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Year: 1871

THE news from Little Rock in this
mornings APPEAL is cheering. The
Democratic State Central Committee,
after a protrscted session and thor
Ough discussion, have agreed that
they have no right to interfere with
what belongs solely and entirely to a
National Convention OF the party.
They have refused to attempt to in
terfere with the platform. They have
indOrsed the course of the APPEAL by
this actiOn, and administered a much
needed rebuke to the Central Commit
tee of Tennessee, who with an undue
and untimely haste adopted the New
Departure, and in doing so sought to
fssten 1t upon US as Democratic creed.
We applaud our brethren of Arkan-
sss, and think them worthy exem-
plsrs OF Democratic principle and
usage,
Year: 1871

1t is but trusm to say that there
can be no success In lie without dec-
sion Of character La spite of De
Quincy's protest, we believe that John
Foster, in his celebrated essay did nut
exaggerate the importance Of that
quality, though we admit it is not
strictly moral power, and that the
most inexorable decision is much more
closely connected with physical differ
ences of temperament than with any
superiority of mind Decision of mird
like vigor of body, is gilt of GOD


1t cannot be created by human effort.
1t can only be cultivated 1t has heen
truly said that, as resolution, or strength
OF will is primary power in man,
there is no higher power that can give
birth to it, for this higher power would
necessarily involve the existence of The
lower that was to be produced. But
every man has the germ Of this quality,
which can be cultivated by favorable
circumstances and motives presented to
the mind and by method and order in
the prosecutions Of his duties or tasks,
he may by habit greatly augment his
will-power, and beget frame of mind
so nearly resembling resolution that it
would be difficult to distinguish between
the two. Here, as elewhere, i" the
ystatures of the perfect man" is attained
by slow gradation Of travail study.
effort and patience. The whole armor
cannot be put on at once. The first
victory will render the succeeding ones
easier, until the very comtat viii be
desired for the luxury of certain con
quest" The angel of martyrdom is
brother to the angel of victory"


But, whether Unborn or acquired,
decision is quality vitally important
TO MIN who would get on in the world


Even brains are secondary in impor-
tance to will. A vacillating man, no
matter what his abilities, is invariably
pushed aside in the race of life by the
man of determined will 1t is he who
resolves to succeed, and who at every
fresh rebuff begins resouluteIy again,
that reaches the goal. The shores of
fortune are covered with the stranded
wrecks Of brilliant ability, but who have
wanted courage, faith and decision, and
have therefore perished in sight of more
resoIute but less capable adveoturers who
succeeded IN making port. Hundreds
of men go to their graves in obscurity,
who have been obscure only because
they lack the pluck to make the first
effort and who, could they have Only
resolved to begin, would have astonish>
ed the world by their achievements aud
successes. The fact is as Sydney Smith
well said THAT in order to do any,
thing in this world that is worth doing
we must not stand shivering on the
bank, and thinking of the cold and
the danger, but jump in and scramble
through as well as we can. 1t will not
do to be perpetually calculating and
adjusting nice chances it did all very
well before the food, when man could
consult his friends upon an Intended
publication for a hundred and fifty
years, and then live to see its success
Tor SIX or seven centuries afterwards
but at present man waits, and doubts,
Year: 1871

Reflect that u sound mind and body ARE the
most necessary requisites to promote connubiaa
happiness, Indeed without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly dartcns To the view tho mind
becomes shadowcd with despair and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness oi
another is blightcd with our own.
Year: 1871

Never sendest thou an article fo'
publication without giving the edi.
tor thy name. for thy name often
times secures publication to worth
less articles. z
Thou shonld'st not rap st the
door OF printing Office, for he that
answereth the rap sneereth in his
sleeves and loseth time.


Neither do thou loaf about. ask
questions, or knock down type. or
the boys will love thee like they DO
shade trees when thou leaveth.
Thou should'st never read the
copy on the printers case. or the
sharp and hooked container thereof,
or he may knock thee down.
Never inquire thou OF the editor
for the news for behold, it is his
business at the appointed time, to
give it thee without asking.


