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Year: 1868

l have seen it. Let me write it,
that may preserve my reason. After
the clasp was opened there fell out this
paper, bearing the date of the day he
gave the book to me:


"ANNETTE WILDER IL love you.
l have always loved you. No man
could ever love you half SO well. Will
you be everything to me? ?''-will you
be my wife? My heart is so full I can
not write. Answer me if may hope !;
if not, be silent. eass
Year: 1868

In certain family not long since, a pair
Of twins made their appearance, and, as
matter Of course were shown to their little
sister of four years. Now it so happened
that whenever rather prolific cat Of the
household had kittens, one Of them, of
course the prettiest was saved and the rest
drowned. When the twins were shown the
child by their happy father, little NJ
looked at them long and earnestly, and at
length, putting her little finger tip on the
cheek Of one of them looked up, and said,
with oil the seriousness possible-"Para, l
think vel save this one."
Year: 1868

ANOTHER OUTRAGE.-What is humanity
coming to? Have we any indication that the
world is growing better when a little girl, six
or eight years of age, cannot safely be sent to
school right in the center of the quiet, peacea-
Bile, law-abiding city of Portland? But such
seem to be the case, for we understand that
"Wednesday, as the children Were at play, on
the playground of the Park street school
house, an unknown nan made his appearance
in their midst and enJiced a little girl to go
with him to the rear of the Central Church,
pretending that he had some canary birds to
show her. Some of the larger scholars, sus
pecting mischief, followed him. When they
made their appearance the fellow ran, and it
was found that he had attempt to commit
an infamous deed on the person of this little
girl, tearing her clothes and brusing her Con-
sderably. An alarm was given and number
OF. the neiehbors attempted to follow the rascal
and secure him, but he had got the start of
them. The affair created intense excitement.


We understand that the person who is sus-
pected to have committed this outrage has
been arrested.


IT was Mr.. Pool (not Gould as was yesterday
printed) who had the vitrioi thrown in his eyes
by his wife. 1t seems that he was not living
with his wife at the time, but that she had come
to the house and demanded money of her hus-
band He told her that when the court decid-
ed what amount she should have he would pay
it over to her. She then became violent and
threw the dipper Of vitriol in his face. This
happened in the kitchen. The result of the
outrage is yet uncertain, bnt the probability is
that he will be totally blind The boarding
house keeper gives Mr.. Pool the name of hav-
ing been quiet and orderly person.


There was not single criminal case before
the Municinal Court. IL
Year: 1868

How THE NOMINATIONS WE'RE RECEIVED
1t looked like Fast Day about the Argus Office
last evening-no rush, no enthusiasm, no dem
onstrations Of joy. The nomination of Seymour
and Blair found no response there. The truth
is the Argus mau few months ago centered
his hopes on Grant, and more recently he fell
in love with the Chief Justice, and Seymour
and Blair now stare him in the face. 1t is a
bitter pill but it must be swallowed. We
heard it suggested by many Republicans last
evening that it would be eminently proper for
them to fire salute in token Of their gratif-
cation at the result of the deliberations of the
New York Convention
Year: 1868

THE entertainment given last evening at
City Hall by the pupils of the Academy of
the Congregation de Notre Dame was very
pleasant affair." The audience was not so
large as it ought to have been. The young
ladies appeared remarkably well upon the
stage, and their music and acting were really
good. The dialogues were well rendered.
Among them there are some fine voices, and
their piano-forte playing showed good train
ing and excellent taste. They were prettily
dressed and made fine appearance. The
operettas were quite interesting. On the
whole, the entertainment passed off very pleas
antly, and would bear repetition.
Year: 1868

MINUTE guns were fired on the dump" last
evening over the decease OF Chief Justice
Chase and the Democratic party, who were
slaughtered in New York yesterday in the
house of their friends.
Year: 1868

The Aroostook Pioneer says about three
o'clock Sunday afternoon last, the house of
Isaac Fletcher, OF Monticello, was struck by
lightning, killing daughter II years of age.
Mr.. Fletcher, who was in the house at the
time was so much affected by the fluid that it
was with difficulty he managed to get out of
the house, which was set ON fire, and was only
prevented from destruction by the assistance
of neighbor close at hand
Year: 1868

