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Year: 1874

There's game much in flshion-I think it is called


euchre,


Though have never played it for pleasure lucre .
Iu which, when the cards in certain conditions,
One of them in confident tone,
al think may venture to go 1t alone"
While watching tho game, its whim Of the bArds
A moral to draw from the skirmish Of cards,
And to fancy he finds in the trivial strife
Some excellent hints for the battle Of life
Where-Whether the prize be ribbon or throne,
The winner is ho who can go it alone.
When great Calico proclaimed that the world
In n regular orbit was ceaselessly whrledi
And got not convert for all of his pains,
But only derision and prison and chains,
at moves, for all that was his answering tone,
For he knew, like the earth, he could go 1t alone.'
When Kepler, with intellect piercing afAr,
Discovered the laws Of each planet and star,
And doctors who ought to have lauded his name
Derided his learning and backenod his fame,


81 can't wait" he replied, "tlI the truth you shall


owns"


For he felt in his heart he could ego it alone"
Alas for the player who idly depends,
In the struggle Of life upon kindred and friends,
Whatever the value Of blessings like these,
They atone for inglorious ease,
Nor comfort the coward who finds, with groan,
That his crutches have LEFT him TO Ego it alone"
Health, family, culture, wit, beauty and gold,
The unfortunate owner may fairly regard
As, each in his way, most excellent card
Yet the game may be lost with all these for your own
Unless you have the courage TO Ego it alone"
In battle or business, whatever the game,
In law or in love- it is ever the same,
In the struggle for power the scramble for pelf
Let this be your motto-"rsiy on yOmssDF"
For whether the prize be ribbon or throne,
The victor is he who can ego It alonS!"
Year: 1874

Several years ago had near my house
third Of an acre Of ground in grass. 1t was
run out and needed plowing up. | dreaded
to put the pIow into it, as | was sure of
large crop Of cobble-stones every time l did
so. l finally concluded to try the effect of
top.dressing, and accordingly put on, the
last of November. sixteen loads, (.wenty
bushels each) of muck in which two pigs
had run two months. 1t lay so thick on the
ground il made it look like a plowed field.
My neighbors said would have to plow it in.
In the spring, as soon as the snow was off, l
went over it with rake, breaking up all
Jumps not dissolved by the snow. The
grass soon came up, at least ten days before
any other near it. In June it was so stout
and lodged had to cut it. Ia August l
cut it again, getting a heavier and better
crop than the first. Putting the two crops
together, l cut by actual weight five
tons per acre OF good, well-cured hay, and
could have cut later in the season good
growth of roweu. The next season the same
piece of ground produced two as good crops
as the first and continued to do so for FIVE
years with an occasional light dressing of
ashes and plaster.-Cor. Mirror and Farm
Year: 1874

these sons Of the mountains, do l owe the
preservation Of my life. Had been almost
anywhere else, should not now be writing
for the Lire Stock Journal Perhaps this
circumstance fixed the impression Of these
peculiarities.


So far as could learn, there is less atteu-
ton gwen to the manufacture Of cheese than
to butter but still the cheese product is large
II is nearly all made in factories, while the
butter is mostly made iu families. The
cheese seen was Of good quality and some of
II very choice.


The milk from the mountain pastures is
very rich, aud less OF it is required to make
a pound Of cheese than, generally, in New
York. Oct. % and 2G, the milk being de-
livercd once day, the mornings and nights
mixed, the latter being not skinned but
"dipped," which means dipped off the cream
down to the blue skim-milk, made pound of
green cheese the ourd being well worked
down and ripened, from eight aud one-third
pounds of milk.-L. B. Arnold, in Lire
Stock Journal.
Year: 1874

