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The Grape Sugar Industry.

The manufacture of grape sugar has as
sumed large proportions. In Germany there
were, in 1868, sixty establishments in opera
ton, which produced that year 100000
pounds of syrup and 8,O0O,0 900 of sugar.
Since that time other and more extensive
factories have been established, and the Gull
tivation of potatoes for the purpose also COW
ering large extent of territory. The potato
plantations are usually in sandy districts
adapted to their growth. The method pur-
sued in nearly all of the refineries is Identical
The wet starch is first put into large wash
tub, where, under constant stirring for an
hour, it is entirely dissolved in water and
dilute acid. From the washtubs it is run into
vats where it can be boiled by steam--here
it remains for sugar four or five hours, for
syrup two or three hours. 1t is then put into
the neutralizing tanks to be treated with car
Donate of lime and left until the sediment,
chiefly composed of gypsum, has settled this
usually requires six hours. The sweet liquid
thus obtained is evaporated in vacuum pans,
filtered, and left to crystalize, if sugar is to
be made, or manufactured into syrup. The
process does not essentially differ from that
pursued in the United States, where corn
starch is chiefly employed.
The great increase in the wine-grOwing
districts of America has occasioned an en-.
larged demand for glucose, and the manufac.
ture of this article appears destined to assume
large proportions in the United States, where
corn can be obtained in unlimited quantity
Formers Press.
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return to Africa of their own choice and on
thelr OVID application, satisfied that they will
40 better and be more happy there than in
the United States. We do not question that
these emgrants 60 of their own free will, but
we DO think it is unwise to send them, and
that they err in deciding to go. The first OBJ
lection is that this country has need of them.
Our great want is that of manual labor. Ex-
cept in some of the large cities strong arms
and willing hands to do the necessary work of
the fields, the docks, warehouses, and the fac
tories are not over plentiful. Indeed, the
supply is not infrequently below the demand,
and our manifold industries are increasing
and spreading at too rapid rate to warrant
a fear that we shall have an overplus of la
Dor. The South alone cannot afford to be
depleted of its working material. In the
newer and better days which we hope are
dawning upon it, with the curse of sectional
ism e1faced and its vast resources developed
into full employment, it will be drain upon
rather than feeder to the labor market.
There will not be too many workers in the
South when enterprise and industry have
FULLY brought into active use all of its posi-
bllltles TOR the production Ofwealth. Its cot
ton and rice and sugar plantations, it's forests
anu It's mines, its water-powers and it's rail-
roads will sustain very much more numer-
ONS popuiitiOh tudl IL HOW has, anu among
its people in the brighter future there will be
plenty for the colored race to do. For every
able-bodied man of them it sends away from
Its shores now it loses a factor in the coming
product of its toll and thrift. For this reason
alone the Southern people ought to see that
this is the last ship-load of working strength
taken away from them.
Another objection to Liberian colonization
is on the humane side of the question. Re-
suits have not shown that of the thousands
OF c0lored men and women sent from the
United States to the settlements on the
western coast of Africa, even a small num-
Der have been considerably benefited
Taken from their homes in this country,
where they have at least opportunities for
work and the earning of livelihood, to a
strange and tropical land, where all the cir
of climate and surroundings are
to mental, moral, or material
growth, it is not singular that they have been
unfortunate in their new situation, and that
liberia, as benefit to the colored race, is a
failure. The colonization scheme might also
be called plan to aid the RELOCATION of the
negroes to barbarism. The only conditions
under which it was ever worthy of support
and success were abolished by the war; it
has done all the good it may and fulfilled it's
task. If it should fail to send another cargo
Of human beings to Africa not many per-
sons would be inclined to grieve. -Baltimore
american.
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klalVa.


