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rules he can divise. He regards it as
fortunate that he is not bound to plan
put on the statute book in detail, for
he can modify from day to day as ex
perience dictates. Whenever the actual
working shows that valuable changes
have been introduced, they can be
made permanent by statute. He may
rest assured that in his general purpose
he will be sustained by the good sense
of the people, and as time will demon
strate his sincerity, and, VIC hope, ex-
hibit his success, that he will be en-
couraged and rewarded by enthusiastic
gratitude.
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A Successful but Uncomfortable, Rail-
-- '-. "- road Air. Brake. "' "-2'

t.
A man appeared lately in Mauch
Chunk with a patent air-brake for rail-
road cars, for sale. He claimed that it
would stop train going at the highest
rate of speed in half it's own length.
There was a certain railroad man also
up there who treated this suggestion
with scorn, and said he would wager
large sums that the air brake wouldn't
stop train any quicker than any other
brake. So he borrowed the contriv-
ance and fixed it on an open car on the
SWitchback Railroad, and wentup to
the top of Mount Pisgah to get fair
start. He let her come down
the inclined plane for q while
until she began to move along at the
rate of sixty miles an hour and then he
suddenly placed his foot on the brake
and put on with full power. One min
ute later the eye of any solitary travel
er passing through those wilds might
have observed a car standing perfectly
still on the track and railroad man
going down hill among the blackberry
bushes and underbrush head-foremost
at the rate-say of forty-six miles an
hour He was carried home on a
stretcher, with an abiding faith in the
success of the invention, but thinks its
usefulness would be improved if some
other man would improve upon the
machine, so as to avoid the certain de-
moral1zation overtaking those who use
it.
WILLIAM BELL, herdsman who in
habits on Benito creek, about 50 miles
south of Gilroy, experiences an electric
shock every time he attempts to knead
dough. SO we'll does the harmless
dough perform the functions of a Ley
den jar that Bell has had to desist
kneading, which is hard, inasmuch as
he needs to Obtain subsistence.
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An Ignorant Dog.

An old farmer went out one day look
ing over his broad acres, with an ak on
his shoulders and small dog at his
heels. They espied a woodchuck. The
dog gave chase and drove him into a
stone wall, where action Immediately
commenced. The dog would draw the
woodchuck partly out from the wall,
and the woodchuck would take the dog
back. The old farmers sympathy get
ting high on the side of the dog, he
thought he must help him. So, put
ting himself in position, with ak above
the dog, he waited for the attraction OF
the woodchuck, when he would cut
him down. So an opportunity offered
and the old man struck, but the wood
chuck gathered up at the same time,
took the dog in far enough to receive
the blow, and the dog was killed on ,a,, tne
spot Forty years after, the old man,
in relating the story, would always add:
ssAnd that dog don't know to this day
but what the woodchuck killed him."
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Little MOIIie,

BY HATTIE TYING GRIswOLD.
Little Mollie rides and dances,
In circus, day and night.
She can do, as well as any,
Daring deeds without alright.
Twelve years old is Little MOllie,
Orphan child, without home;
Day and night she rides and dances,
Wheresoe'er they go and come.
Little Mollie
Has no parents, has no home
Little Eolle, all in spangles,
Rides as through the towns they 90,
Sees the sidewalks full of children,
Hears their laughter far below
And she wonders, Little Mollie,
Why they laugh, and clap. and cheer;
Serious work it is to Mollie,
Bright and piquant to appear:
Little Mollie,
In her eye a starting tear.
Molhe never has playmate,
Never romps, as children do;
She is always tired and sleepy,
Often very hungry too.
And the long roads are 80 tiresome,
As they journey, here and there,
And she is SO tired and sleepy
That 1T night she says no prayer
Little Mollie
Does not think that God will care.
There is nothing else for Mollie;
This is all the world she knows.
She looks neither back nor forward,
Has few hopes, not many woes;
Does not even dream what childhood
Means, to those in happy homes,
And what tender, careful watching
Follows where it goes and comes.
Little Mollie,
Orphan, friendless, homeless, roams.
Sometimes in the darkness, Mollie
Ponders deeply upon life,
With child instinct, cropping blindly
For the meaning of the strife.
Little light shines in on Mollie,
Though she questions every star,
And her eager heart is yearning
Toward the God who is afar.
Little Mollie
Never feels Him, near, but far.
Sometimes, in the midnight, Mo1lie
Gees the moonlight flood her bed.
And half fancies forms are lowering,
With white wings, above her head.
And she whispers softly, /" dother,"
And she feels a sense of care,
Almost, as if God were near her,
Round about her, everywhere.
Little Mollie
Knows not she has said PRAYER,
Womanhood is coming, Mollie,
Soon twill press upon your view,
With its thousand great temptations,
Great to all, but most to you.
All! in every trial, Mollie,
May your heart go forth as now,
And the unseen hands viii softly
Crown with victory your brow;
Little Nollie,
God will keep you then as now.
-Ron9an's Journa
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RUTLAND, Vt, has English sparrows,
for whom boxes have been placed III
the sbade-trees about the streets and
private grounds. ....-
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FEMALE fox hunters are the terror of
Alabama agriculturists. .-e.
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SILENCE.
BY MRS. 8. NJ. D. PIATT

