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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-30

A telegram from st. John. n. b., states .nas
In nroprletors have met and subscribed iarso
fund to resist the combination of operative n ,Ss
.o,,ny of operatives held on Tuesday nlsnt, ~
nc Hall Carleton. Resolution were passed asani
NY Intention 10 strike for higher wages az Pnaay
p claiming for the Society that Is now on in.
client association There can be no doup, o' me at
tade taken by the employers has syeed serious ss Falls
Ar nresent there Ia only mill running Doo" shoye
rba river a. low Therc is no navigation fet hVc''
FrederioAtou,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-30

There is prevalent belief that the Ferry
Companies are at least not losing money In
their devotion to The public service. They say
they are. After the bids are opened to-day,
we shall know how much more they are will
ing to pay for the privilege of continuing the
loss,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-30
TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE.

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Fourth-ave between 10th and 190th-sts and at the
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door TO the POst-Oice. till D. M. at regular rates.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-30

If the inquiries of TRIBUNE reporters among
the Trades Unions and master builders, as
detailed in the article on page five tins
morning, can be depended upon, there is little
prospect of speedy return to the ten-hour
rule. The motive for it has IN many cases
been removed, since their wages have
been brought down to a point much
below the old ten-hour rate. Bricklayers, for
instance, are now paid So 80 per day, against
81 so and So two or three years ago. 10 re-
turn to ten hours would be certainly accom-
panied by an advance of wages to "a per day,
and the advantage in this to en-
ploye1s does not seem to most of them
sufficiently great to warrant any serious
contest over the matter. 1t is thing, how
ever of lamentable notorety, that the amount
of building done in the city has for some
years steadily fallen Off that there are
fewer large buildings going up now
than at any time for years past,
and that the number contemplated for the
ensuing year is still smaller. The reason
of this is, in one word, that capitalists find
building too expensive to pay. The Labor
Unions who insistlupon such requirements as
that no brick-mason shall lay down his trOwel
in order to lift bricks with both hands, may
see in this circumstance a hint as to the
workings of their system. That Is rarely
wise policy for workingmen which unites them
in an effort to diminish the amount of pro-
ductive labor performed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-30

clearly its responsibility would restore public
confidence in the management OF the work.
The Governor is now practically Entrusted
with supervision of the Commission.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-30

1t is perfectly well known that the Pacliic
Mail officers accounted to the Company Tor
100000 of its money by stating that 1t had
been used in Washington to procure the sub
sidy. Mr.. John Roach and other witnesses are
now found to have testified that the amount
stolen from the Pacific Mail during the late
administration was swelled to much larger
sum, not less, according to one witness, than
81 100000. 1t is feebly intimated by officers OF
the Company that large part OF
this money was invested by dishonest
agent in real estate in Philadelphia, ana
that they hope to recover it. But books in the
hands of some of the officers tell different
story, and it is not probable that the clrcum-
stances connected with the disbursements In
or on account of Washington can be per-
manently concealed Meantime, however,
the facts elsewhere collated from the
testimony taken before the Committee will
be found of general interest to all who care
to see how the one great American shipping
line has been managed, and why it IS that
our merchant navy dwindles when it should
be growing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-30

In the Senate, yesterday, the bill to increase
the head-moneyr on immigrants was killed.
This tax was formerly fixed at 81 80; it was
reduced to 81 so, in 1871, and the bill just dis
posed of proposed to raise the tax to S2'
There has always been some doubt as to the
constitutionality of this tax; and In some
States it has been abolished on account OF
decisions in the local courts declaring its lack
of harmony with local fundamental law. In
this State we have been able, however, to
maintain valuable system of agencies and
shelters for the benefit of immigrants arriving
at this port. 1t is feared by the Commission
ers of immigration that much of this system
must be abrogated, as the revenue from the
head tax has fallen off to great extent since
its reduction. If this is at all likely, somo
other means Of providing for the Immigrants
must be found.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-30
Nesu'l1osk Daily gribmate.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.

THURSDAY. APRIL 80, 1874.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-02
Use of HOrse.Flesh i'm France.

