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Year: 1869

SCHOOL ExAMINATIoNs.-The semi-annual
examinations of the several Grammar schools
In this city took place yesterday, three having
been assigned to the morning-theP Park street
Fourth Grammar and West-and two to the
afternoon-the Bracket street and Center
Grammar. The three first named are for boys
and the other two for girls.


We have not been inside of public gram
mar school since the days when we used to
calculate the exact time it would take to run
from our home to the school-house before the
last stroke of the second bell until yesterday;
but, as far as the internal appearance of the
buildings was concerned, it seemed as if the
world had stood still in the mean time. But
here the comparison ends. The improvements
that have been introduced in discipline. the
thoroughness displayed by the pupils in their
acquaintance with their studies, the new
branches of instrumental music and map
drawing added since our day, all show the on


ward march of progress and prove the abilities
of the teachers employed.


Passing about from one school to anothor
we had no opportunity, of course, of compar-
ing them in the same studies, but each school
replied to the questions asked, as a general


thing, in bright, ready way, which shew ia
miliarity with the study under examination.
We think our Portland schools are entitled to
| rank with those of the same grade in any
other city. and we do not believe but what the


teachers will average little above


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Year: 1869

VELocPEDEs.-Anothe velocipede school
we see has been opened by a couple of enter
prisng young men in Union Hall. They find
they have about all they can do to look after
their many pupils.
Year: 1869

LET Us HAVE ONE MORE VETo.-There are
copper mines in Michigan-very extensive
copper mines and good ones. Butthe amount
Of capital invested in working them is limited
and their annual product not nearly sufficient
for the American demand. These mines have
always been well protected, but they are the
most irrepress'ble Oliver Twists of the CONT
nent They will have higher and higher du-
ties every year, and have Just succeeded in
getting an increase of the tariff on imported
metal through both houses of Congress. The
shipbuilding interest, already moribrnd, will
regard this measure, if successful, as verita-
Die coup de grace. There is only one hope
Sonnsons weakness for exercising the veto
power His vetoes have at some seasons fallen
hke autumn leaves about the capitol. They
have been, with the exception OF the t,rst We.
to OF the Freedmen's Bureau ana possible
one or two others, bad vetoes He has onIv
twenty-five days more of official life. and his
tenure of the much loved power of return
Ing with his objections" will be gone in three
short weeks. Why will he not make some
amends to the people for his past offences by
vetoing the copper tariff bill? If he would do
SO, the measure could not pass by two. thirds
vote, and Andrew could step from the White
House with the proud consciousness of having
done one good thing during his residence
there
Year: 1869

power are returned to it. This process is
going on in many of the Western States. -
The soil is treated like an inexaustible
mine; the tillers crying give, give, give
till in few years it will have nothing to
give. The boast of the West is, large
farms and large fields of grain; plough. SOW
and reap, is tho business of Western far
mers, drawing ont the very life of the soil,
sending away in the heavy exports that
are constantly going onward, without re-
turning to the soil the food it requires to
make it productive.


The light that is being spread abroad
on this subject is beginning to correct this
practice to some extent, but in most in
stances very little is returned to the soil
to keep it alive, till after several years of
continual cropping, it manifests signs of
exhaustion and ultimate barrenness. When
tlllers Of the soil understand their true
Interests, they will cultivate no more land
than they can do we'll. Fifty acres of land
for tillage, brought to high state of cnlti-
vation, pays better than one hundred run
over in the way that many do.


Jefferson Ftrn1cT
Year: 1869

A lady Of New Hartford has been trying
experiments in potato raising, planting
them with and without manure. Here is
tho result of her experience Our land is
course gravel. In 1867 we had Early
Junes planted without manure. About
ono half werc too small to use at all Last
spring Q86S) [ had the Same kind of pota
toes planted on tho same ground, putting
about half pint OF hen manure in each
hill, covered lightly with earth, laid the
cut potatoes on and covered them. Tho
result was n fine crop, and scarcely enough
small potatoes to be worth picking up,
while those planted contiguous without
manure, We're more than half OF them
small also tho Early Goodrich and Chill
wero scarcely worth digging.


