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Year: 1870

Since the final scene at the New
York East Conference, and the vote
was cast which declared him crimi-
nally unfit for the Methodist minis
try, the Rev. Horace Cook, accord
ing to report, has been engaged in
packing up his effects preparatory
to starting to the west. His desti-
nation VII probably be Minnesota.
For several weeks the disgrace he
had broupht upon himself weighed
heavily, and he might have sunk
under the burden of it only for the
devotion of his good wife, who stuck
to him like true Christian through
good and evil report and succeeded
in .endearing herself to him more
than ever before.


Among the number of his fast
friends are several ladies who were
converted through his efforts at the
Seventh street Methodist church.


MISS HATTIE JOHNSON,


the young girl who was the COM
panion of Cooks flight to Philadel-
phia, since her return has not been
followed up so closely by the news
papers, and q short sketch of her
life from that time will be particu-
larly interesting. While yet quite
young, and before leaving school,
she became an object Of admiration
to a young business man in the city.
He loved Ler, but her father was
unwilling that she should be married
at such a tender age, and postponed
the matter indefinitely. An engage
ment really existed between the
young people, when Hattie began
to receive attention from Cook. As
matter of course the young man
never suspected that there could b.
anything wrong, and continued bis
visits to her house up to the
day ofthe elopement, when the
news Of the affair reached him.. He
felt the disgrace very keenly. but
cherished no unkind thoughts to
ward Hattie. -.
When she was restored to her
family, with the word of Cook that
she Was still as pure as ''the
beautiful snow," her lover returned
to his allegiance, and approached
the poor girl as affectionately as
ever. He freely forgave her indis-
cretion, and declared that the love
he bore her was still warm and true,
and proposed to marry her with all
due dispatch. Mr.. johnson ques
toned him very closely upon this
state of his feelings, and was some
what surprised to find him SO ready
to forgive. For a few weeks he
continued to call every day at the
house, and pay court to the young
girl, until her heart was sincerely
touched by his unselfish .deyotion,
and she consented to be his wife, on
condition that in after life he shoul
never allude to her girlish folly. It
was then arranged that there should
be short pro bationary season du-
ring which time he was 20 search
his heart thoroughly, and She was
to have her dresses made. When
she eloped few articles of clothing
we're taken, as Cook intended to
purchase splendid outfit for her in
Philadelphia.


THE MARRIAGE
Year: 1870

ArprARAScE.-Upon the subject of dress and appearance the New York Times thus re- marks

 A coat that has the mark of use upon it, is a recommendation to people of sense, and a hat with too much nap and too high a lustre is a derogatory circumstance. The best coats in Broadway arc on the backs of penniless fops, broken down merchants, clerks with pitiful salaries, and men that do not pay up. The heaviest gold chains dan gle from the fobs of gamblers and gentlemen of very limited means; costly ornaments on ladies indicate to the eyes that are well opened the fact of silly lover or husband cramped for funds And when pretty wo- man goes by in plain and neat apparel, it is the presumption that she has fair expecta tons. and husband that can show a balance in his favor For women are like books--toc much gliding makes men suspicious that the binding is the most important part.
Year: 1870

No MoRE CHURSs WASTEp.-A singular method of making butter has lately come in- to quite extensive use in France, based upon the fact, that cream is changed into butter by simply being buried in the earth. The theory is not very inteligible, though the fact is stated to be beyond question; and in Normandy and other parts of France, butter Is actually prepared on a large scale in this wya. The process consists in placing the cream in linen bag of moderate thickness, which is carefully closed; then burying the bag about foot and half deep in the earth, and allowing it to remain from twenty -four to twenty-five hours. After the expiration of this period the cream is found to have be- come hard, and it is then broken up by means of wooden beater into small pieces, and enough water poured onto it to wash out the buttermilk prevent any mixture of earth, it is advisable to enclose the bag in a second one of larger size and coarser quality. This method separates the butter more perfectly than the ordinary process; and we are as sured that butter thus prepared IS of most excellent quality.--Courdnt.
Year: 1870

There is beautiful and touching story told in the books of the Buddhists about the founder of their religion---a story that has moral for people of all creeds and countries

 Among the immediate followers of Budha was young girl named Koshagautami. She was a simple, artless creature, married to an Indian youth like herself; and the pair dwelt together in woodland country near the city of the famous Oriental teacher. They had little child. of which Koshagautami was pas sionateiy fond. as is the wont of Eastern mothers But it happened that the little one sickeued and died, much to the astonish- ment of the young and ignorant parents, who had been brought up in a life so solitary that they knew nothing whatever about death.

