Bloomington Progress, Volume 6, Number 35, Bloomington, Monroe County, 25 December 1872 — Page 1
Christinas Carol. I ears not for Soring; on hi." Cokle wing Let theblosomi and buds bo bornp ; Ho woes them nuinin v.Uh li is trca-heroiis rain, Ad ho scatters them fro the mnm. An inconstant e.f. ha kuows nt himself. Nor hb own changing miud an hear, ile'll smile in your face, and, n itli vttj grimace. He'll witter jour youngest nowr. Let the Summer sun to his triuht home ran, lie shall never be souiibt by me: Whon ho'e dimmed by a doml I can laugh aloud. And care not how m'.ky he be ' For bis darlinz child is the madness wild That sports in fierce fever's twin : And when love is too strtnst iv dent last long. As many have tonnd to ihoir rata. A mild ham st night', by tho tranquil light W the modest and gentle moon, H far sweeter e .eta. fr mo. I ween, man tho brond and unblusM g noon. TOt every leaf awakens my grief. As it lieth beneath th tree : So let Autumn air be never so fair, it by no means agrees with me. Bt my song I troll nt, for CiiaSTms stout. The hearty, the true, and the bold : A bumper 1 drain, and with might and main iive throe cheers for this C.iriftiiias o'd I We'll usher him in with a merry din That shall gladden his joyous heart. And we'll keep him up while there 's bite or rap, And in fellowship good wo 11 rait. In hi fine honest pride, he scorns to hide One jot of his hard-weather scars: They're no disgrace, for thoro " much the same trace On the ehefc of our bravest tars. Xhen again I'll sing till the roof doth rinsr. And it ehea from wall to wallTo the stout old wight, fair income to-night. As the King of the Season's all! - Dickens.
A. Warning, Toil not for wealth, friend : It wastes away it wastes away; Hoard up your hoalth, fr.ond. While yet you may while yet you may ; Joy is not gilded. Mirth has no crown: Best seeks the simw bed
t.tft aft tha down. -
Strive not. for fame, friend. It rustic past it rushes past ; And bat a name, friend. If bald at 1 art-if held at last. Peace in the alia soul Dwelleth securn; Not'.ling beside t or Love doth endure. Set not yonr heart, friend, On outward things-on outward things; They bnt depart, frt&nd. On treaoh'rous wines, en Ireach'rous wings. Xinttte affection's . belicato Same. Purer than ricas, Brighter than fame.
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BLO OMINGTO N:, INDIANA, WEDIv
CEMBR 25,
LOST IS THE SJiOW. Chris a eve it was a good, old-fash
loned Christmas eve ir. Now Eneland.
Tho snow ;hh filing softly bist rapidly, and the shoii, afternoon was early darkened by the storm. Overhead stretched heavy canopy of steel-gray cloud; under foot the white fkkeshad already spread a deep, thick ruintie over fie.d and roadntt hillsi Here and there, sole landmarks, the gaunt trees rose up black against the tky: nothing else remained to indicate the pathway, the fences having almost disappeared undor tho deep drifts. The scene was utterly solitary until iwo figures appeared on the lonely road. They were Miss Effie Lvwrence and Mr. Eugene Talbot a handsome couple enough, for Effie was s. pretty girl, and, in her scarlet hood and cloak, looked a very attractive little ls.dy; and Mr. Talbot was a city man, well dressed and well bred, couaidered well favored, though Eftie iid not half think him so, which was ungrateful on her part, for he avowedly admired aer. Talking was not very easy work, but presently the young man said: ''Do you know, if it were not for you, I should go back to New York to-night, so as to be nt ;he gie;tt- L vingstone dinner party to-morrow?'' "Pray, do not let me prevent you," replied Effie, quickly. "I can go home juite well alone." "Oh, but I had rsttber be with you. Miss Lawrence, than at any dinner pariv that can be giv-?n.,! Effi9 did not reply to this, and presently Mr, Talbot, said, what, indeed he had said twice befoie. "Won't you take my arm. Miss Effie? I think you will got tu better if you
o She glanced tip at him, and there was something in the lock which met her eyes tjat deterred her. "No, I thank you, Mr. Talbot. I shall do very well alone." They walked on a Httl way ia sileDce, Effie hurrying her steps. Then Mr. Talbot asked: "Why are you in such haste, Miss Effie? I should like to prolong the pleasure of this walk indefinitely." "Yrj hav singular taste," replied Miss Effie, with a laugh that was rather forced. '-1 think the fireside preferable to the storm on such a night as this." There was another p .use. Mis Effie was beginning to vi9h heartily that she were alone. She had only known this Mr. Talbot for a week, and no one in the village knew much itbout him. He had come frcm New York on business, With a letter of introduction to the father of Rose Gray, her intimate friend. She had met him a", their house, and he had been perfectly devoted to her from his first introduction. All this was very nice. Effie was a bit of a flirt, and she had encouraged him, to begin ith, just for the fun of the thing, and bec.tuse it would tease Tom Alk-n, her old and faithful admirer. Of course she liked Tom more than any tie else, ar.d meant to" marry him; but Effie had been reading some foolish novels of late, and had come to the conclusion that it would be very tame to marry Tom, and never have another offer; and so when Mr. Talbot began to pay her some attention, she smiled upon him, though she saw well enough how wretched it made Tom. But within the last two clays she had grown to be rather afraid of the result
or ner own mischief. There had been something in Mr. Talbot's manner that , she had not half bked, and this afternoon, when he had come into the (ireya', she had prolonged her visit, hoping he would go, until it was too late for her to dare to stay any longer, and now eke did not at all fancy the prospect of a solitary walk, of s. mile in length, with him. Talbot evidently had no intention of neglecting hia opportunities, for he said, presently, in a sentimental tone: "Ah, Miss Effie, you are cruelly commonplace in wishing yourself at homeNow, I could I e happy anywhere, with you by my side." Effie gave him an amused glance. " That is great nonsense, Mr. Talbot. One s situation most always make a difference in one's happiness.'' "A diflurenco, to be sure; bat the only thing that could really affect my happiness would be your unties."