Dairying is successful aud profitable in
Vermont. The butter from her hills, where
ever met with, is Of the first quality, and


more skill was shown in its manufacture
than found in the far.famed county of
Orange, in New York. Notwithstanding all
the hard obstacles of a high and rugged soil
and cold climate, Vermont is really taking
the lead Of the western world 10 the line of
butter making. This fact will become ap.
parent to any observant dairyman, upon at
tending the discussions at her State Dairy.
mems Association. Nowhere unless it be
in the southwestern counties Of New York;
is the butter interest so we'll organized,
studied and discussed, as by the State Asso-
citation Of Vermont. The lead their noun
tain state has taken in butter production, is
due to the energy and enterprise of her yeo-
manry In travelling through the state l
was often reminded Of the boast Of ono of her
citizens, that "the chief business in Vermont
is raising men," Among her farmers one
everywhere meets with the Intelligence and
tact, and also the high moral qualities that
usually characterize the true sons of Yankee
sires. Nowhere has the blood of the prime
val Yankee come down with purer strains
than appear in the hardy dairymen among
the Green Mountains A circumstance oc-
CURED, while l was sojourning in the state,
that fOrcibly impressed these peculiarities.
l was taken suddenly and severly ill--"sick,
nigh unto death"--And to the ready tact and
intelligence, as well as kindness Of one Of
Year: 1874

dress, but in vain. Then they sent in their
petition to Congress, but it was near the end
of the session and the members had not time
to attend to it, and the petition was dis
missed. But before they adjourned they
had time to pass bill increasing their own
pay, and reaching back and helping them
selves to extra pay for the work they had al
ready done and been paid for once. A mar
riod man employed in the treasury was COM
pclled to go away on account Of his health.
He was gone nine months, and during that
time his wife fully performed the work be-
longing to him. He had been receiving
$500 per year, but on settlement all she
was allowed was at the rate of 5000 per
year, because she was woman.


But she hoped for better things in the
onward march Of this great nation. Our
country is further advanced than any other
nation ever was. We are beyond all exam
pie, with no chart to guide us, nothing but
Gods guidance to lead us in our onward
march. In the race Of progress America
takes the lead, and others follow in her
wake
Year: 1874

Of cold air by its increased specific gravity,
by Prof LOOMS; or the preservation Of ice
and frozen material since the drift period, by
Prof f. Hitchcock, as well as various other
scientists. Yet few simple experiments
seem to disprove it. 1t is well-kuown
fact that the natives Of India have from
ancient times produced ice in elongated
wells, or deep bitches, by means of evapora.
ton placing water in small shallow dishes
with straw around them, more compact at
top, aud then forcing a current Of air through
the straw causing rapid evaporation, and
consequent freezing of the water in their
pans. The freezing of water under the re.
ceiver of an air pump, by the rapid cvapora-
ton of ether, is also familiar experiment,
and the principle is carried out in the by.
grometer, where the cold produced by the
evaporation Of moisture from the wet bulb
Of thermometer is sure indicator as to
the amount of such evaporation. Believing
that the open well would allow the ice
around it to thaw away if left in the drift
period and that the specific gravity Of
cold air would be no greater at this particu.
lar well than in others, and so it could not
freeze from that cause, suggested that
the we'll be covered to prevent that oontinu-
ed exit of air heavily charged with moisture,
which ever came from it with quito a cur
rent. If the cold was produced by evapo-
ration 1 thought it would not freeze. 1t
was so covered last winter and no ice col
lected. 1t was, however, left open on a
warm night and froze over but after being
closed several days the ice disappeared,
though during the spring months it could be
formed by leaving the cover open. think
this solution to agree with scientific facts,
and that the porous nature Of the soil allow
ing current Of air to pass through it would
be ample cause for ice as found. The OBJ.
lection may be made that clay interviewed
between this loose drift and the surface.
This is just as it should be to get this effect.
The clay is in patches and not continuous
over the entire gravel bed, and the frost is
found beneath the clay because the Ovapora-
tiou could not pass directly upward, and as
result would pass through the gravel,
bringing about the effect produced, Again the
coating of the stones with ice above the
water as they are always SO coated when
freezing takes place, shows that it is taken
from the air, frost like, as frost work is thus
formed in cold weather when the atmosphere
is charged heavily with moisture.


