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Year: 1871

The case OF Comptroller Connolly acquired more
than ordinary Importance yesterday, from the
facl that forensic fight was going on OF Albany,
the result OF which would determine, perhaps
whether or not he should remain longer pri-
soner In the common County Jail. The
silly story, started by sleepy morn
Ing journal for the purpose probably OF
advertising certain shipping man in this city, to
the eject that Mr.. Connolly was to lay aside l000,


900 for the purpose Of making restitution II needed
was promptly and pronouncedly denied. Beyond
this there was nothing new In relation to the sub


1ect here, as all parties more dlrecuJ interested
wero aiung the result OF the argument at Albany.
Year: 1871

FIsH AS FooD-A well sno7u writer,
on chemistry as applied to food, has made
the statement, based ca actCal scientific in
vestigstion. that there is as much substance
in pound of salmon as there is in pound
Of mutton. This fact alone shows us the
advantage to be derived rom proper care
and protection extended to our waters in
stocking them with ..sh.
Year: 1871

There was heavy travel going west yesterday.
The baggage was so considerable as to require
an extra box which was put on at this
station. There was also very heavy mail on
the same train. "


Mr. Morehead, the mail agent who had his
leg broken at Greeneville, was resting well yes
terday.


The farmers on the line of the Knoxville and
Charleston road have prepared considerable
quantity of ground for wheat, but are not yet
sowing nm


A large train went out to Careyville yester-
day afternoon.


A one horse Indian show held forth at Clin-
ton yesterday. The business manager came
over on the morning train and purchased half
a. dozen pipes for his pets. They are said to be
Of the tribe of the Dacotahs. They have been
exhibiting along the line of the Knoxville and
Kentucky Railroad, and appear everywhere in
their original national costume. The citizens
of Knoxville would have been favored with an
exhibition to-day had not Old John Robinson
interfered


A sleeping car and coach broke loose from
the train on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia road on Thursday night. 1t was caused
by the coupling pin coming out No damage
was done except the breaking of lamp by the
bell rope
Year: 1871

The United States Circuit Court was occupied
yesterday in trying the eiectment suit OF BULK
ley vs. Wiley ct al The evidence for both
sides was concluded and the argument will be-
gin this morning. There is no material change
in the evidence in the case from the last trial,
when, owing to the sickness fone of the jurors,
there was mistrial. Both parties seem to feel
that they made their case stronger in the evil
dence adduced yesterday
Year: 1871

Don't confound this gigantic organization with any
other show bearing the of Robinson, for it is in
no way shape connected with any or either
of them. but it is the ONLY ORIGINAL OLD
JOHN ROBINSON. who has owned and managed
shows for the past fifty years. through the Southern
country and has spent Of toll and vast of
money to bring his monster Museum, Menagerie, Car
avan and Circus the state of perfection which
assumes,
Year: 1871

N B.-TO the Lovers of Fine Horses. The
particular attention of stock rasers and every one
bred imported Horses and Ponies from almost every
cline under the sun. The beautiful Arabian the
magnificent Andalusian. and the high mettled barb OF
the deserts may be found the vast eonOress OF
equnes now attached to this monster show, and the
proprietor would say to those who mot ere to visit
which are attached the great Three Tent Show
open at all times for public inspection. FREE OF
CHARGE. and he cordially Invites everybody to call
and view the largest and finest assembage of imported
thorough bred Circus stock in America, where every
attention win be shown them by the attcfes oil tne
exhibition.
Year: 1871

That Mr.. Porter has been entirely mis-
understood, we do not hesitate to say but
we are unwilling to believe there was any
intention on the part of those furnishing
the Enquirer with the details of his speech,
to do him such injustice as is manifested in
its publication of this morning.


Whether Mr.. Porter said one thing or
another, we protest against any attempt to
hold the Republican party responsible for
his utterances or that of any other indivi-
dual, unless in consonance with principles
distinctly embodied in the Republican plat
form. We admit that the real spirit of a
party may often be fairly inferred from the
prevailing tone of its leading presses and
public speakers.


