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!. By rigidly ecouomizing the mauu.isl re-
sources If the farm. But very few of cur farm
ers seem to appreciate this necessity Of their
calling. Too many allow their manures to 20 10
waste by exposure TO the sun. winds and rains.
Others still do not see the Importance of saving
the liquid from their stock as OF equal value
with the solids The waste from the kitchen aud
the contents Of the water closet, if properly COM
posted, would he Of greater value than the same
amount OF many Of the commercial nanures that
are bought at high figure by our farmers
. By composing the muck and other vege-
table matter that has been accumulGting Tor
ages in our swamps and lowlands. By continual
washing the hillsides are being carried into our
swamps, where they are at present of no value to
the farm, ard never will be until they are re-
moved to the higher lands or mixed again with
the soil from whence they came. And here is
Just where we need the assistance Of the Hon
Board Of Agriculture. We want samples from
these swamps and lcwlands sufficiently analyzed
to enable us to know their value as fertilizers
with what they should be composted to the
greatest advantage how far they may be trans
ported with profit and how applied TO the soil
with the best results Many OF our farmers have
drawn out from their swsmps a large amount Of
muck. They have not had the necessary infor-
nation to enable them 10 work it to the best ad-
vantage, and concluding that it did not pay,
have ressrted to commercial manures only te
suffer greater disappointment as general rule
3. Another means Of restoring lost fertility is
by bringing back from the ocean salt, fish. and
other substances known to the farmer as COM
mercis fertilizers. And here again We wish 10
invoke the aid of the Hon. Board We have
paid thousands of dollars yearly for the last six
or eight years in this county alone, for these
commercial manures. Some brands have given
good satisfaction one year and the next they are
comparatively worthless. Other brands have
never given general satisfaction, aud we are
obliged to acknowledge, humb!ing as it may be,
that the majority of US who purchase these fer
tilizers are at loss after We have used them
whether or not they were good investment
Now if the Board o Agriculture have the means
at their command 10 procure an analysis Of the
leading fertilizers Offered for sale to the farmers
of the State, telling them just how much they
are worth as y manure. we shall be able, through
the assistance thus rendered, to buy the coed,
(if there be any, and reject the worthless. In
behslf of the working farmers, those who till
their lands with sher own hands, ask the Hon.
Board TO do all in this direction their means will
allow, with the assurance from US that we will
Just whisper in the ears Of our lawmakers, that
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NUMBER IL.

~ider WI the purchaser. Among the first of these,
Oioth ot 0old may b. mentioned as one which is
sure 10 give satisfaction, from the number and
brillianey Ofits flowers. When grown in rooms
lighted with gas, the crocuses should be re-
moved during the evening, As under these cir
cumstsnces their blossoms often expand so
widely that they are unable to close again, and
thus the period Of their display is greatly short
enei
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CHANaEs IN NEw ORLE,Ss-A correspondent
Of the Springfield Republican writes from New
Orleans:

CHANGES IN New ORLE,ys-A correspondent
Of the Springfield Republican writes from New
Orleans:
Society is rapidly changing here the young
neu adopt new ideas, and the old regime will
soon pass away, The fine old Southern
gentleman, he who wore black dress coat in the
morning, carried a gold-headed cane, and en-
cased his smsl fee, ia tight French boots with
high heels, whose mouth betrayed the stain of
tobacco. who ended all sentences with " sir
and passed his winters in New Orleans, spend
ing money advanced by his consignee upon the
next crop, easy, careless, goo1-natured and gen
erous-in short, the high type Of the STAKEHOLDER
has gone from our gaze like beautiful star,
lost Pleiad, never more TO return TO the scene
Of his glory. The faro banks Of st. Charles
street know him no more The claret that he
loved is set before carpet-bagging legislators and
the revel Of the lobby corruphonists is heard in
the homes Of NashbOwl street Occasionally a
poor specimen may lie SEEN in different form,
another manner Of dress, sad and subdued look
the expression OF Zone who hath had losses"
lately met one whom | remembered in pslmy
days at the Old Hotel St. Louis He was weary
Of the world We talked Of the good old dsys,
and listened 10 the Oft repeated story of ofoppres-
sion and robbery, and as We talked we unconsci-
ously drew near to the contiguous bar. lie took
brandy straight. and for fear il might have been
a little weakened by sge, he mad some absnthe
in 1t. | marked his trembling hand ard watery
eye, and knew how it woald be with him. Old
Mother Otarl is tender nurse to grief she
will soothe it to the grave.
