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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-09-30

withered and his conscience scared, Is the
Mephistopheles of the marriage covenant
and he would continue to break the hearts
and destroy the lives Of unsophisticated
girls 80 long as they could be charmed into
his embrace by that siren song of Zion whose
everlasting refrain is that if they are ''sealed"
to him they will be queens in heaven. To let
the Mormons alone would be to aggravate, not
to eradicate, the evil. Brigham Young begins
to see that the civilizing influences of the age
are advancing on him. The Church records
have already been removed to secret hiding
place several hundred miles south of Salt Lake
City, and many indications point to the fact
that when the worst comes to the worst the
Prophet and all the 'faithfal" whom he can
among the mountains in the region of the
Rio Virgin, near the dividing line between
Utah and Arizona, where some of the saints
have already gone, and where Brigham
believes the persecution" of the people of
the United States and the power of the gov
eminent cannot follow him. The march of
civilization will do much in time to solve the
Mormon problem but in this age of railroads
and telegraphs time Is q consideration, and
for the honor of the nation and the
interests of woman il is the duty
of the government to assist and accelerate its
march among the Mormons. The time has
passed when any people can be controlled by
the arbitrary will Of any one man, even
though he may proclaim aloud his divine
right to rule. England is fast tending toward
democracy. Napoleon is in exile, and France
is free. Notwithstanding the decree of the
Ecumenical Council the Pope is not proved in
fallible, and the army Of Italy within the walls
Of Rome has swept away the temporal power
Of the Holy See. And SO public opinion has
practically ''sealed" the fate of the power Of
Brigham Young in Utah. 1t is the duty Of the
government to sustain its civil officers In their
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-09-30

FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, rwsntv-rourth a.--MA
AND WIFE.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-09-27
Gbe Tin1es, Mem Bloontftelo, 1)a,

clear of the house, he made clear run
of it for a couple of hundred yards,
stumbling over logs, tearing through bri-
ars, but sticking faithfully to the valise.
Meantime, the three robbers had prob
ably been filing the lamp Of their dark
lantern and as Patrick reached the edge
of the woods, in the cover Of whose
darkness he knew he would be safe, he
turned and strained his eyes to the log
house. AS he did so, faint glimmer Of
light came out through the chnks.
Strikin' Il match" muttered Patrick !;
" bad luck to the same for sindin' me out
into the wet Howly mither What's
that ?"
While Patrick had been speaking, the
light had gained somewhat in strength,
as if the match was blazing higher but
as he uttered his concluding exclamation,
there came a sudden binding flash, equal
to many lightnings, and then dull and
sudden sound, as of some mighty explo-
sion, followed by the crushing sound of
heavy falling bodies among the tree-tops
near him, breaking their way through
the branches.
Patrick waited no more, but found the
road as quickly as possible, and made
double quick time for the village, regard
less of the rain. When, less than half
an hour afterwards, the breathless Irish
man, with his precions burden, dripping
with water, opened the door of the su-
perintendent's Office, in the village he
heard that gentleman remark
"What did you say, Jordan Z"
Why,' replied the boss, in an anx-
ious tone, some fool has broken my
desk open and stolon can Of nitro gly-
cerine, and Tn afraid harm will come OF
it,"
"Divil fear" interrupted Patrick
sorra mischief was done by that same.
Only we'll have to search the woods for
days to foind enough o thin for a decent
wake, or Pm mistaken"
The explanation which followed, left
little room for doubt, and subsequent
investigation left less but as Patrick had
surmised there was little for wake"
The contractor got in all right, the
men were paid, the road was built, and
three first class rascals were disposed Of
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-09-27
]9oetfraI Selections.
- @
A QUESTION.

