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Year: 1870

Gone from the earth the beauty of the Summer,
Gone from the heart the measureless delight;
Leaving scant courtesy for the proud newcomer,
Who lifts her horn of plenty in my sight.
Her rudy checks, her wealth of golden tresses,
Her robe of sun-down hues are brave to see;
The fruitful vines flush red from her caresses,
Her smiles make harvest on the sunny lea.
Bright are the woods where her silk banners


rustic,


As if the sunset famed the liveong day,
The world and all the world, with eager hustle
lnocuate, beneath her golden sway.
Add yet the burden of my heart and singing,
Is this one melancholy utterance-gone
For me, in every harvest song is ringing


A knell for joys that in the Summer shonel
Why do mourn the falling of the blossom
While the rich fullness of the fruit is mine ?
What pang of loss should rankle in my bosom
While Autumn pours for me her ruby wine?
Alas it is my own Life's summer vanished,
And not alone the season of the rose;
While June was here, her radiant beauty ban
Times deepening track that sad September


shows.


know the Summer will come back in splendor
To wekin, void and wood with Eden's glow
That Autumn's breath and Winters blast will


render


New strength to earth, beneath dead leaves


and snow.


But SHOWS that on my head are thickly sprinkled,
Will not, alas renew my Summers prime;
Next June, my brow will be more deeply wrinkl-


ed


If it be more than dust at that glad time.
know the shadow of this deep detection
light beyond the Suns great glory cheers
And liie's dead Summer in the Resurrection
May bloom again with undecaying years
All, could | know while autumn winds are


signing


My Summer had been worth Gods making oe'r r.;
My heart, in falling leaves and blossoms dying,
Would find sense of sadness neyermore
The perfect fruits of Autumn golden cornet
For Summers lapse bring compensation sweet ;
Her face is brown, but golden wreaths adorn it,
Which make the glory Of the year complete.
oh, gone, forever gone my Lifc's best season.
And now its fruits remain for me to reap;
Scanty and poor, have |, indeed no reason
For my departed Summer days to weep?
| think my harvest, though it be but gleanings
Will not seem less to Heaven for my true tears ;
Since God interprets sghs to deeper meanings
Than we dare put to our poor hopes or fears.
would not of lost Summer be complaining,
Though barren most, if yet their little fruit
Some grace OF my dear Lord 5 great merit gain


ing


For Heavens garner should most humbly suit
Then o,cr the sadness of my recollection
That the bright summer of my life is gone
Should shine the glory of the Resurrection
When life shall put Eternal Summer ON
Year: 1870

The passengers were on board the las t
piece of luggage safely slowed in the hole !;
the last friend ordered from the deck the
plank connecting the ship with the dock,
withdrawn. Capt. Davis applied his lips
to his hand trumpet; the cordage creaked !;
the ropes whirred, and the great three
master, Clyde, with the Union Jack float
ing proudly from the topmast, spread out
her white wings and sailed grandly out to
sea, just as the last shafts of amber light
from the setting sun shot across the broad
waters.


AT the same time hearty three times
three rang out, loud and clear, from the
motley crowd gathered in groups upon the
shore, in order to watch the goingout OF
the ship, the great ship, bound for that
far-off land-America. And very heartily
were the cheers reiterated by those assem-
blel on deck ,as we receded from the shore
where the canny auld Scotchmen pushed
their blue bonnets back from their faces,
that they might the better have last
look at their well-loved sons and daugh-
ters, who had turned their backs upon
their native hills and set out for the land
of gold, while many sturdy Scotch moth
er applied corner of her coarse checked
apron to one eye, and so made the other
do duty for both, as we sailed away,


Ali how bravely we struggled that
night to keep the dread sea-sickness at
bay; for, on account of the roughness oi
the ocean, it began to show signs of an
attack before we were we'll under way
but as it was not until the gathering shades
loved land invisible, that we succumbed
to the clutch of its cold, clammy fingers.


When next we stood upon the deck, we
found the expanse of water so great on
every hand, the surrounding horizon SC
distant, the zenith so very high, that the
great Clyde seemed but a speck floating
about upon the bosom of the mighty deep.
For little while the novelty of our situ-
alton delighted us, and then, as we began
to realize all. we could not but grieve al
what we had left behind, and looked long
and earnestly at the eastern horizon, in
the vain hope that its blue canvass would
roll up from the waters and reveal to us
again, if just for only moment, the dear
old shores.


