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Year: 1871

We were informed this morning by a
gentleman from Chesterfield county, that
the crops were looking very fourishing. A
good crop of corn is looked for if no accident
takes place. '


A number of persons left this morning for
Norfolk with Syracuse Lodge, X. of p,
from our town. Those, not members of the
order, we hope may have good time,
and fall in love with the order.


Yesterday being fine day, the churches
were well attended. We have been MOTTO
ing the contest in the Baptist Sabbath
school between the boys and girls yester-
day it was one of great results. The boys
were seen carly in the morning preparing
for the contest, but at the time for the bat
tie they were found to be weakening, and
when the battle was over it was found that
the girls had won the battle and taken the
motto-the basner they won last Sabbath.
The number over the boys was fourteen
Girls, work hard; hold your ground unit
you get as many notices as you want.


No Bate..-We have been informed thai
young Wells, who was hurt about the head
few days ago, on the railroad, is not do.
ing as well as was expected.
Year: 1871

Drunkenness Yestaday-P Petersburg on a
Spree Yesterday our city seemed alive
with reeling, staggering, drunken men, many
of whom exhibited the bad taste of showing
themselves and their disgraceful conduct
upon the streets. Nothing is more pitiable
then to see such numbers of good looking,
well dressed young men, rapidly hurrying
themselves to destruction. Among the num-
Der we noticed five young gentlemen from
Petersburg, of respectable appearance, who
got on one of our street cars for Hollywood.
One of them was so drunk, the conductor
found it impossible to keep him from lying
down and going to sleep. Another poked
his head out of the car window and elected
a stream of bad whiskey into the street
sufficient to supply a small sized steamer.
A number of ladies on the car were forced
to witness the unbecoming conduct of this
party. Drunkenness seems to be extend
ing itself more rapidly than it did before
the organization of temperance societies.
The public will be compelled to condemn,
as disgraceful, these public exhibitions of
drunkenness, and refuse to recognise men,
habitually guilty it.
Year: 1871

Excursion from Paersbwy.-Quite a
number of colored persons are in the city
to-day, having come over from Petersburg
on an excursion train this morning. We
were visited this morning by one of the
party, whom we owned during the war. He
was delighted to see us,--w ditto.


Our recollections of his noble conduct
during the war, can never be s'rubbed out p
Who among the people of Virginia, does
not entertain similar feelings towards some
favorite servant? ard yet we find sensible
men hard at work trying to infuse bad blood
into the two races. Out upon such attempts,
they are unworthy the conduct of the just
and noble,
Year: 1871

Important Notice to Those Who Lore
Cheap Groceries.-The Virginia Tea and
Coffee company, notorious for selling cheap
goods, have removed their place Of busi-
ness to the corner Of Eighth and Main
streets, where they are prepared to supply
their customers with everything usually
kept in a first-class family grocery.


. Don'ttake our word for what we say con-
cerning this house, but go and see for your
self. - 4
Year: 1871

To right and to left the black buffalo came.
In miles and in millions, rolling on in despair,
With their boards to the dust and black tails in
the air;
AS terrible surf on red sea of flame
Rushing on in the rear, reaching high, reaching
higher,
And rode neck to neck to buffalo bull,
The monarch of millions, with shaggy name
full
Of smoke and of dust, and it shook with desire
Of battle, with rage and with bellowiugs loud
And unearthly, and up through its lowering
cloud
Came the flash of his eyes, like half-hidden


fire,
While his keen crooked horns through the storm


of his name
Like black lances, lifted and lifted again:
Then the rushing of fire rose around me and


under,
And the bowling of beasts, like the sound of


thunder
Beasts burning and blind and forced onward


and over,
As the passionate fame reached around them,


and wove her
Hands in their hair, and kissed hot till they


died
Till they died with wild and desolate moan,
AS a sea heart-broken on the hard brown stone,
And into the Brazos I rode all alone
III o1opa cara bnrSa 1onn.1imhad
And blind, and bare, and burnt to the skin.
Year: 1871

Nine out of every ten Republicans
have lost confidence in Grant; they are
disappointed, and feel they have been
deceived. They do not believe that our
Government was made for the benefit of
Grant and his cousins. They believe
that those who hold Office are the agents
and ought not to be the masters of the
people.


