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Year: 1868

From the Guelph (Canada) AdvertiserJ


We have received accounts from the
neighboring township of Caledon, the
particulars of deed that surpasses In
cold blooded atrocity and fiendish malig-
nity everything we remember in the an :
mails of Canada. A short time ago, a
shoemaker was in tavern at the village
of Alton, along with six women-includ'
ing a mother and her daughter, and other
misses, and four young men. The names
of all these persons are known to us. A
kind of party was got up, and they
arrived at the tavern in body
The unfortunate Wright had been
about the place two or three days, under
the influence of liquor. 1t does not sp-
pear whether any previous enmity ex-
listed between them, or that it was tlpsy
frolic; that soon after their finding him
the women took hold and deliberately
proceeded to undress him. He was ma,
turally q strong man, but whisky had
such a power over him that they accom-
plished their purpose with tolerable ease.
They stripped him stark naked, and then
amused themselves, tickling, pinching,
scratching, and otherwise ill-treating
him. We have not heard what part the
men took in the affair, or who first pro-
posed the use of fire. The girls, however,
soon armed themselves with hot irons,
burning sticks, Goals, etc, and began to
scar and roast him in the most frighttul
and diabolical manner. The poor wretch
struggled aud grosued piteously. for his hi.s;
release, but they would not desist until
they had tortured him to the utmost, ana
literally covered his body with wounds.
he fingered for several days in unutter'
able agony, till death stepped in to his
relief Deceased was unmarried. We
have not yet heard the result of the cor
oner's inquest.
Year: 1868

This bill provides that no vessel shall carry


greater number Of passengers than In the following
proportions the second deck or within compartment
thereof being orlop deck passenger for every
100 cubic feet clear space and the main and spar
decks passenger for every 100 feet clear space con
tanned therein the space in each TO be asceraned in
the provided by law for the measurement OF tun
mage. For carrying greater number of statute adults
than above allowed penalty provided of $50 for each
passenger in excess; and in the excess exceeds
Is per centum OF the allowable number, the
nent for six months. and the master to imprisonment
from 8 TO 70 months. .. ....


Further provisions prescribe fine OF from $500 70 1900
CARRYING passengers OrOp temporary decks or on
decks where hight between decks is less than six ee
or where ventilation is insufficient, and in the case or
sailing vessels for carrying passengeIs except upon one
deck situated Immediately below the upper main uecK
or in deck houses


The Committees Of both Houses are requested TO pre-
pare and submit at the beginning OF the December ses
sion bill for the better protection of emgrans on snip
board The last clause eXempts from the foregoing pro
visions all ships engaged in carrying passengers from
New York TO California.
Year: 1868

The road which the man of busi-
ness travels in pursuit Of competence
and wealth is not macademized one,
nor does IL ordinarily lead through
pleasant scenes and by well-springs
of delight. On the contrary, it is a
rough and rugged path, beset with
"wait-a-bit" thorns, and full Of pit
falls which can only be avoided by
the watchful care of circumspection.
After each days journey over this
worse than turnpike road the way
farer needs something more than rest /;
he requires solace-and deserves it..
He is weary of the dull prose of life,
and athirst for the poetry. Happy
is the man who can find that solace
and poetry at home. Warm greet
ings from loving hearts, fond glances
from bright eyes, and welcome shouts
of children, the many thousand little
arrangements for comfort and enjoy
ment, that silently tell of thoughtful
and expectant love, the gentle minis
trations that beguile us into an old
and easy seat before we are aware of
it; these and like tokens of affection
and sympathy, constitute the poetry
Of life, which reconcile us to the prose
of life. Think of this, ye wives and
daughters Of business menl
Year: 1868

There is such q school as this, and very good
scholars it makes. They cannot read or write,


but they can sing. They sing few simple notes,
like the linnets you may hear in the fields; but
after they are taught they will whistle regular
tunes.


