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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-16

ocean Of life for peace win not hesitate
to spend $40, OOo, 900 for prosperity.
But whatever may or may not be ex-
pedient to be done, this much seems GER
tain II the National Government Is to
do anything whatever to cheaper trans
Portstion, only the Republican party can
be relied upon to do it. The Democratic
party has forsworn all such labors.
Long ago they determined the Constitu-
tion would not permit the Government
to remove an obstruction from a harbor
or river. 1t is vain to suppose thew
Will ind now authority to build canals
or construct railways. But we are not
left in doubt as to their present disposi.
lions. Two votes given during the past
session, one in the Senate on Mr..
WINDOWS amendment to the river
and harbor bill, and one in the House on
Mr.. McCrary's railway bill, win prove,
beyond all doubt, that the Democract,
like the Bourbons, have learned nothing
good, even if they have forgot anything
bad.
Upon all these considerations, for all
these reasons, we think you should send
Republicans and not Democrats to the
next Congress. Ifyou cherish the deeds
OF the recent past, and would not see
them undone If you respect the pres
emit, and would not disgrace it; or If YOU
have hope Of the future, and would re-
alize that hope, we urge you to send Re.
publicans, and not Democrats to the
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-16

General Francis A. Walker, late suPerin-
tsndent Of the Census, who was charged by
the FOrty-secOnd Congress with the PrepaEa-
tiou OF . statistical atlas IS an appendix TO
the ninth census, VIII complete bis lahors In
q couple Of months. The work win Be-
upiqus, and win probably. be IS eagerly
sought after as the original volumes Of tie.
osnaua.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-16
INTERNAL REFORM.


The success which has attended the
effort CT this Administration TO effect
internal reform is forcibly indicated, but
only partially measured, by these facts:
First. In thirteen years it has not once
been forced to resort to loans except by
the exigencies Of war. Our rivals in
popular favor, as has been seen, repeat
eddy resorted to loans in time of peace.
Second. In six years taxes have been
RENTED at various times amounting to
more than three hundred millions an
nually.
Third. The principal of the public
debt has been reduced in the same time
BY the sum Of three hundred and fifty
five million dollars.
Fourth. The Treasury note has been
appreciated from 7e 2-lO per cent, its
gold value in March. 1859, to 50 2-1O per
cent, its gold value III March last.
Fifth. In spite Of the financial disas-
tiers which overlook the country in Sep
TENDER, 1873. the public debt was dimin-
ished nearly FIVE millions during the
fiscal year just ended.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-16

NEW MoNEY-oRDER OFFICES.
Nearly 400 additional money order OH
ces have been established, distributed
over the several States, in places where
increasing business required this con-
7enience.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-16

By Congressional act the time for 81.
ing additional bounty claims has been
extended to January 30. 1876.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-16

DEMOCRATIC PROMISES.
Since the early part Of 1872 they have
been diligently seeking to suborn rene
gade Republicanstot turn states evidence
and to swear that all political virtue is
inthose discounted forces which resisted
the progress Of the last decade, and all
viIlsiny is in the forces which marshaled
that progress. To such witnesses they
have lavishly offered honors, Offices,
dignities, presidencies, everything which
could be made the subject Of promise.
To answer to any name; to profess
every creed to follow any flag; to sleep
in any bed to fraternize with all fac
tions; and to offer a salve for every sore
such is the mission OF the opposition
to-day. Never before in politics was a
lie enacted so transparent and SO suda-
cious as that paradsd by the Democratic
party in 1872, when they gravely intro
duced Horace Greeley to the people as
their representative man. 1t isnot pos
sible such "signs and wonders" can
deceive the elect" So far they have
failed to deceive even the electors.
If that party feels it to be unkind to
remind it Of its past career, how must it
feel to be reminded of its present atti-
tudeP Once its members professed
distinct principles; all that could be OBJ
iseted to them was that they professed
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-06-11
pHUNNYGRAMS.