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Hero WORSHIP IS ompaTe the
German D0mkirchen with the oatheirals OF
Italy. In the latter there are tens Of thousands
Of statues sts;uettes, busts. pictures. cartoons,
in which the children OF genius do each other
noble honor above AL ribboned pOfentates but
in German churches there are few grand tomhs
except to coffin the purple, few sublime frescOes
except to celebrate the heroism Of the blue blood
How true, how pitifully true, that caustic word
Of Won Moltke as be stood before the portraits Of
Baz.ine and McSIahon in Versailles - think
We Prussisn generals have about as much merit
as these gentlemen, but they will not place any
Of our portraits in q Pantheon in Berlin"
Student RGmbIes IN Prussia.
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problems. No one can study the records Of
that body without discovering that it is the
greatest fact-eollecting organization in the
world.
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The description Of the Nilsson troupe by one Who
has been travelling with it is quite funny. Brig
noli speaks Italian Strskosch, French Nilsson,
the language Of her native country When they
address Brignoli. they talk Italian when they
speak to Strakcscb, in French, and to Nilsson in
the Swedish tongue. When the principal sing
ers don't want the persons around then to IN
derstsnd them. they talk with Brgnol in Itai-
ian When they don't want Briguoli 10 under
stand them, they talk in English.
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Ar. Summers Speech
0PISIOSs OF THE PREss.

OPISIOSs OF THE PRESS.
From the y. Y. Tribune.
OF course, it is able, elaborate, rhetorical and
ntense-in other words. it IS characteristic Of
i author We judge that he has erred in msk-
ing il before instead of after the arrival and re
port Of the Commissioners returning from a
careful inquiry into the facts Of the case in
almost every municipality Of the Dominion Re
pubi;.
From the Albany Journal
Mr. Sumner impairs such force as his srgu-
men; On the San Domingo question might other
wise have by bis acerbity OF spirit and his exsg-
geration Of utterance. His speech is able and
powerful But when he compares the action Of
the administration concerning San Domingo TO
the demonstration Of the ku-Klux. he attempts
a rhetorical effect which, instead Of strengthen
ing, only weAkeus his case because it is pslpably
strained and flr-fetchel His whole speech is
pervaled not merely by elrnestness Of reasoning
but By srdor Of feeiing lad the Senator been
content with ealm aOd dispsssionate argument,
his speech would have had a less pungenr favor.
bu; il would have disirmsd criticism. snd carried
more weight
Erola the Troy Times.
This intensely bitter speech will no doubt be
fully answered We believe from what We hear
OF the facts that the course of the President will
be yindicatei sg4ins, Mr. summers charge Of
llw-breaking, violation Of the constitution and
executive usurpaton. We give Mr.. Sumner
credit for all he has been IN the past, for the
service he has rendered the country. But if it
now be shown that he IS wrong and malicious
that he is dOmineering, dicta;orial and impe-
rious that be has sacrificed fairness to petu-
lance and justice 20 msli zuaut personal feeling;
that to crafty personal reseuce he would even
cfr a. Q avI AID
Ku-klux Democracy t. the achievement Of natl
onal triumph-we say if ;his De proven against
Mr.. Sumner, his past record. however bright
aud honorable, will not save him from the
ushiug condemnation Of a loyal public OPT
non.
From the Boston Post, Democratic.
The speech itself will dislppoiut every yboly
Il Is but bundle Of citations, a documentary
hash, without quckeniug orat1ry or even vigor
Of phrase. So dull a nature As Grants needs
sharper AMI heavier i.sh than this So serious
al accusation Of President demands language
Of a l0ftier determination. 4 Writ or a Web
ster, thus arraignjng The Ezecuiye before the
Senate AMI the country, would have converted
his W5ris into thunIers.
F,om the Spria-fsli Repub iclu-
Mr. Summers speech. will abuudautly salts
IS his fiienis, aud greatly confouni his enemies.