Lest summer I was at 4 friends house at Ma
hant. / rose early in the morning and went
down stairs to walk on the piazza. While there
| heard, as thought, some person whistlng q
tune in very sweet style. l looked around but
could see no one. Where could the sound come
from ! l looked up and saw little bird in o
cage. The cage was hung in the midst of flow
ers and twining plants. "Can it be- thought T,
that such little bird as that has been taught
to sing regular tame so sweetly" / did not
know what to make Of itl When n,y friend
came down ssairstsha told me that /. was indeed
the little bird who had whistled the sweet tune
Then my friend cried out to the bird, "Come,
Bully, Bully, sweet little Bully Bullfnch, give
us just one more tune" And then this dear
little bird hoped about the cage, looked at its
mistress, and whistled another sweet tune. 1t
Was SO strange to hear bird whistle a regular
tune! "Now, Bully" said my friend ''you must
give US Yankee Doodle Come, come you shall
have some nice fresh seed if you will whistle
Yankee Doodle" And the little thing did
whistle 1t, much to my surprise


My friend then told me that he had brought
the bird from the little town of Fulda, in Ger
many where there are little schools for teaching
these birds to sing. When bullfnch has learned
to sing two or three tunes he is worth from forty
to sixty dollars; for he will bring that price in
France or England Great skill and patience are
needed to teach these birds Few teachers can
have the time to give to the children under their
charge SO much care as these bird-teachers give
to their bird-pupils. The birds are put into
classes of about six each, and kept for time in
dark room. Here, when their food is given to
them, they are made to hear music, so that when
they have eaten their food, or when they want
more food, they will sing and try to initiate the
tune they have just heard. This tune they prob
ably connect with the act of feeding As soon
as they begin to initiate few notes the light is
let into the room and this cheers them still more
and makes them feel as if they would like to
sing. In some of these schools the birds are not
allowed either light or food till they begin to
sing. These are the schools where the teachers
are most strict.


After being thus taught in classes, each bull
finch is put under the care Of boy, who plays
his organ from morning till night while the mas
see how the pupils are getting on. The bull
tinches seem to know at when they are
scoided, aud when they are praised by their mas
Der or mistress; and they like to be petted whom
they have done we'll. The training goes on for
nine mouths; and then the birds have got their
education and are sent to England or France
and sometimes to America, to be Sold The
Nursery.
Year: 1868

THE RISK OF THE BALLET DANCERS
Have our readers ever reflected on the courage
required in the ballet dancers profession The
risks she runs are hardly less frequent and far
more formidable than those which the soldier OF
the line or the mau-ot-war's man gets SO much
credit for facing. 1t is one thing to take your
chance of being sabred Or hit by bullet; but il
is TO our mind a much moro terrible ordeal to
pirouette in combustble gauze before the foot
lights, or, worse still, to be pinioned to an iron
niche in some brilliant transformation scene and
to remain immovably fixed to your precar.ous
perch amid blaze Of light and within leap Of
the flames from a thousand burners Yet this
is the experience which myriads Of poor girls
have to encounter. night after night, that ju.
veniles may be entertained and gawky crowds
amused. A girl Of this i'll starred profession,
whose skirts caught fire at concert hall in Bir-
mingham on the evening of February 20, died on
the morning of Monday following, adding another
to the hecatomb of such victims yearly sacrificed
to frivolous and callous public.
Year: 1868

CONVERSION OF DEAD ANIMALS INTO
MANURE.-At the present time, in France, en-.
tire bodies of animals are subjected to the action
of dilute hydrochloric acid, by means of which
they are completely dissolved, including the
bones, and converted into uniform pulp, which
is inodorous, and can be kept for any length Of
time, to be applied when needed towards fertili.
zing the soil The inventor of the process has
already used up hundred and fifty horses and
large number of sheep, and made from them a
most valuable manure
Year: 1868

I confidently invite all those who wish to purchase
with view TO elegance and durability, as well as
economy to visit my Establishment l have spared
no pains 10 Justify the reputation which have gained
during. a sojourn of nearly twenty years in your
midst. of keeping 6rstclass Mercantile House, and
of selling such goods only can honestly recon-
mend. Everything bought in my establishment is
'"ly iyrriI o7 1899 B. KOoPMANN.
Year: 1868

We clearing them out at only little more thar
cost, to make room for other kind of goods. Also
the remainder of stock Of Dry Goods to be solo
very low to close out that kind.


