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Year: 1866

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A Memory Rare.
Out from the depths Of the faded years
Irescue gem of that BY gone time,
A memory rare-that with hallowed care
weave in q string of golden rhyme.
A room in farm house, large and old
Where the Angel, Death seemed to hover awhile,
Two watchers pale, heard the fain low wall
From the suffering couch Of little child.
The midnight waned, and the angel passed
And the child was lulled in sweet repose.
And there by the light, in the still midnight
They sat til the beautiful morning rose.
One sweet watcher, was a maiden fair
Whose soul till the glorious stars shall SET
Till dies the light, in the last midnight
My heart can neverI no never forget
We strung sweet stories in happy verse
For her soul with treasured gems was rife
Like fairhcwers pressed, on a snow white breast
I saw the bloom of beautiful life.
The midnight waned, and the morning broke
And wrapping our forms from the chilly air
We stole away, in the early grey
/, and the maiden, so sweet and fair.
The dawn crept faint from the hills afar,
And the stars in their beauty softly set
1t was early spring, of the time sing,
And the flowers with tender dew we're wet
A belt Of woodland skirted the field,
The spring was white with dash of bloom
From the wild plum trees and the wandering breeze
Was heavy with wealth of sweet perfume.
The wild plum blossoms scented the earth,
The vic let blOomed in the sleepy dell,
As WraPt,we stood, in the slumbering wood
While morn from the beautiful universe fell.
We culled some blooms from the wild plum tree
And come fresh viOlets, deep and blRs,
Then turned again, to the couch of pain
and the maiden VIII ose soul knew.
o Wandring breeze, o sweet perfume
WOO ye now Ger the lapse of years,
And the memory rare, Of the maiden fair
Grows bright and fresh, with the rain Of tears
And this is why from the faded years
rescue gem ef that by gone time
A memory rvre. that with haIlowed care
weave in a string of golden rhyme.


NOLLIE,
Year: 1866

The Hon John NJ Bolts has address
sed d letter to the members Of Con.
gress, in which he gives his reasons
Tor being opposed to the plan of re.
constructions reported by tho commit.
tee of fifteen, and which passed the
House short time since. lie consid.
ers it too lenient--unjust to the Union
mon of the South, in that it leaves
Them and the State Governments in
the hands of the rebels, who will i'm
prove the opportunity to educate the
people to q more embittered spirit of
disaffection and disldyalty, and thus
depopulate the South Of its truly loyal
population He would have none but
loyal men in office, both State and
National-that every person, who was
over the age of twenty. five al the
breaking out of the rebellion, and vol
UNFAIRLY took up arms against the
Government, or in any manner gave
aid and encouragement to the rebel
lion, either in civil or military cap1c-
ty, shall not for ten years be capable
Of holding any Office in Federal or
State Governments And he propo.
poses that Congress shall do this by
Legislative enactment, in the form Of
an oath to be taken by all elected OF
appointed to. Office, He intimate'
that such plan might receive the
sanction ofthe President, but if not, il
should be carried BY n two-thire vote
-GdHiDOHS ,Tourn1L
Year: 1866

THE TEMpLARs OF HONOR AND TEMPERANCE
The Boston Traveller says that the Tempars of
Honor and Temperance are rapidly increasing
throughout the United States. The number Of
subordinate temples in operation on the Both of
April was as follows:
Year: 1866

Are prepared TO nll all orders for MACHINERY and
ENGINEER SUPPLIES of all kinds.


Parties recurring Machinery kept for sale in this city
you'd do well to give call, Agents in the
North and East through whom prepared fill orders
promptly. We still have few of the old style
Year: 1866

And If properly managed will promote the health comfort
and happiness of every member of the family


TIME MONEY, and extreme vExATIoN by delays of
your daily meals, may be saved by using the
Year: 1866

EXTRAORDINARY RoBBERY.-The
Boston Transcript tells an amusing
story of a young gentleman who,
walking on the Common a few even
ings since, came in contact with a per-
son going in the opposite direction
Both apologized and walked on. A
moment after the young gentleman
missed his watch, and turning, ran af-
ter the individual whom he had Just
met. He soon overlook him, and
drawing his revolver, placed it at his
head, and demanded that he should
instantly give up the watch. The
man terribly frightened, obeyed, and
took his departure from that vicinity
with the greatest possible expedition.
The young gentleman went home and
related the circumstance to his mother,
who burst into laugh, and told him
that his own watch was in his room,
and that he had been the robber and
not the robbed. .. .t...
Year: 1866

