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Year: 1874

THE PORTLAND MONTREAL LINE-The cap
itasts interested in the Portland aud Montreal
Railroad say that 1900 men are at work along
the line Of the new Portland and Montreal
Railroad, which it is expected win be com
pleted and open for business in September,
1875 The force is larger than is engaged on
any similar enterprise in the country, aud will
be fully maintained-possibly increased-dur-
ing the winter. On the White Mountain
division of eleven miles, nearly 1000 men are
employed. The work on this section has been
found lighter and less expensive than was ex-
pected, the rock below the surface formation
picks. In only few cuts is blasting required
to complete the roadbed On the Vermont
division the grading Is almost completed aud
next month, the rails will be laid and the road
opened to johnson. six miles further down the
Lamoille Valley than Hyde Park, the present
terminus On the Canada end of the line be-
tween 300 and 400 men have been at work, aud
in months time can finish the grading
The funds for prosecuting the work on the
northern division have been secured in Canada
and England. 1t is expected that the force
now at work in the White Mountains will so
far complete that section of the line that 1t
Will be open for business in time for the sum
mer travel of next year Passengers will then
reach the principal White Mountain hotels
without staging, and to accomplish the round
trip from Saratoga and through the mountains
all by rail. The new line is said to be 80 miles
shorter than any other possible between Port
land and Montreal.-N Y. Tribune.
Year: 1874

WHITE PLAINs.-The September term of the
County Court Court of Sessions began here yester
day before the County Judge and Justices OF Sessions
As Grand Jury was impaneled at the last term Oh
these courts the criminal the calendar number
nearly 100 Some remarks were made relative To the
death Joseph Warren TOmpfns, old member OF the
bar ef the county, ad. after committee or hVe was
appointed draw up suitable resolutions on his death
the adjourned for the dag out OF respect Tor
liz MON
Year: 1874

How Maine Soldier became a MiiiiOn-


aire.


We often hear th c axiom truth is
stranger than fiction, ,"but we think among
The many cases that have been cited by
The newspapers during the past few years
we have rarely heard of one that possesses
more interest, or that points q stronger
moral, appropriate 10 the present time,
when the whole country is talking about
the temperance movement, than the one
we are about to relate. Moreover, we
know the tale we have 10 tell is strictly
true. and we only relain from mentioning
names because there are some people
who have a morbid fear of seeing their
names in print.


In the year 1861, just after the battle oil
Bull Run had famed The patriotism of the
North into steady blaze, Arthur Belmore
so we will call him-enlistod in one Of
our Maine regiments, and, after bidding
adieu to the aged parents who dwelt in
the weather beaten but comfortable farm.
house near the shoics Of q Maine lake,
renowned in song and story, obeyed the
call OF the bugle and marched with his
regiment OF sturdy lumbermen to Camp
Abraham Lincoln, near Portland. The
home associations OF young Belmore had
been such rs 10 bring out all the good
traits of a naturally amiabe and conscien
lious character. lis father was noted
throughout the country for his square.up-
right dealing, and his molher-one oil
those thin, pale women who look as if
the first breath OF wind wonld blow them
away, but who stand the wear and tear
of over fourscore New England winters
was not only thrifty house wife bnt 4
woman oil considerable culture and
Year: 1874

l. During the summer season you
should have both drinking cup and
a bathing dish in the cage, and should
wash them well twice day, and fill
with fresh water The seed cup
should be thoroughly filed every
morning.


2. The room in which the bird is
kept should never be warmer than
9Oo.


3. Feed plain food. Now and
then a lump of sugar does no harm,
but as general rule avoid sweets.
Keep the cutie fish dry and clean,
and feed only fresh and dry seed.


4. Never place a cage where a
draught can strike the bird.


5. Never smoke in room where
your bird is kept, as the odor of ci.
gar is fatal to canaries.


6. AS general rule never keep
the bird in painted cage; for the
birds will peck at the wires, and it
will lead to disease.


Z. When your bird Is shedding
feathers, which is generally styled
moulting be careful to avoid draughts
of air.


BY obeying these simple rules you
can keep birds in excellent health
for years.
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the Cincinn att
Times recently met peddler who
told him this interesting story of a
visit he once made to the home of
Mrs. Bigler in Penslyvania:


CAT the time wished the place
the father of the family was dead,
and none of the children were at
home except an only daughter, who
was married to Nh Mitchell, who
worked the farm. 1t was sold, raw
day when l came, and the old lady
was sitting before big fire reading
q newspaper. She was q very fine
looking old woman, rather heavy,
and there was something motherly
and good about her.


