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Year: 1870

If wheat follows oats or barley, either
plow shallow and work the surface with
harrows or cultivators to keep it loose and
kill the weeds, and plow in dressing of
good fine compost, just before sowing in
? September, or plow in dressing of ma
nure of a little coarser character, as soon
as the oats or barley are off. Work the
surface over to kill weeds and make it
mellow, two or three times, according to
the weather, and drill in the seed without
plowing again. Wheat may be sown in
September or October. To SOW early in
order to give the growing wheat chance
to get a good root and strike deep enough
into the soil to prevent it from being
thrown out by the frost, is deemed best by
most experienced farmers. Though some
prefer later seeding in order to escape the
, ravages of the fly. Winter killing, how
ever, is considered worse than the ravages
of the fly, because, the wheat will "stool
out, if too much thnned by the fly, and
by this branching process supply to a
great extent what the fly destroyed. The
sowing of wheat ought not to be postpou-
ed, in this latitude, later than the first
week in October. September sowing is
preferable to earlier or later, though some
sow in August. There is a very great
difference in land, and the same treatment
q will not do for all; but any land that will
bear crop of weeds will stand a good
deal of surface tillage. The small grains
require manure near the surface, and deep
= plowing for wheat is rarely desirable; and
hence the great value Of the Shares har-
row, which acts like series of little
plows, each turning neat furrow.
Year: 1870

There ave no the Republican Patty in regard to The above
ticket It received the nomination OF both the local nomna''
of Eighth District, likewise OF both General Com


,es. and also the approbsion of the State Central Committee 1t
will therefore receive entire Republican vote Of the byhh Distinct
Year: 1870

TmElIousc Of Delegates llascntcrcl upon
an investigation Of the case of Superin
tcndcnt MCFADDES, Of the Pcnitentiary
The report Of the Joint Committee i.
not considered conclusive by many mem
bcrs, and they Nrc unwilling to turn out
the Superintendent without a careful scrrl
tiny Of the whole ease. The testimony
taken by the Committee is TO be siilcd
The prospect is that Mr.. MCFADDEN will
be fairly dealt with and removed or re-
tanned according rs the actual facts may
condemn or vindicatc him, and That II
will be some time before the case is dis
DOScd Of
Year: 1870

a CORRESPONDENT suggests that West
Liberty Academy he converted into IL
branch Insane Asylum. We arc not
advised what the Liberty people think Of
the suggestion; but us the Academy was
sold at much below its value with the ex-
press understanding that 1t was to lr used
fora State school, they would be justified
in complaining lit were converted to Il
different purpose less advantageous tO
their villagc. For the interests Of the
State, it seems 10 lis the suggestion is
worth considering.
Year: 1870

The Banking and Currency Committee
have opened the evidence again TO admit
some supplementary testimony regarding
thc New York gold conspiracy. General
Garfield saws he shall be able to present
thc rcport 10 the House next week.
Year: 1870

A HILL 10 amend the Constitution was
introduced yesterday in the House Of
Delegates. Unfortunately for the objects
of its patron, the Constitution cannot be
reached by this process.
Year: 1870

A BILL was introduced In the Senate
yesterday by Senator BRowN to repeal
the act locating the Capital Mt Charleston.
There is one now In each branch. Tint
III the House Is on the table waiting for
somebody TO call 1t up.
Year: 1870

Some OF the most perfect and simple sew.
ing machines in the market are to be seen
and obtained from our old established shoe
IOl Canal street.


The improved Empire is the machine that
IS rapidly gaining friends and notoriety,
aud we doubt not that it is ali that is claimed
for II
Year: 1870

in ends st the back, has q long loop
reaching nearly to the waist. And
oh yes have forgotten the hair. 1t
Is long and silky. 1t Is braided, and
hangs in two long streamers at the
hack. II Is short and straight as an
Indians, OF il is wound around in a
knot that stands out two or three inch
es at the hack of the head. Sometimes
a large lock is eOmbed back from the
middle OF the forehead, and braided
in one long queue belinda good
handle to hold on BY. But the COM
mon fashion is the two long stream
ers. rnd next to that the short clipped,
which hangs exactly like corn silk.
Young ladies sometimes wear the
streamers on the public prOmenades.
But all these long tresses are brushed
and brushed ,andthen brushed straight
back. until / have sometimes thought
If the little shining heads would hold
still long enough, we could use any
one of them for a lOOking-glass to
straighten our own bys


Now there is somebody with me
whose crisp, dark locks are source Of
some unrest tn these little German
people, / would mt for the world dare
whisper that they would make an ex-
change If they could. IL is only be-
cause these dark, floating grapehke
tendrils of hair are so strange to their
eyes that they open them so roundly
as she passes by. But as soon as she
smiles they smile back in q way that
seems to say, ''It's all right, don't be
alarmed only we were Mt used TO it
YOU know I suspect it's mutual
admiration arrangement.


