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Year: 1869

A CURIOUS legal question is pending
in California. In bar room two men
were engaged in dickering about the
purchase and sale of a hen, which, at
the time, was resting quietly in cor
ner of the room. At last tho sale was
effected, and Immediately after it was
discovered that the hen had just laid an
egg. The purchaser claimed the eggas
his; but the former owner OF the fowl
maintained that the egg, not being
warm when fosnd, had been laid pre-
vious to the completion of the pur-
chase. The purchaser, doubting the
statement, is about to open legal pro-
ceedings TO recover the value of the
egg.
Year: 1869

So we heard a great strappine
young man exclaim the other day.
We concluded he wanted little
practical advice, and we will give
it to him.


You want capital, do you? And
suppose you had what you call cap
ital, what would you do with it?-
Haven't you hands, feet, muscle,
bone brains, health, and don't you
call them capital? What more cap
ital did God give anybody?


"Oh! but they are not money"
say you. But they arc more than
money, and nobody can take them
from you. Don't you know how to
use them. If you don't, it's time
you were learning. Take hold OF
the plow, or hoe, or jack plane, OF
broad-ax, and 60 to work. Your
capital will then, in due time, yield
you large interest. Ay, but ther,' S
the rub; you don't want to work;
you want money on credit, so you
can play gentleman and speculate,
and end by playing the vagabond.
Or you want farm with pleuty
of hands upon it to do work, while
you run over the country and dissi-
pate; or you want to marry some
rich girl who may be foolish enough
to take you for your good looks,
that she may support you.


Shame on you, young man. Go to
work with the capital you have, and
you'll soon make interest enough
upon it to give you as much money
as you need, and make you feel like
man. If you can not make money
on the capital you have, you could
not if you had a large amount in
cash. If you do not know how to
nse bone, muscle, aud brains, you
would not know how to use gold. If
you let the capital you have lie idle,
and waste and rust out, it would be
the same with you if you had gold;
you would only know how to waste
it.


Then don't stand about idle, a
great helpless boy, waiting for some
thing to turn up, but 60 to work.
Take the first work you can find, no
matter what it is, SO that yon do it
we'll. Yes, whatever you undertake,
do it we'll; always do your best. If
you manage the capital you already
have, you will soon have plenty more
to manage;but if you can no. or will
not manage the capital God has
given you, you will never have any
other to manage. Do you hear,
young man?
Year: 1869

blind to the doings of the cutpurscs
of the Republic until they begin to
fight for the millions stolen from
under it's nose. Then we learn how
the money coined out of the sweat
of the honest workers Of this patient
and long-suffcring nation is disposed
of. 1t is charged that the Pacific


Railroad and its double, the CREDIT
MoB1L1ER, have swindlcd the Treas
ury out Of q cool thirty millions of
dollars; and now that the secrets of
the gigantic job have had the light
let into them with cold-chiscls and
crowbars, there is a strong proba-
bility that the charge will be proven.


This is u colossal theft, but it is
nothing more than all illustration,


though startling one, of the vii


lainous system of corruption and
double-de ealing which prevades every
branch of the public service. For
every public work, national, state.
municipal, the people pay from fifty
to two hundred per cent more than
the sum honestly required for
it's construction: and even in the
process of collecting the taxes out
Of which the fraudulent bills are
paid, the most infamous frauds are
perpetratcd It is useless to 60
into particulars. The sickening de-
tails of wholesale public robberies
are spread before the public every
day. False stewards annually de-
vote two hundred millions of the
peoples money to the building up
Of y moneyed aristocracy, and this
privileged class, born of the COM
plicity of outside frecbooters with
official thieves, controls legislation
and secures in that, as we'll as in
every other way, the aggrandize-
mcnt Of the few at the expense of
the many.-N. Y. Sunday Times.
Year: 1869

What will you take to drink? -
asked the. waiter of a young lad who
for the first time accompanied his
father to public dinner. Uncer-
tain what to say, and feeling sure
that he could not be wrong if he
followed his fathers example he re-
piled:


