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Year: 1869

rF- DR.. l.. c. WHITE returned from
Little Rock on Friday last on the stage
He came as far as Louisburg on the
steamer Fort Smith, where she got on a
sand bar and stuck. The Doctor and
Major ANDERSON took private convey
anes to the terminus of stage line and ther
came up home We are indebted TO the
Doctor for late Little Rock papers. We
are also glad to know from the Doctor
that Crawford county received the first
and all premiums for fruit at the State
Fair. VIZ hi'" 'Ns'' ~ .F'
Year: 1869

barb pie LII you make a movement for the
shore, dozen loafers called guides, want to
carry your coat and your basket. The brown
cliffs you used TO admire you can 1ot look upon,
for they are painted with Patent Medicine ad-
vertisements. There are row boats that you
can have with guides at two dollars an hour,
Or you can take trip in the yacht to all the
points Of interest, noting them and the guide
book and listening to the striking comments
of the company. Better 20 in the yacht, the
people are all well dressed, they have piano
on board. and you may hear all the songs that
were fashionable in Boston last winter per-
formed most miacingly You go to the seelud-
ed cove, where five years ago, every day, you
stripped and swan. But swimming is out OF
the question; there are three artists, one Of
them a lady, sketching on the bank, and III. ee
women on the beach trying to lead a pimpiy,
bare-leeged child into the ed e of the water
You can battle, as other Christians do, in their
clothes, only you have but one suit, and don
feel sure how salt water may affect it. The
trout are all caught out of the mountain brook,
the mountain itself is prowlef over and disen-
chanted by groups in pepper and salt and par
asols. Haddock are tradition in the bay and
the very clans have managed to shuttle away.
People that came to see nature find that coy
nymph has stepped out, and are bored to death
with the sight OF each other, and listlessly set
+. tie down in the watering place parlors TO cards,
slim jests and gossip no better than you can
have at home.


So, and this is our conclusion, forsake all the
advertised and sophisticated scenes Of travel
where formality and fashion put pleasure to
death, and discover fresh fields and pastures
among the untravelled wilds and by the un-
tredden sea beaches of Maine.
Year: 1869

The managers of the Portland and Ogdens-
bury Railroad have been SO busiy engaged of
late in examining the surveys made by their
engineers and preparing to put the road under
contract that they have had no time to bestow
upon those persons who from some reason, in
terested or otherwise, have endeavored to cast
discredit upon the enterprise. The efforts of
these malcontents, however, have been pefect-
ly futile, the public having long since been con-
vinced on the best possible grounds that the
success of the road was assured. Ii there are
any who have not shared that confidence,
r'Syphax." the Portland correspondent of the
Boston Journal, for instance, the advertise
ment that appears in another column will per-
faps aid them in forming for once just con-
clusion. M


After a full and careful examination of all
the proposed routes, that portion Of the road
from Portland TO Sebago Lake has been loca-
ted: Starting from some point near the Forest
City Park, it runs in an air line 10 Cumberland
Mills and crosses The Presumpscot river be-
tween the Mills and Saccarappa, running up
on the edst side of the stream, touching at
Mallison's and Little Falls, toa point between
Gambo and Lcavitt's; thence to the foot OF the
Lake. a ri f.fsf


| Proposals for grading and for masonry ON
this part of the route will now be received. For
an enterprise that has ceased to occupy public
attention. and which is in fact moribund, as
its enemies would have us believe, this is surely
a singular proceeding! aa t2'A


Thus at last the great work fraught with
such important consequences to the city and
to the State, is begun. Some time must elapse
before its completion, and then further period
must intervene before its beneficent effects will
be enjoyed. Butthe enterprise is one in which
our people are SO much absorbed, and one from
which they reasonably anticipate such material
growth and prosperity, that the beginning
that has been made will have no inconsiderable
effect in encouraging them and stimulating
them to new business enterprise. 's
1t is gratifying to observe that matters at the
Vermont end of the line are also IN an encour-
aging state, and that the preliminary arrange
ments for beginning work on the Lamoillc
Valley road are nearly completed qs.l 80
Year: 1869

