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Year: 1874

ASECpoTE OF WEBsTEE.-Just before
Layfayette's visit to America, Webster
was one of fishing party in Massachu-
sets. He had been selected to deliver
the welcoming speech to the great
Frenchman on his approaching visit,
and during the piscatory occupation he
seemed very distracted. A gentleman
who was fishing next to him addressed
him several times without receiving a
word in answer. BY and by Webster
began pulling in his line, hand over
hand, with an effort which plainly gave
a single CLEAN of that eager JOY which
usually accompanies such an event. AT
length the fish was seen approaching
the surface, cleaning through the green
water like FURNISHED silver; still Web
ster's face gave no sign Of pride or graf
i6cation; but just as the fish left the
water he burst out, in tones OF solemn
rapture "Venerable man Sage, pa
trlot and soldier, Representative OF tTo
hemi.pheres. Welcome to our shores
once more !" And down dropped a
monster cod upon the deck.
Year: 1874

most speed down the long aisle, and gave a
long gasp of relief as he felt the damp night
air. and heard the door shut behind him.


To unite the bride of his horse was the
work of moment; he sprang into the sad
dle-at that very moment he heard the church
door shut violently-the horse gave wild
leap-but wilder one had landed the fearful
form safe behind the rider, and his waist was
clutched by arms which held it like an iron
vice.


The horse, seeming to share the terror of
its rider, reared and plunged, and then started
forward at his greatest speed He instlnc-
lively took the right road toward home, and
went at such rate as promised soon to ter
inmate this terrible journey.


With the strength of desperation, Mr.. I.
tried to undo the rigid clasp about his
waist, but the feeling of hands, cold as ice,
and bony as those of skeleton, was such an
additional touch of horror be dared not re-
peat the attempt. -


He spoke and adjured his companion to tell
his name and his nature, but there was no an
swer, no movement, not even, as it seemed to
him, the drawing of the breath and thus they
sped with wild swiftness through the dark for
est path, illuminated only by the ftful light
ming.


He could never afterward give any clear
account of his sensations during ride which
naturally seemed to him interminable. That
he retained his reason and his life under the
long continued stress of such mortal terror,
was matter of surprise to himself and his
friends. :,


It was over at last. Home was at hand.
He saw its friendly lights, and with sense OF
relief and thankfulness, never before expe'
rienced, he stopped at his own gate. 1t was
opened by faithful servant who had sat up
with the anxious wife of Mr.. T. to await his
return.


But the frightened horse did not give Peter
time for an exclamation of surprise at seeing
his master thus accompanied-he shot past
the gate, flew across the lawn, and only
stopped finally at the hall door, with shock
so sudden, as almost unseated both his riders.


The next day it was discovered that the
companion of Mr. T.'s night ride was an In
sane woman who had escaped from her keep
ers, and, after hiding in the woods, had taken
refuge from the storm in the church just be-
fore he entered it.
Year: 1874

rents from the mountain cloud" my attention
was directed to the fact that one of our bat
teries was being silenced by the concentrated
fire of the enemy. When l reached the bat
terry every gun but one had been dismantled
and by it stood solitary Confederate soldier
with the blood streaming from his side. As
he recognized me he elevated his voice above
the roar of battle and said General, [ have
one shell left. Tell me, have I saved the
honor of Mary and Lucy?' I raised my hat
Once more Confederate shell went crashing
through the ranks of the enemy, and the hero
sank bv his gun to rise no more
Year: 1874

CASH INSTEAD OF CRED1r.-People who
can buy for cash always buy cheaper than
those who buy on credit


They buy also more closely, and select
more carefully. Purchases which are paid
for when they are made are limited more ex-
actly to the purchasers wants.


There is nothing like having to count the
money out, when the article is bought, to
make people economical. The amount Of in,
debtness incurred is not much considered
when the payday is far off,


Persons who do all their business on cash
basis know just where they stand and what
they can afford; consequently they find few
occasions for regretting in turn of times,
that they have INDUCED in this luxury or
that, which they would have foregone had
they seen what was coming.


Real wants are few and can be gratified for
cash at all events they should be limited to
what can be paid for in cash.


