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Year: 1867

Inc hrst SHOWS generally lie mo,e level
tnan any which fall late in the season, and
this opportunity should be embraced. as soon
as a sufficient quantity has fallen TO cover fbe
rocks and rough places, for bringing TO the
house a sufficient quantity of fire wood to
last year. In this cold country fuel is am
article of first Importance, and he who keeps
years supply ahead is prudent and wise
man. ..


Though the days are short, more labor may
be performed with a sled in December than
in February or March when the SHOWS are
dritted in heaps or where the sun has made
black patches in the pathway.


If the ground is yet bare the opportunity
should be improved to pick up the broken
and scattered wood in the forest, when it is
still worth something for fuel, but nothing is
saved IN this way unless we can get it with
out breaking down the young growth.


L: is now generally agreed, that the best
mode OF cutting wood is, to clear lot COM
pletely, and let the new growth have fair
start, unobstructed by tall and branching
trees of an older growth. When lot is dc :
signed for wood merely, without regard to
timber, We gain by cutting while the wood is
young; the wood is better; it is more easily
prepared for the fire; and the new shoots
from a young stump are much more vigorous
than from an old one. .a...r4 -H.
Year: 1867

This is an excellent principle fol the work
ing and trading classes of the community to
adopt, but we fear the true philosophy OF it is
not generally understood. Notwithstanding
the many ties which connect man with So
ciety, he nevertheless has stamped upon his
brow the original decree, that he must be Chief
ly dependent upon his own exertions and la
bors for support. 1t is an incontrovertible
fact, founded upon general experience, that
when a man trusts to his own exertions in
life, he generally sueceeds,-if not in amass-
ing fortune, at least in obtaining comfort
able living On the other hand, he who de.
pends upon others for his success in life, OF,
ten finds himself wofully disappointed. Moth
ing gives so good an appearance of well doing
as the personal activity of a man daily ex-
erted for his own interests. But should the
same individual find himself suddenly offered
patronage. likely to enrich him, or fall into
the inheritance of some Anticipated dame, it
is ten to one that he ceases to be industrious
from that moment, and is finally ruined.
The only true way to make happy progress
in this world Is to go on in a persevering pur-





suit of one good object, neither turning to the
right nor the left, but making our business
our pleasure as much as possible, till we find
ourselves at the goal of our wishes, with
fortune almost unconseiously in our posses
sion. Humanity, kindness, friendship, have
their claims upon us which we should always
consider and look upon with good and proper
feelings, but not injure ourselves by giving
too freely to relieve the wants Of others. We
should be just. kind and affable to all, and en-
deavor to instil into the minds OF others the
same spirit Of industry and perseverance,, that
anmates us, enjoining them always to re-
member, that success in life is more certain
of attainment by their own unaided exertions
than by any reliance for assistance upon
others. TRAM.
Year: 1867

In the cultivation of edible roots for the
use of farm stocks it is important to know
what kinds contain the greatest amount OF
nutriment adapted to the physical advantage
of the animals. In relation to this subject
we happen to have amongst our loose papers
one kindly furnished ms by the late DR.. Eze-
kiel Holmes, which exhibits the comparative
quantity OF nutritious matter OF several sorts
of common roots, and the component parts
of which they are made up. We give it in
the form Of table, showing the amount o
nutritive matter in 1000 parts of each:
Year: 1867

The CHANGE OF SEAsON.-The celebrated
hat Manufacturer KSox possesses great and remarkable inventive
~ proof Of which furnished every the introduction Of
new style ofhat production making sensation and at
tracing crowds Of purchasers stores No az Broadway
of Futon.st and No 53J Broadway
Year: 1867

courts, ]alls, ctos--=a<4fer rourtJ assem-
bled at the appointed site for the pur-
pose of cutting logs, raking boards,
ETC., to build court house and jail,
The only theme of conversation, when
the mca- were assembled; was the
court, etc. None of them had ever
seen court in session, as yet devel-
oped. Each one would give what
his idea was Of 4 court, etc.


