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Year: 1870

In response to All inquiry from tho Bel Air
.fqis, show about the city of Wilmington 7"
we reply that at the last election inihs city the
Republican majority was 263, and that is just
about half what Wilmington will give in Noyem-
Year: 1870

Adyices received in Washington, ESQ says the
correspondent of the New York Times) concern
ing the health of Chief Justice Chase Indicate
that it is very doubtful il he will ever be able 70
resume hia ssai upon tho Supreme Bench.
Year: 1870

A WORD FOR WIvEs.-Little wives |!
if ever half suppressed sigh finds
place with you, or half unloving word
escapes you to the husband you love, let
your heart 60 back to some tender word
in those first love days; remember how
you loved him then, how tenderly he
wooed you, how timidly you responded !:
and if you can feel you have not grown
unworthy, trust him for the same good
love now. If you feel that you have
become less loveable and attractive than
you were, turn-by all that you love on
earth and hope for in heaven-turn back
and be the pattern of loveliness that
won him; be the "dear one" your attrac-
tions made you then. Be the gentle,
loving, winning maiden still; and doubt
not, the lover you admired will live for
ever in your husband. Nestle by his
side, cling to his love, and let his conf
dence in you never fail; and my word
for it, the husband will be dearer than
the lover ever was. Above all things.
do not forget the love he gave you first.
Year: 1870

DAY AND NIGHT IN SwEDEN.-The
peculiarities of the day and night in Swe-
den strike the traveller very forcibly, af-
ter being accustomed to the temperate
zone. In June the sun goes down in
Stockholm little before ten o'clock
There is great illumination all night,
as the sun passes around the earth to the
north poe, and the refraction Of its rays
in such that you can see to read at mid
night without any artificial light. There
is a mountain at the head Bothnia,
where, on the 21st Of June, the sun does
not appear to go down at all. The
steamboat goes up from Stockholm for
the purpose of conveying those who are
curious to witness the phenomenon. It
occurs only one night. Thesun reachesthe
horizon-you can see the whole face of
it, and in five minutes more it begins to
rise. At the North Cape, latitude seven
ty-two degrees, the sun does not 60 down
for several weeks. In June it would be
about twenty-five degrees above the ho.
rizon atmidnight. In the winter the sun
disappears, and is not seen for weeks !;
then it comes and remains for ten or if
teen minutes, after which it descends,
and finally does not set at all, but makes
almost circle around the heavens.
Year: 1870

BoIsTERoUs PREACHING.-A celebra-
ted divine who was remarkable, in the
first period of his ministry, for bois-
ferrous mode Of preaching, suddenly
changed his whole manner in the pulpit,
and adopted mild and dispassionate
mode of delivery. One of his brethren
observing it, inquired of him what had
induced him to make the change? He
answered When l was young, I
thought it was thunder that killed the
people; but when / grew wiser, discov-
cred that it was the lightning, 90 deter
mined to thunder less aud tighten
more"
Year: 1870

BE SOCIAL AT HoME.-Let parents
talk much and talk well at home. A
father who is habitually silent in his
own house may be in many respects .
wise man, but he is not wise in his 81
lence. We sometimes see parents who
are the life of every company which
they enter, dull, silent, uninteresting At
home among the children. If they have
not mental activity and mental stores
sufficient for both, let them first provide
for their own household. Ireland ex-
ports beef and wheat, and lives on pota-
toes and the fare as poorly who reserve
their social charms for companions
abroad, and keep dullness for home con-
sumption. 1t is better to instruct child
rem and make them happy at home than
it is to charm strangers or amuse friends.
A silent house is dull place for young
people-a place from which they will
escape if they can. They will talk or
think Of being shut up there and the
youth who does not love home is in dan
ger.
Year: 1870

4 Hygcnic Fallacios.


A fallacy in regard to diet. is to sup.
pose that the natural appetite is not the
best guide a. to the quantity and quality
of our food.


It 10 true that the appetite does some
times become perverted. It il true that
1t does become sometimes . symptom Of
disease. But these cases are exception
al.


