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Year: 1878

All admit that carpets manufactured

 from cast-off garments are both useful and comfortable. I cannot see much

 beauty in them myself, but I discovered long ago that comfort is of more impor- tance than beauty. 1 am always making rag carpets, and presume shall do 1t as long as life and strength permits.

 When garment is laid aside for good,

 my practice is to rip it to pieces, wash thoroughly, and cut, sew and wind it into balls. have tight barrel, with a paper spread over the bottom and a sprinlIing of fine tobacco scattered over it. I put my balls 1n the barrel, and every spring cut the rags at my leisure the children can sew and wind as well as any one. I sprinkle fine tobacco over the balls and tuck an old sheet over them; cover the barrel up tight, and 1t is all right till I get ready to add another con- tribution. In this way I get my rags ready and keep the house clear from an accumulation of old, dirty garments that are nuisance anyway. In making car pets allow pound and quarter oi rags to fill yard of cloth for room twenty five feet square calculate to have about thirty-6ve or thirty-six pounds oi rags. If there are any odds or ends left over they are woven into rug that car be spread before stoves or doors. Inevel expend time or labor in coloring my rags

 The last carpet made had rags enougt for seventyeight yards, and never fell

 the labor at all it was done at odd jobs

 and I was astonished to find had sucl @ quantity finished. I generally allow three knots and half of warp to tn, yard. The labor of reellng and colorine the warp is the hardest part of the worl for me- I know ever so many peopl' who color and pass whole season eye

 @ carpet, but when 1t is done 1t is only rag carpet. The prettiest one ever say was just brown and blue, narrow stripe

 of each, and shaded from dark to light

 little black was woven 1n to give tn

 dark contrast, One reason why we en joy rag carpets is this: Weare not afrai' to use them, and when one is worn ou we eau make another just as good Sweeping carpets wears them out faste

 than using them by half. A stiff broom should never be used on carpets pick ing up shreds and bits is the best way and brush the dust off with soft brush
Year: 1878

False Economy I'm the Central Park.


The Park Commissioners have decided to
remove Mr.. Olmsted, the Superintendent
of Parks, and abolish his Office. There is
no question as to Mr.. Olmsted's fitness
and accomplishments, these being SO ad-
mirably attested by the beauty of the
Central Park that it would be ridiculous to
dispute them. The pretence is that the
Park, having been laid out and planted,
nothing remains to be done only to
keep it in order, and that there is no
need of maintaining an expensive artist
tor this purpose. It is asserted by
majority of the Commissioners that Mr..
Olmsted's Office has become a sinecure
since the completion of the Park, and that
the salary paid to him for maintaining
slight superintendent had better be ex-
pended for necessary laborers. There is O
superficial plausibility in this view, but
nothing is more certain than that the Park,
whose loveliness cxcites the admiration of
all visitors, will steadily degenerate when
it is surrendered into the hands of mere
business men and laborers. Within few
years it will become so shabby and vulgar
lied that it will cease to be the pride of the
city. Such work is never finished. To be
sure, q great deal depends on the original lay
ing out, as there does in picture on the de-
sign and drawing; but the Park is picture
which needs constant retouching, and if the
new touches are not laid on by the trained
hand guided by the trained taste of an artist
its beauty will in few years become
blurred and defaced. There would be as
much sense in dismissing Sherman, Sheri-
dan and all the higher officers of the army in
time Of peace and retaining only corporals
who have learned the drill, and common
soldiers, as in dispensing with an accom-
plished landscape gardener for great orna-
mental work like the Central Park.
Year: 1878

Seilor Zamacona, in his communication
published elsewhere on the subject Of the
bombastic article in FL C0mbate, makes too
much of very trifling matter We pub
lished the effusion merely as a curiosity,
and not because we believed it indicated
the tone of Mexican POPULAR feeling toward
the United States. 1t was simply a very
absurd and amusing fanfaronade, which
could only make Americans smile. Senior
Zamacona must not allow his sleep to be
disturbed by the effect of the article in El
Com6ate on the American temper. There is
not the slightest possibility that war with
Mexico will grow out Of it's publication. At
the same time if SeiIor Zamacona shall be
able to establish that some border ruffian"
has imposed on the credulity of our Texan
contemporary and the American public i'll
general we will be glad to publish what he
may present regarding this question. 1t
will certainly be to the honor OF Mexico to
establish that no such idiotic production
as the article attributed to FL Conabote was
ever printed in Mexican journal.
Year: 1878

