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Year: 1874




CANAZERAGO, Y. Y, July 1S.-Train:
No. s and Z, westward bound, both through
express trains on the Erie railroad, came il
collision on the single track mile east oi
| Canazerago at nine o'clock this morning
| while going from fifteen to twenty miles
| per hour. Both engines were destroyed
also the baggage and smoking cars of the
west bound train. A number of passengers
in the westward smoking ear were hurt.
One Van Horn, from Philadelphia, has his
left arm and leg broken, and seems to be
injured internally. A couple of other pas
sengers in the same car have arms
broken, and several have been
severely cut and bruised. The baggage
master of the western train. named At
kins, was killed. \ brakeman on the same
train had an ankle broken. The firemen
and engineers escaped with slight cuts and
bruises. The engine of the eastward train
plunged through the engine, baggage ana
smoking cars of the western train, smashed
the front platform and front end of the first
class car, which was filled with children,
who all escaped uninjured. The baggage
car of the eastward bound train has its end
and side burst out, but the bag
g5ge was uniDjured. The westward
baggage was destroyed and the mails
soaked and torn. 1t is stated that the
eastward train had the right of way and
the westward train should have waited at
BaTres, the next station out of CanazeraoO.
The westward conductor says he had new
engineer this morning; that he instructed
him at Barres to pull up to the station and
wait for the other train, instead Of which
he plunged ahead. The road curves sharply
where the collision took place, and trains
are invisible TO each other one hundred
yards apart. The crash of the engines was
the first warning to the passengers.


LATER-We have a further list Of nine
others with broken limbs. The boiler
heads of the engines smashed into each
other. Both boilers remain on their trucks
but are swept clear of tenders, and all the
top and side of the hamper Of the westward
baggage car was torn to splinters and fell
on the east side of the track forward. The
first Car of the westward train, which was


Full of Ladies and Children,
left its trucks, swept everything aboSt lie
floor VI the smoking car and Only stopped
at the wreck Of the engines, where u
remained exactly on the floor Of the smoking
car nearly intact, while the body, seats and
passengers Of the smoking car and a potion
of the baggage car were piled on the vest
ward side of the road. The railroad cOm-
pany sent a wagon lead of trunks to the
wreck for passengers who had lost thnirs,
but great deal of baggage is lost. The
railroad employees say the westward train
was entitled TO the track.
Year: 1874

LOUISVILLE, July 1S.-Mr. Alexander
Mcbride. an old and well known hardware
merchant OF this city, was found dead in
the bath tub in barber shop this evening
He had gone into the shop TO take bath
and the proprietor at last, alarmed that he
remained 50 long, broke open the door and
found him lying in the tub with his head
under water dead. He had been very feeble
for some time past and is supposed to have
fallen in the water ana was too debilitated
to raise himself again. He had been in
business here for twenty-nine years and was
quite wealthy.
Year: 1874

a Paris correspondent Of the Nel1
York Times tells how Nj. de la Rue, a
public man of some note in France,
goes a fishing at his country place, as
follows:


"He has domesticated the cormorant
France. Nothing is more curious
than to see his fayorite bird, old Tom
dive into the Seine at Corbeil and shoot
like an arrow through the water in
chase of a fleeing fish. With patience
and kindness the cormorant can be
easily trained. Before going out for
sport the birds are left for some hours
without food; they are then taken to
the water where a cord is tied about
the Eeck loosely In order to prevent the
cormorant from swallowing the fish.
When ready, NJ. De la Rue sets Old
Tom upon the edge of flat-boat, and
he is speedily followed by Young
Dick, who watches every movement of
his superior IN age. Presently Old
Tom makes a dive, and Dick steps into
his place. If the water is clear, one
can trace Toms rapid movements with
the eye, and watch the sharp turns
maue Dy MIN anu the HShs dS Luc ldtecH
makes frantic efforts to escape. If he
misses his game, Tom comes up looking
very much ashamed of himself, and
sits upon the fiat while Dick takes a
plunge If he catches the fish, as is
generally the case, he comes to the
surface and gives it toss into the air,
catching it by the head and letting it
slide down into his pouch, where it is
stopped by the ligature. The bird
makes no opposition when the fish is
taken, and takes its place for another
dive. When the plumage of the cor
morant becomes saturated with water
he becomes heavy. and then spreads
himself in the sun to dry, where he
must be left in peace. From time to
time a small fish is given him to eat,
the hgature being removed for the pur-
pose"
Year: 1874

