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Year: 1866

FoRxAt OrsSIxe To -xiGnr. The public
will please bear in mind that the formal
opening exercises oi the State Normal
Academy Of Music will take place st Acad-
emy Hall this evening. The public is cor
daily Invited TO attend. The singing will
undoubtedly be highly entertaining, and
in spite Of The hcat We expect to zee our
people EXHIBIT their interest In such mat
tsss BY tsrning out in large numbers.
Year: 1866

"A Curious CLocK.-Many years ago
there was Il clock made by one Droz. n
mechanic of Geneva, which was renowned
for its ingenious construction. The clock
was so made as to be capable of perform
ing the following movements: There was
on it negro, a shepherd and dog.
When the clock struck the shepherd play
ed six tunes on his flute, and the dog ap-
preached and fawncd upon him. The
clock was exhibited to the king of Spain,
who was greatly delighted with it. !.The
gentlcness of my dog" said Droz, sis his
great merit. If your majesty touch one of
the apples which you see in the shepherd S
basket, you will admire the fidelity of this
animal" The king took an apple, and
the dog flew at his hand and barked so loud
that the kings dog, which was in the
same room during the exhibition, began to
bark also, at which the superstitious court
iers, not doubling that it was an affair of
witchcraft, hastily left the room, crossing
themselves as they went. Having desired
the minister of marine, who was the only
one who dared to stay behind, to ask the
negro what o'clock it was, the minister
asked, but received no reply. Droz then
observed that the negro had not yet learn
ed the Spanish; upon which the minister
repeated the question in French, and the
black Immediately answered him. at this
new prodigy the tirmncss of the minister
also torsook him, and he retreated prccipi-
lately, declaring that it must be the work
of supernatural being. 1t is probable
that in the performance of these tricks
Droz touched certain springs in the me-
chaniSm although that ia not mentioned
in any of the accounts of his clock.
Year: 1866

A circular has come to light in WASH
ington issued by radical leaders calling
on their friends to come to that city on
the re-assembling of the 39th congress in
their might to protect the loyal majority.
And it is said that the radical party is se-
cretly at'work organizing permanent mill
tary force, subject to the order of congress.
With two military organizations in the
country, one subject to the order of the
Commander-in-C Chief, and the other to the
order of Congress, how long will it be be-
fore there will be a collision? We hope
the people will treat this reasonable con-
spiracy with that degree of severity which
its authors so richly deserve. No threats
have been made of al, interference with
congress in the discharge of its legitimate
duties so that this dislOyal movement is
utterly uncalled for and without excuse
Eayette Co. Lnion. .:...
Year: 1866

The Estate Temperance league of 1ndi-
ana have adopted the ''Shuey bill'' as their
platform, and propose to insist upon its en-
aetnent a.a, mt. as % law by the legislature Of that
dcrtakes to prescribe what the people of
Indiana shall not drink. Radicalism in
other states has undertaken to prescribe
what people shall and shall not believe in,
what sort of religion they shall profess,
whom they shall vote for in order to be
saved, and so on. 1t is only another step
in the grand progress of the millennium
to define by law what they shall not drink.
By-and-by, radical Legislators will come to
the question what they shall eat, what
they shall wear, what shall be the fashion
of their beard, and what shall be the
length Of their countehances on fast days.
Year: 1866

An inventor in London claims to have
discovered a method of making illumina-
ting gas for actually less than nothing
lie extracts it from vegetable substance
which, to the present, have been treated
as utterly useless, and which, better still,
after producing the gas, becomes matter
of cash convertible value; SO that the more
of the new gas one manufactures and con-
sumes, the greater advantage it will be to
him pecuniarily.
Year: 1866

The farmer pays a tax on his head, har-
nesses taxed team to n taxed plow, and
drives his taxed coulter into his thrice
taxed soil, raises crop of corn which is
taxed, feeds it to his chickeus which are
counted and taxed, then pays a license for
the privilege Of selling, and invests what
little there is left of the proceeds in a few
of the little necesssaries of life, which are
taxed in the aggregate, then classified and
taxed, and then taxed in detail.
Year: 1866

A poor woman and her child lately set
tied in Western city, and were greatly
reduced and in need of food The child
seeing chicken in the back yard wanted
to kill it and have pot pie. "NO, no,
said the mother. ''that would he wicked,
and God would surely punish you
"Then." said the youngster, looking up.
"lets move back to New York-there amt
any God there. ?" a.
Year: 1866

