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Year: 1874

Numerous and heavy the SHOWS of last
year, the street-ceaning force displayed such
inability to handle them as 1t is showing now. Up
to this time last Winter the snowfall must have
been five times heavy as 1t has been during this
one; yet Broadway and Fifth-ave. at no time re-
malned Tor three days consecutiyely nearly mpas
sable. The side streets now are in a condition that
can only be described barbarous. How to dispose
OF heavy snowfall is by no means easy problem,
but twclvemonth's progress ought not TO put us
further away from its solution.
Year: 1874




"Don't Charley" came to my ear
in a sweet musical tone while | wa
seated in q railway car last summer


| should not have heard the soft
touching voice had it not been very
near me- l looked to see who it wa
that had spoken, and saw a sweet
beautiful woman upon the seat in from
of me. A half sad look rested upoI
the young face that was agloW will
love and tenderness. A young mar
was seated BY her side whose face wors
restless. dissipated look. and in {
moment | comprehended it all. His
face was flushed slightly. and l knew
why it was thus. He was talking very
fast to some one in advance of him.
and once l heard low oath. "Don't
Charley" she said again, iu the same
sweet voice. But Charley did not
seem to heed her words, but went on
in half wild way to the man.


Several more oaths came from his
lips. but the woman remained silent,
yet looking so pleadingly at the erring
one that l thought if he had been half
human he would have needed the
mild, loving reprosf that was so visi-
ble in her tear dimmed eyes


A friend by nv side whispered in
my ear, "They have been married just
one year"


Ale is BRUTE" | only said in re-
ply.


At that moment | saw the young
husband wink slyly to the man, and
then they both arose and went into the
baggage car. | understood the move
ment when | saw bottle protruding
from the husbands coat pocket


Don't, Charley; don't CO." the
young wife had pleaded before he got
beyond her reach. but he tore himself
from her grasp and rushed along.
Her eyes filled with tears. and low
moan came from her lips, and then she
bowed her head and wept silently.


He came back in few moments, his
face flushed still more. and his voice
was key or two louder than before.
He brushed rudely past the wife. eyi
IDENTIFY to get near the Ger window.


"Let me alone, Mag" he said, as
she laid her white hand upon his arm.
Women are always in the way" he
said, again turning to the man in front
Of him.


The wife turned away. and did not
hear her sweet. reproving voice again.


How pitied that young, loving wife,
and how often | wonder il her sensi
i've heart must suffer and bleed for
many long years! Think not, for her
ender, loving soul, and frail. slender
body will not bear such unkindness.


Strange how soon liquor will trans
'orm human beings into unfeeling
and chill the ardent. loving
nature of tender husband and trust
ng wite!--American Temperance Un-
on.
Year: 1874

Never, my child, forget to pray.


What e'er the business of the day,
If happy dreams have blessed thy sleep
If startling fears have made thee weep,
With holy thoughts begin the day,
And ne'er my child, forget to pray.
Pray Him by whom the birds are fed,
TO give to thee thy daily bread;
If wealth his bounty should bestow.
Praise Him from whom all blessings
If He who gave should take away,
o ne'er, my child, forget to pray.
The time will come when thou wilt miss
A fathers and mothers kiss
And then, my child, perchance you'll
see,


Some who in prayer ne'er bend the knee
From such example turn away
And neer my child, forget to pray.
Year: 1874

We have often thought for editors
never speak from experience) that
young fellow must have good stock OF
assurance-nay, of downright impu-
dence-to go through the ticklish, terri
BILE, torturing ordeal of a regular court
ship. He has not only to run the
gauntlet of goss:ping young ladies; to
be talked of, and to be the mark of
watchful observations, for the whole
neighborhood in which fair ones resides.
Nor is this all. If his addresses are only,
acceptable to one member the depository
of the garnered up love of a whole life,
he is sure to meet the savage brothers,
and is lust as sure to encounter other
equally flattering manifestations Of pa
ternal opposition. Now, this is all
wrong. The exchanges should be moro
equalized; and some are sanguine e
nough to believe that the day is not fai
distant when they will be equalized;
when we shall hear Of young ladies
paying their addresses to young gentle
men, visiting them nightly at their
houses, inviting them TO ride, TO walk,
dance, to sing, to eat ice cream, and as
matters are brought to an interesting
crisis, ''popping the question itself.


