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Year: 1870

Even when the gates of prayer are
shut i'm heaven, those of tears are open.


When the righteous dies, it is the earth
that loses. The lost jewel will always
be q jewel, but the one who has lost it
well may he weep.


To slander Is to murder.


Thy friend has a friend, and thy
friends friend has friend-be discreet.


The camel wanted to have horns and
they took away his ears.


Descend a step in choosing wife,
and mount step in choosing a friend.


III there is anything bad about you,
say it yourself.


One eats; another says grace.


He who Is ashamed will not easily
commit sin. 1t is good sign in man
to be capable ofbeing ashamed.
Year: 1870

While ten men watch for chances,
one man makes chances; while ten
men wait for something to turn up, one
turns up something; SO while ten fail,
one succeeds and is called q man oil
luck, the favorite OF fortune. There Is
no luck like pluck, and fortune must
favor those who are most Indifferent to
fortune.
Year: 1870

a choking horse may often be re-
lieved by pouring a quantity of water
into the ear of the animal, which will
cause him TO shake his head violently,
and the obstruction will be speedily
dislodged; if necessary, repeat the op-
Grafton, but the first dose will gener-
ally suffice
Year: 1870

4 Two young Marylanders advertise
that they want permanent situations
as sons-in.law in some respectful fam
lily saying that blood is no object, as
they are already well supplied, and
money is not essential, provided the
surroundings are agreeable.
Year: 1870

We should be chary of keeping ripe
fruit in our sitting-rooms, and especial
ly beware of laying it about a sick
chamber for any length of time. That
complaint which some people make
about faint sensation in the presence
of fruit il not fanciful; they may be
really affected by it For two conti-
mental chemists have shown that, from
the moment of plucking, apples, cher
ries, currants, and other fruits, are sub
ject TO incessant transformstion Al
first they absorb oxygen, thus robbing
the surrounding air of its vital clement:
then they evolve carbonie acid, and
this I'm far greater volume than the
purer gas is absorbed, so that we have
poison given us in the place of pure
air with compound interest. Temper
ature affects the rate of change, warmth
accelerating it.-G00d Heath.
Year: 1870

If the Ruta Bagas are not already in the
ground, although it is still time, it should
be attended to without delay, so that the
first week in August will find them sOwn
and on their way producing their kind
They are very certain crop if put i'll in
the best manner, thinned out, weeded, and
generally well cultivated.


The turnip-crop for culinary purposes
can be sown any time in August, but for
an early supply it should be at the begin
ming of the month, using the early Dutch.
For the general crop we prefer the Red or
Purple Top, originated by Mr.. Landreth,
at Bloomfield. In preparing for this crop
the ground should be plowed pretty deeply,
and narrowed until it is thoroughly pulver.
lied. If sowed in drills, the seed should
be put in with seed-planter, and when
strongly up and the turnip has commenced
forming the plants should be thinned out
to from eight to ten inchas apart. We have
seen splendid crops raised in this way. L
the seed is sown broadcast, light harrow
should follow it, and after it dressing O
lime at the rate of from forty to fifty bush
els to the acre. We have known evel
twice this amount to be applied with thu
best results where the land was deficient il
lime. If the fly should make it's appear
ance, which is not likely to be the cas-
where the lime is used, good sprinklinl
of wood ashes, if they are to be obtained
early in the morning while the dew is upol
the plants, will protect them. 4


Many farmers thin out their broadcas
sown turnip patches, but allow them


crowd together in masses and getting snO
roots. Now, it is just as advantageousE
thin out these as it is those sown in drfI7
1t can be done rapidly with q sharp, T.
row hoe, and should not be neglected vi :
thinning out is needed and q large 4 q
desired. -Gernaantoaon Telegraph. II x
Year: 1870

OF 1t is very good thing for a girl
ito marry doctor in good practice. for
then she will not see enough Of him TO
get tired of him, and at the wedding
the bride will receive presents from all
her husbands patients.
Year: 1870

MORE DELAY.-On account of some delay on
the part of the Bank Note Printing Companies
in New York, the balance OF the new legal
tender notes will not be ready for circulation
for several weeks The tifties, it is thought.
will be ready for issue about the 18th inst
Year: 1870

A good old lady who improved every
opportunity 10 teach by preeept and
eXauple, once remarked at a PRAYER
meeting; My friends, as came
along ! saw COW a switching of her
tail, in this wicked world Of strife she
was peaceful and eOntented a switch
ing Of her tail, and I said to myself-
Go thou and do likewise"
Year: 1870