In the museum round the corner
there are rooms upon rooms full Of
pictures. There are scores and per
hans hundreds Of the virgin Mary
with the little child Jesus. Often the
side offs room will be nearly covered
with them. In these pictures the hair
Of the mother and child is Of pale
yellow color, so that where the light
is represented as falling on it, 1t is
like fine gold. Besides, as long as Il
is the fashion to have yellow hair, the
little Germans may rest with q very
clear conscience. A year or two ago,
there was in HdTpeT's Weekly, a pic
ture Of the little daughter Of the Crown
Prinee-whOse palace is not far OIL
Of the general appearance Of the Ber-
lin girls.


And 30 we have seen no dainty
gored suits, no very pretty Overdress-
es, no high kid boots, no round or
high hats diademed with roses, or
something elsegraceful and American,
and crushed down on round, curly
heads, but only faint suggestion OF
these things or rather these things in
what appears to be hOmelier shape.


But 1 will tell you what we did see:
Handsome girls, richly dressed who
did not seem to know they were hand
some or richly dressed, and boys and
girls whom one can admire all one
pleases without their seeming to know
that they were admired.
Year: 1870




What a sad, sad thing sickness is
in a hOme-especially when a child is
pTostrated, when the little pulse goes
bounding on, aud the dry, parched
lips plead for Pure, cold water"


How dark everything looks as we
bend over the couch Of sick child,
with doubt and fear, hope and despair
struggling for the mastery. The out
line Of a little coffin, and a waxen
form lying therein, is continually
looming up before our mental vision,
and we cannot drive it away. Oh, il
our darling should die, could we yield
her up without a rebellious thought
and say, Thy will be done ?" We
take the little hand in ours it never
seemed so dear befOre) and watch, un-
ceasing, the fair, sweet face OF child
hood. Not a breath but we measure
with a mothers holy love; not a faint
groan OF suffering escapes our notice
as it CRATES harshly on our heart
strings, and we think If we could
only suffer for our child it would be
almost a pleasure. Domestic duties
call US from the bedside; yet our heart
fingers with the little sufferer, and
every faint moan calls US back to
adjust the clothes, smooth the silken
hair, press the parched lips, and again
turn to leave, reluctantly.


With what impatienee do we await
the arrival of the physician. And
how do we listen to the soft football,
and hasten to open the door to receive
him, following beside him to the side
of our loved one, closely watching his
cOuntenance to see if we can read
good tidings written there.


At last the crisis is passed, and the
leaden eyes begin TO assume a more
healthful look the wan face bright
ems, and little arms reach out, plead
ingly, to be lifted from the sick couch.
o how the mothers heart bounds
with joy at the recovery Of her dar-
ling. She forgets her own aching
head and utter WEAKNESS, because the
load Is lifted and her child is saved.
The flowers in the yard expand more
lovingly; the trees wave a glad re-
jOicing; and all objects, animate and
inanimate, don renewed look of
cheeTfulness. We have so much to
be thankful for when our child is re-
stored to health and vigor. The scat
tered toys and baby playthings no
longer lie untouched and idle in a
remote corner of the room where they
were carefully laid by heavy-hearted
parent fearing they might never again
be used.


Thank God for childrenl They
lead us upward and interline life's
rough pathway with an affection
which is sweeter than aught else on
earth. They are lamp of light in
every home, and fill the aching void
that would be unillumined without
their cheering presence. Respect the
rights Of your little children, for chit
dTeR hare rights. SOothe their little
sOrrows and make their lives peace
full and happy; and although they
may exhaust your patience and weary
your soul with their thousand inter
rOgatiOns and mischievous ways
Ask yourself what you could do with
out them, and the answer will give
you strength and sOlaee in many a
trying hour as you falter in the work
before you.


