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Year: 1872

in the debate in the House of Lords
on the 22d ult., concerning the Wash =
ington Treaty, Earl of Derby rose
and desired to know how the govern
ment intended to proceed in the treat
ment of the treaty. Earl of Granville
replied on the part Of the administra-
ton, and the sum and substance may
be summed up ih courteous refusal
Oh his part to say what the govern
ment was going to do about il. What
course the Ministry meant to pursue
with regard to the presentation of the
counter case at Geneva was not even
referred to. The press is undecided
in its opinions, of the reserve, or Sc
crecy, Of ths government in the mat
ter. Endorsed by some as wise and
by others as lacking decision, the
course of Mr.. Gladstone and his Cabi-
nent is the subject of much adverse
and but little favorable criticism.
Year: 1872

AS the trials of life thieken, and
the dreams Of Others fade one by one
into the deep vista of disappointed
hope, the heart grows weary of the
struggle, and we begin to realize our
insignificanee. Those who have
climbed to the pinnacle of fame or
revel in luxury and wealth, go to the
grave at last with the poor mendicant
who begs by the wayside, and like
him are soon forgotten. Generation
after generation have felt as we feel,
and their fellows are as active in life
as ours are now. They passed away
as vapor, while nature wore the same
aspect of beauty as when the Creator
commanded her to be. And so IL
shall be when we are gone. The
heavens will be as bright over our
grave as they are now around our
path. The world will have the same
attraction for ofsprings yet unborn
that It had once for ourselves, and
that It has now for our children.
Year: 1872




The legislature at Columbus has be-
fore it two bills. the object of which is
to provide for the vacating of roads
and ways opened by private persons
and occupied for a period for public
use. One of these is a House bill,
providing that when a road has been,
or shall be dedicated by private per-
sons to public use, majority in inter
est of the proprietors of lands lying
upon said road may, after giving thir-
ty days notice by proper advertising,
petition the county commissioners for
the vacation of said road, and the
commissioners shall have the power
to determine and declare the road va
Gated. And the same bill further pro-
vides for the direct and immediate
closing of cross roads connecting
main roads which intersect each 9TH
eT, in certain cases, by any party own
ing land through which the said road
runs. The second bill having the
same general object, is a Senate
amendment to the act for the opening,
widening and improving Of streets
and highways, providing that the
question Of damages may be taken
into consideration for the alteration
or vacation, as we'll as for the opening
of streets aud roads, and assessment
made upon the property benefited.
This latter amendatory bill was passed
by the Senate on Thursday, and will
doubtless become a part of the i'm
prOvement bill which has lately be-
come law. 1t is sometimes as i'm
pOrtant for the proper improvement
of locality to have badly arranged
streets and roads closed, as to have
necessary streets and roads opened I;
and we hope the Legislature will not
delay to pass one or the other of the
bills framed for this purpOse.-Ceue-
land Leader.
Year: 1872

A veteran stock raiser gives the
following as a certain cure for hoof rot
in cattle, horses or sheep: zone tea
cupful of sharp cider vinegar, one and
a half tablespoonfuls of copperas, one
and a half tablesDoonfuls of salt. Dis
solve gradually on the hot stove, but
do not let it boil. When cool, apply
it on the affected limb aud hoof, and
also swab ont the mouth of the ami
NAL with the mixture. Two or three
applications usually effect cure.
Year: 1872

Ths dog crop of the United States
Is estimated at twenty-One million
head. At $ moderate computation
each sh.snsi costs eight dollars year,
making a total Of one hundred and
sixty Eight millions Of dollars. OF
the number upwards of a hundred
thousand go mad annually, and bite
about ten thousand people. On the
on the whole the crop can not be said
to nav.
Year: 1872

A little six year old boy was asked
by his teacher to write a composition
on the subject Of water, and the fol-
lowing is the production: Water is
good to drink, to swim in, and to
skate on when frozen. When I was
a little baby nurse used to bathe me
every morning in water. I have
been told that the Injuns don't wash
themselves once IN ten years-I wish
I was an IBjun ~
Year: 1872