None, however, were entirely sat-
factory, until Bill Simpson was call
cd on to give his ideas. Hc said he
knew all about court-that he had
a law suit in North Carolina. One
of his neighbor's hogs kept coming
where hcfed his hogs until it got fat.
One morning he got so mad. that
he shot the hog. lie thought it
would not do to throw it away, SO he
cleaned and salted it. Shortly after
wards his neighbor and a man came
to his house, examined the smoke
house, and took him to town and put
him in a little office. About three
months after that, this man came and
took him up TO large room. A large
man sat upon a high bench-a man
was sitting at dcsk-about q dozen
fine dressed men sat in place that
was paled around. The man put me
in a pen just behind them.


He then called in twelve men, they
took seats in box in front of the fue
dressed men. The man that was VIII
ting gave the twelve men book and
said something about Bill Simpson
and State. Then one of the fine men
read something about Bill Simpson
and the hog, and he and another one
Of the fine dressed men had the big
gestquarrel you ever rheard-I thought
they would fight every minute, but
they didn't. twas Bill Simpson and
the hog, and the hog and Bill Simp-
son; ald sometimes Mr.. Simpson, but
seldom. After they quit quarrel
ing, tho big man talked a while to
the twelve men, and they went cut
and staid short time, and came back
and said something to the man at the
desk. The man on the bench said
something to the man that put me in
Office, and he took me out and tied
me to q pcrsimmon tree and commenc-
ed fighting me with cowhide, ard it
made me so mad that I shook all
the persimmons off the tree.


Winchester Home Journal.
Year: 1867

At Warsaw, Indiana, about six weeks
ago, one Lawrence Hart took from the
poor house boy four years old, named
Winfield Hines. Three weeks afterward
the child was missing. Its mother made
inquiry as to what had become of it, and
was told that it had been given away
to man living in Ohio. Not satisfied
with this, she succeeded in interesting
some prominent citizens in the matter,
who began to make an investigation,
whereupon, Hart having fled, af'er a
long search, the mangled body of the
child was found in An old we'll.
At the COroner's inquest, Hart's wife
and others testified that, from the very
first. Harris treatment of the child was
brutal and cruel in the extreme; that he
whipped and beat it without mercy al
most if not quite every day; and that
on one occasion he spent nearly whole
day in tsrturing it in every way the
most hellish wantonness could suggest,
first whipping it with leather strap,
then with strip of board, until it was
not able to walk, and then put it down
in the cellar, where it laid down in the
damp and chilly air and went to sleep.
Then he removed it from the cellar, took
it out of doors and plunged its head
in cold water, and compelled it
to remain ont of doors until its feet were
frozen. He then took it into the house,
hung it up by means of q strap passed
around the body, and held Goals of fire
on a shovel under his feet. After tor
turing it in this manner for while, he
took It down and made il walk the floor
backward and forward, occasionally
striking it.with q plated leather horse
whip, until it fell at last exhausted and
senseless on the floor.


It further appeared that the day the
child died Hart whipped it first, out of
doors, with . stick Of some kind, until
il was 80 exhausted that it fell asleep
ut the table while they were eating
breakfast. Upon this Hart flew in q
rage and said, aD-n you, will see if
can't keep you awake" and thereupon
seized q horsewhip and whipped the
child for some time, and finally struck
II a severe blow on the temple, either
with his fist or the butt Of the whip,
and Knocked its head against q stair
way, causing two more severe bruises
on the back part of its head.


He then allowed his wife to put the
child to bed, and she states that she
tried TO restore it, hut it died that
nigbt. when Hart took the body away.


The murderer fed, but was captured
at Independence.
Year: 1867

The work of removing the REGIsTER
establishment to our new quarters op-
,osite the Mcclure house on Market
street, has been commenced and is pro-
sress;ng as rapidly as circumstances
will permit. We were in hopes that
the removal might be effected without
suspeuding publication for n single day.
This we find Is impossible. No paper
will be issued from this Office on ,to-mor-
row morning. We know Of nothing
shat need cause further delay and there
fore expect to resume publication from
our new office on Thursday morning.
Year: 1867

THERE is a good stage Of water in
the river.


The Potomac leaves for Cincisnati to-
day at 5p. m.


