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Year: 1870

The New York Association Of Sunday School
Teachers held a very large and interesting meeting
last evening In the Fourth avenue Presbyterian
church, OF Twenty second street, for the pur
pose OF earing from Mr.. Ralph Mills how to conduct
u mission school. hymns were sung BY the chill
dren In attendance and speeches made by some
half dozen gentlemen, the object OF which was the
Illustration OF the best plan for teaching children IN
the Sabbath school. MIR. Mills gave In as concise u
manner as possible his plan OF teaching, which was
very generally approved.
Year: 1870

The desperate attempts of the radical
administration to create riot in New York
city on election day, by sending marines and
employing villains and released con'lcts TO
attend the polls under the pretext OF pre-
serving or Ter failed m ost tdissstrouslr. Had
they succeeded in creating riot they would
have made it an excuse for surrounding the
poIls in 1872 with their miuions and thereby
carried that city for Grant thus taking a
decided step towards Capitalization and
masking Grant dictator. The Mayor of the
city and the state authorities however NAM
aged things so successfully that oil their
nice little schemes failed. The people did
most etfeotually condemn them as will be
seen By the following from the New York
WorId


The quiet prevailing the city yesterday is
honorable testimony to the peaceable
disposition of q muoh-maligned population.
With half the insulting menace yesterday
cast in the teeth of our citizens, Paris
is Paris unweskened by war-would have
risen in bArricades and with anything like
the show of osyonets and war ships yester
day presented here, London would have
taken arms as in the times of the Stuarts,
and pitched the army aud navy, powerful to
insult but impotent to repress, headlong to
destruction
Year: 1870

Think of twelve innocent looking gentle.
men ia box in Smith County, Texas, lis
sening, with wide, open eyes to the following
charge:


If the jury believe, on the evidence tha,
the plaintiff bought out the defsndent and
gave bis note for the interest and the de
fendant paid for The note by delivering to
the plaintiff COW which he warranted not
breachy and the warrant was broken by
reason of the breachiness of the COW and
he drove her back and rendered her TO the
defendant bu' he refused to receive her and
the plaintiff took her home again and put a
heavy yoke on her to prevent her from jump
ing fences and by means OF the yoke she
broke her neck and died and if the Jury
further believe that the defendants interest
in the grocery was worth anything, the
plaintiffs note was worthless, and the COW
good for nothing, either for beef or milk;
then the jury must find out for themselves
how they will decide the case. for the court
if she understands herself, and she think,
she does, don't know how the case should
Ds decided"


The verdict was returned yes" and boti
nartias aDpealpd
Year: 1870

RALnoH, July 10.
Great excitement here, oecasioned by
the argument before the Chief Justice
in the case of citizens arrested by tho
Sheriff of the county, who had been in
structed not to obey the writ of habeas
corpus issued by Governor Holden. The
case will be decided by the Chief Justice
tomorrow, on the point whether to issue
attachment against Kirk or the Gov
ernnr
Year: 1870

QUEENS IN kEPUELrC.-There are many
queens in the United States. There is the vii
lege queen. She was the intelligent daughter Of
a shrewd farmer. She loved knowledge, and
early sought it under difficulties. Being Of a
firm and persistent nature, she contryed 10
squeeze enough out Of poverty to secure res
pcctable academic education, and became the
wonder Of all her neighborhood for learning.
She addicted herself to teaching. and soon grew
to such influence that she was made principal
OF an academy, and would there have educated
generations Of wives and mothers, had not a
lawyer submitted his heart to her charms and
government A good teacher was lost, but a
good wife was won She certainly made her
husband happy, and il was with regret that he
died. leaving her his family. and his property,
which for village was not nconsderahle.


he left some benefaciiOns 10 tie neighborhood


but nothing half so valuable as his wife She
grieved much for his death, both naturally and
from a sense of duty. lrwas Ike the loss Of a
we'll governed province. Before. she had ruled
the town through her husband At his DEATH
the town as like to have had an anarchy It
was only benevolent in her to restore 10 the air
that vital principle which the village SO much
missed. She encouraged all who came 10 her
for counsel. Every one thought her the wisest
person in the village, except herself She new IT
assumed authority. She knew that influence
was better than authority. Ii was her right TO
have influence, for she had superior intelligence
singular knowledge Of men. tact in governing
Her fault, If she had one. was that she dearly
Year: 1870

