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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-11-25
Board of Education.

MONDAY EVENING, Nov. 10, 1871,
Board met in pursuance Of adjournment.
Present-all except Director Courtney.
The minutes of the last meeting were read ant
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-01-20
LETTER FROM SOMERSET COUNTY,.

TO the Editor of the Journal
PALMYRA, Jan. lG, 1871.
Now that the weather has become little
milder, the farmers have begun to haul to
market their potatoes in good earnest On
Saturday of last week it was our privilege to
pay short visit to Newport. The day was
remarkably fine for this time of the year, and
the sleighing excellent. All along the way
for the short distance of four miles we had to
turn out every now and then to pass by po-
tato team going to market. As we came
nearer Newport the roads were more crowded
with teams heavily loaded with potatoes, and
when we had fairly reached the town livelier
scene in the potato line never met our view.
By ii A. NJ. both sides of the streets were
lined with teams, and n hitch post was no
where to be found. With no small amount
of skill we engineered our zone horse team
through this potato crowd and finally came
to a stand still. The demand was as good as
the supply, being governed by a larger mar
ket than Newport, and the buyers were more
than the sellers. We will try to give you
some idea of the way in which the potato
trade is carried on. The price is fixed by
parties in Boston who furnish the money
to the traders and regard them as their
agents, allowingS Them certain commission.
This creates Jealousy among the traders,
and so lively is the competition that they en-
ploy boys or young men from the school to
leave their studies and take their stations in
the outskirts of the towns on the lookout for
load of potatoes and when they see one
coming they Immediately mount it and do
their best to persuade the credulous country
man to sell to ''Mr. so and So, saying that he
is '.no fraud" and will not cheat them either
in their weight or reckoning. 1t sometimes
happens that three or four of these young
runners" cling to team for the distance of
mile out of the village pleading all the while.
We were informed that during the past few
weeks large shipments of potatoes have been
made to Boston, some of them amounting to
$4,000 bushels in one week.
Much has been said in the papers of late
about the counterfeit money speculations. A
case has just come to our notice which we
will relate. A certain man 1--WE will not call
him by name) in this section, having heard
about the New York money" that could be
bought SO low, and thinking perhaps too that
it might be an easier way to make few dol
lars than by earning them by the sweat of his
brow, decided to try his luck, and sent for $50.
In few days a small Express package
came to his address with big Express bill to
pay. On opening the package, instead of
$50, for which he sent $40, twas found to
contain nothing but some tea lead and paper,
just enough to make the package weigh
little. He thinks now that he will not buy any
more of those $40 ''whistles."
KAPPA.
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ton was to be encountered, without more or
less Of consideration and faror. The man
ufacturing system of England locks back
over record of four hundred years of boun-
ties, special privileges and protection, under
the stimulus of which 1t grew to its present
wonderful magnitude. The nation now reaps
its reward in that the manufactures, thus
nurtured, are ell that preserve it from bank
ruptcy and ruin. The manufactures of Bel
GUM, of France, of Prussia of Russia have
the same history SO long ago as 1856 the
State of Massachusetts was spending thous-
carry on experiments with cotton and wool
machines, and to set on foot and revive cot
ton manufacturing enterprises. She had
practical craftsmanship enough at the time
not to insist upon the principle that it is not the
business of communities to make experiments
with machinery or run cotton mills. She is
reaping the harvest of her foresight and lib
erality. To day, if any manufacturing enter
prise is proposed in the same State, capital
stands ready to cooperate, and the towns
make haste to invite the new undertaking
within their borders by any desired favoring
ordinances and provisions.
Furthermore, we are placed under the ne
cessity of doing more now because we have,
as State, 50 flung away our opportunities in
the past We have got to make up lost time.
We have got to pay the penalty tor I'M
wise and illiberal policy in years bygone, by
larger effort in the present. 1t is not wise
craftsmanship that will refuse to look these
facts in the face, and to provide as the emer-
gency, however brought upon us, dictates.
w. WELLS.
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no small affair, Ally; he must have been
ewindling them ever since he has been
there vet If beth the junior partners
hadn't happened to be away, the matter
would have been hushed up. I've often
lain awake grinding my teeth to think
that didn't knock him down when he
threw me my money, and told me i'll wasn't
off the premises in five minutes / should
be kicked of; but it's all for the best
1T has come home to him heavily,
Paul." said the mother. The wicked
man may flourish for while, and the
honest may be brought low, but wait until
the end 1t will be a sad shock to the
vicar, for / believe this was his tavorite
nephew-the only child of Mr.. Tolmaine,
who died so young, just after he was
married."
ssAnd Miss Rachel!" exclaimed Alice,
II pity her very much; but for him, why
OF course he could not expect to go on
much longer without some judgment
overtaking him. He must often think
now of his conduct TO you.
And SO, with a natural feeling, which
finds place in the hearts of those who
stand much higher than those with whom
we are dealing, they saw, in the downfall
of their enemy, special judgment from
Heaven for his wickedness to them, and
attibuted special remorse to the man who
had, probably, forgotten the existence of
the discharged carman.
tits two hundred pounds'' said Paul,
grimly; II wish had him here at this
minute, with no helper but myself, and
If he wasn't in Edgefield lookup before
that clock strikes again -"
TCoNCLUDED IN To-MoRRow's PAPER.
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ELIJAH WYMAS, "'oi'
Committee on State Prison
AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION.

