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The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-07-07
Trade Prospects.

At time when there is very little
business doing, mems thoughts naturally
turn to the commercial prospects for the
immediate future. 1t would be absurd
to deny that the outlook is regarded by
n large section of the community as de-
cidedly gloomy. The spring trade has
been, on the whole, of disappointing
character, and there are not so many in
dlcations as might be wished that the
fall trade will be very much better. The
depressed condition of most of our rail
road securities is due, in the first in
stance, to n great contraction both in
freight and passenger traffic, which is,
Ill its turn, the unfailing indication of q
greatly lessened spending power on the
part of the people at large. The rail
road war, while giving temporary and
delusive advantage to producers and
forwarders, is really severe drain upon
the productive capital of the country.
hostile army encamped in civilized
region may benefit a few people, by
paying fair prices for what it consumes.
But it ruins thousands of others by
bringing the ordinary movements of in
dustry and the customary round of COM
mercial exchange to a standstill. So it
is with the warlike reprisals of the rival
railroad presidents. A few cents de-
ducted from every hundred pounds of
freight carried from Chicago to New
York is undoubtedly something gained
to the producer, the dealer, or the con-
sumner, or to all of them combined but
1t is gained Mt the ruinous cost of de-
preciating by millions the market value
OF at least score of different kinds of
railroad securities, and of all classes of
CT ,al, - l.
them. Like actual war, the strife Of the
railroads involves n draft on the future
earnings of the country to pay for the
effected now. That cannot be good for
short-sighted people may desire its con-
tinnance.
The prospects for the last half Of the
year are decidedly encouraging. The
harvest of cereals will unquestionably be
good, after oil deductions have been
made on the score of tho short yield of
certain localities. The South may not
grow more than an average cotton crop,
but it has taken one very essential step
toward renewed prosperity by devoting
great deal more land than usual to
food crops. How important point this
is will be appreciated by all who read
the letters of our special correspondents
in the Southern States. There seems no
reason to doubt that, taking the country
as n whole, the wealth extracted from
the soil will be greater this year than it
has ever been. Even if its nominal
value be less than it was few years ago,
the purchasing power of our products
will be greater, and that is the ultimate
test of the available riches of any coun-
try. During the last two years there
has been wiped out good deal of ficti-
tious capital, with the inevitable result
of giving credit serious shock and of
causing a great deal of distress. Our
future growth must depend more upon
the solid increase Of the country's wealth
and less upon the mortgaging of the
future than it has recently done. To-
ward that sound and steadily progressive
movement the fall of 1875 ought to con-
tribute very perceptible stimulus.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-07-07
Deceptive Vision.

A correspondent writing from the
Rocky mountains says that Pixies Peak
eah be seen for distance of five hun
dred miles, and that the atmosphere is
so clear that stranger in Denver looking
at mountains apparently five miles off
Is amazed in being told they are more
than fifty miles distant. In this con-
nection he tells good story Of party of
Englishman who started out one morn
ing before breakfast to walk to the foot
of the mountains. They rushed away 1T
q hearty pace, smoking their pipes and
looking at their witches, and agreeing
that they would be back in about three
hours. They returned in about six,
nearly famished, and vowing that when
they started to return they were no
nearer the mountains, than they were
when they set out from the hotel. They
"blarsted their eyes, they pronounced
it "most extr' or 'dinary, you know" and
they were &c quite out of sorts" at their
failure to scale the Rocky mountains be-
fore breakfast. The next day one Of the
party was out with some American tour
lists, when they came suddenly ON an
irrigation ditch, used for bringing water
from the mountains, about two feet wide
and foot deep. The Englishman seated
himself, and began to unlace his shoes.
One of his companions asked Kim what
he was doing. "I am going to wade
that rivel," he answered. It don't
look to be more than foot across it,
but in this blarsted country, you know.
I shouldn't like to undertake to step
across it.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-07-07

