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New-York tribune., 1874-10-22
MARTIAL LAW In ALABAMA.

DETECTIVES HESTER AND BEACH in COMMAND OF
THE FEDERAL FORCEs-ARREsT OF PROMINENT
CITIZENS on THE CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO
INJURE HESTER
MONTGOMERY, Oct. 21.-Thomas Hendon OF
Lee County, farmer, has been arrested by United
states Marshal for the intimidation OF negro. Ills
offense was dischargng the negro from his employ on
account Of laziness
letter to Advertiser from prominent citizen OF
Alabama says that martial law prevails In Sumter
County, In point of fact Hester and Beach, United
States detectives, command the military and arrest
without warrant.
MOBILE, Oct 21.--Thomas d. Wetmore. lawyer OF
Livingston Ia nephew Of the late George E. Badger Tor
merly United States Senator from North Carona) Ste
phen Smith, his CLIENT and John Little tcolored arrived
in Mobile this afternoon under guard, charged
with conspiracy to injure Detective Hester. they
were arrested during the session OF the
Circuit Court OF Sumter County, which is about
200 miles from Mobile. Upon their delivery to the
United States Marshal here they were released on paro
to appear before Commissioner Gillette tomorrow Ihe
warrant for their issued by Commissioners
residing the place OF arrest and was made reurna
BILE in Mobile before different Commissioner.
New-York tribune., 1874-10-22
s,yGuLAR DEFENSE OF sURETIEs.

The trial of case, novel on account o, .uo
defense set up, was begun yesterday IN ,ne ou"o" "
states Circuit Court. before Judge saipmsn ino
.". >, Tna I-rI,es states ast Thomas Butler. John
n",,ar and CHARLES peyin, and action was brought To
recover 5000 on Thomas Butler's bond as distier'
the other attendants being the suretie' on the bond
n,,n :. Regular in FORM It is claimed however, that
,,a rtss signed it In blank under the belief that y.
.no ,u N Sa 1,aJ ont with the name OF John T. Ishan
Was " 20 and THAT without their consent or know-
edge, the name Thomas Butler Was % ,ss pSat Of
Una. ,anse IA that John Butler aud Devlin did not
tend to become suretes for Thomas Bater sSn
,S ststss District Attorney Smith for the Govern
1snt aud e1JudEe Casdqsc Tor To a-ienaAhl~
New-York tribune., 1874-10-22

and told that the negro was in great fear at that
time that he would be shot. Ivey under lndict-
ment in the court at Livingston for some offense.
and Dr. Wight seemed to have an impress
sion that his fear had some connection with that
Indictment. myself believe that there were two
reasons why Ivey was shot. The first was because
he was an obnoxious Niger" hated. with or
without cause, by the gang of ruftans who shot
him: and the second was because the same gang
determined that no "nigger" should be mail agent
on that road don't believe that he was killed be-
cause it was supposed that his death would have
any effect upon the election. for the people OF sum-
ter County are not FOOLS and they knew just as wei
last August as they know now that the surest ROAD
to defeat was by political assassination.
ARREsTING DEMOCRATS BY WHOLESALE
see in the Associated Press reports to-day tna'
Detective Hester has arrested forty-two nv" "
Sumter County this week on charges OF hu-hiuAins
and interfering with the mails have not ye'
Iarroa tbo noTt,culars of these arrests, but some
facts which I do know may throw some
Icbt unop them. Mr.. Hester told me that
be was sent to Sumter County to investi-
cate the Iyey case but since his arrival he mad heard
that the mail between Demopolis and Livingston
had been stopped-ths is the that is carried by
a negro boy on a mule-and he thought it his duty
as a Special Agent of the Post-Ofice Department to
look into it, This is the interference with the mail
which have described in former letter, and for
which he has arrested at least thirty men who. at
the time the thing occurred. were acting as
sherifs posse Isuppose these men will be taken to
Mobile at great expense to the United States.
The object of making these wholesale arrests may
be inferred from remark made by Senator Spencer
to a friend when he received private information OF
them" That will give us the State" z.L.w.
New-York tribune., 1874-10-22
LABOR TROUBLES IN TROY.

