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Year: 1873

Yes. yes. sartin ! Yes, yes-1 be-
l,eve in Dreams raid old Silas Tafton
He took auolher Whit at his pipa, and
then added: ''One of the greatest spec
ulations l ever went into came of a won
derful dream. III tell you about it,"


You remember, some Of you. about the
great land speculat;ons here in Maine
thirty years ago. Poor men-a. very few
Of tI.cm-were made suddenly rich and
rich men were made suddenly poor. !
was living then in Grew One day old
Sam Whitney. of Oxford, stopped at our
place, and showed us map of a new
town which had been laid cut in Saga
dahoc. On the map it looked beautiful
There were brooks and lakes, and broad
plains of pine and oak. and streets all
laid out. and spots for churches and
schoolhouses marked out in proper array.
| had cousin living down that way, and
| concluded to go down and take look.
| found the town of Ellenville, which
old Whitney had shown me on his map
to be wild, worthless tract, all rocks
and swamp; but on the edge of this
tract, in another township, my cousin
owned piece of good land, and l bought
a hundred and fifty acres of it, and made
me an excellent farm and for that pur-
chase l was never sorry.


Meantime Ellenvlle was nearly all
sold in hundred acre lots The excite
ment was at fever heat, and people
bought without once coming to look at
the land they were purchasing Bat by
and by the new owners began to look up
their property, and you can rest assured
that they were blue set, when they
were reassembled on that territory
Within all the limits of the mapped-out
township there was not an acre that
could be cultivated. On the side that
bordered my farm it was craggy ledge
of rocks; and beyond that to the east
ward the land settled under the mud and
the water of sunken slough. Some of
these lots had been sod as high as one
pound an acre, and a few of them even
higher than that One poor fellow,
named John Twist, from Vermont, had
paid one pound an acre for a lot that bor-
dered on my farm. On the map it had
been set down as magnificent pine for
est, with river upon its border, upon
which was superb water power. John
Twist bought it and paid for it, and when
he came to look for it, he found it to be
mass of barren rocks, with here and
there clump of shrub oak and a few
Norway pines. and for river he found a
water course which tumbled melted snow
over the crags in the spring, and which
was dry most of the year. did not see
the poor fellow when he came to survey
bis property, but can imagine how he
felt. 't ar e-sr


After while, however, the excitement
passed on, and the sufferers of Ellenville
turned their backs upon the graves Of
their speculative hopes. On my farm l
prospered. My land was of the very
best quality; my wife was true help
mate my crops were abundant; my
stock thrived, and l found myself with
goodly pile of money tied up in my
stocking. sa


One evening, after our crops had been
man, riding sorry-looking
nag, pulled up before our door. He was
a well.looking man. with sedate and
solemn face, and dressed in black. 1t
Year: 1873

A malicious Terre Hautentot substilu-
ted paper full of white beans for the
package of gum drops which another
young man was going to carry to his
Angelina, and the poor fellow was kept
busy till three o'clock in the morning
trying to explain matters.
Year: 1873

ALFRED WALTON. Druggist, No. 285 Matke
street. respectfully informs his friend and the public
in general, that he keeps hand all descriptions OF
medicines, and that d competent person is at all
times ready to prescribe for such sick as call at tina
store and that no charge made except the regular
price of the medicines. the same rice as they would
pay anywhere else; but that ne one is visited at
Cheir residences
Year: 1873

THE RELIANCE SrEAMKR.-The Building Com
mittee have handed over the now Reliance steam
er to the Company, and it is now ready for active
service. The Company, however, wish it under
stood that NO christening of their apparatus will
be recognized, unlsss the Company doing the
christening has u line OF hose from the new
steamer to the fire. That lie, any Company desir-
ing 70 christen the Reliance, must attach their
hose TO tho steamer, aud throw a stream Of water
on the fire, before applying christening stream
upon the new apparatus.
Year: 1873

Tse weather is just delightful.


The Reliance steamer Is now in service.
The Christiana is almost entirely free from ice
The main saloon Of the City Hall needs veLti-
lating.


A special session of the City Council will be held
this evening.


The lace curtins in the windows of the Clayton
House look nicely


Duprez & BenediCt's AinStrels appear at the
Masonic Temple, tonight


The bed Of Fifth street along the new hotel
might be put in better order.