we was annoyed at this foolish,
apeecn. it, nau uawnea on her already that perhaps Mr. Talbot thought; her a "green" country girl, who would be , easy game, and she was resolved :o nhow herself not so readily to be h umbuirifed
as he might have supposed ; so, without directly replying, she said : "Mr. Talbot, we must really hurry. It will be a dark night." But he was not thus to be silenced. He came nearer to her and put his hand on her shoulder. "Effie," he said, "don't let us pretend
not to understand each othe r. I love you, and I flatter myself that I am not indifferent to you." There was something in the conceited smile which accompanied these words that made Effie intensely indignant. "Let me go, Mr. Talbot!" Bbe exclaimed. "JIow dare you insult, me so?" "Ah, Effie, why aff'-ct to be- cruel ? . Why strugg'n ngainst Ute? ' v It was n-ver inteuded, Mr. Taloot, by any fate, thai I should listen to such foolish talk," 8::iil Effie, fairly out of patwnoe. "Tho best thing y u can do is to fo bick to the village, it leave me ;p go home idone,"
" Well but, Effie, i was sure you loved me." " Then you were utterly mistaken," she said, coldly; "and don't call me Effie." "And you will not listen to ray suit ? ' " Xo, nor endure your presenile," die replied, and abruptly turned away From him. They had been standing, during the latter part of the talk, sheltered somewhat by a clump of evergreen. Now Eflln turned out into the road again. Mr. Talbot called after her once, but she dU not turn. "Pile's a Httlo spitfire, anyway," he murmured. Then aloud : "Miss Effie! Mi3 Ellie! I will go home with you, if you are afraid." She turned at once, her eyes hashing. '&,. Mr. Talbct, I nm not afraid. Pray do not trouble yourself on roy account. I am much better off without you. Good evening." She hurried on again. He looked after her a moment, and then, with a
I shrug, turned back toward the village.
These last words sounded very resolute, certainly. He must have made a mistake. Effie was wiser tuar. he had thought her, and his time Ibr the last few days had been very evidently wasted. Musing thus, he walked on, und then a sudden thought struck him, Why should he not go back to New York, after all ? He had only decide;! to : tay in tho country on the chance of improving his flirtation with Effie, and, if that was a failure, he had much bet ter spend his Christmas in the city. With this thought he pulled out his watch. He could just mako out, in the dim light, that by hurrying he might
eaten tne last express train, so ne made the best of his way to the hotel,
gathered together hastily his etiecis, and ruihed off, leaving tho landlord astare at the unaccountable suddenness of his movements. He was just in time to reach the train, and scarcely half an hour after he parted from Effie was whirling past her house on his way to New York . Meantime, the young lady he had left was plodding on through the storm ; and her thoughts were not very pleasant companions. This m:tn had insulted her this fscemed very evident. There was nothing genuine in his tone. He bad said no word of marriage. Did he think she wa so weak as to tolerate such impertinence? Oh! where wa3 Tom Allen? dear old Tom, who loved her so dearly, and longed to make her his wife? Tears came into Elbe's willful eyes, and
she was sorry enough for her foolisa co
quetry. . Absorbed in such reflections, she had gone on some distance, without paying much attention to her way, when a sud
den turn in the road brought her to a stand-still. She looked about her with dismay ; she wa? on the wrong track. Site must have taken the wroi.g turn at tho Evergreens, where she parted treni Talbot. J ust there two roads met, and in au excitement, bewildered by the storm, she
aad gone down the road leading to the next town, instead of the one on which stood the house, the home of her widowed mother. What should she do 1 Go back 1 No ; that looked such a long and dreary way ; and in an evil moment Ellis decided to go across the fields. With some difficulty she made her
way to the fence, climbed over it, and went plunging on over the trackless s.iiow. it was not much worse there than in the road, but the storm was driving right in her face now. She held on, though, manfully, nothing daunted,, for some distance. But the night grew rapidly darker, the cold increased, Dd by the time she reached the second field, Effie was fairly bewildered. Still she tramped on, until she was suddenly brought up by a high stone wall. It loomed up before her nit of the darkness, black, with stow tufting it here and there, and a great imow-cap on its summit. Now, for the first time, Efiie was disheartened. That wall showed she wus wrong in the direction she had taken. It ran at right angles to the road she had left; she ought not, therefore, to have come to it. There was nothing for her now but to follow it along, uatilshe came to the next fence, which she knew must be the one on the road leading to her house. Tired, cold, breathles;;, she reached it at last, and began to climb it. The snow was very deep now. It wan hard for her to hang on with htr nuni'ohands, and, somehow, when she reached the top, she slipped and fell. A sharp p;iin shot through her ankle, which wa3 bent under hor. She staggered to her fee t, but each motion was agony, und, after
a few feeble steps, she sank down again
with a cry 01 pain, she had received a very severe tprain, that whs evident: and further progress, unassisted, was out of the question. As E fHe rudized this, her courage fairly g ive way. She
drew herself a little back into the corner
of the wall, wrapped her cloak over her, and hid her face down in her muff, si;b
bine bitterly. She was well punished
for her thoughtless coquetry. She had
made Tom miserable pi.-rhr.p-- lost him
forever, and lor what ? tJiily to tie insuited and deserted by this wretched, conceited fop. Kis conduct had M-'en unmanly, firit in insulting her as he had done ; next, in leaving her, under any circumstances, to go home alone, in the night and storm. Tom would not have done so 1 No, no matter what she m'ght have said to him, he would not have left her thus. And now there was no telling what might happen her. The road leading to her cottage home was
very lonely very utile u::eci. J here wjb scarcely any chance of any one's coming along it to-night; and how could she live through all tho;e hours of darkness and cold ?
