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Year: 1870

The LATE MURDERS IN GREEoE.-The Eng
hel pless government that pretends to rule in
Greece An aggravating point in this matter
is that the deaths Of the unfortunate tourists
were directly caused by the action of the
Greek authorities. The men could have been
released on ransom, but the active measures
of the government drove the outlaws to an ex-
treme act 1t may seem difficult to blame the
government for this activity, but it should be
remembered how untimely it was. There this
government had stood face to face with the
brirands for month and manifested no severe
spirit of justice, but the moment its activity
may kill dozen travellers it becomes fright
fully active.
Year: 1870

CONGRESS. Tho Senate adjourned on
Friday until Monday. The House has not
been in session since Thursday having taken
q recess until Monday in order to have the
carpets in the hall taken up and general
summer renovation completed We gener Ill
find that little measures looking to the indi-
vidual comfort of members, such as raising
salaries to five thousand dollars from three
thousand and providing for ventilation and
house cleaning, 60 through without any
unnecessary delay, while great measures
which may in the abstract unpleasantly affect
those individual comforts, such as the Civil
Service bill, which limits Congressional
patronage or the FraDking Privilege bill,
which cuts down Congressional emoluments
or the bill for the abolition of the Globe, which
hampers Congressional buncombe, go through
very gingerly or don't go through at all.
Daring the w,ek just closed there has been
nothing of Importance to note. In the Senate
there has been merely the usual frittering
away Of time, and in the House there has
been nothing more important than the virtual
defeat Of the Civil Service bill and strong
attempt at land grabbing.
Year: 1870

PROSPERITY OF THE SHIPPING INTEREsT-A
Coon SIGN.-In the first five days Of May
about sixsy-fve applications have been made
TO the proper government office for the award
of official numbers and signal letters to mer-
chant vessels-indicating very satisfactory
start in the growth Of the American mercantile
marine.
Year: 1870

CORNERING COAL.--The coal operators are
already at work in Pennsylvania preparing the
prices for the coming season, fearing that if
they leave things alone coal will be too cheap.
They are manipulating that great and favored
instrument, the bogus strike. One strike is
in progress, and it is hoped to extend this
through the whole coal region. eff the move
ment to bring about suspension in Lehigh
and Wyoming fails decline in the price of
coal may be looked for; )" and we may there
fore confidently believe that this movement
will not fail if the coal operators can help it.
Year: 1870

chants and manufacturers


1t will be understood that the moral stand
ing of nations in this age depends greatly
upon their material status. Hence those ele-
ments Of material greatness that we have
named must also be considered as elements of
moral power. But among the purely moral
forces of Professionalism the school house and
the church take the lead. While Protestant
ism cannot in any sense be considered as
monopolizing The intelligence Of the age, every
form Of knowledge has been aided and
advanced by it so that the masses
Of mankind are to-day more intelli-
gent, and we believe, all things con-
sidered, more happy and contented than they
ever were before. After the church and the
school house comes the newspaper as q moral
agent. Its power and usefulness are un-
doubted and undisputed. Never was force
more completely master Of the situation than is
the daily newspaper in moulding and fashion
ing the ideas, pursuits and purposes OF
men. The greatest degree Of civil, reli-
gious and political liberty exists in those
countries where schools, churches and news
papers are most abundan. There is also
greater love for the Sabbath and its institu-
tions, and q stronger reverence for the aged
and affection for the young and the feeble among
them. Asylnms are furnished for the poor
and the needy, the aged and the infirm
That is one of the greatest boasts OF ou
Christian civilization of this century tina
Year: 1870

From N. 0. PicOyur
HEART OF STONE.


By "pEARL RIVERS.
Your heart has looked at q Gorgon head
And turned TO bloodless stone
Better for me bad mine been dead
Before this truth were known


Heart Of stone,
Hard heart of stonel
You found heart Of flesh and blood
Tender and warm and true
A pure young heart just the bud
That sought to bloom for you
To pierce this heart you shape dart
Ere you let the arrow fly
You dip the barb with cunning art
In the poison Of lie.
The lie was this--"l love you dear
The sweetest bitterest lie
Thata man may speak and woman hear
Under Gods truthful sky.


v.
1t rankles deep it rankles long
This arrow that you speed
The poisons faints my sweetest song.
And the wound gapes sore and red.


