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Year: 1859

How TO MAKE FENcE-To build common
rail fence, begin at the bottom of all hills or
ascents, and build up-this will make the fence
stand much better against the wind and all
disturbing causes. t 80
Year: 1859

In LUcK.-Mr. l. II. Mitchell, the defeated
candidate for Sheriff before the Administration
County Convention, has met with run ofluck
that should partially reconcile him to the defeat
of his political aspirations After his defeat,
having nothing else to do, and as a last chance
to get even, he amused himself for time in
Throwing dice for tickets in Charley Young's
gilt entertainment, and at an expenditure of
five dollars won twenty tickets, valued at one
dollar each. A day or two after the prizes
were drawn. be was looking over the list, and
was completely taken aback to find that his
tickets had drawn six prizes, among which
were two gold watches, one valued at $500, the
other at 5000. The other four prizes were of
small value We would rather have Mitchells
luck than the Office of Sheriff.
Year: 1859

IMPORTANT HORTICULTURAL DIscovERY.-A
friend Of ours, who has devoted much of his
time for the past three years to horticulture,
has recently discovered two effectual methods
to kill the borers that are so destructive to fruit
trees in this country. The first is to sprinkle a
quantity of salt around the tree, then pour on
water so that the salt will penetrate to the roots.
The Other remedy is to pour about pint of nj
tric acid around the roots of the tree. Either
Of these remedies will kill the borers-also, kill
the trees, as our friend has learned to his cost.
Fifty or sixty thrifty fruit trees which be had
In the early part of the season have been saued
from the borers by the judiciOus application Of
nitric acid and salt, and are now standing mon
uments of the great value of the discovery.
Year: 1859

STAGE UPsET.-The Marysville stage was up
set on Monday while going down the Penn Val
ley hill. 1t appears there was no brake at
tached to the stage. and chain was used to
lock the wheels. While going down the hill
the lock chain was broken, the horses started
on a run, and on turning a short corner the
stage was turned over. There were six or sew
en- passengers in the stage, nearly all of whom
were slightly scratched or bruised but none
seriously hurt. The driver was thrown con
siderable distance, and was pretty severely
bruised on the back. 1t was reported that two
of his ribs were broken, but this was a mistake.
Year: 1859

TEE Cir ENrERTAINMENT.-Th second grand
gift entertainment of G. w. Young came of on
Saturday evening. on vacant lot at the head
of Main street. The entertainment consisted
Of very respectable display Of fireworks,
which was hugely enjoyed by Young America.
The prize numbers were drawn from wheel
under the superintendeuce Of committee ap-
pointed by the ticket holders present and ev-
cry thing went off to the satisfaction Of those
who had invested their money in the entertain
mcnt. The list of the prize numbers will be
found Ia another column.
Year: 1859

MAGENTA AoUEDUcT.-A gentleman recently
dowu from Eureka township, Informs us that
the Magenta aqueduct, erected by the Eureka
Lake Co.. is one of the most magnificent and
extensive works of the kind in this or any 9TH
er county. The work is now nearly compieted'
and the proprietors propose to give grand
festival and ball to celebrate the completion ot
the work. The festival will come of at Cherry
Hill Gap, between Snow Tent aud Eureka
South. on Friday evening, August 9th.
Year: 1859

,Egg Can mother forget? Not morning, noon,
or night but she looks into the corner of the
kitchen where you read Robinson Cruso, and
thinks of you as yet boy. Mothers rarely
becomes conscious that their children are grown
out of their childhood. They think of them,
advise them, write to them as if not full four
teen years of age. They cannot forget the
+. child. Three times a day she thinks who are
absent from the table, and hopes that next
year, at farthest, she may have just her own
family there; and if you are there look out
for the fat limb of fried chicken, and that
coffee which none but everybody's own mother
!, can make. Did Hannah forget Samuel? A
short sentence, full of household history, and
: running over with genuine motherlove, is tel
lingly beautiful: Moreover, his mother made
him little coat, and brought it to him from
year to year, when she came up with her hus-
band 70 sacrifice


