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Year: 1870

helps them, let us have the truth.
The misfortune Is, that we have'much
more In the highly colored narratives
that are promulgated and commented
on by the mischief makers. Thus,
criminal incidents which are passed
unnoticed at the North, are invested
with political Significance when
they occur at the South. We have
plenty Of lawlessness in New York,
but who among US proposes to hold
the entire community responsible for
1t? Who proposes to make 1t an ex-
cuse for Federal interference, or to use
1t for campaign purposes in Ohio or
Mississippi? Yet the whole South is
arraigned at the bar of Northern
opinion because murders are commit
ted In Tennessee or North Carolina.
The whole Southern people are made
the text for solemn exhortat:ons and
loyal threats and warnings because
some drunken rebel in Memphis
shoots an industrious negro, or be-
cause gang of ruffians In Georgia
insult and injure some worthy Nor
therner who has gone there to earn
an honest living. These occurrences
are bad, whether reported from Kan
sas or the South. But we act un-
wisely and unjustly when we apply
the generalizing process to one case
and omit IL in the other. OF this in
Justice the South may reasonably
complain.


AS whole, the South is as free
from lawlessness as any other part Of
the country. There are bad localities
In the reconstructed States, hut SO
there are In this city and in this
State. The general condition of
things, Is, however, one that the
Southern people have no reason to
be ashamed Of Virginia, South Car
Olina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas
and Mississippi may safely challenge
comparison with States similarly sit
uated i'm ordinary respects, at the
South and West. There has been a
fair average of progress everywhere.
The main body of the population
have applied themselves to industrial
pursuits, with steady determination
which has already borne good fruit.
They are rebuilding villages and cit
les, cultivating farms and familiariz-
ing themselves with enterprises
which will yield more than the old
prosperity. Let us concede both the
extent and significance of these indi-
cations ungrudgingly. They are
among the best evidences of the sue
cess of the Republican policy, and
among the most solid guarantees of
peace and profit. If we would win
the respect of the South, we must not
magnify its faults or close our eyes
to its merits. We do both when we
make exceptional crimes a pretext
for exciting against 1t the distrust and
ill-will of other sections.
Year: 1870

A correspondent of Boston paper
tells the following story of camp life:
"a whining, peevlsh man, who was
always trying to get on the sick list,
although apparently as healthy as
chaplain one day, In his doleful style,
and requested that a letter be written
to his wife, telling her Of his condi-
tion. "Tell her, chaplain" said the
soldier, that I am too sick to write
myself, and haye got you to do 1t for
me. Tell her that / should die to-
day, I'm sure but for the desire have
to wait and see her once more before
/ die" The chaplain wrote as direc-
ted, and after few days he called
the would be-sick soldier to his tent
and handed him this answer to his
mournful letter: "Dear sir-Tell John
not to wait for me, as have already
set up housekeeping with another
man,
Year: 1870

CERTAIN CURE FOR EARAcHE.--As
soon a. any soreness Is felt In the ear,
let three or four drops Of the tincture
Of arnica be poured In, and the orifice
filled with little cotton to exclude
the air, and In short time the uneas-
iness is forgotten. II the arnica be
not resorted to until there Is actual
pain, the cure may not be as speedy,
but 1t Is just as certain, although II
may be necessary to repeat the APP
plicatiOn. Tit asure preventative for
gathering in the ear, which Is the usu-
al cause of earache.
Year: 1870

A SAYING OF HENRY CLAY.-Mr.
Clay used to say that there were
three classes of people with whom


First-Ministers. For the reason
that they have pulpits from which
they could denounce me, and / had
none from which to reply.


Second.-Editors For they had
the most powerful engines from which
they could every day hurl wrath and
fury upon me, and had none through
which to reply. And finally, with
women, for they would have the last
word anyhow.
Year: 1870

To rid house Of ants, all that IL
necessary Is to procure large sponge,
wash it well and press 1t dry, which
will leave the cells quite open; then
sprinkle over It some fine white su-
gar, and place II where the ants are
troublesome. They will collect upon
the sponge and take up their abode
In the cells. IL Is only necessary to
dip the sponge In scalding hot water,
which will wash them out dead. Put
in more sugar and set the trap for a
new haul.
Year: 1870

