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Year: 1871

The Canton Citi-en, in an editorial on the
death OF Lieutenant Governor Dunn, falls
into the error Of stating that he placed his
house in mourning for Robert Z. Lee. This
is mistake which Governor Dunn au-
thorized the writer Of this paragraph to
correct long ago. The Citizen says:


This person, the most remarkable co!ored
man who has figured in the SOnth since the
war, is dead The people of Louisiana
seemed to have higher regard tor him and
his character than for any of the horde of
office holders that have afflicted that un-
fortunate commonwealth the last six years.
Dunn was a lover of his race in the best
sense of the word He desired to see them
virtuous. educated, genteel and peaceful.
His own dignifed and gentlemanly conduct
had commended itself to the respect of all
true gentlemen, although Dunn was an in
tense Republican.


His conduct in placing his house in
mourning for Robert +. Lee, and his
reasons asst gned therefor, showed him to
be man Of gOOG heart and of high moral
tone. He said he admired General Lee as
a man, and that he had regard for the feel
ings and sentiments of the whites among
whom he lived and whom he assisted to
govern, and that although opposed to Lee
and his followers as politician he would
not be found wan ting in appreciation of the
noble virtues OF the man, nor would he add
one pang of sorrow to those already felt bv
his sorrowing fellow citizens of the white
race.


II we must have colored men in high
omcial position, may God grant they may
% IKE Dunn. ReQuieseat in pace.
Year: 1871




HANNIBAL, Mo. November %. - The
steamer Andy johnson, of the keokn!1
Packet Company's line. left this city abont
three o'clock this afternoon on her upward
trip. and when about seven miles above
here struck a snag and sunk in six feet of
water. The shock was very slight and at
first it was supposed that she had merely
struck cake OF ice; but upon going into
the hold it was discovered that large hole
had been made near the stern. aud that she
was rapidly filling, and before anything
could be done the steamer sank to her
guards.


The clerk, John HalIett, and FIVE of the
crew reached here in a yawl about seven
o'clock this evening, wet and nearly frozen.
they report the boat as lying straight with
the current, the water running nearly over
half of the lower deck, but with her bow
headed up stream and still above water,
and it is thonght that she can be easily
raised If the ice does not become too heavy.
The Andy had a light cargo of miscellaneous
freight, with good list Of passengers in the
cabin, who will be compelled to take their
chances on the sunken boat until steamer
arrives. Mr.. Hallett left here for ST. Louis
on the evening train.
Year: 1871

A scene. as disgraceful to the present
state Of the law as it is shocking to human
ity, occurred i'll the Supreme Court, Brook
lyn, two days ago. A husband sued for
divorce on the ground of the adultery of
his wife. The case was referred, and the
referee, n default of the appearance of the
wife, reported i'll favor OF the husband y
application. The court confirmed the re-
port, and the child, the only issue of the
marriage, boy over seven wears of age.
was brought before Judge Gilbert on a writ
of habeas corpus. His mother, in whose
care he had been ever since the separation
OF his parents (which took place when he
was but eighteen months old, accompanied
him. The judge told the child he must go
with his father. Thereupon the poor little
fellow set up the most piteOus cries, and
clung to his mothers side, declaring he
would uever leave her. One of the officers
sought to seize him. but he ran from him
about the court room screaming in the most
heart-rending manner, the mother mean
while imploring the judge to spare her and
her son the horror of such separation.
Nothing. however, availed, and the wretched
little victim was finally captured and borne
from the presence Of the sympathizing spec
tators, uttering the most piercing shrieks,
while the ag0nized mother fell tainting to
the floor. We tiatter ourselves that we are
in the midst OF a Christian and enlightened
era, ana that the barbarities of the middle
ages are among the wrecks of the past, but
this dreadful scene assures us that the law
is still capable Of perpetrating enormities
for which The times of Jeffreys alone afford
an adequate parallel.
Year: 1871

The sales of the market revenues for the
next month, which were advertised to be
made tomorrow, will take place to-day at
twelve o'clock, tomorrow being Thanks
giving Day. The design Of certain parties
to have these revenues sold by the year
seems to have been abandoned, at least for
the time being, the present system bringing
more ready money into the treasury
Year: 1871

There Is an old married couple in this
county, whose ages are respectively lO2 and
lO5 years They have had four children,
and the youngest died the ether day at the
age Of G4 years The old lady remarked at
the funeral that she always thought she'd
never raise that child p
Year: 1871

