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Year: 1871

Mr.. Editor-I am eighteen wears
old, and have a little sweetheart six
teen years old. l called upon her the
other evening, and at nine o'clock her
father brought in piece of bread and
butter Tor each of us, with sugar on it,
and said | need not go home until
had eaten it. felt insulted, and left
without eating a mouthiul. Did | do
right? GEORGE


Yours is a sad case, George and one
that calls for ueeper reflection than
we are capable Of giving ii. We do
not think it would have been to have
''riled tho old man up;" he might
have raised your hopes with his boot
If your sweetheart really loves you, il
would have been better to have accept.
ed the "lunch" and after eating the
sugar of from the bread and butte,
chucked the latter under the sofa; il
would have made grease spot on the
carpet and You would thus have your
revenge. But come to think of it
what in thunder do ynu sit up as late
rs nine o'clock for? We always USED
to leave at eight o'clock and listen
outside until the old folks were snor
ing; then take off our boots and &c
back and see the night out. Try thii
oLce and if you don't get caught at il
let us hear from you. If you do gel
caught at 1t, nobody will ever hear from
you again. There is nothing so condu
Give to restlessness on the part of q
parent as to know their only daughter
is sitting up with a greenhorn wher
she ought To b. asleep dreaming of to
morrow's washing. That's so.-1itus
vile Herald.
Year: 1871

turned out and helped select this choice
ticket. Of ooursel We were prepared to
expect as much from the Whig. The red
bandanas and gold spectacles were we'll
represented, but we doubt the recognition
of gentlemen very much. 1t, too, COM
plains of union and harmony in spite of
the "indignation meeting" of Clay Ward.
What set you are to anticipate


1t has lately fallen into the very bad hab-
it of treating us to long lectures from some
sore headed Republican paper, and asks us
to read what they have to say, but never
tells us that they are enlisted in the inter-
est of some pet who wants to be the next
President. 1t has lately favored the nomi-
nation of some Republican SO strongly that
we are inclined to believe it will flnally..set-
tie down upon Grant as its favorlte, and
lend us its powerful influence to re-elect
him, provided the Democrats do not elect
their present ticket for City Council, in
which event the Importance attached to it
by the enquirer may induce the Whtg 10
go for jeff Davis.


The evening press and its spirit speaks
for ITSELF Connected with and friendly to
no faction, the JOURNAL is universally read
in Richmond, and particularlyby the me-
chanics and workingmen, whose interests it
defends, and we are truly gratified to see
this class of our citizens so thoroughly
alive to their interests, and so determined
to sustain a paper friendly to their cause.


We boast of our Republicanism and of
our wish to keep up with the progressive
age, and expect in short time to convince
the people of Richmond, by industry and
energy, that we are worthy of their favor
and consideration, as journal devoted to
the solid interests Of her citizens and the
prosperity of our city.
Year: 1871

In short time the Republicans of the
different wards will be called upon to
make nominations for the City Council, to
be voted for on Thursday next. We have
already seen the men who are offered to
the citizens of Richmond by the Demo-
Gratis, and are satisfied that we have only
to be careful and judicious in our selections
to defeat them, or sufficient number of
them to give us a majority in the next
Council.


Our city, at present, is in the hands of
an undenied corrupt body, which has sick
ened and disguised the honest and intelli-
gent people, who are in favor of any
change for the better.


Many of them have the impudence to
thrust themselves again before the public,
and must take the consequences of their
rashness; but of them, in this, we have
little to do. We must look to our
selves, and believe that we have but short
distance to travel to find ticket which
will be more acceptable to the community,
and if elected, will be better guardians of
public interest than theirs.


In your selection, be careful TO make
them from those who are competent, hon.
est and faithful, and avoid those who are
seekers after place. Such are generally
unfit representatives in bodies which pay
nothing, and as general rule are not en-
tirely trustworthy.


The opportunity is now offered our par
ty, if it will only be guided by reason, to
dethrone and destroy the enemy, build
up our own, and give to the city Council
which will govern its affairs with decency
and at least find defender among its
many friends when assailed with charges of
fraud and corruption.
Year: 1871

Circumstances happening in our midst
almost daily, convince US that the party
of "moral ideas" will not hesitate to resort
to any means to defeat the prospects of
the Republican party, now so fiattering, to
elect its ticket on Thursday next.


