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Year: 1870

IF3 Here is the plthiest sermon ever
preached:


Our ingress in life is naked and bare;
our progress through life is trouble and
care; our egTess out of it We know not
where; but doing we'll here, we shall
do we'll there
Year: 1870

DAY AND NIGHr IN SwEpEN.-The pe.
culisrities of day and night in Sweden
etrike Che traveller very forcibly, after
being accustomed to the temperate zone.
In june the sun goes down in Stockholm
little before ten o'clock. There is a
great illumination all night, as the sun
passes round the earth toward the North
Pole, and the refraction of its rays is such
that you can see to read at midnight with
out any artificial light There is noun
tain at the head of 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 con-
veying those who are curious to witness
the phenomenon. 1t occurs only on one
night. The sun reaches the horizon YOU
car. see the whole face of it, and in five
minutes more it begins to rise. At the
North Cape, latitude 72 deg. the sun does
not go down for several weeks. In June it
would be about 25 deg. above the horizon
at midnight. In the winter the sun dis
appears, and is not seen for weeks; then
it comes, and remains for ten or fifteen
minutes, after which it descends, and fin
ally does not set at all, but makes almost
circie around the heavens.
Year: 1870

THE WORK Co.'s BRAvELY ON--The
Little Rock Gdsette of the 18th, says
the rails on the Little Rock and Fort
Smith Railroad rhave been laid for .
distance of ten miles, and that Yesterday
the 18th, one and half miles were laid,
and the work is being rupIdly pushed for
ward At this rate the Palarm will be
reached in week The ties have been
placed and are ready for the rails beyond
the Palarm about ten miles. Within
three weeks the cars will be running a
distance of thirty miles


Capt. MEAD, the locating engineer, ar
rived in our city on Saturday, and re
ports the work of surveying pro! ressing
finely. The advance party are some dis
tancc this side of Clarksville. He also,
tells us there is detachment of Engi-
ncers surveying from Dardanelle up, on
the south side of the river to Fort Smith


As there has been great deal said
about the advantages to be derived by
taking that route in preference to the one
on the North side of the river, the com
pany desire to see for themselves, by
actual survey. And also. to ascertain
what inducements Fort Smith and the
counties through which the road passes,
would offer for the transfer.


Feeling fully satisfied that an examina-
ton Of the two routes will result in our
favor, we are glad to learn that the En-
gineers are giving that route a careful
examination. We trust, however, that
all the Counties on the North side Of the
river, will prove diligent, and come for
ward at once and extend the desired
County aid, and place the Road beyond
pcradyenturc, where it rightfully belongs
on the North side of the river. What
says Franklin, johnson and Pope?


T. S-Since the above was in type we
have received Il communication from an
influential citizen of Franklin county, on
the question of subscribing county aid
to the above road. Read it
Year: 1870

EF The following Preain ale and Reso-
lutions were adopted by the Grand Jury
Of Washington county, at its recent SIT
sing, and were ordered published and
presented to the County Court of that
county The subject is one that is worthy
of the attention of the court and citizens
of this county:


WHEREAS, In the performance OF our
duties as Grand Jurors, we have occasion
to notice with shame and regret, large
proportiontion of violations of law and
order that have originated directly or in
directly in or about places where intoxl-
eating drinks are kept for sale. And
whereas, we are duly convinced that
Licensed Dram Shops" are evils in our
midst, exerting bad influence over so
ciety generally and especially destructive
to the morals of the youth OF our land
And whereas the expense incurred by
the county in prosecuting criminal cases
having their origin in drunken rows, etc,
are ten times greater than the amount re-
ceived by the, County Treasurer for Ii
censed Dram Shops, therefore


be IL Resoired, By the Grand jury Of
Washington county, that as matter Of
economy as well as duty we owe the youth
of our land, to our unfortunate fellow
citizens who sometimes lose control of
their appetitcs and to the helpless females,
our mothers wives and daughters that we
enter our solemn protest against the
further granting of License to Retailing
Year: 1870

SOME cooks will throw out water in
which meats have been boiled, without
letting it cool to take off the fat.


Bits of meat are thrown out which
would make hashed meat or hash.


The flour is sifted in wasteful manner,
and the bread pan left with the dough
sticking to it.


Pie crust is laid by to sour, instead OF
making tarts for tea.


