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lo show the amount used to the families, bat ta-
manner, and high qualities in which he mansich stopped, sind extending his hand in
king the average of these three dairies, and the
Tomount made is not much, if any less than Ino was endowed. Since then he has be- swaphealing minner, sul, Bicihnen, we rin-
longed to his country, and has taken & the man oul
pat, nud a prominent parl, both in
were about fifteen and a half cents, but we prace and war, in all the great questions
would say two hundred pounds at Gheen cents offering her interested ber honor: and
amount to thirty doilnts, Yt Value of TOPIC
milk for pork, which is varler ly estimated, but
differ from him. yet I believe he way as
which is certainty, with goud management,
pure a patriot as eve participated in the
worth three dollars per cow, and we binve.a lor councils of a ration, amikor- for the pub. harch
tal of thirty-three dollars, A result far shove that
usually reached by dairymas, and nffonling n very handsome profit on the business.
If it is naked how this is remplisheil, thean.
wwer Is given in a few words JLice nome but
good cows, keep them well, winter and sameier
ant know; and we know ton the eminent
And take good care of the milk and baiter - endowments which gavo him this bigh
The very system which produces ruth large quantities also cosaren a good quality nf hut-
elistinction. Frank ind fearless in the
expression of his opinion, and in the per- Formance of her duties; with raro putrers of eloquence, which never failed to rivet
the inan would grow old and che-without seeing the sun for it is dlestant moro than n hundred vente from us But what is this compared to Neptuno s distance] Hlad Adam and Eve star-
He has sinco Frequently manufactured,
buller by this metbod, writli invariable success, in from Glo 12 hours As an
Neptune to the wu" :; Me rato of ffy miles .An ihour they would not have got there yet for Nep- ni lune is more thro six thousand years from the effectun preventive af any enrtltylastes'
centre of our s vetem
greTtAne mue to_progred In this case 1 more he You have talents-be was brilliant
You" ed to free it mont completely of erenm it should be
pourud intu n hroul But dish, not much exceed. of i stirring life and strengthened by en- ing one inch In depth The evolution of cream larged experience and observation, join-
and to great purity of purpose- these
were the elements ol his power and suc-
co-a. And we dwell upon them with
monreful gratification, now which wo | Introdu. eil him to the contents of slup.pall The hope you won't buy any more gunpowder "tea for mother." "Why not" "Becadas Ishall soon follow him to the cold und si- mosk that love delights In, must be ilmwo mik !!
lent tomb, where we slunll comunt caril
slowly liccause it becomes partially solidified far west sari cold weather the milk is less nich to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, but
than ia dry and waras, and on that account
with the blessed conviction of the truth
THE MORAL CHARACTER OF
PIGS.
more cheeto is olitained in cold than wo worin, of that ili vine revelation which teaches though not ia thundery wenthier The season Some folks nceuse pigs of being very us that there is life and hope beyond the has us effeci -- the millk is the spring is supposed narrow house, where we shall leave lajm litthy in their habil4, nad negligent in Jo bo best for calves, in suininer it is best suited ntone to the mercy of Ins Goil and ours lot checsc, & tbe aurunin hutter keeps better than He has passed beyond the reach of bu- best eaten off the ground or in 4 cluna- their upperrance. Hut, whether food in
who' bave gone on for years, satified with a y ich of from one bunderd to one hundred and
twentyfive pounds per cow, supposing that aboot il- manimum productois+ mny not thank us for disturbing their repose, and will proba- bly infer that the cases to which wa shell refer, ore cairk houry ones, or perebanco doubt the corrcelaess of the statements nhogerber. To
such we have only to say, if you are satisfied with your present doing, othershave no right to
complain, beyond the general desire for impror.
the caracter of the New Itempsble doircs Juveniles. The following rules, hy Joha R. columns shall themselves bare fallen,
family to use the milk and butter," und his the hecl of the seythe more to the very point of! Was alanst lose, and the golden bowl was breaking at the fountain; but he was iness man is a chemical compond of the Intellect-
uel nad the physical We Iny the emphash on chemiral, bocsuse a chemienl compound differs from culier of its ingredients it u not a mechall-
leal mean between them, but a new substance
minimum, even of poor daincs, wbile no good quick easy gnit, moving pour right foot well up
darymso should be satisfied short of one hun- towards the manding grass, and your body wuh
It, though leaning hack, by bending the knees
This proposition may starile inme who are slow to believe, bat as the doctrine that what has weight to benr upon the trythe without twig- ting the body from right to left, as many do
been done can be done again, holds good in this as in other matters, there can be no good reason thus giving ense to each clip, and an ability to
fence, in the list and greatest crisis of
heir peril, bad called forth all his enet-
the world if ho kept active and always at it. But it is so oo langer A man must be reason ably active to succeed now, but he must be more -he must be n philosophier. The more intel- lect he ran put into composition with his action the better, an. Twithout a good ded he is rou wer. luft out of sight, los!
