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Year: 1874

The GRANGE INTEREST IN TtXAS.
From letter dated August 2nd,
just received from Marquee, Leon
county. Texas, we extract the follows
ing The Grarge interest of Leon
county progresses lavorably, very
much to Il le diSpleasure of railroad
monopolies and blood suck ers gencr-
ally. The excessively dry weather
in tbis county has damaged the cot
ton crop to very or at extent.
Without rain sooh, but little can be
raised. Early corn is generally
good, but the later paintings are in
different. The mongrcl party has
done all in its power to drag the
Caucasian race to the level of Afri
can barbarism in Texas, but the
wLitc race Is again triumphant, and
the days of Republicsnism, so far as
this Slate is concerned, are forever
numbered among the things that
were. Five Oranges in this county
have begun the work OF cooperation
in earnest and ere long will have
their own store rooms in ample time
TO save the fifty or two hundred per
cent heretofore paid TO middle men.
Planters and farmers here are coming
to the conclusion that o dollar saved
for their own pockets does them as
much and great deal more good
than when it goes TO Gil the pockets
oil some other person and they receive
no benefit therefor. will send you
club for your valuable paper in
short time.
Year: 1874

Patrons beware oi The oily
tougned politician wno wonld irrh
our noble Order Into a political ma
chine to serve his selfish eujs ar
those of his clique or party. Shun
him a< you woaid leper. a canvas
ser FOR a paper aud pencil railroad or
a life insurance agenti
Year: 1874

The Democracy Of Pennsylvanis have
determined to keep the old Keystone in
its ancient place. A meeting Of the
leading Democrats Of the Btste was held
at Philadelphia en- Thursday, at which it
was decided to keep party organization
intact
Year: 1874

l have your telegram. shall NOT re-
fuse to take tho mails to morrow ifyou
send them 10 our station, for your act In
asking us to carry tho mails will be our
assurance that you mean 10 pay rs our
price, and ! leave you free 10 decide the
question as 10 employing our services or
not fou oi course will not employ them
unless you mean TO pay for them.
Year: 1874

A late writer in the Catholic Hiorid, in some
readable Notes from ireland, announces that the
Hibernian joker of tradition is now extinct, and
the modern Irish are becoming serious people.
This gravity, the author thinks, is due to their
increased chances of bettering their condition,
either by emigration or i'll their own country.
where he sees a decidedimproyement in their own
industrial pre- poets. The reason given for the
alleged fact sounds paradoxical but there is pro-
badly reason in it. 1t is generally nation which
has least chance of improving its condition that
takes refuge in amusing itself, and change for
the better in its circumstances does bring re-
sponslbility and CRAFTY in its train. Some OBJ
servers deplore the light-hearted hilarity of the
plantation negroes as thing of the past, draw
ing the conclusion that the change in their con-
dition is not an unmxed Improvement Matri-
mony works some change in the gayety of young
people, particularly with lively girls of whom it
IL said that it ''takes the giggle out Of them"


Hilarity ls not always Synonymous with happi-
nesa and the Wise Man tells of laughter which
is no better than the cracking of thorns under
pot but still it is pity to zee the increasing
cares that come with increasing proaperty-the
fever of ''getting on which Possesses modern
life-qute swamp the natural desire for mere
amusement and fun. There is neither use MOI
good in making so entirely serious business
favor Of holidays, amusements, mental relaXa


ton of all kinds, would probably be positive
benefit to this overstrained Nineteenth Century
Year: 1874

present writing, we know of nc
town in the country whose future
seems SO f1attering, and so far as we
can penetrate the future, New Rich
mond's course is clear for, a contin-
ued growth and development which
bids fair to be as abiding as the
rich and beautiful tract of farming
lands by which she is surrounded.
Take the railroad away from US,
and the country demands, to-day, a
better and larger town here than we
have at present. Look on any side
of the question you choose, prosper
ity will attend her, and the efforts of
honest, industrious men of all legit-
innate and honorable callings who
may make New Richmond their per-
manent abiding place.


From the Star and Times, Hudson


Grading was begun on the
North Wisconsin Tuesday. We
will furnish a new hat to any man
who says 40 miles will not be finish
ed before winter, providing if he is
wrong, he will provide similarly for
us.


