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Year: 1875

On general principles, says Walks

 and Talks on the Farm," should say

 that man who has grown into a goot

 position as a clerk, at the time he is

 twenty five years old who, though

 healthy, is not strong; and who has not

 done any hard physical labor in all his

 life, should be extremely cautious how i he exchanges his situation for one

 where strength and experience, and the

 ability to labor with the hands are most

 important. But when it comes to his next proposition, have no hesitation, for If I were twenty-five years of age, and clerk in store in New York, should leave and strike for the country as soon as could draw my week s salary. I might regret it, and probably I often should, for there come dull times, and dead chickens, and aborting COWS, to the best of us; but. with all my knowledge of these things, do not hesitate to say that given twenty-five years of age and an opportunity, should go to farming, instanter, and take my chances.

 While I am prepared to give this young man no absolute advice, I will advise him with an eff , to his heart s content. If he is |" bound to be farm err (and on this point he npst make up his own mind), there is but one pru- dent course for him to pursue; that is, to scrape together all the money he can, and put it in a good savings bank, and ay goodbye to 1t for at least two years, and then start for good farming region at the East, offering his services for farmer he can get to take him, and there stick, without regard to discomfort and annoyance, until he has worked his way into that farmers respect and cou- fidence, and has learned all he can teach him, and all beside that an active and in telligent and educated mind can gather from observation. He should, at any sacrifice, keep accounts and memoranda of everything going on on the farm, until he has familiarized himself with all the details of his business. Such conduct, and such way of taking hold of his work, is sure to gain the conf dence and interest of his employer, and the chances are hundred to one that he will find his life and associations cheer full and happy.

 After two years of such work and preparation, he will be ready to buy or hire farm, and set up on his own ac- count, without great risk of losing money. If he went at it without prepa- ration, it would not be risk at all, it would be certainty. Farming cannot be learned except by experience; neither can strength be acquired except by ex- ercise; nor can the habit of hard labor be drummed into the human frame, save by process that takes time; and so long as one can secure food and clothing and shelter, if he gets these valuable requi- sitions, he gets capitally well paid for two years of hard and persistent work. It would be safe to say that any young man of intelligence, who will go through such course as is here laid down, is morally certain to succeed when he finally takes up farming on his own ac- count; but without this preparation, and this trial, it would be extremely un- promising for any one to adopt the profession with the hope of reaping profit from it.
Year: 1875

Macready tells us of his first appear ance on the stage as follows: It made my heart beat quickly to read "The part of Romeo by young gentleman, his first appearance on any stage" but the emotions I experienced on first crossing the stage, and coming forward in face of the lights and the applauding audi ence, was almost overpowering, There was mist before my eyes. I seemed to see nothing of the dazzling scene be- fore me, and for some time I was like an automaton moving in certain defined limits. I went mechanically through the variations in which had drilled my self, and it was not until the plaudits of the audience awoke me from the kind of waking dream in which I seemed to be moving that Igained my self-possession, and really entered into the spirit of the character, and may say felt the pas sion, was to represent. Every round of applause acted like inspiration on me. I "trod on air." became another being, or happier self; and, when the curtain fell at the conclusion of the play, and the intimate friends and performers crowded on the stage to rise up the Juliet and myself, shaking my hands with fervent congratulations, a lady asked me: "Well, sir, how do you feel now?" my boyish answer was, without disguise, "I feel as if I should like to act it all over again"
Year: 1875

During the late war, the New York Sun says, immense quantities of opium were disposed of in Washington to the soldiers, and lively and lucrative busi- ness was done in it by liquor dealers, suffers, cigar vendors, and the arn1y's other camp followers. To such an alarming extent was this business carried that it forced itself upon the attention of the superior officers, and finally upon that of the government itself Measures were at once taken to suppress the tade, but the evil was only partially abated, for the opium vendors contrived to elude the authorities. The opium was easily concealed, and the soldier when entering battle took sufficiently large dose not only to quiet his nerves, but. to render him utterly indifferent to the teIrors of the conflict. While, however, it proved stimulant, inspiring all who were under it's potent influence with an artificial courage, it made them wholly incapable of understanding the orders of the su- perior officers and of performing their duty intelligently or efficiently.
Year: 1875

During visit to the West Indies,

 says correspondent, I passed some

 time on a cocoa plantation; it was in the mountains, several hundred feet above the level of the sea. The climate was quite European, the thermometer seldom

 rising above seventy-six, and very often

 steady at seventy. I had heard much oi

 the beauty of this estate, but it quite

 surpassed my expectations. The view

 from the house was charming. In the

 distance the deep blue sea; in the valley

 below the groves of cocoa trees inter

 spersed with cocoanut trees and stately

 palmistes; here and there @ patch of

 sugar canes; then negro hut peeping

 from the trees; nothing could be more

 charming. The immense variety of

 trees planted to shelter the cocoa renders

 cocoa estate unusually in ere sting and

 beautiful, and so shady that it is seldom

 too hot to walk at any hour of the day.

