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Year: 1871

These Machines are specially adapted for tho
use of farmers, being able to sew grain sacks and
heavy clothing with the same facility as the usu-
al family work-making a more durable seam
not liable to ravel, as is the case of the loop or
chain stitch
Year: 1871

AT the convention of the Warmoth
wing last evening hundred and seven
delegates answered the roll; Gen Her
ron's resolution was adopted, that Sena-
tor West be requested to introduce res
olution at the next session OF Congress-
calling upon the President and other Of
ficers Of the government for all informa-
ton in their possession regarding the use
of the custom.house for the holding OF
the State convention the authority given
TO the United States marshal for the ap-
Year: 1871

The Evening Journal was the first paper to get
ont an extra or sheet of any kind. 1t did so on
Monday evening, the 9th. We copy the following
from it,:


Proud, noble, magnificent Chicago of YESTERDAY
is to-day mere shadow of what it was, and help
less before the still sweeping flames, the fears are
that the entire city will be consumed before We
shall see the end. The entire South Division from
Harrison street north to the river, almost the Ell
tire North Division from the river to Lincoln Park
and several blocks i'm the West Division are
burned. 1t is utterly impossible to estimate the
losses; they must in the aggregate amount to
hundreds of millions Of dollars. Amid the cunfil-
sion and general bewilderment we can only give
a few details.


The fire broke ont on 18th street at about 9
o'clock ON Sunday evening, being caused by a COW
kicking over lamp in a stable in which woman
was milking.
Year: 1871

A RICH JoKE.-The Troy Press
says; A few days ago, at North Adams,
the State Constable seized a jar Of
rum and arrested the party in whose
possession it was found for selling
intoxicating liquor. The examination
before the District Judge came on
when the State Constable was sworn
and testified that he had seized the
liquor, and made detailed statement
of the facts. Hon. Shepard Thayer,
the attorney for the prisoner, asked
him If he knew it was liquor. He res
piled, yes it was rum. He replied
that he drank some of it. The pris-
oler who was woman, was then called
as a witness in her own behalf, when
the following questions and answers
were put and received;


Did you have any liquor in your
house, when the State constable called
there?


fes-l had some rum in jar.


How long have you had il?


About six months.


Did you have it for sale?





Oh no; | don't sell liquor.


What did you have this rum for?


keep it to wash the baby in.


Had you ever washed the baby in
the rum?


Q, yes, often! | used to turn some
out in dish, wash the baby in it, and
then turn it back in the jar again.


DO you mean to say that this was
the same liquor of which the State
Constable drank?


The very same.


There was much laughter in the
Court, and the State Constable de.
clared he would seize no more liquor
that was kept in jar. lie is about
the only man in North Adams who
will not take drink of rum.
Year: 1871

The BEST SOCIETY No company,or good
company" was motto given by distinguish
ed man to all his young friends. 1t was q mot
to he had always endeavored to tnllow.as far AZ
in his power, and it was i very wise one The
directions of the Bible are many with regard to
evil company, and all through it We are taught
to shun such society, lest we get a'snare to our
souls.


Another man of high position in the world,
made it a rule to associate with high minded,
intelligent men rather than with fashionable
idlers !; and he had derived more intellectual
improvement from them than from all the
books he had ever read.


Sir Forwell Buxton often spoke OF the great
benefits he had derived from his visits to the
Gumey family Their words and example
stimulated him to make the mostof his powers.
1T has given color to my whole life. he
sail Speaking of his success at the Unlver-
sity, he remarked, II can ascribe it to moth
Ing but my visits to this family, where caught
the infection of seltimprovement


Surely, if your visits have such au influence
upon your characters for life, it should be
matter Of serious Importance to us in what
families we.allow ourselves to be intimate
Boys and girls form attachments very easily,
and often with little torc-thought In this, as
IN all things else, you should not fail to take
advice of those who are older and wiser, and
never, never choose for friend one against
whom you have been warned by those who
dearly love you.


