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Year: 1878

The controversy between the powers in the East still goes oli without any thing of decisive character being made known. The daily dispatches from there give no clue to solution of the question as to how the trouble may end, and are, taken altogether, rather vague, and at times contradictory. One day it looks like all the pending nego- tiations would come to naught and that war would certainly cnsue; next day the dispatches give reports of negotia- tions which look more hopeful. Both Russia and England continue to show active preparations of their military and naval powers, and a buster and hub-bub is kept up which feeds the ex- citement of outside lookers-on. There is no interference by other powers. It looks like game of bluff on both sides, and we are decidedly inclined to the belief that there will be no war. Any days occurrences may, however, change the whole aspect of the case.
Year: 1878

On Thursday night. while q gentle
man from Dry Valley was displaying
his houeuanship on Meadow Valley
street. he was thrown. one of his feet
catching in the s.irrup. While in this
position he was swung around couple
of times. and whilst I'm transitn' his
body struck the board sidewalk. which
released his foot. Had not this occurred
the man would have boen either kill, d
OF badly hurt, al several individuals
were trying to catch the horse Ivy tha
bride. but were unable. He was bruised
up considerably .-Iioehe Record.
Year: 1878

A MAN had the end OF his nose carried
AWAY, and another was dangerously
wounded in the leg Of bis pants by err
ratio bullets from shooting gallery up
on the Fair grounds at Reno. Persons
should take reef in their noses while
navigating those latitudes.
Year: 1878

The Times. Revei'e says the mines OF
Good Hope District begin to attract the
attention OF outsiders. Rich specimens
OF ore are continually arriving from,
that locality. We are informed that a
party OF San Francisco gentlemen will
visit that camp early this week for
personal inspection o. the mines.
Year: 1878

cal power thus derived will not only


be the exact eQWcdlem of that de.


rived from the sun in the growth Of


the tree, but it will be esseatiolzu Mt


sdnae.-I do not mean merely that


identical heat, which was communi.


Gated to the elements of matter from


the Suns rays, during the time of the


growth OF the tree, but to include all


employed in the preparation of all


the elements of growth, and working


Tor ages prior to the trees existence.


i SIMPLY mean to say that a certain


and definite quantity OF energy is alb.


sorbed by the growth of each tree,


and this same. energy-now in the


tree once in the Sun-may be con.
veyed to, or converted into the me-
chanical power of steam engine
1t is as indistructable and in essence
as Interchangeable as the atoms of wa
ter themselves. And that quantity
or magnitude absorbed in the growth
OF tree, is as capable of exact state
ment, as the numbers of mathematics.
or the number of pounds of wood
contained in the tree


1t is very easy to see that if the
power of a steam engine is employed
to drive a mill saw, that same power
cannot be employed to drive planer
and that if the power of the engine
is only sufficient for the saw. what
ever is given to any other work must
detract just so much from the saw it
organic peilg7-eanlln;.f VI prs.-s !
employ force beyond a limited quan-
iity, and when an individual is build
inc up its own structure or growing,
its normal or natural maximum limit |
Of available force is required for that |
so that if any part of that
force be diverted to any other use,
the growth of the individual is by SO
much, retarded precisely on the same
that the speed of mill saw
would be retarded by diverting a
portion of the force of the engine to
planning. When the young orange
tree is growing, all the force it can
command is required to build up its
own structure and Nature orders,
that while this is being done, while
the tree is growing, fruit bearing
shall be suspended. 1t is the same
with animal as with plant. But by
man often, and sometimes by natural
courses, an abnormal condition, Of
what may be called prematurity is
brought about, consequently fruiting
or reproduction takes place, but
always at the expense of individual
growth, often of health and some
times of life. To gather up, to pre-
pare or digest and convey to grow
ing tissue the necessary elements of
matter, requires energy or force, and
when all the energy that plant or
animal can command is required, for
the healtbfnl performance of its own
proper physiological functions, as is
usually the case with every young
plant or young or working animal, it
is not possible to divide this force
with offspring without detriment to
the parents. Hence early bearing
should be deplored.


