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Year: 1872

Years came and went. The little chest
nut girl passed entirely out of Ralph
Moore's memory as if those pleading
eyes had never touched the soft spot in
his heart; but May Lee never forgot the
stranger who had given her the silver
half. crown.
Year: 1872

Yes, I can tell you & story of my dear
old friend Bayle; no one better. Some
of my friends here may have heard it
before, but it will bear hearing again.
I can't say I'm proud to tell it, because
it's too sad an ending, as far as he was
concerned, poor fellow, though my
self had lucky escape.


James Bayle was a very peculiar man.
/ don't think any one understood him
except myself He was certainly more
open with me than with any of his 9th
er friends or acquaintances. 1t was
three years ago, in November, when he
came up to London to stay with me in
this very house. He used to go out on
long walks by himself every day, and
l knew his object, for he had cOnfided
to me the fact that he was going to
marry a young girl somewhat below
him in station, and he was looking for
house in London, as he intended to
work hard on two or three journals, to
the staff Of which he had long been
attached.


The sort of house that he looked for
was, as you may believe, not very
dear one. He naturally wished for q
very quiet situation; and as he was q
man who had always lived in the coun-
try, and was very fond of flowers, he
said he would put up with any incon-
venience SO long as he could have a
piece of ground to himself He told me
the sort of house he required, and [
told him the districts in which he could
most probably find one It was one
Wednesday, l remember, four days af-
ter he had been with us, that he went
out rather earlier than usual. We never
expected him to return very early; but
when the dinner bell rang and we found
he had not come in, we felt little IN
easy. He was a very shy man, as you
know, and very particular; the last
Year: 1872




There IS many a rest in the road Of life,


If We only would stop to take it;
And many tone from the better land.


Ii the querulous heart would wake it
Tc the sunny soul that is full of hope,


And whose beautiful trust 'er faileth.
The grass ,s green and the flowers are bright


Though the wintry storm prevaileth.
Better to hope hough the clouds hang low,


And to keep the eyes still lifted
For the sweet blue sky will soon peep thro',


When the ouninous clouds are riffed.
There was never night without day,


Nor an evening without n morning;
Aud the darkest hour. as The proverb goes,


Is the hour before the dayaing
There is many gem in the path of life,


Which we pass in our idle pleasure.
That is richer far than the Jew eled crown


Or The miser's boarded treasure:
1t may be the love of a little child,


Or mothers prayer to Heaven.
Or only beg gar's grateful thanks


For cup Of wafer given.
Better to weave in the web of life


bright and golden filling,
And TO do Gods will with ready heart
And hands that are swift and willing,
1 Ian to snap the delicate, inmate threads
OF our curioTs lives asunier;
A nd then blame Heaven for the tangled ends.
And sit and grieve and wonder
Year: 1872

No great progress will be made
in curing intemperance in drinking
by prohibitory and penal legisla
ton until We come to treat the
drinker as responsible being, and
subject him to restraint and to
some substantial moral suasion.
The persevering avoidance of this
is q striking feature in all the anti
liqor agitation and legislation. II
treats the drinker as an innocen.
man siuned sgainit by having
temptatiesd set before him. 1t IS :
sumes that every person would be
correct and useful if not exposed
to temptation by the sellers Of
liquor. and therefore that if these
| shall be suppressed every body will
be good, Industrious. thrifty, good
fa,rily-rroviders, and so On And
upon this assumption it holds the
sellers guilty OF all the improvi-
dence lsziness, and worthlcssness
OF drinking men, and advocates
| laws I'D MAKE tuctu oCCouAtuUfC iCt
it


Il even treats the drinker as
having a just cause Of complaint
.ainst the man he bought bis
drink of, and IS a proper witness
against him. Upon the same theory
OF the irresponsibility OF the man
who drinks, when after course
of scottish, selfish, worthlessness
he dies, it is held that the stl!el
should account TO his family in
money damages as If he would
have been q valuable husband and
father if the seller had not tempted
him.


| Without seeking in the least tt
plug the vent Of this wrath agains'
the seller, its results are not Sc
perfect as to iebar US from th,
consideration Of moral and coer.
Give influences to be applied to th,
drinker And first We NAV re.
mark that while it might be yer,


nice to have the world so CON


struted that there should be u,


temptation to do evil, and 80 tha
Year: 1872

sense of shame, and are ready to
quarter themselves on the asylum
between their debauchcs. For
such as these an industrial course
can be provided either in the asy-
lum or in the work house, which
will protect the public against i'm
position.


