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Year: 1874

The Knoxville (Tenn.) Chronicle says:
"a lady living in the upper end of this
county began not long since, for the first
time in about thirty years, to speak to
her relatives and strangers. Her history
is strange one. When she was little
girl, some five or six years of age, she was
a regular little rattle-trap as merry as a
cricket and had something to say to ev-
cry one, strangers as well as acquaint-
ances, with whom she came in contact.
Her father considered her too forward,
and on one occasion, when she was about
seven years old, punished her severely
for speaking too much. The child took
it SO to heart that she never spoke again
to her father or any one else for about
thirty years, with the exception occasion,
ally to her mother, as long as she lived
| and her sisters and their children. She
had not a word for her brother-in-law oil
any one else. To question her always
proved useless, for no reply could be elic'
tied. Thus she dragged along weary
lonely life, until few weeks ago, wher
attending a revival she became convert
ed, and began to talk to everybody in
rapid, vehement manner, until it wal


found that her reason to some extent wa


impaired. She was taken home and re
ceived prompt attention, and at last ac
counts her mental condition was muci
improyed -
Year: 1874

1t is custom at Galway fair for all
the marriageable girls to assemble and
to tempt all wanting wives, by their cap
tivating charms, to be made more hap
py for life. Says an American gentle
man of the highest character, who was
an eyewitness, and invited by noble
man to go and see these girls: "At IL
o'clock precisely we went, as directed,
to part of the ground higher than the
rest of the field, where we found from
sixty to one hundred young women,
we'll dressed, with good looks and good
manners and presenting a spectacle quite
worthy any civil or modest mans feel
ings. They were the manageable girls
of the country, who had come to show
themselves on the occasion to the young
men who wanted wives; and this was the
plain and simple custom of the fair.
can plainly say that saw in the custom
no great impropriety-it certainly did
not imply that, though they were ready
to be had, anybody could have them. II
was not Circassian slave market, where
the richest purchaser could make his &C.
lection. They were, in no sense of the
term, on sale, nor did they abandon
their right of choice; but that which is


done constantly in more refined society


under various covers and pretences-a


theatres, at balls, and public exhibition
Il will say nothing about the churche
was done by this humble and unpre


tending people in this straightforward
manner"
Year: 1874

A brutal man who holds the place of
sub-ms ster in one of the public schools
of Boston, threw little dog out of one
the school-room windows the other
day. The distance to the ground being
forty feet, the poor little animal was
frightfully mangled, and had to be kill
ed on the benevolent principle, that is,
to be out pain. Referring to the act the
Boston Traveller says: 1--WE presume
that the wretch was discharged from the
post he disgraced, and If he was not we
advise the parents of all children who
attend the school in which he is employ
ed not to allow them to attend it longer,
for the life of no child can be considered
safe for one moment when the child is
in the room with such creature. If
he threw the dog out of the window
from heat or temper, why should not the
same heat of temper lead him some day
to throw a pupil-a little pet girl, say
out of a window to be crushed on the
stones? If he acted deliberately then
he is fiend, and is no more fit to be
teacher of children than is Master Jes'
sic Pomeroy. Children are proneto cru
city from thoughtlessness and ignorance


and they are not likely to learn to be
kind and forbearing from the example
of schoolmaster whom they have seer
engaged in the devlish act of throwing
a little dog from fourth-story window
Year: 1874

The Vermont Farmer thus tells how
old or otherwise disabled moving ma
hcines may be utilized:


Take off one driving wheel, and in a
place near the place of churning fix up
on firm timbers the machine with ifs re-
naming driving wheel uppermost. Up
on this driving wheel lever about ten
feet long is fastened with bolts; to this
lever the horse is attached, and as he
walks in q circle around the machine,
propels it's gearing. The pole of the
moving machine, fastened by bolts to the
same wheel that formerly gave the vi
bratory motion to the cutter bar, now ex-
tends horizontally along the ground and
on its end outside the circle of the horses
walk is placed a wheel upon which the
rope belt runs, connecting it with sim
liar pully on the end on the Sanborr
churn. Hitch the horse to the lever, and
the machine churns.