"I'll take what father taxes


The answer reached the father
ear, and instantly the full response
bility of his position rushed upon
him. If he SAID, "I'll take ale, "
as he always had said before, his son
would take it also, and THEN =
And the father shuddered at the
history Of several young men, who,
once promising like his own bright
lad, had been ruined by drink,
started up in the solemn warming be-
fore him. Should his hope also be
blasted, and that open-faced, noble
lad become a burden and a curse as
they had become But for strong
drink they would have been active,
earnest, prosperous men and if it
could work such ruin hpon them,
was his own son safe? Quicker
than lightning these thoughts pass
ed through his mind, and in a mo :
ment the decision was made. "If
the boy falls, he shall not have me
to blame - and then, in tones
tremulous with emotion, to the as
tonishment of those who knew him,
he said, "Waiter, I'll take water;''
and from that. day to this, strong
drink has been banished from that
mans home.


The young lad, in his brief utter
ance, was really the representative
OF the generation to which he be-
longs. God has so decrced it, that
the father is the highest authority in
the world to his child. Who does
not know that ''My father said so, !"
is the end Of all controversy with
the little ones around us =? Who





does not see the parents tone gait.
and manners continually reproduc-
ed in the children whose nature is
now soft as wax to receive an i'm
preston, and rigid as marble to re-
tain it, and who watch with quick,
initiating eye those who to them are
Gods vicegerents? "


Would that We could impress up
on the fathers and mothers of this
country the solemn fact that the fu-
ture character of their children is
being formed by them f; that if they
are trained upin the way they should
60, when they are old they will not
depart from it but that, if they
become vain, sensual, and degraded
the seeds will have been deposited
and the bias given in the early
morning Of their lives.-Voice Of
Truth.
Year: 1869

Every community is cursed by
the presence of a class of people who
make it their business to attend to
every body's business but their
own. Such people are the meanest
specimens of depraved humanity
which all-wise Providence permits
to exist on this cursed Garth. 1t is
we'll known that almost every per-
son is sometimes disposed to speak
evil of others and tattling is a
sin from which very few can claim
to be entirely exempt. But the OBJ
ject Of our present article is to speak
of that distinct class of tattlers who
mako tale-bearing the constant bu-
sincss of their lives. They pry in
to the private affairs of every fami-
ly in the neighborhood, they know
the exact state OF one neighbor' S
feelings toward another they un-
derstand every body's faults, and no
little blunder or misdemeanor ever
escapes their vigilant watchfulness.
They are particularly posted upon
everything connected with court
ship and matrimony, know who arc
going to marry whom, and can guess
the exact time when it will take
place. They watch every move
ment Of parties Suspected of matri-
monial intentions. and if there is
the slightest chance to create a dis
turbance, excite jealousy, or "break
up a match. they take immediate
advantage of it, and do ali in their
power to keep people in constant
state of yexation. They glide qui-
city from gentleman to lady, from
mother to daughter, from father to
son, and in the ears of all they poyr
their dark, bitter whispers of SLAM
der and abuse, and at the same time
pretend to be the most sincere friend
of those they talk to. Their black
and nauseous pills of malicious
slander are sugar-coated with smiles
and honeyed words of friendship.


Tattlers arc confined to no partic-
ular class Of socieay. They belong
to all classes, and operate in all. =
We find them the rich and the poor
-" upper ten" and the g lower
million,' in the church and out of
it. They are people who have no
higher ambition than to be we'll in
formed in regard to other peoples
private business, to retail scandal
to their neighbors, and exult in
fendish triumph over the wounded
feelings and bruised hearts of their
innocent victims. Beauless old
maids and childish matrons make
the most accomplished scan
dial mongers in the world. They
seem to take to tattling from the
promptings Of natural instinct,
and they prosecute it with an ener-
gy that would do Internal honor to
their great lcader-thc prince of
darkness himself. Our contempt
for such graceless creatures knows
no bounds, and We can find no words
to express its insamy. What pun
ishment they deserve VIC can not
know but God knows, and as sure
as his eternal justice reigns, they
will receive a retribution proper
toned to the magnitude of their Of
fcnses against the laws Of God and
the interests of humanity.
Year: 1869

In Cayuga County, New York, blind
horse fell into deep well, and, after IN
successful attempts to haul him up, the
men went to shoveling dirt on him to bury
him up. As fast as the dirt fell in the horse
tramped it down, and in few hours had
worked his way, in this manner, to the top
&c thn ,rnll
Year: 1869

