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Year: 1868

MORE Pixies Surveys and reports
have been granted on petition for
five new turnpikes in this county.
The desire on the part Of the people
where there are no turnpike roads, to
build roads, has been increased since
the benefits Of the roads made last sea-
son have been tested. When the
new roads now asked for are made,
with those already completed, we
shall have some seventeen or eigh-
teen turnpike roads in this county,
where but couple of years since it
was thought doubtful whether gravel
enough could be obtained to make
one good road through the country,
ifthe people could be induced to en-
gage in such a stupendOus enterprise.
Our people seem to be determined to
set a worthy example to the other
counties in the State in the way Of
road making, and will never be satis-
fed until Fayette county is checkered
all over with the best roads in the
State. This kind of enterprise has
brought many persons, seeking
homes, into our county, and induced
them to make their future homes
with us Fayette County Herald.
Year: 1868

oui Of their reports Of committees appointedf For
what purpose was Q charter granted by the New
YGk State Legislature to the Union Ferry Company
fol brtdgef Lastly and not least does the Brook
lyr Union Ferry Company pay any commission to
Withhold reports, and would not the citizens OF Long
Island feel nattered II they mad knowledge OF the
private transactions Uet presumed to be public
monopoly OF said Union Ferry Company


JULIAN ALLY.
Year: 1868

A ePaekham, Esq, of PrcstonviIle,
Carol county, Kentucky. furnishes the
following directions to tobacco grow
ers who would save the labor and troti-
ble of suckering their plants several
times during the season, ....-


AT the time when suckering is nee
essary, provide yourself with small
tin oil can, the timer making the spout
OF it with sharp point, similar IN shape
to the blade of a pen knife then filling
your can with solution of crude of pot
ash, go through the motion of sucker
ing by breaking off such as you see.
and then with the point of your can
make an incision obliquely into the stalk
jnst at the spot between the stem and
the stalk, where the sucker would grow
dropping into the incision one drop
of the potash. This is the whole secret
lt will not injure the valuable leaf,
check itsgrowth, or hurt the plant, but
It will kill the germ Of the future sue
ker. With practice person can doe
tor plant as above stated with ms
much celerity as one can do the sttck-
ering, and will thus save tire trouble OF
going over and suckeriHg millions Of
plants every year."
Year: 1868

II Il d startling fact that If the earth


were dependent alone upon the sun for


ltcats 1t would not get heat enough to
Keep existence. 1t results from the re-
searches of Pouillett that the stars fur
nisli heat enough in the course of the
year TO melt a crust Of ice seventy five
feet tiitk-Aalfiiost as ffiuch as supplied
by the SUM This may appear strange
when we consider how immeasureabIy
small must be the amount heat from one
ofthose distant bodies. But the sur
prise vanishcs when we remember that
the whole armament is so thickly sown
with stars that In some places thousands
are crowded together within space no
greater than that occupied by the full
moon. The eye cannot see more THAN
a thousand at the same time III the
clearest heaven, yet the numb er is prob
ably indefinite. From the first to the.
sixth magnitude inclusive, the total
of visible stars is 3,12S.
Year: 1868

Half a box of gelatine boklett in ono
quart OF milk. and pour while boiling
over eight eggs and eight spoonsful of
sugar well beaten together. Flavor to
taste and put in naoiilds in ice. To be
eaten with creaAs and sugar.
Year: 1868

There is no funeral SO sad to follow
as the funeral Of our own youth, which
we have been pampering with fond
desires, ambitious hopes, and all the
bright berries that hang in poisonous
clusters over the path Of life.
Year: 1868

colored man, and seemed anxious to do
something for the good of their souls;
but alas! how few such are there left,
now that the pocuniary interests of them
selves and friends in the ex-slave is
gone.


What now about that great commits
sion, "Go We therefore and teach ALL
NATIONS" &c.


Never mind the unpopularity, my
brother in Christ, even should you be
detected preaching to race recently re-
leased from bondage. Never mind if
perchance it should be said of You, "He
breaches to niggers.' Remember the
language of inspiration is, "The servant
is not above his MASTER" sc; and again,
sin due time We shall reap if We faint
not"


We appeal to Christian ministers
in behalf of this people. They are out
upon the sea of life without any expe-
rience. They need instruction. Natu-
rally they look to the ministry of God
for that instruction, and you, for some
trifing cause, have framed an excuse by
which to evade the work and ease your
conscience


But perhaps you say let those who
have liberated this people look to their
education. But, my brother, does the
fact of their being liberated relieve you
of YOUR obligations We think not. If
their souls were precious in your esti-
nation before their status was changed,
and it was then your duty to exert an
influence to save them, is it less so in
the sight of Heaven to to-day? Nay,
verify.


