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Year: 1870

Shonld the Prussians continue to be as


successful in the next thirty days as during


the last thirty, the war will be brought to II


close within that time, in all probability.


The good Judgment, energy and skill with


which they have conducted their opera


tions are as far above expectation as the
management of Napoleon falls below
They have thrown the whole burden of


war upon the enemy's country, obliging


the aggressor to fight wholly upon the de-


fensive, threatening the capture of Paris,


and shaking the throne of Napoleon to its


base. 1t is not too much to believe, that
within thirty days Napoleon will be fugi-
tive without kingdom or power, and France
be humbled at the feet of Germany and
considering the reconstruction of her gov
erment. Already the other great powers
are looking at this probable result, and de-
batting It's effect upon them. They are I'M
easy about the "balance of power and
propose to have word to say about the
settlement of the difficulty, fearing that
Prussia may get to be stronger than they
like. They don't care how much France
and Prussia pummel and weaken each
other, but they do care to keep the victor
from increasing his strength by his success.


The Albany Journal reminds its readers
that "however heavy the taxes may be, the
Democratic party is responsible for them.
That party, when Buchanan was President,
Toucey Secretary of the Navy, and Floyd
Secretary of War, Initiated the rebellion,
which led to the slaughter of half million
of men and involved the nation in debt
of three thousand millions of dollars. But
for this, there would have been no national
debt, no taxation and no households strick |
Ell and saddened by the scourge of war. /
1t is the height of impudence in the men
who thus rendered the war debt necessary
to find fault with the tax imposed to pay it,


The Democrats of Hancock County in
assembled have valiantly re-
solved to do all in their power to elect Gen.
Roberts. Considering that Mr.. Perham
will get about twice as many votes in that
county as Roberts viii, the latter will con
clude after election that resolves without
votes are cheap affairs. if ever so courage
Gus.
Year: 1870

| ashamed to visit the theatre without Mad
anne. The German takes his better half
under his arm, even when he goes to
it respectable to take bis wife along"
whenever he enjoys himself; but the
American leaves. his wife to enjoy her
distaff and her babe" while he visits tho
theatre, opera and ballroom with some
masculine friend, and suffers no compunc-
tions of conscience in consequence. All
women know this; and put it to yourself
yes, gentlemen, whether, if it were in
our power to say to you, after marriage:
'' You shall be i hermit if | choose; you
shall see neither pictures nor plays, nor
hear good music, unless l like to take
You" you would fancy that you run no
risk aud made no sacrifice.


Then, leaving all these other little
things, there are those other little things,
the children. The father oftenest longs
for sons and daughters, and each certain
ly costs him certain sum of money but
it is the mother who, at the peril of her
life, in such agony and terror as man can
not comprehend, brings them into this
worldwide gives them, during their in
fancy, all her days and all her nights, and
makes them by her teaching whatever
they become. | do not deny that the
children of the man she loves are her most
precious jewels. l repeat, that the gift
of her whole life, the merging of her ex-
istence into her husbands, is not esteem
ed sacrifice by loving woman; and 1
assert that he can repay her for all if be
chooses, but by no house and lands, or
gold and gear. His whole heart his care.
and tenderness and lovelike attention is
the only true equivalent, and even then
the true wife receives no more than she
gives.
Year: 1870

Once as fell the shades of evening,


AT the close of the long day,
Sat we, in the lengthening shadows,


In the old time far away
Sat we, till the stars came cleaning,


Through the twilight soft and gray.
We had watched the golden sunset


Fading in the crimson west,
While upon the glowing hill tops


Clouds of amber seemed to rest,
Till the twilight closed around them,
In her hazy mantle dressed.
Then listened to the story


That his lips so fondly told
Words Of passionate devotion,


Words Of love that ne er grow cold
Filling all my heart with lightness,


Threading all my life with gold.
Always, when the sunset glory


Trails above the Western hills
All the music of that story


Through my inmost being thrills
Tunes my sad heart to rejoicing,


And with peace my spirit fills.
Since first Loves nectar tasted


Years have swept to Times abyss
All Lite's choicest hopes been wasted
But my visions now of bliss
In that other Life are founded


On the one glad hour in this
Years may roll and tempests gather,
Storms may cloud YOUTH azure sky,
Brightest locks may blanch to silver,
Frosts Of Time may dim the eye,
But pure hearts first devotion


