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Year: 1869

a man cannot sink in it. The editor of
the Corinne Reporter demonstrated this by
standing upright in the water, and with-
out the least motion could not sink to the
chin. He could lie on the water, stand in
it, take almost any position, and still he
would float and could not sink. 1t is nec>
essary after swimming in this briny water
to rinse off with fresh, for the salt of the
water condenses on ones person, and
leaves one, when dry, looking as if he had
been powdered all over with white chalk.
Year: 1869

How TO LEARN THE Piano KEYs.-Be-
ginners often find trouble in learning the
keys of piano. The following may be
of assistance to them:


All the G and A keys


Are between the black hrees,


And tween the tros arc all the DIS.
Then on the right side Of the threes
Will be found the BIS and C's;


But on the left side of the threes
Are all the F's and all the E's.
Year: 1869

The New York Tribune is responsible
for the almost incredible story that Max
Maretzek, the world renowned hero of a
hundred operatio companies is now dill.
gently and proftably employed in the
manufacture of brickl
Year: 1869

OVER fifty thousand dollars per day Of the
Few two dollor notes is now being received at
the Treasury Department from the Bank Note
Printing Companies in New York. The work
upon the first instalment has been completed,
and they will be issued by Treasurer Spinner
Year: 1869

The establishment at St. Louis Oft union
stock yard, where everybody can see every
body's stock without running all over St.
Louis with a search warrant, is advocated by
some Of the stock men of that city. 1t must
be that the want Of such place has made
Chicago the only respectable stock market
In the Mpat
Year: 1869

| Father, dear father, come home with me now,
| The clock in the steeple strikes two (gong
gong)


The night has grown colder and Benny is worse
But he has been calling for you.
Indeed he is worse, mother says he will die


Perhaps before morning shall dawn,
And this was the message she sent me to bring


Come quickly, or he will be gone


Come home, come home, come home


Please father, dear father, come home"


The act drop rises again. and now the child
has hold of the pewter pot, trying to take it
from the drunken parent, and as she continues
the last two lines, Come home" &C., the
other curtain is drawn aside, and we next see
the child stretched On its mother lap, and as
it just raises its little head and falls back with
algasp, with the lime light rejecting strongly
upon it, there was reality about the whole
terrible to view.


Sobs were heard from all parts of the hall,
coming from the female portion of the audience,
while tears tricked down many male cheek.
We have seen Susan Hopely," ''The Strang-
er, Jane Shore" East Lynn" and other
effective pieces played, but never before did we
witness such scene of general crying. The
principal feature called to mind the picture of
the Sister of Mercy, with the dying child in
her lap, and the death was fearfully natural
Even the lady who sang the song was affected,
and could scarcely proceed with the third
verse:


Father dear father, come home with me now.


The clock in the steeple strikes three (gong


gong, gong.)


The house is so lonely, the hours are so long,


For poor weeping mother and me-
Yes, we are alone poor Benny is dead,


And gone with the angels of light
And these were the very last words that he said


i want to kiss papa-good nightr


Come home come home, come home


Please, father dear father, come home"


Again the drop rose, disclosing little Mary on
her knees appealing TO her father, who, with
pot elevated, is in the act of striking her with
it, as she sings Come Home" and then the
back curtain draws aside, showing the mother
praying over the child S coffin.


But now the sobs burst out still more freely
and two females were carried out fainting-
The scene was truly narrowing, and we gladly
turned our eyes away.


An additional verse was sung about Poor
Benny being with the angels above. The drop
rose the father, sober now, is weeping over
the coffin with the mother, and little Mary on
her knees, singing, Home, home, father, dear
father come home. !"


At this moment the curtain is drawn aside
and little Benny is suspended over the coffin
with wings, smiling down upon them and point
ing upwards The father fails forward on his
face, the act-drop descends, and for minute
all is hushed save the sobs of the females.


