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Year: 1875

On the first page Of this issue we
publisb some extracts from most ex-
ceIlent sermon preached BY the pastor
Of the Presbyterian church Of this town
on Sunday last, which for plain. prac-
tical advice concerning the business
transactions Of every day life, we have
seldom, il ever, heard equalled. We
doubt if there is any portion Of the
moral code which is more neglected BY
both preachers, in their vocation, and
people than this strictly enjoined duty
Of keeping promises and fulfilling obi
cations Would clergymen devote more
time and labor to discourses teaching
honesty and fair dealing among men.


instead of wasting time with learned dis
sertations on sectarian prejudices, un-
der the name Of "church doctrines, 2


and in futile ATTEMPTS to prove their
own particular denomination superior
to, and more likely to bring its adhere
ents to Heaven. than any, or all 9TH
ers--a style Of religious teaching
which never did, and never will, affect
anyone for good, but serves rather to
stir up religious controversy and Gre
ate ''enmity among brethren" they
would, in all probability, do far more
good and accomplish much more nearly
the end Of their mission-to educate
men up to higher standard Of morals
and the duty they owe to each other.


To, at all times and in all matters,
deal fairly one with the other and to
pay honest debts schen due seems to be
regarded BY many men, protesting
christians, as something entirely out
side of, and uncoDnected with, their re-
ligious duties. They will 60 to church
and prayer meetings and are extremely
punctilious in their observations Of
many external religious ceremonies.
They will make long prayers, distribute
tracts, hold pews in the church and as
sumo very sanity demeanor. while
at the same time they are. in too many
instances, indebted to their neighbors
for large or small sums Of money. and
it may be for the very pews 10 which
they sit in church, which they make no
effort whatever to pay. contenting them
selves with saying II have no money
and calmly folding their arms, rolling
up their eyes piously to Heaven and
saving Il cant help it," Perhaps
these gentlemen are waiting for Heaven
TO provide for them, but they forget
that they are fransgressing some Of the
Year: 1875

To CONTRIBUTORS. Our thanks are
due to many friends this week for inter
esting communications giving accounts
Of local occurrences, such as are always
gratefully received Several Of these
we have been obliged to considerably
reduce, and in some instances where
two were handed US on the same sub
iect we have made up an article from
both. Some two or three articles have
been unavoidably crowded out altogeth-
er, and also several other matters OF
importance ard interest.
Year: 1875

All customers whose bills have been
presented must make settlement at
once either with cash or Negotiable
Note with approved endorser.


In order to sell goods cheap l must
buy for cash, and I have to depend upon
the collection of debts due me to raise
funds with which to buy.
Year: 1875

A NINE CT SWEETNESS From the San
Bernar"ino Argus. l-Generally when we
hear of rich strikes it is in the gold or silver
line, but this time it turns out TO be honey,
pure aud sweet. \ few days esince. as the
Workmen on the tunnel at Cajon Pass were
hauling over some rocks, they came across
q deposit of honey, and taking pole and
running it into the mountain, were surprised
to find no bottom. They got a long pole,
some twenty feet in length, and were unable
to touch bottom with that. Upon with
drawing the pole the honey began to run
out, and soon tubs, buckets, and two barrels
were filed. and still it fowed. Some parties
came in town aud loaded up with barrels,
and propose to make business Of if. They
put IN charge of powder and blew Oft a
portion of the rock, which disclosed tons
upon tons of honey. Our informant states
that after exploring it from below to where
the bees were found to enter, it was fund
to be about one.fourth of a mile, and it is his
opinion that the whole cavity is filled with
honey. He estimates over one hundred tons
In sight, and believes that one thousand tons
would not be an unfair estimate. This in-
mense deposit cannot be equalled by any
ever found. According to the ABOVE esti-
mate, it would take every barrel and hogs
head in San Bern ardino to hold it.
Year: 1875

Brown is to take precedence in colors this
fall. and the shades most popular will be
those which have nc tinge of red. The
fancy for black velvet is TO continue, and
dresses for next winter will have fiat trim
mings OF the same, with velvet ribbon set on
in stripes, squares, and diamonds.


