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Year: 1872

and experienced superintendent of the gar>
dens and grounds of the Agricultural De-
partmenl:


They have an idea in western New York
that that Is the only region for making fine
winter trait, but that is a mistake. I should
say that the hills of Virginia and North
Carolina is the best In the world, In the
future, southern fruits will he taken north
Tor cultivation. The great trouble has been
the planting of northern varieties at the
south, but southern pomologisls have of
late been paying attention to Southern seed
llngs, and they now have list superior to
the northern list. Some day the north will
DO astonlshed at the show Of southern fruits >


Mr.. Saunders knows what he is talking
about and cannot be supposed to have any
personal interest in representing southern
fruits as any better than they are But he
Is not singular in his opinion At the same
meeting Mr. Saul, well known and eNten.
sive nurseryman in the District Of Columbia
remasked


My opinion is the same. With northern
varieties at the south, failure is certain. One
gentleman said to me, "Of 1000 trees |
would plant 800 Baldwins, but would set
oft the same number that were not Bald
wins We must get southern varieties.
Aey will do better at the north than north
arm varieties will at the south. They have
found that out in Europe. Varieties Of fruit
were collected for trial in England, and the
southern were invariably found to be the
most successful"


We hope that with these lights before
them' those Of our southern friends who de-
sire to purchase fruit trees. will not only
tschew northern peddlers, but will buy
southern raised trees from southern nursery
men Of character, of which there are many


We do not intend by these remarks to
decrJ or undervalue the many northern
nurserymen and seedsmen of established
reputation aud experience who have re
c'Ived southern patronage gId served us
honestly and well. There are many things
in their line we can buy with advantage,
but fruit trees arc not of the number.
Year: 1872

An economical Iowan. who had the
tooth ache, determined 10 remove his
tooth in the Indian fashion. Accor-
&ngly he bent down a sapling in the
woods lay down himself, and attached
stout cord to his tooth and the
sapbng. Then he touched the spring
and the next he knew he had jumped
over a grovsof about forty small trees,
and was trying to get out of a small
pond that he happened to ahght in.
Year: 1872

New YoRK, February THE
Herald's Washington dispatches an,
pounce that General Sheridan was in
consultation with the president yes
terday on the strength of the country
in a military point, 1t is known that
orders have been sent out to military
forces to have everything brought to a
point of perfection, Naval circles are
also active.
Year: 1872

A great portion of the cotton crop
has been sold at Camden this winter,
and the cash realized. What has
become of it? Do people put it down
in their pockets, and cry hard times,
a"d plead scarcity of money to keep
from paying their debts' Have DEM
oralization and dishonesty gone so far
as that we fear it has with many
people.
Year: 1872

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will give cash prize of 7iceaty Dollars,
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Work for your hume paper, and
work now. This offer is good for the
next ninety days. Send in the names
and money as fast as you get them.
Year: 1872

A happy young bridal party went
down from Peoria on the railroad
the other morning. The blushlng
young bride thrust her head out of
the car window as the train started
off, and, after looking around for
moment or two, suddenly ierked her
head back with quick exclamation,
and buried her face in her hands.
Her loving, frightened husband
sought to learn the cause of her dis
NAV, and offered feeble consolation:
What is it. darling? What fright
ened it dear? What makes 1t cry?
There wasn't much to cry aboutto be
sure; oh. no, Darling had only
dropped set of glittering front teeth
out of the window, that was all. The
sad affair has cast a gloom over the
entire community.
Year: 1872

The Methodist Book Concern in
New York have got a new set Of
books and new bookkeepers; the
teller is to check the cashier; the
cashier is to watch the bookkeepers !;
the agents are to watch the book
keepers, cashier and teller. and Q
special committee to watch them all.
Year: 1872

