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Year: 1875


SIN: have Just this morning learned, 10 my surprise and
sorrow that Mr. f. Carpenter whose good will toward both
YOU and me unquesonabe has consulted You concerning
The ure Of your money, influence and good Offices Tor the
enlargement Of the capital Of The GCdea age. Mr.
CarpCuter mentions TO also your saying TO Inn tha
under certain conditions involving certain dsayowas by
sum Of money would, could be raised to send with
nv family To Europe for Of years OF cOure you need
no assurance that such application suggestion II wholly
unauthorized by me- and ncXpressby rcpugnant to my feel
np The cOmpcls state explicitly that long
life and scrc-pcCt continue 10 exist together IN my breast
shall be dcbarrcd from receiving either directly OF Indirectly
nv pccnary or other your hands The for
his feeling on my part you know we'll that spare you the
statement OF IT,


Trny
Year: 1875

However obscure the causes may be which con- tribute to render nervous debility . disease so prevalent, affecting as it does, nearly OHehaIf of our adult population it is Dels nchOly fact that day by day, and year ny year, we witness a most frightful increase of nervous affections from the slightest neuralgia to the more grave and extreme forms of
Year: 1875

The discovery of the truth is sometimes
slow but persstency generally succeeds in
calculating all the facts. The rumor that
Secretary Delano had been invited to resign
was tlatly and frequently contradicte the
denial going so far even as to assert that the
entire story was manufactured out of whole
cloth. 1t now appears through the instru-
mentality of the Secretary's friends who evil
IDENTIFY concluded that the stories had been
too circumstantal 10 be satisfactorily met by
a general denial, that Secretary Bristow did
in April file charges against John Delano,
the Secretary's SOD, and that these charges
were made against him in his official capaci-
ty as surveyor in the service of the Interior
department. OF course it does not follow
that because John Delano has been guilty Of
fraudulent transactions, that his father was
privy to them, but it is certainly significant
that after weeks of denial the Secretary's
friends have come to admit that portion at
least OF the original story was true. Another
significant fact is that though John Delano
contends that the money he is said TO have
received from Reed, surveyor-general of Wyo-
ming, for surveying he never did, was simply
a loan, letter is produced from the Secreta-
ry wherein he thanks Reed for his kindness
to his son and hopes the transaction bears no
appearance of wrong doing.
Year: 1875

In the.course CT an interview on the Euro
pean situation, the Hon. George Bancroft,
late minister to Berlin, said that he had been
convinced while in that city that the policy
of the Pope was to strengthen and consoli-
date the Catholic church in America, aud his
first step in this direction was to create an
American cardinal. He thought from this
time forward the church would figure more
prominently In the politics OF this country
The church was laboring under many griev-
Gus disturbances in Europe, and it was prob
able that the way was being prepared for i'm
pOrtant and momentous movements in the
future, should circumstances arise to make
them necessary.
Year: 1875

ARE Granger organizations OF any use to
agricultural communities? That is the ques-
ton which correspondents of the Maine
Farmer are discussing and as there are al
ready one hundred and seventy oranges es-
tablished in our state with a membership of
1000, it is a somewhat important one. There
Is this to be said for the organization; no bad
results are yet to be observed 10 have arisen
from it. We cannot well see why anybody
need become anxious about these local organ
izations so long as they adhere to their princi'
pies. On the other hand,we can see how very
salutary work for farming in Maine may be
DONE For years the interest Of the young men
reared on the farms in our state, has been de-
clining. They have largely come to think that
there is nothing in the vocation for them,
and they flock to the cities, the manufactur-
ing villages and the West, leaving Maine
farms to decay. The few men who have In
telligently taken hold of the agriculture in
Maine have made money and have also fairly
demonstrated that in no department of indus
try, will brains pay better than when used by
farmers. 1t is fair to assume that one hundred
and seventy associations composed Of farming
people cannot meet once week or month
without creating an interest which will lead
hundreds of young men and women in the
state to look with greater favor upon mans
first occupation. 1t cannot be otherwise. In
view of this, we think that the extension Of
the organization may be witnessed without a
great amount ofsolicitude Indeed, from what
one can see of the granger outside of his
lodge room, we think he may be encouraged
to multiply.
Year: 1875