A writer in the New York Times charges
that the practice of indulging in private
bottles" at home is fearfully on the increase
among respectable ladies of New York Is
the stimulus impaired to the woman's rights
movement in New York to be thus account
ad for
Year: 1869

A letter from Richmond, Va, says that
the last two weeks the trains going south
from there have been crowded with colored
people migrating to the cotton, rice and su'
gar country. The writer says the move
ment of the negroes to the far South, under
the inducement of more genial climate
and high wages, is assuming large proper
Year: 1869

A diamond weighing three quarters OF
pound is reported to have been found in the
Australian gem.ssnd. If it is really dia'
mond it is supposed to be worth about
twenty millions of dollars.
Year: 1869

Leading of our yoluminous batch OF letters, and
very appropriate to the speedy coming OF the winter
cold, OF which we have already had q preliminary
touch, is an urgent appeal on behalf OF our 'Home
less Poor.n The writer calls attention to the fact
that the Commissioners or Charities and Correction
make suitable provision for the relief OF this Glass;
who OF all Others ne SAYS, are the most destitute
helpless and forsaken in great city. While these
people cannot be committed TO prison. he insists that
1t would not be crediaDle to allow them TO freeze IN
the streets. The number OF those who lodged last
year In station houses In this city he gives as
14l,070. ana IN Brooklyn IL, 71S. He complains
that our benevolent institutions, and even the New
York CITY Mission have given up this class as alto
gether hopeless and lrredeemaDe. He pronounces
It great cruelty to thrust these people into dark
and underground cells--on sanitary grounds If no
otner. HIS remedy to prevent pauperism Is TO lend
helping hand and bring them under the benign In
iuence OF the law OF Kindness. He would have


night asylums" provided III both cities, and, In adj
dit0n to this, houses OF refuge and Industry, where
those who are willing to work shall be put to some
remuneratIve employment. such movement, well
organized aud sustained. he insists, would strike at
the root OF the whole evil.
Year: 1869

The following is the statement Of the business
done by the New York Post once with Europe for
the month Of October last. The total number of
letters received ana forwarded was 1885, 49 and the
postage collected on the amounted to so7 75o os


RECEIVED.
Year: 1869

of nitrate of soda, because If we use nitrate
of soda, we must Just bit upon the right
point when it will be beneficial to the
growing crop. If there is not sufficient
rain or water to wash the nitrate of soda
into the soil, it does no good, but rather
may do harm by burning up the land.
If there is too much rain. it may pass into
the drains. Nitrate of soda is not retained.
by the land-not even by clay soils. II
passes through them as through a sieve;
therefore, it is the most precarious kind Of
manure that you can use. 1t is well il
you can hit upon the right time and this
you must find out for yourselves. BY OBJ
servation you will find out the right time
in the particular locality where you are
placed. You may 60 wrong once, but for
a number of years you will generally hit
upon the light time. Speaking generally.
l would say that about the middle of Feb
ruary, in most localities, is the right time
for the application of nitrate of soda; but.
useful as nitrate of soda may be in some
special cases, think the less you use it on
poor soils the better. l should like more
indirectly to accumulate nitrogen on my
land, and not 60 to any great expense in
buying nitrate of soda when my land is in
poor condition. 1t is we'll if you have very
good land, but under ordinary circumstan-
ces it is perhaps better not to rely upon
this source of supply.


Nitrate of soda may readily be washed
out: but you will notice that the benefit
that you obtain from clover roots is. that
you have continuous source from which
nitrates can be produced. It does not
matter if some of the nitratcs pass away
in the drain ; you have an enormous ac-
emulation of decaying organic matter.
The clover roots and leaves are not all at
once changed into ammonia: but there is
a gradual transformation Of the organic
matter, first, into ammoniacal salts, and q
gradual change from ammoniacal salts into
nitrates, and you have complete series OF
chemical transformation which is highly
conducive to the gradual development Of
the plant. Whereas, by using nitrate of
soda, you run the risk of getting it washed
away into your drains. Thus, there is
more certainty of growing good crop Of
wheat through the instrumentality Of clover
than through the direct supply Of the nj
trate of soda. These, then, are the chief
points which have been established, be-
lieve, by my chemical experiments in the
laboratory with respect to the chemical
history ofthe clover srop.-JOpr"al ~ y.