THE MANIFESTATION OF MATURITY,
in plants and animals are usually
very conspicuous. E. G. The author
says: "An upright limb rarely ever
bears fruit, y" A limb bent down and
tied down will be very apt to bear
the next season." All upright limbs
are young and rapidly growing.


Bent down limbs indicate age and
Year: 1878

grow slowly, usually all the limbs of


a young tree are upright, while those


upon older trees curve downward


hence an orange tree pruned to a


clean stem three feet high with limbs


nearly upright az four to ten years


or age will be likely to trail the ex-


tremites of the lower limbs on the


ground, at twenty, or the full bearing


period.


1t is evident that the slow growth


of the bent down limbs leaves


unused such a proportion of energy
in the tree or curved parts that a
certain condition and action not yet
clearly understood, is produced
which diverts portion Of this force
from producing wood to producing
fruit The most active vital parts of
the bent down limb on the buds.
The energy in theseno longer used to
increase size and multiply those parts,
may now be used to produce fruit,
and IN conformity with the order of
Nature above referred to. One of
the effects of bending down the limbs
is to check the flow of sap and doubt
less other currents are also checked.
The same or similar effects are pro-
duced by pruning the roots away, by
girdling or otherwise mutilating the
limb OF whole tree. / have had very
young trees bear fruit the next sea-
son after severe frost had SO Grid
led the small trunk that they have
died the coming Fall loaded with
he e Summer. err Ailsfnelsssss4 " y astsags
% fruit.


BY GRAFTING OR BUDDING,
here is produced a structure of
woody tissues, at the point of uniou,
50 d ferentss from that Of the other
parts of the tree, that there is always
4 sort of node formed, and doubtless
the circulation is there modified, so
that the condition Of the inserted sci
on or bud, becomes SIM liar to that OF
a girdled or beat down limb, or of an
older tree. This modification hastens
the bearing period. That this result
is produced at the pointof junction,
is evident, from the fac1 that scion
or bud, inserted in the t Zee whence it
is taken, will bear Just aFsoon as ifta
ken from any other tref
Year: 1878

and do not starve is a complete answer to .
great deal of the prevalent croaking.


As to the agricultural class. which forms
the great bulk of our population, an ex-
ploration'of any rural district would suffice
to show that it has both employment and
bread; nay, that it is in state of comfort
and prosperity. We can reach this
conclusion by an easier and surer
method than wide personal exami-
nations. We have trustworthy statistics
Of the crops, which have never been SO
abundant as in the present year. We have
never raised SO much wheat, corn and cot
ton as in the season which has. just passed.
The raising of these splendid crops has
given full employment to agricultural
labor, and the vast exports which are in prog
ress proves that the labor does not miss its
reward. We conclude, therefore, that if
people will open their eyes to facts instead
of lending their ears to croakers they need
not take very desponding view of the con-
dition Of the country.
Year: 1878

We publish this morning some details of
the recent outbreak at st. Croix, from our
correspondent who has visited the island
and inspected the devastated region. The
amount of damage done to property by the
infuriated negroes is, as shown by our pub
lished list of burned estates, enormous,
and must paralyze for some time the indus
tries of st. Croix Cropping out through
the story of this strange affair we note the
evidences of injustice to the colored
laborers which must account for many
of their savage ncts. The condition
Of the field hands on the plantations
was scarcely step removed from the old
time slavery. The remuneration of ten
cents per day, fixed by law, was mani
testify unjust one, considering that central
factory paid forty cents. The suspension
Of operations at this place threw n number
of hands ont Of work at the time when the
so-called yearly contracts were being con-
sidered, and an effort was made by the la
borers to secure higher pay. The attempt
to hold these poor creatures on the island
by charging them FIVE dollars for a passport
was cruel outrage, and IL is to
be regretted that the authorities who
sanctioned it were not the only sufferers.
If the negroes were free men they had
right TO form an estimate of the value Of
their labor. If they were slaves, then il was
ridiculous to offer them passports for fve
dollars. Given large number Of semi
savage negroes, who have been subjected
association OF West Indian planters could
inhict upon them, let these poor wretches
become wholly savage from drinking rum.
and IL is not to be wondered at that they
will act as they have at ut. Croix. Our
Year: 1878

correspondent cites several instances
of the cruelties practised by the whites
on the innocent as we'll as the guilty There


is more mercy in the breast of wild Sioux
warrior toward his enemy in the hour of
victory than in that of badly scared white
man who can safely glut his vengeance on
the prisoner from whom he had been but
recently hiding in terror. The authorities
now seek to remedy by executions the evils
they provoked by injustice, and, although
the re-establishment of order and security
at st. Croix is a necessity, it should not be
reached by wholesale official slaughterings
armed whites against the unarmed fugitive
negroes.
Year: 1878

