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Year: 1871

each other, make a pile eight and
one quarter miles high. The circu-
lars measured endwise reach 1894
miles, and these assertions are mat
ters of mathematical certainty.
What ever the estimation in which
these publications may be held here,
they reach the firesides of millions
upon millions of men who do treas
ure and regard them, and who in
their trials do heed the counsel they
bring.


Not only over these great West
ern continents but throughout that
other land so little known to you,
under our feet, the Australian con-
tinent, there are few villages as large
as this which are not familiar with
the name you have chosen, and en-
ploying the remedies that bear it.


Thus, gentlemen, have l striven
in my humble sphere torender some
service to my fellow men, and to de
serve among the afflicted and unfor-
tunate some regard for the name
which your kind partiality hangs on
these walls around me. We may
look forward with confident hope to
the renown you will gather under it,
and the prosperity, which there is
reason to trust the future has in
store for you. Situated as you are
here on one of the main arteries be-
tween the west and east, between
the great industries of the plough
and the spindle you must aid in
their exchanges and thrive with
them. Soon these channels will be
opened wide and pouring through
your precincts streams of men and
merchandise that will need your
furtherance and must contribute to
your growth.


Located here in the center of New
England to what dearer spot can
you turn that men inhabit? Begin
ming life rich with the honors of
your mother town whose influence
through her schools and her sehol-
ars is of itself an inheritance, with
such examples as Lawrence, Bout
well, Hoar, what may you not hope
for of usefulness in the councils of
the state and nation ?


Contrast our condition with that
of the European nations, alternately
torn and impoverished with wars,
credit it as You may to the better
education of the people, and you
will realize thevalue of the example
old mother Groton has set you, so
worthy of your ambition to follow.
Build schools for your children and
find talent to teach them, then intel
ligence and integrity in prosperous
and happy homes will be your sure
reward.


Associated as you have made Inc
with your veal and wo, l wish /
might be allowed to contribute from
my means such as they are, some
thing towards this first foundation
of the public good. F -..


Gentlemen, have. detained you
too long. Oppressed with the fear,
that do not deserve the distinction
you bestow, 1 pray God to make me
worthier, and to smile upon you
with His perpetual blessings.
Year: 1871

If brooms are put into boiling
suds once a week, they will become
very tough, will not cut the carpet,
last much longer, and always sweep


like new ones. A very dusty car
pet may be cleaned by setting pail
of cold water out by the door, wet
the broom in it, knock it to get off
all the drops, sweep yard or so,
then wash the broom as before and
sweep again, being careful to shake
all the drops off the broom, and not
sweep far at a time. If done with
care it will clean carpet very nice
ly, and you will be surprised at the
quantity of dirt in the water. The
water may need changing once or
twice if the carpet is dusty. Snow
sprinkled over a carpet and swept
off before it has time to melt and
dissolve is also nice for renovating
q soiled carpet. Moistened Indian
meal is used with good effect by
some housekeepers. -
Year: 1871

The following makes a simple as
well as u palatable pudding for inva-
lids, and l do not think any one
would refuse a plate of it served
with sweet cream and sugar:-Take
of tapioca one cupful, and three
good sized sour apples; wash the
tapioca and pare and slice the ap-
pies; place in a deep dish alternate
ly layer of tapioca and apple;
then add sufficient water to cover
the whole, and set in warm place
until the tapioca is swelled sufficient
ly: then bake three quarters of an
hour in Il moderately hot oven.
Year: 1871

l send you the following in an.
swer to a correspondents inquiry
l OF. cochineal, l OF. cream of tartar
l OF. muriate of tin, for one pound
of wooden goods. Thoroughly pull.
verize the eochineal by pounding,
Put two pals of soft water in a
brass or porcelain kettle. Have
the cochineal in Il bag, and while
the water is coming to boil, squeeze
it out with the hands, hen add the
other ingredients, put in the goods
and let them boil one hour, con
stantly stirring.
Year: 1871

Ashes are a most excellent ma
nure for strawberries; in fact good
for almost any crop.


Bone dust is excellent for grape
vines. Trim trees from this time
on as you have an opportunity.


Go over the meadow grounds and
see that all obstructions are remov-
ed that will interfere with the seythe
or machine: .-


1t is always better to mulch large
trees and evergreens.


