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Year: 1869

The Agricultural Society of
Vineland, N. j., are Offering
prizes for the best roads, made
and kept in repair by private en-
terprise.


Now we think this good idea,
and worthy of consideration of
every agricultural society in the
country.


1t is a well known fact that
a majority of country roads are
almost impossible for nearly or
quite one-half of the year, and if
little pleasant rivalry can be start
ed between neighbors, something
might be done towards abating an
almost universal nuisance. If
farmers would once stop to think
how much trouble and labor
might be saved by having good
roads, besides the increased value
of their farms, they would not
begrudge a little extra work on
the highway. Roads are the
first thing stranger notices when
passing through a country, and q
man may have ever SO good a
farm, but if the roads that run
through or along side of it are
bad, we may rest assured that
they will attract the most atten-
ton. Our agricultural societies
could not do a better thing than
to offer large prizes for good roads.
Year: 1869

WHOLESALE BLAsTING.-A cor
respondent of the Pittsfeld Eagle
says: "The most thrilling scene
that came under my observation
was in the Sierra Nevada on the
Central Pacific. Here the road is
built on the side Of a precipice
two thousand four hundred feet
above the base, and the slope is SO
steep that the Cinnamon who did
the work were let down in bas-
kets, and in this position drilled
holes and charged them in the side
Of the mountains. At one time
there were four hundred and sixty
of these charges connected by a
fuse, exploded at one time. Mass
es of rock weighing many tons fell
to the bottom with terrific fury.
When the debris had ceased to fall
the echoes were still repeating
among the distant hills. So stun
ming was the shock that | would
never witness the like again.
Year: 1869

A young man, who, on being
asked by a judge whether he had
a father and mother, said he
wasn't quite certain whether he
had or not; first, his father died,
and then his mother died; and his
father married again; and now be
didn't exactly know whether they
were his father and mother or
not,
Year: 1869

In New York, the other day, a
man named Fay put a pistol to
his forehead and pulled the trigger,
when The bullet, instead Of pene'
trating the skull, fell upon the
pavement as fiat as penny. Fay
has given up in despair the idea
of blowing out his brains.
Year: 1869

A man in Albany took a drink
Of gin and molasses the other day
and swallowed small chip with
it. The chip, which came from q
molasses cask, lodged crosswise in
one of the mans intestines and
caused death.
Year: 1869

An Iowa woman experienced re-
ligion at a revival meeting, but
when she got home she was SO
much in fear of falling from grace
that she killed herself immediate,
ly, in order to prevent any such
calamity.
Year: 1869




SOME months ago, business led me 10 an
out-ofthe-way place, where, near by fall
OF water, there lived two boys, one eight
and the other ten. They were bright
eyed, inquistive little Chaps, but generally
without either hat or shoes, and often with
pants and jacket sadly rent,


Busted as | was in the repairs of an old
mill, these boys were handy to send on
errands, bring tools, look after my horse
turned out TO bait in the road, and do
numberless little things to save the steps
of those who were older.


One day, on reaching the mill, / saw the
Oldest boy standing upon rock, partly
hidden by the foliage of the surrounding
trees, fishing, and as often as he felt a
nibble he would jerk his line as spitefully
out of the water as though he bore the
little fish some terrible grudge, and wanted
TO pay itby twitching their heads off. l
asked him why he did so, and explained
as well as | was able the best modes Of
taking such fish as made the little brook
their home.


After hearing me patiently and respect
fully, he said "Mister, you fish with
hook that has got beard on II, and when
you hook one he stays. My hook ha'n't
got any beard. It's an old broken one
that Liger Green gave me. ha'n't got
any money to buy q new one. Mother
wants the pennies you gave me, like to
fish, like to catch 'eln for mother, and
have to twitch 'em when tney bite, or they
will wiggle off, and shall lose EN-"
liked the talk of that boy. lie did not
grumble about his old hook, but did the
| best he could with what he had to do with;
and day after day, as | saw him doing it,
and taking to his mother the reward of
his toll which had cost him so much care
and thought and skill, knew that he was
laying with that alder rod in his hands the
! foundations of grand character.
i That Is the way Horace Greeley began
He fished awhile with Il bcardless hook.
His father was very poor, and he had
scarcely any books, and what be had he
was obliged to read by the dim light of
pine-knots which his own forethought had
gathered; but he is now one of the ablest
writers, as well as one of the most influ-
ential men in America.