All! what delightful thing it would
be, furriedly waiting in your mothers
parlor, carefully brushed and strapped,
to be courted To be tenderly started
at night after night, by girl after girl
to have ones brown, rough hand occa-
sionally squeezed, and to have ones
waist delicately encompassed (of course
only after the "engagcment) by some
of the most delicately tapering arms in
the world
Year: 1874

Poor GIRLs.-The poorest girls in
the world are those who have never
been brought up to work. Rich parents
have petteG m,tbey have been taught
to despise labor, and to depend upon
others for living, and are perfectly
helpless. If misfortune comes upon
their friends, as it often does. their case
is hopeless. The most forlorn and mis-
erable women on earth belong to this
class. 1t belongs to prents to protect
their daughters from this deplorable
condition. They do them great wrong,
if they neglect it Every daughter
should be taught to earn her own living.
The rich as well as the poor require this
training. The wheel of fortune rolls
swiftly round-the rich are very likely
to become poor and the poor rich Skill
to labor is no disadvantage to the rich,
and is indispensable to the poor. Well
to-do parents must educate their daagh-
ters TO work; no reform is more imPera-
tive than this.
Year: 1874

Among the many interesting passages
of history connected with Ely Place,
the once famous metropolitan seat of
the Bishops of Ely, there is particularly
one to which the reader can never reeur
without a smile of mingled wonder and
amusement In the time of Queen
Elizabeth, the palace, with its sumptu-
Gus appointments, was coveted as resi-
dence by Sir Christopher Hatton, who,
while reveling in the tickle favor of his
Royal mistress, and in the honors of the
Chancellorship of her Kingdom, en-
treated her to obtain it for him from
its Episcopal owners, first on a tempo
rary, and afterwards on a permanent
tenure. She graeiously acceded to
the petitioners request, but found
some difficulty in forcing the proud
Prelate who occupied it by right of his
position to become the third essential
pcrty to the agreement. But Elizabeth
was an absolute sovereign, and, when it
came to a personal contest between her
self and the lofties. of her subjects, the
naughty daughter of the Tudors com
PEELED an unconditional surrender with
imperious words and as imperious deeds


The letter which she wrote the contama-
cious Bishop who dared to hold with a
tenacious grasp the property she desired
to confer on more lucky mission, is an
Year: 1874

Tho currency question comes up again in the
National Houso Of Representatives tomorrow


End present indications arc that vote will be
reached before adjournment Tho previous
question has already been moved on the House
bill md pending amendments, including mo-
Lion by alr. Butler to substitute Me Senate bill.
There is no reason for believing that the HouHo
:ipies OF finance ordinary businoss sagacity
and ability to discriminate between fictitious and
real prosperity Boom to be as far removed from
it az at tho opening Of the session. The best we
san hope from the House ia that it will not irrep


arably inturo the business interests Of tile coun-
Year: 1874

A Ii persons are notified, who do not
"A own land in the Mississippi River
bottom, in Fulton county. Ky. that the
driving or turning loose Of any stock In
said bottom is illegal, and in ten days
from this date all stock found there in
violation of law, will be summarily dealt
Year: 1874

A writer in the Practical Farmer tells how he
gets big crops of wheat "For the past five
years have averaged forty bushels per acre of
wheat of the finest quality, always being over