THERE are indications that the whiskey
riny has been able to carry on successfully
their illicit business through the connvance
of revenue officials of low degree who
doubtless have added to their fees from the
government for the detection Of fraud much
larger fees from the ring for permitting such
frauds to go unexposcd. Secretary Bristow
means business, however, and such officials
will speedily have the impossibility cf serving
God and mammon at the same time forclbly
impressed upon them.
Year: 1875

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with a Card certificate countersigned by Stanley It.
Pullen, Editor. All railway. steamboat and hotel
managers win confer q favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming TO represent cur
Journal as we have information that several bum
mers" are seeking courtesies in the name OF the
PRESS and we have no disposition to be, even pas
sively, party to such frauds.
Year: 1875

We do rot read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The nameand address of the writer are III
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
ncations that are not used.
Year: 1875

A writer in the National Teachers
Monthly says, concerning school histor.
les: Most textbooks OF the history of
our country are almost wholly unfit for
use in our schools, first, because they do
not contain appropriate matter; second,
because they disregard the trae object OF
historical study. We claim that the
principal subject-matter of a school
history should treat Of the social and
educational condition of the people with
cause therefor stated, Histories of to.
day, as well as of the past, are crowded
with the exploits Of military heroes, or
accounts of some so-called brilliant
battle.
Year: 1875

Greenbrier Independent


We once heard of an old Viryinia gen
tleman who had so much State pride.
and, at the same time, so much courtesy,
that he made it a rule never to ask a
stranger where he was born, for fear that
he would be put to the modification of
acknowledging that he was not born in
Virginia. But one of the best anecdotes
of Virginia courtesy that we have heard
recently, is by John Rollin, who was at
one time, a clown in John Robinson s
show. Rollin was celebrated for his
ready wit and quick repartee, and in an
swer to question whether he was ever
at loss when in the ring, to reply to any
remark made by a spectator, said:
Never but once, and that was when our
company was exhibiting at Warrerton,
in Fauquier county. 1t was part of my
role to play the drunken man. | came
into the ring as usual, in full clown cos.
tune, with bottle of whisky in my
hand, and, while acting the various char.
hcters of intoxication, noticed an old
fellow standing near the rope which in
closed the ring, occasionally winking
and nodding at me, as much as to say,


II convenient, please pass that bottle
around this way. His greasy black
suit, high crowned hat slightly mashed
in, gold-headed cane and red nose told
who he was. He had evidently seen bet
ter days, but was fine illustration Of
6roken-down Virginia gentleman, whose
decline could be traced to an o o'er-fond-
ness OF looking upon the wine when it is
red. Passing around the ring, stopped
Immediately in front of the old fellow,
and extending the bottle asked him to
drink. With one hand he took the big
quid OF tobacco from his mouth, throw
ing it on the ground, while his smiling
Year: 1875

In indianapolis, Ind, during the
months OF January and February, on ac-
count of the unusual severity of the cold,
the dead taken TO the City Cemetery were
deposited in vaults until the ground had
thawed sufficiently to permit the digging
of graves. For the past four weeks,
therefore, the various undertakers have
been busy interring these bodies, and in
many instances curiosity has prompted
them to open such eofiins as were covered
by an inner facing of glass; Among
others so opened was that of an elderly
lady who had died in January. and whose
remains had been carefully deposited IN
its casket and removed with great care to
the vault. When the cover was raised n
few days ago, however, to the horror OF
the bystanders, it was discovered that
the body, instead of lying iu a natural
position, with its face upward, had turned
nearly upon its face, while the shroud was
disarranged Other evidence also revealed
the fact that a struggle had taken place
on the part of the unwilling occupant of
the coffin. The hands were clinched, the
eyes fixed with horrid stare, and the
knees bent. But the strong walnut coffin
with its row of silver~headed screws and
handsome handles, with wrought gripes.
did the work which disease seems to have
left undone. Weakened by sickness and
old age, the poor woman could not break
from her narrow home, or by her muffied
rappings attract the attention of some
passers-by. How dreadful must have
been the sensation of the unfortunate
victim as she awoke to consciousness aud
found herself numbered and living with
the dead. The terrible affair gives rise to
a thousand thoughts as unpleasant as
the air which fills the charnel- house.
Year: 1875