Co TO Woak -Some people are at loss w list itry shall do with themeeles. To dispose of themselves tothe beast advantage, they will ake n map Nothing to do . What are you lwert for 1 What doyou live for ? Up, bary bones, and to work ! The world is alive-men re upon the tun, things move by railway speed. We want you There's a wheel lo inakd
-hieren jule of wood to chop-there a tichl to plow-In. re some elothis 10 weave, barrels, goad- Jus k. peppuns hate, houts fidille-michs, horse? .hoes, kiel trung rods telegraphs, railways, all 'se in I hincry of domestic and literary life misst he inaile and repaind, to keep the world in mo- Up for you will be run over! Up! ha somethien-dupout your eyes move your pegs go to work. 'fyll Ingen your ideas-you'll begin to lire-the Loud! will begin toppenlass cch will come in. Don't sit there dozing. onning life aune in n kind of half direant. You'd wa'e up ani fiat yourself ilend one of thero Liye unless yon stir out House up-sinka
man who had lately surived in this entry, and high- shout deep .- Itovon Transcript
rows, made to sull. msi01+150 mi's of lauter or an average tin liul,1 w quem o in handred And cighis poand per cola Among lis cow. were ofr tho year- oll, powoilnee years oht
only in the hour of our blindness and dis- obedience anil nf his oun wrath
Another great man has fallen in our land, ripe indeed in years and iu honors: but never itrarer to the American pro-
Mr Roswell Spinning, al-a in the immediate [pir ilrin when called from the theatre of
the pastures, and, like his neighbors, takes got d e re of his cores all of the Mar
Ilere, then, are three esimples of successful
r -ulis in butter making, showing what may he once our proper duty an.] best con-oli- tion. It is almo-1 half a etutury since
he passed through Clulcothe, then the!
seal of government of Ohio, where I nas
a meinl er of the Legi-latute, on Ins way
bin pew direcity in front of Pat shout. 4 Poly. ""this --- isi ve divil, tujoined l'at with his louit whr-per, which was heard by the minister. be dacent, omil dot.'. make a bin kguard of your-
"The person grew more and more fervent
The only the descon mitered an
audi'sle gronn .Il-s-4. ve blackguard, bave ye
no decency nt all, soad Pat, at the saine nionient
giving the descon a punch in ibe siles, w
call-44 lam to nearly lo-e his cqualibrium. 'T'he npe
NEW PROCESS OF MAKING BUT-
YEA your veorrence, shouted Pne,I will and suit- ing the netion to the word he collared tho deacon
& to the niter horror and Astonishment of the
pastor, hrother Ingally and the whole congregs-
though it has been my fortuno often to tion be draged him through the nisle and with a
Irt mendous kick a posteriori as the logicians have it be landed him in the vembule of the
son. At his dairy recently , a quantity of erearu titat lind obstinately refused 10 become butler under any reasonable or
lic good, unul seeking to nilain it during all the vicissitudes of' a long eventful life. That he excreused a powerful influence,
Brother Ingalls muzzled It is not probable hat he has seen the interior of a country church unreasonable amount of "agitation" in the usual tnode, was nt length emptied into a clean 'salt-bag' of coarse linen,
DISTANCE Of TITE Soy -Imagine a tall and deposited in ibo ground at the
within the sphere of his action, through
the whole country, inderd, we all feel
way from here to the sun How many hours is the sun from us ? Why, if we were to send a hahy in an express train going Incessantly at & depth ofabout Iwelve inches below itus hundred miles an hour wabout making any surface, to conl. On the following mor- stoppage the baby would grow to he & man- ning it was found that the buttermilk. had entirely seperated and disappeared, anıl the butter remained in the bag per- nectly niro and sweet.