 The cocoa tree, so often confounded with the cocoanut tree, is about equal to a good sized apple tree; the pod that incases the bean, of which chocolate is made, is something the shape of lemon, but three times as large, and is of 8 deep orange color; the kind called "Caraccas cocoa is so deep as to be almost red. The pods grow on the branches and on the stem itself, quite down to the ground. The branches do not grow low, so that in looking down 8 cocoa piece of ground the vista is like 8 miniature forest hung with thousands of golden lamps. Anything more lovely cannot be imagined; it is perfectly unique. After the pods are picked they are cut open with cutlass; the beans, which are tightly packed together, and from forty to eighty in number, are dried in drawers in the sun, after having gone through 8 process called "sweat- ing," which is being packed close in a barrel and covered over. When the cocoa is dried it is put into bags, each containing one hundred and fifty pounds, and shipped. Of the trees planted to shelter the cocoa I will de- scribe but few. The "caracoli," as large as an elm, is planted in rows; it is an evergreen, bearing & sweet white blossom.

 Among the other very large trees are the bread fruit, the s6addock, and the glorious mango, which is the size of a large horse-chestnut, and is as thickly covered with leaves. The fruit is not uLl1Ae an egg plun Ill snape, UuU Cufee times as large, and of beautiful golden color streaked with red. A tree in full bearing is indeed sight worth seeing. Of the smaller trees the orange ranks first in beauty and usefulness. It grows to considerable size, and bears at the same time the delicious blossom, the ripe fruit, and the unripe green. Next comes the nutmeg, which is also of con siderable size. It is thickly covered with dark green leaves. The outer covering of the nutmeg looks exactly like large apricot. When ripe it burs ts open, disclosing the brown nutmeg covered with a network of mace of bright scarlet. It is extremely pretty, unlike any thing else. The clove tree also fourishes here; it is a large and pretty tree, covered with clusters of cloves, which are of delicate pink and white, looking like wax.
Year: 1875

People who buy for cash always buy cheaply. They buy also more closely, and select more carefully. Purchases which are paid for when they are made are limited more exactly to the pur- chaser's wants. There is nothing like having to count the money out when the article is bought to make people economi- cal. The amount of indebtedness in- cured is not much considered when the payday is far off,

 Persous who do all their business on a cash basis know just where they stand and what they can afford; consequently they find after occasions for regretting, in 8 turn of times, that they have in dulged in this luxury or that, which they would have foregone had they seen what was coming.

 Real wants are few, and can be grati- fled for cash; at all events they should be limited to what can be paid for in cash. How much of anxiety, how many sleep less hours, how many heart -burnings, disappointments ts and regrets, would be avoided if this rule was always strictly adhered to.
Year: 1875

The Scranton (Pa) Republican gives 1 the following account of an accident to Richard Sturbridge, laborer at the Diamond mine, who for five hours lay buried beneath @ mass of coal ill the dark recesses of the mine, his leg | broken, and no human being cognizant of his fate

 It was little before five clock in the evening, when Strrbridge was loading the last car for the day. His compan- ions in the chamber had retired, and two track-layers, who had spoken to him but five minutes previously, had also left the mine. He was by the side of the car stopping to pick what he intended as the last lump of coal when he heard @ crash in the roof above him, and an in stant later an immense mass of coal de- scended upon him, burying him and the loaded car, and breaking his leg. For few minutes he was unconscious, but when he recovered he found that he lay beside the loaded car, in a narrow space, with one of his legs broken. The car alone saved him from being crushed into shapeless mass. A portion of the fallen heap lay upon the broken limb, and to extricate this was 8 painful task. Sturbridge set about it, however, and finally freed the aching member. Then came the dreaded suspicion of dying slowly in that dark, noxious tomb. All efforts to get away were futile, and all hopes of being relieved by his compan- ions were also given up, as they had retired from work for the night, and would not return until morning. He knew thatif he clay there all lnighthe would never again see the light of day, for he was very feeble, and cold precipitation was already flowing from every pore. The minutes seemed hours, the hours months as he lay there from five until ten o'clock. At length when exhausted by despair he heard the sounds of pick and shovel overhead. Relief was at hand and his comrades were digging for him. He was extricated and carried to his home, where he received due attention. It appears that little before ten o'clock his friends missed him, and seeing that he did not return home and that no one knew of his whereabouts, search was instituted which resulted in his discovery and happy release.
Year: 1875

| Uri Carruth, of the Vineland Zfade- ! pendent, has not been able to sit up or

 be removed to his home, and still lies in the little room adjoining his printing office. He cannot even be raised in bed, but the fact of his being alive even is sufficiently marvellous, considering that

 he was shot with @ terrible weapon at

 only eight feet distance, and that half

 ounce ball is still imbedded in his brain.

