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Year: 1870

Take twenty boys Of sixteen, in our or
any town in the State, and let them go to
work, three or four in dry goods store,
boot and shoe establishments, and printing
offices. In ten years they will have be-
com men of twenty six, and the majority
of them will then be about as far along in
the business as they ever will be. One or
two only in each of the above branches,
will be established in business for them
selves or connected with some firm doing
good business, and the rest will be barely
getting a living and growing about their
poor luck. Now We assert that there is
good reason for their poor success, and that
''luck" has but little if anything at all to do
with it.


If we take the trouble to ascertain the
real facts in their several cases, we shall
find that those young men who became
masters in their trades, or leading men in
their pursuits were not afraid to work,
and were determined to succeed. They
looked beyond the day and week. They
made themselves useful and valuable to
their employers by being always faithful,
reliable and willing TO do what they could
for the interest of those for whom they
worked. When press of business came,
they were ready and willing to work extra
hours, and without sulking or grumbling,
well knowing that business must be at
tended to when it came, and that there
were plenty of duh times during the year,
which would more than counterbalance
any extra briskness of the busy season.
To sum it all up, these young men identi-
fed themselves with the establishments
where they were employed-became useful
to their employers, in fact, fixtures, who
could be i'll spared, and in due course Of
time, having gained experience, were in
vited to take a hand with the already estab-
lished house, or else boldly struck out for
themselves. Here, then, is the lesson,
which is, if you wish to become successful
masters, learn first to become faithful SER
wants
Year: 1870




y young "rsoh thus ieellngly describes
his bachelor experience III the hrst village
III Which ne settle" 'i'er entering the NM
lStry;-


Old ladies' gave me tracts and tormented
me in every possible way. One gave me
cough lozengcs because fly got down my
throat in church, another sent me her late
husbands golosheN to wear when l went
out ON wet evenings the late husband 5 feet
were about five inches long,. third sent
wonderful kind Of India rubber bag,
which she said could be applied whenever
chill was felt. Not till my sister came TO
stay with me did | know that hot water
ought to be put into the creature before us
ing; l had thought it sort of mat to lay
over my feet, and very useless of its kind.
A Miss Thompsou wasthe most disagrecabo
of the old maids. She actually ran her fin
gers underneath my collar, to see if wore
flannel. During the year was at Little
back, had thirteen pair slippers, twenty
five sermon cases and three smoking cans
worked for me. One young lady embroid-
cred my initials on shiny-looking black
thread. Ny sister saws that it was done in
hairs and perhaps that accounts for Miss
Rudge being so offended when I said
Year: 1870

THIS NEW AND POPULAR SALOON is
l. nov open for the accommodation OF the pub.
lie, who have already occupied the premises in
force, and proceeded to make themselves at home.
The people know good liquors when they taste
em and good cigars when they smoke 'em and
therefore when they have been TO the
UNION they are bound to call again and repeat.
The propretors will keep none bat the best arti-
cles, and they fiatter themselves that they know
how to mix and serve them. Call. o2.-tf
Year: 1870

THE WAY THE MONEY GoEs.-
When Edwin u. Stanton was "a
bout to die Grant appointed him
one of the Associate Justices on
the Supreme Court bench. The
appointment was merely nominal
and Stanton never saw the bench,
for he soon died. Congress has
lately appropriated a whole years
salary of an Associate Justice for
the benefit of Stanton's widow and
children. This was in return for
the dirty work he did for them
during the war.
Year: 1870

This is the way the New York
Herald strikes ftoR the shoulder
sometimes "The Boston Tran
SCRIPT echoes the yelp Of Hsrrer's
Weekly, that General Robert e.
Lee should net be treated with
the respect due to bis private
character If every Radical
member of Congress should be
treated with respect due his pri-
vate character. it might be
weighed in rcales so dimiputive
that they could be placed on the
point of cambric needle whit
tied down to the little point of
nothing"
Year: 1870

o Wife whipping is said TO have
become epidemic at Montgomery
and elsewhere. En- olden times q
man in the South vino whipped
bis wife was Judged to have
sinned without the law, and was
dealt with accordingly. See
Pauls epistles to the Romans.
Year: 1870




