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70 ne Edtt0r OF TIC IFt0 U"t,
SIR: have been from childhood up, more OF
less a reader Of TIE WEEKLY TRIBUNE, and think II
The best Journal OF lie class Whatever IT'S adyersares
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WIDE world than any other paper In existence. After
me laneuted death OF it, ilusuiOus founder, was
Eated 20 learn that hs late associates ana assistants
were determined 10 make the future TRIBUNE near
what Mr. Greeley would have made Il had ne lived as
pOssbe and 10 seemed only an act OF Justice ana
respect 10 hun that 10 should be thus. EdtOrs pub
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yOu success In the great work lett you 10 accomplish
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L u L L.. l. Il

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FULFILLING ITS PROMISE.

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"ruE STATE OF LIFE.n

To the EdttOr Of The Tribune.
SIR: We, too, are pleased to be again in
receipt Of familiar old friend TIE TRIBUNE. In my
family it is neeessity minds it bread for the
body the staff of life Horace Greeley always my
political hero and in hearts he is remembered as
tyne OF what humanity should be. j. T. FAWCLTE
Gilman, D., Feb 10 1873
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Thomas Kinsca, whose subject Is 20 be Thomas JET
fcrson, and the Statesmen of his Time Compared with
the Statesmen Of To-day"
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I'LL FOREMOST EXPONENT OF ADVANCED AND
LIBERAL THOUGHT.
70 the Editor OF The Tribune.

SIR: l presume you are tired Of receiving
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The lectures tins season. particularly struck by
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NTH lecture with that OF one OF your coteuporares'
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my best wishes Tor your success. C. l.. VREDEEBUEG.
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Remedy for Cold Feet.
CURRENT ITEMS.

THE Baltimore Anserican is 100 years
old. s.
HUsKs are worth more than corn in
Iowa.
THERE are 116, ,1O2 paupers in the
United States. Fs-t
The State debt of Pennsylvania is
SIG, 521 ,039.O3.
ONE bushel of corn in Massachusetts
is worth five in Iowa.
THE art of weaving was introduced
into England in 1880.
THERE are in the United States and
Territories 100, 900 dogs.
MEMPHIS owes 81, All, 900, and is I'M
able to raise the interest.
The circulation of the blood was dis
covered by Harvey in 1919.
An eight-year-old girl recently COM
mitted suicide in Savannah, Ga.
TIE number of criminals convicted in
the country last year was 36, 562.
THREE million dollars are invested in
the seed business in the United States.
THE opium eaters have an organ at
Laporte, Ind, called the Meriaki, pub
lished quarterly.
IT is suggested that the name of Bar
NUNS Museum should be changed to
Burnem's Museum.
PosroFFIcEs were established in
France in 1854, in England in 1881, and
in Germany in 1641.
UNCLE SAM had over $74, ,0O0. 900 in
coin salted down in his kitchen cellar on
the first of the month.
Iowa returns higher average yield Of
corn per acre, for 1872, than any other
State, being 4OS bushels.
New YORK killed a man each week
during the past year, and has four dead
ones ahead commence 1873 with.
CALIFORNIA has decreed that in that
State male and female teachers snail
receive equal salaries for the same
labor.
One firm in Parsons, Kan., has shipped
East 1852 grouse, 11,0OO quail, ITO
rabbits, 1907 ducks, 593 squirrels, 727
turkeys aud 1878 pounds of vension.
The conductor on Pennsylvania rail
road train discovered can of nitro
glycerine, wrapped in an old overcoat,
lying in seat in the car. It was let
down in the snow very carefully.
THERE is no disease SO fatal on the
Western border as an excessive fondnesa
for raw horse flesh belonging to other
people. The victim is cured the same
as dried bcef-hung up to dry.
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MODERN CRESUSES

Here are some Of the rich men OF
Gotham: fsss,5s ..,s,,,4 IL
Alexander T. Stewart, over $2O, ,0OO, ,OOO.
George Law is worth &c, ,OO0, ,0s0. 80 9
Abel A. Low is in for 81, ,OOO, COO
Peter Cooper is worth $4,000, 600. $
Cornelius Vanderbilt. Nobody knows
how rich. le4i ~
Daniel Drew can draw his check for
100000
The Brown brothers are worth from
s12, 900, 600 to $15, COO, 600 each.
Horace Clafin, Of the firm Of II. B.
Clafin & Co., is worth $15, ,0oO, 600,
probably $40, ,OOO,O 900.
William B. Astor beats Stewart. He
owns upwards of three thousand houses
in New York city.
Henry N. Smith, broker, has cleared
in the last twelve months upwards OF
s., ,OOO, 900, and Jay Gould is on the
books for half-a-dozen or more millions.
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you goin' to use that iron. on him ?"
"Well, I am"