weight. l think I am still gaining every year,
and attribute this to the system pursued and es-
pecially to keeping sheep. My rotation is corn,
barley with clover third year, clover; and
fourth year clover plowed down for wheat.
have never missed crop of clover By seeding
it with barley. Itgives the grass seeds chance
which oats do not. 1 raise fall crops of barley
which do not at all interfere with the grass, but
think barley rather helps by the slight shad-
ing. After the barley is cut the clover makes
astonishing growth, giving me superior late
pasture. Owing to danger from mice, pasture
it down pretty close. My soil is clay loan.
plow down the rank clover about nine inches
deep, give it one narrowing, then haul out my
manure and spread. This plow down shall
low, as I consider it important to have the fer
tilizer near the surface for the roots of the
wheat plant. l use the drill, putting in one
bushel and one peck to the acre. I have never
had wheat crop hurt by freezing and thaw-
ing, which see you sometimes suffer in East
ern Pennsylvania. One season, and one only,
when we had a very fine fall of growing wealth
er, the wheat grew so rank that pastured it
some during the winter. have never had any
attacks of the insect enemies on the wheat crop.
and feel as certain Of crop of about forty
bushels per acre under my system as thatspring
will succeed winter. 1t is ten years since
moved on this farm, and believe nothing more
recuperates worn out farm than keeping sheep.
They spread thermanure evenly over the fields,
and have found the truth of what some one
said, "The tread of the sheep in golden"
Year: 1874

Ducks AS MoTHERs.--A correspondent of Land
hatch their own eggs than to set them under
hens. He says:


know it is popular belief that ducks are
careless and Indifferent mothers, so far that a
custom prevails with keepers of poultry of set
ting ducks eggs under hens. Think both this
principle and this parctice are wrong. The
only advantage hen mothers have over ducks
is that they are ready to etearlier in the year
Apart from that believe there is not any ad-
vantage in such custom. From my own OBJ
servation I can say that hens kill many more
young ducks then duck mothers do. Naturally
the feet of the hen are not calculated for tread.
ing about among little things which slide and
struggled along the ground. Her chickens can
jump and spring out of the way of her feet i;
but have frequently seen hen stand with
her great outspread toes upon the back of a
young duckliug who was vainly struggling to
get from under it, the hen all the while reach
ing after something to eat, apparently uncon-
scious that she was saughtering her pseudo
offspring. ducks feet are all one, are fiat
and splay, and she ehuffies about without lift
ing them much from the ground. I do not re-
member ducklngs being ever trod upon, or, as
the people about here say, "squabbled" by a
duck mother.


No doubt we are very wise people in cur gen
Grafton, but from all eternity God has been
wiser than we and hens were intended to
hatch and bring up chickens, and ducks to rear
young ducks.
Year: 1874

To CURE WENs ON CATTLE.-My cattle have
great many wens. Some of my best cows
had them, but the cows are as clear from wens
now as they can be. though they had them for
years. I have three different ways of curing,
at any place. Take half a pint Of soft soap
and dry Stacked lime in powder, mix them
somewhat thicker than a common whitewash ;
take piece of shingle, or something similar,
and rub in the mixture we'll for four or five
times once day, or on as many mornings; let
it heal of ITSELF and by that time the wen is off,
and your COW will lose neither milk nor flesh
under the treatment. There is no patent to
this-it is free to all who may see ft to use it..
HID
Year: 1874

A few words now about grooming and man
agement. Every horse should be thoroughly
cleansed each day. The bedding instead of
being thrown under the manger to fill his food,
eyes and lungs with ammonia, should be thrown
behind him or out of doors to air. His man
ger should be kept clean, and once week
washed with salt and water, and salt left in it.
One night in each week he should have warm
bran mash-eight quarts-generally given on
Saturday night, as it is somewhat tloosening and
weakening, and the horse is presumed to be
idle on Sunday. Oats are by far the best food,
and ground oats, wet with water, is better than
whole dry grain. Cut hay is great saving,
and moistened and sprinkled with ground oats
forms the best of food. The hull of the oats is
hard and often unmastcated, and passes undi-
gested through the system, thus taking away
instead of imparting strength and nutrition
For medium-sized horses, with moderate work,
nine to twelve quarts of oats per day and IA
lbs. hay are ample. For large draft horses, Is
quarts oats and 16 lbs. hay. Food consisting
Of one-thrd corn, ground with two-thirds oats,
forms strong, hearty, winter food for work or
coach horses. But corn is unfit for road or fast
horses-it is too heating. Good beds and good
grooming are as important as good feeding
Horses, like men, want good, dry, warm, clean
beds. In grooming, tie your horse so he can't
bite his manger, and thus learn to crib bite;
and if you find your groom currying and tor
menting the poor animal when he is tied, SO he
is uneasy and restless, use your stable broom
over your groom's back-it is an excellent in
structor to teach him to be gentle. Let the
currycomb be very moderately used on the body
to loosen up the scurf and dirt, but never per-
NIT one near the main and tail. Rely mainly
on the brush and rough cloth for cleaning.
Danish combs from your stable. They tear
out more hair in day than will grow in
month, and they ruin all the names and tails
that are ruined The tail should be washed
with CASTLE soap and water once every week,
and brushed with wet brush every day in the
year, holding up the bone of the tail and brush
ing the hair from you. Half an hour is enough
for good groom, to one horse, but one hours
time at the outside, ample to be very complete.
City horses on dry floors should have COW ma
nure put into their feet once a week, to draw
out fever and keep hoofs growing. 1t should
be put in over night and allowed to wear out
itself. To conclude, always be gentle about
your horses body, especially his head-"more
haste less speed" is peculiarly applicable to
grooming and breaking. Use whips as little
as possible-use your reason and exercise pa
tience and kindness, and instill by precept and
example the same useful lesson in these uDtu-
tored creatures denominated grooms, and if
you can not inculcate wholesome truths into
their heads, you can ameliorate the condition
of that much abused animal the horse, by oc-
casionally exemplifying the power of their own
treatment on themselves.-Countr Gentleman
Year: 1874

