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The Baltimore County union., 1875-03-20

Ms- During the first week in April there is
an election to be held in Connecticut and also
in Michigan. The Legislature, State officers
and members of Congress are to be elected in
Connecticut. In Michigan two Supreme Court
Judges, two Regents oft The University, twenty
Circuit Court Judges, Superintendent Of
Schools and Township officers. The present
Chief Justice has been re-nominated by both
parties Both parties are hard at work to OBJ
tain the mastery. The result of the contest in
New Hampshire the other day did much to
stir both paties to their stoutest energies The
prospects of carrying both States for the Re-
publican candidates are good.
The Baltimore County union., 1875-03-20

re- The first case under the Civil Rights
bill is likely to come from the city Of Chicago.
restaurant keeper saw colored man enter
his establishment and seat himself at one of
the tables. A colored waiter, under instruc-
tions from the proprietor, approached and in
formed the new customer that provisions could
not be furnished him for the reason that it was
not consistent with the business and charac-
ter OF the house to serve colored individuals.
The customer left without making any dem
onstration of displeasure and went before the
United States Commissioner and procured a
warrant against the proprietor for violation
of the law. II is thought the case will go to the
Supreme Court Of the Unite States.
ngs~ Vice President Wilson has written a
letter to the editor of the National Republican
in Washington, in explanation of his casting
vote upon the bill for the equalization of the
soldiers bounties. He goes into the entire
history of the bounties to soldiers and shows
what injustice exists in consequence Of their
being no provision for placing all upon an
equal footing. He says 81 am for doing justice
to the country's defenders by equalizing the
bounties of those who made the greatest sacri-
fees I ana for keeping full faith with those
who, with like nobility, came forward with
their means to sustain the National cause"
The Baltimore County union., 1875-03-20

N INSTALLMENT OF TWENTY DOL
N LARS A SHARE on subscription to the
Stock of the "LoaE and Trust Company of Bal
timore county" will be payable on the
Sd of April, prorimo.
The 5th By law, in respect to any Stockhold-
er failing to pay an installment, on twenty
days notice, will be strictly enforced.
BY order of the Board,
F. B. LAURENSON,
Secretary and Treasurer.
.
The Baltimore County union., 1875-03-20
Ie rental or annual value is not

LICENSES TO RETAILERS OF SPIRIT
UOUS OR FERMENTED LIQUORS
OR LAGER BEER
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OLD HARDWARE STAND.
No. l36 N. Gay St., Baltim ore.
j. NORRIS MYERS, Successor.
July 1S,'74.-Iy.
BALTIMORE MARKETS.
DIRECTED Weekly from Daily Papers.

FLOUR-Howard Street Super $425@4
L. i NJ. EA[AR
The Baltimore County union., 1875-03-20
Property Sales.

Il farming, will sell at public sale, his res
idence on the Old Manor Road and at he head
Of Dulaney's Valley, on
Tuesday, 23d of March, 1875.
at 10 o'clock A. NJ,
THE FOLLOWINGS STOCK. FARMING UTEN
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-01
New and Remarkable Discoveries In
Astronomy.

