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Year: 1874

in their orders.


An interesting fact was recently
stated by tho Rice County Journal to
the effect that the Boston bakers had
tried Minnesota Spring Wheat -four
with the best Southern and Western
winter they could get, and they found
to their astonishment that barrel of
the Minnesota Spring Wheat flour pro-
duced forty pounds more of bread
than barrel of winter wheat -four
At first they thought they had made a
mistake, but they repeated the expert
ment with the same result. The bread,
besides, was of better quality than
that made from the winter wheat -four.


The same paper stated another fact
which we have seen stated before, viz {:
that wheat shipped by way of Duluth
to the New York market will bring
about ten cents per bushel more than
the same wheat shipped in the old way
by Milwaukee and Chicago. The rea-
son for this is that when sent by Du-
luth, there is less opportunity for mix
ing with inferior grades. The bane of
Minnesota wheat is that it is seized
upon in Chicago and Milwaukee and
mixed with inferior wheat to raise the
grade. Hence the demand for such
facilities as will enable Minnesota to
deliver her wheat IN New York in a
pure and uhmixed state. The plan
proposed, as heretofore stated, is to
have large receiving elevators at Du-
luth with transfer elevators at Buffalo,
owned and controlled by those who are
interested in keeping Minnesota wheat
pure.


There are q few facts which show
that Minnesota is to retain the suprem-
acy 80 Tonga as we can raise such wheat
as the State is now raising. The best
brands of flour now in the market can
be made only from the harder varieties
Of Spring wheat grown in the North
west. It is said also that the Minneso-
ia wheat, when shipped southwark for
milling purposes, looses much of its
flinty character, and fails to produce
as good quality of flour rs when
ground at home. The same is probably
true Of wheat shipped east, though
probably to a less extent. So that Min
nesota is almost sure to lead the world
in flour so long as we can produce our
present superior grades Of wheat.


The Farmers Union we'll says that
nothing can prevent prosperity to our
farming interests for years to come,
but the suicidal policy Of cropping the
land continually without enriching it,
or Of sowing the same grain on the
same fields year after year with
out rotation, and adds, that ''of all
sections of the country there is none
which promises greater pecuniary re-
turns to the tillers Of the soil than our
Own."
Year: 1874

What has become of the temperance
crusade? Has the scheme failed and
have the apostles of temperance found
cause that pays better, on which to
expend their eloquence and energy L?
kilograms from the East no longer
announce the surrounding of saloons
by troops of female crusaders, and we
no longer hear of startling conversions
from the whisky selling business.
What does all this mean? Has the
attempt to hold the mirror up to ma
ture and show vice in all its hideous-
ness, proved useless Have the great
moral teachers and the enthusiastic
moral disciples tainted in the good
work and fallen by the wayside, or
have they discovered that they started
in wrong? In our own State, Local
Option, q plant of rank growth and
brilliant promise, has disappointed its
friends and supporters by shrinking,
withering, dropping, dying. Where
it is law it is hardly enforced, and in
no town or county can majority be
obtained in its favor. Why is this +?
The cause is as good, the evil as great
and the demand for reform as impera-
tive now as six months ago. When the
first attempts to enforce the law were
made, the HERALD expressed doubts as
to its power to reach the evil, but we
urged fair trial of the experiment
and implicit obedience where the ma
jority decided for no license. The trial
has been made and the general i'm
preston is that it is failure-that we
cannot legislate mems appetite out of
them nor morality into them. 1t all
comes back to this: We may lead a
horse to water but we cannot compel
him to drink. Moral suasion and ed
ucation are the only effective temper
ance advocates. We may persuade a
man not to drink, but our command
that he shall not drink he defies. The
correctness of this theory is strongly
exemplified in Los Ange les. Here
where Local Option could not be car
ried under almost any circumstances
the temperance cause is progressing
steadily, we may say, rapidly. The
moral suasion of the Good Tenn
plars is inducing drink men-men
who have been in the ha t of getting
drunk-to take pledge not to drink
and keep it. This is the only effect
i've mode of warfare that can be used
against intemperance. Persuade men
to abandon the vice by contrasting it's
evils with the purity and happiness of
a temperate life.
Year: 1874

