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Year: 1875

We hope that secretaries of conventions
will report facts and incidents plainly and
clearly. We published the proceedings of
the Luling convention as reported-we
thought ''officially"-from the Free Press
From this it appeared that Ireland's name
gentleman from Luling stated here that it
was balloted for ten or eleven times. For
all that we are still told that the Judge was
not candidate, and yet the STATESMAN has
said again and again that Judge Ireland
should be member of the constitutional
convention and that the people should send
him as a constitution-maker to Austin.
Why did not the Judge, before the conven-
ton met, even while the STATESMAN was
urging his elevation, say in the Organ, here
or at Houston, that he was not candidate.
Ten lines, published at the proper time,
would have spared the Judge and his
friends all this discussion and the trouble
of having certificates published, and his
friends would have been spared the humilia-
ton of having him voted down at Luling. A
newspaper letter-writer now states that
Judge Ireland's name was used against his
wishes, as announced in speech made
somewhere in his district. This we will
confess, for the sake of argument, and we
do not care to insist that the Judge has lost
prestige or honor because his name was be-
fore the Luling convention. He has served
his purpose and by his conduct enabled us
to excite a vast deal of interest in the ap-
preaching elections. Had it not been for
Ireland and his peculiar character and dom
ineering spirit, there could have occurred
none of this discussion of the merits of men
and measures, which will invoke, when en-
suing elections occur, the earnest action of
the great mass of the voting population Of
Texas. The people really owe Ireland
thanks for his DEGREES and orders and vio-
lent exertion of the one-man power, and
with this apprehension of the facts we have
said that the Judge should rest for a time
on his laurels. We only insist that he did
not win laurels to any alarming extent at
| Luling.
Year: 1875

THE prospects are that there will be few
asses braying in the constitutional conven-
ton, and not few. we are happy to con-
fess, left outside. But if We are to have
more fools than wise men, and more parti-
sans than statesmen, occupying seats in the
convention, good citizens viii vote for the
ablest candidates and then vote against the
convention. We hope in a few days to be
able to furnish list of candidates from all
parts of the State, and upon the character
and worth of the men designated depends
the conduct of the people and the fate of
the convention.--Thefefore it is that fools
should step down and out.
Year: 1875

A Washington letter says: 'The book
of Gen. Sherman continues to be the great
topic of conversation in army circles, and
the intense feeling which it has developed Is
remarkable. 1t would be an extremely
difficult matter to find one army officer who
docs not condemn the style and statements
of this work. A distinguished ex-officer of
the army, and graduate of West Point, in
speaking Of the work recently, SAID that If
he was now in the army he would prefer
charges against Gen. Sherman Of conduct
unbecoming an officer and 9 gentleman, and
that the contents of his book would be suf-
fcient TO convict him before any court
martial. He f1ther said that Gen. sherman
had, by his misstatements Of facts and his
hbcls on brother officers, made himself the
most unpopular man in the army. II is very
apparent that Gen. Sherman has effectually
ruined whatever chances he may heretofore
have had for the Presidency, TO which there
is no doubt he has been aspiring
Year: 1875

THE Ennis Argus is ssurely at fault. While
we believe that the State should have exc
cuted its contract with the international
Railway Company, as proposed last winter,
and Judge Ferris as jurist thought differ
emily, it would never have occurred to US
that this opinion of the distinguished gen
tleman constituted any objection to him as
candidate for the constitutional conven-
ton. If the Judge, honest and able as he
is said to be, differed from US on more ma
terial issues we would never hesitate to vote
for him. We want ability and virtue, and
not sold records" in the constitutional
convention.
Year: 1875

TEN millions of dollsrs have been wasted
by adyeHturers in twelve months in the
newspaper business. 1t is most ruinous TO
tyros, and sure penury follows in the foot
steps of those who, ignorant of the art Of
newspaper management, invest in 3 wstery-
eyed publication their time or money. He
who triumphs as an editor may fail as 8
Publisher and in both cases careful train
ing is as indispensable as when the lawyer
goes to the-br on the physician to the
pegtle and mortar. - f-
Year: 1875

