Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 3, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 July 1872 — Page 2

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J8ATURDA YNIGHT.

The sapper is over, the hearth Is swept* And, In the wood-Are's glow,

The children cluster tp heai'aaale Of that Uihe so long agd—t .When grinds stoma's hair was golden Jk brown,

And the warrablood came and went O'er the face that could scarce haw been sweeter then,

Than now In Its rich content

The fpce Is wrinkled and care-worn now. And tl~e golden hair is gray But the light that shone 111 the young girl's

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^.ndjuur jaeetU-es^catcl^tlie XUe'* lifiht,^ As In and out they go, "With the clicking inuslc that grandma lpV«»,

Shaping fhe stocking toe.

And the waking children love It, too,, For they know the stocking song Brings many a tale to grandma's mind,

Which they shall hear ere long.

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But it brings no story of olden time, To grandma's heart to-night— itj Only a ditty, quaint and short,

Is sung by tne needles bright. u'ff

Life is a stocking," grandma says, And yoars is Just begun .* But I am knitting the toe of mine,

And iny work Is almost doiu*." -•**.

With merry hearts we begin to knit, And the ribbing is almost play Some are gay colored, and some .are white,

And some are ashen gray.

"But most are made of many a hae, *°V* With many u.stitch set wrong, And many a row to be sadly ripped

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"There are long plain spaces without break That In youth are hard to bear And many a weary tear is dropped"

As we fashion the heel with care,

But the saddest, happiest time is that We court and yet would hhun When our. Heavenly Father breaks the i* thread,

And says that our work is done."

The finished stocking lie?.

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TIIR children come to say good night, ,» With tears In their bright young eyes While In grandma's lap, with a broken thread,

Does the road wind up hill all the way Yes, to the very end. Will the journey take the whole long day

From morn to night, my frieud.

But Is there for the'night a resting place? A roof for all when the slow hours begin May not the darkness hide It froin iny i'uee?

You cannot miss that Inn.

Shall I meet other wayfarers at night Those who have gone before. Then must I knock or call when just in sight?

They will Mot keep you standing at the door. Shall I fl.id comfort, travel-spro and weak

Of labor you shall find the Him. Will there he a bed for mo and all who seek

Yes, bods lor all who come, t-i-

NEWS AND NO TINGS.

Chicago i8 suffering for a jubilee^ The Peabody fund is considered the best managed financial charity in the or id

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A now and beautiful intoxicant, compounded of naphtha and ether, has Decn invented iirKngland.

Twclvo hund roll and fifty dollars mado the ancient "talent." It takes some talents to make §1,2.30 now-a-days.

Col. Shulor, Warden of tho Soutberh Indiana Prison, morally suaded his lambs on the Fourth with ico cream, lemonade, and cold turkey. ltov. Dr. Fisk, President of the Female College, of Indiana, :u Greencastlo, lias recoivod a contribution of §10,000 toward tho building fund of the institution.

This is the latest in reportorial vnrietj': "Mrs. Sarah Nowoomb, of Illinois, recently ruined a handsome bed

by dashing out tho brains of lior usband with it." Fish aro so thick in Clear Lake, California, that a veracious citizen says: "It is only necessary to wade in and choose your lish, tho diillculty being whiclrlish to choose."

Tho English language consists* of twenty-five thousand radical words, of which Shakspearo uses fifteen thou* sand and it is the vernacular of seventy millions of human beings.

Nicaragua lias a lake of mineral wator which tho total abstinence people ought to import. It is so nasty that he who driuks of it onco never wants to taste liquor of any kind again.

Lightning plays some strange freaks. Tho other day it struck in lthode Island. Now an electric discharge that could hit so small a place as Rhode Island must have been exceedingly sharp as well as accurately aimed.

The importation of fireworks this vear will roach ubout lt7,000 boxes, or nearly one-third more than that of any provious year. Most of them oame from China, which is tho principal caterer of young America iu the patriopyrotechnic business.

It, is an interesting fact, not generally kpowh. that tho "sitrn languago" of all Indians is tho safiie, or nearly the same so that if a man meets another, bolongiug to a diflerent tribe, ho is able to converse with him by means of signs,' much in the same manner that dear and dumb people converso with one another.