Bishop Simpson opposed late suppers on
the ground that mine out of ten ministers
who eat after preaching die early" Wouldn't
it be better, perhaps, to give up preaching
after SUPPER
Year: 1870

The modified registration law, intro
duced in the House by Mr.. BowYRR, of
Putnam, is the special order in that
branch for to day, at II A. NJ. The i'm
portauce of a change in our present
proscriptive system is everywhere ad-
mtted. The insecurity of the voters
under the present law, the irresponsible
ity Of the officers uHder it, and the
alarming frequency of the outrages up
on the right of suffrage which it has
occasioned, all unite TO demand q
thorough aud complete reform.


The bill reported by Mr.. BowYER,
though possibly not as sweeping as some
Democrats would desire, is probably
the best that can be hoped for at this
time. 1t represents about what the
liberal Republicans of the House feel
justified in ConcediDg. Remedying, as
it does, the most unjust and intolerable
features of the present law, its pas
sage will be long step toward the
inauguration of that thoroughly lib
eral policy which is destined to
sweep the last vestige of prescription
from our midst. The Legislature of last
year having given its consent to the en-
franchisemont of the negro, it is meet
that the present Legislature should at
least take steps to secure to all legal
white voters the right of suffrage. With
no sort of consistency can the Republi-
can party keep the ballot from the legal
white voter after giving it to the negro.
Year: 1870

When he made his mark last Winter,
as man of decetcy, by attacking the
chastity Of the ladies and the honesty of
the men of this city, we gave him
free lift toward the notoriety he covet-
ed, and now that he attempts to bring
into disrepute that which stands equal
ly high with womanly honor and manly
integrity, the fair fame of respectable
news journal, we renew orr assistance
with the same generous intent, merely
csutioning him to bear himself rather
more carefully lest after dreaming Of
notoriety, be wake up to infamy.
Year: 1870

Tho utility of nincompoopery bad O
fair illustration in the House yesterday
The destiny of that peculiar order of
creation seems to be to attract atten
tion for Stiffness and stupidity. Fulfill
ing the special purpose of his being,
FLICK, of Pendleton, 1--WE beg pardon,
WIMBLEBOTTOM HIRAM HAMAN FLICK
did little business in the extemDora-
neous donkey way which was carefully
prepared to attract notice, and which,
possibly, deserves it. As our !ibeIality
is of the most enlarged order, and as
the subject of these neditationsis deter
mined to win notoriety or perish in the
attempt, we are disposed to give him
the benefit of first class notice.


The wonderful WIMBLEBoTToM bid
for this notice by presenting for the
consideration of the House the resolu-
tion concerning the REGISTER, which
is printed in our legislative report. The
witty and windy WIMBLEBoTToM pro-
poses to have the REGISTER subscribed
for and read by every citizen of the
State, without distinction of sex or
color. That is to say, he wants allmen
and women, white and black, IN the
State, to have the printed evidence that
he is deemed worthy of the s!ashing of
o ,pp,har ana Damncratic nauananar
and this they can only have by perusiDg
its columns. AS the nearest approach
loafer makes to genteel society, consists
in his occasionally receiving the kicks
of gentleman, so FLICK would approx
mats to fame through the exceriations
of respectable journal. There's no
questioning the taste which deems a
kick OF a cuff, matter to be proud of.


But our worthy WIMBLEBoTToM not
only wants the REGISTER read by the
people mentioned, but he wants them to
pay for il. Therein he strikes tender
chord in the journalistic heart. Many
o time and oft has so much of that heart
as pertains to this establishment been
grieved by the reflection that out of the
multitudes who desired to read, there
were many who hesitated TO pay. 1t is
unpleasant to number the mighty WIN.
BLEBoTToM in this latter class, but there
are many unpleasant things in this world.
We hope he will not take it amiss if we
remind him that his own ponderous
and polysyllsbic title was on the list of
our readers last winter, and that
it was not visible among the
names of our paying subscribers; that
when his last legislative labors were
ended, his mileage drawn and his pay
pocketed, one Of the FIRST and highest
duties he neglected was the payment to
the REGISTER Office of one dollar, net
greenback, for which sum he had be-.
come indebted on account of subscrip-
tion to one of the most entertaining
newspapers of the day. We lest conf.
dence in FLICK when he thus levsnted
without liquidation. Our hope revivss
over his proposition to make others pay,
for possibly before he, completes the
task he may acquire the habit of
paying himself.