PRoF. EASTMAN, of the National
Observatory. declares that Coggia's
comet is but a fourth-rate affair at
best, and that ''its nucleus or head is
so attenuated that if reduced to bau
of solid matter you could probably
hold it in the palm of your hand. "
And this is the comet which some of
the astronomers tell us is to strike the
world shortly and knock it into n cock
ed hat.
Year: 1874

LOCOMOTIVE CAPRIcEs.-It Is perfectly
well known to experienced engineers that IL a
dozen different locomotive engines were made
at the same time, of the same power, for the
same purpose, of like materials, in the same
factory, each of these locomotive engines
would come out with its own peculiar whims
and ways, only ascertainable by experience.
One engine will take great meal OF coal and
water at once; another will not hear to such
thing, but insists on being coaxed by spade
fuls and bucketfuls. One is disposed to start
off when required at the top of his speed;
another must have little time to warm at his
work and to get we'll into it. These peculiar
tiles are so accurately mastered by skillful
drivers that only particular men can persuade
engines to do their best. 1t would seem as il
some of these excellent monsters declared
on being brought from the stable, ''If it's
Smith who is to drive, won't go; il it's my
friend Stokes, am agreeable to anything"
All locomotive engines are low-spirited in
damp and foggy weather. They have great
satisfaction in their work when the ar is crisp
and frosty. At such time they are very
cheerful and brisk, but they strongly object to
haze and mists. These are points Of charac-
ter on which they are united. 1t is in their
peculiarties and varieties of character that
they are the most remarkable.
Year: 1874

History furnishes no such instance of mean
ingratitude as of the guest who. when the
nuptial festivities of Patrick Floods daugh-
ter were at their height the other evening in
Albany, stole keg of lager beer which the
doting father had set up In the back yard.
Year: 1874

Ordinarily, six or eight per cent of
adult fowls will die of disease annually,
when they are kept for profit and given
stimulating diet TO make them lay as
much as possible. This is not surpris-
ing when we reflect that our domestic
fowls are in highly artificial condition.
The production of large numbers of eggs
is unnatural, being habit induced by
man, and causes great strain on the
constitution. The artificial supply of
food in unlimited allowance, with no ne
cessity for exercise on the part of the
fowls, is another source of disease. In
the wild state every species of bird must
work for living and procure their food
a little at time. 1t may be observed,
also, that during the very part Of the
year when food perchance is abundant,
the wild fowls are kept from laziness by
the necessity of feeding their young, ma
ture having fixed the breeding time in
tbs flush season as regards forage. Again,
the structure of fowls is so changed by
ages of breeding, that the wings and
legs, and whole sets of muscles connected
Herewith are dwarfed by disease; while
other portions of the body are made rel
atively larger, which impairs the gener-
al vigor by destroying to some extent
the natural balance of the organization
For these and other reasons it is to be
expected that the ordinary death rate in
the poultry yard will be considerable.
The fact that fowls will die of old age
anyhow, when FIVE or six-at most eight
years old Gin most cases) renders it like
ly that a certain proportion will die an
nually at an earlier age. In conformity
with this idea, geese, which do not reach
old age till twenty to one hundred years,
do not drop off in the early years of
maturity to so great an extent as hens.


The moral of the above is that novices
in poultry raising need not worry over
their ill-luck, or mistrust that their man.
agement is any worse than that of their
neighbors, because, perchance, few of
their fowls of two, or three, or four years
old, die every summer. 1t is to be ex-
pected, unless the breed kept is uncom-
monty hardy, and all the circumstances



are unusually favorable. Reduce the
death rate as much as possible by hygi-
enic measures, rather than by medicine.
Give plenty of air and sunshine, feed
moderately, and promote exercise, and
expect some losses in spite of all precau-
tions. Bufa.o Live Stock Joarnak
Year: 1874

Ia an address before an agricultural
society, Mr.. Greeley gave uttsrance to
the following sound suggestions


