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Year: 1870

MURDERoUs SEA FLowFR.-Onc of
the exquisite won1ers Of the sea is called
the opelet and is about as large as the
German aster, looking indeed, very
much like one. Imagine very large
double aster, with ever SO many petals of
light green, glossy as satin. and each
one tipped with rose color. These love
ly petals do not lie quietly in their pla
ces, like those of the aster In your gar
den, but wave about in the water, while
the opelet generally clings to rock
How innocent and lovely it looks on its
rocky bed. Who would suspect that it
would eat anything grosser than sunlight
and dew? But those beautiful waving
arms, as you call them, have another use be-
sides looking pretty. They have to pro-
vide food for large open mouth which
is hidden down among them-so well
hidden that one can scarcely find it..
Well do they perform their duty, for the
instant a foolish little fshlet touches one
of the rosy tips he is struck with poison
as fatal to him as LIGHTNING. He immed-
lately becomes numb, and in a moment
stops struggling and then the other
beautiful arms wrap themselves around
him, and he is drawn into the huge,
greedy mouth, and is seen no more. Then
the lovely arms unclose and wave again in
the water, looking as innocent and harm.
less as though they had never touched a
fish,
Year: 1870

An exchange says: SIN these days
when diseases of the throat prevail, and
particularly dry hacking cough, which
is not ouly distressing to ourselves, but to
those with whom we are brought into
blsiness contact, those thus afflicted
may be benefited by trying the following
remedy.


Last fall we were induced to try what
virtue there was in common salt. We
commenced by using it three times day
morning, noon and night. We dissolv-
ed large teaspoonful of common salt in
about hale tumblerful of cold water,
and with this we gargled the throat most
effectually, jHst before meal time. Tie
result has been that during the winte,
we were not only free from the usual
coughs and colds to which, as far As our
memory extends we have always been
subject, but the dry, hacking cough has
entirely disappeared. We attribute it
entirely to the salt gargle, and do most
cordially recommend it to those of our
readers who are subject to diseases OF the
throat.
Year: 1870

When the subject of constructing an
other railroad began to attract the atten-
ton of the public, we believe that it was
generally understood by our representa-
tives in this enterprise, that the primary
object which the people had in view was
to have this new road form connecting
link between Appleton and Milwaukee;
and that the controlling power of this
road should be vested in company, the
majority Of whose members should be
composed of representatives of the people.


We give this plan our preference, be-
cause we believe it to be the best and
most feasible one which has been or can
be proposed. This object, therefore.
will receive our continued support until
secured. The question may be asked, is
there any danger Of this enterprise being
abandoned. We answer yes. And our
reason for thinking SO is simply because,
as we have said before, our people are
somewhat divided upon this subject.


Some there are who have Abandoned
the original, and now go in for a railroad
to Manitowoc or Sheboygan. We are
opposed to this proceeding, for the rca-
son that it would deprive us of the ad-
vaptages which we would experience by
being connected with Milwaukee mar
kets. In the next place the transporta-
ton of products on the new road would
be entirely cut off during the winter sea-
son. It seems to us that these form
sufficient grounds for opposition to any
such road so long as there is q better one
in view.


Again, there ar others who are in favor
of extending:the privilege of purchasing
stock in this new road to railroad capital
lists who are interested in the success Of
other companies. To all such schemes
we are stringently opposed, provided
the people of the different towns and
cities will furnish funds necessary to con-
struct the road and we believe that they
will when the matter is submitted to
their decision.


The estimated cost of the road is said
to be about $2,000,O 900. Milwaukee is
or ought to be, willing to raise one
half of this entire amount. New London
will furnish $4,000: Appleton we be-
lieve, contribute 100000 ; and if each
of the other four counties between here
and Milwaukee will take stock in pro-
portion to their resources and wealth, all
that remains to be done is TO organize a
company and commence operations.


The disposal of this whole matter is
subject to the decision of the people, and
if they insist upon the construction of
road under the conditions which we have
their representatives will be
in duty bound to enforce their claims.