Hideous doctrines have been taught on
this subject We have been solemnly
told to rise from the table as hungry -
when we sat down. We have been told
to be always ready for a meal-in other
words, to live in state of perpetual hun
ger. We have been told to eat those
things that we most hate, and to avoid
those we most love--that to have long
ing for any article, is the very reason
why we should be denied it.


These doctrines are monstrous. They
are unworthy the nineteenth century.
They are libel on the Creator who gave
US taste and appetite in order that We
might know what to eat and drink, and
gave us also judgement to direct appe-
tite and taste when the system becomes
diseased. Notwi thstanding all its lia-
bility to perversion, the appetite is, ON
the whole, a better guide in selecting
food, and in measuring its quantity, than
all books on hygiene that have ever
been written.


The practice Of weighing the food,
which was introduced to the world by
the examples and teachings of Cornaro
the Italian, cannot be too strongly repro
bated. 1t is impossible for scales to tell
how much to eat. The quantity Of food
that we need depends on the amount Of
labor that we do, on the nature Of the
constitution, on our mental mood and on
the quality and variety Of the food which
is served.


To weigh or measure the food habit
ually is not only silly, unnecessary, and
useless; it is actually crime. 1t wastes
valuable hours that should be better en-
ployed. 1t makes us miserable, and that
fact aloneis argument enough against it.
1t brings on indigestion and all other
woes, and therefore prevents us from get
ting the best advantage of what we
eat.


Still another common fallacy is, that
brainworkers need less nutriment than
those who live by their muscles.


This idea would never have been en-.
tertained if people had depended on
their own observation and experience.
But we have been influenced by false
teachings and erroneous theories.


Any one who has attended associations
of clergyman, or alumni meetings, or
has boarded with students, has had an
opportunity to see that brain-workers
are large eaters, as indeed they should
be if they are really hard workers. The
changes of issue in the brain, that take
place during study and thought, are
very important and very rapid, and
must be replaced by abundant food.
-Appleton's Journal
Year: 1870

An Iowa husband a few months ago
agreed to give his wife three dollars a
week to maintain comparative silence,
deducting one cent for each superfuous
word she uttered. She now owes him
nearly enough to pay the national debt.
Year: 1870

From the Lower Lake Bulletin, we take
the following description of California Lake:


Clear Lake is beautiful sheet of water,
lying in Lake county 1t is about so miles
long. 1t lies somewhat in the shape of the
letter Y. the two shorter arms representing
lower ke, and the sulphur bank branches,
the other portion representing the upper lake
branch. The greatest depth of the sulphur
bank arm of the lake is about Sc feet of
lower lake IS feet; of upper lake So feet
The water is soft; away from the tule that
skirts the shores, it is good to drink. 1t has
vast mountain watershed and very mar
row outlet. 1t has some so miles of coast
line, nearly two-thirds of which is composed
of high bluff add chimese-covered hills, rising
abruptly from the lakes bosom. In many
places between these hills or divides thai run
down to the lake there are small hats slight.
lv raised above the level of the lake, cult-
vated ami famed mostly as stock ranches
At the upper and lower ends of the lake
there are iule marshes of considerable extent.
Uncle Sam mountain raises its handicapped
summit on the southern boundary Of the
Lake-into which from the foot Of the noun
tain green covered peninsula extends COM
manding view of the whole lake. Going
westerly from Uncle Sam. Big valley-A
large fertile tract of land-skirts the lake as
far as Lakeport, a town situated on its mar
gin. The ground here raises along the lake
shore and remains higher than in Big valley
undl Upper Lake is reached, where the
creeks running into the lake have filled in
alluvium, creating another valley. Thence
we strike high bold shores, interspersed with
few farms lying at the foot of these rocky
bluffs, and so until Lower LAKE is reached,
where there is another fiat of small extent.
Thence to Uncle Sam are chinese hills and
rocky shores uninhabited. There is an
abundance of good fish in the lake. In the
summer the winds blow mostly from the
south and east The ain fall of this locality
equals if it does not exceed that of any other
place in the State.
Year: 1870

SUDDEN DEATH.-A Miss Macarthur,
who recently taught private school in
Fall river valley, died very suddenly, at
her parents residence near Fort Crook, last
week. While engaged in getting dinner
she complained of feeling unwell and went
into an adjoining room and reclined on the
bed. One of her parents entered the room
a few moments afterward and found her
dead. Disease of the heart is supposed to
have been the cause of her untimely DEATH
Year: 1870