How much of anxiety, how many sleepless
hours how many heart burnings, disappoint.
ments, and regrets would be avoided if this
rule were always strictly adhered to.


n6- The left side of the body is more liable
to disease than the right
Year: 1874

Here is sound advice about purchasing
trees from Colmans Rural The advice to
keep clear of middlemen is especially sound
in the tree business, for they are sure to
charge more, and as rule give you poorer
trees than the nurserymen. Deal direct
with the tree-growers, visit the nursery and
select your trees, see them dug, transport
them carefully, and plant them without de.
lay and in a workmanlike manner. Thus
you may hope to make fruit growing sue
cess. Says the Rural or rather one of its
correspondents


l am surprised to see the eagerness
with which our farmers purchase trees
of agents instead Of patronizing our
home nurseries-wherc they can make their
own selections of such varieties as are best
adapted to the climate. BY taking trees
from home nurseries, they will not be with
out roots, nor be so liable to be frozen and
dried out. as when they are transported long
distances. The right way is to go to the
nearest reliable nursery, select, and superin'
tend the digging also the planting. The
planter can then reasonably expect to have
an orchard that will please the eye, and make
glad the heart.
Year: 1874

food and most Of them will feed uncut
forage, and ground grain, and ordinarily,
four quarts, (one-eighth Of bushel) per
day of Indian meal, with good forage, in
full supply, will be as much meal as
twelve or Observation-Disclosures steer will
require to derive the most benefit from all
the food given. More meal will very often
cause the animal to fat faster, but not
enough faster TO justify the extra cost.
True, he will eat leas hay and other forage,
the more grain he is fed, but generally the
relative cost Of the various articles fed will
be such that most profit will be derived
from about four quarts of Indian meal per
day, and all the hay.staIks and straw the
animal will eat.


Now to reply to the question put to me,
| have only to say that the one and one.
half pounds gain per day Of Mr.. Brock
ways steers, each, from the 10th Of Octo.
Der to the lst of the following May, is as
good a result as is ordinarily obtained here,
with COED shelters and warm stables. I
have just seen three steers turned of to the
butcher, each weighing nearly l, 400 pounds,
that for the l44 days they were fed, had
gained only one pound and six-tenths per
day each, and these steers were fed by one
Of the most skilled men in such matters
that can be found, But the same man once
fed from Nov. 25th to April 10th, steer
that gained little more than three pounds
per day, but that was "ShorthOrn" steer,
and this raises the question Of value Of
breeds, and of the tendency of individual
animals to surpass their fellows. will not
take up this question now, and only add,
that the steers saw 60 off yesterday, were
too long in the legs, too Aabby, too scrawny,
in short too "native" to pay the feeder for
the food and care they had received.-Geo


Geddes. in N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1874

To produce these in good quantity and per-.
fectiou, should engage the serious considera.
ton Of the farming community, and espec-
tally to the young farmer or gardner would
We direct our remarks. The ease and facil-
ity Of their transportation, their increased
yearly consumption and corresponding high
price should give an impetus to their pro-
duction in every locality where their culture
would insure even fair prospect of success
it can be made, and is in many places be-
coming, very extensive and profitable
branch of farming, and while the New Eng
land farmer may have some reluctance in
planting peaches, as they are an uncertain
crop here, yet he may have no hestancy in
planting all other fruits common to a tempe
rate zone, and especially apples and pears,
which are fast increasing articles of export.
The person who grows good winter apples is
sure Of ready market and profitable return,
as the demand for apples that can be kept
will undoubtedly increase at home, while
new inducements are constantly held out in
the increasing demand for expectation. There
is now no force in the old objection that it is
useless to raise good fruit because there is
no market, for the markets of the world are
open to the American orchardist. The ship
ment of apples to England is now prOfta-
BILE and fast increasing business. Pears are
also cultivated to great extent in some
parts Of New England, and thrive with care
for which there is an unlimited demand
Large quantities are raised in Massachusetts
tho value of which is hundreds Of thousands
annually.