The best pail oi butter at the State Fair at
Albany was made by w. and III. Vandreser at
Cobskill, Schoharie County. This is the. way
they made 1t. The milking is done in tin
pails,a Immediately strained in tinpans con
tanning about six quarts each; The pans are
set on a lack Of Stats about eight inches apalt
The temperature is kept from 55 to go de-
grees by our thick walls, by the flow OF cold
water and by the use of ice. The milk is al
lowed to stand So hours before skimming
Great care is taken to cream the milk before
it is thick or loppered through. Our milk
room is basement under wing of the
house, the walls seven feet high, the two
sides two feet above the ground; the end or
entrance or the room is four feet above the
surface and three feet beneath; the opposite
end joins the cellar under the main part OF
the touse. The bottom is laid with cement
three inches thick; the walls are three feet
thick, laid with stone and cement, and the
surface inside plasteIed with cement, larthed
and plastered overhead. There is well ot
pure cold water in the room, clstern on the
outside, with lead pipe conducting the water
into the room for washing purposes. Under
the pipe is a sink for creamng the milk. At
one end of the counter is hopper or box for
the SKINNED milk, which is conveyed to the
hog pen through pump-logs under ground.
The churhing is done by dash churns driven
by endless chain horse power, two churns
running al the same time; so to 60 pounds
ale made at one churning, which occupies
about 30 minutes. Great care is taken not TO
charm too long, as 1t Injuries the grain. The
butter is taken rom the churn with lade
and washed with cold well water until it is
entirely free from milk. In hot weather ice
water used then we cIre with Ashton salt at
the rate OF one ounce of salt TO two pounds
OF butter. 1t is then left until the next
morning when il is again worked with but
ter worker ;care is taken not to work too much
as it Injuries the grain. 1t is packed in white
oak pals, holding 50 or 53 pounds. A cloth
is put over the top Of the butter, and Thin


layer OF salt Oh the cloth. 1t is then put
in the store room where it is kept until
shipped. Our milk room is kept ventilated
with pure fresh air. II is impossible to
make good butter in close room the ami
NAL heat should be removed from the milk
as soon as possible after s'laining. In sum
mer the windows are open through the night
and morning. In cold weather at midday,
and the temperature kept up with fire. We
churn thee or four times week, making an
average Of 2C0 pounds a week, during 10
months of the wear
Year: 1871

SENATOR WILSON ia an able speech at Wor-
eester the present week, said that the Repub-
licsn party would probably select President
Grant for the candidate in 1872 Referring to
the labor question he m ide the folio wing state
ments of facts:


During the last te n years the laboring people
have been better off than in any previous age :,
he claimed. aid proceeded te illustrate by giv-
ing few facts 10 his own history. He was
borp, he said, in farming district OF New
Hampshire, where he haS seen The best man
that ever swung scythe work from sun to sun
IN midsummer for half a dollar a day; and tor
S100 year. with large family to support; to.
day, in ten hours, men earn more than double
what he could when he worked fifteen hours
lie worked as an apprentice eleven years, and
at the end of that time he received yoke of
oxen aud six sheep, which brought him In the
sum OF SSi; and Tor the first year after he was
twenty -une be chopped in the forest and haul
ed logs to mill, working from daylight until
niue or ten at night for the enormous gum of
six dollars per month. In that New Hampshire
town forty years AGO, there was hardly cIrpst,
ana not a single piano. but Low there is a car
pet IN every honse, and more pianos in the
Town thaa there are people who could play on
tnem. when he came to tOiS State he worked
thirteen and seventeen hours per day for $40
per mouth; now men in the same trade can
earn from S3 TO S4 iH ten hours, less in broad
cloth, pay high price for board, and then lay
up more each year than be could earn iu those
times. And Dow,too access Is free to libraries,
and other meaI OF i'm provement are furnished
for all, so that by temperance and industry
any man can make himself what be will; and
yet thesc men are running up and down to
make us think we are the most miserable of
Gods subjects. He showed how much better
off wotkingmen are 10 this than in the older
COMMITTEES, sLd said lie believed as 10 o; q
co1ld.heip doing that it vas due to the priIci-
pies 'uch as govera the Republican party of
the country, whose aim is to lit up humanity.
Year: 1871

