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Year: 1869

A lady correspondent Of the
Country Gentleman, gives the folio
wing recipe for


MAKING SWEET PICKLEs.-Cut
the tomatoes through, or if large,
slice in three; let them stand in
weak brine over night. To a
quart of vinegar three pounds of
sugar; in this vinegar cook the
tomatoes until a fork can easily
be passed through them. AS fast
as they are cooked, take them
out with a fork and lay them
down in jar-say two or three
layers of tomatoes sprinkle, pull
verized cinnamon and cloves, and
thin layer Of sugar; then al
ternately tomatoes, spices and su-
gar, cooking all the tomatoes in
the same vinegar; if necessary,
add more sugar and vinegar.
When the jar is filled, cover the
tomatoes with good cider vinegar
cold, throwing away the vinegar
in which tomo.oes were cooked.
Lay some horse radish root over
the top of the pickles, and put a
wait on to keep them covered.
This recipe is equally good for
cucumbers. I have tested it for
the past two years; and found no
trouble in keeping good pickles.
Year: 1869

A WoMAN's SM1LE.-A woman
who lived very unhappily with
her husband, came to a great dr.
vine to ask his counsel. always
meet your husband with a SMILE,
said the wise man. She followed
bis advice, and very soon returned
to thank him for the blessing Of d
happy home. Whenever q home
landscape is drea,y and IT'S kori-
zon clouded, we believe that it
proceeds not so much from the
storms of mans petulance and un-
reasonableness, as because woman
has forgotten to draw a sunbeam
from the Sun Of Righteousness.
Year: 1869

ELEGANCE DOES Nor MAKE A
HoME.-I never saw a garment
too fine for man or maid; there
was never chair too good for
a cobbler, or cooper, or king, to
sit in never a house too fine to
shelter the human head. these
elements about US, the gorgeous
sky, the imperial sun, are not too
good for the human race. Ele-
gance fits man. But do we not
value these tools Of housekeeping
a little more than they are worth,
and sometimes mortgage home
for the mahogany we would bring
into it? / had rather eat my din
ner of the head of a barrel, or
dress after the fashion Of John
the Baptist in the wilderness, or
sit on block all my life, than con-
sumo myself before I got to home:
and take so much pains with the out
side that the inside was as hollow
as an empty nut. Beauty is a
great thing, but beauty of gar
ments, house and furniture is a
very tawdry ornaments compared
with domestic love. All the ele-
gance in the world will not make
home, and 1 would give more
for spoonful of real hearty love
than for whole shiploads of fur
niture, and all the gorgeousness
that all the upholsterers in the
world could gather together.-We-
odore Parker.
Year: 1869

Tho Proposed New Spanish Constitution
Future Form Of ovcrnment-TrienniaI Par
Maments-A King 20 Reign Eighteen Years
The Liberty of the Press-Right OF Public
Meeting-The Military Conscrlption Law
Adopted.


MADRID, March "a, 1859.
The committee appointed to prepare new con-
stitusion made q report to the Cortcs to-day.
The draft OF the constitution proposes that the
future form OF government shall be monar-
shcal and shall consist OF q Senate and
Congress. The Senatorial term shall be
thirteen years; the Senators are to be elected by
provisional councils composed OF four for each pro-
vince The sessions Of Congress are to be triennal
ana universal suffrage is to be the rule In regard to
voting The reign OF the king shall be limited to
eighteen years. The majority Of the committee re-
ported in favor OF separation Of Church from State,
while minority report advocated the Roman
Catholic as the state creed with federation towards
oil other religious professions.


the liberty OF the press and the right OF public
meeting will be guaranteed.


