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1 Joiima Ft 1 Soet I pie.ar- 'who T-, VOL. 4. JEFFERSON CITY. FBIPAY. JANUARY 7, 187 NO.

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who iMW A TTTHMPHHlVr Josephs County, i c. wit tt rTTrv 'thn nlllirP8 ot Ul series ot cfl AND 6 Yi i'J James Gillespie, or cx-Speakt-r 19 inw-anK acnniiuis liuiuung. born on the last emigrated from the Wqb BAISEiV, ern Pennsylvania his iaiiritv and tri CsHeiro. Pennsysv.i.ail (S OUIgeOIl. in Maim A.and editorial olmir and residence Lamktn KennetH-c wivMlding, opposite National ioy" Exchange liank.

and has since Henry nitchy AL ESTATE GENTi JEFFERSON CITY, MO. BUYS AND SELLS LANDS UN COMMIS-sion, Pay Taxes, Lauds Sold for Taxes, Procure Patents. Office over White Javier's store, nigh dcc.27 72hf FRED yilOMMEL, DEALER IS Stationery ORIODICALS, BLANK BOOKS, CHRO-1W XT'mos, Wall Paper and Pictures. Picture old Pens. All orders will receive prompt at tention.

ILTGII STREET, c.27.'72-it Jefferson City, Mo Chas. L. Busoh Chicago Lumber Yard, Cor. of Main and Jefferson Sts JEFFERSON CITY, MO. AJ' LARGE STOCK OF ALL KINDS OF X3L.

Lumber of a Superior Quality. Always on hand, and for Sale, at the Cheap- acc.a.7iv MADISON HOTEL, b. n. Mccarty soss, tropr-s. Main and Madison JEFFERSON CITY, MO.

fTHHIS NEW HOTEL nAS BEEN FUR-JL nished in every Department in a tirst class nanner. lthasuneaualed accommodations. The public can be better suited nowhere in 'V Cable at all times supplied with the very best Korket affords. aec.27 72-iy SCFACTUEER pF AND DEALEB IN PLAIN AND FANCY CANDIES, Toys, eto 5 WII9IJESALE AND RE1AIL. KEEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND A lam stock of Plain and Funcv (lend ion of own maniifiieture, which he is BUODlvinsr -Vthrade "reduced prices.

Store room in I "Stillrtlrii Hich 'I i Jefferson City, se an'Ier'n OmCE AND KESIDEXCR. 8hoMrMcCarty Jeflferson Sts. Le JEFFERSON CITY, MO. bt Offlcij hours 6 to9 a. 1 to 2 P.

M. tt Jan.l6-lv. DE WYL, (SUCCESSORS T( MRS. BERRI.) Kiiftl(T( aim 1 nn vii mp. -IGH STREET, 85.50', vv' uEFFERSON CITY, MO.

i Tnere bundred JSJftSToha Price, or is Robber GLAZIER and PAPER HANGER. 1" Jefferson City, Mo. TWork done in the best style of tte art. OLD MEMORIES. If you should place against your ear The shell you plundered from the sea, Down in its hidden heart you'd hear A low and tender melody, A murmur of the restless tide; A yearning, bora of memory, And, though its longings be denied, The shell keeps singing ot the sea.

And sometimes when old memories throng, ik pll0S, the chambers or our soul, we reel the yearning, deep rnd strong, A longing we can not control, To lay our cares and business by, And seek the old. familiar ways, cross home's threshold, and sit down With comrades or ourVarlier davs. An Incident of the "War. On the 12th day of June, 18G3, I witnessed a duel between a Cant. Jones.

commanding a Federal scout, and Capt. Fry, commanding a rebel scout, in Greene county, East Tennessee. These twa men had been fighting each other for six months, with tho lortune of battle in favor of tho one and then the other. Their commands were either side of Lick creek, a large and sluggish stream, too deep to ford and too shallow for a ferry boat but there was a bridge spanning the stream, for the convenience of the traveling public. Eich of them guarded this bridge, that communication should go neither north south, as the railroad track had been torn up months before.

