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Year: 1860

since have found it, never allow any
trihing cause to silence it again"


My theory was correct with regard to
her not speaking. She had vowed per-
petual silence, and had kept her vow un-
til brought to utter one word by strata
gem which had unsealed her tongue
again. The children were delighted,
and ran all around the neighborhood tell
ing everybody that their mother could
talk, and everybody rushed in to ascer.
tain what it meant. For time it seemed
as though anarchy and confusion had
become installed on Tim Somer's hearth
stone, to make up the silence that had SO
long brooded there: but he bore it all
good humoredly. 1 left them, week
afterwards, the happiest couple you ever
saw, and my midnight excursion to Rat
tlesnake Hill was often alluded to.


"Did you really go there?" Mrs. Somers
asked, the morning before I came away.


"No!" said I, initiating her emphatic
accent of the same monosyllable in reply
to my incantation, and we had grand
laugh about it Tim Somer's swearing
my seership was the best ever known,
and my magic had wrought happier
effect than that of all the fairies he had
ever seen exhibited at that museum


"Good-bye," said Burner, as he finished
his story, and he left me well satisfied
with the manner in which he had spent
his vacation. - Boston Saturday Eoening
Post.
Year: 1860

Is the principle upon which they are determined to
do business and they will con6ne themselves exclu-
svely to the Boot Shoe and Leather trade. To their
stock Of goods for Ladies they would call par
tcular attention They have constantly in their en-
ploy the best of workmcn, keep the best of French
Calf and Patent Leather, and can and do make as
good Boot be bought in the State


LADIES' CATERS AND LACE BOOTS
Unsurpassed for durability and beauty made to or
der. Their Mandatory is in constant operation,
and all orders executed the shortest notice Lum-
bcrmcn will do well TO call and examine their stock
Of BOOTS before purchasing elsewhere, as they
pledge themselves to sell BETTER ARTICLE at
a LOWER PRICE than has ever been sold in this
county Call and see. A EATON 4 co.


East Saginaw, October 20, 1889
Year: 1860

Dismissed-Toseph Goff charged by Daniel
McClarity with beating him and his wife, was
heard before the Mayor yesterday. Dan could
not say that Joe struck his wife, but knew he
was with the party that beat her. Other wit
nesses proved that Joe did not strike either Of
them, and he was therefore discharged.
Year: 1860

Runapay.-A pair of horses attached to a
wagon, ran down Main street yesterday At
full speed scattering their own vehicle along
the way, and making men and horses take To
their scrapers; but did no serious injury to
any person or any thing,
Year: 1860

We have no wish to disparage any neighbor- ing societies, but rather would encourage them to put forth greater efforts to make the pursuit of agriculture both profitable and desirable, and we ought to receive the same at their hands, al- though judging from the past, it is more than we can expect.-Housatonic Republican.

 Not at all Mr. Maltbie, so far as the Enquir- CT is concerned. We are always ready and anx- iocs to do all in our power to render aN the cat tie shows of our county both popular and profta- ble. We are very willing also, to afford every charity to any unavoidable mishaps or short con- ings, but surely your society cannot suffer from a fair and candid report of what it accomplishes, and where it fails, any more than it can be bol- stered up by illimtable and indiscriminate praise It was certainly not the fault of your officers, who arc men of the highest capablity and re- spectabilty, that the Fair" this year fell short of their anticipation in some particulars. Per haps it was not the fault of the weather atogeth- CT either. Our correspondent presented very fair and discriminating report of the occasion, and we doubt not, wholly truthful one, at least, this is what we desired.
Year: 1860

The Twentieth annual exhibition of the Litch. field County Agricultural Society, commences on Wednesday of next week, and holds two days.

 We need only call attention of those interes ted to the date, and we are sure that the farmers manufacturers and stock-growers of the county will do the rest,to make this the most successful fair ever held in Litchfeld.