Immediately after the close OF Prof Pack
ards discourse the foundation stone of the new


Memorial Hall was laid with appropriate ex-
ercises. The work on this structure viii be at
'nnce nuShpd forward
Year: 1868

The law .of Tennessee requires Adrninis-
traitors to publish insolveut notices in a
newspaper A written notice carries out
neither the spirit or letter of lss9, but does
no injustice to all interested parties AMI lays
the Administrator liable for damages to all
who are losers by his nOn.eonformity with
the law. We quote from the code Of Ten
nessee, section 800:


The Clerk (of the County Court - <
shall make an order upon. the executor or
administrator, TO give notice by advertise
ment in some newspaper published within
the State, and also at the court house door Of
the county, for ali persons having claims
against said estate to appear and file the
same authenticated ia the manner pre-
scribed by law, on or against day to be
fixed in such notice, which shall not be less
than three nor more than six months after
the date of notice; and any claim not iled
on or before the day fixed, or before an aP-
preparation of the funds Of the State is
made shall be forever barred both N law
and equity.
Year: 1868




The COW Is a machine by which the farmer
converts his hay and grain into butter and
cheese. This he does daily. " hat he feeds
IN the morning returns IN milk in the even
ing Thus daily he is converting his hay,
straw, grain, roots, etc, into milk. Now,
the more that he can convert In this wav.
/ through each COW. the better, as hed0es It
without Increasing the number of his ma
chimes, the cows: IN other words such cows
as consume largely, aud digest well what
they consume, devoting It SO milk instead of
fat are what we call good COWS.


How, then, shall we manage ia increase
the consumption? There is, luckily. a wav.


We do 1t in two ways by good treatment
OF our machines, the cows, giving them good
shelter and timely shelter, and dealing with
them gently; secondly, by selecting the best
food That Is TIE best food which thew.
first, most readily eat; second, most easily
digest third, which keeps the system in the
best condition. The one product that does
this most successfully, IS hay, cut green and
Weit cured Tor winter; and grass, tender
and fresh, Tor summer. Clover Is included
here. But hay Is bulky Bran, oil-cake,
and other concentrated food may be added.


This we deem sufficient This has given
the best results. Now ali this is very plain,
and there Is nothing new abont it And
yet It IS not practiced Our cows are not
well treated, fed regularly, and with pure,
yOung grass, and tender timothy hay. Fresa
water IS not always handy; cattle mast 90
into the cold, and often travel far to get it.
Clean, warm stables are not common; gentle
treatment Is less practiced than should be.
Give us a good machine, docile, hearty.
and disposed to make butter rather than lav
on fat: let US have warm shelter. and water
at hand, early cut timothy or clover hav.
quite tender hardly in blossom, and we win
show you an abundance of milk and butter
that will surprise you. You viii learn how
much there is in these few items alone IL
is because 50 little good hay is fed-hay
grown on dry or welldrained soil, pure.
without weeds or dust, and unbleaehed, and
pasture grown on the same choice soil, that
we see such poor results


If the COW is very hardy and heaIthy-a
strong machiRe-add concentrated food,
grain; but let it not be buekwheat or peas.
as these will affect unfavorably the flavor of
the butter No new-langled theory viii Get
up a revolution in butter making, but thor
ough carrying out Of the old principle, so
far as known in It's best aspects, must be the
reliance. That gives. US the great Yields we
read Of, and the equally great that we do not
read Of that are much more numerous.-
Cor. Rural World.
Year: 1868

Under our National Constitution


not only have the States no right to


tax national Securities, but Congress


cannot const'tutionally y confer such a


power upon them. The power to tax


national securities is one of the attri-


butes Of national sovereignty which
the States cannot cxcrciseand Congress
cannot delegate to them without viola


ting that clause of the Constitution


which makes the National Government


supreme over the States in the excr-


else OF all its degraded functions.


