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Year: 1871

A New VERSION OF AN OLD STORY
l commenced being good at very
early age, and built myself up on the
best models. [ was yet an infant when
/ read the affecting story of hacking
down the cherry tree by George Wash
ington, and his manly statement to his
father that he could not tell lie [
read the story, and it filed me with
desire to surpass him. / was not going
to allow any such boy as George Wash
ington, if he did afterward get to be
President, to excel me in the mortah-
ties. Immediately [ seized an axe, and
cut down the most valuable cherry tree
my father had; and more, ] dug up the
roots and burned the branches, SO that
by no means could the variety be pro-
duced, and ] went skating one Sunday,
SO that [ might confess the two faults,
| and be wept over and forgiven on account
of my extreme truthfulness The exper-
iments were, I regret to say, partial
failures. / was very much like Wash
ington, but The trouble was my father
did not resemble George Washington's
father, which was essential to the sue
cess of my scheme. "Did you cut
down the cherry tree?" asked he.
'sFather, [ cannot tell a lie. I did it
with my little hatchet,n [ answered,
striking the proper attitude for the old
gentleman to shed tears on me. But
he didn't shed. He remarked that he
had rather I had told a thousand lies
than to have me cut down that partic
ular tree, and he whipped me till [ was
in state of exasperated rawness. My
skating idea was no less a failure; [
broke through the ice that Sunday and
was pulled out with difficulty a
boat hook. AS lay sick for a month
with fever, [ didn't get chance to
get off the Washington remark.-0furk
1t00io.


MONTANA WONDERS. The following
items pertaining to Montana, are from
the Pick and Plow: A species of the
suger maple is found in the canons of
Montana, and it has been ascertained
that it's his sap isa sstrongly saccharine
as the sap of the eastern sugar maple.
Many have seen and admired the
rock globes found on the Cannon Ball
river, which empties in to the Missouri
river. They are perfect spheres, vary
ing in size from marbles to many pounds
weight. Broken open, the centre is
found to closely resemble iron ore, and
theyz.give forth an unmistakable metallic
ring when struck wit hammer. An
other stream has been found in eastern
Montana in which these wonders
abound. The popular notion oftheir
formation is that they are the reault c.
descending lava, which has been thrown
up to an immense height by volanic
convulsions-th same physical law
acting that is applied in the manufac-
ture of shot.


The country about the Great Geysers
of the Upper Yellowstone is filed with
congars, or mountain ions-next to the
grizzly the most dangerous and feroc-
ious animals of North America. They
burrow in the earth, but will climb
trees with the agility of a timber squir-
rel, and run fast enough to capture the
mountain hare in a fair race.
Year: 1871

Luther Cross, Esq, Of Montpelier,
Vermont, furnishes the Argus, Of that
place, the following receipt 4or the
cure of dropsy take cinder from a
blacksmith's shop, aud beat it fiue, sift
it, to take out the coarse particles, mix
the fine cioder in a pint Of honey until
it is stiff enough to lie on the point Of
case knife, not hard like pills; give
the patient as much as will lie on the
point of case Knife, three times day
morning, noon add night. This mix
ture is very purgative, and will cause
the patient to discharge great quantities
of water both pargatiyely and BY urine.
The portion may be given according to
the operation; if the portion named
above appears to be too severe, give
less, If Il is not enough give more and
continue until the swelling is gone


The patient may cat aoy diet but milk,
Of which not a drop should be taken.
No other kind OF medicine should be
taken while using the above" Mr..
Cross says Isl have known several
persons who we're cured of that dread
full disease by using the above mixture.
Year: 1871