OBsrRUcTINa THE CHAsNxn-we nnder-
stand that there is good deal of complaint
that vessels coming into the harbor anchor in
the stream SO that they obstruct the channel,
making it very awkward for other craft pass
ing up and down the harbor This matter
should be attended to by whoever have affairs
of this kind in their charge. p .la ..nl :.
Year: 1869

over the river on the hill
Lleth village white and still:
All around ii the forest tr .es
ShiVer and whisper in the breeze
over 1t sailing shadows go
Of soaring hawk and screaming crow.
ana mountain grasses, low and sweet
GroW IN the middle of every street
over the river, under the hill
Another village lieth still;
mere see IN the cooling night
IWinkllng stars of household light
FIRES that gleam from smithy's door
NJ lists that curl on the rivers shore:
And In the road no grasses grow
For the wheels that hasten to and fro
In that village on the hill
Never Is sound of smithy or mill:
The houses are thatched with grass and flow


ers,
Seyer a clock to tell the hours;
he marble doors are always shut:
on may not enter at hall or hut
All the village lie asleep,
Never a grain to SOW reap:
Never Ia dreams to moan or sigh
Siient-and idle-and low-they lie
In that village under the hill
w hen the night is starry and still
Many weary soul in prayer
Looks to the other village there,
AND weeping api signing, longs to go
Up TO that home from tais below
Longs to sleep " the forest Wild
hIther have vanished wife and child
ana neareth, praying, tbS ahzwer fall


fatlehce' Ihat villese shall hold We all!''
Year: 1869

CHANGES AT NIAGARA FALLS
Various accounts agree that there
has been a marked change in the
appearance of the falls since last
year. The theory in regard to the
caving in or wearing away of Mia
CARA has never had stronger con-
tirmation before. The Horse Shoe
has evidently given way some thirty
feet In that part of the cone where
he green water" is seen, so that
he horse shoe appearance is meta
morphosed to that OF a triangular
shape 1t is thought that about one
hundred and fifty tons of rock must
have fallen in on the Horse Shoe
alone, and old habitues are taking
landmarks, to notice the recession
that may take place before another
year.


The American Fall has evidently
given way at points to a consider
able extent. There is no doubt but
that Niagara is always crumbling
away and falling back, but the pres
ent recession is probably the greatest
ever witnessed by any one genera
ton. The heavy ice fields which
pass over in the spring, the strong
currents and ceaseless wear and tear
OF time. and the mighty, laundering
cataract, must inevitably tell heavi-
ly upon the rocky crest of the grand
old shrine but of course its falling
away must be so slow as not to be
observable TO the eye except when,
from time to time, some of the i'm
mense bowlders are torn from their
place. Utica Observer.
Year: 1869

SORROW sobers us and makes the
mind genial. And in sorrow we love
our friends more tenderly, and the
dead become more dear to US. And
just as the stars shine out in the
night, so there are blessed faces that
look at US in our grief, though before
their features were fading from our
recollection. Suffering. Let no man
dread it too much, because it is good
for hinl, and it will help him to make
sure of his being immortal. 1t is not
in the bright day, but only in the
solemn night, that other worlds are
to be seen shining IN their long, long
distances. And it is in sorrow, the
night of the soul, that we see farthest,
and know ourselves natives Of in
finity, and sons and daughters of the
most High.
Year: 1869

The Maelstrom of our chiidhood's
biographies is a myth. a late report
on the Norwegian fisheries says that
it ''is so little thought of by the in
habitants that they pass and re-
pass it in their sail vessels at all
states of the tide, except at certain
times in the winter season and far
from drawing in whales and other
things that come within its range, it
appears to be favorite resort of the
fish of the country, and the fisher
men reap a rich piscatorial harvest
from its bosom. The greatest rate
of the tide in winter d does not exceed
six miles an nour.n
Year: 1869




1t is stated as one of the effects of
the construction of the Suez Canal
that in the adjacent deserts, where a
drop of rain was never known to
fall, showers are now not unfre-
euent, and heavy fogs prevail. These
climatic changes are attributed to
the number of trees planted along
the canal, and the shrubbery in the
villages which have sprung up at
every station along the great water
course. The lesson is not without it's
value to US. If our people desire to
avoid droughts or excessive floods,
and preserve moist and equal eli
mate, they must not strip the coun-
try of its foliage. 1t is the interest
of farmers to plant trees. They
beautify the landscape, offer CRATE
ful shade, and preserve the moisture
of the atmosphere.
Year: 1869