The truth which | am now anxious
to impress is this, that no poor man can
afford to be poor farmer. When
averecommended agricultural improve
ments | have often been told that expen-
sive farming will do we'll enough for rich
people, bot we who are in moderate cir
cumstances can not afford 1t. Now, it
Is not ornamental farming / recommend,
but profitable farming. 1t is true that
the amount of mans capital must fix
the limit Of his business in agriculture
as in every thing else. But, however
poor you may be, you can afford to cul-
tivate land well. if you can afford to
cultivate it at all Itmay be out of your
power to keep large farm in high
state Of cultivation, but you should rest
a part Of it, and cultivate a small one.
II JOu oiS a pun haA Juu Oau hOb III
ford to raise small crops; you can not
afford to accept half crop from land
capable of yielding whole one. If you
are poor man, you can not afford to
fence two acres to secure the crop you
ought to grow on one acre; you can not
afford to pay or lose the interest ON the
cost of one hundred acres of land to
get the crops that will grow on City
acres. No man can afford to raise twen-
ty bushels of corn per acre, not even if
the land were given him, for twenty
bushels per acre will not pay the cost of
the miserable cultivation that produces
it, No man can afford to cultivate bis
land in such manner as will cause it to
deteriorate in value. Good farming im-
proves the value of land, and the farm
er who manages his farm so as to get the
largest crop it is capable of yielding, in
creases the value every year"
Year: 1874

LET THE HORSES RoLL-Horses that
are kept in the stable during summer,
should be given daily the luxury of a
roll on the earth. Rolling is the means
given by nature for the animal to rid
itself of vermin and skin diseases, and
it tends to make the animal healthy.
Some owners object to allowing horse
to roll on the bare earth because it gets
dirt into the bair. and makes extra work
to keep the animal clean, but the extra
work pays if rightly understood. Al
low a horse to roll in the dirt when he is
not moist with Precipitation, and then
stand an hour or two with his coat full
of dust before being cleaned up.
Year: 1874

The daily saving of sums intermedi-
ate between those named in the above
table would, of course, yield similar pro-
portiouate results. We invite our read
ers to study this table with care. There
is no man, woman or child living to
whom it would not convey very i'm
portant practical lesson. The fact is,
the miseries, poverty, beggary and want
that prevail among men, especially in
this country, spring very largely from
their prodigality. They manage to con-
sumo as they 60 along all their income,
whether from business or wages; and
hence, they are always poor, thousands
of them never being worth enough to
pay their funeral charges A great
many fortunes that might have been
saved are lost in this way. If the en-
tire body of society were to act on their
principle, it would be in the state of per-
manent pauperism, consuming as it goes
along all the products of its industry,
and hence, living from hand to mouth.
The only reason why this is not true of
all is that a portion of the people do not
consume all they earn or produce and
hence they have surplus which goes to
make up the general wealth.-N Y. In
dependent.
Year: 1874

KEEPING MEALS WAITING.-LittIe
things cften interfere with our comfort
very much, and one small annoyance is
for men to delay coming to dinner when
called. Sometimes they have an hour
or more of work which they viii do be-
fore quitting, and then they 20 to the
house to find the dinner cold and the
cook discouraged. Nothing is more dis
beartening to tired woman than ia
bic fell of dirty dishes ornamenting the
table an hour and a half later in the
day than usual. Punctuslity is virtue
that men should learn if they are in the
habit of being uncertain about coming
TO meals. Any woman worthy the name
of hOusekeeper will be regular with her
meals if it lies within her to nave them
Year: 1874

But few people are aware of the re-
suits to be accomplished in a series Of
years by the habit of saving a small
amount each day and putting it to in
terest. Most persons spend these small
amounts on unnecessary and useless lux
uries; and because each amount is
small, they fail to take any particular
notice of it and utterly fail to estimate
the aggregate of such spendings during
the course of life. In this way many a
man spends fortune without knowing
it and in this way, too, the poor are
kept poor. Most people in this country
who enjoy an average degree of health
and who are industrious earn at least a
small surplus beyond their necessary ex-
penses and, if they would save this sur
plus and put it at interest, they would
find in the end much larger accumula-
tion than they had anticipated. Thou
sands of them would have competency
if living to old age, instead of being de-
pendent on the charity of others. We
submit the following table to show what
would be the result at the end of fifty
years by saving a certain amount each
day and putting it at interest at the rate
80 81 nor onp4.
Year: 1874

