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Year: 1874

A great discovery has been made
of the value of chalk as a producer Of
gas, and by its means it is calculated
that large cities can be lighted, and
even heated at very small cost; and
better still, that by means Of properly
constructed apparatus every country
house can be lighted and heated, and
have its cooking done. by means Of
the heating ond lighting propesties
discovered to be in chalk. Wonders
will never cease, and we'll may it be
said that nothing is made in uain.-
Even the chalk hills of England are
more valuable than England's coal
mines.
Year: 1874




At last IKE is getting better, and
Morton can be spared. There is no
longer anv reason why the rowdies Of
.Ielilinsvllle Circuit should pine for
the muscular young preacher whom
they vowed to s'liCk as soon as they
lay eyes on him Dolly's legs were
aching for gallop. Morton and DR..
Morgan have exhausted their several
systems OF theology in discussion
So. at last, the impatient Morton
mounts the inpatient Dolly, and gal
Iops away TO preach to the impatient
brethren and face the impatient ruff
fans Of Jen<insvillc Circuit. kike
is left yet in his quiet harbor 10 re-
cover. The doctor has taken strange
fancy TO the jealous young prophet,
and looks forward with sadness to the
time when he will leave.


All, happiest experience of life,
when The food tide sets back through
the veins. You have no longer any
pain; you are not well enough 10
feel any responsibility; you cannot
work; there is no obligation resting
on YOU but onc-that is rest. Such
perfect passivitv like had never
known before. He could walk but
little. He sat the livelong day by
the open window, as listless as the
grass that waves before the wind
All the sense of dire responsibility.
all those fclings Of the awfulness OF
life. and the fcarfulness of his work,
and the drcadfulness of his accounta-
bility. were in allegiance. To eat, to
sleep, to wake and breathe, to suffer
as a passive instrument the play OF
whatever feeling might chance tc
come, was kike's life.


In this state the severity of his
character was laid aside. He listened
to the quick and eager conversation
Of DIR. Morgan with a gentle pleasure
he answered the motherly questions
of Mrs. Morgan with quiet gratitude
he admired the goodness Of MIS-
Jane Morgan, their eldest and mos
exemplary daughter, as far of spec
tator. There were but two things
that had real interest for him. IL,
felt keen delight in watching th'
wayward flight of the barn swallows
as they went chattering out from un
der the eaves-thcir airy vagabondag'
was SO rcstful. And he liked to watcl
the quick careless tread of Henriett
Morgan, the youngest Of the doctor
daup hters, who went on forever talk
ing and laughing with as little reck a
Year: 1874

The largest ship ever put afoat,
with the exception of the great East
ern, was launched recently on the
Delaware river. This ship is four
hundred and twenty-three feet long
forty-eight feet wide, and depth Of
hold forty feet. She is built of iron,
and all Of her appointments are first
class. She is designed for the China
trade. 1t is gratifying, or ought to
be, to every lover Of his country, to
see this great industry Of ship build
ing reviving in this country, and RI
valing in excellence of workmanship
and in material used in the famous
ship yaids on the Clyde.
Year: 1874

"In the universe of god there are
no accidents. From the fall of spar
row to the fall Of an empire or the
sweep OF planet, all is according to
Divine Providence, whose laws are
everlasting. 1t was no accident which
gave to this country the patriot we
now honor. 1t was no accident
which snatched this patriot SO sud.
denly and cruelty from his duties
The Lord giveth and the Lord
taketh away; blessed be the name Of
the Lord" ."-Ssndtor Summers eulogy
on the death Of Lincoln.
Year: 1874

THE SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL FARMERS


CONGRESS SPEAKS A GOOD WORD FoR THE


FARMERS MOVEMENT.


To the Editor Of the 'SsatiaeI:


SIR: 1t afforded me much pleasure this
morning to notice in the columns of the Sen
tinel the farmers call for state convention
so numerously signed. 1t is a clear re-
sponse to the question 1 have often been
asked. "How will you call your conventions
without state and county committees?''
Sach machinery is not only unnecessary.
but it is absolutely dangerous, and it is a
hopeful augury of a better political sys>
tenn when we find citizens joining spOnta-
neously in such a movement as this. The
old party leaders cannot tdO not want tOl
comprehend how elections can be carried
without large fund ostensibly for the cir
culation of documents" If the good peo-
pie of Indiana who are desirous of less eX-
pensive and less corrupt government than
the one we are groaning under to-day are
but true TO themselves now, they will be
able 20 clearly demonstrate that elections
may be carried without the use of money.
and with no greater expenditure of
| time than it is the duty of each
citizen to devote to so important a service.
Although / have no vote in the state, as a
resident citizen, coming here to make per-
manent home, / shall most cheerfully and
cordially give such aid and comfort to this
noble effort OF the people to free themselves
from party thraldom, as may be in my
power. Let il not be a movement OF
farmers alone, nor of mechanics, nor
of any other class, but of all intel
| ligent men who desire to enjoy a gov
ernment of the people and for the people
"a republican-democratic government in
deed, and in truth. Again, let me urge that
no occasion be given for any accusation that
the grangers have taken any secret action
| for the advancement of this movement in
their organized capacity. If the victory
cannot be won in square, straightforward
and honorable contest it were better to suf.
fer defeat once again. Respectfully,
CHARLES w. GREENE
Year: 1874

From the Ioganspors STAR


The farmers have been holding meeting
at Indianapolis for the past day or two. The
result of the meeting was to issue call for
a mass convention OF the farmers and in
dustrial classes of the state, to be held at
Indianapolis June 10th, as the call says, to
devise ways and means to bring about
such reforms as will emancipate our state
from the intolerable burdens heaped upon
us by the misrule of corrupt party poll
tics'' This foreshadows some trouble for
parties. We have foreseen this movement
for some time. A class complaining of evils
of the magnitude of those which the Gran
gers seek to have corrected, could not long
refrain from entering the political arena. BE
the evils complained of real or imaginary,
they are such as to have banded together the
most numerous and intelligent class of our
people in a secret organization. No organiz-
alton ever grew In numbers SO rapidly, say
ing perhaps the old know-nothing party.
It's growth in enthusiasm has kept pace with
its increase in numbers. Having such great
objects in view, is it to be wondered at that
they should at last call a convention?
Year: 1874

From The Cincinnati Enquirer.


The Commercials Indianapolis corre-
spondent predicts that the new political
movement of farmers in that state w ill re-
suit in sweeping beth parties out of the
political field. It will proably be about as
successful as the peoples organization was
in Ohio last fall. After all that is said and
done, when it comes to voting the people
have curious fashion of sticking to tradi-
tional parties. The democratic and repub-
hcan organizations are not likely to be
swept out OF existence in a hurry.
Year: 1874

a large proportion of men never car
or Will accumulate or keep capital


The best illustration of this fact that
ever met is that of Gcrritt Smith and
his schoolmate. The latter, on tn,
death of his father, came into posses
sion OF farm, with house, furniture


stock, implements, and all things nee
cessary to comfortable home and pay
ing business; but he sold, lost by the
sale, sold his next home, and his next


always losing, until he was landless
and very poor. His old schoolmate.
who was giving away his large patri-
mony, Ill small parcels, to landless men.
gave hlm IA house and lot, but took the
precautlon to deed it to his children,
For while the restless man was hap
py III his new home, but soon grew tired
OF 1t, and wanted to sell out. When
he found that it was not in his power to
render himself and family homeless
once more, he exclaimed in great bitter


ness, "There! Gerritt Smith has ruined
Year: 1874

wolf was an ugly customer, he would
not go with them. Going to the yard
they found Mrs. Wolf, and the children
playing around her. They offered to
pay her literally for the sight of the five
tame wolves. They We're back in time
for the train.
Year: 1874

Whoever put it in, that was Il good
suggestion IN Grants last yearly mes
sage about amending the constitution
so aS to enable the president to veto
any particular section or clause in n
a bill without vetoing the bill itself
with such an arrangement, and AN hon


est president to operate it, the device
OF loading the appropriation bills with
jobs would not be so successful ,s noy,
Year: 1874

CAPITAL WILL TAKE THE ALARM AND HIDr ITSELF


ONE INFIATIOS TO BIZ FOLLOWED By ANOTHER


PAPER MONEY AND THE PRESIDENCY.


lERoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT or r1iE rRiBrSE


WAsHINGTON, April s-The feeling here on the
financial question is more intense than 1 have OBJ
served on any occasion since the war, with per-
haps the exception of the impeachment trial
But this Is only the beginning. There Is talk
about Presidential veto, but nothing is known
and nothing can be iHtelhgently surmised on
that subject The best Informed think there Will
be none. Grants mental habit is to let things slide


One OF the curious absurdItes of the debate of the
last few days is an urgent pressure of the Senate
majority to run the bill through so as to settle the
question finally; as if such pernicious legislation
could do anything but unsettle it, by aggrayating
apprehension and exciting alarm throughout hnan-
clal circles all over the country Ii Is just like the
old-tashoned way of settling the Slavery question,
by voting in Congress and in conventions that agi-
tation should stop.


The legitimate and inevitable effects of the inau-
grration Of the initiation policy Is to divide the
country into parties the money question. And
while they contest, capital will timidly hide Itself
The initiation measures viii thus instead of reviying
business and restoring confidence, produce still
greater stagnation. This view of the situation has
not Detu pressed upon either house OI OonRItss budJ
am aware O, but to my apprehension 1t Is the nat
ural view, and have no doubt that time will justify
the prediction We need not look. therefore, Tor
any revival Of business under this prepOsterOus pol
icy, and the infatlonists are doomed TO a bitter dis
appointment in expecting it. 1t is in the light OF
this aspect of the case that their hurry TO get their
measures through Congress appear so ludicrous.
These measures do not rest on solid arguments that
Will bear the test of time and examination. but upon
fallacies and fctions thousand times exploded.
They must 90, therefore into the limbo Of departed
things and the fight will go on TILL they are put
there. The country cannot composediy view the
fact that the intellectual weight, the intelligence
and the experience of the Senate is Overwhelmingly
opposed to the initiation policy. The intellectual
appreciations Of the Senate will be responded to by
the intellectual appreciations of the people, and
especially by that sharp-sighted class who hold the
money aud do the business Of the country. Ihey
especially will feel they are treading on volcano
and will know that every eruption Is bound TO bt
followed by another. hundred millions more Of
irredeemable paper money now, voted by the dema-
gogues. means two hundred millions IN the nexl
Presidential year voted by the same men. 1t thus
seems that this initiation scheme, If cOnsummated
is going to unsette everything during the remainder
Of this Administration, and be the most malignant
element in the next Presidential contest j. 5. P.
Year: 1874

IT is understood, now, that the reason
why Chief Justice Waite was confirmed
so soon after his nomination was because,
being man of weight, it wouldn't do to
keep him waiting. This weishty reason
evidently had great weight with the Sen
ate.-[ Salt Lake Herald
Year: 1874

charge and gives positive guarantee that tho neces-
appropriation will be with the same judcious
care.


As the work rests in its uncompeted state land
has been standing for the four months for want OF
funds cOnynsion Of nature accident might and
would defeat the plans Of the engineer and add greatly
TO its future cost.
Year: 1874

ELEPHANT LABoRERs.-lt would be too
long to relate all the uses to which ele.
plants are applied in Burmah. Let Us
watch them at work among the wood
yards where the trunks of teakwood trees,
which como floating down the river, arc
piled. Every working elephant is mount
ed by driver called 'cornac," whose
principal business is rather to excite tho
animal than to direct it. In the season
when the roads are cut, the trunks como
down the river to the bar much faster than
they can be disposed of in the saw-mills.
and they accumulate iu vast quantities all
along the banks. 1t is necessary, there
fore to drag the trees out of the water, and
arrange them In piles, until such times as
they can be cut up. There are only thrce
sorts of piles, varying with the sizes oftho
trees. First an elephant in the water
clears the logs from the mass and ranges
them one by one upon the river bank.
He carefully examines the chaos of logs,
aud proceeds with tusks and trunk to dis
engage the tree he has selected, and which
he intends to carry to land. AS soon as
the tree is placed on the bank another ell
phant is harnessed to it. and drags it to
the wood. yard. where he leaves it. Two
other elephants now come up, and one Of
them takes one end of the log upon his
trunk, and drags IT to the pileupon which,
In view of its size, it ought to be placed,
while his companion assists him by push
ing the log with all his might. As soon
as they reach the proper pile the first clo-
phant lifts the top of the log upon the pile,
then he forms kind Of ring around tho
log with his trunk, while the ether with II
vigorous blow of his head shoots the log
into its place. The intelligence displayed
by these animals is almost incredible, and
we should scarcely have believed it if we
had not seen their movements as described
above.
Year: 1874