There are people whose very presence seem
to lift you up into better, higher atmosphere.
Choose such associates whenever 1t IS IN your
power, and the more you can live In their So
ciety the better, for both mind aud heart He
that walketh with wise men shall be wise but
companion of fools shall be destroyed. "
Year: 1871

When you make cider, select moth
ing but the soundest turnips, chop
ping them into sled length before
cradling them. In boiling your
cider you should use plenty of ice,
and when boiled hang it up in the
sun to dry Greeley.
Year: 1871

Mr.. Stenhouse, formerly leading
Mormon Missionary, and for many
years editor of the Mormon paper
in Salt Lake City. is engaged in
writing an inside history of Nor
monism and the operations of Brig
ham Young.
Year: 1871

1t is a fact well known to artists
that certain degree Of eXaggeration
is quite indispensable to apparent
veracity. This is so in literaure also;
no study of human character would
even be generally recognized as true
which was not idealized and exag-
gerated almost to the verge of Carl
cature.
Year: 1871

In newspapers we have the Golden
Age the Iron Age, the Living Age
and Philadelphia Age. 1t was
thought last week that the Saus Age
had been added to the list, when the
Three Links was announced at Prov
idence, r. L., but it proved to be a
newspaper devoted to Odd Follow
ship,
Year: 1871

There is a man in Glen Falls. n
Y, who won't believe any stories
about the sagacity of dogs. He says
dogs have not common sense. In
proof of his assertion he relates how
he poured kerosene on a dog and set
it on fire. just to have a little fun. as
he was lonely during his wife's alb
sence, and that dog actually ran I'M
der the barn belongingto him, and lay
there and set the barn on fire. though
the man whistledto him to come out.
1t is enough to make Il man lose
faith in dogs.
Year: 1871

Mr.. Greeley sent a letter to a
friend the other day declining to
serve as one of the committee to
superintend the reorganization of
tha Republican party in New York
City. The recipient, it is said, un-
able to decipher the epistle, passed
it over to a neighbor of the philoso-
pher of Chappaqua, who read it be-
fore the Agricultural Society as an
essay on the advantages of cultivat-
ing the blooming variety of
radishes.
Year: 1871

jim MALLORY came swinging on nall
run round the corner Of State Street to
catch an uptown car. "A red car" his
friend Saxon had told him and there it
went full speed out Of sight just as he
came in view Of it An east wind was
blowing, as it generally is blowing in
Boston, and Jim Mallory shivered, and
sneezed, and drew up his coat-collar,
while he mathematical the Hub Of the
Universe md her east winds, as a
Gothamits was bound to do. Presently,
wat with the dust in his eyes and the
well-known delightful regularity of that
city, Jim got turned round" as the
country folk say, and for few minutes
couldn't tell for tho life of him which was
up town or which was down town.


"Cenfound the place!" he began, when
all at once it seemed Us if all the cars in
the city suddenly appeared. There they
were, red cars and green cars and blue
cars, bearing down upon him in swift
confusion. He hailed the first, and
shouted where he wanted to go. The
driver shook his head, and pointed
backward in the most indefinite manner
and there six cars behind him.


He hailed the second, and went
through with the same humiiating ex-
perience. He hailed the third, he hailed
the fourth, and all at once came to his
senses at the fifth. and discovered they
were every one going the wrong way,
and he himself all out Of the way on the
wrong street. He breathed an exclama-
ton more emphatic than polite. and
dashed through to fremont Street just
in time to catch tho car he was after
Jim was handsome fellow ordinarily,
but you never would have suspected it
now. To begin with, he had q cold in
his head and for


"A cold in the head


What can be said,


Uglier, stupider, more il-bredg"


Being blond man, too, made it worse.
as every blond, be they man or woman,
can testify; for flushed and swollen
eyelids and excoriated nostrils show of
to most dismal disadvantage beside q
blond's chair of yellow or beard Of gold. =
And then the thin tissues, the light skin,
which evinces every disarraugement! !
Well, besides cold in the head, Jim
Mallory was covered with dust from his
head to his feet. Then, because of the
cold in his head, he had drawn his coat
collar up aryund his ears, and, because
of q general uncomfortable condition, he
had drawn his shoulders nearly up to bis
ears And then something had happen
ed to his hat I don't know what it was.
He didn't know what it was, or he never
would have sat there right in the face Of
those five girls, looking like such Guy,
without trying to remedy It 1t was
something between cruth and q twist,
which, taxed together with his general
muffy appearance, gave him the aspect
Of a forlorn and seedy old fellow at odds
with himself and with the world, This
was a climax for a young man who led
of the German in Avenuedom, and who
was spoken of usually by all feminine
Avenuedom as so dikinque" And
there sat those five girls without suspi-
cion OF these facts in his history. Five
girls as pretty as girls need to be, laugh
ing and chatering ke-ike-well, like
five girls I don't think there is any
comparison that will serve - well as
Year: 1871