-Venison-" Though lost to sight to
memory deer"
Sleep, slap, slope, are the parts of the
English verb, according to a certain
French professor
IAN right old skilletlegs," said q
Kansas lawyer TO n Judge who had fined
MN Tor contempt,
-" Kissing your sweetheart, says tri-
| fling young man, ais like eating soup
with fork; it takes a long time to get
enough"
-" What are you doing there, you ras-
cal " Merely taking cold, sir" at
! looks to me as if you were stealing ice"
We'll, yes, perhaps it will bear that con-
| struction."
-" Mother" said Ike Darlington, did
| you know that the iron horse has but
one carr" Zone carr Merciful gracious,
child, what do you meang" "Why, the
engineer of course"
"A Connecticut man, whose son was
i'll, appealed to the physician "Do D! mo
him out of it right away, doctor, ,,o
break up the fever at once, even if you
charge rs much rs if he went through =
whole course of fever"
A Sacramento two-year old urchin
found his fathers lead pencil astray on
the floor, and used it until he broke the
point Shortly atterward he addressed
his parent; PA, lend me your knife to
skin dis pencilr'
-" My son, you look like boy who
has been brought up by atiectionate par
ents," said kindly stranger to golden
hu; .,
tone, exclaimed: Do |! just look ut my
backw
Western drinkers put some rock can
dy in bottle, rub the neck with camphor,
and then go and coax innocent druggists
into filling it with whisky, saying: MY
wite's got an awful headache, and wants
little camtire. "-Boston Post.
A Chicago parson, who is also a
school teacher, handed problem to a
class in mathematics the other day. The
first boy took it, looked at il while, and
said: a pass" Second boy stared at it.
and drawled out: II can't make it,
Every well, boys" said the parson, "we'll
proceed to cut for new deal" and with
this remark the leather strap danced like
lightning over the shoulders of those de-
PRAYED mathematicians.
"A gentleman whose probocis had suf.
fered amputation was invited out to tea.
My dear" said the good woman OF the
house to her little daughter, 81 want YOU
to be very particular, and to make no re-
mark about Mr.. Jenkins nose" Gath
cred about the table, everything WAS
going WELL the child peeped about,
looked rather puzzled, and AT last startled
the table: MA, why did you tell me not
to say anything about Mr., jenkins noses
He hasn't got any"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-06-11
A Very Singular Mishap.

Mrs. CovIIIE devoted halfhour, Fri
day, to an attempt to sink nail over All
outside door. She worked at IL until the
camphor gave out, and then Mr.. Coville
took hold of the job and she went in the
house to rest. Mr.. CovIlle being n large
man found 1t necessary to turn his eyes
on to his nose during the perfoi nance,
and after rapping his thumb two or
three times he gave a terrible swing TO
the hammer for a most crushing blow,
when the hammer jumped from the handle,
and turning somersault came swiftly
down, claw end first, astraddle of the nose
of our unfortunate friend. The force of
the descent was so great that the points of
the claws pierced the flesh on each side of
tie bridge, and became so securely fast
ened on its strange perch that the fright
ened snort which Mr.. Coville gave on OBJ
serving his predicament failed To move it.
With cry of terror he dashed into the
house and into the presence of Mrs. Co
vile, and that lady, believing that new
kind Of unicorn had come upon her,
screamed at the top Of her voice ard
tainted dead away, leaving Mr. Coville
running around the room and tumbling
over the furniture in his terror and help
lessness. And here the neighbors, at
tracted by Mrs. Coville's scream and his
dreadful believing, found him, and came
to his relief An accident of similar
nature never before occurred in Danbury.
--DdnburY Neaos
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-06-11

it out and put it away, SOS when he dies,
you understand, We can rush it out as an
obituary article, as it were"
Drinker went to work, and about two
months afterward some wellknown man
died, and | examined the obituary bureau
for the purpose of obtaining his history
1t was not there; but discovered that the
insidious Drinker had stored away in tina,
mortuary receptacle one biographical
sketch of John Wesley, collection OF
anecdotes about Gen. Putnam, and an
essay upon "The Life and Services OF
John Hancock"
commenced with Drnker upon the
subject
MIR. Drinker," | said, after calling his
attention to the article about the father OF
Methodism, you certainly must be aware
that John Wesley died long before you
came into this office"
"N.n'non exclaimed Drinker, with a
look of panied surprise in his face
"Wh-wh what John Wesley dead That
great and good man gone! Why, it's too
bad / had no idea of such thing
What shock it must have been to his
family"
And as for Gen. Putnam, Drir'<er, it
is perfectly absurd for you to pretend that
you thought he was alive, you know.
Come, now, that's too much"
"ls he dead, toog Well, well The
fact is, I've been living down in the coun-
try for two or three years, and haven't
kept the run of things. And so old Put.
Ham's dead. That noble old man Strange,
strange, how we are passing away"
And, Drinker, you certainly can't be
such an idiot as to have put away this ar
ticle about Hancock with the expectation
that he would die again. You know he
did die once. Why, Drinker, he died
about 1000 gears ago!"
"Come now" exclaimed Drinker, ex-
ultingly; 1--WE got you there. All, ha!
Died 10000 years ago, did he, smarty ?
You know too much. You think every
body's fool but yourself! Dead, is he I?
Now, what's the use of your trying to
stuff that down me, when | know well
enough that the Democrats talked about
running Hancock for the Presiden cy at
the last electionl Oh, pshaw! You amt
fit to write for any paper that's got any
sensen
Then Drinker was discharged. didn't
enlighten him. He will probably go down
to the grave with the firm conviction that
Gen. Hancock is the man who set copy
for the miserable penmen who signed
the Declaration of Independence.-NaG
Adeler.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-06-11
" Tom Collins"