A writer In the New York Times SAYS
The year 1875 seems likely to be dis
tingushed in the annals Of astronomy
for the new evidence it is perfecting of
two important facts, both of which have
been held probable, but have hitherto
lacked complete demonstration. The
first of these facts is that we are some
1900, 900 or j, 000, 900 of miles nearer to the
sun than we had been taught by our old
textbooks on astronomy to believe; and
that consequently the distances of all
the planets from the sun and from each
other require to be calculated over again,
and set down mt much lower figures
The evidence which the recent obser.
vations of the transit of Venus have
contributed to this important subject is
well known to our readers, and is brought
forcibly to mind by the recent voyage of
the Swatara to New York with the tran
| sit expedition. The second we have re.
| terrcd TO is that of the motive force of
| light. At a meeting of the Royal So
| ciety of Great Britain, few weeks ago,
| Mr.. William Crookes, Fellow ROYAL
Society, who had previously commu-
nicated some interesting facts on
this subject, read a paper which may
| give rise to much more important dis.
coveries perhaps than any contribution
| of celestial mechanics since the law of
| grayitation was demonstrated by New
| ton, 1T has always been assumed, and
| DR. Balfour Stewart and other authori-
| ties have affirmed. that light, apart from
heat, has no mechanical force whatever
| This old theory is oyerthrown by Mr.
| Crookes, who, for some years past, has
| been making experiments, and has at
| last constructed AN ingenious apparatus
| by which he shows the power of lumi-
nous rays TO drive round and round little
vane when the heat rays are excluded
being thoroughly Sifted out by means OF
a screen OF alum.
With an air~pump Mr.. Crookes first eX.
! hausts tube with bulb AT its end and
in the bulb he mounts upon deEcste
/ pivot IA little vane OF glass or straw. This
/ yane is made in the form of the letter y,
and on each of its four arms is mounted
disk OF pith blackened on one side.
| The use of this blackeued surface is ia.
/ genious, as will be presently seen AS
soon as the machine is ready it is eN-
/ posed 10 the sunshine, when its disks inn
mediately become enduCd, as il were.
with life. They reyolve around their
/ common axis just as the planets re-
/ yolye about the sun in the orrery. What
/ is the motive force in this beautiful eX.
I pertinent? 1t is not heat For, as be.
| fore observed, the heat rays can be Sifted
out by the alum screen without stopping
/ the rotation of the machine. The atmoS-
/ phere and its changes have nothing to do
With producing the motion. Prof. Os-
borne Reynolds some time ago suggested
that the disks revolved because there was
latent moisture In them, which, being
evaporated in the experiment, gave a
resilient impulse 20 the little orrory. To
retEte this theory, and at the same time
e show that the sole motive force en-
gagged in driving the orrery was the lu.
minous rays OF the sun, NJ. Crookes
! exhibited machine made whOllyof pla.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-01
Baking Of Garden Beds.

When any obstacle or difficulty is over
come however small, in which the public
are concerned, deem it duty we owe
each other to make it known; hence | am
induced to give my experience and prac-
tice for the benefit of those who, like me-
have to cultivate a heavy, clammy soil for
garden. Such soil may be put in the
best condition when the seeds are planted,
but before they terminate sufficient to
reach the light and air, so essential to their
existence, as is frequently the case, there
comes heavy dash Of rain, followed with
4 hot sun, forming a hard crust lmper-
vious to the little, delicate plants too feeble
to break through their imprisoning wall.
| have had to pick open the rows with an
iron tooth rake, or reduce the surface to a
fine, loose state again, and plant over
The plan | now adopt entirely obvates
such discouraging difficulty. After put
ting the ground in the best of condition
by deep culture, breaking down Jumps
and working in a good supply of we'll
rotted manure none other should be used
in family garden), | rake the surface
smooth, over which | spread a compost
prepared for that purpose, about half an
inch thick; lightly draw the rake once or
twice over the covered surface, which
mixes the soil and compost. When pre-
pare large beds | spade strip three or
four feet wide the entire length or BREADTH
prepare ii for the top dressing, and spread
it on and so on, until finished, by which
unsightly foot-marks are avoided, if for
appearance sake only
Remember | have reference TO q COM
mon-siZe family garden. When the seeds
are planted have a board fifteen inches
| wide my usual space between the rows,
as long as the width or length of the beds
| on which | stand. The edge of the board
being my guide, with q pointed stick
| make little trench the required depth,
drop in the seed, and with the back of the
rake I'LL up the little trenches, and at the
same time lightly press upon the covered
seeds 10 firm the loose covering, that it
will not dry ont readily; then turn the
board twice, plant at each edge, and so on
until finished, when the entire bed pre-
sents a smooth appearance.
have wandered beyond my first in
tention in giving more minute detail of
my mode of successfully starting my
plants on heavy, baked soil: however,
il may relieve some novice in gardening
of veNation, disappointment and trouble.
There are AT least two important objects
gained bSmy plan. The rain may flood
my garden, the sun may send lis hottest
rays, but the terminating seeds, if not
washed away will still have moist.
comfortable and luxurious bed in the fine
earth and open texture of the manure.
which of itself win not adhere and bake.
besides adding an additional supply of
plant food within their limited reach.
As to nay compost for top dressing to
my garden beds, endeavor al odd spells
10 prepare enough to mix in the soil when
spading, which ii not only lightens but
deepens. In May or early June, when
grass roots are full Of juice, with a plow
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-01