CoMNG.-We have always had
great faith that the building of a
railroad from here to Lake Superior
would result in substantial advanta-
ges to this city. Our opinion is
unchanged. While we do not ex-
pect to see any marked improve
ments at once, they are sure to
come. The advantages of this city
as commercial and manufacturing
point, are bound to be improved.
Already we have had two letters
from eastern gentlemen who pro-
pose to come here this season with
view of going into business. We
hear of others also who are coming,
and we believe that before the road
is completed, Hudson will take a
fresh start toward prosperity.


But we started this item to say
that Mr.. ii. Borschenius, a promi-
nent gentleman of Madison was in
the city, and had made arrange
ments to locate here, and will bring
his family in few days. Mr. Bor-
schenius is widely known through
out the State, as ali intelligent and
accomplished gentleman, and an en-
terprising business man. All such
men are welcome to Hudson.
Year: 1874

NEW OBIEANS.-DUring last night the
ofice.of Attorney General Field in the
St. Louis Hotel, now used rs State House,
were broken open and all the records there
in were piled in a heap in the centre of the
main Office, together with part of the fur
niture, and were saturated with coal oil
and set on fire. Fortunately the flames
went out and only one or two of the papers
are charred, though all are rendered nearly
illegible by the oil. the incendiarieS ap-
pear to have been frightened of before
completing their work.
Year: 1874

IT is precisely the proudest and most OBJ
stinate men who are the most liable to shift
their position and contradict themselves;
everything is easier TO them than to face the
simple fact that they have been thoroughly
defeated, and must begin life anew,
Year: 1874

We do the fair thing by Major Hub
bard in publishing his card, and make
due allowance for his anxiety to con-
strue the UNION AND AMERICAN s
criticisms into an attack" Ones
sensibilities are tender when up for
Office, and we have no disposition what
ever to tread upon his corns.
Year: 1874

HERE is a fact worth a thousand
such Ku-Klux stories as those upon
which the South is now threatened with
military reconstruction. Fifteen per-
sons have been tried at Montgomery,
Ala, for ''Ku-Kluxing" within the
last few months, viz, seven from COOsa
county one from Montgomery and
seven from Eufanla, and in every sim
gle case the prosecution was shown to
be malicious. And these fifteen cases
make the sum total of alleged Ku-
Kluxism in Alabama since 1872.


To every word of the following. from
the Memphis appeal, We fervently say,
amen: Now, that that the delegates
are elected, an effort viii be made t.
nominate candidates for the Legis-
lature pledged to vote for some
one candidate for the United
States Senate. This question should be
ignored by the nominating convention.
We want men in the next Legislature
who are not in the service of any man
or clique. We want men who are not
pledged or committed for or against
any man for any Office, and who viii
be free to act upon every question
as they deem proper and expedi-
ent. No man can be elected to the Leg
islature from Shelby county who goes
before the people, and declares that
any one particular man among the
many distinguished sons Of Ten
nessee, has to be elected Senator.
The senatorial question is not legiti-
mately involved in the campaign, and
he who attempts to foist it into the con-
test, should be defeated for nominal
ton, as he certainly will be as a candi-
date before the people. The existence
and the destiny of the Democratic and
Conservative party of Tennessee do
not depend upon any mans personal OF
political promotion, and it is an insult
to the people of Shelby county to sug-
gest that they have no better purpose
or higher mission than to squabble
over the rivalries Of senatorial aspir-
ants, and subordinate everything else
to their interests and ambition"
Year: 1874

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN Common Council will receive bids at
their session of November 9th, 1874, for the
grading of Main, Commercial Alameda
bid the frontage of the city's land on Temple
street, and also excepting from said bid the
parties who have signfied their willingness
to grade in front ofther premises on either of
the above mentioned streets at their own cost
and expense. M. KREMER,


nV22td Clerk of the Com. Council
Year: 1874

Lamps must be filled every morning,
This is an imperative duty for every
housekeeper to see performed, for as
the oil burns down in a lamp, there is
created highly infammable gas, which
gathers imperceptibly over the surface,
and as fast as the oil is consumed this
gas increases, so when the oil is nearly
out OF the lamp, the slightest jar of the
table will set the gas on fire; an ex-
plosion follows instantaneously, and a
bomb shell would not be more destruc-
tive, for its touches are deathly. But
if the oil is burned only half way down
in your lamp, the gas is not of sufficient
power to do any injury therefore, let
me beg you never to defer the operation
of lamp-tilling to another day, but see
yourself that it is done. When / read
of deaths occurring from trying to light
fires with kerosene, L always think the
verdict of the Coroner's jury should be,
Served them right )" for it seems i'm.
possible to believe that any mortal could
be so foolish as to tamper with such a
highly intiammable liquid. Better try
to kindle fires with a powcler-can, well
filed, than with the contents of your
kerosene can.-Cor. Country Gentle
man,
Year: 1874