1t is moi right that thou shoulfst
ask hun who is the author of an
article, for his duty requireth him
to keep such things to himself.


When thon dost enter into his
Office, take heed unto thyself that
thou dost not look at what may be
lying open and concerned,thee not,
for that is not meet in the sight of
good breeding.


Neither examine thou the proof
sheet, for it is not ready to meet
thine eye, that thou mayest under
stand.


Prefer thine own town paper to
any other, and subscribe for it i'm.
mediately.


Pay for it in advance. and it shall
be we'll with thee and thine.
Year: 1871

A United States surveyor claims to have made discovery, by which tho entire body of salt water in Great Salt Lake in Utah may with comparatively small ex- penditure, be made by evaporation, into an immense bed of crystalized salt. He finds that the waters of most of the streams. (which are fresh water and which now flow into it,) may be turned away from the lake, and an immense bed of pure crystal ized salt would be the result within the space of few years. Fremont in one of his tours some 30 years ago encountered this lake, and in his description of it he regarded it as one of the wonders of the world, covering an area equal to about

 100 miles square, with no outlet and several fresh water rivers discharging into it, yet a broad beach of chrystalized salt resembl- ing snow at distance. extended both. ways as far as the eye could reach. No fish could subsist in the strong brine of this lake, or water fowl live on it's surface. Neither blrd, reptile or insect of any kind, was seen in the vicinity. Twelve quarts of the water by boiling, made quarts of salt. The lake which is in about the same latitude with Connecticut, and nearly the same size, rises few feet annually in the months of March and April, and is gradually reduced by solar evaporation dur ing the remaining months of the year, and it has been supposed by some that solar evaporation, from some cause yet unknown, is stronger and more powerful here than elsewhere, and if this natural process of evaporation could be arlificially aided as above indicated, this great lake if not now one of the wonders of the world would probably become the greatest salt manu- factory the world ever saw.
Year: 1871

CoNFoRT FOR TRAvELLERs.-The Boston Iranscript says, for the benefit of railroad travellers, that the desideratum SO long sought for by inventors prac- tical spark and dust arrester, after repeated experiments and failures, has at last been brought to what may be termed perfection, by gentleman of Massachusetts. ''The invention is simply curved smoke stack, in nearly the shape of ''horn of plenty,'' attached as ordinary smoke stacks are, the mouth running backward toward the center of the locomotive. Within, near the en- fragment at the upper curve, placed wire screen at an angle of about forty-fiv de- grees with the direction of the smoke, and the usual screen is placed over the irnme- diate outlet.

 Just below the screen perforated steam pipe is run horizontally through the smoke stack, connected with the boiler by valve pipe under the cotrol of the engine driver. As the refuse matter from the furnace passes through the stack, it is moistened by the fine spray ejected from the perforations, thus deadening the particles and increasing their weight. Striking at the inclined angle named above against the first screen, they are prevented from passing through, and fall to the under curve of the stack, whence, through the natural motion of the engine, they are directed by a tube to beneath the boiler, and thrown upon the track ln moist and consequently harm less condition"
Year: 1871

The New York O6seruer is about cele- brating its jubilee, entering upon its fiftieth year in 1873. It is one of the oldest news papers in the country, one of the ablest, and one of the most steadfast and fearless in maintaining the truth in religion, the right in morals, and honesty in all public and private affairs. It announces for the coming year, the publication of tho second volume of it's Yearbook: vast repository of information, statistical and otherwise, relating both to Church and State, which will be sent free to all who pay their sub scription for 1872. This volume last year was worth the subscription price of the paper, and the Publishers promise more complete. Yearbook for 1872. Specimen copies of the paper, with Prospectus for the Yearbook, sent free on application from any source. New Subscribers will receive the paper free until January lst.
Year: 1871

sharon.