Among the passengers, on the night OF
our departure, had taken particular no.
tice of a fine looking Scotch lass, evidently
fresh from the Highlands, clean skinned
and 1.-THE of limb; young lass, who. as
she shook hands with her friends, laughed
heartily at their sad farewells and mourn
full vell-wishes, and who, TO take her all
Year: 1870

1t is said that the mosquitoes are so
plenty in the Adirondacks that they can't
all get on stranger at once, so they will
stand around in reliefs and wait for their
turns, like customers in barber's shop.
They exhaust man in three days, and
then let him alone, like deserted oil
wall
Year: 1870

How is it my dear that you have never
kindled fame in the bosom of a man ?"
said an old lady to her pretty niece, who
was portionless.


The reason, DEAR replied the young
lady, is as you we'll know, that | am
not a good match"
Year: 1870

There is said to be a farm in one of the
Western States where the grasshoppers,
having eaten up all the crops above the
ground, now sit on the stumps and fences,
with hoes over their shoulders, waiting
for the potatoes to get old enough to dig.
Year: 1870

THE GOLD MINES in Louisa are yielding very
handsome return, and many are fock,ng there In
hopes to better their fortune. They had better stay
at home and invest their small change In Clothing
at K. B. SPENCE i SONS. 1900 Main street. There
Is where you get the worth Of your money.
Year: 1870

The London Spectator has private infor
nation to the effect that 1.-THE Bonapartes
have at last exhausted Heavens patience =
We had supposed the patience, like the
other attributes of Heaven, to be infinite.
But since it seems that we are mistaken
there may be some hope that even to the
long torment of Ireland there may at last
come an end and that the Alabama claims
wlu not be Iaft foreyer nnsettlad
Year: 1870

We present below an additional
table to the one published yes
terday morning We have enough
returns TO confirm our former claim as
10 the election Of our whole State ticket.
a majority in both branches of the
legislature, and the members of Con
gress in the First and Third districts
What has become OF DowNEY and
McGRgw we cannot yet say, though the
probability is that MoGREw is elected
Ly small majority.
Year: 1870

THE Alsdo Democratic Banner makes the
following strong point against the tool Of the
Pennsylvania iron monger and New Eng
land capitalists who is around begging the
honest voters of this district to send him
back to congress that he may again barter
away their interests.


Let any one look at radical newspapers,
day after day, and find anything if he can
iu the shape Of . serious candid argument,
in favor Of retaining further the miserable
misrue Of the party in power. Let him find
if he can any argument, whether stale or
novel, in favor of retaining the high tariff,
discriminating in favor Of the eastern
manufacturers, and against consumers all
over the country, doctrine which the
radical party has Cherished during its whole
political existence. 1t has been made q test
OF 10y atty to the party, against which only
few of the very brsvest have dared to
rebel, and to which loyal Hawiey and dirty
Logan gave their most obseq uious ad dhesion !,
to the very isst-vosing With the New
Eagiand and P snosy lvania lAst summer for
the tariff, ROBBERY that takes millions from
the pockets Of their constituents annually,
and transfers to those Of there priucely
confederasss. of the mines and the manufao
tories.
Year: 1870

A VALUABLE MAN FOR YOUNG STATE
One Illinois paper AYERS that General John A.
Logan has not withdrawn as candidate for the
denomination for Representative at large from
the State. And another journal states that
he is q candidate for United States Senator
in place of Dick Yates. Why not wipe out
all other Representatives from the State, and
make Logan dictator and autocrat for the
whole peoples He has the ability if not the
modesty or, cice vsrsa, to represent the entire
State.
Year: 1870

