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Year: 1870

The SALMON ASCENDING THE COLUMBIA RIVER
Over jagged stones thrown on each other in
juttng wall twenty or thirty feet high, and


hardly forty feet wide pours the great food of
the Columbia with roar and fury that browns


ali other sound. We stood on separate points


and tried to talk to each other in explicable


dumb show, and then we forgot to talk and only
looked. Up the Stream, through the fierce and


sucking rapids, white against the black stones
that here and there tear the water flash the


the swift strong beautiful salmon. They come
a few together, then larger multitude then the
whole river from side to side is dark with their
innumerable host. The indomitable creatures


mean to get up the river to spawn, and they


mind that precpice and torrent no more than if
it were summer pool within its little margent.


They swim swift and stately to the verv foot.
where you lose them in the boiling whirlpool.


Something fahes in the air, elastic, strong,
light. The daring, determined, wonderful,
thing has made that leap, deied rock and tor
rent and found its safe home in the smooth run
beyond Or there is the fash, and then a strag-
gle and the poor, bruised creature, wounded
unto death against the sharp-edged stones,
drops back into the stream and floats down leav-


ing bloody track, dying after little. So they
come, and come, and come, such myriads of
them, and leap, and win or lose, for all the
hours of the day and for half the days of the
year--Irs. Cath0un-RuakLe.
Year: 1870

ened, falling hair checked, and bald
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair where the follicles are destroyed,
or the glands atrophicd and decayed.
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
Of fouling the hair with pasty scdi-
ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious to the hair, the Vigor can
only benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for
Year: 1870

Fon STRONG. MINDED WoMEN--A FA.
BILE Oak" said the vine, :" bend your
trunk, so that you may be a support to
me-"


"My support replied the oak, ." is
naturally yours, and you may depend on
my strength to bear you up, but am too
solid to bend. Put your arms around
me, my pretty vine. and | will manfully
support and cherish you, ifyou have am
bition to climb as high as the clouds
While | thus hold you up, you will orna
ment my rough trunk with your pretty
green leaves and scarlet berries They
will be rs frontlets to my head, as stand
in the forest like glorious warrior with
tall plumes. We were made by the great
Master to grow together and that by
our union the weak may be made strong,
and the strong render aid to the weak. ="


But ! wish to grow Independently
said the vine. "why cannot you twine
around me, and let me grow up straight,
and not to be a mere dependant upon
you"


Nature" answered the oak did not
design it. IL is impossible that you
should grow to any height alone and II
you try it, the winds and rains, II not
your own weight, will bring you to the
ground. Neither is it proper for you to
run your arms hther and thither, for the
trees will begin to say it Is not my vine,
il is a stranger, get thee gone, will not
Year: 1870

The LOST DiHNER.-,1n the town OF
Newcastle, in England, there was man
by the name Of Patient Joe. He worked
in q coal-mine. He was called Patient
Joe, because if grief came to him he
would say, It's all for the best; those
who love God shall find that all things
work together for good "


If things went well with him, Joe
would praise God; and if things went i'll
with him, he would praise God; and still
say, "God knows best what is for my
good. We must not judge Of things by
this life alone; there's a life to come af
ter this and things that may not seem
good for us here may be good for us
there"


In the coal pit where Joe worked, some
Of the men would jeer and laugh at him
when he said, Its all for the best" ="
There was man by the name Of Tim
who would miss no chance to laugh at
Joe.


One day, as Tim and Joe were getting
ready to 90 down into the pit, Joe, who
had brought his dinner Of bacon and
bread with him, laid it on the ground for
a moment Before he could take it up, a
hungry dog seized it and ran Off


"IIa, ha" cried Tim, "thats all for
the best. is it man? Now stick to thy
creed and say Yes.


"Well, ] do say Yes" SAID Joe ;
&" but, as ! must eat, It is my duty to try
to get back my dinner. If get it back
it will be all for the best, and if don't
get it back, why it will be all for the best
Just the same. God is so great, that he
can iue the smallest things as well as the
largest"


so Joe ran after the dog; and Tim,
with o laugh and an oath, went down into
the coal. pit Joe ran long way, but
could not catch the dog. At last Joe
gave up the chase, and came back to the
mine, thinking to himself that the men
would all have good laugh at him.


