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Year: 1874

Landlord, said transient guest
at a cross road tavern, as he drew
near the end of his dinner, "won't
you give me little more pork to
eat with this potato ?" A little later
he said:


"There was more pork than / want
ed let me trouble you for a little
potato to eat with the pork" Aud
shortly afterward.


"Well l declare, I've got some
potato left and it seems pity to
leave it-just little piece moro OF
pork, if you please"


1t ran on SO for some time. a,
length the landlord stopped short in
front of him and remarked: "LooB
here, stranger, faint no use. pm
willing to do anything reasonable tc
make that pork and potatoes come
out even, but I've made up my mind
the way you eat, it can't be did
You're bound o.lap over on one side
or the other every time. Now JUS
make up your mind you'd rather
leave, and leave it, and quit. I've
got pork and potatoes enough, bu
if you keep on, you will bust"
Year: 1874

Take pure cider, made from sound
apples, as'it runs from the press; put
sixtv pounds of common brown sugar
into fifteen gallons of water and let
dissolve then put the mixture in a
clean barrel and fill it up to within
two gallons OF being full, with clean
cider but the barrel in cool place,
leaving the bung out for forty eight
hours then put in the hung, with a
small vent until fermentation wholly
ceases and then bung up tight. In
one year the wine will be fit for use.
This wine requires no racking the
longer it stands upon the lees the
better,
Year: 1874

The Tayloryille Reputiican says :


Whatever tends to weaken the
Republican party as national pow


er takes from 1t the ability TO bring
about the reform which the farmers
of the west stand in need of To
break away from that party, and
from another on purer class grounds,
may for time insure local ad AN.
tages, but they will be pufch ased: al
the expense of greater advantages,
which must of necessity bo national
in character. -
Year: 1874

A meeting of the Universal Peace Conven-
tion was yesterday afternoon at the residence OF
Dr. g. Lozier at No. 36l West Thirty
President John W. Onderdonk in the chair. An address
was delivered by DR.. Frederick W. Marvin The Sin
of Capital Punishment" He considered that the law
which condemned death could not comply with strict
Justice An insane proovity to crime was often inner
tod and in such strength to prevent attempts to
eyade its commission. The annals Of crime were
full Of such transmission Of passions Statistics
demonstrated that the greater the number OF executions
In various countries the greater tho increase OF crime
Capital punishment had been abolished in the earlier
ages and the downfall OF the Roman Empire began at
its reintroducton. Russia, Tuscany, Italy Denmark
Holland Switzerland and many OF the States of the
United had also abolished this practice, and the
result proved most satisfactory for with the surety
for life at hard labor tho safety OF life
and property much increased With the pardon
taken the perqusites Of the Governor the criminal
was as surely removed from the world and his contain
mating influence could not be felt There he should
for tho benefit OF those whom he has widowed or
orphaned and atone for far possible, the misery
ho may have wrought. few remarks were made by
Mrs Haeck. Mrs. Dr. LOzier Pierre Odel, and others
after which tho Convention adjourned.
Year: 1874

Several manufacturing tailOrs formed on
Saturday evening last at No 125 Rivnetonst. society
for the protection OF their interests as working
men. Another object of tho organization is TO raise
fund the support Of those members who become SICK
Tho objects Of the society generally discussed and
after several had been enrolled committee was
appointed on permanent organization.


An informal meeting of boss masons and others con-
nected with the building trade held Saturday at
the Exchange Parkplace to consider the prospects
for the Spring Several Of those present said that they
had plans Oh their shelves for buildings to be erected but
that the owners Of the property would rather allow the
ground to remain idle than begn operations while the
EIRhtbour law continues The cost Of erecting build
ing under that great that property holders
could invest capital to far better advantage and
let the ground remain uDoccupied


The Capmakers held very stormy meeting on Satur-
day evening at No GO Orchardst because or ther not
having been able enforce their rules aud regulations
on the manufacturers, BY majority vote IL was de-
cided that no member OF the CapmaAers Union should
work for tho refusing establishments. and this excited
considerable debate which resulted in the withdrawal
OF several persons male and female, from the Union
AS they left the they dismissed with groans
and jeers