LanenJurgh, W. II. A. Cutting.
Year: 1874

About mile southwest Of Brandon viii
lage there is well near forty feet deep, the
water of which has the popularity Of re-
naming frozen all the year. La 1888 the
owner of the property began the usual exca-
walton for water. After passing through
soil and clay to the depth Of fourteen feet
bed Of frozen gravel some fifteen feet in
thickness was encountered. When taken out
it contained bits Of clear ice and when thawed
it rendered the material almost dripping wet.
After digging through the frost, and into
clean gravel some two or three feet, water
was found. The excavation was then car
ried deep enough to furnish sufficient water,
and stopped on a clean pcbbly bottom, into
which an iron bar could be crowded down
its length. In 1859 two other wells were
sunk by the Boston Society of Natural His
tory, seventy feet from this we'll, towards the
south, and also the same distance northwest.
Frost in one of those pits was found in diff
ferent layers, the first being no more than
two inches thick while the last they did not
pass through, but it must have been several
feet. The other excavation was not carried
deep enough to fud FROST if it existed, but
as it was carried below the depth in which
frozen ground was found in the other valley,
it is presumable that none would have been
found.


Though perhaps this well has attracted
more attention than others, it is not an iso-
lated instance. Many years ago there was
similar well dug at Owego, N. Y, and
there are several in Europe. These wells
continue to freeze over to great depth in the
winter, and usually contain ice the whole
year.


Various theories have been given to ac-
count for this phenomenon as by the sinking
Year: 1874

Many agricultural writers and speakers
advocate the practice Of green manuring. l
am not radically opposed to it, but still
think it too slow farming for the fast people
of this century. There are but few who
have the courage to pillow under green crop
that will pay for harvesting. They think
they can't afford it the use of the land is
lost while the crop is growing; the crop is
needed for fodder, and there will be a quan.
tity Of manure from the feeding Of it. On
these accounts the farmers of this country
will be slow to adopt the practice, in spite of
the benefits which are said to accrue from it,
and its being SO timo-honOred and ancient a
custom. Undoubtedly it is of great benefit
Year: 1874

We may shred the moss-veil from the rose,
The blossom from the spray,
The bloom that pearls the luscious grape
A touch will brush way.
The vine may loosen from the tree
Which once it clung to fast:
But the heart win keep its memories


Till life itself be past.
The gold must die from the sunset skies,
The purple from far hills;
The foam-flowers fade from opal waves;
Drought hush the babbling rills.
The earth grow cold and passionless
'NeathWinter's bitter blast;
But the heart will keep its memories
Till life itself be past.
The flush viii fade from cheek and brow,
The sweet smile wane and die;
The freshness leave the coral lip,
Tears dim the brightest eye.
Youth, beauty, hope and happiness,
And love. may die at last;
But the heart will keep its memories
Till life itself be past.


CdsseTs Magazine
Year: 1874

A team belonging to Pratt & Foster ran away on Monday of this week. The driver, Hermon Bartholomew, and his -brother-in-law John Salewskle, were both thrown out and somewhat injured, but neither of them serious The wagon struck corner of James Cochrane's house tore down a portion of his stairway and WAS itself badly broken. The accident was occasioned by chain that was drag ging behind While they were crossing the .railroad 1t caught one of the rails and checked the team So suddenly as to throw driver over the dashboard between the the horses. It was Q wonderful escape for both the young men, especially the driver. Moral-don't have any chains dragging behind your wagon, especially while crossing railroad tracks.

 A scaffolding fell with number of young men at the North Cornwall parson- age, last Friday, while they were shing- ling. All but one of them got some bruises. The cause was the splitting of the crotch of tree in which the end of the timber holding up the scaffold rested

 Rev. C. N. Fitch preached sermon on the temperance crusade, at the North Cornwall church on Sunday, and repeat ed it at the Hall in the evening.

 Prof. Mark Bailey is to deliver one of his popular readings at the Hall, on Tuesday evening of this week.

