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Year: 1868

Flour, Sugar and Saw Mil Machinery, House
Castings and Iron Railing, Lard Kettles, Bells
and Brass Castings. Boring apparatus forged
aud finished for boring Artesian Wells of any
kgd, made of the best material-made to order
Farmers who will be in want of Cane Mill:
this year, would do well to give their orders soon
il order to have their mill in proper time.


have large mill patterns, that can be only
made to order.


Any one in want of heavy castings for any
purpose, would do well to give me n call, before
gong to a distance-to get what can be made al
hone just as WELL and with much loss expense.
Eepairing dcue on short notice


VIM. III THOMPSON.
Year: 1868

Marble, though still young, is not hard
worker in the sense in which Greeley and
RAYMOND are hard workers. He manages
and directs the fourth OF editorial page
alone, leaving the other departments to the
care of a subordinate. He writes most Of
his editorials, not long nor frequent usually,
in his own library up town, where he lives
very comfortably if not luTufiously, send
ing his manuscript to the Office and receiv-
ing proofs at his residence. lie was mar
ried four or FIVE years ago to young wo-
man Of fortune, but whether or not they
have given hostages TO fortune, as Lord
Verulam styles it, my prolific gossip does
not say.
Year: 1868

Mr. EDIrOR-I would ask through the
medium of your paper, who has the man
agernent of the Dodgeville grave yard l
think they ought to be superannuated and
other managers appointed that will attend
to their duty.


The burial ground in its present condi
ton is disgrace to the citizens of Dodge
vile. l have been disgusted when paying
the last tribute of respect to some brother
or sister, to see into what dismal place
he or she.was to be deposited.
Is this the way we manifest our love
and respect for our dear departed ones
by giving them grave amongst over
grown weeds and brush, in place which
is disgrace to the civilized world?
1t looks to me like the burial place Of
highwaymen and dogs, instead of Chris
tians.


Hoping for some information in your
next, remain yours, &C.,


REFoRMER.


Dodgeville, Feb. 13, 1868.


For the information of our correspondent
we would say that the grave yard, although
within the village limits, is under the con-
troll Of the Town Board of Supervisors, but
that Mr.. Richard Arundel, the sexton has
the immediate management of the grounds.
Our attention has frequently been called
to the shameful neglect everywhere ap-
parent in and around the Dodgevile ceme-
terry, and we have been requested to pitch
into somebody about it. but as our bust
ness is not pitching in" we have until
now, refrained from saying anything
through the paper in regard to it. But we
think with our correspondent, that it is
time the shameful neglect of the honored
dead of our village was discontinued, and
the grave yard made presentable to civil
lied and christian people. The Town
Board has repeatedly been applied to to
relinquish the control of the grave yard to
the village authorities, but have refused,
and now since the shameful condition OF
the cemetery attracts the attention of every
one who passes, we think the Board should
either attend more faithfully to their bust
ness, or relinquish their claims on the
property.


To SAVE HAY.-The Iowa Falls Sentine
recommends the following method to gel
rid of troublesome cattle. The editor hal
tried it. He says. "a certain quadru
ped had sweet tooth for our haystack
and did much damage throwing down &
seven rail fence, and roosting in our hay
We bought box of Cayenne pepper, tool
a nice lock of hay, placed it outside, 'bap
tised' it with pepper, and watched. Tht
animal came along and pitched into th'
hay, when suddenly she took the hint,ant
with nose at As degrees, and tail at 80, hel
soul went marching on at the rate 2:40
: That cow has never come back Try thi:
ye afflicted and you viii save your hay
and have good hearty laugh all to your
self"
Year: 1868

Some of our Charleston friends
made the point that they were not
properly called upon to participate
in the Columbia Convention, mas
much as they were not specially
invited. Now, we had right to
expect that the proor etiquette
certainly have been adopted BY
them in their proposed convention
and yet we have not, thus far,
heard Of one gentleman in Columbia
being consulted on the subject OF
this convention, or specially in
vited to attend. We have not had
even a telegram.


rPheniS.
Year: 1868

The EAST END.-We are glad to see that
our article on this subject few days since
has caused come increase Of the force at
work in this locality, and there are now
fair prospects that the improvements con-
templated in that portion of the city will
soon be completed.


