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Year: 1868

They tell the following story of Sinclair
the late Democrtic candidate for Governor
of New Hampshire


When lad, with three other boys, he,
was watching corpse, as Was the custom.
The dead person was bent forward by de-
formity, and in laying out the mortal re-
mains they had attempted to make them
look more becoming by Strengthening them
and tying the shoulders down to board.


The young men were Willing the hours
away by game of cards, when suddenly
the cord broke and up came the head of
the dead man.


They all rushed for the door but Sim
clair who without moving from his chair,
remarked;


"COme back, boys, he only wants a
game. Deal him hand .,
Year: 1868

A terrible scaffold scene recently took
place at TambOw, in Russia. Young
GOrski, a pupil of the high school of that
place, and eighteen years of age, was to
be executed for having murdered fami-
ly of seven persons. The young criminal
was conveyed to the place of execution on
a wagon which was escorted by compan
of Dragons. The gallows was surround
ed by crowd of ten thousand persons.
After the doomed lad alighted from the
wagon, the sentence of death was read to
him, He was deadly pale and tainted
before the warrant was through. The ex-
ecutiOner then branded him, after he had
been restored to consciousness :. the boy
struggled violently and uttered heart rem
dering screams when the red hot iron was
applied to his forehead. He was then
whipped, receiving about thirty lasbes.
The executioner thereupon undressed him
and wrapped him in long white blanket,
tied his feet together, attached the rope
to his neck and drew the blanket over his
head. He then lifted him on top of
step-ladder and was about to push him
from it when the Secretary of the Crimi-
nal Court stepped forward and told the
executioner to stop. The excitement of
the crowd had reached the highest pitch
by this time, and it seemed us if all the
ten thousand persons around the gallows
we're holding their breath. The execu-
toner lifted the lad from the step-hdder,
removed the blanket from his face, which
was livid and distorted with fear, and
then the Secretary read to him letter
from the Emperor changing his sentence
to hard labor for life. The executioner
then united his feet, gave him thirty more
lashes-the sentence having ordered that
he should receive sixty lashes-and then
clad him in the convicts dress and chained
his legs. He was there-upon taken back
to his cell, and two days afterward sent
to Siberia.
Year: 1868

From the Cincinnati Commercial OCT. 2sth.l


Coroner Emmert concluded his inquest
on the body of Henry Porter yesterday
moruin;. From the testimony eliaited,
it appears that the deceased, colored
man tweuty-nine years old, was second
steward on the steamer Charmer, a boat
playing between this city and Evansville,
Indiana. At noon, week ago to-day,
for some reasen unknown, Porter dis
charged yoans man by the name of
Henry Morgan, who was employed on the
steamer as berth-maker. High words
arose between them, and as Morgan left
the boat he remarked that he would "get
even with Portea. "About4 o'clock in the
afternoon, as the boat was on the point Of
starting on her downward trip, Morgan
was seen by several of the deck-hands,
lettering about the gangway He disap-
peared from their sight for few minutes,
but was soon observed running from the
boat to the shore. One of the cahih boys
met him, and injured whether he had
had his supper He replied that he had
not but would soon be back to get it. He
continued to run up the levee, and was
lost in the crowd He has not been seen
since that time. Shortly after he had


left the boat, P rter was found in the
kitchen weltering in his own blood, and
insensible, from horrible wound in the
head. He was taken to his home, where
he died, from the effects of the Wound,
last Saturday morning. A few hours be-
fore his heath, and while he was perfectly
c,nsi)us of what he was saying, he stated
to DR. Quener and to others who were near
him, that the wound from which he vas
suffering was inflicted BY MOrgans's strik-
ing him on the head with a potatO-niash-
er.


A post mortem examination showed
that his death was caused by fracture nf
the skull, produced by blunt instrument,
welded with considerable force.