= "A mother mourning at her first born's grave
or closing the dying eye of child after child
displays grief whose very sacredness is sub
lime. But bitterer, heavier than the death
stroke is the desperation of son who rushes
over a crushed heart, into vices which he would
hide even from the abandoned and Vile


Napoleon was once asked by a lady what
France needed for the education of her
youth; and the short, profound reply was
:" MOTHERS ~
Year: 1859

The man who is obliged to be constantly
employed to earn the necessaries of life and
support his family knows not the happiness he
prays for when he desires wealth and idIeness
70 be constantly busy is to be always happy.
Persons who have suddenly acquired wealth.
broken up their active pursuits, and began to
live at their easa, waste away and die in very
short time. Thousands would have been bles-
sings to the world, and added to the eonnnion
stock of happiness, if they had been content to
remain in an humble sphere, and earned every
nouthfal of food that nourished their bodies
But, no; fashion and wealth took possession of
4 them, and they were completely ruined They
ran away from peace and pleasure, embracing
lingering Ye who are sighine for the
pomp and splendor of life, beware. You know
not what you wish. No situation however ex-
alted; no wealth, however magnificent; no
honor, however glorious, can yield you solid
enjoyment while discomfort turks in your bo-
som: The secret of happiness lies in this-to
be always contented with your lot, and never
sigh for the splendor of riches, or the magnifi-
cence of fashion and power. Persons who are
always busy and go cheerfully to their daily
tasks are the least disturbed by the fluctuations
of business, and at night sleep with compo
sure.
Year: 1859

The men who brought load of slaves in
the Echo and carried them to Charleston,
whence they were taken back to Africa by our
own Government, have been acquitted. A
palmer case of piracy was never made out
So much for the execution of the law that for
bids the slave trade at the South.


Slavery ought certainly to flourish. No
jury can be found in the South to convict AT
rican negrostealers. and none but ultra Dem
ocrats allowed to sit on the Bushnell jury at
the North to try free citizens for the alleged
crime of rescuing fugitivcs.


But all this helps on the cause of freedom.
The people of the North have only to labor
and to wait and justice will come in good
time to the Free Worth, and slavery will be
pronounced sectional and freedom national
-Clerelqnd Herald
Year: 1859

In regard TO the care of horses, Sit George
Stephens says: !" Wherever it is necessary to
wash horses legs, do it in the morning. Most
grooms, acting on different principle, wash
them as soon as the animal comes ia.o i am
satisfied this is bad practice. When, the
roads are dirty and weather wet, and the legs
already soaked, washing can do no harm but
to deluge the legs with water the moment
horse enters the yard, heated with exercise, is
to my mind as unnatural and absurd Dis to Jump
into a shower bath after playing for an hour,
at cricket. My plan is rubbing down with
straw and dry brush aud the next morning
wash as clean az soap and water can make them.
Pick and wash the soles as soon as the horse
comes in"
Year: 1859

Natural ice is never seen in the warmest
parts OF that country. To procure ice by arti-


@eial means they dig, on large open plain


not far from Calcutta, three or four pits about


thirty feet square and two feet deep each. the


bottom of which they cover about eight inches


or foot thick with sugar cane or the stems of
| the large Indian corn, dried On this bed are
placed i'll rows a number of small shallow. I'M
glazed earthen pans, formed of a very porous
earth, quarter of an inch thick, and about am


inch and u quarter deep, which at the dusk of
evening they fill with soft water that has been


boiled In the morning before sunrise, the ice


makers attend the pits, AMI collect what is fro
zen IN BASKETS which they convey TO the place
OF preservation. This is generally prepared on
some high dry situation by sinking pit four
teen or fifteen feet deep, lining it first with straw
and then with coarse kind of blmketing.-l
The ice Is deposited in this pit, and beat down
with rammers, till at length its own accupula- |
ted cold again freezes it, and forms one solid |
mass. The mouth of the pit is well secured |
from the exterior air with straw and blankets. |
and tliatched roof is thrown over the whole. |
The quantity of ice formed by the method
above described, depends on a light atmosphere,
and clear, serene weather. Three hundred |
persons are employed in this operation in one
place. ..-... ... -r .--


