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Year: 1879

WE are expecting every day to see
the news published that Tilden has
made another million dollars on som
kind of stock. We expect this because
there is a belief spreading among
Washington politicians that Tilden is
not dead SO political factor.
Year: 1879

THERE is a project on foot to heat
the city of Cincinnati with steam
The distribution, and indeed the whole
business of the com pany, will be car
ried on in the same manner that water
works now are.
Year: 1879

In preparing meal for any one whose
appetite is delicate, it should be made
to look tempting as possible. The tray
should be covered with the whitest nap
kin. and the silver, glass. and china
should shine with. cleanliness. There
should not be too great variety of
viands, and but a very small portion of
each one. Nothing more quickly dis
gusts feeble appetite than quantity
of food presented at one time.


The patient never should be consulted
beforehand as to what he will eat or
what be will drink. If be asks for any,
thing, give it to him with the doctors
permission; otherwise prepare something
he is known to like and offer it without
prAUiala. onmment. One of the chief
offices of good nurse is to think for her
patient. His slightest want should be
anticipated and gratifed before he has
had time to express it. Quick observa-
tion will enable her to detect the first
symptom of worry or excitement and to
remove the cause. An invalid never
should be teased with the exertion of
making decision. Whether the room
is too hot or too cold; whether chick
en- broth, beef tea, or cruel is best
for his luncheon. and all similar mat
tiers, are questions which should be de-
cided without appealing to him.


Household troubles should be kept as
far as possible from the sick-room.
Squabbles of children or servants never
should find an echo there.


In the event of some calamity occur
ring, of which it Is absolutely necessary
the sufferer should be informed, the i'll
news should be broken as gently as pos
sible, and every soothing device employ
ed to help him bear the shock.


Above all, an invalid, or even a per-
son apparently convalescent, should be
saved from his friends. One garrulous
acquaintance admitted for half an hour
will undo the good done by a week Of
tender nursing. Whoever is the respon-
sible person in charge should know how
much her patient can bear, she should
keep careful watch on visitors of
whose discretion she is not certain, and
the moment she perceives it to be neces-
sary, politely but firmly dismiss them.


She must carry out implicitly the
doctors directions, particularly those
regarding medicine and diet. Strict
obedience to his orders, a faithful, dill
gent, painstaking following of his in
structions will insure to the sufferer the
best results from his skill, and bring
order, method and regularity into do
mestic nursing.
Year: 1879

One of the most curious things about
rain is the inequality of its distribution.
The reader is of course aware that rain
may be measured in inches in almost
any vessel set out to catch it. If a pail
for example. be put out in an open space
on the ground, it will catch as much
rain as would be otherwise have sunk
into the ground on the space occupied
by the pail. If we visit the pail after
every shower we may by means of a two
foot rule tell what depth of rain has
fallen. This is the principal of the
rain gaage. In practice better means
are of course adopted, SO as to prevent
evaporation and to measure the depth


Now it is of great consequence where
we place our rain gauge. 1t might be
supposed of no Importance whether it
were on the top of the house or in the
garden close by; and yet. strange to
say. a guage in the garden near West
minister abbey caught twenty. three in
ches of rain in the course of the year,
while one on the roof of house caught
only eighteen inches, and one on top of
the abbey caught only twelve inches
fact is, rain forms at low elevation
much lower than is generally supposed /;
or, if not actually formed at very low
elevation, it increases the size of the
drops which come from higher levels.
Thus, while Mr.. Glaisher was descend
ing in a balloon. he passed through a
dry and then through wet fog, where
the drops of rain were exceedingly fine,
covering his note book like pins points.
These increased in size on approaching
the earth. and more rapidly when very
near the earth. b..
Year: 1879

roses until it is daintily tempting to
look upon. Everything grows so rapid
ly that man building new house
may have in three months flower gar
den which looks as if it had been grow
ing years.


