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Year: 1876

In spite Of the storm there was quite a
spirited concert at the NJ. E. Church last
Sunday, The little folks seemed to feel
the responsibility thrown upon them and,
with Mr.. Whites generous assistance,
went through the entire programme with
unnagging voices. The organ and horn
prelude was beautiful, and such pieces as
Pass Me Not" "The Gate Ajar, y
Pull for the Shore" and Light ol
LIE, F" were well rendered. The singing
old credit to the school, and we hope that
ere long the concert may be given again,
under more favorable skies.
Year: 1876

C, c.. BARTLETT, Esq, we are glad to
learn, is improving, and it is to be hoped
that ere long he will be able to resume. his
usual business which. by the way, has been
so ably executed during his sickness by
his son,
Year: 1876

THOSE intending to take stock in the
"Gold Coin Lottery would do well to
avail themselves of the first opportunity,
as the chances are fast diminishing two
thousand tickets having been sold in four
DAYS last week.
Year: 1876

THE project for building new and sub
stantial ferry boat to ply between this
port and Ebey's landing, on WILDLY Is
land, is meeting with much favor at the
hands OF the people generally.
Year: 1876

THE House Committee on Education and Labor has agreed to report Mir. Walkers bill setting apart for ever the net proceeds of the sale of pubic lands for the education of the people. It provides, however, that nothing in the bill shall interfere with the carrying out of the homestead or pre-emption laws, or limit the power of Congress to extend the right of homestead upon such lands, or limit or abridge tie pow. CT of Congress over the public domain, or interfere with granting bounty lands. It provides further that it shall not be- so construed as to affect in any mannert the existing laws and regulations in regard to the adjustment and payment to States of the per centum of the nett proceeds of the sales of the public lands within their respective limits asI provided in the section 3669 of the Re vised Statutes.
Year: 1876

IT is said that General Banning, chairman of the House military con-

 mlttee, has prepared 8 bill for the consolidation of the quartermaster, cOmmissary and pay departments and corps of the army, into one body, which shall perform all that is now done by the three branches distictively. There are now one hundred and forty- six officers in these three corps. of whom sixty-six are quartermasters (eight in excess of the organization determined for the future, and fifty live psymasters. General Banning thinks a corps f about one hundred officers can attend to all the duties now distributed among one hundred and fifty officers and three depart ments.
Year: 1876

The London Pal Mn Gazette
says: The enormous import Of wheat
from the United Sta'es into this
country, and the probability that it
will increase rather than diminish in
time to come, leads us to reflect how
it happens that Indian corn, which is
SO largely consumed in various forms
by all classes in America, fails to find
favor with Englishmen at home. In
some ways maize is certainly to be
preferred to wheat; and those who
have once acquired the taste for it on
the other side of the Atlantic certain
ly miss the Indian corn on their re-
turn. We suppose, however, that
there is little hope that our working
classes will ever take to this cheap,
wholesome and nutritious food. The
mere fact that it is cheap, operates in
some measure against its adoption.
There is nothing, perhaps, in an Eng
lishman's nature so stupid as his dis
ike to have it supposed that he is
content with cheap food. And In
dian corn is very cheap. It is main
tanned by those who ought to be well
informed, that it pays to grow maize
On the plains at shilling bushel,
aud that If there were sufficient de-
mand it could be prodtably exported
thence and sold in our manufacturing
cities at three shillings q bushel, or
twenty-four shillings a quarter
about half the price of wheat.
Year: 1876

which only wife can perform. And
how do you requite her?


Do you ever praise her? DO you
ever say her coffee is excellent, her
preserves like amber, her sponge
cake light as feather? You can
say all this at Mrs. jones' table read
lily enough.


Do you ever praise her golden
curls now, or notice her neat fitting
dress, or the becoming ribbon at her
throat? Do you ever kiss her when
she stands on iip-toe to tie your
cravat as you used to do?


Ohpyou say, a man cannot be for.
ever courling a woman! When he
marries that sort of thing ends.


We think that in all true marriages
courtship begins at the altar; and
from the results Of varied observation
among large circle of married
friends, we are satisfied that between
husband and wife tenderness--"spoon
iness," you are disposed to call it
so-pays.


