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Year: 1872

SCHOOL TTUsTkE Es.--rhe first Saturday inJuly,
or within ten days thereafter, is the time set by
law for school trustees to meet and organize.
Trustees elect should qualify within the time
specified and boards of trustees should alsc
appoint their clerks and presidents After these
nitiatory steps are taken, if trustees would only
give at the same time few more hours to the
consideration of the other various business mat
ters that, during the year, will necessarily have
to be brought before them fer adjudication they
would thereby save themselves vast amount Of
labor and trouble. The principal part of their
official duties for the year may be transacted at
this meeting; teachers may be hired; contracts
taken for repairs, fuel. ETC.; school supplies es-
timated and ordered, and so on with other mat
ters likewise. If trustees could be induced TO
10 so. which indeed would cost comparatively
but little trouble, we would hear less of that
growing they are in the habit Of making when
these duties taken singy make more frequent
demands upon their time, and that too when
attendance to their domestic affairs cannot well
be dispensed with. AS general thing trustees
are parsimonious AS agents of the people, the
greater the parsimony they use in performing
their duties, the better, they imagine, they are
acting. This, however, we must tell them is
not the case. The penny-wise and pound-fool-
ish policy is no less wrong when applied, in
financial sense, to school matters than when ap-
piled to other business TRANSACTIONS; for it is
we'll known that teacher in instructing childrt n
can do more with the help of good apparatus
in three months than he can without such appa-
ratus in twice the time and it will be done
better too, and more effectively. Let boards Of
trustees then act with more liberal spirit. Let
them at once see, regardless of what it costs,
that everything is put in good order; that a
globe, maps charts and apparatus, if possible,
be furnished before teachers are required to take
charge of schools, and venture the assertion
that at the end of the year those gentlemen will
find that gain instead of a loss will be the
result of such action.
Year: 1872

HARVEST ovER.-Grain cutting is about over
M this county. and reapers and headers will be
housed for the season, and the threshers will be
brought out and set to work next week. Far
.ners from western Plaesr, the chief grain rails
ing portion of the county, inform us that the
crops will prove q fair average. But for too
much rain in the Winter, and too little in the
opflng, it would have been an extra good crop


jhe grain raised here is, as usual, the fine It pro-
uuced IN any portion Of the State, and commands
me me highest price in the market, especially from
Year: 1872

BRING ON YOUR SAND.-The parties who intend
70 furnish sand for pastering the Catholic Church
VIII confer favor by deliveringit at the earliest
DAY possible, ,as the plaserers are engaged and will
be here the first of next week and cannot wait for
the material
Year: 1872

Senator Sherman called up the bill for
O reduction of the officers and expenses
of Internal Revenue, by abolishing In
ternal Revenue Assessors, and explained
il, stating that it would save between
two and two and half million dollars
annually.


Senator Sumner asked whether the
Committee on Finance had considered
the propriety of reducing the number of
Collectors of Internal Revenue. He had
been assured by persons familiar with
the subject that the number of Collectors
might be greatly reduced without injury
to the service.


Senator Sherman said that in some of
the large cities it might be practicable to
reduce the number of Collectors, but it
would not be in regions which are
less thickly populated. Besides, a reduc-
ton of the number of Collectors would
not greatly reduce the expense, as they
were paid chiefly by fees depending up
on the amount of business done.


Senator Trumbull said, that as he un-
derstood last June ON this subject, it
provided for q greater reduction of In
ternal Revenue officers, than the pend
ing bill would make. That law author
lied the reduction of the whole number
of assessors and collectors to one hundred
and sixty, while this bill, although
abolishing assessors, would allow the re-
tention of collectors to the number of
about two hundred and ninety. He did
not say he would not vote for this bill,
because he was in favor of any bill de-
Year: 1872

" An Old Bachelor " i'll Harpcr'S Bazar
under the above head, tells of the expert
ence of an acquaintance of his the follow
ing:


She was early and happily married; but
one after another of her children had died,
and all at the tenderest age. Some fate
seemed to be set fast against those inno-
cent young lives, and while still in the
nursery they died. So the young mother
was totally bereft. Still she felt herself to
be a mother; but her sweet family were
dream children only. Their nursery re-
mained unchanged. The toys, the little
tables and chairs, the torn picture books
they were left as the last of the lost dar-
lings had left them, and the last had died
thirty wears before / saw the mother,


She, meanwhile, had passed from the
young wife to the matron, and the brown
hail with which the baby fingers had
played was gray now, and covered with a
cap. There was no morbid or querulOus
complaint in her manner or in her life a:
no cynicism or false gayety. TO most per-
sons she would seem merely a grave and
tranquil lady who had had probably some
sorrow. But those dead children nodded
her whole character. A sad gentlenesS,
an endless self-sacrifice, a sweetness of
charity that shamed calumny and in
spired generous judgment, made her life,
as | had always heard, one of the nOblest
of influences. She bore with her and diff
fused an ineXpressible human tenderness.
And the source of it was that unchanged
nursery and the children who prattled and
played there long agO-the children who
are children only forever.
Year: 1872

Our readers may not all expect to be
guests at a State dinner at the White
House, but most of them will be interest
ed in knowing how they pass off. Har-
per's Bdzar says:


In this wise is 1t done by General Grant
at his dinners of State in the White
House The number invited is usually
about thirty. The names of those to be
invited are given to the invitation clerk,
and he fills up the engraved cards where
upon spaces for names and dates have
been left blank. The full number of guests
having accepted the clerk proceeds to page
them off and prepare the cards, which, in
closed in a small envelope, are given to
each gentleman in the cloak-room. These
cards have on one the name of the lady
the gentleman is to escort to the table, and
on the other a diagram of the table, with
the name of the gentleman and the lady
placed under his care opposite the num-
bers indicating their respective seats. Con-
fusion is thus avoided. The State dining
room is in the west wing of the White
House, and the table is set with due re-
gard to the points of the compass. The
President sits in the central seat mot in
the seat of the scornfuD with his back to
the north, and Mrs. Grant sits directly Op
posite The places of honor for ladies are on
the right and left of the President, and on
the right and left of Mrs. Grant for gentle
men. Some eighteen or twenty courses
have been known to be served at these
and at every plate are eight glass
es for different kinds of wine. .-t
Year: 1872

While Judge Busted was holding court
at Huntsville, Alabama, last week, it came
to his knowledge that persons were COM
ing into the court room wearing fire arms,
when he made the following pointed Or
der:


Information has reached me that con-
siderable number of the persons attending
on this Court, come into its presence wear
ing fire arms or other deadly weapons.
My sources of information leave me no
room to doubt its correctness. TO bring
deadly weapons into a Court of Justice
during the sittings, is an Offense of the
highest character and deserving of extreme
punishment 1t is flagitOus and unpar-
donable contempt of the law, and an in
decent and monstrOus exhibition of the
fell spirit of turbulent crime. 1t must be
met and crushed. To do less than stamp
it as abOminable would be a reprOach to
civilization, Christianity and law. The
Marshal and his attendants are charged
with the duty of excluding from the court
room any person guilty of this wicked
practice, and they are authorized to make
courteous and civil examinations of the
person, and any one refusing to be SO ex-
amined, shall not be allowed admission to
the court room.
Year: 1872

Encounter With n Bear on Unaka Noun.
tain.


The Jonesboro' Flag and AdUertiScr con-
tains an account of an encounter between


party of traders and bear, a few days
since. While crossing Unaka mountains,


between North Carolina and East Tennes-
see, the other day, they were overtaken BY
a tremendous snow storm, which so