In NEW CHARAcTER-The dreadful
Sweeny. His rifle was that of Bismarck-then
he loomed up among the small fry as Peter
the Great. Now he Is said to be playing
Mephistopheles-ev felt, but nowhere
to be seen. They will believe next that, like
the original gentleman in red, he can draw fire
from keg of lager.
Year: 1870

were spent 1t might open the eyes of great
many men in the country. Suppose there
were twenty men, it would make five thousand
apiece. Scion Shingle said that "dfty dollars
was good deal OF money" but what would
he say to five thousand? That is a large sum
in country where farms are cheap, but it is
a small price with which to secure the plunder
of this city, and still smaller one by which to
inspire with awe the political mass that fears
nothing but TO be upon the losing side.
Year: 1870

1t was in the Legislature,


And the dollars, yea by Heaven
They were just hundred thousand
And the votes were twenty seven
Minus seven-mark the number
Seven less than twenty-seven
And for just hundred thousand
We raised our hands to heaven.
Though cool flve thousand dollars
For single vote Is plenty,
Saith each honest country voter,
In gallant band Of twenty;
Yet on the rolls OF muster


Let US heartily thank Heaven,
That to share the hundred thousand
There were less than twenty-sevcn.
Year: 1870

A NEW VERSION OF THE OLD SoNG.-Win
not Some poet-politician enlarge upon the fol-
lowing version Of the old nursery rhyme, in
order that it may be sung for the entertain
ment Of the hapless democratic youths2:-


The "boysn are in the lobby,


Counting up their money;


And Sammy's or his hobby,


With nary taste Of honey.
Year: 1870




may be the cheapest article in the market
Your city democrat knows his price and has a
speculative spirit. Your countryman is a
straight trader on fair terms-fresh as cream
and smooth as butter Thus if q man has to
buy somebody there is good reason in favor of
making his purchases in the country.
Another good point in the game Of our Mephis-
topheles is that when the blow comes from
the country there is more moral force in it. It
looks as if the rural mind in its innocence
regarding these city sharpers of politics
with healthy detestation determined to put
them down once for oil. No such idea would
be conveyed by blow delivered by demo-
Gratis soied in the political strife Of this city.


In fact, we consider this moral effect q
crowning grace in the event at Albany. The
blow came from so clear q sky, it caught the
rejoicing fellows in such hey-day of triumph,
with the spoils actually divided in anticipation,
that it looked more like result of moral force
than anything we have had lately in State poll
tics. We do not positively give up the notion
that the countrymen were inspired in part by
an honest detestation Of the ways Of our city
sharpers. That may have had share in the
result, but we should have more faith in that


thought If the countrymen oftener showed


their horror of our vices. Although the coun-


trymen may in this Instance have had keen
| perception of the necessity Of an honest exam
pie, it is still probable that their eyes were
opened 10 1t. If hundred thousand dollars
Year: 1870

There are two rcasora why
some people don't mind their bus
incss. One is, that they haven't
any business and the second is,
that they would have no mind 70
bring to it if they had. This kind
OF business is as common IS three
mc..ls day.
Year: 1870

SAVING A FATHERS LIFE.-In
Maine, lately, which is great
lumber State, two boys went out
TO the woods with their father to
see him cut down trees. Through
q mistake in calculating how
tree he was cutting would fall, the
father was caught and pinned to
the ground, the tree lying across
his body.


At the fearful sight the boys
did not lose their presence Of mind,
but set 20 work with energy to
save their father. Some boys
would have exhausted th cir
strength in vain ciior1s to remove
the tree; others would have run
and screamed for help, and p1esn-
time the father would have died.
The boys did neither Of these
things. Can you guess how they
went TO work to save their fathers
life?


They commenced diggins a hole
Immediately under their father,
and in : very short time they re-
leased him from his awful sltua-
ton. Their coo!rcss aud wisdom
were the means OF saving the life
Of their parent. In sach an eraer.
gcncy how many boys would
think Of digging the earth from
under 4 mau pressed down to the
ground by tree?
Year: 1870

agree to make it speciality. Until we
have these, we lack the prime element
Of success The masses of the people
may be alive to the necessity Of the en-
terprise. They may even be willing to
contribute of their means cheerfully
aud literally, but it will fail unless
there are o few leading men who have
said in their hearts that the work
shall go forward. What is
everybedy's business is nobody's
business"-is proverb that proves it
self three times a day. The masses feel
content. They even emit o certain
magnetic influence which acts like con-
tagiou, and is all very essential and
useful in its way, but the masses never
build railroads, nor open canals, nor
build great institutions, nor call con-
ventiohs, nor manage them after they
are called. The great tide of enterprise
all over the country is borne upon the
shoulders of few leading spirits that
have a purpose, and have pledged their
manhood to carry it out.