We hope to see more unanimity mani
tested in future.
Year: 1870

Observation-Disclosures carpenter in
speaking on the ocean Telegraph bill on
the 2lst, said that if the liberties of the
people were endangered in any one way
more than in another, it was by the
growth of monopolies, and the case with
which charters were passed through the
state Legislatures-a fact that no matter
how improper the obligations of con-
tracts thus secured, they, according tn
judicial decisions. could not be impaired;
but the Constitution imposed no such
restriction like that imposed upon the
states, that no law impairing the cbliga-
ton Of contract shall pass. AS a question
of power it was within congressional pro
vince to repeal every charter heretofore
made by congress. He deemed it vastly
important that in this country Congress
should clearly assert that power, and
believed it the duty of Congress, under
its power, to regulate commerce and
extend the regulations over the telegraph
and railroad system of the several states.
He favored the bill and the amendment
because Of their implied assertion that at
any time eminently proper, congress may
make the assertion Of its absolute power
to regulate this subject, in case of com
munication between this and foreign
lands.-JdneSuWe Gazette
Year: 1870

Mr.. Boutwell, does not antagonize &
resumption of specie payment to the
funding of our depth at lower rate of
interest. nor either of these to steady
and rapid reduction by payment OF the
volume of our debt, but regards the three
ends as alike desirable, alike attainable,
and all parts of one consistent whole.
Let us persevere in the rapid extinction
of our debth, and the funding of the
five twenlcs in long consol at low IN
terest will be easily and speedily effected,
and resumption will come as naturally
as flowers in Spring. American Consol,
untaxable payable specifically in coin
at the close of forty years, and drawing
interest meantime at the rate of one per
cent quarterly, or four per cent per an
mum, we firmly believe that it would
be only necessary to offer that consol at
par to every holder of greenbacks, and
the disparity between coin and green
backs would forwith disappear. The
vice of the greenbacks at present is they
arc payable nowhere, in nothing, and at
no specified time. Make them tundabe
in an American consoi, and they would
have tangible basis of value, and would
soon mount to an equality with specie or
very near,it. There is, and for at least
three years there has been, no obstacle
to the resumption of specie payments
but the hostility of those who found or
fancied debased and unstable currency
conductive to their personal advantage
1t was formerly supposed by the vulgar
that pound of butter might consist of SO
many ounces as any one may chose to
indicate or require and many still fancy
that they can make money by having
tie dollar consist ofeight silver dimes,
as circumstances or manipulation may
from day to day determine.
Year: 1870

AS Mrs Dr. Mary Walker was lee
turing IN a. Kansas town, one night, some
rude chap in the audience interrupted
her to ask if she was the Mary who had
a little lamb. Looking sharply at the
fellow. DR.. Mary tartly replied mo
but your mother was the woman who
had great jackass." sem
Year: 1870

In addition to the above, we are now
selling Choice Variety of TEAS and
COFFEES at prices that will satisfy the
most economical. We fully warrant ev-
cry pound to give perfect satisfaction or
we will take back the goods and refund
he money.
Year: 1870

A Man Crushed by nm Ore Crusher and the


Machinery Taken Apart to Extricate Him.


An accident Of shocking character happened to
a workman named Andrew Baumgarten, in the
Newark Zinc Works, on Wednesday night, about
halfpast ten O'Clock. While experimenting the
removal of some material the unfortunate
man, In moving backwards, accidentally steppei
into feeder Of the hopper used for crush.
ing ore. and was dragged down bodily. The
nearly two hours on the part OF all the workmen In
the place to eXtricae The poor fellow. All the
machinery had to be taken apart before this could
be accomplished. In the meanwhile couple Of
medical gentlemen arrived on tRe scene and found it
necessary to ampuate the right leg above the
knee. The entire limb from the hip down, had
been entirely stripped OF flesh and the lower bones
crushed terribly. The other leg was also fearfully
desirable. The poor fellow was removed to St.
Michael's Hospital where he now lies, under the
care Of the Sisters OF Mercy, but not the slightest
hope Of his recovery Is entertained. He Is twenty
i've years OF age aud man OF admirable phuslQue.
Year: 1870