1t is complete in It's exposition OF tic improper
and even warlike use Of fJrc3 by the sdministrA-
ton % msinisiu Baez in power in San Domingo,
while it was treating with him for the znnexa-
ton Ct the half Of the island. Mr. Sumner es-
capes the fear on one side snd the hope on the
other, th4; he wlull weaken his case by over
statement OF facts or personal bitterness in de
nuuciarion His speech i as unexceptonAble in
the lss. respect. as it Is guarded in the former
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Agricultural


tins FERTILITY 0F OUR sC1L-How lost. AND
now EEsr0Rsu
4 Paper rsIi az tn, meeting Of tss T,rm0at
BJfrd " -iyricalt4rg. az us session ia 81.
Jaa''urg, .NUci agt l0, ISL
81 JONATHAN l>wBEScE
M Pr0i1c1f e4i G,fl.mt7-
II one Of the jewellers Of this village had re-
questei NE to come into his shop AMI assist him
in taking to pieces and adjusting nice gold
watch, should not have been more surprised than
| was 10 receive from the Hon. Secretary q the
Board Of Agriculture, Manufactures and Min
ing, a request that | should prepare p paper
upon some subject pertaining 90 agriculture and
reSi it before this meeting. 10 those with whom
! am acquainted | oie- TO apology. To those
with whom | am not acquainted my paper when
read vi. be a sufficient reason Why should not
have attempted 10.
The pioneers If our state were not strictly
tillers Of the coil Their first object was % sub
due the forest and make for themselves and
families q home. Iney believed IS DO the
pioneers of the West that the col was inexhaust-
sble, aud for many yea,s bountiigl crops repaid
their ha-l and rugged toll Bu; graiually the
soil began TO fail, the crops o. decrease and the
result WAS an Inheritance 90 their sous of worn
out sui exhausted soiL
The fertility OF our s0il-how lost, aud how
restored Now 70 the question what has be
come Of the fe,tiie soil tha. existed in the Jsy,
Of our freflthers.
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DoiNG FloGr>cE AND Row. Miss
Frances + Willard in an article in the Art
Rer7er. for March, entitled " Master and
Pupil, " thus relates an interview with the
sculptor Powers
soon comes the question, e, widely recog
nizei as n regle on similar occasions:
'' Have YOU been long at Florence? ?'
" Only ten days
- Oaly ten Why, TO many an American
tourist that is small life time. | have
known persons to come here for week, then
% their restless way in full persuasion that
they were authority an Florence for the
remainder Of their liyes-thinking that they
knew a city whose every stone has matter in
it for year of study, and whose manifold
aspects might nobly employ the energies Of
long and gifted life But our countrymen
come abroad, ilt about few months, 90
home. and write a book, its size being usual
ly in inverse ratio to she length and value OF
their Investigations. Perhaps YOU have
heard this anecdote about the Pope When
he receives foreign visitors he often asks how
long time they have spent in the Eternal
City. The answer not unfrequently is a
week. lie asks again, When do you
leave? TO morrow
'Ah, you, Of course, know Rome, is his
closing observation.
" But if the traveller has remained six
months, the sly old gentleman responds,
Indeed. you viii soon be well acquainted
vito our Capital, and if he has spent years,
the Holy Father looks at him benignly, say
ing, Very well, You have learned that you
Will never know Rome.
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Az Al1 usTaAuoS.-Rsv.D Dr. &cClsh. in
recent lec,ure a, New Ta-k. alluded to the four
gospels as follows
We have four gospels, and the account which
they give Is one. There Is a beautiful unity and
consistency in the character 0f our Lord which
i accepted by the whole four. But i, is said
that there are c0u,raiict.n- discrepancies when
compared with one snother. There are differ
euces, certainly. There is NOT that lsbored con-
sis;eacy which is always found in ;rumqed up
sto-y the writers are artless in everything, hat
especially 50 ths; they were conscious o. speak
ing the truth and So were not careful 70 recon
Gle what they say IN one place With what they
sav iu smother But there we're 20 real contra
iictilus u Importance there were only such
differences IS would be likely TO exist III men
looking ~ the same thing from different aspects.
He lDr McCosh} once passei through a street
AMI saw house 0u ii5e half mile Of. Is lie
happened 10 have an official interest in that di-
rect1u he preceded toward the spot. and meet
ing person who seemel @ De coming from the
FIRE, be asked bin where It was, and wss tod
certain street he met smother and asked him
and be told him a different street /; third whom
he asked told him il was nearly eXtinguishet,
sni a fourth tha. it vas burning more freely
than ever lt was hard to reconcile these ey-
tremey varying statements. but on arriving at
the spot be fasud that al ;1ur hal spoken the
truth Inc house on fire was on a corner. aHd
50 cu twI streets, .ul had been nearly extin-
gusled. but had broken out sga.n herceiy.
