The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 50, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 April 1870 — Page 1

. THE NATIONAL BANNER, | L A ; Published Weekly by | . JOWMIN B. STOLL, ’ "LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, IND | “) S R ! TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : : Strictlyin RAYABEO. i .icoeiiaa Liii iit L. .82.00 ! §WTPhis paper is published on the Cash Principle; | [+ dte hroprktg- wm#:g thatit iz j_u;t a&ri}htfor ﬁfn ! ‘to demand adyence pay,as it -{oi Jor City publishers. | ¥ Any pe:aonﬁ scndln{g aclub oflo, accompa- ' . nled with the cash, willbe entitledto a copyof | the paper, for one year, free of charge. 1 |L

Michizan South. & N. Ind’a R. R. On and after Agri\%, 1869, trains will leave Sta asfollows:*® . : L GOING EAST: | i ] Ezpress. | Mail T'rain. Chicago.veve ovpiiine s 8305:P Mo, .. J. . 8200 A, M. *Bikhart,.. vt o 0 998 ¢ [ 12:01 o . GORBON. oii il BB M LlBOB, . Mi11er5burg,.......(d0n’t8t0p):......... 1:11 ¢ Ligomier (oo e 0 o I 8 0 Wawaka.........,..(d0n’t stop)’ ........1:10 », M. Bl 5o 0o 0008 W eV Kendallviitp | ¢ oo JONE ¢ o 1 1:87 ¢ Arrive atT01ed0........2:80 AM ...[....5:05 ** Lo GOING WEST: iz : . Kzpress: Mail Train: TOIOAO, (fooogevosbones 18210 AL M., .0l 00, 12:80 P, W, Kenda11vi11e..........8 45 a. M........ . 4:45P. M, Brimbld. o caie i gOO B 00 DOO 8 Wawakao...o..iohooved o vl eIl Vipontey .on ov v @BOO 8 o L lvl BBt Mﬁleqsbnrg. Eyvoiibisiy PR 2 B GCoRRER. .ol o v kidl MY o 08l Y ERUKRAEE . il B L LIBBE 8 Arrive at Chicago.... 9:25 “* ~ .].....8:385 ¢ ' *Stop 20 minutes for breakfast and supper. Ex?ress leaves daily 7oth ways, Mall Train makes close connection at Elkhart with trains going East and West. o C. F. HATCH, Gen'lSupt., Chicago. J. JOHNSON, 4gent, Ligonier, !} - WM. L. ANDREWS, Surgeon Dentist. Mitchel’s Block, Kendallville. All work warranted.” Examinationsfree. | 2-47 J.M. DENNY, Attorney at Law,—Albion, Nobleco., Ind Willigive caréful and prompt attention to a businces entrusted to his care. | 8-6 LUTHER H. GREEN, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. LIIGOCNIER, -.- - - INDIANA. Office on Cavin Street, over ‘Sack Bro’s. Grocery, opposite Helmer House. | - 41-8-ly |

D. W. C. DENNY, Physician -and Surgeon,—ZLigonier, Ird. Will promptly and faithfully attend to all calle !n the line of his profession—day or night—iun town or any distance in the. conntry. Persons wishing his serviees at night, will find him at his father’s residence, firat door east of Meagher & Chapman’s Hardware Store, where all calls, when absesd, should be left. o L gal A £oo s s e { “ . S " E. RICHMOND, Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, « " Cavjn street, Ligonier, Indiana. Special attention given to r:onvo‘ynncin§ and collections, Deeds, Bonds aud Mortgages drawn up, and all legal husiness attended !{i) promptly and accurately. W May 26th, 1868, HELMER HOUSE, iA. J. MATTISON, Prop'r,’ . LIGONIER, - - - INDIANA. This House has- been Refitted :im] Refurnished in Virst Cluss S‘-‘j.k" ; . DR. E. W. KNEPPER, Beleetic Physician & Surgeon,—Ligonier. All digeases of the Lungs and. Throat successful.y treated by inhalation; No charges for consul“tation, Oftice with W. W, Skillen, esq. 1-8 DR. P. W. CRUM, ¥)¢o § p ! Physician and- Surgeon, Ligonier, = =.= . Indiana. Ofce one door south of L. Tow & Co's Clothing Store, up stairs. i | May 12th, 1869, L L ot R e Ry ﬁAMUEL E. ALVORD, " © Attorney at Law, Claim Agent, and Notary Public, Albion, Ndl)le Co., Ind .+ Business in the Courts, Claims of soldiers and heir heirs, Convoyaucinﬁ, & Erom‘ptly and carefully attended to. Acknowledgments, Depositions and Afidavits, taken and jbcmﬂed. . G.(W. CARR, i 9. e d !i S Physician and. Nurgeon, ' LIGONIER, - - - -|- - IND, “Will promptly attend all cnllt intrusted to him. Office on 4th St,, one.door east ef the NATIONAL Baxxer office. o | 8-43 v E. D. PRESNTON, M. D., HOMEOPATHIC . PHYSICIAN, LIGONIER, INDIANA. Oflice .ne door south of L. Low & Co.'s Store, ap staire. Office hours from oto 11, A. M., 2to 4 and 7to 8 p.'m. Can always be found by in; _ fjuiring at the Dodge House.| - < 448 e S . SACK BROTHERS,« Bakers & Grocers. ¢ Qavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c., Choice Grocerlesi, Provisions, Yankee Notions, &c The highest cash price paid fe Cmmtré Produce | MaylB,'es-tf. © ¥ ‘ SACK BRO'S. NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS - Cimar—] P T WOLE LATKE, TINID. T Notice is hereby given thyt C. R. Wiley and Samuel Beall have entered iTto aco-partnership n the Merchandise business, and that fhey have just unpacked alurge stock of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, &c. Call and see for yourself. ; olf Lake, Nov. 3, 1860 Q27tf ! J.BITTIKOFFER, : DEALER 1N ; WATCHES, 'CLOCKS, JEW'LRY,SILVER WARE,NOTIONS, ‘Spectacles of every Description, ; ! &e., &e. &e.| &c. i " All kinds of work doneu?o the shortestnotice and warranted as to durability. i Shop in Bowen’s new Brick Block, Kendallville, Indiana. ! 2-81 Ho -Ro CO NEI_JI.JS Who may'always b¢ found at his PHOTOGRAPH ROOAMS, ‘lB prepared to take all kinds of pictures in the i latest styles of the art. ; PARTICULAR ATTENTION paid to copying old Deguerreotypes and Am brotypes into Cards, and Eunlarging. ; _ Work warranted satis‘actory in all'cases. Ligonigr, Ind., Feb. 28,/1870.43 | °