But he found them all pale with alarm
and awe. What q narrow escape you
have had, Joe" said one Of them 1.-The
pit has caved in, and poor Tim 10 killed.
If that dog had not run Off with your
dinner YOU would have gone down with
Tim into tire pit ani been killed too"


Joe took off his hat; and, while his
breast heaved and his cheek grew pale,
and the tears came into his eyes, he
looked up to heaven, but said not a word.
Year: 1870

To CLEAN PAIST.--The following SIM
pie method will clean almost any kind OF
paint that has become dirty and il house
wives would adopt it. it would save them
great deal Of trouble. Provide plate
with some of the best whiting to be had,
and have ready some warm water and a
rag Squeeze it nearly dry; then take as
much whiting as will adhere TO il; apply
it to the pailtcd surface when little rub
bng will instantly remove dirt or grease;
after which wash the part we'll with clean
water, rubbing it dry with soft chamois,
Paint thus cleaned looks. as we'll as when
first put on without any injury to the
most delicate colors. 1t is far better thar.
using soap and requires less time and !a-
bor
Year: 1870

KEEPING FRUIT IN Our RooAs.--We
should be chary Of keeping ripe fruit in
our sitting rooms, and especially beware
Of laying it about sick chamber for any
length of time. That complaint which
some people make about a faint sensation
in the presence of frrit is not fanciful (;
they NAV be really affected by it. For
two continental chemists have shown that
from the moment of plucking, apples,
cherries, currants, and other fruits, are
subject TO incessant transformation. At
first they absorb oxygen. thus robbing
the surrounding air of its vital element |;
then they evolve carbonic acid, and this
in far greater volume than the pnrer gas
Is absorbed, so that we have poison given
US in the place Of pure air, with COM
pound interest Temperature affects the
rate of change, warmth accelerating It,.
Year: 1870

cherish thee. BY this time thou wilt be
so entangled among the different branch
es that thou canst not get back to thy
oak; and nobody will admire thee or
pity thee"


.Ah me I" said the vine, :" let me cs
cape from such destiny" and with this
she twined herself around the oak, aud
both grew and fourished happily togeth-
Year: 1870

According to the Tribune the bon
ded Indebtedness Of the city of
Chicago on the first day of April
last, was s11, $4,000. By acts of
tho Legislature, the city is authorized
to issue nearly s4,OOO,O00 moro. If
these bonds be issued, it will make
the total bonded indebtedness in
round numbers SIS, 200, 900, and this
amount is estimated to be about 5 per
cont of the assessed valuation of the
city. This debt compared with the
financial condition of the great and
prosperous state of Iowa, looks
extremely large. Yet has Chicago
had and is having, the most wonder
full growth of any city in tho Union;
and much of it is due to the fact that
she never does things by the halv es.
and does not lie snugly ensconsed in
her sholl, for fear Of incurring a lit
tie Indebtedness for the purpose OF
internal improvements, and for
stretching out her arms Of iron to
grasp the trade and wealth of the
great northwest. Prudence is Of
course highly necessary in the matter
ofincurring corporate indebtedness,
but at the same time a stingy narrow
contracted policy keeps merely tho
zone talent" on hand without in.
crease, and. quite probably to even
rust away in part, by idleness.
Year: 1870

The Democracy Of Ohio are loos.
ing in pluck. Their State Conven-
tion held June 1st, was the smallest
in numbers and most devoid of en-.
thusiasm that has been known in
the State for many years. That
copperhead progeny "a theirs, the
visible admixture law is knocked
now and forever SO high, rot only
by Q Republican legislature last
winter but BY the Fifteenth
Amendments d that they have
lost heart and it seems that even no
amount of forty rod can even arouse
then to their accustomed enthusi-
asm, SO early after the colored man
is lowered to an equality with them
at the ballot box.
Year: 1870

To those who know General
Howard and his history it sounds
strangely to SEQ from day to day the
report of an investigation which
seems to presume that ho has mis-
applied money entrusted to his
keeping. All this is made clear,
however, by the simple explanation
that this investigation is upon charges
trumped up aga nst a good man and
good soldier, by private malice,
these charges having only among
Congressman tho special countcn-
ance of member whose name does
not lend them strength. Howard,
however, will not plead any statute
of limitations.-N. Y. Herald.
Year: 1870

tach as on other taxes. "


Sec. 3. After tho said taxes be-
come delinquent the treasurer OF
State shall proceed to collect the
same in the same manner and with
the same rights and powers as sher-
iff under execution, except that no
process shall be necessary, to au-
thorize the treasurer to seize and
sell property for the collection of
said taxes.