Methodist, were clerks in A. T. Stewards store in
New York. the third, Rlppey, o respyteran, was
Q physician IN good practice at Omaha Two others,
formerly Methodist ministers, are soon TO be Or
dained. He has also six candidates In training.
Two new and beautiful churches are waiting conse-
Grafton, and could have three more if he could
pledge the sum OF $500 apiece 10 aid them. He has
congregation Of colored people, with colored
minister.


writer In the Chicago Standard thinks INNER
sions should be made in full sight OF the entire con-
gregation He asks:-"IiOw many Baptist churches
are there In this land where this beautiful ordinance
can be easily seen from every part OF the house NO
person who has the misfortune to occupy back
seat on q baptismal occasion In one OF our long,
level awkward churches can help wondering at the
shortsightcdness OF the building committee that
authorized the erection Of such place OF worship.
How the people twist and turn and strain II haply
they may get little peep at those In the water! II
any Ped0- Baptiss present they sit still and
lose the lesson entirely, because they do not like to
appear eager to see. Is this rights Is s treating
Christ and His ordinance respectfully Mol II the
LORD intended 1t to be seen and that being seen 1t
should preach, by what authority do we hinder any
from Witnessing IT. Yet we do this by building our
churches 80 that many Of those who attend cannot
See.U
Year: 1871

A Navy Yard Machinist Missing for Three


Months-His Body Found In the Dock md


Identifed-InvestigatiOn Before Coroner


Young.


For six or seven years past Frank Day, man
thirty-twO years OF age, and machinist by trade,
has been employed IN the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and
a portion Of the time boarded at 81 Sands street.
Mr.. Day was temperate, industrious man, and
much respected by all who knew him. On the oath day
OF December last he left his lodgings in Brooklyn and
falling to return the suspicious OF his friends be-
came aroused and search was made for him. His
absence could be accounted for on no plausible
theory and all sorts OF surmses were INDUCED in Dy
the relatives. Some OF them seemed to believe he
had been foully dealt with, but could advance no
argument TO justify such a conclusion. minute
some or the daily papers or this city and Brooklyn
ana injuries instituted IN every dire ton, oil to
no effect, as not the least clue could be gained.


Late on Friday afternoon the remains OF uT.
found floating IN the dock foot OF pier No. North
river and taken to the Morgue for Identification.
AS far the police could discover there were no
marks OF violence on the body, which presented the
appearance usually seen In cases OF death by drown
ing. Public notice OF the body being taken to
the Morgue having been given, some rela-
tives of Mr.. Day, being In the city, repaired
thither to view It, and, much TO their surprise and
horror, instantly identified the rem ins those OF
their long and mySteri0usy missing relative.


Coroner Young. who has the case In charge, will
institute thorough investigation and, II possible,
learn under what circumstances deceased lef. his
home. Deputy Coroner Marsh Is to make q careful
post-mortem examination on the body, In order TO
was native OF Catskill, up the North river where
most OF his relatives still reside.
Year: 1871

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Your article headed "The Keno Raid" is evidently
o blast from the trumpet that blows no uncertain
sound. Your humble reader says amen. Let all the
people say Down with the gambling hes Of this fair
city,, which is as "a city set on hi to this rree
happy country. Every true American must feel
humbed at the reelection that any portion Of his
country is represented In Congress by leader OF
them and may often be seen standing In the midst
OF his decoy ducks, In the most fashionable part
Of the city May you still blow your trumpet TIL the
down nat and rejoice the hearts OF all we'll wisners
TO poor fran humanity. A PLUCkED PIGEON.
Year: 1871




TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERELD:-


noticed few days ago IN the columns Of the
HERALD an article taken from the Observer which
reflected very severely the treatment received by
strangers at the new Filth avenue church. Beinga
regular attendant at the evidently, though not
openly, designated church. and from the location Of
my pew able to oil that passes, feel 1t duty
to the church in question to say something In its
yndication. can attest that have never more
cordial willingness shown by any congregation to
c0mmodate strangers than is shown at st. IS.
have repeatedly seen In all directions pewholders
rise and invite those standing near them to their
pews, even to their own inconvenience After a
euicient time has been allowed for the gathering Of
the regular attendants the sexton Is ndefatgable in
his efforts to accommodate all, and II, In conse-
Quence Of his arduOus duties and the immense area
he travel every Sabbath in seating the crowds
who frequent this church OF magnificent dis
tancesn he should be somewhat hasty ana abrupt
IN his manners 1t Is, think, pardonabe.