 I noticed an item in the NEWS few weeks ago, stating that one Blake had been detected in the hitherto unheard of act of moving his fence back, and thereby adding to the beauty and width of the highway, and assure you, it is really refreshing to know that you have such man in your town. Here, stealing the highway is, and has been for years, the rule. An aggravating instance has just occurred, which correspondent of the Anaenia Times (facetiously, I think. spoke of as beautifying the village. The road on entering the village from the north, passes over a hill of considerable magni- tude, the travelled portion of which, in order to make the least possible grade, has always been close to the north fence, and a citizen whose house was there located. and whose yard fence I am told was al- ready several feet in the highway, took it upon himself to move the road bed from it's old place, and by so doing ''beautify" it by adding about 6 feet to the grade. in a distance of 10 rods. The farmers and teamsters who necessarily draw heavy loads over it, will undoubtedly be able to appreciate this new ''heauty," especially if they are of g very poetical turn of mind. Then our friend still further sacrifices his own interests to public ':beautifying," by moving his fence out 8 feet further into the old roadbed, and thereby forcing the public to travel where he has prepared the way. Such is an example of the devotion of some of our citizens to the public inter- est; and now one word to the town officers whose sworn duty it is to enforce the laws.

 The law has been outrageously violated before your very eyes, apparently with your acquiescence, and if you allow it to pass unheeded, you are recreant to the trust confided to you, and virtually give public notice that highway stealing will not be interfered with, and that the rights and privileges of the travelling public, may be impaired to any extent to subserve private interests. AJAX.
Year: 1871

TOT the CONN. WksTEhN WE'VE. That we are all slaves ofhabit, do not deny, But the worst one that's human Is under my eye, For the moment he meets you and when he comes mp

 His first salutation, 1. Q little fine cut. He begs from all classes and conditions ofmen, He'll beg from an enemy; he'll beg from friend, He would beg from Priest Walker or old Captain Scutt.

 He is eternally begging for little fine cut. would not object to give him chew, And if the occasion demanded don't know bu f two. But when the demands come in by the score, It's enough on his friends to say, nothing nor" If he was poor and not able to buy the weed, I would give him some if found him in need, But consider he's got money in store, And have made up my mind not to give any more

 MYSELF.
Year: 1871



 The ladies of Lime Rock, have added their mite to the relief of the needy families in Chicago. Two boxes containing twenty nice new and newly made comfortables, have been forwarded to Mir. Boughton, a gentleman of wealth and position, who has devoted almost his entire time since the fire, in seeking out individual cases of need among those whose comforts as we'll as luxuries were so suddenly taken from them. Most of the poor people aud especially the workless, shlftless poor, are doubtless in possession of more comforts than ever before, but it is the worthy and industrious poor, the widows, who were in comfor- table circumstances; the men of small means, among whom are found the citizens, who are at this time, those who feel most their losses, and who are suffering for the comforts of life, to whom through private sources, aid is most acceptable. To these, the ladies of Lime Rock have sent their little offering. Quietly and promptly the call was responded to. Twenty more comfortables, without scarcely an exertion on the part of those who proposed it. might have been added to the twenty al ready sent, so willingly and gladly was the offering made. May those who receive them, derive as much satisfaction from them, as the ludies did in preparing them.
Year: 1871

It is reported that Bridgeport is to have two more manufacturing companies. The Secor sewing machine company are to oc- cupy the building of the New Haven arms company, and the Water Meter company are to occupy the building of the Bridge port Lock company.
Year: 1871

