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Year: 1874

To HULL CORN. Take one quart
of strong lye, prepared by pouring
warm water upon a peck or more OF
ashes; add two quarts Of boiling water
to it, aud put in the corn; let it boil
until the hulls begin to start, which
you Can determine by taking out few
kernels and washing them in cold wat
er. Skim out all the corn; rinse it in
two or three waters; put it into cold
water and let it boil up; turn of that
water SO as TO extract all the lye; gil up
With boiling water, and cook for four
hours slowly; add salt to your taste; let
il boil half IN hour or more. aud serve.
Il must cook great while to be pal
atable.
Year: 1874

FEEDING HENS FOR LAYING
How to have plenty Of hens eggs in
winter, is an important question with
housekeepers in the country. A neg
L. cted poultry stock is an Improbable
encum orance upon the farm, and farm-
ers are apt to suffer good deal Of loss
by reason Of neglect in this as in other
u.at,ers Of farm management. just be-
cause they dislike to be thorough in
The details Of small attentions Il was
late 10 the fall before I got fairly in
stalled in my new country house at
The Evergreens," but having been a
high official in poultry associations, on
paper. during the year Of my editorial
life. determined to have stock Of
nice fowls upon which to put my fan
cies into practical effect. The best |
could do at this time was to procure a
lot Of broody old hehs which a blood.
stock poultry man was willing to spare
aid went in to the winter with small
hopes of eggs until next spring Twas
soon on familiar terms with my feath.
cred flock aud put them upon course
Of feeding for practical effects. Every
morning I fed dish of hot mush,
made OF coarse corn meal in witch was
pu: all the potato prelinys and leavinss
from the table, and scraps of refuse
meats. This feed was washed down
with clean cold water Of which the
fowls drank very ireely.-Farmer's $
Union.
Year: 1874

Some ladies Of Winona played a
good juke at the lecture Of Vic Wood
hull in that city. Their husbands had
made arrangements to go to the lecture
together, aud have q good time by
themselves, leaving their wives a.
home. Through the aid of a gentle.
man friend the ladies' followed the
mascuIines and obtained seat behind
them, which they occupied during the
talk. Several red faces and confused
countenanccs we're seen at til. close
when the presence Of these neglected
females was observed. They very
truly said it this place is ct for our
husbands to attend it is fit for Us. No
cocktails were INDUCED in after the
lecture, for each Of these subdued men
went directly home with his wife on
his arm -EE.
Year: 1874

Private letters we're received in this
city last week stating that the Indians
had broken into the warehouses at
Leech Lake and helped themselves t."
the contents. They had also killed
some six or eight oxen belonging to
the government. The Indians claim


they are 10 a starving condition, hence
the outrage. A runner had been sent
to Fort Ripley eor assistance We
give the rumor as we learned it from
private letter dated on Sunday, written
to q gentleman from that section Of
the state now 10 this city.-Pioneer
Year: 1874

The Dallas Commercial is at loss
to understand the ground and lofty
tumblings OF the Galveston News.
I here are more papers than the Com
mercial in the State That have given
it up ss a bad job. When the News
gets regularly at it, like its great pro-
totype, the New York Herald, its
evolutions will make the head of the
sprightllest acrobat IN the arena
SWIM.
Year: 1874

The privately engaged, the pri-
vately paid but pablicly disgraccd
organ Of the International Railroad,
has an idea that there are other papers
in Texas as venal as it If. We have
known self.convicted knavery to
bear up under pubic scorn, but have
never except in this instance, known
1t to publicly glory in its shame.
The art Of blushipg seems TO have
been lost to the News forever.
Year: 1874

One beautiful and gifted woman, if wrongly
disposed, can work more evil in society, and
can scatter more seeds Of corruption and death
than, with the uttermost efforts, a score Of
men. Her capabilities Cor good in The differ
ent departments Of morality arc equally great
and in such proportion TO her powers, both for
coed and evil, must be her condemnation, il
she is false to her holy stewardship. Society
can not be destroyed il woman is true, nor safe
il woman is false Besides. society shows no
unequal discrimination in regard 20 this par
,icular class Of offences. The rule applies 10
all 4 profane woman, a drunken woman,
female uief or murderer, always
excitcs greater horror aul dis
gust than If the crime had been committed by
A man. Aud this IS right, and it will be an
evil day for this world when woman in her sin
excitcsu no more adherence than a man.
Year: 1874