The Martlusburg Independent suggests
to the Lycsum of that place to discusl
tLe question whether We cannot dis
pense with Legislature altogether in
this State, seeing that previous to the
new Constitution the people lived for two
years under an unpublished code, and
seeing that they are now living in bllssiul
ignorance Of the laws that were passed al
the last session Of the Legislature. II
suggests that in these panieky times
people are cutting of superauous luxu-
nes, and what is more superhuous than 9
code in State where they are always
changing the laws.Y We have all heard
Of that ancient ruler who had his laws
posted so high up on the public places
that the people could not read them, and
then punished them for violating them.
Ignorance OF the law excuses no one"
tue books tell US, not even the people Of
West Virginia, and therefore II We make
sny legal blunders these times we must
expect to pay the penalty when wO dis
cover what the law is.


The following is an; extract from the
editorial in the Independent!


AT this distance from Charleston, we
DO not know whom to blame. II II is true
that the public printing Of the State Is
done in Richmond, we suppose no one is
responsible Tor this trifling with the pub.
lie Interests II II grows out Of the war
between Governor Jacob and Walker, or
ia due 10 the want Of concert between the
Executive and Printing Commissioners,
Tor Heavens sake let the whole batch go
back 10 their homes, so that somebody can
take their places and break up this how
uot to do It policy Of our enterprising ru-
lers. We trust some one will enlighten
US If any light can be gotten from the
present permanent seat. The Wheeling
Register recently undertook to explain the
nuddle, by saying that the laws were
printed but no appropriation had been
made by the Legislature for their dlstri-
button. Acting upon this suggestion, one
ot our officials wrote to the Secretary OF
State. begging that copy Of the acts
might be sent 10 him G. o. D. The an
swer TO that request, which we have just
seen, Is, 1.-THE acts Of the last session oi
the Legislature have not been printed, nor
can l tell when they will be-"


Now, somebody is to blame for all this;
we trust we shall be informed who 1t is.
It Is precisely such offenders that the
press and the people will be glad to make
notorious. ...
Year: 1874

WEARING SPECTACLES.-Whe the
eyes begin to fail use them as little as
possible at night, and avoid reading
fine print or doing any work by lamp
light, which tries them. But when
you instinctively adjust your book 50
as to get better light, when your
eyes are easily fatigued, and there is a
sense of effort to make out the letters
in print or to take stitches in sewing,
spectacles are needed. They are the
last thing to be bought for cheapness.
Brazilian glasses are best, because of
natures make, and most difficult to be
scratched, but you should wear manu-
factured glasses first until the eye be-
comes accustomed to their use. AL
ways note the number Of your glasses
and the date of first using them-if lost
you can tell what number you want.
Glasses should be washed in cold water
every day, wiped dry with a linen fab
ric, and then with buckskin, never
with paper, ms it scratches them.
Year: 1874

Joyce Still IN the Swamp.


Being for the last three weeks in a
certain town in one of our Southern
States where Repuhlicanism seems to
he sadly in the minority. | failed to
get the JOURNAL, and was obliged to
wait patiently until the mail brought
me package from home, which con-
tanned copy of the 18th inst. 1t
came this evening, nearly two weeks
after date, but reveals to me the
fact that my Aunt is still in that
murky swamp; and as | am in an un
usual condescending mood at pres
ent, send back brief and unfatter-
ing response to her last feeble stroke


Aheml You precious old crOne!
You are as capricious as an April
day; first chattering and muttering
maliciously, then babbling foolishly.
next appealing piteously in a sort OF
desperate wall to some disinterested
party for help, and finally when your
pent-up ragei is exhausted-when you
look about and perceive no friendly
hand extended to assist you out you
calmly suhside, and offer me the oft
repeated dose of "sugar-plums, -
which in my opinion is like all the
rest of your confections-rather fiat
and sickening, like half ripe paw
paw.