Then up like men and enter anew in
this glorious work; remembering, that
"Inasmuch as We have done it unto one
of these my little ones, We have done
it unto me-
Year: 1868

The Atheist and the Irish Woman


During the month of November, 1S43,
clergyman and an Atheist were In one
of the night trains between Albany and
Utica. The night being cold, the pass
engers gathered as closely as possible
around the stove.


The Atheist was very loquacious, and
soon engaged in conversation with the
minister. In answer to question OF the
latter, as to what would be mans
condition after death, the Atheist replied:


" Man is like pig; when ne dies that
is the end of him."


As the minister was about to reply, a
red-faced Irish woman at the end OF the
car sprang up, and addressing the clegry
man in q loud and humorous brogue
exclaimed:


9Aarrah, now will ye not let the
baste alone? Has he not said he was
pigf and the more you pull his tail, o
course the more he will squeal."


The effect was electric the Atheis
was mute during the remainder OF tn
Quincy.
Year: 1868

Oh. there's a power TO make each


hour


AS sweet as Heaven desinged it;
Nar need we roam to bring it home,
Though few there be that find it
We see too high for things close by,
And lose what nature found us;
For life hath here no charms SO dear
As home and friends around MS.
We oft destroy the present JOY
For future hopes-and praise them!
Whilst flowers as sweet bloom at our


feet,


If we'd but stop to raise them;
For things afar still sweeter are
When youths, bright spell hath


bound us;


But soon we're taught that earth hath


naught,
bike Home and Friends around us!
'Fhe friends that speed in time Of need,
When Hopes last reed is shaken,
70 show us still, that come what will,
We were not quite forsaken;
Though all was night, if but the light
From friendships altar crowns us,
'rwould prove the bliss of earth was


this;


fur Home and Friends around us!
Year: 1868

IHE LANGUAGE OF THE EYEs.-It has
often been said that woman with hazel
eye never elopes from her hu band, never
chats scandal, never sacrifices her hus-
bands comfort for her own, never finds
fault, never talks too much or too little,
and is always an entertaining, agreeable
lovely companion.


"We never knew" says brother quill.
driver, ''but one uninterestiug and un-
amiable woman with hazel eye, and she
had nose which looked, as the Yankee
says, like the little end of nothing whit
lied down to point"


The gray eye is the sign of shrewdness
and talent. Great thinkers and captains
have it. In woman it indicates better
head than heart. The dark hazel is noble
in significance as in beauty. The blue
eye is admirable, may be feeble. The
black eye, take care Look for the wife
with a black eye! Such can be seen
almost daily et the police Office, geneally
with complaint against the husband for
assault and battery Exchange
Year: 1868

A little leaf upon the stream


With careless hand | tossed,
And thought the tiny seed it bore
Would certainly be lost
An island-like stony wedge
Cleft the bright wave in two
The leaf was stranded on the bank,
The seed took root and grew.
The plant attained to wondrous size,
With blossoms rich and rare,
And many wondered and exclaimed, .
''How came those lilies there
Zen as a leaf float along


With ever sure advance,
Compelled to trust my bark upon
The wave of circumstance.
Each word, each thought, however vain,
By good or evil crossed,
Will f, II upon some fallow ground,
And neyermore be lost.
For like the tbistle-down, that floats
Unnoticed by the eye,
The seeds we sc tier carelessly


VIII grow and multiply.
They may be waited on the breeze
To some far distant isle,
And men may greet them with a curse,
Or welcome with a smile.
If under tropic skies they bloom,
Or in the frigid zone,
They reproduce resemblances
Ofwhat our hands have strewn. #.
We may not know the time or place
Where what we SOW takes root:
We may not see the blossoming,
We may not taste the fruit.
But we shall know by many q sign
What influence we impart;
It may be honey to the lip,


Or ashes to the heart.
Year: 1868

Il don't know how to turn don't
know what to do. IF should lose my
senses, it seems to me [ could be happier
If could die-if-but no; the child
tren-the poor children"


"Mammy,' cried a sweet voice.