A sCALAwAe Congressman of Louisiana,


named Smith, is still toiling in Washington
and at home to beget separation of East
ern from Western Texas The more States
and more places for spoIlsmen, and the i'm
preston prevails very generally just now
that we have quite enough of all these.
The same class of fellows are always crazy
to create new counties. The man that ex-
poets to be sheriff and his family and that
of the county clerk that is to be arc always
Year: 1875

done by few amendments. For all that
they sent delegates to the district eouven-
ton, which sat in fredericksburg on June
2s. While deprecating any partisan fea-
lures in Texas organic law, they still thought
it best to have partisan nominations. To
deprecate result on the one hand and do
the very thing to assure it on the other is
queer, but party managers must keep the
lines always tightly drawn. Otherwise the
small fry and unworthy whippers-iu would
never stand the ghost of chance to secure
spolls and gather honors.
Year: 1875

TEXAS will have reason to boast of the
enterprise of Galveston when steamships
ply regularly between that city and Rio and
Vera Cruz. Then the new northwest will
be doubly anxious for cheap routes to the
sea. and Galveston will speedily become a
great commercial emporium.
Year: 1875

THERE is proposition we'll put by the
Apdlancho when it reverses that of the ex-
pansionists, who prate largely about "the
want of volume of currency equal to the
demands of industry" when they should
rather produce ga volume of industry
equal to the demands of the currency"
Year: 1875

THE Belton district is the Gibraltar of
Democracy in Texas. 1t seems, from ad-
vices from the convention held there, that
partisanship was ignored, and its interven-
ton condemned. and again there will be a
howl among the organ. grinders. 1t is in
fact a very terrible affair, and they should
see how it happens that the convention in
the Bolton district can dare to violate. the
order issued from the head centre of the
party. It is indeed awful. But the Belton
Democracy are none the less true Democrats,
as wall be shown whenever Democracy and
Radicslism .are1arrazed against each other.


THE Bryan Pest is no longer published.
Editorial genius should exhaust itself
in perfectlng the papers we. have and
not in multiplying o them. They are
too numerous now by half, and this
half will die, and while moribund,
serving neither their owners nor the coun-
try, only serve to restrict the usefulness and
force and detract from the responsibility
and influence of the press of Texas. The
Post, however, deserved to live. 1t was an
admirable paper and we regret its untimely
nd
Year: 1875

DAlN in the right side, under the
i edge of the ribs, increase on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the
left side; the patient is rarely able
to lie on the left side; sometimes
the pain is felt under the shoulder
tladc, and it frequently extends to
the top of the shoulder, and is some
times mistaken for a rheumatism in
the arm. The stomach is affected
with loss Of appetite and sickness;
the bowels in general are costive,
sometimes alternative with lax /; the
head is troubled with pain, accom-
panied with a dull, heavy sensation
in the back part. There is generally
q considerable loss of memory, ac-
comPanied with a painful sensation
of having left undone something
which ought to have been done. A
slight, dry cough is sometimes an at
tcndant. The patient complains of
wcariness and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
Hnd ne complains OF PrickIy sensa-
ton Of the skin; his spirits arc low
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it. In fact, he. dis
trusts every remedy. Several of the
above symptoms attend the disease,
but cases have occurred where few
of them existed, yet examination of
the body, after death, has shown the
LIVER to have been extensively de-
ranged.
Year: 1875

The STATE HOUSE OF CoRRECTIoN-AE IN


TEREsTING CONFERENCE. There was highly
interesting conference yesterday afternoon at
) O'Clock, at the office Of the Mayor, in re-.


gard TO the House Of Correction for the con.
iinement and reformation Of such youthful
offenders against the laws of the State as are
now sent to the penitentiary and the Jails OF
the Commonwealth only to graduate, by rea.
son of the training of old and hardened


conYicts, into accomplished and irreclaim.
able criminals. Among those present
were Messrs. Jordan and Loyenstein,
OF the special committee appointed
by the House Committee Of Asylums and
Prisons to attend the conferences; Senators
Motlett and Kirkpatrick; Colonel Gilman, Of


the House and Judge Guigon and Mayor
| Kelley. The interview was pointed and
practical, the remarks Of each gentleman
showing that he had given the subject more
or less attention and investigation. All
agreed, however. that the State, with the as
sistance of the city, could not longer delay
the establishing of house of correction
without doing violence TO humanity and
souud policy.


twas agreed that Judge Guigon shall,
right away, prepare bill embodyipg the
views Of the conference, and that the same
shall be reported to the next meeting of the
House Prison Committee. Further, that


Mayor Kelley shall see the special committee
of the City Council on this subject to-day,
and ascertain in regard to the material help
Richmond will give the project.