The subject of amending the State con-
stitution is exciting attention, without as
well as within the legislature. Opinions
vary upon the matter, and what course
will be pursued is not yet clear. Difficult
ties arise as it it is examined which did
not present themselves at first, both as to
the amendments and the mode of ac-
comprising the work, thus prompting to
the most carful consideration before any
steps are taken. In the Boston Advertiser
OF a recent date we find the following
remarks:
1t is not to be denied that there are some
very excellent suggestions in these amend
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NEW Music.

Oliver Ditson & Co., publish ''The New
Comic Songster." 1t is book full of the
latest humorous prices, such as are introduced
by the best humorous vocalists in their per-
performances. We find in it 81 saw Esau
kissing Kate" 'Any Ornaments" and hun
dred others to excite merriment. The same
publishers have just issued ''Silver Wings" a
collection of Sunday School Music, nicely
adapted to children T.. +. Patterson has
them for sale.
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II USHES' REMEDIES, true and genuine, sold
N by L. II. Titcomb, Apothecary. eod2w
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NEW PUBLICATIONS

A new volume issued by d. Appleton &
Co., has the title, Fifteen Years, A Picture
from the last century," 1t is by Talvi Mrs
Therese Robinson.) 1t was written for Ger
man readers, but rendered into English is at
tractive in its present form. The tale opens
with picture from the capital of Sweden in
1915. It's characters are of those in the up
familiar and domestic Pierce has it for sale.
G. p. Putnam & Co., publish small vol
ume of The Handy Series, entitled "The
Students Own Speaker" 1t is convenient,
popular and standard mammal of defamation
and oratory, which scholars in our schools
may use with advantage. There are no da-
logues, but poetry and prose for single speak
ers. Pierce has it.
ID. Appleton & Co., publish a novelette,
called the ''Poson of Asps," by Florence
Marryatt. In paper covers, price 30 cents.
Pierce has it.
The Galaxy for February is published. 1t
contains many things to draw the general
reader, but an article which it contains from
Mr.. Black in relation to the late Secretary
Stanton and in reply to Senator Wilson will
excite the attention of political readers. The
writer is more vindctive and satanic than
before, evidently understanding that it is safe
TO kick even a lion, dead.
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1ailg Aennrbet gournal
A u G u $ L "A.
FRIDAY MORNING. JAN. 30. 1871.
Special Notice.

Special Notice.
The Committee on State Prison will make the
nual visit to that institution Thursday, JAN 2Gth
JOSEPH c. ROBERTS, cbairo,e,
ELIJAH WYMAS S""i'"'o"'
Committee on State Prison.
The Committee on State Prison will meet at
Room No. IT, each Friday, at 2 r. NJ until further
notice.
ELIJAH WYMAN, Ch"hiicn
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04
The Crops.