There said workingman by our side, as
be heaved a sigh of relief, 'Mr. Spurgeon nev-
er preached better sermon than that pan
expression to which we assented, and then left
the hail.
Year: 1869

ibre II inch and must all be carried into main
of 24 which will take the water of from 1000
feet to one mile of laterals after receiving
which it must be continued Independently or
increased in size to 81, which is sufficient for
double that quantity, at every point where a
change to less grade is indispensable, say the
bottom of valley What is called silt basin
will be required, which can be opened and
cleaned out whenever the deposits from above
shall render it necessary


All springs and water courses must be carried
off by independent pipes during the construc-
ton of the system and if possible after its COM
pletion The silt basins and outlet should be


y
Year: 1869

Plants are affected by Droughts in proportion
to the depth to which they can extend their
roots Now stiff clay soil dramed will, year
by year, increase in porosity, breaking UP as it
were and changing its nature SO that the roots
of plants will extend into it to the water level,
and as these decay and die it will afford new
passages and gradually assume loamy texture,
besides inducing atmospheric air to circulate
throughout the soil, which in itself creates the
great food of all vegetation by producing and
Fastening decomposition.


Having thus in a few words called attention
to the soils needing drainage and the benefits
resulting. shall proceed to give such instruc-
tons as will enable the Farmer to do his work
at such times as he may have leisure.


The experience Of the English agricuturists
has been that all lands requiring drainage must
either be thoroughly done or let alone, as no
half way work is of any avail They therefore
have taken as their initial point a depth of
feet and distance apart Of 40 This is to in
sure the line of saturation having full depth
of feet at a midway point, of course if the
drains were 20 feet apart less depth would be
necessary but this has been found in practice
false economy. The feet drains insuring at
the least expense a state of things nearly allied
to the English trenching by which such won
derful results have been produced. They how





which the engineer in this enlightened age by
means Of judicious drainage enlists the powers
of nature to assist him in accomplishing.


TILE DRAINAGE, NO. 4.


Having located on your drainage map the
lines Of titles and transferred them with the
tape line to the ground, by stakes poles or
100 feet apart, mark upon each the depth to
grade in feet and inches or tenths SO as to be
as near as possible feet in depth arranging so
that your grades may increase however Slightly
rather than diminish. When your bitches are
nearly complete, say feet deep, stretch gar
den line 800 feet in length on grade at the
earth's surface over the ditch, and lay your
drain by it beginning at the upper end and fill
ing as you go backwards remembering that you
run from 0.5 or $40 Of foot per hundred to
0.6 or 7, but never to 0.4 or 3, as this latter
would occasion deposite that would eventually
ruin the system, SO that it should if possible be
all studied out On the map before commencing
These lateral drains may be of the smallest cal
Year: 1869

X The circulation of the s'SPEcTAToR"
is about as great as the combined circula-
tion Of both the other papers published in
this place, and has as many subscribers IN
this county alone as are contained In the
whole list of either of the other papers.
Year: 1869

A negro was hanged within one hum
dred yards Of the Nashville and North
western Railroad, near Dresden, one
morning last week, for outraging the
person of a young lady who lived with
in short distance of that place. They
stuck card upon his dead body, on
which was inscribed, "He who dares
touch or cuts down this body shall
share the same fate"


One OF the trains was tagged and
stopped near the place, but for what
particular cause was not known, as
there was no one in sight save the ne
gro's mother, who knelt and wept be-
meath his corpse.


1t is said that the reason given for
lynching the negro, was that black
man formerly sent to the pcnitentiary
for committing similar crime near
Dresden, that he had been pardoncd
out, and that the eXecutioners in the
present case were determined that the
ravisher should not be afforded the
same opportunity of going unwhipt o.
| Justice.
Year: 1869

The Macon Journal says that large
number of the members of the Georgia
Legislature are in favor of impeaching
Governor Bullock of that State. 1t
says:


We learns from persons who profess to
know whereof they speak, that de-
termined purpose is expressed by a
large number of members Of the House
of Representatives of our Legislature
to prefer articles of impeachment
against Governor Bullock Immediately
after the General Assembly meets, and
that the movement is daily gaining
strength among the members. There
are said to be many alleged grounds of
impeachment, the principal Of which
are the spending large sums of public
money by the Governor without au-
thority of law, the conversion of the
States funds to his own private use,
and the abuse of the pardoning power.
Year: 1869