The people are justly alarmed when
they remember that the ordinary expen-
ditures of the Government, from Wash
ington down to Lincoln, amounted to
less than fourteen hundred millions
while since the war, only six years, ,twen-
ty-six hundred millions have been col
lected from the people! The debt has
been reduced less than three hundred
millions, while the amount collected in
the last six years has been greater than
the whole debt!


Reform! REFORM! THE PEOPLE
DEMAND REFORM!!!
Year: 1871

Correspondence n: Y Com Advertiser


They have very'nice people over at the
Rowland House. They are the cream of
Philadelphia society. but some of them
do very queer things. An affair has Just
leaked out which is little out Of the
way Of the best regulated families.
am sorry to bring an action against
one of my own sex. The curiosity of
Eve brought all the trouble we have in
this world upon us, and from that day to
this nothing stops woman when her
curiosity is once up, especially if she is
curious to know something about her.
SELF her husband or her lover Only
hold secret in your hand, and if it's
like bunch OF catnip to cat, she will
jump, frisk and frolic around, and never
give over purring until she gets it. The
story is this: 4 husband was in the
habit of visiting Chamberlain Cottage,
which is the resort of great !many
fashionable gentlemen. The wife heard
in some way that he was fairly enchant-
ed by the game, and was heavy loser.


Woman's curiosity was exercised to
see the game herself, and by some de-
vice to cure him of his passion. She
broached the matter to her brother, but
he could suggest no way. She made a
confident Of lady friend, who proposed
that they should visit the house and con-
front the husband at the table For
week and more the subject was gravely
considered, when it was resolved that
they should disguise themselves in gen.
tlemen's clothes. How to do that was
the next thing. The lady's brother was
obliged to leave iE day or two for
Philadelphia on business. He left, and,
having the key to his room, the ladies
soon found the wardrobe desired. Dis
guised as two fashionable young men,
they entered Chamberlain's splendid sa-
loon about ten o'clock in the evening
Fortunately for them, quite crowd of
persons were surrounding the tai les -
The lady took position SO as to look her
husband full in the face. Throwing
down a ten dollar bill, she said: Ten
dollars on the red" The husband
whose mind was so intent on the game,
had not been attracted by the new com
ers, until he heard the voice. When he
raised his head he saw it was his wife
With wonderful self-composure, he set
tied his account and left the house. The
lady won her first turn, and following
the example of her husband left, as she
came in, with her companion unnoticed.
She Joined her husband, for he was wait
ing for her outside. Ihave onl y to say
that he was deeply mortified and promp-
ted to turn over a new leaf. Woman's
curiosity, you see, has done some good.
Year: 1871

Carelessness on the farm always leads
to loss of both time and money, and
vet there are hundreds of farmers who
habitually leave their plows and other
implements just where they stopped
work, exposed to the rain and wind, to
crack and injure them in every way.


The wood work of most of our fam
implements decay before it wears out,
and therefore money is saved by keep
ing it well painted. If the farm tools
could he overhauled once year, the
joints filled up, the worn places brushed
over, and bolts, nuts, and iron work
oiled, and backened, the implement
would last long enough TO repay the
cost of the work many times Manu-
facturers are sending out great deal
of wood work that has only been var
nished. 1t looks well in this style, and
the buyer can judge of the grain and
quality of the timber used, but the var
nish is little better than nothing as a
protection from decay. New tools that
are simply vanished should be well
painted before being ed--Rurolist.
Year: 1871

The Radical papers have been publish
| ing an article from the Cincinnati Ga
zette regarding the war record of Noyes.
We believe it is taken from the CORES
pondence of long haired fellow named
Furey who was q sort Of war cores
pondent hummer and who kept the best
private "commissary," and at the same
time gave him the freedom of the
same. 1t is well that the other side of
the question is presented. The follow.
ing is what 219 of his own regiment
say:


ave, the undersigned members of the
39th Ohio Volunteer Infantry,do hereby
certify that during the campaign against
Atlanta, the conduct of our Colonel Ed
warI F. Noyes was such as to excite the
disgust and pity of all the soldiers. His
conduct was cowardly throughout, and
his want of courage led him into the
grave error of trying to conceal the fact
by resorting to intoxicating drinks. In
front of Reseca he was so cowardly and
so drunk, and made such a disturbance
that he was reprimanded by the comand-
ing officer, General Dodge, land when the
firing commenced, he was so imbecile
that the Lieutenant Colonel, Henry T..
Mcdowell, had to take command of the
regiment, and led it through the action
and into camp. All through this memo
rable march he was an object of disgust
and pity to the soldiers in his command.
Had not charity for crippled and fallen
man restrained us, these facts never
would have been made known in this
shape-were it not for the infamous at
tempt to place this unworthy man at the
head of the great State of Ohio"


