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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-03-17
CONNMOTIONts.

At TEXABKANA, with all trains on 81
Louis Il Iron Mountain II. II. for all points
North, East and Southeast.
At LcHGVIEW JUNCTION and MIN.
NICOLA, with trains on the International
II. II. for Tyler, PALESTINE Houston, Calves.
ton and San Antonio.
AT DALLAS, with trains North and South
on Houston and Texas Central X. II. for
sherman, Paris, B0nham, Mckinney, Cor.
sicana, Bremond, Waco, Houston and Aus
I'm.
AT SHREvEPORT, with regular line OF
drU.oluss steamers for New Orleans. :.
This nne, being fully equipped with all
modern improvements such IA Westing-
house Air Brakes and Miller Truss Platforms
and Coupler, IL unsurpassed for
Speed, Safety and Comfort.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-03-17
Or. WHITTIER,
6i7 81. Charles street, 81. Louis, No.
DR.. WHIT T IE r

GIT st. Charles Street,
Treats all forms Of Veneral Diseases, Semi.
nal Emissions and Sexual Debility, with
unparalleled success. No matterwho failed,
calf or write, pamphlet or consultation free.
Can refer to the medical profession in al
parts Of tho Country.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-03-17
STATE OE TEXAE,


II gives TO the Passenger view OF the grand
est scenery, finest agricultural district and
great grazing grounds OF the West.
ats passenger and freight trains are sur
passed by none In the State. Pullmans
Palace Drawing Room and sleeping Cars
leave ~. Louis daily via the NJ, X. 4 4. R'y
NJ =. m; Hannibal NJ 10 u. m :, and SEED ALA
NJ B:2S ,. m, running through To Denison,
sherman, Dallas, ilearne, Austin and Hous-
ton without change Connection IL also made
at sherman with the Texas and Pacific rail-
way for the above named points.
The CONNECTIONS OF this Road with the NJ,
X, Il A. VI Denison for 81. Louis, Hannibal,
Chicago. Fort Scott, Kansas city and all
points North and East; With the Texas 4 Pa.
cine at sherman for st. Louis, Cairo, Menu
phis, and all points East and southeast, and
ht Houston with the e., ii. a \. A. for San
Antonio, the g., ii. n IL. Tor Galveston, the
Texas n New Orleans hallway for Beaumont,
Orange, etc., the Morgan and Mallory Steam
shil Tor all points on the Gulf and Atlantic
coasts, and the Liverpool & Texas steamship
Line TO Liverpool, havre and other Euro.
pean cities are perfect, while Its freedom
rom dust and heat on account OF the nature
OF the soil and the open prairie country over
which 10 passes, with its cooling sea breeze,
pleasant scenery OF broad prairies, beautiful
groves, well cultivated fields of cotton, corn,
small grain, and fruits, render IL especially
desirable and advantageous to travellers and
shippers In preference 10 Others
ST. Louis Express leaves Galveston daily
except Saturday at 2:2O y. M, Houston at
b.SO p. m Hearne nj 225 I'm, Dallas 1885 q,
m. and Denison NJ ll;i5 u. IN.
Duy Y0ur Tickets and Shin Your Freight
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-03-17
VEN lnAL MUUIG;
sSse2, ~. a...As.-
Issss
Tx1M
HOUSTON &TEXAS CENTRAL
r "A r T. w "A Y
THE CONNECTING LINK
Between tho Trunk Lines OF the NORTH
ana EAST, and the
GULF OF MEXICO ON THE SOUTH,
FORMS THE
Great Through Route (!
AND
MAIN ARTERY OF COMMERCE. AND TRADE
TO ALL POINTS.

And offers the Best Routes. on Quick Time,
with more Comforts, Better Accommoda-
lions and Greater Security than any other
Lane. Passing through the richest and most
beautiful portions of the Great Empire
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-03-17
TEEM
TEXAS & PACIFIC R'Y.
GsG ITS CONNECTIONS FORM THE
Most 9Il,.s and lG.Gl,t titt

ALL POINTS NORTH AND EAST.
Trains Leave Dallas station rs follows
Sundays excepted:
Lenve-West Hound.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-11
The Western Farmer.


