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Year: 1872

One OF the pests OF the farmer is rats.
To keep them within endurable bounds
is somewhat difficult matter, for a rat
is as cunning as fox and as hard to
catch; but there is such a thing as
working strategy on it. A rat never
digs hole unless it has some projec-
ton to begin with, cay a stone, stick
OF wood, or anything else that makes
an angle with the ground cellar wall
it likes the best. If a rat is chased in
cellar or other room, it will run
around by the wall, decidedly averse to
leaving it. From this habit we have a
hint how to outgeneral it. The COM
mon steel trap is the best article for the
purpose. Stand q box or barrel, or
other article, within four inches Of the
wall, and in that open space set trap,
without anything to hide it. The rat
in following the wall will 60 into the
trap rather than 60 round the barrel.
When it is caught smoke the trap with
a piece OF burning paper, shift your
barrel to another place, and set the
trap as before.


1t Is said that if a man hides where
crows frequent, and they see him 60
there, they will stay away uutil they
see him leave. If two men hide and
one leaves, the crows will come back
to the man that is left and this because
the crow cannot count. Thus with the
rat; there is something in the combi-
nation of the wall, the trap, and the
barrel that it does not seem to under
stand.
Year: 1872

jurors, from one of whom sufficient in
formation was obtained to cause the
arrest of q mulatto girl named Jane
Wiley. A warrant was accordingly
issued and placed in the hands OF the
Sergeant OF the town, who made the
arrest on Wednesday morning about
eight o'clock, the accused hav-
ing eluded said officers vigilance On
the evening and night of Tuesday. Drs.
Hunter and Austin, under instructions
from the Mayor, made an examination
to determine if the accused had recently
passed through childbirth, which re-
suited in revealing the fact that she
had. She was then questioned by the
Mayor as to the time Of her labor, and
the whereabouts OF her offspring. Her
disclosures were confused and OF such
a character as to justify her confinement
until the next term OF the Circuit
Court, when, in all probability, she will
be sentenced TO pay the penalty OF her
crime.-Greeabrier Independent.
Year: 1872

The slaughtering Of infants seems to
have become a common occurrence in
our midst. Tuesday last, the Both
ultimo, the body Of a dead child was
discovered concealed away in q private
out house on the premises of Victoria
Clay, bearing upon its body the plaiDest
evidence OF foul treatment. Informa-
ton of the discovery was At once fur
nished the Mayor of the town, who
Immediately issued his warrant
for q jury, for the purpose Of taking
an inouisition upon the body,
and procuring such facts as would
lead to the arrest and conviction Of the


base perpetrator of q most heinous
crime. The jury summoned upon the
occasion reported as their verdict that
the infant came TO its death by strangu-
lation." Witnesses were then sum
noaed to attend before the Mayor and
Year: 1872

The Sheriff Of Mineral county has
had great difficulty heretofore in col
lecting the school taxes for the different
townships, many persons refusing to
pay it because they claim the levy was
not made in accordance with law.
We see that he has made a wholesale
levy; and has in limbo about twenty
horses, which he has advertised to sell
on the 18th inst, to satisfy the amount
due. We presume come legal proceed
ings will be taken to prevent the sale.
.New Creek Tribune.
Year: 1872

LONDON, May GA conference o
the prominent members Of the Inter
national Society is being held here to.
night for the purpose Of deciding
upon a plan of action to be pursued
against certain Continental powers, and
more especially those Governments
that have recently inaugurated meas
ures for the suppression OF the Society.
The meeting is 4 secret one and the
proceedings will not be given to the
public. Representatives from several
foreign branches Of the Society are in
attendance.
Year: 1872

A lecture was delivered in Boston few
days since on "On Bonuets" The coal
scuttle, the close cottage, the kiss-me-quick,
the Quaker bonnet and the three-decker
were handsomely detailed for Q woman's
delight and amusement
Year: 1872

a Young lady requested to he released from
riagc engagement OH The ground that when con
tracted she hclirNcd her lover duck hut since
found him to lac "soOScn This Is no reflection ON
thu goose, which are kept In perpetual motion at F..
Il. SPENCE L SONS fashionable tailoring establish
mput,
Year: 1872

