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Year: 1873

The following is the true will Of
Emperor Napoleon, under which
letters Of administration are now ap-
piled for. The estate is sworn to
| amount to one hundred and twenty
thousand pounds sterling, and this
sum is subject to claims which will


reduce it one-half. This is the will
l commend my son and my wife to
the high authorities of the State, to
the people and to the army. The
Empress Eugenie possesses all quail
tiles requisite for capa5ly conducting
the regency, and my son displays a
disposition and judgment which will
make him worthy Of his high desti-
nies. Let him never forget the
motto of the head of our family,
''Everything for the French people" I"
Let him fix his mind OH the writings
of tho prisoner of st. Helena. Let
him read the Emperor's deeds and
correspondence. And finally, let
him remember, when circumstances
permits that the cause of the people
is the cause of France. Power is q
heavy burden, because one cannot al
ways do all the good one would wish,
and because contemporaries seldom
render justice, so that in order to
fulfill ones mission, one must have
faith in and conscientiously appreci-
ate his duty.


1t is necessary to consider that
from Heaven above, those whom you
have loved regard and protect you.
1t is the soul of my illustrious uncle
that has always inspired and sustain
cd me. The like will apply to my
son, for he will always be worthy Of
his name. leave to the Empress all
my private property. l wish that at
the majority of my son she shall live
at the Elysec and Biarritz. l trust
that my memory will be dear TO her,
and that after my death she will for
get whatever unhappiness Finay have
caused her. With regard to my sou,
let him keep as talismaa the seal |
wear attached to my watch, and
which comes from my mother.
Let him carefully preserve every
thing that came to me from
the Emperor, my uncle, and let
him be convinced that my heart and
my soul remain with him. make no
mention Of my faithful servants. /
am convinced that the Empress and
my son will never abandon them.
shall die in the Catholic Apostolic
aud Roman religion, which my son
will always honor by his picty.
Done and signed with my hand at the
Palace OF Che Tuilieries. the 9th day
of April, 1865. NAPOLEON.
Year: 1873

Prospects Of . Large Sugar CreP.


K Louisiana exchange, in an article
.pon the coming sugar crop Of that
section, remarks: ''At the present
time the plant cane is up in every
field of this parish, aud it is seldom
n planter is heard to complain of not
having as good stand as he could
wish, and never since the memorable
season OF 1853 have the crops prom
ised SO well. The long rains, It was
feared, had injured the seeds In mats
and winrows. But the contrary has
proven the case with planting In this
parish, and the number Of acres OF
plant cane arc grcster this year than
any time since the war closed. Such
arc. our crop prospects at this early
day, and we think we hazard nothing
in saying we believe prosperous
season is ahead of u.s."
Year: 1873

The Michigan legislature voted a
donation of $75 to each of the news
papef-rsporters in attendance, which
donation the gentlemen of the press
declined to receive having no moral
right to take il. Ben Butler would
naturally sneer at this, and figuys up
by what fraction Of Q cent each invfd-
ua Michigander was indebted to this
honorable example.
Year: 1873

SCULPTURE SHOULD BE BIoGRAPHY.-
1t a commonplace remark that statue
should be something more than a likeness.
If all we required were the precise resem-
blance Of the hero or philanthropist, Madame
Tussaud could give us in wax much
more completely that Thorwaldsen ever pro-
duced anything in marble. II the point be
to show some great act that Lie performed or
trial that he suffered, this could be done by
painting much more distinctly than by sculp-
ture. What We desire Is work which shall
show our hero in relation to his age ard
country generally, and not to some spot OF
ground or moment of time in particular, and
still be pleasing as work of art. 1t should
present the summing up and substance of his
life. 1t should not be an anecdote, but
biography. There is nothing new in these
ideas, but they seem to be strangely forgotten
by those who have charge of these under
takings. OF course, all this is very difficult to
accomplish. 1t was very well for the Greeks
to set up in their temples the images of the
contemporary victors in the games, whose
forms indicated the perfection OF manly
beauty, and whose drapery, if it was necessary
to add that, fell in harmonious lines. An
ugly costume, too, may be rendered so inter-
esting by association, that the mind tempers
It's angulafltIeS 10 CuS eye. Oucu WAS Jne
queue and cooked hat and long-skirted uni
form of the great Frederick and the gray ca
pote of Napoleon. But what can an artist
do with the personal deformities and ugly
dless which may be closely associated with
our ideas of contemporary personages?
What can be do with the gaunt frame of Mr..
Lincoln, or the peculiar clothing of Mr. Gree
ley? Mr.. Peabody, the philanthropist, had
foot which seems to have been modelled upon
the sameigenerous scale as his kind heart:
and story has not forgotten that in the statue
benin the London exchange, where the
enormous shoe is quite obtrusive and thrusts
itself into the face OF the spectator. To an
swer this difficulty, we would cut the Cor
dian knot. 1t is a mistake to erect statna
to man who has not been dead for. at least
halfa century. Indeed. it might be wen to
delay it as lonS as the Roman church nost-
pones the canonization of a saint. We should
wait until we can assign to the departed wor-
thy his true place in history, and forget the
Ugly features o his person and his dress
There may be time, perhaps, when our de-
seendants will fail 10 remember the awkward
trousers and bushy chin-tuft of Abraham
Lincoln, and believe only in the prophetic
pathos Of his homely countenance.-W. H.
H0ppin in atlantic.
Year: 1873