 The mother was especially grieved to find that her child looked so thin and pale, and felt SO cold, although she pressed 1t constantly to her bosom, and tempted it with delicate food. She rocked it and shook it to make 1t speak once more-she would have been glad even to hear it cry, although in pain; for the silence and deadly heaviness Of that little body filled her with strange misery. She went about the woods with the babe upon her hip, as Indian women always carry their children, asking everybody she met what 

 SO quiet aud chill. The people whom she met looked very strangely at the tiny corpse and shook their heads, saying that no medicine would do it good any more. This dsap- pointed the mother so much that she deter mined to seek out Buddha and ask him, for be was never at a loss, for something that would bring back the warmth and laughter to the little cheeks.

 The master was seated under banyan tree with bis disciples, and when the mother came near with the child, beseeching him to say if he knew what would make it well again, he looked at her weeping countenance with great pity and answered that he did. "Go," he said, "and bring me hither a hand ful of mustard seed from house where mo- body has ever died, and then will heal your son. KoShagautami repaired to the town with tue child, and asked at the first house for little mustard seed. which was readily given, because of her gentle and sorrowful look. mFfiend," sue said to tho good man, "did ever anybody die in this household, for then the seed would not dof" The house holder shook his head mournfully, and re- piled that his eldest son had died there dur in the last moon. She went to the next res idence, and to the next, and so on all through the town; but to her surprise she found that into every house had entered that same disease of which her little one was sick - even unto death.

 Ashamed to have been seen passionate and importunate, when all the rest of the worls suffered and submitted, she dared not take the child back to Buddha, but buried in ten derly in the forest, under the shade of ar asoks tree, and then returned to the spo where the master was still teaching. "Ther' was no one," she moaned, "who had mustard seed to give me, of the kind you bade m, bring "No, Koshagautami; it does no grow in this world of pain and illusionl Th' living are very few, the dead are very many my daughterw
Year: 1870

A good wife is the G: eatest of earthly
blessings.


A man is what his wife makes him.


lis the mother who moulds the char
acter and destiny of the child.


Make marriage matter of moral
judgment.


Marry in your own religion.


Marry into different blood and tenn
permanent from your own.


Marry into family you have long
known.


Never talk at one another, either
alone or in company.


Never beth manifest anger at once.


Never speak loud to one another un-
less the house is on fire.


Never reflect on past action which was
done with good motive, and with the
best judgment at the time.


Let each one strive to yield oftenest
to the wishes of the other.


Let self-abnegation be the daily aim
and effort of each.


The very nearest approach to domes-
tic felicity on earth, is the mutual culti-
walton of an absoluteun selfishness.


Never find fault, unless it is perfectly
certain that fault has been committed;
and even then prelude it with kiss,
lovingly.


Never allow a request to be repeated.
" I forgot" is meyer an acceptable ex-
cuse,


Never make a remark at the expense
of the other; it is meanness.


Never part for day without loving
words to think of during your absence.
Besides, it may be that you will not
meet again in life.
Year: 1870

A revolutionary soldier was running
for Congress, and his opponent was
vounp man. who had "never been to
the wars" and it was the custom OF
the old revolutionary to tell of the
hardships he had endured. Said he.