The farmer of the West is not at all
the farmer of the East. When a
farmer here goes back to the old germi-
mating beds of Maine, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New Hampshire and
Vermont, or to New Jersey and Penn
sylvania and Eastern New York, he
returns with smile on his face. He
smiles at the habits of farmers there
and their methods of work. The
Eastern farmer is a very quiet, stay
at-home individual, who believes that
the meek shall inherit the eartl.; con-
trary to the Western idea, that the
vigorous and enterprising only, shall
possess the land in righteousness. A
Western farmer who, in his trip to the
Centennial, visited the old home of his
boyhood in New Jersey and there saw
not as much farm machinery in a
whole township as he had on his farm
alone; and what he did see was of the
old styles and in poor condition. The
Eastern farmer is not only quiet,
unambitious citizen, but he is a great
saver of money-a model saving insti-
tuition. He does not make to lend, but
to lay up. He had rather be drawing
his five per cent. than to put his cash
into bonds, st ,ck or farming tools and
machines, and run the hazard of com
ing out successfully.
The Western farmer is almsst alto
gether the reverse Of his Eastern
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-11
A Mysterious Pit.

NEARLY fourteen miles on almost a
direct line southeast from this place
there is singular and mysterious pit
in the ground. 1t is situated on high
bluff in wild, finty locality, tangled
with vine, bramble, briers, bushes,
trees and shrubbery on the waters of
brakes Greek, below the mouth of
Trammol. The aperture is a dark,
gaping hole, cleft through the stony
crags as though the bluff had at some
time cracked and split. The opening
is some ten feet long and four feet
wide at the widest part, its rocky,
yawning lips being spread something
in the shape of horse-collar, the
apex, so to speak, pointing westward.
By some of the people in that region
it is known as "Hell Hole" while
others call it "Indian Pit" One re-
markable feature of the abyss is that
there issues from its deep depths,
ceaseless as the rounds of the seasons,
volume of misty vapor. which, es-
pecially on crisp, frosty mornings, can
be seen ascending above the tree tops
and floating off on the air, whitened
with rays of the rising sun. Flint,
bowlder-shaped stones, and others
worn by the friction of time to per-
feet roundness, are scattered profusely
all about the place, as though thrown
high by some unknown upheaval and
showered back like rafting hailstones
of all sizes and dimensions. In the
fall and winter this fog volume is
warmer than the cutting blasts that
sweep along the deep gorge. In sum-
mer the mist is cooler and not so dense.
The pit widens from the top in its
downward course, and woe be to any
living thing once swallowed through
its dark mouth. Throw bowlder O.
stone into it and not the faintest echo
ever reaches the ear as to whittier it
went. Some seasons since a party of
persons assembled at the pit, deter
mined to fathom its hidden bottom.
They were provided with a strong
cord over 600 feet long. to which was
attached a steelyard weight. They
dropped the weight into the hole and
paid out the line. Down, down, and
down went the weight till not a foot
Of cord was left, while not sound
came to tell the tale of its subter-
ranean passage. No bottom was
reached, and the weight was with
drawn damp and unsoiled, as though
it touched nothing but darkness on its
soundings.-BoaolingG Green (Ky.) Pan
tagraph.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-11
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.


