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Year: 1874

Last wear my wife said it would be so
nice if we would only have 4 little garden
behind the house and raise our own vege-
tables We live in town, and our garden
spot is one rod wide by two rods long.
surrounded by fences twelve feet high, and
felt dubious. However, wife SAID she
should feel so proud to pull radishes, let
tuce and peas from our own garden. and
she was so enthusiastic over the idea that
| consented to turn that waste of oyster
cans. hoop-skirt>. ash barrels and old AK
handles into a smiling garden.


cucumber vines and selling lettuce by the
car load, and next morning gave a man
five dollars TO clear out and spade up the
back yard Then | bought a spade, hoe
and rake and proceeded TO lay the ground
off into beds and to make romantic walks
between them wherein the children and
their mother might wander at eventide- l
was week doing this. Some of the be


were square. some thrce-cornered and


,olne on the lltli-clrcle, ;lnH tie broad ave
nues and alley running between, excited
the jealousy Of all the professional garden
ers in town. They couldn't lick me, and


50 they called me nlmcs. One said | was
IN old fool, another said was an idiot.
mother thought had gone mad. and the
est of them called me old pirate, and SO
forth. I should have been discouraged but
for my wife.


3 I planted five dollars worth OF stuff


I slung in peas by the pint, exhausted the
bean market, and scattered lettuce unit
the ground groaned. and then fell bacl
. and waited for nature. While we were OF
Year: 1874

let. The man to whom you gave it was
no officer, but 4 bolder thiet than he who
robbed you of the first"


And SO it proved. The bracelets were
never returned. and the Russian ambassa-
dor recalls the last fete day of the fallen
emperor with Il sigh. for it made him a
poorer man by many million of francs than
he was when he handed his charming wife
nto his carriage and bade his coachman
drive to the opera.
Year: 1874

very little experience can fire twenty
rounds minute. The cartridges are
stored in an iron tube, which is placed
parallel with the barrel, and contains thir
ty balls, so that the piece may be fired as
many times almost without any interval,
and without removing the stock from the
shoulder, as there is nothing to be done but
to cock and pull the IT. gger.
Year: 1874

A French gunmaker has invented Il rifle


so arranged that the breech is opened by


cooking the piece, and the charge being in
troduced, the breech is closed and the gun
fired by touching the trigger. The car
fridge consists of a hollow leaden cone fill
ed with powder and closed at the base by
means of piece Of cork. At the moment
the cartridge is introduced into the breech
the powder escapes by a small hole in the
cork, and an imperceptible ball of fulmi-
mating powder, which forms the priming
takes its proper position. The triple ac-
ton of cooking, loading and firing is thus
tfected simultaneously, SO that man with
Year: 1874

great thoroughfare by banking the snow
at either curb. To expedite IT TINS work
was begun at one time at several locatles on the
street. Later in the day new men were set TO
work at destroying the snow mounds the material
OF which they threw into carts, which carried II to
the rivers. Altogether there were about 500 men
engaged in the labor OF cleaning broadway and
sush The labor was continued last night al


Though, alter the days toll II Was dlicult for ln-
epector ThOrne To prevail upon the labOrers to re.
main ut their task. When Broadway is cleared the
attention OF the laborers will be diverted to Fulton


Wall and several other streets.
Year: 1874

TIE MONEY MARKET
Money on call loans ranged from to 4 per cent,
with the bulk OF business done at the intermediate
figure. Commercial paper Is without change.
Foreign exchange was dull but generally firm.


GOLD
opened at 1l1x and closed at 11lh, most OF the
transactions OF the day, however, being at the
former rate. The rates paid for borrowing were
3 and per cent per annum to nat.
Year: 1874

SUICIDE By HANGING TO A LAMP-Posr.-
Early yesterday morning as some Of the labor
ers employed in the Central park were pro-
ceediDg to their work, they discovered the dead
body OF man hanging to the bracket OF q
lamp post on the bridge of Transverse road No.
4. The park police were notified and word was
sent to Coroner Kessler, who took charge Of the
case and sent the body to the Morgue. From
papers found in the pocket OF the deceased his
name was ascertsined to be Sylvester Phiios.
He was evidently German, and, having no
money and but very few friends, concluded to
end his life by suicide. In memorandum left
by bim IL fs stated that he believes he Is his own
master, and having no religious scruplee does
not fear the hereafter. He wishes that the
rope used by him in hanging himself will be
sold, and the proceeds placed in the hands OF q
committee for the purpose OF founding another
charitable inetitution.-N, I, Tiuss, lltk.
Year: 1874

the United States as shall be Judged necessary
TO suppress the insurrectou in the ST ate against
the government thereof, having first observed
all the prerequisites Of law.


