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Year: 1874

HUNTSVILLE talks of starting fire com pany.-Ensign & Son stopped work in woolen mil about the first of January. -- Uncle John refused to keep traveller the other night because the town will not give him license to sell
Year: 1874

ance crusade in this county:

 It says, we shall not urge the ladies of Lltchfield county to start out on this mis- sion, as we are not informed that the men folks really desire the suppression of the liquor traffic; at least, as far as this village is concerned. We can say, and say truthfully, that they the men folks we arc talking about now,) either desire free rum, or i'll other words, would rather pre- fer that rum should run freely, than oth- erwise; or else they are all towards and dare not meddle with it. We are inclined to think the latter is very near to the truth. That they dare not grapple rum, and getting it down, hold t there, is a truth each individual for himself will not deny, and to call on the women to go at this business of managing this demon of destruction, as their sisters in Ohio are doing, we do not feel at liberty to do, un- til their husbands, fathers, or brothers are consulted as to their fears of their barns being burned, or some other terri ble something being done by rum, as revenge for the unlawful interference with it's legitimate @ business If these wor- thlesswill become reconciled to allow the ladies to take the matter in hand, and they follow prebisely the course pursued by their Ohio sisters, we know they will succeed, and will make their success most permanent.
Year: 1874

The Small pox plague Ill South Wind ham is thus described by correspondent of the Norwich Bulletin:

 Some very heart-rending scenes have occurred in South Windham. The place is as isolated as if it were in another sphere. Not a person is seen on the streets, the depot is vacated, stores closed, and the orminous red flag is seen in front of many houses. There have been five deaths from the disease In one case a gentleman died whose friends live in Le- banon, and two young men of that will lage who had had the small pox, removed his remains to Lebanon in the night and there buried them, afterwards thoroughly disinfect1ng their own clothing The mails are brought to Lebanon crossing, and letters which leave South Windham are disinfected. One has been received here which had been saturated with car bolic scid. As to the condition of the disease, it can be said that most of the cases are mild forms of varioloid, but there are some half dozen very severe cases of malignant small pox.
Year: 1874

In passing through the country why is
it that we see only few farms that seem
to be well fenced. and on which the
dwellings and other farm buildings are
in good repair. These few farms are
always free from weeds, aud invariably
yield good crops of all kinds. The own
ers of these premises attend to their bus
iness. They make business OF farming.
They get their crops in at the proper
season, and harvest them when they are
properly matured. Their cash account
is always in their favor, the balance be-
ing on the right side. They have no
time to waste at the taverns or groceries.
If they have spare time, it is devoted to
selfculture. They always subscribe and
pay for their local paper first, and others
are not discarded. They and their fam
lilies are well informed upon the current
topics of the day. Their children are
educated, well clad and we'll bred. These
men are the substantial and influential
men of the town. They keep it respect
able. They support the schools and the
churches. These are the men to whom
the country ever looks in time of need.
They always have opinions upon subjects
and their views are never in market.
Ever open to conviction, never to cor
ruption, they may sometimes be little
exclusive, but they are ever ready to
assist taeir less favored neighbors to rise
to the same plane upon which they stand.
They are reserved but true, cautious but
sure, and they constitute the hope and
safety of our republic.
Year: 1874

LOVE OF Fun IN ANIMAIs.-Iti is well
known that lambs hold regular sports
apart from their dams, who only look on
composedly at little distance to watch,
and perhaps enjoy their proceedings.
Monkeys act in the same manner and so
do dogs, the fri.kiness of which resemble
children. Leigh Hunt said he had OBJ
served young spider sporting about its
parent, running up to and away from it
in playful manner. He also watched
kitten amusing itself by running along
past its mother, to whom she always gave
a little pat on the cheek as she passed.
The elder cat endured the pats TRANQUILITY
for while, but at length becoming irri-
tated, she took an opportunity to hit her
offspring blow on the side of the head,
which sent the little creature spinning to
the other side of the room. An irritated
human being would have acted in pre-
cisely the same manner.
Year: 1874

