West Eau Claire Argus from West Eau Claire, Wisconsin • Page 1

COPE I. AW D. Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME 3. NO- 47.

WEST EAU CLAIRE, EAU DECEMBER 23, WIOLE RATH OF ADVERTISING. sso 3-50 600 10 W): 4 oo 6 uo 10 is --HUigLLL 50 -TM its" Business of fivo lines or less, "per annum, five dollars. For eacb additional cue dollar. TIRAIS of subscription, $9 per year. The Axavs has the fst bonafldr.

circa- of any paper published in the Chippewa Valley. It circulates extensively hn and Farmers of Eau Dunn, aad Pepin counties. Business Directory Of Firms Advertising in the Argus, WBST EAU.CLAIRB. Shaw Galloway, manufacturers of nil kinds of mill machinery, farming implements, etc- Also every variety of cast- 1 ing in iron and brass. I Dodge Larimer, dealers in drugs, medicines, chemicals, fancy articles and Yankee Notions.

D. P. a dealers in goods, prints, clothiug, groceries, etc- Simmons dry Business LATIMER BAILEY, A TTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT -fVLaw, West Eau Wis. lyt WM. F.

T. ANGEL. TTORSIY AND COUNSELOR A.T LAW, will attend promptly to all legal traoctioni and collections entrusted to Office ercr G. B. Chapman's Barstow and Ferry streets, Eau his storit Cor.

v2n47yI MKGGX.TT. A BARNES, 1TORSEY3 aad COUNSELLORS at LAW, will practice in all the Courts of the siute. Special attention given to Collec- tism, the prosecution and defence of Tax cases in lUnkriiptcy. Office over store, Bat-stow street, Eau Vfa. 11.

L. STILES, I TTORNET LAW, wii! promptly attend to all legal tr.insmc- rntruited to his cure. Office over M. Saloon, near the Union House, Esu llGyl Piper, tlealei-s in dry clothing, ladies' dress goods and groceries' Wilder Brothers, dealers in drugs, medicines, paints, oils, Yankee Notions, etc. Books and stationery.

Lawton Barnes, dealers in groceries and provisions. Also manufacturer of grain separators. Theo. Hoffman, dealer in dry goods, cloths, clothing, dress goods groceries, etc- A. T.

Cnlbertson dealer in boots and and manufactures to order. F. M. McGnire, dealer in flour, feed, pork, and all kinds of provisions. H.

C. Van Hovenberg, dealej in groceries, crockery, and boots andfhoes. Stophen Hoover, meat market, and provision store. Wm. A.

Kinnear, dealer in books, periodicals, picture frames, Yankee notions Misses Flanagan, fashionable milliners nnd dealers in millinery goods. E. M. Monroe, manufacturer of light and heary harnesses, saddles, etc. D.

31. Haggard, meat market and pro- THE FROST KING. A spectre strode across the land last night, WhoseJmw grew dark beneath the stars' pale light. At length, close muffled in a cowl, he stood In the dusky outskirts of a hillside wood. His eyes were glassy, but their glance was bold church, merchant, mechanic, saloon a i order to open it and keeper, speculator or laboring man tft nt iotne of the gaa.

His hands yS tha Post were purple whh intenge co a tbey crowd ami jostle every-j are paralyzed, they will not respond to ao you let them go there his will. He seized the valve with his at all in the evening you furnish them money to hang.round saloons and billiard tables, till the keepers ont of respect to their customers are 'forced to (Irive tbem 7 If you don't do it, breath was chill-bis shriveled fingers where-do they money? If WM. RICHARDSON, OF EOAKD OF SUPERVISORS IJltipjicwa Falls, Chippcwa County, Wis. prompt ilteation to the payment of laxes, iu conuty, for non-residents. Falls, 1867.

T2nlO 0 Will Baakiag Excliange Office. PA i A Esu Claire, dea- Icrs hi lj-ink Specie, Exchange and VVarrauii. Collcctious and re- puieteii at Current rates of Exchange. corner of Eau Cluire aud Farewell ilrevta. B.

I US'I ICE OF Til I 1 PEACE. Office over Htfsanl 1 Hiore, corner Fifth A a and Eau I)U. C. C. HARRIS, 1 UYS101AN AND SURWCON, now of- icrfl services to the pooplc of Ban Claire vicinity.