DANGER or SUDDEN FRIGHT.-A young mar
Iied woman Cf this city was standing on the
steps Of her residence in the evening, bidding a
friend good night The friend had departed
and the husband thought he would give her
little surprise. Approaching carefully, he sud-
denly caught her in his arms The surprise
was more eftectual one than the husband had
intended. The lady was 30 terrified that she
shrieked and went into commissions. She was
carried into the house and a physician sum-
mOned, and he pronounced her in danger of be-
coming raving maniac. Her nervous system
had received a fearful shock For some days
she was bereft of her senses; the slightest noise
about the house or i'm the streets would cause
her to act in the widest manner. Last week she
began TO improve. when il was hoped she would
ultimately recover, but unfortunately she suf-
fered another relapse young boy attempted
to shake the crate Of the coal stove one morning,
which ~ frightened the patient that she sprang
from her bed, pOunced upon the child, and
would have seriously injured him had he not
been rescued. Ii will be some time vet before
the lady RECEIVERS from her terrible fright; she
Will probably carry the effects to her grave. A
war; ing TO all playful husband,--Syr1cuse IN.
IL Courier.
Year: 1870

jim LANE in his glory would sit at the table
d hote boiling putt past and shoveling down in
credible loads OF nuts and raisins in a it of alb
stractiOn, without seeming to tas e care
taste them. Byron said he had been drunk on
beefsteak, and Lane could commit debauch
without tasting wine. Then would follow q
His enemies whispered. ..RemOrse;" il was the
stOmachs remOrse. lie would rise in the MORN
ing with bloodshOt ewes and certain murky lines
around the mouth that rich food and indigestion
paint. with Gluttony's heavy monogram stamped
on his lower jaw, the whole face bearing the
Iayages of dreams.
Year: 1870

There is certainly not a more wonderful
and beautiful and useful bit of machinery
in the world than the human hand Its
educational suSceptibilities, too are ex-
traordinary. 1t can be trained to deeds of
strength which only the toughest woods
or metals can be made TO excel, or to a
delicacy of touch and manipulation which
the finest machinery can never rival. And
the ease and celebrity of motion of which
it is capable are. quite as astonishing as
anything else connected with this wonder
tul piece of human machinery. \ few ex-
amplcs in all these departments of train
ing sufficiently prove the capabilities of
the hand under proper treatment. But,
like everything else that belongs to man,
it is generally a neglected, if not an
abused member, and at best is bui partially
developed.


Our thoughts have been turned toward
the hnman hand, at this time, by a valua-
BILE article in the last number of the Scten-
tifc Antericon, on the education of the
hand. In this article it is urged that the
early training of children is radically de-
fective, in that they are taught, from the
start, to use only one hand for all the
more difficult and nice manipulations of
ordinary life while both hands are pre-
cisely alike in construction and capacity
and equally susceptible to the influence of
training. Or in other words: children are
early taught to hold their knives. their
pens-whateye they are using for any inn
portant work-in their right hands; while
the left is employed merely asa supple
ment to the right


! The writer argues, that children might
be learned to use the left hand Just as
readily and neatly and efficiently as the
right; and that the exclusive us. of the
right hand. as the leading member, is
purely the result OF the training which the
child gets from infancy upward--to hold
everything in the right hand-to cut. or
sew, OF write with that hand only.


That the left hand might be made the
| SI"tii Va tiiS othti II Piohtu DN IHc ueAtel-
ity with which the left hand is used by
some persons, even skital surgeons, or
painters, or artisans. who use either hand.
rs convenience may dictate, with equal ia
cility and dexterity. This is evident, also,
from the success of persons who, having
lost the use of the right hand have been
compelled to substitute the left


If this be true-that the two hands are
made exactly alike. are alike susceptible
to training-why should man or woman
be deprived, by vicious early education
of. one-half the capacity and powers of
usefulness which God has given him or
her? Let the mothers who have children
in their arms or around their tables, and
the teachers of small children think of
this and begin early to teach them to
use both hands alike, and we shall soon
see two-handcd race of men and woman
in this world.
Year: 1870

We have learned that dew is the float
ing moisture of the air gently floating
down upon the grass and leaves of plants,


which have become colder than itself If,
now, the grass and leaves become still


colder, as they will do on IN Autumn OF
Winter night the tiny PARTICLES of vapor,


which in Summer would make dew, are


frozen as soon as they fail, and appear on


the grass like little bristling needles OF


ice. This we call frost. 1t does not take
the form of a smooth layer Of ice all over


the blades of grass, because it is the ma


ture of water, when freezing, to take IL


regular form to erystalize. Whenever


water freezes, little needles of ice are first


seen to shoot out upon its surface, which


make the same angles with each other, all
over the world So it Is in our houses.