 MT. Carruth does not care to talk of the

 shooting, and his physician, Dr. TuHey,

 will not allow any one to question him

 about it. He has, however, contradicted

 the statement of Landis as to the words

 passed between them before the shoot

 ing. He has no recollection of anything

 being said. He also denies that he was

 armed at the time, and positively asserts

 that he never has at any time carried

 weapons since he lived there. He ex-

 pressed no animosity toward Landis,

 and is still hopeful of bis own recovery.

 Landis, who shot Carruth, still re- mains at the county jail. He has cell in the female department, of which he is the only occupant and is allowed the freedom of the corridor. His cell is scrupulously neat and clean, and as the prisoner has surrounded himself with his favorite books and pictures, his con- dition is as pleasant as circumstances will permit; but the confinement is very irksome to him and he is i'll. His lawyer and physicians allow him to see no one on business and he is not permitted to excite himself by talking of the shoot ing or the circumstances that led to it. The reports that Cal auth is slowly i'm proving lead MT. Landis to think that the wounded man will recover, and he expresses hope that he may. There is no immediate prospect of any effort be- ing made by the prisoners counsel to secure his release on bail under the Eng fish common law, which prevails in New Jersey. If Carruth should die within year and 8 day after the shooting, Lan- dis would be indicted and tried for mur- der. Should he recover or seem likely to recover beyond reasonable doubt, motion would be made by Landis' law yers for the production of the prisoner before the supreme court, and his release on bail for trial on charge of assault with intend to kill, for which the grand jury would then indict him in the meantime. Landis will not be indicted and the grand jury will take no action until either one of the contingencies arises which have stated. ' ''-8
Year: 1875

If you have ever passed the old de

 serted graveyard on Russell street, says

 the Detroit Free Press, you know tha

 there is not a more lonely spot in De

 troit. It is @ score of years since any one was buried there. The fences lear in or out; the few trees are ragged il

 limb and trunk; the weather beaten headstones lean this way or that or have fallen down. The rich and the poor who sleep under the ragged sod have been dust for years, and if any of them left friends behind they are scattered now and are not here to fill up the sunken graves and plant flower to take the gloom away.

 The other day people saw an old woman wandering in the graveyard, brush ing the moss from some of the head stones to look at the letters, and study ing long over the quaint characters carved into others. By-and-bye she crossed the street and sat down on the steps of cottage, and when people saw how old and feeble she was, and that her. She could not answer at first, but by-and-bye she told them that she had come hundreds of miles to take g last look at 8 grave which she could not find. Half century ago she buried a child there, and all through the long, long years, though moving here and there, her mothers heart had not for gotten the dead. Old now, her steps feeble and her locks gray, and feeling that she Lad but little longer to remain on earth, she had come clear across the State alone to have last look at the L L., L. Il she thought she could walk right to the spot, and there was half 8 hope in her heart that strangers hands might have kept the headstone white and the grave as when she last saw it. She found the old yard cut up by streets, the city all around and beyond, and of the hun dreds of mounds and headstones which she once saw but score or so were left. She sought among the leaning headstones, and she stood under the dying willows and searched the field for the small stone which bore the words "Our Willie," but the flight of time and the hand of progress were more powerful than 8 mothers love. Fifty years since the little dead body was lowered into it's grave Half century since the headstone was placed to mark the spot And yet her mothers heart brought her back in her old age, with the hope that her tears might fall upon the little grave, obiterated and passed from sight forever.