The arguments against the expediency
OF taxing national securities are as
strong as those against the constitutions
ality. 1t would lead TO their taxation
at different rates in the various States
aad consequently would drive them
out of the States in which they are


heavily taxed into which they are tax
cd less. As the bonds held abroad
cannot be taxed, it would tend to
drive still larger proportion of our
national debtinto the hands of foreign
ers, and to increase the drain of gold
necessary to pay the interest to our
foreign creditors. The Taxpayers
would save nothing, as whatever might
be the tax levied on the bond,it would
be added to the amount of the interest
which the Government has to pay and
80 would ultimately be collected from
the present Taxpayers. A loan which
might be effected at FIVE per cent, if
subjected to tax of one per cent can
only be effected at six per cent, and
the additional one per cent is paid by
the taxpayer. Or if the loan is al
ready negotiated, the taxation of the
bondholder may accomplish a virtual
fepndiation Of part ofthe interest, and
a dishonest saving to the Government
for the time; but when the Govern
ment is obliged to renew its loans, as
it constantly must, any reputation it
may have been guilty Of is charged
against it by the public creditor, and
forms an element in the terms on which
he offers the loan. The experiment
of sustaining the Government by tax
ing its own debts is a repetition of
the vagabond's policy Of living on the
interest of what be owes. 1t has new
or yet been profitable or rcspectablc.--
Tribune. -.
Year: 1868

though ? One of them elongated
himself through half column, and
headed the article "a Diabolical and
Attrocious attempt at Burglary and
murder |" describing with graphic
particulars the fiendish attempt to
throttle Miss land her SER
want, complimenting the coolness of
r. Tomkins, Esq, perorating with
whitening anathema on the want of
vigilance displayed by the police
men.


1t was fun for me to see with what
wide awake sagacity the watchman
used to stop at our front door and lis
ten during his rounds for month af-
ter. The excitement died away,
though, after Il while. But Pll never
forget the night tried to get in with
out making noise.
Year: 1868

Mr.. Pendleton, says a cotcmporary


who a while ago, was supposed to be q


candidate for the Presidential nomi.


nation at the hands of the Democratic


party, is no more. Horatio Seymour


who declines to be thought OF for the


Presidency, but whose friends are
doing all they can for him, dealt the
blow; and he did it remorselessly
The Pittsburgh Post, which in an in
considerate moment swung out for
Pendleton and his scheme of Rags and
Reputation, knows this, and therefore
mingles with its grief for the defeat of


its favorite, cxecration against the
great New Yorker. And they who
were led into the support of the am
bilious Ohioan, 60 about the streets
mourning for the late Mr.. Pendetou.


Some of our readers may have read
what Mr.. Seymour had to say of Mr..
Pendleton, and his scheme of Rags
and Repudiation. The great New
Y Yorker tells the little Ohioan that the
issue will overwhelm the Democratic
party, and that too, while it has
'issues enough with the party in
power" to win victory. Mr. Sey-
mour's disgust, therefore, for the new
and distracting idea of PendIeton is
quite beyond expression. Referring
to the Pendletonian doctrine, Mr..
Seymour says squarely, "it is enough
that honor forbids this, even if we
could stoop to aught that is less hon
orab!e." And he has some words
which all parties and every class of
men should remember:


."Our debt" he says, "is not due
until fifteen years from now. How few
who now discuss the question will be
living then? In the meanwhile if the
country is well governed, if there is
economy in its affairs, and the rights
and liberties of our people shall be un-
impaired, cur population will be in
creased from thirty-fve to fifty mil
lions; our wealth will be more than
doubled. Then this debt will rest
more lightly upon greater numbers
and greater wealth than it does upon
the depressed industry and disheartcn-
ed spirit of the people at present"


Coming to speak more directly to
Mr.. lendleton's scheme he says:


at means we are to give the laborcr
for his toll base currency. II means
that the honor Of our country shall be
stained that our business shall be
kept in uncertainty and confusion +;
that the laboring man shall suffer by
the increased cost of the neccessaries of
life; that taxpayers shall be burden
ed by a Government proved to be
corrupt and imbecile by this very de-
probation of its money. We can't
afford to speculate upon the nations
honor at so fearful cost. If we
come into power there will be no dis
credit on our currency, no speculation
in paying our bonds in paper. I
thank God the faith which we all hold
as one man, seeks to level up, not to
level down. While, therefore, we may
differ as to the construction of the con-
tract with The public creditor, we must
not confound the position of those
who think it right to pay in paper,
but who battle to make that paper as
good as gold, with the position of
those who mean to pay not only in
paper, but who are destroying the
value of that paper. That is rcpudia-
ton"


