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Year: 1871

A New SECESSION "A correspondent
of the Clarksville Sentinel, writing from
Prairieville, says: Tho old banner OF
secession has again been unfurlel in our
midst, and all acquainted with the past
history Of Prairievlle know that this
means business, We don't propose to
run tilt with Uncle Sam this time
The object Of our rebellion is to throw of
our allegiance to certain township
whose railroald interests conflict with
ours, and form q new township, with
Prairieville for its "hub." In this
secession Calumet will lose rich slice oil
taxable territory. The new township
will at once raise 100000 for the Short
Line railroad. and "the work will be
Immediately commenced"
Year: 1871

A party Of gentlemen, accompanied by
MIR. Stoker of st. Louis, started for the
iron regions of our county, last Tuesday
morning, to further inspect the ore that
abounds on the surface in the locality of
Mlllwood and the northwestern pou6on
of Bedford township. Indications are
that iron exists in that ncighborhood in
quantity sufficient to justify the the cree
tiou of a foundry. If such should prove
to be the case, it will tend greatly to the
wealth of the county, and as the neigh.
borhood where this ore is SO abundant is
only ten or twelve miles from the coal
mines, fuel for smelling will be very con
venient. The coal used at the Iron
Mountain founlries has to BE- shipped o
distance Of about two hundred miles.
These two mines Of wealth-coal and
iron-if there were no other inducements
ought to secure to US an early completion
of the contemplated railroad through the
county.
Year: 1871

PER ANNUM FOR THE HERALD In order
70 place the HEaALD within the reach OF
every family in the county, we have RE-
DUCED the price Of subscription to 81,
and ask all our. friends to send US ONE
MORE name with their own. We are
determined to print CHEAP aoa newsy
paper, not in the interest Of any one
neighborhood, but of the W Ii y j. +
COUNTY.
Year: 1871

CANADA THIsTLEs.-TEere is no bet
ter season of the year than the present to
attack the Canada thistle. Repeated cut
ting, without disturbing the roots, seems
to be tie most successful mode of ex-
tirpating them. If the root is broker
off, it will sprout, and vigorous young
thistles will soon appear. IF the stem is
cut off just below the surface of the
ground, with sharp hoe or q thrusting
chisel, it will become Glled with water at
every shower, and its growth will be
feeble and sickly When high enough,
they should be cut down again, and by
all means the later growth should not be
allowed to mature seed, or all the labor
expended will be lost, and plenty of work
laid out for future years.
Year: 1871

Do You WANT A BY refer.
euce to an advertisement in tho Herald it
will bo seen that Capt. John. G. Carter
will sell at public sale on the 5th prox.
fifteen hundred acres Of land, in lots Of
200 acres, in the northeastern part of this
county. No better land than this offered
by the Csptain can be found anywhere,
and we understand that the liberal terms
on which it will be sold will enable any
industrious, hard working man to secure
him home aud farm, in few years, un.
surpassed for fertility Of soil in the
county.
Year: 1871

Upon this subject, Birdsdale, ia his
Clover Leaf, says :-"It requires some
skill, in growing clover for seed, to un
derstand how long to pasture, aud when
to NOV the first crop. Lf course the
season has much TO do with its filling,
yet the crop can be materially helped it
managed as it should be. The large kind,
if saved for seed, can be pasturod till the
10Th of Juno, and very close; then give
it coat Of plaster. so as to give it =
good start The medium or common
clover should he pastured tin the 25th of
June, or if mown, cut the same time, and
DO sure and get off July 1st. You can
then look for good yield Of seed, and if
later, your crop will net pay for hand
ling. Give it coat of plaster. and you
will find it very beneficial aud partic-
ularly on light soil, and If the season is
dry.