blockaded their road as to prevent their
further progress until the snow melted
sufficiently to allow them to pass. In
some of the gorges through which their
road passed. the snow had drifted to the
depth of ten or twelve feet. The traders
making the best of their precariOus di-
lemma, took their rifles and proceeded to
look after game. 1t was not long until
they aroused huge bear-brOaching him
in his den. Bruin, it seems, had been
some time without food, and showed dis
position to take his visitors into a flowing
embrace" when an animated "row" be-
gan between them. One man shot at him,
but only slightly wounded him, whilst an
other with his faithful dog, attacked him
in the rear. The latter assault upon his
bearship proved annoying to him, and he
turned upon his foe with a hOrrid grOwl,
and went for him ferociously. Now
came hand to hand tug-the man plung
ing Bowie knife in him with all his
might and strength. Bruin advanced up
on his antagonist erect upon his hind
feet, with his sharp claws extended, open
mouth, and grinnfng teeth. They closed,
and tumbed over in the how-drift-when
the situation of the trader became critical
Just at this moment the second crack of
the rifle of his companion resOunded
through the mountain forest, and Bruin
rolled Over-dedd, his crimson life-bloOd
staining the white SNOW for yards around.
The attacking party were very fortunate
getting off with but a few scratches. The
bear weighed upwards of two hundred
pounds 1t is thought he had left his win
ter quarters too soon, thinking Spring had
really come
Year: 1872

The Poet at breakfast table gives this
vivid description of the manner in which
a girl of the period makes ready to play
and plays her grand piano:


1t was young woman, with as many
white muslin flounces round her as the
planet Saturn has rings, that did it. She
gave the music-stOol a twirl or two and
fluffed down on to it like Whirl of soap
suds in d hand-basin. Then she pushed up
her cuffs as if she was going to fight for
the champions belt. Then she worked her
wrists and her hands, to Timber 'em,
suppose, and spread out her fingers till
they looked as though they would pretty
much cover the keyboard, from the growf-
ing end to the little squeaky one. Then
those two hands of hers made O lump at
the keys as If they were couple of tigers
coming down on flock of black and white
sheep, and the piano gave great howl as
if its tail had been trOd on. Dead stop-so
still you could hear your hair growing.
Then another jump, and another howl,
as if the piano had two tails and you had
trOd on both of 'em at once, and then a
grand clatter and scramble and string of
jumps, up AMI down, back and forward,
one hand over the other, like stampede
of rats and mice more than like anything
| call music.
Year: 1872

The BclertiStiSchc Zeitmg, probably the
most influential literary paper published
in the German language in this country,
has come out in strong opposition to
Schurz. 1t asks him if he deemed the
sale of arms so contrary to German inter
ests, why he did not oppose it when he
could have done some good, instead of
bringing it up now when it can merely
crafty personal spite.
Year: 1872

In the Ohio House bill was passed to
allow $4,000 as the maximum of damages
that may be recovered from railroad COM
pan1es as compensation for causing death
by wrongful act, neglect or default.
Year: 1872

The Providence Journal thinks Judge
Davis is mistaken in saying that the
"Chief Magistracy Ofthe Republic should
neither be sought nor declined by an Amer
lean citizen" There is one American cit
lien who should decline it-a Judge of the
Supreme Court of the United States. Sure
ly nothing could more thoroughly Justify
this belief or the Journal than the specta-
Gle which the Chief Justice of that Court
has so often inflicted upon us.
Year: 1872


A little red Rose bloomed all alone
In the hedge by the highway side,
And the Wind came by with plying moan,
And thus to the howret cried
You are choked with dust from the sand,
Now see What friend can do!
viii pierce hole in the tangled hedge
And let the breeze come through"
Nay let me bel am we'll enough"
Said the Rose in deep dismay.
But the Wind is always rude and rough,
And of course he had his way.
And the breeze blew soft on the little red Rose
But now she was sore afraid,
For the naughty boys-her ancient foes
Came through where the gap was made.
" see" said the Wind, when he came again,
.. And looked at the trembling flower,
p" You are out of place; it is very plain
You were meant for a lady's bower"
" Nay let me bel" said the shuddering Rose.
No sorrow l ever had known
Till you came here to break my repose;
Now please to let me alone |"
But the will of the Wind is as strong as death,
And little he rocked her cries;
He plucked her up with his mighty BREATH
And away to the town he flies.
q, all too rough was the windy ride
For Rose so weak and small
And soon her leaves on every side
Begin to scatter and fall ....
"NOw, what is this?" said the wondering