The taxpayers lose nothing by the bricks
which may be stolen, as the contractor
agrees to furnish the material and put down
the walkway at stipulated price. He
states that the work would have progressed
with greater rapidity but for the delay in
furnishing him with the grade lines.
Year: 1868

SUPPOSED TO BE SToLEN.-A mulatto
boy calling himself John Coleman was
arrested on Wednesday night on the charge
of having in his possession ninety-seven
dollars, supposed to have been stolen. He
says he found the money in on alley run
ming from Thirteenth to Fourteenth street.
His case was continued until Monday.
Year: 1868

The following item. which has interest. to
: Masons, we find in the:report ofproceedings OF
the Grand Lodge of New York, which has just
sclosed its session in that city. We believe that
Il there IS aLodee ofcolered Masons in this city,
Int they are not recognized, Tor the same rea,
aSnn that exists in the State OF New I ork. 1t
Is proper to remark here, that Masonry exclu.
Jss no man on account of race or color, but
one ,of its essential requirements, in all the
world, is, that the candidate must have been
free-bor and any one processing, to be a
Mason, must prove that he was made such IN
regular and not a clandestine Lodge. All
Lodges are considered clandestine, that do not
work under a;oharter procured from the Grand
Lodge within the jurisdiction in which the
same may be holden. Thus no Grand Lodge
outside of Virginia, can grant dlspensation or
charter to subordinate Lodge within the
limits of this State, and there can be but one
Grand Lodge in any State. We. subioin the
report referred :-La,nchburg Nrgiasan. !,


IA resolution was offered to the effect that
as there were several lodges of colored Masons
in the city Of New York the right hard OF tel-
lovsbip should be extended to them as soon as
thew might show desire to transfer their
allegiance to the Grand Lodge OF the State OF
New York. 90. :
r"The Deputy Grand Master (in the chair)
decided that the resolution being one which
called upon the Grand Lodge to recognize
clandestine Masons he could not entertain It.
Whatever the Grand Lodge might hereafter
i do with regard to admitting men OF different
color to ourselves in to the fraternity 1t was
not for him to say :; but the. so:called lodges
now in the city were clandestine, and this
Grand Lodge could not hold Masonic inter
course with them"
Year: 1868

WHAT THE LOCAL SAID OF THE LECTURER.
1.-THE lecture last evening was brilliant az
fair. The hall ought to have been filled. We
are sorry to say, only forty persons were pre-
sent. The speaker commenced by saying that
he was by birth an ecclesiastical deduction; gave
learned description Of the devil, and his skill
in saving trees: Among other things, he stated stated
Arithmetic. We trust the eloquent divine
may be induced to repeat the lecture at some
future day"


WHAT THE LECTURER SAID TO THE LOCAL.
Dear Sir: In report of my lecture in your
beautiful city, you have made some few mis-.
takes which I wish to correct. You make me
speak Of myself as by birth an ecclesiastical
deduction - what said was, that was not
by birth but only enthusiastically a Dutchman.
Instead Of speaking OF the devil as saving
trees, spoke of him as sowing tares: said
nothing Of Abraham, but spoke of the Ara
bians as nomades of patriarchal simplicity. l
said that Cecrops was the founder OF Athens,
and instructed the people in agriculture.


,--5 Very truly, yours sJ:s- " ..E
Year: 1868

a correspondent Of the Prairie
Farmer recommends the following
mode Of culture:


First. PIow only sir inches in
width and tCelUe inches deep-put
the strength oil team on depth and
narrow furrow A six-ineh fur
row pplUerises much better than q
twelve.inch furrow subsoit.


Second. Roll the ground before
the sun has had q chance TO make
bricks of all the Jumps on Tho sur
face.


Third. Harrow Immediately
after planting.


Fourth. For the first time cul-
tivating, use a long narrow Bull
Tongue, for the Inside shovel OF q
two.hol So cuItivator. Let it run
down as deep as the ground was
powed, and near the corn. Alter
The first time use shovel elows set
ting them so as to throw-the dirt
slightly toward the corn. Keep
the ground meiio,o and clean is the
best rule for the number Of times
to 60 over.


