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Year: 1874

There looms in the near future
the ominous figure of Democracy
bent on desperate effort to regain
the control of national affairs
There is something admirable. but
alarming as well, i'll the s.pluck,"
not to say impudence, of the Dem,
ocratic pal ty, incumbered bya load
of political sins which would have
long since swept from existancc
any other party organization. The
heats of summer do not enervate
nor the frosts of winter chill it. It
rises from defeat full armed for
renewal of the battle for the lost
cause. It neither apologies for
nor Furnishes the political crimes OF
its adherents. 1t does not seek to
hide it's bad deeds, but rather en-


blazons them on it's banners, and
holds them high in front of the
column. Everywhere it opposes
the civilrights bill. In New Hamp
shire it proposes, on the very
threshold of it's advent to power, to
add to the burdens of taxation by
increasing the salaries of public
servants. In Connecticut it sends
to the United States Senate the
most radical State rights Bourbon
Democrat known to the history OF
the State. Everywhere it plants
itself firmly on its record of dis
loyalty and constructive treason,
and threatens to pull down all that
the Republican party has built up
during the last dozen years. The
Democratic party is thoroughly
reactionary and menaces every right
of the people guaranteed by the
recent amendments to the Consti-
tuition. This is the general situa


ton the Republicans of Illinois are
called to face, and it is fortunate
that they realize the gravity of the
issues involved in the contest upon
which they are about to enter
Hereafter it is not between the
Republican party and disorganized
factions that q contest is to be
waged, but between the Republican
party and the Democratic party as
it was before and during the war.
In sending Eaton to the United
States Senate the Democratic party
reasserts the doctrine of State
rights in its most odious form; il
virtually declares that the war for
the suppression of the rebellion
was wrong, and that the South was
right in resisting Federal authority.
Year: 1874

While man was blowing on farm
in Crawford county a few days ago
with a pair of horses, one Of them sud
denly sunk into the ground depth Of
fifteen feet. The horse was finally got
out alive.
Year: 1874

She IS IN many respects the exact op-
posite of the dashing firt. The latter
looks you straight and steadily in the
face with clear, unfaltering eyes; the
former has dOwncast orbs, sometiml S
lifted suddenly with great effect, and
as suddenly the white lids, with then
long dark lashes, fall. The demure
tiirt bushes a great deal, and is quite
simple and modest in manner. She is
also of lachrymOse tendency, and her
eyes fill with becoming tears on suita-
bic occasion. She is sffectiOnate and
dOeile to creditable extreme,
and deports herself on all oc-
casions in modest style, She does the
poor oppressed In a telling manner,
and a man is a brute indeed if. after
receiving her soft confidence.
he is not inclined TO do battle in
her behalf against the whole
world, and does not so express himself
to the extent of a bona fde proposal.
for better, for worse 1t is most
favorable circumstance for the demure
hirt if she is obliged for some reason
to reside with an aunt. This relative
is represented, under the strictest vows
Of secrecy, by the dutiful niece, to be
such monster of iniquity and oppres-
sion, and her sufferings under her sad
trials Of so terrible nature, that the
cOnfdant tears his hair and groans
aloud that age aud sex prevent him
from challenging the indulgent and
worthy old lady, and inficting upon
her condign chastisement. While he
fairly weeps at the piteous recital, she
beseeches him to calm himself, and says
she must bear with what fortitude she
may, the burden laid upon her. There
upon the afflicted youth madly COM
mences a speech with my poor angel
of which the result is obvious.
Year: 1874

Roasted coffee says the homeopathic
World, is one of the most powerful
means, not only Of rendering animal
and vegetable efluvia innocuOus, but
of actually destroying them. In proof
of this, the statement is made that a
room in which meat, in an advanced
degree Of decomposition, had been kept
for some time, was instantly.deprived
of all smell on an open coffee roaster
being carried throughit containing one
pound of newly roasted coffee, and in
another room, the effiuyiun occasioned
by the clearing out Of cess-pOol, so
that sulphureted hydrogen and ammo
MIA could be clearly detected, was en-
tirely removed within half a minute on
the employment Of three ounces of
fresh coffee. The best mode is to dry
the raw bean, pound it in a mortar, and
then roast the powder on a moderately
heated iron plate until it assumes a
dark brown hue; it is in this state ready
for use.
Year: 1874