't | A, GANTS, a Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, i [LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. | 1 d A é/?;‘?, to a 0 K:ra?gﬁ{gg G st fWA e o - tice of over 10 B e £ PPI years justifies & ‘g"‘/? Tet ateiie sol Them in sayiug - W PENGE #éT ﬁ"'f’ e J‘/ ; that he can ; ik I rw " oy » actiol [RE N »“r who may bestow their patronage. §#® Offiec in my building - Cavin Street. i ! A NEW. MOVEMENT ! Solomon in new Quarters ! Tue subscriber would respectfully announce that he has just moved into the building formerlly occupied by 8, Mier & Co , purchused a large stock ol ' and is now prepared to aurply every deman in his line at rates fully as low as any other es tablishment in town. y Refreshments at all hours. ' |SOL. ACKERMAN., Ligonier, Bept. 15th, 1869. ' BAKERY AND RESTAURANT ‘il ] BY ; ; . B.:.HAYNES, J Opposite the Post Office, Ligonier, Ind. My Bakery will be supplied at all times with fresh o Biscuits,’ ¢ | Bread, | ey | 7 Qakes, e oKI &e., &c., -+ Wedd ] . pic-nics and private parties . willt 'm:ta%{u%nm n Fhe pmf‘ line, | on short notice, and in o'var{'l'm'nyq*:n ' reasonable terms. and warm meals furman, LA f'“"’ Sany 6, et ge SR R =

Vol. 4.

s From the Hearth & Home, | A NEW SPRING. ; Yesterday, or so it seems, : i Rude and bitter winds did blow; - - . Muffled tinkle of hid streams g Under ice and snow: : ! Ly the bleak edge of the wood ' - ‘ Late the lessening snowdrift lay; : ! ,Trickli’n(f; to the tawny flood; | ¢ ‘lt had sliptaway.. L l Hardy flowers, in sheltered spots, Show their scariet hoods agaio, . "~ laughing up from crowded knots, - Through the dripping rain. g ’ ' From the sunny ;;l_opes'ofh‘ills ' ' Comes-the helpless bleat of Jambys, i Wailing unregarded ills Kot j i To their gadding dams. Day by day, in broadening ares, : ; Climbs the sun to middle May; wad drighter lights and deeper darks . . Fill the night and dsy. ‘Sudden flush of orghard blcom, | Murmurdus with toiling bees, 'Weaves Its color in the loom Of the patient trees. & < 0 the long, sweet, pleasant hours! | O the young wind fresh and bland! Spring, with all Its birds and flowers— Spring isin the land ! | . ' At Backwood Adventure, A ,Vf‘yginia bagker, who was ithe chairman of a noted infidel club, was once traveling through Kentucky, having with him to the amount of $25.000. When he came to a' lonely forest, where robberies and murders were eaid to be frequent, he was soon lost through taking the wrong road. The darkness came quickly over him, and how to escape the threatened danger he knew not. In his alarm, he suddeuly espied in the distance a dim light, and urging his horse onward, he at length came to a wrétched }ooking cabin. He knocked, the door was opened by a woman, who said that her husband was out hunting, but would soon return, and she was'sure he would cheerfully give him shelter for the night. The gentleman put up his horse and entered the cabin, but with feelingd that can be better imagined than described. Here he was with a lerge sum. of money, and perhaps’ in the housge of the robber whose name was a terror to the whole country. In a short time the man of the house returned. He had on a deer skin shirt, a bear skin cap, and seemed much fatigued, and in no talking mood. He felt for his pistols in his pocket, and placed them eo as to.he ready for instant uge. The man gkked the stranger to retire to bed ; but he declined, saying he would sit up by the fire all night. The more the man urged the more he became alarmed. He felt assured that this was his last night on earth. But he determined to gell his life as dearly as he could. His infidel principles gavethim no comfort.— His feras grew into a perfect agony. What was to be done ? At length the backwoodsman arose and reached to the wooden shelf, took down an old book and gaid : “Well, etranger, if you won’t go to bed, I will; but it is always my custom to read a chapter of the Holy Scriptures before I go to bed.” What a change did those words produce. Alarm was at once removed from the skeptic’smind. Thoughavowing himself an infidel, he had now more confidence in the Bible. He felt that an old man who had an old Bible inthe house, and read it, and prayed, was no robber or murderer. ‘He listened to the simiple prayer of the good man, and at once dismissed his fears and laid down in thé cabin and slept as soundly as he did under his father’s roof. From that night he never reviled the Bible. He became a sincere Christian, and often related the story of his eventful journey to prove folly of infidelity. .

