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Year: 1872

The following is the experience of a mechanic, concerning the benefits of a newspaper:

 Ten years ago, I lived in d town in Indiana. On returning home one night, for am d carpenter by trade, saw a little girl leave my door, and 1 asked my wife who she was. She said Mrs. Harris had sent her after their newspaper, which my wife had borrowed. AS we sat down to tea, my wife said to me, by my given name: ~ wish you would subscribe for the news paper. it is SO much comfort to me when you are away from home."

 1T would like to do so," said I, "but you know l owe a payment on the house and lot. 1t will be all can do to meet it."

 She replied, Eff you will take this paper, I will sew for the tailor to pay for it."

 I subscribed for the paper; it came in due time t9 the shop. While resting, Cne noon, and looking over it, saw an adver- tisement of the county commis- sionerS to let a bridge that was to be built. pat ill bId for the bridge, and the job wasa~arded to me, on which I cleared three hundred dollars, which enabled me to pay for my house and lot easily, and but for the newspaper, I should not have known any. thing about the contract, and could not have met my payment on my house and lot. A mechanic never loses anything by taking a newspaper.
Year: 1872

1t has often been asserted by Astron-
omers and Geographical Scholars, that


the Sun is the great centre of the solar


system, the axle of heaven, around


which our earth and all the mighty


worlds composing the solar system


continually revOlve; and that the


earth on which we live, is of a glObu-
lar form, and turns around on its own
axis once in every twenty-four hours


but neUer have I seen or heard an eX-


pIanation as satisfactory to my own
mind, and so easily understood az the


following: The inhabitant of the
Eastern Hemisphere, beholds the gol-


den sun in the East as it rises from its
apparent repOse, and sends forth its
splendid rays, upon our earth and
again he beholds it as it gradually disap-
pears in the West. During the whole
time that the sun is visible to our cas-
tern friends, We can see none OF its
cheering light, except that reflected
by the moon and by the planets
but when invisible to the
inhabitants of the Eastern Hemis-
nhere. it is Visible to US. Now suppose
that the sun travels. 1t starts from
the eastern part of the Eastern Hemis-
Hl0re, anu LTaNeIS III II westerly COUiSes
until it reaches the western part of the
Western Hemisphere. Twenty-four
hours pass away, as the sun flies across
the two Hemispheres; and now ac-
cording to our supposItion, the sun
will have to travel back from the ex-
treme West of the earth to the extrme
East: which would be accomplished
in twenty-four hours from the time it
einks from our view in the West
Carrying out the old time theory,
(which we merely use as supposi-
tion) the sun again rises to the view of
our eastern friend thirty-six hours az
ter he beholds it set in the West
therefore, the supposition that the
sun travels is absurd. Then let us
suppose that the world turns around
on its own axis once in every twenty
four hours, and that the sun remains
firmly and unchangeably fixed as the
centre of the Solar System, in the place
ordained by omnipotence, not travelling
around cur earth, nor Venus, nor Sat
urn, nor Jupeter, but only turning on
its own axis Not as our earth turs
on its own axis towards the East, the
Year: 1872

We felt that we could not hate
man who was so incapable, as to ask
that we should not allow "the friend
ly relations which had existed be
tween us" to be disturbed, by his
having accused us Of doing base
thing through base motives, We
were sorely tempted to restrain from
dispising his capacity. So we wrote
the following reply.
Year: 1872

Nor do we for a moment admit, tha I
Judge should be driven from his
bench by a few alarmists, some OF
whom may possibly have been inter
csted in the postponement of his
Court. We did not know, nor do we
yet fully know at whose instance he
did it. The worst thing we can yet
say of him, is that he is unfortunate
in having in his interest, this Clerk
Editor, who wears about his neck the
creased collar servitude.
Year: 1872

at Blountville, and had reliable in
formation there was none at Eliza
bethton, and that as to Taylors-
vile, it was so far beyond the reach
of small pox, and any thing else
which might be in Bristol, we
could not learn whether it had any
or not. We very well knew, that
any reader of intelligence must
know, that this Clerk-Editor,
could not know our feelings toward
Judge Gillenwaters, nor that ANY
private motive had actuated us.