The verdict of the jury was that OF tho
deceased came to his death from blow on
the bead, struck BY Horny Morgan
Year: 1868

An interesting action is on trial in
Bangor, Me. The defendant was the in
dorser of promissory note, and offered
evidence on two former trials to prove
that his name was put upon the note SIM
ply to make it negotiable. This evidence
was however rejected as inadmissible.
The full court has reversed the decision of
tie single Judge, and the evidence will
be allowed at the present triel.
Year: 1868

" Butler didn't take Big Bethel, he
didn't take Petersburg, he didn't take
Fort Fisher, but he did take stump
lately. He made no desperate charge to
take it, but he made good many despeate
and internally false charges after he had
taken it.
Year: 1868

TRY IT.-The Leavenworth. Bulletin says:
Stick piece of bread about as large as your
finger into the butter when tits put or the ia
BILE, and not a fly will touch the butter, though
they may crawl around on the bread After a
few. minutes they will leave the butter entirely.
Year: 1868

Tho Legislature Of West Virginia
convenes to-day. Most of the members
elect were in the city last evening and
the remainder, we presume, will arrive
this morning. From what we have seen
of those who compose this honorable
body, we incline to the belief that it
will not be inferior in point of abil ity
or respectability to the Legislature of
last winter. As inferiOrity could hardly
be possible, we will hazard the compli-
ment that the appearance of the present
members is rather superior to that OF
their distinguished predecessors. We
cannot omit the qualification, pretty is
| that pretty does"


What this Legislature will do, no
prudent man would undertake to say.
Too many things are possible with Rad
icalisIn to Justify any one in calculating
its course. What this Legislature
ought to do, is not difficult to state in a
general way. Such statement we will
attempt.


True, We have no assurance that our
utterances will be needed, but as the
Legislature of last year honored the
REGISTER with . special consideration,
We are not unwilling to reciprocate
with that cheapest of all commodities,
good advice.


We do not misconstruc public senti-
ment when We say that it demands the
repeal of all proscriptive legislation
which has heretofore disgraced- oul
statute books. The test oaths for suit.
ors, voters, lawyers and teachers and
with them the Registration Law, are
obnoxious in the eyes of the people and
ought to be abolished. If an apology
Tor their enactment could be added. il
Year: 1868

5 The Legislature will meet this morn
ing at eleven o'clock, and proceed to or


yanizr. We learn that three or four
candidates for Speaker of the House are


In the field. A lively time is expected.
Year: 1868

THE difference between being CRATE
full and being a great fool is now in
process of illustration by an independ-
ent Democrat. A grateful man is con-
tent with what BE has already received.
A great fool asks for more wien he can't
get it.
Year: 1868

tnati they have lived so long without cultiva-
! ton and neglected as they have been. In
many localities they are so situated that the
winter winds have fair rake upon them


Bee culture was up for discussion, and Mr..
Paul, one of the largest and most successful
bee-keepers, made some valuable remarks up-
on the subject. He allows no natural swarm
ing in his apiary, all the hives being divided
once year. Other gentlemen also spoke ON
producing honey A dry cellar is considered
the best place for wntering bees.


Mr.. Goodale introduced some resolutions in
relation to the trials of the speed of horses,
recommending that the sums offered for these
trials should not exceed the sums offered for
the culture of breadstufs, and also that the
several county societies offer the current year
sum in premiums ON wheat culture equal at
least To one-third of the amount of the State
bounty received during the year. And here
the question came up again, "Ought trials OF
the speed of horses to have place in agricutu-
raj exhibitions?" Mr.. Goodale thoueht the
man who had a fast horse had as good a right
to exhibit that quality as one who had nice
sheep had to exhibit the character of the wool,
and yet he believed the prominence given to
trials of speed at our exhibitions the past few
years had been productive of much evil. There
was variety of opinions upon the question:
Mr. Warren thought that the question of
horse-trotting had been for years a trouble
some one. People will turn out to see horse
trot in greater numbers than for anything
else.


A committee reported, advising that tho
Legislative resolves be so amended as 90 give
the power to the Board of Agriculture TO apply
pose of encouraging Agricultural lectures
among the farmers at large. Mr.. Dixie favored
the report. On motion of Mr. Goodale, "ten
per cent" was stricken out and "a portion" of
the State bounty was inserted Various opn-
ions were expressed on the subject, and the
report was tabled. Afterwa the report was
adopted by amending it so as to authorize the
Secretary of the Board to draw five per cent. of
the bounty.


a resolution of Mr.. Goodale, recommending
continuation of the photographic Survey
and the commission on fisheries vas adopted
The reports on alsike clover, bee culture, root
crops, the culture of buckwheat and the ideal
farmer were adopted.


This session of the Board will, no doubt, be
fruitful Of good to the Agricultural interests of
our State, and will enlghten our farmers and
give them fresh impetus to proceed with their
work, and thereby strengthen the foundation
for other industrial interests.


We are indebted to the Maine Farmer for
most of the facts in the above report.


