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Year: 1874

By special cable despatch received from
our correspondent at the Carlist headquarters
we have information of curious negotiation
between the Pretender and the national gov
ernment Three delegates from the Spanish
party in Cuba had arrived to propose the
sending of all prisoners Of war held by either
party to Cuba, where they might be utilized
against the insurrection. In making this
proposition the Madrid government displayed
considerable tact as its rejection or accept
ance was calculated to injure Carlism. Should
the Pretender refuse to accede to the PROPOSE
ton the government at Madrid could denounce
him as bad Spaniard, willing to sacrifice the
territorial integrity of the nation to his own am
bilious schemes. A refusal would also involve
the loss of his popularity with the Cuban
planters. from whom it is notorious he has de-
rived large pecuniary aid On the other hand,


it is grievous violation of the Spanish con-
stitution to send any Spaniard from his
country unless he is consenting party. In
the case of the Biscayans and Navarrese the
outrage would probably be resented, as it
would be such violation of their .fsteros, or
state constitutions as no modern government
has ever attempted. We're Don Carlos to con-
sent to the forcible expatriation of any of
his followers his standard would soon be
without supporters, and he might con-
slider himself lucky did he escape with
his life. It is not generally understood
that Biscay and other northern provinces of
Spain are in reality small semi-independent
republics attached to the Spanish monarchy,


and that ono of their chief reasons for
opposition to the liberal parties in
Spain springs from disinclination to
give up their local independence and
come under the general laws of the
country. For their own purposes the Spanish
kings have always encouraged their Northern
subjects TO stand apart from the rest of the
nation; and as they have little to gain by
exchanging their present semi-independence
even the prospect Of a republican form Of gov
ernment cannot tempt them to abandon rights
which they have enjoyed from the earliest
ages, and which they have been always ready
to defend with heroism. It was o great
mistake on the part Of Don Carlos To
allow the Cuban delegates to present their
Year: 1874

EVIDENTLY up to this time the great de-
siderata in milk have been that it should be
pure and that it should come from the coun-
try; but we may change this latter point,
all the revolution against swill milk stables to
the contrary notwithstanding. There is some
evidence apparently, that country milk is not
the best milk, and especially in districts where
the pasturage is poor. DR.. Walker, of the
English Royal Agricultural Society, seems to
establish by experimental observations that
the milk produced in the large stables near
London is better than any milk that comes
from the country-st least where the stables
are kept with judicious regard to all the re-
quirements. His reasons for the superiority
of the milk-which he declares as o fact-are
that the COWS are better fed and better cared
for in comfortable houses, less exposed to the
weather and less subject to the whole range of
disturbing influences. BY better milk he
means richer milk. Doubtless if better diet
than distillery swill is given to stabbed cows
the product may be good, and there is evi-
IDENTIFY room for improvement in this latitude;
bat the world will still believe, and rightly,
that the country milk is the healthier article.
The notion of ''better'' milk than that which
the COW produces in her natural condition
seems TO vitiate the case by going q step too
far. Tbat better milk is consequence of o
more stimulating diet, and SO is departure
from the right line.
Year: 1874

In 1872 there was some thought that Grant
might decline to be candidate for second
term. Some people, apparently with no very
profound knowledge of the Presidential char
acter, apprehended such an event and were
alarmed at the possible consequences They
hastened to write to Grant on the subject and
Grant hastened to answer them and to assure
them explicitly and distinctly that if he was
wanted to occupy the Office Of President he
was ready. It did not occur to him that it
was in any way derogatory to his dignity to
settle doubts on that subject in the shortest
and simplest way. He would not permit the
public mind to be harassed with anxieties on
such score. Recently, however, there has
once more been great deal Of doubt as to
what is the Presidents real position in regard
to the next nomination for the Office he now
holds. But the doubt now has different
aspect. 1t is not an anxiety lest he should re-
fuse nomination.; it is an apprehension
that he wants one. And there is q difference
in the result of inquiry, for he declines to
answer. His dignity has sealed his lips.


he could write in '72 that he was ready to
take nomination, and his dignity was none
the worse but in "A, when he is called
upon to declare that he will not accept another
term of Office, his dignity rises in revolt and
will not let him touch pen. Dignity has a
strange influence over man. AS to this
Presidential dignity which has so lately come
forth as factor in our politics, we must note
that it is singularly adroit 1t leaves the
President certain liberty, but seems to play
his liberty as it were with the sldlful mastery
that good sportsman has over his trout. II
let's the President run up stream and down
stream and oil over the open water, but turns
him at the incest conceivable points on all
sides. Thus he Is not compelled to absolute
Year: 1874

AFTER NEARLY YEAn's burning the Empire
Goal Mine, near West Pittston, Pa. has been
extinguished Our account of this successful
experiment will not only be of interest to the
public generally, but of importance to all per-
sons who are occupied in mining. After ell
usual methods had been tried in vain the fire
was subdued by forcing steam into the depths
of thA nina.
Year: 1874

The PoPE's ADVICE to young men, as en-
bodied in an allocution delivered before So
ciety in Rome, is published in our columns
to-day. The Supreme Pontif says that s'The
good example of layman is worth more than
a sermon from q minister at the altar" and
perhaps this confirmation of common sense
by the highest spiritual authority is as much
needed in New York as in Rome.
Year: 1874

The EPISCOPAL CONVENTION yesterday con-
tinued its debate upon Church services and
determined that they should be shortened A
resolution for the appointment of a committee
to examine the whole subject of rubrical re-
vision and report to the next Convention was
rejected
Year: 1874

THE ELECTION in the Pas de Calais yester-
day for the Assembly resulted in the choice
of Bonapartist. France does not seem to
be yet weary Of the imperial family, whose
rule to many of the workmen is associated
with the idea of material prosperity
Year: 1874

AN old French countess of the most ex-
auisite poIiteness was about to breath her
last, when she received a call from an ac-
quaintance ignorant of her mortal illness.
The answer sent down from the chamber
of the departing sufferer was memoraoly
unique. THE Countess de Rouen sends
her compliments to Madame de Calais, but
begs to be excused, as she is engaged IN
diving"
Year: 1874

As the subscription list will be ready
this week, the people Of the State are here
by appealed to, with hope that they will
lend aid to this enterprise only so far as
they are able and willing. No one is eX-
pected TO contribute a large amount. But
all are entreated TO subscribe for a little
stock, and thus help to advance the interest
of an institution designed for instructing
and harmonizing our whole people. Every
share subscribed for will greatly help, and,
indeed, five dollar subscription will be
gladly received.


The extracts which through the eUer
geddg press have been brought before YOU,
will lead to a fair understanding of the
principal objects Of the enterprise, Though
until YOU and your neighbOrs become in
terested, the most valuable suggestions
can not originate, as such can only result
from continued conversation amongst many
persons.


II being known TO many of yOu that /
am not native TenneSseean. consider il
prudent to offer as an excuse for the interest
l have manifested in this affair (Which
promises results of vast importance to the
State), that nv services would be as will
lingly rendered to any other section of the
country. showing a desire 10 establish
system for developing the brain anu muscle
of its people-(nOt that l put any great
stress upon my Own abilities to render as
sistance in such matters, farther than to
point out the necessity for improvement, in
the course of training the young men Of our
country)-and in this l shall never cOnfine
myself within the boundaries Of any State.


In conclusion permit me to state that my
arrangement with the present Board of Di-
reetofs, expires on the 29th day Of March,
rnIess the results of my eXertions are very
fiattering; therefore let me urge you to sub
scribe without delay. The money will not
be called for before April, even though the
first S75. 900 are subscribed before that time.
Hoping for your hearty cooperation, and
the continued assistance Of the press,
am, very respectfully yours,


RoBT. NJ. FRYER, Soliciting Agent.
Year: 1874

OUR FIRESIDE FRIEND is now in its Fifth
Volume, thoroughly established the leading
family and story Weekly in the Union, has the
largest circulation and the best appointed printing
and publishing establishment and building in the
West Is a large, eight-page illustrated and origin
al family Weekly, price $500 per year. Every sub
scriOer receives magnificent premium and share
in the distribution. Subscribe ROp!
Year: 1874