Always lives-it cannot die.
Year: 1870

A gallant was lately sitting beside his
beloved, and being unable to think of any
thing to say, asked her why she was like
a tailor. Il don't know" said she, with
pouting lip, "unless it's because l am
sitting beside goose"
Year: 1870

"Why do you drive such pitiful look
ing carcass as that ? Why don't you put
u heavier coat of flesh upon him, Pat?"
"A heavier coat of flesh on him BY the
powers, the poor creature can hardly carry
what little there is on him now %
Year: 1870

In a few moments the boat bad
reached the daring swimmers, and
half dead from fright they were
carried on board The old man
closed his boy in his arms, and
then overcome by the terrible ex-
citement he leaned back upon the
gun for support.


/ aave seen men in all phases of
excitement and suspense; but nev-
er have / seen three hundred
human beings more overcome
by thrilling EN- motion than on that
startling moment when first we
knew the effect of ourigunners shot.
Year: 1870

A little crib beside the bed,


\ little face above the spread,
A little frock behind the door,
4 little shoe upon the floor.
A little lad with dark brown hair,
A little blue-eyed face and fair,
A little lane that leads to school,
A little pencil, slate and rule.
A little blithesome winsome maid,
A little hand within his laid,
A little cottage, acres four.
A little old time fashioned store.
A little family gathering round.
A little turf -heaped, tear~dewed mound ;
4 little added to his soil,
4 little rest from hardest toll.
little silver in his hair.
A little stool and easy chair,
A little night Of earth>lit gloom,
A little cortege to the tomb.
Year: 1870

1t was considered as strong case Of
crcumstanciai evidence in Pittsburg
court the other day, when the plaintiff
produced the skillet with which his wife
struck him, and showed the jury how
nice the three legs fitted into the holes
in his head.
Year: 1870

For the benefit of our readers who
NAV wish to attend one or more Of these
exhibitions, we submit a list of such
Western State and Indiana County
Fairs, as we have been able to get.


STATE FAIRS.
Year: 1870

Professor Cox has completed the
First Annual Report of the Geo
logical Servey of Indiana. It is
a very valuable work giving vast
amount of information in reference
to the coal formation OF that State.
We doubt not this exhibit Of the
mineral resources Of Indiana will
be productive Of much good.
Year: 1870

STAMINA pleasant, aromatic herb
Of the Mint family not so rank as pepper
mint, but Of equal virtue as a wind dispel
lant and a corrective Of infantile COLES.
Make into a strong tea, sweeten and take in
teaspOonful doses.


WINTERS BARK-The bark Of South
American evergreen. 1t is tonic, stimulans,
and anliscorbutic. Powder halfan-ounce
which macerate in a pint Of good whiskey
Take the clear in tablespoon doses two TO
four times daily.


BLIsTERED HANDS AND FEEr.-Tbe
speediest remedy is to light tallow candle
and let the melted tallow drop in cold wa
ter, then mix the tallow with strong spirits
and rub i thoroughly into the palms and
soles- This is both a preventative and a
cure.


TEA BIscUITs.-Six potatoes boiled and
grated in half milk pan of -four. One
tablespoonful Of salt, three tumbers Of
milk, two Ounces Of butter warmed ia the
milk, and a cup Of yeast Beat the whites
Of three eggs to froth, and put il in
kneadlng. Mix not quite as stiff as bread
dough, end put to raise.


As soon as your meat Of any kind is
brought home from the butchers wipe il with
clean dry cloth. If in summer you End
any 'Hyblows,' which are very common, cut
them out at once, and no harm will be done
ln the loins long pipe runs by the bone
that should be taken out Immediately. or I
will soon taint and spoil the whole joint. |
the meat is not to be used at once, dredg,
it With pepper. Powdered charcoal dusteC
over meat will help to keep il sweet, o
will remove any faint already begun. II i
wise to keep charcoal on hand durin.
warm weather it is wonderfully efhcacious
In preserving meat, and if busted over it
while hanging, it can all be washed of
when you are ready to cook il. Most meal
i more tender and easily digested if kept
banging some time, and charcoal Is great
and reliable aid in preserving il. lamb and
veal cannot Be Kept as safely as beef and
Mutton.
Year: 1870