The new sash is the acme of fashionable
outreisns. Very wide, it is worn low
down, covering the abdomen has large,
square pockets at the sides, and ties far down
on the Skirt behind. 1t is kept in place by
in visible fastenings.
Year: 1875




Dcmi trains are still iashionabiy worn for
promeDades at Saratoga and wherever else
The fashionable world is congrcgated. This
nec' estates liftip" the dress, at least when
another couple i close behind, and mod!Stes
instruct their customers in the art OF doing
30 gracefully. This is their rule: Turn
slightly TO the right, incline tue body back
ward aud take hold Of the skirt low down
with the right hand. In strengthening the
i.urc the dress will be lifted, and become no
longer than IN ordinary round skirt. have
tried the plan and can recommend it, but
practice Is Necessary to acquire the art OF DO
ing ii quickly and dcXterou>ly. 1t is we'll. to
practice it with either hand, as if the lady is
leaning on her escorts left arm she will wish
to lit her skirt with her free hand. which
will. Of course, be the left. ln entering the
parlor an outward motion of the hand ad-
jlists the train in an instant.
Year: 1875

The BUYERS for New York firms are in
Europe making purchases for the coming
season, and an occasional whisper of what is
designed for us crosses the ocean by letter or
cable.


The present style, exaggerated, it is said,
will be that mos. IN vogue, and ladies' Will
look more like sheathed umbrellas than ever.
Dresses will be long; and at the sides and
in front will conceal the toot entirely. More
over, the cuirass basque is to be SO long as TO
cover the hips, over which it will tit as
smoothly as a glove, an effect attained oy
lon" tl.Xible whaicbones run in each seam
and extending to the lower edge of the
basque. Ultra tashonabIcs are no longer
content with the three or four elastic straps,
which, while straiuing the dress-skirt back,
allow limited freedom of motion 10 the
lower limbs. and have instead strip ol
strong linen or cot on cloth stitched on The
wrong side of the seam, which unltes the
side-gores of the skirt. In the edge OF this
strip eyelets are set, and the two are laced
together after the manner OF corset to
within few inches Of the hem of the dress,


if OF walking length, or the train, If there
be one.
Year: 1875

and recount the irrtpsrAble injury
wnieh they are sure they then received.
No parent, no nurse, capable OF alarm
ing The young, is fitted for her position;
Children, as nearly aa possible, shouia
be trained not to know the sense OF
fear, which, above everything else s
to be feared in their education, early
and late.
Year: 1875

FRIGHTENING CHILDRES.-Nothing
can be worse for a child than TO be
frightened. The effect of the scare it
Is slow 10 recover from; it remains
sometimes until after maturity, as is
shown by many instances of morbid
sensitiveness and excessive nervous
ness Not unfrequently, fear is en-
Ployed as means of discipline. Chill


dren are controlled by being made to
believe that something terrible will
happen to them and punished by being
shut up in dark rooms, or by being
put in places they stand in dread of.
No one, without a vivid memory of
his own childhood, can comprehend
how entirely cruel such things are.
We have often heard grown persons
tell of the suffering they have endured.
as children, under ike circumstances,
Year: 1875

That clock, stranger said Mich
'igaa farmer, was the best kind of a
clock up to six months ago, when my
daughter began to have beauz, and
now the blamed thing is always two
hours slow
Year: 1875

The following is the official abstract Of reports madc
the Comptroller Of the Currency showing the cond
OF the forty eight national banks in this city at the
close Of business Friday, the 1st day Of October
1S7h.-
Year: 1875

During the past ten years a great
change has taken place in the tea trade
between the United States and China
and Japan. Before the establishment
of the telegraph and steamship lines,
teas that were ordered from China and
Japan in the early spring were not re-
ceived in this country until the first OF
the following winter. Now teas that
are growing on the bush in Japan in
March are landed in New York early in
June, and in July the market is sup
piled with them. The telegraph is used
to inquire about the condition of the
market or to order purchases made,
merchants communicating with each
other by cipher, in order to avoid the
heavy expenses involved in telegraph
ing so long distance in the usual way.
There is fashion in teas as much as in
dress, and a great change has taken
place during the past ten years in the
taste of Americans in regard to their
teas, those kinds increasing in favor
which are the purest, and which most
nearly approach the condition in which
they are used by the native tea-drinkers.
Year: 1875

If we now turn to the sun, we find that
there are three distinct forms in motion
which animate his surface particles. In
the first place, each particle is carried
round by the rotation of our luminary.
Secondly, each particle is influenced by
the gigantic meteorological disturbances
of the surface, in virtue of which it may
acquire velocity ranging as high as $50
or l40 miles a second; and lastly, each
particle, on account of its high tempera-
ture, is vibrating with extreme rapidity,
and the energy of these vibrations, COM
municated to US by means of the ethe-
real medium, produces the well-known
light and heat effect of the sun.


