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Year: 1875

Ask any of the citizens of our town who moved here and purchased property four years ago, what was the particular in centive that induced them to To- cate here at that time and they will tell you it was on account of the good school facilities we en- joycd. Self interest would sug- gest the necessity of again start ing a good public school. We think it will be done.

 The many friends of Col. Ben Young will be pained to learn of the death of his wife at Dover on Friday last. Mrs. Young had been in low health for some time past, and although her death was no great surprise it is an ir- reparable loss to Col. Young to whom we extend our sincere sym pathy.

 We frequently receive from publishers notice of some new book with offer to send to us pro- vided we will insert "accompany- ing notice four times and editori- al notice one time" In other words we could get a four dollar book for about twelve dollars worth of advertising. We cannot see why we should pay three or four times as much for book as it is worth, consequently we just pass such offers by.

 Hon. John Campbell of Scar cy county gave us a call last Mon day. He reports fine crops of wheat and oats, and fair corn crops. The hog crop he reports as being very short and mast going to be light. The pork bus mess has been heretofore the main article of profit to the peo- pie over there and Col Campbell speaks of the tendency of those ! people going into the cotton rais- ing business and abandoning their hogs as sad mistake. We incline to the same belief. You had better stick to your hog and corn, gentlemen, and let cotton alone.

 Hop Tate of Pope county, raised l0054 bushels of wheat on five accessibility Gazette, Aug. 2ith.

 As cgregious an error as ever appeared in print. MT, Hop Tate had ninety acres in wheat. The Gazette might have had this item several weeks ago, and had it cor rect too, if they had taken their Pope county items from the DEM ! OCRAT.
Year: 1875

We find the following in the Dover.


n. H., Enquirer: Some eight years ago
lad OF thirteen, son of Charlss Z.


Meyers, well known citizen of Ports
mouth, while fishing from one Of the


wharves of that city caught fish hook


in the fore finger of the right hand, near
the roots of the nail, drawing it into the


bend Of the hook. His father saw at
once that the only thing to be done was
to open the finger on line with the
hook and take it out, but preferred to
call in their family physician to do it.
Alter looking at it for moment, the
Doctor, by sudden twist, wrenched the
hook from the finger, minus the barb
and point The parents were Justly in.
dignant at such rough treatment, and
insisted that the hook was not all re.
moved, while the boy came near fainting
from extreme anguish. The Doctor,
however, insisted that no inconvenience
would result, and dressed the finger in
some simple and safe manner and in due
time the wound healed. But the finger
and arm troubled him for long time.
After year or two the lads health
had so far failed as to become subject
OF serious alarm to his friends, he being
subject to frequent and alarming fainting
hts, and other spasmodic affections or
symptoms. This state of affairs contin-
ued for years, with more intensity until
year or two ago, when the boys health
became nearly or quite restored. In the
Spring of 1874 the young man, while
dressing himself one morning tore pim-
pie from his left shoulder, and on exam
lining it. he drew from the flesh the point
of the hook which seven years before
was imbedded in finger on the opposite
side of his body.
Year: 1875

The world will never get rid of its
old fogies those who want to be natur-
al, but have eneverstudied nature. When
fodder shall be cooked so as to be softer
or more succulent than grass, which ma.
ture has furnished for the animal, then
it will do to inquire whether nature is
not violated in cooking food for cattle.
Nature furnishes grass, not dried fodder.
The dried fodder is mans work of pre-
serving food while grass does not grow,
and if he cooks this soft and succulent
in imitation of grass, does he run a tilt
with nature or is he initiating her?


A farmer always looks forward to the
new growth of grass in the Spring as
affording an opportunity for his cattle to
improve in condition and health, and
when he cooks thoroughly his winter
food, his cattle are simply kept upon
grass the year round. We have kept
the same cows upon cooked food for fif-
teen winters, and found them vigorous
at nineteen and twenty years old.--Lipe
Stock Jonrnal
Year: 1875

Good manners are the particular dis
tinction of gentleman. They elevate
him in society, in the estimation of all
worthy people, and create for him that
which money cannot buy.