We trust onr friend Of the bound,
less stomach will accept this contri-
button to his reputation in the
! kindly spirit that : prompts 10.
Year: 1870

The House yesterday passed bill re-
pealing that contrivance to legalize
robbery, known as the Suitor's Test
Oath: The venerable but loquocious
member from Morgan stood alone in the
solemn grandeur of negative vote
upon the passage Of the bill. With this
welcome exception, the unanimity Of
the vote was undisturbed.
Year: 1870

A chap in Illinois proposes to tunnel
Lake Michigan. He estimates the cost
at something like one hundred millions.
FLICK-our FLICK-would bore through
it in about the same time it takes him
to bore the House of Delegates-say
twenty ninutes-for the fun Of it, and
Monlda't charge q cent.
Year: 1870

Raise me up gently-there-
OBJ give me breath of the pure cold air;


am dying at last


am going SO fast
But no one VIII care how soon am cold
They'll hurry Inc under the damp, dark


mould,


And "only pauper," they'll say as they pas
Another poor wretch Is buried-alasi
That all were not lying beneath the sod
Who set at naught the great laws of God"


Bring NE water, pray;
drank nothing else in my childhood day


How IL ran by our door


How IL kept on the shore
Oh! why did drink from the poisoned bowl
That has wrecked my life and ruined my
soul?


That has laid in the grave my lovely wife,
And hlled my life with bitterest strife?
Why arc you here? Can you say me pray
er?


Doyou think can find forgiveness up there?


What wretch have been.
None but God knoweth how great is my sin,


But the bowl I've forsook-


Have you 'mong you book
The book that tells OF the "prodigal son.
All the life that God gave me is almost gone,
The shadows are deepening. my eyes are dim,
/ may be forgivcn-God knows alone
shall trust and hope TO behold his throne.


am going-good-bye.
No one loves down here: hope that Oh high


My pure wife waits for Ine


BY the great crystal sea.
She loved Inc till death, SO true was her
heart:
Twill be sweet to meet her never to part,
My LIE has been bitter, I'm glad It's most o or.
Your iaces look sad; Oh! strive ye TO save,
Some youth from despair and a vile drunk
ards grave.
Year: 1870

\ few days ago the newspapers pub
lished a citation issued by the Masonic
Lodge of the Orient of Paris against
Reverend Brother William, King of
Prussia, as a traitor TO Freemasonry.
The King took no notice of the citation;
so he was tried as contumacious, and
condemned to communication. In
connection with this NJ. Victor Hugo's
newspaper, the Rappel, publishes the
following: Brother William is now
out of the pale of the law. All Freema-
sons arc authorized TO assault him and
to inflict upon him capital punishment
Ii remains TO be seen how the sentence
will be carried out. y Freemason, in
whose presence a doubt was expressed
as to the seriousness of such Il condem-
nation, replied. DO not laugh; the
sentence of the Masonic tribunal is of
such dreadful nature that Bonapartc
undertook the Italian war solely TO re-
tricve himself from the cXcommunica.
ton pronounced against him by the
lodges of Naples and Milan. PiaRpri
and Orsini were Freemasons.


As the Gay closes, we all become
weary, and the body ycarns for the re-
pose and rest which only the quiet
chamber can fully give. The whole
system is weak-feet, fingers, arms,
everything. There is not muscle in
the body which does not participate in
/ that tiredneSs. The stomach is II col
lection of muscles, and these are called
/ TO work at each meal; and to dispose
| of that meal is work of four OF five
hours. The more that is eaten, the
more work has TO be performed. Any
one can see, then, the striking absurdi-
ty-of giving an already weak stomach
four or five hours work TO do at the
close of the day, of giving rest TO the
body by sleep, and yet keeping the
stomach hard at work until near day
light. Its repose, then is the reposc ol
exhaustion, and il does not wake uI
for breakfast any more than the body
would if kept out of the bed long past
midnight. Not being walked up, il
does not call for food and there is II,
appetite mo seeking" as the wort
literally means,) for food.
Year: 1870

From the Pittsourg Commercial Of April D.