THE Express continues to exasperate
over the HERALDS refusal to credit it
for the meager and often incompre-
hensible dispatches it prints and we
sometimes copy. Now there is no
reason why our contemporary should
get excited. There is no actual value
attached to those dispatches, and while
we do not question the Express as
sertion that it pays for them, we must
be permitted to say that in doing so it
affords the most indisputable proof of
being in condition that demands the
appointment of q guardian for its af-
fairs and the consignment of its man
ayers to the com mmonwealth's home
for idiots. The newspaper pur-
loiner of those dispatches after contin-
uing the custom for one year could not
be held for petty larceny, because
there is no value in them. The reader
will observe that the HERALD pub
fishes about three times as much dis
patch, as well as three times as
much other reading matter, as the
Express. We all cut out of the Bulle-
tin, and the HERALD's scissors are
longer than those of the Express.
That's ALL
Year: 1874

THE statement made in yesterday
mornings HERALD to the effect that
the nearest water to Mrs. STEARNs'
mill, during the fire the other night
which the firemen could find was dis
tant from the flames just far enough
to require every foot of hose the Fire
Department had in use, was some-
thing of mistake. The water used
happened to be that first found, and as
the hose was found sufficient no other
water was sought for. But if needed
it could have been found. The inn
mense well at Mr.. BEAUDRY's water
works is less than half the distance
from the mill that the hose of the De-
partment will reach.
Year: 1874

JEFFERsoNvILLE, September AT
the examining trial yesterday, CLARK
and Lewis were held for the murder OF
August Gardner. They were sent
from Hcnryvillc to Charleston Jail,
under strong guard last night. II
is reported that counsel for the defend
ants will apply for a writ of habe-
corpus. Should such attempt be made
it is thought that vigilance commit
tee will hang them. If they undertake
to take them from the Jail il is mos'
likely that n fearful fight will follow
as it is said that the sheriff is deter
mined to protect the prisoners at nj
hazards.
Year: 1874

Fowls of all kinds are very fond of
charcoal, and will eat it with great relish
if properly prepared. Pounded charcoal
is not in the shape in which fowls usual,
ly find their food, and consequently is
not very enticing to them. To please
their palate the charcoal should be in
pieces about the size Of grains of corn,
and if these are strewed around their
qualters, they will readily eat thereof
Corn burnt on the cob, and the refuse
(Which consists almost entirely of the
grains reduced to charcoal, and still re
tanning their perfect shape, placed be-
fore them, makes marked Improvement
in their health,as is shown by the bright.
er color OF their combs, and their sooner
producing greater average of eggs to
the flock than before.


The benefit derived by fowls from eat
ing charcoal is acknowledged. The
method of putting it before them is,how.
ever. not well understood Poultry
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Year: 1874

weakening, but it is thought by those
who are best informed that another week
will see them go down one by one before
the irresistible might Of the Amazonian
cohorts.


Your readers will pardon lengthy let
ters on the temperance campaign. The
fact is we are so full of it down here that
we can't hold it all j. f. W.
Year: 1874

A STRANGE CoINcIDENCE.-Af few days ago
at neigLboring sale, citizen of West Chester,
took several cows to have them sold. At this
same sale there were other cows to be disposed
Of, aud which this gentleman asked a friend
who proposed being in attendance, to buy for
him as they were 10 more profitable condition
than those which he himself possessed aud de-
sired TO sell. The friend promised to buy them
if they sold at reasonable figures, and so started
for the sale. 0ae by one the cows were put ur
aud sold and several were purchased tor th'
townsman by his agent aforesaid. Upon com
ing TO bring the animals home imagine the sur
prise Of the party OF the first part, TO find that
his agent had bought back his oWn co.'s.
Year: 1874

TIRED OF LIFE.-A Mr.. Smith residing in
Church street near Ninth attempted to puI an
end to his life last Monday night by the ag-
plcation of penknife. because of some difi-
Guilty growing out of a love affair with young
lady Of the neighborhood. his fell purpose
was thwarted by enc of his brothers, and 1t Is
hoped that he may learn that although true
love does not always flow smoothly, It Is better
to submit to adverse fate than to rush unan- :
nealedand unannointed into the land Of spirits.
he should cheer up and comfort himself with
The reflection that there is yet as good fsh IN
the sea as were ever caught, aud fortune may
here after favor his suit
Year: 1874