"FeIlow citizens; l have fought and
bled for my country. helped to whip
the British and the Indians. L have
slept on the field of battle with no other
covering than the canopy of heaven.
have walked over the frozen ground
iii every footstep was marked with
blood"


Just about this time one of the sover-
eigns who had become greatly interest
ed i'm his tale of sufferings walked up in
front of the speaker, wiped the tears
from his eyes with the extremity OF his
coat tail, and interrupted him with.
Year: 1870

| hand-the hand alike of offence and de-
fence, the hand that wields the sword,
the dagger, the club, the tomahawk, or
other weapon of war. Each did this to
show that his hand was empty, and to
show that neither war nor treachery
was intended. A man cannot well stab
9 other while he is engaged in shaking
! h" nds with him, unless a double-dyed
traitor and villain, and strives to aim. a
cowardly blow with the left, while Civ
ing thGright and pretending to be on
goodN Neruls with his vie N. Ihe custom
of hand-shaking prevails, more or less,
among civilized nations, and is the tacit
avowai of friendship and good will, just
as the kiss of warmer passion


Ladies, as every one must have re-
marked, seldom or never shake hands
with the cordiality of gentlemen; unless
it be with each other. The reason is OBJ
vious. 1t is for them to receive homage,
not to give it. They canrOt be expected
to show to persons of the other sex a
warmth of greeting, which might be
misinterpreted; unless such persons az
very closely related to them by family,
or affection, In which cases hand
shaking IS not needed, and the lips do
more agreeable duty.
Every man shakes hands according to
his nature, whether it be timid or ag-
gressive, proud or humble, courteous or
churiish, vulgar or refined, sincere, or
hypoc itical, enthusiastic or indifferent.
The incest refinements and idiosy ncra-
sizes of character may not perhaps be dis
coverable In this fashion, but the most
salient poin s of temperament and indi-
viduatity may doubtless made clear to
the understanding of most people by q
better study of what | shall call the
physiology or the philosophy of hand
shaking.


To present the left hand for the pur-
pose of a friendly greeting is a piece of
discOurtesy-semetim intentional on
the part of superiors in rank to their
interiors, and an act that no true gen.
tleman will commit. There is no reason
why it should be considered more dis
courteous than 1t would be to kiss the
left cheek instead of the right; but,
doubtless, the custom that makes the
right hand imperative i'm all sincere salu-
tation dates from those,early times when
Misunderstanding first begun; and the hand
that shook or was shaken in friendship
was of necessity weaponless. The poor
left hand that one would think ought to
be of as much value and strength as the
right, just as the left foot or leg is as
strong as the right foot or leg, because
they are both used equally, has fallen
into dis.epute. as wei as into compara-
tive disuse, until it has become an ac-
cepte0 phrase t. say of any proc 1ding
that is inauspicious, artful. sly, or secret
ly malicious, that it is sinister" that
is, lei Il ided.


To shake hands without removing the
glove is All act of discourtesy, which, If
unintentional and thoughtless. requires
an apology for the hurry of inadvertence
which led to it. This idea would also
seem to be an occult remnant of the old
notion that the glove might conceal O.
weapon. Hence true courtesy and
friendship required that the hand should
be naked, as proof of good faith.
Year: 1870

From the New York Herald, 18th inst.


But what is the prospect, looking to-
ward these approaching elections for
the next Congress? From the late cleo
tions in New Hampshire and Connecti-
cut the two parties throughout the
country remainJsubstaptia as they
were in 1868. Under Andy Johnson the
Republicans had to fight the combined
forces of administration and the Democ-
racy. Now they have the administra-
the embodiment and foreordained can
didate of the party for the Presidential
succession. They elected General
Grant upon the policy of Congress
against the policy of Johnson; now they
will go inte the campaign for the next
Congress upon the policy of General
Grant, and they will be supported by all
the party machinery of his administra-
ton. In short, the Republicans in
Grant and his administration have a
common rallying point which gives
them vantage ground apparently quite
as strong as that which the Democratic
party held under General Jackson.


In his retrenchments, revenue re-
forms and savings, and reduction of the
national debt, General Grant has already
made for his administration a record
much liked by the people. In the Fif-
teenth Amendment and the general
questions of equal civil and political
rights, regardless of race or color, or Of
sex, we may say, too, his course has
been so bold, clear and emphatic, that
we may safely venture the opinion that
he and the party which he represents
will. at least for the present, secure al
most en- naasse the new American voting
element of the North and most ] kelly
the mass of this important political bal
ance of power to the South.


