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Year: 1869

An important case to stock brokers
was decid, d in the New York Court o.
Appeals, Monday. The substance o
the decision is that a broker who sell:
out hi. customers stock after his mar
gin is gone, hut without giving hin
notice of the time and place Of the sale
is liable to the customer for the highest
price of the stock down to the time o
trial, because the customer owned The
stock and the act of the broker is {
wrongful commission. This was tes


case selected by the Board Of Brokers
Year: 1869

prayer.


A gentleman who is now resident of
East Boston states that after an unsuc-
cessful svjourn in California of several
years, he took passage in q bark bound
to New York. She touched at Panama
for provisions and water, and having
procured these her. Captain proposed to
sail the next day. That evening the
gentleman wrote letters to his friends
stating that he might be expected home
in three months. At the usual time he
retired to bed and fell asleep, but about
an hour afterwards found himself on
deck fully dressed. He was somewhat
startled, but attribnting it to a int OF
somnambuliSm, after taking turn or
two to fore and aft, and exchanging
few remarks with the man
who hal the anchor watch, again un-
dressed and went to bed. lmaging his
surprise when he again found himself
on deck, dressed as before. Thrice he
went to bed, and thrice he found himself
oa deck. AS be had never before expe-
rienced auy kind of somnambulism, and
wa, an uncompromising teetotaler, he
began to reflect whether there was not
something supernatural in this new and
strange eX perlence; and he Immediately
made up his mind that he would not
proceed in the vessel, but go across the
Isthmus of Panama. With this thought
in his mind he turned in the fourth
time, and dreamed that he had decided
rightly. Much to the regret of the Cap.
tain, who had been very kind to him,
aud who expressed an ardent desire
to enjoy his company, he left the
vessel and arrived at homo in
safety. A few months later he
learned from the newspapers that the
bark had been captured by pirates IN
the Straits of Magellan, and that all
hands but one boy had been murdered
by pirates. The boy concealed himself
below while the pirates were killing
the rest of the crew, and after under
going great peril, succeeded in reaching
Valparaiso. This led the gentleman to
recur to the date of his experience on
board of the vessel at Panama, and af-
ter relating the story to his parents,
they told. him that in company with
some pious friends they had made him
the subject of special prayer that very
evening, and they regarded his leaving
the vessel and his return home as an
answer to their PRAYER.
Year: 1869

without any special complaint, except grad
ual declination of bodily strength and nervous
energy, will find in the TONIC A FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDEYIG0R AS RE
FRESHING AND EXT HILERATING As
A POOL IN 1HE DESERT TO THE SAND
SCORCHED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER
Year: 1869

leglslation? Unless the psrty has lead.
ers competent and courageous enough tc
do this, 1t Is likely to be ruined, to fall
into general disgrace, before the admin
istratlon OF Grant Is half over.


It IL not enough that the attempts OF
the monopolists to increase the burdens
they lay on the psople shall be defeated.
1t Is necessary that some influential party
leaders shall push through with might
and main legislation reducing the odious
protective" taxes, relieving the people
of the oppression under which they lie,
breaking up these monopolies which
make living dear and the lsborer's and
mechanics life hard, and denouneing as
every scheme which
looks to support from the treasury, and
as the enemy OF the Republican party
every one who brings forward or faVors
such scheme. That Is the way to save
the Republican party. Who will do It?
Year: 1869

The demsn for money in New York yes:er-
day was active throughout the day and quite
pressing towards the close Of hank hours. tn,
new business was generally at per cent and
the bank and private money lenders were all
disposed to insist strongly on the legal rate. Il
was stated on the street that the Broadway
maturing obligations of the CITY. The turn of
the market towards activity and higher rates OF
interest, gave rise to fear that New York Is
gradually drifting into that stringency which
leading city of the Union. There Is a very pres
sing-demand for discounts both at bank and on
the street. The banks are discounting for their
customers quite sparingly and on the street
prime to good business notes range from IL to %
per cent.
Year: 1869