We are in frequent receipt of statements
proving the value OF hen manure in the
growing Of various crops. Coal ashes,
which are generally worthless, may be
mixed with this manure, and will make IN
excellent compost for corn and other plant
ings Sif: the coal ashes under the roost,
or upon pile of the manure placed else
where. Ii in the henery, it will be likely
to prevent the hens from becoming lousy.
Year: 1869

For Gods sake do not tell him
Bancroft said a deep anguished
voice. HE deems me pure and
holy. Heavens! What a wretch
| am! My boy-my boyr and
Willie was clasped in his fathers
arms-'you have saved me from
earth's yilest hell Here, with my
hands on thy sinless brow, I prom
lse never again to touch the cup
I've drank SO deep. And my broth
ers III sin, as you value your soul S
salvation tempt ME not to break my
VOW. Help me, heaven-belp me
men, so to live, hereafter, that papa
may never blush to take his boy
along-that if papa goes there,
Willie may go too


Silently the door closed after
them, and silence dwelt III the sa-
loon behind them. The preacher
had been there in cherub form, and
crazy, loose, unholy though, or
light and ribald jest was hushed.
One by one they stole away, and
many wife wore smiles that night
nor did the old bartender even,
curse the little one that robbed him
of so many dimes. Too deeply in
his heart had sunk the voice of that
cherub preacher.


Don't you like me, papa? Are
you cross at me?' asked little Will
lie, while they stood few moments
on the pavement; for the scene in
the bar-room was an enigma to the
child, and he half feared a reproof.


I was thinking what mamma
would like best for SUPPER said the
father.


Was you? was you?, was the
eager question in gladstone voice
%, then 1 know you amt cross
| 0, get oysters and crackers and tea
papa; and a candle, because there
is only piece. And please paps
tell mamma not to be cross at me
cause I left the baby. / don't be.
lieve she will though, cause you
wouldn't perhaps have come home
yet, and she does love to have you
home SO much. Oh, I feel just like
crying, | feel so glad


And I feel like crying too, said
his father solemnly; and ere mid
night he did cry and his wife, but
they were holy tears, washing his
heart Of the dust that had gathered
on its beauty and hers Of the sor-
row that had draped it like pail.
Year: 1869

SOMETHING must be wrong with the
editor Of the Evansville Courier. Sew
eral numbers Of that paper have been
issued with not single editorial on
GRANT and Imperialism. The warm
weather may account for it. Surely
it is about time we had another dis
sertation on that fruitful theme.
Year: 1869

A FARMER In Ohio had thrifty
orchard, which blossomed freely but
bore no fruit. He washed twelve OF
the trees once a week with a strong
soapsuds, and was grRtihed by tine
harvest the subsequent season.
Year: 1869

MEAN VENGEANCE.-It seems that young
man has been turned out of place in the
mortar and pestle department of the govern
ment because he chose to marry the innocent
daughter of the unfortunate Mrs. Surratt.
This shows mean spirit of persecution on the
part of the government authorities not unlike
that which would not only have burnt poor old
John Rodgers, but his wife and seven small
children, with one at the breast, at the stake
on account Of the alleged heresy Of the father.
The American government should he above
such paltry meanness and worse than inquisi
torial persecution.
Year: 1869

WHEN THE Cats AWAY THE NICE Will.
PLAY.-It appears that while the Secretary OF
the Treasury was at the Boston Peace Jubilee,
certain information as to his financial inten-
tions few days ahead leaked out of the de-
partment and got into Wall street, whereby
certain inside operators turned an honest
penny or two very much to the disgust OF the
outsiders If the Secretary of the Treasury
canno: keep his financial secrets to himself he
ought to give them to the newspapers, which
practically will be the same thing.
Year: 1869

