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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-08-17
Hlisttllaneous.
MR.. PETERS FIRST WIFE.
CARRIE A. CLARK.

Dear. dear, no toast eggs boiled as
/ hard as brickbats, and the coffee stone cold,
and Mr.. Peters rose from the breakfast ta-
bic in temper by no means amiablc, and
rang the bell violently There was 10 an
swer, He rang again, third, fourth time,
still no answer. Out of all patience he
W ent to the door and called Maria
Maria
\ slight, pretty little woman, dressed in
sOiled, tumbled wrapper, with hair in a
state of direful confusion, answered this
summons. She had one of those round
bright faces which Nature intended should
be decked with continual smiles but now,
with all its roses in bloom, it was drawn
to its full length, and the large blue eyes
had serious or rather doleful expression,
totally at variance with their usual joyous
look. Her voice, too, had lost its melodi-
Gus ringing sound, and was subducd to
dismal whine.
What is it, Joseph?'
Where Bridget
Gone out for Inc. ] want more white
ribbon for my ascension robe
Mr.. Peters said a very naughty word,
and then continued, Cold coffee, hard eggs,
breakfast not fit to eat
4 WISH whincd his wife, you would
think less of temporal matters, and turn
your attention to the great ends of life
Hang it ALL madam, would like to
enjoy my life while l DO have it. Here
was |, the happicst man in the United
States, with a pleasant home, a chatty,
cheerful, loving wife. and good quiet chill
dren; and now, since you have joined the
Millerites, what am I?'
oh, Joseph, if you would only come
into that blessed circlcl'
oh, Maria, if you would only come out
of it. Where are the boys?'
i am sure l don't know
Are they going to school to-day?'
My dear, their teacher has given up
the school, and is turning her mind to more
exalted objects. Oh. Joseph, turn now
while there is time. You have still week
for preparation and repentance
Repentance! Well, when l take up
the subject, it will take rather more than a
week to put it through
And Mr.. Peters put on his coat and took
up his hat.
Joseph said his wife, you need not
send home any dinner. l shall be out, and
1 Ii take the boys over to their uncle's to
dine
Joe made no answer, unless the violently
emphatic manner in which he closed the
door was one. Muttering with anger he
strobe into restaurant to make break
fast Here he was hailed by one of his
bachelor friends, Fred. Somers, who looked
up as he heard Joe's order.
'Halloo!' he cried, You here? Why
what are you doing here at breakfast time?
Wife sick?!'
.No!
Had a quarfel?'
Nor
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-08-17

dark, sooty town of Pittsburg on the Mo-
nongahela, rise away above the smoke and
steam of city life, float across the Atlantic
and are heard upon the heathery hills of
Ettrick, and among the birks that grow on
the 'braes of Yarrow.'" Favorable mention
has also been made of them from California
China, Australia, and even the deserts of
Africa, through the foreign and home cor
respondence of our newspapers.
Ethiopian minstrelsy, as it is called, has,
however, eliminated, and is now in its de-
cline. Approaching this fact, Mr. Foster
stately somewhat changed his style, and
abandoning the use of negro jargon. he now
writes songs better adapted for general use.
While the melodies exhibit decided i'm
provement, the words are rhythmical, al
ways unexceptionable in point of moral, and
as good, POLITICALLY considered as the major
ity of songs. We do not say that Mr.. Fos-
ter's melodies can lie compared with
those that have immortalized the names of
Burns, Barry Cornwall. or Thomas Moore; /;
but we do maintain that the composer who
produced such popular and pleasing songs
as "Gentle Annie" willie, We have
Missed YOU" Maggie by My Side" II
See Her Still in My Dreams" Old Dog
Tray" etc, deserves an honorable mention,
as one of those who has enlarged the pleas
ure of thousands
The reason of the popularity of Mr.
Fosters songs lies in their easy, flowing
melody, the adherence to plain chords in
the aceompanimcnts, and the avoidance of
intricaey in the harmony or embarrassing
accidentals in the melody. They have a
family resemblance. but not greater than
the simpler melodies of Bellini and Doni-
zotti, and the composer is no more truly
open to the charge of self-plagiarism than
are those italian mclodists. And, as Mr..
Foster is still young, he may improve and
elevate his style, till he attains musical
reputation that viii be more than ephemc-
Post.
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For the Chronicle.l
MIDNIGHT.