Now, is it philosophical to suppose
that it is only the last of these three
motions that influences our earth, while
the other two produce absolutely no eff
feet? On the contrary, We are, [ think,
compelled, by considerations connected
with the theory of energy, to attribute
an influence, whether great or small, to
the first two as well as to the last.


We are thus led to suppose that the
sun must influence the earth in three
ways, one depending on his rotation,
another on his meteorological disturb
ance, and third by means of the yibra-
tiOns of his surface particles.


But we have already seen that, as a
matter of fact, the sun does appear to
influence the earth in three distinct
ways-one magnetically and meteoro-
logically, depending apparently on his
period of rotation; a second cyclonically
depending apparently on the meteOro.
logical conditions of his surface; and g
third, by means of his light and heat
Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1875

The age of the earth stretches back
not through thousands only, but through
millions of years, until at length it
seems to be lost in an endless eternity.
1t was the contemplation of the earth's
crust, under this point of view, which
induced DIR. Hutton to give utterance to
the now famous expression-'T see no
traces of a beginning or prospect of an
end" 1t is not probable that the
knowledge of man will ever become so
extensive as to enable him to compre-
hend all the great processes Of the phys
cal world; but certain it is, that if we
could obtain clear and connected view
of those processes, we must extend the
field of observation to the utmost linn
its of accessible space and time, and en-
deavor to contemplate nature as one
connected whole.
Year: 1875

Texas is on the broad road to trouble.
She has made new constitution. To
be sure it has not yet been adopted, but
there is no doubt that it will be, and
once in operation, woe to Texas. The
progress of the State will be very slow,
if indeed she does not retrograde. The
population is at present barely five to
the square mile, and the bureau of i'm
migration is to be abolished. Illiteracy
is almost universal in the rural districts,
at least, yet no schools are to be pro-
vided. Railroads are greatly needed to
develop the rich resources of the State,
yet no encouragement will be offered
them to run through. Official salaries
are so reduced that public officers must
steal or starve. These are few points
of lone star wisdom.
Year: 1875

One day Mrs. LovejOy, of Detroit, sat
down with her elbows on her knees,
sighed drearily, and said unto her son 4:


Montgomery, I am old and faded.
A few more autumns and the sad fall
winds will sigh and moan over the dead
sods which cover my breast"


"My MOTHER" said the dutiful son, as
he rose up and laid his youthful cheek
against the face on which Time had
beaten for seventy years, "my mother,
are you not happy"


"HOw can l be, my son, when my
best raiment consists of this old and
faded dress ?"


The boy said no more, but sighed
with her and left the humble cot. The
mother was still gazing sadly at the old
three-legged cook stove, and wishing
that some prince had been smitten with
her in her young days, when the son
returned. His face wore q beautiful
smile of love, and as he handed her a
bundle he tenderly said:


''Here, my good mother, thy son hath
brought thee fourteen yards of delains,
that thou mayst appear in raiment be-
fitting one of thy years and many
virtues"


And she fell on his neck and Sob
bingly inquired:


"My son, how came you by the
goods?"


81 had money laid by in a secure
place." he answered, "and it fills me
with joy to use it on my mother"


She fell on his neck again, stuck her
nose in his eye, and was sending tor
rent of motherly tears down behind his
paper collar, when a'policeman walked
in and remarked:


81 want that young man for stealing
that 'ere dress"


And as the dutiful son was led away
by the collar it didn't look much like a
fable to him.-DetrOit Free Press.
Year: 1875

THE RESULT OF THE WHISKY DIS
CLosUREs.-The following letter of St.
Louis girl to her betrothed tells its own
sad story. Not a word we could say
would add anything to the infinite
pathOs of this poor scrawl:


"Dedr Jack Our engagement is off.
hear that your fathers brother mar
ried a woman whose uncle belongs to
the whisky ring. It's too awful fol-
anything. I return a box of cardamon
seeds found on the sofa where you SAT
last night. Your forlorn but resOlute


EDITH
Year: 1875

EARTH WORMS.-These insignificant
and unattractive creatures are of the
greatest benefit to the fields they in
habit, though many have supposed to
the contrary. They are very humble
but efficient servants of the agricultur-
ist, and far from injuring his meadow
and his garden, they devote themselves
with praisewOrthy assiduity to turning
over the soil to greater depth and more
thoroughly than can be done with the
best appliances known to science.
These animals (for so they are classified
by the naturalist) are scarcely more
than animated tubes. They seem to
live by taking earth and earthly sub
stances in at one end and passing them
out at the other. This simple process OF
digestion is aided, however, by a mu-
cous secretion; and the worm has a
habit, when he has filled himself with
earth, of ascending to the surface, turn
ing around and working himself back
into the ground. This operation I'M
loads him; and the process repeated by
millions of his followers cannot but
have highly beneficial effect upon the
quality of land.


1t is said by Mr.. Darwin that these
worms have been known to cover a field
to the depth of thirteen inches in the
course of eighty years. A slow process,
to be sure, but so are all the processes ol
Nature. This, however, is not all that
they do. They carry their shafts and
galleries to depth of several feet, and
cross and intersect in all directions,
loosening the soil, opening it to the all
and water, and, in short, doing all that
they can to help vegetation, without
preying upon it or injuring its roots in
the slightest degree.
Year: 1875

Supposing the captain of frigate saw
it right, or were by any chance obliged,
to place his own son in the position of a
common sailor; as he would then treat
his son, he is bound always to treat
those men under him. So, also, sup
posing the master of a mandatory saw
it right, or were by any chance obliged,
to place his own son in the position of
an ordinary workman; as he would then
treat his son, he is bound always to
treat every one of his men. This is the
only effective, true, or practicable rule
which can be given on this point of POI
litical economy.-RUskin.
Year: 1875

A committee of the grand lodge of
freemasons of Ohio has reported in favor
of recognizing the grand lodge of col
ored frsemasons of that State, and the
report will probably be adopted. This
will be first recognition of q colored by
a white lodge.
Year: 1875

Somebody advertises in the London
Times for servant girl that fears the
Lord and can carry one cwt. Hand
maidens that can successfully wrestle
with an hundred pound weight are not
usually the sort of females who fear the
Lord, or anything else, for that matter.
Year: 1875

4fter The first of january zee shall
hare to prepay the postage on al
papers GOING OUT or THE
COUNTY Subscribers at a dis
taRce please note his fact, as ,0e shall
only send IN those ,oho pay in adgdnce
after tbdt date, as zoe cannot afford
TO icdH for our pay and pay postage
also.
Year: 1875

arose, and between four and five o'clock,
a portion Of the tin roof over Mr.. An
drew Och's carriage shop was taken
completely of and part fell ON State st.
the remainder coilmg up in a heap aud
adhering to one portion Of the roof A
team standing on State street, belonging
to Mr.. Turvey, farmer living on the
Pike, took fright but only ran short
distance when they were caught; only
a triflo Of the wagon being broken.
Year: 1875

The Atlanta Herald, in a careful re-
view Of politics in Georgia, admits that


sit is quite within the realm Of possibil.
ity, that by liberaliziDg their platform
and making plausible nominations, the
Republican party, drawing around it all
the elements OF dissatisfaction that have
bolted the straight Democracy, may be-
come very much OF & worry" And
again:


The race issue has died out of Geor-
gis politics. The 'nigger' will hardly be
any longer a question Of sufficient pun
gency to unite the white people in one
solid and impenetrsble mass. They will
divide on questions Of public pOlity and
policy, and We shall see the parties much
more evenly balanced than they are
now. Drop the negro out Of politics and
We shall have much less of bitterness
and prejudice in our conflicts. Party
lines would become more flexible; parti-
sans will become more tolerant OF each
other; party platforms will be built
more carefully and scrutiniZed more
closely; party records and party
mage will be more particularly al
iuded to, and We shall see the parties
more evenly divided.


