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Year: 1869

w. Frank Stewart, of San Jose,


California, is still predicting earth


quakes. For several years he kept a


neat but not gaudy little liquor store


in San Jose, land doubtless keeps it


still, and in the intervals of mixing


gin tOddies and Santa Cruz punches,


he instructed himself in the abtruse


science of earthquakes-if there be


such a science, properly. He invent


ed machine for determining the di-


rectl0n OF earthquake shocks. 1t was


simply lead pencil fastened in such


a manner with its point against a
sheet of white paper that it would


make a mark up and down, across or
zig-zag, when the house was shaken
by an earthquake; and so whenever
Stewart was out of his boots or his
bed, he did not rush for the streets, as
other citizens did, but rushed to see
what the earthquake had written him
as to what direction it was travelling
and whittier it was probably bound.
The building was a small frame one,
and the hogs got to scraping them
selves against it for comfort; their
performances were faithfully recorded
by the earthquake machine, and as
faithfully reported to the public by
Stewart, until he found out the fraud
at last-and none too soon for his rep
utatiOn as an earthquake expert. But
Stewart is an earnest, ingenious and
industrious man, and he has clung to
his investigations between drinks un-
til he has gotten so now that he can
swing the formidable scientific earth
quake terms with the ease of q bald
and venerable college professor. His
His latest achievement was the prom
ising of an earthquake on a particular
day, and the specification of the hour
wherein it would arrive, its exact du-
ration and the probable amount of
damage it would do. Everybody pump
ed supply of misery and consterna-
ton for the occasion, and when they
were all ready, the earthquake did not
come. This is an excellent lesson for
boys. This poor man was nothing
but an ignorant bar-keeper at first,
but by dilligent attention to watering
his whiskey and studying Latin tech
niealities and such things, he has got
so that he can tell within a year or
two of when there will not be an
earthquake. And he has grown
wealthy, too, and some day, when he
gets further along, so that he can be
prompt with his earthquakes and not
the people, he will become
great. He is getting up prodigious
earthquake for November, and will
spare no pains or expense to make it
everything the public can desire.
Thus by industry, enterprise and
close attention to business, this hum
BILE young man has raised himself up
to be shining and useful member of
society. Let US hope, for his sake,
and the sake of his widowed mother,
who is solely dependent upon him for


support, that his earthquake viii be
an awful one this time.
Year: 1869

A Cedar Rapids, Iowa, correspond


ent of the Dubuque Times, writing


under date of August 2Sth, saws: We


ehaneed to come in possession of the


facts of most terrible and unprece-


dented case of starving a human be-
ing alive. The victim of this inhu-


man cruelty a lad of about seven or
eight years of age, lives with his pa
rents in the suburbs of the Ordinari-
" quiet and orderly town of Marion.
tits asserted by number of the neigh
boTs that they have at different times,
within the last few weeks, visited the
house of the boy for the purpose OF
ascertaining whether the reports
which their children were continual
ly giving them were true or not. As
pretext for these visits, they would
take with them some little delicacy
for the afflicted boy, as means of as
certaining whether the reports which
their children were continually urg.
ing upon them were correct. But
these attempts to get a sight of the
poor child were mostly in vain, as he
was kept in an old garret and secured
with a chain around his neck. Imag-
inc what his sufferings must have been
in this condition during the recent
hot weather.


Sufficient evidence, however, was
gained in this way to warrant an eX-
animation into the matter by the Off
GERS of the law; and accordingly Sher-
iff HayZlette, with a number of citi-
zens, proceeded to the house to make
and to see that the
parents were properly punished un-
less they would guarantee more hu-
name course of treatment to their boy
in the future.


This visit was made on last Thurs
day, and, although the chains had
been removed, the boy was found to
be nothing but skin and bones He
cOnfessed-as had been stated by the
neighbOring children-that he had
been starved until he was obliged to
eat flies. He was also seen to pick
the rags from off his scanty garments
and eat them.


He had been kept in this way secre-
ted, and, until recently, unknown to
even his nearest neighbOrs. For over
six months they have kept him in
this condition, and allege as an ex-
cuse for their brutal treatment, that
he was subject to fits, and that they
were afraid he would get away and
annoy his neighbOrs. But those who
saw and talked with him were con-
WINGED that the cause of the fits (if
the parents story is correctly is the
of the treatment he re-
ceives at their hands. His entire per-
son showed unmistakable evidences
of cruel beating, as well as starvation,
until life was almost gone.


