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Year: 1870

Mich cows especially should be
we'll watched at this season of the
year. Nothing must be taken for
granted, either as to the feed or the
condition of the coWs-the farmer
must know about both. IF the
natural pastures fail, il will pay we'll
to supply green-cured corn blades,
good clover, roWen and wheat bran /;
in addition to which pumpkins and
roots, especially sugar beets and car
rots, should be fed, and in such iber-
al quantities thai the flow of milk
shall not diminish. Every good
farmer knows land if he don't, his
wife or daughters do.) that milk at
this season is very rich; that it makeg,
If rightly handled, the best quality OF
butter, and that fall-made butter
brings the highest price Of any made
during the whole season, and meets
with constant never varying demand;
hence, we say again, that caTelessness
or neglect In feeding mich COWS now
will result in great loss.


NEW METHOD OF GRATING.


The London Gardeners Chronicle
says: "A French gardener had adopt
ed new method of grating and bud
ding pear trees. The wild stalks, he
says, succeed best when budded, as
their branches then continue to grow
as if no operation had been performed;
while in the case Of grating, the
stalk being cut down to the ground,
wastes vitality, which the graft is not
able to supply for a long time, so that
during the first year, the progress is
very slow. In order to remedy thiss he
leaves two shoots on each side of the
stalk, which he splits half way down,
and then shaving away the sides of
the lower end of the scion. he inserts
the latter In the cleft and binds up in
the usual way.


IF the operation is performed In
the opening spring you pinch of the
shoots in order to prevent the stem
from growing too fast, and cut back
at the end of the year ); if the grating
is performed in the Autumn, the
cutting is executed at the end of the
winter. The graft having then taken
we'll it has force enough TO excite the
action of the spongioles, so that much
trouble and loss OF time are saved.


He has like plan for budding.
It is we'll known that this operation
cannot be adopted after the rise of the
sap has ceased he therefors cuts his
bud with small portion of the wood
attached TO it, so that the lower part
IF the eye is, Of course, not only unin-
jured, but supported by the ligneous
matter; the budding piece is then in
serted either in slis in the top of the
stalk, or into an opening made in the
middle of the stalk with q knife, and
into which the bud, or rather the
small piece of wood attached to it,
is inserted. The operation may be
regarded, in fact, as grating with a
single eye. The grand advantage is,
that the operation succeeds as we'll in
October or November, as in August
or September.
Year: 1870

AGGRAEATING.-The Sigh wind
which prevailed all day yesterday
made sad work with our usual tele-
graph report. The operalor informs
us that no less than three trees were
blown down across the line, and he
found it impossible to repair damages
in time for the night report. To make
the thing still more annoying, the
Presidents Message was tele-
graphed west yesterday and ought
to have appeared ii our paper
this morning. as it would have
done, had not the wind storm
prevented. We are Rratifed that we
are not compelled 10 chronicle any
accidents as oocasioned by the wind.
The train was behind time, but net
with no mishap other than simple de-
low
Year: 1870

A triumphant, not only unarrested, but in
creasing Disease, Especially IL it chance to be


mOrtaD is great satire upon Human Wisdom.


1t proves carelessness, Ignorance, incapacity.


Literally, there should be no disease at all
except the mid one of old age. The natural
life Of man should be about century long
his own folly has reduced it TO an average
which we IRE ashamed to mention. TheO.
lOsians have made tremendous use of the
shortness of life-but, with all respect for their
Reverences, that is no great consolation, for
it is certainly pleasanter to live than to die,
unless we have arrived at period when the
grssshopper is burden; and most men would
be willing to bear the pOnderOus grasshOpper
even then. Yet this precious boon of life, 30
dear to their hearts, men and women are not
content to make even the smallest sacrifice to
secure They go on with their dreading and
their dying, their apprehension and their alb
surdity; and commit slow suicide while pray
ing Justify for life. 1t is all very funny and
highly funereal at the same time.