A gentleman being at . ladies' fair not
long since, and being solicited to buy
something by fair creature who kept
one of the tables, said he wanted to buy
what be feared was not for sale-a lock
of her hair. To his surprise and delight
she promptly cut off the tho coveted curl
and received the price offsred-ten dol
lara The happy purchaser was exhibit
ing the trophy to one of his friends, who
very suddenly blasted his joy by saying,
"She rather outAanked you. for to my
certain knowledge she only paid three
dollars for the whole wig"
Year: 1871

l. If people are to live happily together
they must not fancy, because they are
thrown together now. that I'll their lives
have been exactly similar up to the present
time, that they started exactly alike, and
that they are to be for the future exactly Of
the same mind


2. Avoid having stock subjects of disputa-
ton.


g. Do not hold too much to logic, and sup
pose that everything is to be settled by suf-
ficient reason.


4. If you would be loved MS companion,
avoid unnecessary criticism upon those
with whom you live.


S. Let not familiarity swallow up all cour-
tesy.


g. We must not expect more from the
society of our friends and companions than
it can give; and especially must not expect
contrary things.
Year: 1871

Information was received ut the Coroners' Office
yesterday OF case OF malpractice at Harlem which
has resulted not only III the death Of the infant bat
also In the death OF the mother. young LADY,
about twenty -four years OF age, q seamstrcss who
resided with her parents IN Wyckon street Brook.
lyD, named Eliza McCarty, visited her sister Mrs.
Walker, residing IN l2Gih street and Third avenue
about week ago, ana while there complained Of
sickness. Various remedies were applied which
seemed unavailing in giving her relief, and at
length symptoms developed themselves that aroused
her sisters suspicious and Miss McCarty confessed
that she was about to become a mother. she also
stated that in order to hide the


EVIDENCE OF HER FRAUTY


as far as she could she had caused the death Of the
unborn child by puncturing il with sharp lnstru
ment. On learning these facts from her sister Mrs
Walker sent for DR.. Steinhart, OF East I23d street
who found his patient IN a very serious and alarm
ing condition. He consulted with Dr. Brockway
ana both physicians did all tnat could be done to
assuage the su1erings Of Miss McCarty and if posi-
BILE 10 save her life. On Tuesday perltonitis set in
and in the course OF the day Miss McCarty died. The
story OF her seduction or the name OF her betrayer
was not told by her with any completeness, for her
suGerngs were too intense TO allow OF ils recital.
Enough Is known TO justify the conclusion that she
low Loved not WISELY wisely on, 100 well and ,nat
ness should be hidden from the knowledge
OF her friends. She stated before she ied that she
had bought at store IN Brooklyn medicine, which
she mad taken; bur finding 1t unavalng she had had
recourse to this very desperate mode OF destroying
the living


EVIDENCE or HER SHAME


Dr. Stenhart thought II was case i'll which he was
Justified in Withholding certificate OF death until
the Coroner had satisfied himself that the law had
not been outraged by cOncealment OF the facts OF
the case. Yesterday, therefore, Mr. Walker gave in.
formation to Coroner herman of the above facts,
ana the coroner, with his Deputy, DR.. Beach, bed
an inquest at the house where the deceased was
lying IN Third avenue, and after hearing the medi-
cal testimony verdict IN accordance herewith was
returned ana the order FOR burial given.
Year: 1871