A number OF wood carvors held meeting on Saturday
evening at Germanla Hail. in Avenue ~ TO devise
obtain increase In the prices PAID for work
j. Henung presided and several of those present spoke
at length on the adysability of making any move
ment during the present depressed state OF the trade
The meeting adjourned, therefore, without definite ac-
ti0n being taken.
Year: 1874

WASHINGTON, April i26-The Louisiana debate
in the Senate will be interrupted tomorrow by
the eulogies upon the late Charles Sumner. 1t is
now generally conceded that the bill will be dis
posed of this week next by vote to lay 1T upon
the table. 1t is probable that the Democrats and
Liberal Repubicaps will support the Bayard amend
ment now pending to give the McEnery Govern
ment On opportunity to establish itself without the
interference of the Federal Government If they are
allowed to vote at all upon it, The Carpenter bill
would receive the votes of but very few Administra-
ton Senators.
Year: 1874

A kNoTrY DECISION. A white boy named
Joseph Hill was indicted at the court in
Dover, for stealing railroad ticket from the
depot at Harrington. The Dciawdredm SAYS !:
The prisoner confessed that he took o
ticket and walked toward the next station with
the intention Of getting on the cars at tha,
point whereupon the counsel for the prisoner,
Mr. Day, made the following points: First,
That the ticket was taken from the railroad
company and being in the possession of the
company was without value, and being without
value the prisoner could not be convicted :
Second, That railroad ticket was not sub
lect OF larceny at the common law and had not
been made SO 10y the statute law of this State
and that the prisoner could not be convicted
The Court sustained the points and directed
an acquittal. A railroad ticket being in the
nature OF an order, it would seem to follow
from this decision that no order whether for
the rendering of a service or the payment of
money! Is property while it remains in the
possession OF the maker, but when it comes
into the possession of the person to whom it is
issued it immediately changes its character. and
like bank note, becomes a subject of larceny.
The point Is very nice one not easily seen,
out IKE the sting of wasp it is there"


The boy, however, was fogged and pioried
last Saturday, and has to stay in Jail six
months Tor stealing something's ride on the
cars, perhaps.
Year: 1874

THE ALDEN FRUIT DRYING PROCESS,
A correspondent of the Ereyv Evenio0 in
speaking of the Alden fruit drying establish
ments in Middletown, throws out these refec.
tlons: During 1873 and 1872 much of the
Alden fruit was scOrched or imperfectly dried
and was a total loss or had to be sold Mt a re-.
duced price. The Alden process is only an
experiment yet, and if their products ever he.
come standard commodities there must be a
great Improvement in the practical results over
anything that has yet been done here. What
is the use of establishing large manufactories
with expensive machinery and then offer fruit
to the public at twenty-five to forty cents per
pound that is no better than the common SIM
dried fruit that can be purchased at from six
to ten cents per pound. Gentlemen. make the
Alden dried fruit Of such quality that il can
be shipped to the markets of the world. and
then you will not have so much stored here in
MiddletOwn to become food for worms.


do not desire to be understood as writing
to convey the impression that the Alden nro,
cess IS failure, but only that conducted as il
has been here, there is great room for improve.
ment. L have no doubt, however, that with
the experience of the past we shall have better
success in the future.
Year: 1874

Prof. Buchanan, of England, claims
to have discovered one Of the causes
of typhoid fever. A family in his
neighborhood was attacked with a
severe type of the fever. On care
full search of the premises, a spout in
the family pump was found to be
coated with sort of gelatinous mat
ter. Submitting this to microscopic
investigation, it was found to be a
fungoid growth, from which spores
were constantly washed away by the
flowing water. He followed up this
discovery by a minute examination
of the outlet Of the sewer through
which the drainage of the town
flowed, and his scientific zeal was re-
warded by finding fungoid growths
of similar nature to those in the
pump spout. In the vicinity Of this
outlet, the fever had also prevailed
Having cases of fever in his own
family, he followed up his inquiry by
a chemical analysis of the water
drank by the family, and found in il
minute spores of the same fungus
His conclusion is natural one, that
the fever had its origin in the fungu!
matter taken in the system, where i
ferments as yeast in beer, and poi
sons the blood.
Year: 1874




