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Year: 1870

A specimen of cotton raised three
miles from the city has been placed
upon our table. The sample before
us is of fine quality, and the gentle
man who brought it in assures us that
the bolls are as thick upon the stalks
as is usual at the South, where he has
seen the article growing. Only a
small part of them have bursted yet,
cad will not do SO till frost comes.
when it will be seen whether cotton
can be grown here successfully or not.
On one of the stems before us is a
blossom, on another full formed boil
tightly closed, while on others the
beautiful staple appears. The crop
from which this was taken consists OF
a few short rows. planted by colored
woman who came from Georgia last
spring and wanted the familiar sigh
of growing cotton to remind her o.
her Southern home.-IRd. Journal.
Year: 1870

The Michigan Farmer is of the
opinion the rain comes at the East,
and the mills that have been standing
still by reason of the drouth start up.
there will be great rush for wool, and
that prices will consequently stiffen-
all of which seems quite improbable,
as the supply in Eastern mills is very
much larger than usual.
Year: 1870

salt is disastrous in more ways than one.


We continually wonder how fathers and
mothers, because they are possessed of
money enough for their present needs,
dare bring up their children as they do,
making it their greatest care TO see that
they are dressed in the clothes that hap
pen to be fashionable at the time, and
move in ''our set,' teaching them moth,
ing Of the responsibilities of life, and
setting Il continual example of extrava-
game and carelessneSs in the use Of
money. Among the reforms we need is
one toward true economy, and to those
disposed to labor in the cause we would
suggest that, as usual, the most promis-
ing field for missionary effort will quite
likely be found at home.-.SmTnNieH
RepUJhcm.
Year: 1870

FoLLpwING OUR LOVES To HEAVEN
All, how many men have found heaven
by following their children there How
often it is that man, wretchedly follow
ing after lis companion, has found heav-
en- by standing on the threshold Of it and
looking in upon the loved one that he
has lost . The brute creation can be
toled and allured by taking their young
ones and carrying them on before them
And where a heart loves idolatrously,a and
is TO be trained for heaven, and the Oh,
ject loved is taken TO heaven, how often
docs ii follow, crying as II goes, as bird
crles cut while 1t follows the boy that has
the nest in his hand How often have
men learned at the cradle what they would
not learn at the altar; and at he grave
what they would not III the sanc'uary-
Beecher.
Year: 1870

A WESTERN FoLLY.-Cincilnati is to have
the honor of a Convention to consider the que-
ton of the removal OF the National Cauital
senator Henderson OF Missouri invited Gov.
erI or Hoffman to send a representative TO tlrs
Convention from New York. The Governor
declines because no authority has been con
trred upon him to make such an appointment
and he couldn't tnd the right man who woul !
so If he had. In other words, the Governor very
courteously informs the Senator that no sensi-
bic man in New York would advocate the
removal of the capital TO the West, and tha
New Workers are very well satisfied with it,
present location. The sooner the Western agi-
tatOrs come to the conclusion that the American
farthering their land speculation by removing
TIE capital, the more time they will have for
less chimercial pursuits.-N. Y. Star.
Year: 1870

the tongue Of little boy who had been attracted
TO his hut and saw him counting his money
through q crack in the door. The father OF the
lad ard his friends were subsequently fired
upon by the miser, whom they shot and killed
In the hut was found SO 900 in gold, which has
been distr .buted among the charitable institu-
ions OF the State.
Year: 1870

REAR ADMIRAL MELAscroN SMITH, lately
retired from the command of the navy yard
here, on Saturday took charge of the Brooklyn
navy yard, relieving Rear Admiral Godon.
whose name goes on the retired list.
Year: 1870

A PREDICTION VERIFIED" Viator" the
correspondent Of the New York World, writ
ing from Little Rock to that journal specu-
lates on the motives that induced Liberal Re
publicans to favor Boles' nomination, and in
his letter written before the meeting of the
Fort smith Conventions, says:


These men will support Boles, should he
he nominated. provided he goes on their plat
form; but any equiyocaton on his part will
lose him their votes This result is foreshad-
owed by the Crawford convention, which
adopted resolutions instructlng the Congress
sional delegates to vote only for such a can
ddate as will pledge himself to advocate and
vote for bill of general amnesty" The re-
fusal Of the convention to indorse this resou-
ton will, in my opinion, cause a bolt, and q
separate nomination. This is true. even if the
anti-Clayton men control the convention and
it will apply with greater force should the
Clayton wing predominate. There is a large
portion-certainly all the reputable members
of the Radical party who warmly favor uni
vcrsal amnesty and the abolition of the many
useless State offices, with the reduction of Of
fetal salaries. These men comprise the bull,
of the intelligence of the party, and nearly
all of these are without official hankerings
am assured by the most influential of their
number that under no circumstance will theil
votes or influence be given for candidates moi
in accord with those views"
Year: 1870

Rs-The popular Livery Stable proprIe'
tor II. CARSON received by the steamer
Liuie Rock an addition to his Stable III
the way of new double carriage lie
aims to have a stable second to none in
this part of the State
Year: 1870

The Board of Registrars will also meet
On Saturday the 22d day of October and
.ootinue in session SIX DAYS to add
,be names of any persons that may not
heretofore have been Registered Let
nat a vote be missing on the day Of
.lactiOn
Year: 1870

.Fg~ See notice of the County Clerk in re-


ber All scrip issued before that time must


before it can be used for taxes, be presented
at the Clerks Office and countcrsigncd by him
Year: 1870

We were standing in the doorway
My little wife and /
The golden sun upon her hair


Fell down so silently,
A small white hand upon my arm,
What could l ask for more,
Than the kindly glance of loving eyes,
AS she kissed me at the door.
l know she loves with all her heart
The one who stands beside!
And the years have been so joyous
Since first l called her bride!
We've had so much of happiness


Since we met in years before,
But the happiest time of all was


When she kissed me at the door.
Who cares for wealth of land or gold,
OF fame, or matchless power ?
1t does not give the happiness


OF just one little hour
When one who loves me as her life
She says she cloves me more"
And | thought she did this morning,
When she kissed me at the door.
At times it seems that all the world,
With all its wealth of gold,
Is very small and poor indeed


Compared with what hold
And when the clouds hang grim and dark
| only think the more
OF zone" who waits my coming step,
To kiss me at the door.
If she lives till age shall scatter


The frost upon her head,
| know she ii love me just the same
As the morning we were wed.
But if the angels call her


And she goes to Heaven before,
| will know her when | meet her,


For she'll kiss me at the door.
Year: 1870

have occupation or be miserable. Toll is the
price of sleep and appette-of health and
enjoyment. The very necessity which over
comes our natural sloth is a blessing. The
whole world does not contain even a briar or
thorn which nature could have spared. We
are happier with the sterity, which we can
overcome by industry, than we could have
been with spontaneous plenty and unbound
ed profusion. The body and the mind are
improved by the toll that fatigues them.
The toll is thousand times rewarded by
the pleasures which it bestows Its enjoy
ments are peculiar. No wealth can purchase
them-no Incidence can taste them. They
flow only from the exertions which repay the
laborer.
Year: 1870

A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural World
says: "Winter or summer, except in stormy
time, there is no place so comfortable for
colts or tired work horses as a. good pasture
lot. To tie up horse at night in narrow
cell, with plank floor to stand on, is speci-
men of cruelty that civilization ought to be
ashamed Of
Year: 1870

The latest instance of rose being made
to smell as sweet by any other name, comes
to us from Sidney, Ohio, where a young lady
asked at music store for 'feline nterstines
for lyrical purposes
Year: 1870

A California woman took big rattlesnake
out of her baby's cradle with two canes, and
dropped him into kettle of boiling water,
which took the bite out of him.


Go from home for news. We find this
item in the Southern Enterprise, a Tennessee
paper.
Year: 1870

Before child is old enough to reason
or to exercise self-control, the influence
of the mother begins to make its mark
upon its ductile character. The express
sion of her features and the tones of her
voice are the most potent charms to the
babe; and if the motheris wise, she will
strive hard that among the earliest i'm
prints on that plastic memory, thereshall
be none of a worried, fretful mother face
hasty, jerking movements, or untender
tones.