A large number Of journalists were present at
the Clayton House banquet, last night.


A telegraph wire has been run into the Clayton
House by the Western Union Telegraph Co.
Year: 1873

"a man who would be a good worker"
says Henry. Ward Beecher, "must be a
good sleeper. The quality of mental &C.
tivity depends upon the quality Of sleep


Men need on an average eight hours OF
sleep day. A lymphatic man is sluggish,
moves and sleeps slowly. But nervous
man acts quickly in verything. He does
more in an hour than sluggish man in two
hours, and so in his sleep. Every man must
sleep according to his temperament-but
eight hours is the average. Whoever by
work, pleasure or sorrow, or by any other
cause, is regularly diminishing his sleep, is
destroying his life. A man may hold out
for time, but the crash will come, and he
will die. There is great deal of intem-
perance beside that of tobacco, opium or
brandy. Men are dissipated who overtax
their system all day and undersleep every
night
Year: 1873

NEW ORLEANS. Decem ber IL, 1913.


EDITOR Republican,:


Glad you noticed the humble undersigned


in your paper 'tother dey-egery body likes


to be noticed, except taxpayers and jury


men. Wanted to write you before, but


have been up in Mississippi and got ap


pointed purchasing agent for a grange


Buying sugar and bacon is easy enough


but some Of the orders poster me right
smartiy; for instance, one for a fashionable
calico dress for female lady granger about
my size, with a hump on her back. Have


been to dress maker every morning for a
week to try it on. She puts a corn basket
on my back for q hump, with my arms
| through the handle. Got it pretty near
| right now if we can only match the figures.
| don't mind the trouble so much as do
| the sewing girls snickering.


Went into Il boot makers shop On St.
Charles street, to buy left boot for q
granger with one limb left. Had to buy the
pair, and will have to wait for some one
cpntrarilywise affected for the other. Shoe
| maker was angry at somebody, and asked
me if thought it was right for boots to be
left after being ordered; told him 1 sup
posed they wouldn't have been left if they
were right. left him scratching his head
with an awl and studying over it.


Dropped in at the Southern Express
office and asked the agent if they could
take joke. Said they could, if it wasn't
sent in a Roundabout" way.


notice door mat hanging in front of
house-furnishing store on Camp street, with
the word "salve" on it. The man told me
it meant welcome" l know better-salve
isn't welcome to anybody. If l kept
'pothecary shop l would buy that mat.


You don't know how many hours 1 have
spent gazing at the fountain on Canal
street. 1t beats any thing in the way of q
squirt l ever saw, except catawba; and it
was SO considerate in the protector to put q
pilothouse over it, 30 that the lady wouldn't
be exposed to the rain. Why dent they
build high board fence across Canal street
to keep this wind from blowing the water
out of the pilothouse windows2 If l was
Henry Clay I'd come down some night
when the policemen were asleep, and kick
it over, or else turn around and gaze lake
ward


A lady in the country wants me to buy
"Btter Sweet" by DR.. Holland. Went to
Finlay's, but he didn't have it; wanted to
sell me Hoohand's Bitters; said maybe l
could get 'tother at Eyrich's, but he
couldn't fool me-they don't keep drugs in
book stores.


Been out on the levee today. Saw how
they raise cotton-raise it on q scales a
man stood by the scales writing in q book.
asked him if he was writing ''notes by the
weigh side;'' he told me if I wanted to sec
a curiosity to 60 up to the Planters Press,
where they squeeze the juice out of the
bales and make cottonade. Is that so2


Well, 80 long. l promised to meet a
gentleman on st. Charles stSeet at two
o'clock. Wants me to see him draw the
money on a lottery ticket; says he knows
me. SCmeb ody must have told him who
am. /. Y. PECK.
Year: 1873