1t is tie duty Of all men, young and
old, to make their persons, so far as prac-
ticable, agreeable to those with whom
they are thrown in contact. BY this, we
mean that they should not offend by sim
gularity nor slovenliness. Let 70 man
know by your appearance what trade you
follow. You dress your person, not your
business. Be careful to mould the fashion
of the times to your own personal peculiar
tiles. Fashion is to be your servant, not
your master. Therefore never dress in
the extreme of fashion. Only adopt it as
far as is consistent with your face and fig
ure. That which will become one may i'll
become another; and for all to follow the
same model is obviously absurd. The cx-
ercise of little judgment on your part
will enable you to adopt so much of the
prevailing style in your dress as to show
that you are acquainted with the fashion,
without sacrificing your personal appear
ancc for the scrupulous conformity to its
laws. The best possible impression you
can make by your dress, is to make no
separate impression at all, but to hul ,nv-
nizc its material and shape with your own
figure, that it becomes part of you; and
people. without recOllecting how you We're
clothed, remember that you looked well,
and were dressed becomingly.


An objection may be urged here that at
tcntion to dress is dangerous. We think
not Extravaganza is dangerous, but ex-
traya .antly dressed people are seldom
dressed we'll. We constantly meet multi
tudes of people dressed in every imagina-
bic style. Here is one in the best of broad
cloth and the costlicst jewelry, but who
looks exceedingly vulgar here another,
habitcd plainly, but in good taste, is gen.
tlcmanly in his appearance at half the
cost. Snowy and flaming clothes argue the
menial poverty of the wearer. The secret
of being we'll dressed is but the exercise of
Judgment and good sense-~it invariably
requires mere care than cash and instead
of making young man extravagant, it is
saving of half the money it would cost to
clothe him in the vulgar and pretending
style which so many, nowadays, unfor-
tunately adopt.


The Meadville (Pa.) Republican denies
the statement that there is but one soldier
of the revolution living, and says that
there is in Sandusky, Cattaragus county,
N. Y, an old revolutionary soldier, Mat
thias Bakeman by name, who draws pen
sion from the government. lie was born
in 1855, and is therefore now Ill years
old. His wife, who was one year younger
than himself, died about three years ago
and his daughter, fourscore years and
more, keeps house for him. The old man
enjoys remarkably good health for one OF
such advanced years, and walks to the vii
lase half mile frem his residence, every
two or three days. On each 4th of July
he takes his old fowling-piece and goes out
into the fields, where he blazes away sa-
lutte in honor of Independence day.
Year: 1866

NTHAT class Of people will bc most susceptible to


wv attacks from Cholera?


Evidently those afflicted with any disease of the
stomach liver, any of the organs appertainng to
DIGESTION This class Of persons Undoubtedly will be
more liable to contract this disease than those
ed Of strong and healthy digestive organs.


The question then naturally arises how shall we
store and keep these organs in healthy and normal
condition! We answer, by attention to diet avoiding
all undue excitement using moderate exercise avoid
ing all intoxicating drinks, no matter in what form
presented, and by the use according directions of
the great strengthening tonic,
Year: 1866

The subioined letter, from a well known
Boston druggist and apothecary was first
published several years ago in a Boston
paper:


Rev DR.. Hamlin, of Coustantinople,
saved hundreds of lives by the following
simple preparation during the terrible
ravages of cholera In that city few years
since. In no case did the remedy fail
where the patient could be reached in
season. 1t is no less effective in cholera
morbus and ordinary diarhea. A remedy
so easily procured and so vitality efica-
cious should always be at hand. An or
binary vial of it can be had for twenty
five cents, and no family should be with
out it over night


THE writer of this received the receipt
few days since, and having been serious
ly attacked with cholera morbus the past
week, can attest to its almost magical in
huence in affording relief from excruciat-
ing pain. He ardently hopes that every
one whose eyes trace these lines will cut
this article from the paper, and procure
the medicine without delay. Its prompt
application will relieve pain, and, pre-
sumptively save life:


Take one part laudanum, one part
eamphorated spirit, two parts tineture of
ginger, two parts capsicum DOse-one
! teaspoonful in a winegass of water. If
the case is obstinate, repeat the dose IN
three or four hours.
Year: 1866