These profound and important reflections
are engendered by reading the wall of Inc
Philadelphia Press at the audacious proceed
ings of Consumption In that city. Under the
impressive Latin (or rather Creek name Of
PHTHIsTs, he or she, for Phthisis is gram
matically woman, commits from 30 to 40
murders week in that city--s proportion Of
sixteen per cent 10 the whole amount OF Bills
of Mortality. She keeps doing it. She cannot
DO arrested and put into the calaboose. Her
long. harpy fingers continue 10 tear the lungs
of her victlms TO pick. little bits until right
lobe and left lobe are both gone--and then
come tao funeral baked meats. the under.
Year: 1870

There is a wide spread delusion, we believe
to the effect that newspaper, by virtue or
being newspaper is bound to take notice OF
everything that is done by everybody. People
in the business are especially strong in
this faith. Every three-penny exhibitor that
comes along seems to imagine that the eyes
of the world are upon him, and that the press,
in particular, will be false to its duty and use
less to mankind, unless he and his affairs are
answered And-the smaller the Snowman the
greater his pretensions.


Silence-often the kind e1pedient of the
benevolent journalist-will never do, for
creature of this sort. IT, by any chancellor
example-he can get half-a-dOzen wretched
people into back room together, and there
bore them with Poe's "Raven" or Cole
ridges "Ancient Mariner be assured he
will deem that woful occasion far too
momentous to be allowed to pass unglOrifed in
print. He is not content with having personal
ly afflicted his fellow-creatures. He must have it
recorded, and he must get himself praised for
it, We have sometimes passed over infictions
of this sort, for the reason that we think them
trivial, except, perhaps, as cases for the phil
anthropic intervention of a Bergh. We have
seldom passed over one Of them without SUBJ
sequently receiving, from some quarter, let
ter of onstrance-demanding to know for
what reason we have dared to fail IN search
ing, minute, and enthusiastic puff of the great
reading of Jenkins, the great acting of Mrs.
Snooks, the great picture OF the gifted young
Dawdle Daub, or the great something or other
of some great somebody.


Perhaps it may be worth while to state the
reason. Possibly We shall thereby gain few
hours of respite from the persecution of lot of
the stupidest bores that ever cOncet let loose to
harry the editorial calling. The reason, then,
is--tliat there are very many manifest ounces
before the public, demanding attention in
many ways, and occasionally getting it, whose
doings are, literally, of no more consequence,
as topics of newspaper comment, than the bad
dreams that were forgotten by the ancient
Romans. We habitually give prominence to
every topic that seems to deserve it. We do
not chronicle small beer"-when we can help
Year: 1870

French journal states that at the battle of Sedan
five hundred surgeons and hospital nurses took part
In the fight and left than two hundred Of their
number dead on the field Of honor. It perhaps is
partly owing to this liability in French and German
doctors and nurses to forget their errand on the bat
te-ield, that the Anslo-American ambulanoes. both
in the French and Prussian armies, have attained
their present position the first in effectiveness and
usefulness DR.. Marion Sims of few-York is In
command Of the corps Of surgeons and nurses There
are fifty Of the latter with him. half English and half
American women of culture and skill. and a like
number In the Prussian lines. And one of the few
cheerful glimpses of human progress in this dark
aud bloody drama has been the cordial unanimity
and zeal with which these missionaries from the two
neutral nations have rskod their lives in aid of the
sick and suffering. and the hearty approval and sup
port which tho American branch has received N En-
sllud
Year: 1870

We learn that the Republican State Com
mittee is called to meet In our City
to-day to consider the present state OF our
local organization and suggest, If deemed
expedient, measures designed to replace dis
cord by harmony. Assuming that such meet
ing is to take place, we proffer few
suggestions which the Committee we are sure,
can deem neither impertinent nor untimely.


Our City discords have long been source
of weakness and scandal. Successive State
Conventions have been bored and disglsted
by them. Twice already, if wo mistake not,
reorganizations have been prompted and eff
fected yet here we are, as chaotic and BEL
hgerent as ever. Reorganization, therefore, 1t
is plain, has twice failed as a cure for our
distempers; and the same men, in the main,
who have twice invoked it's aid, now summon
| it third time. What is the ground of hope
that it will be effectual nowf


Since the State Committee is coming among
us, we urge it to listen to all sides and con-
slider well before passing Judgment If it can
help us, by kind and wise suggestion, to achieve
that harmony we so greatly need, we shall
heartily acknowledge the service. But it is
essential to such success that its members visit
| US, nOU DIS Htdleu pditloahS, UuV ~ uop"ooA"A-
ate counselOrs.