A clover young soamp recently sold a Missouri farmer half a bushel of "powder," whoso peculiar virtue was its "preventing koroseuo from exploding," small quantity of powder boing put Into each lump. In return tho farmer

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ave his note tbr flOO. Upon being inUnit tbe powder was only common .salt, eolored, ho hunted op tho party ol the first part and got his note "back !v paying fifteen dollars. 'as*** °jv eitlNESE KITCHEN

A Chinese kitchen, from which sucb goml things are turned out for tbo table, is a wonder in its way. Thcco is nothing in it but a cooking stove or two, uot longer than our American water pail, with a few stew pans, and many chop-sticks, froim which lew things cou'ie the manv courses fbr the table, all 'well' cooked and garnished—nay, oren tire beat beefsteak?, so diilioult to have cooked woll at homo. The more 1 go.over the world, the more I s»m couxincod that Americans and Englishmen nr«-fur behind the r«st of creation iu

preparing their food to be eaten. Our

."civilization" iu this is over a hundred „ntl

years behind the iige and in this res-

FIVE YEARS A SQ UAW.

A Yankee Schoolma'am's Experience--How the Romance of Indian Life was Dispelled—Return of Squatting Bear's

White Wife from the Brale Teepees The Karisa^JRity Tlntes," or the 29th' tilt., contain® th^jN/ollowing history, which will be PsyiJ-"\vith interest

The steame-r l»Ant««»ello arrived at this city yesterday morning after a three month's trip to Fort.Benton and the mountains. Among her miscellaneous cartro of robes, furs, peltries.

Miss Amanda Barber— Mrs. Squatting Bear—who.inafitof fanatical roir.ance, offered' herself, hi 1867( as#a voluntary mission to the Brule Sioux, then occupying the territory between the Cheyenne River and tho Big Horn Mountains, Dakota Territory. "Miss Barber created quite a sensation in the Eastern States by her marriage with a young Indian mimed sjquattiHg Bear,

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party of Sioux to Washington in 1867. Miss Barber was at that time a clerk in one of tee Departments at Washington, in a position secured for her by .General Butler, before the impeachment fiasco. According (6 her own statement, made yesterday to our reporter, she was firmly impressed with the ideality and periiction of the red men of the Plain*. She had read everything relating to the Indian tribes, from the reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs down to tho latest dime novel. In a lit of enthusiesm or ttinporary insanity, she offered herself to and became tho wife of Squatting

Bear, a junior chief in the Lone Horn batfa ot Brule Sioux, and with him and his party returned to the Yankton agerfcy, where she was duly initiated into iier new life as a white squaw. Her romantic ideas seem to have received a terrinle shock since her introduction to her new home and relations and, though she endeavored to fulfill her mission as a teacher and missionary to tho best of her al iii.ies, her progress appears to have been us slow as tho progress of civilization on the Plains. She states that her first great surprise wasbeiug jequired to mount upon a wild, vicious p^ry, and travel without saddle cr attentiort over tho country from the Missouri to tho White Earth River, a disiance of several hundred miles. Her inability to make the journey provoked mirth among her husband's companions, nnd finally ex* asperated Squatting Bear until he bound her with a rope to the pony's "back, and led the animal himself on the westward trail. "She wa still more surprised to find her husband possessed of two wives— one vicious, diity squaw of forty ye irs of age, the other a girl of scarcely t'ouiteen years. Her life in his wigwam, or teepee, was not as bright and happy as she expected it would be. Her husband's absence was taken advantage of by her rivals to compel her to.periorm the vilest drudgery, such as gathering wood, cooking meat, and scraping robes far the tanning process but during Squatting Bear's presence at home Miss Barber appears to have been better treated. Her husband in a violent lit of passion, killed bis oldest squaw during the first year she was with the tribe, when, without warning or notice, she was hurried off to the main tribo camp of tho Brules, three days' journey toward the mountain, anil from thenco she accompanied the tribe on its annual buffalo hunt, where she became sick from exposure ana fatigue. She was lett at a temporary drying camp at Rawhide ltiver, where* she attempted to escapo by walking to Fort Fettermam, a distance of sixty miles. For this attempt she was beaten until nearly dead, and then sold by her husband lor three ponies to a Cheyenne chief, who sported the expressive sou briquet of Coo-Coose, or Baconsldes. She was taken north in 1S70, and has remained with tho Cheveniies evor since, uritil her escape this spring, when she claimed the protection of the authorities at Fort Benton. "Miss Barber's experiences would no doubt mako a story moro thrilling than that of tho -Esca'ped Nun.' She is a woman rather plain in appearance, skin tawny aud black, eyes small, dark, and expressive, voice rather masculine— and in fact such a woman as Mrs. Col. Anthony or Tennie Clafllin would ,choose for a second in command. Miss

