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Year: 1870

The continual agitation of the Woman Suffrage
is TO have some effect in teaching women their
rights. A young lady from Sacramento was one
of the hundred candidates who applied on Friday
for admission to the State University and if she
| can pass the preliminary examination will enter
as q student in the fourth class. The lady
teachers are also petitioning for the appointment
of one of their own sex to the position of Deputy
| Superintendent of Public Schools. They urge
that nine-tenths of the teachers are women, many
of whom find it necessary to appeal TO the Super.
ntendent for advice and assistance, and they
think that our experienced women would be faI
more able to render il them, than the best inten.
toned male officer. The request is not unreas.
enable, but San Francisco chivalry does not YET
adhere to the Wyoming doctrine " The best man
irrespective Of sex"


| LONG TRAMP.


An individual of the burglarous name of Jack
Sheppard has gone into the " Eighth Wonders Of
the World " business at n Melodeon den on Kear
ney street, Jack himself being of course the won
der in question. The peculiar qualifications thai
enable him to lay claim to that title, are not of
particularly useful nature, consisting merely o
a great power of endurance, which enables him
to walk Il hundred and five hours at a time
without any rest. He commenced this feat last
Tuesday at l, P. NJ, and has been saunterne
backwards and forwards along n planking laid
| on the floor ever SINCE taking his food as he
walks. His feet are already very much swollen
and by tomorrow he will require to be whipped
to be kept awake. Numbers of people are pass
ing in and out all the time to see this useless
performance, and Jack Sheppard bids fair tC
restore the family cognoman to the celebrity i
enjoyed during the life of his iIustrious ances
ters.


COMING CLOUDS.


From present appearances the rainy season
will be upon MS in few days, and the weather
wise predict that we are to have a long and we
winter. 1t is very likely that such will be the
case for the last years rainfall was severa
inches below the average, and our experience
shows that the amount deficient one season i:
made up in succeeding ones The advancing
columns of rain clouds have already sent in iheil
skirmz z,ers, and the sun has had hard work this
afternoon to find n peep-hole through which he
! could look down on this human ant hill. The
farmer, the merchant and the miner welcome
the black masses floating from seaward as gladly
as the thirsty sunbaked ground will drink in the
ife-giving moisture, for plenty of rain, means
abundant harvests, prosperous mining, and
| wealth for California. ScRIBDLER.
Year: 1870

There is good deal of discussion among
conservatives as to the future course of the
Radical party in Congress. Having tasted
blood IN the case of Georgia, it is still be
lieved they will 60 on to take Tennessee by
the throat, and next other States. That they
will now pause in the work of destroying
the government is not believed. Some think
that free government is virtually ended
others believe in q reaction and the ultimate
dissolution Of the Radical party. There is
all around q very painful and uneasy state
of feeling as to the next step Congress will
take, as there seems to be no power coupe'
tent to arrest the usurpations. It is moi
supposed by any that Grant will have the
nerve to make an issue with the ultras or to
insist on his recommendations.
Year: 1870

1t is said that the shortness of Fathe,
Hyscinshe's stay in this country was owing
to want of funds, he having brought but
two thousand francs with him. He was
charged no board at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. He refused pay from the French
Benevolent Society for the lecture in tneir
behalf, but was finally forced to allow them
to pay his passage 10 Hayre.
Year: 1870

Rev. DR.. Newman in Washington, before
commencing his services on recent Sunday
made the following sensible remarks:


Al have occasion to repeat substantially this
morning what said unto you more than year
ago. that do not think the pulpit should be
made an advertising medium. Almost every
week receive large number of notices to
publish meetings, lectures, &c. 1t is contrary
to my idea Of propriety for two reasons: First,
We assemble here and propose to devote an
hour and half to divine service, and II Is hard
" consistent with that object that | should
spend fifteen minutes Of the time in reading no
tees; and secondly, do not wish to rob the
press. While | do not think much is gained
by reading notices from the pulpit, | do think
the legitimate business of the press is injured
The press ought to be sustained. Persons who
wish to advertise should choose that medium" q"
Year: 1870