AS Annie was carrying the baby one day.
Tossing aloft the lump of inanity,
Dear to its father and mother no doubt
To the rest of the world a mere lump of hu-
manity-
sam came along, and was thinking then maybe,
Full as much of Annie as she of the baby.
just look at the baby cried Ann in a tlutter
Giving its locks round her fingers a twirl;
"If was a man know that couldn't
BE keeping my hands off a dear little girl"
And Sam gave a wink, as if to say Maybe,
Of the girls I'd rather hug you than the baby"
"Now, kiss it," she cried, still huggng it closer,
Its mouths like the roses the hOney-bee spsr'
Sam stopped to obey, as the heads came together,
There chanced to arise a confusion of lips!
And it occurred, it might have been, maybe
That each got kiss, sam, Ann and the baby.
It's hard to tell what just then was the matter,
For the baby was the only one innocent there;
And Annie flushed up like full-blown peony
And Samuel turned red to the roots of his hair
So the question is this-you can answerit maybe
Did Annie kiss Sam, or did both kiss the baby?
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-09-27

in my day: so tall--so straight-and
then he sat horse and rode with such
an air All, sir, he was like no one else.
Many Of the grandest gentlemen in their
gold lace were at the wedding, but none
looked like the man himself"
Strong indeed must have been the
impressions which the person and man
ner of Washington made upon the rude
untutored mind" of this poor negro,
since the lapse Of three quarters of cen
tury had not suiiced to efiace them.
The precise date of the marriage the
biographer has been unable to discover
having in vain searched among the rec
ords Of the vestry of St. Peters church
New Kent, of which the reverend Mr..
Mossem, Cambridge scholar, was the
rector, and performed the ceremony, it is
believed, about 1850. A short time af-
ter their marriage, Colonel and Lady
Washington removed to Mount Vernon
on the Potomac, and permanently settled
there
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-09-27
Position i'm Sleeping.

VT is better to 90 to sleep on the right
4 side, for then the stomach is very
much in the position of a bottle turned
upside down, and the contents of it are
aided in passing out by gravitation. If
one goes to sleep on the left side, the op-
Grafton of emptying the stomach of its
contents is more like drawing water from
well. After going to sleep, let the body
take its own position.
If you sleep on your back, especially
soon after hearty meal, the weight of
the digestive organs and that of the food
resting on the great vein of the body,
near the back bone, congresses it, and
arrests the flow of the blood more or less
If the arrest is partial, the sleep is dis
turbed, and there are unpleasant dreams.
If the meal has been recent and hearty,
the arrest is more decided and the vari-
Gus sensations, such as falling over a
precipice, or the pursuit of wild beast,
or other impending dangers, and the des-
perate effort to get rid of it, arouses us,
and sends on the stagnating blood; and
we wake in a fright, or trembling, or in
perspiration, or feeling exhausted, ac-
cording to the degree of stagnation, and
the length and strength of the efforts
made to escape the danger.
But when we are unable to escape the
danger-when we do fall over the preci-
pice, when the trembling building crush
es us-what then? That is death That
is the death of those of whom it is said,
when found lifeless in the morning.
/" That they were as well as ever they
were the day before )" and often it is ad-
ded, "and ate heartier than common I"
This last, is frequent cause of death to
to those who have gone to bed to wake
no more, we give merely as a private
opinion. The possibility of its truth is
enough to deter any rational man from a
late and hearty meal. This we do know
with certainty, that waking up in the
night with painful diarrhea, or cholera,
or bilious cholic, ending in death in a
very short time, is probably traceable to
late large meal.
The truly wise will take the safe side.
For persons to eat three times day, it is
amply sufficient to make the last meal of
cold bread and butter, and cup of some
warm drink. No one can starve on it /;
while perseverance, in the habit soon
begets vigorous appetite for breakfast,
so promising day of comfort.-HaRs
journal Of Health.
-"------------ - -
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-09-27
GrindStOnes.