State Agricultural Society.
Year: 1869

An excellent and sensible article APP
peared in your paper, last week, Mr.. Ed.
itor, on the subject of "Old Maids"
The writer very properly said to the la
Dies Be an old maid, if fortune throws
not in your way the man Of your heart"
This is well expressed but in the con-
clusion of the same article the writer
says:-" For well-to-do old bachelors ve
have no sympathy. They ought 70 ba
taxed nine-tenths Of all they are worth 70
support women and children" What IN
atrocious sentiment! Why should noe
the same privilege be accorded to gentle
men as to ladies', to remain single if they
chose, i" if fortune throws not in their
way the woman of their hearth" Many
of them have been looking for that iden-
tical woman, for years and if they have
not found her, it is probably more the
fault of the women than the men. Hap
iness is the end and aim of all, and every
body should be permitted to seek for it in
their own way. If the old bachelor has
not met the lady capable of inspiring him
with the tender passion, would you have
him to degrade himself by forming q
union without love? The bachelor is not
unsusceptible to the charms of woman.
Why, then. has not some fair one brought
him to her feet, with her battery of bright
eyes, and all her wealth of woman's
charms? 1t is woman's fault, not his.
He would love and wed, but not without
finding some one whose witchery he can
not shake off. He is fair game; bag him
ladies', who can. If you cannot, blame
yourselves, not him. The old bachelor is
a wary bird, and not to be caught with
chatf; aud this is the nature of so much
of the bait thrown in his way, that he
will not fall into the net. But try hinl
with pure grain without the chaff Let
some pure-minded, artless, high-souled,
intelligent, loveable, trustful woman,
come in his way, and we shall see
how soon he is shared. There is no dis
count on q we'll to-do old bachelor they
are always above par. They can take
care of themselves, snap their fingers In
the face of fortune and whistle care to the
winds. Girls don't turn up your pretty
noses at old bachelors; but melt the in
crustation about their hearts with your
sunny smiles, and make their bosoms glow
like Etna. There is feeling and sym
pathy, and love there, if you can call il
into activity. AN OLD BAcHELoR.
Year: 1869

Work AND WIN.-Whatcvcr
you try to do in life, try with all
your heart to do well whatever
You devote yourself to, devote
yourself to completely; in great
aims and small be thoroughly in
earnest. Never believe it possible
that any natural or improved
ability can claim immunity from
tho companionship Of tho steady
plain hard working qualities and
hopo to gain it's end. There is
no such thing as such fulfllmcnt
on this earth. Some happy talent
and somo fortunate opportunity,
may form tho two sidcs Of tho
ladder on which some mon mount,
but the rounds Of that ladder must
be madc Of stuff to stand wear
and tcar; and thcro is no such
substitute for thorough going, ar.
don't and sincere oarncstnoss.-
Mover put one hand to anything
on which you can throw your
whole self, novcr affect doprecia-
ton Of your work, whatever it is.
These you will find to bo golden
rules.
Year: 1869

A few months ago, an engineer
of an express train on tho Pom
sylvania Central railroad, going
west discovered an engine ap.
preaching him at such q rate of
speed that ho was at onco con-
vinced that it was without an on.
ginoor. lie instantly whistlod his
brakes, at tho same time sending
Year: 1869

NEW IUHk, AVIT TbUV.


srR:-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
Of your kind note on behalf Of the Cuban Junta in
the city OF New York. inviting me to address q meet
ing at Cooper Institute tomorrow evening. Being
In the city but for few days pressure Of personal
engagements compcls me to decline your courteous
invitation. In my haste must avoid an extended
reply to your communication, but cannot f0rbcar
10 say that the people OF the United states having at
one time been subject colonies OF European Power,
and having secured for themselves Independence
aud selLgovernment, always have and must heartily
synpathize with every other people Struggling Tor
a. Is consistent with national law. treaty stpula
Year: 1869



 and the only mode of compulsory priso- ners' labor at present practicable. On the county finances the effect of the proposed policy wonld be simply ruinous. Tie generY al expenses of the county are met by the rent of the jail The Commissioners are only authorized by law to lay tax for repairs, and the calling together of the county rep resentatives would become an imme1iste necessity. involving as it would an expense of probably $500-a very clumsy way oi raising the small amount actually needed. but the only one known to the law. E We cannot see how there ought to be any trouble in this matter. The sensible course as it strikes us. would be, to let MT. Gib- bud continue jailer for the next eight months. paying over his $A5O. If. after wards, MT. Baldwin and some Democratic deputy -jailer should want to make the ex, pertinent of indoor labor with such appE ances as would continue to make the jail q source of revenue to the county, we do not believe the Commissioners would be So un reasonable as to deny them the opportn- nifty. eo ..s ss
Year: 1869

