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Year: 1875

How SHE PUNISHED HER FALSE LOVER
There is fact lately come to light, in small
town where there is great deal of primitive
simplicity, that the presentation of shirt by
woman to the man she wants to marry will cut
the heart out of love. One young girl tried it,
and made her lover a glstening white shirt
with her own pretty hands. He retired to his
clearinghouse, put it on, and went straight
way to see and make love to another girl. Clad
in clean shirt, he felt above the seamstress
who had made it, and she lost his coveted COM
pany She did not sit down and whine over
the linen that had gone astray, but took pis-
tol in her delicate hands and tripped away to-
the clearinghouse aforesaid She met the
unsuspecting lover and, presenting the pistol,
tod him to take off that shirt. He hes:tated
and was lost. He saw desperation in those
eyes and death in the pistol He peeled and
handed the girl the soiled garment, which she
took on the point of her pistol and poked into
the stove And the flame died out and her love
went up the chimney with the smoke.-S.
LOlliS ReD1Lblicdn. ....
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
bat as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1875

THE fifty-fourth Legislature of Maine meets
on Wednesday, and for the next seven or
eight weeks our readers will be much in
terested in what occurs at Augusta, both in
and out of the Legislature. The PRESS will
have an experienced journalist in attendance,
whose only business it will be to furnish full
reports of everything of interest which takes
place at the state capital. During that peri
cd the PRESS will be furnished for $3.50 in
Guiding postage.
Year: 1875

The seedmen OF this city held another meeting at the
Asor House yesterday for the purpose OF hearing
ihe committee appointed at the former meeting in rcla-
zion 10 what restrictions should be placed seed bags
and labels generally, IN order 70 The dealers
from responsibility FOR success in planting seed beyond
that which would follow assurance that the seed
sold is Of the kind indicated and that the seed Is
The chair was occupied by Mr. j n. Th0rDOrn and Mr.
T. a. Reeves acted secretary. There long de-
hate concerning the extent of the protection dealers
thould have against those who seek 70 hold them
fponsb!e for faults which not their own but for
some not expressed there failure " ar-
rive at any definite result and the meeting adjourned
without day though the Secretary fet certain that
ihere would be another gathering some day during ne
Year: 1875

While boy named John Strang was coming home
last night along South street woman, with her hair
dshevecd and her hands clutched convulsvely about
her temples, rushed past him toward the East River
Struck by her strange behavior he followed pier
Is where she paused FOR a moment 10 look over the
strngpece either side and then II changing her
mind, she hurried along the dock, and, BE-
fore he could give alarm, sprung oA
the iurtner end INTO the water John Lewis, the
watchman Of the brig Excelsior noticed her passing ~
the shadow Of vessel moored the other sides but
failing to divine her Intentions he paid no heed hil
aroused by the cry the boy Then he hurried 70 her
with rope, but late to save her For
moment a dark shadowy substance seemed hoatlng
the dock which be supposed xas her shawl but
before boathook could oe procured Il was washed
Year: 1875

E'oR SALE VERY CHEAP-A HOUSE AND ABOUT
acres Of ground, the depot Of the New York and
Long Branch Railroad the house i new story and
tAns rooms With large pear orchard the prenises
will be sold reasonable For further inform
inquire q the owner al 80 Murray street, New York


A. THOMPSON.
Year: 1875

The democrats of this State are
again greatly encouraged with the
idea that the Northern democrats
are about to do something for them.
Senator Gordon telegraphs to them
advising "still forbear. " His dispatch
reminds US OF the noble patriotism of
Artemas Ward during the war. He
was willing to suffer for the cause, and
expressed the hope that all the relation
of his first wife might be drafted and
sent to the front. Senator GordOn's
dispatch is sensational rather than
practical or patriotic since 1860 the
democracy Of the South has waited
and hoped for help from the Northern
democrats. 1t has never come. There,
may be class of people in the North
who desire trouble in the South in
order that the Republican party may
retain power under the old battle flags
of the rebellion. There may be an
other class, whose hopes Of success at
the next election, are based on keep
ing the peace in the South. The active
interest both these parties are taking
in our affairs, is prompted by the most
selfish motives. After these have sue
ceeded, or failed, there will he no more
such lively manifestations Of sympa-
thy. Louisiana must work out its
own destiny. Its people must help
themselves, aud as long as this great
truth is ignored, SO long will our pros.
poets grow darker.-La. State Regis.
fer
Year: 1875