Sec. 4. One-fifth of the taxes
levied and collected as aforesaid
shall remain in the State treasury to
be used in the same manner as the
several revenues Of the State, and
tho other four.fifths of said taxes
shall be apportioned by the treasur-
er Of State to the several counties
through which the said roads re-
spectively run, in proportion to tho
number of miles Of main track of
road in each county and shall bepaid
over by him to tho treasurer Of tho
county entitled thereto.


Seo. 5. If any railroad company
shall fail to furnish the sworn state
ment required by this act on or be-
fore the time herein provided, the
treasurer of State shall on or before
the first day of March ascertain as
nearly as possible the gross earnings
of such delinquent company, and shall
assess thereon the tax as herein pro-
vided, together with a penalty there
on of thirty per cent. for such
neglect, which tax and penalty shall
be collected as provided by the third
section Of this act. When the treas
urer OF State has to incur any ex-
pense either in the assessment or
collection of said taxes after they
become delinquent, he shall add one
per centum on the amount of taxes
due, which shall be his compensation
for said assessment and collection
The taxes herein provided for shall
be in lieu of oil taxes for any and all
purposes on the road-bed, right of
way, track, rolling stock and neces.
sary buildings for operating their
road, except as hereinafter provided;
but other property belonging to such
company, whether personal or real,
shall be taxed as property OF indi-
viduals in the respective counties in
which the same may be situated.


Sec. 6. No provision of this act
shall be held to apply to any railroad
bridge across the Mississippi or Mis-.
souri, river, but such bridges shall
be assessed and taxed on the same
basis as the property of individuals.


Sec. Z. All acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act arc here
by repealed.


Approved April IL, 1870.
Year: 1870

Collector Grinnell last Saturday decided upon
plans reOrganzing the carriage business Of the Custom
House In times past there has been order system
this branch Of the Customs services small fortunes
by pecuaton and otherwise have been made by some Of
the lucky who have been the contractors the
Government carriage. Frauds upon the Government and
the merchants have beeu numerous In this Department
for long time Mr., Grinnells pan briefly, follows
This collection district is to be divided into eight sub
disrictsfve in NewYork two in Brooklyn, and In
Jersey. For the head Of each district competent
person will be selected, who shall be the contractor
for each load carted, at given price. Each
contractor will be put under heavy bonds
for the faithful performance OF his duties Every employ6
will be subject TO The approval OF the Collector and VIII
required give bonds for the cart dray employed
by him. A General Agent Will be selected by the con-
tractors and subject also TO the approval OF the Col


ecor The duties OF such General gent shall be to
erose supervision Of all matters connected with the cart


ing business and to give directions to the manner in
which the shall be performed. All complaints
be made him, and, In OF dissatisfaction ap-
peal be taken TO the Collector. Each division
tractor will furnish the General Agent daily report Of
the work performed by his division the preceding
SO that in case OF complaint the guilty delinquent per
son may be at discovered. The prices Will be uni
form and will exceed the established city rates.
With proper selection of for the heads O each
division and the system fully adhered to- the best inter
ess OF the merchants and tho Government Will be mutu
ally advanced.
Year: 1870

There is a certain mystery attending the con-
duct and disappearance Of the Rev Mr. Pearce Meth
odist clergyman OF West Hampton, L. l. On Tuesday Of
last week. In good health he left his home for
Moriehes, and after purchasing largo trunk at that
place. borrowed horse and buggy OF friend and
turned home. On Wednesday he sent his wife to
Moriches with the horse promising TO after her
the evening On Thursday morning, not having arrived
his wife feeling tOus. started toward home foot.
expecting meet him. but she did not and walked the
entire distance eight miles ON arriving home she found
everything great disorder trunks and drawers onp


tied about the room and all their yaluables missing.
During the day messenger arrived from Riyerhead
stating that Rev. Mr. Pearce wished him his
wife that he had received telegram from Boston that
bis father dead and that he was on his thither
that bs alarmed and that he wOnld
On inquiry IL was ascertalned that no such mes
sage had been received at the telegraph Office IN River
hes1 for hl and also that MI r. had left tha Thurs
Year: 1870