Object OF tho Recent Russian Expedition.
In the excitement of quadrennial cleo
ton few would stop to notice two brief tele-
grams from Europe, one announcing the de-
parture Of a Russian expedition to Khiva, and
the other informing us of its recall. Yet
smaller matter than Russian expedition
against Khiva would, if the opportunity were
fitting, suffice, to reopen the never-ending
Eastern question, and set all Europe in a
blaze of war.
The city of Khiva itself is collection of
three or four thousand mud huts, surrounded
by wall of mud. The Khanate, of which it
is the capital, is surrounded on all sides by
desert sands, and is made to develop scanty
fertility by irrigation from the Jihon river, the
ancient Oxus, which travarses it just before
emptying it's waters into the sea of Aral.
This barren land, peopled by a race as war
like and fierce as our Indians and but little
higher in the scale of civilization, would, for
it's own sake, be simply burden to any
European nation who might become its mas
ter, and its only Importance is as strategic
point on the road to the Indian possessions
Of England. The policy of Russia has been
steadily aggressive in this direction, but it is
much to be doubted whether any further
progress would be worth its cost. The o.
begs, the strongest of the four Tartar tribes
who make up its population, number 10000
tents, and claim to be able to put into the
field 40 900 fighting men. In the year 1889
an expedition was sent against them under
command of Gen. Petrowsky, which persisted
miserably amid the SHOWS of winter, a few
survivors only reaching home.
We have no information as to the cause Of
the present action of the Russian Government
To send an army into those bleak and frozer
steppes at the beginning of winter, in the face
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The Cotton Crop.

The November report of the statistician OF
the Department of Agriculture gives to cotton
prospects substantially the same interpreta-
ton as the October statement. The weather
has been fine for picking. Frosts have been
earlier than usual in the more Northern
States, but an earlier maturity Of the plant
is everywhere indicated, and the past month
has been quite favorable for the development
of the maturing bolls.
While the returns of condition since Au-
gust have been much below average they have
been higher than those of corresponding
months of the previous and very unfavorable
season, averaging in October 80 against &c,
and in September 81 against 80. The No
vember returns give the indicated total pro-
duct in comparison with the small crop Of
1871 and the average made is about 16 per
cent. increase, with an area in cultivation
larger by II to Is per cent. The greatest
losses from the prevalence of the army and
boil worm are found in Florida and Ala
bama. In Louisiana, Mississippi, and GeOr-
gia local damage has also been heavy. In
Arkansas a material reduction Of the yield
was caused by drought in July and August.
The comparison by States with last years
crop is as follows: North Carolina, 121 !;
l02; Alabama, Ill Mississippi, 112; Louisi-
ana, l2l; Texas, l26; Arkansas, los; Ten
nessee, ITO.
Missouri, Virginia, Illinois, and other
States, which together produced fifty-fve
thousand bales in 1860, and in which cotton
culture was stimulated in several subsequent
years, now scarcely yield ten per cent. OF
that amount.
The total production, as indicated by the
returns of the first week in November, is
made very nearly {, 45O, 900 commercial bales.
At that date apparently twenty-five to
thirty per cent. of the crop, or nearly one
million bales, remained to be picked, and
subject to the vicissitudes of the weather,
which might decrease the final aggregate by
beating storms or slightly enlarge it by a
favorable season for opening and gathering
the fiber of the top crop.
The indicated product Of fiber per acre."
as returned from each county, makes the fol-
lowing averages for each State, namely:
North Carolina, 173 pounds; South Caro-
lima, 1872; Georgia, $50; Florida, 125; Ala
bama, 10; Mississippi, 200; Louisiana,
2l5; Texas, 22O; Arkansas, 10; Tennes-
see, 100.
The area in cotton, as calculated for the
returns of 1872, is as follows In North
Carolina, 45O, 629; South Carolina, SIC, 652 !;
Georgia, 1911 1881; Florida, 15S, O99; Ala
bama, 1,3S7,972; Mississippi, 1857 ,6lS;
Louisiana, 94O,2lS; Texas, 914, 269; Ar
kansas, 693, 5l2; Tennessee, $751; COS.
In calculating the indicated product the
average bale is estimated at 465 pounds.
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FECUNDITY OF Ducks AND HENs.-The
English people are noted for raising ducks,
and they often make interesting experiments.
One was lately made to test the relative
fecundity between ducks and hens and to
determine which of tho two would produce
the largest number of eggs in given time.
For the purpose three hens and three ducks
were selected, all Matched in February, and
nourished with suitable food. In the follow
ing autumn the ducks had laid 225 eggs,
while the hens in this case had laid none.
In the following February the laying began
again with the ducks, and continued unin-
terruptedly till August. They showed NO
inclination to set, and became very thin but
subsequently fattened up somewhat. In the
meantime the hens had not been idle. The
total number laid by the hens amounted tc
257, or Sc eggs each; and the ducks produced
1872, or 13l each. Although the eggs Of the
ducks were rather smaller than those of thu
hens, yet they proved to be decidedly supe
rior in nutritive material.
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pSr In one of the New York hospitals
snecific has been discovered for fits, if the
nerson attacked be colored, and that is the
lash. This remedy was tested upon an I'M
fortunate colored lady the other day who
cbanced to be taken i'll on the street cars.
The humane physicians pronounced the lady
an impostor as a justification for applying
their remedy, but highly respectable people
who have known the lady for some time
think otherwise, and demand an investiga-
,;ou. in which demand they are seconded by
the respectable journals of the city.
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ONE of our weekly city contemporaries, has
come to the conclusion, from the admirable
opportunities it has had for forming correct
opinion, that personal abuse don't pay. 1t edi-
fes its readers with some sound moral refec-
lions, in communicating to them, from its own
experience, that it is all vanity and vexation
Of spirit. We trust the lesson it seems to
have learned, won't be forgotten in the new
field of editorial enterprise upon which he is
about to enter.
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Liability Of Insurance mpanlcs ..