She looked uji despairingly. The scene was by no means reassuring. The night had come on with pitiless cold.
.The froity snow-light enabled her to see
down the deset'ed ro:ul. It was completely truckles' . The icy flakes swept in her face, and the long rudi of the wind sounded vith mournful cadence over the dreary tieids and through tho
irauess tirancnen ot the trees.
"With Etll ? Why, she left here an hour ago!" 'What alone?" "No with Mr. Talbot, of coursp." "But he has gone to New York." "To New York?" Oh, no; you must be mistaken! Why, he could not possibly have walked to Mrs. Lawrence's and back in time." Tom Allen had grown pale while the youi'g lady spoke. 'Hise," he said, "are you sure of what you eay? Mr. Talbot has certainly gon back to New York. I saw Effie come in here early this afternoon, on my way to the office. On my return, just now, I heard that Mr. Talbot had rushed off to tha city, all in a hurry, find I thought 1 would come here on the chance of finding Effie, and taking iiei- heme.' "It is very strange," replied Eosp. "It was almost dark when they went away. What time did Mr. Talbot go?" 'He took the 6 o'clock express."
"And they left here just before 5. 1 asked Effie to stay all night, but she refused." Tom was already putting on his coat again. "There is something strange in this," he said. "Rose, I am going to Mrs. Lawrence's at once. That man could not have left her alone in this storm. Could she " "Could she, what?" ask Rose, looking at him in alarm. Then she cried, suddenly: "Oh, Toml you don't mean to think she has gone with him?" "I don't know what I think," he answered, "I only know that I shall be wretched till I find out what it means. I must go at once." Then, in answer to her appealing look: "Yes; I will let you know what I find out;" and he hurried from the house. Allen's rapid strides brought him, in spite of the storm, to Mrs. Lawrence's cottage in a wonderfully short time. His summons at the door met with quick response, the lady opening it for him herself. "Ah, Tom. I am glad to see you." Then, peering out into the storm: "But where is Effie?" "Effie is not with me," replied Tom, coming into the house, and following Mrs. Lawrence to the cozy sittingroom. "That is very strange," said Mrs. Lawrence. "Then I suppose she will stay at the Greys' all night, but I did not expect " "She ia not at the Greya'," Allen answered.
And now, 03 Mrs. Lawrence looked at
him, she was struck with the strange ex
pression of his face. His worst fears had been corroborated by not finding
Ivffac at home; rnd the anguish ot hi3
heart could not but look out of his
eyes, "What is it, Tom?" asked Mrs. Law rence, anxiously. "Whore is Effie?"
"I do not knowl brie lett Mr. lirey s
about S o clock, with Mr. Talbot,-'
"And you did not pass them on the way?" "No." Then with an effort: "Mr. Talbot has gone to New York." Mr?. Lawrence looked at him keenly.
"You do not mean that you think
About an hour utter Effi ;ft Mr
Grey's, there was a ring at tho door, and Tom Allen came in tb-? hrirditpst.
pleasantest fellow in the viilage a general favorite and Rose greeted him cordially All these young people had known each other from childhood, and there were few secrets among them. "Why, Tom, how are you? What brought you hero on such a night as this? I know vou did not come to see
said Koee with a jiay laugh.
Effie went with him?" she said, very
s.lowly. Mrs. Lawrence, I don't know what to think?" groaned Allen. " Effio is not here she is gone? Where ia she ?''
" Not with him, Tom, 1 am sure of
that not with him!" cried the lady, eagerly. "She has stopped at some
neighbor e, or returned to he lireys'. No, no, Tom, it cannot be that she would leave me so 1
Then, in a moment, she said, almost
wildly :
" Yeu must find her, lorn, She cared for you ; she did not like him. There ii some strange mystery ; but, oh ! my
darling girl would not desert us so
cruelly ! Allen was half convinced by her energy. " I will do my best to find out about it, at once," he said. " If she is still in this neighborhood, I will discover her : if she has really gone with him, some one must know it." There followed a brief and earnest consultation, Mrs. Lawrence suggesting
such places as Effie might possibly have gone to, and then once more Tom went
on his way, this time armed with a tan tern.
Out into the night again, the red glow of the lamp casting strange gleams across the snow, and lighting up the flakes for a moment, as they passed across its radiance. He had plunged on with fiery eagerness, for some half a mile, when i. faint
sound caught his ear, like the distant echo of his own name. " Tom 1 Tom I He paused a moment Was it a fancy ? No ; it came again, muffled, but louder. " Tom ! Tom I Tom 1 Help me 1 help me, Tom !" He knew the voice now, and cried out, his heart bounding with eager delight : "Where are you, Effie? Effie, my darling I" " Here, Tom, under the snow" He was by her side, presently, bending down over the drift that contained
the little torm he loved so ueariy.
She was all coveretl with snow, so
completely that he never would have seen her, even in the day-time.
"Oh, Tom! Thank Uod you nave .V . , - .1 i
come I 1 saw you aner you nau gone l j,
but con'd not make you hear. I have been watching for you ever since." " My dear little girl I" " Yes, Tom, and her arms were round his neck now, "1 love you so much, and you will forgive me for flirting with any bod v else ?'' " Of course I will, dear ! But how came you here 7" " He insulted me. I drove him away, and tried to come alone ; but I fell and fmrninod mv ankle. I can't walk, and
Tom, I'm afraid you will htiYO to carry me I" " Carry you ? To be sure 1 will, you dear child !" And so, presently, they set off, Tom bearing his recovered pet in his arms, Effie carrying the lantern. It was slow work, traveling thus, through the snow ; but they reached the cottage nt last ; and then what rejoicings there were, and wha; a nnrry Christmas wai next day, when all met at the Greys', and Effie and Tom announced their engagement, as a sequel
to the story ot how sh was lost iu tue snow !
irsMil. Thomas Carivi.k i.i 77 years old. There are five editors in the Wisoin
sin Legislature.