VI.
But no cry is heard, no tear is shed,
No sigh of weakness shown,
NY hand would strike my proud heart du
If it should dare to moarn,


Hearth Of stone,


Hard heart of stonel
New Orleans, April 81, 1870.
Year: 1870

1t lad been arranged that Mr.. and Mrs.
Clemens should proceed at once to their
boarding house, on arriving In Buffalo
from Elmira, while the rest of the wedding
party were to be domiciled at the lift
House. The securing of desirable, gen.
teel home in a private family had been del
egated to an intimate friend and resident
of Buffalo, who, understanding the tastes
and requirements of the young couple,
would of course be the person to make for
them judicious arrangements. Mr.. Glenn
ems, having been absent on his lecturing
tour for the past few months, accepted the
assurance that everything had been attend
ed to. At the depot hearty goodnight"
were exchanged, the larger party driving
to the hotel, the bride and groom taking
carriage for more quite quarters. Stop
ping in front of a modest but very
attractive brick house in the upper
part of Delaware street, Mr.. Glenn
ems was somewhat surprised to be met in
the hall By the father of the bride and his
own sister, whom he supposed already
quartered at the hotel. The landlady of
the house suddenly disappeared from the
scene, and as leaf by leaf of the charming
little drama lnfolded, Mark Twain fouEd
himself the victim of what he termed
first class sEindle," the proprietors and
abettors of which were the delighted father
and mother, who stood there silent specta-
tors of the happiness they had prepared
for their children in the gift of this beauti-
full home. For once the fun-loying Mark
tailed in repartee, and moistened eyes
spoke deeper thanks than words Moth
ing that love or wealth could suggest or
supply was wanting to make the scene the
fulfllment of the poets dream, from the
delicate blue satin drawing-room to the lit
tie sanctum quite apart, with its scarlet up
holstery, amid the pretty sdornments of
which inspiration must often come to its
happy occupant. Cleveland Herald.
Year: 1870




The Pisciculturist, Seth Green, is known
throughout the land for his energy and
perseverance in inquiring into and ascer-
tanning the cause of anything that may be
new in his little world of interest or nature.
FOR many years Mr.. Green has been at a
loss to account for the enormous destru0-
ton of very small trout, but he has now
ascertained the cause. He says in regard
to the matter: There is a small worm
which is fayorito food of trout and many
other kinds o. Ssh. This worm is one of the
greatest enemies which the young fry have.


tspins web in the water to catch young fish
just as a spider does on land to catch flies.
1 have seen them make the web and take
the fish. The web is as perfect as that
of the spider, and as much mechanical in
genuity is displayed in its construction. tits
made as quickly and in the same way as
spiders, by fastening the threads at differ
ent points, and going back and forth until
the web is finished. The threads are not
strong enough 10 hold the young trout after
the umbilical sac is absorbed, but the web
will stick to the fins and get around the
head and gills, and soon kills the fish. |
have often seen it on the young trout, and
it has been a great mystery, and csusedme
many hours, and days, and weeks of won
der to find out what was wound around the
heads and fins of my young trout and killed
them did not find out until lately, while
watching recently Matched whitefsh.
These are much smaller than the trout
when they begin to swim, and they were
caught and held by the web. found ten
small whitefsh caught in one web in one
night The web was spun in little white
fish preserve, into which had put one
hundred young fish. The threads spun by
this worm seem to be much finer than the
common spiders web, and they are not visi-
bic in the water until the sediment collects
upon them. They can be seen very plainly.
These webs cannot be spun where there is
much current, and can easily be seen in
still water by close observer.
Year: 1870

jolly Maurice FLYNN, as We used to call
him, years gone by, when he filled the
same important Office he does now-town
constable, related yesterday to a small cir
Gle of interested friends very singular in
cident that happened in the town of Linn
erick, Ireland, when he was boy in that
land of "potheen and praties." There was
a neighbor whose wife was taken i'll with a
peculiar sickness, wholly unknow to the
doctors of that region round about. She
was obliged to take to her bed at once, and
In an instance, as it we're, became reduced
to almost skeleton. What little flesh did
remain with her, became livid and cadiver-
GUS. For seven long years she never rose
from that bed once. Her disease created q
peculiar appetite. She ate but very
little and seemed to receive
the most of her sustenance from a
hot pot of milk, boil+d at midnight, each
night Her husband, who was q patient
creature, used to get up every night, win
ter and summer, during the seven long
years, and boil that pot of milk and give
it to her. One night, the last time he had
to do it, he got up to boil the pot of milk
and was Just in the act of raking out the
smothered turf to blow it up into the nee
essary glow, when some Hnearthly thing
caught him by the legs-for he had forgot
ten to put on his breeches-and snaked
him from the hearth. Frightened almost to
death, he crawled under the bed and spilled
the milk over the floor. He remained un-
der the bed until morning, when he crawl
ed out again with fear and trembling, fear
ing he might encounter Old Nick or one
of his imps.


