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Year: 1871

The Massachusetts Bureau of Sta
tistics, after a careful examination
into the condition of the farming dis
tricts Of that State, has made very
gloomy report, describing the gradual
decline Of tie native population, the
influx Of new element from abroad,
and the institution OF a rougheF civilf-
ZatiOn for the wen known Yankee
system
Year: 1871

The ho0ks Of tie Internal Revenue
Office show that the orders for lager
beer stamps now average forty thou
sand per day-nearly four times as
great as the orders received in the
corresponding time last year.
Year: 1871

Rev. Maxwell p. Gaddis is now an


inmate of New York lunatie asylum.


Mr.. Gaddis was once a young minister
Of great promise, and a prominent
temperance lecturer. At the break
ing out Of the late war he enlisted as
a Chaplain OF the Second Ohio In
fantry. In the tented field he forgot
his holy calling and his early pledges,
and became a liquor drinker. By the
time he left the army there was very
little religion left i'm him. He then
became a politician, preaching be-
tween whiles, and was appointed in
ternal revenue collectOrin Cincinnati.
Finally he was removed from ofice,
and accepted call TO a prominent
church in Brooklyn, n. Y. During
his term of Office there was a discrep-
ancy in the accounts, and after his re-
moval to Brooklyn, he was arrested
by the Government. But the matter
was settled, and Gaddis still preached
the gospel. And now the erFing Cad
dis brings up i'm a mad house! Poor
fellow, he was brilliant in his day, and
did good service both in the pulpit and
on the platform for the cause of
temperance. In the evil hour when
he first tasted liquor he sealed his
doom.
Year: 1871




We stated in yesterdays Eagle that
the Connecticut reached Tivoli dock on
Wednesday night We were wrongly
Informed. At o'clock on the evening
in question she lay across the Hudson
half a mile above Tivoi. She had
ploughed her way there from Bristol,
when encountering very heavy and sol
id ice she ceased operations for the
night. Immediately after her owner,
Captain Hancox, had an interview with
James Livingston and James Cheney,
OF Barrytown, when g contract was en-
tered into that the Barrytown firm
should commence in the morning at S
o'clock to saw way for the Connecti-
cut to Trivoli dock for $50, and a fur
ther contract that upon reaching that
point the Connecticut should go no fur
ther this winter. The latter stipula-
tion was the all important one for the
Barrytown firm, as they did not
wish the steamer to break
up the ice field in front of
the ice-houses, as she had done two OF
three days previous north of Bristol.
In accordance with the above agree
ment, Wednesday morning Messrs.
Livingston & Cheney put fifty men at
work OF the ice with saws Immediately
in front of the Connecticut, and in
about one hours time the steamer was
close to the east shore, headed down
the river. Then the sawyers commenced
to lay out track for her. After saw
ing adistance of fifty feet, the Connec-
ticut, with a full head of steam on,
backed down SO as to get good start,
and then plunged into the solid water
ice, nine inches thick, going through
slowly but surely, for hundreds of feet,
bending, cracking, and groaning un-
der the attack. Soon she was stuck
again. For the second time she back
ed astern, and once more made dash
at the ice, which crumbled and ground
against her false bow as she penetrated
1T. A dozen times she got stuck, and
dozen times more she backed down
and plunged forward again, till she was
within one hundred feet of the Tivoli
pier. Then it was proposed to cut
her clear channel, but delays were
dangerous. 1t was ascertained that the
ice had seriously damaged her, and that
she was leaking SO badly that the water
gained rapidly on the pumps. After a
hurried consultation it was deemed
highly important for her to reach the
dock as quickly as possible, 50 that her
cargo could be moved to save her from
sinking. The engineer was notified to
steam up strongly and at given signal
she backed down short distance and
stopped, and then when all was ready
the "hook-on" bell was rung, and once
more she advanced with full speed
against the ice barrier. Every man had
left the ice, and hundreds of people
were watching the vessel She faltered
not moment, but as her iron prov
struck the obstruction it penetrated it
once and walked through it, so to speak,
clear up TO the dock, amid loud hurrahs
1t was novel sight to witness, and for
a steamboat was q remarkable feat.
She is loaded with 500 tons of freight,
which is being rapidly removed, and
then if the contract is lived up to she
will go into Winter quarters where she
now lies.
Year: 1871