and pretty sure. Ours is new
/ 'Iline-a very new one-runnine
Through miles of unsettled coun.
try, where it's no wonderful thing
! to make out in the far distance
lhalf a dozen Injuns galloping


along with their hair and blan-


kets streaming out behind; and
more than once I've wondered


how it would be if one of those


painted beanties was to collect his
friends and pull up the line. Pom
4 my word, it's about as sensational


a feeling as can come over YOU


Talk about your hair standing on


end! why, there's a pereeptible


creeping, for all the world as if


some one was pouring canary seeds
through the roots. And mind


you, tomahawk and scalping-knife
are not only to be heard of in
Cooper snovels, for they are in


use to this very day, SO that more
than one Sioux or Pawnee war


rior can display his green and
bloody scalps torn from the heads
iof the hated whites by his treach-
erous hands. Seems very horri-
ble, no doubt, and to belong TO
the past; but for all that, such
things are taking place every day
| in the Far West.


Now, it's through this part of
the country that our line runs, and
for years past, I've drove on that
line. / drove there when it only
ran twenty miles; and ] saw and
ran along that line as it stretched
out farther and farther into the
great region westward till it went
its hundreds.


We've cow-catchers on our en-
gines, and nothing to laugh at
neither. On your few mile-loDg
lines you can fence. But when
your line happened to get over a
thousand miles, fencing becomesex-
pensive, and would make a hole
in the profits; so that it was soon
found necessary to have something
in front that would throw off a
cow or a bullock if it had STAYED
on the line; OF else, being all OBJ
stinate sort of a beast, it might
throw off the train. For they
will stay, and there's no mistake
about them, and when you see
them there, and sound the horn
for we use that as well as the
whistle--instead of the stupid
things getting off and into safety,
they'll go galloping off in their
clumsy, cocktail, one-two three
amble, till we catch up to them,
and then--well / should say that
in my time ] have made beef of a
score of cows, though / never
made an end of a fellow creature,
yet I was very near it, though,
once.


You've laughed about the sto.
kers going out in front on to the
COW catcher to heave billets of
wood at the brutes, but it's a fact;
and I've done it before now; and
a good crack from a cornerish
piece of wood has saved EN-, max
ing them give a kick and a plunge
off the single line, and give us
room to go by.


But there are things that will
not get out of the way, do what
you will; / believe you might
sound the horn or whistle, orI
whatever you'd got, at any old
woman who was crossing the line
and she'd only stand still and
stare, while, if you only had al
billet of wood she'd only shake
her umbrella al you, and call you
a villain. They're dreadful crea-
lures, are old women, and if i'll
warn't for the thought that they
were once young, I don't know
how we should bear them. They
don't seem to understand railroads
al all; they never have their tick
Year: 1870

The Somerset Reporter says one of the
workmen on the Somerset Railroad took a
novel way to return to his boarding house at
the village from mile above where he was at
work, the other evening. Providing himself
with pole he embarked upon floating cake
of ice about ten feet square and navigated him
self down the river, running within ten feet of
the pier which, if he had struck itwould have
wrecked his novel craft and sent him to the
bottom. He would have worked his ice float
to the shore, but friend went out with boat
and relieved him. An interested crowd wit
messed the adventure from the shore.
Year: 1870




We. were much surprised to learn by a
communication handed us the other day
that the writer encounters mud every day
in his travels to and from the centre of
business in this city. Has anybody else
seen any mud? Is there any mud in any
other part of the city? Has there been
any in any other city or town in the State
this springP Atthis season of the year il
is remarkable that n4Q-holes should exist
in this vicinity. We hope the City Coun-
ell will make due inquiry about this m'4a-
DE- ym;atter. and attend particularly to it.
Let the Street Commissioner be examined
as to his responsibility in the case, and at
the same time be investigated about the
big freshet, which came near taking the
bridge away, for he is about as responsible
in the last case as the first


P,,S, Since the above was written we
have seen a team stuck fast in Winthrop
street in the mud, and we hear reports of
mud in other parts of the city. If the
Street Commissioner is going to attend to
them all at once he will have to spread
himself out exceedingly thin.
Year: 1870