May 10, lISD, is known in the history
of New England as the dark day. Be-
tween the hours Of 10 and ii in the
morning the sky became obscured with
dense clouds of smoky hue that driitsd
from the southwest In most parts Of
New England the gloom that ensued was
so great that it was impossible to read
common print, to determine the time OF
day by watches and clocks, or to pursue
any sort of work indoors without the aid
of artificial light. In some PAGES COM
mon print could not be read out OF doors
for several hours in succession The
fowls wens TO roost, the birds sang their
evening songs and settled themselves to
sleep in their hidden retreats, candles
were lighted in all the houses, while a
silence and dimness as Of night rested
upon the face of Nature For several
days preceding this time the atmosphere
had been unusually thick and hazy, and
the sun and moon looked dull and red as
they rode through the heavens On the
morning of the 18th there were slight
showers in certain localities, accompanied
with thunder. while at different intervals
through the day there was rain in various
places The water that fell was thick,
dark and sooty, and scum as of ashes
appeared on the surface OF rivers and
reservoirs, while, when the tide went out.
it left a line of smut along the shore at
the width of four or five inches. On ex-
animation this surface matter seemed to
be nothing more than ashes of burnt
leaves. This extraordinary darkness
lasted for a period Of about fourteen
hours


In the transactions of the Philosophical
Society of Philadelphia, printed prior to
l7S5, there is comment on a similar
darkness that was experienced Oct 81,
ZIG, o. S. On this occasion "The day
was so dark that people were forced to
light candles to eat their dinners BY.
Which could not have been from. any
eclipse, the solar eclipse being the 4th of
that mouth" Nothing is said in this ac-
count Of the cause of the darkness, nor
are any particulars given. On Oct. l?.
lT62, a remarkable dark day was observed
at Detroit, and described in the Philadel-
phia Transactions for 1868. An officer
stationed at Detroit described the day in
letter to a friend. In his words: "The
10Th of this month [October, 1902 was
the most extraordinary dark day, perhaps
ever seen in the world" The cause of the
unnatural darkness prevailing on these
several days was probably the extensive
burning OF Western prarie and woodlands.
Year: 1875




\ misguided young man of our ac-
quaintance presented landlady's daugh-
ter with a four weeks old pup a few days
ago, under the delusion that a pup was a
nice thing to have, and that he was con-
ferring q favor. But this was the most
unreasonable, ill-conditioned, querulous
pup we ever remembered to have heard
Of He had arrived at the teeth-cutting
period Of his existence, and the hired girl
at the boarding house, in order to solace
him. has to arise from her bed at the
most unreasonable hours, and give him
paregoric and soothing syrup, and put
mustard plasters on him, until he con>
templates the silent tomb as a happy re-
lease. And the pup objects strenuously
to being left alone in the dark, and as a
consequence the landlady's daughter has
to sit up with him, and has thereby shat
tered her constitution by losing sleep un-
til she is mere wreck. In fact the pup
has made things so warm that the board
ers are leaving gradually and now only
two remain, an old codger who is as deaf
as a post, and enjoys perfect bliss in not
knowing that anything is wrong, and the
miserable man who donated the pup, and
whose hcart-strings are torn with re
morse
Year: 1875

Auc -hliN W lscOlSin.


A curious sight was afforded by a robin
yesterday in yard on the west side of
the city. The little fellow was busily en-
gagged in gathering material for the con,
struction OF nest. In flying around he
discovered an old nest fastened to tree,
and entertained in this nest was a long
string, just what he wanted. One end of
the string fioated loosely, while the other
was fastened in the nest Robin seized
the string and endeavored to pull it out,
1t was too tightly fastened for an ordina>
ry pull, and he accordingly took short
hold and violently threw his head back.
Still it wouldn't come. After apparently
thinking a moment he tried a new plan.
Seizing the end of the string firmly in his
bill he tumbled heavily from the limb,
and allowed his full weight to pull upon
the coveted article. This he tried over
and over again, but without avail. At
last he entered the nest and diligently
tugged at the fastened end of the string,
until he succeeded in loosening it. Then
he drew it through and sped away to
make use of it in his new home.
Year: 1875