 -Wm. Green, one of the members of our new temperance organization died on Sunday morning. He had been in the habit of using intoxicating drinks to ex cess for a long time until he joined the temperance society, and then stopped en- tirely. He was very anxious to return to England, his native land. to show his friends there how he had reformed, but disease had too strong hold on hlm and reform came just too late to save him. He was genial young man, of good character and manners. He had many friends and no enemies.
Year: 1874

On Tuesday evening last, March 24th,

 some of the New Preston people met at

 MT. Frederick Beardsleys for a surprise party. It was intended to be Surprise" not only in name but in nature, for, un- like the other surprises" that we have attended, the people were not to be told that they were to be besieged until the besiegers arrived. They succeeded as we'll as could be expected, i'll place pro- verbally incapable of keeping secret The hostess was fortunately kept in bliss ful ignorance of the whole affair until it came off, but some one had the kind ness to give Mir. B. hint of the proceed ings. The plan adopted was to take Mrs.

 5. away for the afternoon, while some of the neighbors came in and arranged every thing for the evening. When she return ed from her afternoon visit she found the house already filled with her friends, and more coming, among whom was seen our former minister and his family, at whose house she had spent the afternoon. Her surprise was complete, andshe made some not familiar quotations" but character istie remarks which were highly amusing to those who had been in the secret from the first. After laying off our things in the cosy "upper rooms" we descended to the rooms below, where 'all went merry as marriage bell" We had no dancing, but instead, such time honored games, as

 Roll the platter" and "Seorn." Before supper these were participated in by the young people only, while the older people stood looking on, or sitting quietly around the stove, talking. But after we had par taken of the superb repast provided by the friends and every one was in their 'after-dinner" mood, the older people were brought into the ring and played with zest that was beautiful to witness. After spending the evening most agreed bly we departed, all pronouncing it the best surprise yet attended. z.
Year: 1874

We have decided to discontinue our practice of paying the postage of subscrib- CTS three months in advance. It has re- sulted in more i'll than good will we fear; in considerable expense to us, and slight saving to subscribers, especially as so many of them are in the habit of paying a years postage in advance on every first of January. Probably congress will soon restore to weekly papers their free county circulation, though perhaps not this ses- sion
Year: 1874

Most of our readers are familiar with the great clothing house of Montague & Co.,, of Waterbury, probably.no concern of late years has done more to sustain the reputation of that city as lively business center than this, their stock this spring is more that usually filled desirable goods, which they represent they are able to sell at lower prices than ever before. Read what they say in our advertising columns.
Year: 1874

A subscriber from Florida writes us that week before last the thermometer ranged from about 67o in the morning to about s5e at noon, all the week, with a soft, fresh breeze from the south every day. In Litchfield county it retired to zero that week,
Year: 1874

LOOKING the matter up we find
that Peck did not publish the CITY
Charter as all though in his paper
three weeks ago he claimed to have
done so, When he made the asser-
ton we supposed Of course there
was some truth in it, but knowing
he has not types enough to set one
third OF such a document, presumed
he had asod our types, ready set,
which OF course was a mistake on
our part. Pecl's assertion that he
loaned us the types, is based on the
fact that we set from his case about
q column Of the charter. Like
others from the same source, this is
one OF those worst lies-being mixed
with q very little truth.
Year: 1874

Senator Irwin, of Siskiyou, from the
Committee On Corporations, after helping te
oueich the Freeman fare and freight bill
comes in with another under the same head


which really should have been entitled can
act TO legalize the present rates of fares and
freghts charged by the railroad companies
of California Though in some cases fares
and freights are slightly reduced from the
present rates, in Others they are raised, and
altogether the average rates under this bill
for the first so miles are about the same as
charged at present. The most pernicious
part of the bill, though, is section making
it misdemeanor for any person to travel on
ticket not purchased from the company by
him or herself To buy ticket and trans
fer it to another party, or to receive ticket
purchased by another party is. by this bill,
made misdemeanor. We are not only
surprised, but astonshed, that such meas
ure as the whole of it is should come from
such source And then, to attempt to
force it through under the guise of needed
legislation on this most important of all sub
jects, is intolerable. 1t is now evident that
we will have no legislation this session on
this subject, for the people. The lndepend-
ents have struggled hard and manfully to
comply with the demands of the people in
this matter, bat in vain. Their hands are
tied for want of a majority. Both Demo
Gratis and Republicans, with few exceptions,
have proven recreant to their pledges. The
day is near at hand when these scalawag,
renegade, combination Republicans and
Democrats will be arraigned before the peo-
pie for trial And woe unto them when
that hour shall arrive.
Year: 1874