When We come TO treat the in
temperate "a the person to be
legally disciplined, whether as ac-
countable or unaccountable beings,
we shall make some hea0way in
the reform Of intemperance. So
long IS we are afraid to make this
principle of justice the starting
point Of our coercive Temperance
legislation, we shall only multiply
laws without real progress, as We
have done in the past.-Cincinnati
| Gazette.
Year: 1872

A CRYING EVIL THAT MUST BE REM
EDIED.-A meeting of the Bar will be held
in the Circuit Court room at noon tO-mor-
row to devise plan for the establishment
of what is known i'll other States as Su-
perior Court-an intermediate tribunal be-
tween the Chancery and Supreme Courts
to which appeals are made from the lower
courts, and from which appeals are taken
to the Supreme Court. This movement
has been found necessary as means Of
relieving the Supreme Court of its present
over-crowded docket.


The meeting will recommend that the
Governor request the Legislature to take
action relative to the establishment of
such a court at the called session of tie
Legislature. re.-NdShUiNe Banner.
Year: 1872

In its review of Forster's life ofDickens,
the "Thunderer" says:


That he was often vulgar in manners and
dress and often overbearing that he was
i'll at ease in his intercourse with gentle
men that he preferred being a King in
very low company; that even in his early
days he lived rather in clique than in So
clety that he was something CT a Bohe-
mian in his best moments-all these are
truths effecting the private character of
the man and his social position, but of lit
tie worth when weighed against the trans
cendant merit of his works. Such as he
was, we in our generation are never likely
to behold bis equal.
Year: 1872

A little girl in New York recently cele-
brathed her fourth birthday by attending
Sabbath school. When the recitations Of
the class were finished, the teacher asked
her if she could repeat some little verse she
had learned. She promptly replied that
she could, and astonished the class by the
following:


Mary had little lamb,


She laid it on the shelf;


Every time it wagged its tail,


You know how tbs yourself"
Year: 1872

Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken
Over the woodlands brown and bare
Over the harvest-felds forsaken,


Silent, and soft, and slow


Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession,


The troubled sky reveals


The grief it feels
This is the poem Of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded
This is the secret of despair.
Long in its cloudy bosom boarded,


Now whispered and revealed


To wood and field.
Year: 1872

4 young lady at Council Bluffs being in
formed by her "feller" that he intended to
cease his attentions, cowhided him around
the room, and, as he sprang through the
open window, told him, with a parting
kick, that she would teach him to be more
careful for the future not to trifie with a
gentle and loving heart.
Year: 1872

General Toombs was discussing the mer-
Us Of the late Governor Joe Brown with
pi9us friend of the latter, who replied that
when we then the great day shall come Joe
6fown will lead a longer column


man man General Toombs. YES" replied the
General, land when the Judge sees him
ile ne VIII say, Head of the column to the
Year: 1872

A A distinguished admiral in our navy
tells good one of his ten-years-old lad, a
very bright boy who has been carefully
brought up in the Episcopal Church. Com
ing home from school, the other day, he
informed his mother that in common with
all the boys in school he had that day re-
ceived twenty-five bad marks. ''For
what, pray!" Oh, Because the teacher
asked US to repeat the second command
ment, and none of us did it" "Why, my
boy, you certainly knew that. Why did
you not repeat ?'' "Of course 1 know it,
but do you think l was going to stand up
there and repeat it and have all the boys
to think was religious
Year: 1872

Not a day passes but we have te
chronicle deeds of blood, which grow
out Of political controversies among
the devided ranks of the republican
party, in this and our neighboring
parish. Men can no longer assemble
and discuss political affairs without
the assistance of firearms and whisky.