The Free Press talks of the State
Treasurerer's insolent refusal to give
an account of his stewardship, when re.
quested." Of course, this is simply n
gross slander. To show how gross and
inexcusable (albeit very characteristic
of the Free PreSs'S share in the present
State campaign,) we quote as follows
from the communication addressed to
the Legislature by the State Treasurer
on March Goth


In response to the resolution of the
House of the 18th instant, requesting
me to report the names Of the banks in
which money belonging to the State is
deposited, the amount in each respect
lively, the bond or bonds taken to secure
the State from loss, the names Of the
signers Of said bonds, and the amount of
liability of each signer thereof, / beg
leave to say that while the publication
of the information sought could not
affect this Office or me personally, it
might, for reasons that are apparent to
every business man, be productive of
great personal injury to individuals. In
every case the security taken is at least
four times, and in some cases twenty
times the amount of money deposited,
and the obligations are of the strongest
nature, holding each bondsman indiyid-
ually for the entire amount. But to
reveal their names might iniure their
general credit, and iDjure with it the
security of the State, while it is not ap.
parent how the public interest could be
in any way promoted by such publicity,
any more than the welfare of business
community could be promoted by pub
fishing the names of every endorser, and
the amount for which he was liable on
notes given TO bank


Having no desire to Withhold from
the Legislature any information in re.
lation to the business of this office, l
respectfully ask that committee of the
House, or JOINT committee, be ap
pointed TO examine the securities given
by the respective repositories, and look
into any and all of the matters that may
be desired And l hereby beg to assure
the House that such committee will be
cordially received and every possible
facility furnished for as thorough an in
vestigation as may be wished or sought"
Year: 1874

&" Having now communicated all the
information pertaining to the Treasury
which, in my Judgment, can be made
public at this time without serious in.


jury to parties whose interests are en-
titled to consideration, | renew my
assurance of the utmost readiness to
offer to any committee of the House of
Representatives, or any Joint committee,
the fullest opportunity of any matter
whatever pertaining to my department y
Year: 1874

STOCKTON, October 1.-There was a
terrific rain storm here last night, ac-
companied with thunder and light
ming. The lightning extended all
along the western horizon, and belch-
ing forth flashes of liquid fire, the
scene was indescribably grand from -
o'clock (midnight) until / A. NJ. Such
a heavy rain storm has not occurred
in this section before, in the month of
September, since the settlement of the
country, and all the old residents agree
in stating that such heavy thunder
and vivid sheet lightning had not
been witnessed before in this county.
The rain came down in torrents, leay-
Ing pools of water on the streets this
morning.


AT Modesto, in Stanislaus countv.
the lightning struck the spire of the
Campbellite church, and tore it down:
and so heavy was the rainfall at that
place that there was stream eight feet
wide flowing down the street in front
of the depot during the continuance of
the storm.


All the weather-prophets accept last
nights storm as an additional evidence
of a wet Winter.
Year: 1874

From the Enterprise of October /.


We took a brief look through the
Cooperative warehouse this week, and
saw large quantity of grain both in
the sack and in bulk.


Our weather report is the worst we
have had in six months-one sand
storm and two days of wind. Other
wise it has been delightful, with some
gorgeous sunsets and beautiful nights.


Two schooners have been up to the
railroad wharf this week, laden with
railrad iron, machinery, etc. The
larger drew nine feet of water. So
soon as Gen. Boschke gives us fifteen
feet on the bar, which will be in about
six months, it will require but little
dredging here and there to make a
uniform depth of fifteen feet up to the
wharves.