And surely no care or exertion is
too great to secure to you what falls
little short of Heaven on earth
Happy Home. KATE THORN.
Year: 1876

Personal attractions most girls pos
sess-at any rate, in sufficient de-
gree to render them attractive to
somebody, for although there are
standards of beauty, yet these do not
prevail with all persons. There is
something wonderful in the difference
Of aspect which the same face wears
to different beholders. Probably the
same philosophical explanation of this
is what, if hidden from all others, be-
comes Immediately and instinctively
apparent to the eye of love. How
can moderately good looking girl
increase her attractions? by culture.
She must cultivate her mind. An
ignorant, illiterate woman, even if
she attracts attention, can not attain
the interest of an intelligent man.
She may do this by reading, by study,
by reflection, and by familiar conver-
sation with the best and most highly
educated persons with whom she
comes in contact. But the heart
must be cultivated as we'll as the
head. 'Of al things" exclaimed a
most elegant and refined gentleman,
after nearly life times familiarity
with the best society-"of all things
give me softness and gen,leness in
a woman A harsh VOICE, coarse
laugh; trities like these have sudden
ly spoiled many favorable first inn
preston. The cultivation of tho
heart must be real, not feigned. A
woman who studies to appear rather
than be good or generous seldom sue
ceeds in deceiving the other sex in
these respects. She who in truth
seeks earnestly to promote the happi-
ness OF those around her, is very apt
soon to obtain admirers among men.
Above all other requisites in a woman
is conscientiousness. Without this
touch-stone Of character, no matter
what her charms and requirements,
she can not expect to command the
lasting regard of any man whose love
is worth having.
Year: 1876

and lending him a horse. Bill says
she was in love with him, and when
asked him to let me see the holes
where they drove in them spikes, he
said he daren't take eff his clothes or
he'd bleed to death. He said his
own father didn't know it because
Bill was afraid it might worry the
old man.


And Bill tole me they wasn't 60
ing to get him to 60 to Sunday
school. He says his father has a
brass idol that he keeps in the gar
ret, and Bill says he has made up
his mind to be pagan, and TO be-
gin to go naked, aud carry toma-
hawk and bow and arrow as soon
as the warm weather comes. And
10 prove it to me he says his father
has this town all underlaid with nj
troglycerine, and as soon as he gets
ready he's going to blow the whole
thing out, and bust her up and de.
molish her. He said so down at the
dam, and tole me not to tell anybody,
but | thought they'd be no harm in
telling you.


And now | believe I must be 60
ing. | hear Bill whistling. May
be he's got something to tell me-"


The Smith boy we think will be
profitable to the youth of this COM
munity.- PHILADELPHIA Builetin.
Year: 1876

When the spirit is willing, but the
flesh weak; when the law in the
members wars against the law of the
mind; when, though you would do
good, evil is present with you; when
scme irresistible current seems to be
setting you down away from what
is good and right;-then remember
that you need not despair; that you
are not asked to do more than you
can, but only what you can; that,
having little, you are to use diligence
gladly to give Of that little, and that
your reward will be greater if you
use your own talent Alright, and i'm
prove it to the utmost, than those
will obtain who, having great en-
dowmcnt of power and faculty, make
little use of it, James Freeman
Clarke.


o that it may please Thee to come
to me thou kindest comforter of
mourning souls, mighty defence in
distresses, and ready help in time Of
need. 0 come, thou purger of all in
ward pollutions, and healer Of spirit
ual wounds and diseases. Come,
thou strength of the feeble, and rails
er of them that fall. Come, thou
putter down of the proud, and teach.
er of the meek and humble. Come,
come, thou hope of the poor, and re-
freshment of them that languish and
faint. Come, thou star and guide Of
them that sail in this tempetuous sea
of the world; thou only haven OF the
tossed and shipwrecked. Come, thou
glory aud crown Of the living, and
holy safeguard of the dying. Come,
Holy Spirit, in much mercy, come
St. augustine.