honor labor believe in labor. Ny
father was a workingman, and | am ah hork-
ingwOman, both theoretically and practically
Few who have any taste for literature have
done so much Of the manual labor of the
world as | have done, and still do But |
am opposed to the eight hour law =
| dislike all monopolies; and monopoly Of
labor seems to me as wrong, in spirit and
principle, as a monopoly Of grain or fruit
For men to combine together to fix BY
forcing process the price Of the article in
which they deal Is monopoly, and nothing
else. If men buy up all the oranges, and
let them decay by the bushcl, rather than to
sell them under the exorbitant price they
have established for their own emolumeut,
they are monopolists, and enemies Of fair
trade; and if workingmen combine together
to prevent people from obtaining shoes, or
cloth, or houses, or railroads, at any price
except the one they agree to es abish, they
act in the very same spirit Of monopoly Of
which they so justly complain in capitalists
In the one case, oranges, which are needed,
are left to rot and in the other case, labor-
ers, who are needed, are left to starve, un-
less supported in idleness By those who
hinder them from working. The spirit of
the thing is bad, and the principle Of it is
wrong, whatever form it may take. =
The attempts to prevent men who want to
work from working in sny part Of the world
where labor is needed seem to me contempt
ible in spirit and shallow in policy. 1t seems
to me that justice, kindness, and enlighten-
ed selflnterest all require US to welcome
John Chinaman to our shores. lie is q
patient, steady, industrious brother Of the
human family. There is not room enough
for him at home, and we have more room
than we need. We can do good to him.
and be can do good to US AS for his de-
grazing the position of workingmen, be-
cause be can live on rat day, and charge
for hs labor accordingly, any evil Of that
sort, if It existed at all, would be Of very
transient duration. They would soon get
bravely over all that The Irish considered
themselves lucky if they could obtain a
good meal OF potatoes every day in their
native land but they had not been in this
country long before roasted turkey and
plum pudding took the place Of potatoes,
and at the present time whoever would Sc
cure their service must keeps luxurious ia
ble. lea four times day was the last
requisition made upon me when | employed
an Irish woman to do job at price which
would enable her to board at hotels. p
lydia Maria Child.
Year: 1870

l. Upon the payment Of One Dollar
any person can become member of the
Monroe County Agricultural Society for
one year. Said membership ticket enti-
ties the holder and his wife, and mem
bers of bis family under q years, to ad-
mittance during cha continuance of the
Fair
Year: 1870

AS approached nearer the light a
cry escaped my lips. My trousers were
covered with blood. There was one en-
sanguined line, as If fountain of blood
had plunged upon me.


L seated myself to recover my
strength. could see that presented
dismal and terrible spectacle. My
coat was torn, my hands were black
SO, too, i judged, was my face-my col
lar had been torn from ME, and the skin
on the ends of my fingers was lacerated
After reposing myself l climbed the
bank, and perceived at about the dis.
tance of mile station. / made to.
wards it and gained it. A railroad Off
Ger, who was standing looking at two
children playing in back garden, ut
tered low cry of alarm as he spied me.
] narrated my story to him as coherent
ly as L could, and then sank to the
ground in fainting condition.


OF what happened after this ! have
no remembrance. When came to my
senses / discovered that had been
taken to the house of the station master
and carefully tended by his wife. From
him | learned the conclusion of this
singular incident of my life.


1t seems that after my story had been
told, two men were dispatched into the
tunnel in search of my assailant. They
discovered him lying dead, with both
legs cut clean off little above the
knees. They bore him to an adjacent
dwelling house, and an inquiry into his
death brought out such particulars as
are easily explained. The man who so
closely resembled me at V had se-
duced the betrothed of laborer, one
| Theodore Vertot.


This Theodore, reckless now of life,
and resolutely bent on vengeance, swore
to Kill the seducer. Mistaking me for
his enemy, he attempted to shoot me-
This failing, he hung about the hotel
armed with stiletto, determined to
stab me whenever 1 should appear in
the street. Hearing, however, that l
was about leaving for Paris, he per-
ceived safer and better means of
prosecuting his designs, by stabbing me
in the tunnel, through which he knew
we would pass, and then escaping in the
darkness. Reflection had obviously
taught him that revenge would be none
the less sweet because it did not entail
his destruction by the law.