IKr,r-.-RosA is sinaina to the Turkt
ar.d infidels in Egypt.
Admiral Semmes, of Alu.buma notorie
ty, is City Attorney of Motile.
The Rev. Dr. E. IT. Chapin has be
come editor of the Christian I,e.ult:r.
Senator Frank Blair attributes his :
paralysis to tobacco and hard work.
Mrs. Sun.vek. wife of Senator .")uni:ier. Ins been residing for Home time in Venice. DtRtN-f! the lntter part of his lifot
per year.
One of Mr. Gladstone's critics writes
that he can say less in a larger space
than any mau alive. TiiEsubscriptionfund in Ehilade'i hia, for the family of the law Gen. Meade, has reached th3 sum of $103,000. Beecher says that more lies have been told about him, every year of his publio life, than would shingle a cathedral. Thk actual revenues of young Jsmes Gordon Bennett from his newspipei property are now between $000,000 and 700,000 a year. The oldest member of the St ite 'Jonetitutional Convention of Pennsylvania is Hon. Henry C. Carey, who enters upon his 80th year this month, Wii.kie Coi.i.ind is soon to rein'brce the number of reading novelists on the American platform, and George El;ot is also said to be sorely tempted to come hither. More than ordinary eyr.npathy will be felt for Miss Ida Greeley, who, within a month, has lost father fir, 1 mother and it betrothed lover, who wentdown in the ill-fated Missouri. Eigqt members elect of the House of Representatives have served continuously since the Thirtieth Congress. These are Blaine, Duvfs, Hooper, Kel!ey, Rtndall, Scofield. Garfield and Eldridge. A young gentleman in Oherlin went to see his sweetheart the other nighr, pnd on his way home tried to catch one of those black and wl.it:e kitten?. A little grave in the garden contains his clothes. Maj. Gen. Geo. II. Thomas died two years a;:o lat March. Steps were at once taken to erect a monument to his memory, and now the treasurer cf the fund informs the pttblio that this sub.
scriptionn in these two years and more have amounted to $4Jj0. Lucca lives in one of the mo.?; elegantly furnished mansions in New York, and is surrounded by all the luxurious appointment.) human, weakness could wish fjr. She ia attended by three serv
ants, who vie wii a one (mother to obey
her musical call tor "em lager." Ezra Cornell, the Founder of the University at Ithaca, proposes to collect and bind in a memorial volume, copies of all the newsp tperf. which can be obtained giving ncenunns of the death and burial of Horace Greeley, to be placed in the library of Cornell University. He requests all editors to send copies of their publications to him, at Ithaca, X. Y. The following table shown the present composition of the United States Su
preme Court :
lESIUESCV.
Hcotoral Vote fJi-nnt'H y Ovr r ?5O,OO0-Tlie
' wparrr! wttli tlint
of
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PtU.AR VI. TE. g t'ible'is given the rehidentUl election, the states being official exuked with an asterisk ,!ci 1 ii the ten States tietul returns have not :ie vote h:s been csre-
ISti,
Cninmny Does It Pa) . liV HO.V. SCHUYLER COLFAX. Never lias it been proven more unanswerably that calumny does not pay in a political campaign than in the canvass which has recently elosed. Unfortunately, no party can ever truthfully claim that all of its advocates and spokesme-n, in the press and on the hustings, are entirely just to political opponents. For it is the fate of nearly itll'public men to be too harshly judged by ono h tlf of our millions of voters, oft'iet though this may be by being too flatteringly esteemed by the other half. , ; . ,M t M. -..-. r-""c be Ba5wrfr-
doc. Execu especially ive in the g: . forms which have uu. glorious, were tainted ant ,. the vilest corruption and infamy. . best impulses of the American heartits love of fair dealing and fair play, its hatred of injustice, its sympathy with the wronged and slande:ed all rose to rebuke these reckless and indecent calumnies. As in individual life excessive aud iU",1!" nMnonal denunciation alv ... . .-. ..-a'-i. .ii., .. pola'oii) t . f ;iok Wvci ' ''.- -I .',
Ton are wringi K tthehiist to Unnl i
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1' I I h I, 51 M . M M . 1 M M. N. I. N. S. Hamrshirt... Hew .l-r.-v NtwY.Tk N. Carolina...... Ohl, Orcui!, lVur,B"lpanU,.. Ithix'i Island... Soui'i ("'uroltmi. Te:-r f-ssee Tuxas Vurmoitt Vlrg:ni Vt'es: Virginia WiaeoiMU
t'.i 3.W ft"'.h V, ' 2S.072 thlinil.; 5,4 9 J.2IS 31,224 rflwi i:),m t Kt 11.135 r,.')H 4-',.23f
rti:r:inr.liHtitl. II. MT 1L('4V i Omfraiichl--.!. S.l5 2C.:'Jti 10SM7 SI.7I!)