PLEA FROM rnB SoUrH.-We give a hope
ful appeal for Conservative aid to the South
at the coming Presidential! election. We are
promised os Electoral votes, If the North aud
West will add 6l to the number, which, to-
gether, will secure the choice of Conserva-
tive President. No one at the South now IA
vors secession or slavery. No one desires to
disturb the Government in its rights, or to
obstruct the laws, and why, is clearly and
fairly set forth in the appeal of our friends at
Mobile. We endorse the appeal with all our
heart, and wish it may end acceptance in all
parts of the country.
Year: 1871

climb up the point of the steeple
and sit astride of the ball. / prom
ised him $40 more if he would ex-
elude everybody from the steeple
for the week. Once safely astride
the ball, 300 feet from the earth, ]
made myself comfortable with the
thought that 1 had Gum at a dis
advantage, and I determined to beat
him finally, if I had to stay there
month. About an hour afterwards
and while 1 was looking at the su-
perb view Of the west, l heard a rust
ling around on the other side Of the
steeple. 1 looked around, and there
was Benjamin P. Gum, creeping up
the side of the spire, a ballon, in
which was the doctor and the tabu-
lar estimates of the losses to his
company from the Tontine system
AS soon as Gum reached the bal
he threw out his graphing iron into
the shingles of the steeple, and asked
me at what age my father had died,



and if any Of my aunts ever had died
of consumption or liver complaint.


Without waiting to reply, 1 slid
down the steeple to the ground and
took the first train to the Mississip-
pi Valley. In two weeks I was in
Mexico. 1 determined to go to the
interior and seek some Wild spot, in
some elevated region, where no Gum
would ever dare come. 1 got on a
mule, and paid a guide to lead me
to the summit of Popocatapel. We
arrived at the foot of the mountain
at noon. We toiled upward fol
about three or four hours. Before
reaching the top, l heard the sound
of voices, and, upon rounding a
point os rocks, who should I see
but Benjamin P. Gum, seated on the
verge of the crater, explaining the
endowment plan to his guide, and
stuT efying him with a mortality
table, while the doctor had the Other
guide few yards of, examining him
to see if he was healthy! Mr.. Gunr
rose and said he was glad to see me
because we could now talk over tha'
business about the policy, withou
fear of interruption. In paroxysn
of rage, I pushed him backward int
the crater, and he fell a thousanC
feet below with a heavy thud. A
he struck the bottom, I heard I
voice screaming out something
about ''none-forfeiture," but therl
was a sudden convulsion of tn,
mountain, cloud of smoke, and
heard no more.


1 know it was wrong, l know
had no right to kill Gum in tina
manner; but he forced me to do i
in self-defense, and 1 hope his awfu
fate will be warning to othe
insurance agents who remain among
us.
Year: 1871

Some rival Of Josh Billings tries
his hand as follows:


The proper time to pull hemp is on
any Friday a Judge may select.


Ifvou want to lay in a supply of
old wine, be sure to make it Of elder
berries.


Castor oil beans succeed best in
the bowels of the earth. They will
soon work their way out.


The best preparation for hops is a
toad or two in each hill. They viii
make the vines fairly jump.


In reaping wheat, never take it bv
the beard. 1t is found to go against
the grain.


In making cider out of apples I
found it pretty tight squeeze, not
withstanding my long connection
with the press.


Never drink cider from crab an
pies. 1t is pretty sure to $50 back
on you."


The usual time to put in rye is
early in the morning. Some hus-
bandmen, especially those in cities,
continue to run it in at intervals Of
half an hour until bed time. The
practice is only allowable in case ot
a dry season.


To be certain Of the sort of SQUASH
es, compare them with your head
In adopting this rule, first mis-
took the pumpkins for squashes
but by continued careful Comparison
l soon was able to detect the differ
ence. But for some new beginner
J It requires great caution,
Year: 1871

When a clown follows the will-of-


the-wisp to his discontinue, we
blame the foolish man, and not the


misguiding light. And so, if men
will be so vain and unthinking as to
imagine that every pleasant beauty
admires them because she Vouch-
safes to chat, whose fault is it when
the presumptuous lover is informed
with cold politeness that his posi-
ton is that of friend only? The
real mistake consists in coneeiving
of nothing between the sexes but
love. People rush into the error
that a woman must be either dis
courteous to man or in love with
him; the possibility of her entertain
ing a proper and healthy friendship
for fifty of the opposite sex nevel
seems to strike the world. Now th,
so-called lirt is eminently free from
all the charges that are usually al
legged against her. She is open an,
undisguised, Her afability is know
Year: 1871

