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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-18
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For the scrip 10000 sold at 20 cents
IN 1865 the State will be paid In full when MI C1rnelrs
bond for $4,000 due In 1875 Is paid. We have already
described the securities held for this bond.
On the scrip for the other $4,000 acres the state VIII
get 30 cents per when Mr. COrnePs four bonds for
$50 900 each and bond for $500 all past due, are
paid.
Tue first bond OF Mr. Cornell given under this agree
ment being for $4,000 originally secured by the
deposit with Controller OF 900 of per cent bonds
OF the Western Union Telegraph Company. There were
also deposited $4,000 OF the same kind OF bonds 20
the execution OF the mortgages provided for In
agreement Of August, 1865 These securities were
given back 10 Mr.. Cornell on the 18th OF November,
1873 reported by the Controller under authority
of the Commissioners OF the Land ONCE and written
opinion OF the AttOrneyC General and there sub
stituted for them what called duplicate certificates
Of location representing co. acres OF land, assigned
to the Controller.
The other four bonds of Mr.. Cornell, amounting TO
s996O seem never to have been secured by anything
but the socaed duplicate certificates OF the location OF
which quany representing $4,000 acres OF land, In
addition 10 the 96y6O before mentioned, are de-
posted with the Controller, assigned TO him.
LAND GRANTS.
These certificates, In any assigned hands, are OF no
unless filed, with assignment the General
Land Ofice at Washington II the Stale had offered to
give them effect by ding them there, would have been
met BY reference " the act Of Congress- Independent
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american Tboroughbreds.

Kentucky has been the Seeding spot
for American thoroughbreds since the
soils and grasses declined in the worked
out parts of Virginia and Maryland.
The limestone of Kentucky give bone
to the animal; he natures early upon
the blue grass. The men of Kentucky,
bred to horseback, and adventurous
wagerers of physical spirit, have kept
up the turf for about sixty years, and
/ believe that the Lexington course
dates back to the year 1918. The war
absorbed most of the thoroughbred
stock of the south to seat officers in
the saddle; and toward the close of the
conflict we heard chiefly of Alexandra
stables. The Alexanders, as l have
heard, were a Scotch family with ex-
pectations of property in the old coun-
try. They owned Lexington and Aus
tralian, and raised stock. A Chicago
member of the family now keeps the
stables. In 1865 number of rich
New Workers, brokers and operators.
re olved to go on ehe turf. Leonard
Jerome, Merry broker, formerly a
newspaper editor at Rochester, n. Y,
! taking the cue from his partner, Will
liam Tracy, formerly of Baltimore,
| founded the American Jockey club, af-
1
toga eud Paterson, N. ]. He used all
| the influence to which his means and
acquaintance entitle him, and brought
into the turf August Belmont, his
friend, correspondent of the Roth
| childs, who had previously appeared
with great brilliancy on the English
turf. Belmont is generally called the
head of the turf in America, on account
of his position in the American Jockey
club, which is the ruling influence in
| turf matters in the United States, as
well as by his liberality in the purchase
and importationSof the best thorough-
| breds attainable, both from Kentucky
and England. Jerome himself met with
heavy losses in speculation about 1867
which necessitated the playing of 8
comparatively inferior position upon
| the turf.
The establishment of the Saratos
and Monmouth park courses, and &C
cessories of Jerome park, transferred
the management of the turf from the
| south TO the north-Kentucky itself
becoming breeding and buying place
for the moro wealthy horse faneiers Of
| the metropolis.
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Bathing Children.

Some mothers think, when their chill
4 EN- get beyond two or three years OF
e. the, frequent entire bath can be
dispensed with. If some OF the man
facts of physiology were we'll known
and understood, every one would per-
ceive that cleanliness of the skin is one
of the conditions of good health. IL
happens when bathing is disregarded
that the lungs, kidneys or bowels nave
more than their own apportlonmen5 OF
work. If these are strong and healthy,
they may bear the tax with little appar-
emit injury, but, in most cases, lower
ing of the vitality and tone OF the sys-
tenn ensues. Large batL tubs are pleas
ant and convenient, but not indispensa-
BILE to the proper cleansing OF the SKIN.
A speedy sponging of the body In pure
water. followed by friction In pure arr
is all that is necessary. When dlsi1-
clined TO use water, / find thorough
application of the fesh-brush to the
whole person an admirable substitute
especially, ON retiring, 1T relieves ner
| yeusness. equalizes the circulation ano
induces quiet sleep. Mothers, abov'
all. should see that their children arr
we'll bathed. IF their skins are KEEP
active and healthy, there will not b.
| half the danger from fever, colds. ant
| eruptive diseases. IF your little one /
cross or troublesome, and finds no occu
patton that pleases him, Try the effect Q
a bath; sometimes it is magical, and,
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Prehlstoric Musical Instrument.