The question of responsibility for the loss
occasioned by the blowing up of buildings to
prgsSens the spread of the fire has arisen in
ko eyem. an,fi.s Submitted to the New York
I 1",,,n"i Of ComusGrs, which paper gives the
S oV';,;"n that the insurance companies are
r unless the fire is at such dis
t terp that the probabilities are slight that
the fire would reach the buildings. In that
went the city is responsible for the loss.
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The National Republican.

This journal makes its appearance on its
thirteenth anniversary in a new dress, giving
signs of prosperity. 1t has rendered efficient
service to the Republican cause during the
past campaign, and is now the trusted jour-
nal of the party in this vicinity. Its editori-
ais have been able and its news columns we'll
ND to the standard. Success to the Republican.
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The New York Ecening Mail says: We
notice that our OK teams are generally pro-
nounced a failure in the cities where the
horse disease has prevailed. Now we inn
agine that this is too severe on the mild-eyed
bovine. So far as our observation has gone,
it is the drivers who are a failure. The art
of driving an OK team is a peculiar one, and
our city teamsters know no touch OF it. Ii
drivers had been imported from the rural dis
tricts along with the teams we have no doubt
they would have been made very useful.
We would not venture much on their speed,
but for honest effort in sober way commend
Us to the patient OK.
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THE Detroit Post notices the fact that
New Hampshire, in which Mr.. Greeley was
born, gave Grant G,OoO majority, and that
New York, where he has lived all his active
life, gives Grant $4,000 majority. Mr.. Gree
ley represented Oregon in the Republican
Convention of 1860; that State gives Grant
1900 majority. In Ohio the Greeley Presi-
Dental movement had its birth; the State
gives Grant SO. 900 majority,
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THE New York Times is OH the track of
Senator Fenton. If he have as much sense
as Captain SCOTS coon he will make haste
to come down. The Times seldom fails to
bring down its game, and Senator Fenton
will find his position in the Senate a mighty
uncomfortable one if he persists in maintain
ing it in spite of the Times warning.
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Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is editing a
Library of Famous Fiction, which is to en-
brace in q single volume s'The Pilgrims
Progress, I" robinson Crusoe," "Gulliver's
masterpieces Of English imaginary litera-
ture. Ford & Co. will publish the book, with
numerous illustrations, uniform with Bryaitss
Library Of Poetry and Song.
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How A FARMER MAY LOSE MONEY.-By
not taking good home paper. Keeping no
account of home operations. Paying no at
tention to the good maXim-"a stitch in
time saves nine "-in regard to sowing of
grain and planting of grain at the proper
time. Leaving reapers, plows, cultivators,
etc., uncovered from the rain and sun. More
money is lost in this way than most people
are willing to believe. Permitting broken
implements to be scattered over the farm
until they are irreparable. BY repairing
broken instruments at the proper time, many
dollars may be saved-a proof of the asser-
ton time is money" Attending the
auction sales and purchasing all kinds of
trumpery, because, in the words of the
vendor, the articles are sold "cheap."
Allowing the fences to remain unrepaired
until strange cattle are either grazing in the
meadow or grain fields, or bruising the fruit
trees. Disbelieving the principle Of rotation
of crops before making the experiment.
Planting fruit trees with the expectation of
having fruit without giving the trees more
than half the attention required to make
them profitable. Practical economy by de-
priving stock of proper shelter during the
winter, and giving them unsound food, such
as rotten and mouldy hay or fodder. Keep
ing innumerable tribes of rats on the premi.
SEES, and two or three lazy dogs, that cal
more in a month than they are worth in O
| lifetime.
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Steam Street Cars-An Interesting
Experiment.