Still midnight Oh. how still how like the tomb
so fearfully it hreathes of that deep gloom,
almost ft el about my trembling heart,
Its icy chilIness and its te; ro-s start
So dark SO starless like that last deep sleep;
And the black shadows DER the white walls creep,
Like giant specires. fierce, and grim and tall,
Robed in their blackness like faneral lail;
And the old clock-I heard It's slow-toned bell,
Peal sadly forth the doleful midnight knell-
So dark. so dreHr.
And-hush my heart-I heard a wailiny low,
And deep, and muffed like the sulien flow
or far-oG waters. chatting TO and fro
Or the dull leaden tramp of mOurners slow,
About the bier.
Hash, trembling heart twas but the tickle winds,
Pluming their piDions through the dusky pines;
Did ye net hear them. hear their cunning wiles,
Sink to a Rhi,rer in the forest aises
Did We not hear them on the woody height,
Like troubled spirits, moaning through the night
Did ye not hear them when they came at last,
shieking. and viewless on the midnight last
And then tie rain
AS though the ebon clouds themselves would weep
Der th- drear darkness of the midnight deep;
hear it dropping from the low-brOwed caves,
1 hear its patter on the maple leaves,
And window pane
And gaze forth, yet catch silv'ry CLEAN
OF moon or starlight, upon hill or stream;
But in my room, " the pale Pickering ght
OF waning taper, burning flint and white,
] sit, and dream aye, and such hitter dream;
Peoplsd with gloomy phaEtoms, and the gleam
of fiful freight burning faint and low,
To dull cold ashes the pulses flow,
Leads Oh to dust in coll and silent toGlbs,
To dull io=ge,fulness and deepest gloons.
So drear, so dark ;
Though; wearies, sickrns, at its own sad thought;
Wearies of life with clouds and darkness fraught;
Fer oft ',iS midnight in the heart, when day
Shines with its brightest, most unclouded ray.
OFT my frail b2rk,
At random floats upon trackless sea,
Moonless and starless this nigh; to me.
And yet, lore the night;
The solemn midnight with its sable pail,
And spectral shadows creeping DER the wall
l love Its funeral blackness, and the light
or waning tapers, Pickering faint and white
I love to hear the low winds cunning wiIes
In this dim hour chdntei through forest aisles;
1 love is waing and love to her
The miGnght knell fall on my list'ning ear,
Shutting the cold world from my achir sight;
For this, aye yes, Tor tais bless the night;
Oft bless the still midnight.
CARRIE A CLARK.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-08-17
OUR COUNTRY-NOW AND THEN,

Eighty-thrce years ago, when the fifty
two signers of the Declaration of lndcpen
idcncc, appealing to the Supreme Judge o
the world for the rectitude of their inten
TONS" declared that these United Colo
nies are and of right ought to be, free ant
Independent States but few of the mos
sanguinc of that day dreamed of the extent
and greatness which their country would
attain in the comparatively brief space oi
a century. Then there were thirteen
sparsely populated colonies; no,o We have
thirty-three powerful States, and several
large Territories hanging upon the thrcsh-
old of membership. The following stats
tics, showing the means and degrees by
which the great Empire of the West has
been reared, will be read with thrilling in
terest by every American citizen:
New STATES AND TERRIToRIEs-WHEN
ADMITTED
Under General Westinghouse Admins
tration, the following new States were ad-
mitted:
Vermont, in 1871.
kentucky, in 1892.
Tennessee, in 1896.
Under Thomas Jefferson s administration,
the following new States and Territories
were added to the Union:
Ohio, in 1902.
Louisiana, purchased in 1901.
Each contained space enough for fifteen
states. This purchase gave to the United
States the entire control of the Mississippi,
the South of which had hitherto been III the
hands of foreign power. Territorial gov
ernmcnts were organized in Mississippi, In
diana and Louisiana.
Under James Madison's Administration,
the following addition was made to the
Confederacy:
Indiana, in 1916. :.
During the Presidency of James Monroe,
the following rev States were admitted in
to the Union:
Mississippi, in 1917.
Illinois, in 1919.
Missouri, in 1920.
Maine, in 1920.
Florida, purchased in 1921.
Under the Presidency of General An
drew jackson, the following States we're ad-
lnittcd:
Michigan, in 1886.
Arkansas, in 1888.
During the Presidency of James X. Polk.
the following new States were admitted:
Texas, in 1915.
Iowa, in 1915. /
Florida, in 1915.
Wisconsin. in 1915. /
California was boaght
New Mexico and Utah bought.
Under the Administration of Taylor and
Fillmore the following States was admit
ed:
California, in 1850.
The following Territories were organized:
lew Mexico, Utah and Washington.
Under Gen Piercc's Administration, the
Glowing Territories arc organized;
Nebraska and Kansas.
Arizona purchased.
Under james Buchanan Administration,
he following States were admitted:
Minnesota, in 1853.
Oregon, in 1859.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-08-17
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BARNUM,S HARDWARE STORE,
At Warren Trumbull Co., Ohio,

