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Year: 1872

The lightning cuts up some queer
capers sometimes, and q narrow escape
from death is told by one of the Connec.
ticut papers. "The electric fluid en-
tered at the window of a room in the
second story, where a boy lay in bed
but no. asleep. 1t leaped across the
room to the wall, crossing the bed
where the boy lay, and tore both the
sheets on the bed into fragments, scorch.
ing one badly. but leaving the boy un'
harmed. 1t ripped lath and plastering
from the wall, and scattered them all
over the room. Then it descended to
the lower floor, and into closet,
smashing large quantity of crock
cry. 1t hurled two lamps from
a mantlepiece in the kitchen across
the room, overturned and smashed
a clock on the other side Of
the chimney, and then separated
into three bolts, two OF which went
down through q brick hearth into the
cellar, while the third went out at the
side OF the house, ripping the boards in
pieces. The boy, wild with fear, came
rushing down stairs, entirely naked, and
don't recollect whether be took off his
night shirt himself or whetherthe light
ming took it off for him. He was un,
harmed, not even stunned. He said
that he lay 'cuddled down into the bed
"a large feather bed), with the clothes
drawn up over his head so that he
could not see the lightning. and that
there was a noise as if some one had
fired cannon in his ears; that there
was burning heat and general tumb-
ling-up of everything, and that he
thought he had stayed there about
long enough, and so went down stairs.
Year: 1872

1t is quite evident that unless


avoided by compromise between the


Democracy and the Labor Party,


there will be three candidates for the


Presidency Mt the next election.


Grant will be the candidate, as he is


now the leader, Of the extreme rad


ical portion of the Republican party


The nominee Of the Labor Party will


in all probability. be George W.


Julian, of Indiana. Whom the


Democracy will select rs their stand


ard-bearer in the battle is not vet


determined upon. Within their


party are many competent men, any


one of whom would prove an able


leader and Il worthy chieftain.


Through the influence and power Of


Federal patronage and the United


States Army. Grant has almost GER


tainlv secured his denomination and


he Will be supported by that portion


unfortunately large proportion)


of the Republican party. who caring


more for party than principle pre-


fer the destruction Of the Govern


ment TO surrcndering its Administra-
ton to the control OF another polIti-
cal organization. Julian seems to
be the choice OF the Labor Party in


the east. and the National Labor
Union Of San Francisco has already
adopted a resolution endorsing him
for the Presidency. Considered on
a basis OF Intelligence and ability.
there is no comparison between
Grant and Julian. The latter
is a man OF great ability, and of
him, on that score, no party need
feel ashamed as leader. Grant does
not possess Il single attribute of
which a party relying on the purity
of its principles for success may feel
proud or would dare to point to as
emblematic Of the worth and virtue
of the man-the integrity of the par
ty principles he represented. \ SIN
gle handed contest between Grant
and Julian would result in the retira-
cv of the present Taker' to the
shades of private life. The nomina-
ton of Z Democratic candidate will
very much change the aspect of af-
fairs and as We now calculate the
chances. give Grant decided advan-
tage. This would not be the case if
the Labor Party drew its strength
nearly equally from the Democratic
and Republican parties. but it does
not. Laboring men are not found
in the ranks Of a parry that has
always been Unidentified with and now
owes its very existence to capitalize
corporation monopoly. The Labor
Organization will draw four Of five
of its voters from the Democratic
party-the laboring white mans
party. The Labor party is essential
ly Democratic in its principles and
its purposes, and the organization
will gather its honest, earnest mem
bers-those mombers who Join the
movement through love of its prin
the Democratic party.
Ii the campaign assumes the shape of
a triangle fight the Grant faction
will have the advantage, but with
the Democratic and Labor party
united on a Democratic or Labor
candidate, the defeat and
of the Grant-military
faction is a result which the Federal
Bread and Butter Brigade already
admit. Grants supporters will
therefore use every effort possible :
to divide his opposition.
Year: 1872

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A London paper says:


1t is hardly an exaggeration to say
that the attitude" of Sig. Palmieri-
cool and resolute in his Vesuvian post
like "Teneriffe or Atlas unremoved =
attracts the admiration Of Europe. 1t
is no joke to remain while everybody
else is Aying-to watch the lava advanc-
ing all around the little crest on the side
of the mountain on which his Obserya-
tory is placed, and there, as Wordsworth
says, TO feel the pulse of the machine"
the big monster of mechanical mechan-
ism and force that sends its throbs
through the foundations of the building,
and salutes its scientific friend ever and
anon with a shower of burning ashes and
fiery stones. Indeed, the Professor s
courage has done injustice to another of
his rare qualities, for it has thrown into
the shade his power of scientific previs-
ion. Fully month before the agreeable
showers of red hot ashes saluted him in
his Observatory, he had discerned that
his Plutonic friends neditated mischief.
During the previous full moon he had
remarked in the Atrio del Cayallo that the
lava was boiling up. When the moon
again reached the full the stream, which
acts as a permanent waste pipe, per-
ceptibly enlarged its volume 1t over
flowed anew the footpath which visitors,
in ascending and descending, had worn
in the old bed of lava. By these indica-
tions Professor Palmieri read before
hand the dangerous task which Vulcan
was preparing for him. With his life in
his hand, he established himself in the
midst of circle of craters Observing
their eccentricities as calmly as he
might have watched the harmless move
ments of planet, he has, no doubt, col
lected mass of volcanic data far ex-
ceeding, in scientific value, any that
have ever before been harvested on the
sulphurous soil Of Vesuvius. Men have
got the Legion of Honor and the Victo-
ria Cross for less conspicuous valor, and
if the Professor would only put on red
or blue coat and kill somebody of-hand,
he would probably be called hero, and
dubbed q knight.
Year: 1872

From the Peoria Transcript


Among the events of the famous Nor
mon.wa was the burning of the Nauvoo
Temple. The structure was burned in
the night time, and so successful was the
party engaged in its firing that probably
he was never even suspected. The re.
cent death of the incendary, however,
has removed the necessity of further
secrecy and day or two ago we were
put in possession of his name and the
facts concerning the burning of the tenn
pie, by the only living person cognizant
Of them. The temple was fired by JOS
B. Agnew, who recently died in Appa-
moose township, Hancock county, in this
State, at the age of some ffty-eight years
1t was always supposed that the party
who burned the building had entered
through the basement, but the facts are,
Mr. Agnew surreptitiously obtaineda key
to one of the temple doors some time be-
fore the act. Three of these are now
dead Agnew prepared his ire-ball and
other combustibles at his residence
Placing them in his saddle-bags, he rode
on horseback to Nauvoo, and in the
night entered the temple with his key,
passed up to the cupola, arranged his
materials and fired them, and then
quickly escaped the way he came. Our
informant, who is responsible and
prominent citizen of the western part OF
the State, says he thinks he can procure
the key of the temple which Agnew Sc
cured to accomplish his work.
Year: 1872

Vivid Report OF n Rehearsal.


1t is needless for us to attempt to give
the details of this immense affair.
Where coliseums are measured by ten
acre lots, where organs are blown by
steam-engines of four horse power, where
the choruses are numbered by the tens
Of thousands, and where brass bands
are numbered by the hundreds, there is
little use of entering into insignificant
minutiel Not long since, only the
" Boston chorus, consisting of 1000
singers (l000 singers in each part, had
rehearsal of Handeps chorus, "All
we, like sheep" preparatory to the
great Jubilee, and the following is a
vivid description given by correspond
ent:


The BASES growl in ponderous thun-
der,


I'VE have turned


The sopranos fling it back in a deafen
ing shout. The tenors cry from the bal
comics, We have turned, and all unite
in one excited rush Of music:


I'VE have turned every one to his own way"


Nervous tenors bob their heads to the
time. A thousand bonneted faces turn
their heads at us, and the BASES lift up
their voices and shake things" We ex-
anime the roof and wonder if it is safe.
The organ peals and roars overhead,
and the unhappy being at the piano
bangs away all unknown aud with much
perspiration. The only silent person is
the conductor, with outstretched arm,
guiding all and inspiring each with his
own commanding will and enthusiasm.
In an overpowering rush and crash the
chorus reaches the end. The baton is
poised in the air, and the last note is
sustained with wonderful effect 1t
falls, and startling silence ensues.
Now for the grand, mountainous climax.
Now, majestic and almost oppressive in
its tremendous weight and solemnity,
the bass take up the theme:


And the Lord!"