or mattock skin off old, sour grass sods
two to three inches deep along the sides os
roads and fence corners; with them maks
bed six inches high in some convenient
place. The size Of the heap I make for
my garden is about five by ten feet; on tho
sods spread evenly two-horse WAGON
load of stable manure, on which anotSa.
layer of sods and again another load Of
manure.
The heap is built up nearly straight.
the top made dishing; then cover three r.
four inches the entire heap with sand
finally cover it with boards. Chamber
Stops, soap-suds on wash days and dish
water are emptied in cask, and at CON.
venient times transferred to the top of the
heap. In August the heap. is carefully
forked over, working the outside edges IN
the center, and made up in shape as be
fore, continuing to add the liquids. In
September overhaul again, mixing the in
gradients thoroughly, and forming the
top in conical shape, that the winte,
rains may be carried off When used in
spring, with perhaps little extra work.
ing, you have strong fertilizer for any
purpose, and specific top dressing for
small seeds in heavy baking soil.-Cor.
N. Y. Tribune.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-01

TAME says Of artists "a hard life that
Of an artist. There are men of fifty
whose names are famous, who do not
earn 10000 francs year. About thirty,
after ten years study, he begins to pro.
duce something; then sales must be
made, and to make sales the artist must
have the tact of salesman. Some 60
fasting, and put in here and there three
franc lesson; but even that is chance.
Some paint backgrounds for photogra-
pliers, or large sign-boards. At forty, with
real merit, or friends in the newspapers,
he may get into notice by constant ex-
hibition and putting. About fifty he
earns little money and has caught the
rheumatism. Each year the number OF
real artists grow less and less. Taste
has declined since the division of patri-
monies has broken fortunes into crumbs,
and the great profits of the Bourse soil
society with new and vulgar wealth.
with picture-dealers, speculate upon their
stores. To succeed three things are
ncedful. The first that at the exhibition
some rich bourgeois shall say: There
is a gay hunting scene, which will do
very well for the left-hand panel OF my
dining-roomv the second that he feel IN
the humor to spend his money, that he
has faith in his own taste, that his wife
does not say no; in short, that he buys
the third, that his friends, having
breakfasted before the picture, or
der copies. But the 5000 pictures
of the exposition distract the at
tentiOn, destroy all beauty. A woman
is pretty alone by her Preside in her easy
chair; put her among eighty ball-dresses
and she is lost. How do the two or three
miles of pictures which are gotten up
each year in Paris find sale? Reply is
impossible. On this route the crowd is
greater than on any of the others. For
thirty years back the chief characters of
novels whose heroes were formerly young
gentlemen have been artists, especially
painters. Thereupon a craze in this di.
rection; numbers of young fellows who
would have made excellent clerks have
bought CATERS and let their boards grow.
What are they to do for their dinnersY
Many one is worn out. This one takes
a whole summer to finish study. He
rubs out, paints over, rubs out again,
ends in losing all true feeling, becomes
cross, irritable, talks feverishly and by
dts and starts, like man who has had "a
nervous attack Many have utterly
thwarted their natures and, after fifteen
years of struggle, find themselves power
less. Instead of an Imagination full to
overflow, and an impulse to pour out on
the canvas the very supertuity of their
brains, they resemble the dried-up spring
which, at long intervals, leaks out in mis-
cradle drops. A friend comes in. He is
stopped by gesture. Stand just as
you are; stretch out your arm. Perhaps
| have found the attitude l have been
looking for AT last, by mere chance,
and after a hundred cropping hesltations,
they hang up something, and the Great
urc, thus brought into the world by a
is pretentious abortion"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-01
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.


