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Year: 1879

Garry the radiance of your soul in
your face. Let the world have the
benefit of it. Let your cheerfulness be
felt for good wherever you are, and let
your smiles be scattered like sunbeams
"on the just as well as on the unjust. I"
Such disposition will yield rich
reward, for its happy effects will come
home to you and brighten your thought
ful moments. Cheerfnlness makes the
mind clear, gives tone to the thought,
adds grace to the countenance. Joubert
says, "When you give, give with joy,
smiling" Smiles are little things and
cheap articles to be fraught with so
many blessings both to the giver and
receiver; pleasant little ripples to
watch as we stand on the shore of every
day life. They are the higher and bet
ter responses of nature to the emotion
of the soul. Let the children have the
benefit of them-those little ones who
need the sunshine of the heart to educate
them and would find sympathy for their
buoyant nature in the cheerful, loving
faces of those who need them. Let
them not be kept from the middle-aged,
who need the encouragement they bring.
Give your smiles also to the aged.
They come to them like the quiet rain
of the Summer, making fresh and
verdant the long, weary path of life.
They look for them from you, who are
rejoicing in the fullness OF your life.
Year: 1879

Tepid water is produced by combining
two-third cold aud one-third boiling wa
ter.


Never put pudding that is to be
steamed into anything else than dry
mould.


Old potatoes may be freshened up by
plunging them into cold water before
cooking them.


In making crust Of any kind do not
melt the lard in the flour. Melting will
injure the crust.


The yolk Of eggs binds the crust
much better than the whites, Apply it
to the edges with brush.


The water used in mixing bread must
be tepid hot. II it is too hot the loaf
will be full al great holes,


To boil potatoes successfully-when
the skin breaks, pour off the water and
let them finish cooking in their own
steam.


Never wash raisins that are to be used
in sweet dishes. 1t will make the pud-
ding heavy. To clean them, wipe with
dry towel.


In boiling dumplings Of any kind put
them in the water one at time. If they
are put together they will mix with each
other.


Outlets and steak may be fried as well
as broiled, but they must be in hot but
ter or lard. The grease will be quite
hot enough when it throws blueisi
smoke.


To brown sugar for sauce, or for pud-
dings, put the sugar in perfectly dry
saucepan. If the pan is the least bit
wet, the sugar will burn and you will
spoil your saucepan.
Year: 1879

New York Times.l


The number of people who expect to
get rich by investing few dollars in lot
terry tickets, or in the Wall street gam.
bling dens, seems to increase daily. The
overwhelming probability against any
given tickets drawing prize in lot
terry ought to deter even the most san
guine from that form Of risk, but exper-
ience prove that probabilities do not en-
ter into the calculations of the buyer of
lottery tickets were the chances ten
times as unfavorable, the number Of buy
ers would be nearly as great. The
blind, unreasoning hope Of stroke Of
luck is an amply sufficient inducement.
Over and above this consideration, there
is the fact that most lotteries are rank
swindles. Only very silly people are
taken in by the ostentatious announce
ment that this or that lottery is under
the auspices of the State government, or
is managed by certain "eminent and
we'll known gentlemen" whose names
are constantly paraded in advertisements.
The facts are that in some States lotter-
les are licensed by the State govern
ments, but the State in no wise guaran-
tees their honesty or fair dealings; as to
eminent gentlemen, they have common
ly nothing to do with the lottery save to
loan it their names, which is purely a
financial transaction. One of these
swindling concerns has just been expos
ed by suit at law in Louisville, and it
was clearly shown that the company was
organized and carried on as a system Of
wholesale robbery. The risks in Wall
street speculation are greater yet. Let
ters frequently come to this Office from
distant points, asking if certain Wall
street firms who solicit the favors of
small country investors are trustworthy.
These firms scatter their enticing worded
circular over the whole country through
the mails, and there is reason TO believe
they reap considerable harvest. The
honesty of these persons need not be
called in question. 1t is sufficient to
say to all inquiries that even the shrewd-
est Of the outside Wall street specula-
tors, living here in the city, and con-
stantly watching with keen and intelli-
gent eye the fluctuations of stocks gen.
orally retire from their venture seriously
out of pocket. What has the rural in
vestor to hope for when he intrusts his
money to persons he knows nothing
about, to be put into ''pool" where the
chances are ten to one that it will be lost?
Year: 1879