Placer county has large amount due
her from the Central Pacific Railroad
in money and property earned and acquired
by the Company while she was large stock
holder, estimated on the basis of fair dvi
dend, reaching from two to five millions of
dollars The Supervisors have directed
Hon. c. A. Tuttle to bring suit against the
company for this money and property. The
suit will involve complete overhauling of
the books and private contracts of the COM
pany from its organization down to April
last The question for the people and tax
payers of this county is, ''is this bonafide
suit or is it hatched up by the Company and
Supervisors to put it in shape to be thrown
off or compromised SO as to sell out the
county's last hope Of ever getting the money
back paid to and for this Company ?" We
confess we have no confidence in the MAORI
ty of this Board, and if there are twenty men
in the county that have, they are not known
to US. All this doubt arises from the past
acts Of the Board, but in this case it may do
right, and we hope it will. The interests at
stake arc too great to be triaed with, and it
would not be bad idea for the taxpayers
in each precinct to confer together and ap-
point committees and authorize these com
mittees to appoint central committee
to especially look after this matter,
and aid the Supervisors in their undertaking.
The Supervisors woulo surely be glad to
have such assistance and co,,nse as the tax
payers in this way could give them, but if
they should reject such an offer it would be
cause for grave and serious suspicion OF evil
intent.
Year: 1871

The Grass Valley Union Of Wednesday
last contains q long editorial, meant, we sup
pose, for some purpose, but what that pur-
pose was is not clearly discernable. The
writer's pen evidently got the better of his
brains, memory and history. The only idea
we detect in the article, outside of the be-


SOLDERING of the Sacramento Union, is that
the Democratic press and party never had
any principles on the question Of monopoles,
plunderings and public robbery, or, if they
had they should Immediately have dropped
them and taken the other side when :he
Sacramento Union began to support their
doctrines. The Union has never influenced
the penning of one letter or line in this paper,
and we believe the same is true of all the
other Democratic papers in TIE State, and
there is not an iota of evidence upon which
to.found such an insinuation. Had there
been no such a paper as the Sacramento
Union, the people and newspapers OF this
State would have occupied precisely the
status they now do, on the subsidy question
and candidates. 1t was the timely, manly,
noble acts of Governor Haight in veto,7g
the vile subsidy bills that had been passed by
the votes of professed Democrats and Re-
publicans mainly through corrupt influences


involving the ruin of large portion of the
counties of the State for the benefit of pri-
vate individuals, and these individuals, Stan
ford Crocker & Co., the vilest and most ty-
ranical Republicans in the State, that brought
the great mass of the people of the State and
nearly the entire Democratic press to his
support. Just such an incident in history
occurred when Gen. jackson vetoed the Uni
ted States bank bill, and the people did not
then commence hunting some new man that
would repeat what jackson had done, but
they rallied to old Hickory himself, as they
are now doing to Haight. We know pre-
cisely what moved the Grass Valley Union
in the penning of this article-where the
heat come from that made it bubble such
queer kind of trash, and but for great
over-shadowing principle involving higher
considerations than men, and an emergency
that must be met now or the party in this
State is gone, we would be with it. We
submit that the Union might have chosen
some other way to get word in for its man
preferences than by charging four-fifths Of
the Democratic papers of the State of being
"deluded organs and creating a war in
camp, which is SANDER undeserved. Ma
jorities don't kick up wars in camp any
more than eleven stubborn jurymen prevent
one liberal fellow from returning verdict.
Year: 1871

SOME friend has sent us two copies of the
Rural Ne,c Yorker. The Rural is one Of
the very best papers that comes to this office
and is invaluable to all tillers of the soil =,
breeders and dealers in stock, horticultural
lists, pomologists and those engaged in kim
dred pursuits. We get the paper regularly
at this Office as an exchange, and prize it
highly, and though thanking our unknown
friend all the same, request him to hand his
spare copies to some of his neighbors in the
future.
Year: 1871

The Alameda county Gazette is very Sc
we're on Grant and his brother-in-laws and
cousins, and is also very sound against the
monopoly, subsidy, Railroad plunderers
If the Gazette don't tack ship soon it will be
a good Democratic paper.
Year: 1871

IMPORTANT NoTIcE.-In our advertisements
will be found n notice from Moses FREEDOM to
oil persons indebted to him. Mr.. FREEDOM has
been doing an extensive backsmithing, livery
and now finds it necessary to have settlement
with all those indebted to him. lie assures us
that all debtors failing refusing to answer the
demands of this notice will have to be proceeded
against legally, much as he may regret to sue
any man.
Year: 1871

THERE is no quarrel in the Democratic
party, nor has there been any abuse of can
didates except by meager number of pa
pcrs that are helping Stanford, Crocker &
Co., whether they think so or not.
Year: 1871

WE publish the more important portions Of
the new Road Law for this county on the first
page of the HERALD, to-day. This law might
possibly answer for Townships and 10, but for
the remaining portions of the county it is i'm
practicable and should be wiped ont at the first
practical moment. Read it carefully.
Year: 1871

BY keeping no account of home opera
tions. Paying no attention to the maxim,
"A stitch in time saves nine," in regard to
the sowing of grain and planting of seed
at the proper season.