Ifa seaman should turn back every
time be encounters a head-Wind, he
would never make a voyage So he
whC permits himself to be baftted by
adverse circumstances, Will never
make headway in the voyage Of life.
Year: 1872

There is a place in Oregon called
the Smokey Valley, where the peO-
pie have a very curious way of cook
ing. They don't have the trouble of
making fire when they wish to get
breakfast. They just walk out with
their kettles, eOff-e-pOts, and what
ever else they need, and cook at the
boiling springs. The water seems a
great deal better than common boil
ing water, and all they need to do is
to have their kettles in it for short
time, and their food is nicely cooked.


They are able even to bake it. The
bread is put into a tight saucepan,
and lowered into the boiling flood for
an hour or two ,'and then drawn up
most exquisitely baked, with but a
thin rim on the crust over it. Meat
is cooked here, and beans, which are
the miners great luxury. 1t takes
but minute TO cook eggs, or to make
q pot of coffee or tea; but if there
should chance to be a "slip between
the cup and the lip" the food would
be gone beyond recOvery.-ErchdH0e
Year: 1872




We have just bid our tailor good
bye. Poor man, he has always been
unfortunate. DefOrmed and ill-sur-
rounded in early life, he brought to
himself the deepest curse in getting
an appetite for strong drink. Among
the boys he has always been a good
fellow,n but the other night he ur-
fortunately put himself on the wrong
side of one of our windows, and to-
day he left-and the constable. went
with him.


OF course it is weakness, but we
felt sorry with the mans sorrow, nor
do we Just now Judge those places
very harshly that have dealt too
kindly with rogues. Isn't it just as
well to judge great sins too lightly as
to Judge little sins too heavily? Do
let US sin on the other side of the
fence once in a while.
Year: 1872

1t is strange how much bettersheep
look at some times than at others.
They are really popular just now,
while but little over a year ago almost
anyone-like John RandOlph-could
have gone out of the way to kick one.
We know of men who sold sheep
last spring at low figures and bought
cows at the tallest, and this year if
chance comes they will probably
reverse the operation in every par
tieular. Many men keep themselves
poor by chasing the market. Wool,
beef, cheese. grain, have alternately
paid the highest profits, and are per-
haps about even in the long run; and
as a rule those men have done best
who have settled on that production
to which their farms are best adapted,
and have stuck 10 it. The highest
capabilities of most farms can only
be brought out by mixed farming"
and it is generally best not to go to
the utmost extreme in anything. At
least don't sell all the cows and invest
wholly in sheep before year after
next.
Year: 1872

Plenty Of experts for some purposes
are to be had in San Francisco. In
the course of a recent trial in that
city growing out of a gambling trans
action, the Judge asked eff there
was any man in the room who could
show how a cold deck was 'wrung
in in a game Of poker" Extraordi-
nary to relate, two-thirds Of the spec
tators rushed for the witness-stand;
but at that moment an officer Of the
court informed the Judge "that he
had a cold deck in his pocket" Such
a cloud of witnesses was embarrassing,
and the Court concluded not to take
testimony upon the points.
Year: 1872

We confess to a weakness for study
ing the almanac, and when the first
CHRONICLE Calendar comes out we
beg for the post of compiler. We
shall eschew all patent medicine
advertisements as We do the Father of
lies, but we shall cling to the old wood
cats. Youremember how in January
two men in a barn stood in attitudes
fearfully suggestive of. threshing,
while in February as if to confirm
any gloomy forebOdings, fax is SOL
emnly 'broke" and batcheled " be-
fore our eyes. Especially should we
insist on the picture for June, where
two men (the ever present two have
each brought a sheep down to the
bank of a stream, and sit under a
shady tree for the ostensible purpose
of shearing, although one is asleep,
and the other watches some ancient
youth who await a fish bite on the
other side. These scenes bring an
air of repose that is comforting in our
hurried age. We feel it.


CLEMENT.


