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Year: 1875

farmer, In the first place YOU detest the
business; you don't take any pride or in>
,erest in it you don't care whether your
land improves under cultivation or not
you want to get AL Of il you can without
taking the trouble to pay anything back;
you skin It year after Jear, and cry out
against the seasons; you denouucc every
man you deal with as a sharper or
swindler, because you do not get the
prices for your products other people do,
and yet you do net Seem 10 know that the
reason is that ycur products are poor in
quality, and Put on the market in mis-
cradle shape; your stock has been run,
ming down ever since your father died;
You havl't built new fence and scarcely
repaired an old one your manure has
not been hauled out and judiciously used
on the farm; your pigs have bothered





your neighbors more than they have bene.
hted you; your cattle have become
breachy. aud have had 10 shut them up
IN my stables in order to keep them out
Of my grain you have distributed from
your fence corners more weed seed than
any farmer know of,and thus given your
tidy neighhoIs trouble than your favor to
compensate. Iu short, it is time for you
to move. You ought to have virgin
farm! 1t will take you but Few years
to strip it of its fertility; then yoail
have TO move again, and keep moving
You belong to very large elias, Of far
mers, who are curse to any country
The fact is, you are not, never was, and
never will be a farmer in the right sense
Of that word. You are only guerilla.
You live by robbery-robbery Of the
soil. And it is not right, ncighbor S,mp-
son. You had better seek some other vo>
cation, now that you've got the cash TO
start with. You like horses; you can
talk horses from daylight till dark; you
can't be fooled with horses; you had bets
ter 60 iato some smart town and start
livery stable. You'll make money at IL
you'll never make money farming, you'll
grow poorer and poorer the longer you
attempt it."


! Just then Sally Simpson clapped her
hands and said: That's so, father =
Havn't told you SO? Mother and l
have often talked it over, Mr.. Crumple,
and you are just as right as can be; and
father knows it too, if he would only say
so. ! know you too well land you've
done us too many kindnesses for us to
ever forget theul, to Lclieve that you
have talked to father in the way you have
out of any unkind feeling. 1t is true,
every word it, father, and you ought
to thank neighbor Crumplc for talking
just as he thinks; do, and I don't think
the less Of him either"
Year: 1875

Since replying to the question Of q
correspondent in regard to the feeling Of
a colt about TO be weaned three months
old, in which We stated that in our opin>
ion that was too young, We have met sew
eral large and successful breeders Of
horses aud inquired Of them as to their
practice in this respect. The youngest
age set Cor weaving was four months.
One Of them was clearly of opinion that
on the whole fall colts we're the best be-
cause they could run with the mare all
winter without the risk Of getting stunted
in THUR growth as they would have the
advantage Of fresh and green grass in
about the time Of weaning in the spring
SO that they would keep growing right
along; while if they are foaled in the
spring, it is quite difficult to get them
through the FIRST winter without getting
some check to their growth getting them
pot belied or otherwise out of shape.


II weaned in fall, say at four OF five
months. they feed some oats, from one h
two quarts day, and bran mash FIRE
quently or some similar succulent foot
made up Of shorts aud cut hay, AL
concur in saying that it is very importan
to guard against any check in the 6rs
years growth. They want to give plent
. of exercise aud plenty Of nutritise. mu.
cle.forming food, like oats, shorts, brar
etc. and oil concur in the opinion tha
three months Is too young 10 wean at thi
Sc: s,s Of the year.--Mass Plo,oman.
Year: 1875

If there is person on Garth cutitle to
sincere commisseration, it is an unwilling
bride-a girl who has given her hand
without her heart in marriage and more
especially is she to be pittied il her heart
unhaprily has been proPossessed by an
other. Can any prospect be more dreary
than that which lies before zurh bride?
What has she to look forward to, what to
expect, what to one hope? Linked, not
for day, but for life. to one with whom
she has no sympathy-who is ro more
than a stranger, save that in law and i'll
fact, but not in soul; he Is her husband
Is it not dreadful to contemplate! How
much so to experience 1t is natural and ii
is proper that their parents should desire
that their daughters should marry well ,aud
it is reasonable that they should marry
we'll, and it is reasonable that they should
prefer for them husbands 10 comfortable
circumstances. But when it comes to tb,
exercise of compulsion in the selection
of husband-to commanding a daughte
to relinquish an engagement or an attach
II ent on which her whole soul is fixed
and to marry man towards whom sh


feels Indifference or dislike-that is


very different matter.-RufM Ne,


Yorker.
Year: 1875

tv The most attentive man to busi-
ness on record was he who wrote ON his
shop door; eGone TO bury my wife !,
return in half an hour" lie was no
relation to the lawyer who put upon his
Office door: BE back in five minutes :
and returned only after pleasure trip Of
three weeks.
Year: 1875

