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Year: 1872

Out in certain western fort, some
time ago, the majo conceived the idea
that artillery might be used effectively in
fighting with the Indians by dispensing
with guncarriages aud fastening the can
non upon backs of mules. SO he explain
ed his views to the commandant, and it
was determined to try the experiment.
a howitzer was selected aud strapped
upon an ambulance mule, with the muz-
zle pointing toward the tail. When they
had secured the gun, and loaded it with
ball cartridge, they led that clam and
steadfast mule out on the bluff and set up
a target in the middle of the river to
practice at. The rear of the mule was
turned toward the target, and he was
backed gently up to the edge of the bluff.
The officers stood around in a semcirce,
while the major went up and inserted
time fuse in the touch, hole of the how
itzer. When the fuse was ready, the
major lit it and retired. Iu moment or
two the hitherto unruffled mule heard the
izzing back there on his neck, and IL
made him uneasy. He reached his head
| around to ascertain what was going on,
and, as he did so, his body turned and
the howitzer began to sweep around the
horizon. The mule at last became excit-
ed, and his curiosity grew more and more
intense, and in a second or two he was
standing with his four legs in a bunch,
making six revolutions minute, and the


howitser, understand, threatening sudden
death to every man within half mile
| The commandant was observed to climb
suddenly up tree the Heutenants were
seen sliding over the bluff into the river,
as if they didn't care at all about the high
price Of uniforms the adjutaut made
good time toward the fort; the sersean t
began to throw up breastworks with his
bayonet, and the major rolled over the
ground and groaned. In two or three
minutes there was puff of smoke, dull
| heavy thud, and the mule-oh where


was he? A solitary jackass might have
been seen turning successive somersaults
over the bluff, only to rest at anchor, final
| ly, with the howitzer at the bottom of the
river, while the ball went OF towardthe fort,
hit the chimney in the majors quarters.
ratified the adobe bricks down into tho


parlor, and frightened the majors wife
into convulsiOns. They do not allude to
it now, and no report of the results of the
experiment was ever sent to the War
epartment-JoAn Pdonir.
Year: 1872

and planted them honestly, one in each
hill, cutting them once when larger than
a hens egg, while he, believing that the
great mistake of our fathers was in seed
ing too heavily, cut his after the new pat
tern. Our lands are hardly pistol shot
apart; we used the same kind of manure,
even the same system of cultivation, and
yet he tells me that his do not come out
we'll this year, while mine "come Up smil-
ing" "One swallow does not make a
Summer" nor does one fact prove prin-
ciple, but we hope that further expert
ment may settle the question as to the
nature of that difficulty which renders it
necessary for US to have a new kind of
potato every three years.-Massachusetts
Ploughman.
Year: 1872

The German words lager bier signify
stock beer-t c. beer that has been stored
away. The story as told in Germany is
an old one, and runs thus !: "Many years
ago shoemaker, near Bamburg, sent his
apprentice to get bottle of hamburg
beer, which was sold at that place but
the boy not knowing this, went to the city
itself On returning he met an acquain-
tance of his, who told him that when he
would come home his boss whould whip
him for staying SO long. The poor boy,
who was frightened at this, thought it
better not to go home at all, but took his
bottle, buried it under tree, and ran
away. He went among the soldiers, where
he distinguished himself, so that, in short,
he became an officer. When one day his
regiment was quartered in this small
town, the officer thought proper to pay a
visit to his old boss, but not before he had
got the bottle of beer, which he had buri-
ed some years before under the tire e.
When he entered, he said Well, sir
here bring you your bottle Of hamburg
beer that you sent me for The shoe
maker, not knowing what this meant, was
told by the officer all about it. The bot
tie was then opened, and the beer was





this fact was known, some of the brewers
built deep vaults, where they put their
beer, and called it, after it had laid there
some time, nger, which meaut' nothing
more than lying. The officer afterwards
married the daughter of the shoemaker
and drank good deal of lager bier receiv
ing in that occupation the assistance o
his friends.
Year: 1872

BE ready to start the plow on sod
ground as soon as possible after the frost
is out of the grouug.