Farmers frequently feed their small potatoes
n fatt-n nios in the fall, Ii would be mich
better to keep them until spring, and then
cook them, mix them with little meal, and
feed them to sucking sows and young pigs
In the spring, before tue clover is ready to
turn into, we are generally short Of succulant
food. whereas in the autum we have apples,
pumpkins, cabbage leaves and variety OF
vegetables that will not keep until spring
The value of potatoes as food for stock does
not lie so much in the mere nutriment they
contain as in their giving tone to the stomach;
and they will prove much more useful when
fed ont to young pigs aud breeding sows in
the spring, as is usual, than when fed to fatten-
ing pigs in the fall.
Year: 1870

Weston, the pcripatetic huulbug, has made
a failure in his attempt to walk four hundred
miles in five days-in fact, if we remember
right. he has never been successful in any of
his essays. His last experiment attracted
great deal of attention in New York, and sew
eral distinguished medical men made it the oc-
casion for an interesting investigation into the
powers of human endurance. When we read,
however, that even as early as on the second
day Weston, toward the conclusion of his task,
was obliged to Clash bis legs with a riding whip
until the blood spurtsd,' we cannot but con-
clude that the exhibition was brutal one, and
ought to have been suppressed by the police
Alexandria Gazette.
Year: 1870

The French army has several woven Sur
geons, and it is said they can take off limb so
nicely that man enjoys it after he gets &C.
customed to it, No man who has ever had
couple Of legs cut off by woman will ever
afterwards allow a man to cut leg of for him,
20 he con holm II
Year: 1870

An Ohio youth who desired to wed The o6-
iect of his affections, had an interview with her
paternal ancestors, in which he stated that, al
though he has no wealth worth speaking Of,
he was chuck full Of days works lie got
the girl
Year: 1870

The Presque Isle Sunrise says that another
arrival has taken place in the new Scandina-
Wan settlement in that county, known as
New Sweden. The stranger cannot talk
English, and yet is a native American. He
did not come from Sweden or any other land,
in fact it is the popular belief that he came
from Heaven above. On the morning of
Friday, August 18th, the family of Mr.. Nils
Person were gratified by the advent of a boy
baby, the first child born in New Sweden.
The youngster has been named William
Widgery Thomas Person, after the founder
of the colony. The baby is particularly hap
py in the contemplation of the constitutional
fact that he is eligible to the Office of Presi-
dent of the United States.
Year: 1870

A New York correspondent of the Boston
journal gives the following account of the
lightning striking Bailey's circus in Kingston
on the Goth.


Last night one of the most grand and terrible
thunder storms on record broke over the town
during the performance of Bailey's circus
troupe before an audience of about six thou
sand people. A bolt descended at about 8 2.
NJ, striking the south side of the tent near
the top, making tremendous rent, and pass
ing through and across the tent, where it
struck and shivered a tree standing just out
side. Near the tree was a peach vendors
wagon, around which crowd of people had
gathered, and of these, five were instantly
killed. The horse was killed and the wagon
shattered into thousand pieces. The scene
within the tent is described as one of the most
terrible ever witnessed. As the thunderbolt
fell the performers stopped stort, standing in
the ring as though paralyzed; while the au-
dience, ghastly with fear, arose in wild con-
fusion, each rushing madly toward the en-
trance to the tent The Gagged beasts roared
loudly with fear and terror, and it was well
that they were so safely confined as to defy
their frantic efforts to escape. To add to the
confusion the rain began to descend in tor
rents, and when the audience, after pushing
and pressing, got out doors, they were tho
roughly drenched in moment. After time,
when the killed and wounded had been re-
moved, the performance was resumed, but to
avery slim audience. About fifty persons in
the immediate vicinity were knocked down.
Inside the tent scores were stunned and quite
a number slightly burned by the lightning.
Several persons were wounded by splinters,
etc, and many received severe injuries dnr-
ing the panicky rush to the open air.
Year: 1870

When it is remembered that the demo-
cratic party, now begging to be admitted
to popular favor and entrusted with the
administration of the affairs of the govern
ment, is the same party that made war
upon the government from 1861 to 1865,
the Southern wing under jeff Davis with
arms in their hands and the Northern wing
by such aid to the rebels as could be best
rendered according to circumstances, we
can't help admiring the modesty of the ap-
plicants. Their principal claims to favor
are something like the following:


Going into rebellion when Abraham Lin
coin was elected and the Presidential pa
tronage had passed out of their hands.