The committee for introducing the
use of horse-hesh into France reports
that, during the frstsix months of 1867,
803 horses, asses and mules were sold
in Paris, the weight Of which amounted
to 166, 900 kilogrammes. During the
first six months of 1870 the number of
animals amounted to 1892, or $50, 900
kilogrammes while in the same period
of 1873, 5,618 animals were exposed in
the market, the flesh alone weighing
$50, $40 kilogrammes, not counting the
heart, brain, liver, tongue, etc., which
were also used like those of beef-cattle.
A similar extension of the use of horse
flesh was manifested in the provinces.
The usual price paid by the butchers
for these horses amounts from S25 to
$50 each, the animals being killed only
after their period of utility has passed,
and when they are worth little or moth
Allowing $40 as the increased sum real
lied from each animal in consequence
of its conversion into food, we have the
food resources of Paris alone increased
by the amount of SOB, 100. A similar
estimate, based upon the entire number
of horses sold as food in the whole OF
France, indicates that the food re-
sources of the country during 1873 will
have been increased to the amount OF
amount of $500, 900; while the saving
to the public by the difference between
the cos. of horse-hesh and the more ex-
pensive kinds is of course much greater.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-02
Europe-A Mighty War Imminent.

lIondon June ~ Cor. New York world.]
The leading article in the Times O
yesterday is one well worthy of the at
tention which it will everywhere re
ceive. 1t was plain warning that Eu.
rope is on the eve of mighty war
! Affairs have come to such a pass that
the burden of maintaining the armies
which all the nations have prepared fol
the coming ar.is too great long to be
endured. But still these armies are
constantly increased. "The process OF
turning citizens into soldiers" says the
Times, "goes on all over Europe with.
out any apparent limit" The German
army is more than half as large again as
it was fifteen years ago, but still is not
large enough to satisfy Bismarck and
Moltke. France, Austria, Italy, Rus
STA, Belgium and Sweden are all follow
ing Germany's example, and are in
creasing their armies. Each is afraid
of all the others, and Europe is re-
turning to the traditions of an earlier
age, when every free man was soldier,
and the pursuits of industry were wholly
subordinate to the claims of military
service" Each nation says it is armine
only for defense-but some of them
have already armies of defense more
numerous than any offensive army that
can be brought against them. For,
says the Times
"Germany has total army Of l ,261,
600 men, and this is very nearly as large
as the entire offensive army of Euro
pean and Asiatic Russia, and falls very
little short of the combined offensive
forces of France and Austria and Italy.
The French army, again, is much
larger than the army with which Ger.
many could make the attack. Nor is
Italy less well defended against all pos
sible assailants. Within the last fifteen
years she has almost doubled her stand,
ing army, and has increased the avail.
able offensive part of it in an even larger
proportion. She has now COS, 200 sol
diers with whom she can defend herself,
and 800, 900 with whom she can attack
her neighbors. If we measure her de.
fensive forces against the offensive forces
of any other nation whatever, we shall
find that they do not fall short of any,
and that they are considerably in ex'
cess of the most. The very pre.ense Of
reason thus altogether disappears, and
the Jealousics and suspicious of the ma
tons of Europe with regard to each
others future movements are shown
clearly to be as baseless as they are
ruinous."
England, for every 200 of her popu
lation, maintains only three soldiers fol
offensive purposes Italy and Belgium
maintain twelve /; France and Austris
fifteen Germany twenty-one. 1T is il
vain Germany to pretend that she wishe.
only to defend herself-she means mis-.
chief, and the gun which will be the
signal of the next great war will be free
by her.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-02
Immigration During 1873.

The immigration to this country from
foreign ports last year fell off nearly
20. 900 as compared with the return for
1872. The immigration into Canada
was, on the contrary, largely increased.
The two results are attributed to bust
ness depression in this country conse-
quent upon the panic last fall, and to
the activity displayed in Canada during
the last year or more in stimulating i'm
migration and in opening up her West
ern possessions to settlers. The immi-
grafton into this country was 400, 545
persons, OF whom nearly one-third were
of German birth. Thirty-seven per
cent. came from Ireland and Great
Britain. Irish immigration seems to
have passed its highest point, partly
owing to the absence of any great
political excitement on the island, and
partly to the improved condition of the
remaining inhabitants consequent upon
the large reduction of the population by
the emigration of former years. The
immigration from Sweden shows great
falling-off, while that from France,
Italy and Russia is increasing. Three
fourths of the immigrants belonged to
the Teutonic, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon
races. OF over 1000 immigrants,
only 1900 had professions and As, 600
skilled trades, the remainder being la
borers, women and children--Phita-
deLphia Ledger.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-02

