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Year: 1868

The BEETLES IN UTAH.-The Aus
tin (Nev.) Reveille, of June 18th, gives
the following description of this for
midable and dreadful plague:


Utah is not plagued with Iocusts,
but with an insect called the "ele-
phant beetle" A reliable person who
returned from the neighborhood of
Salt Lake last week saw myriads of
them covering the earth with their
shining, brownish black bodies. and
destroying everything which they met
in their path. Even small animals, he
was informed by the illfated residents
that they did not escape the voracity
Of these hordes; their bodies were
crowded upon, and worried, and woun-
ded cruelty with their powerful an
tenn@ until they fell down exhausted
by their struggles and loss Of blood,
when they were fastened upon by
thousands and devoured. The entire
carcass Of a sheep was eaten and the
bones picked in two minutes and a
quarter; and it is said that a dead OK
would be gObbled up by them in a
quarter of an hour. So ferocious are
these giant beetles that mothers are
afraid TO let their children 90 out of
the house unattended by grown per-
son. In their frequent bloody con-
tests the wounded are devoured on
the instant.


Our informant says they are about
four inches long, with legs three in
ches long; their antenn@ are stiff,
sharp, and full four inches long; they
have a short tail armed with a pow
erful horn, and their shells are so
hard that the weight of a man will
scarcely crush them. They are very
frisky at times, and jump with the
agility of feas. No other species of
the beetle possess their faculty of ut
tering loud sound, which made by
thousands of them at once, resemble
the braying Of a band of jackasSeS.-
Their noise terrified the horses of our
informant and his companion, which
could not be kept upon the plain, so
great was their fright. On one occa-
sion while they were riding in a val
ley that was black with beetles, and
crushing them under their horses
hoofs, when their hard cases would
crack with report like rife, the
fierce insects showed a disposition to
attack the horses, and fairly drove
them out the field. We are informed
that scientific man in Salt Lake city
was collecting specimens Of this for
midable elephant beetle, for transmis,
sion to various learned institutions of
the country.
Year: 1868

Night had set in, deep, and in a
small log hut, few miles from Tren-
ton. n. j., sat five men, four of whom
were seated around an old oaken ta-
ble in the center of the room, engaged
in playing cards, while they frequent
ly mOistened their throats with large
draughts from an earthen jug that
stood upon the table.


They were heavy bearded, coarse
looking men, and from their dress,
which somewhat resembled the Brit
ish uniform, they were evidently To-
ries. The other was a stout built
young man, clad in the continental
uniform. He sat in one corner of the
room with his face buried in his hands.
"Tom," said one of the tories, rising
from the table and seating himself
near the young prisoner, for such he
evidently was, "Tom. you and | were
school boys together, and | love you
yet. Now. why can't you give up
your wild notions and join us? You
are our prisoner, and if you don't, we
shall hand you over to headquarters
tomorrow, while if you join US, your
fortune is made, for with your bravery
and talents you will soon distinguish
yourself in the royal army, and, after
the rebellion is crushed out, your
cause shall be rewarded by knight
hood and promotion in the armv.-
Now, there are two alternatives, which
do you choose p ss 81


"Neither," said the young man, rails
ing his head and looking the tory
steadily in the eye.


81 am now, as you say, your pris-
oner, but when the clock strikes IL, /
shall disappear in cloud of fire and
smoke, and neither you nor your COM
rades, nor even myself can prevent it.
You may watch me as closely as you
please, tie me hand and foot if you
will, but a higher power than yours
or mine has ordained that | shall
leave you at that time"


"Poor fellow! his mind wanders,' y
said the tory; she'll talk differently
in the morning And he returned 20
his seat at the table, leaving the youth
with his head again resting in his
hands.


When the clock struck eleven the
young prisoner drew pipe and some
tobacco from his pocket, and asked
the tory leader if he had any objec-
tions to his smoking. "None in the
least" he said, "that is, if you will
promise not to disappear in a cloud
of tobacco smoke" "


The young man made no reply, but
Immediately filed his pipe, having
done which, he arose and commenced
pacing the floor.