Blackwell's Island, N. Y.
OF seventy-two New York city
churches inspected, seven are found
to possess inadequate egress facilities.
OF Rhode Islands 205, 1O1 souls,
over ten years old, "a, 16S, or nearly
twelve per cent, cannot write their
names-an increase of nearly sixty
four per cent. in ten years, though the
population has increased but about
forty per cent.
THE bullion product of the leading
mines of Nevada, for November, ag-
gregates So, 1854, 1852, of which over
100000 was in gold, and the re-
mainder in silver. OF the amount.
S1,256,517 was taken from the CAL
iforniaAand 81, 202, 236 from the Con-
solidated Virginia.
THE Auburn (Cal.) Herald is
grieved to confess that stealing wood
from public lands has been reduced to
a science in that part of the country,
and thus relates how the stealing is
carried on: The way it is done is to
file on piece of land, go on and cut
the wood, haul it off and sell it, then
abandon the land without paying
for it.
THE production and manufacture of
chiccory FOR use as an adulteration OF
coffee is carried on extensively in this
country, the factory where it is ground
and put into marketable shape being
on the east bank of the San joaquin
River, a few miles southeast of Stock
ton, Cal. A large area of land in that
vicinity is yearly devoted to The
growth of ehiceory, and the rich allu-
vial soil seems to be particularly well
adapted to its luxuriant growth.
PROF. JoHNsTRUP, the naturalist,
who has been engaged in perilous and
difficult explorations in the desolate
volcanic regions of Iceland, comforts
the Icelanders with the assurance that
the activity of the volcanoes has I'M
doubtedly ceased for long time to
come. He reports also that the belief
that there is gold, silver and iron ore
in the island is entirely unfounded.
Iceland has not even coal seams. The
conditions for the presence of these
ores are all wanting.
THE action of water in the form of
spray on intense heat is not to quench
the heat or fire, but to add material
for it to feed on. A New York in
surance journal on this topic says:
When water in the form of spray is
thrown into the depths of a burning
warehouse filled with roasting con-
tents, such is the heat that long before
the spray reaches the flame its oxygen
IS liberated to help the combustion.
The knowledge of this fact, it says, is
based upon observation of the process
of manufacturing what is technically
known as water-gas. In this process
steam is forced through iron or fire.
clay retorts, filled with red-hot char
coal, when the steam is instantly de-
composed, its oxygen liberated. its
hydrogen and carbonic oxide constitut-
ing the gas, -~Sprinatield (Ma$s.) Re
publican
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-11
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

THERE are no "soft places in any
department of human industry if every
man faithfully discharges his duty,
and charges no more than he honestly
earns. i, 5Ea As Tfsi II
CHILDREN should never be fed on
milk from poor coz, reduced to the
bare possibility of sustaining vitality.
1t is cruelty to animals thus to treat
them, and it is murder to the innocent
children to feed them on such food.
The great lesson which our youth
need to learn, and which the world
should practice, is economy-the art
of living within our means. Until
this is done there will be grumbling
about hard times-there will be as
signments, bankruptcies and defalca-
lions.
BE careful of the temperature of
your rooms. Nearly all the colds,
diphtheria, lung fevers, ETC., are caused
by hot and irregular temperature IN
our poorly-ventilated houses. 1t is no
uncommon circumstance to go into a
farmers house and find the tempera-
ture eighty-five to ninety degrees,
when it should be not over sixty-tive.
WE would say to an inquirer not to
use tumeric, lard, or salts of tartar in
making or repacking butter, as either
will injure the flavor, unless it has al
ready progressed beyond being injured
by such medicines. The butter might
be like the old woman's coffee, which,
on drinking, the man asked for few
leaves of wormwood to chew to take
the taste of the coffee from his mouth.
In that case, use tumeric OF anything
else.-IoaDa Register.
THE statement having been circu-
lated that good butter could not be
made in limestone regions where the
water is bad, Mr.. o. S. Bliss, the best
authority on butter, testifies: "The
story about not daring to wash butter
in lime district with hard water is
the merest bosh, and about on par with
the statement of learned professor at
the last meeting of the Vermont
Dairymen's Association, to the effect
that he could pick out the butter made
in saltwater districts. Some Of the
most reputable butter districts in the
United States are in the limestone
regions, where all the water is hard,
and all the butter is washed with hard
well water"
THE following is tested recipe for
sausage seasoning: For every twelve
pounds of meat, use six ounces of salt,
one ounce black pepper, tablespoon
full powdered saltpeter, half a tea
spoonful of red pepper, and four
ounces of sage. The sage and red pep
per are not essential, and may be
omitted by those who do not fancy
them. 1t is difficult to suit all tastes
with one recipe, and these proportions
should be tried on a small scale, first,
before seasoning the whole batch. to
see whether it suits the palate. Some
prefer less salt, others more pepper,
etc. A little experiment will enable
each to make his own recipe, and
when once determined, write it down
so that it may be preserved. Ohio
Farmer. -
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-11
The Best Wagon-Wheel Grease