The Smith Paper Company, of
Lee, Mass, have ordered from Spain
fifteen tons, IF Esparte grass, for the
purpose of trying it as paper stock
The English paper manufacturers
have been using it for some time with
complete success, both for fine and
printing paper.
Year: 1869

A gentleman in New-Y ork is the possessor
of 81, 900 horse whose organ of approbative-
ness is so prominently active he can be coax
ed but rarely driven against his will. When
the considerate owner enters the stable the
horse greets him with hearty whinny, his
only language, which is equal to cheerful
expression Of delight, He is at once treated
to lump of Loaf sugar, which the beautiful
and sagacious creture knows is usually car
ried in vest pocket-for he rubs his nose
directly in there. On returning from drive
he expects two Jumps. AS two are invariably
forthcoming when unhaInessed, it is unmis


taxable evidence to the horse that his con-
duct and efforts were satisfactory. The sight
of whip to that animal wohld be an insult
and an outrage to his afiectionate regard for
one who looks carefully to his health, security
and comfort Such an instrument of barbarity
does not belong to that good nlaL 7sasriage,
and may God speed the incoming day when
they will only be seen in museums, to illus
trate the conditions ofcountIies that ultimate
ly became Christianized.
Year: 1869

ARRESTED FOR BALL PLAYING.-Ninc young men
were arrested In this city yesterday for playing bali
on the sabbath. Six OF them live In New YORK.
PRIZE FIGHT took place near Railroad avenue
yesterday, between Margaret Fitzgerald ana Mary
Kelly. Before the contest was decided, o policeman
intervened aud had the pugs lodged IN prison.


H0bOkcn.


BRUTAL TREATMENT OF WfFE.-A man named
Lewis Harvey was arraigned before Recorder Pope
last evening" on complaint Of his wife Mary for hav
ing ferociously kicked her about the head and chest
But for the interference OF q policeman she would
probably have been fatally injured. The prisoner
was fined for drunkenness, his wife refusing to pros
ecute him.
Year: 1869

Napoleon Decidedly III and Exhausted-The


Public Mind Excited.


LONDON, September 6-Nlght
Private advices from Paris have been received
mere tonight the subject OF the actual condition
of Nap0leons health.


These dispatches represent that the illness Of the
Emperor has taken q somewhat alarming turn. His
Majesty experienced an attack OF the disease ycster
day which OccasiOned him an unusual amount Of
extreme pain and suffering. This paroxysm SUBJ
sided after little time but to-day the Emperor feels
much exhausted from its effects.


No fatal result OF the attack Is anticipated but the
existing symptoms OF such character that they
are decidedly calculated to excite uneasness both In
his family and the public mind.
Year: 1869

Yesterday afternoon while pleasure yacht with
O numerous party on board was lying or Cedar
Grove, 8. l., several persons OF the number en-
barked IRON the yacht IN small boat for the pur-
pose Of going to the hotel on shore for dinner. On
the way, however the boat was swamped and the
persons on board were Dreciptated into the water.
Assistance was rendered in boats from the shore and
all those endangered were rescued with the excep-
ton OF a gentleman named WILKINS who was
believed to be a member of the Brooklyn Yacht Club.
He sank before aid could reach him aud was
drowned The body was recovered.
Year: 1869

The Springfield Republic epitomi-
zes little romance from the Berk-
shire hills, Of how a beautiful young
woman had a very stern parent, who
hated the youDg man she loved, even
to threatening to shoot him if he
dared to come near her, and carrying
a loaded pistol for that purpose -
How she could not leave her fathers
house, save penniless and alone; so,
on a recent day, she left it on an err
rand to a neighbours which proved a
very long one, for she did not return.
How she walked bravely fourteen
miles through the snow, to village,
whence she took a sleigh for Pitts
field, seven miles more, aud there
found temporary home. How
she beekoned by tho telegraph wires
to her faithful swain in New York
who straightway gladly hastened to
her arms. How rapidly aud happily
the appointments of wedding were
extemporizee the next day; and how
well two troubled, loving hearts, who
for three Years had warred against
adverse fate, were saoredly welded
that night. And certainly there nev.
er was more beautiful bride. The
day after she departed with her hus-
band and did not duplicate her Ok.
perience in reaching two. But hasn't
she pretty story Of trial and tri'
umph to tell her children
Year: 1869

