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Year: 1870

SUGAR MAKING.-The sugar makers of
Vermont have had an unusually poor sea-
son of it this spring. The only frst-class
days of the season for sugaring were last
week. The nights have been far too
warm for successful work, and crop esti-
mated by some as low as quarter of that
commonly obtained has, thus far, been the
result. There is large amount of snow
in many sections of the State, and with
favorable weather good results may yet be
attained. A warm rain now evidently
impending will perhaps do damage to
what snow is left, and imperil the chance
of a further crop of the maple sweets.
Year: 1870

When the lessons and tasks are all ended,


tni the school for the day is dismissed,
And the little ones gather around me.


To bid me good night and be kissed:
oh. tie little white arms that eneircis


Nv neck in tender embrace,
Oh rh. smiles that are haIos Of heaven,


Shedding sunshine of love on my face
And when thoy are gone sit dreaming


OF my cAildhoodtss lovely to last;
Of love that nv heart will rem smber,


When it wakes to tho pulse Of the past,
Ere The world and its wicksdness made me


A partner Of sorrow and sin,


When the glory of G cd was about me,


And the glory of gladness within.
oh my heart grows weak as a woman's.


nd The fountains of feeling will flow,
When | think Of the paths steep and stony
Where the feet Oh the dear ones must go;
Of the mountains of sin hanging o or them


Of the tempest Of Fate blowing wild
oh there is nothing on earth half so holy
As the innocent heart of a child
They sre idols of hearts and of households;
They are angels ofGod in disguise
His sunlight still sleeps in their trssses,


His glory still CLEANS in their eyes;
Oh those truants from home and from heaven
They have made me more manly and mild
And | knew how Jesus could liken


The kiugdom of q cd to a child.
ask lot life for the dear ones,


All radiant as others have dOneJ
But that life may have just enough sh adow
To temper the glare of the sun;
would pray God to guard them from evil,
But my prayer would bound back to myself;
Ah 4 seTaph may pray for a sinner,


But sinner must pray for himself
Tie tHig is so easily bended,


| have b.nished the rule and the rod
I've taught them the goodness of knowledge
They have taught me the goodness of God
Iy heart is a dungeon of darkness,


Where L shut them from breaking a rule;
Ny frOYn is sufficient correction;


Ny love is the law of the school
! shall leave the old house in the autumn,
To traverse its threshold more:
All how | shall sigh for the dear ones.
That meet me each morn ~ the door!
! .hall meet the good night" and the kisses,
And the gush of their innocent glee,
The group on the green, and tho fewers
That are brought every morning TO me
/ hall miss them at morn and at eve,
heir song in the school and the street;
shall miss the low hum Of their voices,
md the tramp of their delicate feet.
when the lessons and tasks are all ended
And death says, 'The school is dismissed ~
A,y the little ones gather around me,
To bid me good night and be kissed.
Year: 1870

An enterprising land speculator in Kansas
in order to induce farmers to emigrate to
that State, tells the following II have seen
four or FIVE men on long lever raising a
a sweet potato out of the ground and other
men were up on step ladders cutting off the
ears of corn with hatchets. He supposes it
was IN that country where, when they wish
to make cistern, they plant beet seed and
in the fall they pull out the beet with a
stump machine, and the cistern is ready for
use.
Year: 1870

Charles Dickens says, there is nothing
beautiful and good that dies andggis forgot
ten. An infant, prattlng child, youth
we'll taught, will live again in the better
thoughts of those who loved it, and will
play its part, though its body be burned to
ashes or drowned in the deepest sea. There
is not an angel added to the hosts of heaven
but does its blessed work on earth in those
that loved it here.
Year: 1870

If you are a wise man, you will treat the
world as the moon treats it. Show it only
one side of yourself, seldom show yourself
too much at time, and let what you show
be calm, cool and polished. But look at
every side of this world.
Year: 1870