Whether music be the food of love depends
altogether on what h's made of Flageolets may do for such u diet and so may harps and guitars, Try a hand organ on the contrary, and discovery may be easily tested .- Nrto " Farther," saida rouglt boy, "I on will not furnish nourishment to love, but In desperation, A youth of our nyseistanch ones won the admiration of a pink spencer by a single ngh of a Ilute The same air on & French harn Bedford Mercury.
of the nudicure, tlec sliniil vareo of his mother " as
hunet samling from the isVery-'Ichabod ? sauel bas, and all these will not save you, if
as summer moos beht, Cupid and country hors- to Lung alko fogliened by noise and bass every time sho drinks it she blows me
drom>. cy mabals of clar goste up "Go to bed innucdiately "
Atn meding of . Rappers,'the oil es evening, ils this enty . a new leaf was mraed. A gentk man who had been "almost persuaded" to believe in the doctrine of quritual manifestations. but was, withal, somiewhint incredulous, took it mto bis be a to call for the spirit of on old acqunintance ul lus, by the name of Ton ser, wtwo died several years ago. Muchto hisastonishment, the ghost of tho derased respondudl, giving intelligent in que sio the gor stione proponmed, nul to the -ull greater astonivinient of the believer, the louhter then explained slint they 1 a 1 been com- munirating with the spuit of a dufunet dog.
"This is an netul fact, and if u fails to comfort El e dupes of a web ly spread bumbug. It will, at
least, hare a tendency to increase their respert for a nenty diseveral rare of inorials. Who, ifier this, will treat Ines dig as inferior to himself, or nun up his nose nt Bologna sausages: "Theto despiece baks,it is now demonstrated, are bur thu mortal cod uf canine spinis called from the
weary chase below to the endle is repose of elys- ian kenpuls
An exchange paper says the a lul of fifteen why sanniers nbont rum shops, smokes cigars chews tobien, drinks wine, or falls in love with a lady much older than hunself, is "rotten before
TER .- Mr. James Stubbs, of Cutty- hunk, informs us of a new and simple process of making lutter from the cream which prouuses to supersede the labor ol the churn, at least during the warm sen.
« usc in which be was engaged as counsel for the Ifecdant came on nta certain day As he was insufficiently prepared, He was very anxious to have the case pouponed n & w ilnye, thathe might have farther tine for this purpose Un
ed unless some extraonlinary rensen was alleged I'mper these circumstanes, he hethought hit "Now. young men, sco what genteel tippling .elf of an expedient Ring with his kanilher. Ins done for Edward A. Haunegen. Was lie Ich f to hit face, he addissed the judge In accents n wenk-minded men " Ilns bc, in public life, uf greni apparent emonon-'Mny st plense your lown any want of tiumners ? Will you
hovor. I have just love Informed that my mothi- him a fool, and then dare follow in his er is na tho pedif of death My emotions ore loo steps " You have friends nrolind yon-o bad be pol into a deep narrow dish ,and if it be desir-
hundred pounds_per cow. The average sales
the dead and for the obligations of the having, would equally rebuke such a course. The serverity of Truth is nt
The world precdes, it disappe: r !!
Heven opcys un my eyes-my ears Wah -pund- - craphic ringig
Lend, letri your wings! I mount 1 fly " Oli grave where i, thy victory? Of death, where is why ati g'
Tai me die the death of the righteous
and let my last end be like his-
AV IRISHMAN'S MISTAKE.
"X"##Fifhondent of ihr "Boston Iteralt tell> the following good story
a few months ago as bothering Is of Swamp. trot was traveling dnough the we -1- re part of The State of New York, he fill in with an hi-hi-
Mr Penge Hitching
luc fer .. Mr 11. ferds n le'ye meal to his caves the s; r ng, until the gr. "allurde a full bile And in the antnene, na the fu it fails, feeds 5off- stalks, from corn sown browhast. and cut and fl green. This be considers a very profitable
Mr. President. again has an impressive
Ja kunbed and mapping come to teach us that in the mindst ol lite we are in itrath The ordi- uary labors of this hall are suspended,and
its contentions hushed before the power uf liim who says to the storm of' bunve passions, as he said uf oll to the waves ol Galitec, peaer, be still. The l' -- on-
of be Protich ner, sevres as they mit
ple per enw. to ff +.mi brcome mieretrat greensteht ... that vluch is now spreading sorrow
CLAY AND CASS.
Il ws well known that au intimacy and
heation
We chanreit a few ilays ao to call on three
two eminent statr-man. When it was announced in the Senate that Clay wa- no more, Mr. C'ass snid, --
ible ta kay, in the beautiful language :1 the llo mo of the dying Cristian alying but over livig Iamaplane
respcet on necount of his family connec -.
