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Year: 1870

EXTRAORDINARY WEATHER ALL AROUND.
The reports from the Pacific Railroad for the
29th of Jan. is that the track is clear through
to San Francisco. No snow on the great
plains, nor in the Black Hills, nor in the pass
es of the Rocky Mountains, nor in the lofty
chain of the Sierra Nevada, to obstruct the
trains, but clear track from ocean to ocean.
At the same time the record shows the Hudson
river open from New York to Albany, and the
same is reported of all the European rivers
emptying into the North Sea and the Lower
Baltic, which are usually fast locked in ice in
midwinter. 1t isdcertainly an extraordinary
winter so far over the whole face of the civil
lied world
Year: 1870

To the unregenerate mind Gen. Nye's wood
chuck story seemed trife venerable, yet we
are now persuaded that he did not tell it a
single time too often. Here is Mr.. McNeely
once more hammering away at the dead wood
chuck He knows no more than to want yet
once again the sense of the House on the
payment of the Five -Twenties in Greenbacks
instead of Gold. He got it !; the sense afore-
said being l22 in favor of considering the sub
ject settled to Al willing to hear what the man
had to say about it. Perhaps a week or two
hence somebody will take another turn at the
dead woodchuck. There is no accounting for
the variety of tastes, but really the game this
time is hardly worth the powder.
Year: 1870

SMYRNA LIBRARY Active movements are
now being made tn enhance the usefulness of
this institution. Arrangements are being made
with the Town Commissioners to rent one of
the rooms in the Town Building, to which the
Library is to be removed and a reading room
established in connection with it. We suppose
the terhls will be fully agreed upon in few
days. An effort is also being made to open a
course Of lectures, and several prominent lee
turers have been written to-Brick Pomeroy,
Ii. w. Beecher, and others.
Year: 1870

THE PEACH CRoP.-Already the usual cry
about the injury to the peach crop has been
started, and the papers are circulating the
expressions Of fear said to be made by the far.
mers The trees are far advanced, owing to
the mild weather, aud the fear that cold wealth
er in the future may nip the buds gives rise to
the apprehension. The matter is premature,


however, and these apprehensions are only
such as are always made at the commencement
of the season, when conjecture amounts to
little more than one made when winter first
sets in. They will be made, however, let them
he as worthless as they may be, and generally
are. The crop is so important, and Of such
vast interest to ouriarmers, that there is always
q nervous uneasiness concerning it that almost
invariably seeks expression in advance and on
the .. blue" side. 1t arises more from anxiety
than from any real grounds upon which to base
an opinion. An estimate cannot be made un.
til late in the spring or early in the summer.
1t is geueraliy the late frosts that do the mis-.
chief, and 1t is only after these are passed that
an opinion can be formed-after the fruit i:
on the trees. The buds are now swollen, as much
as they generally are III the last of March, but
it is not thought that any usually cold weather
will injure them. The danger is after the bios


som falls and leaves the embryo peach expos


ed. But under the most favorable circum


stanca- u Is not probable that full crop vii


be grown. Two good crops consecptively ha


never been produced, we believe. 1t is salt
that a mild winter betokens good yield, bu


even il the weather should continue mil,
Throughout there is not much hope of larg


yield, because the trees cannot stand it. w


may have profitable crop, but it is hardl


probable or possible that we can have larg
one. The trees have to make wood, asit
said, which they cannot do ifthey bear heavily
Year: 1870

The mere the science of agriculture is
advanced, the more We become eonvin-
ced of necessity of . change of seed or
stock on farm. This is the law that
holds good in the vegetable as well as in
the animal kingdom in the human as
well as in the brute creation. In-and-in
breeding will not do when direct. 1t
causes deterioration. We see it in our
grain as well as in our cattle-our stock
at lsige,


Anew Infusion has an influence, as a
change of climate invigorates our
health. The secret we may not know
but the fact we do know. Hence the old
native stock-of all kinds-of this coun-
try Is in the wretched condition we find
1t. We have been growing from the
same family, from the same stock of the
farm-father to daughter, son to moth
er-till the incestuous thing is no more
to be endured. Our stock has so degen-
Grated that something must be done
Our potatoes rotor did till the remedy
was applied; our grapesare diseased; our
fruit suffers, of almost all kinds, and in
various ways our grain, the wheat, in
many parts Is running out. There is
nothing the farmer nourishes, either
animal or vegetable, that is not ailing.
We seem to be cursed. Buff it is a curse
we have brought il on ourselves,