The amendments added by Senator
Cragin to the House bill to suppress poly
gamy, haze intensified it to such j degree
that Brigham aud his followers are, more
troubled than ever. In its present shape
it depriyes the Mormon Church of all legal
power to solemnize marriages or grant
divorces, Furnishes with a heavy fine or
Imprisonment any person who may as
sist at such ceremony, and also any
person who may cohabit with woman
under the ceremonies of the Mormon
church. Ifthis should become a law there
will be wailing in Utah among the elders,
and the question of the power of the strong
hand to deal with this difficult matter will
be tested.
Year: 1870

LoNGsTREET.-This renegade Southern
general was Marshal of nergro process
ion celebrating the ratification of the Fif-
teenth Amendment in New Orleans Our
Republican friends are now ready to en-
brace him and receive him into full fellow
ship His proper place is in that party.
1t is probable he will be candidate for
Congress He is just the kind of timber
for good Radical Congressman.-Napa
Reporter.


Our cotemporary came very near telling
the truth. The place for General Long
street, and all others, who like him have
seen and acknowledged the error of the ir
political course, is in the Republican party,
and there they would have bten long since,
had itnot been for the insane teachings of
Northern Democrats, who aided in bring
ing about the late evil war, assist d in car
rying it on, but were too &C twardly to fight.
A majority of the Southern people think
and feel to-day as Longstreet does, but
lack the moral courage to take his political
stand. They have become weary of fol-
lowing in the wake of Northe n Democrats,
and many Of them are fast repudiating
those political heresies which have been
the cause Of great misfortune to the whole
country. We predict that in the next
Presidential election the Democr .cy will
receive but little ass stance from the South.
Recorder.
Year: 1870

ltduetS CosiliS 4ol "stiN ~! ~"


garments for the sake Ct getting
the power into their own hands.
We have in the Republican party
in South Carolina honest, intelli-
gent, capable and patriotic men,
both white and co!orcd, beth
Northern and Southern born. We
.have in our Legislature a few who
have stood out boldly and fearless


ly in defence of the interests and


honor Of tie State; and against
the tide Of corruption by which


they were surrounded. We have
even in our State Govern mcnt two
or three such men, finely educated,
able and honest, who would orna-
ment any Government. These
men have had to suffer with the
worst members of their party for
the defence of principles which
our former opponents now seem
perfectly ready to admit. They
have been thoroughly tried and
found true on all occasions. If the
"Citizens' Party" wish US to be-
lieve it is acting in good faith,
such men must not be neglected,
but have prominent part in the
new movement. Let us have no
odious distinctions on account Of
place Of birth or colo" Of the skin.
We want Northern men, Northern
capital and Northern energy to
come into the country, to assist IN
developing its resources. il is the
interest Of all who desire quiet and
the prosperity Of the State, that
the Two races should live together
tremendously; and it is as mani
testify the interest Of the coIored
as Of the white people, that the
State should have an economical
government. and honest capable
men to administer it. If they can
be convinced that their rights will
be respected by the "Citizens'
party" all who have acquired q
little intelligence, OF who arc al
ready or hope 10 become property
owners, would undoubtedly sup
port such a movement. But if
they see men of known Intelligence
and integrity Of character rejected
by this new party, merely because
they had advocated the same prin~
ciples when it was unpopular to
do so, they will very na,urslly
suspect that the whole movement
is Intended to get the power out
Of their hands: and they vii! con
soqaently reject it.


fthcn the "an.i-Radic;i' press
and the "Citizcus' Party" are sin
cere in their professions they
should not i2ii to consult honest
and capable Republicans about the
organization Of this new party,
and the candidates who are to be
put forward for prominent and
responsible positions. In the nomi-
nations to The Legislature the col
ored people should be we'll repre-
sented whenever men Of their
can be found with q rea-
sopable amount Of intelligence and
honesty.


In this way the confidence Of
the best class Of colored people
may be gained, and an honest
economical Government be re-
stored to our State. Such a "Citi-
zens' Party" I, as a Republican,
immovable in my attachment to |
the great principles Of that party,
could heartily support.