Alter fighting each other lor several months, and contesting the point as to which should bold tho bridge, they agreed to fight a duel, tho conqueror to hold the bridge undisputed for the time being. Jones gave the challenge and Fry accepted. The terms were that they should light with navy pistols at twenty yards apart, deliberately walking towards each other and firing until the last chamber in their pistols was discharged, unless one or tho other fell before all the discharges were made. They chose their seconds, and agreed upon a rebel surgeon fas he was the only one in either command to attend them in case ot danger. j0Jones was certainly a fine-looking fel-f w.

with light hair and blue eyes, five eet ten inches in height, looking every inch tho military chieftain, lie was a man that soldiers would admire and ladies regard with admiration, I never saw a man more cool, determined, and heroic under such circumstances. I have read of the deeds of chivalry and knight errantry in the middle ages, and of bravo men embalmed in modern poesy; but when I saw this man Jones go to the dnelist's scratch, fighting hot for real or supposed wrongs to himself, but, as he honestly thought, for his country and tho glory ot his flag, I could not help admiring the man, notwithstanding he fought for the freedom of the negro, which I was opposed to. Fry as a man full six feet hirh. slen der, with long, wavy, curling hair, jet gray suit, lookins rather the demon than the man. There was nothing ferocious about him; but ho had that self-sufficient nonchalance that said, "I will kill you." Without a doubt, he was brave, cool, and collected, and although sufferinGr from a terrible flesh wound in his left arm, re ceived a week before, he manifested no symptoms ot distress, but seemed readv for the fight.

The ground was stepped off Dy mo seconds, pistols loaded ana exchanged, and tho principals brought face to lace, i shall never forget that meeting. Jones, in his military, boyish mood, as they shook hands, remarked that A soldier braves death for a fanciful wreath, When in glorv's romantic career. Fry caught up tho rest f' the sentence, and answered by saying: Yet he bends o'er the foe when in battlo laid low, And bathes every wound with a tear. They turned around and walked to the point designated. Jones1 had tho word "Fire and, as he slowly said.

'One two three fire they simultane ously turned at the word "One," and instantly fired. Neither was hurt, They cocked their pistols, and deliberately walk od toward each other firing as they went. At the fifth shot Jones threw up his right hand, and, firing his pistol in the air.sank down. Fry was in the act of firing his last shot but seeing Jones fall, silently lowered his pistol, dropped it to tho ground, and sprang to Jones' side, taking is head in his lap as he sat down, and asked him if he was hurt. I discovered that Jones was shot through the region of tho stomach, the bullet glancing around that organ, and coming out on to the left of the spinal column besides, he had received three other frightful flesh wounds in other parts ot his body, I dressed his wounds, and gavo him such stimulants as I had.

He after wards got well. Fry received three wounds one break ing his left arm, one in the left, and the other in his right side. Alter months ot suffering ho got well. Neither of them asked for a discharge, but both resumed their command wheu they got well, and fought the war out to the bitter end, and to-day are partners in a wholesale grocery business down South, doin a good business and verifying the sentiment of Byron that "A soldier braves death," etc. Trusting that the above truthful narrative will be a lesson to some people North and South, that stayed on the outside and yelled "Seek dog!" and are still not satis-bed with the results ot the war, let.

me subscribe myself a reconstructed Confederate Surgeon, A Man Cats his Throfet Because life Wife's Grave Had Been Violated. Charles Hemerle. a German, forty-three years ot age, a harness-maker by trade committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, at his residence, No. 5 Hamilton road, about uoon yesterday. Three months ago his wife fell downstairs and was instantly killed.