The report of the committee of the Mu-
ing contains statement based on the off,
cial returns of the Street Cleaning Bureau
which furnishes a convincing proof of the
criminal extravaganza with which that de-
partment has been administered We refer
to the returns of the number of loads of
street dirt and ashes collected during the
three weeks ending December 15 In that
time 1856 loads of street dirt and 43, 994
loads of ashes were'gathered by the bureau
employees. Deducting from the ashes ten
per cent for garbage there remains the i'm
mense quantity of nearly forty thousand
loads, equal at low estimate to about that
number OF cubic yards of ashes. This has
market value, when clean, as filling or for
street grading, fully equal to that of clean
earth or sand. Indeed, for bedding pave
ment it is superior to either. Sand for such
purposes is worth in New York at least
seventy-fve cents per cubic yard. Hence
there has been nearly thirty thousand
dollars worth of superior filling and
grading material wasted by. the bu-
reau in three weeks. We do not over
estimate its value in the least.
When the garbage filing was dumped
on the Harlem fats the contractors were
paid by the city, under contract, over fifty
cents per yard for filing, yet the Police
Board sold the ashes befouled with garbage
for about ten cents yard to the contractors.
This villanous compost was used for filing
lots in Harlem, and even for grading the
extensions of the avenues up town. If the
street cleaning officials were not wholly
lost to every sense of duty to the city, and
the Department OF Public Works was not
equally blind to its moral obligations, all
this filling could have been deposited free
of cost to New York and the street clean
ing carried out properly at the same time.
We may fairly estimate the value Of street
dirt as manure at fifty cents per cubic yard.
The garbage, if properly cared for, is GER
tainly worth one dollar per cubic yard
measured in carts. Here, then, we have
matter collected by the Street Cleaning Bu-
reau during three weeks equal in value to
forty thousand. but let us say twenty thou
sand dollars, wasted in the first instance,
and ON additional twenty dollars per scow
load paid for the privilege of wasting it into
the bargain. Can the Police Commissioners
and their employees deny this statement? !?
If they do their audacity fully equals their
culpability.
Year: 1878

If Columbia's crew which rows at
Henley is the champion four Of the Ameri-
can universities, four from the Oxford Uni
versity eight will challenge them, and. if
beaten, then four from the Cambridge eight.
But Columbias crew is not the champion
four Of the American universities, and, un-
fortunately, between now and their depar-
ture for England in May it will hardly be
possible to decide what crew is entitled to
that honor. The Columbia crew has not
beaten single university four here. This,
to be sure, is no fault of its own, but still
the fact is the same; SO that the English
universities need not be in the dark on this
point ut all. 1t is extremely unfortunate
that Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and Yale
did not meet last summer and decide which
il our best university four, as the March
meeting at Putney will which is the best
British university eight. When Harvard
and Yale broke up the general university
race and got off in corner to have it out
alone they were very plainly reminded by
the HERALD Of the effect of their narrow and
short-sighted policy on American university
rowing, particularly under circumstances
such as have just arisen. Now, when for
the first time the English universities do
the challenging, that policy leaves us all
uninformed as to who can best represent us.
On the short Henley course of one mile two
and half furlongs Columbia can do well,
but on the four mile and three furlong--
tO 1oG c1y IN, a.,
record of the present team makes it certain
that they can accomplish anything extraor-
dinary. If there is an American university
four fit to send to Putney it can probably
be found among the Harvard eight, but
even they would probably do much better
a year hence. Before Columbia undertakes
the task she ought at least to beat Harvard.
Year: 1878

RAPID TRANSIT will undoubtedly prove one of
the greatest blessings that can he conferred Oh
New York But that is no reason why the op-
erations connected with the construction of the
elevated road along Third avenue should be
conducted in careless manner. The attention
Of the Street Department is directed to the man
ncr in which the excavations around the pillar
bases nrc filled with mud and the pavement re-
laid without amy precautions against its subsi-
dcnce during the spring.
Year: 1878

THE SALE OF Boxes for the John Broughan
benefit yesterday not the success that could
be desired or that 80 old and popular !. favorite
deserved. His own profession. hut the public
particularly, ought TO see that the voluntary
Offering Is worthy OF him and of them.
Year: 1878

The LAWYERS who are so anxiously awaiting
the return Of Mr.. Lord ought rot to be quite SO
iupatient. They say they are willing to give
him reasonable time in which to come back,
but what seems reasonable to them may be
sidered very unreasonable by him.
Year: 1878

We are prepared to do eleotion-ticket printing by the million and for the million. at bedrock rates, for cash.