rs now flied with ample stocks, and
4 replete with the latest styles of HOUSE TRIM
MIyGS and most desirable coiors painting blinds
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-08-17
QUICK ON THE rR1csER.


You viii please observe" said sld Mr..
Lambwcll. as he led us through his school
the other day, that the boys are required
to observe the utmost attention. to euietness
as well as to dicipline. y ~
We had at this moment arrived in front
of several boys standing around water
bucket. and one had just charged his mouth
with the contents of the cup, whilc the old
gentleman was stopping over to recover his
pen from the hoor, when another passing
along behind, snapped his fingers quite ur-
der the drinker' ear, and caused him on
sudden 10 eject the eOnteuts of his mouth
over the pedrgogue's bald pate. Standing
upright, with his face and hair dripping the
master shouted:-
Who did that" s-..
The party unanimously cried out 9
"Jim Gun. sir" zGs 80
James Gun, what did you do that for?''
jim appalled, at the mischief he had
done muttercd that it was not his fault
that Tom Owen snapt him a
This changed the direction of old Lamb
wells wrath, and shaking his cane porten-
tiously over Ovens head; he asked.-
Ibid YOU snap Gtm2'' -
The eulprit, trembling with fear, NUT
tercd:- YES. sir. l snapt Gun-but I
didn't know that he was loaded -
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-08-17

A tailor advertises to guarantee his Gus
toners good fits If he docs not give
them fits by his tailoring he probably wiz
by his charges
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-08-17

An author, if an inyeterate smoker, il
exposed to double danger-pufing himself
to death and being puffed to death by
others
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-08-17

l. hon
But my dear, you must go if You are
come for
i won't co.
But consider my dear
i won't CO.
But what will Sarah think?'
Sarah! Don dare to mention Sarah
to me again! l-I-oh II am fairly
choaking.' and the little woman threw her
self into chair, in fit of mysteries.
Next morning, Mr.. Peters met Fred in
the street. .-
Well, old boy, how goes it?'
Fred was the reply, Il am the happi-
est man in the world / have rcgained
my wife and domestic peace, and got rid of
busy, tattling old maid, who, under pre-
tenee of loving my wife, was everlastingly
in all our household arrangements
Then Mrs. Peters will not ascend. will
she?' N
No If Sarah is to be my second wife
and step-mother to my children. Mrs. Peters
has concluded that, on the whole, she won't
GO''
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-08-17

won't you? No doubt of it, But you
shan't marry her, sir! You shan't have
that qualification! Twill stay, if it is only
to spite you. l tell you, Mr.. Peters, that
| won't go.'
But nv dear. YOU must 90 if YOU are
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-08-17

rs now filed with ample stocks, and
4 replete with the latest styles of HOUSE TRIM
MIyGS and desirable colors ior painting blinds.
Barnum intendsto supply Paints,
ira Zinc Dry and in Oil; also superior quality ground
In White yarnish, for Parlor
BARNUM will sell Merchants at
jobbins rates. and de6es competition marts outside
OF New FORK, aud h. herewith sends his compliments
dealers TINT he is prepared duplicate the prices
of New York Houses, Including the transportation
only those classes of goods where it forms great
per eentum of the cost. Nov hand and shortly to
xrrire-lIoes. scythes. Sickles [not Danirl scythe
Stones. Hubbers. Rifles. Rak-s. Knives AID Forks,
Springs, White Lead, and Gil.
BARNUM keeps i fresh stock of
sApDLERY Notice this ye who want to hug goods
low; Harness Trimmings sold low-Patent Leather
sold Iow-Brass Bands sold low-carriage Trimmings
and Moss sold low.
BARNUM has some fine Pistols,
Five BarreIi Shooters Rinz Barrells Locks Triggers
and general lot of Gun Trimmings.
BARNUM would make further
mention of the saddlery trate by remarkng that he
has laid his entire of that class of goods from
the head dealers and Importers and he will sell every
thing in that line at lowest rates.
BARNUM invites attention to his
Gard herewith annexed -
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-26

