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Year: 1870

AS an illustration of the idea that
some people have of the nature and
character of an attorney, We give the
following genuine anecdote which oc-
CURED not long since in Dubuque
One of our oldest members of the bar
received call late one afternoon from
former friend, whom he had known
for twenty-five years, and who had
travelled all day to reach his old friend,
with q view to make some arrange
ments for the benefit of a son, whom
he believed to be fitted, naturally, for
no vocation but that of a lawyer. AT
ter taking long breath, he said:


Judge, 1 have come to see you on
some very serious business"


Indeed! What has happened?-
You don't want divorce? Have you
a claim on some estate?"


"Oh no, nothing of that kind but 1
have got boy"


"Well congratulate you. When
was he born?"


"Oh, he is sixteen years old, and 1
can't do anything with him, and L
want you to take him."


"Why, if you can't manage him,
what could do with him?


"You can make lawyer of him; he
is good for nothing else; and L will
tell you why; he won't work and he
won't go to school, but will steal every
thing he can lay his hands on he is
the meanest boy ever saw, and the
greatest liar you ever heard, and so ]
thought would get rid of him and
let you make a lawyer of him."


"Well, from your description OF
him don't really think he will make
a good lawyer"


Good, did you say. Why, man
need not be good to be lawyer. You
know, Judge, how dishonest the law
yers are, and how they make money
and go to the legislature and some
times to congress, but they make mon
ey all this time. Won't you take
my boy?"


mo rather think 1 cannot do any
thing for him. You are an old friend,
to be sure, and 1 have attended your
cases, and you have always paid me,
and-n


"Yes, know, and you always got
the largest share"


"And L was going to say that | hope
to attend to all your law business as
long as you live, but am sorry to say
that 1 have partner and clerk, so
1 can do nothing for your son."


''Well, you are the first lawyer that
L ever saw or heard of that would not
do anything that anybody wanted
him TO do. So good evening"


And the old man departed, mutter-
ing denunciations on wayward boys
generally, and unappreciative lawyers
particularly Dubuque Times.
Year: 1870

The wool growers of Vermont have


been diecussing this subject, of late in
their farmers clubs. From the re-
ports that reach us of these discus
Sions, it would seem that the general
sentiment is setting strongly against
the practice of annually dueking
sheep and men in the cold spring


water of our running streams. We
rejoice that such is the case. To be
sure farmers will be Obliged to take
up with a somewhat smaller price for
their wool if they discontinue entirely
the custom of washing their sheen.
Buyers even now make a great ado
over purchasing a lot of wool that has
not been washed. At the same time,
not one of these buyers is sharp
enough, or careful enough to distin-
gulsh between a lot that is poorly
washed and one that is well washed.
One lot brings as high price as the
other, If the buyer can only be assured
that the sheep have been through a
creek or a tub of water, no matter how
SLOW or nasty was their passage.


washing sheep as now praeticed is a
iarce, as Tar as cleaning the wool of
dirt Is concerned. 1t may carry off
some Of the oil from the wool, but oil
is nOtsO much objected to by the man.
facturer, as is the dirt,


Let the practice of cold water
washing of sheep be dispensed with
entirely, and both producer and man.
ufacturer will be profited thereby.
The man who thoroughly washes his
sheep will no longer find cause for
complaint, because his neighbOr, who
merely goes through the forms, re-
eeives as high price for dirty as he
does for clean wool. The manufae-
turer, too, will be gamer. He will
know the precise character of the ar
ticle he is dealing in.


But an advantage to be derived from
the abolition of this practice, greater
than any mentioned above, is that
which will result to the sheep farmer
in the better health of his flock and of
himself. The process of washing is
an unnatural one for sheep. Exper-
fenced shepherds estimate the damage
of their fiocks from this practice at
half dollar head. Sheep that are
not washed in the spring uniformly
come up in the fall looking better
than those that have been washed.
The colds taken by the fiocks, during
and after washing, and which often
result so injuriously to there health
and strength, are too frequently shar-
ed by the farmer. The exposure to
which he is subjected while preform-
ing the Operation of washing sheep
must necessarily be a prolific source
of colds, fevers and rheumatisms. The
disagreeable and deleterious character
of this exposure can be appreciated
only by those who have experienced
it. Not one of these, we believe, but
would rejoice at the universal discon-
tinuance of the custom of washing
sheep Utica Herald.
Year: 1870