The night after the funeral tho body was taken from the German Protestant Cemetery by two crave-robbers, who wore proceeding with it in an express wagon to' tho city when they were captured by officers of the Cor-ryville Station, The body! wastaken to Habig's undertaking establishment, where Hemerbe again saw the corpse ot the wile ho had buried tho day before. The fact that the body had been disturbed seemed to prey upon his mind, and for the past tew weeks ho showed symptoms of mental derangement. About 11 o'clock yesterday be went into hl3 room to sleep, as he said. Soon afterward his daughter, who was in the next room, heard a rap on the wall, and going in, found her father lying on the bed wtth his throat cut from ear to car. She questined him as to why he had committed the.

act, and he told her he wanted to be with His wife. He also told her to call on a man living on Hamilton road, and collect $8 that was duo him. Hemerle died fram loss of blood in about forty minute. Deeeascd leaves four children. Hard Work in Youth.

Many young people are impatient ot the hard work to be done as clerks, or in subordinate positions, and are eager to make fortunes without the long and painful toil which is essential to success. They may learn somethinz from the experience of Vice-rrcsident Wilson. He says of himself: I feel that I have a right to speak for toiling and to toiling men. I was born here in your county of Strafford. I was born in poverty Want sat by my cradle.

I know what it is to ask a mother for bread when she has none to give. I leit my home at ten years of age, and served an apprenticeship of eleven years, receiving a month's schooling each year, and at the end of eleven years of hard work, a yoke ol oxen and six sheep, which brought me eighty-lour dollars. Eighty-fpur dollars for oleven years of hard toil. I never spent the amout of one dollar in money, counting every penny, from the time I was born until I was twnty-one years of age. I know what it is to travel weary miles, and ask myj lellovv-men 1.0 give me leave to toil.

I remember that in October, 1833, I walked into your village from my native town, wenjt through yout mills seeking employment. It anybody.had offered me nine dollars a month I should havo accepted it gladly. I went' to Salmon Fall, I went to Dover, I went to Newmarket and tried to eret work, without success, and returned home footsore ajid weary, but not discouraged. I put my pack on my back, and walked to where I now live in Masschusetts, and learned a mechanic's trade. I know the hard lot that toiling menUiaye to endure in this world, and every (pulsation of my heart, every conviction of my judgment, every aspiration ot my soul, me on the side of the toiling men of my country ay, ot all countries.

Tho first month I worked after I was twonty-ono years otagej went into the woods, drove team, cut mill logs, wood, roye in the moruing before daylight, and worked hard until after dark at night, and I received the magnificent sum ot six dollars Each ot those dollars looked as lasge to me as the moon looked to-night. The Girl of the Period" Converted. Mr. Moody has made a strange convert at least the person claims to bo converted. It is an erratic and eccentric young woman from Lewistown, who calls herself and is called "Johnny" Brit-ton.

She is well known from Altoona to Lancaster and from Williamsport to York, among all the sporting fraternity as a smart whip, a stout base ball baiter, a habitue ot horse races and basn ball matches, a discriminate and Keen better, and as much ot a port generally as any man living. Her dress is that of a woman except that she wears a masculine coat, collar, cravat and hat or cap, and her hair cut to reach not quite to tho shoulders. In form she is a little above the medium size in appearance, rather masculine, though her features are regular.IIe tout ensemble on the street especially, is very dashing she camo down to Philadelphia on a wedding trip, was converted, she says, went back to her home at Lewis-ton, and is now laboring to convert her old friends and sporting companions. Mr. Blaine, at the Philadelphia banquet, was sent by a gentleman, who had obtained it by an introduction, tho card of one ot the editors ot the National Republican, with a request tor a song pencilled on it.

Mr. Blaine wrote back, in all seriousness "I am no more competent to sing a song than you are to write an editorial. I must therefore respectfully bog to be excused, lest I should make the samo mistako that editors sometimes do, by attempting to perform a feat for which I am not adapted. J. G.