AT hrst sight this curious process may ap-
pear to be an effect of eEaporation; but this is |
not the case; for it is remarkable that it is es-
sentlal to its success that the straw in which |
the vessels are placed should be dry, whereas,
IT evaporation were concerned in the congeIa-
ton, wetting the straw would promote it.
When the straw becomes wet by accident, it is
obliged to be replaced by dry straw -


The earth is continually losing heat by radi-
alton, and it loses most on clear, starlight
nights, when there are no clouds to intercept
and send back the rays of heat The straw,
like all filamentous substances, is good radia-
tor of caloric, and it is in consequence of the
heat that is thus given out by it into space on
clear nights that the ice is formed When the
weather is windy and cloudy, the effect does not
take place. -. ...-....--- ....-
Year: 1859

quantity ofammonia and nitric acid, equal,
perhaps, on an acre, to one hundred pounds Of
gilano, is annually brought down to the soil by


the rain, for the benefit of vegetation. Let
not, however, the farmer deceive himself and
imagine tbat he may indulge in. idle repose,
while nature is thus keeping up the fertility. of
his lands. But he insy profit by this newly
discovered bounty Of hature, if he win take full
advantage of the atmospheric manure by means
of drainage, which promotes the equal flow Of
water through instead of over his soil; by deep
cultivation Of the land, which brings every part
of it INTO contact wath the air.. The atmos-
phere Is to the farmer like the sea to the fish.
erman-he who spreads the nets the widest
win catch the most.
Year: 1859

That our readers may not be too envious
or covetous Of our easy position and pleasant
| responsibilities, We will give them the follow
| ing extract from the Lutheran Observer as
indicative of some of the things that occur
weekly in the experience of every editor; we
do the best we can to please and profit all, but
if our readers were of the same mind and TASTE
we think we might succeed much better than
we do:


There are certain perplexities inherent in
editing paper. 1t is impossible to meet the
wishes of all. Writers sometimes send an
article which the editor may think unsuited to
his columns. It may have merely local in
terest. It may contain personalities. It may
be on a subject foreign to the general character
of the paper. One reader may wish his news
paper to be grave and solemn throughout; an
other wishes it gemmed with wit and relieved
by pleasantries. One would wish for stories
and narratives another wants doctrinal dis
cussions. One asks for controvcrsy-another
for gentleness and charity. One asks for
church news-another for abstract and pro
found essays. One delights in short and pithy
articles-another sees no value IN anything but
full and thorough handling of the subject in
| hand. One wishes his religious paper to give
him daguerrean picture of the intelligence of
| the day from the whole world; another wants
the columns filed with articles on one and the
same tropic. With these various and opposite
tastes and judgements among some thousands of
of readers, it is utterly impossible to crafty
them all. We do the best we can. We bring
our best Judgment into exercise and do the
best we can for the good of our readers and
e T.l Al. I-c-l
that we have found much less of annoyance
than some of the editorial fraternity, one of
whom speaks thus:


"The truth is, an editor cannot step without
treading on somebody's toes. Ifhe express his
opinions fearlessly and frankly he is arrogant
and presumptuous. Ifhe states facts without
comment, he dares not to express his senti-
ments. If he conscientiously refuses to advo-
cate the claims of an individual to office, he
| is accused of hostility. A iackanape who
measures off words into verse as clerk does
tape-by the yard-hands him parcel of
stuff that jingles like a handful of rusty nails
and gimlets, and if the editor is not fool enough
to print the nonsense, "Stop mp paper; won't
patronize man that's no better judge of poe
try as if it were patronage to buy paper at
about one-haf more than so much waste pa
per would cost One murmurs because his pa
per is not iterary-another because it is lit
erary-another because it is not literary
enough. One grumbles because the advertise
ment engross too much room-another com
plains that the paper is too large-we can't
find time to read it all. One wants type so
small that a microscope would be indispen-
sable in every family-another threatens to
discontinue the paper unless the letters are
half an inch long-an old lady actually offered
an additional price for paper that should be
printed in type as large as is used for hand
bills. Every subscriber has plan of his own
| for conducting q journal
Year: 1859