"Well Mr.. Peddler," said she, as
l sat down before the fire, "bave you
heard the election returns yet ?"


81 told her l had heard nothing
but the returns from few neigh bor-
ing towns and counties. You know
railroads and telegraphs were not so
numerous then as now"


81 assure you sir" she said, 81
feel little uneasy about our Bill and
our John-Bill is running for Cover
nor of this State, and John is running
for Governor of California.


81 tell you that scene was worthy
of picture-the good old lady read
ing her newspaper by the fire, in her
humble log cabin, and her two SONS
running for Governor of the two
richest States in the Union-aud both
were elected"
Year: 1874

The narrative of which l am about
to write was told me one bleak, cold
night in country parlor. 1t was
one of those nights in mid winter
when the wind swept over the land,
making everything tingle with its
frosty and keen breath, that I was
seated before blazing fire, surround.
ed by half dozen of boys and an
old bachelor, Peter Green, of about
4s years.


1t was just the night without to
make those within enjoy good sto.
ry, so each of US had to tell his fa-
vorite story, except Mr.. Green, and
he was jolly story-teller, we were
somewhat surprised to hear him say ::
81 have no story that would interest
you," so we had to find other enter.
tainments for while, when one of
the boys told US to ask him how it
happened that he never got married.
So we did.


swell, gentlemen" he began, "it
don't seem right for me to tell how
it happened, but as it's about myself,
| don't care much. You see when |
was young we had to walk as high
as five miles to singing school and
church, which was our chief enjoy
ment. But this don't have anything
to do with my not getting a wife, bur
l wanted to show you that we had
some trouble in getting our sports
them days.


John Smith and l were like broth
ers, or like "Mary and her little
lamb" Where one went the other
was sure to go. So we went to see
two sisters, and as we were not the
best boys imaginable, the old gentle.
man took umbrage and wouldn't al.
low US to come near the house, so
we would take the girls to the. end of
the lane, and there we would take
the final kiss.


We soon got tired of that sort of
fun and ! told John on our way to
singing school one night that l
was going home with Sadie, and
that was going into the house, too.


He said the old man would "cane
me" if l did.


told him | was going to risk it
any way, come what would.


He said he would risk it if / would.
So we went home with the girls.
When we got to the end of the
lane l told the girls we proposed GO
ing all the way.


They looked at each other in a way
/ didn't like any too well, but they
said the old folks would be in bed, so
they didn't care if we did. f


"They Were little more surprised
yet when | told them we thought of
going in while, but as all was quiet
when we got to the house, we had
no trouble in getting into the kitch-
en-.


Then and there we had our first
court, and / made up my mind that
] would ask Sadie to be my wife the
next time came.


1t was now past the turn Of night,
Year: 1874

A private letter from clergyman iu Fort
Scott, Kan. pictures the destitution there
as 1t comes to the knowledge of visiting
minister in terms which bring the scenes
home. Many Of the poor people in his
parish have absolutely nothing to live upon,
Some Of them have come in from their
distant farms hoping to secure enough to
keep life in their wives and little ones
through the help of the benevolent; one
family had lived upon salt>posk aud cor n
meal for three months; another had been
so long without sustelancc that their first
meal threatened to be their last. Some
have suffered two consecutive years from
the persecution of the locust, and their
little farms are mortgaged to their full
value. The wiiter says; In a small
town, and one small church, one soon ex>
haustS the surplus Of the benevolent and
these repeated calls weary them" The
letter was written in acknowledgment of
the receipt of a box of food and clothing
sent the writer for distribution among tho
sufferers iu his immediate vicinity. The
benevolent of Chicago who woald like to
supplement the good work done by this
one box can find plenty of opportunity by
addressing the Rev. W. C. Porter, pastor
Of the Presbyterian Church at Fort Scott,
Kansas.
Year: 1874