Barber couvorsfel with our reporter withoiit the least diffidenCe, and answered any question asked of her. She says that so far as tbo romance of Indian life is concerned, she found none of it. Her efforts to teacii and reform the young Indians wero treated with indifference and oontempt. She learned the Sioux languago easily, but the Cheyenne dialect was harder to acquire. She has much higher opinion of the Chey ennes than of tho Sioux. The latter tribe, she says, aro to blame for nearly all tho thieving and murdering done iu the white settlements. She found it necessary to paint and color like the rest of the triuo while she was with them, and twice witnessed tho murder or execution of white men—one a soldier belonging to the 82d U. S. Infantry, who had been taken out while hunting, who was burnt and scalped the others were two teamsters, brought from Fort McPherson. All three were burnt at a place called Saddlers' Hill, in the Nebraska Bad Lands. "Miss Barber has a poor opinion of Grant's Quaker policy, which she s«y3 is a perfect farce, and is so regarded by the Indians. Sho asserts that there will 1)0 no peaco while white men m-

lroutier settlements. Tlie Indians have tho greatest contempt for the white men's judgment, and the efficacy of the soldiers.

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GREELEY'S EARLY Twain maliciously says: Mr. Greeley gets up at three o'clock in the luormng, for it is one of his favorite niaxinisthat only early rising can keep th? health unimpaired and the bralft vigorous. Ho then wakes up all the household and assembles them in the library by candle light and beautiful lines, "Early to and early

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p*jt the Ohinbso are TAT our superiors. I ^lirnirinir words, and goes back to bed That devil's invention of ours, the ^\r"ging i* kitchen range ought to bo kicked down where it eatno from, tho lower regions—an invention which, in summer, roasts Xis out of our houses, and in winter -^consumes as much coal in a day as a ptyinaman would need in a month, or a Frenchman in a week. Some rich man in America, some coming Peter Cooper, in lieu of teaching. us Low to draw, would do well to teach ring the late war IJ* 7

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UNTEOFITABLK SKRVICR.—A

Brooke' "Seven Months' Run." I gave for ono glass of old wuisKey

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TERRE-HATJTE SATURDAY, EVENING MAIL. JULY 20, 187-2.

WIT AND HUMOR.

Wprmwood—Coffina.^ Neck or nothing—A ball dress, '"nine lost"—A missing watch. A blank book-*—An empty wallet: Gftod liylrig—L^ng within your means.

It rather hit tho nail on the head when a lady on being asked what she thought was the meaning of the words, "the pestilence that walketh in the darkness," answered, that in h« opinion, *it yras bed-bugs,"

An undertaker was passing by a Trait-stand. No one saw him/ as be supposed. He stepped up and patted a large cucumber patronizingly, as much as to say: "Good boy, old Cucu. Go for 'era. Steboy. Sei£9 'em. Gripe 'em."

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The laziest man lives in Alabama. Armed with a fisliline, a dog and a of meat, he proceeds to work

Piece He ties the line to the hind leg of the dog, casts the line into the water, lies down in the shade,"aodt when tbe line trembles, by means of the meat, coaxes the ttog to haul out the lisb. "When a stranger treats me with want of respect," said a poor philosopher, "I comfort myself with the reflection that it is not myBelf that he slights, but my old and shabby hat and cloak, which, to say the truth, have no particular claim to adoration. So if ii^ hat and cloak choose to fret about it, let them but it is nothing to me."

A young gentleman on tho occasion of a pleasant visit to a young lady friend, inquired if she would not kind ly teach him to play croquet. "Oh yes,M was the courteous reply of the fair one, "I'll teach you fo play"—then adding with the keen appreciation of the characteristics of the opposite sex, "You will easily learn, tq cheat, yourself"

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A practical man visited a penitentia ry to see if he could gather facts to use in a temperance lecture tvhich he was preparing. "My friend," said he to the first prisoner whom he addressed, "did whiskey, or ardent spirits of anv kind, have anything to do with bringing you here?" "You bet they did, old boss." "Howso?" "Why, the judge and jury that tried me wero all drunk."