The moisture Of the air in our rooms


touches the cold glass, and trying to
crystalize makes the curious frost-work


on our windows every cold evening in
Winter.


singular appearance is sometimes


noticed on rocks by the roadside, and ON
the brick walls of houses, when in Winter
there is a sudden change from cold wealth
still freezing cold after the air has become
warm, they condense and freeze the mois-


ture of the air, and array themselves in a


spow-white garment of frost Scholars


in school are often troubled on Winter


mornings by 1.-THE frost comiug out OF
their States" as they cali it. The states


are so wet that the pencil marks cannot
be seen. This moisture on the slate, like
the frost on the brick wall, is caused, not
by frost. or anything else, coming out OF
them, but rather by the heat of the air 60


ing into them. This leaves the vapor in
the air to settle upon them in the shape OF


dew or frost


large collection of frost is often seen
upon the heads OF nails, While no frost APP
pears on the wood around the nails. 1t is
the nature of iron to receive heat from any
warm substance much faster than wood
does. So the air, which touches the nail,
quickly gives up its heat to the nail, and
lays down its moisture upon it to freeze


while the wood, although equally cold,


being able to take only little heat away
from the air remains quite free from frost.
-Olirer OPTICS Magazine.
Year: 1870

This expressive phrase involves more
than one might imagine who has never
wintered a stock of cattle; of course, it
implies the seeing that the ban--thc build
ing itself,-is made tight both at the sides
especially those most exposed to the cut
ting winds, and on the roof; that it is
well ventilated, SO as not to be full of foul
atmosphere, as injurious to beast as to
man. that it is neatly and orderly kept,
so that there is no waste of fodder, and
that ii i, wefl secured by day and by night.
But over and above all, it means the re-
qui~lte skill and care in the management
of the stock, that they be periodically
and properly fed, and watered, and clean
ed. A herd of twenty head of cattle, be-
sides horses and young stock, will take
the time of one man working pretty dill
gently in the care of them. He must rise
betimes, and, snow or rain, 90 to the
barn to give the morning feed. He must
do the milking, unless the COWS are all
dried up for the winter; see that each ami
NAL has his proper space. without being
enoroaohed on by those in the next stan
chions; then, after breakfast he is to
turn them out for watering, and is to
clean up the stalls, and-sttppiy them with
the proper litter. He is to card the stock
and provide for their wants all through the
day perhaps cutting hay and roots for
this purpose. Let any one who thinks all
this is very easy work, only try ii for Il
whole winter, and he may perhaps come
to different conclusion. Let him re-
member, too, that 1t is his duty not mere
ly to keep the breath of life in the stock
entrusted to him. but to keep them in good
health and heart, SO as to come out in good
condition in the spring, when they 90 to
grass. Seven to eight months at the barn
Is decreed by an inexorably cold climate
for New England cattle every year. All
honor to the farmer who knows how best
to carry them through, and knowing,
does it! If peace hath her victories no
less than war, so has winter hers no less
than spring or summer. The thought
should never be harbored that winter is a
time of inactivity. Better far the motto
work and thrift go together, Coagrvgo-
tt0naltst
Year: 1870