Why cannot Vermont do the same? Al
though our winters arc severe, and changes
from warmth to cold violent, and alternate
freezing and thawing distinguish our winter
and spring-and often prove so destructive
to our trees and vines yet We believe by
judiciOusly selecting the most hardy kinds
and giving careful eye to their rearing
that the cultivation of pears can be mad'
very remunerative. 1t may be Omphatically
understood, that a whole orchard, however
large, il planted with only one or at mos


with three varieties knO'on TO succeed i,
that particular locality, will prove more sat
islaCtory and profitable than by substituting
far-fetchsd, dear.bOught novelties which ma,
be Uery good elsewhere. Plant that va
riety which you knOU to be productive, har
dy, and good in your soil and neighbOrhOOd
If your market be easily accessible, summe
and autumn varieties will prove most profit
Year: 1874

One at. of four h. lard, sweet and firm
/ Id. of butter; one teacup of ice water
Mix lard and flour together; add the water
and roll out with rs little handling rs pos
sible; spread the butter on, sprinkle little
flour over and roll up carefully,-cut into
lengths Of one inch, and lay asidei use
enough to cover the plate at each rolling
bake quickly; afler browning cover with q
paper until done.
Year: 1874

Ii we ever wished to have larger
sheet to QUE disposal it is now, for the
purpose Of publishing Il e Hon. Senators
answer to Mr.. James L. Pixies pamplet
of the same title as above. But as it is,
we can only recommend the article to our
readers as published in the Washington
Repu6ttc-one of the best periodicals
extant-merely giving the closing
remarks, which are just criterion to the
entire article


Let those who really loved what was
great and goodin Horace Greeley forever
remember him standing in a light like
that. In such light he oftenests TODD.
and if he fell from that high place after
wards let it be remembered that he fell
only when he was old, and even then it
took the currish PACK more than q wear
to pull him down.


And let those political mendicants who
want TO trade on their professed friend
ship for Greeley remember this. We
VIII not say they drove him to his death !:
but we do say they drove him along
strange ways ; they made him drag a
crual load. The collar was scarce re-
moved when he died. They had better
let him rest now. II their appetites are
grown SO monstrous that they can only
live on calumny, let them follow the liv-
ing still with their falsehoods. In spite
of themselves they may help to educate
mankind. In Gods good pastures dead
ly poisons are sometimes mingled with
delicious grasses. And so the instinct of
the cattle that browse there Is taught to
discriminate. And it may be that this
prodigal commingling of falsehood with
truth in human discussions will be over
ruled TO the perfecting of human judg-
ments. But let them he content with
the trade of slauder if they would pursue
their trade unscathed. If they add the
crime of ss.cralige to that of SANDER: if
they will invade the precincts of the grave
to post their calumnies on the coffins of
the dead, they will not be secure against
rebuke.
Year: 1874

NJ The tide ofimmigraton is steadily set-
ting in, and the first thing eastern people DO
is to throwaway their New York Hats and buy
"a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 2%o
Year: 1874

Recently, person visiting one of the cemeteries overheard a thrice-made widow, not yet old or homely, who was standing beside three mounds, remarK to a gentleman who is known to have been very attentive to the widow in her youth, "Joe, yoW might have been in that roaO had you possessed little more courage"
Year: 1874

After much discussion the resolution allowing the Agricultural Report to go through the mails free of postage was adopted-11O to 6S. While this was being discussed members up- holding it were accused of favcring the frank ing privilege under it's cover.
Year: 1874

And even the earth, the ground. the

 banks or the conglomerate masses which

 pass for these are difficult of recopni-

 tlon ln the clements which constitute

 them. Great rolls of cloth are inter-

 woven with the debris and the soil.

 Buttons and instruments of brass and

 iron and steam boilers and brick and

 stone and parts of buildings and rem

 nants of household furniture are strewn

 about indiscriminately. Everything is everywhere and nothing can be found. In coming up to my mount of vantage my carriage wheels passed over a beaten and battered waiter"-it may have been of silver for all I know.