Clerical gentleman, who objects to smoke, and means to make an exam

8ommercial—*'To

1e "May I inquire your name, sir?" be sure you may, I'm Davis, from Bradford, ip the stuff trade. What line might yours be?" Clerical gentleman (with irony)—"The spiritual, sir." Commercial (not noticing the irony)—"Is it, though? What an awful price you've got gin up to, the last fortnight!" The clerical gentleman discovered he had a friend in another car.

At a so-called spiritual sitting, recently, there was present a woman who mourned tho loss of her consor, and as tho manifestations began to appear the spirit of the departed Benedict entered upon the scene. Of course, the widow was now eager to engage in conversation with the absent one, and the following dialogue ensued: "Widow —are you in the spirit world? The Lamented—I am. Widow—How Ion: have vou been there The Lamented —O, some time. Widow—Don't you wailt to come and be with your lonely wife? The Lamented—Not if I know myself. It's hot enough here!

A Western exchange is inclined to be facetious over tho verb lay. It getB off the followiug: "There are all sorts of lays in this world. Show me any particular lay and I will show you anv number of persons on it. Some men are continually hunting subjects to write lays about, while others laze about all their live* and never hunt anything, except it's a drink. One may lays up a grudge, and another lays by something fora rainy day. It is ono man's lay to lay a stonewall, another to lay still. A ship lays along side, and a lazy man lays a long time in bed. One man lays down piping, and another lays down and'dies, while few, alas! lay up their treasures above There are men who lay over their fellows in every particular, and there are others who are sacrificed to be lay members all their lives although paradoxical as it may appear, a lay member jnay often be a member in good stand ing.

The Rev. Mr. A had cliarire of a Methodist church in a small Western village. His parislioners consisted mainly of hardworking farmers and their wives, and these, being wearied with the hard labor of the previous week, had a remarkable tendency to tall asleep during tho services. On this occasion tho reverend gentleman glanced around on his congregation and found them, with few exceptions, slumboring placidly. Suddenly pausing in his sermon, he requested Deacon S— to pass around tho plate.

The Deacon, thus accosted, rosoto his feet, and with a very red face said "Why, Brother A tho collection hns already been taken up." "Nevermind, BrotherS ."replied the minister "take up another, for I intend to make the congregation pay for lodging as well as for spiritual food."

And when tho second collection had been taken up, the congregation was very wide-awake fndeed.

HOW MEXICAN REfr6L'tfhoNiS ARE CONDUCTED. Tho New York Evening Mail says:

An American who has resided sever al years in our sister Republic gives the following as the programme of a Mexican revolution.

Some Mexican loader obtains prominence enougfc to imagine himself justified in proclaiming a revolution. Ho immediately issues a pronunciamento announcing the tact, expressing patriotic sentiments, and full of the largest words he can cull out the Mexican vocabulary, put together with more regard to sound than sense. Under these circumstances he collect* a crowd of followers, men who have been waiting and who got their living bv joining the party of what thev consider the best paying leader. Then the government sends a small force to disperse this revolutionary movement. The opposing lotces come within sight of each other, say at

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mile or so, and at one® commence fighting. One party retreats. The other camps on the blooodless field and announces a victory. In the meantime their opponents have reaehed the nearest Mexican town, have levied a tribute upon it, and given a ball in the evening. Then it is the turn of the others. Thev enter the same village in pursuit, few a tribute and give a ball. And so pontiuues. This may seem more satirical than true, but to those who have endeavored to keep informed concerning Mexican matters

THE LITTLE PEOPLE.

A five-year old visiting at the seashore aim obliged 40 aleep three in a bed, narratod her tfream, WMph being unfinished, $He aAflbiinted.fbr fhlly by not having rpim igdrtem the re*t of It*

A father Wpk Vin^hnghis w.atoh when he said playfully *6 bite little girl: "Let me wind up your nose." "No," said tbe child, 'Jjtibu't want my nose wound up, for I don't drant it to run all day. "Gedrge," asked the teacher of a Sunday school class, "who, above all otherfe, fehall you wish first*to see when yen get to heavfcn»?" With a brightening up with anticipation, the little fellow sboated, "Gerliah!"

