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Year: 1874

CHICAGO, March Notwithstanding
the failure of the temperance ladies last
night to secure the repeal of the Sunday Or
dinance by the City Council and their brJI-
tai treatment by the street mob last night,
they declare their intention of carrying on
the fight, and have called mass meeting
for tomorrow and Thursday night.
Year: 1874

LAFAYETTE, Ind. March 1.-THE ladies'
committee Of thirty is busily engaged in
canvassing the city with various pledges
but so far with poor success A committee
of four ladies waited upon the City Coun-
ell at its last meeting and presented petit
tiOns praying the enforcement of the tenn
perance-4aw by the city authorities which
was received and filed but was honOred
with no further attention.
Year: 1874

1t was wild, seques.ered spot
| On the bank Of the Bois DOree,
Whose rushing waters tarried not
| In their race for st. Louis Bay,
And'there sat by the side of the yellow
A fisherman bearded and broad of beam
And he angled for perch with skill su
premc


The whole of that summers day.
The fish were shy, or the baitwere stale
Or the water too muddy, ween,
For never perch tapped his silverJ
On the bank where the fisher was


Seen-
Not q bite, not sign Of nibble to show
That here in the depths of the broad


bayou
Was perch, or pike, or pompano,


Or garfish pearly green.
AS the yellow sun was going down


To the sound of the marsh hens cry.
The fisherman's brow was marked with


q frown


And his broad breast heaved with a


sigh
For his hook was fast in q hidden crag,
A water-logged bough, or the root of a


flag 49,.


Such as wave where the naiads lie.
To his feet arose that fisher brave ! :
That fisherman broad of beam
And with delicate care essayed to save
His dipsy and hook from the stream
Twas delicate care and delicate touch,
But more than little was much too


much;
A jerk too many, pull too strong,
And prone one his back he lay along
With prickly prongs of cactus plants
That pierced the linen OF blouse and


pants


En- band and body and seam.
Did he rave and tear his shaggy hair,
AS men are wont to do?
This fisherman-did he curse and swear
Until the air turned blue?
Far from it. One brawny hand he laid
On port side aft, where many blade
OF cactus had gone through
The other he slowly raised aloft


AS he heaved heavy sigh,
And then in accents sad and soft,


"Helen BlaZes!" l heard him cry.>
How sweet, methought, is love which


quells
The evil passion that rises and swel1s
Within the troubled soul,
When pain excites the wicked swear,
)r disappointment, corns, or care,
Leave woe instead or comfort there,
And misery holds control!
sweet Helen! May thine influence
Bide ever with him thus;
Thy spirit soothe the rage intense
That prompts the spoken cuss;
Tor men will rage, and men will swear,
And carry on, and rip and tear,
And break the decalogue everywhere,
f thou, dear woman, be not there
70 counsel and to keep them clear
OF things iniquitous.
Year: 1874

The following from the Science of
Health, deserves the attention of all.
The facts 1t contains are of the great
est moment


"Nothing is more sure in the chem
istry of life, than that great wheat
eaters are great thinkers, or that the
phosphorus which wheat contains, in
the outer kernel, Immediately beneath
the husk, is the feeder OF brains, and
the material substance which Erovokes
the thought, study and reason, and
all the forms of nervous energy.
There are Psychologists who attribute
the remarkable success of States like
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to the
bounty and perfection Of the wheat
crop, and the intellectual stimulus,
or rather food which it affords the
brain.


Certainly DO Commonwealth in
the world has evinced a higher sense
of law and order, or more rapidly de-
veloped social system which has no
equal in the world. The constitution
of Indiana for instance, the very
center of the wheat zone, beyond
comparison the best in the Union, and
produces the highest results in our
civilization.


"There is Southern wheat belt,
which includes Australia in part,
South Africa, New Zealand, and q
part of South America, where civil
izatiOn equal to that Of the central
North of the Uaited States is grow
ing up.