Among those most anxious to
view the body were a class Of peo-'
pie who advocate the brutal, stu
pid and demoralizing doctrine call


ed phrenology, The following
anecdote viii show what use these


decipherers of the marks on the


heads of others make Of the con-
tents OF their own. Sometime ago
a gentleman found a large turnip
in bis field Of the shape of. a mans
head, and with the resemblance Of
the features Of a man. Struck
with the curiosity he had a cast
made OF it and sent the cast to q
society Of phrenologists, stating
that it was taken from the head Of
Baron Turenpourtz, a celebrated
Polish professor, and requesting
their opinions thereon. After sit
ting in Judgment they scientif-
cally examined the cast in which
they declared they had discovered
an unusual prominence which de-
noted that he was a man of acute
mind and deep research, that he
had the organ Of quick perception
and also Of perseverance,. The
opinion was transmitted to the
owner Of the cast with a letter re-
questing as a particular favor that
he would send them the head; to
this he politely replied that he


would willingly dolso but was pre-
vented, as he and his family had


eaten it the day before with their
mutton,
Year: 1875



 Hilton has been lecturing all around us, and draws like hippodrome. Ergo: If you would lecturing go, be notorious, be notorious, that will show, what the people want to know hence to be notori- ous is better than to be popular or learned, Though TiIton has his champions and is not without learning, great curiosity is the handspring" of his success. Tn Daven- port the Congregational minister advised his flock to give the lecturer a wide berth, and the long haired Demosthenese went for the divine in q way he did not like: so the parson got back at him through the newspapers, making honoTs easy.

 Rev. Sidney Crawford of AndOver, class of TO, was installed pastor of the CoDgre- gational church in this city last night, Rev. Dr. Bingham of Dubuque preaching the sermon to large and highly grstifed audience.

 The ''Indiauna Summer as German called it the other day, is still Hpon ug, and the epizoOtic passing off The wealth CT is favorable for our water works project which is being pushed forward to the ut- most limit of possibility. A few more fair days will see most of the pipes laid and the reservoir completed. We watch the sky. and signs and weather reports, and almost hold our breaths for fear the cold will set in suddenly and catch us just on the eve of success. We had a little scare. last night. that reminded us of our need of its early completion. A bale of cotton batting caught fire in dry goods store and blazed up in a manner that made things lively around there for short time, but it was extInguished without serious damage.

 After all. the frOsts caught the corn, leaving it soft and pIiabIe on the ear. so that very little can be found hard enough for milling purposes. and the farmers arc holding of from gathering to let it dry on the stalk as much as possible.

 1t is not uncommon for the river to close up by the 10th of this month, so that my next may be written in the lap of Winter. wish were bird-theu, if you heard from me at all. it would be from some Southern cline. AR
Year: 1875

Lutte Taylor thus wrote for his
"Chip Basket' about getting we'll:


There is luxury in getting we'll
there cannot be told. TO feel that the
links binding you to life are surely
strengthening to be little stronger in
the feet; to take the first unassisted
step, to be an hour longer from the
pillow; to sit once more with the fam
lily circle; to venture into the open air
and feel better for it-yet all the while
to bc little tremulous with fear this
is getting we'll 1t is to the frame
something as spring is to revive ma
ture when we are uOt quite sure 1t
has d'Gc sowing; not sure but mar
row breath Of winter "a release you
knowles between us and the full
bIossoming violet and the snowdrop.
One feels new tingling in his veins
and it seems as if this wondrous ma
chinery was just set in motion. The
faces Of ac1uaintances, too, wear a
etrange look and only by degrees do
thy grow familiar
Year: 1875