Wind,


As the rose in fragments fell;
This paltry stem is all l find
am sure | meant it we'll"
" It means just this-that meddling friend, +"
Said the dying stalk, is sure
To mar the matter he aimed to mend,
And kill where he meant to cure"
Year: 1872

1t was the Fourth of July. Next door
to us lived II little boy, say eight years
old; and think | never saw any one
hoy who had so many things to make a
noise with on the Fourth of July. He
had six boxes of shooting crackers; pile
after pile of torpedoes; rs many as fifty
double. headers or chasers; two or three
little iron cracker-pistols and torpedo
jutes; and for the evening, dozen
rockets and any number OF pin-whesls,
blue lights, Roman Candles and such.
His father must have spent at least sixty
dollars to make his little boy happy.


Well, the day began early. The boy
had scarcely slept, he was SO excited.
Up he jumped at the first gun from the
fort, hurried on his clothes, forgot to
wash himself or to comb his hair, lighted
his punk, suatched ont pack OF crack
ers aud halfpirt of iorpedoes, and be-
gan his pop, pop, in the back yard. Fired
one at time, his crackers would have
kept him busy day or two. But be.
fore breakfast time he had got into a
crazy hurry, and would dance and yell
round whole pack going off at once.


BY nine o'clock he had moved into the
street, with his ammunition piled on the
front doorstep, while twenty poor boys
gathered round TO see and hear the rich
little maniac. How he rushed up aud
down those steps How red his face and
shiny, as he began to sweat. How he
touched 'em off, without waiting to hear
or time TO enjoy. BY halt-past ten, he
had burned 'em all up, ending off with a
whole box at once. aud smashing bun
Bile of a hundred torpedoes at throw
He was a sweaty, grlmy, crazy little flu
ry.


And now his fun was all gone until af
ter dark So he fretted and whined, aud
got whipped twice that day. He teased.
They let him send up his rockets and
burn his Roman candles during the early
twilight, while the day was bright, and
then put him abed sick. And l think
that M all New York, there was not one
boy so poor and ragged but enjoyed
more that day, than this little crazy pet,
who had burned up at least sixty dollars
worth of pop and fizz. ~ tell you, I'D
like TO have sixty dollars worth OF
Fourth Of July I'd have fun /" ! hear
some of the boys saying. Yes, remem-
ber, when was about eleven years old,
and off at school, they used to give me
just one piece OF pie for dessert after din
ner. 1t tasted so good, and was gone so
Year: 1872

BY WARRINGTON GLADDEN.
There is the window over the way
That was lit by babys face by day;
But the shutters are closed, and at the door
The doctors gig for an hour has stood
And they tell us-ihe little gossips four
Who bring us the news of the neighbor-


hood
That the doctor is coming every day
To see the baby over the way.
The terrible scarlet scourge has come,
And brother and sister are sent from home;
Each day they come TO the gate TO hear
From the mothers lips how the baby is,
And the face is blanching with trouble and


fear


That drops from the window mournful


kiss;
For, in spite of the skill of doctor and nurse,
The baby over the way grows worse.
When the midnight bushes the city's noise
We hear the cry of II feeble voice,
And know that the room where the light


burns low


Holds hearts that watch for the morning


light;
What lne day shall bring. If they could but


know,


They would cling to the lingering hours OF


night;
For hearts will break with the breaking day
When the long watch closes over the way.
The baby over the way is dad,
And the mourners will not be comforted.
o. desolatc ones no strangers voice
May break you silence, tor words are cheap
But your griefs we tell by our tenderest joys
Our four little gossips are fast asleep;
Would it tighten your burdens If you knew
That here in the dark we are crying with you !
Year: 1872