No observant reader Of the literature
Of the day can have failed to notice that
during the last fifteen or twenty years
begin has been going rapidly out of use,
its place being taken by commence
Where, before, we began almost every
thing, and used commence only in mat
ters of some state and Importance, now
we commence the most trivial matter ;
so that | read the other day that a boy
" commenced to eat his pie" This ten
dency showed itself long while ago,
but it is only within the period that /
have mentioned that commence has
crushed begin almost out of the Ian
guage. Now commence is word whose
very presence in English is the merest
superfuity. Although it came in about
five hundred years ago, it is an intruder,
and might better never have been heard
from English lips. As it is generally
used, it means simply begin" no more
no less; and having begin, which is
home-bred English, why should we so
run after this strange Roman god, com
menceP We gain nothing by it in mean
ing, in sound, or even in variety of ac-
cent. Nor do we in dignity: " In the
beginning God created the heavens
and the earth" :" In the beginning was
the word" The historical writer upon
language, to wit, the etymologist, or he
of wider scope and higher aims, the phil
ologist, goes over his accumulated list of
examples, and records the fact that at
such time begin began to pass out of
common use, and commence commenced
coming in; and there he washes bis
hands. His business is to observe the
phenomena of language, to record and
if possible to connect them. Such, how
ever, is not my calm, scientific attitude
l am interested in this funeral, and claim
the right to weep over it. think that
the departure of begin, no matter how
or by whom it was brought about, is to
be mourned, and that if that good, sim
pie English word can be called back it


would be well-well for us no less than
for our language because it would show


that manly simplicity of taste and love


of kindred speech have not yet quite


died out among us.-Richard Grant


White.
Year: 1874

All true greatness is calm, has large
side of silence, works in harmony with
the still and modest laws of truth, and
shows symmetrical proportions that pre-
vent its majesty from producing its full
impression upon us until we study it
carefully. was talking with man, not
long since, who said he could not see the
remarkable greatness of Washington.
What new thing did he do ," he asked
--as if it were not marvellous instance
of greatness that, with such opportuni-
ties to do new and brilliant things as to
be the founder OF line of kings on a
vast continent, he would not think of it;
as if he did not show the very originality
of his greatness, among the chieftains of
history by lifting up the common vir-
tues of honesty, integrity and regard for
the welfare of others, and showing them,
instead of a royal robe and princely
crown, thus showing that they we're broad
and ample enough to cover him with ma
jesty; as if that letter by which, from
the impulse of honor and devotion to re-
publican truth, he refused the imperial
office and name, and rebuked the officer
who wrote the temptation to him, was
not the most original page in the bloody
annals of revolution and war; as if it
were an every day occurrence for man,
by the business of his motives and the
earness of his sight, to insure liberty
for generations to half hemisphere; as
though it was something lightly to be es
timated when the devil takes great ma
ture, such as he has so often conquered
by his splendid baubles, up to a high
mountain, from which the extent of a
nation is visible, and offers the landscape
as the prize, if he will kneel and wor-
ship,-to hear the answer given that
echoes round the world, "Get thee be-
hind me, SBtan, for | will serve only
truth and my fellows, and the Supreme
God. ."-T. Starr King.
Year: 1874