All the members of the Senate and House
present pledged themselves to advocate


earnestly in their respective bodies the es-


tabliShment OF State House of Correction,


and from their known influence and energy


we anticipate good,rcsult>. By the way, we


have heard Of no one who objects to such


house of correction as is proposed.
Year: 1875

THE TOBACCO QuEsTIoN.-The tobacco
bill will come up in the Senate to-day as the
special and continuing order until disposed
of. The consideration of the bill was de.
layed on account. of the! Petersburg Charter.
Year: 1875

A folded newspaper not our paper) placed over the chest in side the vest, on going out during the present raw spring weather, constitutes an excellent protector for the lungs.

 In painting; do not apply a suc- ceeding coat before the previous one is dry. Do not use 8 lighter color over darker one, nor add dryers long before using. Use as little dryers as will do the work.

 The simplest, and perhaps best, paint to prevent buried wood from dccaying is made of boiled linseed oil, into which charcoal is stirred until the whole is of proper con sistence. Apply with an ordinary paint brush.

 Painters estimate that about one pound of paint per square yard is required for filling new work, and nearly half a pound for the second coat. The proportion is about half white lead and half oil of turpcntine for the filling coat.

 A citizen of Philadelphia, who used a weak solution of carbOlic acid as a wash to neutralize the offensive odor arising from can cer, discovered that the latter was entirely removed by the applica- tion. The solution consisted of one fourth of an ounce of acid di- luted in quart of water.

 One who has tried it, says: A cup of coffee is a sure barometer, if you allow the sugar to drop to the bottom of the cup and bubbles arise without disturbing the coffee. If the bubbles collect in the mid dle the weather will be fine; if they adhere to the cup, forming ring, it will be rainy; and if the bubbles separate without assum- ing any fixed position, changea- ble weather may be expected.

 An amusing story is told of Geo. Childs, of Philadelphia, who takes great pride in showing his establishment to visitors. He had passed through several of the de partments, and as he approached the stereotype rooms, remarked that this room was always kept in perfect order, when, on opening the door, there lay drunken com positor fast. asleep on one of the imposing stones, who did not ap- pear to be in perfect order. Tho disgust sf MT. Childs can be bet ter imagined than described.
Year: 1875

There are many "Goths and Vandals' yet in the world. Just look at the mutilated guide boards, the hideous scars and wounds which disfigure our shade trees. Look at the notches cut in the eatc posts and fences. The loun- per's knife seems never idle and benches, corner boards, chairs and even door castings sometimes share the same fate as the old goods box. This is all wrong and when 1 see any one stick his ax into q shade tree, or any tree in fact, merely ito be doing" l feel like telling him he had better 'be do ing something useful.

 Can any one derive pleasure from looking at q once noble oak or elm now half killed by ugly wounds on it's trunk? No; and they who have ruthlessly murder cd that aged oak should be com pelled to cut down and cut up into cord wood the once stately tree and haul it to some poor widow as Christmas present.

 Let our people discountenance and frown down such vandalism. Let all the boys read "Woodman, Spare That Tree," and let them read in history how the Goths and Vandals behaved in those ancient wars with the Romans, and they will learn what Vandal- ism means. I.
Year: 1875

The Weekly Sun has now attained circulation of over seventy thou- sand copies. Its readers are found in every State and Territory, and it's quality is well known to the public. We shall not only endeavOr to keep it fully up to the old standard, but to improve and add to its variety and power.

 The Weekly Sun will continue to be thorough newspaper. All the news of the day will be found in it, condensed when unimpOrtant, at full length when of moment, and always we trust, treated in a clear, interesting and instructive manner.