The miners of Montana have had a Sc
we're winter. The gold that has attracted
thousands to the sterile mountains of that
territory. were it dug from the earth and
divided among them, would be poor com
pensation for the suffering and destitiItioD
that many Of them have undergone. 1t
seems incredible that men should start
for regions so remote from civilization
without ample preparation, and an as
surauce that after arriving there they
would have subsistence and shelter
And yet hundreds have gone, taking
nothing with them over what was neees-
sary to defray expenses to the point of
destination, trusting to luck to provide
the means Of living beyond that period


1t is not surprising that there should be
suffering and misery as the sequel of this
improvidence. Shut in by SHOWS that by
their depth put an end to travel and the
transportation of supplies; and exposed
to trOsts almost as severe as those of an
Arctic winter, the miners In the wilds Of
Montana have perished by scores and
hundreds during this season. But few
weeks ago reports of such discoveries
near Su River reached Virginia City and
other towns in the Territory, that with
out waiting for spring, or providing them
selves with suitable clothing and pro-
visions, hundreds of mining adventurers
set off for the auriferous region, and now
the report comes back to the settlement
that during SNOW storm, followed by
such cold weather as is rarely experienced
even there, over two hundred of these
unfortunates perished, their frozen bodies
scattered along the valley of that fatal
river, while scores of them escaped with
limbs so badly frozen that amputation
will be necessary. This Is a picture in
the life of gold hunter not often looked
at, but it is worth examination by those
who cOntemplate ionrney to Montana.
Year: 1866




Farmers loose a great deal every year
by keeping more stock than they can
properly feed and take care Of They
commit a great mistake by keeping more
than they can keep we'll. To keep stock
we'll, they must be kept In a constantly
thriving condition. In summer they
should have abundant pasturaRe, and in
winter warm shelter and all the good nu-
trious food they VIII eat. stock thus
managed are always able-alWays
/ improving and increasing In Value--rafe-
ly, If ever, become sick or die. and afford
one pleasure TO look upons


To illustrate, suppose farmer should
have twelve cows, even IN tolerable con-
dition, and make butter through the
winter Now, if he would bestOW the
same care, attention and food upon eight,
and We might safely say six of the best
of his coWs-prOviding them comfortable
quarters. and keeping them healthy and
thriving-he will make much more but
ter from them than be would from tho
twelve. Or If he viii keep q less number
Of any kind of stock, and feed better, they
will atany time sell for more money than
great mum beR of small, scrawny half-tea
animals 1t is good care and good feed
that makes good animals And farmers
who overstock commit great error. III
YOU have plenty of feed, keep all the
stock you can feed well-but keep no
more. It will pay farmers to feed better,
and to provide better shelter than they
are in the habit of doing for al domestic
animals. No animal eau thrive we'll upon
even all the food it viii eat and exposed
to the inclement weather. Warm shelter
is Indispensable to stock IN winter, ano
those who provide no better roof for
their stock than the-blue heavens above
should lose no time in changing their
policy in keeping stock. 1t can only be
attended with loss.-RUyat World.
Year: 1866

Mr.. James Mcdonald, American Vice
Consul at Hamburg, writing from Ger
many TO John III klipart, Secretary of
the State Board ef Agriculture, says


at will no doubt interest you to learn
that two gentlemen from Chicago are new
In Prussia with the intention oi purohas-
ing a complete set Of machinery for the
purpose Of manufacturing Beet Root
Sugar. They are satisfied that a good
business can DO done and Intend 10 be
ready with their machinery for the next
full crop of beet roots 10 Illinois Their
outlay for machinery here win amount TO
some $50 600 lf the sugar beetg can be
raised cheap enough the manufacturing
Of them into such a valuable article as
refined sugar must prove Of great impor-
tanee to those who have plenty Of cheap
land to devote 70 that purpose.
Year: 1866