In first number for burdening
process " read hardening process" :"
Year: 1872

Many men who now think they shall vote
Tor Grant are in utter ignorance as to affair.
In their own party. The last speech made
by Charles Snmner, in the Senate, previous
to the Philadslphia convention, furnishes
more information in regard to management
inside the Republican party, than any speech
ever made or any document ever Published.
Ar. Sumner is amOl z the very ablest, most
truthful and upright Republicans in the
land yet these uniformed GRANTEES have
never read that speech and know nothing
of 1t, except through the Misrepresentation
of it in some Grant paper or BY some Grant
offce-holder. We know several men, here
tofore considered well meaning men and
men of fair intelligence, who have never
read this speech of Mr.. Summers or in fact
any Of the speeches of such able and un-
blsmished Republicans as Sumner, Trum-
bull, Schurz, Brown and others OF their own
party. Why is it that they will not read
them? Are they SO stepped in bigotry and
prejudice that they do not desire to know
the truth ? Are they afraid of being con :
vinced that the Grant ring is not mauag
ing things for the best interests
of the country? We tell these
now that they cant afford to ignore the
proof placed before them by their own men .
They cant afford to remain in ignorance OF
any fact necessary for them to know in or
der to act with intelligence and patriotism
in this crisis, Are they not interested in
reforming any abuses which may exist in
the management Of public affairs? They
are not ofhce-holders, Office seekers, or gov
ernment contractors, and they ought to rise
above the bigotry, ignorance and intolerance
occasioned by party drill-mssters, and the
party whip, and inform themselves as tc
things in their own party. The speechel
made by the men we have named hav,
never been successfully aBswered-nor cal
they be. The proofs produced BY Rep1bli
cans, of the corruption of the Grant ring
cannot be refuted. Will men take pains t,
inform themselves in these mistakes? The


certainly can have no interest in rushing tt


county into corruption. They ought to bel


restore the management of public affairs t


better hands. They know that long con
tinuance in power, aud the handling oflarg
revenues breeds corruption in any party, an


that an occasional change is necessary 70
the good of all. Men of their own iait


have furnished iudiaputable evidence ths


this change is Lecesssry. Will they Ell


anime the evidence furnished by their ow


men? They cannot afford to ignore it,
Year: 1872

The conductor Of freight train on Mary
land railroad was curious enough to examine y
box OF elegant workmanship, and found plump
and healthy baby nailed up in it, The young
ster will be named after him.


Father McMahon, the Catholic priest who
accompanied the first Fenian raid into Canada,
and was captured and confined for two years in
a Canadian prison, died in Indiana a few days
ago.


A little boy, upon beirg asked by his Sunday
school teacher what good thing what great
pleasure he was willing to sacrifice during the
I,enten season, said he thought he would 'give
up going to Sunday school"


Two young men hunting on the St. Sebastian
river, near St. Augustine, Fla the other day,
proposed to sit down upon certain log to rest
but clanged their mind when they found it to
be lively young alligator.
Year: 1872

Hits Back.


From the Philadelphia Bulletin, March 1871


There is in this city very unhappy
lady, who should he hunted out and
honored hy the womens rights people.
On Saturday she brought her husband
into court to compel him TO suppor. her,
and when Ecr lord and master was
placed upon the witness stand for the
purpose OF ascertaining what lie had to
sav for himself he gave as a reason for
his misconduct that when he hit his wife
she struck back, She is said to be a
very small and very weak woman, but
she evidently has heroic soul, and the
manner in which she Wind Gated the
rights and the dignity OF her sex by
pummelinc the tyraut man as repre-
sented hv her brute ola husband, should
recommend her in hestrongest manner
TO the women who are striving for the
disenthrallment of their gender. For
our part we are exceedingly glad she did
strike back. Perhaps it was not
Christian, but a man who would first
bent his vie and then come into court
with a whimperng complaint that she
r.taliated is a kind Of animal who
ought to be kicked and cuffti frequently
and vigorously by somebody, and justice
could not supply more fitting lnstru'
ment than the abused wife. liza greater
number Of beaten wives would strike
hack a smaller number would he beaten,
for the men who indulge in these do
mestic comhats are Of necessity COW
ards of the meanest description, who
would BE- scared into a kind OF shabby
decencv of conduct by the smallest
hostile demonstration from a woman.
While we commend the retaiiatory con
duct Of the particular weaker vessel IN
Question. we venture the assertion that
when again she wishes 10 strike back,
there are very few men in the COM
mnnity who would not experience
serene pleasure if they could hold the
comnIaiping husband, or sit on him,
while his spouse battered him with a
chair or with some other formidable
weapoa.
Year: 1872