INSURANCE. has just been given
against two insurance companies in cases that
illustrate the nice objections these corporations
make to paying the money for which they
have become liable. Goods were insured in a
store running through from street to street,
but numbered only on the street on which was
the front entrance. On that street the house
was three stories high, on the other only two.
three stories high the companies argued that
they were only liable for the space 80 far back
as the three story part ran. AT this rate il
any part of a mans house is of different
height from the rest he must have separate in
aurance
Year: 1869

THE MAYOR declines to take part in the pro-
ceedngs of the Fire Commissioners, because
he conceives that local officers were given
seats in commissions to be made responsible
in part for what is done without power to con-
troll action. lie says, with 'sarkasm," ''It
was certainly very kind of the Legislature to
give the local authorities the onus of sharing
in the responsibility OF raising money which
they were neither TO audit nor to spend after
it was raised, and then to deny them any voice
in the discipline or government of the Fire
Board or i'm its doings
Year: 1869

GOVERNOR GEARY UP AGAIN.-The re-
publicans of Pennsylvania have renomi-
mated Governor Geary as their candidate for
Governor. He is the strongest man they
have. He carried the State on a very full
vote, in 1866, by twenty thousand majority.
The democrats will have to put up popular
man of progressive ideas, man who believes
that there has been q deluge and that the
democratic principles of 1860 are dead issues,
or they will be beaten again. The days Of
copperheadism came to an end last NOvem-
ber. But with proper candidate on the
living issues of the day the democrats may
recover Pennsylvania even against Geary by
a handsome majority. But if they try again
their old copperhead fight they will again be
swamped.
Year: 1869

The CRoToN WATER CAsE.-The case OF
Ballard against Gregory, the hotel keeper
charged with fouling one OF the sources of
the Croton river, was promptly determined on
Wednesday by the order commanding Gregory
to disconnect his gas houses and other sources
of impurity from the stream, and to keep them
so disconnected forever Apparently no
penalty is incurred for what has been done
hitherto, as the Court could not find that the
offence had been committed wilfully, the de-
fendant swearing that effort was made to dis
pose of the refuse in cesspools, and that the
matter only reached the stream in consequence
of crevasse in one of his ditch embankments.
Failure to keep the filth from the stream in the
future will, however, expose him to any
penalty proper for contempt Of the order.
Year: 1869

The last monthly report of the Agricultural
Bureau at Washington gives us an encouraging
exhibit of the crops of the present year, North
and South, and from various other sources we
have the same cheering reports. The wheat
crop of the whole country will be a magnii-
cent one, much the largest We expect, ever
raised in TIE United States. The great VAL
which is splendid yield but California, with
her fifty to sixty bushels to the acre, beats it
all hollow. Of rye, barley and oats an ample
general crop is fixed in the harvested or ripen-
ing fields. A large breadth of land South has
been planted in cotton, and Notwithstanding
the prevailing grumbling of 'a bad stand"
''too much wet" drowned out" "yellow
cast, ''army worm," &C., we shall most likely
have a full average crop on the area planted.
But we can learn nothing very definite about
it, however, till the cotton begins to como to
market; for it is the planters policy to keep
up the price till compelled to sell on the basis
of the supply. We do not blame the planter.
We merely suggest that all this grumbling
must be taken with liberal sprinkling OF salt.


OF the small fruits, berries and cherries the
general yield this year is something wonder
ful. The promise for the greatest and most
important crop of all, the Indian corn crop, is
upon the whole first rate, and SO of potatoes,


Irish and sweet, ''garden sass" and everything
else. Of the Northern hay crop, generally
surprising in cash value the Southern cotton
crop, we hear no complaints, from which we
infer the yield is something extra. We have,
in short, the fairest prospect for most glorious
yield throughout the Union of all the fruits OF
the earth this season. Let the people, then, OF
Europe who are turning their faces this way
come along We have room enough and bread
enough and work enough Tor all. Let the
Secretary of the Treasury rejoice and perse-
we're in his efforts to cut down the national
debt; for the debt is but bagatelle compared
with the wonderful resources of the country.
Our natural resources are greater than those
of all Europe; our debt is less than that OF
England.
Year: 1869