He took half a dozen turns up and
down each side of the room, approach
ling nearer the table each time, when,
having exhausted his pipe, he return.
ed to his seat and re-filled it.
Year: 1868

A good wife rose from her bed one morn,
And thought with nervous dread
OF the piles of clothes to be washed, and


more


Than dozen mouths to be fed.
There are meals to be got for men in the


field,


And the children to fix away
To school, and the milk to be skinned


and churned;


And all to be done that day
1t had rained in the night, and all the wood
Was wet as it could be;
And there were pudding and pies to bake,
Besides a loaf of cake for tea,
The day was hot and her aching head
Throbbed YEARLY as she said,-
'Tf maidens but knew what good wives


know,


They would be in no hurry to we'd"
Jennie, what do you think I told Ben


BrOwn?"


Called the farmer from the well;
And a flash crept up to his bronzed brow,
And his eye half fbashfully fell;
"It was this" he said, and coming near,
He smiled, and stopping down,
Kissed her cheek" twas this, that yol


uere the best


and dearest aCite in torn l'
The farmer went back to the field and the


wife,


In smiling and absent way,
Sang snatches of tender little songs
She'd not sung for many a day.
And the pain in her head was gone, and


the clothes


Were white as foam of the sea;
Her bread was light, and her butter was


sweet,


And golden as it could be.
Just think" the children all called, in a


breath,


"TOm Wood has run off to sea!
He wouldn't, l know, if he only had
As happy home as We"
The night came down and the good wife
smiled


To herself, as she softly said:
"'Tis sweet to labor for those we love,
1t is not strange that maids will wed p
Year: 1868

He continued to smoke until the
clock struck twelve, when he arose
from his seat, and slowly knocking the
ashes out of his pipe, said:


"There, boys, it is twelve o'clock,
and | must leave you. Good bye~


Immediately all around the, room
were seen streaks of fire kissing and
squirming. The cabin was filled with
dense sulphurous smoke, amidst which
was heard clap of thunder. The to-
ries sat in their chairs paralyzed with
fright.


The smoke cleared away, but the
prisoner was nowhere to be SEEM
The table was overturned, the win
dow was smashed TO pieces, and one
chair was lying on the ground outside
of the building.


The tory leader, after recovering
from his stupor, gave one glance ar
ound the room, and sprang out of the
window, followed by his comrades
They ran through the forest at the
top of their speed in the direction of
the British encampment, leaving their
muskets and other arms to the mercy
of the flames, which had now began to
devour the cabin.


The next day two young men, dress
ed in continental uniform, were seen
standing near the ruins of the old
cabin. One was our prisoner of the
night previous. "Let US hear all about
it, Tom" said the other.


"Well," said he, "last evening as |
was passing this place, two tories ran
out Of the cabin and took possession
of me. Before | could make any re-
sistance they took me in, and who do
you suppose | saw as a leader of their
party, but John Barton, our old school
mate He talked with me and tried
to induce me to join them; but told
them | couldn't do it; that at twelve
o'clock | was going to escape, disap-
pear in a cloud of fire and smoke, but
he laughed at me, and said | was out
of my head. About eleven O'Clock
asked him if | might smoke. He said
he had no objection; so | filled my
pipe and lighted it, and commenced
walking the floor. had aoout a pound
of gunpowder in my pocket, and as
walked strewed it all over the floor.
When the clock struck twelve | bade
them good bye, and told them | had
to 90; and then knocking the ashes
out of my pipe, the powder ignited
and a dazzling fame of fire shot across,
around and all over the room, filling
it with a suffocating smoke. Before
it cleared away hurled a chair thro'
the window, sprang out and departed,
leaving them to their own reflections.
You know the rest"
Year: 1868

Ex-Governor Fairfield of Michigan,
relates the following beautiful Incl
dent Of Prussian history:


[ remember-if you will pardon me
for this word of illustration | know
a windmill is an ordinary thing, that
there is nothing beautiful about it !;
but | remember seeing one that seem
ed beautiful. 1t had its history. Its
history you will allow me to revert to.
When Frederick the Great was EN-
.peror of Prussia, he went out a little
way from Berlin and built him a pal
ace at San Souci. He aud the empress
were seated one Sabbath afternoon in
their beautiful grounds, and the en-
press said:


Il don't like that old windmill over
there, | wish you would buy the
grounds and tear it away, as it mars
the beauty of our grounds, being right
alongside, and so near them here"


"Ill do it tomorrow" said he.


So on the morrow he went to the
miller and told him he wished to buy
his little homestead.


"I don't wish to sell" said the mil
Ter.