"But the value of wheat as a civil
izer will never be fully realized until
wheat meal takes the place of bolted
flour, and the people learn to make
bread without yeast or risings-good
bread is ensshaticaly the staff of
life but the commercial article is
the way OF Dyspepsia and premature
death"
Year: 1874

Upon releasing a Milan queen to
the bees, 1 was anxious to be sure
that she was well received so remoY-
ed a comb from the hive, and let the
queen go out on it among the bees and
was at once satisfied all was right. L
introduced second Milan queen the
same way and others since. Being at
a neighbor's apiary whenhe was about
releasing a queen, 1 suggested the
same way, with like results. 1t one
has valuable queen 1 recommend
this way of releasing, as should the
bees pack on her, scrape them Oft In
to basin of water, when the workers
will scatter and the queen be recaged.
l saved one this season this way. This
plsa of scraping wad OF bees into
Ter was suggested to me by my
neighbor. I think it first-rate, as there
is great danger of losing the queen in
trying to pull off the bees.
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the Springfield
Republican gives some interesting de-
tails of the dsiryiug at a model far,a
"Longview," at Enfield, Ct., saying::'
"In DR.. Grants dairy, as soon as the
butter granulations appear, few
quarts OF cold water are poured into
the churn for the dasher to play upon,
and also to facilitate the separation of
the butter from the buttermilk. By
means of a wooden ladle the butter Is
removed from the churn to the oak
yorkIng-table, where also by means of
an oak octsgon lever the buttermilk
and water are rolled out. The bare
hand is not used in the butter. Salt
is then worked in, for some customers
only quarter of an ounce to a pound
OF butter, and the salted mass is plac-
ed in q close firkin and carried into
the spring-room TO be cooled and re-
worked into balls the following day.
In the final working, a large sponge
wrapped in linen napkin is used to
absorb the moisture. Some butter is
damaged by not working enough and
some by working too much. The true
mean is believed to be when the white
liquid ceases and the limpid water be.
gins. II all the water is worked out
the butter will be tough, waxy, anC
lose its delicate, sugary flavor. As al
butter makers know, it is difficult tC
make nice, fragrant butter in winter
BY a perfect control OF the tempera
ture OF the dairy house, and by sweet
succulent food for the cattle, this diff
Guilty may be partly obviated. Owe
4 900 pounds OF butter are made her,
in a year, which readily finds a singl


purchaser in the village.''
Year: 1874

Cultivation Of Corn.


The following is extracted from 81


editorial in the RHral Wodd, discuss


ing the level and hilling culture Of


corn; -


The method formerly practiced by


most farmers, and which is continued


by many now, in caltivating corn, L


TO break up the land not over thre'


or four inches deep, sad lay it OF


aud cultivate both ways with the


cOmmoa turning plow. 1t the crop


receives the number of ploWingz


deemed necessary, the soil between


the roots is usually thrown up TO the


base OF the hills, leaving water fur


rows running at righ. angles all over


the field. II the land is rolling or
hiIly, the surface Is liable TO constant


waste IRON the effect Of washing
rains. T lis method of working corn
exclusively with the plow, we are
satisfied from practical experience and
observation, is erroneous. The nearer
level the ground is left sittr cultiVa-
tion, the better it is both for the crop
and the laGd. 1t is false idea that
corn should be hilled 10 prevent it
from being Frustrated by the Wind.
Jf the grou"d is well cultivated,
leaving level surface, nature amply !
provides each stalk of corn with |
braces for its support. Nor is it nee
essary, if the cultivation has been
properly conducted, to hill up corn
Ior the purpose of killing out or
smothering the weeds. Some of the
largest premium crops now Oh record
were produced by level culture. Ii
the first plowing is done with the
bar next to the corn, throwing the
furrow from the hills, and the earth
returned with the next plowing, the
cultivator should be used for all sub
working This leaves a level
mellow bed for the thousands of
minute roots which fill the entire
space between the rows, and are, in
fact, the mouths through which alone
The plants are fed. By keeping the
surface level and mellow, it readily
absorbs the rain as it falls, where it is .
leld in reserve for the growing crop.
But when the last working is done
With the plow, and the earth is thrown
RON the center OF the rows TO the
,orn, large portion OF tie roots are
;ut off aad destroyed, whic' must
diminish the yield. The
dea advanced by some farmers, that
flowing corn at the same time, and
ending and breaking those roots, is
enefcial to it, Is simply absurd.
'orn delights in a well pulverized, U
Mellow soil, and if the ground is
moist and the weather :
Vsrm, after a thorough working with
he plow and causing the loss OF these .
oots, the corn will continue to grow
apidly, notwithstanding the violence
lone; but if the weather is dry, the
INJURIOUS effect of such cultivation is
.lesrly and fatally marked by the
firing OF all the lower leaves, and
result in great injury TO
he crop.
Year: 1874