BEl CHER's IDEA OF A BoY.-At
twelve or fourteen certainly, 4 boy ought
to be able to take care of himself out of
doors. He ought to be able to ride a
horse, to climb the highest tree, to swim
skillfully, to carry gun safely and use
it Alright, to be OF such a manly DISPOSE
ton as not to provoke attack, or, if wan
tonly assailed, to have such courage
Gus of using himself as that the same
miscreant will not choose 10 med6ie
with him the second time. NiUnble of
hand, quick of foot, strong of loins, pa
tisnt of fatigue, loving ofaction for mere
luxury This is the boy that the pious
mother finds it hard to train christianity,
and wllea to Lhia outward freedom is
added the self-eontrol which true relig-
ion gives, he will grow up such q man
as the State needs-as good men honor
as true women frequently love.
Year: 1870

The following touching scene recently
occurred in Partisan court ofjustice:
a poor, pale, wan seamstress was ar
raigned for theft. She appeared at the
bar with boy eleven or tn elve months
old in her arms, her child. She went
to get some work one day, and stole
three coins of 10f. each. The money
" is missed soon after she left her em-
plOyer, and a servant was sent to her
room TO claim it. The servant found her
about to quit the rooms with the three
gold coins in her hand. She said TO the
servant, II was going to carry them
back to you" Nevertheless she was
carried to the Commissioner of Police,
and he ordered her to be sent before the
police for trial.


She was too proud to engage a lawyer,
and when asked by the judge what she
had to say for herself, she answered.:
1.-The day I went to my employers l
carried my child with me. 1t was in my
arms as il is now. was not paying any
attention to it. There Were several 9TH
er gold pieces on the mantle-piece, and
unknown TO me it stretched Quits little
hands and sieZed the thre- pieces, which
| did not discover until | got home. !
at once put on nay bonnet, and was 60
ing back to my employer to return them
when | was arrested. This is tue solemn
truth, as l hope for Heavens mercy"


The court could not believe such a
story. They upbraided the mother for
her impudence in endeavOring to palm
offsuch manifest lie for the truth
Tney besought her, for her own sake,to
retract so absurd a tale, for itcOuid be of
no effect, but Oblige the court TO SEN
tenct her to a much severer punishment
tnan they were disposed to intlict upon
one so young, evidently teeped SO deep
in poverty.


=. nese appeals had no effect, exceptin in
Strengthening the poor rother' peril
naciOus adhe~en(. to her oriein3! story.
As this iirmnness was sustained by that
look Of innocence which the most adrOit
criminal cannot counterfeit, the court
We're at a some loss to discover what de-
cisiOn justice demanded. To relieve
their embarrassment one of the judges
propose to renew the scene described ny
the mother The gold coins were placed
on the clerks table. The mother was
directed to assu me the position in which
she stood at her employers house.
There was then no breathing in the
court. The baby soon discovered the
bright coin, eyed it for a moment,
smiled, and then stretched forth its tiny
hands and 5lutched them in its fingers
with miSer's eagerness. The mother
was acquitted.
Year: 1870

vested in agriculture to furnish five field
hands with employment the year round.
In several of the counties where the col
ored are equal in numbers to the whites,
the white scallawags are SO few in number,
and so bankrupt in purse that they could
not raise money enough to bury an honest
negro. The real estate and the capital Of
these counties are in the hands of the
Democrats, and from these Democrats this
large colored population must seek en-
ployment and wages to support themselves
and families, and upon the lands and
estates Of these Democrats must this class
of laborers (tbough free) find homes. Is
it not monstrous, then, that the internal
scallawags and carpet -baggers should be
permit ID to 90 into these communities,
and. by all sorts of lies seek to engender
a spirit of hatred in the hearts of these
poor negroes against the very men who
give them homes and employment, and
who are, in honest truth, their best and
only friends? But kindness and good
will do not necessarily lead to equality
between the bestower and recipient Of
benefactions. The honest white man
thinks of the negro now just as he did ten
years ago-the scallawag and place seeker
will now profess for the negro an affection
which he never did, does not now, and
never will feel for him. The fear of the
Radical scalawags is, that the negro has
sense enough to distinguish between his
false and his real friends. and that he will,
ultimately. come to despise the scallawag
and shake off his shackles. .-Frederick
Citizen.
Year: 1870