God pity the childless.


MERCIA BoYNToN LANE.
Year: 1870

In spite Of the strain upon finan-
cial affairs in Europe, in consequence
of the war, United States securities
rise in European markets. The truth
is, both capitalists and the people who
have any money TO invest, begin TO
see that we not only pay higher
interest than any great power on
the national debt, but that really
there are no securities safer, If as safe
as as ours. While other nations can
scarcely make both ends meet, while
they have little or no prospect Of pay
ing their debts and while every extra
ordinary strain upon their finances
adds to their Indebtedness, this coun-
try is paying off its debt at the rate Of
a hundred millions a year. In fact,
our debt, large as the figures are, is
comparatively bagatelle when COM
pared with the vast resources and
wonderful growth Of the country. It
is not surprising, then, that our bonds
rise in the European markets. 1t is
more surprising, indeed, that they
nave not risen much higher than the
present quotations. Whatever may
happen in the Old W0rld, or even
here, the wealth and magnificent fu-
ture Of this republic are such that it
will be no difficulty to meet our liabili-
ties and to pay of within a few years
the principle Of the debt.-N T..
Herald.
Year: 1870

A front gate on one Of the streets in
town, seems to be sadly out Of repair;
so much so that it requires the assis-
tance of young lady on one side and
a young gentlemen on the other, near
ly every evening, to keep it in posi-
ton. 1t had ought to be fixed.
Year: 1870

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Times, Republican, tells the
following anecdote of Gen. Butler:


There are men who say that he is un-
scrupulous. A good thing is told of him
in this direction. A year or two ago,
during the discussion of tariff bill, when
the paragraph on bunting was reached,
lis said that Butler arose to higher flights
(of eloquence) than were ever scared by
our proud American bird that he apos-
trophized Yankee Doodle with grandilo-
quent emphasis that he stigmatized it as
a burning shame that we should be COM
PEELED to buy the very bunting typical of
our glory of the monsrchies of Europe
therefore he proposed, out of gushing
love for the Yankee eagle and the flag of
our Fourth of July, to double, aye quad
ruple TIE duty if necessary to protect our
glorious bunting manufactures. The
effect was electrical. His proposition
was carried. Joke-He oWned the only
bunting mandatory in the United
lSttItCS.
Year: 1870

We noticed yesterday at the shops of
Horace Langley, North Front street, a
magnificent stage coach just manufactured
at his establishment, and which is pro-
nounced by good judges far superior to
the old fashioned coach. Mr.. Langley sent
all the way to Concord, N, H, for the
patent, and we are satisfied that the job
could not be improved in any respect. 1t
is built in the most substantial manner,
and withal is most handsomely finished,
the ornamental painting being an attractive
feature. The entire job reflects credit on
our home mechanics, and shows that Just
as good work can be made here as else
where. As an improvement on the old
style, it is claimed that it will run much
easier, and is free from the jolting which
passengers have often experienced in stage
coach traveling-the springs being SO ar
ranged as to make it as comfortable to ride
in as a carriage.
Year: 1870




WORCESTER, June 23.-At twenty min
utes past ten o'clock this morning the
city was startled by tremendous explo-
sion, which shook buildings to their
foundations, and at the same time dense
column Of smoke was seen to rise in air
near the Boston and Albany railroad juno
ton. SO unusual and alarming was the
report that it at once drew an immense
throng of people to the spot, where 8
scene of devastation presented itself such
as was never before witnessed in this city.
The explosion occurred on board of the
last car of the freight train on the Boston
and Albany railroad, bound west. The
train had Just stopped before crossing the
junction, and the explosion took
place at the moment of starting
again. The car was totally
demolished, the tracks were driven into
the ground or broken into fragments, and
the rails displaced, bent and hurled to 8
great distance from the road. The con-
tents of the car were widely scattered.
The cause of the explosion was distinctly
revealed by the discovery Of copper wire,
such as is usually used for the explosion of
nitro glycerine.