Comparative Value of Hay, Corn and : i Roots. © An acre of ground retained ex preasly for hay, yields on an average, not more than one and one-half tons of vegetable food ; an equal space planted with carrots or rutabagas will yield from ten to twenty tons, say fifteen tons, which is by no means a high average, and has often been attained without any extraordinary cultivation. It has been ascertained by careful experiment that working horses: 15% bands high, consume hay at the -ate of 200 pounds per week, or five tons and 1,048 pounds per annum, besides one and omne-half bushels. of -oats per week, or 78 bushels per annum. - By a repetition of the same experiment it was found that an unworked horse consumed hay at the rate of four and one quarter tons per annum. . The produce, therefore, of nearly gix acres of land is necessary to sup, port a working horse for one year; but half an acre of carrots, at 600 bushels per acre, with the addition of chopped straw, while the season lasts, will do as well, if not better. . These things do not admit of doubt, as some of your agricultural frieads can testi] fy. s G

- It bas also been found that the value of one bushel of corn, together with the fodder upon which it grew, will keep a horse in good working order for & week. An acre planted with corn, and yielding sixty bushels, will be ample to keep a good eized horse in working order for one year. : Let the farmers, then, - consider whether is better to maintain a horse on the product of half an acre of rutabagas or carrots, or upon the product of half an acre of corn ; or on the other hand, npon the hay and grain from six acres of land—for it will require six acres of good land to produce the necessary hay and grain as above.— The same reasoning might be made use of in the feeding of cattle and sheep.—Stock Journal. ' e < B The Da Quoin Tribunesays : “The prospect for a wheat crop in Southern Illinois next year, at present appears anything but encouraging.. We have made extended inquiriesin this section, and as a result learn about these facts: Tbat, owing to the very dry fall, there was little more than half the usual amount sown, and nearly all of that sownin a very dry time and late in the season.. The late sowing was owing to, the dry season.” L ; ; et o A ~ “Caffe, is that thegecond bell 1 “No, ‘Massa, dat’s de second ringing ob de fuss bell. We habn’t got no second bell in dis hotel.l! !

Ihe Nuational Danner.

t, AWONDERFUL NUGGET. ' When Culifornia was first settled, vthe precious metal was frequently : found in nuggets. These were usually called “lumps® by the miuers, and . whenever ong was found, the lucky | man’s n: me was soon made known, and | numbers of less fortunate miners would | immediately basten to his shanty, either to congratulate him and get sight ' of the nugget, or endeavor to get him togell a part of his claim, or offer to ' help work it on the shares. " - A miner, who with his wife had long been located in the regions, and who - bhad not been successful, was one day l presented by his wife with a bouncing baby, weighing twelve pounds. SBome michievons fellows started the story that Jim Marsden had taken out a twelve pound lump. This intelligence was circulated about two weeks after the event, and caused great excitement, for many believed the story ; and two strangers called in at Marsden’s house one day, for the purpose of séeing the lump and in hopes of affecting a bargain with Marsden. They reached the house, but Mrs. Marsden ouly was at lieme, when the following dialogue ensued : L “We’re told that your husband took out a twelve pound lump.” “You were correctly informed,” replied she, seeing that the gentlemen were quite sincere, having been deceived by the story circulated, and she being foud of a good joke, did not undeceive them. | : 2 | “Ie he sorking the claim alone?” was the next question. f “Yes, save what help he got from me,’ replied she, slightly blushing. | “Ah, then the spot iz not far from | here 1" § e | “It is quite near,” was the reply. | - “Can we see it!” asked the strangers, eagerly. j j “Ob, no, I couldu’t think of show- | ing it to you,” she replied. ' i “Then it must be a, secret place, i madam #” § “Quite private, I assure you, geu- | tlemen.” | “How long has he been digging in'| it?n ! : , ! ¢“Almost a year.” ; l “Had any one been digging there | before him 7 : ; “No, indeed,” answered the lady, | with a violent blush.. . “Do you think be would sell a part l of the claim ?” o “I am quite sure he would not,"” was | the quick reply. . ' “Nor work it on the shares, mad- ' am ?n z i ¢ . : , “Noowir." ; - “Has Le the lump still ¢'* : PRag b “Can.we see it " 7 | -“Certainly ; here it is,” said she, un- ‘ covering the babe. ; l . “Sold, by thunder,” cried they, as | they both rushed out of the shanty.” |

- Feeding Animals, It has not proven profitable to feed cattle large quantities of grain at a time. A moderate quantity, fed with great regularity, and the comfort of the animals generally attended to, so that there may be a constant and con-' tinued improvent and has best sycceeded. We have known a number of experiments, giving results eimilar to the following : ; A:neighbor who had provided himself'with a p'atform scales for this purpose; fed a fine steer first with four quarts of barley meal daily in addition to his fodder, and found by weighing that he gained . regularly eighteen pound a week. But he was urged to “push him,” in order to see what could be made of so fine an animal. " He was accordingly fed with eight quarts a day, when the increase immediately became less; and on increasing the meal to eight quarts a day, he gained nothing. Overfeeding had proved an injury. It is important to avoid the error of feeding animals too little for a time, and then attempting to make up the deficiency by overdosing. The best way, and in fact the only way’ for success, is to keep up a constant increase, year in and year out. For feeding swine, it is important to grind the corn; for cattle leas 80, and it will depend much on the distance to mill, cost of conveyance, grinding, etc. The precise amount gained by steaming food for horses, we do not think has been accurately determined. As to the quality of general feeding for cattle, they should have at the rate of two and a half pounds daily for each hundred pounds of their weight —a large animal of course requires i more than a smaller one. This quan- | tity of conrse varies with the animals, the condition and quantity of their 1 food, care in feeding, ete. But itis a | fair average, when the food is of a mixed character, part chaff and part. meal. Swine require about three pounds for each hundred pounds of live animal. ‘ Rye sown in Autumn makes early food for soiling ; clover next; then orchard grass, early corn fodder, ete.s— Country Gentleman. S ‘ . Eighteen Acres; ' i Erastus Kimberly, of Monroe, Mich., has all told, eighteen acres of land.— : He keeps one horse and five cows—three of whick he milked daring the season of 1869—and in addition to gelling $9 25 worth of milk and cream, made 936 pounds of ‘butter, besides supplying the family of three persons; fatted two veals that sold for $18; raised one heifer calf that weighed 755 pound when she was one {ear old, worth 850 at onr market for beef; fat--ted 1,451 pounds of pork—sold it for one hundred and seventy-six dollars and thirty-nine cents ; raised two hun--dred and twenty bushels of corn, two hundred and fifty-six bushels of beats, seventy-five bushels of carrots and twenty-one bushels of apples. Sold from the garden and of small fruits $32 worth ; mowed eight acres; plowed four ; pastured about four; the bal‘ance i 8 taken up by roads, buildings, ‘etc. Has boug‘l’:t $57 worth of millfeed, but there was as much on hand, ‘and has as many hogs as he had a year ago. B R _ New York girl recently eloped with her step-father. This a atep-farther than young ladies nsually go. .

