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T H E PUBItlSHED EVBBT WBB^SDAT. C. C. W i T M E S T i S E ~ ® SO If, EDIXOES AND PROPRIETORS. t : e i r m s s ^eit’oat of^^the County^ unless Pai for »« »_ iance_.^ O. O. WITHERBTINE & SOK, Ra?oprjetors. The Union TRBMS;—$1,5Q A TEAR IN ADVANCE. YOLUME XXXYIL HERKIMER. WEBNE8DAT DECEIBER 26, 1877. ITOMBER 20. Bates of Adrertising: One square, one •sreek..... .............. . ....... 00 One square, two-weeks ............. . 1 50 One square, three weeks ....................... 2 TO One square, one rnontn ........................ 3 M One square, two months .................... . § 09 One square, three months..................™... o 00 Onesquare, six months .......... . ............. 7 00 One square, one year ..... ............ ......... 12 00 (TWEtTE LINES MAKE A SQUAEK.) J t ^ A liberal diaoonntwiU bo made to those wRo advertise by the year, for any greater amount tha j a sauare. Book and Job Printing. Book and Job P j executed with net by mail, from. resp< prompt attention. C a t a r r h Of T en Years* Duration, The Dischargres Thick, Bloo.dy, and of Foul Odor. S e n s e s o f S m e l l a n d T a s t e W h o l l y cone. Entirely Cured by SANFORD’S RADICAL CURE. Q R M S T O R E NOW OPEN. G&I.I. AND S E E E S . PETTIT & BOENEY, F oe Block, Herkimer. D E N T I S T R Y . - DR. C. O H A T F I E L D , E x tr a c ts T e e th W ithout P a in , BY THE ySE OF KITROUS OXIBE 8AS. taste and smell, which^«re xoliolly much improved. ^ Short-Band PViter G rand R arids , Mron., Nov, 3,1876. Gentlemen: The package of S anfobd ’ s C dre arrived here to-niglit all riebt. I don’t know what I should have done if it had not been for this remedy. I have tried Nasal Douches and everything else, and although I have been able to Stop the olfensive discharge, I have not been able to recover my senses of taste and smell un til I tried S anfobd ’ s C urb . Y ou can refer any one yon choose to B>e, and I will cheerlully in form them in detail as to the benefit the remedy has been to me. Yours. MELBOURNE H. FORD. G rand R apids , M ich ., N ov . 15, 1876. SANFORD’S ^ D I C A L CURE, not only promptly arrests the corroding dis charges in Catarrh, but. by sympathetic actio it restores to sound health all the organs of tl head that have become affected by it. and e; ’ \ it any of the following affections:— EOYEIg A i a i K A ia. It Is not that the face Is fair. Nor that the eyes are bright, Nor within the wavy hair lie clustered rings of light? Though thou axt^ and more than fair, Unto my raptured sight. 'Tls not for these I love thee, girl— The beauty of thy face. The sunny smile, the tracing curl Have each their fitting place— But> ’tls because I Had in. tueei A sweeter, purer grace. On other Ups the smile Is sweety There’s light in other eyes, There’s music, dear. In other feet— Nay, look not your surprise I For In yourself I see enshrined Jdy only paradise. And so Hove thee—love thee, dear; Nay, love is far too weak. My heart kneels down before thee here. Its only shrine tp seek? And to my Ups uprise the woras They tremblingly would siwak; Yes. I am answered In the gaze That comes unto my caU ? The timid look of rar -------- no descripfe of what hi mpleted ' railroa description in any NTaw what has jnafc been esperir eted in Massachusetts. A York paper perimenmly \ perfect- ifer Ihfl A YERY HARROW GUAGE. Paseenger Cars xcuuttingf Safely OH a Xen-tnclA Xraaslc. There is ** something new under the ran \ in railroads. At least I New T setts.^ ly-working, safe—yes, much the ordinary—X0ai lias been and which will revolutionize traffic in I passengers and freight. The cost ___the price of 'both, will come down one-half, and y e t the com p anies coin ioney where now they cannot pay ©i- anses. The young gentleman who conceived new plan is a practical wood and lachinist, and also an engii iw how narrow a track may be, ictical and safe, with his own our streett der of thi little rascals abonds and both tins new plan is a practical wood and iron maohiniat, and also an engineer. To show how narrow a track may be, and he practical and safe, with his o mds he constructed a railroad, havi it ten inches width, of traclr, from i elevated villaga of Hyde Eark down the depot. He also, with his own hands^ mDUSTmi. BRIGADES, y og Helping Poo: Lelp Xliemselves* In almost all large towns the question has long engaged the attention of social reformers, “ What are we to do with ■ee Arabs?” In the natural or- , these iialf-sav^ e .th ievisb dovelop into dangerous vag- tetiva m em b ers o f the crim-' inal population. IRogged-scIiools and reformatories have done much to aid their becoming respectable members of society ^ but there is another link in the chain of' philanthropic effort, of which WO wonld speak. This link is the quite,\recent institution \of industrial brigades. The peculiar feature of these is that they help those who try to heln themselves. Helpless cases dealt with, by other charities ; but the think HOW TO BIT A HOaSE, Tbe Principles of K o rsem a n sblp— Conditions of a. Good Seat. UROPEAN POSCELAm ; MADE. **I suppose you have all heard of Dresden ohina,” presently said Uncle ^ arson receives the impulse the horse^s movement. At every step the impulse changes, and at every change, rmle— ^ - ----- ^ - ---- ’ ---- Siat the sooner a bo^can be 'made self- thigh, reliant the better for Ms future good freedo HATTIE BROWN’S DELUSION. Site i:,ive8 Six: -Years JBellevingr X b a t Slie Has a snake in Her stoma acb—No SoaKe Found. self- 0 good ceater tho chance of career of crime. The takes partly of the ______ __________ __ _____ i solidity *' time, wassfoi ■ great, that the thighs may not seen aken up its abode -within ,nd was living there. In i 3 supported by a large quaintances. The animal was variously supposed to be a lizard, a newt, a snake, a tadpole or a toad. Hattie remembi Defeotivo Eyesight. Infls Painful and Watery . - Earache, Nearalgiaoft --------- the Ear. Kinging Noises in tho Head. Dizzi- . )U8 Headache, P mus in thej^m - Homothn the ___ ;ed on all of the diffe -within the reach, of all. Office on m a in S t - , O p p o site J u d g e G r a v e s’, Herkimer. July 9.1877. inlyUmfi O. H. PERRY IR A WEEKS Having leased the BLACKSMITH SHOP sale by all wholesale and retail druggists an dealers throughout the United States and Cana das. WEEKS A POTTER, General Agents and Wholesale Druggists, Boston. Mass. COLLINS’ yOlTAIC PIASTER On Washington Street,. nearly opposite the brick school house, and for merly occupied by GAYLORD STEELE. Our reputation for Horseshoeing and Oarriage Ironing 8 unequaled, and -we tii *CLTirtG o Oxix* W o i 'l i . Hoping to secure the patronage of friends, and all those -who desire first-class work, we are Yours truly. OLIVER H. PERRYa**” ^ * IRA WEEKS. / Herkimer. June 28.1876. iune28tf JOHN M. METZGER Is still the Proprietor in the HEffilMER STOVE DEPOT, And keeps constantly on hand a large stock of PA R L O R AND COOKING STOVES! T I N , SH E E T iR O N -A N S COPPER WARE; Lead Pipe, Cistern and. Well Sold at the very lowest prices. OLD iR0;i. RAGS, COPPER, PEWTER AND iRASS, Taken in exchange, far -which the highest price will be paid. August 1st, 1877. a ^ N B^ctro-Qalvante Battery, combined with^ est cur^W^agent in the -world of m ^icin^, and utterly surpassing all other/Plasters heretofore in use. They accomplish more in one week than the old Plasters in a whole year. They ao not palliate, they ciiaE. They be a li a tadpole or a toad. Hattie remember^ ed the identical picnic which she had at- ^“•uded about six years before, recalled inking from a running stream, and had distinct recollection: of swaUowing etWng. As it slipped down her lat she thought she detected thepres- 3 of a stout head, a long neck, legs with clawed feet, a toil, &c. Her health began to fail, and wasted away, while her unknown tenant periodically emitted sounds and moved itself from place to md thus her theory received froi I day fresh corroboration. b« . ................................... tl caused her pain were eaten or drunk. The girl gre’ thinner, while the stranger could be ilainly seen to travel about. If touched ■ to the other side of the y, too, and the girl as being between a othered certain things IIE 1 S S I & - great deal of ami How and le heard au a puddle. ^ A JUT doctoring was tried . Strong liqu( odnesd a stupor : tout affecting thi to ifchout the slight^t injury to any one. ' There were several short curves on the way, and the track crossed the highway twice. The people of Bil- lerica, wiiMiing a road acroM through their town from NTorth Billerica, on the Boston and EqweHItailroad, to Bedford, a distance of eight and a half miles, re quested the projector, Mr. George E. Mansfield, to come and give the people a lecture on narrow track Tailroads. Some said, “ I t is a chimerical notion but others said, “ This is of God and must prevail,” and they gave a helping hand and secured a movement so far as to get a petition for a charter, from the Legislature. The charter was allowed. Then the right of way was secured gratis the whole distance. Two very able men gave the way only because, as they said, it was only a visionary, crazy-headed scheme, and would never bo accomplish ed. But next the stock was subscribed. Ben Butler went in for one-fiftieth of the i 050,000. Then the road, which .st of September, 1 passengers over day, and secured There are eleven , one over 100 feet long. Tlie raU weighs 25 pounds to the yard, which is quite strong enoujfh; 20 pounds would do, Tho road is well built and equipped; one grade is 155 The cars and engines ________ ^ once attract and fix the attention, are very well proportioned,' and le appearance. The resembling a comfortable and happy home. Tt is’managed with as little offi cialism as possible; in consideration of the up-brihgihg'of the inmates, a good deal of liberty, though no license, is al lowed. From this home the boys go out to work for employers of labor through out t te city, returning to their quarters at night, A sa rule, no occupation or trade is carried on within the walls of . the brigade. Thus, the youths are not b r o u ^ t'up in an artificial atmosphere, . but'working outside on their own ac- !ount, learning the value of honest in- jed into ictable eat IS me weight of at clmnge, -unless t.’.© seat is a good one, the weight is jostlod and the smooth ac tion of the horse is disturbed. If it is good, it is so adjusted as to receive the changing action with a yielding resist ance to the shock; and to give no undue check to the motive power. While there must be a certain ease of displacement there must also' be an ability to hold firm to the saddle, and, after leaving it, to return smoothly to it. The real pointa of attachment should be only from the u’d—by the inner flat of the ise of motion depends on -the 3qm of the lower leg and the ready flexibility of the loins. From the knee, to the hip we need firmness and from the knee doTsfi-svard and f: )ward, the freest pliancy. No 36 so SOWTBDE UBS!! ffaok to the group of merry children sur rounding Mm. “ Oh, yes, sir!” cried AI. “ Aunt de bad a Dresden tea-pot that belong- fco her grandmother, and she said that tea always