 A little further on they ground into fragments triangular piece of marble from some fine lady's dressing case. As l stand here look down upon this fearful scene of desolation, too marvel ous In its sudden transformation to de- scribe it, too terrible in it's inconceiva. ble agony to picture or portray it. As far as the eye can reach. the story of waste, of devastation and death is only varied now and then by an incident a little more terrible than the others or some mad work of destruction little more conspicuously frightful than the rest. The face of nature has complete ly changed in this once happy and smil- ing valley, and every scene reflects the sorrow around it. And the rains which poured down all day long, have made this theatre of death even ghastlier than it was before. With the full un- light it was ghastly enough without the sombre shades of this fretful day. T cannot now attempt to recount the dis asters, beginning with the wife and daughter of Livingstone Bartlett, who were the first to fall victims to the flood, and ending, perhaps, with the little boy whose body I saw dragged out from the meadows below Leeds.
Year: 1874

HARD TINES. Cant spare the mon
ey for life insurance now" II have all
can do to make living and pay off o
mortgage of 81 900 on my house and lot
We hear this daily. Now look at this
side of the question: Suppose you
should die; what would become Of your
home and family2" Better take 81. 900
policy in the Union Central to cover that
risk 3t
Year: 1874

THE proceedings of mass meeting held in the courthouse last Saturday, in pur- suance of call published in THE CITIZEN Of September 5; appears as an advertise ment to-day. The proceedings of a small meeting held thereafter are withheld from publication by the participants in the meeting, and hence do not appear. We could give every act done in it from our notesi but as number of citizens who were connected with it; have decided up on the suppression of all the proceedings; SO far as they can, we will abstain from giving publicity to more than is necessary ss vindication of a number of good men.
Year: 1874

Two vessels recently made arrange ments to leave San Francisco to take car goes of wheat direct from San Diego to Europe, but one of them was given a cargo at the former city and remained, while the other proceeds to San Diego for the purpose stated. San Diego is pointing up, and has good hopes of being the terminus of the Pacific and Asiatic telegraphic cable.
Year: 1874

CERTAIN men about town may think matters pretty warm and be disposed to- complain; but they should bear in mind' that they have very recently handled the poker soas to stir up the embers that were fast dying out.
Year: 1874

The select committee on transportation
has nearly ccmplstsd its report, and
meetings will be held on tonight and TO-
morrow night at tho house OF tho chair
man, Senstor Window, to consider the
report and pass upon its various parts. 1t
Is thought that the committee will recon.
mend aid for one of tbs inner lines Of
water communication, and ulso for the
proposed line Of rail way from the West
TO New York.
Year: 1874

Tbs New YORK Tribune says that


the favorable prospects of our foreign
trade and the cessation of wasteful and
unproductive expenditure at home
will speedily work an improvement
in business or, if not, it will be be-
cause the laws of sound finance have
been disregarded more persistent.y
and outrageously than is commonly
supposed. The Tribune desires Con-
gress to let things alone. 1t saws that
'the farmers and laborers will make o
fatal mistake if they countenance any
such quackery as imitation or the STU
p'd expedient Of increasing the public
debt two or three hundred millions in
order to lavish that amount on public
works. The country is doing as well
as it can be expected to. All that it
asks of the quscks is to be left to it.
self" '
Year: 1874

The fact that the South is giving
earnest attention to the subject of im.
migration is noted with satisfaction
by the most prominent papers in
the North. The New York Times
says:


There is no South, rn State where
the native people feel anything save
the most earnest desire to secure as
many new citizens as possible by i'm
portation. Strong tides of immigra-
ton setting 20 South Carolina and
Alabama would do much to solve the
problem ofthe political situation there.
The carpet-bag Governments never
did much to encourage the coming of
white Europeans into those States.
because they felt that if they did so,
they would be destroying the priuci-
pal source of their own perverted and
shameless power.
Year: 1874

The New York Tribune, of the Stb.


speaking Of Grants reference in bis


message to Louisiana affairs says:


In respect to Louisiana. the Presi-


dent is cemplacen; and reSolute. lie


repeats what be said long ago in bis


annual message. that after once recog-


nizing the Kellogg government he


shall feel justified m sticking TO it until


it is upset by resolution of Congress.


lie cannot excuse his support of the
usurpati"n on auy such ground.a .as this,
for it is familiar rule of law that no
man may take advantage of his own
wrong.