~ II am busy ploughing and can
not entertain company now is the
Substance OF note recently written
by Macoupin County, III girl to a
St. Loais exquisite who had met hcr
at fashionable party in the latter city
and wished to visit her at home. The
glorious maiden is graduate of an
Illinois seminary, and he, father gave
her eighty.aere farm on condition that
she should help work j; herself, which
sh. does.
Year: 1874

On Sunday evening an incident occur
red at the Rivington Street lodging house,
which shows that some of these home ess
wanderers are keenly. alive with religious
feeling. When the boys had assembled
in the reception room after supper, the
superintendent proposed that they should
join him in reading chapter of the Bi.
bic, and asked If any one had passage
10 suggest. A lad fourteen years old call
ed out 'the eleventh chapter of the Gus
iscl Of St. John," which was read by the
boys in unison, and with much apparent
interest. At the CLOSE of the meeting
the superintendent asked the lad why he
preferred that particular chapter. The
poor fellow unbuttoued his vest aad drew
forth Testament. worn almost to- shrcds,
and with tears In his eyes said Three
years ago my mothea gave me this Testa.
ment on her dying bed, and made me
promise to carry it always, and read it
as often as | could. Ihaye done so, and
somehow get most mfort out Of this
eleventh chapter Of St John, because
think that if Jesus wept srom sympathy
with the sisters of Lazarus, lie can feel
for poor hootblack like me, and enable
me to love him and keep his commands
ments." The same evening another boy
told the superintendent that he would like
to make prayer, and did not know what
to say, bat if one were written out for
him. he would commit it to memory, and
repeat it every night.-Sclected.
Year: 1874

euming my most sarcastic manner. II
inquired with an appearance of defer |
ence lis it not rather early to speak !
of your daughter as a noble woman?'


"Not at al, said the PHILOSOPHER.


I had kept aloof from the philosopher
for some weeks, nursing my wrath. like
Achilles, I said to myself cross as a |
bear, I overheard my landlady say in
the passage l received a hasty
note begging me to come to him at
once. I fancied myself summoned to a
council Of chiefs 80, having donned
my shining armor, I left my tent with
fitting dignity, and descended with q
clang into the plain. Yet I could not
but be aware of my landlady's eye
piercing me through the crack of the
parlor door purposely left ajar, and Of


which told the startled slavey's flight


into the abyss below.


An unusual silence held my friends


house that morning. The door was


opened, before I had time to ring, by a


melancholy footman, who, walking be-


fore me with the elaborate delicacy of


an Agag, noislessly ushered me in the


study. 1t was my lot to be again rooted


to the spot with amazement. BY the


bookcase in shaded corner Of the


room, with his head bowed low upon


his hands, knelt the philosopher. Here


was long step from the siege of Troy,


from the simple wrath of q childlike
hero to the most complex embarrass-
ment OF an heir of all the ages. What
should 1 do? The dismal menial had


fled to the shades, without a word,
without even a glance, into the
room: IF I retreated, left my friend
unaided, and remained ignorant of thu
, cause of his strange conduct. III ad
. vanced, ! was again the intruder on
: scene not prepared for my inspection
: In an agony Of hesitation ffell to brush
9 ing my hat with my elbow; but no
3 finding the expected relief in the occu
y patton, I was about to desist, when m
g hat decided what my head could moi
9 by falling with crack on the floor. TIL
). effect was electrical. Without on
It glance at the intruder, the philosophe
u; made grab at the nearest bookshelf
Year: 1874

There is q movement on foot in the House oil
Representatives OF Pennsylvania to lay a direct
tax of three cents per ton ON anthracite COAL
The members from the coal counties, says the
Reading Eagle, "are opposing the bill. Coal Is
necessity used now in almost every iamny IN 'his
State, aud tax on this article Will fail heaNiy Oh
tho poor man LuXurles, and not the neceSsares
OF life, should be taxed. To show new 'his Dill
will work: If it becomes law there will have
to be paid by the men at tie mines IN schuyihiii
county alone about SCI, 900 year, being about
one-third Of the taxes that county will have to
pay.' The tax will be just so much adaeu 70 'ne
price of the coal, and considering the pro'ection
which PENNSYLVANIA has had Oh COAL it is expect
ing rather 100 much from those living outside o'
the State to suppose they will bear an indirect
tax by the Government and direct tax by the
State at the same time.
Year: 1874