The destruction of million of men by
slaughter, disease and expo ure.


The creation of national debt of more
than three thousand millions of dollars.


The filling of the country with widows
and orphans and manned soldiers, and
carrying mourning to nearly every house,
hold in the land.


The destruction of our shipping and COM
merce by pirates.


The necessity of heavy taxation, burden
ing the people to pay the cost of the war.


Support of Andrew Johnson's extrava-
giant and costly administration, whiskey
rings and all.


Attempt to repudiate the national debt
and destroy the government by running its
credit, as supplement to the failure to de-
stroy it by gunpowder and bayonets.


Voting in the last Congress against re-
duction of taxation.


Voting against all measures to relieve
the shipbuilding and shipowning interests.


Grumbling profoundly at the republican
party, yet ready to take a republican as
President. Governor, or any other Office
preferring the darkest abolitionists who
might offer himself for leader to the best
simon-pure democrat to be found in theil
party.


These are some of the reasons which tn,
democratic party must put forth to estab
lish their claims to be entrusted with Office
These facts may be found in our histor.
since 1861. They are indisputable. w
simply present the fecord to assist ou
modest friends in making fair show be
fore the people according to their merits
The soldiers. orphans. widows and tax
payers of Union saved from destruction
by democratic violence and rebellion, cal
Judge for themselves whether this recor'
entities its possessors to anything bette
than disgrace. Judging Of the future b.
the past we should say the experiment o
Year: 1870

The strike at Fall River, which has con-
tinued about month, is probably near an
end, but has been stubborn and troublesome,
SO that the militia were obliged to be called
out. A writer in the Boston Journal says,
under date of the 26th,


1t is evident that trouble of a serious ma
ture was expected this evening, and every
precaution was taken to meet it. The several
companies of militia, whom many supposed
would be dismissed, were kept in readiness at
their armory, and both the State and local po-
lice were extremely vgilant. Undoubtedly
these extra provisions were largely due from
the fact that the man Sanderson, who has in
Cured the intense hatred of the strikers by
his persistence in continuing his employment
as spinner, had to be brought to the factory
in carriage this morning, as it was feared
the rioters would seek an opportunity to as
sail him after the demonstration manifested
last evening. But as evening drew near all
symptoms of danger vanished, for, with the
exception of the usual number of passers-by
the mills there was no collection of people in
that vicinity The detachment of the State
force, under Capt. Wade, patrolled the side
walks up and down Pleasant street, and any
attempt of the crowd to collect was quickly
frustrated.


When the mills put down at quarter before
seven o'clock the little band of spinners were
escorted to their home by the State consta-
bles, and not even a jeer or a shout came from
the lips of the outsiders. 1t was noticeable,
however, that although the men were suffi-
ciently guarded as they moved along the
streets, yet there was a look of fear portrayed
on their countenances which indicated that
they felt far from being safe. 1t is undoubt-
edly owing to the excellent manner in which
the State constables performed their duties,
that there was the absence of those disgrace
full proceedings which have characterized the
past few evenings. The crowds seemed to re-
aize that the first effort to create disturbance
would be met by prompt arrests, as stated to
them by the officers, and therefore abstained
from any disposition of feeling. Even the
women, who have hooted from their windows
at the obnoxious spinners, were not to be seen
they also having been notified that such exh-
bitions of feeling would never be tolerated.


As soon as the last man had left the factory
the gates were closed, the streets were
quietly deserted, and to casual obser-
yer it seemed as if the city was once
more pursuing the even tenor of its way
But the owners and agents of the mills are by
no means satisfied that everything will be well,
and are anxious to know in what manner the
difficulty will be brought to crisis.
Year: 1870

The New York World has been giving
its party, the democratic, some instruc-
tions in relation to making platforms. Its
idea of a platform is expressed as follows


In its aim and purpose, political plat
form is an electioneertng manitesto-a doc
ument intended, first, to hold the party to-
gether on basis which all its members
can accept, and, secondly, to furnish an
easy bridge on which citizens outside of
the organization can come over and
strengthen it by re-cnforcements.


