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Year: 1869

be built on Peters land could bs supplied
with running water, even in the very at.
tics Of the upper ones.


Tho merchants first went TO the man
who owned the land above Peters, includ.
ing tho ledge and the spring, and he
agreed to sell for two hundred dollars.
This. to The builders. was great bargain,
for the stone of the ledge was excellent
granite. Then they called q surveyor and
made plot of the hillside, whereby they
found that they could have forty building
lots worth from two hundred and fifty to
four hundred dollars each. They hcsitat.
ed not moment after the plot was made
but paid Peter his ten thousand dollars
cheerfully.


Not many days after this transaction,
Peter White received very polite little
note from Cordelia Henderson. asking
him TO call and see her; but he did not
call He hunted up MIR. Soiners and
went into business with him, and this very
day Somers & White do business in that
town, and Walter Sturgis is their book
keeper. And in all the country there IL
not prettier spot than the old hillside.
The railroad depot is near its foot-and it
is occupied by sumptuous dwellings in
which live merchants who do business in
the adjacent city.


One thing Peter misscd-that he did
not reserve building spot for himself.
But his usual good fortune attended him,
even here. A wealthy banker had occa.
sion to move 10 another section oil the
country, and sold ont his house and gar
den to Peter. Tor just one half what the
building cost him. So Peter took wife
who loved him when he dug in The earth,
and found home for her and himself up
on the hillside.


And now, reader. where do you think
the hill. side is? Perhaps you know ; for il
is veritable history have been writing
and the place have told you about L.
now one Of the most select suburpan
residences.
Year: 1869

We may go through the world, but twill be very
slow
five listen to all that is said as we go;
Wen be worried, and fretted, and kept in a stew,
For meldlescme tongues must have something
to do.


For people viii talk.
II quiet and modest, twill then be presumed
That your humble position is only assumed
You're wolf in sleeps clothing, or else you're
fool;
But don't get excited, keep perfectly cool


For people Will talk.
II generous and noble, they'll vent out their
spleen,
YOun hear some loud hints that you're selfish
and mean;
II upright and honest, and fair as the day,
They II call You a rogue, in ely, sncakins way


For people will talk.
II theadbarc your coat, or old fashioned your
dress,
Some person Of course viii take notice OF this,
And hint rather close that you can't pay your
way,
But don't get excited, whatever they say,



Iryou dress in the fashion, don't think 70 escape,
For they crticise then in a far different shape,
You re ahead Of your means or our bills are I'M
paid,
But mind your own business, and keep straight
ahead


For people will talk
They'll talk hne before you, but then a; your
back,
of venom aud spite their i never lack;
How Kind and polite is 81 that they say;
But bitter rs gall when you're out of the way


For people will talk.
Good friend my advice is 70 do ~ You please,
For your mind ~ YOU have one will then be at
ease.
Through life You viii meet with all sorts Of abuse
But don't think TO stop them, twill be of no use


For people will talk
Year: 1869

A gentleman was chiding his son for
STAYING out late at night, and said:


why, when was Of your age, my
father wonld not allow me to go out of
the house after dark.


Then YOU had deuce Of father, you
had said the young profigate. :.
Whereupon the father very rashiy vocii'
Grated: Il had confounded sight better
one than you have, you young rascal.
Year: 1869

The Kinderhook Rough Notes gets
off the following joke about Job at
is supposed by many thinking persons
who read the Scriptures in the same
careless manner they run through a
newspaper-taking everything they
read in literal sense-thst old Job
was actually afflicted with boils, OF
eruptive sores. Now, to the casual
reader this deduction is plain enough;
but when his occupation is taken into
consideration, very different con-
clusion will be arrived at. Job, il
will be recollected was a printer-or,
what is about the same thing. he
wished his words were printed in a
book ) and these boils were nothing
moro than his nOn-payiDg subscribers
the thought of whose delinque1cie:
we're really plague to him whenever
a bill for paper, or other material
came in, as these subscriptions were
depended upon to realize the amount
due. Yet, they merely proved the
evidence of things hoped for, but
the substance of things not SEEN
Then, these 'comforters' that sur
rounded him-they were his creditors
whose continual cawing for pay was
enough to make a man, even with hi:
reputed patience. to feel sore all over
as we'll as mean epOuoh 70 Green into
an ash heap, and scratch himself with
a pot-hook or m-shell, bv way Of
working off the extra bile That:
what the matter was with Job. We
can sympathize with him, for we are
often placed in the same fx, and
have got such 'spell' on now. Moth
ing but few 'greenbacks' will remove
it,
Year: 1869