A SEAT on the Supreme bench Of
Arkansas is not an enviable honor Just
now. The same fell spirit of ambition
which has thrown the State into the
commissions of civil war would not
shrink from the assassination of one
or two Judges, if necessary to further
its purposes.
Year: 1874

So, the Twenty have met and
had their say and dispersed. We pub
ish report of their proceedings as a
mere matter of news, though it pains
US to know that Col. Colyar's elaborate
manifesto was not adopted. Why leave
Hamlet out of the play?
Year: 1874

Is is not rather queer that the resO-
lutiOns adopted by the .Twenty-cent
men, last night, should have been Of
fered by the representative of rail.
road corporation which is notoriously
interested-in depressing the credit of
the State to the lowest possible point
to which indirect reputation could
force II
Year: 1874

LAST year was a bad year for cham
pagne. In 1873 thirty thousand dozen
less of the fashionable tipple were i'm
ported into the United States than
reached here in 1872. Now that the
crusaders have got to work it may be
that 1874 gill show a still larges.
diminutiOn of the trade.
Year: 1874

THE temper of the Senate Commit
tee on the financial question, as indica-
ted by this mornings dispatches, is for
initiating the bank monopoly and de-
creasing the greenbacks, on which
Government and people pay no interest.
This is not exactly the kind of initiation
that some Democrats desire, but it is
the best they are likely to obtain from
a Radical Congress. Besides, this
bank feature will sugar coat thepill for
the Presidents swallow.
Year: 1874

1t was agreed tonight al meeting of
the members of the Grand Army of tine Re
public of the Department of New York
that there shall be no distinction between
Union and Confederate grave on decora-
tion day. Both will be decorated. OF the
latter there are many in Cypress Hill and
other places around New York.
Year: 1874

Mr.. Gordon gave notice he would submit
an amendment to strike ont the provisions
of the bill giving all persons full and equal
enjoyments of the common SCHOOLS and pub
lie institutions of learning or beIevplence
supported in whole or in part by general
taxation,


The Senate then went into executive ses-
sion,
Year: 1874

ELECTRIC SEA LIGHTs.-Frank Les
lie has in his establishment an electric
apparatus for electrotyping and photo
graphing. On dark and slightly foggy
night last summer he put the apparatus
on the roof Of his building, and the light
given was strong enough to show ship
ping in the harbor two miles away, and
TO enable citizens third OF mile away
to read newspapers as easily as by day


light. Electric lights should be carried
at the mastheads of all steamers, and
would cost scarcely S25 per night. The
apparatus requires for its working an en-
gine of seven-horse power, but it could
be readily attached to the engine Of the
vessel. A French electrician has recently
invented an apparatus that is said to give
light nearly four times as intense as
that furnished by Mr.. Leslie's machine.
Year: 1874

won worldwide reputation, and in the art
centers Of Europe it is an admitted fact that
its wood-cuts are examples of the highest per-
lection ever attained. The common prejudice
in favor Of steel plates is rapidly yielding to
more educated and discriminating taste which
recognizes the advantages of superior artistic
quality with greater facility of production
The wood-cuts of THE ALDINE possess all
the delicacy and elaborate finish of the most
costly stecl-plate, while they afford better
rendering of the artists original.


The popular feature of a copiously illus
trated Christmas number of THE ALDINE
will be continued.
Year: 1874

OWING TO THE DELAlS ) that have
" attended the printing and distribution
OF the HcpDrt5 of the Commissioners an
MtRiHg ,VottShcS, these carefully pre-
pared and otherwise useful publications.,
have failed TO keep the world duly posted
in regard to the condition and progress OF
mining affairs on the Pacific Cou>t, the
information conveyed through this me.
dium being already many months old by
the time it reaches the eye of the general
public. With view to furnishing fresh
intelligence on mining topics, and bring
ing the history Of this great industry down
to the most recent date, the undersigned
will, on or about the first Of February
next, issue large octave volume, de-
voted to a consideration Of mining mat
ters, as they exist at the present time, in
the States of California and Nevada. In
the fulflment of this purpose the author
will at once visit every important district
and locality in these States that has not
already been lately examined or heard
from through reliable channels, to the
end that the information embodied in this
volume may be recent and authentic.
The great aim will be to fill the book with
live practical matter; wherefore, only
such properties as have been brought to a
productive condition, or as have, through
developments made, established for them
selves a good degree of actual or. pros
pectivc merit will receive attention nor
will any notice be bestowed on processes
or appliances other than such as have met
with approval after extended working
tests.