STATEMENT OF LARGE IRON MANUFACTURERS OF
THE QUESTIONS AT ISSUE BETWEEN THE EN-
pLOYERs AND wORKMEN-CoUNTER STATEMENT
OF THE wORKMEN
Three of the great iron manufacturing firms
of Troy, N. Y. Erastus Corning & Co., Ii.
Burden & Sons. and John A. Griswold & Co.
have made q statement to the public to explain
their position In the labor troubles among the iron
establishments in that city, The workers are now
on strike or strictly speaking. the pudders are
on strike and the OF the workers are unable to
do anything without them. The Winter drawing near
the employers being pressed by the men, concluded TO
run the works which have been partially closed during
the Summer account Of the dullness OF trade at
reduced schedule Of wages. which, as Is shown by
table greater than any paid at eight OF the largest
iron manufacturing districts Of the East AT these
places Scranton Ph@nixve. Reading, Danyille, Beth
ebem Harrisburg Cambria and Worcester, the average
earning OF the pudder 50 per day. and at Troy with
the reduced rates they earn 3 per day. Regarding
the difference between the prices offered at Troy and the
prices paid the West the prices given to the public
as paid by Western manufacturers have been prices for
five heat iron, aud in making the comparison the Troy
price for five heat iron has been ignored and the price
maid for six heat iron substituted. To arrive at proper
understanding Of the matter the difference between the
manner OF working at the West and at Troy should be
expained. At the West the old fashioned method OF
working is still kept up. The pudder uses but about 500
pounds OF TO ton or iron, Wnlle at Troy tne puu
dler uses 1900 pounds. much as he desires.
The free of Port Henry magnetic ore In
pudding furnace hastens the process OF pudding and
enables the pudder do his work with greater ease
while he larger quantity Of iron IN day. and
thereby his daily earnings The large quan-
tity used at Troy, and the improved method OF
pudding vogue here enable the Troy puddler to take
out six heats Of iron each day with greater ease than
the Western pudder get ont five heats But while
working six heat iron the prices arranged
that the pudders just much at one as at the
other.
The heaters at the Rensselaer, Rail Mil object TO work
at reduced wages 81 80 to 81 80 per day. and thus
keep the Bessemer Steel Works idle, well the mill
itself In four OF the principal rail mills Of the country
the earnings OF the heaters average - 10 per day
from Is TO 35 cents day less than
Is offered at the r Ransselaer Works.
To Offset this, the iron-wOrkers make a statement
They complain that they have work harder and longer
with the method OF pudding than the old that the
comparison OF prices with the Eastern companies made
In the manufacturers statement is erroneous the
figures they give the rates paid for working dry
railroad rOn and those which make fairer
the paid these places for boiling pudding rOn
which much greater-are not given at all The
add table OF current prices prices offered and
prices paid in 1885, with the difference in living
tween then and now, follows;
1888. 1874.
m nj
New-York tribune., 1874-10-22
SIS 90 Total......

They conclude by saying that the reason why they
accept the prices offered Is simply that fol-
lowing the business OF boiling require good substan-
tia food 10 enable them to perform the aborous work
required OF them) and hold, and prove that we
obtain and pay for the same at the prices
aAa
New-York tribune., 1874-10-22
TIE SOUTH CAROLINA CANVASS.

Columbia, S. c., Oct. 70. 1874.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-22
Lamp-lighting Extraordinary.

The Manchester papers have the fol-
lowing: Some engineers in Badn:have
just contrived an ingenious piece, of
mechanism, which has already been
adopted in some of the public buildings
and streets of Heidelberg. The object is
to provide for the simultaneous lighting
of the gas-lights of the town. This has
been done both in. Paris and with us in
the Albert Hall by the use of an electric
wire, but the German engineers have in
vented method more simple and dura-
bic. Their apparatus can be affixed
equally to all gasjets, and it is made to
act, not by any special mechanism, but
simply by the increased pressure Of the
gas which is always laid on from the gas
ometer when the lamps should be light
ed. The one act of turning on the gas
at the main ignites it at all the burners
fitted with the new apparatus. In
achieving this result, the designers did
not obtain any very PRACTICAL advantage
over the method ofIighiting by electris
city. But they pushed this invention
still farther, and have provided that
when the pressure is diminished at the
main, the gas can either be totally ex-
tinguished or let down to thread. 1t
is chi ely i'm the lighting of the streets of
town, that the invention will be of
practical use. Directly the gas is turned
on the whole city will be simultaneously
Illuminated, and when in the early
morning the pressure is reduced the
light may be totally extinguished or
gradually dminhhed. 10Th
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-22
Our American Forests.