This medicine increases the power Of digestion
and s1cites the absorbents into healthy exercise
by which the watery or calcareous dspositions
and all unnatural eniargemsnts as we'll pain
and inf am nation reduced and it is taken by
men, women and children Directions for use and
diet accompany.
Year: 1870

CAUSES OF SUDDEN DEATH.-Very few of the
sudden deaths which are said to arise from dis
of the heart do really arise from that cause.
To ascertain the real origin of sudden deaths, an
experiment has been tried in Europe and re-
ported to scientific congress at Strasburg.
Sixty-six cases of sudden death were made the
subject of a thorough post mOrtem examination !;
in these cases only two found who had died
from disease of the heart Nine out oEsixty-six
had died from apoplexy while there were forty
six cases of congestion of the lungs-that is, the
lungs were so full of blood that they could not
work, not having room for a sufficient quantity
of air to support life The causes that produce
congestion OF the lungs are cold feet tight
clothing, costive bowels, sitting until chilled
after being warmed with labor or rapid walk
going too suddenly from a close room into the
air, especially after speaking, and sudden de-
pressing news operating on the blood. These
causes of sudden death being known, an evil
dence of them may serve to lengthen many val
liable lives which would otherwise be lost un-
der the verdict of heart complaint. That dis
ease is supposed to be inevitable and ncurable :;
hence, many may not take the pains they would
to avoid sudden death, if they knew it lay in
their power.
Year: 1870

SCARoITY OF GIRLs.-.At Coos Bay, Oregon
there are only two manageable girls, and these
being run after by all the young men of the dis
trict, value themselves accordingly Half a
dozen Oregonian youths sit on the veranda in
front of their respective houses during the whole
of Sunday while each looks at her followers
through the half opened window. The lovers
all the while whitling bits of white pine, which
is An easy wood to work, and valued for that
purpose. At dark they move home, but the
damsels find these visits profitable, for there is
generally left behind pile of shavings big
enough to light the fires for the rest of the week
Figaro.


Yes and if that shaving business Is not stopped
the next thing will be little shavers around there
Reno Crescent.
Year: 1870

JUMPING INTo MISUNDERSTANDING is un-
questionagly decided turring-point in hu-
man destiny can be. 1t is, however, turn
iug-point, which, least of all, should be left to
be mere blind chance. Yet mere blind chance
often rules the result Everybody now recol-
lects how Lord Byron staked toss up
whether he shohld make his offer to Miss Mil
bank or not Mr.. Grant asserts that there is an


English Duke now living, who wrote the follow
ing letter, when Marquis, to friend with whom
he had agreed to inspect some carriages in Long
Acre; Z" 1t will not be necessary to meet me to-
morrow to go 10 Long Acre to look for car
rage. From a remark made by the Duke his
father to-day, i fancy | am going to be mar
red." Not only had the Marquis left his father
to choose bride for him and TO make the other
necessary matrimonial arrangements, but when


the intimation was made to him by the Duke
! that the future Marchioness bad been fixed on,
he seemed TO view the whole affair as II 1t had
been one which did not concern him in the least.
We have similar anecdote of the late Duke OF


Sutherland g On the morning of the day of


his marriage, friend of his found him leaning
carelessy over the railing at the edge of the wa
ter in St. James Park, and throwing crumbs of
bread to the ducks. His friend surprised TO see
him at such place, and so engaged, within TWO
hours of the appointed time for his marriage to
one of the first women in England-one In whose
veins the blood of the Howards fowed-ex-
claimed, hat, you here to-day | thought
you were going to be married this morning.
" Yes" was his answer, given with the most
perfect nonehatdnce, and throwing few more
crumbs to the ducks, without moving from the
railing on which he was leanng-' yes, | be-
lieve | am" should hope that sensible men
do not often leave the choice of wife to be de-
termined in this indeterminate way."-LOndoH
Society.
Year: 1870

Mr.. John Attfeld, professor of practical chem
istry to the Pharmaceutical society, contributes
the following seasonable directions:


In these hot days cool apartment is a real
luxury, a luxury to be bad far oftener than most
people suppose possible. The secret consists,
not in letting in cool air, for naturally all do
whenever they have the chance, but in keeping
out hot air. If the air outside a room or house
be cooler than the air inside, let it in by all
means but if it be hotter, carefully keep it out.
staircase window left open during the night
will often cool the passages OF house, and the
rooms too, if their doors be not shut but it
must be closed at eight or nine o'clock in the
morning; or, if op the sunny side, at four or
five o'clock, and the blind drawn down. The
mistake people generally make is to throw open
their windows at all hours of the day, no matter
whether the atmosphere be cool or scorching.
1" Let us have some air, they say, and in comes
the treacherous breeze-for even hot air is pleas
ant while it is gently blowing, taking away per-
spiraton, and thereby cooling the skin but the
apartment is made warmer instead of cooler, and
as soon as they move out of the draft they ind
their room to be more uncomfortable than be-
fore. Let in cool air, keep out hot; this is the
only formula to insure the m nimum OF dlscom-
fort. Sitting rooms may generally be kept cool
during the whole day if the doors be only open
! for egress, and the windows be kept closed and
shielded from direct sunshine by blind. II the
atmosphere of a room be impure from any cause,
l. let it be renewed, hot air is less furious than
bad air. If a room be small in comparison with
the number Of persons engaged in it, free venti-
lation becomes indispensable. In cooking
apartment the temperature will probably be
higher than outside, hence the free admission
even of hot air will be desirable. If persons do
not object to sit in u draft of air, windows and
doors may be opened, breeze being more re-
freshing, even though several degrees warmer
than still air; but under nearly all other circum-
stances rooms should be kept closed as much as
possible till after sundown or till the air outside
is cooler than the inside.
Year: 1870

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and efliectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair as soon restored
to its original color
sciM the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1870

Congregational Junketings.
Special Despatch 20 The Evening Telegraph


WASHINGTON, May 7.-Nearly all the mem
bers of Congress are out of town to-day, on ex-
cursions of various sorts. A large number have
gone to Richmond, Norfolk, and other points of
interest in Virginia.


General Butler
writes that he will be here early next week.
when q meeting of the Reconstruction Com
mittee will be held to consider the Georgia bill
Butler will report 1t as early as possible 1t is
thought the committee will reject the Senate
bill and report the original House bill as a sub
stitute, with what is known as the Williams
amendment.


The Revenue Reduction.


The Secretary of the Treasury is of the opin-
ion that the amount to which the Senate Finance
Committee propose to reduce the internal reve-
nue. taxation is too great, and that with the pro-
posed reduction in the revenue from import
duties falling off, it will cripple the revenues of
the Government. The thirty million reduction
proposed by the Ways and Means Committee
with twenty-three million reduction on tariff is
as much, Boutwell, thinks, as his exchequer can
stand at present. The Senate proposes to cut
off of the internal revenue seme forty-seven
millions.


Civil Service Bill.


Mr.. Jenckes calculates that he will get about
fifty votes in the House for his Civil Service bill
The vote against laying it on the table last
Thursday was not true indication of its
strength, as members preferred to let him have
a fair show in debate before killing his bill. II
will be defeated by large majority
Year: 1870

fTOTt inc ~. II. HeFdHu


''The advance in the rates OF foreign exchange led
TO more activity in the Gold Room, ana the price OF
GOLD advanced 10 11476, between which figure and
il4% 1t was steady all day. The few operators in
gold have the market TO themselves for the present
as the stock market absOrbs just now the specua-
tive interest OF the street. IL Is the impression that
the inner ruling OF gold to-day was assisted by some
Of the stock cques, with a view TO helping their
railway Investments on which decline in gOa
seems to reflect inevitable dullness, If not weakness
and heaviness.