Now, ii any such application was made by
William Pitt Kellogg, he was not governor OF
the state house and retiredt 70 the custom house,
where he is now and has been continuously
since Monday, and at O'Clock on Tuesday the
state house was in possession OF the present ex-
IstiDg government.


In order that there should be instruction in
the state against the government thereof, there
must be government against which opposition
and insurTection exist, which is not true now,
and has not been true in Louisiana st any time
since O'Clock Tuesday, September Is, lS1t.
But when all other conditions exist, before the
President can employ any part of the land or
naval forces, he must by proclamation command
the insurgents to disperse and to return peace
ably TO their respective abodes within a limited
time. A proclamation has been issued, and the
time has been limited to five days.


Now, we protest that this proclamation does
not apply to us as the people of Louisiana; but
even is a case where the necessary conditions
exist an iDsurrection in the state against the
government thereof, and on proper apple alton
10 the President he cannot employ any part of
the land or naval force until the expiration of
the time limited by him in his proclamation.
we distinctly announce TO you that in any move
ments you may make to suppress our govern
ment there shall in no case be interposed any
armed or forcible resistance on our part TO the
military forces of the United States under your
command. We will occupy the State house and
other state property in this city until the appear
ance and occupation of the same by the author
tiles Of the government OF the United States,
when We shall retire, knowing that we have sur
rendered the same alone to the government of
the United States.


JOHN McENERY, Governor.


ID. b. PENN, Lieutenant Governor


AFTER THE SURRENDER.


At Z O'Clock last evening two companies OF the
Sd infantry marched down and were qusrtered in
the state house. Col. Thomas Boylan, the
McEnery chief of police, remains on duty with
his force. The city is very quiet. The last ex-
ira published last evening stated that General
Brooke had been appointed military governor.
This solution Of the problem seemed to give
general satisfaction, but the report proved 70
be untrue, no definite action having been taken
regarding the future government of the state.
The re port that General Badgers leg had been
amputated was incorrect. His recovery is now
considered almost certain.
Year: 1874

PROHIBITION FAvoRKD.-At the meeting of
the Grand Lodge Of Good Templars of the state
OF New York, yesterday morning, 1t was re-
solved that the legal prohibition or the manu-
facture and sale OF intoxicating beverages il
the true and eficient remedy for the evils re-
suitng from their use, and that IL neither Of the
two great political parties shall favor this view
OF the question we shall then feel convinced
that such remedy can best be secured through
seperate political party that will make pro-
hibition the prominent aim Of its organization
Year: 1874

A RUMoR has been prevalent for some days
that the Attorney General had Intimated to
Judge Fisher that unless he would remove his
assistant, Mr.. Harrington, on account of the
alleged completely Of the latter with the safe
burglary case Judge F IS resignation as District
Attorney would be acceptable. There is no
ground whatever for the rumor, no such intima-
uon having been given, nor does Judge T. intend
TO take any action as 10 Mr.. Harrington until
there ls thorough judicial inHestigatiOn.
Year: 1874

| One sharp lesson Of the autumn's panic,
and, indeed. of our shifting American for.
tunes without any panic at all, is the
wasteful folly and cruelty of the old edu-
cation of women. 1t is folly. in an econ
omic sense, that ignores the sharp possi-
bilities of the future for our girls. while
we send our boys out into life fully armed
and equipped for the fray.