- what, then, is Music? What2 m
,r Music is silence in despair! 81 EEE
! ne wall OF troubled meaning that cannot
forget itself in sound Something too rare
To float in finest air-.--z -
And what Is silence9 That s- "
From which the unrest of ,,,1,s;,-,roos-
Aha a. i. GO comes BACK faint and fierce to perish s,s
Ii Is Inc Mn1te OF lilies and Of SHOWS
The rosiness of the rose
1t 1s the charm of death. rt -.--.s.---
The spell of the statues marble years.
The love we dare not dim with touch of breath
The sorrow that we keep vailed from our tears
The fear beyond our fears ai I|8I'
Silence IN stars is light;
Silence in buds is odor and dew; rt
Silence in darkness is the grave, the night:
Silence in poets is, perhaps, the true
Behind the false they write. rv
The joy no seraph hears .g1i..s.F
Nor heard when Heaven was first complete,
Was silence-silence though the baby spheres
Babbled together, brokenly and sweet, .ur
About their Fathers feet -+''
Shakespeare and skylark keep
Songs higher than their voices knew,
In silence. Silence is the rest in sleep. -..
The soul, the sky, and all that glimmers through
Of God silence, too! &
Independent.
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TUESDAY, February 6.-HoUsE.

IUESDA1, OUI oe''1 q
Among the bills introduced were TWO lot UfiuBss
across the Mississippi one at Muscatlne, Iowa, ana
the other at South ST. Louis Also one 8rantlng pen
sions to certain soldiers pilots and others in the
BLACK Hawk war; and to promote telegraphlc COM
mIn1cation between America, Asia and Europe. The
House resumed the consideration of the bill to esta6
lish an educational fund.- and to apply the proceeds
of the nubc tax to the education of the people. The
discussion lasted until late hour, when the House
adjourned the bill going over. r..fs 81
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: TUESDAY, TtUIdaIJ q.
Edmunds offered resolution asking the President
to send to the Senate any information in his possess
sion relative to the alleged intention of Great Britain
to revoke the Treaty Of Washington, unless the
claims of the United States shall be presented upon
principles in manner agreeable to the other party.
Messrs. Trumbun and Cameron opposed the resolu-
ton and il went over The amnesty bill was dis
cussed by Messrs Sherman, Thurman, Morton ana
Frelinghuysen until O'Clock NJ, when the Senate
went into executive session, and soon alter ad-
iourned
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and Maj nowner remarked that he had
sand all he knew to say on the question:
Mr.. Davis said that the Rev. Mr. Walker
would iake his place
Mr. Walker admitted all that had been
said before, but -,ill held the negative to
De right; because the principles OF our
government recognize the conscien e OF the
individual, aud that such Law would, n
IN the case Of the Catholics, compel many
70 act against conscience; that such a law
could not be enforced, in as much as those
Tor whom this lav is necessary, like a pig.
cannot be driven, but must be coaxed and
that If such was the law. thousands would
have to be supported at public expense, Ms,
Tor an instance, the thousands OF new shows
OF New York, If it were hot that they
would Jump ont Ol the school room, win.
dow a. iasi rs policemen could put them in
al the door Upon the whole these remarks
were so editying that the Major rose TO re-.
ply, but was reminded that he had declin.
ell. Mr.. Rogers of the affirmative. closed
the argument with some historical facts
which, in the language OF prominent out
slider were an unanswerabe argument, u
the question had been should education
be compulsory.
I The decision was in favor OF the ailirma
tive.
Considerable business was transacted
the following is a reso luton, that the sec.
retary furnish the papers with u synopsi,
Of the proceedings, and with the names o
those who upon ballot become members.
Messrs. NJ : Kir,ley, Thomas II Harvey
j. j. Gilbert, and Capt VIM II. Maddy
were elected to membership. The question
'Resoftci, that the city Council should no
grant hcence in the city OF Huntington io
the sale of Intoxicating liquors as II tcve
rage. Affirmative, Eustacc Gibson. Iohr
Reed Rev. c :. Walker Negative. II. g
Simons, A. NJ. Warne-, r G. Mara lee.
DIR. James d Morcure il to read an es
say at the next meeting
JOHN &. BRESLIN, Pretk
/ MARcELLUs MARSHALL, Rec Sec'v.
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FHOn THE EAST.