The problem of renewing the forests
they have destroyed, is now one of alb
sorbing interest to the people of many
portions of the United States. The
american Exchange and Recie,o, in re-
cent issue, indicates plan which, in the
Southern States especially, may be
adopted to advantage. 1t says; Gone
of the most interesting featuressof that
most serviceable of enterprises at the
present time, |. e., arborculture, is the
cultivation of the Australian gtim-tree
in California. 1t is estimated that about
100000 trees of this description have
been planted in that State. 1t is an
evergreen, attaining maximum height
of 800 feet, with over thirty feet circum-
ference; has dark, blush leaves about
one inch wide and ten inches long, thin
and twisted, which exhale strong odor
like cainphor. The tree possesses re-
markable anti febrile virtues, and in
some countries has been planted in fever
districts as curative and Sanitary
agent. There are boundless forests of it
in Australia, where:it grows both on the
hillsides and the 1owlai1ds, In range of
temperature from 100 deg. to 20 deg. f.
As a timber, it is exceedingly useful
where strength and durability are re-
quired, and though hard, is easily
worked. Over 100000 of the timber
are annually exported from Australia.
Scientific bodies are giving much atten-
ton to it, both for its value in draining
marshy grounds, and in disinfecting the
atmosphere"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-22
The Room OF a Beau In 1899.

Tradescant's chamber was spacious,
luxuriously fitted up, and so arranged as
to serve the purposes both of bedroom
and morning ROOM. At the farther end,
on a sdpefb French bed, with 4 rose.
colored canopy and curtains, and sup
ported by large downy pillows edged
with lace, lay the young prodigal. Near
the couch stood a large japan screen.
But notwithstanding the richness Of the
furniture and decorations, great disorder
reigned within the room. Thus a pink
silk domino and mask, tossed upon a
sofa by their owner on his return from
a masquerade, had not been since re-
moved. Articles of attire, in velvet and
silk of the gayest colors, were lying scat
tered about near the open wardrobes, and
80 were rich iMechlin -shirts,and cravats,
Half a dozen perukes appear to have
been tried, and for some fault or other
cast aside. In one corner was collec-
tioL of gsdlnadedd cepsS and walking
sticks; in another a pile Of swords, sew
eral Of them with handsome handles.
Here was dressing-table, with all its
appliepssaip, GEystal ard chased sjlvsTr
Beside II was large cheval glass whefe-
in our young beau could survey his fine
figure from head to foot. On the Chin
neysPjeps 5vw Gopaggi9sent Louis
Quinze clock, and on the other side OF II
some magnificent specimens of Sevres
china, while on the right and left Of the
hearth were two great porcelain jars
The walls were crowded with portraits
of popular actresses, intermingled with
pictures of prize-fghters, cock fights,
and famoefssoe hGseE22 IIN L
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-22
The Value of Time.

We shall have to come down to the
time when we have but ten days left, then
nine days, then eight days, then seven
days, then six days, five days, four days,
three days, two days, one day. Then
hours: three hours, two hours, one hour.
Then only minutes left: five minutes,
four minutes, three minutes, two min
utes, one minute. Then only seconds
left: three seconds, two seconds, one Sec
ond Gone! The chapter of life
ended The book closed The pulse at
rest The feet through with the jour
ney! The hand closed from all work
No word on the lip. No breath on the
nostril. Hair combed to lie -undishevelled
by any human hands. The muscles still.
The nerves still. The lungs still. The
tongue still. All still. You might put
the stethoscope to the breast, and hear
no sound. You might put speaking
trumpet to the ear, but you could not
break the deafness. No motion. No
throb. No life. Still! Still!
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-22
4 The Sksol Boy,xxy