LIGONIER, IND.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, IS7O.

_ Pruning Small Frults. The currant is ;luaby Ehmb, and ~can be pruned &0 as*to form its branch“es on a short stock, which plain, when properly carried out, will prove highly satiefactory in producing large clusters of highly flavored. and excellent fruit. The new growth of one year should be shortened into about one half. The older branches which have borne a number of years, may be cut out from time to' time and replaced with new ‘branches. / . L The gooseberry is treated in the same manner as the currant. 3 . The blackberry is a fruit which grows on wood of the previotis year’s growth. While one year’s canes are bearing.. new canes are growing which are to bear fruit the following season, Pruning the blackberry consists in cutting away near the ground the canes’ that have fruited, and at the same time shortening the new canes. If there are too many new caines, thin them out. While new canes are growing pinch their ends, when about three feet long to encourage the laterals, which are apt to bear the fruit. The main canes generally grow too heavy and pithy for producing fruit, but the laterals are well adapted to bearing and if shortened to six or twelve inch es, according to the strength of the bushes will form most excellent fruit gpurs.. . ... ’ R

- Pruning the raspberry is very similar to that of the blackberry, except the pinching which is not necessary for the_red and yellow vavieties. ‘The blackeaps, however, are greatly benefitted by pinching the ends of the new capes to about three feet long. Cut away the bearing as soon as the fruit has been gathered, which will give room for the new ' canes to develop. . e '-ﬁ——ﬁ’-———‘-—*?‘— i Cultivation of Timber. . When you have nothing else to dos plant a tree; it will grow when you are sleeping:: This advice we think may be extended to times when people are not at leisure, to the United States Government a 8 well as private individuals.. Why not make a business of planting trees! We are well aware thatin many cases trees have been planted and grown with success, by private individuals and on private estates, but the fact remains that large areas of public domain are to day entirety without timber, and’ the source from which lumber can be derived to supply the needs of this territory upon its future settlement, are undergoing a drain which will ultimately exhaust them. ! : :

If there exists reasons why the agricultural department of our government could not if disposed; greatly increase the value of the public lands by rendering nude portions tree bearing. they are not now obvious to us. Our continent possesses a variety of forrest trees of industral valueg, exceed® ed by no area of similar extent. Cert tainly in all this variety -there may be some adapted to vigorous grewth in almost any climate, or any soil capable of sustaining vegetation.— Scientific Americas:- - e Ameriogge ©_© . «CoLD WEATHER.—This county was visited last Monday night with a severe norther and =lecet. Ice formed to the thickness of an inch ; decidedly the coldest weather of the year. 'All the truit is certainly killed, with the exception of perbaps apples, and the early vegetables that were up are also hopelessly blasted, requiring the gardens to be replanted. A good deal of corn was up which was cut down, making the season unusually late. This disaster has been general as we learn all through Eastern Texas. The weather still continues cold and dry with heavy frosts each night; no rain of consequence for three months, consequently the navigation of the Trinity and Neches is totally suspended; a large amount of cotton. in this section is to go forward.— Rusk ( Texas) Observer. e i A LmE’l‘Advlce to Young Men, ~ ~ A “Martyr” to late hours writes as follows: “Dear gentleman, between the age of fifteen and forty-five, listen to a few words of gratuitous remarks.” When you make. & social eall in the evening on a young lady, go away at a reasonable hour. Say you come at seven and a half o’clock sn hour and a half is certainly as long as the most fascinatingiof you can make yourselvesagreeable. Ifyour visit should even be shorter than this, she will enjoy it bétte:_‘- and values your acquaintance more. Just conceive the agony of a girl who, well knowing the feelings of a father and mother upon the subject, hears the . clock strike ten, and yet must sit on the: edge of her chair in mortal terror, lest papa should put his oft repeated threat into execution—that of inviting the gent}lemnn to breaktast. Andiwe girls un derstand it all by experience and know what it is to dread the prognostic of displeasure. Loy R In such cases asigh of relief generally accompanies the closing of the door behind the gallant and one don't get over the feeling of the trouble- till safe in the hands of Morpheus. Even then, some times, the dreams are troubled with some phantom of nri; angry father and distressed (for all parties) mother, and because a young man will make a longer call than he onght to. Nol, gentlemen, friends, I'li tell you what young girls will do.— For an hour and a half we are most irresistibly charming and fascinating.. Then ‘beware; monosyllable responses will be all you need expect; and twhen the limit shall bave passed the startling queery shall be heard coming down stairs, “Isa’t it time to’close up #” you raust consider it a righteous punishment, and taking your hat depart a sadder, and it is hoped, a wis er man. ' Do not get angry, but the next time you come be careful to keep within Jastbovedis: < o W