A Coop WORD FOR LOCAL PAPERS. .-The New York Tunes says you might nearly as we'll forget your churches. your academies and school-houses, as to forget your local paper. It speaks to ten times the audi ences that your local minister does, and if it has any ability at all, ;t is read eagerly each week from beginning to end. It reaches you all, and if it has lower spirit and less wisdom than a sermon, it has a thousand times better chance at you. Lay ing as it docs open on every table, in almost every house, you owe it to yourself to rally to its support, and exact from it as able, as high toned character as you do from any educator in your midst. It is in no sense beneath notice and care-unless you yourselves are beneath notice and care flor it is your representative. Indeed in it's character it is the summation of the importance, interest and welfare of you all. It is the aggregate of your own conse- quence, and you cannot ignore it without miserably depreciating yourselves.
Year: 1871

few hours of fearful suspense, she dragged
her anchors and was driven ashore. With
great difficulty all on board were safely
landed. Drenehed with rain, blinded by
the snow drifts, shivering in the cutting
blasts, they found themselves on an un-
inhabited part of the coast, the nearest
huts being five miles distant. The gloomy
night closed in as the last of them was
dragged ashore from the wreck. Their
only hope lay in endeavoring to reach the
distant huts; and in the darkness and
storm they staggered on through the track
less wilderness. Who can picture the
horrors Of that night of suffering to this
forlorn band When the morning sun
shone out, nineteen of them lay dead along
the shore. A group of three women and
two children clasped in one another's arms
and half buried in mud was found. all
stii1 and stark in the icy embrace ofdeath.


During the darkness and confusion of
landing, family of four young children
were separated from their parents, who
sought for them in vain, and at length
gave them up for lest. A boy of fourteen
hearing the cries of these little ones, and
finding they had no guide or protector, re-
solved to do what he could to save their
lives. To reach the huts with them be-
ing impossible, he made the shiyering
children lie down, locked in each others
arms; then he set to work resolutely,
collecting moss. of which fortunately
there was large quantity about, and pill
ing this around them, layer upon layer,
he at length succeeded in excluding par
TALLY the piercing cold Fortunately too.
he found ON the beach the fragment of an
old sail which he spread over all; and
collecting more moss he increased the
rude covering until the little sufferers
ceased to cry with the bitter cold, and de-
clared themselves more comfortable.
Through all the dreary hours of that awful
night that heroic boy stood alone by these
children, replacing their covering, when
the wind scattered it, and cheering them
with words of hope. He might have tried
to escape with the others, but he would
not leave his helpless charge. At length
day dawned; and then he turned his totser-
ing steps toward the settlement to seek for,
aid. When about half way he met the
parents OF the lost children, wild with
grief, coming to search for their dead
bodies, as they had no expectation of
finding them alive. The young heyo
quietly told them what he had done to
save them, and by his directions they soon
found the spot where they lay. On re-
moving the covering Of moss, they found
the little creatures snug and warm and in
a refreshing sleep. What words could
picture the wild JOY of father and mother
at that sight! But alas! on their way
back, near the spot where they had parted
with him, they found the noble boy who
had saved their children's lives atthe ex-
pense of his own, lying dead. Nature
was exhausted, after the fatigue and ex-
posure of the night, and unable to reach
the friendly shelter, he sank down and
expired. Traveller.
Year: 1871

The business of manipulating" tea
is largely carried on in our city. The
modus operdaad5 is as follows: An i'm
porter has cargo of tea to arrive,
which, from the length of the voyage
or some other cause, has become par
TALLY or wholly damaged. This is
known to the different parties engaged
in manipulating who are always on
the watch for such an opportunity, and
offers are made to the consignee for the
whole cargo; if none Of these offers
are accepted, the cargo is usually dis
posed OF at auction, and generally pur-
chased by the persons whose offers had
previously been refused the tea is
then removed to the buyers establish
ment, where it is carefully assorted,
large part of it probably not having to
be- "doctored" The damaged por-
ticn is then spread on large surface
pans, where slow heat thorough
ly dries it; this drying requiring
sometimes two or three days. After this
operation, probably the color is bad,
the mould having affected it and to
restore this, in green teas, the damaged
leaves IN process of "doctoring" are
placed in a large cylinder with copper
as, and a swift rotary motion imparts q
beautiful green shade to the contents.
1t is then winnowed, and portion of
the dust-the finest-is separated and
reserved for future use in conjunction
with copperas for colorlng purposes. In
the case of black tea, the coloris restor-
ed by means of some chemical, of which
we were unable to obtain the name,
IN the same manner as the green re-
ceives it's color. The tea is then
packed in small fancy boxes, shipped
and sold all over the country as fresh
importation. There are a number of
establishments devoted solely to this
business in our city, and it is reported
as being highly profitable. The fore
men In these houses have a very deli
cate business to attend to, and there
fore must be thoroughly competent to
decide upon the length of time for dry
ing, the shade of color to be impaired,
etc. The position commands high
salary, and it is stated that there are
very few men in the country to fill it,