Which is as much as TO say that its party
should have no principles and no honesty,
but declare for any rascality that would
give it votes. The party in this State has
evidently been taking lessons in the New
York School
Year: 1870

trusting this party with power again would
be as hazardous for the country as inviting
d foreign despot to walk into the White
House and take command of our Treasu-
ry, Army and Navy.
Year: 1870

The Aroostook Sunrise, in speaking of the
census of that county, says: "We have for a
long time known that the population of
Aroostook county is, or soon will be, large
ly north of Presque Isle. When the census
returns shall all be in, we shall find that the
majority of the people of Aroostook live very
far to the north of Houlton."
Year: 1870

neither energy nor ability remains to again

 poise him in the atmosphere of politics rthat of speculation and fguratively speaking he falls to the earth helpless, repulsive mass. Thus it will b. seen that his ability consists in his dupIicity He, too. was at one time demo- crat in Arizona, and made speech in which he asserted the same; but then he was running for Congress; and a man, you know, will be- come almost anything under such circum- stance.

 The other man of liability" is the "Little Governor" We'll. we would willingly have passed him over but he permitted his man- of -al-work to tempt us by the publication of the above extract so we will even question his ability; In what does it consist In education No Yet had he possessed sufficient modesty to cause him tokeep his mouth sealed at pub- lie meetings, it might never have become so generally known that he lacks even an ordi- nary, common-school education When was the ability which we are told he possessed evinced, and how ? Never, at any time. Four years ago bis efforts to sell wildcat mining claims, in New York, were unsuccessful; and he was obliged to leave the broker bushes be. cause he lacked ability to make 1t pay. In Arizona his greatest ability was manifested on election day at Prescott, in the readiness with which he defaced democratic tickets by scratching out the name "P. R. Brady" and inserting Richard C. Mccormick" hoping thereby to obtain through artifee the vote which he failed to buy-nice business for Governor

 But we cannot afford more space to this subject at present, and will leave our readers 10 find "brains, education or cultivation" in these men, if they can we can't find either It will be observed that we have ignored Was- son in the general review; we did so because he is not responsible to the public, but snaps and barks in whatever direction hls keepers point him,
Year: 1870

OF his administration, and he has it. Per
haps it is not of a sort to entirely please
him. He wished the people to turn from
questions of State policy, and to forget
the burdens of taxation, devoting their
entire attention to the question whether
u. ). Grant should be reelected to the
Presidency. 1t must be admitted that, if
the elections on Tue day are to be inter
preted as verdict upon that point, they
do not give him much encouragement
In New York, Illinois, Tennessee, Ar
kansas and Missouri, the supporters Of
the Administration have either been de-
feated or have lost largely in members
of Congress. In New Jersey the Repub.
licans gain one member. In Minnesota
they gain one in the district which was
carried by Democracy two years ago, in
consequence of personal quarrels. But
the loss of Congressman in the other
States is at least twelve. In New York,
where the majority for Hoffman in 1865
was twenty-eight thousand, and the ma
Jority against Grant only ten thousand,
obtained by most notorious and gigantic
'A""uSb viz has lOSl
so largely that Hoffman now has over
thirty thousand, Notwithstanding the re
duction of his majority in the city fully
twenty thousand by the prevention of
cheating. Practically, the verdict is a
loss in two years of twenty five thousand
votes to the party which supports Giant.
In Illinois, a State which Grant carried
in 1868 by 81, 200 majority, the Republi-
cans have now prevailed by only 25,0O0,
and would not have retained even that
majority, had not men who dissent from
the Presidents policy, represented by pa
pers like the Chicago Tribune, sustained
the ticket. in this State, where Grant
had twenty five thousand majority in
1868, he has been trying to force through
a candidate for Governor who is beaten
by thirty or forty thousand majority. If
these Endorsements satisfy the President,
he is not hard to please.


The moral of these elections is simply
this: the Administration of General
Grant has so dissatisfied the people that
it is already plain that..any party attempt
ing to run him will be ANONYMOUSLY
beaten in 1872, unless he shall do some
thing to recover public favor.
Year: 1870

May the honest heart never know dis
tress.


May care be a stranger where virtue re-
sides


May hemp bind those whom honor can
not.


May our prudence secure Us friends, but
enable us to live without their assistance.


