Tipton Republican (Newspaper) - December 23, 1876, Tipton, Indiana 1HE Equal Just and Free Publisher DECEMBER per in LOCHA la the ruah of rod through wintry world For glory ol the Then a milling Jurt without upon the SM two white Catch the gleam of tunny An stealing Bon of to fill T An they floating hither With their menage of goodwill T What aro they chirp and slug T Are palms at from That lordy bring T Bocy feet upon the Eager facia peeping throng With first FM ray of Canning come In toe aod gleaming Symbols of a In their they 81 reaming all along the Well we know weary Of Innocent Watting With full beam and leader While yoor household and In the with Iba sweet Old welc Merry A It was juet a week before perched on his threelegged in the of the great house of old Joe the ancient bookkeeper of the finishing his Saturday While thus a hand was laid on his and turning his he saw hia old the sole survivor of the beside It ia the last my old said the pointing to the ledger the news this evening decides Unless something happens before the firat of Brothers must close and wind up Old Joe started as he listened to these melancholy and a tremor ran through that dont say air he And dabbed hia bald forehead old danna handkerchief as he jay that Worthing ton Brothers e than returned he with a heavy I hope of The great in Europe have 1 with by expression in hia or belore the first of r 1 the house will cloe its I uld bear that when I I the name of Brothers tonights mial Any resources or im portant intelligence No and bad news worse than air You remember my eon of course you remember You know he ourse you went abou t two years ago to live with Van at Antwerp air what of him Dont tell ia air pang ia spared but 1 have had very bad newa of my Did I wrote recently announcing and recommending hia re turn and Van Zandt re plied that he left them nearly a year Left 1 He had fallen into evil courses and they reprimanded when he went po one Letters were written to me by the but they must have Nothing has since been heard of I fear he has taken to more evil ways He may be Unhappy that I am 1 all connected with to turn out badly The merchant uttered a Old J ie looked at him with deep commisera I am still more unfortunate than you he in a low I had a noble ia sir You knew mund He was BO so bold and he was lost at sea lie was on a whaler the ship and the crew were My ioor Ed mund We are truly two le boy y Ed There the conversation and the t and bookkeeper the following week efforts were made to collect the re sources of Worthington But alight crowned the merchants efforts to rescue the Friends of a satisfaction to old Joe to g at the vacant and to think of bis eon aa present and enjoying their happi And when at last the and the wine was poured the old man looked toward the vacant chair aa he raised the to his Suddenly the roice of Daisy rang half choked with Why we are forgetting our tree Pehe cried we are really losing sight of our uncle Did anybody ever not waiting for anybody to Daisy started and assisted by Uncle bore the magical cedar in its neat covered with to the center of the Night had come and the tapers on the tree were As the fairy spec tacle of manycolored candy and presents of needle and and flashed forth in the light of the as this splendid tree burst forth on the eyes of all the young Darlings ut tered a suppressed and in curia and a made a reckless and desperate attempt to climb upon the board and carry the prize at the point of his baby cried wait till aia ter gives you Uncle John ia going to telt a beautiful story up in the Pacific and to the South by a trading he worked his way to countered Charles roaming about the gold specu lated there and made great and were coming home in the next That was the Aa old Joe grew Pet suddenly run behind hia mothers uttering an appalling At the door stood a tall young with a ferocious Howare uncle and Daisy They ran into bis uttering cries and sailor was home again never to leave them more aa Daisy rested in her brothers with her rosy cheek upon hia she laughing and crying Father hpw do Christmas gift The windows shook aa she was doubtless the merry goblins highly pleased with themselves and everybody else and the holy the blessed night went on ita way full of joy Will you and mother Its so lovely The ruah of laughter in the vrici made all at Why did the childs cheek flush asd why that dazzling light in her But now Uncle John suddenly riveted For the moment he was the center of excited interest for the whole Darling He seemed to feel the resting upon He reflected for a moment dreamily thrummed on the table and then began The tale I am going to my dear young eaid Uncle I must inform is strictly in last years seemed to have grown and every it waa written down regretted their Inability to render by the King of the and and it waa only by great up in the