The reception of the following
reply still more amazed us. We
had believed the Editor to be over
jealous and indiscreet, but we had
not supposed that this man who
writes under the nose of so learned
and fair Judge as Mr.. GillenwatCrs,
would assert as law, that, he could
boldly accuse a man without proof,
and then demand that he should
prove himself innocent. OF course
We knew he had thus acknowledged
that what he had asserted as truth
could be disproEen. Here is the let
ter. We are sorry for the writer, and
dislike to publish it.
Year: 1872

Brazil is great country for oranges,
and the Brazilans know how to eat the
delicious fruit. To enjoy an orange
thoroughly, says one of the newspaper
correspondents in Prof Agassiz's present
expedition, you should eat it in the
Brazilian fashion. You slice segment
of the flower end deep enough to 90
completely through the skin; then re


placing the segment, thrust a fork
through it to the very centre of the
orange. if the tines are long enough.
Holding the fork in your left hand, peel
the orange with very sharp small table
knife, slicing all the skin off, the seq
ment at the base of the fork being in
this operation a shield to prevent any
danger Of cutting the left thumb Now,
with two cuts of the knife disseet out
the pulp of one of the pockets and con
vey it to the mouth Follow this up,
pocket by pocket, and the skins of the
pocket remain on the fork, like the leaves
of book open until the covers touch.
Year: 1872

Horace Greeley prints the following in
the Tribune, as to the course Of that
paper in the forthcoming presidential
campaign


i. If there shall be Democratic can~
didates for President and Vice President
in the field we propose to support that
Republican ticket which seems most like
ly to succeed.


- II the main issue in the canvass
shall be protection against free trade,
We shall, no matter as to the candidates,
be found on the side Of protection.


3. But if, as we hope aud expect,
there shall be two Republican tickets,
aud noue other presented with any hope
of success, we shall favor that one whose
election vii be, iu our judgment, most
likely to promote economy in public ex
penditure, purity in legislation and al
minIstration. substantial In unauimity,
upholding for all citizens a complete
equality Of rights under the law, and
hasten the return Of fraternal concord
and mutual good will between those who
were arrayed against each other in san
culinary strife throughout our great civil
war.


'Such is our position, ard it will not
be affected by the nomination of \, b
c, or d, at Cincinnati, Philadelphia, or
elsewhere


But let it be distinctly understood
that, whatever may be the issues, who
ever may be the candidates, the Tribune
will not be AN organ We shall print
20 campaign editorial; We shall not sur
render our columns mainly or largely to
the advocacy of this or that platform or
ticket; we shall not shout and sweat, and
put forth frantic appeals in behalf Of
any party or cause; we shall do our ut
most to make the best newspaper in the
country. if not in the world, in which
our readers will find all the facts essen
tial to the formation of a correct judg-
ment on public affairs. If that judgment
shall concur with ours, very well; if not,
it is none of our business.
Year: 1872

The Missouri Democrat announces
that shipments of corn in bulk to Eu-
rope. via the great water route, are now
progressing satisfactory. Since Monday
of last week over one hundred thousand
bushels Of cora have been taken by the
barge. in bulk line for England and
France via New Orleans. This corn is
going forward on a contract freight Of
ten cents per l1shel, which is slightly
tough for the barge line people, as just
now they could get thirty five to forty
cepts per hundred pounds for carrying
miscellaneous freights down the river,
and this corn pays but about eighteen
cents per hundred But contracts are
contracts, even though not made in
writing, and the barge line are not the
party TO break them. After all though
the obligation to carry bulk corn at ten
cents per bushel seems now to their dis
advantage, it may, in the long run, turn
out TO have been the best thing they
could do, as by moving the corn out of
store here they make room for more to
come, thus providing plenty Of loading
for the barges when the rush of mis-
celaneous fright shall have ended, which
will be the case in thirty days But it
must be supposed that the Barge Line
Company are taking no miscellaneous
frelshts. Only part Of their room is
given to bulk grain-probably less than
one third the balance of the capacity of
each tow is taxed to its utmost with
-four provisions, liquors, hay, bagged
grain, corn meas and general merchan
disc. There Is an immense rush of
freight going southwark from this city
For want of laborers to put it rapidly
aboard Of the boats it accumulates in
vast heaps on the levee
Year: 1872

The Germantown Telegraph says !:
There is no mode that we ever tried so
effectual in transplauting tomato, cab
bage, canteloupe, or any other tender
plant from the hot bed, or from one
place to another, as to prepare vessel
filed with manure water and rich soil,
about the consistency of thin mush
with which the roots Of the plants should
be we'll coated, and set in a hole made
with round piece of wood or dibble.
After being rather firmly planted moisten
again with manure water. We have
never failed in any transplanting, when
done in this way, aud the trouble is very
slight.
Year: 1872

talfOn.


