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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-30
ELEMENTS OF SANITARY POLICY.

LIININI
SPREAD OF SMALLPOX IN THIS CITY-UNDERGRoUND
DRNs REOCCUFED-A NEW CEMETERY-THE
ABArrOR SYSTEM OPPOSED BY TaE EAST SIDE
BUTCHErs.
The regular meeting of the Board of Health
was aca yesterday. ana much important business was
transacted The Sanitary Bureau reported that the
plumber oi inspections Tor the past week had been 2l9i
TIE disiufectug CORPS visited 60 premises where oont
eious dis ascs found, aud disleeted 50 houses
The corps has dsiufected 1924 miles OF street-Gu
rs ana q cellars and easements. The following Is
comraratye statement OF or contagious diseases
reported az sanitary Bureau for the two weeks end
NJ sept A; a..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-30
CONSTITUTIONAL coNuNpRUMs.

To the Editor OF Fhe Tribune.
SIR As you cracked one constitutional nut
this morning relation to the Presidency snail give
you another, once thrown at their lecturer Oy the
students Of a law school. foreign-born citizen Is
eligible to the Senate The Senate elects Its president
pro tem The Constitution says foreign-born citizen
is ineligible to the Presidency, but also, In certain
contingency, devoves that office upon the President
pro tenn Of the Senate the Senate elects foregn-oorn
citizen. -. - =,
The case occurring Ia he eigibef And II yon say ne
not, which do assume. but inquire, then II me
speaker Of the House dead and the senate not 10 ses
sion their pro TENS resignation ahu eject
another, who would be Presdentf
Ss.o- York, Sept. 70. 1874 ANOTHER 5ObscHibEh'
Mr.. Woods of independence, Iowa, had a
stiff eg but the other day accident happened 10 hun
which wrenehed the Joint and now he has recovered
full use OF the limb.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-05-14
DETERMINING THE VITALITY OF
SEED CORN.

A correspondent Of the Western Farm
er says:-"On the upper side of the ker
mel, or the side aext to the tip Of the ear,
is q cove or ldentation. At the bottom
of this cove lies the germ. and very near
the surface, being covered with little
else than the thin hull of the kernel. If
the seed possesses vitality this germ will
be plainly visible in the form of a narrow
rounded cord or stripe, running from the
head Of tie cove towards the point of the
kernel, and usually of a darker color than
the general surface Of the cover. |; is
not necessary that the germ should form
ridge though the bottom of the cove.
It's appearance is more as If embedded in
the kernel and slightly covered with a
semi-transparent surface. If the enamel
Of the cove is bright and smooth and thi.
line visible, we may be sure the seed will
terminate. If the surface of the cove Il
/ dull and wrlnkled and no lime visible
It will be useless to test it in earth. Lee
any one not accustomed to observe these
i. dications, take a bright, sound ear ans
decidedly unripe one, break them il
the middle, and look at the kernels il
the break on the stem halves and he will
st once see the difference. By this rul
| have selected seed from the CRIB iron
amidst much that was unsound and wit
unsailing success. Many doubtless IN
= derstand al this; but it may be well t
repeat II this time
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-05-14
HOW TO DRESS A TURKEY

Take board four feet long, one and q
halt feet wide, bore an inch hole in the cen
ter, about eight inches from one end saw out
d strip from this end to the hole, about one
Inch wide, or wide enough to admit the neck
of the turkey. Place this board on a barrel,
with one end againso your hips. Lay the
turkey on this board on his back, with its
neck in the slat and head underneath then,
with sharp knife, cut it's throat under the
board Chat the blood may be out of the Way):
take the turkey by the legs, draw steadily,
to keep its neck in place, raise it from the
board, that it need not be bruised, and
commence at once 10 pull out the tail and
wing feathers, and by the time it is done
kicking you will have nearly all the feathers
of. You will find they will; come off nearly
as easy as If scalded. The pin feathers, if
any, should be taken out at once. When
dressed, carry to tie house, lay the carcass
upon the table, on tie back, with its wings
in position, wipe dry, and when you get
through, call your wife, and you may be sure
of her approving smile.-M. N. ", Hardy,
of Neao Hampshire.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-05-14
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