But no statement of any one or half
dozen members of the Republican party
can be taken as authoritative. In candor
and fairness we are bound to distinguish
between those merely personal and private
utterances which are essential to give zest
to life inside the party, and to the advance
ment of the party growth and the formal
statements made by authorized representa-
tive bodies, which express the average opir-
ion. These last are the only tests of party
orthodoxy.
Year: 1871

FARMERS IN CousoIL-We understand that at
the approaching fair of the Virginia State Agri-
cultural Society meetings will be held every
night for the discussion of questions of practical
agriculture and cognate subjects


At the last fair such programme was inter-
rupted by the Lee Memorial Convention, to which
the society very cheerfully gave way, and by
meeting 10 hear an address or addresses on edu-
cation. This time the society intends to claim
its time, and give the farmers of the State an
opportunity of exchanging views on all the Inn
portant questions connected with their calling


The meetings of the sort in old times, we have
heard for we never had the pleasure of attend
ing any of them, were full of interest and in
struction to the parties concerned Once in q
while some long winded old gentleman, or ambi-
tious young one, would try the patience of the
listeners, some of them rivals but as a general
rule, both audience and speakers were consider
ate.


We clip the above from the Enquirer,
and trust that these discussions, found so
profitable elsewhere, will play an import
ant part in the approaching fair. Much de-
pends, of course, upon a good chairman,
but still more upon the method Of treating
topics. A regular programme should be
arranged, and introduced, either by brief
essay or distinct statement from some
one, well versed in the speciality proposed.
Then let each member tell precisely what
he knows about it in the briefest possible
way. A limit should be fixed to protect
the audience from long speeches, and more
time can be given if thought proper in spe-
cial cases.


The discussions Of the Pathological So
ciety were models of concentrated and
effective brevity. There are many topics,
not much mooted at present, which ought
to be freely discussed. Among them, we
may mention "The Protection Of Sheep
from Dogs" Country Roads," "Fnm
Labor,0 "The Agricultural College Scrip"
&c. Let our farmers think over all matters
that interest them as a class, and come up
prepared to give their best thought in con-
densed form.


1t is not eloquent speeches that make
such meetings interesting, but the commu-
nication of knowledge. We know of no
body of men less liable to indulge in exces-
sive talk than farmers. On the other hand,
we delight to hear their plain, practical talk,
when it is naturally drawn out in the free
conversational methods known in our
Western farmers clubs, and which have
made these organizations more powerful
than even the political parties of these great
States.
Year: 1871

THE farmers Gazette comes to us this
week with much excellent matter. The
editorial correspondence of Colonel ID. S.
Curtiss, of whom we have already spoken
as corresponding editor, is especially valu-
able. We need a first-class agricultural
paper in Virginia, and have no doubt that
it is possible to sustain one properly con-
Quoted. The editorial advice to farmers,
which we copy to-day, is excellent.


We notice, however, in its Augusta
county correspondence, a sentence which
should never have found its way into an
agricultural paper. The writer, speaking
of his sheep, says that "they scattered like
the head Of Yankee column when shell
exploded among them"


Such comparison is deliberate and
wanton insult to every loyal man in the
country. 1t is violation Of the decencies
and proprieties of civilized life, which marks
the author as destitute of sense and breed
ing. No true soldier of either army would
indulge in such remark Of the other, or
approve it in others and it is so especially
out of place in neutral journal. Every
Southern journal that is tainted with the
silly malignanty expressed in that compari-
son will ignobly fail or remain always sick
ly, inferior and powerless as it deserves to
do.


There is no surer indication of helpless
seryility, or pulpy babyhood, than this in
sane determination that afflicts class Of
people to thrust forward the spectre Of
the lost cause on all occasions. We go
to hear an annual address before pomo-
logical society, and are treated with a
maudlin hash of nonsense about the Con-
federate army and its achievements, along
with eulogy upon General Lee.


We are invited to be present at the an
nual meeting of a State Agricultural
society and South Carolina politician
gives us history of the rebellion, tells
us to push away from us Northern capi-
tai, and above all to beware of the pesti-
lent system of Northern free schools.
Such violation of the commonest rules Of
propriety would not be tolerated for mo-
ment in any Northern State. We know
how offensive they are to the best portion
of the people here, and especially to every
man who bore crcditable part in the
Confederate army. But there was moi
moral pluck enough in the societies OF
in the press to administer to their authors
fitting rebukc. When, therefore, We
see this spirit creeping out in a new jour
nal, we propose to challenge it at the out
set.