Let us review this matter because tbs
subject is important. and see wha
changes are to be made:-1st, one drive
wheel off; End, tipped up on edge ant
braced so as to be firm; Sd, a lever bolteC
to the drlvewheel; 4th, horizontal revolv
ing bar having on its end pulley wheel
5th, pulley wheel on the churn; 9th,
rope belt from one pulley to the othe,
7th, all will see that the horizontal re
volving bar over which the horse step
must be fastened near its end to keep
in place; 9th, watch your churn and tax
off the horse as soon as the butter begin
To come
Year: 1874

"She loved him for himself" Perhaps
that wasn't her fault. But the fact was
he had nothing else to be loved for. She
married him. And still she loved him
for himself. He gave her not so much
as single dollar to aid on her love. Last
week he returned home full of whisky as
a barrel, and undertook to assert his
manly sway in too violent way. In
fact, he deliberately punched her in the
eye. This was what turned her love "a
gall and made her take up the washboard
on which she earned her own and his
support, and belabor him with it until
there was very little of the board left
and his head looked like pumpkin
which boys had been using as football
Now he earns living for himself and
wife. Such are some of the inconsisten
cies of the human feminine.
Year: 1874

The reported capture of the California
bandit Vasquez is cause for great rejoie-
ing in the Golden State. A reward OF
eight thousand dollars was offered for
him, dead or alive, so valuable was his
head considered by the State. As his
name implies he was of Spanish descent


He was no romantic robber of the Rhine
castle or Italian opera school. lie be-
longed to the strictly realistic school
Year: 1874

If you wish to drown yourself, kick
and splash about as violently as you can,
and you will soon go to the bottom. But
IL you remember that you are lighter
than water, and if you calmly and stead
lily refrain from drawing your breath
while under the water, keep your head
raised, and your arms under, you will
soon learn TO float and swim like duck
Year: 1874

The setting of a great hope is like
the setting of the sun. The brightness
of our life is gone, shadows of the
evening fall behind us, and the world
seems but a dim reflection itself-a
broader shadow. We look forward in
to the coming lonely night; the soul
withdraws itself. Then stars arise, and
the night is holy.-C Longfellow.
Year: 1874

H. went through q traveller in thor
oughly honest and laboriOu~ manner.
Money hidden in the boots had no chance
with him, for the boots had to come of;
grcen-backs in a lady's back hair were
considered almost in open sight, for the
back hair had to- come down and fell IL
self q prey 10 the spoiler Many time
have the California papers recounted the
stoppage ot = stage by the band. The
messenger of the express companies was
an object of particular attention al such
times, and various playful little jokes
went on at his expense, such as tying
him by the thumbs, putting cold pistol
barrels to his head and tenderly prodd-
ing him in vulnerable parts of his body
with sharp knives. The other passen-
gers were ordered to sit on the ground
and the valuables of which they were
disposed were divided among their cap.
tors. Then they were told to sit there
until the band were out Of sight, and We
are informed that the order was always
strictly obeyed.
Year: 1874

There is nothing which contributes
more to the sweetness Of life than friend
ship; there is nothing which disturbs
our repose more than friends, if we have
not the discernment TO choose them well
Year: 1874

We win at convenient opportunities
place before our patrons some of the
drawbacks and disadvantages of our
credit system, and the utter, ruin that
inevitably awaits all those who would
live in ease and plenty to-day at the
expense of future comfort, PROSPERITY
and happiness! We do not wish to be
understood as opposed to the credit
system because it may be used to ad-
vantage, but we are going to under
take to show that the abuses of this
system and the extent that it has been
carried to is in a great measure respon-
sible for our present prostrate condition.
that it has cut no small figure in the
downfall of our country, and the ruin
of the fortunes Of our farmers.