The above plan was pursued by
man who took a worn out farm,
and run his crop up to 1871 BUSH
els per acre. Corn cultivated on
this plan 10 not liable to he injured
by drorth. The farmer who plows
only six inches deep, and does not
produce ever that, loses one.hait OF
the fertilizing properties of bis soil
| have been close observer OF
corn culture for severel years and
am satisfied that the crops Of llli-
nois can bo nearly or quite doubt.
ed. The same may be said of tho
winter wheat crop, il farmers had
proper machinery. Bot they have
not, though it can be made.
Year: 1868

could hover understand why
our farmers do not keep ducks; as
u matter of profit they are moro
profitable tLan hens. II may be
that the impression that in order
to keep ducks a person must have
a pond or stream OF water near by,
has deferred many from keeping
them; but there is no need CT anv-
thing OF the kind. 1t is trae that
il is better TO have pond or stream
but ' ou can raise ducks Just as
well elsewhere. l know of parties
that are very successful in raising
them, that have only a shallow tub
set in the ground and filled from
the pump occasionally, In fact,
the trouble of raising ducks, and
about tho only one, is letting the
young 20 into the water too soon
after they are Latched. They
should not be allowed to go into
water for week or ten days after
they leave the nest.


When | speak of the profit from
ducks. do not have reference tt
the common duck that is seen ev-
cry day. mean breed of ducks
that will weigh twelve pounds tC
the pair. alive, such as the Rouer
and Ayiesbury, and both excellent
layers, easily kept and reared
and being very large and excel
| lent for tho market, and it costs nc
more to rear them than the com
mon ducks that will Only weigh oil
the average about eight pounds tt
the pair,


The Roneu is q very handsome
duck in plumage, the drake has
glossy groen bead down toa white
ring on his neck, the lower part o
the body is II beautiful mixed gray
| the wings are of a beautiful greer
brown gray and shaded with
brown on the back. The duck II
of a beautiful brown. with abou
every feather shaded on the outel
edae with black. They are ac
knowledged the best of the varie
tics, laying very early, and contin
uing the season except in moultint
season, and late in winter.


The Aylesbury is pure white
both the ducks ard drake. and q
bont the samo size as tho Rouen
Both become very familiar, and be
ing largo and heavy, do nor car
to roam as much as the common
kind.-Ms. Farmer.
Year: 1868

The Springfield Republican says:
"All the signs will fail if there is
not sharp and sudden shortening
up OF expenses in evory depart
ment ofthe Government after Gen.
Grant becomes President. We
venture to predict that economy
will become.the fashion then as il
has not been for the last 70 years
The General signalized his short
occupation Of the War Office by u
vigorous cutting down Of expenses
aud stopping Of leaks which was
refreshing; and in bis recent cores
pondence With General Hancock,
in relation to~tbe removed New
Orleans officials, he takes occasion
10 tell that ofIicer-ior uIl the
world in the tone a prudent father
might adopt toward a son away at
school, who is disposed to be a lit
tic too FREQ of his money-"Dis-
patches Of such length as yours
should bo sent by mail when there
is not greater necessity for prompt
reply than seemed to exist in this
case That's the talk"
Year: 1868

X LESSON FOR DAD.--An old gentleman farmer, who had two or three very pretty girls, was so very anxious of his charge that he would not permit them to keep the com pany of young men. However, they adopted the following experiment. 10 enjoy the com pany of their lovers, without the knowledge of their father:

 After the old man had retired to rest, the girls would hang sheet out of the window which was quite a distance from the ground, and the beaux would seize hold of the sheet. and with the assistance of his lady love, who tugged lustily at the sheet above, would thus gain entrance.

 But it so happened that one evening the girls hung the sheet rather early, for the old gentleman, by some ill-wind was blown around the corner, and spying the sheet could not conjecture the meaning of it being there. He took hold and endeayOrcd to pull it down. The girls, supposing it to be one of their beaux, began to hoist, and did not discover their mistake until the head of the old man was level with the window, when one of them exclaimed, "Oh, Lord it's dad .' and letting go their hold, souse came the old man on the hard stones and gravel below, dsIocating one of his shoulders, which convinced him that his effort to make old maids of his daughters was not so easily accomplished, and with drawing all opposition to their keeping com psny, he was soon fstber-in-lsw
Year: 1868

the President afterwards abandoned
this ground, and, pretending that the
governments he had organized were
entitled to be regarded as States in
the Union with or without the consent
Of Congress, denounced Congress as
an illegal body, hanging on the verge
OF the Government" and evinced an
unmistakable purpose of enforcing
his pretenslons, by force, if necessa-
ry and when, IN defiance of law, he
attem pied to remove trustworthy
Secretary Of War, for no reason, ex-
cept that he remained devoted TO
those men and measures which the
President had betrayed and abandon
ed.-then his cup of criminality was
full. The Senate, by more than two
thirds majority, pronounced the Pres
ldent guilty of violating the law for
an attempt to commit a crime is
misdemeanor and the House of Rep
resentatives had no choice but to inn
peach him He was impeached bv
the House, in the name of the people
of the United States, for the very
act which more than tive thirds of the
Senate had pronounced violation Of
law. The people supposed that con
viction was to follow, but Il did not