In the education of our children moth.
ing is more neglected, and to this is, in
a large degree, attributable the growing
lack of respect and reverence among
young people for their superiors.


Home is the first school of childhood.
Here they should be early taught to be
polite and well behaved, for the first
mental impression of a young child can
not be obliterated by correction or for
getfulness. Parents cannot exercise too
great degree of care in the examples
they set before their children, and in the
manner in which they expose them to
impure and contaminating influences.
The formation Of human character is
commonly the result of early associations.
Year: 1875

How TO TAKE HONEY FROM THE
HIvE.-A French scientific journal pro-
tests against the common practice of
sitting bees with the smoke of sulphur
or some other deadly emanation prepara,
tory to getting possession of the wax and
honey in the hive, and suggests a more
rational process, which isthus described:


1t consists in pouring about four
grammes of chloroform on a handker-
chief which is put on a plate on table
cloth spread out on the ground, with an
iron-gauze sieve over it. Two men then
take hold of the beehive and place it
carefully over the sieve; the corners of
the table cloth are then drawn over the
hive to prevent the escape of the ema-
nations. Immediately loud buzzing is
heard. which gradually diminishes until
perfect silence ensues. On raising up
the hive all the bees are found lying ap-
parently dead on the sieve; by the time
the contents of the hive have been got
out and the latter set up in its place
again the insects under the influence of
air and sunshine recover and return to
their former abode"
Year: 1875

INFLUENCE OF NEWSPAPERS. Says
Daniel Webster: Small is the sum that
is required to patronize newspaper and
amply rewarded is its patron, l care not
how humble and unpretending the ga
zette which he takes. 1t is next to i'm
possible to fill sheet with printed mat
ter without putting into it something
that is worth the subscription price.
every parent, whose son is away from
home or at school. should supply him
with newspaper. | well remember
what marked difference there was be-
tween those of my schoolmates who had
and those who had not, access to news
papers. Other things being equal, the
first were always decidedly superior to
the last in debate, composition and gen
eral intelligence.
Year: 1875

Boys, listen to what President Tuttle
says; | saw young man once in the Of
fiee of a western railway superintendent.
lie was occupying position that four
hundred boys in that city would have
wished to get. 1t was honorable and
cit paid well, . besides being in the line
of promotion. How did he get it Not
by having a rich father, for he was son
of a laborer. The secret was his beau
tiful accuracy. He began as an errand
boy, and did his work accurately. His
leisure time he used in perfecting his
writing and arithmetic. After while
be learned to telegraph. AT each step
his employer commended his accuracy,
and relied ON what he did, because he
was sure it was just right.


And it is thus with every occupation.
The accurate boy is the favored one.
Those who employ men do not wish to be
on the constant lookout, as though they
were rogues or fools. If carpenter
must stand at his journeyman's elbow to
be sure his work is right, or if a cashier
must run over his book-keeper's columns,
he might as well do the work himself as
to employ another to do it in that way,
and it is very certain that the employer
will get rid of such an inaccurate work
man as soon as he can.
Year: 1875

Gamblers of every grade, says a con-
temporary, have their slang terms to
convey to the initiated just what they
mean and however blind it may be to
the uninitiated, it is perfectly Ineligible
to those possessed of the high civiliza-
tion ~ necessary to manipulate Stocks"
-Four different forms of contracts are
known under the general term of stock
privileges. The "put and "call are
single privileges. A 6 '-straddle +" and
spread are double privileges. A
put is a contract giving the holder
the right of delivering certain amount
of stock within definite time at a stip-
ulated price. A "call " is exactly the
reverse of "put being contract CIV
ing the holder the right of calling for
the stock instead of delivering it. A
double privilege is put and " call
on the same stock in one contract When
double privilege is drawn at the mar
ket price of the stock, it is called
" straddle," and costs from two and
half to five per cent. premium. But
when drawn at distance of from one
or two and half per cent. above and
below the market price, it is called
spread" for which fixed premium of
two per cent. is paid. The distance from
the market at which spread is
drawn depends on the class of stock and
the activity of the market
Year: 1875

The death of little child is to the
mothers heart like the dew on a plant
from which bud has just perished,
The plant lifts up its head in fresheneG
greenness to the morning light; so the
mothers soul gathers, from the dark sor-
row which she has passed, a fresh bright
ening Of her heavenly hopes.