New Workers have been for some time
running what is known as the tom
Collins" Joke. One would think that it
would at last cease to sell the artless
jewellers in Gotham, but 1t seems to work
as well now as the first day of its APP
pearance. Jones enters saloon or res
taurant and meets some acquaintances.
Jones, have you seen Tom Collins'" in
quires one of the party. mo" responds
Jones We'll, he was here few min
utes ago, looking for you, and went round
to Browns (another saloon), thinking
you might be there. He wants to seeyou
about something very particularly"
Jones goes round to Browns and in
quires for Collins. The proprietor, who
understands the joke, sends him to an
other place, where Collins has just gone
in search of him. This is kept up until
Jones discovers the sell, when he imme-
diately goes out hunting victim upon
whom he can perpetrate the same Joke.
All the eminent business men in New
York are said to be reveling in this de-
lrhtml recreation, while corners" are
at a discount and stock speculations are
unknown. They might be engaged in u
more mschievous, but they could hardly
find more idiotic, occupation.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-06-11
THE LABORER'S EVENING SONG

Laugh, my little one laugh away,
For gone is the weary, toilsome day;
The twilight shadows are falling fast,
And fathers hour Of work is past.
Hark to the distant yesper bell!
Sweeuy its clear tones rise and swell
On the evening breeze, as it speaks OF peace
And bids the murmur Of turmoil cease,
Laugh, my little one, laugh away,
Father has earned this hour OF play.
The day was weary, perhaps, and sad;
This evening hour will make him glad.
Then laugh, my baby, I'll share your glee
For the Joy this hour hath brought to me.
Oh twilight hour, so doubly blest,
Welcome ever thy tender rest!
--Ha,per's Weekly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-06-11
An Obituary Editor.

Two or three years ago | was attached
to the .Norntng argus, the only paper
published in our village, and during my
engagement we employed as an assistant
editor a young man named Drlnker.
When DrinSer began his duties the man
ager said to him:
" See here, Drinker; among other things
/ want you, whenever you see in the ex-
changes or anywhcres good biograph
ical sketch of any prominent maa, TO clip
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-06-11
A POEM OF ROBERT BURNS.
Hitherto Unpublished.7

Hitherto Unpublished
The trout in yonder whipping burn
That glides, a silver dart,
And safe beneath the shady thorn
Detes the anglers art:
My life was once that careless stream,
That wanton trout was /;
But love, wi unrelenting beam.
Has scorched my fountains & y.
That little fiowret's peaceful lot
Ia yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, wot,
No ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till love had DER me passed,
AUD blighted a my bloom;
And now beneath the whitening blast
My youth and joy consume.
The wakened lav'rock warbling springs,
And climbs the early sky,
Winnowing blthe his dewy wings
In mornings rosy eye;
As little reckt | sorrows power
Until the fiow'ry snare
o. wltchIng love, in luckless honr,
Made me the thrall o. care.
-6gs,y Saturday.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-06-11

SOME one in New York has invented
continuance TO destroy the animal odor in
fresh drawn milk. 1t is simply tin pail,
the bottom Of which is perforated with
one or two rows of holes three-sixteenths
of an inch in diameter. This pail is
hung over the empty milk cans, and the
milk poured in through stralner. The
fluid starts through the holes in streams,
but before it falls foot it is separated
into drops, and is thoroughly purified OF
all offensive odors by the air, which is
good deodoriZer
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-06-11

AMAN recently visiting one Of the GEN.
eteries in Portland, Me, overheard
thrice-made widow, not yet old or home
ly, who was standing beside three mounds,
remark to gentleman, who was known
to have been attentive to the widow IN
her youth: Joe, you might have been IN
that row had you possessed little more
courage"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-28
A PREMEDITATED ACT.