Here's an account that all our young readers will not see! through at a glance : . John Smith to ?;bert Jones, D‘r.: - -0 copper pan5—@52......:.....512.0 Fawpeten iy Ll L R You- see, “two wouldn't do!" that’s as plain as a pike staffy ¢ e iy

i ./ LEWIS CASS. mia How He Amassed His l’orig-ei and [ How He Usedlt. | From the Lasiog, Mich., Republican, March 17, General Lewis Cass died in the vear 1866, at Detroit, leaving a fortune of anout two million dollars. 'He commenced life in New| Hampsbire so poor that his moth er-rocked him jp a trongh for want of a cradie; and he never thréw off the fecling of poverty thus early impressed upon his mind. His last years were clouded with the fear that his family would come to want, and be left not a dollar to any public or charitable object: |

Cass laid the foundation of'bis fortune while in the public service as Territorial Governor from 1814 to 1831. He received a' handsome salary regularly in gold eoin, and for a part of the ‘time he got 'double pay as Indian Commissioner and Governor, both. We think he i'iclxly earned all he received for his wise and en“ergetic laborsin the development of our “*beautiful Peninsula.” ot ' But most of Cass’ money was made on a farm of about 200 acres which he bought within the limits of Détroit, lying only four blocks west of the new City Hall,. and extendiag. from the river back one mile or more. -He purchased this farm about the year 1830 for $12,000, paying $lO.OOO cash down and giving his note for s2,ooo—the only note hé ever signed. Detroit was at that time a straggling little village of wooden buildings, contain. ing only 2,222 inbabitants. . For several years afterwards its growth was slow, and it received ‘a check in the cholera season of 1832, General Cass did notseem. to have made a great speculation, and when he was offered $25,000 for bis farm—more than doubling his invest'me’nt in less than three years —he thought seri--ously of closing with the offer and “sell ingout.” His home then wasin the city .of Washington, and he was Secretary of War under “011 Hickory.” ‘But he asked the advice ot an intelligent Eastern business man, who 'was visiting him in Detroit. ~After dinner, one day; the two gentlemen walked over the farm from the ‘river bank te its outermost boundaries; observed’ its noble water front, its level stretch of land, affording such favorable street grades-and its proximity to the ‘center of business. ~ Said General|Cass’ friend to him: “If you wish to sell the farm, 1 will give youn $50,000 for it.” SR “Oh, then my mind is made up; Lwill not sell at all,” replied the General. He held on to this choice piece of real estate, and became very rich'thmugh the industry and enterprise of others around bim. ;He finally sold at good prices, scatt,eriflg lots, giving ten years time for most of the purchase money, with interest at seven per cent. but stipulating always that buildings of considerable value should be erected on ‘the lots within s short period. He issued land contracts of the above natuTe, but no deeds until the purchase money was all paid up. Of course the improvement made on a part of his lots greatly erthanced the value of the remainder so that what land he had left was continually getting to be worth more than the whole at previous periods. He also made a lucky hit and secured cheap immortality fb_r his name by giving a large lot for a wnion school hotse, in the midst of his farm on condition that the city should erect a handsome building and iron fence around it, within a given time, and name the school house after him. The “Cass Union School” rap: idly increased the value of all lots in its neighborhood.

We never heard that General Cass was a hard creditor. He avoided litigation, and even in his will provided for settling by arbitration any disputes that might arise over his property. ile made his fortune honestly, asthe world goes, but knew httle of the luxury,of berevolence. el <0 W | i Short Werds. That part of our speech which comes trom our sires far back in the days of yore is made up, in & large part, of those short words which we can speak with one pulse of the breath and one stroke of the tongue. Thestream of time through a long track of years; and from ‘lands not our own, has ‘brought down to us a vast drift of new and strange terms, puor #s they are long ; and by which we lose more in strength than we gain in sound. But the good old stock of words is not lost. They shine out here and there from the heap, in brigat points, like stars. when a fog is in the air, or the fice of the sky is dark with clouds. It wil! pay us for our toil to mine out these gems and string them on the chain of our thoughts, which will then shine with a new light; and though the tongue may lose in sound, it will be more fit to' speak all that the sonad can feel,: - wen gy

The heart beats tbrob, by throb, and thus the tongue should keep in tune while 1t vents the' heart’s joy and pains. The arts of light and lore of the head may call for terms cold .and-long; but let all that the heart thinks‘and feels come from the-depths of the soul in “thoughts that breathe and words that burn.” So sang the rapt bards of earth as they twang the lyre, and when the fire of their own sonl sheds its own light and gilds the scenc with its own charms. : *lt will be seen that all the words in this article are monosyllables. -

. A lazy but ingenious Yankee in North Haven, has invented a machiné for feeding his cattle, horses and poultry without the help of an attendant. It iis a clock work arrangement, by which at a certain hour, & bottom drops out of a hopper, and the feed goes to the animals while the farmer lies soundly asleep in:bed or hovers ir' the chimney corner. He is now at work on a machine for putting victu‘als into his own mouth while bis hands are in his pockets. : : i B R i The clerk of the Alabama Legislature - wants more pay. He hagto hire a school- - master to do his spelling, and that' costs - money. I ; 00