Office at residence, on Second Aveiino, t.et-,T fii Niagav.i and Chip iLrccU, West The Atlantic Mutual Life Insurance Co. from 7 to 9 o'clock, A M. and rom 4 to 6 V. 3ST I 'IVclh on I'lntoi from one Tooth to a Fali Fills ml' extracts without jiaiii if Jit-sirc'-l'. A A I A over store, Cl.tU'c, Dit.

I'ukxuM I A 1 5 5 iufovinH a porLiou of public dciiring I a Work (if any doM-nu. tiott, a fca is prcparcil to store, and dealer in groceries, etc, John Or. Copland, merchant tailor nnd dealer in fashionable cloths. A. Ki.Mer, dealer in and agent for pianos, mc'odeona, and cabinet organs.

Harmison McVicar, meat market aad provision store; dealers In-groceries, ifec. Latimer Bailey, attorneys and coun- sellore at Dr. J. K. Dodge, dentist.

Wm. Hoskin. hauling and draying. F. W.

Burdett, teacher of music, and dealer in pianos and melodeons. Greer Wells, blacksmiths, and manufacturers of sod and breaking G. B. Ric-kerd, dealer in eastern fur- uitniT, cor.ner Water street and Fifth Avenue, West Eau Ulairo. CLAIRE.

J. Burgar tk Company dealers in groceries, proirisions, ei-ockerjr, clothing, boots and shoes, aiikca notions, etc. Biirstow street. MeGillis Clark dealers in reacly- mndc cloth'mg, boots, shoes, groceries, and Yankee notions. Allen Hlrris, dealers in all kinds of furniture and houBC.furniahing goods.

Biir- stow street. Bnck, Anderson Co, dealers in stoves, hard-rare, tiuware, nails, glass, etc. Bat-stow street. Gr. C.

Tea 11 Yankee Clothing SJoi-e, dealers in ready-made clothing, cloths, hats, caps, boots, shoes, and Yiin- koc notions. Barstow Street. II. Schlegelmileh, nmmifactnrer of aiu'l dealer in all kinds of hurdwarp and cutlery. Ilantz'sch, wholesale dealer and importer of wrncs, liquors, cigara, tobaccos, etc.

'Baretow street. Dis. Day Harris, physicians and Kunjcons, and life insurance A i Jackson, watchmaker He stretch ftis hands abroad alas The light dew froze to crystal on the grass. The fair green leaves began to crisp and curl Yith all the radiant tintings of a pearl. And rustliug mournful- requiems in the Mind, In death, like lovers fond, together twined.

The few surviving flowers grew wan and pale Their dying odors fed the pitiless gale. And showers of quivering petals in the gloom, Of a near churchyard, drifted round a tomb. graceful ferns dropped lowwr than be fore, Like broken hearts that rise to hope no mere. The prickly diesnut burra dropped elowlv down, And ghastly griuned with teeth of polished brown. Hill, forest, field, aud vale grew sere and drj.

With sad, dumb if wondering why. All nature's fair gifts 'ncatha monarch will Pied, as thes murmured be still The watchful stars paled at the approach of dawn, And, smiling at the change since yester are morn, The stooped and wrote upou the clay Beauty '3 death-warrant, the one v.ord Summer, affrighted, fled before hia sijjht Behold the Frost King-- Spcctie of the night they are thore Without money, why they there? Mo thers--respect able ladies--what are yonr boys about at night Come, no clap-trap apologies about this one or that one leading your pet "boy into temptation. has led or leading others, and you know it. You thick he is smart, because he has learned to smoke and say "damn." Ton for the world allow him to learn a trade, AG'EVERY PHYSICALLY ABLIS BOY SHOULD, even if he wanted to ever so much You want him to row up learned stupid or wicked bobby, with no future before him but a life of rascality; of living by feis vvitsr; of learning triekspf trade; although you are too intelligent not to a iH on- in crittie. You want him to be a "niceyoung you know well enough that lew "nice vour teeth; itlopenej a little--onee, twice, thrice.

