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Year: 1869

The Hawaiians have such wonderful skill
in swimming. that an account Of their
aquatic achievements might at once be called
a regular fish story. and yet be perfectly true.
such story is the following one, the hero
inc of which have often seen in the island


The little schooner he-o-G left Lahaina
Nav I, $40. for the Island Of Hawaii, a
hundred miles to the southeast Of that port
On the afternoon Of the next day Sunday
her ballast shifted in a squall of wind, and
she suddenly capsized and sank, about ten
miles from the nearest land. \ few passen-
gers were carried down with the vessel, and
the rest were lett floating in the water. To
be shipwrecked Is usually to a Hawaiian not
so much a calamity a. an inconvenience I;
but in this case, the swimmers found that a
strong tidal current from the southwark was
sweeping them away from the land Their
only chance was to reach the island that lay
upon the other side Of the channel, twenty
FIVE miles distant A man named Mau-ae
called the ships company around him in the
water. and offered prayers for their deliver
ance from peril. Then the swimmers turned
their faces in the direction Of the current.
and held their course toward the distant and
desert island of Ka-hoO-la-we they could
Just see Its blue hills upon the northern hor-
ion Mau-ae and his wife Ka-lu-a had each
saved from the lost schooner a covered buck
ct, upon which they swan.


A cloudy night now closed over them, and
the shipwrecked company, deprived of the
guidance of the stars, became widely scat
tered. A vigorous young man, floating up
on the cnver of the hatchway, succeeded in
making the land on Monday morning but
his brother and many others died before day
light. One very slender and apparently
weakly youth, unsupported by anything but
his own skill in swimming, got ashore after
being about twelve hours in the water.


At sunrise, Ka-lu-a and her husband found
/ themselves alone IN the ocean, and still far
from land. Her bucket came to pieces, and
abe swan unaided all Monday morning. To
Year: 1869

Girls, says Every Saturday, are
awluily jealous OF each other. We
should callthis the girls distinctive
fault. See them when they arc
introduced, or when they first
meet at u ball or croquet party;
see how coldly critical they look
at each other, how ,nsolently their
eyes rove over every portion OF
their rivals dress, read in their
faces the outspoken scorn us tho
result of their scrutiny: "You
think that you have done IL very
well, but you have made a fright
and | am much better
than you" Watch their disdain
of The more admired among them,
and how excessively naughty for
attracting so much attention they
think the Ada or Amy about whom
the young men cluster. How
bold she isl-How cverdressed
she is u How affected she isl and,
oh! how ugly she isl Sometimes
if they are deep, they will over
praise Ter enthusiastically; but
the ruse is generally TOO transpar'
ent to deceive any ono and simply
counts tor what il is-a clever
feint that dosn't answer. IL is
quito study to watch the way in
which girls shake hands together
or take hands in dances. The
limp, cool impertinent way in
which they just touch palms, then


let their arms fall as if paralyzcd'
tells volume 10 those able TO
read the lettering.
Year: 1869

population press on snbsistcncc7 Will not
luxury and poverty, by tho double process
Of preventing births and increasing mortal
tty, reduce the zatio Of increaso2 No Eu-
ropean nation gsins at any such rnte as
three per centa year compounded, nor the
hnlf Of it, Great Britain gains leas than
one Per cent a year, Germany not! more
thau one, Fsanea but half per cent, and
Russia one and haN per cent annually, or
fifteen each decade.


Nevertheless. We confidently believe that
the United States will fully keep pace for
the remainder Of tho century with the past
ratio" Of increase, and Will enter the next
century with considerably more than one
hundred nllliona m inhabitants. But this
viii not be done within the present limits
u the Union Acquisition Of naioining
territory and population is essential to the
production Of this result. 1T was
by virtue of past anne,aHops Of
territory that SO vast food Of immigration
WIS attracted IL this country. Hid tho
Union never expanded beyond its limits
when its Independence was gAined, its
Present population would not be one half
what it is. The opportunity Of acquiring
cheap lnnds and obtaining abundance OF
Subsistence easily and certainly were temp
tahons to the oye1-crowded Populations OF
tie Old World too strong for resistance, and
sent millions Of their people to our shores.
and this process Of absorption Of territory is
destined to continue until the entire con-
tinent Of North America is embraced in the
Cn1on
Year: 1869