The Cortcs yesterday passed the Military conscrip-
ten law.
Year: 1869

A correspondent of the Indianapolis
Journal says:


A great deal of excitement prevails
here on account of the murder of A. j.
Todd and his wife, six miles south of
this place, last night. At an early hour
this morning man named Bright call
ed at Todd's house, to go with him to
their daily work. Bright was unable to
get any answer from the inside, and
could not open the door. He looked
into the window and saw the murdered
man and woman. He went to the
neighbors and gave the warning and
sent to this place for the Coroner, who
summoned jury and went to the place
of the murder. Todd was found laying
on the floor with his throat cut from ear
to ear, and a bullet-hole in his
breast, and rife gun laying about
three feet from his body. Both hands
were clasped en- his breast over the bull
let hole. His throat had been cut while
in bed, where he had bled to death, and
then dragged out of the bed and thrown
on the floor, and shot. His wife was
laying in the bed with the bed clothes
and her night clothes all in perfect order.
The back side of her head was mashed
in and there were several cuts across
her face and arms, and on her head.
An old hatchet was found in the bed,
and an old case knife on the floor, both
bloody, and there was hair en- the
hatchet. No clue has as yet been OBJ
tanned as to who could have committed
this bloody deed.
Year: 1869

An exchange suggests that the several
States adopt the custom of carrying
out capital punishment employed in
Europe, where the task of executing
the sentence Of the law is entrusted to
single individual. By pursuing this
course we are told the business Of
hanging will be performed in a practic-
al manner, and there will be an end Of
the horrible butcheries reported
throughout the country, The sugges-
tion is timely. If we are to
keep up the practice of choking
healthy men and sound con-
verts to Christianity, let us do it in a
systematic manner. We think it would
not be bad plan to set apart a portion
of the public funds for the express pur-
pose of establishing State College, to
be devoted exclusively to the business
Of perfectiRg papils in the art of hang
ing. By and by it may be accepted as
one of the fine arts. The pupils need
not lack for subjects; their leisure hours
might proftably be devoted to the prac-
tice of choking the ours which infest
our streets.
Year: 1869

The carpet-baggers and scalawags
attempt to bring about an average
equality of the white and black races
by making themselves as much meaner
than the negroes as the white conserya-
tives are better.
Year: 1869

A correspondent describing Colorado
says "there is o singular disinclination
to 90 early to bed, and few people rise
early in the morning. These peculiar
tiles are doubtless the influences of
climate" In this part of the country
these psculiarities are commonly as
cribed to the influences of laZiness.
Year: 1869

1t is a we'll established fact that fully one
half Of the female portion Of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or to
use their own expression, never feel we'll"
They are languid, devoid of all energy, extreme
lynervous, and have no appetite.


To this class of persons the BITTERS, or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.


WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use Of either of these
remedies. They will cure every case Of MA.
RASMUS, without fail.
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, win find
in the use of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins
restore in a measure the energy and ardOr OF
ram aiming yeara
Year: 1869

"A man In Minnesota bought a
lot, built house and set up house
keeping within the space of forty
eight hours, and had son and heir
born to him before the first meal was
eaten in the house. That's business.
Year: 1869

LAZY BoYs.-A lazy boy makes a
lazy man, just rs sure as crooked
sapling makes a crooked tree. Who
ever saw boy grow up in idleness
that did not make shiftless vaga-
bond when he became q man, unless
he had q fortune left him to keep up
appearances? The great mass of
thieves, criminals, and paupers como
to what they are, by being brought
up in idleness. Those who make
our great and useful men, were
taught in their boyhood to be indus
trious.
Year: 1869

DELAWARE GONG TO SEA. THE Republi-
can says that the Delaware Bay is encroaching
upon US at the rate of ten to twelve feet per
year, and the Middletown Transcript says the
Chesapeake is serving Maryland the same way,
so that between the two waters there is danger
Of ,ome OF us being washed overheard some
time, if we don't move We would like to
know how Jersey stands it, IF ever this Pc
nnsua is consolidated it had better be done
while there is enough of it left above water to
make decent sized State.
Year: 1869

Three negroes were burned to death in the
Dismal Swamp recently. A great fire is raging
there and these negroes were employed IN ge!-
ting timber, but while taking nap III their
hut were walled in by the fire. 4'p '
Year: 1869

THE Corn CRoP.-The Wilmington papers
say that the corn crop in New Castle county is
excellent, particularly in the upper part of it


In this county, however, there is very little, if
any, qood corn, and much of it will not be worth
cutting, except for the fodder, and some has
not even made fodder. Farmers tell us that
the crop has not been so short for many years.