Everybody knows that the waters OF
the ocean are very salt to the taste but
how many of you have thought of the
immense quantities of salts of different
kinds that must be in the Atlantic and
Pacific to give flavor to such enormous
bodies of water?


Scientific men have thought about it
and one of them Captain Maury) has
told us that if all the various salts of
these oceans could be separated from
the water and spread out equally over
the northern half of this continent, they
would form covering one mile deep.
So heavy would be this mass of salts
that all the mechanical inventions of
man, aided by all the steam and all the
water power in the world, could not
move it so much as one inch in even
centuries of time.
Year: 1874

The drift of British politics is indi-
Gated by the fact that at the recent cleo
tions several practical workiugmen, put
forward and supported by the laboling
classes, were chosen as members of Far
lament. Ten or even five years ago,
no man not wealthy, or not backed by
a wealthy constituency, would have
dreamed of becoming a member of Par
Lament, and it would have been as i'm
possible to elect II practical working
man TO that position as, q dozen years
ago, it would have been to elect negro
TO the American Congress.
Year: 1874

A remarkable bowl of punch was
made across the water in 1874 1t was
made in a fountain in a garden, IN the
middle OF four walks, covered overhead
with orange and lemon trees, and in
every walk was table the whole length
Of it, covered with refreshments. In
the fountain were the following in
gradients; -Four hogsheads of brandy,
twenty-five thousand lemons, twenty
gallons Of lime juice, thirteen hundred
weightof white sugar, thirty-one pounds
of grated nutmegs, three hundred toast
ed biscuits, and one pipe of dry noun
tain Malaga Over the fountain was
large canopy to keep Off the rain, and
there was built on purpose little boat,
wherein was boy, who rowed round
the fountain and filled the cups of the
company. 1t is supposed more than
six thousand men drank from the
fountain.


THE Athenians who put boy to death
for killing bird, because the act lndl-
Gated a cruel disposition, would have
dealt more harshly with Patrick
Nauehton than did the Cincinnati Police
Court, which sentenced him to six
months Imprisonment for burning a
dog. Naughton, an engineer on the
Little Miami Railroad, was standing
Idly by his engine fire when the unof-
Tending brute was thrown up to him by
somebody. Holding the dog in one
hand, he opened the door OF the furnace
viti the other, and tossed The animal
tnio the flames. Then he closed the
door. His excuse was that he was alb.
sent-minded on account of the strike.
Year: 1874

The general demand for pine lumber
i'll all sections OF the country, and the
rapidity with which it is consumed, has
caused no little interest to center in all
questions relating to the supply yet i'll
reserve Some one who has taken AN
interest in the question has collected
statistics upon this point, covering the
entire pine forests of the United States,
with the following results
Year: 1874

WHY IT RAINs.-Mr. Geo. Riches,
of Silverton, gives as sufficient reason
for the continuance Of rains late in the
Spring, the presence Of a much greater
amount of snow in the mountains than
usual. His observation in past years,
shows that the presence Of snow in a
large body in the lower mountains la
ways insures abundant rains, and there
is certainly good philosophy to sustain
his theory. If that fact is we'll estab-
lished it will enable our farmers to
Judge correctly as to the nature Of the
seasons and as to how late it will do 70
put in spring crops. There is much tc
be learned by observing the operations
Of nature and to read that book well is
. great part ofa farmers education.-


Willamette Farmer.
Year: 1874

PHILADELPHIA, July 2l.-ln the Brady sal
wage case Judge Cadwalader rendered his decision this
morning in tue OF which he said that the act OF
Brady in voluntarily assuming the command Of the
steamship Pennsylvania at the time when her first and
second officers had lost and the ship In immcdi
ate per-there being no In command OF the deck or
oftbewatch-was of highly mertoous act and beneficial
TO the ship and salvage service. The Judge declared
however, that the amount Of compensation TO which
Brady would otherwise have been entitled was mateT
ally reduced by his subsequent improper conduct In
consenting retain the command OF the ship after the
subsdeuce OF the at the request Of persons who
had right TO make such request, the legal COM
mapder, Mr. Rivers being then board the ship. BY
the decision Brady allowed $4,000 aud Of the
suit, the latter not " exceed 500.
Year: 1874