Intelligence was received at the Coroners' once
yesterday tnat Jane Acton, VINO lived with her
brother John in the tenement house No. AZ Chari-
ton street, had died under suspicious circum-
stances. 1t was alleged by some Of the people liv-
ing in the house that Acton, while drunk had
been in the habit OF severely beating his sister.
and hence arose the suspicion The Twenty eighth
precinct police state that both the deceased and
her brother hal long drank TO excess, and ire
quently quarrelled. Acton was arrested and held
to await the result OF the investigation The pris-
oner deDtes beating his sister, and says she fell
down stairs while they were quarrelling In which
statement he Is corrObOrated by his mother. A
doctor who was called In found no marks on the
body OF the deceased except bruise on che side
OF the head. Coroner W0ltman has the case Ia
charge, and Deputy Coroner Marsh Will make an
autOpSV.
Year: 1874

The following record win show the changes IN
the temperature for the past twenty -four hours.
In comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year, as indicated by the Thermometer at Hudnurs
pharmacy, HERALD Building:-
Year: 1874

the North and West, visit to the South in
February the beginning Of our spring J
will be pleasant treat, Of which they
cannot easily deny themselves, especially
when the hospitalities of our proud. old,
historic city are offered them; and the
Patrons Of North Carolina, Georgia, Florida,


and of the Southwest, will be here in force
to give them the fraternal "grip." A
warm reception, hearty welcome, and the
best we have in the way of entertainment,
await them all. We are sure we can prom
ise this, not only on the part of the Patrons
of Charleston, and South Carolina, but on
that Of our citizens generally, who will de-
light in doing honor to the true men and aoo-
men who haze done so much to promote unity
and kind feeling betsceen the North and South.
Year: 1874

ANOTHER WAY OF MAKING THE
GRANeEUsEFUL.-Aquery box says the
Indiana Granger, is used by some Gran-
ges. 1t is passed around at every meet
ing for the reception Of questions, the
questions are read by the Secretary and
discussed or answered by the members.
This plan is simple one and We believe
can be adopted with advantage by every
Grange.


There is more truth than poetry in
he following vigorous assertions made
by a writer in the New York Tribune /:
If the Oranges should be told that
they are fighting a windmill with a
vengeance in trying to force reduction
in transportation 80 As to give them a
profit after travelling from one end Of
tie country to tie other, it would be 4
good thing. LET THEM IMPORT MEN
10 MANUFACTURE THE1R OWN GOODS,
9 We import cattle and sheep to eat our
surplus pay, and THEY WOULD GET
RICH as our land does. The shortest
road is through home manufactories,
xhieh the people Of the West oan build
aend control.
Year: 1874

" NV 10: AoS1'


The "eloquent blind preacher is
again in the lecture field.


One Of the new inventions is a
diamond saw, that will saw stone as
easily as ordinary saws will wood.


-Decaying leaves on roads and
walks, where the leaves are hourly
crushed and the dropping rain makes
paste of them.' are said to be exceed.
,ingly pestiferous, breeding disease and
death.


Investigations are expected to be
the order in Congress the coming Win
ter. Let them dip in. Investigating
will not do the least harm, and if it
isn't a good thing for the newspapers,
lit will he because Of SO much white
wash as to prevent the making Of an
impression.


"A lot Of Japanese idols recently
sold because their owners had no fnr.
ther use for them, prove to have been
manufactured in Sheffield, England.
John Bull has an eye to the Christian
ization Of the heather, but if they will
bow down to craven images, John Bull
proposes to furnish those images.


The next Indiana State Fair is to
have department which will contain
specimens Of drawing, penmanship,
and examination papers from the public
and private schools Of the State. 1t is
well. flour county and state fairs would
undertake the education Of the people
and give as much attention to the ad-
vancement acknowledge as to the display
offast horses, they would certainly prove
as useful, if not more successful than
they now are.


AS appropriate to the article on
"Sleep," found in our last issue, we
print the following from " Physiology
for Practical Use giving simple plan
Of ventilation "A piece of wood three
inches high and exactly as long as the
window is to be prepared. Let the
sash be now raised: the slip placed on
the sill, and the sash drawn closely up
on it. II the slip has been we'll fitted,
there will be no draft in consequence
Of this displacement of the sash at its
lower part; but the top Of the lower
sash will overlap the bottom of the up
per one and between the two parts perpen-
dicular currents of air, not felt as draft,
will enter and leave the room.