Our veteran Bryant-we will not say Mes.
tor of the poets, for classical as Mr. Rryant's
tastes are, he must be heartily tired of this
mparison--ls now in dis aightieth year
but is scarcely inferior in physical vigor 10
what be was in his prime. sThe other day
we watched him walking down Broadway,
with step as firm as that of young man,
and with q pace that outstripped every one
else on the pavement. The poet, with his
slight little figure, the mass of white hair
that fell upon ais shoulders, and the white
beard that swept his breast, staked on,
a most picturesque figure, passing old men
and young men, slow walkers Sand swift
walkers, without the slightest indication
of age, infrmity, or fatigue. We watched
him until he wastlost IN the crowd. but to
the last we saw him keep mp hisyactive step,
overtakng and passing not merely the slow
loiterers, but all the hurryiug business people
Of our thropged highway .-AppIeton's Journ.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-05-14
THE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER.

l The Marquis of Westminster, whom Mr..
Gladstone created Duke, is the richest per,
son In England He owns nearly all Vests
minister, and his wealth is fabulous He is
thrifty nobleman. Some years ago gentle.
man saw him at q railway station, where he
bought copy of the Echo, price one-halt
penny. He gave the boy threeepenny
piece, and waited for his change. The bow
had no half-pennies he could not make two
pence half-penny change. He had nothing
but pennies and II the Marquis took two
pence he would lose half penny. In the
midst OF his embara ssment the train for
which his lordship was waiting rolled into
The station. 1.-The did not go by 1t he would
have to visit some moments. But he waited.
60" he said to the boy and get some halls
pennies will wait for your return" And
wait he did for the next train. The new
Duke is forty nine years old. He has a son
and heir. Earl Grosyenor, who has just come
OF age, and WHO spends the. paternal e.. 8. d.
as chesrfully and eagerly as the paternal
'S"AA0 snsan' .n@ -
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-05-14
PARTICULARS OF DR.. LIVINGSTONE'S
DEATH. ~

i DR.. Livingstone's body servant, niaJwara
gave to the British Consul at Zanzibar some
interesting particulars Of the last days
the great explorer, The Consul communica-
ted the fact to the London Geographical
Society in letter, from which we make thf
following extracts: As
DR.. Livingstone had been weak and aliine
since leaving Unyanyembc, and when pas
sing through the country OF Ukabende, Of
1.-THE southwest Of the lake, he told MajWars
| (the boy given him by Stanley. who is no"
In my service), that he felt unable to go or
with his work, bat should try and cross tie
hills to Katanga tKatanda p and there rest
endeavoring to buy ivory, which, in all TIL;
country,isvery cheap(three yards OF merriam
buying slave or q tusk), and returning tc
UjJi through Manyuema to recruit and reo1-
ganize.
| But as he approached the northern part Of
Bisa "a very large country, arriving In the
Province Of Ulala, he first had to take tc
riding donkey, and then suffer himself to
| be carried on a kitanda (native bedstead
which at first went much against the grain.
During this time he never allowed the boy
Majwara to leave him, and he then told that
faithful and honest fellow that he sho1ld
Leyer cross the high hills to Katanda. He
called for Susi and asked how far it was to
the Luapula, and on his answering "three
days." remarked, che should never see his
river again"
On arrival at Hala, the capital of the dis
trict, xhere Kitambo the Sultan lived, the
party were refused permission to stay, and
they carried Livingstone three hours march
back toward Kabend, Here they erected
for him rude hut and fence, and he would
not allow any one to approach him for the
remaining days of his life exceptMajwara and
Susi, except that every morning they were
all desired to come to the door and Say,
"Good morning"
During these few days be was in great
pain, and could keep nothing, even for q
moment, on his stomach. He lost his sight
so far as hardly to be able TO disting uish
when light was kindled, and gradually sank
during the night of the 4th of May. Only
Majwara was present when he died. and he
is unable TO say when he ceased to breathe.
Susi, hearing that he was dead, told Jacob
Wainwright to make note in the Doctors
dairy OF the things found by him Waius
wright was not quite certain as to the day
Of the month, and as Susi told him the Doc
tor had last written the day before, and he
found this entry to be dated April 81; but,
on com pairing his own dairy on arrival at
he found it to be the 4th of
May and this is confirmed by Majwara,
who says Livingstone was unable to write
for the last four or five days of bis life. l
fancy the spot where Livingstone died as
about II % degrees south and q degrees
east /; but, OF course, the whole Of this is
subject to correction, and although have
spent many hours in finding it all out. the
Doctors diary may show 1t to be very iml err
feet.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-05-14
NOVEL READING.