If a man faints away-says Halls Journal
of Health-instead of yelling out like saw
age, or running to him to lift him up, lay him
at full length on his back on the floor, loosen
the clothing, push the crowd away so as to al
low the air to reach him, and then let him
alone. Dashing water over person in a sim
pie fainting fit is a barbarity. The philoso-
ply of a faintiug fit is, the heart fails to send
the proper supply of blood to the brain; il
the person is erect, that blood has to be thrown
up hill but if lying down it has to be project
ed horizontally, which requires less power, as Is
apparent.
Year: 1859

A neighbor of Col. Baker, the warrior states
man of Wyndham, tells the following story =


The Colonel's old grindstone, which had long
done good service on the farm, having become
pretty well worn down, he bought and brought
home a nice one. A poor neighbor-con-
ceiving that the venerable Colonel could have
use for tco stones, but could get along very
well with one-asked him to give him the old
one. The proposal, however, was not eagerly
embraced, but was, on the contrary, decidedly
negatived An effort to buy the stone also
failed owing to disagreement between them
regarding the price and the man having asked
him for the stone, and been given decidedly
cold shoulder, went away exceeding sorrowful.


A day or two after the Colonels nomination
for Congress- he fell in with his neighbor, and
after shaking hands and inquiring after each
member of his family, he took occasion to say,
in the most friendly manner,


BY the by, you were speaking to me the 9TH
er day about old grindstone of mine | don t
know as | shall want it for anything, and if it
will do you any good you can take it along
with you at any time when you going by.
1t lies out there by the wood-pile'


The Colonel paused to receive the warm
thanks which he felt that his noble conduct de-
served, but was trife set back by the following
blunt response -


Bett 5eep it yourself, Colonel, you' got more
ares to grind than hare G-Neo London ChrOncle.
Year: 1859

By sowing nitrate of soda, in small quanti-
ties in showery weather, under trees, most
beautiful verdure will be obtained. / have
used it under beech tres in my ground, and
the grass always looks green. Having suo-
ceeded so well on small scale, have now
sown nitrate of soda among the long grass in
the plantations which cattle could never eat.
now find that the herbage is preferred to the
other parts of the field
Year: 1859

Rough hands had roughly tended him, and pal,


and death-like as he looked, it seemed as if il


mattered little what care he had now. In the


agony with which the parents bent over the


unconscious sleeper, and marked the sunker
cheeks and wasted form, there was but one ray


of comfort they could watch over him-they
should not hear of his death with the sad
thought that none but stranger had snoothed
his dying pillow.


The sufferer awoke from a troubled dream to
find his aching head supported by his father,
and see his mothers eye resting on him with
look of unutterable tenderness. So faint was
the smile of recognition with which he greeted
them, that only parents eye could have
caught the expression.


Cant live! can't liyei" said the doctor,
with carelessness, as he entered the house
next morning.


But his mother has come y said the land
lady.


THAT alters the case; he may get up again"
| answered the doctor; than whom none knew
better how much mother could do.
But how frail seems the thread that held
that young and promising life. For days it
quivered and trembled with the slightest breath,
aud the mother tearfuly prayed that it might
not be broken A gentle care and kindly
watching as ever blessed sick bed had AL
fred Heath, and not in vain gradually he
grew better, and was able to walk with his pa
rents and asked them how they chanced to
come to him in the hour of need.