Pay no attention to slanderers and gossip
mongers. Keep straight on in your course,
and let their backbiting die the death of neg
lect. What is the use of laying awake of nights
brooding over the remark of some false friend,
that runs through your brain like forked light
ming? What is the use of getting into .wor-
ry and fret over gossip that has been set afoat
to your disadvantage, by some meddlesome
busybody who has more time than character.
These things can't possibly injure you, unless,
indeed, you take notice of them, and in COM
batting them, give them standing and charac-
ter. If what is said about you is true, set
yourself right at once; if it is false, let it go
for what it will fetch. IF bee stings you,
would you go to the hive to destroy it? Would
not thousand come upon you? 1t is wisdom
to say little respecting the injuries you have
received. We are generally loser in the end,
if we stop to refute all the backbitings and
gossiping we may hear by the way. They are
annoying, it is true, but not dangerous so long
as we do not stop to expostulate and scold.-
Our characters are formed and sustained by
ourselves, and by our actions and purposes, and
not any others. Let US always bear in mind
that 'calumniators may usually be trusted to
time and the slow but steady justice of public
opinion"
Year: 1872

Wilt thou love her still, When the sunny curls
That over her bosom flow,
Shall be laced with the silver thread of age.
And her step falls sad and slow?
Wilt thou love her still when the summer smiles


On her lips no longer live?


II will love her still,


With right good willr'
Thou wilt love her still Then our darling one


To thy sheltering arms we give.
Wilt thou love her still when the chanpeful ewes
Have grown dim with sorrows rain
When the bosom that beats against thine own
Throbs slow with the weight of pain?
When her slvery laugh rings out no more,


And fled are her youthful charms?


Through good and ill,


l will love her still ip
Thou wilt love her still? Then our dearest one.


We give to thy loving arms.
When her father is dead, and the emerald sod
Lies soft on her mothers breast.
When her brothers voice is no longer heard,
And her sister hushed to rest.
Wilt thou love her still For to THEE she looks.


Her star on life's troubled sea,
II will love her still, sgs


Through good and illP' at..s
With the marriage vow on her pure young lips


Then wAgive our child to thee. ia.
Year: 1872

FRIENDSHIP. lit is one of the seyerest tests
of friendship to tell your friend of his faults.
If you are angry at mau or hate him, it is
not hard to go to him and stab him with words /;
but so to love man that you cannot bear to
see the stain of sin upon him, and SO speak
painful truths through loving words-that is
friendship. But few have such friends. Enc
mics usually teach US what they are at the
point of the sword. Faithful are the wounds
of friend but the kisses of an enemy are de-
ceitful."
Year: 1872

PLAYING WITH EDGED Tools This is what
usually comes of playing with edged-tools "A
fellow up In Oregon thought he would be smart
and just have a little fun with young lady on
whom he had waited two or three times. He
asked her what she would do if a nice looking
young fellow asked her to marry him. She
smiled, oh, SO gushingly, and looked good
enough to eat, but said nothing. Then he
to marry him. She threw her arms around
him, and rushed out of the room for her hat
and shawl. The poor fellow says he was never
married so sudden in his life. Probably that
was the nearest she ever came to being asked,
and she thought fooling around with sentiment
would be dangerous.
Year: 1872

The New York Tribune thinks that the
approaching session Of Congress will be
very quiet, and that the general disposition
will be to postpone things to the next ses-
sion. 1t anticipates no action upon the
Ku-Klux laws and no general amnesty.
Investigating committees will not be in
vogue, and Congress will probably stick
pretty close to business, steering clear of
politics. Whether it does anything or not
with the subjects chiefly affecting the
South, they will be brought up fol consid-
Grafton. it is to be hoped that at least
some modification will be made of those
provisions of law which subject Southern
people to the greatest hardships,
Year: 1872

Genital figure. Solomon is President of
the University of the State, so-called. and
laDofs under the singular hallucination that
he possesses a life estate in the office, and
that, like death and taxes, no power on
earth can enable the people cf North Car
ollna to escape him. OF course the first
step necessary to revive the University is to
secure a good and acceptable Faculty.
Solomon does not think SO, OF rather,
thinks he Is 10th good and acceptable, and
refuses to resign. John Pool suppor;s
him. Another brother, late a Judge by
virtue Of Rauicalisn, has also comn to t1,o
rescue, and these supporters, it is feared,
have control of the Board Of Trustees. If
this shall prove true, it will add another
sin Of deepest dye to those already COM
mitted by the Pool brothers against their
State and people