But" said the emperor. must
have it; | wish to extend and beautify
my grounds, and your windmill is an
eyesore to the empress"


But" said he, my grandfather is
buried yonder, and my father is buried
there, and this has been the home of
my ancestors for generations; | want
to live and die here, and | cannot sell
it."


The emperor getting out of pa
tience, sal he would order his men
to tear the mill down, and take pos
session of the grounds.


Said the miller, May it please
your majesty, there are laws in Prus-
sia, and | can sue you"


"I don't care" said the emperor,
and went on and tore down the mill.
The miller sued him, and the courts
decided against his majesty, and de-
clared that he should rebuild the mill,
and pay to the last farthing, all the
miller had lost.


The emperor bowed his head and
went and rebuilt the mill, and paid all
damages. After a while Frederick
the Great was in his grave, and the
old miller was gone; and by and by
another miller was there, and anoth-
er emperor was on the throne. The
miller wrote to his reigning majesty,
that his grandfather had refused to
sell his windmill and homestead to
him but, said he, {" | am poor and need
the money, and / will sell, and hope
the price may be such as to please
your majesty. | must have five thou
sand dollars y


The emperor with his own hand
wrote reply. He wrote simply this :
+" You say you are poor. | am sorry
for it. You are willing to sell your
windmill for five thousand dollars
The windmill cannot be sold. It be-
longs to Prussian history. Inclosed
find my check for FIVE thousand dol
lars. Yours respectfully" And the
name and the great seal of the empe-
ror was affixed. ao4G
| stood near the mill on beautiful
afternoon, such as this has been, and
wandered among the trees or listened
to the singing of birds, and caught
Year: 1868

On opening bag of buckwheat at
an Iowa city Iowa. mill the other
day, the miller discovered supple
mentary bag containing s37O in gold
and silver. A few nights afterward
the miller was awakened by the own.
er, who said that he had had this
buckwheat on hand some four years
and about that time made it the place
of deposit of this money, but forgot
all about it when he took his grist to
mill
Year: 1868

the fragrance from ten thousand beau
tiful flowers that filled the air with
their perfumes: | thought the most
beautiful thing of all I saw was that
windmill, with its ungainly arms, as l
watched it swing around those arms,
the tears came unbidden to my eyes,
for it seemed to swing those giant
arms around for the defence of the
humblest-for the poor as we'll as the
mightiest. And that is the glory of
government everywhere.
Year: 1868

have bought the Marble Works in Barton, and
removed them to the basement of KimbalI &
as at any other shop in the County. They war
rant their work to please all who may have it,
Those wishing anything in their line will do well
by calling upon them before purchasing else
where. Remember the place.


UNDER KIMBALL & PIERCE'S STORE.


Barton, May 30, IS6S-22
Year: 1868

EN NJ PERRY, the old and experienced Den
4 tist ofOrleans County is still at Barton,
ing to his profession in a prompt and efficient
manner Also to extract teeth without pain, by
the use of Nitrous Oxide Having one of the
best Apparatus in use. Charges reasonable as
those Of any respectable Dentist Please call.
Advice gratis


Barton Oct. %, 1867.
Year: 1868

So we heard a great strapping young man
exclaim the other day in an Office. We did
want to give him a peiceo Of our mind SO bad;
and We just write to him. You want cap
ital do you? And suppose you had what
son call capital what would you do with it ?
You want capital? Haven't you hands and
brains, and don't you call them capital?
What more capital did Cox give any body?
"0h, but they are not money, you say.
But they are more than money, and no
body can take them from you. Don't you
know how to use them? IF you don't its
time you were learning. Take hold of the
first ploR, or hoe, or jack plane, or broad
axe that you can find, and gotowork. Your
capital viii soon yield a large interest. Ay,
but there's the rub! You don't want to
work; you want credit, that you may play
gentleman and speculate and end by play
ing vagabond.


Or you want plantation with plenty Of
hirelings upon it to do the work, while you
run over the country and dissipate; or want
some rich girl who may be foolish enough
to take you for your good looks, that she
may support you.


Shame on you mani Go to work with
the capital you have, and you'll soon make
interest enough upon it to give you as much
money as you want and make you feel ike a
man. IF you want to make money orcan' t
make money on what capital YOU have, you
could not make it if you had million Of
dollars in money. Ifyou don't know how
to use bone and muscle and brains You
would not know how to use gold. IF you
let the capital you have lie idle, and waste
and rust out, it would be the same with you
if you had goldi youwould only know how
to waste it.