Truth will never die: the stars
will grow dim, the sun will pale his
glory but truth will be ever young


Integrity, uprighoness, honesty, love,
goodness, these are all imperishabIe


No grave can ever entomb these M
mortal principles. They have been in
prison, bat they have been freer than
bcfnre; those who have enshrined
them in their hearts have been burned
ut the stake bat out Of their ashes
other witnesses have arisen. No sea
can drown, no storm can wreck, no
abyss can swallow up the ever looking
truth OF God You cannot kill good
ness, and tFath. and integrity. and
faith. and holiness the way that is
consistent with these must be a way
everlasting Rec. G H. Sparyeoa.
Year: 1875

The Lord has arranged things wise
ly for our mere piysicll delight. He
has not planted all the vtolets in the
world in one place neither has he
fenced in the roses between parallels
of latitude and longitude, Nor fash
ioned them to grew up under oRr noses.
Bat we go earelessly along and we get
a Whit of the violetS down there in the
grass, and the llacs over yonder in tie
fence corner, and they all go to make
up the beauty aul the fragrance Of the
day, though we had not been looking
for any of them. 1t is the indirect
ray from everything whether it be the
sun or the drop Of dew thar marks aud
makes visible the beauty of the world.
Year: 1875

New YoRK, October 10 Just now
John Kelly is the bette aeoir of ono
half of the daily newspapers of New
York, and the white idol of the other
half. He is accused y of being p O
public plunderer on the one hand,
and defended rs a pure and single
minded man on the other. The
reason for this onslaught and de-
fence is that he is the undoubted
dictator ef the Tammy Democracy,
and therefore the salient mark for
the shafts Of those who are striving
to break down tho power of Tamme-
ny Hall in the present political con-
test. In answer to the public craving
for some information concerning the
private history of this remarkable
man-for he who rose from Oh hum.
BILE lot to reign chief of the ruling
faction of the Democracy of the
metropolis must, be remarkable
man-one of the daily papers pub
fishes a racy sketch of him. We
learn from this that he is q New
Yorker (nstead, as hos been sup
posed an Irishman,) by birth that
he was born in poverty, and made
himself modestly we'll off by legiti-
mate business, and not by politics !;
that he has held but few offices, md
none of late years Che was once a
member of Congress,) and that he is
now engaged solely in the business
of running the local Democratic
party, for which tho expects and
wants no Office and will take no pay.
Kelly is lonely man. His wifeand
children are oil dead. but he lives in
the modest house in Lexington
avenue, where they once lived, sur
rounded by the mcmentoes of their
lives. He sits in his back parlor
and receives the world. Visitors arc
not required to be announced by
card oil can see him in turn, as long
as the hours of the daily reception
last TO be the dictator of politics
i'll Now York means that tho man
must give audience daily to hundred
of people with various axes to grind.
John Kelly is man, bulky in form
with big face, whose lower part is
covered with characteristic b,lshy
moustache and whislkers. Ono of
the best things said Of him is that
he is paying the expenses Of the
education of five young men, of them
being in Europe, and studying for
the ministry. OF course, this pic
turc of the Boss is not accepted as
accurate by his opponents. Accord
ing to the Herald and Sun he is as
wicked rs Tweed, and his natural
successor. So the local fight is cen-
tering on the character of John
Kelly; and by the result he will con
tinue to reign in greater power than
ever, or fall nevermore to rise
Neacs e Courier.
Year: 1875

At Baltimore, recently, in tho
United States District Court, o man
was convicted Of sending postal
cards containing scurrilous language
through the post Office, and he was
fined 5000 and costs. Perhaps the
most noticeable thing about this
case is the reminder which it furnish
es us of the raIeness of the offense


Before the postal cards were es


tablished it WIS feared that one of
the chief objections to them would
be that they offered facilities for
circulating anonymous slanders by
exposing them to being read in the
post Office itself and by the carriers.
AS matter of experience the abuse
has not been nearly as great as had
been feared !; and the occasional
prosecution and, punishment of the
cases in whichs the offense occurs
will tend to make%it cease almost
entirely. Independently of the in
trinsic wrong involved, it would, of
course, be great outrage to serious
ly injure q device which has proved
50 great convenience and economy.
Year: 1875