Winter Scenery in Yosemite.
I The Mariposa Gazette gives the


blowing description of the Yose-
hite scenery in the Winter


At the foot Of the great Yose-


hite Fall there is a mass OF snow
Ind ice rising in the shape of an


immense cone over three hundred
feet in height. 1t is formed at


Erst early in the season by the
Freezing of the water from the
fal. Then, as the snow storms
eome on, the vacuum Great I'd by


he falling water attracts the light
)lakes of snow, which are Whirled
bbout in eddying clouds and set


lie in an immense masS-some-
|times to the depth of four hun
t1red feet. With the first Spring
floods the immense volume OF Wa
tier pouring into the centre of this
cylindrical mass from a height
above the bottom of the chasm Of
1900 feet, rebounds with such
Force as to throw columns of spray
|G0 feet into the air. Snow piled
|up to a depth of from three to
Hour hundred feet, and water
thrown six hundred feet by re-
bound, may appear to be eXag-
|gerations, but they are plain, pal
|pable facts to the few who have
had the opportunity of witness
lng the terrible sublimity of Win
Ter and Spring scenery in this
Wonderful region.
Year: 1873

PEEP O'DAY.-The amateur entertainment
in favor of the Maine General Hospital, by the
Emerald Boat Club, at Music Hall last evening
was witnessed by good audience. Tho play
was ''Peep O'Day." 1t was well put upon the
stage, and the actors did admirably, evincing a
fine appreciation of the spirit of their roles and
sustaining their parts in the best manner. The
Fair scene and the old quarry were particularly
excellent. The play will be repeated on the
10th instead of the 14th inst. as previously an
nOunced
Year: 1873

The LILLPUT1ANs.-Good audiences greeted
the Lilliputians at Fluent Hall yesterday and
last evening. They are indeed veritable won
ders, looking even smaller than the announce
ments led us to suppose. The grace and vivac-
ity of the little fairies delighted all those who
were present. The children, in particular,
were highly amused, and inspected with great
curiosity the doll chairs and sofa which the
sister used The musical entertainment by the
members of the Deuel. family, added much to
the enjoyment of the audience No one should
fail to see these small people who realize the
fable of pygmies They give entertainments
every afternoon and evening during the re-
mainder Of the week
Year: 1873

REAL ESTATE Real estate in this -ctv is
looking up, and is in mnch greater demand
than for several years past. There is evide ntlv
an improvement in business, which is calling
people into the city. Desirable rents are be-
coming difficult to obtain, the demand for them
increasing every day. Yesterday there were
over fifty applicants for single rent.
Year: 1873

There is talk of building a new Town House.
At Town House Corner two new stores are
to be built, one 26x5O with hall overhead by j.
L. Parrot; the other by Sumner Libby.