Be sure that the ground is well
pulverized before sowing small seed.
Year: 1871

A Rosc IN Sidaey.-Last evening about G
O'Clock, a slight misunderstanding occurred
between awhile man by the name Of. Robert
Rice, and a colored man by the name OF
Henry Vaughan, at drinking saloon in
Sidney known as the Westham House. In
the melee, Vaughan received terrible blow
from Rice's left on his right peeper, which
sent him to grass, where he laid but mo-
ment, and then struck for the Third Police
Station-house, armed with warrant which
he placed in the hands of Sergeant James
who arrested Rice. Rice was brought before
Justice White this morning, when the case
was continued until Monday, on account Of
the absence of important witnesses. The
whole matter is said to have happened over
a glass of bad whiskey.
Year: 1871

This important Commission adjourned
over Thursday till October, having been
in session long enough to fully realize, if
they did not before, the arduous nature
of the work entrusted to them. We regret
to learn that some unexpected difficulties in
the way of defective power under the laws
were discovered very early in their sessions.
We sincerely trust that there is no legal
barrier to protect imbecility and corruption
from the searching scrutiny of the people.
The points discussed enable them to see
the extent and boundaries of the field and
will guide their studies during the vacation,
when we trust they will be able to mature
system acceptable to the country.
Year: 1871

The City Council and ats Incompetent
Clerk.--This body will meet again on Mon.
day next, at which time we would suggest
the election of a competent clerk, or stil
the present one up with a long pole. The
President would be greatly assisted by a
change, and considerable time and unne-
cessary labor saved. In all bodies of like
character it is the custom of the clerk tc
have the roll of members, alphabetically
arranged, but in this body, the Incompetent
has the name of General Anderson alone
SO arranged which is followed by Smith OF
Jones, we don't remember which. .ssa


We beg the gentlemen to strengthen his
many official weaknesses just enough te
make visitors less nervous, or do like John
son-resign at the request Of somebody.
Year: 1871

What's Sauce for the Goose Should be
Sauce for the Gander.-There are some
facts connected with the contracts for sup
plies, and the ordinance relating thereto, OF
an interesting character, which may not be
known to the public. We ilasinuate one of
them, and leave the reader to judge Of its
merits. arY4 e geg3


A certain member Of the Council is in
possession of part of the city funds, de-
posted for safe-keeping. Another mem
Der, not wishing his brother to seem to
violate the ordinance, desires to place him
above suspicion Of wrong, by favoring the
withdrawal Of these funds at the same
time he is interested in a certain contract
himself, paying him handsome profit.
How is this for consistency?
Year: 1871

Tell me not that he's a poor man,
That his dress is coarse and bare;
Tell me not his daily pittance


lis Workman's scanty fare
Tell me not his birth is humble,


That his parentage is low;
Is he honest in his action?


That is al ] want to know.
Is his word to be relied on?


Has his character no blame?
Then l care not if he's low bern
Then | care not whence his name.
WOULD he from an unjasl action
Turn away with sc0rnful eye?
Would he, than demand another,
Sooner on the scaffold die?
Would he spend his hard gained earnings
On brother IN distress
Would he succor the afflicted,


And the weak ones wrongs redress
Then he is a man deserving


Of my love and my esteem,
And care not what his birth place
In the eyes OF man may seem.
Let it be low matched howell
Let it be clay built cot
Let in be the parish work-house-
In my eyes it matters not,
And if others will dlsown him,
AS inferior to their cast,
Let them DO it'll befriend him
AS brother to the last.
Year: 1871

After presenting in satiric caricature the
wisdom and enterprise and public spirit of the
citizens of Rockbridge county, the Lexington
Gazette caps the climax.of its wit by concluding
it's article with suggesting a device for the seal
of that county, as follows =


'We will also suggest device for the Pub
lie Scala picture Of tumble-bug with his
ball in horse-track, slowly rolling around in
the circle of sand (head down and heels up)
from daylight to dark


AS this will be likely to put the substantial
citizens of that county in kicking mood, they
will be apt to think that there would be pro-
priety in having the ''bal'' to represent the
author of the artistic and delicate device.
Year: 1871

Life.
| A baby played with the surplice sleeve
| Of gentle Prest-whie in accents low
The sponsors murmured the grand II believe.
And the Priest hade the mystic waters flow
I'm the name Of the Father, of the Son,
And the Holy Spirit Three in One.