A few days or weeks of similar
treatment would have put an end to
his existence, and the aim of the pa
rents would doubtless have been Gc-
The Sheriff ordered that
the boy was to be well provided for,
and was to go unclaimed for the fu-
ture
Year: 1869

Wednesday afternoon Officer Hale
started from Fitehburg with fellow
named Frank Francis in charge, who


had Just been sentenced to the State


Prison for four years, for pocket pick
ing. The convict was hand-eufied
and sat in the smoking car two seats
from the door, the officer sitting in the
seat opposite him and talking with
the conductor. All of sudden Fran
els started from his seat, rushed to the
door, opened it and jumped from the
platform while the cars were going at
the rate of forty miles an hour. The
officer started and grabbed him by the
coat Just as he jumped but his hold
failed, and the fellow got away. The
cars were at once stopped, and parties
started in pursuit. They found the
bushes and a telegraph pole where he
jumped off covered with blood, but
though they searched for hours they
could not find the prisoner. The
place where he jumped was near Lin
coin, in the woods where there is
thick growth of underbush, in which
he probably seereted himself. The
of those who searched for
him, judging from the blood spilled,
was that he was so badly injured that
he would not live. Warden Haynes
offers $50 reward for his arrest.
Year: 1869

The expectation of a disturbance of
Mormon serenity by the opening of
the Pacific Railway is already fulfill
ed. The following. editorial article
appears in the Salt Lake Daily Iele-
graph of the 9th instant-a paper ed
tied by 7. B. II. Stenhouse, formerly
Mormon Emigration Agent in New
York city:


"There is no use in smoothing and
CLOSING an ugly fact-the Union Pa
cific Railway is a severe calamity to
Utah, and the directors of that compa-
ny should be brought to a realizing
sense of the injury they are doing to
our citizens by shifting the trouble
from our shoulders to theirs.


''To carry out the wishes of the
Directors to enable the company to
gain all the road it anticipated, every
man and animal that was wanted in
Utah was placed under contribution.
Farmers left their fields, mechanics
their workshops, and professional
men also were in every way engaged
where they could help forward the
great undertaking. From sunny
"DiXie, in the South, and the regions
of Bear Lake in the North, the people
flock to the railroad. President Young
has pledged his word, and the strong,
bTawny arms of the Scott and the
Dane, the Briton and the American,
the young, the middle aged and the
old, were there to make it good
Doubtful news came from the East of
the company's ability to pay; yet
there was no discouragement here.
The weak grew strong and the strong
grew stronger with the accumulating
worse reports. They were determined
not to yield before their task was COM
pleted. Contractors drew upon their
friends, and every merchant in this
city extended credit to his utmost
ability-and in many cases far beyond
it. What is their situation to-day? A
few are easy; many, we hope, will
pull through; but all have not been
able, and if no more are crowded, we
shall be extremely thankful. Utah
merchants who have always stood
high in the commercial world have
been seriously injured by this calami-
ty; and that a calamity, too, that has
reached them by no improvidence of
their own.


"But for the Indebtedness of the
Union Pacific not soul of them to-
day would be strained; on the contra
ry, they would be in clover. A mil
lion and half of dollars to a larger
community is a small affair; to us it
is a heap of money. BY the time that
that million and a half had passed
round from debtor to debtor and back
again and round again, it would have
multiplied till it probably reached in
its effects four times that amount
In precisely that proportion do we feel
its absence; and what is to be done?"
Year: 1869

The Philadelphia Ledger gives the
following excellent advice:


1t is very seldom that any business
can be counted upon as sure to yield a
large and constant income. There are
many chances and casualties in trade
and business that cannot be fOreseen.
He is fortunate man indeed, what
ever his calling, who does not find
himself, sooner or later, going 'out of
fashion," The new conner, or the
more dashing, ingenious or willy COM
petitOr, will sometimes distance an
old public favorite. Or a successful
man may be spoiled by success, and
spoil his own business by neglect, or
over confidence in his reputation.


