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Year: 1870

On q hot summers noon. once iazily sat
In the shade Of the Old Maple Tree,


That grew on tho edge


OF the rank growing sedge,
Which borders she green grassy lea.
And thought to myself how pleasant


'twouid be
II were that quiet Old Rock Maple Tree.
lay on the grass, with my head on my arm,
( Gazing up at its glossy green leaves;


And seeing how bright


They shone In the light,
As they duttered about in the breeze.
They swung 70 and mo, from sunlight to shade
As merry and blythe as the birds


That built in those limbs


And there sung their hymns
GODS praises unfettered by words,
Audi said to myself, how fine twere to be
Such > sheitering. friendly Old Rock Maple
passed 1t again, in the deep winter time,
When the earth was white with snow;
And icicles hung


Where the birds had sung,


Buta few short months ago.


Pierced its side, to gather Its sap;


And 10 sveeten his cup,


The Old Maple gave up
The fruits Of Its long winternap,
And thought as saw Il, how noble to be
As faithful and good as that honest Old Tree.
A fierce thunder-gust seized the sturdy Old
Tree,


And hurled it In rage to the ground;


And saw with concern


What the tempest had done,
II ForI felt was loosing . friend.
The farmer came out with his oxen and chains
And dragged the Old Maple Tree home
And long afserst twas dead


It's blazing logs shed


Cheerful warmth in the family room,
And I wished, when thought Of that Old


Maple Tree, -f7
Year: 1870

Ell


How is battle fought? Withstre-
.mendous volleys, the ranks standing
firm and steady as on dress PARADE
with enthusiasm, with deafeiiing
cheers, with music, and finished by
glorious bayonet charger Nothing
of the kind. Here are simply spme
thousands of men on either side who
have been marched out this pleasant
day TO butcher each other. Modern
firearms are terribly effective wea-
ponsl; good Springfield musket will
kill at thousand yards; and by the
time you have drawn these opposing
forces TO within two hundl ed yards
of each other, or about the distance
across good-sized wheat-field, the
battle is resolved into simple prob
lem which army can stand the most
killing and wounding without break
ing up? When chat question is an-
swered, you can tell which side will
be victorious. The business of the
officers is to hold the men to the work
Ito compel them to load and fire un-
til so, many of the enemy are pu
hors az combat that he is forced to
withdraw. Take your regiment into
battle as orderly as you may, before it
has been under fire half an hour it
will become resolved into knots and
groups fsom the drawing together to
fill the places of these stricken down
acd the survivors win be lying or
kneeling, forced down by the irresist-
ible instinct of self-preservation.
Year: 1870

dilGULTIvATE CHEERFULNEss. - An
anxious, restless temper that runs to
meet care on its way, that regrets lost
opportunities too much and that is
over-painstaking in contrivances for
happiness, is foolish, and should not
be indulged. If you cannot be happy
in one way, be happy in another; and
this facility Of disposition wants but
little aid from philosophy, for health
and good-humof are almost all that
are requisite. Many run about after
happiness, like an absent man hunting
for his hat, while it is on his head or
in his hand. Though sometimes small
evils. like invisible insects, inflict
great pain, and single hair may stop
vast machine, yet the chief secret OF
comfort lies in not suffering tri1es to
vex one, and in prudently cultivating
an underground of small pleasures,
since very few great zones, alas! are let
on long leases. Bszfa Z.
Year: 1870

This massive testimonial is solid
proof of the sincere regard in which
Medary was held by thousands who
knew him as an earnest, honest, and
upright journalist, and admired him
for the fearlessness with which he de.
Tended what he considered to be right


1t is tribute to virtues that are al
once precious and rare. The monu-
ment was erected by political and per.
sonal friends of the deceased states
man and the voluntary contributors
to the testimonial will feel sense OF
qualification in learning that their
tribute to the memory of a good and
true man has been embodied in en-
during marble.
Year: 1870

CHEERFUL Description o. AN EXPLOSION -
They have pleasant way Of writing up casual
ties out West The result of burning stolen
wood which had been prime1 with guuposder
IS thus described