How is that for record? The pri-
vate soldiers are the boys who can gen.
orally tell what kind of officers they had.
Year: 1871

DR.. Hall, in his Journal of Health,
says the best medicines in the world,
more efficient in the cure of diseases
than all the potencies of the materia
medica, are warmth, rest, cleanliness,
and pure air. Some persons make it
virtue to brave disease, "to keep up" as
long as they can move foot OF crook
a finger, and it sometimes succeeds; but
often the powers of life are thereby SO
completely exhausted that the system
has lost all aoility to recuperate, and
slow and typhoid fevers set in, and carr
ry the patient to a premature grave
Whenever walking or work is an effort,
a warm bed and cool room are the
very first Indispensable steps to assure
speedy recovery. Instinct leads all
beasts and birds to quietude and rest
the very moment disease or wounds as.
sail the system.
Year: 1871

ES This good suggestion by an ex-
change ought to reach the eye of every
letter stamper in Uncle SANS employ:


Cannot somebody invent machine
for the use of Postmasters that will al.
ways postmark letter clearly and dis
tinctly? There is not day passes but
we receive more or less badly postmark,
ed letters, some so blurred that it is i'm.
possible to decipher the mark, and Others
where the postmarking clerk has only
half done his duty, by striking but one
half or one-quarter upon the letter. The
postmark is a matter of no small import
ance to business men, and we beg that
every one connected with the Post offices
whose eye this meets, especially in oul
great commercial cities, will keep this i'm
portant fact in mind, and urge upon their
stampers to do their work we'll"
Year: 1871

A young man once picked UP d SOW.
ereign lying in the road. Ever afterl
ward, as he walked along, he kept his
eye steadily fixed on the ground, in the
hope of finding another. And, in the
course of long life, he did pick up, at
different times, good amount of gold
and silver. But all these days, as he
was looking for them, he saw not that
heaven was bright above him and Ma
ture was beautiful around. He never
once allowed his eyes to look up from
the mud and filth in which he sought
the treasure, and when he died, a rich
old man, he only knew this fair earth of
ours is a dirty road to pick up money
as you walk along Theodore Parker.
Year: 1871

My remedy is bleeding. / bleed id
the neck just as you would horse
One thorough bleeding usually effects a
cure l have known cattle to eat hear
tily Immediately after being bled that
had refused food before. The remedy
was made known to me by an eminent
physician, formerly of Duchess couii;
ty, New York, and l would recommend
it to the public. A. 2. K.
Year: 1871

Persons who have not been in the
habit of drinking buttermilk consider it
disagreeable, because it is slightly acid,
in consequence of the presence OF lac
tic acid. There is not much nourlsh-
ment in buttermilk, but the Tactic acid
assists the digestion of any food taken
with it. The Welsh peasants almost
live upon oat cake and buttermilk. In
valids suffering from indigestion will do
well to drink buttermilk at meal times.
Year: 1871

Esteem your brother to be good
and he is so. Confide in your half-vir-
tuous man, and he becomes wholly vir-
tuous. Encourage your pupil by the as
sumption that he possesses certain fac
ulties, ,and they will be developed in him !,
look on him as incapable of cultivation,
and he will continue so. All nature is
but the echo of the mind. and from her
we learn the highest Of all laws, that the
real springs from the ideal that the ideal
bv degrees remodels the world.
Year: 1871

a letter on the third page will give Tue
rcadcran intelligent idea OF the rivalry be-
tween Russia and England for dominion
in Central Asia, which Is the root OF the
I" Eastern Question. Prof VAMDERY
probably knows more Of affairs in that al.
most unknown region than any man in
Europe His views us detailed in the let.
ter are interesting and instructive.
Year: 1871

A meeting of the citizens of Wheeling
will be held at tho Court House this
Saturday evening, for the epurpose oftak.
ing into consideration the steps necessary
to secure determination o: the conteln.
plated railroad from Northwestern and
Central Ohio at this place, and also to
consider the propriety Of taking measures
to secure the extension of the, Holidays
Cove Railroad from Wellsburg to this
Year: 1871

years since Rome shaped the destinse


of the Catholic nations of Europe


They were then where the Italianl


were ten years since. The doctrine.


of this protest look to a return tc
these sorrowful times ofreligious war.


secret tribunals and arrests, tortures


burnings and starvation ia the name


OF the church tits in the italian


priests that Victor Emanuel finds the
greatest obstruction to progress and
liberty in has present position.