tasted better out o f it than from anything else.” “ WeU, here is an excellent French ' ” \Dresden figure. It is a d. See^how gracefully she reaches for a nosegay from her bas ket. I have seen bouquets of Dresden porcelain that you could hardly distin guish from real flowers,” said Uncle “ You’d hardly thmk that such abean- tiful tMng was made* from common 3,” said Will. Nor is it,” said his uncle. “ This ►f chinaI iss madeade fromom a veryery fineii kind ol and a very i i i m fr a v f re clay that, /or a long id only in Ohina and the Bi^dity . _ _ body implies the transmission of force to the long end of the lever, whiohis the father of the faU, while rigidity of the lower legs carries an uncontrolled im pulse to the other end of the lever and disturbs the horse. The absolute ]qoint of contact—the point which never yields its grip—-is at the knees only. Xn the leap, and*to a less degree in the gallop, points of com- c much leap, and to a Ic these are the c irigade they are and lodged, till out of whole stock, wMch came the building of was completed by the 0 that cars passed wil entire route that right of way. the working men. fed, educated their own earnings they < themselves. All are treated alike, whatever the amount they make; those who can do so, pay a certain sum per wefek towards their expenses. What ever they can earn above that sum is their own, and is put by for their bene*\ fit; the boys have, therefore, a continu al stimulus to industry; Mr. David .Meissen, in Saxony, named Bot digeoyered a bed of it there, and : factored toe first true porcelain nu Europe,” said Uncle Jack. “ Why eonldn’t they get toe fine clay in China and make their porcelain any where ?” asked Will. “ Because the OMnese je^ously kept b U their clay to themselves,” answered Uncle Jack. “ How did toe man come to discover where.the clay was, and if it was of the righ^kind ?” as’ thei ispectable Mate its sMe and correct return, they are Plianigr of the Mp and freedom H oat of calvescalves arere thehe firstirst objectsbjects too bee e * of tho a t f o t b sought, and it is these which it is the most Mffi- eult for the mature beginner to acquire. oinedined from a sort of aay be ga calisthenio exercise of the boi a ixiBioAUJ to industry; kingking of thehe E(dinburgh Hams, spea of t E In- dostrud Brigade, in the formation wMoh he has taken “ Wo give tho deep interest, e plainest descrip- food; as we iMnk it would bo !at the boys betteretter thshan b t oth- fare. The cost of ths road will d fix the attei very well proportioned, make a very handsome appearance. The engine is behind the tender and next the wrong to trei ers of their class usually fare. The cost per head, per day, for food is 5 l-4d* The clotoinj plain mat Lffebtions o£ ti - -iffeotions of th re Affections of tb No matter -what may bo tbe extent of your suffering, try one of these Plasters. Relief i» in stantaneous, a fact supported by liundreda of testimonials in our possession. .Bear in mind that the most important discoveries in pharma cy date back less than ten years, and that com- Pinations of enms and essences of plants and shrubs are herein united with Electricity to form a curative Plaster, in soothine. healina, and strenKtheningr properties as far superior to all other Plasters heretofore in use as the soien- tihe physician is to the horse-leech. g F i c e , O e i a t s - Be careful to call for COBIiINS’ VOLTAIC PLASTER lest you get some worthless imita- tion. Sold by all Wholesale and Ketail Drucr- eistS throaffbnut the tToited States and Canadas, and by WEEKS k POTIER, Stdmhtm, Bos ton, Ttlass, dec5ml p aud caused the girl e insisted, feel it come up to > stomach, seize the food and swallow During the period covered by thi ange experiences the girl bad not : lesion of tbe B o t h engine and. cars\ to be ’ a year, with boots. Each boy 3 tend week and Sunday schools, so that great obstacle to their obtaining rk (not being able to read or write) is iply is of strong, lowance—two suits so ^ that anoe at the dispi taken. She d<scribed and received treatment forteehiaoi ^ itories v She de her symptom ,i—j 1— — i. tope street, treat regi' ■■ •ast illU’ 5r oonsnmpto 3iseas0 sgularity l winter, xecognizi] ■esB l Rs a cftHo of pW’ Sew AflTertisements. mSUHANCE The “ Ponltry WorId,^3 Hartford, Oonn iB tlie leading magazine of its classi $I .25 a y e a r; 12 snperb C hromos mailed,for on ly 75 cents, additional. A ll fowl breeders should have it. Subscribe now for 1878. it is the best and cheapest. 10 cents sam- ple number.________________decl9w4 NEW ORGANS, 16 Stops S123; 10. S96; 12. 885; 9. 855. P ia nos retail price $700, ^nly $235. Send for confidential circulars, D aniel F. B eat - T-r, Washington, N. J. * deol9w4 worm. Dr, Demorest, of 330 East Twelfth ited the patient with some , xecoj itMeisi >ined w ito B r ight’s and tbe oaae ug notoziei fith Buggeations from mmy non-. mdents advising him ^ t toe track. constructed so as to be very near ground, giving great advantages in gard to safety, also very little oscillation. The cars have an aisle with one seat on each side, in the same manner os ordi nary cars have two seats. The length of the cats allows-thirty seats, each person having a seat to himself. The cars are warmed with steam, are well ventilated, have closets, water tank, all the modern improvements, 'Westinghouse brakes, &c. They weigh but four tons and a half, or- TJSE SENATOR EEOK .ILHHOIS. Biff of Body and B ig of Brain—Tlie most I nfluential Person in Much help calisthenio exei from front to rear and from s and moving the arms in all directions, retaining meanwhile a firm seat without the action of the calves or the heels. There should b© cultivated, too, the ability to reach the toe far forward on the horse’s shoulder, and to raise the heel high against Ms side without ma terially changing the position of the knee. lu short, -the mau should learn the new art of moving his head, arms, body and lower legs from his new point of attaobment at tbe thighs and seat, with the same instinctive ease and cer tainty with which he has learned to move h is whole person when resting on his feet. In proportion as this supple ness has become complete and instinct ive, in that proportion does the man re move himself from the condition of ; suit of clothes stuffed with sand, wMoL would topple over with the least move ment of tho horse .