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Year: 1869

The finances of the State require the


most prudent and economical manage
ment, so as to reduce taxation to the


lowest possible point consistent with the
punctual payment of our obligations.
The greater portion of our public debt
was accrued in aid of railroads and inter.
nal improvements. The ruin caused by
war has added largely to these expenses.
While | favor the development Of the
boundless resources of our State, and
approve of every proper means taken by
our citizens to increase commerce, man
ufactures and means of communication, a
just regard for our obligations requires
that the public burdens should not be
further increased. I shall, if elected,
recommend to the General Assembly
the adoption Of such legislation as shall
be beneficial to all our Industrial inter-
ests and internal improvements, without
increasing the already heavy burden Of
the tax payers.
Year: 1869

One Of the grounds on which ]. v.
Eustace is run for Congress in the Galena
district is opposition to the present fin
ancial policy of the government, as OPP
pressive and unjust to labor"
Year: 1869

The following address is published in
the Press and Times of yesterday


Fellow citizens of Tennessee am
by the action Of many members of the
Republican party in every portion of the
State, who represented, as believe, a
large majority of the Republican party
in the State, candidate for the Office of
Governor, at the next August election.
In asking the suffrage of my fellow-citi>
zens deem IL proper that should frank
ly state to them the principles which i
entertain as an individual, on which /
stand as a candidate, and which shall
govern me, If elected.
Year: 1869

grave, and poor Chapman has long been
there. But catching the inspiration Of
his secondhand correspondent, Chap
man did crow in the Sentinel, and as
the business Of Growing is usually done
by chantieleer, he brought out one of
those fine large birds at the head of his
columns. That was the first rooster
ever placed in the Democratic paper to
rejoice over q Democratic victory. As
the general results of that election were
against us, it was matter of derision
for the Wing papers, when any Wing
victory was obtained, to Oadd these words,
''TelI Chapman to crow" This assisted
to fix the matter in the popular mind,
and to natiOnalize the emblem. No bet
ter one could have been adopted. The
rooster is probably the most gallant and
bravest of birds. He is never conquer
ed rs long as he has life. Beaten to-day
he is ever ready to renew the fight with
his conquerOr tomorrow. He is also a
fine and handsome specimen Of the
feathered tribe, and no one more keenIy
enjoys a victory or loudly prOclaims it.
Mr.. Chapman little thought that by in
Producing that rooster into his columns,
he was giving his name a celebrity
which would never have been attained
even by his sharp and forcible edijori-
ais On. Eng.
Year: 1869

How many pleasant breakfast tables
it looks down upon. No need to hurry
away to office, orstore, or counting room.
Fathers come leisurely down in dress
ing gown and slippers, and sip their cOf-
fee without danger of choking. They
have time to look round and see how
the children are growing, and that moth
ing in this world is so beautiful as a rosy
baby fresh from slumber. Mother too,
has the old girlish smile that comes not
often Oh a week day, for if it does,
father has not time to notice it,
and that, perhaps, after all, is the rea-
son it comes so seldom. It is pleasant
after eggs and coffee, to sit COmfOrta-
bly, down by the fire, the center of a
ring of happy faces, and hear the church
bells chime. Time enough yet to so for
this is the first bell.


Church bells are not, to my ear, "an
impertinence." One is free agent. I
am free to go, which I like to do; you
are free to stay, if you prefer; though I
may think you make a mistake. don't
say thatI should go every Sunday to hear
man who was always binding doc
trines together like bundles of dry sticks
and thrusting them athis yawning hear
ers. I want to hear a sermon that any
poor soul who straggles into church,
from any by-lane or alley, can under
stand, and carry home with him to his
| cellar or garret; not a sermon that comes
on chariot wheels, but afOOt, and with
warm, life like grasp for every honest
aye, and dishonest-hand in the as
sembly, defaulter or Magdalen; for who
babe you slam Heavens gate in their
faces?


want 4 human sermon. 1 don't care
what Melchisedek, Zerubbabel, or Ker-
enhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know
what am to do, and I want somebody
besides theological book-worm to tell
me, somebodywhO issometimes tempted
and tried, and is not ttoodignified to own
it; somebody like myself, who is always
SHINING and repenting, somebody who
is glad and sorry, and cries and laughs,
and eats and drinks, and wants to fight
when they are trodden on-and don't!
That's the minister for me. don't
want spiritual abstraction, with stony
eyes and petrified fingers, and no blood
to battle with. What credit is it TO him
to be proper? How can he understand
me? Were there only such ministers
in the pulpit, I wouldn't go to church
either, because my impatient feet would
only beat tattoo on the pew floor till
service was over, but thank God there
are! and while they preach I shall go
and hear them, and come home better
and happier for having done it.