Last Saturday, Mass Meeting OF
the colored and white republicans,
opposed to the Gair and Law faction,
convened at Salem Church, about
six miles from Jackson, and had re-
course to pistols and knives to settle
their difficulties. We learn that in
the affray four men were wounded
the wounds of one of them being
mortal. Two of the others are badly
cut. We have not learned the names
Of the parties wounded.
Year: 1872

men, where I'LL the branches of y fin.
'shed Education can be had, besides
1t is by far cheaper than any othe,
similar institution in the South, thep
why nottrain our preparatory schools
prepare our boys and educate them
at home here they meet from every
parish, young men who by associa-
ton become friends, and in future
lite are bound by ties of early asso-
citation ; they who in their turn
become the actors upon the stage
OF Statesmen. When that time shall
arrive with their intimate acquain-
tance OF each other and their capac-
'ty we may hope the future to be
blessed by a government of our own
native born, educated, honest race,
when rid of Adventures, our State
may return to her once honored
standing as in days ofthe past, when
her judiciary was composed of the
highest order Of talent her U. S, Sena-
tors would have done credit to any
assemblage even her Legislature was
such as to command respect, when
bribery and corruption was not
heard OF, our credit untarnished and
taxation light.


What a contrast +; how changed
oh, my country!


VERITAS.
Year: 1872

to have the Court House and o.
fees, Safes an. Jail. placed where
they will costthe least? This fact
is sufficiently demonstrated in the
Address Of the Board of Trade in
another column.


Our citizens, pay a heavy bonus
for The County-seat-furnish the
ground-pay for the Jail and its
removal and re-erecsion here, and
guarantee to es cry Taxpayer who
signs the petition that no additional
cost will be required of him, other
than tie tax he would hare to pay, il
q new Court House should be Or
dered to be built at Centreville.
Year: 1872

Wednesday. in the Senate Mr..
Ransom was sworn in as Senator
from North Carolina, and thus. for
the first time siucs 1861. every
seat in the Chamber was filled.
Every State is now represented, q
gratifying fact to all who desire
the work of reconstruction to be
finished. nag
Year: 1872

Mrs Weasel, living near Wabash
undertook to fill her lamp at night
while burning. OF course the fame
communicated to the jug contain
ing the oil. exploding it and burn
ing her so that she can hardly re-
cover.
Year: 1872

We have given frequently detailed d.
reciiOns for raising corn fodder-alvays
sowing in drills or furrows, the latter be.
ing the best. allowing more breadth for
the rows. An inquirer asks what time it
should be sown? We answer. any time
in the Northern states between the mid
die Of May and the middle of July. Those
who use it for early sOiling may SOW I, as
soon as the weather aud sol. will allow.
early in May. and if small carly corn is
sown quite thickly, say three bushels to
the acre, it will givea heavy crop of fne
fodder on good ground by the time Of
common wheat harvest. Bnt if intended
only for autumn soiling or for winter fod-
der, il need not be sown earlier than the
middle OfJune, and larger variety Of
corn will do better. But never SOW less
than two or two and half bushels OF
seed to the acre.


Ii the ground is poor, the crop will be
greatly increased by manuring. Coarse
material may be used TO good advantages
on corn fodder. Plow two-horse funows
about three feet apart, fill them half full
of manure by throwing with fork from
the cart or wagon, then strew the corn
along from half-bushel basket on the
left arm, at the rate of about three BUSH
els per acre, aud the harrow the whole,
lengthwise with the furrows. The har.
row will break up the manure and mix it
with the soil, and the seed will be mixed
with both--it may be scattered some, but
more fodder will grow on wide than on
a narrow furrow, and if a few grains are


left uncovered there will still be enough
for good crop. If the owner happens
to have smoothing harrow, he may har-
row the whole surface before the corn is
up, and two OF three times afterwards,
and this operation together with the shad-
ing of the crop, will leave the surface as
level as floor after the crop is harvested.


1t should not be overlooked by these
not familiar with this mode of raising
fodder, that two or three times as much
dry fodder may thus be obtained as from
good meadow; that cattle will eat the
whole, stalks and all, and that the stalks


will be sure to heat and spoil with the
novice the first year therefore begin


moderate y.-Cult,rator.
Year: 1872

The ONION MAoGoT.-The maggot SO
destructive in some places to the onion
crop, is the larvae Of the Onion Fly, (An-
honigia Ceparum), which eats into the
the roots and kills the plants. The pa
rent fly deposits its eggs on the leaves Of
the onion, close to the earth. and the
maggot, when hatched, eats into the
heart Of the onion. The larvae come to
their full growth in about three weeks,
turn to pupe in the onion and come out
perfect flies in a fortnight afterward.
Burning straw on the surface of the land
where the seed is sown is said to be an
effectual preventive of the attacks Of this
insect. SCOT is used in Danvers, Mass,
with good effect. An onion grower in
that celebrated onion locality says he di-
vided his onion ground into three parts,
all of it having been we'll prepared by
suitable tilling and manurng and made
ready for the seed. One part was COW
cred with wood ashes, another with SCOT,
and the third left as it was. The part
sown with SCOT soon took the lead, the
wood ashes came next. and the onions on
the part to which no preventive was ap-
piled were entirely destroyed by worms.
Year: 1872