There seems to be general disposition
10 get through with the business before
the Leg stature as speedily as possible, in
order that an adjournment may take place
before the New Year. If tits should be
done, there will be an especial ADVANTAGE
found in the fact that the Old War Horse,
Curtis Brogden, will be adjourned out OF
his seat as President of the Senate until
next Winter. The prospect of having
Curtis to preside over their deliberations
does not seem to give Senators much of all
appetite for long session.


Raleigh is still improving in the number
and style Of buildings, and evidences Of
prosperity are TO be met with on every
hand
Year: 1872

The Weather In This City Yesterday.


The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty-four hours In
comparison with the corresponding day Of last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
Pharmacy HERALD building:-
Year: 1872

Won Moltke, the great German strategist,
has given to the world his memoir OF the
recent war between rance and Germany.
With all the official records at his command,
together with bis own personal aequain.
tance with the great struggle, be has had all
the facilities Of giving complete and
thorough history Of the collision between
the armies Of the two empires. From q
resume Of the work furnished by the New
York Herdlds Berlin corresPon-
dent, We are enabled 10 form
an opinion of the work of the great
strategist. That Germany was fully pre-
pared and France nnprepsred when the
Hlst signal was given inviting clash OF


arms, is fully evident. The position OF the
South German States alone was the only


source of uneasiness In the German capital;
but the shadow which this uneasiness caused
passed away almost Immediately with the
first note Of war. The difference In nu-
merical strength between the combatants
is given, and, In consideringi 1t and taking
into consideration the disorganized state OF
the French army, one rapidly arrives at the
conclusion that no other termination could
have been reached than that which resulted
In the humiliation Of France before the
overwhelming power Of her German rival
Year: 1872

Australia abounds in strange things
and particularly III animal forms, sin
gularly deviating from all other types
on other continents. Among them the
bird called cipoz, mound builder, is
truly remarkable on account of it's pc
culiar habits and instincts. The male
and female concur in the construction
of mound of leaves, grass and mate
rails that in decay generate; heat.
They seem to know exactly when
warmth will be derived by the chemical
dislntegration. On the top they then
excavate a hole and into it an egg is
dropped. Some of the mounds are
twelve feet in circumference by three
in height. Each egg to the number of
eight is artisticalIy lodged and covered
with loose sand. All this is done in
the darkness of night so that no eye or
enemy may know where the treasure is
hidden. Both parents then pursue an
earnest plan for securing the propaga-
tion of new generation with a degree
OF precision, skill and apparent knowl-
edge of certain natural laws that imply
a reasoning faculty. Thus the eggs
are incubated, without the detention
of the mother bird on the nest in a eli
mate that would be fatal to her in con-.
finement
Year: 1872

Apples are found which are sweet on
one side and acid on the other. APP
pies are also grown without seeds,
though not very frequently. Over and
over again these statements have been
questioned at horticultural meetings as
being impossible. But both facts were
demonstrated at the American Insti-
tute last season. Nearly peck of ap-
Piles of the first description were sent
from Georgia to convince doubters of
the possibility of such an anomaly.
Next came batch from somewhere at
the North, without seeds or even cores
or seed cells.


Now for an explanation of the phe-
nomenon. One theory is that the de-
velopment of the seeds was suspended
at an early period of growth from an
unknown cause, not unlike the arrest
of growth of a child, which constitutes
a dwarf. In the the next it has been
supposed sap tubes, running side by
side from the roots of the tree, pour
their secretions on the two sides of the
fruit, which present sort of Siamese
connection, although they are really
two distinct apples-a sweet and sour
one-in juxtaposition.
Year: 1872

Not ON the earth
Hath beauty bloom, hath beauty power
Ahis Is alone its natal hour


The chamber of its birth tsf#
Here the germ dweHs,
anu, prone to silence and to night,
Ii bursts to love and life and light


AS daisies in our dells.