One Of the college newspaper exchan>
ges says that clergyman in a certain
church, on a recent occasion, discovered
after beginning the service that he had
forgotten his notes. As it was too late TO
send for them, he said to his audience, by
way Of apology, that this morning he
would have to depend upon the Lord for
what he might say, b1t in the afternoon
he wcula come better prepare.
Year: 1875

A sewing machine agent who has been
in the business long can subdue the most
ferocious bulldog by simply looking at
him. Nothing short of a needle gun will
move him, and then you don't want to
aim at his cheek, or he will put on casto
iron smile at your seeming disinclination
to buy "noiscless" lock-stitcher.
Year: 1875

TuE GovERsMENT TRouBLE.-An
exchange has the following important
item ofnews: Ono of President Grants
objects in going West at the present
time is to make some change in the
management of his farm near st.
Louis, which has not been a source of
profit to him, the outgoes overbalanc.
ing the income by about $4,000 year.
He will dispose Of bis stock this week, =,
and then decide whether to lease or
manage the farm himself. From what
we know Of General Grant, sometimes
styled President Grant, he had better
lease the L. S. Government and man
age the farm himself. The money
saved to himself and the United States
would be far greater than that now
sunk on the farm. go west, young
man.
Year: 1875

A TIMELY STaoKE.-The editor of
the Philadelphia Times hits govern
ment organ over the head in this way:
"The Washington Republican insists
that this journal lis in duty hound to
bring proof of its charge that President
Grant has illegally interfered with any
Southern State government The Re
publican should be considerate. The
dog star reigns, and the Times don't
get ninety thousand dollar advertise
ments by direct order of the President
to cloud the judgment, nor has it an
army of ofliccholding dependents who
must make it and pay Tor ii. The
Times is u newspaper, and il hasn't
time to devote columns to prove what
Senate and House committees of Re.
publicans have solemnly decided, and
what the votes of both branches have
substantially proclaimed, any more
than it can give the space to prove
that there was flood, or that George
Washington lived, OF that President
Grant is occasionally at the White
House 1t doubtless pays the Repub-
tcdn to ask such silly conundrums, but
1t don't pay a newspaper to waste its
and space answering them.
Year: 1875

An old farmer once said 10 us that
he would not have hired man on
his farm who did not habitually whls-
tie. lie always hired whistlers


Said he never knew whistling IA.
borer to tiud fault with his food, his
beds, or complain of any little extra
work he was asked to perform. Such
a man WAS generally kind to children
and to animals in his care. He woulc
whistle a chill lamb into warmth
and life, and would bring in his hat
full of eggs from the barn wiinou'
breaking one of them. He found
such man more careful about clos.
ing gates, putting up bars and seeing
that the nuts on his plow were all
properly frightened before he took it
into the field. He never q W whis


tling hired man to kick or beat COW


or drive her on run into q stable
He had noticed that the sheep he fec
in the yard and shed gathered arounc
him as he whistlsd without fear. HI
never had employed whistler VIII,
was not Thoughtful and economical
Year: 1875

After the Storm,
After the storm q calm;
After the bruise balm;
For the Ill brings good, in the Lords own time,
And the sigh becomes the psalm.
Bloom is the heir of blight;
Dawn is the child of night,
And the rolling change of the busy world
Bids the wrong yield back the right.
Truth seemeth oft to sleep,
Blessings so slow to reap,
TIL the hours of waiting are weary to bear.
And the courage is hard TO keep!
Nevertheless, l know
Out of the dark must grow
Sooner or later, whatever Is fair,
Since the heavens have willed it so.


Advance.
Year: 1875




The novel Of the period is troubling
the critics all over--in England Amer
lea, France and Germany, the cry is the
same, that there is next to nothing worth
having written or worth reading after it. 8
written. The complaint may be summed
upin two words of street slang--"Too
thin" German novels are getting pain
fully weak and washy--there's a tedious
sameness about them. A literary con-
tributor to the New York Tribune hits
them very neatly in the remarks that
" German story-writers appear to be
always the birds in the last years nests.
They have but two plots, on which they
harp with cheerful and gushing per
sistency. The fayorite one occupies
itself with a proud and beautiful girl
married for money or rank perhaps to a
proud and magnificent man whom she
does not love. She remains naughty and
he stern until they come at the end of
the book to a scene something like THE.
Sidonie, her perfect lips curved in an
ambient smile, her pink satin dress trail
ing on the marble steps, tottered rather
than walked to the baron's study, She
Year: 1875