Rlaine." The Kittery Navy-Yard has been shut down "for the winter," which means till near the next election across the harbor at Portsmouth, N. II. Death of the Oldest Clergyman. The Rev. Henry Boehm.

who on the 8th of the last June celebrated the ono bun- drelh anniversary ot his birth, and who was doubtless the oldest clergyman in the world, died on Staten Islands on Tuesday evening. His centennial anniversary was observed by the jNewark conlerence in Jersey City and the excitement of that occasion prostrated him. His physician recommended bis removal Staten Island, and he went there to live with c. grand riflllO'litnr Ilia hanlth (rrartiiorllltf until the 12th inst. when after preaching ia the Methodist church in Richmond vil lage, he was again seized with illness, His physician found it necessary to sub ject tho venerablo patient to a painful operation, lrom which ins system was not able to rally.

Father Boehm was born in Lancaster county, and tor a year was one of King George subjects. When he became a man there were only thirteen states. Sailing vessels were tho only means of transportation by sea and horses by land, and subsequently iu his travels about the country he rode more than a hundred thousand miles on horseback. He always expressed the proloundest astonishment at the changes within his remembrance. He joined the Methodist church when he was twenty-one years ot age.and was soon alterwaid licensed to preach.

For more than thirty years he has been in the Jersey City conference, and as long ago as 1812 was on the list of supernumeraries. It is said that his pav for services as a uroach cr will average about $200 a year. Ho was personally acquainted with all the Methodist bishops from Coke to Peck. lie was chosen by Bishop Asbury as his traveling companion in the spring ot lbOS, and travelled with him until 1813. when tho bishop appointed Father Boehm pre' siding elder ol the Schuylkill district.com prising the whole territory lrom Wilming ton to stroudsburg, between tne susqucha-na and the Delaware.

The journeys and two were made on horseback, and in one visit through the territory of Indiana, but six habitations were lound in tlnrtv-six miles. N. Y. Sun. A Lively Elopement.

Says the Co lumbus (ua.) iMiquirer lucre was a girl in Yongeville, on the S. i.nd M. railroad, the daughter ot a wealthy gentleman. She is only 11 years ot ago. Her name was Miss In tho neighborhood lives a handsome youth, Mr.

nearly arrived at manhood. The pair met by chance, Earth became elysium to two fond hearts, tor they loved and interchang ed eternal vows. Tho fond pair desired ed to wed. Cruel papa said "nay," con sidering Ins daughter but a child, and forbade adorer the bouse. Then follow ed stolen interviews and a plot.

Miss W. went to an uncle's house. A cousin was in league with the lovers. She was missed at home and search was tnado by the outraged and sorrowing father, but sho was hid safely a clean box in the smoke-house. Tho searchers went elsewhere.

Tho male cousin in the darkness of darkness mounted a horse, seated tho fair maiden behind, and forth they sped tor the train, where the doting ana ex expected husband awaited their arrival The parent got wind of the excape and followed. The fugitives between 10 o'clock at night and daylight rodo fifty miles, wadit-o three creeks that were deep and with strong currents. Iho hoie had little breath or strength left. The pursu ers headed them off at Notasulga, but, at a wood-yard, they boarded the freight train and passed pursuers on tho way, Tho three journeyed on to West Point, woke a j'ustice of the peace up lato at night, and twenty-one summers were united to the cheery spring time represented by a blithe and blushing bride. They came back on the next passenger train to Notasulga as man and wife, Meautimo the pursucis had telegraphed to vaiious places to grant no license should an application be made in Georgia.

The time occupied was from Sunday night to Wednesday morning, and to add to tho liveliness of the pursuit cousin and lover had each a shot-gun. Remarkadle Case. A remarkable casa of restoration ot speech has recently occurred. Some time ago a little son of Mr. Daniel J.

Farr. who lives nt No. 6 Lafayette street, lost his voice and was unablo to speak above a whisper. The parents were greatly distressed on account of it, for ho was a bright little fellow, and they consulted many physicians, but they told them that the vocal organs were paralyzed and that ho would never be able to speak aloud. A tew days ago the boy went out to skate, and as he arrived at the ico he saw somo of hs playmates.