And so with John Jacob Astor He had
no money, or comparatively none, when
he came to this country, but he wanted to
trade, and so he carried his little bundle of
goods around under his arm or in his
hands. He tishcd with q beardless hook.
Afterward he bought furs, and carried
them on his back hundreds of miles ia
market and when he died he had grown


from absolute poverty to be the richest
man in the country.


There is scarcely great man or good
man on this side of the Atlantic that did


not have tough time in his boyhood, did


not fish awhile with beardless hook anc
of all the boys now in the country, thost


only will arrive at eminence who do the
best they can with what they have to dC


with; never complain, but push cheerful


ly and resolutcly on in the path that lead


upward to noble and good and granC


manhood d-HedTM and Home.
Year: 1869




"THERE, did mean to sew these but
tons on Frod.'s jacket before night,
have thought of it just in time, for he
must have 1t early in the morning. l do.
forget so many things have to do" said
Lucia Warren to good Aunt Patience,
who was visiting her for a day or two.
"You can wait few minutes for me,
can't you, aunty? | will not be longs"
and Lucia went to get her work, taking
off her gloves, and throwing back her
veil, 1t was troublesome to stop just as
she was going out, but the work must be
done, Indeed, it was nothing so very
unusual, as Lucia seemed always forget
ting things, as she said


"I will tell you an excellent plan have
followed for years" said Aunt Patience.
ut is that of keeping little slate with
pencil attached, hung up in some con-
venient place, and noting down ON it all
the things l wish to do. If you like,
we will buy such a slate while we are out,
and 1 win get you started in the same
system"


Lucia entered into the scheme with
great enthusiasm, and that night saw one
side of her little slate well covered with
items she wished to remember. She did
not attempt to classify them, but noted
them down in just the order she happened
to think of them. Aunt Patience
did not wish her TO undertake
too much at once. The classitica-
ton would come afterwards. The other
side of the slate had been reserved for to-
morrow's duties A regular plan was not
laid down for the whole deg, with the
hours set to them for aunty knew that
no house-mother could bring all the rest of
her household to time in such matters,
even if she could herself BY undertake
ing too much, young housekeepers are
often discouraged, and give up all efforts
at systematizing. II was the ground-plan
only of her work which was laid down,
but il helped her wonderfully all through
the day. 1t was such a satisfaction to
draw line through anything which had
been completed and then, by glanclng
| her eve down the list, she was sure not to
forget just the thing she ought most TO re-
member.


In time, the little slate came TO be re-
Rarded as one of the most useful articles OF
furniture about the house. 1t saved hours
of time and dollars of waste, besides add
ing fully third to the family cc;ntort and
convenience If you ara soeptical, hang
up one in your own home, and consult IL
as Lucia did, and do not doubt but you
will arrive at similar conclusion.


If the youthful reader will begin early
the practice of making memorandum OF
the duties to be performed each day, and
discharge those duties in their proper
season, a habit will be formed which VIII
prove of incalculable benefit in aster years.
Exchange
Year: 1869

SOME forty years ago my husband spent
some months in Spain, and what he wit
messed and heard there quite revolution
lied his opinion of donkeys. When
habitually overloaded beaten and half
starved, they undoubtedly become vicious,
obstinate and stupid; just rs human beings
do under similar treatment But with
the peasantry of Spain the jackass is
petted favorite, almost an inmate of the
household. The women and children ot
the family feed him from their hands, and
talk caressingly to him. lie knows them
all, and loves them all. He will follow
his master, and come and go at his bid


ding, like faithful dog. He delights to
have the baby placed OH his back, and to
walk round with him gently on the green
sward. His intellect expands in the sun
shine of affection, and he that is quoted as
the stupidest of animals becomes sagaCiouS.
They told Mr.. Child of peasant in the
neighborhood, who had for many years
carried milk into the market of Madrid to
supply a set of customers. Every morn
ing he and his donkey, with panniers well
loaded, trudged their accustomed round