WEsfTrEtp, NY. Dec. 3. Is52
DgIR ARGrs:-ln yper"grinatious through
she country, stepped oG the cnrs at West
fold, y. Y, To visit -"mo dear friends whom 1
bad not seen f,r some time. sud 10 .pcui e fce
-ccks in rest and quiet, .Ltin. out or harness
N this secluded place. "Old Chnatsugua.'-
And Why 30 is called old, .urI Iassc. my cornrre.
hensi"n, posses INK nothing of the h.aty ur
antique, not even q ai-tory beyond Tie n,m-
Ory of living men. why because the fret
white man born BOO The county g.. yet living. n
resident " this Village, 4 hale hearty fellow of
a. or s. yenr..
This wc.f6e'I. s., one tf Che most attractive
sni beautiful Villages iu Western N,e York
Knxhly and p-eriy situated amidst ,fna ".
euug tres-. which in summer. must site %
grateful .rn.e. from the sun's ray.. and oi
which The iaHabitsn,. fsel Jp-t pride. Caau.
taugul creek nearly divide. it. elst nut west.
Che larger p,r. being 900 tbe eastern ,.I. Thc
stream, t,se. it. rI-s in the tily region .l .t.
country and for tne most part of thc ear Iur.
u'she- tAe motive power for several ir.u..re.
along ID. ..u-...
Many excellent rse.Htrs B.. rTr-. f.r iarg,
invo.tmeu,-fn manufacturing. bot thc few who
pns'es. thsm either h.k tas requisite ,a,sn,
f' uss aI'art.s. .f ts,u. ,fHs energy end
7,It'y. enr -a .rsu GnI. .n s. term -uun,.
-aets good ',a. nt.lrc h7. ..t I..e.. much
rr its.- vr.trci.iar..
Win n1.h gncur..,ci -...l .-Isei .
''ri'y ku.r ''u.rs- .f ,te .ta.. .t4.,ugn
I.-e..iuy J. on us Sob. r...r.. ai.tr.sgs-
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Z son.

MR- LoItos-In that one wo-l-Irion-
there i- great strength; We see IL 600 every de-
partmeut of life. The greatest moving power.
sc have require that a union of r.r.c. b, a,
command. But what il seen when there IL ~,
union observed. II j, evident to- every mind
that acivision of the united strength. /. weak
or than the united strength. Thi, is illu.frat.
ed, Mr.. Editor in this beautiful your.. city of
ours. which is ,'ruEsling int, existence. ro-
fer to the different churches that have been or
CANNED recently. eight or nine in number. Ii
' proposed TO buili for each organization a
church building. which will IN the aggregate.
an cunt in round number. 10 about one buuI
red thousand dul!ar-.
No" would it not be hotter { all these or-
gonu"iious would unite into one. and buirI
one large church cdifce f,r their lc.amm,ia
uou; and take The balance of the none, for
some benevolent purpose? and would it not be
i'r cheaper AMI meet the APPRECIATION Of The
people" Go have lees Daubor Of m.ui.,er. O..
support? j. is a great misfortune that clri.
u'n' are siieuntcd from each other. hr, .,y.
an 'tjcrtor. 30 b. impossible f,raI these church
r- O" unite. aud also Dr. b. not desirable ti,t
i"'y should unite. for if mon doe. NOT it,
one church Dee can X 90 another.
There is general ou,,ry from OBJ. pur,fi
against the attempted union Of ali tb, ehrrah.
c' In thc face " nIl the prryer. aud frL..a,.r
the length aud breadth OFF rar.-t.n...,a l,.. tla
union ~ 'hc people of Gpd. and a!.o Ir tL.
face Of that prayer o., Je,u. ou hi. W., ,o
'eths'm'ri. "Father. pray fr 600 st. i..
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for hs Hpnt.ss,oa Ary-..
Respectfully Dedicated to the Rach.
etors' club OF Huntington,