Then don't stand about idle, a great help
less child waiting for somebody to come in
and feed you, but 60 to work Take the
first work you can find no matter what it is,
so that you may do it we'll Yes, whatever
you undertake do it well; always DO your
best. IF you manage'th the capital you already
have, you will soon have plenty more to
manage; bat if you can't or won't manage
the capital God has given you, you viii
never have any other to manage. Do you
hear that young man
Year: 1868

First-To think that the more man eats
the fatter and stronger he viii become.


Second-To believe that the more hours
children study at school the faster they
learn.


Tbird-To conclude that if exercise is
good for the health, the more violent and
exhausting it is the more good is done.


Fourth-To imagine that every hour
taken from sleep is an hour gained.


Fifth-To act on the presumption that
the smallest room in the house Is large
enough to sleep in.


Sixth-To argue that whatever remedy
causes one to feel Immediately better is
good for the system, without regard to
more Interior effects The soothing syr-
up, for example, does not stop the cough
of children, and does arrest diarrhea, only
to cause, little later, alarming commissions,
or the more fatal inflammation Of the brain,
or water on the brain, at least, always
portraits the disease.


Seventh-To commit an act which is felt
in itself to be prejudicial, hoping that
somehow or other it may be done in your
case with impunity.


Eighth-To advise another to take a
remedy which you have not tried on your
self or without making special inquiry
whether all the conditions are alike.


Ninth-To eat without an appetite, Of
continue to eat after it has been satisfied
merely to crafty the taste.


Tenth-To eat hearty supper for th'
pleasure experienced during the brief tint
it is passing down the throat, at the szpens'
Year: 1868




Many children, instead Of being plump
aud fresh as peach, are as withered aud
wrinkled as last year 5 apples, because they
do not sleep enough Some physicians
think that the bones grew only during sleep
This 1 cannot say, certainly; but do know
that those lite folks who sit up late at
nights are usually nervous, weak, small, and
sickly. The reason you need more sleep
than your parents is because you have to
grow, and they do not. They can use up
the food they eat in thinking, talking, and
working, while you should save some Of
yours for growing. You ought to sleep a
great deal; if you do not, you willin activity
consume all you eat, and have none, or not
enough TO grow with. Very few smart
children excel, or even equal, other people
when they grow up. Why is this 2 Because
their heads, if not their bodies, are kept too
busy: 50 that they cannot sleep, rest, and
grow strong in body and brain. Now, when
your mother says, Susie or Georgia. or
whatever your name msg be, it is time to
20 to bed do not worry her by begging to sit
up ''iust little longer" But hurry off TO
your chamber, remembering that you have
a great deal of sleeping and growing to dc


to make you healthy, happy, useful mar
or woman.
Year: 1868

of a whole night Of disturbed sleep, and a
weary waking in the morning.


Eleyenth-To remove portion Of the
clothing Immediately after exercise, when
the most stupid drayman in New York
knows that if he does not put cover on his
horse the moment he ceases work ia winter,
he will lose him in few days By pneumo-
MIA.


Tselfh-To contend that because the
dirtiest children in the street, or in the high
way, are hearty aud healthy therefore it is
healthy to be dirty forgetting that contin
uous exposure to the pure outdoor air in
joyous, uhrestrained activities, is such a
powerful agency for health, that those who
live thus are well, in spite Of rags and filth.


Thirtecnth-To presume TO repeat later
in life, without injury, the indiscretions,
exposures, and intemperances which IN the
flush Of youth were practiced with impunity.


kourteenth-To believe that warm air is
necessarily impure, or that pure, cold air IS
necessarily more healthy than the confined
air Of close and crowded vehicles the latter,
at the most, can only cause fainting and
nausea, while entering conveyance after
walking briskly, lowering a window, thus,
while still, being exposed to a draft viii
give a cold infalIibly, or an attack ofpIeurisy
or pneumonia which will cause weeks and
months of suffering, if not actual death
within four days.