The Pittsburgh Dispatch says. shat on
last Tuesday evening one of the railroad
employees of that place, on opening a car
loaded with dressed hogs, which had been
shipped from Chicago on Friday morning
of last week, was shocked to find man
lying among the dead animals He was in
a filthy condition, and was almost dead,
having eaten nothing for five days One
foot was frozen, and he was unable to
walk or even stand. He was taken out of
the car aud properly cared for. When he
had recovered sufficiently, he stated that
he was a discharged soldier. and finding
himself in Chicago without means, and
being anxious to reach New York, he vis-
tied the freight depot for the purpose of
discovering what chance there was for
stealing passage to New York He
was told that the car containing the hogs
would go directly through, in the shortest
possible time, and seizing an opportunity
to slip into the car unseen, he did so, and
had not waited long until he heard the
door showed forward and the lock fasten-
ed. Here he remained for five days and
nights, and being without water or pro-
visions, tits a miracle he did not perish
before reaching that city.
Year: 1866

Thousands of men live, breathe, move,
pass of the stage off life-are heard of no
more. Why? They do not a particle Of
good in the world; none was blessed by
them as the instrument of their redemp-
ton. Not a word they spoke could be re-
called, and so they perished; their light
went down in darkness, and they were not
remembered more than the insects of yes
terday. Will you thus live and die, oh,
mortal man? Live for something. Dc
good, and leave behind you monument Of
virtue that the storms of time can never
destroy. Write your name in kindness


and love, and mercy, on the hearts Of
thousands you may come in contact with
year by year. You VIII never be forgot
ten. No! your name and your deeds viii
be as Iegible on the hearts you leave be-
hind, as the stars on the brow of evening


Good deeds will shine as the stars in heaven
Year: 1866

A cheerful life must be busy one. And
a busy life cannot be otherwise than cheer
fuI. Frogs do not croak in running wa
ter; and active minds are seldom troubled
with gloomy forebodings. They come up
only from the stagnant depths Of spirit
unstirred by generous impulses or the
blessed necessities Of honest toll.
Year: 1866

A genuine case of trance is reported from
Guilford, England. An old lady, after being for
long time in low state Of health, sunk down
suddenly, and was pronounced by surgeon to
be dead. The coffin was purchased and the body
put into it. but it is said that just as the under
taker was about to screw down the lid, the sup.
posed corpse started bolt upright, to the great
terror of the bystanders, and getting out OF its
coffin, walked across the room. 1t is added that
the ''old lady is now hale and strong" .''
Year: 1866

SAVED HIS STRAwBERRIEs.-An exchange
mentions an ingenious method by which q
gentleman saved his straw berries from the
daily attack of an army of robins He killed
a worthless cat, skinned and stuffed her, and
having fitted in glaring glass eyes, he mounted
her in the centre Of a strawberry patch. Al
though the robins continued to congregate
upon the fence and trees near by, and scoded
necessarily, none of them venturcd upon the
patch again. Perhaps the same "scare robin"
would save the cherries. 1t is worth trial,
particularly where cats abound as they do in
some premises at night.
Year: 1866

The war of the REBELLION gave rise tn a,
almost infinite amount of poetry-some q
which was good, more was Indifferent an
still more execrable. The following line,
which have been circulating for several wear
among the newspapers, belong to the frs
class: 41ilrsi .


Into ward of the whitewashed halls.


Where the dead and the dying lay,
Wounded by bayonets, shells and balls,


Somebody's darling was borne one day;
Somebody's darling, so young and so brave


Wearing yet on his sweet pale face
So soon to be hid in the dust of the grave


The lingering light of his boyhood's grace
Matted and damp are the curls of gold,


Kissing the snow of that fair young brow
Pale are the lips, of delicate mould


Somebody's darling is dying now.
Back from his beautiful veined brow


Brush his wandering waves of gold
Cross his hands on his bosom now


Somebody's darling is still and cold. toi
Kiss him once for somebody's sake,


Murmur prayer soft and low;
One bright curl from his fair mates take


They were somebody's pride, you know.
Somebody's hand hath rested there


Was it mothers, soft and white
Or have the lips of a sister fair .