Leaving the reapers, ploughs, cultiva-
tors, etc, uncovered from the rain and
heat of the sun. More money is lost in
this way than most people are willing to
believe


Permitting broken implements to be
scattered over the farm until they are ire
parable. BY repairing broken implements
at the proper time many dollars may be
saved, proof of the assertion that time is
money.


Attending auction sales and purchasing
all kinds of trumpery, because, in the
words of the vender the articles are every
cheap


Allowing fences TO remain unrepaired
until strange cattle are found grazing in
the meadow, grain fields, or bruising the
fruit-trees.


Disbeleving the principle of a rotation of
crops before making single experiment.
Planting fruit trees with the exception
of having fruit, without giving the trees
half the attention required to make them
profitable.


Practising economy by depriving stock of
proper shelter during the winter, and
giving them unsound food, such as half
rotten and mouldy hay and fodder.
Keeping an innumerable tribe of rats on
the premises, and two or three lazy dogs
that eat up more in month than they are
worth in Il whole lifetime.
Year: 1871

How TO Cook VEGETABLES.-There
is one important objection which has often
been made, through ignorance, of the first
rule in cooking vegetables. 1t is observed
that meal from them is not satisfying.
have found it frequently happen that the
persons who thus objected did not know
even how to boil vegetable. The rule
is simple, but must never be forgotten.
Every kind of vegetable intended to be
served whole should, when put to boil, be
placed at once in boiling water; and this
applies especially to potatoes and vegeta-
bles from which The outer cover has been
removed Now it often happens that po-
tatoes, etc., are. to save time, placed in
cold water and left to boil gradually. It
is Just this which allows the nutritious mat
ter to escape, and renders the meal uDsat-
isfying. When, on the contrary, the wa
ter boils from the moment the vegetable
is immersed in it, the albumen is partially
coagulated near the surface, and serves
to retain the virtue of the vegetable. The
reverse is, of course, the rule for making
soup, or any dish from which the water
will not be drained. By placing the veg
etable in cold water, the albumen is slow
ly Dissolved, and actually mixes with the
water-a most necessary process for the
production of nutritious soup. 1t is to be
hoped that the poor, who have q spe-
cial need for the most their money can
produce, will learn, in whatever haste
they may be, not to boil all the albumen
from their potatoes, reserving for their
tables only the starchy matter. /.


+ Food Journal
Year: 1871

A felon is not a pleasant visitor. AL
though this remark is capable of wide
Interpretation, its truth in many cases will
not be denied But reference is intended
more especially to the unpleasant felon
that takes up pdeition on the finger and
shows no intention of vacating premises
for which it pays no rent, and in fact a
rent is apt to insure its removal. Says the
Journal of health: ''An exchange says it
is sure cure to put some Goals into pot,
throw on these Goals a handful each Of
hops, rye flour and brown sugar, and hold
the affected part for fifteen minutes in the
steam and repeat it several times. A
more certain cure is to bore hole in a
pot-lid, stick the finger through and
let it stay there until the finger is
burnt off, and that finger will never have
felon more!" True enough, but the rem
edy is worse than the disease. The same
journal kindly adds, however, that 'there
is scientific cure for felon, always
safe: get physician to plunge his lancet
down to the bone. A natural felon is
bone thief; a physiological felon is boil
between the bone and the sinew. When
a boil is under the skin only it is painful
enough until it breaks;' but when it is
remembered that the sinew is as much
tougher than the skin as a beef hide is
tougher than paper, it is easy to see that
the pain of a boil under the sinew is more
terrible than one under the thin skin. The
educated surgeon, therefore, advises the
use of the lancet as above. The cause Of
felon is usually bruise on the finger
heavy enough to reach down to the bone
and to inflame it"