A writer to the Boston Daily Advertiser
says on the retirement of Secretary Stanton
from the cabinet he took trip to the
Eastern States to spend few weeks with
his friends there, for the purpose of re-
cruiting his health. Arriving in New
York from Washington, he took passage
on one of the Sound steamers for Boston.
The circumstances connected with his re-
tirement from office are well known; he
looked care-worn and exhausted-never-
theless he appeared social and cheerful,
although he remarked that the strain upon
his nervous system had been such as near
ly to PROSTATE him--and the reaction
produced by sudden cessation of the re-
sponsibilities under which he had been
iaboring was almost bewildering. He
conversed freely during the evening upon
all matters connected with the war-al-
luding to trials, reverses, mistakes, losses
and defeats which we sustained, and the
many dark hours of our history. re-
meAber well this impressive remark which
he made-"Ihe hand Of an orer-rul;ng
Providence was wtM as through all-and
nowhere was his presence more manifest
than in the preservation of the thousands
of men who were sent down south by sea. n
He then spoke of the character of the
vessels which were engaged as transports
for our soldiers-how ill adapted they were
for the service, and how wonderful it was
that so few accidents occurred. ..Such
was my anxiety" he added, ''for those on
hoard, that during those nights when .
storm was raging. found sleep impossible.
have risen from my bed and spent hours
with my face against the window, looking
out into the darkness, thinking of the SOL
diers at sea on the coast, and in the morning
dreaded TO take up the dispatches lest l
should learn that some unfortunate vessels
had gone with all on board to the bottom. !"
After sitting in silence for moment, with
his eyes upon the floor, he said in a slow
and solemn tone. Nothing, sir,-nothing
but The hand Of God sared them"
Year: 1870

l see that a subscriber wishes to know
the best way to build cistern. have
had the care of building quite number,
and would say to him, build two instead
of one so large; dig the holes and put ON
two good coats of cement on the bank,
and arch with good hard brick. One Of
my neighbors has one that built for him
sixteen years ago, in this way, and it has
been in use ever since. had one built
for myself, six years ago; the mason put
brick all ronnd; the brick settled and II
leaked l had another built two years
ago. which was eight feet across in the
clear after being finished, and nine feet
deep. This was plastered on the bank
and arched with brick and has been full of
water ever since, and has not leaked q
drop that l know of. could mention
more made in this way but this is enough.
l would not have brick or stone in the
sides Of a cisten if they were put in for
nothing; they are simplyIthrown AWAY
Mentor, IN eoantry Gentleman.
Year: 1870

that will be able TO sell the best class of goods
cheapet than Inferior goods can be bought for
Dealing exclusively in but few lines Of goods, have
the advantage over all other competitors, (who are
dealing in all branches of merchandise,) Grsm this
simple reason, that the most obtuse mind mind may
comprehend. l give my whole attention to these
classes of goods, and, therefore, always have nice
selection and complete stock.


No lady or gentleman will be disappointed in not
getting what they want in my line, for am con-
stanty receiving fresh supplies, and latest styles of
goods from the city. Ladirs wishing to it them
selves in SHOES can do SO without being exposed
to the vulgar stare of every passer-by. have the
rear of my store fitted up expressly for ladies, where
they will be free from all intrusion.f ~. -


My business. in the past, has more than met my
expectations (lhanks to the public for their very
liberal patronage and l am determined, for the
present year TO make it more Of success than ever
if good and cheap goods is the secret of success.


l have constantly on hand a nice assortment Oi
g. =
Year: 1870

Fellows Convicted Of Murder In the Second
Degree and Sentenced 20 the Stnte Prison
for Twenty Years.


GOSHEN, JAM 90, 1870.
At half-past six O'Clock the jury In the case OF
Warren Fellows announced that they had agreed
after being out over thirteen hours. The prisoner
was brought into the court room and the jurors
again took their places and brought IN the following
verdict


We find the prisoner guilty Of murder in the sec
Ond degree.


The prisoner received this intelligence with evi-
dent signs OF emotion. His head Ieli forward upon
his breast and he gazed 1xedly upon the floor. All
eyes were turned upon HIM and the room was as
silent as death The jnry was then poled, and each
answered that that was MS verdict


The prisoner In reply TO The question OF the Judge
as to whether he had anything TO say why sentence
should not be pronouced upon him. sad:-''Nothing
except In regard TO my innocence. am AZ innocent
In regard TO thocrlme as the day was born. have
no knowledge or ever being at the place whatever.
had no enmty against the people In any way or
Shape-agalnst Mr. Swinton or any OF his people.
DO not know tnat ever spoke To him III my life.
Never had any words with him OF any kind"
Judge Gedney then stated that he desired to say
that the public impression that the prisoner had
large amount OF money was erroneous. He had only
about 81, 900 when the trial commenced.