The Toledo Blade gives the follow
ing as an apt instance of the benefit
of advertising: Some time since a
jobbing house was opened in this city
by a gentleman who did not believe
there was any virtue in printers ink ;
he had opposed the expenditure for
advertising by house with which he
had previously been connected. The
gentleman was visited by person at
tached to the Blade establishment
who asked him to try the experiment
of advertising his new house for one
month, and so confident was the
newspaper man that he said to the
merchant "Try it for a month, and
if you do not find that it pays, your
advertising shall not cost you any
thing" The merchant accepted the
proposition, and the next number of
the Blade contained a "4-square
advertisement of the house, and a
brief local nention Of the new estab-
! lishment. On the evening when the
advertisement appeared, two gentle
men got upon the G. & 7. train at a
town between this city and NOrwalk
en- route east to buy goods, They
each bought copy of the Blade from
the train boy, and soon discovered
the advertisement of the new jobbiug
house. Says one of them to his COM
psuion, "Hers's a new house started
| in Toledo that sells our goods, sup
posing we leave this train at Norwalk
and go to Toledo and see what we
can do" This was agreed upon, and
the next train west brought the mer-
chants who presented themselves at
the new house early next morning
They found a good stock, made their
selections, paid their bills-one
amounting to $3.50, the other s730-
and we're about TO leave the store
when the proprietor inquired why
they were induced to visit his place
remarking that they we're his first
customers. The gentlemen gave him
tue particulars which we have ehron-
icled above. The proprietor did not
demur to paying for, his advertising,
and was thenceforward friend tC
pfintsr's ink.
Year: 1869

| A young lady of New Haven took
arsenic for the purpose of rendering
her complexion whittier last week.
She succeeded, and was placed in q
coffin next day, looking beautifully
white and calm.
Year: 1869

The RevotHtl0H wants women put on the
police force. The trouble with that arrange
ment would be, all the nice young men
would be staying out late of nights in hope
of getting 'taken in by the fair guardians
Year: 1869

To lay off an acre OF land measure
two hundred and eight feet eight and n
half inches for each side of a square,
and che contents will be exactly one
acre. As this information will be con
venient to farmers and gardeners, let
them make note of it.
Year: 1869

KEEPING Flowers FREsH-If our
lady readers wish to KEEP a buquet
fresh. let them drop a table spoonful
of powdered charcoal into the wafer
intended for the flower stalks and they
will keep their freshness and perfume,
and look and smell the same as those
lust gathered. The charcoal settles to
the bottom of the vase, the water re-
naming liquid. 1t is not necessary TO
change the water or char coal for sew
eral days.
Year: 1869

WHAT HE YEINKs.--Judge Kelly, a
member of the Ways and Means Com
mittee of Congress, who visited this coast
short time since, seems to have Oh
tanned clear idea of the future greatness
and prosperity of the Pacific coast. In
recent conversation with the editor of
a Philadelphia paper, he is reported as
saying that in his judgment San Fran
cisco will ere many years cease to be the
chief city Of the Pacific slope, and that a
city, far outshining her in her palhiest
days, will be built on Puget Sound He
expressed the opinion that Oregon, ihthe
time TO come, will be more densely popu-
lated than California, and speaks in the
most glowing terms of the agricultural
and climatic advantages possessed by hel
In regard to the China question which
SO agitates our Democratic inkslingers at
serve the close attention of all professel
Christians and well-wishers Of our COM
mon country. incidentally admitting
that the Chinese may be excluded by
prohibition, yet he advocates their ;mmi-
grafton among US points to their known
frugality, thrift and industry, and urges
that they receive ample protection and
justice at our hands. He argues that
their presence here is not a matter of
taste with ourselves, yet their advent
among US he believes to be but the work
ing out of one of the great problems of
God Almighty, which will eventually
result in christianizing China Judge
Kelly is undoubtedly a man of keen Wis
ion and clear Judgment, aud we are led
to believe from the published sentiments
purporting to come from him, that he is
a drm friend of the Pacific coast, and es-
pecially of Oregon, and one who fully
understands our wants, and will ever be
ready with voice and influence in her
behalf
Year: 1869