The starting of the iron mills will be
good news to the river men, who have
been complaining greatly at the lack Of
freight.
Year: 1867

PLAYED THE CowARp-Spoaser Col
fax, who was so anxious To have the presi-
dent dangling in mid air, and Stanton back
in the war department, while stunSping
Ohio for negro suffrage, shrked the Re-
sponsibility of voting Oh the Impeachment
resolution. lie did not ask that his name
might be called as 4 representative from
Indiana as he had done upon other oeca-
sions when extreme radical measures were
being put upon their final passage When
1t came really to the pinch his courage was
of the Bob Acre, kind, and he stood upon
his reserved rights as speaker. declining
to vote unless there was tie. The turn
which matters had taken was rather dam
aging to that peculiar grin that usually
lights up his countenance. Detroit Free
Press
Year: 1867

WHEN the wretch Milroy was in Win
chester a few weeks ago, he made a
speech to the spotted herd, declaring his
eternal love for the negro race 1t is re-
ported that wench stepped up and asked
him for that dollar he owed her when
he made that famous retreat to keep ont
of the way of EwelI.- Calpepper Obssr-
GER.
Year: 1867

a remarkable evidence of presence of
mind was recently given in France Mon
sieur J was talking with his mothcr-in-
law at her country chateau, when streak
of lightning almost reduced her to ashes
The domestics ran into the room, when
without moving q muscle, Monsieur j.
said. John, sweep up my wother-in Law"
Year: 1867

THE Pacific RAILR0AD.-The Central Pacific Rail.
road Company will make eXertions to reach Salt Lake
before the Union Pacific Company. The rivalry for


the possession of this portion OF the route nearly six
hundred miles long, will afford heaIthful stimulus to
the whole line Of construction. Some months ago it
predicted that the entire line would be built within
FIVE years. Mcssrs. Bates and Hodges think that it
may be done in less time, and even anticipate that
during the year 1870 make the trip from San
Francisco to New York city entirely by rail distance
Of three thousand and forty miles, in six days and
nights.
Year: 1867

John Newsom, Grocer and Commis- sion Merchant, No 1S2 Front street. From his long residence in Memphis and thorough acquaintance with the &business in which he is engaged, is pre- pared to do business on the square and in such manner as to merit patronage. See advertisement
Year: 1867




She was a slender, delicate girl, modest
and pretty, though poorly clad. Intelligence
and refinement stamped every feature, con-
yineins the most casual observer Of her unlike
ness TO lie eoauon crowd Of shop-girls, even
before i second glance had noted the roll OF
music plieA betokened the poor teacher fol-
loving her vocation. Justnow she stool m
On one 81 the corners ofa thickly y-throngeel
street. surveying, with 4 hesitant air, the
moving mass which separated her FROM the
other size.


Willie she WIS yet moditating a desperate
plunge into the human soa, a rough fellow,
Who foapl her slight fopm some obstruction
to his hea4tong haste, tostled past, with rude
push, which would have sent her from the
pavement, had not strong hand interposed,
saving her fall, and hurting the interleper
into the street The fellow skunk away, after
a glance at the stalwart proportions Of the
new conner, who met the bewildered thanks of
tho young lady, as yet scarsely conscious Of
what Ind taken place, with corseous proiicr
Of assistance i'll passage 70 the other side.


Such ~ experiment to-day, seems to de-
mand the wisdom Of Solomon, and the
strength Of q SAMPSON he said, laughingly,
to relieve her embarrassment; 'sand although
cannot boast much of the first commodity,
whatever possess of the second is at your
service


