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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-05-15

Ao IL IfeiButs uuiet. Otochs uull
and feverish. Money 3. Gold 12.
Exchange-long IS; short 4.9l. 1.
Governments aud State bonds dull.
7 p. M.-Cotton quiet aud hrm;
sales 2.494, ut IS3S(0l9. Southern
flour without decided change in price.
Wheat steady, at l 6OQ9i6l for winter
red Western. Corn 10. botter-S3(0SG
for new aud old Western mixed. COT
fec dull and nominal. Sugar heavy
and nominalIy lsc. lowcr-75sQ177a
for fair to good refining; s for pflme.
Molnsses quiet and unchanged. Rec
quiet and stendy. Pork tirmer- new
mess II %. Beef quiet. Lard firmer.
at 1895. Whiskey irmor, ut 0S(0
9Sia. Freights to Liverpool lower.
Money easy, with large supply aud
limited demand, Mt 3l%. Exchange
dull. at 4.SS. Gold 12lsU0l2L. Go
vernments dull aud lltlle off. Suites
quiet and nominal. Cotton-net re.
ceipts G94; gross Sl3 Futures closed
firm; sales 40. 100: May Is 3.1G(Q
IS 1882; june is 5.1G0l8 81; July
Is 1882; August l90l0 l-l6.
Sr. LOUIS, May 14.-Flour quiet aud
unchanged; low and medium grades
scarce and wanted. Corn frmer, with
good speculative demand-No. 2 mixed
68@69 on track aud in elevator, cash.
Whlskey opened at LOO aud closed ut
81. Pork firm, at 1875.
CINCINNATI, May l4.-Flour dull and
unchanged. Corn dull. ut 72@73.
Pork quietly 62I(0l7.75 offsred,
but held higher. Lard frm-country
kettle IL; city held at 1IL(0llL:
steam nominal. Bacon firm-shoui.
ders TOTS; clear rib 9zs; spot 10;
buyers fret week in Juue-clenr 10k
@102s Whiskey quiet-94 bid; So
asked.
LOUISVILLE. May II Flour quiet
and unchanged. Corn 84@86. Pork
17.75. Bacon quiet aud unchanged.
Lard III fair demand and higher
tisrce 11N@l124; keg 1lI@l2
Whiskey 95.
BALTIMORE. May 14.-Flour un-
changed but more doing. Wheat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06
L9custs and GrasshOppers.

The New York Herald of the 18th
inst. has the annexed article on the sub
ject Of the pests that are prosecuting
some Of the Western States this year:
THE nostrums suggested by agricul-
tuIal authorities and claimed to be safe
guards against the grasshopper and To-
too dangerous for common use Paris
green is no doubt unwholesome to the
grasshopper, but its arsenical ingredients
are deadly TO the farmer and deteriorat-
ing to the soil he spreads it over. Expert
ment has shown that such poisonous sub
stances cannot be safely used unless in
diluted form and in small quantities. The
eXpensiveness of all chemicals, even
those which are harmless, sends the farm
'er to some simple and mechanical means
OF cOntending with the evil.
1t is questionable whether the inva-
>sions of grasshoppers can ever be pre-
vented in some portions Of the West.
These insects are bred in myriad num-
bers on the Rocky Mountain slopes and
protected by the snow covering of the
soil until the genial weather of spring
arrives and they can go forth on their
In their breeding places
they cannot be reached But when
colony has moved eastward and deposited
its eggs in the soil they may be attacked.
1t is said that in the Southwest the
spring crop Of grasshoppers has some
times been cut off by deep blowing and
turning over the layer of soil upon the
eggs to crush them. This expedient,
especially if repeated, may be etfectual
But the great aim Of the agriculturist
ought to be to expose the soil and sub
soil to the freezing temperatures Of winter
and spring. Were it possible to remove
the snow so that the intense cold should
penetrate the earth, the deadly effect on
all insect life lying dormant there would
be very marked. 1t is not necessary in
the Northwest that this should be done
in midwinter, for the March and April
winds are frigorifc enough. 1t appears
likely, therefore, that the farmers who
can turn up their fields while the cold
weather lasts would have the best pros
pect of escaping the ruinous presence of
l0custs.
1t is strange that, with all or boast
of the progress of agricultural science
and entomology, the public is all in the
dark and knows not how to contend with
the insect foe. The evil of this locust
invasion is so great and so alarming that
every effort should be made to devise a
remedy What can our Agricultural De
partment suggest"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06
Exceptional Foods.