beak of a great bird called a ices that the nouns succeeded in making i the Prince up to the day before i having been shipwrecked on a desert the firm j island where the bird came to payments u In t as hia and put on hii ho drew a long breath of king his old bookkeepers he homeward with a thankful as they murmured Let keep a good heart old olio Ruin ruin ruin groaned a no not rum See here sir the wi I have saved a little n Ami old Jpe drew from hia pocket mote street of the especially honored killed the and the story has been in the palace of where the prince ever At thia commencement the young ith a thankful I Darlinga exhibited an astounding inter at the he As to his excitement the power of His resembled two mouth opened to Ua ut most in the excess of hia he nearly swallowed hia baby No one looked With oue hand shading her eyes from the and the other placed upon her she looked at Uncle or fur towards her Uncle John continued Having told my dear how the atory came to be I will next proceed to relate it for your enter There once lived in the city of Bag and tha anow was and the wind whirling it about like A thousand goblins seemed Old Joe in a re seemed great by the reu uy nit once in me iag indows till they rattled i dad an old merchant whose name was unsteady deposit in fir It waa made in no a dirty shilling in It He thrust the into the irer chants But the sighing but speaking in a voice of that is not the Brothers do business If we it shall be after honorable We will not drag down our friends and are our and beat the house has kept faith and honor for fifty pushed them old A great fire table rubbed his hands in front of the blare and looked out of the when a voice behind with a rush of laughter in and w claimed dear Ive caught you V Old Joe turned he did BO a pair of rosy lips pressed hia and two arma clung round his belong a being translated is the j He had a clerk an and Old Joe unlike the nam a mUe fairy of hy you And indeed the face resembled to brilliant was the light of the Daisy was with a cozy in a plain but pretty dress and you saw at a pjain nut pretty dress anu you saw at If we will go down It tnat One of ia not our I will do my End fairies who are trust in lo the end of the homes in which the As he the nld merchant went to As he the went to his safe aud took out a roll of Then he directed the various employees to be sent ad paid them all up to the end of the He had a kind word for and an inquiry abut every mans family or concerns and then he turned to hia But did not What are you waiting for my friends Can I assist you in any mm ner the old If you said the foremost of the we would lite tu our money in your Eh And the speaker turned toward his rough who uttered a hoarse murmur of Leave your money in my mud the waa the hear tell how times are hard We with Worthing ton and the house Jb in we dont want cur money Eh Do your And he looked toward those in the Another growl of assent All the spokesman to that we are not in want Keep the Tbe merchant with deep the honest my kind friends be I now we what it ia to try 11 do our Toil proof of your friend me I cannot accept your buch a small would be of little service to and may God yon and yoan I The retired on cot it to intrude further on of the Father In hefty I thank Thee the turning be picked up the evening to hide hia emotions AB hts fll upon a paragraph attracted his atten It announced the failure of tbe bank in which the old bookkeepers had all been With a he handed it to Joe and J deeply regret my old Ify ruin was enough Old Joe reid tbe announcement with Blinking and echoed tbe nigh of hiJ Lordi will be sir he Her father and fondly passed his hand over her Aa he at he thought of his wellnigh ss and heaved a Poor little ladybird I have noth ing for you he sighing Hat Dawy did not to regard the circumstances as at all On the contrary her face and turn ing her bright head toward one side she whispered Ive got a Christmas gift for father you youve gone and worked your little to the Its a Ive done nothing of the ia not your The rush of joyous laughter in the girls voice nearly drowned her She bursting to reveal seme se Their talk interrupted how appearance of Mother Dar ling and her with old Uncle looking wild and Daisy bad somewhere the handsomest Christmas tree a bushy full of light blue berries having returned from whither she went dutifully with the ehe proceeded with the aid of Uncle her prime friend and to deck tLe wondrous tree with its tril liant Aa the evening drew on it waa and erected on the sideboard its paper and pres and making it a magical spectacle to the young who gazed at it with openeyed Then the dinner and riveted all The great roast turkey and round of The flanking side aroused the wild enthusiasm in the Joe devoutly gi ind the youthful of the Darling chirping like ft flock of called each others atten