The most complete check upon rob,
bing bees is to place bunch of grass,
or vet hay, over the entrance to the
hive. The bees will find their way to
the entrance to their own hive, the
robbers will be caught by the senti
nels in passing through the grass, ant
soon cease their pilfering.
Year: 1874

ToPREvENT WOOD FROM CRACKING.
"A correspondent. of the English Ne
ehd7lic writes: /" Having a great
deal to do with the seasoning OF the
harder and better kinds of wood, |
find that they are all liable to crack
badly at the ends. generally give
them three or four coats of glue on
the ends only, which find is q sure
preventive, till the wood is well dry
and then cut on the quarter
Year: 1874

To PRESERVE CLOTHING Pins
They should be boiled few moments
and quickly dried once or twice a
month, when they become more fex-
ible and durable. Cloth lines will
last longer and keep in better order
for wash day service, if occasionally
treated In the same manner.
Year: 1874

We wish our readers would make
the following simple experiment: You
have q trough or half barrel into
which you pump water for stock.
There is moro or less ice in the water.
Your cows and sheep are drinking it.
Put q thermometer in this water and
you will probably find that it Is within
q degree or two of the freezing point.
Then pump up pail of water, and il
the pump has not been used for few
hours you will find lat least we did)
that this water is also down to 33 or
81 degrees. Now pump two or three
more paifuls of water, or until you
are sure you have drawn up all the
water that has been standing in the
pump and are now drawing it fresh
from the well. Let the thermometer
stand in this a few minutes and you
will find that this water is not far from
so degrees-or say from Is to 20 de-
crees warmer than the first drawn
water, or than that standing in the
trough. In the summer, nearly every
farmer, when he wants drinking water
will pump out the water that has been
standing in the pump, because he know;
that it Is warmer than the water II
the well. We should do the samt
thing for our stock in winter, because
this first drawn water is much colder
than the water in the well. Ii has
been found very advantageous to ar
tifcially warm water for horses anC
COWS. We can not all adopt such 1
plan, put we can take measures to giv'
our animals water fresh and warn
from the well. We can avoid com
pelling them to drink water in whicl
ice has been floating for some hours
A COW drinks, or ought to drink, no
less than IS TBS. of water per day. Thi
water has to be raised to the tempera
ture of Il e body, say 100 degree:
TIE heat required for this purpose
derived from the combustion of corn
hsy,or other food. Those at the Eas
think it a sad waste when they hea
that Western farmers burn corn i
their stoves to cook their food o
warm their houses. Are they nc
more to blame for reducing all tn
water their animals drink from so de
grees down to 80 degrees, and the
burning corn-mesl to restore these l
degrees OF heat?
Year: 1874

MINERAL PARK, Mohave county, is one of the mining camps of this Territory, whose people expect speedy and profitable working of rich mine, which in this instance is the Keystone, out of which, a few months ago, workmen were driven by water. This water is there yet, but, tine company have re- ceived pump and hosting works, all the way from San Francisco, they and all the people of the Park, whose faith in the rich ness and pernanency of the Keystone has al ways been strong, feel that the good time for them has already come

 We have taken good look at the mine in question, and shall be disappointed if it does not come up to the most sanguine expectA- tions of the many people who believe it to be good and true vein of rock, carrying sufficient silver and gold to reimburse all now, or who may hereafter be, connected with it.
Year: 1874

The MIseR would thank the editors of the Los Angeles Daily Herald to cease stealing matter from its columns, theft the Herald has frequently been guilty of, and one which no decent editor would think of committing.
Year: 1874

MARRIAGE OF AN ILL-ASSORTED PAIR


SOME FOOD FOR SOCIETY GOSSIP.


Yesterday considerable astonishment was
created in this city, especially in the upper
circles, by the announcement that certificate
Of marriage had neen issued for young man
Of good family and high social connections,
and frankie Christie, a well-known ballet
dancer, now performing at the Theatre
Comique, and that the marriage ceremony had
been performed and that the two were one.