MAKING Fool OF HIMsELF-Sum-
ner avows his intention to offer an amend
ment to the naturalization bill providing
for the naturalization Of Chinese Other
Republican Senators avow their hostility to
the proposed amendment and will undoubt-
edly defeat it if offered. Old Sumner and
a few more of his kind of radical theorists
will hereafter have to take back seat in
the councils of the Republican camp. The
working people of Massachusetts, should
demand the immediate resignation OF the
diabolical old mischief maker.
Year: 1870

WHERE ARE They ?-Queres are being
made, for the laws enacted by the late Leg
islature. Why are they not published p
What is the State Printer about? There is
no scarcity of printers California Express.


We have been waiting for copies Of the
School Law for some time. but have received
nome
Year: 1870

MILLvILLE BALL "A good time is an
ticipated at the Fourth of July Bail, at
Millville, and there will undoubtedly be a
large number present. The Millville folks
known how to enjoy themselves when they
start in for fun, and we guess they will
make it lively next Monday evening.
Year: 1870

Ice-houses should be repaired, or new


ones built. Do not put off this until the


morning that you are going to I'LL them


Have everything in readiness to take


advantage Of the first coed ice that il


made. Those who do not take advan-


tage of December ice often fail 10 get ariv


other.


Farm stock must now derend, in a


great measure, ON what is given TO it;


and much depends on how it Is given


how 1t ia prepared, and what quantity.


These are matters that should occupy


the mind Of every stock owner; he
should be able TO estimate how much


food will be the cheapest-remem bering
always that there should be a variety
and chnnge from one to the other. SO
that the appetite may. not be cloyed BY
too long continuance Of one variety.


Many experiments have been made in
cooking food for stock; these have been
conducted by men of intelligence for the
purpose of acquiring facts on which to I
base fair calculations. Arithmetic has
lent its aid; weights and measures have
been used as well with feed as with The
aninaals fed. The general result from
all these facts and figures go to show
that there is a saving of from twenty-five
to thirty three per cent. by. properly
cooking the food for farm stock, and
that the best and cheapest way of doing
it is by steam. The great wonder is,
that with ali this knowledge put into the
hands OF every farmer who reads an ag-
ricultural paper, the practice Of fsteaming
or in some way cooking food for stock
has not become more general. We trust
that nany who have not hitherto dons
1t will commence this Winter.


TIE article on fuel FOR fam " use has
now a strong claim on our attention. 1t
is the practice with too many to post
pone preparing winter firewood until it
can be no longer postponed. This is not
only wrong in the economy, but in tho
enjoyment of life. Fires made of green
wood are both slow and yexafious. Our
wives and daughters will greet US with
sweeter smiles when retiring from cur
labor, if we have supplied them
with plenty Of welI-prepared dry woot
for cooking our meals aud warming the
house. What better recompense could
we desire? ~
Year: 1870

Benjamin w. Wood writes to the


SoatherE .CaitiOator, on this subject, as
follows: Fl
"Many years ago learnt a cure for


founder in horses, which is so simple,


and has proved so successful in my


hands, that send it TO you, thinking it


may be OF service to some Of your read
ers:


Clean out bottom of foot thoroughly
hold up the leg so as to bring the bottom
Of tho foot upward, holding it up firmly
in horizontal position, and pour in,
say tablespoonful of spirits of turpen-
tine, if the cavity of the hoof will hold
that much-if not, pour in what it will
hold, without danger of running over;
touch the turpentine with red hot iron
(this will set il on fire. and hold the
hoof firmly in position until it all burns
out. Great care must be taken that none
of the tnrpentine runs over ON the hair
of the hoof, lest the skin be burned. If
all the feet are affected, burn turpentine
in each of them. Relief will speedily
follow, and the animal be ready for SER
vice in short me. onco applied this
remedy to horse that had been foun-
dered twenty-four hours before saw
him, and be was promptly relieved. III
another case, where the animal could
hardly be induced to move, his suffering
was so great, he was treated in the same
manner as soon as his trouble was dis
covered, and in less than ali hour after =
ward he was hitched toa buggy and dri-
vsn some twenty-five miles the same p
day, all lainsness. disappearing after he
had travelled few miles"