In French cave which M. E. Pielte
discovered in 1871, he has found pre-
historic musical instrument, which he
describes as ane Gotto neolithique. 1t
is formed of bone, and pierced with two
well-made holes and was discovered in
a layer of charcoal and cinders in the
cavern of Gourdan. .(Hante-< saronne),
assoeis.sod with flint Implements of neo-
lithic types. Evidences have before
arts of engraving and sculpture among
the stone-using folk of Gaul, but this is
the first testimony that has TRANSFERRED
to show that they were sensible to the
divine influence of melody. One can
easily construct moving romance out
of this crude bone flute, upon which
some enamored lover may have serena
ded his savage sweetheart by the Light
of tender moons.
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WEST.

dispatch from Fort Dodge, Kansas,
Commanding Gen. Mills met 400 OF
heynene Indians, twelve miles from Red
Texas, on the 18th OF August, and az
short engagement, lasting Eve hours,
them over thirteen miles up high hills
almost impossible canons, with loss to
of twenty-five to thirty killed and
ded. Our casualties are three badly
ded.
|e st. Louis Globe has reports of
hiding of the bodies of five men who
ID from Southern Utah last November
the mountains to the San Juan mines in
[ado, and were reported last March by .
anton named Packer to have undergone
pie hsrdships in the mountains, and fin
persisted. 1t turns out now that they
murdered by Packer, who chopped of
heads with hstchet and robbed them.
Ter has been arrested and is now in Jail.
|nce the declaration of Gen. Sheri
hat no enc would be allowed to visit the
X Hills country without authority from
bterior department., meaning its authorized
It's. that department has been in receipt Of
rge number of letters asking permission
} there; but letter from the department
le interior to Gov. Pennington, OF Dakota
tory, states that all applications to visit
Black Hills country viii be denied, for the
IN that the government is bound by treaty
'otect the Indians in the exclusive enjoy
of that country.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
The Profits Of Cotton Raising.

A cotton planter, and formerly a
Chicago man, writes from Nlcksburg,
Miss nEgjng northern and wesleTn ms9
the business capable of yielding when
conducted by northern men, upon north
ern economy and principles, with capi-
tai of their own. After reciting, for
purposes of comparison, the old meth
DDS of storing in use before the war,
WHICH are now still more indiHerently
PEI oetuated, he gives the results of
northe methods of farming applied
to cotton raising, in this wise Corn
and cot con were formerly both planted
in dI Ills, and. great superflulty OF seed
being used, the process of thinning both
crops to a stand IS slow and tedious.
The corn was u.s. lly cut out to z feet
n the drill, rows feet apart; the cot
ton ] to feet in the drill, rows feet
apart. Both corn and cotton can be
planted in CHECK" feet each way,
O.. 3 by 4, with perfect success. They
cau then be cultivated with the I'M
proved farming nipple nents of the west.
The buggy pillow can be used IN potn
crops alike until the cotSon has branched
so as to forbid its further use; and then
the sweep-tbe only important labor
saving nipple neat in cotton culture,
except the dodb'e scraper, used before
the IN be used until the cultiva-
ton of the crop is finished-about the
middle of July. The bush-like shape
of the cotton so shades the ground that
weeds grow only in the middle of the
rows, after the cotton has attained a
height of two feet; so that our sweep,
running once in the middle" would
90 over ten acres a day and keep 1t cleaH
1t may be readily seen by this that the
use of the same implements used IN
cultivating corn crops in Illinois, with
strong teams, would enable one man to
cultivate at least twice as much cotton
and corn as under the old system, which
to-day is far more imperfect than it was
| before the War.
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How the Grange Pays.