A very foolish young woman commit
ted suicide in Wisconsin recently, for no
better reason than because her mother
refused to allow her 10 20 to merry
making. There was to be festival at
Waukan, to which she bad been invited
BY a young gentleman who was paying
his addresses to her She had been
slightly i'll for some days, and her mother
forbade her going. Disappointed at
this, she swallowed a large dose OF
strychnine, which had been kept in the
house as ratsbane. Her sister saw her
drink the poison, but supposed 1t was
tea. After taking the deadly drug she
wrote q note and sat down 10 her knit
ting, and sat singing and knitting, and
seemed perfectly happy. The young man
called few minutes after she had taken
the poison, and was informed that she
was IN, and could not 20 to the festival.
He left without seeing her, and IN two
hours she died The note was q last
farewell TO Der parents aud sister.
Year: 1873

ONLY two persons went to the public
burying ground last Saturday, as per re-
quest, to clear it of brush and rubbish,
which work was greatly needed. Our
people have certainly shown themselves
very negligent in this matter.
Year: 1873

Thus far there appears to be less inter-
est taken in politics all over the State
than ever before on the eve of an election.
Only three months until election day and
the political pot has scarcely begun to
simmer. In this county nothing has as
yet been done by either party.
Year: 1873

CRoPs.-Mr. f. w. Young, who visit
ed Hay Fork last week, tells us that the
farmers in the Valley do not anticipate
more than halfa crop, although a good
rain within the next week or ten days
might bring it up to the average.
Year: 1873

PAID WELL.-Considering the limited
amount of work done during the past sea-
son, awing to the great scarcity of water,
the mining claims in this county, without
exception as far as we have learned, have
paid extremely we'll.
Year: 1873

A. T. CORPUS continues to supply tho
people Of Indian Creek and adjacent
country with general merchandise and
by his fair and liberal dealing has the
entire trade of that section, which he GER
tainly deserves.
Year: 1873

RUN-AwAY.-The team belonging to
the Pacific Brewery succeeded in running
away twice one day this week. The first
time Mr.. Harvey was on the wagon and
was thrown to the ground, bat luckily
not injured. The other time the team
got away without driver and ran from
the Brewery to the head Of Taylor street.
No damage done.
Year: 1873

BRICKS WANTED.-We have of late
heard several parties engaged in building
frames inquire where they could get
bricks for chimneys. There are no bricks
for sale in the county and it will not pay
to import them. Was kiln burned in
Weaverville, we believe they would meet
with ready sale at fair prices. Here is a
chance for some one who understands the
business, to make profitable Investment
of time and labor.
Year: 1873

plf the Legislature does not soon
take steps to rcplenish the State Treas
ury, the members Of that body will be
seen trying to dispose Of their warrants
in the streets at liberal discount. From
n careful calculation the Treasury will
he empty in less than a month.
Year: 1873

The Evansville Courier understands
that party Of civil engineers are now
at work on the Kentucky side Of the
river, making the preliminary survey of
a railroad which is to run from Hcnder-
son to point opposite Evansville. 1t
is supposed to be under the supervision
Of the St. Louis and Southeastern Rail-
road Company.
Year: 1873

Governor Booth gave the grangers of San Jose talk, the other day, reminding them of some of the possibilities that lie within the grasp of such an organization. nia and Colorado will be called upon to assume irrigation enterprises Governor Booth suggests that California be divided into irrigation districts, which shall main tain and manage each it's own system.
Year: 1873

WHEN a woman has hen to dive into
the coop she takes hold of her hoops with
both hands, shakes them quietly toward
the delinquent, and says. "sheW therem
The hen takes one look at the object to
convince herself that it's q woman, and
then stalks majestically into the coop 10 per-
feet disgust of the sex. A man doesn't


do that way. He goes out doors and says:
sit is singular nobody in this house can
drive hen but myself" and picking up a
stick ofWood, hurls it at the offending biped;
and observes: sect in there, you thief"
The hen Immediately loses her reason and
dashes to the opposite end of The yard.
The man straightway dashes after her. She
comes back again with her head down, her
wings out, and followed by an assortment
of stove wood, fruit cans and coal clinkers,
with much putting and very mad man in
the rear. Then she skins up on the stoop
and under the barn, and over fence or
two, and around the house, and again to
the coop, all the while talking as only an ex-
cited hen can talk, and all the while follow
ed by things convenient for handling, and
by a man whose coat is on the sawbuck
and whose hat is on the ground, aud whose
perspiration and profanity appear to have
no limit. By this time the other hens have
come out to take hand in the debate, and
help dodge the missiles-and then the man
says every hen on the place shall be sold in
the morning, and puts on his things and
goes down the street, and the woman dons
her hoops and has every one of those hens
housed and counted in two minu es, and
the only sound heard on the premises is the
hammering by the Oldest boy as he mends
the broken pickets.-Dupb bury NetrS.
Year: 1873