The Mexicans (or Greasers, as they
are called,) are the only people who do
not beautify their homes, and their nat
ural laziness is the cause of this neglect.
| never was able to rouse a particle of
respect for this class of people except on
one occasion. That was when 1 saw
one of them on his horse. which he had
spurred into dead run, 60 tearing
down the streets of the city of Los An
gelos, after runaway team. The drunk
en- driver had dashed his horse into a
furious rate of speed. and in turning a
corner was thrown to the ground, the
team rushing on through street in
which woman and children stood paral-
yzed with fright. Where the Mexican
came from l never could understand, for
the first saw of him he seemed actual
ly flying. lasso in hand, and while L
still thought him far behind the runa-
way horses, he threw the rope over the
head of one of them and brought them
quickly to stand STILL


| remember the admiration l used to
have for some of the horsemen of
Virginia who rode into town on
court days. Perhaps had more for
them when they rode into than when
they rode out of town, for Tom Crowder's
saloon door step wasn't always good
place to start straight from; be that as
it may, | fancy the best riders among
them would want to examine their sad
dle-girths pretty carefully before they
started to ride alongside of this Califor-
MIA Greaser.


The world wasn't made in a minute
nor this visit in day, SO if ask you
to linger with me in this valley for a
little while, do not be disappointed.


TRUFAx.
Year: 1879

Here is the hep Place ice ra Tght over oyer the hill
You can see the gap in the old wall still.
And the stepping stones in the shallow brook.
There is the house. with the gate redbarred,


And poplar tall;
And the barns brown length. and the cattle-yard,
And the white horns tossing above the wall.
There are the bee-hives ranged in the sun;


And down by the brink
ofthe brook are her poor flowers. weed o'eTun,
Pansy and dafodil rose and pink.
A year has gone as the tortoise goes,


Heavy and slow;
And the same rose blows and the same sun gows,
And the same brook sings of year ago.
There's the same sweet clover smell in the breeze


And the June sun warm
Tangles his wings of fire in the trees,
Setting, as then, over Fernsde farm.
mind me how, with lovers care,


From my Sunday coat
brushed off the burrs, and smoothed my hair,
And cooled at the brookside my brow and throat.
Since we parted, month had hassed--


To love. year;
Down through the beeches locke at last
On the little red gate and the wellsweep near.
can see 1t all now.-the slantwise rain


Oflight through the leaves,
The sundown's blaze on her window pane,
The bloom of her roses under the caves.
just the same as a month before


The house and the trees,
The barns brown gable, the vine by the door,
Nothing changed but the hives OF bees.
Before them, under the garden wall.


Forward and back,
Went drearily singing the chore-girl SMALL
Dressing each hive with a shade of black.
Trembling, listened; the summers sun


Had the chill of snow;
For knew she was telling the bees of one
Gone on the journey we all must go.
Then said to myself, my Mary weeps


For the dead to-day;
HAPPY her blind old grandsre sleeps
The fret and the pain Of his age away"
But her dog whined low; on the doorway sill,


With his cane to his chin,
The old man sat; and the chore-girl still
Sung TO the bees stealing out and in.
And the song she was singing ever since


In my ears sounds on:
"Stay at home, pretty bees, fly not hencei
Mistress Mary is dead and gonel" ..
Year: 1879

A fond father sent his young hopeful
of four into an adjoining room to get
book. The boy came back and said it
wasn't there. 'Yes it is, my son" said
the father, sit is on the table" The
boy went back and reported again that
there was no book there. The father got
inpatient. and sent another child for the
book, and in the meantime the mother
brought the book from different room,
with the remark, Heres your book; it
was on the mantle-piece." The gentle
man composed himself to read, and about
ten inmates later discovered his hopeful
standing by his chair and regarding him
intently. AS he raised bis head, the boy
broke out solemnly. "Father, there is a
fib about somewhere, and didn't tell it. F"
Year: 1879

men and women brave enough to reach
out a helping hand to those who stand
upon the margin of the stream of sin.
And SO I say all praise to the man who.
walking the streets of San Francisco at
night saw this friendless, hopeless girl.
who felt herself already in the tempter's
toll. Her sweet sad face attracted him,
and stopping her he asked, "what fate
sent you upon the streets 2" She told
him her sad story and it touched the
mans honest heart. He forgot what the
world might say, forgot that he knew
nothing of this GIRL. but what he had
heard from her own lips, and looking in
her eyes, he said: II am only a miner,
but I've got gold enough for two. If
you will be good and loyal wife to me.
l will marry you tomorrow, and we will
make little home together.