Philadelphia, according to the fol
lowing, which is from the Dispatch
of that city, is infested with a very
intrusive and persistent set of life
insurance agents who when they get
hold of a subject, poster him almost
l.
Year: 1871

OudHT TO BE MORE CAREFUL. Burnt
children should dread the fire, but our
peighbor seems to be of the salamander kind
In his issue of Thursday, he reiterates an
exploded lie on Senator Casserly about the
Preside lands in San Francisco, and rings
in Governor Haight's name because, we
suppose, Haight beat his filthy Gorham lob
by crew, in 1867 The telegraph first sta
ted that Axtell Yves the author of the Pre-
sidio bill, and lastly that it come from the
House committee on Public Lands. Cas-
serly is in the Senate where the bill never
appeared or was spoken Of We are 10th
to believe our neighbor as ignorant Or vicious
rs this item would prove him to be, but if
he gave it to the public through ignorance
he will retract it and apologize for it, and if
from the other cause he will let the false
hood 60 unretracted. We shall see from
which cause the stem emenated.
Year: 1871

Assessor Myers informs US that he
will have deputy at the court house
during the citing of the County Court
(next week. for the accomm odatiou Of
persons who have not given 10 list Of
their property.
Year: 1871

u For The convenience of those interested,
we publish this week, and will continue to pub
lish hereafter. carefully compiled summary of
the Administrators Tableaux filed in the office
OF the Clerk OF the District Court, and the Sher-
itf s and Successioual sales taking place in our
Parish, where the reader can obtain at glance
all the information necessary, Instead of watling
through the long and numerous columns of the
newspaper designated by Warmoth & Co.. un-
der the provisions of the Printing Bill as
the official journal.


This is self-imposcd and Improbable task,
involving considerable trouble aud labor. but
we cheerfully assume it in the hope of its being
OF some service to our readers.
Year: 1871

What solemn and painful thing it is
to watch those who are striving In their
own weak strength to sbreak bad habits,
Oh, how willing should we offer any
word of comfort or cheer to such per-
sons. We never can know tie terrible
efforts. which are made to conquer, iin.
less we have gone throagh such .stri.
wings for the mastery. To those who
are wrestling Thus with evil habits we
would say strive on, know no such
word as fail, and if you win but look
to Him who is the help of the helpless,
you will surely find real strength. II
may be weak at FIRST, you may even, fail
again and again, but strive on, always
looking and asking i'm honesty of lieari
for help. and you viii surely obtain it


Away with vain promises and act al
once. Oh, you never can know what q
glorious feeling one has when entirely
free from any evil habit either Of mind
or Of action. i3s5sasj e.f s@15 H9fe
Year: 1871

( ETThe Superior Court OF Cincinnati
has decided that a wife has i vested
right in her husbands society and COM
panionship, and can maintain an action
for damages for the loss thereof. While
one would suppose that the society Of
q man who voluntarily absented himself
from bis wife could not be worth mich
to her, according to this court, those
who entice away and harbor any such
recreant husband are liable to the wife
for all damages.
Year: 1871

From the New orleans Times. fNf


As VIC were Thursday evening passing
the first precinct station, we were at
tracted by some one singing Sweet
heart Comm Home" and stepping in.
side, saw in one Of the cells a woman
quite young and pretty, in a sort OF
bloated way-dressed in faded red cal
leo dress, suggestive Of bleariness and
ruin, red faded shawl wrapped half
around her, with face frightened into a
weary, lost look--so lost and dead.
Well, what's the matter with your
She looked up-from the matted, I'M
combed tresses Of her tangled hair, from
the wistful glance Of her red, sodden
eyes, from the haggard misery Of her
whitened face, and answered; Moth
ing but the baby, and from the inmost
recesses OF her polluted breast, from the
lost, dead virtue of her sinful bosom,
from the farthest depths Of her broken
heart, she pulled forth what to us was
only bundle Of a shawl-dirty, torn
and draggled-this, with frightened
look in her eyes, she unwrapped care
fully, fearfully, as if the speck of hu-
manity sheltered there should be lost
fearfuily, tremblingly, as if its loss
would be hers forever.