After child is old enough to compre-
hend the meaning of words, it is still
long before any revelation that words
can make, is half so impressive as the
glance of the eye, the movements of the
hands, the accent of the voice, that ac-
company it. Mothers are prone to for
get the mighty power of these silent,
magnetic tides forever flowing between
mother and child.


That the mother should thoroughly
possess, understand, govern and believe
in herself is of the utmost Importance to
her abiding influence for good. al have
always talked to my children about gen.
erosity," said mother of four bright
boys; " am always telling them how
much better it would be to share their
possessions with each other, than for each
to hug selfshly his own. Still they do
manifest selfish, grasping tempers, more
and more as they grow older" But |
had seen in that house, only few days
before, small basket of provisions for
a poor neighbor, doled out in grudging
words, in the hearing of little ones whom
she was always telling to be generous.
And | know that their young wits had
not failed to perceive already that while
hundred or more dollars came easily
enough when new furniture was wanted,
the fifty cents that went monthly into
the contribution was sadly missed
There was no living spirit in the mothers
teaching ng-consequently no bene6cent in
fuence. The atmosphere they breathed
in their home, was not warmed by benev-
olence and sympathy; the mothers ex-
cellent moral instructions, matched with
niggardly example, went for next to
nothing. And it is the same in regard
to instructions against a proud spirit or
hasty temper or covetous disposition.
Children will build according to the
model set before them, and not accord
ing to the rules framed and hung up be-
side them.
Year: 1870

COMPROMISING Matters age of
compromising is not entirely passed. A
rather bashful young man, not a thous-
and miles from this town, after long
and arduous courtship, found himself one
bright evening the betrothed Of pretty
girl, the very pink of modesty. He was
about to take his departure, and after
lingering abont the door for sometime he
declared and protested to Miss Sallie
that he couldn't and wouldn't go until
she had kissed him! OF course Miss
Sallie blushed beautifully red, and vowed
in turn that she could not and would not
do that-she never mad done such thing
and never would until she was married.
The alteration became exciting, until
the gentleman got hufed and declared if
he couldn't kiss her he wouldn't have
her, and was marching off. She watched
him to the door, and seeing he was in
earnest, and that she should loose him
unless something was done, she said coax
ingly, "Come back, then; I'll split the
difference with you. You may squeeze
my hand" Gloucester Advertiser.
Year: 1870




by ISABELLA GRANT 9RREDIrH
Two dainty snow crystals came floating down,
inroush the dun clouds brooding above the town.
As pure as the white plumes of Raphael,
Staihless' ana perfect. they silently fell.
One, high on the cross Of the old church spire,
IN the evening red, cleaned like sacred fire.
And one fallen lower was doomed to lie
In the path oft trampled by passers by.
Then the crystals cold heart in lofty pride,
DID the low estate OF its twin deride;
Deeming that through her own worth. it befell.
mat she had not fallen in mire, we'll;
As proud as if she had toiled to attain
Ihan height, SO secure from all harm and stain.
The other sought by prayerful strife,
10 rise from her fall to pqrer life.
This hope this faith was her true hearts prize -
Ihough falien low, L shall rise.-l shall rise !"
While she patient waited her song had a cheer.
Inc snowflake on high could not choose but hear.
Though out-cast down trodden my days are spent
Think not that linger in base content!
" My purity sulled-my beauty laid low.
SHAH yet be white as the driited snow.
" Sometime somewhere, it will be all made plain,
why yours was the glOry.-and mine the stain





But the Father knoweth-his ways good!'
And still her Resurgam she brayely sung.
Till dawn its bright banners of light had flung.
And the sun shone forth from his golden bower,
Upon church yard pathway, and ivied tower.
The snow crystal melting beneath his BEAM
Vanished away like beautiful dream
Her frozen heart melted her pride had its fall
ohe dropped from the cross to the old church wall
With patter and drip. like summer shower
On the ivy that clung around the tower.
Down the leafy stair in her swift descent,
To lie in the gutter all smirched and spent,
Then the ivies whispered across the air