Interview in New York worldl


! think the repeal Of the test oath and
the formation of the improved system OF
obtaining impartial iuries were alone a
sufficient recompense to the country and
to Congress for all the expense and ha-
rassment of the session. 1t is evident
that these most powerful and necessary
reforms found little favor with the Pres
ident, who vetoed the appropriation bills
with which they were at first combined
without word of intimation that he ap-
proved of any features of the bills. For
the reasons 1 have given 1 consider the
results OF the extra session TO have been
valuable to the country. They have
wiped out a feature of war legislation
permitting the use of troops as police at
the polls. They have removed test
oath disgraceful to our age and country.
They have made step towards the abo-
lition of the radical system of packing
iuries in political cases. They haYe ex-
posed to the people schemes for the Gen.
tralization of power, and for the people
to be forewarned is to be forearmed. Sc
l consider the results Of the extra ses.
sion TO have been favorable to the good
government Of the country aud credita-
BILE to the Democratic majorities, by
whose exertions these valuable reforms
have been achieved despite the obstruct
iveness of O Republican Executive.
Year: 1879

An order has been issued by the
managers of the Erie Railroad which is
intended to prevent the brakemen in
the employ Of that company from
flirting with young women passengers
or girls along the line Of the road.
The average brakeman would have felt
less aggrieved if his salary had been cut
down fifty or sixty per cent. And the
girls-Well, it's very likely the girls will
hold an indignation meeting and con.
clude when they want to ride to go OIL
some other road, where brakemen have
ordinary human rights.
Year: 1879

Secretary Sherman is stated to have
contributed hundred dollars to the
Republican campaign fund. This is
but little more than one-half the
proportion assessed upon the clerks of
his department. They pay two per cent.
of their salaries, while the Secretary's
contribution is only one and one quarter
per cent, of his salary. We fear the
country will hardly look upon this as a
fair thing in the man who has nominated
himself for the Presidsncy and who has
about as much at stake IN the result OF
this years elections as any other human
being.
Year: 1879

n. \. Times.


We may yet travel by lightning as
well as send our messages by that agen-
cy. They have an electric railroad in
Berlin that works wonderfully we'll, and
many scientific people think the electric
locomotives may yet pull real trains along
our present railroads. The Berlin loco
motive draws three carriages. Each
carriage holds from eighteen to twenty
persons and all three are drawn in from
one to two minutes round the circular
railroad of three hundred metres in
length. The locomotive was originally
made for the purpose of drawing M
coal out of the pit. Nevertheless its
performances are very remarkable, and
render it certain that there are many
cases in which electric locomotives may
be employed with advantages. The
question of the extent to which electro
dynamic locomotives may possibly be
employed, is as yet difficult to decide.
Apart from the question of the possibil-
ity of a sufficient isolation, it depends on
the conducive resistance of the rails
According to DIR. Slemen's view, this
requisite on long railways may be partly
satisfied by setting up from time to
time new primary electro-dynamic
machines which would maintain the
necessary electric tention between the
middle and the outer rails.
Year: 1879

A marriage has been declared null in
New York because the young man swore
he was drunk when the ceremony was
performed. The woman in the case very
sensibly declined to make any defense,
evidently believing that the young man
was not worth contending for.
Year: 1879

There is nothing which the owner OF
farms or village property can do, which
for THE money outlay required will give
50 large or satisfactory returns rs to plant
trees libeSally. Every village home and
farm house should stand in grove of
trees, every street and country roadside
should be lined with trees. If double
row. one inside and one outside the street
line, all the better They are not only a
source OF pleasure, adding beauty to land
scapes, but they add largely to the actual
selling value of property, often turning
the scale in the minds OF would be purs
chasers. They temper and mitigate
heats of summer and cold of winter.
Another thing often overlooked, they
attract and furnish shelter to the birds
who are now recognized as the farmers
best friends, and without whose active
aid we should be overrun with insects,
destructive to vegetation.


There has never been time when
trees Of all kind could DO purchased as
cheaply as now. The panic Of '73
putting sudden stop to the general
improvements Of country property has
left all our nurserymen overstocked,
and they will now furnish trees OF all
kinds for less than it has cost to grow
them.