In the grange with which 1 am con-
nected, during the past season there
was an actual saving, in one quarter, of
Sl20 to the few farmers who purchased
implements. Now take the 10000
oranges and we have total saving
ST s., 400, 600 to the farmers OF the
United States in three months. But
you will say at once that this amount Is
ssg" nor DO isa5gssr n 81 Dy sssty
does It cost the amount sd. i. z. @.
has mentioned to run the oranges every
quarter. The cost of charters, seals,
regalia, ETC., is never imposed on the
grange but once. This would require
deduction from his figures of over a
million of dollars, after the first quar-
ter.
We not only consider it paying IN
stitution to us on account of its imam
cial benefits, but we, as a class, have
begun to consider the social influence
of the organization. We cannot deny
that we are far behind the city In regaro
TO social life, for we have never had I'll!
opportunity of mingling together, anc
Educating ourselves in that sphere
Titus it has not only proved Itself TO o.
a safe for our pockets. but also store
house for our minds.-Csnct'aadti Times
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hind the renegade, and allsp On at a
discreet round pace in thelfeclon of
the pass of Lope, which lef through
the mountains to Cordovan
They had not proceedceAr When
they heard the noise OF FaRs and
trumpets from the battlel4s OF the
AlhaRbra.
Cur flight is discovered sad the
rene gado.
1--WE have fleet steeds, night is
dark, and we may distance a,urs1it, y
replied the cavaliers.
They put spurs to theiE2rses and
secured across the Vega. ~ had at
tanned the mountain of Flra, and
were entering a pass whe1 bale fire
spEang up into blaze on 'sop of the
Confusion !" shouted Renegade;
that fire will put all the esds OF the
passes on the alert. Aw away
Spur for your lives, or they lost. !"
Away they dashed, the e2sring of
their horses hoofs echoin2 1ypck to
rock, as they swept along t<Ea that
skirts the rocky mounfa SASa.
:. Ela=rza,-s7 tor nd - enc
gado, as the watch towe
tains answered the light lie Al
hambra. To the brid,,-o the
bridge, before the alarm s rachel
there p
They doubled the promoory of the
mountains, and arrived in gnfof the
famous Puento del Pinos til 0ossed a
rushing stream, often dyed ia Moor
ish and Christian blood. T,teir con-
fusion the tower on the brig blazed
with lights, and glittered It'll armed
men. Followed by the callers, the
renegade struck off frontIe road,
skirted the river for some dt1nee, and
dashed into its waters. hey were
borne for some distance dovthe rapid
current the ssrges roared and them,
but the beautiful princess elung to
their Christian knights, annever ut
tereGA complaint. The arty soon
giln0 the opposite bank i1l'ety, and
were led by the renegade, brude and
unfrequented paths, througbhe hear
of the mountains, so as to aid all the
regular passes. They sreened IN
reaching the ancient city Cordova,
where the restoration of I'll cavaliers
to their country and friendgas cele-
brated with great rejoicings. The prin-
cesses were forthwith receiv into the
bosom of the church, and, ter being
in all due form made regulaIlristians,
were rendered happy wives.
After the flight of her sisf, the IN
happy Zorahsyda was coined still
more closely. though she haho know
inclination to elope. It We thought,
indeed, that she secretly repted hay
ing remained behind, for noand then
she would be seen leaning one battle
ments of the tower, and loobg mourn
fully towards the mountain9f Cordo-
va; aud sometimes the nos of the
lutte were heard accompanyinmournful
ditties, in which she lamentt the loss
Of here sisters and her 10y, and be
walled her own solitary fe. She
died young, and, according popular
rumor, was buried in a vat, and her
fate has given ri to more
than one traditionary fable.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18

AIerpetual HOt-Bed.