In the last number of the Chicago
Alliance, Prof. Swing expresses his
feelings on the Beecher-Tilton mat
ter as follows:


"The most painful article that has
appeared in the press Of this genera
ton, has just been published by The
odore T,lton. We write only to ex-
press the grief we feel that sky
toward which so many have looked
for SO many years should become
overcast with dark clouds, and, in
stead of offering us light aud hope,be
at last only an emblem of cold storm
Before rendering any verdict we may
as we'll wait for the facts. We shal
hope that there may be found some
path for the great name that will leat
it out of the wilderness. We do no'
hope that the truth may be conceal
ed, but that the truth may, when al
is known, be less fatal than it is to
day. Should the page which Mr.. Til
ton has just written prove at last t.
be the simple truth, it will not be
page over which the world will b
called to utter many words. The un
happy clergyman will need no re
proaches, no punishment from tn
outside multitude, and the same out
side world will be unable to expires
in language its own personal sorrow.
Year: 1874

Prof. Swift, the American discov-
erer Of the new comet,now approach
ing the sun and earth, writes that it
will arrive at perihelion (nearest the
sun) and perigree (nearest the earth)


about the lst of August. He sees
nothing 10 prevent its being very
conspicuous and beautiful object in
the western sky during the months
of July and August. Il is now stu
ated at one O'Clock iR the morning
directly beneath the polar star, and
about twenty degrees from it, and is
Just visible to the naked eye. With
an opera glass it can be easily seen
as hazy, nebulous mass with a
bright point little at one side.
Through his telescope of four and a
half inch aperture, six feet focus, it
presents tail filling the whole field
with a low power OF thirty-six. So
directly towards us is it moving it
seems almost to stand still, its slight
deviation from it giving an apparant
motion toward Beta, Ursa Major. 1t
is now visible all night, but will soon
be only in the early hours Of the
evening. If ut the time of its near
est approach to the earth the moon
should be absent, we may expect,
from present indications, to be treat
ed with a cometary display which
may rival the transit of Venus in
popular as well as in scientific inter
est. The comet will be brightest on
the evening Of August 3, being then
245 times as bright as at the time OF
discovery, while now it is only five
and one half times as bright, and as
the moon will be absent it will be
subjected to spectroscopic analysis
under circumstances more favorable
than may occur again in many years,
1t will then be about five degrees
from Danabola, the brightest star in
Leo.-Syrocuse ". ~ journal.
Year: 1874

Dld you ever see person carry q
ladder? He puts il on his shoulder,
or it may be puts his head between
the rounds and has one of the sides
resting on each shoulder, and having
it nicely balanced walks along. A
man with ladder is an interesting
object in q crowded street. He
looks at the end before him, but the
end behind him he cannot see. Ifhe
moves the front end to get out of the
way Of person, away goes the rear
end Just as far in the opposite direc-
tion, and the slightest turn Of his
body, only few inches, will give
the ends sweep of several feet, and
those in the way may look out for
bruised hats and bumped heads,
while the window glass along the
street is in constant danger from the
! unseen rear end of the ladder. When
small boy, | was carrying a not
very large ladder, when there was a
crash. An unlucky movement had
brought the rear end of my ladder
against window. Instead of scold-
ing me, my father made me stop, and
said very quietly: 'Look here, my
son, there is one thing wish you al
wavs TO remember; that is, every
ladder has two ends | never have
forgotten that, though many, many
years have gone, and ! never see a
man carrying ladder or other long
thing but what remember the two
ends. Don't we carry things besides
ladders that have two ends? When
| see young man getting ''fast''
habits think he sees cniy one end
of that ladder, and that he does not
know that the other end is wounding
his parents hearts. Many young
girl carries a ladder in the shape of a
love for dress and inery; she only
secs the qualification Of foolish
pride IT the forward end of that lad
der, while the end tnat she does not
see is crushing true modesty and pure
friendship az she goes along thought
lessly among the crowd. All! yes,
every ladder has two ends, and it is a
thing 10 be remembered in more ways
than one
Year: 1874

