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Year: 1871

THE Boston 7FareRer tells this story
The pet ofa family residing not far from
LaGrange street is a boy who has recently
passed his fifth year, and having just don
ned his first jacket and trowsers, is attend
ing.a primary school The other after
noon he failed to come home at the usual
hour, much TO the alarm of the household,
aud after long search he was found, some
time after dark, at the Providence depot.
He was sent to bed without much explana-
ton, though 1t is possible his treatment
was what Solomon would have recommend
ed in such an emergency. The next morn
ing he was down to the breakfast table,
evidently none the worse for the lesson,
and perhaps the wiser. Taking advantage
Of a lull in the conversation customary at
the morning meal, he turned his grave
countenance toward the head of the table,
and giving free vent TO his overcharged
mind, nc exclaimed, "Ill tell, you, mamma,
how 1t happened. After school l went
part of the way home with Mary, and
At the corner of a street where she left me,
] kissed her, aud she kissed me, and then
j found was lost" There was an explo-
sion around the table just about that time.
II Is suspected that this IL not the first
young gentleman who has been lost under
similar circumstances. tt


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FoRGERs TO BE ENcoURAeED.-Black-
Year: 1871

Bold and Dashing Counter Charge by Young
Memphian Millionnaire-sratsgic Struggle
for the Shows Of War on One Side and
Equally Earnest Combat for Peaceful
Arniistice on the 0ther-rnterest-


ing Proceedings Before Judge


Barnard in the supreme


Court, Chambers
Year: 1871

GIRL of seventeen years located farm in
Kansas some three years ago. The land was
perfectly wild, and she employed no male help,
but her success has been such that recently she
amount she paid for it. She refused the offer,
and says that in five years more she will retire
to the East and live on the interest of her
property.
Year: 1871

A GOOD joke Is told OF u little four
year old fellow who, having dis.
obeyed his father, was about TO in
cur the penalty-a switching. The
father deliberately prepared a rod,
while his son stood a sad and silent
spectator. AS the parent approached
the unpleasant duty, the boy started
at brisk run toward neighboring
hill. The father pursued, aud for a
time the yonngster increased the
distance between them; but gradual
ly his strength began to fail, and
when he reached the hill and began
to ascend he soon lost his vantage
ground. Nearer and nearer the irate
father approached, and just as the
top of the bill was reached. and as
he came within arms length of the
little fugitive, who was ready to fall
from exhaustion, the boy quickly
faced about, dropped upon the
ground, and with an indescribable
cast of countenance exclaimed -
Papa, that--makes a fellow-blow


don't it?" This "changing OF the
subject" was so extremely ludicrous
that the father laughed heartily over
the strategy which his hopeful son


exhibited, and the rod was not used.
Year: 1871

And yet, strange to say, there are
men "too poor to take a newspaper"


They can pay five cents for glass of
beer, or fifteen cents for beverage of
unknown composition called "ccck-


tall" they can pay fifty cents for a
circus ticket or dollar for the thea.
ire, yet they are too poor to buy a
newspaper Ia newspaper which is a
ticket of admission to that great
Globe Theatre. whose dramas are
written by God Himself, whose
cul tains are rung down by Death I"
Year: 1871

A young man at Holly Springs,
Mississippi, recently volunteered to
aid In taking UP the collection at one
Of the churches there, and succeeded
in raising considerable sum. He
approached the door, and was about
to go out with his hat, full Of contri-
buttons, on his head, when the
minister said solemnly: Young
man. If you leave here with that


money you'll be damned" The
young man, however, left In hurry,
and as he shut the door behind him,
worthy old bachelor, with voice In
f sharp, who put dollar In the hat,
piped out TO the minister; swell, II
ho amt gone with it, III be id"
Year: 1871

A Western lady writes to u noted
editor OH behalf of her husband |:
Wont YOU" she says, "see If you
can get him q situation AS cashier in
bank in New York, or something
Of that sort? He is very quick at
figures. Ii you can't get him that
place. will you please get him one as
CONDUCTOR know you can do it,
And If you can't get him situation
there. won't you lend him 5000 go
he can start q hat store here? He
will pay you, and | will see that he
does. -
Year: 1871

FROM Hairs journal OF Heslth.


