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To Keen Hams in Summer.

Much has been written on the subject of
keeping hams during the summer months
To bag them and whitewash the bags is
troublesome and expensive. Some pack
them in barrels with wood ashes, and some
with pine shavipgs, but we think as good a
plan as any is 20 sprinkle the hams and
shoulders with cayenne pepper and wrap
them up well in newspapers and hang in a
dark, airy place Uniform darkness is a
complete protection against the attacks Of
insects, and the hams keep better without
any preparation against noxious insects, but
mostly always by hap or mishap the door is
left open and the intruders enter and do
mischief, so it is best to wrap up the ham
even though they be in dark Smoke-house
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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD 90
~ and after May 9th, 1878, the passenger trains
will run as follows:

WESTWARD.
MAIL TRAIN.-Leaves Richmond $3.50 A. NJ.
daily, Except Sunday connecting with w., c.,
Va, M. q. s. railroad at Gordonsville and Char
lottesvie and arrives at White Sulphur Springs at
sos p NJ.
EXPRESS TRAIN.-Leaves Richmond at 10 P.
NJ. daily Except Saturday. connecting at Gordons-
vile with W., g., Va, NJ 6. S. railroad trains
for Lynchburg and Southwest and arrives at Hunt
ington at $40 P. NJ. next day. steamer leaves
Huntington on arrival of the train and arrives at
Cincinnati at o'clock next morning.
This train stops between Richmond and White
Sulphur only at Junction, Gordonsville, Charlottes
vile, staunton, Goshen, Millboro', and Covngton.
ACCOMMODATIONS RAIN.-Leav Richmond
at $40 2. M. daily, Except Sunday and arrives
at GQrdonsyille at S:45 P. NJ.
EASTWARD.
Steamer leaves Cincinnati at P. NJ. daily, (ex.
cept Saturday. and arrives at Huntington at A.
NJ, next day, connecting with express train
EAPRESS TRAIN.-Leaves Huntington at 10
A. NJ, daily, Except Sunday,) and arrives at Rich.
mond at 4:30 A. NJ, day. Connecting with trans
going south and with James river steamer for Nor
folk. This train stops between White Sulphur and
Richmond only at Junction, Gordonsvilie. Char
lottesville, Stanton (fS shen Millboro.' and Gov
ngton. -.
MAIL TRAlN.-Leayes White Sulphur 5:55 A.
NJ, daily, Except Sunday,) connecting with W.,
va, NJ, ". >. railroad at Charlottesville and Cor.
louisville, and arrives at Richmond P. NJ.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN Leaves Gordons
vile at $50 A. NJ, daily, except Sundays connect.
ing at Gordonsville with W., c., Va, NJ. Il G. S.
railroad train from Lynchburg and Southwest and
arrives at Richmond at 1915 A. NJ
For further information inquire at the company's
office, on Broad near Seventeenth street
A. II. PERRY,
General Superintendent.
}. +. NETHERIAND, General Ticket Agent.
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SERVING TWO MAsTERs.-In the ruins Of
Pompei there was found petrifed woman,
who, instead of trying to fly from the de-
stroyed city, had spent her time in gathering
up her Jewels. She saved neither her life
nor her Jewels. There are multitudes max
ing the same mistake. In trying to get
earth and heaven they loose both. eye can
not serve God and mammon." Be one thing
or the other.
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DR.. Guthrie,s Diving Reouest.