 Last year the very unfavorahle weather seri- ously interfered with the pecuniary success of the exhibition, and the committee have thus changed the time of holding the fair, to the first week in October, to avoid, if possible, the chan ces of poor day, and at any rate to be after the equinoctial storm rather than to have it afte, them.

 Already larger number of animals of the cat tie kind have been promised for the exhibition than usual, and the society hope to secure a large attendance of fine stock horses to add to the interest of the occasion.

 The Committee, however, have done well to offer the greater proportion of their premiums for the best stock other than horses although these have not been disregarded,-an for the produce of the farm, the loom and the workshop, rather than for fast time on the track.

 Their Society is an agricultural one, simply and they advertise Cattle Show and Fair, and not horse fair, or an exhibition for horse. yacing. Farmers and others will note this, and be more ready to bring their stock and their wares to Fair where they will be properly no ticed and rewarded, according to their merit in their various classes. There will be horses too, and fine enough, and fast enough, without going out of the States to find them.

 The address of Gov. Holley on Thursday, is looked forward too with fattering anticipations, which will we doubt not be abundantly fulfilled.

 The Plymouth Brass Band have been secured to enliven the Fair with their excellent music and concert of Ltchfeld County singers-one of the kind of years gone by-is announced which will give great additional attraction te the occasion.

 It is desired particularly by the committee that there should be large display of Fruit al the Fair, in recognition of the abundance of tht season, and certainly nothing will so largely con tribute to the interest and elegance of the exhi bition, than @ successful display in this depart ment.

 Altogether the exhibition promises to be thu most interesting and rewarding Fair thatthe Agri cultural Society has held in years, and we advise all of our readers in the county, who have an in terest in contributing to and visiting an old-timt Cattle Show, and who have the honor and wei fare and prosperity of the county at heart, tt come up hither, bri: ging their sheaOes with them and their wives and children, their stock ant produce, and the stranger that is within thei gates!
Year: 1860

Mr We learn that our cotemporary of Win sted feels somewhat sore at the friendly interest we have taken of late in his welfare. We have to apologize, rather to our readers than to him, for the notice we have given him. Hereafter it would be we'll for him to learn that his impotence and egotism will not always go down with his nelghbors unchecked, and we respectfully advise him if he wishes to be consideration treated as e gentleman, to become such
Year: 1860

THE BEST MODE OF LYING IN BED.-H is
often question among people unacqusinted
with physiology whether lying with the
head raised or level with the body is most
be the best, and say that as the vessels
through which the blood passes from the
heart to the head are always lessened in
their cavities when the head is resting in he'd
higher than the body, the head ought to be
nearly on level with. the trunk, and people
should accustom themselves to sleep thus,
in order to avoid the danger resulting from
the opposite habit. The relative position of
the head and trunk, when the former is
bolstered up in bed, is the same as that pro-
duced by STOPPING the head forward when
the body is erect.
Year: 1860

The WooD-cuTTER AND THE KNG.--yChe
King Of the Belgians, ON reaching certain
little village, in the course of his late tour
through Flanders, was greatly surprised at
most twig of a very high tree-one of the
''lions" of the region. He learned that it
had been placed there by an old wood-cutter
of the village, remarkable for the zeal of his
loyalty, even among the loyal and King
loving Belgians, but whose life had been
saddened by the absence of his only son,
victim to the couscription. The King was
so much touched by the old fellows de-
Yotion, and the pluck he had shown in
climbing to so dangerous a hight, that he
released the son from the remainder of his
term of service, and ordered him TO be sent
home to his village, where his return was
welcomed with the utmost enthusiasm.
Year: 1860

REVIVAL OF THE SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA
TtOelUe thousand Negroes Carried Off in
Nine Months-The Vest african Herald of
the 18th of September, says:


We perceive by intelligence that reaches
us from various quarters, that there appears
TO be a sort of revival of the slave-trade on
this coast. From ports between Cape st.
Paul and Lagos, and from the south coast, a
great number Of slaves have since last De-
cember been carried out of the country. We
are not at present able to arrive at correct
estimate of the numbers, but we have reason
to believe that between the first day of Jan
uary this year and last day of August last,
not less than 1000 Africans from the places
we have mentioned have been carried across
the ocean into slavery, in spite of the cruisers.
OF what has been going on in this way to
windward we do not at present speak, for
we have really no information on this point.
For the truth of the following information
We can youch.
Year: 1860

A VALUABLE PAIR or SrAYs.-An old lady
at Dory l8s, Scotland, gave particular friend
a pair Of old stays, as she was dying. The
bequest was thought hardly worth accepting,


but on ripping them open, they were found


TO be well lined with Bank of England notes.
Year: 1860

1t is astonishing to see how well man
may live on small income. who has
handy and industrious wife. Some
men live and make far better appear
ance on six or eight dollars week, than
others do on fifteen or eighteen dollars
The man does bis part well, but his wife
is good for nothing. She will even up
braid her husband for not living in as
good style as his neighbor, while the
fault is entirely her own. His neigh-
bors has neat, capable, and industrious
wife, and that makes the difference. His
wife. on the other hand, is whirlpool, in
to which great many silver cups might
be thrown, and the appearance Of the wa
ter would remain unchanged. No Mich
olas, the diver, is there to restore the
wasted treasure. It's only an insult for
a woman to talk to her husband about her
love and devotion.
Year: 1860

Let man learn to be grateful to woman
for, this unbounled achievement of her
sex, that she, far more than be, and too
often in despite of him, has kept Christen-
dom from lapsing back into barbarism;
kept mercy and Truth from being utterly
overborne by those two greedy monsters,
money and war. Let him be grateful fol
this, that almost every great soul that has
led forward, or lifted up the race, has
been furnished for each noble deed, and
inspired with each patriotic and holy in
spiration, by the retiring fortitude Of some
Spartan, or more than Spartan, some
Christian mother. Moses, the deliverer
Of his people, drawn out of the Nile by
the kings daughter, some one has limited,
is only symbol of the way that woman S
better instincts always outwit the tyran-
nical diplomacy of man. Let him care
fully remember that, though the sinewy
seq achieves enterprise on public theatres
it is the nerve and sensibility of the other
that armed the mind and infamed the:scuI
in secret. "a man discovered America,
but woman equipped the voyage" So
everywhere; man executes the perform
ance, but woman trains the man. Every
etfeclual person, leaving his mark on the
world, is but another Columbus, for whose
furnishing, some Isabella, in the form of
his mother, lays down her jewelry, her
vanities and her comfort.


Above all, let not man practice upon
woman the perpetual and shameless false
hood of pretending admiration, and act
ing contempt. Let not men exhaust their
kindness in adorning her person, and ask
in return the humiliation of her SOUL
Let them not assent to her every high
opinion as if she were not strong enough
to maintain it against opposition; nor yet
manufacture opinion for her, and force it
on her lips by dictation. Let them not
cruelty her emotions, nor ridicule her frail.
ties, nor crush her individuality. nor in
suit her independence, nor play off mean
jests upon her honor in convivial compan-
les, nor handy unclean doubts about her
as substitute for wit; nor whisper vul-
gar suspicious of her purity, which as
compared with their own, IS like the i'm
maculate whiteness Of angels. Let them
multiply her social advantages, enhance
her dignity, minister to her intelligence,
and, by manly gen:eness. be the pat
rons of her genius, the friends Of her for
tune, and the equals, if they can Of her
heart.
Year: 1860

The following is one Of Lincoln's il
lustrations, made in aspeech at New Ha.
ven. Conn. Speaking Of the right and
wrong Of slavery. he said:


The other policy is one that squares
with the idea that slavery is wrong, and
it consists in doing everything that we
ought to do if it is wrong. Now l don't
wish to be misunderstood, nor leave gap
down 10 be misrepresented, even. l don't
say we ought to attack it where it exists,
To me it seems that If we were to form a
government anew, in view of the actual
presence Of slavery, We should find it ne.
cessary to frame just such a government
as our fathers did, giving to the slave
holders the entire control where the sys.
tenn is established, while we possessed the
limits. Applause From the necessi,
ties of the case, we should be compelled
to form just such government as our
blessed fathers gave us; and, surely, if
they have so made it, that adds another
reason why we should let slavery alone
where it exists.