Kellogg was originally set up by a
fraud, in which Gen Grant was one of
the chief movers, ard it is monstrous
to pretend that the President is not at
liberty to recognize TIC true govern.
ment because be has heretofore unlaw-
fully aided the false one. But his
determination, wrong as it is, throws
upon Congress responsibility which |
that body cannot afford to disregard. |
Gen. Grant would undoubtedly be !
very glad to get rid of Kellogg. The
republican party likewise feels that it
has carried that dirty burden quite
long enough, and that it must lose no
time in unloading, if it ever means to
run another race. We know of few
things that would give the party more
help with less trouble than
The passing of an act Immediately for
.he relief Of Louisiana.


Upon the whole We take it to be
clear from the message that the South
las nothing to hope from Gen. Grant.
ie has learned nothing from the
elections. He has no idea of making
my change in his course. If another
'olltical campaign were to open to-
borrow be would give the Attorney 4
ieneral and bis deputy marsbais ;:
1hger rope than ever The sufferipes
the Southern whites do not touch t
I'M; he does not comprehend them q
e never did.
Year: 1874

Several armed bands of Mexicans
are engaged in marauding the people
on the Lower Rio Grande According
to recent advices there are scarcely
any cattle left on the lower part of the
Arroyo Colorado. 1t is stated that
the bandiiti will drive into Mexico all
the stock between the Nneces ana the
Lower Rio Grande, unless active
measures are set on foo. TO check them
and protect the stock raisers.
Year: 1874

BAD mep are never completely hap
py, although possessed Of everything
that this world can bestow, and good
men are never completely miserable,
although deprived Of everything that
this world can take awav.
Year: 1874

Northern fanatics to reduce the South
to complete ruin, they grasp with the
energy of despair to the last hope-Grant.
"Grant can save US" said Georgian to
me last night land he is the only man
who can. If he will save US from this
Civil Rights Bill, will vote for him not
only for third term, but for ten terms,
if we should live that long, and when 1
am upon my dying bed, will charge my
children to vote for him forever, as the
man who saved us from niger equality"
: I spoke of the traditions of the Re-
public as opposed to three terms.


"D-n the traditions of the Republic,
exclaimed the Georgian; what do we
care for that down here, when the Yam
Akees- are trying to sink US into the lowest
depths of degradation and ruin What
do care if the whole Republic goes to
he'll, when the men who control it are


trying to force niger equality upon me2


Ihey want to deprive me of educating


my children by forcing niggers into all
the schools, and every child I've got


shall grow up heather before it shall
60 TO Niger school They want to


1ofce me and my family to live on terms


OF equality with the niggers, and then,


when we die, lay our bones in grave


yard Wlth niggers No. sir, the Northern


Radicals are bent on destroying us root


and branch; they will never be satisfied


until every white Southern gentleman is


subjected to niger equality, or in his
| grave, which is better and I am for any.
| hand that will saye11s and G -siisl J. AZ
Year: 1874

the other. As in all contests between
the races, the poor niggers would get the
worst of it. But I think Grant will save
them and US from this dire aff1iction.
Bless your soul, the negroes don't want
it. The great mass of them do not know
what it m cans, and do not care anything
about it. 1t is their over-zealous white
friends and the more forward of the dar-
kies who keep up the clamor for the bill
The day it becomes law, if it ever
should, will be the saddest day in the
history of the South. l think Grant un-
derstands this, and he will not lay this
additional and greatest burden of all
upon our PROSTATE section"


"Yo ou say, Judge, that you think Grant
could be elected if the election should
occur now. Do you think he will be as
strong two years hence p


ayes, sir and stronger. He is stronger
now than shree months ago. He in
creases in strength every day. He is
stronger than his party. He is stronger
than any dozen men in his party or out
of it. The man does not walk on the
earth who can beat him. To get third
term, all he has to do is to let his willing
ness be known. Who is there to take
his place? Is there Republican who
can do it? Mention him? Is there
Democrat? No. Grant stands out con-
splcuously and alone, the man for the
times and the place" III. V. r.