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The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-28

aOr The power is steadily passing into
the hands of the Western States. 1t is
estimated that by 1880 the eleven western
states will contain two-ffths of the entire
population of the Union. BY that time
the population of the Union will be some
100000; and the following estimate has
been madn of thu elevcn wesfern states.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-28

p@-The treasury department Is now
paving without rebate the November In.
tersst on the fvs-twenties.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-28

s~-Ths official republican majorities in
Pennsylvania are as follows; Stanton,
Auditor General, 1890; Besth, Surveyor
General, 2O,37O. In 1869, Geary, Repnb.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03
Railroad Engineer Sacrifices his
Own Life to Save Others.
From the Germantown (Pa.) Telegraph.

| From the Germantown (Pa) Telegraph.
By an accident that occurred on the
| Pennsylvania Railroad, few days ago
Enos j. Hopes, an engineer, lost his
life. Heroism such as Mr.. Hopes dis
played on the occasion deserves more
than passing notice. The facts as we
have heard them related are as follows
A car attached to freight train bound
west, had lost a wheel, and was being
| carried down grade by the momentum
of the train, pitching and jumping over
cross ties, and making the fire fly out of
the stones and iron. Mr.. Hopes was
coming eastward on train with fast
freight, and as he neared the wrecked
train he thought he saw something
wrong. 1t was dark, and to see more
plainly he stepped to the fireman's side,
which is next to the other track. Just
then the wrecked car struck his en-
gines, breaking his leg in four places,
crushing his hip, tearing away half of
one of his feet and knocking him, in
company with the fireman and brake
man, back into the tank. Every man
upon Mr.. Hopes engine was injured.
The fireman and brakeman lay senseless
on the floor of the tank. The conduc-
tor of the train and the other braker.
men were on the rear car and knew
nothing of the disaster. The train was
not so much injured as to delay its pro-
gress, and Mr.. Hopes knew that if it
was not promptly stopped, it must run
into the hind one Of the next ahead,
which would stop at station less than
three miles off for water. Mr.. Hopes,
crushed and bleeding, dragged himself
slowly and painfully over the PROSTATE
bodies of his comrades to the throttle
valve of the engine, shut off the steam,
whistled down the brakes, sounded the
summons for the conductor and fell
back. exhausted. When the train stop
ped ana the conductor came forward,
Mr.. Hopes was trying to stop the flow
of blood from his wounds by tying up
his shattered leg, and said, I" 1t is all up
with me; do the most you can for me-"
He fingered until next day i'm great
agony, which he bore with his usual
bravery. and then died, lamented by all
who knew him. Surely, the name Of
Enos j. Hopes should have a promi-
nent place in the history of those
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03
A Thunder Storm I'm January.
From the Sioux City Journal.


About three o'clock yesterday morn
ing there were four separate flashes of
vivid lightning, occurring at intervals of
few moments apart, and in each case
followed by quite heavy claps OF thun-
der, while in place of the rain usually
occurring during thunder storm, came
a shower of sleet. The night was bit
terly cold, and the wind blew almost a
gale, and taken altogether it seemed
about as inopportune time for thun-
der shower as could well be selected.
Storms of this character are not unusual
in this latitude during the winter sea.
son, though we believe this one was
rather more marked than usual. But
then there is nothing particularly
strange connected with the phenome-
non. However the electrical condition
of the clouds is produced, the surface
beneath assumes the opposite electrical
state, the stratum of air between acting
like the insulating glass plate between
two metallic surfaces and when at last
the attraction between the two opposite
electricities becomes too strong for the
interposing medium to resist, they rush
together, producing the disruptive dis
charge accompanied with the flash and
report. 1t will be remembered that for
several days previous to Tuesday the
weather was warm and spring-like.
During this time evaporation was pro-
crossing at a rapid rate, and an unusual
amount of electricity was thereby gen.
Grated. The weather then turned cold,
and the bare frozen earth assumed the
opposite electrical extreme from the
clouds, until on Tuesday morning the
attraction between these opposing forces
became sufficiently strong to break
through the interposing stratum of air,
and produce the electrical discharge we
have noticed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03
Cause OF Unhappiness.

