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Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-01
Crushed In the Ice.

Spring navigation on the Hudson rlV-
er has its excitements if not its horrors.
The propeller Nuhpa left Hudson for
New York with load of freight and
some thirty passengers. She crashed
through the ice in safety, and, though
going slowly, passed through the OBJ
structions with comparative ease, not
having to stop once till she reached a
point little south of Barrytown at two
o'clock in the morning. At this hour
all the passengers had retired to rest,
several of them occupying berths in the
cabin below the main deck and the bal
ance in state rooms which lined the up
per saloon. Suddenly the steamer came
to o dead stop in the centre OF a huge
field of ice. Backing out she ran into
it again, but did not make much head
way. The next time she went in, the
ice broke away on each shore, and the
action of the tide forced the heavy fields
from the west and from the east against
the Nuhpa, holding her as if in wise,
and cuttinga hole, all of two feetsquare,
in her hull, just astern OF midships on
the starboard side.
The passengers were told the boat
was sinking, and hurried on deck, and
the women and children were ordered
into o boat, as the propeller was sink
ing. Through some misunderstanding
the bow was lowered much faster than
the stern, and suddenly the tackling
broke and the boat with its occupants
fell to the water, one or two OF the Ia
dies and one child being hurled into the
river. This created wild scene, and it
was feared several would be drowned.
Fortunate the boat on the port side had
already been lowered, and into itsprang
two or three of the crew, who pulled 1t
to the starboard side, where the women
were fast drowning. After superhuman
exertion on the part of the crew the wo-
men were rescued. In q few moments
all had got into the boats, and now the
question of reaching land in safety was
a serious one. A few Of the more cour-
ageous us soon as heavy ice was reached,
stepped from the boat on it and CROPPED
their way ashore, dragging boat over
the ice along with them. Another par
ty started to do the same thing, taking
the ladies with them, one of the men
carrying long ioist. When within
about one hundred feet of the shore the
ice in front of them suddenly cracked
and moved, leaving a chasm ten feet
wide directly in their pathway. This
was a new danger, and again the unfor-
tunate passengers were panic-stricken,
and one of the ladies tainted. The man
with a ioist threw it across the chasm,
and, taking the swooning lady in his
arms, walked across the water on the
joist, reaching the shore in safety. The
balance followed, and all except one
man got across nicely. He fell in up to
his neck, but got out 'gain all right. 1t
was a narrow escape for the passengers
and crew. The boat, of course, sank.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-01
Burned to Death.

Mr.. Henry Peters, farmer, lived in
a comfortable log house in Gross Point,
Mich. His family consisted of wife
and four daughters, the eldest OF the
latter being only fifteen years of age.
On Friday evening, in company with his
wife, he went to neighbor's house to
attend a "barn raising" a meeting
which combines industry and pleasure,
leaving these four girls at heme. The
night was spent very pleasantly, and
Mr.. Peters and his wife remained until
a late hour, little thinking what a ter
rible fate had fallen upon their child
rem.
When they returned home they found,
where their house had been, a heap OF
blackened ruins. Their Oldest daugh-
ter, who, after anxious searching, was
found in the neighborhood almost dead
with fright and seriously burned, told
them that at about eleven o'clock ut
night, after all the children had been
abed and asleep for some time, she was
awakened by great heat, and, opening
her ewes, discovered the bed and the
room enveloped in flames. She sprang
from the bed, dragging one OF her Sis
ters with her, and made her way through
the smoke and flames as best she could,
to the nearest window.
Before she reached the window her
Younger sister tainted with pain and
terror, and she was unable to save her.
She clung to the clothing of her dying
sister, which, in her efforts to drag her
from the flame-enveloped house, were
torn from her body. She leaped out OF
the window blinded and exhausted, and
could only stand horror-stricken outside
as the pitiless tongues of flame Tapped
up the dry timbers of the house, and
made an impossible barrier to her re.
turn. The three children were burned
almost to q cinder, scarcely enough OF
their bodies remaining to identify them
from the rest of the debris.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-01
The Ludicrous in Patents.