It has lately come to light that the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Of
New York, spent over a million Of
dollars, few years since, to obtain a
subsidy from Congress. A Congress
sional committee is now engaged in
investigating the matter. They have
already found where s275,000 Of the
money vent. 1t went into the pocket
of Democratic member Of Congress
from New York, one Of those very vir-
tuous men who made bitter partisan
attacks upon the integrity of the mem
bers Of the Republican party. What
commentary upon Democratic pro-
tessions. ExalMnqe.
Year: 1875

Aud he gave it for his opinion that
whoever could make two ea,s of corn
or two blades of grass to grow upon a
spot of ground where only one grew
before, would deserve better Of man.
kind, and do more essential service TO
his country than the whole race of poli.
ticianB put together. -StUiH
Year: 1875

A communication to the Woman's Jour- nal complains that in all cases of insult to ladies. public opinion takes it for granted that there was something wrong in the ladies' manner. Two instances are given: one where school-committeemanv visiting a school, fingered after the pupils had gone. and kissed the teacher; another where deacon offered similar insult to Q young married lady on whom he had called on business. In each instancel the lady made complaint, but the general opinion was, Don't believe it was all his fault. and in any case she would better have kept it to herself" In case of plain impertinence like the foregoing. we hold it the duty of lady to slap the offender in the face. in the first place whether he should afterwards be horsewhipped by some near maie relative is a matter of taste. At any rate it is no more the duty of lady to allow so gross au assault with out resistance than it is that of gentle. man to allow anyone to quietly pull his nose.
Year: 1875

N A ~ A

 Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States. died at Washington, early Tuesday morning. Although his life has long been threatened. his death came very suddenly at last. Only few mo- ments before his own end he was regret. ting the loss of Senator Ferry, of this state. and paying a deserved tribute to his worth and ability. a.aa~'.a

 Henry Wilson's parents were worthless vagabonds named Colbath and he had his name changed to Wilson while yet young. Of his early struggles with poverty and his rise from the shoemaker's bench to the second office in the gift of his coun. try, all are familiar. He was Free Soil or from the start; and threw his whole force into the stormy struggle against the extension of slavery, and was one of the founders of the Republican party. la 1855 he succeeded Edward Everett in the United States Senate. He was three times elected to the Senate by the legisla- ture of Massachusetts, and was, during the entire war, chairman of the Senate on Military Affairs. one of the most labo. rious and responsible positions in that body. Since hls election to the Vice. Presidency his active work has substan- tially ceased and he has devoted a large portion of his leisure to a history of the Slave Power. still unfinished.

 Mir. Wilson was not the equal of Sum. ner, Chase, Seward, and other great founders of the Anti-Slavery party, but he was a hard-working, brave, earnest man of the people who did a great work for which the people rewarded him with their full confidence and with high posi- ton in their government He was strong partisan till the last year or two of his life, during which his fine political instinct made him very restive in view of the blunders he saw the Republican leaders constantly making. Although he did not come out of the terrible Credit Mobilier investigation quite unscathed, yet he died apoor man aftertwenty years service in the United States Senate-a fact that is itself a certificate of his honesty. On the whole the life of Henry Wilson IS very credita- ble to himself and very creditable to American institutions which gave him a chance to show the manhood there was in him.
Year: 1875

HOPE FOR THE DEsPoSDExr.-H you have been coughing all winter and begin to despair of recovery, or if you have talk en recent cold, go at once to the Drug store of Buell. < Wheeler's, get bottle of DR. MORRIS SYRUP OF TAR. WILD CHERRY AND HoREHoUND. Take it and be well. No other medicine acts so promptly and effectually in Coughs, Colds, and all dis eases of the throat, lungs and Chast, lead ing to consumption. Hundreds who once thought they had that dread disease have been restored to health by the use of this almost magic remedy. It is also the best known specific for Group, and never fails in Whooping Cough. Trial size 10 cents. 431v
Year: 1875