On gong to the spot a sight might have been
seen. The stove had joined conference a
kettle Of pork and cabbage shot up through the
root like an arrow. dish of apples stewing
on the stove gave the ceiling the appearance Of
the map Of California A cat sleeping under the
stove vent through after the Doctor. The
cat has not been heard from since, but smell
of burnt hair pervsdes that house very thorough
ly. fat-iron was hoiste1 into pan of
dough. chair lost three legs. wood box looks
sick, while the rest of the house looks like
bur ted dumping. The occupants of the ruin
are unable to Sccount for the explosion. other
wise than that the house was struck by light
ming. They express their determination to pur-
chase lightning rcd.
Year: 1870

hsve seat At each end, with an awning over
the top to protect the occupants from the sun.
The carriage part has iron sxles and four clip
tic springs size of wheels three and four feet ;
rim, three inches wide. On the side Of the car
riage Will be two floats, metallic cylinders, made
Of galvanized iron, cigar shaped. fourteen feet
loug and sixteen inches in diameter Their
buoying capacity will be about two thousand
pounds each. The carriage will have an open
slate bottom, and will carry twelve persons.
The mode of getting the carriage out into the
surf will be BY ropes. a rope will run from it
to an anchor in the water. and another TO the
shore the carriage can be sent ont to any
depth desired, or return to the land, at the will
Of the occupants.-HgraIsS Journal
Year: 1870

Dear Joe, am here by the FIRE,


Just as ran up from the dance,
In Il robe even you would admire,


1t cost a cool thousand in France;
I'm be-diamonded out of all reason.


My hair is done up in a cue,
In short, sir, ''the belle Of tho season.
Is wasting an hour on you
All! twas but this moment while sitting
Beneath the great bronze chandelier,
In the hustle and glitter BETTING


The finest soiree of the year
In the midst Of Gau1e de CtamJeyrv,
And the hum Of the smallest of talk,
Somehow, Joe, | thought of the Ferry"
And the dance that we had on the Fork y
OF the moon that was quietly sleecing,
On the hill when the time came to 20,
Of the few little peaks that were peeping
From under the bed clothes of snow;
Of that ride that to me was the rarest,
Of the something you said at the gate
All, Joe! then WASH t an heircss


To the best paying lead iD the State.
"Well, WELL it, all past, yet it's funny
To think as stood in the glare
Of the fashion and beauty and money,
That | should be thinking right there,
OF someone who breasted high water,
And swan the North Fork and all tn st,
Juht To uanCe Win Ola r OIilnsDec Q4uXhter,
The Lily of Poverty Flat
But goodness, what nonsense I'm writing,
Mamma says my tastes arc still low,
Instead of my triumphs reciting,


I'm spooning on Joseph, Heigh no!
And I'm to be finished by travel,


What ever's the meaning of that,
o, why did papa strike pay gravel,
In drifting on Poverty Flat
Good night, here's the end of my paper,
Good night-if the longitude please,
For maybe while wasting my taper,
Your suns climbing over the trees;
But know if you haven't got riches,
And are poor, dearest Joe, and oil that,
That my hearts somewhere there in tho


bitches,


And you've laid it to Poverty Flat
Year: 1870

In the railroad this route the natural line be'e W
two Metropolitan Cities bengis straight line as the formation m
the country admit 20 miles shorter than the present most
popular route Is miles shorter than other possible rou


The two lines OF railroad between Newsven aud Boston, via Spring
field on the one SIDE Shore Line Through EewLonion 90 The
other are lines raveng the edges Of square which the New
Haven Mddleiogn and Wimanc Railroad Will cut dsgona The
position Of each road IN the following diagram:
Year: 1870

1t unnecessary remind the public that HOME ENTERPRISE
carried their Stae where all toe facts regard fully
known worthy Of attention than schemes for railroad building
projects parts Of the county which
interest The Managers of this Company well
Connecticut and the road sef important