We will just here say that we do not
believe that there is d farmer in our
Parish whose true interests demand 0f
him to go in debt this year to make %
CROP. Better live ON bread and water
than buy on a credit here now. Pretty
strong assertion, but we expect to show
its correction, and we challenge contra
dictiOn with open columns. eff there
be a friend of C8zar's here, let him
speak for him have offended Mo- -


-ttft -, a,H [Bienville Times
Year: 1874

CHEAP. YINEGAR.-I take O. quantity
OF common Irish potatoes, and wash
them until they are thoroughly clean.
and then place them In a large vessel
and boil them until done, / now drain
Off carefully the water that I cooked
them in, stTaining it if necessary, lin or
der to remove every particle of the po-
tato. Then / put this potato water into
a. jug or keg, which | place near the
stove, or in some place where it win be
kept warm, and add one pound of sugar
to about two and 0ne-half gallons of the
water, some hop yeast, or q small portion
OF Whiskey. Prepared in this way, and
letting lit stand three or four weeks, YOU
will have most excellent vinegar. In
deed, it is the only vinegar that will pre-
serve cueumbers cut fresh from the vines
without the aid of salt Canada Farmer


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To make q square harrew is two
parts hinged together in the center,
take four pieces of 4x4 oak or maple
scantling six feet long. Mortise the
shorter pieces into the longer ones
twenty inches apart and six inches frona
each end thus making two frames or
gates SIX feet long, three feet wide, and
with four cross bars each. Hinge the
two gates together by means OF three
pairs of eye bolts with long rod pass
ing through each paiP. Put five teeth
twelve inches long and three quarters
of an inch thick of square iron rod in
each cross bar, and three teeth into
each main bar between the eross-b bars.
There will then be fifty-two teeth.
This harrow should DO drawn from one
corner.
Year: 1874

Reformation as to allow an intensely artistic
people to reproduce the life costumes and IN
cidents of the reformation era In the hands
of any other people than the Germans the fes-
tival at Sonneberg would have been bur-
lesque. Under the direction of Herr Fieich-
man, it will be seen from our correspondents
letter, it was great success. This was solely
owing to the fact that the Germans have be-
come q nation Of stage carpenters and OF
actors and this latest representation is es-
pecially significant as showing the extreme
development which the dramatic idea may
attain among an artistic people.
Year: 1874

point in these words to Baecher: -'Do you
know when hear of your cracking your
jokes from Sunday to Sunday, and think OF
the misery you have brought upon us, think
with the Psalmist, there is no God?" How
this touches the chord of the common
thought And even here the touch is charac-
teristic. 1t is not the offence that overcomes
her patience, but the fact that the offender has
the heart to laugh after it; and, with all this,
Il thought the least you could do was to put
your name to paper to help renstate my
brother" who, it seems, had been turned out
of the Custom House. That service will 60
great ways as balm to her wounds; and, in
giving this poor woman's letter, malicious
pleasure seems to have been felt in retaining
her slips in photography, as if the only notice
it was worth while to take of her was to say
that she could not spell correctly. If those
who spell better had thought and felt as we'll
as near to the line of homely everyday
duties-how many pangs would have been
spared!


Then there are the two other Beechers,
Mrs. Isabella Beecher-H Hooker and Mr.. Thomas
X. Beecher and the husband of the former.
The invalid husband is afraid the world will
not like his wife's letting him 60 abroad
alone, and is concerned to put the subject in
good light and tells how it may be done,
and the wife believes that the most important
thing in the world is for her brother Henry to
declare for free love if he believes in it, and
she has plan by which that may be done,
and SO they move all through, each with his
own impulse.


But the strongest figure in the whole gal
lery is this ''Dear Tom, who told them twenty
years ago they were all wrong, and who pro-
tests against the whole batch and all its be-
longings." Here is man who has preserved
the Puritan downright honesty: -"In my
judgment Henry is following his slippery
doctrines of expediency, and, in his cry of
progress and the nobleness of human nature,
has sacrificed clear, exact, ideal integrity"
And this man, who abhors the doctrines Of
Woodruff, prefers her to his brother, as a
hero to a coward, because she breaches what
she practises and he does not. In his view
hypocrisy is the one great sin, and sincerity
and outspokeu honesty the noblest virtues of
life; and this We take it is pretty good gospel.
Year: 1874




The Democratic Central Committee OF this
State, from their council on the subject at
Saratoga, have issued call for Democratic
Liberal Convention, and the place named for
the meeting is Syracuse, and the time the 18TH
OF September next. In the call the demo-
cratic and liberal republican electors Of the
State, and all others who desire to co-operate
with them, are requested to elect three dele
gates from each Assembly district to represent
said parties in the Convention. The business
OF this Convention will be the nomination of
the State ticket of the party or parties repre-
sented, the main question being the candidats
for Governor.