PROBABLE CAUss.-An old feud is
said to have existed between the Welch
and Irish miners, aud as the latter had
threatened the former for not being more
active in the late strike, it isxthougit the
wood partition and lattice In the shaft
was purposcly set on fire by some of their
number, causing the great destruction of
life in the Avondale coal mine penn
ON the 9th instant
Year: 1869

MORE GENIUs.-We were shown, last
Saturday, at the Office Of Messrs Russell


& Elkins, in this city, a model of what
the inventor termed Combined Seed


Sower and Gang Plow," and basing our


Judgment on the workings of the model
and its ''doube-barreled capaclty, SO to
speak, we unhesitatingly pronounce it a
''big thing in the labor saving line
probably Of more utility than anything
offered the agriculturist for long period


The driver, from his seat, by means of a
lever, raises or lowers the plows, two in
number, with ease, thus enabling him to
plow in ground obstructed with stunps
or stones with as much safety as in land
where these obstructions were not to be
met. By slight pressure of the drivers
foot on the frame to which the plows are
attached. they can be made to plow as
deep as wished. The plows can be de-
tached and the seed sower affixed in five
minutes. The seed sower is SO arranged
that by the simple adjustment of screw
the amount Of grain sown per acre can
be increased or diminished One or
more plows similar 20 this model were
used during the past season by persons
in this county, and they pronounce it a
irst-class machine. The price of this
combined machine is SI1O-considcrab
cheaper than a gang plow and seed sower
separately, can be obtained for. Mr.. Ii.
will advertise the machine through our
columns soon, giving moro minute de-
scription of Its workings than we are en-
abled TO do in this brief article He
will also have it on exhibition at our
County Fair and at the State Fair OF
course patent has been applied for
Year: 1869

BUsY.-Our farmers, some of them at
least, who had not succeeded in getting
their grain in before the storm of Satur-
day night. waltzed in early Sunday morn
ing, and have been as busy as bees ever
since, taking advantage of the beautiful
weather to finish up" We are dis
posed to to believe, from the information
furnished us, that the amount of grain
damaged by the rainfall throughout our
county, will not be SO large as at first an
fif.if5ated
Year: 1869

HABEAs CoRPUs.-A' writ of ha5eaS
corpus has been issued out in the case
of John Gholson, confined in the county
Jail on the charge of wilful and malicious
murder. Judge Kennedy has assigned
next Saturday as the time for hearing
the return to the writ, when the whole
question OF admitting to bail in cases of
murder will come up. In the older
communities such a thing as admitting
to bail party charged with murder is
never thought Of, and whilst in this
particular case we have no desire to in~
terpose, we yet deem it proper to say
that the practice heretofore followed of
admitting parties to Rail charged with
murder is bad one, and calculated to
encourage the reckless taking of human
life.
Year: 1869

CONDITION OF Mas. LYScH.-We learn
that Mrs. Lynch rests easy, aud that her
wound is not By any means serious.
The ball has not as yet been distracted, ,
but will be as soon as her condition will
admit of the necessary operation. Her
husband was seen a mile or two below
town on the evening Of the shooting,
since which time he has not been heard
from, and the impression now is that be
has made good his escape.
Year: 1869

SEEKING HoMEs-We learn thai
quite a number Of gentlemen oI
means are now in this valley seeking
homes, aud that there is an active
demand for improved farms. A
claim Of $40 acres, that less than
two years since sold for $4,000, the
owner within a day or two has re-
fused Sc 900 for; other claims show
a like advance, and on all the creeks
we hear of parties seeking out places
for investment. We trust that those
who have claims to sell will deal lib
orally with the newcomers, and not
drive capital out of the country by
exorbitant demands. Our policy
should be to invite men Of means to
the valley, and this can only be done
BY receiving them kindly and dealing
with them in a fair and liberal man
ner. Oregon City, in early days,
bid fair to be the leading town in
Oregon, but owing to the shorts
sighted policy of the men who hap.
pened to own the town site, new
comers wero driven away, and the
result is Portland is the Commercial
emporium" and Oregon City a one.
horse town. There are dozens of
other illustrations that We might
point to, all teaching the lesson that
it is bad policy to monopolize lands,
and thus force men of enterprise
and energy to seek other localities.
When party has land or any other
description of property to sell, the
best way is to fix a fair price, and
then to sell to whoever wishes to
buy: The great want of the country
is population, and to secure these
we must have it understood that
homes can be obtained on fair and
liberal terms. Land grabbers and
monopolists are curse to any coun
try, and much more so to a ccmmu.
nifty that is just struggling into ex>
istence, and any exhibition of a mo.
nopolizing spirit should be at once
frowned down by all who have the
permanent prosperity of the Valley
at heart.
Year: 1869