Lay your finger on your pulse, and
know that at every stroke some inn
mortal passes to his Maker, some fel.
low being crosses the river of death
and if we think of it. we may well
wonder that II should be so long be.
fore our turn comes.


Half of oil who live die before sew
enteen.


Only one person In ten thousand
lives TO be one hundred years old,
and but one In hundred reaches
sixty. ...


There is one soldier to every eight
persons, and out Of every thousand
born, only ninety-flve weddings take
place.


The married live longer than the
single. .......


If you take thousand persons
who have reached 40 years there are
of
Year: 1871

;irst attracted particular notice q few years
ago by q series Of sermons delivered by him


in the old Church Of the Puritans in


Union square. He speaks very deliberately,
though not slowly, and delivers his sermons
in . manner to give one the impression that
they have been first written and then COM


mitted to memory. When he has announced


bis text he closes the Bible and talks to the
congregation with very little apparent excite


ment or earnestness. He is popular with his
people; but some Of them we know think he
runs too much after 'ssensa ton" topics TO be


as useful as he might be. There is good
deal of Methodist spirit and fire among his
people, as their prayer meetings testify, and
when they wanted missionary some time
ago they sought . Methodist in preference to
any other. And In this spirit Mr.. Northrup
shares. though not to that extent which his
people do. His polished style Of oratory will
not allow him to forget the minister in the man
as fully as might be desired. He is, never
.theless, heartily with his church in every
Christian and local enterprise, and is occuying
a prominent position to-day in the Presby
'terlan Church in this city.
Year: 1871

How IT OR1aMArED.-The story Of the COW
and the kerosene lamp having been the origin
OF the Chicago fire is squelched by the
afadavits Of the owners Of the property, who
swear that there was no 6re in their stable
that night and that their cows were MIXED
before dark. This Is unfortunate, for the
lsssou taught by the supposed origin Of the
conHagration in connection with kerosene
might have been the means of saving many
human life by causing more care to be used in
handling the inaammable material The origin
of the FIRE, therefore, still remains mystery.
Year: 1871

There is never-failing law pervading
nature, that whatever results are to be
produced are dependent upon and pro-
portioned to the labor, enc! gy and wisdom
expended. Every farmer recognizes this
in the preparation of his land. He
knows that he can only receive from it in
one form what it possesses in another,
and he hastens to restore, in the shape OF
fertilizers, the elements which he has
drained from it in his last crop. So il
we would obtain muscular power from
the horse, or rich milk from the COW, we
must feed them bountifully with nutri-
tious food; and according to the quality
and amount of the nutriment we give
will be the results we receive.


All human life is governed by the
same unfaiing law. Civilization is the
result of the nutriment afforded to the
whole receptive powers of man. His
physical, mental and moral nature re-
ceives food of infinite variety, and oi
different degrees; hence the various
developments we witness. 1t is strange
that we are so ready to acknowledge the
operation of this law, and to follow its
teachings in all that is physical, and yet
so slow to admit its equal potency in our
mental and moral organization.


We see, for example, the man Of busy
cares shutting himself gradually away
from social life, giving up his friends,
relinquishing his reading, denying him
self recreation, and devoting all the ener-
gies Of his nature to the one engrossing
purpose Of making money. Is it any
wonder if his mind shrivcl, and his hssrt
contract, and his whole manhood become
small and thin? As well might we
expect to raise luxurious plant without
enrishins the soil, or to develop muscular
power without giving food, as to produce
full, rich and generous nature without
giving it the varied sustenancs it Graves.
Year: 1871

As our motto indicates, the LoUIsIAN1AN
shall be Republican at all times and under
MI circumstances" We shall advocate the
security and enjoyment of broad civil liberty,
the absolute equality Of all men before the
law, and an impartial distribution of honor
and patronage to all who merit them.


DESTROYS of allaying animosities, OF
obEterating the memory of the bitter past,
Of promoting harmony and union among all
classes and between all interests, We shall
advocate the removal of all political
disabilities foster kindness and forbearance,
where malignity and resentment reigned,
and seek for fairness and justice where
wrong and oppression prevailed. Thus
united in our aims and objects, We shall con-
serve our best interests, elevate our noble
State, to an enviable position among her
sister States, by the development of her H.
limitable resources and secure the full bene-
fits Of the mighty changes in the history and
condition Of the people and the country.