A war against brandy is the peculiar
form the temperance struggle assumes 10
Sweden. The Swede gets drunk on BRAN
dy, if anything, but of late years the in
cessant activity of the temperance soci.
eties and the high excise duty on this
liquor have forbidden the laboring man
the luxury of spree, except at rare in
tervals, so that it had come to be fondly
believed the foe was beaten down for
good. Recently, however, there has
been universal rise in wages through
out the kingdom, and the inebriating
cup has once more come within the easy
reach of the poorest working man. And
now the temperance folks are redou bling
their efforts to bring moral forces into ac-
tion. Societies have been formed among
the working men, which are widely
spreading, the main idea of them being,
not total abstinence, but the restraint of
intemperance. Some of their novel pro-
visions are, that no married man shall
go into public house at all, and the
single man only at meal time, when he
is allowed to partake of liquor along
with his victuals. The married man, al
though shut out from the public bar, is
not debarred from his glass of brandy,
which he may keep stored in the cup
board at home. All public treating is
also forbidden, and the transgression Of
any of these rules subjects the delinquent
to fine. The town of GotheDburg is
the most original in the methods for the
suppression of drunkenness. Here the
whole spirit trade has been conferred
upon company of philanthropists, woo
run the business solely for the benefit Of
the town. 1t contrives that the public
houses to which licenses are dispensed
shall derive no profit from the traffic in
liquors, forcing the hotel keepers to de-
rive their income solely from legiti-
mate hotel business. The result has
been that the low, dirty drinking-shops,
formerly given over to mere guzzling and
carousing have been transformed into
neat and tidy restaurants and hotels,
where wholesome food and uns dulterated
liquor are supplied.
Year: 1874




Too low an estim. te is apt to be set on
the domestic value of newspapers. After
reading them, and putting ourselves,
through their agency, in mental cores
pondence with the world, they are thrown
aside and forgotten. But to suppose
their usefulness bounded by their news
columns and the waste-bag is a thrift
less mistake.


In the first place, there are the house
hold recipes, to be found in stray corners,
often excellent, and deserving a refuge
on the fy-leaf of the family cookbook.
Then come the pretty verses, the strange
and droll stories, the brief biographies
and "reminiscences which, pasted in a
scrap-book, are source of never. ending
pleasure, not only to those who do not
care for richer intellectual food, but to
those who have only odd minutes for
reading.


Notwithstanding the squibs jocular
journalists have penned on the use Of
newspapers for bed-clothing, we know
from experience that these are not to be
despised. They may not be as comfort
able as your blankets, but certainly they
keep out the cold Two thieknesses of
papers are better than pair of blankets,
and in the case of persons who dislike
the weight of many bed-clothes, they are
invaluable. A spread made of double
layer of papers between covering of
calico or chintz, is desirable in every
household, The papers should be tackled
together with thread, and also basted to
the covering to keep them from slipping.
An objection has been made on account
Of the rustling, but if soft papers be
chosen the noise will not be annoying, es-
peeially should the spread be laid be-
tween blanket and the counterpane.


As protection to plants against cold,
both in and out of doors, nothing is bet
ter. If newspapers are pinned up over
night at a window between pots aud glass,
the flowers will not only not be frozen,
but will not even get chilled, as they are
so liable to be at this season. Iu the
same way, if taken to cover garden beds,
on the frosty nights of early autumn,
they will allow the plants to remain safe
ly outdoors some time later than is COM
mon.


One of the oldest services to put our
journals to is the keeping of ice in sum-
mer. An ingenious housekeeper recent
ly discovered that her daily lump of ice
would last nearly twice as long when
wrapped in newspapers and placed in
any kind of covered box, as when trust
en- solely to a refrigerator. This is very
convenient, since il is possible to have
the best and cheapest refrigerator con-
stantly at hand.


To polish all kinds of glass after wash
| ing, except table glass, no cloth or fan
mel is half so good as newspaper; and
for bakers dozen Of other uses, quite
foreign to its primal purpose it is with
out rival.-Scribaer's for March.
Year: 1874

DEATH OF JOHN WEsLEY.-He rose
in the morning the first of his household.
Once, be relates, he was up at halfpast
five, went to the chapel, but found no
one of his assistant preachers there. OF
three or four in the house all were asleep.
al preached myself" writes the old man
of eighty-fou Wbeu be complained,
his assistants urged that they we're up
late the night before. He made it a rule
that every one in the house should retire
at nine, in order TO attend the morning
service at five. AT eighty-six Wesley
admitted the weight of years. His eyes,
he said, were dim, his voice faint he
could no longer keep his accounts or his
Journal He travelled almost to the last,
and wss followed by the throngs who
never deserted him.