WHEN iron and wood run together
oil is not the best lubricator. When
the iron boxes of wagon hubs run on
wooden axle arms the best lubricator
consists of tallow and lard In warm
weather, and lard, tallow and oil in
cold weather. The lubricating
material should always be little
soft, so that it will yield without
breaking and flying, as hard tallow
will crumble and fall to crumbs and
flakes. Wheel grease should always
be mingled with some material that
will hold it from flowing out at the
ends of the hubs. For such purpose
there is nothing better than the plum
bage of commerce mot lumbago, which
signifies the backache). For lubricat-
ing the axle arms of fine carriages,
which are provided with grooves for
retaining the oil, the best lubricator is
sperm oil. The plumbago should be
mingled with such lubricator. But
for ordinary use. for lubricating the
axle arms of farm wagons, and carts,
procure small tin pail, with tight
fitting cover, into which put a pound
of tallow and pound of lard that is
free from dregs, salt and g1it, and add
one-fourth of a pound of powdered
plumbago. Warm the mass to a liquid
condition and stir the plumbago thor
Oughly into the tallow and lard. If
this grease becomes hard when the
weather is of medium temperature,
place the pail over the fire and add a
gill or two Of machine oil or lamp or
lard oil. In warm weather, if the
lubricator is too soft, add more tallow.
AS the wheel grease is used up more
lard, tallow, oil and plumbago must
be added. If the lubricator is kept in
tin pail, person can always warm it
at pleasure. The wheel grease that is
purchased at stores in small boxes will
cost more than twice or thrice as much
as lubricator prepared as herewith
directed. More than this, vast deal
of worthless material is often worked
into the grease which will make bulk
and weight at cheap rate, but which
is no more fit to mingle with lubricat-
ing material than salt and fine sand.
Lard in which there is no salt, when
mingled with a little plumbago, will
make a good lubricator when the
weather is not so hot as to melt it, so
that it will flow out at the ends of
the hubs. Some writer who does not
know any better denounces lard as
lubricator, as it will Che states) work
out of the joints where the spokes
enter the hubs. Oil, nor lard, nor any
other lubricator will work out of the
joints of good wheels. IN. Y. Herald. |
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-11

The Chicago Journal gives the follow
ing brief sketch of Mr.. Vanderbilrs life:
Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on Staten Isl
and, lay ~ 1894. His education was ycry
mcager AT the age of sixteen he began bust
ness, buying a boat, which he piled between
the ferry of his neighborhood and New York
Three years later he married He can hardly
be said TO have rclnquished business until the
day OF his death. Few men have begun man
hood-liie as early. or maintained hold upon
the activities of the world so late, as did Com
modorc Vanderbilt. He was a giant. What
ever he did at all he did in mastery
way. He remained in the navigation
business until he outgrew it in wealth and
the magnitude of his ambition. He con-
trollcd the commerce between New York
and Aspinwall nearly all the time from the
commencement of the California fever until
the completion of the Pacific Railroad Dur
ing his steamship career, Mr.. Vanderbilt
owned not less han twenty steamers, half
OF them being constructed by himself ard
counting all his steam craft, on seas and
rivers, his heet numbered sixty-six vessels
From this business he retired with a fortune
estimated 1T $40,00O,00p. Entering railroad
speculation, the Commodore risked much
and without loss, his stock in various rail
road , among them the consolidated liar.
lem, Hudson River & Central, and the Lake
Shore u Michigan Southern Railroads being
estimated in value at nearly slGO,UO3 uO6
Mr. Vanderbilt gave literally in certain di
reciions, his gift to the Vanderbilt Universe.
~ In Ma hyille, Tenn, being three quarters
of million dollars, a sum which has placed
That school upon basis which should stand
against all time.
Mr. vanderbilt was more generous 10 the
poor Than Is generally supposed His list OF
regular pensioners was quite long. He made
no di-p play of charity to individuals He was
mnhiueent in his contributions during the
war, prompt by patriotism. The dec ascd
leaves large family. His son, William II
vanderbilt, has managed the vast estate for
some time past, and is fully competent 20 as
sumo the arduous task. 1t is not expected the
demise of the father will make any material
heIenee with the railway affairs of the
country.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-11