Strange courtship, but those were
strange times. If you will come with
me to pretty cottage in this valley,
where the honeysuckle and the clematis
and the roses struggle for supremacy, I
will show you the man who has never
regretted the generous. prompt kindness
which saved soul-a woman, who is a





brave, true, faithful wife and christian
mother.


Before reaching San Jose the courte-
Gus conductor, Jefferson Davis, by name,
(but not
Year: 1879

It is pretty we'll settled fact that mar row gauge railroad is to be run from Mari copa to Prescott. IL will undoubtedly take in Phenix, from which place the "knowing onesn seem to think the road will come by way ot Wickenburg, and thence on through Peoples, Kirkland and Skull valleys. We understand that eastern capitalists will take the matter in hand and commence the erec- ton of this much needed road at once. So soon as Prescott is connected with the out side world, by raIl, we may expect to see business revive, and new state of affairs reign. When capitalists can jump aboard the iron horse and be hurled over the con- tinent with ease and luxury to the very doors of our mines, then we may look for that class of people among us. If we have not the wster wherewiih to work vast re- duction works here at home, the mineral perforated ores can cheaply be carried away to the Salt River valley, where an abund- ance of water and wood abounds. Our machinery and supplies can be landed at much less figure than at present our wool, hides, lumber and other products can be shipped, eheaply and quickly to market. Prescott, with terminus wherein would be built round houses, machine shops, depots, would step to the frost and become the livliest city east of San Francisco, and her people would awake in a few months ana find themselves surrounded by wealth and everything else pleasant.
Year: 1879

From the Santa Fe Rocky Mountain News we learn that the Cerrillos Silver Mines still continue good and are drawing a large number of people to the district who are anxious to come in for share of the carbonates that are said to exist in great quantities. New Mexico with the advent of the iron horse is taking forward step In mining enterprises and will soon rank with the best mineral districts in the United States. We gre pleased to learn that New Mexico IS 90 fortunate as to abound in rich deposits of mineral from cast to west, nor.h to south, which is calling in an industrious class of people who will make II the most desirable spot on earth.
Year: 1879

When the summer of youth is
slowly wasting away on the night
fall of age, and the shadow of the
path becomes deeper and life wears
to its close, it is pleasant TO look
through the vista of the time upon
the sorrows and fclicities of our
early years. If we have had home
to shelter, and hearts to rejoice
with us, and our friends have
gathered round our tireside, the
rough places of waytaring will have
been worn and smoothed away in
the twilight of life, and many dark
spots we have passed through will
grow brighter and more beautiful.
Happy indeed, are those whose in
tercourse with the world hasn't
changed the tone of their holier
feelings, or broken those musical
chords of the heart, whose vibrations
are SO melodious, so tender, and so
touching in the evening Of their
lives.
Year: 1879

The fatal fondness for indulging
in spirit Of ridicule, and the in
jurions and irreparable consc-
quences which sometimes attend
the too severe Leply, can never be
condemned with more aspcrity than
it deserves; not to offend is the first
step toward pleasing to give pain
is as much an otfense against hu-
manity as against good breeding :;
ard surely it is as well to abstain
from an action because it is sinful,
as because it IS inpolite.
Year: 1879

A large aerolitc fell in Chicago
one night recently. 1t exploded
with a report like that of cannon
and did great deal of mischief
The meteor looked the size OF a
child's hoop. or thirty inches in
diameter. Two bushels of frag-
nents were found after the explo-
sion. No one was hurt, but the
electric fluid set fire to a building
and did some hundred dollars
worth Of damage 1t also entered
the library of Colonel Mutt and
played many eccentric pranks
there. 1t destroyed a telephone,
dashed the globes off chandeliers,
burst a gas meter and blew ont all
the window panes on the floor
Three minutes before the accident
Colonel Mutt and his wife were
talking through the telephone to
friend at some distance. Had they
continued in contact with the in
strnment their death would have
been almost certain. Pieces OF the
aerolite are described by the local
newspapers as being like clinker or
Stag, dark outside but almost white
at the center. 1t is very rare and
notable thing that the meteor should
tall and lightning strike at the same
moment and the same place. Sail
ors, indeed, generally feel safe
from tightening when they see 'sfire
balls" or bolides either at the yard ,
arms or close by elsewhere.
Year: 1879