have been reading with mOiStened eyes
the touching story of the last hours of the
great and eloquent DR.. Guthrie. He was
the king of preachers; but what child he
was in spirit. He loved children, even the
wretchedest, and when thirty thousand peo-
pie of Edinburgh thronged to his burial, and
when the great dignitarieS had finished their
funeral ceremonies, two little children from
his "Ragged-School' stepped forward and
laid wreath of flowers on his grave, And
all the multitude melted into tears. Just
before Guthrie died, he asked his family to
sing for him.-"What would you like p
And the great orator replied, d" Gre me a
bairns hymn :" So they sang for him,
''There is happy land, far, far away !"-
He listened to it as the prelude of his own
beaveD-song. And when Guthrie reached
his Fathers house, there was only one more
little child in the kingdom of heaven.-He
sings "5airn' hymn" before the Throne.
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vance.
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II, Richmond Va.
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TO SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE.
By HENRY STEPHENS, F. R. S., Edinburgh, and
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FPS 7kCPRIED FERN


ia a valley, centuries ago,
Grew little fern.leat, green and slender,
Veining delicate and 6bres tender,
Waving when the wind erept down so low;
BUSHES tall and grass and moss grew round it,
Playful sunbeam darted in and found it;
But no foot Of man e er came that way;
Earth was young and keeping holiday.
Useless? Lost? There came thoughtful nan,
Searching natures secrets far and deep;
From assure in a rocky steep
&c withdrew a stone, Ter which there ran
Fairy peneillngs, quaint design,
LEAKAGE, veining, flores, clear and fine,
And the ferns life lay in every line;
So I think God hides some lives away,
Sweetly to surprise US the last day.
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Protection AGAINST MoTHs.--Pfeider, a
German inspector of passenger cars, states
that single stem of hemp, with the leaves
and blossoms, mixed with the stufing of a
car seat, will protect it from moths for years,
and that hemp for this purpose should be
gathered just when in blossom, dried rapidly
in the shade, and kept in covered wooden
vessels in dry place.
PREVENTING OF MOULD ON GUM MUCT-
LAGE.-The addition of few drops of con-
centrated sulphuric acid to gum mucilage,
and then allowing the precipitated snlphate
of lime to subside, will according to Hirsch-
berg's experience, prevent formation Of mold
or deterioration of adhesivenesS for at least
a year and half; while sulphate of quinine,
as recommended, will not prove effective, at
least in the proportion of one to twenty of
the solution.
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BlaCkwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

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ID edmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
LII Route.

ON AND AFTER FEBRUARY 18th, 1873, mail
trains on this road will run as follows:
UP DAY MAIL, via rail, and steamer, leaves
Byrd-S Street station, p. m.
UP NIGHT MAIL, via rail alone leaves Byrd
Street station. $40 p. M, Except on Sundays.)
station, p. m. Except on Sundays.)
DOWN DAY MAIL, via rail and steamer, ar
rives at Byrd-Sreet station at 2 p. m.
DOWN NIGHT MAIL, via rail alone, arrives at
ByrdStreei station $40 a. m. Except on Mondays)
DOWN ACCOMMODATION TRAIN arrives at
Broad-Street station, S:37 m. Except Sundays.)
Ed. T. ID. MYERS,
fe II General Superintendent.
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AIM to do some permanent good that your
existence may be crowned with usefulness.
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GRACE makes a good heart.memOry, ever
where there is a bad head.memory.
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DICHMoND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD
IL On and after JUNE 18Th 1873
GOING WEST