For these and many other reasons,
it should be the effort of every man
to become Independent ofhis business.
We mean that he should place part,
however small, of his earnings in
some description of investment which
shall be secure from the chances which
effect his regular calling. To do this
he should tax, not only his business
means, but his personal vanity, and
be content to creep, as the phrase
goes, before he attempts to walk; and
to walk before he essays to run! There
is many a man who looks back on the
the careless expenditure of past years
with regret, but who might now be
assisted by the interest of his pros
porous acquisitions, if he had funded,
instead of spending his money for
temporary qualification.


Working men, while in the prime
of their strength and manhood, snd
in the receipt of liberal wages, might
secure themselves not only against
the distant days of old age, but also
against, much Of the inconvenience
of dull times, of sickness, or of forced
inactivity from any other cause
Whoever will make a firm rule and
then abide by it, always to live within
his income, is on the safe road to COM
petenee, if not to wealth.
Year: 1869

CURE FOR SUICIDEs.-Grace Green
wood tells a story illustrating a new
method of curing those who are in
clined to suicide. The father of a
family, after two attempts to make
way with himself, at length succeed
ed in shooting himself through the
heart. His widOw-an energetic,
sensible wOman-perceived that her
eldest daughter was inclined to follow
in the footsteps of her father even unto
death. The mother watched her
daughter narrowly, and one day soon
after she had swung herself of from
an old chest in the garret. She cut
her down, and tenderly brought her
to. Then, taking the knotted halter,
she vigorously laid it over her shOul-
ders, saying: "I'll put a stop to this
suicfdiDgI Pm not going to have 1t
run in our family, Ill have you un-
derstand." This treatment was sue
eessful in checking the mental dis
ease.
Year: 1869

A constable in Willimantic, Ct,
made a wager the other day that he
could break out of the village Jail in
fifteen minutes; and when it was ac-
cepted consented to be a prisoner
No sooner had the door been locked
than he seizen the leg of a bedstead,
struck the bars upon the door, knock
ing it completely off, and in three
minutes from the click of the clock
he emerged, thirteen minutes ahead
of time, winning the bet.
Year: 1869

Observe good faith and justice to-
ward all nations. Cultivate peace and
harmony with all. Religion and mo-
rality enjoin this conduct; and can it
be that good policy does not equally
eniOin? 1t will be worthy of free,
enlightened, and great nation, to give
to mankind the magnanimous and
too novel example of a people always
guided by an exalted justice and be-
nevOlence. Who can doubt that in
the course of time and things the fruit
of such plan would richly repay any
temporary advantage which might be
lost by steady adherance to it? Can
it be that Providence has not connect
ed the permanent felicity of nation
with its virtues ?-George Washing
ton.
Year: 1869

If action Of the bowels does not Oe-
cur at the usual hour sat not an atom
until they do act, at least for thirty
six hours, meanwhile drink largely of
cold water or teas, and exercise in the
open air to the extent of a gentle per-
spiration, and keep this up until
things are righted this suggestion, if
practiced would save myriads of lives
every year, both in city and country.
Year: 1869

ALL FOR THE BEST.-Dr. Johnson
used to say that the habit of looking
at the best side of every event, is bet
ter than a thousand pounds a year.
Bishop Hall quantity remarks ''fOr ev-
cry bad there might be worse; and
when a man breaks his leg, let him be
thankful that it was not his neek.n
When FenelOn's library was on fire,
"God be praised" he exclaimed,
"that it is not the dwelling of some
poor man I' This is the true spirit of
submissiOn-One of the most beautiful
traits that can possess the human
heart. Resolve to see this world on
its sunny side, and you have almost
half won the battle of life on the out
set
Year: 1869

A Printer in the Columbus Sun Of
flee and a young companion, with
more nerve than discretion, have re-
Gently been seeking to eclipse the
William Tell romance. At a distance
of forty yards one of them held tar
get not four inches above his head,
and allowed his companion to shoot
at it with Potter's rifle. The ball
very nearly entered the bulls eye.
Year: 1869

As fine flowers never put on their
best clothes for Sunday, but wear their
spOtless raiment and exhale their OdOr
every day, so let our Christian life,
free from stain, ever give forth the
fragrance of the love Of GOd.-HeHTy