III g
Sweet dew-drop. Of a summers morn,
I How short hath been thy stay:
Thou vert too pure to wander Ger
Life's dark and troubled way.
Let none repine for thee, sweet babe,
Thy home is with the blest
'Twere sin to wish thee from the boon
OF thine eternal rest.
Those little smiling lips


Bear witness of thy bliss;
As though an angel stole thy breath,
And blessed the with kiss.
And what is life Z Naught but debt,
That all are doomed to pay;
A narrow path with thorns beset,
A dark and winding way;
Only field TO labor in,


Where work Is never through,
Where every task accomplished makes
A double task to do.
1t is dark and drearT day,


And clouds of sorrow rise,
While pleasures evanescent ray
Scarce fiickers in the skies
1t is a strangely-mingled scene
Of tunult, toll aud strife;
And yet poor human nature clines
Teuaciously to life.
Year: 1879

very glad to pay the taxes upon tho
manufacture of all the tobacco that
Is raised in the Northern States
In like manner, Illinois will gladly
take the contract for the manutac-
ture of all the whisky and pay all
the tax, while Wisconsin will mako
the beer on the same terms.
Year: 1879

militia will be able to suppress it,
without calling upon Gen. Mcdowell,
VINO Is In command of the military
division of the Pacific, and whose head.
quarters are in San Francisco.


The president and secretary of war
are both at the soldiers home, but are
in telegraphic communication with
Washington, all dispatches sent to them
being repeated over private wires of
the signal service.
Year: 1879

We mean the yOung men, and there
are many of them, idling their time
away, and wasting the best years of life
in Incidence. Don't wait for something
TO ''turn up" Turn it up yourself.
Don't wait for chances. Make chances.
Don't look to some one else for oppor-
tunities. Make opportunities. Oppor-
tunities indeed, they are all around you.
There is plenty to do. Take hold, and
do it. If the best thing don't offer,
seize hold of the next best If you
don't get what you want, get what you
can. If you can't get employment at
what you want to do, try something else.
Jump in and lay hold of an end some
where and help lift, and somebody will
soon need you in the right place. Let
the man that can help you in the busi-
ness you deserve see that you are will
ling to work What the world wants,
and the times need is working men, men
that are not afraid OF soiling their I'm
gers, earnest men, pushing men, think
ing, practical men. Don't stand on the
street corners, or whittle pine boxes at
the store doors, and take it out in COM
planning at ''hard times" and poverty.
Lay hold and help make times easier.


The men who control this nation are
working men, thoughtful men, brim-fulI
of energy and work, and the men who
have always controlled the werld have
been of that class. Poverty, why that's
the making of you, if you properly
appreciate it. 1t is a blessing in disguise.
But few men have attained eminence or
wealth who were "born with a silver
spoon in their mouth" 1t takes grit,
pluck, endurance and perseverance to
succeed in the wrangle of life, and ia
this world of conflicting opinions, The
great men of the world have climbed
the ladder of fame toilfully, painfully,
through poverty, from obScurity and
often from reproach and disgrace. Take
hold. Now is a good time to start
Ashville On. CO. Journal.
Year: 1879

There can hardly be a greater sign
of prosperity in a community than
a disposition to assist one another
lift little when a neighbor's wheel
gets stuck in the mud. We know of
place where man barn, with all
it's winter stores of grain and hay.
was consumed by fire in the night.
Immediately all Of the mustered and
hauled up timber for a new barn,
aud then a big raising came off.
After that the sound of twenty ham,
mers was heard until the whole was
shingled and sided. But their deeds.
of kindness did not end here; one
after another they offered 10 take
one or two head Of his stock and
winter them for him, thus greatly re.
ducing his loss and assuring his heart
of the more durable riches of brother
ly love and neighborly goodwill.
None can compute in money the val
ne of one such example of liberallty
in the community, especially in its
influence on the young. And when
this spirit prevails there is sure to
be progress in place. even if all
the improvements are in their infan-
cy. People will come and settle in a
place, that bears such a name. Now
if you desire to see your place grow
in popularity, do all you can to show
yourself good neighbor, espe cially
to those who need little extra help.
If man starts tin shop or a black
smith shop in your place don't har-
ness up and drive off five or six miles
to buy your pans and get your horse
shod, just because you have been
in the habit of doing it. Patronze
the new conner when you want any
thing in his line. Speak encour.
agingly to him to your neighbors-
Little words of approval or censure
60 a long way when once you have
spoken them you can not recall them.
Help the sick, especially when they
indeed heavy burden. Perform all
acts of loving charity which fall day
by day in your path, remembering
Who it was that said, "Ye shall in
no wise loose your reward" ."-Coun-
try Gentleman.
Year: 1879