Use fiction as you would spices In your
diet. No man takes q qusrt.of cloves, nor
exhausts the cruet. at a single meal: These
things may be used with moderation to sea,
son ones food VITA, but they are not to be
used alone; and SO fictions, while they are
not to be resorted to exclusively, NAV be
used with discretion to season life with.
II you find that using them brings'you back
to duty with m ore alacrity, with more cheer
and with more aptitude, IL you find that
it makes you better in your relations to YOU,
fellow-men, then it does not hurt YOU. and
you are at liberty to uss them. But If yor
find that using them makes you morose |
you find that ~ gives you distaste TO
work ;ifyou find that it inclines you to rn,
into hole that you may get away from you
fellow~men If you find that it make yo,
unkind, disobliging, and selfsh-then 70,
may be sure that whether it Injuries any
body else Or not, it Injuries you'll "
/ Beecher.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-05-14

credibllity. 1t must rot be supposed by
those who are not professionally acquainted
with this kind of lesson--which often causes
so much interest to the practical surgeon
that fracture and new joint of the kind
now referred 10 could have been of recent
date or made for purpose. There were in
reality all the indications which the expe~
renced pathologist recognizes as infallibie,
such as the ttenuated condition of the
great fragments common under such circum>
stances), and the semblance Of new joint
but actually there was small! fragment
detached from the others which bore out
Livingstone's own view that the bones had
been crushed .nto spiinters.' Having had
ample opportunity of examining the arm
during life, and conversing with Livingstone
On the subject, and being one Of those who
entertained hopes that the last reports Of
Livingsto2e's death might, like others, prove
false, approached the examination with an
anxious feeling regarding this great and
most peculiar crucial test. The first glance
at the lett arm set my mind at rest, and that,
with the further examination, made me as
positive as to the identity of these remaiLs
as that there has been among us in modern
times one of the greatest men of the human
race-David Livingstone
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-05-14

ABOUT CHRRRIEs.-J. ). Thomas, in Ooun.
NY 0entlemaD, says:-F. r. Elliott writes
70 'no Boston Cultiyator and Justly com
''enus the Rockport as one OF the finest and
most valuable Of all cherries, and pronoupces
.ns DlacR Hawk greatly superior, at least
TOT proonctivensss, to the Black Eagle. INT
~ naraiy understand why he shOIIld snnr
pose Tug Early May OF the West is the Flerrn.
lsn, ~ me latter is q late as well as pecnli.
ar 3, var variety gy Or why he should say that the
P Pnsssa aartarian Is omitted by the American
ats rroS society, Ia whose catalogue it Il
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-05-14
EXPERIMENTS WITH SEEDING PoTA.
TOES.

In 1870 | planted some balls from the
Peachblow potato, from which have raised
some very excellent kinds. One ofthe hills
biossomed the first year and bore balls, /
planted them the next spring. and had seven
different varieties one kind is very early.
4 planted them by the side Of the Early Rose
ana tney rlpened two weeks before it. They
arc smooth potato Of good size and excel
ieh1 mayor. have one variety, Seeding
rom the Peachblow, which is great yielder.
Iralsed 90 bushels from one peck. have
aos aoout oo different varieties, which I in.
tend TO plant this spring. fara.faa 80
o "a Co., n r. I. INGERsoN. /
--Rural Nsso Yorker.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
An OLD YEAR SONG.