As she bends over the empty cradle,
and fancy brings her sweet infant before
her, ray of Divine light is on the cher
ub face. 1t is her son still, but with the
seal Of Immortality on his brow. She
feels that heaven was the only atmosphere
where her precious flower could unfold
without spot or blemish, and she would
not recall the lost But the anniversary
of his departure seems to bring his spirit
ual presence near her She indulges in
that tender grief which soothes, like an
opiate in pain, all hard passages and
cares in life. The world to her is no
longer filled with human love and hope
in the future, so glorious with heavenly
love and joy F.; she has treasures of hap
piness which the worldly, unchastened
heart never conceived. The bright, fresh
flowers with which she has decorated her
room, the apartment where the infant
died, are mementoes of the far brighter
hopes now dawning on her day dream.
She thinks of the glory and beauty of
the new Jerusalem where the little foot
will never find thorn among the flow
ers, to render shoes necessary. Nor will
a pillow be wanted for the dear head re-
posing on the breast of kind Saviour
And she knows her infant is there in
that world of eternal bliss.


She has marked one passage in that
book-to her emphatically the Word OF
Life-no lying closed on the toilet ia
BILE, which she daily reads; Suffer lit
tie children to come unto me, for of such
is the kingdom Of heaven. y Good Ner8.
Year: 1875

An old farmer talks thus about his
boys: From Is to 20 they know more
than he did at 25 they know as much ;
at 80 they were willing to hear what he
had to say at 80 they ask his advice ;
and he thinks when they get to be 40
they viii actually acknowledge that the
old man does know something.
Year: 1875

WHIRLPooLs. The Colorado river is
noted for "swirls, so called They oc-
cur everywhere, but only at high stages
of water A bubble rises from the bot
tom, and breaks with a slight sound on
the surface. The water at the point be-
gins rotary motion, so small that an
inverted teacup might cover it. Larger
and larger grows the circle, till surface
of forty feet in diameter is in motion,
spinning round a funnel-shaped hole in
the center, two or three feet across at the
top, and coming to point in the depths
below. Often large tree floating down
the stream is caught and its foremost end
thrust up in the air twenty or thirty feet,
while the other passes underneath-the
exposed end to be slowly drawn down
again, and to disappear. Three soldiers
-deserters from Camp Mohave--pass-
ing through the ravine in a skif, imme-
diately below the iork, suffered their
craft to run into a swirl One of the
crew, at the first intimation of danger,
threw himself overheard beyond the
charmed circle; and as he swan away,
he turned his head and saw the boat
spin around until one end being drawn
into the vortex and the other upheaved
in the air, it slowly sank, as it revolved,
into the turbid bosom of the river, its
human freight to be seen no more, for
the Colorado River does not give up the
dead
Year: 1875

A Maryland man, whose wife dropped
dead few days ago, had the funeral put
off one day longer to get the balance of
his corn husked. He said it wouldn't
make any difference to her, as she was
always good-natured.
Year: 1875

grieved against any such District Attorney, or .
Judgment upon an indictment against any such
District Attorney. shall be bar to either prose-
curion, respectively.


SEC. 4. That no citizen possessing all the
other qualifications which are or may be pre-
scribed by law shall be disqualified for service
grand or petit juror In any court of the United
States, Of any State, account Of race, color,
or previous condition Of eervitude. And any
officer or other person charged with any duty in
exclude or fail to summon any citizen for the
cause aforesaid shall, ON conviction thereof, be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor and be fined not
more than $1,000.