Our next Quarterly meeting will be Mt
Hartford, the 18th and 10th of February,
1879. At our first Quarterly meeting at
Liberty, there was only about one~sev>
enth of the preachers salary paid for
this wear. There are only three more
Quarterly meetings, TO pay the balance.
urge YOU, as friend and brother Of the
Church. one that loves the Methodist
Church. and desires to see all OF its mem
bers prosperous and happy, to be more
liberal and punetual in paying your quar-
Ierage. You will succerd better in all
Your business occupations; God has
promised it, and will fulfill his promises.
if you will only discharge your duty
There are four or five hundred members
in the bounds OF the Hartford circuit
can not each member get up so cents by
the next meeting Think of it. Three
months from one quarterly meeting to
another; fraction over one halt of a
cent, per day, tor the privilege of living
in gospel land. and going to Heaven
when You die. if you will love God and
serve him Please think seriously over it,
and let Us have good report at our next
meeting. THos. s DUKE,


Recording Stewart
Year: 1879




L propose to have on the first Mon
day in next month, County Court day
another stock sale and ask your Co
operation; for without your help and
influence. will never be able to e.
tablish stock sales in your county.
The benefit that you derive from these
sales is readily seen by every intelli-
gent man-It will establish home
market for your stock and produce,
and have a tendency to improve the
stock of the county-but some | pre-
sumo, are ready to say that eff | was
sure that | could sell for a good price,
I'd bring my stock, but don't want the
trouble of driving there and back for
nothing" That you may have to do
one time, | will admit, but if every
man in the county who has stock for
sale or trade, will bring it to Hartford
on next first Monday. and there hap
pens not to be market for all the
stock, news will be spread by the
press through the country that the
stock was here, and of consequence
viii ever after, bring buyers. have
made arrangements to take care of all
stock that comes for sale, and "a soon
as the weather will permit, scales will
be built for weighing stock. Hoping
to have your hearty cooperation in
the enterprise, | remain,


Yours respectfully,
Year: 1879

The price of turpentine has been a
mooted question in this locality. -
Week before last, the County Judge,
the County Attorney, three or four
other lawyers and twelve jurymen,
considered the matter for about three
days, and finally decided that if used
in certain way, it was worth $40 per
bottle.
Year: 1879




Tax PAYERS of Ohio county will take
notice that this is my last call for taxes
for 1873. If you do not want your
land advertised tosell at the March
County Court, you had better come in
at once and pay up, and save your
credit rs well as costs and commissions
| am bound to sell the land of every
taxpayer who does not pay by the 18th
of February, as | am behind with the
Auditor in State Revenue, aud this is
my only method to protect myself and
sureties. Respectfully,


& w. PHILLIPS,
Year: 1879

We have received piece of pa
per IN an envelope from Point Pleas
ant Post Office, but we are unable to
tell what it is. 1t was written with
ink which had been frozen and had
spread all over the paper, so that we
could not make out a dozen words OF
it. If the writer sees this, will he
please write again and use a pencil OF
good ink.
Year: 1879

At no time in the period of our ex-
istence, have we witnessed such wealth
er rs we have had for several DAYS
past, in the month of January. Such
weather, so out of season, is certainly
not productive of good health.
Year: 1879

Read the large advertisement
of E. Small on our local page. He is
determined to close out his stock down
to the smallest remnant, regardless of
price, so as to have ample room for a
large spring stock which in due time,
will be purchased from New York
city.