The baby what misnomer in
such a placel-a wee speck sleeping
calmly wrapped in q filthy rag-per-
chance the wages of sin and death, but


it was hers, hers for life and death with
just fringe of hair on its head, with
fair white skin, in such a cold, dreary
place; aye, and it was all in all" the
baby" We turned to the clerk. Her
charger Drunk" And we passed
out from the damp walls and foul, stale
smell of that bitter place-from the rigid
iron bars binding love and sin even to
life and death-from a hard, weary bed
on stone floor. While many mothers
throughout all our broad city slept
snugly and well in love and faith, know
ing home and comfort and friends, this
one only-only Of them all-drunken,
sinful and haggard knew only the
baby aS gd LssT.
Year: 1871

TpHE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY INFORMED
and Bale all cotton brought or sent to us for
seven dollars per bale. we furnishing the bag
ging and ties. and covering the bale all over,
LONGING 10 the bale. Tor If the owner
desires US TO keep the cotton seed be-
longing to the bale Of cotton as part
payment, we will gin and bale furnishing
for two dollars per bale. and the cotton seed
belonging to the bale of cotton.


81. Ql GEO. ". PAYNE 4 co.
Year: 1871

The only bright spot in all the valley
was the yellow circle made by the watch
mans lantern in the coal shed. .5-..4


After leaving the ''cboppings," Monk
threaded his way through The forest, COM
ing out at last on the open road. This
road led directly over the .Deyil's
Head" and entered the valley by a
steep descent half mile 10 the south -
At the precipice Monk paused. The
wind eddied with mournful vail, and
the constant motion of tall trees gave
the scene almost the wavering, unsub-
stantial appearance of a vision There
was something oppressive in this strange
midnight twilight, but Monk did not feel
it. He only felt relief, inexpressible ie
lief; he only stopped there to breath, TO
breathe freely once more with the heavy
weight thrown from him. After a mo.
ment he ran carelessly down the hill,
passed under the ore cars and into the
coal she'd He hailed Patterson, the
watchman, and the lantern threw gigan-
tic shadows of the two men over the
ground Then he walked along the mar
row cinder-road to the bridge over the
creek Sometimes the willows, that
grew on either side, swept their damp
hair against his face An hour ago lie
would have started convulsiveIy-now
he needed not, for he was free and light
of heart


Monk reached the stairs, and ascended
to his room AS he passed in the pow
erful figure of ShiRet sprang upon him
from behind. There was scuffie,. some
mUttered oaths, and then heavy fall
Moak lay stretched upon the floor mo
tionless, lifelesS, and the echo of fleeing
steps died away, leaving the place still
as the now silent deaM ,catch.
Year: 1871

subject of Mr.. Catacazy's recall is that the
President has agreed to "tolerate" him until
after the Grand Dukes visit when he must
be recalled, or he will have his passports sent
to him. This is bad enough, but the silent
man of the White House declares that under
no circumstances will he speak to the Russian
Minister. This will make it awkward for
all concerned when young Alexis goes to
Washington as tho Minister naturally would
expect to take prominent position. Hap
PLY, however, we have precedent for
the etiquette needed when the Republic
has a royal visitor, and precedent is
great thing. So the naval salute will be
fired constructively for the Russian Admiral
with the Grand Dukes feet, and the young
scion of royalty will be conducted to the
Presidents parlor by oircuitous route which
precedent and diplomacy have combined to
provide, leaving Mr. Catacazy outside the line
of red tape. This is all designed to preserve
unimpaired the traditiOnally intimate relations
which exist between Russia and the United
States, but it is plain that the Grand Dukes
enjoyment will not begin until he is taken in
! hand by the Knickerbockers
Year: 1871