So I pray you don't abolish my Sun
day, whatever you way do with yours. |
Don't take away my blessed Sunday
breakfast, when we all have time to
love another. Don't take away the Sab
bath bells, which I so love to hear. |
Don't take away my human minister,
whose God is so tyrant, and is better
pleased to see US go smiling home from
church than bowling onrheads IikeIa bull
rush, and groaning back to our dinners,
till all you anti-Sabbatarians are made !
to abolish Sunday-and no wonder.
Year: 1869

How TO MAKE 4 C0LD CzIsEL.-Far-
mers and Cardners frequently need
good cold-chisel for light work, such as
cutting off rivets, nails, or pieces Of
bar steel, and the forging Of it in the
proper shape, viii cost from fifty cents
to one dollar. Those persons who want
the use OF a cold chiseI only for g week
or so, DO not always have the money 20
spare for q tool that they have but little
use for. Therefore to get cheap cbiseI
that will subserve all the purpose requir-
ed, make use Of a large file, that has
been worn out. Break of one end, So
that a piece viii be Ieft,about eight inch
es long; heatit in a charcoal fire 10 nes-
redness, and let it cool gradually. Then
the steel will be soft, now grind one end
square and true for the head end, and


form the cutting edge by grinding a5 tie
other end. Thrust the cutting edge in
to a charcoal fire, in the COOK stove, IN
til one inch is red hot. Vow cool hall


an inch Of the edge iu cold water.


which viii render the edge quite tee


hard. Watch the color Of the steel IS


the different shades appear near and al


the cutting edge, and as soon rs yo"
see a light straw color on the surface


plunge the chiseI into cold water. By


this means you will get aIcold chisel sU.-
ficiently hard on the edge TO cut iron,
and 50 soft and tough on the part above
the edge that il win bend rather than
break.
Year: 1869

NEARLY all the ice used on the Pacific
coast is obtained from q never falling
ice cave in the northern part Of Oregon.
This remarkable subterranean cavern
where the ice remain in a perfect state
the year around, is situated on q stream
know as the White Salmon, which emp
ties into the Columbia river, on the
Washington Territory side, about thirty
miles below the DaIIes. The entrance
to this icy chamber is near the base Of
Mount Adams, which stands twenty
miles from the Columbia, and whose
melting SHOWS coustitute the waters OF
the White Salmon. The dimensions
Of this cave are vast, extending many
miles under the snowy mountain, and
the scenery inside IS supremeIy grand
The ice is found in columns formed by
water falling from above and congaaI-
ing as 1t falls. These columns are cut
out in blocks and conveyed on pack an
imals to the CoIumbia river, and thence
are shipped to al the markets on the
coast.
Year: 1869




Large planks are cut up into blocks,
double the length Of the match, and put
one at a time upon the cutting machine.
Two large knives converging at the
points, are driven back and forth upon
the blocks, and numerous little flaps be-
meath, wide enough to let one match be-
tween, are pressed up, each taking of a
match at every passage Of the knives,
at the rate of sixty a minute The par
ticles are packed in. square frames and
placed in kiln dryer, over the furnace,
where they remain twenty-fOur hours.
They are then taken out, and by means
of curious machines are coiled upon an
ordinary cotton band. On each coil
there is a gross, or Ii, 400 matches, and
the band is between each layer.