A little girl was saving her prayers not long since, when her littlo brother came slyly behind and pulled her hair. Without moving her head, she paused and said, "Please Lord, excuse me a minute, while I kick Herby."

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FVjnd da Lac, Wisconsin, has a four* year old incendiary. He never gets near a kerosene lamp but he upsets it over himself and liis fond mother. He has already furnished ten items tor the papers, and he hasn't given up ,tho business yet.

A small boy sends the. following counundrum Why did not George Washington's little sister go out with him to cut down the cherry tree? Because she had not got her little hat vet. This is the first answer, and tho other is, George Washington never had any sister.

Melancholy response: "What would you do if mamma should die?" asked a lady—with whom we have the honor ot an intimate acquaintance—of a little three year-old girl that we wouldn't take a thousand dollars for'. "Well, ma'am," was the melancholy responce, "I a'pose I should have to beat myself." "I'll tell you, mamma, how it happened," explained a youthful lover, "After school, I went part of the way home with Mary and at the corner of the street Where she left me I kissed her, and she kissed me, and then found was lost." Many a man has been lost in tbe same lane. d!: '•v 1 .:

Papa, stand on that hearth," said a little trichnarian to his doting parent, who objected that the hearth would be scratched, and his mother would not like it. "Yes papa, do I wish you would." "But why, my child?" remonstrated paterfamilias. "Because mamma'll give you fits if you do, and I want to see her"

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An elderly gentleman returning home from church, oegan to extol the merits of the sermon to his son. Said he: "Jack, I have heard one of the most de lightful sermons ever delivered before a Christian society. It carried me to the gate of heaven." "Why didn't you dodge in replied Jack irreverently, you will never get another-such

chance.". •HP i^i'W *nt no A little girl in a New York orpliafi asylum quarreled with another girl'and scratched her face, for this she was punished and required to learn and re peat a verse from the Bible, being al lowed to make her own selection. She choses the first verse of the Psalms, 141, which is as lollows: "Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight."

One of the "Little Women" of Cambridge. a live-years old tot, wont to church last Sabbath and listened attentively to the sermon. On reaching home het- mother asked her what the minister said. "Well." She replied, "lie talked a good deal about the man up in the sky, and kept his handb going, and kept bowing to tho people and he talked about Simon Peter and Judas Iscariot, but he didn't say a word about Santa Claus."

HO WIT FEELS TO BE BLOWN UP. A survivor of the recent disaster to the tug-boat McDonald, on the Mississippi, thus tells the story of his experience I was aWakend from sleep by a heavy concussion, followed immediately afterward by a second and lieavi er one. Everything seemetl to give away. There was a rush of hot air, and I found myself going through tbe air. Something struck me in the side and broke my ribs. I knew in a minnte what Was the matter, and I had all my senses about me. It seemed to me that I went up a irigbtful distance. How •far, of course, I cannot tell. I left the hot air that started with me, and struck a cooler current, I went up head first, and, as I stopped, turnod over and came down head first. Tho thought passed through uiy mind that this was unfortunate, for I might strike a piece of the wreck and injure myself. Just then a stick struck me, and whirled me over so that I struck the water feet first. The blow left a mark on my right leg about eight inches long, and crippled it so that I could not use it. I took in a full breath of air as I touched the water and soon began to rise. The thought struck me, what if I comedown just in time to be struck by a falling timber. As I came up I thrust up my hand over nvy head to protect it, and caught it on apiece of the roof, cutting it somewhat. My theory is that it was a part of the roof 6ver me. I had fol lowed ifc up and beat it coming down I looked round and saw the wreck had already sunk. The deck seemed to be attached Ifi some way to the wreck, for I floated away from it, and began to look around for something to cling to. I found amass of timber, and was soon after picked up by some men in a fikii^ -1!

DOLLY VA RDEN.