How many happy thoughts are called
up by those two beautiful words. Is
there-can there be any place So full nf
pleasant places? Our heart turns with
Interchangeable love and longing to the
dear old house which sheltered us in
child1 rod. Kind friends may beckon us
to newer scenes, and loving hearts may
bind us fast to warm homes, but there
is one place dearer than ALL and that is
"Mother's House." Here we have
watched life come and go. Here per-
chance we have watched with aching
heart the dear one torn from the home
nest out into the world which has proved
snare and temptation to many wander
ing feet. And here we gather strength
to take up our lives again, and 90 on
patiently unto the end. But though the
world calls US, and we may find friends
good and true, we turn to the dear old
home when troubles come, for help and
comfort. All -Mother' House. 1t may
be old and rckety to the eyes, of the
stranger. But still it is "Nother's
House" 1t is the dear old spot from
which we looked out upon life with
heart full of hope, bulldlng wonderful
castles in cloudlaud which faded away
long ago; uut thanks to the good Father
"Mother's House is left us still, and
weary with the busy turmoil of life
weary Of our elves we turn our steps
toward the dear house of rest. and at its
threshold lay our burdens down. God
grant that for us all there may long
remain a "Mother'S House"
Year: 1874

The story is told of women who
freely used her tongue to the scandal of
others, and made confession to the
riiest of whatshe done. He gave her a
ripe thistle top and, told her to go about
in various directions and scatter the
seed one by one. Wondering at the
penance, she returned ana told her con.
fessor. To her amazement, he bade
her go back and gather the scattered
seed; and when she objected that 1t
would be impossible he replied that it
would be still more dilIic llt to gather
up and destroy all the evil reports
which she had circulated about others.
Any thoughtless, careless child can
scatter handful of thistle seed before
the wind in a moment, but the strong
est and wisest man can not gather them
again. t-
Year: 1874

A few hints and recipes for the sick
room may now and then be in place.
Everything around tie sick should be
quiet and cleanly. The nurse should
have a steady hand, clear head and ten.
der heart; not talkative or nervous.
Avoid arguments with the sick; do not
sit or lean on the bed. Friends calling
on the sick shoul make their STAY short.
The practice of visiting the sick ON the
Sabbath is a very poor one-tat day
often thus becomes the mosttrying and
fati9uing of all to them. AS a general
rule do not go into the sick room unless
you go to help. Do not deceive the
sick; deceit breeds suspicion, and they
will worry lest you keep something
for them. Don't purSuatle the dying
that they will recover, it Is treason
against the interests of the soul. Never
enter sick room in moment of pres
piration; as the moment you become
cool your pores absorb. Do not ap.-
proach contagious disease with an
empty stomach, nor sit bstween the sick.
and fire, because the heat attracts the
vapor. Preventives are preferable to pills
or powders. Spirits of ammonia, in
hailed, is good for the headache, and to
help the breathing in bad colds. 1t
cools and sootbes feverish patient to
wash him in warm water, ia which
saleratus or soda has been dissolved. A
little cotton batting, wet with sweet oil
add laudanum, put in the ear, will core
the ear-ache in the beginning of it.
Year: 1874

A neighboring country women from
Connecticut, has found out that red ants
cannot get over a chalk mark half nm
in.h wide. She says: ~ learned that
fact from my mother more than forty
years ago, and always found 1t true.
Only last year these ants came into our
milk room and nearly covered one pan
of milk. l had to throw 1t to the chick.
ems; but Iwashed of the shelf and made
a chalk mark arouni 1t, and we have
not had another ant on the shelf nor In
the room since.
Year: 1874

From the Burlington Ual Gazette.l


There is no longer any doubt that President
Grant has designs upon third term. Every move
OF his intimate friends points In this direction. 1t
casts a gloom upon the radical party. 1t drives
the conventions OF his own party to ignore the
President OF their own choice in their platforms,
Tor lear that mere Endorsement OF his admins
tratton would be construed into an expression Of
IavOr as to his designs upon third term. But
whether tney indorse him or not, the party VIII
have 10 show ITS hand upon TINS question. The
President Is evidently IN no mood TO be fooled
with IN regard TO his aspirati tions He has been
told so much that the party cannot be carried on
to success without him that he feels that be has
IL IN MS power to either dictate new lease upon
power or assure his party that success VIII no
longer follow them.
Year: 1874

Henry Ward Beecher says:
Aaron Burr was a keener thinker
than George Washington. lie was
a far more ingenious man, a more
active man, and, if he had been a
moral man, and maintained normal
relations with his fellow men, and
with the laws of rcctitude, he would
have been an abler man. Wash
ington was man of good sense, but
he was not man of genius in any
direction, except that of conscience.
He was man of singular equity,
great disinterestedness, and of pure
and upright intent. Sagacious he
was, by light which came from
integrity. He endured, having
faith to believe that right was right,
and that it was safe, and that in the
end right would prevail. That
which made Washington the only
great hero of our revolutionary
struggle was the light of the moral
element that was in him-not any
intellectual genius which he pos
sessed, or any remarkable executive
power. And if you look back on
the names III our history that have
stood the test, you will find that
they have been men who were fruit
full in the highest moral element.
And as time goes on, those men
who lack these elements, sink low
er and lower till they set below the
horizon and those who possess
them to rise higher, until they
reach the meridian, with undying
splendor, to shine upon history and
the world.
Year: 1874

In some sections of our country
the cultivation of the grasses has
not attracted that care and atten.,
tion to which they are entitled, but
the time has now arrived that this,
as we'll as other productions of the
soil, is becoming necessity to our
landholders, lnasmuch as the com.
petition of the Great West in the
production of the cereals requires a
greater diversity in our husbandry
than we have heretofore considered


necessary. The labor question also
presses upon US, both in regard to
scarcity and high price, and We are


obliged to consider the remedies at
our command for the difficulties
with which we are encompassed.-
Fruit growing for the supply of our
own as we'll as distant lands, is
looming up largely in sections of
our own and adjacent States, and
this business, with the aid of can~
ming and fruit drying, is taking up
large tracts of land which have
heretofore been mainly devoted to


the production Of wheat and corn.


With the same assistance the grow
ing of early vegetables must soon be
business requiring large tracts of
land; the extent of this latter pur~
suit may be imagined from the fact
that single farm in Pennsylvania,


in addition to the immense fields
employed in the growing of seeds,
for the cultivation Of which steam
engines have been introduced, have
a farm Of six hundred acres on the
Rappahannock, in Virginia, for the


growing of vegetable seeds alone.


Other sections, again, require pas
ture lands, for the supply of the
immense demand made for the milk
and butter required for the support
of the multitudes of non-producers
of these necessaries of life, espe-
cially in our cities and towns and
when it is considered that in city


like Baltimore, with population
rising three hundred thousand souls,
every individual requires to be sup
piled with either one or both of
these productions of the dairy, the
imagination can form some concep,
ton of the amount of land required
upon which to feed the cattle that
are necessary for the supply, to
say nothing of the other stock also
to be led from the same source ;
and these demands are supplements
ed in some of the States by the res
quirements of the cheese dairies ;
in come Of which the milk of as
many as two thousand COWS is ems
ployed. The hay crop is conse,'
quently one of the most important
Of any of the crops raised in this
country, and, great as it now is, all
the tendencies are to a still more
extended demand to supply the
necessities of this progressive age


So important is this conceived to be
that philosophers remark that he
who could make two blades of grass
grass grow where but one grew be-
fore, is a greater benefactor to hi:
race than the whole host of politi'


clans, is accepted as a truism il


every civilized land. All the light


consequently, that can be throw


upon the subject of the cultivation


os the grasses, it is the boundel
duty of the controllers of the pres:
} to present to their readers, and it i


one in which we have ever felt


our peculiar privilege and duty t.
) keep prominently before the public
and oh! that we could only induc
more of the tillers of the soil to rea'
and reflect, and to experiment, $
Year: 1874

"5 East 14th Street."
In conclusion, the proprietor has only to
state that he will guarantee to cure any case
OF Chills and Fever. No fee will ever in such
case be exacted. The patient is at liberty to
pay or not. All that is desired is, that be
will forward certificate of his cure at an ear
ly date.
Year: 1874

and whistle to their hearts content thi
Christmas time"


There! you see it isn't all bosh and
CANNON about Santa, after all. He is
alive and well and buster than ever be-
lore. ana he wants more help or else
somebody may be forgotten. Will Won
go into partnership with me? The bust
ness pays ceU just sit down and mt
your thinking cap on and see what YOU
can do TO help me. Think what you can
do to make some poor, sad soul happier;
how you can help some poor child to a
Merry Christmas day. Look over your
old toys and books, fix them up as nice
as you can and give them to some poor
mothers who cannot afford to buy new
ones for their children. If there is moth.
ing else you can do give a pleasant word,
kind smile, little loving sympathy to
those who need them, and you will be
surprised to see how happy il will make
them, and you too


If all the rich and happy ones of earth
would only take hold of this blessed
work in earnest joy and gladness, peace
and goodwill would fill every heart and
home, and the angels would sing as never
but once before: GLORY to God in the
highest, peace on earth, goodwill to
men. .'-Christidp linton.
Year: 1874

'Latd IN sight" What magic there
is in these words as they fly from lip to
lip on board a homeward- bound vessel.
How the passengers come crowding up to
catch the first glimpse of America, near
ing momentarily; what agitated grasps OF
the hand there are between new friends.
what reconciliation between ancient foes


Watch for a moment the deck of the
Flying SCud, homeward- bound from the
South African ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Yon-
der Is man. the centre of an excited
group; he is the fortunate possessor of a
good blnocular, an invaluable treasure at
such a moment On this side sits a
woman who, one may tell, from her deep
mourning, has laid her husband to rest in
that distant land; she strives in vain to
see the coast with eyes blurred and
dimmed with tears Here is a man who
left America several years ago. and he
is wondering whether any will be alive
Year: 1874

The Alta CdLitornta wants science
made useful, and thinks it would be
much better if Tyndall and his erudite
coadiutors would come down from their
attics above the clouds and turn to the
investigation of questions of immediate
value and interest TO humanity. II one
of the seven ships loaded with coal
which have lately been lost by what IS
called spontaneous combustion could
have been saved, and her offcers ana
crew delivered from the tate OF capt.
Foster, of the ship Centaur, and his crew,
il would be a greater glory to the name
of Tyndall than all his theories, true or
false, to which he devotes so much time
and wonderful ability.
Year: 1874

1t is the season Of unripe fruit.
Children eat this fruit and it produces
cholera morbus aud similar aud kindred
diseases, and causes a great many
deaths. Children can be taught to let
green or half:decayed fruit alone. by
making them understand, intelligently
and thoroughly, that it causes pain,
sickness and death. Merely scolding
or whipping them is not apt to in
timidate aud accomplish the result.


And now cold mig occasionally
if not regularly-are to be expected.
The sudden changes in the temperature
produce much illness. The pores are
closed because Of insufficient clothing
to keep them open. Children should
have on aaunel-not thick and heavy,
but thin aud Highland the old house
wives, however little in accordance with
science it may be. will insist upon it
that there is peculiar virtue in red
not possessed by the white.


But is this opposed to science? There
are many influences the existence o1
which is we'll established, which are
quite as subtle aud mysterious as thit
attributed to the red color in flannel.


Men and women are but children Of
larger growth, and while attending t<
the clothing Of the little ones, and see
ing to it that it is warm enough 70,
cooler nights, they will do well not u
be negligent Of their o~n.-Ledger,
Year: 1874

ly cultivate it for the first 4 or years.
His success would certainly go far to
prove the correctness Of his theory.


The grove if we recollect correctly,
has been planted some eight years, and
now it affords not only fine protection
for his house and orchard, but is a
most delightful place, would afford a
fine shade for picnic. Maple is the
most generally used in these groves.


There is another thing which de-
serves commendation, and that is the
building of fine school houses. We
are not sure but that the Grange move
ment has something to do with this.
Many Of the Oranges are held in school
houses and this has led the parents to
see how cramped, uncomfortable and
inconvenient many Of them are, and the
result is, the erection Of new, neat, and
commodious ones.


In some instances the Oranges arr
building fine halls. The largest o
these that We have seen, has been bull
by Bear Valley Grange in Wabash'
Co. The building is two stories high