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Year: 1868

The autobiography so prodigally
scattered about this District during the
last canvass by Gen. Andrews is doubt
ess familiar to all. Still I would ask
that you give it place in your COL
umns now. This copy was from Gen.
Andrcws' own hand
Year: 1868

The Union Pacific Railroad Company offer q
limited amount Of their First Mortgage Bonds at par
Nine hundred and sixty miles Of tho line West from
Omaha arc now completed. and the work Is going on
Year: 1868




The Atlantic Monthly for October gives the
following graphic sketch of the daily expe-
riences of every drunkard


q The daily life of one of the steady drunk
ards is like this: Upon getting up in the
morning, after heavy, restless, drunkard' 8
sleep, he is miserable beyond expression and
almost helpless. In very bad cases he will
see double, and his hands will tremble so
that he cannot lift to his lips the glass for
which he has desire amounting to mania
Two or three stiff glasses of spirituous liquor
will restore him so far that he can control his
muscles, and get about without betraying his
condition After being up an hour, and
drinking every ten or fifteen, minutes, he will
usually be able to eat pretty good break
fast, which, with the aid of coffee, tobacco,
and comparatively small quantity of liquor,
he will be able to digest. After breakfast,
for some hours he will generally be able to
transact routine business, and associate with
his fellows without exciting their pity or con-
tempt As dinner time draws near, he feels
the necessity of creatirg an appetite which
he often aecomplishes by drinking some Of
those internal compounds which are adver-
tised on the eternal rocks and mountain-sides





spirits. These bitters do lash the torpid pow
ers into momentary. morbid, fierce activity,
which enables the victim to eat even supera-
bundant dinner. The false excitement sub
sides, but the dinner remains, and it has to
be digested. This calls for an occasional
drink for three or four hours, after which the
system is exhausted, and the man feels dull
and languid. He is exhausted but he is not
tranquil; he craves continuation of the
stimulent with a craving which human ma
ture. so abused and prevented, never resists
BY this time it is evening, when all the ap-
paratus of temptation is in the fullest activity,
and all the bose population of the town is
abroad. He now begins his evening debaucb,
and keeps up a steady drinking until he can
drink no more, when he stumbles home to
sleep off the Supplying fumes, and awake TO
the horror and decrepitude Of a drunkard' s
morning.


The quantity of spirituous liquor required
to keep one of these unhappy men in this de-
grading slavery varies from a pint a day to
two quarts. Many drunkards consume a
quart Of whisky every day for years. The
regular allowance of one gentleman of the
highest position. both social and official, who
made his way to the Inebriate Asylum, had
been two quarts Of brandy for about five years:
Year: 1868

TRIBUTE TO PRINTERs.-Thes chaplain of
the New Hampshire Penitentiary, in review
ing the events of his life since his connec--
tion with that institution, pays the following,
compliment to journeymen printers:


g have the happiness to number among
my friends many printers, but though it may
seem to imply either a lack of ability on the
part of the minister, or the want of the quail
ties that are necessary in order to appreciate
good preaching on the other part, yet will
reveal the fact, that ! have never succeeded
well with that class. For the nine long years
with all the Inducements offered, not one of
that trade has connected himself with nv
congregation-and / do not think q man
could be found, of all who ever tenanted our
prison, who could set up column of type.
leave the reader to make his comments.
only remarking that this cannot be accden-
tai, nor can the explanation be that the en-
ployment keeps them ignorant of the prevail
ing vices and immoralities. nor yet that
young printers are removed from the large
masses where corruptions engender and
spread. In all these respects this class are
exposed. 1t is evident, we think, that the
employment has an elevating tendency, and


is favorable to intellectual and moral improve.
mentD
Year: 1868

-


One OF the elements of success in trade lies
IN the careful attention to details, the stop
page OF leaks, the boldness for large adyen-
lures linked to the careful mastery of minor
suihgs; 10 this respect agriculturists are an
aso penind business men. 1t is easy to be
penny wise in small way, but that is differ
cut from the broad-sighted economy referred
70. II one could get at the figures of actual
destruction in the injudicious waste SO com
mon IN the feeding of domestic animals, the
amount would surprise the reader. Hay is
trampied In the mud, oats are sprinkled
around almost every feeding place, corn in
the COD Is thrown to pigs Commenting on
one feature of this fact, writer in the New
York Times says:


tits an expensive system of management to
feed whole grain to any kind of animals. All
kinds of cereal grain are provided with a
tough hull, or skin, which the digestive pow
ers OF most animals will not dissolve conse
quently, if the skin is not broken before the
gram enters the stomach, the kernels will
usually pass off with the droppings, without
ahording the beast that swallows the grain
any more nourishment than fragments of
wood OF equal size. During the month of
August last the writer procured quantity of
horse manure for top dressing straw berry
plants, and in few days after the mulch
was spread around the plants, the unbroken
kernels OF oats vegetated, so that the entire
surface OF the ground appeared as green as a
lawn. This fact showed conclusively that
much of the grain had never afforded the
beasts that swallowed it any nourishment at
all. Young horses having sound and sharp
teeth, will sometimes crush every kernel
But old horses, with poor teeth, frequently
swallow halt of their mess of oats without
breaking the skin OF the kernel. When mills
are at distance, and people will persist in
feeding hard whole grain, it will always be
found advantageous to soak the grain at least
twenty-four hours before using it. Suppose,
for example, a drayman is accustomed to
feed to his horse eight quarts of corn and oats
at each feeding, say three times day. Let
the grain be put in pail covered with warm
water every time the animals are fed. Warm
water is preferable to cold, because the latter
10 cold weather will soften the grain but
litte


Those who study economy and the comfort
OF their horses may rest assured that it will
pay well for all trouble to immerse the grain
before feeding. Horses while eating should
be provided with easy fitting feed-bags, such
as are made by saddlers. 1t is no saving
whatever to allow horse to eat oats out Of
box, or from the top of barrel. scattering
his much needed feed hither and thither,
while the price of such waste would in short
time more than cover the cost of sail cloth
or leather feeding bag.
Year: 1868

A DIVORCE FREAK.-A curious matrimo-
NAL affair has just transpired in Brooklyn,
the parties are not in high life or known TO
fame. but their history is nevertheless inter-
esting. Ten years ago couple, recently
married, moved from Boston to the City of
Churches, where the husband set up in busi-
ness, and prospered. His business at his
Office was better than at home; for his married
life was unhappy. and about five years ago
the parties managed to secure divorce.-
They gradually lost trace of each other, and
during the past year each of them married;
and each to- a person who had been divorced.
The two husbands were thrown together,
without knowing their real relation to each
other, and few weeks ago the one who had
married the divorced woman invited the other
to dinner. Imagine the embarrassment when
the happy husband introduced bis wife to his
friend. Both were too we'll bred to have a
scene, and SO the dinner passed off somewhat
irigidly. but with no actual unpleasantness.
The recipient Of the dinning courtesy invited
the other to 90 home with him soon after and
partake of family dinner, little thinking,
as it happened, that he was to return the
compliment in every particular 1t turned
out that each had married the divorced spouse
of the other, and it was more satisfactory to-
them to know that each was entirely pleased
with the arrangement. So much for the in.
trlcacies of matrimony. There are many a.
couple or many a pair of couples that would


be greatly benfited by such change.
Year: 1868

WEIGHT OF CATTLE.-Many experiments
have been made by graziers and dealers in
cattle to ascertain the net weight of cattle by
measurement. Rules have been given and
tables constructed of the results obtained -
AT best, these are but approximations, and
the measure of correctness will depend much
upon practical acquaintance with the form
and prominent points to be measured
Something will depend. too, on the breed,
size, mode of fattening the time the process
has been going on, and the character of the
feed supplied. The following method comes
as near correct result as any known:


Measure carefully with tape line from
the top of the shoulder to where the tail is
attached to the back; this will give the
length. For the girth, measure. immediately
behind the shoulders and fore-legs. Multiply
half the girth by itself in feet, then multiply
this product by the length. and the product
will give the net weight in stones of eight
pounds. For example. with an OK or cow
5 five feet in length and I feet in girth, the
calculation wilfbe as follows.


Multiply half the girth by itself in feet....3.5


3.5
Year: 1868

Now, between cousin Bob and the
dignifed young man come the majority
of young men, who doubt, and question,
and worry themselves whenever the SUBJ
ject Of meeting cousin comes up. Our
advice is to take cousin Bob's course.
Kiss your pretty cousins as matter of
course. If they do not expect it they
will be pleasurably disappointed; if they
do. expect it they will not think you are
formal and uncousinly. Although an
apparently radical course. it is in reality
a higher conservative course. If fam
lily objects to the kissing of cousins, as
some families do, there is time enough
after the first meeting to come to an un-
derstanding. At that meeting all are
expected to follow their own customs.
The only safe and generally satisfactory
way for young man to meet cousin
is to kiss her-frankly, honestly, heart
ily.-NeW York Mail.
Year: 1868

What young man but has asked him
self when going on visit to an uncle's
family, whether or not he was expected
to kiss his pretty cousin whom he has
not seen since she was fifteen.


The question is perplexed one. A
young gentleman wishes to do nothing
which is not expected. On the other
hand, he wishes to show sufficient
warmth of feeling to his uncle's family.