This work will be printed on the best
quality Of paper, and be elegantly and
substantially bound, the design being to
impart to it such mechanical excellence
as will reflect credit upon the book max
ing art in California.


HENRY DEGROOT.


SSH Francisco, Nov, 1873.
Year: 1874

THE ALDINE, while issued with all the
regularity has none of the temporary or timely
interest characteristic of ordinary periodicals.
1t is an elegant miscellany of pure, light, and
graceful literature, and collection of pic
lures, the rarest specimens of artistic skill, in
oack b an% ord wite eafn f ts S9csGeIhg
the real value and beauty of The Aldine will
be most appreciated after it has been bound
up at the close of the year. While other pub
pared with rivals of a similar class, The Aldine
is unique and original conception-alone and
unapproached - absolutely without competi-
tion in price or character. The possessor of
the quantity of fine paper and engravngs in
any other shape or number of volumes for ten
times its cost; and then, there are the chro-
mos besides
Year: 1874

The latest feature attracting attention
in the Frigid Zone is Greenland coal
mine. 1t is nearly hundred miles from
Godhayen, and on the northeast side Of
the island Of Disco, in the weigat Or strnit
The vein Of coal is about thirty inches in
thickness, running longitudinally into the
mountain few feet back from the beach,
and about a hundred feet above the level.
A party that went in pursuit of the PoIaris
sufferers visited this mine and examined
it. They found on the top Of the vein Of
coal three strata, two Of sand, with one Of
clay between the two, forming total
thickness of fifteen feet, which sand and
clay had to be removed before the coal
could be taken out. They found veins Of
ice running through the sand as far down
as the coal, and the vein Of coal increased
in thickness and good quality as it descend
ed, containing large percentage of bitn4
men aud light sprinkling Of rosin. The
FIRST day the party mined and took out and
carried to the beach, ready for embarka-
ton, about fifteen tons of gas coal If
they had remained they would have taken
out one hundred tons Of coal within FIVE
days. Il is thus proven that the mineral
treasures Of Greeland are not confined to
kryolite, and indeed there may be many
valuable mines Of various kinds here, the
mining Of which in the bosom of the earth
would be free from the terrible severity of
the cold. Doubtless further explorations
and mining operations hereafter viii render
Greenland habitable country for mining
population. With good coal available there
in ample supplies, life viii be shorn Of
much of the terror hitherto incident to the
climate.
Year: 1874

KEROSENE LAMPs--HowTo PREVENT
EXPLOSIONS. Ns.-This is the season when
nearly every paper we take up relates some
horrible casualty from the explosion of a
kerosene lamp, or the like, and women
and children are either killed outright or
terribly burned and Scared for life A
simple knowledge Of the inAammable ma
ture Of the fluid would probably put an
end to nearly all the accidents. First, no
lamps should ever be filed after dark by
the light of a candle. Always do this
work after the breakfast dishes are put
away, and then not only fll them, but wash
the chimueys, for IL they are dim and
smokey, you cannot expect to have bright
light Take the chimney in one hand and
breathe through it, then draw a large wisp
of paper up and down it, and all the blur
will be removed If the chimney is
blackened with lamp smoke, turn warmish
water through the tube, aud then wipe out
with paper in the same style as before. If
the lamps are glass, and they become
clouded with deposit from the kerosene,
take lime water that is milky with the lime
and shake it up in the lamp. Do this
with two different washings, and all the
deposit will be removed. A little chloride
Of lime, dissolved in warm water, and left
in a lamp or can which has held kerosene,
will deodorize it very soon. Lamps must
be filed every morning. This is an i'm
peratiye duty for every housekeepcr to
perform, for as the oil burns down in q
lamp, there is created highly infamma-
Bile gas, which gathers imperceptible over
the surface, and as fast as the oil is con
sumed, this gas increases, so when the oil
is nearly out of the lamp, the slightest jar
of the table will set the gas on FIRE; an ex-
plosion follows instantaneously, and a
bombshell would not be more destructive,
for its touches are deathly. But if the
oil is burned only half way down in your
lamp, the gas is not Of sufficient power to
do any injury; therefore let me beg of
you never to defer the operation of lamp
filing to another day, but see yourselfthat
it is done Country Gentleman
Year: 1874

them all his life that be would never allow
one to be lighted in lis presence. In the
discharge Of her household occupations,
the care of her children, needlework, aud
the cultivation Of her garden and flowers,
the Anglo-saxon wife passed her time
peacefully and happily in the quiet dis
charge of her several duties in the station
Of life to which it had pleased Providence
to call her.
Year: 1874