The ske0l boy liz the vlktlm 0y clrkum-
stansiss.
If he livs in the country he haz got to
git up early enuff to puntch the chickens
of from the roost, then start the fire in
the kitchen stove, and put on the tea
kittle, and then 60 for the COWS.
After the cows yhaye been milkt, he
hurrys down hiz hasb sand bukwheat
kakes, and thrashes beans two hours with
the old man out In the korn krib.
Now he walks three miles in sno path
to the distrikt skool hous, and gets thare
just in time to help split up some wood
for the days fire.
the fat sfdeof aslsb Iench, and bends
bubble over a Webster's spelling book,
without emmy cover.
For varity he stands up in 70, and
spellsor skratches greasy slate, with the
Figures in long sum ov addishun.
Noon Gums at last, and he eats up i'm
one corner hiz two slices ov rhi bread
and hiz piece of pi krust, and browns the
dri dinner with pint ov lukewarm
water out ov the pine pail behind the
stove.
The only fun he haz IL to slide down
hill on a board, back ov, the -skoolbous,
and gitlicked when he goes home If he
happens to wear the sole ov his boots
emmy, or tare the base Ov hiz britches.
Night Gums, and he haz had q days
skooling, and plods back home to saw
wood enuffto last next day before he eats
his puddin-and-milk supper sinks off up
into the woodnous chamber, to bed, with
out even the ray ov tallo kandle.
This waz skool-boy life in the country
forty years ago.
II the boys now daz had to skool it in
this way, they would sue the old man for
damages, and emmy kind ov a jury would
bring in verdik, too, in their favour.
But Daniel Webster dun it i'm this way,
and bekum the most learned statesman
we ever raized, and so did Josh Billings,
but he didn't never amount to much.
Josh Billings never could get the right
hang ov country skool-hous; hizspelling
allwuss had, and allwuss will hav, an
impediment in it.-Josh Billings.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-22
Extinct Forest in Nevada.

Says the Virginia New Enterprise |:
I" In the bottom of the main shaft Of the
Virginia City Coal Company, FL Dorado
Canon, Lyon county, has been encoun-
tered the trunk of q tree four feet In
diameter, lone relic of an ancient and
extinct forest. Where cut through, the
fectly carbonized = turned into coal.
Outside, the olfieg is completely crusted
over witk1ron pyrites, many of which
are so bright that the crystals shine like
diamonds. Thesepyrites also extend in
toithe body Of tie log, filling what were
apparently once cracks or windshakes
and even forming clusters about what
was once the heart of the tree. This
relic of an old time forest lies far below
thb two, veins ofIooal the company are
abbut to open. The finding of this old
trunk is evidence that, the country was
at some time, ages and ages ago, covered
by forest of large trees; though the
native timber growth, when the country
was first visited by whites, and as far
,back as the Indian tradition extends,
Was but scrubby species of nut pine.
A few miles from. the shaft in which this
catbohikeh tree was foundI arctic be- seen
ON the surface the petrified remains of
many large trees. In the early days of
Whshoe, before the prospectors had
broken them UP. for specimens, pieces of
'trde-tfhifks two 6f three feet In diameter
and twenty or thirty feet in length, were
to be seen lying upon the surface Of the
ground. However, these trees and even
the one found in the bottom of the shaft
Of the coal mine, may hsye, c9ps from
the foothills Of the Sierra Nevada
Mountains-may have drifted out when
seas of water everywhere covered our
present valleys. The water lines visible
on COR liilis show. that,the xhele county
was filed with lakes, and the petrified
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-22

OLD HUMBUGs DISCARDED. = Thank
heaven, the old-school practice is passing
away. fpecac, aloes, calomel, blistering,
the lancet, and (worse than ally, naedicatsd
rum, have given place to new remedy,
which bids fair to become the universal
medicine. Qfmaakind. VINEGAR BrrTERs
is that remedy. 1t is destined to take
precedence Of all other curatives now be-
fore the world. The pharmacopeia and
conspectus of the regular Faculty con-
tain nothing that will compare with it..
Every day hundreds of the sick are
,emancipating themselves from systems Of
treatment which entail great expense and
do no good, and are flying to this cheap
and absolutely certain means of relief.
Dyspepsia, rheumatism, liver complaint,
periodic fevers, sick headache, kidney
diseases, constipation, nervous affections,
and in short all maladies, acute or chronic,
which do not involve the irreparable in
jury of some vital organ, are cured by
this pure inalcoholic vegetable restorative. 5
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-22

SwEETENING OLD LARD.--Take a small
bunch of slippery elm bark and put it in
the lard, and cook one hour- Cougtrn
Gentleman. So
Coop CAKE.-Two cups of sugar, one
half cup Of butter, two eggs, one cup Of
raisins chopped, one-half cup of milk,
one-half teaspoonful cassia and Glove,
and one nutmeg, y1l.IJIM ~
DYEING ORNAMENTAL FEATHERS
BLACK.--Place them for twenty-four
hours in soda bath that is not too strong,
then rinse well and place for twelve
hours in an eight, peS ce3f Cyolution of
nitrate of iron; rinse we'll aeain and dye
~>th logwood and fustic. If the black
aPpcss. reddish, draw the feathers
through dslpte sulphuric acid and boil
snort slme msweak bath of fustic. '1
RANCID BUTrsH. MADE SWEET
Rancid butter can be made as sweet as
when first churned by the foalowinp pro-
cess To one quart Of water add fifty
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-22
. A Russian CrGsus.