Harsh Judgment, rough words, small
but frequent acts of selfishness and in
justice, sometimes poison the heart that
promised to be healthy, and curse the
start that promised to be blessed. There
are families that possess every earthly
COMMONWEALTH, money and occupation
but are miserable from the jealousy
and quarreling that prevails within
them. There are married couples who
live in daily sorrow not because they
are in want, but because each thinks the
other unkind, arbitrary, and inconsid-
crate. Young people sometimes marry
with their eyes shut and thus, instead
of being mated with angels, as they fool
ishly imagined they might be, they find
out afterward that they are only men
and women, with the common work-a-
day weaknesses and faults Of their re-
spective sex. This sham love easily
gets soured, and then each reproaches
the other for not fulfilling the senti-
mental prospects with which they en-
tered the marriage state. Take any of
the relationships of life, and we find
that the greater part of all our sorrow
comes from the same cause. Get any
one to tell you honestly what gives him
the most annoyance and disquietude,
and he will tell you they come from
want of kindness, sympathy, and fell
low-feeling. He could tell you that he
would bear other things if he only met
with more consideration, support, and
encouragement from the people with
whom he had to do.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03
Nearing the End.

The week opens with gloomy pros
poets for the French, and with unprom-
ising indications for peace makers. The
more we learn of the disasters to Chan
zy's army last week the more evident it
is that Prince Frederick Charles not
only defeated and routed the French,
but kept pressing and pounding them
with such energy that there is really
nothing left of Chanzy's late command
but mob of fugitives. The Germans
can safely dismiss all care as to danger
from that quarter, and concentrate else
where for a crushing attack on the re-
manning organized forces of the French
in the field.
Meanwhile, one of the most noted,
historical and aristocratic quarters of
Paris is exposed to the shot and shell Of
the Germans. The latter are prosecut-
ing their terrible work with that stern
persistency which has been so often
illustrated in the present war. They
will keep all they have won and Will
steadily and surely advance closer and
closer on the doomed city, until Trochu
will have to choose between desperate
effort to cut his way out or surrender.
For we do not believe that the Parisians
will long endure the increasing horrors
of bombardment. They may be gallant
enough for squirt of heroic effort, but
they are not the sort of people to keep
cool and patient after their rest ha
been broken by several successive nights
of fierce Smelling.
The Germans are evidently aware that
the struggle is swiftly coming to an end.
With Paris so nearly in their clutches,
they are in no mood to listen to propo-
sitions of mediation. They are going
to finish up their "big job in their
own way, and to decide for themselves
how the great questions of the war are
to be settled. They respectfully ask all
outsiders to keep their hands off, and
no great power is likely to crowd them
very much now.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03

DISPENSING WITH SURFACE PLowING.-
A correspondent of the Oshkosh (Wis.)
Northeastern says he boughta field which
had been plowed for twenty consecutive
years, with soil only four or five inches
deep. He applied a subsoil pillow, run.
ning 1T fourteen inches deep, then run
1t the other way, and then narrowed it
twice, with an interval of few days,
and had his ground broken up without
the aid OF the ordinary pillow. At one
time he marked ground for corn by
running subsoil pillow fourteen inches
deep. both ways at proper distance, and
planting at the crossings. He had a
good crop Notwithstanding a severe
drouth.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03

PROJECTION OF Stone BY SALTS OF Cop
PER.-Dr. Robert, of Paris, recommends
earnestly the use of salts of copper, as
the best preservative against the wealth
ering of stone in moist climate and
endeavors to prove that the wasting
away of sandstone and granite is due
to various causes, one of the most inn
portant of which is the development of
a lichen (the Lepra antiq,dtaHs). This
plant is so destructive that the beautiful
marble sculptures in the park, at Yer
sailles, would be completely destroyed
by it, in the space of fifty years, unless
precautions were taken to arrest its
ravages. DR.. Robert states that the
amount of weathering away Of rocks of
all kinds, granite not excepted, is much
greater than the public generally are
aware of, especially when subjected to
the influence of a moist atmosphere.
Thus, the obelisk of Luxor, which was
brought to Paris, from Egypt, forty
years ago, has become completely
bleached out, and full of small cracks,
while for the previous forty centuries
during which it stood in Egypt no
change had been produced.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03