—Colonel Waring^ in SGrihmfs Magimne, m L A G E SOCIETY IN lYINTEE. asked Al. chance. According time, men powdi their hair, using wheat flour for that purpose. One day a neighbor of the ohemist, in traveling an unfrequented part of tho country, observed on hfe horse’s hoofs some white stic ^ clay, and it occurred to Mm that this white clay, dried and powdered, would make an excellent and cheap substitute for wheat flour as a hair powder. So he carried a little home with him, and some of it finally reached Bottcher. The ohemist found it extremely heavy, and, fearing the presence of some metal hurt ful to the skin, he tested the clay in Ms laboratory. To his surprise and joy this white hair-powder proved itself posses sed of the same qumtiea as the veritable Chinese Jcdolin, as their clay is called.” —Edwin G. Taylor in St. Nicholas. THE FARMERS AND FOX-HUNTING. ition that arises in this coun- COUXD NOT LIVE IN HOUSES. Bosseau expresses a belief that any man, who has preserved his native tem perance for the first twenty-five years, will afterward be pretty nearly ] against temptation, because very natural habits can only be acquired ’ our tastes have the pliai ty, and I think the sam< the troglodyte habit; no one nearly proof acquired while f of immaturi- biolds good of It; 1 passed twenty or twenty-five years open air can be bribed very easily to r miasma. -gorod and imprisoned in i apartment of the city armory, which re sembled a comfortable beS-ohamber rather than a dungeon, and was other wise treated with more kindness than the Bussians are wont to show their prisoners, as the Government hoped to use his influence for political purposes. But a week after his arrival in Novgorod mory, a rations and subsist on Cabbage-soup like the private soldiers of his guard, and al so to surrender some -valuables he had —icealed on his person, on condition t they would permit him to sleep iu open air. One more week of such nau sea and headache as the confinement in a closed room had caused him, would force him to commit suicide, he said, and, if his request was refused, God ixdd charge the guilt of the deed on i tormentors they permittei form in lel bed him to sleep on the plat- front of the guard house; and Colonel Darapski, the commander of the f, informed his government in tho towing spring that the health and gen eral behavior of his prisoner were excel lent, but h e had slept iu open air every one of the last hundred nights, with no ivering but his own worn-ont mantle. a soldier of toe guard to keep his turl from getting soiled by mud and rain. neral Sam Houston, the liberator of had exiled himself from his native ed loni voluntaty companion c Indians, was ever afterward unabJ ible to prolong his presence in a crowded hall orlll-ventilated room beyonddtenort ten or twelve ised to ipular •eyon minutes, and described his sensatii loealiticality entering such a lo easiness, increasing to poi ich as a mouse may be such as a mouse may feel under an Scienco MoriUdy, ositive alarm supposec air-pump.”—Po 2 > dinary cars weighing rhtoen tons.' Hei ?hT how to treat the case. JH presence o f a dropsy added of ailments under which th© Elecently l to too eighteen tons.' carry sixty persons nine tons, while o draw eighteen tone sons. The engines are equ£ less costly than on ordinary is quite evident that a road eight and a half miles long, which cost equipped $1,- I average Mansfield tv^l weighing rdinary roads m u st 0 carry fifty-eix per* [daily lightand roads. lilmenis under which th© unfortunate Hattie was suffering, and about three weeks ago she was bed-ridden. At 10:30 Sunday evening she died. At 5 o’clock yesterday, afternoon the Coroner, with his deputy. Dr. Cushman, called at the late residence of Hattie Brown, at 433 East One Hundred and m _ _ Af-AU -X __ A __ ^ _ r^A^ Al._ t miles long, whiol less than $50^,000, for half the expense npi Is, must be a great i lievem ent. roads, must Achievement. The trains ran Enginies a n d w h i c h c a n b o lense upon ordinary and notable miles The road cost §4;500‘ pe: about twent^ an hour. B _ ight tons, and draw two passenger and two freight cars twice per day each way, at a cost of coal only one-fourth that of ordinary engines.—iYern York Express. ^ ;5 0 o ut twenty Ingin weigh about Twentieth street,^ to inquire into the I lizard d was was I or what- oiet, too. .A-a-EjNro-s- OE* HENDERSON & LAWTON, HERKIMER, N. Y. Represent the foUowlne O ld a n d R e l i a ble insurance Co,’s : HOWE ........................... Hew York, AT. PHOENIX,......................Brooklyn, iY: Y. GU N ^ Md R ^ I vom . I l l u ^ a t ^ Price Lkt burg,Pa,* * ernGu W 5 0 ooklyn, I ATLANTIC, ................ New York, ilT, T. _ _____ _ ______... Newe Toriork, ............ W i^rtowtn, ____ _________ 1, Conn.' HOME..............................Columbus, Ohio. H O W A R D ,.'