l stood some years ago, on bright
summers day, at the waters near the


city of Geneva, where two riverS,
meet but do not mingle-the Aar ana
the RhOne. One with its beautiful


waters of heavenly blue, which is
almost worth the pilgrimage to, and


the other muddy, partly from the
glaciers of which it is largely eompOs-
ed, and from the clay soil which it


upheaves, come meeting together
from two several points For miles
and miles they go, with no barrier


between them except their own in
nate repulsions-they meet but do
not mingle. Now and then one
makes a slighteneroachmert upon the
province of the other, but is speedily


beaten back again. Like mighty ri
val forces of good and evil do they
seem. and for long while the strug-
gle is doubtful: but if you look far
down the valley into a quiet little
nook. you will find that the Rhone
has mastered and covered the whole
surface of the river with its own EN-.
blematic and beautiful blue. I
thought, as / stood there and gaxed,
that there was a grand illustration
OF the ulLluldlc triumph vi bIubu over
error; and in meditating upon this
vision of Ezekiel, and in reading that
those waters shall flow into the sea
and heal it, the scene rose up before
me fresh and vivid, as if had seen it
yesterday, and as if my own faith was
confirmed, and my own apprehension
quickened by the memory, l have
sought in these few words to impeTJ
some of the vividness of the appre-
hension to you. " Every thing"
OIitis a beautiful thought, and can
rest in it because God has spoken it,
otherwise the plague Of my own heart
would weigh me down otherwise the
great, the giant temptations that i'm
part to my soul a struggling bitter
ness which no stranger may know,
might well cause me to despOnd,
" every thing shall live whittier the
river cometh." No impurity, no lep-
rosy, no death which can not be
healed by the flowing of this life
giving river.-IY. N. PlTlshOR.
Year: 1870

Up and be doing! the time is brief.


And life is frail as the Autumn leaf;


To God and thy better self be true,


Do with thy might what thou finds TO do.


Though the day is bright and the sun is high,


Ere long twill fade from the glowing sky.


While the evening shades darkly fall:


There's time for rest, IL will come TO all.
The harvest is white, and the field is wide
And thou at thy ease may'st not abide.
The reapers are few and far between.
And death is abroad with his sickle keen.
o, think of the master worn and faint,
Whose meek lips uttered no complaint.
Who toiled for thee mid the noon day heat,
And sought no rest for his weary feet;
or Fathers wrath, who drank the wine,
And bore Bis cross to tighten thine.
Go forth and labor, 4 crown awaits
The faithful servant at Heavens high gates.
For death of shame the Savior died,
To open the golden portals wide,
That souls, redeemed from the tolls OF sin,
In His spotIess robes might enter in.
Work with thy might ere the day of grace
Is spent and the night steals on apace.
The Master has given His pledge divine;
Who winneth sOulslille the stars shall shine.
Year: 1870

A writer once heard Q speech deliv-
cred before a company of newsbOys
and boOt-blauks, as follows: my dear
children, you should be good because
it is so good to be good; and you should
not be bad because it is so bad to be
bad. II you are good, you will feel as
good as do; if you are bad, you will
feel as bad as you dO.n
Year: 1870

Somewhere in Pennsylvania
there is a clergyman whose nomi-
nal salary is four hundred aud
fifty dollars a year.


But as it was six months in ar.
rears. the congregation drtermi ed
TO give him donation party, to
help him along,


It came off-the donation party
did.


The entire flock was on hand,
but the presents, were only six
rolling pins, pen-wiper, and a
quar- er of a peck of dried apples,
crop of 1869.


The minister, of course, had to
furnish refreshments; and the
company not only discouraged four
hams, three and a half pounds of
sixty cent butter, and thirteen
loaves Of bread, but they ate up
two pounds of sugar and all the
next winters preserves.


To crown all, four spoons
were missing.


The clergyman says he wants
to have just one more donation
party, and then he will close up
his business and begin life over
again as champion pauper at the
alms-house.


He is particularly down on one
sister who jammed herself full Of
ham and preserves, and enough
other succulent diet to keep the
entire family for a week, aud then
laid up against the wall pretend
ing to feel religious, and singing,
"There is rest for the weary"


He is willing to accept bets
that she will never weary while
there is any grub about-this sis
ter won't.