A feeling Of uneasiness is prevalent among
the leading mercantile houses in the rebuilt
wholesale quarter Of the city lying north Of
Lake street and east of State street, at the care
less and unlawful exposure Of kerosene and
dangerous inflammable oils by parties in the
trade. These ere in numerous instances kept in
casks, to the number Of q score or more, on
wooden sidewalks, or piled in areas surrounded
BY combustibles. These pine sidewalk planks
are at all times saturated by 1eakages,
and it would be the easiest Of achievements
for an incendlary, or eyen the dropped match Of
a careless smoker, to start a. fire, the end Of
which it would not be so easy to calculate. The
facts On this subject, presented elsewhere in q
communication from D merchant, deserve the
attention of the authorities, and instant reform
Of the practice Of which complaint is made.
Year: 1872

they we're sharing alike the depression caused
by the suspension Of trade, and yet the party
managers obstinately and wilful1y ignored the
popular feeling, and rigidly applied the party
tests as it some clear1y-dedned National quos-
tion were pending. The nomination for the
Office OF Mayor was offered succeasive1y to seV-
eral gentlemen, who successfully declined. At
last, the nomination was offered to Mr. Pierce,
whose ability no one questioned, whereupon
Mr. Pierce wrote manly letter to the managers,
Offering to accept the nomination provided that
he was not run upon an exclusively party ticket
self men Of unquestioned ability to help
franc and execute the laws. The Republican
managers declined to do 80, and vent without a
candidate until three days before the election,
when they reluctantly assented to hfr. Pierce's
request. It was then too late. They had lost
their prestige. They had bungled the CANVASS
beyond all hope OF success, and the barnacles
reaped the harvest of their folly in the election
Of ticket, headed by a man whose adminiBtra-
tion had been inefficient, though respectable,
even before the crisis caused bY the fire. There
is undoubtedly q Republican majority in
Boston. There WAS undoubtedly a major
ity in the city who we're dissatisfied
with Mayor Castor, and were eager
for change, and for the election Of city officers
who would prove themselves equal to the emer-
gency. The action Of the Custom House fac
ton, however, conclusively proved that, it their
ticket should be elected, there was little hope Of
any improvement in the City Government, or
that it would do anything unaeldshly and for the
popular good, and the people turned round and
voted them down. It is to be presumed
that the Custom House managers in Bos-
ton have now discovered their mistake
and the additional fact that there II
some intelligence and virtue outside OF the
Offices they fill, and, unless they have remarkably
thick skins, they will appreciate this rebuke Of
the people and learn the Lesson it conveys.
Virtue and intelligence are fortunately not con-
fined to one political clique, and there are occa-
sions when both virtue and brains are needed in
the administration, and there ia no occasion for
tho uge Of the late War Of the Rebellion or the
abolition Of Slavery as helps in the administra-
tion Of municipal government.
Year: 1872

Governor Lewis, of Alabama, ordered the
Sheriff of Montgomery yesterday toseize the Cap
itol in which one Of the Legislatures is sitting.
When that officer attempted to execute the war
rant on the Senate he was promptly arrested by
order of that body, which also directed the
Sergeant~at~Arms to call out the militia and
resist any interference Of the Federal troops,
the House with his warrant, but was prevented
by the sergeant~at-Arms. The Court House
Legislature also sat yesterday, and did nothing
bu. add to its numbers another Of the defeated
candidates.
Year: 1872

At the Presidential election in November, tho
City Of Boston gave about G,000 ma ajority for tho
regular Republican tickot At the municipal
ocrnt, was reelected By s52 majority: ut the head
Of the Citizens ticket, Us opposed to Mr. Henry
L. Pierce, at tho head Of tho Republican and
Peoples ticket. There is evidently some reason,
beyond the ordinary Causes which influence vot-
ers, to account for this extraordinary change OF
votes in one short month. That it was not 10
change Of political sentiment is evident. There
has been nothing to effect q change OF political
sentiment, and SO large change could not pos
sibly have been effected in 80 short time.