Near the hinge of an oyster is cavi-
ty which leads to its stomach. 1t may
be called, with little license, its mouth;
not that it has teeth, or that in any
way it masticstes food, or that it indi.
Gates the place Of the head, for the
oyster belongs to a division of mollusks
known as the acephalateS, or headless
ones. But it is functionally a mouth,
and it is like mouths in two important
particulars. 1t is the entrance Of the
food to the alimentary canal, and it has
certain lip.like organs with which to cen
troll the entering Of food II, then, the
oysters mouth is thus situated near the
hinge that part of the creature should
be known as its anterior or forward end.
The opening end, that which the oyster
men call the nib" is therefore really
the posterior extremity. Everyone knows
that in opening an oyster the knife has
to be passed through a stout organ,
wrongly called by many the eye; for the
oyster is eyeless Some call it the heart.
This, also, is incorrect. 1t is the great
abduetor muscle, with which the animal
draws together its valves. But the oyster
has true heart. 1t is situated near to
and forward Of the abductor muscle, that
is, between it and the mouth. If a finger
Of glove were cut off and inflated with
air, being closed up at the end and then
thread we're tied round so as to con-
strict it at the middle, we should have
something resembling the shape pretty
nearly of the oysters heart, The small
organ is divided by the construction into
two lesser organs, an auricle and ven
tricle; receiving and distributing reser-
voir Of the pale, opalescent blood-its
true life current, which animates every
part Of this complex little being II an
oyster be opened with sufficient tact and
care, the heart can be seen at work, beat
ing much as our hearts beat--a true
rhythmical pulsation. Indeed, with
watch in hand, the beats can be counted,
as when a physician makes a diagnosis
Of ones pulse. As death nears, so slow
the throbs Of the oysters heart,
Year: 1875

IF only she did not wear that
horrid dress! hate serge. Itclings
30 closely to the form, and we'll
there's no use talking, I could net
endure the lack of popular style"


He might have added, what hold
predominance in his thought, that
she was On orphan, and portiopless.


~ most say that I think h69f the
most sensible girl that l ever met;
and her excellence there's mono to
dispute-devoting her young life as
she does to the care of two queru-
lous old people, who are only distant
ly related, when their own proper
relations ore indifferent as to tho
welfare Of both. However, since in
your fancy the quality Of the soul of
womanhood depends upon it's en-
easement, 1 would advise You to
confine your Now Years call to
city limits in future. We shall not
prolong our drive so far into tho
country, for the sake Of losing wine
and wit, in favor Of quiet, un-
fashionable girl, who was not got
ton up for the occasion"


There was the slightest possible
sneer upon the handsome lips of
Harry Beadwell as those remarks
were uttered, which was unperceiv,
cd by his friend Worldly, as they
were whirled back toward She city.
"What possessed them to come
here" wondered Lucinda Whitford,
% she sat musing in her own quiet
little room, after they were gone.
II only met them once, at Cousin
Eva's party, and then I fancied
young Worldly was inclined to
slight mo because T was not in full
toilet. l wonder why Eva always
insists that plain, quiet dresses are
moro becoming 70 my stylei Yet
we are said to be very much alike,
and hers are so very different.
should think that when my clothes
arc all I receive for constant attend.
ance on her grandparents, she should
stleast allow me to exercise my own
taste in their selection"


She glanced inquisitively ct ths
opposite iairror.


A clear cut face, perfect in out
line, though lacking in bloom, shon.
very white and marble like agAinsI
the dark blue serge the more. Tn.
bands Of her haiy and tho snsisel;Ds
Year: 1875

Poor Max Adeler! Hear what
he has to say about a hotel clerk:
II can shake hands with O governor,
sit beside on alderman, and smoke
with o State senator, and never feel
my littleness but when come TO
stand in the presence Of o modern
hotel clerk I feel that awe and in
foriority which tourists feel as they
stand in Yosemite valley and look
up at the mountain-tops q thousand
feet above.