The only evidence relative to the mo-
tives which prompted the act is that which
was found in the letters on the person OF
the deceased. Pinned to his coat was an
envelope addressed to Miss -, Queen
street, Charleston, S. G. On one side Of
this envelope, written in blue ink, were
the following words:
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-28

IMPROVING SEED WHEAT.-A writer il
the ''Rural New Yorker" who has beer
remarkably successful in the cultivation
of wheat as a farm crop, says
1t has been my practice for the last eigh-
teen years to run my wheat for seed over 3
very course seed screen, so us to SOW none
but the largest kernels. By so doing
have improved my wheat so that 1 have
sold nearly all of my wheat at home fol
seed. But in 1871 L hit upon new plan
I had piece of TreadWell wheat that was
injured by insects in the previous fall and
killed by freezing in the winter, so that
there were spots not worth cutting. After
harvest [ observed a few scattering heads
of unusual size. 1t occurred to me thai
there was wheat that had WithStood the
ravages of the insects and the rigor of the
winter. [ gathered enough to SOW one rod
square, from which [ realized twenty
pounds of wheat, of unusually large, even
berry, which was at the ratio Of over fifty
bushels per acre; last harvest had twenty
bushels which weighed sixty pounds per
bushel. 1t is my opinion that we realize
the best crops from the best and most per-
feet seed in the vegetable as well as the|
animal kingdom. Another good plan is to-
select the longest heads for seed: Thel
wheat can be greatly improved in this way|
Try it.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-28
Poetry.
THE OLD PROFESSOR.

In the dusk of winters morning
AS the shafts of the god of day,
Blood-red from the east, were pointing
The path where his duty lay
Into the dark and dim old chapel,
Where the gloom and silence slept,
His aged head uncovered,
The old professor crept.
Eyes, empty to you it seemeth,"
And he gazed around the room:
''But to It's alive with voices
And they speak from the duskiest gloom
It's thronged with clusters of faces
That have changed and gone away,
Like the clouds that flee to the southwark
In the winds of Marcl-like day.
SIN the halls there are gentle footballs,
They are coming down the stairs .
The girls file in at the right there's
Many happy and loving pairs
But now they are wives-they say so,
And It's truth what they have said
And the wives walk not with their husbands,
For the wives. alas are dead
There's a sturdy tramp to the left now
It's the boys-snd I love them so
How proudly they bear up their brave heads
With the sunlight wllere'er they go
Boys? But they're men long ago, and scattered
Like leaves in the winds of fall
And some sleep with their eyes to the eastward,
And the marble above-that's ALL
''Ah, well there's one truth We gather,
What ever else we forget
There is change in the world, that's certain,
And death is the change we GET
Then the professor turned away sadly,
With Il bow to the throng none could see
And there in the gray of the morning.
Left an empty chapel to me-
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-28
Sbe sta,.nton 3]inoitatOl
FARM AND FIRESIDE.
D
ADVERTISING RATES

How TO GET RID OF VERMIN.-No il
sect which craWls can live under the al
plication of hot alum water. 1t will Ill
stroy red and black ants, cockroaches. SD
ders, chinch-bugs, and all the crawliri
pests which infest our houses. Take tN|
pounds of alum and dissolve it in three 4
four quarts Of boiling water; let it stan|
on the fire until the alum is all melted
then apply it with a brush While near1
boiling hot to every joint and crevice il
the like. Brush the crevices in the floor d
the skirting OF mop-boards, if you susped
that they harbor Yermin. If in Whtd
washing ceiling plenty OF alum is added
to the lime, it will also serve to keep iIl
sects at distance. Cockroaches will he|
the paint which has been washed in cool
alum water Sugar barrels and boxes can
be freed from ants by drawing Il wid|
chalk mark just round the edge or the ton
Of them. The mark must he unbroken OF
they will creep over it; but Il continuous
chalk mark half an inch in width will sci
depredations at naught. Powdered alum
OF b6rax will keep the chinch-bug at Il rel
spectful distance. and travellers should al
ways carry bundle Of it in their hand
bags to scatter oyer and under their pill
lows in hotels, &c. While staying at q
hotel once with a party, most OF whom
complained sadly of the nightly attacks OF
these disgusting insects, was able to keeE
them entirely at bay by it's use, and [ dis
tributed the contents of my bundle among
the party, to their great relief.-The Guilt
Gator.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-28