Lysander w. Babbitt, of Council Bluffs
Iowa, writes as follows to the Rural New
Yorker:


Seventeen years ago | built good
sized farmhouse. Three years after,
added to it kitchen, wood house, milk
room. smoke house and tool house. |
painted the roof of the first when built.
When l made the addition, my master
builder, whom considered architectural
authority, advised me not to have the
roof painted and took his advice. The
shingles on the roof of the first part built
are us sound to-day as they were when
put on. The shingles on the last part
built which were not painted, are more
than half rotten, and the roof leaks badly.
The unpainted roof is covered with dirt
and something like moss.


The painted roof is smooth and has no
lint upon it, The lint on the unpaintsd
roof holds the water and rot them, while
on the painted roof the water runs off
freely. Both roofs are Of the same pitch
yet the conductor from the painted roof
commences discharging water, in moder-
ate showers, nearly minute before 1.-THE
one from the roof not painted. From the
foregoing facts conclude that it is best
to paint shingle, as we'll as all other roofs


1t is proper to remark that | have had
the roof of tho first named building paint
ed twice, at cost of $50 each timc-$60.
1t will cost me Sl20 to put on new roof.
Hence l conclude that two paintings,
costing $50, is worth as much as q new
roof costing sl20.
Year: 1872




The autobiography and memoir of Rob-
ert and William Chambers, republished in
this country by Scribner, Armstrong & Go.
contains some very pretty pictures of Scot
tith life and manners, aud some character
istic anecdotes. All OF the latter are not
new, but they gather some fresh signi6.
cance from their setting.


IA Lanarkshire minister was one of
those unhappy persons, who, to use the
words Of u well known Scottish adge, 'can
never see green cheese but their cen reels
lie was extremely covetous, and that not
only Of nice articles Of food, but of many
other things which do not generally excite
the cupidity the human heart. Being on
a visit, one day, at the house of one of bis
parishioners, a poor widow, he became fas.
cinatei by the charms of little crstiron
pot, which happened at time to be lying
en- the hearth full of potatoes for the poor
woman's dinner and that Of her children.
He had never in his life seen such a Mica
little pol-it was gem--no pot on earth
could match it in symmetry. Dear sake !
minister said the widow, quite overpow-
cred BY the reverend mans ccmmenda-
tinos of her pot, if ye like the pot sac
veal as a that, beg yell let me send it to
the manse. III send it over the morn
wi jamie, when he gangs to the sctule.


=" oh said the minister, Il can by no
means permit you to be at SO much trouble
Since you are so good as to give the pot
III just carry it home with me in my hand.


80 it was agreed that ho should carry
home the pot himself. Off he trudged
bearing this curious little culinary article
in hand or under his arm, as seemed most
convenient.


unfortunately the day was warm, the
way long, and the minister fat SO that he
became heartily tired of his burden be
fore he got half way home. In these dis.
tressins circumstances it struck him that
if he we're to carry it on his head the bur-
den would be greatly lighteued Accord
ingly, dofing his hat, which he resolved
to carry home in his hand, he placed the
pot in an inverted position on his head.
There was at first much relief in this new
mode of carry ing the pet. He had taken
by,path to escape observation, and in
passing from Que field to another was in-
tercepted by ditch. He jumped, but
unfortunately the concussion given to his
person caused tue helmet to become a
hood the pot slipped down over his face,
and resting with the rim on his neck,
there stuck fast. What was worst of all
the nes which had permitted the pot to
slip down over it. withstood every at.
tempt OH the part of its proprietor 10
make it slip back again. Was there ev.
er minister in a worse plight? The
place was lonely: the way difficult; hui
man relief almost. beyond reach. 1t wal
impossible even to cry for help; or if a cry
could be uttered it would reach twelve
inches in any direction. To add to the
distrcsses Of the case, the unhappy suffer
er soon found great difficulty in breath
ing. Everything considered, it seemed
likely that if he did not chance to bo re-
lievcd by some accidental wayfarer,
there would soon be death in the pot.