internal Development which citizen Of the State must take
Year: 1870

left a son named John PemiscOtt.
A number of years ago, in making
an excavation into or near the foot
of Chickasawba mound, a portion Of
agigantic human skeleton was found.
The men who were digging, becom-
ing interested, unearthed the entire
skeleton, and from measurements
given us by reliable parties, the
frame Of the man to whom it belong
ed could not have been less than
eight or nine feet in height. Under
the skull, which easily slipped over
the head of our informant (who, We
will here state, is one Of our best
citizcns), was found a peculiarly
shaped earthen jar, resembling moth
ing in the way Of Indian pottery
which had before been seen by them.
1t was exactly the shape of the
round-bodicd, long-necked caraffes
or water decanters, a specimen of
which may be seen on Gaston's di-
ming table. The material of which
this vase was made was a peculiar
kind Of clay, and the workmanship
was very fine. The belly or body
of it was ornamented with figures
or hieroglyphics consisting of cor
rect delinention of human hands,
parallel to each other, open palms
outward, and running up and down
the vase, the wrists to the base and
the fingers toward the neck On ci-
ther side of the hands were tibia, or
thigh bones, also correctly dclinea-
ted, running around the vase. There
were other things found with the
skeleton, but this is all our inform
ant remembers. Since that time,
wherever an excavation has been in
the Chickasawba country, in the
neighborhood of the mound, similar
skeletons have been found, and un-
der the skull Of every one were found
similar funeral vases, almost exact
ly like the one described. There
are now in this city several Of the
vases and portions of the huge skel-
etons. One of the editors of the
-1pp"0f yesterday measured thigh
bone, which is fully three feet long.
The thigh and shin bones, together
with bones of the foot, stood up in a
proper position in physicians Of
flee in this city, measure five feet in
height, and show the body to which
the leg belonged to have been from
nine to ten feet in height. At Beau
forts Landing, near Bartield, in dig
ging a deep ditch, skeleton was
dug up, the leg Of which measured
between five and six feet in length,
and other bones in proportion. In
a very few days we hope to be able
to lay before our readers accurate
measurements, and description Of
the portions Of skeletons now in the
city, and Of the articles found in the
graves
Year: 1870

A FEW weeks ago young Welsh woman,
Miss Gwen Evans, applied at the office of
the United States District Court, at Helena,
and declared her intention of becoming a
citizen of the United States. The clerk, af-
ter careful study of the naturalization laws,
announced to her that she had as full right
to become citizen as though she were a
man. She received her certificate, and then
called upon the clerk to'make out her decla-
ratory statement under the pre-emption law
for one hundred and sixty acres of land in
Deer Lodge Valley, the description Of which
she furnished The statement was made
out and forwarded, and stands on the records
of the land office at Helena as No. 1000
This girl is building house on the farm, is
fencing in her domain, and already has it
stocked with cattle.
Year: 1870

Two workers in one field


Toiled on from day to day,
Both had the same hard labor,
Both had the same small pay;
With the same blue sky above,
The same green grass below,
One soul was full of love,


The other full of woe.
One leaped up with the light,
With the soaring of the lark;
One felt it ever night,


For his soul was ever dark,
One heart was hard as stone,


One heart was ever gay;
One worked with many groan,
One whistled all the day.
One had fower-clad cot


Beside merry mill,
Wife and children near the spot
Made it sweeter. fairer still;
One wretched hovel had,


Full of discord, dirt and din,
No wonder he seemed mad,


Wife and children starved within.
Still they worked in the same field,
Toiled on from day to day,
Both had the same hard labor,
Both had the same small pay;
But they worked not with one will,
The reason let me tell
Lo! the one drank at the still,
And the other at the we'll.
Year: 1870

The DISAPPEARING DARKEY.-The Phila-
delphia Age says; Recent investigations
show that the Southern Methodist Church is
rapidly losing its colored membership, there
being about nineteen thousand members this
year, against thirty-two thousand last year.
This fact opens wider field for comment
than can be titled in the crowded columns of
a daily journal. Is this lamentable fact to
be attributed to the sudden change in the re-
lations of four millions OF men and women un-
prepared for the temptations incident to their
new positions? Has the course of the Rad
ical party since emancipation tended to de-
moralize and degrade rather than elevate and
improve the colored race in this country p
What say Christian men and woman, in the
light of such fact as that in relation to the
loss of negro communicates in one branch of
the Christian Church? There is moral
side to this question which cannot be much
longer obscured by bigotry and partisan feel
ing. Christians will have to measure the re-
suits of these party attachments by the con-
dition of the negroes, and not by Radical
platforms or the speeches of blattering and
corrupt demagogues. In the meantime, will
the negro race wander farther and farther
from the needed restraints of religious organ
izations? If so, both the black man and the
nation will suffer"
Year: 1870

A SON of Governor Geary of Pennsylvania
is to take charge of the colored cadet at West
Point, and see that he is not eaten up by the
disgusted white trash. Poor boy! We al
lude to the colored boy.
Year: 1870

The Executive Mansion will soon be In proper con-
dOn 10 receive the President whO with his family w5
about the lst of October 10 is not thought tba
President will make visit TO Washington prior TO th
date which time al the members OF the Cabinet viii
also have returned.