mands the court below, and is unfinished it
was always occupied by the Captain of the
Guard, who stood with sword drawn, looking
through the glass into the inner room during
the confession. The King trusted himself to
the Jesuit confessor, but the state distrusted
him. The inner toom where the King and
the Father Letellier retired, contains only an
arm chair, a prie-Dieu, and vase for holy
water. The arm chair was destined for the
Jesuite, while the King-so feared, SO envied
by all Europe-knelt at his feet These two
small rooms are richly gilded. This confess
sional is, perhaps, the most interesting sight
in all the palaces ST Versailles.
"But to complete the philosophic lesson
thus begun; follow this narrow hall, mount
this small staircase, until you reach the attic
of the little chateau of Louis XIII, built in
1877 by Lemercier, and so beautifully pre-
served by Louis XIV, and visit the then
humble garnet rooms which formed the apart
ments of Madame de Maintenon. Here, in
these small rooms, all white and gold, with
their dormer windows and deep embrasures,
forming charming little boudours,- lived
the severe and charming Marquis, who has
left SO many souveniers of love, power and
humility. In this attic, in that confessional
lived and reigned the masters of the world"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-26

POINTS OF Cows.-A. l.. Fish, a well known
dairyman OF Herkimer county, n Y, gives
III the Little Falls Record, some good remarks
on the points of cows. He very properly
considers strength of constitution and capacity
to eat what is offered her at all seasons of the
year, as of the first importance. He rightly
observes also, that the indications of such a
constitution are thick mellow skin, with soft
hair, bright full eye, broad loin and hips,
deep body and straight back.
"CheeSe dairy-men and city mik-men1 usu-
ally select cows that yield the largest amount
of milk, because they depend more upon the
quantity of cheese than its quality, and milk is
known to make good yield of Cheese that
would make but little butter, and poor at that
But am not in favor of the rule of selecting
cows that yield the most milk per day or sea-
son, In arriving at proper standard of excel
lence for the best. The quality of
milk COW will give, is indicated by hair and
skin, and yellow color of the skin inside of the
ears and other parts not thickly covered with
hair. have never known a COW, with soft
fur-like hair and mellow skin, appearing yell
low and gummy at the roots of the hair when
parted with the hands, that was not good
butter cow, and when fattened, would mix tai
low well with flesh Having been accustomed
to fatten my cows that failed for dairy purpos
es, by age or otherwise, for many years, and
being on the lookout for causes of known re-
suits, l have observed that those known to
give good milk, made most thrift in tallow
when fed to fatten. Hence, the conclusion,
that cows that handle well in what the butch
ers call tallow joints, may be judged to give
rich milk, the quantity to be judged by plain
ly marked design Of nature in her physical
structure. Instead Of heavy head, horns, neck
and shoulders, and comparatively light hind
quarters, which is ever characteristic of the
opposite sex, she should show an opposite de-
sign, by feminine countenance, light head,
neck and shoulders, widening backward from
her chest to the loin and hind quarters, where
the more strength is required"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-26

FREAKS OF BEEs.-An Indiana correspond
ent furnishes the following facts and queries
for our readers to solve: He had a swarm of
bees come out in June, 1858. He hived them
in what he calls ga plank gum" The next
day, about one o'clock, they came out of it..
He settled them, cut off the limb on which they
had gathered, placed it close to the side of the
hive, and with wheat straw hunted until he
had found the queen or king The calls it, and
cropped one wing. The king was then placed
near the hive, into which he went. About
four o'clock the same day he was found down
again, with few bees close around him. They
were taken off him, and he went up into the
hive again. The next morning this king was
found dead. He was elevated, however, to
his throne on a split stick, which our CORES.
pondent had been informed would make them
cOntented. They soon threw his carcass out
of the hive. Good care was taken of them.
They were put in the bee-house and watched
very closely. Not bee appeared for ten days.
The eleventh day the hive was carried out in
the sun and turned bottom up. The bees
swarmed out and flew around for five minutes,
settled again into the "gum," and they were
placed in the bee-house again. This was done
for three days consecutively, when they went
to work and filled the "gum" full before win
ter. They were finally sold to person, who
removed them lit is not stated how far) in Feb
ruary. He had them seven days. The elev-
eth day was a warm one the bees swarmed-
returned to the original owner, who hived
them. The night proved cold and the bees
were stiff in the morning. An examination re-
suited in finding they had 10 "king" Our
correspondent wants to know why they work
ed so hard to fill the hive and then left it in the
dead of winter. Fifteen pounds of honey were
found in the hive-the balance of the comb
was filled with bee bread, young bees, &C. This
took place at Vincennes, Indiana.
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from the Germantown Telegraph.
BONE MANURE.