The report gained but little credence, but a
friend of the young man looked into the matter
and found that such was the case, and that
the ceremony had taken place at st Johns P.
Z. church, the assistant rector officiating. The
fact was soon spread, and many censures wire
placed upon the young man for going SO far
below his alleged position in society in marry
ing a woman of this class, and especially one
so much older than himself. AS soon as the
young man was satisfied that the report was
true he sent a telegram to the father at New
port, R. l., informing him of the circumstance,
but as yet no answer has been received.


THE GROOM
is youth about nineteen or twenty years of
age, dark hair, about five feet three inches
high, and rather delicate looking, not weighing
over one hundred pounds. He attended the
best schools in the country, and was at West
Point nearly year, but owing 10 his inability
to pass the required examination was retired.


THE BRIDE,


a blonde, is about thirty years of age, and has
been engaged in the variety business for some
years past. She is above the medium height,
and is considered rather good looking. Lately
she has taken the part Of Frailty in the Can
can now being performed at the Theatre Com
ique, and Is quite favorite of the audiences.


Last night, as usual, she performed her part
in the Can-can, and, as a matter of course,
was the centre of attraction and the subject of
much talk and comment in the COmigue. The
groom during her performance occupied po-
sition in the audience near to the stage, and en-
joyed her exhibitions with much pleasure. On
the conclusion Of the performance the groom,
in company with his bride and the grOomsman,
proceeded from the theatre to Pennsylvania
avenue, when the bride charged the grOOms-
man with "giving the thing away" This was
denied, and he started to leave the party, but
after considerable coaxing from the bride he
consented to accompany the couple home, and
took tie BRIDES arm and walked
down the Avenue to the Continental hotel,
where the bridal party are stopping for the
present.
Year: 1874

SAD HAVOC OF THE CANINE SPECIES.


7SIE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN some weeks
since gave graphic account of the Blodus op-
erGnR for the capture of unmuzzled dogs run
ming at large, and also the disposition made of
them. In the article there was also given the
difficulties encountered by the poundmaster in
carrying out the orders of the Board of Health,
and the tricks resorted 10 evade the law. The
Board Of Health, in order to beat this class of
people, resorted to a new dodge, and instead of
going en- their raid at 9 a. m, concluded to
start few hours earlier, so in accordance
with this instruction Bdgad!er General Eighn-
stign, commanding the pound brigade, had the
assembly beat yesterday morning at 8 q. m,
when the troops of his command soon fell into
line with the necessary ammunition, and after
the proper orders from the commanders
marched from headquarters to the stronghold
of the enemy.


After reaching a certain point in the line of
march, It was decided to throw out skirmish
line to feel the position of the enemy. Not
long after the line was formed and ready for
attack an enemy was seen, who was ambushed,
and the officer in command at once gave the
order, forward" Shortly thereafter the firing
began, and the line was engaged In a conflict
with overpowering numbers. Gen. Eighnstign
seeing this, soon marched his reserves to the
front and became engaged in the fight. At
first he was rebuiTed and driven back, and his
men became demoralized. This the General
saw was a sad state of affairs, and knowing
that he would suffer dismissal from the army
determined 10 make an effort TO rally his men,
and taking the colors q metz Of the brigade
from the standard bearer, waved them over
his head, and ordered me men to follow him.


This encouraged the boys, and soon again the
line was formed and on it marched with deter
mination. A charge was made, and the pound
brigade succeeded In routing the enemy, and
causing their lines to become broken. The
pound brigade followed for several miles, but,
finding. the opposing command demoralized,
ceased the pursuit and encamped for the bal
ance Of the day, when 1t was found that forty
four prisoners had been captured and forty-one
Of the enemy had been killed. During the day
nine were released on parole.