'you goin' to use that iron. on him p
"Well, am"
BE sure, then, that you're quick
about it, for he's got Sam Ogle's ole
musket, and it kills at both ends"
He had scarcely finished his sentence
before he and my other friends suddenly
rstreated, for the fearful Jackson ap
peared from behind clump of trees or
the opposite side and Immediately
brought his revolutionary relic to bear
but was so long getting it off that had
time to get out of range by falling or
my face. The gun exploded with fear.
full roar, while perfect hail storm OF
shot and slugs ratified through the viii.
lows about the spring. I intended re.
turning the fire, but my enemy was out
of sight. I supposed that he had re-
treated to reload, but looking closer ]
saw him prostrate upon the ground with
his two legs up in the most extraordinary
position-the revolutionary relic had
kicked him over. Then getting upon
all fours he began crawling away. ac-
CELEBRATED this with shot that was an
swered by a yell, and then getting to
his legs he began running, when gave
him the second barrel, that was respond
ed to by a yet shriller cry and an in
creased speed that my party cheeered vo-
ciferously. Long as Jackson remained
in sight he was covering the ground at n
tremendous gait, and my friends fairly
danced with delight for as he ran, from
time to time he felt behind with his
hands as if worried by something ex-
ceedingly unpleasant in that part of his
person.
That night I left Rocky Ridge never to
return. I learned that hundred and
forty small shot had been picked out of
his back by a horse doctor armed with a
pegging awl and pruning knife, and be-
fore the year was out I received the
pleasing intelligence that he and my di-
vine Polly were made man and wife.
gave him good Endorsement and Polly
my love-
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THE SANTANA BAY PURCHASE.

A number Of wealthy gentlemen con-
ceived the idea, some months ago, of
purchasing SANTANA Bay and Peninsular
of the Dominican Government, and, as
certaining that such purchase could be
effected, they organized a company and
set to work to complete the arrangement.
On the 18th of December last the .pur-
chase was effected and a "treaty" en-
tered into which, in effect, transfers the
Island of San Domingo, as well as the
Bay Of Samana, to their possession.
The company are granted Eabout all the
rights of an independent government,
having their own fing, police, and reve-
nue. officers, the right to construct rail-
roads, charter vessels, collect taxes, ETC.,
and an arrangement by which any dis
pute arising between the company and
the government shall be referred to some
European power for arbitration. The
treaty went into effect the LIST of the
present month. This gigantic enterprise
is something new in the commercial
world, and must have q adispiriting effect
onJay Gould, Vanderbilt, and othersmall
spectators in stocks. When few of our
business men club together and buy a
nation for their private wants, We may
look for new developments in Wall street,
and fresh efforts by railroad kings and
journalists to outdo this last great
achievement. There can be no doubt
but these shrewd men understand what
they are aboat. Capital is very cautious
and sensitive, and the fact that they have
embarked in the enterprise with capital
of $40, 600. 900 will go far to show that
the President comprehended the situ
alton when he told us that the island
would be cheap as Government pur
chase at 81, 100000. The action of the
company may open the road to annex
alton, but this is not its object as ex
pressed by the officers, and it is some
thing of a question if the whole islani
will not soon be under it's exclusive dom
ination, making annexation a matter o
mere form. Since the days of Duk,
Gwin we have had nothing like it, ant
we shall begin now to look for anothe
American company that shall purchss
the Sandwich Islands, overturn tn,
American regency that now exists there
and set up model republic. 0icag'
| Inter Ocean.
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FOREIGN GOSSIP.

TENNYsoN is engaged on q new poem.
In Edinburgh street-cars are lighted
with gas.
The number of dogs taxed in England
is 1,197,94i
ASwEp1sH Countess is going to search
for Livingstone.
ApA1Ly English journal is to be estab-
lished in Hamburg.
GERMANY has eleven periodicals print
ed in the English language.
ALTOGETHER six plots for the assassin
alton of Napoleon were made.
The cholera is reported to be steadily
advancing in Western Europe.
AT Matow, China, recently, 115 crimi-
nails were beheaded in two days.
DIsRAEI was three times taken out of
the Bankrupt Court by his rich wife.
THERE were over 200 strikes among
the Berlin workingmen during 1872.
In Russia there is school accommoda-
ton only sufficient for one child in four.
In the late great storm in Paris lady
was blown through plate-glass window.
NJ. DE LEssEPs projects another ship
canal-this time through the Isthmus Of
Corinth.
NAPLES is credited with having the
most timid soldiers and the boldest
brigands in Europe.
DURING the first twelve days in De-
cember of last year, 449 lives were lost
off the British coast. -
In Pesth, the other day, q youthful
prodigy repeated the Lords Prayer in
twenty-five languages.
A GERMAN pastor has just been con
demned to six months imprisonment
for preaching political sermons from ths
pulpit.& q 80
The Prussian Government has def
nitely decided 70 Danish from Germany
the ladies of the Sacred Heart, regarding
the order as akin to Jesuitism.
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PERSONAL.
FIsK's estate is bankrupt.