| PIERRE BONAPARTE ACQUITTED. ; The news of the rcquittal of Prince . Pierre Bonaparte, says the Harrisburg ‘ Patriot has given surprise to no oue in | this country. 'He stands in too near le- ‘ lationship to the throne tosuffer harm as | long as his imperial cousin can protect ! him. ‘The populace of Paris are greatly | excited over the event of the trial, and | ofc ourse they und their admircrs in this ’ country will clamor loudly agsinst the brutal and partial power which has covered the murderer of one of their favorites with the imperial ®gis. Yet it may well be doubted whether in England or America, taking into account all the circumstences of the case, a jury would bave re. turned any other verdict than that of a¢quittal, unless popular feeling should run so high against the accused as to invade the jury box, and sway its action.. Prince Pierre Bonaparte; had been for a long time the victifm of the most cruel libels on the part of'the Marseillaise newspaper, “of which Vic‘or Noir was one of the ediors. His family had been made the sub Jject of newspaper scandal, and bis most private affuirs had been dragged before l the public. Though nearly relatea to the cmperor, he occupied a private station, was not in the least degree responsible l for his' oppressions, and was even ‘rarely admitted to the Tuilleries, yet he was | made to suffer most,fcruelly on account of ! bis relationship to.the occupant of the | throno; So far from sympathizing with the Emperor, Pierre Bonaparte is a rei publican. The son of that Lucien who could. not be seduced from his democratic - principles by his brother, the first emper- [ or, he comes by his republicanism in the legitimate way. He wag, ' doubtless, a stauncher and more consistent friend of trae liberty thap all the editors of the - Marseillaise newspaper, and the New York Tribune, into thel ba?gain. Not content ~with the most vindicitive assault iri”the newspapers, his enemies pursued him into hie dwelling, and when ' slapped in the face by one of them, the prince shot his assailant dead on the spot. Pierre Bonaparte is said to be a man of violent and headstrong passions, yet he bad received provocations which would have enkindled the fiercest rage in' the breast of a milder man.. In this country, juries have returned verdicts of acquittal in cases of manslaughter committed urder slightcr provocation than that to which Prince Bonaparte yielded, and they will do so again. As heowed all the perse cutions to which he was unjustly subjected to his cousinship with the emperor, the latter could do no less than interfere in his hehalf when on trial for'his life. | e et & P e A Splendid Rebuke. ) | {¥rom the Waukasha (Wis,) Plaindealer.}’ 1 In tae debate on the admission of the negro Revels, in the Senate, Senator Cas- i serly, in reply to the mean taunt that | there were but nine Democratic Senators 1 in that body, ‘thanked God that not one | of them had heen sent there by ‘means of | bayonets, used over an oppressed and. down-trodden people.’ : S " The reply was a noble one, and ought | to have stung the radicals to tlie quick.— Yes, évery one of those nine Democratic Senators represents the will of a free peo | ple, ‘W]h.llt,? the large majority of which l they boast, was gained at the expense of crushed liberty, dismantled States, and by the most cowardly oppression that ever carsed the world.- Thank God. that the deep stain does not rest upon the I emo- | cratic party of clecting men to office by | the use of the bayonet. They are in the | minority, but-when we remember how the | majority over them' was übtained, it is a | source of pride.instead of regret. ‘Thank | God’ forlt. There is not a Democratic | member of either House, who owes his | seat to force, to fraud, or to bayonets,— ' There is‘not a negro or carpet-bagger | among them, not one who needs to blush | over the recollection of the means which | secured him his piace, nor one who jound his way there over the ruins of violated ’ law, and broken constitutions, not one to | ‘whom the change can apply that he stands | there the representative of millitary pow. | er, assisted by force, into the position of | representing a people wlio Liate and des- § pise him. : , { [ S ; { - Provoke not Your Children. : The dirine wisdom forbids ignorant | and palssifonate attempts at such an im- | possibility. “Fathers provoke not your | children, lest they be discouraged.” On | this prohibitory precept, Mr. Barnes apt- | ly says: “He who always finds fault with | a child, who is never satisfied with what | he does, 'who scolds g¢nd frets, and com- : plains, I¢t him do as he will, breaks his;{ spirit, and soou destroys, inthe delicate | texture of his soul, all desire of doing | well. ‘Phe child, in despair, soon gives ; over effbrts to please. He becomes sul- | len, morose, stupid and’ indiferent to all | the motives that can be presented to him | and toa great cxtent indifferent as to what he does, since all that he docs meets l with the same reception from the parent.” ; : et ; | A Valuablo Recipe. { A certain writer says: “Take a handful | of the vine called Runabout, the same ] quantity of the root called Nimble-tongue, a sprig of the root called Backbite, at ei- I ther before or after dog days; a spoonfal | of Don't-you-tell it; six drachms of Mal- ! ice; a few drops of Envy, which can be purchaced in any quantity at the shop of Miss Tabiatha Teatable; stir these well together and simmer them down for half “an hour over the fire of discontent, kindle - with a little/jealousy ; then strain it thro™ the rag of misconstruction; hang it apon a skein of street-yarn. Shake it fora few days and it will be fit foruse. ' Let a few - drops be taken before walking out and the siibject will be enabled to speak all manner of evil continually” e - The House Bub Committee on Elections bave decided in ‘the contested election case o Bggleston vs, Strader, in the First Obio_District, to report unanimously in favor of Strader, tho sitting member. — M Strader s the firt Democratic mem- | ber who has had w decision in his fevor.