Il ~
GOING WEST.
The Lynchburg and Danville Passenger train daily
Except Sundays) leaves Richmond at 9:45 a. M;
Burkeville at l20 p. m; arrives at Lynchburg 4:45
p. m. and arrives at Danville at 6 D. m.
Sunday Lynchburg Passenger rain leaves Rich.
mond at $50 a. M arrives at Burkeve at ll:28
a. M, and Lynchburg at 4:40 p. m.
Through Mail and Passenger train leaves Rich
mond daily at 1:05 p. M; leaves Danvile daily at
$40 p. M; arrives at Greensboro daily at lilo
p. m.
GOING EAST.
The Lynchburg and Danville passenger trains
daily Except sundays,) leaves Lynchburg at 8:l5
a. m. leaves Danve at 6:l5 a. m; leaves Burke
vile at ll:4O a. M; arrives at Richmond at 2:55
p. m.
The Sunday Lynchburg Passenger train leaves
Lynchburg at 8 Is p M; leaves Burkeville at lilo
p. M. arrives at Richmond at Az p. m.
The Through Mail and Passenger train leaves
Greensboro daily ~ SIS p. m. leaves Danyille
daily at ll:l7 p. M; arrives at Richmond dsiiy at
6:35 a. m.
The Through Mail and Passenger trains going
South connect at Greensboro with Trains on the
N. Carolina Railroad for all points South
The Lynchburg Trains connect at Burkeyle with
train Oh the Atlantic, Mississippi. and Ohio Rail
road for all points Southwest and South
THROUGH TICKETS to all points South and
South west can be procured at the ticket office in
Richmond, and of K. f. WALKER, Agent of At
antic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, No 1926
Main street, Richmond
T. NJ. R. TALCOTT,
je Is Engineer and Superintendent.
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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-04-22
ARepublIcan Judge Recommends
the Rod.

At the last Superior Court of Wayne,
North Carolina, His Honor, Judge Will
liam J. Clarke presiding,a colored youth
eighteen years of age, was convicted Of
the crime of forgery. We publish else
where, from the Goldsbore' Messenger,
the extraordinary remarks of Judge
Clarke after the conviction of the defen
dant.
1t will be seen that His Honor told
the defendant that il he would submit to
genteel thrashing at the hands of bis
paternal relative, he would not sentence
him to any further punishment; other
wise he would compel him to serve two
years in the penitentlary. His Honor
informed the defendants father that he
had no authority to order his son to be
whipped, but that the father had the
right to chastise him, and that if he
would take him down in one of the
rooms below in the court house and give
him a good chastisement the court would
not pass sentence upon him. The Judge
added: vi
II would like, to see you apply the rod
to him myself; but as ! can't 60, Sheriff
Woods will accompany you, and see il
well done, and report" a6s
John V. Sherrard, the Republican so
licitor, remarked to the father as he was
leaving the courtroom with bis son to
administer the penalty suggested by His
Honor, "Make him take off his coat
Raleigh News: T
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Putting a Hoop ON q Flour Bars
rel.

According to the Danbnry News put
ting hoop on the family flour barrel is
an operation that win hardly bear an
encore The woman generally attempts
it before the man comes to dinner. She
sets the hoop mp on the end of the
slaves, takes d deliberate aim with the
rolling pin, and then shutting both eyes
brings the pin down with all the force
of one arm, while the other instructive
ly shields her face. Th, n she makes d
dive for the camphor and unbleached
muslin, and when the man comes home
she is sitting back sof the lstove, think
ing of St. Stephen and sthe other mar
tyrs, while burnt dinner and the COM
|phor are struggling heroicslly for the
mastery. He says il she had kept sher
temper she wouldn't have got burt.
And he visits the barrel himself, and
puts the hoop on carefully and adjusts
it so nicely to the top of every stave
that only few knocks apparehtiy are
needed to bring it down all right, and
he laughs to himself to think what q
fuss his wife kicked up over simple
matter that only needed little patience
to adjust itself, and then be gets the
hammer and fstches the hoop b sharp
rap on one side, and the other eide lies
up and catches him on the bridge Of the
nose, filing his soul with wrath and bis
eyes with tears, and the next instant
that barrel is flying across theroom, ac-
companied by the hammer, and another
candidate for camphor and rag is en-.
rolled in the great army that is uncesss
ingly marching toward the grave.
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have You Enemie.,

Go straight and don't mind them. Il
they get in your way walk around re-
gardless of their spite. p A man who has
no enemies is seldom good for anything
he is made of that kind of material
which is so easily worked thatevery one
has hand in it. A sterling character is
one who thinks for himself and speaks
what he thinks; he is always sure te
have enemies. They are as necessary tc
him as fresh air-they keep him alive
and active. A celebrated character who
was surrounded by enemies used to re
mark: "They are sparks, which if yor
don't blow will go out themselves. =
alive down prejudice was one of the
Iron Dukes mottos.
Let this be your feelings while endeav
oring to live down the scandal Of thos,
who are bitter against you; do as they
desire, and open the way for more abuse
Let the poor fellow talk-thcre will be .
reaction II you but perform your duty
and hundreds who were once alienatet
from you will flock to you and acknowl
edge their error.
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Lie Down and Rest.