This is valuable information; at least.
believing it to be so, we present it to our
readers.
Year: 1870

A party of young men were telling
what they would do if they were ship
wrecked, Ear out upon the sea, and left
buffeting with the waves, without a
plank to sustain them Each one gave
his opinion excepting Paddy Murphy,
who. after being asked for his, replied
"Bad cess to ye for a cowardly Set of
spalpeens; you'd all be after sasin'
yourselves and not trying to save anoth-
er. Why. it's Paddy Murphy that
would swim ashore and save himself,
and thin cum back and thry to save
anuther."
Year: 1870

Punchinello has sketch of Whit
tiers barefoot Boy New York
gamin, who is watching pertly gentle
man on the edge of the lake in Central
Park, and soliloquiziug as follows:
30 Golly! What shame for that
old cuss to chuck the stump Of his cigar
into the lake, stead Of droppin' it where
a fellow could pick it upm
Year: 1870

An old couple in Cambridge, Mass,
quarrelled, and the man took a watch
he gave his wife at their marriage and
sold it in Boston. She then stole his
false teeth while he slept and kept them
till he brought the watch back. Draw
game --- ----- 49,
Year: 1870

Johnny was watching his mother
wreathing her head with the lovely
orange bloom of our Louisiana gardens.
''Oh, ma p he said, "how sweet that
is! You just look as if pa was dead.
and you were going to be married over
again
Year: 1870

A prudent man advised his drunken
servant to put by his money for rainy
day. In a few weeks the master IN
quired how much of his wages he had
saved Faith, none at all,' said he
ait rained yesterday and it all went"
Year: 1870

Bridget, in reply to remark of her
mistress, who said that she had put too
much garlic in the omelets, replied that
she did SO that it would not taste 80
strongly of the eggs, which were bad.
Year: 1870

A Young gentleman of Buffalo went
to serenade his lady-love the other
night, and while in the act of singing
the first verse of the beautiful ballad.
"I'm dreaming, love, of thee" was sud.
denly awakened by the contents of
a tub of cold water from a third story
window. He didn't continue the song,
Year: 1870

by way OF Europe we have our newspaper nles
from the Cape Of Good Hope, dated at Cape Town
on the 4fh OF October. The Journals supply news
from the interior OF the colony fourteen days later.
Year: 1870

Oh there is a dream of early youth,


And it never comes again:
lis vision of light. of life and truth,


That fits across the brain;
And love Is the theme of that early dream,
So wild, so warm, SO new,
That all our after years, deem,


That early dream we rue.
OIL there is dream of maturer years,


More turbulent by far;
lis vision of blood, and of woman's tears.
For the theme Of that dream is war;
And we toll in the field of danger and death.
And shout in the battle array,
Till we find that fame is bodiless breath,
That vanishes away.
Oh there is dream of hoary age,
'Tis a vision of gold in store
of sums noted down on the figured page
To be counted o. er and o. er;
And we fondly trust in our glittering dust,
As refuge from grief and pain,
ill our limbs are laid on that last dark bed.
Where the wealth of the world is vain.
And is il thus. from man birth to his grave
In the path which all are treading?
Is there naught in that long career to save
From remorse and self-upbraiding
y yes, there's a dream SO pure, so bright,
That the being to whom it is given,
Hath bathed in sea of living light
And the theme of that dream is Heaven.
Year: 1870

While white and black laborers are leaving
Virginia and their places are yet ursupplied by
Northern and European immigrants, while
scarcely any families are in condition to enable
them to live in any sort of comfort without
bringing into requisition their own industrial
resources, what are the obvious duties of our
robust young men and our blooming young
ladies'? Can they afford to be idle and to spend
the hard earnings oftheir overtasked parents in
the braveries of dress and other expensive in
dulgences? Can they consent to be drones while
those who need repose are toiling day and night
to supply the hive with honey? IF they can,
they are not made of the stuff out of which our
old-time Virginia people were fashioned. In
these times all ought to lend helping hand. =
All ought to assist In work and assist in saving.
Labor and economy are the two imperious duties
Of the hour Wing. 49,"


A poor fellow who pawned his watch said
that he raised money with lever. III


LOVE covers sin from others, but not from
the sinner himself.
Year: 1870

nsA We are offering our goods at the lowest
CASH PRICES, and we are determined to
give satisfaction to all who may need anything
in our line of business.