what a piuhl thing an old bachelor
il, with his childless home, and rueful
phiy, on bitter cold night when the fierce
winds blow, when the earth 10 covered with
snow When the fire is out, and in shiy.
ering dread, he slips meath the sheets OF
his lonely bed. How he draws up his toes,
all encased IN yarn hose, and he burries
his nose meath the chilly bed clothes, thai
his nose aud his toes, still encased in yarn
hose, may not chance to get froze There
he pulls ani he blows, aud saws that he
knows no mortal on earh ever suffered
such Woes aud with ah s. and with ohe ?
with his limbs To dispose, 30 that neither
his toes nor his nose may be frozc, to hi,
slnmbers in silence the bachelor goes In
the morn when the cock crows, and the
sun has just r"sr from beneath the bed
! clothes pops the bachelors nose, and n.
YOU may suppose, when he hears the wind
blows, sees the windows all iroEc WHY
back meath the clothes pops the poor fel.
low nose, for full well hc knows. il from
that bed he rose 10 Put on his clothes, he
would surely he troze
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iae everlasting shame Of this monrvei class be
it said. they have driven the artisan. and many
OF the working class TO seek emplovment else
whers. the direct resslt of the narrow minded
aud penurious instinct which Leads them to
hoard their riches or invest it in banks or
bonds, or become q money IeEder on a sliding
sale
l am happily pleased Huntington invested
but $4,000 in . Tree school. You have got a
good building, and sufficiently large to accom-
modate the children Of Population Of 5000.
Eere they recently built Union School at a
COS; OF some ssO.ceN. brick, like ours; and it
am inforined correctly. tates more to pay the
faculty aud keep it running. annually, than
the entire cost Of yours. The truth Is, it is a
huge elephant on their hands. Very due. in-
deed. for exhibition, but extremely costly to
keep.
Much of the wealth II this entire section Of
country is the result Of the discovery Of pc,ro-
ieum in the neishboring state Of Pennsyyania.
Many. who lived 10 the ..oIeaxinoa region
op farms, worthless for anything but goat pas
lures. and upon which, with the utmost exer-
tion. they barely eked cut a precarious living.
became Unexpectedly possessed Of great
wealth. These people, many OF them. uncul-
tivated and ignorant to degree truly marvel
Gus in = country abounding in free schools.
came down to this beautiful valley, stretching
from Buaalo to Toledo. purchasing the best
farm lands offered for sale, and evincins that
shrewdness and .agacity a. led them In almost
every instance TO select the most desirable rro-
pcrty. Proligal beyond calculation, with the
means 50 hastily acquired, they paid eIorbi-
tant prices. and a consequence, real estate
advanced rapidly-farms that could have been
purchased a few months before fDr $1,000 Der
acre. readily commanded $3.50 to 5000. In.
deed greenbacks to them was a very uncertain
currency, and Government bonds they deemed
quite insecure.
In thus seeking safe investment. for de.
based currency, they but showed a., what ric,
they valued Government which, at thi. time
was in death struggle with one Of the most
formidable reLellion- the world ever saw
Gen. Lee, with his entire army. had lust eros.
81 the Potomac, snd threatened to winter hi,
troops in Philadclphia. Riots of most formid
able kind had broken out in New York sn,
other places. Gold worth S2s5. Butt do moi
propose to follow the history Of these time.
/ These people did but what others would hay,
done, under the same circumstances. Thai
they suddenly acquired wealth, and in mos
eases. invested it with far seeing diserimina
/ tiou, is to their credit. That some that settled
IN commercial towns did not invest in manu-.
featuring industries, il their own business.
think however, few were adapted to it, an,
for the reason before mentioned. which need
not repeat. Of the natives Of Now England
Ir''h and other nationaiities, who settled thi,
county, m1y speak hereafter G.T.J.
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JUDGE JOHNsON,s LETTER.
lRoNroS, q, Nov. II, lsI