The horse disease has turned the attention
of street railway officers to new means for
prOpelling their cars, and on Saturday even
ing an experiment with steam car was made
on the Blocker street line, which, in cOnse-
quence of its sharp turns and steep grades,
offers more obstacles to its successful use than
any other in the city. The trial, however,
was emnently satisfactory to the President
and other officers of the road who made the
trip from Tenth avenue to Fulton Ferry.
Without external aid it easily turned the
sharpest corner, and on the top of the steep
grade in Elm street it was stopped, reversed
and backed down the declivity, returning with
out the slightest hindrance. The car, which
was invented in Newark about two years ago,
is known as the Remington steamcar. Only
one other, which is now running at lion, N.
Y, has been manufactured by the Remington
Company. 1t is of the. size of an ordinary
street car and has nearly the same appear
ance, the machinery, embracing compound
engine of five-hOrse power, occupying the
front platform, which is also provided with a
box containing coal enough for half day.
Only two men, conductor and engineer, are
required to run the car, which can be stopped
very quickly by suddenly reversing the engine.
With light load and on a straight track, it is
said to have run at the rate of twenty-fOur
miles an hour. The car at Ilion has carried
forty persons and drawn second car contain
ing similar number.
The President of the Blocker Street Com
pany is said to be in favor of the introduction
of the car on his line.--New York Erenins
Post.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-12-04
-Just as I'VE expected: the

just as we expected: the
politicians are wroth because
GRANT drew a sponge across the
estate" of CAMERON & Co. CAM
ERoN and his friends went to
Washington to have GRANT ap-
point their man postmaster at
Philadelphia. But GRANT feels
more independent now than he
did before election, and he re-
fused compliance. We infer
from Washington dispatch to-
day that the politicians make a
test case of this case. They
commented severely on the
course of the President, and be-
moaned the sad effect on a great
many old political hacks of a
strict enforcement Of the civil
service rules; If GRANT should
really conclude to play civil SER
vice reform, he would find his
path beset with very sharp thorns
and plenty Of them, The poll
~
ticians elected him and they are
not going to submit quietly to
any such nonsense from him.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-12-04
THE Portsmouth Branch of Il

The Portsmouth Branch of the
M. &C. r. r. has paid in taxes
into the Treasury Of jackson
county, in the Is years it has
been in operation, about 100000.
The additional value it has given
to the lands along its line is
four-fold this amount, thus, in
the short space Of Is years, re-
turning to the county double the
value it cost the county to Sc
cure it. That is what the build
ing Of Railroads do for a people.
Local aid to such enterprises
always pays -Gallipohs Journal.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-12-04
-By way of Shanghai tn

By way of Shanghai there
comes intelligence of fearful fam
inc in Corea. 1t is represented
that multitudes are dying of
starvation. No particulars are
afforded from which an adequate
idea may be formed of the real
extent of the famine, or of its
causes. But in such countries
dependence is generally placed
upon the production of one or
two food staples, and in case of
those failing, distress is felt from
one end of the land to the other.
Such it will be remembered was
the case in Persia recently. The
Coreans are ordinarily poor, and
therefore would be in no degree
prepared for such a calamity as
has befallen them.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-12-04
-"Hard times. money sea