We know that its officers have shown a
willingness whenever possible, to disfran-
chse the colored people, and will stop at
nothing to prevent them from voting on
election day; it, therefore, becomes our
duty to warn you of the danger of giving
them the slightest excuse to justify their
cont emptible efforts.


They have attached an undue impor-
tance to the election about to take place,
but no matter, their followers, ready to be-
lieye anything said to them, will be ready
to believeit and will prepare themselves to
defeat you by fair or foul means.


The colored people, then, must be on the
alert, must be alive, sharp and keen to see
their object, and avoid any action likely to
afford them an opportunity to dsfranchise
them.


Make no resistance to any effort they
may make, but 10 all. things put yourself
upon the protection of the law, and al
though frequently unjustly administered,
the benefits to you will, in the end, be
greater than in its resistance, besides foil
ing your enemies in their base and cruel
attempts to deprive you of your just rights.


Saturday night last witnessed one of
these attempts, which we are now investi-
eating and will notice further. You do
your duty, under all such circumstances,
and leave the rest to those who would be
unjust to you.
Year: 1871

family in a degree of comfort, and even
luxury, that would cost six or seven
thousand year here in New York, and
where is the safe, honorable mercantile
or mechanical pursuit that will yield
six thousand year on twenty thou.
sand dollar investment? The profits OF
farming, except in rare instances, will
be found to diminish as we extend our
operations beyond what is requisite for
the comfortable support of "A family,
and this may be done as we'll on three
hundred as on thousand acres OF
land and this is strong argument for
the subdivision of the great landed
estates of the South.
Year: 1871

How FARMING is PRoFITABLE.-The
following sensible paragraph is from the
Turt, Field and Farm:


At discussion at the New York
Farmers Club, in reference to the cash
money profits of farming, it seemed to
be generally conceded that the business
failed to yield seven per cent. on the
capital invested. We were somewhat
surprised that none of the debaters
thought of giving the farm credit for
the three great necessaries Of life
house rent, table supplies and fuel.
Viewed in this light, farming is the
safest and best investment that can be
made of capital Take, for instance,
10000; let it be judiciously invested
in q moderate amount of land and all
the stock and implements necessary to
its successful cultivation. The proceeds
from such an investment will support a
Year: 1871

by covering of straw or salt hay, be-
fore the cold weather sets in. Onions
keep better with the tops left on; there
fore, they are not to be trimmed until
a few days before sending them to mar
Year: 1871

Corn and flour are staple articles but
not more so than JohnSon'S Anodyne
Liniment, where known. 1t is good for
children or adults, for any internal sore
ness of the chest or bowels, and the best
Pain Killer prepared, under whatever
name
Year: 1871




The spicy gales of Ceylon are so much
a matter of notoriety that a considera-
BILE amount of interest is necessarily felt
in the cinnamon gardens. Ancient
mariners have always made a point of
shifting the aromatic zephyrs waited to
their ship from Ceylon-over league
or two of sea. Novices, under similar
conditions as to position, have done
their best to believe they smell CHINA
mon and spice and all things nice, when
directed to do so. And the spicy gales
born of Ceylon to be met within the IN
dian Ocean have been and are as much
an institution in all poetry and some
prose as the burning mountains of Afri-
ca and lndia's coral strands. Strange
to say, however, the traveller who goes
to Gale falls in with none Of these per-
fumed breezes. The odors of the en-
CINE. room, the hold, and the galley
have it all their own way on board as
the steamer rounds to her moorings,
and continue to predominate while she
is in harbor. Going ashore, the passen-
ger escapes from the odors of the steam
er; but he searches in vain for those of
the spice-gardens. And when at last he
goes to the cinnamon gardens them
selves, disappointment is his portion.
He expected to find wilderness Of
odoriferous shrubs, labyrinth Of
tangled sweets. He discovers, in fact, a
desert of gravel-walks, with here and
there small oasis covered by a sickly
cinnamon or barred coffee-shrub. There
are cocoanut. palms in abundance, to be
sure, and there are other specimens of
tropical vegetation but nothing is to be
seen of such an extensive plantation of
spice-bearing trees as would justify the
title of cinnamon gardens, as in any
way account for the spicy gales afore-
said. In point of fact, Ceylon is not, as
far as the soil is concerned, or richly
productive as is often supposed. Vege
tation is rank enough and to spare in
this small tropical island but rice and
cocoanut trees are the only useful spe-
cimens of vegetation that can be said to
flourish, and the commissariat of the
European residents is often uncertain
and generally dependent on external
supply. Butchers meat is frequently q
luxury that can only De obtained al
considerable cost; nor is the scantiness
of ordinary provisions compensated by
such luxuries as oysters, brought from {
point half way between Gale and Co
Jumbo, birds nest soup, or sea-weeo
pudding. -FraSer's Mag zine.
Year: 1871