At first he was afraid to look at the bed,
lest he should see his wife lying there
strangled by the fend, but he did muster
courage, and look when, wonderful to re-
late there she lay, not strangled, nor eDa-
ciated, nor cadaverous, but plump and as
fresh as daisy. The reader may desire to
know why and how this transformation ?
Let Maurice tell you. The bedridden wo-
man was fairy who spirited the wife away
to fairy land that she, the fairy, might en-
Joy little of mortal life. The failure to
get that pot of hot milk on that eVentful
night broke the spell and the fairy was
compelled to exchange places and restore
the rightful wife to her home. -


The above relation may appear incredi-
bic to some people, but Maurice is ready to
vouch for every word of it, as he was well
acquainted with the woman who was the
subject of the fairy's Vaccinations Mau-
rice says there are plenty of fairies in Ire
land yet and spirits too. We can vouch
for the latter for We have seen and proved
them.-DubuQue Tines.
Year: 1870

FEMALE lNTEaEPERANCE IN LoNDoN--A
London coroner gives a sad account of the
doings of English ladies of the higher
classes. At recent inquest he declared
that downrigks intemperance was one of
their common and bese, ting vices. he
knew, he said, numberless instances where
these ladies never sat down to dinner, in
their own houses or elsewhere, until they
had brought themselves to a state of almost
inebristy by frequent drams dur1ngthe day.
Some, he said, resorted to ether or eau de
Cologne, or sundry new chemical stimulants,
while others brought themselves mp to
company mark by means of the sherry de-
canter or brandy bottle. These are hard
things to say, but the coroner did not minee
the matter at all, and said that the evil had
assumed such magnitude that it was time
for somebody to speak out. Of course his
boldness has brought all the hornets OF the
press about his head, but it is to be feared
that there is too much truth il his state
ments.
Year: 1870

A Pittsfeld Mass. schoolwas the scene
of lively excitement, the other day, when
a precocious pupil accidentally discharged
a pistol between his pocket and the desk.
Investigation showed that half dozen of
the older fellows had been in the habit for
a long time of carrying loaded pistols to
school - wg.-.-r sl .-f
Year: 1870

The following is the form of the pledge
which the Congressional Temperance Society
proposes shall be administered throughout
the country on the 22d of February: Eve,
the undersigned, do pledge our truth, faith
and honor that we will not use intoxicating
liquor as q beverage nor traffic in them; that
We will not furnish them as an article of en-
tertainment, or for persons in our employ
ment, and that in all suitable ways We will
discountenance their use.H -.-.-
Year: 1870

EXPLANATORY. - We have often been
mortified by readers mistaking advertising
notices in the local columns for editorial
items. A case in point is concerning sewing
machines, etc. A few weeks ago we pub,
lished by direction Of the Singer men an
endorsement of that machine. More re-
Gently, by direction of the Howe men we
published an endorsement of their machine,
the last item directly coutradicting the
first, Yet people have taken them both as
editorials, and wonder at our fckleness.-
We make this statement to caution readers
against taking for expressions of our own
sentiments any notice of any business, that
may be found in these columns, as nearly
all such are mere advertisements, for
which We get paid at more than ordinary
rates.
Year: 1870

DIARIES FOR lS70.-At the Post Office
Book Store is as fine stock of Diaries as
any man need wish to select from. They
embrace every style, quality and price No
one wishing to purchase can fail to be suit
ed. Call and see them soon or you may be
too late to get just such book as you
want.
Year: 1870

COUNTY BOARD PRoCEEDINGs.- w G
devote large portion of our space to-day
to the report Of the proceedings of the
County Board, at its annual session. Our
readers generally, however, are interested
in the doings of the Board, and will be
pleased to read the proceedings in full
Year: 1870