A Chinese wash-house was burned
in Wilmington last Monday evening,
including Joss and lot of combusti-
bic trumpery that went like stubble.
The bucket brigade "fought noby."
and saved the adjoining buildings.
There were two Chinese women and
several men in the house, yet none of
them know how the fire started. We
were passing the building at the time,
and heard scream and saw a flash,
which leads us to believe that coal oil
had something to do with it.
Year: 1874

Some one man has reached the con-
clusion that the article in yesterday
mornings paper relative to the Health
Officer was one man article. That
is just what we intended it should be
and we are pleased to know that one
man at least understood our motive.
The article was reply to an insidious
and unwarranted attack upon one
man. The HERALD has no more in


terest in Mr. BEAUDRY than it has in
any other good citizen, and Mr.. BEAU
DRY has no more influence over the
HERALD than any other one of its
thousands of friends and patrons. Mr..
BEAUDRY was made the object of a
personal attack on the ostensible
ground that as public official he had
spoken and voted wrong, but in reali-
ty with the expectation of making a
political point against him. He is
one of four members of the Council
who voted to vacate the Health Office.
Is any one so dull of comprehension
as to suppose that if Mr.. TIFFANY
the financial backbone of the Express
was not an announced candidate for
Mayor and Mr.. BEAUDRY a much
talked-of candidate for the same office.
the Express would have singled Mr..
BEAUDRY out as the object of it's vim
dlctive attack and left unmentioned
the three Councilmen who thought
and voted with him? The paper pub
fishing the assault to which we re-
sponded yesterday morning had
neither thought nor care for the
sanitary condition of the city when
1t sent forth its personal at
tack upon an estimable citi-
zen. Its vision was obscured to
everything except two figures =
BEAUDRY and TIFFANY. It's idea of
helping one was to attack the other
even to direct falsehood; for Mr..


BEAUDRY is charged with assisting In
the passage of the ordinance, when
any one disposed to keep truth on hi
side could have turned to the record
and found that he voted against the
iron-clad ordinance. Another thinly
veiled falsehood is found in the state
ment that Mr.. BEAuDRY carried a
motion declaring the Health Office va
cant. The record shows that he nell
ther made the motion nor seconded it.


Councilman GERKENs made the mo-
tion, and we believe it was seconded
by Councilman CHAvIs. The fact is,
and the entire misrepresentation tai
Year: 1874

THE decision of the Supreme Court
on the Local Option law is not in ac-
cordance with the views of the San
Francisco Post, and the editor of that
paper proceeds to show the Supreme
Court Justices that they know next to
nothing about constitutional law
The comments of the Post cannot but
strike the general average with great
force, and We have no doubt the
Judges are sorry they ever said any,
thing on the subject. We had no idea
the Judges knew so little and one little
editor so much, until we read that ed
itorial decision. It's wonderful what
great ways small amount of
knowledge is made to go.
Year: 1874

ent of the Express cannot hide or OBJ
literate it, Mr.. BEAUDRY is now, and
his record in the Council shows him
to have always been the advocate of
every reasonable measure for the i'm
provement of the sanitary condition
of the city. He is not, however, in
favor of the enforcement of a set of
resolutions so exacting and oppressive
in their nature that they demand the
immediate vaccination of every per-
son in the city, whether willing or
not; and it seems other Councilmen
have reached the same conclusion, as
some of those who aided to pass the
iron-clad ordinance were ready enough
to vote for vacation of the Health
Office, and thus render imperative
what they had assisted in setting IN
operation. They discovered that TO
carry out the thousand and one
schemes which that ordinance is in
tended to hatch, would cost the tax
payers of this city $4,000 or 500, 900.
We all know that the desired end may
be attained at much less expense.
Let us have a health ordinance and a
health officer, and let us place the city
in the best possible condition under
the circumstances. Let the officer
commence with the worst cases and
the most unhealthy localities, and let
him work steadily, faithfully and un-
derstandingly until he can report the
city in excellent sanitary condition.
These are Mr.. BEAUDRY'S views, and
they are the views of ninety-nine one
hundreds of our citizens. In conclus-
ion we will notify the EapreSS that its
attack on Mr.. BEAUDRY will not man.
ufacture votes for Mr.. TIFFANY. Its
statements are, as we have shown, a
tissue of bald Representations and
its purpose in making them is so pal
pable that it will deceive no one.
Year: 1874

THE attempt to blow up Nevada
City boarding-house with gunpowder,
is characterized by the local papers as
"damnable plot" The shade of
blackness which should overspread
that deed depends good deal on the
boarding-house, the boarders and the
table. We have seen boarding-houses
under which you might explode
million tons of nitro-glycerine with
out killing an honest man or an an
gelic woman, and without wasting a
square meal.
Year: 1874

