildings consecrated to re
ligion, art, and charity must be spared
as well as hospitals; but they must
bear a flag or other visible sign. No
plundering is allowed. Those only
are to be considered as spies who, un
der false pretenses, seek to gather
news with the intention of communi
cating such information to the enemy
Newspaper correspondents and re
porters can be made prisoners, but
shall not bctreated as spies if they
possess a certificate from a compe
tent authority proving their quality.
Whisky, Beer and Tobacco Kine
renins 01 ine internal Ke venue.
The aggregate collections of Inter
nal Revenue for the year ending Jnne
30th, 1874, were $102,644,746,98. The
Commissioner's estimate having been
an even hundred millions. The total
"receipts from distilled spirits were
$49,444,000. or nearly one half of the
whole. During the last year 700 dis
.'illeriea were registered, 665 operated
and oa,8UO,d4 gallons ot spirits pro
duced. The receipts from fermented
liquors, ale, beer, etc., were $9,304,679,
and the total number ot brewers en-.
gaged 2,554. The total receipts from
tho manufacture and sale of tobacco,
snuff ahd cigars, in all their forms,
were $33,242,875.02.
A corn-extractor that has never
been patented The crow.
There are six George Washingtons
in the Pennsylvania State Prison.
WThen the thermometer falls, how
often on an average does it break?
King Koffee, who has been boiling
over lately, has settled ddwn again.
Mrs. Goodale, of Pequonic. Conn..
is 100 years old. Good ale keeps well.
The London Lancet pretends to
know how a man feels when his head
is cut off.
A worn-out shoe is like ancient
Greece, because it once had a Solon
(sole on). .
It is a good thing to be above-board,
but generally a bad thing to be' over
board.
An Iowa justice the other day ac
cepted two busheU of the pungent
onion as a marriage fee.
A Chicago actress calls avalanche
"avalank." The educational advan
tages of that city are notorious.
"Cheap and hungry dances" aie a
IT i ? mi
Vermont institution, mere are no
refreshments, and the fun stops at 12
o'clock.
Half a million dogs keen the neonle
of New Mexico in bark. If the tonic
does them good they are welcome to
it.
A Frenchman intending to compli
ment a young lady by callintr her a
gentle lamb, said: "She is one mutton
as is small.
A New Orleans paper offers the
sentiment thus: "George Washington
First in war, first in peace, and last
in getting a monument. '
We can't all be run over bv locomo
tives or killed by boiler explosions.
A New York man has just been crush
ed to death in a corn grinder.
The Daily Tokionichinichi Schim
bum is rapidly displacing the other
papers of Yeddo, and has a circuia- .
tion of 800. Now is the time to sub
scribe. It is singular that mineral waters
are only beneficial to the wealthy.
We never knew a physician to advise
a poor man to go to any watering
place. A Boston philosopher says that you
want to look at meu's boot heels to
discover their energy. A slow, sloth
ful man runs his boots over at the
heels.
Without any desire to brag, the De
troit Free Press points to a Michigan
sunflower nineteen feet high, and re
spectfully inquires after the health of
other sunflowers around the country.
A Council Bluffs lawyer ate pea
nuts in court and was fined $10 for
contempt. The J udge remarked that
he was determined to uphold the maj
esty of the law if it killed the entire
peanut crop of the South.
Detroit Free Press: The MillAri'foa
have settled on the 20th of. December
as ascension day, but for men who ex-
Eect to be in heaven on the 21st they
old hay and oats up wonderfully stiff,
and want their cash down.
marriage- statistics
have been analyzed t show the
probabilities of marriage for women
at different ages. Supposing the -
sum of a woman's chanees of mar
riage to be one hundred, she ex
hausts between the ages of fifteen
and twenty years fourteen and a
half chances. If she lives unmar
ried from twenty to twenty-five,
fifty two more of. her chances have
vanished into thin air. If she
remains unmarried for five more -years,
she will turn thirty with
only fifteen and a half . chances out
of her hundred left. After thirty
five she has eleven and a half
chances, and at this point the sta
tistican gave up his calculation,
except that he assures us that
even after a women has lived
unmarried sixty years she still has
the tenth of a chance of getting
married out of the hundred with
which she is ' supposed to- have -started
life. .
Bryant has more money than
any poet that ever lived.. It has,
however, not been the product of
his muse, but of his newspaper.
To this is to be added the fact -that
he is of simple habits, and can
not but be moderate in general ex
penses. He is estimated to be
worth at from $400,000 to $600,-
000, which is certainly doing very
well. iSo other editor, except
Bennet, has exceeded this sum, or
even equaled it, while, as for poets,
one might ask which of this gifted
clan ever dreamed of such success?
Bryant, indeed, reminds us Tin
this point at least of what Jeffry
said of Byron in his critique, "He
never lived in a : garret like thor
oughbred poets." But wealth
never inflated his vanity. It came
as the earnings of a great journal,
and was never used for display.
When a man begins life, Heaven
is like a picture on the ceiling of a
cathedral. He has , to bend his
neck out of shape to see it Before
long it seems to him a good place
in which to get away from hell, a
kind of insurance agent office.
Then it becomes a matter of senti
ment. But at last, when the real
toil of life comes, and God's love
shows itself in his discipline, and
the yoke is heavy on his neck, his
suffering interprets Heaven for
him as he never saw it before.
What a dry place Heaven is to
many until a father goes there,
aud a mother and a sister! Then
it becomes lwpulous. Tomanyaman
the door of Heaven is shut until
his little child goe3 up to open it
for him. I have five up there. So
we build our own Heaven out of
our griefs and pleasures, but we
know that everything will be far
better than we have sketched it.
Beecher.
The great Hammond,' revivalist,
can get up a bigger excitement in
less time than any man on the
continent He began bis work at
Galesburg, HL, Sunday, we believe.
A dispatch this morning says that
the converts are now numbered by
hundreds and are steadily increas
ing, while the crowds that flock to
hear him are something tremen
dous.; :
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- Under the law now in force in
New York, when men get drunk' in
a saloon, and then break all the
glassware in the place, they cannot
be made to pay the damage, as the
seller of the liquor is liable for all
the injury done by the drinker.
Henry Parker, of Dearborn couu
ty, died recently at the age of 106
years. He was undoubtedly the oldest
man in the county, - c? v.
ii
1 uays, wnen it is ready tor use.