Judge Tappen then sentenced the prisoner 10 the
state Prison az Sing Sing for The term OF twenty
years.
Year: 1870

vas brunette, thirteen years and FIVE
months of age, was quite tall and we'll.
developed and would readily have passed
for. sixteen. She was very intelligent,
and by her graceful manners, cheerful
disposition and polite demeanor at
tracted o great deal of attention in the
CIRCLE Of society in WHICH she moved.
Several months ago she was pupil Of
the Deman Grammar School in this oity.
At the last public examination in that
school, in June last, she was about to
graduate, and would have gone to the
High School, but her parents took her
away and sent her to the High School at


Oakland, l
Year: 1870

from the time she left her home until she
was discovered at the hotel. it has been
thus faF Impossible to learn. That link
in the chain OF circumstances surround
ing the disappearance of Anna is miss
ing; therefore We will have TO leave a
blank which we will, no doubt, be able to
gil at an early day, and proceed to detail
what transpired at the l VA


COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL.


At about II o'clock in the morning,
Miss Mooney applied at the Office Of the
hotel Gov a room, saying that her name
was Emily Hewitt, and that her father,
who resided in Oakland, had sent her 70
get a room, with instructions to remain
there Entil he would come for her in the
esening She was shown 70 room No.
227, where she remained until | o'clock
in the afternoon, at which time she went
into ne dining-room and took lunch.
While partaking Of her MONDAY meal
she appeared very restiye, and her move
Year: 1870

of Oakland have taken the matter in
hand, and will thoroughly investigate it.
Who the base wretch is that accom-
plished Miss Moneys ruin has not yet
been ascertained, but it is to be hoped
that the officers of the law will leave no
stone unturned to endeavor to bring him
to the bar of justice, that he may be
dealt with as the nature of his crime
calls for.
Year: 1870

The Journal de Genece gives the follow
ing account of terrible accident upon
Mont Blanc:


Three travellers, an Irishman and two
Americans. with three guides and five
porters, left Chamounix on Monday
morning, to arrive that day and sleep at
the Grands- -Mulets. The weather was
fine, but the next morning there was so
violent a storm that the Inhabitants Of
Chamounix naturally supposed that the
travellers would have given up the idea of
an ascent of Mont Blanc, and would not
have quilted the Grands-Mulets. There
was, therefore, no disquiet respecting
them in the valley News came, it is
true, in the evening, that from the Croix
de Flegere and from Brevent that they
had been seen starting for Mont Blanc in
spite of the tempest, and that they had ar
rived upon the Dromedary's Hump, an
hours march distant from the summit !;
that they had been seen suddenly to col
lect together and to hold fast one to
another, and then to disappear in the
snow wreaths raised by the wind. In
spite of this, however, people persisted in
believing that they must have sheltered
themselves against the wind in some nook
or crevice of the ice, and therefore there
was no great occasion to fear for the re-
suit. However, when the next day the
proprietor of the Pavilion de la Pierre
Pointue arrived, expressing his astonish-
ment at finding that no one had redescend-
ed, people began to have serious appre-
tensions regarding the fate of the travel
ers. The day was too far advanced to
render it possible to make any immediate
search but on the following day thirty-two
young men of the valley went off in search
of them. Unfortunately the shocking
weather which prevailed prevented them
from passing the pavilion of Pierre-Poin-
tue, situated at two hours journey from
Chamounix. They were obliged to re-
trace their steps without being able to do
anything. On the following day new
attempt was made by twelve courageous
young men; but again the rain and wind
did not permit them to scale the mountain.
At the time of writing there remains no
hope that these unfortunate people have
| escaped death. It is probable that at the
moment when they were seen for the last
time grouped together on the top OF the
Bosses du Dromadaire, they were making
supreme effort to withstand the tempest
so terrible on those heights; that their
effort was of no avail and that they were
preciptated together upon the Glacier du
Mirage, which spreads out on the side OF
the Alice Blanche. We have been fur
nished with the names of two of the
guides, Jean Balmatek and Joseph
Breton, who were well known on account
of their numerous ascensions. One of the
porters was young Garde Mobile, who.
on account Of being the support of his
his family, was excused from service and
sent home q few days previously. His
father was killed some years ago on the
Grands-Mulets by the falling Of stone
detached from rock. This terrible
drama has produced at Chalnounix ar
emotion which we shall not attempt tc
describe. The whole of the valley is lit,
orally in mourning.
Year: 1870

The estimates of the War and Navy Depart
ments are made up, and arc much less than last
year. Owing to the shortness Of the session
some of the appropriation bills will be brought
forward early in December.