A singular affair occurred in
Cleveland recently. A man de.
scepded into an oil tank to
make some repairs. The gas in the
tank soon affected him and he started
up the ladder to escape but fell back
insensible. Another man descended
to his rescue, brought him to the top
aud handed him out, and then also
fell back insensible. A third man
descended, brought the second man
up, handed him out, and then fell
back insensible like the 6rst two. mol
four then descended, brought up No
three, handed him out, and fell over
insensible like the others. A fifth
man descended aud rescued the fourth
without himself being affected by the
vspor.
Year: 1869




A few nights since, a party Of eleven
mounted men, disguised in white
gowns, tall, cOnical hats, and faces
masked, came to the cabin occupied
by an elderly couple, on a plantation
in Upshur county. These devils took
the old man out of bed, tied a rope
around his ankles, and hitched the
other end to the horn of one of their
saddl, g, and all of them then mounted
and started off on a run, dragging the
man after. They went about quar-
ter of mile, over corduroy bridge.
They stopped here and pulled up a
part of the bridge, put the man down
head foremost into the water, hauled
him up when half drowned, mounted
their horses again and puIlel him
back over the same road and in the
same manner as before, until they
came to his cabin again. They then
beat him with leather straps until
they skinned his back from his neck
TO his waist. The men who are con-
cerned in these oUtrages belong to the
best families in the counties where
they live, and they rule there, and nc
civil officer dare arrest them, and il
they did, no magistrate dare punish
them. ..
Year: 1869

Girls Should Learn to Keep


House. sr


No young lady can be too wen in
.structed in anything which will effect
the comfort of a family. Whatever
position in society she occupies, she
needs a practical knowledge of house
hold duties. She may be placed in
such circumstances that it will not be
necessary for her to perform much do
nestle labor; but on this account she
should not no less than if she was
obliged to preside personally over the
cooking stove and pantry. Indeed, I
have thought that it is more difficult
to direct others, andTequires more ex-
perienee, than to do the same work
with our own hands.


Mothers are frequently 80 nice and
particular that they do not like to give
up any part of the care of their chill
dren. This is a great mistake in their
management, for they are often bur
dened with labor and need relief.
Children should be early taught to
make themselves useful to assist
their parents every way in their pow
er, and to consider it privilege to do
so.


Young people can not realize the
importance Ofa thorough knowledge
of housewifery; but those who have
suffered the inconvenience and morti-
ficatiOD of ignorance can well appreci-
ate it. Children should be early
INDUCED in their disposition to bake
and experiment in various ways. It
is often but troublesome help that
they afford still it is a great advant-
age to them. 1 know little girl who
at nine years old made a loaf of bread
every week during the winter. Her
mother taught her how much yeast,
salt and flour to use, and she became
quite an expert baker. Whenever
she is disposed to try her skill in maxi
ing simple cakes or pies, she is permit
ted to do SO. She is thus, while
amusing herself, learning an impOr-
tant lesson. Her mother calls her lit
tie housekeeper, and often permits her
to get what is necessary for the table.
She hangs the keys by her side, and
very musical is the jingling 10 her
ears. / think before she is out Of her
teens, upon which she has not yet en-
tered, that she will have some idea
how to cook.


Some mothers give their daughters
the care of housekeeping, each week
by turns. 1T seeras to me a good ar
rangement, and a most useful part of
their education. Domestic labor is sby
no means incompatible with the high
est degree of refinement and mental
culture. Many of the most elegant,
accomplished women I have known,
have looked well to their household
duties, and have honored themselves
and their husbands by so doing,


Economy, ia te and skill in cooking,
and neatness of the kitchen, have a
great deal to do. in making life hap
py and prosperous. The charm Of
good housekeeping is in good order,
economy and taste displayed in at
tentiOn to little things; and these
things have a wonderful influence.
A dirty kitchen and bad cooking
have driven many man from home
to seek comfort and happiness some
where else. None of our excellent
girls are fit to be married until they
are thoroughly educated in the deep
and profound mysteries Of the kitchen.
presbyterian. ~
Year: 1869