But not on earth -slt
Hath beauty growth beyond the flower
The life that in day or hour,


Goes to another BIRTH .
And all we see E ID
OF beauty is glimmer bright
Is but the promise of night


The glory that's to be, .stt
When, in the skies,
The spirit doth unfold and find
Lies hopes grown perfect to the mind,
For beauty then it sighs;


And beauty there
Compares with beauty here below, 4t.s
AS mornings golden skies aglow


With murkiest CLOUDS compare.
The forms we love
And cherish for each faultless line,
But shadows are of those divine Esi5esls
That we shall know above; g7.f +.
So let us live
In love of Nature. not of Art,
That each may then, with reverent heart,
Fit homage have to give. ~ ..f.


December GALAXY.
Year: 1872

On the first day of the current month
the new act regulating baby-farmlng IN
Great Britain went into effect. The
abuses under the Old system are too well
known to need attention, but according to
tho terms of the new act not more than
one infant under one year old is to he
nursed for hire unless the name OF the
nurse and the. number of her house is
registered by local authorities, who may
refuse to register or expunge the name OF
a. baby-farmer who neglects to provide
proper care, food, and attention for the IN
fants in her charge. Offences under the
act will be punished with lmprls oEment
not exec ediDg six months with or without
hard labor, OR fine OF TO WITH liability
to have the name stricken from the regis
ter. This act does not apply to relatives
or guardians or infants nor to public IN
g IN tr1tIn
Year: 1872

The Ontonagon Miner says of the re-
cent silver discoveries in that vicinity !:


Capt. Beaser came down few DAYS
since from Iron River, where he has
been exploring on section 18, adjoin-
ing the silver vein. He sunk a shaft
on the course of the vein, till he got
down Z or 10 feet, when it caved in, so
that he has abandoned for this season
all attempts at further explorations, as
the weather is too 1nclement While
there he put IN some blasts in the sill
yer vein, and has brought down by far
the richest lot of vein matter and speci-
mems that have been seen. These
were taken out some fifteen inches
deeper than any that have been taken
out before; the rock is much frmer
and the silver heavier; no lead or native
copper is visible, SO that the doubters
have no chance to call it anything but
silver vein.


If the vein continues to hold out as
rich in silver in depth as these spec1-
mems would indicate, the discovery may
yet prove of more value than its most
sang1ine friends anticipate.
Year: 1872

Give me a man with an aim,
Whatever that aim may be,
Whether its wealth, or whether it's fame,
IL matters not to me.
Lei him walk in the path of right
And keep his aim in sight,
Aud work and pray in faith away
And his eye ON the glittering height.
Give me a man who says,


Twill do something well,
And make the flcetng days


A story OF labor tell"
Though the aim lie has be small,
1t is better than none at all;
With something 10 do the whole year


through,


He will not stumble or fall.
But Satan weaves a snare


For the feet of those who stray,
Win never thought or a care


Where the path may lead away.
The man who has no aim,


Not only leaves no name
When this lille is done, but ten TO one,
He leaves record Of shame.
Give me a man whose heart


Is filled with ambitions fire;
Who sets his mark in the start,
And keeps moving il higher and higher.
Better TO die in the strife,


The hands with labor rife,
Than to glide with the stream in an idle


dream,


And live pnrposeless life.
Better TO strive and climb


And never reach the goal,
Than to drifl along with time
An aimless, worthless soul.
Ay, DC ter 10 climb aud fall,


Or SOW, though the yield be small,
Than 10 throw away day after day,
And never strive at ALL
Year: 1872

An Arkansas local soliloquizes thus
Some Of our exchanges are publishing as
a curious item statement TO the effect
that horse in Iowa pulled the plug out
OF the bunghole of barrel for the pur-
pose OF shaking his thirst. We do not
see anything extraordinary in the occur
renee. Now, if the horse had pulled the
barrel ont of the bunghole and slaked its
thirst with the plug, or if the barrel had
pulled the bunghole of the plug and
slaked its thirst with the horse, or if the
plug had pulled the horse out of the bar
rel and slaked its thirst with the bung-
hole, or if the bunghole had pulled the
thirst out of the horse and slaked the
plug with the barrel, or if the barrel had
pulled the horse out Of the bunghole and
plugged its thirst with slake, if might
be worth while 10 make some fuss over
Year: 1872