There is a beautiful story tod Of q
pious old Quaker. lady who was ad-
dicted to smoking tobacco. She had
INDUCED in the habit until 1t had in
creased 80 much upon her that she not
only smoked her pipe large portion
of the day, but frequently sat up for
that purpose in the night. After one
of these nocturnal entertainments she
fell asleep, and dreamed that she died
and approached Heaven. Meeting an
angel, she asked him If her name was
written in the book of life. He disap-
peared, but replied upon returning
that he could not find it. "Oh," said
she, edo look again ; it must be there"


lie examined again, but returned
with a sorrowful face, saying, "It is
not there I" "Oh," she said in agony,
at must be there! 1 have the assur-
ance it is there! Do look againp'-
The angel was moved to tears by hel
entreaties, and again left her to renew
his search. After long absence he
came back, his face radiant with joy
and exclaimed: awe have found it


but it was so clouded with tobacco
smoke that we could hardly see itv
The woman upon waking Immediately
threw her pipe away, and never in


dulged in smoking again.
Year: 1866

How TO FREsHEN SALT FISH
Many persons who are in the habit of
freshening mackeral, or other salt fish,
never dream that there is a right and
wrong way to do it, Any person who
has seen the process of evaporation go
ing OH at the salt works knows that
the salt falls to the bottom. Just so it
is in the pan where your mackerel OF
white fish lies soaking; and as it lies
with the skin side down, the salt will
fall to the skin and remain there,
when, if placed with the flesh side
down, the salt falls TO the bottom Of
the pan, and the fish comes out fresh.
ened as it should in the other case il
is nearly as salt as when put in. i
you do not believe this, test the mat
ter for yourself. aaI
Year: 1866

The Mammoth Cave in Kentucky
is not without its story Of love and ro-
nance. ~ Some twenty years ago a
dashing Tennessee girl promised, her
mother that she would not marry a
certain man "on the face of the earth"
said suitor being particularly ,objec-
tionable to the old lady. So there was
quiet in the family for some time,--
But one pleasant day the gay girl and
her lover ran away and went into the
Cave, to spot now called the "Bridal
Chamber" and in the presence of a
few witnesses were matrimOnially
united, about 1926 feet below the "face
of the earth"
Year: 1866

See Exodus 80 and %. Why may
not the freedmen now say with the
Hebrews:


Make us gods which shall go before
us for as for this Moses, the man that
brought us out of the land of Egypt,
we wot not what has become Of him.
Year: 1866

A country man who was charged
with ten gallons of molasses- which a
grocer put in an eight gallon keg, said
he didn't mind the money overcharged
as much as he did the strain on the keg!
Year: 1866

If we are loved by those around us,
we can bear the hostility ofall the rest
of the world just as If we were. before
alwarIh fire, welneed nqt1care for all
the ice in the polar regions.
Year: 1866

AN UFEARTHLY SToRY.-A very weird
story is current in the hill country of
Staffordshire. We have been unable to
verify The narrative with anything like
precision, and content ourselves with re-
lating. it as near as possible as it was told
to Ms by clergyman. One day last week
carrier, with his horse and cart, was
taking his accustomed journey between
Buxton and Mansfield. A After he had gone
somo distance, he was accosted by way
faring man, who was plodding along the
road, who asked for lift. The carrier
took the man up, and then proceeded on
ward. After awhile, the carrier com
planned that his hands were cold, and
asked his companion to drive for him for
a time. The man consented, and took
hold of the reins. Before they had gone
much further, stranger on horseback
the horse, by the way, was white one
overlook them, and rode by the side of
the cart. ..E L."


conversation was commenced, which
very soon took the direction of the cattle
plague. Its devastating effects were dis
cussed, and a parallel was drawn between
it and other calamities past and future.
The stranger on horseback suddenly be-
came pror hetic, saying that next year
there would be plaene or blight among
the corn, which would destroy the fruits Of
the earth, which would be followed the
next year by plague among mankind.
"Christians," he said "wonld be dead in
the roadside by hundreds. Yes,"he added,
lowering his voice, and addressing the
holder of the reins, ''dead as the man who
is sitting by your side p The driver
turned, and to his horror found that he
was sitting by the side of corpse. The
stranger on horseback galloped away, and
the temporary driver of the cart was
left to pursue his Journey with his
melancholy urden.-Stq8ordsAre { Eng.)
.SentineL.
Year: 1866




EACH MAN TO HIS OWN TRADE.-There is
sharp country lawyer in the county of
Allen, whose name is James Mehaffy,
slightly of the Hibernian persuasion, who,
having succeeded in the way Of making
money. turned his attention to real estate,
farming, &c. Among his purchases W as a
fine Touring mill on tho waters of Hog
Creek which was superintended by o COM
petent miller and did thriving business.