The appointments made by Colonel East-
man to the loading positions in the Chicago
Past Office give abundant ASSURANCE that
the first consideration in his mind is the
efficiency Of the public service. Six OF the
appointees are men who have been long
connected with tho Office, and hare ap-
proved themselves faithful and e1-
pert in their respective positions.
The remaining three have had
special education md experience
in fiscal affairs which will enable them to
assume the duties assigned to them With
ont any other preparatory trimming. The
policy which Colonel Eastman has adopted
promises not only to secure the successful
administration Of the Office, but to Offer an
incentive to all the young men employed
there to excel in their several Positions
holding ont, as itloes. the aBuranoe that
superior merit is The hrst requisite for pro-
motion md p1eferment
Year: 1869

On Thursday, about noon, stal.
wart chap, bearing evidence of rustic
birth, was standing quietly IN frant
of a bibulOus temple On st. Clair
street, with his hands in his pockets,
when three or four fellows who had
been playing court at the shrine OF
Bacchus approached him s1d essay
ed to have little fun at his expense.
One OF them stepped up to him, and
fiOurishing his "mauleYs'' in a hos
tile manner, declared that he was
just the man he had been looking for
for a week past, and he wanted tO
have that little affair settled then
and there. Our rural hero OWNED
their purpose and determined to
bring it to a focus at once AS quick
as thought, and before the bully
could realize the situation, he whip
ped out his right hand, dealt him a
sledge hammer blow in his optical
regions that sent him sprawling to
the earth. Then coolly turning to
the others of the party, he inqlired
81 say, have any of the rest of yew
fellers been lookin' fur me - They
wisely concluded they hadn't, and
assisting the fallen warrior to his
feet, they hastily quit the field.--
Cleveland Herald.
Year: 1869

Having made large additions to our establish
ment in the shape of material of the --latest
sfyle and having employed experienced and
careful workmen, We are prepared to execute
orders for every variety of PLAIN AND FANCY
JoB PRINTING with neatneSs and Dispatch
The addition of Steam Power to our establish
ment affords us great advantages over most
country offices in the way of low prices and
fast work. Call with US, and be convinced.
Year: 1869

We do not offer single alticle of merchan- disc. that can be sold by regular delaers at our price We do not ask you to buy goods of us unless we can sell them cheaper than you can obtain them in any other way,-while the greater part of our goods are sold at about
Year: 1869

While the case of Frederick s. COmstOck and
James M Wheeler bankrupts, was pending before Reg
lister Dayton. objections raised by Benjamin Hart
creditor OF the Oankrups the proof Of debt OF Geo.
H. wheeler being admitted against the bankrups' es
tate and the Register made an issue requiring George
n Wheeler to show cause upon him why the PROOF OF
debt objected TO should not be declared vacated and the
record thereof cancelled The question Of the right OF
the Register such order having been sent TO


Judge Batchord for decision the latter decides that the
order question wrongly granted by the Register
and should have been granted by the Court.
Year: 1869

have no sympathy with that rude, un-
feeling, and delicate phrase, old maid,
which is banded about in the mouths of
rude, unfeeling, and indelicate persons,
1t is true selfish nature, cut of from all
duties and ties, and sinking back into tho
solitary life of selfish heart, becomes
most unlovely and useless. But shall the
few cloud the nobleness of the many?
How many elder sisters, it may be. up-
blessed by outward comliness, have enter
ed into brothers or q sisters family, and
accepted all its cares as the duty of their
life, and joining hands with their mother,
given to each little child, as it we're. two
wings of God, to help it fly up with all
from weakness and ignorance to manhood
and strength. How many have cheerful
ly given up their own whole life. built no
nest, sought no companion, but sang in
the tree and near the youngling of another
nest, patient in toll, watchful and laborious
in sickness, frugal amidst poverty, rich in
nothing but good works; in these abound.
ing in wealth.