DR.. Hall says the best medicine in the
world, more efficient than all potations
Of the .materia medica, are warmth, rest,
cleanliness, and pure air. Some per-
sons make virtue to brave disease, to
.keep up" as long as they can move a
foot or wriggle finger, and it some
times succeeds, but in others the pow
ers of life are thereby SO completely
exhausted that the system has lost all
ability TO recuperate, and slow and ty-
phoid fever sets in and carries the pa.
tient to premature grave. Whenever
walking and work is an effort, warm
bed and cool room are the very first in
dispensables to sure and speedy re
covery. Instinct leads all beasts and
birds to quietude and rest the very mo.
ment disease or wounds assail the sys'
TEN.
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railures IN soClely.

Society is full OF failures that Heed
never have been made; full Of men who
have never succeeded. when they might
have and should have sncGeeded full Of
women who, in the first half Of their
days. did nothing but eat and sleep and
simper, and in the last half did nothing
but perpetuate theft follies of weakness.
The worlds full, / say. Of such people,
full of men in, every trade ard profess
ion Who do not amount to anything and
of girls ard women without any trade
br profession who have no desire to
amount to anything; and do not speak
and trust not without due
charity. without making due allowance
to the inevitable in life, when say that
God and thoughtful men are weary Of
their presence. Every boy ought to
improve on his father; every girl grow
into a nobler gentler, more self-denying
womanhood than the mother. No re-
production of former type viii give the
world the perfect type. J. know not
where the millennium is, as measured by
distance Of time, but ! do know, and SO
do you all that it is great way off as
measured by human growth and expan.
sion. We have no such men and wo.
men yet--no age has ever had any-ss
shall stand on earth in that age of peace
that will come until men ard worthy Of
it: sssF
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City Of Salvador Destroyed by an
Earthquake-.SOO Persons Per.
ish--$l2, 100000 OF Property
Lost.

,Asp1xwALL, April 5, via Havana
April 1O.-The City of Salvador, Cen
trail America, has been destroyed by ar
earthquake. Eight hundred persons
perished, and $4,000, 600 worth of prop
erty was destroyed. The earthquake
was followed by a confagration, and
many buildings were burned.
New York, April II The following
particulars of the destruction of San
Salvador, Central America, are received
here: .
For few days slight shocks Of earth
quake had occurred, but no serious ap
prehensions were entertained
1t was on the evening Of the 4th o1
March, about half-past four;almost with
out warning; a great part of the city was
reduced to little more than ruins.
The ground heayed as ship in gale
Terrific thunderings burst from under
foot; walls .tottered and were rent in ma
I ny plates With wide crevices,roof stink
and tiles, ETC., we're precipitated TO the
ground, Lamps, pitchers, basins; glass
ETC., were overturned aud broken.
Three violent shocks followed in sue
Icession, ,and the servants began to scream
piteously, and could not he pacifed.
Wild birds few to the houses, horses
grew frantic in the stables, and dogs
bowling, run for protection
Every few minutes shakings of less
violence occurred. The scene beggaret
description---ruined houses, panic-strick
en- people; men, women and children fee
! ing to the fields, with valuables hastily
collected.
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MIR. Choate Conqnerlng a Jury.