THE increase of salaries voted at the
eleventh hour in Congress is open to the
most serious objections. Every man who
voted for it was voting as much in his own
interest as Mr.. Hooper, of Massachusetts,
when be was made TO recall the vote he
had given on the Pacific railroad, in which
be is a stockholder. The Presidents sala-
Ty is raised in violation of the spirit, if not
the letter of the Constitution, which is only
evaded by quibble. There is some con-
ISOLATION in the rumor that the Comptroller
fthe Treasury declines paying the advance
voted themselves by the members of Con-
press
Year: 1873

Mr.. S.osson, who was recently injured in
the Savage mine, died yesterday morning
at his lodging house on E street. Thus at
last is the strange dream of bis brother fa-
tally fulfilled. The words of his brothers
letter read by him to his fellow workman
but the night previous TO that on which &C.
cured the accident which yesterday morn
ing resulted in his death, have the solemn
sound of prophecy. 81 saw you," wrote
the brother, ''as plainly as l ever saw you
in my life, working in a mine great many
feet underground, and saw the earth slip
away from its foundations and cover you
entirely, and that you were almos5 killed
when taken out. l have been very uneasy
in my mind ever sincs them Virginia
City Enterprise.
Year: 1873

SAN Francisco, March S.-MaTy, the
sister Of Captain Jack, come to the head
quarters of the Peace Commission last
night and reported that Jack accepted the
terms of surrender offered. Gen. Candy
sent word back this morning that Captain
Jack or s,me chief men of the tribe must
come in before tomorrow evening or the
troops Of his command would move imme-
diately against them. It is expected they
will come tomorrow; il not, war.
Year: 1873

SALT LAKE, March S.-Tbe citizens of
the country are preparing to turn out en-
masse to raise the snow blockade on the
Utah Northern Railroad. The spring thaw
has fully begun and the snow is rapidly dis
appearing.
Year: 1873

Does Professor Peters want monopoly in
the business of discovering planets. Only the
other Gay he coulI see no use for any such
planet as Vulcan, which DR.. Kirkwood pro
fessed to have found within the orbit of Mer-
curry, and now he comes out with the an
nouncement of new planet of his own. For
our part we see no use for any more planets
at all. We have more than we can do any
thing with now, and we may as well settle
Alaska before getting any more. .d
Year: 1873

A Danbury man who has been visiting in
place where the cemetery was provided
with many private vaults, is very much
pleased with the idea, as it enables man to
visit his own grave and weep.
Year: 1873

A GENTLEMAN and Lady wishing quiet home
N can find pleasant rooms with board at No. 4
Cotton street, second door from Free street. One
two single gentlemen can be accommodated also.
Year: 1873

Some of the newest things in jewelry are
ladies' rings to be worn on the little finger
The collet is made very long, so as to cover
the first joint, and is studded with gems ac-
cording to the taste of the wearer.
Year: 1873

A Nashville young lady explains that she
writes to the man she likes best only once a
day, and says she doesn't think that any too
often, now the days are so long. She is will
ing to admit, however, that it would be too
frequent for the short days of winter.
Year: 1873

A Collinsville mother gave five-dollar
gold ring to worrying child, and having quiz
eted itself with it the child generously gave it
to an uneasy dog, which promptly swallowed
it. Any one finding ring in his sausage,
will please return it to the lady.
Year: 1873

A society at Bayville, Georgia, resolves
upon the death of member 'that we buy
all our groceries and tobacco Of his estimable
wife, who has our sympathy in this dark
hour, but who should at once restock the
store for the spring trade"
Year: 1873