 It saves bookkeeping to pay as you go, you know. Still we shali not ask q good man to pawn his watch if he doesn't happen 10 have the ChInge with iIm.

 Order your tickets in time to have them wei! distributed in every precinct.
Year: 1878

SPECIFICATIoNs.-O Owing to mistake
on the part of our compositors, several
errors were made in the School House
Specifications as published last week -
The error consisted in substituting a fig
ure 3 for n 6, in number of places -
Wherever occurred it should have
been 6, as there is no 5 inch lumber in al
the building. The error was discovered
the following day and corrected as far as
possible by printing slips and mailing to
contractors who wera likely to bid on the
job. The correct Specifications will be
found in full on the fourth page of this
paper.
Year: 1878

WHAT'S THE MATTER ?-The volumes
of Amendments to the Codes were only
received by the county officers entitled
thereto last Monday. Inasmuch as three
months have passed since the adjourn
meut of the Legislature, and the volumes
referred to are Of only hundred or so
pages, it would seem that they should
have been distributed before this time
Perhaps there may be a hidden reason
why they are kept back, and in the mean
while private enterprise furnishes the
amendments to those who apply and pay
for them.
Year: 1878

FOURTH AT JUNCTION People have
been getting back from the Junction City
celebration all forenoon. Delegations
were in attendance from nearly every
town in the county, and all claim to have
had splendid time. Judge Williams
oration is praised very much. The Ball
at the Carter House was complete sue
cess, with an immense attendance.
Year: 1878

THE NEXT BALL.-It is loudly limited
that Eugene Lowden will give a Grand
Ball sometime during the early part of
August. AS soon as the date is decided
upon, the affair will be fully announced
through the columns of the JOURNAL.
Year: 1878

INsANE.-The many friends of Henry
j. Howe, Attorney at Law, for many
years a resident here, will regret to learn


that he is insane. AT the present he is
being cared for at his home in San Fran
Year: 1878

ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF MAI. HIG-
aINs.-As the readers Of the JOURNAL
are aware the building of the bridge
across Trinity river at Lowden's ranch,
nearly completed, was progressing under
the management of Maj. r. Higgins,
Architect and Builder. of Red Bluff, Te-
hama county. Last Tuesday afternoon
the men were at work raising Temporal
ry bent, by means of block and tackles
attached to "gin-pole" braced to the
artificial work. The immense weight of
the bent made it unwieldy and not rails.
ing as 1t should, Maj. Higgins made
few steps from where he was standing,
took note of the situation and ordered the
mon who were hosting to clover away!"
At this instant the braces gave way and
the "gin-pol "a 6x6 piece about 80 feet
long-foll with all the weight attached,
striking Higgins, who was facing it, d.
rec,ly on the top Of the head with terrific
force and killing him instantly. From
DR.. Lord who visited the dead man we
learn that a hole the size of trade dollar
was made in the crown of the head, an
other just back of the forehead and the
skull cracked from front to rear. Death
must have been instantaneous. Mr.. Jas.
A. S. Jones, who was at work on the
bridge at the time and gave us the facts,
says that single step to the right or left
would have saved Higgins life, as it
would have placed him out of the line of
the falling timber He further states that
singularly the blow did not knock Higgins
down, but that he stood perfectly erect
when the timber struck him, then clapped
both hands to his head and gradually
sank.


Maj. r. Higgins was q resident of Red
Bluff and was in this county temporarily
on bridge work. All with whom he come
in contact while here speak of him in
terms of praise and credit him with being
a clever, upright and reliable gentle
men. He leaves a wife and infant child,
who were at Lowden Ranch when the sad
and fatal accident occurred, and who
started the same evening for Red Bluff,
the remains being removed there for in
terment. We also learn that Maj. Hig-
gins has a son and daughter married at
the East and 13-year old daughter re-
siding in Illinois-children by n former
marriage. Maj Higgins was fellow
townsmsn and schooImate of Frank w.
Young, Esq, of this place, in Pawtucket,
Rhode Island, where both were reared
At the outbreak Of the rebellion Higgins
enlisted in Rhode Island regiment and
entered the service as an Orderly Ser
goant. He took part in the battle of Bull
Run and was promoted to the position of
Major during his term of service. AT the
time of his death he was about 4S years
of o0a
Year: 1878

A COMPLETE TRIUMPH AT THE
CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION! The
Weber Pianos received the highest award
at the Centennial Exposition, Beware Of
other manufacturers claiming Centennial
award, as it is false. The Weber Piano
has also the best references of any piano
in the world. Send for catalogue con-
tanning account of factory prices, and the
judges report at the Centennial, &c.
Year: 1878

He was the manager of a church fair,
and one morning he walked into the news
papers Office and said:


"Want an item this morning?"


'Of course, replied the editor Where
upon the visitor laid the following note
upon the table:


"The ladies of the - Street Church
will give festival at their vestry hall next
Friday evening. Literary and musical en-
tertainmcnts will be provided and supper
served to all who desire. The ladies in
charge of the affair have much experience
in such matters, and are sure to provide
good time. The admission will be only
10 cents, and it is certain that no one can
spend that amount to 4 better advantage.
Be sure to go and take your friends.


When the editor had read it, he said


"Qh, | see, an advertisement.


"No, not an advertisement We prefer
to have it 60 in the local column, replied
the manager.


And seeing that the editor looked skep-
teal, he continued.


alt will interest great many of your
readers, and help good cause, besides, we
have spent so much money getting up our
entertainment that we can't afford to ad-
vertise it without increasing the price of
our tickets. In such matter as this we
ought to be willing to help each other.


swell, said the editor, ''if it goes into
the locals, l suppose you will reciprocate
by reading a little notice in your church
next Sunday"


The visiting brother asked what notice,
and the editor wrote and handed him the
following:


"The Weekly Chronicle, for the coming
year, will be the best and cheapest family
paper in Maine. Its proprietor has had
much experience and has had all the helps
which large outlay of money can procure.
His paper has larger circulation than any
other in the country, and is to be furnish
ed at only 81. 1t is certain that no one can
spend that amount to a better advantage
Be sure to take the Chronicle and sub
scribe for your friends"


The manager hemmed and hesitated,
and then said, solemnly, that he doobted
whether it would be judicious to read such
notice, but suggested that if it was print
ed copies Of it might be distributed at the
door of the vestry on the evening of the
entertainment


"Yes, said the editor, "but it would
attract more attention in the middle of
sermon. 1t will interest large number
of your congregation, and helps good cause;
besides, so much money is spent upon the
= L. I l. ii
can afford to print hand-bills to advertise
it without increasing the subscription
price. In such matter as this we ought
to be willing to help each other"


Then the gentleman saw the situation
Year: 1878

An Eastern fable says that priest was
performing a miracle. The priest put 6
kernel into vessel filled with earth, bid
ding his challenger to watch it closely
BY and by green shoot appeared, then q
stem, aud leave and branches and bios
SONS, until an immense area was covered
and rich, ripe fruit, succeeded the bios
SONS. All this was done within an hour
and the amazed observer exclaimed:


Now l know there is God, for | have
seen his power"


The priest smiled as he replied, and said
"Simple child. do you only now believe
Does not what you have just seen take place
i'll innumerable Instances, year alter year
ONLY bv a slower process? But is it til,
less marvellous on that account?"
Year: 1878

BEGIN the education Of the heart. not With
the cultivation of noble propensities, but
with the cutting away of those that are evil.
When once the noxious herbs are withered
and rooted out, then the more noble plants,
strong In themselves, will shoot upwards.
The virtues, like the body, become strong
and healthy more by labor than nourish-
ment.
Year: 1878


uAvING TAKEN THE AGENCY FOR
IL the Sale Of the


AsBESTos PAINTS, ROOFING, Etc,
for Central Mississippi, and having tested
them fully, am prepared to say that the Paints
which are of all colors and shades are not
only the CHEAPEST but the best l have used in
my experience as painter for the past fifty
gears and the certificates in my possession as
to the SUPERIORITY OF THE ROOFING MATE
RIAL dispels all doubt the subject and
am instructed to guarantee all these goods by
the General Agent. [ will have open and for
sale in a few days, full line of these ma te-
rials, including Boiler and Pipe Covering, in
surfing saving in fuel and steam of fully 20
per cent, and solicit an examination and trial
of them at my Store and Paint Shop under An
gelo's Hall, Capitol Street, half square west
Of State House, where will continue my old
business of


House, Sign and Ornamental Painting
and ask of generous public a continuation of
their kind patronage.