ONE of the best acts of the Coun-
ty Board at its late session, was to make an
appropriation of $3.50 to be added to the
scanty salary Of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court. Serve you right CHRIS.
Year: 1870

As the time will soon be here when grating will
be in order, we repeat our former advice that every
farmer should do his own grating. 1t is a very
easy operation when once understood, and this is
readily done by seeing it done. A sharp penknife
and Il good fine saw are indispensable. Splitting
the stalk that the bark shall not be bruised-and
shaping the scion wedgc-lashion both ways, pre-
serving also the bark uniniured-and placing the
RIM OF the wood of both stock and scion exactly to-
gethef so that the sap ntermingle--there is no
danger OF failure if properly waXed We make n
shoulder to the graft and think il adds TO the GER
tanty of success, though it probably weakens if.
We prefer also two eyes or buds to a graft and
would rather have only one than more than two
one years wood should always be used when if
can be obtained as it is more certain to take and
grows more vigorously.


We WISH TO remind those preparing grating wax,


that we have found four parts of rosin one part of
proportions. Melt them together in skillet (Which
remain in n vessel and be used as needed Twenty
or thirty scions can be waXed with one heating M.
When much grating is to be done, little fire for
heating the wax should be made on the spot, be-
tween two bricks or stones.


We have seen various preparations for making
grating wax and believe we have tried them Mi
but prefer our own. Applying it warm or hot
does no injury to the graft. The object to attain in
the proportion is that the wax will not crack in
cool dry weather, or run in warm weather. IT,
however, upon trial, different portions be required
the foregoing can be altered, though after trying
them in several ways, we have come back to those
Germantown Telegraph.
Year: 1870

/ For family use. (;nd it is especially with this


View we write the plants may be started in little


box in warm room; and for field culture i'll hot
bed green house In quite small box all the
plants any family need may be grown. A few
plants well cared for will be worth great deal


more then Il large number of ii:-grown, such as we


50 often see crowded TO su1focation and death in
dealers hot-bedS. Such long. weekly things can
have no value. The little box need be no more
than two feet long, foot wide, and a few inches
deep, covered with glass to counteract the ,lryness
OF the atmosphere of the room. Put The box in the


sunshine. keep the room warm and carefully veni-
lated. )o not be in too great haste to germinate


the seeds: but once started see that the plants get
no check tor want of care.


TRANSPLANTIN(i. When the plants are two or
three inches high they may be pnt into small pots


to be iicrWard trans planted into larger ones, in
to Il h"i-bed. The transpanting of them at least
twice, or even three or four times before putting
them in the open ground (Which should not be done


tlll appearance OF frost is gone, unless they pro-
tertcd when necessary will hasten early ripcnng
Zach time before TRANSFORMING, the soil should be
well Walered 50 that ball of earth may be remov
e'l With each plant, and this is particularly deSira-


BILE when they are being put in the open ground and
thus their growth Will not he checked. During all
this time lei them have all the light and fresh air
that they can stand; Use mild days, but beware of
cold and frost A uniform temperature is desirable,


but not so hot rs to make the plants grow tall and
slrh!y. If convenient, the plants, sometime before


being set in the open ground, may be put into IA


cold frame, protecting them At first AS much as may
hr necessary.


II The above plan be followed faithfully YOU will


have IN abundance Of fine healthy plants when
every body else is securing the country for what is


MOI always TO be tonnd-good tomato plants.


bItN GROUND CULTURE. Once in the ODeD


r"uili thcN rpln delight and flourish in. "a fati,er


i@ill than heavy. and rich, but moi ovel-rch, soil


and il ON the southeastern exposure Of hillside
where they will be protected from the cold Winds
ann ENJOY the sunshine all the better.