Draw out manure as fast as made, and
if possible on snow, as much of the labor
of loading is avoided.


Sec that the "spiles" are made and
buckets or troughs provided for sugar
making so as to take advantage of the
First run" which is now days about the
only ''run" We get.


a little extra care and feed to stock
thin in flesh, from this time till pasture
comes, will prove good investment.


Look over the farm implements and see
that they are ready for use now, and save
time when you are ready to use them.


Split and bore fence caps, and sharpen
stakes to fix fences as soon as the frost
leaves the ground. The stake and cap
fence is becoming more popular every day !.
Year: 1872

An awful warning here is for Doctors
We read that tim measles have of late
grevously afflicted the Ute Indians. The
more the Medicine Man of the tribe drum
med and danced and went through all
manner Of incantations, the greater grew
the mortality; until the beareaved kins-
men of the deceased led the NJ. NJ to
convenient place and shot him If we
should adopt that system, what fusilasls
would be kept UP
Year: 1872

We are rejoicing in the glorious sun
light that floods the earth with its mel
low radiance and seems to make all ma
ture joyous and bright. We say, how
long it is since the sun shone. And yet
the sun has been shining just as bright
ly all this long, dreary, rainy winter as
it has to-day. Far up above the clouds,
that show to US only an aspect of gloom
and darkness, has been all the while
brightness and beauty-an eternal sum-
mer; and the upper surface of these
same lowering clouds must have been
beautiful to behold. Think of this, o
mortals, when the sorrowful earth is
veiled by storm-clouds when the
warmth and light of the day-god cannot
penetrate the envious curtain that hangs
like pail over the fair face of nature.


1t is just so in our inner life. The
clouds of adversely and trouble close
darkly around us, and We too often de-
spairingly think that the beneficent
sunlight of Gods love and providence i.
not shining, when the only difficulty is
that we have not the faith to look ur
through the darkness and gloom and
discern the calm radiance of divine love
and tenderness that is ever out-shinina
from our Fathers face-ever ready tC
enfold US in its glow.


Friends, let US learn to look beyond
the clouds. PoRTIA.
Year: 1872

a race of healthy women among us
despite any eXhausting peeuliarities of
our western climate.


Fashion will, undoubtedly, go on still
teaching her vOtaries that there is
exquisite beauty and refinement alike in
a lady's small waist and in her delicate
health. While she does this, her fol-
lowers will unquestionably continue to
lay a little health daily, (Or nightly as
a cheerful sacrifice, upon her altar.
This is all very pitiful, but there is no
remedy except to create for them a more
humane goddess, whom they may less
harmfully worship. Meantime, the ele-
CANT lady may probably become the
mother of one or two children, and per-
haps she is about as likely to entail her
fragile constitution upon hersOn as upon
her daughter. In the next generation,
will it be necessary to ask, Have we a
healthy man among US?
Year: 1872

bic from experience, as we proceed with
our labors, that it is much easier for the
theologians to reconstruct their creeds
so as TO include the reforms than for the
world to stop moving. The Bible, I'M
der priestly control, has been made a
drag upon progress ever since We can re-
member. Whether by right or wrong
construction, 1 shall not stop to inquire
which, it has been made to endorse a
great share of the popular errors that
have warred against the progressive
tendencies of the human race. In the
end, however, the priests manage by
hook or by crook to make the Bible con-
form to each step of development which
they could not successfully oppose.
They ought by this time TO have learned
something from the success which has
attended them on previous occasions,
and commence the work of conforming
before they are pushed to the wall


1t is high time that your correspond
ent ''Tri-aster" had begun to make his
view of the Bible status of woman en-
brace her full equality before the law,
for such is the inevitable, Bible or no
Bible. If the Bible stands in the way
of Human Rights, so much the worse
for the Bible. If it be a good book, it
will not oppose, but support good things.
He says that the Bible has sustained
some rude shocks from Astronomy and
Geology, and it is plain that if he does
not set himself at work pretty soon he
will be obliged to record another severe
shock by adding Anthropology on the
Science of Government to the list.
''rri-astern and all the rest of mankind
should know before a great while that
the Bible has no power to make wrong
right or right wrong, for the Almighty
established these conditions several
years before the Bible was written and
compiled, and in order to place them
out Of the reach of vain-glorious and
superserviceable priests to interpolate
and alter and Of cunning and selfish lay
men to steal, He engraved them not
upon stone, but upon the enduring tab
lets Of the human heart. 7. w. d.
Year: 1872

gltimate targets for the press of a nation
man one suffering woman who has been


lIOsI unJustly scarified in her own flesh
oy the iron teeth of law.