The balloon began to dasceiid. Then the swooned marksman returned to consciousness, and saw the steersman standing before He looked that I Havo Seen. at his instrument--they must have been nearly eight miles xip; but now the barometer was rising rapidly'--the balloon was descending. Brandy was used. had been higher from earth than mortal man or any living tiling had been before.

One minute more of inaction--of compulsory inaction--ou the part of the steersman, whose senses were failing him, and tho air with its intensely ratified gas, would have been floating unattended, two corpses, in the wide reelms of Once a Thing seen a farmer build a house so large, that the sheriff turned him out of doors. I have seem a young sell a good farm, turn merchant, and die in the insane hospital. I have seen a rich man's son begin where hjis father left off, and end where! his father gun psnnyless. Ihavelseena yoiing girl marry a young man of dissolute habits, and repent of it as long as she lived. have seen the extravagance of children, bring parents to poverty and want and themselves into disgrace.

seen, a 'pruden-tr industrious I hav Over the beauty the plum and the apricot-there grows a bloom more exquisite than the fruit itself-- a soft flush that overspreads tha delicate Now, if you strike ronr hand over that oung men ever amount to much unless their own inherent good sense finally clubs them into mental and physical usefulness. Such mothers as yjon aie ought not to be permitted to afflict tho world with your children. And as for jfou, fathers Go and take a job of listing yourselves in a corner. Look at yourselves jnst as you know you ought to look to no loud promises of reformation, it go to work and reform. First yourselves, then your who afflict the Apphion Crescent.

ami it is ow or 'j't grows but once. The flower that hangs in the morning, irapearled in dew arrayed as no queenly woman ever and jeweler, nnd denier stationery," plated ware, clocks, Barstow'street Dr. F. SI. Havens, physician, surgeon, ami accoucheur.

Oflicc opposite Central House. jWr.tsh new ones, from shi-ie T)r, A A i i Office to hill dun ti oror tlie on Barstow si. IMIWI -Office over i (Joim-al Drug fctore, Barstow, street. (Jrass, restaurant and billurd street. A.

K. Grc'xg, atfornoy and counselor at -law, Cliippcwa Fulls, Wis. Puchanlson, clerk of board oi ill Kiipc-rviriofs of Chippewa county. Pays taica Tho Daring of Scisuca--A Balloon Adventure. One dnll day in August, just afternoon, a balloon rose in tha air at the 13 (Krafts, A I A A ISO W.

H. GATES, Proprietor. Tba accommodations ii coun-'ction the 1 A ail kincs of nwchlnory jjivi.n to" CTt'i-v dfpttni'tiiin. Cliippcwa Fidis, Wis. cnossn.

to Lauer, "manufactorers and re- locomotive, marine, nnd etalion- fitfaiu boilers, brcwcw kettles, smoke lion etc. La Wis. Chire, Wia. GhunJIrr Hupplee, wholesale dealers in liurjwure, iron, Bled, nails, cordage, bcl- and circular La wholesale dealer in wines, i'3-and eigiti-8, La Crosse, Wis. HTM.

Proprietor. having bwn recently renovawit, ia ready for rtor-p a Uood fare fcitfath-c bfl Important a manufacturers ami wlioleaalc dealer in till kinds of cakca, and La Crosfjc, Wis. AND DRAY IXG, 11.1 CUire.tbaH»mp rca Hauling and V9i (: Instrumental and Vocal inv'iU-d to give her a call at tbti rooms over shop, h'rat door west of Joim- Terms reasonable. Nor. I 1863; H'i.

footof Cleed on the western edge, of the central plain of England. It was inflated with tha lightest of gsses which chemical i could produce, and it rose with surprising velocity. A arrayed witti.jewels once ehafce it, so that the beads roll off, and you may sprinkle water over it as yon please, yet it can never be made again what it was when the dew fell silently upon it frpm heaven On.a frosty morning you may see the panes of glass colored wilh landscapes, mountains, lakes and trees, blending in a beautiful, fantastical picture. Now lay your hand- upon the glass, and by the scratch of your finger, or by tho of the paha, all the delicate tracery will be obliterated. So there is in youth a beamy and purity of once touched and del filed, can never be a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which when torn and broken, i never be re-embroidered.

