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Year: 1873

"There is Alfred Sutton home with his
family TO live on the old folks, said one
neighbor to another. "1t seems hard after
all his father has done to fit him out in bust
ness, and the capital he invested to start
him so fairly. 1t is surprising he is turning
out so poorly. He is a steady young man,
no bad habits. as for as know; he has a
good education, and was always considered
smart; hut he doesn't succt ed in anything
| am told he has tried number Of different
sorts of business, and sunk money every
time. What can be the trouble with AL
fred, should like to know, for l don't
want my boy to take his tunp"


''Afred is smart enough" said the other,
"and has education enough, but he lacks
the one element of success. He never
wants to give dollars worth of work for
dollar of money. and there is no other
WY for young man to make fortune.
He must dig if he would get gold. All the
men who have succeeded, honestly or dis
honestly, in making money had to work for
it, the sharpest sometimes the hardest OF
all. Alfred wished to set bis brain in mo-
ton, and let it take care of itself. No
wonder it soon ran off the track, and a
smash-up the result. Teach your boy,
friend Archer, to work with a will when he
does work. Give him play enough to make
him happy and healtbful, but let him learn
early that work is the business of life. Pa
tient, self-denying work is the price of sue
cess. Ease and Incidence eat away the
price of capital, but much worse st H. all a
mans nerve power Present qualification
tends to put off until tomorrow or next
week, and so the golden moments Sip by.
1t is getting to be rare thing for the sons
of rich men 10 die rich. Too often they
squander in half a score of years what
their fathers were lifetime in accumulate
ing. l wish could ring it in the ears O.
every aspiring young man that work, hare
work, tf head and hands, is the price o
success. Country Gentleman.
Year: 1873

am satisfied in my own mind. from
to-nights experience, that Relvasou is the
murderer Of your father and also the rob
ber Of his pr your property, but how to
convince jury Of that fact does not seem
50 apparent.


There is the rub, Sergeant the more
| study it, the farther seem from a solu-
ton Of the difficulty"


This conversation occurred in the detect
ives office between Soolfire and Arbyght.
after Relvason had been placed in his car
rage.


You mentioned a man in California !;
would his evidence amount to anything r.
asked the Sergeant


His evidence would be mainly circum-
stantial. The night the deed was commit
ted, this man, Hunter left his home for
the far West. His father went with him.
or rather drove him to the nearest railway
station, to reach which they had to travel
over the road and very spot on which nv
father was murdered, and about sixty rods
beyond the place where the body was
found, they saw man running down the
road before them. A little farther on they
passed him as he was turning off the road
into pastu ure where they saw hlm endeav-
oring to secure a saddled and bridled horse
An hour afterwards the same man passed
them on horse back They marked both
rider and horse we'll, and when they reach
Ell the town they again saw the same man
at the livery where the old man stabbed
his team. Seen by daylight the man
proved to be Alvan Relvason. Hunter
knew him well. The horse he rode be-
longed to Mr.. Morris, and was left at the
stable to be taken home. Hunter feels
satisfied that Relvason is the man and says
he will swear positively to these facts.
Still l doubt if, as evidence, it would be
Of any significant value"


Taken alone, replied Soo.6re, ''it
would not avail much. still it is very
eliminating circumstance few more like
it would convict him."


There is another matter, which in some
Year: 1873

gent and provldent, taking as much interest
ia their employers welfare as in their own.
And now, kind reader, the last scene
closes and as we make our last obeisance
to our vast audience of readers, we fancy
we hear the applause Of some, the Misses Of
others and tinally we fancy We see the
silent, thoughtful faces Of many as the cur
tain drops.


THE END
Year: 1873

be paid az the appropriation IS exhausted, and
the Board OF Estimate anu Apportionment have
not made additional appropriation, as requested
by the Commissioner In his communication of oc-
tober 81 last.