HEAvY STocK OF GooDs.-Just at this
time Main street is crowded with boxes
and bales oc merchandise. We have
never witnessed such unmistakable
signs of business activity as Main street
presents, and these heavy stocks ofgoods
are the very best evidence that our
merchants expect a continuance of these
lively times
Year: 1869

ISsrRUcrED.-CutM Mouth John, Dirty
Cox, our friend of perjury notOriety,
and one or two others of the small fry,
held a meeting in the early part Of the
week, when they instructed the Onion
to come out strong for the removal Of
the Federal officials. We presume the
" independent organ will at once obey
orders.
Year: 1869

REAPING HIS REwARD.-Cut Mouth
John has become so odious that decent
men refuse to have anything to do with
him, and parties who have heretofore
borrowed money from him return the
same, thus breaking up his three and
four per cent. arrangement. 4 day or
two since, when repaid loan of this
kind, the deformed Shylock said he
" believed there was a conspiracy to
prevent him making living" Poor
fellow
Year: 1869

ALI sensible men and papers throughout the country oppose the proposition recently advanced by the shoddyites, to build new and splendid mansion for the Presidsnt and increase bis salary to sl00,oOo a year.
Year: 1869

ment or use of such cable. The Sec
gretary co Insiders 1t proper to call the


attention Of the acknowledgements
atives of the two nations Interested


to the position and government on


the subject. He notifies the diplo-


matte Representative Of France and


Great Britain that In the absence OF
the assent TO or concurrence OF the


Government of the United States, the


proceedings of the parties Interested


must be taken in submission to the


authority of the Government in the


premises. The Secretary further
states that the policy of the


Government in regard to the allow
ance and regulations of foreign tele-
graphic intercourse received deliber-
ate consideration from Congress, and
that bill covering the whole sub
ject, was passed in the Senate. but at
SO late day that the House. of Rep
.Fesentatives failed to reach it. lie
says It is quite probable that this bill
announces the policy and purpose OF
Congress. and the propriety OF Its
provisions can hardly fail to assure
assent. He therefore calls attention
to the bill as probable evidence of
what conditions of permission and
regulations of foreign tclegraphic in
tercourse are to be insisted upon by
the United States.


e The Constitutional voteein Texas
is to take place November Both, and
not on the 18th, as stated this morn
ing. There is no separate submission /
of any of the provisions ordered by
the President. sas 81.
Year: 1869

The Democracy of the Western


Reserve, Ohio, are said to be greatly
dissatisfied with General ROsECRANs'
nomination. They had their hearts
set on RANEY, the peaee-at any price
candidate, and are greatly disgusted
at his defeat by that man of blood,
the redoubtable ROsECRANs. They in


sinuate that boiling is the only sure
remedy for such mischievous nomina-
tiOns. 9tHauf
Year: 1869




LONDON, July 14.-There is author
ity tor stating that the offer of the
Glebist Catholic Priesth God will be
respectfully declined by the Church
on the grounds. first, that it is op.
posed to the discipline of the Church; /;
secondly, that the proposition is un-
fair, and insufficient as a just equal
izatioB between the religious commu-
mites Of the Island, considering the
disproportion of members, even If It
were admissible under the Church
regulations.


The Royal Cork Yacht Club and
the Royal Western Yacht Club. Ire
lard, rendered their hospitalities to
the owner of the Dauntiess and his
friends during their stay at Queens
town. The Dauntless left last even
ing for Havre. The reception which
the American visitors met with has
been enthusiastic.