A man who soiled his gavttients in yoath, though he may seek to make them i again, can never wholly do even though he were to wash them with tears. When a young man leaven liis father's hanse, with, the blessing of tho fortunes of a family, 1 while her hasbanl pulled at the other eml of the rope. I have seen a yoniig man who despised the counsel of the w.iee and advice of tho good, eud his caiaar in poverty ant? wretchedness. I have seen, a man spod more id folly tlian his family in comfort and independence. I have a man tuo truth, wheu.candor and would have served him a much bettor purpose- I havo seen a man engage law suit about A trifling affair that cost bitgLeiy more in the end, than would have ed- all theibniKiings oa feie farm.

IB ft duifl. The blast that drorettie across the shook th-e eat, and the acorn -cup loosened from its fruit and fell on the pathway. The cload burst, and the drop filled-the acotu-ctrp. A robia wfeiietl by the swltrj teat of an Aatuwn day, hopped along the path wlkea tbestoria was over, arid drank oi tho rsia drop. Refreshed and gladdesed, fee flew to his favorite perch in the ivy that ovetbnng the poet's window, and Ifcere trillocl his heard, and riuiag from hit day-dream, wrote a cliant of grateful rejoicing, Tha chant weat forth into great world, and entered tha of sorrow, and uttered iu stirrJBg accepts be.siile couch of The sorrowful comforted, tbe fciok cheered, Many praised the poet.

lie said "ili8 cuaut iaspiretl by tho robia's song." "My throat have been dry to sing," said tho "if 1 tad tbat drop water tL'at was in ihe acorn-cop." "I should iato tiie had not thfi aconi-dfh beea titeiw to JTA- ne In former would 'ceivo jmi but for tlie drop. i i i i i I I UlVSSing OI m.le up entered a strata of his still wet npou hi, rrlotlcls mnra hon i ,1 i 1 0 forehead, if he once loses that early purity of character, it is a loss tbat ho never can make wholo again. Such is (he consequence of crime. It effects cannot be eradicated it can only be Ward Beecher. Parents and Guardians! A few plain words with you.

We ara one of the plainest spoken men ever known in print hereaway. Many people do not i our on that account, They say we ore too severe in our criticisms; too harsli in our judgments; too apt to hurl expletives as a boy would hurl a bunch of firecrackers on some national those who are hit, although they know we hit them for their own good, es our venerated parental ancestor u.sei! to assure us was for our temporal and eternal welfare when he visited upon us one of his good old fashioned double back action a tremendous thrashings--yet they don't accept the apology or explanation i any better grace than we used to. And yet we found in the long run that a sound thrashing was a useful and indeed institution, altho' not one that ivo can recommend for a permanent winter or spring Aisliion. Now-a-days, the trouble is, young folks don't got properly thrashed, nor tlio medicine administered sufficient doses to excite other than feelings of contempt or hatred for tho thrasher. There is too much of the intermittent fevor, too much of tlio spasmodic out-burst about the arrangement to make it beneficial, to party.

Isn't it so Let every thoughtful par- cut and guardian answer tha i the dezpw-l of the ocean, where We started cut to say some plain r.s i tha search for the bard things to many of the parents and i 3 A a i cable, tLc fine mud lies as i re(1 vea hcuco i a guardians of this city, but aie i unstirred, from year to year, as the i SCG a i a l18 Wl11 a 868 oH upon remedies for tho "bad boy" i i a i gathers on the etl awfly Jt ls th0 repetition of clouds more than a thousand feet thick. Emerging from I his, the sun shone brightly on the air ship the sky overhead was of the clearest and deepest blue, and below lay an immeasurable expanse of clouds, whose surface looked as solid as that of the earth, now wholly lost to view. Lofty mountains and then deep, dark ravines, appeared below the peaks and sides of (hose cloud mountains next the sun glittered like snow, but casting shadows as black as if they weie solid rock. Up rose the balloon with tremend-' ous velocity. Pour miles above the A Hundred Years to Corae.

To day we are striving, pushing, grasping after wealth, honor, power, pleasure. Tho poor claim wealth 'that they may be above want the rich 'seek to add to their countless thousands. So are we, rushing' forward, reckoning not of the final result of our days there dwelt ia tlte bravo Com cracker State, in t-lose proximity to each other, a young, buxom, and wealthy widow, and a bachelor of scarcely more than her own ago. Beth inherited their property, and wer.e comparatively strangers to each other. JBut their plantations joiwed, and many were the acts of neighborly kindness that between them.