When the roll is read above, and they
are named who lived in self-sacrifce, in
gentleness, in patience, in love, and in the
only triumph of disinterested mercy, they
who are unmarried and childless, that they
might more heroically serve the household
of others, and become mothers to children
not their own, shall stand high and bright,


This tribute is certainly becoming in
me, who owe SO much to such a one. My
fathers sister, whose whole and long life
was noble illustration of fidelity aud
picture of virginity such as we never
dreamed of in olden days, nor approached
in any legend or poetry that celebrated
the virginia. excellences of those who were
called the brides of God. because they
chose his service rather than their own
pleasure.
Year: 1869

The value of learning trade becomes
more and more certain every day. Scarce
ly a week passes but some young man is
asking us to point out field of labor for
him. With good attainments, perhaps,
or an Unsuitable desire to be at work at
something whereby an honest penny may
be turned, he finds himself landed as it
were at the first ebb of the tide, The
slightest recession of the waters deposits
him on the shore among the weeds of idle
ness, and unwholesome vapors becloud his
mind. There is scarcely man in bust
ness but has an experience like ours; his
young friends continually cnvying him the
privilege of working in we'll defined field,
and wishing like him they had something
to strike at.


These young men are generally afflicted
with the disease of ambition. They want
to be something more than common, and
mstaking often their desires for the abili-
ty to satisfy them, they fatter themselves
that they are fit for something better than
the common run of humanity. Their fault
is in trying to achieve manhood without
serving an apprenticeship to it, and they
find themselves, when they should be pre-
pared for their lifework, wondering what
it will be, and fretting because it doesn't
declare itself, and nine cases out of ten
waiting in vain for such call, go into
politics, agencies, and petting it.


The great remedy for all this is a trade
thoroughly learned. The time between
school and twenty-one should be spent at
the carpenters bench, in a machine shop
or at the anvil, SO that when the young
man commences his battle with life in any
vocation, he can, if:worstcd at his first at
tempt, turn to his trade with confidence
that his skilled labor will at least procure
him living, and perhaps competence.
Time frittered away in trying to discover
desirable roads to success, foots up n con-
siderable total on the loss side of the bal
ance sheet.
Year: 1869

THE COMING GrRL.-She will vote, will
be Of some use in the world will cook her
own food, will earn her living, and will
not die an old maid The coming girl
will not wear the Grccian bend, dance the
Norman, ignore all possibilities of know
ing how to work, will not endeavor to
break the hearts of unsophisticated young
men, will spell correctly, understand En-
glish before she affects French, will pre-
side with equal grace at the piano and the
washboard, will spin more yarn for the
house than for the street, will not despise
her plain clad mother, her poor relations,
or the hand of an honest worker, will wear
bonnet, speak good, plain vnlisping En-
glish, will darn her own stockings, will
know how to make doughnuts, and will
not read the New York Ledger oftencr
than she does her Bible.


The coming girl will walk five miles
day, if need be, to keep her cheeks in
glow, will mind her health; her physical
development and her mother, will adopt
costume both sensible and conducive to
comfort and health will not confound hy-
pocracy with politeness will not practice
lying to please, instead of frankness; will
have the courage to cut an unwelcome ac-
quaintance, will not think that duplicity
is French refinement that assumed hos
pitality, where hate dwell in the heart, is
better than outspolen condemnation; will
not confound grace of movement with silly
afectation; will not regard it as the end
of her very being to have beau; will not
smile and be q william still


The coming girl will not look to Paris
but to persons for her fashions will not
aim to follow a foolish fashion because
milliners and dressmakers have decrecd it.
Duty will be her aim and her life living
sacrifice.
Year: 1869

How TO RUIN TowN The Dubuaue
Herald gives the following receipt for
knocking town stiff and dead: If you
wish to kill off a town, put up no more
buildings than you are obliged to occupy
yourself. If you should happen to have
an empty building, and one should want
to rent it, ask about three times its actual
value. Look at every newcomer with a
scowl. Turn cold shoulder to every bu-
siness man or mechanic seeking a home
among you. Go abroad for wares rather
than purchace of your own merchants or
manufacturers at the same prices. Refuse
to advertise in your own local paper, SO
that person at distance will not sup
pose any business is being done in the
place. A prompt and close observance of
these rules will ruin any town.
Year: 1869

DIR. Franklin once remarked that a man
as often gets two dollars for the one spent
in informing his mind as dollar laid out
in another way. A man eats pound Of
sugar and it is gone, and the pleasure he
has enjoyed is ended, but the information
he gets from newspaper is treasured up
to be enjoyed anew and to be used when
ever occasion or inclination calls for it. A
newspaper is not the wisdom of ono man or
of two mont is the wisdom of the age
and of the past ages too. A family with
out newspaper is always behind the times
in general information besides they can
never think much or find much to talk
about. And then there are the little ones
growing up without any taste for reading.