Werkmen were engaged at Sacra-
mento on Tuesday in fixing up the
Supreme Courtroom and the chamber
of the Judges, in order that they should
be in proper order for occupancy dur
ing the October term of the Court,
which commences a week from next
Monday.
Year: 1874

John Dwire of Wolcottville, went to New Haven the other night and put up at hotel. He blew the gas out, went to bed, and fell asleep immediately. Af- ter while the boarders began to semn a smell, and democrat on the fifth floor stuck his head out to inquire if the bottle containing B. Butler hadn't burst. Su- peranuated bed-bugs dragged themselves from their feathery fastness, sniffed the air, then folded their legs above them and passed to better land. Finally the whole house, with the exception of John, be- came aroused, and as nobody seemed to smell very bad. individually, the landlord naturally turned his attention to the sleepy scion of Wolcottville, who up to this time had no idea that he was destined to kick up such stink. After pounding the door for some time without receiving any response, policeman climbed Tn through a window, turned off the gas, and after a good deal of shaking aroused Dwire, who was nearly suffocated, to sense of hls importance in this world and entire unfit ness for the next. They seated him on the window stool clad in scanty garments and instilled into his mind wholesome les sons mingled with mild reproaches and expressed doubts as to where he would go to if he ever blew out the gas again. The fresh coolness of the night ar soon restor- ed him to vigorous activity and he is now none the worse for the experience. Win- Sted Press.
Year: 1874

EDIToRs APPEAL-The critical editor
who never read Milton, and thought
Swinburne was a Yankee, because his
name was spelt so much like ''Whit-
man, informs US to day that the infini-
tive mood present Of cogtO is cogitdro
This viii be interesting to other school
boys who are not so far along in their
accidents. BY using the figurative
kOgitO, the writer intended mildly to
intimate that he was indicating his own
opinions, without any pretentiOn to
schoOl-boy learning. He also intended
to show that the hell Of Milton's poem
was not that of his religious belief, since
he had clearly explained what this was
in a prose treatise. fear we shall not
have a very safe standard of criticism
il we are debarred from all the books
which this learned editor has not read,
and is not capable Of appreciating. His
sagacity was not honOTed by the ran
dom guess that "cOgitou should have
been "cleTic1s" l fear he knows
as little about the clergy as he
does about the poets. Let me ask, a.
favor, that he will suspend his astound
ing exhibitions of classical learning un-
til the weather is q little more tolerable.
Then, perhaps, We can bear to be in
structed concerning the declension of
nlalsG, or some other knotty point. 1t is
a singular fact, that almost every man
who tries TO impress others with a dis
play of his learning, only succeeds in
showing to the really discerning that he
is either tyrO or pretender. L do not
think 1 have seen any recent instance
which disproves this proposition.


June y COGITO.
Year: 1874

OeTeu tAe OillCeIs HcICcIS'


81 could not tell lie, sir" was the
careful answer.


Hetty," again began the smooth
tongued Tory you are a nice child
Everybody knows you are girl of truth.
What did your cousin say when you told
him you couldn't tell falsehood ?"


He said he shouldn't think I'd betrsy
him to his death"


And then you promised him that you
wouldn't tell which way he went if you
was killed for it ?"


Yes, sir"


"That was brave speech, and I sup
pose he thanked you for it, and ran down
the road as quickly as possible.


Il promised not to tell where he went,
sir"


ooh, yes, forgot. Well, tell US his
last words, and we won't trouble you
any more"


His last words were, 'it's my only
chance, child, and III get down as you
say" And overcome by fright, and
the sense Of her kinsman's danger should
they rightly interpret the language which
she had reported, she sobbed aloud and
hid her face from sight.


Her tormentors did not stay longer to
soothe or question her. They had got, as
they supposed, the information they want
ed and pushed rapidly on down to the
river. Now the Governor had arranged
a sign with his boatmen, that a white
cloth by day, or light in the night, dis
played from the window of his hiding
place, which was just visible at the mouth
of the creek, should inform them to be
upon the alert to help him. As soon,
therefore, as he started for his cousins
the signal foated from the river to warn
them. And when they saw the pursuing
party dash madly down to the river, and
recognized the British uniform of the
leader, they pulled swiftly out to sea-
The horsemen reached the shore only in
season to see the boat with two men in it,
nearly out of sight, and supposing their
destined prey had escaped, relinquished
the pursuit.