Been baptised in their waves of lights
Somebody's watching and waiting for him,


Yearning to hold him again to her heart
And there he lies with his blue ewes dim,


And the smiling. child-like lips apart.
Tenderly bury the fair young dead


Pausing to drop on his grave tear;
Carve on the wooden slab oer his head,


Somebody's darling slumbers here"
Year: 1866

The Richmond correspondent of the
New York Times, narrates bit of ro-
nance during the war:


"During the Winter of 1S64-5, our
Government obtaiued assurance of the
hopelessness of the rebel cause by com
ing into possession of the testimony of
General Lee before Committee of the
rebel Congress, which was never report
ed to the House, except in secret ses
sion, if at all: The entire statement of
the rebel General, word for word, was
iu possession of President Lincoln, at
Washington. In the room where the
Committee met was closet, and from
that closet, Immediately after their ad-
journment, came the priceless informa-
ton. Outside the house it changed
hands, and second party walked leis-
urely through the streets of Richmond
with it, until upon the environs he en-
countered one of the common country
carts of this section proceeding with the
half of newly killed beef toward the
rebel lines in Butler's front. No COM
munication that the most lynx. eyed
could perceive, passed between the man
and the cart, but the former gradually
changed his direction, and was soon
walking slowly back in the direction
whence he had come The cart went
on, reached and passed the rebel camps,
without molestation, and reached the
pickets, where it halted, as matter of
course. The beef was destined for the
house Of planter just beyond the rebel
lines, and in plain sight of the outposts.
These explanations made and careless
search of the cart by the rebel sentry,
that is, look into it, the cart proceed
ed on its way. Just as it neared the
house small party of our cavalry made
a dash at it, and to the utter surprise
of the rebel pickets, who saw the whole
affair, our own men only lowered mo-
ment around the cart, then galloped
back with one more man than they came
with, leaving cart and beef, and driver
and mnle behind them. They did not
know it then, but under the beef was a
man, and the man had package, and
the package contained the statements
of General Lee before the Committee of
the rebel Congress few hours before"
Year: 1866

A RIGHT THAT ALL MEN ARE BOUND
TO REsPEcT.-In Carroll county, Tenn
essee, a man was tried before county
magistrate, charged with stealing corn
from neighbor's crib. The defendant
had been found with his hand in steel
trap. which the owner ofthe crib had
set for the purpose of catching thief
who had been preying upon his grain.


1t was also in evidence that two empty
sacks were found lying at the feet Of
the entrapped individual. The decis-
ion of the magistrate was, that there
was no proof that the prisoner had stol-
en- any corn, and as to being caught in
a steel trap, any gentleman had right
to stick his hand into one if he felt in
clined to do so. I'D
Year: 1866

TRAITORS GETTING BoLD.-The recreancy
of the President emboldens the rebel papers.
The Examiner says:


Congress will not turn the President out
of the White House. Let them dare try it,
and they will find themselves enjoying
" hard tackn and water in the Old Capitol
Prison. Congress is itself an usurpation.-
1t has reyolutionized the Government 1t
has excluded eleven sovereign States from
its deliberation. 1t has striken down the
Constitution which guarantees two Senators
and so many representatives to each State,
and the individuals claiming to be Congress
are as much in rebellion as the Montgom cry
Convention which framed the Confederate
Constitution The President would not be
likely to surrender the executive power Of
the Government into the hands of such a
sort Of disorganlzing conspirators.


Now. in our innocence we had supposed
that the Federal Army had whipped the
sovereignty out of those eleven sovereign
States" 1t strikes us very forcibly that
this thing of setting up as sovereign integral
parts of the nation has been so fully played
out, that even the cheek of Frank Washing
ton should mantle with bushes when max.
ing assumptions SO supremely ridiculous,
and yet the = cheek" manifest in so doing
is equalled in the assertion that Congress
will find itself eating hard tack in the Old
Capitol Prison, if it dare interfere with those
other great soveregns, the President and tn
Democratic party. Great God has impu
dence no limit? Is the nation to be gov
erned by the very men it has been fighting
for the last four years-and that, too, before
the ink is dry with which they wrote their
acknowledgement of the supremacy of Fed
eral authority over them? We think not
| The wounds received in that war by our
soldiers, are unhealed, and the dead un-
buried, ere the whipped scoundrels give
tongue in governing the very people who
conquered them, and that, too, with an as
surance that surpasses comprehension.


As fit companion to the sExaminer' s
paragraph we give the following from the
Marysville Express:


The radical crew in Congress will have
to back out of the usurpation of the whole
legislative power, and admit representation
from the eleven States, or they will have to
fight And if they choose the latter horn OF
the dilemma little blood letting will cool
their fanatical freelove ordor in an incred-
ible short space of time.