Very truly your friend,


B. 0. DUNCAN.
Year: 1870

1t is said that an acre of ground cul-
ti7ated with mulberry trees for silk
culture will pay $1,000 per annuno, with
only one months silk making. commerc-
ing about the last of June. OF course
the eggs must be put away and kept in
cool and dry place for the next season.
The price Of raw silk in the cocoon is
over eight dollars per pound, and eggs
are worth from four to six dollars per
ounce.
Year: 1870

J
enabled to aid IN this redemption BY
your partnership. Applause.


Never desert a friend in Distress
never violate promise.


Make temperance thy companion, so
shall health sit on thy brow.


Be charitable to the poor; he that
giyeth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.


The woman who neglects the buttons
of her husbands shirt-front is not the
wife Of his bosom.


Some 10000 children have been
named Ulysses this last two years, out
Of compliment to the President.


A New Hampshire paper suggests
that 'JustifabIe insanity" is the form
in which yerdicts in many cases should
be rendered nowadays.


The good man has God in his heart
when he is not in lis mouth but tho
hypocrte has God in his mouth with
out having him iu his heart. e#


Aman died in the Wilmington, Conn.
almshouse the other day, who was for
merly a prominent citizen, and quite
wealthy but he gave his money away
to help others, and died paupcr


Disguised with one of the stamps
that will not stick, a Providence letter
writer on Thursday dropped the letter
into the office with the stamp se-
curely fastened with pin.


The Louisiana Baptist tells of an in-
cendiary who lately set on fire Bap-
tist church, but who first piously re-
moved the Bible and hymn book, put
ting them on log cut Of reach of the
fire.


The Sandusky CO.. Register claims
for that city that it has less Temperance
agitation, and more temperance, than
any other city of the population in the
State, Temperance societies and lee
lures are unknown there.


Both houses of Congress have passed
a resolution extending the income tar
another year, but reducing the per cent.
of tax to be paid on incomes to 8 per
cent. This reduction does not apply
to the incomes Of last year, the tax on
which is now being assessed.


Awidower in Indiana who married
again last week, while on his way with
his new bride to the depot to start on
their bridal tour, was rudely stopped
by an undertaken who demanded in-
slant payment of his little bill for bury
ing his first wife. The father of the
new bride stepped forward and liquida-
ted the bill


A Yankee one day asked his lawyef
how an Eeiress might be carried of.
"You cannot do it with safety" said
the counsellor; "but III tell you what
you may do Let her mount a horse
and hold a bride whip; you then
mount behind her, and you are safe;
for she runs away with you" The
next day the lawyer found that it was
his own daughter who had run away
with his client


The House Committee on Rivers and
Harbors has reduced the amount to be
spent in Improvements to about $s,-
500, 900. The amount asked for is
about S1l,o0O,o00. 1t would have
been better economy to have granted
the eleven millions in judicious exper-
piture on these free highways of COM
merce. the traffic of which after all,
bear the greater burden of taxation for
all purposes


We would suggest to the editor Of
the Columbus Journal that although it
may be very crushing and witty and all
that sort ofthing to call au adversary an
ass when he cornors you in argument,
still, the crush and the wit get just q
leetle stale in the course OF years, par
ticularly when it is used once or twice Q
dav. Caillicoshs RegSser
Year: 1870

A city cotemporary intimates that the Asso-
ciated Press would DO well to employ an agent
concur In this view OF the case. A few dsys
since q convention, composed Of representative
from the three wings Of the Republican party
Of Virginia, met at Richmond and transacted
business OF interest and importance. The pro-
ceedings Of this convention we're Of general in
terest, and every Newspaper served by Aseo-
siated Press should have been furnished with n
comprehensive abstract. As II was, however.
they did not receive q line, or even word, in
reference to the convention. There is another
agent Of the Association located in q large city
between Washington and New York who mirht
be looked after with advantage. In this age Of
general intelligence and rapid communication
the newspapers can not AFFORD 10 be treated
shabbily BY those whose duty 10 IL to furnish
them with the latest news. CRroaicle.
Year: 1870

DEPARTURE OF THE PRKsIDRNT.-President
Grant and his family left this city in the I245
train to-day for West Point to visit his son, who
is cadet there. The President will return to
this city on Monday next. Secretary Cox and
lady accompanied the Presidents family.
Year: 1870