Meanwhile the hunted victim lay safe
and quiet, where the simple shrewdness
of his little cousin had hidden him, until
the time came for her return to the house
for supper. Then he babe her go as us
ual to her home, telling her TO ask her
mother to place the signal lamp, as soon
as it grew dark, in the window, for the
boatmen and to send him his valse
which, in the hurry of departure, he had
left behind.


The signal recalled the boat, which af-
ter twilight had venturod in sight Of the
shore, and the farmhouse, and the Gov
ernor quietly made his way to the river
in safety. When he rejoined his family
in a secure home, he named the infant
daughter which had been born in his alb
sence, 'Hetty Marvin, that he might be
daily reminded Of the little cousin whose
truth and shrewdness had saved his life.
-Student and ,Sch0oimate.
Year: 1874

THE new constitution of Ohio is ordered
to be published at the public expense in
two papers in each county of the State.
This fact shows two things, first that the
members of the convention are not
ashamed that the people shall see what
they have done, and second, that they
recognize that the press is the only proper
medium to reach the people.
Year: 1874

The subioined article appeared in
/ the New York Tribuns on the 31st
ult.


"But there is a SUMMER side to this
dark picture. In many respects the
future of the South was never so
promising as it is to-day. At the
close of the war her people accepted
the situation with frankness which
required no small effort, for it is the
beaten man who finds it hardest to
forgive the victor can afford to be
magnanimous. But long before the
ex- CoDfederates ceased to feel the
smart of defeat, few of their late an
tagonists, led by Greeley and Chase,
had strtchei out to them the right
hand of fellowship. What was then
considered anact of political suicide has
now become one OF the fayorite pos
lures of the politicians, and the nun
ber OF people has surprisingly dimin-
ished who would be willing to ad-
nit, as the war Governor of Pensyl-
vania did the other day, that they
would not have been sorry to see a
judicious use of the rope when the
conflict ended, So far has the feeling
melted away that the Union veterans
hailed with delight. at one Of their
recent meetings, a proposal that next
year, the close Of the decade Of peace,
should be celebrated by a reunion Of
the Blue and Gray, Of moro friend
ly character than those to which
they had been accustomed and this
had leen followed by stray PROPOSE
tions that ON effort should be made
to gather as many as possible of both
armies at the Centennial. So that
The sun which rises on our hundredth
birthday bids fair to behold who'll
ly united people.


National reconciliation, however,
has not been the only change 10
progress. The southsrner has been
brought to sec the necessity OF work
ing in this world to make living.
This one wholesome discovery has
accomplished much in sweeping
away forever the feudal notions that
filled the atmosphere Of slavery. and
taugh. every boy that the sweat oI
honest toll would defilc his hands,
Commercially the South could moi
ask greater opportunity than the
present. Capital, warned By tia dis
astrous crash Of last year. fights shy
Of map railroads and bogus enter.
priscs, and seeks just su,h opening,
fer investment as The SouIii with its
vast. uudcyeIoped mineral aed pre-
Year: 1874

The Rake" in speaking upon this
subject SO tersely shows it up" we re-
publish said article.


"The good effects of the Grange
movement are manilesting themselves
in great variety OF ways. It is al
ready an important organization to
cxemplify the principles Of political
economy in their application to the
every day affairs Of life. This is
shown ia bringing together producer
and consumer in the transactions oil
business TO their mutual advantage,
1t is also very clearly seen where
the producers of different articles
wish mutual exchange which cat
Year: 1874

The following resolutions passed
at a meeting of the white citizens of
Neshoba County, Miss, speak for
themselves in the right way:


Resolved, That white men of Ne
shoba County, Miss, in Mass Meet
ing assembled, in consideration of
due regard entertained by US for our
ancient and inalienable claims as
sOvereigns of this Southern soil, and
for the protection of our altars and
firesides, and for the maintenance of
the honor, purity and preservation Of
our superior race untarnished, and the
better to establish law and order in
us. aud acting in accoruance WIN
this determination, be it further


Resolved, That we will support
white men of merit, of the wv hlte
Mans Party for office and none
other; believing that this is a white
mans government and it should be
controlled by honest white men only
as it was in the days of Washington.
And we cordially invite all true and
honest men of whatever party, Il
unite and cooperate with us.