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Year: 1874

That some animals are very mind
full of an injury and eager for re-
venge, no matter how long delayed,
there is ample proof. All our young
readers remember the story of the
elephant who took the tailor's slight to
heart and gave that little gentleman
Il thorough drenching; and you may
also remember numbcrless stories of
how the same unwicldly beasts re-
membered injuries for years and
waited for chance of venting their
spite. But one Of the most remark
able eases on record is this one,
which we Gull from the columns of
Il literary Journal:


"A wear or two ago it chanced
that a valuable camel, working in the
oil mill, was severely beaten by its
driver, who, pcrceiving that the cam.
el had treasured up the injury and
was only waiting i favorable oppor
tunity for revenge, kept strict
watch on the animal. Time passed
ON. The camel percclVlnS that II
was watched, was quiet and obedien1
and the driver began to think that
forgotten, when one night, after the
lapse of several months, the man
who slept on the platform in the mill
whilst, as is customary, the camel was
stalled in a corner, happening to re
main awake, observed by the moon
light, that when all was quiet, thu
animal looked cautiously around
rose softly, and stealing towards
spot where bundle of clothes and :
bu,nouse, throwL . 'e.e sly upon th'
ground, resembled u sleeping figure
cast itself violently upon them, roll
ing with all its weight, and tearins
ING them viciously with its teeth
satisfied that its vengeance was con


pletc, the camel was returning to it


corner, when the driver sat up an
spoke. At the sound Of his voice
Year: 1874

son, who could write well enough.
and was very unlikely to make his
mark, as the man who had vcuched
for the genuineness of this epistle had
done. This objection naturally car
ried weight, and many people suspect
ed that the evidence of George Has
sci and Of the letter had been got up
by the Captain, who was anxious to
prove the man alive, and SO escape
from the odium which attached to
him.


Finally ship was sent to bring
this protesting Robert Jeffrey to
England, where he arrived in due
course, and proved to be the right
man safe enough, certain shyness
and diffidence which he felt in the
presence of the gentlemen who had
drawn up his report being the cause
Of his making cross instead of sign
ing it. He landed at Portsmouth in
the October of 1910, three years after
the event which had caused him to
become a public character. The Ad-
miralty forwarded him III charge of
a naval officer to Polperro. where the
entire population recognized him, and
his arrival was made the occasion of
great public rejoicing.


But before settling down in his
native place he accepted all offer
from the manager of q London thea
tre to exhibit him for a certain num-
ber of nights, and rs it was the rage
to 60 and see "Jeffrcy's the Sailor"
he made rather good thing of it.
These profits were presently swelled
by sum of f6OO, which was paid
him by the family of the Captain in
acquittal of all the claims he might
have against that officer, who was
still liable to civil action, and in the
excited state of public opinion was
likely to be cast in heavy damages.


After the lapse of few months,
when he ceased to "draw," Jeffrey
returned to Cornwall with money
enough to purchase a coasting schoon-
er: married, and, if this were fiction,
wonld have lived happily forever aft
erwards. But the story being per-
fectly true one, Robert Jeffrey was
subject to all those ills which afflict
ordinary mortals who have never
been the subjects Of popular sympa-
thy or curiosity.


He failed to make his schooner pay,
and he died early Of consumption,
leaving his wife and daughter in
great distress.
Year: 1874

and preceiving the mistake it had
made, the animal was so mortified at
the failure and discovery Of its
scheme, that it dashed its head
against the wall, and died OH the
spot. Such is the story as related by
the dragoman."
Year: 1874