If Gen. Buffers further political exertions in Mas
sachusetts this FALL devoted to the election of
an economical Legislature, nobody will find fault
with him whose is entitled to any consdera-
ton. If no public money has been fooishly spent
in that State, and if nobody has there picked and
stolen from the treasury through the opportunities
of official position, and if there have been private
axes ground the legislative wheels, then Massa-
chusetts has been luckier than some Of her neigh
bors. Gen. Butler may not be very comfortable
member of the party in which he avows his fixed in
tention Of remaining, but he may yet be useful one
We have no doubt that his financial exhibit with
his statement of the State expenditures far from
being fair but at the same time, If there was any
truth in it, we advise the Massachusetts, Republicans
to take the same to heart How many political
leeches are hanging like barnacles upon the Repub
lican party in Massachusetts,, we have no means OF
knowing; but should they be dislodged by Gen.
Butler body else. they must not expect US to
CRY for them,
Year: 1871

The citizens of Webster parish, Louisiana,
In view Of the fact that their taxes and their
public debts seemed to be increasing In equal
and alarming ratio, recently held meeting
to consider the situation. They met at Min
den, where every place OF business was closed
to swell their numbers. They chose Presi-
dent and fourteen Vice-Presidents, whereof
five were negroes. All parties were repre-
sented, and Whites and Blacks alternately
addressed the meeting. On the report OF o
Committee of Sixteen, they unanimously re-
solved that politics and party ascendency
could not be relied On-that they should be
ignored altogether, and tho voters all brought
to act as unit on this platform:


First: Ignoring altogether Federal politics.


Second The elevation Of the moral standard Of ocial
action by the election Of honost and competent men,


Third: The most rigorous economy In the expenditure
OF the public moneys consistent with the dignity Oh tne
State.


Fourth The passage Of laws adequate to the punish
ment OF peculaton and fraud committed by the servants
Of the people.


FIN The protection Of tho citizen, without regard to
color or opinion In tho free exercise Of bis civil and
political rights and the abrogation OF all laws whicn
,hvsrt the will Of tho people BY giving tho manipua-
ton OF the baobox to the individuals whose personal
interests are staked upon the declared result


Srh; The repeal of all laws intended to serve the pur
poses OF political parties by comforting mOnopoes OF
public patronage; and the abolition OF all onces not
necessary to the efficient administration Of public affairs


Seventh: Such distribution Of the offices In the state
AZ will satisfy all men that our only objects are those
herein set FORTH


We guess that this movement will win,
not merely in Webster. but in a great many
other parishes as well. o that we could feel
like assurance with regard to this most
abused and plundered City of New-York
Year: 1871

Those WHO imagined that peace and settled
government would come to Spain in the suite
of the young Italian King have already had
occasion to change this fancy. The policy of
personal intrigue, which was the only founda-
tion of political action in the reign of Isabel
Segunda, has been revived by the atmosphere
of q genuine court into a life and activity
which it did not know in the time of the in
terregnum. During the two years in which
Serrano was Regent and Prim was the real
ruler of Spain there was better and stronger
Government than had existed for many years
before. Yet even then the advocates of
the monarchy insisted upon it that the
country was perishing for the want


o King, and that the new Constitution
Only wanted that final spring to march with
out further haltng. q All the old parties agreed
upon this; the only point where they differed
was who should name the King and bring
him home. When at last this was accomplished
by coalition Of all the monarchical parties,
excepting of course those devoted to the
Bourbon families, the young Duke of Aosta
came in with the most fsttering prospects for
a tranquil reign. At the very moment of his
landing the able soldier and politician to
whom he owed his crown fell by the hand Of
the assassin, and thus relieved the youthful
monarch from that oppressive and powerful
Year: 1871

The Chicago Euening Journal is the news
paper which professed to give an account of
President Grants alleged declaration, in Chi
cago conversation, that he would stand by
Thomas Murphy through thick and thin. AS
The Journal contrives in the course of
the short article making this statement
D furnish the remarkable information that
Collector Murphy was never identified with
either wing of the Republican party in this
State, that THE TRIBUNE was friendly to him
when ho was appointed, that it has now con-
Quoted open warfare upon him for several
months, and been engaged for that length of
time in exposing his record, and that it has made
no specific charges against him, we do not see
that surprise need be excited at any other
wonderful story it may choose to tell. But
we shall not do the President the injustice to
believe anything against him on the authority
of a journal 80 manifestly incapable OF
accuracy.