The convention movement has swept
Arkansas by an overwhelming majority,
and the delegates elected are nearly all
Democrats and Conservatives This is
the first free and fair expression OF the
will Of the people Of that state that has
been permitted for years, and the result
gives some idea Of the nature of the mi
nority dcspotsm which the Clayton ring
has so long maintained 1t afford also a
complete vindication of the wisdom and
justice of President Grants decision in
favor of Baxter as the lawful governor of
the state


Arkansas is now cOntentcd and at peace
for the first time since the war--eyen the
colored people having abandoned the
Brooks and Clayton party and wisely
cast their fortunes white the white ma
iority. The convention will shortly meet
and provide n new constitution. The
old prescriptions will be abolished, the
fraudulent part Of the debt will probably
be disavowed, as was done in Georgia
and a good many of the partisan con.
trivances Of the Clayton ring will be cast
aside with the men who invented them
II the new party now come into power
shall ony avoid n reactionary policy and
adopt intelligent and liberal measures for
the government of the state, Arkansas
will be the most inviting field for imml-
grants in the Southwest ST Louis Re
puJhcoa
Year: 1874

j S. DUNHAM -


We are glad to learn from private let
ters from Clarksvile, that the Little
Rock Republican reckoned without its
host, when it counted on Col. j f. Cra-
vens as one of the gallant young men,
who would join in the new mongrel,
CLAYTON. Brooks combination, as against
the Democracy. The Colonel says he is
Democrat and opposed to Clayton or
anything that is associated with him. He
favored Brooks in the late trouble, but
when the question was decided by the
President he accepted the situation, and
is now ready to do gallant work for the
Democratic party as of yore. The Re
publican can't catch such men with its
hattery. We should not be surprised if
it failed as greatly in regard to James
Mitchell of Washington and some others.
But there are some chronic office seekers
that it has by the gills, and we say to it
hold fast to them.
Year: 1874

&T The Little Rock Republican pub
fishes approvingly and double loaded an
article from the Crawford EuiietR upon
the New Party" which it is designed
to form by combination of the Radical
Claytonites and sore-h headed Brooks
Democrats Anything and any comb.
nation for Office. birds of feather
will flock toCethcr.
Year: 1874

0 The most rational thing Sparks,
Of the Fort Smith Herald, has done for
long time, is to copy largely from the
Van Buren Press. II he will only keep
on, and in little better temper, lie will
cause bis paper to attain to some re-
spectability. We have no time to waste
on such small game.
Year: 1874

EDITOR OF TIE PRESS:


Ii is highly essential that we look well to
our interests in the Fall Elections, as time.
money, character and the prosperity OF our
people are involved to great extent in prop
er selections OF officers | would suggest, as
one whose interest is identified with this class
of citizens, that we meet in council at Oliver
Springs, in September or at any time that
may suggest itself for the purpose ofeXpress-


ing more united sentiment in regard to our
political interest Let the wisdom of that
council be such as will insure more harmony


in the future among the farmers than there
has been in the past United We stand di-
vided we fall" Remember in multitude of
council there Is wisdom. Let judicious Sc


eetons be made from tins class of citizens
regardless r st political differences 1t
matters her Democratic Conserva-
tive or Re !. Do away with prejudice
and let rn. We do desire to be
| rcpreseA s1s whose purity Of char
"eter anJOoreedom and Advancement
Of scence,. owledge will secure to US
the rights aBerrxyleges of ireeborn Ameri-
to lessen the taxes and reduce the salaries of
public officers. and use their influence for the
promotion of internal Improvements; and
cheerfully endorse that corrupt Officials must
not and cannot longer govern us. 40 think
that ability and intellect can be found compe.
tent to fill the county and State offices in the
farming class. Let convention be the last
remedy. FARMER
Year: 1874

Commissioner Stern's argument against the
further reduction of the expenses of the De-
partment of Charities and Correction is a more
interesting document to the general public
than the somewhat wearisOme subject would
indicate. In fact, there are some startling
statements of the comparative order, which
are Justly considered as offensive by the
heads of other departments, and which
will doubtless provoke some of the other city
officials to angry replies and counter attacks.
Mr.. Stern's argument contains very little which
will Justify any great increase of expenses IN
his department, but it certainly does show good
cause why those of others should come down.
His odous comparisons show, indeed, that the
most useless departments cost the most money.
While the attendants on the poor cost only
s46O a year, we are actually paying $4,000 a
wear for Aldermen and legal advisers, who, as
far as we can see by their legislation and liti-
cation, only serve to increase taxation.