-Mush Wafiles-One quart of flour,
one pint OF corn-meal mush, two eggs, a
tablespoonful Of butter and little salt
Make thin batter with sweet milk Sep
arate the eggs as for rice watflss; it makes
them lighter.
The Gardeners Record says the pref
test basket seen for long time was com
posed of five Roman hyacinths set in a
circle in small basket standing on a
round table in the library with the best
small plant of Platycerium alcicorne in
the center, overhanging the hyacinths.
The effect was really very beautiful.
There is great danger in turning
stock on grass field on which plaster has
been recently sown, or until the plaster
has been taken up either by rain or heavy
dews. At Roanoke, Va, some stock
turned upon field on the same day on
which it was plastered all died in few
hours. There were no indications OF
hoven,' the stock being in good con-
dition, and the sudden death was believed
to be solely the effect of the sulphate Of
lime.
Some farmers make it practice to
keep their poultry in their orchards from
NdIly SDI uutll tOlu NtdtilCl STtS Ill
and they find that it pays them for so
doing. A picket fence should be built
around the orchard, high enough to pre-
vent their flying over, with suitable
house or shed in one corner of the yard to
shelter them at night. Thus situated the
poultry will thrive and prosper, keeping
themselves in good condition, and the in
crease in eggs will be greatly augmented
and their usefulness and value enhanced
Mr.. Bryan Tyson, Washington, d.
c., sends the World the following upon
fire -fanged manure: "This is stable or
barn yard manure that has heated in bulk
until it has turned to a white, moldy
color, being very light. In that condition
1t is scarcely worth carting to the field, the
ammonia, which constitutes the principal
strength, having been driven of into the
air by the heat. | once tested this matter
by manuring row of sweet potatoes with
fire tanged manure, putting about quart
to hill, and a row beside it with same
quantity of manure that had never heated.
The unheated doubled the yield The fire
fanged made no perceptible increase"
In some sections-and it would be u
decided advance in thoughtfulness and
hlHliltSS III an SCtliollS--ldli 2lNt
each of their boys, and girls, too, a strip
of land to raise whatever they choose
upon it, and dispose Of the product for
their own benefit. 1t is favor that they
all appreciate, and it is a pleasant and
serviceable employment for them in their
leisure hours. They will vie with each
other in their skill at raising their little
crops, and the proceeds applied to their
own use are frequently OF some value;
and the whole arrangement, while it in
structs them in the cultivation of the soil,
early implants in the children tn" idea of
thrift and economy. Sometimes, where
good many animals are raised, a pig, a
lamb, calf, up to even a colt, according
to the age of the children, is given to each
to rear and to keep or sell. Farmers,
think of this, it will more than repay you
in the happiness and confidence it will inn
part to your sons and daughters. Ger
mantotcR Telegraph.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-01
A Thin Argument to Shield Evil De-
signs.