If saw a venomous snake crawling in
the road, any man would say I might
seize the nearest stick and kill it but if I
find that snake in bed with my children,
it would be another question. Laughter.
| might hurt the children more than the
snake, and the snake might bite them


Applause. Much more, if I found it in
bed with my neighbor's children, and l
had bound myself by solemn compact
not to meddle with his children under any
circumstances, it would become me to let
that particular mode of killing the gen
lleman alone. Great laughter. But
if there is bed newly made up, to which
the children are to be taken, and it was
to take batch of young snakes
and put them in with them, l take it, no
man would say there was question how
ought to decide. Prolonged applause
and cheers.


That is just the case! The new Terri-
tories are the newly made bed to which
our children are to 60, and it lies with
the nation to say whether they shall have
the snakes mixed up with them or not
1t does not seem as if there could be much
hesitation what our policy should be-
Applause.
Year: 1860

The telegraph has already announced
the defeat of Flora Temple by PatcdeS
in Tuesdays trot on the Union Course.
The defeat Of the mare was complete
On drawing for places Patchen got the
pole. The horses got off on the second
start with Patcheu leading off WE'LL
Before reaching the half mile pole Flora
broke up and fell behind three lengths.
At the turn to the stretch Patchen was q
length head. finishing the mile with the
lead in 2:23. On the second mile Patch
en- passed the quarter post length and q.
half ahead. Flora soon made up to the
horse, which broke up badly and let Flo.
ra get four or five lengths ahead with one
half a mile to go. At the pole however
the horses were together, and the strug-
gle was desperate. Before half the last
quarters mile was done Flora gave out,
and no blows could increase her speed
Patchen won by two lengths, finishing
the heat in 4:5s4. On starting for the
second heat it was evident that Flora
was IN bad condition for the race. Fora
time the mare made some show, but soon
dropped back, and Patchen won the heat,
by thirty feet in 4:571.
Year: 1860

ordinate gang of negroes, requiring hard hand
to keep them in su6joction. DO this as it may.
their action in coming boldly tcsthe city, instead
Of skuking off for good. entities their story to
somo credit. The plantation is to bc sold before
long. and then may be they will have the grat'ii'
cation of knowing who their master is.
Year: 1860

IntslIest-ItS relative bearing with Agriculture.


Agriculture, as science, treats of the
properties Of the different soils, and the va
rions vegetable substances as an art, it
applies a particular principle in the soil to
specific vegetable growth therefore, to
become thorough and an intelligent Ag-
ricuturalst, il is vitality necessary to under
stand both the theory and practice Of culti-
waiting the field. The theory Of Agricul-
ture is The great source Of the Farmers
mental improvement, and as general rule,
his true position as a member Of society is
determined by the degree Of bis mental de-
velopmcnt. The intelligence Of nation is
determined by the aggregate knowledge Of
all its citizens. II the masses are intell-
gent. the nation will be free, permanent
and prosperous.


In our country, the great miss of the
citizeus are Agriculturalists, therefore the
freedom, permanency and prosperity Of our
nation depends upon their natural mental
improvement. In a political point of view,
the theory, OF mind-imprOving part Of Ag-
rculture, is Of infinite importance to our
nation, for in questions of government aud
national policy, the majority must control.
The Farmers are largely in the majority,
therefore they have the power to fashion
aud mould our national institutions. He
who cullivates his farm not knowing why
one kind of soil produces grain, another
grass-why the grape may be cultivated in
one locality, while it cannot in another
robs himself of tue highest intellectual cult
vation connected with the rural pursuits.