a LETTER to an exchange paper
IA gives some interesting facts about
the locality where grindstones are pro-
cured, and the method Of the manufac-
ture. The English grindstones are quar-
ried at Newcasteo on-Tyne, and near Shelf
field These quarries are worked by
hand, and all the grindstones are made
with the mallet and chisel. Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick stones come from
sandstone formations everything the coal
districts on the Bay of Fundy and cross
ing the Province of the Gulf of st. Law
renee. These immense deposits contain o
great variety of grits, known as the No
va Scotia grindstones. These qualries
are generally worked by the French peo
pie known as " Acadians," !" from the name
they gave this country, Acadia" and
are the descendants Of the " Hugunnots,"
who were driven out of France by relig
ious persecution. They are very in
dustrous and supplemented people, and
the females retain to this day the style
of dress brought over from France by
their ancestors.
The tides of the Bay of Fundy rise
and fall from 60 to 70 feet every twelve
hours, and these people avail themselves
of this power to work the quarries, which
extend from high bluff on the main
land down to low water mark in the bay.
At low water huge mass of stone is
loosened from its bed and heavy chain
is passed under it and over large boat,
which is placed alongside AS the tide
rises, the stone attached to the bottom of
the boat is foated into sand cove at
high water, and made into grindstones
after the tide recedes. This work is
done with mallet and chisel, the rough
parts being first chopped off with a heavy
axe. Machinery has been recently in
troduced, and the small grindstones are
now turned in lathe by steam-power
The sandstone deposits of this coun-
try which are made into grindstones, are
found along the shores of Lake Erie, and
extending for considerable distance east
and west of Cleveland, and inland as far
as Marietta, on the Ohio. They are also
found on the shores of Lake Huron,
above Detroit.
These deposits are of different char
acter from the foreign stone, and do not
seem to be the everything strata of coal
formations, but appear to be later for
motion, as the quaries look as though this
part of Ohio has once been the bottom
of the lake, the sand of which had be-
come solid and been heaved up by some
convulsion of nature. Nearly all the
Ohio grindstones are made by machinery,
driven by steam power The blocks of
stone being loosened from the quarry
bed, are roughly hewed out, with square
hole in the centre. This is placed on a
square iron shaft furnished with nine
inch collar against which the stone is Sc
curely fastened by means of another col
lar keyed against the side of the stone.-
The shaft and stone being driven by
steam power, two men on opposite sides
of the stone turn it off perfectly true by
means of soft iron bars about feet long
and by ! inch thick, which is curved
upward. This was formerly n very un-
healthy occupation, owing to the shaft
dust being inhaled by the workmen, but
this difficulty is now obviated by means
of blowers which drive it away.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-09-27
AN INTENDED ROBBERY.
66N OF to go over on foot" exclaim-
w ed the contractor.

"Not chance Of anything else" re-
piled the agent. But, then, it's only
five miles and you'll have better quarters
than here, in this vile shanty. The mon
ey will be safer, too--let alone that the
men won't go to work again, unless they
are paid in the morning"
-" Is the road safe? I don't like the
idea Of Juggling so much money. could
defend myself, or run; but fifteen thou
sand dollars in small bills is big pack
age to run with.
Send your valise over in advance"
by whom ?"
My man"
" Is he trustworthy p
Honest as the day ; and he need not
know there's anything in it but dirty
linen. He can start now; and you will
wait till after supper, if you will"
And so saying, the agent Of the rail
road company stepped to the door of the
shanty and shouted for Patrick; and
shortly that individual came-as bright,
lively, honest-looking a son of the Green
Isle as ever helped build western rail
road
''Patrick !"
Yis, yer honor"
"Take this gentleman's valise over to
the village, and leave it with the super
intendent. Tell him the owner will be
after it some time this evening"
An is that all, yer honor ?"
That's all-only be quick about it,
and you'll earn an extra dollar"
I'm jist the by for that, anyhow
Sure, it's small bit of valise."
And, SO saying, Patrick picked up the
object Of his contempt, and trudged off,
with an utter absence Of curiosity as to
the nature Of what he was carrying.
The temporary station at which the
construction train" had landed the con-
tractor-a gentleman named Perkins
was at the end of the new air line rail
road to -; and as the laborers there
on had not boen paid over promptly, they
had now for some days been on strike,
abandoning the works and congregating
at hamlet, few miles distant, thereby
compelling their delinquent employers to
come to terms. Mr.. Perkins had brought
good share of the " terms" with him,
for immediate distribution; and, after a
plain and hearty supper with the agent,
he was about to start on his tramp, when
it was discovered that good-szed west
ern thunderstorm was just about to burst,
and the walk was postponed until the sky
should clear. In few minutes more the
rain was coming down in torrents and
kept up for an hour or 80, at the end of
which time the contractor padded away
over the road, congratulating himself
that the valise in Patrick's care was wa
ter-proof.
He's had asrougher time than will,
anyhow; and, now, if amt robbed and
murdered before l get there, shall do
we'll enough, in spite of the mud" And
so muttering to himself, the worthy agent
splashed forward.
Our present business, however, is not
with his employer, but with Patrick him
self.
The parting injunction to make haste
had not seemed to make very deep i'm
preston on the careless son of Erin, and
he trudged easily along, with an occasion
al shrewd glance at the somewhat threat
ening sky, growing to himself:
f" Faith an I'll be there before he will
an it don't rain, an mebbe ! will it if it
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-09-27