The community i0f some time past has been cX-
cited over rumors affecting the honor and reputa.
ton OF a well-knoWA and popular minister, pastor OF
q very large ana flourlShing congregation in Ale
gheny. The minister IL a widoWer, MS wife having
died some three years ago. In his congregation was
young lady, the daughter of n widow III humble
circumstances but highly respectable The lady
had received go0l education, had qualified herself
line taught IN one OF the watu schools OF Ale.
Nhcny.


THIS lady was great favorite with her pastor, and
IN due time he became stOr for her hand and was
accepted IL Is SAID that she mas in her possession
nnety-siX and love letters which he had writ
ten 10 her, and IA one OF them the promise to marry
s referred to- and June, 1870 fixed as the time The
intercourse continued mutually agreeable until re.
Gently, When the doctor became cold toward her.
and finally expressed his determination not to
marry her. Tie also goes that the doctor Is
In love with young lady in an Eastern State who
s an only child and heres5 10 large fortune.


There Is intense excitement in his congregation
over these rum0rs an1 some forty families IL Is said
either have severed their connection with the
church or contemplate dong 80 unless salts factory
explanation Is made. The church session has taken
informal notice or the matter, and VIII probably
bring the case before The Pres0yteIy The young lacy


first alluded TO has given all the Doctors letters into
the hands OF the session. She states that she has no
desire TO prosecute him, but only wishes have his
duplicity exposed.


Sne has applied for situation as teacher In q
school IN Chicago, where she has brother residing
engaged IN the practice OF medicine. it Is not
known whether the Eastern lady ts aware Of the
situation OF affairs here, but the matter has assumed
such serious aspect that full explanation Will ere
long be demanded by the church judlcato,y.
Year: 1870

SIMPLICITY Is BEAUrY.-The late
Fitz Greene Halleck said " A letter fell
into my hands which Scotch servant
girl had written to her lover. Its style
charmed me. 1t was fairly inimitable.
wondered how. in her circumstances in
life, she could have acquired so elegant a
style. I showed the letter to some of my
literary friends in the city of New York
and they unanimously agreed that it was
model of beauty aud elegancy, ] then de-
termined to solve the mystery, and went
to the house where she was-cmployed, and
asked how it was that, in her humble cir
cumstances in life, she had acquired a
style so beautiful that the most cultivated
minds could not but admire it. Sir said
shc,' II came to this country four years
ago. Then l could not read or write
But since then have learned to read and
write, but l have not learned to spell; so
always when l sit down to write a letter,
l select those words which are so short
and simple that I am sure to know how
to spell them There was the whole se-
cret. The reply of that simple,minded
Scotch girl condensed a world Of rhetoric
into a nutshell. Simplicity is beauty.
Simplicity is power.
Year: 1870

The members of party should patron
izc and sustain their party paper. This
ought to be IN accepted and practiccd
dogma Of political faith in all parties, and
it is received and acted upon to its fullest
extent in all parties in this country every
where, except the Democratic party on
this coast. Here a great many Of this
party though they acknowledge the cor
rectncss of the theory, rarely evidence
the strength Of their faith by their works.
That faith without works is of no avail"
is truth which is no less vital in politics
than in religion. Political success can no
more be gained by faith alone than etcr.
nal salvation by inactive belief Nothing
is more essential to the achievement Of
victory in our campaigns than we'll
conducted newspapers which, preaching
boldly the doctrines upon which our true
interest depend, enlightcning those who
are in the dark as to the evil designs of
our opponents, stir up the indolent, en-.
courage the Responding and invigorate the
weak brethren of our organizations and
it il not only during the campaigns that
such newspapers are necessary but at all
times, that they may keep alive the fires of
patriotism and party fealty (Which arc,
and ought to be, with Democrats, synony-
nous terms,) so that when the time of
election comes to hand, the task of arous-
ing our party men to action shall be re.
dered less difficult than in the intervals
between the elections and their energies
should have become lethargic.


