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Year: 1875

He was a young man with a sentiment
al air. His hair was drawn back over
his ears; his eyes had far off look; one
could see poetry in all his motions, es-
pecially i'll the way he stubbed his toes
against the stove as he balanced out.
In searching him the night before the
police had taken away his last poem. It
was poem entitled GA Wall" One
verse will introduce the young mans
merits


when look around me aud see other boys happy


e makes me feel quite sad
To be lonely boy since mother Is dead
Hark hear voice saying, my child rejoice, be OF


good cheer,


Tho ont OF sight yet in my souls memory you are
Ny happy days Of childhood wish could again


recall;


Some happy days since then l spent, but them sur
Mother is dead and gone, hope her soul is with the


angels bright


eternal life.


Ferdinand Thompson, did you write
this trash ?" asked his Honor after pour
ing over the poem for five minutes.


"Yes, sir-that poetry"


"And your mother is dead 2"


Yes, sir.


We'll, don't blame her for dying
1 wonder that her ghost doesn't so
around groaning with the bilious collie" "


"I think l am good judge OF poe
try," stifiy replied the young man.


"You are, ell Well, now you hear
me. 1t was your first drunk, and you
may go, but if 1 ever catch you here
again with any more poems in your
pocket III legally and Theoretically make
your heels mash your shoulder-blades !
Those verses are trash, sir-regular
skim-milk nonsense, and it's my business
to warn you that it will be forty times
better for you to hunt for an ax and
woodpile than to go any further with the
poets trade. Free Press.
Year: 1875

We remember a tradition of the
Mac-a-Cheek valley that would be well
to commence with. After the fight,
and destruction of the Indian towns In
that locality, one of the volunteers,
wandering 10 the woods, saw the head of
an Indian peeriug a. him from behind
rock, and without a whereas OF any
length and resolution quite as brief,
brought his gun to his shoulder and
fred a shot that tumbled over the in
quisitive aboriginal To the hunters
horror he found the victim of the fe-
male sex, with a papoose strapped to
her back. He removed the babe, and
he and his companion buried the
mother. He carried the infant over a
hundred miles to his log cabin, on the
banks of the Ohio, and adopted the
boy. He grew to manhood, shy, wild
fellow, witd no taste for civilized pur-
suits, and a love for the woods.


The situation was not pleasant, for
the youthful Lo was expected to work
for his living, and the labor was of the
hardest. To make matters worse, he
had the misfortune to fall IN love with
his patrOn's daughter, a beautiful girl
with no end of suitors, and as an In
dian in those days was regarded as a
little better than negro now, his love-
making did not prosper. His love was
soon pIighted to another, and as the
wedding day drew near the young In
dian disappeared. The marriage came
off with its usual melry-making, that
consisted of rife shooting, races, and
wrestling during the day, and dancing
and drinking at night.


The married couple had retired to
the bridal chamber, that made one end
of the double log cabin, and the merry
making continued all night. The next
morning the two so lately united for
life were called to breakfast. They did
not respond, for the very good reason
that both were dead, being found mur-
dered OF their bridal couch.


Ali knew who the avenger was but
to leave no donbt upon that head
wampum belt, worked by the poor girl
years before, was found upon the floor
at her feet. But he was never heard Cf
after. He seemed to vanish into night
aud memory. The poor father, recog-
pizing the band of retFibution, took to
drink, and was returned to congress.
He is remembered as a member of the
committee of ways and means, and
accumulated quite property out of
subsidies and indian contracts. He is
spoken of to this day by an aged, red
nosed, life-insurauce agent as that
bloody old Brown who was Jackson
man with a bad breath and worse
temper. - Washington Capital
Year: 1875