Let the late Mr.. Pendeton have a
descent burial
Year: 1868

If law be in fact unconstitutional it may be
repealed by Congress, or it may, when a case
duly arises, be annulled in its unconstitutional
features by the Supreme Court Of the United
States The repeal Of the law is a legislative
act the declaration by the Court that it is un-
constitutional is judicial act but the power
to repeal or TO annul, to set aside law Of the
United States is in no aspect Of the case an exc
cutive power To the President in the perform
ance Of his executive duties all laws are alike.
He can enter into no inquiry as 10 their ex-
peiiency or constitutionality. All laws are
presumed to be constitutional, and whether in
fact constitutional or not, II is the duty Of the
executive so to regard them while they have the
form Of law. When q statute Is repealed for its
unconstitutionality, or for any other reason, it
ceases to be law in form and in fact. When
statute is annulled in whole or in part by the
opinion Of competent Judicial tribunal, from
that moment it ceases to be n law.
But the respondent and the counsel
for the respondent viii seek in vain
for any authority or color Of authority in
the Constitution or the laws Of the country by
which the President is clothed with power to
make any distinction upon his own Judgment,
or upon the Judgment Of any friends or adyis-
ers, whether private or official persons, between
the several statutes Of the country, each and
every one of which he is, by the Constitution
and by his oath of Office, required faithfully to
execute. Hence it follows that the crime of the
President is not, either in fact set forth in
the articles of impeachment, that he has yioat-
ed a constitutional law but his crime is that
he has violated a law, and in his defence no in
ouiry can be made whether the law is constitu-
tional for inasmuch as he had no constitution
! al power TO inquire for himself whether the law
was constitutional or not, so it is no excuse for
him that he did unlawfully so inquire and came
to the conclusion that the law was unconstitu-
tional.


THE coNsTITUTIoNALITY OF THE TENURE-OF-oFFICF
BILL NOT QUESTION AT ISSUE.


| 1t follows, from the authorities already quoted


and the positions founded thereon, that ther,


can be no inquiry here and now by this tribuna


whether the act in questionable act entiteC


"An act regulating the tenure Of certain ciyi


ofices''-is in fact constitutional or not 1t wa


and is the law Of the land. 1t was enacted by


strict adherence to constitutional forms. 1t was


and is, binding upon all the officers and depart


ments Of the government. The Senate, for tn


purpose of deciding whether the respondent


innocent or guilty, can enter into no inquiry a


to the constitutionality Of the act, which it wa
Year: 1868

my head as l should think, by about a
quarter Of an inch. Secondly, came groom
/ with another bay and thirdly, huge mas
! tiff dog (who made a snap at me in the air)


with another bay and in moment | was


left alone in clond of dust


| took the remainder of my ride in peace
and having accomplished my object, returned


to Barnley My appetite was of that nicely
that five minutes either way would have de
Perforated it materially; but | well knew
that Mrs. Soitstairs was punctual to the in
stant. As | trod the well known staircase
felt as confident of all things being well, as
human being can feel. The odor of the
stuffing seemed to salute my nostrils. | had
decided on wing and a slice of the breast.
Alas the cloth was not
even laid upon the dining table,
but there was little folded note addressed to
me instead.


Dear Friend: Adieu forever. Ry the
time you read this ] shall be far away 1t
seems like fatality but while have life |
will resist it, L. is in the house L and her
mother-an and the abominable-''


\ low growl here arrested my attention.
The mastiff dog was at the door who had
snapped at me in the afternoon without ef-
feet. He said, as plainly as he could speak,
that he was determined to make upfor the di-
appointment on the present occasion. | was
resolving to sell my life dearly, when the
rather shrillish voice again came up the
stains, and in at the window, and down the
chimney, as it seemed TO me, at once ''Tow,
Tow. Tow, Tow, Tow Good little dog Come
to Lu Lu - The creature obeyed. suppose
there was some other dinner awaiting him
below, and stole softly away in safety.