To CLEAN PAINT.-There is a very simple
method to clean paint that has become dirty,
and if our housewives should adopt it, it would
save them a great deal Of trouble. Provide a
plate with some of the best whiting to be had,
and have ready some clean warm water and a
piece Of flannel, which dip into the water and
squeeze nearly dry; then take as much whiting
as will adhere to it, apply it to the painted sur
face, when a little rubbing will Instantly re-
move any dirt or grease. After which, wash the
part well with clean water, rubbing it dry with
a soft cham0is. Paint thus cleaned looks as
well as when first laid on, without any injury to
the most delicate colors. 1t is far better than
using soap, and does not require more than half
the time and labor.-C0dckmaker's Journal.
Year: 1869

Having at this late date made arrangements for manufacturing
limited supply Of these machines desire every farmer in this
and adjoining counties know that while one left he
should avail himself Of the first opportunity give his order
one, for truly lucky he who secures


FOR $66 A SEEDER AND CULTIVATOR
Equal TO- If not superior to most of the S75 machines
1t is Good Sower and superb Cultivator, Sec


ond to none,
With lever in front for riding and walking
The shove be adjusted three angles There po
y Of breaking the machine by hchng roots
frozen ground. All Kinds Of Grain can be sown accu-
rately in Windy a. well as Mild Weather. Be sure
call at the Wig Wam and examine this machine before you
Buy the Champion of Iowa and your money


RANSOM BARTLE. z
Jan. 9Th, 1869. [2s-3m]
Year: 1869

GET MARRIED.-Youag nan-youug lady
why do you remain single-why not marry
somebody and commence TO shape n Path
through life-commence to live. If you cam
not lust secure the first dream of your life,
why weep and waste your best days in regret
ting over your fate Marry at ouce-don't
be afraid = every home may be made an Eden
of bliss, even if your frs, love dream has been
blighted. Boys and girls take our advice
marry at once-pitch yourselves head long
into mltrimony-give the Spirit an item in
way of marriage notice, and make yourselves
generally useful, then if you are not real happy
two years after when you have one youpgster
commencing to walk and another screaming
thunder in the cradle, we will acknowledge
our advice n bad one, and rePublish your
wedding each year in future, with whole
column of EXCUSES.
Year: 1869

A PooR MAN.-The editor of the jersey
vile Journal, in an address to the citizens Of
the Great West, remarks that the man Whois
too poor to take paper is too poor to take
wife, own a horse, or single acre Of land,
and should quit the farm and hire himself out
as a team driver, or 10 some man who, having
intelligence and sense, can direct him aud
make his labor profitable. As an illustration,
he who is too poor to take paper has horse
or COW taken sick he is at loss to know what
to do; sharp neighbor comes along and
offers him receipt for five or ten dollars,
warranted to cure he purchases and curss
the animal and thinks the receipt cheap, but
does not realize that the man from whom be
purchased it got it out Of his paper, and
probably has hundreds Of others which, with
other valuable matter, only cost him three
dollars
Year: 1869

The cook of French nobleman, whose
chateau IS In the south of France, had mon,
key which was allowed-th free range of the
kitchen, and which was so intelligent that By
severe training its natural propensity to mis-
chief had been subdued, aud it was even
taught to perform certain useful services,
such as pluckirg fowls, for instance, at which
it was uncommonly expert, One fne mOruS
ing pair of partriages was given to 1t to
pluck. The monkey took them to an open
window of the Kitchen, which looked directly
upon the park. and went to work with great
diligence. He soon finished one, which he
laid on the outer ledge of the window, and
then went quietly on with the other. A
hawk, which had been Watching his proceed
ings from a neighboriug tree, darted down
upon the plucked partridge. and In minute
was up in the tisa again, greedily devouring
his prey.