out injury to the strength Of the ma
terial. Other tests were applied. Water
was boiled in a vessel of this glass. The
water boiledout and the vessel remained
uninjured. The temperature of the yes-
sci was then raised to 150 degrees or
160 degrees, and cold water was poured
in, with the expectation that it would
crack the glass. But the water began
Immediately to boil, and the glass was
unhurt. The temperature was then
raised to, 300 degrees, and cold water
cracked it. This was hardly to be won.
dered at, as brass or copper vessel sub
mitted to the same test would be
damaged,
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-07-07
The Arbutus.
/ wonder why

wonder why
30 rare flower should choose to bloom and
BY these old graves, where coolest shadows
find it here,
Whom MI the fields are. white. and woods are
sere,
The earliest sweetest, brightest every year.
1t clusters round
Two ancient headstones and a sunken mound,
1ts blushinS face close pressed against the
ground.
The headstones tell
VI lovers here. He served his country well.
She died the same day he in battlo fell.
And gossips say
They kept the secret Of their love alway,
And daro not tell it til their dying day.
A century
springs from his grave and moans unceas-
ingly.
And from below,
Out Of her dust, these brightest blossoms
"A type of the sweet maid Of long.ago
Sure, it may be
Whom the arbutus blooms, this stately tree
Feels at its heart some far dim memory
or old time pain
Somo joyful sense that love is near again
And listens while he sings his sad rofrsin.
And so each spring,
Thrilled with remembrance that his love sonos
bring,
Tho arbutus breaks her heart in blossomipp.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-07-07

Mrs. Griffin, aged ninety-nine years,
is one of the carriers of the Boston
Traveller, and she doesn't twist it into
n wad and sling it into muddy part of
the yard ; nor does she stop on the
corners to exchange chaff with her silly
young contemporaries of the opposite
sex while the subscribers are waiting.
The daily gazette., 1875-02-26
A PICTURE.

Dimpled, dainty, one-and-twenty,
R0Sy-faced and round of limb.
Warm'd with mother-wit In plenty.
Prudent, modest, spry, yet trim, .a
8 Lily.handed, tiny-footed,
With all ankle clean and neat.
Neatly gloved and trinity booted,
Looking nice and smelling sweet,
telf-possess'd subduiDg beauty
40 @ sober sense of duty,
Cha ste as Dian, plump as uebe.
such guess was little Phoebe.
Vn now different q creature
From that other wondrous yomani
NOT feeling not feature,
HAD these two fair flowers in COMMON.
one was tall and moulded finely,
Large Of Limb and grand of gaze,
Klch with incense, and diyineIy
Throbbing into passionate rays
Luscious:eyed and luscious bosom'd,
Beautiful and richly rare,
MS passion-fower full blossom'd.
born to Love and Loves despair.
5nGh was Red Rose; and the other
Tiny, prudiah, il -yeu please, :
Meant 10 be O. happy mother, ..
Win bunch of happy housowife's ker,
PRUDENT, not to be defuded,
Bappy-eyed and sober .nooded
DAINTY, mild, yet self-reliant,
she, as Pm worthy singer,
wound our vacillating giant
Rohnd her little dimpled finger.
The daily gazette., 1875-02-26
A BURNING GAS WELL.
A WOnder Of the PennsylyA afa aOax
Mines. -