The statistics OF the Freedmens Bureau show that the
business in the South has been closed excepting such
portions OF the educational interest dependent
and supported educational associations All agents
and aids Bureau have been h0nOraby discharged.
excepting those whose duties relate TO the payment OF
bOuuties Among the subscriptions received for the ben
eh of educational purposes contributions from
sons who figured prominently during the Late war on
fln aide nf the South.
Year: 1870

What would the Radicals do
without the Income Tax p
Nearly every dollar raised by
that heavy burthen upon the
people is absorbed by Radical
officials, and,s instead of going
into the Treasury to help to pay
the necessary expenses of the
Government, it is used to keeT
a corrupt party in power.
Year: 1870

not be successfully built here. There will be
several propositions laid before Congress in the
course of the present session looking to Il remedy
for this evil, even it it should be of some cost to
the national treasury. hope such encourage
ment will be given as will secure American ship
ping on the high seas, aud American ship build
ing at home.


PRESIDENT GRANTS POLICY.


In conclusion, | would sum up the policy of
the Administration to be thorough enforce
ment of every law, faithful collection of tax
provided for, economy in the disbursement of
the same, prompt payment of the debt of the
nation, reduction of taxes rapidly as the re-
quirement of the country will admit, so as to af-
ford the greatest good to the greatest number
honest and fair dealing with all other people to
the end that war, with all its hlghting conse-
quences, may be avoided, but without surrender
ing any right or obligation due to us a reform
in the treatment of the Indians and in the whole
civil service of the country and, finally, in se-
curing sure, untrammcled ballot, when every
man, entitled to cast vote, may do so just once
at each election without fear or molestation or
prescription on account of his political faith ma
tionality or color.
Year: 1870

TnE Western Union Telegraph Company have
inaugurated a system of Money Orders, some
thing similar to the Post Office Department All
Orders are to be sent by telegraph and the money
will be paid Immediately upon receipt of the
message.
Year: 1870

LET the boy whose highest aspiration is to be
a clerk in Il store, remember that good trade is
a far more desirable occupation. II is not only
likely to be more remnnerative in the end, but it
is decidedly more certain to secure the means Of
livelihood for its possessor. few years hence
only well-skilled mechanics will be able to COM
mand their own terms for their services.
Year: 1870

A WONDERFUL REGIoN.-Th BHHetiR says the
reports of the Yellowstone Exploring Expedition
read like romance. Canyons with vertical walls
that shut out the sum- waterfall that rivals if it
does not surpass Niagara, ellis that recall Gose-
mite, and thirmal springs that leap from fifty to
two hundred feet in the air-such are the more
remarkable natures of country which is alto
gether wonderful. If these reports are true
Montana will prove serious competitor to Cali
fornia, with her big trees, Yosemite, tall peaks
and geysers and nothing less than live vol
cano will serve to restore our supremacy. There
are said to be over two thousand hot springs,
strongly mineral, in one small valley of the Vel


owstoue region. One would think that this
must be the very centre of that tremendous vol
canic energy which at some remote period
marked the whole interior of the continent,
when perhaps the great basin was still salt sea
and the water was up to the highest of those
terraced lines which are still plainly visible.
We know comparatively little of the geology of


the middle continent, and what we do know, ex-
cites the keenest curiosity. The exploration of
Whitney, King and others, partial and limited,
and partly voluntary, have had valuable results
and it is to be hoped the national Government
will make annual appropriations to continue
scientific investigation in such vast and prom
isng field. Money could not be better expended
and no public works are so economically CON
Quoted as those of the scientific explorer.
Year: 1870