Once upon day, it fell out that the
miller was away on furlough, to be gone
all day, and the proprietor happening at
the mill, found a small boy in tattered
garments sitting astride a bag of corn,
which lay across the back of a sorry look
ing nag. The owner of the mill not un-
derstanding the trade of miller, put the
corn in the wrong hopper, and could get
no grist in return. He then put some
meal in corner of the boys sack and sent
him home, telling him that he would
keep his mother from starving until the
miller should return to find where the
grist had gone to.


The boys corn being all ground out of
the hopper, the proprietor undertook to
stop the mill, but it would not stop He
pulled one lever and then another, but the
mill ratified on with all it's might. The
mlll-stones, having nothing to grind, took
to grinding each other; presently they
wbXed not, then hotter; the fire began to
fl, and the owner became alarmed. He
rushed to his house, mounted his horse,
and told his wife that he was going in
search of the miller, and if any bigger fool
than himself should happen along, for
heavens sake to get him to stop the mill.


Away rode the man, and having found
his miller ordered him to mount the horse
and run for the mill before the thing
should set itself on fire. The miller was
not slow TO obey, and having shut the
gate the wheels stopped, and all was quiet
on Hog Creek.


But the lost grist- where had it gonea
The proprietor showed the miller where be
had put it in, and the whole mystery was
solved The grist had been put in the
wheat hopper, carried up in the elevators,
deposited in the bolt, through which it
could not sift so as to reach the box, and
there it was inside the wheat bolt, where
the miller could go in and dip it out.
And that is how a lawyer undertook to
run mill and lost Exchange.
Year: 1866

To KEEP BEDS WELL AIRED Nothing


is more necessary than to fill large stone
bottle with boiling water, and put it into
bed, which, with the bolster and pillows.
should be pressed round 1t in a heap. II
is astonishing the number of hours it will
be found warm. By this simple eontri-
vance no one need fear giving friend o
damp bed,n even If it is only done once q
fortnight. Care must be taken to have
the bottle corked, and, to prevent accidents,
it would be as well to tie IL down. Cotton
PIQnter.
Year: 1866

This reported in yesterdays TRIBUNE summed up
yesterday The Court in charging the jury said that The point
Tor them decide was whehor under the circumstances OF the
case the defendant had used the and diligence IN protect
ing the property ntrued 10 him which u reasonable he
should use and which required Of HIM carrier
The jury found for plaintiff for the full amount claimed with
nters-s 80 40 The Court ordered stay OF proceedings
for 20 days ~ enable defendant 70 make case
Year: 1866

THE FREEDMENs BUREAU.-The New York World
in an elaborate article upon the injurious ei1set Of
Trunbus negro BILL says that the freednlen's bureau
bill proongs the negros condition of dependence .t
substitutes dependence upon bureau upon govern
ment for dependence upon master The claurr
profits nothing. The at least compelled a us.
try The bureau will breed Incidence and paupeisu.
Dependence can breed naught but the habit of daerE
ing. Doing for them will teach them nothing a.cers
no5 to do for themselves The bureau takes awsy te
mastersJimulus, and will let the Stimulus o free.
dom work II a ranstory institution it is egi} end
the begeter Of evil while it continues and creates ~
such intermediate condition as will prepare the Slack
for perfect freedom 1t is strange that the men gba
have purely desired the negros freedom aud his civil
equality with the white man, and who for years have
argued his fitness for freedom as reason for givine bin


freedom should now deny his capacity TO be free and
to the Of life without assistance and vote With
those whose politics and patriotism all are summed 40
in promoting the welfare of the black man at she ez
pense Of the white. Of that expense we have had
quite enough.
Year: 1866

The local of the Raleigh Standard
has evidently been treated to kiss.
Hear him:


People will kiss, yet not one in a hun
dred knows how to extract bliss from
lovely lips, no more than they know how
to make diamonds from charcoal And
yet it is easy, at least for US. First know
whom you are TO kiss. Don't make a
mistake, although a mistake may be
good. Don't jump up like a trout for a
fly, and smack woman on the neck, on
the ear, or on the corner of her forehead,
on the end of her nose, or knock off her
waterfall. The gentleman should be a
little the taller. He should have clean
face, kind eye, a mouth full OF express
sion. Don't kiss everybody. Don't sit
down to IT. stand up. You need not be
anxious about getting in crowd Two
persons are plenty to corner and catch a
kiss; more persons spoil the sport, Take
the left hand of the lady in your right;
let your hat go to any place out OF the
way; throw the left hand gently over the
shoulder of the lady, and let the hand fall
down upon the right side toward the belt
Don't be in a hurry; draw her gently,
lovingly to your heart her head will fall
lightly upon your shoulder, and hand
some shoulder strap it makes. Don't be
in hurry; send little life down your left
arm. Her left hand is in your right, let
there be an impression to that, not like the
grip of vice, but a gentle clasp, full OF
electricity, thought and respect. Don't be
in a hurry Her head lies carelessly on
your shoulder You are nearly heart to
heart Look down into her half-closed
eyes! Gently, yet manfully, press her
to your bosom Stand firm. Be brave,
but don't be in hurry. Her lips are
almost open Lean lightly forward with
your head, not the body Take good aim;
the lips meet-the eyes close-the heart
opens-the soul rides the storms, troubles
and sorrows of life, don't be in a hurry
heaven opens before you-the world
shoots from under your feet as meteor
flashes across the evening sky, (don't be
afraid THE nerves dance before the just
erected altar of love, as zephyrs dance
with the dew-trimmed flowers-the heart
forgets its bitterness, and the art of kis-
sing is learned. No noise, no fuss, no
fluttering and squirming like hook-im-
paled worms kissing don't hurt; 1t
don't require brass band to make il
legal. Don't jab down on beautiful
mouth as if spearing for frogs Don't
grab and yank the lady as if she were
struggling colt Don't muss her hair,
scratch down her collar, bite her cheek,
squizzle her rich ribbons, and leave her
mussed and rumpledl Don't flavor your
kisses with onions, tobacco, gin cock
tails, lager beer, brandy, etc, for maud
lin kiss is worse than the itch to deli
cate, loving, sensible woman.
Year: 1866




A letter, written from Chicago last
week, says:


A prominent auctioneer in this city
says he now has contracts to sell the
furniture of no less than FIVE hu ndred
families, between this date and the first
of June. Some of these families will
try boarding house life in the city, but
most of them are preparing to go into
the country, or to some other cities,
where there is less extortion and filth. 1t
is safe to predict that within the next
sixty days not less than fifteen hundred
families will evacuate this port An
ticipations of cholera, no doubt, have
something to do with this emeute, but a
more potent cause is found in the extor-
tionate rents demanded by house owners
and agents. Business prospects for this
season will not justify poor men in re-
naming here and submitting to the i'm
positions that threaten them. | am con
fident that, soon after the FIRST of May,
rents will drop from forty to fifty per
cent. below the figures now demanded,
and even then they will be high enough
to afford fair interest on the money in
vested in rentable property.
Year: 1866

An average annual cash dividend to Stock
holders of fourteen per cent. upon its capital
stock since its incorporation, portrays the great
success and stability of this eminent Institu.
ton, the superior financial accuracy displayed
the management of the PHGNIX is in the
hands Of those who know how. successfully, to
couduct lrl
Year: 1866

RICE SToLEy.-On Thursday night Of last
week, Goo pounds of rice were stolen from the
wagon of Mr. Powell, at his residence 10 this
place. The wagon had been driven to a shed,
and supposed to have been securely covered.
After considerable search. the officers, on
Sunday evening, found some five sacks of the
stolen rice in the cellar of a China wash house
on Montgomery street. Charley the pre-
prietor of the "washee." and about half a
dozen other Chinaman. were arrested and tried
before Justice Dick. Charley was, by jury
OF twelve, found guilty. This John will no
doubt pay the fine, as be numbers one of the
big Chinese business men. Our Jail has almost
constantly a supply of Celestals, and they are
of that class that would rather take quarters
in cell and receive free grub from the county
than take hold of rocker to make an honest
living. They should be fed exclusively on
boiled rice.
Year: 1866

ONLY ONE BRICK UPON ANOTHER
A boy watched large building, az the
workman from day to day carried brick
and mortar.


"My son, said his father, "you seem
taken with the bricklayers. DO you
think of learning the trade ?''