AGRIcoLA
Year: 1868

AT present, the profits of the Company are derived
only from its local traffic, but this is already much
more than sufficient to pay the interest on all the
Bonds tho Company can issue, if not another mile
built. 1t is not doubted that when the road is
completed the through traffic of the only line con-
Meeting the Atlantic and Pacific States wi be large
beyond precedent, and, as there will be no compe-
tition, 1t can always be done at profitable rates.


1t will be noticed that the Union Pacific Railroad
in fact, Government Work, built under the SUI
pervision of Government officers, and to a large
tent with Government money, and that its bonds
are issued under Government direction 1t is be-
ieved that similar security is carefully guard
ed, and certainly other is based upon larger
more valuable property. As the Comp ny's
Year: 1868

The following is the Queens account of
some of the incidents of the expeditions in
which she travelled incognita


GA few seconds brought us over to the
road, where there were two shabby vehicles,
one a kind of barouche, into which Albert
and [ got Lady Churchill and General Grey
into the other-a break ;each with pair of
small and rather miserable horses, driven
by man from the box. Grant was on our
carriage, and Brown on the other. We had
gone so far forty miles-at least twenty on
horseback. We had decided to call ourselves
Lord and Lady Churchill and party
Lady Churchill passing as Miss Spencer, and
General Grey as DR.. Grey! Brown once for
got this, and called me Your Majesty as l
was getting into the carriage; and Grant on
the box once called Albert Your Royal High
ness; which set us off laughing, but no one
observed it.


"We had long three hours drive; it was
6 o'clock when we got into the carriage. We
were soon out of the wood, and came upon
the Badnoch road-passing close by Kinrara
but, unfortunately, not through it, which we
ought to have done. 1t was very beautiful
fine wooded hills, the high Cairngorm range,
and Ben Mulch Dhui, unfortunately much
obscured by the mist ON the top, and the
broad Spey flowing in the valley, with cult
waited heldS and nne valleys below. Most
striking, however, on our whole long journey
was the utter, and to me very refreshing, soli-
tude. Hardly habitation, and hardly meet
ing soul. 1t gradually grew dark. We
stopped at a small halfway house for the
horses to take some water, and the few peo-
pie about stared vacantly at the two simple
vehicles.


"The mountains gradually disappeared
the evening was mild, with a few drops of
rain. On and on we went, till at length we
saw lights, and drove through long and
struggling 'toun,' and turned down a small
court to the door of the inn. Here we got
out quickly, Lady Churchill aud General
Grey not waiting for us. We went up a
small staircase, and were shown TO our bed
room at the top of it-very small, but clean
with large fourpost bed which nearly fiji
ed the whole room. Opposite was the draw
| ing and dining room in one-very tidy and
weIl-sized. Then came the room where Al
| bert dressed, which was very small. The two
maids tJane Shackels was with mel had driv-
en- over by another road in waggonette,
| Stewart driving them. Made ourselves clean
| and tidy and then sat down to our dinner
| Grant and Brown were to have waited on us
| but were 'bashfur and did not. A ringleted
| woman did everything; and, when dinner
was over, removed the cloth and placed the
Year: 1868

The Union Pacific Railroad Company has a land
grant or absolute donation from the government OF
1880 acres to the mile on the line ofto road, which
viii not be worth less than $15O per acre. at the low
est valuation.
Year: 1868

fI .


In planting or hoeing corn, use the or
dinary hoes in general use. Neither In
dia rubber hose nor cotton hose would be
of any account in cornfeld no more
would one of Hoes eight-cylinder presses.
Don't try to hold the plow out at arms
length. You can't do it. Ifyou havn't
plow Of your own, get out an attachment
on your neighbor's, who owes you. Any
justice win tell you whether you can hold
it or not.


asked an old farmer once when was
the best time to put in rye. He looked at
bis watch and replied: "This is about the
hour" The rye was Immediately put in.
All seasons are the same for putting in
rye.


The best place to keep corn is in corn
house, though some prefer to keep it in the
system-in the juice. If they don't keeI
corn, they keep corn'd.


Good fencing is essential to farm
Get good ''fencing" master to learn you
A rail fence is better than an imaginar,
one. You can't repair worm fence b.
taking vermifuge.


Set fire to your stables if you wish t
make them warm in winter.


To make stone fence, take equal part
of vinegar and cider. This is the recipro
cal stone fence the more you lay of it tn
more it will clay you.