Be sure and keep your stock out of the
clover saved for seed, as 1t will spoil the
young plants. In cutting the seed, do
not let it stand till dead ripe, as one third
will rattle of and be wasted. Cut when
the head is handsomely brown, and the
stalk not quite dead there will then be
scarcely any waste, and the seed just as
pump. Many people, in gathering clover
seed waste at least one fourth, in allowing
it to stand too long before cutting. Cut
with o mower or rcapcr-a mower is pref.
erable--attachiug drag apron, and throw
of in punches Of medium size and in wind.
rows. Turn it over when the dew is on,
SO as not to rattle off the bolls. When
thoroughly dry, you can thresh imme-
diately, or put it away where it will keep
dry, as damp clover is very difficult to
hulh and at the same time it is impossible
to get all the bOlls from the straw.
Year: 1871

"Winter-grccns, nice, fresh winter
greens - cried Il sweet, childish voice, as
the western bound train swept into a lit
tie station on the New York Central 1t
is amusing to see the manner in which
the various occupants of Il railroad train
receive these little merchants, who swarm
through the cars in the winter green sea-
son. Here Il "rull OLD bachelor, with
spcctacIcs ON his nose, holds mp his pa
per persl>tcnlly 10 shut out the young
vender from his view there scented cx-
qul>ltc waves them away with jewellcd
hand, and goes on staring mt the ladies
who are getting out at the station.
These are not the men to regard the ne
cc-sities of the poor and it is only
those who have felt the grinding hand OF
poverty who can feel for those who arc
yet walking the valley Of the shadow


But somehow the liquid sweetness of the
voice charmed more than one, and curl


Gus looks were cast down the passage be


tween the seats and this is what They
! saw "A Girl about twelve years of age,
Year: 1871

a san Francisco hosller, while cur
~ ing Il horse belonging to the Central
railroad company, lately, felt something
hard beneath the skin, and an incision
being made, silver quarter of the date
OF 1858 was found, though when or how
the animal adopted this novel banking
system is the mystery.
Year: 1871

The advocates %. what are called woman
rights demand that women shall he admitted
to all the political or other functions no pre-
eat discharged solely by men. it is objected
that various grave Inconvenience. arising
out Of the mere fact Of sexual difference,
would follow such change tina; women
themselves would be losers by it in many
respects. and that the best OF them would
suffer in their purity and refinement hy being
mixed up in some Of mans av0ca;ious. T.
this the answer Is, that the introduction of
woman as an active participant will purify
politics. transform trade and reform society
generally Woman. being the better elc-
meut, viii put down the worse element as
soon as she gets fair play.


Allowing that the mass Of female morality
in this or any other country is Tar beyond the
mass OF male morality Ca proposition which
is By no means an axiom, and might be made
the theme of much discussion) IL does not at
all follow that the universal combination Of
the two forces will.pr0duce an Improvement
Wien We pour a certain quanity Of cagnac
into a certain quantity Of water, VIC can tell
exactly what percentage Of alcohol oar gros
will contain. When we take a definite pro
portion OF cobalt and definite proportion Of
gamboge, we can tell precisely what shade OF
green viii be produced by the mixture. But
we cannot settle moral combinations before
hand on this tangible and mechanical basis
An innocent young man who c0nsorts with
vicious associates Is IN danger Of being cor
rupted by them Few parents would like to
run the chance oi ms converting the others
Year: 1871

ALICE CART's ONLY LoyE-in the profound
est sense Alice Cary never loved bat once The
man whom she loved js still alive; yet gossip,
With it's keenest scent, has never found or
named him. With all her fallness OK affection,
hers was an eclectic sud solitary soul he who
by the very patent Of his being was m1re to her
than any other mortal could be- might pass from
her life, but no other could ever take his place
proud and prosperous family brought all their
pride End power TO bear on a soa to prevent his
marrying girl uneiucated, rustic and poor


% waited for one who never came back, - she
SAID. &" Yet I believed he would come till
read in paper his marriage to another. Can
you think what life would be, loving one, wait
Ing for Que who would never coms ?'' lie did
come at last. saw him. His wife had died
Alice vas dying. The gray-hsred woman. Life
ha! dealt prosperOusly vita him, as it is wont
with men Suffering AMI desth hsd taken all
from her save the lUster OF her wondrous eyes
From her wan and wasted face they shone upon
him fall of tenderness and youth. Thus they
met with life behind them-tbey who parted
plighted lovers, when life was young. lie was
the man whom she forgsve for her b!ighted and
weary life, with a smile Of parting as divine as
ever lit the face Of woman--.Nary Clemmer
-9mes IN IadsyeHdeai
Year: 1871

bodice was fastened with diamond buttons.
and the wrists were finished with deep cuffs
OF point lace. A coquettish gray hat, with
long blue plume, was set iluntily on the
irizzled mass Of golden hair, It was the very
perfection ola toilette.
Year: 1871