One morning, when he was attacked by
sudden illness, and had no one to send with
his milk, his wife advised him to trust the
faithful animal to go by himself, since he
always knew just where to stop. The
panniers were accordingly filled with can
listers of milk, and the priest ofthe village
wrote request to customers TO measure
their own milk and send back the empty
vessels. The donkey was instructed, and
set off with his load. The door bells in
Spain have rope hanging outside the
house to which is appended wooden
handle, or the hoof of some animal. The
donkey stopped before the house Of every
customer, and, after waiting what he
deemed sufficient time, he pulled the


rope with his mouth. When he had gone


the entire round, he trotted home with tho


empty canisters. He continued to do this


for several days, and never missed Gus
4 tomer.-Lydid Maria Child.
Year: 1869

A gentleman named Louis, living on
Richland creek, is the possessor of a
very valuable fowl in the shape of hen
which sings with astonishing precision
and melody. He vouches for the fact
that though the hen has hot as good
singing qualities as canary, her conf
dence in herself is something wonderful.
At the call of Mrs. L. the hen will come
into the house, get upon the lady's lap
and at the first command, without any
apology for want of practice, bad cold
or anything of the sort, will proceed to
discourse mild air. This is but pre-
lude to what is to follew. Afteh singing
the first notes her henship will subside
until commanded in q stern voice to sing
louder. Then the hen spreads out her
wings, stretches her neck to its furthest
tension, turns her eye akimbo, (a la Ben
Butler,) and ponrs forth strsin that
lacks nothing in earnestness however
much it may in melody. At command
the hen will initiate a setting hen even to
the maternal cluck, though she is at the
same time . steady layer, and only
plays setting BY request. The hen is
only a common black Spanish, but the
owner swears be would not take a four
horse team for her.
Year: 1869





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Year: 1869

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Year: 1869

We hare marked over and
marked down our large stock
Of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
to prices that MUST and ARE
selling them. Owing to the
rush Of the past two weeks, the
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Year: 1869

From tho NsN bgryport Mass Herald I


Races Of men are always In conflict


whenever they come together. There
can be no mixture, That is not in the
order Of nature. If, as some believe,
all the races are of a common origin,
that origin must have been so many
millions of years back that to us it Is
as though they never had been one.
Two of the races show no marks of
progress, and these two are perhaps
the Oldest-the African and the Aus
tralian. No explorations of Africa or
Australia have discovered any evil
dences of a social, or civil condition
among those people above what they
are now. This is not so with any
other race. No other seems to have
been created or destined to live to the
end barbarians, except where a higher
race not only Lifts thefn up, but every
moment snstains them above that
level. With the Indians we find the
remains of a better condition enjoyed
by them bong before the. white man
came to their country. They reached
the acme, and had subsided before we
knew them. The Mongolians, too, Of
Eastern Asia, though they have made
no progress in thousands of years, yet
have a civilization of their own,
which, in some respects, will bear a
favorable comparison with our own.


In conflict of races-as we say, it
always comes when two are in COM
petition-tbe superior race oyeTeomeS
and roots out the inferior, unless the
former are so weak in numbers as to
have no chance of success. Such is
the case. In the West Indies, where the
whites are SO few that they may even
tually be driven out, as they have
from st. Domingo, unless arbitrary
power restrains the interior. But
where they have Aay chaneethe supe-
riors- superior in mind, though they
may not be physically-wil win the.
day If equal advantages may be given.
With the inferior, their language,
their blood, their features, and their
east Of mind win disappear. In Af-
rica, the negro type, within the mem
ory Of man, has not extended north
of the great desert, where the Arabs
and the Aloors prevail They have
been brought there as slaves, and been |
brought there as captives 10 war, but
they have meyer mixed with the peo-
Year: 1869