THE SUTRo TUNNKL.-While Adolph Sutro is
advocating his Tunnel franchise in Washington
city, against those who desire the abrogation OF
the Congressional grant to him and associates,
they are driving the actual tunnel under the
mountains toward the Constock lode with great
energy and success. The telegraph says they
have advanced nine hundred and sixteen feet
almost, if not quite, one-twentieth of the whole
distance. AS yet there seems no change in the
ground, but at any moment they may strike
some rich lode, and they anticipate doing 50 be-
fore they reach the Comstock. That would in
sure speedy success.-San Francisco Daily Norm
ing Call.
Year: 1870

vote, involving the most momentous questions for
the Napoleonic Dynasty, and that it was somewhat
singular that they should coincide with popular
manifestation of the people. Whatever may have
been the means employed to insure the success of
the Pebiseit'ma, and whether the vote obtained on
the sth of MAY is true expression of public opinion,
am not sufficiently Informed todecide. But it is
probable that the Emperor with that keen and far
seeing political sagacty which has given him such
high reputation among the leading politicians Of his
age, certain of the result of his appeal TO the
nation.


The following are the official figures copied from
Year: 1870

Another significant feature of this great political
event is, that notwithstanding the overwhelming
majority obtained by the Government, the large
cities of France, Paris included have voted in such
way as to cause some anxiety in high quarters. l
copy from an official source:
Year: 1870

That profound philosopher who compared
advertising to growing crop. He said The far
plants his seed and while he is sleeping the corn
is growing So with advertising. While you are
sleeping eating. your advertisement is being read
by thousands of persons who never saw or heard Of
your business, ever would, had it not been for
your Advertising"
Year: 1870

LIQUID MANURE FOR SrRAwBERRlEs.--A correspondent of the SaaaU Fruit Recorder gives the result of an experiment. which he made with liquid manure for strawberries. He said that he produced half hogshead, filed it with rain water, and put into it one quarter of pound of ammonia, and one quarter of a pound of common nitre. When the strawberry plants were blossoming he gave them sprinklng of the solution at evening twice a week, until the fruit was nearly full size The result was nearly dou- ble the amount of fruit on those to which the liquid was applied, than was obtained from plants alongside, to which none of the liquid was given.
Year: 1870

A LITTLE schoolboy out West presented the teacher the following note from home as an excuse for tardiness: Baby cross Bis cult to Bake Had no Baken powders the dog up set the coffee pot the cat licked the Milk and got up late Excuse"
Year: 1870

HurcuiNs was so small fbat he had no chance OF
hitting him. Ills friends say that he was ready
TO fight, but that HUrcmxs could not procure q
second. At all events there was fash in the
pan, and no duel. The affair has ended in smoke.


The Major has drawn his bullets, oiled his pis-
tolls aud put them away again, while WASHING
Ton has consoled himself perhaps with that sweet
poem of the good Or. WAITS, about what Ne
ought to encourage dogs 10 do, but abstain from
ourselves. Both combatapts have probably
quenched their thirst long before this with liquor
more pleasant to the palate, and certainly less
harmful to the general system than the blood Of
an adversary.
Year: 1870

Early yesterday, while Que of the feet-footed


little messengers oil the Associated Press was hurry
ing around to the onhces with despatcLls some one
connected with the rival news association yelled
out stop thief" At which policeman went for
him. After an exciting chase the boy WIS over.
hauled, and taken to a police station. whore his
business and identity were proved, ami he was dis
charged IL a ruse to Qclly the delivery cf dec
patches to morning newspapers which were on tho
point Of going 10 press.
Year: 1870

A cable telegram from London yesterday
says that president GRASr's proclamation
against the Feuians gives great satisfaction in
England OF course it does; but how would it
be if the President sholld issue a proclamation
equally firm on the Alabama question:
Year: 1870

Our Havana correspondence in another
column is peculiarly interesting, and as the ma.
jority OF the matter is collected from Spanish
newspapers Of different parts Of the island the
present condition Of the Cuban revolution is not
likely to be less prosperous than described. As
will be observed, our correspondent confirms the
notice of the departure from Liverpool of Gu
ban privateer, to which THE SuS exclusively
called the attention on Wednesday last Of our
new Secretary Of the Navy Detective PRcKERroS.