The fashion has spread llke*a sort of moral small-pox till jt has pitted everything worth mentioning. A man in a Dolly Varden shirt, with a Dolly Varden necktie, may marry a girl in a Dolly Varden dress. The organ may play a Dolly Varflert march as the couple leave the church, and on the wedding journey the bride may ponder over tbe solution ol A Dolly Varden puzzle, while the bridegroom ventilates her features witll a liolly Varden fan. The happy pair may glide down the Mississippi on a Dolly Vardeil canoe, eat Dolly Varden potatoes at a Dolly Varden hotel, attend a Dolly Varden "dramatisation at a Dolly Varden theater, and go to bed in Dolly nightcaps.' It would seeni as though all the honey had long been su&ked out of the Dolly Varden flower. We suspect the fashion will linger an for a few months longer, rtftd then tlie of paralysis, fiie sooner such a fate seizes it tbe better pleased everjrohe will be who looks for oongruity in y»tame. Nothing could be more absurd than the figures recently eat by broad dowagers and lank spinsteiB in their assumption of Dolly "Varden coquetries. If the dress is to be worn at all. let it be by some bright yona* girl as bright as a humming bird and sweet as cream. If we cannot have the green and dewy landscape, the "lush and lusty" meadows among which the original Dolly figured, let us at Ifeasthave youth, freshness, tenderness of onttine, shapeliness and grace,

GOLDEN PARAGRAPHS.

Quarrels would not fret Jotilg'lf the w^ng aU on^dneTside^ 4u|tfU the beautiful}'

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Value the friendship of ,him who stands by you in the storm sw&up>of insects will surround you in the sunshine.

We are only competent to judge another's conduct when we thoroughly comprehend the motives that prompted his actions.

Mohammed once.said When a man dies, men inquire whSt luS BSsrtfift hind him angels inquire what he has sent before him."

Truthfulness is a corner-stone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth there will always be a weak spot in the foundation.

Tlie man who would shine'in conversation must possess original Ideas and strong sympathies—bo able both to communicate and to listen.

When vou see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you mav depend upon jt he keeps a very small stock of it within.

Have the courage to cut the most agreeable acquaintance you have when you are convinced he lacks principle. "A friend should bear friend's infirmities." but not his vices.

"I have nothing to do with death's coming. My business is to live as long1 as I can and as well as I can, until the Lord shall thirtk prrtper to call me home."—[Rev. Wm. Tennent, Sr.

Be always frank and true spdrn every sort of aftection and disguise. Have the courage to oonless your ignorance and awkardness. Confide yeur faults and follies to but few.

Some men arelike cats. You may stroke the fur the right way lor years, and hear nothing but ptirring but accidentally tread on the tail, and all memory of former kindess is obliterated. j-irf J&US fOsj

Preserve ybur c(rnseien6&*always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul, and is suffered to dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand more iniqul ties. S* I"*

Let amusements fill up tlie chinks of our existence, not the great spaces hereof. Let your pleasures be taken as Daniel took his prayers—with his windows.open pleasures which need not cause a single blush on an ingenu ous cheek.—[Parker.

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Always avoid the company in which you are willing to tell a coarse jest, because for you it is a demoralizing company. Crossness is never humorous, profanity is never admirable: and if your mannor and speech once begin to ravel out upon that edge all their manliness and charm are in danger.—[G, W. Curtis.

Mont Blanc rises in solitude above the dense atmosphere at its feet, and pierces the gloomy and storm driven vapors that veil his breast, aiid lifts his glittering head amid t-tje cloudless splendors of an eternal day so, towering above the common strifes of men, moves in serene majesty the man who is slow to anger, an^^^.tbo mastery of his own spirit. 11 rtnl j* *, w,

Will men's prayers be answered Not if tihey pray as boys whittle sticks, absently, hardly knowjng or 'caring what they are about. Some men begin to pi-ay about Adam, and go on from him away do-^vn to the present time, whittling their stick clear to tha point with about as much feeling and doing about as much good as the boy does.—