Spotless as lily's leaf


Whittier than the Christmas snow
Not shade Of sin or grief


And the babe laughed sweet and low.
A smile fitted over the baby face
Or was it the CLEAN Of its angel wing
Just passing then, and leaving trace
VI It's presence, as it scared to sing.
e hymn, when Words and waters win
10 grace and life-a child of sin,
Not an outward sign or token


That the child was saves from woe
But the bonds OF sin were broken


And the child laughed sweet and low.
A cloud rose up to the mothers eyes
And out of the cloud griefs rain fell fast;
Came the baby's smiles and the mothers sighs
Out OF the Future or the Past?


Ahl CLEAN and gloom must ever meet


And gall must mingle with the sweet!


Yea upon her baby's laughter


Triokled tears-tis always So


Mothers dread the dark hereafter;


But her babe laughed sweet and low.
And the years, like waves, broke on the shore
Of the mothers heart and her baby's life;
But her lone heart drfted away before
Her little boy knew an hour of strife


Drifted away on a Summer eve


Ere the orphaned boy knew how to grieve.
Her humble grave was gently made


Where roses bloomed in Summers glow
The wild birds sang where her heart was laid


And her boy laughed sweet and low.
He fioated away from his mothers grave
Like fragile flower on a bright stream tide,
Ill he heard the moan Of the mighty wave
That welcomed the stream 10 the ocean wide
Out from the shore and oyer the deep,


He sailed away; and he learned to weep.
Furrowed grew the face-once fair


Under storms of human woe;


Silver-grew and bright brown hair;


And he walled so sad and low.
And years swept on, as erst they swept;
Bright wavelets once-wild blloWs now;
Wherever he sailed he ever wept,
And cloud hung O. er his brow,


Over the deep and into the dark


But no one knew where sank his bark.


Wild roses watched the mothers tombl


The world still laughed-t is ever so
God only knew the baby's doom


That laughed so sweet and low.
Year: 1871

The following is the 'nub' of yarn which is
told about big whisky guzzling fellow who
came home one night and sat down by the fire
to warm his feet, which were regularly worn
killers says the legend: After doing some
time, he awoke chilly; the embers were entire
ly hid from view, and seeing his feet, he mis-
jestic side wave of the hand, he said: ''Stand
aside, my little son, and let your poor father
warm himself"
Year: 1871

DON'T SELL THE CALVES Too many far
mers are tempted into selling their calves and
young stock when some butcher Or dealer comes
along and offers them fair price


This IS poor economy. Farmers should re-
member that all animals used for food and
raised upon the farm. should be regarded SIM
ply in the light of machines for converting
grain and grass into money. This is one of the
fundamental principles OF good farming.


Every farmer needs just as many of these
machines as it can possibly support and there
is scarcely limit to the amount Of stock an
industrious, go-ahead, pushing farmer can
keep.


The farmer should resist all fancy prices for
his calves, build up herd, start the moving
machine early and keep it moving till late -
Save your corn, fodder, and straw, and raise
more vegetables. Economy in saving food will
enable you to raise and keep more stock: and
If there is profit in ten calves, there is more in
fifty


10 less extent the same is true of hogs :;
but 1t is easier to stock farm with hogs than
with cattle or sheep


Still, almost every farmer could just as we'll
keep and fatten two or three times as many
hogs as he does, if he would have little more
confidence In his calling, hire labor, cultivate
more Of his land than is now lying idle. In a
word, If the farmer would push things there
would be fewer farmers poor in purse.
Year: 1871

and was seldom seen in public There wa


something about this mans face that attracted


the attention of this man of letters that lee
him to see him in his roam.


| After climbing number of flights of step:
he reached his humble abode, and found him
engaged in grinding lenses, with papers lying
around him upon which was an immense
amount of figures. The learned man at once
asked him what he was doing? The poor me-
chanic pleased at the idea Of being called upon
by SO distinguished an Individual explained to
MIN what he was trying to accomplish. He
told him that il he could get certain number
OF lenses OF certain shapes, (which it took
much mathematical talent to ascertain) he
would. be able to make the most powerful tel
escope that the world ever saw. The learned
man caught the idea, made the necessary cal
cnia....coln and presented the instrument to the
world as his own invention, whilst the obscure
mechanic, the real discoyerer Of the instru-
ment died, we may say, unknown. His genius
was stolen from him aud appropriated by
another man."