. ...... ...N w Y AT: K 3w JY. F.,. I JETNA,............................Hartford, Oonn. NORTHERN, XlUJULEl, ............. .. ....................... .. INS. CO. NORTH AMERICA, PhiladelpEa, Pa. PENNSYLVANIA FIRE, Philadelphia, Pa. EOYAL,. . .............................London,Eng. IM P E R IA L , .......................... London, Eng. NORTHERN, ........ . ........... London, Eng. NORTH BRITISH AND MBK- CANTILE, .............................. London, Eng. J . D. HENDERSON. L. LAWTON. ofCaturrh Boston,; C o ll i n ’s V o ltaic • P l a s t e r s are e the best. decl9w4 A GREAT OFFER W HO] OR( LIFE d e p a r t m e n t . TRAVELERS’ L IFE AND AC CIDENT,....................Hartford, Oonn- MUTUAL L I F E ,.. . . .New York, N- Y. ^ L. A. LAWTON, Agent. T T T i y y i T i Wo the Working Class.—Wo are now pre pared to furnish all classes with constant em ployment at home, the whole of the time, or for their spare moments. Business new.light and send their address, and test thehusiaess we make this unparalleled offer: To such as are not well satisfied we will send one-doUar to Day for the trouble of writing. Full particulars, samples worth several dollars to commence work on, and a copv of Home and Fireside, one o f the largest ■ ■’ioations, all seat free by anentp^rofitaWe ul7yl HOLiDAYSll [i^ID&S?dSpo1e®p/;Wolra JRGANS, of lirsfc-olass makers a l lower Priifes for cash, or Installments, than ever before offered. WATERS’ PIANOS & ORGANS ate the BEST MADE, warranted for 5 years. III. Catelognes Mailed. Greatinducements to tAe tradeiPIAN^lS, 7-octave \ stops, f ■ cause of death. The quietly, and the lizar or ever it was was certainly very quii , The post-mortem was entered upon by Dr. Cushman, wito Dr. Demaresfc as an interested assistant. When the intes tines were displayed there wa© no sign of an animal. The two upper lobes of the right lung were found to be completely infiltrated with tuberouloua m atter; low er down in 'the abdomen the mesenteric glands we>re enlarged and gorged with tuberetdons matter, white along the large intestines on the right side where the nest of the reptile was supposed to be located Imrge masses of similw: matter were found. There was also a granular degeneration of the kidneys, or Bright’s disease, and sia a sequence of i t a mani festation of dropsy m the lef| leg. The stomach was hemthy but was entirely empty. Indiam n g n p a certificate of burial, toe causes of death were said to be “ phthisis pnlmonoUs, tabes mesdn- terica and Bright’s disease of tbe kid neys.” The Coroner and Ms staff with drew. There was evident surprise, and one friend of tbe family was beard to say that “ i t mns’ a got out BomehowJ’—JSC F W o rn, 1 days. We forward, and each time when the boat sMed off the ride monndnf water—^there were no tho Ifi the Senate Chamber nobody is quite so interesting as the great old Sen-j ator from Illinois—big of body and big of brain—who, perhaps, brings to toe Senate a larger measure of experience and weight fm all senses) toon ever was brought hero by 3 new member before. ideal Senatorial mind is a .great in- in tbe science of_^ ^ ^ ^ — such a mind and Will exercise in the Senate that peculiar and admirable kind of power that was wielded' by Sumner and Seburz, and after them by Ferry, of Oonnectiout, who was a sh a k e r . and more pungent reasoner than either of them. Ferry had a great power of trenchant statement, and Judge Davis has the same power, (perhaps m even a superior degree. The Senate has not had enough of tMs facul ty in it. Senator Christiancy, of Michi- g p i so long on the Supreme bench of his Stete, is a superior reasoner, and is one of toe men who must be listened to by all of his .assooia ~ comes right to the imbroidery, etc., aa cannot be done by eomen who earn their living by their leedle. The justice of this ought to be k once apparent; but it is, as a rule, overlooked. We have known the plain sewing taken from tbe sempstresses of a village, and given to ebureb clubs, for a wiflter; the consequence of which was, rxsb help, and a . i6 consequence . ____ hungry women asking parish help, i staineigla^ window back of the pul- Secondly; In rending-clabs, let the time for each reader be limited by inflex ible rule. I f this is not done, there will be fonnd in every such club, at least one The questic try when the introduction of fox-hunting is suggested is that of the opposition of the farmers, The sport involves the protection of foxes, resulting in a certain amount of damage to poultry, and more or less injury to fences and crops, but these objections could probably be re moved by some proper system of com pensation. \What is here more serious would probably be the question of pass; and certainly as farmers are own landlords and are subject to no re strictions, such as are imposed in the id- most universally prevalent leases of it would, of course, he in the any farmer or other land-owner entering upon his land. One ? or two objectors in a neighborhood wonld suffice to make anything like sat- isfactory work impossible. This could ” be overcome, if at all, only by establish ing such relations between the hqnter ilraost < CAOUTCHOUC MAKING ON THE AlilAZON Narrow paths lead from the hut through the tMck underbrush to the solitary trunks of the Indian rubber trees ; and as soon as the dry season al lows, the woodman goes into the seringal with a hatchet in order to out small holes in the bark, or rather in the wood of the caoutchouc tree, from which a miily wMte sap begins to flow throngh earthenware spout fastened to the wound. Below is a piece of bamboo which is out into the shape of a