The Republicans in Congress are any
thing but unit on the tariff question,
and this may give them some trouble
in these approaching elections. The
new movement of the labor reformers,
on the other hand, in the last New
Hampshire election, actually cut into
the camp of the Democracy. So far,
indeed, as cohesion is considered, the
Republicans in General Grant have the
advantages of an official leader, a recog-
nized candidate and a positive policy,
while the Democrats outside Of New
York are without a recognized leader or
candidate or any thing as policy, ex-
cept the policy, hit or miss, of oppOsi-
tion to the party in power and General
Grants administration. Such being the
conditions and positions of the two par
ties, the prospect is that the next Con-
gress will be practically continuation
of the present Congress, and that the
Democrats in this years State elections
will make little if any headway indica-
ting political revolution in 1872.
Year: 1870

The Irish Republic in its disposition
of the whisky question says: Rum is
the base of crime. Remove this, and
you can make bontires of the gallows
and turn your prisoners into schools"
Year: 1870

Granite forms very excellent but an
extensive door stone. A correspondent
of the Lewiston Journal thinks he has
found cheaper and quite as substantial
plan. He ays:-'I made square boxes
at the door where wanted the steps or
door Stones just in the shape desired
the door-stcps. ! then mixed up coarse
gravel and cement and made mortar OF
concrete, mixing in cobble stones, and
filed these boxes or moulds. In short
time removed the moulds and plae ed
boards over the steps for people to walk
over till the concrete was hardened.
These cement steps remain perfect, neith-
err the frost nor weather having injured
them, and they are now so hard that they
wear as little by walking over them as
would common stone. think this the
cheapest way to get up set oil door
stones. They should be made in the spring
of the year so they can have the summer
and fall to harden in"
Year: 1870

at The table be genial kind, social and
cheering. Don't bring disagreeable things
to the table in your conversation, any
more than you would in your dishes.


For this reason, too, the more good
company you have at your table, the bet
ter for Your children. Every converse
ton with company at your table is an
educator of the family. Hence the intel
ligcnce, the refinement and the appro-
pirate behavior of \ family which is given
TO hospitality. Never feel that intelligent
visitors can be anything but a blessing to
YOU and yours. How few have fully
gotten hold ofthe fact, That company and
conversation at the table are no small
part Of education!
Year: 1870

TABLE CONVERSATION. A great deal OF
character is impaired and received at the
table. Parents too often forget this; ana
therefore, instead of swallowing your
food in sullen silence, instead of severely
talking about Others, let the conversation
Year: 1870

A prudent man advised his drunk
en- servant to put by his money for
a rainy day. In few weeks the
master inquired how much of his
wages he had saved " Faith, none
at ALL" said he; " it rained yester.
day and it all went"
Year: 1870

A young gentleman sent seventy
five cents to New York, recently,
for method Of writing without pen
or. ink. He received the following
inscription, in large type, on card;
" Write with a pencil"
Year: 1870

4 foolish old bachelor says: "Young
men, keep clear of calico if you want to do
anything great. Calico is baneful institu.
ton. a pair of sweet lips, a pink waist,
and the pressure of delicate hand will do
as much to uuhinge q man as the measles
and the doctors bill to boot.
Year: 1870