There is a shocking muss about the appoint
ment OF a minister from the country to Spain
The authorities at Madrid accuse old Jack
Hale of having brought goods into the coun-
try under his word of honor that they were
for his own use. and then sold them. In fact
they say he Kept a store regularly supplied.
TO make things all strai ght and honorable,
Grant appoints Dan. Sickles to the place
Sickles will be remembered as the man who
shot Key, for alleged improper intimacy with
his wife. He then took the woman back, and
lived with her. His idea of honor can be es-
timated from these facts. This appointment
SO stinks in the nostrils of decent men, that
the New York Evening Post, intensely radical,
is forced to make these remarks


''rhis is an appointment which the country will
not approve, and which the Senate, when it meets
ought not to confirm. 1t is bad appointment
made in the face of light; for though, when the name
OF MIR. Sickles was first mentioned in connection
with the Spanish mission, the administration might
have been ignorant of his character and history
this cannot now be said.'


The friends of Hale are furious. They
claim that the nomination of Sickles is a.
square violation of Grants plighted word that
it should not take place. Hale is coming
home to labor for the rejection of Sickles in
the Senate, in which case he will be recalled
Old stagers predict that one Of the prettiest
fights ever known will grow out of this affair
Year: 1869

SHOCKING ACCIDENT. A sad affair hap
pened at Kingston, N. Y, last week Mr..
George Cholwell started a FIRE in his lime kiln
and partly filled it, after which he left for
home. Soon after his son, a lad of ten wears.
supposing the fire had gone out, went down
into the kiln by means of a windlass and tub.
The gas from the burning coal and lime soon
stupetied him, so that he fell from the tub.
A little sister, about eight years ofage, being
present, gave the alarm to their mother, who
directed the little girl to go down into the kiln
and get the brother into the tub, when she
would haul them both up. The little girl did
as she was told, but on arriving at the bottom
she fell out apparently sutfocated. The ago
nizhd mother then got her aged father and
mother to let her down by the windlass, 50
that she could rescue her offspring from dea ath.
She went down and put her children in the
tub, when they were hauled to the top appar-
entity lifeless. The tub was again lowered tn
rescue the mother, who had already begun to
show signs of exhaustion from the sufocatino
gas She had strength enough to get into it
but when they began to turn the windlass hel
heavy weight (225 pounds caused the iron
shaft to turn in the wooden drum. The neigh
bors We're sent for but before assistance could
arrive Mrs. Cholwell died in the kiln. Hel
husband went down and tied a rope around
her body by which she was hoisted out. The
boy died on Saturday morning; the gin will
probably recover,
Year: 1869

A fearful and disastrous explosion of gas
took place on Saturday evening last, in the
Chadwick mansion, on Congress street, occu-
pied by Capt. Isaac Barnum A workman
had taken off gas bracket in q third story
chamber, had neglected to plug up the pipe.
The gas leaking out, Mr.. B. lighted the Gas
below, went up to discover the cause, and no
sooner opened the door than a terrific cxplo-
sion took place, raising the roof, blowing out
the wall, and making a complete wreck of the
thrown down and 50 fearfully burned that he
was unconscious most of the day Sunday, but
inthc evening was comparatively comfortable.
Mrs. Barnum was somewhat burned in tear
ing the burning clothes from her husband
The explosion was very loud and caused a
great sensation in The neighborhood. Crowds
surrounded the house on Sunday portland
Transcript
Year: 1869

