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Year: 1874

POSTAL FAc1L1T1Es.-The recent change
in the postal laws promises to make our post
Office department most important agency
for the convenience and advantage of our
people, outside of its ordinary province OF
transmitting letters and papers. Under the
operation Of the new and reduced rates tor
matter other than "sealed letters" the post
Office department will soon become the most
perfect and the most expeditions, as well as
the cheapest and safest express for the delive'
ry of small and expensive parcels that there
is in the world and if availed Of by cur peo-
pie to the extent that is possible, the new sys..
tenn will create an era in some branches OF
business little short of revolution, by which
the residents of cities, villages, or country
places thousands of miles distant may do their
ashopping" in the Metropolis without visiting
it. and be enabled to deal directly and at first
hands with our dealers in every branch of
merchandise. By the new rates, to which we
have alluded, the careful transmission and
prompt delivery of merchandise parcels is un-
dertaken by the postofice department throug b
the mails at the low rate of one cent for each
two ounces on parcels weighing four pounds
or less.
Year: 1874

his large family. AS to the doctor, he was
free to say that he had been mistaken in him,
and for one he would bear witness that he


had behaved handsomely, and as became a
gentleman. The three visitors then bade
neighbor Whitman good evening and took
their leave. The news spread through the
village in the usually rapid manner. The
miller ground it in his mill, the blacksmith
hammered it at his anvil DR.. Pembroke left
off struggling, and the minister looked full at
DR.. Lansing as he pronounced the text, "He
that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord" :"
Year: 1874

Spelling HORSES FEET.-It is almost i'm
possible to get a horse shod without having
the frog cut away. All veterinary surgeons,
all horsemen, all leading blacksmiths, agree
that the frog should not be pared one particle,
not even trimmed No matter how pliable
and soft the frog is, cut it away smooth on all
sides, and in two days it will be as dry and
hard as chip. You might as we'll cut all
the leaves off trees and expect them to -four
ish as to pare away the frog and have a
healthy foot. The rough spopgy part Of the
frog is to the foot what the leaves are to the
tree-the lungs. Never have red'hot shoe
put upon the foot to burn it level. If you
can find blacksmith that is mechanic enough
to level the foot without red.hot iron employ
him. If you do not think so, try the red hot
poker on your 6nger.nail, and see how it will
effect the growth of that. There are many
other important points in shoeing horses but
these two are of more Importance than all the
rest, level to the apprehension Of men not
skilled in horses, and the two most disre'
garded.
Year: 1874

himself that authorizes an injunction to stay
waste.


1t is not necessary, then, for us to consider
what was the nature of the interest remaining
in the judgment debtor and his family under
the operation of the homestead law, for the
plaintiff does not put himself in a proper po-
ssition to question the nature of the defendants
right of possession. The appeal should be
dismissed.
Year: 1874

D1scoNTENr.-some people are never con-
tent with their lot, let what will happen.
Clouds and darkness are over their heads,
alike whether it rain or shine. To them eve
~ incident is an accident or calamity. Even
when they have their own way, they like it no
better than your way, and, indeed, consider
their most voluntary acts as matters of COM
pulsion. We saw striking illustration the
other day of the infrmity we speak of. in the
conduct of child about three years old. He
was crying because his mother had shut the
parlor door. "Poor thing" said a neighbor,
compassionately, "you have shut the child
out" "It's all the same to him." said the
mother; "he would cry if l called him in and
then shut the door. It's popularity Of that
boy, that if he is rather suddenly on either
side of door, he considers himself shut ou:
and rebels accordingly" There are older
children who take the same view Of things
Our O,on Fareside.
Year: 1874