Many children, instead of being
plump and fresh as q peach, are as


withered and wrinkled as last years


apples, because they do not sleep
enough. Some physicians think that
the bones grow only during Sleep
This 1 cannot say certainly; but l do
know that. those little folks who sit up
late at nights are usually nervous,
weak, small and sickly. The reason


why YOU need more sleep than your
parents is becauseyou have to grow
and they do not. They can use up


the food they eat, in thinking, talk
ing and working, while you should


use some Of yours for growing, You


ought to sleep great deal; if you do


not, you will in activity consume all
yeu eat, and have none or not enough


to grow with. Very few smart child
rem excel, or even equal other people


when they grow up. Why is this2-
Because their heads, if not their bod
les, are kept too busy, so they cannot
sleep, rest and grow strong in body
and brain. Now when your mother
's4ys Susie or George, or whatever
Your name may be, it is time 10 go to
bed, do not worry her by begging to
sit up '.just a little longer" But hur-
ry off to your chamber, remembering
that you have a great deal Of sleeping
and growing to DO to make y u a
healthy, happy, useful man or woman.
IA Rural New Yorker. f.-f
Year: 1869

THE QUESTION OF Color AND THE
INAUGURATION BALL.-A cOlored
man, J. S. Richardson, Of this city,
has addressed a note to Mayor Bowen,
as chairman of the committee on the
sale of tickets for the Inauguration
Ball, stating that a number of his
friends from Philadelphia and New
York would be here on the 4th of
March, and asked whether any dis
tinction on account of color is to be
made in the sale of tickets. Mayor
Bowen this morning addressed him a
reply, in which he says "that any per
son of respectable character and stand
ing in the community, who applies
and pays for a ticket to the Inaugural
ton Ball, to be held in the north
wing of the Treasury Department,
will not be denied, at least so far as
my action is concerned. The ques-
tion of color never having arisen in
the committee, 1 cannot of course de-
eide for them. y Washington paper
Year: 1869

The longer I live the NOR certain l
am that the great difference e ween
men, the great and the insignificant, is
energy, invinCible determination, an hon
est purpose once fixed, and then the victo-
rv. That quality will do anything that
can be done in the world. and no talents,
no circumstances, no opportunity will
make a two-legged creature great with
out it,-TGOethe.
Year: 1869

The Sheriff Of Cumberland County,
Kentucky, becoming wearied of dun
ming tax payer for his dues, seized
upon his splendid set OF false teeth.
The delinquent had to gum it ON
milk and mush" until he settled the
reckoning.
Year: 1869

The Bristol Ne'cs is responsible for the fol-
lowing story: An acquaintance Of ours was re-
Gently examining some old letters that remain
cd in Confederate post-officc at the close Of
the war, to see that nothing Of value was de-
.troycd, when be came upon a unique love let
ter written by young lady to her beloved and
betrothed He had tauntcd her with being
cold; and she vndicates herself, as we think,
very triumphantly in the following modest but
sufficient intmation: o
Year: 1869

words of Mr.. Lincoln, spoken at Gett+vSburg
lew months after the great battle, will lie the
text tor many discourse hereafter. He said
-, We cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow
lhlS ground The brave men living and dead
who struggled here have consecrated il far
above our power to add or detract. 1t is for
u.s. the living, rather to he dedicated here to
the unfinished work that they have thus far So
nobly carried on. 1t is rather for us to he here
dedicated to the great task remaining before
uS-that from these honored dead we take in
creased devotion to the cause for which tbev
here gave the last full measure of DEVOTION
that We here highly resolve that tie dead Shall
not lave died in vain, that the nation shall
under God, have new birth of freedom, and
that the government of the people, by the peol
nIe' and for the people, shall not perish from
the earth"


Our political theories have stood the test,
and row our course is onward and upward. But
had we broken down under the rebellion it
would have been sad day for free government
the world over
Year: 1869

A child was baptised in St. Johns Church
New York, on Thursday last, with Masonic
ceremonies, the child being son of a RovaI
Arch Mason and devoted to the craft. This
is the second instance of the kind in This
country.
Year: 1869

In Hartford, recently, stranger went to a
hotel for bath, and as he did not emerge
from his retirement for an hour, the proprietor
entered, with fears of suicide in his heart, to
see what was the matter The stranger had
only been washing his shirt, and was waiting
for it to dry
Year: 1869

Tor our own and the convenience Of regular
.dger.isers, and to prevent any misunderstand-


mo, we have carefully prepared and scaled the
,ates of advertising in the GAZETTE, for the year
500 and present the following table Of space
nd nrices from aohich there aoiN be no deUlatl0a: