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Year: 1874

A stranger, persuing tho columns of
some OF our Republican contemporaries,
would never for II moment suppose
that they were published in a city, the
object OF whose merchants and manu-
facturers was to enlarge its trade and
commerce with every section of the
country and especially with the South.
The bitter hostility of these journals
has become chronic. Everything that
can possibly be said to the disparage-
ment of the South, is said, and in a
manner that indicates so much vindic-
tiveness that the animus of the writer's
is easy Of comprehension.


Such a spirit, inste I'd of allaying the
animosities and heart -burnings of by
gone days, is calculated to keep them
alive, and to fan into fierce flame once
more, the fires that burned so balefully
during the war. With what grace can
we ask these Southern men to give us
their trade, and to join hand an | heart
with us in the great Centennial move
ment, when these Journals, published
here in our midst, display such veno-
nous hostility?


But we shall probably be told in re-
ply that they are actuated by principle.


We presume they arc, but the principle
is very pcrnicious one. The mission
of the American journalist of to-day is
to promote as far as in his power lies,
the peace and prosperity of the entire
country. Whenever there is a depart
urc from this sure and safe ground,
there is danger. The political jour
nalist, who, for the furtherance of
party interests, honestly supports prin-
ciples which have not been proved alb
solutely wrong, is pardonable, but he
becomes scarcely less criminal, when,
day after day, he gives utterances to
palpable falsehoods, with the hope of
sustaining the falling fortunes of a
party whose unsoundness to the very
core is no longer a question, ,-PnILA
CHRONICLE
Year: 1874

A letter to the Tribune from Pitts
burg sttaes that the result of the Ohio
and Indiana elections is being felt in
the western part of Pennsylvania to
confident of electing four of the seven
congressman west of the mountains, a
gain of three, while the possibilities are
that they will carry all the seven dis
tricts. Serious dissensions exist among
the Republicans, while the Democrats
are united, active and fully alive to the
Importance of the contest Courage,
Democrats and the victory will be ours!
READING EAGLE.
Year: 1874

In our Grafton letter today mention is
made of one OF Mr., FAULKNRR's remarks
at Pruntytown last Monday that VIC con.
slider uncommonly rich. That inoom-
parable shuiIler informed the people that
he was in dread at one time lest Berkeley
county should become part Of Old Vlr.
ginia, and compel him to raise his family
in State where there were half million
Of negroes. And yet this gay old politi-
cal thimble.riggCr went South at the
commencement Of the war to help cstab.
lish a great slave empire on this continent,
in which Virginia would be the great
breeder and raiser Of negroes.
Year: 1874

l


TIE steubenville Gazette is a queer sort


Of paper. II comes at us with the re-


mark that inasmuCh as the Republican


party has not restored gold and silver to


circulation therefore there ought to be


more paper money. And while blaming


the Republican party for not having ere


this made paper equal to gold 1t appeals


TO the people TO vote the Democracy into


power because by 80 doing there will be


More hope for the unfortunate insolvCnt,


who has been crushed between the neither


mill stones Of careless speculation and
Republican contraction Of the currency"


This means, iflt means anything, that
the Republican party has been doing just
what the Gazette wants it stopped from
doing, viz bringing gold and silver into
circulation. But, as We showed yester-
day, the attempt 10 identify the Repubh.
can party with such policy is not in &C
CordancC with the facts. Leaving out Of
sight the well known positions Of such
prominent Republicans as Morton, Logan
and Cameron, we cite the Gazette back to
the fact that 1t was under Andrew John.
sons administration that the Currency
was reduced to 35GOOO,OOO Of dollars by
Secretary McCulloch. And at the last
session Of Congress it was such men as
Senator Thurman, Of Ohio, who ia.
vored reducing 1t TO that amount
again. We said weeks ago, at the
opening of this campaign, that all at
tempts to make party capital out of the
currency question was sheer dems-
goguery. Both parties arc tarred with
the same stick "no odds which kettle is
stirred"-whether more or less currency.
The record in the Congressional Globe is
stone wall against which the party organs
and party candidates butt their heads in
vain for party or personal advantage. In
this State BEN WILSON is bowling arouud
on the subject in the face Of the fact that
his Senator voted against "more money to
do the business Of the country with"
while Senator FOREMAN voted for more
money. But everybody knows that it is
no trouble for tho Colonel to howl on any
side oil any question. Heis simply howl.
ing for BRN WILSON.
Year: 1874

relative to the battles in which the Union
army had been successful, and spoke only
of those engagements in which they had
been defeated. He, for one, appreciated
such magnanimity; it sank deep into his
heart, and he mentioned the fact to prove
that he was not personally hostile TO Presi-
dent Grant
Year: 1874

Is there not some way by which the


enormous expenses attending the ad-


ministration of justice in our criminal


courts may be lessened? We have


reference particularly to the cost Of


the prosecution of criminals for small


crimes and misdemeanors in this city.


As the system now stands, the cost to


the taxpayer is simply enormous. 1t


costs nearly as much to prosecute pet


ty thief for the larceny of twenty-five
cent piece of United States fractional


currency, or of u hat, coat, or bushel
Of beans, as it does to try
defendant for murder, burglary or
arson. This is a grievous defect i'll
the administration of criminal law
in our State. When it is remem-
bered that the great bulk Of the offense
against society in this city consists Of
petty larceny and misdemesnors, and
that to prosecute the offenders requires
the same costly system of judicial ma
chinery, the same cumbersome investi-
CATION of grand juries, the same bill of
indictment, the same petty jury, and,
excepting the single item Of the number
Of peremptory challenges allowed the
State and defense, the very same slow,
tedious and expensive system of trial by
jury, with its retinue of witnesses, its
attachments, its intermina-
ble bill of costs, etc., etc., as if
they were guilty of an offense punisha-
BILE by death or imprisonment for life.
They do this thing better elsewhere,
and we think the general assembly OF
would do well and wisely TO
follow the example set them by other
States in the premises. Magistrates and
justices. Of the peace should have exclu-
sive Jurisdiction and final determination
Of petty crimes and misdemeanors, the
right of appeal being, in all
cases, reserved. This would save the
State annually hundreds of thousands
of dollars, and would save the citizen
time and money, now next to thrown
away in our criminal courts.
Year: 1874

THE jackson Wing and Tribune says
that SO far as the senatorial and guber-
material states are concerned, it thinks
that Mr.. JOhnson's name may as well
be rubbed out; and then asks: "What,
then, will this unquestionably able and
restless man do in the coming summer?
We do not know, but we know what
he ought to do. If he could make sue
cessful race for congress in the first dis
trict, acting in harmony with the oppo-
nents OF the Radical party, he might
again become power in the State, but
otherwise We do not see how this Is pos
stble. His prestige has been broken to a
great degree, and he must restore 1t by
victory in his old home and among his
old friends"
Year: 1874

very skillful young lady in Bath. calls


into being the best cake in the world, by


the following recipe The whites of three


eggs, one-half cup milk. half cup OF


freshened butter. teaspoon of cream tartar.


half teaspoon of soda, cup of sugar, scant
quarter cup of corn starch, scant cup of
flower, flavor with almond The above is
silver cake. Gold cake is made in the
same way, supplanting the whites of eggs
by the yolks and adding an egg.


STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM.-This dish
forms delicious desert on a hot day in
June, and is easily made wherever the
berries and cream can be had in sufficient
quantities. Take quart of berries after
they have been hulled, and sprinkle over
them one large cofee-cup of fine white
sugar; let them stand for two or three
hours. and then mash them up fine. and
squeeze out the juice through a strong
cloth. Add another large cup of sugar to
this juice, and then stir in one quart OF
pure sweet cream. or pint and half of
,ream andl beaten whites of three eggs.
Mix all together and freeze. and when half
rozen, turn in one pint OF fresh berries
nd freeze stiff. The juice needs to be
aAde very sweet, or else it will curdle the
ream.
Year: 1874

INEXPENSIVE HAPPINEss.-The most
perfect home | ever saw. was in little
house into the sweet incense OF whose fires
went no costly things. A thousand dollars
served for years living of father. recther
and three children. But the mother was
the creator of home; her relation " iih
her children was the most beautiful have
ever seen; even dull and commonplace
man was lifted up and enabled to do good
work for souls by the atmosphere which
this woman created; every inmate of her
house involuntarily looked into her face
for the keynote of the day and it always
rang clear. From the rosebud or clover
leaf, which, in spite of her hard house
work. she always found time TO put by
our plates at breakfast, down to the story
she had on hand to be read in the evening.
there was no intermission of her influence