 It is our aim to make the Weekly Sun the best family newspaper in the world. It will be full of enter taining and appropriate reading of every sort, but will print nothing to offend the most scrupulous and deli cate taste. It will always contain the most interesting stories and TO- mances of the day carefully selected and legibly printed.

 The Agricultural Department is a prominent feature in the Weekly Sun, and its articles will always be fresh and useful to the farmer.

 The number of men dependent on politics is increasing, and. the Weekly Sun is their paper especial ly. It belongs to no party, and obeys no dictatiOn, contending for principle, and for the election of the best men. It exposes the cor cuption that disgraces the country and threatens the overthrow of re- publican institutions. It has no fear of knavcs and seeks no favors from their supporters.

 | The markets of every kind and the fashions arc regularly reported in its columns

 The price of the Weekly Sun is one dollar year for sheet of eight pages, and tifty-siX columns. As this barely pays the expenses of pa per and printing, we are not able to make any discount or allow any premium to friends who may make special efforts to extend its circula- ton. Under the new law, which requires payment of postage in ad- vance, one dollar year, with twen- ty cents the cost of prepaid postage added, is the rate of subscription. It is not necessary to get up a club in order to have the Weekly Sun at this rate. Anyone who sends one dollar and twenty cents will get the paper postpaid, for year.

 We have no travelling agents.

 The Weekly Sunlight pages, fifty-six columns. Only $l.2O a year, postage prepaid. No discoun, from this rule.

 The Daily Sun.-A large four. page newspaper of twenty-eight col umns. Daily circulation over l20 900. All the news for two cents Subscription, postage prepaid 5' cents month, or SG.J0 a year. Tt clubs of ten or over discount O twenty per cent.

 Address "THE SUM"

 New York City.
Year: 1875

RECIPE FOR KEEPING MAY Bur TER.-Thc following has been tried for many years, and when closely followed will certainly keep spring butter good for one year or even longer:

 To three gallons of brine strong enough to bear an egg, add one fourth of a pound of white sugar and teaspoonful of saltpeter. Boil the brine, and when cold strain and pour off carefully. Make the butter into rolls and wrap each in clean white cloth. Pack a large jar full, and put a weight on top. Then cover com pletcly with brine, and keep it covered all the season. A roll at q time may be used as wanted.

 The writer once lost q large jar of butter down . well, where il remained for three years. On cleaning the well, the butter was found to be perfectly good, except an inch on the top. Good butter will keep any length of time wher completely excluded from the air These seem to be the conditions necessary to insure success.-Cor Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1875

Never try to extinguish q kero- senc fire with water. Smother the flames with blankets or rugs.

 A wash of lime, salt and white sand is said to afford protection to shingle roofs against accidental conhagration from sparks, &c.

 It is said that half an ounce of q mixture of 100 parts haywood ground with one part of bichro- mate of potash, will make, with water, pint of good ink.

 A single drop of the sequipede chloride of iron put on a corn be
Year: 1875

Patent Aron have been adopted and used clusively in the New York Conservatory of Music.

 acknowledged Piano The New York Conservatory Music has constantly upwards Thirty Arion Pianos, durability the leading Seminae United by the principal Opera Troupes.
Year: 1875

Those who have not planted all of their ground will do we'll to consider the advantages of grow ing broom corn. It sells very high now on account of scarcity, bringing $200 a ton in Chicago. The cultivation is simple; the soil best suited to it is such as corn requires, and a river bottom is considered the best of all. It should be planted three feet apart, in rows three or four feet distant. If the seed is good, ten or twelve to the hill are enough to ensure five or six healthy plants, which are all that should be left to grow in a hill. Seed should be buried from one to one and a half inches. The ground should be well pulver- izcd before planting. Cultivate well from the time the plants are visible. Let no grass grow. Break the tops before fully ripe by bend ing the rows towards each other and breaking them about thirteen

 inches below the brush. Allow them to hang until thoroughly ripe, then cut and carry under cover, where they must be spread

 until dry. The stalks remaining may be cut close or pulled up and buried in the furrows to enrich the soil. The brush is cleaned generally by hand by drawing it through a hatchel composed ot upright knives set near enough

 together. The average yield of brush is about 800 pounds to the

 acre and of seed from twenty-five

 to fifty bushels per acre.-Grange.
Year: 1875

REBELLION against oppression appeals
strongly to the sympathies of Garibadi. The
old hero has written letter to the Herzego-
viaian insurgents, regretting that his bodily
ailments do not permit him to come to their
aid, but encouraging them to persevere and
promising to send them in the spring a vol
unteer legion which he intends to organize.
Doubtless he can find among the old Italian
conspirators many men who are weary of a
quiet life and who would gladly engage once
more in active conflict.
Year: 1875