1t is the easiest thing in the world to
be happy if men and women would only
think so. Happiness is only another
name for love for where love exists,
in a household there happiness must also
exist, though has poverty fora close COM
panion. Where love exists not, even
though it be in a palace, happiness can
never come. He was cold and selfish
being who originated the saying that
"When poverty comes in at the door,
love files out at the window" and his
assertion proves conslusively that he had
no knowledge of love; for, unquestiona-
bly,, the reverse of the axiom quoted is
nearer the truth. When poverty comes
in at the door, love, true love. is more
than ever inclined to tary and do battle
with the enemy. Let those who imagine
themselves miserable before they find
fault with their surroundings search in
their own hearts for the true cause. A
few kind words or little forbearance
will often open the way to food of
sunshine in a house darkened by the
clouds of discord and unamiability.
Year: 1870




\ The GREATEST MEN.-Beecher gays:
Aaron Burr was keener thinker than
George Washington. lie was more in
genion5 man, tar more active man, and,
if he had been moral man, and had
maintained moral relations With himself,
with his fellowmen, and with the laws
of rectitude, he would have been an ADLER
man. Washington was man of good
sense, bnt he was not man of genius in
any direction except that of conscience.
He was man of singular equity, of great
disinterestedness ana Of pure and upright
intent Sagacious be was. by the light
which comes from integrity. He endur-
ed, having faith to believe that right was
right, that right was safe, and that right
in the end would prevail. That which
made Washington the only great hero of
our revolutionary struggle, was the light
of the moral element in him-not any in
tellectual genius which he possessed; not
any rare tacg in administration; nor any
remarkable executive power. And if you
look back upon those names is our his
tory that have best stood the test, you
will find that they have been men who
were fruitful in highest moral elements.
And as time goes on, those men who lack
these elements sink lower and lower,
while the others rise till they reach the
meridian. ~ -.t.f.t
Year: 1870

The following anecdote of Beecher has
just been made public 1t seems he had
observed the injustice of obliging men to
work on Sundays, and preached a sermon
On it. Next day he entered into CONVEX
sation with car driver, while riding
down to Fulton Ferry, and asked him if
he did not think some plan might be
adopted to dispense with the need of run
ming the cars all day Sunday. The driver
being in entire ignorance of the name and
nature of his interrogative friend, made
frank reply: "Yes, sir, | think there
might bat there's no hope of it, so long
as they keep that - Beecher's theatre
open in Brooklyn. The cars have to run
to accommodate that" 1t is hardly ne
cessary to add that the drivers remark
was ''home thrust" and was considered
so good that Beecher told of it him
self.
Year: 1870

SURFACE MANURING.--A practical far


mer writes Many farmers, in the hurry
of spring business, or, if not shcrs Of
time or short of meansto get ma
mare. are tempted to pus in crops
sometimes in land which is not as
rich as it should be. Sometimes they
are able to remedy this in few weeks,
but then think it is TOO late. When it
is suggested that they spread the manure
on the surface, they think of the great
amount lost b. eyaportion. But figures
have shown that instead of loss there
is gain by surface manuring, There Is q
small loss but the gain is made up by
the increased advantage which the roots
gather from manure when at the surface


When low down in the earth, and ex-
c,uded from the air, manure is of very
little service to plants. 1t needs the ae-
ton of the atmosphere to prepare If for
plant food, and this is ire great compen-
sation for the small loss which escapes
into the atmosphere on a dry ar windy
day."
Year: 1870

INCREASE OF PRODUCTIONS IN CALIFoRlA.-
The Sacramento Union in noticing the annu-
al Address of the President of the State Ag-
ricultural Society, says:


"The President of the Society estimates
the wine production of this year at twenty
millions gallons, the wool clip at twenty mil
lion pounds-an increase of five millions, or
tn 'rty-thee and third per cent. over that of
last year. He thinks there are now two .rd a
half million silk mulberry trees growing and
that the number will be greatly augmented
next winter-.he season for planting.
Five years ago the whole wine crop did not
much exceed a million gallons. 1t is now
twenty times as much. An increase Of thirty
three per cent. in the wool clip in one year.
I'VE think it little overstaied.) is still more
astonishing. and encourages the hope thet in
FIVE years more, with our mountains of both
rarges swarming with sheep of improved
breeds, we may exceed the aggregate wool
production of Australia in quantity and equal
that of any country in quality. Indeed it
does not seem improbable that within the de-
cade to end in 1850, our annual clip of wool
may be worth more than our annual wheat
harvest is now. But after all it is to wine
and its kindred product brandy from grapes,
that we must look for the hest results, both
as to values in cash and the highest improve
mens of the soil and the most pleasing rural
training of the people. When we shall Lave
mastered the dificnities in the way Of secur-
ing the better qualities of wine and brandy,
in the way suggested by the President of the
State Agricultural Society, Or some other
way, our vineyard production will be worth
more annually than cur gold mines ever
Yielded.
Year: 1870