Bas~ Send postage stamp to r. V.
Pierce, NJ. D., Buffalo, N. y, aud get.
DIR. Sage's pamphlet on Catarrh, or send
sixty cents and get DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy. $500 reward is offered by the
proprietor for case Of Catarrh which he
cannot cure. Sold by druggists.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-09-27

p6- When is coffee real estateY When
it's ground.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1870-01-06
How Lost, How Restored

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The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1870-01-06

"SALLY," cried a girl, looking
down from the upper story of a
grocery, addressing another
girl who was trying to enter
at the front door, "we've all
been to camp-meeting, and we
have been converted so, when
you want milk on Sunday,
you'll have to come around to
the back door"
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1870-01-06
Sheep and Wool in the Great
West.

The Publisher Of the West>
ern Rural is unremiitlng in his
efforts toward making that
journal still more popular than
heretofore. Among the new
features for 1870, is to be a
Sheep and Wool Department,
to be edited by Hon. A. NJ. Gar.
land, President Of the Illinois
Wool Growers Association,
than whom there is no gentle
man in the West better ac.
quainted with the wants and
interests of sheep and wool
growers.
The subject of raising sheep,
the best breeds for the West,
and Kindred questions, will not
only be discussed, but the wool
and wooden interests in gener.
al-the market prices and best
times and modes of selling
wool-will also receive q full
share of attention. Mr.. Gar.
lands qualifications eminently
fit him Tor the charge Of this
department, and we congratu
late our farmers that they are
to have the benefit of his eX-
perience and judgement.
This is but one. of the Dumer-
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ly. The subscription price is
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The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1870-01-06

SAID a distinguished politi.
clan to his son: "Look at me!
l began an alderman, and what
is my reward? Why, when l
die my son will be the great
est rascal in the United
States" To this the young
hopeful replied: "Yes, dad,
when you die, and not till
them
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1870-01-06

IT is said that hogs lard is
the best thing to mix in with
the dough, to make hens lay.
One cut Of this lat as large as
a walnut will set a hen to lay
ing immediatly after she has
been broken up from setting,
and by feeding them with the
tat occasionally, the hens con.
tinue to lay through the Win.
Ter.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1870-01-06

A MAN stopping his paper,
wrote to the editor: 81 think
foxes ottent TO take papurs,
my daddy didn't, and every
body says he was the most in.
telligintist man in the country,
en- had the smartest family of
bois that ever digged taturs."
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1870-01-06

TIE farming lands in North.
eastern Virginia ale rapidly
changing hands, the former
owners being unable TO work
the large plantations as they
existed under the former sys>
tenn. Within the last few
weeks, it is announced, over ten
thousand acres, generally ara,
BILE and in cultivation, have
been sold to persons from the
Northern States, at from ten to
seventy'fve dollars an acre.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1870-01-06

A YOUNG man sent some
money to a New York firm to
get something good "for those
contemplating matrimony."-
He received several bottles of
soothing syrup.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1870-01-06
THE PARI S AND LONDON
PAPER CLOTHING C0MPNY
Outfits for Ladies and Gentlemen.

i inform the public that the agency for the
above under letters patent celebrated manu-.
featured Paper Goods, Is established, and for
tine first time introduced in the United States.
An org the various accomplishments OF
science and art, this may be considered one of
the greatest achievements ofthe age.
The renown which these Goods have OBJ
tanned in Europe for their exquisite elegance,
flcxibility, great duiabllity ami cheapness will
at once recommend them to the American
nublir
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1870-01-06

ANNIE WAGNER is remarka
bic Tor having died, according
to San francisco jury, from a
"gun-shot wound discharged
from a pistol"