The baton sweeps over the sopranos.
With an intense and single-minded uni
son they shout; LtLlLltL. Il


And the Lord I"


Suddenly the thousand tenors break
forth with crash:


And the Lordv"


Another sweep of the wand, and the
altos seem to thrust a great wedge Of
sound into the bass, and it breaks up in
an earthquake shock:


And the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity
t of us all" tIHla AH tl
A motion of the baton, and like one
singer, the mass sink down to piano,
and the chorus is ended with softness
that is as peculiar as it is novel and
effective. f.UI
Year: 1872

A shrinking, retired, near-sighted
woman waits and waits among the York
shire hills, wistfully saying to HERSELF
"What shall do?" 1t has been long
sore trial to watch and wait as she has
done. In her lifetime she has known
not few of her own age who have long
since solved that problem; some are
welded and happy in their homes;
others have found their true place as
teachers, writer's or artists, and are
crowned with honor. This woman has
great sorrows and sore losses, and her
day is wearying on to. the afternoon;
still she has heard no voice bidding her
go work in the vineyard. There is q
letter written to Wordsworth, while she
stands there in the market place waiting
for the master, that is, in my opinion,
the most pathetic cry ever heard IN our
lifetime. Sir" she says, earnestly
entreat you to read and judge what /
have sent you. From the day of my
birth to this day, | have lived in Sc
clusion here among the hills, where
/ could neither know what | was
nor what could do. / have read
for the reason that have eaten bread,
because it was a real craving nature, and
have written on the same principle. But
now have arrived at an age when |
must do something The powers | pos
sess must be used TO certain end; and
as do not know them myself, l must
ask others what they are worth; there is
no one to tell me if they are worthy;
and if they are worthless there is no one
to tell me that. / beseech you to help
me- What she sends to Wordsworth
then is poor; she has written many vol
umes all poor, has waited in the market
place and done no work; but at last the
Year: 1872

Supervisor OOnOver presented report from the
Committee on County Officers as to the above jail,
and submitted the following resolution. The re-
port and resolution were both laid over:=
Supervisors be hereby requested prepare the
draft an placing the Ludlow Jail
sole jurisdiction and the Commissioners Chart
ties and Correction, and that he embody such draft
clause giving said Commissioners to charge the
person persons who may cause the Incarceration Of
any one in said Jail tor debt contracted In any
for the support, Of such person or persons SO
have the right to demand the security the payment of
such sum sums may be agreed upon between them
and the party parties causing the Imprisonment
debtor to said Jail also that the act shall apply all
prisons places Of detention under the charge OF the
said commission.


PRINTING THE COUNTY CANVASS.


resolution to print 1000 copies of the county
canvass by M. Brown h Co., at q cost not exceed
ing So, 500 was passed. The same to be under the
direction OF the County Clerk.


The Board adjourned ut five O'Clock until Monday
next at halfpast three p. NJ
Year: 1872

THE House Committee on Territories
have unanimously agreed to report a bill
admitting Colorado as a State. 1t is the
intention Of this committee to present a
strong argument in the report in favor Of
this action. Should the House pass this
bill-ot which action the friends Of this
measure are very sanguine-it can not fail
OF defeat in the Senate, where the feeling
against creating new States having small
populations Is very strong. The PresI-
dent has promised that he will do all he
can 70 have the Territory admitted.
Year: 1872

TRAINS on some Of the Missouri rail
roads run so allow that woman with her
back elevated to the proper altitude can
overtake one on foot Il 1t contains heI
husband and another woman.
Year: 1872

THE TARIFF ON WooL-Senator Nor
rill in his speech in the Senate on the
tariff, opposed the ten per cent re-
duction upon wool, metals and manu-
factures as found in the second section
of the bill. The tariff on wool, he
thought, after thirty-fve per cent of
the sheep Of the country have been
slaughtered, and after four years of con-
tinued depression and continual loss
in the business of sheep raising might


be left operative at least for one year.


On this point he said:


A vast majority of the wooden manu-
facturers of the country long since made


peace with the wool-growing interests.