THE REsT-CURE - Exercise can
kill as well as cure. To be taken advan-
tageously, it should be done with judg-
ment. Sometimes particular part OF
the body needs exercise, but the whole
body is too week to give it; in such a
case only the part needing it should
have it. But there is one rnle which is
applicable to all-never 90 against the
instincts. Many persons have hurried
themselves into the grave by endeavor-
ing to " keep up" when they ought TO
be abed aud they do "kerp up" too,
tor so long Il time that when they do
take 70 their beds, their strength is SO
completely exhausted, that the system
has no power TO rise, and they fall into n
typhoid condition, and all is lost.
When anything serious is the matter
with domestic animals, they court quie-
tude and perfect rest. Sometimes we
feel indisposed to exercise from sheer
laziness IN all loose conditions of the
bowels, debility, an instructive desire to
sit down and stay there is universal in
most of such cases quietude is cnrr.
But there is one safe rule for all under
all circumstances if every step you take
is with an effort, do not take another
go to bed if you feel the better for a
walk, then walk on; but stop short OF
great iatig gae.-Dr. w. ". HaN
Year: 1872

SY8IPATHY.-Till we have reflected
on it, we are scarcely aware how much


the sum of human happiness in the


world is indebted to this one feeling,
sympathy. We get eheerfulness and


vigor, we scarcely know how orwhen
from mere association with our fellow
men. and from the looks reflected on
us Of gladness and enjoyment. We
catch Inspiration and power to go on,
from human presence and from cheer
full looks. The workman works with
added energy from having others by.
The full family circle has a strength
and life peculiar to its own. The
substantial good and the effectual re-
lief which men extend to one is tri-
fling. 1t is not by those, but by
something far less eOstlier, that the
work is done. God has insured it by
much more simple machinery. He
has given 10 the weakest and poorest
power to contribute largely to the
common stock of gladness. The
ehild's smile and laugh are mighty
powers in this world. When be-
reavement has left you desolate, what
substantial benefit is there which
makes condolences acceptable? 1t
can bestow upon you nothing per-
manent- But q warm hand has
touched yours, and its thrill told you
that there was living response there
to your emotion. One look, one hu-
man sigh, has done more for you
than the cOstliest present could con-
vey.
Year: 1872

I should be moderate, cautious. and


slow. And so We may say of that


vexed question, the tariff. 1t can be
j improved, but we want no violent
! changes in that. All changes impair
values and vested interest. Even i'm


the line of Improvement they should


be cautious and gradual. In the line
Of destruction they should be avoided


altogether. In these considerations


business men and all the intelligent


industrial classes will see that they


have great stake in this election.


We need security from violent f.
nanciai disturbance. We want neith-
er to risk what we have, nor our pros
poets for the future, by any political
revolution, or any fear of financial
disturbance The South is rapidly
recovering. The production Of its
great staple is such as would have
been incredible even to the most san
guine abOlitionist before the expert
ment. The South has made gigantic
strides in rising from the destructive
and total prostration of the war. No
political conditions now stand in the
way. The North is reeoneiled. The
Southern merchant or planter finds
no unreconciled feeling stopping his
way to trade There is nothing in
the situation to drive US to rash expert
ments or new elements. We want to be
free from the eapprehensions of theun.
known and the lash. Therefore, it
is of great importance to every man
to vote, and to see that all around him
vote, against apolitieal change which
will inevitably bring uncertainty and
that will have an evil
effect on every interest.-CiRciRnai
Gazette.
Year: 1872

''Snow along the line of the Pacific


Railroad" frost in Connecticut, F"


wild geese flying SOuthward." Such
are the items in the papers that re-


mind US that before long we shall be


putting on overcOats again. Farmers
are very apt to neglect their stock du-


r ng time when care is eminently


necessary to its well being. The
grasses are not nearly 50 abundant now
nor so nutritious, as they have hereto
fore been; roots are hardly lit for food,
and the new hay-crOp (nObody can be
suspected of having any of the old
crop left over is too heating. Green


corn and the like are apt TO be injuri-


Gus. and altogether the chances seem
to be against the live stock getting a
: God, square, digestible meal until the
cold weather sets in aud the regular
winter regimen is prescribed. There
seems to be nothing for it in ordin 4ry
cases but to let the stock do the best
they can in the pastures and help
them out with feeding such proven
der as can be had when they come
home at night. Care must be taken
that they do not lack water, for the
springs are apt to be low at this sea-
son. Stabling should be well looked
to, not only with a view to present
needs, but with reference to the
winter.