The question. too, is one which must
be answered, apparently, before reaching
the presence of his cousin. The least
hesitation is fatal. To take the hand of
pretty cousin and hesitate a second
whether to kiss or not, is out of the
question. If she expects you to kiss
her, and sees a hesitation, she thinks
there must be something improper in it,,
and blush follows that thought wheth-
er you kiss her or not. The slightest
hesitation makes it awkward in every
way. Uncle and aunt smile at each
other, and can only think of you both as
you used to be-a cunning little couple,
frolicking together and making mud pies
in the back yard. Even the Inevitable,
the omnipresent, the irrepressible little
brother sees something queer about it !;
he thinks of it, and there is no telling
in what form he may express himself on
subsequent occasion. There must be
no hesitation.


How then, must the question be deci-
ded =? Two classes of young men have
little difficulty in deciding it, but be-
tween these two classes there is a larger
class, so large that it embraces the ma
.iority of young men; those who belong
to this class can never decide the ques-
tion until the last moment, and usually
think that they have made fools of them
selves when the thing is over.


Our dignifed young man, careful of
only etiquette and anxious not to be too
familiar-fresh from the gentleman's
guide-book and recently from college,
decided promptly and easily not to kiss
his cousin. He takes her hand, is very
polite to her, repents of his decision be-
fore his eyes are away from her, and
makes up for his loss before the week is
out With rollicking cousin Bob, on
the other hand, the proceeding is very
different. He hardly asks himself
question at all. He not only expects to
kiss his pretty cousin when he meets
her, but expects to repeat the ceremony
as often as he used to do it-when she
was fifteen. He kisses her with such
hearty goodwill that all the questions
of propriety which had vexed her disap-
pear, and they are children together
again in a moment. The kiss becomes
purely a matter of relationship.
Year: 1868

The Newark (New Jersey Courier
says: Thursday last the Street Com
missioner was engaged in superintend-
ing some repairs in process in the South
Grange avenue sewer, when the heavy
shower came up, which it will be re-
membered occurred on that day. Being
anxious to complete the job in which he
Was engaged, the laborer employed in
side the sewer continued his work, not
withstanding the rain literally poured
down, and he well knew that the sewer
would speedily be full of water, as a
number of other sewers and drains
emptied into it above that point
Soon the water began to rise about
him until it was nearly knee
deep; still he felt no alarm and he toiled
on, confident that he would be done be-
fore the volume of water could fill the
sewer and render his escape impossible.
What was his CONSERVATION, however,
when suddenly looking up, he observed
by the light shed through the "man-
hole" that only few rods above it the
torrent was rushing towards him with
such force as descent of forty-four
inches to the yard would give it, and in
volume equal to the capacity of the
sewer itself. His only means of escape
was through the "man-hole," where
ladder was placed, and all de


pended upon his reaching it, from
the point below where he had been


at work, in advance of the rushing wa
ters from above. OF course he strained
every nerve, and, as good fortune would
have it, gained the ladder just as the tor
rent began to swell and surge about him.
He sprang upon it, and had safely
reached the fourth ring, when the dash
ing torrent came rushing along in all its
force, and swapping the timbers of the
ladder, like pipe stems, carried the bot
tom portion away, and left the poor fell
low hanging to the rung, in imminent
danger of yet being carried down
and drowned in the dark cham
bers of the sewer. In this horrid stu
alton he shouted for help, and his cries
were heard by Major Morris and other
Year: 1868

laborers, who hastened to his rescue, and
succeeded in drawing him out just in
time to save him from being carried
away by the force of the current. He
sunk down upon the pavement COM
pletely exhausted, and it was some mo-
ments before he recovered sufficiently to
be able to walk to his house. The com
missioner, to whom we are indebted for
the facts of the case, assures us that the
escape from his perilous situation was
truly miraculous.
Year: 1868




The subscriber, for the past ten years engaged
as cutter at Mr.. Cones Merchant Tailoring Et-
tsblishment, would inform his friends and the
citizens of Rock Island and vicinity, that he has
opened n New Merchant Tailoring Establishment
for the purpose OF manufActuring to order first
class fne cnstom work to those that have been in
the habit Of getting their garments cut by us,
while at Mr.. Cones would extend an invita-
tion TO call on Us ut our new establishment, and
to those that caunot get suited in Rock Island
and are in the habit of sending east for their gar
nents we would invite them TO call and give US n
trial, feeling confident that we can suit them in
every respect. We have a handsome assortment
of fine Cloths, oassimercs and Vestings, together
with a large variety of splendid French Coating IS
and Tricots in different shades and oolors for fine
business suits. Also fine Beavers in different
eo1ors, for overcosts,-sI Of which we viii make
TO order In the best aud most fashionable manner
atlower rates than the same class Of goods can be
obtained on either side Of the river. Call and
examine our styles, and compare our goods and
prices with those engaged IN the same business.


tEe THOMAS MCCULLOUGH,


North side of Third Street, near the Post Office,


Davenport, Iowa.
Formerly cutter at Cones.