Three fishers went sa ling out into the west,
Out into the west as the sun went down;
Each thought the woman who loved him best,
And the children stood watching them out of the


town:
For men must work and women mustEeep,
And there's little to earn, and many to keep,
Though the harbor bar be moaning.
Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower,
And they trimmed the lamps as tie sun went


down;
They looked at the squall, and they looked at the
shower,


brown!
But men must work and women must weep,
Though storms be Sudden and waters deep,
I And the harbor bar be moaning.
Three corpses lay out on tie shining sanG-s
In the morning CLEAN as the sun went down,
And the women are weeping and wringlng their


hands


For those who will never come back to the town; /;
For men must work and women must weep,
Ard the sooner it's over the sooner we sleep
And goodbye to the bar and its moaning.
Year: 1875

through pail of clean water and rub


each leaf with the thumb and finger
| give it good shake and when dry re.
tnrn it to it's place in the'window. The
leaves of plant are its lungs, each
leaf being furnished with hundreds OF
minute pores, whence the plants breathe
in carbon and exhale oxygen. The
perspiration of plants is said to be
seventeen times that OF the human
body. Many plants never bloom on
account of the accumulation of dust
upon their leaves. A plant too large to
be laid down in a tub as above de-
scribed may be syringed, and each leaf
rubbed clean with the finger andthumb.
which are better for this purpose than
brush or cloth.


FULoGY OF THE TOAD.


The editor of The American London
writes thus of creature not famed
for it's beauty The toad-although
universally despised and upbraided for
his ugliness--is yet a useful, good
natured, quiet fellow, who recognizes
his friends and those who are kind to
him. We have some half dozen Of
them in our small garden, and among
them one old patriarch who, when we
are digging or hoeing, will sit winking
and blinking at us with his pretty eyes,
and often compel us to lift or drive him
aside to get him out of harms way.
He will stay by us for hours. evidently
feeling tina. he need fear no hurt. Like
the sparrow, the toad has been consid-
cred a nuisance, and in some sections
exterminated but the exterminators
have been only too glad, afterward, to
get him back by the expenditure of
large sums of money. SO useful are
toads in gardens that they are sold in
France by the dozen, for the purpose
of stocking gardens to free them from
many injurious insects. The toad lives
almost entirely on winged insects, and
never does harm to the plant.
Year: 1875

blow he severed his head from his body.
The others rose and grasped their dag
gers. CASTOR struck at the nearest and
his weapon was dashed from his hand,
while the owner was dashed to the
ground. Margo. the fourth, fell upon
his knees. With a strong hand CASTOR
bound him, and taking his rescued love
in his arms, he bore her forth along the
hall, to the great hall of the castle.
The noise had reused the marquis, and
the inmates of BoltonO soon knew all
that had happened.


A week after, the nuptials of CASTOR
and Alvira were celebrated, and the
body of Margo hung in chains from the
summit Of the "Goblin Tower"
Year: 1875

A motherly woman writing in the
Christian Monitor, declares that she
fully agrees with any thoughtful woman
who spares her boys the humiliation of
wearing great round or triangular
patches, when her own skill and gen
erous supply of pieces make the re-
seated pants look almost as well as new
ones. May they hold her in grateful
remembrance, long after they shall
have outlived the era of torn trousers.
She suggests that when pants need re-
pairing over the knee, it is good way
to rip the seems each side of the worn
part, cut it ont and insert a new piece,
pressing it nicely before closing the
side seam again. Neither boy nor man
need be ashamed to wear garments
neatly patched if it be necessary, and
every girl should be taught that mend.
ing we'll is an essential part of domes-
tic economy.


WASHING HOUSE PLANTS.


The following is from that excellent
English journal, Land and Water :;
Have large pail or tnb filed with
warm soap-suds; then spreading the
finger and the palm of the left hand
over the soil in the pot, turn the
branches iopsy-turvy into the warm
soap-suds, swing the plant briskly in
the water till every leaf has become
completely saturated, then put it
Year: 1875

HALE, OF NEW YORK, CoRRECTS AN ERROR


HE SAYS THAT BROWN DID NOT PREvARI-


CATE.