infant of its existence for years, and not
until after he had left the Presidency.
The admission of professed politicians,
or indeed of politicians of any sort, into
the order, is strongly discouraged. We
do not want them, and have no DISPOSE
ton TO be guided or influenced by them.
They may scatter hayseed in tleir hair,
weer butternut shirts and stogy boots,
with their trowsers tucked in, but they
will not be welcomed, and be very like
ly to meet the fate of. the Hon. Sassa-
fras Dodger, whose sore trials in trying
to get into the grange have been so
touchipgly described. Indeed we more
than half suspect that Mr.. Charles w.
Green is no other than the Hon. Sassa-
fras Dodger himself, and that his great
grievance is that he could not be fully
admitted into the order. We welcome
all honest, thoughtful, intelligent and
patriotic tillers of the soil to our ranks,
and can assure them that they will find
nothing but good there but we have
no room for political demsgogues.
A New YORK GRANGER.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-02

ten cents per pound, by the ten or fif-
teen pounds. Much of the carbolate
of lime sold for destroying insects is
weakened by mixture with common air
Stacked lime.
EPIcUREAN CoFFEE.-There is such a
thing as science even in coffee making,
and the French understand it better,
perhaps, than any other people in the
world. They can combine different
coffees, like the parts of fine wine, to
produce certain rare bouquets or aromas
for the epicure. Not more than half a
pound of coffee should be roasted at a
time for domestic use; it should be
ground just before going into the pot /;
an ounce should be allowed for every
three cups; in its mixture with the
white of egg to clear it there should be
some warmth before the water is added,
and it should never be allowed to reach
boil. Observe these rules, which are
based upon scientific reasons, and you
may make from an inferior coffee-bean
beverage far superior to what gen.
orally goes by that name.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-02
Alcohol's Army of Death.

There are 140,0 saloons in the
country against $4,000 schools, and
only $4,000 churches. Manufacturers
and sellers of strong drink, $50, 900,
twelve times the number of clergymen,
four times the teachers, nearly double
all the lawyers, physicians, teachers
and ministers combined. In these
saloons there are $685. daily GUS
toners, one in seven of the whole popu-
lation Of these 100000 are annually
imprisoned for crime, at an expense Of
500, zoo, 900, and $50, 900 go down to
the drunkard's grave, leaving 200, 600
beggared orphans. Grasp these figures:
An army of topers, five abreast, 100
miles in length. A rank of beggared
widows and children stretching across
the State of Massachusetts,. A file of
men seventy-five miles in length, march.
ing steadily down to the grave, three
every minute through the year.-Con
gregationalist.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-02
North Remembering,

KEEP sof.-soap three months before
using.
A WEAK solution of the permanganate
of potassa will deodorize your breath.
BAR soap should be kept in a dry
place several weeks before using. Ii
will last much longer.
To TAKE ink out of linen dip the
spot in pure melted tallow; wash and the
ink will come out with the tallow.
HERE is a China cement. Take a
thick solution of gum arabic dissolved
in soft water) and stir in plaster OF
Paris, till of the consistency of thick
cream with brush spread it neatly
on the broken edges and stick them
together, let them lie for several days.
In summer milk is apt to have a
garlicky or onion-hke flavor from some
odorous shrub eaten by the COWS. TIC
absorb this peculiar faint drop a piece
of wood charcoal, three or four inches
square, into each pan of the fluid, OF
into the milk-pitcher for table. The
carbon very quickly deodorizes the
milk, leaving it sweet and pure.
STOVE luster, when mixed with tur
pentine, and applied in the usual man
ner, is blacker, more glossy and endur
ing than when mixed with any othel
liquid. The turpentine prevents rust
and when applied to an old rusty stove
will make it look like new.
HEMP, when the blossoms are jus
opened, is an infallible preservative O.
textile fabrics and furs against the at
tacks of moths. The stalk with leaves
and flowers is cut when blooming (abou
july, and dried in the shade. 1t ii
said epreserve its properties for seyera
years.
A COMMON cement for marble, por
phyry or alabaster is made of two parts
of white virgin wax, one part of white
resin, with one and half parts of the
same stone, powdered, as the article tc
be repaired. Marble or albaster dust
is found at the stone cutters, where il
is an article of trade for making fine
finish to parlor walls. The wax anG
resin are melted, the powder sifted in,
afterward the whole is well kneaded il
water to mix the ingredients thoroughly,
We give receipt for making SUI
perior wbitewash: Take a clean water
tight cask or barrel, and put into it &
half bushel of lime Slack by pouring
water over it, boiling hot and in suffi
cient quantity to cover it five inches
deep, and stir it briskly till thoroughly
Stacked. When the Stacking has beer
effected, dissolve it in water and add 6
solution of two pounds of sulphate o.
zinc and one of common salt. If yor
want a cream color, add to the above
three pounds of yellow ochre. The
value of the sulphate of zinc is that il
makes the wash harden better after i
is put on.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-02
THEsNEws OF oLDEN TINE.