The Herald may speak truly in this as
TO Georgia, but not rs to the south, GER
tainly lot SIS TO Tennessee. Our expe-
rience here is, after four years Of trial
snd test, that the negro is "joined to his
idols" and cannot be induced by force
Of circumstance or logic to vote with
any other party than the Republican;
aud We do not believe that the break in |
the black ranks predicted by our CO.
temporary il possible so long as the two
great parties confront each other.
Year: 1875

TIE Boston Journal insists, and with
somc show of determination to know,
that TIE time has come for the President
to announce his intention to retire from
Office at the close Of his present term,
and adds that "bold and manly enun.
citation" Of such a purpose would un-
doUbtedIy Hrevive The dropping spirits"
Of the party. This same feeling, it says,
is entertained by the best Republicans
OF Massachusetts. 1t also thinks he
will have a fine opportunity to define
his position when he is present in the
State at the Concord centennial exer-
cises, for whether it be his intention TO
remain a candidate or to retire, it is due
from him to the Republican party that


he should frankly state his position. But


he wont do it. Grant lis a sealed lock


to all but his intimstes and his cronies.
Year: 1875

WHEN you hear q man crying out
about and bemoaning partisan politics,
you may set him down for an indepen-
dent a third party voter, who is opposed
to the Democratic and Republican par
ties because he can be q leader in
naifher
Year: 1875

4 correspondent in the New York San
calls attention of all consumers of kerosene
oil to the pernicious and unhealthy prac-
tice Of using lamps filled with that article
with the wicks turned down. The gas
which should he consumed by the flames
is by this means left heavily in the air,
while the cost of the oil thus saved at
present prices would scarce be one dollar
a year for the lamps of household. His
attention was called particularly to this
custom by boarding in the country where
kerosene was the only available light. A
large family of children living in the same
house were taken i'll one night, and on 60


ing to the nursery the mother found the
room nearly sufocating, with a lamp turn
ed down, whereupon the physician forbade
the use Of a lamp at night, unless turned
at full head. He says he could quote many
cases, one of a Young girl subject to fits of
taintness, which ifnot induced, were great
ly increased by sleeping in a room with
the lamp almost turned out. Besides the
damage to health, it spoils the paper and
curtains soils the mirrors and windows,
and gives the whole house an untidy air
and an unwholesome odor.
Year: 1875

ADJUSTING HARNESS TO THE Horse.
Every part of the harness should be
buckled up shorter or let out until the
harness fits the horse as nearly as a
pair of boots that are of the proper
size to fit ones feet, The collar should
fit closely, with space enough at the
bottom to admit a mans hand. If too
large, il has the bad effect of drawing
the shoulders together. On no consid.
Grafton should a team or work-horse
be compelled to wear a martingale, as
II draws the head down, and prevents
him from getting into an easy and
natural position. The check-rein may
be used, but only tight enough to keep
the head in a natural position, and
should never be wound around the
names See that the hames are buckled
tight enough at the top to bring tho
draft irons at the proper point on the
sides of the collar. If too low, it not
only interferes with with the action Of
the shoulder, but gives the collar an
uneven bearing. Caution should be
taken that the girth is not too tight
particularly on string teams, for wher
the traces are Strengthened it has tn,
tendency to draw the girth against the
belly and distress the horse.
Year: 1875

DRIVING NAILs.-Every farmer who
has occasion to drive nail in seasoned
oak posts knows its liability to bend or
break. If the point be moistened in
the mouth it will usually drive more
kindly. Oil is better; but then il is in
convenient to dip each separately into
it. Another point is that boards be-
come loose eventually from the rusting
of nails, which, communicating to the
wood, causes not only an enlargement
of the nail hole but the wearing away
of the nail itself, rendering the build
ing shaky or insecure. This may be
prevented by heating any rough grease
until it smokes, and then pouring over
the nails to be used The grease will
penetrate the pores of the iron, and
cause the nails to last without rusting
for an indefinite period. Besides this,
no difficulty will then be experienced
in driving them into the hardest of
wood. The reason is that the coating
of gaease prevents contact by air, and
consequently oxidation. Oxygen is
the great destroyer of iron, and moist
ure the inducing cause. Anything
which is kept dry the effect is measur-
ably the same Paint upon buildings
prevents the contract of air and moist
ure. If the whole fence cannot be
painted, the heads, at least, Of the nails
therein should be touched.-Nocark
Builder.