They have had the benefit of glut in
| the wool markets of the world, and the


major part of them do not unfairly seek
to escape from the pinch which the pre-
sent scarcity has brought about by


throwing the burden of this upon the


wool growers. The high cost of cotton
| and the comparatively low price of wool
| for the past ten years has created a lar
| ger permanent demand for wool, as cot
\ ton has been extensively discarded for


wooden clothing, and if the business of
4 sheep husbandry in this country should
| be crippled or destroyed, the prices
! healthy clothing woods would in the end
| be made dearer the world over. 1t is
| against the interests of all branches agri-
| culture, and against the interest of the
wooden manufacturer, to diminish the
! supply of domestic woods. To be sure,


the reduction is very slight, and the far


mers are not here to protest against it,


but Senators will find them at home pro-


testing loudly.
Year: 1872

The New Hampshire Legislature
will have many contested elections come
before it, Fifteen or twenty are al
ready announced.


The Richmond Enquirer, in refer
ring to the remark made by Senator
Sumner the other day about the "effects
of injuries he sustained sixteen years
ago still clinging to him" has the hardi-
hood to say: Thus Brooks, of South
Caroline, is felt and remembered long af-
ter his death. His small cane erected him
a monument more durable than brass
This brutal language smacks of feel
ing still prevalent in some quarters in
the South.
Year: 1872

This is the day of secular time, set
apar, by the Governor of this Common
wealth as a dly of fasting, humiliation
and PRAYER" that the people may assem-
ble together uniting in humble confess
sion Of their manifold sins. and in pray
er ask the Governor of all the universe
that He may shield us from danger and
disaster. continue health to the people,
prosperity to our varied industries, en-
larre our endeayors in morality and edu-
cation, preserve to us the blessing of
religious and civil liberty and the heri-
tage Of free government; to continue
its in the spirit of willing obedience to
that law and authority whichis so essen
tial to the well-being of all communi-
ties, and to open our hearts in practical
sympathy for the needy and others in
distress.


This day is observed in accordance
with an ancient custom OF our fathers
and is in accord with the spirit Of a
Christian people to reyerently recognize
their duties to Almighty God, and in
acknowledgement of their dependence
upon Him for His mercies vouchsafed
TO them. Such custom is one emf
npntly proper, as on the hours Of the
Sabbath, the people are melted to seri-
ous thought by the unfolding Of our
duty to the Creator; on this day we are
bid to recognize our duty to fellowmen
and to look at the human side of Chris
tianity. Meeting together as communi-
lies, all points Of difference are over
looked, and great practical truths, on
which all agree, are enforced, and all
led to consider the duty Of practical
piety.


1t is well for people to consider on
such a day whether, in the general pros
perity of our country, we are not i'll
danger of forgetting the admonitions
which have been given in Gods word
and providences. Whether there is not
Ia us, as a people, no subtle temptation
after the wearisome toll which modern
civilization imposes ON men of busy
life, 10 seek a Sybarite ease in our
homes, losing sight of others in the
quiet enjoy nent Of the domestic hearth
and pxhilaration Of social intercourse.
The Great Founder of our faith has
made the duty of life and crown of
greatness, not to be ministered unto,
but to minister; and wealth and posi-
ton, and genius and influence, are Of
little worth except az they endow us
with power to relieve the unfortunate,
cheer the desponding and reclaim thu
fallen Our lives should be no dreary
marsh, receiving large supplies and send
ing 9th no fertilizing powers, but
only chilling damps or the fatalmiasma;
they should be rather joyous lives.
spreading beauty and faithfulness along
their whole course.


Therefore, let us pray to-day that we
may not meet the claims of Christian
benefcence by feeding the body while
we neglect the soul, not alone heal the
sick, feed the hungry, but rebuke sin
and win offenders from the paths in
which they have strayed and to the love
Of holiness.
Year: 1872

INToxICATIoN.-It is announced that
the Legislature of Wisconsin has passed
a law that drunkenness shall henceforth
be considered a crime in that State.
Punishment of liquor sellers has proved
Intellectual to suppress intemperance and
punishment of liquor drinkers is now to
be tried The entire provisions of the
statute have not come to our notice, but
some of them are described as quite ex-
traordinary For instance, that any
person finding another in an intoxicated
condition may take the person so found
in charge, provide for him as he may
see fit, and for SO doing shall be entitled
to receive a compensation of two dol
lars day SO long as the intoxicated per-
son remains in his charge.
Year: 1872