The municipal election in Boston, this
year, was felt to be an unusually
important one by oil classes Of citizens


Boston, like Chicago, had been visited by dis
tressing calamity, which more than eyer made
ability and wisdom of it's rulers. Large busi-
ness interests had been pnra1yzed. Financial
operations had been temporarily checked, and
the resources Of the banks and insurance Offices,
which were necessary for the resumption of
business, were seriously crippled. a weak or
corrupt administration in the face Of such cir
cumstanccs might prove even worse than the
fire itself, and it was therefore felt (as after
the Chicago fire) TINT the services of the best
and abIest citizens, without regard to
political bias, should ba secured. lIen
were needed who were qualified by
long experience to give counsel and advic7 in
this unexpected emergency. The press, without
regard to party, echoed the popular sentiment,
and yet the Custom House managers, with the
most obstinate blindness and folly, determined
to draw the party lines rigid1y where no party
question was involved, and to demand pledge
that not only tho nominations of Aldermen
should be made strictly within the party, but
even that ali municipal appointments should be
made upon the same political basis. Tha only
question at issue in the canvass was the restora-
ton Of the prosperity Of the city and the re-
sumption of its business, which had
been checked by the fire. Every
citizen folt an interest in this issue. as
Year: 1872

The latest operation in the land-grabbing busi-
Representatives. It is q bill emitting every SOL
der, sailor, or the widow Or children Of any sol
der or Eailor, to enter q half section Of land
and to sell the certificate of entry to any person
who will agree to settle upon and cultivate the
came. This bill will take, to satisfy all claims
under it, 10000, 900 acres Of land, or perhaps
twice that amount. The fraud of the bill is in
its declared purpose to secure homestead to
the soldiers and sailors. ANY soldier or sailor,
Or d widow, or any child, 1nalo or female, can
enter, now, a homestead OF public land, free Of
cost; but that homestead is not transfer
able, nor is the title complete, until
after stated number OF years Of
occupancy and cultivation. There is, therefore,
no sailor, or soldier, or widow, who is debarred
by any law from acquiring homestead At any
time. But this bill is not designed to secure
homesteads- The public lands arc gradually
passing away from the Government, and this bill
millions Of acres Issued under it to spectators
at a very little cost. The scrip that will be is-
sued to the soldiers md sailors and widows and
children will have comparatively little value. 1t
will be subject to ali the conditions of the Home
stead law that require occupancy and cultiva-
tion, but it will be assignable. It may have a
value Of five, possibly ten, cents an aero, and
persons who want homesteads will not
even pay that much when they Gun
take what land they want free OF all
cost. But, as an Investment at five cents an
acre. this scrip will offer inducements to capital


lists, who can afford to hold it for twenty years,
when land will hare become scarco and home
steads at premium. Then these assignable
certificates issued to soldiers, sailors, and
widows, no longer living, will represent millions
OF acres Of land, and be mine Of profit to the
men who may hold them. This is the bill which
is before Congress-, and which is urged as 3
measure Of national gratitude to tho defenders
OF the country. It would be infinitely better for
the country, and far more profitable to the
soldiers and sailors, to vote donation of S25 in
cash to each of the latter.
Year: 1872

The Philadelphia Common Council has just
been Investigating case Of alleged bribery and
corruption, wherein wooden pavement is con-
cerned, and has been unable to come to any
conclusion. It ia not the first time that Com
mon Council has been puzzled to find out where
the corruption comes in relative to wooden
pa7ements. There is nothing which can screen
corruption from the public view as thoroughly
as wooden pavement, unless it be gas or
horse-railway ordinance. Corruption Of this
kind can ride over the people Us easily as the
people can ride over the pavement.
Year: 1872

gsged in land-grabbing, will app1aud Governor
Hawley's letter. This wholesale granting Of
lands to every company which comes in and
asks for them, is not only creating land monopo-
lies, but is involving the country in the dangers
OF financial crisis by locking up vast amounts
of capital in unproductive enterprises. Tho
remedy for this evil is suggested
very conciaely by Governor Haw1ey: 1T am
utterly opposed to further land grants to rail-
roadH would not grant another acre." That
is the heroic remedy for choking OF these
corporations, and it can be applied without in
Justice to any one. As long as roads were con-
structed IN the interests OF poor men, there Was
sufficient reason for land grants, but the grant