No. 50

, i A SINGULAR CASE. A Wenlthy Califoruian Unknewingly ! Marries His Own Daughter, . _ From the San Francisco ’lzlbm_ae; March 18, - It would seem from the frequent occarrence of remarkable incidents, that there is certainly nothing o' an improbable nature, judging from the following wonderfully strange and hardly creditable story ‘which came to our ears'a few days sincg : In the spring of 1849, when the got?d fever was it its highest possible state of excitement ‘in California; there lived in the State of Virginia, on the banks of the Yok river, a few miles below Yorktown a- gentleman of culture, whase parents ¥ere 1n moderate. circumstances.. It wus during the gold excitement he left the comforts of a_home, his friends, relatives, ‘a'loving - wife,»whom: he had:led to the altar but a year since, and an only‘child —a daughter of two. months—and took up bis lonely journey to seek his fortune in the wild, distant. West, over and beyond the Rocky mountains, where the bright and golden sun sinks down to rest amid the blug waves of the grand Pacific, ‘After. years of toil, il’irugg‘ei'y‘ and re - verses of fortune in the mides, he came to this city and engaged in business. He be ing successful, soon amassed an.immense fortune. ~ His veloved wife had died during a prevajling epidemic while on & vis it to some relatived during the yellow fever season at-New Orleans, as at the same time did a little girl of another family, of the same name and age as his little daughter. ' He visited the States, but conld find | no clue to his deceased wife’s sister : ‘he thought, naturally, sbe, too, had-died.— He returned to the Golden State, and | time and the whirling excitement of business soon healed his sorrows, and effaced, apparently, all recolleetions of his old. home on the banks of the placid York. Shortly after the completion of the Pacific Railroad there arrived at this city a gentleman; his wife, and a beautiful, welleducated 'and graceful -young lady, just blooming into maidenhood, apparently and really about eightcen summers. It was by chance the young lady and aged widower met—and to meet was to love.—~ They were dily married-after a short acquaintance, the ceremony being celebrated with great eclut, -and .creating no little flutter in' the fashionable and wealthy cir- | cles of our city. The fact that both parties bore the same Christian name excited no comment or inquiry, as it was one- almost quite as commnion as that of Smithor Brown: ; 2 |

A few weeks after the marriage, as the husband!and wife naturally inquired into each other’s past history and-antecedents, and were - gradually hecoming better acquainted with each other, the denouement came-—they were father and daughter—man and 'wife; the instinctive love of the. parent for the child, and the daughter for the father, had been superseded by the strong emotional ‘passion of sexual love. Both innocent at heart, but fouliy crimi. nal in thz eyes of man and God.| ~ His daughter was not- dead, aé he supposed; but, after the death of his" wife, was kindlﬁv taken in chargé by his sisterin‘law, who had married and tnoved-to a distant State, and who alsd, with her hus‘band, accompanied his wife's daughter to this coast, to meet as strangers, lovers, dnd subsequently parent and child, as they were, cultivated, ‘passionate love ‘changed into filial and parental devotion. - Wonderfully strange. indeed| are the fortuitous circumstances which .control and guide the footsteps of errings and susceptible mortals, © ) e . 1 ; eel A 1 v An Extraordinary Theory—Can Life . be Indefinitely Suspended, A distinguished Swedish chemist, Dr, Grusselbach, 8 professor of the University of Upsal; has come to the conclasion that those Egyptian mummies, which are found in the ancient tombs on the Nile in a complete state—that is to say, without having been deprived of their brains and entrails, like most mummies—~—are not em balned at all, but “are really the bodies of individuals whose life has-been momentarily ~suspended, with the intention of restoring. them some future time, only the secret of preservation was lost. | Protfessor ‘Grusselbach adduces many proofs in support of his ideas=~among others, his-cxpe-riments during the last ten years, - w‘hgh, he says, bave always proved soccessful. He took a snake and treated it in such a manner as to benumb-it as’ though it had been carved in marble,and it was sobrit- . tle that, had-he allowed it ‘to fail, it wouid have broken into: fragments. - In this state he kept it for séveral years, and ther restored: it to lif¢ by ‘sprinkling it with a stimulating fluid, the composition. of which is secret. . For fifteen years the snake ‘has been undergoing an’ cxistence composged of successive deaths and resur rections, apparently ‘without sustaining harm. The Professor is reported to have sent a petition to his Gouernment, requesting that a criminal, who has been condemined %o death- may be givento him: to'be treated “in the samc manner as the snake, promising to- restore him to life again in two years. “It.isB understood’ that the man undergoing this-experiment. is to be pardoned.” Of course, if a man can be kept in a state of sugpended animation for two years, he may be kept for two thousand yvears, and, if the Professo succee 18, we may lay upa few i‘xpecim:i?}‘ of our contemporaries for cxhibition in the ‘thirty ninth centory, - Appleton’s Jonrnal, ; . e

LA COraelers s We are fond of a j~ke, and enjoy onc as hugely as’ we doa good dinner. Asa matter of course, we prefer: to f‘“‘.“ the Jjoke practised on our opponents- in polit. ical life, but when one as good as the fol. lowing, which we clip from the Indianapolis Sentinel, is perpetrated against one of our political co-laborers, we cannot refrain from indulging our “risables” to their fall eApacity’: /7 =OO e - Elder Hopkins, the facetious and popwlar -candidate tor Superintendent of Pablic Instruction, tells a good anecdote on himself and party, and though it may hit the party, as some may think, & hard lick; it would be sin to keep it, and there fore, as the man said when the jackass kicked him-—we'!ljpst consider the source and give the facts: B e A - The Elder says he: landed is with a bevy of Fifteenth Amendments, the other day, and after a little confab, he inquired how they ‘were going to vote. = - “Well sal,” said one of them; “I guess we'se all a g'wine to vote the Publican tickef” . pE G SRR R

“Well, don't you think,” hé asked, ‘‘that some of the colored folks will vote ‘the Democratic ticket®" “Why, sah, I conldn’t say for sartin that any. of 'em would ; but, sah,” headdded, “I wouldn’t wonder if some of ’em did, for you know, Mr. Hopkins, dar are some mighty low-down niggers” . . Of course the Elder left the newly born Americian’ citizens of African 'scent with “but little hope of a lift in that dircction.