A., me iears of women of one another, lest
tney should be compromised bv those
tney imagine less reputable than them
serves, Is as amusing as pitiful. I am
lolu Ihat the English women were quite
nervous at the report that Anna Dicyiu-
son, Kate Field, and Olive Logan talked
OF visiting that eOuntry-they were so
afraid lest they, by some indiscretiOu.
might lnjure the suffrage movement.
While each OF these are equally afraid of
each other and the movement, the weak
minded and the ministers are afraid of
us, one and all, and we in turn are afraid
of each other. The women of Kansas
were greatly troubled by Lucy Stone,
when she Travelled through the State,
because she did not bear her husbands
name, and had publicly protested against
the civil code in the legal marriage,
while she is equally disturbed with
Victoria Woodruff for following her eX-
ample. Women with two and three
husbands living at the same time, who
advocate the mOnOgamic relation, are
afraid of me, though Inever had but one
husband, and advocate divorce for the
hllStIdDlc-


Now think we had better agree to
fight this battle Just as our fathers and
husbands have their two revolutions
enroll all that are loyal to the principle.
How much of an army should we have
had for the rebellion, if every man who
came to enroll himself had been asked
''Do you smoke, chew, drink, steal, lie,
swear? Are you lOw-bred, illiterate, or
licentious? If so you cannot fight for
freedOm.n Was it not Just this element
we swept into the army? And were not
they the better for suffering and dying
fora noble cause? Churches and reform
associations are just the places to draw
in the sinners, and inspire them with a
new and noble purpose. Alas for those
Pharisees that are forever thanking the
Lord that they are not like other men.
Jesus, the good and perfect one, ate and
talked with publicans and sinners, and
was ever kind and merciful to the erring
and unfortunate Magdalens of his times.
Let us, one and all, follow his example.
| Golden Age.
Year: 1872

the men out. When he went in he ad-
dressed Booth as Mr.. Boyd, as the off
GERS said, and told him there was large
force surrounding the house and he had
better surrender. He ordered my son
out and appeared to be drawing pistol
and he ran out. The officer then par
leyed with the men inside for some time,
when Harold expressed a wish to surren
der, and Booth said to the officer that
the man in here wishes to come out. The
officer told him to hand his arms to one
of them, believe to my son at the door,
and to come out. Booth said the man
had no arms they were all his, and they
would not be delivered up. Harold then
came out, and Booth refusing to surren-
der, Col. Conger ordered the house fred
to force him out When he gave these
orders Booth said to him, Don't des.
troy the gentleman's property; he is en-
tirely innocent, and does not know who
| am" The house was then fired. after
which Sergeant Corbet shot Booth, and
he was brought out and died in my
porch. 1t was not until after Booth was
shot that we were told who he was we
had no idea that they were the murder
ers of the president. When the forces
passed my house they went to Bowling
Green and got Jett, the man who brought
Booth to my house, and he told them
that he left Booth at my house. When
he camehere asked him why he brought
that man to my house and left him here
as wounded confederate soldier, and
had brought so much trouble upon me.
He said he wished to get clear of him
and left him at the first house he came
to after leaving Port Royal that he
told the officers, when they came to Bow
ling Green, that he had left him with
me as confederate soldier, and that l
was not apprised who he was. told him
to make that declaration to an officer in
my presence. He made it to Lieuten-
ant Dougherty, who was the officer in
command of the regular forces. Col.
Conger being detective, but in COM
mand, as | understand, of the expedi-
tion. These are the facts in the case -
those in regard to the burning of the
barn were learned of my sons, who were
present. The subject of the murder Of
the president having been talked of at
church the day before Booth came to my
house, | condemned it publicly 10 un-
measured terms.
Year: 1872

one or two other men took the part Of


reserve forces in convenient proximity


to climable" tree. The dog had


been left out of the calculation, but ca


ger for the fray he now rushed past Ar


buckle and went for the shaggy enemy.