Cold pudding is considered good for
nothing, when ottentimes it can be steam
ed for the next day.


Vegetables are thrown away that would
warm for breakfast nicely.


Dish-cloths are thrown down where
mice can destroy them.


The scrubbing brush is left in the
water.


Tubs and barrels are left in the sun TO
dry and fall apart.


Nice handled knives are thrown into
hot water.


Silver spoons are used to scrape kettles.
Cream is allowed to mold and spoil.


Coffee, tea, pepper, and spices are left
to stand open and lose their strength.


The cork is left out of the molasses jug,
and the flies take possession.


Vinegar is drawn in tin basin and al
lowed to stand until both basin and vine-
gar are spoiled.


Dried fruit is not taken care of in sea-
son, and becomes wormy- Western Rural.
Year: 1870

WHEN everything is counted, it will be
found that the sum total of our lives re-
solves itself into but two things, anticipa-
.tion and memory. The pleasures and
miseries of the moment are ephemeral,
and only to be taken note of as they have
been looked forward to, or as they leave
their record in the past. In youth, life is
richest in anticipations; but as the years
roll on, the mind acquires the habit of
looking backward, and when old age is
come, there is nothing left but memories
this side the grave.


Fortunate is that man who, In the
midst of the cares and trrmoils of busy
and often unsatisfactory life, has happy
childhood to look back upon-a picture.
gallery of loving faces that once formed
home circle; record of sunny years
which includes gentle tones, kind actions,
cheerful surroundings, smiling skies, twit-
tering birds, blooming flowers, and inno-
cent amusements. Whoever robs child
of these, robs him of more than he can
ever return to him in any other shape. A
close, hard, narrow life lived in childhood
not only dwarfs the future mans whole
moral and affectional nature, but leaves
him no blessed store of memories to fall
back upon when the present is unsatis-
flying.


Make your little child happy Provide
for him what epjoyments you can, be they
great or small, and begrudge no money
that you can spare in securing him these
In doing this you are not only giving him
present pleasure, which is a great deal, as
in youth impressions are stronger and
more readily received, and the capacity
for enjoyment consequently greater; but
you ere really laying up store of happi-
ness for him in memories which shall last
him all his life.


Let the whole atmosphere which sur
rounds your children be so impregnated
with affection, that they shall breathe it
in, as it were, at every inspiration, and
their hearts will grow larger, and their
blood run the clearer and purer for it.
/ Let your own lives, mothers and fathers,
be so upright and 80 pure, that when you
have passed away and your children have
taken your places, your memories will be
enshrined In their hearts, and halo will
surround them like the aureole of saint.
Sitting, my friend, by the evening fire.
side sitting in your easy chair at rest,
and looking at the warm light on the rosy
face of your little Toy or girl sitting on
the rug before you, do you ever wonder
what kind of remembrance those little
ones will have of you, if God spares them
to grow old9 Look into the years to
come; think of that smooth face lined
and roughened; that curly hair gray
that expression, now so bright and happy,
grown careworn and sad; and you, long
IN your grave. Of course, your son will
not have quite forgotten you; he viii
sometimes think and speak of his father
VINO Is gone. What kind of remembrance
will he have of you?
Year: 1870

IT is really terrible to find out every
day some new danger to which we are
exposed. If there is gone thing, which
people have hitherto confided in, it is a
pill box; it is allowed to lie about any.
where, it is shut up in drawer or a cup,
board, or is carried in the pocket. A
general panic will therefore be caused
in many household by the &C
count given in the Pharmaceutical
Journal of what recently befell lady for
whom a doctor had prescribed twenty
four pills, each containing two grains OF
the oxide of silver, a twenty fourth of a
grain of muriate of morphia, and suffi-
ciency of extract of gentian, the pills be-
ing coated with silver in the usual man
ner. The pills, it is stated, were delivered
to the patient in an ordinary pill box; but
the lady, being in her nursery, and hav-
ing no pocket In her dress, placed the box
in her bosom, probably next the skin.
Little did this unfortunate lady know the
deadly peril which awaited her. In three
quarters of an hour a severe explosion
occurred her underclothes were reduced
to a tinder, she was seriously burned, and,
but that she had the presence of mind to
extinguish the flame with her hands, she
would have been destroyed. Oxide
of silver, being reduced by contact
with vegetable extracts, is, it seems,
in the habit of exploding 1t is really
as well people should be made aware of
the danger they run, in order that they
may have magazines for pill boxes attach
ed to their dwellings. We should also be
glad to know if pills of this nature are
liable to explode after being swallowed.
No information is given on this point,
which is of some little importance but
the Lancet, for our consolation, under the
head of Things not Generally Known"
says that similar occurrence has been
known in compounding the extract of
colocynth with the oxide of silver, and
that with creosote of oil of cloves this salt
is reduced to the metallic state with the
production of heat, amounting often to an
explosion. In fact, there are some pills
which are nothing more or less than in
fernal machines, and people with volcanic
temperaments and undermined constitu-
tions, for whom they are prescribed,
should be careful to take them in secluded
spots, where no one but themselves can
be injured in the event of an explosion.
--,ScSent!fc american.
Year: 1870