A curious arrangement Of the ma
chine is that it will coil nothing but a
perfect match, and throw the defective
one aside. The coiling is slow and one
man can tend five machines, which will
ordinarily coil about a hundred gross
per day. After the coil is made up, the
ends are planed down even and put on
hot iron, which opens the pores Of the
wood. Both ends are then dipped into
melted birthstone, into 4 composition
Of PHOSPHORUS, glue and other mater
ials, and hung upon n rack for ten min
utes, at the end Of which they are dry.
The coils are then unrolled, the match.
es put in the suqare frame, cut in two in
the middle, boxed and packed ready fol
shipment. The boxing is mostly done
by boys and girls, and the smell of thr
birthstone is said to effect their heaItl
sOmewhat.-Ne1g Haven Journal.
Year: 1869

Yesterday morning the raid was made
and the scene that followed the seizures
are impossible to describe. Bakers ran
here and there with there light Ioaves to
escape the iron hand of justice, repre-
sented by a blue-coated and clubbed
member of the police force, and the sew
eral Recorders offices were crowded
with Ioaves and the indignant manufac-
turers thereof.
Year: 1869

We believe the seizure of yesterday
will have a very good effect, for time,
at least; and if our bakers will put 3
few more ounces in their loaves the vic
tory Of Mayor Conway will be complete.
Year: 1869

A curious fact was lately established by q fire at Penryn, ill North Wales. A large quantity of gun cotton, amounting to 40,- 900 blasting charges, stored in building but not very closely confined, was set on

 fire in some way, it is supposed by an in- cendiary, and burned quietly away with out any explosion, and with no more dam, age, except in the value of the gun cotton itself, than would have resulted from the destruction of an equal weight of cord wood. It has been many times stated that gun cotton will not explode unless closely confined or fired by detonating fuse. This fact is now rendered absolutely certain by this severe test, and the result may be that some restrictions upon it's transportation may be wisely relaxed.
Year: 1869

The word "luck" is too freely bedded
in our language, and belief in the fact
expressed by il is too strong to justify an
expectation that it will soon become obso-
lete. Luck is an event, good or bad,
which befalls man Independently of his
own volition. If man works all day for
five dollars, his wages is not considered
luck. But if he finds five dollars in the
road, that is luck.


IL man aims ut an accommodation train,
but hits an express train, which has been
delayed little, he is in luck.


He has secured what he did not plan
for. If the last boat of the season leaves
Albany for New York day sooner than
the shipper had calculated, and he loses
an opportunity of sending his freight, he
exclaims, THAT is just my luck"


OF the fact itself there can be no doubt.
Many disappointments befall men which
seem to have no relation to their own
agency. Many pieces of good fortune
occur which the recipient did not plan or
look for.


But the cause of luck, thus defined. is
another thing. If we could look into
mems minds and render clear those
obscure and nebulous thoughts that hover
there, it would be found, probably, that
Year: 1869

TAKE Ny HAND, PAPA. In the dead Of
the night am frequently awakened by q
hand stealing out from the crib by my
side, with the pleading cry please take
my hand, papa" Instantly the little boys
hand is grasped, his fears vanish, and,
soothed by the consciousness OF his fathers
presence. he falls into sleep again.


We commend this lesson OF simple,
filial faith and trust to the anxious, sor-
rowing ones that are found in almost
every household. Stretch forth your hand,
stricken mourner, although you may be
in the deepest darkness, and gloom, and
fear, and anxious suspense may cloud
your pathway, and that very act will
reveal the presence of loving, COM
passionate Father, and give you the ePeaee
that passeth all understanding. The
darkness may pass away at once, night
may enfold you in its cold embrace, but
its terrors will be dissipated. its gloom
and sadness fee away, and, in the simple
grasp of the Fathers hand. sweet peace
will be given, and you will rest securely
knowing that the morning cometh.-
(Congregationalist.
Year: 1869

BE SrEADFAsr.-Never let your honest
convictions be laughed down. You can
no more exercise your reason if you live
in constant dread of ridicule, than you
can enjoy your life If you live in constant
terror of death. If you think it right to
differ from the times, and to make
point of morals, do it--not for insolence,
but seriously and gravely, as If man
wore big soul of his own in his bosom,
and did not wait till 1t was breathed into
him by the breath of fashion. Be true to
your manhood's conviction, and in the
end you will not only be respected by
the world, but have the approval Of your
own conscience.
Year: 1869

