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Year: 1874

I can wait for you. But T wish I
mad a match.


I said, Take my place, and Ill
60 and get you one.


He declined. This lack Of conf
dence on his part created a co >lness
between us. and from that time for
ward | avoided him. It was my
idea. in case any thing happened to
me, to so time tie occurrence as to
throw my custom into the the hands
Of the opposition coroner over on
the American side. At last a police
man came along and arrested me
for disturbing the peace by yelling
at people on shore for help. The
Judge fined me, but I had the ad-
vantage OF him. My money was
with my pantaloons, and my
pantaloons were with the Indians.


Thus I escaped. l am now lying,
in very critical condition. At
least I am lying, any way-critical
or not critical.


I am hurt all over, but I cannot
tell the full extent yet, because the
doctor is not done taking the inven-
tory. He will make out my mani
fest this evening. However, thus
far, he thinks only six of my wounds
are fatal. I don't mind the others.


Upon regaining my right mind, I
said:


1T is an awfully savage tribe of
Indians that do the bead work and
moccasins for Niagara Falls, doctor.
Where are they from


I shall not be able to finish my
remarks about Niagara until I get
better.
Year: 1874

though not unexpected, have excited
the deepest interest in the phenome-
nal character Of the boy. AL his
cruelties to other children, his fend-
ish murder Of the Millin boy, are re-
called, and new cases, where he en-
deavored to entice children away with
him. have been discovered. It will
be a long time before the boy with the
eye like marble will be forgotten in
South Boston. When he was first
examined two years ago on charges Of
mutilating little boys in Chelsea and
East Boston, he said, in reply to a
question Why he did it: II don't
know, your honor, only I could not
help it; I had to do it." 1t has now
come out that directly after this in
7estigation, party of three we'll
known physicians, who were anxious
to learn all they could about the boy,
called upon his mother and had a very
pleasant interview with her. They
told their errand, and she gave them
all the information in her power
Among other things she said that her
husband was butcher, and that
short time before the birth of the boy
she was in the habit of going daily
to the slaughter-house to witness the
killing of the animals, and that. some
how, took particular delight in see-
ing her husband butcher the sheep,
the calves and the cattle, and not un-
frequently she assisted him in this
bloody work, She also said that af-
ter Jesse was born. and became old
enough to have knife in his hand,
he was all the time, when opportunity
offered, sticking knife into pieces
of meat, and when little older and
about his father in market, he did the
same thing. He was simply marked
by his mother just as other children
have been. only in different way.
Year: 1874

Niagara Falls is one of the finest
structures in the known world. |
have been visiting this favorite wa
tcring place recently, for the first
time, ana was we'll pleased. A gen
t!eman who was with me said it
was customary to be disappointed
in the Falls. but that subsequent
visits were sure to set that all right.
He said it was so with him. He said
that the first time he went the hack
fares were so much higher than the
Falls, that the Falls appeared in
significant. But that is all regu-
lated now. The hackmen have
been tanned, a,r,,nhorod, and l,lanarl
ell. and blackguardcd, and brought
into subjection to the law, and
dosed with moral principle till they
are as meek as missionaries. They
are divided into two clans. now the
Regulars, and now the Privateers,
and they employ their idle time in
warning the public against each
other. The Regulars are under
the hotel banners, and do the legiti-
mate at two dollars an hour, tie
Privatecrs prowl darllly on neutral
ground and pick off stragglers at
half price. But there are Nd more
outragcs and extortions. That sort
of thing cured itself. 1t made the
Falls unpopular By getting into the
newspapers: and whenever q pub
lie evil achieves that sort Of success
for itself, it's days are numbered. 1t
became apparent that either the
Falls had to be discontinued. Or
the hackmen had to subside. They
could not dam the Falls, and so
they did the hackmen. One can be
comfortable and happy there now.


T drank up most of the American
Falls before I learned that the Wa
ters were not considered medicinal
Why are people left in ignorance
that way? i might have gone on
and ruined a fine property, merely
for the want Of a little trifing infor-
nation. And yet the sources of in-
formation at Niagara Falls are not
meagre. You are sometimes in
doubt there about what you ought
to 90, but you are seldom in doubt
what you must nat do. No, the
signs keep you posted. If an in
FAINT Gun read. that infant is measu-
rably safe at Niagara Falls. In your
room at the hotel you will find your
COURSE marked for you in the most
convenient way, by means Of pla-
cards on the wall like these:


Pull, the bell-rope gently, but
don't jerk


"Boltyo1lr door"


Don't scrape matches on the
wall"


Turn off your gas when you re
lire"


Tie up your dog


"If you place your boots outside
the door they will be BACKED but
the house will not be responsible
for their roturn." (This is con-
fusing and tanglesome proposition,
because it moves you to deliberate
long and painfully as to whether It
will really be any object to you to
have your boots blacked unless they
are retunned)





"Give your key to the omnibus
driver. if you forget and carry it off
with you


Outside the hotel, whenever you
wander, you are intelligently assist
ed by the signs. You can not come
to grief as long as you are IN your
right mind. But the difficulty is
to stag in your right mind with so
much instruction to deep track of.
For instance:
Year: 1874

BY PRUDy.
Cope. look at the dainty darling!
As fresh as ! new-b lown-rose
From the top Of his head so golden,
To the dear little restless toes;
You can tell by the dancing dimples,
BY the smiles that come aud 90.
He is keepi" q wonderful secret
You'd give half Your kingdom 10 know
Now kiss him on cheek and forehead,
Ank kiss him on lip and chin;
The li,tie red mouth is hiding
The rarest of pearls within,
All, see! when the lips in smiling
Have parted their tender red:
Do You see the tiny white jewel,
Set deep in its coral bed?
Now where are the sage reporters
Who wait by hamlet and hill,
To tell the listening nation


The news OF its good or i'll?
Come weave with your idle gossip
This golden blossom of truth
Just half year OLD this morning,
And one little pcarly ooih!
Year: 1874

"Honesty is the best policy"
unless you can get about $4,000:
and effect a settlement at fifty per
cent.


Honor thy father and thy mo,
ther, particularly about circus
time, when you don't know where
to raise fifty cents.


Never run in debt when you
can avoid it. It is much better
to go stumbling aroundin broad
cloth coat than to be in debt for
suit Of Scotch mixed.


Let your motto be, "Liberty or
DEATH" and if it comes to the
pinch, take the most Of it in liber-
ty.


Remember the poor. If you
know of a family who are out OF
provisions and fuel, keep them in
your thoughts until yoa meet
Smith or Brown, and then tell
them that they'd better make a
donation. If they hold off tell
them that "He who giveth to the
poor lenGeth to the Lord" It is
very easy to remember the poor.
lean remember cases twenty years
ago.


Respect old age. If you have
a maiden aunt forty years old,
and she is passing herself off for a
girl Of twenty-three, there is no
call for you to expose her. The
more you respect her age and keep
still about it the more she will re-
spect you.


Never marry for wealth, but re-
mem Der that it is just as easy to
love girl who has a brick house
with q mansard roof and silver
plated door-bell as one who hasn't
anything but an auburn head and
amiable disposition.


Love thy neighbor as thyself-
Borrow his plow, hoe, or horses
whenever you can: but if he wants
to borrow yours tell him that
you're very sorry, but you were
just going to use them yourself:


Be guarded in your converse
ton. There are times when you
may freely express your opinion
Of a political candidate, but you
had better wait until his friends
are over in the next county visit
ing.


Remember that appearances are
often deceiving. Many a pale
thin young lady will eat more
corned beef than a carpenter. Be-
cause you find her playing the pi-
ano in the parlor, it is no sign
that her mother is not at the cor
ner grocery running in debt for q
peck of potatoes.


Restrain your temper: particular
ly if a policeman is in sight. Fits
Of anger hasten death. If a man
should call you a borse-thief and
you should get highly indignant, it
would cut your life short by sever
al days; and if it was in Texas,
and there was a vigilance commit
tee handy it would cut it short al
together.


Rise with the lark. Thai is du-
ring cold weather, as soon as the
lark rises, waken your wife aud
tell her that it is time to build the
fire. If she makes any objections,
YOU can refer her to a dozen works
on the benefit ofearly rising. Any
man who cares a cent for his wife's
health will take pride in hearing
her around the house at daylight
Of winters morning getting up
q red hot stove and warming his
socks and boots.
Year: 1874

New YORK, December l6.-At meeting
of the directors of the Cheap Transports
ton Association to-day resolutions were
adopted setting forth that it is the duty Of
leqislators and the nation to settle the ques-
ton Of transportation; that want Of proper
Year: 1874

The great event Of the season will be
the Masonic picnic, to be given at
James's park, the twenty-fourth of this
month. There are few orders in ex-
istence whose members display more
energy or enterprise in accomplishing
what they undertake than the Mascns.
They are determined to make their
forthcoming picnic the most agreeable
and delightful outdoor entertainment of
the season, and to accomplish this no
means whatever Will be spared. To
render the occasion all the more at
tractive, Lou Leubrie, the renowned
Count de Noses, will contribute baby
position, which Of Itself viii interest
hundredsg OF our citizens. He offers
many valuable prizes, and invites every
mother who has a pretty baby to enter
the darling for the prizes he generously
offers, We have no doubt but what the
Masonic picnic will be one of the most
magnificent our people have enjoyed
for long time.
Year: 1874

thereby. He did not see, then, why
white men were now skeered when they
saw the arms of the POle-Bearers. He
referred 10 the burning OF the negro
schOolhouses, and said that was the
The 'Odd-Fellows, Knights Of Temp
lars and King of Pythiss,' all carried
weapons on parade and they also had a
right to do so. Swan, after criticising the
incorrect and unreliable news published
by papers, referred to his good character
which be could prove. He had nursed
white people in Memphis had charge OF
their Iewelry and vsluables, and never
stole anything. The account published
In the APPEAL about his extOrtiDg
money was false. He went TO the
paper that said a colored barber
informed them ofintended incendiarism
by the cOlored people, and asked the
name Of the informank They told him
he was not a proper person TO get the
name, although he was a fit person to
rob men at the cemetery on decoration
day. After other remarks. Swan con-
eluded, and the meeting adjourned.
Year: 1874

LONDON, June S.-The Earl Of Var
borough, who frequently gets as drunk
as lord, is again missing, and the po-
lice are now making an earnest search
to find him. Tuesday last the earl was
in the house of lords, and deputy ser
into one of the ante-roOms. A short
time afterward the deputy returned TO
the room, but the earl was not there, but
no one who knows him has seen him
since.
Year: 1874

Gen. j. B. Weaver, of Davis cOun-


Y is daily developing strength and
influence as candidate for nomina-
ton for Congress by the Republican
convention at Ottumwa on the 10th
prox. 1t is not unfair to say that
if Judge Sampson should not allow
the use of his name, Gen. Weaver
will appear in the lead at the meet
ing OH the 10th. He is generally re-
garded as the peer OF the ablest men
in the district, and not wanting in
reputation for integrity, a thorough
knowledge and appreciation Of the
needs and demands Of the West
and the whole country, an
earnest sympathy with the peo-
pie. and a disposition to labor
zealously to bring about through
Legislation such reforms as the neces-
sites of the times require. Although
there are other men In the party OF
the District, whom, If nominated,
we can support as cheerfully and
heartily as we can Gen. Weaver, we
are disposed to think the party could
not make better choice. The
JOURNAL can endorse heartily the
remarks of the PeIla Blade, appear
ing in annt!lcr column.
Year: 1874

The gentleman whose name heads
this article is prominently mentioned
az candidate for Congress from this
District, and his name will be sub
mitted to the Republican Convention
which meets in Ottumwa on the 10th
of July. Gen. Weaver is citizen oil
Davis county, and is we'll known
throughout the District. He is in
the prime of life, of commanding
presence and gentlemanly bt airing, ~
lawyer Of fine legal attainments,
sound judgment, great energy, and
an eloquent and logical speaker. His
integrity as citizen and public man
Is above suspicion, and we know Of
no man i'm the Sixth District who
would be more popular or make Il
stronger race than Gen. Weaver.
There are several candidates in the
field, and the Convention should not
wisely and select the best man, one
who will command every Republi-
can vote in the District. such man
we believe Gen. Weaver to be, and
would be glad to see him nominated.
He has the energy and ability to
make a popular and useful Congress
man, and would soon exert and com
mand that respect and influence at
the National Capital thatsome of our
Iowa delegation do not. He is very
popular with his neighbors, which is
An endorsement very few can COM
mand, and speaks loudly in his favor,
ever he may be, will find him an an
tagonist who will make the canvas
lively and interesting one. His
military record is without stain
Iowa sent ont to the late war hn
Drawer officer or more faithful soldier
than Gen. j. b. Weaver. r.--Petiu
Btade.
Year: 1874

criticism and censure of the party.
The committee of Congress, indeed,
could not find proper grounds for
taking South Carolina in hand, but
it did express sympathy and con-
sciousness that there was much to be
deplored, while there has been no
stronger denunciation of the enor-
mites in that State and elsewhere
than in the Republican press, On
the other hand, and as an illustration
Of the difference between two domi-
nant parties, during all the Demo
cratic delirium about slavery in the
Southern States before the war, we
recall no similar powerful criticism
and unshrinking condemnation in
the Democratic press of the country;
the managers of the party in those
States were never called to account,
but all guilt and responsibility were
thrown upon "Northern interfer-
ence.n


The fear that the Republican party
has fallen hopelessly under the con-
troll of unfit leaders and disastrous
counsels is not justified by the facts.
We do not say, of course, that it has
wholly escaped them, or that there
is not conflict with them proceed
ing at this time. Indeed, that is just
what we do say. But the encourage
ing sign to those who know that in
free countries government must lie
carried on by parties, and that there
is now no great dividing issue in our
politics, is that the Republican party
has healthy vigor enough to wrestle
with its own evils and abuses, and
that events show Willingness and u
wish among its members for puriti-
cations and reform. lfit be said that
the truth is, the party is sinking, and
is therefore merely throwing over its
contraband freight, we reply that
this is the very thing which other
parties have not done nor attempted
to do. The Free-sOil Democrats in
1918, the Douglas Democrats in 1857,
tried to persuade the Democratic
party to Tighten the ship, and they
were themselves thrown overheard
for their pains. And if to-day, as
will not be denied, the best Republi-
cans In the country have more heart
and hope than for many months be-
fore, 1t is because they see more
clearly than they have liither,o
been able to see that there is a spirit
in the party which is courageous
enough 10 give battle to those
who would disgrace the common
name, and spirit which now
seems to have the prospect Of victory.
--Haper's Weekly.
Year: 1874

Toast at railway dinner; "Our Mothers,
industrious tenders, though they often mis-
placed the switch"


The people Of Toulouse must be hard
set. A writer speaking of tho city says:
ut is a large town, containing GO,OOO inhab-
itants built entirely of brick"


That was cunning woman who recently
in an English court, desiring to clear her
husband of tho charge of removing the end
of her nose, sworo she bit it off herself.


A Virginia sheriff asked murderer If he
wanted to make n speech on the gallows.
and the man replied "Guess not; it looks
like rain, and don't want to get wet; go on
with the hanging"


Delaware man arrested for murder,
proved that on that night and at the hour OF
the murder he was at home nauling his
wife, and this fact saved him. A word to
the wise is, and so forth.


small boy got another boy, somewhat
smaller than himself, down on the ground
yesterday, and got hold of both of his ears,
placing his knee in the small of the boys
back, and asked him in a very persuasive
manner II he would give him that white
alley OF his'n. The boy replied in the affirm
alive How easy It is to settle things when
one goes about il in the right way.
Year: 1874

saw in one of your papers your advice
to man TO mess a COW that held up her
milk. admit that will sometimes cause
her to give down, but if it is not gwen every
time it makes her worse. | bought our COW
Of man-tho only COW he had-who had
messed her for four or five years, and l
could not get quart without doing the
same, though she would give fourteen quarts
at a milking when messed.


Now, il | understand what the mess is for
rightly, it is to get her attention turned from
herself to the mixer, for think it requirs
constant effort on her part TO hold the milk,
aud again don't think COW can walk and
hold up her milk without rery great effort,
for find in the fall when COWS begin to
shrink their milk they hold it up more, and
if the mixer will start COW, and let her
walk few steps. then sit down, the milk will
flow free again, and sometimes have started
COW seven or eight times, aud the milk
would course free every time, and she would
draw it up again. And that is Que reason
| say it is hard for COW to walk and
hold up her milk, aud another reason is
when a COW is in heat have seen her run,
and the milk would fly every step she took
and you stop her and sit down. and you
can't get n drop of milk. Again l have
had them hold their milk. and start them
off and walk by them with hand on q tit,
and it would 6ll the moment they start,
and the milk come free.-COr. RurdL
Hor,e
Year: 1874

There is no country in the world that Of.
fers greater advantages to the shepherd than our
own. Instead of importing hundred mil
lion pounds Of wool yearly, We ought to ex-
port that quantity. Instead Of complaining
Of the competition Of our own neighbors
across the lakes aud dreading tho wool in.
terest, because We no longer enjoy the pro-
tective duty of few cents u pound upon
wool, We ought, with our better climate and
equally rich soil, to beat them at their own
trade. II We except the American Merino
we do not possess any one representative
sheep. Wc are vainly trying to scclimate
and establish English races of sheep, which
themselves have no stability and are only
kept up to standard by infusons of new
blood, and by the constant efforts of old and
skillful breeders. We import costly sheep
only to see them run down, pine and die of,
while we insist upon keeping them pure


When we cross them upon our native sheep
We get hardy, profitable grades, whose
heeoes Of fair combing wool weigh eight to
ten pounds, and whose carcases will dress
twenty to twenty-five pounds TO the quarter
when we'll fed and fatted. Ii would seem as
though il would be more profitable busi-
ness for us to give up abortive attempts to
introduce foreign races and preserve them
pure, and to found upon some or oLe Of them,


along with our own hardy native varieties,
breeds Of native sheep which should supply
our wants for both wool and mutton. 1t is
u mistake for us TO confne our efforts 10 one
breed. We need variety Of grades Of
wool. There are local differences 10 soil and
climate which are favorable for large vari.
ETY. of sheep, from the small, delicately-ha-
vored mutton, which might be produced up.
on the salt marshes or the mountains of the
East, the tender and juicy mutton of a large
variety which should iuhabit the great west
ern plains, and produce the bulk Of our
clothing Wool, up to the heavy-bodied long
wOOls, which should take the place Of the
Lincolus or the Cotswolds. In the compar-
atively small area of Great Britain there
are score or more of distinct varieties or
breeds OF sheep, each Of which is paramount
10 its own locality, and which include the


small Welsh sheep, whose small quarter Of
four to six pounds is unsurpassed for favor,
up TO the huge Lincoln which lifts the scale


at $50 to nearly 400 pounds. All these
breeds have been built up, or have grown
by force Of circumstances, aud Circumstance
es are now favorable the commencement Of
such growths in Ameriea. .-NaV York Times.
Year: 1874

While in the excellent town Of Cornwall,
Addison County, enjoyed for a time the
hospitality of VIM. IL. Mathews, thought
full, intelligent, and thorough farmer.


often find farmers that are skillful in
breeding stock, making butter, or in some
speciality, but here continues the broad idea
OF farming to raise, to make, and to do all
possible toward providing for every want.
The seed winter wheat here sown Is of the
same kind as sown in 1915, and has been
raised and sown continuously ever since and
yields equal to any. Occasionally other
kinds were sown, but only for trial. He
has some Black Sea wheat that was raised
in 1855 that has been kept year after year
thinking it might perhaps be sOwn.


The seed corn, clover seed, grass seed and
vegetable seeds of various kinds sown care
fully, are evidences Of thOughtfulness and
timely care. The clover seed he had just
huled-and here is an idea. Clover hulors
are scarce in Vermont, but Mr.. Mathews
has a thrcshiDg machine which he boxes up
50 closely that the clover Chaff, when fed to
the beater, is allowed to pass off slowly and
its continuous threshing hulls the seed nicely.


Any threshing machine may be converted
into clover huller, but all persons have not
the inventive genius Of Mr.. NJ.


In bringing water to his house from dis
tant spring or we'll the use Of syphOn
would save much hard digging, so the syphOn
was laid, but on trial it was found that a
small pipe half au inch in diameter would
soon empty the well, and as soon as the wa
ter in the we'll is below the end of the pipe,
the pipe runs dry and will not start again of
its own accord, so the discharge at the lower
end was made less and less, until in dry
time all the water that ran came through
the hole in an ordinary clay pipe stem yet
the supply was ample Tor stock Of cows,
sheep, and horses.


In Cornwall the Tinmouth apple seems
to thrive well and is faVOrite eating apple.
The old Seeding tree grew in the town of
Year: 1874

Few dairymen are aware of the amount
they lose in the quantity of cheese, to say
nothing about the quality, by not taking
more pains with their milk. 1t would as
tonish many Of them, il they were informed
that they sustain loss Of from to IL per
cent, in quantity, by their own carelessness
or ignorance, which they might save by a
little more care, and thus add the amount
they lose in price per ID. by not having 4
prime article, which, in many instances ex.
ceeds 10 aud often 90 per cent, and it will
be readily seen that the loss thus sustained
would do good deal towards bauishng
hard times, which so many are complaining
Of at present.