conduct OF the lady who thinks she was i'll used
on the occasion alluded TO. Should the public
generally adopt the line OF conduct which
she Thought justihable would 1t be just
TO pewholdersp The tnnux Of strangers Is SO
great that / have no doubt considerable
proportion OF the pews would become the property
OF the public, and those who have prior right TO
them would be excluded. And would also sug-
gest, with all good feeling, that strangers, some at
least (for all are not SO thoughtless, should avoid
loud whispering while waiting for seats and remain
till the services are over. 1t Is well to remember
that pewholders have their grievances as welA as
the nl-used public. Mrs. d. JONES.
Year: 1871

GRUB IN PEACH Es.-Examine
the roots of the peach trees few inch.
es below the surface of the ground. II
gum exudes, the grub is certainly at
work under the bark. Dig it out at
once with knife. Should you chance
to see copper colored substance exhu-
ding from the stem of an apple tree, a
borer may be found there also.
Year: 1871




SELECTING SEED WHARF.-The Anfer-
ican Rural Home gives the following
seasonable hint 10 relation to selecting
pure seed wheat, which, if yearly car
ried out, would result in the improve
ment instead Of tie deterioration Of
varieties /:


Farmers loose great Deal by grow
ing crop Of mixed varieties Every
Wheat grower should make an effort to
secure pure seed, and this can only be
done by selection. Let him so over
his fields before cutting and CLEAN the
earliest, largest snd most perfect ears,
as stock from which to grow seed.
A few quarts gathered in this way and
sown, will in two or three years yield
enough seed for his own use. For
immediate use, the best plan is 10 go
over au acre or two whom the wheat
begin. to turn, and Gull out all intru-
dug varieties. A few days spent OF
this work will secure enough comparn-
lively pure seed the next year, Mil
lions of dollars migEt be added to the
value Of the wheat crop Of the United
States, by little timely work aud care
in thus selecting seed.
Year: 1871

A young man 10 Benton county, Mo-,
had dream in which he made propo
sal of marriage to a young lady, to whom
he had never been introduced or ex.
changed single word, and was accept
ed. IL had such an effect upon him
that in due time he did ask for a truth.
full realization Of his vision aud there
was wedding.
Year: 1871

The Mayor and Ex.May0rs of Jersey, Hud.
son and Bergen I'm Opp0sitiOn-NIay or
O'Neil Will Resign If the Charter is Passed.
The ex-Mayors of Jersey, Hudson and Bergen
cities had conference last evening at the
City Hall, Jersey City, on the subject or the
proposed city charter resolution was adopted
at the mass meeting on Friday night appointing
Mayor O'Neill and the ex-Mayors Of the cities now
consolidated committee to proceed to Trenton this
morning and oppose the passage Of the charter.
1t was in accordance with this resolution
that the meeting was held last evening. 1t Is
whatever party. are united in theft Opposition
to the charter, except perhaps, Mr. Gopsill who Is
Works. The entire measure they regard as


AN OUTGRowTH OF CORRUPTION,
while one gentleman proposed that instead Of call.
ing 1t the Jersey City Charter, the name "Bumsted
Charter be substituted. He stated that his object
place the measure in its true light before the
members of the Legislature nom every part OF the
State.


Ex-Mayor Sawyer pronounced the proposed mea.
sure '1nfamous," and stated It's operation would
entail poverty on large class Of taxpayers II the
names OF men notoriously corrupt were stricken or
the commissions he would be disposed to accept
compromise, but even to men Of known honesty
the new charter offers many temptations


Mayor O'Neill was most decided In his opposition.
The bill strips him OF


THE VETO POWER,


except In one insignificant instance, and leaves him
nothing but mere tgurehead. 1t deprves the
Board OF Aldermen OF the power which interests
the taxpayers especially namely, the apportionment
and control Of the tax levy. In short, 1t leaves
nethng TO the people but the paying Of assessments
and taxes, without stint, Ut the bidding OF dishonest
men. Under these circumstances he Will resign II
the ball should pass.


or the four republican members from Jersey
City In the Legislature Mr.. Fielder has
taken his stand with the people,
while Messrs. Anness. HOrnblower and Warrin
lald down their ultimatum TO the Republican Com
mittee that Bumsted should be retained on the
Board OF Works,


WHETHER THE PEOPLE LIKED IT OR NOT.


Here lies the source of all the trouble.