As through the forest, disarrayed
By chill November, late 1 stayed,
A lonely minstrel of the wood
Was singing to the solitude:
Iloved thy music, thus i said,
When DER thy perch the leaves were spread;
Sweet was thy song, but sweeter now
Thy carol on the leafless bough,
Sing, little bird thy note shall cheer
Tn sadness of the dying year.
When violets pranked the turf with blue
And morning filed their cups with dew,
Thy slender voice with ripping tril
The budding April bowers would fill,
Nor pass its joyous tones away
When April rounded into May;
Thy life shall hail no second dawn
Sing, little birdi the spring is gone.
And I Observation-Disclosures
Thy full-blown summer roundelay,
As when behind a broidered screen
Some holy maiden sings unseen;
With answering notes the woodland n
And every tree-top found a tongue.
How deep the shades! the groves how fair!
Sing, little bird! the woods are bare.
But now the summers chant is done
And mute the choral antiphon;
The birds have left the shivering pines
TIC fit among the trellised vines,
Or fan the air with scented plumes
Amid the love-sick orange-blooms,
And though art here alOne,-alone,-
Sing, little bird the rest have flown.
The snow has capped Won distant hill.
At morn the running brook will still,
From driven herds the clouds that rise
Are like the smoke of sacrifice,
Erelong the frozen sod shall mock
The plowshare, changed to stubborn rock,
The brawIing streams shall soon be dumb
Sing, little bird! the frosts have come.
Fast, fast the frightening shadows creep,
The songless fowls are half asleep,
The air grows chill, the setting san
May leave thee ere thy song Is done,
The pulse that warns thy breast grow cold,
Thy secret die with thee, untold:
The lingering sunset still is bright
Sing, little bird twill soon be night.
Atlantic for January.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Coal Gas.

The inflammability of gas obtained
from coal was known long before the
idea was ever entertained of turning the
discovery to any practical purpose. The
miners were practically acquainted with
the existence of choke-damp and fire.
damp long before the establishment of
the royal society, and the earliest no.
tice of either is in their transactions +"
in the year 1867. In ga description of
a well and earth in Lancashire taking
fire by a candle approaching to it i'm
parted by Thomas Shirly, ESQ, an eye
witness" the writer correctly attributed
She exhalations from the burning
well i TEgen, in Lancashire, to the
the county mt Soon after d ST. that part of Of
the arguments of Shirley, actually
made coal gas, and described the re-
suits of his experiments in a letter to
the Hon. Robert Boyle, who died In the
year 1851. He distilled coal in a retort,
and the results were, to use his own
words, phlegm, black oil and a spirit
which he was unable to condense, but
which he confined in a bladder. These
are precisely what are found now, with
simply an alteration of names, the
phlegm being water /; the black oil, coal
tar and the spirit, gas. Clayton sever
al times repeated the experiment, and
used to amuse his friends by burning
the gas as it came from the bladder
through holes which he pricked with a
pin. It is strange the hint so plainly
given of the infiammability of coal gas
did not suggest the practicahlity of
adapting it to useful economic purposes
until so long after.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Direct Trade with Brazil,

Not the least important of the COM
mercial projects now brought before the
citizens of the Mississippi valley, is
that of the establishment of direct trade
relations with Brazil, and especially with
the great valley of the Amazon. It is
a matter worthy of thoughtful consid-
Grafton. To effect q regular interchange
of commodities of the two largest val
legs in the world, the one in North and
the other in South America, would open
up new sources Of wealth and inaugu-
rate a commercial prosperity not hither-
to enjoyed by the merchantiIe classes of
either country. The vast amount of
the park of the cinchona and other med
ical barks and herbs obtained near the
sources of the Amazon, which is now
imported into this country from Gallo,
Peru, around Cape Horn and via New
York, if sufficient interest were taken in
the matter, might be foated down that
great river, and Para and New Orleans
brought into direct commercial rela-
tions.
Thi 8 ubject is already attracting a
large measure of attention from the
commercial bodies of New Orleans,
Vicksburg and other cities south of us.
In a movement calculated to bring about
so desirable a consumation, st. Louis,
with it's large wealth and commercial
enterprise, cannot be Indifferent. The
prosperity of New Orleans, as being our
seaport, cannot be advanced without st.
Louis participating in that prosperity.
The destiny of the two cities is closly
interlinked, and the making of New Or
leans instead of New York the seat of
one trade with South America and the
West Indies, cannot but prove benef-
cial to st. Louis, which is destined to
become the grand distributing mart of
imported commodities for the whole
Mississippi valley. The Brazilian trade
is very important. 1t is at present car
ried on by the merchants of New York,
Boston and Baltimore. Why not by
the merchants of New Orleans and st.
Louis? There is no other reason for
the continuance of this state Of affairs
than the indisposit on to move energet.
ically to control a business which natu-
rally belongs to the cities of the Missis-
sippi valley. We hope that our mer-
chants will promptly respond to the de-
sires of the New Orleans chamber of
commerce in this undertak ng.-St.
Louis Republican.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Locking up Ore and Goal Lands Un.
der Bogus Leases.