CoRN. The July returns of the Sta
tistical Division of the Department of
Agriculture show marked increase in
the acreage of corn, amounting to fully
4, 200, 600, of which 1900, 600 are due to
the determination of the Cotton States
to supply themselves with bread. 1t is
assumed that the area in corn is AZ, 900,
600 of acres, or more than half the total
acreage of all TILED crops. The only
States failing to increase their area in
corn are New York, the New England
States, and the Pacific States. The per
centage of increase in other States is rs
follows New Jersey, +; Pennsylva-
mia, ; Delaware, 3; Maryland /; Vir-
ginia, 5; North Carolina, 8 South Car
olina, 70; Georgia, 10; Florida, 7; Ala
bama, II Mississippi, IA; Louisiana,
IS; Texas, 10 F.; Arkansas, "a /; Tennessee,
7; West Virginia, 5; Kentucky, 3 !;
Missouri, 10; Illinois, 6 !; Indiana, 4 !;
Ohio, 3; Michigan, 3; Wisconsin, 7 !;
Minnesota, II Iowa, IS; Kansas, so !;
Nebraska, 30.
Wharf.-The condition of winter
wheat on the LIST of July, was somewhat
above the average. The spring variety
presented worse appearance than has
been reported for several years at the
same date. The ripening of winter
wheat has been fully week earlier than
usual, and large proportion had been
cut at the date of the returns. Never
was there better promise in early spring,
and the comparative prevalence of in
sects and local injuries from drouth have
been the principal drawbacks. The
States showing comparatively low COM
dition are as follows: New Hampshire,
Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts,,
Virginia, and all the more Southern
States, except Texas, while Kentucky
presents an average of 30 per cent. de-
terioration Indiana per cent, and
California II per cent. Among the
States showing high averages are Ohio,
per cent. above Michigan, 8; Hi
nois, 7; Missouri, 3; Kansas, 7; Ne
braska, 10; Oregon, l. The winter
wheat of Iowa and Wisconsin is in high
but insignificant in area. The
section having the largest area of winter
wheat is the one in which its condition
is highest, though majority of the win
ter wheat States report comparatively |
poor condition. The only States from
which favorable reports of spring wheat
have been received are Maine, New
Hampshire, Connecticut and Oregon.
The percentages below an average are as
follows Missouri, SO; Illinois, 80 ;
Indiana, q Ohio, 7 Michigan, Wis
consin, 20; Minnesota, 80; Iowa, IS; Kan
sas, Is; Nebraska, II. The chinch bug
has been very destructive to spring
wheat. After allowing for the increase
in acreage, and the large yield of winter
wheat in good wheat districts, the loss
i'll the spring variety must reduce the
aggregate somewhat below an average
yield.
HAY.-The hay crop will be a COM
paratively small one.
PorAToEs. This crop promises an av-
erage yield if it escapes drouth and rot
in the future, notwithstanding the preva-
lence of the Colorado bug. Continued
vigilance has partially averted loss.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04
How They Sell Their Crops.

The method of disposing of the crops
by the large farmers Of England is very
peculiar. just as the various fields
are in their best condition, they are then
divided into lots of ten acres each, and
then offered at auction as they stand. A
large company assemble, and after lib
eral free lunch, the auctioneer proceeds
to sell every available thing on the place
without reserve. Every crop must go il
a decent price can be touched. Bidding
is active, and in one day the harvesting
aud marketing are over. Each pur-
chaser pays down twenty per cent, and
has credit for ninety days for the rest if he
wishes it. The crops may be removed at
the buyers convenience, provided he
does not interfere with the farm work.
BY this means all expense and risk of
harvesting, storing and marketing are
saved to the owner. Whether this pays,
the following must show This state
ment reduced to dollars), from the
books of the farm, was kindly given by
one large farmer at his city residence.
For labor, 81, $50 for seed, 81, $50
manures, SIS, interest on land i'm
provements and buildings, and taxes,
$500. This is the cost for one year.
The sales each year averaged in the last
four years the sum of $4,000. Taking
the yearly cost from this, we have an an
nual profit of IS, $50.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04