We copy from the Baltimore Gazette
the following article on the Tariff. This
subject cannot be too often and too earn
estly impressed upon the minds of our
farmers and all who are dependent upon
the cultivation of the soil for support:


It is proper that the citizens Of Mary
land should distinctly understand that
every vote cast in this State for Radical
candidate for Congress is vote given in
favor of high protective tariff, aud con-
sequently of the impoverishment of them
selves A few facts in regard to this will
show them the vast number of people who
pay tribute to the great corporations that
Congress has specially favored The total
number of persons engaged 10 active in-
dustry in the United States is rather less
than thirteen millions. OF this immense
working population twelve million and a
half arc not only shut out from all protec-
ton by the operation Of the tariff, but are
actually forced to pay to the manufactur-
ers protected by the tariff from forty to
one hundred per cent. more for every ar
| ticle they use.


In his speech on the tariff at the last
session of Congress. Mr. Stone, who rep
resents the Fifth District Of Maryland,
showed from statistics of undoubted accu-
racy, that whilst only 'three hundred and
thirty thousand persons are employed in
the protected industries of iron, cotton,
and wooden manufacture. more than ten
millions Of working people depend for their
daily bread upon the cultivation of the
SOIL" These people not only derive no
benefit from the taritf-which was framed
in the interest of Pennsylvania and the
New England States--but are seriously
injured by it, Next to food"-as Mr..
Stone we'll said-"the great necessaries Of
life are cotton, woolen goods, and iron."
Every farmer and every laboriug man
throughout the coubtryis taxed upon every
yard of cotton or wooden fabric worn by
him or used in Fs household, and upon
every plough, h5e, or chain, and every
piece of agricultural machinery. In some
cases this tax has increased the price Of
the article to double -whet aa it was before
the war. and 70 o1ssu svs 20 SuAssS 1c
more than vhSS,sss,,1aa 9IiIi (oef a
Year: 1870

There was an Italian prisoner in the same
yard. whose little daughter was permitted
to visit him. The girl was much pleased
with Charney's love for his flower. She
related what she saw to the wife of the
jailor. The story Of the prisoner and his
flower passed from one to another. until it
reached the ears of the amiable Empress
Josephine. The Empress said: 1.-The
man who SO devotedly loves and tends q
flower cannot be bad man." So she per-
suaded the Emperor to set him at liberty.


Charney carried his flower home, and
carefully tended it in his own greenhouse.
It had taught him to believe in God,
and had delivered him from prison.


''All things bright and beautiful,


All creatures, great and small,


All things wise and wonderful


The Lord God made them ALL"
Year: 1870

fear he will never leave here. He thinks
that another company will come out in a.
bout four months"


"The ship leaves next week. :" said [,
in low, hesitating voice, for was afraid
of her. Il intended that if it leaves you,
| it shall leave me-"
She turned on me there in the moon
light, her great eyes dilated with aston
ishment She only said:


"Why, Gerald! How can you talk
such things here, in the jaws of death 2"
I took courage from the quaver in her
voice.


margaret, loved you since the day
when you stepped out Of the thicket."
There was long and, to me, painful
silence between US, though the air was
fuller than ever Of tropical noises.


Margaret, have you no word Of any
sort for me 2"


Cannot one take time? This is no
triAer'


At length, quietly sending out her lit
| tie hand as flag Of truce-you may be
sure I caught it and covered it with kiss
Ies-she broke the silence.