There is room for just one Republican party,
under one compact organization, in the State
of New-York. A dozen warning Republican
factions may wrangle and strive here, but
they will all have no weight in tho National
scale; while one united, coherent Republican
party can carry the State in 1872 and choose q
large majority of her Representatives in the
XLIIId Congress. Right heartily shall we re-
joice if the State Committee shall prove able
to secure this cOnsummation; but it must be-
ware of distracting and disorganizing us still
further. Those who bolt from one Organiza-
ton because they cannot control it are likely
to bolt again and again for like reason
Hear before advising, even, and ponder well
before assuming the functions of judge
"Let us have peace"
Year: 1870

Precisely what the President purposed on
the subject of Amnesty, may be seen IN
brief Washington letter given elsewhere. his
views scarcely go to the extent we should de-
sire, but they are immeasurabiy more liberal
than the views which of late years we have
been accustomed to find defended from the
White House.; and the progress thus seen
is in direction In which progress IN the
future is certain to be more rapid. Nothing
can be more fatal mistake than the behei,
still cherished in some quarters, that occasional
excesses at the South can cause reaction at
the North against the wholesome purpose OF
doing away utterly and finally with the policy
of revenge as national system fox the treat
ment of our Southern disease.
Year: 1870

Mayor Hall having postponed the depart
mental reports, we must continue in ignorance
of many matters which naturally interest the
taxpayers. The widening of Laurens-st. be-
ing one of the great jobs Of the year, some
curiosity has been expressed to know how
much the City is to pay for it; but as Mr.
Tweed is not required to make report, as
Commissioner of Public Works, it is not likely
to be gratifed. We know, indeed, that the
award for damages was 81 ,797,O24 5S, and that
it is pretended this vast amount was given
for property not worth it by third, so that
the Ring has already had very respectable
pickings out of the affair. But there is yet to
be added the cost of grading. paving. setting
curb-stOnes, laying sidewalks, making new
gas and sewer connections 80 that it is evi-
dent the figures given, vast as they are, only
foreshadow the magnificent total which must
be reached before the Ring will DO satisfied.
If Mr. Tweed lets US of with two millions
and half Of money for an addition of twenty
five feet to street extending from Canal-st.
to Washington square, We shall be lucky.
Upon the whole, it is not surprising that the
Mayor has postponed reports which would
show such facts as these.
Year: 1870

"THE N. Y TRIBUNE again advises the Revenue Re-
formers pack up and leave the Republican party We
demand the authority Of THB TRIBUNE for eIpelliDg
those who do not accept Its tariff notions from the Re
publican party Let 1t show Its papersp


We have repeatedly asked the journals
which sec fit to misrepresent US to quote
fairly from our columns tho passages on
which they base their charges. In the absence
of such citation, uncivil people may be tempted
to say that our Detroit namesake lies.
Year: 1870

The muster out of the supernumerary army
officers is not TO be postponed, as was feared,
beyond Jan. l., the time fixed by the bill of
last session. The public viii not object TO
this; and the officers themselves, in view of
the fact that they receive years pay to
begin civil life upon, have no right to feel
aDurievpd
Year: 1870

of these strange beings-if indeed
there are two-will be sick while
the other seems to be at the same
instant enjoying perfect health one
may weep and the other appear to
be at the same time perfectly uncon-
scious OF distress.


There are no terms in our Ian
guage applicable to such a phenom-
enon it is something for which the
dictionary makers have made no
provision whatever and which ut
terly confounds all grammatical
rules as to gender, number and per-
son. Let any one undertake to
write about it, being precise as to
the meaning and application OF
terms, and he will at once recognize
the poverty of language.


AS might be expected, the house
of Mr.. Finley has during the past
ten days been overrun with visitors
come to witness this wonderful Gu
riosity. So great is the press that
it has been found necessary to
charge an admission fee which is
now fixed at one dollar We under.
stand the parents have been offered
ten thousand dollars for the dual
infant, the offer being unconditional
as to whether it should live or not
The offer has not been and probably
will not be accepted.-[Delawar
Herald, 21st inst.
Year: 1870

The following ideas and hints rela.


tive to supporting a local paper, we


clip from an exchange. The author,


be he who he may, has had expert.