"The poor minister in his dilemma
thought Of black-smith's shop at . dis
Year: 1872

contributes the following to that paper:


t is hardly safe for the owner Of rare woIk r
to make too sure that no duplicate exists Of it.
One of The most eminent numismatiBts in Lon
don came into possession Of q singular and high
IL valuable coin of which he felt certain that no


duplicate existed. Wishing to surprise his
brother numismatists. and have them rejoice
with him upon so rare possession, he IN,
yited 9 dozen Of them to dinner, and
when the cloth WAS removed he
BROUGHT out his coin. Great we're the delight
and the congratulations as the coin passed
round, and one after another examined it. But
presently the coin disappeared, no one could ten
how. At first it was thought that some one had
concealed it us jest, and there Was no alarm
but "a time vent on and the coin was not forth
coming, some OF the guests intimated that the
Year: 1872

joke:waa being carried too far. Still it did not
appear. Whereon gentleman present said the
loss was oserious that, unpleasantas the sugges-
tion was must insist that the individuals pres
ent should submit to being searched. All we're
eager to have this done, With the exception Of
one eminent man, who declared that be would
not submit to such an insult as o search, and
convinced that he was the thief. Next day the
possessor OF the 1are coin visited the gentleman
who declined being searched, and with profuse
apologies for the affair, announced that the
missing coin had been found, caught in the
matist who had left the room said s'f had in
my pocket the duplicate Of your coin. took it
with me thinking to astonish you, but when found
you had invited us to dinner to display the same
coin, had not tha heart to say had got just
ike IT.: But, had been searched, it would have
been discovered on ue.''
Year: 1872

THE PRAYER MEETING Rev. Dewitt Tallmadge says:-A brother rises in prayer meeting 10 lead in supplcation. After he has hegun, the door slams, and you peep through your fingers to See who is coming in. You gay to yourself what a finely expressed prayer, or what a laundering specimen. But how long he keeps on Wish he would stop! He prays for the worlds conversion. I wonder how much he gives towards it. There I don't think l turned the gas down in the paror. Wonder if Bridget has got home yet! wonder if they have thought to take that cake out of the oven!" Oh, ''what fool l Was to put my name on the back of that note Ought to have sold those goods for cash and not on credit" And SO you go on tumbling over one thing after another, until the gentleman closes his prayer with "Amen," and you Eft up your head say ing, There, haven't prayed one bit. l am not christian Yes you are, if you have resisted the tendency. Christ knows how much you have resisted, and how thoroughly we are disordered of sin, and He will pick out the one earnest petition from the rubbish and answer it. To the very depth of His nature He sympathizcs with the infi!mIty of our prayers.
Year: 1872

Country life in the winter without the pleasure of good slrighng, is somewhat mOnotonous and little tedious. When therefore pleasant sensation comes to af- ford variety to the dull course of unevent

 ful days, it is welcomed with zest and enjoyed with delight unknown to the dwellers Tn densely populated towns and cities. Such a pleasure we haze in antici- patton on Friday evening of the present week in the form of lecture by Hon. Robert D Livingston, who is making our village his home for the present, and whose genial disposition and agreeable manners render him favorite with all of our citi zens. The subject of the lecture will be The poets and poetry of Great Britain an intersting theme, and which the lecturer having made it favorite study, will handle with taste and eloquence which cannot but be attractive to the audience assembled on the occasion. Mir. Livingstone is q skillful elocutionist, and his voice and dts livery are admirably calculated 10 give et feet to ''thoughts that breathe and words that burn" which too often loose half their power from faults of u'terance. Tine lee ture will be given in the Methodist church, and the avails are for the benefit of the Rev Robert Hunt, the amiable and popular pastor of that large, respectable and flour ishiug society. VIAToR.
Year: 1872

The season continues dry, and in many
places water has given out. Wagons
may be seen daily at the town spring
hauling away water, and stock has to be
brought there to water. The drought
will be hard on the wheat, as we'll as
stock, unless We have rain soon.