Lord Holingbrokc once asked Lady
Huntingdon how she reconciled pray
er to God for particular blessings
with absol ute resignation to the d.
vine will. "Very easily" answered
her ladyship. "Jus. as if i we're to
offer petition to monarch, Of
whose kindness and wisdom had
the highest opinion. In such case
my language would be, wish yeu to
bestow on such or such favor, but
your majesty knows better than
how far it would be agreeable to
you, or right in itself to grant my
desire, ! therefore content myself
with humbly presenting my petition,
and leaving the event entirely with
YOU"
Year: 1876

A new and good story OF President
Lincoln is told by the Boston Tran
script. 1t is of "Li,,lc Bennie,'
boy who enlisted at an early age
One night the companion who went
with him was sick, and the boy had
to go out on picket duty in his stead.
The next night Bennie had to go out
again. As it was his second night
without sleep, he became weary and
fell asleep. He was tried and order
ed to be shot. When the news
reached his father and mother in Yer
mont, it was terrible blow to them.
News came also that Mr.. Licoln was
not going to interfere again in army
affairs; SO the father and mother
thought there was no hope for their
boy. There was little child in the
family who had read the life oe Lin
coin, and she knew that he was q
man of compassion, and she said to
herself, "If Mr.. Lincoln knew all
about the circumstances, he would
not let him be shot" She took the
train and went to Washington. She
went to the White House. The sen
tries, after little, passed her in. She
went right to the Private Secretary,
and he too passed her into the room
to tho President. There we're Gov
ernors and Generals there, but when
Lincoln turned around and saw the
lassie. he asked her what she wanted
and she told it all out in her own
way. AS he listened, the great tears
came stealing down his chceks-he
couldn't keep them back. He at
once wrote dispatch, and telegraph
ed it to the front, to have the boy
sent to Washington. lie went homo
with that sister.
Year: 1876

We publish to-day reports sent by
trained and trustworthy observers in
regard to Republican work and pros
poets in twelve counties of the State.
Like those which have preceded
them, the general tenor of these is in
the highest degree encouraging
They tel of restored party unity, of
we'll grounded confidence, and Of
early and active labor in the political
field. Nearly all warn the party in
advance Of the sinister influence of
machine made nominations at Sara
toga, and declare that the State Con-
vention must initiate the policy of
the National Convention if it means
to organize victory.-Ne,o YorA
Tines.
Year: 1876

With a civil service organized up
on a system which will secure purity,
experience, efficiency and economy /;
a strict regard for the public welfare
solely, in appointments, and the
speedy, thorough and unsparing pros
ecution and punishment. of all pub.
lie officers who betray official trusts;
with education unsectarian and free
to all; with simplicity and frugality
in public affairs, and with fratcr.
nal spirit of harmony pervaaing the
people of all sections and classes, we
may reasonably hope that the second
century of our existence as nation
will, by the blessing of God, be pre-
eminent as "an era of good feeling,
and period of progress, prosperity
and happiness.
Year: 1876

The Detroit (Mich.) Daily Ne,os
Of the ID of August prints a letter
from a soldier in Gen. Reno's COM
mand, who, describing the last s.rug-
gle Of Gen. Caster in the battle on
the Little Big Horn River, says:


General Custer and his FIVE com
panies took position on a ridge in the
centre Of the Indian camp, cut off
from access to water, and there they
fought desperately all day long, a
CONSPICUOUS mark for the savage
marksmen all around them. At last
when half his command had been
killed, he called on those that re-
NAMED to follow him aud dash bold
II through the red devils. 1t was
running the gauntlet Of at least two
thousand rifles for the whole distance.
His men did not follow him, and
when he got through he found him
self with single Crow Indian, one
Of his scouts. He would not leave
his men perish alone, and turned to
go back, but the Grow, recognizing
that such movement would be fatal,
grabbed his horse and implored him
not to do SO. Custer only laughed,
and, putting the reins of his horse
between his teeth with a revolver in
each hand dashed back through the
hell of smoke and flying bullets. As
if by miracle he reached the rem
nant of his command, which was now
reduced to forty men. Calling on
these survivors again to follow him,
which the example and success of
his former charge disposed them to
do, he led them from their place of
peril over the path Of lis solitary
charge.


sThat was the last seen of them
until the battle was over, when the
whole party, with Custer in their
midst, were found stark and dead
within a circular rampant formed by
their horses bodies. They had evil
dently at the last moment made up
their minds to sell their lives dearly,
shot their horses, and then raising
them as breastworks fought on with
the vigor Of despair until tho last
man was dead. What they suffered
and what they did within the fatal
circle will ever remain locked in mys-
terry. OF all Of Clusters men only a
Crow scout and a sergeant Of Com
pany ! escaped.