Ward Beecher.
Year: 1869

Success rides on every hour. Crap
pie it and you may win; but without
a grapple it will never go with YOU
Work is the weapon Of honor. and he
who lacks the weapon will never tri-
umph.
Year: 1869

Respeetfully announce that during the season now
openi they propose TO oier the largest stock ana
most attractive assortment Of all kinds Of oths that
hev have ever offered Being determined TO make our
house the Central Emporium cr this dsfeItlt'on OF
goods we have collected for the present tenoh every
presents for
Year: 1869

SEIZURE OF ToBACCe.-The Collector of In
ternal Revenue for the Second District OF Ala
bama has reported TO the Department the seizure
OF forty boxes OF tobacco for violation OF the
revenue laws.
Year: 1869

The STRIKE among the potters in Trenton,
N. j still continues, and, SO far as we car
learn, there is no imme dia'e prospect Of an
adjustment OF the difhcuity. The men on the
strike allege that if they hold out until the
middle of this month. or week or two later,
the employers will be compelled to succumb,
in order to get their fall stock made They saw
that unless The employers do this they will not
have sufhcient stock for their fall trade ana
that the business will su6er irreparahle injury
in consequence thereof. The employers, ON
the other hand, say that most OF the potteries
are now man ufacturing ware as fast as neces.
cary to supply their stock stock.
Year: 1869

THE PUBLIC DRBT.-The continued low dis
burseTents of the Government, combine


With the inCre'sfd receipts from customs and
internal revenue, will have the Fife CT of show
ing a very favorable condition of the public
debt in the next statement. Since the first Of
the month the receipts from customs have been
s., ',0JO, and from in niernal revenue, Sl2,2s -
Year: 1869

Financially GRANTS administration
is failure. The best Radical organs
conceded this weeks ago, and the most
obseqeuous friends of the President are
now making the admission. The recent
unexpected and extraordinary advance
in gold shows the utter want of conf
dence among monied men with regard
to BoUTwELL'S ability to deal with the
problems that face him, and his failure
to bring down the rates after more than
a week of effort indicates that their
fears of his weakness were well found,
ed. The New York Tunes, of yesterday
speaking of the recent advance in gold,
says:


Under an administration Of Tetrench-
meut, economy and revenue collected,
the premium on gold ought to fall aud
the public credit in all respects be
strengthened. Such large, quick and
unexpected advance as that Of the past
month deranges business and values and
works greatly to the detriment of the
mercantile interests of the country.
There is no doubt that the carrying out
of the ideas of Grants inaugural, with
a sound treasury policy and a proper
treasury administration, would prevent
these embarrassing and injurious tiuc-
tuations and at the same time solidly
establish the public credit.


The conclusion is, of course, that
either GRANT has abandoned the princi-
pies laid down in his inaugural, or ne
has not the ability to enforce them.
Year: 1869

Two more disgraceful scenes at the
White House are reported in the tele-
grams this morning. SUMNER has tlared
up at the imperious customs that obtain
about the White House and withdrawn
his presence from the place in great
wrath. It's "a military camp" and
never more will it be gladdened by
visit from the pedaAtic pOpinjay from
Massachusetts,, unless ULYSSES appease
his incensed dignity.


As "CHAwIs" with GRANT SO SuANKs
with FISH. The Secretary's Aquarium
is to have its waters troubled no more
by SHANKs, no matter what unhealed
office seekers may long for that angelic
individual to stir up the flood. FISH
himselfl is calmly consigned to perdi-
ton by this vengeful Congressman. II
SHANKS don't want to be bothered by
FISH in future, he should have made
some other disposition of that Secretary


Il the object of these prominent loy,
alsts" be merely to bring their party
into di.repute and push it out Of power
their object might as well be considered
accomplished. For the sake of public
decency they ought to suspend their
shameful performances and not convinc,
the world that the great men of tht
country conduct their business solely OF
the basis of blackguardism.
Year: 1869