A statistical genius declares that
"more money is expended in the Unit
ed States for cigars than all the common
schools in the country" A wag, un-
doubtcdly lover of the weed, seeing
the statement going through the papers,
gets OFT the following:


1t has been estimated that the cost of
washi linen that might just as well
be worn two days longer amounts to
enough in this country to more than
detray the expenses of the American
Board of Foreign Missions. The eX-
penses of buttons OH the backs of our
coats, where they are Of no earthly use,
is equal to the support of all our orphan
asylumS. 1t is estimated that the val
ue of old boots thrown aside, which
might have been worn at least day
longer, is more than enough to buy fan
mel night gowns for every baby in the
land. Also, that the cost of every inch
on the full shirt collars of our young
men is equal to the sum necessary to
put bible in the hands of every Pata.
gonian giant.
Year: 1869

The scarcity of water is a subject of
general complaint all over the country.
At Lawrence, Mass, according to the
journals of that extensive manufacture
ing city, the vegetation is suffering Sc
vcrely from the drought, the ground is
parcicd and the dust intolerable; the
streams are very low, and the factories
suffer much inconvenience, some of
them being compelled to stop work and
wait for the forebays to fill up with a
sufficient supply of water. Trout have
been left high and dry in the brooks,
there not being water enough to float
them.
Year: 1869

The proposed modification of the in
come tax, which is now being agitated,
is an excellent thing, but its entire abo-
lition would be still better. No form
of taxation has proved so obnoxious or
so full of decentralization as this. We
do not exclude the nefarious whiskey
frauds when we say that the attempts
to collect the income tax have been
more fruitful in producing fraud and
perjury than any other method Of COL
lecting the revenues of the government.
Moreover, it is an Improbable tax, be-
cause the cost Of collecting it is dispro-
portionately large. 1t is particularly
offensive and unpopular because of its
inquisitorial character. Our people are
too independent to permit their private
affairs to be spied into by vulgar and
partially irresponsible officials, and ex-
hibited through them to the public.
Hence the collection of the income tax
has been o source of general dissatis-
faction, which is increased by the belief
that only a small portion of the revenue
thus obtained goes to the Treasury and
very large portion to the various Off
cials.


Besides. it is we'll understood that the
heavy tax imposed on the income OF
hard working people is not necessity
AS the new views, which it appears are
Just now finding favor in Washington
90 to show that the expenses Of the
government can be obtained from the
revenue ON whiskey, tobacco and Other
luxuries as we'll as on stamps, there is
no reason why there should not be a
very extensive modification of the in.
come tax. When Senator Sherman, Of
Ohio, declared in favor of the income
tax the other day he was mistaken. II
is most unpopular way of raising the
public revenue. The experiment to
collect tax of two dollars gallon or
whiskey proved failure and demoral
lied the whole whiskey trade. But the
collection of one dollar, as now propos
ed, may probably be accomplished with
out any difficulty. 1t seems, according
to the figures, that eighty millions PEE
annum can be raised OH whiskey b.
doubling the present duty; that thirt!
millions can be obtained from tobacco
ten millions from stamps, ten from fer
mented liquors, as much more from ii
censes. leaving only fifteen millions t.
be raised by tax on incomes in order t.
provide for :he entire expenses of th'
nation. If modification is to be mad
in any one Of these taxes, by all mean


let it b" in the odious, inquisitorial ant
annoying income tax.
Year: 1869

That while wateris scarce in Phila-
delphia there is plenty in Boston, and
one is a liberal city so far as the sale of
liquors are concerned, and the other
proscriptive and prohibitive. This in
dicates that the people of Boston i'm
bibe something beside Cochituate, even
if they have to do it OH the sly.
Year: 1869