May 4, 1868. JAS. n. BUTT.
Year: 1868

sinee the dsys when it was the granary
of Rome, and that Algiers has been ru.
,ined as a corn growing country, not by
overcropping but by political causes, we
hold that the new theory is herssy, ana
that wherever manure can be got 1t
should be used without any fear OF doing
ultimate mischief to the land. sicily,
by the way, exports corn for the simple
reason that It's population Is miserabIy
small. We will not believe that Its yield
at all euuals what it used to give III the
days of Hero.


M. de Lavergne's argument is, that, II
Masny cannot thrive without extra ma
nure, how do the beetroot farms get on,
the refuse from which is sold to M. Fle-
vet2 Very badly, we imagine. The
value of manure may be exaggerated
town sewage seems, as far as We have
hitherto learned, to be only applicable
with success to a very few crops-Dut
there is very little land which can Keep
up with the present demands on the
farmer with no help but rotation OF crops.
"Put into the land what you take out OF
:" and, remembering that the greater
part Of all kinds OF farm produce goes of
10 the towns, we must feel that the grand
agricultural problem of the day is how
TO apply town manure successfully to
land OF all kinds. That 1t cannot be ap-
piled in the form of sewage, except TO
certain lands and for certain crops, seems
a settled point.


One little point comes out incidentally
In M. Barraps account of this treneh
Tiptree Hall: beetrOot is not crop
which it is safe to extend without limit.
The consumption of sugar and splrits
does not increase In the same proportion
as that of bread and meat. There Is
always the competition of colonial sugar
and of wine-brandy. The French scien-
tifie farmers are beginning to fear that
beetroot is becoming too exclusively the
orop in the northeast of the country. Ii
this is the case where its growth has been
fOstered and understood since 1859, we
should hardly be wise in thinking OF IN
Producing the root into Ireland, where
there is no "plsnt' for the sugar manufac-
ture, and where the cost OF production
would certainly be for good many years
greater than itnowisin France. Hints ike
these are not only interesting, bat use
full and, while we watch with breath
less interest every alteration in French
rifles or armOr- plated ships, we should
surely not be altogether careless about
what they are doing in farming. We
know that, on the whole, we greatly
surpass them both in methods and re-
suits; but Masny shows what they can
do when an amount of capital which
can never be expected on an ordinary
French farm is brought to bear on the
land. What is the state Of M. Fievets
laborers? OF this ri. BSrral says moth
ing; his is a severely economic essay. II
things are satisfactory in this respect, M.
About has a strong case ready to his
hand In favor of his old plan Of 81 farm
ing by joint stock companies"
Year: 1868

Friendship, Love and Truth, the Father
hood of God over all, and the universal
brotherhood of man. Moving forward
from this noble standpoint, in half a
century it has enrolled in It's army over
half million of votsries, most of whom
this day sre at active labor To single
lodge Of five members it has added
thousands upon thousands, scattered over
all the wide earth where civilization pre-
walls, and still its stately tread is onward
among the islands of the sea.
Year: 1868

Only the daughter Of poor Cape Cod
fisherman was this Smother Anita" whose
little story | am going to tell you, trsbslating
it from -" rough phrase Of the rude but
kindly people among whom | spent my last
summers vacation, into a few simple words
OF my own. do not think you will call it
sad story it Is not 50 to me, although 1
traced it back from the closing chapter, writ
ten on marble, IL the unpretending little
graveyard:
Year: 1868

ca The life Of all flesh is the blood
thereof, and no life or flesh can be healthy
while Its blood is diseased Parsons
Purgatiye Pills will not only cleanse and
purify the blood. but stimulate the func-
tions of the system to healthy action.
Year: 1868