How many thousands of poor women are SUFFERING
from this disease, and pnng away miserable life. alit
their nextdoor neighbor does not know the cause. !
wish to impress your mind that good old proverb
% Az ounce of prevention is better than a pound y
Year: 1871

Paptaton Of the heart pain in the side weakness of
the spine and small of the back pain of the hip Joint
when you retire irregularty of the bowels. and also
that most eXCIutiating of diseases, the
Year: 1871

The Cincinnati Enquirer, apropOs
of new departures" says: 1t has
been said that the Whig party in 1852
made their platform as near like the
Democratic as possible. They died
that year. That was their last ap-
pearance in politics."


The New York Times says: " If the
time should ever come when the great
body Of the women of America, or
even a respectable proportion Of
them, manifest a desire for the right
of suffrage, we venture to say they
will find little difficulty in obtaining
it."


Thomas Hughes opposes the bdis-
establishment Of the English Church,
and denies that any valid argument
for such action is found in the divorce
of Church and State in America. On
the contrary, he says that the United
States, just as any other nation that
has ever tried it, has failed in the at
tempt to reach an absolute separation
OF things secular and things holy. He
believes that of the two, the dOmina-
ton Of a national is preferable to that
of a sectarian church,


1t is said that President BaeZ, Of
st, Domingo, aided by arms from
New York, is making active prepars-
tiOns against the insurgent Cabral. 1t
is evidently the intention to settle
this latter gentleman's hash prior to
the assembling Of Congress, and then
one difficulty in the way Of anneXa-
ton, it is thought, will be at an end.
The removal of the seat Of govern
ment to Long Branch will enable the
President to superintend military OPP
eratiOns to all the greater advantage
for his Dominican partner.


All in the world that keeps Brown
low alive is his hatred of Andy john
son, and determination that the latter
shall never succeed him in the Senate.
And yet BrownlOW thinks well of
Johnson after all, and said of him the
other day what cannot be said as a
rule, we fear, of public men in gen
eraI, that he never used his official
position to make money, and was
honest above suspicion. This credit
is due to Southern statesmen more
than to any other class. The RepUb-
licans themselves admit it-that the
South is honest. This is a virtue
which, like charity, ought to cover a
great multitude of sins; but somehow
or other, the way the world goes just
now, it counts for little. Dishonest
partisanship pays better than honest
craftsmanship.
Year: 1871

PHILADELPHIA, June Sat q ses-
sion Of the Photographers COnven-
ton yesterday, the President stated
that Professor Morse was the first
man who took Photographic picture
on the American continent. The
camera which he used is still in ex-
istence, but he could not succeed in
getting it on exhibition at the con-
vention, as was intended. 1t was
agreed by the convention to give
three hearty cheers next Saturday
morning, at the uuve,ling Of the
Morse monument in New York, Prof.
Morse to be advised by telegraph OF
the fact.
Year: 1871

The blue birds have come with their merry-voiced


greeting,


The sun from the southland has crossed Ger the line
The crows in the hemloeks are holding town meet


ing,
1t is time to make sugar. know by the sign.
Then let us away where the NAPLES are growing,
And gather a harvest, the spring time to crown:
Bring the buckets and spouts and set the sap Aow-
ing,


Then hang on the kettle and syrup it down.
The old iron kettle the sooty. black kettle,
The time honored kettle of ancient renown.
How the sight of that kettle to memory wakens
The days Of my childhood, and pleasures Of then;
The cares OF the present lie dumb and forsaken.
While scenes of the bygone flock round me again.
Beside huge rock the old kettle is swinging
Supported by stakes driven deep in the ground.
Whieup through the forest in echoes go ringing
The shouts of the children who're playing around.
As they watch the old kettle the sooty black kettle
The time-honored kettle of ancient renown.
They heed not the smoke that is grimming their


fcs


Nor care for the ashes that powders their hairs
They love the free wildwood. and best of all places
The FIRE by the rock and the kettle hung there
o never could sugar be nicer or sweeter.
Or cool on the snow with a eomlier brown.