FREEDOM OF OP1N1oN.-Prosperity in the
South can never come until the people are
willing to think of something else than poll
tics. Everything must be mixed up with pol
itics. In other communities this subject con-
sumes but small portion of public attention,
and for that reason these sections are pros
porous and powerful prescription is unknown,
and men are never tabooed because they
chance to differ in political sentiment. Until
there is more liberality Of sentiment and less
political intolerance, South Carolina will be
kept in the back ground of commercial pros
perity and progress. Every man should be
free to exercise, untrammelled, his individual
opinions, no matter what those are, so long as
in their promulgation he does not bring them
in conflict with the laws Of the land. When
political toleration shall prevail here as it
does in the great States Of the North and
West, we shall be prosperous and happy, and
not before. Every man must be permitted to
express his opinions freely, without being
held to account to any one but the laws of his
country and Creator. This is freedom of
opinion, and this is what the South needs to-
day.
Year: 1874

A HAPPY WoMAN.-What spectacle more
pleasing does the earth afford than happy
woman, contented in her sphere, ready at all
times to benefit her little world by her exer
tions, and transforming the briers and thorns
of life into the roses of Paradise by the
magic Of touch? There are those who are
thus happy because they cannot help it-no
misfortunes dampen their sweet smiles, and
they difflse cheerful glow around them, as
they pursue the even tenor of their way
They have the secret of contentment, whose
value is above the philosophers stone; for
without seeking the baser exchange of gold
which may buy some sorts of pleasure, they
convert everything they touch into joy. What
their condition is makes no difference. They
may be rich or poor, high or low, admired or
forsaken by the tickle world but the spark
ling fountain of happiness bubbles up in their
hearts, and makes them radiantly beautiful.
Though they live in a log cabin, they make it
shine with lustre that kings and queens may
covet, and they make wealth fountain of
blessings to the children of poverty
Year: 1874

STRONG MEN.-Strength Of character con.
sists of two things, power Of will and power OF
selfrestraint. It requires two things, there
fore, for its existence strong feelings and a a
strong command over them. Now, we all
very often mistake strong feelings for strong
character. A man who bears all before him,
before whose wild bursts of fury the children
of the household quake, because he has his
way in all things, we call him strong man.
The truth is, he is weak man it is his pas
sions that are strong he, mastered by them,
is weak.


You must measure the strength of man
by the power of the feelings he subdues, not
by the power of those that subdue him. And
hence composure is often the highest result OF
strength. Did we ever see man receive
fragrant injury and then reply calmly? That
man is morally strong. Or, did we ever see
man in anguish stand as if carved out OF
solid rock, mastering himself! Or one bear,
ing hopeless daily trial remain silent, and
never tell the world what cankered his home
peace? That is strength. He who, with
strong passions, remains cbaste ; he who, ia.
dignation within him, can be provoked, and
vet restrain himself and forgive, these are
strong men, the moral heroes
Year: 1874

the Divine life the soul. This Is true OF OF
all phases and parts aud elements Oh Ihe
Christian life: Religion is not development; IL comes
from the application OF Gods grace in an Instant Ell
tire sanctcaton Is more the result OF growth than
the original regeneration In growth bOth are ln-
stanlaneous Another misapprehensiOn is concerning
the Gospel idea OF salvation by faith sinner seeking
pardon always tries first tO get II by works he ASKS
what shall do to saved When he seeks to be re-


eved from all trace OF Unborn SIM the old error returns
ana he wants 10 work his sanctltcatioD. We insist
III the strongest upon faithful living IN every
respect aud much for tue partially sanctned as lot
the entirely rancted But give mp the Idea that goOd
works and seenial will obtain for you the blessing OF
complete sanctihcaOn There Is growth in the Chris
tlan hie but there such thing growing out OF SIN
inbred am Is removed solely the power of the HOLY
spirit In the heart To look for the blessing at death or
at some fuTure time IT, Wesley says the same as not
expecting az ALL IL must he looked for Immediately ana
nsantaneOusy. Get the freedom from sin first Of ALL
and then grow in the elements Of Christian character


Inc Rev. W. H. Booze OF NewYOik. followed MT
Foote with a.short address He said that common dt
ncuity IN the way of suljectng the will TO God Is the
lear that we snail suffer loss In giving up great deal
We dread the consequence Of carrying out what we can
not help believing This ~ great mistake. COD Is
more deeply Interested in the happiness OF every human
soul which He has made than the man himself can pos
sipy De- loving father Is more concerned for the hap
pness OF his children than they are themselves.