If at the end of a newspaper report of fire, we
read the words "No Insurance" our involuntary
feeling is that the owner had neglected to protect his
own interests and is therefore entitled to 50 much
The less sympathy for his loss In such case, how
erthe man himself remains TO restore, by diligence
and economy, the property destroyed. How much
more clear is it his business and domestic duty to
make such provision that, when he dies, the omn-
ous words, NO Insurance." may not be repeated
expressive Of future want and suffering for those
whom he has left behind. So small is the outlay
required and 50 extended the time of payment, in
order TO make sure of support for the widow or
the children, that no man is excu>able for neglect
INC to insure his own life. This is brought especial
~ to mind, at this time, by paragraph in an eX-
change. showing what may be done by persons Of
the smallest surplus means. In December last, q
poor clergyman in Bradford Co, Pennsy ylvania, paid
800 - TO the National Life Insurance Company for
a policy of S5.0 900. We can well suppose that one
hundred dollars, TO Il country clergyman, was a
large sum. raised with difficulty, and we can imagine
how easily it might have been spent ior necessalles
for the winter season. hut the result proved that its
investment in insurance was the most profitable OF
his life. In March he died, and on the the first Of
April the agent of the National Life paid to his
family the $1,000, this being the only provision
which the deceased had been able to make for them
Another ease in the history of the same Company
is noted A laboring man in Franklin, Pa, insured
for $1,000 and in six weeks thereafter he died, and
the money was paid to his family.


This Company,-the National Life, chartered by
Congress and authorized to transact insurance bust
ness throughout the United States and Canada,-is
established upon the Stock Plan, having low rates
for cash payment, ahd avoiding all uncertainties OF
notes ordividends, and all consequent or possible
disappointment as to the amount of money to be paid
to the heirs Of the deceased. For Il certain fixed
sum of money, it guarantees the payment of a fixed
amount of insurance. The simplicity of the system
has commended the Company to popular favor, and
lis success has been remarkable. Upon the first OF
May only nine months after its organization, it had
issued five thous and policies, and had its agents well
ut work through the North and upon the Pacific
Coast and by the expiration Of its first year, the
entire Southern States and the Canadian Dominion
will also be supplied with local agents.


The agent of the National Life for this vicinity
has his advertisement in another column, and will
be glad 10 furnish any desired informatian concern
ing the working of this National Company.
Year: 1869

Subscribers requested take notice OF the date
the coored slips attached the paper 1t is the only
form of receipt now used. For instance, Is May 6s,


new payment is made, the date will be Immediately
changed to correspond and thus receipt in full is sent
with every paper Subscribers in requested
TO forward the due


Rs-In sending money, state THE POST OFFICE to
which the paper is sent.-Ga
Year: 1869

A MEDICAL STUDENTS FREAK.-This morn
ing a quantity of human remains was found
~, a Iot near Nineteenth and Federal streets.
They had evidently been thrown there by some
medical student. This sort of thing mas nap.
nened SO frequently of late as to have passed
the limits of q Joke, ana II the perpetrators or
il could be apprehended they should be severely
Oh
Year: 1869

A young gentleman happening to sit
at church in pew adjoining one in
which sat a young lady for whom he con-
ceived a sudden and violent attachment
was desirous of entering into acourtship
on the spot, but the place not being suit.
able for formal declaration, the case
suggerted the following plan.


He politely handed his fair neighbor a
Bible, opened, with a, pin, stuck in the
follwing text: Second Epistle of John,
verse 5-"And now beseech thee, not
as though / wrote new commandment
unto thee, but that which we had from
the beginning, that Nc lere one another


She returned it, pointing to the second
chapter of Ruth-tcnth verse; "Then
she fell on her face, and bowed herself to
the ground, and said to him Why hive
/ found grace in thine eyes, seeing am
a stranger II


lie returned the book, pointing to the,
thirteenth chapter of the Third Epistle
of John: Having many things to write
unto you, would not write with pen and
ink, but l trust shortly to come unto yeu,
and speak face to face that our joy may
be fnll.H : 'St iis


From the above interview a marriage
tcok place recently.
Year: 1869

Oh friends how cheerless seems this winter


scene;
The oaks stand bare, the lake is ice below,
And bitterly the bleak northwest doth blow,
Still bringing storms more dread than yet have


been.


Yea, oven these hemlock trees forever green,
Look dismal, wrapped and half-ccncealed in


snow.


Not even the bravest flower hath heart to blow,
But sleeps the rime and frozen earth between.
Yet is this an occasion of despair
Are we but fools more faithless than the flower,
Which bides its time, contentedly aware
1t shall enjoy its bright appointed hour
Oh know that winters cold shall not impair
Btt stall augment rich autunis kingly dover