In the spring of 1871 he was brought
to his house in City Road, stricken with
fever. On the % of March be died,
surrounded by a group of friends. When
be was dead they broke into psalm of
praise. His funeral. at FIVE in the morn
ing, was attended by vast throng, and
a sermon was preached in memory of his
good deeds in City Road Chapel, when
the church was hung with mourning.
and every member of the great audience,
Year: 1874

A WARNING TO BoYs.-A certain
doctor, struck with the large number OF
boys under fifteen years of age whom he
observed smoking, was led to inquire in
to the effect the habit had upon the gen.
eral health. He took for his purpose
thirty-eight boys, aged from nine to fif-
teen, and carefully examined them. In
twenty.seven of them he discovered in
furious traces of the habit. In twenty
two there were disorders of the circnla-
ton and digestion, palpitation of the
heart. and a more or less marked taste
for strong drink. In twelve there were
frequent bleeding of the nose they had
disturbed sleep; and twelve bad slight
liberation of the mucous membrane of
the mouth, which disappeared on ceasing
from the use of tobacco for some days.
The doctor treated them all for weak
ness, but with little effect until the
smoking was discontinued, when health
and strength we're soon restored. Now,
this is no sold woman's tale" as these
facts are given on the authority of the
British Medical journal.
Year: 1874

THE TRAVELLERS MooD.-When once
one has fairly started on journey and
has but to go and go, by the impetus re.
ceived, it is surprising what entertain
ment one finds in very small things.
The travellers humor falls upon us, and
surely it is not the unwisest the heart
knows. | don't envy people, at any rate,
who have outlived OF outworn the simple
satisfaction of the sense of being settled
to go somewhere, with bag and umbrella.
If we are settled on the top of coach,
and the somewhere" contains an ele-
ment of the new and strange, the case is
at its best. In this matter wise people
are content to become children again
We don't turn about on our knees to look
out of the omnibus window, but we in
dulge in very much the same round-eyed
contemplation of accessible objects. Re
sponsibility is left at home, or, at the
worst, packed away in the valise, in quite
another part of the diligence, with the
clean shirts and the writing case Gal
ary for april.
Year: 1874

An editors drawer reminds one os the
pool of Bethesda, for just as an article is
about to drop into it accepted, an ADLER
piece slips in before, and one might weep
over the lost hopes in waste basket.
10 change the metaphor, we wonder
whether any phoenix ever rises from those
ashes; and has no manufacturer discov-
cred use for rejected manuscript
Contributors sometimes feel as if editors
preserved cutting silence, but when we
consider that the proprietors of some
journals must receive we'll nigh ream
of correspondence per day, We are dis
posed to think they need some special oc
cular provision, such as relay of eyes
or a pair in the back as well as in the
front Of their heads to enable them to
read the host of communications forward
ed to them. And if fairy tale is sent
to theological review, or the editor of a
juvenile paper receives manuscript
long enough to fill his entire sheet, can
we wonder that such mismatched pro-
ductions are treated with silent con-
tempt? With as much reason might we
inquire fora gentleman outfit at crock
cry store, and grumble at not finding it.
If any one is disposed to think the stand
ard too high, he ought to know the his
tory of literary society in Germany
whose records were kept over hundred
years. To be enrolled among the cele-
brated Minnesingers the production of
a candidate for admission was required
to belong to a certain class, to consist OF
a given number of syllables, and if it
contained one too many or too few, the
candidate was not only rejected, bat sen.
fenced to pay fine beside. Think OF
that, 0 ye disappointed contributors Ii
seems sometimes hard to be sure, when
an inferior piece from popular writer
is preferred to better from an unknown
source. But after all this is only the
well-earned reward of past toll or super
ior talent, and it is not so often the case
as the sighted ones think. For the plain
truth that an article is not good enough
to print is too little relished to be taken
and so the writer turns and throws the
blame of his own shortcomings on the
editors. Hearth and Home.
Year: 1874