If man cannot write about sheep with
out hinging an insult at his loyal neighbor;
and belittling and slandering those who
fought with good conscience for the Union
let his correspondence be refused till he
learns to recognize the proprieties of life


If man cannot write an article OF
grapes or dairying without belittling Gene
raj Lee or the brave men who, with him
fighting in bad cause honestly, performed
prodigies of yalor, let his writings find th'
waste basket. Men who cannot rise above
these partisan influences, to the considera
ton Of topics, common to their neighbor
hood, their State or their country, are en-
titled only to pity or contempt.
Year: 1871

The statement in the Dispatch that the
committee on the Second market had
passed a resolution excluding baby car
riages from the market-house during market
hours, is incorrect. Two members of the
committee declare that they know nothing
of such meeting or resolution, and the third
member of the committee is not in the city.
Year: 1871

BY MRS. S. N. B. PLATT.
A child, besids statue, said to me,
With pretty wisdom very sadly just,
''That man is Mr.. Lincoln, mamma. He
Was made of marble; we are made of dust"
One fash of passionate sorrow trembled


through


The dust of which had been dimly made,
One fierce, quick wish to be of marble too
Not something meaner, that must fall and


fade.
NTo be forever fair and still and cOld,"
family thought, with faint tears in my


sight,
''TO stand thus face to face with Time, and


hold


Between as that uncrumbling charm OF


white;
To see the creatures formed of slighter stuff
Waver in Iittls dead-leaf whirs away,
Yet know that could wait and have enough
Enough of frost and dew, of dark and day
would be marbleP WhereforeP Just to miss
The tremors of glad pain that dust must
know?
The grief that settles after some dead kiss9
The frOwn that was not long agoP
Do I forget the stones long Ioniness?
The dumb impotence all wan watching
brings?
The looking with blind eyes, in vague distress,
For Christ's slow coming and the End of


Things?
No, boy of mine, with your young yellow hair,
Better the dust which you scatter with your


feet
Than marble, which can see not you are fair
Than marble, which can feel not you are


sweet
Ay, or than marble which mnst meet the


years


Without my light relief of numerous breath;
Without the bitter sweetness of my tears
Without the love which dust must have fol


DEATH" ="
Year: 1871

Walter had been to the circus; and
there, for the first time in his life, he
saw an elephant. He gave him an
apple to eat; and the great beast put
out his long trunk and took it into
his mouth as quickly as Walter
could have slipped a huckleberry
into his own.


Then Walter and his sister Mary
went up ladder, and got on the ami
mails back, and had a ride. They
were delighted with its cleverness; F.;
and, when they came home; they
made their father tell them what he
knew about the animal.


'Do you know what an elephant
once did to tailor?" asked papa.
No; they did not know. "Well, one
day, in a city Of Asia, where ele-
plants are led through the streets,
one of these animals put his trunk in
at the window of a tailor's shop, and
the tailor pricked the poor beasts
trunk with a needle.


"Some weeks afterwards, as the
same elephant was going by the
same shop, he stopped, and drew up
a quantity of dirty water from pud-
die into his trunk, and spirited it all
over the poor tailor, who was sitting
cross-legged on his bench. Was he
not well punished?


"There was an elephant once in
France who did not want to be
laughed at. To man who had de-
ceived him by pretending to throw
something into his throat, he gave
such blow with his trunk, that it
threw the man down, and broke two
ribs.


SIN one of our American cities, a
few years ago, an elephant was ex-
hibited, who had great fondness
for a dog. Some men who wanted
to tease the elephant used to amuse
themselves by pulling the ears Of
the dog, and making it bark.


zone day, when they were in q
barn, where the elephant was sepa-
rated from them by a partition Of
boards, the men teased the dog bad
lv; whereupon the elephant knocked
down the partition with two blows
of his trunk, and drove the men off


''In India, a mother used to leave
her infant child to the care Of an ele
phant. When the child strayed of
too far, the elephant would put out
his trunk, and gently bring the little
thing back.


"Once, in a collection Of wilC
beasts, the tigress broke out of hel
cage, and bounded after the keeper
to kill him. The keeper ran to the
elephant, and told him to put him OF
his back. This the elephant die
with one toss of his trunk.