As soon as an article purportns he Of utility hs,
been tested and its merits endorsed by public opinion
unprncped parties endeavor to replenish their
BY counteretne and substituting spur;ou, N,
the genuine article Some time since mercury in IN.
Disguise Of pills powder &C. given for ell di....es
Of the stomach and liver while qunne was freely admin
isered for the chils At length Hostetters Stomach
Bters made its advent, and entire new .y-tem -.
inausurated. The beneficial effects Of thi. ysu.h,.
paraton were stonce acknowledged and miners. nosn.
suffered to sink into that obscuy which an .plirb.,
ed age has consigned them There have been msnv ,,
Gus bitters palrned upon the community vb;ch o..
trial have been found perfectly worthless Will. HOE.
ters has proved blessing Thousands Who ov. a, :;
their restoration 10 health
For many years have watched the -t.sd, rr.-.. ..
hostetser stomach Btters in public estimation And n,
tenement effects q cure for all complaint. sr,sins ,
the stomach Of morbid nature and ve ar. ~. :, -.
mat can be relied upon certain relief ana .,,.,
h propr1etors have made the above prrp.r,,,or &C.,
years OF careful study and sitting and ar, no r,.n
the reward claimed BY this valuable speee ana ,hs
tneys nchS merit II is the only pr,psres;o AZ n.
ma re'iab's in ell casss sad th>r,eor, $3.50. ~.
sssesteo Il the aDiessd
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04

A correspondent furnishes the London
Times with the following hints, which
will he found pertinent 10 our own eli
mate:
"In these hot days cool apartment
is IA real luxury, to he had far Oftener
than most people suppose possible. The
secret consists not in letting in cool air,
for naturally all do that whenever they
can get chance, but in keeping out the
hot air II the mir outside room or
house he cooler than the air inside, let it
in by all means but il il be hotter,
carefully keep il out.
"a staircase window left open during
the night will often cool the passages of
n house, and the rooms, too, II their
doors be not shut but it must be closed
Mt eight or nine o'clock in the morning,
or, if on the sunny side, ~ four or five
o'clock, and the blind drawn down. The
mistake people generally make is to
throw open windows at all hours of the
day, no matter whether the atmosphere
outside be cool or scorching.
"Let us have some mir, they say, and
in comes the treacherous breeze-for
even hot air is pleasant while it is gently
blowing, taking away perspiration. and
thereby cooling the skin but this apart
ment is made warmer in spite of the
draught they find their room to be more
uncomfortable than before.
Let in cool air-keep out het-that
is the only formula to insure the mini
mum of discomfort. Sitting. rooms may
generally be kept cool during the whole
day if the doors be only opened for in
press and egress, and windows kept
closed and shielded from direct sunshine
by blind. If the atmosphere of n room
be impure from any cause, let it be re-
newed, hot air is less injurious than bad
air. II room be small in comparison
with the number of persons engaged in
it, free ventilation becomes indisp6 nsa-
bic.
"In a cooking apartment the temper
allure will probably be higher than out
side, hence the free admission even of
hot air will be desirable. If persons do
not object to sit in direct draught of air,
windows and door may be opened, n
breeze being more refreshing, even
though. several degrees warmer, than still
air but under nearly all other circum-
stances rooms should be kept closed as
much AS possible until after shutdown, or
till the air outside is cooler than that i'll
side. Let in cool air keep out hot"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04
Saturday Night.

How many kiss has been given, how
many curse, how many caress, how
many look CT hate, how many kind
word, how many promise has been bro
ken, how many soul lost, how many a
loved one lowered into the narrow cham
Der, how many babe has gone from
earth to heaven, how many little crib
or cradle stands silent now, which last
Saturday night held the rarest treasures
of the heart
A week is life. A week is n history.
A week marks events of sorrow and glad
ness, which people never heard. Go
home to your family, man in business
Go home to the chair that awaits you,
wron8ed waif on ife's breakers! Go
home to those you love, man of toll, an
give one night to the joys and comfort
flying by
Leave your books with complex
figures, your dingy office, your dingy
shop Rest with those you love, for
heaven only knows what the next Satur-
day night will bring you Forget the
world of care and the battles of life which
have furrowed the week Draw close
around the family hearth Saturday
night has awaited your coming in sad
ness, in tears, and in silence. Go home
to those you love, and as you bask in the
loved presence, and meet to return the
loved embrace of your hearts pets,
strive to be a better man, and bless
Heaven for giving his weary child
rem so dear a stepping stone in the river
to the eternal, as Saturday night.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04