One by one, six of the Republican
Senators had joined the impartial and
judicial Democrats and, at half-past
eleven OF the night preceding the final
vote, Senator Ross was struck with a
constitutional sCRUPLE,-and tmpeach-
nlent a0os dead. The Convention did
not pretend to decide whether the
Republican Senators, who voted the
President guilty on the 22d of Febru-
ary, and not guilty on the 10th Of
May, were playing boy on the first oc-
casion or dog on the second. The
Convention contented itself with APP
proving the course of those who had
voted the same way on both occasions,
and whose votes were, as the people
believe, fully justified by the law and
the facts proved on the trial.
Year: 1868

Well rally again to the standard we bore,
Ger battle fields crimson and gorv,
Shouting "hail to the chief |" who in Free.
dom's fierce war,
Hath covered that banner with glory
Then rally again, then rally again,
With the soldier, and sailor, and


hummer


And we'll fight it out here, on the old


Union line,


No odds if it takes us all summer
Well rally again, by the side of the men,
Who breasted the conflicts fierce rattle.
And they'll find US still true, who were true
TO them then,
And bade them God speed" in the bat
Then rally again, then rally ag ain,
With the soldier, and sailor, and bum
And well fight it out here, on the old


Union line,


No odds if il takes us all summer.
Well rally again; and /" that flag of the free"
Shall stay where our heroes have placed it.
And ne'er shall they govern, on land or on
sea,


Whose treason hath spurned and disgraced
il.


Then rally again, then rally again,
With the soldier and sailor and bum


mer;


And well fight it out here, on the old


Union line,


No odds if it takes US all summer.
Well rally again; and our motto shall be,
Whatever the nation that bore US:
God bless that old banner, - the flag of the
free"


And ali that would die with it Ger us.
Then rally again, then rally again,
With the soldier, and sailor, and bum


mer;


And well fight it out here, on the old


Union line,


No odds if it takes US all summer
Year: 1868

We direct attention to the COM
munication of Taxpayer in this is
sue. He makes some good sugges-
tions with reference to County finan-
ces. In fact, no question should in
terest the public so much at this par
ticuIar time, when the laws are about
undergoing a change, as to see that
the change shall be for the better
Every man who has a friend in the
Legislature, and who has a good sug-
gestion to make, should write and
advise our representatives as TO bis
views.
Year: 1868

SUCCESSFUL SEA ARcn.-M. l.. affronted
his wife, who, to punish him, resolved to
act dumb whenever he was present; and
so well did she maintain her resolutiop, that
nearly week passed away in which not
a word did she utter in his presence. She
performed her household duties as usual,
but speak she would not. He tried to
coax her out of her whim, but in vain.
At last he tried the following plan to over.
come her resolution, by working on her
osity-the most ungoyefnable female
propensity. Returning one evening from
his employment, his lady sat there as usu-
al, mute. lie Immediately commenced o
vigorous search throughout the room.
The closet was exa mined, the bedroom,
drawers, boxes. shelves; everything that
could be thought of was overhauled. His
wife was struck with astonishment at his
unaccountablc behavior, and as he procee.
ded in his search, she became anxious to
find out what he W as looking for. What
could it be She looked in his face, to
CLEAN, if possible, from his expression the
object of his search but no go, he was So
Der as Judge. He lifted the edge of the
carpet, looked under the table cover and
finally approached her chair, looked under
it, and even went 20 far as to brush her
dress partly aside, as if what he sought
might be there. She could stand it no
longer She burst out, "Bob, what are
you looking for p He smiled and an
swered, Your tongue, and I've found it.a
Year: 1868

BY DE suILB.
Why should we notice little things
And whf should triHes so
Vex our weak hearts, and make US grieve,
And magnify our woe.
When we are prone to sorrow, too,
Why do we miss the joys
Which slsed to comfort oft our minds,
And raise our cheerful voice,
How foolish, too, when life is full