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Totals. a.nis.isi 2,7ti.'. ew
. 139 1M.472 136,90 M.55S 75,'X" 1W.I1 15.IKI I ,ftll0 37.1.S1 ie,f'. i m,7 tr, '1 3i3 1 !.' 3 tS. '1,111 l.1,t'H TJ.290 .t.ti,1' liit.OOt) 4I,4S vi.rx ins, Mil) i.'M.M
67..112 Vl.'iljll 77,01 9 3U27 4n,iu 1M.I31 lll.lHKI I1.01SU 31. (IK) 7.-21 37 '! f,7,l21 241.3AI 12.1121 211.9 II IS MI 22.729 HI :(! 7(Mi9! li.;0 91,42'i .v,.iei rfii'TtMl :,w;!4i
THE ELECTORAL C0I.LEIJE. The result of the vote in the Electoral Co'.lee is now known. The Electors in the seven States that voted for Greeley and Crown at the polls acted without auy unanimity, and many voted on their own Lusk. The vote Ibr President in these States wa thus divided : Greeley, ; 15. Grata Brown, 21 j T. A. llendiioke, 42: 0. .1. Jenkins, 2; David
D.ms, 1; blank, S. For Vice-President
the vote was divided : Brown, 55; N P. Eanks, 7 : G. V. Julian, 5 : A. U
Colnuit, 5 : J. M. rainier, 3 ; T. E. Bram-
!et e, 3: W. S. Oroesbeck, 1; W. 8,
Ma chen, 1. In Mis-ouri, one Elector on
the Greeley .".nd Brown ticket refused to vote for Brown either for President or Vice-President a case without precedent in the history of Presidential elections. The following is the vote in detailj rou riiE.'iiPENT.
S.-jj 3 PI
ri?
s, r. chime Katlmn OIIIT.iril.,,. N. H. Swiiyno D.-md Davis Snnini-1 F. Miller... tsteplieo J. Field... J'jKN'Ii P. Bnullry Wiu. Strong ,
Word Hunt The Rev.
of
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ArUiin-ufi Georgia. K.':itiicky Luilisiamt 31 irylatid y i?iouri Tciinpwoe Ttnl - r-sti'...
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Ariitnaa (iroTga KvHtUrk .... Lo titViarm... rj';i?ia.... MiMt-nrr , WilliesTosuia . ..... Total
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"I I came,' pudi'en blusti, ' if she ia here,"
replied lorn, with a 'to walls home with Kllie,
Bv a recent Governmental order in France all patent medirines and cosmetics are to be subjected to careful chemical analysis, and the sale prohibited of such as are found to contain any deleterious ingredient. In America, mom harm is done by the perpetual in
gestion of poisonous nodrums than in
the whole of Europe put together,
Statr. l:li(;
M.ll!!l(t t'l nhii ii! ., IliillClii v Iowa i-' t'uiilVrnia M Nw Jttrer S P-litl-vlva::i,l t.2
New York 62 Tfceo. L. Cuyler, in
scription of a visit to Curly.e,
sketches his personal appearance: "Presently an old man, apparently over three, score and ten, walked slowly ir to the room. Ho was attired in a long blue woolen gown, reaching down to bis feet. His gray hair wa? in an uncombed 'mop'
on his head. His clear blue eve was !
sharp and piercing. A bright tinge of red was on his thin cheek, and hi? hands trembled as he took our own." Greeley, Raymond and Bennett. In burying Mr. Greeley we bt.ry the third founder of a newspaper which has become famous a:nd wealthy ii New York during the las' thirty-five year?, Mr. Raymond died three years and Mr, Bennett scarce six months ego. These three men were exceedingly unlike each other, yet each of theui possessed
extraordinary prolessional talents. Mr. Raymond surpassed both Mr. Bennett and Mr. Greeley in the versatility of his accomplishments and in facility and smoothness as a writer. But he wasless
a journali.it than either of this other two. Nature had rather intended him for a lawyer, and success as a legislative debater and presiding officer hd directed his ambition toward that kind of life. Mr. Bennett vis exclusively a newspaper man. He was equally great as a writer, n wit, and a purveyor of news ; and he never showed any desire to leave a profession in which he had made himself ricli and formidable. Horace Greeley delighted to be a maker of newspaper, not so much for the thing itselt, though to that he was sincerely attached, M for the sake of promoting doctrines, ideas, and theories in
which he was a believer ; and his personal ambitiori, which was very profound and never inoperative, mule him wish to bo Governor, legislator. Senator, Cahiuct Minister, President, because such elevation seemed, to afi'ird the clearest possible evidence that he himself w.i appreciated ana that tho c,tue he
espoused had gained the hearts of the people. How incomplete, indeod, would be the triumph of any set of principles if their chief advocate anil promoter
were to go unrecognized and unhon-
ored I
It ia a most impressive circum-tMice
that each of these three great journal
ists has had lo (ho a tragical and pitiable death. One perished by apoplexy long after midnight in the entrance of bis own home; another closed hU eyes with no relative near him to jierform that last sad office ; in I the third, broken down by toils, excitements, aad sufferi igs too stron i to be borne, breathed his last in a private mad-house. What a lesson to tho possessors of power, for these three men were powerful beyond other I What a commentary up'.n human greatness, for they were rich and great, and were looked upon vith envy bythoucants who thought themselvts less fortunate than they ! And amid such slartlmp surprises and t ; ch a prodigious conflict of lights ami td adows, the curtain falls a:t th t red ucUt, crowned With long applauv:-, pnsaes from that which siienis to that viiiiiii ,n, Charles A. Jkma.
Curreut Items. The latest estimate of the cotton crop is 3,610,000 bales. ITxejLB Sam will pay $30,000,000 for pensions in 1873. CirF.wixo-ticM reticules are the latest feminine leiture. It requires $(5,000,000 a year to feed tho vagrant Indians. Indiana lost 4(5 of her citizens by the thrashing machine this year. There are 300,0000 Indiins in the United States and Territories. Up to this time, 132,000 patents have been issued by the Patent Office.
It is supposed that during the winter 7,000,000 hogs will root t heir way into
barrels.