Without thinking, be attempted to shout to them, and, to his great surprise, he utter-edja loud He at once started on the run for horns, and shouted. "Mother, I can speak." The mother was at first muoh startled, but, when she found that her boy had really regained the use of his voice, her delight may be bettet imagined than described. Tho Socretary of the Treasury has directed the retirement and destruction of over $600,000 legal tenders, the amount being 80 per cent of the new issues of National Bank notes tor this month. This reduces the legal ttndor circulation to $371,827,000, a decrease vi $10,000,000 in the present year, which is not offset by any increase in National Bank note circulation. Osoar G.

Baroh, NOTARY rUBLIc'AND CONVEYANCER JEFFERSON CITY. MO. (QT Ofllce, State Journal Building, 211 Mail street, Jefferson City. A LSO, REPRESENTS THE FOLLOWING Leading Insurance Companies Franklin Fire Ins. Co.

of Philadelphia, Assets $3,000,000 Continental Firfe Ins. Co. of New York, Assets Mutual Lifo Ins. Co. of New York, Assets fee.

27 72-t N. C. BURCII. O. RURCH Att'y at Law Notary Pub.

and vancer H. B. JOHNSON. J. S.

nOTSHOUD JOIINON IJOTTSFOItl), ATTORNEYS-AT -LAW Jefferson City. Missouri. WILL GIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION TO Cases in tho United States Circuit and District Courts. dec.2i-tf. W.

11. HOPKINS, ATTORN A A Real Estate and Collccing Agciil. ILL PAY TAXES AND REDEEM lands soi for taxes in any county in the State Refers to Messrs. Ctirrv Kirbv. Bankers Jefferson City, Mo.

Hon. S.S. Biirdctt, M'C Mo-; lion. J. Learning, Sctdala.

JL. VV Hi Li JLt lb, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN HARNESS, SADDLES COLLARS. BRIDLES, WHIPS, BLANK ITS, FLY NETS, ETC, No. 219, East High jStrcot, JEFFERSON CITY, MO ICPAIRING NEATLY DONE AND Work Warranted. uec.27.72-t( W.

COX'S Fire Inuranoe Agenoys JEFFERSON CITY. MO. Insurance Coinpanv of N. America, Pennsylvania, cash capital $.1,1500,000. Imperial Fire Insurance Companv of London, England, cash capital, gold, $10,000,000.

Gcrmania Fire Insurance Company of New York, capital $4,000,000. American Central Fire Insurance Company of St. Louis, cash capital assets, $1,500,000. Saint Joseph Fire Insurance Company, cnsli capital Traveler's Accident Insurance Company Hartford, cash capital S. W.

Cox. Notary Puhliu. ec.27.72-6in LIVE II FEI5D AIVD SALE STABLE. BENJAMIN McG-ILL WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM TIIE public tiiat ho is now prepared to accommodate thein in the Livery business at the corner of Main and Monroo streets, whero ho will do a general liverv, feed and sale business. Horses kept by the day, week or month.

Riding and biiRfiy horses constantly on "hand ami of the best Givo mo a call. Jdec. 27. 1872-tf Zuber's Marble Works VICTOB. MANL'KACTIftEIt OF Foreign MARBLE MONUMENTS.

GRAVESTONES AND TOMBS North side of High stocet, Between Jefferson and Washington Sis nio.73-iv. JEFFERSON JTV. MO N. C. BURCH BEO.

Real Estate Agents, JEFFERSON CITY. MO. BUY AND SELL LANDS ON COMMI8-Bion. l'av Taxes. Redeem Lands Sold for Taxes, Procure Patent, Examine Titles, Furnish Abstracts; Etc.

the only Abstract of Titles for Colo county. H2T Office State Journal Sll Itfaiu street. fdeo. 27. lx72-lf O.

W. LOHMAN, (Successor to W. II. or lock.) JEFFERSON CITY. MISSOURI.

TUB attention ot tho puhllo Is called to hi Una Htoek of Urv Goods. GrooerlcD. Hard ware and Notions, Boots and SUoea. Hats and aps. Ao.

Highest murkct prico paid for farm produce JunlO-TJwly 1,.