Your remark that true genius generally be-
longs to the mechanic is in the main true.
believe, Mr.. Thompson, the mechanics may be
called the working bees Of the hive and those
will study the subject and cannot see their true
value, am sure they have not brains enough
to do much in this world and therefore may
very properly be called drones, that merely live
and feed upon the industry of others. Do you
think, Mr.. Thompson, that am too much of
drone to be the wife Of meehanic?"


mo, Miss ElIen I think you know his true
value and could make him happy, and he could
make you happy. [ am satisfied that you
would be far happier with an educated, honest
mechanic, than you would, with a coxcomb
who sets such high value upon himself that
every one else seems low in his estimation"


ELLEN, after her conversation with Mr.
Thompson, thought upon the subject, and be-
came the wife Of young man who, when a
boy, had been bound to the shoe-maker's
trade, and is now professor in medical col
ege and the author Of several valuable books.
HIS name will live,, when others of higher
birth will -haye sunk in oblivion.
Year: 1871




Early in the spring of the year which wit
messed the John Brown sacrifice, Judge Cum
ningham, holding commission from Bucha.
nan, rode Out to little country seat near
Atchison, where he had heard Brown was
staying, for the purpose of arresting him.
Arriving at the house he rode up to the door
dismountdd with his four companions. and
inquired for John Brown. The lady asked
the party to sit and she would call him. Pre-
sently he appeared, and Cunningham seeing
that Brown did not know Lin, and feeling
certain OF his victim, began to convese with
him. After an exceedingly pleasant inter-
view, Cunningham informed Brown that he
had come to arrest him, and that he must
have his company forthwith to Atchison,
where Brown knew death was certain.


From The mans demeanor at this moment,
said Cunningham afterwards, 81 saw. that
was to be disappointed, but how could not
imagine. For he was completely alone with
my soldiers and myself, and l knew that the
country through which we should pass was
unfriendy to the aboltionist, should he at.
tempt to escape. Furthermore, | knew
Brown was ignorant OF my mission up to the
moment when declared it. He could not,
therefore, have been prepared for me. But
the mans selt-cOntrol was wonderful His
countenance did not change line from the
light cordial expression it had worn at the
conclusion OF his last sentence. He contin-
ued the subject as ii had not spoken and, fol
a moment staggered into the belief that my
tongue had slipped and had not said what
mad intended. However, repeated my er.
RAND and took step forward to form
any arrest Brown, when, felt myself de
tanned by hand on my shoulder. l turned
ana an armed man, not one of my soldiers
sto0d at my back. Behind him was another
and behind him another-a yertebrated cbai,
OF men extending from the corner of tn
mouse to the bushes. They must have com
az some signal from Brown, who immediatel
said, You see you are all my prisoners.
his tone was unchanged, but his countenanc
was sad as if weighed down with new re
sponsbility. He seemed to be perfectly un
aware OF my discontinue, and, after mo
ments pause, sald simply, 81 believe l mus
lind out what to do with you ALL" He retire'
Year: 1871

FROM the St. LOUIS llhlts.


Ii is evident enough to any
one acquainted at all with Amer
lean politics, that no territorial
laws recognizing Il social condi-
ton unknown to the constitution,
abhorrent to the common law,
and incoherent with the matri-
monial theories of an advanced
civilization, can long be sus-
tanned in Utah or i'll any other
part of the national domain.
There are several acts of the
Mormon Legislature so mani
festly in contradiction of various
acts of Congress, that the en-
forccmcnt Of either, is likely to
be attended with considerable
trouble and bad feeling; and
there is no immediate prospect of
getting quietly rid of Mr.. Brig
ham Young and his trusted apos-
ties.


The cNpurgation of the poly
gamous system has to be con-
summated by degrees, with dis
crction, by measures of policy
rather than those of force; but
that tho social and industrial sys-
tenn built up ut Salt Lake
through the ingenious abilities
Of President Young, must sooner
or later give place. to better and
wiser Institutions, there can be
no sort of question. The dis
pensation that prevailed with
Solomon is not the thing for this
age, however bad the people are
with or without it. Tho evils of
which we complain in Utah, are
not to be cured by giving them
freer license neither is the social
immortality of the day to be
remedied in any section of the
country by granting its indul-
gences.


The vice of licentiousness is to
be dealt with legally, as we deal
with any other vice. All encour-
agement to its practice-alltoler
alton of it's eNccsses-lnust be
suppressed, wherever they exist,
and it is quito evident that the
Mormon kingdom needs fully as
much discipline as any other sec
ton of the country.
Year: 1871

tErom tho Boston Traveller.