"From the descriptions in the pa
pers you cannot imagine the hor-
rors Of the scene after the battle. !
went over it with the artist as the
dead lay IN heaps where they fell,
and ! shall ever remember it. Gen
eral Custer was found with his clothes
upon him, bu. his two brothers were
terribly mutilated. When the fight
was in progress the Indian squaws
would rush in among the wounded
soldiers and beat out their brains
with clubs.


"Charles Reynolds, Clusters chief
scout and the best shot on the Mis-
souri River was shot off the back of
his horse, and in falling caught the
horse and killed him, and making a
breastwork OF the beasts body, he
commenced terrible slaughter of
the Indians. He lay behind his
horse, dying and still shooting, and
every shot he fred his deadly aim
sent savage to the devil. When
he was taken off the field after the
fight twenty-five dead Indians were
found around him."
Year: 1876

One would suppose that by this time the
uses and disadvantages of lime on land
would be tolerably we'll understood. Ger
tainly we have explained its operation to
readers in time past. But it seems to be
necessary to bring up old things once in a
while in order to view them over again in
the light of new experience.


The occasion at present is an article in an
intelligent Canadian paper on Pennsylvania
farming. The article does justice to the iu-
tclligent and profitable system pursued by
our farmers, but We hardly think under.
stands correctly the prisciple on which lime
is used. 1t speaks Of lime as being gen.
orally used on light soils as material to
bring them up to good condition, but We
think this is wrong.


Soils that are light and deficient in vegc-
table matter are made worse by lime. Let
one for instance take piece of Jersey land
light enough to satisfy anybody-and limo
it, and he will have as poor piece OF land
to operate on as anyone could desire to ex.
pertinent with. A piece Of sand saturated
with iron rust or oxide Of iron, could not
possibly be poorer. And this is true Of
lime on any kind Of light land. Lime tells
to best effect on heavy lands always, but
only here when in connection with vegetable
matter.


Indeed taking practical view of things,
irrespective of any chemical language or
chemical theories, we should say that lime
simply acted as an agent in preparing vege-
table matter to be food for plants. In farm
language it seats" the vegetable waste and
half digests it, and it is then in better con-
dition to be made use of by the roots Of the
regular farm crops. Thus, if we are about
to plow up piece Of old sod, We lime it
a little before we plow it down, or We lime
q piece of stubble for the same reason. The
lime affects the vegetable material in the
soil, and the plants feeding on it are able tc
get as much profit from it in one year as
from the unlimed land in two. Lime in.
deed adds nothing or but little to the rich
ness of land, but makes the natural richness
more available. In other words it is an ex-
celent aid in land already rich, but the poor
est thing possible for light land, if by light
is understood poor land.-GermantO'on Tel
egraph.
Year: 1876

II is only few years since almost every
body was down on {" the crow. The man
or boy who killed the largest number Of
them was hero Of the hour. People are
learning to take more rational Wow of this
bird, and he finds many defenders. Our
Dumb Animals has the following words in
his behalf:


The poor crow finds every mans hand
against him, Notwithstanding the service he
does to those who till the ground. If they
do not kill him on sight, il is only because
he is usually match for even the most sharp
sighted gunner. lie is quite as fond Of
bugs and worms, and little field mice and
young snakes, as he is of farmers COL He
is a good policeman about the farmhouse
and drives away the hawk, who can do twice
twice the mischief he is guilty Of He hunts
the grass fields and pulls out the caterpillars
and all manner of pests, and probably saves
many other crops, il be is hard on the corn


A gentleman had a tame crow who trot-
ted out after him as be went out to wage his
annual war on the squash bugs. His sable
attendant put his head on one side and
watched him few minutes, as if to see
how he did it. Compromising the business
at last, he went for those bugs with will,
and cleared the patch in 6no style. He
took il for business tho remainder Of the
season, insuring n fine crop.
Year: 1876




Many farmers have no convenient place in
which to store their ashes, and consequently
they put them in barrels out Of doors. Too
often these are left uncovered, or the covers
blow of, leaving tho ashes exposed to the
damaging inAuence Of rain and dew. Evil
IDENTIFY they do not realize the great value
which ashes possess as fertiliEing agent