A very rich state is Massachusetts. At the valuation made on the first of May last, the property of the state is almost two thousand millions. Local taxes aver. age over 12 mills on the dollar Almost half of the property of the state is in the city of Boston. Most of the pauperism is there alaO.
Year: 1875

CRoss AND SICKLY CHILDREN can be made healthy and strong by regulating their stomachs and bowels with Castoria. It is more effective than Castor Oil and is as pleasant to take as honey. For Wind Collie, Sour Stomach, Worms and Costive- ness, there is nothing in existence equal to Castoria.
Year: 1875

The adoption of the new amendments leaves us but one more spring election. Small constitutional favors thankfully re- ceived Now the question arises, why hold town elections in October and then duplicate their trouble and expense with with state election in November Our centennial legislature should change the time of holding our town elections to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
Year: 1875

After all the furry about reduced freights over the Baltimore and Ohio rail- road. that company has finally combined with the northern lines, transportation is high. and everything is lovely. For ways that are dark there is nothing in this world quite equal to the railroad corporation. It costs three times as much to transport a bushsl of wheat from Minnesota to New York now as it did just after harvest.
Year: 1875

THE BEST FAMILY NEWSPAPER. This is the claim which the publishers of the New York Observer make in behalf of their paper. It is a bold claim to make in our day, when there are so many papers but an undertaking course in sending out, for ifty-three years, large, readable. and pure newspaper certainly goes good way towards vindicating such Q claim. It is not such paper as we altogether approve, for it is intensely conservative, and we are radical but those who do like undeviat- ing conservatism tand are they not the great majority ?. will find no better expo. nent of their views than the New York Observer. For specimen copies address {: s. s. Prime < Co.,, New York.
Year: 1875

We invite the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Ives of the Old Bee Hive" in Hartford, located since the fire of February last at 372 Main Street. Ives will occupy the large store now being built by the Messrs. Cheney Brothers; when completed he will have one of the most commodious and elegant stores in the State. Our readers should not fail to read his advertisement of pure silk.
Year: 1875

The Winsted News claims that even the present statute allowance to members of of the legislature meeting in county con- vention is illegal under the following clause of the State Constitution:

 The compensation of Governor, Lieu. tenant Governor. Senators and representa- tives, shall be established by law, and shall not be varied so as to take effect, un- til after an election which shall next suc- ceed the passage of the law establishing such compensation.

 It is true that no legislature could vary an established compensation for their ser vices to take effect during their term of office; but where no compensation has been fixed does that provision applyP For instance, could not and did not the first leg islature that sat after the adoption of the constitution vote themselves compensa. ton?
Year: 1875

The Wonder Store. Waterbury, has adopted new plan of selling tea as will be seen by advertisement in our columns this week. Every person buying two pounds of tea at one time is presented with handsome pocket book. This offer lasts only thirty days. They claim if by this plan they can induce people to pur. cnase tea from them once. the superior quality of the tea they sell will Ee sufi- cient inducement for every customer to come again.
Year: 1875

Nearly all sick animals become SO by i'm
proper feeding in the first place. Nine
cases out of ten the Digestion is wrong.
Charcoal is the most efficient and rapid
corrective. 1t vii! cure majority of cases,
if properly administered. An example is of
use. The hired man came in with the iu-
telligence that one of the finest cows was
very sick, aud kind neigi5or proposed
the usual drugs and poisons. The owner
being Ill and not able to examine the COW,
concluded that the trouble came from over
eating, and ordered teaspoonful of pull
yerized charcoal given in water. 1t was
mixed, put in a junk bottle, the head held
upward and the water and charcoal poured
down. In five minutes Improvement was
visible, and in a few hours the animal was
in the pasture quietly eating grass. An
other instance Of equal success occurred
with a young heifer which had become
badly bloated by eating green apples after
hard wind. The bloat was so severe that
the sides were almost as hard as barrel.
The old remedy, salcratus, was tried for
correcting the acidity But the attempt
to put it down always causes coughing, and
it did a little good. Half toacup of fresh
powdered charcoal was given. In six hours
the bloat was gone and the heifcr better,
yes well.-Lice Stock JouInuL
Year: 1875