How art thou fallen l-onee pure and so fair
over open graves we have heard the priest
Say The least shall be greatest the greatest least p
So the ivies futtered above her fall -
But song gave her keenest pain of all,
As d,w-drop phantom Of mist sped by,
Purihed-glorifed-ho to the sky.
Year: 1870

COOP HUMoR A DUTY.-Can any one
define good humor? We all know what
it is. We can feel and enjoy it, is hard
to pin the thing down to any formal de-
fnition. The good humored man is at
all events happy man, man to be en-
wed, man on whom troubles sit lightly
and man who confess as much happi-
ness as he enjoys. He radiates it as it
were, and his good humor, latent or PIN
ed half to death, comes out, revives and
fourishes. Good humor can scarcely be
called a moral virtue. 1t depends per-
haps as much on disposition and the
perfect action of the liver as on any
thing else. A good-humored man must
be ipso facto eupeptic man, a man that
enjoys a good dinner. Now quality
which depends upon the action of a mans
liver can scarcely be high moral quail
ity. And yet has any man right to be
dyspectic? Is it not moral duty not to
be Setting aside the rare cases of inev-
table misfortune is net dyspepsia mans
own fault generally, the result of his
gluttony, his laziness. his stupidity, his
carelessness or his ignorance? And are
these things moral virtues? Has a man
any right to make himself wretched, to
people the world with horrors, to be a
nuisance to himself and everybody about
him, because he lacks the sense to con-
troll his appetite or the energy to take
sufficient exercise to keep his liver
healthy ? One Of these days we shall
come to the conclusion that the snarling
fretful, ill-tempered or complaining and
depressed victim is not merely to be pit
led, but deserves to be punished as he is.
He may be very devotional, in his way.
He may make high pretentions to piety
and religious feeling, but he is none the
less nuisance, and ON the whole, dys-
peptic piety is as unhealthy as any other
dyspeptic thing.
Year: 1870

If cat doth meet cat upon garden
wall, and if cat doth greet a cat, oh !
need they both to squall? Every Tom
my has his Tabby waiting on the wal; !;
and yet he welcomes her approach by an
unearthly yawl. And if a kitten wish to
court upon the garden wall. why don't he
sit and sweetly smile, and not stand up
and bawl; and lift his precious back up
high and show teeth and moan, as if
rwere collie more than love that made the
feller groan'
Year: 1870

A CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS wri-
ter in Putnam's proposes, as cure for
appetite for liquor, bromide of POTASH
um, saying:


There is no ''tapering off +" with the
devil. Either he has got you, or he has
not got you. The first part of the treat
ment in this physical disease quires
immediate removal of the patient from
all disturbing influences, of whatever
nature. There must be no noisy chi,-
dfen about, no quarreling women, no
scandal mongers pouring out their dis
titled venom to jar upon his nerves and
disturb his spirit. He must have abso-
lutte quiet and repose. He must take a
two weeks holiday and go to bed where
nothing will trouble him or get to him
but one faithful friend.


Having obtained twelve twenty grain
powders of the bromide, he takes one,
and after conflict, the sedative wins
the victory and he sleeps. When he
wakes, the struggle against the taste for
liquors begins again, and another pow
der is taken, and so on until at last
perfect success and glorious victory are
obtained. The desire for drink will be
completely eradicated, and its return
will not be likely to occur. During the
treatment food should not be taken un-
less urgently desired, and then it should
be Of the most nutritious character
Broths of fowl or beef steak. and such
other meats as are best calculated to
preserve the tone of the stomach, are to
be preferred.
Year: 1870

A HEART In LITTLE THINGs.--ln the
art of elegant leisure and in the art of
wise triHing our people are sadly def
cient. We are bred to business. We
are tempered to high excitements. We
hardly know what to do with tranquili-
ty. We begin TO contrive how to make
it exciting We long to make silence
talk. We stir up quietness till we get a
glow upon it. We are forever getting
up" something for vacation amusements.
1t is riding or rowing, or pionicking, or
some excursion with its fringe and frill
Of excitement. We have rest in whirl
and tranquility in buzz. We want a
friend or two in our solitude to talk of
its solitariness.