She has always been and always will be
my Ideal of a mother, wife. home-maker.
III to her quick brain. loving heart and
exquisite face had been added the appli-
ances Of wealth and the enlargements of
wider culture. hers would have been abso-
lutely the ideal home. As ii was, it was
the best l have ever seem Helen Hunt.
Year: 1874

SoLDERISG.-Eyery housekeeper may
not know what they are capable of In the
line OF keeping their tinware in order.
For the benefit of such, will say that 1t is
easier 10 solder such things than 10 pay
travelling tinker two prices Tor mending
them. Take sharp knife and scrape the
tin around the leak until il i bright. 50
that the solder will stick. Then sprinkle
on a little powdered resin; (they have
liquid solder to sell. but resin will do just
as well;) lay your solder on the hole and
with your soldering iron melt il on. Do
not have the iron TO hot or the solder will
adhere 10 that After two or three trial,
you can do a job that you will be proud OF
If you do not own soldering iron. pro-
cure one by all means; but when hard
pressed. / have used the knob on the end
of the fire shovel or smooth piece of
iron, or held candle under the spot to be
mended. Anything is better than stopping
leaking pans with bees-wax or rags. Try
ii. young housekeepers, and see how indie
pendent you will feel. Your pans should
be dry when you take them in hand.
Year: 1874

Every farmer who has 10 fence his land
knows too well how quickly posts planted
in the earth become rotten. especially in
a damp spot. All OF them will welcome
the following process 10 prevent rotten
mesa process As wonderful in effects a,
taken from Le Bien Public of Dion.
France:


Take linseed Oil, boil It, and mix II with
charcoal dust until the mixture has The
consistence Of ordinary paint. Give TO the
posts a single coat of the mixture of paint
before planting them. aud no farmer. even
living ~ the age Of patriarch- Of old, will
live long enough TO see the same posts
rotten.


Some years ago l discovered the way
OF rendering wood more durable In earth
than iron itself, says the author OF the
communication, but II seemed to me so
simple and inexpensive that | did not
think it worth while to make much ado
and fuss about it.


Posts OF soft wood thus prepared were
removed after remaining seven years in
earth, and were found as sound a when
they were planted. The only precaution
10 take is to use only well dried posts be-
fore covering them with the charcoal
paint.


The above recipe is certainly cheap, and
seems to be we'll worth the trial. IL What
is said Of the efficacy of that simple and
cheap (about two cents per post process
be half true. certainly it would save yearly
millions OF dollars to the farmers and lele-
sragh companies. For Il is said that the
farmer. even in his teens. who will plan,
posts having received coat of this Per
petuity Post Paint will never live long
enough TO see the same posts rotten.
Year: 1874

WE have received the news OF Mar
hall RAzAIsE having effected his escape


from his prison on the Island OF salnte


Nsrouerite. Naturally the affair is


creating great excitement in France,


where 50 recently the old veteran was


tried for treason, degraded from his high
rank and stripped OF the honors he had
won on many battle field in the service
Of his country. We have always had a
suspicion that he was not fairly dealt with
and sympathized with him in his trials
and imprisonment; but if, as it is stated,
he violated his parole of honor in making
his escape, it will reflect very injuriously
upon his reputation henceforth. Reports
sav that his crime comes under the ex-
tradition treaty of France with other ma
,ions, and if so, it is more than likely he
will be sent back, though. it is hinted that
the French Government is rather glad
that he is of its hands.
Year: 1874

The annual report'of the Department
of Agriculture will probably not be pub
lished until after the adjournment "i
Congress. The appropriation for the
printing of this report contrary to tn"
precedent, is to be disbursed subject to
the order of the commissioner, and not of
the public printer as heretofore. The
latter refuses to print it unless the APP
preparation is placed to his credit, which
commissioner Watts refuses to do. The
cotton crop presents better appearance
now than at the last monthly report,
except in Tennessee and Arkansas.
Year: 1874

The Baptist excursionists we're treated
to sail on the Gulf the other day
They express themselves as satisfied with
Texas, and no doubt but many of them
will return here and settle. Wherever
they go, they will fiud the people ready
to receive them with the whole.souled
generosity which Texas knows so well
how to bestow.
Year: 1874