"The tigress was in rage at see
ing the man thus put out of hi
reach. She drew back, and made
another spring at him; but the ele
phant caught her midway, and hurl
ed her with great force against th
wall. Bruised and humbled, sh
gave up the fight after this, anr
skunk back quietly into her cage
without any more mischief. .'-Ih
Nursery.
Year: 1871

At the funeral of theDuke of Wei
lington, little child was standing
with her mother afford Ashburton's s
window, to see the funeral go by,
She made no remark until theDuke's s
horse was led by, the saddle empty,
and the boots reversed in the stir
rups, when she looked up into her
mothers face and said, "Mamma,
when we die will there be nothing
left of us but our boots?"
Year: 1871

A clergyman who had been stay
ing for some time at the house OF a
friend, on going away, called to him
little Tommy, the four year old son
of his host. and asked him what he


sbouId give him for a present. Tom
INV. who had great respect for the
acioth," thought it his duty to sug-
gest something of areligious nature
so he announced hesitatingly; 'I-I
think l should like a Testament,
and l know l should like apOp gun"
Year: 1871

The Main Farmer says: One OF our
substantial subscribers in recent con-
versation, gave his experience in training
neat stock affected with the habit Of eaa-
ing wood, chewing bones, etc. His cattle
were one spring affected in this way they
became thin in flesh, refused to eat hay,
and presented sickly appearance. He
had an impression that their food lacked
the constituents for making bone but
his neighbors used bone meal without
noticing any good results whatever. Last
spring he put about four bushels of leach
ed ashes in his barnyard, and threw out
70 them about shovelful each day. They
all ate>as if with evident relish. After
turning them out to pasture, he put one
peck of dry ashes pesslw week on the ground
in the pasture They ate~it all up, and
gnawed off the grass where it>sad been
lying. The cattle began to improve
gaining flesh and looking better than they
had for several years. He says this morbid
appetite was uunoticed years ago, from
the face that the land was new aud ashy
from the burning of the woods aud land
clearings. lie has another proof of the
value of ashes for stock from this incident
He had large tub full of leaohed ashes
which remained ip it some time. 1t was
Afterwards used as watering tub and
when the cattle drank from it they would
lick and gnaw the sides and bottom of the
tub, actually biting out pieces and eating
them, Lattcrly, he gives one quart of
ashes, mixed with the same quantity Of
salt to twelve head of cattle, about onco
a week, and finds it to agree with them
wonderfully.
Year: 1871




| allude more particularly to land lying
In grass for many years, where variety
exists. A piece of the best hay | have
seen for many years, cut and being cut
last week, suggested my mentioning this
subject again. Mr.. Whimpy says that
he moved it the year before last, having
done SO some preceding years too, and
manUred it, as he does all his land, with
good stable dung brought from Baltimore,
as well as what he makes at home but
the grass, chiefly timothy and orchard
grass, was becoming thin in the bottom,
and last year (Spring of 1870 it looked
rather unpromisiug for hay, SO he rented
it to dairyman for the summer, and it
was well grazed, Mr. w. thinking to plow
up and seed down again. However, there
has been such an extraordinary mass Of
white clover and bottom grass of other
descriptions that it is a prodigiously heavy
crop, and the quality the very best, tax
ing two apd three days turning to cure,
being so young, thick and full of sap /; Ia
short it is like much of the best English
upland hay, and like that, leaves the
ground looking, after the grass is cut, as
if the roots were killed, the short stems
being yellow; but there is already dense
y thick aftermath two inches high on
the parts first cut. The owner has rent
ed more this season for grazing, and will
continue to do so, and it is probable that
he will harvest every year nearly as much
hay, and of much better quality, from
half the land, and pocket the rental of
the other moiety, besides using six times
the afterfeed, as moving so much earlier
as he is obliged to do lest the white clo-
yer and orchard grass should ripen, the
quantity to Craze is in fact much more
than is moved by those who NOW year
after year when their grass is ripe. Here
are two fallacies exposed which are very
serious to the country-that grazing iu-
| jgres an old moving, and that moving
early and eating the after grass does so
too.