Than the hearts of those children that kettle around
As they act from the kettle the sooty black kettle,
The time-honored kettle of ancientrenown.
Such bread as our mother brought from tho brick


oven.


Made for the occasion Of Indian and Rye"
No bakers loaf yet so delicious hath proven.
For the home taste is wanting as none will deny.
How dainty each morsel with syrup surrounded,
Or frosted with - skimmingss rich fnamv
And. o, with what rapture each childish heart
bounded


While laughing and feasting the kettle around.
As they scraped the kettle. the sooty black kettle
The timehonored kettle of ancient renown.
oh the nice. wooden spoons father made while he
waited.


Attending the syrup till ready to grain.
How soon in our hands they became sugar-plated
While ditto hands, faces and garments att in.
How the brook seemed to laugh it caught the re-


Election.


As oft to its borders for drink weran down.
And glad woodland voices. in every direction
Their jOy-bells seemed ringing the sugar camp


round.


But most round the kettles the sooty. black kettle
The time-honored kettle of ancient renown
l turn from the pleasures of modern Inventions
Sap houses, sap heaters, sap boilers and all.
Though grateful to each for their goodly intentions
Their sugar lacks something art cannot recall,
/ knowit is wise to live well with the present,
To gather lie's blessings whene er they come down.
Yet still down in memory vale it is pleasant
To meet those met that old kettle around
As we seraped the old kettle, the sooty. black ket.
tie.


The time-honored kettle of ancient renown
Grafton, March, 1871 APv.
Year: 1871

James Parton-writes in Packard s
Monthly: 9" Ii you look into the early
life OF truly helpful men, those who make
life easier and nobler to those who come
after them, ard you will almost invaria-
bly, find that they lived purely in the
days of their youth. In early life, the
brain, though abounding in vigor, is sen-
sitive and very susceptible to injury
and this to such degree that compar-
atively brief and moderate indulgence
in vicious pleasures appears to lower the
tone and impair both the delicacy and
efficiency of the brain for life. This is
not preaching, boys-it is simply the
truth Of science.
Year: 1871

How much more We might make of
our family life, of our friendships, if
every secret thought of love blossomed
into deed We are not merely speak
ing Of personal caresses. Thes may or
not be the best language OF Affection
Many are endowed with delicacy, tas-
tidiousDess of physical organization,
which shrinks away from too much of
these, repelled and overpowered. But
there are words, and looks, and little OBJ.
servances, thoughtfulness, watchful little
attentions, which speak of love, which
make it manifest and there's not fam.
lily that might not be richer in heart
wealth for more of them. 1t is mistake
to suppose that relations must of course
love each other because they are rela-
| tions, Love must be cultivated, and
can be increased by judicious culture, as
wild fruit may double their bearing un-
der the hand of a gardener (; and love
can dwndle and die out by neglect, as
choice flower seeds planted in poor soil
dwindle and grow single.


A retired governess :" am one
of those whose lot in life has been to go
out into an unfriendly world at an early
age; and of nearly twenty families in
which l made my home in the course of
about thirty years, there were only three
that could be designated as happy fami-
| lies. The source of trouble was not so
much lack of love, as the lack of care
to manifest it"


The closing words of this sentence
give US the fruitful source of family
alterations, of heart-aches innumerable,
Of sad faces, and gloomy home circles.
Not so much the lack of love as the
lack of care to manifest it, What a
world of misery is suggested by this brief
remark Not more than three happy
families in twenty land the cause so
manifest, and so easily remedied Ali
in the small, sweet courtesies of life, /"
what power resides In look, word, a
tone, how much of happiness or disquiet-
ude may be communicated Think of it
reader, and take the lesson home with
you.
Year: 1871

Inc lOiloWlug outlines OF nrSl-ciass
romance have come to light the past
week in West6eld, Mass.