That the difficulties OF the undertaking had
not been exaggerated was evident, upon trial,
for such tacking and ycering such sudden
rushes and masterly retreats, the poor child
had never before witnessed. But the skill of
her conductor presently brought them safe to
the wished for side, where they parted, each
Year: 1867

oA4 CxANA4 <aC AckAlNOoSs


BYN.P. WILLIS.
love to look on scene like this,


Of wild and careless play,
And persuade myself that am not old,
And my locks are not yet gray;
For it stirs the blood Of an old mans heart,
And makes his pulses fly, ~'
To catch the thrill of happy voice,
And the light Of a pleasant eye.
have walked the world for four-score years
And they say that am old
That my heart is ripe for the reaper death,
And my years are well nigh told.
It is very true-it is very true


am old, and "bide my tme;"
But my heart viii leap at scenelike this,
And half renew my prime.
Play on play on! am with you tlere,.
In themidst of your merry ring;
can feel the thrill Of the daring jump,
And the rush Of the breathless swing.
I hide with you in the fragrant hay,
And whoop the smothered call,
And my feet slip upon the seedy floor,
And care not for the fall.
am willing to die when my time shall come,
And shall be glad to go
For the world, at best, is weary place,
And my pulse is getting low;
But the grave is dark, and the heart will fail
In treading It's gloomy way;
And it wiles my breast from its dreariness
To see the young SO gay.
Year: 1867


The following suits us, and, may suit somebody
else, 80 we give it. The last line is really tink
ling cymbal, if not more 80:
A1R-"Let me kiss him for his Mother"
Letme kiss her for her mother
The bewitching Polly Ann
Let me kiss her for her mother
Or any other man.
Let me kiss her for somebody,
Anybody in the world,
With her hair so sweetly auburn,
And so glQriously curled.
Let me kiss her for her "feller,"
And do not care red,
If he taps me on the smeller
With his "billy made OF lead"
Let me kiss her for her daddy
The pretty pouting elf
Or, if that don't suit the family,
Let me kissher for myself!
Year: 1867

gar! I lighted it and put it between his teeth
You ought to have seen the grateful smile Of the
DOOR sufferer No segar has ever done meas much
good as this one which I did not smoke p


Cincinnati Commercial
Year: 1867

NOBLE SENTIMENT use lady's name
in an improper place, at an improper time, or in
mixed company Never make assertions about
her that you think untrue, or illusions that you
feel she herself would blush to hear. When you
meet with men who do not scruple to make use OF
a womans name in a reckless and unprincipled
manner, shun them, for they are the very worst
members of the community-men lost to every
sense of honor, every feeling of humanity. Many
good and worthy woman's character has been
forever ruined and heart broken by a lie manufae-
tured by some william, and repeated where it should
not have been, and in the presence Of those whose
little Judgment could not deter them from clrcula-
ting the foul and Dragging report A slander Is
soon propagated, and the smallest thing derogato-
ry of woman's character will fly on the wings of
the wind, and magnify as it circulates, until its
monstrous weight crushes the poor unconscious
gictim. Respect the name Of woman, tor your
mother and sisters are women; and as you would
have their fair name untarnished, and their lives
unembttered by the slanderers bitter tongue, heed
the i'll that your own words may bring upon the
mother, the sister, the wife Of some feloW-crea-
ture,
Year: 1867

A lady writer under this heading, hits off the
young men as follows "A woman wants you.-
Don't forget her. No matter if you are poor.
Don't wait to be rich; if you do, ten to one if you
are fit to be married. Marry while you are young
and struggle up together But mark, young man,
the woman don't want you if she is to divide her
affections with cigar-spittoon or whiskey;jug.
Neither does she want you if you don't take care
of her and the little afterthoughts' which are
pretty sure to follow Neither does she want you
because you are man, the definition of which Is
too apt to bean animal that wears bifurcated gar
ments on his lower limbs, quartersection of stove
pipe on his head, swears like pirate and is given
to filthy practices generally.


She wants you for companion, helpmate
she wants you to have learned toregulate your ap-
petites and passions in short, the image Of God,
not in the likeness of beast. If you are strong
in good purpose, firm in resistance to evil, pure
in thought and action, as you require her to be,
and without which inward purity neither Of you
are fit for husband and wife; if you love virtue
and abhor vice if you are gentlemanly, forbear:
ing and kind, and not loud-talking, exacting and
brutal-young man, that woman wants you; that
modest, fair, cheerful, rightooking, frank-spoken
woman, we mean, who fills your idea of maiden
and wife. 1t is she that wants you; marry hel
when you like, whether she is rich or poor; well
trust you both, on the above conditions, without
any further security.
Year: 1867