The Sussex journal says the crop is much bet


ter IN that county than was expected AT
Laurel the crop is said to be the heaviest rails


ed in that neighbo hood for years, and cor
respondent from Lcwes writes to the CONNER
ciidl very cheerful account of the crop in thai
part Of Sussex. But these seem to be favored
localities. The damage will he seriously felt ii
Kent and Sussex and the lower part of New
Castle, and it seems rather strange that thu
" nearly or quite an average crop" in the State
Year: 1869

! L peA- The enforcement of the Massachu- setts Prohibitory Law seems to have en- tirely broken, down in Boston. We clip the following account of the lager beer raid that finished the demonstration in that city from the Couran:

 "The excitement existing here at the time wrote you last week, growing out of the enforce Inent of the new liquor law, has in some measure snhsided. It resched its height when the lager

 least objectionable place of it's kind, or one of the least, ,imour limits. Two three bottles of whis- key or brandy were found in it, but it's sales are almost entirely confined to lager. It's proprietor is.a large manufacturer, who makes of this place whefe the public can find samples of his beverage, q and also central place for temporary storage. There is no complaint of any drunkenness having been known there. Gentlemen have found it con venient when they desired a refreshing draught during the, heat or burden of the day. and the Germans regarded it as one of the best appointed for the sale of their favorite bever age that was accessible. There was nothing in the nature of 8 nuisance about it whatever. When, therefore, the state police bounced upon it and began riding it of it's contents and con6scating them by the wholesale, it was felt that outrage was in perpetration. None but the most ultra of temperance men justified the act, and there was almost universal deprecation expressed. As men 8 all hands that this would never do. It may be said that there was almost no public sentiment to sustain it, for even prohibtionsts themselves were brought to their senses under such an enforce ment or tnelrilawsY YaI9iqNGH ul.

 The result was the abandonment of that prosecution, and also of all others. Such i seems to be the. unavoidable result of li- a quor prosecutions in any large city. The public sentiment of many rural commu- I9 nity will sustain prohibitory law fo, Q uiwithethem, total. abstinence is the general 4fulep In cities, however, where the public Y practice and sentiment is anything but abstinent. such a law becomes odious al once.
Year: 1869

The other day I chanced to enter a
friends house. He did not know l was
in the parlor, and I overheard his convers-
alton. He was very harsh in his dealings
with his child. He was "out of Sorts
that morning. "The wind was east, and
the east wind blew into his lungs, and in
TO his soul, and soured his mind, and sour
ed his heart, and so, like base miscreant
as he was, he vented his bad temper on
his wife and children. 1t is bad habit
some men have.


This man was talking in hard, un-
christian manner talking as no father
should talk. He had lost his temper. lie
was saying that he would be sorry in a
few moments. And then the servant an
nounced my presence. Mind you, the
man would have said, he could not help
it: 1.-The boy teased me! He did what |
cannot endure, and on the impulse Of the
moment, l spoke my anger. l could not
control myself"


There was frown on his face when |
was announced; being more or less of a
stranger, demanding of him certain court
estes, he at once smoothed his face rs
though nothing had happened-as though
the sun was shining brightly in the heav-
ems. and the wind was south, aud not east.
Year: 1869

ed, had so long stood face to face with
death. had so accustomed myself to look
upon it as merely momentary pang,
that no longer felt solicitous save that
my memory should one day be yindica-
ted.


She for whom had gone to prepare n
home had already found one in heaven.
The tidings of my calamity had broken
her heart. She alone of all the world
believed me innocent; and she had died
with prayer upon her lips that the truth
might be brought to light.


All this / had heard, and it had soothed
as with sweet incense my troubled spirit,
Death however unwelcome the shape,
was now portal beyond which / could
now see one angel waiting to receive me.


had heard the sound of approaching
footsteps, and nerved myself to meet the
expected summons. The door Of my
cell opened, and the sheref and his atten-
dants entered. He held in his hand pa
per. 1t was doutless my death-warrant.
He began to read it. My thoughts were
busted elsewhere. The words &" FULL
AND FREE PARDON" were the first TO strike
my preoccupied senses. They affected
the bystanders more than myself. Yet
so it was; pas pdrioned for an offence
had nerer committed.