4 life organized with order and pur
pose has always time for most things ; one
left to chance, which means chaos, is not
able to pick up ten consecutive minutes
out of the heap Of waste aud irregulari'y
to which is reduced the pleasant harmony
of the hours No excuse is - pititui as
this want Of time wherein to do your du-
ties, to fulfill your engagements, TO get
through your appointed tasks II It IS a
real excuse you are simply oyer-wrighed,
and your first business ought TO be 10 cut
off those Of your burdens you can spare
best and which yon fulfill worst; but il 1t
is only an apparent excuse, aud not re-
ality, the fault lies. not in your having
too much TO do, but in bad arrangements
not in the want but in the waste Of time
Then the great thing to do IS to rcarrange
your work and your time, and to make
them st ia more harmoniously together
Thsrc are some people who have the fac
ul,y of making use Of every moment,
Some learaed divine. whose name at this
moment We forget, is said TO have written
a book during the odd five minutes whcG
his wife was putting on her bonnet: and
mauy women do all their little bits Of fan
ey work aud the ike in the idle moments
Of the day, when neither work nor play
comes into the organization. All great
men aud successful workers have been
careful Of those odd corners of the hours
these unconsidered five minutes which
otherwise waste as Of no value to anyone


On the other hand, mos, unsuccessful pco
pie have had haxy ideas Of the value o
time and Of its length have been prodi
gal of their hours, and given to lose thci
a.. minutes everywhere, with the air o
moaeyed men who spend few shillng
while having thousands at their backs
then they wonder why it is they can &c
nothing done, and fall foul for the wan
of time, when they should blame their owl
want OF method Satsm Record.
Year: 1873

There is n kind Of men who may be
classed under the name Of bustlers, whose
business keeps them in perpetual motion,
yet whose motion always eludes their bus
iness: who are always to do what they
never do; who cannot stand still. because
they are wanted in another place. aud
who are wanted in many places because
they can stay in nopc
Year: 1873

The hardening OF the heart is like the
hardening Of ice. When the water begins
to freeze. ii will not bear the weight Of \
pin, but after some hours or some days il
is capable of bearing the heaviest pres
sure.
Year: 1873




On the frEt day of the session at Indian
apolis, Prof Chas. V. Riley, State Ento-
mologist Of Missouri, read 4 short paper in
reference to the cotton worm Of the South
and its destruction. lie said that it had
not been his good fortune to experiment ii
cotton fields, but from its success in Kidding
the Northwest ot tho Colorado potato bug,
and hia experience ii the destruction os
pestiferous insects generally, he would with
out hesitation recommend tho use Of Paris
green, fully believing that at trihing cost,
not exceeding thirty Or forty cents per acre,
tue cotton could be saved and future raya-
ges be preyented.


He said it was singular in view Of the
fact that the damages from this worm had
reached SO much. as twenty millions Of lol.
Iars in single week, that no legislative ac'
ton had been taken for the appointment
Of commission to examine as to the ma
ture and habits Of this insect, and to devise
means for it's destruction. Our Legislators,
to save an expense Of four or five thousand
dollars per year for the employment Of an
officer to watch the interests Of the peo-
pie, and to guard them against the depreda-
tions OF insect foes, have permitted the
sacrifice Of crops to the amount Of many
millions.


In using the Paris green, which is poison
mix thoroughly with cheap -four, in proper
ton to ore part Of green to twenty-five o.
Thirty Of -four. Put the preparation in {
bag Of thin material or in perforated til
box, and attach TO the end of pole eigh
or ten feet in length. Holding this m on,
hand, pass it along over the row, tappip;
the rod gently, and taking care that th
wind shall blow away from you. Appl.
when the dew is upon the plant, and tb
4 least particle Of the dust will have tho dc
sired effect. Used in this wOy it is per
fectly safe and we earnestly urgea trial au
report
Year: 1873

Attorney General Morris has written a
letter to Auditor Musgroye, in which ho ex-
presses the opinion that the election Of
Griggs to the Office Of Commissioner OF
immigration and Agriculture is unconatitu-
tinnnl and hbsolntalY void
Year: 1873

Here's a verdict rendered by an Arizona
jury "Wo rather think the prisoner is
guilty, aud if he is he ought to be hung
but as we are not quite sure Of it, we recom-
mend that be be sentenced toimprisonment
for life.n
Year: 1873

The Nebraska Indians are allowed to ride
free on all trains they can jump into while
the Iatter arc in motion. It is calculated
that the tribe win become extinct in about
six months.