Now nowhere iu the gospels DO we find such dis
crepsncies as were here found IN the statements
Of thee fur men.
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now LOST

BY excessive aud continuous cropping without
returning what has been taken from il. Veal
know that 1t was nothing unusual 60 tske four
or i've successive crops from newly cleared land
without returning any manurisl substances
whatever Now II is only by the most liberal
and juicious system Of mlnur that the same
amount Of products that WAS easily grown by the
Indifferent cultivation Of the pioneer, can be
realized. Another source OF exhaustion is tae
long continued grazing Of cur pastures The
80 cattle upon = Thousand hills have carried
from them in beef. mutton, sheep, wool, butter
and cheese, millions Of dollars worth, returning
only their meigre droppincs to supply the con
slant depletion The united cry from Massachu-
setts to Canada Is that the pastures DO not keep
the same amount Of stock ss formerly. Where
ten head OF cattle would then thrive sai fitten,
nov five can barely &c; a living.
Another and a greater source Of exhaustion is
the ruthless denuding Of so large au area Of our
land Of its timber At the present rate Of tim
Der cutting, twenty years will see Caledonia
county nearly shorn Of its original forest in
fact most our farms have now only what i sb-
solutely necessary for fuel and fencing shall
nothing be done 10 arrest this growing evil
Shsn those who feel interested in the prosperity
Of the State. wio 30 not wish 20 have it become
desert, refrain from raising the cry of the
poet, ''Nooiman spare the trees t' The direct
consequence Of this wholesale slaughter is to ex-
pose our soping hillsiles to the sweeping Winds
TO be washei by the melting SHOWS of spring and
the rains Of summer, thus carrying the richer
and fner portions Of the soil to the lowlsni and
forming rich deias at the ocean mouths Of our
largest rivers These and other causes that time
would fail me TO enumerste are the means by
which the soil Of Vermont hss lost IT'S native
fertility.
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NREARKABLE BoY.-FArmer Bogles wGs
yertcious Old dodger. II there was anything he
delighted in, II was 10 secure the attention Of
some one while he spun a yarn about the cute
ness Of his boy Tom. Tom Was an idol-his hero
on every CccssiCu-snd never would the old fe,-
i0w let his hero suffer for romance. 80 An .''
said Bogles, one day, as he had fairly fixed his
auditor, " Tom is the most remarkable boy you
ever set eyes on he's like his old dsd-you can
no more ssrcumvent him than you can wood
chuck. You recollect that choice spple-;ree
down under the hill, beside the stump fence
Well, was mighty sayin' O. them apples, can
tel you. forbid Tom touchn' 'em, as they
brought high price in market, and every one
tod; bu, he would get 'em in spite Of me
u was his way, you know, and all possessed
couldn't stop him. One day caught the young
scapegrace up iu the tree, stutia' his tack with
the fruit, anl determined this time to punish
him for IT,
80 Thomas, my son, says !, your father :
clilin' ye-clme down
'' thought ia be sort of persuasive. so it
would fetch him bat he smelt the rat and didn't
bulge an iuch.
81 can't dad, % said he "these pesky apples
are in the way"
''lom, ! slatnusl sternly, Tor my danier
begun 20 rise, "c5me down this minnit, or III
cut down the tree and let yer fall -
You see my poor limbs wouldn't permit my
shihnin' after the boy. So l had to take other
means.
oh, no, you won't, dad, J." says Tom &c only
think how you j mourn II ye coulIn sell tie aP-
piles TO stuff the ola toad SKIN"
" That was too much to have my cwn oes
accuse me up such psrsimunny So what d
10 but git she axe and cut away st the bottom
Of the tree.
So Tom-Thomas, ~ ! cried. as the tree was
about half cut OF, will ye come down now, and
save yourseif,'
"Neve. mind, dad, '' says he u ain,
spiIin"
'' Ii was no use c9ulln't bring him thsr
way and SO | chopped away at the tree, till at
last it began TO sway and fell TO the ground
" What and crushed your own boy" cjIc-
ulatei hrs horrifed listener.