tion to the splendid All Bat Old Joe looked Theres one seat too he I aet it said Uncle John For brother Have you in some friend brother I thought of our Ed The old bookkeeper looked wistfully at hia and then went and held out hit band to Thank he in a low re turning to hU When the flnt pang hud it cry is ruined of our own for a long time served the good mer chant whose caravans brought to treasures of Hut misfortunes The caravana were overwhelmed in the Hands of the Tbe moment was near when would probably be compelled to dust upon his and wander through the streets of the This continued Uncle just before the great festivity which the of the month of came home that thinking of tha misfortunes of his and also of a great buffering of his allot us must my His eon had been loot at and the heart of Abou waa He returned to the festivity of Uie cedar but hia heart felt la miserable he there id no man more miserable Aa he thus Pari approached my signifies the Flower of the She came now to Abou kissing him in the Eastern O father dear O do not the is and the cedar tree blazes the tapers thereon shine like and many gifta hang from the boughs of the wondrous tree Here 1et suddenly bunt forth Why our tree he only he left out the r in Pel do not interrupt taid Uncle I continue Abou sighed when hia daughter thua the he Thy cedar tree but my heart is and there is no gift thereon for There ia a gift for our Raid or Flower of the Daisy aa she there was a curious laughter in her There JB a gift that our father will value more than all package hia name on it from a distant They did not look at who was and hand scarcely to draw a letter from her Uncle John continued And Where is this my child to which the Flower of tbe Daisy replied Father dear it ii here I take it from the boughs of the holy cedar tree and give it to you As Uncle John uttered the Daisy sprang forward with a letter in her Here it father dear the bursting into tears and It nearly killed me not to tell you I take take it I Our Edmund ia not dead I And throwing her anna around Old Joea she Bobbed upon hia while with full of he read the letter from his As he read ho seemed to doubt whether he waa read ing a real His eyes closed be ut tered a and would have fainted had not Uncle caught him in his Tha letter wai written to DaLiy by her He had been picked and A year range Christmas came and saw the house tof Worthington Brothers and old Joe and Charles the husband of the Flower of the And again the cedar tree waa and spread around iU cheerful and the loud wind and the merry goblins seemed to A merry Christmas What Miss Saw at the Brook lyn Miss Kate who played the part of Marianne in The Two in the Brooklyn on the night nl ia lying in a very condition at 46 Union Her part having been she waa on her way but before she had got more than a block away ahe heard the cry of looking saw flames bursting from the As two of her friends were in the ahe hurried back to give them At the stage ahe tried to waa a In a only a few feet above her was the stage endeavoring to One of hia arms had caught in a hook on one aide of the and he was unable to extricate The flames were close upon and Miss powerless to rave saw his body shrivel up and curl as it broiled in the tremendous The man could have been Girard hud any of those who were so much concerned about their own safety lent helping The ruah a she pushed her way into the passage seeking her but a man whom ahe did not know forced her then two men ran against knocking her one stepping on Then ahe was trampled upon by last site re members is that a beam fell on When she recovered the police She waa taken to a drugstore and thence to a house on Pierrepont and thence on Wed to the office of her phy Elliott in Waverly where she exhibited few tigna of being able to move about with out a violent pain in the chest seized and when she arrived at her home in Union Square she began coughing up blood in great These symptoms recurred and on the following and the pain became so overpowering that Elliott bad to administer At laat she was comparatively but felt very Several of her ribs are either fractured or Misa Girard lost Biding Ills There were vigorous inquiries at the postoffice yesterday for the chief ind when the captains face appeared at the window the inquirer asked Has a woman been here asking for letters addressed to me The captain hadnt seen this Shes my and shes a Tittle weak in Shes got the notion that I et from a woman in Can be here to ask for Well I dont get any such of but you t give her my She might get one with a dralt n and not know iu Just say to ler that you never knew of my receiving a letter and that you have repeat edly heard me aay that I have the beat wife in But I dont know Never mind that In dealing with an insane woman ita to be and and Just shake hands with her small and tell icr ahe ought