Mark Twain, in his " Innocents
Abroad, thus describes the Duchess of
Edinburg as she appeared about seven
years ago: "During the imperial re-
ception whoever chose stepped forward
and spoke with the modest little Grand
Duchess Maria, the Czar's daughter.
She is fourteen years old, light-haired,
blue-eyed, unassuming and pretty. "
Further on the historian says of the
Grand Duchess "She had no heels
on her shoes. was glad to
observe that she wore her own hair,
plated in thick braids against the back
of her head, instead of the unconely
thing they call a waterfall, which is
about as much like waterfall as a can
v covered ham is like a cataract.
Taking the kind expression that is In
the emperor's face and the gentleness
that is IN his young daughters into con-
sideration, wondered if it would not
tax the Cars firmness to the utmost to
condemn a supplicaiing wretch to mise
ry in the wastes of Siberia If she plead
ed for him. Every time their eyes met
saw more and more what a power that
weak, diffident schoolg girl could WELD
if she choose to do it. Many and many
time she might rule the autocrat OF
Russia, whose hghtest word is law to
seventy million of human beings. She
was only a girl, and she looked like q
Thousand others have seen, but never
a girl provoked such a novel and pecu.
liar interest in me before. A strange
new sensation is q rare thing in this
humdrum life, and I had it here"
Year: 1874

The following suggests that many
studies dreaded by the young, and COM
monty supposed to be hard and uninter-
esting, may be made as easy as fun /:


told the boys to go over and mea-
sure the height of the flagstaff on
Georges Hill, in Fairmount park, and
they looked at me in astonishment,
asking at the same time how they could
do it-for both they and I knew they
could not climb to the top. So I ex-
planned to them how they might do it,
without going to the top-and they
made the instrument themselves with
which to do it.


They got a square rail, about four
feet long; then, at one end, they nailed
to it, at right angles, a straight stick
three feet high exactly one foot dis
tar t, they nailed another straight stick
four feet high, then another, one foot
distant, five feet high.


The instrument was complete, and
they all started over to the fag-pOle
with it. When they got as near 10 the
pole as they thought the pole was high,
they plumbed it, by holding a string,
with stone tied to it, at the top of one
of the sticks the stick was made to
stand just as straight up and down as


Then they sighted, or looked along
the tops of the upright sticks, at the
dsg-pole. By moving the instrument
just to the right place, they made the
sticks "range" with the top of the
pole that is, while looking over the
top of the three sticks, their eyes, see
ing the end of the sticks all the while,
saw also the very top of the flag pole


By measuring them, from that spot
10 the fag-pole, along the ground, they
were able to tell me that the flag staff
was one hundred and twelve feet dis
tant from them, and so the flag staff was
one hundred and twelve feet high.


Now, this was simple application of
geometry, a lesson that looks lawful D
hard to boys at school, but was only
fun learned In this way.
Year: 1874

fill this cup to one made up


Of lOyeliness alone,
A woman Of her gentle sex


The seeming paragon.
To whom the better elements


And kindly stars have given
form so fair, that, like the air,


lis less Of earth than heaven.
Her every tohe is magic's own,


Like those Of morning birds,
And something more than melody


Dwells ever in her words;
The coinage of her heart are they,
And from her lips each flows,
AS one may see the burdened bee


Forth issue from the rose.
Affections are as thoughts to her,
The measures Of the hours;
Her feelings have the fragrancy,
The freshness of young flowers;
And lovely passions, changing oft,
So fill her, she appears
The image of themselves by turns,
line idol of past years.
OF her bright face one glance will trace
picture on the brain,
And of her voice in echoing hearts
a sound must long remain;
But memory such as mine Of her
So very much endears,
When death is nigh, the latest sigh
VIII not be iifeis but hers.
fill this cup to one made up
OF loveliness alone,
A woman of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon
Her health and would on earth there stoo
Some more Of such frame,
That life might be all poetry,
And weariness name!
Year: 1874

While Alfred carried out this part OF
his wicked scheme, others went for the
priest of Aberdaron, and brought him
to the church, compelling him, sword
in hand, to hold himself ready for the
marriage. Meanwhile Arthur had re-
turned and sought his love, who, he
was told, had not come back from her
evening walk. To await her return, he
Joined her father, and sat down to tell
his adventures and, as might be sup
posed, time sped swiftly with his hear
ers, until at last their interest in the
story of the returned crusader gave
way to anxiety about the girl.