Theodore Tilton has written n
life of Victoria G. Woodruff,
which, for blasphemy, indecency,
and lunacy combined, has proba-
bly, never been equalled. She is
gravely declared to be possessed
by the spirit of Demosthenes,
who, in bodily form, appears to
her, sits by her side, and dictates
those fearful and wonderful pro-
nnnciamentos which flow from her
unconscious lips, and. are taken
down by one of her husbands
and given to the world in print.
She is declared to have watched
increasingly for ton days and
nights, without rest or food, over
a sick woman, till the latter was
restored to health; she herself
growing all tho timc fair and
ETHEREAL, and her flesh wearing a
look OF transparency, thus lead
ing her to believe that at last in
this way will tho mortal body be
refined away, and tho soul only
remain. She is declared to have
held to her bosom in seven
hour trance the body of her dead
son, till perspiration broke from
his clammy skin, and the child
came back to life, and her vera
cious biographer adds that it is
"her belief that the spirit of
Jesus Christ brooded over the
lifeless form, and rewrought the
miracle of Lazarus for Il SORROW
ing woman's sake" Her omar
riage' to her second husband,
and her support under tho same
roof of her first, are treated as
exhibitions of moral courage "for
which she has received not so
much censure Oh earth as l think
she will receive reward in heaven"
And to crown the absurdity and
wickedness of this dreadful pro-
duction, the author says "Twice
(as she mistakenly believes) she
has seen q vision of Jesus Christ
thus doubly over st.
Paul, who saw his Master but
once, and then was overcome by
tho sight" Verify, since the
red handed atheists of the first
French revolution elevated and
worshipped a harlot in the place
of the God of heaven, there has
been no parallel to the deifica-
ton of Victoria 9. Woodruff by
Theodore Tilton.
Year: 1871

The Dutch pride themselves as
most successful in agriculture. 1t
is true their land generally shows
IL good state of cultivation. The
larger portion of their land is nat
urally rich, still in sections it is
nothing but sand to begin with.
These waste places they redeem,
by sowing them first with heath
which will thrive in the most bar
rem soil. After this has spread
over the surface, they cut it off
and plant the ground with broom
letting this grow for some three
years. By this time, the ground
has undergone a chemical change
SO that it will produce buck
wheat.


After they have taken off a crop
Of this wheat, they SOW clover
seed, and after it has come up in
blossom, they plough it in. From
this time they enrich the soil with
manure and it will produce rye
and potatoes.
Year: 1871

a Colorado saloon-keeper said
of Il rough crowd: 81 couldn't
get their whisky strong enough
for them, SO, after trying every
way, at last made a mixture of
poison oak and butternut. That
fetched them. L called it the
sheep-herder's delight, and it was
a popular drink. The first Pike
I tried it Oh yelled with delight !;
the next one took two drinks,
and turned a double somersault
in the road before the house. \
peddler came along, and after he
took several drinks of my sheep
herder's delight he went off and
stole his own pack and hid it in
the woods
Year: 1871

An act of February 2S, 1871,
passed by Congress, prcscribes
"that no loose hay, loose cotton,
or loose hemp shall be carried as
freight on any steamer carrying
passengers nor shall balcd cot
ton or hemp be carried in snch
steamers unless the bales are
compactly pressed. and thorough
ly covered with bagging or SINH
lar fabric, aud secured with good
rope or iron bands and every
bale of cotton or hemp that shall
be shipped or carried on any
passenger steamer without con-
forming to the provisions of this
section shall be subject to a pen
atty Of five dollars which bale
shall be liable to seizure and sale
to secure the payment of such
penalty"


This, the Journal of Commerce
thinks, ought to be u sufficient
inducement to planters to cover
their cotton as well as to pack it
properly. This act is now in
force, and as the penalty is easily
collected, and half, rs the Jour
nal inters, goes to the informcr,
our Southern friends will do well
to stir up all their packers on
this subject. Every bale Of cot
ton packed this fall and winter
ought to be carefully covered in
conformity with the provisions of
this law.
Year: 1871

The United States Supreme
Cotton meets in two weeks, and
it is understood that among the
first cases to be decided is that
involving the constitutionality of
the cotton tax. An adverse de-
cision will necessitatc the return
of several millions from the
treasury. The case was argued
at the last term.