FATTENING HoGs.-The following sug-
gestions regarding iattening hogs will tend
to facilitate the work STAT as simply
carbon, which nature stores in the animal
system for definite purposes, is animal
heat. The body must be kept at Ger.
tain temperature, and the consumption Of
carbon is just in proportion to this de-
mand. If an animal be exposed to the
cold without protection, nature meets tho
increased demand for warmth by drawing
on the store of fat in the system. Hence
| will name, as the first essential in fat
tening dry and warm place for the
stock The second essential is to feed
such grain as contains the largest amount
Of fatteneniDg material. BY analysis this
is found to be corn, 1t may be fed ex.
cusively, except such change as is ncces.
to keep up the appetite. Avoid over
feeding at any time, or tho digestion may
be broken down before tho animal is fat
tened. Cook the corn. 1t will add about
twenty-five rer cent. TO its value,
Year: 1874

DINING OFF TO ADVANTAGE. a little
qirl who is accustomed to the plalnesl
STYLE of living was taken by her mother
to dine with rich friend lately. Oh her
returning TO her humble home she called
out her sister, in an ecstasy OF triumph
and delight, "Oh, Polly, we had four
diners all one after another"
Year: 1874

The lifting power Of vegetation is
well attested by fact communicated to
the London NeacS. A tradesmap in the
city Of Worcester, England observed
that a stone in the sidewalk had been
raised out Of place, and as it was near
the grating of his basement, he suspected
robbery and called the police. On rails
inf the stone, it was found that three
mushrooms, six inches in diameter and with
very thick stems, were the motive power
of the displacement. The stone was
found to weigh SO pounds. This doesn't t
compare with President Clark's squash.
but the mushrooms did their job in ere
night.


COFFEE STARCH. This is much better
Il an starch made in the ordinary way for
all dark clothing such as black or dark
brown calicoes, percales and muslins al.
so Ior grass linens and Hollands. Take
two tabIespoonfus of the best starch
mixed with enough cold water to make i,
a paste. Stir this into pint of boiling
hot coffee well settled. Let it boil abou
ten minutes. Stir it a few minutes witt
a spermaceti or wax candle; strain j
through cloth and starch the dark col
orcd or black clothes in it.,
Year: 1874

WETTING Coal A MIsTAkE. 1t has
been frequently maintained that wet.
ting coal increases the amount OF neat
riyen out in combustion, but a careful
INJURY has shown, first; there Is no IN.
crease of heat; second, that a loss OF
heat always follows addition OF water
third both the amount of heat and the
temperature of the fire are considerably
diminished.
Year: 1874

We give up all our space this morn
ing to the circumstantial statement of
Theodore Tilton in reference to the un-
pard offense committed against
him by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
We promised our readers some days
ago that we would publish this state
ment in full as soon rs we received ii.
In consequence of its great length it is
impossible for us to comply with this
promise. 1t would fill up three issues
of the daily HERALD to give it entire.
We have therefore culled out what we
deemed the most important portions
for publication this morning. All this,
it will be remem bered, is substantiated
10y the oath of Tilton.


Beecher is preparing an elaborate re-
ply to submit to the committee. For
the present, he has contented himself
with a general denial, in which he says
that the statement of Tilton rejecting
upon the honor of Mrs. Tilton are alb
solutely false.


So now the issue is fairly and square,
ly made between them. There can be
no more concealments nor disguises.
The public will demand to know every
step that is taken in the investigation,
and no matter what the committee ofin-
vestigation may determine, after hear
ing all the testimony, the American
people will form verdict for them
selves.


One conclusion or the other is bound
to be arrived at, that is, either that
Beecher is guilty or that Tilton is crazy.
Year: 1874

H. v. Redfieid, of the Cincinnati
Commercial, interviewed Senator Fen
ton, of New York, a few days ago to
find out what the senator knew about
Grants ambitious purposes in reference
to an extension of his official life.