RESULTS OF A MILD WINTER IN Eng
LAND. Contrary to the general impress
sion Of the result of an open winter, the
unusually mild winter in England has
largely reduced the death-rate in Lon
don. The rate for the first week in
March was 1872 below the average of the
corresponding week for the last ten years;
the average temperature was over forty
four degrees, and the warm weather has
continued since the middle of December.
The diminution of deaths was in the
throat and lung diseases the mortality
from fevers never ceases, and for the
reason that Londoners continue to poison
themselves with bad water. The water
is furnished by companies, and from all
but one in so foul and defled with or
ganic matter that is unfit to drink.
Year: 1872

= OF all the hunbugs that was ever
instituted that OF the Grant organs that
there isa possible chance for the election
OF Grant is the greatest. 1t was with
difficulty that he was elected over the
Democratic parry alone when he was
popular. and had not made his odions
record To say now that he can be
rc-clrtcd against that organization ani
forty per cent. of the Republicans. il
simply the height Of political cxtrava-
gancc.
Year: 1872

IMPORTANT DECISION has
been decided by a New jersey
court that legal notices required
by law to be printed in paper
published in the county where the
process of law is to be executed,
cannot he properly printed in a pa.
per acih Date"t outSideS printed oatt-
side tie county 1t has also been
decided that such papers are not
entitled 10 lhe benefit of the pro
visions Of the pnst Office law which
alIowspapers to go free to any part
of the county in which they are
published.


Persons buy real estate sold
under mortgage foreclosure, where
the property sold has been adver-
tised in a paper one part of which
may be printed in the county
where the property advertised is
sold, and the other part of said pa
per printed elsewhere, cannot vb-
tain a legal title to said property
Purchasers of real estate will gov
ern themselves accordingly.-Neac
Jersey Mechanic.
Year: 1872

Speaking about being buried
alive, there is story of an OK i'll
Wisconsin which survived the
longest living burial on record.
He had the good fortune, howev-
er. to be buried in hay stack,
which fell upon him Nobody
knew what had become of the
creature until after his mysterious
disappearance had lasted over
three weeks, when he put out au
appearance from the haystack,
having eaten his way from the
centre to circumference. There


was snow on the ground, which
afforded moisture enough to pre-
vent his dying frum thirst. @
Year: 1872

THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTIVATION.
of the trees, Is of great Importance. An Or
chard, well cultivated and manured, will do
as much better than one neglected, as a field
of corn well cultivated, will surpass another
which is entirely neglected. "Whatever 10
worth doing at all, is worth doing WELL"
Therefore if it is worth while to plant an or
chard, it will be found most profitable to caro-
fully cultivate it afterwards. Many young
trees have been transplanted and not the least
after-attention given to them. The grass and
weeds are permitted to grow about them and
rob them of sunlight, air and nourishment.
IF any have survived such treatment, land
many have,) it is very encouraging circum-
stance, and proves how well adapted our soil
and climate are for the successful production
of the apple.


For the first few years after planting of the
trees, such crops as require the frequent and
deep stirring of the soil, may be cultivated
After the trees get large, so as to shade the
ground, and commence bearing, the soil
should be stirred but few inches in depth,
near the trunk of the tree and as far as the
limbs extend mulching should be sufficient
toprevent growth of grass and weeds. The
stirring of the soil and top dressing may be
continued with profit as long as the orchard
continue, fruitful. Oh, the space between the
trees, not occupied by the mulching, after it
becomes difficult to work team among the
trees may be laid down to grass and sheep
pastured in the orchard, as some very good
orchardsts recommend; or, which we think
preferable, the mulching may be extended so
as to cover the whole surface of the
ground.


The best manure to be used in the orchard,
| is a compost Of muck and ashes, and which
| should be freely used. Farmers cannot be
too strongly impressed with the Importance
of bestowing better care and good cultivation
upon their orchards, which even with neglect
have proved to be the most profitable part Of
the farm. Few realize what a great change
in the productiveness Of an orchard can be
effected by good cultivation, The cultivation
| of what trees farmer has will often prove
of greater profit, than largely increasing MS
number and neglecting this.


FRUITING or YOUNG TREES.
| Abundant blossoming OF young tree may


SO exhaust the tree that little fruit will be
| produced. The remedy of this, would be