APPLICATION FOR TEANsPoRrATIoN-Al-
legged abduction Of a Chiid-The Chief Of Police
Appeoled to.-TO-day an application was made to
Major Richards. Superintendent OF Police, by
woman dressed in bloOmer costume and her
husband, for transportation to st. Louis, but
that officer could not see it. and gave
very little encouragement to the parties.
1t appears that this couple, as also another
couple, have been boarding for some time on
Missouri avenue, and the couple making the
application having left their child in the house
for a short time, on their return found that the
other couple had left the place and carried the
child with them; and it is for the purpose of
regaining possession Of the child they wish 70
90 10 ST. Louis,
Year: 1869

We have Just received large lot of the above
goods, making our assortment Of Domestic
very complete These goods were bought, be
fore the recent advance; we can, therefore
offer special inducements in this line


ielS WITMER & SLAYMAkER.
Year: 1869

And you said yourself, SIR went on
Aylmer, that the stopping of the clock
meant either a death or marriage. or
course we don't want any deaths; so don't
you think the most sensible thing we can
do is to help on marriage as soon as possi-
ble2'


The deacon laughed in spite Of himsolf


IT'S late said the deacon. Come round
tomorrow and well talk about 1t. No,
Hetty, I'm not angry with you child. l
suppose young folks will be young folks,
and there's no use tryin' to stop em.'


As the deacon hung the pendulum and
set the iron tongue of the clock talking
again, John Aylmer paused on the front
doorstep to whisper to Hetty-


My darling its worth passing life time
behind the clock case, to feel as happy as
do now 4
Year: 1869

We have crossed the bridge DER the middle Of life


My old woman and I,
Taxing our share in the calm and the strife,


with the travellers passing by.
And though on our pathway the shadows are rife,


There's Light in the western sky
Some losses and crosses, Of course we've had,


My old woman and 1;
But, bless you'll we never found time to be sad,


And very good reason why.
We were as busy as bees, and we wernt 80 mad


As to stop in our work TO cry.
On our changcable road as we journeyed along,


My old woman and I,
The kindly companions we met IN the throng


Made our lives like vision fiy
And therefore the few that imagined us wrong


Scarcely cost us a single sigh.
The weak and the weary we've strivon To cheer,


My old woman and Il
For each Of us thought that our duty while hero


Was TO do as we'd be done by,
In the hope to exhibit balance clear,


Whan the rnakanine day n nish-
Year: 1869

WASHINGTON. August 16.-Persons
who have arrived here from Virginia
give distressing accounts of the effects
Of the long drought in that State, and
assert that unless they have rain soon,
the corn and tobacco crops will GER
tainly be thoroughly destroyed.


Letters from Georgia also represent
that apprehension of great danger to
the cotton crop is felt iD that State
because of the long dry season.


Judge Swayne adjourned the Hous-
ton and Galveston Railroad case to-
day, without argument, with the IN
derstanding that the counsel having
charge of the various interests agree
upon a decree whereby the interests
of the parties concerned until the case
comes regularly before the full bench
Of the Supreme Court.
Year: 1869

THE Indianapolis Journal says that
a company stands ready to put the
HoLLY system of water works in op-
Grafton in that city at once, It the city
will guarantee them the amount an
nually paid for the running expenses
of tie Fire Department. This GER
tainly is proposition worth consider
ing, and We suggest TO cur City Coun-
ell the proprlety OF locking into the
matter and see II our city may mott
supplied with water on terms equally
liberal.
Year: 1869

BALTIMORE, August 16.-Accounts
from almost every section Of the State
indicate a general prevalence of the
drought. In the lower counties the
corn and tobacco are suffering dread
fully. On the Eastern Shore it is
stated that only half a crop of corn
can be saved. In the vicinity of Bal
timore the gardens and pasturage are
almost burnt up. With the excep-
tion of an occasional shower ia some
few locations, no rain has fallen for
weeks.
Year: 1869

PLAIN FAcTs.-Senator Morton, in a
recent speech in Wilmington, Ohio
made the following remarks, which are
as true as gospel, and is line of argu-
ment that is perfectly unanswerable:


And is there any good reason why the
Republican party, after having preserved
the republic, should be required to turn
over the care and custody of it to the
Democracy? When the flames of your
burning houses have been extingqished,
would you hire the incendiary as a
watchman to protect it from FIRE in the
future, or, when your child has been res
cued from the waves, would you deliver
it over for tender nursing and resuscita-
ton to the monster who threw it in
And vet you might do these things with
as much propriety as to turn owe the CON
troll of the government to the Democratic
party.v
Year: 1869