Opposition papers of the New York Sun
and Memphis appeal stripe have struck q
mine Of argument, and are working 1t
with much vigor. it is embodied in the
idea that Southern outbreaks and KuKlux
raids are the meats upon which the Re-
publican party feed-that after State and
general elections all is quiet in the late in
surrectionary States, but as such elections
approach the raw head and bloody bones
are presented to the people Of the North
by Republican orators and Journalists, and
the heart of the Northern people fired
with hatred and revenge, which finds vent
but in Radical mAiorities. They argue
that now oil is peace, but warn their read
ers that next year representations Of muir
der and rapine at the South will again be
made 10y the political pnryeyors Of the Re-
publican party to alarm and influence the
elections of the North Such argument
though freely INDUCED in by the Opposi-
ton prints, is an insult to the intelligence
of their readers-at least it is an insult 10
the average intelligence OF the American
people. Who is so simple as not to realize
why the condition Of things AT the South
should be tranquil now and may be dis
turbed or sanguinary next year, The dis
turbances in that unhappy section are al
ways political. Now there is no political
excitement there-the people are all at
tending TO their sustaining duties.
But next year the electors Of the nation will
he called upon to exercise their constitu-
tonal prerogative in voting for and electing
President of the United States, Congress
men, and Legislatures which shall elect
United States Senators. Were the people
of the South permitted, they would quiet
~ drop their ballots and abide the result.
But the politicians OF that portion of our
country, smaring over their defeat in de-
stroying the Union, and eager to possess
themselves OF the " tiesh-pots" pertaining
10 office, are not prone TO allow their
fcllow-citizens 10 exercise freeman's will,
from a well-grounded apprehension that
the result OF such action on their part
would be the continuance in power Of the
party which frustrated their designs in
the late interccinc struggle, and sup
planted their ensign with the starry
banner.
These Ishmaelites Of the press try to
blind the eyes 81 their readers, ans, endeav
or 10 prepare them to look upon future ac-
counts OF Ku.Klux outragcs as Repub.
lican thunder but we incline to the opin-
ION that it will be loves labor lost"
The Centennial year will not be found
10 be n favorable one for those who
sought to end the nations life, at the age
of eighly-tive, to attain power. The fires
Of '1G and '6l-5 will re.illuminc the
land; the spirit of patriotism will receive
a new birth and baptism, and the Repub-
.ican nominee for the Presidency will
stride over the course, with the acclaims
of n redeemed people IN chorus surround
ing him. -Repabltc K0gasiEe.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-01

| tinum which had been heated to redness
while under continuous and absolute ex-
haustion. The disks being made of pla-
tinum instead of pith, as before, re-
volved as obediently as the disks of pith !;
inasmuch as they could contain no APP
preciable amount of latent moisture, the
theory of Prof. Reynolds was, OF course,
exploded. The final result was that
light is now acknowledged for the first
time as one of the mechanical forces,
| and such eminent men as Profs. Stokes
and Huxley, DR.. Carpenter, MIR. Norman
Lockyer and Others agree that the dem
onstration was perfect.
Another point of importance is that
the force which light delivers is not like
| the force of gravitation, but differs from
| it in several essential respects. One Of
these is that, while gravitation attracts
and gives centripetal impulse, the
force of light is centrifugal, and repels
or pushes away the objects on which it
is delivered Thus the black side of the
disc is pushed from the sun, and the
orrery OF Mr.. Crookes is kept in con-
slant rotation so long as the light waves
dash themselves against the black sur
face and drive it before them. Shut out
the light by covering the machine with a
hat, and the rotation instantly stops, to
be renewed again the moment the OBJ
structlon is taken away and the light re-
admitted. A green or blue screen dimin-
lshes the force of the rotation. Yellow
or red glass quickens it into much more
lively activity. If cloud passes over
the face Of the sun while this little orrery
is working at full speed its movements
are checked and somewhat slower; but
the moment the sun is visible again the
mechanism responds with alacrity and
its revolutions are as swift as ever.
Strange, indeed, are the thoughts
which must be started by this revelation
that light, pouring upon bodies freed
from atmospheric friction, is IN itself an
active and mighty force. That SO re-
markable discovery solves at once the
mystery OF the comets tail-which Is
always seen to be driven violently away
from its natural line upon approaching
the SUMS. we believe, affirmed by more
than one high astronomical authority
But may IL not also have something to
do with the axial motion of the planetsg
May it not have something to do with
the maintenance of centrifugal force,
balancing, as it were, that of gravita-
4
lestial universe that this potency and
stress of light sweeps from center to
circumference of each system, exercising
a power which. in it's totality, must be
something prodigious? 1t seems not
impossible that our mathematicians, cal
culating from the small surface of these
disks the motive force of sunlight, may
soon tell us pretty accurately what is the
oh t1,n
rays of the sun command; and nothing
of this, by the law of forces, can be really
wasted. Let there be light, and there
was light" seems to derive new majes-
ty of meaning from the discovery which
shows us this subtle something, no more
undulation nor mode of notion" but
a living force as well as the illumina-
ton of all life. 1t does appear as if a
marvellous expansion of knowledge is
about to open in these delicate expert
mentS.