ing Of lands now is in tho direct interest OF hugo
monopolics and speculative enterprises,
which are simply plundering the Gov
ernnent and despoiling the people to enrich
themselves, without comforting any substantial
benefit IN return. We have gone too fast in
building railroads, and it is now time to stop.
We have more railroads through unsettled terri
tory than there will be any use for in dozen
years to come More lands hayo been opened
up than can be settled in ten years. The crops
which are raised On the lands already settled are
larger than can be sold at profit. There is no
good and substantial reason why another acre Of
land should bo given away to railroad
corporation. When the railroads Of the country
become unable to conduct it's exchanges, and
the supply Of land shows signs Of failure to
meet the demands Of settlers, then it will be
time to talk about building more railroads in
the prairie-dog country. Under any other cir
cumstances land grant is simply gift With
out equivalent, useless and wanton waste Of
the peoples property, either for corruption or to
increase the power of grinding mo-
nopo1y. 1t is very comforting, from
patriotic point Of view, to be
assured hy Congressional g1and1oquence
that Westward the Star Of Empire takes lt5' "r3y
that this land OF progress and Development /
and that all the world is focdng to our sto1ee !
to populate the great Vest ami Southwest, but
Just at present we have got more lands opened
up then settlers to occupy them, and more rail-
roads than there is any use for, so that the Star
oKEmpire can afford to halt awhile until popu-
lation catches up with it, and Congressman can
afford to adopt Governor HaW1eys determina-
ton not to give another acre to q rai1road cor
poration, and thus choke them all of at once.
Year: 1872

disposed to take an unfair advantage. The
only recommendation to be made, in such
cases, must be to play with no one whose
sense OF honor would not totally forbid his
committing or attempting breach of fair
play.
Year: 1872

Reflect that a sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubisl
happiness. Indeed, without these the journey
th4pough unpp life becomes weary pilgrimage the
prospect hourly darkens to the view. the mlnd
becomes shadowed with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that tue happiness OF
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1872

required of him for one hundred pounds,


which was paid him in advance. Sadlier


had confidential butler, who had known
him in his infancy, and to him he devel-
oped his position and his intentions. He
sent him out to neighboring apotheca-
ry's for bottle of laudanum, which he
put in his pocket. Partaking Of his sup
per rs usual, he ordered cab, and order
cd to be driven to Hampstead Road, not
far from Hampstead Heath. Here he got
out and gave out that he was going to the
Spaniards' Hotel, which he was frequent
ly in the habit of visiting. AT five O'Clock
next morning dead body was found on
the Heath. 1t was we'll dressed, and
letter was found in the deceased's pocket,
in which the cause of his committing sui
eide was stated. The butler having been
particularly instructed how to act, was
on the heath when the discovery was
made known, and announcing that it was
the dead body of his master, took charge
Of it. a formal inquest was held-the
body sworn to by the butler and the doc
tor, and the resurrectionist bribed to sill
ence, which he never broke.


When Sadlicr left his house for the
last time that evening, he called on his
mistress, gave her five thousand pounds,
and told her she would never see him
again. There We're some skcptical enough
to believe that John Sadlicr had not COM
mtted suicide, but il was the almost uni
versol belief that John Sadher-whose
frauds in issuing the forged certificates of
shares, and who had applied nearly the
whole of the capital of the Tipperary
bank to his own use, and which caused 1t
Immediately after to suspend, causing an
immense amount of misery in the county
would never be heard of more. In the
beginning of last June, gentleman
named Lancaster Bridge, residing in
Roscrea, in the county of Tipperary, who
had been large shareholder in the bro
ken bank, took pleasure tour for the
benefit of his health. As he was seated
at the table d'hote of the hotel in Az
ranches, he saw John Sadlicr at the other
end Of the table. lie was greatly alter
ed, but there was no mistake about the
man. He discovered that Sadlier was re-
siding at small village in the suburbs
of Avranches. lie telegraphed full par
ticulars to the police in Dublin, and n de-
tective was sent over to France.