Tho C0Rt StFtkes


TAMAQUA. Feb. 25.-The Philadelphia papers
recently contained a statement that q rumor was
circulating here to the effect that several coal
operators, with the Miners Association, are
taking steps to indict the railroad Presidents for
conspiracy for advancing tolls. So far as re-
CARDS the coal operators this Is incorrect, and
the rumor was not heard of here till it was seen
in the papers


a meeting of the Workingmen's Benevolent
Association was held on the 20th inst, to take
action upon a resolution adopted by the County
Executive Committee requiring such ss should
not secure the SO basis to stop all dead work,
which has heretofore been permitted by formal
resolution of the Grand Council. The meeting
was the largest ever held here, and the vote to
sustain the action of the committee was uDani-
nous. At Hazleton the same decision was
reached. At other places meetings of o like
character were held on the same day, all of
which, as far as heard from, sustained the action
If the committee.


Further Details Of the strike-NO Prospect of
PoTTsvILLE, Feb. 25.-The rumor current
on the street this morning that the men had
decided to resume work is unfOunded. Inform
alton from reliable source states that the men
positively refuse to resume on the basis adopted
by the Philadelphia meeting of operators on
the 23d instant. Everything is at sea now.


There is no telling when the resumption of
the miners in this region will take place. 1t is
difficult to obtain any information when the
men will resume. The prevailing opinion
among coal men is that the men will not re-
sumo within a month unless the $3 basis is paid
them.


ANOTHER DESPATCH


Meeting Of the Anthracite Board Of Trade


POTTsvILLE, Feb, 25.-A meeting of the COM
mittee of the Anthracite Board of Trade and
the WOrkingmen's Benevolent Association was
held here this morning. when the committee of
the workiDgmen refused to accept the terms
offered by the former. Their object is to reopen
negotiations, which will not be done.


The basis which they now reject is the same
one they voted unanimously to accept last No
vember, and which it is said was ratified By all
The divisions of the organization. There is
nothing further to report in the trade to-day.
Year: 1871

their fuel constantly by the peck or bucketful.
They have never arisen to the superior capi-
talsts dignity of a half ton at any one time,
and never will. Before the coal reaches them
there are at least four profits made off it,
sometimes more-that of the big corporation
which mines It, the wholesale dealers or job
bere, the yardman's, and the groceryman's-
each of them larger In a time like this than
they would ordinarily be. These poor are now
paying 20 to 80 cents per bucketful for their
cCal-at the rate of from S22 to $2S per ton.
What will they have to pay next week If it has
come to this already, with coal at $12 to 313 by
the cargo, if there is no relief? Yet this is the
monopolists' harvest "a fat time for the coal
trade" but a season of shivering, desperate
m itery for the poor.


COAL FOR SIX DAYS.


One dealer thought that six days would ex-
haust the present stock. He said that there were
about 35 900 tons of coal on hand at the different
yards; that there were about $50 yards and that
their average sales at this season of the year
were about forty tons per day, or about 5000 tons
for the aggregate daily sales. Other dealers
fixed the stock now in yard at ten days supply,
and others still at fourteen.
Year: 1871

Ren0Ht committee IuVeatIRn.


tion OF Frauds In the Indian Office.
Despatch TO heAssocidted Press.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 25-Mr Sargent from the
on n y tTdsy s wade report
the Commissioner OF Indian Affairs in letter TO the
Secretary OF the INTERIOR containing allegations OF
fraud and tmprovidence in the conduct OF Indian
affairs.


Commissioners, with much to criticse and condemn,
arising partly from vicious system inherited from
the past, and partly from errors OF Judgment in the
construction Of statutes passed TO ensure economy
and faithfulness in the administration.