Frank Trask, fireman, running on
the night freight train from Hartford
to Providence, had IL most remarkable
escape from death on Saturday night
last. As the train was going on the
down grade east from the summit of
Bolton Mountain, he went to the for
ward part of the engine to oil the pls-
ton. The oil is distributed better
when the train is going the fastest, and
he took this part of the road, where
the train gets its highest speed, to at
tend to it. By some sudden motion OF
the locomotive he lost his hold, and
was thrown forward on to the cow
catcher, but instead of rolling off and
being dashed to pieces, as he expected,
the pilot caught him by few threads
IL the Cardigan jacket he had on, 50
that he was held fast with his feet drag
ged upon the ground-d -dashing along
in that perilous situation from ID to ~
miles an hour He did not lose his
consciousness nor his presence OF mind,
but nerved himself to take the best
chances for his life. BY q desperate
effort he succeeded in keeping his head
raised, so that it escaped the ground
though he was hanging close down, and
the least depression would dash him to
pieces. The engineer, in the mean
time, had not discovered the frightful
position OF his assistant till, thinking
that he was gone longer than usual, he
looked forward and there saw his shad-
ow, by the light of the moon, running
phantom race with the iron-horse. In
an instant he whistled down brakes,
and the speed began to slack but III
the sudden checking of the train, the
tender threads of Trask's jacket broke,
and he was hurled to the ground, pitch
ing over and over; and yet he retained
his self-possession, and when his asso-
ciates arrived by his side he was as
clear-headed as ever. He had noticed
the alarm for down brakes, ndfelt that
his position was discovered. He was
taken to W-llimantie, and brought back
to Hartford by thewestern train. which
reached here at AZ O'clock Sunday
morning, and carrid to the residence OF
his father, No. 80 Walnut street, Hart
ford, where Dr. Storrs was called to
attend him. There were several cuts
and contusions on his legs and the low
er part of his body, but no fractures,
nor anything of particularly danger
Gus nature. Two or three months ago
he was on the same train, C omlng from
Providence, when the locomotive ran
into turn table at Wilimantie, and
then had his arm broken, which has
not entirely healed. He says if he had
had the use of both arms he could have
extricated himself. Hartford Cottr-
ant, Jan, 2.
Year: 1871

For young man to think he does
himself credit by hanging round thea
ter-doors, smoking bad cigars and pay
ing for expensive oyster -suppers, in or
der to be called 4" liberal' by clique
of youths as soft in the brain as him
self.


For q lady to be annoyed because
gentlemen do not always give her the
best half of the street and the incest
seat in the omnibus. She should not
forget that these conventional courte-
sizes are not her right farther than they
choose to concede them.


For an unfedged clerk to think he
must buy extravagant gloves and cra-
watts for every festive occasion, because
L. Jones, whose father is worth thirty
thousand dollars, does so. The best
way of proving his manhood would be
to let such things entirely alone, self
denial is better than fortune.


For girl to think she is establish
ing her character as a young lady of
fashion, by allowing her mother to toll
through all the drudgery of the house
and then investing her money in gaudy
brooches and artificial flowers.


For man to suppose himself a gen
tleman because he touches his hat to a
party of splendidly dressed ladies
while he scorns to extend helping
hand to the old apple-woman struggling
across the street
Year: 1871

A HEAVY northeast storm prevailed
Thursday and Friday at the west end
of Superior Lake, which ended in
snow. There is good sleighing, and
the thermometer was five degrees below
zero. On Friday, at Duluth, the wind
was so fierce as to drive large fields of
ice into the bay, carrying away part
of the breakwater.
Year: 1871

QUIEr.-One portion of Virginia seems to
be about as quiet spot as there is in the
country, and shows that there certainly are no
Ku-Klux outrages in that section of the "Old
Dominion" A late Alexandria paper says
that there was not criminal case on the
docket of the Fairfax county court at this
term aud no business for the grand jury, nor
is there criminal in the Jail from the county"
The negroes who formerly lived in that sec
tion have about all congregatcd in Washington
City or there would be many larceny cases for
robbing hen roosts.
Year: 1871

The other night, at . tavern, there was
jovial corps Of jokers, and each was
trying to outdo the other in the heavy
line. One Of the company had the great.
est father "out." He was so spry that
he could balance a forty foot ladder on
one end, run up one side Of it, over the
top, and down the other before 1t would
fall. II have eeen my father" said his
opponent, stake forty foot ladder, run
to the top it, catch it by the top round,
whirl it up another length, end go over
il the same way before it would fall.
Year: 1871

THE sales of lands belonging to the Com
monwealth of Massachusetts,, on the Back Bay
of Boston, have amounted to nearly three and
half millions of dollars, or considerably more
than double the cost of filling the whole terri
tory belonging to the State. The unsold land
is worth at least a million and half more; so
that the Commonwealth will realize more than
three millions net. besides donating liberal por-
tions of land to the Institute of Technology,
the Society of Natural History, and other pub
hc objects, and creating taxable property for
the city of Boston amounting to many millions
of dollars
Year: 1871

