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Year: 1869

Coon ADVICE TO BoYs.-The following
good advice to boys, which We find in an
exchange, is worth reading and digesting.


How many men would now be improved in
mind and morals, if they had 50 acted in
their youthful days: The boy who spends an
hour Of each evening lounging idly on a
street corner, wastes, in the course Of a
single year, three hundred and sixty FIVE
precious hours. which, If applied to study,


would familiarize him with the rudiments at
least Of almost any of the familiar sciences.


II, in addition to wasting an hour each
evening, he spends five cents for q cigar,


which is usually the case, the amount thus
wasted would pay for four of the leading
magazines of the country. Boys, think of
these things. Think how much precious
time and good money you are wasting, and
for what The qualification afforded by the
lounge on the corner. or by the cigar. is not
only tempoTaIg, INIT positively hurtful You
cannot indulge in those practices without
seriously injuring yourselves. You acquire
idle and wasteful habits, which will cling to
you through life, and grow upon you with
each succeeding year, You may in after
life shake them OF, but the probabilities are
that the habits thus formed in early life viii
remain with you to your dying day. Be
warned then in time, and resolve that as the
hour spent in idleness is gone forever. you
will improve each passing one, and thereby
fit yourselves for usefulness and happiness,
Year: 1869

BOSTON, July /.


The recent movement in the boot and shoe market
continued and gained activity until Saturday alter
noon. Large quantities Of goods were shipped for
the West, also for New York and the South Many
OF these were on orders previously given, yet almost
Year: 1869

MORE GEEvery body was astonished
9 week or two ago at the big stock of new goods
at Reddick & Gillen's. Why that was just be-
ginning. The big pile is only beginning to
oomel Call in II you want to be astonishsd not
only at the extent Of the stock and brilliancy Of
goods, but at the low prices.
Year: 1869

OrR STREETs.-There is no denying that the
streets of Ottawa are in q bad condition-not
amy more SO now perhaps than they, are every
spring when the frost comes out of the ground
but individually in q bad condition. La Sale
and Main streets being gravelled, are fortunate-
ly capable of being vastly improved by the re-
moval of the layer Of mud which has accumula-
ted upon them during the winter, job upon
which the Street Supervisor is now engaged but
as to all the other streets, there is at present no
remedy but to await the slow process Of their
drying up Of themselves. Would it not pay for
the property owners on Madison, Columbus and
few other streets to have them gravelled by an
assessment? AS for La Sale and Main streets,
the next movement should be to have them GOV.
cred by Il Nicholson pavement, nor are we sure
that the present season would be too soon to be-
gin the work.
Year: 1869

Jericho and, falling among thieves, was
robbed and left by them half dead. BY
chance there came certain priest that
way, but seeing the wounded man, passed
by ON the other side, as likewise did a
Levite, who passed by the other side.
But the good Samaritan seeing him had
compassion and immediately bound up
his wounds aud ministered to his wants
until he had recovered. Is this fair
comparison Will two-thirds of the
brotherhood pass by on the other side :?
Every Odd Fellow can answer for him
self. sDo unto others as you would that
others should do unto you,' is the Gold
en- Rule of Odd Fellowship.
Year: 1869

SPECIAL TO THE COURIER.


"ERE WE ARE AGAIN WITH A FOUR
III horse Wagon which challenge any Shop
Ia the State to beat We don't file our work to
make it smooth just take look at it. Tappe is
the lucky man. SAMUEL ISAACKS
Year: 1869

Ot all the evils Of bad government which
the past decade has inflicted on the country,
no form of it isso perncious in its effects
on public and private morals as legislative
corruption. Jeopardized Institutions may
be rescued and preserved by o change of
parties; oppressive and unjust statutes may
be repealed by the same means, but far
more searching and powerful remedy is re-
quired for the crying evils of legislative cor.
ruption it is confined to no place, party or
state, but permeatcs our whole legislative
system. Every legislative assembly in the
United States, whether it be congress or the
legislature Of any particular state, is cursed
by large element of corruptibe material
IN It's membership; and the various rings"
aud schemers that make up the Hobbies of
legislative assemblies everywhere are not
slow to find out this element and subsidize
it,


We ind an excellent article in q late
Year: 1869

Ground was broken by grading party at
Coal Valley yesterday, The subcontractor
is the same who had the job at Lafayette,
which is now finished.