The eXtradition treaty between France
and England soon enabled the detective |
to go through the necessary tormality of
taking the prisoner TO Ireland. He in
formed the detective that he had wander
ed over every part of the habitable globe
during the last eighteen years, that he
was almost glad he was arrested, for he
had known nothing but misery since the
crime he had committed.
Year: 1872

THE old rope ladder arrangement for
the use Of elopers seems like very prim-
tive apparatus in this inventive age, and
SO a youth in Virginia lately attempted
TO use a rope and pulley to let his lady
love down from her chamber window.
No doubt this might have worked admir-
ably had not the enraged parent suddenly
appeared on the scene, and hooking the
apparatus into the young mans waist
band, hoisted him into the air, whore he
left him dangling till morning. This
was a serious drawback.
Year: 1872

THE average age Of farmers is sixty
five years, while that Of printers is about
thirty-three, which shows the necessity OF
prompt payments to the latter, so that
they may have the pleasure OF handling
their own money during their short So
journ on this subunary sphere.
Year: 1872

They have new way Of getting up
surprise parties. A person receives an
anonymous letter, stating that a surprise
party will be with him on n certain even
ing. lie prepares for it. Nobody comes
and the surprise is is complete.
Year: 1872

THE following is an alarming evidence
Of the progress of the Photographic art
A lady, last week had her likeness taken
by photographer; and he executed it so
well that her husband prefers it to the
original.
Year: 1872

CELERY AS A NERvINE.-1 have known many
men, and women too, who, from various causes,
had become SO much affected with nervousness
that when they stretched out their hands they
shook like aspen leaves on windy days and by y
daily moderate use of the blanched foot stalks Of
The celery leaves salad, they became strong
and steady in limb as other rpeople: have known
Others SO very nervous that the least annoyance
put them in a state of agitation, who were in al
most constant perpleXity and fear, and who were
efiectually cured 10y daily moderate use OF
hlanched celery n salad at meal times. l have
known other cured by using celery for palpiia-
tion of the heart-(Cor. Practical Farmer.
Year: 1872

The Radicals have so mixed up things in Lou
isiana that the judges Of the Supreme Court have
a difficulty in deciding who is the Governor of
the State The only men who are competent to
govern the Southern States properly, the Federal
Government has assisted to prevent doing So If
the South is not ruined by the Radicals and their
negro allies it will not be for the want of bad
government.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Coltax has not yet, it seems, fully deter
mined to resign the Vicc-Presidcncy and accept
the editorial chair of the tribune AT 100000 a
year. Whether the offer Of that sum was ever
made him is even doubtful. No doubt a number
of the stockholders desire to have the Tribune
again assume the lead in the Radical party; and
the Colfax arrangement is for this purpose.
Year: 1872

While dozen or more boys at Holland Patent, Oneida County, were engaged playing hide and seek, Johnny Them as, aged eight years, while running over a vacant lot seeking hiding place, and whiie accidentally passing over an open well covered with a snow drift, broke through and fell to the bottom. The we'll is about fifteen feet deep, and has Q depth of water of five to six feet. His own version, which he freely gives, is most strange. He says when he fell through, he thought he was sinking into an old cellar of which he knew but upon being submerged in water, imagined that he was in creek or pond, and was great ly confused as he felt the water close over his head, but realized that he was rapid ly rising, until his head was above the water. He then reached cut his hands and could, with ease, sustain himself in this position and breathe-his hands clinging to the wall, all but his head still submerged. Here he began his recon noisance of the surroundings and chances of escape, and came to the conclusion, though in total darkness, that he was in we'll, and at once began the perilous as- cent. The we'll is of usual size, and has too large a circumference for the little ones spread of limb to enable him to adopt the usual method of bracing from opposite sides of the circle, and he was obliged to use portion only of the circle, for the purpose of making the slow and dangerous ascent. He says he "climbed as if he was going up 8 ladder" and after he had made considerable progress that he reached point where he could find no place in the wall for his feet and hands, and nearly despaired in view of again falling into the dreaded depths, Here, as he expressed it in his own and more fitting speech, the love of life, home and kindred came to his rescue, which, to- gether with little rest, enabled him to make more vigorous exertions, finally bringing him to the surface in safety and entirely uninjured. During all this time he had not been missed by his mates, and the first intimation of his perilous adven- ture was narrated by himself at home, whither he had at once repaired Ia dis tance of some eighty rods) minus his cap, which was fished out of the well the next morning. His escape is regarded by all as most marvellous, when in addition to the conditions that have been stated, it is seen that he was obliged to emerge through the small aperture in the snow drift through which he had fallen, quite distance above the surface of the we'll Utica Obseruer.