WOnder Of the PennsylyAn nfa a,Oax
Mines. -"
WAsHEeroS, Feb. "a. .-LThe following
intsgesting. dsssSiRti sf q bnzning ,wsll
N Rennsylra1iia has isee1'. ~ eeav2x ky
the signal Office in this city from Mr.. J.
Cummings, OF I'arentum, one of the vol
unteer observers for the Signal Service:
On the night Of the I'd Of February.
ls!5, L. IN company with several Others.
pad visit to the great gas well, aitua-
ted about nine miles from Tarentum and
hfteen miles south Of Butler, at place
called Larden's Mill, on the farm of Mr.
William Heryey, and owned by compa.
ny consisting OF Messrs. VIM. Heryey. ].
s.. Nandegrift. and J. McAllaster. The
wel was tapped about two weeks ago, a.
! learned from one of the proprietors in
their search after oil. They had gone
down distance of 1,145 feet, and have
just struck the first sand rock. The well
ia located in q hollow about 800 feet wide
between abrupt hills. Our party came
in the vicinity of the well about 9 O'Clock
at night. having seen the vast light feat
ing in the sky ON many q dark night on
previous occasions at q distance Of thir-
teen miles, but when we came in its i'm
mediate influence and saw the trees on
either hand Lit up, and their trunks and
branches silvered to their tops by this
burning torch, the scene was beyond de-
scription. On arriving at the ground we
were met by hundreds OF people from all
parts OF tho country who, like ourselves,
flock nightly to see this great wonder.
The first thing to strike the visitor on
arriving is the great mass of fine white
tiame OF intense heat and brightness and
the hollow rumbling noise heard as the
out-rnshing gas plunges into the atmos-
phere and lights all around by its impo-
sing brilliancy. The fame of this natu-
raj torch is about forty feet long and fif-
teen wide, and keeps at these dimensions
night and day with striking regularity,
Hence the light is both regular and CON-
stant. The heat emitted by 80 large
body OF flame is very great. The trees
all around, at proportional distances, are
budding, and the grass that has not been
| trodden down by the throng of visitors
| is growing finely, and considering that
this is mid-winter, this circumstance will
give you some. idea of the intense heat.
approached within sixty feet of the
fiame, and supposed it to be at that dis-
tance about 140 degrees. The place has
the character of q calnp-meeting at night
in consequence OF the mighty crowds who
congregate there. The light is grand.
| You can see, to read with ease quarter
OF mile from tins enormous gas Jet, and
| If uninterrupted by trees and the wind
OF the road reading could be done st the
distance of q mile and half. The noise
as the gas rushes ont and Ia consu med is
wonderful. 4, SO! . 81 i.es : -
The daily gazette., 1875-02-26

so copies printed.
Mr: Lynch arose to question Of
privilege, and said he had asked the
editor OF Ece7y Eoeniny, in gentle.
manly manner, to retract the charges
made against him in the article lust re-
Piled to by Mr.. Farrell. If the retfac.
ton Is not made he said he would
claim the floor next Thursday evening,
and reply.
ORDERS.
!. ii. Publ, $2.76; Sundry boadhold-
ers, interest, $945; II. II. Robinson &
70, w. David Campbell, $400; L. G.
Van Kleeck, $62. so.
On motion, Council adjourned.
The daily gazette., 1875-02-26
HOTELS.
.EAs. ~ HOTEL,
n. W cor roUKrn AND ORANGE SIS.

Nv 4 = - I II'TVFII
n. ". cor. rOUkrH AND ORANGE srs
G. J. KYLE. PaorIETon.
The above House has been put In complete
repair for the reception OF guests, 1Enere
they will receive all the accoInrnod dations OF
FIRST CLASS HOTLL.
Bar filled with choicest wines, liquors, cigars.
&C, and the able supplied with the cest the
market alol Is Transient and permanen
boardcrs accommodated AZ moderate rates,
GOOD stabiing and attentive hostlors. A nh.
solicited.
sug2-dtf
The daily gazette., 1875-02-26
Fashionable Furniture.
J. 7. N. HARMAN. .
No, 40 KING 6tress
WILMINGTON. VEL..

>~uH We respectfully inf9Sn ths ett-
Gems Of Wilmington AID the sur
rounding country that We s9 continue as
our large and long established wa,,erooms.
%rnitnre Of every variety and style, son.
STATING Of Mshossny, Rosewoo cd and Walnut
Kuruiture suitable for psrlor. .dinins-roon
Our assortment OF Furniturei 10 lsrseer and
more VARIED than canbs found In Delaware.
and ali articles sold stouF establishment are
Tarranted a. represented.
rVenitian' Blinds Of tho most fashionable
dssigrs made to order and kept constantly
on hsnd. We also msnufacture and constant
IL keep q large ssortment Of hprfAGs haAr,
Mess sna hn'E ;%'3..N. HAKMAN.
! =. .-s.sz r-,..-..-.-.. Ao h,nk oISes.
The daily gazette., 1875-02-26

Pleasant: rooms and board
- ~ ~ ~ asDri'asss ss.gfs s.A1sIYK Kaias svaHBg.
The daily gazette., 1875-02-26