The real culprit, none other, it is need
less to say, than he who had sought and
abused my hospitality, had been mortally
wounded in recent affray in q distant
city, but had lived long enough to make
disclosure, which had been laid before
the Governor barely in time to save me
from shameful death, and condemn me
to cherries and burdensome lie.


This is my EXPERIENCE. My judg-
ment, as yours, in the ease before us
leads TO but one conclusion, that Of the
prisoners guilt; but not less confident
and apparently unelring was the judg.
ment that falsely pronounced my own"


We no longer importunod our fellow
Juror. but patiently waited our discharge
on the ground OF inability to agree, which
came at last.


The prisoner was tried and convicted
at subsequent term, and at the last mo-
ment confessed his crime on the scaffold.
Year: 1869

SILENT INFLUENCE. Albert Barnes says


at is the bubbling stream that flows
gently; the little rivulet which runs day
and night by the farmhouse is useful,
rather than the swollen flood or roaring
cataract. Niagara excites OUR wonder,
we stand amazed at the power and great
ness of God there, as he pours it from
the hollow of his hand; but one Niagara
is enough for the continent or the world.
while the same world requires thousands
and tens of thousands of silver fountains
and gently flowing rivulets that water
every farm and meadow, and every
Year: 1869

HAPpY Man. The late Captain G-.oi
Vermont, was always satisfied. lie WAS
one of the early and most successful breed
ers of merino sheep in his part of the State.
He had large native cosset that he val.
ued highly. His son came in one morn
ing and told him that the old cosset had
twins. Captain c. said he was glad;
she would bring up two'ss well as one"
Soon after the son reported one of them
dead Upon this he said. 1.-The one left
would be worth more in the fall than both
In the afternoon the boy told his father
that the other lamb was dead. Il am
glad" said he; Il can now fat the old
sheep" The next morning the son re-
ported the old cosset dead. That is just
what wanted; now have got nd ofthe
breed ~
Year: 1869

A LONG PRAYER.-D Deacon B., Of Ohio,
very pious man, was noted for his long
prayers, especially in his family. One
Monday morning, the deacon and his
wife was alone, aud as was his usual
custom after breakfast prayer was Offer
ed. There being an unusual amount OF
work that day, the deacon's prayer was
short. He seized his hat and milk-pail
and started for the barn. His wife being
very deaf did not notice his absence, but
supposed him to be still engaged in pray
er. On his return from milking, he was
surprised to find her still kneeling. He
stepped up to her and shouted "Amen,"
when she Immediately arose and went
about her work as if nothing had happen
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Year: 1869

A VISIBLE LEGAL PoINT.-A rural lawyer, whom
we shall name Squire Jeval, once had an important
case ina country court and the decision depended en-.
tirely on the way the jury would regard the testimony
of one lady He lost the case because the fair wit
ness swore positively to which she had
witnessed at the distance of several rods, although
there were several persona who stood much nearer
than her that saw nothing whatever of it. The old
Squire looked rather blue when the jury brought in
their verdict but revenged himself by rising and tell
ing the court story of lady he once knew, who was
very sighted but always declared her eyesght to
he excellent. Accordingly one day neghbor stuck
darnng needle in the side of burn, and placus her


the opposite side of the road asked her il she could
see it 'Oh yes" replied the lady, al can see the
needle easy but whar's the barn?"
Year: 1869

Apropos Of the change in the name of our frgates,
the Hartford Post saws that Bore is changing his own
by adding to it the single syllable that viii make
a north wind Of him. namely -Borie-asa
Year: 1869

lHE SCARCITY OF MoNEY.-Ihere IS and must be q
general scci'v of currency throughout the country,
because that article is far superabundant This
statement is doubtless paradox the unrpfecting
nevertheless nothing is certain. The history of
this country for the last fifty years shows chat money
has always been most scarce and of interest most
advanced, when there the largest absolute amount
in circulation. The for fhis is obvious. As
currency is expanded speculation is excited, prices
greatly raised, and it takes much larger amount
OF money to transfer equal amount of merchan-
dise while the operations of those who engaged
in influencing and controlling the immense amount of
transferable property of all kinds held for speculative
purposes absorb all the surplus and leave the money
market in stringent condition.