THE word "fast " has latterly obtained
peculiar significance as indicating a ten
deney to general high living and indul-
gence in sensual pleasures. A man of
reckless expenditure, who indulges him
self in all that can crafty his sensual
tastes, is a :" fast man in the common
sense Of the term This expressive ad-
jective has also been applied to those who
habitually risk money in games of chance,
and has in some instances been coupled
with the names of others, who speculate
in doubtful stocks.


We have come to the conclusion that
sensual indulgence, exciting games of
chance, or speculation in fancy stocks, are
not the only ways in which men may live
too fast.


Many godly and devout divine is a
fast man. Many an editor, lawyer, mer-
chant, or scientific man, against whom no
thought of suspicion exists as to the
soundness of his moral character, is fast
in as just, though not in so reprehensible
sense, as the man who wastes his sub
stance in riotous living.


Fast living in the sense of such living as
shortens life, is a much more common
evil than it is generally regarded. We
have been an observer of faces and char
acter for long time, as we have had op-
portunity in cars, stage coaches, and our
daily intercourse with men, and we be-
lieve that in the vast majority of cases it
would be found that the rapidity Of the
pulse in Americans is above the normal
standard. Every mans life may be
measured by pulse beats. He will live,
accident excepted, to make a definite
number of these, and his life will be
shortened in proportion to the excess of
work performed by his vital organs, in a
given time.


Excitement, physical or mental, is the
cause of the rapid rate at which most
American people are living. The love
for excitement is q vice, as positively evil
in its effects as the love for strong drink,
RIGHTEOUSNESS, or gambling. 1t matters
not what kind of excitement all excite
ment is fast living, and begets feeling of
exhaustion In intervals of Indulgence,
which clamors for relief from some other
form Of stimulalt.


Thus it is that the universal demand for
artificial stimulants has increased, until
there is perhaps not one in q thousand
who does not resort to something of this
kind. Alcohol, absinthe, opium, hashish,
tobacco, coffee, tea, or whatever else it
may be, is taken to support the system
under the effect of nervous prostration,
to supply in another form the excitement
which it Graves.


Now all this is just the reverse of what
should be the case. Instead of seeking
excitement, health and long life demand
that we should shun it. The natural,
healthy condition of the mind and body
is that of unruffled calmness. If excite
ments occur, they should be exceptional,
not the rule of life. AS soon as they be-
come necessity there is diseased state
of mind and body, and the candle begins
to burn at both ends-Scientifc american.
Year: 1870

THE Superintendent of the New JERSEY
Southern Railroad has issued the following
order: Employees of this company are
prohibited the use of smoking to oacco, in
any of its forms, while on duty. Its use
is hindrance to, and inconsistent with,
the duties of all employees, while to such
as come in contact with the travelling
public, the order has additional force from
the fact that to so many of the latter
tobacco in any form is offensive"
Year: 1870

A clerical principal of an Episcopal
board ing school for boys called bis pu-
pills together at the beginning of Lent,
and gave them a short lecture upon self.
denial and self-sacrifiee, and advised
them to select some article of food with
which they would dispense during the
season of Lent. The boys were directed
to go into room by themselves, and,
after deciding what luxury they would
give up, to return to the chapel aud re-
port their decision. The boys retired,
aad soon returned and made ;he follow.
ing report:


Respected Principal: / have the
honor to report that your pupils have
religiously considered the subject sub
mitted to them by your reverence, and
have unanimously voted to dispense
with hash during Lent.
Year: 1870