lRoNroN, u, Nov II, 1872.
Mr. JosErR KINsEY - Dear Sir.-Mr
Trimble was here yesterday claiming 10
bear to ~ proposition from Mr. Hunt
ington OF this kind To JOIN in bnilding ~
road down the valley of Ohio 10 Ports
mouth, thence via Hillsboro to DAYTON, y
trunk liue. Thus involving laying aside
tor the present of the :, mmes Creek
route During the interview we learned
that the committee OF YOUR Chsmber oS
Commerce had agreed to report again It
any action on the part oi that body
To this end MIR frimblc and hls friends
in your city, including Mr. SIrader asd
Mr.. COvington two oi his Incorporation, r
have lahored II Cincinnati concludes
not to act, that defeats valley road Ia
Cincinnati tor the present aud perha ~.
permanently
1t is evident what Mr. Trimbles plan.
are, and it surprises US that Cinrinna,i
should be indifferent TO the result, which
Is nothing else than the occupancy OF TIN.
valley iHr enough to prevent asy ri val
ROAD, aud leave your city to baild n switch
to the trunk line
lie ls very urgent that we should aban
don onr Chesapeake Il Cincinnati charter
and our other movement to extend the
line 90 Pomcroy and Bellairr, and throw
our influence aud votes in IN iayor of bs
present scheme
How do your people like the scheme2
Respectfully, W. " JHSsoN
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No.. 80.

would not he understood a. talking with.
out advice; 1t is the candid opinion OF
many OF the Oldest and most sagacious
politicians OF the District, that vote taken
on the question Of recession OF this Distric;
to Virginia. at this time, would carry, aud
we are sure tina, iftae Dis,ric, is ignored in
this State, and denied all share in the ex-
penditnre Of the public money, a move
ment will be shortly set on foot to test the
matter.
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c.rnsApEsKE a ONO uAILuosD.

''''f''F''F's'Afi'f ''sf WV "
10 The Ej,for Of the cincinnati Cosene:
Knowing that tie imprrs. sion exists with
many persons m Cincinnati that the poli-v
Of the Chesapeake a Ohio Company il Que
Of h"stlit, Ia Cincinnati. take the llher-
~. without consulting Mr. Huntington, Of
quoting from letter o'the 3S,h OF Noven!-
Der, addressed by him to me.
lie says: It does seem TO me tLst II will
he very much for tie Interests Of Port.
mouth and lr m,on to work With the ChssR-
peake Ohio interests and tbcreb, make
the road through these cities pnri OF the
great low grade short line from Cincnna.
ii and the NorhSp,t out 10 the Chesa,
pcake The road could be built from Hun
ungion TO IlillshOrourh, VIZ Portsmoutli,
very soon, VIII h would give them an ali
rail connection with Cincinnati and thA
y ribwe-t over this line and when this
Wa done II the people Of Cincinnati anI
the Chesapeake y ohio Company should
come to the conclusion that the best way
for the ciiy 0f Cincinnati to reacn the Che.
apcahc Ohio road - along tie river lins
irom 'ncinraH to l. rtsmOuth, that line
could he built
No parties can be more deeply interest.
ei IN having the be-i possible route Tor tho
i''ha ''.'Hf''ll '4N'NHWh'N hW.l ilWhIIWHfnA
than the thssnpeakc x Ohio Cpmpnny
and a. the interests oi the civ AMI tLs
raiironl company Hrs identical Boo This re.
spect ] lp nos look Tor anything e.se bus
harmony between ttcu.
The polio, here developed would donlt
les te acceptable 60 Cincinnati .rI thA
cowrnriti-- between Huntington and Gin.
c.nnaf unless 10 i- tie purru.r as claims
ed 'v -"inc. 90 ln'ld The river ul- 90 Beli.
a.-" iow',o speciou- the rea.oping ~
i4vor of the latter proircf. d.stt ~heth-
er tWcu.au Ppr-nouth or i-1utor Las
any lreef.r interest ir rt- pre- enf accom-,
60 nD,. tnat tue tle'hp prasoN ONO CON
w'.
81 I SIN a-keI What ie,.mc- of th.
%irr' I..e connection fro.s fnc.uuau -
% 'i.'.., fr,r. eng me rin oslv sa-
ilrk .ti. to boz r-rret.eI tic yroposito..
frA .a- q 2ilrJp by he ci.. uad uet
t,-t DO ..u tY invite the iu.esr CATION b,
"ths rs.tIr ai C.rcIhrtu HrI the Chess.
rsafr & ohio 90 important a mates
Ao1.i >ceai 'o demand
A a.cs number Of c.tzens Of Cir
cinnAu aac.isl Otherwise b. peti,ion 4,
the Mayor the Short Line ioa.. rely ms
the bn-'utss ant railroad necessity vhieA
= 90 sooner or later rc9uirp t. conlle O..
iis contraction Is hut qu .,i'n oi tin.t.
VERY respectfully
~ H. TlmrlL.