bucket. In thm way he goes from tree to tree ------ M b return, in order to carry the material more conveniently, he be gins tO empty the bamboo buckets into a large calabash. The contents of this ■eat turtle ns are used purpose. He at once irk on the smoking process, since, if left to stand long, the gummy particles separate, and the quality of the India rubber is hurt. This consists in subjecting the sap, when spread out thin, to toe smoke from nuts of tol Urucury or Uauassa palm, which, strange to say, is the only thing that will turn it solid at once. An earthen ware “ bowl without bottom,” whose neck has been drawn together like that of a bottle, forms a kind of chimney when placed over a heap of dry red-hot SO that the white smoke escapes the top in thick clouds. The work- pours a small quantity of the white rich milk-like liquid over a kind of light are poured into on shells wMch on th kind of I I of those g i .Amazons I every a ogmatic, selfish x« is author and until in dii reader who will, ; “ ■ --------- the ( and to© farmer as exist almost every where in England. There, farmers them selves enter very eagerly into tb© sport. and enough of them ride regularly to es tablish a public seutiment in its favor, and to drown any objection that might arise in their own class. \When damage is done to poult until in disgust and weariness the m bers fall off aud the experiment fails. Thirdly; If we may trench upoi most d( that in ■dly; If we may lelicate topic, we licate topic, in merely social le of maaio, dancing o old caste lines of the upon a would suggest THE REPENTANT PASSENGER, Tt was in the fall of 1863 that we were aboard the steamer North Star, Captain SdSof^fStfifitform^^ fo? three days. We were too heavily loaded words. But David Davis is a me when the bow of ^powerful man—by far too of a great no longer, regular waves—we thought we should never come np again. In the bow of the vessel was stowed a great quantity of shot and sheU for Fort Alcatraz. Some big iron guns were also in the bow of the boat. These were run back to the stern. Next overboard wfeni over one hundred tons of shot and sheU, as these would sink before reaching the wheels. In the forward steerage were several families of Fortugese immigrants, and' stowed away on each side, and secured with; stanchions, were several tiers of barrels of lard. Th© stanchions sation the old caste lines oj disregarded. There is ---- ^ -------------- despotism :e narrow or cruel thaiv the aristoc racy of a village,. New blood and new ideas would generally revivify i t ; out side of toe so-called “ good society ” of such B place which has been fenced in for two genera aster, but it is ^considered r all the thing to ask damages unless the injury has been quite serious. After all, the account is fonnd to be very largely in favor of the farmer, even though he is subjected to some loss from the cane referred to above. Fox-hunting invari ably brings into the country a very large amber of horses, creating a demand for forage on which the extra profit over the price it would bring in a distant market is -very far beyond the damage done. In Peni ’ • “ ' - - - - nch milk-like liquid over a kind of light wooden shovel which he turns with quickness, in order to separate the sap as much as possible. Then he passes it through the dense smoke above tie chimney, turns it about several and at once perceives the milk take on a grayish yellow color and turn solid. In this way he lays on skin after skin until toe India rubber on each side is two or three centimeters thick and ho considers toe plancha done. It is then cut upon one side, peeled off the shovel and hung up to dry, since much water has got in between the layers, which should dry out if possible. The color of the plancha, which is at first a bright silver gray, becomes more and more yellow and at last turns into the brown of caoutchoi ------ ’ ----------------- \\\ this way The thicker, the mor< it is known in corn- can finish in or six pounds very far beyond the darnage done. In innsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, lere fox-hunting is sffil kept up, nc im-bubbles the 5 better is its qua price.— Scribner’s. lod workman iven, and thii6 and hi'gl freer oubt if he will ever ma the Senate over ten or fifteen minutes in lengthy 'but he will be the most influen tial person in the chamber as lohg os he remaind' there. He ie distingfuished from Ms associates not more by his enor- physique than by his political position. He is that rarest of produc- ttons— true independent in politics— hsolutety u n a ^ched to either of the reat parties, and having no • tendencies „ , The great want experienc ed by cultnred men and women in a nail town is ‘ oarreis or Jiaru. an© stanemons gave way, and the barrels began rolling about among the Portugese, breaking the arm of a child and f ’ ' Thei expense of starting and see. X^armers and danghterfi, and all classes in need of paying work at Ixomc. should write to us and learn about the work at once. Now is tho tfm’e. Don^t delay Ad dress XfiUB & Co.r Aagpgts. Maiae.