90 Not by long chalk, replied old Bogles.
winking knowingly. 80 You couldn't come it
over Tom IN any seen way. What had he done
hut crsViei out on 4 limb, snd while | was
chopin a. the bottom o. the tree he had been
cutting oG the limb with his itck-knife. snd
when Jhe tree iel there bs els NN up there on
The hMj p"
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4 RED HoT CHAsE-Charles Hutchins
arrested in Sutton, Canada East, recently,
for fraudulent transactions in Marlboro. was
brought before magistrate there and held
until the 25th. when the proper papers
under the Ashburton treaty would be ready.
Hutchins was taken into all adjoining hotel
for dinner, and as he went in. with Detec-
tive Stone Of the State Police on one side.
and the Canadian officer. in whose charge be
was on the other, two or three acquaintan-
ces whispered TO him. Stone cautioned the
officer against allowing such thing, but he
considered it all right. When they arose
from dinner, Stone proposed that the man be
handcuied as pTecaution, but Canada said
no there was no need of it. Hutchins was
furnished a cigar and lit it, and the three
went to the front Of the hotel, where n car
riage was in waiting to convey the prisoner
to Jail. \ saddled horse was also standing
near at hand, and as they passed down the
steps the same men again whispered to
Hutchlns, who Immediately darted TO the
saddled horse, mounted and was off in a
twinkling. 4 number of horses near at
hand were mounted As soon as possible. and
with cries Of stop thief, n large number
joined in the chase. liutchins had a fleet
horse, however, and steadily left his pursuers.
After about three miles, however, the horse
began to lag, and as another bad thing for
Hutchlns his coat was on fire, which he was
trying hard to put out He had thrust his
ciga- lighted into his pocket. At the end Of
the fourth mile another sadile1 horse was
brought out of piece of woods, but before
he could mount it he was captured He was
found to be considerably burned The
Canadian officer, doubtless chagrined at the
narrow escape he had, became really brutal
and placed Hutchins on a horse. and making
him clasp his haadsar3uud the animals neck,
handculed them there. lie also tied his legs
together beneath the horses body. and in
this condition marched him into sutton.
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A venerable man from Vermont, % years ol !.
who had come down to visit his granddaughter
in this city, was in Adams's hatber-shop day
or two since, getting shaved that being the
first time in sixty years that anyone bat himself
had touched razor to his face. He was as &C.
tive aud gay by, criticised the barber's
steel, and said he ought to try the razor he was
in the habit Of using -Spriagfeid Republican.
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Last week was very poor one for ''Nsthan
murderer" Only two were discovered, so far
as the returns have been received
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A PnAcuc,L JOKE The C3agr.yl'ioaelis'
has an aueci1te

A PRACucAL JoEE The C9HyTsy syi'uaGiis'
has an aneclo;e:
4 few days ago two Young men went from
Massachusetts 10 Hartford 10 make visit.
They were excellent IN every way, and carried
little religious cards in their pockets with suit
able mottos, in order TO SOW see3 By the way
side. They were very anxious to see D.. Bush
nell. and yet iiI DO, feel bold enough to call on
the great man. The relative, whom they were
visiting. was engaged in one Of the banks, and
told them that the Doctor was il the habit o.
dropping in there pretty cften aud thar. in
fact, ne must come soon, as there was rome
money awaiting him. One morning. while the
two were in the bank, thinking that perhaps
the Doctor might happen Ia, an elderly man
with q fe.t hat. put on rather slouchy, gray
ish black suit, big oak walking stick. and the
air of q we.l-to-io ami buif, Outspoken farmer,
came Il IS though he belonged there, snd re-
ceivei a thick roll Of zreeUhscks from the cash
ier They had that vile smell which money
much hsn5led gets. AMI the Old gentleman Ot
was Dr. BushueiD began in his sharp way, 20
Jerk out something ah0lt this filthy currency, -
and 20 stigmatizs IL with terms a good deal more
flrcible thsn elegant. The young men looked
at the elderly one with good deal Of clmuis-
Grafton, and overhtuling their religious cards
picked out one, aud approaching him, put it in
TO his hsnl. II contained the words '' Are YOUR
thoughts sure 20 What the doctor thought can
hardly be imagined, but we can only conjecture
what the young men thought, when their friend
came out from behind the cOunter, unconscious
Of what had passed, and introduced them to the
Rev DR.. Bushnell, Of whose pety they had
heard so much, and whom they SO greatly de-
sired to see. History drops the veil on the scene
at Just this point