IT is difficult to satisfy these Democratic
papers. They have been complaining that
the treasury ought to hoard gold, that it
would be impossible to collect gold enough
by 1879 to justify an attempt at resumption.
Now that the treasury is boarding gold they
complain that the market is drained of the
precious metal, and that far more coin will
be accumulated than is needed for resump-
ton. They talk like angry children.
Year: 1875

DETROIT is agtated over man who can
"slosh' his heart about at pleasure. He is a
short thick-set negro, Of wonderful strength.
The other day he was examined before the
Detroit Medical School. He went through
some terrible contortions, dlopped his heart
down len inches below where it ought to be
switched it round to the right side, and did
many other wonderful things. The doctors
are at loss to know what to say about him,
and content themselves with repeating many
hard.sound;ng names. Whether this won-
derful faculty is of any practical use may be
doubted; though it would be very convenient
when blow is aimed at the heart, as hap
pens sometimes on the stage, to be able to
switch that organ off to the other side of the
bOdy
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

We are now applying tc side bar wagons simple At
LEVEL RIDING WAGON, entirely free from rattle or
and giving increased strength and safety, with
out adding to the weight


with this We are also using tafter thor.
straight axle. running with greater precision and
less friction than axle ever used for speeding.
examine these improvements at our ctory, Broadway
aud Forty seventh street. or at our warerooms Fifth
avenue ana Fourteenth street.
Year: 1875

LUD0LPH.


Carter raised his eyes to Willis face,
and started back frightened. Her face
was pallid as death, and her large, dark
eyes seemed to burn through him.


What does he mean Carter? Did
he see my fathers sister9 My lost,
cherished father He whom the waves
swallowed up, and left me pilgrim, a
waif on life's drifting tide"


Her voice sunk in great, passionate
sobs, and the shining head dropped on
his kind, brotherly arm.


"Yes he says your aunt crossed over
in the steamer with him, and 1 am so
glad, Willis you have SO few relatives,
you know"


Her grief struck a sympathetic chord
in the boys tender heart, and he spoke
with the sweet gentleness of woman.
She excused herself from dinner and
went up to her room, charging Carter
not to let them know the cause of her
agitation. She sat down, and wrote a
long letter to Ludolph, begging him to
write her the whole history, and to give
her. her aunt's address. She deter
mined to see that aunt at all hazards.
She wondered if she resembled her
father. If so. what an exceedingly
handsome woman she must be. She
raised her eyes with pride to the life
sized picture of her father which al
ways hung above her mantle. 1t was
taken just before his marriage, and the
Year: 1875


The look OF sympathy, the gentle word,
Spoken so low that only angels heard;
The secret art Of pure selfsacrince,
Unseen by men, but marked by angels eyes


These are not lost.
The sacred music of q tender strain,
Wrung from poets heart by grief and pain
And chanted timidly, with doubt and fear.
To busy crowds, who scarcely pause to hear


These are not lost.
The silent tears that fall at dead of night
Over soiled robes, that were once pure and
white;


The prayers that rise like incense from the
soul,


Longing for Christ to make 1t clean and whole


These are not lost.
The happy dreams that gladden. all our youth
When dreams had less of self and more oi
truh,


The childhood's faith, so tranquil and SO sweet,
Which sat like Mary at the Masters feet


These are not lost.
The kindly plans devised for others good,
30 seldom guessed, 80 little understood;
The quiet, steadfast love that strove to win
Some wanderer from the ways of SIN


These are not lost.
Not lost, o Lordi for, in thy city bright
Our eyes shall see the past by clearer light.
And things long hidden from our gaze below
Thou wilt reveal, and we shall surely know


These are not lost.