The amount of misapplied talents en-
gagged on inventions that can never be
used is as wonderful as it is prolific,
and there is ludicrous element in
many of the patents, and more OF the
applications, which is well worth inves-
tieation. We extract from the Patent
Office an account of some of these, that
show more genius than common-sense,
and have produced more laughter than
profit.
A gentleman applied for patent for
heating canals by steam, 80 that boat
ing could go on in winter as well as in
summer. The officer decided that this
invention was worthy of protection, and
gave him his patent
Another applied for combination OF
clock and bed, so ingenionsly contrived
that, when the clock struck, the bottom
of the bed dropped out. He claimed
that this plan would probably awake
the sleepers.
Speaking OF combination, he must
have come from Missouri or Kansas
who asked for patent combination of
cannon and plough. For this purpose
he filed three applications, making the
elongated handles of the plough hollow
so as to form two cannons. These were
to be kept loaded till the guerrillas
were after him the cannons were to be
fired, the guerrillas shot down, and
the farmer to go on his ploughing way
rejoicing.
And he, too, must have came from
the borders who asked for a patent OF q
combination of trunk and house. The
trunk was made with triple sides, NOV
ing up and down. Doing duty all day
in guarding clothes, when night came
on, and no cabin near, the goods were
to be taken out, the triple wall elevated
into one, and the benighted traveller
safely housed.
Another asked for patent for the in
vention OF the generation of steam by
boring hole in the ground till he
reached the waters that are boiled by
the eternal fires Of earth. He set forth,
among the advantages of his plan, that
there would be no danger of explosions,
no expense for fuel, no necessity for en-
gineers - all of which statements are
undoubtedly true.
1t must have been a relative of this
last gentleman, and one equally ac-
quainted with the laws that govern
the hidden heart of this planet, who ap-
piled for a patent for boring the earth
for artesian wells for purposes of irri-
CATION. He gravely set forth that he
had made the discovery that quicksilver
was heavier than common earth. He
therefore proposed to start hole, and
empty into it little mercury. By the
laws of nature that mercury would be
sure to work its way downward till it
struck water, and the water would then
be sure to work its way upward till it
struck air.
All of these gentlemen paid $35 each
for their paten. papers, and some OF
them even more than this sum. So
they must have applied in sober earnest.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-01
The Chinese Labor Experiment.

The New York Bulletin has somevery
interesting developments relative to the
failure of the Oriental workmen in New
Jersey, which will disappoint the be-
levers in the coming millennium of Chi
nese labor.
In spite of his apparent docility (ac-
cording to this testimony he manifests
a lamentable proclivity for the highest
wages going, and to check this tendency
a system of isolation and seclusion from
outside influences is necessary. Intel
ligent white men are disgusted at their
keenness in making bargain and the
growing difficulty of overreaching them
is is matter of general complaint. The
meek, almond-eyed strangers who were
lately glad to work for little or nothing,
demand the highest wages when they
have learned the trade. But there is
this difference between them and other
workmen. If their demands are re-
fused they do not sit down and starve
in idleness. They generally start on
their own account next door to their old
employer, and draw off his customers
by underselling him in his own special
ty. He is apt to be excess
ively fond of smoking opium, and, like
his betters, gets lazy, and disposed to
take his day off" as often as possible:
He is avaricious, too, to degree, and
is by no means a model of honesty.
Many of the force at Belleville have de-
serted nor have they gone away empty
handed, having left debts to quite large
sums behind them even, in some cases,
having borrowed money from their fel-
low countrymen, which has not been
repaid.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-01