The woman started, put down her rag
ged apron and glanced up. A little face,
exceedingly fair through the dirt, looked
appealingly.


Black Dicks got my shoe; he is sail
ing it down the gutter.


If it didn't go that way, child, 'twould
the other, said the woman gloomily; but
nevertheless, she arose to go in the filthy
street to reclaim the shoe, which was not
worn out.


Black Dick, however, was nowhere to
be seen; so she returned with slow, dis
pirited step, back into the place she call
ed home. There another child awaited
her-a boy, looking down from the perch
he had mounted.


I can't find any bread, he cried.


There is no bread there to find
But you said you would buy some this
morning


Your father took the money }or gin,'
said the woman bitterly


L am hungry said the boy kicking
his feet sullenly.


'Thou'lt have to 90 hungry, my lad,'
replied the woman, 'unless-oh! how
can [ how can p"


But vent out even as she spoke, and
pawned her wedding ring. 1t brought
her three shillings, every cent she spent
in feed, that was hidden the moment she
got into the house, save the portion she
gave the children.


Poor Molly Wainright-hers had been
hard life. Poverty and drunkenness
twin evils, had always hovered about her
path, since the very first year of her mar
riage. None at that time ever mistrusted
that Jack, fine straight young fellow
would become that hideous thing, drunk
ard. But he had fallen every year low
er and lower till now, when little Bert
was seven, and Mary five he was despised
by everybody in town.


Molly had done her wifely best.
Everybody had advised her to leave
him; but she had worked till her fingers
were bent and brown, to keep her poor little
family together. Now, however, it seem
ed as if the last straw had been placed
upon her shrinking shoulders. He had
been gone two days, she knew not where,
only report said he had been ragi
about the streets, drunk, of course, and
perhaps had gone to the river side and
fallen in.


Poor Molly's shrunken face looked
ghastly as she sat considering. Two peo
pie who liked and respected her had wish
ed to take her children; but how could
she give them up? On the other hand
how could she see them living under such
corrupting influences as that old court
fostered; her fair haired May--her beauti-
full, dark eyed Bert ? No wonder she felt
that day, as if some dicision must be
made, no wonder she longed for death.


so YOU have turned reformer, [ hear,
said one gentleman to another, as they
walked along together in a by street in
Aberdeen.


There was three Of them; two tall slen-
der men; the other, a merchant from
! America on visit in Scotland.


Well, they give me that name,' replied
the other smiling, his dark, dreamy face
lighting strangely as he spoke. 4 trust
that / am trying in my way to save some
of my poor fellow beings


DO you work on such material as that?
The speaker touched with his foot sin
gular looking bundle that lay in niche
Year: 1868

"A gentleman who had carefully train
ed up his servant in the way he should
go, so that when his wife was present he
might not depart from it, sent him with
box ticket for the theatre to Young
lady. The servant returned when the
gentleman and his wife were at dinner.
He had, of course been told, in giving
answers to certain kinds of questions, to
substitute the masculine for the feminine
pronoun in speaking of the lady.


did you see him2" said the gentleman,
giving him the cue.


eyes sir" replied the servant, che
said he'd go with great deal of pleasure,
and that he'd wait for you sir"


"W hat was he doing?" asked the wife,
earnestly.


"He was putting on his bonnet" was
the reply.


There was "fat in the fire" Immediate
~.
Year: 1868

The growth of oranges in Califoroia
IS so prolific thatafter the Pacific Railroad
is opened the orange crop will become one
Of the most important in that State. There
is no limit to the future wealth of Califor-
MIA, or to the sources from which it may
be derived.
Year: 1868

TTAvING permanently located himself would
z / respectfully inform the Citzcnsof Water
sown and vicinity that he is prepared to do all
kinds of DENTAL WORK. All work warran
ted to give entire satisfaction. Office on Main
Street, over Sprague's drug store
Year: 1868

p TRAiS DsLAYsD.-The morning mail
train from Chicago did not arrive hero IN
Ill half past three o'clock this afternoon.
A freight train OF the track with eight cars
ditchsd, this side Of Morris, vas the cause
Of the delay. Nobody hurt.
Year: 1868

AT a late dinner in North Carolina, there
sat down to the table three ex-Governors,
an ex.Justice Of the Supreme Court, two
sx. Members Of Congress, and some other
men Of honorable distinction in their State,
and the only person in the room who could
vote or hold Office was the negro who waited
on The table. Such is reconstruction.
Year: 1868