THE FRENCH CABLE.-The progress of the
work of laying the French transatlantic cable
is highly satisfactory. The Great Eastern was,
at the latest accounts, two hundred and ninety
three hundred and ten knots of the wire-a
demand of only sixteen knots for slack and
twist. The signals to the shore were perfect
and the weather delightful A most en-
couraging commencement of a great under
taking
Year: 1869

BETTER THAN THE PRESIDENCY. land
suit has just been decided in a Chicago court
by which Ex-Governor Seymour comes in for a
share of million of dollars. This is better
than the Presidency. Besides, while the
money is sure to make friends the Presidency
is sure to make enemies Hence a balance,
socially and morally speaking, in favor of
Seymour for not being elected President over
Grant.
Year: 1869

The DAILY HERALD will be sent to subscribers
for one dollar month.


The postage being only thirty-fve cents a
quarter country subscribers by this arrangement
furnished in the city.
Year: 1869

DoGs.-A committee of the Board OF Health
sensibly recommends that ''an ordinance be
prepared for the destruction Of all rowing, va
grant dogs. not in the custody Of master or
owner, roaming at large at all seasons OF the
year." If such an ordinance is made and
acted upon the cur population will be kept
down, and we shall not have it to annlhilate
every August.
Year: 1869

SMILE AGAIN, MY BONNIE LAssIE.-Some
of the republican papers are already beginning
to talk of Vice President Collax for the next
Presidency. With that winsome smile of his
Colfax ought to win his way anywhere
Year: 1869

THE PEOPLE do not forget the obligations OF
the country to the soldiers-as we may see in
the fact that the republican party in Ohio de-
clares in its platform that it is in favor of the
establishment of Soldiers Orphans Home.
Party promise indicates the direction of popu-
lar PURPOSE
Year: 1869

the homadic tribes Of Central Africa sllfpass
anything done by the celebrated runners and
walkers Of otherraces. When they carry Gov
ernrnent dispatches they run for days with
out sleep. In order t. keep the chest free
they seize with both hands the ends of stick.
which they place horiz 3ntally behind their
neck. Their stock of provisions consists of a
few dozen dates, and their whole costume of
pair of trowsers; perhaps they also carry
pair of sandals, which they put on when the
sand OF the desert becomes too hot to bear
Onthe way they lose as little time as possible.
When they are out of breath they stop, count


up to sixty inspirations, and continue the


journey. They sleep only two or three hours


out OF the twenty-four; and, in order not to
oversleep themselves, they tie rope of date
bark to one foot and set iton fire. They


know exactly how long it viii, burn, and
when it reaches the foot The pain makes them
jump up, and off they go once more upon
their GRAND. gi.a5ss .1aaf54s8 sss.s y =
Year: 1869

BREvET MAJOR GENERAL Albert Ames ha
been assigned to the command Of the Fourth
Military District, according to his brevet rank.
Brevet Lieutenan Colonel Biddle is ordered to
report to General Ames Tor duty
Year: 1869

THERE WAS pretty heavy discharge Of EN-.
ployees il the House folding room yesterday
some thirteen persons getting yellow covers. ~
The discharge is probably on account of the
diminution Of work in that department.
Year: 1869

JUDGE HoAR, Of Massachusetts, took the
usual oath Of Office as Attorney General of the
United States at the Executive Mansion to-
day; and il expected that he will enter upon
the discharge of his duties tomorrow morn
ing
Year: 1869

THk MEMBERS OF President Grants late mill
tary staff have raised fund for and are erect


ing q monument to Gen. Grants late adjutant
who was killed by railroad accident some
two years ago on the Hudson River railroad