 It was sad enough to see tears falling down her wrinkled cheeks, and to know that her old heart was aching with dis appointment, and men spoke kind words to her, and women wiped their eyes in sympathy. Looking through her tears at the bleak and lonely field, it's loneli- ness relieved and yet made more lonely by the time-worn headstones and the clumps of briars, no wonder that the poor old woman felt it in her heart, and had to sob out

 "I'm afraid can't find him in heaven heavens so large!"
Year: 1875

A man who lives at the Cape came into Portland with his child, ten years old. The man got intoxicated, and during the evening his team stopped on Chestnut street. The driver thought he was going towards home. The poor old horses were completely tired out, and could not draw the wagon and it's load. Deputy Bridges took the man to the station and placed him in cell The child clung to him and refused to be separated from him. She said if her father was to pass an uncomfortable night she would stay with him, and nothing would induce her to leave the cell. At midnight they were both sleeping soundly on the bare boards.
Year: 1875

In fattening animals time is often a matter of importance to the feeder. Sometimes a month gained is equal to twenty per cent greater weight at later period. Cooking food renders its con stituents more soluble and digestible, therefore entering on flesh and fat. As a continent and appetizer for fattening animals, molasses has no equal. A small quantity of sweet upon hay will cause. d larger quantity to be eaten with relish.
Year: 1875

The farmer who keeps ahead of his work can always take advantage of what ever circumstances he may be placed in he can use less muscular and more brain force than his neighbor who is always working at a disadvantage hy following instead of leading. Y
Year: 1875

A lady who herself has fortune of Il million, says: When I was girl we never drealnt of habitually wearing silk dresses. If girl went out to pay a visit in her best dress, often the only silk she had, she would exchanges it on reaching home for less costly attire

 But nowadays the most expensive materials seem reckoned none too good for young girls every day wear
Year: 1875

the Government in the aid of the
construction of the road" Tho
subsequent Act of Congress in re-
lation to the bringing of suits in
the Court of Claims are alluded to
and the Court finally concludes as
follows 1--WE cannot go into an
argument on the consequences
which may follow our decision.
Consequences are not an argument
to be considered in the determina-
tion of questions. Whether an act
of incorporation is less advantage
GUS to the Government than was
supposed, or whether al Act of
Congress is more or less polite and
wise it is not our province to de-
termine. When we have declared
the justice of it if there be power to
pass it our duty in connection with
it is ended. The Judgment of the
Court of Claims is affirmed"
Year: 1875

Capt c. H. Brashear, special deputy sheriff
returned last Sunday from Baton Rouge
where he went to conduct to the peni,en,iary
the convicts Jack Mcdonald and Joe Gndry
but he failed to get there with the former. he
having made his escape from the steamer
Natchez or the way down the river The
captain statement is thar he was worn on,
by watching, and hiri ,g a porter to watch the
prisoners for him, lay down TO take a little
nap, aud when he awoke Jack was gone
J'e Gindry informed him tha, a white man
had broken open window of the room in
which they were confined and assisted Jack
H. getting the irons off. But no one seemed
% know when he left the boat,
Year: 1875




The truth about the Mississippi
election will soon be revealed. Several
of The defeated Republican candidates
for Congress intend TO contest the
election, and claim to be able to show
1ueh an account of fraud and rascalitv
as that even a Democratic Congress
will be forced to oust the newly elect
cd Mississippians.-S. Louis Globe
Democrat.


The truth about the completely of
the swindl,r who edits the Globe
Democrat in crooked whisky" bust
ness, will soon be revealed. and such
an amount Of fraud and rascality will
be proved upon him, that even q
Federal court will be forced to house
him in the State prison.-Shrecepo~ It
Times.
Year: 1875

We know net If this parish has n
chairman Of an Executive Committee.
or even if such committee really
exists in the parish. If there is one
in existence it does not act, aud had
Ia well have no existence as to all
practical purposes. That there should
be su, b q committee We presume no
democrat will pretend to deny. With
view to organizing the party, in the
absence Of an active committee aid
by tie advice Of friends. we took
upon ourselves the responsibility to
call meeting Of the lie nOcracy Of
the parish some time since. which
failed To meat with anv response /;
hut, with n view TO serving the party,
we so far overcome our modcs,y as
to make another effort to get the party
together, and ca upon the people to
meet rs in parish convention, at the
court house in Rayville, on


Saturday, December lith, 1879,
for the purpose Of organizing the
party and clccting delegates to the
State Convention to meet in New
Orleans January 2nd, 1876 1t is
absolutely necessary that this M eling
should be held If the democracy and
conservatives Of Ricbland wish TO be
represented in the state convention.
The parish is entitled to four delegates,
aud we should not fail to send them
10 the convention. What has become
of the live democrats of Ricbland
parish? Have they left the country
arc they asleep or are they dead? II
they are still in the parish we hope
~ see at least few of them here on
the lltb proXimo. Let every ward
bc represented. We have done our
dutv-now you do yours.