GREELEY is now for Grant, but he wasn't
when he wrote the following: Moro sol.
diers wero uselessly slaughtered in the late
war through the blunders of drunken Off
GERS than by the bullets Of the foe. When
the editor Of the 7ribuue dealt Grant this
blow between the eyes ho was for Chase.
Year: 1868

NEW YORK, September 4.-Attorney
General wilkins made a violent speech
against the confederation with Canada
in the Nova Scotia Assembly yesterday,
in which he declared that If redress is
not given before the next session, the
people will appoint Collector OF their
own and have the dues paid into the To-
cal treasury, and Unnecessary they will
appeal to another nation. Such an mp
roar ensued at the conclusion OF the
speech that the Speaker declared the
Assembly adjourned.
Year: 1868

P1TTsBuRa, Sept. 4.-The Vermont
election Was celebrated here last night
by torch light PROCESSION and the
firing of one hundred guns. There Is
much rejoicing over the result in that
State by the Republicans OF this neigh
borhood.
Year: 1868

LAMP ExPLosIoN.-La Saturday night
about one O'Clock, Squire William j. An
drews was partially awakened by terrific
explosion near his bed. The sudden and
powerful nature Of the concussion caused
him to give his wounded arm a sudden
wrench, the pain of which caused a short
syncope After a short suspense he awoke,
a match was lighted, and It was found upon
examination that the lamp had exploded.
The oil was scattered about promiscuonsly,
soiling bed-eiothes, carpet, etc. The most
serious damage, however, is the effect of
the combined concussion and wrench Of
Mr.. Andrews arm. He thinks the explo-
sion was caused by the careiessness or in
experience OF a servant who put too small
a wick in the lamp. This would produce
no danger so long as the lamp burned
brightly, but after turning it down 40 as TO
burn dimly, hot gas generated in the lamp
faster than il could escape Columbia Her
aid Ndu g.
Year: 1868




From the New York Herald, May 9th.


The aspect Of financial and commercial
affairs is Frightening, and money is return
ing rapidly from the interior 10 this city,
where it will soon have the effect of lower
iRg the rate Of interest and stimulating
trade as well as speculation in Wall street.
For the time being, however, the country
is held in a state of suspense, owing to the
impeachment trial, and with this concluded,
whether it involve the conviction or the
acquittal of the President, a sense of relief
will be experienced which cannot fail to
improve business propects generally. At
present the uncertainty attending the result
of the trial and its effect is productive OF
stagnation, and any change from this con-
dition of things must be for the better. 1t
il generally believed in Wall street that the
Presidents conviction will cause an imme-
diate rise in the price of stocks and COM
modities, including gold, because the pub
lie will jump to the conclusion that under
Ben. Wade we shall have currency ints-
tion. This last is not improbable; but
we are as likely to have fresh issne
of hundred millions of currency if Mr..
johnson remains in office as We are if
he is deposed for, in either event. many
of both political parties will make desper-
ate efforts to pave the way 10 the next
Presidential election with new greenbacks.
If the President is acquitted the effect upon
the public mind will be reassuring, and an
impetus will thereby be given to trade and
speculation, while its beneficial effect upon
the public credit will probably be reflected
in improvement in the market for govern
ment securities.


Impeachment alone beclouds the pros
pect, and az soon as this all-absorbing
question is disposed of the currency and
finances generally will engage the atten-
tion Of Congress. The great West will
clamor for greenbacks enough to pay of
the national debt, while the hard money
men OF. the Eastern States will oppose any
further imitation, and a compromise will
probably be the result on the basis of the
hundred millions referred TO, the result of
which will be that we shall enjoy period
of almost unexampled temporary pros
perity, and that everything in Wall street
and elsewhere will, as the phrase is, "gO
kiting," after which we shall suffer a cor
respondingly violent reaction.
Year: 1868

THE CRETAN QUESTION.