Who then would be without a newspaper :?
Year: 1869

Lying in the East River, at the foot of
Nineteenthst, tho steamship william Taber, fitted up
under the superntendence of Prof Lowe for the purpose
OF transporting to this market the Of beef cattle
from Texas where beef comparatively worthless The
gentlemen who have taken the enterprise In hand have
Incorporated themselves into what called "The RefPig-
Grating Steamship Company with capital OF 100000
The Taber vessel or about 9G0 tuns and
is arranged that she Will carry 400 tuns Of In
such TO allow free circulation OF air around
each The entire hold Of the ship Is lined with


nOncOnductnR fet, two inches In thickness ana when
the proper machinery n working eTdeT the ships hod
can be cooled In hour and half The extreme degree
OF cold Is produced by pressure upon oarDOlc hcld
allowing 1t to reyaporize This process produced so in
tonse degree OF cold that personal contact with the ice
machinery will produce blisters the flesh similar to
those raised by burns AS matter OF this tent
perature altogether unnecessary for the preservation
OF meat and would in fact be useless, and IL only
produced experiment. The refrigerator on board
has capacity Of 300 at time, and ice was made and


the ship cooled yesterday mOrnlngln one hour and ha


The In the ship reduced 10 temperature OF 26o
above zero. The air as 10 came from the suppyppe Dy
temperature OF lSo below Tho temperature can
be reduced to from IS TO 20o below zero, but II
Is undesirable to freeze tho meat and the object Is
TO keep In atmosphere where vaporizati0n almost
ceases and where 10 dry and cold The Taber Will sail


for Texas about the 1st OF April IN command or
Capt Buger Prof lowe and other scientific gentlemen
viii accompany her OIL her first voyage. The Company
has agent In Texas who will provide the CATTLE aud


their arrangements such that they will be enabled TO
slaughter aud stow away 100 head per day. This will
shortly be increased to 200 The round trip will be made
In from 20 10 % days and the meat Will be delivered In
this market in about Ia days after ls slaughtered 1t
will be retained in and sold from the vessel until the
Company have built q refrgeratng house
Year: 1869

ton that even the Radical State Treasurer
cuts the amount that can stand the test of
the negroized constitution of the State to
SIG, 10000. AS even this modified amount
brings but thirty seven cents on the
dollar, it follows that at the best, the oiti-
zens of North Carolina have their name
forged to notes for SIG, 100000 where
as but little over O third thereof,
or S.. 7O5, 900 is ever received. Now taking
this from the face of the bonds, there re-
main SIC, ,594, 100 on which North Carolina
is bound, so far as carpet-bag Legislation
can pecuniarily bind her, to pay interest
until the bonds mature and then meet the
principal, having for both principal and
interest never received anything at ALL
Even for the five millions received so much
will be stolen that it is doubtful if the
State over receives the use Of one dollar in
ten. To suppose community bound to
honor such obligations is ts dignity open
theft. Now York IT0rlt
Year: 1869

The Roanoke Valley says: ga gentlman
in the neighborhood of this town has two
male turkeys, who having been deprived
of their mates on account of their raising
young families, went into the orchard and
got together some sticks and straw in the
shape of nests, rolled up some up
pies into them for eggs, and went to set
ting; they were missed when it was time
to shut them up for the night. and on
search being made, tho old fellows were
found gravely sitting on the nests full of
apples The apples were taken away and
the nests broken up, but they went back
the next morning and renewed their Ia
bors, and SO they kept it up. The apples
were gathered up in the neighborhood of
the nests, but theY flow into the trees and
beat off apples with their wings and filled
up their nosts again. One of them, after
much trouble, was broken up, but tho
other still persists in setting On the apples
Year: 1869

Tho following table represents the value
of leading crops for the year 1868, tho es
Inmates being made upon home values in
the respective States, and furnished by the
Commissioner OF Agriculture at Washing
Year: 1869