A negro appeared at the door of
tho executive mansion at Washing
ton, the other day, and proclaimed
that President was his father. Aa
he was armed with a seven shooter,
he was not admitted to; the great
fathers presence, but was escorted
to the lunatie asylum.
Year: 1875

A case ofinterestt to photographers
has just been brought before q
Brooklyn Court A young woman
went to Photographic gallery to
have her portrait taken. Seventeen
attempts were made and the seven.
teen portraits were successfully re-
jected as unsatisfactory. Then the
photographer got mad, went to the
Court and brought suit for the cost
of taking seventeen portraits. The
defense set up is that he engaged to
produce satisfactory likeness and
did not do it. The photographers
and the photographed Throughout
the country will be Interested in tho
of the suit. 81. .Sg.
Year: 1875

Chicago Tribune Little Cora
Fisher, of Rutherford Pork, New
Jersey, was bitten by q dog last
June. Her lip, where tho wound
was inflicted, was washed and dress
ed, but not ca,lterized A few days
ago the child went into convulsion
on hearing the sound of pumping
water, md in three hours died in
awful agony. And yet there arc
people who grumble because n
policeman occasionally poisona u
stray dog.
Year: 1875

from the depreciation Of dock thieves and the police
men detailed to guard the wharves allow goods to be
stolen constantly while they absorbed tine appa
renty more agreeable occupation Of chasing dmnutIve
urchns guilty Of swimming the river


so great are natural advantages that,
with proper improvements we might well boast
OF possessing the finest harbor in the world


little method and economy might materially
large the city revenues and decrease its expenditures
II is estimated that from the gross amount Of taxes
raised on real and personal estate, the sums derived
from licences, fines rent Of wharvcs &c, twenty per
cent is lost in collection In Paris the expenditure is
only nine per cent Of the revenue In London it is
per cent The city derives from the railroad
corporations in return for the right Of way given them
through our streets In Paris in tho year 1874 the
various corporations driving public vehicles paid the
city over ST. 700 900 for the Of thoroughares Even
the dry leaves from the in the Bois de Boulogne
bring the city Of Paris a large amount


That the death Of New York is higher than that
Of Paris may be in great measure attributed TO lack Of
vigilance in the superintendent of markets and
street and sanitary departments.


Few cities have, for time tolerated such mis-
government but city has before surrendered at
discretion to the rascaties bunders Of of dis
honest adyenturers or hairbraned legislators.
Year: 1875

THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR REoPENING THE BANK.


SAN FRANCISCO Sept Is, 1875
There is nothing in relation to the affairs of the
Bank of California, excepting the statement of mem
ber Of the Syndicate that Michael Reese has become
subscriber to the guarantee fund but what amount
is not stated With reference to the date of reopen
ing of the bank IT is stated by member of the Board
of directors that previous to resumption meeting of
the stockholders will be called and a statement Of the
condition of the bank presented to them AS ten days
would seem that unless resumption precedes the re-
port of the directors the bank could hardly reopen
fore the lst of October The arrangements said
be progressing satisfactorily, and possibly the bank
may begin paying to small deposors before making any
statement
Year: 1875

The following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twenty four hours in
parson with the corresponding date of last year.
dicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy
HrpA
Year: 1875

KNOXVILLE, Tenn Sept IS 1876.
The mail PACKET Emery City burned to the
waters edge this morning at four O'clock mile be-
low Kingston The cabin caught fire from stove in
the engine No lives were lost The mail was
saved Only light cargo on board which was a
total loss Only three boats are now left on the Ten
nessee River between Knoxville and Chattanooga.
Year: 1875

questions to como before the legislature
this winter. There are many impor-
tant questions that will arise next fall,
which will be only the skirmishing of
the presidential canvass, and 1t is more
important than who shall be senator,
that the republican party should stand
shoulder to shoulder in both Of these
campaigns, and deprive those demo-
Gratis of what they expect by this COAX
itioR.