Mr.. JONI AMELrR SMTH.-Some week
or two since paragraph appeared in the
local department of this paper stating that
an Indictment had been made against this
gentleman by the grand jury OF Charles
City county for the exhibition Of obscene
pictures. We have just seen that indict-
ment, and find that it does not sustain the
statement. 1t makes no charge about
pictures Mt all and the charge that is
made is altogether misunderstanding to
be treated with contempt by any jury OF
court in any community whatever. We
are sure that the accusation was brought
under momentary excitement, and are salts
fed that it can receive no consideration
whatever at the hands of the court or the
people Of Charles City.
Year: 1869

ANOTHER DESPERATE HoRsE-THIEF
CAUGHT.-We have information from Am
herst OF the arrest Of another suspected
horsc-thief, who gives the name Of Ryan,
but is supposed TO be Lucicn Baird, the no
torious horse-thief and desperate. He was
first captured by two citizens, when stolen
horse was found in his possession but he
escaped and took to the mountains. Sub
sequently posse of citizens went in pur-
suit, and after an exciting race of about
three hours brought him to bay. He was
fired at several times, but only one ball took
effect, and that did not inhict q serious
wound. The prisoner is now in the jail of
Nelson county.
Year: 1869

Mass MEETING AT SECOND CHURCH POST
roNED.-In consequence Of the necessary
absence of one Of the speakers and the i'll
ness of another, the education meeting is
postponed until further notice.
Year: 1869

Of which all the world has heard, [ have
seen. There was nothing but moonlight in
the room. it il true, and there is every pre-
sumption against such phenomena under
such circumstances. But what you see
you see and must believe, however difficult
to account for it. Irccollcct that Mr.. Home
sat on my right hand, and, beside him,
there were six others round one half of a
circular table, the empty half toward the
window and the moonlight.
Year: 1869

Two HEROES. Before the recent rebel
lion, Col. W, met there some hot
blooded Southerner, with a spirit as fiery
as his own. They quarrelled-a challenge
was passed and accepted, and the next ris-
ing sun was to witness one, if not both, of
their dead bodies, drenched in blood, to
wash out wounded honor During the
night, the colonel said he heard boat
coming up the river, and it struck him, as
he heard the boat putting and blowing, that
prudence was the better part of valor !"
So he took his trunk upon his shoulder,
and stepped, in the dead of the night, very
quietly out of the hotel. As he neared
the boat, whom should he see but his an
tagonist, at the boat before him, just go
ing on board He returned as he had gone
out, and was on the ground next morning,
with his second, waiting, with disappoin-
ted wrath, for his antagonist, and publish
ed him as an absconding scoandrel.
Year: 1869

When persons are feverish and
thirsty beyond what Is natural, indi-
Gated in some cases by a metallic taste
in the mouth, especially after drink
Ing water, or by whitish appearance
of the greater part of the surface Of the
tongue, one Of the best t'coolers'' inter-
nal is to take a lemon, cut of the top,
sprinkle over it some loaf sugar, work
ing it down into the lemon with the
spoon, then suck it slowly, squeezing
the lemon, adding more sugar as the
acidity increases from being brought
up from a lower point. Invalids with
feverishness may take two or thres
lemons a day in this manner, with the
most marked benefit, manifested by q
sense Of cOOlness, comfort, and invig-
Grafton. A lemon or two thus taken
at 'fea-time," as an entire substitute
for the ordinary supper Of summer,
would give many a man a comfortable
nights sleep and an awaking, Of rest
and invigOratiOn, with an appetite for
breakfast, to which they are strangers
who will have their cup Of tea on
supper, or ''relish and cake" and her
ries, or peaches and cream.-[HalIs
Journal Of Health.