The Missouri Republican doubts
whether i. woa'd he good policy for the
Democratic National Convention to
formally indorse and adopt the Cincin-
natl nominations, but thinks that the
better plan would be to leave the whole
question to each individual Democrat.
1t saws: while it might he incon-
si-tent and even humiliating for a
Democratic National Convention to re-
nominate or adopt an avowed Republi-
can ticket, however acceptable it and
tbe accompanying platform might be,
there would he no Inconsistency nor
impropriety in every one Of the three
million individual Democrats in The
land casting his vote for that ticket
Year: 1872

From the New York world


There is no necessity fora clergyman
giving private interviews to female
parishioners or other women, either In
the vestry OF his church, his study at
home, or any other place. If he had a
reasonable sense OF delicacy, ne would
never DO it under any circumstances.
Private conferences with unattended
women in the solitude OF a church odl'
flee, vestrv, or library, are inexcusable
acts If imprudence. The conscious
rectitude of bis own intentions can not
justify them, for he has no right 10 eX-
pose either himself or his sacred profes.
sion to the license Of evil tongues.
Moreover, he should djstrust the
prudence, if not the innocence, OF a
woman so wanting in the instructive
deicacv and sensitive honor which
beautifv her sex, as TO seek interviews
with him alone, unaCcompanied by any
friend. He never need receive female
calls except at home. If he is mar,
ried, the presence Of his wife would
protect both parties; and it is not easy
TO conceive what pure woman could
wish to say to her pastor which she
ought 10 shrink from divulging to his
wife. If the clergyman is unmarried,
he, OF course, boards in some respec'a-
ble house, aud should receive an un-
attended female visitor not in his own
room, but in the oIcH parIor OF the
family, regretting the simplicity, when
he does not ds,rust the innocence, OF
women who call to see him without
an attendant
Year: 1872

We End the following in one Of our
exchanges: "A few bushels Of potatoes
would be welcome al this Office, il they
could come on subscription. We could
buy plenty here in town. Tor money,
but then-we hayn't the money.
Year: 1872

One of the greatest post Office
boons was the permission to send
seeds, gratis, plants and cuttings by
mail at the rate of two cents for
every four ounces, in quantities of
not less than four pounds. It was
thankfully accepted, and by this
means innum erable varieties of
valuable vegetable articles have been
introduced into paris of the coun-
try where railroads and express
companies failed to reach. No one
ever complained of the law that we
have heard of. It was thought that
it might operate to the disadvantage
of the express companies hut, in
the main, the parties who have
availed themselves to this acconmo-
dation would not have used the ex-
press. Besides, the matter is so
small an item in the express bust
ness that it is unlikely it would
seriously interfere with them. At
any rate, this good step in progress
is virtually repealed by the new
postal code, and the horticultural
and agricultural community feel
very indignant tLereat the more
SO, as no one can see any particular
reason why this retrograde step
should have been taken.


By the present law packages of
only twelve ounces can be mailed.
Some of the smaller kind of seeds
and roots can yet go in ihis way,
but of larger varieties not enough
can be sent to be of any service to
any one except to raise halt-dozeE
specimens for a botanic garden
and as for living vegetation, where
so much of packing material has to
be employed to preserve them fresh
and from injury by the pressure oI
other mail matter, the postal limit
will be reached before the plant is
enclosed.