Well, as somebody sang to tho witching widow Machree, the time arrived when "thrbiids go into pairs," and the widow found that although she had plenty of hen turkeys, sbo had none of the other parsuasion, they having mysteriously ditiappealail; but Use knew that her neighbor had'pleiiiy of a rare bread, and so sent Sambo ovar to borrow a couple. Iu due time he came back with a large'gobbler either arm, and a broad grin on his face. re- said acorn -cup. And were comforted praised bksi; bat tiw blast earth a pigeon was let loose if'drop- existence. ona ever ped down through tha air as if it had a PP a how soon be must coniitlese come marching In been a The air was too thin to! 8t ak i oblivion--Uiat wo are one enable to fly.

It vvs' i sbip of tiriiHoiis. tlie laden to the deck were to pass from tlie a Tilile au 10 ie Jla ve, throtigli heavy waters of the sea into an "inland un.saline Inke tlie bark would sink at once in the i water. Up, up, higher What a silence Tho heights of tlie sky were as as destroying, tho othor building up. They seem to create little or ho commotion, aud the work of destruction is as easily and silently ac- to 'pieees a rose. Yst hiich ia the fact.

A disease. We return at onco to the i of a-deserted-house, Ko sound, object. Parents and Guardians Where do your boys spend their evenings? a amusements have you provided for their restless hands and stirring rnrnds? wo are nor life- ing warm. only (he bi ight suushiae fall- 1le an4 we i 1 not sky which it could not bie fading the Up--five rn iles above earth or a the inaccessible summit of WM. HOSKIN.

ANDREW JACKSON, Borders anted A of pctitk-rneu can be Day Kaart'i in a privata fam'tlv, For iritjuirc Making rootns on Water Jeweler; in Hooks on to onicr all i i of Jc-f elr.y Silver 4atcj it and retait J-Cau Claire, March 54, 1865. A WALTER JAMES I A A A HOUSE. Proprietors, recently beca repaired and The You must not, you cannot, a Chimborazo. or iJawngiri. Despite the work or study all the while.

If you snnsliino-'everything freezes. The air attempt it, yotir neighbors fcbould ar- grows too i to support life even, for rest you for lunacy. How ara you a few i Two men only are; on acting toward yonr Wisy a advcaturotis. balloon--the." your boys nightly congrogate at the steering the 8tr tho rail way station, annoying people who ing the scientific instruments, and re- are tratelintf or have business there, i i i a rapidity brea both with theif-presence'-and bad- be-1 long practice, Suddenly, as the latter a i Do. you know--or care--that looks at his iustrr.ments, his your pet boy sweats ancl use vulgar grows i ha takes bis You claim to be gentle- onlv maiks -frffm tbs mon.

level of their protQtypea in nature, an ultimate death, /W.e all wltliiii our graves Bliall glcep- hut)flrcd t6 come J.a livlDf( soul for 'us will A Iiiinfircd yeitrs to J. But other land will till, And oth'tr nVc-tt-'our'etrepts will' Sii, Aud other Ijirda wijl'sing-: nsgav, As briglit the sun shiiic us A hundred ycacs-to come. CUEIOU.S EFFECTS op Ja.ly living in "Well asked big "Massa was the answer, "dat be send dem turkeys, afid dat if dey answer, cotoe ober and gobble his own "Go back and te31 him commanded the widow, with cheeks like peonies. Tho uegro did as he was commanded. The horses of the bachelor were hitched that Bight, until a late- hour, at the poet in front of tlie willow's door; and there was a wedding within three naontha.

HIDDEK HANDS OF little is of the pnvaic history of great statesmeu, orators and writers How of them have revealed the irjecvet. tUa Wiping hands, that shaped and tho lives of their If tha truth could be ktiowu, would foon.l hauit of Fporting on the river th srgljij a hef flo that every ona of tbaui, as ho upward, fixed his upoa ona hu- tnau, face, aud kucw by its emile when he had won success. How many have reached heights they never would have teamed, had it nut been for little while bauds, which the worM tbey saw cx'eidei to wLea the beetling cliff of difficulty uesmeJ to bar their way. The subtle 1 i a s.v pa 131 a re re i a vi than- tbc threads whbh 8piri through mid air. Those syai- pathcti; heafis, finer thaa the finest Hgbt, have fed great ions to glorious strength and We know they did for many- of the had his Beatrice, and Thompson his of as a better inspiration to i genius.