The young man, returned from college
or the scientific school, in the bright glow
Of dawning powers, untrammeled as yet
by care, and under the shelter Of his faith
er's roof, decides upon his career Ad-
mring aunts and sisters watt their prayers
and hopes upon the winds that wing his
sail the fathers experience and counsel
pilot the boat through the shallow waters
near the shore. Every thing aids his
start-youth, freshness, and special train
ing. He has no responsibility upon him
save for his own health and good behavior


When does woman choose her career?
In middle age; broken down by sorrow;
when she has seen her life's hopes go down
one by one in the horizon. AS girl, she
has waited in her fathers house for the
lover who nevtr camo. All Of youth has
gone by in vague dreams. In the frivo-
lous business Of fashionable society her
strength has spent itself


Her hands are skill-less save in delicate
embroidery; her brain is sluggish, though
It aches with new anxiety and despair.
Heavily weighted with responsibility, it
may be, with the broken-down father or
the always invalid mother now suddenly
dependent upon her, she sets out upon this
new path with weak, uncertain steps -
Beginning a career at forty. all unframed!


The daughter of her washer woman can
distance her the girl who used to bring
home her shoes has already shot far ahead
She scarce used to notice these girls, save
when they were thinly clad or look cd
hungrier than usual. 1t was easy to-
loosen her purse-strings or send them into
the servants room to be warmed and fed.
Where are they now, while she is haltiug,
timorous, on the sharp stones of the high.
way! The washer woman's girl is sal
aried teacher in the model school house
yonder; the other is book keeper in her
fathers shop, and it pays her we'll


Ah that artisan father. that mother
toiliug early and late. had deeper Wis
dom in their need than the merchant, the
clergyman, the railway king in the hour
of his power. What cruelty like to their
indulgence now The unreasoning fond
ness which reared their girls in luxurious
helplessness, which assumed the future as
certain in its golden round, has its parallel
in other lands, There are Asiatc fathers
who put out the eyes of girl that she
may be more pathetic beggar. To the
study of this Chinese prototype we COM
mend the American father who, choosing
career for his boys in the fine freshness
of early manhood, leaves his darling
daughters helpless amidst the butFets Of
the changing tide.-Hmper's .Ntgaztnc
for Jaly
Year: 1874

A New FERTILIZER. Indian Meal is
said to be equal to Peru Wan Guano as a
fertilizer. Like the latter, it will kill the
germ of the seeds if applied in too large
quantities. 1t may be used in the hill,
furrow or broadcast, in about the same
quantities as guano, At 60 cents per
bushel for corn a ton of it costs S2l.OO,
or about one-third as much as guano. 1t
acts quickly upon the growing crops and
may be applied to wheat in the S.,ring at
the time of sowing clover, and raked in
with the grassseeds,


From all that we have heard of this ar
ticc as fertilizer it is certainly worthy a
trial, and we hope that some of our read
ers will experiment with it the coming
season and report the res ult. Wheat brand
also may be quite as va liable for this pur-
pose and may be tried ih the same man
ner. A table spoonful of corn meal may
be applied to a hill of corn, or 800 lbs to
the acre on wheat or other broadcast crops.
1t is said to answer quite as well on pota-
toes and other root crops.
Year: 1874

In one respect the business of farming
is like all other trades Or professions -
Those persons who enter upon it with the
most determined energy q md perseverance,
continually guided in their course by a
habit of close observation Of whatever is
taking place all around them in the line
of their chosen pursuit, will be sure to
win success in the end. Another class,
who feel as if they we're more or less pros
pered by the doings of ONE other class,
or must do as their neigf bors about them
do, trying to follow in their tracks, with
out taking into account The difference in
their circumstances, will be almost sure in
the end to fall behind tho bright anticipa-
tions they had formed for the future Ev-
cry man in the end usua y makes or mars
his own fortune. If person would be a
successful farmer he must be self-reliaut


As rule, have good vocation. and
stick to it; but there are exceptions to all
rules, and the man the most interested
should be the best iuo &C. Conform to
circumstances, but be Sc f-rcliant, and act
as your best judgment dictates. In all
matters relating to expenditures, either for
the family or the farm, this trait of char
acter should be well cultivated or devel-
oped. | think a greater portion of our
young enterprising farm hers fail than OF
those who comprised that class thirty and
forty years ago.