to be proud of auch hus band aa I Needle was not erected by nor in honor of that jut by the Great Prussian blue does not come from but it is the precipitate of the salt ol protoxide of iron with the prua siate of Brazilian grass does not come from Brazil or even grow in nor U it at It consists of strips of palm and ia chiefly imported from Whalebone ia no bone at nor does t any properties of It ia a attached to the lower jaw of and seems to at rain the water the iip in large Sealing wax ia not wax at nor does contain a single particle of It ia made of Venice and Cinnabar it the deep red and the turpentine renders the soft and lew Burgundy pitch ia not nor ia it manufactured or exported from Bur The best ia a prepared from common cense and brought from but jy far the largest quantity is a mixture of recin and palm A BAYING prevail in Turkey that it takes two Turks to two 3 reek i to swindle and two Jews to swindle aa Political THE Florida Returning Board threw out Republican voted as well aa Demo Their action was unanimous up to the point giving the Hayes Electors 324 After that the vote of the Board stood two against CHANDLER emphatically that of Florida has noj doubt whatever that the hones and legal vote of Florida waa for He has a whether it waa can on the State but no doubt a to the result on the RAW recruits are by yells and wild shots and much beat ing of the but veteran soldiers The Democratic gasconade am noisy threats count nothing with veteran Republicans who know their G on with your GOVERNOR TILDEN ia sure tha of acted an Tilden ia also quite sure that the Demo crats in the who colored people to frighten that race from the acted Anything which helps Reform is legal stealing of a redhot THE question of what will be done with the electoral vote of the New York ia a very simple The legal vote will reach the dent of the Senate by the messenger ap and will be opened as the Con will then be IT is proud to boast of the average in that were he in Louisiana he would be the worst kind o Certainly he would anc that he is not here in the North ia owing to the wholesome restraining influence of Republican principle which shapes public THE extreme generosity of Tildens bogus in casting two votes for should not be over He could just aa well have them to and thus given made hia majority five instead of evidently ia a liberal sort of and should be as he no doubt will by the people of IT ia the policy of the Democratic party to agitate and inflame the and hence they prate about war and in dulge in Thia policy ia so weak that even Ben Hill calls a and openly taunts the old copperhead with insincerity and It is in with the eternal ol things that Hill is made the instru ment lo torture Tu E following are the votes for the con tested parishes in compared with the vote in 1874 Easl le tM Hut i Louis is a Democratic and yet ahe elected three Con Why Because the better clats of the substantial business men ot the the men in in the prosperity of the city and tbe found themselves in eym pathy with the national policy of the Republicans and honestly against the national policy of the Democratic Thia ia a point fur those who are seeking light on the present complications to NEW YORK Tribune There was one pretty badly Democrat at Wash ington the other He waa ine about declaring that the House would not allow Hayes to be elected if were but would prefer to have the President of the Senate to fill the An Illinois Republican Con gressman quietly remarked that the Il linois Legislature will be in session at that and if necessary will elect Grant to succeed Senator whose term expired March in order that the Senate might make hini President pro tern The bare possibility of auch an event made the Democrat ia a fine old Democratic Everything ia lovely No nor anything of that Democratic majorities are manufactured in a quiet and respectable For it transpires that in one ward in Portami t transpires m th ie recent over four hundred votes were over two hundred voters affirmed tbe fact under their own but when the count was com ninetyeight votes The object of this little ijame was to elect a Democratic Con but the Jorge nee got in after special to the Chicago Times He Governor speaking of thn Oregon eays there ia nothing in it When his attention waa called to a letter to the Commercial recently from George showing why Governor Grover is right in doing aa he he said it would take more to put any reason or sense in it He wears the appearance of a man whose mind is wholly at rest on the and who has no doubt of hia itle to the Presidential There ia no appearance of anxiety about and hia health seema to be unimpaired by any excitement or worry of any TiiE manner in which the Democracy clutch at the straw held out from Oregon shows not only the desperation to which they are but the dishonesty to which they have