The Toulon Ners says that the work at
Lafayette goes bravely on; that Mr.. Christie
OF Toulon is rushing his Princeville JOB as
last AS the weather will permit, and that a
Job between his and Wyoming is in progress.
OA the first indication of settled weather
in the spring, says the Ne,os, there will be
such fire opened all along the line as few
railroad enterprises in this region have wit.
messed - Cambridge Chronicle 3f.
Year: 1869

making a two months experiment as a
missionary, handed in a very favorable re.
port. His labors have been faithful, and not
without success. Whether or not he should
be engaged for longer term, was debated
pro and con, and with considerable earnest
ness on one side at least The matter wAs
finally referred to committee Of seven.
which committee is further authorized to so
hcit funds for city mission purposes. OF
course all good citi2ens will render active
and substantial encouragement to the de.
signs Of this worthy Association.
Year: 1869

MEMORIAL DAY.-We again call the at
tention of the ladies of Richmond to the
fact that Monday next is the day set apart
for the remembrance Of the Confederate
dead inferred at Oakwood Cemetery. The
ladies of the OAkwood Association, though
few in number, have been by no means
lacking in their attentions to the thousands
of dead patriots who seem to have fallen
more particularly under their jurisdic-
ton, and long rows Of neat head-boards
show what their energy has accomplished.


Nor have they been forgetful of the dead
in other cemeteries, for the procession to
Holly wood has been annually sVelled by
Church Hill ladies bearing their floral Offer
ings. It is to be hoped therefore that on
Monday next their shockoe Hill neighbors
will join in the procession to OakWood, and
that no grave OF soldier on this occasion
will be without its flower.


The clergy of the city are invited to meet
at st. Johns church at II A. NJ, where
carriages will be in readiness to convey
them and the Board Of Managers of the
Association to OAkwood. A line OF omni-
buses will also connect with the street cars
at the intersection of Twenty-tifth aud
Main, and will take citizens to the csme-
terry for twenty-fve cents each. The pro-
ceesion will be formed at ST.. Johns church
at half-past / o'clock.
Year: 1869

The GREAT TRIAL OF REAPERs.-Every
preparation is being made to render the
great trial of reapera, which is TO come off
at Westover on the 9Th proximo, interesting
to the sgriculturists Of the State. We pub
lished the list Of judges last week, and now
append the regulations which have just
been put forth by the committee:


"No machines will be allowed to enter
after the 9Th Of June. Suitable teams will
be furnished without charge, and each ma
chine ehould be in perfect order before
coming upon the ground. Only four ma
chimes shall be in operation at once, and
each machine shall be attended by mem
ber Of the committee oil the time it is in
action. No person will be allowed on the
operating grounds while the trial is pro-
oeeding, except competitors and judges
and invited guests.


Exhibitors shall present no machine
for trial other than those they habitually
furnish from their chops to their customers.
Machines may be shipped TO and
Year: 1869

DEAR EDIToR,-Your paper always alive to
the interests and incidents of Portland, may
sometimes lose trace of events in its suburbs.


1t is to chronicle little affair in a neighbor-
ing town, that I claim the indulgence of
small portion of your columns.


Gorham Maine, beautiful little village
about ten miles from this city on the Rochester
road, is too we'll known to most of our readers
to require further description. And it was in
Gorham the event happened, make the sub
ject of this communication.