To use the old adage, "Don't be afraid
to cut your garment according to the
cloth" If your neghbo r, who is twenty
years older than you and worth $50, 600,
rides in his carriage and his horses 60
past your door in silver platce harness, it
is no reason that you, " ho are worth but
$4,000 and perhaps owe $4,000 or more
for the farm upon which you live, should
ride ia the same style as he. Nobody,
excepting a very small class of the most
shallow minds, will think any the better
OF you if you do so. Tile larger and by
far the better part of the community
among whom you live will respect you all
the more for riding in your best lumber
wagon, and waiting few years until
your debts are paid, and with the money
in hand you can pay for a carriage as good
as that used by your weplthiest neighbor.
-Germantopa Teegraph.
Year: 1874

There are people (do not initiate them y
who, if they hear an organ, fnd out at
once which are the poorest stops. Ifthsy
listen to great speaker, they remember
nothing but some slip in the construction
of sentence, or break in the consistency
of metaphor, or flaw in the evolutions Of
an argument. While their friends are ad-
miring the wealth and beauty Of tree
whose branches are weighed down with
fruit, they have discovered a solitary
bough, lost in the golden af1iucncc, on
which nothing is hanging.
Year: 1874

A Detroit female, breathing hard and
carrying a large hickory cane, ran down the
street, the other morning inquiring if any
body had seen % small, cross-eyed man
anywhere along here 2" Several persons
asked What's the matter Z" But she
hurried on, saying, Haven't time now
l want to get my paws on the fawning
sycophant for just a minute
Year: 1874

A REMEDY FOR HORSE THAT HAS
EATEN TOO MUCH CoRN-ls to give him
two table spoonfuls of saleratus dissolved
in one pint of warm water, being sure to
see that it is all diss solved. In severe
cases give half cup full Of saleratus and
repeat the dose if the horse is not relieved
in thirty minutes.
Year: 1874

JOSH BILLINGS IN Coon EsGLIsH-
Some of his gems Of philosophy minus
bad orthography.-Time is money and
many people pay their debts with 1t.
IGNORANCE is the wet nurse Of prejudice
Halt the discomfort Of life is the result
Of getting tired Of ourselves.


Benevolence is the cream on the
milk of human kindness.


People of good sense are those whose
opinions agree with ours.


Style is every thing for sinner, and
a little or it will not hurt saint.


Men nowadays are divided into slow
Christians and wide awake sinners.


There are people who expect to es-
cape hell because of the crowed going
there. :,


Most people are like eggs-too foil
of themselves to hold anything else.


A mule is a bad pun on a horss


Health is loan at call.


Necessity is the mother OF invention,
but Patent Right is the father Of it.


Beware of the man with half shut
eyes. He's not dreaming.


Man was built after all other things
had been made and pronounced good.
If not he would have insisted on giving
his orders as to the rest Of the job.


Mice fatten slowly in church. They
can't live on religion any more than
ministers can.
Year: 1874

We find in a German exchange some
curious observations on the manner in
which the position of the windows in the
stable affects the eyes Of horse. In one
instance the horses of farmer-fine ami
mails, celebrated for their excellent condi-
tion-were kept in a stable lighted only
by a small window at one side. When
light was needed for work, the door was
temporarily left open; the result was that
nearly all Of these animals had eyes of un-
equal strength, and in time q number of
them became blind on the side of the win
dow. A strong light directly in the
horses faces has been found to weaken
the sight. The worst position of all for
stable window is in front of the horses,
and much higher than their heads. An
officer had bought Il perfectly sound mare
from u gentleman whose stable was light
ed by windows at the rear of the stalls


The animal was sound and perfectly sat
isfactOry. After three months she became
suddenly 'ground-shy;' on examining
her eyes, they were found directed up
ward, and this was explained by the fact
that the windows OF the officers stable
We're situated above the head of the stalls,
the eyes being generally drawn in that
direction. She was removed to another
stable where The light was admitted from
all sides, and in three months time the
difficulty had disappeared.