There are those who would offsr
the Pope. an asylum here. Have
they considered the disastrous effect
of this step to American politics A
generation would not pass before con-
tests like those of the Orangemen
and the Catholics would assume the
form Of religious war. Probably
the Protestant element would triumph
but who wishes to contemplate the in
termediate horrors of such a contest?


Nothing is better established in his
tory than the fact that the Romish
Church has interfered with every gov
ernment on the face OF the earth which
would permit it. In its clergy it has
an organized corps of reporters that
operate to mix their religion with the
politics of all nations. IT the govern
ment does not submit to their schemes
it must expect their opposition, both
open and secret. Since the days of
Loyola there has been a standing ar
my of scouts, sappers and spies around
every court and potentate of Europe.
This system of espionage is being
transfer ed to this coutry, and we may
as well recognize the fact


We hope to see this movement Ell
ther in the form of meetings or ad-
dresses Of encouragement to rising It
ally, taken up in the cities, villages and
towns of Ohio. The protest is being
all over the West tor CATH
olic signatures-we do not wish to see
such document received in Europe
as the American sentiment. There
Will b. some person or committee de-
in this city to whom such ad-
dresses may be sent. and forwarded
with the one now in circulation to our
minister at Rome Cleveland Herald.
Year: 1871

1t is stated that the Rothschilds
have co ne forward to relieve France
from the momentary exactions of the
Germans Their generous contribu-
tions to the poor OF the city of Paris
it seems, is to be followed by the rrinc-
ly offer to advance the eutire amount
of war indemnify levied by the Ger
mans upon that municipality. 1t is
plain that in the rehabilitation of
France the power of this great house
will be notably felt. 1t was the La
fites who placed Louis Philippe on
his throne by similar use of immense
treasure at their command and it is
not unlikely that other bankers may
do such a service for the empire, of
which they are strong adherents
Year: 1871

A story is told at the expense of a
legal gentleman who lives at Oshkosh.
One Smith had failed in business and
sold out, and having two or three
tough little bills, had given them to
this lawyer for collection. Smith
went to the Office to receive the pro-
ceeds. The amount collected was
about fifty dollars. I'm sorry you've
been so unfortunate Smith, for L take
a great inte. est in you. / shan't
charge you as much as should if l
didn't feel so much interest in you"
[ Here he handed Smith fifteen dollars
and kept the balance. "You see
Smith, I knew you when you were q
boy, and I knew your father before
you, and l take good deal OF inter
est in you. Good morning. Come
and see me again !" Smith, moving
slowly out of the door, and ruefully
contemplating the avails, was heard
to mutter God you didn't
know my grandfather"
Year: 1871

The following we find in the Whig
Banner, a campaign newspaper pub
lished at Franklin, by r. Lyle White,
in 1852. AS near as we can tell, it is
q very fair statement of the case:


Such is the caption of an article
which has been going the rounds ol
the papers for some time, and which
appears to be something new ''undsr
the sum-"


Just as if editors were not in the
habit of going to heaven Well Ven-
ture to say that q greater proportion
of them 60 to that home of those who
have performed their mission of mercy
Year: 1871

A Connecticut school teacher who
wanted to make an impression on two
of his boys who had been fighting,
proposed that they should be tried by
jury of their fellows. The proposition
was accepted, and the charge proved
but the pedagogue, who constitute d
himself judge, was little taken back
when the jury rendered verdict of
mot guilty." without leaving their
seats.
Year: 1871

PROFESSOR HUXLEY on SrIRITUALISM AS
AN ANrIDoTE TO SUIcIDE.-PrOfessor Hux-
lev sent the following answer TO an invita-
ton:


SIR-I regret that am unable to accept
the invitation of the council of the Dialect
ical Society to cooperate with committee
for the investigation of" spiritualism; and
for two reas ons. In the first place, have
no time for such ali Inquiry, which would
involve rauch trouble and (unless it were
unlike ell inquiries of that kind | have
known) much annoyance. In the second
place take no interest in the subject. Inc
only case OF "spiritualism" | have had the
opportunity of examining into for myself
was as gross an impOsture as ever came I'M
der my notice. Bat, suppOsing the phe.
nomena TO be genuine, they do not interest
me. Ii anybody would endow me with the
faculty of listening to the chatter OF Old wo-
men and curatcs in the Ielrest cathedral
town, ! should decline the privilege. having
better things to DO And If the folk In the
spiritual world do not talk more wisely and
sensibly than their friends report them 10
do, put them in the same category. The
only truth that can see in the demonstra-
ton of the truth of spiritHalism" is to fur
nish an additional argument against suicide:
Better live a crossing sweeper thin die and
be made to talk twaddie by a medium hired
at guinea a Seance.


am, sir, etc, L. II. HUXLEY.
Year: 1871

Fire in CollinsUiHe.-The wooden build- ing covering the concentration furnace of the Collins company, at Collinsyille, acci- dentally took fire about midnight Thursday and was totally consumed. The contents were of nature to be only slightly in- jured; fully insured in responsible com panies. It will in no way interrupt or interfere with the operations and business of the company. The burnt building was about l2O feet by 30.

 4 Ba6e" Whdt.s 7raoeled. Last Satur- day afternoon, while tue evening train on the Housatonic road, was standing at the depot in Pittstield, a colored woman stepped on board with her infant child, and place. ing it securely in seat, left the car for a moment to go back into the depot, and the train started for Burlington, taking the child with it, but leaving the mother in the depot: The child was taken off at Housatonic, and the mother was obliged to wait for the Sunday afternoon milk train, before she could go on to hunt it up.
Year: 1871

THE ACCURACY OF NEwsPAPERs.-Som people have an idea that it is the business of newspapers to lie, and are so wise as only to believe newspaper report when they think it would be easier for the paper to tell the truth than it is to tell a lie, and they think it an evidence of wit to reject all evidence for authority that comes from newspapers. A few minutes though would convince any person of common judgment that such course is great mis- take. The editor gathers his news from a thousand sources, from acqualntances and strangers, from letters and papers. He sifts, culls, hunts, condenses and endeav- ors to get the straight facts of every story he publishes, for it goes to the public over his name, and he knows in a great measure he will be held responsible for it. The private individual hears piece of gossip carelessly, and repeats it with carelessness, and for details, nine cases out of ten cannot furnish enough of them to make an intelli- gent item for paper. It is to the advan- tage of the newspaper to furnish facts, but where there is so much fire there must be some smoke. How many men can show record for correctness, accuracy and truthfulness that will compare with the average newspaper The wonder, instead of being that the newspapers should con- | tain occasional inaccuracies and misstate- ments, is that they contain SO few of them considering the sources from whence the editors information is drawn.
Year: 1871

A few mornings since, car on the Housatonic railroad at this station, was thrown from the track by the rails of the road spreading apart. No damage of ac- count resulted save the little delay neces- sary to replace it.......Tne people who con- pleted an arrangement with liquor agent for boarding him four or five weeks, and who furnished him with his meals for one day and his nights lodging, and who then allowed him to go away without paying his bill, and forget to come back, think that class of boarders are not profitable.

 .Our friend, the miller, D. w. Manvei has been quite sick for d week-or more, but am glad to be able to say .he is some what better, and think soon we shall.see hlm about again. Our farmers arc very busy these lowering days, getting their lo- hacco ready for shipping. One crop has already been sold from this village, aud which I am informed brought good round price. This will encourage those now waiting for buyers to come.
Year: 1871

The suit of Dalton vs. Beers, conduc- tor on the Naugatuck railroad, for ejecting him from a train after he had paid his fare, which fact the conductor had forgotten, has been decided in the court of common pleas in Fairfield county in favor of the plaintiff, and ten dollars for actual damage sustained and fifty dollars toward expenses of counsel in the prosecution of the suit was allowed in view of the aggravated character of the assault. The supreme court have sustained the decision rendered by Judge Brewster of the court of common pleas.