She slipped her hand into his arm
with the old caressing movement he re
membered so well, and spoke so gently
using his name for the first time since
he came.
"But, Lennox, dear, if you go away
off somewhere, what shall I do ?"
He turned suddenly and caught hel
to his heart.
"Oh, Mary, Mary" cried he pas
sionately, eff you would only come
back to me and love me; if could re-
cover my lost treasure I would not &c
anywhere. Oh, my lost love, is it toe
late? ?"
She laid her face down against his
shoulder and asked, "Lennox, dear,
tell me which you love best, the Mary you
used to know or the fashionable young
lady you found here ?"
"Oh, Mary, darling !" he cried, clasp
ing her closer, 81 wouldn't give one
precious toss of your old brown curls
for ali the fashionable young ladies in
the world. wouldn't give one careless
ring of your laugh for all the polished
ladies in society,""
Mary laid her arms caressingly around
his neck, and said softly, "Then ]
think you will have to take your old
Mary back again, and pet her and love
her as you used to do; for I am sick
and tired of the fashionable young lady
as you can be, Lenno1, dear"
And Lennox. passionately clasping
her to him, begged to be forgiven, and
vowed he would not exchange his pre-
cious little wild rose for all the hot
house flowers in Christendom.
"Laura" Lennox called, tapping on
Laura's door little later.
"Well," answered Laura.
"You needn't write your note. /
shan't go to town tonight.
"Lennox, I never saw such fellow to
fancies I" cried Laura. care you
crazy ?"
"No; I have been, but I am coming
to my Senses" said Lennox.
Lennox and Mary have been sedate
married people several years, but l new
er heard that Lennox complained in the
least of his wife's want of convention
ality, or even wished to pursue the ac-
quaintance of the fashionable young
lady whom he met at Scarborough.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-01
VOL. III. NO. 80.
Thy Roses.

The splendor Of thy roses fills
The silence Of my lonely room;
But something in their beauty thrills
More than the brightness Of their bloom.
'Tis this: thy dear hand gathered them,
And grouped their loveliness for me.
In every rose whose leaves kiss,
The wonder Of thy love see.
Two, rising fair above the rest,
Together seem to breathe apart,
And one Of these, supremely blest,
Lies on the others royal heart.
Oh, thus it is with thee and me:
From all the crowded world apart,
NY all Of lfe-love's ecstasy
only know it through thy heart.
Ny rose of men, the lesser flower
Cast not from out thy larger heart;
Enough il in her waning hour,
She may but perish where thou art.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-01

CoNv1ors PER1sHED.-Some days ago
the schooner Lark sailed from San
Diego, Cal, for Eusendas. Among the
passengers were six convicted murder
ers, to be taken to La Paz, Lower Cali
fornia. The bodies of the felons have
been found washed ashore, and chained
together. Pieces of wreck have been
picked up near where the bodies were
discovered, and it is inferred that the
vessel was lost with all hands.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-01

No man can improve in any company
for which he has not respect enough to
be under some degree Of restraint.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-01

All available troops are being sent to
the Mexican frontier. Five thousand
troops are now there.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-01
Capt. Williams's Misery.

Why the Coal Ran Short--A "too-confi-
dent, Commandcr--Fatal Disregard
OF Orders. Second Officer Metcalfs
Character---Quarterm Thomas's
Prctensions--The Fate OF tho Women
.-One More Body Recovered.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-01-08
Care of Stock In Winter.

A man who expects bis cows to give a
large quantity of rich milk during the win
ter, must see the reasonabeness of the de-
mand for warm stable, as we'll as rich
and nutritious food. The animals must
also have plenty Of water, and it is not
economy 10 compel them to 60 half mile
or more through snow banks, and in the
coolest weather, to procure it. If water
cannot be brought directly into the barn
yard from spring or brook, then a well
should be dug or large cistern made that
will furnish full supply. Ia stormy,
cold weather, water should be supplied to
animals in the stables, for it is far better
that they should remain in their warm
quarters without exercise than to be turned
out into the cold, and there fill themselves
with ice water. Exercise is certainly nee
essary to the health of the animal, but not
half so essential as protection from cold
storms.
If man cannot afford to erect stables
and sheds for his stock, he certainly cannot
afford to keep any, and, therefore, should
dispose OF them at once TO some one who
can. If man has only two COWS, and
thinks he is too poor to give them proper
care, he should sell one and spend tn,
money in taking care of the other. Thil
rule should be practicod with those who
keep stock op a more extensive scale anC
If no better plan can be devised, sell por
ton Of the food laid up for the winter ant
use the money received therefrom in max
ing the stables warmer, for ii is well know
that the animals will subsist on less foo,
in comfortable quarters than when exposed
to cold and without shelter.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-01-08