FISH CULTURE.-The Commissioners of
Fisheries of the State of New York have
issued circular giving notice that they
will furnish black bass, young bullheads
or catfish, white bass and rock bass,
roach, perch, sunfish and pike perch,
for stocking waters in any part Of the
State of New York, free Of expense, to
all persons who will send to the breed
ing establishment at Caledonia, n. Y.
The notice says that descriptions of the
character of the lakes, ponds and streams
should be given, so that the Commits
sioners can judge which species of fish
is best adapted to them. Seth Green,
at Rochester, n. Y, the superintendent
of the breeding establishment in New
York, seems to have acquired great skill
in the artificial culture of fish, as from
the circular it appears that he can raise
eight species from the eggs. The pro-
gress in this branch of domestic econo-
my has been very great in New York I;
and the Commissioners, Horatio Soy
mour, George G. Cooper and Robert B.
Roosevelt, have exhibited praiseworthy
activity in their attempts to stock the
waters of the State with edible fish. 1t
is subject of great regret that nothing
has been done by the Fish Commission
ers of Pennsylvania. The Legislature,
it is true, directed that the dams in the
Susquehanna should be provided with
steps, so as to allow the shad to pass up
stream but the Supreme Court has de-
cided that the owners of the dams can
not be compelled tie make the necessary
Ill he,
der these circumstances, it has been
contended that the Legislature would
act wisely in appropriating the funds re-
quired to defray the expense Of putting
in fish steps; and, as the entire commu-
nifty would be benefited by the stocking
of the Susquehanna with shad, very
few objections, it is believed, would be
urged against the passage of law max.
ing moderate appropriation for this
object.-PhiIadelphia Ledger.
The GUN TEsTs.-At the proving
grounds near Pittsburgh, Pa, an in
spector of ordnance of the United
States Navy is now engaged in series
of experiments for the purpose of de-
termining the relative merits of the gun
cast solid and then bored, and of the
hollow cast of Rodman gun. The guns
now experimental with are of the cali
bre of fifteen inches. The ordinary
proof charges were first fired. These
proof charges consist of nine charges of
number seven gun powder, three
charges weighing thirty-five pounds
each, and three weighing forty.five
pounds each, and three weighing fifty.
five pounds each. The ball consists of
solid shot weighing four hundred and
fifty. After these nine proof charges
the guns were charged with sixty pounds
of mammoth powder and with a solid
shot weighing four hundred and fifty
pounds. With charges of the last de-
scription each of the guns is to be fired
five hundred rounds. The solid cast
gun has been discharged nearly the re-
quired number of times, and the Rod
man or hollow cast gun has been dis
about three hundred times. In
these trials over sixty thousand pounds
Of powder will be consumed, and four
hundred and sixty thousand pounds of
iron balls will be discharged.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03

WASHING BUTTER.-Our best butter.
makers hereabout do not agree with the
idea advanced by one of your prominent
correspondents, viz. /: that butter should
never be washed in water. On the con-
trary, they contend that it should be
washed in pure cold water, and every
particle of buttermilk washed out, if
such thing is possible. They say the
buttermilk cannot be worked out with
out water, but the butterwill be injured
in texture, or be left soft and " flabby."
Cold water is also indispensable in very
warm weather, where the cream is apt
to be little above above SIS degrees.
We believe in water yet.-Cor. Country
Gentleman
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03