THE DIsGRAcEFUL GoAT.-There is
an old goat owned ON Lewis street which
has received great deal of training
from the boys. Last Fourth of JULY
they discovered that If they stuck fire.
cracker in the end of cane and held if
at William, he would lower his head
and go for them, and they have prac-
ticed the trick SO much that the goat
will tackle any human being who points
a stick at him. Yesterday noon he was
loafing near the corner of Third and
Lewis streets, when a corpulent citizen
came up and stopped to talk with a
friend. They happened to speak of this
sidewalk, when the corpulent citizen
pointed his cane just to the left of the
goat and said: That's the worst piece
Ofsidewalk in this town." The goat had
been eyeing the cane, and the moment
it came up he lowered his head, made
six or eight jumps, and his head struck
the cOrpulents citizen just on the the
belt. The man went over into mass
of old tin, dilapidated butter kegs and
abandoned hoop-skirts, and the goat
turned a ss0mersault the other way, while
the slim citizen threw stones at a boy seat
ed on a door step who was laughing tears
as big as chesnuts and crying out: Oh!
it's nutf to kill a fellerw-E Detroit Free
Press
Year: 1874

1t is easier to be good business man
than a poor one. Half the energy dis
| played in keeping ahead that is required
| tO.catch up when behind, will save cred
it, give more time to business, and add
to the profit and reputation of your


work. Honor your engagements. If


you promise to meet man, or do a
| certain thing at q certain moment, be


ready at the appointed time. If you go


out on business, attend promptly to the


matter on hand, and then as promptly


go about your 'OWn business. Do not
stop to tell stories in business.


IT. you have place of business, be
found there when wanted. No man can


get rich by sitting around stores and


saloons. Never "foor on business mat


ters. If you have to labor for living,


remember that one hour in the morning


Is better than two ut night. If you employ


ploy others, be On hand to see that attend


to their duties, and to direct with reg


ulaflty, promptness and liberality. Do


not meddle with any business you know


nothing of. Never buy thing simply


because the man who sells will take it
out in trade. Trade is money. Time is
money: A good business is pleasant and
attractive; then stay there to wait ON
customers. ....


Never use quick words, or allow your


self to make hasty or ungentlemanly re-
marks to those In your employ, for to
do so lessons their respect for you and
your influence over them. Help your


self and Others will help you. Be faith
full over interests cOnfided to your keep
ing, and all in good time your response
bllltles will be increased. Do not build
until You have arranged and laid out
good foundation. Do not-as you hope
to work for success-spend time in idle
ness. If your time is your own, business
will suffer it you do. Ifit is given to
another for pay, it belongs to him, and
you. have to steal money. Strive to
avoid harsh words and personalities.
Donot kickevery stone in the path; more
miles can be made a day by going steadi-
ly on, than by stopping to kick. Pay as
you go. A man of honor respects his
word as he does his bond. Ask, but
never beg. Help others when you can
but never give when you cannot afford
to, simply because it is fashionable.
Learn to say "No." No necessity for
swapping it out dog fashion, but say it
firmly and respectfully. Have but few
cOnfdants, and the fewer the better. |
Use your brains rather than others. |
Learn to think and aetfor yourself. Be
yigilant. Keep ahead, rather than be- |
hind the times. Young men, cut this
out; and it there is folly in the argument, |
letus know,
Year: 1874

Now they have got an equalized spring
bed so that il you only weigh a hundred
pounds, and your wife weighs three
hundred pounds, she don't sink down any
lower than You do. This has always
been o great failing with spring beds.
A small man couldn't tell whether he
would be dead in the morning or not.
A La Crosse, man went to bedS first the
other night, and got asleep, and finally
his wife came in mad because she stub
bed her toe on rocking chair. She
weighs a good deal, and she jumped into
bed suddenly. She went clear to tho
bottom on her side, and the spring on
his side flew up, when ne woke up he
was coming down from the ceiling head
first. 1t he hadn't had soft bed TO fail
on he would never have known what
hurt him. Large women should be care
full about falling in bed, or they will kill
somebody yet. 5---~
Year: 1874

thirty y-dollars. Icould have buried herfor
twenty and had none of this bother be-
sides. And that's why I want to tell


you never to embalm a deceased corpse
in no circumstances. Never mind what
the papers say. I've had experience in
the business, and if were to lose ten
wives I'd bury them every one cheer


fully rather than be bothered with an
one numbering up the house


md fit for nothing whatever.
Year: 1874

l. A notary public, in the presence of the
ward uperintendents, before the opening oi
poll, shall administer an oath to each of the
commissioners and clerks that they will faith
fully and truthfully perform the duties as
signed them in the primary election Of the
Conservative party held on the - day of =,
1877.