The attempted suicide Of John Carpenter,
in the jefferson Market Prison yesterday.
was singular case. The crime for which the
man was in confinement was the attempted
assassination of girl named Mary Lyons
in st. Francis Xavier's Church during early
mass about three weeks ago. The girl was
q stranger to him, and his story is that he
mistook her for his wife, who had deserted
him and whom he had intended to murder.
Fortunately the wound was not fatal and
the young woman recovered. Carpenter
was to have been taken to the General Ses-
sions yesterday, and while getting ready
suddenly drew knife from his coat and
plunged it into his abdomen. performing
the operation of hari-kari. Singularly
enough, his companion in the cell
was q prisoner who had twice attempted
suicide, and Carpenter was asked to keep
sharp lookout against repetition of the
attempt. Whether this first put the
thought OF suicide into his own head it is
impossible to say, but the act and the cir
cumstances Of the crime for which he was
imprisoned prove that the man was of un-
sound mind. Some inquiry should be
made as to the manner in which he became
possessed of the knife. The Jefferson
Market Prison can scarcely bo fitting
place for the confinement Of would-be mur-
derers if prisoner can secure, sharpen,
conceal and use table knife at his will
Year: 1878

One OF the latest police theories IN regard
to the attempted assassination Of Alderman
Morris, we are told, is that the would-be
murderer was 'an insane man, who ran out
into the street with dirk in his hand, and,
Alderman Morris being the first man he
met, deliberately attacked him." Such
theory may save the police a great deal of
trouble in looking for the real criminal,
and, if generally accepted as correct, may
relieve the force from the discredit of allow
ing an assassin who stabs citizen in pub
lie thoroughfare at half-past five or six
o'clock in the morning to escape detection.
But it is to be hoped that the author
tiles will not suffer such an i'm
probable explanation of the crime to
induce them to relax their efforts to bring
the ruf6an to justice. An insane man who
rushes into the streets with the intention
of stabbing any one he may meet does not
ordinarily display 80 much dexterity in
escaping pursuit as was manifested by the
Alderman's assailant. Besides, it is not
likely that lunatic would indulge in such
q freak without the fact becoming known
to some one who would before this have
explained the mystery. 1t is probable, as
the Alderman is said to believe, that the
criminal mistook him for another person
against whom he had deadly enmity.
The assassin must, however, in that
case have had occasion to believe that
the party he intended to murder would
pass the spot where the act was
committed at that particular hour, as the
presumption is that he was lying in wait
for his victim. Another solution suggests
itself Alderman Morris has been in the
habit of leaving his home about five o'clock
in the morning to 60 to Washington Market
to make purchases tor his store. May not
some desperate rufian who knew this fact,
and imagined that the Alderman must carry
with him considerable ready money tor
marketing purposes, have awaited his COM
ing and stabbed him in the expectation that
he would at once fall to the ground, and
with the intention of then robbing him and
making his escape? When he saw that
after three stabs his victim did not fall he
may have deemed it prudent to give up the
attempt and to fly. This is certainly q
more common sense theory than that of the
insane man on rampage suggested by the
police.
Year: 1878

The robbery Of the Manhattan Savings
Bank was, of course, the principal subject
of conversation in the city yesterday. That
SO daring a crime should have been COM
mitted almost under the shadow of Police
Headquarters, and on the most frequented of
all our streets, sent, very naturally, thrill
through the entire community and created
an exceedingly uncomfortable feeling. We
are, unfortunately, somewhat accustomed
to crime in its various phases; but burglary
of the magnitude of that described in our
columns yesterday morning does not occur
many times in generation, and it is not sur
prising that it should have caused some
thing like panic among timid people.