Head aches, nervous as we'll as others,
arise from torpid state of the stomach,
liver and bowels. Never take any min
erals or mOrphia for il. They hurt more
than they do good. But take Rosenheim's
Stomach Bitters; the Great Western
Remedy, and you are sure of a cure
See Advertisement.
Year: 1870

THEODORE TILToN, Of the New York
Independent, thinks it is time Congress
was made to understand that the people
are disgusted with the income tax-this
war tax in time of peace. But what
does Congress caro- about the peoplei
Year: 1870

A Massachusetts, doctor prescribed
one drachm of morphine for sick pa
tient, when he meant to prescribe one
grain. The druggist called upon to put
up the prescription discovered the mis-
take and knew that it would have killed
the patient, but the papers withheld the
names of both physician and druggist
for "obvious reasons"
Year: 1870

Take what is usually left, and other
wise lost, of boiled ham, chop fine, add
as many eggs as you have persons to eat
and small amount of -four; beat to-
eether and make into balls. Fry in q
little butter to a nice brown.
Year: 1870

The following is the recipe for making
the Justly celebrated pop over cake. 1t
is said it is we'll worth trial. One cup
of milk, one cup of -four, one cup OF egg,
a little pinch of salt; increase in pro-
portion to the family.
Year: 1870

Beat the white of an egg to q froth;
put into it a lump of butter, and turn
the coffee into it gradually, so it may
not curdIe 1t is said to be difficult to
distinguish the taste from fresh cream.
Year: 1870




The remarkable success which attended our
negotiation Of the Loans Of the CENTRAL PACIFIC
RAILxoAp COMPANY and the WTsrExS Pacific
RAILROAD CoNPASr, and the popularity and
credit which these Loans have maintained in
the markets, both in this country and Europe
have shown that the First Mortgage Bonds Of
wisely located and honorAbly managed Railroads
are promptly recognized and readily taken -
the most suitable, safe, ard advantageous form
of investment, yielding mere liberal income
than can hereafter be derived from Government
Bonds and available 10 take their place.


Assured that, in the selection and negotiation
of superior Railroad Loans We are meeting .
great public want and rendering valuable
scrvice-both 10 tho holders OF Capital ard TO
those great National works Of internal improve.
meRt whosc intrinsic merit and substantial
character en:itle them TO the use OF Capital and
the conf ieuce Of investors-we now offcr with
special confidence and satisfaction the
Year: 1870

EVERYTHING AND DEvERYBODY.-Everybo body
is growing, and everybody agrees that
everything is wrong; and there is nobody to
set things right. Everybody agrees tba,
everything is too high. land, rent, labor,
food, clothing, taxes, but nobody can reduce
bis articles unes all others reduce also,
and at the same time. Labor and material
cost so much that the house owner cannot
reduce bis rent-rents are SO high that the
dealer cannot reduce bis wages, taxes are so
high that capital must have large interest,
land and labor are SO high that the farmer
and stock raiser cannot reduce the cost Of
human food, wool, cotton, machinery and
labor are so high that clothing cannot be
offered cheaper-the cost of living is 90
much tha. lbs mechanic and laborers canuo,
work for less wages, and this high system,
while 1t is ali ruinous, must be maintain cd
until it topples all together. Because Of it
trade langushes. Everybody expects
change soon, and hence no one will enter
on any business or upon any enterprise at
present.. There are 10 the savings banks
here hundreds and thousands of dollars that
no one seeks, and the money is pouring 10
there every day 10 great quantities. Every
man is afraid TO borrow at present rates Of
interest and wages under the aforesaid belief;
and We hold the anomaly that while money
is plenty and labor plenty there is neither
enterprise nor business in proportion there
to, because people are afraid 10 empty Ell
ther at present rates. And yet working
men cannot afford TO labor for less than
they now receive while they have to pay so
much for rent, beef, clothing, and all The
nscsssaries and comforts OF life If one
thing comes down all must come, and unless
all come, California cannot compete with
eastern manufacturers.