Tile hour from one two o'clock In the afternoon was
spent IN prayermeefings IN the several society ana
faniIy tents aud the whole grounds resOunded with
prayers and spiritual songs.
Year: 1874

santly increasing among the most intelligent classes OF
rhe community hut In recent times its growth nas been
especially marked in this city RI had not the facts or
this growth yet could not help seeing fhe evidences
OF it, You find ten times more TRIBUSEs on the news
you could hnd in old times you nouce Tar
OF them IN the street In business places and
in peoples you the carriers moving around
nder heavier burdens OF Them The local circulation
Of newspaper in the vicinity Of its publication N OF
the highest value 10 It In many ways, and the manager
OF The TRIBUNE wisely turning his attention TO the
Of this. In other respects THE TRIBUNE
highly prosperous, considering the OF affairs IN
these times. Its advertising pages fulbOdied and
health hyloOking; its expenditures liberal In all
directions and have believe that exhibit
OF book would show that its justify


Us expenditures give the best of reasons for the
erection Of its splendid building.
Year: 1874

CALIFoRNIA oOD-CHoPPERs.-e is
in the logging camps that a stranger will
be most interested on this coast, for there
he will see and feel the bigness of the red
woods. A man in Humboldt county got
out Of one tree lunaber enough to make
his house and barn, and to fence two acres
of ground. A schooner was filled with
shingles made from a single tree. One
tree in Mendocino, whose remains were
shown to me, made mile of railroad
ties. Trees fourteen feet in diameter
have been frequently found and cut down;
the saw logs are often split apart with
wedges, because the entire mass is too
large to float in the small and narrow
streams, and | have often seen them blow
a log apart with gunpowder. A tree
four feet in diameter is called undersized
in these woods, and so skillful are the
wood choppers that they can make the
largest giant of the forest fall just where
they want it, or, as they say, "drivc
stake with the tree"


The choppers do not stand on the
ground, but on stages raised to such
hight as to enable the axe to strike in
where the tree attains its fair and regu-
lar thickness for the redwood, like the
sequoia, swels at the base near the ground
These trees prefer steep hilsides, and
grow in an extremely rough and broken
country, and their great hight makes it
necessary to fell them carefully, lest they
should, falling with such enormous weight
break to pieces. This constantly happens
in spite of every precaution, and thoro is
little doubt that in these forests and at
the mills, two feet Of wood are wasted to
every foot of lumber sent to market. To
mark the direction line on which the tree
is to fall, the chopper usually drives
stake into the ground 100 or $50 feet from
the base of the tree, and it is actually
common to make the tree fall on this
stake, so straight do these redwoods stand
and SO accurate is the skill Of the cutters.
To fell a tree eight feet in diameter is
counted a days work for man.-Har-
per's Magozine.
Year: 1874

At about nine O'Clock last evening as an eScur-
sion party was returning on the steamer Norwalk,
alter having spent pleasant day up the river and
were getting ashore at pier 81 East River, man
whose name has not been discovered fell over
board and was drowned. As the storm was raging
nercely at the time most OF those on. board re-
NAMED under shelter till the barges were secured
to the dock so that the fact was not discovered
TIL 1t was too late to give any enectual assistance.
The affair created considerable excitement among
the eXcursiOnists and every effort was made to
recover the body, but without success The river
was dragged in the vicinity for some time, but up
to late hour trace of the body could be found.
1t IL supposed that the man was under the ln1lu-
ence OF liquor and was thrown overheard by the
shock when the barge first struck the pier. His
hat was found the deck and given to the police
and is now at the precinct IN Oak street. being the
only cew TO the Identification OF the man.
Year: 1874

LIrrIE ROCK, Ark, July H. 1874.


There Is good deal OF talk and some excite
ment over communication and an editorial In
this mornings gazette, noticing a rumored new
scheme on the BroOksites' programme. On Monday,
the day before the meeting OF the Constitutional
Convention, when the Congressional Committee
Will arrive, Mcclure Seare and Bennett, a quo
rum Of the ex-Supreme Court, are to meet Cox q
clerk to the old ana present Court, to recognize
them and secure the records from the State House
A test case is to ne made and an Injunction to be
issued against the meeting OF the Convention,
declaring illegal the Legislature winch called it,
Ohver, the ex-Sherin, Is to serve the injunction
ana If possible seize the legislative halls with a
strong posse.