In conclusion Commissioner Van Mort says:-
while deem 1t proper give you this notice,
trust that the welfare OF the city and its citizens
will be considered by your company, ana rely on
future action upon the part OF the proper author-
titled Tor lighting the public lamps in your district
iur the balance OF the year 1871
Year: 1873

The Barnesville Enterprise is issuing q
daily edition during the progress OF the
Fair at that place. The first number is
before us-a large, handsome well written
up sheet. 1t leads us to believe that
brother Mcclellan ought to seek some
larger field where he could run daily all
the time. '' az
Year: 1873

SENT TO THE PENITENTIARY FOR ONE
YEAR.-In the Hastings Court yesterday
Royal Longstreet was tried and found
guilty of striking William Allen with a
brick, and sentenced to the penitentiary for
rfie Years
Year: 1873

heart was full of new plans and new
purposes. He could keep his promise,
and he would he would never make
Nancy's heart ache again by breaking
that promise. He stopped suddenly
had the storm reached Sumner The
tall buildings along the wharf were
leaning roofess, one this way, another
that as if the wind, comming over the
unroof them. He hastened around the
foot of the hill; there lay the brick
hotel, the boast of the town, in scattered
fragments on the ground, like a wasp's
nest scattered by the hOusekeeper'
broom. He looked around three.
fourths of the town lay in ruins. How
street until he could see where it stood.
his family? Perhaps they had escaped
before the storm perhaps Scarce
knowing what he did, he hurried to the
nearest house that was yet standing,
and without ceremony opened the door.
There was no one in the room, but on
couch in one corner, a white sheet


fsunk to the still proportions of two
silent forms. Moved by some strange
Impulse, ne burQSU Dhck Gno covering
that shrouded the faces-Nancy and the
baby Shocked, stunned, he sank on
his knees and laid his face on that dear
form. Who can describe, who can
comprehend the utter desolation of that
hour None but those who have felt it.
o the thoughts and memories that crow
ded upon him-many of them bitter,
regretful thoughts. But there was one
memory for which he was thankful
that he had not listened to the tempter
which whispered to him yester-morn,
that it would be weak and unmanly to
yield to her request.


They found him there an hour after
ward, but he asked no questions, made
no reply to their attempts at consola-
ton, and they left him alone with his
dead.


There was " "hurrying to and fro" in
Sumner that day, for many were left
homeless many bruised and crippled
by the storm. And the mourners who
wended their way up the long hill to
the burying- ground, were as sad as
though the silence had been broken by
the toilling of solemn BELLS Kansas
HO7ltIIlJ
Year: 1873

If bread is the staff of life with Euro
peans, so is rice with Asiatics. 1t is the
staple food of the people, and with a
little soy or pickle, or some other sim
pie condiment, is often the only food
of the lower classes in Japan from
months end to months end. They do
not rejoice in the knives, forks and
spoons of civilization, nor use their fin
gers like the East Indians, but they use
a couple of skewer-like sticks, which
they call hdShi, and we call chop. sticks,
and uncommonly deftly they apply
them to all the necessary purposes
Foreigners can manage them only after
much practice, and some can never get
the knack.


It is strikingly curious to see them
eat for the first time The rice ia
brought up in beautifully clean tub,
which holds enough for the days con
sumption. 1t is as often served cold as
hot, and the n1OdttS Operandi is as fol
lows We will suppose it is a simple
meal of the simplest classes. A small
table about nine to twelve inches
square and six TO nine inches high is
placed sometimes in the middle of the
feeders, sometimes one to each person.
On this table are two or three small
dishes-perhaps one has some slices of
cold fish, another some pickles, lily
root, green ginger and horseradish,
another little soy, and so on. A maid
servant fills a small basin, about the
size of breakfast cup, with Gozen
(rice) from the tub, and Offering one TO
each person, it is taken in the left hand,
and being held close to the mouth, tho
contents are thrust from the basin into
the mouth most cleverly ever and anon
there is pause to take a slice of the
fish, which is rendered more palatable
by being dipped in the soy. This, with
an occasional peck at the other little
dishes, forms the repast. OF course,
richer people have richer food but
although sometimes their meals con-
sists of many courses, and all beautiful
ly served, they take only peck at each,
and have a considerable interval be-
tween the courses. It is unusual to
drink with the meal, but a little warm
water suffices at its close, the richer
folks taking an occasional cup of saki
wine made from rice, between times.