recourse at the first prospect it opens to Of the 369 egal electors 185 have cast their for and the creature appointed by the Governor of Oregon to do the dirty work of the Democratic party haa no chum a Ecat in the electoral than lo a neat on the throne ef There is not a Democrat who does not know this and acknowledge it in hia but thua far we have not heard of a Democrat who has the to come say that tbe electoral college ia no place for buffoonery and and that the people of the United States were prepared to accept the legal of their legal re card lew of whether auch leased them not THE difference between the action of the Returning Board of Louisiana and the action of the Governor of Oregon ia that the latter entirely and shamefully disregarded the while the whatever else may be said of are admitted to have kept inside the statu tory bestowed upon The Republicans respect aud obey the and ask victory except under its forms their opponents disregard and look for triumph only by trampling law beneath their REPUBLICANS have asked why two Re conspired with in Ore pan to carry out a Democratic Senator of who knows tbe that the two toola of Gro ver and who were reported sa are in fact strong Demo and cast their votes for Hayes un der orders from to cover the in famy of the proceeding as far as There not two Republicans in all Oregon baee enough to countenance the The Presidents The Presidents message is a very characteristic document It ia but actually addressed to the country rather than It ia a plain to those whom Lincoln called the plain of the reason of faults alleged against the Ad It a illustration the simplicity TO THE When the fint of youth hia With lu hue o tnd feara Whea ill ot the By the shadow ol succeeding When the taring becoming much of faith and Whf Borrow day by diy grow forgot lira trodden In the How it inch lime will tome bat flower all crushed and braken Lying hid In tome Stir tha icy bean to once more the memories of the Bringing mingled of grief and of the found at At length from past to present again peeps forth a hopeful beam Aa full oil the iun through dull clouds breaking the autumn with ruddy r ODDS AND inc ana patriotism of ita and ia a significant rejoinder to the wan ton to the Executive offered by Randall in taking the Speakers It ia part of the of Democratic politics to represent General Grant a and des pot As a matter of the only mili tary President in our who has displayed the military spirit in civil life was the and dogged one of the great gods of Demo cratic But General Grants entire civil career has quietly turned into ridicule the rhodomontade about his ambition and hia The tone of his Message in its personal allusions is But there are few m partial Americana who have watched the course of the Administration closely who will not agree the Presidents rorda Mistakes have been aa all can and I admit bat it leems to oftener ia the selections made of the assistants ap pointed to aid in carrying oat tbe various duties of administering the in nearly every caae selected without a per acquaintance with the but upon recommendation of the Representa tives chosen directly the It U impossible where BO many are to be allotted that the right parties be ia every History shows that no from the time of Washington to the haa been free From these mistakes but I leave coin to claiming only that I are acted in every instance from a con desire to do what was con within the and for the very 3eat of the whole Failures jave been errors of The criticism that a friend of the Pres ident would make upon this statement that tie President has not sufficiently those who gave lim the bad and has listened to after they have been plainly dis It in the same disposition that las led him to cling to which he country auch as the Santo Domingo to which he in the But when all criticisms are there remains the deep conviction in the minds of those whose in our is best worth and certainly of most of those who have been brought into and official relations with the that he had acted in every from a conscientious desire to lo was within the and for the very Deal interests of the whole General Grant did uot seek the Presi It was thrust upon him by the of those who had sustained the r for the which he led in the ield to a triumphant For that reat for his devoted ud for hia proved personal purity amidst all the unclean rumors and charges f hia hia place in American is and the faithful record will attest that hia l failures have of not of intent There is a tona of weariness in the last worda of this message which is very touching With the present Congress my official life It ia not probable that public flairs will ever again receive attention from jne farther than aa a citizen of the always taking a deep interest in tbe and prosperity of the whole That republics are ungrateful ia and that a and well