The bear being thus brought to close


quarters. made rush for the outlet.


Arbuckle caught the CLEAN of his eyes
as he came up to the opening and fred,
the ball striking the bear 10 the forehead,
stunning and for the moment laying him
prone. While Arbuckle was hastily en-,
deavoring to reload, Smith, the support,
caught sight of the bears head and was
now seen and aard from standing few
feet back with distended eyeballs and up
lifted ak, Justify bawling ga bear! a
bear A LIVE BEARi" but without the
power to strike blow. Ere the second
ball was driven home bruin had crawled
back into the hole, and it took long
tiluS W uiaiOuSc Aitu. AhSJ oouSuhcu
him with the dogs, made sallies into his
cave, firing at him whenever they could
catch the CLEAN of his eye, till at length
the noise of the dog tapping blood as
sured them bruin was dead. Ropes and
hooks we're lowered into the den, and the
bear dragged out. 1t proved to be
very large animal, and the robe is to-
day, or was last winter, one of the incest
ones in this section, and it has been in
use ever since it was taken from the
bears back. If any one has a better
true bear story, they will please forward
it to this Office, and take the champion
ship of Vermont bear hunters-unless
Captain Curtis corps of cadets enter the
:" lists and claim the cup from their
proved prowess in other directions
Freeman.
Year: 1872

BY PHOEBE CARY.
said il might go back again
To the very hour and place Of my birth;
Might have my life whatever chose.


And live il in any part of the earth
Put perfect sunshine into my sky


Danish the shadow of sorrow and doubt;
Have all my happiness multiplied,


And all my sufteringe stricken out.
If / could have known in the years now gone
The best that woman comes to know;
Could have had whatever will make her blest.
0rwhateyer she thinks will make her so.
Have gained the highest and purest bliss
Which the bridal wreath and ring enclose:
And chosen the one out Of all the world
That might, or could or would have chose.
And if this had been and stood tonight
By my children lying asleep in their beds;
And could count in my prayers for a rosary,
The shining rows Of their golded heads.
Yea said if a miracle such as this


Could be wrought for me at my bidding-still
would choose to have my past as tits.
And let my future come as it will.
would not make the path have trod
:, More pleasant even, more straight or wide
This way or that to either side.
Ny past is mine, and l take it all,


Its weakness-its folly if you please;
Nay. even my sins, if you come to that,
May have been helps, not hindranees.
If saved my body from the flames


Because L once had burned my hand;
Or kept myself from a greater sin


By doing less-youwill understand.
twas better I suffered little pain,


Better | sinned for a little time.
If the smarting warned me back from death,
And the sting oe sin withheld from crime.
Who knows its strength by trial will know
What strength must be set against "A sin;
And how temptation is overcome


He has learned who has felt its power within.
And who knows how a life at the last may show
Why look at the moon from where we stand,
Opaque-uneyen, you say yet it shines
A luminous sphere, complete and grand
So let my past stand. just as it stands


And let me now, as Il may, grow old
/ am what am, and my life for me


Is the best, or it had not been hold.
Year: 1872

special 70 AppsRl I


Jackson. MISSISSIPPI, March l9.


In the legislature busine 8 Of local
nature was transacted.