He would like to feed her for a
month on those rolling pins and
pen-wiper, just out of revenge.
Year: 1870

or four hours the other deacons
sent into court for small loans
And still the packed audience
waited, for it was a prodigious oc-
casion in Bulls Corners, and one
in which every father of a family
was necessarily interested.


The rest OF the story can be
told briefly. About daylight the
jury came In, and Deacon Job,
the foreman, read the following


VERDICT.


awe, the jury, IN the case of
the Commonwealth of Kentucky
VS.. John Wheeler, ct al, have
carefully considered the points of
the several theories advanced. and
do hereby unanimously decide
that the game commonly known
as old sledge or seven up is en-
inently game of science and not
of chance. In demonstration
whereof it is hereby and herein
stated, iterated, reiterated, set
forth and made manifest, that du-
ring the entire night the chance
men never won a game or turned
a jack, although both feats were
common and frequent to the op-
position and furthermore in sup
port of this our verdict, we call at
tention to the significant fact that
the chance men are all busted,
and the science men have got the
money. 1t is the deliberate opin.
ion of this jury that the chance
theory concerning 'seven-up' is a
perniciOus doctrine, and calcula-
ted to infict untold sufferings and
pecuniary loss upon any commu-
nifty taking stock in it."


"This is the way that seven-up
came to be set apart and particu-
larized in the Statute books Of
Kentucky as being a game not of
chance but of science, and there
fore not punishable under the
law," said Mr.. Knott. "That ver-
dict is of record and holds good to
this day."
Year: 1870

A couple of weeks ago we gave
n notice of man in this county
who was swindled out of some
money, by New York sharpers,
because lie did not take the pa
pers and was not "up TO snuff,
and now we learn of another in
stance. A man a short distance
from town received a circular from
parties in New York, proposing to
send him by express, G. 0. D., for
the small sum of $40 in legal
money, 500 in counterfeit green
backs, lust as well executed as
the geDuine-only experienced
money changers can tell the dit
ference ;" so said the circular
Wen. this greeny thought that
would be a good thing, so he wrote
20 them to send it, and in time
the package came, and was paid
for, ,apd the happy recipient started
home. lie went TO his ON and
Locked the door carefully, and
then proceeded TO open his prize.
After tearing off vast amount
of wrapping paper he came to a
small paste-board box, which con-
tanned a copy of the New York
Tribune. To say that he was
mad and swore some would not
express the scene at all. The les


son may do him good. He had
better take the papers and keep
posted. .-Findlay (O) Courier
Year: 1870

So Parson Ridewell was cleared,
but it was long time before he
got over the blow, for many were
the wicked wags who delighted
to poster him by offering to "ride
a race" with him, to "bet on his
head" or to "put him against the
world for a race" But as Ride
well grew older his heart grew
warmer, and finally he could laugh
with right good will when he
spoke of his unexpected race
Be sure there was no more Sab
bath racing in that town.
Year: 1870

Three or four carpenters had
a dance upon the roof of a
school house at Pittsfeld, Mass,
the other day. They were shing-
ling the building, and in tear
ing off the old covering a big
hornets nest was discovered,
when men, overalls, shingles,
hats and insects flew about has
tily for a time. There was no
retreat for the men, and so
they had to fight it out on that
line until the foe was annihila-
ted.
Year: 1870

A white man in one of the bar
rooms of Atlanta. the other day,
offered to pay for quart OF whis-
key if a negro present would
drink it. The offer was accepted,
and the darkey is now colored
angel.
Year: 1870

me following record win show the che nges In the
temperature OF the weather for the past twentfour
hours In comparison With the corresponding day Of
AGst year, indicated by the thermometer at Hud-
nuts pharmacy, HERALD Building corher OF Ann
ufup
Year: 1870

The campaign in the Elev-
enth Congressional District is
now opened in earnest. Every
Democrat and every honest
Republican who are opposed
to the treacherous WILSON
should prepare for making his
defeat certain. We ask the
cooperation and assistance of
every honest man to contest
every inch of ground in the
coming elections. Let no Dem
ocrat wait for others to lead,
but each for himself lift up the
banner and sound the bugle Of
Democracy. The time has
come to pull down the temple
of Radicalism, that has been
for years full Of rottenness and
corruption. Let it be so re-
corded in the heart of every
Democrat.
Year: 1870