meaning servant of this republic has een greatly slandered in the President there ia no A letter illustrating he ribald abuse which he haa received las been lately attributed to whose name ia signed to but we have would disclaim o denial haa been and if the etter be it will appear that Charles the lawyer who tried to subjugate New York to the slave law f and the orator who tried to nelt in Northern hearts hat the South might the has forfeited the re of every honorable American by upon Grant he retires fouler buse than waa ever addressed to a Presi dent of the United States since Duanes a spat at tbe retiring LAWYER BANCROFT of San Before killing himself with wrote in a letter to the Coroner I beg to inform you that this la a case of laud anum taken with suicidal The reasons concern no one but myself any one should insist upon bavin a you may aay I was driven to dea by the Presidential nd no prospect of ascertaining in his world who was lo be next President vent to the where all things are to be for tue THE funny election bet of two Nan ucket doctors ia that the loser take a low of oil in THE financial stringency of the times waa sadly indicated recently in the elo quent failure of a drunken man down on Front Street to borrow seventyfive cents of a hitching SITTING BULL has no but he sits in his tent with an Ulster over coat with a burnt stick and apiece of sheep skin draws out a diagram lor the spring 111 NEVER go to a coun try tradesman to hia I always spend Sundays in settling You will said the that the day of judgment will be spent in the same of Buffering have emerged the strongest and the most characters are seamed with scars martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with and through their tears have the sorrowful firat the gates of A COUNTRYMAN bargained with a California photographer for a picture of himself at half and when the artist delivered a fine view of tha subject from the waistband the victimized aitter indulged in remarka more forcible than CHILDREN must have love inside the and fresh and good and some good companionship otherwise young life runa the greatest the world of withering or growing or at beat prematurely old and turned inward on wu a inan who had a lib name via Matthew He wound it regular erery night For nearly twenty At last Mi precious timepiece An dock to And man than Mean You would cot wish to A PORTLY gentleman crowded him into a horse car nert to a young Perhaps you would not crowd in here if you knew I had the Oh thats waa the for thia tbe first time I have been out since I had it FRESHMAN talking rhetoric to senior rho prides himself on his literary pro Churn Id like to make a quotation from one of your Senior Which one do you Freshman with a twinkle anyone will The wants us to give an example of lack of How often in the bright days of our when the hours fly paat on jolden and the world for our we are stunned jy the shock of unforeseen menta and like a with iia guileless countenance wreathed in he smiles that are the reflex of the at his alides down the ront stair banisters to alas too ate to stop hia downward that some one haa left tbe on the lower Oil sweet and beautiful is when tbe moon la hi And like la the While the balmy breath of tbe summer breeze down id one fond voice alone Is night b loTely then But whca that In moans of ot ut mocka the anxious ear bat to catch Hi vain we watch the tapers flickering When all we Is fading how terrible Is night A PARTY of says the mana are expected here in a ew days to hunt buffalo and thia recalls he story of the London laving suddenly inherited came 0 thia country in Immediately after wishing take a ie BO informed the hotel The tter ordered a stylish cutter and told iie Briton that he should have a gena ne aleigh thinking the cockney might need another he asked By the ahall I put in an extra buffalo Couldnt you let me ave an you know rather drive a buffalo first you MANY proverbs admit of contradic aa witness the following The more the Not EO one hand a enough in a Nothing but what has an Not a ring haa for it ia Money is a Not when it brings a thief to The world is a long iun over it n a It is a great way to the hot om of the Not BO it is but a A friend bent found n Not so for then there a none to be The pride of the rich makes the labor of the Not s the labor of the poor makes the iride of the A MAN who was being examined for a schoolteacher in after a turn b inp through some simple arithmetical was asked where Boston ie answered I know all about probably just aa well aa you do have of the place several but somehow or feem to locate With a view to helping him com mil teem an It the cap tal of some ia it I it What Stale 1 probably aa well as you what State Boston ia the capital but fou tee I havent got the flow of lan guage to express The examiner but the applicant ie The wor the s