The monument will be erected at West Point.
Year: 1869

On DREssINd.-A friend in South
Carolina writes OF little favorite, Helen,
who lately being much interested in her
dolls wardrobe, wished her to tell some
stories about dressing II intend my
little doll shall be a nice young lady like
you" she said, which meant among other
things that dolly was to be prettily dress,
ed. The teacher proceeded to tell the
story of mother Eyes costume, and Of
its being unnecessary for her to wear any
clothing until after the fall by sin. Hell.
en- looked in utter astonishment at the
new dress she vas arranging for dolly, as
the teacher gave the narrative, and al
last dropping the tiny garment she held
at the thought that it might have been
no use had Adam not disobeyed, she said
I'm real glad he sinned, amt you, Miss
Sarah Z"


A hat manufacturer claims for himseli
the title Of Universal Sympathizer" be
cauen bn eapg In has fill far every nna
Year: 1869

HOARD THE MrNUTEs.-Try what
you can make Of the broken fragments
of time. Clean up its golden dust
those raspings and parings Of precious
duration, those leavings Of Gays and
remnant hours which SO many sweep
out into the waste existence. Perhaps,
If you be miser Of moments. if you
be frugal and hoard up old minutes and
half hours and unexpected holidays,
your careful cleaning may exc out
long End useful life, and you may die
at last, richer in existence than multi
ludeo whose time is all their own.
Year: 1869

The following instructions for
the cultivation of sorghum have
been furnished us by Messrs. Lew.
is Wilhelm & johnson, Of this
city, and will be of great interest
to persons who contemplate the
cultiN alton Of sorghum this year.
There lis no longer any doubt of
the fact that sugar can be made
successfully and profi,ably by the
new process, and We advise farm.
ers to give the following q careful
perusal:


When we assert that a superior
article of sirup and a fair article
of sugar can be made from sor-
ghum canes we know that we have
all kinds of prejudices and objec-
tiohs to meet. We can only meet
these objections and overcome
these prejudices by the assistance
OF farmers who are willing to give
sorghum far trial. TO do this
they must begin by procuring and
planting pure seed. This fact
need not be urged upon those who
have planted pure seed and made
a gallon Of fine sirup to tour or
five gallons of green Juice, while
it takes from seven to ten gallons
of juice Of hybridized canes to
make one gallon Of very ordinary
sirup. There is no other remedy
for this falling off than the plant
ing pure, well maturcd seed. In
order to procure good seed the
cane must he carefully cultivated
for the seed alone, and not for the
sirup, by allowing the seed to ma
ture and dry on the stalk in the
field. .".s b.. ...-.


A year ago we paid as high as
sixty five cents per pound for seed
to distribute gratuitously to farm
ers. Last summer we had the
seed cultivated by careful farmers.
We are prepared to fill orders for
pure seed at cost price. We do
this, hoping to remove the prciu.
dices and make the cultivation Of
sorghum success. .'..


In planting, we. advise farmers
to avoid, as mnch as possible,
black, mucky soils if planted up.
on bottom lands at all, it should
be dry, sandy soil. Very rich
soil of any kind is not favorable
to the production of light sirurs.
Good land, not foul with weeds,
should be planted in drills. As
much Of the cane should be al
Year: 1869

the fathers to understand these new
doctrines but to me it does seem as
if we were cutting loose from every
thing like constitutional law and the
first principles of fairness in the ad-
ministration of the Government. /
oppose this proposition, sir; and
though I know my opposition will
be wholly useless, | know that my
duty requires me not simply to vote
against it, but to utter my protest,
however feeble and Intellectual it may
be.
Year: 1869

would impress upon advertisers the


necessity OF presenting their sdver-
tisements for the Cartoon papers three
days In advance, to secure insertion.
In the general issue II is also neces.


sarv to present advertisements on the


afternoon preceding the issue OF the
edition for which they are intended
Year: 1869

The water in the Mohawk river is falling rapidly.
The Central Railroad trains are moving cautiously
through the water. The tracks appear to be slightly
damaged and It is expected that the trains will run
regularly tomorrow.