tributable to their painful plainness of dress.
No display of jewelry, silks, fine bonnets,
elegant head dresses or high-heeled shoes
is made by these ladies' They labor in the
kitchen, and, for amusement, they spell
their male lords in the field with the plow
and hoe. They have no use for Harper's
Bazaar or a Chickering. The men have
no political ambition, while, as is well
known, they have an inherent aversion to
military operations and glories They are
opposed to both military and civil law, and
no officer of any kind can be member of
their community. They have their own
local government, and all disputes are settled
by arbitration. Being on-combative and
indisposed avail themselves of the protec-
ton Of our civil courts, it is to be feared
that some of our avaricious jayhawkers,
who have no respect for the moral law, will
cause them trouble whenever they obtain
portable property worthy of purloining
None have, as yet obtained naturalization
papers, and the prevailing sentiment among
them is against naturalization, but, doubt
less, their necessities will force them into
citizenship.


They are delighted with Kansas, and
have gone to work in their new homes with
all the energy and enthusiasm of youthful
pioneers. Their industry and frugality will
insure them success. They are the people
30 subdue and utilize the barren plains In
addition to agriculture, they propose to
engage in wine and silk making. They
have brought tons of mulberry seed with
z ,,rh; ;,I, IL, a.
tree is indigenous to this soil, its growth
is no experiment. Grape vines grow luxuri-
antly here, and wine making ought to be
one Of the most profitable occupations that
can be followed in Kansas.
Year: 1875

Pure soft water is the best Of all blood
purifiers. It dissolves most every impurity
that may find Its way to the blood, and
passes it off through the skin, lungs and
kidneys, thus washing out the blood with
out those chemical charges and deposits
which are likely to arise from the actiolf of
drugs. Why then use doubtful, danger
Gus and often injurious drugs for purify
ing the blood: when pure, simple, safc, and
far more efectud water may be had with
out money and without price?


a hot lemonade is one of the best remc-
dies in the world for a cold 1t acts prompt
ly and effectually, and has no unpleasant
after effects. One lemon properly squeezed,
cut in slices, put in sugar and covered with a
half pint of boiling water. Drink just be-
fore going to bed I; DO not expose yourself
on the following day This remedy will
ward off an attack Of the chills and fever
if used promptly


Ifyou get a fish bone in your throat,
aud sticking fast there, swallow an egg raw;
it will be almost sure to carry down the
bone, easily and certainly. When, as some
times by accident, corrosive. sublimate IS
swallowed, the white of one or two eggs
will neutralize the poison, and change the
effect to that Of a dose OF caIonlel
Year: 1875

One great cause of the poverty of the
present day Is the failure of our people to
appreciate small things. They do not
realize how a daily addition, be il ever so
small, will soon make large pile. IF the
young men and young women of to-day will
only begin, and begin now, to save little
from their earnings, plant it in the soil of
some good savings bank and weekly or
monthly add their mite, they viii wear a
happy smile of competence when they reach
middle life Not only the desire, but the
ability to increase it viii also grow. Let
clerk and tradesman, laborer and artisan,
make now and at once beginning. Store
up some of your youthful force and vigor
for future contingency.