Mp The cutting department is under our
own Supervision. nov2sdly.
Year: 1868

speak of. He married in middle age,
for no'particular reason, it would ap-
pear. Charles Wesley had married,
and Whitefeld had married. and the
Reformer seems to have thought it
was inconsistent with his dignity that
he should appear incapable OF form
ing the same tie. His wife was a.
thorn in his flesh, prosecuting him with
(of all things in the world) her Jeal-
ousy of the female correspondents,
who are the invariable solace OF such
a man. He had bargained with her
that he was not to preach sermon
or travel a mile the less for their un-
ion; and probably Mrs. Wesley did
not see much good of a husband who
was always abroad in the world, jog
ging all over England and even Scot
land, no companion or help to her,
The foolish woman did what she could
to make his life burden to him for
twenty years, and then withdrew f..
nally, for no better reason than had
dictated her former vagaries. No
doubt his placid life was rufHed by
this disturbance, but there is no ap-
pearance that any profound love exist
ed in him to give sting to the irrl-
tation. He would seem to have had
no passions to wear him out; his
deepest emotions could be brought
before the brethren to be talked over
and settled. His natural heat OF tenn
per softened down as soon as he
came to have things his own way,-a
pleasant manner of subduing that
weakness. His intolerance was only
shown towards those who troubled
him with their difference Of opinion.
In short he was not man of dogmat-
ic genius, or commissioned to impress
new opinions on his race. His busi-
ness was to convince the country it
had a soul, and to drive it with vio-
lence, if necessary, by any means that
man may use, to save that soul alive.
He was trained for this work by the
trouble he had about his own, "mak-
ing" it "a the Irish say, in the first
half of his existence. and with natural
heat insisting that everybody around
him should join in the operation. His
own spiritual history is the chart by
which he guided the great ship of


which he was made pilot. In the
early part of his life he insisted that
every man should be an ascetic; in
the latter, that every man should be
converted by a conscious movement
of Heaven, illuminated from the Holy
Ghost. His determination and te-
nacity prevailed when a lighter pur-
pose would have come to nothing
To have brought together and con5ti-
tuted such community as that OF the


Methodists, is almost as great work


taken in merely external and polit-
ical point OF view, as that of founding
a kingdom, and in right royal guise
he organized and legislated for his
spiritual empire.
Year: 1868

Blackwood's Magazine, which rep
resents political and ecclesiastical To-
ryiSm, is sending out some admirably
written and even brilliant sketches
OF men, women, social life and man
nerS as they appeared in England du-
ring the reign of George II. The
writer is as familiar with his topics
as Parton with his, and his style is
more finished and not less taking =
perhaps his estimates are just about
as fair. Here are a few extracts from
his paper chiefly devoted to Wesley
and Methodism:


1t Is scarcely necessary to our pur-
pose TO trace the after details of a
life which was no life at all in the or
binary sense of the word, but only a
mere string of preachings, journeys,
narratives Of interesting cases, and
awakening meetings. His journals
bear good deal of resemblance to
the notebook of physician; wild
records of agitation and excitement
subdued, if not by the laying on of
his hands, at least by the prayers
poured forth over the writhing pa
tient; sometimes broken by CLEANS
of miracle-actual diseases healed
and devils put to fight-sermons
preached in fell and churchyard, on
bis fathers tomb by Epworth Church,
where he was refused admittance to
the communion-everywhere-whe where
men could be got together to listen
fill up the curious, monotonous, won
derful narrative. He rode all over
the country-in the course of his life,
it is said, "above a hundred thousand
miles'-for the most part leaving the
Ireins on his horses neck and read
ing whilst he rode, blocking out the
too ready entrance of thought in a
way which it is perhaps good for a
man to do when he has found his work
in the world, and has no more time
left in which to assail and defend his
own purpose or being. 'In seventy
years [ never lost one nights Sleep
he was able to say at the close of his
life. After the troublous morning,
with all its delusive storms and lights,
a severe much-occupied existence, full
of a great work, and of that power
which was the passion of his soul, fell
to his share. Outside, trouble sur
rounded him by times; more than
once he was seized upon by a mob
whom he confronted with the cool
courage which seldom fails in such an
emergency, and which naturally, after
a short interval, changed his pursu.
ers into his champions and protectors
He had the care of the Church upon
his head, but no personal cares to