A MEJtuEit of the Virginia Legislature
was recently fined ijiiiO for "habitually
carrying concealed deadly weapons.
Yale College had nineteen officers and 483 students in 1822. Forty years later it has 934 students and ninety-six
officers.
It has come to be looked upon as a
leiral fact that any man who didn t di
vide his property to suit all hia heirs
was insane.
Church wedding have L.tely came lo he such occasions for vulgar display that
our best people have dropped tnem alto
gether, and get married at Home.
The Sheriffs of Ohio received over 3,000 for bringing Presidential election rtitutns to Columbus, under a law passed,
before railways were near as numerous
as they arcs now.
Amo.no the victims of the horse disease in New York were Comm xlore
Vanderbilt's Mountain Boy, valued at
$100,001', and the noted stallion Socra
tes, worth $40,001).
A coRRr.si'ONiiEsr of the London Daily
2Vm, stationed on this side ot the water
writes home in unfeigned astonishment
" that on election day ladies proineuad
cd the streeti! just as on auy other day.
A Brahma rooster, named " Colossus," died of apoplexy in Connecticut a few
days since. Ho weighed over sixteen
pounds, doubtkss the largest chantt
cleer in America, and was valued at
about $100 by his owner.
Quebf.i.' is about to pull down its ram
parts, tiirow Us ct tide; into the river, re-
movi) the gates which still picturesquely obstruct its pt-ccipitet!- streets, and ob
literate the lau traces of th'f martial grandeur which make it to-day one of
the iuo-.,r, attractive cities in America.
Ax invention to melt enow on rail
roads has been contrived by a citizen of Bedford county, V;-. The object is to melt tho micw ''lid ice on a railroad
track :-.!( the train runs. This is to be effected by iiic-iiis- of a llameof sufficient intensity to produce the result instantaneously. A very good invention if it will iiccomplu.li the purpose. In the vicinity of Green Bay, Wis.,
which ii the la"gest shingle mart in the world, ure some frty shingle mills, that cut an average of from 25.000 to 2H,000 shingles a day each, and aggregate over !.),( I00,t 100 per annum. These mills employ over 15,000 men, nnd the capital invi'.t'd in I hem, in mxciiitiey, mill property, working material nnd stock, piae lanili), etc,, is over $100,-000,000.
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power; ond their personal wariare was concentrated on one man Gen. Grant.
As tho campaign progressed, however, it became more and more evident, for
many reasons the General Amnesty bill pssued by Congress, in June, and the advoeacy of Civil Service Reform by the President himself being conspicuous thit these two battle cries could have but little popular effect. The personal attacks on Gen. Grant had been so long before the public, and had been so often explained or refuted they had become as devoid of influence as they were of novelty. Aud then the fire opened along the whole opposition line against nearly all of the most active and influential men in the Republican party those who had been most prominent in its many contests against slavery and the rebellion, against Johnson's reconstruction policy, and for the Constitutional amendments. It seemed as if a genera, order had been issued) "Blacken and vilify, asperse and destroy the character of eveiy prominent Republican who adheres to the Republican organistation." Hdw persistently and
bitterly this kind of warfare was kept
up need not be detailed. An impartial observer would have supposed, if he
could have believed the charges, that a Republican Congress was but another
name tor a charnel-house ot corruption; that all its prominent legislation was
airied through by the wicKedest
bribery and fraud, and that all of its members were tainted with the vilest
ishonor. Month after month such
charges were reiterated, elaborated, am nlitied. intensified, till foreigners must
have supposed our Capitol was a den of
thieves and its inmates wortnier oi
membership iu a penitentiary.
Wicked as this wholesale denuncia
tion was, its object was obvious. It was to compel the people to believe that the
Republican party, as an organization,
was hopelessly steeped and sodden in
corruption and intamy: and that 'pun-
tication" could only be hoped for by
driving it from power. Toanswer these charge.), to explain away the suspicions
they sought to create, seemed useless.
If an assailed Republican denied the
aspersions flatly, the only response was
that, ot course, any scoundrel would uo that. If, on the contrary, standing on
his character, he refused to notici the
slanders, that was held up as convinc-
laa proof that he dared notdenv them,
And, if he took the pains t prove by
officii! data that it was impossible for
the charges to be true, it made no dit-
tererce. there was no retraction nor
regret; but, on the contrary, the defamatory accusations were repeated and re
iterated more industriously than ever.
New charges were added to tte old
ones; and the number of Republicans
assailed and branded as corrupt, diahon-
'.-. : i r.. ivVm ' r.:t :x i i-iiiieu to mere party
lines by any means) to greater exertion, to rebuke and condemn them in the most marked and unmistakable man
ner.
Mv own experience and observation
in public life convince me that wholesale invective and reckless personalities always injure the party or the candidal
using them. In twenty years' succetfrful participation in political campaigns
never sought to mase the people ne-
lieve an opponent a scoundrel because
he politically differed with, nxe. Anct, after nearly twenty years' participation
in public life at Washington, 1 am giact that I can say that the Republicans
and Democrats with whom 1 have been
associated there are, in the aggregate
and on the average, gentlemen of quite
as hieh character and Of as much per.
sonal worth as those we meet ana asso
ciate with in our respective communities at home. Of course,- there have
been and are bad men, unworthy men,
amongst them, as there have been and
are in all cities and villages throughout
the land. But, as honorable men, they
can be ranked, at least, with the mem
bership of the thousands of Grant clubs
and Greelev clubs all over the Union,
and not be at all dishonored by tue comparison. A sad dry it will be for the country when lis millions believe otherwise, and feel that they have more reason than campaign charges to be
lieve their public men are swindlers
and knaves. And it will not belong
until (the excitements of this canvass having passed away) the American people generally will rejoice that the 5th
ol .November proved so clearly that, m
what should have been a campaign of
high principle, calumny did not pay,
Foreign Gossip.