The Judges Of election must be guided by
the general election law OF the siate, 80 lar
as Il is not in conflict with these rnes ana
to the extcut that it is applicable to the con-
duct of this primary election.
Year: 1874

All persons known to be registered Con-
servatiyc voters Of the precinct ut which they
offer TO vote and those who will become legal
voters by or before the regular election shalt
De entitled to vote. Any Conservative may,
and it shall be the duty Of the Judges, to
challenge any person who may he known or
suspected to be not emitted to vote. When
any person is SO challenged the judges shall
examine him as to his qualifications, and il
necessary hear the statements Of others, aud
if they arc satisfied that he is not entitled to
vote they shall reject his ballot and strike his
name from their list CT registered voters.
Year: 1874

Tie superintendent Of each ward shall
supply each voting place with Il bailot-boX
tproyidct with lock and key. poll-book,
and The necessary stationery. together with
complete list of the registered white voters
Of that precinct.
Year: 1874

she knew how to use his affection to help the u
cliuation Of her heart.


Jack now became Ambassador and High Plen-
ipotentia1y without the sar ,tion Of diploma,
and peace was soon brought about


THE MARRIAGE PROVED HAPPY
and fruitful, and Jack WAS delighted to smoke
his pipe By his wife's side, under his own vine
and fig-tree, The reconciliation with his parents
was complete; and, though he had made up bis
mind to keep the world between them, ne gave
them continued proofs OF his thorough refor'na-
on,-more precious to his mother than q thou
sand locketa.


In tine no obtained the Office Of Justice OF the
Peace. 'This," said be, ''is as good, as being
boatswain. By looking after tho morals OF other
people reformed my own and mny tho Devil
f]y away with mo If do not temper justice with
mercy, Says jack Jocelyn!" J.
Year: 1874

1t is the penny saved, more than the
penny earned, that enriches; it Is the
sheet turned when the first threads break
that wears the longest; it is the campers
closed when the cooking is done that stop
The dollar from dropping into the coal
bin; it is the lamp or gas turned low when
not in use that gives you pln-money for
the month it is the care in making the
coffee that makes three spoonsful 60 as
far AS a teacupful, ordinaIially; it is the
walking of one or six blocks, instead Of
taking a car or omnibus, that adds
strength to your body and money to your
purse it is the careful mending Of each
weeks wash that gives ease to your con-
science and length of days to your gar
ments and, last of all, it is the constant
care exercised over every part of your
household, and constant endeavor to i'm
prove and apply your best powers TO your
work, that alone gives peace and prosper
ity to the family.
Year: 1874

A facetious writer remarks that "when
a man walks squarely up to the clergy
man who married him three years before,
takes him by the hand cordially, and
without word of reproach inquiries after
his health, it is useless for any one to
maintain that Christian forgiveness is a
thing of the past and does not enter
largely into that mans character, or that
the heroic virtues have all disappeared
from earthIn
Year: 1874

There was a certain talented and well
connected young gentleman Of this city
who met and "loved her at first sight" I"
At last he proposed to her and was sc-
cepted. Before the day appointed for
the marriage arrived, however, an ugly
rumor reached his ears and he refused,
accordingly, to fulfill his obligations.