There is such a thing as exquisite en-
joyment in simple conciousness of exis-
tence. But few have either the perfect
health or the sweetness of soul which
this demands. But if that much neglect
ed and nnuch-abused facualty of imagi
nation were trained from youth to clothe
common life with charms, how few would
be without amusement, even in the most
straitened circumstances. Nature is full
of light and motion, sounds and color,
but men do not enjoy these things. Ma
| ture is full of mimic life, and its life is
full of strife, pursuits, battles, peace,
amity and affection; but then men do
not care for insect life. Nature is full
of grace and charming variety, of hue
and shape, of contrast and analogy, in
her garden; but then men do not care
for botany.


To make much of little, to find rea-
sons of interest in common things, to de-
velop sensibility to mild enjoyments,
to inspire the imagination, to throw a
charm upon homely and familiar things,
will constitute man master of his own
enjoyments. How interesting triAes may
/ become, one may see by reading Cow
D per's letters, which for simple beauty
have never been surpassed in English
| epistolary literature. How a nature pro-
foundly religious may yet be filled with
satisfaction in minute duties and homely
experiences, one may read in the letters
and journeyings of Eugene de Guerin.-
l H. ". Beecher.
Year: 1870

MARRIED LIFE.-Good counsel from
a wife and mother 81 will try to make
myself and all around me agreeable. 1t
will not do to leave man to himself till
he comes to you to take no pains to at
tract him, to appear before him with
long face. 1t is not so difficult as you
think, dear child, to behave to hus-
band so that he shall remain forever
husband. / am an old woman, but you
can still DO as you lik,; word from
you at the right time will not fail to its
effects. What need have you to play
the part of suffering virtue? The tear
of loving girl, says an old book, is like
dewdrop on rose; but ON the cheek
of wife is drop of poison to her hus-
band Try to appear cheerful and con-
tented, and your husband will be SO -
and when you have made him happy
you will become SO in reality. Nothing
fatters man SO much as the happiness
of his wife he is always proud of him.
self as being the source of it. As soon
as you are cheerful you will be lively
and alert, and allow no opportunity to
pass for speaking an agreeable word
Your education, which gives you an adj
vantage, will greatly assist you, and
your sensibility will become the noblest
gift of Nature has bestowed on you,
when it shows itself in affectionate as
siduity, and stamps on every action
soft, kind, tender character, instead of
wasting itself in secret repinings.
Year: 1870

Most men think when the tree is grated the work
is done, the tree will do the rest, and never look af
ter the graft: The result is, either graft grows,
or long slim twig, crooked with water sprouts.
sometimes they will trim some limbs off and leave
a water sprout for Il graft, and when that bears
fruit, they accuse the CRATER of taking cuttings
from the same tree and then heapall kinds of abuse
upon the CRATER. They never think of laying the
blame on themselves for negligence.


Some say you must not trim the balance of the
brush off the tree for two three years for fear Of
hurting the tree, when they will do other things
more injurious to the tree. If farmer wants bet
ter fruit, find what kinds bring the best price in the
market, and likewise find out what kinds are har-
diest your kind of soil, and the best bearers in
your neighborhood. Reports from different State
OF different soil from yours are of Use to you.


BE careful in saving your limbs, keep the top All
oval form, put in plenty of gratis, more on the
west side than on the east for the trees draw to the
eastward, and as soon the water sprouts get
well started, pull them off from the limbs that have
been grated. If the gratis make good growth
the first year, the next spring take all nearly all
of the balance of the limbs from the tree; if you
leave any till the next spring leave them so that
they will not interfere with the gratis. Keep the
tree clear from the water sprouts, which is easily
done with the hand If the gratis get too heavy SC
they begin to crook about strip some of tho leaves
oil and the limbs will harden, and you will have
thick, stocky gratis, and will heal over, an,
you will soon realize benefit from grating ole
trua