DIR. PAW, in his work on Good and
| Dietetics," deyOtes a chapter to the emu
meratiOn of the exceptional animal foods
eaten in different parts of the globe. We
learn from it that almost every creature
living, however obnoxious, is, in some
country or other, esteemed dainty or
useful article Of diet Spiders are eaten
by the Bushmen and inhabitants of New
Caledonia. Grasshoppers are eaten by
the Bushmen and Ute Indians White
ants are highly relished by the natives of
Australia and the tribes along the banks
of the Tonga. Bees are eaten by various
| peoples. The MooFs of West Barbary
consider the hOneycOmb filled with young
| bees great delicacy Several varieties
Of moths are in favor with the Austria
lians; one species, called bugong, having
! large and unctuouS bodies, is preferred
| by them to any other article of food.
| Caterpillars were eaten by the ancient
Romans, and are still III favor with the
South Africans. Grubs of all kinds are
devOured by the Australians The chry-
sails of the silkWOrm is food for the
Chinese.
Locusts are eaten in great quantities,
bothfresh and sailed, by the Persians,
Egyptians, Arabians, Bushmen, North
American Indians and others They have
strong vegetable taste-the flavor vary
ing with the plants on which they feed.
Dr.. Livingstone thought them palatable
when roasted. Diodorus Siculus and
Ludolphus refer to a race of people in
Ethiopia who subsisted on lOcusts.
Ludolphus remarks "For it is very
sweet and wholesome sort of diet, by
means,Of which a certain Portuguese gar
risonHin India that was ready to yieldfOr
want Of provision held out until it was
relieved another way" Madden states
in his Travels: " The Arabs make a sort
of bread of locusts. They dry them and
grind them to powder, then mix this pow
der with water, forming them into round
cakes which serve for bread" Snails in
Europe and slugs in China have repu
tation as delicate articles of nutriment.
Lizards, snakes, frogs dogs, cats, mice
and birds nests are eaten by the Chinese.
loads are eaten by the South Africans,
and a large frog called matta-metto,
which when cooked looks like chicken.
Sea-urchins are much sought after as food
in different parts of Europe, and sea-cu-
,cumbers are eaten by the inhabitants OF
China and the South-Sea Islands.
A tribe,Of Ottomacs on the Rio Negro
Subsist principally during the rainy sea-
son upon a fat, Unctuous clay found IN
their district. The japanese also eat this
clay, made into thin cakes, called tana-
ampo. Ehrenberg found that the clay
consisted chiefly of the remains of fresh
water animals and plants of microscopic
size. A kind of earth known as bread
meal is still largely eaten in Northern
Europe; and a similar substance called
mountain-meal has been used in North
enn Germany in times of famine. Va
rious tribes of Africa eat clay in the in
tervals between their meals, preferring
that which;is taken from ant-hills. The
inhabitants of various countries are ad-
diced to the use of clay-the natives of
Australia being VIGOROUSLY Sc
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06
LaSsOing Cattle.

The great herd, numbering about 5000
head, is huddled in the middle of the
open plain, and the propTietors and vac
QuerOS are riding around them. What few
tootmen there are present keep well out
OF the way, for these Spanish cattle have.
great curiosity to inspect mans heels
Their long, slender. shining horns are
held alOtt, and with dilated nOstrils they
sniff the coming prey. One of the men
says to a vacquero: D." You see that bic,
black fellow, with a crop and a slitint the
right and an UverslOpe in tie left? Bring
him out" The vacQuero rides into the
herd, gradually worms the animal to the
outer edge of the band. then suddenly
Clapping spurs to his horse hunts him
with the greatest HwittnesS out into the
open; then the trained horse, eager and
deGghting in the chase, follows his every
motion so closely that the animal, though
lodging like wounded hare, finds itself
driven straight forward. Another owner
recognizes one of his animals, and the
same process is repeated with this one.
There are a few to be branded. and
as there is no corral to cOntine them in
they are compelled to resort to the MeXi-
can plan. The animal is first separated
from the herd, and then q vacquero rides
him down and lassos him by
the horns Another rides up and
lassos him by the hind legs, if
he is skillful enough, or if not throws
one side of the loop on the animals back
and the other on the ground behind him,
and he presently backs into it, when it
is quickly drawn tight. Then the two
horses set out in opposite directions, the
animals hind feet are pulled from under
him, and he comes down, one would think
at the imminent hazard of breaking his
backbone. A man Tushes up with a
branding iron, claps it on his right hip,
where it makes a cruel singing and tiz-
zing.
1t is frequently a good deal worse bust
ness to get away from him than it is to
catch him, especially if he has fight in
him, and he generally has by this time
The brander gets out of the way; while
the two hOrsemen are holding the animal
tight with the lassos around their POM
mels and the horses at a dead set third
rides up, the lassos are slackened little,
the one around the horns is slipped off,
and the man instantly mounts his horse.
before the animal can rise, and fees,
while the raging brute struggles free
from the other lasSO, and perhaps gives
chase. Thus both laSsOS are recovered
and everybody gets of with whole skin
One of the most extraordinary feats
performed consisted in TIE lassOing of a
sucking calf with a loop fifteen feet
across. 1t requires great skill to throw
a lassO with such an enormous loop, and
it has to be hurled lonC distance to mar
row down sufficiently to catch so small
an animal In Texas l have seen man
lassO prairie dog, but he used a small
rope and very small loop.
One of the men executed a feat which
would seem incredible 10 a person who
had not witnessed it. Riding at full
speed across the plains, nearly abreast of
a steer, he spun the lasso ahead and took
in both his fore feet, bringing him down.
with raking plunge on lis nOse.-C6r
Cincinnati C0mnqerciGL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06
FDREEGN.