PRosPEcrIvE INDusrRIEs.-The Annual ex.
hibition of the State Agricultural Society
came oil at Sacramento last week. The pa.
pers Of that city speak Of the exhibition 10
high terms and predict TINT it will have a
good effect towards Advancing our agricultu-
raj and mechanical industries. The Stock.
ton Independent speaking of the fair says:


"Sone specimens of reeled silk from CO.
coonery in Yolo County were very satisfac.
tory evidence of the progress made in the de-
veiopment of prospective valuable industry
to our State.


We were informed that the silk on exhibit
ticn sells readily for twelve dollars per pound
and the cocoons, from which it is reeed, are
worth two dollars and half per pound. Per.
sons interested in its production. who now
have had considerable experience in the busi-
ness. are sanguine that silk culture mus,
eventually become very profitable business.
There was also upon exhibition the result ri
some experiments made in the manufacture
of sugar from the sugar beet and also from
the cane; which, il is to be hoped, may be
the beginning of a manufacture Of this article
which will eventually save to California much
of the capital now required 10 supply her
with that staple from foreign sources"
Year: 1870

The California Silk Factory in San Fran
cisco is fast reaching completion. The roof
is now being put on. The engine and boiler
are being set up: the machinery has been
contracted for in the East. There is a pro-
oao,ity of the factory being in producing
Year: 1870

The following valuable hints in re-
gard to the preservation of leather We
copy from the Shoe and Leather Re
porter:


The extreme heat in which most
mon and women expose boots and
shoes during winter deprives leathee
of its vitality, rendering it liable to
break and crack. When leather be-
comes 50 warm rs to give Off the
smell of leather, it is signed. Close
rubber shoes also destroy the lif of
leather. All varnishes and all black
ing containing the properties of warm
ishing should be avoided.


ShOe-leather is greatly abused. Per-
sons know nothing or care less abOnt
the kind Of material used than they
do about the polish produced. VitriOl
backing is used until every particle
of oil in the leather is destroyed. TO
remedy this abuse the leather should
he washed once a month with warm
water; and when about half dry a coat
of oil and tallOw should be applied,
and the boots set aside for n day or
two. This will renew the elasticity
and life i'm the leather, and when thus
used upper leather will seldom crack
or break.


DOH't wash harness in water and
with soap. No harness is ever so soil
Ell that u damp sponge will not re-
move the dirt. When harness loses
its luster and turns brown, which al
most any leather will do after long eX-
pOsIIre to the air, the harness should
be given a new coat of grain-black.
Before using this grain-blaek, the
grain surface should be thoroughly
washed with pOtash-water until all
the grease is killed, and after the ap-
plication of the grain-black, oil and
tallow should be applied to the sur
face. This will not only ''fasten the
color" but make the leather flexible.
Harness which is grained can be
cleaned with kerosene or spirits of
turpentine, and no harm will result if
the parts affected are washed and OIL
ed Immediately afterward.
Year: 1870

The Bible confers special honor on
man. 1t lifts him to n higher plane
of being than any systems of science
orphilOsophy. He is no development
from star-dust, no link in the chain
of being beyond the ape. He is a
child of God, formed in the image of
the Creator. He is not made to per-
ish like the brutes, but born for i'm
mortality. Nor does he belong TO the
mere system of nature, hedged in by
inexorabIe laws which make him the
sport of fate. There are elements OF
his being which lift above nature,
which endOw him with lOrdship over
nature. This is the lofty view of man
given in the Bible. He is sovereign
on earth. TO the creature made in his
own image, God has committed the
regency of this world. 1.-THE earth
has been given to the children of men"
Thou hast put all things under his
/ feet"
Year: 1870

A horrible case of brutality occurred


in Waterbury, Conn, on Saturday.