I still maintain the same position
which | have all the while occupied,
and l am willing for any disinterested
or impartial party to review all have
said, and declare if 1 have made any
false statements concerning Joyce. "
But what's this you say? You can
not understand how the JOURNAL and
myself are one? Really l think you
are growing more stupid every day.
Your dump of obtuseness" must be
fully developed. Yet this is nothing
strange for you, considering your
powers of comprehension were never
at any time very brilliant. Humph!
there might be large book written
out of things you cannot understand,
and as this is question which does
not Immediately concern you, | shall
not take the trouble to explain. Final
ly your last proposition-that OF
'bury:ng the hatchet,' shaking hands,
&c, &c +, is purely Indian, and am
almost fully persuaded that you are
a true lineal descendant of the Modoc
tribe: else why did you carry that
old rusty hatchet concealed in the
folds of that dowdy old cloak of
yours! Bnry the hatchetifyou please,
but as to shaking hands and being
friends, am not quite certain that
YOU ever can be faYorite OF mine.
Our tastes and opinions are too wide
ly different. l have always consid-
cred you one of the most artful, tire
some, hypocritical, irritable relatives
that l have ever been annoyed with
therefore you may remain in the
swamp and wall and mutter and lash
poor old Rattlebones ever so fiercely
while he stands there with half closed
eyes, his teeth chattering and his
bones rattling together, unable to
turn a wheel. Methinks the "delicate
American" constitution of your en-
tire turnout will suffer somewhat 0y
exposure to our chill, damp Northern
atmospBere. MAGGIE MILES.
P. S.-DEAR JORGE: II you have


inst discovered that so much fooiisf
,, babbIing is improbable, why persls
! 80 Nj. NJ.
Year: 1874

Henry Ward Beecher draws the
following beautiful parallel:


"Over the beauty of the plum and
apricot there grows bloom and
beauty more exquisite than the frnit
itself; a soft. delicate flush that over
spreads its blushing cheek. Now il
YOU strike your hand over that and
it is once gone, it is gone forever. for
it never grows but once The flow
er that hangs in the morning i'm
pearled with dew-arrayed with Jew
els once shake it, so that the heads
roll off, and you may sprinkle water
over it as you plesse yet it can never
be made again what it was when the
dews fell lightly upon it from Heaven.
On frosty morning you may see the
panes of glass covered with land
scapes, lakes, trees, mountains, all
blended into a beautiful fantastic pic
ture. Now lay your hands upon the
glass, and by the scratch Of your
finger or the warmth of the palm, all
the delicate tracery will be oblite-
rated. So is there in youth a beau
ty and purity of character which
when once touched and defiled can
never be restored; fringe more del
ieate than frost work, and which when
torn and broken will never be re
embroidered. A man who has spot
ted and soiled his garments in his
youth, though he may seek TO restore
their color can never wholly do it,
even we're he to wash them with his
tears. When young man leaves his
fathers house with the blessing of
his mothers tears still wet on his
forehead, if he once loses that he can
never make whole again. Such is the
consequence Of crime. Its effect can
not be eradicated; it can only be for
Oivpn -
Year: 1874

oh. do not care if our smartest men
Are now standing on ruins brink,
They may go TO the bottom as soon a


they can,


If they pay for the liqnor they drink
And do not care if the best of friends
CAS- they sit at their cards and theil


wine,)
Should get in a quarrel, and end in


fight


If they pay me the price of the wine
And | do Iiot care if the hairs turn grey
And the eyes with their weeping grow


dim,
When they gaze on the wreck Of a bright


young boy,


For got some money from him.
And | do not care if the drunkard''


boys


Do tremble and start with fear,
He may kick them all out in the dead OF


the night,


If he pays me for all his beer.
And do not care for his barefoot girl,
Nor his wife looking feeble and frail ;
He may beat her and choke her for all
But want him to pay for the ale.
do not care if they have no food
If their clothes are all ragged and


thin,
If their fire is ont and they have no coal,
So he pays for the rum and the gin
do not care for the drunkarl's home :;
For his tippling bills it was sold;
know it is winter, but turn them all out,
For | want my full share of the gold.
| care not that she, who was rolling in


wealth,


TO poverty's vale has now sank,
For the money is safely locked up in my
And her husband the whiskey has


drank.
And | do not care if Il drunken man,
In his frenzy neighbor should kill;
They may do what they please with the


drunken man
shall deal out the brandy still.

But when the last cent of his money is


gone


Who cares for the drunkard? Not I!
He may lie in the gutter and freeze to


dedth;


Or go TO the 0ooT-hoase and die.


A. d. G..