We hold paper in our hands 49,
"a Journal Of To-day -
So reads its modest title-page,
Now dim with age and gray.
It's filed with startling incident,
With essay, tale, and rhyme
The doings of the long ago
The news of olden time.
The nimble fingers, deft..and spry.,
That set this type of yore,
Have mingled with their kindred dust,
Full fifty years or more
Gone, long ago, the busy scribe
That drove the good quill-pen;
Closed, years agone, the eyes that read
The thoughts of honest men.
And yet, in those time-honored days,
They had their little spites
And jealousies, and quarreled DER
Their fancied wrongs and rights
The factions, led to victory,
Or beaten, left the field;
Poor, human hearts $50 much like ours
They d rather die than yield.
We run our eye across the page,
And up and down each column
We read the lists of marriages
And births, the deaths, so solemn;
And then we wonder who will read,
When we have passed away,
A hundred years or more to come,
Our Journals Of To-day"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-02
To Avoid Using Spectacles i'm Old Age.

As mature years approach, the rotund
convexity of the'eye of childhood be-
comes fattened, and the lens in front of
thepupil--the cornea--requires change
of focus to enable it to perform its ac-
customed duties. This hattening may
be brought about at a comparative early
age by the Injurious habit of rubbing
the eyes with towels, handkerchiefs, &c.
Always in washing, compress the ball
of the eye together by placing finger,
and thumb at the outside and inside
corners of the eye, and gently compress
them, and the nuisance of being COM
PEELED touse spectacles would be avoided.
Persons who have taken care to do
this have been enabled to dispense with
glasses at very advanced age.
Among the devices to prevent fatten-
ing of the cornea and sinking of the
eyes into their sockets, so usual to old
age, are glass eye-cups made to fit the
eyes, with a rubber ball attached, which
will cause vacuum to be formed in the
eye-cup, and thus draw the eye out
slightly. Prairie Farmer.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-02
The Mill River Hen.