Believing that there can be no true
liberty without the supremacy of law, We
shall urge strict aud undiscriminating
administration OF Justice.
Year: 1871

We shall sustain the carrying out of the
provisions of the act establishing our
common school system, and urge as a
Paramount duty the education of our youth,
% vitality connected with their own enlight-
mens and the security and stability of q
Republican Government.
Year: 1871

We shall support the doctrine Of an
equitable division of taxation among all
classes faithful collection of the revenues,
economy in the expenditures, conformably
with the exigencies of the State or CO untry
aud the discharge of every legitimate
obligation.
Year: 1871

Thorwaldscn's Lion, gray and grim,
Rock in his rocky lair,
Oh who would rend his lily from him,
- Glowered out with angry glare.
Unused awhile the sculptured stone,
Ny pilgrim staff in hand;
Then turned to hold my way alone,
And lone, from land to land
But God had other hap in store:
Even as turned met
A manly eye neer seen before
seem to see it yet!
Vanish the changeful years between,
Like morning g-smitten rack;
As, morning-hke, that crescent scene
Comes dawning swiftly back.
Again, above, that mellow noon
And soft Swiss heaven doth yearn;
Frowns still on us in pilgrim shoon
The Lion of Lucerne.
Once more each others hands we take,
The passwords fly betwixt;
Though slack the speed that speech may make
When heart vith heart is mixed.
l see the green Swiss lake asleep.
And Right in her dream;
We cross the lake, we climb the steep,
To watch the world agleam.
The paths are many up the slope,
And many Of the mind;
We catch the flying clue of hope,
And wander where they wind.
The paths are fresh, the pastures green,
In walk or talk traversed;
The Apland meadows grassy sheen
With many streamlet nursed;
And the fair meadows of the soul,
Forever fresh with streams
From the long nights of youth that roll,
The Righi Culm of dreams.
We speak of SUBMITS hard to gain,
And, gained, still hard to keep:
Of pleasure bought with glorious pain,
Of tears twas Heaven to weep;
And of blessed Heavenly Friend
That struggled with US still,
Breaking the blows else like to bend
The lonely human will;
Or with some sudden vital touch,
At pinch Of sorest need;
Lifted our little strength too much,
And energized our deed.
Our talk flows on through strain or rest,
As up the steep We 60;
Each untried track of thought seems best
In hopes prelusive glow.
We loiter while the sun makes haste,
But We shall yet sit down
To watch the CLEANS of sunset chased
From mountain crown to crown.
Too long, to late-the splendor went
Or e'er we reached the goal;
But q splendor had dawned that will nevel


be spent


That day on either soul!


The Independent
Year: 1871

GALL SORTS"
The boy stood on the burning deck,
And smoked his pipe of clay,
And bet his money on the bobtail nag.
When the moon am gone away.
I'm lonely since my mother died,
With the murmur of the mill,
So Ill peel bag of 'tatters, o.
With the sword of Bunker Hill.
It is the hour, when from the bower
kissed my Molly Ann;
So run Eliza, and hurry up Pomp-
Or any other man.
Oh, what are the wild waves saying?
cried all the long night through;
A voice replied far up the heights,
A little more cider too!
The harp of natures advent strung
Is coming through the rye;
Then kiss me quick and go, my honey.
Said the spider to the fly.
My Willie's on the dark blue SEQ,
With five hundred thousand more,
And my days are gliding swiftly by
To the old Kentucky shore.
Year: 1871

On visit to West Point, General
Scott explained the origin of sscadet
gray During our second war for in
dependence, at the close of June, 1914,
General Scott's headquarters were at
Buffalo. From there he wrote to the
quartermaster for supply of new
clothing for his regulars. Word soon
same back that blue cloth, such as was
used in the army, could not be obtain
ed, owing to the stringency of the
blockade and lack of manufactures IN
the country, but that there was suffi-
cient quantity of gray cloth in Phila-
delphia. Scott ordered it to be made
up for his soldiers, and IN these new
gray suits they marched down to Mag
ara, on Canada soil, July 4th. Be
heving them to be only Buffalo militia
celebrating Independence Day, the
British commander, Rally regarded
them with contempt, which changed to
respect next day in the battle of Chip
pewa. Because of the victory won
chiefly by them on that field, and in
honor of Scott and his troops, that style
of cloth was adopted at the military
Academy as the uniform of the cadets,
and has been so used ever since.
Year: 1871