Money, we must recullect, is scarce not in propor-
lion to its actual quantity but the relative demand
for it. When, therefore, in addition to the natural
wants of trade the speculative interest comes into mar
ket the extraordinary demand is certain to create
pressnre 30 that, practically, has always been true
as it is now true, that an expanded currency will be
most scarce when it is most abundant that collections
will be most unsatisfactory when the circulation is
largest; and that the rates of interest will be highest
when the loans OF the banks most extended.


This important lesson the people mtst learn and If
they would have money plenty and cheap they must


insist that the shall be reduced to the natural
mit-to that point where it is at par with specie
They cannot have easy and reliable money market
ntil that which is called money is truly so aid we
incur no risk in predicting that satisfactory of
trade will not arrive until the currency Of the nation is
equivalent in value to the currency OF commerce


In looking forward for the remainder of the current
We II, we do not anticipate general panic breaking
down OF the national industry because the currency is
now fixed quantity, and cannot be (s in the case of
mixed currency it must br) sud'ieh wi. n from
circulation whenever there is pressure on the banks
tor the redemption of teir notes but we do expect
that trade, manufacturing and business generally will
pe depressed, that profits will be small expenses large
rents and rates OF interest high aud losses from den
qlpnt debtors heavy while in the large centres of
rade, especially in the largest the spasms" of the
money market will ne frequent and violent.


Lppincott's Magazine for June.
Year: 1869

A CURE FOE PARALYss.-We lately met q gentle.
man who, although he walked with apparent ease said
he mad been almost hopeless paraytic but had been
substantially cured by the use of an air.pump The
theory Of the cure and the application of the nstru
ment were as follows Paralysis is produced By the
failure of some Of the organs of life to perform their
functions; they need recuperating. He applied cup
or receiver to the surface OF the part affected and by
of the pump he removed the pressure of the ex
terna atmosphere. There was then rush of air in
ternay, as much the clogged condition of the sys.
ten would admit, towards the vacuum produced by
the pump. The blood was carried along by the air,
md by mechanical force made to circulate in the
affected limb which thps recovered its vigor and ae-
sivity. Worcester Palladium.
Year: 1869

WE are just in receipt of a large and we'll
w selected stock OF FRESH GROCERIES,
consisting OF all articles usually kept in our
line, which we offer for sale upon the usual
terms. We invite the attention of our old
friends and customers.


re Special attention given to the sale of
Cotton aug6 d&w
Year: 1869

A musician, whose nose had become
distinctly colored with the red wine he
was won't to imbibe, said one day to his
little son at the table: You must eat
bread, boy, bread makes your cheeks
red" The little boy replied : Father,
what lots of bread you must have snuff
ed upw'
Year: 1869

Through the kindness of an esteemed lady friend
we are allowed to publish the following poem writ
ten in her album when little child in Washington.
by John Quincy Adams. The copy is written in the
cramped hands of age, and, we need hardly add, is
highly priced by its owner 1t has never been in
print before Terrs Haute Gasette.l


oh had /, lovely maiden. but the power


Here on this page, thy destiny to write,


With lavish hand what blessings would shower
To fill thy future days with keen delight


Spring, Summer, Autumn. Winter. each in turn
, 10 thee the tribute of his joys should bring;
For thee stern Winters social fires should burn.
For thee resound the minstrelsy of Spring.
For thee should Flora shed her soft perfume,


For thee her luscious fruits should Summer yield,
For thee should Autumn's waving harvest loom,
For thee Pomona's vintage crown the field.
And all the rolling seasons should be thine,


And thine they shall be. for thy soul is pure
And virtues shields with energy divine,


From all the ills that mortals must endure.
Thus as through life, thy hckle fortunes fly.


Should Winters frosts with pain thy bosom wiring
Turn thee to virtues sunshine in the sky


And bloom afresh in never fading Spring.