The weekly statement OF the New York asso-
ciated banks is quite favorable TO monetary
ease although il continues 70 reflect the dead :
lock In the movement OF the crops. Thus, al
thong the loans have been contracted four and
q half millions, the deposits have fallen OF
only four millions. The increase specie ~
over i've and q half millions, owing TO the re-
turn to the banks OF gold and gold certificates
employed in the recent speculation and kept
out OF the banks TO aid those whose operations
were based on the scarcity Of the actual gold.
decrease OF two millions In legal tenders IS
not 90 easily accounted for and excites coasid-
erable comment.
Year: 1869

Do editors who make a practice
of admitting to the columns of their
papers low and vulgar Aings at their
mothers sex, consider that they are
lowering the standard Of manly
journalism, and dcmeaning them
selves in the estimation Of all true
men and women? And yet We can
scarcely take up paper in which
does not appear some low and vul-
gar fling at woman--somctimes
about +" old maids, homely wo-
men, or women in general which
should bring tho blush of shame to
the cheek Of every such editor who
has not YET forgotten that he had
ever a mother. Some Of our ex-
changes are notorious in this partic-
ular. Can il be- that editors ara
wholly heartless, and actually de-
light in thus inficting pain upon


the physically weak, or especially
the unfortunate? Or, as we char
itaLly believe, may not such mean
allusions to woman be considered as
thoughtlessness =? In either case it
is short way Of pandering to the
taste of the vulgar-that large
class in the community whose high
est idea or apprehension of woman
never exists beyond the mere ami
NAL. If journalists would correct
their morals and manners in the
above matter alluded to, they would
take . gigantic stride in the direc-'
tion Of common lecency. ,-.za
Year: 1869

They are the palace builders Of
the world /; not stick is hewn, not
a stone shaped in oil the lordly
dwellings of the rich, that does not
eve it's beauty and fitness to the
skill of tho mechanic. The tower
eriug spires that raise their giddy
heads among the clouds depend up
on the mechanics art for their
strength and symmetry. Not an
edifice for devotion, or business, or
comfort, but bears the Impression
Of their hands. How exalted is
their vocation. how sublime their
calling. Their path is one of truo
glory, and it is their own fault if it
does not lead them to tho highest
point Of honor and repown,
Year: 1869

One Of the best presentation
speeches ever made Is said to be


the following. addressed in . rail
road shop in Illinois, on presenting
watch TO the time keeper: Be
dad. boss, we trust the watch will
keep us good time for yecs as yces
lave kept for us this many . year.
Year: 1869

The following shows the area in
square miles of the several States
aud Territories within the district


brought into close communication
with us by the completion Of the
Pacific Railroad; with tho popula-
tion at the present time:
Year: 1869

"AyING PURCHASED The Meat Market
III Of Luckey Bro, will keep constantly on
hand the best quality Of Beef, Mutton and Pork,
and other meats in their season. Having had
long experience in the business, and being large
~ engaged in buying Cattle and Hogs and feed
ing on their farms, will at all times furnish the
very best quality of meats. Since taking hold
Of this market they have reduced the price Of
meats one third, and will continue to furnish
them At the lowest living rates.


The highest market price paid for cattle and
hogs. Those having stock for sale will do well
to give them a call. MO
Year: 1869

about the space of zone revolving
moop.n and that without increase OF
taxation. Their plan is simple; 1t is
to lessen the public expenses But to
do this successfully. they must have an
additional outlay in their branch OF fthe
Government of some eight or nine mil
lions, Apply the same rule in every
Department of the Government and


broad daylight begins to shine through
their boasted retreuchment and re-
demption schemes. And yet these wiss-
acres fail to see that every increase in
the expenses Of the Government is bnt
another step in the direction OF MUM
GEN and repudiation.i 1E III
Year: 1869

INITIATE to borrow; contract to pay


This is the Radical party policy. They
inflated the currency until it was worm
but forty or fifty cents on dollar IN
gold and then created the greater part
of the debt. They now propose to con-
tract the currency until it is at par with
gold, and then pay their creditors with
coin or its equivalent. Is not
this a beautiful arrangement Tor
the peoplei Will they not ipsst
that a debt created in imitation shall be
paid by imitation; and that when we
have paid the debt it will be time to
contract the currency and approach the
specie basisf , 81.