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Year: 1867

FOLLOWING are number of queries PROFOUND
ed by the Marysville appeal which some admirer
of the new State Superintendent of Schools may
see fit to answer :-s Brother Fitzgerald says
that all party politics should be carefully ex-
cluded from public schools Very well.
But what is party politics Is it party politics
to teach our children that we owe allegiance to
our Government? Is it partly politics to teach
IN the schools a reverence for the Constitution
Is 1t partizan to teach our children to abhor
treason and hate traitors? Who thinks it par
tizan to hate the treason of Benedict Arnold
Is it any more partizan to teach American chill
dren to hate JEFF. DavisH'
Year: 1867

Some time since gentleman called on the
clerk of one of our neighboring county conrts
to get marriage license. 1t was given him,
and the circumstance passed from the mind of
the clerk until three weeks afterwards the same
gentleman called for another license, bringing
his first 70 have il cancelled. Upon being
questioned in regard to the former license, he
said he {" did not marry that gsl because she
was too smart" for him she wanted to know
how much money he had, what he was going to
do with it, where he was going to take her, &C.,
&c, and he had concluded that il was hest not
to marry gal that knew so much. The Ii
cense for "gal" No. 2 was given, and he went
off perfectly happy, but returned the next day
for another license. to be married to still diff
ferent lady. This time he gave as a reason for
not having used the second license that gaP'
No. bad heard Of the second engagement
and gone TO the priest and told him that she
was engaged to the gentleman, and forbid the
performance Of the ceremony; =" but" said he,
" I've got her this time; she don't even know
that am acquainted with this gal, and I'm
going straight home and get married before
she has time to know anything Of it. If any
thing, however, should happen to prevent this
marriage, I'll be back again tomorrow for an
other license, for there are whole field of gals
after me-" But he succeeded in his last effort,
and did not return again. These facts were
related to US by the Clerk Of the Court.-Rich.
Dispatch.
Year: 1867

a REMEDY FOR HYDRoPHoBIA.-Ihe news
papers have published interesting accounts of
the treatment of Miss Eler, young lady re-
siding at Beck's Station, Indiana. for hydro
phobia. The disease had manifested itself in
a decided form, and the usual remedies had
been applied in vain. Bromide of potassium
was then prescribed with apparently favorable
results. Later accounts state that a complete
cure has been effected A medical account Of
this case should be published for the use of the
profession and the public, as the discovery of a
cure for this terrible disease is matter OF gem
eral interest Bromide of potassium is a spe-
ci6c for epilepsy and delerium tremens, but ito
application for hydrophobia is. we believe,
novel.
Year: 1867

GAPEs IN CHIcxEYs.-A writer, speaking Of
gapcs in chickens, says: Il know prevent
tive that have used for the last five years, and
have not lost a single chicken by the gapcs.
suppose a good many persons will not give it
even trial, it is 50 simple remedy. The
remedy is this: When they are about week
old, put tablespoonful of powdered sulphur
in their feed, mix this in two quarts of feed,
doing SO two or three times week until they
get big enough to be out of the way of this dis
ease. This recipe is worth great deal in save
ing thousands of chickens yearly. hav-
known people to lose a hundred a year, and
yet laugh at this simple remedy, which is all
the better because it is so simple. Any person
can give it a trial, and let me know the worth
of il to them"
Year: 1867




Having frequently seen reports Of extraordi-
nary success in raising potatoes by covering
them with straw, was induced to try it upon
a small scale.


A plat in my garden, about fifty feet square,
Of well manured clayey loan, was nicely spa
ded up and made fine and smooth. 1t was
then marked out in shallow drills. two feet and
a half apart and potatoes (of the pink-eye va
rietyl planted whole, two feet apart in drills,
and barely covered with earth The whole
patch was then covered with dry wheat straw
spread lightly and evenly with pitchfork, to
the depth of about two feet. Several showers
occurred soon after the potatoes were planted,
which settled the straw very considerably and
in due time the vines came up through the
straw, and soon covered the entire surface with
the rankest vegetation.