Another officer reports that during the
campaign OF 1870, in France, he rode a
horse that was Il capital jumper. On his
return from the war he placed this ami
NAL in his stable, the windows OF which
were above the front of the stalls, and in
u short time the horse became so shy of
the ground that he had to sell it. He had
had a similar experience with other sad
horses, all of which became ground
shy in his stall. One animal in particu-
lar. a thoroughbred mare renowned for
her jumping qualities, refused in short
time to cross the smallest obstacle, and
when forced to cross foOt-wide gully.
made leap that would have cleared
ditch fourteen feet wide. Owners Of
horses who find that their animals shy at
objects on the ground or at their side.
would do well to look to the windows OF
their stables, for an explanation Of the
evil. fa1n.4H 81,
Year: 1874

We imagine that our citizens breathe


freer now that the dangers OF the cele-


bration OF Independence Day are
passed, and all feel thankful that 20
serio1s conflagrations occurred, and
that their accustomed roof-tree is still
above their heads. The city had, how.
ever, two or three very narrow escapes
from danger, which we would not like
to see repeated. and that we have
avoided the calamity that has fallen
upon Allegheny is more attributable to
prompt action on the part OF those
whose property was endangered than
10 care!ulness on the part OF those who
sought amusement in scattering fl re.


Seriously, is it not time that the dis
charge OF firecrackers, and rockets and
Roman candles, and the whole brood of
dangerous fireworks were eremptorily
and effectually forbidden within the
limits OF the city, Three times year,
on each OF the principal holidays, hun
dreds OF families are in imminent dam
ger of being rendered homeless by the
fire works that fill the streets with noise
and shower burning sparks upon
the roofs OF dwellings. The JOY
that on the Fourth OF July
aud on Christmas and on New Years
day can find no better and safer outlet
and expression than this, should be
carefully repressei. II it is impossible
for men and boys to rejoice over the
independence Of the United States with
out jeopardizjDg the lives aud property
OF their fellow citizens, then let them
cease to celebrate the day.


But there are other and more unob'
jectiouable modes OF keeping
alive the remembrance OF the
events commemorsted by these holi-
days. Let attention be directed to
these, and let the strong arm Of the law
he put forth to shield our people from
the danger and the fright occasoned
by the careless use OF firearms in the
crowded city, and the scattering of fire.
brands among buildings whose wood
work is as dry and iufsmmable as tim
der. The lesson learned on lsst Sstur-
day should not be forgotten before the
next occasion for publicly inviting a
conhagration comes around.
Year: 1874

Administration papers and politicians have
lost their squeamishness on the Third Term
question. They no longer have time to rail at
The TRIBUNE for insisting that it be cOnsid-
cred; they are all so busy considering it them
selves. But they still do not touch the precise
point.


Mr. Perrepoint thinks it time to quit his
side-splitting jokes and speak seriously. He
is not in favor of Third Term upon his
honor he is not. But, good Judge, that is not
what we want to know of you. You would
violate the policy of your whole life
if you should be in favor of it,
after the late elections. But suppose Gen.
Grant should force conventions of subservi-
ent Office holders to renOminate him-and you
know how absolute is his mastery of the party
machinery-suppOs the nomination made.
What will you do about it1 viii you con-
tinue to support the regular ticket, or will
you bolt 7 On that question, Judge PierrepOint,
you can have the floor; what say yOuf


The Syracuse Standard, The Utica Herald,
and even The Albany Evening Journal, have
found out that they are opposed to Third
Term. 1t is wise conclusion they have
reached, and not sudden. or rash. But,
MeSSrS. EultOIbJ suppOso thO pO"SAo eboo NC
should not listen to your tardy utterance. VIII
you then protest in private at what you sup
port in public, as you have done so often be-
forel Will you stand Gen. Grants third
nomination, or will you bOltq The voters
don't care now for your abstract views about
the Third Term; but there's point on which
they would listen to you with real interest.
Will you hesitate to tell them about it


Gov Dix's serenade speech still hangs fire.
When he does deliver it, we trust he may set
the timid politicians and editors, who are let
ting 81 dare not" wait upon " would" an
example worthy of his eminent services, and of
the short, sharp decision of the order that has
given him his most brilliant fame. Let the
General hold up the effort to get Third Term,
or even the cOnnivance at such an effort, to
the execratiOn it deserves; and declare that
under no circumstances would he support such
nomination. Even that may not now reverse
the current that is setting so strongly against
HIM, but anything short OF that would DC
worse than saying nothing