^. janlTyl J A C O B H . W E B S R , FRECKLES are simply Iron in the blood drawn to the sur face of the Shin by tho Sun’s rays, PRECKLINEI! is a simple chemical combination which dissolves thatiron. Sold, by all Druggists. SOoentsahot- tie. G eo . A.K blcoqg . Proprietor, 6 Church St., N. Y. For sale, wholesale and retail, hy D. H. F onda , Albany. N. Y. dec5w4 AGENT S WANTED!! FOR PARTICULARS. ADDRESS WILSON SEWING MACHINE GO. 8 2 9 B r o n d w a y , N e w Y o r k , City4 C lilcago, H I .; N e w O r lean s. I . a . ; dec5w4 Or San Francisco, Gal. THE HISSING LINK. A dispatch to the Herald thus de scribes the conferring of a degree onMr,- Obarles Darwin by the University of Cambridge, England: On S a itird^ last the degree of Doc tor of Civil Laws was conferred upon Charles Darwin by Cambridge Univer sity, Notwifchstandingtheillastricmsrank which Mr. Darwin has long held iii the scientific world, tke clerical power has been strong enongh in toe governing body of the universities of Cambridge and Oxford to prevent any honorary de gree being awarded to Mm hereto fore, The capture of the honori diploma for Mr. Darwin, was theref ren the i wonld lere was a en the vessel, barrels of lard- ip—were the stem. seen travi \^e dar< ag rows ol on each side of ths celling to and ovei b thx ___ jrow them .... 'orward of the wheels, though shot andj 7era going over the bows o - ” - ^-' Bhell b at a live- ’ _ n there s e e i tl water in thp a > is note-worthy in tlie Sen- chiefly.as a listener, and there are few good listeners in the Sen ate. Booth was one of the best of them before the arrival of Judge Davis. Sum ner was to© best listener in the old days and snubbed his devoted friends often when they-had tho temerity to send him a ^ r d during the session of the Senate. He showed that absolute and perfect de- rotion to h is duties which ennobled tho >ffice as few men have ennobled it. When a debate is going on now Judge Fourth ly ; small town is of books, periodicals, etc., which, individually, they are n o t able to buy. There are very few circulating libraries in American towns of a popula tion less than ten thousand. This want can be obviated in a measnxe, by a friendly combination between certain families or individuals, in which each contributes a given number of books to a common stock; these books are loaned to the members in turn. A more formal and much better way is toe formation of a book-club, such as ■ before the ea the reason that the whole oi whole of the hnnt is made \ ranks of the farmers t Scribner’s Magazine. 0 from the emselves.— lONGEVlTYIOFEOEIS. There are many, and among them Dr. Madden, who, believing an i ' ity. idia, in which, eaol member pays at the beginning a certain sum, with which ised as there are moi these-pass in reg inmg a ny books are pur- as there are members, each one choosing a book; these- pass in xegnlar ition from hand to ’ fortnight books may one. W’lien round toe cii rn g f c - : l a few of H3 W8R called to id indicrons action of a looking young man amidships, holding to a brace with his left the dolorous gawky-lookii He was holding to a brace hand, while in Ms s' right IS dimcuit for Mm to sit 'ong m one isitfon, and he shifts'Mmself about in 3 chair, or goes from one chair to another, in order to find'the best listen ing point. After a litlld’ time he Blips down in M b chair, extends his feet be fore him. and. in this ba —- positioi begius to speak. while in M . in which he was 1 one moment he would roll his eyes heaven-ward in mute appeal, at the next irary Bible, jfore ■ Ato flown j U biS chair, extends Ins feet be fore him,_ and in this semi-r©cnmbont position listens till some other Senator IS to speak. Judge Davis’ voice is idiiigly pleasant. He addresses the .... -------- .... best of e in a quiet, undemonstrative, i aonal tone, and is on it otherwise have - had. Undergradnates thronged the galler- 3 of the great hall, and the desire to ivant of .Doy ies of the gn see the savs -WM “ the GOLD. own was universal. Darwin and Huxley appeared, irmer robed in the scarlet govna of a doctor, tremendous and enthusiastic cheers broke forth from parts of the I moment in the proceed- of a monkey robed ii building. . At a critical ings an effigy iergraduatie’a ----------- ikey robed in au l gown was lowered into h e hall from the skyward. The situation was loo ridi Jons, and we would have laughed had we been sure of going to the bottom the next moment. “ Xes j you fellers may laugh,” said toe man, dolefully, “ you may laugh, but I say that any man that leaves a good farm, and a wife and one child, iu McMgan, with a young orchard; just b e -. ginnin’^to bear, to coma to Oalifomia to dig gold, isanftterald ---- ^nfool!” and again he bent his eyes upon his Bible. ‘-'V'lrginid (jNev.} Enterprise. sabSGriptioas f o r — , — , ------- - ------------------- Illustrated family publication in the world. Any one can become a successful s^ent.-T1> b axost efegaat works of art given free to sijbseribers. The price is so low that almost everybody sub- be away from home over night. Yon can do it as well as others Full particulars, directions and terms free. Elegant and exponsiv® Outfit 'ou want profitable work send us your 'W a n t e d A O h e w ' o f T o bacco .- ^ One rarely sees a fellow-countryman in distress in Paris, but I did meet one day before yesterday. He . came up to me on toe Sue Scribe, where, if yoti are not ah American, you are supposed to bo, ad. nearly every office in it is in some way connected with, Yankee trade, and -observing me sharply, he said, “ .Are yon an American?”-.I proudly acknowl edged that I was a citizen of the repub- Ho. “ Wal,” he said, “ --------- where I can get some c _ , ____ I said no, of coutaS; no one chews in Frfmoe-rdidh’t ' know personally any who “ chawed.” . remainmga with each reader; twenty '■thus be read for. the cost of • the books have passed around toe circle, they are sold to mem bers for the benefit of the club. Fines for the detention and abuse of books al- > keep up the'fhnds. No officer is re quired in this association bnt afreasnrer. Another advantage in the plan is that books can be bought by the quantity at lower rates than singly. The same rule applies to sabsoriptions for magazines, newspapers, etc.