At Niederplants, near Swicknan, IN
Saxony, a vast bed of coal has been
burning for over three hundred years.
The ground above this subterranean
bed Of fire has become thoroughly
warmed by this time, and an lngenloLs
Gardener has utilized it by planting on
large nursery garden. Here he
raises tropical plants Of all kinds, with
eslSGe fruits, which flourish with a
vieor and luxuriance in the open arr
that the best forcing houses could not
insure; fr,sr His spe .alty is pineapples, OF
which he has a great variety. Ihere
are subterranean fires In other parts OF
sin,ilar vay. Would it not pay, IN GER
ain cases, to take hint from these &C
cidental examples of underground heat
| ing, and warm large plots OF soil by
means of steam-pipes running undel
the surface!2-Ratral Caroti'afd''.
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FOREIGN.

The great strike of cotton operatives
at Bolton, England, has begun.
1t is reposted in Berlin that an order
VIII soon be issued expeliing from Prussia all
foreign priests, monks and nuns.
An official dispatch announces that
General Pavia has gained victory over the
Cariists- Three Thousand troops viii leave
for Cuba the present month, and five thousand
in October.
Early in the afternoon ofAugust %, an
attempt was made in Lima to assassinate the
president of Peru, while proceeding from the
palace to his house. Although several shots
were hred none took effect. The leader of the
band and thirteen others have been arrested
Prussia proposed at Brussels that the
people Of that country found in arms aud not
regularly enrolled in the military force should
be treated as criminals !; also that they should
be similarly treated If they refuse to assist
the invaders when called upon. The congress
rejected the proposition. In 1913 the Prus-
sian governments called upon the people to
become .ssland storm" and rush upon the
invaders with any arms they could seize.
Them It was the other mans or that was gored
Captain General Concha has published
decree IN the offisial gazette ordering out
Immediately Tor actiys service i've per cent.
Of all the volunteers enrolled on the island OF
Cuba to serve until the first OF April, 1875.
bring out about 800 men. Exemp-
~ he purchased with money, those
obliged TO eerye or provide sub
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
GalileO's Telescope.

In the year 1909, Gallo relates, he
first heard from frieni in Flanders
that an instrument had bees invented
by which distant objects wee brought
near and the powers of visid extended.
He resolved at once to imitae and sur
pass it. BY his singular mechanic,
dexterity, his knowledge of optics, and
his highly polished glasses, lie was soon
able to produce telescope bfore which
the Dutch instl 1ment sank DO neglect,
heard Of; but a thrill on l,---s-'sss
over Italy and Europe %n IL was
known that the famous Padrn profess
or had prepared an optic g1ai that en-
larped the bounds of vision an endowed
mankind with new powers. Ine charm
. surprising novelty covere the won,
,lerful inye 1tion with an un.secedentet,
renown. The great and te learned
commended for the possessloEoI the new
instrument. Calico carrln hls teIe.
scope to Venice, and from 1ne talIes1
bell towers senators and nooles saw
through the magic glass graz srgosless
sailing far out at sea, and 'le ulsIIn'
shores brought near and nsue Vlslole:
All the valne of the new instrument
broke at orce upon Their MINDS !; IL
must must change IA the principles Of military
strafs0v. and diminish the perus OF nav
ioatiA Magistrates, senat9rs ana GU
ems covered the fortunate inventor VIII
applause. With discreet courtesy Sali
leo presented his telescope to tt the I Doge
Of a friendly audience, ana me Tene
t;ons Of once raised his salarI 20 thou
sond Horins. Covered with nonors ane
emoln muaana; he returned to Padna
title conscious of the surprising dis
laes.e oo flat vet awaited him in thu
e;1snt heavens, or of the pains and woe
he was destined to bear u his late
Years We from the heretical reTelations o
his too truthful and fatal telescope.
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The Wives Return.