No Law FOR SPEcKLED Trout In the
case tried on Tuesday for the enforcement
Of the Game law prohibiting the sale Of
speckled trout in this city at certain times of
the year it was clearly made out that the fish
sold was of the kind described in the law and
there was no dispute that the fish was sold at
a period within the terms Of the prohibition.
It was claimed that the fish was caught in a
foreign country, but not claimed that it came
within the exceptions to the prohibition made
in the law. The sale was therefore undoubt-
edly unlawful, and sportsmen had every rea-
son to anticipate conviction. Moreover,
under the charge made to the jury, it would
seem impossible for the offenders to have
been acquitted yet acquitted they were. Does
this flow from an inherent hostility on the
part Of jurors to game laws, or is it a desperate
resolve to have trout when they can be had,
law or no law7 But the Sportsman's Club will
probably not let so clear case end there.
Year: 1874

1t is said that the Tammany chiefs have
decided to disregard that part of the city
charter which regulates the choice of Alder
men. By the charter six new Aldermen are
elected by the city at large each year. but no
citizen can vote for more than four OF the
six, which gives the political party which is
in the minority an opportunity of electing
two. The Tammany people contend that
this law is unconstitutional, and that every
citizen has right to vote for every Alderman.
They found their argument on that provision
of the State constitution which declares that
every citizen possessing the requisite qualiica-
tons for voting at all 'shall be entitled to vote
may be elective by the people," 1t is hence
inferred that the electors of this city have
right to vote for as many Aldermen as are to be
chosen, and not merely for two-thirds of them.
The party advantage of disregarding the char
ter in this particul is manifest. Instead Of
choosing four Of the Aldermen, Tammany will
elect the whole six, if it proves to be majority
in the city. The words Of the constitution
seem to support the view on which the Tan1-
many politicians intend to proceed, but it will
remain for the courts to decide whether they
correctly interpret the constitution. 1t is OBJ
vious that its language cannot be taken quite
literally. If the Aldermen were chosen in single
districts no citizen would be entitled to
vote for more than one. We suppose there is
no question Of the right Of the Legislature to
district the city and thus restrict each citizen
to voting for only one member of the Board.
1t is not therefore to restrain
citizen to voting for less than the whole
number Whether the form Of restricting his
vote adopted by the charter is also constitu-
tional is legal point which can be settled
only by judicial decision. But it is evidently
rather question of form than of substance.
Under the single district system the minority
would have chance of carrying some Of the
districts and it is fair even if it is not consti-
tutonal, to allow them an equivalent advantage
on the general ticket system.
Year: 1874

Throughout the United States and over all
this Continent and far out in the Atlantic
Ocean and the Pacific the total eclipse of the
moon, which will take place in the evening of
the Oath and the morning Of the 25th inst, or
in the night between Saturday and Sunday,
will be visible at all points not cut off by
q veil of clouds from the beautiful phenom-
light shadow of the earth to the observer
on Manhattan Island at forty-eight minutes
past eleven P. M. Saturday. She will begin
to melt away in the earths darker or COM
plete shadow at fifty minutes past midnight.
She will be totally eclipsed or melted away
into darkness at four minutes past two A. NJ,
and at ffty-six minutes past three A. NJ, reap
pearing in all her glory, we shall, with favor
ing skies, again see


Meek DAMS crest


Float through the azure air an island Of the blest.