S ST PIERRE, Miquelon. July II
The ocean cable was spliced to the
shore to-day by the steamer William
Carry. The cause Of the failure to
splice yesterday was that the shore
end lost its buoy easily, but when
taken up, it was discovered that the
cable was detached, and therefore it
was necessary to grapple for it, The
splice was made, and the instru
ments together with q full staff Of
operators were sent on shore, and
communication opened with Brest.s


The commander Of the Great East
ern brought with him a sealed mes
sage prepared by Emperor Napoleon,
the purport Of which was to remain
unknown until it was opened on this
side OF the Atlantic, upon the compile
ton of the cable, when the message
was to be sent TO the Emperor Ia
order that he might thus judge of the
accuracy of the transmission. The
message was sent to France to dag.
Year: 1869

Some Of our Radical exchanges say "the
Democratic party has permitted itself to be
narrowed down to the dry bones of skele.
ton" That being the case, we suggest that
it is in very bad taste for them to be speak,
ing SO lily of the dead, as some Of them are
accustomed to do. MI mortuu0a, niSi DO.
nun is very good as an injunction, even
when the dead is political party.
Year: 1869

A citizen of Philadelphia who used a
weak solution Of carbolic acid as wash to
neutralize the offensive odor arising from
cancer, discovered that the latter was entire.
ly removed by the application. The solu-
ton consisted of one fourth Of an ounce of
acid diluted in quart of water
Year: 1869

General Candy has ordered that so much
Of the January interest on the Virginia
state debt as the treasury is able to pay
shall be paid at once. There are over four
hundred thousand dollars in the state treas
ury, little over one.half the amount due on
the January interest.
Year: 1869

The Hannibal (Missouri) Couri-
er says that not long since a par
tywas given at that place, when a
mischievous young lady thought to
enjoy the fun to be derived from
passing herself for young man
Just arrived from a strange locali-
ty. But the male portion of the
party penetrated the disguise, and
Immediately set their wits to
work to have a little sport over
the affair. 1t seems that horses
had been stolen in the neighbor-
hood, and they caused the report
to be whispered about, taking good
care the disguised woman should
hear it. Finally the report that
the thief was probably in the room
went the rounds; the young lady
was pointed out, and the yell set
up: ''There he IS now." Revol-
vers were drawn in an instant,
and the lady presuming they were
really serious, and not wishing to
be exposed in company, also fear
ing they would shoot her, without
ceremony sprang out of the room
and ran furiously for home. The
pistols were fired in the air, and
the fugitive presuming the next
shot might be fatal, pulled off her
cap, let down her hair, and scream
ed at every jump: "Pm a woman;
don't you see my hair?" The boys
were SO excited with laughter that
they could neither shout nor longer
run. They halted, but the dis
guised female continued to run,
screaming at the top of her voice:
"Tm a woman; don't you see my
hair?"
Year: 1869

A remarkable proposition has
been made in England. 1t is pro-
posed to kill lunatics. We are
told that the proposition is limited
to criminal lunatics, and the
ground upon which this novel and
extraordinary idea is based is
mercy. One of the leading Eng
lish papers makes it, and asks:
"Isit or is it not, false sentiment
of mercy TO persist in keeping them
alive, when we are compelled, in
seltdefense, to deprive them of eve-
rything which makes life valuable,
or even endurable 2 Since they
can be cured neither Of their
wickedness nor of their disease,
and exist as centers of moral in
fection and cause of crime, violence,
misery and danger to all around,
would it not be better ard wiser
to put them out of the way al
together 2" 1t is quite evident
then that in the eyes of this En-
glishman lunacy is a curse which


justifies the law in in6icting death
that a visitation of Providence
renders the unfortunate man or
woman amenable to the law; that
the hand of affliction must be met
by the hand of the executioner;
that the feelings of humanity are
not to be outraged by the sight
of the sufierings of lunatics.
This is, indeed, the climax of d.
lettanteism and a strange use Of


mercy. After this we may expect
to hear that persons bent upon
suicide by reason of inability to
bear up under misfortune, upon
making affidavit to that effect
themselves or any one else doing
it for them, Bhall either be enti-
tied to be put to death by the
proper officer of the law or con-
demned to it, as the case may be.
Year: 1869

formed this plan of diabolical re-
venge.


His father was millionaire, and
bought up our silence handsomely.


Prince went to California, and I
do not know what became of him.


Old Domain proved himself a
trump. after all, and gave in grace
fully.


He is dead now and Earl and
Laura live at the old place, as hap
Ply a couple as | ever saw.


As for Earl's warning, YOU may
believe what you will about it.


l have no explanation to offer.