There are two points in this call which will
attract the attention of our political readers.
Heretofore the full name which the democrats
have officially given their party has been the
comprehensive designation of the ''Demo-
cratic Republican Party" Now it appears We
are to have Democratic Liberal Convention
that is, convention of democrats and liberal
republicans. 1t is by no means certain, how
ever, that the liberal republicans will respond
to this call. Assuming that they are in the
market, they may accept the invitation from
the regular republicans, as promising better
bargain than coalition with the democrats.
According to General Cochrane, however the
liberals are not in the market, but intend t.
hold the field on their own account as A.,
independent party, and to cut in right and
left between the republicans and the demo-
Gratis What the liberals will do we shall
probably learn from Syracuse on or about
the 10th Of September.


The second point Of particular interest to
the politicians in this democratic call is that
it names the day for the proposed coalition
convention week in advance Of the day
chosen for the regular republican convention
at Utica. Why so? Heretofore the demo-
Gratis have always waited for the republicans
first to show their hand. Why this change OF
tactics? 1t is limited that the object of meet
ing in advance of the republican regulars iS
to head them off in the purchase Of the
liberals The idea is that, as between our
two great parties, these liberals hold the
balance of power, as demonstrated in our last
November election. But are they in the mar
ket We cannot tell, but it has grown to be
maxim among our politicians Of all parties
that every man has his price.
Year: 1874

ST. JoHN's GUILD needs funds to properly
continue its invaluable services to the sick
children of New York. The Floating Hos
pital in nine excursions has carried Z, AL per-
sons, and the medical testimony is direct as to
the immense good that has been done. The Eext
excursion will take place on Tuesday, and it
is to he hoped that the means will be provided
the rest of the summer. The work of the
Guild is too great to be conducted without
assistance from the public.
Year: 1874

THERE Is A WELL KNOWN Tradition that
the wife of one of the early printers of the
Bible, just before the sacred volume went to
press, removed the mot" from the seventh
commandment. Some modern elergymen
seem to have a similar dislike to the negative,
and have dropped it from their practice if not
from their profession. 1t is great pity that
the Bible was revealed to the Jews if the
Americans had written it religion would be so
much easier.
Year: 1874

utterly harmless; We are perfectly satisfied
with the CASE We cannot help being re-
minded of the old antediluvian who swsm up
to Father Noah in his ark and told the old
gentleman sit was nothing but shower
But he was drowned
Year: 1874

The SUpERFLUoUs COMMITTEE. folly
of appointing committee from Plymouth
church to investigate the charges against it's
pastor, the blunder of selecting only Mr..
Beecher's friends to serve upon it, is clearly
demonstrated. The opinion is universal that
the committee can decide nothing, and the
fact that the nature of its verdict is already
known has largely decreased the interest in
the formal report it is to make. 1t is plain
now that the public will attach less value to
the report than it does to the statements, and
that it will accept nothing as final but the de-
cision of the courts.
Year: 1874

The Luther Festival at Sonneberg.


The account which we print this morning Of
the singular festival in the Thuringian vii
lage of Sonneberg will be found as interesting
as it is novel Musical and dramatic art has
been cultivated in Germany to that dangerous
limit that an American amateur is phlegmatic
in his enthusiasm compared with the vivac1ous
Germans. AS our correspondent points out
the petty German potentates have no other oc-
cupation than to cultivate music and the
drama. Il is no wonder, then, that the
people Of Meiningen should share the de-
votion of Duke George, whose company of
actors recently made such great sensation at
Berlin, and that even their religious festivals
should be dramatic in form and method. It
is to this peculiar growth of German life, this
desire to give dramatic color to the past by
its reproduction, even to the minutest details,
that led to the recent Luther festival at Sonne-
berg. Luther was not in any peculiar way
identified with the Thuringan town. 1t is
true he had passed through it on several occa-
sions, but on none Of these had he performed
any act Of historic interest. But the people
of Sonneberg wanted festival, and Luther
festival was one that would enable them to
introduce into it more dramatic and local de-
tail than any other Accordingly Luther
festival was held. not 80 iluoh to celebrate the
Year: 1874