Now look to the change that is being
wrought. The potato is renovated. A
new infusion was given-not an infu-
sion but an entirely new creation-a
new seed, and from abroad, as was the
case in the inception Of the original diff
fusion. And what do We see A mira
Year: 1870

To this complexion must Democracy
come at last. The New York World
proposes that the party shall accept the
situation promptly and strike for the
negro vote. RidiculiDg the vaporing
of Southern journals against the 10Th
amendment. it declares this:


All this is very absurd, but there is
something in it as an exposition of
Southern Democratic sentiment touch
ing negro suffrage. There is an instinct
which directs the wild goose northward
in the spring and southwark in the fall ,
and there is a sort of instinct which
directs Northern and Southern Demo
Gratis of the old school dead against negro
suffrage. Hence the late repeal at AL
bany of New York's ratification of the
18th Amendment is hailed with applause
in the Kentucky Legislature and with
admiration by this Alabama Democratic
organ. The Northern Democrats very
we'll understand that they can never get
back again into the White House with
out the aid of the South; but we can tell
them and the Northern Democrats that
henceforth there is no other way Tor
them to recover the Southern balance of
power except by gaining the negro bal
ance of power in most, if not all of the
Southern States. We can tell them that
this policy of recognizing the situation,
whereby the Conservatives in Virginia
carried that State last summer, is the
only course for them-that the 18th
is fixed upon them, and
that henceforth the wise heads of the
Supreme Court may be considered fixed
in the support of the Constitution as
they findi it. In word, while success to
the Democracy is promised with the cul-
tivation of the Southern negro balance Of
power, the party without it, against
Grant, will be apt to be frittered away in
1872 On this issue of the negro, at all
events looking to the White House, the
Democracy must be reconstructed, or
they will remain outside.


If we take the diagnoses and prescrip-
tions Of the various Democratic doctors,
the situation seems favorable to the Re.
publicaps. The doctor Of the World de-
clares that resistance to the amendment
and to negro suffrage will fritter away
the party in 1872; the Cincinnati En-
quirer and the Southern organs declare
for eternal resistance.-(Cin. Gaz.
Year: 1870

The returns of the wool clip for this
season have just been made, from which
we ascertain that the entire number of
sheep in the United States is SO, 600, 900.
One-half Of these are kept in seven
States, Ohio taking the lead, and produ-
cling nearly one-sixth of all the wool in
the country. Michigan shows third in
the list, and this is all the more graft
flying, as it is only within a few years
that her farmers have turned their at
tention to sheep raising. The total
amounts produced in the principal wool
growing States are as follows
Year: 1870

One OF THE MOST important things to
be considered in dress is the careful
covering Of the chest and back. Ex-
posing the lungs by inadequate shield
ing of these portions of the body from
cold is generally prActiced especially by
ladies. To cover the chest alone most
carefully is not enough. There should
be thick covering between the shoul-
derS.
Year: 1870

At the Fall grape show at Cleveland,
Ohio, Mr. Bate ham said he had fifty vines
in bearing last year, and the fruit was
ripe so as to be quite good for the table
at the time of the first frost, about the
middle of October, while the Catawbas
in the same vineyard were not ripe
enough for vinegar.
Year: 1870

COLD AIR is not injurious to breathe,
even by the most delicate. Ifit causes
irritation and coughing for time, it is
only because it seeks to find its way
into diseased or everburdened lungs, to
strengthen and heal so far rs permitted.
The injury received from going into cold
air proceeds from having some part OF
the body insufficiently clothed to pro-
tect from cold and dampness, and not
from inhnling the fresh cold air into the
lungs.
Year: 1870

We should accustom ourselves TO view
those above us without admiration or
envy, and never look upon those below
US with contempt. Little souls fall down
and worship grandeur without rejecting
that admiration is due only to virtue
and goodness.
Year: 1870