The Minneapolis wing of Bill
Kings St. Paul Democratic Organ is
in hot water over the election OF
Samual Lee, colored, formerly Bill
Kings coachman, elected to Congress
from South Carolina on the Democratic
ticket, and speaks Of the Honorable
member in the following classic manner
"By all means let Samuel be carefully
groomed and duly patted on the back


AS Samuel is with the majority he
will probably have a chance to curry
Bill fully and thoroughly as he used tc
curry Bill's fancy horses. It may be q
little humiliating to the King to have tt
seek his former groomsman's aid tt
procure few crumbs for his hangers
on, but then Bill has bought his place
and he is welcome to all he will gel
out of it, either for himself or his con
r>Sk - IL
Year: 1874

of men to vote who are too shiftless to
vote without compulsion, to which we
saw amen! If man in this land,
where every man is a sovereign and re-
sponsible to the extent of his vote, at
least, for the manner in which the
country is governed, will not perform
the duties arising out of citizenship,
from very pride and patriotism, let him
be compelled to his duty by law. There
is no more reason why citizens who neg
lect to vote or to educate their children
in this land Of free schools, or neglect
any other duty arising out Of their OBJ
legations to their country, which neglect
results in direct positive injury to the
State, should not be compelled by fines
and penalties to perform these duties,
than that they should not be prohibited
by like fines and penalties from doing
violence to the State by the direct in
fringement of the rig hts of it's citizens
by fraud, theft, open murder, or trea-
son. The one is as much crime as
any Of the others: only differing in de.
gree.


1t is generally admitted by persons Of
all parties that the majority of those
citizens who do not vote are respectable
and intelligent persons, the very ones of
all others who ought to exercise the
right Of franchise. The two principal
reasons why every man legally entitled
so to do should be compelled to vote at
all special or general elections are:


First. That the men who will &C.
cept paltry bribes for their votes, have
no political principles, care not straw
whether they vote for an honest man or
knave, are invariably brought to the
polls by the whippers-in or ward politi-
clan, and induced by questionable
means to cast their ballots which ever
way they are told, thereby, in many in
stances, doing great injury to the com
munity by electing dishonest and disre.
putable men to Office.


Second, chat as the law now is men Of
little integrity, who are known to es.
pouse a certain cause or candidate, may
be influenced by the money of the op-
position to stay at home, by which act
they evidently may do nearly as much
harm as if they voted in the interests
of their briber.


The opponents of the system will
say that if compulsory voting became a
law, it would encroach upon the liber.
ties Of the people. They would say
that coercive voting could not lessen
bribery because dishonest men care not
how shey vote so long as money can be
made by it.


Admitting that these are sensible oh.
jections to compulsory voting, we hold
that those to the system now in vogue
are Of much greater weight, and Of two
evils it is always policy to choose the
least. Is it not better, we ask. that q
few should be forced to go TO the polls
however reluctantly than that the
"strumpet Of corruption should stride
in naked horror" over the country.
Year: 1874

Correspondents of the Boston Tynn-
scrapt are relating instances of curious
condolences. We quote: "a gentleman
dreamed about Commencement time of
college mate whom he never knew we'll
or cared for especially, and had not seen
or heard of or thought of for decade
Next day he saw him in Boston He had
lately returned from a protracted absence
from the country. A lady dreamed of
an old family servant who quit her house
years ago, settled at distance, and was
as much segregated from her and
stranger to her thoughts as though in
habiting another sphere of existence
She called on her within twenty-four
hours


About dozen years ago met one
day, on Washington street, as thought,
citizen of a distant town with whom
had long before a slight acquaintance,
but whom had not seen or thought of
for many years. AS we passed each other
saw it was not he, but two blocks
farther on met the very man. Having
had one similar experience before, this
became the more strongly impressed
upon my mind. About two years after
was walking one evening on fremont
street, on the sidewalk lately removed,
and when near West street gate I was
on the point of speaking to MI. H., an
Intimate business acquaintance, but the
gas-light at that moment showed it was
a stranger whom | had met instead of
my friend. The other incident came to
my mind, and thought, Would it not
be curious circumstance if I should
meet Mr.. II. during my walk?' and, to
my astonishment, l did meet and talk
with him on that very sidewalk before I
got to Park street corner"