Let parents teach their children to begin
early TO save. Begin at the fountain-head
to control the stream Of extravagance-to
choose between poverty and riches. Let
our youth 90 on in habits of extravaganza
for fifty years to come as they have for fifty
years past, and We shall have a nation of
beggars, with moneyed aristoracy. Let
a generation of such as save in small sums
be reared, and we shall be free from all
want Do not be ambitious for extravagant
fortune, but to seek that which it is the
duty of every one to neutrality-suspicious.
and comfortable home, wealth, and
enough of it, is within the reach of all 1t
is obtainablc by one process and by one
oniy-SaVing
Year: 1875

Some new cases Of deaths, due to the
eating of pork infested with T5chine,
which are being quoted in Western journals,
should be the means of directing public at
tention anew to the horrible disease Of swine,
called trichinojs, and to the fact that, when
once the parasite attacks a human being,
the result is prolonged suffering and, in a
multiplicity of instances, death. The worm
existing in the pork literally, bores its way
out OF the stomach and into the muscles.


1t has lately been found that swine may
become infested with trichina through eat
ing carrion, or even decayed vegetable sub
stances This is point worth considera-
ton by farmers who incline to the belief
that dead chickens, putrid swill, or any
other filth about the place is legitimate food
for the pig. The animal is not dainty in
his tastes, and will lunch off his dead rela-
tives with infinite gusto but it is the poor
est economy to permit him to assume the
role of scavenger No milk dealer will al
low his COWS to cat garlic if he can help it,
though the brutcs are crazily fond Of the
odoroiierous weed and there IS certainly
more reason for the Earmer to see that his
porkers have no access to unclean food. In
one case, if precaution be neglected, the
taste OF the milk is affected in the Other
the entire flesh is rendered poisonous and
dangerous food
Year: 1875

THE TALL GENTLEMAN ON THE PLATFORM OF
Third avenue would like to make the acquaint-
OF the lady who In the and got of at
Tenth street. Mention some circumstance to avoid mis-


takes ifasreeable address SIDE wHIsKERs. Herald
Year: 1875

In our last number attention was


briefly directed to few of the vegetable
wonders of the valley of the Amazon,
and it is to the same region that we shall
now return. Devoting our present work
to the description of one of the insect
artisans of this region, we will notice the
peculiar habits of those caterpillars
which, in the methods of building their
cocoons, seem to have been either the


instructors or pupils of the oriole, or
some other of the birds who build hang
ing nests. The creature which builds
the hanging tomb is found near Ega, on
the upper waters of the Amazon It's
work, as described by Mr.. Bates, from
personal observation, consists of cocoon
almost the size of sparrow's egg, woven
in broad meshes of buff or rose-colored
silk, suspended from the extreme tip of
an outstanding leaf by a strong silken
thread five or six inches in length.
Choosing branch which reaches out
and across one of the narrow and Sc
cluded alleys of the forest, the cautious
weaver begins its work, letting itself
slowly down upon the tip of the leaf it
has chosen for an anchorage. Here, hav-
ing first securely attached its silken Ca
BILE to the leaf, the caterpillar slowly de-
scends, spinning a thread of silk as it
goes. Having given proper length to
this cord, the spinning of the nest be-
gins. This is woven as miniature silk
bag, the caterpillar placing Itself in the
center and spinning rings of silk at reg
ular intervals, connecting them at the
same time by means of cross. threads.
The whole, when finished, forms loose
web, with quadrangular meshes of
nearly equal size throughout. The
thread which holds it to the branch
is glossy and stout, defying all attempts
of the birds TO break it, and the length
of this cord permits the LEsi below to
swing freely, THUS ren6iaring 80 capture
task of no easy accomplishment. There
is small orifce at either end of the bag,
to permit the moth, which is to be born
In this airy prison, to escape. We have
called this a nest, but it may more prop
erly be classed both as tomb and era
dle-the tomb of the caterpillar, and the
cradle of the new creature which is to
find it's life in the death of it's devoted
mother.


When this tomb is completed-a task
occupying three or four days-the in
closed caterpillar becomes sluggish, it's
skin shrivels and cracks, and at last the
once living and ingenious artisan be-
comes motionless chrysalis of narrow
shape, which rests gently suspended in
its self-created prison. At length the
new life appears, and soon the narrow
doorway widens, and there flies out and
up toward the light and beauty of the
day new creature in the form of
richly-hued but short-lived moth, which
must soon become a prey to those enc
mics against which, in its silken cage, it
was so well protected.-App5eton's Jour-
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