The committee have found no evidence OF any
pecuniary or persr nal advantages sought or de-
sired by the Commissioner or any one connected
with his bureau 1t appears from the evidence that
the Commissioner did not consult the Board OF In
dian Commissioners in making purchases of provi-
sions Of any goods for the Indian SERVICE except
dry goods, blankets and articles of that character
The view given by him is erroneous. The organiza-
ton of the Board of Indian Commissioners was q
part OF a new system for dealing with the Indians
designed to aid in the Introduction of an eli ment of
humanity into the dealings OF the Government
with the Indians and to insure economy and faith
fulness In expenditures for their civilization and
comfort Even with the limits to their usefulness
occasioned by this construction OF the commission,
they have succeeded in accomplishing much good,
and have unselfishly and honorably discharged the
duties required OF them.


The benefits OF their supervision may be seen
from the testimony relating 10 the purchase OF
nuty goods, where better articles were obtained at
less prices than ever before. The committee con-
the Boston contract for beef etc.. and believed he
exercised powers only con1ded 10 the President to
be exercised through the War Department. but say
an exiRency existed requiring prompt action They
condemn the failure to advertise, which necess-
tated extension OF that contract in August They
think competition would have reduced prices II is
had been allowed, and old reduce them In the
Moron contract. They apply the same criticism to
the transportation contracts.


In course of their report the committee say they
have found the system OF agents vouchers unsatis
factory and unsafe and change is necessary In the
public interest There Is ample opportunity for
fraud and coluson in the delivery OF goods both In
quantity and quality. The committee are not aware
that anything be done to punish those who have
heretofore extorted money from the Indians aided
others Ia doing, except to cause strict inquiry to
be made into the conduct OF such OF these persons
as are still In the employ OF the Government, and
dismiss from the service all who have knowingly
violated the law it is but just to say that far as
these payments are concerned, the Commissioner
OF Indian Affairs is In no way responsible.
Year: 1871

How A Kiss MADE A PAINTER.
great artist, Banjamin West, said:


IA kiss from my mother made ME a
painter" We will give the anecdOte re-
ferred to:


"a little boy named Benjamin West,
living in Pennsylvania, was set to watch a
baby asleep i'm a cradle. He looked at it
kindly, and felt pleased to see it smile in
its sleep. He wished that he could draw a
picture of the baby; and seeing piece of
paper on the table, with pen and ink, he
tried what he could do. When his moth
er came in he begged her not to be angry
with him for touching the pen, ink and
paper and then he showed her the picture
he had made. His mother saw baby's
likeness, and was so much pleased that
she kissed her little boy. Then he said if
she liked it he would make a picture of
some flowers she held in her hand and so
he went on from that time, trying to do
better and better until he became one of
the best painters in the world"


In after life he said it was this kiss from
his mother that made him an artist.
Year: 1871


Are your little children playful2 -
Let them we'll enjoy their glee
Darken not their path with sorrow
Let them happy, playful be.
Earth's bright Spring flowers they are to- you
Let them joyful be and gay;
Clouds full soon will veil their faces,
Make them happy while you may siss
Let their bright, sweet faces cheer you
Daily like the flowers of Spring;
Strive TO make them like a sunbeam,
And their hearts to you will cling.
True, you may sometimes be weary,
If their plays are loud or long 5isti
Gently hush their gleeful voices,
Tune their mirth to some sweet song.
Teach them of the precious Saviour,
Tell them of Redeeming love;
Cheerful let them think of j JESUS,
And n happy home above. fs1
If you thus will scatter sunshine
Round each young and trusting heart,
You may hope they IL love their MAKER,
And He'll to them joy impart
Year: 1871

The second volume of Lord Brougham' s
Autobiography will appear shortly. In it
the narrative will be brought down to the
passing of the Catholic Emancipation bill
in 1929. and large portion of the book win
oline and her trial.
Year: 1871

BY advertisement, it will be seen that James M Barney is managing the Ehren- berg House of Hooper Whiting & Co.,. Our letter from there speaks well of busi- ness at that town. Some mines about are paying, and more are being put in shape to pay.
Year: 1871

An old bachelor editor thus, in his spite,
comments on recent moonlight night !:
" We left our sanctum at midnight last
night, aud on our Fay home We saw
young Ia ly and gentleman holding gate
On the hinges. They were evidently in
digpant at being Eept out so late, ss We
saw them bite each other several times."
Year: 1871