ence in the publishing business. We
commend his thoughts to the care
ful reading of the public: The first
step is to subscribe and pay advance
for yourself This you can easily
do. The next step is to encourage
and pers uade your neighbors and
friends to do likewise. This will
help to support you local paper.
Whenever you have anything to sell,
if you are in trade, or following any
mechanical pursuit depending on
public patronage-advertise your
business in the local paper. These
local advertisements are much more
interesting reading matter than peo
pie think. They give business as
pect to the paper, and render vital
aid in its support. Get your letter
heads, notes, receipts. etc. printed.
1t is nice and orderly course of
business, and helps to supbcrt the
local paper. When you subscribe
or advertise. or get job work done
don't try to jew the printer. The
local papers in this part ofthe coun-
try have too much "bard scratching,
to be Jewed down in their prices 1t
is wicked to ask it. The patrons of
the local press would not ask the
publisher to "come down" in prices,
if they knew "tight times" the prin-
ter sees-even when he has to hold
up his head and 60 ahead as if moth
ing was the matter with his financial
basis. This much on the subject of
supporting the local press. The
next thing is to make the local paper
interesting. If you learn any ex


tracrdinary occourrence-send word
to the printer.-When you get into
the spirit of writing--If you can
write short, spicy, pungent, or poin-
ted articles, do it-and send them
70 the printer.-They help make up
the paper. If the printer should
happen to differ with you sometimes,
and throw out your articles, don't
get mad and "stop the paper" Try
again-"Seven and seventy times"
before you get mad. To pick up
a local paper, and lay it by the side
of some city weekly, made up of
the offal of daily issue, and sneer
at the comparative size of the two,
does not help sustain your local pa
per-The large city papers ars full
of stuff you do not care for. Your
local paper is of more value to you
than those city papers. Reader. will
you please think of these sugges-
tion and sec if yon can't do some
thing more than you are now doing
to sustain the local press.
Year: 1870

appeal to every friend Of the SOL
diers' orphans, to talk about it, and
aid it in the most efficient manner
possible. to every editor to give it a
prominent notice and keep it before
the people until action is secured, to
every minister to explain and urge
it from the pulpit, to every superin-
tendent to explain it and secure the
hest possible response from his
school. Remit the money as direct
ed in the circulars. Address letters
asking for information to


WIN. ALLISON,


Cor. Secretary, Xenia, D.
Executive Committee of Green


County Sabbath School Associa-


ton.


The above appeal will receive the
sympathy and generous response
from the christian people of our
State, but to make it complete sue
cess, every friend of the soldiers
orphan must take an active part in
spreading the information and pre-
pairing for the collection, every re-
liglous meeting, and every public
speaker should endorse it and urge
it. Ohio is proud of the record
made by her soldiers. Their or
phans have been neglected too long.
The Legislature ought to have made
ample provision to provide homes,
to support and educate their orphans,
but they did not; let good people
promptly supply the omission. 1t
is grand idea to think of the Sab
bath school contributing thirty
thousand dollars to provide a home
for them.


A dime may do for the children,
but the young men, teachers and Of
ficers should not be satisfied with
giving a dime; let their contribu-
tions be dollars, and let persons not
connected with the Sabbath schools
contribute liberal free will offering.
Every man, woman or child in the
State of Ohio, should make a con-
tribution to this great and good
cause.
Year: 1870

in the glaciers, dancing in the hail
shower; folding its curtains softly
around the windy world, and weav-
ing the many colored iris-whoss
warp is in the rain drops of the
earth--whose woof is in the sun
beams of Heaven; all checked over
with celestial flowers by the mystic
hand of reflection, still always beau
tiful--that blessed life water No
poison bubbles on the brink; its
foam brings no sadness or murder
Year: 1870

A suit is now being held in the
Supreme Court of the District Of
Columbia, relative to the division Of
the reward offered by the City of
Washington for the capture Of the
assassins of Lincoln.
Year: 1870