A full description OF the eclipse, with ac-
companying illustrations of its various phases
and brief historical review of eclipses of
the sun and moon from the earliest records Of
these phenomena, we give on another page of
this paper. Of all the celestial wonders of
the passing year, excepting Coggia's comet,
this eclipse to the people of this Continent
will be remembered as the most interesting, for
with fair sky they will have the opportunity
to see, from the beginning to the end, the
passing of the moon through the shadow cast
across her path by the earth. There was
total eclipse of the sun on the 10th of April
last but it was invisible in North America;
there was partial eclipse Of the moon on the
LIST of May, but it was invisible in the United
States; there was an annular eclipse of the
sun on the 10th of this present month that
peculiar eclipse in which the SUMS disk is
wholly obscured by the moons shadow ex-
cept bright ring around the border), but it
was invisible in America. In December
there will be partial eclipse of the sun, in
the transit of the planet venus-that is, if q
small black speck gliding over the face Of tho
sun may be caliedeven partial eclipse; but
it will be visible only in Asia, Australasia,
q part of Africa and some Of the South Sea
islands. This eclipse of Saturday night will
be the first and the last for this year Of
celestial eclipses visible in the United States,
and il may therefore be distinguished here
after as the grea. American eclipse OF the
moon of 1874.


For scientific purposes an eclipse OF the
Amoon is Of little or no value. 1t may, per-
haps. serve through powerful telescopes to
Year: 1874

bring into bolder relief along the line of the
retreating and returning light over the moon
the hideous volcanic projections and cavities
of her rugged surface; but otherwise it is Of
no scientific value beyond the confirmation so
far of the ascertained clockwork OF our solar
system. Far different in its Importance ta
the world of science will be the approaching
transit of Venus, whereby the true distance Of
our great central luminary from this little
satellite which we inhabit is to be fixed and
established, and whereby the sailor upon the
high seas is to be correctly guided in his
reckonings.


We hope that an unclouded or favoring sky
through Saturday night from the Atlantic to
the Pacific will afford the American people an
inviting occasion for full observation Of a
total eclipse of the moon; but upon this point
they will doubtless, during the day, be en-
lightened, SO far as possible, from our national
clerk of the weather.
Year: 1874

General Dix and tho Third Term.


As will be seen elsewhere, General Dix has
declared himself to our reporter upon the
question of the third term. The General an
nounces that he is opposed to the whole
scheme-to the very idea Of third term as
repugnant to our institutions. If any one
will write him letter on the subject he will
make his views known in an emphatic form.
So that if any of our autograph hunting fell
low citizens have fancy for the Governors
manly writing they have only to address him
letter on the third term to receive response.


1t is too late Centennial Dix did not
wait until the rebellion was overland he was
his order to shoot any man On the spot who
ventured to profane the American flag. He
took sides in the beginning, and commended
himself to the patriotism of the country by
the prompt blow he struck at exultant and
aspiring treason. Here for eighteen months
the third term has been stalking over the
land, growing more and more mighty every
day, menacing the peace and liberty Of the
country, and Centennial Dix, like the rest of
the republican leaders, was afraid to speak,
lest he might offend the President. But Ohio
and Indiana spoke, and now the General finds
9 voice.


What q great impression Centennial Dix
would have made had he said eighteen months,
or even six months ago, "Whoever ventures
to haul down the flag of republcanism for
the flag Of Cesarism should be shot on the
spot!" But it is too late-too late I
Year: 1874

A TERRIBLE STORM IN ENGLAND swept over
the northern section of that country and along
its seacoast yesterday, involving the destruc-
ton Of q great amount Of property and of
many lives, it is feared, from the losses re-
ported. An October tempest on this side
the Atlantic may be the next development
from this atmospheric disturbance on the
other side 1t is the season of the year for q
wide range of storms in all these latitudes.
Year: 1874

LOUISIANA AFFAIRS continue in an inexplic-
ably mixed up condition but as every day in
which extreme measures are postponed is
day gained for negotiation between the con-
tending parties we hope that negotiations
will be persevered in until full and satisfac-
tory compromise is reached, or at least until
the meeting of Congress.
Year: 1874

A TERRIFIC BOILER EXPLOSION was the most
notable event in Baltimore yesterday. A rot
ten boiler, or careless management, and no.
body to blame. will probably, as usual, be the
conclusion of the investigation.
Year: 1874

LET THEM TRY IT.-The Council of the
Board of Trade at Quebec having been ad-
vised that the St. Lawrence River and Gulf
from that city to the sea can be navigated
in winter by steam vessels, have recon-
mended the experiment to the Dominion
government Let them try it. 1t may be
news to many of our readers that Quebec is
cut of from the sea during the winter.
Year: 1874