Recent verdicts in important cases,
have caused some of the leading journ-
ais Of the country to discuss the ques-
ton of reforming our jury system. Sew
eral acquittals in cases OF deliberate kill
ing and others Of less magnitude, have
shown that in many instances, as jurors
are at present selected, it is impossible
for them to resist the pressure of outside
influence, and that they base their ver-
diets more upon popular sympathy than
upon the law and the facts The st. Louis
Dispatch favors a change in the qualiti-
cations Ofjurymen, in the mode OF their
selection and in the amount paid them
for their services. 1t contends that
both property test aud an educa-
tional test should be applied in the ap
pointment of jurors. Popular and sue
cessful advocates may desire that the
Jury system should remain in stat" quo,
but the great majority of the legal pro-
fession entertain a different opinion
and so do the great bulk of the public.
There is one class unalterably opposed
to change-the class which gives the
Police so much employment. They es-
pecially desire to have as many of their
peers in the jury box, when they ind
themselves standing in the opposite
box, as can be got there, and the present
system enables them to give at least
partiaffffect to the desire. Germany is
the source of the jury system, and
we might learn useful lesson by going
to the fountain head. In many of the
German States the ju.ors are a select
class. The position is one of honor.
They are called by their title, justas we
call Judges here. Why should we lay
so much stress OH having good judges,
while we are Indifferent as to the way
in which our juries are constituted
With us jurors have more power than
they have anywhere else-the more
necessary that they shOuld be duly quail
fled and properly paid for the discharge
of their duties. If any better mode than
the application of the tests mentioned
can be devised, let it be brought forward.
Going to law now is little better
than a game of chance; whereas it
should be as certain in its results as a
scientific process. Some persons sug-
gest that jurymen should be elected.
But the character of the bench which
the ballot box has given US does not leud
much countenance to that idea. Politi-
cal partisans of mediocre talents and
requirements occupy most of the judi
cial seats. You seldom find a hrst-class
lawyer on the bench nowadays.


The Dispatch concludes by saying that
a reform in the method of constituting
the Judiciary is just as much needed as
a reform in the jury system, and if the
State is mindful of the general welfare
it will address itself without delay to
both problem.
Year: 1869

From a late circular from John


Haight, our well-knOwn swine breeder,
of Du Page county, we take the follow
ing on the above subject:


Summer is the time to make pork /;
making it in winter is much like run
ming boat against wind and tide; it
requires too much food to keep up the
animal heat. If hogs have plenty of
grass in summer, and about half the
corn they will eat, they will fatten rap
idly, and my belief is that three
pounds of pork can be made
from less grain in this way than
one pound can be in cold wealth
er with hog in a close pen. The grass
is cooling and looSening, and counter
acts the feverish properties of the corn &.
Hogs will never melt in summer, how
ever fat, if they have acs4E>ss to water
and mud TO lie in. Mud ia very had far
hogs in cool or cold weather. 1t alb
serbs too much animal heat. Milk is q
very cooling drink and almost indis-
pensable to raising young pigs. But
very little corn and no corn meal should
be fed to young pigs before they are
four months old. The effects of corn and
raw corn meal on young pigs are these:
The pigs will first be costive, then they
will scoHr. They will begin to rub
against everything they can rub against,
that will rub their hair off. Their skin
will have a red and dry appearance. A
dry, black scurf will begin to form on
them; and the more of the corn and
meal they eat, the poorer they will get.
The best thing that can be done for
pig in this condition, is to give him a
thorough washing in warm rain water
or sour milk; sour milk is best. Coarse
flour or middlings from rye or wheat,
when made into a thin drinkable slop
with milk, is the best feed for young
pigs.
Year: 1869

The New York Sun uses the following
in trying to say that the rev.
ersnd editor of the Independent is hyp-
ocrite and q liar: "bLr. TILTON has
shown himself ready to affirm that to be
true which is not true, and which he has
no good reason for believing to be true.
This is very poor policy, and evinces bad
morals and worse religion in the party
rniltY of it.n
Year: 1869

At the last days session of the Ameri-
can Medical Association it was resolved
"that all contract physicians, as well as
those guilty of bidding for practice at
less rates than those established by a
majority of the regular graduates of the
same locality, be classed as irregular
nractitioners.r
Year: 1869

WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use of either Of these
remedies. They will cure every case of MA
RASMUS, without fail


Thousands Of certificates have accumulated
in the hands of the proprietor, but space will
allow Of the publication of but few Those
il will be observed, are men of note, and of such
standing that they must be believed