The message of Gov. Palmer transmitted to the
legislature of this state convened in ira session
at Springfield on Friday of last week, will be
found on our second page. The object of the
session is, to provide relief for Chicago under
her recent terrible calamity. The Governor cor
rectly judges that the relief which Chicago needs
is not a stay law to embarrass settlements
among her commercial men, nor donations from
the public treasury; but she needs release from
burdensome taxation upon property which no
longer exists, and immediate means to re-erect
her public buildings and institutions which have
been destroyed. A loan from the state treasury
might answer the purpose were it practicable !;
but fortunately, while there is no constitutional
warrant for this, it is not necessary. The state
justly owes the city of Chicago some $3,OO0OOO
which she expended in the enlargement of the
canal, and the payment of this sum now by the
state will give Chicago ali the relief she needs
as municipality. The only objection the gov.
ernor to the immediate extension of this re.
lief lies in the constitutional inhibition upon the
legislature to contract a loan, if the Inhibition
really applies ia the present case.


The Governor argues this queetion at some
length, doubling, in the first place, whether the
debt the state owes Chicago was not contracted
before the new constitution went into effect, and
therefore outside of the inhibition or, second.
ly, whether the emergency Of invasion, &C.,
named in the new constitution in which the in.
hibition is not to apply, has not actually arisen
in the present case The Govern Or ia decidedlv
of the opinion such emergency has arisen, and
therefore sees no constitutional difficulty in the
way Of borrowing the money at once to pay Chi.
cago; though he seems to regard the immediate
levy Of tax as preferable to the issue of bonds.


The message is very ably written, and while
some of its reasoning Oh the constitutional ques.
ton Is pretty finely drawn, 1t is suoh as must
command respect at least for it's ingenuity aad
great plausibility.
Year: 1871

Last autumn persons who; wished to observe "the prop1ieties'' inquired of us whether it was according to good usage to gnaw the corn from the cob, or if it should be cut into the plate. Generally, though not always, matters of table eti- quette are founded in common sense. A bird can only be properly enjoyed by picking it hence good usage sanctions the use of the fingers in removing the flesh from the bones of 8 bird, while one who should take the bone of beefsteak or mutton chop in his fingers would be looked upon as ll-bred. The only way to get the full satisfaction out of green corn is to gnaw 1t from the cob, and though the operation, especially to 8 foreigner who knows not corn, is not an elegant one to witness, it is performed at the best ordered tables. So generally is it conceded that corn should be eaten from the cob, that silversmiths now make silver green; corn handles I; these are thrust into the large end of the cob, and allow it to be held without soiling the fingers. It is rather an awkward matter to cut the corn from the ear at table, especially if the knives are not sharp. If it is to be eaten in this way it should be prepared before it is sent to table. The operation of eating from the cob is much facilitated by drawing a sharp knife lengthwise of each row, in such a manner that the hull of each ker- nel will be split When this is done, the digeshble, nutritious contents of the ker- nels will slip out, and the often tough hull be left upon the cob. Those whose teeth are sensitive or defective will find this great help.-Ame,ican AgricasHu-
Year: 1871

At the close of the afternoon perform ance of a circus in Columbus, Ohio. Mir. Charles Fisher madejan ascent in a huge hot-air balloon, or rather the bal loon went up with Fisher dangling to a couple of ropes suspended below. I'm mediately blue smoke was seen to issue from point on the side of the balloon, about one-third the way up from the mouth to the top. Experienced eyes at once detected that the balloon was on fire, but the aeronaut, all unconscious of his danger, went on with his frightful performance on the trapeze. When the balloon was about 1,5OO feet in the air, thesfames were seen suddenly to burst from its side, and simultaneously cry of horror went up from the great crowd below. Many turned away their eyes, and one woman tainted, all expecting that Fisher would at once meet a horri- ble death. But whether it was that the material of the balloon was not very in fammable, or that the hot-air near the flame was not very combustible, certain it is that the balloon did not burn rapidly, and the eronaut landed in safe ty upon the top of 8 slaughter-house, near the end of the Hooking Valley bridge over the Scioto, while the burn ing balloon lit in the water which speedily extinguished the flames.