The developments yesterday throw no new
bank and the police appear to be entirely
in the dark as to the identity of the thieves.
The police, it is to be presumed, are en-
deavoring to come up to public expectation
in the fulilment Of their duty. AS to the
bank officers, they sufficiently recovered
their senses yesterday to avail themselves Of
the sixty day act, and, in all probability, to
change the combination Of their vault
and intrust the secret to somebody besides
a janitor whom they have just discovered to
be fool. This, to be sure, is only the
wisdom that locks the stable door after the
visit Of the horse thief; but 1t is something,
and the depositors have the satisfaction of
knowing that the present available property
of the bank-the FIVE hundred dollars worth
of burglars tools which the robbers failed
to carry offs entirely safe. Owing to the
non-negotiable character of the great bulk
Of the securities, and the sound condition
Of the bank, the depositors will suffer no
loss They may have to submit to some in
convenience; but in the nature Of things it
cannot be very great, as the bank ought
to find little or no difficulty in obtaining
whatever moneys may be needed to meet
pressing demands. The lesson of the burg
larry is an obvious one to bank officials and
others having the custody Of valuable prop
erty. The keys Of vaults must be given to
some one, but it is very certain that weak
witted janitors will hardly be their Gus
todians in future. As to the police. we beg
to remind them that the public expects at
their hands the detection of the thieves.
The men who planned and so successfully
carried ont so daring crime are not ordi-
nary criminals, and our detective system
must be bad indeed if they escape arrest.
Year: 1878

AK EXCEEDINGLY IMPoRTANT DECISION has
been given in the New Jersey Court of Chancery
by Chancellor Runyon. The amount involved
is not very large. but the style in which the great
corporation of the Pennsylvania Railroad is
treated is refreshing. 1t may not hurt but it
will certainly astonsh the company to find itself
accused of an ATTEMPTED fraud
Year: 1878

THE PATHETIC STORY in the courts yesterday
Of the young man who paid thirty thousand dol
lars for the privilege of falling in love with his
aunt has this moral-it is better to fall in love
with the amt of some body else.
Year: 1878

The FAMOUS JUMEL CASE has contributed
another chapter to the prosaic annals of the
federal Supreme Court. The decision just given
is favorable to the side of that very remark
able woman.
Year: 1878

One night when the earth was so
silent that the footballs of the
guardian angels who passed to and
fro could almost be heard, and when
the grand canopy of heaven blased
with bright stars, an old man, who
had made his bed on the grass un-
der q lone tree on the commons,
awoke with a shiver. The chill
night air had orept through his
faded and worn garments and
pinehed his flesh. He sat up and
looked about him with that longing
expression in hi his eyes that GENES
only when men feel that the earth
is fast passing away from them for
ever. He had no friends. Even
the wandering dog which passed
near him growled angrily as it
caught the flutter Of the old mans
rags In the gentle breeze.


When the tree becomes old and
Withered and ready to die, men
despiso it, They forget the beauty
it held for years, and they give no
praise for the grateful shade it
offered to thousands. They would
have its shade and strength and
beauty endure forever, forgetting
that every living thing must grow
older day by day and at last die,


Men had forgotten all the good
Year: 1878

words ever spoken by this old man.
If he had smoothed the rough paths
of the poor; if he had turned the
wicked into the better paths; if his
kind works had filled despairing
hearts with new hopes, he had no
credit for it in the hearts of men.
They had sneered and scoffed at his
low step and many tatters, and they
had laughed in derision as he fell
upon the hard earth. No sailor, cast
upon lone isle in the great ocean,
seeing ships sailing to and fro, but
none ever turning toward him,
could have felt such isolation as
this cid man felt. With his long,
grey locks, with his rags and tat.
ters, with his wounded and aching
heart, with his knowledge that his
hours were numbered, he turned
his pale face to the bright stars and
unused:


"When the leaves hutter down l
shall die, and like them | shall be
forgotten by all men. They will
bury me, but they will not mark
my grave. They may write my
name in a book, but no one will
ever turn to it. Let me die tonight
let me be no more when the
golden leaves hutter down to the
chilly earthp