If the food of the common people il
simple in the extreme, the entertain
ments of the rich are sometimes master
pieces of artistic excellence, both in the
preparation of the food and in its dis
play. Sometimes the guests may sit
round a scenic arrangement as of
luxuriant island or a beautiful domain
in petto, all the dishes being arranged
as parts of the scene. It is quite
unique, and different from any thing
seen elsewhere.
Year: 1873

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If you visit this region during the
last of June or in July, you may watch
the salmon spawning, most curious
and remarkable sight. The great fish
then leave the deep pools in which they


have been quietly lying for some weeks


before, and fearlessly run up on the
shallow ripples. H re, animated by a
kind of fury, they beat the sand off the
shoals with their tails, until often a fe-
male salmon thus labors till her tail fins
are entirely worn of. She then de-
posits her eggs upon the coarse gravel,
and the greedy trout, which are ex-
travagantly fond of salmon eggs, rush
up to eat them as the poor mother lays
them. They are, / believe, watched
and beaten off by the male salmon,
which accompanies the female for this
purpose. When the female salmon has
deposited her eggs, and the male salmon
has done his part of the work, the two
often bring stones of considerable size
in their mouths to cover up the eggs,
and protect them from the predatory
attacks of the trout. And thereupon,
according to the universal testimony of
the fishermen of these waters, the sal
mon dies I was assured that the dead
bodies often cumber the shore after the
spawning season is over; and the noun
taineers all assert that the salmon, hav-
ing spawned up here, does not go down
to the ocean again. They hold that the
young salmon stay in the upper waters
for year, and go to sea about eighteen
months after Matching and it is not
uncommon, l believe, for fishermen
hereabout to catch grilse weighing from
two to four pounds. These bite some
times at the fly. The salmon bite, too,
when much smaller, for / caught one
day young salmon not more than six
inches long. This little fellow was
taken with bait of salmon eggs, and
his bright silvery sides made him quite
different from the front which / was
catching out of the same pool. His
head also had something of the fierce,
predatory, hawk-like form which the
older salmon's has. Charles Nordhof,
IN Harper'S Magazine.
Year: 1873

There are times when the troubles Of life still
The bees wandered lost in the depths Of June,
And paused where the chime of a silver rill


Sang the linnet and lark 10 their rest at noon.
Said my soul /" See how calmly the wavelets glide
Though 50 narrow their way 10 their Ocean-veut
And the world that traverse is wide, is wide,


And yet is too narrow to hold content
Z" o my soul, never say that the world IL wide


The rill in its banks is less closely pent;
1t is thou who art shoreless on every side,


And thy width will not let thee inclose content"
Year: 1873

1t is related that parrot which
could sing Shoo-fy as well as any of the
gamins of New York, was sold to gen
tleman in Bridgeport a short time ago.
Another was sold that sang Up in a
Balloon SO well that it attracted crowds
of listeners. The manner in which this
bird would commence its vocalism was
somewhat amusing. 1t would say,
''Mother, what do you want to day 2"
An imaginary lady would reply, cup
in a Balloon" Tho parrot would an
swer, ''All right, come ahead" and
commence singing.
Year: 1873

Jake Bergman, an Augusta (Cal. }
ranchero, was wakened, one morning,
in September by peculiar noise among
his cattle, and, having dressed and
started for the rancho, he found them
drawn up in a perfect hollow square
with the calves in the center, while the
horns of the old ones bristling on the
outside made it look decidedly periIous
for an enemy to approach. Hardly had
Bergman reached this array when a big
California ioness sprang upon him.
He was unarmed, but was man of i'm
mense muscular power. The Two en-
braced cordially, but the brute was too
much for Bergman sine clawed the
flesh off his breast and arms in a very un-
comfortable manner. But Bergman's
Indian servant came up, and the lioness
tossed Bergman aside and went for the
red-skin, tearing it up at her own sweet
will. The brute had dug in nearly to
the poor Indians untutored heart, when
Bergman came down on her head with
a stake and crushed in her skull. This
finished her, but the two men will have
to fat up very fast to fill the hole she
made in their flesh. The animal meas
ured six feet from tip to tip, and tue
absolute emptiness of her stomach was
the cause of her raid.
Year: 1873

The PoET AND THE MAN OF INTEL
LEcT.-What feculty must that be
which can paint the most barren land
scape and humblest life in glorious
eolors It is pure and invigorated
sense reacting on sound and strong
imagination. Is not this the poet'scase /?
The intellect of most men is barren. It
is the marriage of the soul with nature
that makes the intellect fruitful, that
gives birth to imagination. When we
were dead and dry as the highway,
some sense which has been healthily fed
will put us in relation with nature, in
sympathy with her, some grains of fer
tilizing pollen floating in the air fall on
us, and suddenly the sky is all one rain
bow, is full of music and fragrance and
flavor. The man of intellect only, the
prosaic man, is barren and staminifer-
Gus flower the poet is fertile and
perfect flower. The poet must keep
himself unstained and aloof. Let him
perambulate the bounds of imagination's
provinces, the realms of poesy and not
the insignificant boundaries of towns.
How many faculties there are which we
have never found Some men, me
thinks, have found only their hands and
feet THOTedu.
Year: 1873