The first plank of the Radical nation
nj platform congratulates the country
upon the assured success" OF ConGres'
sional reconstruction. A special dis
match from Washington TO the New
York EreHiRg Post says the Secretary OF
war who is a General of the Army and
one of Grants subordinates, recon-
mends the carpet-bag Governor OF
South Carolina to issue his proclama-
tion on the eve of the Presidential
election declaring martial law therein
The United States troops IN the State
would then be placed at his disposal
if required" This is assured success
of reconstruction-this is the peace
of which General Grant and his party
pirate, with a vengeance :
Year: 1868

The Presidential Campaign of 1865
promises to be one OF the most inter
ssting and exciting in the history Of
the country. The issues to be dis
susscd and determined by the people
are Of the greatest moment to the
peace and prosperity of the Nation,
1t is highly important that the voters
ae properly informed and thoroughly
posted on the political situation. The
most effective way to accomplish this
IS to place in their hands a sound and
reliable Republican newspaper.


In order to enable the active Un;o1
men of Southern Indiana and Illinois
and Western Kentucky to secure for
the WEEKLY JOURNAL a vide
circulation in their respective neigh
b0rhoods. we have placed the terms
TOR the Campaign st


gFkTpQ EgEnE ArTE1I TAV 2 AWEC
Year: 1868

Let every friend Of the Union, Of
Free Institutions. and Of the True
Principles OF Government. push for
ward the good work By securing for
the CAMPAIGN JOURNAL wide circu.
lation.


County and Township COMMITTEES
Should at once commence q canvas
to place copy in the hands of every
Republican and doubtful voter.
Year: 1868

During the Campaign, the discu. :
sion Of POLITICAL QUESTION
will receive the most prominent atten-
tion; but the past high reputation Of
the JOURNAL will be maintained with
undiminished interest as
Year: 1868

Not one young man in fifty knows the value of five minutns-not the general value as it used to be talked to us in sctool, when we appreciated time only as it divided us from our marbles or our game of ball. We mean the actual value of five minutes as appreciated by the man who has accustomed himself to save every five minutes which he has an opportunity to waste-the actual value as seen at the end of year, in which not more than five day have been saved in gaining informa ton.

 "How shall I save the five minutes ?' By few weeks course of discipline, dur ring which hibit of turning to book whenever one has nothing else to do, is formed. The habit is worth more to q young man than even the habit of devo ting half an hour day to reading. The stronger the habit grows, the more time there will be saved.

 We do not mean that it is well to have book near the counting desk. On the contrary, we believe that in business hours nothing but business should be attended to. By dividing the attention, little is gained in the way of literary information and everything is lost in the way of busi. ness promptness

 It is in the hours out of business that so many five minutes are wasted

 In waiting for breakfast, for instance some of us now and then get down before the last bell rings-there may not be time to take up book. Take it up, neverthe- less it is easily laid down again; and some delay in the kitchen may give you five minutes time. Some thought, or date, or fact, may catch, your eye within that five minutes, which will be of use and pleasure to you in after life-to think of, if for nothing else. So, too, in waiting for the dinner bell and for supper, and during the evening there are very many times in which there is spare five min utes, and which is usually spent in think ing of business or staring into the fire. Now, it is no exertion to take up book and to read, but one who has not acquired the habit of doing so, never thinks of the things except at stated periods, or when he has abundance of time and wishes to kill some of it. A person who has ac- quired this valuable habit takes up book unconsciously. He acquires information without realizing that he is doing so, and without the least exertion. !.