The evangelization of the colored people of
the South is subject that is riveting the
attention of the different denominations in
the North, and each one vies with its neighbor
for priority or ascendancy. What the needs
and claims of that section for religious instruc-
ton are We have heard time and again from
the lips of white missionaries but to-day o
colored clergyman from Georgia will present
statement of those needs from the Episcopal
standpoint and, being one Of the people, will
doubtless speak with more authority because
of his knowledge of and greater sympathy
with those for whom he pleads. individuals
and communities are Nothing Without
Christi as DR.. Deems will demon
strate this morning, and hence the demand
give the Gospel to the blacks of the
South, but to black and white the
world over. Our obligation cannot be can
celled until the Gospel is preached to every
creature and the Lord is known from the
rising to the setting of the sun. But some
persons are continually asking what profit
they shall have if they become Christians, and
after weighing both sides they conclude that
religion requires too much of its votaries, and
consequently they ignore its claims altogether.
Now, such persons should 60 to Lefferts
Park, Brooklyn, this afternoon, and hear the
reasons that Mr.. Hagerman will adduce for
his being Christian. The halting and vacil-
lating ones may possibly find in some of them
just what they need to produce healthy action.
And as Mr.. Platt, Of that city, will give an
additional reason, drawn from Scripture,
in the evening" they must find motive enough
somewhere for the acceptance of religion.
Then, putting all things together, Mr. Esray
will set forth Christianity as a social force.
So that in this one day Christianity will be
presented by its teachers in its individual and
collective relations and in its social and re-
ligious aspects. 1t is not often that such a
breadth of view of this subject can be
had so easily and conveniently, and the oppor-
tunty offered to-day should not be lost


The culture of the emotions is good and
proper work, provided it is properly done.
But there is manifestly false culture of the
emotional faculties that does more harm than
good, and which should be guarded against.


Mr.. Pentecost will give some advice on this
subject this morning, and then this evening
Mr.. Kennedy will take his hearers in imagina-
ton up to the throne of the Most High and
show them the seven lamps that burn there
perpetually. Some may desire to stay there,
but doubtless many more will prefer to stay
on earth another while and fulfil whatever Of
lifes duties that remain yet to be fulfilled.


Mr. Bennett will illustrate the final triumph
of righteousness and show the condemna-
ton Of the ungodly. And thus fair day 8
work will be done to-day by our local pastors
Year: 1874

bers and denominations, or IN Its en-.
tirety.


Therefore, let there be issued the
amount of greenbacks now authorized
by law, amounting to four hundred mil
lion dollars, so as to prevent, in part, an
increase of taxation on the one hand
and to afford temporary relief to busi'
ness interests by moderate increase OF
currency on the other, but at the same
time let US adopt no vague, changeable
and sporadic policy upon the resump
ton question, but a well.defned, spe
cifc, and mathematical course, so that
all men may know from month tc
month how near the Government may
be ready to redeem its promise to pay
dollar by its payment thereof, in ac
cordance with the promise, in gold coin


C0ntractionists seem to forget one
important factor in the solution OF thi'
problem. Before the Government car
cancel the groenback circulation it mus
have a surplus, which can only be ob
tanned by adequate taxation. The diff
ference between the boarding of golC
and the cancellation of greenbacks i
this that in the one case the ordinar,
currency remains undisturbed, while il
the other it would diminish from day t.
day, while gold coin would not take it
place until par is reached. Every maj
acquainted practically with business at
fairs is convinced that no popular gov
ernment could pursue a systenfati
course of contraction. McCulloch trie'
it in times of great prosperity, and taile'
to obtain the sanction of the people, be
cause it tended to paralyze industry
while the payment of taxes became NOR
onerous from day to day. 1t is differ
ent when the Treasury holds gold, whic
is now only an article of merchandise
until the day Of redemption. This doe
not affect our ordinary circulation, an
when redemption is once begun the gol
will flow out in such quantities that
will become a part of our circulatin
medium. The boarding Of gold col
until the time of redemption comes il
therefore, the easiest, if not the onl
practicable method of resumption.