The almost unprecedented
demand for this "new remedy"
by the afflicted, prohounces it
a decided success in the restor-
alton to health of all suffering
from any form Of Kidney dis
ease. Its combination, Buchu,
Juniper and Acetate Potash in
the pleasant form Of an elixir,
which can be taken without
nausea by the most delicate
organization, makes it the most
desirable in all cases where
such a remedy is needed.
Year: 1870

Horses ought to have good
cleaning and rugular exercise.
If there is nothing for them to
do, give them a run for an hour
or two in a well.fenced lot, one
at a time--if there is any dan
ger of their kicking each other
every fair day. Don't scrimp
in bedding; you will lose moth
ing, but gain, in the less
amount of food a horse will
need if kept warm. Close sta
bles must be well ventilated.
Direct the blacksmith to put
the best and toughest steel into
the caulks, so welded on that
they will not tear out, The
caulks should be thick, so that
they may be sharpened when
necessary several times without
the necessity Of renewing the
shoes.
Year: 1870

The proceedings of the late
session OF Congress fill seven
large volumes of the Congress
sional Globe, two more than
were ever required by a single
session before, and one entire
volume is taken up by speeches
that were never delivered,
leave to print them having
been given by the branch to
which the printing member be-
longed. Much of this vast ex-
pense is useless, and, unless the
speech-makers are too strong,
will be stopped. 1t is bad
enough to make speech for
buncomb ; it is worse to print
one without delivering it, and
worse yet to put the country
to the expense when the mem
ber for whose benefit it is in
Cured neither composed nor
delivered the speech, and the
whole transaction is fraud.
Year: 1870

READER, look herel This is the
time of year for you to use Rosen-
helms Stomach Bitters, which are
tho best bitters in use. By reading
the advertisement in this paper you
can learn full particulars. All the
Grocers in the county keep them
for sale.
Year: 1870

War in Europe will have its
first effect here by immensely
increasing the flow of immi-
grants. Already every careful
father who can gather the cash
and scents the conscription
from afar off is paying the pas,
sage of his boys to America
From America they may re-
turn home again richer than
they went, or the father, per
chance, may follow on the voy-
age; from the army they would
probably never return, And
this result is secured to us
merely by the war fever, even
without the war. Next to the
increase in immigration will be
be q demand for our bread
stuffs and high prices for our
splendid grain crops. If the
war lasts we shall even fill
some big gun contracts, and
our workshops will burn gas.
Europe will go on the debtor
side of the debtor side of the
books in a very unqualified way,
Year: 1870

We are constantly told by
the high tariff advocates that
those who indulge in luxuries
pay all the tariff taxes, and con.
sequently the labonng classes
are not burdened by it.


Is salt a luxury ?


Is tea and sugar luxury ?


Yet an eXhorbitant tax is
levied on all these articles.


Is iron and steel a luxury ?


Yet $4,000, 900 is annually
paid a half dozen manufacturers
in this country as a bounty by
the laboring classes OF this
country.


The fact is, a discrimination
is made in favor of luxuries,
and the bulk of the tariff taxes
are collected from the laboring
classes.
Year: 1870

The Houston Telegraph of the second in
slant, which has been a long time on the
route, says:


1t was amusing to see the panic here on
Friday about yellow fever. A large num-
ber of runaways from Galveston had come
up on the boat on Thursday night and had
to wait for the train of LAS p. NJ. They
were i'll at ease and showed their fright very
plainly, and it spread among the tmid un-
acclimated Of this city. just before l2 M.
q rumOr gained circulation among them that
there were two cases of yellow fever in the
city, and we never saw so many pale faces
as there were among them. At about IL M.
we met two lady friends, who had failed to
find a carriage and were fastening ON foot
to the Central Depot-over an hour and q
half before the time of the starting of the
train. Upon inquiry of them we found that
they had heard a rumor that there were two
cases of yellow fever at the Hutchins House.
We assured them that there was not q case
in the city, but could see that they did not
believe it, and bidding us goodbye, they hur-
ried on, believing that they would be safer
at the depot than in the heart Of the city
near the Hutchins House. .,.,'r. -.
Year: 1870