Such is this simple but tragical story
My pr ototype, who had been the means
of twice imperiling my life, L have
never seen since. confess to no wish
to see him. 1t is bad enough to bear
the brunt of ones own follies it is alto.
gether miserable, to suffer from the fol-
lies of others. Ever since the occur.
renee of this small episode / have al
ways thought there is a much wiser
providence manifested in the dissimi
larity between man and man than oul
philosophy suffers us to dream Of
Year: 1870

DEHocHATIc pRosPEcT IH WEs- NIRGIyIA.
In estimating the number Of newly-rcgistcr-
ed voters yesterday morning, we should have
said that more than two thousand names have
been added 10 tie list in the first congressional
district alone. In the whole State there arc at
least sI thousand newly-regiSiered voters, five
sixths Of whom, after deductng the negroes,
will vote the democratic ticket. There arc
three or four thousand more whom the boards
of registration will be required to put upon
their list at their meeting on the FIRST Monday
iu October The vote cast this year will be
nearly ten thousand greater than that Of two
years ago. OF this increase it is conceded that
the democratic ticket will receive much tho
larger portion.- Wheeling Register.
Year: 1870

The circumstances attending the recent exc
cution Of a criminal in Dublin were peculiarly
horrible. a drop Of fourteen feet had been ar
ranged, in Difference to the opinion Of learned
professor, with the view Of producing instan-
taneous death by dislocation. The result was
that the body fel to the full extent Of the rope,
and then with a sudden snap the head was
wrenched of and flung distance Of several
feet to one side Of the yard, while the trunk,
ghastly mass with the nerves twitching con-
vulsiyely, dropped to the other side. Death
was undoubtedly instantaneous.
Year: 1870

a carpenters bill for extensive4epairs
Laziness allows a gate to get off td9
hinges and lie in the mud, or stand prop
ped by rails-or stable or barn to wreck
and damage hundreds of dollars worth of
provender. 9as 9aa


Laziness. in short. is the right and pro-
per name for nine-tenths of the excuses
given for bad farming But by far the
most prolific Of the many wastes that are
due to laziness is the waste of ignorance.
But this waste is in itself so great. and
has SO many rami6cations. that we shall
have to defer its discussion for another
time. .-Dirie Tenn Farmer.
Year: 1870

The grass crop is, without doubt. one
of the most if not the most important OF
any to agriculture It is the basis for all
successful farming. 1t is the natural food
of our most useful animals, and without
grass we should soon have no stock, no
manure, and scarcely any cultivated crop.
The money value of the grass crop in the
United States is immense. Lewis E. AL
len, in his work on American cattle, esti-
mates the number of neat cattle in the
States and Territories, in 1867, at 28,-
145 .24O head, and puts their value at a
thousand millions of dollars. That is only
one item that may be credited to grass !;
for if we add the annual product Of the
ten millions of milch COWS, together with
the horses and the sheep and wool of the
country, We shall begin to appreciate how
much the nation owes to grass for its pros
perity and wealth. But to dairy farmers,
who owe so much to this crop, and which
if it failed but one season, wide spread
ruin would stalk abroad, its importance
need not further be discussed.


The great question with dairy farmers
to-day and at all times, should be in what


way can grass be best made to thrive and


produce abundantly? The question is a
very broad one, and we shall have space
only to make note of few points. In
the old dairy districts of New York, We


have been cropping now nearly sixty years
and from inattention to pasture many


farms are deteriorating. The fact cannot


be covered up. even though the price of
land has advanced in these districts from
forty dollars to one hundred and fifty dol
lars and two hundred dollars per acre.


In the first place. many pastures are
Ihabitually ovorstocked. By this practice
the roots of the grass and the whole plant
are kept SO small that its growth is feeble,
and not one-half the feed is afforded that
the land would produce if stocked lightly
Ia year or two and the grass allowed to get
a good, thrifty start. But this is not the
only disadvantage from overstocking.-
The feeble growth of the grass allows other.
plants to creep in, and the grounds soon
become overrun with weeds, which, on ac


count of their not being cropped by stock.
grow in great luxuriancc, maturing their
seed and thus impoverishing the soil. r
The curse of American dairying to-day is
weeds. When once they get full possess


sion they become so formidable that the
farmer is often disheartened and gives up
their eradication.


Many farmers have an erroneous notion
in regard to the destruction of weeds on
Year: 1870

grass land. The impression prevails that
the only way Of getting rid of weeds is to
break up and thoroughly cultivate the
ground in hoed crops. This is not always
convenient or even desirable, for in many
cases it cannot be done without breaking
up the herd or dairy, while some uneven
surfaces cannot be ploughed. There -
another way Of killing weeds. such as the
daisy, and that class of plants, by the no
eral use of manure and grass seed. We
have eradicated white daisy in several in
stances by simply applying barn-yard
dung and plaster, and strewing the ground
with clover. Establish your clover upon
the soil and feed it until it is luxuriant.
and it just lays hold ofthe daisy and other
weeds and chokcs the life out of them.