The easiest way to draw saw-logs is o
apiece of paper with crayon pencil. Al
ter little practice you will be able
draw the largest kind of saw-logs wit
perfect ease.


Packing-thread is of no use in packin
pork, In curing hams the time varies
Hams that have got the trichina can't /
cured at all.
Year: 1868

In Cincinnati they have formed the N
G.. U. Association. The members are to
Never Get Up in railroad car to give
any one seat, unless it be an aged person
or woman with child in her arms.
Year: 1868

THE NEWFOUNDLAND DoG.-A gentle


man connected with the Newfoundland fish
cry was once possessed of dog Of singular


fidelity and sagacity. On one occasion a


boat and crew in his employ were IN circum-


stances Of considerable peril, just outside of
a line Of breakers, which, owing to some
change in the wind or weather, had, since


the departure of the boat, rendered the re-
turn passage through them extremely haz
ardous- The spectators on shore were quite
unable to render any assistance TO their
friends afOat Much time had been spent,
and the danger seemed to be increased rath-
er than diminished Our friend, the dog,
looked on for q length Of time, evidently
aware of there being great cause for anxiety
in those around. Presently, however, he


took to the water, and made his way through


to the boat The crew supposed he wished
to Join them, and attempted to induce him


to come on board; but no be would not go
within their reach, but continued swimming
about a short distance from them. After a
while, and several comments on the peculiar
conduct of the deg, one, Of the hands sud
dealy OWNED his apparent meaning. Give
him the end Of a rope, he said, that Is
what be wants The rope was thrown


the dog seized the end in an instant, turned


round and made straight for the shore,
where q few minutes afterwards the boat


aud crew, thanks to the intelligence of their
four footed friend, were placed safe and un-
damaged. Was there no reasoning here?


no acting with view TO an end or for Civ
| en- motive2 Or was it nothing but ordinary
| instinct?
Year: 1868

OLD AGE WITHOUT RELIGION. |
for him who grows old without growing wise
and to whom the future world does not set
open her gates, when he is excluded by the
present. The Lord deals so graciously with
Us in the decline of life, that it is a shame
to turn deaf ear to the lesson which He
gives, the feet tOtter, all the senses refuse to
do their Office, and from every side resounds
the call, Set thine house in order for the
term Of thy pilgrimage is at hand" The
playmates Of youth, the fellow laborers of
manhood, die away, and take the road be-
fore US. Old age Is ike some quiet cham
Der, in which, disconnected from the visible
world, We can prepare in silence for the
world that is unseen.
Year: 1868

The London ReriesC deyotes its leading
article Tor the new year 10 a retrospect and
candid: ''''-44'


AT this time there is no country. No
matter how embarrassed or how Moor II
which there is so much pressing and painful
poverty, 20 much vice, 50 much misery. A.
IN England. We have failed with our low
er classes to such an extent shat in the
country we find some of them working ike
cattle, fed and housed worse than cattle.
while IN the towns We do not know what 20
do with them until they are ripe for drop
ping into the seethiDg pool of vice and
CRIME. With all our wealth, and England
Is q wealthy country, we have not succeeded
IN distributing happiness or content in the
proportion OF which we could be pf6ud.
" nnd massed against us gloomy and
threatening spirit OF .subordlnation, and a
gathering OF Ominous elements. from which
voices are heard, that having broken down
IN our task we should give It no 10 those
who Will change all things. Criticism Is no
longer function limited 10 one class. Our
future masters begin to take stock and value
Of US


In that social life in which most of us
are concerned, which may be placed above
the reach Of sordid wants, can we congratu-
late ourselves upon distinct adYance2
Around US on all sides we learn of families
living upon fictitious incomes, we find a rate
oflncrease IN the taste for Iuxuries so incom-
neDsurate with the means for getting them
honestly, that people satisfy the craving
with a reeklessnessWhich brings ruin upon
them. Comfort is word the meaning of
which Is beginning to disappear. Every
one desires to be rich, aud those who are not
rich keep up the pretenee until the wolf is
at the door"
Year: 1868

a LADY OPINION OF A LADY s MAN.