APPOINTMENT OF DELEGATES TO REP PRESENT THE


CITY OF RICHMOND IN DISTRICT NOMINATING
CONVENTION.


l. Primary elections shall be held in like
manner and form as herein detailed, -
days prior to the assembling of each District
Nominating Convention for the election Of a
Conservative candidate to represent the
Third Congressional district and to elect
Conservative candidates to represent this
senatorial district in the Senate of Virginia
to be voted for by the Conservative party ut
the ensuing general election.


2. Conservative voters at said primary
elections shall be required to vote direct tor
candidate or candidates Of their choice.


a candidate or candidates so chosen by
the Conservative voters of the city of Rich
mond who shall receive the highest number
of votes cast in any one ward of the said city
in said primary election, shall be declared
the chosen nominee or nominees OF said
ward, and shall be entitled to the numerical
voting strength in aforesaid District Nomina-
ting Conventions, Us hereinafter provided
for.


3. The City Central Conservative Com
mittee shall, on the certificate of the Board
of Election Commissioners declaring the
choice of the Conservative voters Of each Of
the wards Of the city of Richmond, appoint
three delegates from each voting precinct in
all the wards of the city.


4 The said delegates, representing each
ward, shall constitute ward delegations, and
shall be instructed by the City Central Con-
servatiye Committee to advocate and to cast
the numerical voting strength of their wards
in favor of the candidate or candidates who
were declared by the election commits.
sioners to have obtained the highest number
of votes cast in their several wards in the
city of Richmond at said primary election.
Year: 1874

One Of the Shaker brotherhood gave to a
correspondent of the Country Gentleman the
plan of raising calves pursued at the Shaker
village, in Merrimao Co., N. H.:


We take the calves from the cows when
six days old, and feed them on two quarts Of
new milk three times a day, until they are
four weeks old. The fifth week we gradually
reduce the quantity of new milk aud add
skinned milk, increasing the quantity by
the close of the week to three quarts at q
feeding. All the new milk given to the
calves should be taken from their mothers.


From the time they are five weeks until
they are three months old they are fed on
porridge prepared as follows :-Half pint of
oat meal, one gill of cracked wheat, boiled
one hour in six quarts of water; in cool
weather days allowance may be cooked at
a time. 10 two quarts of this add two
quarts of skinned milk, making four quarts
three times day. The milk should be gen.
tly warmed to about the temperature of new
milk, taking care not to scald it, as it will
produce collie. Ifcalves incline to scour, one
or two raw eggs beat in their milk will gener-
ally effect cure.


We give four quarts of the mixture at a
feeding until they are ten weeks old, then
gradually diminish the quantity during the
next two weeks, when they are weaned and
turned out to pasture. From the time they
enter the feeding pens until they leave for
the pasture, there is constantly kept by
them supply of roots-beets or potatoes,
cut into long thin slices. We prefer beets, as
they prove to be the most nutritious. When
grass cannot be procured, there should a
crib-full of early-cut or second-crop hay kept
by them. The pens should be kept clean
and dry; to do this, they must be cleaned
Ill I'M
calves you saw when in our place, show the
success of our plan of feeding. When eleven
weeks old, their average weight was two
hundred and thirty pounds.
Year: 1874

A Virginia correspondent of the Lice Stock
Journal, formerly Devonian, sends to that
journal description of the process by which
Devonshire butter is made. This butter
commands the highest price in the English
market:


The milk is set in round faring earthern
pans, nine to twelve inches high. These are
filled with new milk and allowed to stand for
twelve hours. These earthern pans are then
set on stove, 1.-THE ordinary American cook
ing stove will do) but it must only be set on
the hot plate not over the fire. 1t continues
slowly heating till a ring rises on the cream
the size ofthe bottom of the pan. 1t is then
taken off the stove and allowed to stand
twelve hours, or till quite cold. Now it is
ready for skimming, and Is made into butter
without churn. The cream is then put
into an earthern pan, same shape as those
pans the milk is set in, and is beaten up with
wooden spatula or straight ladle, about five
inches long and four inches wide, fiat on one
side and slightly rounding on the other, or it
is sometimes worked up with the hand.