The propriety Of Farmers educating their
sons and daughters for the purpose Of ma
king Agriculturolsts out Of them, cannot
be too earnestly advocated or too highly
recommended THtorctioa! and practical
Year: 1860

III Is just twenty years ago yesterday said
our narrator, "that party of US fellers went
over to CakOkia Creek, on a skating match
The day was colder than ten icebergs all stuck
together, but the ice was as smooth as glass
and we made up our minds to have a heaD of
fun. Bill Berry was the leader of the crowd
tie was tall six-fOOter full of pluck, and the
best skater in all creation. Give Bill Berry a
good pair Of skates and smooth sailing and
he d make the trip to Bafin's Bay and back in
twenty y-fOur hours, only stopping long enough
at Halifax to take drink. Well, we got to the
creek and fastened our skates on, and, after
taking good horn from Joe Turner's flask.
started off in good style, Bill Berry in the lead
As was tellin' ye. it WAS a dogonned cold
day, and SO we had to skate fast TO keen the
blood up. There was little breathe holes in
the Ice, and every now and then we would
come near goin' into EN-. My skates got loose.
and stopped to faSten them. just as 1 had
hnlshed buckling the straps L heard noise l
looked up and saw something shooting along
on the ice like lightning. 1t was Bill Berry's
mead. lie had been goin' it like creased cleo
trlclty, and before he knew it he was into ono
OF them cussed holes. The force was so great
as to cut his head off against the sharp corners
OF the ice. 1T is all day with Bill Berry, said
L. And all right, too, said Joe Turner. just
as he got these words out of his mouth.
looked at Bills head, which had been poin' it





another hole. We run to it, and 1 heard Bin
Berry say, Quick, boys, quick-pul, me out -
looked into the hole, and there as true as I'm
sinner, was Bill Berry's body, which had
shoOted along under the ice, and met the head
at hole in the ice. 1t was so thunderin' cold
that the head had frozen fast to the body, and
we pulled Billy out as good as new He felt
little numb at first, but, after skating awhile,
ne was as the rest of us, and laughed over the
joke. We went home 8bOut dark all satisfied
with the days sport. About nine O'Clock in
the evening somebody knocked. at my door,
and said was wanted over to Bill Berry's. I
put on my coat and went over There Law
Blu body In one place and his head in another.
His wife said that after he came home from
skating he sat down by the fire to warm him.
self and while attempting to blow his nose, he
threw his head into the fireplace.


The coroner was called that night, and the
verdict Of the jury was that Bill Berry came
to his death by skating too fast ''-.St Lonis
Herald.
Year: 1860

THREE MEN RUINED By ONE LOTTERY PAIR


A man has ten chances of being struck by
lightning to one of drawing prize in lottery,
ana all experience shows that the drawing of a
prize, when such a rare event does occur is the
worst event that can befall man. A striking
Illustration of this fact has just occurred in New
orleans A young man who had lost all his
money at gambling table staked a lottery
ticket as his last throw, and lost it, The win


ner OF the ticket, having no confidence in lot
terles' proposed to throw dice for it at twenty
hve cents chance. A by-stander who never
lad hundred dollars in his life won the ticket,
and IN few days found himself the lucky DOS.
sasSor of SIS. 900 f


he a. once invested a round sum in jewelry
and tashy garments, and is leading a life Of
'hceSsant revelry, which will soon dispose of his
accidental fortune, and leave him poorer than
be was before, by the possession of perverted
tastes and destructive habits The man who
nrst held the ticket, on hearing that II had
drawn prize, became possessed of an excite.
ment which brought on brain fever, and ended
IN Idlotlc madness. The second holder of the
ticket, who did not believe in lotteries has he.
come monomaniac on the subject, does moth
Ing but tell the story of his fclly in disnos;n q
OF the lucky ticket, and is untitled for ali bns;s
ness, His mania is hardly less homeless than
the fixed insanity Of the first holder Tins one
prize in lottery has ruined three men and
benefited nobody. The facts carry their own
lesson with them, and he that runs NAV read