OHIO DAIRYMEN's AssoCIATIoN-The
dairymen of Ohio will hold their sew
enth annual convention in Wellington,
Lorain county, beginning January %.
The annual address will be delivered by
Secretary Klippart, of the State Board
of Agriculture, on Dairy Agriculture
Hon. James Monroe, of Oberlin, will
deliver an address on the moral and
intellectual need of the agricultural
classes" Other addresses will be deliv-
cred, and there will be frequent discus.
sions on subjects pertaining particularly
to the dairy. A special feature of the
convention will be the exhibition of
cheese. Premiums will be awarded as
follows: A premium of SIS for the best
three cheeses manufactured at any date !;
premium of S. for the best cheese of
August manufacture of s. for the best
Of September manufacture of S. for
the best of October manufacture; each
entry to be accompanied with detailed
statement of the method of manufac-
turing cheese pursued by the COM
petitor.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03
How TO MITIGATE THE EFFECTS OF HARD

How TO MITIGATE THE EFFECTS OF HARD
TIMEs.-An exchange, in discussing
learnedly and feelingly on the above
topic, says: Just 60 back to first prin-
ciples, that's the way. In the begin
ming, these hard times are, or were, the
result mainly of the universal tendency
of people to run extravagantly into
debt. The man, to-day, who is not in
debt, can coolly laugh at his neighbours
misfortunes, if he is so disposed. AT all
events, the hard times are as nothing
a tale that is told-to him. If people
were not in debt there would be no hard
times. Now, the remedy is to be found
in prudence and economy-especially
those of us who are in debt. Instead of
buying on credit thousand and one
things which we can easily enough get
along without, let us "turn in " every
surplus dollar where we owe it. Then,
if we get our heads above water, let us
adopt as our motto, Pay as we 60"
That is a receipt, a specific, a panacea
for everything that comes under the
head of hard times. And this is equal,
exact Christian justice to every man,
woman and child, as we'll as every in
terest, under the sun. So mote it be.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03


ston, it is stated, diligently read, and, so
far as he could, mastered the scientific
publications of his time, and kept pace
with all modern discoveries. Some
critics think that the scientific bent of
his mind was no advantage to him as a
statesman. A sounder opinion is, that
his scientific pursuits were an advan.
tage, not only as a sensible recreation,
but as spur to systematic thought on
all subjects. There is nothing like de-
monstration to strengthen the mind !;
and there are no demonstrations so per-
feet as those of the "exact sciences"
For this reason the Ledger aims to popu-
larize new discoveries, and it sometimes
happens that this paper has been even
in point of time with the purely scien-
tific journals, in announcing new facts
in science and mechanics. This is a
practical age, and consequently period
rich in valuable results.
Icy PATHs.-The constant danger to
man and beast from icy paths about the
house and barn, must not be over.
looked sawdust, tanbark, coal ashes,
etc, offer easy but temporary means of
security. Salt, if used upon steps or
anywhere, should be cleaned away, as it
is bad for animals to step i'm the brine
and then into the snow, as tempera-
ture of nearly zero is produced upon the
foot.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03

The manufacture of this article, for
the year, as reported to the United
States Assessor of Internal Revenue, is
in excess OF any previous year, though
very much below the capacity of the es.
adjustments in this city, several of
which have been in operation only a
portion of the year. The aggregate pro-
duction has been 1882, 1854 gallons
against 5,547, 34l gallons in 1869. With
the present internal revenue tax, there
is virtually no export of spirits, nor can
there be, with the amount of this tax in
favor of the foreign manufactures.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-03

The business in the product of the
forest has been much the same in vol
ume as last year; perhaps, as a whole,
rather more profitable. Prices have
ruled much the same, but the expense
of production was somewhat less.
Receipts of lumber have been
l,OlS,99S,6S5 feet, against 997,736,-
942 feet in 1869; and of shingles, 652,-
O9l 900, against 673, l66, 900 in 1869. At
this writing, the stocks on hand at the
close of the year have not been report
ed it is, however, believed to be some.
thing less than a year since, when it
was, of lumber, 277,220, 200 feet, and of
shingles, 56,052,0OO
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-03-11