II they did they would never allow them to
run TO waste. On the contrary they would
apply them to their crops. If man has
4 good place in which TO keep them, one in
which they cannot be injured by rain aud in
which there is no danger from fire, it is we'll
enough to let years stock accumulate aud
then apply them in the spring. This, how
ever, in case part Of them are not needed for
crops in the summer. Some of our readers
who have ashes which they think they
ought to dispose Of in order to prevent loss,
may here inquire to what special crops they
should be applied at this season of the year
Wereply that for onions, ashes are among
the very best of fertilizers. For this crop,
if applied now, they should be strewed along
the rows iengthwise, and the cultivators
should then be run between them or else they
should be hoed by hand. Applied to Indian
corn, handful to each hill, Immediately be-
fore rain, or just before the crop is hOed


they give good returns. They are also very
good for vines IN the garden. In moist sea-
sons the application Of ashes TO grass land
Immediately after the first crop of hay has
been removed, has a very fine effect and in
sures a good crop Of rowen. There arc ways
enough in which all the ashes that are made
can be prOhtably used on the farm and they
certainly ought to be saved aud used to the
best possible Advantage.-N. Z. Homestead
Year: 1876

In seasons like the present, when wheat
and corn and oats are greatly injured by
heavy and continued rains, we see the advis-
ability of putting more Of our farms into
pasture, which suffers from no such cause.
Is it not better to have plenty of pasture and
raise few hundred head Of sheep than to
trust to our main crop and perhaps lose that
by wet weather7 You will have the wool
to sell, which always commands money.
You will double your flock nearly every year,
and can thus sell large number Of sheep
yearly, which always command money. You
will have nice, fresh meat for the family
and mutton is healthier and better diet than
pork. You can have your farm kept clean
Of weeds aud brush, and no other animal can
gil their place in this particular


II is true, you may say the dogs will
kill them. Well, you must kill the dogs, or
keep your sheep in an enclosure at night that
dogs cannot enter This is cheaply made Of
pickets. The sheep will become wonted to
this enclosure, and boy can easily attend
TO enclosing them at night.


But the pasture land that We have spoken
of will answer also for cattle and mules and
horses and hogs, and all these or any of them
can be raised and generally there will be
found more money in them than in putting
everything to wheat and corn or oats. In-
deed, mixed farming, where the farmer has
help in his own family, is the most pro6ta-
BILE farming-not running deeply into anything
but raising little of everything to which
the farm is adapted-so that if there is q
| failure of one thing there may be success in
other things. Where markets are available,
good orchard is . valuable acquisition, to
farm, frequently bringing in more ready
money from few acres than oil the rest Of
the farm will make.


Intelligence and enterprise must go hand
ia hand, and everything must be done to in
crease the revenue Of the farm.-Coleman'S
Rural World.


doubling the number Of the flock nearly
every year, except by purchasing, is more
than most breedees expert to do.
Year: 1876

PRUNING TOMATOES. - The Germantown
Telegraph has the following on the subject
Of pruning tomatoes;


Many persons 6nd much profit in pinching
back the branches Of the tomatoes; and it is
q good practice when judioiously done. 1t
may be overdone, however, and injury result.
In the first place it is of no use to attempt it
after the flowers have fallen. The idea is to
force the nourishment into the fruit at the
earliest start for it is at that time that the
future fate Of the fruit is cast. A few
leaves beyond the fruit is an advantage. 1t
is only the growth that is to be checked.
And then much damage is done by taking
off the leaves as we'll as the fruit. The
tomato plant needs all the leaves it can get.
1t is only the branches that are to be checked
in their growth.


No ono who has not tried il can have any
idea of how valuable the leaves are TO the
tomato plant. One may for experiment take
of most Of the leaves Of a plant, and he
will find tho favor inspid, and 10 every way
poor.


OF course 1t is the peculiar aoidity of the
tomato that gives it SO much value to all Of
us but the acid from tomato that has
ripened on an insufficient amount of foliage,
is disagrOeablo to most tastes.


The same principle has been found 10
work In managing grape vines. The mar
who judiciOusly pinohes back the branches
does we'll but he who strips of the foliage,
to " let in the sun and air." generally finds
that be has made bad mess Of il.