We once heard Rufus Choate make an
Argument five hours long to jury. The
statement of his case, the reasoning, the
appeals to tile sensibilties Of the jury,
were over two hours Still the advocate
continued speaking, repeating with dddi'
tional vehemence what he had said be
fore, with new illustrations and argu
ments. We looked at the Jury in order
to discover the cause Of this seemingly
useless expenditure of mind and force
Eleven of them were palpably convinced
the twelfth, the foreman; hard-headed
unimaeinative, unimpressible man of bu
siness, bad on his face q look of mere
dulity. Choate devoted three hours to
the task of breaking down the will oI
this one man, and of compelling him to
admit the cogency of reasoning which
was foreign to his habits Of thought
He did not stop, and we then thought he
never would stop until he had conquered
this disbeliever. 1t seemed for some
that hours Of talking would be Of nc
avail. Al last, however, the hard coun,
tenance softsned, the stony eyes were
moistened,the lips lost their rigidity--in
short; the whole man collapsed. Their
Choate concluded his argument in few
quiet and telling sentences,and sat down
sure Of verdict -E. p. Fhippts.
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wThe Pope is reported to be very
feeble. Should he I've until May, he
will be 81 years of age, according to the
ordinary statements 1t has been al.
legged, however, that 1890, instead of
1892, was the real date of his birth. II
this is true. he is far advanced in his
s3d year. He has sreigncd longer than
any Pope, not only having seen, but
surpassed, the years of Peter, aud has
experienced troubles enough to have
shattered any but the strongest consti.
tuition. About year ago he lost a
brother who was well up in the nineties,
but the nonaeenarian never had half as
many Yexations as the Pope.
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nalf an Hodt in Bad Company.

A youth was uniptentioually thrown
into company of some half dozen
young men, of very immoral character.
Their language, their jests. were of the
lowest order. Indecent expressions,
vulgar anecdotes, heart-defling oatbs,
characterized their conversation. Tt
was evident that there was no thought
God in. all their hearts.
He left them and went to his ROOM
1t was time for retiring to rest He
opened his Bible and attempted to read
its sacred pages, but he could not con-
fine his thoughts. The low, vulgar an
ecdotes of that goddess party we're con-
tinually fitting across his mind. Their
hollow mockery of God still rang in his
ears. The thought that perhaps there
was no God, no heaven, NO he'll, dis
turbed his hitherto pleasant evening
medita.ions; but that kind, friendly
voice within, the lives and death bed of
parents whom he had loved only to
lose, told him too plainly that there was
a God above, of tender and forgiving
mercy, there was heaven of bliss and
Joy, there &as lake, whose waves of
fire and birthstone were never quiet
He knelt down to pray, and the profane
jests of that God-fejecting company in-
truded themselves upon his thoughts -
He retired to rest, and they haunted his
slumbers :.he awoke in the morning
they still fingered in his mind. Year
after year has passed away, but that
half hour in the company of the pro.
fame, the wicked, still exerts its injuri-
Gus influence upon the heart of that
young man 1t will never leave him.
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, It
will remain in his mind to the last day
of his life 1t may be forgotten for a
time, but, like the serpent concealed in
the bed of violets, it will again and
again come up to pollnte his best ard
dearest thoughts-to poison his sweet
est affections.
Ny dear young friends, particularly
boys, write this as your mo to on the
dy-leayes of your books, write it ON the
walls Of your rooms, write it in your
books, write it on your hearts: KEEP
OUT OF BAD COMPANY.
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EF Somebody says that if an editor
omits anything, be is lazy If he speaks
of things as they are, people are mad
II. he CLOSES over-smooths down the
rough points he is bribed II be calls
things by their proper name he is unfit
for the position Of an editor. II he
does not furnish his readers with jokes,
he is mullet. If he does he is rat
tlehead-lacking stability. If he con.
demns the wrong he is good fellow,
but lacks discretion. If he lets wrongs
and injuries go unmentioned, be is O
coward. If he fails to uphold a public
man, he does it to crafty spite-is Q
tool of a cliqne,or belongs to the 'outs.
If he INDUCES in personalities, he is Q
blackguard; if he does not, his paper is
insipid. " -