been cultivated for centuries, need great
amount Of actual clearing--not tho remov.
al Of timber, which on the contrary re-.
quires cultivation and renewal-but in the
way Of removing brush and rubbish Of va.
rious kinds. The adornmcnt Of farms by
the removal of blcmshcs has been greatly
neglected in the pressing struggle for i'm.
mediate returns. But it is not at all I'M
worthy Of any farmer to have m eye to
tho general appearance Of his land and
buildings and fences
If he has not taste to admire these
things himself land any one who has not
should be ashamed of it), he will dnd it to
his account, when he comes to sell, TO have
looked after them. No one in buying over.
looks the general aspect Of the farm. This
strikes the eye at once, aud so affects the
price. Every one, too, should have regard
to the claims Of good neighborhood, aud
should feel it his duty to crafty public
taste by such improvements and adorb.
ments as strike the eyes even Of the pass.
ers by.
But beneath the surface there is a work to
be done constantly, 10 bringing the soil aud
every part Of the farm up to higher de-
gree Of fertility from year to year. II
cannot all be done at once but it should
all be DONE and it may be done by devot-
ing special attention and labor aud expense.
now to this portion and now to that, aud by
degrees going through the whole.
This month Of January is the very month
in which to begin the work Of improve
ments. The first part Of the process is to
have a plan which shall reach through the
year and into future years, aud just at this
season every farmer has moro or less lcis.
ure which he can proftably devote to
general supervision Of his farm, study Of
its needs and capabilities, aud to a system.
attic arrangement Of the work that is to be
done when the season for more active work
shall open Nothing is wanting on farms
in general more than system--a settled
plan, covering the farm and covering the
year. Now is the time to arrange it, and
so to begin the work Of universal improve
ment
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-01-08
Do Your Best.

Sable Uncle Ben" used to say, when
exhorted to do any piece of work well,
!" Ill do my level best, Missus." And you
could rely on Ben TO make the effort, some
times, however, with more zeal than knowl-
edge. Yet if every boy should try as hard
to do his best, we should not have so many
loose-jointed, shaky-lookiog, inefficient men
about. They grew up without forming the
habit of doing what they did iceH and
the consequence is that their life.work gen.
orally has been half done. There are hun.
dreds OF shiftless men 10 the community
who do not drink or even use tobacco they
are simply what the Yankees call "do-ess. !"
That is bad enough for them and their poor
families, for it rarely occurs that such peo-
pie are alone in the world. They must
marry to get some one to take care Of them.
Boys, if you are only husking corn, do
your level best" Thread by thread the
strong cable rope Of habit is formed. Ey-
cry little thing you do well helps to form
the habit of doing things well-helps to
make more prosperous aud respectable
man In the world. The inefficient sort are
the jcer Of the youth who grew up with
them, and come finally in maturer life 10
be looked upon with sort of compassion
by their more successful neighbors. They
are "pitied,' and regarded generally with
feeling not far removed from contempt by
the majority of those who know them
Who would like 10 look forward to such .
futuref Who does not desire to win re
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-01-08

| have seen many smart women, women
with tact and system and order, and the
conveuiences and modern improvements for
dairy work ; but | never saw one pair Of
hands that in ten hours could do the baking,
washing, ironing, needing, getting three
meals, washing, combing and keeping chill
dren prcsentable, drying corn, picking Der.
RIGS putting up fruit aud making pickles
for winter, cleaning house, making soap,
carpets and bedding, going to the village
on errands, entertaining company, visiting,
sewing and knitting, and finding an hour
or two each evening. after the children are
in bed, for reading aud conversation. No.!
II. II. it must be an ideal woman of
whom you speak 1t can't be done
Mrs. w. r. u.
Phelps, ~ Y, Nor, 1872
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-01-08
Improve your Farms and Farming