No subject on the farm is less generally I'M
derstoOd than the properties of manure as re-
CARDS the different soils and crops. AS to what
kinds OF manure is best adapted for any par
ticular soil to produce the best result at the
least expense, is an important question, which
some might answer by saying that all manures
Will answer on all Soils and SO they will but
the question is not answered. That some fer
tilizers will be better suited for some soils and
some particular crops, must be evident to all
observing farmers.
That guanos and super-phosphates will slim
ulate the poorest soils to bring crop, we need
no more proof; but doubt whether they can
be applied to any advantage to the farmer on
land already in tolerably good condition; and
at the prices they are offered, it is questionable
to warrant the purchase of any they are one
third too high in price to put on any land. If
farmers relied more on their own resources for
fertilizers, they could save many dollars that
they are paying, while their animals are left to
lose all their droppings where they produce
nothing.
AS permanent manure, bones are, | believe
acknowledged by all practical and scientific
men to be the most lasting. | have tested the
value of bones to my entire satisfaction Raw
bones ground, moistened with diluted suphuric
acid, and mixed with Peruvian guano, applied
on wheat and rye, have given me excellent re-
SulUS. mediterranean wheat, weighing sixty
four pounds to the bushel, can boast of as
last years produce on bone-manured land.
The same land now is well set in grass, better
than it ever was before.
Not every farmer can have his own bone
mill, but number can purchase one on joint
stock, attach it to power, and grind all the
bones they can procure, thus enabling them to
manufacture one of the most permanent ma
nures we know of, superior and at less cost
than they can procure fertilizers.
Old leather have tested and found to be an
excellent fertilizer. That article, in order to
secure its full value, should be roated to brittle
ness, and that in q close iron cylinder of con-
siderable size, in order to prevent the escape of
the volatile parts. Raw, it cannot be ground
with such mills as are now in use.
BY careful system of soiling in connection
with bone and leather manure, most of our
farmers could make sufficiency of superior
manurial matter for all purposes, without pay
ing from $50 to $50 ton for guanos and phos-
pilates. j. S. KELLER
Ortoigsburg, SchuyAiA Co., Pa, Oct. %, 1859
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-26

The RESTORATION AT VERsAILLEs.-The
Paris Figaro of the 25th ult, in its entertain
ing Courier de Paris" gives an interesting
account of the restoration of the apartments
formerly occupied by Louis XIV, at Versail-
les. Paul D'Ivio says:
''The bedroom of Louis XIV is entirely
restored and regilt--that celebrated room,
where lived and died the grand monarque, where
he received his court which, indeed, we should
never visit without volume Of Saint Simon
or Sevique in our hand
"All the furniture has been most carefully
and infinitely restored to its former splendor
especially the bedstead,- chef d'@uue of
Delobel, first gentleman of the bed.chamber
to the King-who was twelve years in its
manufacture. The bed is covered by cover
let embroidered by the scholars of st. Cyr,
which was sold during the revolution, and
found and purchased in Germany by Louis
Philippe.
Contiguous to the bedroom is the King s
library, containing also his map Of the world.
The dining-room is next, and communicating
with this, the ante-chamber in which Louis
XIV. examined his dogs before and after a
hunt. This room is surrounded with a frieze
most exquisitely executed representing hunt
ing scenes. Near by is the bureau in which
Louis XIV. transacted his business, and which
is ornamented with most valuable porcelain.
"On the other side is the confessional of the
King. This is divided into two very small
rooms--a pane of glass being inserted in the
partition, so that everything can be seen from
one room into the other, but nothing heard.
The outer room is lit by window which COM