The Country Gentleman says:


In all sections adapted to the crop,
probably wheat is the best grain crop
to grow on clay lands. The strong,
well prepared, and well worked clay
loans, are among the best and most
productive wheat soils; and few clays
are SO stubborn that understanding,
growing clover and thorough cultiva-
tion will not bring them into more OF
less pliable loan. Summer fallowing
for wheat also affords better opportu-
nifty to work such soils to the best adj
vantage, as the best time to plow, when
they will work up fine and mellow, may
be selected. The after cultivation and
preparation for the seed, by having a
much longer time than is possible for
spring crops, may also be done to bet
ter advantage Winter wheat is also a
good crop to seed clover with and af
ter such land is drained, two or three
alternate crops of wheat and clover
should bring the soil into good condi-
ton for more cereal crops.


Oats also do well on clay land, and
often give large yields but the ten
dency of the crop is rather to make the
land harder than otherwise. Perhaps
fall blowing for the crop, and leaving
the land in condition to be benefited
by freezing-s surface drainage having
been well attended to-may be an ex-
ception at least it is probable that this
is the best way to grow oats on clay
soils: Heavy clay soils are not adapted
to corn; but good deal of good corn
is grown on the clay loans. There are
also many Of the heavier clay lands
that, by understanding and clovering,
may be reduced to loan that will not
be bad for corn It must be pretty
stiff clay hat, after thorough draining
and growing few crops of clover, with
good vigorous clover sod turned un-
der in May and thoroubhly prepared, !,
will not be in condition to grow good
corn. AS rule, and in sections suited
to the crop, barley will answer where
corn does well. If the land works mel
low and don't bake badly, and the clo-
yer sod turned under for corn turns up
dark rich mould the next spring, bar
ley sown on this preparation ought to
do we'll
Year: 1871

Idlewild is the romantic name of
the mammoth cave discovered about
one year ago at White Pine, Nevada,
and which has within the last few days
been partially explored by party of
five gentlemen-P. A. Wagner, DR..
Robinson, W. P. Taylor, Colonel Rob
inson and G. Jackson. The cave is
situated near the north end of Blue
Hill, short distance west of the
Truckee mine, and first came into no
tice by the bottom of the shaft then
being sunk in the Idlewild mine " drop
ping out" The party was lowered down
this shaft thirty feet to the entrance of
steep incline nearly three hundred
feet in length, formed by the hand of
nature


On each side of this incline are large
vaulted chambers, from fifteen to thirty
feet in length and width, and about
twenty feet in height-the roofs and
walls hung with stalactits of beautiful
colors and fantastic forms-the arches
in the chambers being composed of
large masses of them. The entrance
TO tie incline from the shaft is small
sufficient only to admit the passage of
an ordinary sized man crawling through
the opening At the termination of the
incline is an immense chamber which
could only be judged of by the eye-the
entrance being choked up by large
boulder Enough was seen to know
that it's size was much larger than any
yet explored. There is strong draught
downward from the entrance, showing
that there must be another opening far
down in the bowels of the earth to some
unknown region, OF else, that a living
stream of water flows underneath. The
only living thing seen in these silent
vaults was bat fitting through the
chambers White Pine D0i{y NoeOS.
Year: 1871

A Washington correspondent of the
New York Nation says:


"Of the political features, one of the
most striking is the representatives OF
the public press, not the newspapers
themselves, but the individuals who
conduct the telegraphic correspond
ence. If person writes letter to
one of the papers in the great cities,
this letter is subject to revision by the
editor, and may be altered or rejected
entirely. But the telegraphic matter is
sent off. at midnight to appear in the
morning paper. 1t is paid for by the
word, and cannot therefore be wasted.
It occupies the most prominent place,
and is read by everybody. ~ The result
is that there is not member OF either
House of Congress who does not stand
in positive awe of the 20 or 80 young
men in the reporters gallery. 1t is
amusing to see the respect with which
men, having lively sense OF their own
| Importance, return the salutatlons or
receive the advances of others much
their interiors in age and station. AS
to the men who fill this important posi-
ton, they seem to be generally OF falr
character and capacity, aiming to furn-
ish news without the coloring of per-
sonal impressions, but they cannot OF
course be wholly impersonal; and it
excites singular reflections to see the
channel of information to the country
represented, in the case of one of on
largest commercial journals, by boy
ish youth, with the appearance of a re
tail dry goods clerk, and conversation
indicating an education and habit o.
mind by no means Puritanic.
Year: 1871

A LIST of all the vacant tenements in the city.
"A with all necessary information in regard to them
can be found at 35l4 Congress st.