Madrid dispatches of the Doth say terrible
landslide had occurred at Alara, in the PROV
ince Of Navarro The 0verhanging rocks had
fallen upon and utterly destroyed the village.
The disaster was 50 sudden that few if any of
the inhabitants escaped. Over 200 corpses
had already been recovered.
Madrid dispatches of the 9th say that
forty-one Carlists, most of them ecclesiastics
or members Of the nobility, had been arrested
at Barcelona by way OF reprisal against the
conduct of tAe Carlists 1t was also reported
that the Carlists lad recently been defeated,
with great loss, by the Republicans. The 10
cality was not given.
The international Peace Congress convened
ut Brussels on the 9th. Baron Jomini pre-
sided over their deliberations
A London telegram Of the 2Sth announces
the burning of the warehouses and landings
upon Great Princes dock. Loss 900.
According TO Berlin telegram Of the 28th
the German Government had been actively
engaged i'll negotiations aiming at the sup
preston of the Carlist instruction. Germany
was trying to bring about the concurrence of
the great powers in recognizing the Spanish
Republic
Madrid dispatch of the 2Sth says it was
reported that the Carlists had shot 235 of the
prisoners captured in Catalonia. A Bayonne
dispatch Of the same date says that two col
umns marching to the relief of OlOt had met
with a repulsc at the hands Of the Carlists.
in the French Assembly, on the goth, mo-
ion for the dissolution of that body was de
feated by 81 yeas to 81 nays.
A Lisbon dispatch of the Doth says the
Portuguese authorities had taken active meas
ures to prevent violations Of the frontier by
the Carlists
A French paper lie Temps, of the Goth, as
serts that England Germany and Italy had
agreed to establish joint surveillance over the
Spanish frontiers.
Belfast Greland) dispatch of the 3Oth
avs an extensive strike OF the operatives in
the flax mills had occurred and that the
magistrates were apprehensiye of riot. Sew
cral bakeries had been Quilted and the
authorities had asked for 400 additional po-
licemen.
According to London telegram of the
30th Italy had demanded of France the recall
of the war-ship Orcnogue, which that Govern
ment had stationed at Civita Yecchia as {
refuge for the Pope in case Of necessity
4 Bayonne dispatch of the 3Oth says the
Carlsts had won a great victory over the Re.
publicans near the frontier. Losses not
stated, but heavy on both sides The Car
lists deny that there is any truth in the re.
ports charging them with atrocities at Cucn-
ca and elsewhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