An effort will be made to have new post
Office at Town House Corner There is need
of one.
Year: 1873

Acc1DENT.-John Keough, a laborer at Fort
Preble, sustained an oblique fracture of the
thigh bone by the fall of some planking of
staging upon which he was at work Dr. Mer-
rill was called and set the factured limb
Year: 1873

A day or two ago Mr. Frank Mason, a
farmer living in Hickory Grove township,
left his home after breakfast for the harvest
field, leaving at home little son about
thirteen years old, and daughter of about
the same age. Not long after his father
had left, the boy happened to be short
distance from the house, when a man
jumped up out of the corn near by and
approached the boy. saying that he wanted
that money in the house." Young Mason
told the highwayman that there was no
money in the house. and that if there was
he could not have it. The rObber said
he would kill him if he did not go
and get the money: but the boy wouldn't It
scare worth cent. He merely retreated


to the house, called to his sister to
hand him his gun, which she did. The boy
raised the gun to proper position-that is,
on line with the robbers coat tails. The
fellow meanwhile was running for dear
lite. having concluded that that boy would
not do to touch; but, nevertheless, not con-
tent with routing the enemy, the boy raised
the hammer of the gun and fred right in
the direction the robber was going. He
was not wounded, but, as the gun was
charged with about dozen buckshot, it
seems almost pity that the Aan could not
have been treated to at least half of them.
We think that boy will do to bet on: he
will make his mark in the world, and a
good large mark it will be.
Year: 1873

A year ago we gave our opinion of
the foolish and injurious practice of
" standing treat" as generally prac-
ticel. On the beginning of another
year the opinion is repeated. Of all
the social, or rather sociable customs,
this is the most absurd and the most
dangerous. The practice Of standing
treat has filled more drunkar,ls'
graves, broken more women's hearts,
and ruined more happy homes than
any other practice amongst civilized
people.


Men of warm blood and generous
impulses run more risk from this GUS
tom than any other. If we like a man
we like to show that we do; and when
we meet him at any time, we think
there is no other way to show our
feeling than by giving him something
to drink. It is not for the sake Of the
drink or the money spent for it, but
because the thing is Il custom, and we
have never taken the trouble of think
ing out better one. There wouldn't
be much harm in it if it ended when
the first drink was given and taken !;
but then comes another part of the
custom-the absurd and insane part of
it. The friend who has been treated
feels he must treat in turn, and he
does so, though neither needs the
drink. After the first treat and re-
turn, friends are met on every street,
and God help the watching wife and
children at home!


| Don't do it friends. 1t is a folly-it
is crime. If you need drink go
and take it but if You meet Il friend
at the bar who asks you to drink with
him, say " No, thank yon; I've just ta-
ken ali that is good for me-" Do
this, and do not take or offer glass
Of Intoxicating drink when it is not
needed. Although you may trust
yourself, you know not the harm you
may do to others. We do not ex-
pect every one to agree with us; but
we are sure that ont of the hundreds
Of thousands of our readers some will
be found to think with us, that "stand.
ing treat" is a senseless nuisance, OF
worse, and should he discontinued
Let those who believe 50 make New
Years resolution not to "stand treat
any more. The man who does this
will be able to give his wife gOot
New Years gift in 1e74.-Erchange.
Year: 1873

Thieves are scarce in Siam, and the
reason is obvious: When one is con-
victed, he or she, it makes no differ
erence which, is put in a bag and laid
upon the ground, face downward, with
the throat resting upon the sharp edge
Of a triangular block. The execution
er then pounds with - heavy club on
the back of the neck until the victims
head is bruised of. The poor klepto-
maniac is gently prepared for the final
operation by judicious preliminary
scourgings.
Year: 1873

In Indiana they arc trying to REM
cdy the nuisance of the plea of insan-
ity, in criminal cases. A bill before
the legislature Of the State, provides
that whenever an indicted person il
found not guilty by reason Of his
temporary insanity, the court shall
send him to lunatic asylum for a
term Of years proportionate to his
crime.
Year: 1873

The New York World states that
iustifiable homicide is now held to
include 9 the case of every man WIN
kills any other man ON account Of
any woman, and Of any woman who
kills any man on any account what
ever
Year: 1873

Bad luck il simply man with his
hands in his pockets and his pipe in
his mouth, looking on to sec how it
will come out. Good luck is n man
Of pluck, with his sleeves rolled up
and working to make it come right.
Year: 1873

We copy the following pertinent
paragraph from the Washington
Chronicle:


While Democratic and Conservative
journals are devotiDg column after
column to prove that Judge Durell is
a scoundrel and had no right to inter
fere in the contest at New Orleans, and
that the response Of the President to
the courts appeal for aid was fragrant
usurpation, VIC are notified by tele-
graph that the Conservatives in Ar
kansas are making up case before
and demanding the intercession Of
the federal court against the action of
the State authorities, whose legal
power to count and publish the returns
is unquestioned. What il equally
strange according to the reasoning Of
the aforesaid journals, Judge Caldwell
has agreed to give hearing to the
complainants. And, strangest Of all,
not word Of censure falls from the
Democratic journals aforesaid.
Year: 1873

A VIRGINIA MOTHER SHOOTS A YOUNG


DAUGHTER.