WASHINGTON, d. c., March 3.-Nr- Hale,
ofNew York, who has not been able 10 at
tend the sittings Of the House for the past
four weeks on account of illness, wrote to-
day TO Mr.. Crittenden, of Missouri, ex-
pressing his regrets that his illness
had prevented him from taking any part
in correcting the injustice which he is
now fully convinced was done to Mr.
Brown, OF Kentucky, in the resolution of
censure moved by himself and adopted by
the House in the earlier part of the session.
He repeats his conviction that 80 far as that
resolution imputed to Brown any intention
OF prevarication and double dealing in his
response to the speaker, himself and a ma
jority of the House had been mislsd and had
done injustice to Brown. He adds: "a
careful examination of the Record
since, qualifying it by my own
distinct recollection, satisfies me that
L did a great wrong TO Mr.. Brown
in iInputing this intent to him and that
there was nothing in his response to the
speaker inconsistent with entire good faith
or with the integrity of an upright and hon.
orable man. 1 shall never hesitate TO ex-
press freely the conviction that have above
expressed to you, and if anything contained
in this letter, your judgment, will he Of
any service TO Mr.. Brown, beg you 10 con-
slider the letter entirely at your service for
any use whatever that you or the other
friends of Mr.. Brown may think proper TO
make of it,v
Year: 1875

ONE OF THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRD STILL


ALIvE-ALL ABOUT HIM IN BOSTON.


The Boston correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune gives the following interest
ing bit of gossip: Scarcely the next
thing in order, but one OF curious
interest, is the hero of Balaklava,
one of the immortal Six Hundred who was
in the fatal charge of the Light Brigade, of
which Tennyson sings in such strains as to
keep it forever in our memories. This hero
who has lived to tell the tale was a mere
lad, private in the regiment, and, resident
now for some time in this country yields to
the desire of those who had heard him in
private conversation, TO give public lee
ture, or, properly speaking, an account of
his experience. A simple, uncultivated fell
low, though by no means rude in language
or manner, his description of the battle field,
and the illustrations by diagram upon the
blackboard, were both spirited and impress
slve. 1t didn't need much oratory to tell
that story when the speaker had bad such
personal experience and subsequent
contact with all that was left of
saber, used to further the illnstra-
ton, gave fierce suggestion and dramatic
effect to the whole. In the course OF the &C
count, Mr.. Edgar-for this is the hero's
psme-read a correct copy, which he had
obtained from England, of the order from
Lord Raglan to the earl OF Lucan which
was so strangely misunderstood. he says
that the Light Brigade numbered 673 men
sswhen it went down into the Valley of
Death" OF this number 195 answered at
the next roll call, though, including those
taken by the Russians 235 escaped the fear
full carnage-443 being lost in the brief fight
over the Russian field pieces. OF course Mr..
Edgar is Immediately invited TO private
parlors in abundance and made lion of in
consequence of his participation in this
famous fight. He talks very we'll in private,
and tells great many good stories OF that
fight which have sly humor that vindicate
his claim TO mixture OF Scotch blood with
the English.
Year: 1875

On motion of Mr.. Martin, of Wells, the
governor, audi or and secretary of state
were authorized to negotiate temporary loans
to meet expense necessary, in the event of
the expenditures for the above above enUm-
Grated purposes exceeding the amount ap-
propriaIed. The title of the bill was then
amended to correspond. The Senate will be
notified of the action of the House to-day,
and in due time the bill will be taken into
consideration by that honorable body.
Year: 1875

THE HOUSE BILL PROVIDING FOR THE PAY


MENT OF THE PUBLIC PIPERs FOR THE NEXT


TWO YEARS.


The following are the appropriations pro-
vided by the bill that passed the House yes
terdsy, after argument and amendment in
committee of the whole:
Year: 1875

coaches when they are in full dress.


1t is true that, considering various
habits of American people, also the
little accidents which tue best. kept
sidewalks are liable to, lady who


has swept u mile of them is not OK.
actly in such II condition that one
would care to be her neighbOr. But
cOnfound the make.belieye women
we have turned loose upon our
streets f! Where do they come from
Not out of our Boston parlors l
trust. Why there isn't a beast or q
bird that would drag its tail through
the dirt in the way that these crea.
lures do their dresses. Because 81
queen or "a duchess wears long robes
ON great occasiOns,a u maid of all work
or factory girl thinks she must
make herself nuisance by trailing
about with her-pah that's what |
call getting vulgarlty into your
homes and marrow. Making believe
what You are not is tho essence Of
vul.arity. Show over dirt is an
other attribute of vulgar pepole. If
any man can walk behind one of
these women and see what she rakes
up as she goes, and not feel squeam-
isl, he has got tough stomach. |
wouldn't let one of 'em into my
room without serving them as Da.
vid served Gaul at the cave in the
wilderness-cut off his skirts. sir,
cut off his skirts. Don't tell me
that true lady ever sacrifices the
duty Of keeping all about her sweet
and clean to the wish of making
vulgar show. [ don't believe it of
"a lady. There are some things that
no fashion has right to touch, and
cleanliness is one Of those things.
If a woman wishes to show that her
husband or father has money which
she wants and means to spend, but
doesn't know how, let her buy Il
yard or two of silk and pin it to her
dress when she goes out to walk,
but let her unpin it before she goes
into the house.
Year: 1875