Mr.. Peterson, New York merchant,
had occasion 10 make a trip TO the west,
during which, he chanced TO pass the
night at thriving town Of 10000 in
habitantS. He entered his name on the
books of the Metropolitan Hotel" 1t is
rather odd by the way that names should
be selected with so strange disregard
to the fitness of things. II happened to
the writer once 10 see small unpainted
wooden building OF only one-story, dig
nifed with the same high sounding title.


As there vas little to occupy him in the
hotel, and he felt unusually wakeiul, he
resolved about 10 o'clock TO take walk
through the town, partly to obtain view
of place new TO him, partly to induce
WEAKNESS. and so disposition to sleep.


He kept on walking until the houses be-
came scattered, and he appeared to be in
the outskirts of the town.


Il had better be turning back" thought
he, and was about TO put his thought into
practice. when there was I sudden and
unexpected interruption. \ dark figure
sprang out from the shelter Of some bush
es by the wayside. and placed heavy
hand upon his shoulder.


What is the meaning of this What
do you want?" said Mr. Peterson, some.
what startled 5y the suddenness Of the
attack.


II want your money. Give NE all you
have-your watch besides; and be quick
about it, said the other hoarsely.


You are robber, then?"


mo matter what am. You may call
me what you will, only hand over your
money" said the robber.


Suppose Irefuse?" ?"


"You had better not" said the man as
he drew pistol and levelled it at the
head Of the merchant.


Mr. Peterson looked al him. He was
young man, as well as he could dis
tinguiSh. about his own height, but slight
er in build. 1t appeared that the mer-
chant had 4 considerable sum about him,
which he did not feel disposed 10 surren-
der. He was man of nerve, and con-
stitutionally cool in exigencies which
would have taxed the courage of most
men. He moved his hand toward his
watch pocket, as if to deliver up his
watch. The highwayman saw the mo,
ton, and supposing he had secured his
object, was placed momentarily off his
guard. With.quick eye, the merchant
saw his advantage. and with quick,
deXterous motion, raised his arm and
suddenly wrenched the pistol from the
robbers hand, and then said:


IL think | will keep my money"


"Yes. you have 90, the better of me,
in tone which seemed to blend sorrow
with bitterness.


What have you to say why | should
not drive you before me with the aid OF
this pistol, and deliver you up to the
guardianship of the law?"


The pistol is not loaded said the
would be robber.


Indeed Then you did not really
mean TO murder me. in case refused to
give up my money? ?"


mo. sir; am not quite SO bad as that.
| only meant to frighten YOU"


IL am glad of it, for it is terrible to
bring ones self to be willing to take a
Year: 1870

LOUISVILLE, April 27.-It is rumor-
ed in military circles that the DepartI
ment of the Cumberland will be brT
ken up within a week. III


From twelve to fifteen hundred kon
sons had assembled. to hear Oliva
gan lecture tonight, when they sere,
informed that she was suffering from
an affection of the throat to such an
extent that it was impossible for her
tO sneak
Year: 1870

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are rife in


this community in regard TO the annual


March meeting in Woodstock, and the


election of DR.. Powers by SO large a ma
jority as first selectman-his declination


of the office-the refusal of the town to
excuse him-his subsequent introduction
of his resolutions touching the financial
management of the late Gov. Washburn
and the directors, and the Doctors speech
as reviewed by the Standard of last week.
1t is suggested that the Doctor took this