To-day we vote in Monongalia for
subscription and against subscription
for this enterprise. We feel confident
that the friends of the railroad will
succeed-that our section of country
will be redeemed from the fetters of old
fogyism. Be assured that the live part
of our country is with you heart and
hand in this work. ! would be glad if
we could be represented in your con-
vention, and hope we may, and am
sorry that the session of court for our
county will interfere with my accepting
yonr kind invitation.


Very respectfully, W. 2. WILEY.


Senator q. D. Ramsdell, of Wayne
county, being present, was called upon
and addressed the convention in an
able manner, showing how the people
of his section of the State secured a
company to take charge of and proceed
with the construction of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad. He contended
that the people of this section had net
as many difficulties TO contend against
to secure the road as the people ef his
section had had to procure theirs. His
remarks were sensible and to the point,
and made good impression upon the
convention.


Short addresses were also made by
General r. S. Northcott, Colonel T. S.
Spates, Captain Piggott, Judge G. D.
Camden and others.


On motion, all the papers in this
State favorable to this enterprise were
requested to publish the proceedings OF
this convention.


On motion, the convention adjourned
Year: 1870

A Wood County Romance-A Pnrkers


burg MiiIiner Becomes II Million
airc.


Some years ago man, (whOse name
we withhold for prudential reasons was
blowing in his field in Wood county iu
this State, and whose dog had been an
noying both himself and his horses to
such an extent that he. picked up what
he supposed to be n worthless stone to
hurl at the dog, but upon Observing its
brightness and singular appearance as
it sparkled in the sunlight, he desisted,
and upon his return home he gave the
"bauble' to his children to play with.


As the story was related TO us, this
stone remained in. the family for sew
eral years, being knocked about by the
children, as o plaything, without any
one knowing or suspcCtinG its real
value. Persons visiting the house and
admiring its beauty, Clipped off pisces
Of it and carried them away, and no
one even imagined the real value of the
insignifcantstone whilst the original
finder of this source of unknown wealth
and his family become reduced i'll cir
cumstance9.


About two years ago agentleman who
was a connOiseur in stones happened to
be at the house and observed the stone.
He pronounced it TO be valuable, and
proff'ered to take it to New York for the
purpose of having its real value ascer.
tanned. 1t was taken to New York aud
subsequently TO Europe, and informa-
tion has recently been received that it
is the most valuable diamond that has
ever been discovered in the world, and
that its value is estimated at millions
of dollars.


One of the heirs to this valuable
legacy is now q milliner at ParkeTs-
burg, and another has been residing in
this place until within the last few
days, and has just started off on 4 mat
rimonial tour-his blushing bride little
imagining what a precious jewel she
had carried to her bosom.
We have simply related the story as
it was told to US, without any attempt
to color it.


If this should prove really true, who
can estimate the value of the hills and
vallies of West Virginia :


The Clarksburg Telegraph, from which
we copy the foregoing, has displayed
admirable prudence in embodying an
"if" in its concluding sentence.
Year: 1870

The amount spent by GRANT in work
ing up his plans for fastening the San
Domingo abomiuation on the country is
only 100000. This out of the secret
service fund. His secret services, like
his public service. since he became Pres,
ident cost a deal more than they come
to, as the unfathomable expense of this
San Domingo matter may yet become
an additional proof.
Year: 1870

A special dispatch says: 1t has trans
pired that the President contemplates
the acquisition of San Domingo as a
part of his Cuban policy and Cuban
sympathizers are all coming over to the
support of the treaty. In diplomatic
circles there is much excitement and
very bitter feeling against the treaty.
1t is also stated that in case the requis-
ite two thirds prescribed for the ratiiica-
ton of the treaty shall be found want
ing the President and friends of San
Domingo annexation will attempt TO
secure the territory in the same WY that
Texas was added not by two-thirds
vote of the Senate but by joint resO-
luton Of both Houses.
Year: 1870

THE Commissioners of the General
Land Office announce tina. the tide of
emigration to this county will be
greater the coming year than ever be-
fore. West Virginia's rulers feel reason
ably secure against any invasion of
thrifty settlers, having already pro-
cured troops to prevent inroads, but if
those here are not enough, there is no
doubt the authorities will find means
to raise more so as to scare off every
new settler who shows his nose in West
Virginia.
Year: 1870

The last South Branch HtelIigmcw
has this item:


Our 1eighboring couaty, Frederick,
Virginia, had fine per cent. added to
its population last week-several fami-
lies from Pennsylvania having removed
to farms purchased by them IN that
county.