~ A Chicago gamb.er has invented & new thing for cheating in gambling. It consists of a small mirror set in a finger ring which put on a little finger of the right -hand enables the dealer to see every eard he deals to his opponent. e

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| ~ STICK 10 YOUR BUSH. . Avrich map, in answer to the question : how ke was so suceessful, gave the follow "ing story : ; : S ; I will tell you hiow it was = Que day, ; when Lwas alad, a party of boys and girls were going to a distant pasturc to ‘pick-whortleberries, I wanted togo with them, but was fearful that my father / would not letme. When I told him what/ !;was going on, and“he at once gave me | pérmission to go with them ; I could hard. 1y contain-myself with joy, and rushed -into the kitchen and got a big basket, and ~asked mother for a funcheon.. I bad tlie basket on my arm, and was just going out the gate, when m fatber_qg!,!,gd;gp back. He took hold n‘{my%uﬁﬂ"ﬁﬁﬂ"&@ i ‘in a gentle voice: - TR

. “‘Juseph, whast are you going frr—to--pick berfies or to play ' LRy ** ‘Pick berries,’ I replied. i - ““Then, Joseph, I want to tell you ope thing. Tt is this: when you finda pretty €ood bush, do not lefive it to find a better one.. The other Loys-and girls will run - about picking a little here and a little there, wasting a greAt deal of time ani not getting many berries. If you do as they do, you will come home with an empty basket.. If yon want berries, stick to your-bush.’ £ - “I went with the party, and we hade s capital time. But it-was just as my father said. ~No sooner had one found & ; good bush than he called all the rest, and they left their several places and ran-off | to ‘the new-tound treasure; not content | more than a minute or two in one place, then rambled over the whole pasture, got very tired, and at night had very few ber- | ries. My father's words kept ringing in, my cars, and T ‘atunck to my bush,’ " Wion I had done with one I found another, and finished that ; then I took another.' When night came I had a large basketful of nies berries, more than all the others put together, and was not half go tired as they were. I went home so happy. Bidtwhen I entered I found my father had taken ill. He looked at my basket of ripe, black berries, and said : “‘Well done, Joseph. Was it not just : as I told you? Always stick to your bush. ‘ “He died a few days after, and I had to make my way in’ the world as best I could. . But my father’s words sunk decp . into my mind, and I never forgot the experience of the whortleberry party; I stick to my bush When I had a fair place and was doing tolerably well, I did not leave it and spend weeks and- months in finding one a little better, When other young men said, ‘Come with us and we - will make a fortune ina few weeks, 1 shook my head and /stuck to my bush.’-~ Presently my employers offered to take me into business with them. I stayed with the old "house until the principals died, and then I had eversthing'l wanted. The habits of sticking to my business led people fo trust me, and gave me a character. T owe all I bave and am to this motto—‘stick to your bush.’” i _ el : Latest Phase of the Domingo Busimess. The President’s determination to carry’ the Domingo annexation treaty is becoming more appoTrent. every day, and he has< evidently, to a great extent, staked his - political fortunes on the resuit. If he'succeeds against the opposition which the measure has. invoked in and out of (lon-. gress, it will establish his power on sucli firm foundations that nothing will be like: ly to seriously disturb it for the next thres years. If he fails, says the St. Louis Re- ¢

publican, his political prestige ziiag ba gone. We believe President Grapt appreciates the importance of the issue in. volved, and his actions certainly indicate » fixedness of purpose which will be satisfied with nothing short of victory: By the terms of the treaty the time for ratifi. cation expired on the 29th ult, and some Senators flattered themselves that if the discussion could e prolonged beyond that day the matter would die of its own accord. But this contingency had evidently been foreseen, and a special mes senger has arrived from Domingo bring’, ing the intelligence, as the telegraph stated some days ago, that. the Baez government ate willing to grant any reasonable extension. So the debate is likely to, go on indefinitely, and’'the final conclusion is, to say the least, doubtful. ; 2 m—-—'*‘?_«.__ g . . Not Above Critieism. . The Cincinnati Times, Radical, in noticing . the administration of President Grant, which lgas, been so fruitful of cotruption in Its first year, occasioned by the interest which prominent officials havein the various rings formed to rob the. ns-. tion, says : . ; : - DBut President Grant is nat above criticism. ‘We have often noticed” the mis take he made at the outset in accepting largesses from the rich. We now noticc . tha® he has made himself a lobby member . of Congress in behalf of favorite measures, For ‘example, in the mitter of the San ‘Domingo treaty, it is reported that hix interest in its ratification has tempted him to invite many of the Senators to the White House, who were calling upon him on Monday evening, Tuesday morning, and also in the same evening, and that he had thie win ovor sever.l ‘votes. : - This i 8 not to act like a President.--He is not & member of the Senate, and to make himself a lobby member is scandatons. We implore President Graut to close up rather than open doors to cor.rapticn. Shall it-be undgrstood that jobibers must g 0 to the White House for sng. cess ? [ 2 b 3

An Unfair Advdnt'uge“. i I was'in love onee with a fat' girl — She was very fleshy. Slic was enormotus, but the course of my trua love came to grief. I wassitting in the dim twilight one evening. 1 was sentimental; T said . many soft things ; [ embraced part oi"hvr. She secned distant; she frequéntly turned her lovely head from me, At last I thought.l heard tl¢ murmur of voices on the other side. aros¢ and walkeid around and there T found another “fellow courting-her on the left flank, [ wasin' dignart, and ‘upbraided her for treach. ery 1n thus concealing from me another Yover. She laughed at my eonceit, as it she were not h.ijgﬁnongh to have two toy. - ers at once.— D, Piatt. Lharar LaErRR i S Another case of spontaneous combue tion is reported by 1" Union Medicale, in an article from the pen of Dr. Bertholle, | The subject of it wae‘a woman thirty sev. en years old, who was addicted to alco. _holic drinks, She was found in her room with the viscera and some of the Timbs caped.. ‘The very minuto description, ot chEMi . Yo S e