a clerk in the Treasury forty years ago.
John A. Graham, the Assistant Register,
William Hemphill Jones, the Deputy
Second Comptroller, Tom Smith, Benz.
f. Rittenhouse and John n. Lovejoy are
all old stand-bys. Loveioy is, | think,
the oldest. He is in charge of the ar
chives or flies and records of the depart
ment. met the old man in Washington
lately, his long, thin hair as white as
snow, his CounUenance still cheerful, his
movements active, his memory stored
with two generations of Treasury tradl-
tions. But these old pillars of the de-
partment are rapidly falling into dust,
and the places they have so long and gal
lantly held against the rush for office
succumbing to the inroadS OF younger
and fresher men.
Those who seek clerical office may be
properly divided into four classes:
/. Those who seek it as a means OF
livelihood while they are preparing them
selves for some other and more promls-
/ ing career, such as that of lawyer, ply
! stefan, civil engineer, architect, etc.
/ There are many of this class in Otfic e
| and, as general thing, they make toler-
/ ably worthless clerks ALI their thoughts
are for the profession for which they are
preparing themselves; none for the Gov
eminent that pays them. The moment
! the eye OF their superior is removed out
! pops hents Commentaries or WOODS
| Therapeutics from their desks, and the
! theft Of public time, which has been In
terrupted for moment, is renewed.
go. Those of low, nervous tempera
ments, intirm bodies. or broken constitu-
tionS, feeble, wounded, sickly, or old
men, who are untitled for the battle OF
outside life and seek the friendly shelter
Of the departments where the hours are
easy, the clerical requirements of the
commonest sort, and the employing con-
Germ not apt to give up business or go
into bankruptcy. This class is also a
large one.
%. Active young and middle-aged
men, competent, industrious, quick and
traCtable. This class, OF course, forms
the elite of the clerical civil service; but
it is small, and, no matter how constant
! ly recruited, is kept small by withdraw
ais in pursuit Of more active careers than
the departments afford.
o. Ladies'
"Of these classes, the ladies' under
skillful and iudicious management, make
the best clerks. But such management
is rare, and taking the departments as
they are actually managed, taking them
as they are, and as they will doubtless
remain, the second class is that one
which, everything considered, is the
most to be relied upon for effective work
1t seems an odd thing to say that, in so
large a service, the invalid class is par
ticularly the best, but in addition to the
facts already referred to it must always
be borne in mind that there is no promo
; ton for clerks in the departments be
yond the grade of clerk, and that first
rate men will not remain in a service
which condemns them to never-ending
| Suh0rdi nation y
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

those not found have been washed into
the Ohio River
1t was known that upward of thirty
five were missing along Saw-mill Run for
distance of about two miles, while
there are still many more missing.
About one mile from the Ohio River,
up Saw-mill Run, was found the body
of Mrs. Sample, wife of Stephen Sample,
d coal miner. Her body had drifted
about one mile from her home to where
it was recovered. When Mr. Sample
first noticed the rising of the run last
evening it was between nine and ten
o'clock, and thinking his home was IN
danger he spoke to his wife and told her
they had better leave it; but so sudden
did the torrent come upon them that,
when Mr.. Sample tried to save her and
their child, the true mothery love
shone forth in this instance as 1t has
done IN many others, and she told him
to save the child, which he dld, ana IN a
few seconds his wife was carried away,
and he never saw her again until ner re-
mains were found Her features, like
all others, were terribly bruised which
shows the sWiftnesS VITA which the
waters were running.
At the Thirty-fifth Ward schoolhouse
lie the bodies of four more OF the vic
Tins A father and son lay together
/ The fathers name was Thomas BrlttOn,
about fifty years of age; the sons, VIM.
BrittOn, a boy of about sixteen years.
| These bodies were found near each
other, and Of this family, which numbered
six, there have been but two bodies
found. Agnes Hunter, q young girl about
fourteen OF fifteen wears OF age, was also
found near the two former bodies, and
near by her was the body Of Mrs. Eliza
beth ThrOpp, wife of Isaiah Thropp; and
never has calamity set harder on any
family than on this one. Out OF family
of eight there was not one left. The
body OF Mrs Thrdpp is the only one SO
far recovered. Her husband and six
children all found a matery grave by the
torrent which dashed their home away.
A short distance above the Thirty-tifth
! Ward school-house were lying the bodies
/ of Joseph Conner and Betsy Dill. When
! they were first found the woman had 8
| tight grip on the lapel of his coat, anG
4 the inference was that he had been try.
! ing to save her life and had lost his own
Both their features were terribly bruised
| and swollen, with marks and cuts il
/ them, as though they had been dashed
against the Jagged and rugged rocks
which project along the course of the
run. Mrs. Dill was a widow woman, anC
was living with Conner in the capacity
Of a house servant.
The following is a recapitulation Of
the losses of life and property thus fal
reported: Butchers Run-Found, "a
missing, 7G; Woods Run-Found, 5
missing, 4; Castle Shannon Railroad
Found, 10; missing, none; Ohio River
Found, 4; missing, none; Soho-Found
l; missing, none; Charters Creek
Found, IA; missing, 3; Bridgeville t.
Washington County-Found, "a; miss
ing, 3. Total buildings destroyed, 147.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06
PER SRNAH.