One evening, a'few weeks ago, dance was
given at the Gorham House. The ball room OF
the hotel is situated in the top of the main
building where at an early hour was assem-
bled small company Of the followers of the
Terpsichorean Art. This hall has a spring
floor, and if the merits of the foor rests on the
amount OF spring attainable, certainly it must
reach the most sanguine expectations of spring
floor advocates. The writer passed his second
Gorham dancing experience on the evening
herein recorded. The orchestra end of the ball
room, is, if possible, the most spriDgy point in
the whole hall, and when the dancing is under
full sway, it is rich to watch the results. OF
course in the formation of each figure, positions
and partners are regularly assigned, but after
the music strikes up they begin to separate,
never again to meet in that dance, except "by
chance" Imagine the scene. The dance at
its height; the throng of dancers in dire confu-
sion; the dust of accumulated ages rising up
from this model spring floor; the spectators
clnging to seats, and from the motion of the
floor necessarily bobbing a grotesque acquies-
cence to the music; at this point possibly may
be heard the hoarse yell of the prompter, graf
ing through the cloud of dust, "down the out
side" and the spring floor seemingly mindful
of the appeal, by a strange coincidence per-
haps, suiting the action to the word, pitches
the leader out of the window just as the above
mandate escapes his lips, and down the out
side" he literally goes to hammock spread
under the hall windows for contingencies Of
this kind, and but for which no life would be
safe in the room during dancing; the whole
scene furnishing spectacle my pen fails to
portray, and which must be witnessed to be
realized.


The credulous reader when in Gorham may
possibly look at the outside of the hall for the
protective hammocks just mentioned, to test
the verify of this statement; but remember
these hammocks are only "thrown to the
breeze" the nights the dances take place.


Now throwing levity aside, very pleasant
company convened on the evening recorded. -
Brown, the worthy landlord of the ~hostlery,
furnished good supper, the party dispersed
with the feelings resulting from an enjoyable
evening; and can only say in conclusion that
the Gorham House is pleasant resort for a
good supper and jolly dance. Fl. G.. q.
Year: 1869

The letter from our Western correspondent,
published elsewhere, presents once more in a
striking manner, the advantages of staying at
home instead of flying to evils that we know
not Of in the Western country. The series of
letters, of which the one printed this morning
is the second, is from an entirely reliable source,
the gentleman who writes the communications
having made the experiment of change for
himself, and having gone West with far more
facilities for taking advantage of whatever op-
portunities the county may offer for improv-
ing ones condition than the majority of those
who have adopted like course of conduct
possess. Besides, he has no conceivable inter-
est in painting the dark side of Western life
in gloomier colors than the facts justify.


The most Of our young men who of late years
have left Maine to push their fortunes in the
far West have left an important consideration
out OF the account. Maine, so far as its unde-
veloped capabilities for progress in both the ag-
ricuitural and manufacturing industries are
concerned, isa Western State. 1t has not, like
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and
some Of the other Eastern States, approximate
ed to the highest point of development to which
in the nature of things it can attain. The
foundations of its railroad system have just
been laid. Liberal concessions to manufac-
turers have just begun TO have their effect in
stimulating that branch of industry and in
fastening that good time when the improve
ment of our absolutely unrivaled WATERPROOF
er will furnish employment for all the strong
hands and busy brains that are to be found
within our borders. To such as dream of sud-
den wealth from fortunate purchases of land
in the West, better opportunities are offered
here. The appreciation in the value of real
estate, following the opening of new lines of
communication and the building up of large
manufacturing cities and villages, must keep
almost even pace with the sudden rises in
value that have made the West SO attractive to
the ambitious and the discontented. Moreoy-
er, while waiting for the better day that is to
give Maine the position for which nature as
signed her, we have not to endure through all
our probationary period the mseres and hard
ships Of the semi-savage frontier life. What
tue discomforts Of Western life are, our cor
respondent has wildly depicted To many
people who read these lines the story he tells
will be an old one, for they themselves have
neighbors who have emigrated to the West
and written back to their friends at the old
New England home letters full of desponden-
cy, regret, and almost despair. There are ex-
ceptions to this, as to all general rules The
man Is living who will dig up a thousand dol
lar nugget in Australia or on the Pacific slope,
but there are millions who will gain only the
average recompense of daily toll. So there is
one man in hundred who goes West who
writes back glowing accounts of the Eldorado
he has chanced to find there. But for the most
Of us it is the safer and the wiser to stay at
home and avail ourselves Of such advantages
as are afforded us here
Year: 1869