SEC. S. That all cases arising under the provis-
ions of this act n the courts Of the United States
shall be renewable by the Supreme Court Of the
United States, without regard to the sum in con-
troyersy, under the same provisions and regula-
tions as are now provided by law for the review
of other causes in said court.
Year: 1875

THE report came into our office last
night that there will soon be opened in
the old church, south side of Sixth street,
between Walnut and Vine, new barber
shop. Now, the simple establishment OF
new barber shop among US is no as
founding item of news, but this particu'
lar barber shop Ito be) on Sixth street
will not be an ordinary one, from the
fact that lovely girls will WELD the razor
and run the machine"


Rumor says these girls have been es'
pecially trained for their responsible
positions, and that they manipulate the
razor with all the abandon of veterans.
The price for "square shave" at that
establishment will be "a quarter Of
dollah, if you pleathe, thir." OF course
that's big price, you know, now, but
when q man wants a rare article he
must expect to pay for it. Just remem-
Der that these barberous damsels are
fair in looks, if they are unfair in price.
They won't chew tobacco nor eat onions;
neither will they have two-inch finger
nails stuffed with the soils of seven coun
ties. Moreover, they will chuck you
under the chin with their soft, chubby
hands If you are real nice boy.


We feel sorry for the men BARRIERS OF


the city. They will lose custom as sure


As that female shaving-shop opens. OF
course married men will slip around to
that shop sometimes, and then there Will


be trouble in Gotham. We have de.


tailed special reporter to work up al
the domestic broils and secret assassina-
tions and sad suicides which will surely
emanate from that new institution


that sharp-shooting, Misunderstanding.


shampooing, shingling, shearing ana
shaving shop. Csncinn0si BaqssTsr.
Year: 1875

The Paris correspondent of the New
York Times writes: GAS I have men,
toned the oldest resident l may as
well say more about him, for in Paris
there is very little difficulty in fixing
him. 1t is the Count de Waldeck, now
in his 111th year, and looking as if des-
tined to live to a ripe old age. He cele-
brated his 10th birthday not long ago,
and on hearing of it joker in the life
insurance business went to him to induce
him to take out an endowment policy on
his life. The Count took it quite seri-
ously, studied the matter carefully, and
thought that he might try it next year.
Three years ago mentioned NJ. de Wal
deck in connection with project OF q
new theater near the Madeleine, he hav-
ing applied for the position of Director,
although he would be about 115 years OF
age if he lives to see the building COM
pleted. He still wants the place, as he
was Director of theater bearing the
name proposed under the first Republic.
saw the old man coming down the Rue
des Martyrs the other day, and thought
him looking remarkably well. On the
Empress birthday he sent her bouquet,
saying in note that he was in the world
before the founder of the Napoleonic
dynasty. He was an officer under Ma
poleon, and was wounded at Austerlitz,
il remember rightly. During the Reign
of Terror he was, like Sieyes, occupied
in living no easy thing when one had
the title of Count, and when there was
a permanent guillotine on the Place dc
la Concorde; but he succeeded by be.
coming a purveyor of public amuse
ments. There is no doubt about Coun'
de Waldeck's age, am told, he having
authentic documents; and the records 01
the army show that he must be consider
ably over century"
Year: 1875

W. j. Beal, professor of botany and
Horticulture at the agricultural college
Lansing, Mich, has published the re-
suits of planting corn and peas at diI-
ferent depths, varying from one inch
to one foot. The land was sandy and
dry as dust at the time Of planting, but
the corn planted only one inch deep
came up first and kept ahead all the
other lots through the season although
that planted foot deep did tolerably
we'll. Peas covered nine inches deep
did as well as any, and stood the
draught better than those that were
covered but two or four inches. Our
own experience in planting on heavy
land is decidedly unfavorable to the
practice of covering seeds of any kind
more than an inch deep. The present
spring, while the ground was dry as
ashes, of seeds planted about an inch
deep, many of them failed to germi.
nate until they had lain In the ground
several weeks, or until soaked by a
rain. During the height of the drought
we sowod held with millet, and fear
ing the seed would be long while
coming up we ventured to try the ex-
pertinent, for once, OF working the
seed In with a cultivator. The result
was most disastrous, as a heavy rain
followed the sowing Immediately,
soaking and packing the soil to such
an extent that the seeds came up very
poorly, much of it failing entirely.
Most of the field and garden seeds have
come up this year in battalions, those
plated deepest coming up In good
time, wi lie those nearer the surface
remaining dormant until after the
heavy rains In June. 1t would seem
that no definite rule can be adopted as
to the depth of planting which will
not require the judgment'of the plant
er at the time, and even then he may
wisely miss the mark.
Year: 1875