OF pleasant things, to seek,
Because we dismal feel, the ones


We know will make us weep.
And often, when we need but stretch
Our hand to grasp some sweet,
We, with n suicidal will,


Take what 5 with pain replete.
Not in childs young heart alone
Is folly still bound up;
But, though we Older grow, we still
Hold fast IL bitter cup
We point at the old misanthrope,


And scorn his hateful look
But, in ourselves, we let the seeds


Of his disease spring up.
Now we might just as well be gay,
And seize on pleasures fruit,
As pick the sour and baleful growth
Of disontcutments root
So from the future, let us learn


a lesson of content,
And when we're old we car look back
Upon IL life well spent
With pleasure fraught and full of Joy,
(Although not free from grief)
But still We'll find that as we will,


So we may make our life.
Philadelphia, September %, 1868.
Year: 1868

1t is often proclaimed by the advocates
of celibacy, that there are but few instances
of happy unions; and VIC must, however
unwilling we may be, acknowledge the
truth of this assertion. But it is undeni-
able, that when the marriage state is en-
tered into with congenial dispositions and
proper motives, without any sorJid views
or selfish ends, it is productive of more
perfect happiness, than any other situation
in which human beings may be placed.
If on the other hand, people will attach
themselves together for life, without due
consideration, led ON only by the humor
of the moment, and pass their days re-
gardless of each others desires, and only
seeking for the qualification of their own
peculiar whims and capriccs
unbcnding and unyiclding to the other, it
would be the very height Of madness to
suppose that such connection should be
productive of aught else but continual dis
putc, war and misery.


Reciprocal, congugal love, is the source
of the purcst happiness that earth affords
1t is perpetual fountain from whence
flow continual streams of joy to gladden.
the heart of the recipicnt-to give to him
comfort in all hours of af1iction-to revive
his dropping spirits, and inspire him with
new life, as fall the gentle dcws of heaven
upon the faded flowers, and rcvivcs them
to their prestinc fragrance and beauty. 1t
is the c0nsumation of afcction-thc happy
minglement Of two fond hearts in one
Their mutual wishes tend towards the hap
piness of the other, and they drink from
the same cup whether its contents are the
sweet waters of gladness or the gall of bit
terncss. The sorrows that rcnd one heart
reach the other, and the throb of JOY that
vibrates in one breast thrills in the other.
With them there is no reserve. All their
actions are guided by mutual sincerity,
and they therefore have never to complain
of deceit Such conneXion is, and ever
will be, productive of the purest emotion
of pleasure, that the human heart is sus-
ceptible Of, and will raise the virtuous and
contented to a height of happiness, that
those who plod on in the drcary, solitary
path of celibacy. can never reach.


To the above may be added, that the
Author of our being has said: at is not
pOUu lOl liidH W lihC ulult, anu w uO
shall gainsay his word ? Did he not in
stitute marriage, and did he not know
what was best for the creature he had
made? How idle then is all the twaddle
about celibacy. 1t may do to joke over,
and laugh at but, all things considered,
i, cannot be denied that marriage is the
happiest state of man. 1t is not always
so, because men do not enter into the
marriage relation properly. But this is
their own fault. OF one thing let all be
well assured, and that is-thcrc is no true
happiness where love is not, though all
things else copspire TO make union de-
sirable. 1t must not be overlooked, how
ever, that only the most fervent love can
survive the trials and cares of life in the
midst of abjeot poverty. Love is essen,
t'al, but something to feed it on and clotht
it, withall, is desirable. Ed Transcript
Year: 1868

\ lady whose family were very much
in the habit of making ool4pdrums was
one evening asked by her husband in an
excited tone d" Why are all these doors
left open y 81 give it up" instantly
replied the lady
Year: 1868

Two Quaker girls were ironing on the
same side-table One asked the other
which side she would take, the right Or
the left. She an swcr2d promptly. g It
will be right for me to take the left, and
then it will be left for thee to take tbs
right"
Year: 1868

A young widow was asked why she was
going to get married so soon after the
death of her first husband. "Oh, lam
said she, II do it to prevent fretting N.Y.
self to death on account of my dear Tom"
Year: 1868

Or those who contemplate marriage, who are
suffering under any of these fearful maladies
should not forget the sacred responsibility
resting upon them, nor delay to obtain i'm
mediate relief.