Ba~ The New York Herald says
they are talking about third par
ty in Tennessee. 10 judge from the
recent vote in that State for Governor
we would think that nearly all parties
there are ready to revolve around a
common centre.
Year: 1869

bag Binckley has written an argu-
ment to show that the District of Co.
lumbia can not be destroyed any more
than a State can. lie thereby hopes to
prevent the removal Of the National
Capital
Year: 1869

TEE Gar DEGREES that parents forcing their
children to marry or to enter eonFenfs shall
be imprisoned


Az experienced old gentleman Gays that all
that is required for the enjoyment Of love OF
sausages is confidence


TEE New York SHa remarks that Dent is,
By accident, brother-in-law Of the President
Year: 1869

Ben. Wade has got home, and gone
to using postage stamps-the first in
eighteen years.-Chicdgo Post.


A good joke which we hate to spoil
by referring to the liberal law which
allows congressman to retain the
franking privilege until the first day
of the next January after the cxpi-
ration of their time, which law an
eighteen year franker, will doubtless
be familiar with, and not hesitate to
observe in his own person.
Year: 1869

There is no rational connection be-


tween franchise and amnesty. The
joining of them in one proposition


puts both In false light. The exten-


sion of the franchise is question to


be governed by the consideration


either ofinherent right or of public


welfare. If it is a right inherent in


the man, it would be wrong to COM


promise it with the condition of par


don to political offenders. Ifit is to


be extended for the reason that it will


promote the public welfare, still there
is no reason for haakingan Offset of the
question of amnesty to criminals The


matter of the acknowledgements of
those who levied war upon the Nation
is a temporary thing. The disfran-


chisement is to expire as soon as it is


thought the public safety will permit,
or as soon as a proper example has


been made. The extent of the suf-
frage is a matter to be settled upon a
fixed and permanent principle To
connect 1t with a temporary situation
which has been created by crime, is to
degrade it to a make-shift.


The connection of these two aues-
tions in the agitation which has lately
been raised for a suffrage amendment
to the Constitution makes 1t appear as
if its advocates lacked conhdence in
the Justice of the suffrage proposition,
and therefore thought it necessary to
offer to the South a consideration
for submitting to it Or they offer
to those who have been disfran-
chised for rebellion, a restoration con-
dihonaI upon their cOnsenting that
kbOca sbo II vote mh0. baua oo1,-,stt,I 7
no offense. There is no Justice, nor
pTOpriety to either class in making
these conditions. Virtually, Hmakes
a criminal class the arbiters of the
suffrage TO the innocent Virtually, it
makes the right of suffrage to thoHe.
who have done nothing to forfeit de-
pend upon the pardon OF those sWho7
have done great crime. 1t eonfnses
all reason, and mingles loyal class
with the disloyal in an uDiusti6able
manner. sf-f..-f


Each of these questions should be
discussed and decided upon its own
merits. We are ready to meet the
question of removing the disfranchise-
ment of rebels, and to say that we
have always regarded it as Temporal
ry precaution, to be abandoned il al
short time. If it is right TO terminate 1
it now, it would be wrong to couple it |
with conditions Of enfranchising |
another class. And so with regard to |
the question Of extending or limiting !
the suffrage We do not need that uni /
Versal suffrage, or the so-ealled i'm !
partial suffrage, shall be fabricated /
with the grant ofamnesty to those who !
have forfeited tho Suffrage by crime. !
We do not need to shove the blacks 1
1pder the cover of the disfrauchised !
rebels. Let every tub stand on its I
1Wn bottom, and let the question Of the I
franchise be governed by principles
which will remain when the rebellion
be forRotten.-C Cincinnati Gazette.
Year: 1869

IT IS AN EsrAB11sHED FACT, that Con- sumption can be cured; but it is far better to prevent the cruel disease from fasten. ing itself upon the system by the timely use of a remedy like D.. Wistar's Baisam ef Wild Cherry. This standard prepara- ton will speedily cure cough or cold, and even Consumption often yields tor its great power.
Year: 1869

THURSDAY March 2s-eP. N.