The great speciality at the Academy of
Music is the splendid burlesque of the
"White Cat" which attracts new audiences
every evening. There is charming novelty
about the play that no one can fail to adj
mire, and that prompts many to go seceud
time and see it. The performances other
wise are excellent, and embrace a pleasing
variety, gratifying to all tastes. The ballet
is captivating, and beautiful and graceful
dancers exhibit their skill in the most be-
witching manner. Go to the Academy to-
night and every night.
Year: 1870

q scarsMy less saIutary result achleved by


similar means on an old Bengal officer.
The veteran was at the point OF death,
owing to an abscess in his liver, when,
fortunately for him, he read speech OF


the commander-in-chief, expressing his


belief in the absolute perfection OF the
native army in India, as at present organ
ized. The result was such a fit Of laugh


ter that the abscess gave way, and his life
was saved.
Year: 1870

RED CLOUD A PEACE MAKER.-
Evidence in favor of the efficiency of Red
Cloud as an Indian Peace Commissioner
multiplies with great rapidity. That
once belligerent chief is promoting a
peaceful feeling among the warlike Sioux,
and will try his powers of moral suasion
upon the Cheyennes and Arrapahoes.
Whsn he has soothed all these warlike
tribes by convincing them of the advant-
ages Of peace, Red Cloud should bo sent
as an agent of peace to the troublesome
Apachees of Arizona and aggressive
Comanchees of Texas. With the aid OF
this remarkable old chieftain we may
within very short time solve the Indian
problem in a manner oonsonant with the
religion and civilization of the nineteenth
century
Year: 1870

The wheat crop is now mostly secured
In excellent order throushout the coun.
try, and thero is every reason to expect q
much better quality for the coming season
than we have had for the past.


The quantity Of the different kinds Of
grain may be summed up as follows
White Wheat, about two-thirds as much
as last year sppng Whest, not SO much
as last year, but about the average of for
mer years; Corn, the largest crop ever
known; Oats, short crop; Rye, an aver
age crop.


In the absence of any unusual demand
from abroad, there would be but little
reason to expect any material advance
during the first half of the new year, af
ter which it is possible that the scarcity
may be felt, more particularly in White
Wheat and Oats; but as all kinds O.
breadstuffs are now, and probably fo
some time will be, governed moro or les
by the War between Frsaoe sad Prussia
prices are liable to change ss any time
and all dealers, both buyers and sellers
agree in the opinion that no prediction
oan safely be made.
Year: 1870

NO one can take even a superficial
view of the world in which we live, of the
vast and ever unfolding secrets stored
within its bosom, and of the marvellous
faculties by which man is fitted to dis
cover, develop, and apply those secrets
without feeling that well regulated labor
is happiness /; thatindolence is death; that
''labor' is craven with pen OF inspira-
ton over the field of the universe.
Year: 1870

of my location of his thriving village of
Richville is very proper. The error was
discovered as soon as it appeared, but I
had neglected to correct it.


While wish for the people of Brid-
port such an addition, would not rob
the good people of Shoreham of their
"Richville." TRAVELLER.
Year: 1870

On Monday evening as No. s0 Of the avenue +,
line was passing through Clinton street, near Hous-
ton, it ran August Roldlng, a child two and a
hall years OF age, and fatally injured him. It is
alleged tnat the child ran from behind cart stand


ing In the street IN front OF the horses and being
knocked down was run over before the car driver
James Saunders) could brake up. The iniured
child was conveyed TO Bellevue Hospital where
death ensued Two hours subsequently. Saunders
precinct police, but 1t u stated that seyerol wit
nesses can be produced TO show that the accident
was not attributable TO any fault on the part OF the
driver. The parents or deceased live at No elm
ton street. coroner's inquest VIII be held in the
Year: 1870

Much has been sung Of the MAID with
Golden Hair" No song, however, has yet
Jeen able to make that color popular one
for any considerable length of time. Light
red, faded or sandy hair equally under the
ban of public opinion. We are happy to an
nounce to our readers who desire to change
those c1lors, that three applications of Rif g'3
auburn tresses possessing all that soft, Ius-
troas appearance so desirable in this chef
adUTnment Of female beauty.