THE WORLD OF TO-DAY LAUGHS at the
therapeutics of fifty years ago. Blister
ing the head, emptying the veins, and
rasping the bowels with cathartics as If
ritating as chestnut-burrs, will soon be
consigned by universal consent to the
limbo of rejected fallacies. In the mean
time DIR. Walkers Vinegar BiAers, the
true ally of Nature, are effecting by a
mild and painless process, such cures of
dyspepsia, liver complaint and periodi-
cal fevers, as the world half a century
ago would have deemed miraculous.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04
POSTPONED. A Virginia paper relates

POSTPONED. A Virginia paper relates
the following Not far from us young
lady attempted to leave the parental
mansion, at dead of night, by lowering
herself from her chamber by means of a
pulley and rope fastened to the window.
She had Just reached the ground, where
her lover awaited her, when her enraged
sire appeared, seized the young man fas-
tened the hook to his clothing, and rails
ed him skywards, leaving him dangling
in the air until morning. The elope-
ment is postponed Indefinitely.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04

DID SHE LOVE-" Martha, dost thou
love me p asked a Quaker youth of one
at whose shrine his fondest hearts feel
ings had been offered up. "Why, Seth,
we are commanded to love one another,
are we not ?" she answered. "Ah
Martha but dost thou regard me with
that feeling which the world calls love ?"
" hardly know what to tell thee, Seth.
| have tried to bestow my love upon all !;
but l sometime think that perhaps thou
art getting more than thy share.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04

HORRIBLE. Near Southport, Indiana,
a farmer was decapitated by moving
machine on his premises. At the time
of the accident the man was examining
some portion of the machine which had
got ont of gear, when the horses attach
ed suddenly started, causing the blades
to revolve, one of them striking the man
on the back of the neck, severing the
lead from the body as though guillotin-
ed. A youthful son of the deceased wit
messed the terrible accident, and, dumb
with terror, grasped the Lead by the
hair and ran with it into his mother s
presence.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04

The PUREsT and sweetest Cod-Liver
Oil in the world is Hazard & Caswell's,
made on the sea-shore, from fresh, Sc
lected ivers, by CasceA, Hazard d Co.,
of New York. 1t is absolutely pure and
sweet. Patients who have once taken it
prefer it to all other Physicians have
decided it superior to any Of the other
oils in market.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04

A SuaR CURk-A dyspeptic road
that by sending . dollar by mail he
would receive cure for dyspepSia. He
sent the money. and received 8 alp with
the following printed on u "6top
drinking and hoe in the garden" The
man was mad at first, then laughed, and
finally went 10 hoeing. and stopped
drinking, and Is now N we'll M ever.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04
A COMPOSITION. This is little Rich

A CoMposITIoN.-This is a little Rich
mond schoolgirls idea of compost
ton on dogs =" Dogs is usefuller than
cats. Mice is afeared of cats, they bite
EN-. Dogs follc VS. boys and catches a
hog by the ear. Hogs rarely bite. Sleeps
bite people. Peoples eat hogs and not
the Jews, as they and other animals that
doesn't chew their cud isH' clean ones.
Dogs sometimes git hit with bootjacks
for barking at night. Sleepy people
gifts mad and throws at EN-. Dogs is the
best animal for man than grounded hogs
or koons or gotes. Gotes smell. The
nd."
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04

A CROWD OF "horse men," and others,
throng the stores in country and town,
for Sheriddn's Cdralry Condition Pou-
de''s. They understand that horses can
not be kept in good condition without
them, and with them can be on a much
less quantity of grain.
The ship Nahmon, from Bombay.
bound to Penang, has foundered in the
Indian Ocean. Thirty lives were lost.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04

At hotel in Ohio, large mirror is
placed at the entrance of the dining hall,
which is so constructed that you see
yourself thin, cadaverous, hungry per-
son but when you come out from the
table and look again in the glass, your
body is distended to the extremity of
corpulency.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04

SHARP BoY.-A boy was observed
watching for woodchuck to come out
of his hole. "Do you suppose you can
catch him /? said passer by. "Catch
him." said the boy, contemptuously
"Catch him I've got to catch him.
stranger ; we're out of meat"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04

There are in man five hundred and
twenty seven muscles, two hundred and
fifty of which are in pairs. OF
these no less than one hundred are con
stantly used in the simple act of breath
ing