Il had thought to live and die in this
work. I know Of none nobler. In the
midst of this great struggle with death, |
have had another struggle. | have been
in maze between many conflicting emo
tions. I have been upbraiding myself
very bitterly. I thought that l was the
only one here in this court of death who
was desecratlng the time and place by let
ting thoughts Of the orange-wreath mingle
with those of the cypress and the willow.
[ am confused by the past and represent.
My aspirations toward usefulness mingle
strangely with my longings for earthly
bliss. Besides the Divine Sun. only one
star seems to shine with undimmed, un-
Pickering lustre in my armament at pres
emit is the star of love! Seei l. am
HUMAN. too! am not changed to ice by
missionary zeal r


Swiftly turning. she flung herself upon
my breast with all the ardor Of Moor
ish maid of Fez"


Long I clasped her. There were many
whispered vows on my part, answered only
by faint sobs on hers. She was relaxing
from long strain.
| The next day her father was told. W.
went to him hand in hand.


He eyed us gravely.


Daughter, had destined you for tht
mission. J: Bu. I feel that pg work is done
s...s. -fn
We missionaries know too we'll, in oul
isolation, the priceless value of the true
conjugal life, to be willing to interfere
with it. May He'' (pointing up) "bles'
you and keep you. May He lift up the
light of His countenance upon you ane
give you peace!'


The grand old man fell into reverie


1t was decided that he should accompa
ny US; and that the marriage should takt
place before we sailed.


Two days after. we stood up in the de-
serted sitting room of the big house.
crowd of natives and few of my intimate
from the ship being present. You ma.
imagine the solemnity of the occasion, il
view of the many funerals we had latel.
celebrated in that room.
Margaret, with true womanly instinct
had not failed to adorn herself. She shon
like star amid that dusky crowd.
She is still my evening and my morning
) star
Year: 1870

space as apples, as their branches are more
erect. For them 25 feet apart is quite
sufficient. Dwarf pears and ounces may
be planted as close as 8 or 10 feet. Plums
and apricots we would place 18 or 20 feet
apart. But few of our readers, however,
will be disposed to plant many of those
smooth skined fruits, until some means OF
protecting them from the ravages of the
Curculio, is discovered. Wemay remark
that these varieties should be planted in
such situations that the pigs aud poultry
may have access to them, as they will eat
all the punctured and wormy fruit that
falls, and thus prevent the rapid increase
of that destructive insect. In this way
small portion at least Of the crop may be
saved to the planter.


Having determined the distance to plant,
the next step is to lay out the ground and
dig the holes. Those who desire to have
their rows perfectly straight, may take the
trouble to stretch long cords across the
land, and drive in pins at those points
where the trees are to stand. We have
found that good plowman with steady
team could lay out the ground with sufi-
cient accuracy. and much more rapidly.
He should be provided with light poles,
say 20 feet long, at each end of the land
and in any considerable depressions that
may be in the middle of the ground
These poles enable him to find quickly and
accurately the right points at which to
start in, and should then be stuck up at
the same distance to guide him on the next
return furrow. After the ground has been
marked off 10Th aoays, the holes may be
dug at the intersection of the burrows.


In transplanting. the roots should be
exposed as little as possible to the sun and
wind. Where many are to be set out. our
practice is to unpack each sort and heel
them in lightly in that part Of the ground
selected for them. A very little earth
thrown over the roots will keep them fresh;
and they can be readily drawn ont as
wanted. The trees should not be set
deeper than they grew before, and the
roots should be spread out we'll in the hole


before the earth is thrown in upon them.
After the hole is filed, the earth may be
settled either by pouring in water or tread
ing with the foot. The former is prefer


able, but almost impracticable in many


situations. and where large numbers are


to be planted.


u All trees are checked in growth more OF


less by transplanting; the peach least ol


any. It should be pruned very close when


transplanted. as it will soon re-produce
more vigorous branches than those brought
from the nursery. Our plan is to lop Of
every limb from our peach trees as soon as


they are set out, and then cut the tops ol
all in the orchard back to about same
height from the ground, say 81 or 4 feet
} This gives them all fair and equal star'
, in life; and in all subsequent prunings We


endeavor to keep their heads round and
uniform. Every peach grower knows thai
young trees which have been closely prun'