\ few years ago, Mr.. Il, erected a
large and commodious business house in
the city Of j. just before its compile
ton. Mr. s. business man of consider
able tact, but not sufficient capital to
run a large establishment, proposed a
partnership with II. to occupy the new
house with an extensive wholesale and
retail family grocery. As II. still had
unemployed means which he wished to
be earning him something, he consented.
with the understanding that he could
not give the business much personal
attention. Soon after the completion of
the building, a very heavy stock arrived
for the new firm II soon called around
70 Inspect. and finding, to his astouish
meut, 81 considerable quantity Of whisky.
be began to demonstrate with his partner
on the improprieiy Of dealing in an
article which does so much mischief in
The world, declaring that he could by no
means get Lis consent 10 become part
cops criD5inis in the ruin of his friends
and neighbors. Oh said S if we do
not sell il 10 them son one else will and
where Is the difference All said II.
the difference Is ono of great consequence
to us. Ii s.mebo2y cise furnishes them
with this ruinous article, then zee shall
not be responsible But, said 5 we DO
not propose to sell by the drink Yes,
answered II, but if it IS wrong to sell
gill, it is wrong to sell a quart or more
to be used as u beverage Why. said s
it is necessary part of the business,
aud if we do not keep it, we will lose
custom. l cannot help that, replied II
determined to have nothing to do with
it, and if you are unwilling to leave of
intoxicating drinks, must draw out of
the concern Immediately As they could
not agree they dissolved by mutual con
sent. This was about FIVE years ago,
and to day II is still thriving business
man and 5. is 4 bankrupt


OBSERVER
Year: 1872

II 4 EitNNi ilSi VI
termed into a combination to abolish the
custom of running wagons for the deliv-
cry of goods to purchasers, as they say
it is becoming too heavy tax upon them.


LETTERS from Lone Pine say that tho
whole Of Owens valley has been moved
southwark fourteen feet. Over seven
thousand shocks occurred to date, and
they still continue, but not of sufficient
force to do damage.


The construction Of the Huntington
and Jackson branch of the Nashville and
Northwestern railroad will be commence
ed in July.


MANY cattle are perishing in South
west Virginia for want of food. The
npreeedentedly long and severe winter
has consumed the forage, and left moth
ing to carry the stock until grass.


THE Medical Association for West
Medical College of the State of Tennes-
see, will have its organization for the
good Of mankind, at Union City, on the
first Monday in May next, 1872.


a PREsTIDIGITATEUR gave an exhibit
ton in u Texas town the other day in
which be introduced the familiar feature
Of pretending to load a pistol and allow
one Of the audience to fire it point blank
at him, he catching the bullet. The
spectator selected dropped a bona fdc
ball into the pistol and fred, killing the
exhibitor Immediately, Tho murderer
has been arrested.
Year: 1872

1t IS barely twelve-month ago since
the world was officially assured from
Washington that the millennium had at
last come, and the lion and lamb were
TO lie down together in happy and
familiar fraternity. Every doubt was
clamored down as unpatriotic, and the
new Treaty was cried up as the pertec-
ton OF human wisdom And now, when
the day Is at hand, to test the practical
value of these rose colored promises, the
signs multiply that the whole scheme will
turn out complete failure, and the old
differences be left to rankle and aggra
vate' worse than before this bad bargain
was made.
Year: 1872

We have Sons of Temperance organi zation here comprised of about forty members, all ardent supporters of the good cause, and earnest in their endeavors to re- claim those who are bartering away their manhood for alcoholic drink. There are those who profess to be temperance men, and we have no reason to doubt their claim, that are opposed to the organiza- ton on the ground that it is a secret so- ciety. We admit its secrecy, yet we claim that the end justifes the means, and that we ought not to be prescribed because we think best to hold secret meetings. Even the church have their secret meet ings, but no one objects, for the reason that as an independent organization they have just and obvious reason, so long as they do not infringe upon the rights of others by 60 doing. We have looked in vain to see some brief mention of the so- ciety from the pen. of your correspondent. Is 1t hecause he is opposed to secret socie- hess Now we say let us drop these little dinerences and go hand in hand in the good work and by precept and example chow our fellow men that we are earnest iy endeavoring to better their condition by persuading them that it is best to touch not, taste not, handle not.