Nothing more was done 10 the patch till the
vines were killed by frost in autumn. Not a
weed appeared among them. At the usual
time Of digging potatoes the dead vines were
all pulled, aud removed; then with potato
fork, the layer Of s.raw--which was pretty
well rotted, and not more then four or five
inches in thckness-was carefully removed
To my great surprise, there lay the potatoes
on the surface. literally corering the ground
and almost as clean as il, The. had besa WASHED
Tncy were pIckeu up and measured, but the
quantity | do not remember. This much
however, well reccllect, that never raised
81 good crop by any other mode Of culture.
They were Of very uniform size and good
quality. - Ohio Valley Farmer.
Year: 1867

There is now living in Lawrence County,
Ohio, gentleman who separated from his wife,
in Pennsylvania many years ago. He came to
Southern Ohio. and married Miss p, Of
Marietta After the second wife's death a
daughter by the first marriage brought about
a reconciliation between her father and her
mother, and they were remarked more than
twenty years after the date Of their separation
tho frst wife becoming the lhird.
Year: 1867

Next in importance to impeachment,
stands the proposition Of General Butler to
redeem the 5.20s with currency. This
class of government securities, after the
conversion of the first and second series
of 1905, will constitute nearly thrce,iourths
OF the entire amount Of our national debt.
The first series OF Il think) five hundred
millions were payable, interest and princi.
pal, in coin. The nc; under which subse.
qucnt issues weIe made did not stdte spc.
officially that tho principal should bc paid


n coin but Congress 80 understood II and
the promise was daily made for two years
to the people, in every newspaper Of tho
land, by the financial agents Of the Govern
ment. under direction Of the Secretary Of
the Treasury, and with tho knowledge Of
Congress, that the principal and interest Of
these Bonds should be paid in gold. This
move of General Butler in the wake of Tho
few rascals who ARE preaching Reputation
in some parts of tho country, and urging
us to assume before the world the attitude
of a nation Of swindlc~ is, in politics, the
game of n political trickster,-in business.
the net of knnvc who seeks, through the
tcrhnicaliiies Of law, to rob his creditors Of
their honest dues. Coming from General
Butler, this dishonest proposition savors
strongly of the traditional Democratic pro.
cliviiy to cheat; and when il is remember.
ed that the author Of this projected swindle
has for six years been conspicuous for his
devotion to those principles which carried
our country triumphantly through the war
of rebellion, the moral may teach us how
utterly impossible !, is for politician to be
honest, who made his baptismal vows ut
the altar Of Democracy, and into whose
mental system the Democratic idea has
once been thoroughly infused.
Year: 1867

WALSH ALLEN, of Marysville, one of the
heavisst dry goods dealing firms in Northern Cali
fornia have written to to reserve them column
space n our next issue which they propose to oc-
cupyR proposals to furnish the people of Butte
comfy with dry goods. They are already in re-
ceiptj the most extensive stock in the upper
country, which they are selling at peace prices.
Persons living in Oroville and vicinity who may
desire to purchase bill of dry goods, will find they
can procure better article at less cost. by taking
the cars aud going to Walsh & Aliens, than by at
tempting to purchase elsewhere. Try it. ani if
you do not find it have stated, and feel better
for dealing with an honorable, upright, enterpris-
ing liberal and gentlemanly firm, you may call at
the BurrE RECORD office for free passage to Ma
rysyile and back, for their second trip, and it
shall not be wanting.
Year: 1867

The Euansuille (Ind.) Courier tells the fol-
lowing marvellous story:


One of the most mysterious circumstan-
ces we have ever seen recorded, occurred in
Goodsellville yesterday morning-a wo-
mans hair being cut from her head by an
unknown hand. We learn the following
particulars of this strange affair from
gentleman who saw the hair which was
cut from the lady's head: "As Miss Meyer,
q daughter of j. Meyer, residing in Good
sellville, was going up in a stable lott for
some purpose or other, when half way up
the ladder she felt something touch her on
the back OF the head, She paid no attention
to this, but continued her way up. Again
she felt it more and more sensibly-this
time feeling keen cut through her hair.
She fell to the floor of the stable with
sharp scream, which brought the family to
her rescue. On examination it was dis
covered that the braids of her hair had
been cut otf-her hair being done up in two
braids. The hair was cut about four inches
from the skin, and could not have been done
with scissor. as she would have felt that
instrument. The family, on coming to the
girls assistance, searched the premises, but
could find nobody or nothing to indicate
there was an opening on the inside, throuGh
which a person could jump out. The Young
lady herself neither saw nor heard anv
thing. The braid of her hair was found
afterward in the stable. 1t had the appear-
ance OF being cut even, and with a sharp
instrument. This is indeed strange case $