Tie great topic of conversation in
rural circles just now is what inter
est, public or private, is to be served
b. this anasked and unexpected
change. But it is probably no more
than a piece of hasty legislation
adopted without rejecting much or
the. consequences, and which, il
brought to the notice of their Re
representatives. by those interested
will no doubt be remedied mex
session.-The Gardeners Monthh.
Year: 1872

The fire is progressing towards
Broad street, having swept both
sides of Summer street to High street
and Purchase street. Goods are be-
ing removed from stores in every
direction in the vicinity of the fire.
Fire engines have been telegraphed
for from Providence, Worcester and
other places.
Year: 1872

One Henry Goodspeed, doing bust
ness at Manchester, town situated in
the southwest portion of Washtenaw
county, has failed and made an assign.
ment for the benefit of his creditors
His liabilities are stated to be something
over the snug little sum of One Hundred
Thousand Dollars. La consequence of
this failure it is said that several other
business men will have to suspend be
cause the man Goodspeed owed them
large sums of money, without which
they will be unable to continue business.
There are quite too many of such scoun-
drelly failures by which communities
are made to suffer. 1t is but few days
since the men engaged in getting up
the wheat corner" at Chicago went by
the board, and carried with themselves
scores of country produce dealers who
mad sent forward large quantities of
wheat with the confident expectation of
receiving their pay so as to be prepared
to discharge their own liabilities but
falling TO receive their pay for the wheat
sent to the Chicago operators, no aiterna-
tive was left them but to close business
and make the best arrangement they
could with their creditors, who were their
own neighborS. Such transactions are,
in nearly every case, the result of a we'll
conceived and well digested scheme Of
rascality deliberately entered into and
executed for the purpose of robbing the
poorer but confding tradosman of his
hard earned gains.


If farmers and small dealers would
insist Oh the pay for their wheat and
other produce, such failures as those re.
ferred to would not so vitality affect the
producer and small dealers as they do.
Wheat is just as good as gold, and no
reason exists for parting with it on terms
different from those required when one
parts with his gold-cash down or good
security.
Year: 1872

colored vote of the country in the same
interest might, in view of the Republi.
can origin of that vote, be ftly termed
sort OF subornation of ingratitude.-
But when we consider that if, by that
diversion, Greeley and Brown should be
elected and the Democracy restored to
power, the probable sequence would be
the deprivation of that vote, then this
endeavor of the Liberal Republicans be-
comes crime against humanity some.
what difficult to characterize. We might
call it treason if we did not think, with
the elder Brutus, that treason would be
too mild term for it. For, to


- "dIrect the dagger


That our foiled tongue refuses it a name y


But we shall not entertain any fore
podlngS OF that nature. We are con.
hdent that colored voters will never
play SO suicidal part that they will
prove true to that party which has been
true to them and that the friends of
freedom and equality, both white and
black, will labor together SO earnestly
as to secure, on the 9th day of next
November, the triumph of that ticket
which bears the honored names of GR,Nr
and WILSON.
Year: 1872

would not put in peril much that was
gained in the war, if we would have every
citizen protected in all his rights, if we
would most surely promote the well.
being of those who deserve encourage
ment, if we would do what is best to
make our country the home of law abid-
ing freemen. President Grant must be
reelected, and the Republican party
must be allowed to perfect the work it
has so well begun "
Year: 1872

Ina recent letter, Senator Brownlow,
of Tennessee, says cat no time,
hitherto, in Tennessee or throughout
the country, have the prospects of the
National Republican party been brighter
and more glorious than now. Victory
is in the air, as the New York Tribune
said before the North Carolina election,
and the glorious Republican victory
which was in the North Carolina air per-
vades the atmosphere in all parts of the
country | have no idea that Greeley
and Brown will carry more than five or
seven States, aud the corrupt coalition
which brought about their candidacy
will be more disgracefulIy beaten than
has ever been any party in the history
of this country. Our grand old party
could beat the Ku Klux Democracy if
it were reinforced by 40 times the Gree
ley apostates who rally to its piratical
flag"