and fifty pounds, Is maiher ashinned to name ilin quantity, and can seldom ricollert caneily hun kept in tirst rate osder
ru-C In this age of improvement we insist that Up 30 As to admit of moving on, measure the
one hundred and fifty pounds should be the utmost capacity forward of your scythe, 1ske c
died and seventy-fiveto two hundred pounds. a little forward, so as to bring your whole
been reached, but they are certainly respectable
arul we will theuk any of our readers who have lose better, or who know of those who have lone better, to coinmamirau ibe facts for put
u signed to the will of Providence, fee-
cherished and freshly remembered when appearance you don't entch a pig play- these marlile columns that surround us,po ing the dandy, nor picking Ins way up oflen witnesses of his triumph, but in a muddy streets in kid slippers, Pigs few brief hours, when Itis mortal frame have somo excellent traits of character.
ation on ilic subject, especially by old inco and foro the great destroyer; when these stupid enough to worship him for it. Their only question seems to be-Is he'
SUCCESS TY BUSINESS-A successful bus
rwhat in hisbehalf-but at this moment, to the berninifiture of the Lawyer audl the amusemeat who insulted hin
red by our tadway nt the Creation to go from
lo take his place in this very body which os li-tuing to this feeble tribute of regard from one who then saw him for the first t'ie .levonons
nol he disturbed in this way , will coine one put
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then recently erected by Hiram B. Smith for a tin-shop,1 and on the 24th of July, 1852, sent forth a small paper of four pages, twenty-two by thirty-two inches to the page. Typographically it was a handsome sheet, clean and legible. In his salutatory he said : -
"The publication of this paper is commenced, not to encroach upon any other in the state, nor with other than kindly feelings towards all, but simply because the interests of this section of the state seem to demand it, - not merely for the advantage of a particular party or interest, but more especially as a universal business medium. . . . In politics we are Democratic ; waiving personal preferences and preju- dices to the popular will and for the public security ; demanding of our public agents a strict construction of, and prompt obedience to, the constitution of thirty-one sovereign states ; against appropriating the public funds to sectional and private purposes, whether appealed to by specious pretexts of internal improvements, or the more frank and honest avowals of speculators ; in favor of a tariff that bears equally upon all branches of industry, and against a tariff for the protection of monopoly and aristocracy."
And on these lines the paper was conducted while under his con- trol. Mr. Eastman was but twenty years of age when he engaged in this venture. Notwithstanding his youth, he speedily won a prominent position among the newspaper fraternity, attained in- fluence in the councils of his party then dominant in the State, and was appointed aide de camp on the staff of Governor Baker in 1854, with the rank of colonel. As an editorial writer he was elegant, persuasive, and sometimes eloquent, and his appeals were rather to the intelligence than to the passions of his readers. After conducting this paper successfully for two years, he achieved such a reputation that his services were sought by publishers of papers exerting a wider influence, and he disposed of the "Reporter" to Bass & Churchill in 1854, and became for a time assistant editor of the "New Hampshire Patriot," and afterward filled a similar position on the " Vermont Patriot," then conducted by Charles G. Eastman at Montpelier, until 1857, when he went West and was employed on the "Daily News " of Milwaukee, Wis. There his work attracted the attention of Stephen A. Douglas, who induced him to go to Chicago and accept a position on the editorial staff of the " Chicago Times," then the leading Democratic journal of the West. In 1861, with others, he established the " Morning Post," in the columns of which he advocated the war measures of Lincoln's administration
1 Now Lynch and Richardson Block.
.
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with great ability. Regarding the suppression of the Rebellion as the vital issue of the time, and the Republican party as the in- strumentality through which the Union was to be preserved, he became a member of that party, and gave to it not only the con- siderable influence of his paper, but all the energy and ability he possessed, and soon became prominent in its councils. Upon the passage of the Internal Revenue Act, he was appointed Collec- tor of Internal Revenue for the Northern District of Chicago. When General Grant became President, the first appointment made by him in the Postal Department was that of Francis A. Eastman to be Postmaster of Chicago. He was also a member of the commission appointed to build the State Prison at Joliet, Ill. Aside from these appointive offices he was elected a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from a Chicago district, and for four years was a member of the State Senate. Mr. East- man has since been connected with important journals in New York and California, and is still engaged in successful editorial work in connection with the press of Chicago. His family resi- dence is at Los Angeles, Cal.
Under the management of Bass & Churchill in 1855, the " Am- monoosuc Reporter " became the " White Mountain Banner," which was conducted with vigor until 1859, when its publication was discontinued and its subscription list transferred to the "New Hampshire Patriot." Mr. Bass remained in Littleton for several years, conducting a job printing business and serving as town clerk in 1861, 1862, and 1863. In 1866 he removed to Plymouth, where he now resides. Mr. Churchill, who was a practical printer, came here from Vermont and remained only a few months.