They should not be less than four feet apart


Keepthe soil triabc, Let no weeds grow Hoe early


and often, and they cannot take possession o the soil
Year: 1870

Assessment Fund Bonds for opening paving, and re-
paving streets, unlimited.
The Communication was ordered printed The 1Ean-
cial condition the city is shown by tile following re
mort OF the Examination Committee They state that
they were refused any information by the Controller
and found the affairs Of his Office in demoralzed con
dtion absolutely without hcad


INDEBTEDNESS JrsE 30, l8I0
Year: 1870

all have to say IL, hope you will not pull
the bit in too tight. A horse when con
trolled by these torturing instruments il
very apt to become shy and somewhat diff
ficult to manage. am willing You should
have such a control as the great Interest
you have at stake entities you to. I am in
favor of that. We shall try and help you
and liberal legislation. We ask you to en-.
courage US in our attempt to infuse new
life into the road and make it what rail.
roads generally are-the civilizers of the
race. Wherever the railroad runs you
have the click of the lightning wire,
communicating intelligence from hearts
that are dear to US, but fal
from US, making US feel that while we
are thousands of miles from home, we are
at the same time almost at home. Tele-
graphs, you must have observed, rarely GO
in advance of railroads; in the natural
order Of things they come after them.
did not get up here to make speech, and
hardly know how, but want to say to you
that it is my purpose, as the prime mover
in getting possession of the Jackson railway
to do for ourselves what we could not have
done without it. Every man knows tina,
when We took possession OF the Central Rail
road, wages had not been paid for long
time; nearly million dollars were owing,

provided for; the road was in dilapidated
condition, which it was necessary to remedy
at once. Now, all that we have done to the
very letter. By that you can see what our
purpose will be in the future.


We found that our enterprise was value
less to US unless we had terminal point
to it, and hence conceived the idea Of com.
bining it with the New Orleans and Jackson
road. Now have only to say that l have
ordered 1000 tons of rails, $50 new cars, and
we shall add new locomotives, new ma
chinery, and every man will know that he
can calculate on reaching his journeys end
safely and securely. 1t will be our aim, as
it is our hope, to reduce the rates OF freight
on merchandise, and by this means promote
the interests of the people living on the
route through which the road passes. Now,
railroads are of very little use to their own.
ers, unless they are managed well. And let
me here say, that for railroads to be formed,
little protection must be given to those
weaker brethren that are struggling to get
into life. This hint I show out for your
kind consideration.


Judge Walker, of the New Orleans Times,
and Lieutenant Governor Powers, were
called upon, and made short addresses,
which want of space compels US to omit.


Colonel McComb being asked if he in
tended to build the branch to Aberdeen,
said that if proper encouragement was given,
he pledged that the road would be finished
to Kosciusko within the year. Being fur
ther questioned what accommodations be
proposed to give colored passengers, he re-
piled, the same as himself.


The meeting then adjourned.
Year: 1870

The box is not of stainless alabaster
Which Der Thy feet l break:
Nor filled with costly ointment, gracious
Master,


Poured for Thy sake.
Nay, rather is it shapen in this fashion
A living heart,
Dashed all across with scarlet stains OF
passion,


And broke in part
While from its open wound comes softly
dripping,


Like slow tears shed,
On heavy drops, along Thy footstool slip
ping,


Its life blood red.
1t needs no balm of myrrh for sweet or
bitter,


But life and love:
The sad conditions make mine offering fit
ter


Thy heart to move.
From all these chains of cruel wrong and
anguish,


This load of grief
Wherewith my soul DOH pant, and mourn,
and languish


Give me relief
In Thy far home is not Thy soul still ten
der


For mortal woe?
Hearst Thou not still amid that spotless
Splendor
The seraphs know?
Oh turn Thy human eyes from heavenly
glory!


Say as before
Those tenderest words of all Thy gospel sto-
ry-


go. sin no more !"


fLippincotps Magazine
Year: 1870

sP It ia astonishing to see how
much can be done year by year to u
dorm and beautify the farmers home
and its surroundings. A few trees set
out here and there, a few old decayed
Il ees grubbed up perhaps, ana remov-
ed, an unsightly wall or fence taken
OUT OF the way; in thousand ways, ia
deed, beauty may be made 20 spring
out of deformity, and that too without
any serious expenditure of time Or
money, because each one is undertaken
when work is not over pressing, and
as means OF filling up idle time.
Year: 1870

IPs Thar hant been a bug made yet
IN VAIN. nor oI e that want a good Job.
Thare Is ever lots of human men loaf
ing about Observation-Disclosures and cider
mills all over the country that don't
Seem 10 be necessary for anything but
20 beg plug tobacco, and sware and
steal watcrmelors, but you let the kol-
cry breaT out once, and then you Will
see the wisdom OF having Just sch men
laying around; they help count.--JoSh


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