The cream, when skinned, is called Dew
onshire ciotted cream; and by some is sent
up to London, packed in one pound tins,
sold for the same price as butter, is consid-
cred great luxury, and is eaten on fruit
pies or with fresh strawberries. Some use it
on bread spread thick, or with honey or mo-
lasses spread thin. 1 have been quite ia
miliar with all this for many years of my
life.
Year: 1874

Mr.. Drumme is a commercial traveller,
and is away from home good deal, and
besides that he is so very much absorbed
in his business that his wife never expects
any assistance from him in the manage
ment of household matters. When Mrs.
Drumme determined to move she cOmmu-
nicated her intention to her spouse, and
told him that she intended to 90 about it
during his next period of rest from his
jOurneying, and would depart from her
usual custom by asking him to assist.
Drumme declared his readiness, and was
particular to note the date of his intended
fitting in his memorandum book. He
then went TO the store, packed his sample
cases, learned two or three new funny
stories to tell his customers, and started
out and was gone three weeks, scouting
in Illinois and Kentucky. He returned on
one of the late night trains and started
home, thinking he would have a week s
rest before the moving process began.


He let himself in with latch-key, and
the first thing he noticed was the hollow
sound of his heel on the hall floor. He
proceeded. and on entering the sitting
room stumbled and fell into the midst of
two or three shrieking women and babies,
and before he could rise and explain, he
felt bed-Slat collide with his head several
times in quick succession before he lost
consciousness. When he "came to-" a
large man had him in his arms, and wO-
man was holding light and pouring wa
ter on his head. The man was saying /:
{" Bless my soul. | hope he amt killed
It's Mr.. Drummer


The explanation Drumme's wife gave
him was that the new house being ready a
week earlier than was expected, she had
moved, but he failed to get the letter ap-
prising him of the fact. As the gentle
man who took the house bought the night
latch and dOor-bell, she did not remove
them, and thus Mr.. Drumme got into the
house and tumbled right among the sleep
ing family, who were camping in the dim
ing-room the first night of their residence
in his late dOmicile.-EUansUiLl Journal.
Year: 1874

1t is reported that Southern COnserva-
tive members voted against the Centennial
$4,000, 900 fund for no other reason than
because they thought the passage OF gen
eral amnesty should antedatr an apprOpri-
alton to celebrate the hundredth anniver-
sity of the Union. But for this objection
they would have sustained the bill, per-
haps. The fundamental idea of the Cen
tennial show is to exhibit to the world the
greatness and unity of this nation. lis
but mOckery to talk of this while men
are deprived of their civil rights. in cOnse-
quence of events that occurred ten years
ago, and now have almost the dimness of
traditions. The injustice to these men, as
individuals. is but the least part of the
harm done by the policy of Ostracism.
Excluding them from the right of suffrage
and holding Office prohibits much Of the
native ability OF the South from TAX
ing part in the work of restoration; and
the i'll effects of this is seen in the wretch
ed misgOvernment of several of the South
ern States. Had universal amnesty been
proclaimed five years ago, and the best
men of the South had fair chancetO make
themselves felt in public affairs, we be-
lievc that South C-rolina, Mississippi.


Louisiana and Arkansas would now be
governed with something like decency.
But even without reference to these prob
able results. 1t would have been work of
common generosity and prudent states
manship to restore the eX-Contederates to
their lost privileges a long time ago, en-
naasse, instead of peddling out pardOnS to
them two or three at a time, after suitable
humiliation. If Congress wishes the peo-
pie to celebrate the Centennial anniversary
with unison and heartiness it should im-
mediately grant amnesty to all political
offenders, so that those persons may get
themselves into the proper frame of mind
for the jubilee of lS76.-N. 7. Journal Of
Year: 1874