Mrs. Stephens, In her Monthly Magazine.
gives certain class of men, the Ike of
whom are seen in every community, the
benefit Of her opinion as follows: "Our own
private opinion Of the 'lady's man is that
be Is thoroughly eontemptible-a sort of
the Lite hardly worth thinking about-a
handful of foam drifting over the wine of
life, something not altogether unpleasant to
the fancy, but Of no earthly use. 4 woman
of sense would as soon be put to sea in a
man-OfwaT made Of shingles, or take up
her residence IN a card house as to dream of
attaching herself to lady-killer. Women
worth the name are seldom deceived into
thinking q lady s man the choicest speci-
men OF his sex. Whatever their ignorance
may be, W0manly intuition must tell them
the men Rho i've for a great object, and
whose spirits are so firmly knit that they are
able to encounter the storms of life-men
whose depth and warmth of feelingresembIe
the current Of some mighty river, and not
the pebbles on It's surface, who, if they love,
are never smitten By mere beauty Of form
and teatures-that these men are more wor,
thy even of occupying their thoughts in
idle moments than the fops and men about
town with whose attention they amuse
themselves five were to tell him this be
would only laugh, he has no pride about
him, although full Of vanity; and it matters
not to him what We broadly affirm or quiet
" insinuate. Soft and delicate though he
Is, he IS as imperviOus to ridicule as hod-
carrier, and as regardless Of fhonest contempt
as city alderman. Were you to show him
this article, he would take it TO some social
party, and read it aloud in the most mellifu-
Gus voice, as an homage to his own attrac-
tor"
Year: 1868

a Holy LEFE.-The rising Of the sun is
known by the shining beams the fire is
known by its burning; the life Of the body
is known by its moving; even so certainly is
the presence of Gods spirit known by the
shining light Of holy conversation; even so
the purging fire Of grace is known By the
burning zeal against sin and feryent de-
sire to keep Gods commandments; even so
certainly the life and hveliness of faith is
known by the good motives of the heart, by
the bestirriDg Of all the.powers both of the
soul and body, to do whatsoever God wills
US to be doing, as soon as we once know He
would have us do it. He, that hath this
evidence hath a bulwark against despair,
and may dare the devil to his face; he, that
hath this, hath the broad seal of eternal
life, and such man shall live forever.
Year: 1868

"ONE more question, Mr.. Parker, said
the lawyer to a witness You have known
the defendant a long time What are his
habits, loose or otherwise? p The answer
was: -'The one he's got on now l think
rather tight under the arms, and two short
WASTED for the fashion"
Year: 1868

There is this difference" says recent
Scotch writer, between doctors and law
years" The more lawyers there are the
longer the cases continue while the more
doctors there are the less chance there Is for
the patient to last. The first lead you from
one judgment to another; the latter send
you double-quick to your final Judgment.
Year: 1868

THE UEAsKED GooD.-The prayer which
Socrates taught his disciple Alcibiades de-
serves place in the daily devotions of eve
ry Christian, even that he should beseech
the Supreme God, to give him what was
good for him, although he should not ask it,
and to withhold from him whatever would
be hurtful, though he should be so foolish
as to prav for it -
Year: 1868

It is many years since I fell in
love with. Jane Jerusha .skeggs,
the .handsomest country girl by
far that ever went on,two legs.
By meadow and creek, and wood
and dell, 80 often did we, walk,
and the moonlight smiled on' her
melting lips, andzthc night winds
learned our talk. Jane Jerusha
was all to me, for, my heart
was young and true, and lowed
with a double twisted love, and a
lovethat was honest; too. [ roam
ed all over the neighbor's farms,
and I robbed the wildwood bow
Iers, and I tore my trowsers and
scratched my hands in-search of
choicest flowers In my Joyous
love, I brought these to my Jer-
usah Jane, but wouldn't be so
foolish now, if we were a boy
again: A city chap then came
along, all dressed up in fine clothes,
with 3 shiny hat, and a fine shiny
vest, and a moustache under his
nose.


He talked to her of singing
schools; (for her father had a
farm and she left me (the country
love) and took the new chaps
arm. And all that nightI never
slept, nor could I eat next day for
I loved that girl with a fervent
love that naught could drive away.
I strove to win her back to me,
but it was all in vain; the city
chap with the hairy lip married
Jerusha Jane.


And my poor heart was sick
and sore, until the thought struck
me, that just as good fish still re-
NAMED as ever was caught in the
sea. So went to the Methodist
church, one night, and saw dark
brown curl peeping from under
gipsy bat, and I married that
very girl. And many years have
passed and gone, and l think my
loss their gain and I often bless
that hairy chap that stole my
Jerusha Jane.