A Gem.
The flowers beheid the star above.
sat l ,1"ssr IN 70 s .sssn x, x dsw d rope iell
Into the rich and fragrant bell,
And then the star was im@xed tbere.
A%s.th3ugh II dropped from upper afr,
And CHANGING down frDsR Heaven had come
tt seek on earth u kindred home.
----->---
The following lines on Dried Apple Pies
Will he appreciated by those "boardlng for
aliving:"
Floarhct abiSrsy detcsf Z despiser
Abqminate dried-upple piesl
like good bread, ! like good meat,
VT anything that's good to ent:
But of all the poor grub beneath the skies,
The poor, st Is dried-apple pies.
Olive me t~oothache or sore eyes
In preference 70 such kind OF pies.
uhe farmcr takes his gnrnltest fruit,
They leave the huils to maize ms cough,
And don'ttake half the peeling of,
Then on II dirty chord they're strung,
And from some chamber window hung;
And there they serve a roost for flies
Until they're ready to make pies.
Tread on my corns. or tell me lies,
Hut don't pass me dried-apple pies.
MANY years ago, when q party OF
civil engineers were running q line
for q railroad In the northern part of
Michigan, o chain bearer named
Gault stole q pair Of socks from
another Of the company. He was
detected AMI fined, but the history of
Ms moral obiiquity was perpetuated
by the owner OF the socks, who drew
upon the jamb Of the mantel-piece of
the hotel the similitude of q grave,
with head and ~foot-stones complete.
In regular form across the maidstone
was written, In a neat text hand, the
following inscription:
Sacred
To the memory Of
Warren A. Gault,
Who died n moral death
by stealing a pair of socks,
Tuesday, June II,
1888.
d Heaven be pleased when sinners cease
to sin.
II Hell be pleased when sinners enter In,
Hearth be pleased when ridted offs knave,
Then all are pleased, for Gault Is In his
grave.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-03-11

A coat that has the mark Of use
npon 1t Is a recommendation to the
people of sense, and a hat with too
much nap and too high lustre a de-
rOgatory circumstance. The best
coats In our streets are worn on the
backs Of penniless fops, broken-down
merchants, clerks with pitiful sala-
ries, and men that do not q up.
The heaviest gold chains dangle from
the fObs Of gamblers and gentlemen
Of very limited means; costly orna-
ments on ladies, indicate to the yes
that are well opened, the fact Of q
silly lover or husband cramped for
funds. And when a pretty woman
goes by In plain and neat apparel, it
Is the presumption that she has fair
expectations, and a husband that can
show a balance in his favor. For
women are like bOoks-toO much
gliding makes men suspicious that
the binding Is the important part.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-03-11

For sale by =. b. STEWART, Clarksville.
April 10, is7O-ly
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-03-11

NEvERToo OLD TO LEARN.-Those
who think they are 'too old to learn"
can find food for reflection" by read
ing the following paragraph:
"Socrates, at an extremely old age,
learned to play Oh musical instru-
meilts. Cato, at eighty years of age,
thought proper to learn the Greek
language. Plutarch, when between
seventy and eighty, commenced the
study of Latin. Sir Henry Spelman
neglected the sciences in his youth,
hut commenced the study of them
after be had turned fifty after this
time lie became the most learned an
tiquarian and lawyer. DR.. johnson
applied himself to the Dutch Ian
guage but n few years before his death.
Franklin did not fully commence his
philosophical pursuits till he had
reached his iiftieth year"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-03-11

! beg leave 10 Offer my services To tho
OF clnrksVille and surrounding
vicinity rs ~ manufactures of nrsi class
work frOin the best material the market
affords, ana NJ ns liberal rates ~ the same
qualiiEof work can bc executed Tor Ia the
city. Footing, hn~lf-sOiing and repairing
done NJ the chcnpest rates, aud work de-
ivrrri promptly at the time promised.
R"Sp"ctnllN, u. e.. HOWELL.
Mny2l. '7u-lY
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-03-11

LOCkERT d 90. have ~ fine and
elegant assortment OF Lamps and
Lamp Fixtures rs can be found I'm
the West, and I'm cheap rs Ia cheap
est novG-tf.