NesO York Bulletin.
Year: 1871




tail confirms the culpability of the Off
GERS in overlooking the steamer Nick
Wall, which snagged last week in the
Mississippi River It seems that when
she reached Memphis she was laden
beyond her capacity, but the officers
controlling her consented to the addi-
tavn of sixty deck passengers, with their
freight and baggage. As consequence,
tine boat was managed with the greatest
difficulty, and several times she mar
rowiy escaped disaster before she ran
upon the snag which sunk her
So heavily was she laden and so con-
scIous were her officers of her danger
that whenever another boat appeared
the Wall remained motionless so that
the return waves might not jar the yes
sci too much. At about s P. NJ, the
vessel ran on a snag and in few min
utes thereafter sunk, drowning at least
loo people and seriously injuring a
!arge number. Very many who might
have been saved leaped from the deck
in the frightful uncertainty of the
shock.
Year: 1871

Very few of the sudden deaths which
are said to arise from ''diseases of the
heart" do really arise from that cause
10 ascertain the real origin of sudden
deaths, experiments have been tried in
Europe and reported to scientific Con-
gress held at Strasbourg. Sixty-six cases
Of sudden death were made the subject of
thorough post-mortem examination; in
these only two were found who had died
from disease of the heart. Nine of sixty
six had died from appolexy, while there
were forty-six cases OF congestion of the
lungs-that is, the lungs were so full OF
blood they could not work, there not being
room enough for a sufficient quantity OF
air to enter to support life. The causes
that produce congestion of the lungs are
cold feet, tight clothing, costive bowels,
sitting still chilled after being warmed
with labor or a rapid walk, going too sud
denly from close, heated rooms into the
cold air, especially after speaking, and
sudden depressing news operating on the
blood. The causes of sudden death being
known, an avoidance of them may serve
to lengthen many valuable lives which
would otherwise be lost under the verdict
of "heart compliant. That disease is
supposed to be inevitable and incurable;
hence. many may not take the pains they
would to avoid sudden death II they knew
it lay in their power. ECLECTIC
Year: 1871

A party to suit in his own right or in
his representative capacity, is not entitled
to claim and receive compensation for his
attendance and examination as witness,
nor to have taxed to his adversary such
costs as have accrued by reason of the issu-
ance and service of subpoena upon him in
the cause.


The law makes it his duty and he is con-
clusively presumed to be present at the
taking of the testimony and the trial.
If he is an administrator or executor, he
by accepting such trust, imposes upon
himself the duty of looking after and at
tending to the business, litigated and un-
litigated, of his testator or intestate, for all
which he is compensated in an allowance
by the proper tribunal.


The motion to retax the costs in this case
must prevail.


TURNEY, Judge.
Year: 1871

Familiarity does unquestionably beget
contempt, If not checked and regulated by
the formalities of polite society. TrifIing
as it seems in itself, mere negligence of
dress is unquestionably a frequent cause of
domestic unhappiness. When the richly
attired bride degenerates into the slattern-
ly wife, as too often happens, she loses her
hold upon her husbands admiration, and
consequently his affection. A fondness
which has been awakened by outward
charms is not always proof against an ug-
illness engendered by negligence and dis
regard to appearances. The man, too, who
at home allows himself to sink into SLOW
en-, is in no less imminent danger of losing
the regard of fastidious woman, whose
innate delicacy of refinement is sure to be
shocked at any want of propriety in man
ner or nicely of dress.-HarperS' Bd=dr.


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