Fifteenth-To remember the Sabbath
day by working harder and later on
Saturday than on any other day in the
week, with view to sleep late the next
morning, and staying at home all day to
rest. conscience being quieted by the plea Of
not feeling very well.-HaPs Journal Of
Health.
Year: 1868

Dox'T be ashamed nly lad. if you have
patch On YOUR elbow: it is No mark Of dis
grace. II speaks well for your industrious
mother For our part we would rather see
a dozen patches on your jacket than hear
one profane or vulgar word from your bps,
or to smell the fumes Of tobacco in your
breath. No good boy viii shun you because
YOU cannot dress as well as your companion
and if bad boy sometimes laughs at your
appearance, say nothing, my good lad, but
walk en-. We know many q rich and good
man who was once as poor as you. Fear
God, my boy, and if you are poor but honest.
you viii be respected a great deal more than
if you were the son of rich man, and were
addicted to bad habits.
Year: 1868

PAYING THE DEBT OF NATURE. Nc, it
is not paying debt; it is rather like bring
ing note to bank, to obtain solid gold for
it, In this case you bring this cumbrous
body, which is worth nothing, and which
you would not wish to retain long; you lay
it down, and receive for it, from the eternal
treasury, liberty, victory, knowledge, rap
ture. Poster
Year: 1868

A GENTLEMAN asked clergyman the
use of his pulpit for young divine. y
really do not know" said the clergyman,
how to refuse you; but if the young man
can preach better than can, my congTea-
ton would be dissatifed with me afterwards
and if be should preach worse, don't think
he's ct 10 preach at all
Year: 1868

WHAT MADE HIM so SWEET. Charley
what is it that makes you so sweet ?? sand 4
loving mother one day TO her little boy as
she pressed him to her bosom.


Il dess when Cod made me out of dust he
put little dugar in. said Charley.


God has put little sugar in the disposI-
ton of all children. Some keep it thaTo-
and they are always sweet, and He cannot
help loving them Some lose the sugar
that God gave them, and then they become
sour and disagreeable. Keep yourselves
always sweet, dear children, with the sugar
of lore, and you will always be loved. r.
T0uHg Pilgrim.
Year: 1868

WORDS FOR BOYS To REMEMBER. Lib
erty is the right to do whatever you wish
without interfering with the rights Of Others.


Save your money and you will find it one
of the most useful friends


Never give trouble to your father or
mother


Take care of your pennies and they sid
grow to dollars.


Intemperance is the cause Of nearly all
the trouble IN this world; beware Of strong
drink


The poorest boy, if he be industrious.
honest and saving, nay reach the highest
honor in the land.


Never be cruel to dumb animal; re-
member it has no power to tell how much
it suffers
Year: 1868

Also to elect County Committee for the ensuing
year.


Each city and town will be entitled to send two del
egetes, and an additional delegate tor every seventy
five votes cast for Gen. Chamberlain at the Guber-
material Election OF 1851 fraction of forty votes
will be untitled an additional delanata as Elloua
Year: 1868

the Southern States. 1.-The succeeds in the
rebel States, it will be bya mere form
al choice, unaccompanied by that vol.
untary action which makes free and
fair election. Even if those States
sheuld give him their vote, the manner
in which it is done, will rob the success
of half its value, and the success itself
will but ratify despotism which has
already been declared. s.F.-


Imagine a President of the United
States elected by the bayonet; the ne
gro and the carpet-bagger. What a
magnificent comment on free institu-
tions! What q glorious proof of the
capacity of this people for self-govern-
ment! Such result would establish
that the fitness of our people for free
dom had passed away, and that, come
when it might. they were ready for
that absolute tyranny which, having
helped to place it over their fellow-citi-
zens of the South, they were ready to
accept for themselves.
Year: 1868

In time of peace, that is the kind OF
peace Grant and his party propose to
give to the people, several citizens OF
Columbus, Georgia, have been on trial
before o Military Commission for sup
posed completely in the murder of one
Ashburn, who was killed one night in q
negro house of prostitution. After sub
jecting these citizens to measures OF
extreme cruelty, they have finally been
turned over to the civil authorities for
trial, not, however, until every effort
had been made to murder these men
under military authority. General
Meade offered the extraordinary sum OF
1000 as reward for proof that would
convict these men. Whose money did
ho offer Is he rich enough to offer
from his own private pocket so large a
sum for testimony with regard to the
killing of an obscure man in q negro
bagnio. Nearly every negro in Colum'
bus was ready to perjure himself for Il
portion of such prize but under even
a',oh indncement, proof that could stand
on one leg was nov forthcoming. Tax
payers Of the North! it is your money
which is thus offered in magnificent
sums to suborn negro testimony
Uorld