Never again did | visit that snug parlor
Never again was Peoncy Flush beheld by the
Barnley eye. | recognized him, | think,
however in the naval intelligence column of
the Iraos newspaper, as the Rev. P. Flush,
Chaplain to the ship Virgo, bound |
for Hong Kong. where mastiff pups are fri
rasseed and stewed, and baked in pies, before |
they attain maturity.
Year: 1868

FUNNY FROST Il remember, on one win
ter day about noon, when things were thaw-
ing little, that the board walks all dried
off, leaving a spot Of frost on each spike, and
all the stone walks and dirt roads were cold
and hard as ever with snow and ice Every
Fall the boards become frosty, while the
spikes and stones are warm and wet. Every
Spring the boards are warm and wet, while
the spikes and stones are frosty Funny
Frost?


One day the good woman who cooks for US
made some doughnuts. some folks call them
fried cakes (they are good no matter what
you call them) and when she had done fry
ing them, she set the hot lard out at the
door, and by the side of a basin of water, to
cool The lard and the water froze solid
that night, and the next morning saw the
frost had made hollow IN the lard and
lump in the water Frozen lard shrinks,
frozen water swells Funny frost how you
do act And out in barn on beam, had one
bottle with castor oil in it, to oil my carriage
wheels another with neatsfoot for my harness,
and another bottle full of water. They all
froze up solid, one cold night, and the water
bottle split, but the others did not.


OF the coast of Newfoundland and Nova
Scotia, sailors often meet with icebergs
hundred feet high, and all the books say that
there is nearly sixtimes as much ice under
the water as there is above.
But, when | went skating on our
canal, the ice lay all of it on top of the wa
ter, and none of that was under water at all.
And yet, when l break off piece of ice. and
put it in pitcher of water, it floats just like
an iceberg, six times as much under water as
| there is above it.


An Indian was found dead by the roadside,
one very cold morning, with an empty rum
bottle beside him. he was frozen stiff. The
wise Indians came and examined to find what
had killed him. They decided that there had
been too much ter in his rum, and the
water had frozen hard and killed him. Rum
never freezes, but men with rum in them
freeze more easily than other men who drink
water only. Queer, funny frost again.


These are only few of the curious thing
that frost has set me to thinking of. If any
one of the readers can explain all these curl
GUS things, they will be wiser than some pro
fessors in our colleges. And professors arr
the wisest people know.-Ltt'e Corporal
Year: 1868

NEwsPAPoRIAL NEws.-The name Of the
new paper to be published at Springfield, as
the organ of the Good Templars of this State,
is to be the Good Templars Adrocdfe, and
not the Vermont Good Templar


The proprietor of the Middlebury Register
has put new Taylor cylinder press in his
office, which will no doubt materially improve
the typographical appearance Of that paper.
Year: 1868


Men say the sulen instrument
That, from the Masters bow,
With pangs or joy or woe,
Feels music's soul through every fibre sent,
Whispers the ravished strings
More than he knew or meant
Old summers in its memory glow
The secret Of the wind it sings
1t hears the April-loosened springs,
And mixes with its mood
All it learned when it stood
In the murmurous pine-woOd


Long ago
The magical moonlight then
STEPPED every bough and cane
The roar Of the brook in the glen
Came dim from the distance blown
The wind through its glooms sang low,
And it swayed to and fro,
Full Of dreams as it stood
In the wonderful wood


Long ago
o, my life, have we not hadr easons
That only said live and rejoice?
That asked not for causes and reasons,
But made US all feeling and voice.
When we went with the winds in their blowing
When nature and we were peers,
And our day seemed to share in the flowing
OF the ineXhaustiblc years.
Have we not from the earth drawn juices
Too fine for Earth s sordid uses


Have | heard, have | seen,


All | feel and know


Doth NY heart oyerwccn?


Or could it have been


Long ago?
Sometimes breath floats hy me,
IN odor froSa dreamland sent,
That makes the ghost seem nigh me
OF a splendor that came and went
Ola life lived somewhere, | know not
In what diyiHer sphere
OF memories that stay not and go not
Like music heard once by an ear
That can not forget or reclaim it,
4 something so shy, it would shame it


To make il a show,
a something too vague, could | name 1t,
For others to know,
As f had lived it or dreamed it,
As if I had acted or schemed it,


Long ago.
And yet could live it over.


This life that stirs in my brain;
Could be Doth maiden and lover,
Moon and tide, bee and clover,


As | seem to have been, once again
Could but speak it and show it,
This pleasure, more sharp than pain,


That battles and lures me So
The world should not lack a poet
Such as it had in the ages glad,


Long ago