Good-seu-ville" is very proper place
for such an occurrence.
Year: 1867

Chief Justice Chase visited Ohio Just be-
fore the election and made speech in fa-
vor of the party advocating that universal
negro suffrage of which he has always been
understood to be a potential advocate; but
the results of the election seem, if reports
be true, to have unsettled his political un-
derstanding, so that he not only fails to re-
member what manner of man he was, but
his trusty friend, the Cincinnati Commercial,
makes proclamation that notwithstanding 9
the great reputation as a radical that j Judge
Chase has, he is in temperament and con-
victions one of the most truly conserva-
tive men in the country" Not only does
he discountenance entirely the confiscaton
of the lands of Southern white men and
their division among the negroes, and is
also opposed to the impeachment of the
President, but as to negro suffrage the Com
mercidl says:


He never urged it. He recognized the
fact that while in the Southern States,
where the great body of loyalists were
black, negro suffrage was demanded by
considerations of the public safety, no
such demand was made in the North, and
that the Southern whites might, in great
degree, have their prejudices conquered
by coupling suffrage with amnesty, while
there was no such inducement in the
North to make application of the golden
rule"


Accepting in good faith this statement in
behalf of the Chief Justice, it can only be
said that the interior emotion produced by
the results Of the Ohio election appears to
have turned his head nearly 90 rebel grey
in single night. IT New York and one or
two other states should happen to go in
the same direction, we shall not be sur
prised if some of his confidential organs
discover that he is not only opposed to col
ored suffrage in the North, but that his fine
moral sense and mate love of justice have
always revolted at the idea of compelling
the South to make that her daily bread
which the North will not touch even in in
tiniiessimal doses. Should the Jumping
back process, as indicated by the election,
60 on with the rank and file of the Radi-
calls, they need have no fear that their
leaders will fail to keep pace with any pop
ular movement, even if it be i'm the direc-
tion of conservatism and common sense.
Year: 1867

A VICIOUS dog gave vent to his spite
against a man he met on the street in In
dianopolis, recently. by biting him in the
leg. Instead of driving him away. the
man stood still and let him work. The leg
being a wooden one, the biting didn't hurt
the man, and it seemed to afford the dog
the greatest satisfaction.
Year: 1867

There is a spot to me more dear


Than native vale or mountain.
A spot for which affections tear


Springs grateful from its fountain.
'Tis not where kindred souls abound,
Though that is almost heaven,
But when first my Savior found


felt my sins forgiven.
Hard was my toll to reach the shore,


Long tossed upon the ocean,
Above me was the thunder's roar,


Beneath. the waves cOmmotion.
Darkly the pail of night was thrown


Around ne, faint with terror
In that dark hour, how did my groan


Ascend for years of error.
Signing and painting as for breath,


knew not help was near me;
| cried Oh. save me, Lord, from death,
Immortal Jesus, hear me
Then quick as thought / felt him mine,
My Savior stood before mel
l saw his brightness round me shine,
And shouted Glory Glory
o! sacred hour. 0! hal!owed spot!
Where love divine first found ne
Wherever falls my distant lot,
My heart shall linger round thee
Aud when from earth rise to soar
Up TO my home in heaven,
Down will / send my eyes once more
Where first L was forgiven.
Year: 1867

To people who take special fondness in
the marvellous, the prodigious, and the Bar
numesque, this little story which comes from
Jacksonville may be of some interest: "a
puny little fellow named Peter Bangan, who
is sixteen years old, yet who only weighs 443
pounds, was yesterday in our city, and gazed
upon with wonder by many This poor boy
was born and raised in Cass county, where
his family still reside. He has some seven
brothers and sisters, all of whom are OF or
dlnary size, except one sister, who now, at
the age Of eight, weighs 275 pounds Pc
ter is now on his way to ST Louis, where
an agent is waiting to take him to New
York for exhibition. To give our readers
some idea of his flesh, We noticed that yes
terday, while he was sitting in one of the
largest chair to be found, more of his body
was hanging over the edges of the chair
than there was in it.
Year: 1867