!" No sir; | was thinking what lit
tie thing u brick Is, and what great
houses are built by laying one brick on
auother.o


Very true my son; never forget II.
So it is i'm all great works. All your
learning is one lesson added to another.
II a man could walk all around the
world 1t would be putting one foot be-
fore another. Your whole life will be
made up Of one moment upon another.
Drop added to drop makes the ocean.


:" Learn from this not to despise little
things. BE not discouraged ny great
labors. They become easy If divided
into parts. You could not jump over a
mountain. but step by step takes you to
the other side. Do not fear, therefore,
TO attempt great things. Always re-
member that the large building went up
only one brick upon another
Year: 1866

dry eve i'm the room, and they felt that
they were alone with their parents for
the last time-that they could not all
expect 10 see them again, and they val
ucd their last blessing more than all
the gold Of California.
Year: 1866

FATTENING SwINE.-Many farmers do
not commence fattening their swine till
October. This is not the, best system OF
hog management. Hogs that are to be
slaughtered nbont the FIRST Of Deconibor
or January should be wen fed, with
scrupulous regularity, three times every
day. 1t is not best to "stuff" fattening
swine in the former part of the season,
unless they have attained a desirable
size. Hogs should be kept growing
rather than to allow them to subsist
almost entirely on grass, till within two
of the time when they are to be
slaughtered, and then crowd them by
heavy feeding. The quantity of feed
should be increased from week to week,
as the animals will take largeramount.
Furthermore. it is infinitely better to
have all kinds Of grain ground quite
fine before il is fed ont. 1t is also an
excellent practice, when feeding fatten


ing swine, TO provide three vessels, each
one to contain about as much as is fed
at one time. Then let the meal be soft
ened by making in water about twenty
four hours before 10 is fed. A still bet
ter practice is to scald meal of all kinds
previous to feeding it.-Ne'c York Times.
Year: 1866

1t affords us pleasure TO congratulate
our Taylor county friends upon the splen-
did fight which they made at the recent
election. They have reason to be proud
of their success in making marked i'll
roads upon the enemy, and in electing a
tried and true Conservative to represent
them in the next Legislature. Among
the many trusty defenders of the cause
in Taylor, there is 10 man more deserv-
ing of success, or more capable of USE
fullness than REUBEN DAvIssoN. His
triumph is the more satisfactory in that
his opponents were especially bitter
and malignant. Himself and Captain
BURpErr were made the objects of the
most merciless and malicious attacks.
The latter gentleman has also received
flattering compliment from his friends
and neighbors. In hs own town, among
those who know him best, he leads his
antagonist nearly fifty votes, and in
the entire county he leads his OWL
ticket about forty. This is an emphatic
refutation of the indecent ISLANDERS upon
Captain BURDETT, so persistently re-
iterated, if not originated by the Intelli
rpDcPf
Year: 1866

A SAD FATE.-A few monnhs ago n
handsome and intelligent young lady
arrived in this city from Ireland, and
commenced earning livelihood by
sewing, She was working in a very re-
spectacle family when it was discovered
that she was enciente. Having no
means beyond the small pittance earned
by sewing, she was not able to provide
for the coming event, consequently
was sent to the Infirmary, until some
facts could be learned relative to her
history. 1t appears that her family is
one of the most respectable in Ireland,
being large landholders, and, fearing the
exposition that must necessarily follow
her indiscreet course; she fled from her
fathers house, without his knowledge,
and to this day he is ignorant of her
whereabouts. Unlike the great majOri-
ty of her nation in this country, she is
not familiar with the details of the eul-
mary department., or domestic affairs
generally, but is an unfortunate, help
less wanderer, in q strange land, yet
we hope not without one kind friend to
cheer her in the dark hours of adversity.
Measures are being taken to restore her
to loved, ones at home, and have the
author Of her anguish partly atone for
his atroeious conduct by marriage
IClereldad Herald, Goth.
Year: 1866

. Observations of the wheat crop in the
counties tributary to the Richmond
markets are not suggestive of very en-
couraging prospects. 1t is anticipated
that the crop will be found to be shorter
than any made for number of years
prior to the war. Assuming the crop
of 1860 as a standard of comparison,
there can be little doubt that hardly
more than one-half of that seeded then
will he seeded the present year. 1t is
proper to state, however, that the crop
of that year was very large, its album
dant yield being an ample return for
the immense outlay of guano and other
fertilizers used, and the general close
attention given to the crop throughout
the State.-RiOhmoad E1aaiaery