To PREVENT KITCHEN ODoRs.-In
boiling onions or ca bbage, place a dish
of vine ar ON the stove at the same time.
The boiling vinegar will destroy the
odor of the vegetables. All who have
near neighbors try it.
Year: 1870

We meet not few who denOunce the
Good Templars for taking hold OF tho
Temperance work in their way, and COM
plain that they give no opportunity for
tho cause. who differ from them as to
ways and means. Is this complaint well
founded? As well say that the presbytcr-
ians have a church in our place, and thus
prevent me from doing anything for the
cause of Christ rs / am a Baptist in senti-
ment. There is room enough and work
enough for all the different denominations
each working in its own way and ac-
cording to its own ideas. So there is
room enough and work enough for NJ! the
Temperance societies that can possibly be
instituted. IL would be worse than folly
TO ask an active, thriving Presbyterian or
Methodist church to abandon lis organ
ization, because there were u few Baptists
in the place, who could not conscientious
ly subscribe TO their way OF doing things.
Rather bid the church already organized
God-spced, and then 90 10 work and gath
er the outsiders into another church or
gnnization, with which they could affiliate.
1t is equally folly for the croakers to ask
the Good Templars to abandon their meth
od because somebody objects 10 their
secrecy. Rather bid them go forward and
then 30 to work aud gather the anti-se-
crct outsiders into an open organization.
All Good Templars would hail with JOY
such movement. They only ask that
the work be done, AMI are willing that


each should work in his own way, If he


only will work. Patriot.
Year: 1870

of them, while the contcnted man, who is
so snugly ensconced in the most comforta-
BILE chair in the room, this hour OF rclaxa-
ton is full payment for all the tolls and
weariness of the day. This is one OF the
men who stand well at home.


"IIow have missed you!"


You must stand well mt home, before
anybody there will ever say the words to
you, just rs they ought to be said, "How
I have missed you !"


How much of graceful affection is cx-
pressed in that short sentencc Ii tells
of hours OF tender, brooding though. for
an absent loved one. What n blessed
thing it is to be missed How we treas.
ure loves remembrance


How involuntarily tho question arises
in the heart of the absent one. "do they
miss me at home?" And how dcsolatc and
bitter the heart when VIC feel that there
are none to miss u.s. Not one to send
loving wishes and thoughts out after US!
Not one kind voice 10 greet us when We
come! How very hard it must be to lead
loveless life! think there can be no
other cross so hard to bear.


God pity and soften tho man whose
standing at home is not good; whose
family shrink away in fearful silence as
his foot crosses the threshold; whose
children shun tho room that he darkens
with his presence whose wife meets him
with pale, spiritless. crushed look, which
tells how small is her hope OF n ciress,
how scanty have been the loving words
and looks that have frightened her life.
God help those who love him for it is
penaace TO love such man. And God
bless the generous, cheerful. large-heart-
cd man who always brings the sunshine
with him, who leaves his cares and his
business down town." and brings only
his own cheerful and cheering self home
to his family; for his face is never fail
ing source of gladnoss to those who love
him, and his tenderness their highest
pride and surest shield, after Gods.


All ityour standing Mt home isn't a
good one, dear reader,-irrespectivc OF
sex, be in greater hurry to make it so
than you are to do any other thin. in this
1 A.
world. Don't wait until the memory oil
the gricved look upon some dear face,
almost habitual to it, by reason of your
habitual mkindness, subdues you into
gentlcncss; when that face has gone for
ever from your gaze, and you can never
call forth a smile to dwell upon it again.
+ Netc York Mail.
Year: 1870

A friend lrom the West has been tell
ing me about the prayer meetings of his
church. Long prayers are not allowed,
while the meeting is made rs informal
and free as possible. A few evenings
since, the leader opened the exercises by
irving some thoughts which had been
suggested to his mind by the petition in
the Lords Prayer, "Givo us this day our
daily bread" Was it true that they who
uttered this petition were any better pro-
yided for than those who, working H.
duslriously, never prayed? The pastor
gave brie: allegory, and closed by say
ing he would make no application. As
he sa. down, my friend arose and said he
wished to relate an incident for which
their minister could vouch, that had n
very direct application:


A few Sabbaths since our pastor preach
ed a sermon that had long needed. 1t
was full of comfort and cheer to my soul.
| had that morning put five dollar bill
in my pocket, and on the way home
said TO myself, That sermon has done
me so much good | will acknowledge It
to morrow by sending Mr. w. this
money" Monday morning came, and
with it the motherly reminders that new
shoes were wanted for the children, and
the flour barrel was almost empty. There
seemed so much need of all my five dollar
bills that The resolution made the day be-
fore was almost forgotten. On the way to
my office met Il friend, very unexpected
". who had removed his residence from
our place. Some months ago this friend
had asked the loan of five dollars, and
being under obligation to him for past
favors, handed it to him saying, IL do
not want you to repay this" However,
he now insisted on paying me the money.
AS soon rs | reached the office enclosed
the bill in letter to my minister rs
thank offering for the good his sermon
had done me. In due time the letter was
taken from the office, and opened. Start
ing on his way home, our paster met a
lady, comparative stranger in the place.
He inquired after her invalid husband.
The wan face told more serious story
than the lips. How could he assist
herr Telling her of the letter he had
lust taken from the office, he lifted the
lid of the basket, and said, 'Now want
to pat this five dollar bill right here"
The tears trickled down the woman's face
rs she said. "Mr. W., this morning there
was only food enough in the house Tor
nv husbands breakfast. l have eaten
nothing, but he does not know it. What
we were to do did not know. We lave
not a relative within q thousand miles,
and we are destitute among strangers.
Kneclng down this morning and thank
ing the Lord, uttered the prayer he has
taught us, Give us this day our daily
bread. You see, sir, how God has
answered my praycr."-[Rev. B. B. San
ford.
Year: 1870

PREcocIoUs. Three little Methodist
girls were playing communion, and were
allowed a little currant wine by the
mother of one, at whose house the others
were visiting. One ofthe little girls liking
the taste of the wine, drank nearly The
whole of it to the grief of the others.
Year: 1870

MACK has a very poor opinion of the
et-bag element liz Conglcss. While
we agree with him, he shonld remember
that such members as MooRE from the
18th Ohio District, and others are not q
whit better, because they encouraged
these wheIps,by their voice and votes to
do just the things they are doing:


"There never was more iastardly
crime committed against a brave people
than that which called the carpet -baggers
into existence, and filed the halls Of
Congress with the mean wretches who
now represent the South. Nor is the
injury confined to the South alone. The
carpet bagger's vote totnts for as much
on tariff or q currency question .af-
fecting the whole country as vote Of b
member fsQQ NeR York or Cincinnati; /;
and VIC have now twenty such votes in
the Senate and eighty in the House-any
one of them merchantable article for
sale to the highest bidder, the aggregate
forming an army of rascality sufficiently
large TO corrupt and befoul the entire
legislation Of Congress. Nor is tliei'e
any prospect of immediate relief. The
influence of these men is constantly ex-
cited to prevent the extension Of amnes-
ty to those likely to prove competitors
for their succession. A general reno
val of disabilities would soon purify the
political atmosphere of the South; but
Congress never was farther from that
sort of magnanimity than it is to-day
The Southern delegations are solid
against it, and are likely to remain so
and to defeat any measure of the kind"
Year: 1870

To tell those who would make graii.
binding comparatively easy task,
would say. Take in hand light three
pronged nay fork. 1t is the best thing
yet. Try it.


Be sure to have good cistern; keep
it clean, and when thirsty, drink the wa
ter.


Do not let your manure pile fire-fang
or burn up, for in this way il loses near
ly all that is essential to the growth of
the plants. Remove it to the field ;leave
in small piles or heaps; spread just be-
fore plowing.


I notice few farming tools yet lying
about loose. 1t is not too lite to give
them shelter.


Clean well your wheat before milling
feed the screenings to fowls, or small
chicks in spring, otherwise the smut will
take it.


Flour deteriorates. The process is
slow but sure. Consequently do not
make your grlsts too large.


More horses are spoiled, or made nm
sound, before maturity than afterwards
Many SPAWN has beeti caused and
many knee been sprung for want of
well sharpened calks. This should not
be so.


Those who do not believe in feeding
swine in the mud, should loose no time
In preparing plank floor, as mud will
come, and that soon.