A LETTER from Rev. j. E. c. Sawyer, pub
lished on the first page, disclaims any inten-
tion on the part Of that gentleman to censure
his predecessor in the position of editor of the
Riverside Echo in the resolutions passed by
the Methodist Conference at Saccarappa. We
have never said or thought that Mr. Sawyer
did intend to act SO unjustly and ungenerous-
~. TIE resolutions have been given to the
world as those of the Methodist Conference
and not those of Mr.. Sawyer. If he drew them
up, we are bound to accept his own theory as
to their aninaus. We called attention to the
construction that they would naturally re-
ceive, in the absence Of any explanation, sim
ply because that construction would clearly
make them seem to be in the nature of re-
proof to gentleman whom we,i common with
all the friends of prohibition in Maine, know
has done as much for the cause, and done it
from good and pure motives, as any single in
dividual in the State
Year: 1869

A GOOD THING can come out of Nazareth,
viz. Connecticut, especially since the last cleo
tion. To Derby, in that State, belongs the
glory of having seen the rise of '.the Order of
the Eagle" an organization that has for its
purpose the diminution of corruption in poll
tics and the inculcation of respect for the in
stitutions and flag of our country. The mem
bers swear that they will vote only for good
men for Office, and that if chosen to Office
themselves they will never take bribe.
Branches of tae order are to be established in
every city and town throughout the Union,
and 1t is proposed to keep up the interest in it
by having in connection with it free reading
rooms, gymnasiums, fencing or boxing schools,
military companies and base ball clubs. Sue
cess to that Eaglel
Year: 1869

Nor FRIGHTENED. The other night a NEST
estimable lady was hurrying home at a some
what late hour without an escort. Presently
she perceived that she was followed by gen
tleman who quickened his step as she quick
ensd hers. Finally he overlook her and said,
with significant emphasis, I" It's fine night
for walk" Yes" she coolly replied, sit
is fine night for walk, and tho best thing
you can do is to walk on" The uncivil fellow
took the hint instantly, and did "walk Oh" ="
very rapidly without delay. having visions no
doubt Of "big brother with big stick, who
might be hand to argue the case fnrther.
Year: 1869

AN enthusiastic correspondent of the Ban
gor Whig wants it understood that hesupports
Gov. Chamberlain for denomination in any
event. He says: "Let others think and vote
as they will at the approaching convention, but
for myself go for putting again in nomination
the man who, with the sword in one hand and
the bible in the other, gave the enemies of my
country - at Gettysburg We make the
quotation on account of the new and valuable
contribution to history contained therein
Year: 1869

SENATOR HAMLIN is member of Co. A.,
State Guards of Bangor. He always turns
out with the company when at home, and did
so on memorial day. He made speech on
that occasion dressed in the uniform of
private of the company
Year: 1869

MIR. GREELEY has begin the publication Of
his great work on political economy in the Tri-
bune. In the initial chapter however he only
Just touches upon what is supposed to be the
objective point Of his treatise-protection But
he launches some good-sized thunder-bolts
against idleness, which do all the more exc
cution because they are trifle old and rusty.
Success to him in his war on loafersl One of
that pestilent race has more power for mis-
chief than tolerably well developed and ac-
tive criminal.
Year: 1869

0SE MORE drANar on BAsr.--It is as inpos.
sble TO foresee as it is useless to conjecture
what loop-hole the Argus will find next as a
means of escape from the blunders into which
its ignorance constantly leads it. At first it
was inclined to think that the buying of bonds
by the Treasury would result in no saving of
interest, meaning, according to every sound
rule of verbal construction, no saving OF IN
terest to the government that buys the bonds
But perceiving that this will not do, it changes
its ground with view to taking stand on
the proposition that there is no saving to the
tar-poyer But here also it finds difficulty,
for it at last gets glimpse of the fact, that,
taking the whole transaction of paying the
debt into the account, there really is a saving
of interest to the taxpayer in the accumula-
tion ofa sinking fund since the quicker debt
or pays his debt the less interest he will have
to pay. Finally it settles down upon the theory
that it is no present advantage to the taxpayers
Even this is doubtful, but let it go at that
Year: 1869