THE BEST DRINK for sedetary person
is hot tea and coffee Of moderate strength
and that at meal times it is the bes
drink at meals for all who are past fit
years of age; all such will live longer b
the use of these as q beverage than by TN
use of cold water as a beverage. The fac
is observable with the naked eye, that 4
glass of cold water during a meal arrest
digestion instantly, which process can on
" be resumed when this cold water, d
fifty degrees, has been long enough in TIN
stomach to absorb heat sufficient from TIL
body to warm it up to hundred degrees
That hot cup of tea at meal does I'd
vive a person who is old, OF feeble, OF cold
or tired, is the daily experience of mi
lions. If a healthy person greatly desire
a drink of cold water during meal, Ia
him take it by all means.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-28

A COLOSSAL PoLITICIAN.-There is a
delegate to the convention now sitting at
the st. Louis Hotel who, in every respect,
is curiosity and wonder. Jet black,
over six feet tall, and of the most colossal
proportions, his weight cannot beless than
500 pounds. He is venerable in appear
ance, dressed after very eccentric fash
ion, and of the most kindly and good-hu-
mored expression Imaginable. They have
built sort Of diyan for him, and there he
sits straight through the meeting, taking
no part in the proceedings, but beaming
like Titantc cherub on everything and
everybody. His name is Reese. He APP
pears to belong to the better class OF col
ored people, and with his white hal Eab Pc
nevo1ent physiognomy, and decent b e;a
vior no less than by his inconceivable SIZE ,l!
is an isolated figure amid the snarling, dis
orderly mob Of ruans Who eGmpo of TIM IN
great part this latest manlfestatloMM 81 t dis
Republican party in Louisiana'-Ne'o or
leans Picag1Nle.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-28

AN Ice HOUSE FOR FIVE DOLLARS
A neighbor Of mine, says q correspondent
has an inclosure of about six feet square
in the clear, and six feet high. The walls
are formed of old refused timber thrown
closely together, with no regard to form or
comeliness. The roof is made of hemlock
boards. The entire cost of this building
did not exceed five dollars, and practically
considered, it is q success; not ambitious
Of containing thirty five loads of ice, but
simply five loads. Ten years this little I'M
pretentious house has been used for ice
and never yet dishonored draft upon its
crystal deposit. About six inches of saw
dust was spread upon the ground floor, and
in packing space of about nine inches
was left between the ice wall OF the build
ing for saWdust, and about nine inches OF
sawdust was spread upon the top of the ice
and The thing was fixed. The three main
principles observed here will always insure
a supply of ice, viz: good ventilation
drainage and plenty of sawdust. Will
these rules adhered to, a corner of any old
pen-shed will prove quite efficient in pre-
serving ice.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-28

TREATMENT OF INFANTILE CHOLERA
DR.. Wertheimber, of Munich. advocates
the following means in the above cases
First the use of a preparation of ammonia
for neutraliZing in the stomach the excess
of acid formed by the fermentation of i'm
digested milk; second, tea. which acts
benefcially on cerebral activity, and sure
ly against the drowsiness, and which, be
sides, abate the sickness and diarrh@a.-
DR.. Wertheimber's favorite prescription
is Detection of root of Jalap, four grains
two ounces of water liquor ammonia wit
spirits of aniseed, ten to twelve drops
strip, one drachm: tincture of opium
two OF three drops. One or two teaspoon
fuls every hour, according to the age of tn
child. The quantity of tincture of opium
may be increased if there are no symp
toms, The author considers the disease
be an advanced degree Of previous acut
gastro-enteritis.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-28

HAM-Most people boil ham. 1t
much better baked, if baked right. Soa
for an hour in clean water, and wipe dry
Next spread it over with butter, and the
put it in deep dish with sticks under
to keep it out of the gravy. When it
fully done, take off the skin and matter
crusted on the flesh side, and set away
cool,