They sought her, but without sue
cess. Arthur's feelings may be i'm
agined. But he had been through
school in which he had learned to dis
place vain regrets by swift action. He
promptly called together a band of
mounted retainers, and away they sped
in search. Arthur with brandished sword
urging them on. At the crossroads
they met an old man coming from Alb
erdaron, who, in answer to their hasty
inquiries, told them that band OF
horsemen had passed him going that
way, and that they had with them
woman whose lace WIS CONcACh" OA
they went and as they approached the
church they could see that, late as was
the hour, ther, was light inside:
Hastily dismounting, Arthur rushed
past the English soldiers who guarded
the porch, and bursting into the church,
he saw Euronwy at the point of being
forcibly married to the English knight,
who stood by her side. Both men at
once saw what was before them. At the
some instant they drew sword. Then
began deadly duel at the very altar.
At last Arthur, with one mighty stroke,
cleft his rival Through the helmet and
skull, and Alfred fell dead on the floor.
Euronwy's father, who had arrived by


this time, ordered the priest to proceed


with the service. Thus weirdly were


Arthur aud Euronwy reunited forever
after their long separation, while he


who had all but robbed the crusader of
his love lay dead at his feet.
Year: 1874

I'D. EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.-Answer
to the question at the head of education
al column, why is the capital letter used
in the word Heaven on page 322, in
quotation from Milton, and not used in
the same quotation on page 16l of
Green's Grammer?"


We think the word heaven in this
quotation is used as substitute for
God, a figure Of rhetoric in which one
word is substituted for another. as. "you
will address the Chair, chair for :presi-
dent, and according 10 note 2, under rule
l3, lin Harris Rhetoric) for capitals,
heaven Is sometimes, to mean the one
who reigns in Heaven, and in such cases
a capital should be used Therefore we
think the use of the capital is correct
The reason it is not used in both cases in
Greens Grammar, is possibly owing to an
error in the typography, or because It is
not clear. being decided, we think, by a
very fine exception to very fine rule as
to whether the word "heaven" is person
atei or not and means God in this case.


NEXT.
Year: 1874

The late Gen. Winfield Scott was a
man eminently of a practical turn of
mind. He profted by the lessons of ex-
perience He had suffered severely from
detraction and misrepresentation as to
conversations which had taken place be-
tween himself and certain women when
no one else was present He determined
that such thing should never occur
again, and resolved as rule Of his life,
that he would never have an interview
with woman without having a third
person present as a witness To this de-
termination, once formed. he adhered with
characteristic pertinacity, although by so
doing, he sometimes gave great offense
We remember one instance in which a
very highly cultivated, intriguing woman
who held confidential relations with for
elgn government, was extremely anxiou:
to have private talk with the old Gen.
eral; but he stubbornly refused, except
in the presence of a third person.
Would not Gen. Scots rule be good
one for clergymen to adopt? 1t would
save them from world of trouble.-Nesc
I0rI. Sun
Year: 1874

Said lawyer to horse-jockey the 9th
er day, Jerry, did you ever know of a
horse-jockey going to heaven? ~Yes,
heard of one; he slipped in unperceived
under the gown of Catholic priest
When it was discovered they hunted
heaven al over to find lawyer to make
out writ of ejectment, but not lawyer
could be found and so the jockey stay,
there vet
Year: 1874

North Carolina is first in the field with
an effort to alter her Constitution to suit
the return of the Democracy to power.
Anything to get around the Constitution
al amendments, you know.
Year: 1874

Since the recent elections the claim
agency business seems to be good one
down South. In recent number Of the
Current Ware paper published in Shan
non county, Missouri, the following card
appeared:
Year: 1874

TWELFTH STREET from Franklin to Cary,
one of the principal thoroughfares of the
city, is in most miserable condition, result
ing from the laying of new water-pipes
along its course and allowing it to remain
uppayed. The public has borne with it
very patiently in the expectation that the
authorities would renew the pavement as
soon as possible, and the work should now
be delayed no longer.


To allow so important crossing as that at
Main and Twelfth streets to be unpaved and
deep with mire for so long time is very
serious inconvenience, to say the;least of it.
The whole street between the points named,
and especially at the intersection of Main
and Twelfth, should be newly and properly
nayed,