We know few details of her history.
Biddy, we suppose, was her name, and
America her nation; Williamsburg was
her dwelling place, and, as the sequel
will show, presence of mini her saliva
ton. She had Laid seventeen eggs in a
barrel, and having done her level best
in that line, she was setting on them
when the mill-dam burst. In spite of
her teeth the food bore her along with
the awful wreck-with houses and
barns, trees and fences, and the bodies
of men and beasts-but this steadfast
creature never stirred. What outsiders
were doing was none of her business.
She was too busy keeping the beams
out of her own eye to look after the
notes in the eyes of otherpeople. What
thoughts may have passed through her
mind Perhaps she whistled as she
went for want of thought. Who knows
How her mothers heart must have
trembled What" she cried,
"must lose my chickens by that
dam ?" If she could have sung no
doubt she would have clucked to her.
self some ancient lay. Until the barrel
was stove she would not deny herself
the comfort of stave. "Give me but
what that barrel-hoop bound. Take all
the rest the sun goes round" Or some
thing else appropriate. Our hen was
carried five miles, and at length the
Fates, snubbed and disappointed,
bumped the barrel ashore and left il
high and dry. What did the hen do
Did she jump out, and crow and cackle
over her ride like man? Did she
scratch of letter to Barnum offering
to make show of herself? No, she
just went on minding her own bust
ness, and in due time Matched out every
one of her seventeen eggs. Oh, fowl
most fair How meekly didst thou
bear thy yolks Many hens have done
excellently, but thou excellest them ALL
-Ne,c York Tribune.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-02
Nitro ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Nitro GLYcERNE.--Nitro-gIy cerine is
composed of glycerine dissolved in a
mixture of equal parts of nitric and sui
phuric acids. The solution is poured
into large volume of water when the
nitro-glycerine is precipitated as color
less heavy oil. The nature of this sub
stance is very peculiar. A drop of the
oil placed on an anvil and struck heavily
explodes with loud noise, and if q
paper be moistened with it and struck
it is blown into fragments. The ap,
plication of fame or red-hot IRON to
the oil, however, only causes it to burn
quietly. In closed vessels it explodes
at about $50 deg. Fahrenheit. In blast
ing rocks nitro-glycerine is exploded by
a concussion caused by gunpowdey. Il
has about ten times the explosive powe,
OF gunpowder.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-02
HunnOr.

A BEGGARLY sham-Robbing a pau
per.
We prefer summer-set" to q
Z" backward spring"
THE two colors which are indiscerni-
BILE are invisible green and blindman's
buff.
THE latest car-coupl1ng in Indiana
has been a marriage on a railway train.
THE man of sixty is exempt from jury
duty. Many wish to get off like sixty.
WHEN a young lady gives herself
away does she lose her self-possession ?
Why are cashmere shawls like deaf
people? Because you can't make them
here.
HOOP called the slamming of door
by person in a passion, ga wooden
oath"
A FEMALE pawnbroker, hauled up for
extortion, claimed immunity ON the
ground that she was loan woman.
The longest word in the English
language is smiles, because there is
mile between the first and last letters.
THE drunkard takes the pledge and
frequently breaks it; the pawnbroker
takes the pledge and generally keeps it.
A COUNTRY boy, having heard of sail
ors heaving up anchors, wanted to know
if it was sea-sickness that made them
do it.
WHAT is mind ? No matter. What
is matter? Never raind. What is the
nature of the soul 1t is quite imma-
terial.
You can. convince Vermont woman
that there wont be death in the family
if she dreams of seeing hen walking a
picket-fence.
GIVE children at a birth Good
Heavens p exclaimed the father, on
viewing this addition to his family,
"and business so dull"
THE Worcester Press speaks of con-
temporary who hires a small boy to
come in at intervals with a step-ladder
and dust off the tops of his ears.
"Now, SAMMY, tell me, have you
read the story of Joseph ?" sob, yes,
uncle" swell, then, what wrong did
they do when they sold their brother ?"
"They sold him too cheap, think"
"I WOULD marry you, Jacob" said a
lady to an importunate lover, "were it
not for three reasons. sob, tell me-"
he said, imploringly. "The first is"
said she, Il don't love you; the sec
ond is, l don't want to love you; and
the third is, L couldn't love you if L
wanted to Z"
SAYS punster: "Last year I saw a
watch spring, a rope walk, horse fly,
and even the big trees leave. even
saw a plank walk, and a Third avenue
bank run {; but the other day I saw a
tree box, a catfish, and stone fence. I
am prepared to see the Atlantic coast,
and the Pacific slope"
A CORRESPONDENT wishes to know if
every woman is not, to some extent, a
kleptomaniac. For our part, we have
never been quite willing to admit that
there is constitution ally any such mania
as kleptomania but, in regard to the
propensity to which he refers, we may
say that the best authorities are agreed
that no lady can be left alone in the
presence of box of face powder with
out trying little just to see how it
looks.
"WELL, I s'ppose the burned stuff
got Mixed" was the sad reply of a
Missouri druggist, when he killed
woman by giving arsenic for salts.
"THERE's not a mile in Ireland's isle,
Where the dirthy yermin musthers,
But st. Patrick put his howly fut
An murthered them in clusthers.
The toads went dash, the frogs went splash,
All jumpin' in the wather;
And the schuakes committed shuicide
To save themselves from schlaughter,