The Continental Herald gave an ac-
count the other day of the opening of a
Russian chapel erected in the Canton of
Tessin, by d baron whom the local pa
pars call"a Russian Cresus." 1t seems
that this gentleman has become 10 en-
tranced by the scenery at Lugano, that
he resolved on building a magnificent
chateau in the neighborhOod. The
building will cost 100000 francs, and
the furniture about as much more; but
this will be but bagatelle to the owner
if, as the TessinOis journals say, he has
an annual income Of over 100000
francs. They set down his encourage as
thirty Russian servants, sixteen Russian
and Swedish singers, and sixty musi-
clans, who cost him alone $50, 900 francs
a year. In order to crafty further his
musical tastes, a celebrated prima donna
is engaged occasionally for his exclusive
enjoyment, and by the way of keeping
his orchestra in practice, the members
of it are obliged to play at 2 certain
hour each day throughout the year, al
though in the absence of M. lie Baron
there is not single auditor. The baron
is said to have" sumptuous palaces" at
Paris, Vienna, and Nice; to have made
his money by speculatiOns in Russian
railways; to change every two years all
his personnel and even his acquaintance,
and to ignore completely his relatives.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-22
Give your Child a Paper.

A child beginning to read becS1e3 Do
lighted with a newspaper, because ne
reads of names and things which are
familiar, and he will progress according
ly. A newspaper IN one year1s worth a
quarters schooling to child. Every
father must consider that information is
coppccted. with advancement. The
10 her ofh famiV, being one gifts heads
afdAhanfga more Immediate charge of
children, should herself be instructed. A
mind occupied becomes fortified against
the ills of life, and is braced for emer-
gency. Children amused by reading or
study, are, OF Icslfse, more considerable
and easily governed. How many thought
less young men have spent their earnings
in a tavern or grog-shop whe ought to
have been reading How many parents
whe-hevs spept tyvsrty dpllsrrsiy books
for their families, would have given
thousands TO reclaim n son or daughter
who have ignorantly, thoughtlessly,
fallen into temptation. 60. ~. :,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-22
The TIreless Brain.

O.us. brains are, sevshtr years clocks.
The angefo of life winds them up once for
all, then closes the case, and gives the
key into the hands of the angel of the
resurrection. Tic, tao, TIC, tac, 20 the
wheels of thought. Our will cannot stop
them, sleep cannot still them, mad
ness only makes them go faster. Death
alone can,stop them by breaking into the
case and Selling the ever swinging
pendulum which We call the heart, sill
ence at hast the clicking Of the terrible
escapemept. We. have. carried 50 long be-.
meath our. .wrinkled foreheads. II we
could only get at them as we lie on our
pillows and count the dead beats of
thought hfter thought, and image after
Image iarring through the tired organ.
Will nobody BLOCK those weeels, uncouPle
that pipjpn, gut the string that holds
these weights, blow up the machine with
gunpowder? What passion comes over
us sometimes for sifcncs- and rest--this
dreadful mechanism unwinding the end
less tapestry of time, embroidered, with
spectral figures Of life and death, could
have but one brief holiday. Who can
wonder that men-swing themselves off
IiVhh DY<tAs NJ HULL pen htSooSs, enoo ~hcy
jump off from parapets into the swift
and glirgling waters beneath; that they
take counsel of the grim fiend who has
but to utteF-his peremptery monosyllable,
and the restless machine is shiyered as
vase dashed upon marble floor. If any
body would really contrive some kind of
lever that we could trust in among the
works of this horFible .autOmaton and
check them or alter their rate of going,
what would the world give for the dis
coveryY Men are very apt to get at the
] machine by some indirect reason or
other. They clap on the breaks by means
of opium, they change the maddening
monotomy by the use of intoxicating
liquors. 1t is because the brain is locked
sup and we cannot touch the movements
directly that he trust these coarse tools
in through any crevice by which they
may reach the interior, alter its rates of
going for a while, and at last spoils the
machine, rrIt