From the first appearance of the " Ammonoosuc Reporter," tlie Whigs were ceaseless in their efforts to establish a newspaper to advocate the principles of their party. The result of the pres- idential election of 1852 disorganized that party and rendered their attempts futile. But the turn in the fortunes of political parties, which soon followed, caused a renewal of their efforts, and in the spring of 1855 sufficient capital was secured to in- duce Henry W. Rowell, a Vermont journalist, to undertake the publication of "The People's Journal." The first number was issued June 6 of that year. This paper was slightly larger than its rival, but presented the same general appearance and char- acteristics. Mr. Rowell was a son of Dr. Richard Rowell, and acquired his education in Waterford, his native town, and also at the Seminary in Newbury, Vt. He learned the printer's trade with L. J. McIndoe, who was a publisher of newspapers at New-
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bury and Windsor, Vt. Shortly before coming here Mr. Rowell was editor of one of these papers, "The Aurora of the Valley." He had also for some time been one of the Vermont correspond- ents of Garrison's " Liberator," and seems to have been in accord with many of the distinctive principles of that paper.
In his first editorial he makes this announcement of his pur- poses and principles. He first declares his independence of all party cliques and politicians, -
" his purpose to present matter containing sound and wholesome doc- trines, whether it be found in the creed of one party or another. . . . At the present time there is not, in our judgment, a question of public policy more protuberant before the people than that of American Slav- ery. ... We believe that the slave power has for many years con- trolled the affairs of the nation, and it is high time to check the onward strides of this monster, and establish freedom more generally.
" We believe that American principles should rule America, and hence the foreigner who lands upon our shores with ideas and prin- ciples inimical to our government, is not fit to hold places of re- sponsibility and trust until he has become thoroughly Americanized, which to some extent may be brought about by a change in our natural- ization laws, which we shall accordingly favor. We shall wage no war
against Catholics as a religious denomination. Let them enjoy the full sunshine of their idolatry and superstition, but their workings against our political institutions while under the power and control of the foreign potentate, with a view of perpetuating their own despotic power, we shall strenuously oppose at all times."
After promising to furnish his readers with the most reliable local news and general intelligence, and inviting his patrons to favor him with political correspondence, he closes with a declara- tion of his purpose to make a paper which the people of Grafton and Coos Counties cannot afford to be without. To these declara- tions he adhered during the five years in which he controlled the paper. For some time he gave about equal space to the subjects of slavery and the " foreigner," but as in the course of events the former increased in importance the fear of the Pope gradually faded away, and he gave his whole attention to slavery as the dominant political question of the hour. The local news of the paper was confined to political matter, in accordance with the pre- vailing practice of country papers.
Mr. Rowell was a direct, forceful writer, and judicious in the selection of his themes, always keeping on a level with the under- standing of his readers. His paper was conducted in such a man- ner as to render it useful to his party and a credit to the town.
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In November, 1860, he disposed of his interest to William Davis. Mr. Rowell was active in politics aside from his newspaper work. He was elected Treasurer of Grafton County in 1858, and re-elected in 1859. He was a member of Governor Goodwin's military staff in 1860-1861 with the rank of Colonel. At the outbreak of the war he was appointed recruiting officer for the towns in the Ammonoosuc valley. In 1862 he removed to Washington upon receiving an appointment in the Interior Department, and subsequently removed to Rockford, Ill., of which city le was clerk. In 1879 he established the " Daily Herald " at Decatur, Ill., and in 1881 was clerk of the General Assembly of Illinois, and the same year was appointed disbursing clerk of the House of Representatives at Washington. He was rotated in the time of the first Cleveland administration, and was later made clerk of the Senate Committee of which Senator Cullom was chairman. In the Presidential campaign of 1896 he sup- ported Mr. Bryan. He died in 1899 at Brightwood, a suburb of Washington.
These papers were established as party organs, and as such received a party support. They were undoubtedly useful in per- fecting party organization and keeping up party enthusiasm. But before the expiration of this period Boston and New York weekly journals, particularly the "New York Tribune," " The Day Book," " Boston Statesman," and " Weekly Atlas," had secured a large circulation here and exercised a wide influence. The circu- lation of the " Tribune " was not confined to the followers of the party whose principles it advocated, but numbered many Demo- crats among its subscribers. It was a large eight-page paper, that devoted considerable space to agricultural matters, and was fur- nished to subscribers for a dollar a year. The last two considera- tions were mainly instrumental in increasing its circulation in this section, especially among Democrats. Greeley's force and logic gradually made an impression, and were instrumental in influen- cing some to change their party associations. Several farmers with large families, who were Democrats by inclination and inheritance, were among this number, and with their boys became ardent Republicans.
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