The Republican County Executive Committee held
a meeting on Saturday night and repudiated the
proposed charter in the name Of the republican
party Of Jersey City and Hudson county at large.
II was resolved to send committee 10 Trenton TO
procure the defeat Of the DILL.
Year: 1871

Continuation Of Testimony Before Surrogate Cof-
fn-Proofs Of Violent and Profane Language
on the Part Of the Legatee Towards
His Mother-A Witness Involun-


tarily Goes Back on Els Friends


The Case Again Adjourned.
Year: 1871

LAY OF fH8 PRINTING PRESS.
am a monster in the earth,
Ordained to moil for Heaven and Helli
OF both the vassall Since my birth,
The world has owned my powerful spell.
I wear no helm; no blade WELD;
No murd'rous legions wait my call
Yet mightier hosts before mo yield,
Than on the battles crimson field,
Go down before the sword and ball!
The tyrants of the earth turn pale
To hear the clanking Of my mail


Clanking, clankng, night and day,


With the darkness scattering light;


Where my stubborn pulses play,


Truth and error take their flight,
And rising high, like winds that circling blow,
In conflict fierce and wide, involve the world be-
Of these no sire am I. 'Tis mine
To give them scope and lend them xines-
TO this internal, that divine.
But whence their strife injurious springs
'Tis naught to me. In endless round
For those that me existence gave,
I. like the blind Judea1 bound,
The notes of good and evil sound
To all that travel to the grave.
Alas there is no grave for me-
Redemption nor Eternity!


Ever moilnng while the hours


Past the floods of Death are rolled


Where, tits said, that mortal flowers


Change to chalices of gold,
From which tho good, that earth's dark ways have
trod,
Drink of the stream of life, fast by the throne OF
God.
By midday's sun, by midnight's star,
launch from out my grasp of steel
The subtitle shafts Of thought, as far
As Ashghtniugs hame or thunders peal.
Instruct with power for good or ill,
scorn to break an arm of clay
Or one red drop Of blood to spill;
4 higher miDsion mine to dll,
Year: 1871

All this talk about early rising is


moonshine. The habit of turning out of


bed in the middle of the night suits some
people; let them enjoy it. But it is


folly to lay down a general rule upon


the subject. Some men are fit for moth
ing all day after they have risen early
in the morning. Their energies are
deadened, their imaginations are heavy,
their spirits are depressed. It is said
you can work so well in the morning.
Some people can, but others can work
best at night; others again in the after
noon. Long trial and experiment form
the only conclusive tests upon these
points. As for getting up early because
Prof. Cannon has written letters to the
papers proving the necessity of it, let no
one be goose enough to do it. We all


know the model man, aged eighty: 'I
lnVaTl6Iy rise at o; l work three hours,
take light breakfast-namely, a cracker
and q pinch of salt--work five hours
more; never smoke, never drink any
thing but barley-water, eat no dinner,
and go to bed at 6 in the evening" If
anybody finds that dOnkeyfied sort of
life suits him, by all means let him con-
tinue it. But few people would care to
live to eighty on those terms. Ifa man
cannot get all withered and crumpled
up on easier conditions than those, it is
almost as well he should depart before
he is nuisance to himselfand Il bore to
everybody else. School boys, and young
people generally, ought to get up early,
for it is found that nine-tenths of them
can stand it; and it does them good.
But let no man torture himself with the
thought that he could have been twice
as good man as he is if he had risen
every morning at daylight The habit
would kill half Of US in five years.-Ne,U
York Times
Year: 1871

in that elegant chamber, if it had not
been for Arthur De COurcy's presence.
In the darkness of my chamber he
brought light to me, ehut out from the
songs of the wOod-birds and the lonely
rambles though field and forest which I
had always loved so well. His voice
was sweeter music than theirs, and the
looks and smiles which he Iavished so
abundantly upon me made amends for
the loss Of the green fields and wild
flowers.


To be Continued nert 1CeeE.
Year: 1871

When my heart is filled whith sorrow
And when age comes unto me,
When hope paints no bright tomorrow,
Wilt thou true and tender be?
Wilt thou leave me in my anguish
Cropping on through life alone?
Shall-I weak and trem bling languish
With no strong arm round me thrown?
Shall the voice that ever sOothed me
When my hopes in life were bright;
With its whispered words Of comfort
Fail me in my hour of night?
Shall the heart now rely on
With q womau's trusting love;
In its depth and strength of feeling
Fsithless to me ever prove?


X. G.