--These are not hid4aii hands; Lansmourgh! tiie But what they to otUer liaad-s the "Praise JJiria at tU stormy wiud and wfeo frotw can bring light, Baking IIM mer.oics to through unknown channel, bringing iu diw time, by own chant from the slorm cloud." Never doth a soul know what solid joy is till ft gives np a.s oi Hs bcrng, itscJf becowie a bol- low-d devoted thing, and wm "31y beloved is aad I cm bifi. am content to te anything for Him, and care mat far tkat I may serve Him." A irauldad into Ihl8 teaifw would in. dispcasatiotts of en joy would relu.h, wbeuHa should taste the divine goednoss in them, and consider thetn as tokous of Jove seat by his Lord and Master. AnJ etas tiseui would losd their ating; rad u-ell would comfort biut; lie would a froaa the baud that was smiting him, gatUor from that HOLS rBoys aad hold on. to your toiigae waen yo.uarej«RtTje«djr to bwear, lie, Bpcak hareblr, or ose any improper word, Held on to your 1 hands yon are about to.

stake, pinch, steal, or do any improper act, Hold on to yonr fact when are oa the point of kicking, runamg from study, or pan-uijgf ihe of KiiAiod 'ax eriwut- ou yonr yoa at 1 angry, or excited, or imposed np- on, or others are angry about yon. iSe Oyr hiia i Ewi Claire, Wfc. prowpilj Mn. D. P.

OB Vfk. MARTIN DANIELS, "1T.ERK of the Circuit Court and Clerk of tha Uoni ef of Office in the Court House. HODGE A HOUSE A SIGN PAINTERS. GU- lady if thev are ever fio far is it gentlemanly or barometer they are "rfeing rop dulgo in filthy language? People talk A fi a of raR Ty lies i i foot yon cou l3 a paniahmg boys-- sending them i be trie, to reach it, but hia arms lHe W(lter to the Rpforra School. Instead of tbat j.

re fnse to obey his will. He tries to yesrs know they pt5ght to put you into call on his comradsi, who has and exhibit yon in public with A plucard yonr head "Here's the so still -tlirong-ljpnt it hear a pin dmp" in The ladr plsys(il "Twenty other night, aad eeleetAi! for! world never sa, hay been t-j rink of Hold II seek your you to join their Mark Twain tJut Uuad oyt as wiitiag first re- sad g(i it is end so with discharged biia for attempting to convey Uad Usroogk tbe taeiUnm of A RKOJMEXTAI, coHIa MI asked whom he tssfti-irtg a ecfUa for, aud meniiosie-l "Why, lio 13 not dead," to c-ofifa ami what Why a trade with sd to a day. TKe 'y i lookad; an cr. for lutvtr I yoang Jparty; of ware wceittly ovsrheaf by tlvir the arithiuetical Two Fiona tfee dii ii ite CHHT'-- witk "Oil Ilonia" of taa put- cVa-sfr-I: fcr of iibat town. flejiid to the ring above; whisper in deep would suffice-- lst no man who abuses hia own children by sound comes from hw lips-- not bringing them cp properly, wg Tbo steersman epmt down iata to shed who is fitting tbem for the State Pri- 1 the car; he find his comrade ia a son for happy feels bis own senses failing him, Clate Tbftt wUt agbl dotl He mt ODce lirs Dd dealth i Jlftoifl i you, whtthe? yoa are deacon of a upon a tew moneati He teisad The total VhfpmenU Of ji; Croix coanty, darisg 1 i TM oaa io)k, 2 looks 1 cf the -'Old hi 11 paijiitaia, 1 aa 2 2 1 fool flirtation, 1 year 3G8j696 meat, 2 lU te I Tfce Sew tlw joaag witii cae coanty exclaimed, 1 A we lire lor.

LtMtiful and nicelj ifcid all speak well for aste of ttio preeut proprietor..