There was a rumor on the streets this morning
that Cox was arrested, but inquiry proved only
that, on going to his ofice he found q guard with
loaded muskets stationed At the door. lie was
not allowed in al first, but was soon after ad-
mitted. The armed guard was then Withdrawn
and a citizen guard stationed near. watching the
ONCE and State House. The militia guard is very
vigilant.


The Old Supreme Court Judges claim that they
are the Court, aud can sit, not having adjourned
before the meeting Of Baxter's Legislature.
Year: 1874

with him now may oe only q forerunner OF out Of
ONCE Ia not distant future.


THE POLITICIANS


were considerably exercised over the news that
the Governor had 80 soon begun Operations In the
case. and the general opinion seemed to be that she
Mayor will have a rough road TO travel before the
Governor has done with him. Considerable talk
too, was 0ccasioned by the announcement that John
Kelly had become one OF Commissioner Duryee,s
Dondsmen. This TACT appeared to give the MayOr
no small amount OF consolation. s'Now,n said he
savagely, IN speaking about the matter. snow YOU
can understand the secret Of Duryees stand In the
Board lately, and yet some people say that the
movement against me Is not partisan one.n The
Mayor must certainly be hard up when he can aud
consolation In such dimsy preteXt as this.
Year: 1874

Alderman J. J. Morris stated that he thought the
Governor had acted in a proper manner ana in the
only way lett open to him in regard to the charges
presented to MIN against Mayor Havemeyer. Tue
Mayor would, he thought, probably send an
answer to Governor Dlx's communication
early next week. That answer would, he
thought, Judging from what he had been
told by the Mayor, satisfactorily dispose Of
the whole matter. Should 1t not, however, the
Governor would doubtless proceed In the way pre-
ton TO be made into the Mayors conduct before
some Judge OF the Court OF Common Pleas or by Q
commission to be speedily appointed. In any case
he was OF opinion that the Mayor would be able to
clearly show that he mad been guilty OF no official
acts to warrant hts removal. He thought, never
theess, that as matters now stood an IN nvestlga-
ton should De had.
Year: 1874

A little elbow leans upon your knee,


Your tired knee that has so much to bear:
A child's dear eyes are looking lovingly


From underneath thatch of tangled hair,
Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch


OF warm, moist fingers holding you SO tight :
You do not prize this blessing overmuch;


You almost are too tired to pray tonight.
But it is blessedness! year ago


1 did not see it as 1 do to-day
We are all SO dull and thsnklesss and too slow
To catch the sunshine till It slips away.
ana now 1t seems surprising strange to me


That, while wore the badge of motherhood,
did not kiss more oft and tenderly


The little child that brought me only good.
And if, some night, when you sit down to rest,
You miss this elbow from your tired knee
This restless, curly head from off your breast,
This lisping tongue that chatters constantly
If from your own the dimpled hands had slippe
And ne'er would nestle in your palm again;
could not blame you for your heart-ache thel
wonder SO that mothers ever fret


At little children clinging to their gown;
Or that the footprints, when the days are wet,
Are ever black enough to make them frown.
If could find little muddy boot


Or cap or jacket on my chamber floor;
If could kiss rosy, restless foot,


And hear it patter in my home once more
If could mend a broken cart to-day,


Tomorrow make kite to reach the sky
There is no woman in Gods world could say
She was more blissfully content than /.
But, ah Tie dainty pillow next my own


Is never rumpled by a shining head;
My singing birdling from its nest has flown;
The little boy used to kiss is dead!
Year: 1874