Every agriculturist, however large or
small the domain which he has to till, or Of
which he has the oversight ought to resolve
every year to make a decided advance in
his farming aud in the value and appear
ance Of his farm. The idea of merely dig.
giug a living out of the ground, without
any regard to the manner in which it is
done, or the state in which the soil is left
after each successive crop, or the real and
market value Of the ground, is beneath an
intelligent being. There is nothing that We
do, or with which we have to do, that Il
not susceptible Of improvement and il
should be the ambition Of every one, what,
ever his business, aud not least, of every
one who is engaged in the ancient and hon
orable occupation Of farming, to be con
stantly improving upon the past in III,
work Of tho present and future. Coco
taste, duty 10 society and sefintercst, al
combine in squirting him on in the march
Of progress.
The farms Of this country very general
ly, unlike those Of old countries which hav,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-01-08
Xdtertts
VT. CENTRAL RAILROAD LINE
WINTER ARRANGEMENT


Leave Montpelier At $3.50 o. m 2.ls p. m. La D. N.
Mail Train leaves Ogicnsburg At G.o p. M. 81 Al
bans at 6Ai - M, connecting At white River juno
ter, &c. az White River Junction with trains on tho
passumpsIc Railroad atsoui Vernon for Springfield,
and New york. at Now London with steamers for
bay Express leaves Montreal NJ loa. M, st. Johns
ct lOO0 a. M, Ogdcnshurlh at 20 o. IN. Plattsbufgh
ut 80 a. IN, st. Albans at 1901 m, arriving in
Bostonva Lowell at iOUOp. m.
Night Express Leaves Ogdensburg at 1900 m. patts-
fs0p M 81 Xl6ans az 10 D. H. " cospcstne At
White River Junction and Bellows Falls with trains
$50 atsouth Vernon with trains Tor Springfield
and New York, arriving IN New York at l2.'u D. M,
New London nj il.O'a. tn.
TRAINS GOING NORrH AND NEST.
Leave Montpelier at 9.3l.a. to-, 7i5 a. m 40 aud
Day Express leaves Boston VIA Lowell at ZOO o. M.
ior burlington, st. Adams, Montreal, &C., arriving Ia
Montreal NJ gl5 p M, and 0Edensburg at l45a. M
Mail riain Tor burlington and ST. Adams leaves
BOSTON via Lowell at ZOO "a. M via Lawrence and
iitohhurg 90 4l q. NJ, Springfield OF $40 M, New
London vt son a. m, South Vernon ut 3d. % a. mo- Bel
lows Fails Has p. m, White River junction 20 =. M,
arriving In ~. Adams NJ p.2i d. mn.
Trains leaving Boston via fiichhureh at 73n n. M,
aud Springfield ut $40 a. M. connect no White River
Junction with Day Express unm.
Accommodation Tram leaves Northnold az 30 n. M
Rot ana 40 700 Il. M, lurulfon 90 900 o. me- ST. Al
bans az llul ., arriving in osHenalurg 90 tl0p. no..
Night Express leaves New London at $40 p. M,
South Vernon at g5s .. IN receiving passengers from
Connecticut River Railroad, leaving New York ut
BOO b. M, Springfield 90 m,i Bellows Fails u 20
p, u., connecting with train over Cheshire Railroad,
leaving Boston AZ 5iu ,. mr., connecting Mt White
River Junction with train leaving Boston at6uOp. m,
Tor Burlington. So Adams Montreal &C.. arriving In
Montreal 40 945 IN, Pinttshurgh 90 a. M, ana "a
Ogdcushurgh 90 ~ ii J.. no.. connecting with Grand
Trunk Railway for the West.
sleeping cars are attached 10 night Express Trains
running between Montreal and Rosion and Montreal
ami HprIur lold. and Sc. Adams and Troy
Drawing Room Cars on day Express Trains &C.
tween Montreal and Boston
Through tickets fof Chicago nnd the Wost for sale
40 the principal stations.
q. MERRILL. GmuH superintendent
st. Alhluf December O. ls-4.