N. b. Rents entered on our list free of charge


Mar 1O-dtf
Year: 1871

The Cincinnati Commercials Nashville
correspondent III, V. RedGeld, J in let
ter pays the - traitors and "rebels " of
the South the following compliment:


"lhe southern people loathe man
VINO uses public offices to enrich himself.
Whatever may be their faults they are
honest They do not worship the al
mighty dollar to the extent of bartering
away their honor tor it, The old South
ern fire. eating Democrats we are taught
were wicked men, and wicked they were.
about some things. but they did not use
their offices to ill their pockets. They
dld not form rings to fill their pockets


They did not form rings to make money,
or establish gift enterprises. This old
fashioned honesty, tins adherence Of
public office to private gain, is rs abhor-
rent to the Southern people now as it
ever was, and probably more, for they
have been called upon since the war to
have considerable experience with that
sort OF things, and to know it is not to
love it, especially when it is done at
their expense For the past six years
the Southern States have been converted


into an arena of robbery, presenting a
spectacle of fraud and corruption per


haps uneXampled in the history Of the
world; yet Southern born men have had
little to do with it. Your true Southern
er, if he has sense enough to get an
office, has too much honor to steal In
all my experience as a correspondent of
the Commercial in the different Southern
States, | have fonnd the worst thieves,
the most insatiate robbers, to be North
ern men. There has been more stolen
in South Carolina, or in Louisiana, since
the war, than in all the Southern States
put together, from the revolution to 1860.
And the strangest thing alb ,ut this whole
business is that the greater the rogue the
more intense Y loyal he is, and for
that, or the other reason, the higher in
favor at Washington. If Hodge had
been stationed down South, and had got


ten up two or three Ku-KluX scarcs Just
on the eve Of some election, where the
Radicals were sore pressed, and thereby
enable them to carry the day, he would
have been canonized instead of Gagged
though he had stolen 100000 instead
Of 500, 900 Of the peoples money
Year: 1871

.5s- From the Dardanellc Chronicle. we
earn that Messrs. REAsoNER ~ PERRY hare
lust completed large and commodious Hotel
in that thriving town. The Hotel will he
amend in a few days under the superntend-
pncs of that old and popular steamboatman
Cant. W. " kEAsoNEE and we feel sure that
he will satisfy his guests thar he knows As
well how to keepa good hotel, As to command
4 steamboat
Year: 1871

A mattress in the form of very thick
quilt, about seven feet long by four
wide was spread on the floor, and over
il was laid an ample robe, very long
and heavily padded, and provided with
large sleeves. Having put on this
night-dress, the sleeper covers himself
with another quilt and sleeps, !. G. q" if
he has had some years. practice" in the
use of this bed.


But the most remarkable feature
about Japanese bed is the pillow
This is a wooden box about four inches
high, eight inches long, and two inches
wide at The top. It has cushion of
folded papers on the upper side to rest
the neck On, for the elaborate manner
of dressing the hair does not permit
the japanese, especially the women, to
press the head on the pillow. Every
morning the uppermost paper is taken
from the cushion, exposing clean sur
face without the expense Of washing
pillow case


[ passed greater part of the night IN
learning how to poise my head in this
novel manner; and when finally closed
my eyes, it was to dream that ] was be-
ing slowly beheaded, and to awake at
the crisis, statl to find the pillow bottom
side up, and my neck resting on the
sharp lower edge of the box. During
my stay in the conntry, [ learned
many of it's customs, mastering the use
Of the chop sticks, and accustomed my
palate to raw fish, but the attempt to
balance my head on two-1nch pillow
I gave up in despair, after trying in
vain to secure the box and tying it to
my neck and head.