We may travel all over the world,
Ay, as far as the billows may roll,
Where they northward southwark are hurled,
Against ice-ields that girdle the pole;
We may wander wherever we list,
We may journey earth's confines all DER,
But the joy which we cannot resist,
Is the grasp of the hand at the door.
For at length when our holidays past,
And we gladly return DER the foam,
The one Joy that's not least, although last,
Is the hand-grip that welcomes us home.
There's something electric that thrills
In the touch of the hands that we know.
Which nor absenca-the longest-e'er kills,
Nor distance---where er we may go.
1t speaks from the heart to the heart,
From earth's fartAest-its uttermost shore
We may remember, though oceans apart,
The warm grasp of the hand at the door.


For wherever our fortunes are east


Meath Heavens eerulean dome,


The one joy that we look for at last


Is the hand grip that welcomes US home.
In the silence of African wiids,
When sleep closes the travellers eyes
In slumber soft a chids,


The dear visions of home will arise.
But of all tha best dreams of delight
That around him kind fancy can pour,
For the happiest fiction of night


Is the grasp of the hand at the door.


In the wilderness lonely and vast


Ay, wherever on earth we may roam,


The love dream that deserts us the last,



But need no longer absence to show
All. need wide distance to teach,
That the dearest of all things below
Is the home-loye ia waiting for each
Is the home that he cannot forget


For his heart is not sound at the core,
Whose breast has not leapt when it met
The warm grasp of the hand at the door.


Heat and cold we endured, storm and blast,


Waves we forded and mountains we elomb,


Are forgotten completely at last


In the hand-grip that welcomes home.
Though for long OF little part


Tried affection all count is above,
For You can't plumb the depths of heart
foE can't measure the leagues of love.
Birth and beauty, and riches nought-
sFor birth, beauty and riches in store
Neyer-neyer a welcome have brought
Like the grasp of the hand at the door.
All. how dear when the holidays past.
When gladly return DER the foam.
The one JOY that's not least, although last,


The warm hand-grip that welcomes US
home.
Year: 1869

SWEET CIpER-The following is said
to be one of the very best recipes Tor
keeping cider sweet: When Fermentation
CONNIE noes, draw the cider off into an
other vessel, and strain through flannel
cloth. Put into the cider three -fourths
of an ounce of the oil of sassafras, well
shaken up In pint of alcohol. Cider
prepared in this way is SO palatable that
it won't q keep" worth a cent.
Year: 1869

CosT OF CoLLEcTIoN.-It costs the
Government l63 per cent. to collect the
internal revenue in the State Of Oregon.
The cost of collection in the State OF Ne
braska is greater than any other State,
being nearly % per cent. In Rhode Is
land and Massachusetts the cost is less
than 2 per cent.
Year: 1869

to thinking. A little stoppagc Of the air
pump, leak in your hose, careless nc.
tion on the part of your tender, and the
weight Of n mountain would press tho
life out of You before you could make n
move. And you may "foul'' your pipe
or line yourself. and in your haste bring
on what you dread. ] often got nv
hose around stair or rail, and though /
am not called cowardly, and generally
release it without much trouble, The bare
idea Of what a slender thing holds back
the clutch Of death off my throat makes
cold sweat start from every pore.
Year: 1869

One by one the sands are flowing,


One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going
Do not strive to grasp them all
One by one thy duties wait thee,


Let thy whole strength go to each
Let no future dream elate thee,


Learn each hour what these can teach.
One by one-bright gifts from heaven
joys are sent thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready, too, to let them go.
One by one thy gifts shall meet thee,
DO not fear an armed band,
One will fall when others greet thee,
Shadows passing through the land.
Do not look at lifes long sorrow
See how small each moments pain,
God will help thee for tomorrow,


So each day begin again.
Every hour that fleets so slowly.


Has its task to do or bear:
Luminous the crown and holy


When each gem is set with care.
Do not linger with regretting,


Or passing hours despond,
Nor the daily toll forgetting,
Look too eagerly beyond.
Hours are golden links-God's token
Reaching heaven one by one;
Take heed lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.