Upon the heels Of British success in
Abyssinia, by which John Bull has it in
his power to convert the Red Sea into
an English lake, comes information from
St Petersburg to the effect that Baron
De Talleyrand Perigora, the French En-
vOy, has had a consultation with Prince
GOrtschakof upon the subject of media
ton by France and Russia in the Turco-
Cretan question. In diplomacy, says the
Philadelphia Age, the end sought to be
obtained is oftentimes far distant from
the point at which beginning is made


France and Russia have both entered the
lists against England for supremacy in
Asia. One is operating in the north and
on the Pacific, the other in Cochin-China
and in that portion of the country. But
England, by an absorption OF Abyssi-
MIA, has strengthened her position, and
made flank movement necessary
in order to put the contest in such
shape as to make new depar-
ture possible At this junctuTe the
uncertain state of the present Vieeroy
of Egypfs health enters as an ingre-
dient into the diplomatic prescription
which France and Rassia are now COM
pounding The death Of that officer may
occur at any moment This would be
attended with serious consequences.
Should a dispute arise as to the Success
sion, and such an event is not improb


able, either France or England would
most likely occupy the country. If the
latter the Suez Canal would then be
controlled by English influence, and
another link added to the chain by
which the East Indies are fastened to
the throne of Great Britain. But just at
this point France and Russia propose to
form an alliance for the purpose of offer
ing their mediation in the Turco Cretan
question. This brings them together for
an ostensible object, and one that will
command the respect and sympathy of
the Christian world Their field of op-
erations is in the South of Europe, on
the shores Of the Mediterranean, and
near the new theater of action likely
to be made prominent by the
victory at Magdala, and change OF
rulers in Egypt While negotiating with
the Sultan on the question of Cretan in
dependence, or a change in the condition
of the people Of that island, the vigilant
supervision of the Gar and his Imperial
brother at Paris can be extended over
affairs in Egypt, Abyssinia, and those
portions Of Asia in which they are di-
reetly interested Napoleon compelled
England to abandon her old ally, Russia,
and aid him during the Crimean war.
The Gar has now an opportunity to turn
the tables upon 'perfdiOus Albion" and
he may do it in such a manner as 10
make each blow doubly hurtful. That
the ST. Petersburg meeting has more
extended meaning and purpose than what
appears on the surface, is evident from
the tone of public sentiment in the two
capitals on the subject Eastern SUI
premacy is the bone of contention at this
time in Europe, and to that point all the
arts of diplomacy will be directed
Year: 1868

a New Excitement Among the Fash


IOnabIes-HOw Deserted wife was


Reveuged upon Her Husband.


The New York correspondent of the
Boston Journal yentilates bit Of New
York scandal in fashionable life as follows:
New York is us grateful for a new sensa-
tion az was the Roman Emperor who en-
nobled a cook for furnishing him with
new sauce Just now the fashionable por-
tion of the city are reveling in new ex-
citement. We have here a gentleman, who,
through his business, is as well known as
Bonner. Harper, or Stewart. He lives in
fine style, has a splendid house, and rs sur
passed by none IN the elegance of his turn
out on Central Park. lt was long supposed
that his honse keeper was his wife. Ii turns
out that he does rot live with his wife, and
that,she has been for long time supporting
herself in this city by her needle. She is
very elegant and accomplished lady. For
her children's sake she held her peace
for a long while The elegant gold en-
broidery which made such a sensation at
lhe Paris Exposition was from her needle
She found friend in the head of one of
our fashionable establishments, and the
fashionable and elaborate embroidery worn
by the ton of New York was the handiwork
Of this lady. Recently her husband made
a proposition TO her. He promised to
settle on her handsome sum Of money if
| che would allow him Go obtain full divorce
under our laws. TIE keproposal so was infamous
that the lady resolved to bear her neglect
and sorrow in silence no longer. She issued
a beautifully printed circular, announcing
herself in her husbands name, stating his
business, 80 there could be no mistake aboni
the identity, offering her services to the
fashionables Of New York, assigning as q
| reason for the offer that she wished TO obtain
bread for herself and children, and stating
that she could be found daily at a ftshion-
| able dress-making establishment on Broad
! way. These circulars were scattered broad
cast among the fashionable families Of New


York, and any quantity Of them were SEN


by private hands 10 the husband. His in


dignation is unbounded, for he has grea


personal pride. New York has a nine days


wonder. People crowd the rooms where


the lady il advertised 10 be seen, anC


where she sits day by day, with stitch


stitch, stitch" with the golden thread o


her embroidery. What the issue Will b.
| rpmains TO be seen
Year: 1868

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
neople to be self-reliant and shall do what we
NAV be able 10 induce the establishment Of
manufactures In our midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end we viii pay special attention
10 the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversii-
cation Of Southern industries and tho develop
uent Of Southern resources