SALT FOR SwlNE.-Whie all other domestic
animals are regularly supplied with salt, the
hog is generally neglected lie requires, how
ever, to be as constantly supplied as the OK, the
horse, or the sheep, and suffers us much from pr-
vation as either Of the above animals do. His
food is almost invaribly given him in fresh
and unseasoned state and to this we may doubt
less attribute many of the vrulent and fatal dis
eases to which he is subject, and which stogger
all remedies, however skillfully administered.
If the food is not regularly seasoned, there
should be n trough or box in every sty, in which
salt may be deposited regularly for the use of
the animals Seasoning the food judiciously
would be much the best way. As seasoning the
food of the hog is mentioned above let it be un-
derstood that salt is only here alluded to, for if
any person should try seasoning with pepper
they will make great mistake for as much
pepper will suffice for mans dinner will
kill hog.
Year: 1870

cumstance is worthy Of record. The place
where it occurred is not mentioned


GA noise is heard deck, the dog-watch
sprung from his caboose, seized the gig whip,
and laying over the dead eyes of the buoy, made
him shin up the bowsprit, catch hold OF the sky
scraper, which he used so freely on the kelson
that he rubbed off the shoe of the anchor, which
was caught by the cat harpings, who commenced
to spanker the boom till she burst through the
stay, cutting the top-sail ties, grabbed the mon
keys tail, which knocked jew eye out Of a
Turks head, caught the ship round the waist
with one hand, boxed the compass with the
other, till the other cook cried, and the captain
applied the leeches of the foresail to the iniamed
eye of the sail-makers needle"
Year: 1870

The second annual message of President Grant
was delivered to Congress on the 5th inst. We
regret that we have not the space at our COM
mond to give the document in full. The follow
ing synopsis of its contents is taken from the
Sacramento Bee.
Year: 1870

The fact exists that the carrying trade is gone
almost entirely into foreign bottoms and while
this state of affairs exists we cannot control our
due share of the commerce of the world. That
between the Pacific States China and Japan is
about all the carrying trade now conducted in
American vessels.


| would recommend n liberal policy towards
that line of-Ameriean steamers; one that will
insure success, and even increase usefulness.
The cost of building iron vessels-the only ones
that can compete with foreign ships in the car
rying trade is so much greater in the United
States than in foreign countries that without
some assistance from the Government they can.
Year: 1870

PAIN KILLER The testimo mails borne to the
efficacy of this valuable medicine are sufficient
to warrant lis introduction in every house. Our
own opinion is that no family should be without
bottle for single hour. In flesh wounds ach es,
pains, sores &c. it is the most eIectua remedy
we know of. A bottle will last very long time,
and its low price places it within the reach OF all.
ST John Netcs.
Year: 1870

gsss- We arc glad to learn that the Pain XII
er is having so large sale in our city. We have
every reason to believe it to be an almost never
failing cure for pain, and medicine that no
family should be without. - .fontreai Pilot.


Tmh10 L
Year: 1870

FNHIS NEW AND POPULAR SALOON is


l. now open for the accommodation Of the pub
lie, who have already occupied the premises in
torce, and proceeded to make themselves at home.
The people know good liquors when they taste
'em and good cigars when they smoke 'cm; and
therefore when they have once been to the
UNION they are bound to call again and repeat.
The proprietors will keep none but the best arti-
cles, and they fatter themselves that they know
how to mix aud serve them. Call. o2.-tf.
Year: 1870

EASTER SuNDAY-CATHoLIC SERVICES - Father
Kelley will hold high mass here on Sunday, (to-
morrow, anl has engaged the Folsom Catholic
Choir to be here and sing the mass. As it will be
the the first full high mass ever celebrated in Au
burn, We hope there will be large attendance.
The Harmonian from Folsom will be sent up for
the occasion. We learn the Church will be prop
perly arranged and decorated for the occasion,
and a very large congregation will undoubtedly
be present.
Year: 1870

s STRaNGE Enthusiastically COW Of Daniel
Clicks near Lincoln, gave birth to calf with
the ears on its neck, and minus the upper jaw
and head though provided with nostls or
breathing holes W here the face should have been.
Also mare OF S. r. Elders few miles from
the above place had a colt that was perfect with
the exception that one Of its legs was only flesh
and hool, there being not 4 particle OF bone in
the composition Of the leg. Both OF these unnat-
ural and deformcd animals wcie still born, OF ut
least were dead when first discovered.