breth, en-. He is much of public man
-takil ,g lively and personal interest
in polit ical and civil affairs. He dis
cusses Inv, theology, political economy
and our educational interests. He
wants more land, more stock, more
tools and MOI e railroads. He Is will
ing to help construct railroads and
other public works which increase the
market value of his lands. He buys
fruit trees of all binds, and tree peddlezs
a re thick; he takes a half dozen
periodicals and buys every subscrip-
ton book that comes along. He keeps
no !, uoney in bank at five per cent,
not amy. He finds too many ways for
cash which pay better percentage.
He is a cautious and close buyer and
watches the produce markets with
great care. No event or circumstance
affecting foreign markets escapes the
notice and calculations of the Western
farmer.
In his no me are children of all ages,
and here great questions of public and
private policy are discussed. Here
are readings and social gatherings,
music and dancing. Here are plants
and pictures; carpets and furniture
good enough.
Out of doors. the average Western
farmer can show you good buildings
and good animals; farm well kept up
and titled. -s'
The Western farmer is in debt.
There are some who ale not, we are
we'll aware, but large majority of
Western farmers are burdened with
dei't. Many of these debts were con-
traoted when the prices of lands and
all agricultural products were high.
His bn siness foresight could not pene-
trate the future ansl reveal to him the
folly of greetings city for himself on
the top of the rolling wave, which, as
soon as the fury of the blast should
subside, would come down to the gen.
eral level and leave him in shallow
water. He is in debt and in sorrow.
Though IN business sense wiser, he
is in debt, and he feels that the times
are hard. Those who avoided debt
are reaping rich reward for their sa-
gacity. ..-.
But his courage never fails him, and
slowly and surely he is rising above
his difficulties. His motto is ''Push;"
and with his native enterprise and
ambition. his love of wealth and indie
pendence, he is sure to arise and to re-
move every obstacle to an independent
life.-DetrOit Tribune.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-11
"A Shipwreck Horror.

New YORK, Dec. 81.
A special dispatch from Bridgehamp.
ton, l.. L., says:
AT four O'clock the ship Circassian,
ashore on the bar off Bridget ampt0n on the
south shore of Long Island, was entirely
broken up by southcasterly gale aud lost,
together with twenty -eiSh lives. The Cir
cassian went Ashore in the storm on the
nigh OF the 1lth inst. At that time the crew
and officers were saved. The storm yester-
d y caught thirtyt two men, employees of the
Coast Nreeting Company, on board and a
short time after midnight the ship went to
pieces with an awful crash. According to
the account, four survivors were washed
ashore this morning, more dead than alive,
on fragments OF the wreck. None of the re.
maini Z twenty weight men have been seen,
or heari from, up o the pre- ent time, and
there is but Little doubt that all have per-
ished"
This second wreck of the ship Circassian
is the most disastrous that has occurr d on
the Long Island Goa since the wreck of the
John Milton, fifteen years ago. She ran
ashore in binding storm, and all on
board, rty persons, were lost. The crew
of the Milton were frozen stiff in the rig
gng, their arms standing sraight out in
front of item. TIL men on board the Cir
cassian had finished on Friday night all
necessary preliminaries for attaching a
hawser with which she was be drawn off.
During the early hours Of the night the wind
freshcned little, and the sea began to run
very high, until at about six o'clock it be-
gan to break clear over her. The men, ap-
pretending danger, went into the fore rig
ging, where they W r. ord red for greater
safely. All on board, thirty-two souls, all
told, remained thus exposed until early in
the morning, when it was deemed advisable
to shift quarters, as the falling of the top
hamper aused by tn. rolling of the vessel,
made it difficult to hold on. The crew was
safely transf rred to the mizZt n, where
signals of distress were shown.
All this time the shore was plainly In
sight. The moon was shining brightly, and
fires built by the crew of the iife-saving sta
ton showed plainly the figures of the crowd
on the beach rs they hurried to and fro. in
vain endeavors to add the men in the rig
ging.. 1t was an awful suspense for the poor
fellows dashed to the ma>ts and yards of the
ship. They saw att mpt after attempt
made to est blish communication with them
fail, and each failure seemed to measure
their purchase upon life. Every effort to get
boat off shore proved futile. As often as
It WIS attempted the sea drove 1t nigh and
dry n the beach. Capt. Henry Hunting, Of
L'fe-Saying alton No. 10, now brought
mortar in service, and several balls with
q rope attached were thrown out to the ship.
But one of The cords reached the ship.
Its hold was not veiy secure, and it pres
emily fell on and the slender thread upon
which thirty-two human lives depended was
snapped forever. The station-men, al, the
while these endeayors ware being made,
could see men in the rigging quite plainly,
end hear their cries for help.