The CONSERVATION oil 'tle monkey at this
uutoward adventure may be easily imagioned.
He knew he should be severely whipped for
loosinS it. lie hoped about in great distress
for some minutes, when suddenly bright
thought struck him. Seiziug the remaining
partridge, he went to work with great energy,
and stripped off the feathers. He then laid
it on the ledge, just where he had placed the
other, and closing one of the shutters, conceal
ed himself Behind it. The hawk, which by
this time had finished his meal, very soon
swooped down upon the partridge but hardly
had his claw touched the bird, when tho
monkey sprung upon him from behind the
shutter The hawks head was Instantly
wrung, and the monkey, with triumphant
chuckle, proceeded to strip off the feathers.


This doue, he carried the two picked fowh
to his master with confident and self-satis-
fed air, which seemed to say, Here are two
birds, sir-just what you gave me"


What the cook said, on finding one of the
cartridges converted into hawk, is more than
we are able to tell.-,So. Home Journal
Year: 1869

STOPPING A NEwsPAPER-An exchange
has the following a!legory, which we commend
to careful consideration


a certain man hit his toe againsta pebbls,
and fell headlong to the ground. He was
vexed, and, under the influence Of anger and
self-suf6ciency, he kicked mother earth quito
saucily. With thimperturbable gravity he looked
to see. the earth dissolve and come to naught.
But the earth remained. and only his poor foot
was injured in the encounter. This is the
way of man. An article in a newspaper
touches him in a weak spot, and forthwith ho
sends to stop his paper. With great COM
placency he looks to see the crash, when he
inds he only hit his own toe against world
that does not perpetually feel the shock, and
iniures no one but himself
Year: 1869

BY LUCY LARcoM.
When for me the silent oar


Parts the Silent River,
And stand upon the shore


OF the strange Forever,
Shall miss the loved and known.
Shall / vainly seek mine own?
Mid the crowds that come to meet
Spirits sim forgiven
Listening to the echoing feet


Down the streets of heaven
Shall know footstep near
That listen, wait for here?
Then will one approach the brink


With hand extended,
One whose thoughts love to think
Ere the veil was rended,
Saving, "Welcomei we have died,
And again are side by side"
Saying, ''I viii go with thee,
That thou be not lonely,
To yon hills of mystery:
q have waited only
Until now to climb with thee
Yonder hills of mystery"
Can tSe 6onds that make us here
Know ourselves immortal
Drop away. ike foliage scar,
AT iife's inner pottal'
What is holiesf below
Must forever live and glow.
shall love the angels we'll.


After have found them
In the mansions where they dwell,


With the glory round them.
But at fret, without surprise,
Let me look in human eyes.
Step by step our feet must go


Up the holy mountaini
Drop by drop within US flow


Lies unfailing fountain.
Angcls sing with crowns that burn;
We shall have song to learn.
He who on our earthly path
Bids US help each other
Who Ills Well Beloved hath


Made our Elder Brother
Willbut clasp the chain of love


Closer when we meet above.
Therefore dread I not to go


O'er the Silent River,
Death. thy fastening oar know;


Bear me ttou Life giyer,
Through the waters, to the shore
Where mine own have gone before!
Year: 1869

GIVE Your CHILD a LOCAL PAPER.-A
child beginning to read becomes delighted
with newspaper, because he reads the names
of persons and things which are very familiar,
and will make progress accordingly. A news
paper in one year is worth quarters school,
ing to n child, and every father must consider
that substantial information is connected with
Advancement. The mother of family being
one of the head, and having more immediate
charge of children, should herself be instructed
A mind occupied, becomes fortified against
the ills of life, and is braced against any emer-
gency. Children. amused By reading or study,
are of course more considerate and more easily
governed. How many parents who have not
spent twenty dollars for books for their families
would have given Hundreds to reclaim son
or daughter who had ignOrantly or thought.
lessly fallen into temptation.
Year: 1869




A very painful,story is told by the Kansas
City Daily Times. It'is this:


A lady of modest personatappearance, and
seemingly about twenty eight years of age,
came to our city day or two ago, and took
room at one of our hotels. She had with her
bright little GIRL some six years of age, and
mother and child remained quietly in their
room for a. day or two. Then the mother
would go upon the streets early, and frequent
ly would be gone until nightfall. Attracted
by her singular behavior, aud fearing that the
woman might need some restraint from o
mental disease, the land lord awaited an op>
portunity to speak to her and to satisfy him.
self of her sanity. He approached her in as
gentle manner as possible, and inquired if
she were not distressed about something, and
the poor woman's story was sorrowtul enough,
God knows, to have crazed her. She said
that eight years ago she married man in
Burlington, Iowa, and that for several years
she was perfectly happy. OF this union two
children were born-a boy and little girl.
By degrees her husbands love became estrang-
ed He began to drink hard, and to abuse
her One day in his delirium he struck her
a heavy blow, from the effects of which she
has not yet recovered, and, perhaps never
will. The wife, in her own name possessed
e little property, which in her blind confidence
of the man who had married her, she trans
ferred to him, and which he at once turned
into money One day he took the boy, under
pretense of visiting his sister-in law-the only
sister of the wife-and since that time the
sister and the boy and the husband have never
returned This was five years ago. and the
abandoned and sickly wife-made almost an
invalid by blow from her husband-has
through all these painful years hoped on and
prayed on that the brute would return. Why,
it is hard to understand, but who yet has ever
rightly understood all the devotion and in
tensity of true woman's heart? About
month ago che heard that her truant husband
was at work in grocery house in Kansas city,
and as soon as she could get sufficient money
for the journey she fastened on here, deter>
mining to tell no one of her intentions and go
day by day upon the streets until she could
discover him, believing that if she could but
see him again he would come back to her
This explained why she had SO often stolen
out into the city, and why at Dightfall she
had often returned tired, weary, and sick of
hope deferred and expectation baffled. She
told this simple story to the landlord with
streaming eyes ard begged him not to let her
name be used, as her husband night see it
and seek to elude her again. A day or two
ago she received certain information that the
man was in Leavenworth, WHITTIER she has
gone, and it is to be hoped that if the brute
is found he will be so manipulated by the law
that to his life's end he'will care for and
protect the woman who is as much too good
for him as an angel is for q. devil
Year: 1869

A GAMBLER's DEvICEs-A gambling.
house in Washington city has just been torn
down. The gambling rooms were in the sec
ond story front. Over them were two garret
rooms with dormer windows. In the flooring
of each of these upper rooms trap-door had
been cut about six feet in length and three in
width. The trap being taken up shows an
aperture between the floor and the ceiling of
the room below of size to accommodate the
gamblers confederate, and series of small
perforations in the ceiling afforded him full
view of the room beneath. By his side was
the end of thin wire, which passing along
under the flooring of the attic to the walls,
ran down to the flooring below (playing upon
nicely adjusted pulleys at the angles), and SO
on until it reached point directly under the
card table. Here very ingenious pedal ar
rangement came into play, By which, with
springs of spiral wire, a triangular piece of
iron vas made to work up through minute
aperture in the floor under the foot of the
swindling gambler Washington Republican.
Year: 1869

The Philadelphia Bulletin declares that
if Senator Ross undertakes to place himself
in opposition to Grant and the republican par
ty, with hope of winning honor in the party,
he will ascertain that he has undertaken an
impossible task" Justso. There is no such
thing as individual independence within the
radical organization. The price of "honor"
in that party, is slavish submission to the
corrupt rings that control it.
Year: 1869

MR. BKADY's LAST WRITING.-The
following remarkable passage is the last
ever written by James L. Brady, the EN-
inent New York lawyer. who died a few
days since:


"Our brothers in the pilgrimage will
fall at our side, but however thickly the
arrows of death may shower, we can,
while our powers continue, do naught
but move until we reach the awful in
slant, when we are to exchange the fee
ble pulses of transitory existence for the
ceaseless throbbings of eternal life.
There, even there, at that mysterious
frontier, if we have been faithful and
fearless in the march, we may lie down
obedient to destiny, with the exalted
hope that, after all the objects of this
world shall have become lost forever to
our mortal sight, there may be unfolded
to our new and spiritual vision another
realm OF unimaginable glory, where we,
and all whom we loved on earth. may
realize the promise which the Great Rul
er of the universe has made unto the just"
Year: 1869