[H. W. Beecher. •la 1. '*!I?-

WHAT MEN HAVE DIED FOR. Col. Montgomery was shot in a duel about a dog Col. Ramsey, in one about a servant Mr. Featherstone, in one about a recruit Sterne's father in one about a goose and another gentleman in ono 'about an acre of anchovies one officer was challenged tor merely asking his opponent to enjoy a second goblet and another was com"pelled to fight about a pinch of snuff Gen. Barry was challenged by a Capt. Smith for declining wine at a dinner on a steamboat, although the general had plead as an excuse that wine invariably mado bim sick: and Lieut. Cowther lost his life in a duel because he was refused admittance to a club of pigeon shooters. 1777, a duel occurred in New York city, between Lieut. Featherstone, of the Seventy-sixth, and Capt. Mcpherson, of the Jorty-second British regiment, in regard to the manner of eating corn, one contending that the best eating was from the cob, and the other that the grain should bo cut from the cob before eating. Lieut. Featherstone lost his right arm, the ball from his antagonist's pistol shattering the limb dreadfully, so that it had to be amputated. Graham, Maj. Noah's assistant editor of the National Advocate, lost Ids life 1827, at the duelling ground in Hoboken, with Barron, tho son-in-law of Edward Livirtgnton, in a simple dispute about "what was trumps" in a game of cards. j. ri*

A CUMORD CASE.—A few days ago we were shown an old slung-sbot, with spots of blood and human hair still adhering t^ it, which was found between the wall and wash-board of an upper room in the old O'Mara house, at the head of Vine street. This dilapidated building was once used as a hotel, and in tho times when Cash Clay and Robert Wickliffe were opposing candidates it was noted as the scene of many fights. About tbis tinse^ a man was killed there and his supposed murderer tried and acquitted, becatiso no weapon could be found about bim with which the wound might have been inflicted. lie was seen to strike with his fist, as was supposed, and the other fell with bis skull crushed and tbe theory of the defense was that in falling ho struck his bead

CONN UBIA LITIES.

Brigham Young has,forty daughters and twenty-eight sons.., "5 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's' silver wedding occurs 0ctobfir 10. It swill-be celebrated by a four days meeting by the congregatiod of Plymouth Chutfcb.

A lady was tr%ed by her frtertds to marry a widower, aud as an argument they spoke of his two beautiful children. "Children," replied the ladv, "are like tooth-picks—a person wants her own."-*'-•

An old bachelor says: "Meu never want anyJtbingof woman but the truth and women give them everything except that.?'- -The reason of his anger is that one woman gave him something niortfi fSatf\hd wanted, and that-was a natfci&iiLAvi xi

A Massachusetts paper publishes this outrageous slander: "Thirteen old tnaids' from Vermont lately went to WyuMuiug. Territory tQ husbands. The uien there said they preferred squaws, and the Vermont ladies are mad."

A loving wife tin Logansport, this State, desirous of getting rid of her old man, put arsenic into his tea. The husband suspecting something wrong, refused to drink the tea, and the wito promising to l»e more faithful in thf future was not prosecuted.

Quite a stir occasioned in JS'» Joseph county, Ind., lately by a yojjng lady whose marriage was about bmn§ consummated—in fact the minister®^ friends had arrived—when she pos1" tively refused to havo tho uiurpsg? ceremony proceeded with.

Counsel (to witness:) "Xowj what is*the character ot tho plain this suit Witness "Ilor cha is slightly matrimonial." Coi "What do you mean by a slightli rimonial character?" XVitness been married seven times.":

That was a sly old ScotchViai on marrying a very young wj rallied by his friends on theinoj of their ages. "She will be he replied, "to close my een." remarked another of the pari had twa wives, and they opef een."

V)

against

sometliing which caused his death. Corroborating circumstances convince us that this weapon did the deed, ana has been hidden for thirty years, only to bp revealed by chance.—[Lexington (Ky.) Press.

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A LOUISVILLE druggist has lately received a hint which will make him more "partietflar for tbe future as to thk qualification, of his clerks to ditf. pense medicines. A prescription for an ointment corn posed principally of stramonium, a narcotic, for a case Of piles, was sent to the druggest's store, but tile clefk.carelessly made the ointmedl of Cantharides a violent irr^fot. The ungue&t was innocently usees by the patient, w&o sBffered untohwan-

frought

uish from the application. A suifclrag against tne druggist, an|tbe jury assessed the damagos at $1

•a ted llerstory troman ^iiauied work. j|y asked Worried,

A marriage was reccutly in Cleveland, O., under some el circumstances. Tho Clove aid vouches for the truth of that one day last week, a you: entered the tailor shop of a Bheinheimer, and asked The proprietor then irreleva her if she would like to lv and she "did'nt mind." IN heimer called to him his who agreed to wred the yo: and in twenty minutes fro the poor workgirl found blushing bride of a man wl she had never seen.