A GENTLEMAN learned in the origin Of social
customs was asked what was the meaning Of
the custom of casting an old shoe after new
ly-married couple as they start on their trip.
Said he: ITO indicate that the chances of mat,
rimony are very slippery"
Year: 1871

LoUIsvlLLE, Juty l+.-It is stated
in this city that the New York Central
Railroad Company have bought the
Ohio and Mississippi railroad and will
build bridge across the Ohio river ~
this point, thereby making q connection
between this city and Nashville. By
the acquisition OF the o. and N. rail.
road an unbroken line will be secured
TO the South.
Year: 1871

While protesting agaisss the old
worthless Dentriiices now in the market,
the Ladies, with one consent. have
adopted the SozoDoNr as the one thing
needful TO insure the integrity OF the
teeth and n fragrant breath
Year: 1871

MORE MILITARY BALLs.-The State Guard
will soon begin series of six military and
civic assemblies at their new armory. The ex-
cellent character of the balls given by com
pany B, in Horticultural hall, last winter, is a
guaranty that the proposal of the battalion at
the present time, to make the parties thor
oughly select and pleasant,-wi be carried
out The grand annual ball, concert, and
promenade concert of the Guard, at Mechanics
ball, will probably take place in March next.
Year: 1871

Printers Ink is of no account to FAIRBANKS
PIPER.


We have the largest and best assortment of Goods
ever displayed in Massachusetts,


Look at our list on Monday, which will be found
in this paper.
Year: 1871

We desire to ask the readers of the JoTRNAL if
our predictions in relation 10 the result in this
county have not been veriGed-and particularly
concerning the Democratic ring. Did we not
tell them that the Democratic nominations were
really dictated at Sacramento? Also that the
main fight would be for Senator and Assembly
man and because there was United States
Senator to be elected this Winter? Don't the
voters in every precinct know this to be the
truth? Could the election be held over again,
the result would be vastly different for the peo-
pie have just become enlightened TO the true
state of the facts. Unfortunately, in one sense,
just too late. However, no great harm has been
done. The aert Legislature wW be Republican on
joint laliot McMurry and Tinnin can go there
and suck their thumbs so far as political meas
ures are concerned. All they can possibly ac-
complish will be in the shape of legislation for
the benefit of this county. This we sincerely
hope will receive their sole attention. The
JOURNAL will be prompt TO recognize all well
meant efforts of theirs and render TO them full
measure of deserved praise for all deserving ac-
lion Of theirs.
Year: 1871

CLERK OF THE ASSEMBLY Now that it is GER
tain that the Republicans will have large work
ing majority in the Assembly, candidates are
presenting themselves for the several positions
to be filed by that body. We notice that Mar
Gus D. Boruck is an aspirnnt for Clerk. Mr..
Boruck filled this same position u 1865 g very
satisfactory and proved himself thoroughly COM
petent. During the late campaign he did GOOD
work for the good cause through his paper the
San Francisco Spirit cfhe Times, and certainly
deserves the position TO which he aspircs.
Year: 1871

Recent reports from Spain state that the Duke
of Montspensier is plausbly accused of instigat-
ing the assassination of Prim, and that his OBJ
ject in so doing was to place himself upon the
throne.
Year: 1871

Having been as great an admirer of horses
all our days rs our friend Col. Stowell, and
having always been close observer of the
results of breeding them, not only in vcr-
mont, but at the South and in other States, and
with not II little personal experience i'm the
use of the different kinds or families, we are
compelled to differ with him widely in the
advice with which he closes his exceedinglyin-
teresting and able paper, and also from the
soundness of many of his reasonings and
conclusions, and we propose to state some of
the reasons and give some of the facts that
have come under our own observation to
substantiate the correctness of our conclu-
sions. In the first place we think the cases
brought forward to prove the correctness of
the change in the Coils views us to crossing
small upon large animals are just such eX-
ceptional cases us always will follow the
breeding of large sires upon small dams, and
are always the marked cases that attract at
tention by coming prominently before the
public, while the large number, OF by far the
majority Of the produce from such crosses,
are never known to the public outside of
their own immmcdiate ncighborhood. Again,
with few exceptions we do not think the
very horses he has named rs great successes
in such breeding, are desirable MS horses OF
all work, gentlemcns' driving or family
horses, and if it was not for their extraordi-
nary speed upon the track. they would never
have been cited as examples of successful
breeding by any one. And we think upon
critical examination, II large portion of them
would be found already unsound, or kept
from becoming so by the most careful care
and management, and were they put to the
same everyday drudgery, and have the same
care of the real road or family horse, they
would many of them soon have to be hauled
off for repairs, as have some of the very ones
named from the trotting track Really the
very result that would be expected by the
violation of so old and plain a rule of breed
ing, is the production of loose, i'll proportion
ed joints, that would be very sure to show
their defects, and give way upon the first
strain, or rs soon rs they were called to ex-
Year: 1871

and he would mt a much earlier age be able
to earn his living without injury or lessening
his value in the end. He natures at a much
earlier age than tall coarse boned horses.