There is much food for thought in this
report, and pending the preparation of the
annual estimates it seems a good time for the
public discussion of the problems involved
Some of the departments, we are satisfied, are
extravsgantly maintained and there are some
of the Bureaus which ought to be abolished
Year: 1874

An article in LippincoH for the current
month, by DR.. Weir Mitchell, treats of the
growing habit among us of Summer travel
from medical point of view, and offers a
hint OF two well worth the consideration of
oyerworked men in the cities. DR.. Mitchell
draws attention to "the curious lowering of
"tonen which we all know so well during the
breaking up of Winter, jocularly named


Spring fever, and which he attributes not only
to the effect of the preponderance of the
steady labor of the year which is compressed
into the Winter months and to ga malarious
element, present and in force over a large


"part of the country, but to other elements
ethan malaria, less understood, but as wide
"spread and potent" Admitting the facts of
the case, which neither doctors nor teachers


of any sort can help nor hinder, tho work of
tho country that has to be DONE the unwise
haste in the doing Of it, the exhausted nerv-
Year: 1874

There's probably no cynic in this prosaic world of
English-speaking people so grim and hard that he
cannot be touched by that fairy sketch of the two
little wanderers at the Holly Tree Inn. What Gruif
and Gum could withstand it when Dickens read it
himself with the light in his eye and the smile on


his lip that he always had for childhoodf There is
hardly pretter picture in all literature than that
of the handsome bright boy, and the tender little
May Moon perched up at their dinner, with Boots
and all the maids Of the inn adoring them
laughingly, cryingly. But here Is one that
was almost as pretty that was to be seen in
Massachusetts town not long ago. One
of the smallest of small boys, after yainly begging
the enormous sum Of six cents from his remorseless
father managed to acquire it in some other deeply
considered way, and Immediately trotted of to a
consultation with q very wee girl 10 whom he was
fondly attached. A serious conversation revealed
the facts that that attachment was mutual and that
while one of the parties possessed prodgious wealth
to the amount VI slx whole ceas. the olar MAS cog
Year: 1874

A well informed correspondent in Utica
eossips in curious way about startling
schemes and combinations in the Administra-
tion camp at Long Branch. The plans he ex-
noses and explains have very little chance of
getting carried out, but it is singular COM
ment upon the present condition of politics
that they can even be entertained, as we know
that some of them have been.
Year: 1874

Naturally enough they do MT like paper money "
Gold Hill Nevada and the newspaper there Is savage
upon "the very bad and dirty notes of the Natona'
Banks which have been in circulation long enough
TO cover them with CRIME and make them unwhoe-
some to look at and unhealthy to handle Ihes
used TO be a proverb that though work might DO
dirty, the money which it earned was clean; but "
is so no longer. 1t is of small USE however TO grun
BILE Dirty money is better than no money-ony
the dirt affords such an excellent motive for Spehu
ing il as rapidly rs possible.
Year: 1874

misplaced the switch if the number OF
dead and wounded did not reach
a hundred. Perhaps it is not possible to find
an absolute preventive of such disasters; but
the unconditional discharge and prompt pun
ishment of every employee through whose care
lessness or error of Judgment life Is lost
may make them of less frequent occurrence.
Year: 1874

The moral cholera under which this community
has suffered so severely this Summer seems 10 have
wholly excluded any chance for the annual an
nouncement of instant and alarming danger from
the Asiatic variety. The doctors, to be just to them
have not been too busy, but the newspapers have
been. There has been time to manufacture SEN
sations about the cholera, when TIton was likely to
break out at any moment with thirty-two columns
of love letters 1t is we think, the first Summer in
four or five years that New-York and BrOok yn have
enioved this exemption. Give the scandal credit fof
something