HrcHwAYMES ON LoNo ISLAND are becom-
ing somewhat impudent and dangerous.
From the account of their exploits which we
give this morning there is evidently an organ
lied band of these outlaws established some
where in the woods between Jamaica and
/ 4aa.ug, and they ought to be hunted out
Year: 1874

THE ARMY OF THE JAMES. This society had
pleasant reunion in this city yesterday at
the theatre of the Union League Club. The
address of welcome to the members by Gem
eral Butler was the leading feature Of the day,
and fine banquet, largely attended, was the
evenings entertainment
Year: 1874

a word. The annual meeting of the
stock holders of the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia Railroad, took place
in this city, l think, on last Wednesday
1t was not so numerousIy attended as it
used to be in olden times when the stock
was in the hands of the people, mostly
along the line Of the, road, and when
g eeerybody and his family could have a
free ride once in year. Now the stock is
mostly owned by few wealthy capital
lists and many of them, are too far off to
be conveniently present, and especially
when they have no other inducement
than the g free r5fe'' which used to bring
out our dear country cousins by the
hundreds. say no other inducements,
because from the report Of the President
and directors, infer that the Stock this
year has not been paying Investment
Indeed the whole tone and tenor of the
q Report strikes me as anything but en-
couraging. 1t shows a considerable
falling off in business, and bitterly com
plains of the attacts which have been
made on their interests (by John E.
Helms and other outside barbarfans}
and strongly intimates that, if this I'M
reasonable hostility is not speedily stop
ped, the country will soon have occasion
to deplore the utter ruin, and downfall
of the greatest, and most benifcent in
that ever blessed people.


have something to tell you about an
other one of our big institutions, but
cannt undertake it now. So pardon this
and believe me as ever, ...--.,T.....


Your friend,


.... CONRAD.
Year: 1874

Fortune-tellers are generally skill
full physiogomonists, and all the
features of the human face do their
share in enlightening the understanding
Of scers. The chin, at the present day,
is rather difficult to read, on account Of
the increasing custom Of wearing a
beard. A well formed chin should not
project nor retreat much. A very re-
treating chin denotes weakness, and a
very projecting one. harsh strength unit
ed with frmness amounting to obstinacy.
A pointed chin generally denotes acute
ness aud crafliness. A soft, fat, double
chin generally denotes a love Of good
living, and an angular chin judgment
aud frmness. Fatness of chin denotes
coldness; a round dimPled chin, good
ness; a small chin, fear; sharp indentings
in the middle OF the chin point to u cool
understanding. The color and texture
of the skin, and the hair and beard,
have also a direct harmony with the
features; these should be studied more
than they have been. A facility in
drawing faces is of great use to the stu
dent of physiogomony, as it enables him
TO note peculiarities OF feature which no
written description would be capable OF
preserving.
Year: 1874

We, in 1874, are 50 used to lucifer
matches that We have no appreciation Of
what q boon they are. How grateful
some Of our ancestors were for this bless
ing may be judged from the following,
which was lately brought to our notice.
Under the date of October II, 1884, a
writer addresses Sylvanus Urban thus;


consider your monthly publication
not only as a magazine of knowledge in
the several branches of literature, but
also as the proper vehicle to announce
whatever discoveries are made for public
utility. The phosphoretic matches have
not been sufficiently recommended, nor
have /, as yet, seen any eulogium on
theirgreat conveniency on many occasions
which | need not here enumerate. /
owe this pen tribute of acknowledge
ment for the recent advantage derived
from the use of them, and sincerely wish
it may promote the private interest of
the maker or distributors of this useful
invention, which, however long il may
have been known to philosophers, was
never till lately brought into familiar
service. by the assistance Of one Of
these little tubes extracted myself and
company from an unlucky accident on
the road. The position aud three hors'
es out of the set having been thrown
down in the darkest hour Of the night,
the traces were obliged to he cut to re-
lease them, aud. without the light of the
matches which lighted the lantern can
dies, We could not 50 soon have repaired
our damages, nor proceeded on our jour
ney. They are now reduced in price
having purchased mine of German
traveller at q coffee house near the Hay
market, for the small price of eighteen
pence 0hirty-eight cents a dozen, in
closed in tin case,