 A. CITIZEN.
Year: 1872

The late heavy rains have caused the farmer much rejoicing, the earth was so warm and dry that the grass &c. has grown rapidly for the past week. The scarcity of laborers has caused our people to de lay the reparing of the highways and the late heavy showers washed them so that they are in much worse condition than usual; but now that planting is done we hope our board of road supervisors will see that they are thoroughly repaired.

 The Rev. MT. Hagen of Goshen sup piled the pulpit of the Methodist church at the center. Sunday

 M. Beers Sons raised the frame for their new barn, last Saturday.

 Decoration day is to be appropriate ly observed.
Year: 1872

It will be seen by the two articles
upon that subject, which we copy from
the Tribune, that our beautiful and en-
terprising capital city has won in the
contest for the location of the first rail-
road terminus on Puget Sound. Most
heartily do we congratulate the citizens
of Olympia upon their triumph, and
commend the Railroad managers for
the liberal regard which they have
shown to the interests of population,
instead of the soulless greed for accu-
mutation and monopilization by which
large corporations are SO often charac-
terized; for it is well known that the
Company was rendered much larger
concessions of land with equal port fa-
eilities, which were declined in favor of
Olympia solely on the ground of popu-
lation.


With this start Olympia cannot fail to
become an important commercial town,
and a successful rival of Portland for
the ocean commerce of the valleys of
the Columbia and Willamette when the
road which unites the River with the
Sound is completed, which will proba-


be within the next year. In such
Year: 1872

winters as occur once in four or five
wears, when both rivers are blockaded
with ice, the whole Willamette valley
Will have no access to the ocean, or in
fact any communication with the outer
world, but through Olympia.


Olympia Is no rival to Seattle; in fact
we regard the selection of Olympia, at
the extreme southern head of naviga-
ton on the Sound as the terminus of
the road from the south, as an indica-
ton of the policy which will make Seat
tie, at the extreme eastern end of the
Sound, the terminus for the main trunk
road from the east. Seattle may bide
her time with reasonable confidence.
The fact that one point upon the Sound
has been determined upon by the Rail-
road Company will have an invigorat-
ing effect upon the business Of the whole
country bordering upon the same.


PETTY JOURNALISM On Saturday, the
23d inst, the members Of St. john S
Masonic Lodge, in this city, joined in
presenting to Hon. John 7. Jordan, the
retiring Master of the Lodge, a valuable
and beautiful token Of their esteem.
The hteHigencer mentions the fact of the
presentation, as news item, compli-
ments the work of the artist, but ignores
the recipient of the gift through petty
personal spite. No man in this COM
munity enjoys higher degree of public
conf ience than does Mr.. Jordan. He
was last year Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge, is Mayor Of the City by popular
election, and was recently elected Re-
gent of the University by the unanimous
vote of the Legislature. To win the
confidence and respect of the communi-
ty is the most certain way to incur the
hatred of the Ishmaelitish editor of the
hteuigencer.
Year: 1872

them when they come to buy their land.
The company have met them fully half
way; stipulating only that they shall re-
frain cutting timber until some sort OF
arrangement or contract shall have been
made.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1872

They appear to have some trouble
in keeping down their oefunct out
in Hot Springs, Montana. This
may be on account Of the hot springs
out there-we don't pretend to say.
There is a ghost out there now, who
is making quite stir among the
living. He occupies a large stone
house, snd is pretty considerably
left to himself therein. "In his
days of nature" he is supposed to
have been one Hanna, who appears
to have forgotten something before
he passed in his chips. The ques-
tion row with the people Of Hot
Springs is, ''Whst's the matter With
HannaT'
Year: 1872




Inquisitive people sometimes meet
with little adventures which make
them weak. 4 fellow who was
paying attention" to e girl in
Andover, Miss, stole up to the
kitchen where she was at work the
other morning, thinking to see what
kind Of g housekeeper she was. He
got interested IS he stood behind
a door all unobserved, watching the
fair one at her toll, and in the ar
dency Of his observation he obtrud
ed his nose into 2 crack in the door.
She innoeently shut that door a lit
tie, and there was q mashed bugle.
He now wears il in q sling.
Year: 1872

It is painful 70 suppress laugh
ter, and more healthy to give it free
vent. A 'good laugh" as they say,
disrels the vapors, inhates and oxy-
genates the lungs, promotes 'and
improves circulation, and gives n
helping hand 70 the heart It IS q
medical fact that people Of cheerful
disposition enjoy the best health.