Shivering in the keen air of mid
night, he held his face in his hands
and pondered and prayed. Few
hearts had sinned less, even when
smarting under the sense of the
worlds -idicule and neglect-few
hearts had deeper longing for the
blessed rest of heaven. BY and by
the air no longer chilled him. He
grew warmer, and his old heart
grew larger, and as sleep came back
to his eyelids he whispered:


'1f | ever wronged one human
being in Gods great world may the
angels forgive me-"


The frost was creeping onward
from the north creeping over hill.
top and orchard and meadow SO
softly that the blades of grass hard.
ly quivered. 1t crept to the tree
and fingered for a moment in its
branches. The green leaves shiv.
cred then the green faded away,
little by little, and lol each leal
was robed in gold. They quivered
in their JOY and gladnes8 as the
breeze whispered:


"The old man below you is dead
He was waiting for these golden
robes to come to you. l will waft
you down and you shall cover hi
gray head with such crown as nc
king ever wore"


And while the leaves were float
ing down to glorify what men haC
despised, an angel in heaven turned
the golden pages of book anC
wrote: Earth has sent another
soul to dwell with us and find eter
nal Joy and peace"
Year: 1878

INDIAN WAR; Late telegraphic
advices Indicate that the people
have cause to dread recurrence of
that terrible scourge, an Indian war,
The Bannocks are the ones this time
proving to be a "thorn in tho flesh"
If the bill for consolidating the res
ervations in this territory becomes
law, we expect literal war of ex-
termination within our borders, as
many of the Indians on the Sound
would prefer dying by their firesdes
to being removed to associate with
other tribes on a reservation, and nc
doubt the same feeling exists among
them in other parts Of the territory
After all, they cannot be blamed
much.
Year: 1878

not difficult. Dread of displeasing my
wife or hurting her feelings was upper
most in my mind. What would be her
anxiety as hour after hour passed on
and did not return What would the
rest of the household think as the after
noon passed and no blackberries came ?
What would be her modification when
the news was brought that her husband
had been eaten up by a bear cannot
imagine anything more ignominious than
to have husband eaten by bear"
(Then he arranged his epitaph, and tried
how it would look in English and Ger
man. All this time-)


"The bear was coming on. He had
in fact come on. judged that he could
see the. whites of my eyes. All my SUBJ
sequent reflections were confused. rails
cd the gun, covered the bears breast
with the sight, and let drive. Then [
turned and ran like deer. did not
hear the bear pursuing. l looked back.
The bear had stopped. He was lying
down. l then remembered that the best
thing to do after having fired your gun
is to reload it. slipped in charge,
keeping my eyes on the bear. He never
stirred. l walked back suspiciously.
There was quiver in the hind legs, but
no other motion. Still he might be
shamming Bears often sham. To make
sure, | approached and put ball into
his head He didn't mind it now he
minded nothing. Death had come to
him with a merciful suddenness. He
was calm in death. In order that he
might remain so, blew his brains out
and then started for home. l had killed
bear p
Year: 1878

TRUE RIoHEs.-A gentleman in the
north of England once said to friend
who accompanied him in a walk:
"These beautiful grounds, as far as your
eye can reach, those majestic woods on
the brow of the distant hills, and those
extensive and valuable mines, belong to
me; yonder powerful steam engine OBJ
tains the produce of my mines, and those
ships convey my wealth to other parts
of the kingdom "Well, my lord, re-
piled the gentleman, "do you see yonder
little hovel that seems but a speck on
your estate? There dwells poor wo.
man who can say more than all this, for
she can say, Christ is mine In very
few years your lordship's possessions
will be confined within the scanty limits
of a tomb; but she will then have enter.
ed on far nobler inheritance than your
lordship now possesses Inheritance
incorruptible, undefled, and that fadetf
not away, reserved in heaven for those
who are kept by the power Of God thro
faith unto salvation
Year: 1878

A great many mistake religious senti-
ment for religious life. Because they
are touched by religious truth. they fam
cy they are religious. Because they are
susceptible to religion, they think they
have it. An impression is to them the
same as if they obeyed it; to appreciate
right is the same as though they did the
right. Weeping over book of martyrs.
they almost think it as heroic as though
they died at the stake themselves. They
come to take what God has planted in
them as substitute for practical
Christian life.