Rhein-

[n Frank, woman, "bat timo [erself tho till then

COUKTING COUSINS. I interest us, not any moro-Jbn'u'° 'J,lV0 been there, aud well re«ei°'30r '10W terillc tho trial

was—stillpsthere

may

be many more alllicte(Min tlie same sentimental way, it is pAw

a'id

pru­

dent to state for tho benBtof cousins who aro affectionate to o§e another, especially male and feitpfc, that their, hearts should be brok the forbidding ot 'niarrl of the old belief that blood relations is liubl affectionate cousius, neglect not to natno union after the nii misery, Dr. Mitchell more apt to increase idiotic derivatives that thirty per cent Great Britain is duo whooping cough an ceed with your cour tho^ consequences

no more by j0»i account i« offspring of. idiocy. Now,happy, and. ie fruit ol'yourfft iter of your ijg you aro no, ^population by arty one else, •of tho idiocy in (0 scarlet lover, lease Is. So proaiul fear not.

A Wwoifi PKOPI!J|)OKSIOX.—When a nation of forty inHMns accepts and endorses as a &tanphra Restorativo an article that it basfliad tho fullest opportunities of testing during a period of twelve years,

MBIOCSO

be so absurd­

ly incredulous asjfto doubt tlie excellence of the preftrtfion Plantation, bitters has passtJ^heough this ordeal and is now the popular proprietary medicine Ol this continent. It would bo difllctfttbTind an adult

not

of

either sex botwjfciltb© Atlantic ami tho Pacific, or betv««i,tl|e nortboast corner of Maine aid tjw Gulf of Mexico, who does

ftp?#, either from per­

sonal experiedw' 6P observation, that this renownedriregtfable remedy is the purest tonic nod stomachic and the finest alteratjfvo anji regulating medicine at preseift before tho world. Asa preventive of, and euro for, diseases generated bjHmalaria, and as a specific for dyspepa|s, rheumatism, and all nervous anjbllfous auctions, it is ad-

Mrly pronounced tlie a-

vorite HotiAfcdlff Tonic and Altcrativo of the WeArn Hemisphere.

CASTOfluA—is a scientific vegetable preparation: a perfect substitute for, and moroflWrectivo than Castor Oil,

ft|1d

is pleasaAtofake. It cleanses the system in pmcpt remarkable manner does uotjTtatrefs or gripe, but "pe™1™ whenalftther

remedies

have failed. It

is certaJrloSttpersede Pills, Castor Oil, NarcotiwSjiups, and all other purgative anJeiciting medicines. I ho Castoria AQtaios neither Minerals, lorpbinojpor Alcohol. By.

lts

e.n?, f^1'

soothito affect, it assimilates tho iood and ppdoces natural sleep particularly HdZting it to crying and teething. childpo. It

cures

Stomach Ache, Wind

-oliJCbnstipation, Flatulency Croup Pi Worms.

Mako

your Drupgi-t

Writ he will alwuys keep u, as| family inoet have it. It costs ty-fivo cents a bottle. G-4t.

TiiKinan lias never be-n found

HSffwK »»ve tried Itthgroughlj

J{^Itftteparties

SAYfi

OUR

l?

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iiflPM vfo won't ml** "ale. Wlteie are goo'l, or fur.vU ample Hecurhy, we Jon to give Ion (Minn*.

lioo«y Is "^''J^ ^orxiado' P#^ays toffttl(l

iT

ft

trial of Cider Mills, f-ncli iliniliM to he the l»e«t, No. 1 I produced

C,H

pounds of

&

revolutions, o. «,

J^UIIDS with FJO revolution*, No.

«w, iw revolutions, while the Ml prodnce.1 pounds with .0

Tt.pTORfAWiRKI'Ar.ATOKlSthe

IIVnT 11'" ili the bent, I lie casting are lllr^ IK it decidedly every way..

TUB TORSAPO HEI'ABATOR

in cylinder, 30 Inch

UlCll1U ijr -V|incarrier.,480_le,

d'WJ

KnrTPOR

IU

inc voicj

fi^ordown. Warranted every a

Power jonea&iftues,Terre-IIaute, iodiana-.