A FELINE AvENGER. An old woman
who died in ireland had nephew to whom
she left, by will, all she possessed. She
happened to have favorite cat, who never
left her, and even remained by the corpse
after death. After the will was read, in the
adjoining room, on opening the door, the
cat sprung at the nephew, seized him by
the throat, and was with difficulty prevent
ed from strangling him. This man died
about eighteen months after this scene, and
on his death bed confessed that he had muir
dered his aunt to get possession of her
property.
Year: 1867

AFTER much training ofquite youngster
to keep him still at the table long enough
for the blessing" he sat very quiet one day
till near the close of the service, his mother
beginning inwardly to congratulate herself
that for once he had kept still, when he
Suddenly called out, "at'll do, papa; pass
plates now"
Year: 1867

WANTED TO KNow.-The color of the
minds eye? The flavor of the cup of bit
terness? The size of piece of chalk? The
weight of load of sorrow? Is it murder
to drown your sorrows or TO kill time? Is
it bigamy for married man to be welded
to his opinions Is it desertion of family
for man to forsake his evil ways? Is it
suicide if you bury yourself in thought, or
smother Yourself in urief2
Year: 1867

To kill roaches-Put your reaches in a
barrel, put on IA pair of heavy boots and get
in and dance. To render mosquitoes harm
less-Pull out their bills with pair of tongs.
To kill feas- Tie them to the bed post with
log chains, and lei the dogs finish them
Year: 1867

Dust AND GIRLs.-A few Sabbaths since,
Eda was, at her own request, allowed to go
to Sabbath school her first time, and there
she learned the startling intelligence that
she was made of dust Little Eda' S mind
was fully impressed with the importance of
the great truth, as was evinced by her tre-
quent reference to the subject, in the shape
Of questions answerable. This morning,
however, she propouned sumner which
brought down the house. Intently watch
ing her mother sweeping, as if to learn the
art she must finally practice, saying not a
word, her eyes rested on the little pile of
dirt accumulated by her mothers broom.
Just as the dirt was to be swept into the
street, the little philosopher burst forth
with, MA, ma, why don't you save the
dust to make some more little girls?"
Year: 1867

The only way to be happy is to take the
drops of happiness as God gives them to US
every day of our lives. The boy must learn
to be happy while he is learning his trade !;
the merchant while he is making his for
tune. If he fails to learn this art, he will
miss his enjoyment when he gains what he
has sighed for
Year: 1867

Little deeds of love and kindness cheer
the downcast spirit, and fill the aching
hearts with gladness Minutes, hours and
days make the year; so the smaller acts
and thoughts of life prepare US for eternity.
Year: 1867

The noblest spirits are those which turn
to Heaven not in the hour of sorrow, but in
that of joy; like the lark, they wait for the
clouds to disperse to soar up into their ma
tive element.
Year: 1867

Voltaire said: 'sThe more married
men you have the fewer crimes there
will be. Marriage renders man more
virtuous and more wise. An unmar


ried man is but half a perfect being,
and it itrequires the other half to make
things right; and it cannot be expected
that in this imperfect state he can keep
the straight path of rectitude any more
than a boat with one oar, or bird with
one wing can keep a straight course.
In zine cases out of ten where married
men become drunkards. or where they
commit crimes against the peace of the
community, the foundation of these
acts was laid while in single state, or
where the wife is, as sometimes the
case, an unsuitable match. Marriage
changes the current of mans feelings.
and gives him centre for his thoughts,
his affections, and his acts. Here is a
home for the entire man, and the coun-
sci, the affections, the example, and the
interest of his "better half'' keep him
from erratic courses, and from falling
into thousand temptations to which
he would otherwise be exposed
Therefore the friend to marriage is the
friend to society and his country"
Year: 1867