The devastating effects on surrounding
buildin . was frightful. The houses on
South Bridge street for the distance Of a
quarter Of a mile were utterly destroyed or
SO badly wrecked as TO be untenable. The
windows of Ethan Allen & Co. factory,
nearly one-fourth of a mile distant, were
blown in, leaving scarcely a score of panes
of glass unbroken. Wood, Light IL Co.'s
machine shop, the Sargent i Good clothing
factory, and every other building
within a quarter Of a mile Of the
explosion suffered severely. The
Worcester Acad my, mile distant, suffer
ed similar injuries. So far IS at present
known, one life only was lost. Those who
were involved in the ruins were eItricated
as speedily as possible, and q large num-
Der of physicians were soon present to
dress their wounds. The fragments of a
human body were picked up near the en-
bankment, and are supposed TO be the re-
mains of station hand or some other per-
son who happened to be on the road on
foot at the time. The express train from
Providence had narrow escape. 1t had
Just passed the freight train, and felt the
force of the explosion sufficiently to break
some of the windows in the rear car.
Year: 1870

There was most delightful impromptu
exhibition last evening at the Institution
for the Blind, the rooms being filed with
out any public notice BY an interested and
attentive audience.


The exercises were varied-music, de-
CARNATIONS and dialogues, and were admir-
able, not only for proficiency shown, but
for the unaffected zest with which they
were entered into by the pupils. The
blending in song of the sweet young
voices Of these sightless children and young
ladies, was to US inexpressibly sweet and
touching May all genial infuence unite
to compensate to them the absence Of Wis
ion.


The superintendent, NJ. Sturtevant, in
forms US that the pupils will be dismissed
for their summer vacation on Wednesday
next.
Year: 1870

We announce upon the authority Of a
reliable party that Nashville will certainly
have a first class opera house at an early
day. The building viii be commenced be-
fore the close Of the present year, and
when erected, viii be in point of archi-
tectural finish one Of the handsomest opera
houses in the country. We will not now
say where it is to be located, or how 1t is
to be built, but can assure our readers that
it viii be erected on one of the most
eligible sites in the city.
Year: 1870

Sharks are ugly customers to deal with
in the water, and they make short work of
most kinds of fish, when hungry But tur-
ties, though excellent eating, are not read
lily caught, even by sharks. The following
is an account Of a fight between shark
and a turtle:


One day, while lying at anchor, and
whistling for a breeze, the steward rushed
In with the strange announcement that
shark and turtle were engaged In fight
alongside. Doubtful and amazed at the
account of so unusual and so unequal a
combat, we all rushed on deck, and there,
sure enough, we saw an immense shark,
and turtle of venerable antiquity, if one
might Judge by his size, and the profusiOn
of barnacles and other parasites with which
he was decorated.


Without respect for his age, and Quak er-
like habits, the shark made furious charges
at poor turtle, who opposed the dangerous
Jaws of the enemy with the full front OF his
back, on which no impression could be
made. On one occasion the turtle did not
turn quite sharp enough, which cost him
the graater part of one unlucky fipper


Indignant at the perversion of such ar
aldermanic banquet to the voracious apd
indiscriminating appetite of shark, our
skipper intervened with a harpoon, but
with such ill-judged aim, that it fell butt
end foremost, instead of at the point,
whereupon. in our disappointment, we
would gladly have pitched him after il. It
however, answered the purpose of soaring
away tn shark for few moments, which
the turtle made the most of to scuttle OF TO
the bottom, where he was safe from the at
tackS of his raYenous admirer.
Year: 1870

Mrs. Walter c. Lyman, in a lecture in
New York recently, said:


Few persons know how to b, eathe so as
to promote perfect and thorough purifica-
ton of the blood, and still fewer suspect
that the want or lack Of proper breathing
is the principal cause Of the inactivity of
the liver. Men breathe more naturally
than women having greater freedom of
action. and taking more regular bodily ex-
ercise, their mode OF dress also giving them
greater expansion of the thoracic and alb
dominal yiscera. Hence fewer men than
women suffer from lung end liver com
plants. The lungs contain six hundred
millions OF air cells, composed of the most
delicate tissues which shrink and expand
according to the action of heat and cold,
exercise or rest, thus making a sudden
change from an over-heated atmosphere to
sharp cold, dangerous and certainly a
trying experiment. Women, as a general
thing, breathe only with the thoracic mus
cles, allowing the lower and larger por-
tiops of the lungs to collapse and harden,
and thus weakening their power of resist
ance. This breathing power may be restor>
ed even at an advanced age, by judicious
muscular exercise and by admi,ting to the
pulmonary system the largest amount pos
sible of fresh air.
Year: 1870

From the American Medical Gazette


A paragraph from the Boston journal of
Chemistry has been going he rounds of
the secular press, in which the writer on
poses the practice of evaporating water up-
on stoves and furnaces, on the ground that
the air cannot be ''dried up or burnt up,
and that none OF its natural moisture is ex-
PEELED from it by heat. Truly, 'little
learning is a dangerous thing" and we
have here just enough knowledge dis
played to cover a deal of mIschevious igno-
rance.