Danial f. Sickles is to infect the Court
circles at Madrid as the representative OF
this country, his commission having been
made, signed, sealed and being now ready
for delivery. If SO many unfortunate and
inappropriate appointments had not been
made before by Mr.. Grant the country would
mourn over this
Year: 1869

1t has just been decided N the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts, that travellers must
withdraw their baggage from the keeping of
railroad companies upon arrival that the
companies are under no obligations to store
the baggage and are not liable for its loss
if mot removed within a reasonable time.
This is probably good law everywhere, and
it may serve travellers to make note Of it.
Year: 1869

A clerk in the executive Department in
Georgia. has shot himself for unrequited
love Of negro woman. He should be
csnoniled by the radicals as the only person
who has ever given thoroughly practical
recognition of the divinity and equality of
the negro race.
Year: 1869

Fifteen hundred Sunday school children
have called on the President, and he said he
was glad to see them, meaning we suppose
that he was glad they were not politicians
seeking offices.
Year: 1869

= WEARING AWAY OF THE New JERSEY
-SH ORE The Philadelphia Ledger of
Thursday says :: 30 aa7as IS as.a' ~ sz ~


IS The encroachments of the sea upon the
shore at Atlantic City from Massachusetts,
avenue to the inlet, and particularly in
front Of the lighthouse, has been so great
for a. few years past that, the lighthouse
may soon be in danger, unless some plan is
adopted to protect the shore. Building
lots purchased six or eight years ago in this
vicinity, and from two to three hundred
feet distant from lew-water mark, % well
as the bluff extending in front of the White
House, have been carried away, and the
White House itself had to be removed
about two hundred yards further up Mas
sachusetts avenue, and nearly opposite
Congress Hall, during the present winter.
The citizens Of Atlantic City, feeling that
something should be done to protect their
own as well as the Government property,
extended invitations to members Of the
Lighthouse Board. the Corn Exchange,
Board of Trade of Philadelphia, etc., to
visit the beach and see its present condi-
ton. In accordance with this invitation, o
large number of gentlemen were conveyed
yesterday in special train to that place.


Son the arrival of the party at Atlantic
City they were met by the Mayor and
Council of that city, and by them conducted
along the beach for the purpose of viewing
the changes that had been made by the
heavy seas beating against the yielding
banks of sand. From, those who have re-
sided on the island for number of years,
and also from maps of surveys made, it
was ascertained that when the lighthouse
was built, in 1856, the shore line was about
| 300 feet distant. Little change was noted
for the first two or three years, but since
that time the sea has gradually approached
the building, until 500 feet of the original
land is now covered by water, leaving about
500 feet dry, except at the highest tides,
when the sea washes the fence Immediately
surrounding the lighthouse. The most
popular theory known at Atlantic City for
this encroachment is that the formation Of
bar between the house and the inlet has
turned the current along the shore, and
while sweeping away the beach at the point
named, causes deposits on the shore in front
of the hotels"
Year: 1869

FEAST AND SUPPER.-The ladies of Sid
ney Methodist Sunday school have organized
a Dorcss Society for the purpose Of raising
funds to clothe the destitute children Of the
school. They will commence feast in one
of the stores under the Spotswood Hotel to-
morrow night, and continue till Friday
night. They ask the patronage of the citi,
zens in aid of this good cause in the west
ern suburbs of the city.
Year: 1869

E SUDDEN DEATH.-Saturday morning 8


negro named Robert Hall, employed at
.Hagan's Johns saloon, fell in fit while
engaged in making a fire, and in about On


hour afterwards he was dead. The deceased


had been in great trouble about his domes-
tic relations, and had been drinking very
hard for some days previous to his death,
which it is supposed hastened his demise.
Year: 1869

E;SER oANoKE college,. acknowledge


the receipt of q complimentary invitation
TO attend the thirteenth annual contest sbe-
tween the two literary societies Of Roanoke
College, to take place on the 22d instant.
The Committee OF arrangements u COM