The other day, steamboat on the
East River, n. Y, met with an accident
to her machinery which caused a good
deal of alarm. 1t is pleasing TO read in
the Times Of the noble manner in which
several Of the male passengers conduct
ed themselves. a number of them tried
to jump overheard but were held by
more reasonable people. One man
snatched a life-preserver from a woman,
and encased his own manly chest with
it. Another provided himself with six
hiepreservers, aud was in the act of put
ting them all on, one after the other,
when he WAS forced TO deliver five OF
them to women. Altogether the num-
Der of men who demonstrated their man
hood by acts such as these were sufficient
to impress disinlerested person with a
high opinion Of the average travelling
American. The man who snatched a
life-preserver from woman, and the
man who monopolized six of those arti-
cles deserve to he rewarded. The pub.
lie presentation Of neat leather medals
would doubtless meet their We've.
Year: 1872

The Worcester Spy tells this story:
GA lady at the Junction depot yesterday
missed her footing while endeavoring to
get aboard a train, and fell upon the
track just as the train started. With
admirable presence of mind she rolled
herself close to the platform. 81 am not
hurt a mite" she said to gentleman who
rushed to her assistance; and when the
train was stopped, and she was released
from her uncomfortable position, she said
smilingly to the bystanders clustered
around her: 81 believe Ihave introduced
myself. Where's my satchel?"
Year: 1872

A clever old lady, just arrived from
the country, entered the refreshment
room at a railroad station the other day,
and said she had left her parasol on the
settee. Ageneral search commenced and
lasted for some time. Finally one of the
walters asked the old dame when she
lett it, to which she answered, on count
ing up on her fingers, Well, it was just
three years ago last Fourth of July"
There was a general roar, much to the
astonishment OF the old lady, who went
away with very puzzled look upon her
cOuutenance.
Year: 1872

GREELEY hopes the day may come
when the names of Stoncwal jackson
aud Lee shall be revered as is that Of
Sherman and Sheridan and Grant. Go
down among these southern people and
YOU will find the walls of their parlors
decorated with pictures Of jackson aud
Lee, but with that of no northern Gen
eral who fought for the Union, which
we all pretend to love. When these
same parlors are also decorated with tie
likenesses OF Sheridan, Sherman and
Grant. then it will be time enough for as
to revere the names Of southern generals.
When a northern citizen can utter open
and free sentiments in these southern
states, as can southern man in the
northern states, then their reconciliation
10 us will have made rapid strides, and
not until then. When negroes can live
unmolested in Alabama as they can in
Ohio, then reconciliation is made perfect.
All these things should be brought about
even without kn-klux law to compel
obedience, as is now the case. You
should not ask that reconciliation should
all come from one side.
Year: 1872

THE JEsUITs. In relation to the Jesu-
its and the Church at Rome, the contest
still continues; and as Germany has
determined to banish all foreign Jesuts
from its territory, the rulers of the sur
rounding nations have been led TO ask
themselves the question whether these
Jcsuts shall be admitted within their
own borders. But three or four months
have elapsed since the enactment of the
law by the German Government against
the Jesuits, and though it was not to take
effect until six months after its passage,
yet they are leaving the country in large
numbers. The native Jesuits, who, nm
der the provisions of this act, are forbid
den to hold public service, are preparing
for a legislative conflict, through the
irstrumeniality of the Church and vari-
GUS Unions, when the Diet shall assem-
bic, and intend to inundate it with a
food of petitions relative to the position
of the Church. The Government is like
wise exertinG itself in every possible
manner for the collection of evidence to
establish the aggressive agency of the
Catholic Bishops in Prussia, which is
plainly read in the emphatic assertions of
/ he Ultramontane journals and others
hostile to the Government.
Year: 1872

WHILE thanking the good people of Portland.
w for their kind patronage through the last sea-
son, would invite any, and all who are to have any
see If will not give them the best satisfaction both
as to price, style and promptness of work have also
on hand lot OF excellent Hose which shall sell at
reasonable rate; old ones also neatly repaired.


X. MCDONALD, 200 Fore ST.,


ap9d1m Foot of Plum st.