The hardy evergreens, such MS tho
Scotch and Austrian pine, the Norway
Spruce and Arbor Vitae should be
planted literally about the buildings,
especially SO as to break the north and
west winds from the house and cattle
yards. They grow rapidly and in few
years will pay their cost every winter,
in the saving Of fuel and feed.


They should be planted 30 close that
when grown they form screen or wind
break


A common mistake Of tree buyers is
to select too large trees. At the same
price medium size tree is cheaper than
large one, with the former nll the root
can be saved, while with the latter tho
greater. part must be sacrificed. An
evergreen three to four feet high is
better tree to plant than one five to
seven feet. With trees of that size,
and care taken that tho roots are not
for single moment exposed to the hot
sun and wind, are in setting and
liberal mulching of coarse litter, any Of
the classes of evergreen named will
bear trains-planting as we'll as decid-
duous trees.


Of deciduous trees for lawn and road
side planting the soft maple, Ash leaf
Maple or Box Elder Elm and Ash are
the standard varieties, though the
Catalpa is now coming into prominence,
and promises to take in first rank as d
shade and timber tree


The main points in successful tree
planting is TO select medium size trees.
SO as to secure good roots. Keep tho
roots from exposure to sun and wind
while handling, take pains in setting
and mulch literally.
Year: 1879

It is astonishing to see the venom Of
some of the New Orleans papers in their
attack upon the quarantine. The Bee
prophesies not only the loss of trade
with Mexico and of the transatlantic
line OF steamers from Marseilles, the
diversion Of the fruit trade to other
ports, but that our important grain
trade with Europe will be destroyed.
In fact it sings the song of ruin which is
taken up by the Times in fuller chorus
and with even more bitter animus.


Without going into the pros and cons
Of the question, it is undemable that a
thorough and effective quarantine will
keep the fever from any locality, where
1T Is not indigenous. When the quaran-
tine fails, it is simply because it has
been 2 broken, or eyaded, and the ques-
fl2n siouid pat be between quarantine
and no quarantine, but how it should
be most rigidly enforced. That seems
to be the opinion of some of the ablest
"Avslelans Of New Orleans, and our
experience ofseveral epidemics enuorses
it.


Had it pot been for quarantine, Ope-
lonssas 9llsS Wonld have had her full share Of
the plague last summer, and ceaseless
vigilance alone kept it out. As for the
loss OF trade We have unfortunately but
2 choice between two evils, the least of
winch Is temporary interruption of the
commerce with foreign ports. An in-
terrgption less to be dreaded than the
total prostration of all trade, the cessa-
ton OF business and work of every kind
Thicil accompanies a yellow fever epi
aemle, TO say nothing of the horrors of
the plague itself.
Year: 1879

We understand there is a club now
formed in our town called the Little
Hatchet Club" The club has two OBJ
jectsin view, to-wit: A socialintercourse
among the members, and to prevent the
reckless and indiscriminate manner in
which the members have heretofore
persued the practice of telling the truth.
None but married men or young men
who intend shortly putting "the yoke
on their necks,n are admitted.
Year: 1879

We call attention to the advertisement
of Bloch & Isaac in another column,
and we endorse all that he says relative
to the quality of his goods and their
low prices. When public spirited
merchant knowing the needs of the
people amongst whom he lives, and
their financial condition, takes every
trouble to meet those two requirements,
he should be largely patronized. Add
to this his courteous and attentive clerks,
who take pleasure in showing their
goods, whether purchases are made or
not, and you will be hard to please if
you cannot find something in his store
in the way of dry goods, groceries and
furniture to suit both purse and taste.