POSITION IN OUR CHAIRs.-Al con" IN tive
people, and all afflicted with spinal deformities, st
habitually crooked, in one or more curves Of the
body. There was time in all these when the
body had its natural erectness when there was the
first departure on the road to death The make
of our chairs, especially that great barbarism the
unwieldy, and disease engendering rocking chair,
fayors these diseases, and undoubtedly in some in
stances, leads to bodily habits which originate the
ailments just named, to say nothing Of piles, fstu-
la and the like The painfulor sore feeling which
many are troubled with necessarily for years. at
the extremity of the backbone is the result Of sit
ting in such position that it rests upon the seat
of the chair, at point several inches forward of
the chair back A physiological chair, one which
shall promote the health, and preserve the human
form erect and manly as our Maker made it, should
have the back straight, at right angles with the
seat, the seat itself not being over eight inches
deep. A chair of this kind will do more toward
correcting the loungng habits of youth, than null
titudes of parental ecturings for then if they are
seated at all they must sit erect otherwise there
is no seat-hold.
Year: 1867

down, down hearted, and seedy. The
curious ones can see the General about
ten o clock every morning walking down
Olive street He stands erect and fully
six feet. His hair is silvery white. His
air and manner are the mildest OF any
man ever met. From beneath beat
ling brow mild blue eye peers, full Of
kindness, while his voice is as musical
and pleasant AS a woman's. Said one of
bis men to me one day, That's General
Price, as he came in sight, dressed in
the most scrupulous black, carrying a
gold-hended cane, "and ! only say what
every man OF his regiment will tell you,
| love that man" The General stopped
aud greeted my companion warmly and
with such a glow Of pleasantness in all
bis manner that wondered how to such
a man the barbarous lies and misrepre-
senta.ions of brutality and cruelty could
be imputed, as they we're during the Gen
erals stay in the State in the early part
of the war. The General and his son
CELSIUS, together with Mr.. Amos Ladd,
contemplate opening commission house
in this city at once.
Year: 1867

City Real Estate Sales-A Decided Reform.


By order of the Commissioners of the Sinking
Fund Comptroller Richard B. Connolly sold on
Monday last q quantity of real estate belong
ing to the city. For some years past similar
sales have been managed in such manner as
to enrich few favored individuals, who have
enjoyed the good fortune to be inside The ring,
at the expense Of the people. The mode Of
operation has been, first, to lease the property
at such low rates as to convey false impress
sion of its value, and next, to keep the date
Of sale and the descriptive list as private as
possible. Comptroller Connolly has reformed
all this and the good effect is seen in the result
of Mondays sale. The largest publicity was
given by that officer to the auction; the build
ings and lots were fully described, and their
advantages pointed out, and the Same efforts
were put forth to insure competition and good
prices as would have been made If the property
had been owned by private parties. This is o
decided and happy reform, for which the tax
payers ought to be grateful in these days of OIL
cial corruption. 1t also shows the advantage
Of advertising and the value of the press. If





the property might have fetched only half its
appraised value, instead of more than the esti-
mates called for.


One of the principles of our government
and it is good one, is that everything should
be done openly and above board. The people
have right to know all that is going on. The
other day the United States Senate made
great fuss and bother over the HERALD finding
out all about the treaty for Russian America,
and everything else that had been going on in
executive session. This is all nonsense The
free discussions of the press are worth more to
the country than the secret deliberations Of
any number of fossil politicians. There is no
certainty that the Russian American treaty
would not have been beaten in the Senate,
had not the HERALD, by giving 1t publicity,
elected an irresistible popular expression in
its favor. Comptroller Connolly has set good
example in giving the people full and timely
notice of the sales Of city property, and the
benefit Of his action is seen in the fact that
ell the lots sold have realized their outside
value. If the new Post Office site In the City
Hall Park, privately bargained away by Mayor
Holman and his fellow operators for five hun
dred thousand dollars, had been advertised
and disposed Of at public auction, ii would
haze brought TO the city treasury from three to
five millions n dollars. The property sold on
Monday by ComptrOi.er Connolly realized over
eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.