The Paterson Guardian says: GA
recent paragraph Ceiling attention to
the fact that the summer widowers were
having the jolliest times imaginable in
the absence of their voluble halves has
had a most remarkable effect. The
wives come trotting home to see aboIt
this thing. One gentleman who was
having an unusually good time, and
whose wife had gone away to stay till
the middle of September, was wonder
fully astonished on going home at four
O'Clock in the morning to find his wife
sitting up waiting for him. She gaze
him rousing reception, and he looks
like the last rose of summer. The wide
world may wag as it will, but it is doubt
fnl if he ever smiles again. The wives
are coming home unexpectedly every
day, and husbands had better look out
a little in order that they may save
sop1a trouble -
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again, as thread these rustic WAYS
Here in the heart Of the summer land
1 am gently reminded of other davs
By objects rising either hand:
whose thin U cape poS sg b@ Be TiTer
Recalls 4 quaint feast, ike feast in a dream.
But Gear alike to my mind and heart.
There were only six Of us Ralph and Nell,
And Curtis and Rose Getty cousins the lastl
And gray-eyed Florence, whose deer, heart - Well
I was her lover, and it's long since past:
But jollier party never filed craft
as We rounded that point by the cedar glade.
The sourest ascetic could not but have laughed
AT The highly romantic appearance We made.
Roses and jonqails on bright heads in crowns,
Nrssths q them, too, from the gunwales hoat,
Boughs Of fresh foliage in wild festoons
FROM stem to stern OF the painted boat:
But under them ali on cheek aud lip
=, Roseouds more tempting. and laugh and song,
Hsnds spiashlng over aud oar-biades a-dip,
And beauty and bliss, drifted along
We reached the island: How well I-recan
The, pretty girls screams we helped them to
land -
How Rose wet her feet, and Flo's himsy shawl
IlAe cloud yelled my arm as she gave me her
Then the neat little lunch in the logended grot,
Win the white cloth spread by the spring at its
The jssts remember, The toasts I've forgot,
south. -iS'H' - 80
Then we made them swing from grapevine
Read poems, told tales, with rOmp now and
then.
Played croquet while had rubber of whist
And talked with the echo that baunts the glen
Then in couples apart, as betrothed lovers should,
W -strayed, 10 repeat the old tale ever young.
How well remember the bench in the wood
Between the two oaks, and who sat there so long.
Then, weary but blithe, at the days dim close,
We drifted in peace in the starlight a-down
And saw with regret, as the sickle-moon rose
The faint-,wiDkiing lights Of our trim little town.
For our hearts were so fun and our souls were so
blest,
We wished the fair stream were enchanted, that
Night glide down for aye its soft-heavng breast
I'LL lost in the CLEAN Of far fairy sea.
Hinged with romance how these things now aprsari
For, just my way through the village to-day
passed the old house where for many year
Fair Florence my rivals proud home las made
gay;
Aud Ralpa and Nell are long married and Rose
Passed away when poor Curtis was killed by the
wars;
And I alone. while the calm river flows
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The Grasshopper Plane.

The plague of locusts inEgypt, as
depicted In the book of Exoas, is said
by eye Witnesses of the wages of
western grasshopIers to bta correct
picture OF the Tondeur< - % = .ome
sosGa1tE me tsace of - s---
that the land was darkehe'r,rnd they
did eat every herb of the Ian and all
the fruit of the trees which u hail had
left and there remained not ny green
thing in the trees, or in the hds of the
field, through all the land olEgypt.
Most melancholy detrils COM from all
pa is of the west. In k2ns a long
drought dwarfed and withed grass
and grain; then myriads of ,rasshop-
pers darkened the atmospre, and
swarmed down upon plain al valley,
literally stripping the ieldsof every
green thing. This rayaging ilect army
travelled at the rate of twentYr thirty
miles day the air was ale. They
worked in concert, swooping own upon
a TOW n with fierce rapdit beating
against the houses, swarmingn at the
windows, covering passing -all road
trains, and leaving destruetio IN their
path. Farmers and their fnilies at
tempted TO fight the ipvadersvith FIRE.
Piling brush and hay ABOUT ter helds,
they applied the torch, md ;he sufo-
eating smoke filed the mrfor mile
around. In some sections tbs deyic.
drove back the incoming grashoppers.
But this calamity has destoyed tire
hopes OF many farmer, Fbs as a new
settler, had risked bis all D he hope Of
an enriching crop. Some, diaeartened
only desire to raise moIey nough tC
seek some less stricken loclity; bu
the majority are energeealy working
to guard against tie disstous conse
! quences wrich naturally blow such {
/ scouHDe. But next wintr it will bt
very INHERENT in Kansas rom what i
was three or four years so, when corr
could scarcely fnd a salelt fifteen ceni
a bushel, and was even uhd as fuel il
some parts of the state, eing cheape
! than coal