There seems to be good opening here for a
paper mill. A paper mill located at Winches-
ter is said to pay thirty per cent. on the capital
invested Rye and wheat straw arc to be had
in any quantity for paper stock. The finest
sand we have ever seen for making glass is
found in this vicinity.


Samples of cloth and leather will be sent to
the American Institute Fair in New York city
from here, and we are of the opinion collec-
ton of minerals sent to the same place would
be attended with most satisfactory results.
Year: 1873

Reflect that n sound mind and body arc the
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
happiness. Indeed, without these tho journey
through life becomes weary pIlgrirlmGo, the
prospcct hourly dnrkcns to the Wow, the mind
becomes shndowcd with despair, and filed with
tho melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is blighted with our own
Year: 1873

Already has, in some things, grown
Bes ond her village limits quite
For boys can swear and drink and high
Just as in cities big folks do,
And initiate their vices too.
But should our town city be
Pray listen to boy like me:
To keep your morals in good plight,
And teach your children to do right,
To have your streets in good repair,
And all things looking neat and fair;
Please read the Register and pay
The printer promptly to the day;
And if you would sweet sleep enjoy
Then fee your faithful


CARRIER BOY.
Year: 1873

KIND FRIENDS -


The year has gone, and now
I dotf my cap and make my bow.
Although I'm but little boy
My heart is big-to wish you joy;
A happy New Year in your home
And many New Years more to come
They call me deuH, not because
I've cloven hoof, or horns or claws;
Nor for some wicked act or trick
That marks a child of the Old Nick.
They call all printers so, you see,
From Doctor Faustus down to me.
Men should not such term employ,
l know I'm not so bad a boy.
/ would be better if could,
I try my hardest to be good.
If l my health to manhood keep
do not want wiid oats to reap.
I bring your paper to your door,
What could little boy do more
surely cannot think that you
Would want me stop and read it too.


OF general news l scarcely need
Say much to those who weekly read
The Register; for there is found
The news of all creation round.
The "epizooty" first came off
And gave the horses such cough
That street cars stopped and people


swore,


A thing they never did before.
Like boys who whistle in the night,
TO keep their courage in good plight,
So men professed they did not care
But still they had mighty scare,
Else how could they for Greeley rant
And then turn round and vote for Grant
Well Grants elected and one sees
Bonfres and other jamboree',
Some monster ones and others less
To celebrate his grand success.
In celebrations of this kind
Old Boston never was behind,
The Gilmore concert shows how they
Would celebrate so grand a day,
But still one scarce could think to see
A city burnt in jubilee.


Grand moral ideas oft suggest
What others might not think the best
Well, generations may arise
To see this act was very wise;
If it no other vantage meets
But straighten up their crooked streets,
Twill be blessing of some weight
Tohave their crooked w0ysmade straight.
Year: 1873

know not much of politics,
Folks say we're rather in fix.
Some say that now corruption rules,
And we are under knaves and fools.
The people voted, sanctioned all,
But oh, my country, what fail
Our teachers tell us that the sun
Shined only on one W Washington,
Great men were scarcer it appears
Than they are now in latter years;
For now the sun can dart his ray
On thousand Grants at any day.
Great men are now as thick as hops
And every year brings in new crops.
l think that by the time I'm grown
Not many small men can be shown.
How glorious What a happy state
When all small people will be great,
Not great, as Washington, and good,
But only great be it understood.
But should our country "go to pot,
And wide spread ruin be our lot
Should war and anarchy hold sway,
Our property be taxed away
Should freemen now no more be free,
The blame must not attach to me.
You dare not blame me, and you can
| did not vote for General Grant.
Year: 1873