Toronto has erected $2,012,725 worth
of buildings during the past season.
Antwerp has a skilled and armless
artist painting rare paintings with his
toes.
Tee London Timet, it is said, is pe-
panng to send out a Livingstons expe
dition.
Thk Grand Duke Alexis is promoted
from the naval service to a Jlsjor-uen
eralcy in the Russian army.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has ex-
nened 258,000 in presentan to the
city of London a property to be called
Columbia Market.
J. Camden Hottkn, the English pub
lisher who tried to swindle Mark Twain and Bret Harte, has been mulcted in
heavy damages for literary piracy.
ed, infamous, constantly increased. At
last almost every prominent Republican was included in this black list; and a Btrnnger would hive supposed, from our
campaign literature, that everything was
accomplished in this country by "rings'
railroad rings, treasury rings, senato
rial rings, military rings, naval rings tariff rings, postofflce rings, custom
house rings, land office rings, Indian
rings, etc, etc.
And thus the canvass went on. Eve
ry tt iug was wrong, everything was corrun':, everything was dishonorable, eve
rythmg was managed and tainted ana
defiled by "rings." The grand political
rcatdts of the Republican party more glorious in a single decade than any other party in any other country had
ever achieved in centuries were not
taken issue with by those seeking to
di i"e it from power; for on that issue its
enemies knew it to be impregnable.
Noi.' did they dare to join issue with the Administration on its reduction of the
national debt, its reforms and reduc
tions in external and internal taxation
its elevation of the national credit, its
set tlement of the "Alabama ' irritations,
etc Right well was it known that the
veidiot of the people on such campaign
issues was beyond question or doubt.
And so the canvass was lowered troin
tho higher plane of principle to one
,. i . r ; j : J i
oi personaiinc?, ot luveuuvo uu hi-
uniny.
But when the people at large clearly
discerned that such was to be the con
trolling spirit of the campaign thit no
mans character, however long estab
lished or however pure and honorable,
protected him against the outrageous
slanders and the most unblushing mis
representations and perversions the r suit of the canvass was no longer doul.
ful. There was a time during the sum
mer,b fore these flood-gates of vilification were opened, when it seemed as if the
content might be a close one. But when the campaign was so shaped that the American people clearly understood that their votes were to be construed as declaring that the President and all the prominent Republicans of the land should go down to history as personally infamous there was no longer a reasonable doubt of the result. The people, too, had tho strongest proof before their eyes that the calumniators did not believe their own calumnies. Only last year the New York Sun had for weeks striven, by charge and inuendo, to make the country believe that Horace Greeley and others, who were personal friends of the murdered journalist, Richardson, were Free Lovers, etc. But
when, within a year thereafter, tho same editor presided at a Tammany
meeting ratifying and eulogizing Horace Greeley's nomination for President as
the very best and worthiest that could
have been made in the United States, the masses realized how worthies! and
unreliable are even the most malignant charges against men occupying public positions whon their fabricators make
haste to publicly give the lie to their own aspersions. Nol Calumny does not pay. In this
campaign its only result was to enlist on the vicht- side hundreds of thousands of
previously lukewarm voters. They
could not consent to be regarded as w
t Wi'PRif widow vouM like lomt
lH criuuu- wii-. ai-en she advertised
for an agent, made her appear to want
" a gent."
inu does this hone car ran?" tit
the old gentleman from the onntprj to the boot-black. " Dunno," said the imp of the blacking bottle, " the hosseruna
a- the nose."
Tnn nj-e 13 shot-sons, with vomen
at their butt-ends, prowling around the Western States, looking for truant tv bands and their naughty feminine companions. Thunder from the West may be expected soon.
The noet of the Lynchburg itfrw
hasn't been particularly lucky. In n ode to his girl he says . " Keen is yor sorrow 5 bat keener is my grief. The compositor, who lost his undermost
nickel on ute top raw me uiga wvfvF set up, " bat keno is cry grief.
! Hall tells the etwry oCsmaa who
sung most piously the hymn, . -.
Were the whole raatm or attire muse. That wen a present ior too email.
and all through the singing was fumb
ling in his pockets to maxe sure 01 tpe smallest piece of silver for the contribution-box. When twenty-seven inches of sapw" yield three inches of water, how much milk will a cow give when fed on English turnips t To ascertain, multiply the flakes of snow by the taint on s ew' tail and then divide tha product by turnip, add a pound of chalk, and the sum will be the aniiwer. Two jishmen were working Sin a quarry, when one of them fell into deep quarry-hole. The other, abmped, came to the margin of the hole ana called out, " Anab, Pat, are ye kilt entirely ? If you're dead, spake." Pat reassured him from the bottom by saying, in answer, " No, Tim, I'm not dead,-but I'm spa&ehless." A CBLEBHATKB physician was. called upon recently by a person suffering from rheumatism, who intuited upon his doing something for him. The physician wrote a prescription, and, wthe pttient went out of the room, said to him, " I wish yon would let me.know if that k es yon any good, for I have myself been very much troubled with rheumatism lately." A lawtix built him an office in tho
form of a hexagon or six-square. Th novelty of the structure attracted tho attention of some Irishmen who were passing by. They made a fall stop, and viewed the building very critawry The lawyer, somewhat disgusted st their curiosity, raised tha window, pat his head out, and addressed them : " Whs do you stand there for, like a pack of
blockheads, gating at my orace 1 i;j
Referbing to Thiers, Garibaldi, it is
said, remarks that he looks '' with pity
unri hnrrnr on that blood-snottea cna- 1 von take it tor a cnurcn r
mol-ftn. ehnntinp Communists at Satorv I MinirArAd one of them. " I WJ think-
and bombarding the ocean at iron- me so, till 1 saw w uivu pvim
ville." I head out of the window."