A change in the rates of Duties on Imports
Is an evil per Sc. 1t involves new disputes as
to the meaning of this or that clause, new ap-
peals to the Secretary of the Treasury, new


evasions, new lawsuits. Our judgment ad-


heres to the position of the President and his


Secretary of the Treasury, that it is our true


policy to let the Tariff alone until we shall


have funded our Debt at a lower rate of in
terest. and thon adapt our rates
to the demands at once Of the
National Industry and the National RESPONSE


bilit;es. 1t is well to reduce the duties on Tea,


Coffee, Cocoa, &c, if the Revenue will still


suffice; it is not we'll to do it if we thereby
render it impossible to continue the monthly
reduction of our National Debt. And we should
prefer not to reduce at all till VIC can reduce
considerably There is force in the objection
that reduction Of one cent per pound on
Coffee and Sugar will mainly inure to the


benefit of importers and heavy dealers-that


very little of it will be passed over to the con-
sumer. Hence, we are in no hurry to enter
upon a revision of the Tariff


The bill reported yesterday by Gen. Schenck
from the House Committee of Ways and Means
looks to readjustment and moderate reduc-
ton of duties without sacrifice of Protection.
1t leaves the duties ON Salt, Wool. Bituminous
Coal, Railroad Iron, Hides, and many other
important articles. unchanged. 1t reduces that
ON Pig Iron from 50 to 81 per tun, but in
creases those on many descriptions of Steel
and refined or manufactured Iron. On WOolen
and Cotton fabrics. we believe there is gen
eral reduction, though not large one. On
Lumber, there Is considerable reduction ;
also on Coenac Brandy, Drugs, and We
think on most Wines. Many duties which have
been Ad yalofein arc made Specific; and that
10 a decided improvement The higher duties
ON Steel RailsSare trequired 10 sustain our still
immatrre manufacture, and will do good If
adopted SO viii those on most descriptions of
Rolled, Hammered and Refined Iron. But who
can sell in what shape the bill will emerge
from Committee OF the WhOle7 Very likely,
its own father would no longer know it.


II tire bill could be passed exactIy-a as It has
been rcpoifcd.) xel judge thh 0ts general
effect would be salutary. But considering
tho chances that it may be made verse.
Year: 1870

1t appears that the overpowering African
has not ceased from troubling that poor Mr.
Salisbury, who lives in daily fear that the
world will discover his inferiority to the ordi-
nary negro This terrible catastrophe seems so
imminent that he has invoked the strong arm
Of the Government in his behalf, and yester-
day presented to the Senate memorial pray
ing for such legislation as will secure the Gov
ernment of the United States to the White
race. We beg that Congress will not abandon
Mr.. Salisbury in his sore distress. Let it be
Immediately enacted rs general truth that
the White man is superior to the negro. Some
thing must evidently be done, and quickly, or
the rod of empire will pass away from
Salisbury and his race forever. Let Congress
at least support Salisbury, while he explains
how the endangered White race is TO be saved
from being extingushed by the moral and in
tellectual prowess of its late chattels.
Year: 1870

SO much has been said in dispraise of the
Constitutional Convention of Tennessee, and in
doleful anticipation of its dislOyal and anti
negro acts, that wo deem the fact worthy OF
emphasis that it has refused, by the strong
majority of SO to 90, even to submit the ques-
tion of Negro Suffrage to popular vote. That
Convention is largely composed of ex-Rebels; ;
yet it seems to embody but twenty natural
fools-which is small proportion. The vital
truth is that the great body tof the Southern
people Of all classes and colors are intent on
peace, order and prosperity. There is rem
nant in whom tho old venom is still potent and
active; but they are powerless minority !;
and should be kept so by wise and generous
statesmanship-as we trust they will be.
Year: 1870

We translate the following from the Stats
Zeitung. the leading German Democratic organ
of this city:


"The removal OF restrictions from heaters on Sundays
In California may be regarded nearly an accom-
pished fact bill to this effect having passed the Senate
OF that State apd the political character OF the Lower
House assuring Its there We take the details OK
tho bill from the Illinois StdasZeipg This journal for
gets TO mention that California has to thank Demo
cratic Legislature for the glory OF carrying out one OF the
most important practical consequences OF the generally
accepted theory OF the separation OF Church and State
Nearly every where in the United States unconstitutional
infrn gements OF religious liberty and especially all at
tempts tho part OF the state TO prescribe the observ
ance OF Christian customs. to be traced to
Republican Legislatures. Democrats alone have moved
the opposite direction and have guarded the principle
that every one may be saved in his own way.


"The Legislature OF our own State is now on the point
OF doing the thing, after these muekers peists
have for years malreaed the State Every other State
which wants to be emancipated in the same way must
follow tho example OF California and New-York, and
elect Democratic Legislature"