There are some curiosities about ma
chimes which seem to be unaccountable.
Every user of sewing-machine knows
that from some unknown reason the
machine which yesterday performed its
work so well, so almost enthusiastically,
to-day refuses to do more than half its
task and does that half in a surly, in
different manner. So with many other
machines. Even the steam engine is
subject to these fits. Is there some oc-
cult bond of sympathy between the
operator and his machine, by which the
latter is influenced by the mental con-
dition of the former for it is certain
that these differences cannot be atmos-
pheric or other external influences ?
This matter Is quite humorOusly and
truthfully treated in the subioined ex-
tract:


''It is perfectly well known to expert
enced engineers that if a dozen differ
ent 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 those locomo-
tive engines would come out with its
own peculiar whims and ways, only as
certainable by experience. One engine





at once another will not hear TO such
thing, but will insist on being coaxed
by spadefuls and bucketfuls. One is
to start off when required at
the top of his speed another must have
a little time to warm at his work and to
get well into it. These peculiarities
are 50 accurately mastered by skillful
drivers that only particular men can
persuade engines to do their best. 1t
would seem as if some of these excel
leRt monsters declared on being brought
out of the stable, If it's Smith who is
to drive, l won't go. If it's my friend
Stokes, l am agreeable to anything


"An locomotive engines are low
spirited in damp and fOggy weather.
They have a great satisfaction in their
work when the air 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
character on which they are united. It
is in their peculiarities and varieties of
character that they are most remark
able.


"The railway company who should
consign all their locomotives to one
uniform standard of treatment without
any allowance for varying shades of
character and opinion, would soon fall
as much behindhand in the world as
those greater governments are, and ever
will be, who pursue the same course
with the finer piece of work called
man. ."-Scie'atifc american.


An effort is being made in Califor-
MIA to acclimatize kangaroos, with view
Of training them for hunting purposes.
Year: 1874

Alas for wells From the tiny infant
in the nurses arms to the ancient widow
in her weeds, the whole sex is vailed.
Wells answer many purposes. They
conceal defects, they heighten beauty,
they cover grief, and 80 we see a whole
race of women of every age, style ana
condition laying foundations for disea-
ses of the eye through an almost need
less fashion. These binders are of eve
ry conceivable style, from white dot on
the child to the English Grape on its
grandmother. The best oculists give
testimony against this Wholesale wear.
ing of veIls, and we think they should
make protest against it, even at the risk
of injury to their calling. At least let
the mothers of to-day look to it that
they will be held responsible, in an
other generation, for suffe ing their lit
tie ones 10 go yelled, as the matrons of
a past generation were for allowing
tight lacing and all the evils which that
distressing practice en'ailed.


A fat French lady says: 'I am so fat
that / pray for a disappointment to
make me thin. No sooner does the dis
appointment come than the mere expec-
tation of growing thinner gives me suoh
Joy that / become fatter than ever"
Year: 1874

A good thing is told of the Bishop
of Montreal. 1t seems that the good
bishop has prohibited dancing, and two
officers. wishing to obtain permission
to dance the polka at military ball,


danced it together to show the bishop
how il was done. After the exhibition
the bishop gave his permission in these
terms "You can dance the polka as
long as you please-with each other.
Year: 1874

TEE people Of England sesm to be
enjoying season OF political excite
ment not unlike that OF an ordinary
Presldeutial election in this country.
The struggle seems to be between Dis
RAzLI and GLADSTONE as the leaders Of
opposing factions in the Parliament
the former being the representative OF
the Crown party and the latter the
leader of "the Liberals" just what
measures OF "liberality' Mr.. GLAD-
STONE and bis partisans contemplate we
are unable to say. though there seems
t, be no more danger to the perpe,uity
Of the British Monarchy in the triumph
of either OF the coutending parties
than there il 10 the permsnence Of the
United States government in the result
OF an ordinary Presidential election.
There is a vast deal OF talk and Of blus-
ter and Of we'll meant prediction, but
the government still moves on in its &C
customed channels and men still 60
about their business and still labor for
money, without much regard as to who
holds this Office or that.
Year: 1874

TIE Pittsburgh editors are agitated
about new city charter which seems
to fall short Of what their fancy paint
ed. Its repeal is now demanded by
those who were most in favor Of its
enactment Q few short weeks ago.