May sentiment never be sacrificed by the
tongue of deceit.


May our happiness be sincere, and our JOYS
lasting.


May the smiles of coniugal felicity compen-
safe the frowns Of fortune.


May The tear Of sepsibility never cease to
flow.


May the road of preferment be found by
none but those who deserve it.


May the liberal hand find free access to the
purse of plenty.


May the impulse Of generosity never be
checked by the power Of necessity.


May We always forge! when we forgive an
injury.


May the feeling heart possess the fortune
the m!ser abuses.


May we draw upon content for the def
ciencies of fortune.


May hope be thy physician when calamity
is the disease.
May the single be married, and married
happy.
Year: 1870

At The commencement Of the present ccntu-
ry young man made his appearance in STRAIT
ford, and spent few weeks at the tavern,
which then existed TO afford shelter to stage
coach travellers Whence he came and what
his business none could guess. Directly oppo-
cite the tavern stood the small cottage and
forge Of blacksmith named Folsom. Hehad
a daughter, who was the beauty Of the village
and il was her fortune TO captivate the heart
Of the young stranger. lie told his love- said
he was from Scotland that he was travelling
in cog, but in confidence gave her his real
name, claiming that bo was heir to a large
fortune She returned his love and they were
married A few weeks thereafter the stranger
told his wife that he must visit New Orleans.
lie did so, and the go3SipS Of the town made
the young wife unhappy by disagreeable hints
and jeers In few months the husband re-
turned, but before week had elapsed he re-
ceived large budget Of letters, and told his
wife that he must at once return to England,
and must 20 alone. lie took his departure,
and the gossips had another glorious opportu-
nifty to make confding woman wretched.-
To all but herself it was a cleat case Of deser-
ton. The wife became mother and for two
years lived on in silence and hope. At the
end Of that time q letter was received by the
Stratford kcauty from her husband directing
her to 90 at once to New York with her child,
taking nothing with her but the clothes she
wore, and embark in ship for her home in
England.


On her arrival in New York she found
ship splendidy furnished with every conve-
nience and luxury for her comfort, and two
servants ready to obey every wish she might
express. The ship duly arrived in England,
and the Stratiord girl became mistress Of a su-
perb mansion, and, as the wife of baronet,
was Saluted by the aristocracy rs Lady Samuel
Stirling. On the death Of her husband. many
years ago, the Strstford boy succeeded to the
title aud wealth Of his father, and in the last
edition of the Peerqge and Baronctage he is
spoken of as the issue Of Miss Folsome, of
Stratford, North America" When the late
Professor Silimsn visited England, some years
since, he had the pleasure of meeting Lady
Stirling at dinner party, and was delighted
to answer her many questions about her birth
place in Connecticut.
Year: 1870

II has been a.certained that sitting will
develop roots much sooner 10 moist sand than
in rich soil. But the sand cannot maintain
its growth for any length Of time. To pre-
pare pots for raising cuttings they should be


filed nearly to the brim with rich garden
loom-dark and porous, not clayey and soggy !;
then pour In one inch in depth of securing
,and-sea sand will do as well as the yellow
sand. Wet this thoroughly, and place the cut-
tings, from which all but the three or four
upper leaves have been removed, close TO the
side Of the pot; the contact Of the ware
against the stem OF the cutting promotes lie
growth. Press the wet ssnd firmly around
the tiny stem. A great deal Of your chance
for success in raising slips or cuttings depends
upon this Plant as many cuttings as the pot
will hold, from six to dozen, according TO
the sizc of your pot when they arc firmly set
In the sand, two or three can be inserted In
the middle Of the pot. Set them away in
dark, warm place for tweuty-four or thirty
six hours. Thus, cuttings will grow quickly
in a hot bed, because the temperature Is not
dry. Their growth depends great deal upon
light, heat and moisture. If a bud Is close at
The base Of cutting il will strike root more
ea.ily-is not 30 apt to decay. The root
shoots from bud and the lower down il Is the
surer your success When the leaves drop
the plant Is commencing 10 gtow II they
wither on the stem, it has begun to decay
By following these directions no one can fail
to grow all kinds Of house plants. Roses and
all the rarest flowers Of the greenhouses are
propagated In this manner.