See to it this month that all fuel is pre-
pared for the spring months. And all
seed grain well cleaned and ready for
sowing.


Look well to your seed corn. We en-.
pect to hear great complaints another
season of "poor stand of corn" Now
is the time to prevent the misfortune.


And, withal, let us (if possible .keep
clear of debit"
Year: 1870

The range of the human eye may sDe
judged of from a consideration: which
gives us at the same time good idea Of
the scope of animal structure. Suppo-,
sing that an individual of every known
species were to take its stand between
the two species that we're respectively the
next larger and the smaller than atse1f5
the smallest known animal at one extfeffs
ity of the Inc, and the largest standing
at the other; and then suppose wewers
to ask which creature occupied the mid
die place, having as many degrees OF
siae, below it as above, and as AmEnk
above it as bellows that place wouid be.
occupied by the common llouse-ayf
What a stupendous optical instrument
must that be which, assisted by few
brass tubes and some disks-of glass dis.
cern creature as much smaller than a


fly, as fly is smaller than an elephant.
Year: 1870

EgSir Walter Scott said seriously in
his autobiography, Through every part
of my literary career have felt pinched
and hampered by my own ignorance"
Such is true wisdom. The wiser man
really becomes, the more he begins to
feel as the sage Of old did when fe Sid,
"The longer / live the moro persuaded
become that l know nothing"
Year: 1870

EFIt is likely that the Salt Monopo-
lists will come to grief, right soon. The
duty on foreign salt is to be removed
The home producer will still make pretty
large gains, but he won't be able,as here
tofore, to wear out three pairs of pock-
cts to one pair of brooches, while those
who buy of him wear out three pair Of
breeches to one pair of pockets.
Year: 1870

We no longer seek to make laws for
the people or to raise means to support
the Government. The entire vast ma
chinery Of powerful Government is
run fof the benefit of private moneyed
interests, and / can sit in the gallery and
count with accuracy the seats that will
be vacated, and the places that know
these members now will know them new
er more again.
Year: 1870

1hE UNUU AhDED MUM En- He
Yes, my lips tonight have spoksA
Words / said they should not speak;
And I would could recall them
Would I had not been so weak.
Oh, that one unguarded moment!


Were it mine to live again,
All the strength of its temptations
Would appeal to me in vain.
Trtie, my lips have only uttered


What is ever in my heart;
am happy when beside him,
Wretched when we are apart.
Though I listen to his praises,


Always longer than should,
Yet my heart can never hear them
Half so often as would.
And 1 would not, could not, pain him,
Would not for tho world offend;
would have him know like him
As brother, as friend;
But meant to keep one secret,


In my bosom always hid,
For never meant to tell him


That loved him-but did.
Year: 1870

Let me kiss you for your mother
For your sister-cousin-auut-
Or for somebody or other


Whom / long to kiss, but can't;
I could wish my love beside me,
As I've you beside me now;
But the pleasure is denied me,
So I'll kiss you anyhow.
Year: 1870


Il cannot do much, I" said little star,


''To make the dark world bright
Ny silvery beams cannot struggle far


Through the folding gloom Of Eight.
But I'm only part OF Gods great plan.
And I'll eheerfully do the best can"
what Is the use" said a'heecy cloud,


"0f these few drops that hold:
They will hardly bend the lily proud,


Though caught in her cup Of gold;
Yet am part Of Gods great plan,
SO my treasures III give as well as I can"
A child went merriIy forth 20 play,


But a thought, like silver thread,
Kept winding in and out all day


Through the happy, golden head;
Mother sald, ''Darling, do all you can
For you are part Of Gods great plan"
She knew no more than the glancing star,
Nor the cloud with Its chalice full,
How, why, and for what all strange things


were


She was only child at school?
But she thought, "It's part OF Gods great


plan


That even should do all that 1 can"
She helped younger child along,


When the road was rough TO the feet,
And she sang from her heart little song
That we all thought passing sweet;
And her father, weary, toilworn man,
Said ~ will do likewise the best can"
Our best7 All! children, the best Of Us
Must hide our faces away,
When the lord OF the vineyard comes 10 look
At our task at the close OF dayi
But for strength from above Ptis the Masters


plan)


Wen pray, and well do the best that we


can