G. III. MANSHIP.
Sept.19, '77-.1y.
Year: 1878

England has entered upon a period of dis
tress the end of which no man can foresee.
There is every indication that it will result in
serious If not permanent loss, in widespread
suffering, and in radical change in the man
ufacturing industries and other great forms
OF employment of labor upon which so many
Englishmen depend for subsistence. The
falling off in her trade is something more
Than transitory. She has in fact ceased to be
the workshop of the world. Doubtless part
of the falling off in the demand for the pro-
ducts of her industry is due to the poverty of
her customers, but the greater part must be
ascribed to the fact that they have learned 10
supply their own wants. Their poverty NAV
decrease, in many instances is decreasing,
and they may grow rich again. If the shrink
age in her trade were attributable solely to
their lack of means she could reasonably ex-
pect decided improvement within limited
time. But they no longer have need of her
goods. This country, :or example, will never
again be dependent upon the manufactures
of England as it has been in the past. We
have already learned to make most articles
we need, we have accumulated much capital.
we have all the advantages for industrial
manufactures that she has, and some that she
has Dot. We can certainly hold our own,
and have every reason to believe that we
shall better ourselves. Other nations, former
customers of Great Britain, are similarly situ-
ated.


Nor can England easily fiud new occupa-
tions. Her laborers have been trained In
special fields, and know not how to work in
others. Even if they could readily adapt
themselves to changed conditions the new in
dustries are not to be found. The country
Is already crowded with people, and it has no
undeveloped resources. There is little un-
occupied land that can be turned to profita-
bic use and the Inhabitants are dependent
upon foreign nations for much of the food
they consume. 1t is not the laborer alone
who will suffer. The capit list will be re-
duced to ruin; for much capital will be
"dead", sunk.in enterprises that no longer
paw and must be abandoned. England has
great accumulated wealth it is true, but
considerable portion of that wealth is in
vested in manufacturing enterprises that will
hereafter yield no profit, and most of it is
very unevenly distributed. The few are
wealthy, the many live from hard to mouth.
There must be, too it seems, a gradual draining
of accumulated capital. The country can no
longer exchange its products for the things It
needs from other lands, and so must pay for
them out of its savings. The outlook is GER
tainly gloomy for England, and we cannot
but pity her in her sad strait.
Year: 1878

THE Hartford Post recommends each of
the candidates for governor in Maine to pre-
pare message for the Legislature, and so
not let the successful one run the risk of
keeping that body waiting while he writes it,
as happened in Connecticut in 1850. Thomas
81. Seymour was elected by the Legislature,
as the result of trade between the Demo.
Gratis and free-soilers the state offices being
divided between the two parties. A com.
mittee sent to notify Col. Seymour of his
election found him in the back yard in the
act of repairing dilapidated barrel, and the
military escort had to wait an hour or more
while he prepared the short message which
he delivered to the Assembly OIL taking the
oath.
Year: 1878

JOSEPH KRAUs is a striking instance of an
early start in life. He is but three months
old and earns salary of ten dollars a week.
The job is a "soft one" too, for all he has to
do is to appear in the arms of Kate Claxson
at the Lyceum Theatre every evening. If
his salary increases with his age he will be
president of an insurance company or a rail-


Dad by the time he reaches his majority.
Year: 1878

New YORK and the West celebrated
Christmas by a big snow storm. In many
places there are four feet Of snow on level
There is a serious embargo on railroad travel.
In Kansas the weather has been the severest
known in that region for twenty years. The
Missouri river has been closed for a week,
and the ice is a foot thick.
Year: 1878

THE House will be called upon to make an
appropriation for the expenses OF the Blaine
investigating committee. We shall then see
how anxious the Democrats are for an inves-
tIgation.