From the Christiausburg va Messenger


A young man whose name we could
not learn, wooed and won the affections
of a Miss Price, daughter of Mr. Chap
man Price, formerly of this county, but
now resi,!en. of Craig. The parents of
the young lady bitterly opposed her
marrying the youth in question, because
of his dissipated habits. But opposition
only added fuel to the fame, and con-
frmed the maiden in her determination
to cling to her lover through thick and
thin


Last week, learning that Mr. Prise
would be from home, he pro cured bug
gy. and went to his residence to elope
with his daughter to West Virginia, to
be married. Ills affisnced was ready
and willing TO so with him bat the moth
er set her foot firmly down, and vowed
that he should not take the girl from the
house, at the same tine pointing to the
gun aud telling him that if he attemp-
ted to carry her off che woull shoot
him,


Treating these as TIE idle threats of
women, the lovers continued their pre-.
parations for departure. All things be-
ing ready, they proceeded to the buggy.
the young lady was handed in, the youth
had taken his seat by her side and was in
the act of driving OF when Mrs. Price cut
short the whole proceeding by shooting
the youth with the gun above mention
ed The physician Who dressed his
wound pronounc's his recovery extreme
ly doubtful, if not impossible. ..
Year: 1873

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Jus: Put Yourself in His Place.
Before you place on your neighber,
The stigma of his disgrace,
Just try to balance your judgment,
BY putting yourself in his place.
Look well at his surroundings,
At his pies and his cares;
Don't curse the man with your curses,
When he can be saved by your prayers.
Look at his strcngth-his weakness
Test the sursing of his blood;
Decs it flow like gentle streamlst,
Or rush ike turbulent food?
Perchaucc all the earthly training
OF the man was the kind to bend
His mind IN the crooked channel
That led to the bitter end.
1t may be in a single hour
Some powerful impulse came,
1t may be for actions Of others
That he is Eow bearing the shame.
Then lock with tendarest mercy,
On the erring of our race;
And ere you pass judgmen; upon him
Just 'fput yourself in his place"
Year: 1873

RAIN.-"he rain that began this night
week and continued through much of the
following day. fell in all the valleys from
Sierras to the sea It harmed not the
grain in the sacks lying in such hugh heaps
by the wayside ready for transportation to
market, but some claim that it may have
been sufficient sprout grain already sowed
and thus lnjure it in this, that drought may
come before it be rooted and cause it to
perish. Others think hat in many localI-
ties it was sufficient to destroy old cattle
feed by drenching the starch or glutinous
matter out Of 2rass and stubble, while there
was not enough rain to give the new feed
a good start, and thus cattle may suffer be-
tween the Old feed and new, as more or less
they always do i'll Califorlia.--Bee, Oct.
18th.
Year: 1873

There are no fish in the great Salt Lake.
The only living thing beneath its waters
is worm, about quarter OF an inch long
This worm shows up beautifully beneath a
microscope When a storm arises the
worms are driven ashore by the thousands,
and devoured by black gulls. We found
pure stream pouring into the lake. 1t
was filed with little chubs and sinners
The fish became frightened, and were drlv-
en- down the brook into the briny lake
The instant they touched its waters they
came to the surface belly upward, and died
without gasp. The water is remarkable
buoyaut Eggs and potatoes float upon 1t
like corks. Mr. Rood and myself stripped
and went in swimming. [ dove INTO the
lake from a long pier, which had been built
for the use of small steamboat that form
erly piled upon the waters. The sensation
Was novel The water was so salty thar my
eyes and ears began to smart, but so buoy
an:that found no difficulty in floating even
when the air vas exausted in my lungs =
as | struck out for the beach felt as light
as a feather In spite of all that could
do my heels would fly out of the water. |
found 1t impossible to stand upon the bot
tom. The lightness of the water and the
anu surgiue e. the waves forced my feet
from under me. A person who could not
swim might be easily drowned in five feet
of water. His head would 90 doap like "a
lump of lead, while his feet would fly up
Ike pair of ducks. The water is clear
as the water of Seneca lake; so clear that
the bottom can be seen at the depth OF
twenty feet. When We reached shore and
crawled out upon the sand in the sun our
bodies were quickly coated with salt
We were compelled to 90 to the little stream
from which we had driven the chubs and
sinners and wash off in fresh water before
we put on our clothes. Our hair was filled
with grains of salt which could NOT be wash
ed out The Mormon occasionally visit
the lake in droves for the purp Sc Of bath
ing. Many of them say that their health
is improved by leaving the salt upon their
bodies, and dressing without wiping them
selves with napkins.-Letter to New York
Sun.
Year: 1873