The question of top-dressing pastures
does not receive that attention in dairy
districts that it deserves! 1t is true, plas-
ter is used quite extensively in some sec
tions, but this is not manure in the strict
sense of the word. Plaster stimulates the
growth of plants, but they must be sup
piled with organic matter-food coming
from the decay Of vegetable matter OF the
decomposition Of animal manures. When
crops are removed from the lands that are
continually plastered without manure,
they will, in the end, as surely become
wornout and exhausted as he who tries to
live upon stimulants and food lacking the
elements Of nutrition.


Muck or dry earth used as an absorbent
of liquid manures, makes valuable top
dressing for grass lands. We are Of the
impression that very rank manures may
be applied in carly winter with success


Upon fields that are tolerably level, the
wash sinks into the soil, and is carried to


the roots Of plants ; but on side bills, Of


where the manures are likely to be wash


ed away by the spring foods, the applica,
ton should be at such season as to avoid
loss. Where manure is spread IN winter
evenly over grass lands. the freezing snc


tLawing mellow and pulyerize it, and
grass roots feel its influence early in spring,
! becoming vigorous and thickening into =


dense, close sward.-X. A. Willard, q
{ Rural New Yorker.
Year: 1870

Shall /, wasting in despair,
Die, because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care,
Cause another's rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flowery meads in May,


III she be not so to me,


What care how fair she be!
Shall my foolish heart be pined,
Cause i see a woman kind,
Or a well-disposed nature
Joined with lovely feature?
Be she meeker, kinder than
Turtle dove or pelican,


II she be not so TO me,


What care how kind she be?
Shall woman $ virtue move
Me to perish for her love?
Or her weil-deserving known,
Make me quite forget mine own?
BE she with that goodness blest,
Which may gain her name of best,
if If she be not such to me.


What care how good she be?
Cause her fortune seems too high,
Shall play the food and die?
Those that bear noble mind,
Where they want of riches find,
Think what with them they would do,
That without them dare to WOO;


And unless that mind see,
4. What care ! how great she be?
Great. or good, or kind. or fair,
will ne'er the more despair.
If she love me, this believe,
Iwill die ere she shall grieve;
If she slight me when WOO,
/ can scorn and let her go;


For If she be not for me,


What care / for whom she be?
Year: 1870

It seems that the loss Of some of the lives
by the burning Of the Spottswood Hotel was
caused by the jam Of crowd Of panic-stricken
people against doors that opened inwardly
It was in the same way that the seventy vic
tins of the burning theatre in Richmond, fifty
nine years ago, were held secure against all
struggling till the doom OF death could reach
them. We should take a warning from this late
disaster. Our theatres and hotels usually have q
their doors opening outwardly, or on swing
ing hinges, that they may open both ways, but
Ill Of them need more doors for egress. Some
of our theatres have narrow winding stair
cases leading to the street doors, and nearly
all of them, especially the most crowded, have
camp chairs blocking up the passage ways
Plymouth church is especially faulty in this
latter arrangement, although in the matter Of
epress it is an excellent model for all our
churches and theatres. The Inspector of
Buildings who is charged with the rectifca-
ton Of such matters as these, does not seem
likely to pluck out the evil very summarily,
and the Thirty-fifth street disaster should
teach our citizens that measures for the secu-
rity Of life from disaster by falling or burning
buildings should be taken into their own hands.
Managers and church trustees should remove
all camp chairs from the aisles and have
wide doorways for egress on all sides Of their
houses
Year: 1870

The Coal DEALERS. We publish a commu-
nication in another part Of the paper from a
manufacturer who has sad complaint to
make against large coal company for not full
filling contract made, as the writer states, in
good faith and with fair understanding
between the contracting parties. 1t would be
q serious thing if manufacturing were to be
stopped by the monopolsts' cry Of STRIKES at
the mines;" and yet this would seem immi-
nent if the supply of coal can be cut of, as is
alleged in this case. TIE people have great
deal to bear from the coal dealers, bat it
seems that the worst may not have come yet.