FIsK's estate is bankrupt.
BARNUM is full of pluck, but short of
funds.
NAPOLEON was 65 at the time of his
death.
Vanderbilt has commenced chewing
tobacco.
NINE. JANAUscHEK travels eighteen
large trunks.
MISS ANTHONY is not now, and has not
been, in prison.
Rev. DIR. MILBuRN, the blind preach
er, is lecturing in Tennessee.
THE Prince of Wales is said to be q
good husband and father now.
EDWIN A. STEVENS, aged II, of Hobo
ken, N. j., is worth $40, 100000.
V1croR HUGO has big fire and the
windows all open when he writes.
JOHNSON wrote his "Ramblcrs" Just
as they were wanted for the press.
Mr.. FRANCIS, our Minister to Greece,
says Byron's Maid of Athens is myth.
WASHINGTON IRVING composed his
"Stout Gentleman" while sitting on q
stile.
BURNS never wrote his songs until he
had completely mastered the tunes for
them.
ADDISON walked in the long gallery at
Holland House, with bottle of wine at
either end. composing as he went.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER went out into the
fields for his inspiration, and Plato pro-
duced "his glorious visions all in bed. y
TwENTY-RIGHT ex-members of Con-
gress died during the year 1872, the
most prominent of whom was Horace
Greeley.
JAMES TYLER was bankrupt when he
became President. He husbanded his
means while in Office and married a rich
wife, and died wealthy in worldly for
tune.
JOHN P. HALE is confirmed paralyt-
ic, and has softening of the brain. He
cannot leave his room, and will not
probably live great while. He is nearly
81 years old.
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MEYER TOO OLD TO LEARN

Sir Henry Spelman neglected the sci
ences in his youth, but commenced the
study of them when he was between 80
and 60 years of age. After this time he
became a most learned antiquarian and
lawyer.
Boccacio was 35 years of age when he
commenced his studies in polite itera-
ture. Yet he became one of the greatest
masters of Tuscan dialects-Dante and
Petrarch being the other two.
Ogelby, the translator of Homer and
Virgil, was unacquainted with Latin and
Greek till he was past so.
Dryden in. his 3Sth year commenced
the translation of the Iliad, his most
pleasing production.
Fudoyico Monaldesco, at the great age
of 115, wrote the memoirs of his own
time.
Franklin did not fully commence his
philosophical pursuits till he had reached
his 50th year.
Plutarch, when between 20 and 80,
commenced the study of Latin.
Socrates, at an extreme old age, learned
to play on musical instruments.
Cato, at 80 years of age, commenced
to study the Greek language.
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The Boston Journal Of Chemistry
says Field experiments as q rule are
deceptive, unless many circumstances are
taken into account which are usually
overlooked. What is usually known re-
garding the previous agricultural con-
dition of the fields experimental upon :?
What account is taken of meteorological
conditions, dry seasons and wet seasons?
1t is possible for good artificial ma
nure to do positive harm to crop in a
very dry season, while al Indifferent or
valueless compound would do no injury.
1t is therefore apparent that we are liable
to be misled by experiments with fertil-
izers, and that the reports SO frequently
made of experimental labors must be
read with an intelligent understanding
of what is necessary to give such expert
ments positive value.
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AGRICULTURAL
Renovation Of worn-Out Soils.