Day by day deepening the matter of per-
maneny improving the extensive river front of this city,
the whole work of which has been entrusted known
to the Commissioners of Docks appointed by Mayor Hail.
The magnitude Of the undertaking and the value of she pro-
perty In trust s such that not only the mercantile inter
ests of the metropolis much concerned In the engineering
enterprises but the whole country looks single eye
to the intelligent discharge Of the responsible duties devov
ing upon the members Of the commission To this re-.
sponsby properly task far from being easy there
the least doubt will be done the spirit demanded
by the community, and the time 10 far distant when
miles Of tumbledown rotten wooden wharves that
encrc.e the city viii be replaced by piers that will with
stand the and tear OF business and the onslaught of
elements for centuries. Almost nine months have passed
the creation OF the Board empowered this
"erectng system Of permanent wharves, docks
sins at annual expenditure Of $80000O0 for many
years shall be necessary complete -and though the
prelminaries Of the vast enterprise have yet only
started upon, the Commssoners' la have been very
great and have been satisfactorily performed adapt
alton Of this vast work 10 the requirements Of New
commerce. both present and in the future 1t 10 almost
peruous to remark that 10 Of the greatest Importance
the utmost caution should be used h the selection of the
Of the many plans submitted for adoption, and that the
cognzed engineering talent OF the country should be


ployed in carrying out the projected improvements.


This task s at delicate and responsible The plan
determined and the work done, expendng many mil


lions Of dollars cannot be performed the second time
must stand monument Of the wsd mhecility of
suoso " cnaIeo. upon s successiW compieuon depends


In no small degree the future commercial greatness of Sew
York, and will not be unwse in suggesting that In It's
formance the Board should perhaps be guided by the
rience of other and older municipalities who have
through the work Of the construction of
and pier systems similar to that uron which are just be-
ginning Many will be the words of opposition melted by
the defeated who energecally moving become
interested IN this vast work, but that natural and viii not
provoke the of the commission the
swervng from their settled purpose in the essential
ticular Of Grmness they must be 8 q unit.


The docksof Liverpool have river frontage OF IL miles
exclusive Of those at Brkenhead lying directly opposite,
South Brooklyn s to New York. The largest sized ships
Year: 1870

ORIGIN OF THE ENGLlsH "GUiNEA."
The guinea obtained its name from
the gold from which it was made,
having been brought from the GUM
ca coast by the African company Of
traders. The first notice ofthis gold
was in l6lO, during the Common
wealth Of England, when on the l4th
Of April of that year the parliament
referred to the council of state q pa
per presented to the house concern.
ing the coinage Of gold brought In a
ship lately come from gainy, for the
better advancing OF trade. But it
was in the reign Of Charles II. that
the name was first given to this coin.
It is among things not generally
known, that when the guinea was
originally coined, the intention was
to make it current as twenty shil-
ling piece, but from an error, or rath-
er a series Of errors, in calculating
the exact proportions Of the value OF
gold and silver, it never circulated
for that value. Sir Isaac Newton, in
his time, fixed the true value OF the
guinea, in relation to silver Mt 2Os.
Cd, and by his advice the crown pro.
claimed that for the future it should


be current at 2ls. A curious qnes
ton arises out Of the fact alluded to:


How many millions OF money has the
English public lost by the payment
Of 4 guinea when a twenty shilling
piece would have sufilced had tht


costly error never have been faller


into. sha ~ ai @
Year: 1870




Ed. V. B. Press:


The Radicals are jubiant over the elec
ton of William M Fishback, whom they
have taken into full fellowship, and now
indorse him as Simon pure radical OF
the Brindle Tail species, died in the wool.
Judge Ham declared in the presence of
several gentlemen to. day that if he had
known that Col. Fishback was as sound
a radical as he has since proved to be,
that he would have electioneered for him
on the day Of election; and Mr. Mckee
and numerous other republicans say that
they are satisfied with his election, and
all say that he will oppose call for a
Convention to form new constitution
Fishback admits that he called meeting
of the prominent radicals at his office
the night before the election. What
pledges he made is not known. The
Herald bosts OF the glorious triumph.
What will our Conservative friends now
say when they hear of the late political
apostacy Of Fishback?


SEBASTIAN.
We are glad to know, Notwithstanding
the traitorous conduct of the Herald this
corrupt demagogue is not elected. .-Ep.
Year: 1870

~ Col Stacy, general contractor OF
the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad
returned to this place the first OF the
week. He has sub-let portion of the
Grading from here down to Frog Bayou
and men arc now actively at work. Van
Buren presents lively appearance, and
If there are, now, any that have doubts
Of the Building of this Road, they should
take ride out on the locations.