A personal use of Percherons for four years
taught us much of their value, us well us
their adaptation to all common labor, the
cheapness with which they can be raised,
and kept, and the almost certainty of their
proving sound and useful, has given us
a very high opinion of their merits, and we
are OF the opinion that an infusion of Perch
eron blood, through II compact, moderate
sized specimen of the breed, would give us
much better farm horses than we shall get
from any coarse l6-hand horses. They have
been used for number of years in Chester
County, Pa, with excellent success, and the
results have been Il class of horses that have
sold at highly remunerative prices, even
when raised on lands that are much higher
priced than ours.


Col. Stowell instances some cases of sue
cessful breeding small horses to large, coarse
mares. among which he classes "Nonesuch"
and puts her dam among the large, coarse
ones. We do not see the Justice of this >
us Mr.. Baldwins mare is not large, being
less than Is hands high and remarkably
fine and clean mare. We certainly think
she more justly may be cited as an example
of successfully breeding moderate sized, and
fine horses to mares of clean make, fine
bone, and moderate size


While we claim greater average success
will follow breeding from moderate sized,
compact stations upon our mares as they
run, we are not without many cases that can
be cited as extraordinarily successful exam
amples from this system of breeding, and we
cannot believe that the average prices we
now obtain for our horses, are as low ms Col
Stowcll has rated them. AS an instance
take the stock of the Young Ethan Allen
horse of Mr.. Henry Delong in Cornwall, rs
one of the class of small stations, and no
one knows better than the Col. that if he will
that were over four years, the average
prices would be quite as high ms he rates the
class of horses he proposes to substitute for
them, i. e., from three to five hundred dol
lars.


DO those who pay high prices for driving
horses generally prefer those of l6 handsp
we think not, indeed we are of the opinion,
that those of medium height, say about Is
hands, (or about the height of our Vermont
horscs,) are in better request, and bring bet
ter prices on the average, than those of Is
hands. And we think that the record will
show very considerably, that those who have
gone to the front and staid there for any
length of time on the trotting track have
been horses of about that height or less
Dexter is only about one inch over. Gold
smith Maid is about Is, Thos. Jefferson and
Lambert about the same, Nnon or Young
Pochahontas Chat has been reported us beat
ing Dexter in three straight heats last season
in II private triaD still smaller, Nonsuch is
barely Is hands, while Ethan Allen (whose
Year: 1871

The Iowa City Tribune relates how a horse got even with cruel hostler: "A few days ago the hostler struck 1t an un- provoked blow. Three or four days afterwards, as the hostler went into the stall, the horse, watching his motion, placed itself in an appropriate attitude, and keeping an eye out for the exact time, threw it's foot into the hostler's face with just force enough to make it jingle and then ache. For the time being they were even, the hostler being too much hurt to retaliate at that time. An altercation occurred shortly after, how ever, of 8 severe character. The hostler, while taking the air with the horse, be- came dissatisfied with some of his ways, and gave it a blow, whereupon the horse took his fore arm in its mouth, and, holding it with Q firm grip between the incisors, bent him over until he lay upon the ground then, without letting go his 'hold,' picked him up again then down, ed him then picked him up then shook him to and fro then shook him again then laid him down and picked him up, and followed that discipline with another shake. When, after re peatea shakes and the levelling discipline the poor fellsw finally succeeded in e1 tricating his arm, 1t was severely manglel with the teeth of the vicious chastiser and the aid of a surgeon was called il requisition to dress the wounds"
Year: 1871

FEMALE DEI1cAcY. - Above every other feature which adorns the female character, delicacy stands foremost with in the province of good taste. Not that delicacy which is perpetually in quest of something to be ashamed of, which makes merit of blush, and shippers at the false construction its own ingenuity has put upon an innocent remark; this spurious kind of delicacy is as far re- moved from good taste as from good feeling and good sense; but the high minded delicacy which maintains its pure and undertaking walk alike amongst women as in the society of men, which shrlnks from no necessary duty, and can speak, when required, with seriousness and kindness, of things at which it would be ashamed to smile or to blush that delicacy which knows how to confer benefit without wounding the feeling of another, and which understands also how and when to receive one-that deli cacy which can give aims without dis play, and advice without assumption; and which pains not the most humble or susceptible being in creation.