The activi 81 Of the money market expected with
the approa n OF the LIST OF April was fsrly inaugu-
rated Ay. Loans on pledge Of best collaterals
were M Ide In general at seven per cent in con but
comm esions were paid in addition by weak houses
Or acre the securities OF inferior character
A rleoa deal OF diriculty was experienced in some
- cahties in making accounts. and the banks kept
spen an hour beyond the usual time to accommodate
nose OF their customers who were behindhand.
while the activity is natural at this sea-
son when SO much money is required
IA the rural districts 1t Is evidens that
the cliaues In the stock market are intro
ducng artificial Influences to keep up the
teyerish feeling prevalent among operators. The
story or gold sales by the government Is also used
TO keep up the excitement II Secretary Boutwell, has
not fallen into the hands OF the gold gamblers OF
washington and Wall street he should refrain from
this step until after the passage OF the present crisis
II he is desirous Of riding his hobby of reducing
the gold premium let him go on with the payment OF
the coupons on the government bonds but leave the
currency In the metropolis undisturbed. Our mer-
chants and manufacturers need all the accommoda-
mon the banks can afford them to put in motion the
wheels OF spring business. Commercial paper
duller to the number of transactions but rmer
to rates, which range from to twelve per cent
Tor prime double names


Tomorrow being Good Friday the two boards of
brokers' the Gold Exchange and the Long Room
have adjourned over TO Saturday, to which time
transactions were made in gold to-day. The DAY is
not legal holiday, and therefore the banks will
remain open as usual.


Gold was extremely dull to-day, and nuctuated
Iazily betweenthe extremes OF 1s1 and 1914, with
the bulk OF transactions at the intermediate figure
The daring Of the bears in selling the market yes
terday despite the corner prolonged the ''squeeze
over this morning, when as high as s-s2 was paid
for borrowing At this point the resolution Of the
"buls' gave way, especially as it was stated that
the government had put million dollars in the
market to buy exchange bills to pay the foreign
diplomatic corps, and the loaning rate dropped to
nat and went as far lie for carrying before Clear
ing House. All loans above were made for Satur.
uay Late in the afternoon and eight per cent
were paid for carrying. Foreign exchange was
steady on the basis Of 1os1s loss for the various
grades Of bankers sterling sixty days. Gable trans
sers quoted at lOSA 1851. The range of price
~o fnlln
Year: 1869

Yesterday was another busy day in the aucsl0n
mart and one Of apparent activity. The attendance
was large, showing the great interest felt In the
market, and the bidding tolerably prompt; very
considerable portion of the property, however, as on
previous occasions, being bought In. The feeling
that IN order 20 stimulate dealings those orerng
property at the present time must abate their expec.
tations is every day becoming more general
among experienced brokers ana anctioneers-
This opinion. however, is by no means


the expression q judgment urisy0raSs Nsw vars
island and relatively In the suburban districts. The
past history Of the city teaches too strongly the
o. such n ior sRy doubt q rs
been In q measure associated with Its steady
development; but In the present real estate move
too ns rapid. The Conditions that aect property DO
not change so suddenly as have the value OF their
fees in the Judgment OF owners, or u 80 an under
standing o. tnat lacs y no, 50 generally crcaIed S ~
minds OF Others and secure its recognition when
sought In the market


Thus we have the danger OF purchasing property
at the high figures ruling now on large mortgages
The great future presented In the completion OF the
Pacific Railroad and kindred agencies stimulating
the growth OF the metropolis Is now being too largely
discounted. Those who buy for cash with the de-
sign OF permanent investment are safe to realize
handsomely, Notwithstanding this anticipation In
price wnen that future Is Accomplishment but as all
growth Is gradual and subject to varying changes s
Is probable that in the interval when the glowing
prospects now inddlged in are temporarily OBJ
scared by now unforeseen obstacles, yet likely
enough to arise, there will be q reaction
and speculat0rs Will find 1t exceedingly diff
fcut to dispose OF much Of the property
recently purchased ct figures anything approaching
to what they paid. Certainly much OF that bought
last fall and early in the spring would not now bring
In the auction mart what would be regarded as
fair profit upon the investment made in 1t. Below
give particulars OF yesterday transactions In the