On last Saturday evening about
o'clock one of the prisoners Daniel
Avery, confined in jail, under Il charge
OF perjury, managed to break his irons
and also a hole in the wall through
which he passed, but instead of dropping
to the ground and trusting to the chaDce
of not being seen, he crawled into the
loft Of the Jail, hoping that no search
would be made for him In the building,
. as to all appearances he had got off,
blanket being tied to the bars of the
window as if having been used to reach
Che ground, he expecting after night to
make his escape. Search being made,
he was soon discovered and placed back
in his cell. This the second attempt
made by him to break out.
Year: 1879

EVEN the President must make
speeches while in Ohio, and even
he can find nothing to talk about
but the bloody shirt. Here is how
he catches it from the New York
World on that subject:


Why did not Mr., Hayes explain,
in his regent stump speeches, how
the dreadful disorder at the South
which he depicted failed to interfere
with the uneXampled crops har-
vested in that part of the country?
The cotton crop of the South of tGis
year is a half million of bales greater
than ever before. Not so much to-
bacco by twelve millions of pounds
did the South ever before gather in
one year as in this; nor so much
sugar by two hundred thousand
hogsheads! How could all this be
if labor had been demoralized or if
the negro had been perpetually
worried by the white race? Do
men toll and accumulate wealth in
a country IN which the government
gives no protection, as Mr.. Hayes
pretends to believe and tries to
make other people believe is the
case in the ''sOlid South -? Really,
this stalwart rumpus about the
South grows rather ridiculous when
we confront it with economic facts /!
Cannot our Southern contempora-
ries explain this remarkable devel-
opment of national production un-
der the stimulus of the shotgun


From the same paper, if our read
ers care to know, they may learn
something of the administration of
Mr.. Cornell when he ruled the New
York Custom House in the interest
cf King Conkling. Cornell is the
man whom the Conkling-Kelly CO.
alition are now trying to make
Governor of New York:


The importing merchants of New
York who are asked to indorse the
projects of Mr.. COnkling and vote
for Mr.. Cornell cannot have forgot
ten how they were harried and tor
tured by the Treasury Department
and the Custom House before Mr..
Bayard carried through the revenue
reform which destroyed the moiety
system. That system never reached
such odious perfection as it did
when, during the administration of
Grant, Mr.. Conkling formed that
alliance with the White House
which placed in his hands all the
revenue patronage the Government
could dispense in New York. Mr..
Murphy, Gen. Arthur and Mr.. Cor
nell were Mr.. Conkling's alert and
efficient lieutenants in the working
of that patronage. They served
their chief with zeal, fidelity and
efficiency, and until the prosecution
and persecution of the well-known
firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co. had
stung the business heart of the
country into revolt, the great sums
received by the customs machine in
Year: 1879

The advocates of unbolted flour SO
long held complete sway in our
public journals that the following
from the American Miller has al
least the appearance of novelty:


The disparaglng comparisons
which Grahamites made between
bolted and unbolted -four by means
of analysis showing the constituent
parts of each, seemed an unanswer-
able argument until some thought
full German determined to analyze
the bran after it left the system,
when 10! it was almost entirely un-
changed. It thus appears that the
human stomach is not powerful
enough to effect that decomposition
which advocates of unbolted flour
assume takes place. 1t also shows
that the analogy between man and
lower orders of creation fails to hold
good in this case as i'm many others.
Psychologists have determined the
fact that the woody fibre contained
in bran acts as an irritant on the
coating of the stomach, causing an
amount of inflammation which, in
stead of stimulating digestion, re-
tards it. We know precisely what
the Grahamite would reply TO these
questions. He would say that the
fact of valuable nutritive elements
being locked up in the bran is prinld
facie evidence that the bran was
intended for food. Now, valuable
nutritive elements are contained in
a fish bone, but you could hardly
persuade a disciple of Graham to
swallow one. We cannot see any
more evidence that one was de-
signed for food than the other, for
the bran is only an outside vegeta-
BILE skeleton which the wheat car
Ties for its protection. The fact OF
this vegetable skeleton or pod con-
tanning elements of nutrition is no
more than could be expected for
what is good 10 make one frame
work is good material for another,
but is no evidence thatit will make
another"
Year: 1879

Union City Chronicle, I8tb.