In the first place it may be news to the
chemical gentleman in question to learn
that there are certain physiological phe-
nomena connected with excessive or de-
fective humidity Of the atmosphere; that
under the latter condition, owing to the
affinity Of air for moisture the respiratory
surfaces will be refrigerated and
dried by unusual evaporation from
them; and that the same process, to a less
degree, affects the whole surface of the
body. Now, granting that in literal
sense, none of the existing moisture is ex-
PEELED from air by raising Its temperature,
an immense relative reduction of it's hu-
midity is thereby effected. Suppose, for
instance, that the atmosphere of a room of
1900 cubic feet contents have its hygro.
metric capacity for moisture satisfied on
freezing morning. We buildca good fire in
a stove and warm this room to, say seven
ty-fve degrees Fahrenheit, and ii doing
this we so reduce the re'otire amount Of
moisture that at least pound of water is
required to bring the air to the same con-
dition IN which we found it. And, what is
more, the thirsty air Will have this water il
some way, and, if we do not supply it by
evaporation from external sources, will, to
use vulgar but appropriate slang phrase,
''take it out Of our hides" For our part,
We prefer the former alternative.
Year: 1870

! n n
C@iid swallows Large Bean and


Becomes Bifeisss-ts Etraction of the
F Bean by n Surgeon.


Cleveland Leader, 2lst.


An accident, which nearly proved fatal,
took place on the West Side yesterday.
little boy, ten years of age, while Innocent
ly playing with large bean in his mouth
accidentally swallowed it and Immediately
experienced the most intense pain. The
child was Immediately taken to the opera
ting rooms Of DR.. Weber, where the doctor
proceeded to extract the bean A person
not practiced in examining patients in such
a condition would have believed the child
TO be dead.


4 deadly palor overspread his counte-
nance, the eyes were CLASSY and without ex
preston, the muscles ali relaxed and the
perspiration entirely suspended. Every
appearance Indicated that the grim king of
terrors had impressed his ineffaceable seal
upon the young boy The actual presence
of death would hardly have changed the
stiffened lin. bs and whitened features of the
youth, who seemed to have been snatehed
away from his loving and tender parents in
a moment of idle playfulness. Dd1lng
minute and a half the child remained with
out breathing. Allthe students surrounded
the child in breathless silence, and DR.
Weber proceeded to extract the troublesome
bean It had passed down out of the wind
pipe into the opening that leads into the


lung, and there stopped.


DR.. Weber began the operation by maxi
ING longitudinal incision in the neck Just
below the ponatna Adan1i, in vulgar par
lance Adams apple. His next step was
pass an instrument down through the incis-
ion, draw up the bean and pull it out with
pair of foroeps. The child still presented
! r 4
the bean had been extracted the lncision
was held open by two hooks and by press
ing on the child's chest the air in it was
driven out. The blood at the opening was
sponged off, and by relieving the pressure
on the breast and pressing on the sides be-
meath the arms air was drawn in through
the aperture made by the incision.
A mechanical passage of air was thus eS-
tabished and by continued efforts the child
began to breathe and show signs of con-
sciousne8s. The color returned, the eyes
received their wonted expression, and the
little child whose feet had almost touches
the black river of death, began to move.
There We're about fifty Students present,
and the success of the experiment brought
down the house with loud applause.


The parents of the child sat in an ad-
Joining room in breathless expectation,
hopes of the child's recovery, and fears of
his death contending in their bosoms. The
noise of the students caused them to make
q rush into the operating-room, where the
child lay with every appearance of robust
health. Their JOY was SO great that it be-
came necessary to take the child away from
them to prevent him from being smothered
by their caresses. They overwhelmed DR..
Weber with thanks, as well they might do,
for the precision, skill and good Judgment
exhibited in the operation.