way to get the meeting into mood to ex-
cuse him from acting as selectman, after
the town had voted not to do so /; and the
story is told by way of illustration of one
Wardner of Reading, who sometimes has
crazy fits, and who is a sort of town
charge. Wardner, it seems, is something
of a traveller, and occasionally, when
night overtakes him, finds not where to
lay his head. AT one time he brought up
in Windsor, at the house of one of his
relatives, and wanted to stay over night.
His relative declined to keep him, but ad-
vised him to go to the hotel. Wardner
accordingly went there, but having no
money, or appearance which entitled him
to credit, was sent away. In going out
the large glass windows seemed to please
him, and he at once put his boot through
it. The result was that Wardner got a
nights lodging, safely, and a man to at
tend to his wants, and when questioned
admitted that he took this way to get it.
So Doctor Powers may have desired to
show his neighbors and fellow townsmen
good and sufficient reasons why he should
be excused from serving them in the ca
pacity and in the office to which they had,
by go overwhelming vote, elected him.
1t is apparent that the Doctor is yet a
strong man Though some think he has a
queer way of showing it, and dies hard
Year: 1870

A REMARKABLE INCIDENT.-The Port
lane Argus gives currency to a most re-
markable incident. It says that few
evenings since, as freight train, behind
time, was passing Oak Hill Station, in
Scarboro, at speed of 30 miles an hour,
it struck against horse attached to q
sled which was crossing the track at the
time without driver. The sled was
smashed into kindling wood, and 1t was
supposed that the horse was instantly
killed, but the train sped on for some
distance, when the engineer, looking out,
saw the horse staring at him from the
Year: 1870

Az ISaESIoys LUStTIc The Pail
Mall Gazette tells the following story
OF lunatic who recently escaped
from an asylum IN Ireland, and who
was noted for bis mechanical ingenui-
ty:


He could do things quite beyond
what men in general can perform, and
his cleverness was even exceeded by his
versatility. He was good shoemaker,
tailor, weaver. He made from Il
scrap Of iron key by which he could
open the door Of his division. He put
together wooden sewing n machlne OF
his own contriyance, with which be
made clothes for himself; and his mind
just before his escape seemed so intent
ON improving this machine that there
was little apprehension Of his attempt
ing TO escape.


His career, il is stated, before he
came to the asylum was most extraor-
binary. He had been in the British
army in the French army,in the French
navy. and had been in British, German
and Russian prisons


He bad fair grammatical knowl-
edge OF French, he knew something oI
German, and was completely self
taught, his age, although be had pass
ed the various phases oiexistence above
described, was only twenty seven.
Year: 1870

Court Of Oyer and Terminer-Judses Allison


and Paxs0ns


In the trial of Charles e. Geikler for the muir
der of David Seidman, on the Goth of last
August, which was begun yesterday, the physi-
clans testified that there were no traces of vio-
lence upon the body of the deceased save q small
tender spot under the left temple, and that the
immediate cause of death was tetanus, but they
could not say that violence produced that
tetanus. They said that the disease was pro-
duced by variety of causes, and that In this
case 1t was not necessarily the effect of any blow
At the close of the Commonwealth case counsel
for the defendant asked the Court to instruct the
jury to acquit, without requiring any testimony
to be taken for the defense, maintaining that in
an accusation of murder 1t was absolutely neces-
sary for the Commonwealth to show positively
that death was the result of the act of the ac-
cused, until which IL could not be demanded of
the defendant to prove that either he was not
near the deceased at the time he was slain, or
that he had good excuse for inficLing the fatal
blow, that some other person than himself did
the deed, or any other defense. This had been
the plain law of homicide trials from the time of
Lord Hale to the present day; and 1t was but
recently that, in the trial of Patrick McGarrigan
for the murder of his wife, the District Attorney
stated that, notwithstanding the immediate cause
of death was pneumonia, and that disease might
have been superinduced by the violence inflicted
by the accused, yet there was not sufficient GER
tainty in the evidence of the cause of death to
justify the Commonwealth In pressing the prose-
cution, and therefore at his instance verdict of
not guilty was rendered. That was a much
stronger case against the prisoner than this, and
surely If that justified an abandonment of the
prosecution, this demanded such q course on the
part of the District Attorney.


Mr.. Gibbons answered this point, and dwelt
upon the proof that fierce contest had oc-
Cured, begun by John Geiklers assault upon
Seidman, and terminated by the blow given by
Charles Geikler, after which the deceased never
enjoyed an instant OF reason; also the testimony