Bs. The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
n new one OF DESMOND. They say there Is no
comparison between the two. 2Ho
Year: 1875

A square mile is laid off at an eligible point
on the tract, with lots 25x140; avenue 100 feet
and streets 50 feet wide. lela ~


A stream of water can be brought i'm so as
to supply every lot with crystal, cool, sweet
water.


Provision will be made for a College and
Farm School. rHg taH


A large lot will be set apart for each relig-
iOus denomination. A block will also be
given for the erection of large hall by the
different Fraternal, Grange and Temperance
Societies.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
bat as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
nuncations that are not used.
Year: 1875

Xxx WEST 3isT STA RESPECTABLE WOMAN AS
lCC good cook willing assist In the washing and


roning objection boarding house; also young girl
chambermaid; is willing to assist in waitng both have
good city reference.
Year: 1875

The failure of congress to pass the


Infamous force bill IL an unexpected


blow to the president. He has made u


wrong play and is badly euchered.


That he relied greatly upon the author


ity delegated in that bill for the means


of accomplishing much of his revo'l-


tionary third term programme, cannot


he denied. For weeks he and his crea-


lures iu congress have moved heaven


and earth to bring about its passage.


During the closing hours of congress,


he has been like Beecher, changing on


the ragged edge" of expectation. TO


see pet scheme quietly laid on the
shelf or deliberately neglected, was


more than he bargained for. Congress
did not stay the uplifted hand Which
was raised by this wsuld-he dictator to
strike down the liberties of his country
an hour too soon. If he ha'i ever been
clothed with the authority to suspend
the writ of habeas corpus, in order to
manage certain states in his own inter-
est, for "a third term, under color of
there being IA necessity for his guilty
usurpation, the results would have been
most disastrous, and might ultimately
have ended in civilwar. There would be
no telling where this man would stop.
The suspension of the writ of habeas
corpus in time of peace, once estab-
lished as a precedent, we should be u
free people no longer. Our freedom
would be farce and the country
handed over, bound hand and foot, to
the mercful rule of rich, powerful,
INSCRIPTIONS, bondholding aristocracy
of military rank and capital, the
mushroom growth of the war, social,
political, military and commercial
scum, brought to the surface by the
late war, and fastened upon us by 10y
atty and rascality, money ana bayo-
nets. The force bill is dead and buried,
and never to be resurrected while
democratic congress sits. This is the
turning point in the coming rapid Po-
litical annihilation of Grant and his
party. If it was deemed inexpedient
to bring up the force bill before the
new democratic senators took their
seats, it will hardly be attempted to
bring it tetore senate largely REIN
forced by democrats, and that in the
absence of the Other branch of congress,
which was not called together. 1t is
understood that no hope of doing so
was entertained hy the president, and
that his calling of the new senate to-
gether had to be done, in order to have
his appointments confirmed. These
combinations will probably he all the
senate will do, and then it will adjourn.
Year: 1875