It may be said that cause is here
confounded with effect, but our dis
position is created in a measure BY
ourselves, and even Indigestion can
be laughed at If our temperament
is kindly, and VIC are disposed to
endure without grumbling- laugh
ter is the safety valve Of merriment,
and whatever the poet may say OF
q sigh, we would rather dispense
with phautasy and ask for smile.
It is sunshine versus shade
Year: 1872

/ know a man who chewed tobacco
forty years and never had a lawsuit.
I know another who smoked a pipe
fifty eight years and never fell and
broke his neck. These cases should
make you have better opinion OF the
weed. Liquors may be very in
furious, but my old uncle took his
straight for eighty-seven years.
and he used to say with q good deal
Of pride that he never had 3 corn,
aud when be died lie hadn'ta cent
for his children 70 quarrcl about
The whisky +stra .g1tened" that.
Year: 1872

A rainbow in the morning gives
the shepherd warning. That is, if
the wind be easterIy, because it
shows that the cloud is approach
ing the observer.


A rain bow at night is the shep-
herds delight. This is also a good
sign provided the wind is westerly,
as it shows the rain clouds are
passing away.


Evening red and next morning
gray are certain signs of beautiful
day.


When the glow worm lights her
lamp the cir is damp.


If the cock goes growing to bed
he certainly rises with a watery
head.


When you see a gossamer flying
be sure the air is drying.


When black snails cross your
path, black clouds much moisture
hath. ''


When the peacock loudly bawls,
soon we have both rain and squalls.


When ducks are driving through
the barn, that night the weather
takes turn.


If the moon shines like silver
shield, be not afraid to reap your
feld.


But il she rises haIoed round,
soon well tread on deluged ground.


When rocks are sporting in the
air, it shows that windy storms are
near.


If at sun rising or setting the
,iouds are IurId red color, extend
ing nearly TO the zenith, it is a sure
sign of squalls and gale of wind.
Year: 1872

Less Labor and More Happiness.


We favor a system that shall con


tribute most to the happiness of the


individual and the class. If the one


hour saved from labor be devoted to


intellectual improvement, it is well.


If the laborer thus released applies


his leisure hour to his own domestic


business, to his garden or his shop,


to his needed rest or the education


of his children, to the pleasant in


terchange of ideas and good will be


tween neighbors, to almost anything
except dissipation, idleness and de


bsuchery--it will prove a blessing,
taking him out of the enforced
treadmill Of grinding toll, and giving
him status in the world above that
of the mere toiHng serf.


One hour a day saved from slav-
ish toll, if rightly employed and i'm
proved, can be the means of Great
ing a new class of men-new in
their capacities for enjoyment, as
for toll itself The devotion of one
hour a day to self-education, to men
tai development, can do what has so
often been done before; transform
mere drudges into thinking, intelli-
gent beings, with their capacities for
heRlthful enjoyment increased in
proportion to the cultivation of
their intellects. But this will not be
the result to the man who cOyeIs
the one hour saved from toll in or,
der that he may have SO much more
time to devote to the shutting Of
cards or the shaking of dice at the
corner grocery.


It is = common mistake made,
that relesse from the necessity of
labor ensures happiness. Employ
ment is the law Of all really inteIli-
gent, certainly all really progressive
and individuals. Others
may exist, but they do not live in the
true sense Of the word We must
work with the mind if not with the
hands. The invisible wheel and
springs Of the brain must keep NOV
ing. Thought viii be evolved, and
ia its proper direction is the correct
cue to happiness. Let the laborer
get his release from the hitherto
extra hour or two OF enforced toll
and then devote it sensibIy to better
purposes than dissipation, or idle
ness, which leads to dissipation ifl
not TO vagabondage and crime.