At an English funeral the other day,
one of the six bearers slipped and fell ;
the others dropped the colnn, ana tell upon the prostrate man in such a manner as to inflict injuries ofwhich he died
within a week.
In all
buildinss
or the angle cut off, so that the de- ,,4 0I feasting and reirjeliy to
BeeeUeeUoiis of Cbristsua; nhriatma was close at hand, in all hiss
bluff aad htarty honesty; it was tM season of hospitality, merriment, mad
7 x i open-heartedness ; the old year was pro file new streets of Paris the Jfag uie an ancient philoeopher, to at the corners are rounded, friends around him, and amidst
walks are curved, thus facilitating loco
motion, and avoiding the many accidents caused by turning around sharp angles.
The Blue Book, containing the
' finance accounts",of the British Govern
pass gently and calmly away. Gay and
merry was mo ume, ana gy """j were at least four of tho numerous hearta that were gladdened by its com
ing.
And numerous indeed are the hearts
mant for 1871 72 shows that, excluding to which Christmas brings a brief season the civil list, which amounts to Df happiness and enjoyment. How 406,238 17s 9d; tho grants to the many familiss, whose member Iiavo
Royal family show a total ot izo,wo been dispersed ana scatterea ntr ana 83 lid. wide in the restless struggles of life, are A method adopted in Portugal for then re-united, and meet once again in preserving fish consiets in removing tho that happy state ol companionship and the I mutual rood-will, which ia a source of
i'i - r o a . t , - . . 1-
interior, keeping the fish in a horisontal nosiiion. so that the suear may pene
trate as much as possible. One table-
spoonful of sugar is sufficient for a five-
pound tub,
such pure and unalloyed delight; and ineomoatiUe with the cares and
sorrows of the world, that the religion
belief of the most civilised natrons, ana the rude traditions of the roughest savhm. alike number it aatcauLiho first
joy 8 of a future oontiition ot existence,
The Lund-Grunt Business.
Mr. Poor's Jtailroait Manual for I872-'3 provided for the blest and happy I How ,
contain? a statement a iremu w 1 1 mwiy oltt recouecxions, aoa bow ubumj
n mount of public lands si-anted by Con
a. A j ... f.
greaa to oiaittj auu uvi jjvi miwu., m of railroad construction, since Sept. 20,
1850, when the first grants of the trad wore niide. in aid of the Illinois Cen
tral, and the Mobile and Obio roads.
dormant sympathies, does Christmas
Umet, awaken t
We write these words now, many
miles distant from the spot at which, year after year, we met on that day a
merry ana joyous circle, swy u
Acts have been passed at different times .mta that thiobbed so eailv than, have-
granting to fourteen States an aggregate ced to beat -. many of the look that of 57,066,240 acres, in aid a sixtyeven J 8none EO brightly then, have ceased to
roads, being an average 01 Q01, las acres gjow . tne hands we grasped have grown to each road. Assuming the Ian 3s to ,1 j . CTg8 We sought havo hid their have brought Government price, $1.25 imjter in the grave; and yet the old
per acre, the companies have reamea an hOUM the room, the merry voices awl
nverage ot i,uo,co eaou irum mmu i gmiling laces, tue jess, uo jaugu, u
grants. I is probable tnai me com-1 most minute and trivial circuDastanosa
panies wnicn navo avauea memwivw vi connected wun those nappy roeeuE the gi ants and actually constructed crowd upon our mind at eaxJh recurrence their roads, have realised very much of tfce season, M if the last sssemhlwgo more than this. They have, it is likely, bad been but yesterday 1 Happy, happy derived not less than $8,C00 per mile ot Christmas, that can win us back to th .
road, on the average, from their grant, deiiou, of our childish days ; that east The following table shows the Stales to to the oli man the pleasures of which grants have heen made, the num- nig Jouln . that can transport th sailor ber of acres granted to each, and the ttte -traveler, thousands of m:l
number of roads in aid ot which te I awayt back to his own fireside and jut grants have been applied, or were in- quiet home CharU Dktent,
tended to be applied :
States. . Acres.
lllinoif. 2,695,083 MiseiBwppi. 2,062,240 Alabtrovi 8,729,120
Florid- a,seu,i Loiiinitna 8,178,720 Arkansas 4,804.871 Missouri 't'6'1 Xowa. 7,207,887 Michigan 'S31'!" Wieeonxin 4,3128,360 Minnesota 7 783.403 Kansas 8,420,000 Calif ornis 2,006,000 Orogou 8,860,000 Totals .57,066,240
A KAN, HI OrgUlllJl I'M us J" "("Jf" v I -'J V J ,. j hin- dishonest, said i his clergyman, admire each otter sipwoty.
" Tho fact it-, it is impossible for me, if j was almost te to
1 am Btrictly non-sst, 10 carry on my 1 suing m "''r buaineBa and Uve in this world." Die, soon after asid, B
nrieinuitr: "
Lu reply. I that ii fro wM?'
No.
roads.
S 8 8
Mt nEiS." said the rashiosable bot-
ter half of a dealer in para liquors tho other dav, " I see by tho fashion pP that watered ribbons are to be fnihlOOf
4 1 able this winter ; give me some mey 8 to purchase a lovoly on I aaw m
r letcner s. x es, www , v spouse, as he handed out tho green-
backs, " ana tnst wut maico swwra
that watered whisky snail Deoowe f f
ioneble among our cuMomers mm ww ter."1 ..' :,-
tv is said thas one ot gWai;
- pleasures Baton Waldo ia fli 67 nod himself in coins abroad was to-joa
'ihoar
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