Senator Fenton says that there is no
doubt that Grant is a candidate for
third term, and that he is working for
it with all the legitimate means at his
command. Furthermore, he says that
Grant is a man Of great shrewdness,
unfaltering perseverance and consum-
mate obstinacy; that when he makes
up his mind in certain direction one
had as well try to turn Niagara from
its course at the rapids as to turn him.
He expresses the opinion that, if the
election were to come of this year,
Grant would be elected in spite of fate,
because the opposition to him could
not he concentrated at present When
asked by his interviewer what ele-
ments Grant was looking to for sup
port in his third term scheme, Senator
Fenton replied as follows


/ think it likely he would prefer an
election from the people,. irrespective
of any party. Just now he Is arrang-
ing matters in the south. His hold is
secure on the negroes Of that section,
eight hundred thousand votes IN a
Year: 1874




My DEAR FRIEND MoULToN-I ask
through you Theodore Tilton's forgive
ness, and humble myself before him
as l do before my God. He would
have been a better man in my circum-
stances than 1 have been. i can ask
nothing except that he will remember
the other breasts that would ache. |
will not plead for myself. j even wish
that / were dead, but Others must live
to suffer. / will die before any one but
myself shall be inculpated. All my
thoughts are running out toward my
friends and toward the poor child ly-
ing there and praying with her folded
bands. She is guiltless, sinned against,
bearing the traDsgression OF another.
Her forgiveness L have. humoly
prav to God to put it into the heart Of
her husband to forgive me. l have
trusted this to Moulton in confidence.


HENRY WARD BEECHER.
Year: 1874

Shakespeare, you will remember, says
that The morning cock crew loud" | do
not know that the divine bard intended
this remark to refer especially to CoOley's
rooster. but it fits him with singular exact
ness. do not know what the breed was
Black Spanish, believe-but he was the
most animated, earnest, whole-souled and
vehement rooster anywhere around. He
turned out earlier and crowed louder than
any other rooster in the State of Delaware.
He could crow oftener in a minute-he
could hold on the last note longer, and be
gin again quicker than any known
barn-yard fowl; and he would often wake
up in the night and emit half dozen vocif-
erOus screeches in order to make sure that
he had not lost his voice since sunset.
When he began to run up the scale in the
morning, he soon had every other rooster
within ten miles hard at work, and | used
to lie abed listening to the vocal contest,
and observing how Cooley's bird always
got more noise out of his larynX than any
four of his competitors. | shouldn't have
minded it if he had been a little farther off
and slept later. But when | live alongside
of rooster that is an early riser and has a
voice that is a cross between a fog whistle
and a steam coffee mill, the matter be-
comes serious. Itwas useless to complain
to Cooley about the chicken. He owed me
a grudge for banging his balloon to slith.
ers. So, in self-defense, procured about
a dozen small tOrpedoes and pasted them
carefully over with flour. Then l strewed
them on bed in my garden wherever the
bird was wont to dispOrt himself in the
early morning. He crowed good deal
that morning before came down, but to,
ward breakfast time | noticed that his
voice seemed somewhat softened, and his
vocal exercises less frequent. When
went out | found him standing upon one
leg, looking abjectly miserable, moving
his head from right to left as if he hao
something in his mind; and l observed
that the torpedoes had disappeared.
moved toward him with the intention Of
jamming him against something, when he
suddenly attempted jump over the fence
He fell short and struck the post. There
was an explosion, and the rooster-oh


where was he? A couple of drumsticks
were found by somebody out in the turn
pike, and a stray gizZard was picked up ii
the graveyard, while few bloody feathers
were scattered over Cooley's asparagu;
bed; and that was all that was ever known
about it. When this meets COoley's eye
he will understand why that rooster dis
appeared, and he had better take the
news calmly. No Spanish rooster shall in
terfere with nv rights as an American
citizen.-Naz AdeLsr.
Year: 1874

of all to explore the room as preliminary
matter, and ascertain that there were no
indications of water or minerals under the
house. The first attempt TO discover the
location of the hidden coin was successful,
but under such circumstances as to show
that it was matter of accident, and the
operator refused to repeat the experiment
a second time, even for sovereign. The
other diviner, less expert person, seemed
to have failedin three successive cases, and
when he finally succeeded the conditions
were such as to show the whole of his
audience, most of whom were ignorant
men and professed converts to the belief
in the divinjng rod, that the operator was
guided by no occult influences, but was
merely guessing his way along. 1t was
evident, in fact, that there was no mystery
in the whole matter, and that there is as
much deception in the use of tie divining


rod as was ever practiced by the medicine
men of the savage tribes. The use of the
fOrked rod for the purpose of finding mill
erals, springs, and, in fact, every possible
variety of desiderata, seems to have been
handed down to us from the middle ages.