Strange as it may seem, Democrats
alone, of all partisans, need such reminders
as thesc.- Republicans always maintain.
their newspapers, and never imagine that
in so doing that they are making any stu
pcndous sacrifice but men claiming to
be Democrats, some of them, too, holding
lucrative positions, the gift Of their party,
to which they have been assisted by the
support Of party papers, not only fail to
recognize their practical duty, but, under
frivolous pretexts, aid by subscription and
advertisements the opposite organs, which
if their voices had been needed, would
havo left these men, who form large
element of their supporters, without posi-
tion, Office or influence.
Year: 1870

sG- A gentleman writing from South
Carolina gives some account Of the dc.
plorablc condition Of things in that State.
He says:


"What is to become of this poor State
nobody can do more than conjecture. You
have perhaps not known that, at the end
of the war, the old bank bills brought
some ten cents on a dollar. mean the
bank of the State. l had good many OF
many of them, and was glad to get that
Governor Scott aud his friends bought up
all these bills, then got the negro Leglsla-
ture to redeem them by State bonds at par,
and soon after to enact that the bonds,
principal and interest, shall be paid in gold.
And so it is in everything. Five or ten
dollars will buy, hear, any vote in the
Legislature for anything.
Year: 1870

A New EXPEDITION ro THE POLE.
Captain G. +. Hall proposes another ex-
pedition to the North Pole. He writes to
the New York Herald as follows concern
ing his plan: ---


"My plan is to have two small vessels
of about $50 tons each-one a steamer,
the same to be sailing rugged, and the
other sailing vessel, and manned by
twelve men. My purpose is on getting
into the Arctic regions to lose no oppor-
tunity of acquiring the fresh provision of
the country, which course will insure my
command against all possible danger from
that curse to Arctic expeditions, tho
scurvy. As a general thing my staple
diet, and of my company, will be as for
merly, raw meat and train oil. l conf
IDENTIFY believe l will be able to reach the
North Pole aud return in three years ;
but should l find that it would require
one or two additional years to complete
the object Of the voyage and travel, l will
continue that time::"
Year: 1870

IN THE LIoN's DEN.-There is horrid mi
nuteness Of detail about that dreadful menage-
rie accident in Middletown, Mo-, that is now
going the rounds of the papers, yet We must saw
we have doubt of the truth OF the story. 1t
seems the band of the "Circus and Animal
Show" ten IL number, were mou1ted on top OF
the wagon which contained the performing
lions. The managers had been warned by the
lion tanner that the cage was without doubt
insecure, and that the band was in danger,
but they persisted in compelling the band
TO ride there. Well. one dav. i'm the village of
Middletown, the horses of the cage wagon ran
away, the wheel struck Stone, the roof broke
in, and the band fell in among the lions.
Then these brutes avenged themselves for the
dreadful din to which they had been treated so
long, and which, under the pseudonym Of MI
sic had been going on over their heads. The
sound of horror that arose was fearful, and
when the side doors of the cage were torn OF
the sight was most horrible. Every moment -
says the local paper, " some of the band would
leap over the sides OF the cage to the groIn 1
with a wild spring and faint away upon striking
the earth, so great was their terror" Three OF
them were killed and four terribly lacerated.
One of the keepers went into the den and passed
the wounded out. He, too, was set upon by the
lions, one of which he killed in self-defence.
The story is tough one.
Year: 1870

In the New York money market the supply
seeking employ ment in call loans is in excess OF
the demand, and the ruling rate is four per
cent. with exceptional loans at three and i've


The moyementofcarrency to the West for grain
and wool purposes continues. Commercial pa
per E in good request and only moderate sup
ply. Prime short date acceptances sell at 5x
to 9, and long date TO per cent. single
names range from six per cent. UPWARDS, accor-
Year: 1870

Ieteorophed Exclusively to the Evening Star.


Boston, June 2l.-The Coroner's iury in the
case OF the boy Eastman found in their verdict
that Edward Corners threw the deceased into
he water, but that the act was done without
malice.
Year: 1870

MIDsHIPMAN APPoINTED.-Fresident Grant
yesterday appointed the son Of General j. Hunt
to the position of Midshipman i'm the United
States Navy. Gen. Henry j. Hunt was chief OF
artillery Of the Army Of the Potomac during the
rebellion.
Year: 1870

Not CANDIDATE FOR CoNGREss.-Hinton
r. Helper is not . candidate for Congress in
North Carolina. The notice should have been
in regard to his brother, Hardie Hogan Helper,
who Is q Reform Republican candidate in the
Sixth Congressional District of that State.
Year: 1870

Col. JOHN W. ARMIrAGE, formerly Of the
Quartermaster Generals Office in this city. and
recently railway postal agent on the New York
and Washington route, has been appointed an
inspector Of customs for the port Of New York
by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Year: 1870

EE The City Marshal has commenced


Ito gather up all dogs that have not been
registered and paid tax. All interested
parties that do not wish their dogs killed
should see that they are registered and
tagged without delay.