"The Government list was heavy at the earlier
boards as a sequence OF the large sales yesterday
hut proved with the advance in gold although
the amount OF business was below the average
This department OF Wall street feels the general
diversion of interest to the railways and miscella-
neous shares, which are 30 active at the Stock EX-
change. The purchases are therefore almost wholly
for Investment, and made by private individuals
and some OF the moneyed corporations. The market
closed strong.
Year: 1870

"A Georgia railroad conductor was dismayed
the other day in finding on his train family of
eight, every one of whom was an idiot, and did
not know whittier they were going or where
they came fTOD He relieved himself from en-
barTassment by putting them of the train.
Year: 1870

General Lee is threatened with disease OF the
heart. The Trustees of Washington College are
uneasy on his account, but do not despair OF his
ultimate recovery. They have just voted that Mrs
Lee shall have the Presidents house and an annuity
OF 5000 duriRg her widowhood, should she survive
the General.
Year: 1870

The Brigaads' Murder of the EnRlIsh Tourists


Reports from the Victims When Captive.
From The London Standard, April 26.


The following memorandum is penned by one who
is only too well acquainted with all the facts OF the
dreadful case OF the murders in Greece.


IL is due to the memory OF the victims OF this
dreadful tragedy-Engshme who have been muir
dered in a foreign country-that the following points
should be clearly understood


First That the -tion fo Marathon undertaken
with the full knowledge and consent OF the Crock Gov
erDment under the formal protection of escort and
there to believe with the assurance that
such protection was unnecessary.


Second That the of the whole party occurred
within very few miles of Athen', and that when it had
taken place the OF TO the last arthing
Immediately forthcoming, without reference to tho
Greek Government. .


Third. That the Greek Goyernmont were distinctly
that employment Of force against the brgands
would be followed by the massacre OF the prisoners aod
that they a solemn promise, which was communal
Gated to the prgsnds that they should not be oesed


Fourth That false 10 this promise, the Greek Govern
did send allow 10 be sent troops who surrounded
the brgands and thus deliberately provoked ths mas



Fifth. We know that amnesty a vital point with
the brigands and would have saved the prisoners The
Greek Government refused this apparently frivolous
grouDds but assuming that their objection to il was
reasonable il at least matter for further considera
ton BY attacking the brigands the Greek Government
destroyed all chance of and thus wh9y
and solely accountable to the English people.
Year: 1870

Whether these boys and girls are white, black, or
shaded does not appear The bride is the da urhter
OF Downing, the keeper Of the restaurant belonging
to the House OF Representatives, who is one OF the
most aristocratc cOlOred voters OF the happy Dis
Irict The groom is a FreDchman, is white, and
further is unknown except that he is not obp oxIOus
account OF his color or future condition OF
tude.
Year: 1870

iowa is one of the truest and staunchest
Republican States in the Union. She has
never faltered nor never Jagged behind in
the rapid strides made by the Republican
party towards prosperity and good govern
ment. She has always been with the van
guard. At the late election the entire Re
publican delegation to Congress was elect
ed. The total Republican majority in the
State was about 40, 600. There are only
four Democratic counties in the State
The counties of Clay, Cherokee, and
O'Brien did not poll a solitary Democratic
vote in the late election, and the county of
WinnebagO cast only single vote for that
party.


In the last ten years, during which time
the State has been under Republican rule
all the time, the population of the State
has increased about fifty per cent. There
is no State in the Union where the people
enjoy, IN a higher degree, the blessings of
peace and general prosperity. There is no
State in the Union where we hear of less
crime than in Iowa. That State has no
public debt all her liabilities having been
discharged some time ago under the be-
nign influences of Republican admins
tration. The people of that glorious COM
mOnwellth can boast Of one of the best
regulated systems for the support of COM
mon schools to be met with anywhere.
There the offspring OF the industrious me
chanic and labOriug man mas the means of
securing liberal education, as well as the
offspring OF the rich nabob. There = no
country on earth where all men come
nearer enjoying equal rights than i'm Iowa.
she stands out prominently before the
world a living monument tO,and an unan-
sWcrable argument in favor Of, the princi-
pies of the Republican party.
Year: 1870