In the supreme court a decision was
rendered yesterday that Confederate
and cotton money paid into the State
treasury during the war on account Of
the indebtedness Of the various rail-
roads IN the State was no payment,
and all such supposed payments must
nov be made il current funds. The
court alsO decided that q citizen burn
fnz eotton by order Of the military
suJ15fitles during the war cannot be
he'd for damages BY the owner Of the
Rottqa,
Year: 1872

PERILs OF INFANcy.-It is not hard to
destroy the life of child. The vanity.
or importance of a fond mother often
causes the calamity she would have given
her life to avert. For instance, what an
army of children have been destroyed by
the absurd custome Of exposing their
necks and arms And yet this fashion
is tolerated because it is $50 pretty"
To illustrate the danger to which child
is thus exposed, 1t is only necessary to
say that many children have been cured
OF habtual cough and hoarsencss by keep
ing their arms and hands warm. Another
fruitful source of danger to the young, is
found in the foolish indulgence which will
not withhold from them colored candies.
An English chemist recently made an
examination into the quality of these
sweetmeats, and found that out af thirty
FIVE different kinds, obtain do from twenty
different dealers, ,twenty-eight were color
ed with poisonous material. The poison
must commonly used is some preparation
of lead. The diseases caused by lead
poison are amoung the most terrible which
are produced by anything. This expert
ment will serve as warning to parents
to practice greater care in providing
sweetmeats for their children. If they
are to be used at all, it is safer to make
them at home. Then you know what
they contain.
Year: 1872

EVANS DENIES THAT He MURDERED
THE LOWERING GrRL.-Franklin B Evans
the man charged with an outrage upon
and murder Of Georgiana Lowering at
Northwood,i is man weighing l35 pounds,
5 feet 8 inches in height, slim. gray hair,
and has very large, full grayish whiskers.
He has rather strange eye, a little glar
ing, and set well back In his head
quite retreatipg and narrow forehead
rather dried-up form a man Of small
intellect, garruous and snofensive in his
appearance and rather whining and
cringing in in his manner than otherwise.
He said: 81 am not guilty of the murder,
but knew where the body was put. When
| got to the woods he had killed her
said that he had outraged her and then
checked her to death. He wanted me
to help him conceal the body, and said
he would give me a handsome present.
We then luggcd her half or three qua
ters of a mile. 1 took her by the head
and he by the feet and legs. l do not
want to tell now who the person was that
killed her. He got me two or three days
before,to get her into the woods for him.
His language is unfit for publication.
1t was for corrupt purposes.) He showed
me piece OF her body, gave it to me,
and l went to the road and hid it. |
should not have told the sheriff where the
body was, if he had not solemnly promis-
cd me my liberty. He then declined to
talk further, stating that he had nothing
more to say at that time.
Year: 1872

The party known as Reddy the Black
smith must have charmed life, or else
fate has doomed him to the gallows
otherwise he never could possibly come
so safely through the dangers that at
times hem him about. He has been IN
deadly affrays without number, and yet
has always escaped with his life. His
last exploit was an attempt to break IN
to saloon, on Broadway, at o'clock,
in the morning, with companion OF
equally loose principles. The proprietor
fired a revolver at them, and Reddys
companion was mortally wounded. The
proprietor of the saloon was arrested
and locked up, and the wounded man
conveyed to the hospital to die. Reddy'
the ringleader, walks about the streets
of New York unharmed of the police,
unchallenged of justice. What is there
about this fellow. of what power Is he
possessed, that he can thus defy every
decency of life, every moral and social
law with impunity? He has earned the
right, over and over again, to pass the
remainder of his days In convlcts cell
AMI yet is loose to prey upon society a
his will. He is the bully and the dreao
of the city through which he roams
his name is more frequently before tn
public than that of any ruffian of hi
stamp; and yet, through some myster.
or other he manages to laugh at the Law
and snap his fingers in the face OF 1t
ministers. Such man could exist n
where else but in New York. He Is


fair sample of the tools that are mad
by corruption, which needs such charae
tiers to carry out its DEGREES. He goe
free precisely for the reason that b
should be shackled. There seems to
but one hope regarding him, and that


that he may meet the dogs death ths
has befallen so many Of his companion
One by one they disappear, evidently !
the working of some natural law simil;
Year: 1872

to that which causes certain animals to
prey on others of their kind when torn
by hunger. The man who was shot will
prove no loss to the community upon
which he fed by violence; but, judging
by the tone of the New York papers,
there was a universal feeling of disap-
pointment that the incorrigible bravo
Reddy again escaped the fatal bullet
that menaced him so near.