| mentioned some years since the par
ticulars of a piece of land on the side of
the bottom part of one OF the New Hamp-
shire mountains, which, having been close
! ly graZed down for two successive sum-
mers with sheep, was supposed to be ruin
ed, and being unexpectedly brought to
the hammer through the owners death,
made several dollars per acre less than
had previously been paid for it, and af-
forwards proved to be the thiokest see
grass in the neighborhood, and continued
benefited by close grazing. | saw an in
stance given where moving had been
grazed because it was not worth moving
longer, the intention being to plow up
and plant corn the result in this case
was simiar-complete renovation and
the springing into existence Of new set
OF bottom grass which made it better than
it had ever been before Cor Country
! GeRtlenan
Year: 1871

1t will be seen from this table that the
State debt remained above forty millions
some years increasing and in others
decreasing slowl y-until 1856, when the
Democratic ascendancy began to be
shaken. The public works were sold in
1857, in 1858 the Republicans carried the
House, in 1859 they carried both House
and Senate, and in 1860 they elected the
Governor and majority in both houses.


During these ten years the ruling party
had the benefit of the revenue from the
State tax on real and personal estate, and
the tax on tonnage on the Pennsylvania
railroad The revenue from these two
sources, during the decade referred to,
was as follows
Year: 1871

Never sendeSt thou an article for pub
lication without giving the editor thy
name, for thy name ottentimes seciore
publication to worthless articles.


Thou should'st not ss2o at the door OF ;
printing office, for he that ~answoFcth the
rap sneereth in his sleeves and iGsett
time.


Neither do thou loaf about, ask ques
tions, or knock down type, or the boys viii
love thee like they do shade trees-wheu
thou leaveth.


Thou should'st never read the copy on
the printers case, or the sharp and hook.
ed container thereof, or he may knock
thee down.


Never inquire thou of the editor for the
news for behind, it is his business at the
appointed time, to give it the without
asking.


1t is not right that thou should'st ask
him who is the author of an article, for
his duty reguireth him to keep such
things to himself.


When thou dost enter into his office,
take heed unto thyself that thou dost no;
look at what may be lying open and con
cerneth thee not, for that is not meet in
the sight of good breeding.


Neither examine thou the proof sheet
for it is not ready to meet thine eye, that
thou mayest understand.


Prefer thine own town paper to any
other, and subscribe for it Immediately


Pay for it in advance, and it shall bt
we'll with thee and thine.
Year: 1871

a clergyman relates that early in his
ministry he and another brother were
conducting a meeting ia which there was
much religious interest. An old man
gave expression to his JOY by shouting,
and continued it until it began to inter
rupt the service. Brother li--said TO
brother W, "Go and stop that old
mans noise" The shouting man at once
became quiet. Brother H-asked
brother WHAT lie said to the old
man to make him SO quiet Brother "
--replied, 81 asked him for dollar lor
foreign missions"
Year: 1871

accomplished with not merely a reduc-
ton of taxation, bit under total repeal
OF all direct taxation upon the property
of the people.


We commend these figures to the care
-ful attention of the voters of the State.
Year: 1871

Willie, a lite two year old, was drawing
chair on a carp ted floor. His GRANDMOTHER
told him he must not do So Will persisted
Grandmother rose to enforce obedience. The
httle culprt took refuge behind his aunts
mothers face, said Cant you take jokev
Year: 1871

One Sunday recently Methodist preacher in
Iowa advised the sisters to mortify Satan by
giving their jewelry to the Church on the next
Sabbath evening The result was galvanized
watcL and three brass finger rings They
are a mean set of sinners, said the parson.
Year: 1871

They will joke in New York even about the
swindIes ON the city treasury. One item
complained of is $4,000 for hatchets, and it is
deten led on the ground that they were ordered
for the purpose Of cutting down excessive
anpropriationS'
Year: 1871

Il shall be happy" said the expiring hus-
band to the wife, who was weeping most duti-
fully by the bed side, " if you promise me not
to marry that object Of my increasing jealousy,
Eour cousin John" Make yourself quite
easy about that, | am engaged to his brother,
said the expectant widow.
Year: 1871

A young man wants to know what business
he viii 60 into that will enable him to occupy
a high position in Society. Let him try the
roofing business; in that trade smart man
will soon get to the top of the ladder