Governor Perry's proposition to give
the ballot to such of the freedmen
who can read, write, and have proper
ty qualifications, without disfranchis-
ing any of the white voters, meets with
favor among some of the Southern pa
pers. The Memphis Commercial amp
Argus, which has hitherto strongly op-
posed anything looking towards the po-
litical elevation of the negro, now ap-
pears to!favor Governor Perry's prop
osition for qualified negro suffrage
After setting forth the reasons that
would render the adoption of universal
suffrage unwise, and showing the injus-
tice Of the deprivation Of large class
of white voters of their accustomed
rights by the establishment of gener-
al system of restricted suffrage, the
Commercial and Argus says:


But if partial suffrage for the negro
were accepted by the South, as final
settlement, leaving whitd suffrage as it
now stands, the political rights of the
negro would be advaochd to a point
which would open up a chance for the
freedmen who aspire to it, to reach the
converted prize. It would stimulate
them to acquire education, aud render
themselves worthy to become voters
1t would set them forward to a condi-
ton quite equal to what they occupy in
the Northern States. And this would
be effected without turning back the
hands Of our political dial, aud with hout
depriving of rights, long enjoyed, any
portion of our white population, who
would naturally regard any restriction
including themselves, as the depriva-
ton of a cherished birthright. f


1t is great stride in Southern opin-
ion, when such a paper as our Memphis
contemporary admits that the negro
can be impelled by any other stimulant
than the whip, and that he is capable
not only of acquiring education, but of
rendering himself worthy to bea voter
Perhaps, in course Of time. it may be
discovered that an intelligent and we'll
behaved negro will make a better may
or for the city of Memphis, than the
drunken debauched white man who has
for the past two or three years disgrac-
ed the office and humiliated every de-
cent citizen, whether secessionist or
loyalist.
Year: 1867

ening his tone lie turned to the woman,
now sobbing Historically, " she shall choose be-
tween us"


'Oh, Harryl' said she, while Tompkins
stood dumb with astonishment, ' take me-saye
me!'


With one step he was at her side, holding her
in his arms. "What did you mean by treating
this poor child so? Did you this because She
had no earthly protector-did you think there
was not God in Heaven against you? No man
who is cruel to woman is ever truly brave, -
and Tompkins skunk away like a beaten spaniel


The next day had not passed away before ev-
crybody in the town knew that Harry Jones had
come, alive and well, to rescue his much endur-
ing patient wife from constraint than
that of British prison ; but what they alBsaid,
and what Harry said, and what Molly said, and
what Molly felt, must leave you TO imagine for
here the legend ends.
Year: 1867

A GREAT OuTRAGE.-Sixteen eighteen ruff
fans the other day outraged young woman in
Hoboken, and left her for dead, whereupou the
Times Justly remarks "a If every one of the
ruffians engaged in this awful outrage had been
then and there tied to the stake, and very slowly
roasted alive, there would not have been tear
shed over their fate"
Year: 1867

The NEXT PREsiDESr-The ST. Louis Demo-
Gratis Jefferson City dispatch says 80 Governor
Fletcher and large number of the leading men
Of the Northwestern States are corresponding
with the view of securing the nomination OF
Secretary Stanton for the next President
Year: 1867

There is a prevailing impression that the ten
uehey OF prices during the past year has been
downward, that business has been checked by
ina. tendency, and that for some time to come
. iaiiins market will prevent any great activity
" '.aue' This impression is partly correct and
parity erroneous. There has been state of
uncertainty arising from the fact that sooner
or later contraction of prices must come
which has restricted business operations almost
as effectually as if the crisis had been ac,paI,,
present. The following list of wholesale priccs
in this market on the 1st day of the present
month and a year before will serve to exhibit
with tolerable accuracy the result of the year )
work for certain leading articles:
Year: 1867

severe the penalty the less likely will iuries be
to convict and the less resolutely will executive
officers perform their duty? But our object
in this article was rather t. show how good a
law we now have than to discuss any new pro
visions, and having done this we have no more
to add
Year: 1867

"A clam merchant meeting one of his own
considered q beautiful specimen OF a living
skeleton, demonstrated with the owner and
asked him If he ever fed him. Ever fed h mi
that's good one" was the reply, hes got a
bushel and a half of oats at home now, only he
hah't got time to eat EN-.