We DIssENr.-INe see some of tie In
dependent press crops out occasionally in
the advocacy of compulsory education. AL
ready are our rights as States and individu-
ais being encroached upon by tyrannical acts
of unprincipled Republicans to an alarming
extent. When Federal or State authority
steps across the threshold and dictates the
management Of the household, then may we
Did adieu to liberty, and freedom will hide
her face in sorrow.
Year: 1874

VALLEJo.-The division of Solano county
excites greater interest in the Legislature
than any question now before it-excepting,
perhaps, Freights and Fares. We don't
pretend to say whether it is right to cut the
city of Vallejo off, and compel it to support
county, as we'll as a city, government, or
not There are, in our mind, two sides to
the question, and it is hard to tell which is
best. 1t is not light hat the whole agri-
cultural county of Solano should be con.
trolled by the Navy Yard scamps of VAL
lejo, nor does it seem right to impose upon
the innocent people Of Vallejo the extra bur
den of county government in order to
punish these scrmps. The proposed new
county is two miles wide by FIVE miles long
about one-tifth the size of San Francisco.
Year: 1874

BY the apportionment bill that has recently
passed the Legislature, it will be noticed
that San Francisco, alone, will have one
fourth of the Representatives of the entire
State, and the counties of Marin, Sonoma,
Napa, Solano, Contra Costa, Santa Clara,
Alameda, and San Mateo, will have another
fourth. These last named counties, includ-


ing San Francisco, are commonly known as
the Bay Counties. They are classified by
geographers distinct from other counties in
the State, simply because their commercial
advantages gives them different character
of interest. These counties often seek the
enactment of measures that work detr-
mental to other Iarts of the State. Often
the rest of the State demands measure
that, if these counties could have their way, =,
would not be allowed to pass. The new
apportionment law, though, perhaps, just in
its main features-exceptng Placer and one
ort wo other counties under the present
act of pportionment-will give to these
Bay Counties the control of both branches
of the Legislature. Now, it needs no ar
gument to convince that such concentration
of power is sure, sooner or later, to work
injustice to the balance of the State, For
experience will soon prove that it will be
next to impossible, in a Legislature where
these Bay Counties hold sway. to pass any


law that is not strongly favored to their
taste This state of affairs, we will admit,
deplorable as it is, cannot be helped under
the present State Constitution. But the
necessity of remedy is another proof of
the recessity of Constitutional Convention


We are indebt, to Senator Marion for the
suggestion, that inasmuch as the population
of California is likely, for some years, to
centre near the Bay of San Francisco, legis-
laton is bound to favor those counties, at
sacrifice of the best interests of other por-
tions of the State, unless we adopt a differ
ent system of apportionment. His idea is
10 eject Tue members OF tno House on tDe
basis of population, as at present, and elect
the members of the Senate by districts, re-
gardless of population. In this way the
Senate would be conservative body, and
would hold in check any undue sectional
legislation that might be attempted. The
wisdom of our forefathers has been demon
strated in adopting this system of represen-
tation in our national councils, and in State
like ours, where majority of the popula-
ton is likely to centre to one point, it is
equally as necessary to justice as it is in the
case of the nation. This, we think, is the
first article in advocacy of this plan for our
State, but it will not be the last; for it is
needed. The idea will become popular.
All the interior press will take it up. And
by the time the Constitutional Convention
comes off, will have the minds of the peo-
pie prepared to adopt it.
Year: 1874

new doctrine of morality, shall be regarded
as pensioners upon the State, and worthy of
promotion to the highest office within the gift
os the people.


1t is unnecessary to state that the monop-
DIV and Snyder are friends.