—Home and Society, Scribner’s, ♦ .» tmrn ■■ A D isgusted C ustom -H ouse O fstobb . -The other day a Custom-House officer at one Qftjie, gates of Paris, in full ex- rcise of his powers, was curiously A pigeon-trainer arriving at in tow about a !, was asked for leer at the gate. 3u, who, believing an actively temperament opposed to longev- ave no good word to say for the imagination. A glance at facts, how ever, wiU make it appear that imagina tion is no more incompatible with “length of dajra” than is any other men tal faculty. Dr. Madden published a table in wMoh he endeavored to show that “ a good poet dies young; ” but the table, for a reason which it might not be charitable to mention, omits the names of many of the most distingpiish- 5d poets who have lived long—some of hem very long—lives. Young, Metasr and Voltaire live^ ^ years; Chat ECONOMY OF TIME IN NEWSP-fiJPER COE- EESPONDENCE. The rapid increase in the'use of the telephone leads some of the Washington londents to begin to wonder ir or not this new invention is to be so developed as to be used for the transmission of information between The tendency of news- londents in 'Washington is closer rooms The actively distant points. differ nearly vani having less ilegraph, and to a closer and inection between the editorial 1 the Washington news bureau. Tho 0 between Wasbington dispatoh- ’^ashington letters has long * .nished, and the Goethe, 82; Klopstock, 73; Chaucer, 72, and Milton and Dante, 76. But Dr. Madden’s conveniently constructed its to record thes nothing t leave the 1 eons. Tho birds, elati w - their liberty, soared high into the &ir and winged their way homeward, wMle the traine ree. Ifyo fddresB at i flness. No __ lay- Address and, Maine. I take ftrom h is hat too m o u rning-band , e d o n Mm and tore h im w ith M s teeth W t I** ' tkat be ww westing iqy Ms first wife^ ' 1 iso'feaflij at Franoe-rd American “ Wa!,” h£ well for them that don’t chew; but I've got to have som e; can’t live without it.” -And he stepped out .with a determined well for them that don’t chew; b u t 1‘va pxoB6oation.—Iiondon Examiner, Sipf instructed table record these great names, nuo it mentioiis, wito^emarkable scru- ulosity, th© names of suqh poets as lurns and Cowley, who shortened their lives by intemperance. No doubt the Doctor’s table Borves his own purpose, but it utterly fails to serve the purpose of science, Dr* Frederic B. Marvin, himself a poet, leoturer and preacher, has prepared a table, which, since the press of toe country has given it an ex tensive circulation, many of our readers lay have seen. Let us append it as a arxeotive to Dr. Madden’s table; Wil- littier, 69; .Alfred Tennyson and Oli ver W. H o l m e 67; Alfred B. Street. 66; Robert Browning, 64; Philip J. Bailey, 61; James Bussell Lowell and itman, 58; Julia \Ward Howe, (3ard, 52 ; Bayard Tay- 53 ; and Matthew -Arnold, 51. How long any of the above authors may yet live i t is impossible to know,, but should toe youngest of them die this year, he could not be said to have Hyod a short life. The average length of human life is thirty-three years; but even Bums, Cowley, Byron and Poe— men wfio owned their untimely end more to dissipation than to toe infirmi- ti|8 of genius—lived beyond that peri- \IKiadam why do JU persist m m o v in^o near^he came- Du, omi t newspapers are id less room to devote to jm Washington which is not sufficiently important to be transmitted by telegraph. The Washington offices are moreover becoming much more closely connected with the editoria rooms, and toe offices of some of the greater newspapers of the' country are DOW really branches of the editorial de- ■ \ - - - -nreaithiest P£ --------- newspapers of the country are in the habit of receiving from Washington ed itorial matter quite as freely as the dis patches containing the u Thei than thej distant c telligently and copiously can posffi!tly Dg the new s of the i ___ are a multitude of topics which commented upon here more in- piously and promptly iosffi!tly be treated in distant cities. I n the r a sh of Am erican journalism prom p t editorial com m ents on the m o st important new s o f the day \\T q u ite as im p ortant as the new s itself. oni-1 the telephone becom e an instru- n t of com m u n ication betw e e n places several h u n d r e d m iles apart, i t w ill n o t be long before all the greater newspapers ' the c o u n ty will maintain their private immunications b y wire ivith their offices L W ashington, A Moscow n ew^aper says that out of to© w ealthy fam ilies of that city n o t a single member has gone to fight the Turks. They get medical certificates of unfitness for military service, and often have to pay well for”them. T he statement that too coal fields of toe world will be exhausted in two solace to the man yfor the permanent to carry ths 10 family np T h e e e are tw o w a y s o f g e W n g througl bis world. O n e way ?a to m a k e i . I stepped out with a determ ined D oubde p o s t a l. c ^ d a . are authorized you. persist m m o v ingiso near t o e came- this world. O n e wa y ?a t o m a k e t o o air, looking for another American to b y the German government. The two ra? ’ Old fiddyr-** Ten see X am a lite- b e s to f it, and th e othev is to make th e whom he could p n t his despairing ques- parte are each stamped, and are to b e tie near-sighted, and Fm fifear’d I wbn’fe j worst o f it. Those who take th e latten take*goodpiotwQWlwofifi;; 1 course wor^Khacdloi poor pay.