| Renovation Of WOrn-Out Soils.
A correspondent throws out some sug-
gestions as to the.renovation Of worn-out
soils. more particularly those of the
South, that may be acted upon to ad-
vantage by many of our Southern read
ers. The renovation" he says, "of
our worn-out and tired lands is matter
of no little importance to farmers in this
section of the country (Tennesseel. We
all have lands, not worn out, bn. tired
down by continual cropping, and we also
have lands that may be said to be worn
out, since they are no longer productive.
We now want the best and cheapest plan
of renovating these lands, SO as to grow
remunerative crops. To do this we must
have our lands charged with good
supply of vegetable matter to make the
land lively and productive. This can
only be done by the turning under of
green crops, and afterward judicious
rotation of crops; in doing this we can
only cultivate what lands we can manure
well, or such as have not been exhausted.
So long as VIC cultivate broad acres of
poor land, We shall have such to culti-
vate and none other. Let us take the
worn lands in the fall break thoroughly
and subsoil in the spring plow again
and SOW to peas about the first of June
and harrow in. Turn under the peas
in September and SOW to rye, and pasture
through the winter with sheep; the sec
ond spring turn under the rye at proper
time, and again SOW to peas, these in
turn to be plowed in September; then
in October by sowing one bushel of
wheat and thirty bushels of cotton seed
per acre, and narrowing in well with
clover seed; lightly narrowed in the
spring, you are ready for a judicious
system of rotation of crops, say cotton,
corn, wheat and clover. If lime can be
procured at reasonable prices, it should
be used where green crops are turned
UNDER
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"Agriculture, says the Teras Farm
er, sis making such rapid advances in
this State that two years ago there was
scarcely an agricultural society in the
State. Now there are some lorty Or
ganized, and others in progress of forma-
ton. The great revolution from slave
to free labor, SO far from discouraging
the Southern farmer, has only shaken
him up from his lethargy and compelled
him to be energetic, self-reliant, and
willing to learn everything that can aid
his farming under the new regime"
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Care Of the Horse.

An English groom gives the American
hostler talking to" in this way !:
"When horse comes in all wet with
perspiration, you let him stand in the
stable and dry with all the dirt on. In
England, We take the horse rs he comes
in from drive and sprinkle blood-warm
water oil over him, from his head to his
feet. Then we scrape him down and
blanket him, rubbing his legs and face
dry. Thus, in an hour, he is clean and
dry and ready to take a good feed, while
with your way he will stand and swelter
for hours, and finally dry sticky and
dirty. Our heroes never founder and
never take cold We never use curry
comb. You scratch your horse too hard
The only care necessary is to have the
water not very cold, then bathe them in
stantly, while you are rubbing their legs" :"
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A NOVEL SCHEME.

A Philadelphia manufacturer is pre-
pairing plan for column one thousand
feet high, to be constructed entirely OF
iron, in open work, from the summit OF
which the grounds of the Centennial Ex-
position are to be illuminated by means
of Drummond light. II adopted, 1t
will be the loftiest monument in the
world. s-
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ONE of the wonders Of Chicago 10 the
immense water-works pumping engine,
said TO be the largest in the world. The
big monster is reckoned at ], 200 horse
power. The huge hy-wheel makes,
seven revolutions per minute; and The
pumps bring up $4,000, 900 gallons Of
water every "a hours. The nex water
works consume 10000 tons, or so, 900
worth of coal annually.
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Against shoeinx Horses.

An old farmer writes to the Ohio
Farmer: About thirty years ago, J.
thought horses ought to be shod, and
continued the practice several years, but
by degrees 1 discovered 1 was mistaken.
The facts began to leak ont, one by one,
to prove that it is not best to shoe horses
in places that are free from stone or
gravel. In the first place, horses that
are shod are liable to SO many diseases
of the feet; and next, if they choose to
nse their heels, they have destruction
behind them, and if they happen to tread
on fellows foot, it causes some pain,
especially if they are rough shod, and
unless they are rough shod, shoes are Of
no advantage on slippery ground. A
horse slips worse with smooth shoes than
he does barefooted. And again, in a
soft snow, horses with shoes ball mp so
that they can hardly get along, while a
barefooted horse goes right along.
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line of their nocturnal wanderings, baited
with piece of meat, and they, are al
most sure to follow their inquisitive
noses inside, and may be found safe and
sound thenext morning, and usually with
out having thrown any scent. If they
are then carefully carried to a brook or
barrel of water, and suddenly submerged,
they may be killed without their scent
being let off In this case, their skins
are worth the trouble of trapping and
skinning. If not scented, and duly
cleansed, the fur is quite valuable, and
makes very pretty durable carriage robes.
g. Remedy for Cold Feet.
Soak the feet in warm water, with q
little cayenne pepper in it, two or three
times week. Try this for month, or
longer, if necessary, and you will find it
an excellent remedy for cold feet.
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To Trap skunks.

1. A correspondent Of the Country Gen
tlen,an writes The method of catching
skunks in this section, where they are q
great nuisance, is by batting them in q
large box-trap. Set the trap near the