LincOln's monument at Springfield is to be
dedicated on the 18th day of October next,
the day ON which the Army Of the Tennessee
holds its reunion.
A New York dispatch Of the 9th says that
Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in an interview
with reporter, had said that Mrs. Tilton had
confessed to her that she had maintained
Illicit relations with Mr.. Beecher. On the
2Sth Mrs. Tilton pronounced the statement of
Mrs. Stanton utterly false" At five O'clock
on the afternoon Of the 2Sth, according to a
Brooklyn dispatch, Mr.. Tilton was arrested
upon the charge of publishing a malicious
libel concerning Mr.. Beecher, and his bail
fixed at $500.
A Philadelphia dispatch of the 2Sth says
that the Peoples Fire Insurance Company of
that city had suspended in consequence Of
the fact that the Manager, and Treasurer had
left for parts unknown"
Nicholas Staaden, one of the Chicago in
cendiaries, was indicted forth crime of ar
son by a special Grand Jury on the both.
Holmes IL Iissburger, of New York, one
Of the mosteNtensive metal firms in the coun-
try, failed on the Both. Liabilities very large
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06
POLITICAL.

A State Convention of Prohibitionists is to
be held AT indianapolis, Ind, on the Sd Of
| September.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th says
that an agent of the War Department sent to
Vicksburg, Miss, to investigate and report
on the election troubles there had returned a
report that it was not case warranting the
| interference of the Government
| The Delaware State Republican Convention
was held at Georgetown on the 2Sth, DR.. Isaac
Jump was nominated for Governor, and J. R.
Lopland for Congress.
The Democracy of Illinois will meet at
Springfield in State Convention on the 26th
of August
A call has b4en issued for State Conven-
ton of Michigan Democrats to be held at
Lansing on the 10th of September.
Hon. G. l. Fort was nominated for Con-
gress by the Republicans of the Eighth Hi
nois District onthe 30th.
The Michigan Prohibitionists met in State
Convention at Lansing on the 30th, and NOM
mated the following State ticket: Governor
G. B. Jocelyn; Lieutenant-Governor-T A.
Granger, of Van Buren,; Secretary of State
S. W. Baker, Gf Clinton; State Treasurer
James l. Mead, ef Lansing; Auditor-General
Joseph Newman, of Macomb County; At
tomey -GeneraI-Albert Williams, of Ionia;
Commissioner of Land Office-Thos. s. Skin
ner, OF st. Clair; Superintendent of Public In
structiOn-JOh Ohm Evans, Of Eaton: Member Of
the State Board of E@Ucation-John D. Lewis.
OF Bay. The convention adopted the plat
from of the National Prohibition party.
The Alabama State Democratic Convention
assembled ut Montgomery on the 3fst uIt
and nominated B. D. Lewis and w. II. Forrev
as candidates for LARGE
The resolutions announce that the action Of
the radical portion of the Republican Marty
necessitates the union of the white neorIa in
seh-defense; acknowledge the rights of all
classes under the Constitution and laws
but reject social union or equ&itv: denounce
the so-called Civil Rights bill as
fragrant and dangerous invasion of the
conservative principles of a free govern
ment, and palpably violation of the Con
stitution; view with adherence the attempt
TO take possession of the schools, COLLEGES
churches, hotels, railways, steamboats,, thea
tiers, etc, for the purpose of establishing
negro equality; invite white immigration;
urge the enactment of laws to secure wages
to employees of railway corporations, and
pledge economy in the State Government and
| the payment OF every dollar justly owed by
the State when it is able to do so.
Hon. !. NJ. Carey was nominated on the 31st
ult. as Delegate to Congress by the Republi-
cans of Wyoming Territory.
| ALABAMA is calling attention to her
| peNly-dlscoyered coal-beds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06
Clerks in the Treasury Department.

Mr.. ALEXANDER DELMAR, formerly Di-
rector of the United States Bureau of
Statistics, publishes in Applet0n's Journal
"Recollections of the Civil Service" in
which he discourses as follows concern
ing the United States Treasury Depart
ment and its clerical force:
There are a great many old stand-bys
still in the Treasury. John F. Hartley,
the Assistant Secretary, has been in
office more than thirty years. James
Brodhead, the Second Comptroller, was