A young man who fought bravely and
won an honorable record in the grand
old 10Th" during the war, returned to
that town, the home Of his childhood, on
the mastering out of the regiment, and
prepared TO settle down. His domestic
relations, however, we're unhappy, and
about four years ago, he decided to leave
his wife and child aud seek his fortune
elsewhere. He accordingly went into
northern New Hampshire, and the bor-
der lands of Canada, where, until quite
lately, he has lived the adventurous life
of frontiersman. He had been gone
perhaps two years, when some person.
probably an interested party,-sent to
the Republican a notice of his death by
drowning. A copy of the paper reached


i'm, and he had the melancholy pleasure
of reading his own death notice. He took
the matter, however, as harmless joke
and having been once before reported
dead du ing his service in the army,
probably thought less Of it than most
persons would do. Atany rate, he took
no trouble to contradict it, and nothing
being heard from him. the intelligence
was accepted as fact by his relatives
and NIL who knew him in Westfeld. He
was the only son of his father, and the
grief at his loss doubtless fastened and
aggravated the fathers illness. A short
time ago news reached the wanderer that
his father was at the point of death, and
he hastened back to WestfeId to see him
before be should die, surprising hundreds
of his old acquaintance, who supposed
him dead, aud still more his family
Novel readers will have anticipated the
statement. which comes next in this
plain narration of fact-that his wife,
under the supposition that she was a
widow, had married again, the fruit of
the new union, as of the first, being one
child His father, just on the brink of
the grave, seemed to recognize him, but
was too near death to say so. And now
it turns out that the father, believing his
son dead, had made will in which he,





the only lawful heir, (barring the widows
third is said to be left out, while the
property, variously estimated at from
$4,000 TO $4,000, is supposed to be be-
quea,hed partly to the wife (our hero's
stepmother) aud to her children by a
former husband, who Of course have no
hereditary claim upon it. A codcil
might right the wrong, but it is too late.
Precisely what disposal the will makes
of the estate will not be known until af-
ter the testator's death, but if it should
prove, as conjectured, that nothing is
given to the son, he will only have to
bring suit at law to break the will and
recover his inheritance. Under the cir
cumstances his wife finds her elf with
two husbands, but none of the parties
are disposed to disturb the relations last
formed, and the woman and her children
will probably remain with her second
choice, Notwithstanding the fact that she
is not legally his wife.
Year: 1871

To MAKE Cows GIVE MILK.-The ag-
ricultural editor of the Bee Keepers
Journal vouches for the following, hand
ed him by friend: fyou desire to get
large yield of milk, give your COW,
three times day, water slightly salted,
in which bran has been stirred at the
rate of one quart to two gallons of water.
You will find that your COW will gain
twenty-five per cent. Immediately under
the effects of it, and will become SO at
tached to the diet as 10 refuse to drink
almost at any time and ask for more.
The amount of this drink is an ordinary
waterpail full at each time-morning,
noon and night. Your animal will then
do her best at discounting the lacteal.
Year: 1871

An Iowa farmer started for town with
load of hay, and thought he would
have smoke, so he lit his pipe. He
lost bis pants by FIRE, and everything
else except his linch-pius and the tire of
the wagon. The team was still on the
run at last accounts. He says smoking
is not conductive to health.
Year: 1871

CAUSES OF SUDDEN DEATH.--Vtry
few of the sudden deaths which are said
to arise from diseases Of the heart, do
really arise from that cause. To ascer-
tain the real origin of sudden deaths, ex-
periments have been tried in Europe,
and reported to scientific congress held
at Strasburg. Sixty-six cases of sudden
death were made the subject of a tho.
rough post mortem examination in
these only two were found who had died
from disease of the heart. Nine of sixty
six had died from apoplexy, while there
were forty-slx cases of congestion of the
lungs-tbat is, the lungs we're so full of
blood they could not work, there not be-
ing room enough for sufficient quantity
OF air to enter to support lie. The
causes that produce congestion of the
lungs are cold feet, tight clothing, cos
tive bowels, sitting still chilled after
being warmed with laboror a rapid walk
going too suddenly from close, heated
rooms into the cold air, especially after
after speaking, and sudden depressing
news operating on the blood. The causes
of sudden death being known, an avoid
ance of them may serve TO lengthen
many valuable lives which would other
wise be lost under the verdict of "heart
complaint" This disease is supposed to
be inevitable and in urable, hence many
may not take the pains they would to
avoid sudden death if they knew it lay
in their power.-Eclectic Magazine.