Governor Coke has vetoed the In
ternational nalcompromse bill. This Will,
perhaps, surprise his friends who read
his message wherein he signiiied his
readiness TO cooperate with the legis-
'ature in a fair and equitable ADJUST
ment of this vexatious question.
There was an evident disposition
shown in that document to settle the
matter honorably. The state looked
to the governor and the legislature to
preserve its credit and do justice to the
International company. His veto is,
to say the least of it, unfortunate for
both parties. That it will mill
tate against the credit of the state is
beyond all question. 1T leaves the
states relations with the international
railway company in quite as unsettled
state as they were at the beginning
OF the session, the mostof which has
been consumed in an effort to arrive at
satisfactory solution of the con.ro-
versy. The only thing left to show the
result of the work of the legislature Is
the production of an opinion by the
governor that so much lana
and exemption from taxation Tor
term of years, is the best that he
is willing that the state should DO
His proposition to the company Is
mockery in its present straits Tor
money, and is practically OF no beneht
as means of extricating it from en-
barrassments which threatens TO pre-
cipitate it into the hands of receiver
and virtually check railway comlnum-
cation with western Texas, or ut least
leave the people of that section at the
mercy of the Central railway, upon
whose will alone would depend the eX-
tension of the International me. IL
is very evident that the Cehtrai stiliuf
ready to swallow the international a.
soon as it is licked into shape ny
failure to make such compromise
with the state as would place u i'll


funds and thus secure itirom lis preseh


perilous condition.


THE HERALD does not seek to i'm


pugn the governors motives in thi
veto. He has doubtless acted consci
Year: 1875

A writer in the PtrCnO1OgicaI Jo"fn0l
SAYS, in referring to a conversation held
with student, he spoke of the astonlsh-
ing effect the study of the Chinese IAN
euage had had ON the shape Of his fore
head. Over the eyes and nll along the
region Of the porceptivo faculties there
seemed to be built on layer OF bone q
Quarter of an inch in thickness, and
about half or three-quarter3 Of an inch
in width. "You see," said he, " the
study of the Chinese language calls into
exercise only the perception and mem
ory. Instead of one or two nasal sounds,
as we have in our language, they have
thirteen, and it is the most difficult mat
ter ut first for an Americant to distinguish
between them" Then he gave examples
of these different nasal sounds, but to
my uneducated ear they seemed quite
alike. "For eighteen months, he said,
"we did little but study the language,
and daring that time my forehead
changed wonderfully in shape. 1t usee
to be smooth like yours, and uniformly


developed, but this great ridge here


spoils the shape Of it and the hats


used to wear will only rest on the top o


my head now.
Year: 1875

The Sussex Journal considers that we 'insult
the South" when we say that the people oil the
North don't want jeff Davis as orator al their
agricultural fairs and wants to know what he
did more than the private soldiers in the rebel
army To which we reply that JEFF Davis was
himself repudisted i'll the South, by great body
of the people, his management Of the so-called
"Confederacy," both in its civil affairs, III IN
deed, any of them were ciul) and in the con-
duct of the war, being most unsatisfactory,
Nobody has cursed JEFF Davis more bitterly than
thousands of the men who once followed him,
and the idea that it "insults the South
to say we don't want him in the North
as an instructor or adviser upon any
subject, is absurd. That he did more than
the private soldiers of the Southern army is a
matter of course. He organized the treason.
He preached those false doctrines of State
Rights which bred the treason. He counselled
secession. He ntamed one section against the
other. He "sprinkled blood in the face of the
South" to promote the disruption OF the Union
and bring on general war. He was to large
degree responsible for the blood OF the thou
sands who were sacrificed in that unholy effort
to build an edifice with Slavery as its corner
stone. By the wonderful and unexampled Gle
mency of the American people he suffered no
punishment, but for the people of the North to
give him honor would be an outrage on the
graves of the man whom his wicked ambition
slew.


We draw a wide distinction between the people
of the South and such individuals as Davis.
Every sign that the people are becoming more
devoted to the Union must be welcome Every
step toward reconciliation of the sections is
cause for rejoicing. That we decline to frater-
nize with JEFF Davis will not interrupt the process
of restoring national harmony we are quite sure
but If it did, upon whom would the blame lie?
Year: 1875

majority in this city. The only question in re
lation to the approaching election is whether
they will poll their vote. II they do, they will
elect their ticket if, on tile other hand they are
apathetic or careless, the result may be that Mr..
Whiteley will be chosen to perpetuate Mayor
Slmms administration for three years to come,
and in the City Council Mr. Mclntire's states
manslip will rule for at least year. Such a
result Of the election the very men whose votes
were not polled would groan over and lament


such a result it s for them, by due discharge
OF their duty as citizens, to effeetually prevent