A man named Alexander McCirady
came to that town from his farm,


some few miles away, and had become
slightly intoxicated, when ne started


to return in the evening. On the way


he quarreled with his wife and threw


her from the wagon breaking one of


her legs below the knee. Then he
cause she could not walk, rs he or


dered her to do, he beat and kicked her
in Il shameful manner, and threw her
again into the wagon. When he


reached home lac pitched her from the


wagon into the back yard, and hav-
ing cut every particle Of clothing from
her, tied a rope about her body and
dragged her under shed, leaving her
there naked and half insensible im the
bitter cold air. After the monster had
carefully stabbed his horses he went
into the house To bed. The woman


would certainly have perished, had
not bOarder in the house happened
to go into the shed about nine O'clock,
and there he found and succOred the
unfortunate woman. McGrady has
offered half Of his farm To compromise


the matter, but il is 10 be hoped that


he will receive the punishment from


the courts which he so richly merits.
Year: 1870

In 1852 some wOrkmen kindled n
fire i'll a disused Missouri coal mine to
warm themselves, and last week it
was found still burning.


Two physicians at the bedside of a
patient disputed as to the nature of
the disease. At last one them ended
the discussion by saying: Every well,
have it your own way now, but the
post-mOrtem examination will show
that l am right" The patient was
not much encouraged.
Year: 1870

A new physiological discovery has
been made by young man-namely,
that the pulse OfyOung ladies generally
beasts strOger in the palm of the hand
than at the wrist. As to more elderly
females, even little boys know by stern
experience that the palm of the ma.
ternal hand beats awful strong.
Year: 1870

PRACTICAL TEMPERANCE.-The directors
of the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad do
not mean that the lives of the patrons of
their road shall be put in jeopardy by any
negligence of theirs. At a meeting held on
the 22d of December the following resolu-
ton was adopted:


Resolued, That the Directors of the Ban
gor and Piscataquis Railroad Company will
not appoint any person to office, or employ
any person in the service of said Company
who uses intoxicating liquors as beverage
and that they expect al. the officers and en-
ployees in the service OF said Company to alb.
stain entirely from such use of intoxicating
liquors; and that if it should be known to
said Directors that any such person does not
so abstain, he will be dismissed from the SER
vice of said Company.
Year: 1870

DEMOCRATIC JOURNALS are amusing them
selves with the story that the late Secretary
Stanton was about to become member of
the Catholic church when he died. The ma
lignity with which this distinguished man Is
pursued even in his grave by the enemies of
the country furnishes abundant proof of the
value of his patriotic services, and the terror
which he everywhere inspired in the breasts
of traitors.
Year: 1870

Messrs. Dickey of Fort Kent and Philander
j. Carleton Of Knox county are the gentle
men who this year consented to be Demo-
cratic candidates for Speaker of the House
and President of the Senate
Year: 1870

A Ssede immigrant, just arriving at Red
Wing to meet his son. was fatally injured
on the night of the l9th inst, by falling
down an open hatchwsy on board the
steamer Phil. Sheridan as she was approach
ing the Red Wing landing.
Year: 1870

From the New York Post, January 5.


Those who were fortunate enough TO
watch until a late hour this morning saw
a celestial display which fully repaid them
for lost rest. About four O'Clock heavy
bank of cloud in the northwest was light
ed up as by great fire behind it, and be-
gan to overflow with silvery margin OF
light. Short columns OF white haze ap-
reared to the north and west, and gradu-
ally extended their base around ba!f the
horizon, trembling upward towards mid
heaven. where vast crimson spaces gloWed
upon their SUBMITS. Soon after i've o.
clock tho glory of the scene was at it's
highest, streamers shot brilliantly to the
zenith, and patches of blood-red fire COW
cred half the sky. To the first glance one
startled from sleep at this hour, it seemed
that the city must be in flames. No perfect
corona was formed in the zenith, but the
Pickering towers OF light mingled the'
SUBMITS curiously there about ten min
utes after five, aud then the whole scene
rapidly faded away.


| The green and purple masses Of hgh'
which in the great aurora OF 1888, con
trasted so magnifcently with the gold o.
the horizon and with the silver streamers
were not seen this morning; but the dis
play, as d whole, was quite equal to any
| since that time,
Year: 1870