Some ten years ago we tried the effect
of leached ashes about the trees, peck
to each tree, close to the body, and of
four hundred trees so treated, not one
was molcsted by the borer, while one
hundred other trees not SO treated, were
many of them badly damaged by them.
We have continued ever since to use
leached ashes about our apple, pear and
plum trees, and have never seen a borer
in any tree 50 treated, and we consider
this remedy so certain and so valuable,
that we would use the ashes if they
should cost one dollar per bushel 1t
is probable, i'll the cultivation of the Or
chard, if little dirt was thrown or COW
cred upon the ashes, that the borer
could get to and into the tree without
coming in contact with the alkali OF the
ashes, ,and thus the object might be defeat
ed. If trees are free from borcrs when taken
from the nursery, we believe by this treat
ment they can be kept free for all time
to come.


The ashes, beside from the above use,
are great benefit to any orchard. In
some parts OF the country, where the
beneficial effects of ashes are known and
appreciated, they are hauled long dis
tances after costing 20 to 80 cents per
bushel They are alike beneficial in a
garden of vegetables, cucumber and mel
on vines, currants and gooseberry bushes.
In European countries, ashes are much
more highly priced and appreciated than
in this country.


When it is remembered that scarcely
any species of insects can live in ashes.
a tentold benefit may result from their
free use. That potash, of which large
quantity is contained i'll wood ashes, Is
detrimental to insect life, is very certain
and as myriads of destructive insects seem
to Law claim to so large portion of the
| fruits of our labor, it becomes US to use
all the remedial agents that are at our
command for their destruction and when
fruit-growers, gardeners, and farmers
once see the effects of ashes, leached or
unleached, they will allow no more to 80
to waste.-IolCG homestead.
Year: 1869

dividends could have put him inside its


ONCE rail to answer the stockholders


questions. His cheeks wore a healthier


bloom, his eyes clearer brightness, than


MIR. Butfum had seen there since his


ward entered Aristotle Cottage. Thus


the guardians premises "fell down and


broke their CROWN" and his conclusions,


like Gill, ''came tumbling AFTER Thus


he became still more piqued, still more


determined not to bate one title of his


determination. Thus these two of the


most excellent people in the world made


admirable progress in the familiar art of
misunderstanding each other


The source from which Adolphus drew
his cheerfulness was quite out of SIGHT of


MIR. Buffum. He knew the Burrills on
ly by name, and had never discovered
any rational argument for going to see
them. He merely felt that, being wo-
men, they were wholly illogical, incapa-
ble OF fair discussion, and so altogether
Improbable to a man with his serious
purposes in existence. Meanwhile Adol-
phus was paying daily, sometimes b. (or
even t'7-) diurnal visits to these unprofit-
able folk; and at every interview becom-
ing more convinced that his own end in
life was not Logic but Love.


As for the Burrills, they saw in Adol-
phus young man whose age entitled
him to judge for himself That less than
another year of tutelage interviewed be-
tween him and his entrance on his prop
erty was but a trivial consideration TO
the mind of Mrs. Burrill and if any
body had asked Lofty whether it would
not be unprincipled to fall in love with
young man personally worthy of that
distinction prior to obtaining the permis-
sion OF his guardian, she would have
looked through the enquirer with those
clear brown eyes OF hers, and blown
away the conventional fallacy which
the plot Of half the British
plays and novels with such a healthy
laugh as must have taken the logic even
out of Mr.. Butfum. Fortunately, how |
ever, both mother and daughter had ac-
quired such a personal attachment for
Adolphus that any question whatever
relating to his property was with them
"A matter of but small moment and infre-
quent thought. Accordingly, when the
first distinct avowal of his love to Lofty
made 1t necessary that he should frankly
take them both into his confidence with
reference to bis fathers will and Mr..
Butfum's determination, the only alloy
10 the happiness with which each in her l.
proper way welcomed him into the fami-
y was the true feminine Indignation with
which they sympathized against his guar
lIan's cruelty and baseness.