The result Of the next presidential
canvass will, in large degree, depend
upon the result of next falls election.
It Wisconsin should go democratic
next fall, the probabilities are that it
would go democratic in the presidential
canvass. We have, in that canvass,
matters of great Importance touching
not only the life of this great party,
which has administered with success
and honor the affairs of this nation
since 1861, but the destines of half
this union in general sense depend
upon the result of the next falls elect
ion.
Year: 1875

Some say the


MISSION oE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
is ended. You might as we'll say that
the mission of the church is ended, be-
cause the bible is printed, as to say
that the mission of the republican par
ty is ended


AS long as there is a wrong to be
righted, as long as there is any privi-
lege of citizenship to be protected, the
mission of the republican party will
exist,


Let me implore you all, as republi-
cans, having accomplished the purpose
you had in view in separating into two
bodies, to come back into camp, come
to the common flag, and shoulder to
shoulder march forward to the execu-
tion of our common purpose. Loud
and long continued cheering].
Year: 1875

Every laboring man should buy HIM
self town lot, get it paid for, and
then work to make the necessary i'm
provements. A little here and little
there will soon produce you home of
your own.
Year: 1875

THE Prismoidal Street Railroad
Company are going on with their
work. They have ordered a large
amount of material and will COM
mence the preparation of the road bed
in few day. We mention these
facts not as a matter of news, but to
remind the Council that if an in
junction is to be placed on the work,
it had better be done at once. The city
will lose the suit as usual, and the bill
of damage to the company will be
lighter if the suit is commenced before
the company have expended a large
sum of money. The taxpayers of this
city have come to look on all suits


commenced by the Council as dead
thing to lose, and they like to have
them conducted as cheaply as possible.
Year: 1875

Some people come to California and
do not succeed in finding employment,
while Others come, are we'll pleased
and prosper. We have all heard of
the soldier who went about searching
for work and praying that he would
not find it. Many of those who "beat"
their way from this State back East
and report that they could not find
work, are no doubt constituted SINH
larly to the soldier. Their efforts to
find work were nothing like so earnest
and energetic as their prayer not to
find it. AS an evidence of how false
is the statement made below, we call
attention to the report of the Sacra-
mento Immigrant Aid Bureau, that
the demand for laborers far exceeds
the supply. They could supply two
hundred girls and women with good
places in farm houses. No man worth
his salt need go hungry or without
employment in California. Those
who are disappointed expect too much.
They wants great deal of money for a
small amount of labor. They are not
content with better wages and lighter
labor than they had at home but want
double pay and permission to play.
We would remind all new corners that
the days of '49 are passed; nuggets of
gold are no longer found on the sur
face. He who would make money
must dig for it, whether in field or
mine. California is much like any
other State. It rewards the laborer
Year: 1875

The Independent State Convention
yesterday nominated JOHN BIDwELL
for Governor. The selection is con-
sidered rather good one by the men,
bers of that organization here, and we
have no doubt 1t will be so regarded
by them throughout the State. The
party is short of good gubernational
timber and has done the best it could
with the material on hand. General
BIDwELL has negative strength
which will enable him to poll more
votes than PHELPS. He has no polit-
ical record, that part of his history
having terminated somewhat abrupt
ly eight years ago, when GoRHAM de-
feated him in the Republican conven-
ton for Governor. 1t Is to this no
record he is indebted for his strength.
But little can be said for him and
against him, only that he has been
beaten In his political aspirations
heretofore. The General Is we'll
meaning man of no ability. If he
should chance to be elected he will be
guided and controlled by SWIFT and
COwDERY. Gov. PACHECO was NOM
mated Lieutenant Governor by accla-
nation. This Is strong nomination
and will secure many votes for tn he
ticket. His sudden conversion to the
new faith may somewhat affect his
popularity. He is open to the suspi-
cion of having left the Republican
party because it would not give him
office, and going into the Independent
faction because it offered him office.
OF course he will be called upon to ex-
plain. So far the Independents have
done as well as could be expected.
They will come In behind the Demo-
Gratis and ahead of PHELPS.
Year: 1875

Now is your time! No such chance again in
one hundred years! The Bazaar is selling out
their entire stock of Dry Goods 25 per cent
below cost as they intend giving up their dry
goods business and keep only Gents Furnish
Ing Goods. This is no bogus sale, but genu-
Inc selling out of our entire stock of Dry
Cry Goods, as ou will find out by calling at
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Requeua
streets oppOSite the U. S. Hotel. ielT