A plasterer, Michael Bowler, was
beaten to death last week by mem
bers of the Trade Union, because he
persisted in working to support his
family when these union gentlemen
wanted him to quit. When q few of
these trade unionists have been hung
for murder, the rest of them will
open their eyes to the nature of their
crimes.
Year: 1874

Contrary to the expectation of his friends Mr..
John Mitchell, the well known Irish patriot was
allowed to land III Ireland without interference
from the authorities. 1t will be remembered
that twenty-seven years ngo MIR. Mitchell was
sentenced to imprisonment for life on account
of the part he took in an attempt at insurrec-
ton Not liking life in the penal colonies he
escaped to America and has ever since main
tained an unfinching attitude of hostility to
the government of Great Britain. His return
to Ireland in defiance of his sentence naturally
produced deep sensation, and the welcome
which he received ON his arrival in Cork ex-
pressed truly enough the esteem in which this
unfinching opponent Of English rule in Ire
land is held by his compatriots- The
streets of Cork were illuminated by bon
fires, and q torchlight procession in
which nearly five thousand persons took part,
accompanied by bands of music, serenaded


the returned ''felon." It was characteristic
of the man that the first words spoken in
public were fierce denunciation of the gov
ernment He admitted that he might be cast
tence of crime, but consoled himself with
the reflection that every one of his hearers
was in exactly the same predicament. He
took occasion to inform all whom it might
concern that he had returned in the hope of
being able 'to do something effective in the


struggle Of his country against foreign domi.
nation Tbare must be somethipa heraic IN
Year: 1874




Chicago is as famous for "corners" in gran.
as Wall street for CORNERS" in stocks. In
either case the principle upon which the COM
bination is made is the same, and it is gam
bling in both. Indeed, we might 60 further
and characterize transactions like the recent
"corner" in grain in Chicago as conspiracies
to defraud. Fortunately the spectators
seldom succeed in cheating anybody but
themselves. An honest business man never
buys stocks at the exorbitant rates which the
shorts are sometimes compelled to pay. At
first glance the same thing appears not TO be
true Of grain, because it is ON article of
general necessity. But in the end it practi-
cally amounts to the same thing. Few bust
ness men who require corn and oats are 50
shiftess as not to have on hand sufficient
stock to carry them through corner in
grain. At most conspiracy Of this kind can
affect the market only very few days. Even
speculators cannot set aside the laws of sup
ply and demand, and unless the gamblers
have obtained an absolute control of the stock
on hand they are impotent to interrupt the
course of trade. Even when they have such
control the supply soon finds its way back to
the market again. The gamblers have only
interrupted the ordinary flow of the crops
long enough for one set to fleece the other set.
It is an incident but nothing more; an
episode in the history of trade that is quite
apart from trade itself. As o matter
OF course the effects of such an episode
are unhealthy, but on the whole
they are not positively disastrous. And as
regards o remedy, there seems to be none
which Legislature can apply, unless it be to
prohibit purchases of every kind upon mar
gin-in word, to put stock and produce
gambling in the same category with 'policy,"
'tfaro" and other games of chance. Even this
would probably prove unwise and become an
impediment instead Of help to legitimate
business. There is surer remedy than any
law of prevention by Legislative enactment
1t is for honest men to do their business only
through legitimate channels. A man wanting
to buy stocks as an investment would not go
to curbstone broker or Wall street specu-
lator, but to well established house which
buys and sells on commission. If there was
''corner" he would not buy at all. Specula-
tons in stocks have become so we'll under
stood that everybody knows the difference
between buying as an investment and buying
on margin The same thing will soon be
true Of grain also, the Chicago gamblers and
their New York confederates having made this
species Of speculation almost as common as
stock gambling. The relations between the
legitimate dealers and the gamblers in the
grain market will become as well understood
as they are in Wall street, and the remedy
will be found in giving the speculative firms
their true business position.
Year: 1874

port. If so, he will refuse to accept the ex


cuse offered by the Mayor ON this branch


of the case.