We solicit the citizens and Farmers gener-
ally who have not tried us to do so. We thank
all our friends for their past liberal patronage,
and respectfully request continuance of the
same. Do not forget the place. Be sure to


RICHARDSON & WHEAT.
Year: 1870

Jim Fisk, Jr., has been interviewed by
a New York Sun reporter in reference to
his having issued instructions to charge
Grant full fare on his railroad and steam
boat. Fisk acknowledged the corn, and
went on to state how Grant subscribed one
Thousand dollars to the Rawlins monument
which was paid by himself and Jay Gould.
Thereupon the following conversation oc
Cured


"One question more, Colonel, as to that
Rawlins subscription by Grant That sub
scription was made in honor of the memory
of his dearest friend. It was a sacred
Offering upon the altar of friendship How
then could he allow it to be paid by q
stranger ?"


Fisk-"Tll tell you how. Grant is not only
a greedy little wretch, but he is fool He
don't know anything; he hasn't brains
enough to comprehend the position in which
such a thing places him before the country
All he can see in the matter is, that he
saved a thousand dollars by it; he is toe
destitute of sensibility to comprehend what
you say about the subscription being q
sacred offering upon the altar Of friendship.
He is incapable of true friendship, and never
felt 8ny of the sentiments which true
friendship inspires. To sum him up in one
sentence, he is the national hog"
Year: 1870

Executive Document No. 267, as pub
lished by order of Congress, contains letter
from Secretary of the Treasury Boutwell,, in
answer to a resolution of Congress, directing
him to furnish that body with statement
Of the balances due from Collectors of In
ternal Revenue, not now in Office which is
unanswerable as setting forth in glaring
colOrs the corruption of the Radical party.
In that letter Mr.. Boutwell, gives eight solid
pages of tie names of three hundred and
forty defaulters ten only of whom we will
give that our readers may form an idea OF
what the remaining three hundred and
thirty amount to;
Year: 1870

We can't understand says the Appeal,
how farmer, or hired laborer or mechanic
can be Induced to vote for Radical candi-
date for Congress. No. man that uses or
consumes iron in any of its forms would
sustain party which devetes itself exciu-
sively to the interests of Pennsylvania iron
mongers and adds from fifty to one hundred
per cent, through the high tariff, to the cost
of iron and steel Men that use salted beef
or pork OF bacon should nOt forget that the
Radical high tariff party have fxed q duty
of 1OS per cent on the salt we use, while
New England fishermen, protected by the
supreme potency of New England in the
supreme tariff making Radical Government,
pays not one copper of this duty on, salt
furnished free from this Government exae
ton. 1t would be delightful spectacle to
see the stupidity ignorant tax payers and
consumers of imported steel, iron and salt
voting for the Radical candidate for Congress.
In truth, workingmen everywhere, when
suffered to vote by their employers as they
choose, have uniformly and wisely voted the
Democratic ticket Freetraders and anti
monopolists of the country are all Demo
Gratis.
Year: 1870

The Acting Commissioner of Internal
Revenue states that where persons held two
cent revenue stamps on the let inst, they
can exchange them for other stamps at any
collectors Office by paying q per cent. on
the amount exchanged. In answer to the
question whether the charge of q per cent.
is law or regulation, he replies that it is lsw
and regulation both.
Year: 1870

Poor MEN.-The poorest me to be met
with, especially these stirring times, is the
man who is too poor to take newspaper.
We pity such a man, especially if he is
man of property. Who ever heard Of
man too poor to smoke or chew tobacco, if
addicted to either? And yet may who spend
ten or fifteen cents day for the weed, are
too poor to take newspaper, in the intel
lectuaI enjoyment of which their families
might participate. Really, such men are
poor. They are an object of pity.
Year: 1870

A shorthand reporter of the
Washington Globe can write with both
hands q, the same sime-the left taking
notes and the right transcribing-and
is said to be the only man il the world
who can do this.