GEoRGIA.-The Senate Judiciary Committee
gave hearing on the Georgia case this morn
ing to several gentlemen opposed to Governor
Bullock, who made their statements, and at the
next meeting the committee will hear Governor
Bullock's side of the question.
Year: 1870

MzYoR Bowen was at the Capitol to-day, and
before the conference committee of the House
and Senate relative to the appropriation of
$50 600 for the relief Of the poor Of this District
Year: 1870

The WALL-sTREET INvEsTIGAT1ON.-Tht
House Committee on Banking and Currency
had short session this morning, and talked
over the evidence before them i'm reference t.
the recent gold panic in New York, but heard
no further testimony.
Year: 1870

THE FREEDMEN's BUREAU ANDIrs SCHOOL
WoIK.-The Joint Committee on Retrenchment
have had another hearing on the question of
closing up the Freedmen's Bureau and putting
its school work into the hands of the Commis-
sioner of Education, and have ascertained that
the execution of this project will result i'm an an
nual saving Of about $4,000. They will accord
ingly report favorably, drawing their bill with
care, SO as to prevent any infringement by the
Bureau of Education on the right of each State
to control its own educational matters.


RETIRED OFFIcERs-An order from the head
quarters Of the army directs that under the
provisions of the act approved January q, 1870,
all retired officers who have been assigned to
duty will be considered as relieved from such
assignment on the 21st instant, and will proceed
to such homes as they may elect. Retired Of
fcers detailed as professors at colleges will be
considered as relieved from the detail, but they
are at liberty to remain at the colleges, ii they
desire, under any private arrangement with the
authorities thereof. 1t is understood that re-
tired officers may enter upon any private busi-
ness; that they have a right to change their
place of residence, CT travel at their own pleas
ure without further authority, except to leave
the United States to 60 beyond sea.


REORGANIZATION OF THE DISTRICT COURTS
Mr. Hamlin this morning introduced a bill sup
Elementary to the act to reorganize the courts
of the District of Columbia, which provides that
the President shall appoint, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, an additional
Justice Of the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, with like powers and same salary as
the other Justices. Whenever at Court
in General Term held by four of the
Justices the court shall be equally di-
vided, the petitioner or appellant NAV
have the cause reargued before the five jus
tIces All the powers and jurisdiction now
held by the Orphans Court shall hereafter be
held and exercised by one of the Justices of the
Supreme Court, and the present Orphans Court
Is abolished by the act. The salaries of the Jus
tices of the Supreme Court are fixed at 1000
per annum. Referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
Year: 1870

COTTON CAsEs.-A number of Treasury cot
ton cases from the Court of Claims were taken
up for argument in the Supreme Court yester-
day. These cases were brought under the cap
tured and abandoned property act Of 1868, and
involve various questions of fact. besides the
question Of the date of the close of the rebellion
Year: 1870

An improved Refrigerator Car arrived in the
Hudson River Freight Depot Tuesday, with conslgI
ment of 80 cattle and sheep, which slaughtered
in Chicago the 24h ut under very unfavorable cir
transportation the weather being wet
and the temperature 7Oo and the beef was In conse-
quence not properly cooled. Notwithstanding these
facts when the opened the beef dry fresb
and In all respects in excellent condition The Refrger
aor Car has thus been subjected to severe test and
operation has proved satisfactory. The construction OF
the car is very simple At the top there s large air
tight till reservoir with capacity OF several tuns In
which large quantities Of ice placed the heated air
In the car escapes through hue through the
grating In the bottom Of the TILL and being cooled by
the ce returns TO the bottom OF the through openings
at the Sides technically known aprons BY this simple
contrvance the moist air is not brought into
tact with the cold air. and the contents OF the
kept perfectly dry The amount OF ice employed during
the last trip about tun. The will return to
Chicago in few days freighted with oysters.