:" 1t was the newspaper" said Mr. Heath,
just three words in the paper told us your
ship had come. You didn't arrive at home,
and so we came to see if you were sick. You
will soon be well enough to go home, my boy,
God be thanked, he added fervently, for
sending us to take care of you. :"


At length Alfred was pronounced well
enough to ride, and in a few days the pleasant
old homestead gladdened his sight. How beau
tifIl it looked as the sun shone Oh the vines in |
which it was embowered, with their wealth of
grapes, just purpling in the autumn sunshine.


No one so joyful as Mr.. Heath, who, after |
being gladdened by hearing Alfred say he
would not go to sea again, expressed his opin-
ion of newspapers i'll general, and his own
newspaper in particular in this wise:


. am 80 glad, Milicent, that you took that
paper, for l count paper j.st the most ne
cessary thing in family We should never
have had boy here strong and well, if it had
not been for it. Tt is an excellent thing and 1
shall subscribe for it as long as l live"
Year: 1859

ts 1t is with books as it is with women, where


a certain plainness of manner and dressing is


more engaging than that glare of paint and
airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but
"a reaches not the aiaections.-Hume.
Year: 1859

The Chinese are queer people to so to mar
ket A friend at Canton writes thot neighcor
of his had just laid in his winter provisions-a
hind quarter of horse, two barrels of bulldogs,
and barrel of salted rats
Year: 1859

DEFENcE.-Duelling has found defen-
der in the Standard, which paper is much
inclined to hold that the practice is not for
b idden by the laws of God, and should not
be by the laws of man." The opinion is
advanced that society is benefited by the
duello, that "no community has ever been
renowned for refinement and liberality in
which the custom has not prevailed" 1.-THE
same thing may be assumed of any other
crime, and we are lett to infer that force
and intimidation are the only means by
which mankind can be made civil and kept
so. BY a violent perversion of terms the
anti-duellist is called a non-resistant, and
tire assertion ventured, that Z" if he would
maintain his theory" (of non-resistance)" he
must burn all books of poetry and romance
from Jack the Giant Killer to- Tennyson's
@'Chasgc Of the Six Hundred" Now we
cannot see what this brilliant, but insane
and useless charge has to do with the ques-
tion of duelling. The Earl of Cardigan who
led it was, TO be sure, once tried by his
peers in the House of Lords for the crime of
duelling and escaped conviction only by
insufficiency of proof rs to personal denti-
ty. His moral character was not above re-
proach before the duel, and this did not pu-
rify it, for in England, which is somewhat
renowned for refinement and liberality,"
the code is not at all honored. The man
who kills another in a duel is esteemed
murderer, and the British military officer
who fight, or sends or accepts challenge
TO fight duel, or offers an insult tantamount
to provocation for q challenge, is broken
from the service With the exception of the
Cardigan and Tuckett duel there has not
been one in the British army since the la-
nous meeting between Fawcett and Monroe,
which terminated fatally to the former.
Monroe was tried, convicted, sentenced to
death and was waiting execution in New
gate at the time of the Coronation of Queen
Victoria. By an act of mercy usual on such
occasions, all prisoners under sentence of
death were pardoned by the young sove-
reign, and thus only did Monroe escape the
penalty of his crime. In spite of this aver
sion to the ciyilzng code Great Britain con-
triHes to get along somehow, waxing more
'trefined and LIBERAL every year and in
our humble opinion California will never
be like her until she also frowns upon the
duello and Furnishes severely those who dare
practice it,
Year: 1859

MORE TROUBLE IN CHINA.-The peaceful
settlement that was about to be effected be-
tween England and China was interrupted,
on the oath of June, by fatal mistake. The
British Minister attempted to sail up the
Peiho to Pekin with large feet, for the
purpose of concluding pending negotiations.
The river was barred across by iron stakes
and booms, which the English proceeded to
remove in sight of some Chinese forts. This
movement drew heavy and remarkably
skillful fire upon them, the object of the
fleet being evidently misconstrued into a
hostile one by those in charge of the forts.
The English lost about FIVE hundred men
and were compelled to retire. 1t was not
known at last advices what would be the
result of this unfortunate affair.