While population is thus pouring into
Virginia, almost every West Virginia
paper We pick up has news in relation
to mgrIii from our State. There il
but one explanation. The Virginia
rebels who control their State, labor to
promote her prosperity by bringing in
population. The Radicals who control
West Virginia labor to ruin her 10y
driving good citizens away, their parti-
san measures being more valuable to
them than the good of their State.


Railroad Convention nt CIarksburg.


We publish this morning the report
of the proceedings of the Convention
held at ClarGsburg, March oath, to de-
wise measures to forward the enterprise
known as the Northern and Southern
West Virginia railroad. Our readers
will be able to judge from the deter
mined spirit and harmonious action Of
the Convention how far it gives promise
of success.


We are not advised Of the ability Of
the people up the Monongahela and
West Fork and from the head of
the latter to the mouth of Elk river, to
carry forward q work of this sort to
completion. We are satisfied, however,
that if they would succeed they must
work diligently and subscribe literally;
mere Convention work will not accom-
plisa it. The road, if completed, would
certainly give a far greater value to the
lands through which it would pass than
it, can possibly cost, to say nothing of
the benefit it would confer by giving
the people desirable outlet and bring
fhg q market for their products right to
their very doors. When we consider
the increasing necessity for q line of
railway communications North and South
through our State, we are bound to
wish this enterprise all possible success
Year: 1870

The efficiency of the horse in battle and
his usefulness in times Of peace, depending
as they do in so great measure upon his
being properly shod, justify the importance
attached to this art in medieval as well as
modern times. The saying of Poor Rich
ard, "For want of n nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost for
want of a horse the rider was lost;" has
been verified in many retreat, and many
a traveller has been exposed to imminent
peril by the loss of a shoe from the foot OF
his horse.


That interest in the further Improvement
of the horseshoe is not yet extinct Is prov
ed by the fact that we have illustrated and
described within the past year or two sew
cral Improvements of this kindi and
glance through the records of the Patent
Onice will show that nearly every year
brings forth something of this sort. 1t is
within the last quarter of a century that the
extensive manufacture of horseshoes by
- lIinery hassbeen originated aud deyel-
oped, and the article has been much cheap
encd thereby. Thus this ancient device
has probably not yet reached point be-
yond the scope of inventive genius and
skill, and the time may even come when
the manufacture OF malleable cast iron may
be so perfected as 10 enable them to be cast
at much less than their present cost, and OF
as good quality as those now made Of
wrought iron by machinery.


Scientific american.
Year: 1870

Who dscerns what is infinitely small
only one the Infinitely Great.


If one does not hold still when stung
by bee or by fate, the sting remains be-
hind in the wound.


Men, like their books, at their begin
ming and end have blank leaves-infancy
and grey-haired old age.


old people are long shadows, it is true,
and their evening sun lies coldly on the
earth, but they all point to the morning.


The odor of flowers is never 81 sweet
and strong as before storm. Beautiful
soul when the storm draws nigh thee, be
a flower.


Many flowers open to the sun, but only
one follows him in his course. Heart, DE
thou the suuhower; he not only open to
thy God, but obey him too.


Man cndures opposition and reproof
more readily than we suppose, only he
will not endure them when violent, even
though they are deserved. Our hearts are
flowers; they continue open to the gentle
falling dew, but close against the storm.-
Jean Paul.
Year: 1870

Tho Woman's Suffrage Convention
held yesterday in Boston, Mass, re-
solved not to support any candidate
unfriendly to their cause, and in case
neither the Republican nor Dcmo-
cratic Conventions adopt e woman
suffrage plank, to call . Convention
for tho nomination Of q State ticket.