There is a large and dangerous class
of swindling spectators against whom
the owners of ore and coal lands in
newly developed sections need to be
warned, and we invite our exchanges in
the southern and southwestern states to
aid in giving publicity to what we shall
have to say concerning them. The spec
ulators to whom we refer, having neither
capital o credit, have devised a means
of specializing in desirable mineral
lands by securing control of them I'M
der bogus leases. When a new country
is opened which promiaes rapid develop
ment, they rush in and prospect for the
best veins. Finding such as are likely
to increase in value within a reasonable
time, they represent themselves either
al capitalists or as agents of capitalists,
and induce the owners of the lands they
want to control to give them long leases
of the mineral deposits thereon. They
agree to assume all the expense of open
ing the mines and providing facilities
for the transportation of the products,
and promise to pay royalty of ten cents
per ton, or more, OF all minerals mined.
The offer seems a fair one, and the
swindler is usually able to so impress
his victim that the latter readily falls
into the trap. Should he KAYE any sus-
picions, however, his accommodating
capitalist" will cheerfully obligate
himself to begin work within six months
or a year, and to take out a certain
amount annually when the mines shall
have been fairly opened and a given
amount raised. The bargain concluded,
the swindler puts the lease in his pocket
and goes off. If he is not under obi
cations to open the mines in q certain
time, he does nothing them; if he is, q
days work with n man and a shovel
fulflls the terms of the lease. He has
no intention of opening the mines at
any time. The lease has cost him moth
ing, and he holds it until the value of
the land shall have so increased that he
can sell it for a good price to some one
who wants to open the veins and work
them. In the meantime, the minerals
are locked up. The owner of the land
cannot dispose of them, and he is often
kept waiting for years in poverty and
disappointment, while his neighbors are
growing rich upon ores and Goals not as
good, perhaps, as his Owl. He is pow
erless in the hands of the rascal who
has swindled him, and who has obtained
for nothing a valuable lease which he
holds until some one will buy him off
and release the mineral wealth he has
locked up. Hundreds of thousands,
perhaps millions, of acres of valuable
mining lands of the south are thus
leased to irresponsible adventures, and
capitalists who seek legitimate and
profitable investments in lands, mining
operations or iron manufacture, must
take the second choice or paw these
remedy for this evil except to put the
owners of such lands on their guard.
Designing knaves will always find fools
to swindle, doubtless, but if their ras-
cality is exposed, some will be warned
who might otherwise become easy vic
Tins through over-confidence in specious
Misrepresentation Iron Age.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Norway and Sweden.

Never could more dissimilar nations
be united under one government than
Norway and Sweden. Norway clings
with the most absurd tenacity to old
things and old ways of doing them,
while Sweden is ready to advance with
the rest of the world. The difference
appears strikingly on the line of rail-
road between Christiana and Stock
holm. The road is about 400 miles
long, of which, say, 100 are in Norway
and 800 in Sweden. The time for ex-
press trains is about twenty hours. OF
this, something like eight hours is taken
for the Norwegian 100 miles, leaving II
hours-really, only IL hours-for the
Swedish 800 miles, OF u miles against
25 miles per hour. But most of the
travel in Norway is by the very old
fashion of carriales and post-horses, the
principal roads, under government care,
being in good order, and the speed
averaging, with push, six or seven miles
per hour. The American consul in
Christiana-which is the only live part
OF Norway-is trying hard to get our
mowers ana reapers into use there,
though thus far with Indifferent sue
cess. In Sweden these things are being
taken hold of with somethinHc like free1
dom. The Swedes are, evidenNv q
continuing and mechanical people, and
in such things very much in advance of
their neighbors. They are just the kind
of people to be at home in America, and
the very best kind of people America
could have. In both countries, as well
as in Great Britain, 1 heard the loudest
kind of lamentation over the great mi
grafton to America. Lack of laborers
causes strikes and high prices, they say,
and reduces the means of the old coun-
tries and the values at the same time.
Land, generally, seems to have touched
it's highest point everywhere on this
side Of the ocean, and to be falling with
no little rapidity, and with an even
diminishing number of purchasers. OF
course, I speak generally and not par
ticularly. What shall we do about ii?
seems to be an absorbing question, in
each of the countries through which I
have passed. The story of success in
America flows back from every pen ; and
those who remain, having friends gone
before, are in nearly every case anxious
only to get away themselves.