We are now in a transition state--passing
between the opening Of the railroad which
has brought the world TO our doors, and the
time when we shall be assimilated with that
world. 1t is The most difficult period Of our
existence. 1t is not easy to abandon old
habits, even though they be not adapted to
present wants aud emergencies; and nothing
but the force of circumstance can prevail on
the public to suit itself TO the times. Indi-
vidusls and even communities may, but the
public itself is fearfully conservative and will
cling 10 odd customs long after they ought
to be out Of date. Gradually, however, aud
certainly, will this change come over US,
and then prosperity will smile upon us
again, aod We shall wonder why we could
have been SO stupid rs not to have adapted
oursel YES 10 facts long before Sac. Daily
Bee. ....
Year: 1870

This property is known as the eastern portion
of the old and well-known COX RANCH, lying
six miles north of Lincoln, and three miles east
of Sheridan on the Marysvile and Sacramento
Railroad, now in operation it is we'll watered, =
Coon creek passing through the whole length of
:he Ranch, furnishing an abundance of living wa
ter the year around. The ranch contains
Year: 1870

For years Iowa has been under Re
publican control. Usually, whenever
a party has been long in power, it
grows corrupt and spendthritt. This
was SO characteristically the way with
the Democratic party that the people
have come to expect it of every party.
1t is a just pride of Iowa Republicans
that the party, after SO many years i'll
power, was never SO much disposed to
put unexceptionable and pure men in
office, never SO much disposed to insist
upon economy and retrenchment as
now. And tins Is no party dodue, no
mere empty and deceptious promise.
Tho report of the State Treasurer Tor
the year just closing shows an econo-
my OF administration and financial
prosperity unparalleled in the history
OF any State.-lGate City.
Year: 1870

While Adam slept, God from him took
A bone; and, as an omen,
lie made it like seraph loak,


And thus created woman.
He took this bone, not from his pate,
10 show her power more ample,
Nor from his feet, to designate
-, - That he on her might trample'
But heath his arm, to clearly show
Hs always should protect her
And near his heart to let him know
How much he should respect her.
He look this bone, crooked enough,
Most crooked Of the human,
To show him how much crooked stuff
He'd always find in woman.
Year: 1870

Teachers are wanted in two or three
schools in the county. II cannot be
said that the supply is greater than the
demand in this department OF indus
try. These are the times for the best
teachers to rise.
Year: 1870

Bishop Simpson estimates that it
will take three thousand years to con-
vert the world, at the present rate of
progress. The Bishop does not intend
to stay and see the job completed.
Year: 1870

Letter frcni Her Captain to rhe People OF


New York.


No. CHARTER STREET, BOSTON, Sept 1s 1870
To TIE EDITOR or THE HERAID:--


have 10 apologize to the people of New York and
beg Of them, through your columns, TO forgive me
for not going to- that port instead OF Boston.
was compelled, OH account OF contrary winds and
more especially Cn account Of the heavy easterly
gale which experienced on Georges Bank, to put
into Boston In order to get fresh provisions those
which had being partly destroyed through that
fearful night by salt water and also TO ind out and
remedy leak which caused me some uneasinesS
during the whole OF our eventful passage, q full
detail OF which viii be published as quickly as pos
slbe.


suppose that your are aware that we lost one
third or our crew on the passage. You are aware
also thar my destination was New York, having
cleared from Liverpool for that port. lf. therefore
.the public Will accept my apology rs q sufficient
reason for not gong there at first Will feel extreme
ly happy, ] ara sir, your 0bedlenf servant,


JOHN G. BUCKLEY,


Master City OF Rayusa.
Year: 1870

A GERMAN named Henry Link,
while working at his trade in Indianap-
oils. on Saturday last, was carrying
ladle with some fifty pounds Of molten
iron, when he tripped and fell. spat-
tering the contents all over himself.
In falling he fell on bis left side, in a
pool of the melted iron spilled from
the ladle. and was in a moment burned
in most horrible manner, his left
arm and side being burned to crisp
almost. His recovery is not des-
paired Of,
Year: 1870

The beneficial effects Of these Bit
tiers can be attested by thousands
who have used them and acknowI-
edge them superior to any thing Of
the kind ever before offered TO the
public


As a sure cure for Diarhea, Loss
of Appetite, Fever and Ague, ChoI-
era Morbus, Coic, Dyspepsia, Gen
eraI Debility or Nervous Headache,
this medicine has no equal It is
especially recommended to persons
travelling, as tending to counteract
the effects Of change Of water


These Bitters should be found
upon the Side-board Of every family
as we'll as the Bar Of every weII-regu-
lated Hotel.