-"Hard times, money scarce y
are what are heard on every
corner, in every workshop, and
among farmers. The financial
policy Of the Grant Administra-
ton has been to tighten the
money market in order to give
its rich friends in Wall St., New
York, the chance TO make their
wealth the more profitable. Pri-
ces are falling, profits are rare,
earnings are melting away, en-
terprise has come to a halt, the
poor have little employment,
farm products are in little de.
mand beyond that of immediate
consumption. Never in the his.
tory Of the country was there q
financial policy more ruinous tc
the business interests than that
Of Grant, Boutwell, & Co. Their
disposition is felt in every de.
partment of trade, commerce
and business. o5quoysl s6d
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-12-04

Are fire and water cOmbin-
ing to destroy us all? In this
country fire has destroyed two
of our largest cities in little
over a year, and in Italy the
most of two provinces have been
inundated, drowning a large
number of people, and rendering
twenty thousand families home
less. With the long list Of dis
asters to our vessels on the high
seas, burning Of steamboats, on
our rivers, and railway acci-
dents, wherein those two ele-
ments play the most important
parts, staring us in the face, the
question above asked, is peril
nent.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-12-04

The amount of coal shipped
over the Columbus 4 Hooking
Valley Railroad to Columbus
and other points via Columbus
(Which of course don't include
any shipments south or east from
the coal fields) during the month
of October, were 5163 cars Of
twelve tons each, equal to 6l,-
S56 tons, or 1,672,812 bushels ;
This is 2200 cars more than the
October shipments from the
block-coal fields. The ship
ments over the Hooking Valley
road for the ten months, includ-
ing October, amounted to 39,46l
cars, equal to 473,532 tons, or
l2,7S6,364 bushels. The Ca
pacity of the mines on the Hook
ing Valley roadis equal to twice
the business above reported.-
Hooking Sentinel. ~ aI"
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-12-04
nrAru or HORACE aRrE1EY.

AT $3.50 p. M. last Friday,
HoRAcE GREELEY closed his eyes
upon all things earthly, and his
spirit winged its way to the
great White Throne, to give an
account of its Stewardship
Ever since his wife's death his
health had been failing; the
giant destroyer of all things
physical was tightening his
chains stealthily but firmly
around his intended victim, and
each day the coils grew closer.
Until within a few hours of his
death, however, his relatives and
friends had hopes of his recovery,
but they were doomed to see
him breathe his last, which he
did calmly, in the bosom of his
family, at the house of a friend,
only q few miles from Chappa-
qua.
The nation mourns the loss Of
one of her most beloved sons. The
newspaper fraternity of the
Union has lost it's brightest or
nament, for as a journalist, he
had no equal, 1t has often
been said that "death loves a
shining mark" and his death is
a verification of its truth. No
more will his voice he heard
ringing through the land, warn
ing the people of the dangers
menacing the national existence
no more will his counsels be
present to admonish, to encour-
age, to assist us in an onward
and upward career of national
prosperity and glory; but his
name and fame will live as long
as America has a history. Mar
BILE monuments will crumble to
dust; generation after generation
will pass away, and be forgotten
but his memory will grow
brighter as the cycles of time
shall multiply. He had done
his duty, and done it nobly.
His life and actions have been
so closely interwoven with events
occurring in this country for the
past forty years, that a history
of one would be in a great part
the history of the other.
Therefore, we have not sufli-
cient space to go into details Of
his life-journey, but will leave ii
to the biographer and historian
to do iustice tn his mem0rv
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-12-04

In 1850, just before the build
ing of the Portsmouth branch Of
the M. & G. r. r. the duplicate
of Jackson county footed up
$1,353,0O0. This year it is
$4,564,0O0, nearly four times
larger. The Railroad was q
good Investment for jackson
county. The people Of Gallia
county, if they are alive to their
own interests, will push along
their Railroad enterprises - Ga-
kpohs Journal. Ahe A