Tycho Brahe, the astronomer,ch chang
ed color and his legs shook under him
on meeting with hare or fox. DR..
Johnson would never enter a room
with his left foot foremost; If by mis-
take it did get foremost, he would
step back and place his right foot fore
most. Julius Caesar was almost con-
vulsed by the sound of thunder, and
always wanted TO get into a cellar or
under ground to escape the dreadful
noise. To Queen Elizabeth the sim
pie word death" was full of horrors.
Even Talleyrand trembled and chang
ed colors on hearing the word pro-
nounced. Marshal SAKE, who met
and overthrow opposing armies, fed
and screamed in terror at the sight of
a cat. Peter the Great could never
beperSuaded to cross a bridge; though
he tried to master the terror, he fail
ed to do so, whenever he set foot on
one he would shrek out in distress
and agony. Byron would never help
any one to salt at the table nor would
he help himself; if any of the article
happened to be split on the table he
would jump up and leave his meal un-
finished.
Year: 1870

The most contemplate weakness
in our world, is the disposition to de-
spise labor as inconsistent with gen.
teel and refined cultivation. No per-
son is truly Independent who is not
possessed of a knowledge of some
trade or business, in which he could
earn a support in case of need.
Year: 1870

The PRICE OF FlNTElPERANCE.-Did
you ever awake in the night in great
terror over some dream? Some fear
lul danger was Just before you, and
you cried out in fear for i" Mother. =
mother!' Though there was nothing
near to hurt you, yet your terror was
just as real as though a lion was in
the room.


Now, the imaginary terrors Of a
man in the delirium which drinking
causes, may seem very funny to look
ers on, who know there is no danger,
but they are terrible beyond all tho't
to those who experience them.


A man living in New Haven. Conn.,,
drank so deeply that his reason was
for time overthrown. When his par
oxysms came on, he fancied that he
saw before him men preparing 10 fay
him alive. Slowly they began their
dreadful work, cutting his flesh with
keen little saws, then tearing off his
skin in strings, and hanging it up on
wires before his eyes. He would
shrek and cry out in as terrible ago
ny as if they were really doing it
Then he would imagine that his heart
was a cage of wild beasts, who were
tearing, growing, and fighting with
each other. He would beg his com
panions to tear them out, and when to
crafty him they pretended to do so,
a feeling of deathly faintness would
come over him. Then he would think
those about him were throwing sharp
hooks at him, trying to fasten them in
his flesh. He would wrestle and fight
for hours with his unseen foes, until
the sweat poured from him in streams.
Did not he pay dear for his cups
Was the little pleasure he got out of
them worth all that agony?
Year: 1870

year ago, In the sweet spring weather
We sought the trailing arbutus together.
Brushing the withered leaves aside,
And tho long pine needles. brown md dried,
We found the yine with its glossy green,
And its clustering flowers coy between.
Over the waxen petals white
lowered a blush us they ni.t the light,
Pure rs the look n maiden wears
As forth she comes from her morning prayers.
gathered the lovely things for you,
With the breath of the woods In their drops o


dew;


And home wo went by the common way,
With u halo around our holiday.
For we both had lost and we both had found
something sweet on tho forest ground.
And if your heart was exchanged for mine.
As We sought the blossoms beneath the pine,
The pine was far too high to hear
The words whispered In your ear.
But the shy arbntus knew of the ..Ycs"
That you let me seal with loves fret kiss;
And 50 this year, in the fair spring weather,
We will hunt for springs sweet blooms together.
Year: 1870

4 telegraphic dispatch was received a,
the Office in this city from IT, s. Attorn.
ey General Hoar on Thursday afternoon
at 4 o'clock. pardoning a man by the
name of Smith who had been found gull.
ty of murder for killing an Indian some
time ago on the Ncz Perce Reservation
As the line between tins place and Una.
tilla was down, it was impossible to get
the message there in time to save the
mans life who was to have been hung on
Friday. We have since learned the man
had escaped from Jail and was not on
hand when the time came for the hang.
ing.-Daties Iountaineer.


We dislike to spoil good item, but
the above is all wrong Instead of a
pardon it was only a reprieve; and in.
stead of killing an Indian on the Nez
Perez Reservation, the murder was COM
mitted on shipboard on the Sound, the
victim being white man and mate of a
vessel. The dispatch was addressed to
E. s. Kearney, U. S. Marshal, and was
received in full time to ensure tho safety
of the prisoners neck Halla Hala
Statesman.