I sing my hymn to the mountains dim
In their solitudes of snow,
And trill my notes where the white mist float
In the valleys far below.


whistle through the thistle


And moan in the trees,
. daily in the valley


And dronc over seas.
From the gray of dawn till the night comes OF
And round to the morning star,
Each hours breve in the song weave
Round all like bright sinar.


quiver DER the river


And sigh through the brake,


wander here and yonder,


And l fly DER the lake.
When storms arise in the dark ming skies
And hurl their thunders abroad,
! join my song in cadence long,
And deep as the voice of God


In column dense and solemn,
Over headland and town,


The marching storm o'er-arching,
Sends its dread lightniugs down.
I'm in the path Of the fre-6end's wrath,
Aswith Misunderstanding breath,
He sends his blight through the lurid night
With the dreadful doom of DEATH


The morrow must bring sorrow
And the tomb have its share;
\ Al 4


Chant of gloom and despair.
I'm on the wave when the waters rave,
And in tempestuous glee,
sing my dirgc where the whitning surge
Makes woefnl minstrelsy!


The rattle of the battle


And the means deep and long
The sighing Of the dying


Are my minor.toncs of song.
Ny evening psalm is a cooling balm
To the fevered brow Of care,
And notes Of praise from the busy days
Comminglc in gladness there.


How heetly and how sweetly
The hours move along,


confessing and expressing


The powers ofmy song.
The days go by with laugh or sigh
Like the htful song sing;
But best by half are the ones that laugh
For the joyful hope they bring.


All dearer far and clearer


The melody Of mirth,


To tighten up and brighten


The melancholy earth.
sing for aye through the night and day,
The song as il comes TO me
The ceaseless din of the world we're in,
The voice Of immensity!


Forever down the river


OF Times fast ebbing days,


Ny widest notes aud mildest,
Send chimes Of ceaseless praise.
When your life shall reach its sunset hour.
May its harmonies all blend
With those that hallow the home above
And find fruition Of hope and love,
When the shadows shall descend.
And may your happiness prove
For evcrmore, the beauty and power,
OF a song rs sweet


As life complete.
Year: 1874

Gen. Henderson was yesterday nomina-
ted in the sixth district for Congress, on
the l5Oth ballot, over Hawley and Lynde
either of whom was far more deserving Of
the radical nomination. Henderson $ only
strong claims seem to be on the grounC
that unless he got the radical nomination


he would do as in days gone by, bolt the
convention and run anyhow. Personally
the general is very clever fellow, but po
lticalIy he is cypher--that is, his politi-
cal notions seem to be of an elastic kind
that can easily be worked to suit any party
that would run him for congress If that
district is to send Republican to con-
gress, Lynde is the best man, but that fact
is a sufficient reason why Republican
convention did not nominate him. They
were never known to nominate their best
men-PeOrid Democrat, 4h.


The Democrat is exactly right as to the
elasticity" of Tom Hendersons politics -
but the indications are that this district
don't want him for representative.
There are few Thousand Republicans in
this district who say they shall vote for who
ever the Reformers nominate and inas
much as that party had majority in the
district last fall, on the Office of county
treasurer, it seems probable that they will
elect whoever they bring out for congress
on the 24th OF this month,
Year: 1874

Among the stereotyped arguments used
for Hawley are these: Unless we 90 fol
Hawley Rock Island will lose the congress
man. If we present new man the Other
counties will also present new man and
nominate him What ground have they
for this claim t? low do they know the
other counties will not be as likely to in
dorse Lynde as Hawley, if Lynde goes in-
to the convention with the delegates from
bis own county? When asked who the
new man will be, they cant answer
They do not know of any one yet but
they're sure some one will be found.


This is probably simply threat that un-
less our people vote as Hawley dictates ne
will use his influence to bring out a new
man for the sole purpose Of defeating
Judge Lynds.-Rock Island Union, July
l4th.


On the convention being recalled to or
der, George Mixter, chairman of the
Rock Island delegation, arose and stated
that at the peremptory demand of Judge
Lynde the Rock Island delegation with
drew him as candidate.