We have exposed on other occasions the fall
lacy of the argument that the Police Commis-


sioners were not convicted of q violation of
their oaths of Office. They were found
guilty of a violation OF certain provi-
sions of law which their official oaths
bound them to faithfully perform. They
were sentenced for the offence and paid the
fine imposed upon them in lieu of imprison-
ment How puerile then, to pretend that
they had not violated their oaths. But
the Mayor goes yet further and argues
that even if they had, there is no statute
that renders them ineligible for reappoint-
ment Governor Dix is too good lawyer
and too clear headed man to allow any
such special pleading to confuse his decision
The faithful discharge of all their duties
under the Election law is expressly required
of the Police Commissioners by the charter,
and instead Of faithfully discharging those
duties the convicted Commissioners disre-
garded and broke the law. They could not
do this without violating the provision of the
charter which requires them to faithfully exc
cute the Election law, and for such
violation they are rendered ineligible,
after conviction, to any Office in the city gov
ernment by the terms of the charter itself.
We can find nothing in the Mayors story.
therefore, to render the Governors action on
the charges doubtful The citizens of New
York are willing that an investigation shall be
had, if further investigation is necessary, but
they are satisfied that the Mayors action has
been Illegal and they desire to be relieved of
his administration. The new charges made
against him only render the people
the more anxious that the scandal
shall be stopped at once and the
city saved from further reproach and
injury. The Governor would disappoint pub
lie expectation if he should fail to act promptly
in the matter, and to prove by his decision
that the power vested in him by the law will
be used fearlessly in the interest of the people,
now that the necessity for its exercise has
arisen. 'sIf he should fail to do so he would
justly incur the reputation of having, by his
inaction, contributed to prolong the existence
Of abuses which every good citizen has an
interest in suppressing."
Year: 1874

The NEW YORK YACHT CLUB have begun
their annual cruise through the Sound The
account of the rendezvous, start and sail to
New London will be found in another col
umn. An unpropitious calm, only varied by
fitful and cratic breezes, made the first day
of the voyaging rather dull and monotonous;
but the programme of events promises to
enliven the experience of the yachtsmen to q
very pleasurable degree before their return to
hot bricks and mortar
Year: 1874

FRENCH ARMY NEWS IN PBUss1A
Prussian press is giving considerable atten-
ton to the subject of the demand which has
been made by the French Minister of War for
the appropriation of large sum Of money
for the use of the army. The items Of the
Paris estimate have been duly telegraphed to
Berlin. This is quite natural Bismarck
watches, even if he is not given overmuch to
PRAYER,
Year: 1874

the nature of a man who stands thus boldly
forward in defence of what he conceives to be
the right. The indifference to his personal
safety and devotion to his cause shown by Mr.
Mitchell in voluntarily placing himself in the
power of his enemies, because he conceived it
was right that he should do SO, must win for
him the respect even of those Who cannot
share either his hopes or his aspirations.
Year: 1874

THE KANSAS REToRMEns at their State Con-
vention at Topeka yesterday passed q series
of crude but fierce resolutions which will not
mean anything unless they are supported by
the nomination Of honest men and something
more earnest than the words of party plat
forms usually are. We are tired of mere talk
and would like to ace some honesH of action.
Year: 1874

The VERSAILLES GOVERNMENT will maintain
intimate official relations with the Permanent
Committee of the French Assembly during the
recess of the Legislature. The Ministry has
promised to communicate to the committee
the details of any serious foreign question
which may arise. MacMahon is evidently on
the Q,i riUe.
Year: 1874

Thu PAPAL AUTHORITIES AT THE VATICAN
are negotiating, it is said, with the govern
ments Of Austria, France and Portugal with
the view to obtain remuneration of their lay
right of excluding candidates at the Papal
election. Should Pho Mono succeed in this he
will bring the Pontifcate still nearer to the
democracy, which it is claimed will be grand
point of vantage for the Church.
Year: 1874

WALL STREET YESTERDAY. advance of
the Bank Of England rate to four per cent
was . surprise to the street. Gold advanced
to ITO, but closed at 109s. Stocks were q
little unsettled during the day. but closed
strong. Money loaned as high as three and
one-half per cent, but left off at two and one
half per cent.