The woman, determined not to be bafled,
promptly instituted suit against him for
breach of promise and thus set to work to
involve him and all his friends in public
scandal As the woman anticipated, a
compromise was proposed and she re-
signed the case upon condition of the
payment of large sum of money. A
short time after this bad rumor was set
eAoat concerning her and a prominent
Year: 1874

ures of nature, the deeper the memories
and associations. Hence the sentiments
of patriotism, and love of neighborhood
so strong among the inhabitants of the
mountainous countries. The native val
ley is like to no other 1t is veritable
corner of Paradise, to which .he wander
er is happy if he can only return to die.


-


SYMPATHETIC SILENCE.-There are
few so self-enwrapped that they have
not known the pleasure Of a social chat;
but not every one has tasted the exquisite
sweetness of social silence We do not,
however, envy those who have not, for
we think it proof that they are stran-
gers to true, heartfelt friendship. g


With people for whom we have that
kind Of ordinary care, by some called
affection or esteem, we put ourselves on
our best behavior, and strive that the
audible Interchange of thought shall be
so constant as to prevent WEAKNESS.


But when those meet whose minds
are in unison, and whose hearts beat re-
sponsive, their silence is ottentimes the
strongest evidence of their enjoyment of
each others presence. In the words of
Fenelon, ''they say nothing; they are
content to be together without anything
to say" And this. so far from result
ing in either tedium or disgust, is full of
the serenest happiness.


There is touch of deep feeling, hard
ly to be looked for, from Horace Wal
pole which illustrates our meaning.
On the loss of his friend Chute he writes
''And him loved to have here, as our
friendship was so entire, and We knew
one another so entirely, that he alone
was never the least restraint to me. We
passed many hours without saying a
syllable to each other, for we were above
ceremony"


The truth that, when between two
there is deep sense Of sympathy which
is founded in true love, there is often
more real communion in silence than in
speech. Remember the couplet:
| And when wife is well in reach.
Year: 1874




Verify the whirligig of Time brings
about his revenges. Time was when
the proud taxpayers of South Carolina
resented anything like interference IN
their State affairs by the National Gov
ernment, and now they come to Wash
ington praying to be delivered from
their own local authorities. There can
be no doubt that the state of things
there is deplorable, the result of the
control Of affairs by the most ignorant
and irresponsible class in the State.
The Legislature and the public Offices
are filled in great measure by litter
ate negroes, who have neither the nat
ural capacity nor the training that could
fit them for the lowest ministerial func-
tions in the State of Massachusetts, and
who would not be tolerated in power
here for a moment. The indiscriminate
bestowal of the franchise upon the Afri-
cans of South Carolina, without regard
to character, capacity or education, has
placed it in the power of an impecunious
and ignorant assemblage to vote money,
levy taxes, and perform all those func-
tions which need intelligence. culture
and a high sense of responsibility.
There may be certain amount of poetic
justice in thus placing the proud whites
at the mercy of the once humbled and
degraded blacks, but it is not for the
honor or well being of any portion of
the country that they remain SO and
| yet what right has Congress or the
| President to interfere ?-Bostom Globe.
Year: 1874

SUcH is FAME-In a place not re-
mote from Nashua an enterprising dry
goods merchant decorated his window
in mourning in respect to the memory
of Charles Sumner In the center was
large portrait Of the deceased with his
name upon black ground. During
the day two well dressed American wo-
men went into the store and inquired
what it meant. Charles Sumner is dead"
said the proprietor solemnly. WAS he
one of your clerks? ?" inquired one Of
the ladies. Later an old gentleman
went into the store and asked the same
question and upon being told that
Charles Sumner was dead, innocently
said Il don't seem to remember him.
How long has be lived in town. -
Nashua (N. II. Telegraph.