A cotton ginner at Baton Rouge, White
Lacquer, complains in a newspaper card
that his politics do not bring him in fair
share of public patronage. He says: "Do
you think it strange at my not getting any
ginning. when, at the head of one street are
two notorious Black Leaguers, and on an
other street is two something, nobody knows
what, and what is more strange than all is,
that the most of your loyal White Leaguers
dare not do otherwisef You will please ex.
plain this problem; it may be that they are
ginning for the seed only. Now, if such is
the case. only can say that the man who
pledges his word and all the honor that he
can rake and scrape up. in binding his agree.
ment without the least idea of living up to
it. will steal sheep off the roost. and should
be looked upon as such by all business
men,"
Year: 1874

Great secrifces Of crockery, glass and
Chinaware are daily made by public auction
and private sales at P. Malochee's. No. IS
Canal street. All interested should not fail
to call on him during the coming week.
Year: 1874




We are satisfied that Grant is IN
GRIM earnest IN his endeavor to secure
athird nomination and third election
as President.


The nomination he can probably OBJ
tain. The executive patronage has
grown to be so vast that it is irresisti-
bic unless a sentiment of patriotism
can be aroused in opposition to it.
This patronage is likely to control the
Republican National Conventional
least it is liable to do so, and will un-
less a strong resistance to the third
term movement is started at once.


The evidences that Gen. Grant means
to run a third time are multiplying al
most daily. A member of his family,
who could not have expressed anything
but his own sentiments, said: "ORe
great difference bet1CeeR Gen. Grant and
Gen. Washington is that Gen. Washing
ton Irds elected President tl1jce and Gen.
Grant triU be elected a third time"


And he may be elected third time
unless the Washingtonians-those who
believe in limiting the Office of Presi-
dent to two terms, after the example Of
Washington, followed by his success
sors-bestir themselves betimes to de-
feat Gen. Grants selfish and over
weening ambition.
Year: 1874

MARRIED people should treat each other
like lovers all their lives, then they would
be happy. Bickering and quarreling would
soon break off love affairs; consequently,
lovers indulge in such only to very limited
extent. But some people-men and women
bOth-when they have once got married,
think they may do just as they please and it
will make no difference. They make
great mistake. 1t causes all the difference
in the world. Women should grow more
devoted and men more fond after marriage,
if they have the slightest idea of being
happy as wives and husbands. 1t is losing
sight of this fundamental truth which leads
to hundreds of divorces. Yet many man
will scold his wife who would never think
of breathing a harsh word 10 his sweet
heart; and many wife will be glum and
morose on her husbands return who had
only smiles and words of cheer for him
when he was her suitOr. How can such
people expect to be happy?
Year: 1874

AND now comes Geo. T. Hoar, in
the wake of Henry L. Dawes, express
ing his determination not to stand for
Congress or any other Office next fall
1t the rest of the Massachusetts, dele
CATION do likewise, the country will
take the chances for new and better
men from that State.
Year: 1874

JUST as Congress had dispersed, and
weary editors were hoping for a rest
during the sultry term, here comes
this Tilton-Beecher scandal again,
threatening to spin out as long as the
moral law that has been violated on one
side or the other. 1t is too bad. Give
us a rest.
Year: 1874

ROME, June 26.-The Pope to-day, in
receiving a deputatiOn from the Romay
nobility, said the demonstration of Sundan
night was a spontaneous and magnificent
act Of the people. The counter demonstra-
ton Of Wednesday was the impiOus and
miserable work of the sons of darkness.
The Pope added that lie had received a let
ter urging him to quit Rome because
his person was not safe, but he declared


he would remain as long as God permitted.
Year: 1874

If President Grant had not been so
hasty in his anxiety to keep Boss
Shepherd at the head Of the District,
the declination of Cattel and Blow
would afford opportunity for carrying
out his own sweet will. But after
formal rejection by the Senate, Shep-
herd could hardly be appointed now.
Year: 1874

LET no young man ever permit il 10 enter
his mind that economy is meanness or that
it is to be despiSed. II is he who saves who
can afford 20 give; and nothing is mean
which is honest, and which goes to estab-
lish ones independence.