General Eighnstign will to-day, in obedience
to orders issued from the commander-in-chief,
(Dr. d. W. Bliss,) continue his pursuit of the
enemy and leave no trace Of any opposing foe
on the soil,
Year: 1874

A convention Of amateur editors was held
yesterday at the St. James hotel. There we're
present twenty young men identified with
papers in the interest Of the youth, who ez-
planned the idea Of encouraging the younger
class to journalistic ambition. After the adop-
ton of rules for the government Of a national
association, the convention adjourned subject
to the call Of the president.
Year: 1874

IT Is A CRIME


to exhaust still further the vitality Of an already
feeble invalid with sharp evacuants and other
strength-destroying medicines. No case of dys-
pepsia, liver complaint, constipation, nervous
weakness or periodic fever was ever cured in that
way What the debilitated sufferer needs is a
remedy in which the properties Of an InviRorant
q stimulRnt, mild apeTient, sedative and a
blood duperient are combined, and Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters Is the only preparation before
the world In which these essential sanitary ele-
ments are united in the proportions necessary to
overcome disease without pTostrating the patient.
This agreeable and potent vegetable elixir is in
the truest sense Of the word restorative, for Il
restores the strength Of the body. re-establishes
functional regularity, enriches the degenerated
blood, and clears the clouded brain.
Year: 1874

/ ne AonlSidlla hSVCIutlOU.


From the ST. Louis Republican,


When President Grant threw
the executive sword into the
Louisiana dispute and made
Kellogg governor of the state,
we stated that it was a wrong
settlement of the question and
that the president would have
cause to regret it. That cause
has come /; the Louisiana ques.
tion again. 1t has returned a
year after its settlement, to tor
ment the president and to
make him rue the day he had
anything to do with it.


If there ever was a more
wanton outrage on all the
principles on which governs
ment in this country avowedly
rests, than the presidents part
in the. Kellogg usurpation, it
was the tacit approval which
congress gave to the outrage.
As a precedent it was destruc~
tive Of all free government /; it
made possible the overthrow
of the lawful authority in any
state by a band OF conspirators
who could manage to involve
the president in their plot. 1t
made a state government the
creature of a loo of false affida-
Wits, a lawless decision of a
corrupt judge, and two compa-
nies of federal bayonets. The
president shrank from the re-
sponsibili:y of what he had
done almost as soon as he had
done it, for he submitted the
case to congress and asked for
its treatment of it. But COM
gress was not willing to accept
the responsibility either. 1t


was glad the wrong had becn
committed, and was willing
that the Republican party
should have the benefits of it;


but it, too, shrank from an outs
right approval OF it. 1t there's
fore quietly replaced the case
at the presidents door, and left
it to breed the trouble which
has followed as its legitimate
and inevitable fruit. a


The people of Louisiana have
revolted against the usurping
government, and made their
revolution good by enforcing
the abdication of Kellogg and
his subordinate officials in pre-
cisely the same way they were
I
installed-at the point of the
'bayonet. It is an act of vio-
.lence, of course /; it is a revohl>
tion ; but the Kellogg govern
ment itself was the product of
violence lit was an admitted
and branded usurpation. The
case as it stands, therefore, is
that a violent remedy of a vio-
lent worng. What will the
presidentand congress do about
it?


There are many difficulties
and complexities in this ques-
ton which will present them
selves the moment the question
is taken up. But it need not
be taken up The wisest and
safest thing for the president
and congress to do is to let it
alone, and thus avoid the cons
plexities and difficulties it ip-
wolves. The people of Louisi-
ana have settled it in their own
way any interference with the
work would be an insettling.
They have just now done at
the cost of thirty or forty lives,
what they ought to have been
allowed to do eighteen months
ago, without the shedding of a
single drop of blood. They
have effected through an Or
ganized revolution what, but
for the imprudent interposition
of the president, they would
then have accomplished by a
peaceful process. II they have
been able to do this without
any popular opposition, and
any usurping Of the
Kellogg partisans to protect
him ; aud if they are satisfied
with the new order which fhev
Year: 1874

his wife's receptions, his popularity. But
long ago he was stranger to them. 1t
is years since he crossed the old thresh.
hold. What is there in common between
him and the ignorant, boorish farmer
and his wife A few weeks ago, the last
of the sons came home to die; the one
of all the children who had real power
of intellect; the only one who was not
ashamed to talk of mother fondly to
the last. He died in her arms, drunk
en-, worthless sot. The thin, haggar1
woman closed his eyes without tear.
" | have lost all my children she said,
must have made mistake some
where in the beginning. God knows"


Is no other mother making this mis-
take IN. Y Tribune.