ID EM0YAL.-P. II. FLINN has removed
~ frou' the Fourth street Market to tn
NJ, v Market, Third and King streets. stalls
an So0, where he hopes to supply his GUS
,nsrs @ - .Nnsual. Thankful for past favors he
honss 10 be the recipient Of many more from
sSsns,n,, subtle. nov26d&w
The daily gazette., 1875-02-26
TEFFERsoN HOUSE,
NEW CASTLE. DELAWARE.
JOHN W. GRAY, PKopa1Eroe

JOHN ". GhAY, PKopRIEuOa,
Th,7 '1rr, and beautifully sih,nted n,,,ao
pzi- =. .C in the very best repair for the
feceIs,on oi visitors, who will find at 1t all tue
accommodations of FIRST-CLhSS HOTEL =.
IL commands fine view of the Delaware Bay,
anu IS one OF the most pleasant and delightful
places in the State for excursions or pic.nics.
The house is kept in the best style, the bai
nled With the choicest wines, liquors and
malt drinks, and table supplied with the sub
stahtlals and luxuries of the market. Excur
siOhists can arrive by boat or rail. Parties
who wish to go fishing or boat riding on the
noble delaware, can be accommodates with
suitable boats. The patronage OF the public
Ia respectfully solicited.
1y22.tt T. W GRAY
The daily gazette., 1875-02-26

Phiiadelphia and New York Exchange fur
nished to regular Depositors without charge.
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-09
MoNTeoMERY's NERvINE.

For the Of Neuralgia, Rheumatism. Head
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and has been long and favorably known to the
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Sold by all Druggists. DR. Montgomery will be
happy to have all who are suffering consult him
free of charge, personally or by letter.
Office and store, 131 n, Ninth St, cor. Cherry,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-09

ton goods, iron, and paints and oils, there
would be a sudden and stunning CRY for
reform on this subject, even louder than
that of last fall. For the truth is that
nine-tenths of this money, if not more, goes
mot to the treasury but to those who de-
spoil the people without regard to the con-
stitution of the United States. Whether
you raise wheat, or oats, or potatoes, or
pork, or beef, or make horses shoes, or
wear clothing, or make clothing
you are farmer, painter, carpenter,
blacksmith, shoemaker, or a day-laborer,
you are despoiled by this protective sys-
tenn whenever you pay an excess of per-
centage above that which goes to the trea-
sury and if protection does not do that
who will care for it?
Here the hammer fell.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-09

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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-09
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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-11-04
The Railroad.

AT this writing. Tuesday evening,
the cars are running on the A. X. q
ID. Railroad TO within about four miles
OF the Knoxville depot having Crossed
the last OF the three bridges across
English creek Monday morning.
The psle-driving and bridge building
are well ahead of the track-iaying, so
that the latter will not be further de-
layed unless by difficulty in getting
ties distributed ahead. A large force
of teams ie employed la bringing ties,
piles and bridge materials forward.
About thirty hands are mt work on
the last important bridge, that over
Com petine on the eastern limit OF the
town. and. about one mile from the
der,ot. and will doubtless have the
bridge completed by the time the
track-layers reach that point. which
we think will be about next Tuesday
evening. Wednesday or Thursday OF
next week we expect to see the en-
CINE bring up at the Knoxville depot,
though bad weather or some unfavor-
able occurrence may defer that event
10 the last OF next week
Having been frequently Inquired
OF a. to present arraI gineDts for ship
ping. passenger travel. etc. we wrote
10 Gov. Merrill few days since
Inauiriug about running time, ana
when he could carry an excursion
party TO Abba. His reply We give Tor
the satlsfaction OF those interested
DIS MorsEs, Iowa, Oct. 30, 1870.
Mr. BARKER:
Dear Sir - Yours Of $500 received
here to-day. In reply TO your inquiry,
1 beg 10 say that we are pressing our
work with such desperation TO com.
piete IL before cold weather that 1
think 10 unsafe toarrange for anything
before we get 10 your depot. You VIII
he nlost welcome 10 ride upon the
track whenever you can catch an OPP
portunity. expect to give one trip
Ia parties Of Knoxville as soon a. We
can yet there. Respectfully, G
=. MERRILL.