At recent meeting of the Chicago
Academy OF Science, Ex-Governor Bross
of that city read an elaborate paper on the
subject of the Mississippi inundatiOns, in
which he argued that the OvertlOws which
are now devastating so large a portion OF
the finest cotton districts of Mississippi,
Arkansas and Louisiana, and nearly all
the choice sugar region of the latter State,
find their explanation not in larger vol
ume of water than,usual poured into the
Lower Mississippi from its tributaries, but
in the fact that the bed of the river is grad
ually rising, thus lifting up its waters to a
higher level, and causing them to flow
over the banks and levees which once con-
fined them. In support Of this view he
declared that he had cOnversed with many
intelligent and observant bOatmen in St.
Louis, who confidently averred that the
bed of the river is gradually rising from
the deposit of sediment, just as the river
PO, in Italy, whose Overflows are more
frequent and destructive than formerly,
is lifting its bed from the same cause.
This view of a very interesting subject is
strengthened by circumstances attending
the recent overflow. 1t is d noteworthy
fact that this recent overflow was not
caused nor accompanied by any unusual
rise either in the Missouri or Upper Missis-
sippi; the floods came into the lower river
at and below Cairo, chiefly from the Ohio
Cumberland, Tennessee, White, Arkansas,
and Red rivers; and the flood in the Ohio
lacked several feet Of being as high as for
mer years have witnessed. Had the great
streams above Cairo, the Missouri and its
tributaries. and the Upper Mississippi,
with its affluents, participated in the rise,
the lower river would have been raised
several feet higher than it was-a height
that would have carried it probably, over
nearly all the levees. and caused the inun-
datiOn of all the lOwlands bordering on it..
That so great and destructive an overflow
as that which took place should come from
the comparatively limited volumes of
water poured into the river at and below
Cairo, seems to suggest decreased ca
pacity of the river channel to contain its
waters, owing to the elevation of the bed.
If this theory be correct, some very inter-
esting questions present themselves :
How long is the process to go on? What
will be its ultimate effects? If the
levees on its bank are to be built higher as
its bed is raised, to secure the country
from inundatiOn, there will come time
when the mighty river will flow to the
sea like an aqueduct, through channels
lifted up above the plain. But there is a
limit to the work of raising the levees ;
the higher they are built the weaker they
become, and in great flood, in which all
the upper rivers snail participate, the
levees would be carried away, and the re-
leased water would submerge the low re-
giOns in a far more destructive deluge
than any we have yet witnessed.-S.
Louis Republican.
Year: 1874

Saturday morning, in a ride over the
bridge to Cincinnati on a Covington
car, we had the pleasure of the company
of three ladies and two children, all un-
known to us. One of the ladies was the
mother of one of the children. a little
girl. and one of them was the grand
mother of the child.


Stopping at the dollhouse on this side,
A pariey arose between the driver and the
toll-gatherer about the children. The
latter. TO settle the matter, said to the lit
tie girl, ''How old are you, sissie p and
the child innocently answered, Eight
Year: 1874

wears" The limit being six years, the
driver had TO give check for the child,
and. of course. collected full fare from her
mother. The lady was considerably pro-
voked, and rs the car moved on, said,
with emphasis and shake of the finger
at the child, Next time, you say five"
The grandmother demonstrated, but the
mother persisted in her instruction, and
argued the matter at some length. The
whole party were quite handsomely
dressed, and the mother of the child wore
a large cross around her neck.-Cineia-
Year: 1874

A TEMPTING Cheerful
Agent for Life Assurance COmpany-"The
advantage of our company is, that you do
not forfeit your policy either by being
hanged or committing suicide! Pray
take prOspectns!''
Year: 1874

This enterprise is looked upon a m
assured iact by persons living along the
route of The road. The people of Wins
low and viiicinity are exceedingly san
guine in regard to the building of the
road. In conversation with a number of
citizens OF Ta'oka township. this week.
we learn that there is a fair prospect of
selling the bonds OF The road AZ price
that will insure the immediate building
of the road. This j. good news and il The
people along the line want to make the
enterprise doubly sure they will sub
>ncribe literally 20 the capital stock of
the road. IL is only question OF money.
and If the people will "cone down" as
they should do the road will be built.


Pelersburgh Pres.