All wish to live long, but none to be
called old


Take help of many, advise of few.
He who builds according to every man:
advice will have a crooked house


God gives every bird its food, but doe;
not throw it into the nest.


Empty wagons make most noise
Better suffer for truth than pr sper 70
falsehood.
Year: 1873

4 candidate for clerkship in Washing
ton, when asked to state the distance of the
planet Saturn from the earth answered that
he was unable to state the distance in miles
but did not think it was sufficiently near
to interfere with the performace of his du-
ty as cler1 or to get him into any of its
rings.
Year: 1873

The Trinity Journal says the boy Voge,
who was so brutally beaten by Kopp, is
now getting on nicely and will soon be
about. At one time it was feared that the
effect of the blows on the head would be to
bring on brain fever, but that danger is
happily past.
Year: 1873

N0TICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN
~ tend to apply to the Board of Supervisors al
their regular meeting in November next, for a
license to erect and keep Toll bridge across Pit
River mile below the mouth of Hat Creek, said
bridge will be 225 feet long and Is feet wide, and
feet above low water mark


E. L. WARNER
September 18th, 1873
Year: 1873

At Houston, Texas. they must
have the New York style of ju-
rors. A murderer named Ban
mister has just been granted q
new trial on the ground that
jurors were divided in their testi


mony concerning the manner in
which the verdict rendered was
obtained. One juror swears he
WIS drunk during the delibera-
ton OF the jury Another swore
he had to call on the baiIiff a;
one time to protect him ir"m rs


saults by other jurors because he
would not agree soon enough. A
Houston exchange says that it was
given as n matter of ftct that the
the jury willie out with the pa
pers. had six bottles of liquor with
them. When a fellow wants to
have some fun now, all he needs
to do will be to get on the jury.
Year: 1873

what is the object of pruning trees any


now !.One OF the most important obiectsiis
10 improve their shape, to make them
grow as we want them, either taller or
broader and more open, that is to shape
them to our taste. That is a thing that is
better done while they are young, and it
Is OF comparatively little use to attempt to
shape them after they have reached large
size. Another object is to. remove dead
limbs. They must be got out of the
way, as they soon become unsightly and
injurious often to the tree itself: at other
times, the object is to improve the quality
OF the fruit or to increase its quantity. II
the branches are too numerous there is an
unnecessary draft on the vitality of the
tree and the fruit these redundant branches
and others bear is not only smaller but less
fair and attractive than il would be If
such branches had been seasonably re-
moved.


These different objects are the prOm-
nent ones, and the time and mode OF pr1ln-
ing will be governed a little by the special
one that leads to it. In the shape of the
tree, for instance we should calculate to
provide facilities for access to the top of
branches, as the tree grows up. It's gen.
orally better to form the head of an apple
tree rather low, though not so low as to
be too much in the way Of the team when
ever it becomes necessary to cultivate in
the orchard. The higher the trees are the
more the fruit will be injured, as a general
rule, when it falls to the ground. Besides
much more fruit is blown off by high
winds from Il tall and upright growing
tree than from one comparatively low and
near the ground. And then the fruit from
very tall and conical tree cannot be so
readily plucked by hand, and hence it be-
comes comparatively worthless from liza
bility to injury. II trees are trained low,
almost every apple can be picked by hand
with little aid of ladders or steps.


For trimming out small sized limbs and
to some extent for shaping the tree, the
fall and early part of winter is about the
best season. The tree can be seen and
examined to better advantage. For re-
moving dead branches almost any season
of the year will do and there is no objec-
ton to doing it in early spring. For the
removal of large branches no season is
propitious, but some think they should be
cut off when the tree is in active growth,
when, if the cut is smooth and immediate


y cemented with grating wax, the wound
will heal over quicker than if made in the
fall. But as we have said, il man is
faithful to his trees, there will be no occa-
sion for this severe treatment.-N. Z.
Farmer.