 Acquire this habit, then, reader, if you have not already done so. It will require some exertion at first, but it will soon be- come, like other habits, second nature. You will then be constantly accommodating knowledge Your mind will be growing as unconsciously as your body grew in Remember, pick up book open tiff you only look at its title page, or preface, and are obliged to close it. everywherc--at all times-subject, of course, to the demands of fbusincss and the rules of propricty
Year: 1868

A halfbushel measure is considered indispensable by every farmer. He does not sell his potatoes or grain, guessing at the contents of the bin or the pile on the foor-it must be measured. With this instrument at hand, he may know just how much corn is fed to the hogs and poultry; how many oats to the horses j; how much seed is sown upon the land, and many other points equally valuable to know. But good weighing scale is pos sesscd by comparatively few, although its use would in many ways be even more valuable than that of the halfbushcl. For instance, in selling live stock, the weight is usually estimated by the drover or butcher buying at the farmers door. Long experience enables the buyer to weigh them very correctly with the eye, and thus he has the inexperienced seller at an advantage, which he is not slow to use. A good Fairbanks standard plat form scale would save its cost in few such transactions.

 The weight of wool, butter, and other farm products, should be ascertained at home, to prevent mistakes and dishonesty in weighing after the goods have been sent to market. The weight of grain per bushel, the gain of cattle under different systems of feeding, (exactly when an ami nal ceases to increase by feeding,) and many other important facts, can readily be determined by having good scale. It should be part of the furniture of every farm. Fairbanks scales have been named in this connection, as being entirely rclia- blc, having been adopted as the standard in this and other countries.
Year: 1868

Because the roots of tree strike deep into the ground, that is no sign that deep culture is preferable. Will the roots, deep in the ground, do as well as those near the surface, the soil the sames No one will say they will. We know that the sun warming the ground, and the air penetrating it, IS an advantage. The best growth is made near the surface. Culti- vate, pulverize, and enrich the soil, as deep as the roots penetrate, the whole as near the surface as possible, and the height of success is attained.

 The difficulty is, in this case, that the ground will too soon become exhausted, so that manure will have to be generously resorted to- This will remedy the evil. But the evil cannot be remedied if the roots extend deep, as they get beyond the reach of manure and the plow. In poor, crude soil, they cannot thrive. In selec- ting a site for an orchard, it is necessary to have this thing in view

 Some soils warm deeply these are the leachy, gravelly soils. The roots here, will penetrate in all directions, and extend downward to. a great extent. They seem to obtain considerable nourishment. Such ground is usually the best for trees, as it lets in the air and attracts warmth by its arenaceous quality. The water, also, is at once removed; fertilizers will readily penetrate; and if not too leachy, will re- main till the trees have taken up the strength.
Year: 1868

We recommend the following as emi- nently worthy of consideration. It will suit this meridian as well as any other:

 Whatever patronage may be accorded to the city journals, whether on account of their cheapnes or the "generap news they contain, the importance of sustaining "home papers" should not be overlooked. As the medium for local transactions, and for furthering some interests, their value can hardly be overestimated. The fol lowing article, from the Cleveland Herald, presents the question in it's true light: "We know of nothing that is more dis heartcning to the publisher of a country newspaper than to be told, as he often is, when soliciting subscribers: q feel too poor to take your paper; take the Her aid Cor some other huge foreign weekly, ) and it only costs me two dollars year, and contains twice as much reading as yours does es"-when the receipts of one week of the office named above would be double the yearly receipts of his country paper, and when, if the foreign paper were published seventy years, it would not result in as much benefit to himself and country in which he lives as would single weeks edition of his own country paper. Recollect, if home paper is to be supported, home influence must do it. Every dollar sent to the Eastern paper is at the expense of the local paper. A county acquires prominence through it's papers more than any other way, and to every one who has county interests at stake his home paper is necessity. Never will such man take paper printed away from his home until he is able to take a second paper. His first will be his home sheet, and he will so identify his own in terest with that of his subscription as a matter of as early duty as the payment of taxes"