The Young Ladies' Academy opened yesterday morning under the most favorable auspices. The room is capacious and we'll situat- ed, and parents sending their daughters may be assured that everything will. be done for the physical comfort of the children as we'll as for their advancement in studies. It is desirable that all who may contemplate entering the school as pupils present them selves as soon as possible. Young ladies from the interior will be accommodated with pleasant boarding-places on application to Miss Gum, the Principal, at San Diego.-Union of the 22d.
Year: 1873

| We wish we could get all the farm boys


that read the 4naericdn AgricuHrist to
| try the plan we have to recommend. We
| have two boys who "bossn the job on our


own farn,-and do nearly all the work
themselves-and they soon feel a real in
terest in what we call our Savings
| Bank"


We have i'll the centre of the barn-yard,
a basin, or hole with sloping sides. Into
! this ,bason the old fashioned plan was to
throw the manure promiscously, any
where, Just as it happened, aud the result
was that for several weeks or months it
would form only thin layer, spread out
all over the bottom of the basin. 1t was
too thin to ferment, and had slOvenly
appearance. Our plan now is to wheel or
cart the manure into one corner of the
basin making a kind of hot bed of it.
Make it four or five feet high, and rs you
get more manure, increase the length and
width of the heap, but always keeping it
in a compact mass. 1t soon begins to fer
ment, and to get warm and throw off
steam. This pleases the boys, and ,Ce, too,
like to see it fermenting, because we know
if theheap is properly managed there is no
loss Of ammonia. That is an exploded
notion. There is water in the form of
steam or vapOr escaping, mixed with a
trace OF volatile oils and carbonic acid,
but these are of no manurial value.


This little fermenting heap is the "nest-
egg" 1t has an attraction for boys. They
seem to like to clean out the pig pens and
the cow stables, in order to get manure to
add to the heap. They have a horse and
cart, and if they can find anything that
will make manure, it is drawn to the saw
ings bank and deposited.


Now, is not this better than having a
heap of horse-litter at the stable door,
whereIi it gets so dry and hot as to Sire
fany?" or better than having another
heap or heaps on the side of the cOw-sheds
where the drippings from the caves wash
out much of the best substance from the
manure? or than having the pig-sties
reeking with filth or the sheep yard so
foul and damp that there is great risk of
the foot-rot and no possibility of the sheep
doing well?


The great point is to get the heap start
from his first deposit in the Savings Bank.
Once get little manure into the heap and
start the fermentation, and it will keep
growing bigger and bigger. Manure scat
tered about the premises is soon frozen
solid, and remains in n crude state until
spring. But this snug little heap will not
only keep itself warm, but like yeast, will
induce fermentation in the fresh manure
that is daily added to it. twill, as we can
state from actual experience, keep ferment-
ing slowly during the coolest weather in
winter. But it would not commence in
such cold weather, hence the importance
of starting the heap now. What we gain
by this fermentation, we will tell the boys
at some future time.-dmeTtcdR 1Agrt-
cuIturiSt.
Year: 1873

SEvIERvILLE, Tenn, Feb 3, 1873.


EDITORS CHRONICLE: Our neighbor-
hood was somewhat alarmed last night
about s o'clock, by the ringing of big
bell and the screams of the mother and
e wife of John McMahan, who lives one
mile below Sevierville. The neighbors
rallying- to the relief of the distressed fam
lily, found the body of John NIcNIahan, a
lifeless corpse upon the floor, stretched out
before the fire as though a man asleep.
He had been for many years a confirmed
drunkard, but for two years past his life
has scarcely ever been sober, and for the
last month he has been confined to his bed
and would send for whisky by his hand
and would lay in bed and drink all he could.
Even up to the evening previous to his
death he sent and got three gallons to do
him over Sunday. About two hours be-
lore he diedhe went into the kitchen and
called 1or something to eat then returned
TO MS bed room, and not being able to get
to his bed lay down before the fire Oh the
floor, then called for his bottle, which was
given him by one of his work hands. this
being about sunset. His wife went to bed
thinking he hadjust dropped off to sleep.
and his mother, before she retired, went tG
him and tried to awaken him, but failed
Thinking he was asleep she lay down, but
she watched him for short time and in
the meantime discovered he was getting
his breath shorter than usual, got up anC
shook him, but found he was just breath
ing, screamed 70 his wife, but before sh'
could get to him he was gone. He leave:
wife and two children and many friend
to mourn his loss.


HIS father died about fille years sine
ahd lett him quite q fortune and this is tn


fruit thereof. SEWER.