Mr.. Mixter's speech was greeted with
vociferOus applause, and A. w. Albro, ol
Galva, moved that the order of voting be
changed. SO that Rock Island should take
the lead. This motion was. unanimously
adopted, and amid breathless silence Mr.
Mixter arose and announced the vote Of his
delegation, fourteen for Henderson.


Mr.. Mixter, of Rock Island, represent
ing the special committee, escorted Gen.
Henderson to the stage. The General
was introduced as our next congressman
by President Starr. We cannot re
gret the selection of Gen. Henderson.
He will have equal wright with a man who
lives here. The Rock Island dele
cation were free to vote as they chose. -
Rock Island Union, Sept Sd.


Well-who was it that nominated the
new MANI Who threw away the congress
man from our county? The Lynde dele
cation absolutely had in their power to
keep the congressman in our county oD
every one of the $50 ballots during the
protracted struggle of two days. They
threw it away from our county, and they
must take the responsibility.
Year: 1874

Aleck Owens, the Republican candidate
for sheriff in this county was up at Prince
ton during the convention, doing his best
to beat Hawley out of the nomination.
Aleck had better have been at Cambridge
building meeting houses.
Year: 1874

Epstein, the Harper House jeweller,
starts for New York this evening, to buy a
big stock of nice goods for his new jewelry
store. In the meantime he is selling all
his fine goods on hand, at cost, to save
moving, and in order to open his new store
with bran new stock. Good time for bar
gains. t.
Year: 1874

SPRING: FIGHTs.-The spring fights
opened here last week; in some cases
commencing and ending in the use of
great many "hard" words; in others
resulting in light skilmish, reminding
us a great deal of our bOyish days,
when one lad would put q chip on the
shoulder of the other and dare him to
knock it Oft. The chip not being re-
moved, the yOungster would become
more spunky, and Il second challenge
would go forth-I dare You like black
dog yes, like a big black dog to knock
this chip off my shoulder. Young
John Phoenix, however, tells us how he
whipped the other feller: You see,
Bill and me went in to take q drink,
and felt, in my pocket for my knife,
and found 1T was, gone and said, Bill,
you stole my knife and he said | was
and said he was q liar, and | could
whip him If | was bigger'n him; and
he said he would rock me to sleep,
mother, and said he was bigger one !;
and he said | never had the measles !;
and said for him to fork over that
knife, or I'd fix him for a tombstone :;
and he said my grandmother was no
gentleman; and said he darsn't take
it up, but he did, you bet; then got up
again, and said he was too much afraid
to do it again and tried to, but he didn't,
and | grabbed him and threw him down
on the top of me like several bricks !;
and tell you it beat all-and so did he ;
and my little dog got up behind Bill
and bit him; and Bill kicked at the
dog, and the dog ran, and | ran after
the dog to fetch him back; and didn't
catch him till I got clear home; and I'll
whip him more yet. Is my eye black q?
Year: 1874

A Western paper tells of a man who
recently shot and killed his wife one
night not long ago, mistaking her for Il
cat: Men out that way frequently shoot
their wives mistaking them for cats OF
dogs, but somehow or other they never
kill cats or dogs mistaking them for
their wives,
Year: 1874

" How much better it would have been
to have shaken hands and allow it was
all a mistake,n said Detroit Judge.
"Then the lion and the lamb would have
lain down together, and white-robed
peace would have famed you with her
wings and elevated you with her smiles
OF appreciation. But no; you went to
clawing and biting and rolling in the
mud, and here you are. It's five dollars
apiece
Year: 1874

DosfEsTIc.-Keep your wife at home,
if you can-that is, if you have a home
for her; if not, make it your first effort
to furnish her with home. 1t is no
profit to woman to be running about
the neighborhood she lives in, acquiring e
habits of idleness and to the neglect of
her domestic duties. One of the best
ways for man to keep his wife at home
is, to stay at home himself,
Year: 1874

Il fear" said a country minister to his
flock, " when l explained to you in my
last charity sermon that philanthropy
was the love of our Species, you must
have understood me to say Specie
which may account for the smallness Of
the collectiOn.n
Year: 1874

"That dog Of yourn flew at me this
morning and bit me on the leg, and L
notify you that intend to shoot it the
first time | sec it," 1.-THE dog is not
mad.n Mad | know he's not mad.
What has he got to be mad about? It's
me that's mad,n