TURNED LoosE.-Mr. II. Z. Jones, of
the JOURNAL corps, is taking few weeks
vacation and will not resume his labors
with the stick and quill until after the
Judicial election, in which he seems to
take peculiar interest. Should he stray
into any of the outside camps in this
county, we would advise our friends to
watch him. Perhaps it would be as well
to sew up loose button-holes any way.
Year: 1875

Although the days of irrational medica-
tion are happily passing away, and intelli-
gent physicians have ceased to measure
the efficacy of remedy by the violence
of its effects, there still linger among the
older practitioners few of those predilec-
tions in favor of "heroic" treatment,
which it would be lucky for their patients
if they had abandoned. One of these is
fondness for administering drastic purga-
tives, such as blue pill, calomcl, jalap and
castor oil. a contrast of the effect of
these drenching drugs with the mild and
beneiiccnt operation of Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters, is the very best argument that
can be adduced against the wisdom of
such destructive treatment. The old
IA >hioned cuthartics convulse the stomach
and relax the bowels SO abruptly and
copiou>l ly as to weaken them. Hostetter's
Bltters, on the contrary, never grippe the
inteStines, but produce II laxative effect,
resembling the action of nature. At the
same time, they remove the cause of
constipation, by arousing the dormant
liver to secrete the bile necessary to
perform the excretive function and enable
the stomach to properly digest the food


Indigestion and biliousness having thus
been overcome, regular habit of the
body is the necessary consequence, which
the subsequent occasional use of the


Btters invariably renders permanent
Every disagreeablc symptom which, in
the absence Of perfect digestion and
evacuation, harnesses the system, vanishes
under the influence of the great national
stomachic and Alternative. Health aud


vigor are twin blessings that tolew its
use,
Year: 1875

FROM CINNABAR.-A friend in that
District writes US that the men at work
in tho Altoona Mine, under the new pro-
prietors, quit work in consequence of a
reduction of wages to $50 and board per
month, but afterwards resumed. Splen-
did ore is being taken out at the Boston
Mine, and it is thought they have struck
a real honanza
Year: 1875

DOES anyb ody propose TO do anything
regarding the erection of a new school
house Such n structure is sadly needed
here, and preliminary steps should be
taken in the matter. Don't all speak at
nnnn
Year: 1875

WHO DID IT ?-About midnight last
Saturday, single shot and a heavy one,
was fired from the cannon belonging to
the town. Who did it is not known, but
it is presumed To be the work of some
enthusiastic friends of the successful can
dilutnc
Year: 1875

THE FEELING.-We take the liberty
of making the following extract from
private letter from Il San Francisco friend
who, we believe, acted with the Inde-
pendcrts Mt the late election "The
Democrats have carried this city, and
their delegation from this city to the Leg
islaturc is worth looking at. However,
it might better come this year than next,
and by that time the people will have a
surleit of Democratic government that
they will unite and beat them. Here we
beat Crowley IAN old Republican, their
candidate for Chief of Police, and would
have beaten Bryant if Hallidie had kept
out Of the fight and thrown his strength
to Clayton. Congratulate you on getting
some Of the official pie in Trinity"
Year: 1875

The annual meeting OF the Association for
Improving the Condition OF the Poor will be held this
afternoon at the ble House An election for President
and Treasurer will he made in consequence of the reSS
nation OF James aud Robert B. Mnurn. IT is I'M
destood correspondence has taken place between
the latter gentleman and some influential friends and
supporters Of the Association, including Peter Cooper
and Adam Norre. Mr.. Mnturn, 1t is stated, has given
his reasons for resignng his Office in very decided
manner and the public interested in the future welfare
OF the society and its operations among the poor OF this
city may fairly expect that this correspondence VIII he
pnidshed 1here are also three vacancies caused by
death among the Board Of Managers, which viii require
to he filed and opportunity now exists Tor the sub
Ibers TO Managers who will endeavor 10 restore
TO the Association it's old prestige and win the confidence
of the public n its ability Ia minister adequately TO the
wants distressed the sick and the worthy poor VI
NewYolk cooperation with other societies engaged In
the work