1t is with no little pleasure that
we announce to our readers that
the project of establishing a bank at
Union City is no longer a matter OF
doubt or speculation, but an accom-
pIished fact. The entire capital
stock Of SOC, 900 has been subscribed,
the charter registered at Troy and
forwarded to the Secretary OF State
at Nashville for Incorporation, and
within a very short time our veri.
table Shank of Union City" will be
In full operation.
Year: 1879

Married ladies will please skip
the following paragraph, which we
find in Forney's Progress. Mr.. For
ney is an old man and ought to
know better than to place such re-
sponsibilities upon the female heads
of the household as are laid down
"What men expect TO find In their
homes is comfort. After carryinga a
burden of responsibility on their
shoulders all day, they look forward
with the keenest pleasure TO the
hours when they can settle down in
quiet ease at their own fireside.
They want their dinners good, and
without the bitter sauce Of knowing
Of such has been the easel that
there has been a domestic brOil
over IL. They want TO feol and see,
rather than hear of il, that there
has been deal Of consideration for
them; that their slippers are in the
right place, papers undisturbed,
shirts, collars and cuffs starched and
shining, buttons on, stockings
darnedj In short, they want their
home life to be in Joyous contrast
with the life across the threshold.


And all these little things are
matters Of such serious import that
without them the haven Of home Is
transformed into an abode Of dis
cord. / know the argument on the
other side; about grumbling hus-
bands expecting to scowl the care
worn wives into smiling angels.
We are not thinking Of such men
their lives are what they make
them, as are all our lives TO certain
extent. But experience all the
world over proves that good men
are dependent on good homes, good
dinners and good women for their
happiness.
Year: 1879

p S-Clothing viii be made speciality this fall and
viii be sold 10 per cent cheaper than any other house in
the city will sell them.


We also have large lot of Remnants in Calico and
dollar sept 27-1y
Year: 1879

THE attempt To maintain morel-
ity without religion Is the vain
project Of a class Of theorists IN our
country who are trying to subvert
the authority of Christianity. The
Christian people OF these United
States have warnings enough Of the
folly of such a course in the fatal
results that have followed the ex-
pertinent wherever made, and they
will not listen to the delusion for a
moment. There can be no solid
basis for public or private morality
but recognition Of God and sense
of accountability to him. .-AdUocafe
Year: 1879

to a few weeks in lodgings or to still fewer at q
hotel They will. perhaps less reluct
a year two, without care. ostentation even
comfort. in Continental hotels. All this portends
the discharge OF many servants not we'll fitted
TO make their way in the world and loss of profitable
custom to many tradesmen. Not only some kinds OF
industry ana some special localities also. will suffer
more than their share in such agricultural col
laspe that which is at least not improbable. The
residential neiehborhood OF London and the
watering places-that is. all the favored
of the wealthy-wil feel with special
force any general restriction Of resources
and curtament Of expenditure. Religion and
philanthropy will be touched by the spreading
blight OF means; indeed. already read OF a great
missionary society being Obliged to reduce by five
per cent all its salaries and grants. This is gloomy
prospect. 1t is not the usual tone in which the fu


of the country has been discussed of late years
Il sound and enlightened policy ii was hoped would
surmount all difficulties and leave loophole even
for capricious fortune the malignant stars When
the principles undoubted and established could
they be ever bafied by the sheer force of crcum-
stances? We may live to see whether this be possi
llA
Year: 1879

AN exciting scene occurred near Liver
pool the other day on board pleasure
steamer crowded with some one hundred
and sixty five passengers. While passing
the battery of an encampment of body
Of artillery volunteers cannon ball came
crashing through the bulwarks in the for
ward part of the vessel, smashing the
cable chain in two places and doing other
damage. Fortunately, nearly all the
passengers were sailing aft, owing to the
roughness of the sea, SO that The fore
part was comparatively clear. The
greatest confusion and alarm prevailed on
board and several of the passengers were
injured by the pieces OF chain and iron
and the splinters of wood which were sent
out in every direction.
Year: 1879

VEGETABLE IEsTIEoT.-If a pail OF
water be placed within six inches of the
stem ofa pumpkin or vegetable marrow,
1t will in the course of the nightapproach


It, and will be found in The morning with


one OF the leaves on the water. Ifa prop


be placed within six inches of a young
convolvulus, or scarlet runner, it will find


it, although the prep may be shifted daily.
IL, after it has twined some distance up
the prop, it be unwound and twin.d in
the opposite direction, it will return to its
original position or die in the attempt ;
yet, notwithstanding. if two OF the plants
grow near TO each other and have no stalks
around which they can twine. one oi
them will alter the direction of the spiral
and they will twine round each other.